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Belling Podcast is presented by youLine. For quality shipping and industrial supplies, youLine has everything in stock. Visit youLine. comot The Mark Belling podcast is a production of Hart Radio podcasts. I have an opinion This is one of those opinions where I always turn out to be right. I never know that I'm going to be right and maybe I'm not going to be right about this, but when I come up with something like this invariably I turn out to be right about it H's where I'm coming from. I think that Ozempic and all the other GLP ones, all these other Things that are supposed to ell your appetite pill and then you lose weight I think they're the new Viagra. or maybe the new medical marijuana What's that? Viagra was created for erectile dysfunction. I suspect the overwhelming majority of people who have prescriptions for Viagra do not have erectile dysfunction. They just want You know do be able to do it better and longer and all of that Likewise How many people who have these medical marijuana cards in the states that allow medical marijuana? How many of them actually have a medical reason for marijuana as opposed to people who just want to legally smokeed pot I think that's what's happening with the GLP ones And I think like almost anything else over which there becomes a mania, a craze We're jumping into this without any long term knowledge about what the long term consequences are going to be That's where we're going to start the podcast First, I want to tell you about YLine. 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Ozempk, Poi there's million names of And they everyone's claiming they're a little better for this that or the other thing They are being prescribed like mad Not surprisingly, the whole country's fat But here's the thing Well, the whole country seems to be fat The whole country isn't morbidly obese But we're filled with a zillion people who could stand to lose an extra fifteen, twenty, twenty fives, thirty pounds, whatever it is. When you start seeing people pop these things He aren't in dire straights when it comes to their weight. They're just heavier than they want to be I just I have this sense that people are popping the pill without any concern about what this is doing to their bodies long term This is the same argument I made when they were mandating the COVID vaccines This one size fits all. everybody has to get vaccinated. As you recall, I was never anti vac. I was anti mandate. was someomebody who believed in patient free choice, and I also believe that everyone's circumstances were different I felt and continue to believe The people that are extremely high risk for COVID Elderly We overweight Ls of underlying health conditions, the kind of things for which A virus can kill you The vaccine probably made some sense But from the beginning, it just didn't seem to me that there was any point for somebody who wasn't likely to get extremely ill or die from COVD to get these vaccines because we didn't know what the long term impact of the vaccines were going to be. That was my position then? It's my position now and that position' clearly, I think being proven correct We've got people dropping down a heart attacks. We've got all sorts of other ramifications that we still don't know. someome kid that got one of these shots when they were eight Is there going to be an impact on their bodies and their immune systems when they're forty eight there will be But We raced into this thing and allowed quacks like Fauci to jam it down our throats, allowed the media and allowed all these public health idiots commommanded everybody. One size fits all, one size fits all, one size fits all It's like telling a man he should have an abortion And I'm not making any reference to the gender stuff There's almost nothing out there For which one size fits all? All right to the GLPs. Some of these before and after pictures and I've got to grantch you, they're amazing I'm not sure they're entirely good Meghgan Kelly was tolerable to watch, which She might become tolerable again when she just puts her finger up in the air and decides that Her numbers will improve by talking about physicians that are sincere rather than the crap she's spewing out. nonetheless What I she was She did this thing on Serena Williams Serena Williams, you know, when she was playing tennis was really big. remarkable athlete and one of the reasons why she was so dominant is she's She was just way stronger than any other woman tennis player ever Now that she's not playing competitive tennis anymore, barely playing it She's decided that She's going to be a celebrity. she's got the husband, she's got the baby and Oh she wants to look hot. She has lost a ton of weight And Meghgan was showing this picture. and while she's lost a ton of weight, she doesn't look good. She looks like you look If you've had a terrible bout of cancer It's that jaunt look someome of the other celebrities They've indeed lost weight, but they also look Frail. One of the things that clearly happens when you're losing a lot of this weight is you lose muscle tone And for younger adults, that's not good So, lo and behold, a few days ago, this story crosses on the Wall Street journal as a big story Frailty is the hidden cost of weight loss drugs For those of you who can access the Wall Street Journal, just do a search on this, but the author is Natasha ananger. She writes Chanel Robinson achieved exactly what the gold rush of blockbuster weight loss drugs promised She lost nearly one hundred pounds lowerater cholesterol to normal levels. and reined in her polycystic ovary syndrome. let me b. It's been that I'm not knocking these drugs Clearly That stuff has been happening right and left and some people are a lot healthier and look a lot better than they did before The peace Yet Yet is a great word. It's a cuse of the butt. Yet Nearly three years later into her journey, on Mount Jaro, the thirty year old Atl thirty O from Atlanta, Georgia is discovering the hidden costs of the slimmed down life Robinson experiences muscle fatigue daily Feeling physically weak, frail and often cold Robinson said she experienced bursts of sluggishness sporadically during the day and has trouble with basic tasks like opening a jar It shouldn't be this difficult, she said. GLP one drugs like Ozempic Munjaro and Z bound have been a success for public health and the pharmaceutical companies that make them But for at least some of the thirteen million Americans taking them, I'm surprised it's not higher. That's a high number. I'm surprised not higher Losing muscle along with fad is an unexpected downside that isn't broadly discussed or immediately apparent See, that isn't broadly discussed talk about this When you watch these drug ads on TV Nobody ever listens to the side effects because under the law, in order to cover themselves some lawsuits, they've got to list every side effect and they're all terrible You're going torop yag your eyeelles are're to fall in and they have the guys reading really, really fast and all And when you see the ads in print, the print is so tiny that I mean, you need a mat, you need the Hubble Telescope to read this stuff And even when you can hear it like the TV ads, it is tuned up because people, Ohh, that's what they have to say all the mania though over these drugs, I hardly ever hear any physicians or any doctors and certainly not the drug companies and people who say, well, the drug companies should be stressing this stuff. I made the same point during the COVID vaccines The drug companies do not care about your health anyy more so than all of us have a general caring for people's health. The drug companies want to sell their products The drug companies liked the COVID vaccine mandates because it meant that people were mandated to buy their vaccine. So if you're making these weight loss drugs, You're not going run around and scream from the mountaintops the reasons that maybe some people shouldn't use them or some of these downsides ors should be doing this, but also people should be using their nooggins. The very thing that RFK and his crowd has urged us to do any number of things and the very thing that the media, the public health zealots, told us during COVID that we should not be due. D't do your own research. Don't think this You're not professional, you're not qualified. We'll start examining with your own mind some of the stuff that's going on here Anything that can knock your appetite down So strongly that you can lose this much weight this fast What else is it doing And again, I want to make it clear, I'm not encouraging people not to use this I'm just saying there's something going on here and some of these side effects are profound. We're going to get to another one in a moment continontinuing For at least some of the thirteen million Americans taking them, losing muscle along with fat is an unexpected downside that isn't broadly discussed or immediately apparent. The drugs can cause rapid and significant loss of lean muscle mass up to ten percent. comparable to a decade or more of aging acccording to analysis published by the American Diabetes Association Let me intererject When I've seen some of these before after pictures, They're just different to me Then when I see the before after pictures of people who lost weight by going on the no carb diet or by eating less those people just seem to lookook healthier all around They've lost weight, but they don't have this sickly sunken inlook The GOP one weight lost people They clearly look slimmer, but they don't look Right, their bones seem to bulge out. I mean, they just have a look to me that the fat was kind of sucked out with them along with maybe muscle and everything else back to the piece The loss of lean tissue is similar to weight loss from dieting But the magnitude over a short period of time can lead to frailty. instability and lack of coordination Doctors and researchers say Sts the reason You're losing fat, you're also losing tissue When the fat goes down, the tissue is going to go down and usually that can be handled. But the thing is, what if you're losing this tissue so fast your body doesn't adapt and then you get these frailty concerns that they're mentioning? We are curing obesity by encouraging frailty. Great quote. Oh is that a good said Daniel Green Principal research feellllow at the University of Western Australia who contributed to the analysis Many taking weight loss medications initially lose fat and feel great. but quickly start to feel weak and lethargic He said I know it that that weak and lethargic I've been following this my whole life It's What I've noticed over the years is what happens to people who are long term pot users and long term users of much too much of these antip psychotic drugs Lather G and fatigue When you see so many of these people in their early twenties are they're already yapping about the four day week and the work life balance and I only want to work twenty five hours a week and I hate my job and I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired. That's not how you're supposed to be when you're that young There's got to be a reason for it, and I've just assumed that whenever somebody is talking about that, they're a parted. I've been assuming this for like forty five, fifty years of my life Not have to add it up. Maybe longer Maybe add another one or two of those years in here. Now we're hearing this with regard to the people that are on the weight loss drugs. Seemingly, you would think, anecdotally you would think, Okaykay, let's imagine you were fat Some of you. You can imagine that, you big mouth, okay Maybe it's not that hard to imagine. Let's imagine your fat Now let's imagine you're not fat and you've lost weight. Wouldn't you think you'd have more energy You would think that The answer here, though, seems to be no, continuing Greens Ray search showed that the rate of muscle loss could be slowed significantly by regular strength workouts. That makes sense Are the people that are on these weight loss drugs? Are they doing this then in tandem with a strong exercise program that is aimed at building up their weights. I'm guessing hardly anybody is Drugmakers say and again, the drugmakers. When the leftfties became got in tandem with the drugmakers, it just changed everything because whatever the narrative of the Lies is the narrative of the media Th then the lefties during COVID got into bed with the drug companies Anybody who suggested that we use generic drugs that have been on the market forever and ever and ever, That's a horseywmer They said about Ivermectin orr you know, you shouldn't do this and they made fun of Ron Johnson for some of the obvious common sense tactics that he said that you should do try to avoid catching a virus because the lefties instead decided to slavishly bend their knee to the drug companies that were cranking a brand new on patent extremely expensive drugs and mandating these vaccines for which they were being paid about twenty dollars a pop by the government drug makers. All right, let'sar what they have to say it again This isn't to be taken with a grain of salt You've got like a big People still have water softeners You know this Jason says he doesn't know anybody has it. Is it just pumped into the water now or is it does it have to do with where you live When I was a kid everybody had water softeters. I mean, everybody's host that you went into at a water something. Did you ever water softener when you were a kid No I forgot, Wh where do you grow up This plan's Illinois., see know, you were in Chicago, mayaybe they didn't maybe in Illinois, they didn't know about this. No, And then there was like companies like Culligan, Culligan would bring these big tanks around and ome some people would have that This is what it came to for me Eventually it was moved out of the bedroom that I shared with my brother and I got my own bedroom It was in the basement. It was in the room that the water soffeter was Aw two o'clock every morning, you would not believe the sound of this bang that would go off when this thing kicked in Also, because the water softener was in my room, whose job was it to larard these forty pound salt bags down into the basement and then dump them into the water sack I'm clearly digressing here, but I swear that these digressions is what I've made a career on S you you didn't have a water softener disisplay and displayays. Well, I think what do we have? I don't know where we got Fox River then But we needed to put salt in the water because the water was too hard water softener Anyway Drug makers say that was my You know, bag of salt. This is what you take with dru drugmakers say, weight loss drugs should be taken only on the advice of a physician and as part of a long term plan that includes diet and exercise Well, that's true. And I'm sure many physicians are cautioning against it, but You know that people are piling into doctors' offices right and left saying, I want to go O one of these. my friend just lost forty five pounds. I want to lose that weight So the doctor, I've had the doctors tell me, okay, there's the upside of this and there's the downside of that I think clearly people are gravitating toward this. Now here's the second portion of this This is an essay that appeared in the European edition of the Spectator. I find all of these things for you so you don't have to People always say, how do? why does it take you so long to do your showpp? Becauseuse I'm finding this. This is a piece written by Damen Thompson, who seems to be at least something of a loser whichich he admits in the piece, which gets the part of the point The headlland on the piece, weight loss Drugs killed my appetite for life He starts by writing about Sam Alton Sam Altman, the co founder of OpenAI, which launched Chat GPT, He is not overweight Gay tech billionaires rarely are Even so, as he explained in a recent interview He was keen to try a GOP one O of those drugs that have revolutionized weight loss in the past five years You could understand why he was curious. Ozempik and Munjaro might appear to have nothing in common with artificial intelligence Both phenomena have helped to create the sensation that we're entering an era of accelerating and uncontrollable change Alas he screwed it up Altman had someone inject him with a megadose all night and then lay in bed for days staring at a white ceiling thinking nothing not only feeling no urge to eat, but also no desire for anything me interject In this what happens with the people on the ketamine which in small doses may have proper uses. Matthew Perry Oded on Katam Katavine because he he want okay, if a little bit of it makes me feel so good, let me pound it into my body. Back to the author When I read that on X, I knew exactly how Altman felt. or didn't feel In a few months, I've lost fifty pounds on Munjaro. Now I'm aware that journalists accounts of their weight loss journeys could qualify for the world Boring Championships imagined by the Satrist Michael Wharton in his Peter's simple teelegraph column. so I'll keep mine brief. This is the second time my weight has dropped from two hundred to one hundred fifty pounds Again, the writer is Damianen Thompson. The first time was when I was twenty Thanks to a diet supervised by my mother For the first time in my life, the girls hit on Porky Thompson My popularity soared, which told me a lot about how intensely people dislike fatness even if they don't say so Four decades later, friends and colleagues scarcely notice which speaks volumes about attitudes to old people If they're thinner, it will just make it easier for the pallbearerars. Never mind Running for the bus is suddenly is suddenly as easy as it was decades ago But And this is the key point only on the rare occasions when I could be bothered to go anywhere I could give Altman lessons in staring at ceilings whilein thinking nothing I can even outstare my deaf white cat Mira. who spends hours scrutinizing the same patch of wallpaper I've been a martyr to pathological laziness since I was in the pram Like Donald Trump, I maintain that talking is the form of exercise and leave it at that From time to time, I torment myself by reading the dust jacket of a book published in nineteen ninety six The debut of a promising new writer That was me The promise wasn't fulfilled because if there's one thing I can't bear, it's writing to quote another American president, They say hard work never killed anyone But I figured why take the risk That was Ronald Reagan, who didn't allow cabinet meetings to deserve as schedule of afternoon soap operas. And then later in life, I discovered Munjiro The weight fell off And I fell into bed several times a day for the first time ever I lost interest in listening to music Buying the forty one disk boxed set of remastered anntold Dorati Hayden recordings was no problem Amazon's one click purchasing worked perfectly well from our horizontal position But listening to them Some other time I asked my friend, Dr. Max Pememberton, a national health andA NHS psychiatrist. who was also a writer of genius What was going on It makes perfect sense to me, he said. Max knows that I have a long history of addiction to alcohol and psychotropic prescription drugs Again, this guy's laying it all out there but his life I haven't touched the former since nineteen ninety four, the latter since well, if I'm being honest, about eight o'clock this morning when I started writing this column, but I'll get to that shortly. Max explained that GLP ones have a profound effect on rewarding regions of the brain that goes far beyond suppressing appetite I'm going to interject no The little bit that I've read and know about the GLP ones They suppress your appetite Your body tells you you're hungry And when your body tells you're hungry You eat You want to satisfy this thing that your body is telling us. O our whole lives work off of what our bodies are telling us It's the explanation for the sex drive. It's the explanation for the desire to go to sleep It's the explanation for addictions In any event The GOP ones blocking this signal in your brain that says, I'm hungry and I need to eat. and If your brandn't tell you're hungry and you your need to eat Obviously you can go a longer time without eating, you just don't eat. The point that he's making here is that the GOP ones aren't precise enough to only zap your appetite, your hunger Courage Other urges too, back to the pace. goes far beyond suppressing appetite, and that this effect is likely to be magnified in someone like me whose neural reward pathways have been overstimulated for decades Even the harmless thrill of listening to Hayden's military syymphony is reduced. Thankfully, the music problem seems to have sorted itself out But the enhanced laziness still daugs me It's a miracle that I can be bothered to write these words In that miracle, I'm embarrassed to admit It comes in the form of a lozenge shaped pill Modaphidil is a stimulant drug that increases dopamine levels without the adverse effects of classic stimulants such as amphetamine or cocaine What it does do is increase motivation and powers of concentration as reliably as Munjaro reduces food noise This one did work for Altman Mand, do you get a productivity boost, he told an interviewer Silicon Valley is aash modoodafhanl and other cognitive enhancers, it's likely that the accelerated development of artificial intelligence has been boosted by these drugs. There's no way of proving that, of course What we do know is that there's a blossopoming relationship between AI and the development of drugs which affect mood, perception, and behavior According to an article in Scientific America, researchers have used the protein structure prediction tool alpha foold to identify hundreds of thousands of potential new psychedelic molecules, which could help develop new kinds of antidepressants But why should they stop at antidepressants Let the cognitive game begin or in my case, wind down The dopamine produced by my two hundred milligram dose is fast running out It's time to drag my slim body back to the bedroom. Where there's a deliciously empty white ceiling waiting to be stared at pieces in the spectator YouK ition to the spectator they have an American edition written by Damiian Th Tombs He lost fifty fifty pounds when he went on one of the GLP ons And he said he became so lazy that he doesn't want to do anything It's not just suppressing his appetite It's suppressing his desire to do anything. I'm just throwing this out there. We're still so early in this. I mean, I don't think I heard of one of these drugs the time COVID was going around, this is all a last three to four or five years, they just run the rage. Five ten, fifteen years from now How many behavioral problems are we going to be seeing How many people are just in utter lethargy? How many people are not only lack the initiative to go and do anything, they lack the strength because they've all been on these weight loss bills that have not only shriveled their bodies, have shriveled their energy, their motivation and any sense of enthusiasm for life. I've always heard that pot increases your appetite Well, this stuff's the opposite, but it also seems to have the same long term effect It numbs your long term senses to the point you become a lazy slug who doesn't want to do a damn thing. How to another Revelation? New Orleans A lot of people think of a lot of thing when they think of New Orleans Bin Street, Bourbon Street Marti Gas The saints and the tradea. It's an interesting story that appeared in the Epoch Times over the weekend You may recall that after Katrina, The damage and the losses were so terrible and also There was this massive flight of public employees out of New Orleans A lot of the police officers, firefighters and other government service workers, they just left rather than they knew that this would be a hell of a job to rebuild everything. They just got out of there. They bugged out So we dumped a lot of aid into New Orleans. This is during the Bush administration And one of the positive things that they did when they dumped the Aen is they created an incentive to the New Orleans school system to shift of charter schools New Orleans is the only major city in the country in which the school system does not run the public schools There are no school schools in New Orleans at all run by any public school system All of the schools in New Orleans public schools are charter schools People sometimes confuse charter schools and private schools Private school is just that run by private organization A charartered school is a public school. in which some government entity be a mayor's office, a county executive office It can it can be a university They issue a charter to operate the public school That school then gets. public financing. But it is it run by a school district. In most cities there's a school district and then there's charter schools off to the side. New Orleans is the rare do you know about this Jason and I mean, I admit I didn't know that this is one of those stories that when all the stuff about Katrina came in You know, there were some positive change, you know, we heard about the enterprise zones and the rebuilding that came in money that they created to do all the rebuilding New Orleans, heard about all that stuff. We also heard that there was a lot of fraud associated with it And I kind of recall that they did reforms in education, which were the kind that we conservatives wanted But I guess I'd forgotten about that. And the one I think the reason why I forgotten about it is This has worked. If this didn't work, the media would be going on and on and on about it. Anyway So they have in New Orleans Charter schools right and left manyany run by different entities There's also private schools as there're always where, but there are charter schools there are just no. schoolchool district run. Public schools What do you think has happened The test scores have exploded upward If you know where test scs are going up? nowhere. Let me quote from the story In the nineteen nineties New Orleans schools provided little respite from the lockdowns, the arrests, the drug use, and the violence seen in heard at home, Oscar Brown recalls Brown grew up in what was then among the poorest, most densely populated public housing projects in the nation Most of its teenagers attended one crd at high school, George Washingt att Carver The teachers cared about us At us and did the best they could, Brown told the Epoch Times, but There was always a whole lot of disruptions. The teachers didn't get enough time to educate us Life skills, survival were always more important. Fast forward two decades past one of the most catastrophic weather events in U. S. history And Brown Sn earned an associate's degree at the Rebuild High School on the very same lot in the ninth ward in twenty twenty That was even before He was handled his handed his high school diploma Brown's daught a rising senior at the school He is on track to complete a nursingert certification. that both qualifies her for a good paying job immediately after graduation. and helps contribute to a four year college program. So this guy and again, you might see it's aberrational of this guy. He's got a kid that's got an associate degree from college before he graduated from high school because he was taking the accelerated learning classes. and his daughter is graduating from high school with a nursing certificate Continuing. It's a clear night and day difference, Brown said Schools here really dive into education now They're not just there to be your mom or your dad The twenty twenty five twenty six accademic year marked the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in unison with the city's physical recovery that began after the two thousand five disaster The city's K through twelve learning institutions experience a sea change of their own becoming the first all charter system in the nation and potentially a model for others to follow The most recent public education scorecard Released by researchers from Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth on may thirteenth, indicates that the Nola, that's New Orleans, Louisiana, the Nola public schoolchools consistently ranked in the ninety ninth national percentile for reading. growth between twenty, twenty two and twenty five and the ninety eighth percentile for math during the same period. This is one of those where one hundred is the peak. That's the highest performing and one or zero would be the lowest in terms of percento So the New Orleans schools in the improvement between twenty two and twenty five We're in the ninety ninth and the ninety eighth percentile in terms of growth Now twenty between twenty two and twenty eight five is the peri of the recovery from. a hellish reaction to COVID So New Orleans' kids are actually improving this to during this period and at a rate faster than almost any other schools in the country And again, what's extraordinary about this is New Orleans is an urban area We all know that across the country urban school districts, Milwaukee, Chicago, they stink. And there's a zillion Reasons wward Well, these are the schools now the public charter schools in New Orleans that are seeing that have seen this improvements since COVID, back to the pieace Louisiana is the only state to surpass pre COVID nineteen pandemic performance levels in both subjects according to the report The story goes on You can do a search for it if you want to read it This is a revelation So in New Orleans, they gut all of the schools run by the school district And they've got a zillion different charter schools and what's happened? Education has improved and the kids are thriving This is not a surprise to me If you've been a long time listener of me, I have said, my solution to the problem with education He's to blow it all up. It'll never happen in a place like Wisconsin for political reasons I would Get rid of public schools. I've said this many times. Bandon them. No more public school districts will exist sayay anywhere in the state of Wisconsin Instead, You would have private schools in which parents would get vouchers to pick the school of their choice and charter schools, which are govern which are government schools funded by government but not operated by a school distr. And kids could then go to the schools of their choice And I just I'm convinced that if you had competition where every kid was going to a school in the way only way that the schools were able to hire more money and get more staff and all of that stuff is by doing a better job on education, you'd have much better education that's occurring right now public schools where nobody gets in any trouble when the schools suck When the schools are bad, they just go to the taxpayers and ask for more money. where the test scores have been declining for forty years. The quality of teacher has gets more ratten by the year. The education becomes more ideologizing the teaching. And again, you could operate a charter school that does the same crap that say w what Tos' crappy schools do spend all this time on gender indoctrination and telling everybody that white males are the worst thing in the world in the meantime, not teaching kids how to add or read or anything like that. You could run a charter school and the lefties want to send their stupid kids to that stupid school and watch them languish and be dumber but become liberals They can do it But the parents who want their kids to actually get somewhere and want actual education can go to the others. Now the reason it would never happen is these schools are, of course. heavily staffed by people and they lobby and they have votes of Democratic legislators. to lean to. What happened in New Orleans is everything blew up the schools were underwater, the employees had left And they needed government aid. and in this case, it was one of the great things Bush did. He attached these strings to it, in which the incentive was to create charter schools. And I'm sure at the time down there, the left all said, oh, this is terrible. We need to rebuild the public school system Don't do all these charters, just as you hear people public education institutions now railing against private schools and railing against school choice. They're not afraid of them because these institutions' bad. They're afraid of them because they're better Everybody's afraid of competition that's better As we look at this, the lemb of what to do about An education system that gets worse every year We know the answer. Leffties only support solutions in which they can make money They don't have a stranglehold on charter schools and private schools, but they do have a stranglehold on public schools So they only want the money going there Why did Leies embrace the climate change issue? Because we have spent billions and billions and billions of dollars to leftfty institutions to address climate change There was money in it The same thing happened with COVID Biden's huge American Recovery Act in which we carpet bomb the country with money The lefties all love that. They needed to hype what the COVID crisis was to provide an excuse to hand out all of this money, almost all of which went to them Kev And we come back in a moment just There are just some stories that strike one as interesting In this case, I've got a guide that I'm going to tell you about in a moment who has a fascinating connection to somebody locally here in the Milwaukee area and that connection. speaks volumes about how screwed up the left has gotten, not only in our area, but in our country. We'll do that a moment. You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast Charisma Customs in Delafield, their sponsor. They're also where I took my car. They do a lot of things to make your car look really good and stand up to all that we have to put up with on Wisconsin Roads. The package I took included ceramic coating, which makes the vehicle look really good. paint protection for all of the chips and stuff that comes off of our roads package and a tint job that adds to a little bit of privacy and security. They handle all sorts of cars there from regular old family drivers to exotic spectacular cars. Anybody who wants to protect their car like I do or make it look really good Like I do, check out Charisma Customs in Dellafield. They're right off the freeway, that's Charisma Customs in Dellafield This is the Mark Belling podcast Everybody in Milwaukee knowows the name Hordn. because we named a bridge after it The fununny thing is the lefties kind of want to tear that bridge down, even though it's named after a socialist. Daniel Hoen was a longtime mayor of Milwaukee socialist a period from about nineteen twenty to nineteen sixty, the Milwaukee' mayors were either socialists or Democrats. There are Republicans in Milwaukee, but like now they were in the minority. The battle was between the socialists and the Democrats and the socialists would often win In Milwaukee they were nicknamed sewer socialists They believed in providing high level of quality of life, build sewers, etcetera. And Daniel Hne is one of them Now The socialists are back And they're trying to take over the Democratic Party and socialism which got a bad name because It doesn't work back in the Democrats and you have local Democrats in Milwaukee that are self described socialists saying they consider themselves new Daniel Honnes And they throw his name around There's an interestic piece that appeared in JS Online It's written by a guy that I've met a couple of times. You might not even remember this years ago Daniel Steininger Staninger's been a guy that's been, he's been around the scene forever an an insurance company has been involved in loocal causes in activity for a long long time From what I can tell of his politics, I won't say he's an out and all conservative, but he's not a leftist He's also Daniel Hon' grandson He's written a piece And I'm telling you that the Sunday paper always has these think piece think think pieces, you know new is where you know supposed intellectuals write these things about the problems of the day. They're always crap. It's always lefties with stupid solutions. always, always, always. This is the first one I think I've read that they put in this Sunday thing in ten years that's any good And it's really good. The headline is, I knew Daniel Hones Todays sewer socialists don't carry his mantle. I've worried this This is Daniel Stanninger As the grandson of a mayor who was a sewer socialist You might think I'm elated over the emergence of a new crop of leaders seemingly carrying forward the tradition honest and effective government that started here in Milwaukee. Alderman state lawmakers and candidates for governor to the mayayor of New York City. term from the past century suddenly has new currency as many seek to return to a time when government was more responsible to the everyday concerns of its residents That's an admirable goal Considering my grandfather Daniel Hone, was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in nineteen thirty six with the magazine proclaiming him as the mayor of the best run city in America He was one of three socialist mayors of Milwaukee serving from nineteen sixteen to nineteen forty. foollowed by Frank Zeidler. Who was the last socialist to hold the post when he left office in nineteen sixty Milwaukee led the country In so many categories, it's hard to list them but they include low crime, affordable housing, outstanding public health A new sewer system that was ahead of its time excellent schools and much more importantly, year after year of balanced budgets. Fiscal frugality offers the starkest contract between self proclaimed social sewer socialists versus Real ones. In other words, Hoone is saying that the so called seer socialists of the past We're fiscally responsible Kenny Pinchers as opposed to what we have right now. and he's going to he's claiming that the current ones are frauds. Back to the piece One alderman who leads the charge is Alex Brower who has publicly claimed to be carrying the mantle in the Daniel Hoone tradition Since I grew up with my grandfather, Daniel Hon. and was given his first name, I love. She's going to melt this sandage. She's going to mlt this for all all these with. I'm not only Daniel Hohn's grandson, I'm named after him So I'm here to tell you what he really thought I wrote Ber during his campaign to tell him borrowing a line from a presidential debate I knew Dan Hon, Alex You are no Dan home Remember who said that that line with that line was the takeo offff on? Do you remember that You do not. I really wanted to know that one, didn't you tell How was Vice presidential debate between Loyd Benson And Dan Quail In nineteen eighty eight when George Bush, the first George Bush picked quail to be his running, maybe he was Senator from Indiana, Lloyd Menson was the old Bll., Senator from Texas Democrat. And Quail was trying to pass himself off as qualified by S say he was about the same age John F. Knedy and John. Kennedy ran for president. and that's when, you know, Benson knew that's what he' be saying because Qule been using that line forever. Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. Kennedy was a friend of mine Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy It was admittedly a great line that Venson pulled off fortunately. us Benson's running mate was theidget Michael Ducoac has who got his clock cleaned by busushion. push and qu one on any the way back to the pie This is not just a clever phrase, but represents a total misunderstanding of what socialism was in its headays It's important to contrast what's happening today with the real reason socialists were successful in the last century current crop are heading in the wrong direction and will not solve the major issues confronting our city Here are just a few of the differences. Today's sewer socialists can't be called fiscally disciplined First and foremost, Hone believed in a balanced budget You you imagine you're at AOC call it for a balance budget Real estate taxes were moderate so that citizens could afford them. We have some of the reusable strings that he kept in his tool room the summer home in Eagle River Many of the current Alderman do not seem to know that legacy. And consequently, in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five, Taxes have been increasing with some homeer owners experiencing double digit increases That's despite the fact that the city now also bills separately for water and sewer treatment, and those charges are also increasing, too The key to a well run city is keeping crime under control Crime was never a serious issue during the Socialist era Today, despite the mayor's best efforts, it remains a serious problem Let's forget about the murder rate, which ebbs and flows. It's hard to find someone who doesn't know a friend who hasn't had either their car stolen or personal property taken sometimes at gunpoint Yet many of these aldermmen want to focus on reducing police funding or reallocating it to such vague solutions as neighborhood services and use programs That's not to say that those aren't important But criminals are not stupid. Without a rigorous attempt to enforce the laws, crime increases. So the point that he's making here is that when these socialists ran Milwaukee They heavily funded the police department and they knew that law and order was critical to a well run city, a well run socialist city three Horn supporters labor Horn supported labor. but was not beholden to unions There's no question Let me interject here. If you know the history of the nineteen hundreds, there was this huge push poll in between the Labor movement, And the communists. The unions were very anti communists adamantly anti communist. while the communists said that they were out for the working man. The labor unions thought that that was crap The labor unions wanted to get their workers highly paid, but in a for profit system And there was a hatred between the two And the point here that Saninger is making is The socialists of the last century, the nineteen hundreds, They weren't tied to the labor unions, B back to the peace, he writes. There's no question that Hone was a friend of the laboring class. He famously snubbed the visiting king of Belgium refusing to meet with him and was quoted in the New York Times as saying I mean no disrespect to the king, but I say the hell with kings. I'm for the working man He was also a strong proponent of fair wages for the work for the work the city employees perform. But he did not align himself with the unions. There's no question that unions are an important part of American history and an equally important contributor to the growth of the middle class But the socialist mayors did not see it as their role to tip the scales for one side of the other. In fact, my grandfather despite his fiery socialist rhetoric, often told me the quote The capitalists appreciated his leadership because he provided them with clean government. Great education for citizens, functioning public service, and fiscal discipline and four Ser socialists were innovators. In addition, Hohen supported innovative efforts to improve the quality of life for citizens pioneered the use of Malorganite, the fertilizer made from human waste that is that is still sold in the private market today and produced by the Milwaukee Seewerage District By contrast, today's common council with withdruid support for the mayayor's innovation office and refused to fund additional staffing This is a tragedy because we all live in a world experiencing almost daily innovations that have improved our health and longevity The current socialists are firmly entrenched in the belief that capitalists are exploiting Americans This is preposterous on its face The only way a companany can succeed is to deliver quality services or products to customers at prices they can afford The home foundation which I help oversee to honor my grandfather's legacy is currently funding pilots in cooperation with the city government to drive innovation and cut costs So there's more money to pay city employees And Kan Steinger says there's going to be more to his series You can find that at JS onnline if you're a subscriber. centag your men around town. grandson of Daniel Hon prominent socialist mayor of Milwaukee in the late nineteen hundreds He says these socialists today They' not wouldood H grandfather was This story, I'm going to tie in because it rings true I receivive this from a listiter He hangs around in Lake Park Lake Park is a jewel of Milwaukee It's a really long park north and south And it runs along Lake Michigan. Much of it is kind of on a cliff bluff in which you're elevated above the water There's like, For whatever reason, it's become a place where People play Pokemon I do not understand the interest. I mean, you're now reading these stories about professional athletes obsessed with Pokemon This is one of those things that there's very little upside to being old. But in my opinion, one of the upsides is I was too old to understand what Pokemon is and never get invved. I just can't fathom why anyone would find this interesting Do you know anything about it You you know that they've at least played it. so you know, something anyway Lake Park. that's one of the things that it's known for But otherwise, it's this beautiful park on the west side of the drive it's usually it runs al long lake drive. On the west side of the street, there are these beautiful houses Where Lake Park is, the houses stop and you just have this kind of urban park Well, this guy's bitching about what's going on Lake Park. Lake Park is part of the Milwaukee County Park system meeting County Eecutive David Crowley is ultimately in chargement Hi, Mark. I rarely miss listening to your radio show over thirty plus years and now catch all of your podcasts. You bolsted by conservative beliefs more than anyone seem I've always explained that people saidnd me something Sucking up It doesn't always work. It never hurts I'll often make fun of somebody for sucking up, but This is better than you bigig bothoth. You're so boring but I thought I'd tell you this Do you thanigers I enjoy birding at Lake Park frequently See now, to me, I don't do that either. I don't bird. Bird is like bird watching I would think though, if I had to do Pokemon or birding, I think I would find birding more interesting. I think it'd be modestly it moderately interesting have binoculars in Okay, here's like some Qill, Blue J, or whatever the hell they all are. Wouldn'tn if you had to do one of the two, wouldn't you rather little watch birds out there than run around looking for these cards Anyway, this guy birds in Lake Park There is much in disrepair in the park. many issues. A wooden bridge in the south ravine by the lighthouse has been broken down for three years The new bridge by the Bistro was closed three years before reopening and it is still not completed Brush and timber piles are everywhere Work progresses at a snail's pace David Crowley can't manage this prominent park Yet he thinks he can govern Wisconsin The guy signs it I won't read his name This ties into Steining' piece about Daniel Hol The Lfties that run Milwaukee and Lfties everywhere They demand to spend money on this side of the other thing, but they can never run the stuff we already have Let's just throw way more money into the schools. Let's create a sales tax. In the meantime, you have this park here and most of what this guy' describing, it doesn't seem to me like billion dollar work Pick up the timber, pick up the shrubs, finish the bridge A lot of people are pushing Crowley as the reasonable Democrat candidate for governor They're trying to find an alternative to the commommi Francesca Hang who right now is the front rununter And they're pushing Crowley pretty hard because they think Crowley might have a chance of winning saying, all right, I run Milwaukee Cy Milwaue County is doing pretty good, etcera The thing about being a county executive is usually county executives in any county are popular And mayors are often unpopular becausecause the counties always run the stuff people like I mean, mayors have to run the parts of a city that are, you know, the police, the fire, the street plowing. It's controversial stuff What a counties run? The zoos Parks. The airport ussually things that not only are not controversial but that everybody likes Well, Milwaukee County, those are the things that Crowley is in charge of I can't speak to all of the parks because I'll admit I don't go hang out at the parks. and I don't go hang out in Lake Parks If I'm going be in Lake Park, it's probably because I'm going to the resturant it's in there But I've heard this complaint for some time And the question that the guy asks is a good one If Crowley thinks he could run the state of Wisconsin Why can't he do a better job around run the damn perark that he has I get Some of the things that the county has to oversee All right, Hsle The county also has the lakefront. The lakefront is considered a park. It's under the control most of it of Milwaukee County And there's always this controlling the crowds, getting people to leave. It's a shheriff's deepartment responsibility dealing with the, you know, all the crap that goes down at the lakefront and still keeping that at the level of high quality of life Th are those problems that they have They've got the zoo, which tries to be self sustaining by taking in a lot of the revenue to run the operations But the reality is Milwaukee brag forever about all of these great county parks that we have. I don't know that all of them are as in bad a shape as this guy says that Lake Park is. But if they are What does it say about the governing of Proley And this is my point about when Lfies get in charge of anything They always want to issue these proclamations about divesting from Israel and solve the problems of the world. Lefties are terrible at doing the jobs they're elected do Terrible mayors. The streets become all pwall filled They do what our little mayor Chevy does and put in all of these little cutouts on the streets to make it impossible to drive and spend a fortune on that I'm telling you Take a drive on the south side of Milwaukee. I'm speaking here from recent experperience Try to get to Stt Luke's Hospital without taking the freeway It is shorter to shortcut You know, coming from say downtown, worm yourself over on Sth street and then go over on Lapham or one of those and then head over to Lincoln and shoot a little bit of Forest home and then go down It is shorter and it is quicker Rather than go on the freeway you got to come around and kind of do You have to kind of make a semic circle. It is shorter Those are the worst streets I've ever been on in my life I'm telling you every residential street on the south side of Milwaukee, not the main drags, not like the Oklahoma Avenues, someome of those are in bad shape too. The regular old street are falling apart Yet Milwaukee has this dumbbell diminutive mayor who's spending tens of millions of dollars to rip up all the streets downtown to put in all of this curbing rather than pat fill the potholes in the regular streets that people live in This is my knock on left It's like socialists when they run government. Theyre not only do they not only have these terrible ideas about what works and chase out business and all of that they're no good at running the things they're in charge of See, if you're a lefty may, you're aefty, you become a mayor It's boring taking care of the streets. It's boring taking care of the parks. You want to save the world C you imagine if AOC was a mayor? Do you think one piece of litter would ever get picked up So I think that challenge should be put to Crowley How can you be the governor? When the parks that you oversee in Milwaukee piece of crap and don't say your budget is overzapped. We already gave you a sales . They're constantly overspending money The parks department itself in the county is ridiculously set up Almost all year round employees. there's almost nothing for a parks employee to do in the winter. We're short of employees in the summer because they ought to be switching a lot of them to seasonal or structure the budget in which You kinda deal with the unions that They get their paay dock in winter months. You can spread it out over a twelve month basis and they overtime them in the summer, somethingomething that's flexible. Bet yet fire all of them. contract out to landscaping services and others to do this The private landscaper was in charge of the park. they would They'd be humiliated if the parks were in as crappy shape as they are with the government operate employees that run them I'm giving you a lot of today's show I do an update on Iran. But I want to focus on the most recent thing I'm just going to give you my summary of what I think is going on here I think both Iran and the United States have push pull situations of their own I'll start in the United States because I think we can all see what's going on. half the pressure on President Trump is to just get this newb thing off whatever the terms, just get the hell out of it And the other half of the pressure Damn itit, Trump You have an historic opportunity. to make the world better. et get this government beaten. let's go in there and fight a real war and finish the job and dispatch these monsters that run that country straight to the hell that they deserve to be in The second group is telling Chump, what was the point of doing all this bombing and doing all of this and softing them up? you know, wiping out all of their military if you weren't going to go in and wipe them out and put in a more reasonable government. And then the people on the other side Trump've killed off their entire military. They don't have any equipment left theirir ability to cause damage in the rest of the world is limited. You've done enough Get out of there Get the strait of Hormus reopened. Even if they resume their nuclear program, it's been set back ten or fifteen years, just be done with it and Trump who's certainly concerned about the domestic situation and gas prices and all of that I think he's got this desire to get out of it. Well at the same time Solve the long term consequence of Iran with the nukes, but there's the push pull that's going on And it's there's half of this is pushing. and you can even see within the administration itself, I think Rubio. pushing toward doing more advance is pushing toward doing less The same divide occurs within thinking members of the Republican Party, the lefties, theyre just mostly get the hell out of there and don't do anything more But there's the dual pressure on Trump But I think the thing that people don't understand is the same things' happening in Iran. When Trump keeps saying, Ohh they really want to make a deal, they really want to make a deal. And then one of these big mullas gets up there and is hell to the United States state. he will never give up And you wonder, is this not ese voices not contradict one another I think it's the same thing. The presresident of Iran has just issued a statement in the last forty eight hours asking to resign He's one of those that he has been overseeing. The economy is collapsing there citizens public services are shot He wants the war ended And he thinks if the war ends and the strait reopens, then our oil economy flows too That'll be good for us. and maybe we can somehow get some aid and deal with the fact that our country is shot But he's being outvoted by the hardline mullets that don't give a crap about anything, the people who have their extreme version of Islam that they're slaves to and all they want to do is kill everybody And there's that push going on in Iran between the people that are pragmatic. And the Stone agers who lack any pragmatism and frankly don't seem to care if the country's a hellhole. It's good enough for their living and We want to just do what we want to do, go back to having our nukes and killing Jews and doing the things that we like to do and slaughtering our own people who express Dcent. So I think those are the two things that are going on a push pull on both sides the latest development today And this is just the rd at I get that Iran's using leverage because Trump does nothing but use leverage. The United States now is not aligned with Israel. Israel would be going back to that push pull on Trump. Israel wants the Iranian government gone And they were happy that Trump was pounding them hard because they wanted to do that, but the government's not gone And Israel wants to go on. And for all of the people who claim that the United States is just that Trump is just under the The thb of Israel, which is ridiculous He's not doing what Israel wants In the meantime, Israel is using the cover of all of this to deal with another problem they have and that's Hezbollah Hezbollah is not to be confused with Hamaz. Hamas is mostly southern Hezbllah's northern. Hezbah is sitting up there in Lebanon. And they've been a terror group that's been bothering Israel forever Israel is bombing the hell out of Hezbollah in Lebanon Hezbollah is backed by Iran So Iran's now saying we're going to stop talking to the United States about the United States versus Iran and kill Israel stops bombing Hezbollah I just think I'm somebody who understands long negotiations for all the people, just, I want this to be over. I want this to be over. When I've been Do you have a contract now with IHt, Jason or you still just you do, Yes, you have a contact. How long did you see a U When I was a new guy and when I came in for the first time, I pretty much I said yes to everything. I was so happy to get a job Were you like that or do you like bargain Yes, we've got a you've got a family, two kids a third of the way and so wanted Well that's how I was initially. Then I got this huge ratings and was the most successful talk show host in America. I'm guest host take for Rush every one of them there were usually two or three year deals Every one of them took nine months Somebody say whyy is it taking so long? And I kept saying, I don't know. You it, for the perspective of dealing with our company a national management and you with local people and then it has to be, you know, I'm a big deal in the company So anything I do and you're talking a decent amount of money has to be approved by above and they think this and then I've got this issue here and this issue there and I'm not going to get into any of the dails, but obviously one of the things that I was concerned about was having not just a verbal understanding from local people because they could be fired I want it in writing protections that I can pretty much say the things that I want to say And they can't decide that They're just going to can me and not pay me because I've offended some left you standing outside with a sign. So there's things like that. This is now all completely separate from my podcast thing in which the contracts almost irrelevant Podcasting's a different thing. I do a podcast for I Heart and we split the money. It's pretty much simimple. If nobody listens to the podcast, I don't make any money and we're done So I not a the same kind of employee as I was before. But they went on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever because I was going to look out for my long term self interest. I'm in my thirties, forties, fifties and then whatever I got to now and then an ancient old man and this is my life And the company also You know, radio is contracting They want to have flexibility. they want to have control over a big mouth goof like me. Well, I never hired an agent this' nine months of this yet it's the back and forth, the back and forth. And one of the things that both sides do is they'll throw something new in there to make just drive the other side crazy. Make this demand Well you throw that demand out there so you have something to pull back in order to get the regular deal that you want it off I think that's what Iran is doing And Iran is saying, Look, Trump, we're not going to make a deal with you until you call off the dogs in Israel. I don't know that Trump can call off the dogs in Israel, just as I don't believe that Israel made the United States a Kackar rad But it's Oan just being pain in the ass difficult. but pain in the ass difficult. He's the first president that we have had that is stood up to China, stood up to Mexico, stood up to Canada. All of them roll over. None of them make themselves a pain in the ass and difficult for the rest of the world to deal with so that we can get our best deals So this is my assessment What's going on I have an update in the store A few weeks ago I shared a story about An eighteen year old from Wauckashaw County named Vaden Vergus He has two separate criminal cases going on One was bad, the other was worse The one that was bad was an incident from the year before last I got hit my n. It wass early twenty five. It was from last year It was a hit and run involving injury and causing injury whilere operating which prohibited alcohol cont cononcentration He's under twenty one, so the amount of alcohol or intoxic in any have in his system is lower then if you're twenty one or over, in addition to that, he was accused of hittit and run after causing the accident. That's one of his cases. The other case, which is still pending is extremely serious. He's accused of force sexual intercourse with a minor numerous other charges as well, secondecond degree sexual assault I enticement and numerous others, but essentially sexually assaulting with penetration. minor, it's a serious charge. That's still laying out there He agreed to a plea deal in this first case involving the hid and run while intoxicated And under the play deal, he was sentenced to And one count twelve months in jail is the House of correction? I believe in Wacasa Cy Maybe not. is' in jail and nine months on the other since he had already served Bince, he's been sitting in jail since the last arrest He was given credit for time served of about nine months. So the term basically meant he had three months left on the one charge in nine months on another. and I said, This is really lame He remains still sitting in jail because there's high bail set on that other case Vargas is involved in the serious one with the sex and so on since the same judges involved, I said on the show my take is Moss is a new judge. he ran as a conservative I'm withholding judgment category of judge he falls into in Walka Cony. It struck me that this sentence was very lame, but I said, I think it's also possible that he's looking at this in the context of the larger deal that when the next case is resolved, the sex case he' likely to get a much longer period of time And I will reserve judgment on his handling of Vaden Varkis until the second case is resolved That was my take and That's Ron Judge Moss has contacted me and pointed out But the sentences he handed down in that first case were the max under the law. I didn't know that And therefore, I'm correcting the record the maximum sentence for causing injury while operating with a prohibited alcohol concentration first offense is one year The maximum sentence for felony hit and run involving injury. is nine months I'm shocked by that And I said that to the jge I just shocked. I'm shocked that hit and run involving injury, which is a felony in Wisconsin, the maximum penalty under state statutes is nine months The key here is The injury not major. There's another category of hit and run involving major and those injuries are described as serious injuries. That's in the statute. The max for that is fifteen years So Apparently the injuries here were minor. And therefore, the charge fell into the category of hit and run causing injury a nan serious injury. So nine months was the max under the law and the judge didn't give him in that case of those two plead deals. the maximum and he said that was more than even the DA's office recommended So I think Judge Moss did everything that he could do in that circumstance. However I don't expect anything to happen with this, but I'm just telling you right now that if there are any members of the legislature that are listening to this program That statute Hit and run involving injury, non serious injury. nine month maximum That has to be changed I have said forever on this show peopleople say, we need tougher laws, tougher laws. I think in Wisconsin almost all of our laws are tough enough. We just don't have enough DAs and prosecutors that utilize those tough laws and enough judges that sentenced to the max of those laws almost never is the problem the law. The problems, people are undercharged or they are leniently sentenced when convicted of a charge. In this instance I think the max penalty for hit and run involving injury being nine months is way too lingid. That doesn't mean every case has to get a larger sentence. There may be some incident where somebody hits and runs. Bet of it a mile down the road and then stops And then there might be somebody Wh hit who was hit hitting and running drrunk They take off, they lie about it, they conceal the In other words, a more serious thing would call for a stronger level of punishment So I think the max punishment on that crime. even think the I even have the statute number needs to be raised. But as for my point about Judge Moss In fact, he did not go soft in this case. he sentenced as much of the max as he was allowed to Under the law, you're listening to the Mark Pelling podcast How much would it take for you to be wealthy and financially comfortable Schwab recently asked Americans that question. mostost said at least two million dollars You might have a different number for yourself. 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I remember people say, well, Warren Spond pitched until he was forty four and he was pitching on three and two and three days rest and he would go thirteen innings and fourteen innings all the time. Warren Spond was still around and I started paying attention to baseball when I was a little kid. And he was a great pitcher. Warren Spwn won more games than any left handed pitcher in major League baseball history I'm Kelling you. I think Warren spawns fastbow is about eighty seven miles an hour through a pretty good screw ball too Guys didn't throw the way they throw now I remember when Nolan go back to the seventies, when Nolan Ryan came around I've never seen anything like it The other one that struck me was Goose Gsage, the Riever. must stitch guuy glaring down Then he had this huge ridiculous, exaggerated windup that nobody uses anymore, glowering in there and it just looked like he was throwing flames Goose gosage I pitched minor Leagueaseball in Appleon when I was a kid up there We went to he was a starter then. He was eighteen years old and allie all he just threw harder than anybody. People go to the game just to see him throw and you would sit not behind the plate. You'd sit in the first or the third basase line because that would be an easier way to get perspective of the ball coming along when the ball iss coming at you You don't get the same sense of perception when you see a ball from the side. There's nothing like it My yes is the Gsage through ninety five And Nolan Ryan probably threw ninety seven or ninety eight, meaning he was throwing nine miles an hour faster than almost everybody else. I mean everyverybody under the cent is ninety seven or ninety eight now And some of them are throwing sliders at ninety one. You know how to throw a slider I know how to throw a slider. I just can't throw a slider It's a twist of the wrist that also if you throw a good one, you're twisting the elbow a little bit, you're doing things to your legaments tendons that the body don't allow. So this is why they're all fallen apart, so you're just giving them more time. Anyway, Mizarowski ended up with six starts in the month of May. I posted something on this on X yesterday. put up an initial post And I found that by going from the last games, which the original post was to six, the numbers were even more freakish. So I changed the post and focused on the last six games. The last six games happened to be all six he pitched in March I keep saying March in May. In the months of May, Mizarowski made six starts He has an ERA in May of zero point two three That's almost better than if it was zero point zero I mean, by being zero point two three, nobody's even heard of an ERA like that zero point two three He pitched thirty eight in the third innings In those thirty eight and third innings, he struck out fifty seven Now that's impressive enough Relievers will often have more strikeouts than innings that they're striking out more than one per inning It's hard for a starter to do that because starters have to pace themselves. That's why a lot of the guys you see that are real flamethrowers are one inning relievers. The thing that's so extraordinary about Mizerowski is he's doing this for five, six or seven innings So he strke out fifty seven and thirty eight to thirty innings. That's an average one and a half strikeouts innings evenven more impressive You know how many walks he had? Six That's a, an average of one per start His walk to strikeout ratio is right around only eleven percent. When Mizerosski came up last year The one downside he had is he had some controwl issues, not just wildness He often wouldn't hit a spot So even when you're throwing one hundred and two, if it's right down the middle, the batter has a better chance Th if you're hit throwing one right at the knees or right at the letters are hitting the corner His control this year has gotten phenomenal in addition to his incredible speed So okay, thirty eight to third innings, fifty seven strikeouts and six walks In those thirty eight and the third innings over six games, he is allowed fourteen hits It's barely more than two a game I mean, all you need is one kind of off game where you give up six and you'd be doubling the number of hit cities giveiv it up That ERA of zero point two three That's because in six starts in May, he gave up one run record of five oz I think This has to be one of the greatest pitching months in the history of major League baseball I didn't say the greatest It's gott to be one of the greatest. And by the standards of today, the era that we're in, this is another year of the pitcher in baseball. There are a lot of pitchers that are phenomenal right now. The reason for it simply is These pictures are throwing harder than they ever have. This is just a new thing. I don't know if baseball iss going to have to address it or not. and there's a lot of things that they could do address it. So pitching' quite dominant. in fact, as amazing as it is Mizerowski does not have the best stats brew' starting rotation Kyle Harrison who is pitching Tuesday night has an even lower ERA than Mizarski does. The difference between the two is that Mizarowski is just so phys visually dominating. alsoso Mizerski had a couple of starts where he got dinged up for three or four runs in an inning. So as season long starts. he's got that ERA down to one point six five, but it took a zero point two three in May in order to pull it off. I won't say it's the best month ever I don't know who holds the record for most scoreless innings in a row, but I know who held it for the longest time Jason's younger than me, but he's a sports fan. You know the name Don Dryesdill You say, of course. I mean, that's Paul always said, of course, but I never knew what he knew and he didn't know. Don Rsle was in his right in my wheelhouse. When I was a kid, this is when the braves were gone and the brewerers weren't here yet My favorite team was the White Sox I think I was just rebellious because everybody in my family's favorite team was the Cubs You know, the braves are gos. You take the team that's closed enough to you w You know, the White Sox farm team was in Appleton, which is near where we were And I just gravitated toward the white sox My grandmother loved the cubs They all love the cubs. Even then I knew enough not to do that Well I will say that the upside to the cubs in my grandmother having them on the radio or the TV the cubs are on TV only once a week when you lived up there. the radio games on WGD every day. The cubs in O Susan in that era were unbelievably good I mean, the radio was done by Vince Lloyd and Lou Budrod I was one of the greatest radio teams that I've ever heard and the TV was Jack Brkos, who's just an icon, biggest homer of all time, but unbelievably talented. So at least having to watch and listen to all of those games, I heard good announcing. Anyway, okay, the White sox are my team. so I needed to have somebody to cheer for on the national League because I'm a kid and I was sports crazy and the Dodgers are my team It was rarely that I have a front runner like the doodge just but they were my teeth And they had this incredible pitching. Sandy Colfax was the ace and Don Dryvesdle was the number two And Kofax is one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game, so he overshadowed Drysdale, but not by much Don dries the out Don't know if it still stands, but he had the set the record for more scoreless innings in a row, which is fifty six and a third And he's a thirer and he usually went nine so that meant esssentially six games in a row of pitching an nine and shut out And then he finally got dinged in the seventh. that might not exactly have worked out like that I do remember The night that he set the record to pass whatever it was was the same night that Bobby Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles. And I just remember that the bun story was occurring and they were reporting that in the backgp. But you could look that up Anyway, Don Desdle, fifty six in the third inning. So I don't know if that was all precisely in one month. So there are probably a couple of pitchers that have over history over time, may have even had a scoreless month as a starting pitcher. but hard to do much better Th Mizarowsky has done, the concern that you have with him is just and it's everybody's concerned. it's the obvious one. Guys that are as hard as he does usually they get hurt I've heard conflicting theories as to whether or not how skinny he is will help him or not Some of the guys who threw really hard who had longevity like Roger Clemens We were just thick and Cleens was thick because he was pounding steroids down. he's one of the bigger frauds of all time And he never really had significant arm problems On the other hand Mizarowski physically resembles Randy Johnson more than any picture I can think of. Randy Johnson was even taller And Just as skinny and Randy Johnson rarely had arm prouble Nolan Ryan rarely had arm trouble So those are hard throwers who manage to avoid it Also Mizerowski doesn't throw his slider that much. Sliders, I think are what rip up their arms. We can only hope that he remains healthy, but right now It's, you know, a lot of people think it's boring to see a pitchure just go out there and strike guys out and you don't see any scoring What is boring if you're the team that's not scoring, but it's just got to be was not at the game yesterday. It has to be well you know, they're on the road yesterday. But in the home games that they've had, it's just got to be exhilarating to see him go out there and You know, they have the thing The mile per hour ges that they show for the pitches at the brewer stadium. O is on the main center field scoreboard and there's another one that are there's another ones that are down the lines. And just every pitch is in triple digits at one hundred two, one hundred three What is he throwing like the forty seven fastest pitches of all the year or something or another? Ifs something along those lines So it's really exciting to be part of it and See what he's pulling off but the numbers are enomen Brewers start a series. They've had a really rough schedule and they' done very, very well on it And I' playing this week San Francisco, which is just It's one of those franchises that's done everything wrong and I like to point out when I was right about something. I I was pounding the table that the brewers should not sign Williie Damas when he at thirty to a long term contract. I said he was about as bad a risk as anybody that I could imagine But I just Willie Adamas is a fun loving guy He's the last guy in the world that I want to see with eighteen million dollars a year. And he's just been a bust out there. know He's still hitting a few home runs, but his batting average is terrible He's slowing down a little bit