The Mark Belling Podcast
Right-minded, free-wheeling conservative commentary from Mark Belling, focused on societal trends, pop culture, current events, politics, and anything else Mark feels like talking about! After 35 years as one of the most successful radio talk show hosts.
Episodes
Data overwhelmingly shows schools improve when cellphones are banned (why aren't all schools doing it?) Is the demise of a legendary Fox Valley radio station an ominous harbinger? Two very different local land use battles: a treatment center in the suburbs and a nightclub in downtown Milwaukee. Plus, our weekly football preview, and a wrap on Paul's producing and the 2025 podcast season.
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The Somali scandal explains everything: crooked Democrats, insane immigration policy, an inept media, a welfare state easy to defraud and the nincompoopery of Tim Walz. Also, the price explosion in gold and silver, a proposal to remove huge chunks of Brewers parking and are smartphones making children myopic (literally, myopic)?
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Mark discusses the critical acclaim for Song Sung Blue, the movie about a Milwaukee musical couple and how the film avoids the normal Hollywood condescension toward middle America. A new theory on why President Trump is targeting Venezuela, and Milwaukee's corporate welfare recipient Kanan Haywood Sr. offers yet ANOTHER plan for his 27th and North project. (He's years overdue in paying back his massive taxpayer-fu...
Mark looks at three compelling trends: why affordability is always worse where liberals are in charge, growing evidence that saturated fats are not bad for you and the move of the Oscar telecast to YouTube. And, Linus reminds what Christmas is really all about
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Nicki Minaj becomes a top conservative influencer at Turning Point's big shebang, Illinois blows off the Bears (not that we blame them) in an idncation of how anti-business Democrats are, a Milwaukee deputy court clerk stands by his claim ICE agents are fascists and we ask his boss what she thinks about that, and, yes, a review of the Packers-Bears debacle
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Mark rolls the odometer as we hit Podcast #100 with a look at a new essay that dives into the conscious attempt to rid white people from top positions in our popular culture. Also, Hartford's Jordan Stolz is winning every speedskating race in sight as he targets a dominating Milan Olympics. And, will those Olympics be Mikaela Shiffrin's Simone Biles-like redemption after her 2022 disaster? And, the Dai...
President Trump targets Venezuela and fentanyl as he looks out for regular Americans. In the meantime, Trump's chief of staff evidently regrets spilling her guts to Vanity Fair. A fellow judge testifies she was shocked Hannah Dugan aided the attempted escape of a defendant who was the subject of an ICE warrant. And, as the FBI foils a planned Christmas attack in Los Angeles it is becoming more apparent Chris...
Local media wrongly name a local man who had nothing to do with the Brown University slayings. Rapper Nikki Minaj continues her rightward turn by going after Gavin Newsom for saying he wants MORE trans kids. And, some thoughts on the nightmarish Micah Parsons injury and why ACL tears are becoming so common among elite athletes
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It's not surprising justice is a joke in Dane County, but it's a disgrace that conservative Washington County is pathetically soft on crime because all four of its elected judges are Evers appointees. Mark dives into it. Also: how Michigan's football coach ruined his career and landed in jail because he couldn't keep his pants zipped. Fascinating information on another "dewormer" drug and its potential: can ...
Mark comments on Victor Davis Hanson's analysis of the desperate times for Gen Z males and how they have been victimized by the mainstreaming of leftist crackpotism. A prophetic message from the past about the potential damage of long-term welfare reliance (guess who turned out to be correct?) and a look at how European restrictions on social media platforms are threatening free speech in America (another problem create...
From Somalis in Minnesota, to companies doling out fake service animal certificates, Democrats are enabling them. Trump's advisors urge him to start talking about affordability, an issue in which the Democrats deserve all the blame. And Tom Homan says 60,000 smuggled children have been rescued from human traffickers because of the immigration crackdown.
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Mark dives into the folly of listening to "experts" and why they seem to always get the big stuff wrong. The Somali/Minnesota scandal follow-up: one take on why mass immigration of Muslims keeps failing. And, what's the deal on all of these weirdos who become police impersonators?
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Minnesota's bozo Governor refused to stop the Somali aid scandal because the crooks were Somali. Trump rightly outs Obamacare as a windfall for insurers that provides crappy coverage for the poor. Mandela Barnes defies fellow Wisconsin Democrats and runs for Governor and a firsthand report from the red carpet (so to speak) for Song Sung Blue.
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It's hard to say what's worse: whether we are letting unvetted radical Muslims into our country or whether we are allowing leftist hate to radicalize them once they get to the US. The apathetic DOC slugs didn't bother to tell Morgan Geyser's attacker that the woman who almost killed her had escaped. And, it's Bears Week in Green Bay in a year in which both teams are contenders.
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Mark's weekend podcast focuses on how George W. Bush's "ownership society" never materialized and how young people stuck in the nightmare of long-term renting are gravitating toward socialism. Contributing factor: all of the millennials who aren't as smart as they think they are: is it because Harvard gave all of them A's? And, as the US debut of "Song Sung Blue" approaches in Milwaukee, Mark discusses Lightning &...
Mark takes a deep dive into the failings of psychiatry from the Morgan Geyser case to the drug abuse epidemic that may have its roots in ADHD drugs. President Trump tries to navigate immigration policy by deporting illegals but welcoming needed skilled workers with H-1B visas. The Democrats urge troops to defy orders and our weekly football preview (it's early this week because of Thanksgiving)
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Mark focuses on some bad looks in the mental health business. Morgan Geyser cuts off her monitoring bracelet only months after state officials say she's safe to be released. A local psychologist cranks out emotional disability diagnoses for $50 after patients submit online questionnaires. And, Marxism strikes again as Chicago's Christmas tree lighting turns into a violent riot
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The weekend podcast features our weekly football preview. But first, a dive into the deep hypocrisy that overwhelms everything else in the Jeffrey Epstein case. With crime out of control, a California city cracks down on....pickleball. And, a look at the long criminal history of the Chicago man who lit a woman on fire on a subway platform.
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Mark dives into the prostituting by state lawmakers to special interests like the tribes, using the online sports betting issue as an example. Ron DeSantis moves to the right of Trump and Vance by opposing LEGAL immigration, and Marjorie Taylor Greene bucks Trump by darting the left and playing kissy-face with the hosts of The View.
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A new survey says 40% of women under 45 want to leave the country (then go!), Trump gets a federal prosecutor for eastern Wisconsin and it's somebody whose been around the block and has battlescars to prove it, Ford's CEO says he can't find mechanics even after offering $120K a year.
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