Summerfest and Garth Brooks

The Mark Billing podcast is presented by ULINE. For quality shipping and industrial supplies, ULINE has everything in stock. Visit youline. com . The Mark Belling podcast is a production of iHart radio podcasts . One of the points that I've made is whenever left ists accuse conservatives of something , that thing that they're accusing them of is actually the thing they are doing . You know, their big thing for a couple of years is threat to democracy, threat to democr acy, threat to democracy . Yet they are the ones that are threatening democracy In particular , I think if you add up all of the problems, all of the crises that are affecting the United States right now , this one is number one . The level of leftist hate and rage has now gotten to the point in which we are very, very close to violent insurrection, mass killing, wiping out of people I know that sounds like hyperbole , but have you followed what this UFC plot was ? They were going to use drones to kill everybody there . Drones that would attack the White House and slaughter all of the people attending the UFC event. Do you see how many people were involved in this . Where did this come from ? Now I don't want to pretend that assassinations are new in American history. They've been going on as long as we've had a country . They seem to come in spurts . The nineteen sixties were really bad . But what we see right now is that you don't just have random lunatics , but rather larger groups of people that have become so radicalized, so monstrous that they believe that they are doing good by slaughtering . I think we need to look at A where this is coming from , and B, what the threat is to our nation if it continues first, have you ever been offered an add on option for premium or white glove service? Uline provides only one type of service and that's the best. From knowledgeable customer service available twenty four seven three sixty five to keeping every product in stock ready to ship the same day, when your business needs quality shipping supplies, reliable warehouse equipment or office furniture fast , contact Uline and get the best service because Uline believes service is essential , not an option. The bullet point. FBI disrupts alleged explosive drone plot targeting White House U FC event . Signal chats, signal is one of those apps that people use to kind of text one another . Signal chats allegedly revealed twenty three people discussing pre operational activity . What's striking about this is they don't appear to be Muslim terrorists. We face that problem now for several decades . We obviously had the attack that took out the Twin Towers in New York and did damage to the Pentagon and the fourth one the one that was crashed in the field that was trying to hit theit Capol . That problem, that threat has been around for a while . These are regular old Americans . And when you see the story, twenty three of them discussing it , this isn't one wing nut . We can go back perhaps and say the closest thing that we had to this is whatever happened with JFK . Some believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone . Others believe that there were a whole lot of people including the mob that were involved in it . We've still never solved that, but even that was a one off . There were numerous other attempts to kill Kennedy. Who knows, maybe there would have been had he lived . But here we are now . It's not just this constant attempt to kill Trump . It's the willingness of large masses of groups of people to kill anybody who might have some association with Trump going so far I mean there are a lot of people who follow UFC who probably aren't political at all . They were willing to kill all of them because the plot was foiled . We tend to look the other way at it . But it was foiled only because in this instance there were so many people involved and some of the messages were intercepted . Thankfully, our FBI and Secret Service are much better than they were only a couple of years ago , and they got to this. By the way, they've got , I've got a mugshot photo of one of the guy that's the closest thing to the ring leader I mean, the problem with mugshots is since you know that that's the person that they've arrested, they always look guilty because most people arrested who are guilty. So you always look he looks exactly like I would have Years ago he would have looked like something else . You'd be thinking that he'd be somebody who was Muslim who had radical eyes and so on instead now , it's this dark doofus white, guy profile . The sense of alienation if you think of the term alienated young male , you can always visualize what they look like. I mean, this guy has it all . He's nineteen and he's already almost bald. And I'm not talking shaved head bald. He just has already lost his hair and of course he's got the stupid beard and then he's got the look in his face of he looks like one of these guys that would plot to commit mass murder and then the moment he got arrested start crying for Mommy Quoting from the Fox News report, five people were in custody. Investigators identified twenty three people as part of a potential network of plotters. The alleged plan involved using explosive laden drones . This is the threat . Drones are the threat to everything . The military is using drones , terrorists are using drones . You can ban drones as much as you want, but we still don't have very good technology to knock a drone out from entering airspace that it's not supposed to enter . So they're going to put a bunch of explosives on the drones and drop them on this massive crowd on Sunday night to hit buildings near the event forcing a mass evacuation and ste er crowds toward a pre stage sniper team. So now this is somewhat well thought out. Blow up these buildings on the exterior and then everybody starts charging out and they have an evacuation route because they're planning for this and this is where they be gunned down . Fortunately , they all look to me like idiots . But that's the thing . It's real easy for even an idiot to kill someone in the society that we live in . According to a criminal complaint, the guy by the way that's seemingly the ringleader in this, his name is Tyson Proper . According to a criminal complaint, Proper allegedly spent three thousand dollars of his graduation money to purchase lots of ammunition guns, extra magazine, and other items for the alleged attack. Authorities estimated that several boxes of ammunition that Proper had allegedly acquired contained thousands of rounds. It is also alleged that Proper acquired an AR style rifle , a bull pup rifle painted with the American flag, and two plate carriers with AR style magazines. His family voluntarily turned over the equipment to law enforcement. And it goes on. Where is this coming from? Clearly , it's all part of this anti Trump hatred . And I don't think you can deal with this story without dealing with that . The reality is as we're seeing clearly in his second term , that Donald Trump is a moderate to conservative president . His whole approach to the Iran war has dissatisfied people on the warmonger side and on the Peace Nick side . He clearly isn't a Bush Cheney type who wanted to go into Iran , have a ground invasion and topp thele govern ment . But he's also not somebody who is going to be isolationist and allow the Iran threat to grow worse without us doing something about it . His trade policy, his trade policy is not overtly conservative . For most of my life, conservative economic policy was for free trade, no restrictions whatsoever , and it was the lefties that wanted protectionism and t ariffs on issues pertaining to DEI , gender ideology? It seems to me that he's focused primarily on the common sense American values of the middle class, and again, the middle class was always the group that it was the leftist it focused on. If you go back and take a look when Trump leaves office in a couple of years , I think that you will find that his presidency was one that came pretty much from the center to center right. There are some issues in which he's clearly conservative. Even the issue he so strongly identified with the border . Until about fifteen years ago, enforcement of the border was a bigger democratic issue. The rhetoric of Bill Clinton on the border was off the charts because that was the time in which the Democrats wanted to protect American low income jobs from foreigners who were going to come in and undercut them . The only thing that would provoke this kind of hatred from the left to Trump is his tone and his style . Trump is the rare conservative who dishes it out harder than they can hit him . And I think that this has just triggered a left that has become godless , amoral , and wiggled out. Now I think some on the left, the politicians in particular , they're faking all of this . They rage against Trump for political purposes . But these messages are being heard by millions of people who buy into it . The thing about America is , you know, they go on to the whole No Kings thing and all of that. The thing about America is nobody lasts very long. We have elections every four years, the Congress is every two years, the Senate is every six, the President is every four . And for the history of the country, control of the country has gone back and forth . It's what it does. No matter how much you despise Trump , he's not a long term threat to anything . Just as he has undone a lot of what Biden did , if some left ie gets in there next, they can undo everything that Trump did . So why this rage, why this fear, why this hatred? They are preying, I think, upon a large subset of people that are unhappy contributors to this . Sadly , some on what is increasingly the crackpot right . I'm not referring to the right. I'm referring to a subset of the right that may not even be right anymore that seems to have gone into either crackpotism or very, very cynically pushing issues just to get attention. I'll use as an example of this, Candace Owens . The Charlie Kirk Murder is an exact example of what I'm talking about with regard to this hatred on the left . Rather than focus on the guy that overwhelmingly likely is the guy that did it , the guy with the furry boyfriend who took the shot and then who se ammunition was found, you've got people like Candace the ones out there running around claiming that this is some sort of plot that Charlie Kirk's widow was involved in. Not only is that despicable , it distracts our attention from the fact that we have this huge segment of people that are so filled with hatred that they think the noble thing to do is to start slaughtering any of us on the right . Many of them are people who I think are just chronically unhappy and then fall for gender change or think that the most alternative lifestyle is going to make them happier and it doesn't. They just become even more miserable. So now they've blamed on well, these people are bigoted against me. They're the ones responsible. And this fuels their hate, but it's not like looneyism is a brand new thing in this country . We've had extremists as long as there's been a nation, extremists on the left, extremists on the right . We had a country filled with communists after World War two. Whether you agree with the so called witch hunts that went on or not, there were active open communists . We had the Klan . Kuku's Klan was pretty powerful and pretty large . But neither of those groups was setting out to slaughter the leaders of the country and their supporters. This is a new and very dangerous thing I'm not going to connect these two because it's not the exact same thing, but I want to get into this whole Trump derangement syndrome that I think is at the core of this larger problem that I just mentioned right now of the desire for mass murder. JD Vance went on the view. I'm doing this podcast on Wednesday. He went on the view. I think it was Tuesday . Now the biggest question I've gotten is why did he do this ? Well , I have some theories on that. First of all, we all know that JD Vans intends to run for president in twenty eight . He's also better than just about any Republican I've ever seen at handling this incoming. When he goes on those Sunday morning shows, no matter who it is, he doesn't get all hot under the collar like Trump. He just stays calm . He never takes their bait , he disarms them. I think he went in there knowing that they weren't going to be able to lay a glove on him. Now, he knew this. They'd be doing nothing but throwing punches , but face it . With the exception maybe of the one woman who's afraid to speak out much, you're talking four really stupid people that are on that panel. And JD Vance, no matter what you think of him, is a very, very smart guy. Say figure, what can they do to me? And indeed, they didn't do much of anything to him. It got so bad that you never know which one of the view is going to be the most deranged. Apparently it was Anna Barro who got the most unhinged here. Goldberg needed to go to Whoopi Goldberg passes off as the host of the show. Remember when it was Barbara Walters? The view was terrible and little did we know that those were the glory days of the view . So Whoopi's trying to go to a break. It's still a network TV show. They got to take commercials. And Navarro won't shut up. And she's the music, Vance tries to say something and she's ratting and raving and screaming at him, and Whoopi Goldberg tells her to shut up . Said stop . So you got them barking at each other so unhinged were they . I think the reason Vance did it is so he can demonstrate to people on the right, I can take on anything . Did it serve any purpose him going on there? Probably not. He isn't going to sway anybody around to his side. He's not going to impress anybody on the left by the fact that he showed up and he did it . And in terms of demonstrating how unhinged those looney those looney women are, everybody already who thinks that they're looney already knew that. So no, not much was accom plished, but he and Rubio are the two conservatives who I think are better than almost anybody at being able to you saw Rubio when he testified before the Congress a couple of weeks ago in which it just became this complete lunatic show in which they're screaming and yelling at him and asking idiotic questions and he just called it out for that. So that's why I think he did it. Nonetheless , consider the tone of that. He's the vice president of the United States . This is a network television talk show . That's how he's traded. Now there aren't any equivalent situations because Lefties never go on programs hosted by the right. In fact, Bill Maher, who's somewhere between left and center is always complaining on his shows I can't get any leftist leaders to come on the show . But the Conservatives, they all show up . They're willing to talk to you. They're willing to talk to people who disagree . But I can't get any lefties to come on because they know that Bill Mar would challenge them and they can handle any type of challenging, I think, because there's no ideology underneath their talking points, nonetheless. You can't imagine that go back to when Biden was president . Imagine Kamala Harrison, you can't imagine it because she never would have done it. would have gone on Hannity . Hannity would not have abused her. And again, you can't imagine she would have done it. She couldn't even handle Bret Bar , who's about as neutral as you get during when he did that interview when she was running for president . The treatment that Vance got on the view is just part of this larger thing that I mentioned about how un ed and wackle the left has gotten my next component of this . And again, I'm not equating the women on the view directly with the people who tried to slaughter the people at the UFC . And I'm not equating this case with that, but they're all part of the same thing of of anything that Trump touches so triggers people that they become deranged . Hannah Dugan once again went into court this week , asking the federal judge who presided over the trial over which she was convicted of felonies for obstructing the ICE agents who were trying to serve a warrant against someone who was in a courtroom . Remember she was convicted of that at trial . She's filed a motion the second motion for the judge to overturn the verdict. Her lawyers said they felt that a ruling in another case would open the door for Lynn Adelman to throw out the conviction . Lynn Aidelan is one of the most liberal federal judges in America and has been for some time . The fact that Edelman agreed to hear this motion, I mean, anybody convicted of anything. They always file these motions before you even get to appeal, ask the trial judge to throw it out. And then when he refuses to do it, ask them to reconsider it. It's said all the time, it never works . But they were thinking maybe this time it would also because Edelman is so left ist and the fact that he agreed to hear this, he said, I will consider the motion . He took arguments, waited a week, and came back, and then he rejected it. I am I've made this comment a couple of times in the past but I'll say it again, I'm just shocked that Lin Aidelman has been this fair in handling the case. I thought he'd just dismiss the charges outright . I thought he'd interfere with the child by not allowing the Feds to present any of their evidence against Hannah Duggin. He handled the thing very, very fairly , which surprises me, but also tells you that even from the perspective of Adelman, Hannah Dugan is guilty as said . You had a police agency with a warrant and she obstructed them. She lied about where the guy is and then took actions to help him escape. A judge can't help accused criminals from escaping . But she did that. Hannah Dugan's been around forever , and she wasn't even the most liberal judge in Milwaukee County. Why would she do this ? First of all, ICE has been running all over the country and everyone knows that their highest priority was to get people who were committing separate crimes in addition to the fact that they were here illegally . The fact that Dugan's obstruction didn't even work, that caught him anyway . Why would she be why would a judge commit felonies just to stop Ice from grabbing somebody in the courthouse? First of all, we do know Ice has been grabbing tens of thousands of people. We've been deporting a lot of people . And what is it about this particular crook in her courtroom that would lead her to do something that is going to cost her judgeship and may put her in prison . How could you lose such perspective? When again , people are just triggered by Trump to the point that they're losing their m arbles . My next story for you , this is one in which we knew this was coming and it's almost impossible to properly assess it . Now I want to stress when I'm doing this podcast because it's going to affect the content here. This podcast is being recorded early in the afternoon on Wednesday. The price by the time you listen to this, Lord only knows where the price of SpaceX stock is going to be. It's been very volatile . After the IPO came out , it not only went up, it went up significantly . The thought that I had would be that by the end of day one, it would pull back dramatically that the people who got in early on SpaceX before it went public would lock in their profit by simply selling. You know, if you bought into SpaceX for X number of dollars and then the IPO was valued maybe it can, fifteen times higher than that , just sell cash out at the sure thing . Now here on Wednesday, as of the time I'm doing this, the SpaceX stock's been wobbling today. It's pulled back a little bit, but still way ahead of the offering price. By the time you hear this, it could be way higher or way lower. I just don't know . Nonetheless, as of this morning , SpaceX's valuation was higher than Amazon . This is either totally insane or or an underestimation of how Musk is radically transforming the world . Think of Amazon . I mean, who Amazon is everywhere? Everybody's buying all their stuff from Amazon. Amazon's, I think they might have the third highest cloud storage capacity . They're aggressively embracing AI . They've got one of the major streaming services . They're involved in everything . They're going to be the dominant world retailer The whole world's running through Amazon SpaceX isn't making any money . Its businesses are in a very infant stage, the rockets , his AI is probably in third place, XAI, which is Musk's, which is in SpaceX, XAI is part of SpaceX . It's probably in third place behind Anthropic and Open AI, and their product is chat GPT . And then the third thing that he has Starlink is brilliant and it may be transformative, but the number of users there is still way lower than a lot of people who just still have just regular old broadband from spectrum or ET and T or whoever it is that has it . Its losses are huge . It's the fourth largest company in the world . I have no clue if this is right . I indirectly have SpaceX in that I own shares in a mutual fund that has thirty percent of its entire mutual fund is in SpaceX, but I haven't bought it individually because I expected the stock at some point to crash with profit taking and that would be the time to buy it. I thought maybe it would go to seventy five and maybe it still will. When IPOs come out, they often go way up initially and then for six months they go straight into the toilet as people cash out their profits and then the real valuation comes in when people buy it. But I don't know . It seems to me that the value is in all of the companies that are out there that are going to be doing business with SpaceX are now going to have massive markets for their products . And I haven't tried to figure out who all of them are. Nonetheless , SpaceX is now is now the fourth one. And again, it may be going back and forth. You know, when the stocks go up and down, Amazon may pass it. But when you consider all of the massive, huge companies in the world whose valuation is lower than space x , it's something to marvel about. I've got this stat here . The valuation of these four companies, five , Nvidia , alphabet, which is Google , Apple, Microsoft , and SpaceX , those five companies . If you add up all of the valuation and the valuation is the number of shares you have times the share price . It equals two thirds of the United States of America's GDP I have no clue as to whether or not these companies are overvalued . The stock market itself is on a roar . By the way , whenever anybody tells you something's going to happen, it's almost a unanimous position. Remember when the Iran war started ? First few days stock sold off ? We have the stock market since those first few days has gone straight up the entire duration of the Iran war . And then well, you know, when energy prices go up, it's always bad for the stock market . And I'll admit, it pretty much always has been bad for the stock market . But when everybody starts telling you that invariably they turn out to be wrong. And I am not predicting what's going to happen to the stock market for the rest of the year. Don't ask me, I don't know . There are some things that I know . I know quite a few things, and I'll be adamant about it . But I also know what I don't know. I often don't know something that I think I do know like an over ly high opinion of the same of the horse that I picked to win both the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes and didn't come close in either. I thought I knew that . But when I know that I don't know something . This is one of them. I don't know if the stock market seems to be just so dramatically overdue for a significant pullback, but in the meantime, how can you not be involved in the stock market when it goes nothing . But go up. I want to talk about the back and forth here . The criticism of Trump on the war deal seems to be coming almost entirely now from the people who wanted more of a war . So much of the initial criticism of Trump is you shouldn't have done it, you shouldn't have done it, shouldn't have done it. Now, the heaviest criticism seems to be from people who said that we didn't do anywhere near enough that there should have been a significant invasion that we should not have settled with anything other than complete destruction of Iran and collapse of their lunatic government. So let's talk about that momentarily on the Mark Belling podcast . Charisma Customs and Delafield, their sponsor , they're also where I took my car. They do a lot of things to make your car look really good and stand up to all that we have to put up with on Wisconsin Roads. The package I took included ceramic coating, which makes the vehicle look really good, paint protection for all of the chips and stuff that comes off of our roads, the wheel package, and a tin job that adds to a little bit of privacy and security . They handle all sorts of cars there from regular old family drivers to exotic spectacular cars. Anybody who wants to protect their car like I do or make it look really good like I do. Check out Charisma Customs in Delafield. They're right off the freeway that's Charisma Customs in Delafield . This is a quote from CNN. And again , because it's CNN, you can't fully trust it. And anything that's coming from White House sources , you can't trust either because clearly the White House is in, when I say the White House, I should say the administration . It's in conflict over this. We all know that there are hard liners and soft liners with regard to Iran . And Trump turned over the final negotiations to the soft liners . JD Vance didn't want the war in the first place . Jared Kushner and Steve Wickoff are the pragmatists. The hardliners of the administration, Hagset and Rubio, they were nowhere near these negotiations in the end. I want to quote though from C ed and quote, We want to get this over with . That's how Trump officials overcame skepticism of Iran to reach an agreement. Quote, we ended, these are all sources. We ended the war because Donald Trump wanted to end the war and felt like he had enough to end the war. Obviously, he gives deference to Vance and Whitcoff and Kushner . White House Chief of Staff Susie Weiles wanted to wrap this up for a long time . So here's the question . Is Trump erring by having inflicted so much damage on Iran and not pressing the advantage to force them to capitulate on worse terms for them . I'm going to use as an example here World War two After the war in Europe was concluded and Germany was toppled, the war in the Pacific was still on . I believe April was VE Day , but the war continued for a couple of months in the Pacific . The United States never invaded Japan . The entire fighting in the Pacific was in all of these islands that, you know, that surrounded the nation of Japan . There wasn't an active ground war in Japan . And while Japan was clearly losing , they were still fighting . Truman made the decision not to have a ground war invasion of Japan because , frankly, the casualty count, I think, would have been quadrupled in World War two. It would have been a bloodbath . Hundreds of thousands of Japanese would have been killed and masses of American troops would have been killed had we actually invaded Japan and tried to get into Tokyo and take the capital. He instead made the decision to drop the two nuclear bombs hoping to end the war and end the bloodshed, and that worked . The term nuclear option came from that. Truman used the nuclear option . Well, nuclear weapons, obviously, we're not going to nuke Iran given what nuclear weapons can do. The nuclear option, though, in this case, would be to have a ground war that would bring down that regime . I have continued to argue that it is not our job to bring down the Iranian regime. It is our job to end the threat that Iran poses to the United States and our allies and global safety . That it's up to the Iranians or others of the Middle East to bring down that government. I had the same thoughts with regard to Bosnia that it wasn't our responsibility to decide whether or not Muslims or Christians or who was running what parts of what was carved up in Yugoslavia . We still don't know the terms of this deal. Trump is recoiling at this notion that there's going to be this three hundred billion dollars fund for Iran. Now I have some thoughts as to what Trump is doing. And as you know, I just think Trump is always eight steps ahead of everybody else . I think he's dangling money out there for Iran , but they're only going to get it if they comply with the various steps that go forward. And in the end, those steps are going to include getting rid of their nukes. If they do every damn thing that we tell them to do, yes, there's going to be money for them. I don't think it's going to be American money. Now, somebody was saying, it doesn't matter whose money it is. If Iran gets the money, then they're going to to be able rebuild their government, they're going to be able to rebuild this that and the other thing . But Trump's a deal maker. He's always been a deal maker, but he wanted a deal from a position of strength and he figured killing off their entire army blowing up all their planes and their bombs and their tanks and everything else weakened them to the point that he was able to be at this stage of leverage . Is this the same appeasement as Obama? Well, if you think it's an appeasement, I mean, I get that position that maybe the war should have gone on longer . The Tucker Carlson Lefty position of we shouldn't have done this at all. Israel only wants to do it. Well, that side obviously is negated because we did go into it. Since we did go into it, did we do enough? Should we have been willing to take on the pain necessary of slaughtering the Iranians once and for all? I think this can only be judged by how things work out in the long term, but where I think that the comparison with Obama is false is Obama didn't get anything for the money he gave them . He got Iran to sign a piece of paper that we aren't going to go after nukes . But he didn't bomb them, he didn't attack them. Iran wasn't weakened at all. Instead, he sent over all of that cash and we got nothing . Obviously , the elimination of the Iranian military , the sanctions that stop them from selling oil has drastically weakened it . Over the long term, will it be a great deal or not is going to depend on the long term itself also . I do believe this . Again, Trump takes the long view and Trump doesn't have to worry about reelection. He does have to worry about the midterm somewhat, but he doesn't worry about reelection . I think that if four months from now, Iran is rene ging and components of this. Trump knows damn well he can go right back and start hitting them again because they don't have any air defenses. They don't have anything to stop us from doing it . And that's the thing that he's holding over their heads The next part of this is, here's my greater fear . What happens when you have an administration and I saw this during Reagan , Reagan was a believer in having diverse points of view in his presidency . Reagan when he was elected was to the right of much of the Republican Party . So when he put together his administration, he did include a fair number of moderates that were to the left of a lot of his voter base because he wanted to have both components in there so he could make a decision . An example of moderates would be say James Baker . And then you had hardliners like William Clark, Ed Mace , Alexander Hag was a moderate . Don Regan , it's hard to judge what he was . Other than most people seem to think that he was just a hard line jackass, nonetheless. What happened in Reagan's administration is the two sides fought with one another because they were on the inside and they both wanted to get their way . Well, the thing about working for somebody in government is you weren't elected to get your way. You were elected to try to lobby that guy for your way . Reagan was elected and Trump was elected . I'm concerned, however , that some of the people that are on the losing side of this ideological fight in the White House may hack off Trump to the point that we lose them . And some of them are really good people . Marco Rubio Zaywal , Rubio is nowhere around this Iran thing because clearly he wants the war to continue. I think undeniably that. And the reason that he Trump didn't have Rub y to do the negotiation as he wanted a deal. So he pulled took in Vance who I think never supported the war. So that's why Vance did it. Pete Hagsith , I think clearly he thinks that the war should have continued and we should have gotten more from Iran. But if they keep bitching about this, you know how Trump is, he'll get rid of you . And I think that so much good and so much strength have come from Hagsith and Rubyo. I hope that doesn't happen , but that means the side that isn't getting their way has to bite the bullet and shut the bleep up . You didn't get your way . I have Hunter producing the program today. I swear in the last since season two of the podcast. I've had more producers than I had in the entire history of my radio show. Part of it has to do with I, of course, started May. Jason started here in January, so he was due vacation, so he needed to get his time off and we've had various people fill in and do this, that and the other thing. And Hundreds now one of the people that in radio, I used to get hired for one job. How many jobs do you have right now here? Five , that's what it is. I swear Dave Michaels has more jobs than we actually have. I mean, you have to be a jack of all trades to be able to survive. Fortunately , I'm old enough now that I only have one job. I just do the podcast. I don't have to do anything else here. I'm not even going to volunteer to do anything else here because the next thing you know they're going to have to try to learn how to use some equipment that I don't understand. Like I don't want to hear these words omni which is the thing that we send. I don't want to know how to do it so I can just say, I don't know how to do it . On the other hand, in order to survive and radio, you have to know how to do a million things because it's just the way that it is. Anyway , I don't remember what the point that I was that I was going to say about that was other than go back to my show. Let's imagine Paul adamantly felt and I don't even know what it was because he never bucked me on content. So I'm making up a fake example, but I know Paul was very stressed when we used to have to do the year end current events quiz because he would have to answer probably three hundred phone calls within two hours and take down names that it was fast, rapid warp speed . On the other hand, the last few years of the show I didn't take any calls, so this one day made up for all of that. Now Paul was completely supportive of the current events course but let's imagine he said, is This stupid. Everybody's just getting the answers off the internet and we're not going to do it and I'm tired of it and it's too much work. And he got and I said, Paul, I've heard all of that, but we're going to do it. Paul can't keep bucking against it because it's my show. And again, I want to stress that this is a fake example. I'm making it up. Same thing. Let's imagine, you know, when John Wyatt was doing the traffic, let's imagine he demanded that each report be ninety seconds because there's so much traffic. And he didn't do that. He did go on too long, but he never demanded. I'm just coming up with these as fake examples or when somebody was doing the news, they insisted that we have a five minute newscast at the top of the hour and I didn't want to have that length, whatever it is. At some point point . You can't keep bucking up against the person who's in charge. You argued a point. You didn't get it. Now you shut the blade up . And I hope they do that because some of these people who haven't shut up . We all know that Trump is willing to roll heads, but the strength of the administration in this second term is he has gone outside the box and chosen some people that aren't necessarily aligned with where he was on a lot of issues, but are themselves very strong, which built this very, very good coalition . So I hope that this doesn't end up with some pretty good heads rolling. No, this story is this another Maxwell, Maxwell Anderson, the monster who it's hard to even describe what that was. I mean , wooed a woman because he set out with this goal of shopping up her body parts and throwing them all over southeastern Wisconsin . This story is in the news this week . There are different news organizations that have reported on this. My source material comes from Fox and I six haven't asked law enforcement. I don't have any information beyond what's reported in the media . There's a man from Franklin who's accused of an abduction in Washington County of a woman that it sounds like he had a date with but had the date with her because he intended to go nuts on her. I'm just going to quote from the story. Franklin Mann is accused of kidnapping and threatening a woman during an episode at the end of May . Court records show Angelo Liberto and I'm going to spell that last name because I don't want people to confuse it with the wrong person. LIBER TO twenty two Angelo Laberto is being held in Maai the Countyuk Jail in two hundred thousand dollars cash bond. He pleaded not guilty to three felonies on june sixteenth. In a separate case, Washington County prosecutors charged Liberto with false imprisonment. He is yet to appear in court on the felony charge, the backstory. According to the criminal complaint a Milwaukee police detective responded around five thirty AM Saturday may thirtieth to the area of North Bound I forty one at Mile Marker seventy five for a reported kidnapping . The victim told police that the defendant, Angela Liberto , came to her house at one AM . When the victim asked why Liberto was there unannounced , the complaint says he told her that he had a surprise for her . The woman told the defendant he should leave . The victim told police she and the defendant planned to go to a bar on the night of Friday may twenty ninth. Now again this is, early in the morning, may thirtieth five AM . five thirty AM was on the police call. The report was at one AM . That's when he showed up. So she said that they had a plan to go out to a bar the previous night, may twenty ninth, which would have been just a few hours earlier. When the defendant arrived to pick up the victim, the complaint says, the woman reported that she observed lotion and chocolates in the back seat of the vehicle. The victim then went to get into the front seat, but the defendant told her there was another surprise for her and to sit in the back . A short time after the two departed, the complaint says the defendant pulled over at an unknown location . The victim reported that the defendant told her that she should have been scared and pulled out a gun, the complaint says. The defendant also demanded that the victim give him her phone, the court filing says. Eventually, the victim did give the phone to the defendant. When she tried to open the door in the back seat, she was stopped by the child locks, the complaint says. The criminal complaint says at some point the defendant was holding a knife aggressively. The victim reported that there were handcuffs attached to the door , and the defendant reached back and was threatening her with a knife to put them on, which she eventually did. At one point the defendant got onto the freeway and then the woman kept telling the defendant that he was really scaring her. I would cast The court filing says the victim attempted to call nine hundred and eleven, but her phone was in airplane mode. After dialing multiple times, the victim was able to call nine hundred and eleven and two other people. During this time, the complaint says the defendant said they were going up north to a lakehouse. The victim asked if that meant he was going to rape her and the defendant said yes . At one point, the victim said the defendant stated , we are at the point of no return . Shortly after eleven PM, a deputy spotted the defendant's vehicle and a traffic stop was conducted at nine hundred forty one. The complaint says the deputy observed in plain sight a handgun , pocket knife and handcuffs. Law enforcement also searched the vehicle and found several items of evidentiary value interest including a roll of duct tape , a handgun case handcuffs , a hack saw , and much more . Police also found multiple identifiers for the defendant . The officers freed the woman from the door. She later told them she met the defendant in September of twenty twenty five last year through a mutual friend. She indicated she told him multiple times that she only wanted to be friends , the complaint says . Now, based on all this stuff that he has, the duct tape and the hacksaw and all of this , I think that this had the making s of being exactly what we saw in that horrible case in Milwaukee last summer, earlier in the year . I don't know much about the background of the defendant here . How people turn out so warped ? I know everybody's got every sort of imaginable goofball fantasy, but this guy's wanting to act at it . I don't know how you get to that place in your mind that this is something that you're so turned on by, so enthralled the doing that you actually do it Fortunately, in this case , she was able to make the nine hundred and eleven call. She was pulled over by the deputies, and what could have been something that was obviously far, far worse didn't happen. Now this story . The story from Colorado was reported on CBS . You can tell that CBS News is trying not to be lefty anymore because they're the ones that broke this story. A teacher in the Denver public schools first grade teacher was putting on some skits involving the class her class as the actors . And the skits involved kissing . Now I don't know what all the standards are, but I don't think when I was in the first grade we had any skit in which you could kiss anybody. I went to a Catholic grade school. I don't recall in the school being allowed to kiss anybody else much less that they would be part of a thing. First grade. But here's the kicker on this . Almost of the kids that were being told to kiss one another were of the same gender . The school board in Denver has fired her. Her name is Jennifer Hanka . First grade teacher trying to compel boys to kiss boys and girls to kiss girls. They found out about this because a number of the kids came home and told their parents because the kids were very, very uncomfortable about it. I don't know for certain, but my guess is that this is another one of these extreme gender activists. She wants their kids to get over phobia any phobia or opposition or being repelled by homosexuality, whatever . Now I know that you can't take one case and generalize, but I will say this, you go back to the case of the teacher in Waucasha who was willing to get fired rather than have her class sing that stupid rainbow song . There are some in education that not only are zealots with regard to gay ge,nder and all the other initials in there , that that type of advocacy and forcing their thought process on kids is important to them than teaching. It makes you wonder if that isn't the reason they became teachers at all . We have I'm going to draw a connect sheet here. We've had just so many cases l ately of guys that are youth sports coaches or fitness instructors and all the other sort of thing , adults that work with kids. And the reason that they went to work with kids is because they were looking for a way to be able to sexually molest the kids. In other words, they became the soccer coach because they wanted to molest soccer players. I wonder how many teachers are going into teaching solely for the purpose of forcing kids to act out homosexually , force them to accept their vision their vision of gayness and beyond that , advocate to kids who are very, very mixed up that they are of the other gender . This whole gender thing seems to me to finally be dying down in part because it's not been a magic bullet. Most of people are changing their gender become even more miserable than they were in the first place . A lot of it was clearly copycating on the part of the kids, but how much of it was suggestion from therapists and teachers and others that, hey, you're really a boy or you're really a girl . And it's the reason that they got into the field of education not so much that they wanted to teach as that they wanted to push that stuff. You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast. How much would it take for you to be wealthy and financially comfortable? 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But after I don't even know how ten years that summerfest is maybe less. Summerfest has been on this format of Thursday, Friday, Saturday, three weeks in a row. I think the Stones played the main stage at Summerfest the day before the rest of Summerfest opened. Somebody else might have as well. I do know that I couldn't go to that because one of my crews is overlapped that night I ended up not seeing the stones at Summerfest. Anyway, they're doing the same thing this year. Garthroo Bks performed this is Wednesday last night and tonight and Somerfest itself opens Thursday and they've got some of the like food stands and so on near the amphitheater open, but the main grounds are not open and Garth Brooks is performing. And the reason there's two shows is obviously the fantasy Garth Brooks is overwhelming. The first show was sold out. I don't know if tonight's show and again, I'm doing this on Wednesday is sold out. I did see a billboard saying Garth Brooks, but sometimes those contracts go up and it's sold out or if it's not sold out, it's obviously very, very close . Garth Brooks is a hunter, are you in the country or not? You are. I mean, I used to be more than I am right now and when I was talking about Elle Langley, who I think is just going to be she's already a superstar. That my knock on country is that so much of it is , especially among the guys, they all kind of sound the same to me and they're singing about the same stuff and there's not a lot of diversity in the whole thing. But Garth Brooks is a legend. He's never been I don't dislike Garth Brooks He's never been somebody to me he wasn't rough edged enough to be like one of the outlaws. He wasn't in the vein of going back farther say Whalen and Willie or more recently Toby Keith or who's the big guy right now the who's the Morgan Wallet? He's not that , but he also wasn't like the milk toast kind of wussy, I just thought Tim Magrar just for always felt his too wussy. Garth was sort of in between . Garth Brooks came around almost the exact same time as George Strait. And I think George Strate is spectacular. So not anybody problems with Garth Books. He's obviously extremely talented and he mainstreamed country as much as anybody since Dolly Parton was able to do so and has an incredible following and it's pretty cool that he's playing summerfest, although you can say he's not really playing summerfest because the people who go to the show can't go hang at Summerfest before and after like they always do . Otherwise summerfest opens every time it's now that they're on this formative, can't believe that it's summer fest already. Well, it's crappy weather today, but it's been very warm the last few weeks. So yeah, I think it's about time for summer fest to be here. The old days of summer fest drawing nearly a million people for the entire run are over. And I think that the biggest reason that it's over is tastes have changed among the groups of people who go to Summerfest, which is primarily young people. Secondly , there just isn't the depth of music superstars that can draw in six thousand people to go to the Miller Stage or six thousand to go to this, or the amphitheater still can draw huge crowds most of the nights of the event, but you know, they've had cancellations and I know I'm old, so most of these groups are beyond my mainstream, but there isn't like the giant baby boomer act that fills the place up and so on. But that's just because there aren't a lot of those acts out there and the really really huge acts, the ones that play the fifty thousand seat stadiums , they're too big for summerfest. Well, I'm done with Bruce Springsteen. He can play summer fest. He's on tour right now. He's doing fifty and sixty thousand seat aren't. So as big as Summerfest is for those really epic and that's why Garth Brooks, who is a stadium act, they just broke it up into the two nights to be able to do it. But I think Summerfest has held its own through several different executive directors . While many people have complained about the fact that the prices have gotten high, the upside of that is that they have avoided the kinds of conflicts and, you know, takeovers of young people that just go down to do nothing but cause trouble because it costs too much for them to get into the gate. The problems that we're having here are generally