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Speaker 2: There's a lot of cliches that address the point I'm

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Speaker 2: about to make. The iron every cloud is a silver lining,

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Speaker 2: No pain, no gain. I'm referring to the Minnesota Somali scandal,

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Speaker 2: which it's turning out to be way worse than even

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Speaker 2: we had suspected only a couple of weeks ago. Now,

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that this is good that this has happened,

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Speaker 2: but it's certainly possible that a greater good will come

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Speaker 2: out of the fact that we have found out about it.

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Speaker 2: Every now and then you come across a story that

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Speaker 2: The abuse of our immigration system, how welfare programs are

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Speaker 2: so vulnerable to massive fraud, to the ineptitude and blindness

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Speaker 2: of much of the media, to Democrat politicians that have

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Speaker 2: simply become married to the welfare state because their political

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Speaker 2: base includes so many people that are either on the

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Speaker 2: dole or abusing the doll or making money off the door.

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Speaker 2: Over the weekend, a massive expose came out and it

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Speaker 2: didn't come out on sixty minutes. Maybe Barry Weis will

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Speaker 2: eventually fixed that enough that a story like this will

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Speaker 2: be on sixty minutes. It wasn't anywhere in the mainstream media.

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Speaker 2: It tied together a lot of this with remarkable visuals,

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Speaker 2: audio facts and so on. And it's done by this guy,

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Speaker 2: Nick Shirley. Many of you have heard of him. He's

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Speaker 2: about twenty three years old. He's a so called independent journalist.

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Speaker 2: He posted this on his various sites, on YouTube, x

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Speaker 2: and so on the day after Christmas. The number of

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Speaker 2: views is now running nearly one hundred and twenty million.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that there's a news out in an

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Speaker 2: out at this and understanding the depth of it. And

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Speaker 2: as I point out all the time when I say

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Speaker 2: of the need for those of us on the right

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Speaker 2: us on the other side to point out I told

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Speaker 2: of the depth of just one component of the Somali

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Speaker 2: fraud posted on x by Wall Street Apes. I want

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Speaker 2: to read their summary. Two more Minnesota Somalia immigrant run

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Speaker 2: daycares that are supposed to have one hundred and two

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Speaker 2: then Nick Shirley, We're going to hear from him in

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Speaker 2: a moment, or only hear for a portrait of his

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Speaker 2: video in a moment. This is Nick Shirley, the independent

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Speaker 2: investigative journalist. Essentially a kid, very calated and not blinded

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Speaker 2: by bias and in fact liberated by having a conservative

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Speaker 2: the rest of the media either refuses to see, doesn't

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Speaker 2: from the State of Minnesota website. It says, you have

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Speaker 2: one hundred two children here, and you got two point

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Speaker 2: me interject, We've had some of these scandals here in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 2: I've talked forever about of all the types of welfare

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Speaker 2: the easiest. You say you're running a daycare Quote the

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Speaker 2: famous line from Francis McDormand and Fargo that I quote

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Speaker 2: there are fourteen Somali healthcare companies in one building. Fourteen

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Speaker 2: I know we were all this is the source. I

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Speaker 2: so many Minnesota Democrats need to go to prison. Now,

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Speaker 2: to watch Nick Shirley's video. I have posted it on

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Speaker 2: my account on x under Mark bellingh Show, but it's everywhere,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen million to one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: here is Nick Shirley introducing a guy. There's a guy.

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Speaker 2: He's just a regular guy. He worked in one of

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Speaker 2: the buildings where a number of these Somali so called

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Speaker 2: They're only using his first name here. Again, it's just

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Speaker 2: revealing to me how people This just reminds me of,

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Speaker 2: It wasn't until this thing all drew the attention of Finally,

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Speaker 2: years later, a couple of mainstream media outlets that the

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Speaker 2: whole world, including people like me, found out about it.

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Speaker 2: There's been scan follow up in the mainstream media. So

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Speaker 2: far as I can tell, Tim Watz has not yet resigned.

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Speaker 2: I don't see there's been. The Justice Department is moving

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Speaker 2: in to investigate here. And before I get to the video,

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Speaker 2: as I'll point out, it is not to me shocking

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Speaker 2: the tens of thousands of Somalis moved to Minnesota and

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Speaker 2: immediately began rip it off the government because what they

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Speaker 2: found when they got here is our government is easy

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Speaker 2: to rip off, and if you cozy up to them politically,

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Speaker 2: they'll let you rip it off. They have to be thinking,

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Speaker 2: what a country. Amazing that these people seem to hate

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Speaker 2: the United States. You'd think they'd love this. So this

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Speaker 2: is you'll hear Nick Shirley for just like two seconds

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Speaker 2: at the beginning of this, Depending on did you edit

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Speaker 2: this so we hear Nick Shirley in here? You claim

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Speaker 2: Shirley get into this what Paul claims it is? So

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Speaker 2: if you don't hear Nick Shirley, you can hear it

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Speaker 2: from Paul. By the way, Paul did not work on

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Speaker 2: Friday because he outrageously claimed it was a station holiday,

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Speaker 2: which it was. Nonetheless, do you know that I threatened

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Speaker 2: to fire you? Oh, he didn't even listen to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: I think that that would be just Paul has two

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Speaker 2: to be doing. We all kind of go off and

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Speaker 2: I'm still doing this, and I'm claiming that this is

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Speaker 2: what I know. I'm just I'm not gonna go pump

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Speaker 2: all the things that you're doing. But he has two

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Speaker 2: think that would be hilarious? I just I mean, and

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Speaker 2: And the only problem is I need somebody to run

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Speaker 2: the rest of the podcast. Yeah, there's nobody in there.

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Speaker 2: There's not been anybody in the building for a week.

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Speaker 2: I did bring in Christmas cookies all week, so somehow,

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Speaker 2: So this is Nick Shirley introducing David, who's a very

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Speaker 3: He found and to make this happen, I met up

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Speaker 4: It is far worse than anybody can imagine. You heard

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Speaker 4: I'm sort of in the heart of all of this fraud.

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Speaker 4: And I would see these childcare centers. I said, well,

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Speaker 4: and all I see are a couple of guys standing

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Speaker 4: and I'd see the same thing. I said, well, where

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Speaker 4: for eighty children. They had zero children. Every time I

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Speaker 4: Then I started to see all these transportation companies going

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Speaker 4: then I found out that in Minnesota they have something

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Speaker 4: the dentist office, therapy, whatever it might be. And I said, well,

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Speaker 4: and more than eight hundred of them are Somalioned. Nobody

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Speaker 4: if any rides were ever actually provided. All they did

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Speaker 2: No, we only played ninety seconds here. It's a forty

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Speaker 2: two minute video, and that's this staved guy who on

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Speaker 2: his own has been trying to dive into this for years.

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Speaker 2: But just in the brief little segment there, there's so

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Speaker 2: much to pull out. He mentions that these companies exist

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Speaker 2: all over the place non emergency medical transportation. We've got

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Speaker 2: When you see Minnesota bureaucrats demanding that they're facing you know,

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Speaker 2: doesn't understand scamming at all. You don't, I can't believe

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Speaker 2: you haven't been scammed. See, I think your wife probably

433
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 2: stops you from being scammed because she just strikes me

434
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Speaker 2: as being more cynical and suspicious. Why four, All right,

435
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 2: let's just take two women. I'll use generic names so

436
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: nobody wants to claim that it's races. Mary and Helen.

437
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 2: Mary has four kids, Helen has four kids. Here's are

438
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 2: the scam works. Mary's four kids spend the day at

439
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: Helen's house, so Helen builds the government for the daycare.

440
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 2: Helen's four kids spend the day at Mary's house, so

441
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 2: Mary spends Neither of them are working. Both of them

442
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 2: are claiming that they're taking care of kids. It's just

443
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 2: the other's kids. And of course for those who well

444
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 2: why would they send They don't send them over there,

445
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 2: They just claim that they are. There is a ton

446
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 2: of that, the small level of just swapping kids around

447
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 2: on paper for the purposes of getting these grants. And again,

448
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 2: why that type of progium, because it's it's so easy

449
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 2: to do. Now. In the case of Minnesota, apparently you know,

450
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 2: and Nick was quoting. Nick Shirley was quoted from the

451
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 2: website of Minnesota Notifications that they set out you don't

452
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 2: seem to have any kids here? Where are they? Okay,

453
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 2: they actually catch out to this, they might be front.

454
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 2: They send up papers and non compliant letters and so on,

455
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 2: and this can go on for years. In the meantime,

456
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 2: the money keeps flowing because somewhere above that, when it

457
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 2: gets to the level of a high muckety got close

458
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: enough to walls that just let this alone. Let this alone. Now,

459
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: certainly scandal is possible among Republicans. I'm not suggesting that

460
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: only Democrats can be crooks. There is, however, a distinction

461
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: most actual Republicans. If they would find out that a

462
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 2: st type of scandal like this was let's imagine it

463
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 2: wasn't home health care, but it's something in business or whatever,

464
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 2: grants for certain businesses that are not of the up

465
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 2: andy up, and you're not doing any work. Most Republican

466
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 2: voters would be appalled and would be appalled that the

467
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 2: Republican engaged in the corruption. Most Democrats, I think in

468
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 2: Minnesota are unbothered by this. So they ripped everybody off.

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00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 2: So what both are senators and Democrats? The governors a

470
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 2: Democrat we carried the state for Kamala. He allowed Omer's

471
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 2: a lot more Democrats, she rips Trump. What do we care?

472
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: The price of this is And Democrats tend to pretend

473
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 2: to be outraged that everything a Republican not only does

474
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Speaker 2: but is accused of doing. The fake outrage over the

475
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: Russia collusion of Trump, even if Trump was colluding with

476
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 2: the Russians, they weren't outraged by it. They were outraged

477
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 2: that he won. He wasn't outright, But they don't even

478
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 2: pretend to be outraged by their own scandals. I'll prove it.

479
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: You want me to prove it right now? When right now,

480
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 2: how many Democrats in Minnesota are calling for Waltz's resignation. None.

481
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 2: The story's out there, the whole world knows it, yet

482
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 2: none of the Demomand by the way, Minnesota, I almost

483
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: said something that I don't know this for a fact.

484
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 2: I believe in Minnesota that it's like Wisconsin that if

485
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,239
Speaker 2: the governor resigns, the lieutenant governor takes over and they

486
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 2: run as a ticket. So, for example, in Wisconsin, if

487
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 2: Ever's quit today, and by the way, I think Evers

488
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 2: is going to quit next year, assuming Sarah Rodriguez is

489
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 2: the nominee for governor, that would make her the incumbent.

490
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Speaker 2: If she wins the Democratic nomination anyway, you'd still have

491
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Speaker 2: a Democrat. Now it may well be in Minnesota they

492
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 2: run separately as tickets, but I just should have looked

493
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 2: at that. I'm just saying, I think if if else

494
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: was forced out, there'd be just be another Democrat that

495
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 2: would take over. But how many Democrats in Minnesota are

496
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 2: calling for Waltz's resignation over this? And again you might

497
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 2: find like one guy in some corner of the state,

498
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 2: like one of those cities in Minnesota that they shoot

499
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 2: one of the one of the episodes of Fargo in

500
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 2: I think that's just one of the many things hilarious

501
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 2: about far which, by the way, is there gonna be

502
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 2: another season? The last one was really good. John ham

503
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 2: was in John Hamm was in it, the actor from

504
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 2: mad Men. He played like some insane, crazed, power hung hungry,

505
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 2: sex crazed sri from somewhere out there in the in

506
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 2: the boonies. It's straying away. The stories are straying away

507
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 2: each season a little bit more from how the movie was.

508
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 2: There's always spreads of the component of the movie, like

509
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 2: there's always a lady cop that's trying to do the investigating,

510
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 2: and some they seem to work the wood shipper into

511
00:31:52,680 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 2: each thing, and anyway they would. The thing that's gonna

512
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 2: say it so funny about Fargo is almost never is

513
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: Fargo in Fargo. It's usually in Fargo. Is in North Dakota.

514
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: It's usually a thing in Minnesota, and there's gonna be

515
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 2: like a connection to North Dakota. The one this this

516
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: pasture was like the Feds that were investigating this, I

517
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 2: think we're from Minnesota and John Ham might have been

518
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: out of there in North Dakota or whatever. And then

519
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 2: the wife is kid. The wife runs ones away and

520
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: is hiding out under a fake identity and married to

521
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: another guy, and one of live of Minnesota. What was

522
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: it Dakota zoa someone anyway, see Paul's who was braided.

523
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 2: They actually set one of the years of the TV

524
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 2: show in Bimidgi and the other in Brainerd and I

525
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: never remembered, which I you know, how people mix up

526
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 2: Wisconsin in Minnesota. I'm in Florida. Would not believe the

527
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 2: number of people who think I live in Minnesota. They

528
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: just turned it into one state, which I mean, I

529
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 2: get that we're sort of similar, but It's not like

530
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 2: North and South Dakota. I would understand if somebody is

531
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 2: down there that I met from South Dakota, I might

532
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 2: think that they're from North Dakota or something or another yeah,

533
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 2: or carolineas I mean, you get a lot of that

534
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned. Brainerd and Bemidgie are the

535
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 2: same city. It's just I've never figured out. I don't

536
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 2: I could know where one of them is, but I

537
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 2: don't know which one of the one that it is

538
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 2: and which one is the other one. And they're probably close,

539
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 2: but they were both in one was in one of

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00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: the the TV episode seasons of Fargo and the other

541
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Speaker 2: ones in the movie. There might have been both. It

542
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 2: might have been that didn't like the U Francis McDormand

543
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: when she went to he was in the Twin Cities though,

544
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 2: wasn't he? Was it William H. Macy and the Twin

545
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 2: Cities the car Dealer? Yeah, but she was from like

546
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 2: either Brainerd or a Midge or whatever it was Braider

547
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 2: Paul cleinss Brainer Fargo. There was one season of the

548
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 2: TV series, not this last of John Ham, the one

549
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: that whatever number that is I forget, but the one

550
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 2: that was before that that wasn't that good. But otherwise

551
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 2: they've all been good. In the movie, of course was good.

552
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 2: But they they need to do another one, now, don't they.

553
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 2: They leave a gap. And because the stories are independent,

554
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 2: itself contained, it's not like the Sopranos, where it's the

555
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,240
Speaker 2: same characters at everything. It's just every season the plot

556
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: has KUIs or connections or echoes to things that they've

557
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 2: done in the past. Now, let me get back to

558
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 2: this corruption in Minnesota, the complaining up the food chain

559
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,919
Speaker 2: and why it didn't do any good from the people

560
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 2: blowing the whistle. You were always complaining to people who,

561
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 2: in the end, even if they weren't in on it,

562
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 2: were indirectly in on it. You were complaining to Democrats who,

563
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 2: as I say, we're not going to they weren't bothered

564
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 2: by it, and they just assume that you not find

565
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: out about it because they felt they were benefiting on it.

566
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 2: Democrats are not bothered by any crime committed by other

567
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 2: Democrats at any level. Seriously, I think if elan Omar

568
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 2: pulled out a gun and shot and killed the Republican,

569
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,439
Speaker 2: I think Democrats perfectly fine with it. And we see

570
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 2: how the number of them celebrated, for example, the Charlie Kirks.

571
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 2: I just it's the thing with Democrats, you shouldn't lump

572
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 2: all of them in there. Okay, find me this long,

573
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,439
Speaker 2: massive list. The only Democrats that are gonna be calling

574
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 2: for Watson's resignation in Minnesota are other Democrats who are

575
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 2: eyeballing running for that seat. At some point, Emmer, who's

576
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 2: the Republican housewhip congressom from Minnesota, is pointing out that

577
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 2: one of the buildings that was housing these setters had

578
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 2: the following sign in front quality leering setter. They spelled

579
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 2: learning wrong. They were I mean, talk about a tip

580
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 2: off that there wasn't any kind of youth childhood education

581
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 2: going on to the thing. They didn't even spell the work,

582
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 2: which again would just be a red flag that what's

583
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 2: going on here is not legitimate. Now, the point that

584
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 2: I was making why this got exposed eventually is it

585
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 2: was so massive. But again it took years. But this

586
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 2: type of thing goes on all over our country. Way back,

587
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 2: when trying to think where I worked, I think I

588
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 2: might have been working in Springfield. It might have been Madison.

589
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 2: There was a news organism. I was still in the

590
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 2: media that I wasn't a talk show host yet called

591
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 2: investigative reporters and editors, and it was Investigative Reporters and

592
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 2: I was a member of this. I only go to

593
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 2: conventions that they're really close. I think this one was

594
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 2: in Chicago. Might be wrong about that. I was still

595
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 2: a reporter. So this is many, many many years ago.

596
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 2: And they have one of these panels and there's a

597
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 2: you know, a moderator, and he has a couple of

598
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: other people and their people. It's like one of the

599
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 2: breakout sessions and there's forty people there, and it was

600
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Speaker 2: one of these things you're brainstorming on the kinds of

601
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 2: to look into, and I said, I found that one

602
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 2: of the best areas to look into is social welfare agencies,

603
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 2: do gooder agencies. And people stared at me blankly because

604
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: what they wanted to investigate was corp re fraud and

605
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 2: big businesses at the oil company. Well, the reason I

606
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 2: brought it up, I've told the story a zillion times.

607
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 2: I worked in Saint Joseph bet and Harbor, Michigan. Was

608
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 2: the second full time professional job that I had. I

609
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 2: went into that city that was just nons It was

610
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: just corruption, all over the place, and nobody had ever

611
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 2: bothered a report on it, because I don't think there

612
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 2: was actually a breathing reporter whoever worked in that city.

613
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 2: And all you had to do is start looking into it,

614
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 2: and you got tips right and left, and I found,

615
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 2: I mean everything, Saint Joe is not corrupt at all.

616
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 2: Benton Harbor was totally corrupt. Saint Joe was very wealthy

617
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 2: and affluent. Betton Harbor ran an outside government aid which

618
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 2: created all of these social welfare programs, and I just

619
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 2: it was the level of corruption was incredible, and it

620
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 2: was one of the things that was that was the

621
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 2: first beginning of the multi year stage of me going

622
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 2: from being a lefty to a conservative is I realized

623
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 2: that the social welfare programs weren't helping anybody. Benn Harbor

624
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 2: was destitute, yet all this money running through it and

625
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 2: it never got to But boy o, boy o, boy

626
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: was it wasn't being skimmed. It just never got to

627
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 2: the bottom. Wasn't like they're skimming off the top, They're

628
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 2: taking the whole thing because who's to look at it,

629
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 2: who's to expose You're doing a wonderful thing. Public education

630
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 2: is the same thing incredibly overstaffed, people, incredibly overpaid, quality

631
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 2: of the product crappy as can be. I mean, I

632
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 2: think you could compare the Wahwatosa public schools to the

633
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 2: Somalis in Minnesota. It's you could say, their children actually

634
00:38:56,239 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 2: going inside the schools in Wahwatosa, I suppose. But look

635
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 2: at the number of buildings that they built in a

636
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 2: school district with declining enrollment, and look at all of

637
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 2: the contracts that they were caught handing out to cronies

638
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 2: and relatives of friends. Then they say that they've got

639
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 2: a massive budget deficit, and the guy who is the

640
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 2: business manager who they forced out ends up getting hired

641
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 2: and hired up in Kewaskam. If the program is run

642
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 2: by the government, it is easier to rip off than

643
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 2: if is run by an individual. Now this is not

644
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 2: to say individuals can't be ripped off. I mean the

645
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 2: comment last week, it seems like the people that do

646
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 2: the ripping off over the Internet are Nigerians and the

647
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 2: people who actually come here in person to rip you

648
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 2: off our Somalis. It's a generalization and it may sound racist,

649
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 2: but again, every internet's corruption scheme that you seem to

650
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 2: find tends to be from Nigeria, and we talked about

651
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 2: the dating scams that it by the way, I mentioned

652
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 2: the U the app or the company, the outfit that's

653
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 2: on YouTube and so unexposed. This is just called catfished,

654
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 2: and they do these things in which somebody I think

655
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 2: I'm being scammed online by somebody who says that they

656
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 2: love me, that I've been going that I've been sending

657
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 2: money to for four years, but we've never met. Well,

658
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 2: so catfish does high tech things to expose them and

659
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 2: invariably at somebody in Nigeria pretending to be a handsome

660
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 2: young man you know, and whatever the you know in

661
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 2: the United States wooing the other person there is, so

662
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 2: you can scam individuals and those that are naive, trusting,

663
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 2: or as I say all the time, you are likely

664
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 2: to believe something is true if you want it to

665
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 2: be true. So if you're like an old, fat guy

666
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 2: and some hot twenty three year old woman says she

667
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: loves you and wants to spend the rest of your

668
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 2: life with you, well you want to believe that. Now,

669
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 2: I'm a cynic. I don't believe people that are shared

670
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 2: with people. Somebody can be telling me the truth that

671
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 2: I think that they're lying. I just come to the

672
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: point which I don't believe anybody about anything. I can't

673
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 2: help it. I mean, you do my job and look

674
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 2: at the stuff that I You know, Okay, Trump colluded

675
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 2: with the Russians. You get the COVID vaccine. You'll never

676
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: get COVID. I'm just go on and on and on.

677
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 2: This is my whole lifeful. I sent it to this.

678
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 2: You'd be like this too. You still a naive. I've

679
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 2: made you well. Now that you're gonna finally leave the

680
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 2: show here, you might revert to your naiveness. Yeah, I

681
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 2: think it. I think it won't stick. I think it'll

682
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 2: It'll slide right out of your brain. We'll find out. So, yes,

683
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 2: it can happen with individuals, but it genuinely can only

684
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 2: happen to the extent of how much money the individual has.

685
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 2: It is fire likelier to scam the government. Why, let's

686
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 2: imagine you're trying to scam. I mean, I'm a bad example.

687
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 2: I'd be a hard person to scam because I'm just cynical.

688
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,439
Speaker 2: But if you're scamming me, every dollar I send, that's

689
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 2: money I don't have. Who in government cares if they

690
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 2: don't have the money, talk about no skin in the game.

691
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 2: It's unfortunate that there was the falling out between Musk

692
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 2: and Trump early on because Doge had the potential to

693
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 2: dive into all of this stuff. And you saw, of

694
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 2: course the resistance from even among some Republicans when they

695
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 2: tried to cut some of these sorgures. Some of the

696
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 2: stuff that it does is like usaid, it's like very

697
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 2: similar to these types of programs that we had in Minnesota.

698
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 2: I'm sure some legitimate things were done, So you throw

699
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 2: out the legitimate things in order to get rid of

700
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: everything else, because most of it is crap. Well, you've

701
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 2: got to be willing to give up the legitimate things

702
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 2: in order to get rid of all of this crap.

703
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 2: As I say, for people who are going to try

704
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 2: to argue that Democrats are not perfectly fine with scandal,

705
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 2: find me the prominent Democrat. Never in mind Minnesota, anywhere

706
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Speaker 2: in the United States. Skin would it be off the

707
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 2: back of say aoc to call for will it's to reside,

708
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 2: and the skin off her back would be her good

709
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 2: buddy is zilan Omar And they all have to stick together.

710
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: And Democrat fus she's not body by it. She'd rather

711
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 2: make up a lie about Trump to be outraged about

712
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 2: it than be outraged about actual ripping off of people.

713
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 2: Another story here. This is from Maine, and I suspect

714
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: what's happening is some of the reporters around the United

715
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 2: States that aren't comatose and brain dat are starting to

716
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 2: look into some of these daycare programs in healthcare programs

717
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,720
Speaker 2: and child programs and so on in their own state.

718
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 2: Or if you've got a state that in again a

719
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 2: huge percentage of the Somalis settled in Minnesota. If they've

720
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 2: settled in your state, you might want to take a

721
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 2: look at it. This is from Maine. Apparently there's a

722
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: fair number of Somalis that have settled in Maine. Maine

723
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 2: suspends Medicaid payments to Somali charity after audits and cover

724
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 2: more than one million in fraud nicolin dime compared to Minnesota.

725
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 2: But somebody in Maine spotted at charity, some Mallion charity

726
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 2: in Minnesota crooked. This is all over the late JJ

727
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 2: blind and I quote him all the time on this

728
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 2: when he was on Building and Company. Once he my

729
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 2: whole TV show. For those are wondering he made this

730
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 2: comment that I quoted forever. Running an anti property program

731
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee is a license to steal. That always hacked

732
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 2: off the lefties that were on the program. But it

733
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 2: is a license to steal. It doesn't mean you would steal.

734
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 2: For instance, I could have a driver's license and not drive.

735
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 2: Not every anti property program is illegitimate. I donate to

736
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 2: many of them. I'm just saying that if you do

737
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 2: run one and the majority of your money comes not

738
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 2: from a private donor but from government, it is a

739
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: license to steal. The greater percentage of money that the

740
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 2: nonprofit gets from private owners, the less likely it is

741
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,479
Speaker 2: to be stolen from because the private owners and boards

742
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 2: of directors who are kicking their own money, and they're

743
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 2: they actually believe in the mission of the organization and

744
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 2: they don't want it ripped off. I'll give you another

745
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 2: example here. Then there are the ones in which it

746
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: just it seems dubious, but they were performing services, which

747
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 2: is way many standards better than what happened in Minnesota.

748
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 2: Janetta Robinson, who's got a street named after him Milwaukee,

749
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 2: and so does her mother. She ran a program for

750
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 2: Central City kids for many, many, many years. She did

751
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 2: offer services, and for all I know, that was very worthwhile.

752
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 2: But a lot of money ran through there, drove a cadillag.

753
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 2: You might say that's a bad look. It wasn't a

754
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 2: bad luck. Nobody seemed to care. In addition to that,

755
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 2: every year she took these kids out of to Jamaica. Now,

756
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 2: how does it benefit the lines of these impoverished children,

757
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 2: poor the necessarily impoverished, poor black kids in Milwaukee to

758
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 2: go to Jamaica as opposed to say, go to six Flags.

759
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 2: The answer is it benefited Janeta. She got to go

760
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 2: on somebody else's time to Jamaica. But again, at least

761
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 2: she performed services. And some people say that she was

762
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 2: a good role model in a mentor and so on.

763
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 2: But you just look at these things and it's just

764
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,879
Speaker 2: so easy to say how easy it is to scan

765
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 2: these things, and how many other people on the left

766
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 2: will give you cover. They're the offensive line and the

767
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 2: scammers of the running backs. We have a response from

768
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 2: Tim Walls, by the way, and the Knicks. I mentioned

769
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 2: a few moments ago that won my podcasts and some

770
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 2: of you are saying, when will it end? Not that long? No,

771
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 2: watch the video. I've linked it up on X. You

772
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 2: can find it anywhere else, but I've made it easy.

773
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 2: Just go to my side on X. So this thing,

774
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 2: as I said it, I'm doing the podcast very early

775
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 2: in the afternoon on Monday. By late morning, it was

776
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 2: pushing one hundred and twenty million views, which, by the way,

777
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 2: that's just that's huge. It's just it's that's just huge,

778
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 2: which shows you, by the way, that there's a market

779
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 2: for this kind of contented reporting. People are interested in

780
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 2: this stuff. So Fox News is reporting that Tim Watz

781
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 2: has now responded to this, because when you get to

782
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty million, I mean, that's just that's

783
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:32,240
Speaker 2: a real number. So Tim Waltz is offering a response. See.

784
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 2: The thing about Tim Waltz is obviously we know that

785
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 2: he's gonna bs except unlike most Democrats, he's a really

786
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 2: bad bser. Have you ever seen anybody the two word?

787
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 2: I mean, Bill Clinton was a great liar. Biden is

788
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 2: a bad example because he was you know, his mind

789
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 2: was shot. Kamala has just inapted everything. Kama will like

790
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 2: make things up. But I mean, if you wanted to,

791
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 2: I just I think if Tim Waltz was telling a

792
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 2: true it would seem like he's lying, right, I mean,

793
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 2: plus every story that he tells. Oh as a football coach,

794
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 2: we took he was an assistant, you know, I you

795
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 2: know all the valid that he lies about his military record,

796
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 2: lied about the rank that he left in, lied about

797
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 2: whether or not he was ever in combat, just on what. Yeah,

798
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 2: there was something with shooting a gun or hunting or something.

799
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 2: He never really hunted and didn't he didn't he load

800
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 2: the gun wrong or what did he was it was

801
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 2: it loading the gun or pointing it he didn't know

802
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 2: how to load it or something or another. And anyway

803
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 2: you want to hear the Tim Waltz response to the

804
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 2: video on this Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz's office is pushing

805
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 2: back against fraud allegations. It's pushing back against frauday allegations

806
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 2: after a viral video showed visits to multiple childcare settings

807
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 2: of the state, including one that allegedly received millions of

808
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 2: dollars state funding, despite a peer appearing largely inactive. Responding

809
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 2: to questions about the alleged allegations and the video posted

810
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 2: by independent journalist Nick Shirley, a spokesperson for the governor

811
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 2: told Fox News that Waltz has spent years working to

812
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:21,919
Speaker 2: crack down on isn't that the lbs? First of all,

813
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 2: it's just it goes back to my whole thing about

814
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 2: stupid or corrupt. If he actually has been working years

815
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 2: to crack down the front, it shows you what an

816
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 2: incompetent that he is. So again, is he lying or

817
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 2: is he an epp? It's all it feeds on. It's

818
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 2: up for all we know. Maybe he was trying to

819
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 2: crack down. Good job on that. Good job, Kim, You've

820
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 2: done a great job cracking down on your fraud there

821
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 2: Why nothing seems to go on? You're trying to let

822
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 2: me get finished the thing and ask the state legislature

823
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 2: for war authority. I love. This is the same line

824
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 2: that Biden and Kamala said about the border. Remember when

825
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 2: they kept saying we had a PAS some bill Trump

826
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 2: comes in. They didn't pass any That border was sealed

827
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 2: in like three days. Ask the leg The legers said,

828
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 2: you're in Minnesota, by the way, is democratic to take

829
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 2: aggressive action. He has strengthened oversight. See I mean no,

830
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,320
Speaker 2: this is the spokes rassen from walls talking. She's gotta

831
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:27,399
Speaker 2: say something, right. I could tell a joke, but people

832
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:31,439
Speaker 2: wouldn't understand that it was a joke. It's gonna claim

833
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 2: that the new spokesperson is KJP, but people would think

834
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 2: that I was telling the truth about time. Yeah, I

835
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 2: loved Tim Walton. I've got I need, I need some

836
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 2: help on my messaging. Here's KJP, including launching investigations. He's

837
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 2: not gonna invest it years. Tim Waltz is gonna invest

838
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 2: in it, going to next Shirley's thing. The investigation is

839
00:50:54,239 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 2: all there into these specific facilities. What of Whittress are

840
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 2: he closed? Money's right? He closed one of them. There's

841
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 2: thousands another post right X On the general issue, our

842
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 2: government is a multi trillion dollar a year theft in

843
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 2: money laundering operation. The American tax beyers are the victims.

844
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 2: The American people are sick of being robbed and then

845
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 2: called racist or Islamophobic for calling out the robbery. Elon Musk.

846
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 2: The radical left has been using fraudulent government programs for

847
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 2: a long time to import and retain vast number of

848
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 2: illegal and legal, in some cases immigrants, to win elections

849
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 2: in turn America into a single party stayed, destroying any

850
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 2: real democracy. The more you look at it, the more

851
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 2: you will be horrified at what your tax money is doing,

852
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 2: and the fact that if this is not reversed, your

853
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 2: vote will mean nothing. The most obvious case example is

854
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 2: the Somali voting block in Minnesota, a state that historically

855
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 2: had zero Somalis, electing Ilan Omar to the US Congress.

856
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 2: The same is happening in Europe, UK, Canada, Australia, and

857
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 2: New Zealand. It's like what Milton Friedman said, money is

858
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 2: most poorly spent when you're spending someone else's money on

859
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 2: people you don't know. That's the federal government. In my

860
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 2: next segment, let me cover this one. Now. There are

861
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 2: some stories that don't require a lot of dissection because

862
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 2: after a certain point, everyone becomes aware of them. I

863
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 2: think unless you're just one of these people that's not

864
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:57,439
Speaker 2: aware of anything, you're probably aware of the unbelievable price

865
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 2: explosion in gold and silver. I'm doing this podcast on Monday.

866
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 2: I did not check today Monday, and both are overdue

867
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 2: for a pullback. But gold and silver, and part of

868
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,320
Speaker 2: it it's suddenly traded the day after Christmas. On Friday,

869
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 2: both exploded. Silver went up more than eleven percent in

870
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 2: one day. Gold and silver, gold is in the past,

871
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 2: was always about one hundred times more than silver per ownce.

872
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 2: Silver is now way ahead of that because while gold

873
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 2: has boomed, silver has just exploded this year. I mean

874
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 2: silver would move up and down in pennies per day,

875
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 2: and gold and a buck here and a buck there,

876
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 2: and it's been doing nothing. Both have been doing nothing

877
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 2: but going up here here in twenty twenty five, and

878
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 2: for whatever reason on Friday, it just whether or not

879
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 2: it's the bubble being it's the last blast of the

880
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 2: bubble or what, or this is still the beginning stages

881
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 2: of a massive correction in gold and silver being incredibly

882
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 2: undervalued again. I don't know everything what goes up comes down.

883
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's coming down tomorrow or if

884
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 2: there's a lot more to run, but it's I mean,

885
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 2: the last I saw on Friday, silver had gotten up

886
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 2: to seventy eight dollars in ours. I remember doing a

887
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 2: segment on the show, and it wasn't that long ago,

888
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 2: I don't know, three four years. It was when silver

889
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 2: was fourteen, and I talked about the risk reward ratio

890
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 2: and how so many people can't evaluate risk. We have

891
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 2: the fear of the unknown, for you know, the people

892
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 2: that are running around. The twenty five year old people

893
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 2: running around wearing masks for fear that they're gonna get COVID.

894
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 2: Not understanding there. So okay, you get COVID. None's gonna happen.

895
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 2: In the meantime, you got to run around with this

896
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 2: mask on. And I always use the one hundred percent rule.

897
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 2: What's the worst thing that can happen if you put

898
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 2: money into something? You lose it? All? Right? Well, when

899
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 2: silver was fourteen dollars, I said, well, it can't go

900
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 2: to zero. I mean, silver won't ever be free. We

901
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 2: need silver for certain things. Plus you know there's lots

902
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 2: of app location. You can argue that fourteen dollars is

903
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 2: too high, but silver can't be free. It's not like

904
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 2: even a company that can go under because of bad finances.

905
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,280
Speaker 2: Silver itself is a commodity, has to have some value

906
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:15,240
Speaker 2: because it's needed. So let's imagine the lowest would be six.

907
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 2: You can even say zero. I said, what's like there

908
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 2: that silver will at some point in my life go

909
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 2: to twenty eight or zero. Twenty eight would be doubling

910
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,879
Speaker 2: one hundred percent. Fourteen down to zero would be losing

911
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 2: one hundred percent. And I said, silverwhelmingly more likely that

912
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,879
Speaker 2: it would double, and probably more likely that it will

913
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 2: do a firewar than double. And the worst that I

914
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 2: could do is lose my money. But they're you know,

915
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 2: flip a coin, Paul, and I bet heads are tails

916
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 2: for a dollar. One of us is going to lose

917
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 2: a dollar, one of us going to win a dollar.

918
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 2: But imagine if the winner of the heads or tails

919
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 2: made twenty nine dollars and the loser only lost the

920
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 2: one dollar. If there's some way of being able to

921
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 2: construct that so and I just and I've made that

922
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 2: comment forever that silver, particularly when the goal just struck

923
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 2: me as a no brainer investment for the ages that

924
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 2: it just seemed to be way, way, way too cheap.

925
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 2: Now it's stayed around that level for a while, and

926
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 2: finally this monstrous move has occurred. There are numerous theories

927
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 2: that they're signaling inflation, that the lack of credibility in

928
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 2: some cryptos I don't know. There are other theories. You

929
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: need lots of silver to produce the chips and the

930
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 2: computing power for AI. In general commodity inflation, even cheaper metals,

931
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 2: non precious metals like copper are going up or simply

932
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,879
Speaker 2: that this was. You know, silver had been depressed for many,

933
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 2: many years, and people will say, Okay, silver's gone up,

934
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 2: but so is beef. Not to the same extent, but

935
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 2: a lot of the commodities that were depressed forever suddenly

936
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 2: we're not. Now. I don't do a daily radio show anymore.

937
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 2: So the sponsors that you hear on the show. By

938
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 2: the way, people listen to our company nationally will drop

939
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:03,959
Speaker 2: in on the national level some spots that have nothing

940
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 2: to do. But we have our local sponsors that are

941
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 2: here and they buy on an annual contracts, so we

942
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 2: have the same ones for the entire year of record.

943
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 2: I was doing radio. We were running like, how many

944
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,919
Speaker 2: minutes an hour are we running on my old radio show,

945
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 2: It was like twenty, wasn't It might have been more

946
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 2: bazillion things. And I always said that you could tell

947
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 2: when gold and silver were overvalued, and that's when we

948
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 2: were running three commercials an hour for buying gold or silver.

949
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 2: And the reason for that is it people tend to

950
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 2: play follow the leader. They're sheep. They buy something after

951
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 2: all of their friends told them how much money they

952
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 2: made it. Well, that means they're the last one to buy.

953
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 2: They're getting in at the top and you know the bottomfuls.

954
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 2: The time to buy gold and silver is when there

955
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 2: isn't anybody running any ads. So I actually don't know

956
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 2: how many of these ads are running, because radio was

957
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 2: always a place that a lot of the ads were running.

958
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,439
Speaker 2: And I'm not giving you any guidance. I can only

959
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 2: tell you that I did earlier this here sell a

960
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 2: little bit of platinum. Platinum pulled the way, by the way,

961
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 2: in this month, the loan platinum is up sixty percent.

962
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 2: I but it was I just had a little bit

963
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 2: of an ita for cash, and people are giving me

964
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 2: brief over that I have way, way, way, way, way

965
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 2: more gold and silver and I haven't sold any of it.

966
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 2: And part of it is you just gold and silver

967
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 2: to me are hedges against chaos and everything else going

968
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 2: to hell that you need to have some means of investment.

969
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 2: Some people think diamonds or the other diamond values have

970
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 2: been crushed by the whether you call them fake diamonds

971
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 2: or lab diamonds, that's altered their value because unlike gold

972
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 2: and silver, it's become easy to mimic them. The problem

973
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 2: with mimicking an element like silver that has an industrial

974
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 2: application is they have not figured out a way to

975
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 2: mimic the properties of silver that are needed in the

976
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 2: industries in which they use it. Anyway, I'm not going

977
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 2: to tell you whether or not there's still farther to

978
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 2: run or not. But obviously silver is a less compelling

979
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 2: by its seventy eighth than it was when it was

980
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 2: at thirty five just a few months ago, or fifteen

981
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 2: two or three years ago. In my next segment, I

982
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 2: want to talk about two unbelievably stupid ideas and something

983
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 2: you probably figured but never really thought through. You follow

984
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 2: that You sure I can't fire you? I just I

985
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 2: just think that would be funny God for you? What skin?

986
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 2: It isn't off your back? Oh they do docure for

987
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 2: one show left. They wouldn't even do that, would they.

988
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 2: Well you might even be well I mean yeah, I

989
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 2: mean if I fired you, they could constantly. I'm gonna

990
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 2: fire you for cause they would. I need what? But yeah,

991
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 2: I know what the cause is. You didn't show up

992
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 2: on Friday. There's there's gotta be something. You're wearing a

993
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 2: stupid cap to day. That's my cause. This is the

994
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 2: Mark Elling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast. I

995
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 2: said a moment ago. I have two stories about really

996
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 2: dumb things that are being proposed. It's almost like they

997
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 2: are myopic. What does myopic mean? You have short vision,

998
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 2: you can only see things up close, you can't see

999
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 2: the big picture. Before I get to those, I have

1000
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 2: another story about myopia myopic. There are many people who

1001
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 2: have made the point that children have lost all perspective

1002
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 2: of the big picture. Kids in general don't see the

1003
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 2: big and you see like a kid of eighteen nineteen

1004
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 2: committing suicide because you know something bad happened to them.

1005
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 2: Your all life's in front of you. Guess what you'll

1006
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:55,959
Speaker 2: live another seventy years, eighteen thousand. Bad things are gonna

1007
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 2: happen to you. They're all gonna be worse to this.

1008
01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 2: But you lack the perspective of realizing that in the end,

1009
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 2: your girlfriend, dumpy, or somebody in front of you on

1010
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 2: social media is who gives of rats pitot In a

1011
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 2: few years you'll have a lot more positive things going

1012
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 2: on and a lot more negative things than that. But

1013
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 2: they can't see any kind of perspective but that social

1014
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 2: media has made this worse. But this piece is addressing

1015
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 2: whether or not it's the most abused current word in

1016
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 2: our language is literally, but this case that actually applies.

1017
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 2: They're making them literally myopic. And as I said going

1018
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 2: into the segment, my guess is that we all kind

1019
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 2: of knew the kids, especially younger kids, spending hours a

1020
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:44,919
Speaker 2: day looking at these screens, that this is not only

1021
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 2: very bad for them, it may be wrecking their eyes.

1022
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 2: And just hearing it, you kind of said, well, no kidding,

1023
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 2: it's probably bad, especially for developing eyes to be looking

1024
01:01:56,240 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 2: at these lit, highly pixelated screen mean for all of

1025
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 2: these hours a day. Alicia Finley and The Wall Street Journal. Today,

1026
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 2: parents and politicians are waking up to how social media

1027
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 2: and smartphones can harm young people's mental health. How many

1028
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 2: realize that sting its staring at screens all day can

1029
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:19,959
Speaker 2: make kids literally short sighted. Ophthalmologists are raising alarms about

1030
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 2: an epidemic of childhood myopia. Are you short sighted or alongsided? Well,

1031
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 2: I mean, if you don't have your glasses on, are

1032
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 2: you still able to read up close? And you don't

1033
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 2: see things so far away? What you can't see far

1034
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 2: away but you can see close up, That's what I am.

1035
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 2: I mean before my eyes were corrected, when I had

1036
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 2: the cataract surgery I mean my glasses off. I could

1037
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 2: read something old up in my eye, but by steering

1038
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 2: fifty feet away, I mean, I didn't know if that

1039
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 2: was a crane there or Jordan Love, I didn't know. Well,

1040
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 2: that's back to the piece. Near Sightedness typically developed between

1041
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 2: ages three and ten, when eyeballs are rapidly growing, though

1042
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 2: it can progress through adolescents and into young adulthood. While

1043
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 2: genetics plays a role, spending more time focusing on things

1044
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 2: up close, whether reading books are watching YouTube videos, significantly

1045
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 2: increases the risk. It causes the eyeball to grow longer

1046
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 2: from front to back, making it harder to focus farther away. Ever,

1047
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 2: wonder why children who buried their heads in books were

1048
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 2: more likely to wear glasses. Now you know. Studies have

1049
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 2: found that the more time kids spend outdoors, the less

1050
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 2: likely they are to become near sighted. Sunlight stimulates the

1051
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 2: release of dopamine in the eyes, which slows lengthening Alas

1052
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 2: children these days spend many of their waking hours indoors

1053
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 2: fixated on screens, The incidence of myopia is highest in

1054
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:58,920
Speaker 2: Southeast Asia, maybe not surprising given the heavy cultural emphasis

1055
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 2: on academics, where an estimated eighty percent of students who

1056
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 2: complete who complete twelve years of school are myopic. Rates

1057
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 2: are somewhat lower in the US forty one percent in

1058
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 2: urban areas and sixty percent of rural areas, but have

1059
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 2: increased following the COVID school shutdowns. The story goes on.

1060
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 2: If you want to find more, it's Alsia Finley on

1061
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal. Sometimes Wall Street Journal stories are

1062
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 2: behind a paywall. Often you get a few free ones

1063
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 2: a month. Most of those sites are set up that way.

1064
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 2: All right, I have two proposals in front of me.

1065
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 2: One they're both really stupid. One is a newer one

1066
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 2: and the other is one of those idiotic ideas. That

1067
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 2: was it? They kept coming back? Was that Freddy Krueger?

1068
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:46,080
Speaker 2: He killed him? And then they do another movie? Was

1069
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 2: he a Halloween or not? I know, I get them.

1070
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 2: I never watched any of them. I just I just

1071
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 2: knew it. But one of them kept coming back, and

1072
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:56,439
Speaker 2: do you kill him? And then there they do another

1073
01:04:56,480 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 2: movie and he's back. Whatever it was. Let's go to

1074
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 2: the newer one. The government agency that oversees American Family Field.

1075
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 2: Remember the Brewers have a long term lease on the property.

1076
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,160
Speaker 2: We have a government agency that controls the overall property.

1077
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 2: The government. Officials are appointed by various levels of government,

1078
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 2: and most of the levels of the government right now

1079
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,360
Speaker 2: are Democrat. Obviously everybody local would be a Democrat. The

1080
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 2: evers appointees of Democrats. There are Republican appointees on there

1081
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 2: as well. They have this idea that you have all

1082
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 2: of this land around American Family Field, and what is

1083
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 2: all of that lad Now, for those of you who

1084
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 2: are listening far away, unless you're like talking Wrigley Field,

1085
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 2: you can probably visualize what's all around a Major League

1086
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 2: Baseball stadium. Parking goes out and on and on and

1087
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 2: on and on and always. I'm always marveled at how

1088
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 2: far some people have to walk parking their cars. The

1089
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 2: parking goes all the way to thirty fifth Street. I mean,

1090
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 2: the stadium is on the other side of forty third Street,

1091
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:11,880
Speaker 2: the Miller Park. But that's how far to the west

1092
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 2: it goes. Paul says, the one north of ninety four.

1093
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 2: I mean, I have gold preferred parking and is like

1094
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:23,439
Speaker 2: that I'm walking along. I mean, it's just a lot,

1095
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 2: but you know, you got all these people who want

1096
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:28,680
Speaker 2: to go, and this is why all these crowd constant

1097
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 2: they do that there are nine million people. I always

1098
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 2: know that they're bs. The number of parking spaces that

1099
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 2: they have an American Family Field is twelve thousand, which

1100
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 2: means in a sold out game, the average number of

1101
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 2: people per car is three and a half times per car.

1102
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 2: But obviously some people come and buses, some people walk,

1103
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 2: and a lot of people come together. But on a

1104
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 2: sold out game, they're all filled. Well, the people who

1105
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 2: oversee the stadium area, they look at all of this parking,

1106
01:06:55,240 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 2: what do they see waste? They want to develop it.

1107
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 2: There are two separate studies that are going on. One

1108
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 2: is to take much of the parking that is to

1109
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:13,480
Speaker 2: the east of it's now called Brewers Boulevard. It used

1110
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 2: to be called Miller park Way. It's one seventy five

1111
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 2: is you all know it if you know the Milwaukee

1112
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 2: era where the freeway branches to the south for like

1113
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 2: two blocks is a freeway, and then it goes on

1114
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:27,400
Speaker 2: to the old Miller Parkway south forty third Street and

1115
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 2: so on. The parking to the west of that. They've

1116
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:35,160
Speaker 2: put their eyeballs on that, and one of the proposals

1117
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 2: is to take fourteen hundred. Another one is a couple

1118
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 2: thousand of those spaces and develop it with housing and shops.

1119
01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 2: They think that given that there's all of that land there,

1120
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:50,240
Speaker 2: that you could do housing. Now, before I completely ridicule this,

1121
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:54,920
Speaker 2: I will point out again that whenever the development community

1122
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 2: sees vacant land, they see the potential for development. I

1123
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 2: will point out, how however, that much of the city

1124
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 2: of Milwaukee we have housing stock that is currently empty.

1125
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 2: We have other homes that are being knocked down. Now.

1126
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 2: Part of that is there are neighborhoods that people don't

1127
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 2: want to live in. And the notion is is that

1128
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:14,520
Speaker 2: you've put an apartment buildings in an area that isn't

1129
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:17,720
Speaker 2: a neighborhood because there's nothing there, it won't be as

1130
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 2: crime infested in so on as some of the areas

1131
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 2: where you have this problem. That much of the Monominee

1132
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 2: Valley has been developed industrial and commercially with a massive

1133
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:32,160
Speaker 2: jumpstart from Pottawatabe. This would be the way area that

1134
01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:35,599
Speaker 2: links say American Family Field the Pottawatamie. And they think,

1135
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:38,599
Speaker 2: and the City of Milwaukee loves this idea because the

1136
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 2: only area of housing growth in Milwaukee in the last

1137
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 2: thirty years has been the lower east side downtown to

1138
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 2: the third ward. They think this is another area where

1139
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 2: can develop housing. The problem, of course, with taking out

1140
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 2: sixteen hundred and three thousand spaces out of a twelve

1141
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 2: thousand seat parking lot is you've just given up places

1142
01:08:56,240 --> 01:09:01,640
Speaker 2: for three thousand people to work whether to park. The

1143
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 2: second proposal. If you know the ballpark, you know that

1144
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 2: there's a Little League field in the parking lot called

1145
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:13,679
Speaker 2: Hellfare Field. This proposal would be to take out all

1146
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:19,080
Speaker 2: of the parking in the area that is directly adjacent

1147
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 2: to the stadium, in other words, the preferred lots. That

1148
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 2: would be the lots where you're on the good side

1149
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 2: of the interstate and so on, in other words, Hellfare Park,

1150
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 2: and then all the way around the left field line

1151
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,559
Speaker 2: and so on the bulk of the parking near the

1152
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 2: stadium and develop that. The idea is that, for whatever reason,

1153
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:42,640
Speaker 2: people like to live near sporting venues. I was surprised

1154
01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:45,679
Speaker 2: at the apartments in the parking garage near Fiser Forums

1155
01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 2: sold out, But they did their booked as far as

1156
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:50,559
Speaker 2: I can tell, and they believe that you could turn

1157
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 2: this into and I know where they're coming from. They

1158
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:56,920
Speaker 2: sized up Title Town in green Bay, and they think

1159
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 2: that you can do this at the ballpark. The difference,

1160
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 2: of course is this is that Lambeau and the Green

1161
01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 2: Bay thing is iconic. Secondly, they didn't use the parking lots.

1162
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:09,639
Speaker 2: They use the land that's a little bit down. And thirdly,

1163
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 2: while there is housing and all of that, it's mostly

1164
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:16,719
Speaker 2: like destination restaurants and so on. I guess there are people, yes,

1165
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 2: title Tom green By and in northeastn Wisconsin on the packers.

1166
01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:22,080
Speaker 2: What do you have in Milwaukee. This idea of turning

1167
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 2: this into a destination is if this proposal would writ

1168
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 2: the second proposal to take out the parking in the

1169
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 2: actual main lot itself would take out four thousand parking places.

1170
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 2: The studies are being conducted by brails Fred and Dunlaby.

1171
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:41,559
Speaker 2: By the way, I guarantee you the studies will say

1172
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 2: it's a good idea. Here's the thing on studies. I've

1173
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:46,880
Speaker 2: explained this many times. When you're hired to do a study,

1174
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 2: you always come back with the conclusion that the people

1175
01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 2: that are paying you want to hear, because otherwise you're

1176
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 2: not going to be hired to do studies. So they're

1177
01:10:55,479 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 2: going to come back and say yes, we ought to

1178
01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:58,680
Speaker 2: do it, and they're gonna say the lost parking can

1179
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 2: be dealt with by will more book an uber, you

1180
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:03,719
Speaker 2: can have merimass transit and all of this. The reason

1181
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,720
Speaker 2: that Bud Ceiling did not want the stadium downtown is

1182
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 2: because he knew that the Brewer fan base was almost

1183
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 2: overwhelming the people who drove to the ballpark, the tailgating component,

1184
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:16,839
Speaker 2: all of that. That if you had this ballpark downtown,

1185
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:18,439
Speaker 2: nobody would be able to drive to it. There weren't

1186
01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:20,920
Speaker 2: gonna be any parking there, that they'd have to figure

1187
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 2: out a different way to get there, and so on.

1188
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 2: In other words, like Wrigley Field, there's almost no parking,

1189
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:28,720
Speaker 2: but Riglyfield is in a dense urban area. It's a

1190
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:32,800
Speaker 2: different kind of thing. I think that this idea is

1191
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 2: unbelievably stupid to sacrifice. You know, one of the things

1192
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee that works as Brewer attendants from a marketiz size,

1193
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,639
Speaker 2: the Brewers drew every draw every year, at least two

1194
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 2: and a half million in that range. To take away

1195
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 2: this much of the parking, or force the parking even

1196
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:54,439
Speaker 2: farther away than it is turns going to the game

1197
01:11:54,600 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 2: into an enormous hassle the Brewers. In the end, we'll

1198
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:03,320
Speaker 2: have the final say on this, and I would certainly

1199
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:07,200
Speaker 2: hope that the Brewer's ownership and I get you know,

1200
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 2: you can say the five serf form thing again, it's

1201
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 2: a different animal. The bus owners are the ones that

1202
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 2: developed the entire area and five serf form and they've

1203
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:16,559
Speaker 2: made a killing off them that they bought that land

1204
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 2: for a dollar and it's not a knock on them.

1205
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 2: They were that land was available and nobody was touching

1206
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 2: it for years and years and years. Herb Cole didn't

1207
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 2: build a new stadium on his own. The Box owners

1208
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 2: realized that with a new stadium, you would turn this

1209
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 2: into a magnet for development, and it has been. And

1210
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:35,120
Speaker 2: if the Brewer's ownership sees the dollar signs here on,

1211
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 2: well how much are we getting off of parking? But

1212
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:39,599
Speaker 2: understand one of the reasons they changed the whole parking

1213
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 2: system so that you can just drive in and pay

1214
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,360
Speaker 2: via and app is the biggest complaint they had with

1215
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:46,600
Speaker 2: a backups getting into the parking lot. Imagine if you

1216
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:49,519
Speaker 2: take away half the parking and everything's zillions of miles away,

1217
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 2: what it's going to be like stupid? Right, and then

1218
01:12:56,000 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 2: then this one. Every time I bring this up, people

1219
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 2: say to me, Vicky McKenna disagrees with you. Why do

1220
01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 2: people think talk show hosts have to agree on everything? Well,

1221
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 2: by the way, do you think she maybe she does care.

1222
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 2: I don't care what Vicky McKenna's opinion on anything is,

1223
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 2: and I'm pretty sure she'd I don't care what Jay

1224
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 2: Webber's opinion anything is. I don't care what Dannel Donald's opinion.

1225
01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 2: I don't even care your opinion is on anything. Well,

1226
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 2: I mean that's these his vice president. I mean, I

1227
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 2: mean she disagrees with me on this. She's wrong, I'm right.

1228
01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 2: This is an unbelievable idea of allowing these wedding barns

1229
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 2: to operate under rules that nobody else has to operate by.

1230
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 2: It's back there. I the only good thing about wedding

1231
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 2: barns is that a few people make a buck off

1232
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:49,679
Speaker 2: of them. But if you're not one of those few people,

1233
01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 2: what do you give a crap? They're very stupid and

1234
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:58,479
Speaker 2: dangerous ideas. The laws in the state of Wisconsin say

1235
01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 2: that if you are serving or selling liquor on premise,

1236
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 2: you need to have a liquor license in adition to that,

1237
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:05,640
Speaker 2: in order to have a liquor license, you have to

1238
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 2: have approval of the community. The neighbors can object to

1239
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:15,000
Speaker 2: what's going on and the thing, and you're generally required

1240
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 2: to have certain amounts of liability insurance, et cetera, et cetera,

1241
01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:22,719
Speaker 2: et cetera. The problem with these barns, and this started

1242
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 2: with a bunch of people who have barns that aren't

1243
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:27,720
Speaker 2: being used for farming anymore, thought, well, let's have a

1244
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 2: wedding out. You're in charge less money than say the

1245
01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 2: Elks Hall of the Knights of Columbus Hall or some

1246
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 2: banquet hall in a city would charge. And we got

1247
01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:41,960
Speaker 2: all this parking because we all have all this land

1248
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:45,760
Speaker 2: and to be an easy thing to do, which of

1249
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:48,240
Speaker 2: course cuts into the business of all the private businesses

1250
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:49,840
Speaker 2: that have to follow all the rules with regard to

1251
01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 2: liquor licenses and so on. I just don't see what

1252
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 2: anybody's benefit is other than well, I get to pay less.

1253
01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:57,719
Speaker 2: What the hell do the rest of us care about

1254
01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:00,760
Speaker 2: that that you're trying to do something on the cheap?

1255
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:05,280
Speaker 2: Now Here are the downside? Where are barns generally in

1256
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 2: rural areas? Can you think of a worse saying, Now

1257
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 2: you would know more about weddings than most people. Right,

1258
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:16,280
Speaker 2: Paul was in a band that played wedding You don't

1259
01:15:16,320 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 2: still do this, I hope seven hundred and fifty in

1260
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:23,720
Speaker 2: your life. Have you noticed that just an obvious thing

1261
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 2: between your years of going to bars and your years

1262
01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:30,479
Speaker 2: of being at the weddings, where are people likely to

1263
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:33,519
Speaker 2: get bombed out of their minds the weddings? So now

1264
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 2: you've got this thing out of the middle of these things,

1265
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere, and everybody then drives afterwards.

1266
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:41,719
Speaker 2: What a prescription for disaster. And then in rural areas

1267
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 2: view you don't have the same number of emergency vehicles,

1268
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 2: the same number of police to patrol the roads and

1269
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 2: so on. In addition to that, you're at gorod distance.

1270
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 2: What another thing that happens at weddings? E Well, I

1271
01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 2: actually think I know what it is. Partly it's drunk

1272
01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:59,400
Speaker 2: and partly you have two families that are being forced

1273
01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:01,640
Speaker 2: together in laws at all of this stuff. There's a

1274
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 2: staggering number of fights at a current weddings. I'm sure

1275
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 2: you've seen a number of these, and Paul, they going

1276
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 2: the Okay, now imagine this goes on in the town

1277
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:15,840
Speaker 2: of Bumpusville or whatever it is. And what Constable Fred

1278
01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:17,679
Speaker 2: is going to be the guy that comes and responds

1279
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:19,799
Speaker 2: to the all out riot of one hundred and fifty people,

1280
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:28,040
Speaker 2: Or how about the likelihood of guns being brought to

1281
01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 2: these things? My guess is that if something ran a muck,

1282
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 2: the wedding barn operator is going to be very underinsured

1283
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 2: and there's going to be nobody to be able to

1284
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:44,240
Speaker 2: collect any kind of damages from next one. You think

1285
01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:46,439
Speaker 2: at some of these wedding barns, maybe a lot of thirteen,

1286
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:48,759
Speaker 2: fourteen and fifteen year old kids are going to be drinking.

1287
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 2: I think they are. A bar has the fear of

1288
01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:58,000
Speaker 2: losing their liquor license hanging over their head. They're there

1289
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 2: fear of having their insurance canceled out from underneath them.

1290
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 2: They also have to comply with a fair number of

1291
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:06,000
Speaker 2: rules and regulations. When I say bar hotels, the private

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01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:09,160
Speaker 2: wedding venues, the VFW halls, and all the others that

1293
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 2: are in it, there's certain rules that they have to apply.

1294
01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:13,720
Speaker 2: And what these wedding barnes want to do is not

1295
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:15,720
Speaker 2: follow any of these rules, not have to have a

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01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,599
Speaker 2: liquor license, not have to have it anything, and make

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01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 2: money off of this. And again I understand why they

1298
01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 2: want to do it I just don't know why we

1299
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,479
Speaker 2: should do it for them. They want to leech off

1300
01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 2: the rest of us and compete against legitimate businesses that

1301
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:31,639
Speaker 2: have all of these other costs to zero benefit to anyone. Now,

1302
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:34,920
Speaker 2: some of them give money to politicians, and other people

1303
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:39,640
Speaker 2: claim that it's entrepreneurial. Well, there's nothing wrong without fornialism entrepreneurialism,

1304
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 2: but the new entrepreneurs shouldn't be able to break the

1305
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 2: rules that everybody else has to follow, especially if the

1306
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:49,559
Speaker 2: rules are, on their face, idiotically dangerous. So we passed

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01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 2: this liquor license reform in Wisconsin last year, and it

1308
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:54,879
Speaker 2: gave the wedding barnes some ability to compete and operate,

1309
01:17:55,080 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 2: but under significant restrictions. And now they're back again. Andre Jacques,

1310
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:06,599
Speaker 2: who couldn't get himself elected to Congresses, now he's still

1311
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 2: in the state center proposing dumb ideas, got a couple

1312
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 2: of Democrats in here, a couple of Republicans, and they

1313
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 2: say that this is a compromise bill and that it

1314
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 2: will put a limit on the number of dates they popen,

1315
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:25,120
Speaker 2: except the number of dates is in the thirties. Under

1316
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 2: the provision, wedding barnes and other private event venues planning

1317
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:30,759
Speaker 2: to serve alcohol will have two options. Obtain a liquor

1318
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:34,639
Speaker 2: license and operate like other license establishment. So again, you're

1319
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:36,599
Speaker 2: not going to see them do that because they don't

1320
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 2: want to get the liquor license and they don't want

1321
01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:40,720
Speaker 2: to operate like the other establishments. The whole point of

1322
01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:46,160
Speaker 2: operating here is that they want to beat the system.

1323
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:49,759
Speaker 2: Or here's what they're looking for. Obtain a no sale

1324
01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:52,639
Speaker 2: event permit, which would allow renters to bring in their

1325
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:57,240
Speaker 2: own burea and wine, but not liquor. Okay, first of all,

1326
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 2: they will bring in liquor even if they're not allowed to. Secondly,

1327
01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:04,040
Speaker 2: those things are even more dangerous because when you bring

1328
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:06,799
Speaker 2: your own, you're spending a lot less than when you're buying.

1329
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 2: And if there's anything I've known after years of observing

1330
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 2: people consume liquor, one of the things that holds back

1331
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:16,839
Speaker 2: people from overserving themselves is how damn much it costs.

1332
01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:19,639
Speaker 2: And again, if you're in a bar, and I'm not

1333
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,000
Speaker 2: saying that bars don't overserve, and the bars don't let

1334
01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:23,760
Speaker 2: people get drunk and that they can't be fights us.

1335
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:25,680
Speaker 2: But there's at least some level of check on this

1336
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 2: because the bar has a vested interest in not losing

1337
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 2: their license. What does the wedding barn operator have on this? Now,

1338
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 2: there are a couple of restaurants I go to in Florida.

1339
01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:41,240
Speaker 2: You're the little tiny places. They don't have a liquor license.

1340
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 2: She can bring your own I just I don't. I mean,

1341
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 2: I'd have to have a date that was a drunk

1342
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 2: and she has to have something to drink it order.

1343
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,080
Speaker 2: But you'll see people like bring in and I don't

1344
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 2: even mean that, they'll bring in their one bottle of

1345
01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 2: wine and have two glasses and cork the thing back

1346
01:19:56,320 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 2: up and then get in an uber and leave. And

1347
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,479
Speaker 2: it's usually the places that have like six or seven seats.

1348
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:03,800
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, the notion of bringing your

1349
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:08,920
Speaker 2: own bottles to some raucous thing with And by the way,

1350
01:20:09,160 --> 01:20:11,160
Speaker 2: when they bring up wedding, do you think this is

1351
01:20:11,280 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 2: stopping at wedding? Then it's going to be prom parties

1352
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:16,559
Speaker 2: and then it's going to be a bunch of gang

1353
01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 2: bangers from the inner city that I look at it

1354
01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:20,559
Speaker 2: having some wild ass thing that they could never get

1355
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 2: away with it. Oh yeah, it just goes on motorcyclics.

1356
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 2: That's so on. And again, what public good comes out

1357
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:29,920
Speaker 2: of this other than somebody wants to do something for

1358
01:20:30,080 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 2: cheap and somebody who's got a barn here wants to

1359
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 2: make a cheap buck off of it. Again, it's hard.

1360
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:40,559
Speaker 2: You know, restaurants are going out under right and left

1361
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:44,320
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin for a zillion reasons. Food costs are up,

1362
01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:49,720
Speaker 2: the economy's tough. The bar business has simply changed, I

1363
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:52,280
Speaker 2: think because of all the pot that's out there. It's

1364
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:54,280
Speaker 2: just amazing me. I'll drive around down to Milwaukee. I

1365
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 2: don't mean in a Monday night where they're all closed.

1366
01:20:56,280 --> 01:21:00,720
Speaker 2: A Thursday night dead, except you know, maybe on the

1367
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,439
Speaker 2: third ward and maybe still with someone on Water Street,

1368
01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 2: but a lot of Water Street, even the people going

1369
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 2: into the bars and the hangers on that are outside.

1370
01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:09,640
Speaker 2: It's a tough enough racket that's out there. So you

1371
01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 2: want to take businesses that have been in business in

1372
01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 2: Wisconsin for decades and give an advantage to these newbies

1373
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,880
Speaker 2: who want to come in, and I think act utterly irresponsible.

1374
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:24,839
Speaker 2: Vicky disagrees with you again, I'm not here to debate

1375
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:36,200
Speaker 2: her bus for one thing, She's not here. Paul talks

1376
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 2: about the backyard weddings that you the difference though in

1377
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:42,040
Speaker 2: the backyard wedding is by size. There's only so many

1378
01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:44,120
Speaker 2: people who can be at it. These barns that can

1379
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:46,120
Speaker 2: become three and four hundred, and that's when you run

1380
01:21:46,320 --> 01:21:48,679
Speaker 2: of the out of control type of thing. A lot

1381
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:51,799
Speaker 2: of the backyard weddings, they're smart enough. There's three limos involved,

1382
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:54,600
Speaker 2: and somebody's gonna drive them all back and back in

1383
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 2: all of that and so on, and nobody's ever really

1384
01:21:57,120 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 2: enforced those things. And you know, the the sheer number

1385
01:22:01,439 --> 01:22:04,240
Speaker 2: of this is what I think just makes it a

1386
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 2: bad idea. But it's going to keep coming back because

1387
01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 2: people are looking to make a racket off. And then

1388
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:10,640
Speaker 2: you know, eventually you're going to have a few of

1389
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 2: these things and twenty seven kids are going to be

1390
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,240
Speaker 2: killed when they're joy riding. Leave it a thing after that,

1391
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 2: and people are going to wonder, how in the world

1392
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:22,599
Speaker 2: did we let that happen. Paul said, Well, if they

1393
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 2: own the property, they have to pay property taxes. But

1394
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:29,360
Speaker 2: a lot of these properties are assessed at rural rather

1395
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:32,280
Speaker 2: than commercial in terms of paying the taxes. You talk

1396
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 2: about the ultimate under the table type of business where Okay,

1397
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 2: I'm renting your thing and I'm paying you in cash.

1398
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:45,480
Speaker 2: It's the whole Well, I mean, they can certainly incorporate

1399
01:22:45,479 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 2: as a small business and do all of that. I'm

1400
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 2: just suggesting that if you're involved in the alcohol business,

1401
01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 2: you should follow the same kind of rules that everybody

1402
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:54,599
Speaker 2: else who's in the business of entertaining people and putting

1403
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:59,800
Speaker 2: on a mass event and serving alcohol. This is the

1404
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:05,439
Speaker 2: Bark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast. I'm

1405
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:08,000
Speaker 2: holding in my hands the box office report from the

1406
01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 2: weekend from Variety dot Com. Not surprisingly. See, let's like,

1407
01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:16,160
Speaker 2: unless you know nothing about movies, and I'm at the

1408
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 2: level of next to nothing, you know at least something, right,

1409
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 2: what was the big movie that opened over the week

1410
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:32,519
Speaker 2: and no, no, no, no, no, no, nationally no, the big, big, big,

1411
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 2: big this movie that you know, the big huge movie

1412
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 2: over the week? At the Avatar movie opened Avatar ninety

1413
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:42,760
Speaker 2: six or whatever what it is. So you didn't it's

1414
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 2: Avatar three. You didn't know that this was the you know,

1415
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, Okay, Paul knows I said, I knew

1416
01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 2: next to nothing, but I knew this that the Avatar

1417
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:53,479
Speaker 2: movie was opening on Christmas. It was obviously a number

1418
01:23:53,479 --> 01:23:55,759
Speaker 2: one at the box office. In threw eighty eight million,

1419
01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 2: which is more than every other new film released this week.

1420
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:03,840
Speaker 2: In no more than every other film this weekend drew.

1421
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:08,120
Speaker 2: If you took every other movie, it didn't equal what

1422
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:11,960
Speaker 2: Avatar grew in. If you're wondering where the movie featuring

1423
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 2: the real life story of Milwaukee couple songs Sung Blue finished,

1424
01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 2: it finished sixth at seven point six million. I think,

1425
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:22,160
Speaker 2: based on what i've that seven point six million half

1426
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:26,840
Speaker 2: camp from around here. I think every showing at every

1427
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:29,720
Speaker 2: screening in southeastern Wisconsin was sold out. The number of

1428
01:24:29,720 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 2: people who told me that I called it. I checked

1429
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 2: every hour and they were all sold out. They were

1430
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:37,719
Speaker 2: all sold out there. Well, it's like when an iPhone

1431
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:40,080
Speaker 2: comes out, you don't have to go with the first

1432
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 2: and I get the Christmas Day is a big movie

1433
01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 2: going day and all of that, and I never want

1434
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:48,720
Speaker 2: to be the first to do anything. It's always I

1435
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,760
Speaker 2: always use the Las Vegas buffet thing. First of all,

1436
01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:53,639
Speaker 2: you're in Las Vegas. You don't have a body clock,

1437
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 2: right I'll eat the dinner at four pm or nine

1438
01:24:58,040 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with There isn't a lot and where

1439
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:04,240
Speaker 2: I just I don't want to go to anything when

1440
01:25:04,240 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 2: it's going to be too crowded. There's the line unless

1441
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:07,920
Speaker 2: the crowd is simply a part of the deal, or

1442
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:12,200
Speaker 2: it just anyway. The song sung Blue Dead seven, which

1443
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:15,559
Speaker 2: was pretty good, but that's not my point in bringing

1444
01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:17,640
Speaker 2: this up. The second big movie. I've heard that this

1445
01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:20,080
Speaker 2: one's is pretty good, This Marty Supreme movie. No, I'm

1446
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:22,879
Speaker 2: not going to see Avatar. I'm going to Florida Friday.

1447
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:25,880
Speaker 2: On Friday, I'm finally escaping this weather. One of the

1448
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 2: things that I've that I've figured out that a dumbbell

1449
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 2: like me should do on a weekday afternoon is go

1450
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:34,040
Speaker 2: to a movie. There's a massive mall a couple miles

1451
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:35,479
Speaker 2: from where I live, and it's got one of those

1452
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:39,160
Speaker 2: multiplex Paul, I think there's thirty screens in there. Actually

1453
01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 2: I think I'm low So, you know, two thirty in

1454
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:46,640
Speaker 2: the afternoon. Old fart like me, nothing else to do

1455
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:48,040
Speaker 2: when I go to a movie. So I've done that.

1456
01:25:49,320 --> 01:25:52,000
Speaker 2: I want to see this Marty Supreme. I'm not going

1457
01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:53,559
Speaker 2: to tell you the story because it's about the songs.

1458
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:56,800
Speaker 2: I'm blue thing. Anyway, Variety covers the movie industry, so

1459
01:25:56,840 --> 01:25:59,679
Speaker 2: they give you way more detail than the other stories.

1460
01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:04,559
Speaker 2: And in the description of Song Sung Blue, a couple

1461
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:06,200
Speaker 2: of things in here that just jumped out at me,

1462
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:07,720
Speaker 2: and no, I want to find that it has to

1463
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:12,639
Speaker 2: do with who it was specifically that went. I want

1464
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:14,479
Speaker 2: to get the exact code here because I want to

1465
01:26:14,479 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 2: get the number right. A lot of it goes on

1466
01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:19,360
Speaker 2: Marty Supreme and wants a hit at the Avatar thing here.

1467
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:24,160
Speaker 2: Song Sung Blue seven point six million over the weekend

1468
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:28,000
Speaker 2: and twelve million to the four day holiday frame. The

1469
01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 2: holiday frame, I don't know that means no, No, it's

1470
01:26:34,479 --> 01:26:36,800
Speaker 2: it's over. It's a four day I would have thought

1471
01:26:36,840 --> 01:26:43,280
Speaker 2: that maybe they Christmas Day. Was that a Thursday? Maybe? Yeah?

1472
01:26:43,320 --> 01:26:46,280
Speaker 2: The holiday weekend is Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yeah, I'm guessing

1473
01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 2: that when they say frame, it's the four days. Any

1474
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:51,879
Speaker 2: of the four day holiday frame twelve million, So probably

1475
01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 2: the frame includes Christmas Day because that's such a big day.

1476
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:56,519
Speaker 2: So it did twelve million dollars and the movie only

1477
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 2: costs thirty millions, so I already got twelve million. Of

1478
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:01,679
Speaker 2: it back and this is before international the twelve million.

1479
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 2: That's just in the United States, before the international and

1480
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:06,920
Speaker 2: before the big money occurs, which is streaming and so on.

1481
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:08,880
Speaker 2: So it wasn't bad, but it was not anywhere near

1482
01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:12,479
Speaker 2: the top of the list for the weekend. Then, continuing,

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Speaker 2: Craig Grewer directed the thirty million dollar budget movie featuring

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Speaker 2: Hugh Jack Benn Kate Hudson and the true story of

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Speaker 2: two down on their luck musicians who form a Neil

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Speaker 2: Diamond Privit band. Opening weekend. Prods dug the film, which

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Speaker 2: graded which earned in a grade on Cinema Score. You

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01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:31,639
Speaker 2: know what Cinema Score is. It's a company that surveys

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Speaker 2: people after movies. It's different from Rotten Tomatoes in which

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Speaker 2: you have to This is a company that proactively goes out.

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Speaker 2: It got the highest grade of any of the movies

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Speaker 2: released this weekend, so the audiences that went did like it,

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Speaker 2: but the best mark among any of the new releases

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Speaker 2: in terms of ticket buyers, sixty five percent were female.

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Speaker 2: I guess I would not have thought one way or

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Speaker 2: another about that other than you know, it's the movie

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Speaker 2: doesn't have Neil Diamond in it, but it's music. I

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Speaker 2: think Neil Diamond was more popul among women than men. Right,

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Speaker 2: But here's the next one. Fifty five percent of the

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Speaker 2: audience were above the age of fifty five. I know

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Speaker 2: this about people over fifty five, then I'll go to movies.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the movie business has just changed. It's almost

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Speaker 2: entirely young people who go to movies and old fart's

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01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 2: like me. You wait for the movies to come out

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01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 2: on streaming and they watch it there. So the Song

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Speaker 2: Sung Blue movie to do as well as it did

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Speaker 2: given that more than half the people were over the

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Speaker 2: age of fifty five, Now, obviously the story is going

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01:28:35,840 --> 01:28:37,679
Speaker 2: to relate to people more over the age of fifty

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Speaker 2: five because the couple in the movie there were in

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Speaker 2: the thirties and the forties as portrayed in the movie,

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01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:45,800
Speaker 2: and that's when Thunder and Lightning the age they were

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Speaker 2: when they hit and the music of Neil Diamond will

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Speaker 2: Neil Diamond first hit in the nineteen sixties, so that

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Speaker 2: would be it, I do think. And also, there aren't

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Speaker 2: really any young people's storylines in they're the only young

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Speaker 2: people are the kids of Lightning and the Thunder in

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Speaker 2: the movie. But Paul says Zoomers, they never heard of

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Speaker 2: Neil Diamond except you know what I know is when

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Speaker 2: they go to the ball. First of all, everybody knows

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Speaker 2: Sweet Caroline because whenever they play it, everybody sings along,

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Speaker 2: and it's always like people I don't sing along, it's

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Speaker 2: like somebody who's eighteen. A couple of other Neil Diamond

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Speaker 2: songs do tend to be like on soundtracks that you'll

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Speaker 2: see like at a sporting event and so on, and

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Speaker 2: you know, all these not so much millennials, but the zoomers,

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Speaker 2: who never really had any popular music of their own generation,

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Speaker 2: they don't care about hip hop that much, or at

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01:29:37,439 --> 01:29:41,720
Speaker 2: least some of them don't. They've gravitated toward not so

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01:29:41,800 --> 01:29:44,479
Speaker 2: much the old style rock and roll as old style pop,

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Speaker 2: sixties and seventies stuff. So they do know Neil Diamond's music.

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Speaker 2: But whether or not, when they see the brief little

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Speaker 2: summary Neil Diamond Tribute Act, it just sounds like something

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Speaker 2: that Paul and I would want to see rather than kids.

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Speaker 2: But fifty five percent according to that we're over the

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Speaker 2: age of fifty five. My guess is that the movie

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Speaker 2: will hang on for a while on word of mouth,

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Speaker 2: because the word of mouth is good, but the real

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01:30:07,960 --> 01:30:11,160
Speaker 2: hit is going to be the same way I see

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01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:13,720
Speaker 2: virtually every movie is when it gets to streaming and

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Speaker 2: people watch it then because that's where the target audience is.

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Speaker 2: And with that, we're out of time for today's podcast,

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Speaker 2: last podcast of the year, Paul Swansaw it's still tempting

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Speaker 2: to fire you. Will be Wednesday, and that's and will

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Speaker 2: of course be doing since the last end of the year,

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Speaker 2: last podcast of the season. We'll be doing the football

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Speaker 2: contest in preview on the Wednesday podcast as well. Talk

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Speaker 2: to you then by The.

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