The Democrats are playing right into Trump’s hands with the shutdown and their bosses probably know it but are scared into stupidity by their party’s radicals. Also, anecdotal evidence that the drug for non-verbal autism green-lighted by RFK Jr. may be working. And the local woman who killed a family’s dog is in trouble again.
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Chuck Schumer, I think he's a terror victim. I mean,
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Chuck Schumer's classic old bull democrat been around forever. Politically,
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He's never shown any real signs of radicalism. It's just
a typical dope in New York lefty, and he's knowing
to work the process forever and ever and ever. But
all of a sudden, here's Chuck Schumer doing something that
politically is stupid. Governmentally is stupid, shutting down the government
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by putting out demands that he knows President Trump is
never going to cave to. There's no way that Trump
is going to sign legislation the guarantees free health care
to ill legal aliens. When you make a guarantee that
you know, rather a demand that you know the other
side can't accede to, that means you don't want them
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to reach a deal. Yet it's clearly not in the
best interests of the Democrats for this government shutdown to
go on. So what's happening here? I think Chuck Schumer's
being I won't say blackmailed, but extorted. He is terrified
of the left wing of his party, and so is
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the entire Democratic establishment. Back in March, we were at
the same point with regard to a government shutdown, and
Schumer cut a deal with Trump and the Republicans, and
we went forward and the left eviscerated him. Chuck Schumer's
in New York State. He's up for reelection next year.
There's very little chance of Republicans could beat him, but
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he could lose a Democratic primary. He could lose it
to AOC, and AOC's making it clear, we've got to
demand all of these things, and we make no deals
with Trump. Well we don't have We can't not shut
down the government nless there's a deal. Chuck Schumer is
afraid to make a deal. He's afraid to take a
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reasonable position because they're the establishment of the Democratic Party
is terrified of their left. This is kind of a
new thing for them. You go back to just consider
who the mainstream Democrats are. Biden's a bad example because
we just don't know what Joe Biden would have done
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had he not been mentally enfeebled. If Joe Biden, and
Joe Biden was never sharp at the top of his game.
When you think of the old Joe Biden that was
in the Senate for all of those years and so on,
he was a moderate to liberal Democrat. If he had
that mental capacity, would he have rolled over to the
radicals who said, don't enforce the border all. We don't know.
We don't know if he would have been as intimidated
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or not. I have my own theory that he had
his own form of extortion that the Democrats were essentially
telling them, Look, Joe, all this crap that you did
with Ukraine, in which Hunter was making all this money
in Brisbane, how did you go from barely won't being
able to pay for one house they having three houses,
including a beach house in Rehoboth Beef Beach. We're gonna
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expose out now. Maybe he would have had to do
this anyway, but again it wouldn't have been willingly. The
left wing of the Democratic Party is Marxist. Mamdani essentially
admits to being Marxist. That's where this party is, and
they aren't particularly interested in doing anything that's all that smart.
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The way this thing plays out, Trump pulls all the cards.
Most of the agencies of the government that are shut
down right now are not exactly things that Republican voters love.
Some do you know you apply for Like they're talking
about replacement Medicare card, Well, you're not going to get one.
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That's not an essential service to the government at shutdown.
But most of the things that you really really need
to go on are still going on. But More importantly
than that, there is this rustvouthdreat that's out there. We'll
get to that in a moment. This is JD. Van's
Chuck Schumer is terrified he's going to get a primary
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challenge from AOC. The reason why the American People's government
is shut down is because Chuck Schumer is listening to
the fire left radicals in his own party because he's
terrified of a primary challenge. No, let's advance that. Why
would Chuck Schumer be so afraid of having to run
against AOC. Even in a state like New York, where
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Trump did much better in twenty four than he did
in twenty or sixteen. A lot of the moderate voters
have given up on the Democrats and they're over on
the Republican side. All that's left for Democratic voters is
left wingers. Schumer took a look and while New York
State is a big state geographically, the huge population base
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of Democratic voters is in New York City. And Schumer
saw what happened in the New York Democratic primary. You've
got a communist running in Mamdani and he won. Beg Well,
those are the same people that are going to vote
in a Democratic primary. You're seeing this all over Democrats
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that have had a history in the past not being reasonable,
being somewhat pragmatic, or at least not out and out Marxist.
Durbin's another one. They're all caving in, and they're all
rolling over to their left wing fridge. The problem that
they have here is the Trump and this version of
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Republicans is simply smarter at dealing with this stuff generally speaking.
Yet a government shutdown, you bully around the media, is
just going to do the Democrats bidding for him, and
the Republicans are the ones that are on the defensive.
The Democrats strategy on all of this was to make
the shutdown about health care, that we're doing this in
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order to get better health care for the American people.
But Trump flipped the script. He's made it what their
own demand is. He's made it about free health care
for illegal aliens. And he did it because that was
their demand. Now why did the Democrats demand something so stupid? A,
Their radical base wants it, but b they didn't want
a deal. They had to put something out there that
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Trump wouldn't take because if Trump would have agreed to
whatever it was, then the Democrat base. The lefties would
have simply said, look, there you are cutting a deal
with Trump again. So they had to put a deal
breaker out there. But Trump has been very successful at
articulating this next point. There's a report from a poster
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on X that goes by the handle Wall Street Apes.
That person reports the desiret Townsend, who's a big lobbyist
in DC. Lefty, spoke with members of Congress and according
to Townsend, and this makes sense, why are Democrats really
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fighting for illegal health for health care for illegal immigrants?
There is an actual reason for it beyond simply not
having a deal. You take a state like California, in
which a huge percentage of the population is illegal immigrants.
If the government isn't paying for that healthcare, that's a
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massive blow to the healthcare industry in California, which is
by the way, entirely leftist. The illegals don't have enough
money to pay for their own health care, so if
the government doesn't pay for it, that's somebody that isn't
going to get paid. And in some of these states
it's a huge segment of the overall marketplace. In the meantime,
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let's get back to Rusbaud, Big story on the Wall
Street Journal. He's Trump's director of O and B. He's
been plotting this, according to the story, for years. He's
one of the few that was in Trump's first term
that are the same level of competence as the others
that are here in term number two. Given the fact
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that the government right now does not have funding authorization,
it appears as though Trump can cancel any program that
he wants. We went through this earlier in the week,
but I want to cover it a little bit more here.
Trump believes that even if money is appropriated, he doesn't
have to spend it. He believes that in appro propriation
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really means you can't spend more than that amount. But
if they appropriate, just grab around number of billion dollars
to something, you know, I don't have to spend a billion.
I can spend eight hundred billion if I want. This
is being challenged in courts, But here's something that's I
think less debatable. If there isn't an appropriation, that means
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that Trump doesn't have to allow the program to exist
at all. He can not reduce the spending. He can
zero it out because it's not appropriated. It Right now,
the government isn't appropriated other than the so called essential
agencies that are operating. I want to quote from again
the most journal story at it very very lengthy, and
I can't read the whole thing, but it's quite interesting
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that the strategy that Vout has come up with. Russell
Vaud has been planning this move for this moment for years.
President Trump's budget chief, one of the main players in
the government shutdown that has ground Washington to a halt,
might also be one of its biggest beneficiaries. As the
free he this gives him the opportunity to implement funding
cuts he has long advocated. Vout, director of the White
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House Office of Management and Budget, was quick Wednesday yesterday
to target Democratic priorities and projects in a move that
affected Democratic congressional leaders from New York Senator, Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Vout
posted on the X that a hold had been placed
on eighteen billion dollars in federal funds for New York
City infrastructure work, a Hudson River tunnel project and a
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subway extension. The Transportation Department pinned the blame on the
shutdown saying a review of the project's contracting policies and
their relationship to diversity, equity and inclusion requirements couldn't move
forward without a budget. The Department has been forced to
furlough the civil rights staff responsible for conducting this review,
The agency said in a savement. So you see what
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Foul is doing here. See what he's doing is he's
playing hardball the way the lefties have. Okay, we got
a shutdown. We just don't have money to pay the
DEI people. That this contract requires New York contract on
the tunnel on the hudset, of course, says DEI components
in it. So we don't have the money to pay
for the civil rights people this right now, So the
contract gotta throw. We got to ax can the contract
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this project the Hudson of Ever, it's important basically to
New Jersey and New York, and the Democrats have managed
to choose both of their congressional leaders both in the
House and set aside from New York and the de
facto a leader of the Congress AOC, is also from
New York. You just can't imagine an earlier Republican administration
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doing this. Continuing, Foud also posted more than eight billion
dollars in Energy Department funds for climate projects would be
canceled in more than a dozen Democratic leading states, leading states.
He didn't specify which projects would be affected. The story
goes on. Now, you may wonder why in the world,
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with the Democrats, knowing that they're far more dependent on
all of these programs already appropriated to the Republicans, why
would they give Trump the legal ability to cancel this.
And here's the answer. I think Schumer knows that. He
said back in March, we can't shut down the government.
Look what Trump's gonna do. But then after they didn't
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shut down the government, the lefties all, what nuts, you
gotta fight Trump, You gotta fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump.
I do not believe Schumer wants to do this. He's
being terrorized by the left wing of his party. And
that's why I use this line that he's a terror victim.
He's being forced to do things that he knows are
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stupid because his political survival depends on it. In the meantime,
the pr wars going on again, you're seeing from Trump
a willingness to do things that just would not have
been done in the past. So they did this parody
video like these memes. It was a couple of days ago.
And when they've got the two Democratic leaders, Schumer and Jeffries,
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and they've got like a Mexican hat and a mariachi
song being played as they have Schumer saying a bunch
of things that he didn't say. It was hilarious, a caeme.
Jeffries immediately ran to MSNBC. He's going us, this is racist.
This is racist. This is racist. This is racist. Most people,
it's kind of other than the people on the left.
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Most of America is just done with all of that.
It's racist, it's racist, it's racist. So Trump doubled out.
They have a new meme out today. It's another mariachi
band and the lyrics go meme them until they cry.
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They make memes about them crying. In other words, now
they have a meme showing them crying because they were
made fun of in the first one. Again, this is
something Republicans have never done, and in the past maybe
you would not have been able to get away with it.
But there's been such a backlash against all of this
PCBs that Trump is now able to do it. Of course,
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of course, would not have never have done it. You know,
I think that this pretty much started when you got somebody,
you know of the fake Indian, Elizabeth Warre, and she
claims she was Cherokee, and Trump started calling her Pocahontas.
This goes back ten years. Trump's the president still despite
the fact that he keeps calling her Pocahontas. It's not racist.
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She's the racist. She's the one that culturally appropriated something
that she isn't. She's not an Indian. Now. The King Report,
which is a news service aggregator, makes a very good
point about this. You can go back sixty years, maybe longer,
and it's always been the left making fun of Republicans.
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They cite they go back to the National Lampoon used
to call Spiro Agnew. You remember Spiro Agnew? You remember that?
You don't even remember who he was? Who was he?
He was?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
What is? What was he.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Was? He? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He was with Nixon. He was the vice President of
the United States, forced to resign. He was a crook.
He was taking bribes when he was the governor Maryland.
They called him sphincter t Agnew. So the left'sman dishing
this stuff out for sixty years and finally you have
the right dishing it back and the lefties, as I've
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said forever, I mean, as long as I'm doing my
radio said, the left condish it out. They can't take it.
We on the right have to be able to take it.
Otherwise we'd have to just drop out of the game
because they're constantly ridiculing us. The lefties can't take it.
All you have to do is give them their own
medicine and they fall apart. Like I said, the Mariachi
thing with Jeffries Is, I mean, it was mild, It
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wasn't even mean spirit and just kind of making fun
of them as they babble off their uh they're uh
to clean it up a bit their stuff. Another story here,
it's kind of a cousin of these. You've got two
things going on here, lefty political correctness and lefties wanting
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to make money. These things come in and clash with
one another. Here there is a big comedy festival in
Saudi Arabia. Saia Arabia has got a lot of money,
and if you've been following this story, which we've mentioned
a few times, Saudi Arabia is mainstreaming itself right now,
and one of the things that's doing is right and left.
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It's buying sports franchises, buying entertainment and so on. The
new regime of Saudi Arabia is trying to shed off
the kind of stone age notion of Islam that you
can't have fun and so on. So anyway, that this
big comedy festival, and you know, the richest horse race
of the world is the Saudi Cup, twenty million dollars.
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They put up that kind of money because they can't.
They're just you wanted to draw attention to them. Same
thing with this comedy festival. Well, how do you get
a bunch of comedians, most of whom are lefties to
come to this stud You pay him a fortune? And
I all went, I look at this list here some
of them. I mean, I like Dave Chappelle. I don't
think that you can figure out what his politics are.
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So he went, of course he's gonna go because he
couldn't care less if he offends anyone. But then you
got Pete Davidson going. Maybe the most unlikable comedian in
the history of comedy. Right, he's just completely unless I
have no clue why even the lefties like him. He's
there's nothing funny about him for some reason. Also, he
gets hot women but then dumps them and says it
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becomes suicidal. He's just an odd book. He's also as
lefty as gonna be. He took the money. Bill Burr
hard to figure his politics. He's the bald guy or
the shaved headed guy. You think he's funny. He took
the money. Kevin Hart took the money. They all took
the money, and now they're gonna got backlash from their
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fellow people on the left, saying, how can you possibly
go and associate with this terrible Saudi government. See here's
the thing about lefties. They love Muslims, but not all Muslims.
For some reason, they hate the Saudis. And I suspect
they hate the Saudis because of all the Muslim nations
out there, the Saudis seem to be the one most
interested in having a good relationship with the United States. Also,
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the Saudis were originally the major funder of terror. They
were the bankrollers have bin laden the new regime there.
I don't think because of any kind of morality. I
think that they're just pragmatic. They realize that terror is
not good business. For them to be, and especially if
they have these notions of being a global economic power.
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So they're not pro terror anymore. They're not supportive of
at all of Iran, that's their mortal enemy. And because
they're not supportive of Iran, they're therefore not supportive of
the terror groups that Iran bankrolls, which would be Hesbollah
and Hamas. So maybe that's why the lefties hate the Saudis.
See well, as Saudis do things like they behead women
and all those Muslim nations do, but the lefties for
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some reason don't like the Saudis. If this thing was
in it Ran, no lefties would have objected at all.
But anyway, Pete Davidson or law, they took the money
and now they're being called to account by other lefties
and being forced to explain themselves in it's always amusing
when lefties have to explain themselves. Well, let's turn our
attention to this story. Well, I won't say lost, but
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overshadowed in the moves that RFK Junior has made on autism.
So much attention was given to the report linking and
suggesting a correlationship between sidamniphin tilot All use by pregnant
women and autism. At the same time, RFK Junior did
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authorize as government approved a specific treatment for a form
of autism, nonverbal autism. It's a drug that's been around
for a while called I think you pronounce it Luca
vorn I might have the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
I've heard it pronounced every way imaginable, but that's the
one that I'm going to use. A woman has posted
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on TikTok that she has a nonverbal autistic and nonverbal
just means the kid doesn't talk. Following this announcement of
my Kennedy last two weeks ago, last week whenever it was,
she says her kid is speaking, and this video has
like it posted on TikTok, but that it gets linked
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up and everything else. It's in the tens of millions
of views globally. Listen to it.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
So my son just started luke hobrn for the first time.
In case you haven't paying attention, that was the other
drug that was mentioned when they were talking about this
tilt off fiasco, which put up in an we really
should be talking about luke obren. My son is five
years old and he's nonverbal low functioning autistic always this
way though, up until about a year and a half,
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two years old, my son knew words, a lot of words.
He couldn't say sentences, but he could say one or
two words put together. And then there was an incident
that I'm not allowed to speak of because of TikTok regulations.
They took down in the video that I tried to
talk about what had happened in there, but you put
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the two together. At right after that, he just had
a steep decline in language and it just it halted.
And he hadn't spoken since he's been on this medication
for less than forty eight hours. And my son just
spoke for the first time.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
My nonverbal son just spoke for the first time in
over three years. Every day I have been praying for
an answer, praying for my son to be healed, and
all this time we've just had Lukovid sitting on the shelves.
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I'm telling you right now, if your child is nonverbal,
if you are the parent of a non verbal autistic child,
get them on Luke Obran as soon as you possibly can,
because this is the answer that we have all been
praying for.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
All right, I have no expertise in this area at all.
What I do know is that after Kennedy said this
is now an authorized treatment for nonverbal autism, some parents
are using it until it's government authorized. Physicians are often
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unwilling to practicip risks to prescribe something. The authorization of
the culbrain when Kennedy did it has been attacked by
the pharmaceutical industry, attacked by the left, and so on.
There's no proof. There's no proof. There's no proof. There's
no proof. We do know that though, that the drug
is a low risk drug. In other words, what's the harm.
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There's very little indication that this is any good for
any form of autism other than the nonverbal, the nonverbal
and the mothers. My kid did in his first couple
of years, he spoke, but then he just stopped speaking.
First time he spoken in three years is forty eight
hours after he took the first dose of la cuvern.
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I am so sick and tired of hearing the media
say that anything that comes out of the mouth of
any alternative medical sources is bs or crap or hogwash.
You'd think that after COVID we would realize that these
people are the ones that are raw. The cverin is
not a high paid drug because it's been out there
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for a long time. I don't know if it's generic,
but it's not real expensive. The drug companies don't make
much money off of all drugs. They make money when
there's a brand new one that they can charge six
thousand dollars a dose for and have the insurance companies
pay for it. The same was true of ivermectin. We
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had that mocked for three years during COVID. It's hartste wormer,
it's horse well, that's one of the nineties zillion things
that an anti is it in a viral or whatever
it was, it's good for We now know that all
sorts of people who took iver mecton had their COVID
treated better. The turning point in that one was, interestingly,
I think it was the one of the turning points
in society is when the biggest podcaster in the world
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got COVID and he took ivermectin, Joe Rogan, and he
said it made me better right away. I think that
was significantly gotten to everything because I think that was
the thing that made Joe Rogan question his leftiism to
the point that he came around and endorsed Trump, and
one of the bigger it had Trump on the podcast.
And so one of the big reasons that Trump won
is that you had people who wrote like Rogan, who
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had trusted the lefties forever and ever and ever and
realized that they may be wrong. The thing that's so
annoying about all of this is that all of my life,
the side of the political spectrum that refused to carry
water for big pharma was the left. They were the
ones that questioned and challenged everything, and now they're the
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ones that simply doctorate air. You can't do this, you
can't do that, you can't try anything alternative. So I
have no my It may well be that this is
the lakovern for nonverbal autism is like the cancer drugs.
Most of these cancer drugs work for some people who
they don't work for others. It has to do with
how what helps with your own body. SAME's true with
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migraine medications. Some work for some people, who do work
for others. And I don't know that la Crovn's gonna
work for every kid that's got nonverbal autism. But you've
got parent and this woman doing out that there's anecdote
eleven in from others that the same thing is happening,
and instead of the media touting and highlighting and spotlighting this,
they're doing the same thing they did with Ivermectin claiming
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yet it's craphole like claiming that it's snake oil, which
is deterring some people from doing the very thing that
they ought to be doing. You're listening to the Mark
Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast. I have
a really interesting crime story here. It's going to require
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you to go back a little bit. You may, if
you're from the Milwaukee area, recall the story. It has
to do with a babysitter who killed the family dog
of the family that she was babysitting. She cut one
of the children's hair and then she killed the family dog.
She ended up pleading not guilty by insanity. She was convicted.
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She served nine months in jail. It seemed like just
one of those odd stories of some completely screwed up
young woman that was, as I say it roughly, I
got the deeds, sir. I think it was like a
year and a half, two years ago, and her name
is Kylie Sonomon. Fast forward just several days ago, somebody
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broke into a vacant house in Sussex. They must have
had some knowledge that there were guns in the house.
They broke into the house. The house was at the
time unoccupied, but not empty. There were things in it
that just weren't people living in it. They stole twelve
to fifteen firearms out of the house. Guess who the
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dog killer? Kylie Sonomon and she's now twenty from Sussex,
and a co defended Samuel Striker, he's seventeen. They're charged
with breaking in and stealing a dozen or more firearms,
and they later went off to a nearby park and
fired him. It doesn't even look like they stole the
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guns for the purposes of reselling them. Because you're gonna
resell them, you're gonna draw attention to yourself by going
out in a park get shooting the guns off. Now,
in this case, it doesn't seem like they gave her
a pass in Waka Shaw County for the Washington County
actually for the for the killing of the dog, she
got nine months, which for killing a dog first offense.
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I mean, I'm used to everybody getting probation. She got
nine months in jail for it and now she or
she is breaking into a house and stealing guns. There
is zero chance that if she's not given significant time now,
it's all gonna get worse. This is just a bad scene.
She had bail set in Waukashaw County. It's twenty five
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hundred dollars cash. I would have any idea for family
is maybe your family just figuring we've got to wash
her hands of this thing, that if we fail her
out and so on, it's just gonna get worse. Maybe
sitting in jail will teach her a lesson. I don't
know if she's gonna stay in jail with regard to
this or not. But it's the same person. Two very
different types of crimes the same person. Another criminal story,
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this one also with a very weird twist. We have
a case of a woman from Franklin that southern Milwaukee County.
She's been missing now for four years. I sometimes don't
you can't keep up with all of them. But it's
the kind of case that a lot of these true
crime podcasts and videos on YouTube would focus on. But
(30:27):
I don't know if they have in this one seventy
year old woman just disappeared, Nobody found no trace of her.
She just disappeared and the case has not been solved.
Her name is Sandra Eckert. Now, if you follow anything
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about these true crimes, or for that matter, follow any
type of stories whatsoever, if a seventy year old man
or woman, whatever it is, turns up missing, who's the
person that's going to be looked at the first? This
sposs Nobody however, has been charged. But she does have
a spouse. Her name. His name is Wesley Eckert. He's
in his seventies now as well. This week, Wesley Eckert
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was arrested by police driving the wrong way on a
one way street in Sandra Eckert's car. Sandra Eckert's children,
and I assume that they're also the children of Wesley Eckert,
are talking to Fox six and saying that this is
just bringing back all the old memories again. It sounds
like the kids may suspect the spouse. He's not charged
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with anything, but boy, oh boy, old boy, let's just again,
I don't know if he did it or not. The
story indicates that he was a suspect in the case.
And again, when you don't have a body, unless there's
other evidence, Sometimes you can charge, sometimes you can't. There
is not a statute of limitations for murder, so the
authorities can't wait. Anyway, Let's imagine you did it to
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Boulish for me to say, like, imagine you killed your wife, Paul,
But imagine somebody that you knew killed their killed their
wife four years ago. Wouldn't you get rid of her car?
Doesn't it just seem odd that thinks do it? And
then he's driving that car? Why is he going the
wrong way down a one way street? And he's an
older guy. Maybe he's one of these guys starting to
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lose it. He was not nailed for drunk driving or anything,
so far as I can tell. He did crash the
vehicle though, So that crash and his arrest on the
crash charges is putting the story back in the news
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about the disappearance of Sandra. I have another crash story
for you before I do this. There's a story here
in the news. There's nothing particularly significant about it other
than it amuses me. And it's not even the kind
of story that should amuse me, but it does amuse me.
They're just certain things and certain people that amuse me.
Remember when Jay Cutler got his DUI didn't that amuse you?
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That Jay Cutler got in drunk driving? It is funny.
I just it just seems to me that he was
intoxicated when he was playing. First of all, Jay Cutler's
one of those guys, not many of them. He looks
drunk all the time, even when he's sober. He just
has that drunk look to him. It's because it's droopy
eyes or something. He looks drunk. Well, so here're the
guy that always looks you gotta so. Right now, Jay
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Cutler is serving he got it's Colorado four year no
at Tennessee four your four day jail term. He's in
jail now. He's in the middle of his four days
in jail for drunk driving. Again, there's nothing significant about
the story at all. It just amuses me. It probably shouldn't,
Does it interfuse you? Jay Cutler's in jail for drunk
driving right now? Another collision story, Two Delta commuter jets
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collided on the ground at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
The commuter jets what the commuter jets are usually not
operated by the main airline, and this one is not.
They're operated by Endeavor air but they are part of
the Delta network and it says Delta on the side
of the plane. In some cases, the main airline owns
the commuter line as well, and I don't know who
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owns Endeavor, but they're Endeavor air Airlines, but they've got
Delta on the side. They use the Delta gates, the
Delta terminals, et cetera. A flight attendant was banged up
a little, but nobody was seriously injured. I am amazed
that this does not happen more often. First of all,
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if you've ever traveled at any of the busy airports,
most of them, most of the major airlines, have their
flights all go out around the same time. I can
tell you, for example, sighting this airport, LaGuardia, New York
late afternoon to early evening. Every airline's got flights is
flying at that point in time, and LaGuardia is just
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a weird airport. I've flown out of LaGuardia forever, way
back in the days in which I guess hosted for
Rush and I fly back to Milwaukee. It was always
La Guardia, never JFK, which just that was the airport
go bag back to Midwest Express, and there was air Train,
and then they all used LaGuardia. LaGuardia is this airport
and it's just stuck at a piece of property that's
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too small for an airport. LaGuardia is near where the
Mets play City Field. It's also that's also near where
the tennis tournament, where the US Open is held. It's
on the northern portion of Queens. It's right up against
the water, on the northern portion of I mean, it's
kind of long. Long Island is the Long Island, but
it's still in the city of New York. So one
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of the runways when you come in, and anybody who've
ever flown to Lguardia's experiences you're flying in right over
the water and the edge of the runway is at
the water's edge. In fact, the runways are so short
that I don't think LaGuardia can be used for international travel.
I don't think they can handle seven forty sevens. I
don't know that, but I think I'm right about that.
It's also and it's a busy there's two airports in
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New York. There's laguardieran JFK New York. It's a huge seti,
so there's a lot of flights are about the air
it's just small. The airport building is small. They did
a renovation of LaGuardia Airport a few years ago, and
there were taxi driver saying, this is a miracle. It
is a miracle that they renovated everything, the parking lot
and everything. They managed to keep the airport open during
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the entire edit. It was miraculous. I don't even know
how they did it because it's just too small to
begin with. Imagine now construction all over the place and
stuff out of commission. And so by the way, the
terminal LaGuardia used to be the worst in the world
that it's been really nice ever since they read it. Anyway,
the same is true in the area where your taxi
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the gates the terminal building is very very close to
the couple of runways that they have there. It's not
one of these places like Atlanta where you're taxi for
twenty five minutes. In fact, it's so cockam amy that
when you're at the end of the terminals, the pilots
can't drive in. They have to be tugged in because
you come in at a goofy angle. Because they're using
every last piece of space at the other thing, you know, Laguardi,
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it was just notorious that if you weren't first in
line for takeoff, you could be sitting on the ground
longer than your flight was in there. We're number fifty
nine for takeoff, and there's only the one or two
uh what is it they called jetways that take you
over toward the runway, and you could be backed up
forever and you got planes incoming out, and it's just
it's all packed in. So two of these commuter jets
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banged into one another. I think it is a credit
to all of the I don't know if air traffic
control controls you once, say, at the ground or not.
There's all those guys with those orange signals that are
waving your round all over the place, but they only
approach you when you're right by the terminal itself, when
you're on the jetways and everything's zigzagging all over the place.
I'm just surprised that doesn't happen more often. There's the
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same airport that the you know, the miracle on the Hudson.
They took off over the water and hit the birds
and they landed in the U in the other river,
the East River, which is one of the rivers that
you know straddles straddles New York. It was no, it
was the Hudson. It was it was it was the Hudson.
It was the Hudset. It was called Miracle on the Hudson.
It was the Hudson. The Hudson is let's see, east
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of Manhattan and west. I don't remember, yeah, I just
so that was that was that airport. And now this
some of you may not know what's been going on
with gold. Do you know what's been going on with gold?
You don't know anything about this. You don't just keep
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it on on your foot. So you're one of these
iff It doesn't affect me. I have no level of interest.
Gold has been doing nothing but going up for the
last two to three years. This year, silver is going
up at a higher percentage. Usually silver is like one
percent of a gold is and silver's trackedep But gold
has been soaring. It's at an all time high. And
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the thing that's been curious about that is usually gold
goes up when stocks go down. Gold is considered a hedge.
When things are bad, that's when people buy gold. Also,
gold has traditionally been an inflation hedge, because you know
gold things in flake. Gold inflates. The thing that's been
odd is gold has really taken off ever since inflation
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started to get under control. There's a disconnect between inflation
and gold. Why is gold? Why is silver? Why are
they going up? There's a million theories. Some of them
the real inflation hedge became bitcoin and gold was left
in the wayside, and when bitcoin slowed down, everybody got
into gold and silver. I've heard that. The other theory
is you need metals, including precious metals, for AI, and
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there's now uses beyond investment and jewelry purposes for gold,
and that would be the AI purpose. I've heard all
of those things, but I've got some numbers for you.
This is interesting stuff. Between seventeen ninety three and eighteen
thirty three, gold was at the same price nineteen dollars
and thirty nine cents. It then made a big move
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in the mid eighteen hundreds. It hit forty seven h
three and forty seven dollars and three cents in the
middle of the Civil War, and then pulled back to
twenty dollars to twenty dollars by eighteen seventy eight. In
eighteen seventy nine, gold was back down to twenty dollars
and sixty seven cents, In other words, only a buck
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higher in eighty years. That's a dead investment. Part of
this has to do with America being on the gold standard.
When America was on the gold standard, gold basically didn't
move because the American dollar was tied to gold anyway. Then,
from eighteen seventy nine through nineteen thirty two, gold stayed
at that range of twenty dollars and sixty seven cents.
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In the mid nineteen thirties, what happened in the nineteen
thirties even you know this, they're great depression, but generally
had gold does well when everything else has gone to crap.
In the mid nineteen thirties, gold got up to thirty
five dollars, where it stayed for the next thirty years.
Because of the gold standard being created, gold didn't move
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an inch from thirty five to sixty five, still thirty bucks. Then,
in August of nineteen seventy one, Nixon took the dollar
off of gold, end of the gold standard. I wasn't
around with any kind of money that I wonder if
I would have had the brains to realize by gold
when Nixon did that, because gold started to explode in
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nineteen seventy one, and between nineteen seventy one and nineteen
eighty gold went on one of the greatest bull markets of
all time. I do remember in that era, this is
when the gold bugs came out and they were on
the radio all over the place. By gold, by gold,
by gold, the world's coming to an end, by gold,
by gold, by gold, by gold. Gold went in four
years from nineteen seventy one to seventy five, from thirty
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six dollars to one hundred and eighty four. Pretty good move.
It fell to ninety nine dollars in nineteen seventy six.
And then this is when the fireworks that happened between
nineteen seventy six and January of nineteen eighty. Now, what
happened between seventy six and eighty Carter, for those of
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you route it out at the time. Carter was there's
never been a worse economy in America other than the
Depression than Carter. Screwed everything up. And again, when does
gold go up when everything else is bad? Gold went
during the Carter years between nineteen seventy six and nineteen eighty.
It went from ninety nine dollars to eight hundred and
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fifty by January of nineteen eighty. That's what I read.
It made that incredible run, and that's what all the
ads were on to buy gold. If I've learned anything
about this is when everybody's telling you to buy gold,
then it's too late. So it made that incredible run,
running from about one hundred bucks to eight hundred bucks
in the five years up to nineteen eighty. Gold managed
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to pull all the way back from eight fifty in
nineteen eighty and was essentially dead money for decades. By
nineteen ninety nine, gold was down to two hundred and
fifty bucks. So gold went from eight hundred to two
fifty in the eighties and the nineties. What has going
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on In the eighties and nineties, the economy was great.
Reagan turned the economy around, and it remained strong under Clinton.
So in the eighties of the nineties, gold lost pretty
much all its value, went from eight hundred back to
two fifty in nineteen ninety nine. From that point forward
until the day before nine to eleven, excuse me, five
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days before nine to eleven nine to six. I take
that back, I've got the wrong reference point. Between nineteen
ninety nine and two thousand eleven, gold moved back up
to nineteen hundred and twenty one dollars, So that was
the next big move that occurred in the market. You
then had a bear market in which gold from eleven
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to fifteen went from nineteen hundred to ten forty six. Again,
this was during a period of time in which the
economy was mostly moving forward. This is the tail end
of Obama ten forty six, so that last reference point
almost exactly ten years ago. Gold was ten forty six
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on December third of fifteen. As of two days ago,
I don't know what it was. Yesterday gold was up
to thirty eight twenty four and continuing to rise. I
have no idea what any of that means. I can, however,
tell you that the history of gold is to be
one of the most volatile things imaginable. After these massive runs,
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it tends to pull way way way way way back
and could be dead for fifteen to twenty years. There's
just no way of knowing if we're at thirty eight
hundre right now at the peak, or if this run
is going to go to nine or ten thousand. I
don't know. I own a lot of gold. I haven't
sold that aid, but you certainly have to think about it, because,
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as I say, gold does have a tendency to pull
way back. The thing that is a wildcard for me
and trying to assess this and the same thing as
silver silver's really gone up, is whether or not this
is fundamentally driven that you simply need so much gold
and silver for AI where you need rare earth metals
and precious metals that you now have. Silver's always had
a use beyond gold. You know, it's used in an
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industry and a lot of things. It's not just a hedge.
It's also used in manufacturing and a lot of things.
Gold basically is just an investment and used in jewelry
and used for almost nothing else. I mean, I don't
even know if they use it for tooth fillings anymore.
So it's just been that. But if there is now
an actual industrial use for the both of them, given
what AI is doing and so on, there may be long,
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long long ways for these to run or its implube
speculative and now would be the time to get out
of it. But anybody who's got a lot of gold.
It's just I am not somebody who likes to sell things,
but it seems like they're too high. I always want
to wait for it. I'm willing to let it go
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back twenty five percent and say, okay, this is the
downturn rather than you know, I learned that from some
of these tech stocks. Well, gee, it seems like Amazon's overvalued.
You know, in nineteen ninety eight, a lot of those
tex stocks went boom, went went bust. And then there's
the NVIDIAs and the Amazons and the Microsoft saying all
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the others of the world. We come back after the
break football preview and some football picks, as we normally
do on the end of the week podcast. All right,
it's time for our weekly football preview and pointspread bricks,
as we are everywhek. We're joined by Mike Burletta of
American Sports Analysts and uson. Mike is threatening to resign
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from the program if he doesn't get one of these
points spread picks picks correct. I'm assuming that your service
is doing a little bit better than some of your
scoring picks here here on our podcast. Anything special going
on this week out at ASA?
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yeah, we're having a decent year. Last week we lost
had a poor college day, which aligned with what I had,
and we had a decent NFL weekend. So just again,
we lost our first college top game of the season
last year, but I think we'll bounce. I think we've
got a really good spot this year. So check it
on Friday at ASA wins dot com. We'll have something
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up for a big plan on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
I could not find a single college football game that
I liked all last weekend. I think you kind of
have to have something going on, but last week it
is a very very difficult week Anyway, the way we
normally do this is we talk about college football first
and then the NFL, because other than the Thursday night game,
college football games are played first. I was looking through
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the schedule and there really isn't a huge matchup this weekend.
But I think the most interesting one is it's a
conference game and it's an interstate game. Miami is playing
Florida State. Now, Miami was very heavily hyped going into
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the season, and I just had some thoughts that they
were too overhyped. They have a lot of transfers and
their Coachmurrio Christobal every single year manages to lose a
game by doing something stupid during the game, But so
far they've looked very good. Florida State is what a
weird program. Two years ago, they were one of the
best teams in the country almost won the national championship.
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Last year they were one of the worst teams of
the ACC. I don't know that I've ever seen a
team drop as much as they've dropped, and they've bounced
right back this year. They're coming off a loss, but
they're a much better team that this year. And this
is I guess what's going to happen in the transfer
portal where teams can remake themselves and single year. In
any event, it's actually a conference game. They're both in
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the ACC and they might be the two best teams
in the ACC. Your thoughts on Miami and Florida State.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
Bike, Yeah, Miami's favored at Florida State by four and
a half. We'll learn more about Miami even though they
have two good wins against Notre Dame and Florida is
still a good win. Even though Florida hasn't been very
good this year.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Florida has a tremendous defense and a pathetic offense, So
they are I think the Cleveland Browns of college football.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Florida they are. They're really you hit it right on
the head. Their quarterback is supposed to be really good,
and he's not playing very good. But this is Miami's
first road game of the year. They played every game
at home so far. You get Florida State a little
angry coming off a loss. Florida State is the number
one offense in the entire country. They averaged six hundred
yards a game, their number one rush offense in the
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country three hundred and thirty six yards per game, and
they average fifty three points a game. So it'll be
interesting to see how their offense plays against a really
good defense. Miami's top ten in total defense. It's a
rivalry game, and as you'd expect a rivalry game, it's
normally leans toward the underdog. The last twenty meetings, the
dog has won fifteen of those. In the last ten
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times the dog has been an underdog at home, they've
covered eight of those, So I would lean Florida State
in this game. I don't think it's high enough for
us to use, but if it got a little higher,
we probably leaned Florida State.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Are both of these teams top ten teams in the country.
It's really early to tell, and Florida State does have
a loss. Miami has looked very good. As I say,
the coach, and this has been going on forever with
Mario Crystabal. He just does one dumb thing every year,
and he's going to cost this team For all I know,
they'll run the table and going to the National Championship
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game and he'll do his dumbell thing then. But he
does know how to build a program. He does assemble
tremendous talent. He's just one of these guys that needs
to have an assistant make a lot of the in
game decisions rather than him. Anyway, they both like me
as really good, hard hitting football teams, kind of back
to what we've seen from the State of Florida in
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the past. Do you think they're top ten teams?
Speaker 3 (51:11):
I think Miami right now is a top ten team.
If they win this game, they're absolutely a top ten team.
But I agree with you, don't. I can't stand their coach.
He's going to lose a game or two for him
by making dumb decisions at some point. Unless they're just
that much talent, more talented than everyone else. I think
Florida State is fringe top ten. If they would have
won last week, you know you're looking at a top
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ten team. This game will tell a lot about both
those teams.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
The Cristobal reminds me of a guy who used to
coach at LSU less miles. Every year he'd do something stupid,
but he assembled incredible talent and he was an innovative coach,
but he made just bizarre ind game decisions and it
always had cost them. All Right, we have to turn
our attention to the Wisconsin program, which just appears right
now to be bleak. They're in a transition year, which
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you shouldn't be the third year of a new head coach,
but they are, and they're facing the toughest schedule, probably
of any team in college football. Their most witable conference
game was two weeks ago against Maryland, and they got pasted.
Before we talk about this weekend's Michigan game, you're in Madison.
You're close to what's going on over there, the state
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of the program, and after what we saw against Maryland,
some people are seriously asking if they're going to lose
every game on the remainder of their schedule. Could they
really be a two to ten team finishing with ten
losses in a row or is it not that dire?
Speaker 3 (52:37):
Well, they're going to be underdogs in every game from
this point on, so yeah, it's highly possible they lose
every game from this point on. They're actually they've been
in a double digits underdog once. They're going to be
a double digit underdog four more times this year, so
almost half their games they're going to be double digit underdogs.
The last time that happened was Elva this first year
in nineteen ninety. Now they're playing a much more difficult
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schedule than they have in the past, which I mean every.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Bad team in the Big Ten is not in their
schedule and every good one. You know, the Big Ten's
got all these teams and some aren't very good, but
Wisconsin doesn't catch any of them. The weakest one was
probably Maryland. No, maybe Maryland is better than we think
they are. It's too early to tell, but they just
don't have any of the cupcakes in there. The fear
that I have is that the coach is going to
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lose the team and players are going to mentally check out,
and it could get really ugly. And I see some
of Luke Fickl's press conferences and I mean, I don't
know how you're supposed to act at press conferences like this,
but he I don't know that. I want to say
he seems defeated, but I think he just realizes that
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talent wise, his team is overmatched. Is there any reason
to be more optimistic than what I draw out there?
Speaker 3 (53:54):
No, I think I think you're right. I don't you know,
he's probably running out of stuff to say.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
I mean, it's hard to I mean, they asked, what
are you supposed to say? I mean, you keep losing
in this? And he so he says, well, we've got
to do this, We've got to do this. But there's
there's nothing to say, I mean, and he's got to
be frustrated. He's a guy that has been successful everywhere.
He was an interim coach at Ohio State like ten
years ago, and they didn't have a very good year
that year. But that was I forget who it was.
It was it urban Meyer who walked away, or Tressel
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or somebody. He inherited a team that wasn't really his
and he was only an interim coach. But when you're
somebody that's been in football and have always been successful,
it's hard to figure out what to do when you're
not because you've never been confronted with a lack of
success before.
Speaker 3 (54:37):
Yeah, and I think the problem right now is their
depth is not good. I mean, their offensive line loses
guys and they're one of the worst offensive lines in
the Big Ten. They lose their quarterback and their backup
look decent against some bad teams, and that they're just
they're not really deep and they can't afford to lose
those type of guys and be competitive against these type
of teams. And that's where they sit right now.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
People are saying Fickle can't be fired because of his buyout.
I don't agree with that. I think he can be fired,
and I think these things are negotiable, and I think
Luke Fickel wants to coach again if he is fired here,
so you negotiate a buyout. I'm just not sure that
it's the right thing to do. I think he made
a terrible decision in switching to an air raid offense
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and picked the wrong coordinator to do it, and has
set his offense back. Not the two years that they
had it, but three because they're trying to redirect everything.
I just think that if they're going to go out
and take a look at hiring somebody new, you'd be
hiring somebody who has the profile a fickle Fickle lost
only one game is last season at Cincinnati and went
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to the Final four in college football. I mean, they'd
be looking for another guy of that profile, and then
you have everybody transfer your start all over again. But
I mean, if they do go two and ten or
three and nine, I think that the pressure to fire
him would be overwhelming. I'm just not convinced it's the
right thing to do, real quick quick. On the Michigan game,
Michigan might not be quite as good as some of
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the Michigan Harbough teams in the past, but they're still
really good. I think Michigan's favored by what's seventeen against
Wisconsin on Saturday. They gave it in Michigan. By the way,
have you ever seen that stadium you've ever been to Ianna.
They call it the Big House, so unusual, hundred thousand
seats but single deck, so I mean the top row
of that. I don't even know. How about the row.
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It's got to be like row one hundred and fifteen
or something. It's just such an unusual stadium, but they
managed to They managed to fill that thing up anyway.
Your thoughts on the badges in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (56:36):
Yeah, and interesting the stadium. When you look at the stadium,
it doesn't look big because it doesn't look very it
goes down into the ground. So like the top one
hundred and fifteenth row or whatever is not that high
from the ground. It goes down into.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
Because the stadium was sunk into the ground.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But it's you know, I think
Wisconsin's chances they got to somehow stay in it early.
They scored seventeen old points in the first half and
twenty two possessions this year. And those are again some
bad teams. I mean, Alabama was good, but there's some
bad teams out there. If they in Michigan scored seventy
six points in the first half in four games. If
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Wisconsin gets behind early, they've shown they don't have the
offense to come back. They don't. They got behind against
the Alabama got blown out, They got behind against Maryland,
couldn't do anything. They somehow got to keep this game
close into the second half. I don't know if they
can do it or not. Michigan's defense is good, not
as good as they have been. They've got a freshman
quarterback who's making multi millions of dollars because he was
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the best recruiter.
Speaker 2 (57:32):
Freshman quarterback was making about as much money as Jordan Love.
Speaker 3 (57:36):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah exactly. I mean, I think it's
gonna be tough. If they can somehow ugly the game
up and stay in it into the second half though,
the chance to make it a game. But if they
get behind big in the first half again, they're done.
They just can't. They don't have the offense.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
I mean, they the oldest one of the oldest sayings
is no old line no oh, and that's their problem.
Let's try to attention to the NFL. I think maybe
the most bitter rest of the game in the league
is the game tonight. We're doing the podcast on Thursday,
the Rams and the forty nine Ers. I won't even
give it an intro other than that. Your thoughts on
that game.
Speaker 3 (58:09):
Well, the lines, the crazy line move in this game.
So the Rams open is a three point favorite. Right now,
they're eight and a half and nine. So that move
that moved through four through six, through seven, and now
it's almost ten.
Speaker 2 (58:22):
Why is pretty party? The quarterback's been banged up. Is
he playing for San Francisco?
Speaker 3 (58:27):
No, No, he's out, But I mean mac Jones. Their
backup has started in two games and won them both
and looked okay.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
As backups go, he's right there with Malik Willis as
being one of the two or three best backups. I
would think he's been a starter in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (58:42):
Yeah, and he started two games this year and they
won them both and looked look decent. But the Niners
are really banged up. Their wide receivers are banged up.
They have some offensive line issues. The Rams are healthier.
I think the Rams are a top five ish NFL
team right now. You know, the niners three wins have
come by a combined ten points, so they've played a
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bunch of close games. They could have a worst record
and the Rams could easily be four. Now we know
their one losses at Philadelphia. You know how that ended.
Speaker 2 (59:10):
And I used them as my pick last week, a
little bit lucky and covering. I had the terrible three
and a half, but they got the touchdown late in
the game went to win by a full touchdown. But yeah,
I agree with you. I think they're a really, really
good team. I both two of the best coaches in
the NFL. I mean, Shanahan's great coach and the Rams coach.
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His name is scaping my head right now, McVeigh McVeigh.
They're both really good coaches. They're both second generation coaches.
I think San Francisco is going to give them a
fight in that game. And home field situation is so
weird with the Rams having so few local fans and
so many of the visiting team fans coming in. There
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no Packer game this weekend, so let's preview another game.
The Ravens play the Texans, And the reason Mike I
pulled this one out is these two teams were both
ought to be Super Bowl contenders, and they're both one
and three, and they both have big name quarterbacks. They're
both one and three. I know it's early in the
season and it's not even a divisional game, but I
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think this is a must win game. It's really hard,
even with the extended season now, to make the playoffs.
If you start one and four and one of these
teams is going to lose your thoughts in this game,
because it just doesn't seem like either of these teams
is as bad as their poor one and three records.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Well, they've got two different situations here, because the Ravens
are really good offensively, you know, they ranked number second
yards for play number three and scoring. Their defense stinks.
They're thirty second in total gas.
Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
That's so unlike that program too. I mean, the Ravens
have had a great defense.
Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Forever and they're bad right now. And they're banged up
on defense. If you look at two of their three losses,
the offense scored thirty or more points eight games. They
lost two of their three losses. They've got five or
six starters injured on defense. And then Houston's the exact opposite.
Their defense is really good and their offense stinks. And
they to give you an idea of how bad their
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offense has been going into the fourth quarter last week
against Tennessee, so they had played fifteen quarters going into
the fourth quarter, they had scored three total touchdowns in
fifteen quarters, and then they scored three in the fourth
quarter last week to match their total the first fifteen
quarters against a bad team in Tennessee. Maybe that turns
them around. I don't know. The line move in this
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game has been crazy as well. The look aheadline in
this game was Baltimore minus nine and a half and
Houston is favored by one and a half right now
because Jackson's not going to play at quarterback and their
defensive injuries are massive right now. Yeah, we're not going
to use this game either way, but it's a huge
game for both teams.
Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
Yeah. I mean, one team has their quarterback, although he's
played badly, that's Houston, and the other team has maybe
the best quarterback in the NFL and he's out, but
they still have a surrounding cast on offense. It's real, real, good, Mike.
I'm forgetting the backup for the Ravens. Who's going to
start a quarterback for them?
Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
It's doing an interesting part that it's Cooper Rush, but
the used to the Cowboys. Correct, Yeah, he's with the Cowboys,
So Lamar Jackson. Since he's got drafted in twenty eighteen,
he's won seventy two percent of the games that he
started in the NFL. In the fourteen games he hasn't started,
Baltimore's four and ten.
Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
So that shows you how Yeah, that means that means
he's really good, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Yeah, and they're gonna have to change their offense, right.
Their offense is predicated on him moving around and running
some Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Cooper rushed the pocket quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Yeah, correct, correct, So it's going to look completely different
this week for them.
Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
Okay, recapping our picks from last week, which Mike doesn't
want us to do. Mike thought Indiana and Iowa would
score more than forty seven and a half and they didn't.
They're just it's so hard to figure out some of
these teams. I think Illinois is better than Iowa, but
Indiana beat iow Illinois by sixty points and they beat
Iowa by five points. So it's just it's hard to
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figure a lot of this stuff out. Paul took the
forty nine ers to beat the Jaguars by four and more.
We're just discussing the forty nine as they lost the
game to Jacksonville. So he took a loss, and Paul
list me is I guess Yeah. I was thinking I'm
three and one, I'm four, and how in the world
could I short change myself? But this is the uh
sixth week. Yeah, I'm four, And when I took thet
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I won't say lucky, but fortunate here. I had the
Rams three and a half over the Colts. That game
was tied and the Rams got a touchdown. Often you
just get the field goal and you don't cover. So
I moved to four and one with my picks. Then,
all right, we'll make some point spread picks pro college
games to be played this weekend, Paul, you get to
go first, the Lions and the Bengals. In fact, I
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have strong thoughts on that game myself. That's ten Detroit
on the road at Cincinnati is favored by ten. The
Patriots and the Bills. Right, lad, you're asking about the NFL.
There's fewer games to scroll through. That game is that's
the Sunday night game. It's in Buffalo, and the Bills
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are favored at home by eight and a half. The
Chiefs and the Jaguars. Yes, about the Chiefs and the
day that's Monday night, the Monday night game. That game
is in Jacksonville. But the Chiefs on the road are
favored by three and a half. You're taking the Chiefs.
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You're taking the Chiefs to win by four or more
on the road at Jacksonville. You might want to reconsider
going against Jacksonville what you did last week and lost
in this, Kansas City seems to me to be better
than I thought they were going to be. Once again,
we're only a few weeks into the season and we
already realized Week one is completely irrelevant. I mean, Detroit's
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an example. There's just so many teams that played either
good or bad or Week one, and he just every
year people overreact to Week one and you can just
already see it. Anyway, why do you like the Chiefs
over Jacksonville here? Well, you say that, I mean they
do Jacksonville. Jacksonville's a hard read because they're in such
a crappy division, so when they play in the division,
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somebody's got to win. But the quarterbacks in his prime
Chiefs are You often pick games now you mentioned one game.
I do have an opinion, but you often pick games
in which I'm completely mystified by. And I do think
Kansas City is much better that I think they might
be better last year than they were last year when
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they went to the super Bowl, but did it with mirrors.
They seem so far this year to be a more
complete team in the offense is bounced back a little bit. Yeah,
Bill's on the Patriots. I've another impossible game with that
big spread. Mike, do you have any quick thoughts on
Paul's pick of the Chiefs over the Jaguars on Monday?
Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
Yeah, you know, Jaguars have a good record. They have
one loss on the season, you know, three and one,
but they've been helped by they're the number one turnover
team in the NFL. Margin they're plus nine and turnovers
all right.
Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
And turnovers are often luck, not always, but often luck.
Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
Their luck a lot of times. And they again I've
talked about this on this show for years, if you
win the turnover battle in your game, you're gonna win
seventy five to eighty percent of the time. That's just
the way it is in the NFL. And they're plus
nine already, so that has a lot to do with
why they sit where they are. Chiefs. I think they
might be a little better than last year. I'm still
not quite sold on them. I see, I understand why
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they're three and a half in this game. I think
Jacksonville's pretty overrated for a three and one team, to
be honest, right now, so you.
Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Kind of think maybe Paul's right. I'm like always a
three and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
You think if it was under three?
Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Yeah, okay, give me Mike needs his win. Where are
we going with our games?
Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Well, let's get one college and one NFL college. I
need the Iowa State Cincinnati at three twenty seven. Three
twenty eight is the number.
Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Yeah, Cincinnati is better than I thought they'd be. But
I'm not sure they're bed. I just don't know if
they're bet In the Iowa State, Cincinnati at home is
favored by one and a half over Iowa State.
Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
And then in the NFL, how about the uh well
two in the NFL Saints Giants Giants said, Saints Saints.
Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Giants, Though, there's a marquee game for you, the Saints
and the Giants. That game is in New Orleans. The
Saints are favored by one and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
And then Denver at Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
That's a better game. Broncos and the Eagles. Here we
go there it is uh three and a half. The
Eagles at home favored by three and a half. Broncos
have a really good defense, yes they do.
Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Let's go with the college game. I'm gonna take Cincinnati
minus one and a half over IWA.
Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Yeah, Cincinnati's just better than I thought they were. Frankly,
they don't seem to have missed the beat since Luke
Vikele left Cincinnati. Iowa State still a really good team too.
Why do you like Cincinnati?
Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
I like the Cincinnati is a lot better than people think. Cincinnati.
Offensively is really good. Their top twenty in total offense
averaged forty points a game. They're number three in the
whole country and yards per play. They average over eight
yards per play offensively, and they've played some decent teams,
including Nebraska. They averaged six point three yards per carry,
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which is ninth in the country. Their offenses is really good.
I'm not sold on Iowa State. I'll be honest. They
beat Kansas State the first week. We see what. Kansas
State is not that great this year. They looked good
last week. But the thing about Iowa State last week
is they lost their two starting corners last week, who
started fifty five games between them. They're both gone. They're
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both lost for the season last week. That's a huge
blow to them. I like the fact that Iowa State's
played all home games. The one true road game they
played was at Arkansas State, who's bad. Arkansas State is
zero to four, including losses to ul Monroe and Kanansas State.
Iowa State won that game by eight points with a
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touchdown in the fourth quarter. They struggled in that game.
The numbers, I look at it across the board, Cincinnati's
better at the yards per play margin, those type of names,
type of games. The one thing I also like about
this game, Mark is you've got a team that's ranked
in the top fifteen against a team that's not even
receiving votes in the rankings. And Iowa State was favored
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in this game and it switched to Cincinnati favored. You
don't see that too often. There's a reason Cincinnati's favored
at home in this game. And I'll lay the one
and a half.
Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Okay, I'm going to go to the NFL. It's one
of the games that Paul mentioned, and I'm getting over
my version of laying a lot of points. It's the
Detroit Cincinnati game. The Lions on the road are favored
by ten. Picking double digit road favorites used to be
way back in the day. A really dumb thing to do.
It get throw week one out. The Lions are spectacular
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if you ignore Week one, where they look just terrible
against Green Bay since then, they've been spectacular and Cincinnati
is an absolute mess. Paul. Whether Mike mentioned the Ravens
without Lamar Jackson, it's the same thing Cincinnati without Joe
Burrow and he's out for months. They have no offense
without him. They scored only three points last week. I
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just Detroit is scoring again. Take Week one out. They're
over thirty points every game. It doesn't matter whose defense
is facing them. Throw the green Bay game out. Detroit's
going to score over thirty and I think they'll throw
a score over thirty against Cincinnati. And with a ten points,
I can't fathom the Bengals scoring twenty. They just seem
to have no offense at all without Burrow, and the
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season seems to be spiraling out of control for them.
So I'm laying all ten on the road with the
with the Detroit Lions. I know you just don't like
laying a lot of points with the NFL, but I
think the spy calls for it.
Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
Yeah. I think San Cincinnati is gonna cash it here soon.
The third offense, like you said, it, is horrible. Last
two weeks against Minnesota and Denver, they've been outscored seventy
six to thirteen in those two games, and now they're
playing an offense that's way better than Minnesota and Denver's offense,
So I don't disagree with that. Another interesting point on
Paul's take taking Kansas City. Remember Cincinnati three weeks ago
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beat Jacksonville at home thirty one to seven, thirty one
to twenty seven, and Burrow went out early in that game,
and they still beat Jacksonville, So that might tell you
Jacksonville is just not where they should be. I don't
disagree with the player. I'm not huge in the land
huge points on the road, but there's no way I'd
take Cincinnati in that game.
Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Yeah, I do think that the numbers on it are
no longer as terrible as they used to be, and
there isn't as much parody, and that there's just more
really bad teams and really good teams now in the
NFL than there was in the past. So I'm willing
to lay you agree you were going to I assume
you were going to take Detroit when you were mentioning
asking about that game as well. Yeah, well you kind
(01:12:05):
of regret not to. You just think, for all of
a sudden, you're into this impression that I've got things
figured out this season, and I just had Whenever you
start thinking that way, that means it's about to crash
to an end. Anyway, We'll talk to Mike again next week.
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Chuck Schumer's classic old bull democrat been around forever. Politically,
(01:31):
He's never shown any real signs of radicalism. It's just
a typical dope in New York lefty, and he's knowing
to work the process forever and ever and ever. But
all of a sudden, here's Chuck Schumer doing something that
politically is stupid. Governmentally is stupid, shutting down the government
(01:53):
by putting out demands that he knows President Trump is
never going to cave to. There's no way that Trump
is going to sign legislation the guarantees free health care
to ill legal aliens. When you make a guarantee that
you know, rather a demand that you know the other
side can't accede to, that means you don't want them
(02:17):
to reach a deal. Yet it's clearly not in the
best interests of the Democrats for this government shutdown to
go on. So what's happening here? I think Chuck Schumer's
being I won't say blackmailed, but extorted. He is terrified
of the left wing of his party, and so is
(02:38):
the entire Democratic establishment. Back in March, we were at
the same point with regard to a government shutdown, and
Schumer cut a deal with Trump and the Republicans, and
we went forward and the left eviscerated him. Chuck Schumer's
in New York State. He's up for reelection next year.
There's very little chance of Republicans could beat him, but
(03:00):
he could lose a Democratic primary. He could lose it
to AOC, and AOC's making it clear, we've got to
demand all of these things, and we make no deals
with Trump. Well we don't have We can't not shut
down the government nless there's a deal. Chuck Schumer is
afraid to make a deal. He's afraid to take a
(03:20):
reasonable position because they're the establishment of the Democratic Party
is terrified of their left. This is kind of a
new thing for them. You go back to just consider
who the mainstream Democrats are. Biden's a bad example because
we just don't know what Joe Biden would have done
(03:42):
had he not been mentally enfeebled. If Joe Biden, and
Joe Biden was never sharp at the top of his game.
When you think of the old Joe Biden that was
in the Senate for all of those years and so on,
he was a moderate to liberal Democrat. If he had
that mental capacity, would he have rolled over to the
radicals who said, don't enforce the border all. We don't know.
We don't know if he would have been as intimidated
(04:04):
or not. I have my own theory that he had
his own form of extortion that the Democrats were essentially
telling them, Look, Joe, all this crap that you did
with Ukraine, in which Hunter was making all this money
in Brisbane, how did you go from barely won't being
able to pay for one house they having three houses,
including a beach house in Rehoboth Beef Beach. We're gonna
(04:25):
expose out now. Maybe he would have had to do
this anyway, but again it wouldn't have been willingly. The
left wing of the Democratic Party is Marxist. Mamdani essentially
admits to being Marxist. That's where this party is, and
they aren't particularly interested in doing anything that's all that smart.
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The way this thing plays out, Trump pulls all the cards.
Most of the agencies of the government that are shut
down right now are not exactly things that Republican voters love.
Some do you know you apply for Like they're talking
about replacement Medicare card, Well, you're not going to get one.
(05:08):
That's not an essential service to the government at shutdown.
But most of the things that you really really need
to go on are still going on. But More importantly
than that, there is this rustvouthdreat that's out there. We'll
get to that in a moment. This is JD. Van's
Chuck Schumer is terrified he's going to get a primary
(05:30):
challenge from AOC. The reason why the American People's government
is shut down is because Chuck Schumer is listening to
the fire left radicals in his own party because he's
terrified of a primary challenge. No, let's advance that. Why
would Chuck Schumer be so afraid of having to run
against AOC. Even in a state like New York, where
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Trump did much better in twenty four than he did
in twenty or sixteen. A lot of the moderate voters
have given up on the Democrats and they're over on
the Republican side. All that's left for Democratic voters is
left wingers. Schumer took a look and while New York
State is a big state geographically, the huge population base
(06:15):
of Democratic voters is in New York City. And Schumer
saw what happened in the New York Democratic primary. You've
got a communist running in Mamdani and he won. Beg Well,
those are the same people that are going to vote
in a Democratic primary. You're seeing this all over Democrats
(06:37):
that have had a history in the past not being reasonable,
being somewhat pragmatic, or at least not out and out Marxist.
Durbin's another one. They're all caving in, and they're all
rolling over to their left wing fridge. The problem that
they have here is the Trump and this version of
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Republicans is simply smarter at dealing with this stuff generally speaking.
Yet a government shutdown, you bully around the media, is
just going to do the Democrats bidding for him, and
the Republicans are the ones that are on the defensive.
The Democrats strategy on all of this was to make
the shutdown about health care, that we're doing this in
(07:23):
order to get better health care for the American people.
But Trump flipped the script. He's made it what their
own demand is. He's made it about free health care
for illegal aliens. And he did it because that was
their demand. Now why did the Democrats demand something so stupid? A,
Their radical base wants it, but b they didn't want
a deal. They had to put something out there that
(07:44):
Trump wouldn't take because if Trump would have agreed to
whatever it was, then the Democrat base. The lefties would
have simply said, look, there you are cutting a deal
with Trump again. So they had to put a deal
breaker out there. But Trump has been very successful at
articulating this next point. There's a report from a poster
(08:10):
on X that goes by the handle Wall Street Apes.
That person reports the desiret Townsend, who's a big lobbyist
in DC. Lefty, spoke with members of Congress and according
to Townsend, and this makes sense, why are Democrats really
(08:30):
fighting for illegal health for health care for illegal immigrants?
There is an actual reason for it beyond simply not
having a deal. You take a state like California, in
which a huge percentage of the population is illegal immigrants.
If the government isn't paying for that healthcare, that's a
(08:51):
massive blow to the healthcare industry in California, which is
by the way, entirely leftist. The illegals don't have enough
money to pay for their own health care, so if
the government doesn't pay for it, that's somebody that isn't
going to get paid. And in some of these states
it's a huge segment of the overall marketplace. In the meantime,
(09:17):
let's get back to Rusbaud, Big story on the Wall
Street Journal. He's Trump's director of O and B. He's
been plotting this, according to the story, for years. He's
one of the few that was in Trump's first term
that are the same level of competence as the others
that are here in term number two. Given the fact
(09:38):
that the government right now does not have funding authorization,
it appears as though Trump can cancel any program that
he wants. We went through this earlier in the week,
but I want to cover it a little bit more here.
Trump believes that even if money is appropriated, he doesn't
have to spend it. He believes that in appro propriation
(10:00):
really means you can't spend more than that amount. But
if they appropriate, just grab around number of billion dollars
to something, you know, I don't have to spend a billion.
I can spend eight hundred billion if I want. This
is being challenged in courts, But here's something that's I
think less debatable. If there isn't an appropriation, that means
(10:23):
that Trump doesn't have to allow the program to exist
at all. He can not reduce the spending. He can
zero it out because it's not appropriated. It Right now,
the government isn't appropriated other than the so called essential
agencies that are operating. I want to quote from again
the most journal story at it very very lengthy, and
I can't read the whole thing, but it's quite interesting
(10:44):
that the strategy that Vout has come up with. Russell
Vaud has been planning this move for this moment for years.
President Trump's budget chief, one of the main players in
the government shutdown that has ground Washington to a halt,
might also be one of its biggest beneficiaries. As the
free he this gives him the opportunity to implement funding
cuts he has long advocated. Vout, director of the White
(11:06):
House Office of Management and Budget, was quick Wednesday yesterday
to target Democratic priorities and projects in a move that
affected Democratic congressional leaders from New York Senator, Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Vout
posted on the X that a hold had been placed
on eighteen billion dollars in federal funds for New York
City infrastructure work, a Hudson River tunnel project and a
(11:29):
subway extension. The Transportation Department pinned the blame on the
shutdown saying a review of the project's contracting policies and
their relationship to diversity, equity and inclusion requirements couldn't move
forward without a budget. The Department has been forced to
furlough the civil rights staff responsible for conducting this review,
The agency said in a savement. So you see what
(11:51):
Foul is doing here. See what he's doing is he's
playing hardball the way the lefties have. Okay, we got
a shutdown. We just don't have money to pay the
DEI people. That this contract requires New York contract on
the tunnel on the hudset, of course, says DEI components
in it. So we don't have the money to pay
for the civil rights people this right now, So the
contract gotta throw. We got to ax can the contract
(12:16):
this project the Hudson of Ever, it's important basically to
New Jersey and New York, and the Democrats have managed
to choose both of their congressional leaders both in the
House and set aside from New York and the de
facto a leader of the Congress AOC, is also from
New York. You just can't imagine an earlier Republican administration
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doing this. Continuing, Foud also posted more than eight billion
dollars in Energy Department funds for climate projects would be
canceled in more than a dozen Democratic leading states, leading states.
He didn't specify which projects would be affected. The story
goes on. Now, you may wonder why in the world,
(12:58):
with the Democrats, knowing that they're far more dependent on
all of these programs already appropriated to the Republicans, why
would they give Trump the legal ability to cancel this.
And here's the answer. I think Schumer knows that. He
said back in March, we can't shut down the government.
Look what Trump's gonna do. But then after they didn't
(13:19):
shut down the government, the lefties all, what nuts, you
gotta fight Trump, You gotta fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump.
I do not believe Schumer wants to do this. He's
being terrorized by the left wing of his party. And
that's why I use this line that he's a terror victim.
He's being forced to do things that he knows are
(13:41):
stupid because his political survival depends on it. In the meantime,
the pr wars going on again, you're seeing from Trump
a willingness to do things that just would not have
been done in the past. So they did this parody
video like these memes. It was a couple of days ago.
And when they've got the two Democratic leaders, Schumer and Jeffries,
(14:04):
and they've got like a Mexican hat and a mariachi
song being played as they have Schumer saying a bunch
of things that he didn't say. It was hilarious, a caeme.
Jeffries immediately ran to MSNBC. He's going us, this is racist.
This is racist. This is racist. This is racist. Most people,
it's kind of other than the people on the left.
(14:24):
Most of America is just done with all of that.
It's racist, it's racist, it's racist. So Trump doubled out.
They have a new meme out today. It's another mariachi
band and the lyrics go meme them until they cry.
(14:45):
They make memes about them crying. In other words, now
they have a meme showing them crying because they were
made fun of in the first one. Again, this is
something Republicans have never done, and in the past maybe
you would not have been able to get away with it.
But there's been such a backlash against all of this
PCBs that Trump is now able to do it. Of course,
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of course, would not have never have done it. You know,
I think that this pretty much started when you got somebody,
you know of the fake Indian, Elizabeth Warre, and she
claims she was Cherokee, and Trump started calling her Pocahontas.
This goes back ten years. Trump's the president still despite
the fact that he keeps calling her Pocahontas. It's not racist.
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She's the racist. She's the one that culturally appropriated something
that she isn't. She's not an Indian. Now. The King Report,
which is a news service aggregator, makes a very good
point about this. You can go back sixty years, maybe longer,
and it's always been the left making fun of Republicans.
(15:54):
They cite they go back to the National Lampoon used
to call Spiro Agnew. You remember Spiro Agnew? You remember that?
You don't even remember who he was? Who was he?
He was?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
What is? What was he.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Was? He? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He was with Nixon. He was the vice President of
the United States, forced to resign. He was a crook.
He was taking bribes when he was the governor Maryland.
They called him sphincter t Agnew. So the left'sman dishing
this stuff out for sixty years and finally you have
the right dishing it back and the lefties, as I've
(16:28):
said forever, I mean, as long as I'm doing my
radio said, the left condish it out. They can't take it.
We on the right have to be able to take it.
Otherwise we'd have to just drop out of the game
because they're constantly ridiculing us. The lefties can't take it.
All you have to do is give them their own
medicine and they fall apart. Like I said, the Mariachi
thing with Jeffries Is, I mean, it was mild, It
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wasn't even mean spirit and just kind of making fun
of them as they babble off their uh they're uh
to clean it up a bit their stuff. Another story here,
it's kind of a cousin of these. You've got two
things going on here, lefty political correctness and lefties wanting
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to make money. These things come in and clash with
one another. Here there is a big comedy festival in
Saudi Arabia. Saia Arabia has got a lot of money,
and if you've been following this story, which we've mentioned
a few times, Saudi Arabia is mainstreaming itself right now,
and one of the things that's doing is right and left.
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It's buying sports franchises, buying entertainment and so on. The
new regime of Saudi Arabia is trying to shed off
the kind of stone age notion of Islam that you
can't have fun and so on. So anyway, that this
big comedy festival, and you know, the richest horse race
of the world is the Saudi Cup, twenty million dollars.
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They put up that kind of money because they can't.
They're just you wanted to draw attention to them. Same
thing with this comedy festival. Well, how do you get
a bunch of comedians, most of whom are lefties to
come to this stud You pay him a fortune? And
I all went, I look at this list here some
of them. I mean, I like Dave Chappelle. I don't
think that you can figure out what his politics are.
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So he went, of course he's gonna go because he
couldn't care less if he offends anyone. But then you
got Pete Davidson going. Maybe the most unlikable comedian in
the history of comedy. Right, he's just completely unless I
have no clue why even the lefties like him. He's
there's nothing funny about him for some reason. Also, he
gets hot women but then dumps them and says it
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becomes suicidal. He's just an odd book. He's also as
lefty as gonna be. He took the money. Bill Burr
hard to figure his politics. He's the bald guy or
the shaved headed guy. You think he's funny. He took
the money. Kevin Hart took the money. They all took
the money, and now they're gonna got backlash from their
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fellow people on the left, saying, how can you possibly
go and associate with this terrible Saudi government. See here's
the thing about lefties. They love Muslims, but not all Muslims.
For some reason, they hate the Saudis. And I suspect
they hate the Saudis because of all the Muslim nations
out there, the Saudis seem to be the one most
interested in having a good relationship with the United States. Also,
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the Saudis were originally the major funder of terror. They
were the bankrollers have bin laden the new regime there.
I don't think because of any kind of morality. I
think that they're just pragmatic. They realize that terror is
not good business. For them to be, and especially if
they have these notions of being a global economic power.
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So they're not pro terror anymore. They're not supportive of
at all of Iran, that's their mortal enemy. And because
they're not supportive of Iran, they're therefore not supportive of
the terror groups that Iran bankrolls, which would be Hesbollah
and Hamas. So maybe that's why the lefties hate the Saudis.
See well, as Saudis do things like they behead women
and all those Muslim nations do, but the lefties for
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some reason don't like the Saudis. If this thing was
in it Ran, no lefties would have objected at all.
But anyway, Pete Davidson or law, they took the money
and now they're being called to account by other lefties
and being forced to explain themselves in it's always amusing
when lefties have to explain themselves. Well, let's turn our
attention to this story. Well, I won't say lost, but
(20:29):
overshadowed in the moves that RFK Junior has made on autism.
So much attention was given to the report linking and
suggesting a correlationship between sidamniphin tilot All use by pregnant
women and autism. At the same time, RFK Junior did
(20:49):
authorize as government approved a specific treatment for a form
of autism, nonverbal autism. It's a drug that's been around
for a while called I think you pronounce it Luca
vorn I might have the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
I've heard it pronounced every way imaginable, but that's the
one that I'm going to use. A woman has posted
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on TikTok that she has a nonverbal autistic and nonverbal
just means the kid doesn't talk. Following this announcement of
my Kennedy last two weeks ago, last week whenever it was,
she says her kid is speaking, and this video has
like it posted on TikTok, but that it gets linked
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up and everything else. It's in the tens of millions
of views globally. Listen to it.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
So my son just started luke hobrn for the first time.
In case you haven't paying attention, that was the other
drug that was mentioned when they were talking about this
tilt off fiasco, which put up in an we really
should be talking about luke obren. My son is five
years old and he's nonverbal low functioning autistic always this
way though, up until about a year and a half,
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two years old, my son knew words, a lot of words.
He couldn't say sentences, but he could say one or
two words put together. And then there was an incident
that I'm not allowed to speak of because of TikTok regulations.
They took down in the video that I tried to
talk about what had happened in there, but you put
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the two together. At right after that, he just had
a steep decline in language and it just it halted.
And he hadn't spoken since he's been on this medication
for less than forty eight hours. And my son just
spoke for the first time.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
My nonverbal son just spoke for the first time in
over three years. Every day I have been praying for
an answer, praying for my son to be healed, and
all this time we've just had Lukovid sitting on the shelves.
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I'm telling you right now, if your child is nonverbal,
if you are the parent of a non verbal autistic child,
get them on Luke Obran as soon as you possibly can,
because this is the answer that we have all been
praying for.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
All right, I have no expertise in this area at all.
What I do know is that after Kennedy said this
is now an authorized treatment for nonverbal autism, some parents
are using it until it's government authorized. Physicians are often
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unwilling to practicip risks to prescribe something. The authorization of
the culbrain when Kennedy did it has been attacked by
the pharmaceutical industry, attacked by the left, and so on.
There's no proof. There's no proof. There's no proof. There's
no proof. We do know that though, that the drug
is a low risk drug. In other words, what's the harm.
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There's very little indication that this is any good for
any form of autism other than the nonverbal, the nonverbal
and the mothers. My kid did in his first couple
of years, he spoke, but then he just stopped speaking.
First time he spoken in three years is forty eight
hours after he took the first dose of la cuvern.
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I am so sick and tired of hearing the media
say that anything that comes out of the mouth of
any alternative medical sources is bs or crap or hogwash.
You'd think that after COVID we would realize that these
people are the ones that are raw. The cverin is
not a high paid drug because it's been out there
(24:42):
for a long time. I don't know if it's generic,
but it's not real expensive. The drug companies don't make
much money off of all drugs. They make money when
there's a brand new one that they can charge six
thousand dollars a dose for and have the insurance companies
pay for it. The same was true of ivermectin. We
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had that mocked for three years during COVID. It's hartste wormer,
it's horse well, that's one of the nineties zillion things
that an anti is it in a viral or whatever
it was, it's good for We now know that all
sorts of people who took iver mecton had their COVID
treated better. The turning point in that one was, interestingly,
I think it was the one of the turning points
in society is when the biggest podcaster in the world
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got COVID and he took ivermectin, Joe Rogan, and he
said it made me better right away. I think that
was significantly gotten to everything because I think that was
the thing that made Joe Rogan question his leftiism to
the point that he came around and endorsed Trump, and
one of the bigger it had Trump on the podcast.
And so one of the big reasons that Trump won
is that you had people who wrote like Rogan, who
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had trusted the lefties forever and ever and ever and
realized that they may be wrong. The thing that's so
annoying about all of this is that all of my life,
the side of the political spectrum that refused to carry
water for big pharma was the left. They were the
ones that questioned and challenged everything, and now they're the
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ones that simply doctorate air. You can't do this, you
can't do that, you can't try anything alternative. So I
have no my It may well be that this is
the lakovern for nonverbal autism is like the cancer drugs.
Most of these cancer drugs work for some people who
they don't work for others. It has to do with
how what helps with your own body. SAME's true with
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migraine medications. Some work for some people, who do work
for others. And I don't know that la Crovn's gonna
work for every kid that's got nonverbal autism. But you've
got parent and this woman doing out that there's anecdote
eleven in from others that the same thing is happening,
and instead of the media touting and highlighting and spotlighting this,
they're doing the same thing they did with Ivermectin claiming
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yet it's craphole like claiming that it's snake oil, which
is deterring some people from doing the very thing that
they ought to be doing. You're listening to the Mark
Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast. I have
a really interesting crime story here. It's going to require
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you to go back a little bit. You may, if
you're from the Milwaukee area, recall the story. It has
to do with a babysitter who killed the family dog
of the family that she was babysitting. She cut one
of the children's hair and then she killed the family dog.
She ended up pleading not guilty by insanity. She was convicted.
(27:42):
She served nine months in jail. It seemed like just
one of those odd stories of some completely screwed up
young woman that was, as I say it roughly, I
got the deeds, sir. I think it was like a
year and a half, two years ago, and her name
is Kylie Sonomon. Fast forward just several days ago, somebody
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broke into a vacant house in Sussex. They must have
had some knowledge that there were guns in the house.
They broke into the house. The house was at the
time unoccupied, but not empty. There were things in it
that just weren't people living in it. They stole twelve
to fifteen firearms out of the house. Guess who the
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dog killer? Kylie Sonomon and she's now twenty from Sussex,
and a co defended Samuel Striker, he's seventeen. They're charged
with breaking in and stealing a dozen or more firearms,
and they later went off to a nearby park and
fired him. It doesn't even look like they stole the
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guns for the purposes of reselling them. Because you're gonna
resell them, you're gonna draw attention to yourself by going
out in a park get shooting the guns off. Now,
in this case, it doesn't seem like they gave her
a pass in Waka Shaw County for the Washington County
actually for the for the killing of the dog, she
got nine months, which for killing a dog first offense.
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I mean, I'm used to everybody getting probation. She got
nine months in jail for it and now she or
she is breaking into a house and stealing guns. There
is zero chance that if she's not given significant time now,
it's all gonna get worse. This is just a bad scene.
She had bail set in Waukashaw County. It's twenty five
(29:42):
hundred dollars cash. I would have any idea for family
is maybe your family just figuring we've got to wash
her hands of this thing, that if we fail her
out and so on, it's just gonna get worse. Maybe
sitting in jail will teach her a lesson. I don't
know if she's gonna stay in jail with regard to
this or not. But it's the same person. Two very
different types of crimes the same person. Another criminal story,
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this one also with a very weird twist. We have
a case of a woman from Franklin that southern Milwaukee County.
She's been missing now for four years. I sometimes don't
you can't keep up with all of them. But it's
the kind of case that a lot of these true
crime podcasts and videos on YouTube would focus on. But
(30:27):
I don't know if they have in this one seventy
year old woman just disappeared, Nobody found no trace of her.
She just disappeared and the case has not been solved.
Her name is Sandra Eckert. Now, if you follow anything
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about these true crimes, or for that matter, follow any
type of stories whatsoever, if a seventy year old man
or woman, whatever it is, turns up missing, who's the
person that's going to be looked at the first? This
sposs Nobody however, has been charged. But she does have
a spouse. Her name. His name is Wesley Eckert. He's
in his seventies now as well. This week, Wesley Eckert
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was arrested by police driving the wrong way on a
one way street in Sandra Eckert's car. Sandra Eckert's children,
and I assume that they're also the children of Wesley Eckert,
are talking to Fox six and saying that this is
just bringing back all the old memories again. It sounds
like the kids may suspect the spouse. He's not charged
(31:36):
with anything, but boy, oh boy, old boy, let's just again,
I don't know if he did it or not. The
story indicates that he was a suspect in the case.
And again, when you don't have a body, unless there's
other evidence, Sometimes you can charge, sometimes you can't. There
is not a statute of limitations for murder, so the
authorities can't wait. Anyway, Let's imagine you did it to
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Boulish for me to say, like, imagine you killed your wife, Paul,
But imagine somebody that you knew killed their killed their
wife four years ago. Wouldn't you get rid of her car?
Doesn't it just seem odd that thinks do it? And
then he's driving that car? Why is he going the
wrong way down a one way street? And he's an
older guy. Maybe he's one of these guys starting to
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lose it. He was not nailed for drunk driving or anything,
so far as I can tell. He did crash the
vehicle though, So that crash and his arrest on the
crash charges is putting the story back in the news
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about the disappearance of Sandra. I have another crash story
for you before I do this. There's a story here
in the news. There's nothing particularly significant about it other
than it amuses me. And it's not even the kind
of story that should amuse me, but it does amuse me.
They're just certain things and certain people that amuse me.
Remember when Jay Cutler got his DUI didn't that amuse you?
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That Jay Cutler got in drunk driving? It is funny.
I just it just seems to me that he was
intoxicated when he was playing. First of all, Jay Cutler's
one of those guys, not many of them. He looks
drunk all the time, even when he's sober. He just
has that drunk look to him. It's because it's droopy
eyes or something. He looks drunk. Well, so here're the
guy that always looks you gotta so. Right now, Jay
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Cutler is serving he got it's Colorado four year no
at Tennessee four your four day jail term. He's in
jail now. He's in the middle of his four days
in jail for drunk driving. Again, there's nothing significant about
the story at all. It just amuses me. It probably shouldn't,
Does it interfuse you? Jay Cutler's in jail for drunk
driving right now? Another collision story, Two Delta commuter jets
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collided on the ground at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
The commuter jets what the commuter jets are usually not
operated by the main airline, and this one is not.
They're operated by Endeavor air but they are part of
the Delta network and it says Delta on the side
of the plane. In some cases, the main airline owns
the commuter line as well, and I don't know who
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owns Endeavor, but they're Endeavor air Airlines, but they've got
Delta on the side. They use the Delta gates, the
Delta terminals, et cetera. A flight attendant was banged up
a little, but nobody was seriously injured. I am amazed
that this does not happen more often. First of all,
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if you've ever traveled at any of the busy airports,
most of them, most of the major airlines, have their
flights all go out around the same time. I can
tell you, for example, sighting this airport, LaGuardia, New York
late afternoon to early evening. Every airline's got flights is
flying at that point in time, and LaGuardia is just
(34:58):
a weird airport. I've flown out of LaGuardia forever, way
back in the days in which I guess hosted for
Rush and I fly back to Milwaukee. It was always
La Guardia, never JFK, which just that was the airport
go bag back to Midwest Express, and there was air Train,
and then they all used LaGuardia. LaGuardia is this airport
and it's just stuck at a piece of property that's
(35:21):
too small for an airport. LaGuardia is near where the
Mets play City Field. It's also that's also near where
the tennis tournament, where the US Open is held. It's
on the northern portion of Queens. It's right up against
the water, on the northern portion of I mean, it's
kind of long. Long Island is the Long Island, but
it's still in the city of New York. So one
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of the runways when you come in, and anybody who've
ever flown to Lguardia's experiences you're flying in right over
the water and the edge of the runway is at
the water's edge. In fact, the runways are so short
that I don't think LaGuardia can be used for international travel.
I don't think they can handle seven forty sevens. I
don't know that, but I think I'm right about that.
It's also and it's a busy there's two airports in
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New York. There's laguardieran JFK New York. It's a huge seti,
so there's a lot of flights are about the air
it's just small. The airport building is small. They did
a renovation of LaGuardia Airport a few years ago, and
there were taxi driver saying, this is a miracle. It
is a miracle that they renovated everything, the parking lot
and everything. They managed to keep the airport open during
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the entire edit. It was miraculous. I don't even know
how they did it because it's just too small to
begin with. Imagine now construction all over the place and
stuff out of commission. And so by the way, the
terminal LaGuardia used to be the worst in the world
that it's been really nice ever since they read it. Anyway,
the same is true in the area where your taxi
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the gates the terminal building is very very close to
the couple of runways that they have there. It's not
one of these places like Atlanta where you're taxi for
twenty five minutes. In fact, it's so cockam amy that
when you're at the end of the terminals, the pilots
can't drive in. They have to be tugged in because
you come in at a goofy angle. Because they're using
every last piece of space at the other thing, you know, Laguardi,
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it was just notorious that if you weren't first in
line for takeoff, you could be sitting on the ground
longer than your flight was in there. We're number fifty
nine for takeoff, and there's only the one or two
uh what is it they called jetways that take you
over toward the runway, and you could be backed up
forever and you got planes incoming out, and it's just
it's all packed in. So two of these commuter jets
(37:32):
banged into one another. I think it is a credit
to all of the I don't know if air traffic
control controls you once, say, at the ground or not.
There's all those guys with those orange signals that are
waving your round all over the place, but they only
approach you when you're right by the terminal itself, when
you're on the jetways and everything's zigzagging all over the place.
I'm just surprised that doesn't happen more often. There's the
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same airport that the you know, the miracle on the Hudson.
They took off over the water and hit the birds
and they landed in the U in the other river,
the East River, which is one of the rivers that
you know straddles straddles New York. It was no, it
was the Hudson. It was it was it was the Hudson.
It was the Hudset. It was called Miracle on the Hudson.
It was the Hudson. The Hudson is let's see, east
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of Manhattan and west. I don't remember, yeah, I just
so that was that was that airport. And now this
some of you may not know what's been going on
with gold. Do you know what's been going on with gold?
You don't know anything about this. You don't just keep
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it on on your foot. So you're one of these
iff It doesn't affect me. I have no level of interest.
Gold has been doing nothing but going up for the
last two to three years. This year, silver is going
up at a higher percentage. Usually silver is like one
percent of a gold is and silver's trackedep But gold
has been soaring. It's at an all time high. And
(39:00):
the thing that's been curious about that is usually gold
goes up when stocks go down. Gold is considered a hedge.
When things are bad, that's when people buy gold. Also,
gold has traditionally been an inflation hedge, because you know
gold things in flake. Gold inflates. The thing that's been
odd is gold has really taken off ever since inflation
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started to get under control. There's a disconnect between inflation
and gold. Why is gold? Why is silver? Why are
they going up? There's a million theories. Some of them
the real inflation hedge became bitcoin and gold was left
in the wayside, and when bitcoin slowed down, everybody got
into gold and silver. I've heard that. The other theory
is you need metals, including precious metals, for AI, and
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there's now uses beyond investment and jewelry purposes for gold,
and that would be the AI purpose. I've heard all
of those things, but I've got some numbers for you.
This is interesting stuff. Between seventeen ninety three and eighteen
thirty three, gold was at the same price nineteen dollars
and thirty nine cents. It then made a big move
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in the mid eighteen hundreds. It hit forty seven h
three and forty seven dollars and three cents in the
middle of the Civil War, and then pulled back to
twenty dollars to twenty dollars by eighteen seventy eight. In
eighteen seventy nine, gold was back down to twenty dollars
and sixty seven cents, In other words, only a buck
(40:28):
higher in eighty years. That's a dead investment. Part of
this has to do with America being on the gold standard.
When America was on the gold standard, gold basically didn't
move because the American dollar was tied to gold anyway. Then,
from eighteen seventy nine through nineteen thirty two, gold stayed
at that range of twenty dollars and sixty seven cents.
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In the mid nineteen thirties, what happened in the nineteen
thirties even you know this, they're great depression, but generally
had gold does well when everything else has gone to crap.
In the mid nineteen thirties, gold got up to thirty
five dollars, where it stayed for the next thirty years.
Because of the gold standard being created, gold didn't move
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an inch from thirty five to sixty five, still thirty bucks. Then,
in August of nineteen seventy one, Nixon took the dollar
off of gold, end of the gold standard. I wasn't
around with any kind of money that I wonder if
I would have had the brains to realize by gold
when Nixon did that, because gold started to explode in
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nineteen seventy one, and between nineteen seventy one and nineteen
eighty gold went on one of the greatest bull markets of
all time. I do remember in that era, this is
when the gold bugs came out and they were on
the radio all over the place. By gold, by gold,
by gold, the world's coming to an end, by gold,
by gold, by gold, by gold. Gold went in four
years from nineteen seventy one to seventy five, from thirty
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six dollars to one hundred and eighty four. Pretty good move.
It fell to ninety nine dollars in nineteen seventy six.
And then this is when the fireworks that happened between
nineteen seventy six and January of nineteen eighty. Now, what
happened between seventy six and eighty Carter, for those of
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you route it out at the time. Carter was there's
never been a worse economy in America other than the
Depression than Carter. Screwed everything up. And again, when does
gold go up when everything else is bad? Gold went
during the Carter years between nineteen seventy six and nineteen eighty.
It went from ninety nine dollars to eight hundred and
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fifty by January of nineteen eighty. That's what I read.
It made that incredible run, and that's what all the
ads were on to buy gold. If I've learned anything
about this is when everybody's telling you to buy gold,
then it's too late. So it made that incredible run,
running from about one hundred bucks to eight hundred bucks
in the five years up to nineteen eighty. Gold managed
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to pull all the way back from eight fifty in
nineteen eighty and was essentially dead money for decades. By
nineteen ninety nine, gold was down to two hundred and
fifty bucks. So gold went from eight hundred to two
fifty in the eighties and the nineties. What has going
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on In the eighties and nineties, the economy was great.
Reagan turned the economy around, and it remained strong under Clinton.
So in the eighties of the nineties, gold lost pretty
much all its value, went from eight hundred back to
two fifty in nineteen ninety nine. From that point forward
until the day before nine to eleven, excuse me, five
(43:43):
days before nine to eleven nine to six. I take
that back, I've got the wrong reference point. Between nineteen
ninety nine and two thousand eleven, gold moved back up
to nineteen hundred and twenty one dollars, So that was
the next big move that occurred in the market. You
then had a bear market in which gold from eleven
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to fifteen went from nineteen hundred to ten forty six. Again,
this was during a period of time in which the
economy was mostly moving forward. This is the tail end
of Obama ten forty six, so that last reference point
almost exactly ten years ago. Gold was ten forty six
(44:27):
on December third of fifteen. As of two days ago,
I don't know what it was. Yesterday gold was up
to thirty eight twenty four and continuing to rise. I
have no idea what any of that means. I can, however,
tell you that the history of gold is to be
one of the most volatile things imaginable. After these massive runs,
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it tends to pull way way way way way back
and could be dead for fifteen to twenty years. There's
just no way of knowing if we're at thirty eight
hundre right now at the peak, or if this run
is going to go to nine or ten thousand. I
don't know. I own a lot of gold. I haven't
sold that aid, but you certainly have to think about it, because,
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as I say, gold does have a tendency to pull
way back. The thing that is a wildcard for me
and trying to assess this and the same thing as
silver silver's really gone up, is whether or not this
is fundamentally driven that you simply need so much gold
and silver for AI where you need rare earth metals
and precious metals that you now have. Silver's always had
a use beyond gold. You know, it's used in an
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industry and a lot of things. It's not just a hedge.
It's also used in manufacturing and a lot of things.
Gold basically is just an investment and used in jewelry
and used for almost nothing else. I mean, I don't
even know if they use it for tooth fillings anymore.
So it's just been that. But if there is now
an actual industrial use for the both of them, given
what AI is doing and so on, there may be long,
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long long ways for these to run or its implube
speculative and now would be the time to get out
of it. But anybody who's got a lot of gold.
It's just I am not somebody who likes to sell things,
but it seems like they're too high. I always want
to wait for it. I'm willing to let it go
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back twenty five percent and say, okay, this is the
downturn rather than you know, I learned that from some
of these tech stocks. Well, gee, it seems like Amazon's overvalued.
You know, in nineteen ninety eight, a lot of those
tex stocks went boom, went went bust. And then there's
the NVIDIAs and the Amazons and the Microsoft saying all
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the others of the world. We come back after the
break football preview and some football picks, as we normally
do on the end of the week podcast. All right,
it's time for our weekly football preview and pointspread bricks,
as we are everywhek. We're joined by Mike Burletta of
American Sports Analysts and uson. Mike is threatening to resign
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from the program if he doesn't get one of these
points spread picks picks correct. I'm assuming that your service
is doing a little bit better than some of your
scoring picks here here on our podcast. Anything special going
on this week out at ASA?
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yeah, we're having a decent year. Last week we lost
had a poor college day, which aligned with what I had,
and we had a decent NFL weekend. So just again,
we lost our first college top game of the season
last year, but I think we'll bounce. I think we've
got a really good spot this year. So check it
on Friday at ASA wins dot com. We'll have something
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up for a big plan on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
I could not find a single college football game that
I liked all last weekend. I think you kind of
have to have something going on, but last week it
is a very very difficult week Anyway, the way we
normally do this is we talk about college football first
and then the NFL, because other than the Thursday night game,
college football games are played first. I was looking through
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the schedule and there really isn't a huge matchup this weekend.
But I think the most interesting one is it's a
conference game and it's an interstate game. Miami is playing
Florida State. Now, Miami was very heavily hyped going into
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the season, and I just had some thoughts that they
were too overhyped. They have a lot of transfers and
their Coachmurrio Christobal every single year manages to lose a
game by doing something stupid during the game, But so
far they've looked very good. Florida State is what a
weird program. Two years ago, they were one of the
best teams in the country almost won the national championship.
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Last year they were one of the worst teams of
the ACC. I don't know that I've ever seen a
team drop as much as they've dropped, and they've bounced
right back this year. They're coming off a loss, but
they're a much better team that this year. And this
is I guess what's going to happen in the transfer
portal where teams can remake themselves and single year. In
any event, it's actually a conference game. They're both in
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the ACC and they might be the two best teams
in the ACC. Your thoughts on Miami and Florida State.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
Bike, Yeah, Miami's favored at Florida State by four and
a half. We'll learn more about Miami even though they
have two good wins against Notre Dame and Florida is
still a good win. Even though Florida hasn't been very
good this year.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Florida has a tremendous defense and a pathetic offense, So
they are I think the Cleveland Browns of college football.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Florida they are. They're really you hit it right on
the head. Their quarterback is supposed to be really good,
and he's not playing very good. But this is Miami's
first road game of the year. They played every game
at home so far. You get Florida State a little
angry coming off a loss. Florida State is the number
one offense in the entire country. They averaged six hundred
yards a game, their number one rush offense in the
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country three hundred and thirty six yards per game, and
they average fifty three points a game. So it'll be
interesting to see how their offense plays against a really
good defense. Miami's top ten in total defense. It's a
rivalry game, and as you'd expect a rivalry game, it's
normally leans toward the underdog. The last twenty meetings, the
dog has won fifteen of those. In the last ten
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times the dog has been an underdog at home, they've
covered eight of those, So I would lean Florida State
in this game. I don't think it's high enough for
us to use, but if it got a little higher,
we probably leaned Florida State.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Are both of these teams top ten teams in the country.
It's really early to tell, and Florida State does have
a loss. Miami has looked very good. As I say,
the coach, and this has been going on forever with
Mario Crystabal. He just does one dumb thing every year,
and he's going to cost this team For all I know,
they'll run the table and going to the National Championship
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game and he'll do his dumbell thing then. But he
does know how to build a program. He does assemble
tremendous talent. He's just one of these guys that needs
to have an assistant make a lot of the in
game decisions rather than him. Anyway, they both like me
as really good, hard hitting football teams, kind of back
to what we've seen from the State of Florida in
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the past. Do you think they're top ten teams?
Speaker 3 (51:11):
I think Miami right now is a top ten team.
If they win this game, they're absolutely a top ten team.
But I agree with you, don't. I can't stand their coach.
He's going to lose a game or two for him
by making dumb decisions at some point. Unless they're just
that much talent, more talented than everyone else. I think
Florida State is fringe top ten. If they would have
won last week, you know you're looking at a top
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ten team. This game will tell a lot about both
those teams.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
The Cristobal reminds me of a guy who used to
coach at LSU less miles. Every year he'd do something stupid,
but he assembled incredible talent and he was an innovative coach,
but he made just bizarre ind game decisions and it
always had cost them. All Right, we have to turn
our attention to the Wisconsin program, which just appears right
now to be bleak. They're in a transition year, which
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you shouldn't be the third year of a new head coach,
but they are, and they're facing the toughest schedule, probably
of any team in college football. Their most witable conference
game was two weeks ago against Maryland, and they got pasted.
Before we talk about this weekend's Michigan game, you're in Madison.
You're close to what's going on over there, the state
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of the program, and after what we saw against Maryland,
some people are seriously asking if they're going to lose
every game on the remainder of their schedule. Could they
really be a two to ten team finishing with ten
losses in a row or is it not that dire?
Speaker 3 (52:37):
Well, they're going to be underdogs in every game from
this point on, so yeah, it's highly possible they lose
every game from this point on. They're actually they've been
in a double digits underdog once. They're going to be
a double digit underdog four more times this year, so
almost half their games they're going to be double digit underdogs.
The last time that happened was Elva this first year
in nineteen ninety. Now they're playing a much more difficult
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schedule than they have in the past, which I mean every.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Bad team in the Big Ten is not in their
schedule and every good one. You know, the Big Ten's
got all these teams and some aren't very good, but
Wisconsin doesn't catch any of them. The weakest one was
probably Maryland. No, maybe Maryland is better than we think
they are. It's too early to tell, but they just
don't have any of the cupcakes in there. The fear
that I have is that the coach is going to
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lose the team and players are going to mentally check out,
and it could get really ugly. And I see some
of Luke Fickl's press conferences and I mean, I don't
know how you're supposed to act at press conferences like this,
but he I don't know that. I want to say
he seems defeated, but I think he just realizes that
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talent wise, his team is overmatched. Is there any reason
to be more optimistic than what I draw out there?
Speaker 3 (53:54):
No, I think I think you're right. I don't you know,
he's probably running out of stuff to say.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
I mean, it's hard to I mean, they asked, what
are you supposed to say? I mean, you keep losing
in this? And he so he says, well, we've got
to do this, We've got to do this. But there's
there's nothing to say, I mean, and he's got to
be frustrated. He's a guy that has been successful everywhere.
He was an interim coach at Ohio State like ten
years ago, and they didn't have a very good year
that year. But that was I forget who it was.
It was it urban Meyer who walked away, or Tressel
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or somebody. He inherited a team that wasn't really his
and he was only an interim coach. But when you're
somebody that's been in football and have always been successful,
it's hard to figure out what to do when you're
not because you've never been confronted with a lack of
success before.
Speaker 3 (54:37):
Yeah, and I think the problem right now is their
depth is not good. I mean, their offensive line loses
guys and they're one of the worst offensive lines in
the Big Ten. They lose their quarterback and their backup
look decent against some bad teams, and that they're just
they're not really deep and they can't afford to lose
those type of guys and be competitive against these type
of teams. And that's where they sit right now.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
People are saying Fickle can't be fired because of his buyout.
I don't agree with that. I think he can be fired,
and I think these things are negotiable, and I think
Luke Fickel wants to coach again if he is fired here,
so you negotiate a buyout. I'm just not sure that
it's the right thing to do. I think he made
a terrible decision in switching to an air raid offense
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and picked the wrong coordinator to do it, and has
set his offense back. Not the two years that they
had it, but three because they're trying to redirect everything.
I just think that if they're going to go out
and take a look at hiring somebody new, you'd be
hiring somebody who has the profile a fickle Fickle lost
only one game is last season at Cincinnati and went
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to the Final four in college football. I mean, they'd
be looking for another guy of that profile, and then
you have everybody transfer your start all over again. But
I mean, if they do go two and ten or
three and nine, I think that the pressure to fire
him would be overwhelming. I'm just not convinced it's the
right thing to do, real quick quick. On the Michigan game,
Michigan might not be quite as good as some of
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the Michigan Harbough teams in the past, but they're still
really good. I think Michigan's favored by what's seventeen against
Wisconsin on Saturday. They gave it in Michigan. By the way,
have you ever seen that stadium you've ever been to Ianna.
They call it the Big House, so unusual, hundred thousand
seats but single deck, so I mean the top row
of that. I don't even know. How about the row.
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It's got to be like row one hundred and fifteen
or something. It's just such an unusual stadium, but they
managed to They managed to fill that thing up anyway.
Your thoughts on the badges in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (56:36):
Yeah, and interesting the stadium. When you look at the stadium,
it doesn't look big because it doesn't look very it
goes down into the ground. So like the top one
hundred and fifteenth row or whatever is not that high
from the ground. It goes down into.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
Because the stadium was sunk into the ground.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But it's you know, I think
Wisconsin's chances they got to somehow stay in it early.
They scored seventeen old points in the first half and
twenty two possessions this year. And those are again some
bad teams. I mean, Alabama was good, but there's some
bad teams out there. If they in Michigan scored seventy
six points in the first half in four games. If
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Wisconsin gets behind early, they've shown they don't have the
offense to come back. They don't. They got behind against
the Alabama got blown out, They got behind against Maryland,
couldn't do anything. They somehow got to keep this game
close into the second half. I don't know if they
can do it or not. Michigan's defense is good, not
as good as they have been. They've got a freshman
quarterback who's making multi millions of dollars because he was
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the best recruiter.
Speaker 2 (57:32):
Freshman quarterback was making about as much money as Jordan Love.
Speaker 3 (57:36):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah exactly. I mean, I think it's
gonna be tough. If they can somehow ugly the game
up and stay in it into the second half though,
the chance to make it a game. But if they
get behind big in the first half again, they're done.
They just can't. They don't have the offense.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
I mean, they the oldest one of the oldest sayings
is no old line no oh, and that's their problem.
Let's try to attention to the NFL. I think maybe
the most bitter rest of the game in the league
is the game tonight. We're doing the podcast on Thursday,
the Rams and the forty nine Ers. I won't even
give it an intro other than that. Your thoughts on
that game.
Speaker 3 (58:09):
Well, the lines, the crazy line move in this game.
So the Rams open is a three point favorite. Right now,
they're eight and a half and nine. So that move
that moved through four through six, through seven, and now
it's almost ten.
Speaker 2 (58:22):
Why is pretty party? The quarterback's been banged up. Is
he playing for San Francisco?
Speaker 3 (58:27):
No, No, he's out, But I mean mac Jones. Their
backup has started in two games and won them both
and looked okay.
Speaker 2 (58:34):
As backups go, he's right there with Malik Willis as
being one of the two or three best backups. I
would think he's been a starter in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (58:42):
Yeah, and he started two games this year and they
won them both and looked look decent. But the Niners
are really banged up. Their wide receivers are banged up.
They have some offensive line issues. The Rams are healthier.
I think the Rams are a top five ish NFL
team right now. You know, the niners three wins have
come by a combined ten points, so they've played a
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bunch of close games. They could have a worst record
and the Rams could easily be four. Now we know
their one losses at Philadelphia. You know how that ended.
Speaker 2 (59:10):
And I used them as my pick last week, a
little bit lucky and covering. I had the terrible three
and a half, but they got the touchdown late in
the game went to win by a full touchdown. But yeah,
I agree with you. I think they're a really, really
good team. I both two of the best coaches in
the NFL. I mean, Shanahan's great coach and the Rams coach.
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His name is scaping my head right now, McVeigh McVeigh.
They're both really good coaches. They're both second generation coaches.
I think San Francisco is going to give them a
fight in that game. And home field situation is so
weird with the Rams having so few local fans and
so many of the visiting team fans coming in. There
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no Packer game this weekend, so let's preview another game.
The Ravens play the Texans, And the reason Mike I
pulled this one out is these two teams were both
ought to be Super Bowl contenders, and they're both one
and three, and they both have big name quarterbacks. They're
both one and three. I know it's early in the
season and it's not even a divisional game, but I
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think this is a must win game. It's really hard,
even with the extended season now, to make the playoffs.
If you start one and four and one of these
teams is going to lose your thoughts in this game,
because it just doesn't seem like either of these teams
is as bad as their poor one and three records.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Well, they've got two different situations here, because the Ravens
are really good offensively, you know, they ranked number second
yards for play number three and scoring. Their defense stinks.
They're thirty second in total gas.
Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
That's so unlike that program too. I mean, the Ravens
have had a great defense.
Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Forever and they're bad right now. And they're banged up
on defense. If you look at two of their three losses,
the offense scored thirty or more points eight games. They
lost two of their three losses. They've got five or
six starters injured on defense. And then Houston's the exact opposite.
Their defense is really good and their offense stinks. And
they to give you an idea of how bad their
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offense has been going into the fourth quarter last week
against Tennessee, so they had played fifteen quarters going into
the fourth quarter, they had scored three total touchdowns in
fifteen quarters, and then they scored three in the fourth
quarter last week to match their total the first fifteen
quarters against a bad team in Tennessee. Maybe that turns
them around. I don't know. The line move in this
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game has been crazy as well. The look aheadline in
this game was Baltimore minus nine and a half and
Houston is favored by one and a half right now
because Jackson's not going to play at quarterback and their
defensive injuries are massive right now. Yeah, we're not going
to use this game either way, but it's a huge
game for both teams.
Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
Yeah. I mean, one team has their quarterback, although he's
played badly, that's Houston, and the other team has maybe
the best quarterback in the NFL and he's out, but
they still have a surrounding cast on offense. It's real, real, good, Mike.
I'm forgetting the backup for the Ravens. Who's going to
start a quarterback for them?
Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
It's doing an interesting part that it's Cooper Rush, but
the used to the Cowboys. Correct, Yeah, he's with the Cowboys,
So Lamar Jackson. Since he's got drafted in twenty eighteen,
he's won seventy two percent of the games that he
started in the NFL. In the fourteen games he hasn't started,
Baltimore's four and ten.
Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
So that shows you how Yeah, that means that means
he's really good, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Yeah, and they're gonna have to change their offense, right.
Their offense is predicated on him moving around and running
some Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Cooper rushed the pocket quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Yeah, correct, correct, So it's going to look completely different
this week for them.
Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
Okay, recapping our picks from last week, which Mike doesn't
want us to do. Mike thought Indiana and Iowa would
score more than forty seven and a half and they didn't.
They're just it's so hard to figure out some of
these teams. I think Illinois is better than Iowa, but
Indiana beat iow Illinois by sixty points and they beat
Iowa by five points. So it's just it's hard to
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figure a lot of this stuff out. Paul took the
forty nine ers to beat the Jaguars by four and more.
We're just discussing the forty nine as they lost the
game to Jacksonville. So he took a loss, and Paul
list me is I guess Yeah. I was thinking I'm
three and one, I'm four, and how in the world
could I short change myself? But this is the uh
sixth week. Yeah, I'm four, And when I took thet
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I won't say lucky, but fortunate here. I had the
Rams three and a half over the Colts. That game
was tied and the Rams got a touchdown. Often you
just get the field goal and you don't cover. So
I moved to four and one with my picks. Then,
all right, we'll make some point spread picks pro college
games to be played this weekend, Paul, you get to
go first, the Lions and the Bengals. In fact, I
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have strong thoughts on that game myself. That's ten Detroit
on the road at Cincinnati is favored by ten. The
Patriots and the Bills. Right, lad, you're asking about the NFL.
There's fewer games to scroll through. That game is that's
the Sunday night game. It's in Buffalo, and the Bills
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are favored at home by eight and a half. The
Chiefs and the Jaguars. Yes, about the Chiefs and the
day that's Monday night, the Monday night game. That game
is in Jacksonville. But the Chiefs on the road are
favored by three and a half. You're taking the Chiefs.
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You're taking the Chiefs to win by four or more
on the road at Jacksonville. You might want to reconsider
going against Jacksonville what you did last week and lost
in this, Kansas City seems to me to be better
than I thought they were going to be. Once again,
we're only a few weeks into the season and we
already realized Week one is completely irrelevant. I mean, Detroit's
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an example. There's just so many teams that played either
good or bad or Week one, and he just every
year people overreact to Week one and you can just
already see it. Anyway, why do you like the Chiefs
over Jacksonville here? Well, you say that, I mean they
do Jacksonville. Jacksonville's a hard read because they're in such
a crappy division, so when they play in the division,
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somebody's got to win. But the quarterbacks in his prime
Chiefs are You often pick games now you mentioned one game.
I do have an opinion, but you often pick games
in which I'm completely mystified by. And I do think
Kansas City is much better that I think they might
be better last year than they were last year when
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they went to the super Bowl, but did it with mirrors.
They seem so far this year to be a more
complete team in the offense is bounced back a little bit. Yeah,
Bill's on the Patriots. I've another impossible game with that
big spread. Mike, do you have any quick thoughts on
Paul's pick of the Chiefs over the Jaguars on Monday?
Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
Yeah, you know, Jaguars have a good record. They have
one loss on the season, you know, three and one,
but they've been helped by they're the number one turnover
team in the NFL. Margin they're plus nine and turnovers
all right.
Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
And turnovers are often luck, not always, but often luck.
Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
Their luck a lot of times. And they again I've
talked about this on this show for years, if you
win the turnover battle in your game, you're gonna win
seventy five to eighty percent of the time. That's just
the way it is in the NFL. And they're plus
nine already, so that has a lot to do with
why they sit where they are. Chiefs. I think they
might be a little better than last year. I'm still
not quite sold on them. I see, I understand why
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they're three and a half in this game. I think
Jacksonville's pretty overrated for a three and one team, to
be honest, right now, so you.
Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Kind of think maybe Paul's right. I'm like always a
three and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
You think if it was under three?
Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Yeah, okay, give me Mike needs his win. Where are
we going with our games?
Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Well, let's get one college and one NFL college. I
need the Iowa State Cincinnati at three twenty seven. Three
twenty eight is the number.
Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Yeah, Cincinnati is better than I thought they'd be. But
I'm not sure they're bed. I just don't know if
they're bet In the Iowa State, Cincinnati at home is
favored by one and a half over Iowa State.
Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
And then in the NFL, how about the uh well
two in the NFL Saints Giants Giants said, Saints Saints.
Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Giants, Though, there's a marquee game for you, the Saints
and the Giants. That game is in New Orleans. The
Saints are favored by one and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
And then Denver at Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
That's a better game. Broncos and the Eagles. Here we
go there it is uh three and a half. The
Eagles at home favored by three and a half. Broncos
have a really good defense, yes they do.
Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Let's go with the college game. I'm gonna take Cincinnati
minus one and a half over IWA.
Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Yeah, Cincinnati's just better than I thought they were. Frankly,
they don't seem to have missed the beat since Luke
Vikele left Cincinnati. Iowa State still a really good team too.
Why do you like Cincinnati?
Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
I like the Cincinnati is a lot better than people think. Cincinnati.
Offensively is really good. Their top twenty in total offense
averaged forty points a game. They're number three in the
whole country and yards per play. They average over eight
yards per play offensively, and they've played some decent teams,
including Nebraska. They averaged six point three yards per carry,
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which is ninth in the country. Their offenses is really good.
I'm not sold on Iowa State. I'll be honest. They
beat Kansas State the first week. We see what. Kansas
State is not that great this year. They looked good
last week. But the thing about Iowa State last week
is they lost their two starting corners last week, who
started fifty five games between them. They're both gone. They're
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both lost for the season last week. That's a huge
blow to them. I like the fact that Iowa State's
played all home games. The one true road game they
played was at Arkansas State, who's bad. Arkansas State is
zero to four, including losses to ul Monroe and Kanansas State.
Iowa State won that game by eight points with a
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touchdown in the fourth quarter. They struggled in that game.
The numbers, I look at it across the board, Cincinnati's
better at the yards per play margin, those type of names,
type of games. The one thing I also like about
this game, Mark is you've got a team that's ranked
in the top fifteen against a team that's not even
receiving votes in the rankings. And Iowa State was favored
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in this game and it switched to Cincinnati favored. You
don't see that too often. There's a reason Cincinnati's favored
at home in this game. And I'll lay the one
and a half.
Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Okay, I'm going to go to the NFL. It's one
of the games that Paul mentioned, and I'm getting over
my version of laying a lot of points. It's the
Detroit Cincinnati game. The Lions on the road are favored
by ten. Picking double digit road favorites used to be
way back in the day. A really dumb thing to do.
It get throw week one out. The Lions are spectacular
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if you ignore Week one, where they look just terrible
against Green Bay since then, they've been spectacular and Cincinnati
is an absolute mess. Paul. Whether Mike mentioned the Ravens
without Lamar Jackson, it's the same thing Cincinnati without Joe
Burrow and he's out for months. They have no offense
without him. They scored only three points last week. I
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just Detroit is scoring again. Take Week one out. They're
over thirty points every game. It doesn't matter whose defense
is facing them. Throw the green Bay game out. Detroit's
going to score over thirty and I think they'll throw
a score over thirty against Cincinnati. And with a ten points,
I can't fathom the Bengals scoring twenty. They just seem
to have no offense at all without Burrow, and the
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season seems to be spiraling out of control for them.
So I'm laying all ten on the road with the
with the Detroit Lions. I know you just don't like
laying a lot of points with the NFL, but I
think the spy calls for it.
Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
Yeah. I think San Cincinnati is gonna cash it here soon.
The third offense, like you said, it, is horrible. Last
two weeks against Minnesota and Denver, they've been outscored seventy
six to thirteen in those two games, and now they're
playing an offense that's way better than Minnesota and Denver's offense,
So I don't disagree with that. Another interesting point on
Paul's take taking Kansas City. Remember Cincinnati three weeks ago
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beat Jacksonville at home thirty one to seven, thirty one
to twenty seven, and Burrow went out early in that game,
and they still beat Jacksonville, So that might tell you
Jacksonville is just not where they should be. I don't
disagree with the player. I'm not huge in the land
huge points on the road, but there's no way I'd
take Cincinnati in that game.
Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Yeah, I do think that the numbers on it are
no longer as terrible as they used to be, and
there isn't as much parody, and that there's just more
really bad teams and really good teams now in the
NFL than there was in the past. So I'm willing
to lay you agree you were going to I assume
you were going to take Detroit when you were mentioning
asking about that game as well. Yeah, well you kind
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of regret not to. You just think, for all of
a sudden, you're into this impression that I've got things
figured out this season, and I just had Whenever you
start thinking that way, that means it's about to crash
to an end. Anyway, We'll talk to Mike again next week.
We always do our football preview on the podcast that
we release on Thursday. ASA wins dot com is where
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you can find their website Talk to you Soon.
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