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Speaker 2: I want to start with something that I say all

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Speaker 2: the time because we have an example of it. One

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Speaker 2: of the things that I say all the time because

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Speaker 2: true and it's important that people learn this is that

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Speaker 2: lefties are always proven wrong, but they never I mean,

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Speaker 2: in the history of Leftiism, they've never admitted they were wrong.

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Speaker 2: What happens is they just gradually kind of you go

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Speaker 2: into a period of a thaw where they stop saying

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Speaker 2: the thing, and then they move on to something else,

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Speaker 2: but never admitted that they were wrong. The problem for

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Speaker 2: them is they never learn from this. And I stress

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Speaker 2: all the time they need to say I told you so,

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Speaker 2: so that it at least those of us whose minds

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Speaker 2: are open.

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Speaker 3: Are aware of it.

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Speaker 2: One of the examples of they just move on as

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Speaker 2: the whole. Since it's starting now in about a week

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Speaker 2: and I actually first stuff starts this weekend, the I

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Speaker 2: ninety four widening project in Central Milwaukee County, which is

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Speaker 2: going to be hellish. And then when it's done, everything

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Speaker 2: will be better. Unfortunately, it's not going to be done.

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Speaker 2: I wrote this in my I kind of put the

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Speaker 2: wrong word to the wrong place in my newspaper col

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Speaker 2: last week, but this is what I meant to say.

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Speaker 2: It'll be done about the time that President Marco Ruby

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Speaker 2: our President JD. Vance will be starting their second term.

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Speaker 2: I wrote the column ending their term. But it's not

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Speaker 2: quite that bad anyway. It's it's years. But the point

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Speaker 2: that I am making here is that for decades leftists

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Speaker 2: have opposed the widening of I ninety four from three

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Speaker 2: to four lades who greenlighted this Tony Evers. Because now

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Speaker 2: they the eve, they have realized that it needs to

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Speaker 2: be done, and I think even they have realized that

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Speaker 2: it's not good for the city of Milwaukee, that it

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Speaker 2: isn't done. But they never I haven't heard a single

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Speaker 2: one of them say we were wrong about opposing this

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Speaker 2: for thirty years, and you know, and the fact that

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Speaker 2: it was Evers that signed it, that means they were

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Speaker 2: perfectly fine with it. There's no great I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: going to be a miserable brother, the construction is going on.

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Speaker 3: The point that I make is they've never once.

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Speaker 2: You know, there became a period in which they simply

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Speaker 2: stopped opposing the widening, and that was this period of silence,

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Speaker 2: the thought that I mentioned, and then it starts to hit.

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Speaker 2: They just move out of the next thing. So they

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Speaker 2: want to now tear down seven ninety four, learning nothing

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Speaker 2: from the other thing. But they've moved on and that

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Speaker 2: becomes their thing. I have a story here that we're

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Speaker 2: going to get to in just a short moment that

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Speaker 2: might be the early stages of this. This is not

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Speaker 2: an issue that they've moved on yet. I'm merely picking

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Speaker 2: up on something that indicates maybe we're in the beginning

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Speaker 2: stages of this kind of dropping one of their causes

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Speaker 2: and moving on. As Paul claims he knows what it is, well,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if you know what it is or not,

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Speaker 2: because A I'm not going to tell the audience if

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Speaker 2: you know what it is, and b B you're not

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Speaker 2: the host of the program. Why what do you think

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Speaker 2: it is? He knows what it is? Well, I mean,

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Speaker 2: if you know what it is, everybody knows what it is.

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Speaker 2: I don't have to do the segment it. We'll just

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Speaker 2: have a shorter podcast today. Is that what you're.

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Speaker 3: Saying you're brighter. No, you're not. Are you?

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Speaker 2: You think you're brighter than most listeners? You're above average? Well,

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Speaker 2: I mean we have dumb listeners. You're true. There's some

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Speaker 2: that are dumb, there's some that are really smart. We

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Speaker 2: have a broad cross section of them. See you make

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Speaker 2: a mistake here and shooting your arrogant mouth off like this.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to challenge you on a couple of

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Speaker 2: things and you're just going to come across as a

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Speaker 3: Not an option.

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Speaker 2: Bill Gates, the Microsoft co founder who wasn't an idiot.

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Speaker 2: Steve Balmer, he was an idiot, and now Sachi Nodela,

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Speaker 2: who runs a company he's a genius too. Like Gates

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Speaker 2: was Bill Gates, of course, after leaving Microsoft and holding

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Speaker 2: onto the stock, has become a giant lefty. Probably always

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Speaker 2: was a giant lefty, but that's what he's doing. He

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Speaker 2: gives money away, and he's in charge of lefty causes,

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Speaker 2: and he holds lefty symposiums, and he's become like the

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Speaker 2: senior statement of the uber rich elitist left.

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Speaker 3: That's what he is.

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Speaker 2: He's got a website in which he opines on things,

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Speaker 2: and yesterday he'll pined on something that's raising.

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Speaker 3: A lot of eyebrows Bill Gates.

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Speaker 2: And I'll give you the cliff notes here, because the

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Speaker 2: thing goes on and on. Bill Gates is now saying,

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Speaker 2: we really don't have anything to worry about with climate change.

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Speaker 4: Oh now, he is the first of this first person

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Speaker 4: I've seen to say this, that's part of this whole

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Speaker 4: group of people that's been telling us that this is

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Speaker 4: going to be the end of the world and so on.

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Speaker 2: But when Bill Gates says something, that's an indication to

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Speaker 2: me that many others in this establishment are pondering.

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Speaker 3: And I have a theory as.

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Speaker 2: To why he's saying it, aside from the fact that

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Speaker 2: he's right. But it never was the threat that they

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Speaker 2: said that it was. I have a theory as to

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Speaker 2: why he's an his piece, he brings up all of

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Speaker 2: these things in which he said, there's simply no reason

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Speaker 2: to think that climate change is going to threaten human

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Speaker 2: existence or anything like that. He's not denying the climate

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Speaker 2: change is occurring, and he says that there is still

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Speaker 2: a gradual warming in global temperatures, and he's using three

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Speaker 2: degrees centigrade by the end of this century, in other words,

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Speaker 2: the next seventy six years. But in his piece he said,

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Speaker 2: we can live and coexist with that. Some may not

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Speaker 2: be good, but it doesn't threaten human existence or any

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Speaker 2: of those things that alarmists, including him, have been saying.

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Speaker 3: Forever and ever and ever. This is the first break

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Speaker 3: I've seen by somebody who's right there in the middle

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Speaker 3: of it and has influence.

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Speaker 2: Now, I have a theory, as you could say, well,

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Speaker 2: part of it is they've been saying this for twenty

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Speaker 2: five years and none of the things that they've predicted

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Speaker 2: so far. In fact, we should mention that Melissa, the

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Speaker 2: biggest hurricane of this season and really the only big

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Speaker 2: hurricane of this season, hit Jamaica yesterday. Fortunately, degraded a bit.

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Speaker 2: When it got landfall, it was a Category four. You know,

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Speaker 2: Jamaica being Jamaica. There haven't been a lot of images

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Speaker 2: or pictures back yet, but it apparently is not the crushing,

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Speaker 2: horrid devastation that.

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Speaker 3: Hit some of the other islands.

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Speaker 2: But the point of bringing this up is one of

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Speaker 2: the theses of the whole climate change narrative is the

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Speaker 2: ocean waters are warming and that's creating more turbulent weather weather,

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Speaker 2: and there's going to be a incredible increase in the

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Speaker 2: number of hurricanes. This year has been one of the

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Speaker 2: quietest ever. We're close to the end. You can still

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Speaker 2: get them in November. December first is the end of

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Speaker 2: the hurricane season, but the guts of it is late

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Speaker 2: August to about right now, so I mean, there still

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Speaker 2: could be one or two more in November. It's happened,

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Speaker 2: but so far this has been an extremely quiet season.

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Speaker 2: And if you just take a look at hurricane activity

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Speaker 2: in the Aganic over the last fifty years, what happens

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Speaker 2: one year seems to have nothing to do with the

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Speaker 3: It's all over the map. There are some years in

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Speaker 2: A lot of them, and then there's a year like

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Speaker 2: this year in which almost zip meaning I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that the hurricane activity has anything to

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Speaker 2: do with climate. I think that there are other forces

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Speaker 2: that dictated. Paul wonders where al Gore is these days? Now, see,

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Speaker 2: I think al Gore he'll never he's he is still alive,

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Speaker 2: which is kind of amazing. You don't hear, you don't

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Speaker 2: hear anything about him. He'll never break because that would

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Speaker 2: be like his entire thing that he's known for in life.

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Speaker 2: But Bill Gates has different motivations here, and I want

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Speaker 2: to come to where I think this is coming from. Gates,

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Speaker 2: of course, remains a major holder of Microsoft stock. Microsoft

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Speaker 2: is semi partner. They have a relationship partner is not

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Speaker 2: the right word, but a relationship with open AI, which

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Speaker 2: is a separate company and Microsoft and all of them

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Speaker 2: of the other advances in computing and technology are going

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Speaker 2: to require massive amounts of new electricity generation well if

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Speaker 2: well fossil fil eVision power and all of the This

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Speaker 2: is what's creating climate change. That's with the narrative now,

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Speaker 2: if we don't drastically increase the generation of power, this

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Speaker 2: new technological revolution can occur. So we need to divorce

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Speaker 2: the two things from one another. And here comes Gates. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's nothing really to worry about, that's my guess. And

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Speaker 2: the motivation, there's always a motivation. The motivation is never

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Speaker 2: the truth, but there's that motivation on that issue of power.

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Speaker 2: I want to read an interesting post on X. You

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Speaker 2: know a lot of people use handles. I use my

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Speaker 2: actual name. I think is Mark Belling show this is

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Speaker 2: rain Maker nineteen seventy three. I don't know that is,

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Speaker 2: but a very interesting post with regard to uranium. As

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Speaker 2: you know, I have argued that the only real solution

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Speaker 2: to this issue of needing massive amounts of new power

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Speaker 2: generation is nuclear, solar and wind. You could make the

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Speaker 2: not come up with enough electricity to power the AI

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Speaker 2: technology revolution of the future. Cole has all the issues

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Speaker 2: that we know that it has. Natural gas is a

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Speaker 2: very good option, but people object to wit. It is

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Speaker 2: a minuscule carbon footprint. The big problem with it is

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Speaker 2: the pipelines. Nuclear has no environmental footprint.

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Speaker 3: At all.

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Speaker 2: It's the closest thing you can find to something that's

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Speaker 2: carbon neutral. There's no emissions from a nuclear plant. The

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Speaker 2: only thing that happens is that the water next to

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Speaker 2: the plant is a little bit warmer than the water downstreak.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 2: We moved away from nuclear in the seventies and the

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Speaker 2: eighties when the lefties decided that this was an environmental

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Speaker 2: concern because the core of the reactor could melt down.

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Speaker 2: But now that we're faced with the need for massive

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Speaker 2: amounts of new electricity and the need to find something

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Speaker 2: that is totally carbon neutral and can produce massive amounts

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Speaker 2: at the same time, nuclear is the only option. Natural

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Speaker 2: gas can produce lots, coal can produce a pheromount. Nuclear

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Speaker 2: can produce huge but unlike the coal plants, nothing's being

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Speaker 2: belched out, and unlike the natural gas, you don't need

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Speaker 2: to have any pipelines. Nuclear power is generated when specific

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Speaker 2: minerals have their atom split. Uranium and plutonium are two

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Speaker 2: of the biggies. This is rain Maker nineteen seventy three's post.

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Speaker 2: An egg sized chunk of uranium delivers as much electricity

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Speaker 2: as eighty eight tons of coal. The true marble, though

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Speaker 2: lies not only in its output, but in the density

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Speaker 2: of that power. At the heart of each uranium atom

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Speaker 2: sits a colossal reserve of energy. When a uranium two

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Speaker 2: Many of you know that Tom Tiffany's running for governor.

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Speaker 2: a Vita. There was a time in which A Vita

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Speaker 2: Her maiden name is Duffy. She's Sean Duffy's daughter. Sean

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Speaker 2: President Trump is very close to Sean Duffy, his Transportation secretary.

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Speaker 2: is all Israel's fault and it's all Jewish people's fault.

437
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Speaker 2: That's the wink wink, nod nod that's in nobody creates

438
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Speaker 2: this narrative that he had this ant and so on.

439
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Speaker 2: Where am I going with this? This is the thing

440
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Speaker 2: with these lefties and telling these stories. The story is

441
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Speaker 2: evidently untrue, and it didn't take long for some sluice

442
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Speaker 2: on the Internet to disprove the story. This is one

443
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Speaker 2: poster run X the aunt Zora Mandami Zoron Mamdani shed

444
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Speaker 2: faked tears over claiming she stopped riding the subway after

445
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Speaker 2: nine to eleven because she didn't feel safe wearing her

446
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Speaker 2: sh Bob Hijab.

447
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 3: Never wore a hi jab, nor.

448
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Speaker 2: Lived in New York City at the time post nine

449
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Speaker 2: to eleven. She lived in Tanzania.

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Speaker 3: So now Donnie's press people have been challenged on this.

451
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Speaker 2: We found this woman, she wasn't even living in New

452
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Speaker 2: York at the time, and she was also not someone

453
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Speaker 2: She was not one of the Muslim women who wore that.

454
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Speaker 2: So now Mam Nannie is changing the story. He's now

455
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Speaker 2: saying it was actually his father's cousin, a woman named

456
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Speaker 2: Zarah Fouhi, and she apparently died a number of years ago.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I don't even know what your father's

458
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Speaker 2: cousin is. What is your father's cousin? Could you figure

459
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Speaker 2: out what that relationship is? Is that your second cousin

460
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Speaker 2: or is that your cousin once removed? Is I don't

461
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Speaker 2: even know. I know that I had a zillion of them.

462
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Speaker 2: Neither of my parents had siblings, but on my father's

463
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Speaker 2: side there were just he had zillions and zillions of

464
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Speaker 2: cousins because his father and his mother both came from

465
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Speaker 2: in other words, my grandparents, or my father said, they

466
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Speaker 2: both came from massive, huge, you know, families. So I

467
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Speaker 2: had all of these people, and I kind of thought

468
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Speaker 2: of them as cousins, but they weren't cousins. They were

469
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Speaker 2: something else. And I forever, I mean, I heard second

470
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Speaker 2: cousin and I heard first cousin. Once removed that I

471
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Speaker 2: never knew which one of the two it was. But

472
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: this is your cousin's your father's cousins. So whatever that is,

473
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Speaker 2: I do know this, though it's not your aunt. Secondly,

474
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 2: the person he now says that it is conveniently died

475
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Speaker 2: several years ago, so we have no way of knowing

476
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Speaker 2: whether or not she was actually afraid to ride the subway?

477
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Speaker 3: What was she wearing? A shop?

478
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Speaker 2: But was any of that crew? Well five plusin why

479
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 2: do you like? Because their whole thing is to create

480
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Speaker 2: the narrative. His narrative is is that Muslims are impressed,

481
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Speaker 2: are oppressed in New York, They're oppressed in America.

482
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Speaker 3: It's one of the things that makes his appeal to

483
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Speaker 3: this huge base of.

484
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Speaker 2: Leftists that are now pro Muslim and Muslim sympathizers and

485
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Speaker 2: Muslim supporters and so on. He's got to be able

486
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Speaker 2: to tell that story. First of all, Minai is a

487
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Speaker 2: very rich guy. His family is incredibly wealthy, but he's

488
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Speaker 2: got to get every Democrat has.

489
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Speaker 3: To claim at some point in their life they were

490
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Speaker 3: all pressed.

491
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Speaker 2: They're the victim of bigotry, and they were held down

492
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 2: family as much as billionaires as what they are.

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Speaker 3: You say, why did he lie? First of all, he

494
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Speaker 3: never figured anybody would actually look into this.

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Speaker 2: But secondly, you've got to be able to create this narrative,

496
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Speaker 2: and none of them can have. None of them actually

497
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Speaker 2: have a reality that is convenient for the narratives that

498
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Speaker 2: they want to share. I have a story to tell,

499
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Speaker 2: and we'll tell that story when we come back in

500
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Speaker 2: very brief moment here. This is the Mark Belling podcast.

501
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Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling Podcast. As I said, I

502
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Speaker 2: have a story to tell. I'm telling the story as

503
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Speaker 2: a way of getting into the next actual segment that

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Speaker 2: I'm going to do. Here's why I didn't lead the

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Speaker 2: program with it, but at leading the second segment of

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Speaker 2: the program. For those of you who listened to my

507
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Speaker 2: old radio show which lasted forever, I had a certain

508
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Speaker 2: style of doing the program, and.

509
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Speaker 3: I tended to like to move into the.

510
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Speaker 2: Program slowly, in other words, kind of back in and

511
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Speaker 2: be conversational and yap about a bunch of inane things

512
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Speaker 2: and so on.

513
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Speaker 3: And kind of ease the audience in.

514
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Speaker 2: It was a style that I had, and I just

515
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Speaker 2: felt it was a entertaining and be a less threatening

516
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Speaker 2: way to begin the program than by coming in and

517
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Speaker 2: ranting and raving from the very very.

518
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Speaker 3: First part of the program.

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Speaker 2: But thirdly, since my show was on for so long

520
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Speaker 2: and the audience was so huge, it wasn't like the audience.

521
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Speaker 2: Clearly the audience wasn't tuning out. I had the most

522
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Speaker 2: listened to radio program on the state of Wisconsin. They

523
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Speaker 2: were used to it because they knew, Okay, he's going

524
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Speaker 2: to be getting to a point here more and these

525
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 2: little nuggets that he throws it in between are probably

526
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Speaker 2: going to be humorous. During the time that I filled

527
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Speaker 2: in for Rush Limbaugh and I think there's no way.

528
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Speaker 2: There is a way, but I don't know what it is.

529
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Speaker 2: I think I was his longest running substitute. I didn't

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Speaker 2: say did more substitute shows. Longest running Walter Williams was

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Speaker 2: right along the same time frame.

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Speaker 3: As I was.

533
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Speaker 2: I did it for about twenty years, few programs here

534
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Speaker 2: and there. When I going to do the Rush program,

535
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Speaker 2: I essentially worked with one of two producers. One of

536
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Speaker 2: them Kit Carson, native of Whitefish Bay, passed away a

537
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Speaker 2: number of years ago, and the other the guy that

538
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,719
Speaker 2: he calls that he called at the time, both Nerdly

539
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 2: who's gone on to become a podcast thread a host himself,

540
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Speaker 2: and in doing the program, when we would do a

541
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Speaker 2: show prep, both of them, especially Kick Carson, would just

542
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Speaker 2: stress to me get them in the first fifteen seconds.

543
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Speaker 3: You got to hit hard.

544
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 2: You've got to come out of this exploding. And I

545
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 2: came to understand that people turn on the program expecting

546
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Speaker 2: to hear rush. Okay, here's a guest host. It's a

547
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 2: guest host. You better grab them right away before they

548
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 2: pushed the button and say they didn't want to listen

549
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Speaker 2: to a guest host that they'd never heard of, and

550
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 2: so on. You've got to grab them. As opposed to

551
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Speaker 2: in the regular radio show I was doing in Milwaukee,

552
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 2: hardly anybody was stumbling onto my show. They were mostly

553
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 2: people who were conditioned to listen to it. And I

554
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 2: approached it a different way. What is the point of

555
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 2: this story, Well, part of the point of the story

556
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Speaker 2: is I couldn't lead with this segment at the beginning

557
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Speaker 2: of today's podcast, because my podcast is a hybrid of

558
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Speaker 2: the two. We have numerous people who are finding me

559
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: in podcast fell who were not radio listeners. You can

560
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: listen to this podcast anywhere on planet Earth, and there

561
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 2: are all sorts of people who just were not listeners

562
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 2: to AM radio or not living in southeastern Wisconsin, or

563
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Speaker 2: even when our show went online.

564
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Speaker 3: It wasn't distributed.

565
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Speaker 2: I mean it was we recreated it as a podcast,

566
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't really a podcast, if you know what

567
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 2: I mean. So there are all sorts of Our guess

568
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Speaker 2: is is about fifty to fifty of people who live

569
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Speaker 2: in Wisconsin and outside of Wisconsin. And this is based

570
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Speaker 2: on the research at the end of the podcast listeners,

571
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Speaker 2: and it's pretty fair to say that a huge portion,

572
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Speaker 2: not maybe not quite half, are people that were not

573
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Speaker 2: radio listeners to the program. So I'm not yet ready

574
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Speaker 2: to just back into each podcast. I kind of try

575
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Speaker 2: to grab you from the beginning, and the podcasts are shorter,

576
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Speaker 2: so why waste all of that time? Even though this

577
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 2: portion here is a sort of waste of time, but

578
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 2: it's for the purposes of doing a point. So I

579
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Speaker 2: couldn't lead the show with it, but I could lead

580
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Speaker 2: the second segment with it, And why am I even

581
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Speaker 2: bringing up the old Rush Limbaugh thing?

582
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Speaker 3: Because of this? You could never do what I do.

583
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 2: You could never think through all of this to get

584
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Speaker 2: me to where I am now.

585
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Speaker 3: You could not you admit that. What did you claim?

586
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 3: Oh you knew the Bill Gates story. That was all

587
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 3: right anyway.

588
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 2: The last time Fi Serve stock was as low as

589
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 2: it is today, I was still doing the Rush program.

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00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 2: That means not only was Rush still alive, but I

591
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 2: was still doing it. I stopped doing it prior to

592
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Speaker 2: Rush passing away in the end of his show and

593
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 2: so on. The last time I filled in for Rush

594
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 2: was in twenty eighteen. I basically did it between nineteen

595
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Speaker 2: ninety eight and twenty eighteen. Fi Serve stock has not

596
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 2: been as low as it is today since then. That

597
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 2: was the point of telling this story. You may be

598
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 2: wondering what's going on with Fi Serf stock. Fi Serf

599
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 2: stock crashed today, and the term crash is about little term,

600
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 2: but I think it's accurate in this case. The stock

601
00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 2: went down forty percent in a half hour. It opened

602
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,240
Speaker 2: forty percent lower, and it's you know, when the thanks volatile,

603
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 2: it's trading like crazy. It's bouncing around a bit since

604
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 2: then that decline. You'll see this often with a stock

605
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 2: where it starts to drift lower and drift lower for

606
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Speaker 2: an extended period of time. And the reason is drifting

607
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 2: lower is there are ominous things that are going on

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Speaker 2: that some people have picked up on, but most have not.

609
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: And then when the news is out about the ominous thing,

610
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Speaker 2: everybody sells and gets out so that they can save

611
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Speaker 2: their butt before it crashes even lower. That appears to

612
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Speaker 2: be what's happened here. The news that triggered this was

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Speaker 2: The term is called guidance. Publicly traded companies offer guidance

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Speaker 2: to the Wall Street analysts as to what they're the

615
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 2: outlook for the company is going to be, and what's

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00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 2: going to be in our next quarterly earning statement. You

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Speaker 2: can't be misleading in this Suareholder lawsuits come out if

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00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 2: you give bad guidance. If you create, say a rosier scenario,

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Speaker 2: then is reality. And five serv gave guidance that the

620
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Speaker 2: next quarterly earnings would be far short of the analyst consensus.

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Speaker 2: These analysts make an estimate of what your earnings will be.

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Speaker 2: They were estimating two dollars and sixty cents per share

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Speaker 2: for the coming quarter, and apparently five Serve is lowering

624
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 2: the guidance to two o five and the third quarter

625
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 2: earnings are now coming out. In other words, it's a

626
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 2: big earnings miss. It's a year over year decline, and

627
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 2: it's way lower than the analysts were expecting. And when

628
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 2: something like that happens, often a stock will crater, and

629
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Speaker 2: the stock crater. This was I don't even know the

630
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,879
Speaker 2: culmination because I don't know what the next six months

631
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 2: are going to do it. Could it be higher or lore,

632
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's the culmination of something that's

633
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 2: been going on for a couple of years. First of all,

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00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 2: if you bought five Serve stock when the company was

635
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 2: formed in its first five years, your one thousand I

636
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 2: think if the stock is up about twenty six thousand percent,

637
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 2: what's initial original funding? It was almost a penny Scott.

638
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 2: It was a microcapstock that got involved in the financial

639
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 2: services industry and it exploded to become a huge and

640
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 2: enormous company. So what's the cause of the problem here.

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00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 2: Several years ago, Fiserv merged with a larger financial services

642
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 2: company called First Data. First Data was a larger company,

643
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 2: but Fiserv was portrayed as the acquirer in that Fiserv

644
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 2: would be the corporate name now of the newly merged companies.

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00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,280
Speaker 2: It was also stated that the corporate headquarters of Fiserv

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Speaker 2: would remain here in the Milwaukee area. They have offices

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Speaker 2: in Brookfield in Milwaukee. For the first year or so,

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00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 2: Jeff Yabuki, who was the chairman and CEO of Fiserv,

649
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 2: kept the job with the newly merged companies. But then,

650
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Speaker 2: and I'm guessing that this was arranged a couple of

651
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 2: years later, Yabuki left the company and the first data

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Speaker 2: guy took over as chairman and CEO. His name is

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Speaker 2: Frank Visignano. He quit in December to go to work

654
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Speaker 2: in the Trump administration. He's now the head of the

655
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 2: Social Security Administration. I don't know if he got out

656
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 2: because he saw what was coming.

657
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Speaker 3: Just don't know.

658
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 2: There's a guy named Lyons who was brought in in

659
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 2: May to be the new CEO of the company, succeeding

660
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 2: Frank Visgnago. Over the past several days, there's been head

661
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 2: rolling all across fire Servant, which a lot of top

662
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 2: officials of the company have been fired again, clearly problems

663
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 2: are out here. My guess is, and it's a guess

664
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 2: that this merger simply didn't work. Often when one company

665
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 2: buys another, you're always looking for the term they always

666
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 2: use as a synergy.

667
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,919
Speaker 3: Well, we do this thing and they do a related thing.

668
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: So now we've got this larger company that does these

669
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 2: two things that it blends into what another and.

670
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 3: Often that works.

671
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 2: Feiserv was primarily in financial services, banking transactions, stuff like that.

672
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 2: This is all the kind of stuff that goes on

673
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: with regard to any kind of transmission of data financial

674
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 2: and so one that we don't see that's a fight

675
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 2: Serve was and first at it was a broader company

676
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: that was in broader areas. And my guess is that

677
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 2: the merger is simply.

678
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 3: Didn't work.

679
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 2: Now I'm not familiar enough with the company to know

680
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: if the FI Serve operating unit is the one that's

681
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 2: not growing as fast, or if it's the fast data

682
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 2: first data part, or if the two parts didn't come

683
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: together or not at all. But the financials now are declining,

684
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 2: and the declining in a period in which the overall

685
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 2: stock market for several years and especially this year, has

686
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: been going up on steroids. It's not rare when the

687
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 2: market is down forty percent in a year to see

688
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: individual stocks that crater forty percent a year. When you

689
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: see a stock crater at a year in which just

690
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 2: about everything else is up, that's concerning. Here are some

691
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 2: of the numbers down. And again these numbers are for

692
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Speaker 2: those of you listen to the podcast. We're recording this

693
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Speaker 2: early in the afternoon on Wednesday, so if you're listening

694
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Speaker 2: five days later, these numbers could be completely different. Stock

695
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 2: down forty percent as of when I checked when I

696
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:15,959
Speaker 2: started the podcast just today alone, down sixty percent this year,

697
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 2: and the last year in which it was as low

698
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 2: as it is today was twenty seventeen. So the stock

699
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 2: has hit an eight year low. And during that eight

700
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 2: years we've had a massive, obviously bull market in the market.

701
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 2: So five serves that they dumped the CFO a couple

702
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 2: of other people. The CEO is new, and who knows

703
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 2: what the long term solution of the problem is that

704
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 2: I don't know what the problem is. One thing to

705
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,479
Speaker 2: bring up here over the years I've heard from five

706
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 2: Serve millionaires.

707
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Speaker 3: The predecessor of these year in.

708
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Speaker 2: Southeastern Wisconsin was the ge Millionaires did a couple of

709
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 2: segments on this back in the nineties. The people who

710
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 2: worked for GE was then called GE Medical, which is

711
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,760
Speaker 2: based in Waka Shop. GE Medical was a huge division

712
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 2: of General Electric at least since broke up the companies

713
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 2: and so on. But the stock of General Electric in

714
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 2: the seventies, eighties and nineties was one of the great

715
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 2: success stories in American corporate history. That's when Jack Welch

716
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 2: was the CEO, et cetera. And there are people who

717
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 2: you know, when you're in a company, one of the

718
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 2: options in your four oh one K is often to

719
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 2: buy the company stock. And there are people who work

720
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 2: for GE who put their entire four oh one K

721
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 2: into the company stock and regular working class people forty

722
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 2: fifty sixty thousand dollars a year, and they became multimillionaires

723
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: because the stock exploded, exploded, exploded, exploded, exploded, and they

724
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 2: called them GE millionaires. Unfortunately, after Jack Welch left the company,

725
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 2: they named an utter incompetent. In fact, he was the

726
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 2: head of GE Medical to succeed him, and General Electric

727
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 2: declined ninety percent in value. And a lot of these

728
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 2: GE millionaires, you know, they've worked for these companies and

729
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 2: the company. Rarely does a company tell it, well, our company.

730
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 2: Sometimes really does a company kill employees. Everything's going to hell,

731
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 2: it's all we got this. And again, some people just

732
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 2: it's always risky to put too much of your investment

733
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 2: money in one sock. Now, if you're twenty five years

734
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 2: old and you're just starting, that's different. But if you're

735
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 2: somebody that is you've now built up quite a nest egg,

736
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 2: you never want to no matter what, that company is

737
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 2: just the highest market. Look at tick in Video right now,

738
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: which has done nothing. You cannot say that in Vidia

739
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 2: ten to fifteen years from now will not be substantially

740
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 2: lower because many of these stocks that just seemed like

741
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 2: they would grow forever stop growing. GM four at IBM.

742
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 2: They were once the biggest companies in America. So hopefully

743
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 2: there aren't too many people that who work for Pfiser

744
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 2: who just had way too much of their money tied

745
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 2: up in the Feiser, because if they did, that's that's

746
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 2: just a huge hit to find out forty percent of

747
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 2: your net worth just eviscerated within five minutes. Weirdly, we

748
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 2: have another story that deals with Sean Duffy, a double

749
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 2: Duffy day. I hinted at the story here. A few

750
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: days ago on the program, I mentioned that one of

751
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 2: the arguments being made by Milwaukee officials who are opposed

752
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: to abandoning the terribly failed trolley the street car that

753
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 2: they call the hop it was another one of those

754
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 2: examples of me doing and I told you so, in

755
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 2: which I said that this thing was going to be

756
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 2: a disaster. It was never going to grow, There never

757
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 2: be any ridership, there was never a long term funding

758
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 2: thing for it. Nobody was ever going to pay to

759
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 2: ride the thing, so it's had to have been free,

760
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 2: and even as free, it's hardly ever ridden. Well, you

761
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,760
Speaker 2: now have a number of city officials that are fed

762
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 2: up with the city subsidizing this because you've got all

763
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 2: the women who represent the entire city and this thing

764
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 2: runs only in a small section east of downtown Milwaukee,

765
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 2: and then's a little bit west over to where the

766
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 2: post office and bus station is.

767
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 3: Well.

768
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 2: Several all the have been led by Scott Spiker from

769
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 2: the South Side, are saying that the city should just

770
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 2: abandon it, that it is ridiculous with all the city's

771
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 2: needs that you are putting in money, city property tax money,

772
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 2: city dollars to fund this thing that's in only one

773
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 2: segment of the community, and as Spiker points out, it's

774
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 2: used by two people, the affluent and the homeless. Affluent

775
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 2: high end downtown condo owners who work on high rise

776
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 2: downtown office buildings and street people who just sit in

777
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 2: and ride it.

778
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 3: All day because it's free. Those are the two. What's

779
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 3: the point of everybody else in.

780
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 2: The city, what, you know, the people who live in

781
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,919
Speaker 2: the central city, the people in the Latino south side,

782
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 2: the far South cyberspikers. What's in it for them to

783
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 2: subsidize this thing that doesn't serve anybody other than this

784
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 2: tiny select.

785
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 3: Group of people.

786
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 2: And the city's retort has always been, we have to

787
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,959
Speaker 2: pay back the entire federal grant if we shut it down.

788
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 2: This is all background now, and indeed there is federal

789
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 2: law that if you get federal funding for a project,

790
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 2: you have to continue that project unless the.

791
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 3: New use for the money is for the same purpose.

792
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:14,280
Speaker 3: In this case, transit.

793
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 2: The Milwaukee had a transit garage on the site where

794
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 2: the Coteur was built, and they got a grant to

795
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 2: build it in order to clear the land for the

796
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: courteur and run the street car over to the COTUUR.

797
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 2: They had a carry down the transit garage that was

798
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 2: built with federal funds, so they had to justify using

799
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 2: the federal funds on something else that was transit, i e.

800
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 3: The trolley.

801
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 2: This is how Tom Barrett got funding to do his

802
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 2: stupid street car, is that he basically transferred the money

803
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 2: that was originally intended for the parking garage and so

804
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 2: on and use that as a way of getting a

805
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 2: new federal grant.

806
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 3: So the argument being made today.

807
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 2: By city officials is they now if they get rid

808
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 2: of the street car, finally have to pay all that

809
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 2: money back because the money is not still being used

810
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 2: for the initial stated purpose transit. Now, here's what I

811
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 2: said on the podcast a few days ago. Who's the

812
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 2: president right now? You better not get this wrong. After

813
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 2: bragging about your climate change thing, Trump Trump, you really

814
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 2: think that Donald Trump isn't going to give them the

815
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 2: ok to stop a street car that not one person

816
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 2: who voted for Donald Trump supports. The following letter has

817
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 2: been sent to Trump's Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy. It was

818
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 2: written by Van Wangard, state senator who represents southern Milwaukee

819
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 2: County portion of Racine County, portion of Kenosha County, and

820
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 2: Bob Donovan, who represents good chunk of southwestern Milwaukee County,

821
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 2: including a portion of the city. They jointly send the

822
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 2: following Who Shaan Duffy, Secretary of Transportation. Dear Secretary Duffy,

823
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 2: as state legislator is representing the City of Milwaukee. We

824
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 2: write today in support of the letter from Milwaukee Alderman

825
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,720
Speaker 2: Scott Spiker urging the US Department of Transportation to release

826
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 2: the City of Milwaukee from its grant obligation for the

827
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 2: development of the Milwaukee street Car. If this is granted,

828
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 2: the City of Milwaukee could once and for all end

829
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 2: this public works boondoggle that has plagued the city's finances

830
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 2: for years. This proposal reflects there is growing support among

831
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: local leaders who address the fiscal issues facing the City

832
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 2: of Milwaukee not through tax increases, but rather by eliminating

833
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,720
Speaker 2: wasteful spending. So here are these two Republicans are asking

834
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 2: Republican Secretary of Transportation do this thing so Milwaukee and

835
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 2: stop can stop wasting this idiotic buddy. I think Duffy's

836
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 2: going to be receptive to this. Milwaukee's taxpayers have contributed

837
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 2: tens of millions of dollars of their own money to

838
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 2: this project that continues to be an annual Draine who

839
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 2: told you it a so old you'll be a terrible

840
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,439
Speaker 2: Draain who told you befess I did?

841
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 3: I did? I? Did I hit it?

842
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 2: When you say I told you so, it's critical to

843
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 2: say I told you so. I was explained earlier on

844
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 2: the podcast. You have finally learned why it's important to

845
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 2: say I told you so correct continue the letter. Operationally,

846
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 2: the street car has never broken even and he's incurred

847
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 2: an additional burden to maintain it. In twenty twenty six,

848
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 2: the street car is projected to face a four point

849
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 2: two million dollar deficit. This deficit has increased since the

850
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 2: inception of the project and shows no sign of stopping.

851
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 2: By the way, if you watch the news coverage all

852
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 2: the way through this, you would never do it.

853
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 3: Oh the hop it's so pop It's soap popua, nobody

854
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 3: rites it.

855
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 2: Summerfest goes on, some people will jump on it to

856
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 2: get close to the north edge of the grounds.

857
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 3: You got.

858
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,240
Speaker 2: There's there's quite a few like nursing homes and senior

859
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 2: care centers on Prospect. Some people will riot it and

860
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 2: get off where a dead ends at the corner of

861
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 2: Ogden in Prospect, and then walk the other three blocks.

862
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 3: Other than those two or.

863
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 2: Three things are when something specific is going, it's never written.

864
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 3: It just it's never written because it serves no purpose and.

865
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 2: It doesn't go anywhere, and it can only go where

866
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,399
Speaker 2: the stupid tracks are as I told you was going

867
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 2: to happen. Thank god, I've spent so many years saying

868
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 2: but first of all, I have a successful in stopping

869
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 2: this for like twenty years. Then when I finally Barrett

870
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 2: finally got it through because he got that Frederal money.

871
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 2: I said all of this, and I said all of this,

872
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 2: and I said all of this the only way there

873
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 2: was only one way, well, two ways, I guess there

874
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 2: were only two ways in which I wasn't going to

875
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 2: in the end be able to come back and say

876
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 2: I told you so you know what those two would be.

877
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 2: I would be fired or I would die. As long

878
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,399
Speaker 2: as I didn't get fired or I didn't die, I

879
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 2: it was such a cinch that this was going to

880
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 2: be a fiasco that I'd be able to come back.

881
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 3: So what does this mean?

882
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 2: Watchino, watch Meino, keel over and die? I have no

883
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 2: more meaning in life, no purpose in living. I was

884
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 2: the trolley was a bust, as I said it all

885
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,919
Speaker 2: right again. They're trying to convince Sean Duffy to free

886
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 2: them the requirement under grant that since the Feds gave

887
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 2: them this money to be used for something for transportation,

888
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 2: they have to keep running the street car forever and

889
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 2: ever and ever. Releasing the City of Milwaukee from these

890
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 2: grant obligations would request would represent an extraordinary step by

891
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:18,240
Speaker 2: the federal government, and we recognize the gravity of this request. However,

892
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:22,240
Speaker 2: we believe the decades of sunk costs and the annual

893
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 2: hemorrhaging of taxpayer resources will only continue if the federal

894
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 2: government does not take direct action. Granting this relief would

895
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 2: not only eliminate wasteful spending, but allow for these funds

896
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 2: to be redirected to core services. I would point out

897
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 2: their excuse for not hiring more cops and firefighters.

898
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 3: Et cetera goes away.

899
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:45,399
Speaker 2: We appreciate your thoughtful consideration of this proposal to release

900
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 2: the City of Milwaukee from their federal obligation for the

901
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 2: streetcar and order to discontinue operations. Thank you for your

902
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 2: attention to this matter. Yeah, you get the ending of that,

903
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 2: don't you?

904
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:59,479
Speaker 3: Who else? And who else? Who's the other person?

905
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 2: Who? In everything? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

906
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 2: Trump Trump puts that at the end of every one

907
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,240
Speaker 2: of his posts. So that's why they conclude. The signing

908
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 2: signed by Bob Donovan and Bangwangard, who members of the

909
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:16,320
Speaker 2: state legislature who represent parts of their district include portions

910
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 2: of the city of Milwaukee. The districts go on to

911
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 2: others other segments as well. Wisconsin Institute of Law and

912
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 2: Liberty sent a letter to the United States Department of Justice,

913
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 2: again trying to draw attention to the fact the Wisconsin

914
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 2: Election Commission has still not fully purged names on the

915
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 2: voter roles that appear not to be legitimate anymore. And

916
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 2: in some cases, people move, some cases, people die, et cetera.

917
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 2: But the people there's forty one thousand people on the

918
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 2: voter roll in which there is no evidence that they

919
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 2: reside at the place that they are they because they've moved,

920
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 2: they've died, et cetera. So they're asking the Department of

921
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 2: Justice to do this. I think it is a good request. However,

922
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 2: as I insist on continuing to point out there are

923
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 2: some people that are focused on election integrity in Wisconsin

924
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 2: who obsess over this matter of the voter rolls. My

925
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 2: response to that is the voter roles is not unimportant. However,

926
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 2: it is a tiny portion of the problem. It's not

927
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 2: the major problem. If someone's name is on a voter

928
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 2: role but nobody votes in that name, it's kind of

929
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 2: a no harm, no foul. What you have to do

930
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,280
Speaker 2: is prove that some of these forty one thousand people

931
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 2: actually have voted, when in fact they don't exist. That's

932
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 2: a sign of fraud. The bigger problem is I keep

933
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 2: pointing out, and unfortunately there's some people in the right

934
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,479
Speaker 2: that I just think they don't fully understand this because

935
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 2: they've listened to a handful of people that are Charlatan's

936
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 2: and one of the people that they listen to is

937
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 2: a convicted con man who's going on about the.

938
00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 3: Voter roles thing.

939
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:00,800
Speaker 2: And again, I'm not saying the voter roles in an issue.

940
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,760
Speaker 2: The real problem is same day voter registration. You're concerned

941
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 2: about a name that's been on the rolls for three years.

942
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 2: My concern is somebody's name gets on the roll one

943
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 2: minute before you give them a ballot. That's where the

944
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 2: fraud occurs. People showing up with some bogus identification and

945
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 2: they get the ballot and it's in there. Yes, that

946
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 2: name that is on the voter rolls after the fact,

947
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,959
Speaker 2: but the damage has been done, and often those fake

948
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 2: votes are cast only the one time by people who

949
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 2: same day register. Same day registration is the core a

950
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 2: vote fraud in Wisconsin. Photo ID has helped, but as

951
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 2: anybody who's ever seen I don't go to them many

952
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 2: bars anymore. But this is a big problem in fluid,

953
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 2: as anybody who's ever seen an eighteen year old at

954
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 2: a bar will attest, I swear there are more fake

955
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 2: IDs than there are actual ideas. They've gotten very good

956
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 2: at making those things. There are certain things that you

957
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 2: look now that they have the real idea on the

958
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 2: driver's license, but a lot of them they don't give

959
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 2: you a driver's life since they just give you an

960
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 2: ID card because those are easier to uh, you know

961
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 2: about all of that stuff, don't you?

962
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 3: You had one?

963
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 2: Because when you're fifteen, see see Paul's a little bit

964
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,839
Speaker 2: younger than me, well a decade younger than me. I

965
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 2: never needed a fake ID.

966
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,720
Speaker 3: Paul, I don't think I've ever been carded in my life.

967
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 2: First of all, I was the drinking age was eighteen

968
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 2: when I was a kid, But there were fifteens and

969
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 2: six fifteen and sixteen year olds of drink and I

970
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,919
Speaker 2: just can't. I'm not saying it never happened. I can't

971
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:39,280
Speaker 2: recall anybody ever telling you you couldn't. Just a totally

972
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 2: different era. What I have needed that for? You know,

973
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 2: Plus I'm in Kakana. If I go to like I

974
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 2: should name some of the bars that are see that's

975
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 2: the problem with bar names. They all sound stupid. But yeah,

976
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 2: Harry's tapping, in fact, that was the bar I went

977
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 2: to an Oshkash. Harry's taping was on the there's this

978
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 2: street in Oshkosh. She was intersect called the four corners

979
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,959
Speaker 2: you know where that was there were three hot young

980
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 2: bars on each corner. And Harry's was for old farts

981
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 2: for some on the softball team that are stationed at

982
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:14,280
Speaker 2: a softball team and you know, the losing team supposed

983
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 2: to buy drinks after the game. But we're a radio station.

984
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 2: We can't bring up more with this. You kind of

985
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 2: have to adopt a bar if your sponsored resident. Harry's

986
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 2: was our bars, so we would go over there and

987
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 2: then go across the street and try to use our

988
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,839
Speaker 2: softball uniforms to try to woo attractive young women, which,

989
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 2: by the way, that that was just a fool proof.

990
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 2: There were guys I knew who would wear their softball

991
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 2: uniform when they weren't even playing, just to go into

992
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 2: bars and hit on women.

993
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 3: Does that still go on?

994
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 2: People even play softball anymore? I think the bulls that

995
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 2: it would work against you more. I mean the young

996
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 2: people still play softball. I mean there's still the fields

997
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 2: out there. I just don't think it's as big as

998
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 2: it once was. Softball is a great game. I mean

999
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 2: faster at softballs is a fantastic game with just really

1000
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 2: really hard the ball. Because pictures are so good. Slow

1001
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,879
Speaker 2: pitch softball, I mean, anybody could play that. I mean, yeah,

1002
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 2: they're playing pickleball well, but that's why young.

1003
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 3: People shouldn't play pick a ball.

1004
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 2: Pickleball should be left to older people because that's all

1005
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 2: they can play. And young people should be playing softball

1006
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 2: in tennis because they're still healthy enough to run. You know, tennis,

1007
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 2: you have to run from side to side and do

1008
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,280
Speaker 2: all that pickleball, you only have to take three steps.

1009
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 2: So that's why old people should play pickleball and young

1010
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 2: people should do so. Instead, you've got young people that

1011
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 2: have to come in and steal away pickleball just because

1012
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 2: they want something that's easy. It's like people who play

1013
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 2: disc golf rather than golf. You know, disc golf is

1014
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 2: as so far as I can tell, disc golf is

1015
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,280
Speaker 2: like playing frizzy playing golf, only you use it a frisbee.

1016
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 3: Isn't that kind of what? Isn't that kind of what

1017
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 3: it is? Yeah?

1018
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 2: I just put well play golf, for crying out loud.

1019
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 2: It is kind of Golf is expensive. You know what

1020
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 2: the most expensive I you know what the most expensive

1021
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 2: thing for me and golf was. Remember I was terrible

1022
00:56:57,640 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 2: the number of balls I lost the course I played,

1023
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 2: and I was in high school. I mean it was

1024
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 2: called Oakwood Hills, long since gone. It was hills, and

1025
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 2: there was cricks and it was brush and I mean,

1026
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,879
Speaker 2: first of all, I'm broke. I would spend twenty five

1027
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 2: minutes looking for my ball, play on through, play on,

1028
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 2: I'm not giving up on this thing. There's like a

1029
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 2: frog that has swallowed my golf ball and there were

1030
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 2: snakes and all of the stuff that we're down in there,

1031
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 2: and well, oh that's what I would mostly do, and

1032
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 2: you play other people's walls. But that means the ball

1033
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 2: you're playing is a water log ball, which isn't gonna

1034
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,479
Speaker 2: go very far. But a sliced up water log ball

1035
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 2: is still a free ball as opposed to Even then,

1036
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 2: the titleist was like, that was the ball that like

1037
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 2: a guy like me could never have. The only time

1038
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 2: I would play a titleist is if I found somebody

1039
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 2: else's lost ball that.

1040
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 3: Was stuck in there. It's still kind of the go

1041
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 3: to ball, isn't it.

1042
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I see the The only reason I know

1043
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 2: that really is when you watch golf on TV, they

1044
00:57:58,520 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 2: often do a close up of the ball in the

1045
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 2: green and oil Boy, it seems like almost all of

1046
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 2: them are titleists said, yeah, some are in Ikea, which

1047
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 2: is sponsorship of it, But I think most of the pros.

1048
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you see more than half of the balls you

1049
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 2: see would be titleists when you watch the pro golf.

1050
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 2: Nothing more clearly to say in any of that. This

1051
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 2: is the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast.

1052
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 3: All right.

1053
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 2: Now here's one of the things that in the future

1054
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 2: all sorts of people are going to claim that they

1055
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 2: did but will not have done it. The ultimate example

1056
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 2: of this, and we've discussed this over the years, is

1057
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 2: this is an old person's reference, but some of you

1058
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 2: will get it. People who claim that they were at

1059
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 2: the ice Bowl. Right. We have the example we always

1060
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 2: cite is one of the people that ran the company

1061
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 2: that ran my cruise Forever, Peggy Crawl. Her father, no,

1062
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 2: she she actually was at the Ice Bowl. And my

1063
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 2: rule of thumb, as somebody who was a kid and

1064
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 2: grew up in the Fox Valley at the time, is

1065
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 2: that anybody who claims that they were at the ice

1066
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 2: Bowl is lying, and you're going to be right ninety.

1067
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 3: Five percent of the time. At the time lambeau.

1068
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 2: Field held about fifty thousand people, and I swear about

1069
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 2: one million people have claimed that they were at the

1070
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 2: ice Bowl. So that means that the overwhelming majority could

1071
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,479
Speaker 2: not have been there. So my default position is you're lying,

1072
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 2: but we don't pay you. Is very honest, is a

1073
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 2: very honest person, and there was a significant amount of proof.

1074
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 2: And see that's the thing, if you actually were there,

1075
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 2: you would hate the people who lie about it more

1076
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 2: than anybody, right, yeah, I mean you were there, all right. Well,

1077
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 2: this is one of those things. I watched all of

1078
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 2: Game three of the World Series, the eighteen inning game.

1079
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 2: I know most people were not, and I can tell

1080
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 2: you the time that it ended our time, because I

1081
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 2: looked at my phone to see the time and then

1082
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 2: went to bed. Fortunately, the game was I do my

1083
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 2: podcast Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. This was Monday night, so

1084
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 2: I didn't have a podcast on Tuesday, so there's no

1085
00:59:57,640 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 2: real reason to have to go to bed other than

1086
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 2: I wanted to get a lot of things done on

1087
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 2: I was going to get up early on Tuesday, one

1088
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 2: fifty one of the morning. So I watched all eighteen

1089
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 2: innings of that game. And I know most people did not.

1090
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 2: It's going to go down and years to come as

1091
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 2: one of the greatest games ever played and all of

1092
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 2: that stuff. So I actually did stay up and watch

1093
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 2: the whole dog one thing this World Series. Right now,

1094
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 2: it's two to two as of the time we're doing

1095
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 2: this podcast, and it is impossible to predict. Both teams

1096
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 2: are flawed, both teams have great strengths. The weaknesses of

1097
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 2: the pitching staff showed up as showed up in times

1098
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 2: for both of those teams. But then you had the

1099
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 2: eighteen inning game, which was just so bizarre, in which

1100
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 2: the best pitchers were guys that are on the back

1101
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 2: ends of both teams bullpens. Former brewer Eric Lower pitched

1102
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 2: four or five shutoutings for Toronto. The Dodgers' last four

1103
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 2: innings were pitched by a guy who spent most of

1104
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 2: the season in Triple A and was terrible in Triple A.

1105
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 2: His World Series outing was the longest outing of his

1106
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 2: major league career, but he was the last guy in

1107
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 2: the bullpit anyway. I actually, I know you didn't stay

1108
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 2: up and to see the say you did.

1109
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 3: I did.

1110
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 2: And it was one of those deals in which once

1111
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 2: you got to the tenth or eleventh inning, it's not

1112
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 2: like when it's the tenth inning, you know it's gonna

1113
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 2: go eighteen. Now I should point on for people who

1114
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:19,440
Speaker 2: don't follow baseball real closely.

1115
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 3: They have a new rule in baseball started.

1116
01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 2: A few years ago that in extra innings, each team

1117
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 2: starts with a man on second base. It's to prevent this.

1118
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 2: But that rule does not go into effect in the postseason,

1119
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 2: so you don't have that. So the potential for a

1120
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 2: game to go on as long as this one does exist,

1121
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 2: but usually they don't. So it's like the tenth inning. Okay,

1122
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 2: well I'm gone this. I turn it off, and it's

1123
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 2: the eleventh. Now it's the thirteenth.

1124
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 3: That's the fifteenth.

1125
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 2: What I'm gonna give up after fifteen because you know,

1126
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 2: dog gone well that the moment you give up, they

1127
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 2: were gonna somebody's gonna score like fifteen seconds after you

1128
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 2: turn the TV. I was at the Bucks game last night,

1129
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 2: which would be Tuesday night. Something happened at that game

1130
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 2: that has made'll lose. Yeah, And I was at think,

1131
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 2: first of all, I'm at the game. My seats are

1132
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 2: pretty good. I'm like twelve ros behind the Bucks bench.

1133
01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 2: Unless nobody's talking, you don't hear anything on the court,

1134
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 2: but he's yelling at screaming.

1135
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 3: The only time you.

1136
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 2: Hear something on the court is if there's somebody shooting

1137
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 2: a free throw and somebody yells something UF. It's in

1138
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 2: a quiet moment, et cetera. So I didn't hear this,

1139
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 2: but the reporter for the Athletic, which is owned by

1140
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 2: New York Times did, and he's done a story and

1141
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 2: this thing has just gone fire.

1142
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:28,040
Speaker 3: Well anyway, if you hit.

1143
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 2: The Bucks have only played four games so far this

1144
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 2: season the three on one, but Yannis has been phenomenal.

1145
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 2: First of all, he's a phenomenal player, but secondly, he's

1146
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 2: one of these guys that only has one gear, so

1147
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:41,479
Speaker 2: he's gonna start the season as if it's Game seven

1148
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 2: of the NBA Finals. So he's playing really, really hard,

1149
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 2: and he's been off to and off the charts start.

1150
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 2: The Bucks have looked very good, and a theory that

1151
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 2: I've held that they're going to be better.

1152
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 3: Without Damian Lillard seems to work.

1153
01:02:57,600 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 2: Lillard was a very good scorer, but he's slowed down

1154
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 2: the team, and the Bucks are playing at a much

1155
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:05,439
Speaker 2: greater pace and Yannis's game is one of pace rather

1156
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 2: than hanging.

1157
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 3: Around, and it aids the team.

1158
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:11,919
Speaker 2: Anyway, Yannis made one of those spectacular only Yannis type

1159
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:14,280
Speaker 2: plays in which guy's going in for a layup and

1160
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 2: he makes this freakish, freakish incredible block and then saves

1161
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,200
Speaker 2: the ball and fires the ball to Miles Turner who

1162
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 2: goes off.

1163
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 3: And scores it.

1164
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 2: It was just it's one of those just highlight moments

1165
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 2: that Yannis seems to do to a game, but it's

1166
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 2: really strong one. What I did not know until I

1167
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 2: read this this morning is Yannis then screamed at the

1168
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:33,919
Speaker 2: you know they want a player makes a great play,

1169
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 2: players a scream, the other team calls a timeout, and

1170
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 2: you'll do it. But I didn't know what he's screaming.

1171
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 2: Yannas screamed at the top of his lungs, this is

1172
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 2: my city now. The reason this is relevant is there

1173
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 2: been rumors everywhere in the media that Yannis will be

1174
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 2: traded in the middle of the season, that if the

1175
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 2: Bucks are not a contender for a championship, the time

1176
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 2: to move on from Yannis will be here. And I mean, obviously,

1177
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 2: if the Bucks traded Yiannis in the middle of He's

1178
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 2: got two years left in his contract. If they traded

1179
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 2: him in the middle of the season, the hall would

1180
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 2: be astronomical. The problem with trading him to a contender, though,

1181
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 2: is contenders draft choices are useless. You trade Giannis, you

1182
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 2: want to get like nineteen first round draft choices and

1183
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 2: all of that stuff. But if you trade him to

1184
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 2: a team that has a good record, that first round

1185
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 2: draft pick is at the end of the draft. That's

1186
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 2: what makes it problematic. You often end up therefore trading

1187
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 2: for say the five or six best young players that

1188
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 2: that team has. You try to do a three wing

1189
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 2: get another team. Anyway, there have been these rumors and

1190
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 2: rumors and rumors and rumors, and Giannis has said that

1191
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 2: I want to be in Milwaukee as long as we're contender,

1192
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:36,400
Speaker 2: and he keeps saying that, but what if you're not

1193
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 2: a contender, So this proclamation, this is my city. Yeah,

1194
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 2: And then when the heat went on to say, I

1195
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 2: can't say it even though every other bring in. We

1196
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 2: should bring in Meghan Kelly to outsourced my swearing to

1197
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 2: Megan Kelly since she swears all the time.

1198
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 3: I swear.

1199
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 2: She loves to say the I think she gets off

1200
01:04:56,800 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 2: saving the F bob. Don't you just think that that's

1201
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 2: our excitement in life? Yeah, so when we need to

1202
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 2: say the F bomb, we should bring in Meg and

1203
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 2: Kelly to read the life. I actually think I could

1204
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,439
Speaker 2: get her to do that once. She's such a self promoter, Rigie, Meg,

1205
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 2: and I need somebody to say the F bomb. You

1206
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 2: record this. If I could get that to the right person,

1207
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 2: she would actually anyway, she said. And then Yana said,

1208
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 2: and I ain't f and leaving. Well, it was a

1209
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 2: state of the It was a statement in the passion

1210
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,040
Speaker 2: of the moment. But the reality is is that the

1211
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 2: guy is in what is this is he eleventh year,

1212
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 2: twelfth year in Milwaukee. He hasn't left in a sport

1213
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 2: in which there's a couple of guys. Steph Curry never

1214
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 2: let has never left Golden State, Kobe never left the Lakers.

1215
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,880
Speaker 2: But the overwhelming majority of players are Kevin Durantz who

1216
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 2: are on six, seven, eight nine different teams, and Yannis

1217
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 2: has been here a long time. At some point he's

1218
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 2: probably going to leave. And you know, it may be

1219
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 2: this year, or it maybe in three years, or it

1220
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 2: may be when a Michael Jordan thing he retires and

1221
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 2: comes back at the age of thirty seven years old.

1222
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:04,919
Speaker 2: But it was a powerful statement, and the story's become

1223
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 2: a big, big deal. And I'm just guessing that he's

1224
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 2: energized by how well and it's so early, four games,

1225
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,880
Speaker 2: so well the team is played in the fact that

1226
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 2: he's adored by Bucks fans and he's one of these

1227
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 2: you know, some athletes in a city are hermits and

1228
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 2: you never see him anywhere, And then there are others

1229
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 2: in which they're just spotted all the time. And Giannis

1230
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 2: is one of those people that just spotted all the

1231
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 2: time everywhere in well yeah, well yeah, and that I

1232
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 2: mean he's got he's on the way to having fifty

1233
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 2: five kids apparently. I mean MARIAHS. Crankin went out at

1234
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 2: the rate of about one per year, et cetera. But

1235
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:46,720
Speaker 2: he's also a funny guy. But he just he's a

1236
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 2: Milwaukee guy and he likes it. He already likes doing

1237
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 2: these things, and he likes to be seen. And Milwaukee

1238
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 2: is a community. And when I say Milwaukee, I mean

1239
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 2: Wisconsin in terms of sports fans. When they sense that

1240
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 2: a player is happy to be here, there's an embracing

1241
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:05,840
Speaker 2: of him. And after Aaron Rodgers' career is over, that

1242
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 2: will happen with him. And the same way that after

1243
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 2: Brett Favre's career was over, that he played a couple

1244
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 2: of years elsewhere, that will be over as well, because

1245
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 2: you had even in the case of Rogers, he was

1246
01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 2: a guy that showed up at nineteen thousand things and

1247
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:21,000
Speaker 2: he was around all over the place.

1248
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 3: And so on.

1249
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there are other athletes that just you know,

1250
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 2: they're concerned about their privacy and their safety and their security,

1251
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 2: and you never see him anywhere. But Yiannis is just

1252
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 2: one of those guys you see all the time to

1253
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 2: the point that, oh, there's Yannis. You know, if you're

1254
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 2: from out of town, maybe you'd be shocked to see him.

1255
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 3: But there's some people.

1256
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 2: It's like a once every few weeks thing, and quickly

1257
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 2: on the Packers. There's another story that I found on

1258
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 2: that same website, The Athletic Today. The NFL trading deadline

1259
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:57,600
Speaker 2: is it's now imminent. The one clear need the Packers

1260
01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 2: have now. Teams don't make a lot of trades in

1261
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 2: the NFL in midseason. In baseball and basketball, zillions of them,

1262
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:05,919
Speaker 2: but there is I think only one.

1263
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 3: There's knee.

1264
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:10,000
Speaker 2: Every team has multiple needs, but only one glaring need.

1265
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 2: The Packers have and it's the position that I worried

1266
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 2: about at the beginning of the year. They have a

1267
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 2: glaring need at cornerback. They benched Nate Hobbs during the

1268
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:22,400
Speaker 2: game against Pittsburgh this past Sunday. Nate Hobbs signed a

1269
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:25,919
Speaker 2: huge contract, four years, forty eight million. That's not all guaranteed.

1270
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:28,799
Speaker 2: He came from the Raiders. The problem is he played

1271
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 2: the slot or Nickel. People use different terms, and he's

1272
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 2: being asked to play the pure corner position and he's

1273
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 2: not adapted to it, so they back and forth. They

1274
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 2: use him in Carrington Valentine and neither are are that good.

1275
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 2: On the other corner side, Keyshawn Nixon was very good

1276
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:49,120
Speaker 2: most of this season, but at a terrible game against

1277
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 2: the Steelers, especially in the first half. Committed two penalties

1278
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 2: on third downs and was having difficulty. I think the

1279
01:08:56,720 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 2: Packers just look so strong everywhere to address and in football,

1280
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 2: you know the problem with addressing a need is you

1281
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:09,320
Speaker 2: could trade for somebody and he gets hurt the next

1282
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 2: week and you have it. You just get injured so

1283
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:15,320
Speaker 2: often in football. But to take this position of weakness

1284
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 2: and shore it up by going.

1285
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 3: And trading.

1286
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 2: Now, the Packers' trade capital is limited because they gave

1287
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 2: up so much for Micah Parsons. You'd probably have to

1288
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 2: trade another player, find a position at which you may

1289
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 2: have an excess to get a corner. And anyway, the

1290
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 2: story in the Athletic goes on a tremendous length about

1291
01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 2: this and the deficiencies the Packers have had at the

1292
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:41,759
Speaker 2: one corner and so on. I'm not going to suggest

1293
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:43,600
Speaker 2: who it is that they should trade in order to

1294
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 2: do it. But if they can address this, you hate

1295
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 2: to do another draft choice. But I think you could

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Speaker 2: get a good corner for a two or three second

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Speaker 2: or third round pick. And I mean the Packers are

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Speaker 2: in a situation in which it's so early in the

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Speaker 2: season to say this, but they're one of six or

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Speaker 2: seven or eight teams that I think you could say

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Speaker 2: are a Super Bowl contender right well, and if they're not,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be because either either key injuries or

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Speaker 2: they're going to get burned a corner. Right There's also

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Speaker 2: a lot of people who think they made a terrible

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Speaker 2: mistake cutting Hamersack the kicker.

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Speaker 3: Are you one of them?

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Speaker 2: You don't know well the people I know, But he's

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Speaker 2: he can, he can. Eventually he's going to be released

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Speaker 2: and put on the injured list and not the injured

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Speaker 2: list the what do they call that the practice squad,

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Speaker 2: because you can't tie up two kickers on your squad

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Speaker 2: and so on. McManus missed a couple of fields. On

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Speaker 2: the other hand, he was coming back from an injury

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Speaker 2: and McManus's long term track record is way way way better.

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Speaker 3: And.

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Speaker 2: No, he can't. But there's a reason why McManus has

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Speaker 2: been in the league forever, and that this guy was.

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Speaker 3: This guy was on the.

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Speaker 2: Scrap heap when the Packers signed him weeks ago. Enough

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Speaker 2: of our sports content. Do want to remind you that

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Speaker 2: in the final segment on.

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Speaker 3: The Thursday podcast, that's when we do our football agree.

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Speaker 2: Paul wants to for if any season, I mean, I

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Speaker 2: had a we had the same pick last week I had.

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Speaker 2: Just there's I can't do worse than I did last

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Speaker 2: week because every football pick that I had in my

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Speaker 2: whole weekend I was rolling on. Mike pointed out to

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Speaker 2: me that all but two games in the NFL were

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Speaker 2: decided by more than ten points. First time had it

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Speaker 2: ever happened? Okay, talk to later.

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Speaker 3: Bye.

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