DPI boss Jill Underly skips out on a hearing on her agency's coverup of predator teachers so she can get an award (the story explains itself). Also, Mark's take on the government shutdown meaning no food stamp payments in November, and the Democrats seem dead and the real battle is now Republicans vs Socialists.
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Let's pretend we're in the seventh grade at least, I
think the seventh grade is where you would learn this.
Maybe it's the third grader. Maybe the schools are so
bad they don't teach it at all. Inverse relationship, admit it,
you can't define what that is? No, so like that
whole what was that TV show? Are you dumber than
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a seventh grader? Or is it a fifth grader? Fifth grader?
Except I just I don't buy that. I want to
put actual fifth graders on there and see if they
know any of those answers and inverse relationship. I will
explain it the following way. An inverse relationship is the
opposite of a relationship. An example of a relationship is
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there's generally a relationship between how much you eat and
how fat you are. I mean, it doesn't always hold,
but generally it holds. If you eat lots and lots
and lots, you're likely to be fatter than somebody who
hardly eats it all again. It doesn't hold up all
the time, but it's certainly fair to say that there's
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a relationship there. Right now, I'm going to give you
an example of an inverse relationship. This is something that
I've observed over years of observing. That's what I basically
do in my career. I observe and then I commented
what I've observed. That's pretty much my entire career. No,
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that's what it is. Here's an observation. There is an
inverse relationship, In other words, the opposite of an actual religion.
There is an inverse relationship between the amount of awards
that are handed out in a field and the competence
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generally of that field. Now, I know that some of
you didn't follow that, like did you follow that? You did? Oh?
Why he claims he did? I want to hear, Okay,
explain it. I want to see if you did. Yes,
Paul actually understands it. So that means I don't think
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I need to explain the inverse relationship because if Paul
understands it, who in the hell how would not understand it?
I actually will under explain it because I love explaining
this the more incompetent the people are in a field,
the more awards they give out. Whereas the more competent
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individuals are in a field, that field tends they have
either fewer or almost no awards at all. Give you
examples of certain fields in which they're constantly handing out awards.
Basically any left wing social service type thing. They've got
Citizens of the Year, this of the Year, Volunteer, all
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of this, on and on and on. It goes education,
public education, they're handing out awards all the time. The
entertainment field, constant awards, awards, awards, awards, awards, They're always
handing out awards to one another. I could give you
numerous other examples, but I think you get the drift.
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On the other hand, think of certain fields in which, boy,
it seems like everybody involved is pretty competent. When's the
last time you heard of any trouble involving a cement
truck driver. I mean, maybe there is, I just don't
recall hearing of Eddie. I think they get the cement
in there and they spin the thing around, and then
they show up at the proper place and they don't.
You really, when's the last time a cement truck driver
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All right, now, here's the story that triggered a little discussion.
The stated excuse that Jill underly Hit of the Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction gave for skipping out of the
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legislative hearing last week, which was to investigate allegations that
her agency, DPI, has been covering up predatory behavior by teachers.
In particular, that DPI has been covering up allegations of
quote grooming by teachers. Grooming is the term that is
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used for when an adult is kind of softening up
a child for sexual activity, kind of breaking down the walls,
et cetera. It's the process that goes on before the
context starts this whole thing. And I'll give you a
little bit of background here. It came out as a
result of can't blame the conservatives for this. The Capital Times,
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which used to be a newspaper in Madison. It is
now kind of a website, but also they put some
pages in the Madison newspaper and with a very very
very liberal website when they were an actual newspaper, I'd
say the most liberal newspaper of the state. The Capital
Times has done a major investigation on this. So this
is coming from a lefty news source. So the liberals
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that are going to try to look the other way
at this story can't claim that this is from some
lacking credibility right wing source. Anyway, The allegation is the
DPI has been covering up and not investigating these allegations.
DPI is the agency that licenses teachers in the state
of Wisconsin. They were to hold this legislator but they
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did hold the legislative hearing last week. Underley is a
no show. The reason she gives for her no show
is she's receiving an award in Indiana. I mean this
is just perfect. First of all, she's her job is
in Wisconsin, she's the head of DPI in Wisconsin. She's
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getting some award in Indiana. She said, well, she had
a prior commitment. I love that when people say they
have a prior commitment. People prior commitments all the time,
and if you have something more important to do, you
go and do them more importantly. The fact that you
have the commitment first only holds up as if they
are like equal types of obligations. Like if Paul says
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that I won't even come up with an example of this,
because I'm not you would be an opposite example of that.
Your your priority would be anything involving me would be first,
and anything else would be second. But you kind of
get the trip anyway. Most people would assume that this
is simply Underley, who's a hack. By the way, that
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is the primary qualification to be head of DPI. I
am telling you this is held up for fifty years.
Hacks have run that. I don't remember Barbara Thompson as
the latter first person. Yeah, Barbara Thompson, she ran DPI
in the seventies. I honestly don't know if she was
a hack. I was like in high school or something then,
But after that it's made NonStop hackery. And they last
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for Burt Grover, remember Bert, In fact, that's when I
had veted that was his nickname. My show way by
Berth the hack Grover. Then Tony Evert's got in there.
He personifies the term hack. Well, anyway, Jill unders Underley
is in there now. She's a hack to. She obviously
did not want to have to answer questions as to why.
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Presuming that the allegations in the Capital Times investigation are accurate,
DPI has been covering up numerous allegations of teachers that
have been engaging in predatory behavior. In other words, the
type of stuff that occur is that leads up to
the molestation. So she goes and accepts the award and
claims that she had but I'm guessing that she is
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getting an award, because in that field they hand out
awards all the time. It's what they do. There are
certain fields in which they not only have a martyr complex,
they have a saint complex. I guess those two things
are related. But they're giving won another awards all the
time because they just think that there's so much superior
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to the rest of us. And it's among the reasons
in which they're constantly whining about how terribly I mean
teaches them whining in Wisconsin forever and ever and ever.
On the story itself, let's explore this scandal. The allegation
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in the Capital Times report is that when DPI and
again DPI stands for the Division of Public Instruction, I
should explain for those of you don't follow state government closely,
it's an independent agency. It's not under the governor. The
head of DPI is elected by the voters. It's a
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standalone agency like the Department of Justices. So the person
who's in charge of DPI is the person elected by
the voters. And that currently is underlay that there have
been numerous instances were reported by school districts and others
to DPI of improper behavior by licensed educators in Wisconsin,
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and they basically just sat on it. That's the allegation.
Now I know why they sat on it. There's two
reasons for this. First, DPI has been forever and ineffectual, lazy,
do nothing agency, they said on this because they sit
on everything. It's all they do. Secondly, and this is
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where the story becomes I think important, and you know,
in our understanding, forever, the head of DPI has been
somebody that was backed by the teachers unions forever. Here's why.
The one group that has a vested interest in controlling
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this otherwise not very important agency is the teachers union.
Schools are overseen by DPI, so the public schools and
in particular the unions that are in the public schools.
When I have somebody that's going to carry water for
them running that agency, so they spend a lot of
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money making sure that what their candidates win. There's no
other special interest group that cares about DPI, and none
on the conservative side. So what has happened is you
generally will have an election in which one of these
lefty hacks runs and a more education reform oriented challenger
who I won't even say to the right, but just
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to the right of the person who's back by the
lefties will run and the lefty always wins. The most
recent example was this pass spring when we had an
election in which Underley was re elected. She had an
extremely confident challenger in Britney Kincer. And further, even the
lefties realize Underley is terrible Evers's administration in his peace
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people did not back her in the primary. There are
three candidates running in the primary, two liberals, Underly one
of them, then another liberal challenger and Kinser. Even the
leftist and Madison backed the challenger, but Underly, with name
recognition and so on, she got to the primary, as
did Britney Kinser. So you have highly qualified Britney Kinser
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and then Jill Underley, who is just an empty pantsuit.
It was a close election, but Underley had way more
money and she beat Britney Kinser, which is exactly what
the teachers want, and especially a teacher who needs to
be regulated. Once Let's imagine you're an a and competent
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teacher or be perverted teacher. You can be either one.
What would you like to be in charge of regulating
teachers in the state? A watchdog out to get all
the bad teachers out, or a hack that's going to
carry water for all of you, So it was inevitable.
Then an agency that's run by first Underlay and prior
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to that evers and go back throughout the history these
hacks that were in the pocket of the teachers, and
you will be looking the other way at everything. The
big issue that has tormented Underlay over the past year
didn't torment her enough that she didn't get reelected. The
test scores in Wisconsin have been as most people are aware, crashing,
and they really accelerated the crash since COVID. So what
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Underly did is change the standards on the state's school's
report card. What does that mean? This is not the
way it works, but it's a corollary that's easy to explain.
Let's imagine you're taking a test and a passing grade
is seventy. One hundred is perfect, zero's the worst, Seventy
means passing barely but passing. And let's imagine that's how
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it was for proficiency in the schools of seventy. She
simply made it a fifty. In other words, nobody's proficiency improved,
but they just took a lower level of achievement and
declared a proficient to make it look like more of
the schools are succeeding than they actually were. But again,
that's what Underley would do, because she's a hacker, carries
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water for the public schools. With regard to this story
in the grooming, whose fault is it? It's the voter's fault.
Two sets of voters. One the people who vote for
hacks like Underley, but secondly the people who are conservative
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in the state who don't vote in these spring elections.
And I've been on this issue for several years and
I don't have an answer to it. In the fall elections,
that's the one where we elect the president, say in
twenty twenty four to twenty eight, thirty two thirty six,
and the other even number elections twenty two, twenty six,
thirty thirty four to thirty eight, et cetera, we elect
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the governor of Wisconsin. Senators are on six year terms,
so they're staggered in there. Two of every three of
them would in the fall. Conservatives tend to turn out
and vote, and these are the races in which they're
either really really close or our side actually wins, as
we did in the most recent election with Trump caring Wisconsin.
But in the spring elections, the voter turnout of the
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liberals is about eighty percent of what turns out in
the November elections, but the conservative voter turnouts about sixty.
And we saw this this past year with the state
Supreme Court election, where the liberal who one got about
eighty percent of the vote that Kamala Harris got and
the conservative Shim Will got about sixty percent of the
vote that Trump got. It's a chronic problem. The DPI
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election is in the spring, so a lot of the
people who are conservative but don't vote in these spring elections,
they're part of the problem. It's two groups. It's the
people that vote for these lefty hacks. In other words,
they're liberals and they want to They claim they care
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about education. In fact, what they care about is the
people who work with in education. They don't want education better,
they don't mind that it's getting worse. They just want
the money to keep coming into their own pockets. It's
their loone care about this. If they cared about education,
they'd embrace school choice and all sorts of other schools.
They clearly do a better job in the public schools,
but they don't so on this issue here with regard
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to this grooming, it's apparent to me that we have
a completely parallel story from the last century. From the
tail end of the last century of the twentieth century,
there was a scandal in the Roman Catholic Church with priests,
many priests. When I say many, a higher percentage than
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should be. It was certainly not half, but the numbers
should be zero or fringe one percent. It was more
than that priests were molesting individuals, primarily young boys, not always,
but mostly. And as the story came out, it became
aware that leaders of the church were aware of this
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and would shuttle these priests around after what they're caught
in one place, send them off to another community, and
never turn over a referral, and oh, give them the priest
counseling and so on. Eventually the thing blew up, and
all over America there were these funds that have been
created to pay all the victims of the priests. And
it went on because there was decades of looking the
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other way, covering up in some cases people within the
parishes themselves who knew that there was a perverted priest,
but didn't demand that he'd be thrown in jail, and
it ended up blowing up in the face of the
Catholic Church. Now that it's exposed, the problem is virtually gone.
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There are almost no cases anymore a priest being criminally
charged with this type of behavior. They basically urged the
bad ones out, and they've gotten very aggressive when they
hear of any kind of a problem to move forward.
But that's what's happened with any problem, any kind of problem.
When you ignore it, ignore it, ignored, it blows up
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and threatens your institution. Well, then you got to deal
with it. Here's where we are. The same story, parallel
is going on with educators. You're hearing these stories all
over the place right now, and weirdly, it seems to me,
maybe it just it seems because you remember these cases more.
It seems to me that it's more women with male
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students than males with girls. But there's just been a
lot of them. And every week, if you follow any
of these cases, and you know, there's YouTube channels that
are devoted to them. One well respected thirty seven year
old teacher and a sixty year old it's on and
on and on and on and on, and it's constant.
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And I suspect it's the same thing that happened in
the last century with the Catholic Church, that the behavior
was going on and a lot of people were looking
the other way. And in this instance, DPI, for example,
is sitting on these reports and rather than jumping on
every opportunity. Let's imagine you have say a case in
which okay, the teacher's message a round with the kid,
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but the kid's family doesn't want to make it, want
to make us think about it, so you can't find
criminal charges the non cooperating witness, you can still make
sure that person never teaches again. In the same notion,
as you know, a company's got somebody that may be
embezzling from it. He pays back, so you don't call
the police, but you make the guy's fired and you
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don't ever give him a reference when he seeks another job.
I just think it's the same kind of thing that
this cancer that hit the Catholic Church, which I think
they've taken care of because they had to, and there's
been demands and within and without that they do so
is now incredibly in public education and the same looking
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you're the other way that we saw before is going
on now. And the equivalent, say the bishops and the
cardinals that look the other way back in the nineteen
eighties and nineteen nineties, that'll be Jill Underley right now.
It's really the same story. Let me move on to
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the great political debate right now in America. In fact,
I'm looking at a Fox Monitor Radio got the headline, mom,
Donnie on the future of the Democratic Party. That's where
I'm going with this. I believe that what we have
known to be the Democratic Party in America is just dead.
It's dead. The left isn't dead. Democratic Party is dead,
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and it's been displaced by the socialists. The only thing
that they want we haven't done is change the name.
You know, there's been a socialist Party in the United
States forever and ever and ever, and you get to
like one percent of the vote if that and so on.
But there's no need for it anymore because the Democratic
leadership has been taken over by socialists. So what you're
going to have, I think of the foreseeable future is
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Republicans versus socialists. It used to be that there were
people on socialist ideology and the Democratic Party, and they
denied those days are long gone. They now brag about
it and put socialist in their name. Mam Donnie is
an example. Mam Donnie comes right out and says he's
a socialist. They use this term democratic socialist, but he's
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a socialist and everything that he advocates as socialist. And
there's no shame anymore. And anybody on the left saying
the socialists that come all right on and brag we're
socialists for socialists or socialists. This takeover of the Democratic Party,
but the socialist has occurred because the traditional non socialist Democrat,
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that's like the old bulls of the party, simply gave up.
They franced. Did you hear the word I use franced?
I turned France into a verb. They franced France to
be to France as opposed to the country of France.
To France. The engaging of France is to quit without
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a fight, which is what they've been accused of doing
every time there's a war. They just roll over and
cave rather than fight. And that's what's happened in the
Democratic Party. The socialists have taken over. And you see
right now the Keem Jeffreys is the latest to endorse
ma'mdanni from Mayor of New York, i'm donnie as the
Democratic House leader. So if there was any type of
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a version of these socialists, there'd be some pushback from
within the Democratic Party. And there really isn't. I've got
a code here posted on X over the weekend from
Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Well, it's official.
The Democrat Party is a full fledged radical, big government
socialist party. House Democrats now fully endorse and stand by
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truly dangerous policies like defunding the police, a massive tax increases. Meanwhile,
Republicans are fighting to lower costs, make streets safer, secure
our vorter, and delivering peace through strength. The contrast has
never been more clear. Marxist zoron Mamdani's extreme agenda is
the future of the Democrat Party, but we will not
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allow it to be the future of America. Now, for
people who want to argue that mcdonni's vision is not
the vision of Democrats, find me five mainstream, well known
Democrats that are trying to stop Mamdani from getting elected Mayor.
Mair I said five, because you might get two or three.
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Bill Ackman, the New York financier, lifelong Democrat, essentially being
chased over into our camp. The Democratic Party is in
the final stages of destroying itself. It is about to
be replaced by the Socialist Party. The New York City
mayoral election is not just about the future of New
York City. It is about the future of our country.
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I agree with that. People say, well, it's just New York.
New York's the most important city. It's more important than
many states. Furthermore, this ideological battle in which it's just
clear that the majority of Democrats want a socialist to
be their candidate. You have an independent candidate Cuomo, who's
also a Democrat. He lost the Democratic primary. He's running
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in the general election. Now on this what's going on
in that race? The election is in a few days
next I think it's it's either next week. I believe
it is the most recent poll and polling in a
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manorial race as a little difficult because it's hard to
gauge voter turnout. Suffolk University is the two companies that
have played Suffolk University in Quinnipiac College are the two
polling companies that have been polling in New York. I
can't say that I can endorse the reliability of their polls.
But what we can do is at least it's in
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apples to apples comparison. Because you compare the one poll
from last month on the same poling outfit, it shows
a closing of the gap in the race. But tightening
is the wrong word. In the September poll, Mamdanni had
a twenty point lead over Andrew Cmo. It's down to ten. Well,
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the gap is certainly narrowed, but to say tightening, I
can't say that a ten point race tightening is the
right word. Here are the numbers. Mamdanni's at forty four percent,
Como's at thirty four percent. The problem is is that
the Republican candidate refuses to drop out of the race
despite overwhelming pressure to do so. That's Curtis Slee, while
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he's at eleven. You can't make somebody drop out of
a race. Slee was big gig as he's been a
talk show host at WAVEC Radio in New York. His
general manager or the owner of a station. Castemaditis is
his name. John Castemaditas is a billionaire. He just endorsed
Cuomo Sleeve was said, I'll never go back to work
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at that radio. They do what everything they can to
get him out of the race at an attempt to
save New York. A Cloma would be a bad mayor.
He was a bad governor. But he's a traditional Democrat.
He's not a socialist. New York said bad Democratic mayors
forever and ever and ever. The notion, however, of simply
having an out and out socialist who will tax every
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last business in, every last wealthy person out of the state,
who's essentially said, I don't believe in locking people up.
All the other beliefs that he has, New York will
fall apart and the country will be badly damaged, and
all of the people have invested interest in the city
of New York not falling apart. But again, as I say,
they don't have a rule in which you have to
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get better than fifty percent of the vote to win.
It's not one of those states where a runoff you
simply need a plurality out. If there are more than
two candidates running, the one who gets the most votes
is going to win. I've said for some time I
think Mamdannie's going to win if Sleewood dropped out of
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the race, it might change things, but I don't think
he's going to drop out of the race. And secondly,
the other thing that these polls often don't measure is
which side is more motivated to vote, and has been
explaining forever, with the exception of Charlie Kirk's organization's involvement
in the twenty twenty four election, the left is just
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way better in getting voter turnout than is the right.
The estimate is is that Mamdannie has ninety thousand canvassers.
Ninety thousand. That's the way to win. Somebody who's essentially
going to make sure that someone votes impressed me that
making sure can be either nefarious or simply cajoling. But
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after Mamdatti wins for resuming, he does win it. And
you'll see it in the next presidential race whomever the
Republican is be advanced, or Rubio or whomever is going
to be running against a candidate who calls himself a
Democrat but will indeed be running on socialist principles. You
even see it in this whole debate over the shutdown
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of America along these same lines. One of the things
that's undeniably happened in American It's not new, it's just accelerated.
The term used to be gender gap. They called it
a gender gap when they started noticing this drift of
women to the Democrats. They don't call it a gender
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graph now because there's another drift going on, and that
is men moving overwhelmingly to the Republicans. There's a piece
that appeared recently on the Hill. It's a website that
covers Capitol Hill. It's an opinion piece written by somebody
named John mcgillan, why men are leaving the left and
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not coming back. He makes some rather obvious but still
interesting points. I want to share a portion of it.
He writes, the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging men across the
United States. They are leaving in waves from the unions
that once powered the party's muscle, from classrooms that once
echoed with idealism, and from a movement that now talks
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at them rather than to them. Poles show young men
flocking to the right in numbers not seen for generations.
The trend isn't a blip but a brutal reckoning, and
no amount of branding or beer ads will stop it.
The party's latest efforts to woo men are almost painful
to watch. The Democratic National Committee has poured money into
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influencer partnerships, podcast cameos, and clumsy masculinity campaigns filmed in gyms.
Spokesperson's drown on about kitchen table issues as if men
are sitting there waiting to be emotionally validated between spoonfuls
of reheated stew. None of it works because it isn't real.
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Men don't want to be sold to, they want to
be spoken to. The problem isn't packaging, but posture. A
party that has spent years pathologizing masculinity can't expect gratitude
from the men it is spent so long diagnosing. Let
me interject the whole toxic masculinity thing that they've been
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drilling for everything. Well, is it really a surprise that
after years of saying that masculinity is toxic, there's a
lot of men who want to consider themselves masculine decide
that they're going to go over to the side that
doesn't consider themselves toxic. Continuing, there was a time when
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Democrats didn't need to perform masculinity because they personified it.
Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman and John Kennedy all spoke the
language of strength, duty, and sacrifice. Even Bill Clinton, for
all his flaws, employed charisma as a form of command.
Barack Obama combined intellect with authority. These were men who
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carried themselves with the quiet confidence that others respected because
they aspired to it. But somewhere along the line, that
current of conviction faded. The virtues that once defined democratic leadership, resolved, discipline,
fortitude were recast as remnants of a primitive past. The
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same movement that once celebrated builders and breadwinners began to
sneer at them. Masculinity became something to manage rather than
to honor. The sermon grew stale. Your privileged, you are problematic.
You were not welcome here anymore. That message has exhausted
its power. The modern democrat man, No, before I get
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into his description. When you think of the modern democratic man,
who comes to mind, He's gonna give you examples, And
my guess is it's gonna be the same ones you're
thinking of. The one trending on social media. Fluent in
the language of lived experience feels less like a leader
and more like a life coach. Pete boudagain Pweet, Pete
boudagad Jet, Pete Buddhajeg speaks with the soothing detachment of
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a corporate wellness coach. Corey Booker dispenses compassion like a
man who's been trapped on the seminar circuit too long.
Tim Walls Kamala Harris's ill fated Running Maid was less
a spark than a screensaver, steady, silent, and impossible to
remember once gone. They are not bad men, but they
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are beije one. They speak softly while the world shouts.
They offer community care. When men were on competition, competence
and consequence, they promised conversation in a culture crying out
for courage. They mean well, but politics built on politeness
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never stirs the blood. Democrats have mistaken attention for trust.
They think a viral podcast clip can replace authenticity. They
think a few relatable posts will fill the void left
by decades of distin But men are not looking for content.
They are looking for meaning. They are tired of being
told what's wrong with them, and desperate for someone to
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tell them what's right. A party that once built bridges
now burns them. A movement that once fought for workers,
now fights for abstractions. No one believes it. It wasn't
always disconnected. The Democratic Party once inspired men to see
themselves as part of something greater families, unions, and a
country worth defending. Today, however, the same party mocks faith, discipline,
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and fatherhood as punchlines. It worships inclusion but forgets loyalty.
It preaches equality but forgets basic humanity. If Democrats truly
want to win men back, they'll need more than consultants
and hashtags. They'll need to rediscover their backbone. They'll have
to speak about duty without apology, about strength without suspicion,
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and about ambition without shame. They'll have to rediscover that
empathy without authority is just noise. They must remember that
admiration cannot be outsourced. It must be earned. Until then,
men will keep drifting right, not because they have changed,
because Democrats have. The Party of Roosevelt and Kennedy has
swapped metal for madness, common sense for the kind of
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nonsense only consultants applaud. It no longer commands respect because
it no longer gives it. Pieces I said appeared on
the hill speaking of the femininization of men let's talk
about Canada. Can the more perfect example of the whole
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loss of masculinity than Canada. And you think you want
to think of Canada as like this rugged country. There
they are up north, all cold and all of that stuff,
and it's become the woosiest country there is. See anyway,
if you're not aware, Ottawa, which is a province of Canada,
it's the one where sectually correct myself, Ontario, province of Canada.
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It's the one where Taradu is. The province of Ontario
started running TV ads over the weekend and they were everywhere.
They're on the packer game, they were everywhere attacking President
Trump on trade. Now, first of all, the whole thing
is just suspicious. The country that has been terrifing to
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death has been American products can be very very very
hard to sell in Canada. If Canada makes the same product,
they slap huge duties on our stuff. In addition to that,
it's very hard for Americans to get jobs working in Canada.
They're very very very restrictive on visus and so on.
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So the whole lusion that suddenly, well, tariffs are execondly.
The way they do this is they put a voice
clip of Ronald Reagan in there. This is just I mean,
I'm old enough to remember when the left just despised
Ronald Reagan. He's at any of these and actor, he's
of a poon, he's an extremist. Now the Left has
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to channel Ronald Reagan to rebuke Trump, and they pull
out this cut of Reagan warning against tariffs. In fact,
Reagan's whole view on tariffs is rather mixed. He did,
indeed teariff a lot of things. His comments are made
in nineteen eighty seven with regard to opposition to a
particular tariff. None of what Reagan said in nineteen eighty
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seven has a lot of relevance to anything that's going
on in twenty twenty five. But Canada is running this
ad in an attempt to embarrass Trump. So some turns
around and increases the tariff that we have in Canada
on carryo backs down, But then the ads kept running
all week and saying, well, it takes like five days
to pull ads. They always say that, and that seems specious.
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But I work in the media. I can imagine if
somebody tried to get an ad pulled here, it would
take five days. Wouldn't it. But you would think, like
in an NFL game on NBC, it wouldn't be that hard,
would it. I and I want to end the segment
with this story. The government shutdown is now weeks old,
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and most people haven't noticed it because President Trump has
made sure that a lot of necessary operations can contain you.
But the federal employees who are who agencies when shut
down have not been paid, and that's moving on for
a while. They've always kind of understood, well, when it reopens,
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we'll get back pay, and that may still happen. But
now we're facing the food stamp funding for November. In Wisconsin,
we call food stamps food share. Food Share is going
to run out of money in the state of Wisconsin.
The estimate is seven hundred thousand people in Wisconsin get
funding under food share. And again, food share is our
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term for the food stamp program. Same thing around the country.
There is no mechanism to fund food stamps when the
government is shut down. Short of a congressional vote, the
Republicans keep passing these bills to fund the government through
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the Senate. Remember that in the Senate you need sixty
votes to pass a bill, not the fifty because you
sixty votes to end the debate. In the most recent vote,
three Democrats joined the Republicans. There's still I think six short.
The three Democrats are Federman of Pennsylvania and the two
Democrats from Georgia. I think the Democrats are banking on
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that when people don't get their food stamp payments, that
Trump and the Republicans will get the blame. A couple
of problems with that. First of all, a lot of
these people are people who didn't vote for Trump. They
voted for Democrats. Secondly, the facts are obvious. The Republican
funding bill funds everything as it is, and they keep
passing a funding bill. The side that's opposing the funding
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bill is the Democrats. It does make me wonder if
this will be the issue that gets the Democrats to
say uncle and end this. All they need to do
is signal the seven of their more moderate Democrats go
over and join the Republicans. We can let Cammy Baldwin
and the left wing hacks continue to vote the other way.
You just need to get seven of them over there,
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or will they actually create a hunger crisis in the
United States because they continue to oppose the bill? That
would restore funding to all of this. I think this
will be the big challenge to the resolve of these
lefties who just the reason that they're not funding the
government is because they're left wing. Base just keeps telling
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you gotta fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump, you gotta
fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump.
Are they willing to keep try fighting Trump to the
point that it's the Democrats that actually stop food stamps
from being issued in the United States. This is the
Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast. The
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following is quite a story. There's a historical component to
it because the event that's triggering the story is twenty
years old for the longest time. In Milwaukee eighties, nineties
and early zeros, the dominant street gang in town was
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the Latin Kings. There were a lot of gangs. The
Latin Kings, by definition, were primarily Latinos, and they commandeered
the Latino neighborhoods of Milwaukee on the north side of Milwaukee,
which were the more African American neighborhoods. There were a
lot of different gangs. There were gangs, the Disciples, and
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a bunch of others. And they fought over territory, but
the Latin Kings commandeered the South Side. They were very strong.
There was even a member of the Milwaukee City Council
who was ended up being linked to the Latin Kings.
It was hard to do business and portions of the
South Side to do anything political without the nod of
the Latin Kegs, and they were a ruthless gang. The
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Latin Kings remained very powerful across These gangs tend to
be national, but their local affiliates can get very very
weak when they lose territory of their people get thrown
in jail and so on. The Latin Kings are still
around all over the United States, but they are nowhere
near a strong in Milwaukee as they once were. And
part of the reason for that is the leader of
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the Latin Kings disappeared twenty years ago. His name was,
well it was He still is, Armando Barragut. He was
one of the leaders of the Latin Kings. He was
implicated in the killing in two thousand and three of
a guy in Kutahy named Kevin Hirshfield. Some of you
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may recall the story, and several members of the Latin
Kings were convicted of taking part. There was a beatdown
going on. The Latin Kings were doing a beatdown of somebody,
and Hirshfield intervened to help out the guy who was
being beaten down. So you stop a beatdown, what's the punishment?
They put on a death order on him. A hit
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was ordered on Hirshfield, the guy from cut Hay for intervening,
and indeed he was killed. The authorities believe that the
guy who was principally responsible and put out the order
on the hit and may have actively participated, was Armando Barragon.
As I said, a couple of other people were since convicted,
but Barragon was never caught again. The murder was in three,
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their indictments in five, and he just has disappeared. Well,
it's not very hard for me to figure out where
the guy went. Now, maybe you wouldn't know where he went,
but I'm saying broadly, I don't mean what block or
what building that he's in, And he went to Mexico.
Mexico is under the control of the gangs, and if
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you're looking to flee criminal charges in the United States,
you're likely to go to Mexico, especially if that's your ethnicity.
It has been suspected that he was in Mexico. The
FEDS announced Friday of last week that they arrested him
in Mexico. Twenty two years later, barrag And has been caught.
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There's reports on js online and a couple of other
news outlets based at a statement from the Milwaukee office
of the FBI. I did a segment last week saying
that the FBI is back, and it was in reference
to the sports gambling probe and so on, and this
is just another example of it. One of the things
that I think has happened in Trump's playing hardball with Mexico.
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Mexico is now somewhat cooperative with the United States on
a lot of things because Trump started to play hardball
with them on trade and these trade battles that are
going on with different countries. You don't hear much on Mexico.
Mexico is, I think, generally cooperative with the United States.
I think what happened here and this is just speculation. Again,
this is not based on any information. This guy's been
in Mexico for twenty years and wasn't caught, and suddenly
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he's called somebody the time term has dimed him. It's
another taking of a noun and try to get into over.
Somebody dropped her time. Somebody said here's where he is.
We went in and got him. And that had to
be with some cooperation with the Mexican authorities who in
the past might not and cooperative. Anyway, the guy has caught.
Now here's a story for you. This reported on js online.
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Twenty four year old Milwaukee man arrested over the weekend
charged with drunk driving in Wisconsin, we call it owy
operating well intoxicated. He was going one hundred and seven
miles per hour on I forty one right near County
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Line Road. Now that's a segment in I forty one
where Washington, Milwaukee, and Waukeshaw Counties are all close together.
You've passed out as I forty one angles to the northwest.
If you're leaving Milwaukee, see you cross out of Milwaukee County.
By the time you get to County Line Road, you're
in Waukeshaw County, which crosses into Washington County. This apparently
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was still in Waukeshaw County because he was northbound. So
it's near County Line road, so he wasn't there, So
it's Wakashawe County authorities that apprehended him. He was alleged
to be going one hundred and seven mileer, intoxicated and
had children in the car. No, I'm not going to
be the hippocrewe who gets on my high horse of
what's speeding. But one hundred and seven is not eighty
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five second late. One hundred and seven when you're smashed
is not one hundred and seven when you're concentrating. Again,
that's just stating the obvious. Can you imagine a NASCAR
driver drunk while he's driving? Although there have been allocations
about it, there were the old Tim Richmond story. So
back in the day. Anyway, kids in the car? How
can you, no matter how reckless you are, how can
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you do that if you get children in the car?
How His name is Ryad El Mahdi. Last name is
spelled E Lmahdi twenty four. I didn't find any other
criminal record on him. Let's thrin our attention to an
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update on the gambling charges from the FBI. It seems
to me that there's some shorthand going on in the
media here, which is misleading. Well, this is what happens
when the NBA embraces gambling and sports with all of
these sponsorships. First of all, I don't think that's what
it is. Let's imagine all these states legalized sports gambling,
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but the NBA didn't have sponsorships. The guys still would
be doing the same thing. I don't think because you
go to a Bucks game and there might be a fan. Well,
actually the Bucks, you can't bet on sports in Wisconsin
except to Patawaamy go to another state or one of
these games. You see DraftKings is one of the sponsors
and so on. I don't think that's the reason, because
it's a sponsorship that some guys might be fixing games.
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The problem here is that as sports gambling goes from
what it was in the past, legal only in Nevada,
but widely done illegally with bookmakers either offshore or guys
working at a barbershops, mob connected, et cetera. That's what
it was. We then went to thirty nine states now
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having legal sports gambling in addition to that sports betting
in the past until all of this stuff got computerized.
You know, back when the bookies were writing it down
on napkins and so on. You couldn't have a proposition
on over under on rebounds, for Bobby Portis as an example,
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you can now bet on those things. Fixing a game
is hard for an individual player to do. And let's
say it's a pitcher in baseball or something. But let's
imagine you're on a basketball team and you decide not
to play very hard or whatever unless your teammates are
in out of You mightn't win or cover anyway. But
the thing you can control is these propositions and your
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own performance. You can, for example, pretend to be hurt
and take yourself out of the game. That way, you
don't even get the misshots or anything like that. Rebounds,
that's an easy one, Okay, I just not gott to
quite grab her that ball. It's sort of moving in
my direction. There are two separate cases here, or two
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separate types of gambling, and one of them doesn't seem
to have anything to do with the points spread. The
Chauncey Billufs case. He's the coach of the Portland Trailblazers.
He's accused of being mobbed up and being involved in
crooked poker games. Now it may well be that he
was doing this because he was in on the earlier
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thing with regard to fixing games, but there's no allegation
of that, so at least part of this case does.
The only player directly implicated here in terms of the
gambling lines is Terry Rogier of the Miami Heat. The
other two players Damon Jones, who spent two seasons with
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the Bugs but is better known as Lebron James's best friend.
Damon Jones is accused, along the Chauncey Billips, the head
coach of Portland, with being involved in mafia poker games. No,
I know a little bit about the subject of these
mafia run poker games. First of all, most of them,
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based in my experience which goes back just decades of
being around and hearing things, are not. The mob made
money by simply if there's a term called the rake,
and it's the same thing when you play in the
casinos in Las Vegas, the house takes a percentage of
all the bets in the game. Well, yeah, the Tony
Soprano game. In fact, that's what they weren't cheating anybody
in that game. You're simply made money off of There
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was a little bit of a money. Say, let's imagine
this is just a silly way of expanding. There's three
thousand dollars bet in one hand. The mob would get
a cut. Let's say it's five percent of whatever it is.
That's what they would take and the rest goes into
the pod for the winnings. And their take was based
on hosting the game, providing perfection and so on. So
this notion of the Mob fixing card games was not
the common way it was done because who would take
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part in the game that they thought was fixed. They
think it's not fixed. That's where Chauncey Billups comes in.
The allegation here is is that the Mob needed to
get well known figures to play in the games themselves
so that other people think it's on the up and up.
First of all, okay, I was got again. Chauncey Billips
is the break and that you're in the same game
with him. But secondly, well, the game can't be corrupt
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because Kanshi Billups, he must know what's going on and
so on. But the bigger question is how did Chauncey
Billups get tied up in the mafia to the point
that he's one of the frontmen for these games. I
think that that part of this might be more interesting
than the Terry Resir case. I do think in general,
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and everybody says the same thing, and you're going to
see it a lot more in college sports. You can't
have legal betting in thirty nine states on sports without
thinking that there's going to be a lot of people
to try to fix the outcome of those bets. I'm
involved in horse racing. It's the one thing that you
could legally bet up forever. It was the one sport
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in which gambling was not only a you do it
right of the track. So it's fun. And there's always
been cases where people were caught involved in fixing and
so on. It's constantly probed and investigated. In the biggest
regulator of it is all the people that are involved,
because let's imagine Ioda Hortz. You don't want your jockey
or somebody fixing the race, but you can't have into
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in general any type of gambling. People are going to
try to cheat. You know, there's been cheating alleged in
all sorts of things going on in Vegas, casinos and
all the other stuff. So when you have this as
pervasive as it is in sports, there's going to be cheating.
There's only one way to prevent it, and that is
the punishment for those who do it has to be extreme.
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In baseball, your band for life, the whole Pete Rose thing,
the Black Socks, the Chicago White Sox through the World Series.
Back in the early nineteen hundreds, that's the term black
size came emerged. There's been very little of it since
in baseball because everybody knew you were done for life.
You'd have to make a whole lot of a bet
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to justify losing your entire career. Will you never get
a salary again? My guess is that what happens here
is these players start betting themselves, maybe not even necessarily
on the game that they're in, and they get in debt,
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and now they're looking for a way to get out
of debt. They either owe money to bookies or they
want to cash on their own bet. In other words,
tell their friends, Okay, place these fifteen thousand that I'll
score fewer than such and such points. Give me a
kick of it in order to get out of the
debt that they're involved in in the first place. I mean,
I don't think that the answer is to go around
and the genies out of the bottle. The states that
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have legalized sports betting, you know, these states are all
making money off of it. They're not going to change it.
These proposition bets, however, I think they're risky for the
play places that are putting up the bets. You can
go to Potawatami, you have to be on the premise.
We discussed that issue last week. It's amazing to me
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the number of individual bets on a game. There are
probably ten receivers in last night's Packers Steelers game in
which you could bet on the number of receiving yards
they would have or the number of catches they would have.
I think that that's a risky bet for the bookmaker
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that's putting up the bet, because if they get stacked
with all sorts of action, because somebody knows that a
guy's deliberately going to go under whatever that total is,
they can be stung. The other part of this, though,
the mob's influence. I think to me, the most surprising
thing is I didn't know that there's enough of a
mafia left to be doing. We now know what they're doing.
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They've been pretty much driven out of the drug business
by all the cartels and everything. The garbage business in
some cities they're still around in and to some extent,
but waste management has every garbage contact. There is so
so much for that. Well, they're apparently the card game.
I don't even know why the mafia needs to run
a card game. A lot of states, gambling and cards
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is now legal too, isn't it. I mean some of
the private games aren't. But I mean there's a lot
of part would you say, I mean, but you could,
for example, in the Las Vegas casinos, there are no
limit games that are going on there. Maybe you know,
I do think in some states that illegalize sports betting,
you still have to be I don't know that they've
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I actually don't know if legal poker is all over
the place. Padawanavi had that poker room for a while.
I've just never heard of anybody particularly. They're just people
are just more interested in playing slot machines and sports
betting and so on. Saving the Sopranos here approving my
point that you claiming that there's a Seinfeld for everything,
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that I actually that there's a Sopranos for everything. So
as I say, in terms of addressing the problem in
the case of saying, Terry Rose, You're okay whatever is
done to him. Criminally, he's got to be banned from
the sport for life, and anybody else out there thinking
that has to understand you're going to be banned for life.
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I think the temptation will always be greatest for somebody
who doesn't make a lot of money. One of the
dumb analyses that I've seen, though, is people saying, Terry
Rezime Max, I don't know what it is, like twenty
six million dollars a year, why would he be doing it.
It's possible to me that he was so in death
that he's blown it all. The more money you have,
the more you tend to gamble, and people who have
the gambling itch and can't control it, they have the
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ability to lose everything that they have that can't control it.
Of course, is the keyle, well, why would you risk
for a ten thousand dollars bed? Twenty Well, what if
it's been more than just this one ten thousand dollar bed,
And what if it's more than ten thousand dollars? And
what if he's telling all of these people over here
and so forth and so on? An example of how
the inside information on something like this, Cole Anthony of
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the Bucks did not play last night. If somebody now,
if a player doesn't play, I think that they cancel
the bet on it. But what if he only plays
three minutes. If someone would have known inside that Cole
Anthony was likely not to play that very much, somebody
could have bet. And that's where you just have to
be very, very vigilant, and not just players, but anybody's
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staff or whatever. Anybody that shares any of this information
has to be manned for life. Other than that, I
don't know what the deturret is. It's the same position
that I take on any other kind of misbehavior. The
consequences have to be so great that it scares you
out of doing it. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
This is the Mark Belling podcast. Packers played on Sunday
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Night football. We're doing this podcast on Monday afternoon. I
watched a whole game, probably most Packer fans did. I
have a couple of observations. First, that second half was
as dominant as the Packers have been. There was a
point at which they had outscored Pittsburgh in the second
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half twenty eight to three. Green Bay was down at
halftime sixteen to seven, and in fact, it should have
been worse. It would have been worse were it not
for the fact that Aaron Rodgers and Pittsburgh were terrible.
I won't say the red zone because sometimes it stopped
earlier than that. But Pittsburgh kicked three field goals in
the first half, two of those ten touchdowns, and the
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margins a lot greater than sixteen to seven. Paul points
out the Packers missed a couple of field goals. That's true,
but without regard to that, they could have been down
by even more than they were. Despite the fact that
they were down by that margin, it didn't seem to
me that they had played terribly in the first half.
That second half, though, was stunning. A lot of attention
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has been given to the fact that Jordan Love competed
something like twenty passes in a row and so on.
I'll say this, other than one or two where he
did the old Brett fire thing and just threw the
ball up in the year and a Packer receiver went
and caught it. Packer receivers were open constantly. They're open constantly.
A lot of people will point out to the quarterback.
If receivers aren't open, there's not much that a quarterback
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can do, And in the case of when receivers are open,
you have to be a pretty bad quarterback to not
take advantage. Having said that, I just thought that Jordan
Love was just in his zone and he knew where
everybody was, and he'd look at the right guy at
the right time. As I said on the program two
weeks ago, Tucker Craft is now the best tight end
of the NFL. He had his best career game, He's
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emerged into quite the player, and so on. So Green
Bay has not this record a five to one and one,
which is a weird sounding record, but it pretty much
describes how they've played. They've had several games and last
night half of a game in which they've been dominant,
a couple of games in which they weren't very good,
and a couple of games in which they're so so,
which leads you to have one of the best records
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in the league. The Pack also had the advantage of
getting one of their receivers back, Watson. I think that
they've really missed Jaden Reid, who they lost after a
couple of weeks in the season. Getting Watson back kind
of replaces Jaden Reid, which helps them out in terms
of the Packer defense. It was just a dominant performance
predicated on, you know, for the first time in years,
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the Packers have passed rush, thanks to Micah Parsons getting
they triple team him. Thanks the I mean, you wonder
why Rashan Gary gets the quarterback? Everybody there's another guy
over there that they got three guys black and it
means it means you know, and it got inside Aaron
Rodgers's head. Aaron Rodgers was stowing early all the time
because he knew that the Packer pass rush was coming.
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A very, very impressive game for the Packers. A couple
of other football comments. This thing with regard to firing
coaches is Brian Kelly got fired by LSU over the weekend.
We're seeing coaches who have incredible track records now getting
fired because of tours, not even a bad season, like
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a portion of a season that isn't great. Admittedly, they
got slaughtered by Texas A and M, but they almost
won a national championship. With Brian Kelly, they had an
incredibly high powered offense. Was it in his first year
when they had Jaden Daniels, and who's the really great
receiver that he had. They have Malik Neighbors down there.
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I mean, he's been a successful coach forever and ever
and ever. They've only been okay this year and then
they got pasted in one particular game and it got fired.
I mean, Penn State fired James Franklin. Every Badger fan
that I know is hoping that the Badgers can hire
James Franklin. Now they'll talk about Brian Kelly. These teams
that are firing coaches, every other school would want to
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have them. Part of it is just the fan base
just can't get passed living in the short term. Secondly,
I don't know who all these teams think that they
get is going to be better than some of these
people that have winning seasons year in and year out.
But every team can do what it is that they want,
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and maybe some of these decisions work out for them.
But it's kind of stunning to see coaches that have
winning percentages of like seventy five percent getting canned. As
Wisconsin they played. Paul and I were both wrong. We
thought Oregon would cover a thirty two point spread against Wisconsin,
and they didn't come close. Wisconsin played Oregon very, very tough,
and the Wisconsin defense was spectacular. I mean, Wisconsin's offense
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is not existent. They can't move the ball at all,
in part because they have a third string quarterback. They
don't seem to want to go back to the second
string quarterback, and I think that the first three quarterback
has checked out his injury notwithstanding, and the offensive line
for Wisconsin is atrocious, so the defense is constantly on
the field. But Oregon has one of the best offense
in college football and they couldn't do anything against Wisconsin.
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This is after Wisconsin had played two really tough teams
in a row and both Paul and I thought that
they would be beaten down. But very inspiring football. In
addition to that, Wisconsin now did the thing that Fickle
didn't want to do, and they're starting to play some
of their true freshmen. You don't want to do that
because you lose a year of eligibility when you play them.
But you know, the running back of Tuca had a
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I think, pretty good game behind a bad offensive line.
On defense, had a couple of freshmen that were out there.
Mason Posa has just emerged. He not a freshman, but
he's emerged into an outstanding player. It's kind of been
an inevitability of Wisconsin would fire Luke Fickel, I'm I
think you have to play this season out and see
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whether or not they can improve and beat a couple
of teams down the stretch before you could do that,
because it's clear that a portion of the rebuilding of
Wisconsin is bearing fruit on the defensive side of the ball.
The offense is still a mess. Same same thing with
regard to these better teams that are firing coaches. You
fire the coach anymore. With the new rules on transfer
and nil, everybody transfers, they all leave a coach. Player
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that comes to play for one coach, they fired that coach,
they're gonna leave, and they're gonna go to another school
and you start over again. So I think Wisconsin showed
signs of life defensively. Offensively, until they get that offensive
line fixed and they can get a first sprint quarterback
that doesn't get knocked out in the first game of
the year, which has happened really three years in a row. Here,
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that's clearly a mess. But I'm very surprised. I thought
they'd lose by fifty points, and so did Paul and
seven the defense played well enough to win. I mean,
the offense finally got a touchdown after three weeks, but
that was an incredible defensive performance by Wisconsin. Paul said,
whatever game, Yeah, the moment you made that pick, I
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will say this about football this weekend. I've had a
good year at our because I would wrong about everything
my second, third, fourth, or fifth. I mean, my favorite
game in the NFL was the most humiliatingly terrible pick.
And I'll just admit this. I thought the Falcons would
crush the Dolphins. The Dolphins crushed the Falcons. I thought Pittsburgh,
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especially when the line was three and a half, was
a good bet against the Packers. The Packers covered on
that one. I thought Illinois had a chance to beat
Washington straight up in the Big Ten. Washington beat him.
So sometimes it's in these cases of you know, oh,
if I wish I'd have picked this game, anything I
would have picked, I would have been wrong about this
past weekend. All right. I have nothing particularly to offer
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about the World Series other than, you know, there's always
this thing when the Brewers getting knocked out, who do
you want to win. I never want anybody else to
win in anything. I mean, unless you like have a
pick on the game or something. But like, if the
Super Bowl doesn't involved the Packer, who do I want
to win? Kansas City or Philadelphia? I mean, it's just
I don't like this. I don't like I don't like
any other team. I mean, listen. And then there's this
(01:06:00):
problem of the Dodgers. Part of me wanted the Dodgers
to win because it reaffirms that the Brewers at least
got knocked out by a good team. But then there's
the whole you know, yeah, Los Angeles, you know, Gavin Newsom,
you don't like this. I have moved over though this
ad that Ontario is running attacking Trump. That's where Toronto
has screw them. I'm sure I needed some reason to
(01:06:23):
grab onto something. So I'm gonna go to the Dodgers now,
just because everybody in Canada is just they're sticking a
finger in my eye and I'm smart enough to say, leep,
you all right, that's it for rauh. Trudeau is dating
Katie Perry. I mean that just it actually seems appropriate,
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doesn't it. Here's a good question, who's the dumber of
the two. I mean, if you're two dumbs does not
equal smart. In other words, if you take two IQs
of fifty, you don't get one hundred. All right, that's it.
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Let's pretend we're in the seventh grade at least, I
think the seventh grade is where you would learn this.
Maybe it's the third grader. Maybe the schools are so
bad they don't teach it at all. Inverse relationship, admit it,
you can't define what that is? No, so like that
whole what was that TV show? Are you dumber than
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a seventh grader? Or is it a fifth grader? Fifth grader?
Except I just I don't buy that. I want to
put actual fifth graders on there and see if they
know any of those answers and inverse relationship. I will
explain it the following way. An inverse relationship is the
opposite of a relationship. An example of a relationship is
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there's generally a relationship between how much you eat and
how fat you are. I mean, it doesn't always hold,
but generally it holds. If you eat lots and lots
and lots, you're likely to be fatter than somebody who
hardly eats it all again. It doesn't hold up all
the time, but it's certainly fair to say that there's
(01:28):
a relationship there. Right now, I'm going to give you
an example of an inverse relationship. This is something that
I've observed over years of observing. That's what I basically
do in my career. I observe and then I commented
what I've observed. That's pretty much my entire career. No,
(01:49):
that's what it is. Here's an observation. There is an
inverse relationship, In other words, the opposite of an actual religion.
There is an inverse relationship between the amount of awards
that are handed out in a field and the competence
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generally of that field. Now, I know that some of
you didn't follow that, like did you follow that? You did? Oh?
Why he claims he did? I want to hear, Okay,
explain it. I want to see if you did. Yes,
Paul actually understands it. So that means I don't think
(02:30):
I need to explain the inverse relationship because if Paul
understands it, who in the hell how would not understand it?
I actually will under explain it because I love explaining
this the more incompetent the people are in a field,
the more awards they give out. Whereas the more competent
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individuals are in a field, that field tends they have
either fewer or almost no awards at all. Give you
examples of certain fields in which they're constantly handing out awards.
Basically any left wing social service type thing. They've got
Citizens of the Year, this of the Year, Volunteer, all
(03:14):
of this, on and on and on. It goes education,
public education, they're handing out awards all the time. The
entertainment field, constant awards, awards, awards, awards, awards, They're always
handing out awards to one another. I could give you
numerous other examples, but I think you get the drift.
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On the other hand, think of certain fields in which, boy,
it seems like everybody involved is pretty competent. When's the
last time you heard of any trouble involving a cement
truck driver. I mean, maybe there is, I just don't
recall hearing of Eddie. I think they get the cement
in there and they spin the thing around, and then
they show up at the proper place and they don't.
You really, when's the last time a cement truck driver
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got an award. Now I could raise it to a
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All right, now, here's the story that triggered a little discussion.
The stated excuse that Jill underly Hit of the Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction gave for skipping out of the
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legislative hearing last week, which was to investigate allegations that
her agency, DPI, has been covering up predatory behavior by teachers.
In particular, that DPI has been covering up allegations of
quote grooming by teachers. Grooming is the term that is
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used for when an adult is kind of softening up
a child for sexual activity, kind of breaking down the walls,
et cetera. It's the process that goes on before the
context starts this whole thing. And I'll give you a
little bit of background here. It came out as a
result of can't blame the conservatives for this. The Capital Times,
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which used to be a newspaper in Madison. It is
now kind of a website, but also they put some
pages in the Madison newspaper and with a very very
very liberal website when they were an actual newspaper, I'd
say the most liberal newspaper of the state. The Capital
Times has done a major investigation on this. So this
is coming from a lefty news source. So the liberals
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that are going to try to look the other way
at this story can't claim that this is from some
lacking credibility right wing source. Anyway, The allegation is the
DPI has been covering up and not investigating these allegations.
DPI is the agency that licenses teachers in the state
of Wisconsin. They were to hold this legislator but they
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did hold the legislative hearing last week. Underley is a
no show. The reason she gives for her no show
is she's receiving an award in Indiana. I mean this
is just perfect. First of all, she's her job is
in Wisconsin, she's the head of DPI in Wisconsin. She's
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getting some award in Indiana. She said, well, she had
a prior commitment. I love that when people say they
have a prior commitment. People prior commitments all the time,
and if you have something more important to do, you
go and do them more importantly. The fact that you
have the commitment first only holds up as if they
are like equal types of obligations. Like if Paul says
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that I won't even come up with an example of this,
because I'm not you would be an opposite example of that.
Your your priority would be anything involving me would be first,
and anything else would be second. But you kind of
get the trip anyway. Most people would assume that this
is simply Underley, who's a hack. By the way, that
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is the primary qualification to be head of DPI. I
am telling you this is held up for fifty years.
Hacks have run that. I don't remember Barbara Thompson as
the latter first person. Yeah, Barbara Thompson, she ran DPI
in the seventies. I honestly don't know if she was
a hack. I was like in high school or something then,
But after that it's made NonStop hackery. And they last
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for Burt Grover, remember Bert, In fact, that's when I
had veted that was his nickname. My show way by
Berth the hack Grover. Then Tony Evert's got in there.
He personifies the term hack. Well, anyway, Jill unders Underley
is in there now. She's a hack to. She obviously
did not want to have to answer questions as to why.
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Presuming that the allegations in the Capital Times investigation are accurate,
DPI has been covering up numerous allegations of teachers that
have been engaging in predatory behavior. In other words, the
type of stuff that occur is that leads up to
the molestation. So she goes and accepts the award and
claims that she had but I'm guessing that she is
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getting an award, because in that field they hand out
awards all the time. It's what they do. There are
certain fields in which they not only have a martyr complex,
they have a saint complex. I guess those two things
are related. But they're giving won another awards all the
time because they just think that there's so much superior
(09:03):
to the rest of us. And it's among the reasons
in which they're constantly whining about how terribly I mean
teaches them whining in Wisconsin forever and ever and ever.
On the story itself, let's explore this scandal. The allegation
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in the Capital Times report is that when DPI and
again DPI stands for the Division of Public Instruction, I
should explain for those of you don't follow state government closely,
it's an independent agency. It's not under the governor. The
head of DPI is elected by the voters. It's a
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standalone agency like the Department of Justices. So the person
who's in charge of DPI is the person elected by
the voters. And that currently is underlay that there have
been numerous instances were reported by school districts and others
to DPI of improper behavior by licensed educators in Wisconsin,
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and they basically just sat on it. That's the allegation.
Now I know why they sat on it. There's two
reasons for this. First, DPI has been forever and ineffectual, lazy,
do nothing agency, they said on this because they sit
on everything. It's all they do. Secondly, and this is
(10:33):
where the story becomes I think important, and you know,
in our understanding, forever, the head of DPI has been
somebody that was backed by the teachers unions forever. Here's why.
The one group that has a vested interest in controlling
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this otherwise not very important agency is the teachers union.
Schools are overseen by DPI, so the public schools and
in particular the unions that are in the public schools.
When I have somebody that's going to carry water for
them running that agency, so they spend a lot of
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money making sure that what their candidates win. There's no
other special interest group that cares about DPI, and none
on the conservative side. So what has happened is you
generally will have an election in which one of these
lefty hacks runs and a more education reform oriented challenger
who I won't even say to the right, but just
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to the right of the person who's back by the
lefties will run and the lefty always wins. The most
recent example was this pass spring when we had an
election in which Underley was re elected. She had an
extremely confident challenger in Britney Kincer. And further, even the
lefties realize Underley is terrible Evers's administration in his peace
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people did not back her in the primary. There are
three candidates running in the primary, two liberals, Underly one
of them, then another liberal challenger and Kinser. Even the
leftist and Madison backed the challenger, but Underly, with name
recognition and so on, she got to the primary, as
did Britney Kinser. So you have highly qualified Britney Kinser
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and then Jill Underley, who is just an empty pantsuit.
It was a close election, but Underley had way more
money and she beat Britney Kinser, which is exactly what
the teachers want, and especially a teacher who needs to
be regulated. Once Let's imagine you're an a and competent
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teacher or be perverted teacher. You can be either one.
What would you like to be in charge of regulating
teachers in the state? A watchdog out to get all
the bad teachers out, or a hack that's going to
carry water for all of you, So it was inevitable.
Then an agency that's run by first Underlay and prior
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to that evers and go back throughout the history these
hacks that were in the pocket of the teachers, and
you will be looking the other way at everything. The
big issue that has tormented Underlay over the past year
didn't torment her enough that she didn't get reelected. The
test scores in Wisconsin have been as most people are aware, crashing,
and they really accelerated the crash since COVID. So what
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Underly did is change the standards on the state's school's
report card. What does that mean? This is not the
way it works, but it's a corollary that's easy to explain.
Let's imagine you're taking a test and a passing grade
is seventy. One hundred is perfect, zero's the worst, Seventy
means passing barely but passing. And let's imagine that's how
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it was for proficiency in the schools of seventy. She
simply made it a fifty. In other words, nobody's proficiency improved,
but they just took a lower level of achievement and
declared a proficient to make it look like more of
the schools are succeeding than they actually were. But again,
that's what Underley would do, because she's a hacker, carries
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water for the public schools. With regard to this story
in the grooming, whose fault is it? It's the voter's fault.
Two sets of voters. One the people who vote for
hacks like Underley, but secondly the people who are conservative
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in the state who don't vote in these spring elections.
And I've been on this issue for several years and
I don't have an answer to it. In the fall elections,
that's the one where we elect the president, say in
twenty twenty four to twenty eight, thirty two thirty six,
and the other even number elections twenty two, twenty six,
thirty thirty four to thirty eight, et cetera, we elect
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the governor of Wisconsin. Senators are on six year terms,
so they're staggered in there. Two of every three of
them would in the fall. Conservatives tend to turn out
and vote, and these are the races in which they're
either really really close or our side actually wins, as
we did in the most recent election with Trump caring Wisconsin.
But in the spring elections, the voter turnout of the
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liberals is about eighty percent of what turns out in
the November elections, but the conservative voter turnouts about sixty.
And we saw this this past year with the state
Supreme Court election, where the liberal who one got about
eighty percent of the vote that Kamala Harris got and
the conservative Shim Will got about sixty percent of the
vote that Trump got. It's a chronic problem. The DPI
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election is in the spring, so a lot of the
people who are conservative but don't vote in these spring elections,
they're part of the problem. It's two groups. It's the
people that vote for these lefty hacks. In other words,
they're liberals and they want to They claim they care
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about education. In fact, what they care about is the
people who work with in education. They don't want education better,
they don't mind that it's getting worse. They just want
the money to keep coming into their own pockets. It's
their loone care about this. If they cared about education,
they'd embrace school choice and all sorts of other schools.
They clearly do a better job in the public schools,
but they don't so on this issue here with regard
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to this grooming, it's apparent to me that we have
a completely parallel story from the last century. From the
tail end of the last century of the twentieth century,
there was a scandal in the Roman Catholic Church with priests,
many priests. When I say many, a higher percentage than
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should be. It was certainly not half, but the numbers
should be zero or fringe one percent. It was more
than that priests were molesting individuals, primarily young boys, not always,
but mostly. And as the story came out, it became
aware that leaders of the church were aware of this
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and would shuttle these priests around after what they're caught
in one place, send them off to another community, and
never turn over a referral, and oh, give them the priest
counseling and so on. Eventually the thing blew up, and
all over America there were these funds that have been
created to pay all the victims of the priests. And
it went on because there was decades of looking the
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other way, covering up in some cases people within the
parishes themselves who knew that there was a perverted priest,
but didn't demand that he'd be thrown in jail, and
it ended up blowing up in the face of the
Catholic Church. Now that it's exposed, the problem is virtually gone.
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There are almost no cases anymore a priest being criminally
charged with this type of behavior. They basically urged the
bad ones out, and they've gotten very aggressive when they
hear of any kind of a problem to move forward.
But that's what's happened with any problem, any kind of problem.
When you ignore it, ignore it, ignored, it blows up
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and threatens your institution. Well, then you got to deal
with it. Here's where we are. The same story, parallel
is going on with educators. You're hearing these stories all
over the place right now, and weirdly, it seems to me,
maybe it just it seems because you remember these cases more.
It seems to me that it's more women with male
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students than males with girls. But there's just been a
lot of them. And every week, if you follow any
of these cases, and you know, there's YouTube channels that
are devoted to them. One well respected thirty seven year
old teacher and a sixty year old it's on and
on and on and on and on, and it's constant.
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And I suspect it's the same thing that happened in
the last century with the Catholic Church, that the behavior
was going on and a lot of people were looking
the other way. And in this instance, DPI, for example,
is sitting on these reports and rather than jumping on
every opportunity. Let's imagine you have say a case in
which okay, the teacher's message a round with the kid,
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but the kid's family doesn't want to make it, want
to make us think about it, so you can't find
criminal charges the non cooperating witness, you can still make
sure that person never teaches again. In the same notion,
as you know, a company's got somebody that may be
embezzling from it. He pays back, so you don't call
the police, but you make the guy's fired and you
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don't ever give him a reference when he seeks another job.
I just think it's the same kind of thing that
this cancer that hit the Catholic Church, which I think
they've taken care of because they had to, and there's
been demands and within and without that they do so
is now incredibly in public education and the same looking
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you're the other way that we saw before is going
on now. And the equivalent, say the bishops and the
cardinals that look the other way back in the nineteen
eighties and nineteen nineties, that'll be Jill Underley right now.
It's really the same story. Let me move on to
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the great political debate right now in America. In fact,
I'm looking at a Fox Monitor Radio got the headline, mom,
Donnie on the future of the Democratic Party. That's where
I'm going with this. I believe that what we have
known to be the Democratic Party in America is just dead.
It's dead. The left isn't dead. Democratic Party is dead,
(20:55):
and it's been displaced by the socialists. The only thing
that they want we haven't done is change the name.
You know, there's been a socialist Party in the United
States forever and ever and ever, and you get to
like one percent of the vote if that and so on.
But there's no need for it anymore because the Democratic
leadership has been taken over by socialists. So what you're
going to have, I think of the foreseeable future is
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Republicans versus socialists. It used to be that there were
people on socialist ideology and the Democratic Party, and they
denied those days are long gone. They now brag about
it and put socialist in their name. Mam Donnie is
an example. Mam Donnie comes right out and says he's
a socialist. They use this term democratic socialist, but he's
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a socialist and everything that he advocates as socialist. And
there's no shame anymore. And anybody on the left saying
the socialists that come all right on and brag we're
socialists for socialists or socialists. This takeover of the Democratic Party,
but the socialist has occurred because the traditional non socialist Democrat,
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that's like the old bulls of the party, simply gave up.
They franced. Did you hear the word I use franced?
I turned France into a verb. They franced France to
be to France as opposed to the country of France.
To France. The engaging of France is to quit without
(22:23):
a fight, which is what they've been accused of doing
every time there's a war. They just roll over and
cave rather than fight. And that's what's happened in the
Democratic Party. The socialists have taken over. And you see
right now the Keem Jeffreys is the latest to endorse
ma'mdanni from Mayor of New York, i'm donnie as the
Democratic House leader. So if there was any type of
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a version of these socialists, there'd be some pushback from
within the Democratic Party. And there really isn't. I've got
a code here posted on X over the weekend from
Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Well, it's official.
The Democrat Party is a full fledged radical, big government
socialist party. House Democrats now fully endorse and stand by
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truly dangerous policies like defunding the police, a massive tax increases. Meanwhile,
Republicans are fighting to lower costs, make streets safer, secure
our vorter, and delivering peace through strength. The contrast has
never been more clear. Marxist zoron Mamdani's extreme agenda is
the future of the Democrat Party, but we will not
(23:27):
allow it to be the future of America. Now, for
people who want to argue that mcdonni's vision is not
the vision of Democrats, find me five mainstream, well known
Democrats that are trying to stop Mamdani from getting elected Mayor.
Mair I said five, because you might get two or three.
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Bill Ackman, the New York financier, lifelong Democrat, essentially being
chased over into our camp. The Democratic Party is in
the final stages of destroying itself. It is about to
be replaced by the Socialist Party. The New York City
mayoral election is not just about the future of New
York City. It is about the future of our country.
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I agree with that. People say, well, it's just New York.
New York's the most important city. It's more important than
many states. Furthermore, this ideological battle in which it's just
clear that the majority of Democrats want a socialist to
be their candidate. You have an independent candidate Cuomo, who's
also a Democrat. He lost the Democratic primary. He's running
(24:38):
in the general election. Now on this what's going on
in that race? The election is in a few days
next I think it's it's either next week. I believe
it is the most recent poll and polling in a
(24:59):
manorial race as a little difficult because it's hard to
gauge voter turnout. Suffolk University is the two companies that
have played Suffolk University in Quinnipiac College are the two
polling companies that have been polling in New York. I
can't say that I can endorse the reliability of their polls.
But what we can do is at least it's in
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apples to apples comparison. Because you compare the one poll
from last month on the same poling outfit, it shows
a closing of the gap in the race. But tightening
is the wrong word. In the September poll, Mamdanni had
a twenty point lead over Andrew Cmo. It's down to ten. Well,
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the gap is certainly narrowed, but to say tightening, I
can't say that a ten point race tightening is the
right word. Here are the numbers. Mamdanni's at forty four percent,
Como's at thirty four percent. The problem is is that
the Republican candidate refuses to drop out of the race
despite overwhelming pressure to do so. That's Curtis Slee, while
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he's at eleven. You can't make somebody drop out of
a race. Slee was big gig as he's been a
talk show host at WAVEC Radio in New York. His
general manager or the owner of a station. Castemaditis is
his name. John Castemaditas is a billionaire. He just endorsed
Cuomo Sleeve was said, I'll never go back to work
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at that radio. They do what everything they can to
get him out of the race at an attempt to
save New York. A Cloma would be a bad mayor.
He was a bad governor. But he's a traditional Democrat.
He's not a socialist. New York said bad Democratic mayors
forever and ever and ever. The notion, however, of simply
having an out and out socialist who will tax every
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last business in, every last wealthy person out of the state,
who's essentially said, I don't believe in locking people up.
All the other beliefs that he has, New York will
fall apart and the country will be badly damaged, and
all of the people have invested interest in the city
of New York not falling apart. But again, as I say,
they don't have a rule in which you have to
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get better than fifty percent of the vote to win.
It's not one of those states where a runoff you
simply need a plurality out. If there are more than
two candidates running, the one who gets the most votes
is going to win. I've said for some time I
think Mamdannie's going to win if Sleewood dropped out of
(27:27):
the race, it might change things, but I don't think
he's going to drop out of the race. And secondly,
the other thing that these polls often don't measure is
which side is more motivated to vote, and has been
explaining forever, with the exception of Charlie Kirk's organization's involvement
in the twenty twenty four election, the left is just
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way better in getting voter turnout than is the right.
The estimate is is that Mamdannie has ninety thousand canvassers.
Ninety thousand. That's the way to win. Somebody who's essentially
going to make sure that someone votes impressed me that
making sure can be either nefarious or simply cajoling. But
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after Mamdatti wins for resuming, he does win it. And
you'll see it in the next presidential race whomever the
Republican is be advanced, or Rubio or whomever is going
to be running against a candidate who calls himself a
Democrat but will indeed be running on socialist principles. You
even see it in this whole debate over the shutdown
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of America along these same lines. One of the things
that's undeniably happened in American It's not new, it's just accelerated.
The term used to be gender gap. They called it
a gender gap when they started noticing this drift of
women to the Democrats. They don't call it a gender
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graph now because there's another drift going on, and that
is men moving overwhelmingly to the Republicans. There's a piece
that appeared recently on the Hill. It's a website that
covers Capitol Hill. It's an opinion piece written by somebody
named John mcgillan, why men are leaving the left and
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not coming back. He makes some rather obvious but still
interesting points. I want to share a portion of it.
He writes, the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging men across the
United States. They are leaving in waves from the unions
that once powered the party's muscle, from classrooms that once
echoed with idealism, and from a movement that now talks
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at them rather than to them. Poles show young men
flocking to the right in numbers not seen for generations.
The trend isn't a blip but a brutal reckoning, and
no amount of branding or beer ads will stop it.
The party's latest efforts to woo men are almost painful
to watch. The Democratic National Committee has poured money into
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influencer partnerships, podcast cameos, and clumsy masculinity campaigns filmed in gyms.
Spokesperson's drown on about kitchen table issues as if men
are sitting there waiting to be emotionally validated between spoonfuls
of reheated stew. None of it works because it isn't real.
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Men don't want to be sold to, they want to
be spoken to. The problem isn't packaging, but posture. A
party that has spent years pathologizing masculinity can't expect gratitude
from the men it is spent so long diagnosing. Let
me interject the whole toxic masculinity thing that they've been
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drilling for everything. Well, is it really a surprise that
after years of saying that masculinity is toxic, there's a
lot of men who want to consider themselves masculine decide
that they're going to go over to the side that
doesn't consider themselves toxic. Continuing, there was a time when
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Democrats didn't need to perform masculinity because they personified it.
Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman and John Kennedy all spoke the
language of strength, duty, and sacrifice. Even Bill Clinton, for
all his flaws, employed charisma as a form of command.
Barack Obama combined intellect with authority. These were men who
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carried themselves with the quiet confidence that others respected because
they aspired to it. But somewhere along the line, that
current of conviction faded. The virtues that once defined democratic leadership, resolved, discipline,
fortitude were recast as remnants of a primitive past. The
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same movement that once celebrated builders and breadwinners began to
sneer at them. Masculinity became something to manage rather than
to honor. The sermon grew stale. Your privileged, you are problematic.
You were not welcome here anymore. That message has exhausted
its power. The modern democrat man, No, before I get
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into his description. When you think of the modern democratic man,
who comes to mind, He's gonna give you examples, And
my guess is it's gonna be the same ones you're
thinking of. The one trending on social media. Fluent in
the language of lived experience feels less like a leader
and more like a life coach. Pete boudagain Pweet, Pete
boudagad Jet, Pete Buddhajeg speaks with the soothing detachment of
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a corporate wellness coach. Corey Booker dispenses compassion like a
man who's been trapped on the seminar circuit too long.
Tim Walls Kamala Harris's ill fated Running Maid was less
a spark than a screensaver, steady, silent, and impossible to
remember once gone. They are not bad men, but they
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are beije one. They speak softly while the world shouts.
They offer community care. When men were on competition, competence
and consequence, they promised conversation in a culture crying out
for courage. They mean well, but politics built on politeness
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never stirs the blood. Democrats have mistaken attention for trust.
They think a viral podcast clip can replace authenticity. They
think a few relatable posts will fill the void left
by decades of distin But men are not looking for content.
They are looking for meaning. They are tired of being
told what's wrong with them, and desperate for someone to
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tell them what's right. A party that once built bridges
now burns them. A movement that once fought for workers,
now fights for abstractions. No one believes it. It wasn't
always disconnected. The Democratic Party once inspired men to see
themselves as part of something greater families, unions, and a
country worth defending. Today, however, the same party mocks faith, discipline,
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and fatherhood as punchlines. It worships inclusion but forgets loyalty.
It preaches equality but forgets basic humanity. If Democrats truly
want to win men back, they'll need more than consultants
and hashtags. They'll need to rediscover their backbone. They'll have
to speak about duty without apology, about strength without suspicion,
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and about ambition without shame. They'll have to rediscover that
empathy without authority is just noise. They must remember that
admiration cannot be outsourced. It must be earned. Until then,
men will keep drifting right, not because they have changed,
because Democrats have. The Party of Roosevelt and Kennedy has
swapped metal for madness, common sense for the kind of
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nonsense only consultants applaud. It no longer commands respect because
it no longer gives it. Pieces I said appeared on
the hill speaking of the femininization of men let's talk
about Canada. Can the more perfect example of the whole
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loss of masculinity than Canada. And you think you want
to think of Canada as like this rugged country. There
they are up north, all cold and all of that stuff,
and it's become the woosiest country there is. See anyway,
if you're not aware, Ottawa, which is a province of Canada,
it's the one where sectually correct myself, Ontario, province of Canada.
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It's the one where Taradu is. The province of Ontario
started running TV ads over the weekend and they were everywhere.
They're on the packer game, they were everywhere attacking President
Trump on trade. Now, first of all, the whole thing
is just suspicious. The country that has been terrifing to
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death has been American products can be very very very
hard to sell in Canada. If Canada makes the same product,
they slap huge duties on our stuff. In addition to that,
it's very hard for Americans to get jobs working in Canada.
They're very very very restrictive on visus and so on.
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So the whole lusion that suddenly, well, tariffs are execondly.
The way they do this is they put a voice
clip of Ronald Reagan in there. This is just I mean,
I'm old enough to remember when the left just despised
Ronald Reagan. He's at any of these and actor, he's
of a poon, he's an extremist. Now the Left has
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to channel Ronald Reagan to rebuke Trump, and they pull
out this cut of Reagan warning against tariffs. In fact,
Reagan's whole view on tariffs is rather mixed. He did,
indeed teariff a lot of things. His comments are made
in nineteen eighty seven with regard to opposition to a
particular tariff. None of what Reagan said in nineteen eighty
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seven has a lot of relevance to anything that's going
on in twenty twenty five. But Canada is running this
ad in an attempt to embarrass Trump. So some turns
around and increases the tariff that we have in Canada
on carryo backs down, But then the ads kept running
all week and saying, well, it takes like five days
to pull ads. They always say that, and that seems specious.
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But I work in the media. I can imagine if
somebody tried to get an ad pulled here, it would
take five days. Wouldn't it. But you would think, like
in an NFL game on NBC, it wouldn't be that hard,
would it. I and I want to end the segment
with this story. The government shutdown is now weeks old,
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and most people haven't noticed it because President Trump has
made sure that a lot of necessary operations can contain you.
But the federal employees who are who agencies when shut
down have not been paid, and that's moving on for
a while. They've always kind of understood, well, when it reopens,
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we'll get back pay, and that may still happen. But
now we're facing the food stamp funding for November. In Wisconsin,
we call food stamps food share. Food Share is going
to run out of money in the state of Wisconsin.
The estimate is seven hundred thousand people in Wisconsin get
funding under food share. And again, food share is our
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term for the food stamp program. Same thing around the country.
There is no mechanism to fund food stamps when the
government is shut down. Short of a congressional vote, the
Republicans keep passing these bills to fund the government through
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the Senate. Remember that in the Senate you need sixty
votes to pass a bill, not the fifty because you
sixty votes to end the debate. In the most recent vote,
three Democrats joined the Republicans. There's still I think six short.
The three Democrats are Federman of Pennsylvania and the two
Democrats from Georgia. I think the Democrats are banking on
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that when people don't get their food stamp payments, that
Trump and the Republicans will get the blame. A couple
of problems with that. First of all, a lot of
these people are people who didn't vote for Trump. They
voted for Democrats. Secondly, the facts are obvious. The Republican
funding bill funds everything as it is, and they keep
passing a funding bill. The side that's opposing the funding
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bill is the Democrats. It does make me wonder if
this will be the issue that gets the Democrats to
say uncle and end this. All they need to do
is signal the seven of their more moderate Democrats go
over and join the Republicans. We can let Cammy Baldwin
and the left wing hacks continue to vote the other way.
You just need to get seven of them over there,
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or will they actually create a hunger crisis in the
United States because they continue to oppose the bill? That
would restore funding to all of this. I think this
will be the big challenge to the resolve of these
lefties who just the reason that they're not funding the
government is because they're left wing. Base just keeps telling
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you gotta fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump, you gotta
fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump.
Are they willing to keep try fighting Trump to the
point that it's the Democrats that actually stop food stamps
from being issued in the United States. This is the
Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast. The
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following is quite a story. There's a historical component to
it because the event that's triggering the story is twenty
years old for the longest time. In Milwaukee eighties, nineties
and early zeros, the dominant street gang in town was
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the Latin Kings. There were a lot of gangs. The
Latin Kings, by definition, were primarily Latinos, and they commandeered
the Latino neighborhoods of Milwaukee on the north side of Milwaukee,
which were the more African American neighborhoods. There were a
lot of different gangs. There were gangs, the Disciples, and
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a bunch of others. And they fought over territory, but
the Latin Kings commandeered the South Side. They were very strong.
There was even a member of the Milwaukee City Council
who was ended up being linked to the Latin Kings.
It was hard to do business and portions of the
South Side to do anything political without the nod of
the Latin Kegs, and they were a ruthless gang. The
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Latin Kings remained very powerful across These gangs tend to
be national, but their local affiliates can get very very
weak when they lose territory of their people get thrown
in jail and so on. The Latin Kings are still
around all over the United States, but they are nowhere
near a strong in Milwaukee as they once were. And
part of the reason for that is the leader of
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the Latin Kings disappeared twenty years ago. His name was,
well it was He still is, Armando Barragut. He was
one of the leaders of the Latin Kings. He was
implicated in the killing in two thousand and three of
a guy in Kutahy named Kevin Hirshfield. Some of you
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may recall the story, and several members of the Latin
Kings were convicted of taking part. There was a beatdown
going on. The Latin Kings were doing a beatdown of somebody,
and Hirshfield intervened to help out the guy who was
being beaten down. So you stop a beatdown, what's the punishment?
They put on a death order on him. A hit
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was ordered on Hirshfield, the guy from cut Hay for intervening,
and indeed he was killed. The authorities believe that the
guy who was principally responsible and put out the order
on the hit and may have actively participated, was Armando Barragon.
As I said, a couple of other people were since convicted,
but Barragon was never caught again. The murder was in three,
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their indictments in five, and he just has disappeared. Well,
it's not very hard for me to figure out where
the guy went. Now, maybe you wouldn't know where he went,
but I'm saying broadly, I don't mean what block or
what building that he's in, And he went to Mexico.
Mexico is under the control of the gangs, and if
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you're looking to flee criminal charges in the United States,
you're likely to go to Mexico, especially if that's your ethnicity.
It has been suspected that he was in Mexico. The
FEDS announced Friday of last week that they arrested him
in Mexico. Twenty two years later, barrag And has been caught.
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There's reports on js online and a couple of other
news outlets based at a statement from the Milwaukee office
of the FBI. I did a segment last week saying
that the FBI is back, and it was in reference
to the sports gambling probe and so on, and this
is just another example of it. One of the things
that I think has happened in Trump's playing hardball with Mexico.
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Mexico is now somewhat cooperative with the United States on
a lot of things because Trump started to play hardball
with them on trade and these trade battles that are
going on with different countries. You don't hear much on Mexico.
Mexico is, I think, generally cooperative with the United States.
I think what happened here and this is just speculation. Again,
this is not based on any information. This guy's been
in Mexico for twenty years and wasn't caught, and suddenly
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he's called somebody the time term has dimed him. It's
another taking of a noun and try to get into over.
Somebody dropped her time. Somebody said here's where he is.
We went in and got him. And that had to
be with some cooperation with the Mexican authorities who in
the past might not and cooperative. Anyway, the guy has caught.
Now here's a story for you. This reported on js online.
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Twenty four year old Milwaukee man arrested over the weekend
charged with drunk driving in Wisconsin, we call it owy
operating well intoxicated. He was going one hundred and seven
miles per hour on I forty one right near County
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Line Road. Now that's a segment in I forty one
where Washington, Milwaukee, and Waukeshaw Counties are all close together.
You've passed out as I forty one angles to the northwest.
If you're leaving Milwaukee, see you cross out of Milwaukee County.
By the time you get to County Line Road, you're
in Waukeshaw County, which crosses into Washington County. This apparently
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was still in Waukeshaw County because he was northbound. So
it's near County Line road, so he wasn't there, So
it's Wakashawe County authorities that apprehended him. He was alleged
to be going one hundred and seven mileer, intoxicated and
had children in the car. No, I'm not going to
be the hippocrewe who gets on my high horse of
what's speeding. But one hundred and seven is not eighty
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five second late. One hundred and seven when you're smashed
is not one hundred and seven when you're concentrating. Again,
that's just stating the obvious. Can you imagine a NASCAR
driver drunk while he's driving? Although there have been allocations
about it, there were the old Tim Richmond story. So
back in the day. Anyway, kids in the car? How
can you, no matter how reckless you are, how can
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you do that if you get children in the car?
How His name is Ryad El Mahdi. Last name is
spelled E Lmahdi twenty four. I didn't find any other
criminal record on him. Let's thrin our attention to an
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update on the gambling charges from the FBI. It seems
to me that there's some shorthand going on in the
media here, which is misleading. Well, this is what happens
when the NBA embraces gambling and sports with all of
these sponsorships. First of all, I don't think that's what
it is. Let's imagine all these states legalized sports gambling,
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but the NBA didn't have sponsorships. The guys still would
be doing the same thing. I don't think because you
go to a Bucks game and there might be a fan. Well,
actually the Bucks, you can't bet on sports in Wisconsin
except to Patawaamy go to another state or one of
these games. You see DraftKings is one of the sponsors
and so on. I don't think that's the reason, because
it's a sponsorship that some guys might be fixing games.
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The problem here is that as sports gambling goes from
what it was in the past, legal only in Nevada,
but widely done illegally with bookmakers either offshore or guys
working at a barbershops, mob connected, et cetera. That's what
it was. We then went to thirty nine states now
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having legal sports gambling in addition to that sports betting
in the past until all of this stuff got computerized.
You know, back when the bookies were writing it down
on napkins and so on. You couldn't have a proposition
on over under on rebounds, for Bobby Portis as an example,
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you can now bet on those things. Fixing a game
is hard for an individual player to do. And let's
say it's a pitcher in baseball or something. But let's
imagine you're on a basketball team and you decide not
to play very hard or whatever unless your teammates are
in out of You mightn't win or cover anyway. But
the thing you can control is these propositions and your
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own performance. You can, for example, pretend to be hurt
and take yourself out of the game. That way, you
don't even get the misshots or anything like that. Rebounds,
that's an easy one, Okay, I just not gott to
quite grab her that ball. It's sort of moving in
my direction. There are two separate cases here, or two
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separate types of gambling, and one of them doesn't seem
to have anything to do with the points spread. The
Chauncey Billufs case. He's the coach of the Portland Trailblazers.
He's accused of being mobbed up and being involved in
crooked poker games. Now it may well be that he
was doing this because he was in on the earlier
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thing with regard to fixing games, but there's no allegation
of that, so at least part of this case does.
The only player directly implicated here in terms of the
gambling lines is Terry Rogier of the Miami Heat. The
other two players Damon Jones, who spent two seasons with
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the Bugs but is better known as Lebron James's best friend.
Damon Jones is accused, along the Chauncey Billips, the head
coach of Portland, with being involved in mafia poker games. No,
I know a little bit about the subject of these
mafia run poker games. First of all, most of them,
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based in my experience which goes back just decades of
being around and hearing things, are not. The mob made
money by simply if there's a term called the rake,
and it's the same thing when you play in the
casinos in Las Vegas, the house takes a percentage of
all the bets in the game. Well, yeah, the Tony
Soprano game. In fact, that's what they weren't cheating anybody
in that game. You're simply made money off of There
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was a little bit of a money. Say, let's imagine
this is just a silly way of expanding. There's three
thousand dollars bet in one hand. The mob would get
a cut. Let's say it's five percent of whatever it is.
That's what they would take and the rest goes into
the pod for the winnings. And their take was based
on hosting the game, providing perfection and so on. So
this notion of the Mob fixing card games was not
the common way it was done because who would take
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part in the game that they thought was fixed. They
think it's not fixed. That's where Chauncey Billups comes in.
The allegation here is is that the Mob needed to
get well known figures to play in the games themselves
so that other people think it's on the up and up.
First of all, okay, I was got again. Chauncey Billips
is the break and that you're in the same game
with him. But secondly, well, the game can't be corrupt
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because Kanshi Billups, he must know what's going on and
so on. But the bigger question is how did Chauncey
Billups get tied up in the mafia to the point
that he's one of the frontmen for these games. I
think that that part of this might be more interesting
than the Terry Resir case. I do think in general,
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and everybody says the same thing, and you're going to
see it a lot more in college sports. You can't
have legal betting in thirty nine states on sports without
thinking that there's going to be a lot of people
to try to fix the outcome of those bets. I'm
involved in horse racing. It's the one thing that you
could legally bet up forever. It was the one sport
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in which gambling was not only a you do it
right of the track. So it's fun. And there's always
been cases where people were caught involved in fixing and
so on. It's constantly probed and investigated. In the biggest
regulator of it is all the people that are involved,
because let's imagine Ioda Hortz. You don't want your jockey
or somebody fixing the race, but you can't have into
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in general any type of gambling. People are going to
try to cheat. You know, there's been cheating alleged in
all sorts of things going on in Vegas, casinos and
all the other stuff. So when you have this as
pervasive as it is in sports, there's going to be cheating.
There's only one way to prevent it, and that is
the punishment for those who do it has to be extreme.
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In baseball, your band for life, the whole Pete Rose thing,
the Black Socks, the Chicago White Sox through the World Series.
Back in the early nineteen hundreds, that's the term black
size came emerged. There's been very little of it since
in baseball because everybody knew you were done for life.
You'd have to make a whole lot of a bet
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to justify losing your entire career. Will you never get
a salary again? My guess is that what happens here
is these players start betting themselves, maybe not even necessarily
on the game that they're in, and they get in debt,
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and now they're looking for a way to get out
of debt. They either owe money to bookies or they
want to cash on their own bet. In other words,
tell their friends, Okay, place these fifteen thousand that I'll
score fewer than such and such points. Give me a
kick of it in order to get out of the
debt that they're involved in in the first place. I mean,
I don't think that the answer is to go around
and the genies out of the bottle. The states that
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have legalized sports betting, you know, these states are all
making money off of it. They're not going to change it.
These proposition bets, however, I think they're risky for the
play places that are putting up the bets. You can
go to Potawatami, you have to be on the premise.
We discussed that issue last week. It's amazing to me
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the number of individual bets on a game. There are
probably ten receivers in last night's Packers Steelers game in
which you could bet on the number of receiving yards
they would have or the number of catches they would have.
I think that that's a risky bet for the bookmaker
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that's putting up the bet, because if they get stacked
with all sorts of action, because somebody knows that a
guy's deliberately going to go under whatever that total is,
they can be stung. The other part of this, though,
the mob's influence. I think to me, the most surprising
thing is I didn't know that there's enough of a
mafia left to be doing. We now know what they're doing.
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They've been pretty much driven out of the drug business
by all the cartels and everything. The garbage business in
some cities they're still around in and to some extent,
but waste management has every garbage contact. There is so
so much for that. Well, they're apparently the card game.
I don't even know why the mafia needs to run
a card game. A lot of states, gambling and cards
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is now legal too, isn't it. I mean some of
the private games aren't. But I mean there's a lot
of part would you say, I mean, but you could,
for example, in the Las Vegas casinos, there are no
limit games that are going on there. Maybe you know,
I do think in some states that illegalize sports betting,
you still have to be I don't know that they've
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I actually don't know if legal poker is all over
the place. Padawanavi had that poker room for a while.
I've just never heard of anybody particularly. They're just people
are just more interested in playing slot machines and sports
betting and so on. Saving the Sopranos here approving my
point that you claiming that there's a Seinfeld for everything,
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that I actually that there's a Sopranos for everything. So
as I say, in terms of addressing the problem in
the case of saying, Terry Rose, You're okay whatever is
done to him. Criminally, he's got to be banned from
the sport for life, and anybody else out there thinking
that has to understand you're going to be banned for life.
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I think the temptation will always be greatest for somebody
who doesn't make a lot of money. One of the
dumb analyses that I've seen, though, is people saying, Terry
Rezime Max, I don't know what it is, like twenty
six million dollars a year, why would he be doing it.
It's possible to me that he was so in death
that he's blown it all. The more money you have,
the more you tend to gamble, and people who have
the gambling itch and can't control it, they have the
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ability to lose everything that they have that can't control it.
Of course, is the keyle, well, why would you risk
for a ten thousand dollars bed? Twenty Well, what if
it's been more than just this one ten thousand dollar bed,
And what if it's more than ten thousand dollars? And
what if he's telling all of these people over here
and so forth and so on? An example of how
the inside information on something like this, Cole Anthony of
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the Bucks did not play last night. If somebody now,
if a player doesn't play, I think that they cancel
the bet on it. But what if he only plays
three minutes. If someone would have known inside that Cole
Anthony was likely not to play that very much, somebody
could have bet. And that's where you just have to
be very, very vigilant, and not just players, but anybody's
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staff or whatever. Anybody that shares any of this information
has to be manned for life. Other than that, I
don't know what the deturret is. It's the same position
that I take on any other kind of misbehavior. The
consequences have to be so great that it scares you
out of doing it. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
This is the Mark Belling podcast. Packers played on Sunday
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Night football. We're doing this podcast on Monday afternoon. I
watched a whole game, probably most Packer fans did. I
have a couple of observations. First, that second half was
as dominant as the Packers have been. There was a
point at which they had outscored Pittsburgh in the second
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half twenty eight to three. Green Bay was down at
halftime sixteen to seven, and in fact, it should have
been worse. It would have been worse were it not
for the fact that Aaron Rodgers and Pittsburgh were terrible.
I won't say the red zone because sometimes it stopped
earlier than that. But Pittsburgh kicked three field goals in
the first half, two of those ten touchdowns, and the
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margins a lot greater than sixteen to seven. Paul points
out the Packers missed a couple of field goals. That's true,
but without regard to that, they could have been down
by even more than they were. Despite the fact that
they were down by that margin, it didn't seem to
me that they had played terribly in the first half.
That second half, though, was stunning. A lot of attention
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has been given to the fact that Jordan Love competed
something like twenty passes in a row and so on.
I'll say this, other than one or two where he
did the old Brett fire thing and just threw the
ball up in the year and a Packer receiver went
and caught it. Packer receivers were open constantly. They're open constantly.
A lot of people will point out to the quarterback.
If receivers aren't open, there's not much that a quarterback
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can do, And in the case of when receivers are open,
you have to be a pretty bad quarterback to not
take advantage. Having said that, I just thought that Jordan
Love was just in his zone and he knew where
everybody was, and he'd look at the right guy at
the right time. As I said on the program two
weeks ago, Tucker Craft is now the best tight end
of the NFL. He had his best career game, He's
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emerged into quite the player, and so on. So Green
Bay has not this record a five to one and one,
which is a weird sounding record, but it pretty much
describes how they've played. They've had several games and last
night half of a game in which they've been dominant,
a couple of games in which they weren't very good,
and a couple of games in which they're so so,
which leads you to have one of the best records
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in the league. The Pack also had the advantage of
getting one of their receivers back, Watson. I think that
they've really missed Jaden Reid, who they lost after a
couple of weeks in the season. Getting Watson back kind
of replaces Jaden Reid, which helps them out in terms
of the Packer defense. It was just a dominant performance
predicated on, you know, for the first time in years,
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the Packers have passed rush, thanks to Micah Parsons getting
they triple team him. Thanks the I mean, you wonder
why Rashan Gary gets the quarterback? Everybody there's another guy
over there that they got three guys black and it
means it means you know, and it got inside Aaron
Rodgers's head. Aaron Rodgers was stowing early all the time
because he knew that the Packer pass rush was coming.
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A very, very impressive game for the Packers. A couple
of other football comments. This thing with regard to firing
coaches is Brian Kelly got fired by LSU over the weekend.
We're seeing coaches who have incredible track records now getting
fired because of tours, not even a bad season, like
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a portion of a season that isn't great. Admittedly, they
got slaughtered by Texas A and M, but they almost
won a national championship. With Brian Kelly, they had an
incredibly high powered offense. Was it in his first year
when they had Jaden Daniels, and who's the really great
receiver that he had. They have Malik Neighbors down there.
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I mean, he's been a successful coach forever and ever
and ever. They've only been okay this year and then
they got pasted in one particular game and it got fired.
I mean, Penn State fired James Franklin. Every Badger fan
that I know is hoping that the Badgers can hire
James Franklin. Now they'll talk about Brian Kelly. These teams
that are firing coaches, every other school would want to
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have them. Part of it is just the fan base
just can't get passed living in the short term. Secondly,
I don't know who all these teams think that they
get is going to be better than some of these
people that have winning seasons year in and year out.
But every team can do what it is that they want,
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and maybe some of these decisions work out for them.
But it's kind of stunning to see coaches that have
winning percentages of like seventy five percent getting canned. As
Wisconsin they played. Paul and I were both wrong. We
thought Oregon would cover a thirty two point spread against Wisconsin,
and they didn't come close. Wisconsin played Oregon very, very tough,
and the Wisconsin defense was spectacular. I mean, Wisconsin's offense
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is not existent. They can't move the ball at all,
in part because they have a third string quarterback. They
don't seem to want to go back to the second
string quarterback, and I think that the first three quarterback
has checked out his injury notwithstanding, and the offensive line
for Wisconsin is atrocious, so the defense is constantly on
the field. But Oregon has one of the best offense
in college football and they couldn't do anything against Wisconsin.
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This is after Wisconsin had played two really tough teams
in a row and both Paul and I thought that
they would be beaten down. But very inspiring football. In
addition to that, Wisconsin now did the thing that Fickle
didn't want to do, and they're starting to play some
of their true freshmen. You don't want to do that
because you lose a year of eligibility when you play them.
But you know, the running back of Tuca had a
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I think, pretty good game behind a bad offensive line.
On defense, had a couple of freshmen that were out there.
Mason Posa has just emerged. He not a freshman, but
he's emerged into an outstanding player. It's kind of been
an inevitability of Wisconsin would fire Luke Fickel, I'm I
think you have to play this season out and see
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whether or not they can improve and beat a couple
of teams down the stretch before you could do that,
because it's clear that a portion of the rebuilding of
Wisconsin is bearing fruit on the defensive side of the ball.
The offense is still a mess. Same same thing with
regard to these better teams that are firing coaches. You
fire the coach anymore. With the new rules on transfer
and nil, everybody transfers, they all leave a coach. Player
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that comes to play for one coach, they fired that coach,
they're gonna leave, and they're gonna go to another school
and you start over again. So I think Wisconsin showed
signs of life defensively. Offensively, until they get that offensive
line fixed and they can get a first sprint quarterback
that doesn't get knocked out in the first game of
the year, which has happened really three years in a row. Here,
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that's clearly a mess. But I'm very surprised. I thought
they'd lose by fifty points, and so did Paul and
seven the defense played well enough to win. I mean,
the offense finally got a touchdown after three weeks, but
that was an incredible defensive performance by Wisconsin. Paul said,
whatever game, Yeah, the moment you made that pick, I
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will say this about football this weekend. I've had a
good year at our because I would wrong about everything
my second, third, fourth, or fifth. I mean, my favorite
game in the NFL was the most humiliatingly terrible pick.
And I'll just admit this. I thought the Falcons would
crush the Dolphins. The Dolphins crushed the Falcons. I thought Pittsburgh,
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especially when the line was three and a half, was
a good bet against the Packers. The Packers covered on
that one. I thought Illinois had a chance to beat
Washington straight up in the Big Ten. Washington beat him.
So sometimes it's in these cases of you know, oh,
if I wish I'd have picked this game, anything I
would have picked, I would have been wrong about this
past weekend. All right. I have nothing particularly to offer
(01:05:38):
about the World Series other than, you know, there's always
this thing when the Brewers getting knocked out, who do
you want to win. I never want anybody else to
win in anything. I mean, unless you like have a
pick on the game or something. But like, if the
Super Bowl doesn't involved the Packer, who do I want
to win? Kansas City or Philadelphia? I mean, it's just
I don't like this. I don't like I don't like
any other team. I mean, listen. And then there's this
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problem of the Dodgers. Part of me wanted the Dodgers
to win because it reaffirms that the Brewers at least
got knocked out by a good team. But then there's
the whole you know, yeah, Los Angeles, you know, Gavin Newsom,
you don't like this. I have moved over though this
ad that Ontario is running attacking Trump. That's where Toronto
has screw them. I'm sure I needed some reason to
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grab onto something. So I'm gonna go to the Dodgers now,
just because everybody in Canada is just they're sticking a
finger in my eye and I'm smart enough to say, leep,
you all right, that's it for rauh. Trudeau is dating
Katie Perry. I mean that just it actually seems appropriate,
(01:06:48):
doesn't it. Here's a good question, who's the dumber of
the two. I mean, if you're two dumbs does not
equal smart. In other words, if you take two IQs
of fifty, you don't get one hundred. All right, that's it.
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