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I have one of those big topics that I want
to do on today's program. Back in the days of
my old radio show, it was one of those topics
that I'm got to go on for ninety minutes about. Well,
I'm not going to go on for about ninety minutes
here because this one's more isolated into one area and
we can cover it. But it's a topic that needs
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to be addressed, and it's one that hardly anybody ever
focuses on. Before we get to that one, however, we're
going to deal with the big story of the day,
and that is there's a deal. There's a piece deal
between Israel and Amas over Gaza. This seems impossible and
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nobody will know if it holds. And you know, we
don't know if any peace steel holds. You know, some
peace steal that was struck one hundred and fifty years
ago could fall apart in ten years. Does that mean
that it didn't hold? But there is a peace steel
now and Israel is leaving Gaza and both sides are
going to send all of their hostages back. Apparently one
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hold up, as Hamas said, well, some of the hostages
we don't control, somebody else may have them. So I
do want to dive into this story and also explore
how Trump, who I think seems to be almost solely
responsible for this, pulled it off. First, when it comes
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the Trump piece deal that Israel had earlier agreed to. Essentially,
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it means the war is over. Israel has to withdraw
all troops from Gaza. There'll be no Israeli presence left,
which is how it was prior to October seventh of
two years ago. For all these people say, well, it's
occupied here, it's not occupied territory. There were no Israel,
there is no There were no Israelis in Gaza. Gaza
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was controlled by the Gazans who chose to elect idiotically
twenty years ago the savages from Hamas to be their government.
Israeliefs Hamas agrees no more of this going into Israel
and killing people. The hostages that have been held are
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going to finally be released, including some prisoners that Israel
has old who go back to Gaza. Now, first of all,
one of the reasons that this is happening is Israel
kicked Hamas's ass. Israel is willing to agree to this
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after Hamas started a war two years ago, because Israel
realizes that it is dismantled a huge part of Hamas.
On the other hand, Hamas never surrendered, and Trump's Trump,
I think of trying to broker a deal here, realize
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the one thing that he wouldn't get is what, in
my opinion, you almost always need to end a war.
Somebody has to surrender and say we lose. Hamas isn't surrendering,
but what's left of Hamas, their tunnels appear to be
totally destroyed. Their weaponry appears to be almost non existent,
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the communication structure is in shamples. So from the perspective
of Israel, they have weakened the Hamas threat, and they
can hope that the residents of Gaza, whatever power they
have left, aren't going to tolerate this crap from Hamas anymore,
going off of instead of taking care of Gaza, worrying
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about Israel the other component of this, It's just clear
the entire rest of the Middle East is tired of
Hamas and is tired of Iran. First of all, Iran's
got its own price. We blew up their nuclear facilities.
How much effort does Iran want to spend in continuing
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to send hundreds of millions to Hamas over there in Gaza.
So Hamas is lost. It's sugar Daddy, the Russians. Putin's
got his own problems right now. So from the perspective
of the rest of the Middle East, they're tired of
the whole Hamas thing. And second lay they realize that
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Trump is willing to work with everyone in the Middle East,
whether it be Saudi Arabia finally defanging Qatar. The rest
of the Middle East is realizing the only thing that's
stopping them full participation in the entire global economy is
they've been tied to hesbal On Hamas. What Trump brings
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to the table on these things always is fresh eyes.
You've had all these people on the left free Gaza, free, Gaza, free,
Gaza free guys is if that has anything to do
with anything. The problem is is that Hamasque keeps attacking
Israeli's and Israel is not gonna put up with it
and say is gonna fight back? And you'd never war
every single time it happens. How do you achieve a piece?
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What you've had, unfortunately here in the West is people
that are on each of these sides that they don't
seem to want peace. It certainly seems to me that
the people of Gaza have never wanted peace. If they did,
they would have left well enough alone and not gone
in and invaded Israel two years ago. To understand, you know,
Trump is a developer and he understands real estate. You
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can't have better location than Gaza. It's on the It's
first of all, it's a strip. That's its name, the
Gaza Strip. Whenever you hear the word strip. It's almost
always a fantastic piece of line because strips are usually
on the water. It could have been anything. In addition
to that, they're getting all this international aid pouring in
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billions instead of using that to do what the Saudis
are doing, or what Dubai did, and try to turn
yourself into an international business deck and destination and a
tourism destination. They spent all this money to buy bombs
that build all these damn tunnels and so on, and
the people of Gaza were evidently too stupid to put
up with it. In the meantime, convincing themselves that Israel's
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some sort of Satan, even though Israel did not occupy Gaza.
This is not the West Bank, where you've got Jews
that are in Jerusalem, and you've got Christians in Jerusalem
and Muslims Jerusalem. Gaza was just cousins. So Trump looked
at this at fresh eyes. Nobody else in the rest
of the Middle East gives a rat's rear end about Hamas.
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Hamas is essentially beaten. They all, however, want to have
a good relationship with the United States for reasons that
are obvious. So Hamas gets orphaned. In the meantime, you've
got Net and Yahoo I think wanted to plaster and
flat and every last piece of gazza was left, and
Trump felt that that was a bridge too far. Now
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people don't have to say Trump's just doing this so
he wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Well maybe he is
hoping to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He's not going
to get the Nobel Peace Prize. They're handing out Nobel
Prizes this week. They're not going to give it to him.
Just the Nobel Committee is lefties. It doesn't Trump could
solve peace on the entire planet and they wouldn't give
it to him. More importantly, has he accomplished something that
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eliminates a major problem in the world and saves people's
lives and allows the Israelis to live in peace. They
still have their concerns about dealing with Hesbela, the other
terrorist organization, the one that has greater control in the
West Bank. But what he has achieved here, this is
as close as we've come, I think to what Sadat
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and beg And did when Israel in Egypt established the
piece four decades ago that has pretty much held. One
other point on this. Almost nobody picks up on the
role of Egypt in this. Almost nobody. But you know what, Paul,
I'm smarter than everybody else. Well I am, I've picked
up on it. Oh, they kept talking about the Gazza.
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You know, the people of Gaza have nowhere to go.
They can't go into Israel. They aren't wanted there. They
have to leave Gaza because Gaza's flattened. Whoa Gaza is
not surrounded by Israel to the south of Gaza as Egypt.
Egypt doesn't want one damn Gazan to come into that country.
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Nobody wants the Palestinians because no matter who it is,
it's dealing not just Israel. The Palestinians have always been
nothing but trouble. And that's because Palestinians, for whatever reason,
keep gravitating towards terror groups. Do you think Egypt wants
any part of Hamas sitting in Egypt. No, So there
was pressure on the Egyptians here by the Egyptians telling
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the people of Gaza you can't come in. The people
of Gaza had nowhere to turn, and I think Hamas
ran the risk of losing the support of the people
of God, which they should have lost already had they
not accepted a cease fire that will now probably include
international aid that allows the rebuilding of Gaza, with strict
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guarantees that none of that aid is used to militarily
support Gaza. The question will be when do they have
elections in Gaza and the people of Gaza having an
opportunity to prove that they're not monsters by actually choosing
a government that isn't Hamas. Sorry, next story, say one
of those big topics that I like to talk about.
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I'm developing a term here. I don't think I've invented it,
mission drift. It's a problem with organizations on the right.
Just about every nonprofit that we have in the United
State leftist. It's just amazing you find like a board
that runs a museum, or a board that runs this,
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or a board that they're almost all leftists. Organizations that
handog grants, it's usual a leftist money. When you do
get organizations, however, that are on the right and are
established initially by donors to do this thing here. All
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the lefties are doing this over here, We're going to
do this on the right over here. What often happens
is what I'll describe as drift in which they're conservative
for the longest time, and then they start to drift
a little bit toward the middle. And if that drift
isn't nipped in the bud, the organization stops being conservative
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at all. Now, before I get into the specific case
that brings this up, because my concern is whether or
not will Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty is seeing
mission drift and drifting off into this vast little middle
so that they can pose for holy pictures with a
bunch of lefties. And no, you're not maga, You're not this.
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I'm not saying they are, but I have the concert.
First of all, let's discuss why it happens. Nonprofits are
funded by donors. The donors usually believe in the cause,
and out of the donors comes to board of directors.
The board of directors usually consist of a fair number
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of high muckety MUCKs, some of whom are big donors themselves,
and then they hire a staff. This is the problem
people who go into the It's the same thing. If
you know, you see Barry Weis is going to try
now to turn CBS News abroad. As I've said, the
problem she's going to have. How do you staff up
a news organization that's not filled with lefties when everybody
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who goes into the news business is a lefty who
goes to work in the nonprofit world lefties. So how
do you run a conservative nonprofit and who do you hire?
There are conservatives, but there aren't many of them, and
there cans to be this drift. It's just the problem.
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One of the examples of this that's a lost cause
is the Badger Institute. I've been ragging on them for
some time. They just they're focusing on some like some
libertarian fiscal issues and some of the crap that came
that leaked out of the brains of the Koch brothers
and all of that. They got some of that, and
there's some conservatism that's in there. They're good on school
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choice and a few other things. But by and large,
they don't have any particular focus on anything that actual
conservative Americans care about. And that's because many of these
people don't live the lives that most conservative Americans live.
Most conservative Americans right now are somewhere between upper middle
class to middle class to working class and a cross
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racial lines. You're seeing a significant chunk of the conservatives
being young people who've had their eyes opened by Charlie
Kirk's groups and so on. But there's a huge, real
element in American politics. But these people who run these
organizations are often people who live in River Hills and
Mechwan and don't have much in common with these people.
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And it's one of the reasons why the things that
they focus on are not the things that actual conservative
Americans focus on, like, for example, crime. So I've described
part of the problem is that the boards of directors
are not often in touch with the conservative issues that
are priority to the overwhelming majority of American conservatives. And
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then the staff if you don't ride herd on the
staff or I have people who want me to start
swearing on the podcast, because everybody who does a podcast swears.
I can't bring myself to do it. But I've worked
my way into certain words that I've used in the past,
including on the radio, for instance, instead of saying and
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I'll say right ass, you've got to right ass on
the staff. This is just a huge problem in Madison.
Do you know what the problem with the legislature and
Republican legislature in Wisconsin is Paul. The staff again, some
are great, some aren't. They all live in Madison. You
begin to see the problem there. The same thing is
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true with regard to organizations like this. The board of directors,
the instant that they see some of this staff starting
to drift, you need to either fire them or tell
them stop. And in some cases, some of these boards
of directors are people who kind of think they're conservative,
but you know, are not. The last name Hammus would
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come to mind of people who think that they're conservative
but are not, who support concerns to candidates and conservative
causes and then write out huge checks to butcher shops
like Children's Hospital that tries to turn boys into girls
and girls into boys, and roid ragees young people to
death by filling them with all sorts of hormones and
then wondering why they turn into be violent sociopaths. But
that's an aside. My asides are often more interesting than
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my points. Mission Drift, Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty
is an organization that was developed a number of years ago.
It's fronted by Rick Eisenberg. It's been an organization that
focuses on issues of the law. Basically, the file lawsuits
or threatened to file lawsuits on behalf of individuals who
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are being trampled upon by leftists, and they've been vital
because there's nobody else to do that. There's been a
couple of religious organizations that do religious civil rights and
so on, but otherwise there's nobody out there to do
this work. They've intervened, for example, on behalf of kids
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that have been screwed by the WIA or another's kid
that's been screwed in the school. This direct or some
governmental body that's put in. They take on racial preferences
all over the place that are not allowed under the
law anymore. All of this has been yellman work, and
reme'm denying that. But the very very fact that will
is indispensable is my point here. If it's indispensable, we
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can't let it drift. If you've got a car that
you really really love and it's starting to break, got
a couple of prime, you got to address that problem.
If you've got an old beater that's got a couple,
you can let that go because there's ninety seven thousand
other problems. Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty is filing
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a lawsuit aimed at stopping a provision of the Wisconsin
state budget bill. I'm going to give you the backstory
here briefly, because the backstory isn't really my point. My
larger point is the mission drift. In order to get
the budget pass. You may recall that you had to
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cut a yeal between the Republicans and Evers and the Democrats,
where Evers agreed not to veto a huge segment of
the budget in exchange for the Republicans giving them a
few things in another area. This it's a compromise budget.
One of the things that the Republicans have wanted is
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a greater focus on crime in Wisconsin. The Democrats couldn't
care less about crime in Wisconsin. As we know. One
of the complaints that's been uttered over the years from
the district attorneys in Milwaukee and Waukeshaw County is their
short staffed. Now, as you know, I generally don't buy
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it when public officials say they're short staffed. I bought this.
In Milwaukee County, crimes exploded. Whether or not the DA's
office is aggressive enough in dealing with it is part
of the problem. But certainly crimes exploded, and it's exploded
in Waukeshaw County in part because of the bleedover from
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Milwaukee County and also because of all the crime that
can be attributed to the drug explosion that got fueled
when Joe Biden stopped enforcing the border. There's simply aren't
enough employees in these offices. And one of the things
that's happened as a result is the path of least
resistance for prosecutors is to cut plea deals or simply
dismiss charges, because the alternative is to have a case
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drag out for three or four years because defense attorneys
keep filing delay motions on the prosecutors have eighty or
five other cases on their table and so on. So
part of the deal was we agreed to let Milwaukee
County raise it. There's a two part deal. Some of
this did not haul out. At the same time. Milwaukee
County got to raise its sales taxi City of Milwaukee
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got to raise sales tax More money got into Milwaukee.
But then we're limits as to what Milwaukee could do
with their money, and then there were things they were
told they had to do. One of the things that
was done is Milwaukee in getting more money was when
I say Milwaukee now me in the county. They had
to hire more district attorneys, more and more prosecutors. Walkershaw
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County they've wanted more prosecutors. They got some more as well,
the Milwaukee County prosecutors. The funding for that was crafted
by the term here is a car vote. This issue
is a little complicated, and I don't want to go
into an incredible depth, but you may notice that the
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state Patrol doesn't patrol the freeways in Milwaukee County. Occasionally
live be a trooper in there, but it's the only
county in the state where it's the sheriff's department that
has primary responsibility. Most of the counties you'll see both.
And then there's a question of where the revenue for
fines goes. It's convoluted. What this did is takes some
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of the money that Milwaukee County kicks into a school
fund and a library fund and use it instead to
fund prosecutors. All right, now, I'm a conservative, Where would
I rather see Milwaukee County find money go in to
the bloated massive public school fund and worse, the leftist
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library fund over built libraries all over the state of Wisconsin.
Only employing lefties or hire some prosecutors. I know where
I'd rather have it go right. Well, that was the deal.
It was one of the wins for conservatives. Milwaukee got
more money, but it has to use it actually in
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an area that might do some good. Wisconsin Institute of
Law and Liberty has filed a lawsuit challenging this provision.
Remember they claim to be conservative. They say state law
doesn't allow you to divert the money from this school
and library fund. Well, let's suppose it doesn't. There are
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probably ninety seven zillion things out there on which governments
in Wisconsin are not following the letter of the law.
Why are they focusing on this? The Wisconsin Election Commission
has not cleaned up the voter rolls in the state
of Wisconsin an agent. But there's a million things I
could have that focus on. Out of all the things
in the state budget, why are they going after the
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thing that deals with fighting crime? And I'll give you
the answer in my opinion of that, the boards of
directors of these institutions don't care about crime because they
all live in river hills in Mechwan and so on.
And the staff is these high minded people who got
all their You look kind of the John Roberts mentality.
The response I've gotten from Ricky's in to my original
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complain on this is that the rule of law matters
to us is if it done to me? Okay, it does.
But again, you got to take your shots in this world, right.
Why this is a priority out of all the money
that we spend in the state of Wisconsin to advance leftyism,
Why are you targeting some money that actually addresses any
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a real problem. You see my point? In other words,
why this Your kid is doing eighty seven things wrong,
and you ignore the eighty seven really really bad things
and you go after maybe one thing that isn't such
a bad thing to you. Why that? And again my
concern is mission drift. We do not have a single
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other than maybe Mackaiver conservative as advocacy group in Wisconsin
that deals with crime. Badger institutes on the wrong side.
They're soft on crime. I've not ever seen Wisconsin Institute
of Law and Liberty much address the issue of crime
at all. But crime is a vital interest to a
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huge percentage of the conservative voters of the state of Wisconsin.
I sent an email I did not get a response
is of the time of this podcast through Rick Eysenberg,
head of Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty. We had
a back and forth over the original issue. But my
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bigger concern here is just this mission drift, that if
you're not going to represent conservative values, are you straying
away from really the point of your existence. And again
I'm not bothering sending these anymore to the Badger Institute
because they're a lost cause. I'm trying not to let Will,
which is an outstanding organization drift. Now a quick point
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on this, This point is huge, so everybody pay attention
to it. That includes like a weasly little produce are
like you in there. Yes, there is never any pressure
from the right on right wing groups the state of
the right. The pressure overwhelmingly is always to the left.
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It's like the politicians to go to Madison. All the
pressure from the lobbyists, the media, the staff is all
from the left. Only me and maybe a few other
talk shows push back from the right. So I need
to give you this pushback, So leave Will alone. Somebody's
got to push back on the right because of this
relentless pressure that comes to the left. I sent him
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this which pretty much summarizes what I said, but I
want to lay out the thought Rick. On my podcast today,
I will be addressing the back and forth we have
had over the lawsuit over the punding of New Milwaukee
County eighty eights. While the specific issue will be part
of my comments, the larger point I we'll be raising
deals with my long standing contention that virtually all conservative
nonprofit advocacy groups drift left and that virtually none of
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them ever focus on issues of concern to actual conservative vote.
I have been on this point for ten years and
have had many discussions with Rick Braber that's the Bradley Foundation,
which funds conservative groups, about it and whether Bradley should
continue to fund groups that do not hold conservative views
on much of anything. The poster child for this is
the Badger Institute for Middle and Working Class People, which
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is the vast majority of the current Republican voter base.
The issue of crime and softness on it is a
huge issue, and for many the biggest issue. It is, however,
almost never an issue for most conservative advocacy groups, whose
boards of directors tend to be donors, corporate dilettants and staff.
These people tend to live in very low crime areas.
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Issues like low or cashless bail, soft sentencing, offenders free
after twenty or so, twenty to thirty convictions, etc. Rarely
resonate with these groups, even though they are vital to
most American conservatives. The problem I have with your lawsuit
against legislation pushed for by conservatives and negotiated with a
reluctant Tony Evers to hire more prosecutors in Milwaukee and
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Waukeshaw Counties is one of priorities. This is what you
focus on, whether sincere or not. Both former DHSM and
current DA Lovern have confided to me that the gross
understaffing of their offices necessitates the lads that often stretch
for years in cases and require negotiated plea deals or
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case dismissals. Former Waukeshaw DA Seuwhopper made the same point
repeatedly to me. So finally the issue gets addressed and
some nitpicking public interest law firm is crabbing because the
funding is supposed to go to a fund that bank
rolls blooded public schools and overbuilt library systems. Both are
hellholes of liberal and doctrination that will finds this a
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priority is troubling to me and is an indication of
the mission drift that plagues so many conservative groups. In
the last two years, Republican lawmakers have made numeros compromises
with Milwaukee Democrats. The gist of these is, we will
give you more money, but you have to use some
of it on crime fighting. If WILL gets its way,
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they will have the money and none of it will
be spent on crime fighting. If you respond, I will
share it, but please don't use that tired old rule
of law tripe. The rule of law is trampled on
daily in our country. And the question here is which
instances are worth objecting to. If the ACLU or WEAC
had brought this lawsuit, I would not have been surprised.
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Isn't WILL supposed to be a counter to all these
well funded leftist legal interest groups. If not, what is
WILL for? Is will for conservative Americans? Or is it
for something or someone else? Again, I have not gotten
a response, but again, I send it this morning. We
tape in the early afternoon. If there is a response
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that he wants to share, I'll follow up on a
podcast next week. So that's my concern over this whole area.
Of mission drift of organizations that are set up. I'm
the right. I have this concern now about Turning Point.
The reason Turning Point didn't have mission drift is Turning
Point was run by Charlie Kirk. There's no drift in
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the guy. But now as we see internal fights, power
scrabbles and so on and avoid in leadership, there's only
so much Erica as Widow is taking over can do
those chapters all over the country. Is it going to drift?
It happens to almost every conservative organization, some of these
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big foundations that we have at the national level that
now you know, the Ford Foundation, all the Carnegie the
Fund leftist stuff they started conservative Carnig give was a
steal guy, big fat cat corporate titans start these foundations
and over off on one hundred years they become essentially
Marxist funding organizations. It's just this is this issue of
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drift is a big one. Now. One of the things
that I've do talked about and taking on projects that
I can talk to deal with before I croak, is
to actually get WILL is not a think tank. WILL
is a legal organization. They file lawsuits and defend rights
and so on. A think tank, a conservative thing tak
to advance these ideas, because we don't have one in Wisconsin.
We have Badger Institute that's not conservative. Badger Institute worries
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about we should make it easier for somebody to get
a plumber's license. Someone qualified people come in and fix
your toilet, whether or not somebody knows what they're doing.
That's their like libertarian thing because they got all this
Coke Brothers. I'm a little bit more concerned about the
fact that you've got people who've been arrested thirty nine
times on felonies that are out there. Darrow Brooksing all
over the place. I just throw turned Darrow Brooks into
a verb that means it's time for a break. This
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is the Markedlling podcast. This is the Marked Delling podcast.
I have to do a ps on the issue of
Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty. I pulled their board
of directors here. They're all conservative people. I'm going to
read them to you. Jim Barry, he's big commercial real
estate guy. Conservative, he's not really a suburban type. Michael White,
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he runs Right Height, which is a local corporation. He's
a conservative guy. And then both Michael Greeby's Michael Greeby
and his son have the same name, obviously, Michael Greeby
form head of the Bradley Foundation, big shot at fully
and Lardner the other Michael Greeby, his son. I don't
think it's junior, but they're both Michael. I think a
different middle initials maybe. Anyway, he's the chief legal consul
at right height. Christopher Wolfe, who's a professor at the
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University of Dallas. I don't really owe him. And then
two staffers from the organization. Again, these are all fine people.
I just wish some of these organizations, rather than choose
somebody who's a big time donor, would get an actual conservative,
grats roots advocate. This is one of the in there.
That's one of the things that made Turning Points so strong.
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It was driven from the base. The reason it does
such a better job of political organizing than the Republican
Party of Wisconsin is the Republican Party of Wisconsin sitting
there with fat, lazy old fart sitting on offices in Madison,
whereas Turning Point is out there, going into campus dorms
and organized all right, moving on, Ready to move on, Paul,
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here's a shock. Can you tell that this that this
is sarcastic? In other words, this is it's not going
to be a shock. Here's a shock. The guy who
started the Palisades fires a lefty, who would have thought
they burned down most of southern California. We now have
found out who started the fire. There were two fires.
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The Palisades fire was the second one, but it became
the bigger one. By the way, why are they all
Uber drivers? I mean I think he got it fired
from Uber before then, which I mean. The thing is,
Uber does have standards. They do have standards. You almost
never hear about an Uber driver pulling a gun and robbing.
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It happened. I mean, you consider it's resilient. They have standards.
But part of it is it's not easy work. You
can't have a zillion things going on if you're gonna
do it unless you're just a hard working kind of person.
In some of those are just hard working anyway. So
he's like an Uber driver, it's a California Uber driver,
and he's unhappy and miserable and angry and this that
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and the other thing. And he started to get into
websites and take a look at big fires and so
forth and so on. He's a donor to Act Blue.
Act Blue is one of those groups that gives money
to Democratic candidates. What a surprise that is. So he
starts his fire and burns down all of Liberalville in
southern California. People are saying, well, it's both sides. I
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grant you there are wing nuts on the right. Almost
all of them are on the left. And it's not
just you say did it, it's why? And I'll tell
you why. Almost everybody on the left. This is my observation.
And I'm a good observer. Don't you think I'm a
good observer of social trends? Almost everybody on the left
is a miserable, the unhappy person. And I think that
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they're miserably unhappy because they don't have God in their lives,
which is true of most liberals. So that's an emptiness
and a void. They tend not to be aspirational because
they're miserable and unhappy. They don't like anything good that happens,
because you know, it's like the people who see happiness
on Facebook when they're all alone, they get unhappy. Will
that Well, that's leftists. They're miserably unhappy. They don't want
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to see the United States of America thrive. So they
end up hating the country because they're not happy in it,
and they blame the country the fact that they're miserable.
So they get this alienation and disaffection, and it is
fed by all their media sources and their online sources,
the messages they're getting on TikTok from leftist grooms, the
messages they're getting from the idiots on the view in MSNBC.
It's just drilled and drilled and drilled and drilled and
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drilled into them, and it fuels their unhappiness and their rage.
Add in all the drugs that they're all on that
seem to be backfiring on them, and you get what
you get now of this. Katie Porter. Now, I know
many of you don't know who she is. Even though
you talk about somebody who's gone viral, there's a larger
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issue in Katie Porter. Katie Porter is the front runner
for governor of California. She's a congresswoman. I am fascinated
and I brought this. I brought this up with after
you know, with Kamala California know is about sixty million.
It's hard to say how many they have given, how
many illegals that they are. California is a huge state,
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and it's overwhelmingly democratic, right if you're talking it, there's
a like Rhode Island's overwhelmingly democratic, but it's tiny, so
you know, you gotta get two senators and when you
don't have that many to pick from, you might get
a golf right. In fact, Rhode Island has a golf,
but California it. Every one of these Democrats in California
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is ambitious and wants to get to the top. I'm
fascinated how some of these dopes get there. Newsim's an exception.
New Sims are radical and so on, but he's a
well spoken, glib, articulate guy. Most of them are. Kamala
can't put a sentence together. How'd she leap frog above her?
It isn't just that she bomed Willy Brown, because from
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what I can tell, Willie Brown boings so many women
that did be fifteen thousand of them competing with Kamalo.
Now there's Katie Porter, she's the front runner for governor.
TV station in Los Angeles. They have all the Democrats.
California has a weird way of electing politicians. They don't
have a primary system. Republicans and Democrats all run on
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the same ballot. The top two advance, so and there's
a tiered structure to it and so on. But often
you'll get a general election where the top two candidates
are both Democrats. Usually there's a Republican who will finish,
say second, because there's nine Democrats running, splitting the vote,
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and then in the general election the Democrats. So anyway,
the key to winning the governorship in California is to
get enough Republicans to join your Democrats. See, you get
a plurality of the votes. So the reporter for CBS
in Los Angeles asked them, and she asked them. She
had a script that she asked every one of the
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main contents is the same three orport questions. They're all softballs,
and one of them is how do you expect to
appeal to the forty percent of Californian's voted for Trump.
It's a fair enough question. And in their system out
there where you need to get Democrats and Republicans to
vote for you in order to get to the top
two or win. And they all answered the question. He said,
Kitty porter, why would I need anybody who vote for
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trupted by me. Another reporter said, well, because of our
system here, do you think you're gonna get all sixty
percent of the Democrats? You have to get over sixty
percent in order to have the knockout. Where you're you know,
trying to explain this, and she's barking back at her,
and then she asked another like softball question, and like
ninety seconds in, Katie, I'm done, takes off her microphone.
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The thing that was so weird about it is this
was not a hostile head of view. First of all,
she's a cat, she's a Los Angeles TV reporter. I mean,
she's a lefty herself. She was asking all of them
these softball questions, and Katy port by the way, they're
show it. So they showed this thing and they show
her melt down. They showed the reporter kind of mystified
as to why she's blowing up like this. She's getting
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ripped by everybody out there, including other Democrats, and all
the other Democrats are running against her. Say, we answered
the question. We don't even think it's an unfair question.
She just looked ridiculous. In addition, Megan Kelly's been all
over this is you might guess, Megan Kelly's focusing on,
among other things, her odd fashioned choice. She's like a
big woman, and she's wearing this sleeveless thing, and she's
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she didn't look good in the interview and the whole thing.
And and there's a backstory. It's the same backstory as Kamala.
She apparently is a total bitch. You know, Kamala Harris
had a reputation for going through Stafford's like crazy and
just eviscerating the well. Katy Porter, who's a member of Congress,
has the same reputation. And they are apparently former staffers
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who were on the receiving end of her abuse are
now jumping out and leaking their own stuff. And the
point I'm bringing all of this up is I actually
am surprised that California, which has more Democrats than any
state of the Union, that it doesn't have more, say
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Gavin Newsome types, because they have so many to pick from.
I mean, in Wisconsin, what we tend to get from
Democrats who get to the top is not common. The
types we tend to get empty suit non entities. The
Democrats and Wisconsin are basically a bunch of mediocrities. Tony
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eavers so bland and dull. Nobody outside of Wisconsin ever
heard him. The only introduction is what he was either
drunk or seeneul or whatever, and he couldn't read the
photo of the Democratic Tammy Baldwin, the least consequential member
of the United States Senate. When Moore doesn't do a
damn thing other than vote yes when the Democratic leaders
tell her to a vote know when they tell her
to do that. They generally tend to be non entities.
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But in California, the ones that are rising to at
the very very top appear to be bad at politics.
It's confusing to me, and it's kind of a new phenomenon.
I mean, California Democrats in the past were sort of eclectic,
like Jerry Brown, brilliant guy, a little unusual, but a
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brilliant guy. Or Cranston died in the wool Liberal but
generally people who would develop a national profile because they
are smart people. The only one that could put a
sentence together from California that I noticed anymore, seems to
be Newsome. But otherwise you get like Maxine Waters, I mean,
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Pelosi could put a sentence together. Pelosi's smart, but these others.
How in the world was skaty to the front runner?
If indeed she's this battle axity. Everybody hates her at
this interview that she did here that fell off the rails.
Obviously she must have done other interviews before. And it's
not like, well, of course you're gonna vote for a democract.
She's got to fight through all these other Democrats to
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get herself up to the top. Next, they held a
hearing on this stupid proposal to put in red light
cameras all over the city of Milwaukee. It's being proposed
in the legislature. I'm here to explain why it won't work.
The bill, by the way, is sponsored by, remember the
state legislature from Milwaukee. It's not gonna work for the
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same reason that me or Chevy ripping up all the
streets and putting in the bump of curves isn't gonna work.
It doesn't address the problem. All right, you're right, We've
got lots of people who just run red lights in Milwaukee.
They don't stop. For those of you that are naive
and not understanding of what it's like to live in
urban America, I'm here to wising you all up. You
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know who's gonna stop when there's a red light camera?
You and me, You and me, and I know this.
There's a few of them in Floord, are not many
by Wayzapp even tells me which ones they are. Which
is but you can actually tell you see the little
thing here in Milwaukee, people get used. You'll see those
little things about the trafficking. Those are the sensors that
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tell it when there's no traffic coming, switch over to green.
The cameras, you can see them, they're sitting there. Illinois,
Chicago had them all over the place and they were
just a rebellion. They took them out. You and me.
The people who are driving recklessly aren't going to be
deterred by the red light cameras. Said, why they don't
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pay their fights? We don't in Milwaukee jail, people who
won't play pay traffic fights. They don't pay their fights.
They're gonna keep doing it. They have ninety seven zillion
of these the mill. I keep saying this and it
doesn't sink into people, and people keep forgetting it. I
want you not to forget this. Milwaukee County Jail will
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not accept someone on a traffic ward. So if there's
a warrant for your arrest for unpaid fines, the jail
in Milwaukee rejects you because it's full. They have to
keep enough space for more serious criminals. So if you're
somebody that has a zillion traffic warrants, there's no reason
unless you're like a responsible citizen for whom there are
consequences for not doing these things. Here's what will work.
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Should I explain what will work? Will you laugh? You
don't like you think I'm making this? See well, I
understand I am sometimes sarcastic. This isn't they do this
in some states. We don't do it in Milwaukee. Everyone.
The one thing you do they do do when you
don't pay your fines is they take away your driver's license.
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So we have a combination in Milwaukee. If people who've
never had a driver's license and people who are you
the suspended are revoked. If you are pulled over and
you don't have a driver's license, you tow the car, Paul.
That will work. Now, I know that some of you
who've never had your cars to would have no clue
as to why this will work. Do you know why
this will work? You gotta pay fortune to get it
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out of the toll lot. You get told once that
car might be gone. Secondly, if the vehicle is not registered,
which zillions of them are not because they don't pay
the registration fee, or they were suspended because of the
non payment, you told the vehicle. If we passed the
law that everybody who was caught driving without a license,
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or they're an unregistered vehicle who was pulled over by
the police for any reason, or if there's a warrant
on them for unpaid fines, had their vehicles told, this
would fix most of this problem. It doesn't fix the
problem of the young people that are stealing cars and
joy riding and running through the red lights. But all
the others no car, they can't do it. Why don't
you just ask me to solve these problems? Well, am
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I not right? Do you think this would work? Well,
of course it would work. One story here to share
with you. Earlier in the week, I was discussing this
issue of the Milwaukeeans who do not have flood insurance
who are now facing massive bills after the flood that
we had, and I explained the problem with flood insurance.
Flood insurance actually is not a smart thing to buy.
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The only reason you buy it is what you end
up doing is you overpay for something you're hardly ever
gonna need along the lines that well, maybe you will
need it. And if you don't live in a flood
plain money, you're gonna flood when you have a storm
like we had on the south side of then those
people got flooded. I was contacted by an insurance agent
who I won't name him here, but he gave me
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the numbers, and he points out that almost nobody it
has a homeowners policy with his agency has flood insurance.
But after August, he's got a chart here, the request
for information on flood insurance exploded. He's got a zero
to thirty six chart and it went from like one
one on one to thirty six in August. And then
when we're picked out, however, he pointed in why did
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that happen? All these people, you know, saw the impact
of the people that got damaged by the flood and
the askt of a flood insurance, he said, almost none
of them actually bought the flood insurance. The flood insurance
can run anywhere from five hundred and twenty five hundred
dollars a year. Well, that's a lot of money on
the rare chance that you're going to have a flood
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in your basement. And most people don't buy it because
you know, the insurance companies that sell this stuff, obviously
they're making a killing off, but they take a big
hit when they have to make payouts on this. But
they usually one to pay out a fortune and flooding
because most people don't buy the flood insurance. So I
have an insurance agent came who said, it's exactly the
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problem flood and the reason flood insurance is so extremely
high is when the insurance companies pay it's offen a
massive big check that's out there, but they would just
as soon not deal with it, so they charge a
high premium forward and so on. And of course the
rates are higher if you live in a floodplain, so
the people who have tend to buy flood insurance if
people who live in a flood playing, because there's a
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risk for flooding that goes on. If you don't live
in a flood playing, you think, well, what are the chances, Well, really,
the only chance is going to be if you get
a storm so badly that your some pup can't keep
up like the one that we just had. And we
got twelve to fourteen inches of rain, and I ask
you if you had flood insurance? You said no? Is
that still the answer? You don't know it? It would
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be kind of funny now if you, like, three days
after that, got a flood or something. I would find
that in music. I don't think I would have any
sympathy because I think that it would be an interesting
topic and I'd rather have an interesting topic and Peel,
I mean, I'd feel a little bad for you. Sure
quickly get over. This is the Mark Belling Podcast Football Preview.
Coming up next, It's time for the Mark Belling Weekly
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Football Preview and some point spread picks, and we're joined
as always by Mike murletta of American sports analysts in Madison.
Their website is a sa win ones dot com. We're
getting into the guts of the football season. Almost all
the college teams are now moving into conference play. NFL
games have started to get important. What would you like
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to share about anything going on this weekend?
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Mike at asa, I think what we're gonna do, Marcus,
we'll decide later today and they can check our website tomorrow.
I think we'll have a discounted weekend package all of
our football plays between Friday and Monday, and we may
throw in baseball to our base I don't do baseball,
but our baseball run has been insane, where since the
end of July, we have a record in baseball of
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fifty three and twenty three since the end of July. Wow,
So we may throw something.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
You know, one of these guys that's picking these minus
three twenty five favorites.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Right, No, no, no, no, no, no, nope, no small favorites
and underdogs and totals. Well, I have.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
A sacred never play a team in baseball over minus
one forty. I have no idea if the math holds
up on that or not. But I mean, you just
have to win so many games to make up for
one loss. Anyway, as long as you're here, we're doing
the podcast early in the afternoon on Thursday, before the
Brewers play. Do you have any sense on the remainder
of the Brewers Cubs game? Where As you said, you're
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not the baseball guy over at the company, and you
don't really have anything better to offer than the rest
of us.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
Yeah, I don't. I don't do the baseball for US.
I follow the Brewers obviously, and uh, you know the line.
The line was around even when they didn't know who
was pitching. And now it looks like since Parolta's been
thrown up there, it looks like they're minus one twenty. Yeah,
the Brewers are the better team. They're the better team.
I think they'll win in the long run here and
hopefully they ended today.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Well. The problem is is that now that Quinn Priester stunk,
the Brewers have one starting pitcher. They just they won.
It's Freddy Peralta. And I'm a nervous nelly about the
whole thing, but I think that that first inning last
night against the Cubs was just a disaster. They don't
have that inning, they win the game, and Freddie Parolta
pitch's game one of the championship series. The pitching's totally
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set up. Now, best case scenario, they survive and they
had to use up Freddy. Anyway, let's talk about football.
Enough about baseball, let's first turn our attention to college football.
Once I found myself talking about Indiana every week. But
one of the feature games this week, which I think
is really interesting is Indiana, which continues to look like
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a powerhouse in the Big Ten, either winning big or
winning by just enough. And they face Oregon, who might
be one of the best teams in the country. They
started this skid that Penn State had. They're both unbeaten.
The game is out there in Oregon. Oregon's a pretty
hefty favorite. Really hard to evalue it. I think how
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good both of these teams are. Is this the week
that Indiana gets its come up and said is blown
out of the stadium? Or do they make another statement here?
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Well? The line the line move is interesting because it
open Oregon nine and a half and it's down to seven.
So those are guys that bet money for a living
that move that quickly down to seven. I don't know
necessarily agree or disagree with it. The East to West thing,
Let's talk about something first before I get to the
East to the West Big Ten. Both these teams are
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a lead on both sides of the ball. If you
look at their numbers so far this season, there's eighteen
teams in college that average at least seven yards per play,
and there's twenty two defenses that allow four and a
half yards per play or less, there's five that do both,
and these are two of the five, along with Ohio
State Old Dominion in Texas Deck, so two very good teams.
The east to West thing would worry me a little bit.
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Since the start of last season, teams going from the
Midwest or the East to play in the West Coast
are four and fourteen straight up and five twelve and one.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Again, No, I never would have thought that. I know,
it's hard to go the other way, time zone and
all of that stuff, but you know, and West Coast
isn't all the same. You know, you go to play UCLA,
you're at an empty stadium. You go to play Oregon
and you're in a rock as packed home field stadium.
I never would have not thought it would have been
that drastic. There's probably no reason for it other than
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home field advantage, but it's obviously something to take into consideration.
And now that the Big Ten stretches from coast to coast,
it's probably something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
I guess, yeah, definitely. I ran those numbers yesterday and
I was a little shocked too, not only straight up
but against the spread too, only five twelve and one.
Oregon's won forty one of the last forty two home games.
They're tough to beat there. And just Signetty, the head
coach of Indiana, put what he's done in perspective quick
He's sixteen and two at Indiana. Before he came the
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previous four years they won fifteen games total in four
years and he's sixteen and two there, so he's turned
them around quick well.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
And Lanning, the coach of Oria. You might have the
two best coaches at all of college college football in
this game. Dan Lanning at Oregon is just you know,
that's always been a good offensive program. He ran the
defense at Georgia and now they're just good on both
sides of the ball. Another really interesting game, Wisconsin plays Iowa.
The game is in Madison on Saturday. This is probably
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Wisconsin's best chance for a win. Iowa was a very
good team, but as usual with their offense, isn't that good.
Wisconsin has no offense, but their defense has looked better
and better. I believe Iowa is favored by three or
three and a half, which is the smallest side in
Wisconsin seine in a couple of weeks. Do the Badgers
have a chance to win this game? And do they
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have any kind of an offense, given that they appeared
to now be committed for maybe the rest of the
season to Hudter Simmons, the third stringer transfer from Southern Illinois,
as their quarterback.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Well, don't expect much offense in this game. Obviously. This
is the lowest total of the season in college football,
right around thirty five points, so it hadn't been anything
lower this season. Both offenses are poor. I mean, they
both rank in the bottom twenty in yards per game,
yards for play, all that kind of stuff. Wisconsin's dead
last in scoring in the Big Ten. Wisconsin struggled offensively
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this year, and now they play a really good defense
that's had their number the last two years. And to
put it in perspective, mark the last two seasons against Iowa.
Wisconsin's had twenty five offensive possessions and scored one touchdown
in the last two seasons against Iowa. They need to
find some offense somehow. I think they'll slow Iowa down.
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But you know, Iowa might get to thirteen points and
win this game. They might not have to get to
more than that. I don't know if Wisconsin's going to
score more than a couple of touchdowns even if they
get to that. The one thing Wisconsin has I don't
want to say has going for them, but this is
the one game they focused on the offseason, the number
one game they focused on after losing forty two to
ten and giving up over three hundred yards rushing last year.
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A lot of Iowa talk, forty two pushups after practice
for the Iowa game, all that kind of stuff. So
they're really focused on that game. Are they good enough
to make it matter? I don't, And they have to.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
Do it with a third string quarterback, and just third Yeah,
who's looked better I think than the second string quarterback.
But neither of them approached for Billy Edwards, who I
think he's out for the season. They're not committing to that,
but I don't see any particular sign that magically he's
going to have a good knee. Again, let's turn our
attention to the NFL and start with the Packers game.
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The Packers Bengals game the middle of this week got
a lot more interesting than it did before. The Bengals
now have a new quarterback. Their star quarterback, Joe Burrow
is out for many more weeks. They traded to Cleveland
for Joe Flacco, who is about eighty six years old,
but isn't bad. He not good, but he isn't bad
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the Packers. Yeah, poll points out. He already beat the Packers.
He's got an opportunity to beat the Packers twice with
different teams before the middle of the before the middle
of October. Very very interesting game. First of all, is
Flacco going to start just after a couple of practices
and your thoughts on the Packers and the Bengals in
green Bay?
Speaker 3 (55:53):
Yeah, it sounds like he's going to start, which is
you know, I don't know if that's good for green
Bay or bad for green Bay.
Speaker 2 (56:00):
First of all, Browning, Jake Browning was terrible for Cincinnati.
I mean, they had no offense at all after Burrow.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
Had done no. They've scored thirty seven total points in
the last three games, so they can't score. Can Flacco
come in one week and beat a savior there? I
don't know. I mean he's thirty first out of thirty
two starting quarterbacks and QBR, ahead of only cam Ward
of the Titans. He hasn't been great, and as Paul said,
he beat green Bay already, but he beat green Bay
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by because the defense.
Speaker 2 (56:27):
Yeah, Cleveland's defense beat Green Bay. Joe Flacco didn't do
anything to beat to beat Green Bay. And if the
Packers lose, it's going to have to be the same thing.
I think for Cincinnati's defense beats Green Bay and that's.
Speaker 3 (56:40):
Not gonna happen. I'm in their defense ranks twenty fifth
or lower in scoring, total yards, pretty much everything. And
if you take up Cincinnati's first game against Cleveland, where
they held a bad offense to sixteen points, they've allowed
thirty five points per game from that point on. You know,
I just don't think they can stay in this game.
There's a reason Green Bay's favored by fourteen points. One
of the Packer.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
The Packers need to kill somebody. They need to get
their mojo back, and it's off the by, it's in Lambeau,
Cincinnati is you know, it's everything points and if Green
Bay doesn't win big, there's reasons to be really concerned
about what the Packers are. Like a lot of other
interesting games in the NFL, I mean, you've got Detroit
playing Kansas City and so on. The one I cherry
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picked out though, is the Seahawks and the Jaguars. They're
both having very good seasons, and I think it's fair
to say that not many people expected either of them
to have very good seasons. In both cases, however, there's
just a sense that it's a mirage. I mean, I
have no clue as to how Jacksonville beat Kansas City
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last week, but they beat Kansas City last week. I mean,
they're all gained by eighteen zillion yards. They had to
score on a remarkable touchdown run by Trevor Lawrence, whose
quarterback stats are not any good at all. Seattle, they're
in a really, really tough division. They look to me
like maybe they were the worst team in that division,
but they're not. Another two of them faced one another.
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Give me your thoughts on the Seahawks and the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (58:07):
Yeah, Seattle's off a tough wall. We were on Seattle
last week at home against Tampa They lost that game.
They averaged eight point six yards per play on offense
in that game. But their defense, who had been really good,
was not good last week against Tampa Bay. And and
on a side, no Tampa Bay one on the last
second field goal. Again, Tampa Bay has got four wins
this year have all come in the last minute, and
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three of their last three other four wins have come
in the final six seconds of the game.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
So the weird thing about Tampa Bay is every week
the points spread in their game it's three three, they're
favored by three or dog by three. It's always three,
and sometimes the infrontal the three and a half.
Speaker 3 (58:42):
Anyway, Yeah, that's because they win on the last play.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
Of the game, I guess.
Speaker 3 (58:46):
So neither team's in great situation. Obviously, Seattle's longest travel
you can probably make. But Jacksonville off Monday night and
you mentioned they got out game four hundred and seventy
six to three nineteen Jacksonville doing it.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
We'll took the chiefs of that game, and it was
just it was Kansas City played better. In fact, Kansas
City's another hard read in the Detroit Kansas City game
this weekend, which we don't have time to get to.
Really really tough call as well, because Kansas City is
usually they're worse than their record. This year they're better.
They're better than the record. Anyway, finish off your thought
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of Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (59:21):
Mike, Yeah, Jacksonville's winning because of the turnover margin. We
know how important that is in the NFL. They're plus
eight turnovers. They got fourteen takeaways, which is four more
than anyone else in the NFL. And last week they
won by three points despite a ninety nine yard interception return.
That's a fourteen point swing and they still had to
score in the last few seconds to win that game.
They shouldn't have won that game, Paul, that was a tough,
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tough loss there. You know, if they can keep creating turnovers,
they're going to keep winning. That's just the way it is.
I don't think Jacksonville's as good as their record.
Speaker 2 (59:52):
There's a lot of teams that are as good as
their record this year, and there's a lot of teams
that seem better than their records. But nineteen million coaches
have said, your record is your record, all right, speaking
of records, I'm having a very good year with my
picks here, and nobody else said. This program seems to be.
Paul was the only losey last week with that aforementioned
lost to Jacksonville. Took the Chiefs to win by four
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or more. Mike got off the Schneider had a very
good pick. Cincinnati. That's college Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati. They
beat Iowa State. They were favored by one and a half,
and I think that it was an eight point game
and kind of dominated them. Cincinnati is one of those
kind of under the radar teams in college football that
appears to be pretty good, and I had to win
as well. I'm now five and one. I'm going to
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keep going out about five on one, because Paul, after
this week, I'm going to be five and two. I
could not find a game that I liked. I just
could not. Anyway. I took the Lions to beat the
Bengals by more than ten, and it was only thirteen,
but a little misleading there. They were up twenty eight
to I think three in the late in the third quarter,
and Cincinnati scored a couple of late touchdowns two point
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conversion and Detroit got a safety and all of that
at the end. But I won and I covered that.
All right, All of that is the past. Let's get
to this weekend, Paul. You get to go first. Which
game are games you want to hear? The line on
the Bears at the Commanders every week he asked me
about a game that's impossible to figure out. I have
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no clue on that game. Let me find it. The
Bears at the Commanders games in Washington. It's on Monday night,
and the Commanders, who still don't have Daniels, are four
and a half point favorites. They were looked much better
last week than most people thought they would. Let me
find that here he's asking you, surely, oh, here it is.
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That's that's yeah. There's two Monday night games. That's a
little mixed up. There's two Monday night games, which is
really stupid that they did. Don't we all agree that
that's stupid. Well, especially they're up against it's going to
be there's two Major League Baseball playoff games that night
that night too, and hopefully the Brewers that were in
one of them. If they're not in one of them,
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it's because they've lost the cub Series altogether. Anyway, that game,
Buffalo is at Atlanta and the Bills are favored by
four and a half on the road four and a half.
They're both four and a half. You're going to take
Washington to beat the Bears by more than four and
a half. By the way, before you get to that,
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do you prefer Buffalo or Atlanta? You would have taken Buffalo.
I would have taken Atlanta, but as I said, I
don't have a strong opinion on anything. I think we're
talking about teams. Some teams are not as good as
their record, and other teams are better than the record.
I think Buffalo has struck me as a team that
is nowhere near as good as their record. They just
seem to have. They don't seem as strong to be
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as they were as I thought they were going to be. Anyway,
you're saying the Commanders over the Bears. Boy, these are
too completely question mark teams to me that are hard
to figure out. I mean, why do you like the Commanders?
Paul says, the Bears are off the by The Bears
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just came off of they had a win before their bye.
You say, yeah, Dallas, But well, how did Green Bay
do against that same Dallas team. I mean, Washington doesn't
have the quarterback, but they're still putting up points. But
their defense is She's I have no clue on that game,
but I'm kind of clueless on every game in the
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NFL this weekend. What are your thoughts of the Bears
in Washington?
Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Yeah, Bears are in a better situation. I mean, they
have the week off and Washington played in LA last week.
But Daniels is back. He played last week?
Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Is back. I guess I was mixed up about that.
There's so many quarterbacks that have been heard of it
and mixed up about who's back and who isn't.
Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Okay, Daniels playing, Yeah, he played last week. Chicrgo's coming
off a bye. They beat the Raiders two weeks ago,
the twenty five to twenty four and got dominated yardage
wise by the Raiders. This is the infamous hail Mary
from last week. If last year, if you remember Washington
scored on like a fifty five yard hail Mary at
the buzzer to beat Chicago last week. If you're the
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last year, if you remember that game, I don't have
a real feel on this game. We probably won't use
it either way.
Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Okay, give me a gamer games you'd like her about Mike.
Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Let's stay in the NFL. Let's look at the game
we talked about Seattle.
Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Jacksonville, Seattle and Jacksonville. All right, Yeah, that game is
in Jacksonville and the line is one and a half.
The Jaguars are favorite at home by one and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
I'm taking Seattle, You're taking Seattle.
Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Well, Jacksonville just came off of one of the most
implausible wins I've ever seen. Seattle is as we're saying
that they're better than I thought they'd be. You like
the Seahawks on the road. This is one of those
West Coast teams going over and playing on the East
Coast and the long trip and all of that. But
we went through some of your thoughts and give me
the reason that you tip over towards Seattle.
Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Yeah, that's the only thing I'd don't like about this
game is Seattle going to the west going to the
East Coast. Again. We talked about it. Seattle is off
a loss where they probably should have won. They're going
to the East Coast against Jaguars on a short week,
which kind of negates the long travel, coming off their
biggest win in three or four years, a game they
never should have won. Jacksonville's had three or four games
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they probably shouldn't have won this year. We talked about
the turnovers. Jacksonville is getting out gained yards for playing
yards per game this year in their games, Seattle has
the second best yards per play margin in the NFL.
They have much better numbers offensively and defensively. Seattle's the
better team here, they're getting points. If Jacksonville doesn't get
two or three turnovers again from Seattle, I think. I
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think Seattle wins this game. So I'm gonna take Seattle
plus the one and a half all.
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Right time to get a pick for me. And as
I say, I struggled, part of me wants to take
the Lions again to beat Kansas City. They're an underdog
for having sakes against Kansas City, and Detroit's offense just
is unstoppable. But there's something that bothers me about that game,
and that is that I can't get a full rid
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on Kansas City right now. And I also think that
Kansas City needs to win a whole lot more than
Detroit does, so I just can't go there. So I'm
not doing that. I talk myself out of about a
zillion other games, so I'm gonna get it out of
the way very very early. I've got a game that's
going on tonight, and you talk about an innocuous game
in which hardly anybody listening to me is gonna know anything.
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But either of these teams, they're both pretty good. Though.
I'm going into the AAC, the American Association Conference East
Carolina is at Tulane. Toulane, of course, is from New Orleans.
Tulane at home is favored by six and a half,
and I'm taking East Carolina. East Carolina is off to
a pretty good start. They're only bad loss so far
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was to BYU, who's really really good. Tulane just does
not have much offense. Tulane started the season with a
couple of impressive wins, and they paced it Northwestern. But
I don't think they have a lot of offense. The
quarterback isn't any good at all, is competing only fifty
four percent of his passes. East Carolina's quarterback is competing,
completing sixty eight percent of his passes. The Tulane coach
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is an overrated guy named some Row. East Carolina's coach
is a genius. He took over in the middle of
last season on an interim basis from the head coach there.
His name was Houston, and they've done nothing but win
ever since. They've been rolling since that point. And I
think that they're very good on defense and decent enough
on offense. I think that they win the game straight up.
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I just think East Carolina is a better team than
people think. Also, there's been some line movement on that
game in which the line went down. In other words,
East Carolina is not getting as many points. Mike talked
about that a little bit earlier. I think East Carolina
is a better team than people think, and they can
win the game. It's a very tepid pick. However, at
a normal week, that would have been my sixth or
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seventh choice. I just really couldn't find anything I like
more than that, so went in doubt. I took an
underdog so I can get some points and maybe, if
nothing else, lose by six points and still cover the spread.
Do you have any thoughts in that game? I know
you know about every single game that's being played this weekend,
what about that one?
Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
Yeah? No, I don't disagree with that. The line came
from plus seven nine and plus six and a half,
which is telling it.
Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
In the early season, line was higher, and the power
ratings at the beginning of the year were higher, and
Tulane was expected to contend to win the conference in
East Carolina and the second half, and I think after
what we've seen right now, I think the teams are
equivalent teams. I don't know if Tulaane is a home
field advantage planned on there. They used to have to
play in the super Dome. They don't do that anymore.
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They've got a campus, they think on the stadium. But
anything else you want to give me, I want to
hear any other reason I'm right. Do you have any
other reason to think I'm right?
Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
Mike, No, I definitely agree with that side. I do
if you look at Tulanes played a little bit tougher schedule.
But if you look at just the statistics, and that
can sometimes be misillading, but East Carolina's a top thirty
offense and defense. Tulane ranks around seventieth offense and their
defense is below one hundred, ranked one hundreds.
Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
I looked at both of those numbers. East Carolina also,
even though they don't score a lot of points, they
play at a high pace, and I know you talk
about that whole pace factory and so on. They've got
an innovative offensive guy. And as I say, the quarterback
over there isn't bad, and Tulane's quarterback just u isn't
any good at all. One other quick point, not to
obsess on my game. East Carolina's off the by They
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played Army two weeks ago, Army always moves the ball
because they've got that unique running game. They held Army
to six points and Army's okay, Army beat Kansas State
this year. They beat him twenty eight to six. I
was just impressed by that game. That's a beatdown on
both sides of the ball of a team in their
conference and one that usually puts up a fair number
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of points. So I think East Carolina's defense can hold
to lane and check. So that's my thought.
Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
Yeah, don't disagree with that, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Mike's website is ASA wins dot com. You can see
what he and his partner Lee have going on, and
they mentioned they have a special little come up. We're
doing this on Thursday afternoon, a little bit later on,
so check their website and see what's going on there
ASA wins dot com. That's it for this weekend for
today's podcast. Back on Monday.
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I have one of those big topics that I want
to do on today's program. Back in the days of
my old radio show, it was one of those topics
that I'm got to go on for ninety minutes about. Well,
I'm not going to go on for about ninety minutes
here because this one's more isolated into one area and
we can cover it. But it's a topic that needs
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to be addressed, and it's one that hardly anybody ever
focuses on. Before we get to that one, however, we're
going to deal with the big story of the day,
and that is there's a deal. There's a piece deal
between Israel and Amas over Gaza. This seems impossible and
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nobody will know if it holds. And you know, we
don't know if any peace steel holds. You know, some
peace steal that was struck one hundred and fifty years
ago could fall apart in ten years. Does that mean
that it didn't hold? But there is a peace steel
now and Israel is leaving Gaza and both sides are
going to send all of their hostages back. Apparently one
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hold up, as Hamas said, well, some of the hostages
we don't control, somebody else may have them. So I
do want to dive into this story and also explore
how Trump, who I think seems to be almost solely
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the Trump piece deal that Israel had earlier agreed to. Essentially,
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it means the war is over. Israel has to withdraw
all troops from Gaza. There'll be no Israeli presence left,
which is how it was prior to October seventh of
two years ago. For all these people say, well, it's
occupied here, it's not occupied territory. There were no Israel,
there is no There were no Israelis in Gaza. Gaza
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was controlled by the Gazans who chose to elect idiotically
twenty years ago the savages from Hamas to be their government.
Israeliefs Hamas agrees no more of this going into Israel
and killing people. The hostages that have been held are
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going to finally be released, including some prisoners that Israel
has old who go back to Gaza. Now, first of all,
one of the reasons that this is happening is Israel
kicked Hamas's ass. Israel is willing to agree to this
(03:40):
after Hamas started a war two years ago, because Israel
realizes that it is dismantled a huge part of Hamas.
On the other hand, Hamas never surrendered, and Trump's Trump,
I think of trying to broker a deal here, realize
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the one thing that he wouldn't get is what, in
my opinion, you almost always need to end a war.
Somebody has to surrender and say we lose. Hamas isn't surrendering,
but what's left of Hamas, their tunnels appear to be
totally destroyed. Their weaponry appears to be almost non existent,
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the communication structure is in shamples. So from the perspective
of Israel, they have weakened the Hamas threat, and they
can hope that the residents of Gaza, whatever power they
have left, aren't going to tolerate this crap from Hamas anymore,
going off of instead of taking care of Gaza, worrying
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about Israel the other component of this, It's just clear
the entire rest of the Middle East is tired of
Hamas and is tired of Iran. First of all, Iran's
got its own price. We blew up their nuclear facilities.
How much effort does Iran want to spend in continuing
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to send hundreds of millions to Hamas over there in Gaza.
So Hamas is lost. It's sugar Daddy, the Russians. Putin's
got his own problems right now. So from the perspective
of the rest of the Middle East, they're tired of
the whole Hamas thing. And second lay they realize that
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Trump is willing to work with everyone in the Middle East,
whether it be Saudi Arabia finally defanging Qatar. The rest
of the Middle East is realizing the only thing that's
stopping them full participation in the entire global economy is
they've been tied to hesbal On Hamas. What Trump brings
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to the table on these things always is fresh eyes.
You've had all these people on the left free Gaza, free, Gaza, free,
Gaza free guys is if that has anything to do
with anything. The problem is is that Hamasque keeps attacking
Israeli's and Israel is not gonna put up with it
and say is gonna fight back? And you'd never war
every single time it happens. How do you achieve a piece?
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What you've had, unfortunately here in the West is people
that are on each of these sides that they don't
seem to want peace. It certainly seems to me that
the people of Gaza have never wanted peace. If they did,
they would have left well enough alone and not gone
in and invaded Israel two years ago. To understand, you know,
Trump is a developer and he understands real estate. You
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can't have better location than Gaza. It's on the It's
first of all, it's a strip. That's its name, the
Gaza Strip. Whenever you hear the word strip. It's almost
always a fantastic piece of line because strips are usually
on the water. It could have been anything. In addition
to that, they're getting all this international aid pouring in
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billions instead of using that to do what the Saudis
are doing, or what Dubai did, and try to turn
yourself into an international business deck and destination and a
tourism destination. They spent all this money to buy bombs
that build all these damn tunnels and so on, and
the people of Gaza were evidently too stupid to put
up with it. In the meantime, convincing themselves that Israel's
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some sort of Satan, even though Israel did not occupy Gaza.
This is not the West Bank, where you've got Jews
that are in Jerusalem, and you've got Christians in Jerusalem
and Muslims Jerusalem. Gaza was just cousins. So Trump looked
at this at fresh eyes. Nobody else in the rest
of the Middle East gives a rat's rear end about Hamas.
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Hamas is essentially beaten. They all, however, want to have
a good relationship with the United States for reasons that
are obvious. So Hamas gets orphaned. In the meantime, you've
got Net and Yahoo I think wanted to plaster and
flat and every last piece of gazza was left, and
Trump felt that that was a bridge too far. Now
(08:09):
people don't have to say Trump's just doing this so
he wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Well maybe he is
hoping to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He's not going
to get the Nobel Peace Prize. They're handing out Nobel
Prizes this week. They're not going to give it to him.
Just the Nobel Committee is lefties. It doesn't Trump could
solve peace on the entire planet and they wouldn't give
it to him. More importantly, has he accomplished something that
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eliminates a major problem in the world and saves people's
lives and allows the Israelis to live in peace. They
still have their concerns about dealing with Hesbela, the other
terrorist organization, the one that has greater control in the
West Bank. But what he has achieved here, this is
as close as we've come, I think to what Sadat
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and beg And did when Israel in Egypt established the
piece four decades ago that has pretty much held. One
other point on this. Almost nobody picks up on the
role of Egypt in this. Almost nobody. But you know what, Paul,
I'm smarter than everybody else. Well I am, I've picked
up on it. Oh, they kept talking about the Gazza.
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You know, the people of Gaza have nowhere to go.
They can't go into Israel. They aren't wanted there. They
have to leave Gaza because Gaza's flattened. Whoa Gaza is
not surrounded by Israel to the south of Gaza as Egypt.
Egypt doesn't want one damn Gazan to come into that country.
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Nobody wants the Palestinians because no matter who it is,
it's dealing not just Israel. The Palestinians have always been
nothing but trouble. And that's because Palestinians, for whatever reason,
keep gravitating towards terror groups. Do you think Egypt wants
any part of Hamas sitting in Egypt. No, So there
was pressure on the Egyptians here by the Egyptians telling
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the people of Gaza you can't come in. The people
of Gaza had nowhere to turn, and I think Hamas
ran the risk of losing the support of the people
of God, which they should have lost already had they
not accepted a cease fire that will now probably include
international aid that allows the rebuilding of Gaza, with strict
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guarantees that none of that aid is used to militarily
support Gaza. The question will be when do they have
elections in Gaza and the people of Gaza having an
opportunity to prove that they're not monsters by actually choosing
a government that isn't Hamas. Sorry, next story, say one
of those big topics that I like to talk about.
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I'm developing a term here. I don't think I've invented it,
mission drift. It's a problem with organizations on the right.
Just about every nonprofit that we have in the United
State leftist. It's just amazing you find like a board
that runs a museum, or a board that runs this,
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or a board that they're almost all leftists. Organizations that
handog grants, it's usual a leftist money. When you do
get organizations, however, that are on the right and are
established initially by donors to do this thing here. All
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the lefties are doing this over here, We're going to
do this on the right over here. What often happens
is what I'll describe as drift in which they're conservative
for the longest time, and then they start to drift
a little bit toward the middle. And if that drift
isn't nipped in the bud, the organization stops being conservative
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at all. Now, before I get into the specific case
that brings this up, because my concern is whether or
not will Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty is seeing
mission drift and drifting off into this vast little middle
so that they can pose for holy pictures with a
bunch of lefties. And no, you're not maga, You're not this.
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I'm not saying they are, but I have the concert.
First of all, let's discuss why it happens. Nonprofits are
funded by donors. The donors usually believe in the cause,
and out of the donors comes to board of directors.
The board of directors usually consist of a fair number
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of high muckety MUCKs, some of whom are big donors themselves,
and then they hire a staff. This is the problem
people who go into the It's the same thing. If
you know, you see Barry Weis is going to try
now to turn CBS News abroad. As I've said, the
problem she's going to have. How do you staff up
a news organization that's not filled with lefties when everybody
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who goes into the news business is a lefty who
goes to work in the nonprofit world lefties. So how
do you run a conservative nonprofit and who do you hire?
There are conservatives, but there aren't many of them, and
there cans to be this drift. It's just the problem.
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One of the examples of this that's a lost cause
is the Badger Institute. I've been ragging on them for
some time. They just they're focusing on some like some
libertarian fiscal issues and some of the crap that came
that leaked out of the brains of the Koch brothers
and all of that. They got some of that, and
there's some conservatism that's in there. They're good on school
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choice and a few other things. But by and large,
they don't have any particular focus on anything that actual
conservative Americans care about. And that's because many of these
people don't live the lives that most conservative Americans live.
Most conservative Americans right now are somewhere between upper middle
class to middle class to working class and a cross
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racial lines. You're seeing a significant chunk of the conservatives
being young people who've had their eyes opened by Charlie
Kirk's groups and so on. But there's a huge, real
element in American politics. But these people who run these
organizations are often people who live in River Hills and
Mechwan and don't have much in common with these people.
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And it's one of the reasons why the things that
they focus on are not the things that actual conservative
Americans focus on, like, for example, crime. So I've described
part of the problem is that the boards of directors
are not often in touch with the conservative issues that
are priority to the overwhelming majority of American conservatives. And
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then the staff if you don't ride herd on the
staff or I have people who want me to start
swearing on the podcast, because everybody who does a podcast swears.
I can't bring myself to do it. But I've worked
my way into certain words that I've used in the past,
including on the radio, for instance, instead of saying and
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I'll say right ass, you've got to right ass on
the staff. This is just a huge problem in Madison.
Do you know what the problem with the legislature and
Republican legislature in Wisconsin is Paul. The staff again, some
are great, some aren't. They all live in Madison. You
begin to see the problem there. The same thing is
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true with regard to organizations like this. The board of directors,
the instant that they see some of this staff starting
to drift, you need to either fire them or tell
them stop. And in some cases, some of these boards
of directors are people who kind of think they're conservative,
but you know, are not. The last name Hammus would
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come to mind of people who think that they're conservative
but are not, who support concerns to candidates and conservative
causes and then write out huge checks to butcher shops
like Children's Hospital that tries to turn boys into girls
and girls into boys, and roid ragees young people to
death by filling them with all sorts of hormones and
then wondering why they turn into be violent sociopaths. But
that's an aside. My asides are often more interesting than
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my points. Mission Drift, Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty
is an organization that was developed a number of years ago.
It's fronted by Rick Eisenberg. It's been an organization that
focuses on issues of the law. Basically, the file lawsuits
or threatened to file lawsuits on behalf of individuals who
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are being trampled upon by leftists, and they've been vital
because there's nobody else to do that. There's been a
couple of religious organizations that do religious civil rights and
so on, but otherwise there's nobody out there to do
this work. They've intervened, for example, on behalf of kids
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that have been screwed by the WIA or another's kid
that's been screwed in the school. This direct or some
governmental body that's put in. They take on racial preferences
all over the place that are not allowed under the
law anymore. All of this has been yellman work, and
reme'm denying that. But the very very fact that will
is indispensable is my point here. If it's indispensable, we
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can't let it drift. If you've got a car that
you really really love and it's starting to break, got
a couple of prime, you got to address that problem.
If you've got an old beater that's got a couple,
you can let that go because there's ninety seven thousand
other problems. Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty is filing
(17:50):
a lawsuit aimed at stopping a provision of the Wisconsin
state budget bill. I'm going to give you the backstory
here briefly, because the backstory isn't really my point. My
larger point is the mission drift. In order to get
the budget pass. You may recall that you had to
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cut a yeal between the Republicans and Evers and the Democrats,
where Evers agreed not to veto a huge segment of
the budget in exchange for the Republicans giving them a
few things in another area. This it's a compromise budget.
One of the things that the Republicans have wanted is
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a greater focus on crime in Wisconsin. The Democrats couldn't
care less about crime in Wisconsin. As we know. One
of the complaints that's been uttered over the years from
the district attorneys in Milwaukee and Waukeshaw County is their
short staffed. Now, as you know, I generally don't buy
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it when public officials say they're short staffed. I bought this.
In Milwaukee County, crimes exploded. Whether or not the DA's
office is aggressive enough in dealing with it is part
of the problem. But certainly crimes exploded, and it's exploded
in Waukeshaw County in part because of the bleedover from
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Milwaukee County and also because of all the crime that
can be attributed to the drug explosion that got fueled
when Joe Biden stopped enforcing the border. There's simply aren't
enough employees in these offices. And one of the things
that's happened as a result is the path of least
resistance for prosecutors is to cut plea deals or simply
dismiss charges, because the alternative is to have a case
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drag out for three or four years because defense attorneys
keep filing delay motions on the prosecutors have eighty or
five other cases on their table and so on. So
part of the deal was we agreed to let Milwaukee
County raise it. There's a two part deal. Some of
this did not haul out. At the same time. Milwaukee
County got to raise its sales taxi City of Milwaukee
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got to raise sales tax More money got into Milwaukee.
But then we're limits as to what Milwaukee could do
with their money, and then there were things they were
told they had to do. One of the things that
was done is Milwaukee in getting more money was when
I say Milwaukee now me in the county. They had
to hire more district attorneys, more and more prosecutors. Walkershaw
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County they've wanted more prosecutors. They got some more as well,
the Milwaukee County prosecutors. The funding for that was crafted
by the term here is a car vote. This issue
is a little complicated, and I don't want to go
into an incredible depth, but you may notice that the
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state Patrol doesn't patrol the freeways in Milwaukee County. Occasionally
live be a trooper in there, but it's the only
county in the state where it's the sheriff's department that
has primary responsibility. Most of the counties you'll see both.
And then there's a question of where the revenue for
fines goes. It's convoluted. What this did is takes some
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of the money that Milwaukee County kicks into a school
fund and a library fund and use it instead to
fund prosecutors. All right, now, I'm a conservative, Where would
I rather see Milwaukee County find money go in to
the bloated massive public school fund and worse, the leftist
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library fund over built libraries all over the state of Wisconsin.
Only employing lefties or hire some prosecutors. I know where
I'd rather have it go right. Well, that was the deal.
It was one of the wins for conservatives. Milwaukee got
more money, but it has to use it actually in
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an area that might do some good. Wisconsin Institute of
Law and Liberty has filed a lawsuit challenging this provision.
Remember they claim to be conservative. They say state law
doesn't allow you to divert the money from this school
and library fund. Well, let's suppose it doesn't. There are
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probably ninety seven zillion things out there on which governments
in Wisconsin are not following the letter of the law.
Why are they focusing on this? The Wisconsin Election Commission
has not cleaned up the voter rolls in the state
of Wisconsin an agent. But there's a million things I
could have that focus on. Out of all the things
in the state budget, why are they going after the
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thing that deals with fighting crime? And I'll give you
the answer in my opinion of that, the boards of
directors of these institutions don't care about crime because they
all live in river hills in Mechwan and so on.
And the staff is these high minded people who got
all their You look kind of the John Roberts mentality.
The response I've gotten from Ricky's in to my original
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complain on this is that the rule of law matters
to us is if it done to me? Okay, it does.
But again, you got to take your shots in this world, right.
Why this is a priority out of all the money
that we spend in the state of Wisconsin to advance leftyism,
Why are you targeting some money that actually addresses any
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a real problem. You see my point? In other words,
why this Your kid is doing eighty seven things wrong,
and you ignore the eighty seven really really bad things
and you go after maybe one thing that isn't such
a bad thing to you. Why that? And again my
concern is mission drift. We do not have a single
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other than maybe Mackaiver conservative as advocacy group in Wisconsin
that deals with crime. Badger institutes on the wrong side.
They're soft on crime. I've not ever seen Wisconsin Institute
of Law and Liberty much address the issue of crime
at all. But crime is a vital interest to a
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huge percentage of the conservative voters of the state of Wisconsin.
I sent an email I did not get a response
is of the time of this podcast through Rick Eysenberg,
head of Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty. We had
a back and forth over the original issue. But my
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bigger concern here is just this mission drift, that if
you're not going to represent conservative values, are you straying
away from really the point of your existence. And again
I'm not bothering sending these anymore to the Badger Institute
because they're a lost cause. I'm trying not to let Will,
which is an outstanding organization drift. Now a quick point
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on this, This point is huge, so everybody pay attention
to it. That includes like a weasly little produce are
like you in there. Yes, there is never any pressure
from the right on right wing groups the state of
the right. The pressure overwhelmingly is always to the left.
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It's like the politicians to go to Madison. All the
pressure from the lobbyists, the media, the staff is all
from the left. Only me and maybe a few other
talk shows push back from the right. So I need
to give you this pushback, So leave Will alone. Somebody's
got to push back on the right because of this
relentless pressure that comes to the left. I sent him
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this which pretty much summarizes what I said, but I
want to lay out the thought Rick. On my podcast today,
I will be addressing the back and forth we have
had over the lawsuit over the punding of New Milwaukee
County eighty eights. While the specific issue will be part
of my comments, the larger point I we'll be raising
deals with my long standing contention that virtually all conservative
nonprofit advocacy groups drift left and that virtually none of
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them ever focus on issues of concern to actual conservative vote.
I have been on this point for ten years and
have had many discussions with Rick Braber that's the Bradley Foundation,
which funds conservative groups, about it and whether Bradley should
continue to fund groups that do not hold conservative views
on much of anything. The poster child for this is
the Badger Institute for Middle and Working Class People, which
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is the vast majority of the current Republican voter base.
The issue of crime and softness on it is a
huge issue, and for many the biggest issue. It is, however,
almost never an issue for most conservative advocacy groups, whose
boards of directors tend to be donors, corporate dilettants and staff.
These people tend to live in very low crime areas.
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Issues like low or cashless bail, soft sentencing, offenders free
after twenty or so, twenty to thirty convictions, etc. Rarely
resonate with these groups, even though they are vital to
most American conservatives. The problem I have with your lawsuit
against legislation pushed for by conservatives and negotiated with a
reluctant Tony Evers to hire more prosecutors in Milwaukee and
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Waukeshaw Counties is one of priorities. This is what you
focus on, whether sincere or not. Both former DHSM and
current DA Lovern have confided to me that the gross
understaffing of their offices necessitates the lads that often stretch
for years in cases and require negotiated plea deals or
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case dismissals. Former Waukeshaw DA Seuwhopper made the same point
repeatedly to me. So finally the issue gets addressed and
some nitpicking public interest law firm is crabbing because the
funding is supposed to go to a fund that bank
rolls blooded public schools and overbuilt library systems. Both are
hellholes of liberal and doctrination that will finds this a
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priority is troubling to me and is an indication of
the mission drift that plagues so many conservative groups. In
the last two years, Republican lawmakers have made numeros compromises
with Milwaukee Democrats. The gist of these is, we will
give you more money, but you have to use some
of it on crime fighting. If WILL gets its way,
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they will have the money and none of it will
be spent on crime fighting. If you respond, I will
share it, but please don't use that tired old rule
of law tripe. The rule of law is trampled on
daily in our country. And the question here is which
instances are worth objecting to. If the ACLU or WEAC
had brought this lawsuit, I would not have been surprised.
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Isn't WILL supposed to be a counter to all these
well funded leftist legal interest groups. If not, what is
WILL for? Is will for conservative Americans? Or is it
for something or someone else? Again, I have not gotten
a response, but again, I send it this morning. We
tape in the early afternoon. If there is a response
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that he wants to share, I'll follow up on a
podcast next week. So that's my concern over this whole area.
Of mission drift of organizations that are set up. I'm
the right. I have this concern now about Turning Point.
The reason Turning Point didn't have mission drift is Turning
Point was run by Charlie Kirk. There's no drift in
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the guy. But now as we see internal fights, power
scrabbles and so on and avoid in leadership, there's only
so much Erica as Widow is taking over can do
those chapters all over the country. Is it going to drift?
It happens to almost every conservative organization, some of these
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big foundations that we have at the national level that
now you know, the Ford Foundation, all the Carnegie the
Fund leftist stuff they started conservative Carnig give was a
steal guy, big fat cat corporate titans start these foundations
and over off on one hundred years they become essentially
Marxist funding organizations. It's just this is this issue of
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drift is a big one. Now. One of the things
that I've do talked about and taking on projects that
I can talk to deal with before I croak, is
to actually get WILL is not a think tank. WILL
is a legal organization. They file lawsuits and defend rights
and so on. A think tank, a conservative thing tak
to advance these ideas, because we don't have one in Wisconsin.
We have Badger Institute that's not conservative. Badger Institute worries
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about we should make it easier for somebody to get
a plumber's license. Someone qualified people come in and fix
your toilet, whether or not somebody knows what they're doing.
That's their like libertarian thing because they got all this
Coke Brothers. I'm a little bit more concerned about the
fact that you've got people who've been arrested thirty nine
times on felonies that are out there. Darrow Brooksing all
over the place. I just throw turned Darrow Brooks into
a verb that means it's time for a break. This
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is the Markedlling podcast. This is the Marked Delling podcast.
I have to do a ps on the issue of
Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty. I pulled their board
of directors here. They're all conservative people. I'm going to
read them to you. Jim Barry, he's big commercial real
estate guy. Conservative, he's not really a suburban type. Michael White,
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he runs Right Height, which is a local corporation. He's
a conservative guy. And then both Michael Greeby's Michael Greeby
and his son have the same name, obviously, Michael Greeby
form head of the Bradley Foundation, big shot at fully
and Lardner the other Michael Greeby, his son. I don't
think it's junior, but they're both Michael. I think a
different middle initials maybe. Anyway, he's the chief legal consul
at right height. Christopher Wolfe, who's a professor at the
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University of Dallas. I don't really owe him. And then
two staffers from the organization. Again, these are all fine people.
I just wish some of these organizations, rather than choose
somebody who's a big time donor, would get an actual conservative,
grats roots advocate. This is one of the in there.
That's one of the things that made Turning Points so strong.
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It was driven from the base. The reason it does
such a better job of political organizing than the Republican
Party of Wisconsin is the Republican Party of Wisconsin sitting
there with fat, lazy old fart sitting on offices in Madison,
whereas Turning Point is out there, going into campus dorms
and organized all right, moving on, Ready to move on, Paul,
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here's a shock. Can you tell that this that this
is sarcastic? In other words, this is it's not going
to be a shock. Here's a shock. The guy who
started the Palisades fires a lefty, who would have thought
they burned down most of southern California. We now have
found out who started the fire. There were two fires.
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The Palisades fire was the second one, but it became
the bigger one. By the way, why are they all
Uber drivers? I mean I think he got it fired
from Uber before then, which I mean. The thing is,
Uber does have standards. They do have standards. You almost
never hear about an Uber driver pulling a gun and robbing.
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It happened. I mean, you consider it's resilient. They have standards.
But part of it is it's not easy work. You
can't have a zillion things going on if you're gonna
do it unless you're just a hard working kind of person.
In some of those are just hard working anyway. So
he's like an Uber driver, it's a California Uber driver,
and he's unhappy and miserable and angry and this that
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and the other thing. And he started to get into
websites and take a look at big fires and so
forth and so on. He's a donor to Act Blue.
Act Blue is one of those groups that gives money
to Democratic candidates. What a surprise that is. So he
starts his fire and burns down all of Liberalville in
southern California. People are saying, well, it's both sides. I
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grant you there are wing nuts on the right. Almost
all of them are on the left. And it's not
just you say did it, it's why? And I'll tell
you why. Almost everybody on the left. This is my observation.
And I'm a good observer. Don't you think I'm a
good observer of social trends? Almost everybody on the left
is a miserable, the unhappy person. And I think that
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they're miserably unhappy because they don't have God in their lives,
which is true of most liberals. So that's an emptiness
and a void. They tend not to be aspirational because
they're miserable and unhappy. They don't like anything good that happens,
because you know, it's like the people who see happiness
on Facebook when they're all alone, they get unhappy. Will
that Well, that's leftists. They're miserably unhappy. They don't want
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to see the United States of America thrive. So they
end up hating the country because they're not happy in it,
and they blame the country the fact that they're miserable.
So they get this alienation and disaffection, and it is
fed by all their media sources and their online sources,
the messages they're getting on TikTok from leftist grooms, the
messages they're getting from the idiots on the view in MSNBC.
It's just drilled and drilled and drilled and drilled and
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drilled into them, and it fuels their unhappiness and their rage.
Add in all the drugs that they're all on that
seem to be backfiring on them, and you get what
you get now of this. Katie Porter. Now, I know
many of you don't know who she is. Even though
you talk about somebody who's gone viral, there's a larger
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issue in Katie Porter. Katie Porter is the front runner
for governor of California. She's a congresswoman. I am fascinated
and I brought this. I brought this up with after
you know, with Kamala California know is about sixty million.
It's hard to say how many they have given, how
many illegals that they are. California is a huge state,
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and it's overwhelmingly democratic, right if you're talking it, there's
a like Rhode Island's overwhelmingly democratic, but it's tiny, so
you know, you gotta get two senators and when you
don't have that many to pick from, you might get
a golf right. In fact, Rhode Island has a golf,
but California it. Every one of these Democrats in California
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is ambitious and wants to get to the top. I'm
fascinated how some of these dopes get there. Newsim's an exception.
New Sims are radical and so on, but he's a
well spoken, glib, articulate guy. Most of them are. Kamala
can't put a sentence together. How'd she leap frog above her?
It isn't just that she bomed Willy Brown, because from
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what I can tell, Willie Brown boings so many women
that did be fifteen thousand of them competing with Kamalo.
Now there's Katie Porter, she's the front runner for governor.
TV station in Los Angeles. They have all the Democrats.
California has a weird way of electing politicians. They don't
have a primary system. Republicans and Democrats all run on
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the same ballot. The top two advance, so and there's
a tiered structure to it and so on. But often
you'll get a general election where the top two candidates
are both Democrats. Usually there's a Republican who will finish,
say second, because there's nine Democrats running, splitting the vote,
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and then in the general election the Democrats. So anyway,
the key to winning the governorship in California is to
get enough Republicans to join your Democrats. See, you get
a plurality of the votes. So the reporter for CBS
in Los Angeles asked them, and she asked them. She
had a script that she asked every one of the
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main contents is the same three orport questions. They're all softballs,
and one of them is how do you expect to
appeal to the forty percent of Californian's voted for Trump.
It's a fair enough question. And in their system out
there where you need to get Democrats and Republicans to
vote for you in order to get to the top
two or win. And they all answered the question. He said,
Kitty porter, why would I need anybody who vote for
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trupted by me. Another reporter said, well, because of our
system here, do you think you're gonna get all sixty
percent of the Democrats? You have to get over sixty
percent in order to have the knockout. Where you're you know,
trying to explain this, and she's barking back at her,
and then she asked another like softball question, and like
ninety seconds in, Katie, I'm done, takes off her microphone.
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The thing that was so weird about it is this
was not a hostile head of view. First of all,
she's a cat, she's a Los Angeles TV reporter. I mean,
she's a lefty herself. She was asking all of them
these softball questions, and Katy port by the way, they're
show it. So they showed this thing and they show
her melt down. They showed the reporter kind of mystified
as to why she's blowing up like this. She's getting
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ripped by everybody out there, including other Democrats, and all
the other Democrats are running against her. Say, we answered
the question. We don't even think it's an unfair question.
She just looked ridiculous. In addition, Megan Kelly's been all
over this is you might guess, Megan Kelly's focusing on,
among other things, her odd fashioned choice. She's like a
big woman, and she's wearing this sleeveless thing, and she's
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she didn't look good in the interview and the whole thing.
And and there's a backstory. It's the same backstory as Kamala.
She apparently is a total bitch. You know, Kamala Harris
had a reputation for going through Stafford's like crazy and
just eviscerating the well. Katy Porter, who's a member of Congress,
has the same reputation. And they are apparently former staffers
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who were on the receiving end of her abuse are
now jumping out and leaking their own stuff. And the
point I'm bringing all of this up is I actually
am surprised that California, which has more Democrats than any
state of the Union, that it doesn't have more, say
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Gavin Newsome types, because they have so many to pick from.
I mean, in Wisconsin, what we tend to get from
Democrats who get to the top is not common. The
types we tend to get empty suit non entities. The
Democrats and Wisconsin are basically a bunch of mediocrities. Tony
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eavers so bland and dull. Nobody outside of Wisconsin ever
heard him. The only introduction is what he was either
drunk or seeneul or whatever, and he couldn't read the
photo of the Democratic Tammy Baldwin, the least consequential member
of the United States Senate. When Moore doesn't do a
damn thing other than vote yes when the Democratic leaders
tell her to a vote know when they tell her
to do that. They generally tend to be non entities.
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But in California, the ones that are rising to at
the very very top appear to be bad at politics.
It's confusing to me, and it's kind of a new phenomenon.
I mean, California Democrats in the past were sort of eclectic,
like Jerry Brown, brilliant guy, a little unusual, but a
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brilliant guy. Or Cranston died in the wool Liberal but
generally people who would develop a national profile because they
are smart people. The only one that could put a
sentence together from California that I noticed anymore, seems to
be Newsome. But otherwise you get like Maxine Waters, I mean,
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Pelosi could put a sentence together. Pelosi's smart, but these others.
How in the world was skaty to the front runner?
If indeed she's this battle axity. Everybody hates her at
this interview that she did here that fell off the rails.
Obviously she must have done other interviews before. And it's
not like, well, of course you're gonna vote for a democract.
She's got to fight through all these other Democrats to
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get herself up to the top. Next, they held a
hearing on this stupid proposal to put in red light
cameras all over the city of Milwaukee. It's being proposed
in the legislature. I'm here to explain why it won't work.
The bill, by the way, is sponsored by, remember the
state legislature from Milwaukee. It's not gonna work for the
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same reason that me or Chevy ripping up all the
streets and putting in the bump of curves isn't gonna work.
It doesn't address the problem. All right, you're right, We've
got lots of people who just run red lights in Milwaukee.
They don't stop. For those of you that are naive
and not understanding of what it's like to live in
urban America, I'm here to wising you all up. You
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know who's gonna stop when there's a red light camera?
You and me, You and me, and I know this.
There's a few of them in Floord, are not many
by Wayzapp even tells me which ones they are. Which
is but you can actually tell you see the little
thing here in Milwaukee, people get used. You'll see those
little things about the trafficking. Those are the sensors that
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tell it when there's no traffic coming, switch over to green.
The cameras, you can see them, they're sitting there. Illinois,
Chicago had them all over the place and they were
just a rebellion. They took them out. You and me.
The people who are driving recklessly aren't going to be
deterred by the red light cameras. Said, why they don't
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pay their fights? We don't in Milwaukee jail, people who
won't play pay traffic fights. They don't pay their fights.
They're gonna keep doing it. They have ninety seven zillion
of these the mill. I keep saying this and it
doesn't sink into people, and people keep forgetting it. I
want you not to forget this. Milwaukee County Jail will
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not accept someone on a traffic ward. So if there's
a warrant for your arrest for unpaid fines, the jail
in Milwaukee rejects you because it's full. They have to
keep enough space for more serious criminals. So if you're
somebody that has a zillion traffic warrants, there's no reason
unless you're like a responsible citizen for whom there are
consequences for not doing these things. Here's what will work.
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Should I explain what will work? Will you laugh? You
don't like you think I'm making this? See well, I
understand I am sometimes sarcastic. This isn't they do this
in some states. We don't do it in Milwaukee. Everyone.
The one thing you do they do do when you
don't pay your fines is they take away your driver's license.
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So we have a combination in Milwaukee. If people who've
never had a driver's license and people who are you
the suspended are revoked. If you are pulled over and
you don't have a driver's license, you tow the car, Paul.
That will work. Now, I know that some of you
who've never had your cars to would have no clue
as to why this will work. Do you know why
this will work? You gotta pay fortune to get it
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out of the toll lot. You get told once that
car might be gone. Secondly, if the vehicle is not registered,
which zillions of them are not because they don't pay
the registration fee, or they were suspended because of the
non payment, you told the vehicle. If we passed the
law that everybody who was caught driving without a license,
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or they're an unregistered vehicle who was pulled over by
the police for any reason, or if there's a warrant
on them for unpaid fines, had their vehicles told, this
would fix most of this problem. It doesn't fix the
problem of the young people that are stealing cars and
joy riding and running through the red lights. But all
the others no car, they can't do it. Why don't
you just ask me to solve these problems? Well, am
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I not right? Do you think this would work? Well,
of course it would work. One story here to share
with you. Earlier in the week, I was discussing this
issue of the Milwaukeeans who do not have flood insurance
who are now facing massive bills after the flood that
we had, and I explained the problem with flood insurance.
Flood insurance actually is not a smart thing to buy.
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The only reason you buy it is what you end
up doing is you overpay for something you're hardly ever
gonna need along the lines that well, maybe you will
need it. And if you don't live in a flood
plain money, you're gonna flood when you have a storm
like we had on the south side of then those
people got flooded. I was contacted by an insurance agent
who I won't name him here, but he gave me
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the numbers, and he points out that almost nobody it
has a homeowners policy with his agency has flood insurance.
But after August, he's got a chart here, the request
for information on flood insurance exploded. He's got a zero
to thirty six chart and it went from like one
one on one to thirty six in August. And then
when we're picked out, however, he pointed in why did
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that happen? All these people, you know, saw the impact
of the people that got damaged by the flood and
the askt of a flood insurance, he said, almost none
of them actually bought the flood insurance. The flood insurance
can run anywhere from five hundred and twenty five hundred
dollars a year. Well, that's a lot of money on
the rare chance that you're going to have a flood
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in your basement. And most people don't buy it because
you know, the insurance companies that sell this stuff, obviously
they're making a killing off, but they take a big
hit when they have to make payouts on this. But
they usually one to pay out a fortune and flooding
because most people don't buy the flood insurance. So I
have an insurance agent came who said, it's exactly the
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problem flood and the reason flood insurance is so extremely
high is when the insurance companies pay it's offen a
massive big check that's out there, but they would just
as soon not deal with it, so they charge a
high premium forward and so on. And of course the
rates are higher if you live in a floodplain, so
the people who have tend to buy flood insurance if
people who live in a flood playing, because there's a
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risk for flooding that goes on. If you don't live
in a flood playing, you think, well, what are the chances, Well, really,
the only chance is going to be if you get
a storm so badly that your some pup can't keep
up like the one that we just had. And we
got twelve to fourteen inches of rain, and I ask
you if you had flood insurance? You said no? Is
that still the answer? You don't know it? It would
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be kind of funny now if you, like, three days
after that, got a flood or something. I would find
that in music. I don't think I would have any
sympathy because I think that it would be an interesting
topic and I'd rather have an interesting topic and Peel,
I mean, I'd feel a little bad for you. Sure
quickly get over. This is the Mark Belling Podcast Football Preview.
Coming up next, It's time for the Mark Belling Weekly
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Football Preview and some point spread picks, and we're joined
as always by Mike murletta of American sports analysts in Madison.
Their website is a sa win ones dot com. We're
getting into the guts of the football season. Almost all
the college teams are now moving into conference play. NFL
games have started to get important. What would you like
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to share about anything going on this weekend?
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Mike at asa, I think what we're gonna do, Marcus,
we'll decide later today and they can check our website tomorrow.
I think we'll have a discounted weekend package all of
our football plays between Friday and Monday, and we may
throw in baseball to our base I don't do baseball,
but our baseball run has been insane, where since the
end of July, we have a record in baseball of
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fifty three and twenty three since the end of July. Wow,
So we may throw something.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
You know, one of these guys that's picking these minus
three twenty five favorites.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Right, No, no, no, no, no, no, nope, no small favorites
and underdogs and totals. Well, I have.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
A sacred never play a team in baseball over minus
one forty. I have no idea if the math holds
up on that or not. But I mean, you just
have to win so many games to make up for
one loss. Anyway, as long as you're here, we're doing
the podcast early in the afternoon on Thursday, before the
Brewers play. Do you have any sense on the remainder
of the Brewers Cubs game? Where As you said, you're
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not the baseball guy over at the company, and you
don't really have anything better to offer than the rest
of us.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
Yeah, I don't. I don't do the baseball for US.
I follow the Brewers obviously, and uh, you know the line.
The line was around even when they didn't know who
was pitching. And now it looks like since Parolta's been
thrown up there, it looks like they're minus one twenty. Yeah,
the Brewers are the better team. They're the better team.
I think they'll win in the long run here and
hopefully they ended today.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Well. The problem is is that now that Quinn Priester stunk,
the Brewers have one starting pitcher. They just they won.
It's Freddy Peralta. And I'm a nervous nelly about the
whole thing, but I think that that first inning last
night against the Cubs was just a disaster. They don't
have that inning, they win the game, and Freddie Parolta
pitch's game one of the championship series. The pitching's totally
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set up. Now, best case scenario, they survive and they
had to use up Freddy. Anyway, let's talk about football.
Enough about baseball, let's first turn our attention to college football.
Once I found myself talking about Indiana every week. But
one of the feature games this week, which I think
is really interesting is Indiana, which continues to look like
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a powerhouse in the Big Ten, either winning big or
winning by just enough. And they face Oregon, who might
be one of the best teams in the country. They
started this skid that Penn State had. They're both unbeaten.
The game is out there in Oregon. Oregon's a pretty
hefty favorite. Really hard to evalue it. I think how
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good both of these teams are. Is this the week
that Indiana gets its come up and said is blown
out of the stadium? Or do they make another statement here?
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Well? The line the line move is interesting because it
open Oregon nine and a half and it's down to seven.
So those are guys that bet money for a living
that move that quickly down to seven. I don't know
necessarily agree or disagree with it. The East to West thing,
Let's talk about something first before I get to the
East to the West Big Ten. Both these teams are
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a lead on both sides of the ball. If you
look at their numbers so far this season, there's eighteen
teams in college that average at least seven yards per play,
and there's twenty two defenses that allow four and a
half yards per play or less, there's five that do both,
and these are two of the five, along with Ohio
State Old Dominion in Texas Deck, so two very good teams.
The east to West thing would worry me a little bit.
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Since the start of last season, teams going from the
Midwest or the East to play in the West Coast
are four and fourteen straight up and five twelve and one.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Again, No, I never would have thought that. I know,
it's hard to go the other way, time zone and
all of that stuff, but you know, and West Coast
isn't all the same. You know, you go to play UCLA,
you're at an empty stadium. You go to play Oregon
and you're in a rock as packed home field stadium.
I never would have not thought it would have been
that drastic. There's probably no reason for it other than
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home field advantage, but it's obviously something to take into consideration.
And now that the Big Ten stretches from coast to coast,
it's probably something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
I guess, yeah, definitely. I ran those numbers yesterday and
I was a little shocked too, not only straight up
but against the spread too, only five twelve and one.
Oregon's won forty one of the last forty two home games.
They're tough to beat there. And just Signetty, the head
coach of Indiana, put what he's done in perspective quick
He's sixteen and two at Indiana. Before he came the
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previous four years they won fifteen games total in four
years and he's sixteen and two there, so he's turned
them around quick well.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
And Lanning, the coach of Oria. You might have the
two best coaches at all of college college football in
this game. Dan Lanning at Oregon is just you know,
that's always been a good offensive program. He ran the
defense at Georgia and now they're just good on both
sides of the ball. Another really interesting game, Wisconsin plays Iowa.
The game is in Madison on Saturday. This is probably
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Wisconsin's best chance for a win. Iowa was a very
good team, but as usual with their offense, isn't that good.
Wisconsin has no offense, but their defense has looked better
and better. I believe Iowa is favored by three or
three and a half, which is the smallest side in
Wisconsin seine in a couple of weeks. Do the Badgers
have a chance to win this game? And do they
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have any kind of an offense, given that they appeared
to now be committed for maybe the rest of the
season to Hudter Simmons, the third stringer transfer from Southern Illinois,
as their quarterback.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Well, don't expect much offense in this game. Obviously. This
is the lowest total of the season in college football,
right around thirty five points, so it hadn't been anything
lower this season. Both offenses are poor. I mean, they
both rank in the bottom twenty in yards per game,
yards for play, all that kind of stuff. Wisconsin's dead
last in scoring in the Big Ten. Wisconsin struggled offensively
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this year, and now they play a really good defense
that's had their number the last two years. And to
put it in perspective, mark the last two seasons against Iowa.
Wisconsin's had twenty five offensive possessions and scored one touchdown
in the last two seasons against Iowa. They need to
find some offense somehow. I think they'll slow Iowa down.
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But you know, Iowa might get to thirteen points and
win this game. They might not have to get to
more than that. I don't know if Wisconsin's going to
score more than a couple of touchdowns even if they
get to that. The one thing Wisconsin has I don't
want to say has going for them, but this is
the one game they focused on the offseason, the number
one game they focused on after losing forty two to
ten and giving up over three hundred yards rushing last year.
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A lot of Iowa talk, forty two pushups after practice
for the Iowa game, all that kind of stuff. So
they're really focused on that game. Are they good enough
to make it matter? I don't, And they have to.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
Do it with a third string quarterback, and just third Yeah,
who's looked better I think than the second string quarterback.
But neither of them approached for Billy Edwards, who I
think he's out for the season. They're not committing to that,
but I don't see any particular sign that magically he's
going to have a good knee. Again, let's turn our
attention to the NFL and start with the Packers game.
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The Packers Bengals game the middle of this week got
a lot more interesting than it did before. The Bengals
now have a new quarterback. Their star quarterback, Joe Burrow
is out for many more weeks. They traded to Cleveland
for Joe Flacco, who is about eighty six years old,
but isn't bad. He not good, but he isn't bad
(55:34):
the Packers. Yeah, poll points out. He already beat the Packers.
He's got an opportunity to beat the Packers twice with
different teams before the middle of the before the middle
of October. Very very interesting game. First of all, is
Flacco going to start just after a couple of practices
and your thoughts on the Packers and the Bengals in
green Bay?
Speaker 3 (55:53):
Yeah, it sounds like he's going to start, which is
you know, I don't know if that's good for green
Bay or bad for green Bay.
Speaker 2 (56:00):
First of all, Browning, Jake Browning was terrible for Cincinnati.
I mean, they had no offense at all after Burrow.
Speaker 3 (56:05):
Had done no. They've scored thirty seven total points in
the last three games, so they can't score. Can Flacco
come in one week and beat a savior there? I
don't know. I mean he's thirty first out of thirty
two starting quarterbacks and QBR, ahead of only cam Ward
of the Titans. He hasn't been great, and as Paul said,
he beat green Bay already, but he beat green Bay
(56:25):
by because the defense.
Speaker 2 (56:27):
Yeah, Cleveland's defense beat Green Bay. Joe Flacco didn't do
anything to beat to beat Green Bay. And if the
Packers lose, it's going to have to be the same thing.
I think for Cincinnati's defense beats Green Bay and that's.
Speaker 3 (56:40):
Not gonna happen. I'm in their defense ranks twenty fifth
or lower in scoring, total yards, pretty much everything. And
if you take up Cincinnati's first game against Cleveland, where
they held a bad offense to sixteen points, they've allowed
thirty five points per game from that point on. You know,
I just don't think they can stay in this game.
There's a reason Green Bay's favored by fourteen points. One
of the Packer.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
The Packers need to kill somebody. They need to get
their mojo back, and it's off the by, it's in Lambeau,
Cincinnati is you know, it's everything points and if Green
Bay doesn't win big, there's reasons to be really concerned
about what the Packers are. Like a lot of other
interesting games in the NFL, I mean, you've got Detroit
playing Kansas City and so on. The one I cherry
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picked out though, is the Seahawks and the Jaguars. They're
both having very good seasons, and I think it's fair
to say that not many people expected either of them
to have very good seasons. In both cases, however, there's
just a sense that it's a mirage. I mean, I
have no clue as to how Jacksonville beat Kansas City
(57:43):
last week, but they beat Kansas City last week. I mean,
they're all gained by eighteen zillion yards. They had to
score on a remarkable touchdown run by Trevor Lawrence, whose
quarterback stats are not any good at all. Seattle, they're
in a really, really tough division. They look to me
like maybe they were the worst team in that division,
but they're not. Another two of them faced one another.
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Give me your thoughts on the Seahawks and the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (58:07):
Yeah, Seattle's off a tough wall. We were on Seattle
last week at home against Tampa They lost that game.
They averaged eight point six yards per play on offense
in that game. But their defense, who had been really good,
was not good last week against Tampa Bay. And and
on a side, no Tampa Bay one on the last
second field goal. Again, Tampa Bay has got four wins
this year have all come in the last minute, and
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three of their last three other four wins have come
in the final six seconds of the game.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
So the weird thing about Tampa Bay is every week
the points spread in their game it's three three, they're
favored by three or dog by three. It's always three,
and sometimes the infrontal the three and a half.
Speaker 3 (58:42):
Anyway, Yeah, that's because they win on the last play.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
Of the game, I guess.
Speaker 3 (58:46):
So neither team's in great situation. Obviously, Seattle's longest travel
you can probably make. But Jacksonville off Monday night and
you mentioned they got out game four hundred and seventy
six to three nineteen Jacksonville doing it.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
We'll took the chiefs of that game, and it was
just it was Kansas City played better. In fact, Kansas
City's another hard read in the Detroit Kansas City game
this weekend, which we don't have time to get to.
Really really tough call as well, because Kansas City is
usually they're worse than their record. This year they're better.
They're better than the record. Anyway, finish off your thought
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of Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (59:21):
Mike, Yeah, Jacksonville's winning because of the turnover margin. We
know how important that is in the NFL. They're plus
eight turnovers. They got fourteen takeaways, which is four more
than anyone else in the NFL. And last week they
won by three points despite a ninety nine yard interception return.
That's a fourteen point swing and they still had to
score in the last few seconds to win that game.
They shouldn't have won that game, Paul, that was a tough,
(59:42):
tough loss there. You know, if they can keep creating turnovers,
they're going to keep winning. That's just the way it is.
I don't think Jacksonville's as good as their record.
Speaker 2 (59:52):
There's a lot of teams that are as good as
their record this year, and there's a lot of teams
that seem better than their records. But nineteen million coaches
have said, your record is your record, all right, speaking
of records, I'm having a very good year with my
picks here, and nobody else said. This program seems to be.
Paul was the only losey last week with that aforementioned
lost to Jacksonville. Took the Chiefs to win by four
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or more. Mike got off the Schneider had a very
good pick. Cincinnati. That's college Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati. They
beat Iowa State. They were favored by one and a half,
and I think that it was an eight point game
and kind of dominated them. Cincinnati is one of those
kind of under the radar teams in college football that
appears to be pretty good, and I had to win
as well. I'm now five and one. I'm going to
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keep going out about five on one, because Paul, after
this week, I'm going to be five and two. I
could not find a game that I liked. I just
could not. Anyway. I took the Lions to beat the
Bengals by more than ten, and it was only thirteen,
but a little misleading there. They were up twenty eight
to I think three in the late in the third quarter,
and Cincinnati scored a couple of late touchdowns two point
(01:00:54):
conversion and Detroit got a safety and all of that
at the end. But I won and I covered that.
All right, All of that is the past. Let's get
to this weekend, Paul. You get to go first. Which
game are games you want to hear? The line on
the Bears at the Commanders every week he asked me
about a game that's impossible to figure out. I have
(01:01:14):
no clue on that game. Let me find it. The
Bears at the Commanders games in Washington. It's on Monday night,
and the Commanders, who still don't have Daniels, are four
and a half point favorites. They were looked much better
last week than most people thought they would. Let me
find that here he's asking you, surely, oh, here it is.
(01:01:43):
That's that's yeah. There's two Monday night games. That's a
little mixed up. There's two Monday night games, which is
really stupid that they did. Don't we all agree that
that's stupid. Well, especially they're up against it's going to
be there's two Major League Baseball playoff games that night
that night too, and hopefully the Brewers that were in
one of them. If they're not in one of them,
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it's because they've lost the cub Series altogether. Anyway, that game,
Buffalo is at Atlanta and the Bills are favored by
four and a half on the road four and a half.
They're both four and a half. You're going to take
Washington to beat the Bears by more than four and
a half. By the way, before you get to that,
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do you prefer Buffalo or Atlanta? You would have taken Buffalo.
I would have taken Atlanta, but as I said, I
don't have a strong opinion on anything. I think we're
talking about teams. Some teams are not as good as
their record, and other teams are better than the record.
I think Buffalo has struck me as a team that
is nowhere near as good as their record. They just
seem to have. They don't seem as strong to be
(01:02:47):
as they were as I thought they were going to be. Anyway,
you're saying the Commanders over the Bears. Boy, these are
too completely question mark teams to me that are hard
to figure out. I mean, why do you like the Commanders?
Paul says, the Bears are off the by The Bears
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just came off of they had a win before their bye.
You say, yeah, Dallas, But well, how did Green Bay
do against that same Dallas team. I mean, Washington doesn't
have the quarterback, but they're still putting up points. But
their defense is She's I have no clue on that game,
but I'm kind of clueless on every game in the
(01:03:29):
NFL this weekend. What are your thoughts of the Bears
in Washington?
Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Yeah, Bears are in a better situation. I mean, they
have the week off and Washington played in LA last week.
But Daniels is back. He played last week?
Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Is back. I guess I was mixed up about that.
There's so many quarterbacks that have been heard of it
and mixed up about who's back and who isn't.
Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Okay, Daniels playing, Yeah, he played last week. Chicrgo's coming
off a bye. They beat the Raiders two weeks ago,
the twenty five to twenty four and got dominated yardage
wise by the Raiders. This is the infamous hail Mary
from last week. If last year, if you remember Washington
scored on like a fifty five yard hail Mary at
the buzzer to beat Chicago last week. If you're the
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last year, if you remember that game, I don't have
a real feel on this game. We probably won't use
it either way.
Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Okay, give me a gamer games you'd like her about Mike.
Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Let's stay in the NFL. Let's look at the game
we talked about Seattle.
Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Jacksonville, Seattle and Jacksonville. All right, Yeah, that game is
in Jacksonville and the line is one and a half.
The Jaguars are favorite at home by one and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
I'm taking Seattle, You're taking Seattle.
Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Well, Jacksonville just came off of one of the most
implausible wins I've ever seen. Seattle is as we're saying
that they're better than I thought they'd be. You like
the Seahawks on the road. This is one of those
West Coast teams going over and playing on the East
Coast and the long trip and all of that. But
we went through some of your thoughts and give me
the reason that you tip over towards Seattle.
Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Yeah, that's the only thing I'd don't like about this
game is Seattle going to the west going to the
East Coast. Again. We talked about it. Seattle is off
a loss where they probably should have won. They're going
to the East Coast against Jaguars on a short week,
which kind of negates the long travel, coming off their
biggest win in three or four years, a game they
never should have won. Jacksonville's had three or four games
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they probably shouldn't have won this year. We talked about
the turnovers. Jacksonville is getting out gained yards for playing
yards per game this year in their games, Seattle has
the second best yards per play margin in the NFL.
They have much better numbers offensively and defensively. Seattle's the
better team here, they're getting points. If Jacksonville doesn't get
two or three turnovers again from Seattle, I think. I
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think Seattle wins this game. So I'm gonna take Seattle
plus the one and a half all.
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Right time to get a pick for me. And as
I say, I struggled, part of me wants to take
the Lions again to beat Kansas City. They're an underdog
for having sakes against Kansas City, and Detroit's offense just
is unstoppable. But there's something that bothers me about that game,
and that is that I can't get a full rid
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on Kansas City right now. And I also think that
Kansas City needs to win a whole lot more than
Detroit does, so I just can't go there. So I'm
not doing that. I talk myself out of about a
zillion other games, so I'm gonna get it out of
the way very very early. I've got a game that's
going on tonight, and you talk about an innocuous game
in which hardly anybody listening to me is gonna know anything.
(01:06:28):
But either of these teams, they're both pretty good. Though.
I'm going into the AAC, the American Association Conference East
Carolina is at Tulane. Toulane, of course, is from New Orleans.
Tulane at home is favored by six and a half,
and I'm taking East Carolina. East Carolina is off to
a pretty good start. They're only bad loss so far
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was to BYU, who's really really good. Tulane just does
not have much offense. Tulane started the season with a
couple of impressive wins, and they paced it Northwestern. But
I don't think they have a lot of offense. The
quarterback isn't any good at all, is competing only fifty
four percent of his passes. East Carolina's quarterback is competing,
completing sixty eight percent of his passes. The Tulane coach
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is an overrated guy named some Row. East Carolina's coach
is a genius. He took over in the middle of
last season on an interim basis from the head coach there.
His name was Houston, and they've done nothing but win
ever since. They've been rolling since that point. And I
think that they're very good on defense and decent enough
on offense. I think that they win the game straight up.
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I just think East Carolina is a better team than
people think. Also, there's been some line movement on that
game in which the line went down. In other words,
East Carolina is not getting as many points. Mike talked
about that a little bit earlier. I think East Carolina
is a better team than people think, and they can
win the game. It's a very tepid pick. However, at
a normal week, that would have been my sixth or
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seventh choice. I just really couldn't find anything I like
more than that, so went in doubt. I took an
underdog so I can get some points and maybe, if
nothing else, lose by six points and still cover the spread.
Do you have any thoughts in that game? I know
you know about every single game that's being played this weekend,
what about that one?
Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
Yeah? No, I don't disagree with that. The line came
from plus seven nine and plus six and a half,
which is telling it.
Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
In the early season, line was higher, and the power
ratings at the beginning of the year were higher, and
Tulane was expected to contend to win the conference in
East Carolina and the second half, and I think after
what we've seen right now, I think the teams are
equivalent teams. I don't know if Tulaane is a home
field advantage planned on there. They used to have to
play in the super Dome. They don't do that anymore.
(01:08:39):
They've got a campus, they think on the stadium. But
anything else you want to give me, I want to
hear any other reason I'm right. Do you have any
other reason to think I'm right?
Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
Mike, No, I definitely agree with that side. I do
if you look at Tulanes played a little bit tougher schedule.
But if you look at just the statistics, and that
can sometimes be misillading, but East Carolina's a top thirty
offense and defense. Tulane ranks around seventieth offense and their
defense is below one hundred, ranked one hundreds.
Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
I looked at both of those numbers. East Carolina also,
even though they don't score a lot of points, they
play at a high pace, and I know you talk
about that whole pace factory and so on. They've got
an innovative offensive guy. And as I say, the quarterback
over there isn't bad, and Tulane's quarterback just u isn't
any good at all. One other quick point, not to
obsess on my game. East Carolina's off the by They
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played Army two weeks ago, Army always moves the ball
because they've got that unique running game. They held Army
to six points and Army's okay, Army beat Kansas State
this year. They beat him twenty eight to six. I
was just impressed by that game. That's a beatdown on
both sides of the ball of a team in their
conference and one that usually puts up a fair number
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of points. So I think East Carolina's defense can hold
to lane and check. So that's my thought.
Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
Yeah, don't disagree with that, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Mike's website is ASA wins dot com. You can see
what he and his partner Lee have going on, and
they mentioned they have a special little come up. We're
doing this on Thursday afternoon, a little bit later on,
so check their website and see what's going on there
ASA wins dot com. That's it for this weekend for
today's podcast. Back on Monday.
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