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The Mark Billing podcast is presented by ULIN. For quality shipping and industrial supplies, ULIN has everything in stock , visit youline. com . The Mark Belling podcast is a production of iHeart Radio podcasts . First of all , a lot more stuff happens in Chiffua Falls than should happen in Chiffua Falls. Chiffua Falls is not that big . There are two major motion picture characters we're from in the movie Chippewa Falls. One of them was one of the characters in the Titanic . The other was, I've asked this trivia question in the past, so why not ask it again ? Title movie character, in other words, the name of the mov ie that character was some Chippewa Falls. And the big hint is the movie won the Oscar for Best Picture . Jason, do you have any clue ? It's got to be an Oscar winning movie in which the name of the movie is someone's name and it's a fictional character's name. There actually aren't many of those . I'm terrible on any movie that was made after like two thousand two, but I'm pretty good at all of the ones that ever before that, especially like the Glory era of movies seventies and eighties and so on. Are you any good at movies from any era or eighties and nineties? This was the nineteen seventies . Title character of a movie was from Chipwall Falls, Annie Hall . Probably Woody Allen's best movie. Annie Hall was supposedly from Chipwall Falls. Anyway, a lot of stuff happens in Ch ipp Fewallas and the Trump blow up and meet the press happened in Chippewa Falls . That's where they recorded the interview . Now we're going to open with that incident on today's podcast . First of all, if you didn't see meet the press, Trump was on a long time. People say he walked out of the interview. No, he ended a long interview . But he answered a lot of questions and it was the same stuff it always is when somebody interviews Trump, which is go at it back and forth, back and forth, back and forth . What set him off though is the key . He was talking about something that it's about time somebody talks about . And he's been trying to bring it up again and again and again and we get this exact same response that you got from Kristin Welcher . He's drawing attention to the fact that there are tens of millions of Americans who do not have faith in our elections . I mean, this is just a subject you're not allowed to bring up. It's become every Republican now that's running for hours. You accept that Trump lost the election in twenty twenty, they just can't stop bringing that up. And they don't let anybody raise any questions about elections He started to bring up what's going on in California right now . Spencer Pratt apparently is not going to crack the top two in the race for mayor, meaning he's done. It'll be a runoff between the incredibly liberal loon mayor that they currently have and the Marxist who's even farther to left than her When they counted the votes on election night and said supposedly like sixty, sixty five percent are in , it was neck and neck between Bass and Pratt with the third candidate, Natiya , way back ten points behind Pratt, she's passed him in this count that they have that's going on forever . Now I discussed this last week why it takes California so long to count votes . And Trump brought it up . And this is where this argument started . And that's what it always is when people interview Trump. They don't interview him. They argue with him . Rather than let him make his point on this subject, which is important , they're in this knee jerk I have to argue it . Do you know how many attempts by the mainstream media there have been in the last ten years to actually look at election irregularities? Almost none. Instead, they just suppress any coverage of it. They just won't , it doesn't matter how screwed up the election is, how irregular everything , there's nothing that can make them want to look at whether or not it could be not on the up and up . So we're going to pick up in this point and discuss this phenomenon . And it's a real phenomenon. In fact, I'm not the first to ask this question, but I'll ask it again to make my point . Whenever you have these late night or in this case, late weeks , ballot drops in which surges of ballots come in hours and hours and hours after everything else is count ed . Can you think of one instance in which that surge benefited a Republican ? It always benefits a Democrat . Always Always . Of course people are suspicious about that , and they should be Uline moves fast, kind of the opposite of the volcanic in California. Uline moves fast so your business doesn't miss a beat. From shipping and industrial supplies to office furniture, U offLersIN a wide range of products that are in stock and ready to ship the same day if you order by six PM , even the big stuff. Uline's expert customer service team is available twenty four seven to answer your questions help you quickly and easily place an order or assist with any other business needs . Visit youline . com . Now we discussed Why it takes so long in California? And I've contrasted this with Florida . Florida needs about three or four hours for the entire state to be in one hundred percent . Same day ballots, mail in ballots, absentee ballots, they get them all counted within a few hours . Why does California need two weeks? Now the defenders say, well, they have different laws in California and, they do . In California, almost everybody votes mail in . Very little same day voting, very little absentee voting, in person absentee . In the last election, I think fifteen million ballots were cast and twelve million were cast by mail. Secondly , California does not require mail in ballots to be received by election day. That's a major part of the problem . States can decide their own election laws . In California, the ballot simply has to be postmarked on election day, meaning you can mail your ballot on election day. You know how slow the mails are ? So they have to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for the postal service to get around and deliver every last ballot . I think it is ridiculous to say that your ballot can come in whenever. All you have to do is mail it on election day . It is your responsibility to have the ballot received by election day. If you vote same day, you have to be there on election day. If you vote in person absentee, you have to do it before election day . If you use a dropbox, you gotta drop it in by before election day . And if you mail it in, it has to get there . Furthermore, these election campaigns in the early voting go on for weeks. There's no excuse for anybody not to be able to get it in by election day, but they have that . Secondly , they have this other thing in which if the postmark is not clear, they're often smudged, look at your mail . They have to A first determine whether or not the postmark is indeed that day. And if there is any doubt, they accept it. Thirdly , they have to go through and hand by hand by hand do this thing on authentication of the ballots . And remember, almost all of them are by mail and they don't start processing them until election day . There's no reason to do any of that crap , but the fact that they do creates these problems. Now in Wisconsin, we have a hybrid of California and Florida . In Wisconsin , we don't start counting our mail in or early in person absentee ballots until election day . The Republicans have been resistant to allow you to start earlier . Other Republicans are in favor of it. One of the reasons we have this late hour ballot dumps in Milwaukee is we don't allow the Milwaukee Election Commission to start doing anything on these ballots until election day . And people say, what is counting the vote? Counting the vote just means running it through the machine . That's what counting the vote is. People think they vote when the ballot goes in the machine. That's not when you vote. You vote when you mark your ballot and it's received. Running it through the machine , those are just vote counters. That's what they are. So in Milwaukee, they have all these in person because most people don't vote on election day, all these either mail in or in person absentee ballots, and they've got to feed them all to the machines and they do this all not at the polling place but at central count . And as you know, it takes them hours and hours and hours and hours and hours . There's no reason it should take them hours and hours and hours and hours because Madison has the same thing. Almost everybody votes absentee or in person absentee or early voting . And Madison gets done within two to three hours Milwaukee takes forever , but this taking forever again means that all these ballots come in at the last minute . And when the slowest account ballots are the big cities, there's going to be this big dump of Democrat ballots, but even having said that , in California, this thing that's going on with Pratt defies sense . Matthiah Raman, who's the candidate who we saw finished third, conceded to fate . She was ten points behind Pratt. She conceded . And now she looks like a winner . If sixty five percent of the ballots being counted have pratt up on her by ten percent, it was like thirty two percent bass, thirty percent, Pratt and like nineteen percent , ramen, what are the chances that of the remaining thirty five percent that they would be so overwhelmingly Ramen, the third place candidate to overcome Fred It's questionable . And that's what Trump was doing. Trump, of course, comes flat out as Trump is wanting to do. Grecket. So here's the exchange that went out. I'm going to stop it a couple of times in here. I made the press recorded in Chip Warfalls . The election was rigged . It was a dirty election. And it's happening again right now in California. Presented everything happening right now in California. Right now it's looking at what's happening in California to that. It's four days doing well in California, it's no they're not they're they're dropping stopping. Now this first of all, this is Kristin Walker. She said the Republicans are doing well in California. She's so oblivious that she didn't even know of this surge that is going on with the Democrat candidates in this late county. Trump knows it and this is what's setting Trump off . Pratt appear clearly appeared to run almost in a dead heat for number one with fast, meaning those would be the two that would advance the general election . And now , days and days and days later as there's slow motion counting these , suddenly it doesn't look this way . That's what set him off. So he's trying to make this point . And rather than let him make the point or even hear his point , what's she doing? Arguing, arguing, arguing, arguing, arguing. That's not an interview. Now, I've done interviews in which I've had contentious back and forth with individuals that are on here . But my contentious back and forth is that just interrupt ing every single thing and bickering . And the reason this is and again, he did a long interview with her . She comes in right now and just she will not let this be brought will. not She let the the president of United States get out this thought about what's going on in California. Let's pick up. It's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days and they aren't even close to that coming up. That's how they count. You know why they're doing that because they're cheating on the election. There's what do you have evidence? All I have to do is look. All I have to do is that's not evident. And I listen. And I listen to people and let's see what happens. So that's not evident. You think it's appropriate? That's how they have the votes. You think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later they're nowhere close to picking away potatoes . Now, that's a great point he just made Instead of following up and letting him explore that point , it is a valid question that ought to be asked in this country five days later and they're not close to having the winners . And that's the way they do it out there. What kind of an excuse is that ? Well, this guy killed five people . That's the kind of thing he does That's the way they do it out there. And again, it just says argue, argue, argue, argue. So now if you're him and you've sat down, by the way, all the networks want to interview Trump because they all get great ratings in the interview Trump and he has been the most accessible president ever . He does these one ones all the time with all the major outlets. They're all always the same thing which they bicker and sp ar with him . I question whether or not there's any point in him doing them with these types of interviews , but he does them . And instead, you know, for much of the interview he did, get his stuff out. It's just on this thing with the election. She's got to get in there and she's out of her mind. And of course, the way Trump responds to that is he's not going to ceed this point and let her to walk all over him. So he fights back and it was one and as you as it comes on here, Trump at some point just screw this . Let's pick it up. Acknowledge they are slow. They're urging their crooked. They're urging the votes to be counted quickly that's how they look ed just like you're crooked. Your press is crooked and meet the press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked, but you play right into their hands. That's his point. You play right into their hands . If the media isn't crooked, the media would investigate things that are suspicious on the left, on the right, in the middle, wherever. But they don't This is a story that I'm going to be covering a little bit here in the first segment of the podcast that proves that point. Trump is executing, well, if you're not crooked, you play right into their hands hands . Do you not find this curious that one candidate is doing so much better with these votes counted five days later than in the millions of votes were out in a millwake. Trying to remember what the total numbers were in Mayor, California. In the many, many, sixty five percent of the vote was counted within the first twelve hours of the poll's closing. That's a pretty good cross section Is it not curious that one candidate is surging among the select group of ballots that are counted late ? I find it curious . Now Trump is saying it's corrupt. Well, maybe he doesn't have proof that it's corrupt . But she doesn't let him make this point that it is corrupt. And he's also right . They don't show any level of curiosity and looking into it. The same thing's going on right now with regard to the Justice Department wanting to look into what happened at Wisconsin . Where you had one of the flash drives on election night, the presidential election night left sitting at a computer and then everybody had left the room . It was unattended, just sitting there . The FBI is asking about this. The media, don't ask about this . What do you mean? Don't ask about this . Maybe it was simply carelessness on the part of the election commission and the people over there at Central Count . Another thing . For weeks , there was a Chicago political operative embedded at the Milwaukee Election Commission offices as they outsourced much of the pre election work to this third party organization that was leftist . That is something that ought to be investigated by the FBI . It is an irregularity. I've been going on and on about, I think, the out and out corruption that occurred right under the noses of the useless state Republican Party in Madison when they had the voting in the park thing in late September of twenty twenty . The ballots were turned over to city election officials. The period for early voting by statute in Wisconsin was limited to the two weeks before the election. This was five weeks before the election. It was people giving ballots to election officials. To me, that was out and out illegal. It was corrupt. Now you couldn't get the useless staffers of the Wisconsin Republican Party who underway that this happened two blocks from their office to raise a stink about it. But I raised a stink about it. Nobody else wants to raise a stink about it . Trump is raising a stink and then comes to the conclusion that it's corrupt. And he has a vested interest in this given the fact that there were tons of irregularities, particularly in a state like Georgia in that election that he lost. He shouldn't still be obsessed about this. All right, well now he's transferring this over to the thing in California and you just can't bring it up. They just are instead of listening to argue, let him conclude the thought. It's just bickering, bickering, bickering, bickering, bicker ing. That's not the role of the media to bicker. It is the role of the media to challenge. It is the role to ask questions , but in the end, the purpose of an interview is to allow the person you are interviewing to state their peace. Let's finish it off. Crooked or you're stupid. Your elections are crooked and you're crooked. At least the press is crooked. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN. Mr. President, you're one sided crooked network. Let's call it quit because I've had enough. Thank you, Darryl. Have a good day. Mr President, let's please I travel all the way to Wisconsin. I've got rain all the way I know. I saw the rain in hours in On and off in the rain and I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin. Why did she keep bringing that up? We've traveled all the way to Wisconsin . She's acting like she took a wagon train . You flew in your private charter jet, I'm sure, all the way to Wisconsin. Where does she think we are? half a notch off the North Pole ? Okay, you traveled all the way to Wisconsin. He was on for, I don't know how long you was it was on a long time. The unedited interview was out there on YouTube for those of you who didn't see meet the press . And I'm not suggesting that, you know, if Trump walked off, you know, he ended the interview after asking a lot of questions , but I understand what sets Trump off on all of this? Whether you agree with him or not, he does not believe that our elections in America are on the up and up with some of these things that go on, particularly with the mail and balloting where it's almost impossible to ensure that a mail in ballot is legit. And in California, it's eighty percent of them . I know you got to sign your name and this set and the other thing , but it is easier to do an illegal ballot that isn't cast by the voter . If you're just putting it in the mail , then if it's in person absentee voting, where you're handing it off and signing it in front of an election official or same day voting . And then this tendency you know, one of the points that I want to add to the whole thing about Pratt losing the lefties kept saying that Trump's victory in twenty sixteen was not on the up and up. People forget about it because he trailed Hillary so badly in the polls . Well, I think we've since learned that conservative voters simply don't talk to the pollsters and secondly the methodology of the pollersst is terrible. But in this election out there in LA , in the most recent polls prior to the election, Pratt was running a strong number two to Karen Bass, which is exactly the way the vote appeared to be after sixty five percent were in . Rothnan was way behind. Now with the actual voting, suddenly Rothan is surging . I think whether you want to use the word suspicious, you want to use the word corrupt. At the very least, you gotta grant that this is cur ious . And again, I'm not surprised perhaps not going to be the Mayor of Los Angeles , despite the brilliance of all these you can't get the people in a city that far gone to vote for someone who's conservative. You just can't . This is why I think our cities are just they're doomed . Pratt did everything, right? But you're not going to, I mean it's possible statewide in very democratic states to break through if you have a perfect storm . But I think that Pratt's ability to be elected mayor in Los Angeles was as limited as when Bob Dodo and tried to be mayor of the city of Milwaukee. It's an impossibility. Let me move now to New Jersey . Another telling story here . We now have proof that there are numerous non citizens registered to vote in New Jersey . New Jersey does not allow non citizens to vote . These, by the way, are not illegal immigrants. We don't even know how many of them there are. Do you know how they caught this? They ran a check , which you can do if you can get the voter rolls in Wisconsin . The Wisconsin Election Commission continues to refuse to turn over the voter rolls to the Justice Department for its investigation . And the media keeps defending that. Again, what do you what are you hiding ? In New Jersey, what they found was this once they got the voter rules, they ran a cross check against people who were applying for naturalization status, in other words, people who had applied to move towards citizenship . They ran those names against the voter rolls and they found numerous double heads . If you're applying to be a citizen, by definition, you're not a citizen . So if we have a lot of people that are applying to be citizens already on the voter rows, how many how many people aren't applying? How many out and out people who are here illegally and can't be citizens? How many of them are out there? When you register to vote, you don't have to do anything to show citizenship . Now, I've been on this forever. And in fact, I got into trouble for a term I used this with regard to this back in two thousand . We don't need to revisit the entire topic, but my point again is valid . There is zero check against legal or illegal immigrants who are not citizens from voting . And here's the key on this story . Now the following point just for those of you that listen outside of Wisconsin, you'll get this, but there are people in Wisconsin that some of them are just flumoxbed under in standing this . Despite my repeated attempts to explain, if you live in Wisconsin, you are not a registered Republican, you're not a registered Democrat. I keep hearing people say, I'm a registered Republican. No, you're not. If you live in another state, you might be. In Wisconsin, you do not register to vote by political party . Jason's from Illinois. I lived in Illinois for five years. In Illinois, you register by political party but every single election you can change it . You just ask for a ballot and a primary election for party. The next election, you could ask for one for another party. So you're not really registered, but you do have to publicly declare which primary you're voting in, and there's a record of that. In other states, you just register and you can only vote, for example, at a Democratic party for your Democrat or a Republican primary for a Republican. And if you register as independent, you can't vote in the primaries . Many states do it that way Wisconsin does not . In New Jersey, you have to register to vote by political party . Guess who the majority of the non citizens were registered political party members of? The Democrats . Another reason why they don't want these kinds of irregularities to be taken care of. You have four Republic an sellouts in the Senate that have stopped us from passing the SAVE Act. The Save Act would require proof of citizenship in order to be a registered voter. And I admit if you did this, it would be a hassle for all the people already are registered, wouldn't even have to prove cit izenship? Some reason some people just find that to be the hardest thing to do. When they pass the law with regard to real ID for the driver's licenses, or when you get a passport, you have to prove your citizenship. You generally have to get a birth certificate and the birth certificate will stay where it is that you were born and that's the clearest indication of citizenship because in virtually all cases if you're born in the United States, you're a citizen . I think it's the simplest thing to do. If you don't have your birth certificate, you can easily get a certified copy. I've had to do it in my life . I have a copy of my birth certificate . I can't even tell where it is . Jason, where do you think my copy of my birth certificate is? Now that would be a normal human being in a file cabinet . That would be a smart normal thing to do. I wouldn't have asked it if it was a normal thing to do. I have there are a handful of us in America that have a certain it might be a person ality disorder . Our wallets are too big. That's where mine is. I have a George Gusanza wallet . You either have a normal, I mean, some of these people have they don't carry in the little sl ot in their cell phones. I have a lot of crap in my wallet . You would not put I have a college I now do it just to amuse myself and to amuse other people by pulling out the stuff that sit in my head. Why do you have that in there? I admit, I'm now just milking it for all it's worth because I can get laughs off it. Look what I have in here. I have my college ID in there . And you understand how old my college ID is, I'm talking half a century . You never know I might want to go to Whitney Hall and eat lunch . That's what you got to do. You gotta show your ID in order to eat in the cafeteria . We even we had photo ID to eat lunch fifty years ago and the lefties don't want to let you have it for voting in America. Anyway, because those four Republicans didn't vote for the Save Act, it's essentially gonna die. One of them is Mitch McConnell, who just he can't be gone soon enough. I don't mean dead Democrats are going to try to win that election, but I don't think there's much of a I don't think that there's much of a chance of it . Next story , I alluded to this one a few moments ago . A story that I declared when it was happening as corrupt . For those of you who are listeners to my radio show, you've heard me discuss this thing again and again and again and again because you'll recall I stated at the time there is zero chance I will be wrong . Now you'd think that's pretty audacious when something is coming up and I make a prediction and I say that there's zero chance I'm going to be wrong . Almost all the time I say I might be wrong because upsets happen , things with very slim probability occasionally happen . I said that there was zero chance that the trolley in Milwaukee would be successful, right about that. And then this , this deal stunk from day one . There's a guy named Kelon Haywood Sr. Senior's important. His son with the same name junior's in the state legislature. That's his kid . His kid got elected at an extremely young age because of the clout of senior, Kaylon Haywood Sr. He's Mr. Big in Milwaukee . He's a prominent African Americ an developer and has incredible clout with a number of Milwaukee politicians . He's a major donor and fundraiser. He'll put the arm on others to donate . He's therefore achieved powerful status . And there are very few people who want to question anything with regard to him. I'm not one of those people afraid to do that . He was never charged, so he presumably was not guilty of this , but he was investigated for sexual assault. And when he was investigated for sexual assault, the police chief sat in on the interview. When does that happen How intimidating is that for the police officer? That's the clout, the guy has it. Again, maybe that case was widely discovered. The woman who made the allegations described a long term abusive, sexually abusive and non consensual sexual relationship that went on there was investigated. He wasn't charged. I'm not saying he did this. What I am saying is he had enough clout that the police chief sat in in the interview . That's this guy. All right, Kaylan Haywood Sr. came up with this plan seven years ago I should get the exact time. Yeah, seven years ago, twenty nineteen, exactly seven years ago . Two at twenty first in North, for those of you not from Milwaukee, this is ground zero of the Hood , the central city, twenty first and north . To take a property at the abandoned Sears building. There's an old Sears When Sears used to have department stores everywhere, there's a big store that Sears had at twenty first and north. It's been used for next to nothing forever. Keylon Heawood Sr got city approval for a massive loan. The loan was huge. It was in the millions , just shy of four million dollars to convert that building to a four or five star hotel. Give me a break . Four star hotel , you're talking about the nicest of the Hyatts , the nicest of the Marriottes, not we're not talking your courtyards. We're talking a really nice for instance it's the Fister would be a four star, the Saint Cata Milwaukee would be a four star and some of the others be. That's one of the people from moderate town always ask me, what hotels should I stay in? Actually , people who live in a city don't know much about what the hotels inside are like, unless this is when you go to dinner because we don't stay out hotels. I'd be better off telling you what hotels to stay in, you know, and anyway . Who in the world? And those are the kinds of places that charge two hundred fifty a night . Who in the hell is going to pay two hundred and fifty a night to stay at twenty first and north ? But oh, this will be great redevelopment . Yeah, it would be if it happened . And as I said at the time, this isn't going to happen . You'll never see this money again. Seven years later, how much of this money have they seen again? None . In the interim , a lot of it has been spent . And this is the purpose of requesting money for something stupid . You get to spend the money even though nothing's ever going to happen. You hire the demolition firms, you hire the asbestos removal companies. You hire this, the architects, the design consultants . And who knows how people get those contracts? Are they buddy buddy to the developer or is there something that happens that makes them on very good terms ? Not to mention , how much money on your own staff did you then compensate yourselves for doing the planning of this idea that was never going to happen. And I said again and again and again, this will never happen. Milwaukee, which always claims it's broke tells the state it's always broke cases raised this tag always broke. They gave four million dollars to a cloud heavy developer to have the most idiotic implausible idea that you could imagine . I mean, try to come up with an idea that is more impossible to pull off than a luxury hotel in the highest prime neighborhood in the state of Wisconsin . Well, years go by. The deadlines to repay the loan come and go and the city keeps extending them . Rather than foreclose and at the very least take the property back and maybe develop it into something that could go. There is a lot of stuff that is in the central city . In particular government buildings go up, they have to be there. There are probably other things that you could do with this. You could then sell the property against something , whatever. Instead, this guy hasn't paid the money back and he's still sitting at it. Then he came up with a new plan and a new plan. Now he has this plan . Newspaper over the weekend . Apartment plan gets big financing piece . So now Kaylon has decided it's not going to be a five star hotel , it's going to be an apartment building . In order to get government money to do an apartment building , you have to make it affordable housing . The term is below market rents . So eighty five percent in order to get certain, I think they're called urban market credits, it's a credit from the government . And the credit is that just money that you get, credit means you get that money. It's charged against the cost. To get that credit , in this case, I believe it's eighty five percent of the apartments have to be below market. Well, of course they're going to be below market if they're twenty first and north . You're not going to get what they're charging in seven seventy seven the ascend two of the gleaming. You're not going to get what they're charging in the coture although hear those rents are going down . So three point six million he's already got . Now he's applying for the urban market credits and because he's gotten the urban market credits, he says he's gotten a big chunk of financing . Of course, you're getting a big chunk of financing. It's no risk for the developer if you know that the guy's got these credits that he can use to pay back that portion of the finance . Here's the kicker . Do you know how many apartments are going to be there? Forty five . We loan four million dollars so the guy can put up a building with forty five blasted apartments . How does this guy get this deal? I'll tell you how he gets this deal because he's Kaylon Haywood S r. This is broad daylight under everybody's beak , including my oversized one . The entire media knows about it . The vote in twenty nineteen to approve this was twelve to three despite the Milwaukee City comp roller saying this is a risky idea. We're probably not going to get our money back They were overridden by the city council and the strong support of the mayor, Tom Barrett, what a surprise is that he's got his fingerprints all over this boondigle? You know, Barrett, and Barrett's a guy that spent essentially all his life in government. He has a lawyer during the time he's in the legislature. Yeah, it would be a great catalyst for development if you could put four seasons in the middle of the hood in Milwaukee . It would also be great for me if I was twenty one years old again and still being this smart . There's a lot of things that would be great but are not going to happen I not only need to say I told you so on this , and it's not just a matter of spiking the football . It is drawing attention to the kind of crap that goes on with cl . It goes on in urban America and it goes on all the time among progressive leaders . Why are progressive leaders likelier to be corrupt than conservative leaders . Well, people in more conservative areas , they're pretty much against everything. It'd be like trying to put up a data seter . They're suspicious of all this stuff because they don't like spending money . The lefties want to spend they spend money right and left, raise taxes, raise taxes, raise taxes. They're not going to question any spending. And in this case, the spending is going to one of the godfathers of the central city in Haywood Singh . Another Milwaukee story. We have another street takeover over the weekend . I need to make the same comment on this issue that I make every time there's a street takeo ver. This one occurred on the south side near thirteenth initial . It is, that is a somewhat vibrant neighborhood. You've got it's also a neighborhood that is, you know, cl ashing with itself . For people not from Milwaukee, the third ward is the area just south of downtown, just on the south side of seven hundred ninety four . You go farther south and you get into the Walker's Point neighborhood. The Walkers Point is beyond the third ward . Walkers Point is kind of abridging this area or budding, I guess would be a better term. This is thirteenth, meaning thirteenth is the Milwaukee River, which divides east and west, say, zero, thirteenth. So it's a little bit west of that area. But in the Walkers Point area, there's a housing renaissance, a lot of restaurants have come in, a lot of gentrification , and The downtown for the Latino community on the south side , it's kind of in that area . So I mean, this isn't the pits of a neighborhood, but it's got a crime issue, but it's also got a lot of things going on. There was some sort of puerto Rican celebration over the weekend and there's some evidence that that had something to do with this, but I think you have to be careful in not blaming the people involved in the Puerto Rican celebration in the same way I, worry about june teeth day , which is coming up in a week and a half here . The people in charge of june day and participate in june day, they're not the ones that make a mess when there's trouble at june day. They're people that because of the fact that there's crowds around, choose these places to act up. So this is not an indictment of the Puerto Rican celebration, but they said in the street takeover, people carrying Puerto Rican flags, but anyway a, street takeover is when dozens, sometimes hundreds of young people come down and just create mayhem and there's so many of them that the cops seem to think that they're powerless to do anything about it. And this is my problem with it because the cops think that they're powerless to do anything about it, they don't do anything . And every time they don't do something, it encourages these to happen. Chicago's five years ahead of us on this. They have street takeovers constantly. I was just talking to a friend a few days ago, they went to Gibson's in Chicago for lunch on Friday . I said Gibson's great place. And that area in Rush Street used to be the one of the greatest urban areas in America. First of all, I don't have any desire to go down there anymore, but secondly, even if I had that desire, I just wouldn't do it . Michigan Avenue is almost abandoned . Those entertainment areas. The street takeovers and the wilding is the term the use of happens down there all the time. Yeah, I go down there for lunch . Chicago's police with the lefty mayors that they have don't do anything with these things occur. They just stand around and watch . So they keep occurring . We've had a lot of these takeovers go on in downtown Milwaukee. Some on Water Street in the bar area. There was one in Water Street near Wisconsin Avenue, which is not quite the bar, there's a lot of hotels and all that going on. And now there's one on the south side . They'll run around and they'll do burnouts of wheelies, yelling and screaming, hundreds of people playing loud music and just generally caus ing the ammon violate the law. Now, for the perspective of the police, if they tried to start arresting people, they feared that there would be a riot . And I grant you, there might be a riot . But there's no alternative unless you want this to simply occur all the time, and who does that harm? It destroys the quality of life of the people who live in that area. How do you like to be a hard working Latino family and you have to put up with this crap? It's scary . You go in there with a show of force, arrest as many people as you can . We used to use the term paddy wagons. And you know that that's now considered to be an ethnic slur? I think I might have asked you that already on the podcast. Apparently the Irish, that's where I didn't even know that's where it came from. The term paddy wagon apparently came from back in the eighteen hundred ' s when the drunks got the Irish got all drunk at the fire they throw them into the big thing and haul 'em all off to jail. They called a paddy wagon. I don't think any actual Irish are bothered by this, but anyway , put them in these big police vans that they have and haul him in there and then slow walk court appearance. None of this court appearance the next morning him, s it in jail . Well , and again, you're never going to arrest one hundred of them, but you can get twenty five or thirty and it can be miserable enough for them that they may realize there's a downside. Now again , everybody's a Helian when they're young. I wasn't enough of a Helian to do a street takeover, but I might have been enough of a helian to say Lacrosse used to have the big thing on Octoberfest. It was by the way a, police state when they did it. And if it wasn't a police state, that would have been a glorified street takeover that thousands of college students from across the country come to Lacrosse for Octoberfest. a law . You can't do public consumption in La Cross You can in a lot of cities. That means you can in many cities drink alcohol on the street . You can't in the Cross. All the students from La Cross knew you can't take the beer out of the bar and drink on the street in these plastic cups . The ones who came from all these other colleges, they got arrested right and left for public consumption, and the cops were just looking for any reason to arrest you, which kept Octoberfest from being the kind of riot . If they don't start cracking down and arresting people at this, even knowing that short term there will be terrible blowback , you're eventually going to have an out and out street takeover that becomes a riot where businesses are destroyed. Homes are people's homes are invaded. All of that is going to happen . Leftist cities are incapable of doing anything about this, which as I say, is why they're a lost cause. And now this Hutspa . Somehow that's not you're still allowed to say Hutzpah . I think it's because Hutspa actually is that a Yiddish word? You know the word Yiddish? All those terms that like Jewish people use, they say they're Yiddish, which is like I guess like a dialect that was kind of slang filled . Hutzpah . Gaul would be another way of saying it, but Gaul is like Hutzpa is like more gentle . Like Gaul is you're doing something just obnoxious. This isn't obnoxious. There's a quest to it . I've got today's Wall Street Journal. There is a full page ad . I have intimate knowledge of the contents of this ad. Some of you will understand what I'm talking about. Others of you will not, which is why I'll explain. The full page ad, the ad is taken out by Spain. It's probably from the economic development arm of Spain. And you'll see a lot of ads like this, you know, the tourism board and so forth and Saudi Arabia was doing a lot of them was Spain . The headline, there's a big giant picture. I'll describe the picture in a minute under it. The headl binuedild We pe . Good things are happening in Spain and then some sort of logo of Spain. All right, so that's what it says. And then it shows a construction site . The construction side is and again, you either you either know about this and if you know about it, you know everything or you don't know anything. There's very little in between . Do you know about Lasagrata Familia ? You're in the You don't know anything about it. You've never been to Barcelona that. Anybody who's been to Barcelona knows about this . I've been to Barcelona on a cruise. Thank God for all the cruises. We totally got to go a lot of great places. La Sagrada Familia is this church that's being built in Barcelona . It's possible that it's the most beautiful building on planet Earth. If you think that that's hyperbole , anybody that's ever went on a trip to Barcelona and they come back and tell you what they all say the same thing, the thing that I just said. And when people ask for tips if you go to Barcelona, you have to go to the church. They even say which you have to go to the church . The architect is a genius named Gaudi The church is unbelievably intricate The stone the interior is incredible. The stone work on the exterior . It's just this massive building I mean I can't even count the number of steeples. It looks to me like twenty five, including a giant steep le in the middle and then two giant ones that flank the one in the middle and across on the top . And there's all this lattice work at intricate. I mean moly, it's just unbelievable . Gaudi was described as insanely brilliant. And I think at some point you're so brilliant that you become insane. And the insanity is simply you do something that you can't do . But Gaudi had this vision of building this . This is the church that's in this head. We build peace . And you see, of course, in the thing with the church , and again, anybody who's been to this church now knows what I'm going to tell you going to see , you see all around the church one after the other, a zillion construction cranes . Because the church isn't done . They started building the church in eighteen eighty three . It's not done . So they're putting this thing up . We build peace . No, you're building peace. It's not done yet. Now, I know why they're running this now . Two months ago, take it back, four, February. In February, they topped it off . In other words, they completed the top . One hundred and forty three years after they started , they topped it off. But the entire construction , they've been shoving this date back for one hundred and forty years . Now it's twenty thirty four . Whatever it's about every time they change the date, I keep saying it won't be done by then . I don't think it will ever be done. I'm sure I'll be dead before it's done, but I think I could live to be two hundred and it wouldn't be done. Now obviously, they are doing it right and all of this work, even with the crews that they have, it just takes a long time, but nothing's ever taken this long. The real problem of course is, you know, Spain has these socialist tendencies to it . All the construction is labor union and they're not like the construction trades in the United States, which are hard working and get buildings done on time. You know, Spain also has like the, you know, they take the break. I don't know if they call them siestas still, but they take the mid afternoon break. They don't work very hard or very long there. That's why it takes a lot . So they're putting this thing up, we build peace. I mean, this is, as I say, this is Gaul. They're bragging about the construction of something that's one hundred and forty years in the process it isn't done . Even though it's not done, I mean they've been holding masks there for over one hundred years. You can still because it's like I say, it's mostly done and the interior is as beautiful as the exterior. You go into the interior. I mean, I've got pictures. Everybody goes there as pictures. It's I think it's one of the wonders of the world . But you look at it, there's still cranes hanging around all over the place and there's like scaffolding on the outside. So Spain's bragging about the building process of that isn't finished, and I know why they run the picture. First of all, it's an attention getting picture because the building is so beautiful. And secondly, if they wait until it's done, as I said before, they'll never be able to run the ad . You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast. If you've got a great looking car and you want it to look like its very best self, do what I did and take it to Charisma Customs. I wanted to protect my vehicle without doing a lot of maintenance. Charisma Customs makes it simple , paint protection film for chips, ceramic coating for long term shine, and ceramic tint for comfort and privacy. You'll be stunned by the finished result. Mine looks better than the day I bought it. Charisma Customs in Delafield , if you want your vehicle done right . This is the Mark Belling podcast . We've been here in Here in season two of the podcast spent several segments talking about Gen Z. That's the generation after the millennials, basically about twenty five hundred . And it started when we did a lot of discussion about this phenomenon that's going on of Gen Z returning to church , which they're doing in droves. There's since been follow ups in which it seems to be limited to almost entirely to urban gen Zers that this isn't got going on in rural areas or small towns. It's in the big cities. And I think that that makes some sense because the younger people that feel something most absent in their life would likely be the ones that are living in the godless big cities where the sense of lack of sense of community and so on would be most apparent. We've been discussing other things as well, including we did a couple of segments on this clash between Gen Z and the baby boomers. It started when Kevin O'Leary , Sharktank guy, commentator, nickname Mr. Wonderful , said it just drives him crazy that he hears these Gen Z's talking about the affordability thing when they're buying eleven dollar lattes. They go to Starbucks every morning and they go on four trips a year . How do you Of course things aren't affordable when you're spending money like you're fifty five and you're already a millionaire ? And the gen Zers just reacted with incredible anger over that saying the baby boomers had it easy, things were less expensive We gen Zeers have it way tougher . Anyway, now this , one of the other things that's been commented on is the difficulty the Gen Zers, and again, these are the youngest ones are the ones now entering the workforce are having transitioning from non employees to employees . They're the ones that are in there immediately talking about the work life balance and they don't want to work Fridays kind of like all the stuff that it took me until I was in my sixties to be able to do, they want now and many of them just don't seem to like working now, I've been blessed. I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid to shoot my big mouth off If I just had to do some other job in one of these offices or something, I don't know if I'd like the job either. But it was just all a given, whether you like your job or not, you have to have a job. Unless you're bored in the money, you have to have a job . And they're fighting this, and many of them are open to the notion of socialism where somebody's going to give them something for free because they don't want to have to do all this work together. Anyway, I got an interesting comment from a listener on this . I've been getting zillions of comments on the whole Gen Z thing and a lot of other issues, but this one was thought provoking . And I generally share stuff that I think this person's figured it out, and I think that there's a lot of truth to this. I won't read his name, I'll read the end of this. I've got some additional points that I haven't heard anyone else mention about the constant whining that the Gen Zers do. I will preface this by admitting that the cost of living is obviously higher than previous generations have had to deal with. That being said , they need to adapt and learn to sacrifice . One major reason I think a lot of young people have trouble finding or keeping a job. Now here's the, point that he getss to, and it' a male that's writing this. And I think it's a very good point. I've hinted at this in a couple of earlier comments over the years. One major reason I think a lot of young people have trouble finding or keeping a job is because they've never even had a part time job . I think this is it . So they leave college never having worked before and are now overwhelmed by the reality of jumping to a forty hour work week . They never had a stepping stone . It's like going from playing high school baseball to be thrown being thrown right into the majors and being completely unqualified to make the leap . On the other hand, forty hours was the minimum for older generations . Let me interject it that way. That's correct. For the bitching about the forty hour week, forty was the minimum. I don't think until I got into my third year here in Milwaukee that I worked less than forty hours After that, I could get away with, you know, the show was three, three and a half hours long. I could get away with say three to three and a half hours of show prep . That's about seven hours. I'm always thinking about the show and that was my other thing so they'd be a little bit under forty hours. Those who were working full time . Forty hours is the minimum . Forty hours is the kind of thing that you did if you had like a factory job or an hourly job, and anything else would be over time . Anybody that's working in any kind of field you're going to get, of course, you're working both for forty hours . You're coming in a lot of Saturdays, you're working at home, it's part of the deal. Now, this is the point that the person is making. For all these generations prior to the Gen Z years , forty wasn't like I got, we're going to work forty. Forty is the least you could get away with if you wanted to make enough money, continuing My parents both had second jobs in the eighties to go along with their nearly twenty percent mortgage rate. That's the other point he makes. Gen Z is complaining about the cost of housing. A lot of people emerge from the cost of housing and if you don't have a lot of money, the biggest part of the cost of housing is the interest rates. Mortgage rates are still way lower than they've been for most of the last fifty to sixty years . And he's right, you think about the number of people that are part time job s . It was just a stable Guide work a couple of nights as a bartender . Somebody work weekends doing this . Mom would often have three part time jobs, waitress here, do this there . And it was never considered like that's an onerous thing. That's just, okay, this is just what we do . Now the point that this person is making is those people, in fact, almost everybody prior to maybe the middle of the millennials transitioned to full time work . I had my first job when sixteen was the law in Wisconsin. You could work younger than that if it was a family business . And I'm not counting working side gigs like babysitting and all of that, but some people did that some kids did that too. Babysitting or yard work, you know, cut the neighbor's lawn when you're thir before you go into actual formal work. You could work in a business as a regular employee under sixteen when I was a kid. If it was a family owned business, but to be an actual on the books employee, you needed a social security number the whole thing, , W two's on a payroll. I was sixteen. And that's when I started . Started by working for the city . You know, teens all this and that's who did all the part time jobs, kids . Worked in college, I worked . Pretty much everybody I knew I worked other than the kids that were so stoned on drugs that they couldn't work. And that was a problem even then. But I already worked. How else would you have any money? Your mom and dads were gonna give you all this money That worked to put myself to college . I did have a loan. It was tiny by the standards of today. The loan was enough to pay my bills for about one year out of the five trip to get out of college . But the point that he's making is this, that business is starting to work right away when you're a kid. That's your transition. You start gradually growing into the notion of this is what you're going to do. And you know, I was a kid, everybody you're in for that . We weren't these my generation was not the one that wanted to stay at home all day. All we want to do was get out. Well, getting out meant you were totally on your own and totally on your own was that you had to work full time so you could live . Everybody wanted that . Now I realize time changed , but I think that the point that the person is making and sending me this is , I guess it would have been, I imagine if I just didn't work in high school, went to college, didn't work in college , didn't work on the student newspaper, which was actually a paying job. In addition to all the other things that I did to make money . And I just suddenly at the age of twenty two, I'm suddenly going from never having worked to working forty or in my case it was sixty hours then . Of course I would not be ready for more, but a culture shock . Now there's a lot of things that have changed. People don't like to use babysitters anymore because just frank, it's a real problem. I don't know that I trust a babysitter freak s and perverts and people doing terrible things with their kids and some of the younger people not being as responsible. There's still people that do it and they're very, very good at it but The old lady down the street, old lady down the street, the older lady down this is whose grass the people in my era would cut. You know, there'd be a grandma, probably a widow . She didn't want to cut the grass anymore so she'd hire the kid down the street cut the grass at all of that . I don't think I'm not saying nobody wants to do it. It's just really declined . Back to his fees. One of the reasons I think we have a housing crisis is because most people want to live alone whether they can afford to or not . You know , I've never heard anybody make this point . Again, I go back and I know that this all saw when I was a kid , but in fact , it's not just when I was a kid. It's when Jason who's one generation younger than me, he's in the XRs, and Paul was in the XR's . And I even think it was a big chunk of the millennials because some of them admits just stayed at home, but they were the ones that did everything in groups. You had roommates . I don't know how I would have lived in college if I didn't have roommates . I had to live in the dorm for the first year. It was required. They let you leave them by the dorms are overcapacity. So you almost you could have stayed, but encourage you to be , I didn't I hated the dorm . You know, sharing a bathroom with eighty, grungy, ugly, pathetic guys . Anyway , so instead I moved into a dump with four guys. I always had roommates. Because how else could you afford these shacks that we lived in ? And then when you're in your early twenties, you have roommates until you make enough money that you can live alone anyway back to the person's point . Is most people want to live alone, whether they can afford to or not. Well, again , of course they want to . Young people used to sacrifice by getting a crappy apartment and cramming two or three roommates together to afford a place. He's speaking to me. Did you have to do that? Your parents give you a ton of money when you're you grew up in displays. My guess is you were middle class, right? Yeah . Did you get married earlier? I don't know Jason's backroad because he's just rather recent. So when you started out working, you know in your early twenties, you probably lived in dumpy places and all of that, right? Yeah . That's the roommate. It's the normal thing. So I mean, it's not just baby boomers saying this. This is pretty much the norm until very recently . We also bought used cars that were beaters. Again , I remember my first new car . It was like the cheapest new car you could buy. It was a two seater . It was in ' eighty four . I bought it was a great car. The Hond oriaginal, Honda CR X great car . This is back when no cars had horsepower. It was less than one hundred horsepower, but the handling was unbelievable because the car was it was a fun car . And my recollection was it was about nine thousand five hundred ten thousand dollars, cheap . Prior to that, I had baters . I milked my brilliant sixty eight Camero convertible, which when I bought, we didn't know it was a classic, then it was just an eight year old used car. I milked that for all the way through college and then I had the same car Maverick and Lincoln Mercury had the same car with different names, even as they do now , I think it was the Maverick and then the Lincoln Mercury was the comet. I might be wrong about that, but I had those back to back each lasted a year. One was totaled when somebody did something terrible to it. I had baters. I still remember buying one of them. There was a I'll tell this story. I'm telling everything now. Back in Springfield back I sounded like an old man talking in the nursing home in here. Maybe there's a probably a future for that kind of podcast, podcast for old farts . Except I've got like all these young people listening. I think maybe they find these stories fascinating . There is this legendary car salesman in Springfield . He's got to be dead. He has to be dead. You know, when you're in your twenties, anybody that's fifty seems like they're really, really old. He's got to be dead. He worked for he was a sales manager for the Ford dealer in Springfield. It was just a legend. He could sell anything . He decided I'm not going to work for anybody anymore. He bought a used car lot and he bought it on a really high profile street in Springfield. I think it was called Clear Lake Avenue. Guys name was Siam McCurley . Well, Sied, I used car a lot in which he sold the kind of cars that somebody like me would have been in the market for. And I think the thing I think it was called Si's Auto sales or whatever . And I think this might have been the Maverick, it might have been the comet. I don't remember which one it was. I think the comet was orange or black, which I loved because that was my high school colors. And nobody had an orange or black car. And he added on the lod ge. And it's stickered for eleven hundred . This one I thought this is a cool looking car, it's what I can afford but I'm not paying eleven hundred dollars . From I've always loved to bargain. I've just always loved to dick her. Many people hate this. I don't well, like at least car salesmen, that's all they do did was dicker. Size is eleven hundred. I say nine hundred nine hundred . I know the eleven hundred is it real and he knows my nine hundred isn't real . ten fifty , he says. nine twenty five. He went down fifty. I go up in twenty nine forty five . Can't do it . I finally said nine hundred fifty . He said, I'll go to one thousand . So now he's down one hundred bucks . I said, I can't do it. And in my case, that fifty dollars that was meaningful. There was no bank loans for something like this at this point and not credit cards. I mean, I had to pay in cash and I was doing better in Springfield than in the earlier cities, but that was all I could afford. So I said , I can't do it, Sy. nine hundred fifty is all I can do . And I left . And by the time I hit the sidewalk of his parking lot, Sy's running losing his breath. Mark, mark. Show me the car for nine hundred fifty . I still remember that because I think I beat Sy, and that's the genius of guys who were good at car sales. He probably beat me. He was probably willing to sell that thing for even less than that all along. But the genius car salesmen are the ones that let you think you beat them. Ay, he's a great guy . Everybody liked him. He was a good guy. And it was fair value for the car. I liked the car. The point is you should have seen that thing. It looks like seven, eight, nine years old . Get some rust on it . That's what you did , which is the point that this guy's making . Back to his fees . They see, referring to the Gen Z, they see millennials and baby boomers with a nice car and a nice house , but don't understand that those weren't attained overnight. Most people had a crappy car and worked their way up . Most people bought a starter home or a fixer upper . They, on the other hand, feel entitled that they deserve the dream car and dream house now. The point he's making is when they talk about housing being unaffordable , that's because their housing that they want to live in is the ascent . And the home that they want to buy is in a cul de sac in Brookfield as opposed to a starter house on the southwest side of the city of Milwaukee or the east side of West Alice . Well, but I don't want to live there. See, that's the thing. Well, I want to live there . You want to be living the life of success before you've done a damn thing is the point that he's making . Back to the piece . They on the other hand feel entitled that they deserve the dream car and dream house now. They see the end result and not the sacrifices. These, of course, are all things on the top of the fact that they refuse to sacrifice not having stream noting having every streaming service, good point that he makes . I think I have every streaming service . I've worked my whole life so that I don't have to I don't have to I got to watch the Formula One race yesterday because I do have Apple TV . This is a mistake. The sports leagues are putting all the stuff on streaming services. It maybe is the greatest automobile race in the world, the Formula One of Monaco, the Grand Prix of Monaco. You know, they run on the streets of Monica Carlo, it's along the Mediterranean, it's beautiful thing . Couldn't watch it if you didn't have it on if you didn't have Apple TV . His point is they have every streaming service . How can you have every streaming service if you're not well off ? This is the guy's point here about Gen Zer's artificial affordability crisis is artificial. Not having every streaming service, having to make sandwich for lunch or brew their own coffee, God forbid. This is the point Mr. Wonderful was making . Well, don't go to Starbucks. Make your own coffee . Why are you going to lunch They still sell bread at the store and you don't even have to use the Oscar Mayer Brown Schweger. You can get the high end deli meat, another overpriced item, not good for you . But they don't make their own lunch. They can't even make their own coffee, continuing . Or not taking expensive vacations on the credit card. Our family vacation was a couple nights in the Dells until my parents saved up to take us to California when we were teenagers . He goes on. So the point that he's making here with regard to the Gen Z is they're facing this affordability crisis because their case are those of somebody twenty five years older than them, that they resent that people older than them have certain lifestyles, not understanding , that those people didn't have that lifestyle until they got kind of at the age group that they're at now . Part of it, I suppose is you grow up well healed, affluent family, house in the suburbs and you're thinking that's what you should be able to have. No, you're going to have to go twenty to thirty years living in a dump and scraping together two nickels to make a time and working more than forty hours and getting a part time job and working really hard to move ahead in your company and strategizing that you have a certain skill and do something that isn't going to be replaced by AI and driving a used Buick rather than a new Nissan all this stuff. And no, you don't get to go on vacation. If you're going on vacation, maybe it's once a year. When you go there, you're going to stay in a two star hotel, not a four star. But again, a lot of people don't want to hear that. Now the other point that he made though that I wanted to go back to that I thought was the key point . The being dumped into the workplace without ever having worked a part time job at all. I think that was revealing real quickly. With regard to jobs, the latest jobs report came out on Friday, and it was interesting because it had boomed. This is a very weird economy . There's clearly some inflation particularly driven by oil . There's clearly anxiety on the part of the consumer But we don't seem to be headed to a recession even though some things are slowing down. I hear restaurants are empty, a lot of stuff . But hiring keeps increasing. Now, obviously, the numbers can be manipulated by Trump's people in the same way that Biden's people manipulated them. We're talking here one hundred seventy two thousand new jobs and it beat everybody's expectations . One of the things that this begs is whether or not AI is indeed going to displace a lot of workers . Peace I want to share on that . This is written by Steven Leway and it was in the Wall Street Journal. I'm always attracted to people who have a take on things that's not the same take as everybody else's . And he's making the point here that we're worried about that fact the headline. We're preparing for the wrong AI labor crisis. I'm going to read this, but I'm going to give you one of his bullet points at the end. AI's going to displace a lot of jobs, no doubt , but it's going to result in the creation of many others . And one of the things, particularly if you're young that you need to strategize for yourself is how to get the hell out of the jobs that are likely to be displaced by AI . And I would say that that's damn near anything that does a lot of software stuff. That's not me, not the writer. I just in my envisioning of this , some software companies, including giant ones are going to have no business anymore because AI is going to do what the software does. Anyway, but this is going to create the need for numerous other businesses. Let me share his point. Peace. And again, I'm not endorsing all of this because I'm not sure , but he makes interesting arguments . On artificial intelligence, Senators Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders, Republican and Democrat sound less like ideological opponents than participants in the same panic. Both warned that AI will significantly disrupt the white collar work force. Both support stronger federal intervention to monitor and manage the employment effects of automation . Both justify that intervention by framing AI as it is stabilizing force. Their concerns reflect real change in the labor market. Entry level hiring has weakened in white collar industries. Internship competition has intensified. Let me interject . All right, first thing that I would notice is , twenty twenty one, two , maybe your focus shouldn't be white collar . One of the things that's going to happen as a result of AI is there's going to be more gadgets, gizmos, machines, all sorts of other stuff that still in most cases are going to require a human being to deal with. A friend of mine is having some marble busted out of her home today . AI is it doing that? By the way, the loudest sound in the world is somebody having a floor in a high rise bus set up . Sound travels up and down. You ever heard marble being broken Deafening . You could take a jack hammer to like I don't know what,'s the hardest substance in the world? Lead 's up there . Corporate hierarchies are flattening. Firms are redirecting spending toward AI infrastructure and AI specialized talent . Yet the notion that the economy faces mass technological unemployment doesn't fit the evidence and risks prompting legislation aimed at the wrong problem. Recent corporate announcements explain why the political panic feels persuasive. Meta, that's Facebook, plans to reduce its workforce by roughly ten percent while expanding investment in AI and scrapping plans to hire for thousands of positions. Amazon CEO Andy Jassie instructed senior leadership teams to increase the ratio of staff to managers by at least fifteen percent flattening organizational layers. Let me interject. This is the kind of thing that should be going on in government like the public schools. Get rid of almost all the supervisors, all the specialists and have more of it go into actual teachers. This is what's happening throughout the workplace because AI can do a lot of the supervision, but you're still going to need the worker bees back to the bees. Similar restructuring has appeared across technology, consulting, and corporate service, especially in functions to routine reporting, coordination and standardized analytical production . These developments appear to support fears of widespread labor displacement, but the broader market continues to show relatively stable aggregate demand for labor. In March, the unemployment rate stood at four point three percent close to both the Federal Reserve's estimate of long run normal unemployment and CBO projections for the coming decade . Total non farm payroll employment increased by one hundred seventy eight thousand jobs during the month , while healthcare added seventy six thousand jobs and averaged roughly twenty nine thousand new jobs a month over the prior year. The emerging pattern looks less like collapsing demand for labor than a reorganization of work . This has happened forever . It's certainly happening in the field that I'm in . AI is disproportionately compressing the bottom layer of white collar production , drafting, summarizing, coding , documentation, reporting, and routine analytical work. These tasks historically absorbed large numbers of early career workers because they were time consuming and costly to perform. AI systems now execute , many of them rapidly and at far lower cost . Research from Rebellio Labs found that U. S. entry level job postings have fallen roughly thirty five percent since January of twenty twenty three , with highly AI exposed entry level postings declining more than forty percent. Internship markets show similar pressure. Handshake data indicate that internship listings have softened while applications for posting have nearly doubled since twenty twenty three. Research conducted for Deal found that sixty six percent of enterprises expect to slow entry level hiring because of AI level restructuring , while ninety one percent report roles are already changing or disappearing because of AI. Employers are also changing how they evaluate workers. Employer surveys indicate a substantial shift away from GPA based screening towards skills based hiring. Remember this ? GPA, that's your grade point, the grades you got in college. Skills based hiring what can you do ? I've been on this for ten years . We have a skills shortage and we have a surplus of people with good grad es. A, the grades are all inflated . And B, you can graduate from a college I know with great grades and not know how to do a damn thing . You got to learn how to do something . And often that means not college and certainly not some majors in college. And even if you're in a major in college of the skill, you better be somebody who starts doing it Employers increasingly emphasize demonstrated competencies, project based experiences and practical problem solving abilities . More than one third of entry level positions now explicitly require AI related skills . These developments, in other words, what they're saying is if we are going to go in a white collar position, instead of being afraid of AI, you better be one of those people that knows how to use AI . In addition to that , skills, and this is where we get to a lot of the trades and things related to the trade, knowing how to do something As AI replaces some of the lower rungs of the professional ladder, businesses lose the system that historically made inexperienced graduates into trusted professionals. That's the point. The way it's always worked in the past is, okay, somebody who's green comes in straight out of college or straight out of a trade school or straight out of something. Go into the workplace, you don't know a damn thing. But as you work for that company, you start learning things and you move up. Well, as fewer of them are being hired, you don't have that same group moving up by learning things because they were never hired in the first place. That's the point that he's making continuing. Congress debates AI related reporting mandates, displacement monitoring systems, and workfor ce transition programs built around assumptions of widespread technological unemployment. The bipartisan AI related Jobs impact clarity act would require firms to report layoffs substantially due to AI These approaches risk, institutionalizing the wrong labor market model , precisely when flexibility and organizational adaptation matter most . Organizing workforce policy around displacement measures would likely expand bureaucracy and tie off resources in tracking layoffs, monitoring AI risk and subsidizing retraining. Bad legislation could have serious consequences. Firms facing political scrutiny might become more reluctant to experiment with new organizational structures or productivity enhancing workflows. Universities might redesign curricula around anticipated AI displacement rather than the skills employers actually demand . Workers might exist professions prematurely even where long run demand remains strong . The central challenge posed by AI, then, likely isn't that it will cause mass unemployment, but that it will force businesses and institutions to redesign the program s and mechanisms by which workers can gain skills and acquire good judgment . AI poses labor market risks. Entry level compression is real, and transition costs for younger workers may prove substantial , but America is unlikely to face a future without work. The greater risk is that Washington preparing for the wrong labor market shock enacts policies that make it more difficult to adapt a rather thought provoking piece and I think he's on to something. You're listening to the Mark Bellingpod guess . How much would it take for you to be wealthy and financially comfortable. Schwab recently asked Americans that question most 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 Wealth Management, give them a call, know the difference This is the Mark Belling podcast. All right, there are three groups of people here . One of them is the group that knows everything about the two words that I'm going to say . The second group is the group that knows nothing of those two words and they mean zero to them . And then the third is the group that they've heard of the two words , but don't know anything about it . Everyone of you falls into one of these three groups, very little gray on them either. Kimi Antonelli . All right , a certain percentage of you know all about this . Some of you don't know a damn thing . And then there are others, yeah, I think I've heard that name . I'm here to discuss this . Kimi Anelli is a driver in Formula One . Now the thing with Formula One is that it is a very team oriented sport . One team and most teams have two cars, two drivers, tends to dominate an entire season . Formula One is the type of auto racing. It's like what indie car was in the past. There was an indie five hundred ones that ended with five cars still running. There were Indy five hundreds of which only one car was on the lead lap at the end. Well, that's kind of boring. Well, that's sort of what Formula One is . The races tend not to be close , the fields are spread out , and unlike say NASCAR or even Indicar, there's very little constant driving, passing, bumping, et cetera. Formula One, the car with the best setup and the best engineering tends to win . And there are teams that simply haven't figured out with their equipment for a year and they win again and again and again and again and again. So you have these seasons in which one driver seems to a couple of years ago, Max Verstappen won almost every race. And there have been drivers like this over the years. They're with the right team and they just keep winning . Prior to him, there was Lewis Hamilton in a couple of years in which he won almost every race . There have been others, Michael Schumacher going back in the day won just about every race for a few years . There's a lot of them. There've been six races this year. Kimanelli has won five , including the last five, and the most recent one was yesterday, which is the big Formula One race. The glamorous Grand Prix of Monaco, it's the one. They've changed the day. It used to be it used to coincide . We used to it was always in the past the Sunday before our Memorial Day . So you had the three biggest races of each sport on the same. You had the Coca Cola six hundred for NASCAR, the indie five hundred and the Grand Prix of Monica used to all run them on the same day. Well, this schedule's changed, and the Grand Privaco was this past weekend . Formula O used to be on ESPN where dog un near anybody could see it. And now it's on Apple TV for way more money. And I just wonder how many people see the streaming services, they don't really count viewership because they don't care how many people watch a specific thing. They only care about whether you subscribe to the service. If you're on Apple TV, you don't pay extra for this race . So Apple TV only cares that you subscribe to Apple TV. They don't care what you watch once you're on Apple TV. Anyway The thing that makes the Kimi Adenelli story interest ing is he's nineteen . He's the youngest Formula One driver ever . Formula One is considered to be the highest level of automobile racing. In part , there are fewer drivers that qualify for the big race on the Sunday. Each team has generally only the two drivers there, and you usually have to work your way up. There's a Formula two and there's Juniors and all of this other stuff and you work your way up through the lower levels of road racing to be able to get there. These are the best of the best. Often drivers who wash out in Formula One come to America and ride an indie car. Way back in the day you had people who could just ride anything . And they'd drive in every kind of automobile race that there was and would go to Formula One and go to America indic they'd get into NASCAR, they'd drive midgets and so on. Now there's a greater level of specialization, but Formula One drivers are thought to be the best in the world. They're certainly the best in road racing . And Kimi Adenelli at nineteen is already there. In addition to that , he's now won five races in a row at the age of nineteen . The youngest , the five youngest drivers to win a Formula One race are all him. Every week he's a week older . So some people are saying you can't go so far as to annoy him as being this incredible superstar because the team that he drives for, he drives from Mercedes is this year winning all the races. And in fact, there have been six races. Mercedes has won all of them. Annelli's teammate, George Russell won the first, and Annalli has won the last five. My caveat to that is these two guys drive essentially in the same equipment. These teams basically have the same equipment package and the same technicians and so on for both cars. George Russell's not didn't win half the races. He won one and an Elli's won five . Now, George Russell yesterday was making all sorts of mistakes and had bad luck . still And he had a dominant car and finished driving fairly close to the top. My point on Kimi Annelli is and why I think this is a real thing . He was good enough for Mercedes to hire him . They hired him last year. Last year was his first year with the team. Mercedes was not the dominant. For the last number of years, Red Bull was the dominant team. This Ferrari was very good last year. McLaren's had its moments. And this year Mercedes seems to have it. But Mercedes hires only the best . And he was one of them . So at the age of nineteen, he looks like he's going to be out of path now where he's going to win almost all the races this season at an age in which you simply have always traditionally required more experience to learn all of the nuances of this kind of thing than he has. I think he has the potential. I didn't say he is, the potential to be one of the greatest of all time . Then people debate who the greatest of all time is. I'm old, so I'm going to go back and say a dinosaur. It's like old farts say that really Really old farts . We'll never even say that Kirim Abdul Jabar was the greatest of all time. Then see some people will say Magic Johnson, I think it's Jordan. But then others are going to try to claim Kobe Bryant and now you have the whole Lebron thing which, he's not the greatest of all time. What he is is the guy who has sustained it for a longer period of time than anybody else. In that respect, he's like Karim . I don't think you can go on pure wins because they run more racism than they did in the past. I think I didn't really see this guy race because the races weren't on TV and I was a kid when he died, but Jim Clark by enough of what I've read, I'd say he was the greatest driver of all time. I mean, this is the guy that would win formula one that he came to the United States and won India, died really early, died in a crash in nineteen sixty eight . But Kenyan elli is now unbeatable in a sport where anybody who's ever won a race is always in their twenties and some into their thirties . It's not just that he's on the hot team and winning every week, it's that the team that is at that top already knew that this guy was such a phenomenon that they gave one of their two spots to somebody who was eighteen . He's now nineteen. Now everybody knows who Kim an Elli is You know about this? You're into sports, but not everybody's into formula, not into formula one. But as I say, by the middle, he's at the point where because you're into sports, he's now going to be covered so much that it's like me in the WNBA. I never watched the WNBA, but of course I know who Caitlin Clark is because she's such a phenomenon and a few of the others or I only watch hockey during the Stanley Cup, but there's always going to be one or two guys that you know about because of what they are. And that's the level that I remember when Dale Earnhardt sried . He died in a crash at the end of the Netona five hundred . And his death was put on page one of the New York Times