Mark Belling Podcast #74: If No Kings is the other side, I’m glad I’m on my side (looked like the Woodstock crowd’s 56th reunion), is the trans movement already peaking, and the seven year I-94 East-West rebuild is here (what happened to all the lefties who opposed it?).

Mark discusses the insanely inflated crowd count for the No Kings marches of aging hippies.   Also, seven years of traffic hell as the long-awaited I-94 Milwaukee widening commences, a final take on the Brewers and a look at a new study that says trans identification has peaked.

 

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Speaker 2 (00:23):
All right, now, let's start with the obvious. The left lies.
I think we all know that, right, obvious example. There's
millions of obvious examples. Trump colluded with the Russians in
twenty sixteen, probably the biggest. The Hunter Biden laptop is fake.
That's another one. COVID didn't come out of the lab.

(00:43):
It came out of like wet markets where they sell
bats in China, et cetera, et cetera. We know that
they lie. Even by the standards of that. The lie
being told about the note King's rally is off the charts.
Now here's the thing about live. If you can get
away with lying, why fib right, what's the point of fibbing?

(01:05):
If you can get away, just go is insanely in
come up with the biggest lie possible. As long as
you're able to get away with the lie. You know,
if you can steal money, you may as well steal
every penny that therever you're stealing. Is that am I
not right about this. Well, that's my point about getting

(01:27):
away with it. You adding in your if there's no ramifications, Well,
what do you think getting away with something is that
there's no ramifications for it? Paul's contribution for the program
for this year, they're no King's Rally. So they claimed
they claim that across the country seven million people participated.

(01:48):
You realize that that is that there's roughly three hundred
I think three hundred and thirty three hundred and forty
million people in the United States right now. Seven million.
That's more people than live in Wisconsin. I'll do round numbers.
It's like one of every fifty man, women, and child

(02:09):
in the air. Are you telling me that one out
of every fifty human beings in the United States? That's
just ridiculous. For one thing, we saw the profile of
who they are. There wasn't a single one of them
under the edge of forty five. So knock all of
them out. So there's these disclaimers. I've got the prededition

(02:32):
of the newspaper here and I've got both headlines, and
they put in these disclaimers that go in this case
in one eye and out the rack at the back
of your brain. The first they have the Wisconsin number,
and then the national no Kings drew seven million. Organizers say,
organizers say I'm twenty six feet tall. Belling says. The

(02:55):
fact that I say it does an't have anything to
do with anything. Now. Of course they put in the
organizers because they don't want to do an estimate themselves.
And who are they, well sorrows at all. We'll get
to that surely seven million. So what they do, obviously
is they take all these local numbers and I guess
add them up here in Milwaukee. There's a separate story

(03:19):
for the number of people. And I can speak with
great authority to this because I had a literally a
bird's eye view of this themselves. Sixteen thousand rallied in Milwaukee.
I'm just telling you, this is the circus Parade all
over again. In terms of inflating crowd couds sixteen thousand.
I'm coming up with my guess as to what the

(03:43):
algorithm would be, and I think it's I don't know, ten.
That might be high. I think in Milwaukee they might
have gotten a sick sixteen hundred, but that's generous. Also,

(04:05):
these people were really really old. Those who started marching
may not have been there at the end. I've been
told that there were poor people at the Metro Market
and Van Buren Street who are stuck in the parking
lot for an hour because the thing went up with
that and they couldn't get out of the parking lot.
I mean, you buy your milk, is spoiling in the
car and all of that stuff. I saw them near

(04:25):
the lakefront. My estimate, and I'm pretty good at this,
is about sixteen hundred. They covered two and a half
two blocks maybe, and then you know the Mathemaill, so
sixteen that's a lie. So if in Milwaukee it was
one to ten, does that mean that nationally it was
seven hundred thousand and not seven million? Possible, but that

(04:47):
could be a lie to Also, let's imagine you work
for a pro sports team. One of the things that
they have is they have scouts. Do you have to
explain what a scout is? Well, I didn't ask you that.
You're not of any help today, you say, I do
not have to explain it. For those of you who
don't know what approach sports team scout is, I'm not

(05:08):
going to tell you because Paul says, I don't have
to tell you. If I'm the guy that's scouting the opposition,
I am telling you there's nothing to worry about with
this bunch, the same people that have been doing this
crap for the last fifty years that I'm killing you.

(05:29):
Unlike me, they've not aged well, oh my goodness, gracious.
Aside from the Palestinians that were mingled into the thing,
I think the average age of this bunch was one
hundred and four. Cranky, bearded, smelly, uncombed, grade out hippies.

(05:55):
That's what it is. Mostly mostly other than and as
I say, a handful of Palestinian supporters, all old, all white,
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you line dot com. I'm telling you it's the same bunch.
You can go back to the sixties when it was
the war, the early seventies when it was the environment,
the late seventies when it was no nyukes. It's the
same bunch of them, thinned out by death and the

(06:59):
fact that many of them are on walkers. But it's
the same bunch, bitter, haggard, unattractive. I mean, I smart,
they try it. I mean you have to work at
it to be as unattractive as these people. You know,
seventy two years old, you got one of these, not
one of the long beard ones, but like these thick

(07:20):
beards that I think only because you're too lazy to
trim them. What's left of your hair is kind of
riding around all over the place. Your clothes look like
they're thirteen years old. You have to almost work at
it to make it a caricature of yourself, to look
as awful as these people look. Boh for Bernie Sanders

(07:41):
in this, he'd be the best looking bunch of them.
He cleans himself up in Congress, and he wears a
suit and a tie. What was almost absent in this
was any indication of young people on any indication of
people of color, with as I say, exception some of
the ones that are I guess supporters of Alisaida. You
could just see this byther sign the whole thing. You know,

(08:03):
this thing is no kings, which means there's nobody even
knows what that means. So they got this. They don't
have like commonality of their signs. The signs are all
over the map, with everything under the sun bull points.
There weren't a lot of blacks. I think my side
might have done some like undercover infiltration where it had
screwed them up and claim that this was an assault

(08:24):
on MLK no Kings and you know, maybe black, you say,
what these whites are? They're trying to get rid of
MLK day no Kings. So let's start with the whole
thing that the numbers being reported are just totalized. They
don't make any sense, and it wasn't what it was
and anybody who saw it with their own I saw
it with my own eyes. There weren't sixteen thousand people there.

(08:46):
It's making it up to even claim that it's close
to that. But again, if you're them, why not just
inflight the number? Why I'd say fifty thousand in Milwaukee.
Why I'd say nationally one hundred million. Say that one
out of every three the human beings is saying in
the United States of America was taking part of this?
Why not as long as you're going to make it up.
When you come up with a seven million and you

(09:07):
understand that these things are mostly held in the big cities, Well,
whatever lefties are of the big cities want, they drove
two hundred miles to take part. I don't think that
was happening. Now about all of this. I'm going to
get it into in just a second year where this
all comes from, because there is something of a paper trail,

(09:30):
and we know where the organizational is coming from. It's
basically three or four billionaires who've created foundations that set
up the organizing of this. But with regard to Trump
and the general realignment in American politics that's been going on,
as I've been telling you, you're not getting a lot
of young people whose concerns are very precise and they're

(09:51):
not particularly concerned about the whole no King's thing. Because
I take the millennial group, they want a king, they
want to be told what to do. They don't want
I want to make any decisions. Fauci says, put on
a mask. They put on a mask. This is the
generation that's been told what the thing forever and ever
and ever. With regard to African Americans, I'm killing you.

(10:13):
They have nothing in common with these motley, old white
goats that are wandering around. They don't see any commonality
with them. Furthermore, the reason that they come up with
this whole no kings thing is they can't figure out
what policy it is of Trump to oppose, since most
of what he's actually done has worked, so they go

(10:33):
after that. He's trying to govern as a king, which
is comical given the last two democratic administration that ends
a and the edicts that came down from them. I'm
telling you, though, based on what I've seen, every time
you see a hers go by, you're seeing one more
lefty go away, because it appears as though they've commandeered

(10:56):
the sickly in bad health. All the comments I've ever
made about what happens when you smoke pod for sixty years,
I just will. I'll cite this thing as proof. You know,
the other thing I see every rally there is I
live downtown even as this one was actually credit quiet.

(11:16):
I'm telling you this had nothing that like the George Floyd,
the defund the police rallies way more. I mean they're
honking horns and they had cars. In this one. Here
you had the typical like they always have somebody beating
the drums so somebody hears them. They hardly had any drums.
The chatting, you couldn't hear anything because they couldn't get
it out. They're all too old. Ah, I mean, how

(11:39):
much you're gonna get out of that? About this we
have based on some reporting, much of it admittedly coming
from groups on the right and attempt who track the

(12:02):
funding of this. Much of it comes through dark money
funding and some of the estimates. One of this is
from a poster on the Internet Seamus Bruner. The Arabella Network,
which has been written about extensively, seventy nine million, so
US Network seventy two million, the Ford Network fifty one million,

(12:24):
Tides forty five point five, the Rockefeller Foundation twenty eight
point six, Warren Buffett's money sixteen point six. What happens
is these billionaires create foundations and the money. When I
use the term laundering, people think that that means illegally.
In this case, it's just filtered from one group to
another to another to another, which is perfectly legal to do,
but it means that you can't always tie the money
directly to the individual who came up with it in

(12:45):
the first place, even though it's their money. What I
think is noteworthy is that the gist of this movement
right now tends to be either supporters of Palestinians who

(13:05):
are completely confused as to who they're supposed to oppose
right now, given the fact that Hamas has decided to
start killing Palestidians in their attempt to not allow any
of the militias in Gaza to take away power from them,
and the Trump seems to be the one that is
trying to give them a piece deal that would allow
them to exist Aside from them, it's aging baby boomers.

(13:35):
As someone who is an aging baby boomer, let me
tell you something about the general population's view of aging
baby boomers. Nobody wants to be like them. Hey, world,
who's aspiring to be old? The whole thing you know
of influence, Youn't you understand what an influencer is? Don't you?
You have daughters? You know what an influencer is if

(13:55):
you were going to choose influencers, would you choose any
of them? Now, there are old influencers. Here's the way
of hiring an effective oldie. Now, if you were going
to hire an old influencer, where do you go? Paul's
wandering away over what are you doing? Storming out on
the program? You're being offended because I'm referring to old
white people and you're you're thinking that that's an assault
on you if you were going to hire an old

(14:18):
baby boomer influencer. Seriously, it's not a sarcastic question. Who
would you hire? Well, I'll tell you all, look at
who is the one that they're getting it. Somebody who
is a glamorous athlete or movie star when they were younger.
Why do you think Joe Namath is doing all that?
Joe Namath, Jose thisman they like have all the prostate
pills and the memory pills and all. That's what you do.

(14:38):
You choose someone who at one point in life was
like a glamorous, young, flamboyant person and is still kind
of held it out, held it together. Joe Namath, jothe
Eisman and so on. You don't choose these decrepit old people.
I want to say, but I'd be lying. I don't
know why I shn't just lie, given the fact that

(14:58):
they're like I want to say that I saw all
sorts of people and walkers of the thing, but I
actually didn't. I'd love to be able to lie and
make that up. But there's no point in me telling
a lie. But I because by being honest about the
whole thing, I've got both the high ground and the
low ground. The low ground and that I'm making fun
of my elders, and the high ground did that. Everything
I'm saying is true is opposed to them lying and
claiming that it's a steam anyway. Sixteen million. There's one

(15:26):
place that was wiped out empty on Saturday afternoon, retirement homes.
They were dead empty because they got every one of
those people out of that the ones that could move
were brought out. This is the group of people whose
lives peaked when they were twenty four, When they were

(15:50):
protesting then it was cool we're against the war, or
slightly earlier, marching for civil rights, even the early stages
ironmental movement. Earth Day, that was a cool and trendy thing.
Rock and roll singers were on your side and writing
your songs, and you were fighting against the man, were
on the whole rage against the machine thing, etc. But

(16:13):
their lives, as I say, peaked at twenty four. They've
been miserably unhappy ever since. So all they're doing is
channeling the days in which they were having fun when
they were younger and protesting the ones that have become billionaires.
Like Sorrows. He's not out there actually marching himself, He's
just bankrolling the whole thing. But the ones that are

(16:34):
trotting themselves out there trotting out because they have no
meaning in life other than to do this. One of
the things that started them was, you know, they were
the peace save the world crowd. Well, now the biggest
peacenick on the planet is Trump. He's the guy that
doesn't want us to use our military in anything other
than the kill drug dealers who are killing Americans. Other

(16:55):
than that, he's trying to broke her peace all over
the world. And they're the ones. They're the Obama Hillary
Clinton crowd that wants to bomb everybody, and they now
are what they are. Ted Cruz was on Fox News
over the weekend. He's been focusing on. See Ted doesn't

(17:16):
have I want to say that Ted is term limited out.
He's not term limited out in terms of the Senate.
He's term limited out in terms of his career. He's
not going to be the Republican candidate for president at
any point in the future. There's a chance he can
become a Supreme Court justice, but then again he's got
to be confirmed. So he's sitting there and he's the

(17:38):
United States Senator from Texas, and it gives him a
great platform. So what he's doing is he's going after
and kind of like Ron Johnson, going into and looking
into issues that others aren't tapping into. He's been on
the Open Secrets Foundation. Everybody I know that people on
the right are absolutely terrible at understanding the enemy. That's sorrows.

(18:02):
That's one of his foundations. And Ted Cruz is on
this and trying to follow the money. I think I
said open Secrets, it's open Society. I just got done
making fun of people who don't know the names of
the NY budget Open Society fun Cruise is pointing out
that they issued a two year grant of three million

(18:23):
dollars to the organization called indivisible. That's another one of
the names of these groups that are out there. And again,
as I've been saying, the money is always laundry. Now
people hear the word laundered and they think that that
means it's illegal. It's not illegal. But you start with
Sorrows who creates a foundation, and then they kick it
down to another group, this indivisible group. But if you're

(18:43):
wondering where all of these people come from, they're all
on somebody's payroll. The thing that made Charlie Kirk so
indispensable is it became the one organization on the right
that had a payroll ended organizing as well as you know,
without Charlie Kirk, without turning point, I don't think Trump's
the president because they did as much and maybe even

(19:07):
more ground level organizing than all the lefty groups did
in the last election. It is not a coincidence that
the college dormitory suddenly became a Trump stronghold, given the
fact that Charlie Kirk's organization was in the dorms like
Crazy encountered the impact of the left. The Charlie Kirk
organization isn't laundering the money down two to three to

(19:30):
four different levels. They just call themselves Turning put. It
all stems on the same thing, Charlie. Charlie raised a
lot of money and created this network. It is a
terrible loss that he's gone, and we don't know whether
or not Turning Point or made its effective in his absence.
But with regard to all this stuff on the left,

(19:50):
it's all organized. The thing that they are missing right now,
and it's the thing the left is usually very very
good at. Is they lack and anti Trump miss because
there's no particular issue for them to rally a ground.
What's the biggest of the policy decisions Trump has made.
You can't get anything going from them opposing tariffts because

(20:12):
deep down a good fifty percent of the left he
support the tarrofsts because they've always hated the dumping of
foreign goods in the United States and taken away jobs
and lower income workers and so on. So it can't
be that. It's really hard for them to come out
and oppose Trump's attempts to bring peace around the world,

(20:34):
So they can't come up with that one. So instead
it's well, this whole no Kings thing, which is this
idea that Trump is trying to function as a dictator
of the world. But again, how far does that dog
hunt given the fact that it was Biden that was criminal,
like charging Trump and all of his allies for things
that they never did. Let us move onward to another

(20:55):
interesting story. And as you know, I like to pick
up an interesting stories hardly anybody who is picking up
on this story in particular, was first deported by Wisconsin
right now. This is something percolating under the surface that
I am trying to bring right to the surface. Wisconsin
is one of the few states left in the United
States where you cannot legally bet online. Take I guess,

(21:20):
I know, I just kind of tipped it off. There's
fifty states. I'm not counting DC or the territories of
the fifty states. How many of them have legalized online
sports betting? Take your guess fort well, that's a dumb guess.
We're one of the only two that's two high. It's
thirty nine. It's thirty nine. Wisconsin is one of the

(21:42):
eleven that has not. In Wisconsin, the only entity that
can run gambling legally is a Native American tribe. That,
of course, in addition to the state which runs a lottery.
Nobody else can legally offer gambling in Wisconsin. This was
the Jim Doyle giveaway compact with the Native American tribes.

(22:04):
When the Native American tribes are bringing in their casinos,
Doyle for a pittance cut deals. That stated and it
stated right in them, nobody else can offer any gambling
at all. As you recall, I objected strongly at the time.
Most people were yawning, not understanding the gambling was going
to spread all over the United States. Here in Wisconsin

(22:26):
we get very little money from it. The states that
do not restrict their gambling to Native American tribes are
making a fortune. I'll give you an example. Mississippi is
king of the hill here. You wouldn't think Mississippi, but
Mississippi in the Biloxi region. It's Biloxia in a couple
of communities adjacent there's numerous casinos under the big giant

(22:49):
casino companies, but the same ones that are in Las Vegas.
They're taxed at a very very high level because they're
Unbelievably I'm told by people that people that are sick
of Vegas at all the pot would love Biloxi. I've
not been to auty of the Biloxi casinos and so on.
But it's opened anybody out there. Even Illinois has casinos

(23:13):
that are run by private, for profit companies all over
the state. They manage it badly because they've limited them
in terms of size and so on, but they're so
star for money. They're changing that. In Wisconsin, Doyle and
an attempt to get big money for his reelection from
the Pottawatomies and the ho Chunk and the Oneida, who
are the big ones, cut these deals that said you

(23:35):
could open your casinos and nobody can offer any competing
private gambling. Nobody. So that means now that the Native
American tribes have started sports betting, nobody else can come
in and compete with them. I don't know if you
all knew that. And for those of you that I mean,
I'm sure you've seen on TV commercials for uh. DraftKings

(23:56):
is one of the biggest You've seen all the DraftKings commercials. Right,
it's not dawn on you that Draft Kings you can't.
You can only use DraftKings for fantasy. Fantasy is not
considered gambling, which kind of a loophole. You can do
fantasy legally in Wisconsin, but other than that all these
bets that they're saying, you can't use draft kings in
Wisconsin because it's only open to tribes. There is, however,

(24:18):
in the compact with the state something that ham strings
the tribes, and that is to do the sports betting,
you have to do it on premise. Paul Dwaft to
explain what on premise means? No, he's telling me, I
don't have to explain anything. I don't. You're telling me now,
I don't have to explain anything again. And the only
time you're gonna tell me you have to explain something

(24:38):
is what it's something you don't know. So in order
to bet a sports on Patawada mean you actually have
to go there. First of all, this is not the
way it is hardly anywhere else in the United States.
Almost everywhere you have an app. So if you're in
the state, you bet on your phone, and you know

(24:58):
people will make I vets during games and so on.
At Potawatamy, you have to go to Potawatamy. Now, pot
of Watamy is trying to make it convenient. I don't
know where everybody else parks, but it seems to me
that everybody parks in the parking lot and when the
skywalk from the parking lot, that's where the machines are.
They also have a big giant sports book where you
can bet and watch the games. But you can walk
right in across the skywalk and make the bed and leave.

(25:21):
But I mean, unless you live near downtown Milwaukee, that's
a drive. And secondly, it is something of a hassle
at third l I'm just telling you as somebody who's
pretty good at parking garages, the Potawatamy parking garages flummocks me.
As long as they had it built. It's very confusing. Oddly,
the Milwaukee Airport parking garage is very easy to understand.

(25:41):
You would think you just think that that would be
all screwed up. I think it's because our airport is
so small. How could you screw it up? Yeah, you
have to be on premise. Well, obviously that means that
the tribes and the big ones in Wisconsin are ho
Chunk Oneida which is the Green Baker, and Potawatami and Milwaukee.

(26:02):
If they were allowed to have people bet on an
app anywhere in the state, they would make I think
this is conservatively five hundred times more. That's my belief.
I think they would do five hundred times more action
than having to drive down and go into the building.
But the reason that they can't offer through the app
is it's not in the compact with the state of Wisconsin.

(26:26):
There are members of the legislature, it's bipartisan, that are
now proposing to change that and allow online sports betting
with the tribes. I'm going to weigh in on this.
I think that this is a terrible bill. Here's why.

(26:46):
As it is, and again I'm not blaming the tribes
of this, but they are ripping us off. Again, here's
what I'm not blaming them for it. If you've got
a governor, let's imagine you got some baldheaded guy like
Doyle who comes in and gives you the bargain of
a lifetime in which you get to screw the people
of Wisconsin. Why wouldn't you take it. It's not their
fault for taking the deal that Doyle gave to them.

(27:10):
It was a wink wink, nod nod. You had to
kick a ton of money in campaign contributions to the
Democrats and so on, and then when the Republicans got in,
they gave them money to if you're going to give
the tribes this you need. I'm not a fan of taxes,
but they have a legalized monopoly. If you're going to

(27:32):
give them a legalized monopoly, you have to look out
for the taxpayers of the state, and you have to
require them to pay more to the state. They've got
this deal where you kick in a percentage of the handle,
and this would simply expand that to this. So there'd
be more money for the state because there'd be more
gambling going on. But they are not. They don't ever

(27:53):
have to worry in the history of Wisconsin. By the way,
these deals are into eternity the monopoly they have. The
only way to change it is to get the pot
of and the other tribes to agree to changes in
the compact. So before you pass the bill giving them this,
and I'm telling you that every one of the people
that's sponsoring this thing is just getting campaign money from
the Indian dribes. There's no way that they would come
up with this otherwise, in which you either require that

(28:14):
they accept competition or require a greater payment for the taxpayers.
Many are confused because they see people betting on apps
on sports. In Wisconsin. It's illegal it's done everywhere, but
it's illegal. Those apps are with companies that are based
outside the United States. There's been this gray area forever

(28:38):
with regard to commerce on the internet. If the company
taking the bet is in grab a country Belieze, which
is where some of them are. If you place a
bet with a company in Believes, is the bet being
paid in Believes or is the bet being placed in
Wisconsin where you are. What the courts have ruled and
it's never gone to the Supreme Court, is ban the

(29:00):
company from Belize from doing business from having you know,
an app that is available in the United States. But
you can't prosecute the customer from making the bet because
the bet is being placed in Belize. But you can
stop the Belize company from being able to access online
in the United States. But it's hard for an individual
state to do that. So those people are betting illegally. Now,
when I say illegally, I can't think of the last time.

(29:22):
There have been a few cases where people were prosecuted
to where they were basically bookies that were then covering
their action by betting into an offshore account. Very few
people have to worry about prosecution from it, and Also,
there's no taxes being paid on any of this stuff
because it's being done illegally, and you know, the overseas
companies running this, they're not sending ten ninety nins or
whatever it is to the federal government. I think W

(29:42):
two g's whatever they are as opposed to potawatomy. When
you hit a jackpot, the government finds out of audience
and all of it is tracked, so forth and so on.
So that's how people are doing it. They're doing it illegally.
When you do it through the illegal sources, you always
have to worry about will I get paid? Will it
go under? Will it just disappear into Internet vi will
will they be hacked and lose their all that stuff,
which you wouldn't worry about about a company that's sitting

(30:04):
here in Milwaukee. Anyway, My take on this is if
they are going to go forward and allow online sports
betting by the tribes in Wisconsin, the state has to
get a better cut of the money than they're getting
under current law. All right. Next, I actually think even
though this has been covered to death, most people are

(30:25):
not aware of the following. The East West Freeway project
is going to take seven years it starts in three
weeks roughly, it's starting in November. I just think people
aren't that aware of it. I want to give you
some background here. The East West Freeway is the widening

(30:47):
of Interstate ninety four East West portion I ninety four.
You know it curves, it goes south towards Chicago. I'm
talking the portion that runs from downtown Milwaukee to the
Waukeshaw County line West. There is a gap in the
middle of it in which the freeway has three lanes
in each direction that is being widened to four. It's

(31:10):
four west of seventy sixth Street and four east of
the stadium. Why does this clog exist? Brief background, It
was the reconstruction of the two major highway interchanges in
the city of Milwaukee number of years ago. The Marquette
Interchange was rebuilt. Boy, that seems like a long time ago.
All these things that happened like fifteen years after I

(31:32):
got here, and now I say it's a long time ago.
It makes me realize that I've been working it forever.
When the Marquette Interchange was rebuilt, it fed into four
lanes of I ninety four East West, so they created
an additional lane then, but it stopped a little bit
paid between thirty fifth Street and the ballpark. Likewise, the
other big project done several years later. I think the

(31:55):
Marquette Interchange was done in the Doyle era. It might
have even gone back to Tommy Thompson, but the Zoo
Interchange happened under Walker. The Zoo Interchange. Here's the next one,
Paul Daft explain with the Zoo Interchange is, yes, it's
the one by the Zoo. Yeah, it's the one on
the west side of Milwaukee County, middle of you know,

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it's what the freeways come together. I forty one goes north,
eight ninety four goes south, and ninety four goes east west.
They all come together. When the Zoo Interchange was rebuilt again.
You it fed out four lanes for the city of Milwaukee,
but it stops, as I said, at seventy sixth Street.
So you got this plug in the middle, and as

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anybody knows, during the rush hours, that's where it jams
up because you're feeding four lanes into three in both directions.
Slows down. So they're finally got to redo it and
it's gonna four lanes in each direction. First point of
this another indication of how long I've been here. I'm
guessing that for this is my I'm in my thirty
sixty year here on the air or online. For most

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of those years, the lefties in Milwaukee have opposed widening
the freeway. I'm ready my newspaper colub about this, and
I use a to me humorous reference. It may be
funny to nobody else, but it's very funny to be
which is all that matters. So I'm going to say
it to here online as well. You all know who
Bruce Murphy is, right, well, you all don't, but Paul
knows who Bruce Murfy is. I think Bruce Murphy's gone
through five jobs doing this. I've had basically one and

(33:23):
sort of two counting this, even though it's the same employer.
He's like the was the leader of the lefty opposed
widening the freeway thing, and he'd battle me, and I'd
battle him. And he's still around at something and I'm
still here. The lefties just stopped opposing widening the freeway.
I've always told you with regard to the left, they're

(33:46):
always proven wrong. But when they're proven wrong, they just
shut up and ignore it and move on to the
next thing. Do you know who signed the authorization to
wide nine ninety four evers one of them? And there
wasn't people protest, so they finally just got on. And
I think maybe they were worn down by Walker when

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he did the Zoo interchange getting the first mile and
a half to four lanes coming toward Milwaukee. And likewise
when they did the Marquette interchange to feed the first
four they've got it to four lanes on each end.
So this bottleneck of about forty blocks in between they've
just given up on. In any event, there is a

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template for how this will work. How long have you
been bitching about how long it was taking them to
finish Eye forty three years? Because that's how long it was.
It's almost done. It's almost done. That's what they're going
to attempt to do here. With a slight difference. They're
going to try to keep the freeway open. And when

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they did I forty three, what they basically did was
create two really narrow lanes with I don't even know
what the term is you can up with, but the
concrete medium built right up against that. There's no shoulder.
In other words, it's right up against the lane, so
they were able to do the winding but keep at
least two lanes moving in each direction. But they were
really narrow lanes and they s and zigged and zag.

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It was all s curves all over the place. But
they did keep them open. It was just a slow slog.
That's what they will attempt to do here. But the
one difference is on the east west ninety four. They're
going to do it one at a time. They're going
to do westbound first and that's going to take three
and a half years, and then in twenty twenty nine

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they'll do eastbound. So as I understand it, there won't
be a lot of activity. There may be some because
the construction of them's got to move over, but mostly
eastbound will be clear. The westbound, however, starting in this
period that we're in, they're going to restrict the lanes,
and as I say, it's going to be a traffic
nightmare forever and ever and ever. In the process, a

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lot of the interchanges will be closed because they're going
to be expanded, rebuilt in the whole thing, and so on.
So this is when I used all these cliches in
my column, like no pain, no pain, no gain. This
is the pains you get the gain of the whole thing.
And the problem with it happened now it's obvious they
should have been done in the nineteen nineties because, as
I said, traffic's going to keep Here's here was a

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simple prediction in nineteen ninety two. I said, Paul, there's
going to be more traffic in the future. The lefties
no there. This all goes back to Henry Meyer, who's
been dead forever and buried somewhere wherever his last wife
moved him to, like Georgia or whatever. Henry Meyer was
one of these Democrats that actually was sort of conservative
on a lot of things, but it was really backward

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and thinking with regard to seeing the future. And he thought,
if he built the freeways, everybody's going to move to
the suburbs. What happened is everybody moved to the suburbs anyway,
but they never had to come back to the city
because there's the freeways. So they're finally doing this one
because I think they've not one of them has ever
admitted we needed to widen the freeway. But they're suddenly
just doing it and not bitching anymore. But here's how

(36:58):
dumb they are. So now they're starting this what they
want to do. They want to knock down another one.
They knocked down seven ninety four, so it's not like
they ever learned they're incapable of arding. But the East
West Project, I think this thing is gonna starts, going
to go on for years, and I swear there are
people who just don't know that it's gonna happen. But

(37:19):
it's not because of lack of news covers. There's been
zillions of stories. But I do have hope. I think
they did the forty three project well. As Paul said,
it took forever, but other than Knights, I don't think
they ever totally closed it, meaning you had limited lanes
that you could still move through and so on. But

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this is it. Yes, that's the forty one forty five
north of the Zoo Interchange, north of North Avenue. That's
the they tried to tie that into the Zoo Interchange.
But that's simply the continuing as they go farther north,
and that's what they're I remember when Scott Walker was
running for reelection in twenty eighteen, let he remember he

(38:03):
declared that the Zoo Interchange project was dead, and the
Judo tried to claim, no, it was it because this
thing by Mayfair, well that wasn't in it. That's that's beyond.
I mean, you can't say that the Zoo Energy, if
they do some work at Slinger, that that was part
of the zoo interchange. Well, that's what it's going to be.
They're widening as needed to happen forever and ever and
ever and ever and ever and ever and ever. In

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so anyway, that's about to start. Here's another story that
I just have to do. The city of Milwaukee for
some reason. Well it's actually hard to figure out what
the reason was. They elected this. I'm trying to think
of the appropriate term to describe. I'll come up with
a benign term. Tierman Spencer's a piece of work. He

(38:48):
was voted in by the City of Milwaukee voters to
be city attorney. They threw out Grant Langley, who was
a great city attorney, I mean, and they put in
Tierman Spencer. And there was nothing but bleep ever since.
Harassment of employee, he's sexual and otherwise this that, and
it was just one scandal after another after another after another.
Well he's not he's been he was voted out of office.
Evan Goiki beat him. He's facing criminal charges of misconduct

(39:11):
for the actions he committed a city attorney, and now
there's a whole new series of criminal charges against him.
The way this was discovered is kind of hilarious. In
investigating the earlier deals that Kairman was involved, and they
got a search warrant for his phone, so they get
his phone, but you believe that they found new crimes

(39:33):
on the phone. Apparently Kirman I hear this is common
in the shady parts of the world. Your wife's involved
in real estate, she may have heard of some of
these deals. Property goes into probate. Well, anyway, there's a
property that went into probate, and often in a probate,
what's the term for the person in charge of overseeing

(39:55):
the probate. It's not administrator, executor. Often the executor doesn't
have a financial stake involved. Sometimes they do, sometimes it's
a relative, but usually they don't. All right, there was
a property that was when it a probate, the executor
cut a deal allegedly this is all alleged with Tierman

(40:15):
Spencer to sell the property for eight thousand dollars. What
do you think the property is really worth. Pick a guess.
We know what it was worth because they flipped it
quarter of a million. So they're investigating this deal and
so on, and apparently they found the stuff on Tireman's phone,

(40:37):
and now Tireman's original trial for the stuff that he
did when in the city office is being postponed because
they want to tie the two cases together. So Tureman
is just I think Tierman's goal here is to simply
die before he goes to trial, to run the table
out as long as he possibly can, and he's probably
figured it's actually to my benefit that I did all
these different things, because every time they find a new one,

(40:57):
they'll push it back a year and a half to
charge me with that. So when they got into the
phone and they found out that one of the lawyers
for the estate was actually Lena Taylor, who's now a
Milwaukee County judge, and she spilled the beans when they
asked her about it, She saved all the text messages,
turned it over, and no Germans in more trouble than
real Quickly this I've been pointing this out for some time.

(41:18):
These two year campuses that the University of Wisconsin system runs.
They're all eventually going to close. They serve no purpose.
The UW systems hemorrhaging enrollment, everything other than the Madison
campus because of all the things you discussed in the past,
declining birth rate and so on, and the two year
campuses which are now all affiliated with four year campuses
that redundant. There's one in Baraboo. You know where Baraboo is. No,

(41:42):
you keep your hearts so wrong about you said whenever
you heat whenever. He hasn't heard of a city. He says,
way up north. You do it every now by the Dells.
The Dells is not up north the Dells. Now, see,
I grew up in the Fox Valley. People think that's
up north. I everybody whoever, wherever you live, you think
farther north than you was up north. My line is

(42:03):
north of Warsaw is considered up north. Some would go
a little bitself to that. Barable is right for the Dells.
In fact, that's what the big ho Chunk casino is.
It's just up the road. The Barable campus is actually
affiliated with UW Plattfill. What they did is they took
all the two year campuses and fed them into a
four year school and now uw platfil says we want
to close the barable thing. Nobody goes there, doesn't serve

(42:24):
any purpose. And so as I say this is going
to continue to happen, they're eventually all going to be gone.
And it's happening at the same time that many of
the small private four year colleges are in real trouble.
You take a look at the enrollment numbers over the
last twenty years, some of them are I mean, Concordia's
in trouble. I think you know a stretch already closed.

(42:46):
I have to wonder about Elberto. It's enrollment. It's just
all of them. Well, that's what I'm saying. That the
kind of the birth rate, there's just fewer to go.
And the second thing that's happening is, as I say,
there are so many people who learn them stake of
the millennials in that there are a lot of careers
that you can pursue that don't require for year college.
We we're going to like a lot more getting specialized

(43:06):
training in the trade that you're in. We covered a
lot of it a good segment here, So therefore I
think it's time to do another segment. This is the
Marked Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast for
those of you that are kind of new to me
because you found me in podcast world. One of the

(43:27):
things that I've tried to do over the years is
pick up on societal trends before everybody else has. That
means sometimes you get be wrong. So maybe I will
be wrong about this, but I don't think I am.
I think the trans thing has peaked. That wouldn't be

(43:48):
all that surprising. Almost anything that young people anymore get
into becomes fad. Like me, it goes some zero to
huge in no time at all, and it tends to
fade almost as quickly. The trans thing has happened so fast.

(44:13):
You went from virtually nobody being trans and just a
general acceptance that it's a decision for adults to make
a free will to pumping. I mean, I wonder how
many schools at all don't have a single kid that's
on puberty blockers or other steroids. Kids right and left

(44:34):
being pumped filled with hormones of the opposite gender in
order to scolp their own hormonal growth and move them
to other areas. Boys having their penises chopped off twelve
and thirteen year old girls having mistectomies. It's happened at
warp speed. I think it is sick, barbaric, unconscionable, immoral,

(45:02):
and it will ruin the lives of many who've done it.
I also think it's fat, like everybody just got into it.
There is an overwhelming backlash against it. By the way,
the elections for new governors of New Jersey and Virginia Republic.
Those are both Democratic states. The Republican candidates are hammering
on the trans policies that the Democratic candidates support, you know,

(45:25):
letting a biological males play in girls sports so forth,
you know, having schools pumped, the puberty blockers and a
children and so on. And a lot of moderates join
on the Republican side on this because people just inherently
know that it's rowing anyway, as it peaked. There's an
interesting story that appeared to the Epic Times over the weekend,
and it was based on a report done by Cast Review,

(45:48):
which is surveying the attitudes of young people, and it
showed that for the first time in the last several years,
that identification as trans dropped in the past year among
young Americans. In other words, the percentage of young Americans
describe themselves broadly as trans last, after growing for about
ten years in a row, actually declined a bit last year.

(46:09):
I think a just about everybody who is going to
do it may already have done it. B many of
them have now seen several years worth of how there
is deep regret among the people that have done it,
and s I think some of the parents who naively
embraced this, and I believe it's child abuse, abuse of

(46:30):
their children by taking kids who are not in a
position to make any permanent life altering decision about anything,
much less their biological makeup. Our recognizing that what they're
doing here is horribly wrong, and when you're seeing so
many of these people who've done the shift killing themselves
and being more depressed than ever because what they've done

(46:52):
is irreversible. My belief is that this thing is it's
going to be like the opposition to widening the freeway.
At some point, it's just going to end, and the
Left is simply going to divorce itself from the fact
that they were ever in favor of this thing. The
big turning point is going to be when the lawsuits
start coming again. Some of these butcher shops like Children's
hospital from people now five, six, seven years later whose

(47:15):
lives are ruined that they had this stuff pushed upon
them when they were young, and so on. And once
they're the insurance companies realize they're going to lose a
fortune on some of these cons The next other thing
that's going to happen is I think you will see
children when they become adults turn around and sue their
parents but not giving them proper guidances, not stopping them
from ruining their lives, and it's the best thing that

(47:35):
they can do. I believe letting your child do this
is a lot worse than spanking them on the butt
or the other things that can get you into trouble
for child abuse. Anyway, this story for the first time,
and many now again. This is one source. One study,
cass re View. It's said that identification as trans actually
dropped in the last twelve months, ending a ten year

(47:56):
trend in the opposite direction. Next story. You may not
have picked up on this with all the talk and
the government shutdown and so on, but over the last
several days, Trump has focused on the illegal activities of Obama.
Over the weekend, Telsey Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, issued

(48:21):
an ominous statement, what the focus here is on the
twenty sixteen document that became the basis for the Russia
collusion investigation. We now know that the document was fake,
that there was nothing accurate to it. However, the overwhelming

(48:42):
indication is that the idea behind all of this came
not only from the Obama team but Obama himself. For
all the talk of the left of threat to democracy,
trying to rig the results of an election by taking
a document and starting a criminal invent instigation into it
when you know that it is false, it's the ultimate

(49:03):
rigging of an election. Here's Tulsea Gabbert's statement, and admittedly
she's got her own agenda here. Who is the Democratic
candidate in twenty sixteen, Paul Hillary Clinton, who was one
of her rivals in the primary, Telsey Gabbard, who was

(49:29):
the candidate for president, who called Tulsea Gabbard a Russian
asset during the primary debates, Hillary Clinton Telsea Gabbard quote
Barack Hussein Obama attempted to overthrow the constitutional Republic of
the United States in twenty sixteen as part of a
treasonous conspiracy overthrew it in twenty twenty to cover it up,

(49:49):
and now he's been caught. A report asks, and this
is from Gabbard on her own posting on x does
New Info implicate President Obama in criminal behavi When you
look at the intent behind creating a fake, manufactured intelligence
document that directly contradicts multiple assessments created by the intelligence community,

(50:12):
the expressed intent and what followed afterward can only be
described as a year's long coup and a treasonous conspiracy
against the American people, our republic, and the Trump administration.
Not a political story from Wisconsin. This week, Eric Tony's

(50:33):
going to declare his candidacy for attorney general. I haven't
heard of any other Republican running. That means you're going
to have a repeat. Josh Call wanted to be the governor.
The Democrats told him, you can't run for governor. He's
going to run for reelection as attorney general. So I
think you're gonna see Eric Tony against Josh Call again
in twenty twenty six. Now here's the thing about that election.
It's going to break exactly the way the governor's race

(50:53):
breaks in twenty twenty two. The vote that Tony Evers
got over Tim Michaels was identical to the vote that
Josh Call got over Eric Tony. There was no ticket splitting,
And I think that that's just generally a trend that
now goes on in our elections because it has to
do with who turns out enough of their people. If

(51:14):
the Republicans can beat the Democratic candidate for governor, my
guess is it's going to be Sarah Rodriguez. Many disagree
with me on that. My guess is the Republican's going
to be Tom Tiffany. Too early to say for certain.
Somebody could still jump in. If the Republicans win that election.
I think that they can win the attorney general seat.
If the Democrats keep the governorship, they're probably going to

(51:34):
keep the Attorney generalship, meaning Josh Call is going to
have that job for eight hundred and fifty thousand, million
zillion come billion years. All right, Next, the term guilty pleasure.
You've heard that term, right. What would you consider a
guilty pleasure? I mean, I don't mean an example, I mean,
how would you define a guilty pleasure? That's a good

(51:59):
example enjoying something that you might be embarrassed to tell
others about. An example of this from pop culture was
the song Sugar Sugar by the Archies. The Archies weren't
even a bad it was just a huge hit on
the sixties. I thought I never liked it even as
a kid. I thought it was shlocky and terrible. It
was just a bubblegum song. But some people thought it
was catchy. In this you know it it was. Nobody
ever would say this song is an example of a

(52:21):
great rock and roll song, but it was just that
a guilty pleasure. There are other likes. Sometimes there's a
fluffy TV show or soap operas. They're often called guilty pleasures.
Pauls's watching a Hallmark will be guilty. Like, nobody's gonna
claim this is like great drama, but it kind of
entertains you, and so on, And there's million examples of
I have this fits the definition, but in a completely

(52:44):
different way. How do you define it something you enjoyed
doing with her embarrasus to tell others it was my
guilty pleasure. And again I'm not comparing this to the
Sugar Sugar or the bubblegum stuff. It's actually extremely creative
and telliative stuff. But there's a reason it's a guilty
pressure for me. My guilty pleasure is the Violent Felms. Now,
the reason I would describe it as a guilty pleasure

(53:04):
is I clearly do not fit in their fan base.
When you think of the Violent Femmes fan base, you
don't think of me, do you tattoo it? Kind of
like the people that were marching in the in the
No Kings. Anyway, the Violent Fems concluded the tour at
the Riverside on Thursday night. I did not go because
A I just think that every other fan they don't

(53:27):
want me there and so on. But also I saw
the schedule the Brewers are going to be playing in
their playoff game, as it turns out, just to soon
not see that anyway, but I didn't go. But anyway,
the Violent Fems, they're still it's still the same group altogether,
other than Victor de Lorenzo, who either quit or was
kicked out. Like right after they made it fag and

(53:49):
then after they made it big, they were at a
brief period in which they had all of their hits,
and then they stayed around forever and ever and ever. Now, see,
you're a drummer, you probably don't understand the brilliance of
Victor Deala Renzo do you well? Do you acknowledge his
brilliance as a drummer? What you do? Okay?

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Now?

Speaker 2 (54:08):
And I hate to say that because there's been a
guy that's been in the They had two or three
drummers since then, and one guy has been in for
like twelve fifteen years ever since then. But when they
did American Music, which I think has a great drum
solo inited, I don't like drum solos per se, but
it's just a great part. Anyway, the violent films, I've

(54:29):
been working on this thing. Every now and then I'll
post something like I put on billing dot com my
list of the best Mafia movies of all time, which
I think we took that down, Paul. It might be
in the archives. But anyway, I kept getting blowback from
people who do not understand the English language, or this case,
the Italian language. They kept suggesting I was omitting, and
then they named these mob movies that weren't mafia movies.

(54:51):
I didn't say mob movie, I said mafia. The Mafia
is the Italian mob. So there are movies like That
Departed and so on that I didn't have on the
list because that was at the Italian Mob. Who's a
mob movie? Anyway, I'm doing this thing of the best
songs ever done by a Wisconsin band or musician, and
I'm working on this thing, but part of the problem

(55:12):
is it's not always clear if the artist is from Wisconsin.
For example, I'd like to claim Cheap Trick of in Wisconsin,
but they're not. I think they spent more time playing
in Milwaukee than any other city, and when they were emerging,
they sort of were in Milwaukee. But they're from milanois
most they're from Illinois. You know, they're from Rockford. So
I would say no, and then you'll have like going

(55:35):
back from the past, Les Paul, who's some Waukeshaw but
like go On when he was seventeen and like hardly
ever came back. Admittedly, it's a close call as to
a tough call. Sometimes, For example, I would say Algio
is a Milwaukee musician because he not only was from here,
but came back and maintained of residence at least part
time forever and ever and ever. So I'm working on

(55:57):
this list of greatest songs of all time from Wisconsin.
Artists that I'm refining it and working through it and
so on. But I would argue that the Violent Fems
are the greatest band from Wisconsin. The problem with that
is the same era that they were in was the Bodines,
and the Bodings are close. The Bodians have since broken up,

(56:18):
and all but one of the members of the Violent
Fems are still together. And then there's you know, you
can go into this debate about all the others as
to whether they are or they are not. I just
the Violent Fems had one thing that made them well known,
and it had to do with timing. The Violent Fems
were big in the eighties. What happened this is a

(56:41):
hard one. The answer. There's one thing that particularly happened
in the music business in the eighties. Well, one big
thing that changed everything. MTV. The eighties were the era
and the music video. The Violent Fems made great videos

(57:02):
and they were on MTV constantly. So while their music
was kind of not real mainstreamy, some people have called
them punk. I don't think you can categorize them to
this day. I don't think that there's another band of
the world that sounds like the Violent Friends. They had
some soundings of like punk bands like the Ramones and
no Horns and now Organs and no keyboards. Really it
was a very very you know, sparse isn't the right word,

(57:24):
but roots is the term. I hear hear a lot
for bands like that, but some they spent a lot
of time on their videos in like the video of
American music is just on YouTube. It's in the zillions
and zillions and zillions of views and so on. Anyway,
I just think that, I mean, it's an unusual Everything

(57:46):
about that band is unusual, starting with the fact that
their vocalist is a Mormon and he's still a Mormon.
Name all the rock stars off the top of your
head that are Mormon's. Paul Gordon a Mormon. That's interesting.
I've never heard of a single Mormon that's like a

(58:08):
radical lefty, so like maybe he's more in line with
where we are and all of that. And anyway, they
had a concert at the Riverside. The review at Pete
Levy and on js online is very positive and says
all the things that a guy like me would say. And
they played like a lot of bands will do this.
They played one of their albums from entirety and then
after that they came back of the second intermission and

(58:30):
did all other big hits. The great debate is what's
their best song, and they have a lot of them,
but a lot of people like Listener in the Sun
and Paul said, it's hard to play on the Well,
that's why Victor was such. He's just fast and he'd
a remarkable thing. And then there's American music. And when
the Killers were in town this summer at Summerfest, and

(58:52):
I contend the Killers are the best rock and roll
band of the twenty first century, they covered American music
by the Violin Fems. It's great. So anyway, the Violin
Fems are at the riverside. It was the end of
this tour that never tire of or anything. There's the
band that I think is on their last tour. And
another contender for greatest rock band from Wisconsin is Garbage.
But that's a tough call because the singer for Garbage

(59:15):
is not from Wisconsin, but the rest of the band is.
And the genius behind the band Butch Vague, who almost
really invented grunge rock. I mean he was tied into
Pearl Jam and a lot of the others. You know
he's the kind of like the guru of the band
and so on, but surely answered the singers from Australia.
I think Australia are somewhere down there. But I would
consider them a Wisconsin band even though she's not, because

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everybody else in the band is. But you see where
they're all close calls though, right, yeah, yeah, and they're
all from Wisconsin. Other than than her, another band that
I love that would be see. So my opinion, Violent
Fems is a guilty pleasure for me because it would
be embarrassing for me to admit it, even though guilty

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pleasures are normally the opposite of them, because Violent Felms
is always a band. But like the critics loved, but
they never had huge top forty hits other than as
I say, they had this following because their videos were
on MTV. Because the videos were Paul says, Gordon Lafe
would be exactly guilty. That would be somebody. There are
people who loved Gordon Laight, but I just was you

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were one of them, and I'm not. Gordon Liff was fine.
I just think he recorded one of the worst songs
in the history of the world and the wreck of
the Edmin fitztrail is. I just think it's in the
top five most terrible pieces of music ever recorded by
the way way back in the old radio show days,
back in the old radio shades show days, I did
identify the worst song of all time, which is blind

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Man of the Bleachers, which Paul had not heard of.
And then I had Paul listened up and said, oh
my god, it is the worst song of all time.
So this is like a reverse guilty pleasure. It wouldn't
be a guilty pleasure for like everybody that's into music,
but it would be considered one for anyway. The violent Felms.
All right, the program is not over. We do need

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to assess something that happened that nobody paid any attention to,
which is interesting. And then the I don't know that
weird is the right word, but the thud that ended
the Brewer season. That's next on the Mark Belling podcast.
This is the Mark Belling Podcast. A lot of times

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things will soar in popularity sole late because of Netflix,
Like there's a couple of you know, a lot of
what Netflix does is they'll do like these true crime
pieces and so on. And I think they have one
on ed Geen that came out in the last few months,
and I hear, I haven't watched it yet. I hear

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it's no good, but the youth Paul said it's not
good anyway. The ed Gan was like a guy who's
a weirdo murderer from Wisconsin in the fifties. Probably nobody
outside of Wisconsin ever heard of Egg. Sometimes he's brought
up because it was the movie Cycle as I think,
loosely based on the very loosely based on Edging and
so on. But now it's and everybody's now googling ed
Green and so on because of the Netflix, saying and

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so on. Well, that's what happened to Formula one. Formula one,
which is the dominant racing circuit probably in the world,
had a couple of Netflix One was a series that
I think one was a documentary done about it, and
it really grew in popularity and a lot of people
referenced it and so on. Forever and ever and ever,
there were no Formula and races in America. Well there

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is one now. But even though Formula one has gotten
like this new found appeal, especially among young people, because
of the Netflix. One of the two United States races
was held over the weekend, and I'm telling you it
got no coverage at all, and I know why. It's
at the wrong time of the year. Part of it
is they have a geographic schedule. The two American races
are in our fall. You're up just up against football,

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and it's in Texas, a football crazy state. It's in
the city in Texas. You know, doesn't it has the
University of Texas, but they have the formula and race.
It's a course just outside of Austin and Max for
Stopping one he's had a resurrection. The whole thing in
Formula one is drivers don't win. Teams win. You know,
they can't give the driver the name, but if the
team is dominant, there's nothing you can do to stop it.

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In when for Stopping was on Red Bull, he couldn't
do anything but win, and not another team anyway he
won the race over the weekend. Is it's just up
against American football and baseball is going on and everything,
and it got very little mainstream media coverage. And as
I say, I just think if you want that race
in America to work, it needs to be in the

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summer where it doesn't have all this competition from football
and so on. The other American race is the one
that they run on the streets of Las Vegas, and
that's coming up in I think two or three weeks.
And again it's because of the circuit there. Okay, they're
in America for one, they'll be in America for another.
The race in Exus is on a course that they built.

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It's not streets, but the Vegas Race. It's up the
strip and the whole the whole thing. The Brewers, I
think two things. I think they just got worn out
and the Dodgers finally became the Dodgers that were on paper.
The weird thing about the Dodgers is they're like the
one team in baseball that was healthier at the end

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of the year than they were all year. Most teams,
like the Brewers, you're falling apart physically. The season's too long.
Pitchers don't last well. The Dodgers pitchers all got hurt
during the season, so they came in there's fresh as
can be. Right now. Otani didn't even pitch the first
part out of the season, still recovering from his injury.
A couple of the other guys were hurt and missed
much of the season, and they just had four great

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pitchers that were off and on, not that great or
not even in commission during the season shut the Breweries
down to nothing. But before you give them all the credit,
the Achilles Seal of the Dodgers all year was an
atrociously terrible bullpen, and that bullpen even got better. Before
the Brewers series started. The Dodgers and Phillies play a
fifteen inning game in which the Dodgers wi didn't give
up a run to those innings, so they just peaked

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on themselves. The Brewers' best chance for a win was
Game one, which I'm not knocking it forth, but if
Brice ter rang lets that ball hit him, we would
have won Game one. But I even that they wouldn't
have won the series. And then they just I just
thought that the pitching was worn out, held up as
much as it could, and the bats all became dead.
And that's what it is. And I just don't think
anybody can grumble about this because you just recognize the

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Dodgers have peaked at the right time. And secondly, the
Breweries completely overachieved, so that leaves us to look to
the future for the Breweries and they just they for
years have had the best farm system in baseball. They
do a tremendous job of identifying players, and the greatest
need is for another outfielder. Garrett Mitchell hopefully will be
back and finally be healthy. They have infielders that are

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about a year away coming out out the Wazoo. In
terms of pitching, Robert I always notice in the playoffs
that there's a guy wait till next year with him.
I remember when Abner u Reba came into a playoff
game and through ninety. A couple of years before that,
it was Trevor McGill who pitched like the eighth inning
of a game that they were gonna lose at the
end of it. In Gosser just he's going to be

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fully recovered from the major arm surgery that he had
on next year and putting him in the starting rotation
with Mizerowski, who did have a great postseason. The future,
the future is right. Jesus Made is the infielder who's
the next Jackson Curio. He's probably a full year away.
He's only eighteen. But Luis Pinna, who's almost the same
age and as another infielder, is almost as good. They

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got lots of guys and the future just seems bright
forever because of the way they identify. The second thing
is the Brewers are committed to the strategy of getting
rid of guys a year before their contract is up.
They will never be a team that stupidly signs guys
to long term contracts after the thirty. The Dodgers can
afford too because they have unlimited money, but the other

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teams that can afford too it never works for them.
Look at the Angels. The Mets fell apart this year.
They aren't going to succeed until they develop all of
their own players. The Yankees have done a pretty good
job of developing their players, but they often trade them
away for big time players and so on. I do
believe that we've seen Freddy parolt To pitch his last

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game as a Brewer. He had the team. There's a
team option that the Brewers have on Parolta which they
will pick up, and I think that they will trade him,
and the same people who grumbled when Corbyn Burns was
traded will grumble that trade worked out spectacularly well for
the Brewers. The same people that grumbled when Devin Williams
has traded a trade that worked out spectacularly. Well, you

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need to get rid of these guys when you can
still get something back for them. When they start approaching
that witching hour of thirty in which lots of guys
they'll get past it. And I think Freddy will be
the next guy that's traded. Hopefully you'll be getting a
starter that will come in for him. And the farm
system just keeps producing or via trade producing young players
that can replace them. And finally, the Packers. Packers are

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in first place, and I think the NFC North is
the best division in football, but they don't look the
first place team. They're first of all, they have a
weird sounding record, and it's been weird how it's gotten there.
The Packers are four to one and one the first
two wins of the season. We're convincing. They've looked, they've looked.

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They don't pass the eye test as being a super team,
but they keep winning. Some observations on yesterday's game. First
of all, they don't win that game if the mic
of Parsons trade isn't made the beginning of the season,
they just don't. Parsons has changed that defense, and one
of the things that now they're beginning to show plays.

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The TV will show plays even when she doesn't get
to the quarterback. I understand what Parsons is bitching about
the refs, Paul. He's held every play. I see when
they call holding, and it's when the linemen their arms
extend a little bit too much and they get a
bunch of jersey. They put two guys on Parsons and
they've got hands full out of him. Either take Dragon,
he had three sacks, an incredible number of hurries of

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the quarterback, and it just it just helped. It helped
out Rashan Gary who had a spectacular game uh as well. Offensively,
they really missed Jaden Reid, who had developed into a
number one receiver. But the counter to that is Tucker
Craft is becoming the best tight end in the NFL.

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He I think that the it worked in order, first Kelsey,
then Kittle, and now Kraft. The weird thing, why are
all their last names k The best tight ends for
the last going back like twelve years have been have
been k There's a couple of others that were right
in there, but Kelsey of Kansas City, then Killdle of
San Francisco, and now Tucker Crafted. The other thing is
Tucker Craft is going to get TV commercials. He's very,

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very funny. I did you watch the Fox six postgame show. Oh,
Tucker Craft steals the microphone. He stole the microphone and
he started doing the interviews and he signed it all off.
Tucker Craft boxes. He's very I mean, he made the
big catch. And the thing about him is you just
can't imagine in that throw that Love had to make.

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That's the play that they went forward and fourth down
where they were smartly they didn't settle for the field goal.
Is you know, I think they knew that they had
to play and Love change the play at the line
of scrimmage. The only way that doesn't work is if
Tucker Kraft drops the ball or if he doesn't get
his feet down and he's going to make the catch
and he's going to get his feet down and and
he did so. I one other thing on this, I

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think I think that there's a chance the Packers are
going to cut their kicker and keep half resick. I mean,
it doesn't normally happen that you get injured and you
lose your job. Also, there's a reason Harisk was signed
by nobody and was only sitting there on the scrap heap.
But every kick that he's made has been right down
the middle and eighty yards over the top of the
goal post. He kicked the Lugs field goal and team

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history and so on. So McManus is also really good.
But when McManus gets healthy again, they're not going to
be able to put either of them on the practice
squad because somebody's going to sign up one of the
two of them. We don't know how long the injury
for McManus is going to be, but they found half
Forsa and maybe half Verstick's got some misses in his future.
As I say, there's a reason he wasn't on anybody's roster.

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But so I guess that's just generally my thought on
the Packers. They keep winning, there's lots of things to like,
but there's nothing well. Josh fric Jacobs is just still
not fully healthy, and you just he's not playing great.
He's playing very good. I'm saying if he was fully healthy,
some of these runs would be even longer. He's starting

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to fight and they're restricting his playing time because he's
got the hamstrings and nagging injury. But his little bit
of explosiveness isn't quite what it could be. What it is,
He's going to be really, really good. The offensive line
is finally starting to come together. The other you know,
and the thing with Arizona. They've not lost five in

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a row, but every one of the losses at the
end of the game, including this one. So and the
thing about the game the week before, the Packers beat Cincinnati,
but weren't impressive at doing so. But then Cincinnati turned
around and beat Pittsburgh, so again, maybe these wins are
better than you think. In the meantime, the only team

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in the NFC North that's struggling at all is Minnesota,
and they're a five hundred team. The Bears look incredible.
Detroit play has an interesting test tonight against Tampa Bay,
a team that wins ugly every week. I mean, they
never win by more than a couple of points and
so on. But the Packers are four to one and one,
and as they say, they just they don't look like

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a first place team in the best division in football.
But it's undeniable that they are playing rather well, with
quite a few bright spots. If you want to cite
a negative on the Packers. I'll just keep citing the
same one that I do cite. It's the off corner
that's manned by either Valentine or Hobbs. I just think
that they're very weak there and they have no depth

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at all in the defensive backfield that if a couple
of starters go down, they're just dead there. And the
other one they finally produced one yesterday, is they've not
produced turnovers. And I've heard the explanation that other teams
aren't throwing deep on them. That the reason McKinney had
so many picks last year's they're throwing deep and everybody's
trying to short game against the Packers because the Corners

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have been playing soft. But that's my whole discussion of
the I understand you lost your football pick again. I
adorsed it. It was my third favorite pick of the weekend.
I won mine again. I took the Bears. That was
my favorite pick. My second favorite pick was the one
that Mike took on the air, which was Ohio State

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against Wisconsin. And my third pick was Minnesota. So fortunately
it wasn't my first pick because I did like that
pick and I thought Philip and it was mostly a
pick against Philadelphia, who I just think has been reeling.
But maybe Minnesota's great. They're three and three, but again
on the eye test, they don't look that good. In
part we have two average quarterbacks, and right now in

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the NFC North, you need a great quarterback in order
to keep up with everybody else. All right, that's it.
You have anything else you want to observe on the
Packers or anything, Paul says Lafleur struggles with game management decision.
I I always think game management and play calling are overrated.
I don't think he's a bad game manager. I actually don't.

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I do think, however, that when they did call the timelines,
they ended up making the right decision out of the timelone.
So yeah, well again I think that they thought they
had a play and the weird thing is they then
change the play and Love said it was inaudible at
the line that left the craft open. Okay, back with
the other podcasts on Wednesday.

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