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Mark Belling Podcast is presented by youLine. For quality shipping and industrial supplies, youLine has everything in stock. visit youLine. com. The Mark Belling podcast is a production of IiHart Radio podcasts This is the thirty seventh year I've been doing a radio talk show or a podcast in Milwaukee. And it's been a conservative show podcast for all of those thirty seven years And over the years, you get a lot of questions And in particular, you get some questions over and over and over again. This one is on my top five Over the years, I've asked this all the time By the way, less so the last ten years, but really a lot prior to that The question was In various versions, with all of these media companies being ownwned by conservatives and With the clear evidence lefteftist bias news organizations Don't draw great ratings B big readership and so on Why don't these conservative owners just getet rid of the leftist spias I'm asked that all the time. Why in other words, do market market forces not work They're working everything else If a company iss doing something one way and They're gonna make a lot more money and sell a lot more products if they do it another way. They do it the other way And the answer that I've always given is It's because almost everyone who works in that field is a leftist tryrying to get the leftist bias out of a news organization You have no news organization left Secondly, you get incredible blowback and after a certain point, these ownerships just shrug their shoulders and put up with it We've got a case study of this that we're going to open the program with in a moment When it comes to shipping, packaging, industrial supplies, and equipment, many suppliers offer endless aisles of product. 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And He has the advantage of being Very, very, very rich He could ride it out He got rid of the top management at CBS News and hired Barry Weiss to run the organization. Barry Weiss is a former columnist for the New York Times It's kind of a moderate to leftist but One of the few journalists who actually believes in objectivity and fairness She left the New York Times after objecting to How the New York Times said You know, the great journalistic tradition of the New York Times was just scrapped by becoming this house organ for leftism covering stories that clearly turned out to be lies, Russia, collusion, all of them She went off to form her own news organization and made a lot of money running free press and That's who David Ellison picked to try to write the ship It's CBS News The first thing that she did is she dumped the people who ran the CBS evening newews and tried to put in a more moderate anchor there And now sixty minutes Sty minutes is the biggest thing CVS News does way bigger than their evening newscast and sixty minutes which in its heyday was a great news organization may have been biased But they broke lots of stories, they did innovative treatments of things. And often what they did is they did a story in which They were sort of the contrarian. they would expose the opposite side of what you might have felt was going on and In many instances stories that maybe liberals wouldn't like. I'm talking the old Mike Wallace, Morally saafer sort of at Bradley days But lately sixty minutes has become The worst of the worst. They're obsessed with Trump. It's one anti Trump story after another after another, after another often rather than showing the kind of skepticism that sixixty Minutes was known for buying into and pushing these narratives that just turned out to be completely false Russia collus it among them The reason, of course, they've been doing this is that the sixty minutes has gotten to be so big and so powerful and such a money maker for CBS The people in there think their bleep doesn't smell, they figure they can just get away with it And they're doing what they want to do rununning a leftist news organization put too Biasories. Problem, of course is They're drawing good ratings in the universe of the minuscule ratings that network television now gets. David Ellison thinks that this is destroying the reputation of the whole news organization. In his mind, CBS newews is as bad as ABC newews, which is as bad as NBC news Argument is the witch is the worst very wise rununning CBS News is in charge now of sixty minutes There was a story that one of their reporters, Sheron Alfonso and her producers did and what's going on in Elalvador the conclusion that Barry Weiss reached What was is that it was completely biased and one sided and she spiked the sword. By the way, in the media, this happens all the time, for better and for worse. famamous example twenty years ago, now, twelve, fourteen years NBC actually had the scoop on Harvey Weinstein NBC Ronan Farrell said of , a pharao Bro had the information, he had it down And NBC killed the story evidently because of Weinstein's incredible cloud So they ended up running the story elsewhere Obviously, the story shouldn't have been spiked, but it's an indication that stories get spiked all the time. In addition to that, there are legitimate reasons stories are spiked. Sometimes editors just think You don't have the store. You don't have enough basis for the allegations that you read pike stories of my own all the time, I just don't feel comfortable with it So this again happens all the time In this instance, however, the sixty minutes people felt, well the story is not the story makes the Trump administration look bad. That's why they killed the story And in fact, the Trump people were objecting to the story when it was in the works feeling that the story was completely biased Very waste said, the story' not balanced. You don't have the other side in So she spiked the story Again, this happens in news organizations and it happens in companies all the time. There are all sorts of someomebody works for a company and they want to do something and the bosses say no, right or wrong Of course, you can't tell a leftist. they can't run a story that Trump doesn't like. So there's this complete blow up from these people who are the employees objecting to the manageer of the company That passes time goes on. Barry Weiss decides that she needs to get control of sixty minutes and that means she needs to get rid of the hacks that were running the program the executive producer She puts in place time journalist who worked for a big leftist news organization But he had a reputation of being fair over there. He came from Vanity Fair, Nick Billingon And she puts him in charge of sixty minutes and the staff is in a revolt. because they're so fearful that Blletin's not going to let them do the kinds of stories they want to do, leftftist hack pieces Now they said, who, you're getting in the way of journalistic integrity. There isn't any journalistic integrity. When you hear leftist journalists talk about journalist integrity is they their ability to do whatever the hell they want no matter how inaccurate, misleading, or biased So there's a big blow up and they have a staff meeting Kelly Berno I mean Nobody who works knows who works for these news organizations. Nobody knows who they are anymore. however, you might know Pelly because he's been around forever for a while. He was the anchor of the CBS evening newews ase you could just There are certain you can breed people wrong on the basis of their appearance or the way they carry themselves. I mean, you can't. sometometimes I'm wrong Sometimes I'm shocked when I look at somebody and I think, this is this a complete lefty and they turn out to be more conservative than me. You can be wrong I'm almost convinced I'm not wrong about Scott Pelly He's a blowed ride arrogant sanctimonious lefteftist dink. That's just how it struck me as carrying himself. He's one of these guys. he will never in his life have one hair that's out of place He erases a stink in this meeting and insults Billeton, the new head of CBS and goes public with it, leaks all of the stuff and he's just out of control Berry waste fares him And now sixty minutes is in turmil. This is why It is so hard to get rid of leftist bias in news organizations. If you try to do it, you get a revolt from all of the people who are there It's very, very hard then to write these ships because if you get rid of all the biased leftist reporters, there's no reporters left As I said many years ago, FoX hired a ball. Every reporter who was presentable and talented at the field Fx hire that wasn't leftist bias journalist. Fox hired them all up so there no there' nobody left This will be interesting to see how it plays out Y Ellison sticks to his guns and that means two years of this they'll end up with a better product and I think There will be some recovery for CBS newews. I've said forever that there is a market out there for a news organization that isn't right Is it left but actually it covers the news the way the news is it used to be covered all the time Fair, aggressive You know, as I say, Barry Weiss who runs CBS and, she's not a conservative. She's actually a liberal. She's also somebody though that is a more moderate liberal and believes in journalistic integrity J. Weber Al alsoso does a podcast right here and conveniently releases his podcast on the days that I don't release mine Do you think that there's like coordination in that Proably Well there is Wors out for both of those. Anyway, who is the long time morning host at WIS and Radio Wires, the long time afternoon host? Jay Weber has nailed this put out a post on X and I believe he commented his podcast that Kelly is at old Fart who is looking to retire And rather than just retire He goes out in a blaze of glory so he can be a hero to all of the other left wing journalists. And then now go out there and make the media tour, write the book, be interviewed at MSNB, say, be interviewed on CNN Go out there and start a leftist podcast, get hired by some leftist thing tank to front something or another and so on He's looking for an exit strategy. So what he does is He creates this whole blow up to force them to fire him so he can now go out as this fake martyr Next story I mentioned the hearing that was held yesterday in Washington by Senator Ron Johnson who's attempting to draw attention to The growing evidence from many medical experts of the massive problems that people are facing if they were vaccinated with the COVID nineteen vaccines. The one that's been widely known and is now grudgingly acknowledged by the healthcare establishment is Lots of heart problems Serious problems being myocarditis and pericarditis also more common. It's quite as serious, but still a serious condition Iirregularities, irregular heartbeat, fast heartbeat, AFib, etcetera That's been rather widely known and it's now even out there and accepted in the medical community. It's not talked about a lot by the news media because it would mean that they would have to acknowledge that there was a downside of these vaccines The medical establishment still says but the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh the chance that you'd be one of the few that got this side effects. Whatever. We found, however, that the side effect tends occur most in younger, healthier people because piping up their immune systems thre everything else out of whack. The COVID vaccine seems to have created fewer problems with the frail and elderly becausecause their immune systems are weak in the first place, but for those who already had vigorous immune systems, Putting them on almost literally steroids is what's created this negative response. and pathetically Those were the people who least needed the COVID vaccine. I think to me now the evidence is overwhelming that unless you're one of those people that just had a lot of other preexisting conditions, weight, heart problems et cetera that if you're under the age of fifty, you were far better off not getting the COVID vaccine. fifty to seventy fififty, fifty, maybe Seven year over, I think that the evidence is pretty clear that the COVID vaccine was a good bed But we're not going to know that for sure, as I've said all along until twenty years after all of this came down. In the meantime, Ron Johnson is trying to draw attention to to the fact that we're now The vaccine has now been out for five years and people have been getting the boosters and all of that in the interim. problems that are developing with some people. Now the clear thing most people aren't getting these things, but some of them are But nobody wants to focus on it. And Johnson, when in isitiue to the heart issue, Johnson has brought in several medical experts. These are MDs, people who have done research, some of it published, peer reviewed. But just For the media Because the media for whatever reason has decided to get in the sack with COVID and Moderna and Johnson and Jhnson. in particular, I say COVID Pfizer. And Moderna And to some extent, Johnson to Johnson Jonson and Johnson's vaccine was not an MRNA vaccine The Pfizer and Modernna ones were And this whole thing in which the media and the drug companies have just developed this Almost sexual relationship is so bizarre to me because the media used to challenge the big, big pharma Let me quote from the report, The Epoch Times is one of the few journalistic news organizations that's willing to go after some of these sacred cows and for many in the media because they portrayed anyone who tried to draw any attention to the downsides of COVID as a quack, they just don't want to cover these stories because it would mean they would have to admit that they were wrong Let me quote from the story. Dct. Angus Dalgish, professor emmeritus of oncology at the University of London, told a hearing in Washington that he witnessed patients unexpectedly develop cancer receiving COVID nineteen vaccines built with MRNA technology I have no doubt in my mind that the MRNA vaccine likely played a significant role in the development of these unexpected cancers D Wafik Elderi, director of Brown University's Lyoretic Cancer Center said during the hearing that he has found the spike protein found in both COVID nineteen and COVID nineteen vaccination. could reduce the ability to activate genes involved in suppressing cancer Now, interesterestingly, these people opened mind and he's saying the spike protein, that's one of the things that happens when you get COVID Also, it's in the vaccine, it's an attempt to mimic the spike protein from actual COVID in an attempt to get your body to develop the immune system to fight it off. He said that that spike protein, both in the vaccine and in COpID itself seems to reduce the ability of the genes that we have that fight off cancer. Elderi and a colleague in a January paper, by the way, peer reviewed, listed dozens of publications describing different types of cancer appearing shortly after COVID nineteen vaccination or infection Several months after they told a Federal vaccine commommittee that safety issues with the vaccine could include cancer with cancer mechanisms being one of the areas that needed further explanation The committee advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to scale back recommendations for COVID nineteen vaccination The CDC did so, but that update was blocked in March by a federal judge, an appeal is pending. Now let me interject The CDC now part of Tromp administration backed off on some of the guidanceces, you know, on the COVID vaccine, and a federal court is telling them they can't do that You see the insanity of this and it's well, the CDC iss not legitimate anymore because it's Trump and RFK at all So now the growing evidence is in the CDC in Bet Hands is try, they're not saying don't get the vaccine. They're just saying it may not be optimal in certain instances for certain people. And a judge is like blocking them from issuing that right a judge Looking at the totality of up to date evidence and what you've heard from eminent witnesses today and in my view, millions of Americans and millions more across the world may be in clear and present danger of suffering premature cardiovascular disease and cancer Dasim Malahhortra A British cardiologist said during the hearing on Wednesday, Senator Ron Johnson, Wisconsin, heroic The Chairman of the Senate Permanent Committee is P permanent sububcommittee on invvestigations hosted the hearings. Johns said, a frequent critic of Hope COVID nineteen vaccinees said it was important not to wait for definitive proof to warn the public about possible dangers associated with the vaccine There is just paranoia. about learning the truth about these vaccines. And I'm going also suggest there's been of paranoia from the anti vacaxcers as well. They don't want to hear anything that the vaccines might have helped And the people oppose, they don't want to hear anything that the vaccines might have backfired. Everybody is just hell bent on being proven correct rather than as I've been argued for, just go into this with unbiased eyes and try to learn and follow the evidence. We do it with everything else in healthcare Remember, it was the scientific community that invented trans fats because they thought they were healthy Well we found out that was a disaster, but nobody's really resistant to that information. Okay, we found out it was a disaster Don't eat transfants anymore It's not the end of the world to take new information and say what we believed before is wrong I think the same thing is going on with dietary fat We've been lectured people forever and ever for decades that fat is mad. I think the growing indication is that fat isn't bad for you at all Anything in excess is bad E protein and excess is bad The overwhelming evidence, however, is is that it's sugars that are bad. adddded sugars processed foods, refined foods, all of that crap Mostly carbs is bad Fats may be a neutral and certainly help in certain areas because most things that are fats also contain protein, and protein is good Eventually the entire medical community will come around unl's almost all the cardiologists are already on it And when we come around, okay, fine. Wellll have we have learned They used to think the Earth was flat Some dopes still do We got better information But the whole thing on COVID, they were so vested that Fauci was a saint people who were using their own experience and intuition, who realized that some of this stuff was wrong and further that Fauci was biased because he was trying to cover up his role in developing the COVID vaccine by funding the research in the Wuhan lab. Therefore, he's the last person in the world also. We certainly learned that most people in public health are inept hacks who just regurgitate the puke that somebody else sent them Okay, here some comes some puke from the CDC that's just worthless. We puke it out at the state level. so it goes to the county level and we repuke the same puke There are going to be some people that are bothered by the fact that I use the word puke repeatedly. I admit I do it deliberately Let's turn our attention to another story quality of Democrat candidates running for office this year I mean, there's just a number of them that you would Remember David Duke? David Duke was a clansman He said he wasn't in the clan anymore But he's a former clansman ran for goovernor of Louisiana won the Republican nomination The Democrat governor was an out and out crook, by the way He was such a brazen crook that you could actually find him likable. Edwin Edwards Louisiana is a history of being one of the most corrupt states ever David Duke got the Republican nomination. He's a cllansman. Every credible Republican in America disavowed him and endorsed the corrupt Democrat, Edwin Edwards because Duke was a cllansman. It was He was He was beyond what is acceptable On the Democrat Party right now, however There is no level of unacceptability All sorts of things that would have disqualified you or made you a fringe candidate, they're fine with You've got a Nazi running for the Senate in Maine And it's a big race because Maine is a Satan which they think they can the Republican incumbent there Susan Collins has been hanging on by herer fingernails forever Mains a Democrat state Collins is a she's a rino Republican, but it's better than an actual Democrat because in the end, Collins is with the Republicans more often than not Well, the Democrats are trying to beain the seat. They got this guy. He's a Nazi Got a swastick of tattooed on himself And now they found all sorts of new things in his background. and his big thing is he's just always railing against corporations There's a new report out now the amount of money that he has gotten over the years in in particular his campaign, he's bankrolled by Big phharma and by other major financial and big financial institutions. See, the pharmaceutical companies know you can buy off Democrat and some Republican candidates. So the guy' talk vaguely about being against the big corporations. when when he gets in the Senate, he'll vote and do everything that big pharma wants green likeight this and so forth and so on. So there's him Then in Wisconsin, the two front running candidates for governor are both deadbeats. We just learned this week that Francesca Hong is being sued by our credit card company thirty thousand dollars in debt it's been around forever and she isn't payid off pretty smart person.'s out there in Madison. She's in the state legislature. moreore than enough income, but she's a Mxist. She's like, I shouldn't have to pay this These big evil corporations that make us pay for stuff. I shouldn't have to pay it And then you've got Mandela Barns Ltime deadbeat, sued by his condo association for not paying his homeownerers's fees, was delinquent on his property taxes. When a year without a driver's license Big on that, but He also had some citations. It's possible he didn't pay his tickets. It might have been other reasons why he didn't have a driver's license like just wanting to have the state police drive him back and forth between Milwaukee and Madison Two dead beans in the past the I mean I still think that a Republican candidate with this kind of thing I'm not talking here about business failures. This can happen to a lot of people. You go into a business and you try to be try this that or the other thing, you might get a failure. I'm trying to people just don't pay their bills And then We've got a new one They held the primary, the Democratic primary number of states this week. New Jersey was one of them There's a congressional district in New Jersey in which there were like a zillion Democrats on the ballot. It's an open seat The guy won the nomination may well be a terrorist He has Direct links to the mastermind behind the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bombing Remember I said nineteen ninety three It's remarkable how many people Forget this one In nineteen ninety three They planted bombs in the elevator at the World Trade Center and a lot of damage was done. peopleeople were Harm It was the first attempt to bring down the towers. It didn't knock them down, but eight years later they got them The guy who was the mastermind behind that. hisis longtime supporter and close associate is the guy who just won the Democrat primary In this house race In New Jersey, let me quote from Fox News's report A Democrat with terror ties linked to the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bombing is on track to become one of New Jersey's next congressmen Adam Hamawi won a crowded Democratic primary in New Jery's twelf district and is heavily favored to win the general election in November. The victory is renewing scrutiny of Hamaway's past relationship with Omar Abdel Rachman, AKA, the Bind Sheikh The radical cleric convicted of terrorism related charges whose followers carried out the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bombing Hamawi's critics say voters deserve answers about why a future lawmaker chose to support a figure at the center of one of America's most infamous terrorism cases Now here's a post on X From the final telegraph It's a conservative site And I think they summarize this perfectly at what's happening here with the hate America crowd that's overwhelmingly taken over the Democat Partyote The primary victory of a candidate linked to the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bombing network is the predictable end game of progressive identity politics. The modern left is successfully institutionalized a form of moral pathology where vetting is decried as bigotry And self preservation is labeled as phobia. I'll finish it in a minute, but I want to know energy Wh vetting is described as vake bigotry. What is vetting? You know where the term vetting comes from? Nobody does. I've explained it a couple you Vetting is one of those terms that came from horse racing. Way back in the day, when you buy a horse, you have a veterinarary to do a vet inspection. So that's became a verb veting And now when we say we vet things out, it comes back from having a vet check out an animal beforeway candidate runs for office, you basically what the media used to do and what people used to do, you look at their background. they have skeletons in the closet are the things that we need to know about Now when you try to do this vetting into say, a Muslim, that's bigotry. Why are you looking into that Well, why should a Muslim be able to dodge the same scrutiny as any other person who may have done a bunch of rotten things in the second part of it? Self preservation is labeled as phobia In other words, okay. This is a dangerous person We shouldn't put monsters like this. peopleople who are part of terrorist networks, we shouldn't let them be in government Why That's a phobia So in other words, we can focus on all of the terrible things with say, Ilon Omar or even look into the fact that she appeared to get to the United States by marrying her own brother. That's a phobia to look into that. You're afraid of Muslims So in other words, our attempt to preserve ourselves by not having bad people and that's phobic, and finishing off their post When an entire political apparatus prioritizes globalist virtue over national security It invites open subversion Historically, civilizations fracture When elites actively reward proximity to hostile forces This represents a literal ongoing liquidation of Western civic standards. completely validating your diagnosis Terminal civilizational collapse Certainly see the same thing happening in Britain police officers abetted the killing of an eighteen year old who was stabbed nine times. and jumped on him and held him down because of allegations he made a racial slur and felt he was the bad guy even though there he was bleeding to death from stab wounds I think you can certainly see the same thing with the anti Iice rallies in the United States. Here's IC targeting. Iillegals who are in this country have committed separate crimes And there are people trying to harass ice. trying to keep these rotten people in our country And I'm not referring here to people that are simply here illegally. IC is going after them But when many of the targets of the Iice raids are in fact criminals Like for example, the actions of former Mwaue County Circuit Judge Hanah Duggan, who's now trying to get her conviction overturned the guy that she was protecting cruck in addition to being any illegal. Alien. When you see people that are rallying to keep crooks in your country who aren't even supposed to be here in the first place Of course, it means it's a threat to your civilization And the people who vote for the political party that is doing this are essentially voting in favor of national Suicide. I'm on a roll here today. These last two podcasts have been really good. We got a lot more coming. Continuing on the politics theme They're still stalled at about sixty five percent of the vote counted in California. I'm doing this podcast on Thursday. The election was Tuesday By the way, it's going to take two weeks. That's what usually, it doesn't matter that California takes two weeks because the Democrats always win the state and it's never close. So you wait two weeks just to find out how much they won by primary elections where Democrats run against Republicans, it's a one ballot thing And some of these races are close, it's unbelievable I made the contrast on a podcast earlier this week Marxism versus capitalism Now let's take two states here You know which states come and you know, this is there may be one that's even faster In my experience, the state that counts its ballots the fastest now is Florida They made a lot of reforms after two thousand. Remember Bush v. Gore the hanging chads in which it took them forever to figure out who won the close election and it went to the Supreme Court Since then, there was a bipartisan effort Florida has been had more Republican governors than the Democrats. both sides got on board on this To streamline the ballot counting thing, all the ballots have to be in by election day, whether they be mail in or absentee or whatever, and you immediately begin the counting of them. The counting proceeds electronically. Florida is usually at ninety eightcent, ninety nine percent by three hours Big cities Miami, Tampa, Orlando. and the little small towns up in the pan all of them they instantly report and their're at hundred percent of the vote Their election laws aren't that different from California. California is a leftist state They can't do anything right. In between California, which takes two weeks and Florida, which takes three hours is Wisconsin Predictably because we're a swing state Our vote counting isn't as pathetic as California, but it's nowhere near as good is Florida There we are at two or three o'clock in the morning and Central County Milwaukee is fartting around, getting around acc counting all of the absentee ballots, which of course, they arere overwhelmingly Democratic, dump them all in at three in the morning and create tremendous distrust We've got the FBI now investigating in Milwaukee over the misplaced flash drive on an election night in twenty twenty. And we say you shouldn't look into this. Of course they should look into this You either had totally incompetent hacks at the election commission. You had the election commission chairman and I don't think she was doing anything deliberately wrong here, but she certainly sccrewed up She left one of the flash drives hanging behind in a computer Well, of course, you ought to investigate if that o if that was mishandled And if there were police officers who saw that standing there and didn't take immediate action They should be interrogated And if an electioned official, even through carelessness, mishhandle electionred materials and leave them untended The potential for criminal charges is cleertain late. available. Nonetheless, this is the problem that we have with our elections in Wisconsin. Some of our counties and you can just go in on the reporting, some counties take forever. And others are really fast And it isn't political. You know, which one of the fastest counties in Wisconsin get one hundred percent in Dane County approach it can do it and one of the slowest Milwaukee County War whatever the opposite of warp speed is, molasses crawl speed Sloth like is racine Cy. They take forever and ever and ever. There's no rhyme or reason behind why one county is fast and one county is slow But we're usually resolved at three in the morning and the last counties that come in invariably are Democratic counties and again It's not entirely a plot because as I say Madison, Dang County, they get in real fast But Milwaukee takes forever In this day and age, you ought to be able to get the the ballots counted. three hours It's not that hard, especially when many of the ballots are voted by via machine where they're read by these raaders You have it in, you tabulate them, you release it California can't do one damn thing right Yet nobody in California seems to learn and figure out we used to be one of the greatest day. this is paradise out here And now we're a hellhole that can't do a damn thing. It might have something to do with the policies that we follow and the idiot leftists we elect. L at the low caliber of Democrats that's come out of California You'd think given the fact that sixty million people live there and almost all of them are Democrats, the Democrats would at least have the best Democrats because they got somebody to pick from. I mean, Delaware, which gave us Joe Biden has an excuse, It's like nine people that live in that state So there are many to choose. So of course, Biden gets out of How it Kamala Harris Nancy Pelosi. Newsom Eric Swallwell. Kenny Porter Hacked on top of pack on top of pack. I remember when I was a kid, we used to think that Jerry Brown was weird, which he was weird Boy, he was smart He is innovit Outside the box sinker, weird as it can be Jerry Brown's intellect. Dwarfad of the Either blow bride morons, Nsom Twits Kamala O sort of smart, go along to get along. Marxist enablers, Pelosi And without regard to their ideology and their Marxism, they can't do anything right. They can't count the votes. The longer anything like this takes, the greater the potential for fraud They're still counting the vote What does that tell you? The longer they're taking doing it, the greater the opportunity to commit fraud with it. N of this I didn't on yesterday's podcast analyze the blowup between Trump and Israel. First of all You're wondering, how did we know about this? Trump gets on the bloower with Netany Yahu I mean, there's aids to both that are sitting in the room. We found out that Trump Tusts out Baby I'm just telling you, I preach this forever Ask yourself why something's in the news. And I'm telling you, I don't think anybody does it It's just not a natural thing for people to question why they're seeing something they're seeing I can't help myself. I do it all the time P part of it is just in horse racing. Why do they enter this horse in this race Why they put blinkers on Why are they shorten them up You need to understand the why because it helps you understand then what the what is, whether or not something will work How come this horse only has three workouts and coming off a long layff Did they have the workouts off track? Were there some workouts hidden? orr are they just giving the horse the race? He's not going to do well in this race, but they're using it to advansive. So just you just drilled to the why why, why why, why, by, by Why do we know about this I'm sure world leaders have frank conversations all the time Let me make another godfather analogy My old producer Paul always had Sinfell analogies and I always had Spranos analogies. There's a lot of godfather analogies This was in Godfather two There was that corrupt senator from Nevada can't remember his name He meets with Michael Corleone at their compound in Lakao Michael Corleone tells the senator that that's the senator tells Michael Corlelan, I hear you're trying to take over two more casinos, hidden not a ship. You're got to put in place somebody, but you're behind it And he said, I'm going to shake I'm going to shake it out You gott to pay me a couple hundred thousand dollars to advance the lices And Michael Corleone told him onen't going to pay him a damn thing. The senator ended up the next night in bed with a dead hooker with blood all over and needed, of course, the help of the Corleeone family to get out of this total mess that they were in analyze This situation. Why we've learned about o, the point I wanted to make, I didn't finish my point in that meeting The Senator from Nevada Mis. Corleone I'm going to speak with you more frankly than perhaps anybody's ever spoken with you And that's what he shook him down called him greasy and said he didn't like your kind of people out there in the desert Well, those conversations happen all the time with powerful people rarely do you hear about them? I'm sure there have been world leaders in which They really got into it with also not just Trump, but all of them. They have frank conversations. Sometimes you hear about them, sometimes you don't. Why do we hear about this I'll tell you way we heard about this Trump wanted this out He wanted the world to know. so he has his aides leak the conversation. And then when asked about, Trump said, Yeah, I said it He wanted the world to know that he told off Netanyahu. and what he did is he told off Netanyahu, essentially saying They're an inkrate. I want you to stop the bombing of Hezbollah in Lebanon And Trump pointed out that we've done a whole lot that advances Israel's cause, including the war that's going on with Iran And Netanyahu is in no position to try to bully Trump Trump tells him on Now there's two reasons I think we know about this. firstirst of all There's this narrative out there coming from a bunch of. I think sellouts and anti Semites on the right Trump is in the pocket of Israel Trump has never been in the pocket of anyone I mean, he just prides himself on the fact that nobody shoves him around. He's got that New York kind of bully in him. That's what he is. He's never been in anybody's pocket people get in his pocket He pursued the war with Iran because he felt and he's you know, as you know, forty years he's been in Iran Can Avenue And Iran has refused to cooperate with us on anything. and Iran keeps bankrolling terror. And Trump kept giving them opportunities to get out of this, and he didn't so he hit them. does benefit Israel, but mostly it benefitited the United States Now you've got this side thing going on in which using the cover of the war in Iran, Israel's trying to take out Hezbollah in the north in the same way that they took out Hamas in the south. This is complicating Trump's attempts to negotiate with a rad So Trump gets on the horn with Netanyahuay, you're gonna you're going to stop this over there Lebadon We know about this because Trump wanted the world to know that he told Netanyahu to back off. I'm mixed on this whole question of whether or not We should just green light this in lead Israel take care of Hezboah. I've argued forever that Israel was making fatal mistakes in appeasing Hamas in the South turnurning over Gaza stripped terrorists was a mistake You can't appease them. Itesn't matter how much land you gave to the Palestidians, they want more If there was twenty five square feet left in Tel Aviv that only Jews lived in, they'd overrun that The difference here is that Hezbollah is not in Israel or Israel territories. It's in Lebanon Now they cause hell in the northern part of Israel with their constant terror and they're bankrolled by a rat So certainly getting rid of them would be in Israel's best interest and is morally defensible to do But it's complicating this other thing that's going on with us. And Israel hass been dependent on us for assistance on any number of things forever. So Trump's request that they stop this is reasonable and he's hacked off that Netanyahu won't listen to him on it when Trump spent his patron Trp made the comment then yesterday. Israel wouldn't exist were it not for me He might be right Were it not for Trump in his first term in which he pursued the Abraham accccords, which pretty much got much of the Middle East to be okay with Israel Those were those deals in which a number of nations in the Middle East starting with the Emirates agreed to acknowledge Israel's right to exist It was an attempt to pit all of them against the common enemy Iran. Saudi Arabia hates Iran more than we hate Iran and more than Israel hates Iran That was the first part and now the second part We knocked out Iran's nuclear facilities in the bombing a year ago And we have crippled their military now And Trump is if hadn't done that, Israel would have nuked Excuse me, Iran would have nked Israel So Trump's point is correct about that. I think he's been very, very pro Israel and I am very pro Israel I think Israel is the second greatest country in the world larargely because who thell house would be Seriously We're the greatest, who would be number two You who would you come up as the second best country in the world Poland It's a good one The old Eastern Black countries are really good They are far more pro American and far more anti communist and They're not embracing any of this. They lived under socialism forever. They don't want any part of it The Czechs, the Romanians, Poland, ye, those are good ones I can't argue with that. Israel has an absolute total democracy. Israel while having corruption has cleaned up, they thrown a lot of people in jail Clearly a country of fla flaws. Israel has been a country of tolerance. Christians can live to some extent In freedom in Israel, there's been some harassment, but not much. Muslims can live in Israel Mus of the D pllatr who have been living in the country of Israel, including in Jerusalem before the West Bank was taken over by Palestidiidans So don't do anything to them unless they causeed problems. tremendous capitalist country. A number of tech companies have come out of their great innovation great country flaws but a great country And we They are a long time ally of the United States. And these people that simply hate on Israel because they can't stand Jews because they're modern day anti Somants, they're wrong' gonna call them out But that doesn't mean that when Israel does things that we don't want H to do that we don't have a right to tell him, Hey, we don't want you to do this anymore after all we've done for you And Trump is making it clear to this statement And by the way, after this Israel is backed down and There's kind of a hose going on to the attacks On Hezbollah. In the meantime, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution. Now these resolutions are kind of meaningless, but they passed it blocking further United States military action against Iran Few Republicans joined with all the Democrats in voting for it. In the end, this isn't going to go anywhere even if a similar resolution was passed in the Senate I'm telling you, I believe that it is an imirmoral vote And I would say that even if I felt Trump's actions in Iran were wrong Our Cstitution is clear The commander in chief makes foreign policy. You are creating right now the same thing that's going on in Iran. Iran clearly has factions that disagree There are some and you can just see this when Trump says we are close to he is close to a deal with a lot of people in Iran. The president of the country and the mayors, the people that are on the ground there running the local government, they all want this to end because their country's people are suffering badly and this war is doing nothing for them But the hardline Mulas the ealot They're at a different page. We now create the impression we're on another page and we embolden the Iranians to continue to cause trouble if they think that there's weakness in the United States as shown by a government that is showing the same level of division That's a lot of material for just one segment That's what we call the weekend show the I've got a really good one coming up Eminently on 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 Rads. The package I took included ceramic coating, which makes the vehicle look really good. 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Never became much anything But at the time it was on the cusp of the interternet revolution There have been other big ones. There are quite a few out there right now, but the big one xpected to be the largest IPO in the history of the world is SpaceX SpaceX is a private company It does have shareholders beyond Musk. He has taken on investors, but they're investors that come in privately. same way if Jason and I owned a bar and we wanted to take in somebody wanted to buy thirty three percent of our bar. that's they've been doing a space. But now they're going to take it to the public. It's going his shares are going to trade to the stock market and They price the IPO, which means that they put a price on the number of shares that are out there. which creates a valuation as to what the company is worth. thenen it goes to the market and people decide whether or not that valuation is too high or too low Some IPOs flop the stock declines twenty fivecent, thirty percent in the open O IPOs the stock will double or triple Now he's starting this one at a high price when it does go public That will mean that there will be additional shareholders beyond the current ones. They're buying shares of the company. but it also means that those share that that the proceeds of that will go to the existing owners of SpaceX Musk. In addition to that We will have an accurate valuation of what SpaceX is worth because the valuation is going to be take the number of shares that are outstanding, multiply it by the share price. we know know what it's worth. And given the fact that Musk owns a high percentage of SpaceX This will accrue to his net worth. The end result is afterfter the SpaceX IPL, which is june twelfth Musk will become the world's first tririllionaire I remember when we had a company they made Musk himself will be a trillionaire Obviously we have inflation in the world. numumbers don't mean the same thing. Still A trillionaire I remember when Buffett was the rich, Buffet and Gates are fighting for the richest first hit in the world. They were both under one hundred billion. That wasn't that long ago. Brillionaire Now, the thing with regard to Musk is The left simply can't handle anyone whose political views A't leftist Anthing, athlete, entertainer, anything And so they end up being unable to discuss the more important part of Musk beyond his ideology Musk is the rare case was a genius who converted his genius A lot of geniuses have F flawed personalities and Musk is a flawed personality But those flawed personalities mean that they can't apply their genius in a practical fashion Musk applied his genius in terms of creating actual products and items that have use using an obvious example. There was use for payPal Be able to pay a bill with Punch a button and it's paid, access your bank account, your credit card or whate There was use to Tesla People been talking about electric cars forever and ever and ever and ever and ever When the electric cars came out originally, Musk was A hero of the left because the left are the big supporters in electric car because they thought they'd save the world But nobody had ever successfully pulled it off. There's Teslas all over everywhere you look, there's a Teslaough So then he decides to create another cup. Then he comes up and creates Starlink Well, we don't have a way of getting the internet to people without having some sort of a connection that you hook up to You gott to hook up to some broadband somewhere Iust said screw it I'll put a bunch of satellites in the earirth and you can get the internet anywhere in the world power outages or whatever, you're just gonna power up and aim to my thing You live out in the middle of nowhere in northern Wisconsin Here's the internet. You don't need anybody to hook up to you just use Starlink I'm sure all sorts of smart people wish that they had figured out how to do it. He did. And now SpaceX You go back to when the space program started in America in the fifties and the sixties, people talked about one day actually doing things in space beyond just sending the rocket up and coming back Musk has figured it out Nobody knows how much actual ability there is to utilize space, but most people believe. that it's one of the greatest game changers of all time evaluation keeps rising on what they're going to Make the IPO at. they've now priced it And it'll either go uper. and I don't know if it's going to go up or go down because the internal valuation, the internal estimates is to what it's worth have just been exploding. So the companies that already own a portion of SpaceX, the estimated value of their worth is soared The reality though is is that Musk is one of the most important inventors in the history of the world I think he's there with Edison. And again, when Thomas Edison was coming up with his innovations, which all were based on the use of electricity using electricity to power and do numerous things that we couldn't yet do or refine things that others were doing. I mean he's sitting there in New Jersey in Menlo Park Crereat and one thing after another after another after another. That's what Musk is So without regard to what you think about anything about him personally this idea that We're making a grave mistake in humanity and not producing more children So he just decides to impregnate women all over the place and what is he up to now? eight hundred and fifty seven? I. You can discuss whether or not that's moral or not But the reality is is that Musk is, the term is thrown around too loosely Not only a genius onene of the most important creators in the history of the world How much more advanced are we in all of these areas than we would not have been? Maybe he may have advanced us fifteen years in some of these fields My next door I've been getting into this a little bit and hinting around it on the podcast and I want to dive into it at greater length. this unbelievable increase in autism It's like almost anything else that's increasing. Did we always have this much of it, but it wasn't reported Domestic violence, for example. kids being born out of wedlock, any number of things that you want to think about Autism barely existed Not that long ago. and now staggering number of kids are autistic What's causing this RFK Jr. is one of the few who has had authity within government to actually try to find out. And there are a lot of people who don't want to find out because they don't want their products exposed as the things They created autism. Once again you go to the vaccine thing. There are many who think that there's a link between vaccines and autism. Pe keep saying that it's disproved. But the thing about disproved is something can be disproved until it's proven When they say disproved, they're often saying it hasn't yet been proved. It's a separate thing. I don't know if it's that I have my theories on any number of things I think a lot of it has to do with all of the drugs, the antip psychotic, antidepressants and all this stuff that we're putting into people includcluding into women who are pregnant. they're popping all this crap into their bodies improve their mood and to do this and then add in all the illegal drugs. I think that this can get into their fetus and change the way braids develop. That's my theory just using common sense. might be right might be wrong But there's also the potential here. How many false diagnoses are there? I think there's a racket in autism In addition to the fact that there is a real uptick in autism It may well be that those numbers are being inflated because of hype diagnoses of autism. I talked to Jason on an earlier podcast. I said how many autistic ks did you know when you were a kid? I think we brought that up. I think you said none, right But we certainly knew a lot of kids who were shy. or in persspective There were kids who'd rather do something in their bedroom than go outside and play There were some kids who kept to themselves There were some who were really talented quiet about it Maybe Those same kids today would be diagnosed as being on the spectrum I don't I honestly don't know, but I'm open to it. Are we taking any kid that isn't A yelling screaming outgoing Rat or even exuberant kid and declaring him autistic. I wonder about this because I just If you want to understand any damn thing in life follow the damn money What happens when somebody is is designated autistic? Here comes the money. Somebody gets to make money off of them. Big story in the Wall Street journal this week Autism therapy is booming and so is the billing abuse. You think that there's a scam going on with billing the government for child services Child carere services, the Somali stuff child daycare centers in the in the state of Wisconsin How about this autism thing? Okay, we're designated a kid as autistic It's a vested interest for the professional to designate the kid as auttistic because now you can start providing services to the kid that's autistic and bill insurance and bill the government. The link between SSI and autism is a big muddoney trade. And now build the government government was built for some. I mean, If I go to the doctor, All right, let's take a common procedure that old farts get I love using gross ones because I know it just bothers people My gross meter is pretty. I'm very calibant on the grossweader thing When I as a kid, I had to clean the clean the pigeon coop, you know, and that meant Scraping the bird crap off the ground. That just raised my level of tolerance the gross things that I canike I see a bunch of blood there, there's a lot of blood over there Some dog crap is on the way. Now there's dog crap there Lay m manure on the field. fucuckking all other manenure on the field. I stand in horse tables. You know what they smell like horse urine. That's that smell of it's horse urine on a. Oh, I just love that. It's so than you tell them what it is. You know, that's horse piss on h. I love using this gross stuff. autism Diagnosis creates the opportunity for the autism service Nobody knows what service is provided The example I was going to use on the grosses Once you're over fifty, you're supposed to start getting colonoscopies which is about as gross a procedure as there can be first of all You got to clear out your colon and that means you got to take stuff that makes you do nothing but Go to the can for like a day and a half Then they go in and they stick a probe in there to see if there's anything going on in your keystter Here's the thing. When they do that, when the doctor does that Owhelming evidence that colonoscopy was performed. It's done in a medical setting, either a hospital or an outpatient clinic. There's nurses that are assigned, There's doctors that are assigned. The billing almost has to be on the up and up. It's hard to fake that somebody did a colonoscopy because colonoscopies involve numerous people in a medical setting. and if somebody they all just faked it and said Charlie over here had a colonoscopy. I'm not saying you couldn't, it's harder to do. When a woman has a pregnancy And she's in the hospital and she gives birth. Yes, you can inflate the bill But it's pretty easy. It's hard to fake the whole pregnancy in a billing for it The autism serervices Really To quote my favorite movie line in the world Francces McDorman and Fargo again supposose they took me in for autism treatment and they did this and that and the other thing. How would you know you did this that and the other thing What if it's talk therapy? How do you know I've been there for all of these days? And how do you know that the doctor is that they're not doing anything at all or that there's nothing going on with me It's very easy to commit fraud on And as every Somali who's coming to the United States seems to haveroved, it's really easy to commit fraud when who's paying the doctors. Now the insurance companies, that's harder There's this whole revolt against the insurance company. They won't pay they won't pay they won't pay. The upside of that is that means they're really trying to be on top of this fraud. The downside is they often aren't paying for something that isn't fraudulent at all that is very beneficial to people I certainly think part of. And again, I'm not saying all of because I think that there has been a clear increase in this behavioral I won't say disorder, whatever you call autism is. I just think that there is. And I think it has a lot to do. the food that we eat and the drugs the pharmaceutical companies have pumped into our body, etcetera But I also think that whenever you have something for which the government pays, You will always see an increase of it. Also No matter what the so called problem is, the leftist solution is always something that they will get money. You just watch this on AI New about in California. hisis AI thing is, well, we've got to set up this huge government bureaucracy to oversee AI. Who's in favor of this? All of the people who will now get grants on this, it's the same crap as climate change The reason climate change was pushed is the massive amount of money that people will be made, whether it be Green energy grants, solar this, research on that, etcetera DEI is the same thing. The number of people that have been paid a fortune and other people have been hired despite lack of qualifications and the people that have done the DEI trading Lefties take create and hype a problem so that they can spend money on themselves to address it I've got another story for you. Ted Mac The only reason I watched this show when I was a kid is when I grew up in Kkana, our TV was in Green Bay and we didn't even have TBS yet. There were three stations And When you there was a time in which there was only one television I was also over at my grandmother's a lot because they lived in the backyard of the shack that we had a shack and they lived in the downstairs of the bar that they owned And I would go over there And there was a TV show that my grandmother watched all the time. And again, there's only three channels on But if you're a kid, you're gonna to watch anything that I'm telling you back when I was a kid in that era, you're say five years old. If the TV's on, you're going to watch the TV. I don't care what's on. There is a show called The Original Amateur. Back on radio, somebody named Major Bosean it, but that was before my time In my time, it was on TV and Ted Mac was on it People of my age know this. I know you don't know who Ted Mac is. you're that, but you're enough younger than me. Ted Mac is one of those guys that when he disappeared, that was the end of any acknowledge of his existence. It's not like say Frank Sinata, who will live on into all eternity and everybody will know. Ted Mac, what Ted Mac ended, Ted Mac ended You either know them or you don't Well, he had this thing The ammateur ar was it was like The precursor to star search, which was the precursor to American Iidol. It was peopleople came out of it. It was like a thing where amateurers came out and did a little talent thing for thirty minutes, but it was like nice tail un'like You know, Star Surarch put in a lot more hype in it, very well show by the way. And then American Idol took it to another level ight And he would like spin this wheel to get the whole thing start. Round and round she goes. whereere she stopped? Nobody knows. And he was like he probably wasn't even that old. He just looked like he was like. All the old people look so much older than people that I know now that are the same a. I mean, think of my grandparents when they were in their fifties They look fifty years old as than I looked now This is true around she goes where she stops Nbodyody know this story. It's somewhere in southeastern Wisconsin I'm telling you there one person one person listening to me who could guess where the story comes from You'll try Pick a commity, south of Wiscons, gotta somewh Salem Lakes. See, nobody had it The great thing about that is there's probably somebody out there who lives in Salem Lakes and said it's me and they have no way of proving it. Back when we did a live radio show they would call in and claim you won't believe this, but I kn it. now they'd email me, but I don't read the emails so theyll never find out anyway, Salem It's an interesting story I am a long timee critic of the overuse of There's two initials, but they mean the same thing. either Tiff Tid Districts. tax incremental financing or just tax incremental districts. sameame thing A tiff or a tid is a government program that provides government assistance to a private developer Some argue it's not a subsidy BS, it's a subsidy The creation of the tax increment district means that the government will Do a lot of work to pay for a portion of a product The money will be paid back by the taxes that are created by the increased valuation after the work is done As an example. Suppose you want to put it in a factory. The creation of the tax increment district means the government will put in the roads, put in the water lines, put in the sewer, lay out the infrastructure Maybe even acquire the land And then you pay it back with, okay, now you build the factory. The land that was worth nothing is now worth millions of millions of dollars so now the property taxes instead of going into the general fund, go to pay back the money that you got I believe there's a proper place for these the example that I just cited crereate it the factory is a good thing, create all these jobs, etcer. put in the tax increment district Now you got all these people working, land that was sitting there doing not a damn thing at all. it's productive. peopleeople working there so on. But a lot of times, It's used to subsidize something that I don't think is of any value at all. It's just a wasash. or It's used to subsidize something that would have happened without it's the tax inc fromment district. And then becomes sweetheart deals where people who are on the receiving end of the TF have enough clout and they Sck up to the keasters of local public officials The old guard of Monominee falls, not the ones in charge now Tiff district things like crazy. and in many instances Th things that went to H shows in the community. this still goes on right and left The thing is, I'm not a favor or against tiffs. Every single one of them has to be judged on their own merits This one from Salem Lakes. Salem Lakes is in western Kosha County Some of you who are not from Wisconsin don't know this, someome of you that are might not know this This that Western Kenosha County is booming. I got a great one here. See, I'm really smart I've got a great analy. You know whatestern Kanosa County is, it's our Florida Florida iss booming Everybody's moving to Florida etceter for all of the reasons why. Everybody's moving to Wtern Conhia Cy Here's why What is just south of Western Kenosha County? Iila bleeping noi Illinois is going to hell Taxes are high. The business environment is terrible. Everything sucks So you move a little bit more What's immediately north? Well, Kenosha on the eastern side and there's been incredible growth there Western part of Kennosha County, and I'll just describe it as the area west of I ninety four. It goes way, way west. It goes almost all the way to Lake Geneva The development there is just explosive. It's booming It's all a good thing. That's why I call it our Florida. It's still in Wisconsin, so we still have high levels of local taxation and so on. But it's not as bad as Illinois and for the people in southeastern Wisconsin, there's a high level of quality life beautiful out there, the rolling hills and so on. It's not hilly, but it rolls a little bit Green There's some rural development. a lot of it is being sububdivided into communities eter et eter Salem Lakes is one of the communities right in the middle of this There's a battle going on in community and an adjacent community right next door There's a big time development company that operates in southeastern Wisconsin and elsewhere called Bear Development notot pro bear development or anti bear development They're trying to get a TIF district to do a housing development in Salem Lakes. The housing development would simply be to take land that right now is just Undeveloped l And they want to put in a bunch of single family houses And they want a TIid district or TIiff district to finance the improvements. The improvements, as I say, it's just a big piece of land. Ming there's no sewer in there, there's no water, there's no roads. You need massive infrastructure to do this. So they want the government to pay to put all of that stuff in. Normally, If developer wants to do something like this, they got to pay the infrastructure cost If without a tiff district, let's say say I wanted to do this And by the way, if I had enough money, it would be a good thing to do because this area, as I say, is booming. Every one of the houses will sell unless they just overpriced them Okay, I got as part of my cost to develop it, I got to put in the roads, I got to pay for the sewer, I got to pay for this, I gotta pay for all that. Th I go forward Bear is asking Salem Lakes for a tiff too do this Many of the residents are opposed because They don't see the upside of in their community that is doesnn't have tons of development has a lot of green space and residential They don't see the advantage of subdividing the community and bringing in zillions more people If I lived there, I'd be on that side It's the same thing with anything When I was in Kakana when we moved out of our shack next to the bar that I referred to earlier We moved to the edge of town It was in the nineteen sixties That edge of town, I'm not making this up goes three miles south of where we were In other words, we were on the edge of town until somebody moved to find then the next block and the next block and the next block and the next block and the next block. This is going on forever, but when we were on the edge of town and there was woods across the street, that was great if you're a kid Now it's just a middle class neighbor with a bunch of ranch hoses So if I live in Salem Lakes where there aren't a lot of people, maybe I'd like a little couple more businesses so I don't have to drive forever to get something, but The whole point of living out there is there's zillions of people out there So I wouldn't want to have a big subdivision coming in. what the hell do I get out of that The community, however, needs to look at the notion of growth. Some growth is good So I can if I live there, I just oppose it because I don't want all these poses there. It wouldd be that simple But that's my self centered position The question here is whether or not you need to do a tIF district for it Given the fact that Western Konosha County is booming Why do you need assistance to help it? boom It's the same point I've made against subsidizing a convention hotel near the convention center in Milwaukee. If there's demand for a hotel, somebody's going to build a hotel and make money off of it, they don't need a subsidy If they need a subsidy, that means there's no demand for it and it isn't justified The thing about the free market is if there's a need to do something, somebody will do it and make money And if there isn't a need for it, nobody's going to do it The local community has been adamant. Now, I'm going to be fair in my coverage of this. I talked to a couple of people and I've been contacted by a couple of listeners who want me to Focuscus on the fact that this thing and the people in the adjacent community, they really don't want it They get nothing out of it because the growth isn't even in their community People in Salem Lakes though Let me explain the problem here So you build all these houses and everybody comes into them This creates a massive increase in demand for what? Services You may need more firefighters You may need more cops You may need to, you know, spend more money on the street department because now you have more streets. In terms of the schools, okay, there's going to be more kids going to the schools. You have all these people coming in with a greater demand for services. Often that's a wasash because propertyies developed and you have more revenue coming in, but they won't have more revenue coming in because it's going into the tith. So the developer gets to have their taxes go to pay for all the improvements that they went there. That means the taxes don't go to the schools, they don't go to the fire, they don't go to the police, they don't go to any of the governmental services that are out there. So the community sees all these new residents, but they don't get any tax revenue debays. So the argument is why the hell would you do it other than someomebody suck it up to bare development. veryery successful development company. Cloud And a lot of people within government bowled over by these people I am impossible to bowl over. I never give a crap what anybody thinks about me. I lay it out there, say what I think and if somebody doesn't like it, so what And if others, if you are smart enough to like it and you make me highly successful, all the better There is now a flip side to that. And again, I talked on background to some people in that area, beautiful area. And that is every time one of these developments has been built in Western Konosha County Build the houses and sell them for like, say I'll use an example because this has happened. two hundred fifty two hundred seventy five thousand Within three years, they resell for eight hundred In other words, there is an incredible demand to live there Real estate is location, location, location So the cost of building the house and then a markup to build it. peopleeople move into the house and others want to get in so badly that the valuation just explodes. So when you see that kind of demand for housing You can see that it would be in the best interest of the community to be able to go ahead with it and then when those houses are resold, contribute to the services, this growth can perhaps accrue to the overall growth of the community and the county and the region etceta, etcera etca which then creates demand for business support for the businesses that are in the area and so on So there's two sides to this. in general, however I go back to the premise. onene of the things that the law states with regard to tiff disticts You can only do it if you can justify that you have to do the TIiff district for it to happen at all. And I think this is violated more than almost any law we have in Wisconsin other than maybe speeding and drug use. There are things that we tiff. just to do sweetheart deals for developers. And again, I'm not criticizing the developers for this. If you can convince government to give, you know, you can say, I suppose the same thing to deal out Omar and or Somali friends Tim Waltz is going to give you a fortune for something that you're not providing. Is it your fault for You could say that fraud was done, but when there's a wink wink and you've got a corrupt governor looking the other way in there like Dumbbell Waltz So if the developers, yeah, we need a tiff And the community, okay, I'll give you the TF. And now you don't have to spend any of this money yourself I don't know that that's their fault Question, however Wh you would need to do a tiff. in the most booming part of the state of Wisconsin And I get while the land will have incrediblealue, there's a demand to move out there. Somebody's got to pay for the sewer and the water and the whole thing Well, if the developer can't do it on their own and still make a buck in doing it, then maybe it's not supposed to happen. or maybe it is. Again this is a decision to be made in the local community It's the same thing that the same debate goes on in any number of things where there isn't a subsidy like data centers Is it in the overall best interests of the community And the answer often is, it's in the best interest of someone in the community and not of the best interest of others. But if you want to find something that is abused in communities, leftist communities and conservative communities It's tax incrementistics Again, they have a place The role of government should be to encourage business not disiscourage business And sometimes Tiff is an indirect subsidy, but a subsidy nonetheless. Sometimes you have to Pime the pump to get something going I question in this case whether or not the pump needs to be primed I just can't fathom It's somebody that had the capital to buy the land to do a subdivision in that area, which I get down there enough is booming why you need to do the tax increment district. but maybe you do It's an inner and again, I surery picked this out because residents in that area have contacted me to talk about it, but these kinds of debates go on. all over the region, you are listening to the Mark Belling 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. Makes sense, since you have your own ideas about travel, retirement, and the legacy you want to leave. That means you need custom advice building a personalized plan. The team at Annex Wealth Management is ready to listen and help. Annex Weealth Management. giveive them a call. Know the difference. This is the Mark Belling podcast. Belling. com I've posted my picks for Saturday's Belmont steaks briefly The tririple Crown consists of three races, Kentucky to every Pactice of Belmont Stakes. The Bellman stakes is over the years become the greatest of the three races. The Derby is the one that everyone follows The Bellman Sakes has benefited from collapse of the importance of the prekness as I've tried to explain to people who don't follow horse racing, they have a schedule that they've used for about fifty years that's archaic The Prekus is two weeks after the derby the Belont stakes three weeks after the Pkus Hardly anybody wants to run a horse on two weeks rest But five weeks is becoming optimal So any horse that's eligible for the Derby runs in the Derby anyy of them that do any good in the derby, they're not going to run back in the preakness. It just doesn't happen anymore So that means they're all the good ones, the ones that have a chance run of the Belmont Stakes. also The derby has these large fields of twenty horses because anybody that's seellleigible wants they to run of the derb The Belmont Stakes, which has a large purse It has very few pretenders that want to run becausecause they'll aim their horses at races in which they fit in which they can make a fair amount of money rather than be overmatched. So there's only nine horses in the Belmont stakes, but five of them are very good. Five and borderline six I think the five best three year olds in America are in the race For the third year in row the Bllmont stakes is run at Bllmont Park New York. It's run at Zerotog They're on a three year construction project at Belmont Park. It's going to be finished It's going to reopen in September. It won't be fully completed until next year, but the track will reopen in September. But for the third year in a row, they run the Bllmont stakes at Saratoga which absolutely nobody is opposed to because everybody would rather go to Sarah Toga than Velma It means that the race is a mile and a quarter and not a mile and a half Anyway I have I had a tepid opinion on the preakness and we made money out it good opinion on the Kentucky Derby and I didn't, even though Horse horses I picked on top are all close. I didn't have the winner and the winner didn't do well course I picked on top didn't do well. I have a very strong opinion on Belmont stakakes. And by coincidence, the horses I picked one two in the Derby, I'm picking one two in the Belmont Stakes and I very strongly believe that one of the two of them will win and they could indeed run one, two. So the picks are up there for those of you who have an interest. I'm belling. com I go through Reach horse and I mention a couple of other bets on the card on Saturday with the Belmont Stakes There's a good race for those of you who want to watch it. The prereakness was just a dog this year. It was the slowest one in seventy five years. Belmont steak should be Very good. I have another topic that we can do, but Frankly, you've gotten enough today We have been absolutely loaded with good material One of the things that over the years made my shows good is First of all, I'm interesting, but I find interesting topics and have an interesting take on them. And I think that the last two that we've done, if you didn't listen to One twenty one which was the last one we did. This is one and twenty two Go back and listen to it. I' very happy with the content. the last two. how much credit do you take for this Jason None. He takes no He takes no credit for this Well you're right, You didn't pick the kind. see, the thing now is see, Paul didn't have a show. He did weekend shows and so on. Jason has a show He's on. Should I plug your show Yeah right. nine to eleven central time on News Talk eleven thirty WYSN, which also, of course is available online and so on But if he has a content idea, He's putting at his show I mean, let's imagine you were the podcaster and I was the guy doing the radio show. Am I gonna get my best material for you to go and do on the podcast? No, I'm gonna put it on my thing How would you describe your show I mean, it's I always had a hard time describing my show. I said I talk about anything that I'm interested in, but conservative politics is the basis for the show But then I'll talk about anything. this's very broad based. I talk about anything from culture to the operative ballet to sports and so on D But you just I mean, I considered my show to be a general interest talk show with a conservative common sense conservative perspective Jason describes himself as common sense Conservative It's hard to describe any of the shows because I just Everybody mostly every talk show host that's good has their own style and the ones that fail try to copy somebody else's style or they just don't have any innate style of their own. but you get to sit, you know J. Weber has a very different style than I have. Dan O'Donnell, who took over the shift that I have. He does his show opinions are probably similar on many issues, but he has a style of presentation and a choice of topics that's different for mine, but you know And When I've been asked over the years of people, I want to be a talk show hoster now, I want to be a podcaster. First of all, why would I encourage somebody to do a podcast? There's already ninety five million competing with me I give somebody advice on how to be a talk show host because I knew damn well that they weren't going to be as good as me and they'd probably have to start in. water Iowa before they'd ever get here. No, you want to do a podcast you wrre oute through the same platforms as all of us But everybody wants to do a podcast The advice that' again people want to do Talk show is a Practice in your head by just pretending or Try to do forty five minutes sitting in your room by yourself and talk out loud Just do it over and over and over again. It will suck and it's gonna to keep sucking and sucking until it stops sucking The second thing is Do it the way that you want to do it And if that doesn't work, it means people don't want to hear you You can't try to do it in a way that somebody's telling you to do because that means it's not doing That doesn't mean you can't take input. Back when I was getting started in this in Madison I had one and only one guy I'm pretty sure he's dead. say this in theure that I listened to who had very good instincts. He was a program director of radio stations in Dallas and later San Francisco. And with Charlie Serpon I won't say he was a consultant, but he gave me advice And when I was starting the thing in Madison, he was I was doing political stuff in interviews. It was mostly an interview show and then political. And he told me, this is again the eighties You got to do more opra winfrey stuff slice of And of course, I'm interested in slice of life stuff and just regular old things that are into the news. And I started doing that and it's been a huge portion of my thing. Well It was sad And You know, take more chances, do this, get more music into the thing. All kind of things that I sort of thought would work But I didn't have anybody ratify the idea After about nineteen ninety one, I didn't listen to anybody's input on anything at all