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You're going to open today's podcast with a concept. It's
kind of like a game, except the consequences are greater
than that. It's called judicial roulette. I think you all
know what Russian roulette is. Works much better with a
revolver than a pistol. I mean, your ats would be better.
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You put like one bullet on the revolver and you
spin it around and you fire a gun. And you know,
if there's it's a six shot revolver and there's only
one bullet in five and six, chance you won't be dead. Roulette,
Russian roulette. The other roulette is a game that they
play on the casinos. They'll have to explain that game.
Or should we just move on and go forward with
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my judicial relate? Just move forward judicial roulette. Let's suppose
you do something the reverse I suppose could be. Let's
imagine you're a victim of a crime. What happens is
often a result of judicial roulette. Which judge has the
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case people talk all the time about well, it's these judges,
and they're right. The problem is is that because most
judges are anonymous, people don't really know the good ones
or the bad ones, or the bad ones and the
good ones. We're going to open it's podcast with a
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We're going to revisit a topic from Thursday's podcast of
last week and then move forward. We discussed the case
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of a guy from Musquigo who it was this year's
Super Bowl Sunday. He went to a couple of joints,
got himself watching the Super Bowl, was driving home south
on Moreland Road in Waukeshaw County. Moreland Road is a
big north south thoroughfare kind of runs to the middle
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of Brookfield and runs the middle of New Berlin on
in this case, on the way down to Muskego, which
is where the guy lives. The guy was driving in
the wrong lane. It's a divided it's not a freeway,
but it's a divided highway, not even really a highway,
but it's a street that has a higher speed limit
and a big wide street and a major thoroughfare, and
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it's divided to the northbound lanes and the southbound lanes
are separated. He's going the wrong way. He was headed
south but in the northbound lane, and he crashed head
on into a squad car. The police officer from New
Berlin this was into Berlin was injured, fortunately not terribly,
and Jimiddy busted a finger in pain. The guy's name
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is who committed the crime is named David Sky. It
was not his first offense. He was charged with multiple
felonies and multiple misdemeanors as well in connection with the incident.
Reckless driving willin Koitte, intoxicated, operating well intoxicated, two or
more offenses, and so on. The reckless driving component dealt
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with the fact that he's going the wrong way, and
they added in the enhancer of causing injury. In the
case of Scott, he appeared in Waukershaw County before a
new judge. His name is Scott Wagner. Do not confuse
him with Milwaukee County Judge Jeff Wagner, who is finally retiring.
Get a great career on the bench, and he's not
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to be confused that the talk show host named Jeff
Wagner a lot of Wagner's Anyway, This is Scott Wagner,
new judge from Waukershaw County. He gave him four months.
Since we discussed that case, there was a case that
was heard in Milwaukee County Circuit Court in which the
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details are very similar. This is a crash that occurred
on I seven ninety four. Seven ninety four is the
spur of the freeway that runs through downtown Milwaukee. If
you're taking I ninety four, it heads to the south,
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you know, toward the airport, toward rasin Kenosha, and so
on at the Marquette interchange. But if you continue straight
toward the lake front, that's seven ninety four vice versa.
If you get on the freeway in Milwaukee County. You
head out on seven ninety four when you hit the
market Interkinge you hit ninety four. Explaining where this was.
This is a crash in which a driver, the guy
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of some South Milwaukee, he was drunk, went the wrong
way and crashed into a vehicle and caused injury. No,
there are differences. One was on the freeway seven ninety four.
The other one was on Moreland Road, which isn't a freeway,
but both similar in that they are divided roadways. So
if you're going the wrong way, it's not like crossing
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the center line. You're on the wrong way in a
divided highway with all the traffic coming against you. This
guy's name is Matthew Sinclair. The case from Milwaukee County.
He's Someselves, Milwaukee. As I said, the details very very
similar wrong way intoxication. In the case of Sinclair. This
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was the first defense for intoxication of the Waukeshaw County case.
It was two. There was a woman who was who
was in another car, the car that was hit by Sinclair.
She was injured. Again, very similar Scott's cases, I said,
occurred in Milwaukee County Court. Milwaukee County Circuit court. He
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appeared before Judge Rebecca Kiefer. She gave him three years.
As I say, the crimes are extremely similar. No, two
crimes are identical, but very similar. The guy at Walkershaw
County got four months. The guy in Milwaukee County got
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three years. Now, first of all, let's start with this.
Our basic shorthand of where the good judges are and
where they aren't would lead you to believe that the
Waukeshaw County case was handled more harshly than Milwaukee County,
which has a history of leniency. But in these cases
that's not the case. We don't know a much about
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the sentencing pattern of Judge Scott Wagner and Waukeshaw County
because he's brand new. He was just sworn in this year,
just a few months ago. And I don't know a
lot about Judge Rebecca Kiefer in Milwaukee County other than
almost all the judges in Milwaukee County tend to be soft.
She wasn't soft in this case. She gave three months
three years. But there's a moral to this story. If
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you drive drunk the wrong way out of highway, you're
better off doing it in Waukershaw County than in Milwaukee County. Now,
it's certainly possible that in Wakershaw County, if the guy there,
his name is Scott Sinclair, is the guy from Milwaukee
County had gotten a different judge, maybe he would have
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gotten a harsher punishment. Again judicial roulette. In this case,
Scott got lucky because his judge, Scott Wagner, went lean
in and all soft on him. No, I wasn't in
the courtroom for either of these cases. Obviously, here's what
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often happens. By the way, one of the good things
aboute YouTube is they have zillions now of cases in
which they just replay court cases from the courtroom camera
in the courtroom and you see the case. There's zillions
of them. Some counties it's easier to get the video
than others, So some counties and some judges, and there
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are some judges that just have personalities that made for YouTube,
and one of the producers. YouTube doesn't produce really any
of its own video, but the persons who are producing
the video and posting on YouTube just set up shop
and have a camera permanently in a judge's court when
they just carry that judge all the time. Anyway, One
of the things that you'll see on sentencing is when somebody,
anybody is convicted of something and it's time for sentencing,
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they get up there, Oh, I've changed, this is terrible,
don't take me away from my family. All their friends
and relatives come up and they all say, well, all
these wonderful things. It happens constantly, and there are some
judges that fall for this. In some cases. Maybe the
stuff is actually true, I would argue, probably irrelevant, nothing
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to do with the fact that the person did something terrible,
And certainly there are we can make the argument that
people who have law and criminal records deserve more punishment
than those for whom it's a first time a fan.
But as I say, the thing that makes these two
cases that I'm talking about here striking is they're very similar.
The defenses are very very similar. Did the Waukeshaw County
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guy gets softer treatment because he hit and injured a
cop whereas the Milwaukee County guy injured a civilian a woman? No, No,
I can't ask Scott Wagner why he decided to take
a dive on his case, Nor could I ask Rebecca
Keefer why she went tougher. A lot of it may
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have to do with the sentence and recommendation from the
district attorney. Milwaukee County has a reputation of having softer
district attorney's run a new one right now, he's in
his first year, and a case like this, chances are
it was not even reviewed by the DA. It's handled
by an assistant DA. Maybe that was the same case
in Waukeshaw County. Maybe the sentencing recommendation from the DN
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Waukeshaw County was soft, and maybe the sentencing recommendation from
the DN Milwaukee County was strong and that impacted the judge. Perhaps,
but remember judges don't have to accept sentencing recommendations. There
will often be a negotiated plea in which they agree
on a recommendation, but the judge they even say before
after the person accepts the plea burger, you know, I'm
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not bound with this, so I never cut that as
any slack. Any judge who doesn't like the terms of
the plea bargain can issue a stronger sentience. There are
a lot of morals to the story, among them that
who your judge is is very very important. Now you
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can't blame the voters on these types of things, because
almost all judges in both of these counties are unopposed. Occasionally,
in Waukeshaw County when there's a vacancy, there'll be more
than one candidate running. In this case, however, Scott Wagner
when he was elected, there was a vacancy, but he
was the only candidate, and he was endorsed by all
the conservatives, and he's got a conservative background and so on.
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So it maybe brand new judge gets on there and
he's too damn dumb to figure things out in this case,
or he falls for an argument, or he has some
sympathy or the defendant in front of him crying and
the family's out there, and maybe he falls for this crap.
But it is instructive in this case that Milwaukee County,
which on the overall is more lenient, when in this
instance way tougher and those of you who live in
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Walkashaw County ought to be ashamed of that, and you
ought to be ashamed of Wagner. One of the things
that I think I'm pretty good at. First it's a
talk show host and now a podcaster, which are almost
identical things. Almost identical. They're not identical, but boy, it's
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like ninety nine percent there or so on is I'll
take two stories like this and put them side by
side and sure with the audience. Both of these stories
were covered by the media, but separately, and you never
get a sense one way or another if people don't
pay attention to what the sentence is and so on.
These two cases, though, were just They were resolved just
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several days apart, one in time for today's podcast, the
other in time for the last one of last week,
and they were remarkable side by side stories. Now our
related story for you all these bills that the Republican
Legislature passed. Tony Efers is vetoing a lot of them,
and he's signing some of them. One of the bills
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that he signed, which was passed with bipartisan support. Some
Democrats voted for them, enhances the ability of police to
tow vehicles. I've been arguing on this for some time.
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This bill does I would say some good, but not much.
But again, not much good is still better than doing
no good at all. You know, you give a dime
through a charity, there's a good charity. It's you know
that there's a time do them a lot of good. No,
but it's better than if you didn't give him anything
at all, Like a little weasel like Paul over there.
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I think you're a cheap skiate, you know that. I
think you're a chief skate. Well you are a chief skate. Ah, yeah,
you have your job in general, you're a chief skate. Yes,
you see a guy, you see him at a sporting event.
I'm telling you it's somebody gave him a ticket. That's
just the way it is. You're a chief skate. Well
that's true, isn't it. Yeah? You way, are you surprised
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you have it? Like stumbled down to like somebody with
a charge a bucket and a half of the game
or something or anyway. In this instance, the legislation signed
by Evers allows the authorities to tow a vehicle involved
in a reckless driving arrest without regard to whether or
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not the driver is the owner of the vehicle. Now,
let me explain the basis for this. Many instances, the
reckless driver doesn't own the vehicle. In some cases it's stolen,
but often it's this, especially in Milwaukee. This crap a
friend of a friend of a friend, of a friend
of a friend of a friend, because there are all
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sorts of people who don't have their own vehicle, and
you know it's all shady stuff. But secondly, let's imagine
I give my car. I won't. It's silly to argue this,
but I'll just use an example. I give my car
to Paul, and Paul drives recklessly. And when I say recklessly,
we're talking the stuff that is caused, you know, all
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the kind of stuff that we're talking about here. Imagine
wrong way driving, but the person didn't crash or just
blowing through ninety stop signs in Milwaukee. If all they
do is give Paul a ticket and it falls like
most of the people in Milwaukee get charged with this
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doesn't pay the fine. What's it off of me who
let them drive the car? Here's the thing about the towing.
And I don't know that everybody knows this. Do you know?
You know the thing about the towing. When I say
the thing about the towing, what is the thing about
the toing? It gets it, It tastes. It costs a
ton of money to get your car out of the
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toe lot. You know you and your can I say
this business you and your wife are in or nott
or can I not mention it? They've got these storage lockers.
I said on the program, like twenty five years ago,
a gold mine would get us, get these storage lockers
and put a ton of them in the third ward
in Milwaukee. Of course I don't do this. You should
see the third I mean there's high rises on the freeway.
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The storage lockers are going like nineteen million stories in
the air well. Paul's now involved in the storage locker thing.
Another good business I should have gone into twenty five
years ago is owning a toe lot. It's just the drive.
The companies that do the towing for a parking lot operators,
they don't charge you. They charge you nothing. Why because
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they make their money on the toe lot. It's like
three hundred and eighty bucks to get your car out
of a toe lot. So let's imagine you've got just
any private parking lot in Milwaukee. We're only parking for
the customers and so on, are only parking for the
apartment tenants. The tow trucks are just constantly trolling through
and if the license isn't approved, or they'll go in
and they'll ask the business because it should this guy
be here. They told the car up, it's three fifty
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three d and eighty bucks. They have this rule that
if you get to the car while it's on the hook,
you can pay the driver on the spot a lesser
fee and they release it, which is an even better
deal for the toll driver because he doesn't have to
go all the way over to the to lot and
back to the area that he's going. He can just
let you go take the money. The money goes like
et cetera. Anyway, So this bill expands this to cover
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the fact that many people driving recklessly are not the
owners of the vehicle, including zillions of the juveniles that
are out there. It helps, however, as I've been saying
for some time, that scratches the surface. In many states,
if the vehicle is unregistered, it's towed. An extremely high
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number of the vehicles that are being driven recklessly in
southeastern Wisconsin, they're not even registered. And when I say
not registered, you didn't renew the plate, so there's no
other the plates are expired or it hasn't been registered
for three or four years. That offense in Milwaukee, I
can't speak for every county. Is you get a ticket,
and the ticket carries a fine. There is, unless you're
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a responsible citizen, no reason to pay the fine. None.
You know what they do if you don't pay your
fine in Milwaukee, they take away your driver's license. The
people who aren't registering their cars also aren't licensing themselves
to drive. I can then put out a warrant for
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your arrest if you don't pay it, and there are
warrants issued for the arrest. I mention this all the time.
I just think it's one of the things that doesn't
sink in. The Milwaukee County jail does not accept inmates
being taken in on traffic wards, So the jail just
won't accept you. So there's no point in a police
officer in Milwaukee County arresting somebody for not paying their
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traffic wards because the jail won't accept them. I don't
know why. I think nobod that doesn't sink into people.
But I'm justsing I should have used you as a
guinea pig. What happens if they bring you to the
jail on a traffic war, you would have said, I
just keep saying this. It's like people don't process that.
I think I'm intuitive. I just think people don't process it.
Now I've said it ninety times, maybe they'll process it. Also,
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in many communities, if you're involved in drunk driving, they
toll the vehicles. This happens in some communities in Milwaukee County,
but another other than the state of Wisconsin, but not all.
I would do the same thing with people who are
driving without a license. You don't have a license, Toe
the car. Not only do you not let them drive away.
Toe the car. I'm telling you this will work because
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it costs so damn much to get it out of
the toe lot. These people who don't have licenses will
get license. The people that aren't registered will can register
because they don't want to be. And then the cops
they can run around and they have the license plate readers.
I don't know if all police have this, but many
agencies now have. They're scanners. They automatically scan the plate
and it'll come back and trigger if a vehicle's god,
if there's a if it's expired, and so on, and
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there's warrants for the driver, and it's kind of sophisticated stuff.
You told these people you solve the problem, not solve
the problem. You go a long way toward solving the problem.
Paul said, you can't. Well, I'm telling you this. I've
driven past some of these lots and the first thing
you have to do is you have to get passed.
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You have to get past the six foot pit bulls
that are sitting on that on the I mean, it's
like I remember when my late lamented sixty eight Camaro convertible,
one of the i'd say the greatest car I ever.
It wasn't the greatest car I ever owned, but it
was enough to understand the context of it. This was
long before people understood it was a classic. It was
just a beater when I had it. Well, I mean,
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it was t boned in Springfield, Illinois. It wasn't my fault.
Somebody ran a red lighted t bone me and I
was totaled out, and given the value of the car
at the time, it didn't take much to total it out.
So it was towed to a toll lot and they
scrapped it in the insurance company for the other driver,
they paid me a subtle mention. So on. I remember
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leaving the car and I had to walk away because
I don't know if I had to sign something. But
it's at the toll out when they towed it there,
there's this big dog bark. I swear every Junkyard is
a dog. It's why we have the term junkyard dog.
I mean, imagine, if you ran a Junkyard or you
didn't have a dog, you would be like shamed out
of the Junkyard business. I looked at this car. It
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even dawned on me, I'm gonna miss this car. There
was the dog barkin, and I don't remember any other details.
Somebody must have given me a drive home, or somebody
must have gone. I don't remember any of that anyway.
All right, speaking of problems, the Democrats in Wisconsin have
a problem. That's always good news, isn't it now. I
mentioned this story two months ago, and it's now showing
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up in the mainstream media. Mendela Barnes wants to run
for governor. The Democrats don't want him to run for governor.
The Democrats look at Mendela saying, you're the one guy
that can close. We know this because twenty twenty two
is a democratic year. Democrats did pretty well across the country,
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and they did very well here on Wisconsin. They won
the governorship. Tony Eavers was re elected, beating Kim Michaels.
Josh Call was re elected Attorney General. He beat Eric Tony,
but the Republicans kept the Senate seat. Ron Johnson beat
Mendela Barnes. So the biggest reason ronje was and again
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these are all close elections, there was a handful of
voters who divided their tickets and voted for Evers and Johnson.
You would wonder why would they do that, And it
was simply Mendela Barnes was so toxic, so stupid, such
a shady background. The whole thing. Had a state trooper
drive him to Madison and back because he didn't have
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It was either he didn't have a registered vehicle, he
didn't have a license, or something like the stay. Well,
he was involved in an extremely offensive party in college.
Well I'll say what it was. He ran an ad
in which he said no ratchets allowed. Remember that. Well,
I mean he had that baggage and it was used
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against him any loss, and it's one of the reasons
why Ron's back in the Senate for another six years. Well,
Mandela thinks that he's special. He just he's entitled to it.
And I almost was a senator. So now I want
to be the governor. The thing is that Democrats have
people running for governor. They already told Josh Cawley can't
run the attorney general, and Josh go, okay, fine, I
won't run. They have David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive.
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He's running. The last thing he wants is another African
American from Milwaukee to run against him in a primary,
dividing that vote. Then you have Sarah Rodriguez, the lieutenant governor.
I it's my turn. I'm the lieutenant governor. Tony Evers
is the governor. I should be the governor. Then there's
like five other lefties from Madison Linarosa running. Here's why
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Mendela wants to run. He does have name recognition, and
I know why he has name recognition. It's that first name.
You know, he's named after Nelson Mendela, and he's milked
that thing his entire political career. So he's thinking, Okay,
there's like seven Democrats going to run. I'm better known
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than all of them. I could win with maybe twenty
nine thirty percent of the vote. Story in jas online.
Every Democratic leader in the state is telling him not
to run, and they all know why. Some of them
are coming right out and saying. At the Milwaukee Courier,
which is a newspaper and website in Milwaukee aimed at
the African American community, they wrote in an editorial, Mendela
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had his opportunity, he didn't close. That means it's time
for a new chapter. Do they make it a clip? Mendela,
you had your chance, you blew it. We want somebody else.
There's Mendela thinking, I want to be the governor. You
can't make me drop out. Now they actually can't make you,
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but they can induce you. The Democrats for how did
they get for example, Sarah god Luski, who also wants
to run. She's the Secretary of State. You wanted to
run for governor. She's been told you will have the
path cleared for the United States Senate in twenty eight.
Ron Johnson seat is up again in twenty eight. Sarah
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god Luski's gonna run for the United States Senate in
twenty eight, and the Democratic leaders are going to knock
every other Democrat who tries to run for that and
say we're giving all of our support to Sarah. The
other thing they can do is they can set you
up in a nonprofit. They have a zillion of them.
All these Democratic organizations that are out there doing community organizing,
they're all backed by billionaires. They can give Mendel a
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big job. And maybe that's all he's updue that he's
out there trying to extort and shake them down for
some sort of big job and so on. But even
a big job like that, it ain't the governor. And
he thinks he give me the governor. I'll tell you
who wants him to get the Democratic nomination, the Republicans.
I have heard through the grapevine that one of the
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things that is giving Kim Michael's reason to reconsider his
decision not to run is he believes that if Mendela
Barnes is the candidate, he can win. Now, Tom Tiffany's
already in the race, so's Josh Showman, the Washington County executive.
But if Barnes gets in, there are going to be
other Repubsublicans who want to get in because the Republicans.
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Republicans are probably up against it in terms of winning
the governorship in twenty six unless what unless Mendela Barnes
is the Democratic candidate. Let's go to an unfortunate story.
One of the just realities of football is because the
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athletes are too fast, too big, and too strong, the
injury tool is savage. And what happened to Tuckercraft is
tragedy is too strong of a word, but it's just
the devastating blow he has become. I think, I argue
he was the best tight end in the National Football League.
I think possibly he's the most popular Packer among fans.
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It was a great story of this guy that grew
up in this nowhere town in South Dakota. He played
for a Division one FCS team in college, fourth round
draft choice and built him into what he is. He
the worst thing. It's close to the worst injury. I
think a broken leg is worse. But apparently it's a
torn ACL. The Packers is of the time of this podcast,
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have not released that, but it was after the game
that the reports were that there what yeah, MRI says
it's ACL, right, yeah, yeah. The end Paul said that
that just has come out and it was known that
that's what it would be. The ACL is a terrible
injury because it may end your career. The recovery time
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is usually it's anywhere from nine to fifteen months. Most
people try to make it back in nine to ten.
My own belief is is that Tucker Craft should not
try to play football until twenty twenty seven. I think
that way too many guys come back too early from
an ACL. I think you need to give it a
year and a half. An example of this would be
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Jabari Parker of the Bucks, who came back too quickly,
and the result is you often put too much pressure
on your good knee and he tore the other ACL.
Another example of this would be David Bocdieri the Packers,
who he tried to come back fifteen different times, and
he'd come back a game and he'd have to go
back and it just never. It's terrible injury for any athlete,
but especially for a football player. But best case scenario,
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he fully recovers in his back in time for the
beginning of next season. But again, even if he is back,
will he be the same. It's just a terrible injury.
The ACL is for an athlete, the most important of
the ligaments in the knee. There's all theseve ligaments, and
if you're not an athlete, they all obviously matter. But
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it's a terrible one and It just happened on a
freak injury. He kind of ran into one of his
offensive linemen and the offensive lineman was cut blocked by
a defender for Carolina. And it was a legal cut block,
some of the not a cut block because he was
on defense. You can't do a cut block if you're
a blocker. You can't go for the legs of a defender.
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But on the other way, the defender can kind of
go toward the legs as they were describing it on TV.
And I don't know this rule that what the defender
for the Panthers did was legal, but it made Ryan
go down and Ryan went down right into Craft and
Crafts and thee slammed into Ryan and that's when the
ACL But it's just a devastating injury for the Packers.
I think that Packers had two great players on their
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team this year. When I say great, I mean great,
and that's Micah Parsons and Tucker Craft. They have several
very good players, including Jordan Love, but two great players,
and they lost one of the minute's a terrible story
for Craft and a terrible story for the Packers. And
it's the reality though a football. I mean, these injuries
happen all the time. They happen far more frequently they
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did in the past. It is simply guys are bigger, faster,
and stronger. But the ligaments are the same ligaments that
we've always had in our bodies. And it's the sad
and it's an unfortunate story. And with that we'll take
a break. This is the Mark Belling podcast. This is
the Mark Belling Podcast. I hope you all saw President
Trump on sixty Minutes last night. Probably a lot of
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people did, because it was on right after the Kansas
City Buffalo game, both on CBS. By the way, a
quick aside on that the NASCAR Championship race was on
right up against the marquee game of the NFL regular
season Kansas City and Buffalo. There's some talk in NASCAR
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finally changing the rules back to perhaps something closer to
what they were in the beginning when they didn't have
a playoff system for the championship and the past. NASCAR,
like most automobile racing series like Formula One and Indie
Racing League, they simply add up the points throughout the
course of the season, and whoever has the most points
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at the end of the season is the winner. And
when NASCAR had that system was that was when NASCAR
exploded in popularity in America. And then the third generation
of Francis came in and they decided that stock car
racing has to be like football, baseball, and basketball and
you have to have playoffs. Well, they're a different sport. It's,
first of all, it's not really a team sport. There's
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teams of two or three or four cars per driver,
but it's an individualized sport. And all it did was
it watered down all of the other races in this
deal where okay, the sixteen drivers advance of the playoffs
that if you win a race, you advance to the
next and so forth and so on, and then you
just last race. There's four cars that have a chance
to win the championship, and then thirty five other drivers
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that are in the race as well. At whichever driver
of the four has the highest finish wins the championship.
Citing a championship based on it's just so stupid, I
should Denny Hamlin is probably the greatest NASCAR driver to
ever win a championship. He's leading this race the whole race,
and with three laps left, He's up by three seconds,
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and the track is a short track in Phoenix. Three
seconds with three laps left at that track is like
being three miles ahead. There's only one way he can
lose the race, and that is a yellow flag comes out.
If a yellow flag comes out, they have to restart
the race, and the second place driver is right next
to him. In addition to that, the whole race, everybody
was having tire trouble, So all the drivers come in
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for tire changes. You're changing tires just to run two
laps because when they restart there's only two laps left.
Every driver that went into the pits changed two tires.
Hamlin's team changed all four because they changed all four.
He came out of the pits not in first but
in tent, and all said, why did I was watching
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to see I get the whole thing. That handling and
tires is important, even for two laps. I'm watching this second.
Are you nuts? He's got the best car. Just make
sure he's still in position. He'll run away from the field.
He said he thought it was the right decision. The
I'm brain farting here, I'm trying to think of the
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Kyle Larson Kyle Larson in the five car who there's
five spectacular drivers in NASCAR. Kyle Larson's one of them,
to Hamlt's another. Kyle Larson's team. He drives for Rick
hen And the three great teams in NASCAR are Joe Gibbs,
that's the old football coach. That's Denny Hamlin's team, Kyle
Larson drives for Rick Hendrick, and the third one is
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Penske and the Penske team I think has won the
last two championships. In this case, the Joe Gibbs teams
made the decision to have their driver take four tires.
Everybody else took two, and Kyle Larson didn't win the race,
but he finished ahead of Denny Hamlin, who couldn't having
the four tires was not enough for him to be
able to make up any ground. Just it was a
stupid decision, and I thought it was. No, I can't
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prove that it was. I thought it was a stupid decision.
I'm sitting there watching it by myself in my living room,
but I thought it was a stupid decision, and it
was a stupid decision anyway. Trump's interview in sixty minutes.
That's where this all started. Remember that, I'm just telling
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you Trump is at the top of his game right now.
It was the same kind of interview that he always gets,
a hostile interview. Remember, CBS is under new ownership now, Paramount,
and Paramount's chairman David Ellison has made it clear that
he wants his bias at CBS News to end. So
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it wasn't a hatchet job interview. What it was is
Nora O'Donnell's sitting there asking stern questions.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I'm just.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I don't know this. Everybody who interviews Trump has the
same thing, this stern demeanor. I don't know what these
people think is attractive of well being in television, being
stern and angry, because the work is the same. Watch
anybody who's successful doing a podcast, the podcasts that are
they're all smiling and laughing and so on. I'm not
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a video podcaster here, but I'm smiling and laughing. She
was there. She was doing it because she knows she
had to do it, and she knew that she couldn't
be over the hearsh so she just tried to ask
these direct, hostile, appointed questions. But the Trump got Trump.
Trump got his answers out clearly on each of these,
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and he knew the environment. In the past, Trump rambled
when he was doing interviews, bing bang bang, bang bang.
He's gotten so much better at this. His whole second
term is better than the first term and the communication
of it. There's one particular issue, and it's tied to
another that I want to focus on here, and that
is Obamacare. Obamacare is linked to the government shutdown. The
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Democrats are demanding that in the reconciliation bill that we
passed to end the shutdown, that they continue the subsidies
for Obamacare. Obamacare, as those of us were arguing at
the time that it passed a decade ago, ten eleven
years ago, Obamacare financially did not add up. So what
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they did is they put in enormous subsidies to reduce
the costs of the premiums. But they put a drop
dead data on them, which was ten years. And from
the perspective of the Democrats at Obama when they passed it,
we care about ten years down the line. We just
want to get this thing through. If they would not
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have put the deadline, and you know, when the Congressional
Budget Office scores that they hadn't costs even more, remember
Nancy Pelosi's we won't know what's in it until we
pass it. Well, they did know this, it didn't add up.
So what happens is Obamacare's policies and Obamacare is when
people are on the exchanges that's Obamacare, they buy these
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policies that have very very high deductibles, meaning their insurance
doesn't kick in until they meet the deductible, and they
pay a premium that is moderately expensive. It's not a
great insurance plan if you're somebody that is goes the
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doctor a lot or has illness issues. If you never
go to the doctor, what do you care if you
have a high deductible. The reason, however, that the premiums
don't cost fifteen arms in a leg is because these
subsidies and well the subsidies are now expiring, and it
means that the government has to spend in order to
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keep these subsidies in place, a massive amount of money.
And they're trying to claim that Trump has to fix
this problem, that Obama and there isn't one republic and
who voted for Obamacare. You'll recall it got through the
House and the Senate only with Democratic votes, and it
was a Domin's plan. It was the time. It was
that period of which at Obama's first turned they had
the House and the Senate and the White House. So
they created this train wreck. And now they're saying the
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Republicans have to solve it. But Obama, would you say,
you keep your eye Well, we know all of that
is unproved. The majority of people on the exchanges have
different got us stant In here. This is a piece
from just thenews dot com and I'm just going to
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quote from it. Expert says when he said, if you
like your health care plan, you can keep your health
care plan. No, you couldn't. Obamacare made a lot of
the health those healthcare plans illegal. Let me interject. You
may recall that before Obamacare, you could drop a healthcare
plan that said anything. Obamacare was one size hits all.
They all have to cover all of these things, and
that meant that the plans are very, very expensive. I mean,
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a single guy who bought a healthcare plan had a
pregnancy coverage in all of that. Other infirmities of ACA
have been laid out late have been laid out, including
nebulous allegations of fraud. After years of Democrats telling the
American people the former president of Barack Obama's Affordable Care
Act was a thriving system. The glaring truth revealed now
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during the government shutdown is that not only has the
ACA resulted in widespread fraud and allegation of kickbacks to
insurance companies, the American people are footing the bill for
subsidies to hide the fact that Obamacare is broken. Go
on to the days of family doctors operating private practices.
Let me pause. How many of you have a family
doctor and a private practice. I don't, do you they
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all work for one of the big healthcare systems, Aurora
or all the various names they're all. When I say all,
it's not all, it's almost all. The independent physicians, the
just private clinics not hooked up with anybody, are almost
non existent. Back to the discussion here of this, goana
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the days of family doctors operating private practices. Based on
the most recent data from the American Calessos, practice medicine
fully independently, not owned or affiliated with hospitals, health systems,
private equity or insurers make up roughly forty two to
forty seven percent of all practicing physicians as of twenty
twenty four. Let me inter check. The ones that are
a dependent are often specialists, for example, a lot of
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psychiatrists and physicians and specialty fields. A lot of the
radiologists have their own, but in terms of the primary care,
they're almost all hooked into a system, according to the
Advisory Board twenty twenty three data showing more than seventy
seven percent of physicians are employees of hospitals, health systems
or other corporate entities, citing a report from Physicians Advocacy Institute.
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All right, so Obamacare has created all of that, and
it's one of the overhangs behind the government shutdown. Trump
was asked about this because Norodonald's say, look, if you
don't change your plan to bail out obama Care, in
other words, continue these subsidies, all these people are going
to see massive increases in their premiums. Now before I
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play you, Trump's answer is very short. I do think
the Republicans have to step in here. Let me just
start with this, what do you think is on Obamacare?
I think I asked this on Thursday's podcast, didn't I Yeah,
I'm gonna ask it again. Who do you think is
that Obamacare it's more Trump voters than not. Obamacare is
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not Medicaid. First of all, Medicare is senior citizens. Medicaid
is poor people. The people on the exchanges are generally
lord of middle income to sometimes middle income people for
whom they don't have a private healthcare plan available from
their work. The realignment of American politics Trump thrived. That's
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a huge segment of this is the Maga cron Secondly,
it's not these people's fault that we passed Obamacare and
created this thing with this massive subsidy and forced them
to buy overly expensive plans. They can't buy a cheap
ole plan because it's not legal to sell them under Obamacare.
It's a terrible hidship for these people if we're gonna
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explode their health insurance costs. So I think that the
Republicans do have to stay in and do something. But
Trump's point, and it's my point, is that's separate from
the government shutdown. No, here's Trump and you'll hear Nouro
Donaldleft CBS kind of butting in on the answer. But
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I think he's trying to get home his point because
the Democrats are trying to say that again. You know,
It's just like the old line used to be, the
Republicans are trying to kill your social Security, the Republicans are
taking away your Medicare and so on. And know they're
trying to argue that Republicans are trying to take away
your Obamacare. Here's Trump's response.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Obamacare is terrible. It's bad healthcare at far too high
a price. We should fix that. We should fix it,
and we can fix it with the Democrats. All they
have to do is let the country open and we'll
fix it.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
They have to lend the country open.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
And I'll sit down with the Democrats and we'll fix it.
But they have to let the country and.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
You know what they have to do.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
All they have to do is raise five hands. We
don't need all of them. First of all, twenty four seconds,
he banged the whole thing. We just need to get
five more Democrats to vote to reopen the government. And
then Trump said, look, then I'll work with the Democrats,
will come up with the compromise bill to keep some
of these subsidies that are in place. And I think
that part of it is going to be they want
the Republicans want to reform Obamacare to bring back some
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cheap old plans that don't cover everything, so you get
rid of the one size fits all, etc. The insurance companies.
And again when the Democratic Party just decided that they
were going to align themselves with the insurance companies, is
what I think that the Democrats just permanently changed. You
see it with regard to vaccine policy had happened all
the way through COVID. The insurance companies make a fortune
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off of Obamacare, a fortune because the government is subsidizing
the premiums. Imagine in a business in which you're requiring
everybody to buy your product and the government is going
to pay most of the money that the product costs.
It's a glorious system for them. And I think that
Trump and the Republicans will be open to reforming Obamacare
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with Republican votes in some Democratic votes. But you can't
do all of this, well, the government is shut down
because it's all these other things included. We don't know
if snap, if the food stamp program and so on
is going to be funded, and so on. And I
thought that Trump did an extremely effective job and getting
his point through in that answer, despite the fact that
Norah O'Donnell was you know hellbend in not letting him
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get in the answer. The one thing you could tell though,
is that she was told you can't cut him off.
She was trying to cut him off. But once Trump
just persisted plowing through this, he got through what he
got his point he asked on a number of other things.
I want to quickly cover some of his points on
illegal immigration, the policy has to be you came into
the country illegally, you're going to go out. However, you've
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also seen you're going to go out, We're going to
work with you, and you're going to come back into
our country legally. And again that's the answer for all
these deportations. If you're not somebody who was a criminal
in terms of breaking other laws, you get kicked out
of the country, and then you say, stand in line
and reapply to come in through the front door as
you ought to on the next three years. We have
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been acknowledged as having the greatest nine months in the
history of the presidency. So if I can keep that going,
I'll be very happy. On the Supreme Court's tariff case.
Because of Tiras, we have the highest stock market we've
ever had. Because of Tara's four oh, one k's are
at their highest level, and this is millions of people
than we've ever had. I think it's the most important
subject discussed by the Supreme Court in one hundred years.
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He's right about that second point. Does the president have
the ability to put in place tariffs without the approval
of the Congress. The Constitution in fact doesn't say anything
about imposition of tariffs and who does it? It just
it's unclear. The Constitution makes it clear the president has
the ability to make foreign policy. Declaration of war can
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only be done by the Congress. All of these things
are vague. I do believe that without regard to who
the president is, a Democratic president and Republican president, it
has to be the decision of the president to do
tariff decisions, simply because in a negotiation, you can't go
back to the Congress every time one say, you know, okay,
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China says twelve percent, we say eight percent. You can't
keep passing a bill for your negotiating position. It's got
to be a part of the executive branch decision. The
one thing I will say about Trump is I would
advise him to stop crowing about the stock market, because
while indeed it has roared. It also roared during Biden.
And my own belief is that the stock market is
unbelievably overvalued. Now the thing about overvalued is it can
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get even more of it. We saw this with the
housing market. Things that are way too high can get
way too higher. But I just look at this as
maybe a fuddy duddy, and I look at the price
earnings ratios of some of these companies, and the AI
company strike me as they are in a bubble. I mean,
if AI turns out to be the thing that changes
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the world, as may well it could be, then the
stocks are properly valued. But that doesn't mean that every
one of these companies is going to be successful and
it's AI initiate. If it's also possible that it will
be years before the profits ever match all the investment
that they have coming in. So I think the stock
markets do for a recketing, and I think a significant pullback.
But again I get me wrong. But the problem with
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bragging about the stock market is is that stock market
has always done two things in its history. It's gone
up and it's gone down. Over the long haul, it
keeps going up, but there are terrible downturns in between,
and the lefties will just pounce on him if it
goes down and blame him for the downturn, even though
they never gave him any credit for the time that
it went up. Another quick point here, this story might
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have been lost of the shuffle, lost in the shuffle,
not under the shovel. Well, you can do it under
the shovel. That's not what the mob was doing in
those crooked card games in which John C. Willis is involved.
Those are card readers, as I understand it. For some reason,
I know about a lot about scams, even though I
wouldn't be any good at them. See, I could never
be going at cheating at cards because my fingers are
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too fat. When I see these guys that are, you know,
dealing from the third card of the deck and so on,
I have enough time just getting them out on the
top card of the deck. The card reader thing, though,
I get that you put on these glasses in which
you can see through the card and so on, and
that's that's what they were doing and doing in that.
But do I have to explain again? People keep emailing
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me on this because I keep trying to explain. In
the famous scene from this thing, the best scene of
this thing when the card game thing were, how did
Paul Newman switch the threes to the jacks? It's what
just I said this, Hey, you've already forgotten it, haven't,
haven't you when he switched the cards. When he switched
the cards, No, it was in his pocket when he
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went reaches to get the lighter out of the pocket,
that's where the cards are. Go back and watch that scene.
It's got like ninety five quintrillion views on YouTube. I
think that may be the greatest movie scene of all time,
don't you. You can hear the review of the train
tracks running and a little bit of the horn blowing
in the background, and just the reaction shots from the
other actors, plus the unbelievable you're talking in that scene.
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Robert Shaw was just there's a great line, by the way,
there's a great line about Robert Shaw being taken by
Paul Newman in that scene. Back to back epic movies.
Robert Shaw got eaten by a shark. The next movie
it was Jaws. Jaws was right out. It was either
the other way around. I think it was. It was
this thing before Jows. But Card Show, I just, well, yeah,
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that was the guy that set the deck and anyway,
it's at the beginning in the movie, so it's not
a spoiler giveaway. It was the setup for the remainder
of this thing. Is one of the great American pictures
in there. But when he switches the cards and it
was just George roy Hill was the director, and it
was just a spectacular correctorial scene. The music's Scott Joplin's music,
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which was adapted by Marvin Hamleysh. It was Scott John's
Joplin's music and my Harvin Hamlich did the adaptation and
just all of that in that scene on the train
with the poker game, and you could smell the cigar
or smoke in the ear and Newman's pretending that he's drunk,
and the facial reactions of Shaw and the way it
is just the spectacular same. But he switches the cards
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when he reaches into his pocket for the lighter, and
they make they do it. The director does make a
big deal of showing not a big deal because they
didn't want to give it away. He made a big
enough deal of the fact that Newman ReLit the cigar
during the middle of that hand and the relighting of
the cigar was the reason he had to reach into
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his pocket to get the lighter, and that's where the
four cards were shifted. And why do you know? I've
also had people ask you why did you do jacks?
How did you know that? You know? Shaw wasn't cheating
And earlier in the movie, in the setup, they say
that's what he does. That was part of the research
that they had done that he's going to swap out
his cards and give himself nines. So he knew that
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it had to be higher than the nights. It's a
lot of time explaining something there wasn't it. Sales came
up with Lost in the Shuffle. I think lost out
of the Shuffle. The leader of Canada, Mark Kearney, is
apologizing for that anti tariff ad that ran on football
in World Series game Baseball games two weeks ago and
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then last weekend. The ad was run by the government
of the Canadian province of Ontario and it was ripping Trump.
Canada is trying to suck up to Trump because Trump
immediately retaliated with more tariffs. The thing with the Canadian
American battle on tariff, say, is Trump is the upferhand.
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There's way more the America. Canada needs American trade more
than we need Canadian trade. Canada's tried to talk tough
with regard to this, but they poke this finger in
Trump's eyb by running this quote from Reagan and so on. Well,
Carney's trying to claim this wasn't the Canadian government was
the government of one state, be like of Trump, and
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you could see this. Suppose California runs some stupid ad.
Trump could say, that's California, We apologize for that. The
difference here is is that the government of Ontario and
the Canadian government, Carney, they're both members of the Liberal Party.
It's the same government ad. I think Carney is just
trying to make it up to Trump after they The
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one thing you don't want to do is provoke Trump unnecessarily.
Sometimes his adversaries will provoke him necessarily. That's the game
Putin's trying to play. But there's no point in provoking
Trump unnecessarily because Trump has made it very very clear
that no matter how hard you hit him, he's going
to hit you back even harder. Some of you may
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have followed the fact that the best race source im
own special wand ran over the weekend on the undercard
of the Breeders Cup undercard, and she was not int
a Breeders Cup race, but she ran at del Mar
in the final race Saturday before the Breeders' Cup races started.
It was a Grade three stakes and probably ran the
best race of her career, and we posted it on x.
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It was just it was as dominant a performance as
you can imagine. And sometimes a dirt races the horse
will run up by twenty five links and so on.
Turf racing is different. But she sat second and just
went to the lead, even though the jockey was restraining
her and trying to have her not go too fast
too early. She did it all on her own and
ran away and hid. She is. Today's a big day
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for me. She is up for auction this evening. The
big sale of the fall is the face of Tipton
Sail in Kentucky, and she does go onto the auction block.
So the timing of a spectacular race is just perfect.
And anyone who buys her could retire her and breed her,
or they could buy her and continue to race it
for another year. Given the fact that she's gotten way better,
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the one thing she hasn't done is win a Grade one.
She won three grade threes this year, and this was
a Grade three. She only ran in one Grade one
and she finished third in that, but she does so
she does go on to the auction hammer tonight, along
with another horse that I own. There is a thing
called the reserve, and I can't tell you what it is.
But if we don't get our price, she won't sell.
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And it's kind of a win win situation because she's
so good that it would be a great thing to
continue to own and race her. But if we do
get a strong, solid price for her based on what
we think that she's worth, and we take the money,
and so well. You can bid online, but there's a
lot of the big ones are in person, but many
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bidders are online and they're or on the phone with
a bitter in place, or they'll do it online and
they're texting somebody from the thing. The majority of the
bidders are there, but some of the big foreigners are not.
But in this particular watch it is live with the
people in there doing it and so on. But there
are others that are bidding remotely with someone in the
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room bidding on their behalf. Then obviously it's a great
secret as to what the reserve would be that we have,
but very very thrilled with all will she did and
no matter which way it goes, it would I mean,
if we sell her, I hope it's for a wamping
incredible price. But if we don't sell her, got an
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extremely good female resource. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
This is the Mark Belling podcast. This just was announced
today and I'm doing the podcast then Monday afternoon, just
announce it. The Brewers have announced the date and time
for opening day next year, March twenty six, one ten pm.
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The White six March twenty six. It gets earlier and earlier.
There's just one thing to say about this, Paul. It's
a good dog. One thing. We have a rough March
twenty six. You imagine that thing being played, and there
are going to be I mean, everybody opens within a
day of one another. They're going to be other teams
in cold weather cities where they're going to be playing
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baseball in March twenty six. Last this past year's all
I think was later in the afternoon. I don't know
if it's connected, but I do I do wonder if
the fact that the opponent is the White Sox has
them starting at one ten because my three ten White
Sox fans are going to be so I mean, Brewer
fans are bombed too, but White Sox fans have a
capacity for drinking not match. You know, the Cubs fans
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come up here and they're the pain in the butt
that they were. But back in the oldiest and the
ruwers in the American League, white Sox fans came up here.
I mean there were fights all the time. The White
Sox have been so terrible forever though that I don't
know that they'd have any o their fans coming up
to watch them play. And plus it's their fan base
is small, and then they're on the South side of Chicago.
Most of their face. You know, the Cubs have a
zillion fans in southern Wisconsin, but not so much White Sox. Anyway,
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March twenty six, or to the Thursday is Opening day
for the Brewers. Other Brewers news, they did announce the
gold Glove winners. That's the best fielder at each position.
That was last night, and they do separate for the
America in the National League, not one Brewer when a
gold Glove. I'm just the Brewers had the best fielding
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team in baseball, and maybe the best fielding team that
I've ever seen. Every single Brewer defensive player was outstanding,
every single one. There wasn't a defender that they had
on the team who wasn't good, and several that were brilliant,
and not one of them won. They had two Brewers
who one go gloves in the past, and neither one.
There's nobody who. I can't say I watch every team's
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fielder in each position that closely, but r in the
nation of the league them. You know what's really revolting.
Three cups won Get Me Up Break, including two of
them one at positions in which the Brewer Nico Horner,
beat out Bryce to Rang at second base. Should I
remind people of Nico Horner committing a terrible error in
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the playoffs against the Brewers in a series that we
beat them. The right field, I mean Sal Freeley plays
right field usually you know right fielder is not a
good field that the Brewers have a unique situation with
all of their other field there so good that sales
over there on right field. He did not win in
right field. Fernando Tatis Junior, the podres one, the center
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fielder is Pete crow Armstrong now here the Brewers. Blake
Perkins is the best center fielder I think in baseball,
but he played very little. He was out most of
the year. Jackson Churio played the position brilliantly before he
came back, so I can get that the Brewer didn't
win it because nobody really held on that position all year.
Then Ian a half of the Cubs. He wins in
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left field. So I mean and again, Churio played left
field and center field, and we had the other part
of the season in left field, Isaac Collins, I mean,
Isaac Collins played great in left field defensively as well,
but he wasn't a full time left fielder. Patrick Bailey
of the Giants, I admit I don't know anything about him,
but I can't see how anybody could have been a
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better defensive catcher than William Catreroz. So the Brewer, you know,
Joey Ortiz was brilliant at shortstop. Mason win of the
Cardinals won it there. So the Brewers didn't have a
single guy to win a Gold Glove. Baseball season did
end Saturday night. The World Series isn't what it used
to be because the playoffs go on so long, but
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I will say this that was one of the greatest
baseball games of all time. First of all, it's game seven,
which means, you know, do or die, winner, take all
five to four. The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays. The
Dodgers were down by a run with one out in
the top of the ninth inning, hit a home run
off the blue Jays closer. The blue Jays bullpen wasn't
very good all year to tie the game. A lot
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of people are talking about and I want to make
this point here, and it's how I end the podcast.
I just keep explaining all the time in every sport
that it is it takes an incredible amount of luck
and the whole game of inches thing. When the Bocks
won the NBA Championship now four years ago, some people
forget that if Kevin Durant's toe was not on the
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three point line in Game series of the Eastern Conference Semifinals,
Durant hit what should have been a three point shot
to win the game. Upon replay, I'm telling you less
than an inch of his toe was on the line
and it was only a two. The Bucks went in overtime,
went on to win the next two series, and won
the NBA Championship Game of inches. There was a play
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in the much debated now that could have resulted in
the World Series being decided on an instant replay. The
Blue Jays had the winning run on third base. There
was a ball that was hit to the Dodgers second baseman,
who ended up hitting game winning homer, But prior to that,
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the ball was hit to the Dodger second basemen. The
infield is in because they have to throw to the
plate to stop the winning run from scoring, and the Dodgers'
second basement kind of he was off ballance when he
got the ball, it had a hard time getting rid
of it. The guy that was on third base for
the Blue Jays kind of Felifa did not have much
of a lead. This is just being discussed right and left.
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Why when you're the winning run don't you have a
huge lead in The Blue Jay had been playing it
that way all year. They didn't want him doubled off
a third of a line drive. As a result, he
got a slower break on the ball than he might
have otherwise gotten. So they throw the paw to the plate.
It's bang, bang, and the umpire calls him out upon
replay the game of inches. The Dodgers catcher Will Smith,
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in reaching for the throw, lifts his foot off the
plate just a little bit as he's straining, and then
of course your foot comes down. The replay he got
the foot back down and contacted the plate tenth of
a second before kind of Felifa got home. But if
he hadn't, the replay would have overturned it and you
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would have had games. The Baseball's worldteries decided on a replay,
which would have been debated as well. I don't think
anybody would have wanted that so for and the homeplate
umpire got the call correctly live, but I don't even
think that he would have known that the foot came
both up and down when it happened. Well, and just
as just saying it just it just shows you the
game of inches, you know. Component of of this, There
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were several other things that happened during the game in
which the Blue Jays could have won. Dodgers managed to
homer to tie it in the ninth in and would
go ahead in the tenth, and the Blue Jays had
a chance to score on the tenth and they didn't.
And the other great story about the game is Yamamoto,
Yoshinobul Yamamoto, the other Asian American Dodger pitcher, not Shohei Otani,
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who's been brilliant throughout the postseason. He did one of
those things that just isn't done anymore. In fact, it's
hardly ever been done. He won Game six as a
starter and came in and got the final eight outs
of the game in Game seven functioning as the closer.
So after going I think he threw like ninety six
pitches the day before he came in and got the
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last eight outs. He's just you know, teams don't like
to use their closers and back to back nights much late,
and they don't like to use the closer more than
as a game said, well they went, they used whatever
other start is. They took Blake Snell out of the bullten.
He's the ace of the team. He pitched and he
was removed, and that were just simping to use everybody.
Had the game been another eighteen inning game like earlier,
both teams would have run out of pitchers, but Yamamono
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managed to close it out in both the ninth and
the tenth. The Dodger that Blue Days could have won
the game outright in the ninth and then tied it
in the tenth with that one run league and he
pitched his way through it. So this whole thing, Wow,
the Dodgers shouldn't have want I look past all. It
was just a great game. And I also think that
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this is karma against Canada for running that ad. That
that's what I decided. I wanted the Dodgers to win.
When Canada channeling Reagan, they take a Reagan ad out
of context to take a shot at PROMP And now
the Canadian Prime Minister is apologizing and the Canadian team
lost the World Series. Would you say, oh, that was
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the during the season too, right, No, but I think
he did it during the season when had happened as well.
Trying to remember who that was, but I don't know
who it is, so we won't mention it. Here the
tribute that one of the Dodgers had to Charlie Kirk.
All right, that's it for today's podcast. Next one is
released on Wednesday.
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You're going to open today's podcast with a concept. It's
kind of like a game, except the consequences are greater
than that. It's called judicial roulette. I think you all
know what Russian roulette is. Works much better with a
revolver than a pistol. I mean, your ats would be better.
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You put like one bullet on the revolver and you
spin it around and you fire a gun. And you know,
if there's it's a six shot revolver and there's only
one bullet in five and six, chance you won't be dead. Roulette,
Russian roulette. The other roulette is a game that they
play on the casinos. They'll have to explain that game.
Or should we just move on and go forward with
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my judicial relate? Just move forward judicial roulette. Let's suppose
you do something the reverse I suppose could be. Let's
imagine you're a victim of a crime. What happens is
often a result of judicial roulette. Which judge has the
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case people talk all the time about well, it's these judges,
and they're right. The problem is is that because most
judges are anonymous, people don't really know the good ones
or the bad ones, or the bad ones and the
good ones. We're going to open it's podcast with a
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We're going to revisit a topic from Thursday's podcast of
last week and then move forward. We discussed the case
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of a guy from Musquigo who it was this year's
Super Bowl Sunday. He went to a couple of joints,
got himself watching the Super Bowl, was driving home south
on Moreland Road in Waukeshaw County. Moreland Road is a
big north south thoroughfare kind of runs to the middle
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of Brookfield and runs the middle of New Berlin on
in this case, on the way down to Muskego, which
is where the guy lives. The guy was driving in
the wrong lane. It's a divided it's not a freeway,
but it's a divided highway, not even really a highway,
but it's a street that has a higher speed limit
and a big wide street and a major thoroughfare, and
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it's divided to the northbound lanes and the southbound lanes
are separated. He's going the wrong way. He was headed
south but in the northbound lane, and he crashed head
on into a squad car. The police officer from New
Berlin this was into Berlin was injured, fortunately not terribly,
and Jimiddy busted a finger in pain. The guy's name
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is who committed the crime is named David Sky. It
was not his first offense. He was charged with multiple
felonies and multiple misdemeanors as well in connection with the incident.
Reckless driving willin Koitte, intoxicated, operating well intoxicated, two or
more offenses, and so on. The reckless driving component dealt
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with the fact that he's going the wrong way, and
they added in the enhancer of causing injury. In the
case of Scott, he appeared in Waukershaw County before a
new judge. His name is Scott Wagner. Do not confuse
him with Milwaukee County Judge Jeff Wagner, who is finally retiring.
Get a great career on the bench, and he's not
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to be confused that the talk show host named Jeff
Wagner a lot of Wagner's Anyway, This is Scott Wagner,
new judge from Waukershaw County. He gave him four months.
Since we discussed that case, there was a case that
was heard in Milwaukee County Circuit Court in which the
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details are very similar. This is a crash that occurred
on I seven ninety four. Seven ninety four is the
spur of the freeway that runs through downtown Milwaukee. If
you're taking I ninety four, it heads to the south,
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you know, toward the airport, toward rasin Kenosha, and so
on at the Marquette interchange. But if you continue straight
toward the lake front, that's seven ninety four vice versa.
If you get on the freeway in Milwaukee County. You
head out on seven ninety four when you hit the
market Interkinge you hit ninety four. Explaining where this was.
This is a crash in which a driver, the guy
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of some South Milwaukee, he was drunk, went the wrong
way and crashed into a vehicle and caused injury. No,
there are differences. One was on the freeway seven ninety four.
The other one was on Moreland Road, which isn't a freeway,
but both similar in that they are divided roadways. So
if you're going the wrong way, it's not like crossing
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the center line. You're on the wrong way in a
divided highway with all the traffic coming against you. This
guy's name is Matthew Sinclair. The case from Milwaukee County.
He's Someselves, Milwaukee. As I said, the details very very
similar wrong way intoxication. In the case of Sinclair. This
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was the first defense for intoxication of the Waukeshaw County case.
It was two. There was a woman who was who
was in another car, the car that was hit by Sinclair.
She was injured. Again, very similar Scott's cases, I said,
occurred in Milwaukee County Court. Milwaukee County Circuit court. He
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appeared before Judge Rebecca Kiefer. She gave him three years.
As I say, the crimes are extremely similar. No, two
crimes are identical, but very similar. The guy at Walkershaw
County got four months. The guy in Milwaukee County got
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three years. Now, first of all, let's start with this.
Our basic shorthand of where the good judges are and
where they aren't would lead you to believe that the
Waukeshaw County case was handled more harshly than Milwaukee County,
which has a history of leniency. But in these cases
that's not the case. We don't know a much about
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the sentencing pattern of Judge Scott Wagner and Waukeshaw County
because he's brand new. He was just sworn in this year,
just a few months ago. And I don't know a
lot about Judge Rebecca Kiefer in Milwaukee County other than
almost all the judges in Milwaukee County tend to be soft.
She wasn't soft in this case. She gave three months
three years. But there's a moral to this story. If
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you drive drunk the wrong way out of highway, you're
better off doing it in Waukershaw County than in Milwaukee County. Now,
it's certainly possible that in Wakershaw County, if the guy there,
his name is Scott Sinclair, is the guy from Milwaukee
County had gotten a different judge, maybe he would have
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gotten a harsher punishment. Again judicial roulette. In this case,
Scott got lucky because his judge, Scott Wagner, went lean
in and all soft on him. No, I wasn't in
the courtroom for either of these cases. Obviously, here's what
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often happens. By the way, one of the good things
aboute YouTube is they have zillions now of cases in
which they just replay court cases from the courtroom camera
in the courtroom and you see the case. There's zillions
of them. Some counties it's easier to get the video
than others, So some counties and some judges, and there
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are some judges that just have personalities that made for YouTube,
and one of the producers. YouTube doesn't produce really any
of its own video, but the persons who are producing
the video and posting on YouTube just set up shop
and have a camera permanently in a judge's court when
they just carry that judge all the time. Anyway, One
of the things that you'll see on sentencing is when somebody,
anybody is convicted of something and it's time for sentencing,
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they get up there, Oh, I've changed, this is terrible,
don't take me away from my family. All their friends
and relatives come up and they all say, well, all
these wonderful things. It happens constantly, and there are some
judges that fall for this. In some cases. Maybe the
stuff is actually true, I would argue, probably irrelevant, nothing
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to do with the fact that the person did something terrible,
And certainly there are we can make the argument that
people who have law and criminal records deserve more punishment
than those for whom it's a first time a fan.
But as I say, the thing that makes these two
cases that I'm talking about here striking is they're very similar.
The defenses are very very similar. Did the Waukeshaw County
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guy gets softer treatment because he hit and injured a
cop whereas the Milwaukee County guy injured a civilian a woman? No, No,
I can't ask Scott Wagner why he decided to take
a dive on his case, Nor could I ask Rebecca
Keefer why she went tougher. A lot of it may
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have to do with the sentence and recommendation from the
district attorney. Milwaukee County has a reputation of having softer
district attorney's run a new one right now, he's in
his first year, and a case like this, chances are
it was not even reviewed by the DA. It's handled
by an assistant DA. Maybe that was the same case
in Waukeshaw County. Maybe the sentencing recommendation from the DN
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Waukeshaw County was soft, and maybe the sentencing recommendation from
the DN Milwaukee County was strong and that impacted the judge. Perhaps,
but remember judges don't have to accept sentencing recommendations. There
will often be a negotiated plea in which they agree
on a recommendation, but the judge they even say before
after the person accepts the plea burger, you know, I'm
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not bound with this, so I never cut that as
any slack. Any judge who doesn't like the terms of
the plea bargain can issue a stronger sentience. There are
a lot of morals to the story, among them that
who your judge is is very very important. Now you
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can't blame the voters on these types of things, because
almost all judges in both of these counties are unopposed. Occasionally,
in Waukeshaw County when there's a vacancy, there'll be more
than one candidate running. In this case, however, Scott Wagner
when he was elected, there was a vacancy, but he
was the only candidate, and he was endorsed by all
the conservatives, and he's got a conservative background and so on.
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So it maybe brand new judge gets on there and
he's too damn dumb to figure things out in this case,
or he falls for an argument, or he has some
sympathy or the defendant in front of him crying and
the family's out there, and maybe he falls for this crap.
But it is instructive in this case that Milwaukee County,
which on the overall is more lenient, when in this
instance way tougher and those of you who live in
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Walkashaw County ought to be ashamed of that, and you
ought to be ashamed of Wagner. One of the things
that I think I'm pretty good at. First it's a
talk show host and now a podcaster, which are almost
identical things. Almost identical. They're not identical, but boy, it's
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like ninety nine percent there or so on is I'll
take two stories like this and put them side by
side and sure with the audience. Both of these stories
were covered by the media, but separately, and you never
get a sense one way or another if people don't
pay attention to what the sentence is and so on.
These two cases, though, were just They were resolved just
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several days apart, one in time for today's podcast, the
other in time for the last one of last week,
and they were remarkable side by side stories. Now our
related story for you all these bills that the Republican
Legislature passed. Tony Efers is vetoing a lot of them,
and he's signing some of them. One of the bills
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that he signed, which was passed with bipartisan support. Some
Democrats voted for them, enhances the ability of police to
tow vehicles. I've been arguing on this for some time.
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This bill does I would say some good, but not much.
But again, not much good is still better than doing
no good at all. You know, you give a dime
through a charity, there's a good charity. It's you know
that there's a time do them a lot of good. No,
but it's better than if you didn't give him anything
at all, Like a little weasel like Paul over there.
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I think you're a cheap skiate, you know that. I
think you're a chief skate. Well you are a chief skate. Ah, yeah,
you have your job in general, you're a chief skate. Yes,
you see a guy, you see him at a sporting event.
I'm telling you it's somebody gave him a ticket. That's
just the way it is. You're a chief skate. Well
that's true, isn't it. Yeah? You way, are you surprised
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you have it? Like stumbled down to like somebody with
a charge a bucket and a half of the game
or something or anyway. In this instance, the legislation signed
by Evers allows the authorities to tow a vehicle involved
in a reckless driving arrest without regard to whether or
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not the driver is the owner of the vehicle. Now,
let me explain the basis for this. Many instances, the
reckless driver doesn't own the vehicle. In some cases it's stolen,
but often it's this, especially in Milwaukee. This crap a
friend of a friend of a friend, of a friend
of a friend of a friend, because there are all
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sorts of people who don't have their own vehicle, and
you know it's all shady stuff. But secondly, let's imagine
I give my car. I won't. It's silly to argue this,
but I'll just use an example. I give my car
to Paul, and Paul drives recklessly. And when I say recklessly,
we're talking the stuff that is caused, you know, all
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the kind of stuff that we're talking about here. Imagine
wrong way driving, but the person didn't crash or just
blowing through ninety stop signs in Milwaukee. If all they
do is give Paul a ticket and it falls like
most of the people in Milwaukee get charged with this
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doesn't pay the fine. What's it off of me who
let them drive the car? Here's the thing about the towing.
And I don't know that everybody knows this. Do you know?
You know the thing about the towing. When I say
the thing about the towing, what is the thing about
the toing? It gets it, It tastes. It costs a
ton of money to get your car out of the
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toe lot. You know you and your can I say
this business you and your wife are in or nott
or can I not mention it? They've got these storage lockers.
I said on the program, like twenty five years ago,
a gold mine would get us, get these storage lockers
and put a ton of them in the third ward
in Milwaukee. Of course I don't do this. You should
see the third I mean there's high rises on the freeway.
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The storage lockers are going like nineteen million stories in
the air well. Paul's now involved in the storage locker thing.
Another good business I should have gone into twenty five
years ago is owning a toe lot. It's just the drive.
The companies that do the towing for a parking lot operators,
they don't charge you. They charge you nothing. Why because
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they make their money on the toe lot. It's like
three hundred and eighty bucks to get your car out
of a toe lot. So let's imagine you've got just
any private parking lot in Milwaukee. We're only parking for
the customers and so on, are only parking for the
apartment tenants. The tow trucks are just constantly trolling through
and if the license isn't approved, or they'll go in
and they'll ask the business because it should this guy
be here. They told the car up, it's three fifty
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three d and eighty bucks. They have this rule that
if you get to the car while it's on the hook,
you can pay the driver on the spot a lesser
fee and they release it, which is an even better
deal for the toll driver because he doesn't have to
go all the way over to the to lot and
back to the area that he's going. He can just
let you go take the money. The money goes like
et cetera. Anyway, So this bill expands this to cover
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the fact that many people driving recklessly are not the
owners of the vehicle, including zillions of the juveniles that
are out there. It helps, however, as I've been saying
for some time, that scratches the surface. In many states,
if the vehicle is unregistered, it's towed. An extremely high
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number of the vehicles that are being driven recklessly in
southeastern Wisconsin, they're not even registered. And when I say
not registered, you didn't renew the plate, so there's no
other the plates are expired or it hasn't been registered
for three or four years. That offense in Milwaukee, I
can't speak for every county. Is you get a ticket,
and the ticket carries a fine. There is, unless you're
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a responsible citizen, no reason to pay the fine. None.
You know what they do if you don't pay your
fine in Milwaukee, they take away your driver's license. The
people who aren't registering their cars also aren't licensing themselves
to drive. I can then put out a warrant for
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your arrest if you don't pay it, and there are
warrants issued for the arrest. I mention this all the time.
I just think it's one of the things that doesn't
sink in. The Milwaukee County jail does not accept inmates
being taken in on traffic wards, So the jail just
won't accept you. So there's no point in a police
officer in Milwaukee County arresting somebody for not paying their
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traffic wards because the jail won't accept them. I don't
know why. I think nobod that doesn't sink into people.
But I'm justsing I should have used you as a
guinea pig. What happens if they bring you to the
jail on a traffic war, you would have said, I
just keep saying this. It's like people don't process that.
I think I'm intuitive. I just think people don't process it.
Now I've said it ninety times, maybe they'll process it. Also,
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in many communities, if you're involved in drunk driving, they
toll the vehicles. This happens in some communities in Milwaukee County,
but another other than the state of Wisconsin, but not all.
I would do the same thing with people who are
driving without a license. You don't have a license, Toe
the car. Not only do you not let them drive away.
Toe the car. I'm telling you this will work because
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it costs so damn much to get it out of
the toe lot. These people who don't have licenses will
get license. The people that aren't registered will can register
because they don't want to be. And then the cops
they can run around and they have the license plate readers.
I don't know if all police have this, but many
agencies now have. They're scanners. They automatically scan the plate
and it'll come back and trigger if a vehicle's god,
if there's a if it's expired, and so on, and
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there's warrants for the driver, and it's kind of sophisticated stuff.
You told these people you solve the problem, not solve
the problem. You go a long way toward solving the problem.
Paul said, you can't. Well, I'm telling you this. I've
driven past some of these lots and the first thing
you have to do is you have to get passed.
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You have to get past the six foot pit bulls
that are sitting on that on the I mean, it's
like I remember when my late lamented sixty eight Camaro convertible,
one of the i'd say the greatest car I ever.
It wasn't the greatest car I ever owned, but it
was enough to understand the context of it. This was
long before people understood it was a classic. It was
just a beater when I had it. Well, I mean,
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it was t boned in Springfield, Illinois. It wasn't my fault.
Somebody ran a red lighted t bone me and I
was totaled out, and given the value of the car
at the time, it didn't take much to total it out.
So it was towed to a toll lot and they
scrapped it in the insurance company for the other driver,
they paid me a subtle mention. So on. I remember
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leaving the car and I had to walk away because
I don't know if I had to sign something. But
it's at the toll out when they towed it there,
there's this big dog bark. I swear every Junkyard is
a dog. It's why we have the term junkyard dog.
I mean, imagine, if you ran a Junkyard or you
didn't have a dog, you would be like shamed out
of the Junkyard business. I looked at this car. It
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even dawned on me, I'm gonna miss this car. There
was the dog barkin, and I don't remember any other details.
Somebody must have given me a drive home, or somebody
must have gone. I don't remember any of that anyway.
All right, speaking of problems, the Democrats in Wisconsin have
a problem. That's always good news, isn't it now. I
mentioned this story two months ago, and it's now showing
(22:22):
up in the mainstream media. Mendela Barnes wants to run
for governor. The Democrats don't want him to run for governor.
The Democrats look at Mendela saying, you're the one guy
that can close. We know this because twenty twenty two
is a democratic year. Democrats did pretty well across the country,
(22:45):
and they did very well here on Wisconsin. They won
the governorship. Tony Eavers was re elected, beating Kim Michaels.
Josh Call was re elected Attorney General. He beat Eric Tony,
but the Republicans kept the Senate seat. Ron Johnson beat
Mendela Barnes. So the biggest reason ronje was and again
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these are all close elections, there was a handful of
voters who divided their tickets and voted for Evers and Johnson.
You would wonder why would they do that, And it
was simply Mendela Barnes was so toxic, so stupid, such
a shady background. The whole thing. Had a state trooper
drive him to Madison and back because he didn't have
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It was either he didn't have a registered vehicle, he
didn't have a license, or something like the stay. Well,
he was involved in an extremely offensive party in college.
Well I'll say what it was. He ran an ad
in which he said no ratchets allowed. Remember that. Well,
I mean he had that baggage and it was used
(23:46):
against him any loss, and it's one of the reasons
why Ron's back in the Senate for another six years. Well,
Mandela thinks that he's special. He just he's entitled to it.
And I almost was a senator. So now I want
to be the governor. The thing is that Democrats have
people running for governor. They already told Josh Cawley can't
run the attorney general, and Josh go, okay, fine, I
won't run. They have David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive.
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He's running. The last thing he wants is another African
American from Milwaukee to run against him in a primary,
dividing that vote. Then you have Sarah Rodriguez, the lieutenant governor.
I it's my turn. I'm the lieutenant governor. Tony Evers
is the governor. I should be the governor. Then there's
like five other lefties from Madison Linarosa running. Here's why
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Mendela wants to run. He does have name recognition, and
I know why he has name recognition. It's that first name.
You know, he's named after Nelson Mendela, and he's milked
that thing his entire political career. So he's thinking, Okay,
there's like seven Democrats going to run. I'm better known
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than all of them. I could win with maybe twenty
nine thirty percent of the vote. Story in jas online.
Every Democratic leader in the state is telling him not
to run, and they all know why. Some of them
are coming right out and saying. At the Milwaukee Courier,
which is a newspaper and website in Milwaukee aimed at
the African American community, they wrote in an editorial, Mendela
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had his opportunity, he didn't close. That means it's time
for a new chapter. Do they make it a clip? Mendela,
you had your chance, you blew it. We want somebody else.
There's Mendela thinking, I want to be the governor. You
can't make me drop out. Now they actually can't make you,
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but they can induce you. The Democrats for how did
they get for example, Sarah god Luski, who also wants
to run. She's the Secretary of State. You wanted to
run for governor. She's been told you will have the
path cleared for the United States Senate in twenty eight.
Ron Johnson seat is up again in twenty eight. Sarah
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god Luski's gonna run for the United States Senate in
twenty eight, and the Democratic leaders are going to knock
every other Democrat who tries to run for that and
say we're giving all of our support to Sarah. The
other thing they can do is they can set you
up in a nonprofit. They have a zillion of them.
All these Democratic organizations that are out there doing community organizing,
they're all backed by billionaires. They can give Mendel a
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big job. And maybe that's all he's updue that he's
out there trying to extort and shake them down for
some sort of big job and so on. But even
a big job like that, it ain't the governor. And
he thinks he give me the governor. I'll tell you
who wants him to get the Democratic nomination, the Republicans.
I have heard through the grapevine that one of the
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things that is giving Kim Michael's reason to reconsider his
decision not to run is he believes that if Mendela
Barnes is the candidate, he can win. Now, Tom Tiffany's
already in the race, so's Josh Showman, the Washington County executive.
But if Barnes gets in, there are going to be
other Repubsublicans who want to get in because the Republicans.
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Republicans are probably up against it in terms of winning
the governorship in twenty six unless what unless Mendela Barnes
is the Democratic candidate. Let's go to an unfortunate story.
One of the just realities of football is because the
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athletes are too fast, too big, and too strong, the
injury tool is savage. And what happened to Tuckercraft is
tragedy is too strong of a word, but it's just
the devastating blow he has become. I think, I argue
he was the best tight end in the National Football League.
I think possibly he's the most popular Packer among fans.
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It was a great story of this guy that grew
up in this nowhere town in South Dakota. He played
for a Division one FCS team in college, fourth round
draft choice and built him into what he is. He
the worst thing. It's close to the worst injury. I
think a broken leg is worse. But apparently it's a
torn ACL. The Packers is of the time of this podcast,
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have not released that, but it was after the game
that the reports were that there what yeah, MRI says
it's ACL, right, yeah, yeah. The end Paul said that
that just has come out and it was known that
that's what it would be. The ACL is a terrible
injury because it may end your career. The recovery time
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is usually it's anywhere from nine to fifteen months. Most
people try to make it back in nine to ten.
My own belief is is that Tucker Craft should not
try to play football until twenty twenty seven. I think
that way too many guys come back too early from
an ACL. I think you need to give it a
year and a half. An example of this would be
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Jabari Parker of the Bucks, who came back too quickly,
and the result is you often put too much pressure
on your good knee and he tore the other ACL.
Another example of this would be David Bocdieri the Packers,
who he tried to come back fifteen different times, and
he'd come back a game and he'd have to go
back and it just never. It's terrible injury for any athlete,
but especially for a football player. But best case scenario,
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he fully recovers in his back in time for the
beginning of next season. But again, even if he is back,
will he be the same. It's just a terrible injury.
The ACL is for an athlete, the most important of
the ligaments in the knee. There's all theseve ligaments, and
if you're not an athlete, they all obviously matter. But
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it's a terrible one and It just happened on a
freak injury. He kind of ran into one of his
offensive linemen and the offensive lineman was cut blocked by
a defender for Carolina. And it was a legal cut block,
some of the not a cut block because he was
on defense. You can't do a cut block if you're
a blocker. You can't go for the legs of a defender.
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But on the other way, the defender can kind of
go toward the legs as they were describing it on TV.
And I don't know this rule that what the defender
for the Panthers did was legal, but it made Ryan
go down and Ryan went down right into Craft and
Crafts and thee slammed into Ryan and that's when the
ACL But it's just a devastating injury for the Packers.
I think that Packers had two great players on their
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team this year. When I say great, I mean great,
and that's Micah Parsons and Tucker Craft. They have several
very good players, including Jordan Love, but two great players,
and they lost one of the minute's a terrible story
for Craft and a terrible story for the Packers. And
it's the reality though a football. I mean, these injuries
happen all the time. They happen far more frequently they
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did in the past. It is simply guys are bigger, faster,
and stronger. But the ligaments are the same ligaments that
we've always had in our bodies. And it's the sad
and it's an unfortunate story. And with that we'll take
a break. This is the Mark Belling podcast. This is
the Mark Belling Podcast. I hope you all saw President
Trump on sixty Minutes last night. Probably a lot of
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people did, because it was on right after the Kansas
City Buffalo game, both on CBS. By the way, a
quick aside on that the NASCAR Championship race was on
right up against the marquee game of the NFL regular
season Kansas City and Buffalo. There's some talk in NASCAR
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finally changing the rules back to perhaps something closer to
what they were in the beginning when they didn't have
a playoff system for the championship and the past. NASCAR,
like most automobile racing series like Formula One and Indie
Racing League, they simply add up the points throughout the
course of the season, and whoever has the most points
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at the end of the season is the winner. And
when NASCAR had that system was that was when NASCAR
exploded in popularity in America. And then the third generation
of Francis came in and they decided that stock car
racing has to be like football, baseball, and basketball and
you have to have playoffs. Well, they're a different sport. It's,
first of all, it's not really a team sport. There's
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teams of two or three or four cars per driver,
but it's an individualized sport. And all it did was
it watered down all of the other races in this
deal where okay, the sixteen drivers advance of the playoffs
that if you win a race, you advance to the
next and so forth and so on, and then you
just last race. There's four cars that have a chance
to win the championship, and then thirty five other drivers
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that are in the race as well. At whichever driver
of the four has the highest finish wins the championship.
Citing a championship based on it's just so stupid, I
should Denny Hamlin is probably the greatest NASCAR driver to
ever win a championship. He's leading this race the whole race,
and with three laps left, He's up by three seconds,
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and the track is a short track in Phoenix. Three
seconds with three laps left at that track is like
being three miles ahead. There's only one way he can
lose the race, and that is a yellow flag comes out.
If a yellow flag comes out, they have to restart
the race, and the second place driver is right next
to him. In addition to that, the whole race, everybody
was having tire trouble, So all the drivers come in
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for tire changes. You're changing tires just to run two
laps because when they restart there's only two laps left.
Every driver that went into the pits changed two tires.
Hamlin's team changed all four because they changed all four.
He came out of the pits not in first but
in tent, and all said, why did I was watching
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to see I get the whole thing. That handling and
tires is important, even for two laps. I'm watching this second.
Are you nuts? He's got the best car. Just make
sure he's still in position. He'll run away from the field.
He said he thought it was the right decision. The
I'm brain farting here, I'm trying to think of the
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Kyle Larson Kyle Larson in the five car who there's
five spectacular drivers in NASCAR. Kyle Larson's one of them,
to Hamlt's another. Kyle Larson's team. He drives for Rick
hen And the three great teams in NASCAR are Joe Gibbs,
that's the old football coach. That's Denny Hamlin's team, Kyle
Larson drives for Rick Hendrick, and the third one is
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Penske and the Penske team I think has won the
last two championships. In this case, the Joe Gibbs teams
made the decision to have their driver take four tires.
Everybody else took two, and Kyle Larson didn't win the race,
but he finished ahead of Denny Hamlin, who couldn't having
the four tires was not enough for him to be
able to make up any ground. Just it was a
stupid decision, and I thought it was. No, I can't
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prove that it was. I thought it was a stupid decision.
I'm sitting there watching it by myself in my living room,
but I thought it was a stupid decision, and it
was a stupid decision anyway. Trump's interview in sixty minutes.
That's where this all started. Remember that, I'm just telling
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you Trump is at the top of his game right now.
It was the same kind of interview that he always gets,
a hostile interview. Remember, CBS is under new ownership now, Paramount,
and Paramount's chairman David Ellison has made it clear that
he wants his bias at CBS News to end. So
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it wasn't a hatchet job interview. What it was is
Nora O'Donnell's sitting there asking stern questions.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I'm just.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I don't know this. Everybody who interviews Trump has the
same thing, this stern demeanor. I don't know what these
people think is attractive of well being in television, being
stern and angry, because the work is the same. Watch
anybody who's successful doing a podcast, the podcasts that are
they're all smiling and laughing and so on. I'm not
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a video podcaster here, but I'm smiling and laughing. She
was there. She was doing it because she knows she
had to do it, and she knew that she couldn't
be over the hearsh so she just tried to ask
these direct, hostile, appointed questions. But the Trump got Trump.
Trump got his answers out clearly on each of these,
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and he knew the environment. In the past, Trump rambled
when he was doing interviews, bing bang bang, bang bang.
He's gotten so much better at this. His whole second
term is better than the first term and the communication
of it. There's one particular issue, and it's tied to
another that I want to focus on here, and that
is Obamacare. Obamacare is linked to the government shutdown. The
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Democrats are demanding that in the reconciliation bill that we
passed to end the shutdown, that they continue the subsidies
for Obamacare. Obamacare, as those of us were arguing at
the time that it passed a decade ago, ten eleven
years ago, Obamacare financially did not add up. So what
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they did is they put in enormous subsidies to reduce
the costs of the premiums. But they put a drop
dead data on them, which was ten years. And from
the perspective of the Democrats at Obama when they passed it,
we care about ten years down the line. We just
want to get this thing through. If they would not
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have put the deadline, and you know, when the Congressional
Budget Office scores that they hadn't costs even more, remember
Nancy Pelosi's we won't know what's in it until we
pass it. Well, they did know this, it didn't add up.
So what happens is Obamacare's policies and Obamacare is when
people are on the exchanges that's Obamacare, they buy these
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policies that have very very high deductibles, meaning their insurance
doesn't kick in until they meet the deductible, and they
pay a premium that is moderately expensive. It's not a
great insurance plan if you're somebody that is goes the
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doctor a lot or has illness issues. If you never
go to the doctor, what do you care if you
have a high deductible. The reason, however, that the premiums
don't cost fifteen arms in a leg is because these
subsidies and well the subsidies are now expiring, and it
means that the government has to spend in order to
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keep these subsidies in place, a massive amount of money.
And they're trying to claim that Trump has to fix
this problem, that Obama and there isn't one republic and
who voted for Obamacare. You'll recall it got through the
House and the Senate only with Democratic votes, and it
was a Domin's plan. It was the time. It was
that period of which at Obama's first turned they had
the House and the Senate and the White House. So
they created this train wreck. And now they're saying the
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Republicans have to solve it. But Obama, would you say,
you keep your eye Well, we know all of that
is unproved. The majority of people on the exchanges have
different got us stant In here. This is a piece
from just thenews dot com and I'm just going to
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quote from it. Expert says when he said, if you
like your health care plan, you can keep your health
care plan. No, you couldn't. Obamacare made a lot of
the health those healthcare plans illegal. Let me interject. You
may recall that before Obamacare, you could drop a healthcare
plan that said anything. Obamacare was one size hits all.
They all have to cover all of these things, and
that meant that the plans are very, very expensive. I mean,
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a single guy who bought a healthcare plan had a
pregnancy coverage in all of that. Other infirmities of ACA
have been laid out late have been laid out, including
nebulous allegations of fraud. After years of Democrats telling the
American people the former president of Barack Obama's Affordable Care
Act was a thriving system. The glaring truth revealed now
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during the government shutdown is that not only has the
ACA resulted in widespread fraud and allegation of kickbacks to
insurance companies, the American people are footing the bill for
subsidies to hide the fact that Obamacare is broken. Go
on to the days of family doctors operating private practices.
Let me pause. How many of you have a family
doctor and a private practice. I don't, do you they
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all work for one of the big healthcare systems, Aurora
or all the various names they're all. When I say all,
it's not all, it's almost all. The independent physicians, the
just private clinics not hooked up with anybody, are almost
non existent. Back to the discussion here of this, goana
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the days of family doctors operating private practices. Based on
the most recent data from the American Calessos, practice medicine
fully independently, not owned or affiliated with hospitals, health systems,
private equity or insurers make up roughly forty two to
forty seven percent of all practicing physicians as of twenty
twenty four. Let me inter check. The ones that are
a dependent are often specialists, for example, a lot of
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psychiatrists and physicians and specialty fields. A lot of the
radiologists have their own, but in terms of the primary care,
they're almost all hooked into a system, according to the
Advisory Board twenty twenty three data showing more than seventy
seven percent of physicians are employees of hospitals, health systems
or other corporate entities, citing a report from Physicians Advocacy Institute.
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All right, so Obamacare has created all of that, and
it's one of the overhangs behind the government shutdown. Trump
was asked about this because Norodonald's say, look, if you
don't change your plan to bail out obama Care, in
other words, continue these subsidies, all these people are going
to see massive increases in their premiums. Now before I
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play you, Trump's answer is very short. I do think
the Republicans have to step in here. Let me just
start with this, what do you think is on Obamacare?
I think I asked this on Thursday's podcast, didn't I Yeah,
I'm gonna ask it again. Who do you think is
that Obamacare it's more Trump voters than not. Obamacare is
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not Medicaid. First of all, Medicare is senior citizens. Medicaid
is poor people. The people on the exchanges are generally
lord of middle income to sometimes middle income people for
whom they don't have a private healthcare plan available from
their work. The realignment of American politics Trump thrived. That's
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a huge segment of this is the Maga cron Secondly,
it's not these people's fault that we passed Obamacare and
created this thing with this massive subsidy and forced them
to buy overly expensive plans. They can't buy a cheap
ole plan because it's not legal to sell them under Obamacare.
It's a terrible hidship for these people if we're gonna
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explode their health insurance costs. So I think that the
Republicans do have to stay in and do something. But
Trump's point, and it's my point, is that's separate from
the government shutdown. No, here's Trump and you'll hear Nouro
Donaldleft CBS kind of butting in on the answer. But
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I think he's trying to get home his point because
the Democrats are trying to say that again. You know,
It's just like the old line used to be, the
Republicans are trying to kill your social Security, the Republicans are
taking away your Medicare and so on. And know they're
trying to argue that Republicans are trying to take away
your Obamacare. Here's Trump's response.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Obamacare is terrible. It's bad healthcare at far too high
a price. We should fix that. We should fix it,
and we can fix it with the Democrats. All they
have to do is let the country open and we'll
fix it.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
They have to lend the country open.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
And I'll sit down with the Democrats and we'll fix it.
But they have to let the country and.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
You know what they have to do.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
All they have to do is raise five hands. We
don't need all of them. First of all, twenty four seconds,
he banged the whole thing. We just need to get
five more Democrats to vote to reopen the government. And
then Trump said, look, then I'll work with the Democrats,
will come up with the compromise bill to keep some
of these subsidies that are in place. And I think
that part of it is going to be they want
the Republicans want to reform Obamacare to bring back some
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cheap old plans that don't cover everything, so you get
rid of the one size fits all, etc. The insurance companies.
And again when the Democratic Party just decided that they
were going to align themselves with the insurance companies, is
what I think that the Democrats just permanently changed. You
see it with regard to vaccine policy had happened all
the way through COVID. The insurance companies make a fortune
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off of Obamacare, a fortune because the government is subsidizing
the premiums. Imagine in a business in which you're requiring
everybody to buy your product and the government is going
to pay most of the money that the product costs.
It's a glorious system for them. And I think that
Trump and the Republicans will be open to reforming Obamacare
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with Republican votes in some Democratic votes. But you can't
do all of this, well, the government is shut down
because it's all these other things included. We don't know
if snap, if the food stamp program and so on
is going to be funded, and so on. And I
thought that Trump did an extremely effective job and getting
his point through in that answer, despite the fact that
Norah O'Donnell was you know hellbend in not letting him
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get in the answer. The one thing you could tell though,
is that she was told you can't cut him off.
She was trying to cut him off. But once Trump
just persisted plowing through this, he got through what he
got his point he asked on a number of other things.
I want to quickly cover some of his points on
illegal immigration, the policy has to be you came into
the country illegally, you're going to go out. However, you've
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also seen you're going to go out, We're going to
work with you, and you're going to come back into
our country legally. And again that's the answer for all
these deportations. If you're not somebody who was a criminal
in terms of breaking other laws, you get kicked out
of the country, and then you say, stand in line
and reapply to come in through the front door as
you ought to on the next three years. We have
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been acknowledged as having the greatest nine months in the
history of the presidency. So if I can keep that going,
I'll be very happy. On the Supreme Court's tariff case.
Because of Tiras, we have the highest stock market we've
ever had. Because of Tara's four oh, one k's are
at their highest level, and this is millions of people
than we've ever had. I think it's the most important
subject discussed by the Supreme Court in one hundred years.
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He's right about that second point. Does the president have
the ability to put in place tariffs without the approval
of the Congress. The Constitution in fact doesn't say anything
about imposition of tariffs and who does it? It just
it's unclear. The Constitution makes it clear the president has
the ability to make foreign policy. Declaration of war can
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only be done by the Congress. All of these things
are vague. I do believe that without regard to who
the president is, a Democratic president and Republican president, it
has to be the decision of the president to do
tariff decisions, simply because in a negotiation, you can't go
back to the Congress every time one say, you know, okay,
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China says twelve percent, we say eight percent. You can't
keep passing a bill for your negotiating position. It's got
to be a part of the executive branch decision. The
one thing I will say about Trump is I would
advise him to stop crowing about the stock market, because
while indeed it has roared. It also roared during Biden.
And my own belief is that the stock market is
unbelievably overvalued. Now the thing about overvalued is it can
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get even more of it. We saw this with the
housing market. Things that are way too high can get
way too higher. But I just look at this as
maybe a fuddy duddy, and I look at the price
earnings ratios of some of these companies, and the AI
company strike me as they are in a bubble. I mean,
if AI turns out to be the thing that changes
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the world, as may well it could be, then the
stocks are properly valued. But that doesn't mean that every
one of these companies is going to be successful and
it's AI initiate. If it's also possible that it will
be years before the profits ever match all the investment
that they have coming in. So I think the stock
markets do for a recketing, and I think a significant pullback.
But again I get me wrong. But the problem with
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bragging about the stock market is is that stock market
has always done two things in its history. It's gone
up and it's gone down. Over the long haul, it
keeps going up, but there are terrible downturns in between,
and the lefties will just pounce on him if it
goes down and blame him for the downturn, even though
they never gave him any credit for the time that
it went up. Another quick point here, this story might
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have been lost of the shuffle, lost in the shuffle,
not under the shovel. Well, you can do it under
the shovel. That's not what the mob was doing in
those crooked card games in which John C. Willis is involved.
Those are card readers, as I understand it. For some reason,
I know about a lot about scams, even though I
wouldn't be any good at them. See, I could never
be going at cheating at cards because my fingers are
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too fat. When I see these guys that are, you know,
dealing from the third card of the deck and so on,
I have enough time just getting them out on the
top card of the deck. The card reader thing, though,
I get that you put on these glasses in which
you can see through the card and so on, and
that's that's what they were doing and doing in that.
But do I have to explain again? People keep emailing
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me on this because I keep trying to explain. In
the famous scene from this thing, the best scene of
this thing when the card game thing were, how did
Paul Newman switch the threes to the jacks? It's what
just I said this, Hey, you've already forgotten it, haven't,
haven't you when he switched the cards. When he switched
the cards, No, it was in his pocket when he
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went reaches to get the lighter out of the pocket,
that's where the cards are. Go back and watch that scene.
It's got like ninety five quintrillion views on YouTube. I
think that may be the greatest movie scene of all time,
don't you. You can hear the review of the train
tracks running and a little bit of the horn blowing
in the background, and just the reaction shots from the
other actors, plus the unbelievable you're talking in that scene.
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Robert Shaw was just there's a great line, by the way,
there's a great line about Robert Shaw being taken by
Paul Newman in that scene. Back to back epic movies.
Robert Shaw got eaten by a shark. The next movie
it was Jaws. Jaws was right out. It was either
the other way around. I think it was. It was
this thing before Jows. But Card Show, I just, well, yeah,
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that was the guy that set the deck and anyway,
it's at the beginning in the movie, so it's not
a spoiler giveaway. It was the setup for the remainder
of this thing. Is one of the great American pictures
in there. But when he switches the cards and it
was just George roy Hill was the director, and it
was just a spectacular correctorial scene. The music's Scott Joplin's music,
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which was adapted by Marvin Hamleysh. It was Scott John's
Joplin's music and my Harvin Hamlich did the adaptation and
just all of that in that scene on the train
with the poker game, and you could smell the cigar
or smoke in the ear and Newman's pretending that he's drunk,
and the facial reactions of Shaw and the way it
is just the spectacular same. But he switches the cards
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when he reaches into his pocket for the lighter, and
they make they do it. The director does make a
big deal of showing not a big deal because they
didn't want to give it away. He made a big
enough deal of the fact that Newman ReLit the cigar
during the middle of that hand and the relighting of
the cigar was the reason he had to reach into
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his pocket to get the lighter, and that's where the
four cards were shifted. And why do you know? I've
also had people ask you why did you do jacks?
How did you know that? You know? Shaw wasn't cheating
And earlier in the movie, in the setup, they say
that's what he does. That was part of the research
that they had done that he's going to swap out
his cards and give himself nines. So he knew that
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it had to be higher than the nights. It's a
lot of time explaining something there wasn't it. Sales came
up with Lost in the Shuffle. I think lost out
of the Shuffle. The leader of Canada, Mark Kearney, is
apologizing for that anti tariff ad that ran on football
in World Series game Baseball games two weeks ago and
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then last weekend. The ad was run by the government
of the Canadian province of Ontario and it was ripping Trump.
Canada is trying to suck up to Trump because Trump
immediately retaliated with more tariffs. The thing with the Canadian
American battle on tariff, say, is Trump is the upferhand.
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There's way more the America. Canada needs American trade more
than we need Canadian trade. Canada's tried to talk tough
with regard to this, but they poke this finger in
Trump's eyb by running this quote from Reagan and so on. Well,
Carney's trying to claim this wasn't the Canadian government was
the government of one state, be like of Trump, and
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you could see this. Suppose California runs some stupid ad.
Trump could say, that's California, We apologize for that. The
difference here is is that the government of Ontario and
the Canadian government, Carney, they're both members of the Liberal Party.
It's the same government ad. I think Carney is just
trying to make it up to Trump after they The
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one thing you don't want to do is provoke Trump unnecessarily.
Sometimes his adversaries will provoke him necessarily. That's the game
Putin's trying to play. But there's no point in provoking
Trump unnecessarily because Trump has made it very very clear
that no matter how hard you hit him, he's going
to hit you back even harder. Some of you may
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have followed the fact that the best race source im
own special wand ran over the weekend on the undercard
of the Breeders Cup undercard, and she was not int
a Breeders Cup race, but she ran at del Mar
in the final race Saturday before the Breeders' Cup races started.
It was a Grade three stakes and probably ran the
best race of her career, and we posted it on x.
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It was just it was as dominant a performance as
you can imagine. And sometimes a dirt races the horse
will run up by twenty five links and so on.
Turf racing is different. But she sat second and just
went to the lead, even though the jockey was restraining
her and trying to have her not go too fast
too early. She did it all on her own and
ran away and hid. She is. Today's a big day
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for me. She is up for auction this evening. The
big sale of the fall is the face of Tipton
Sail in Kentucky, and she does go onto the auction block.
So the timing of a spectacular race is just perfect.
And anyone who buys her could retire her and breed her,
or they could buy her and continue to race it
for another year. Given the fact that she's gotten way better,
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the one thing she hasn't done is win a Grade one.
She won three grade threes this year, and this was
a Grade three. She only ran in one Grade one
and she finished third in that, but she does so
she does go on to the auction hammer tonight, along
with another horse that I own. There is a thing
called the reserve, and I can't tell you what it is.
But if we don't get our price, she won't sell.
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And it's kind of a win win situation because she's
so good that it would be a great thing to
continue to own and race her. But if we do
get a strong, solid price for her based on what
we think that she's worth, and we take the money,
and so well. You can bid online, but there's a
lot of the big ones are in person, but many
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bidders are online and they're or on the phone with
a bitter in place, or they'll do it online and
they're texting somebody from the thing. The majority of the
bidders are there, but some of the big foreigners are not.
But in this particular watch it is live with the
people in there doing it and so on. But there
are others that are bidding remotely with someone in the
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room bidding on their behalf. Then obviously it's a great
secret as to what the reserve would be that we have,
but very very thrilled with all will she did and
no matter which way it goes, it would I mean,
if we sell her, I hope it's for a wamping
incredible price. But if we don't sell her, got an
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extremely good female resource. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
This is the Mark Belling podcast. This just was announced
today and I'm doing the podcast then Monday afternoon, just
announce it. The Brewers have announced the date and time
for opening day next year, March twenty six, one ten pm.
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The White six March twenty six. It gets earlier and earlier.
There's just one thing to say about this, Paul. It's
a good dog. One thing. We have a rough March
twenty six. You imagine that thing being played, and there
are going to be I mean, everybody opens within a
day of one another. They're going to be other teams
in cold weather cities where they're going to be playing
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baseball in March twenty six. Last this past year's all
I think was later in the afternoon. I don't know
if it's connected, but I do I do wonder if
the fact that the opponent is the White Sox has
them starting at one ten because my three ten White
Sox fans are going to be so I mean, Brewer
fans are bombed too, but White Sox fans have a
capacity for drinking not match. You know, the Cubs fans
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come up here and they're the pain in the butt
that they were. But back in the oldiest and the
ruwers in the American League, white Sox fans came up here.
I mean there were fights all the time. The White
Sox have been so terrible forever though that I don't
know that they'd have any o their fans coming up
to watch them play. And plus it's their fan base
is small, and then they're on the South side of Chicago.
Most of their face. You know, the Cubs have a
zillion fans in southern Wisconsin, but not so much White Sox. Anyway,
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March twenty six, or to the Thursday is Opening day
for the Brewers. Other Brewers news, they did announce the
gold Glove winners. That's the best fielder at each position.
That was last night, and they do separate for the
America in the National League, not one Brewer when a
gold Glove. I'm just the Brewers had the best fielding
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team in baseball, and maybe the best fielding team that
I've ever seen. Every single Brewer defensive player was outstanding,
every single one. There wasn't a defender that they had
on the team who wasn't good, and several that were brilliant,
and not one of them won. They had two Brewers
who one go gloves in the past, and neither one.
There's nobody who. I can't say I watch every team's
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fielder in each position that closely, but r in the
nation of the league them. You know what's really revolting.
Three cups won Get Me Up Break, including two of
them one at positions in which the Brewer Nico Horner,
beat out Bryce to Rang at second base. Should I
remind people of Nico Horner committing a terrible error in
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the playoffs against the Brewers in a series that we
beat them. The right field, I mean Sal Freeley plays
right field usually you know right fielder is not a
good field that the Brewers have a unique situation with
all of their other field there so good that sales
over there on right field. He did not win in
right field. Fernando Tatis Junior, the podres one, the center
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fielder is Pete crow Armstrong now here the Brewers. Blake
Perkins is the best center fielder I think in baseball,
but he played very little. He was out most of
the year. Jackson Churio played the position brilliantly before he
came back, so I can get that the Brewer didn't
win it because nobody really held on that position all year.
Then Ian a half of the Cubs. He wins in
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left field. So I mean and again, Churio played left
field and center field, and we had the other part
of the season in left field, Isaac Collins, I mean,
Isaac Collins played great in left field defensively as well,
but he wasn't a full time left fielder. Patrick Bailey
of the Giants, I admit I don't know anything about him,
but I can't see how anybody could have been a
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better defensive catcher than William Catreroz. So the Brewer, you know,
Joey Ortiz was brilliant at shortstop. Mason win of the
Cardinals won it there. So the Brewers didn't have a
single guy to win a Gold Glove. Baseball season did
end Saturday night. The World Series isn't what it used
to be because the playoffs go on so long, but
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I will say this that was one of the greatest
baseball games of all time. First of all, it's game seven,
which means, you know, do or die, winner, take all
five to four. The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays. The
Dodgers were down by a run with one out in
the top of the ninth inning, hit a home run
off the blue Jays closer. The blue Jays bullpen wasn't
very good all year to tie the game. A lot
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of people are talking about and I want to make
this point here, and it's how I end the podcast.
I just keep explaining all the time in every sport
that it is it takes an incredible amount of luck
and the whole game of inches thing. When the Bocks
won the NBA Championship now four years ago, some people
forget that if Kevin Durant's toe was not on the
(01:00:53):
three point line in Game series of the Eastern Conference Semifinals,
Durant hit what should have been a three point shot
to win the game. Upon replay, I'm telling you less
than an inch of his toe was on the line
and it was only a two. The Bucks went in overtime,
went on to win the next two series, and won
the NBA Championship Game of inches. There was a play
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in the much debated now that could have resulted in
the World Series being decided on an instant replay. The
Blue Jays had the winning run on third base. There
was a ball that was hit to the Dodgers second baseman,
who ended up hitting game winning homer, But prior to that,
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the ball was hit to the Dodger second basemen. The
infield is in because they have to throw to the
plate to stop the winning run from scoring, and the Dodgers'
second basement kind of he was off ballance when he
got the ball, it had a hard time getting rid
of it. The guy that was on third base for
the Blue Jays kind of Felifa did not have much
of a lead. This is just being discussed right and left.
(01:01:56):
Why when you're the winning run don't you have a
huge lead in The Blue Jay had been playing it
that way all year. They didn't want him doubled off
a third of a line drive. As a result, he
got a slower break on the ball than he might
have otherwise gotten. So they throw the paw to the plate.
It's bang, bang, and the umpire calls him out upon
replay the game of inches. The Dodgers catcher Will Smith,
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in reaching for the throw, lifts his foot off the
plate just a little bit as he's straining, and then
of course your foot comes down. The replay he got
the foot back down and contacted the plate tenth of
a second before kind of Felifa got home. But if
he hadn't, the replay would have overturned it and you
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would have had games. The Baseball's worldteries decided on a replay,
which would have been debated as well. I don't think
anybody would have wanted that so for and the homeplate
umpire got the call correctly live, but I don't even
think that he would have known that the foot came
both up and down when it happened. Well, and just
as just saying it just it just shows you the
game of inches, you know. Component of of this, There
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were several other things that happened during the game in
which the Blue Jays could have won. Dodgers managed to
homer to tie it in the ninth in and would
go ahead in the tenth, and the Blue Jays had
a chance to score on the tenth and they didn't.
And the other great story about the game is Yamamoto,
Yoshinobul Yamamoto, the other Asian American Dodger pitcher, not Shohei Otani,
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who's been brilliant throughout the postseason. He did one of
those things that just isn't done anymore. In fact, it's
hardly ever been done. He won Game six as a
starter and came in and got the final eight outs
of the game in Game seven functioning as the closer.
So after going I think he threw like ninety six
pitches the day before he came in and got the
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last eight outs. He's just you know, teams don't like
to use their closers and back to back nights much late,
and they don't like to use the closer more than
as a game said, well they went, they used whatever
other start is. They took Blake Snell out of the bullten.
He's the ace of the team. He pitched and he
was removed, and that were just simping to use everybody.
Had the game been another eighteen inning game like earlier,
both teams would have run out of pitchers, but Yamamono
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managed to close it out in both the ninth and
the tenth. The Dodger that Blue Days could have won
the game outright in the ninth and then tied it
in the tenth with that one run league and he
pitched his way through it. So this whole thing, Wow,
the Dodgers shouldn't have want I look past all. It
was just a great game. And I also think that
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this is karma against Canada for running that ad. That
that's what I decided. I wanted the Dodgers to win.
When Canada channeling Reagan, they take a Reagan ad out
of context to take a shot at PROMP And now
the Canadian Prime Minister is apologizing and the Canadian team
lost the World Series. Would you say, oh, that was
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the during the season too, right, No, but I think
he did it during the season when had happened as well.
Trying to remember who that was, but I don't know
who it is, so we won't mention it. Here the
tribute that one of the Dodgers had to Charlie Kirk.
All right, that's it for today's podcast. Next one is
released on Wednesday.
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