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The Mark Belling podcast is presented by Uline for quality shipping and industrial supplies ULIN has everything in stock, visit youline dot com dot The Mark Belling podcast is a production of IHAR radio podcasts. So I was at a birthday party in Florida this weekend . Most of the people there don't know who I am . Unlike, say if I was at a birthday party in Milwaukee where everybody would know what I am. Now I know what the drill is if I'm at a party in Milwaukee . There's going to be a few people who want to meet me because they're big fans of the show and other people that want to . you know, that don't like me. This is different . Most of the people there didn't know who I am, but they kind of know what it is that I do. So I get this question. So what do you talk about ? Now, Jason's a talk show host too . It's not an easy question to answer. For the and if I actually give the answer, they're so bored of tears and then they wonder well, why would anybody well I talk about pretty much anything they want to talk about but it comes from a conservative perspective. That's what I usually say . But if you've never listened, that answer sounds like absolutely nothing to you . But there's no way to actually explain what it is that I do talk about . And my first topic here is proof of that . So I guess what I would say, but I can't say this to people don't know because it sounds so arrogant. Here's what I do . I make observations on things that most people either haven't picked up on or they have picked up on it, but they've not heard anybody else talk about it , that I have way more perception on some things than regular old people, which is why people would listen to me. If I didn't have any perspective that was worth listening to, obviously , this podcast would not be in the top twenty five in the country on I heard it would be down where everybody else is in the top two hundred ninety seven thousand and so on. Like this topic I think many people have noticed that there is a proliferation but ugly buildings going up . You know, architecture is controversial and cutting edge architecture never looks good when the first few examples of it come up. The example that everybody cites is the Bangal But that BMW put on that got ridiculed. Chris Bangle was their design guy and he decided to put these big rear ends on round off the BMWs, which had been boxy and everybody hated them. And the next thing, you know, every automobile in America is shaped like that. Bangal was fired, was regarded as an insane lunatic correct BMWs. And in fact, he was just ahead of his time. That's an example of it. So I understand when a new architectural trend comes in and you see the first few examples it may be jarring , especially if it's not an attempt to be like classically beautiful . I get that , but even in that context, I'm telling you that some of this stuff that's going up right now , there's no we're going to get used to it component. It's just ugly . And the most obvious example of this is this erect you know what that Obama has put up in Chicago . I honestly think that this is what it's supposed to look like . He's either giving everybody the finger or he's just put up a giant phallic symbol . The Obama setter . Notice the word library is not in the title. You know why it's not in the title? Because there are no presidential papers in there . This is just Obama who can't stand America once again , building a monument for himself and activism and using it as an opportunity to trash America . Okay, fine. We're used to that . So now you would think if you're Obama, now let's put yourself in Obama's shoes. Think like Obama, which requi res you to immediately develop an extremely high opinion of yourself. This is why these lefties that get so upset with Trump, he's so arrogant. He's just he's narcissistic. My goodness, gracious, they loved Obama. There is no one who has ever loved himself more than Barack Obama loves himself. Clearly, he's number one. He loves himself way more than Michelle loves him. I mean, she might be somewhere in the lower fiftieth percent Ellen how, much ? I'm actually wondering if that marriage will last. What do you think? You think it'll last ? Yeah, a marriage of convenience like the Clintons. I mean, when if they had a split up, it would be very hard you know she'd be demanding way more of the money than she would have come in. You just know that . They can't married. There's a lot I mean divorce. A lot of people can't get divorced. Now I'm going to get into my sponsorship material, but I want to te ar this topic up a little bit more . Your Obama, you think very, very highly of yourself . Why wouldn't you therefore put up something beautiful as an example. I'll give you an example of an architect . Everything he does is beautiful and that's Califrava . Why not hire Calitrava and have some soaring br is in there or curves and sexy angles appealing to the eye. Why take this big giant hunk of rock , this slab and stick it on the south side of Chicago. Why? Why? Why if you're here? Why would you do that? Why wouldn't if you're going to build a monument monument for yourself, wouldn't you build someone that everyone says is beautiful? And by the way, if you listen to the critics comment on this , it's the same thing that critics always do when they want to impress you with how much greater taste they have than the rest of us. For those of you who know Pa whouline K ale is, she's got to be dead now, movie only movies she liked were the movies that the masses didn't like. She just prided herself on that and that was seeing you don't like it because you do not have the incredible elevated teachers that I pauline killed. And that's the same people that are raving about this . There's a Frank Geary component to that . He's another architect who put up I grew to like some of his buildings somewhat, but the vast majority of them are not there for you to say, gee, that looks nice . Now I'm going to pick up at this point and analyze all of it, but also give you the observation that I think justifies me sitting in here. First, ULIN moves fast so your business doesn't miss a beat. From shipping and industrial supplies to office furniture, ULIN offers 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 ULINE. com . We have our own example of a preposterously ugly new building here in Milwaukee . They got rid of the Milwaukee Public Museum for no good reason at all , and built a smaller museum, took out all the stuff that everybody liked in the new public museum and they built this new thing which it looks like two farm silos . I mean, they're fatter than normal silos, but it actually looks like two big giant air conditioner . If you have like some massive cooling system to cool like an entire complex of buildings. You need to have these great big two huge mechanical vents. That's what the museum looks like. It's really ugly . And when anybody says it's really ugly, like and by the way, everybody says it's really ugly other than the people who just want to act like they have more taste than the rest of us and pretend that it's not a good oh no no, no,, this is cutting it . The same thing with the Obama Center . I mean, I'm guessing most people have seen the Obama Center because it's been jammed down our throat since it opened the last few days, but everybody knows what I'm talking about, don't they? Yeah . Now here's my observation . We've had , you know, we're in a building boom in the United States . We had a big residential housing boom . It stopped with COVID. Prior to that, there was a massive office construction boom . Look, for example, at the Milwaukee sky, we didn't have a skyline a few years ago and we've had one high rise go up after another after another after another . In the communities that have had growing urbanized suburbs like say,, Chicag o, the Schomberg area, high rises out there. We've had buildings going up right and left . There's something that these really ugly ones, the ones of the style of the Milwaukee Museum , the ones of the style of the Obama Center . There's something they have in common . And I'm here to tell you what it is. So you can all say , Gee, Mark, you're right They're all put up by non profits . See, that's the key . You don't see anybody building a house like this to live in , if somebody's doing a high rise condo or apartment complete , I'm in Miami four months a year. I was just there this weekend . There's high rises out the Wazoo in which they charge millions of people to live in there. None of them look like this because who wants to look live in something that looks like it's an erect unal watt sitting in the middle of nowhere. Nobody wants to live in that. If Obama decided to condo this thing out, who would move in there? Nobody . See, if you're putting up something and you need to make money off of it, you're not going to bend over backwards to make it ugly . Your own office building . What big time corporate executive wants to put up an ugly piece of rock and call it their building? Now there's some office buildings that I'll admit are pretty generic. We have a few of them in Milwaukee, but most of them . Let's take, for example, the most beautiful new structure we have in Milwaukee post color trauma, the whole Northwestern complex. Northwestern created the new corporate headquarters, and now they're building they're kind of rebuilding the office building behind it and that's a big gleaming building. The northwestern building is beautiful . Everything about it is gorgeous . The landscaping, the shape, the curbs, the height , it's stunning . You notice that Northwestern didn't build one of these bomb shelters that's being put up by these museums . Now these are being done by non profits. Nonprofits are controlled by boards of directors so they can indulge themselves by, oh, we're going to be cutting edge . We're going to be edgy . But they don't have to worry about making a buck off of it Nobody's going to do this with a place that they have to live in, and nobody's going to do it with a business in which that's their headquarters . But if you're a member of a board of directors, sure . And if you're an Obama whose entire point in life seems to be to say bleep you to the United States , look at his wife. Is there a bitter angrier woman in America than her ? I mean, this is a woman who woke up in the end zone and thought she scored a touchdown . She gets scholarships to go to an Ivy League university , checks out the fellow African Amer ican people there and says, Gee, which one is going to go the farthest I can hitch along for the ride? Hitches onto Obama and hits the lottery. He makes it. He becomes the president. She becomes the first lady. They are a walking tribute to what an open minded society that we are , a nation that once had slaves now electing an African American president And instead of seeing this as this incredible growth, and instead of her seeing herself as somebody who lived the ultimate American dream , all she does is bitch about this country . So anyway, back to the buildings . It's not like architecture and design that everybody who went into that field suddenly got to be stupid or blind . It's that there is a market for this This is very much like what's happened in modern art . And these aren't new observations. By the way, the best treatment of all of this stuff is from the late brilliant Tom Wolf . Greatest American writer . I was going to say Since Hemingway , but I might say Fitzgerald. Tom Wolfe is an incredible writer. Tremendous observer wrote a couple of great novels, but his observations about Architect, he did one on architecture. I think I hope I'm not forgetting the title . It was forty years ago. From Baughaus to our house . And then he did another one on public on cont emporary art. I think he called it the painted word . I mean, Tom Wolf was a cynical sort of conservative. He had this, he was one of the rare conservatives who was able to be accepted by the Hoady Toady elite crowd. And I think they just couldn't help themselves because he was so brilliant, kind of like a William F. Buckley only, an observer of the culture . And he just did complete teardowns of the trends that were going on in the eighties and the nineties with architecture and also with much of modern art . Very few people who are practitioners of modern art are interested in beauty . If Michelangelo was born now , he wouldn't have amounted to anything. There just wouldn't have been a market for him Or renoir , renoir , or Gauguin, who wants to see somebody paint flowers? No, no, no, I gotta make my statement. I gotta have angles and slices and I got to jar you . And again, I'll grant you some of this stuff is pretty good . But nobody's trying to do anything that's beautiful. But when someone now let's go back to architecture does, and I'll say the Cala Trava , we lucked into this largely because of the just the quadracis were hell bent on getting Cala Trova to do the addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum. And for those of you not from Milwaukee, the public museum that I'm talking about here in the Art Museum, different institutions . The art museum's the institution in the lake and they did the edition there and Cala Trava who's this Spanish guy and I was in Barcelona, I saw two of his structures. He does bridges and he does buildings and he's it's flowing, I guess, is the best way to describe it. People into architecture could use better words to describe his style , but just visually stunning. You can't stop looking at it. The buildings somehow seem to move even though they're stationary or the bridges just seem to have almost a melody to them . I'm sounding like a wine critic now. Wine critics always have to try to come up with words that describe taste. Do you see the same thing with cigar reviewers? I mean, that's just the hardest thing in the world. I mean, what is even a great cigar? What does it smell like? It smells like deep smoke. That's all it smells. But it has aromas and hints of chocolate and mahogany shot up , but they have to come up with something other than just putting the same number on there anyway . We were fortunate enough that the art museum was done addition . The Cala Trava is the addition to the main art museum. And for that matter, the war memorial building that's part of the complex, they were done separately. That's beautiful also. Very different , hard rectangular structure, but in its own way, it's beautiful . So you can do it, but those are people who tried to commission someone who wanted to create something of beauty , not something that was just going to glare at you. I mentioned residential buildings . You know, okay, I'm down there in Miami . I mean everything in Miami is to make a statement . And every building's got to look great and they all kind of have to look Miami . I see almost none of these stupid ugly harsh . There's nothing down there like Obama's stupid thing that he's got . They can they have color, they make statements . One thing's larger this one's larger than life. That one's larger than life . There's an actual attempt to appeal to people rather than smack you in the face . It's the ultimate and arrogant elitism . Now, I understand I'm using these two examples in Milwaukee Museum and the Obama thing because they both were examples of somebody who wanted to make a statement and knew they could get away with it. Obama's sibling. Of course he can get away with it . He's in Chicago where he's a saint . They're going to let him there's literally no design Obama could have come up with that they wouldn't have approved. By the way, the state of Illinois, which provided some public funding for this, the tax breaks for the land and so on. There are some of them griping down there. They thought this was going to be this is not a presidential libraries are supposed to be repositories for your presidential papers and so on, so that in addition to holding meetings, et cetera . Historical researchers between now and through the ages can go and look at documents and so on. Perfect the Reagan library in California is a conference center and so on, but Reagan's personal papers and pictures, I mean, it's a tremendous display. It's almost like the Hall of Fame of Reagan's presidency. That's supposed to be a portion of this There are no presidential papers at the Obama Center . It's just a monument for activists to come in and hold conventions about how to stir things up and bring in socialism to America . I suppose Obama could fill it with occupants of all of his achievements, but other than Obama care, nobody knows one damn thing that he did . He basically ran around the world and told everybody how rotten the United States was and told us how terrible everything was and, created he social ized medicine that's been a debacle. Other than that, seriously, what did Obama do? Name other than Obamacare, name one other thing that happened for better or worse in his administration. Tash for clunkers, another terrible idea . There's a reason why automobiles got so unaffordable for lower income people, and that is because Obama smashed up all the junkers that were supposed to serve the bottom of the market for the next twenty years, I clearly aggress . And I'm not saying that nobody puts up a house that's ugly , but nobody puts up a house that's intentionally ugly. And I'm not saying that no office buildings, you know, some small firms that are trying to make a statement will do something attention getting . But anybody that needs to use their building and have potential resale value into the building is to make a magnet for employees or for that matter just when you hang around in the country club that you can brag about the building that your company puts up looks so dog on, beautiful . You know, when they're creating the sk yscrapers of New York, thank God they didn't have some of the goofs that are putting up buildings now. Oh no, if you want to find an ugly building in New York, it's a museum built in the last fifteen years . They're all the same thing . Do it with somebody else's money , donations , and then and then pat yourself on the back that people like me don't get it . It's the same way that they've been in a different sort of fashion. It's a different kind of ugly. We have the most ridiculous obnoxious piece of public art in Milwaukee that you'll find almost anywhere in the United States. For those of you who discovered me in the podcast, I've been on this thing forever and ever and ever, and I've gotten absolutely nowhere in my attempt to move it. If you're going down Wisconsin Aven ue, you have a dead on view if you're looking toward the lake of the Bristol of the Calitrava. It would be the most incredible view you could imagine. It's dead on . Instead, blocking the view is this stupid ridicul orange piece of crap , sunburst or whatever they call it . It was it was like a failed piece of a semi prominent sculptor who knew that he'd never be able to get like a city with actual culture to buy it. So he pumped it off in Milwaukee, the art museum at the time this is before the Color Trava took it out and they put it at the end of Wisconsin Avad, whicha was harmless enough because Wisconsin Avado kind of dead ended and there's a bluff overlooking the lake. But then the California think it blocks the view . So you think , well, let's mute move it. You can't get anybody to move it because that might acknowledge that it's a piece of crap . I've urged them to auction it off . You know, the art museum like every other museum is always looking for money, right? If you think it's so wonderful, put this thing on the open market and collectors will pay a fortune for it. They'll never do it because they what they'll get for it is scrap . The same amount that some junkyard dealer will have to put a bigger wide than normal. That's all that's it's so ugly. It's so st upid . To me, it's just an orange asterisk. It's got like the X marks in there and then a circle thing in the middle. It isn't beautiful. It's not edgy . It's garish without it's garish without being bright . It's just dumb. And the reason that we still have it in Milwaukee is because our elitists are just so happy that somebody of prominence did something here that we're not going to criticize. You compare this to before Chicago lost its mind and went to hell. The public aren't there just a second to no one in the world. The Picasso's incredible . The Mero is incredible. All the big buildings, public, you know, all the court the courthouse and the federal building all they all have their famous there's a calder down there, the Flamingo. They're beautiful . But our people, you know, if so back before Chicago lost its mind, if somebody built a piece of junk, well they did. They built a state office building called Well, you're from down there. You know the James Thompson Center and Downtown? Yeah . I mean, this got built . People get on Trump. You know, who was the governor when they built the James Thompson Center Thompson he didn't wait for himself to be . So Thompson was a Trump ahead of his time. You know, they rebuilt a downtown building in Chicago and it was one of these like, okay , this was in the eighties where there was this trend of building a lot of these like bluish kind of build ing. There's a really ugly federal courthouse in Madison. Those on the same concept. The problem with it is for those of you who know the yeah, the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas . They built this thing on the slope with glass and it's just been a disaster. It rains inside the building. And the same thing has happened at the Thompson Center. It would rain inside the offices because of all the glass and the sloping on it, the condensation would form inside the build ing and water would come down. The moment that it was built , people ripped and ridiculed it. And it just looks so out of place . But my point is when it went up, it was ripped by everybody because the people in Chicago then had some taste, but we don't have anybody that's got enough taste to say this is a piece of junk in Milwaukee. So what if somebody famous did it? We don't like it and the other problem with our elitist is they don't actually have any taste. Their idea of taste is to look around and see what other people think and try to try to pose and claim they like something . That happened in the early stages of rock and roll, by the way . There were people who didn't get any of it . And if something was done by Pink Floyd, they would just immediately say it was great. So the thing with Pink Floyd is I don't think that there's any band that has a wider range brilliant and crap than them. There are just some bands that did an incredible amount of brilliant things and also an incredible amount of unlistitable dreck . Pink are there other bands like that too. And any band that has a lot of material would be in that category. There'd be people who if it was direct or if you know most of it was on Dark Side of the Mood is unbelievably brilliant , and in its own way haunting and beautiful, even though Roger Waters is a pan in the ass and David Gilmore is almost as bad. It's very, very beautiful stuff, but they also did some stuff that was just clearly they had to be stoned at the time. But people who didn't know anything about rocket roll would just automatically say they liked the pink Floyd thing because they wanted to be annoying person because they didn't have the ability to discern what is good or bad . You know, a lot of the stuff that Brian Wilson did after his brain was fried was terrible . And the stuff that Brian Wilson did early in his career is some of the most beautiful music in the history of music . Anybody with an ear can discern the difference between the two of them. But our elitists are people who supposedly have taste. There was a writer eye. She's passed away. I don't think I'll mention her name. She wrote for the journal and she was like the critic in all of this stuff . She could not bring herself to rip something that was done by somebody famous or if there was an architectural firm in Milwaukee and there's a couple of them that they're overrated. There's a couple that are pretty good but I can't back it up entirely so I won't name any names in there. But you get my point . If you just drive into a big American city and you see a brand new structure that appears to be very weird, I'm just telling you it's like,ly a nonprofit. Speaking of Obama , there's a transition here. As most of you know, we're approaching two epic days. They're the same day . My birthday and the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the United States . Conveniently enough, they're both landmark birthdays. My fiftieth . I wonder if do I have to explain when I'm lying? There are new people out here. They don't know how old I am. I don't sound like I'm what I am, do I? How old are I sound like? You think I sound fifty. Jason said I sound like I'm fifty. Well, then I'll just go with that. I'll lie. If you're stupid enough to fall for it, you know, that's your own fault for being dumb This is Barack Obama . That is library dedication or his Obama Senate dedication. And of course, he can't go without using this as another opportunity to trash the country that elected him president . The founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise I'm going to just debunk that right there . No they didn't. In other words, the okay, the Declaration of Independence sounded good, but the founders fell short of actually delivering on it. No they didn't . The problems that occurred in the United States did not occur because of the founders . Now, I know where they're going with this. Yeah, they put together this document, but some of the states that signed on to it, some of the colonies that became states that signed on to it, they had slaves . We would not have had a union if we didn't take in the colonies that had slaves . And despite what Obama may want to let you know, there were slaves all over the world at that time . Slavery and planet earth have gone hand in hand forever . Read the Bible. The word slave is in there all over the place. Slaves were a part of human life and they were a part of human life in a portion of North America, including Sou th East, which has nothing to do with the goal of the nation that the founders created . Lots of bad things have happened in the United States since, but what the founders created not flawed when they said by the way the turn of phrase that mostly it was Jefferson wrote in order to create a more perfect union . Such an interesting use of words. You would think that perfect can't have a qualifier because perfect is perfect. It can't be better or worse than perfect. A more perfect union . That was their goal. And what they set out was a nation that respected individual rights. Were rights violent? Of course they were violated . We're killing Native Americans right and left to take the land . We got slaves providing cheap labor Some of the nations that came from Britain were in the business of knocking off the nation the parts of the country that were owned by France , all of that occurred, but none of that had anything to do with the Declaration of Independence. It merely stated the type of government and type of society that we wanted to have because we didn't want to have the piece of crap society that they came from England in which they were ruled by some goof with a crown on his head . So anyway, this is where Obama starts it. By the way, it's the same thing he's been saying forever . The founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise. Former President Barack Obama took aim at America's founders during the opening of his presidential center arguing they left slavery intact. How were they not going to have slavery intact unless they would have just decided that the United States would have only been the colonies in the Northeast. There would have been a way to do it . South Carolina wouldn't have been in there . Georgia wouldn't have been in there. You could have not had Virginia would have been in there. You could have created a nation, I suppose and just had Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, and the other colonies that didn't have slaves . But there was no way that that society then would have been able to survive the onslaught from Britain. And you would have immediately probably had a war between those states instead was created an imperfect union in their attempt to create a more perfect union, there was an imperfect union that ultimately fought a war to rectify it. Find all the other countries in America in which they fought a war to get rid of their slaves. It's a very limited list . So he throws the slavery thing in there as if the fault of slavery was the founding fathers rather than all of the people who owned slaves in the country that they came from that had slaves and the people in Africa that sold their own brothers and sisters into slavery . The argument that he makes would mean that any nation or anything that ever was created that had any flaws was somehow a failed creation . The remarks come just days before the United States marks its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. So Obama urged Americans to continue the work of building a more perfect union . All right , so we have a pompous, semi helloquent hack like Obama using the presidential senator to go out there and try to crap all over the two hundred fiftieth birthday . We need a retort here from somebody even better at this than me . And as you know, I think the most well spoken person on the right, he is in the best of health right now. We need him to last because it will be a great loss when Victor Hate Davis Hansen is no longer with us. The thing about Victor Davis Hansen is he's prolific. He does some interviews, but his best stuff is when he puts it in writing, and he writes a lot of columns and a lot of essays. I think he was a pig farmer, wasn't he? Isn't that how he gets? Isn't that how he made his money ? Do you know? I think it was . Here's the retort . And this is just like no contest As a general rule, this is Victor Davis Hanson. As a general rule , anytime Barack Obama lectures the country or its people on their purported sins , with Kal Gibron pop platitudes , Gibron, I believe. That's a guy back from Bayera. That was probably even before your time. This is the kind of guy that wrote crap that they put on posters in the sixties and the early seventies . He was one of those he was one of those guys that somebody who just like did three dubies might think would be eloquent. And I mean like my era style of dubies, ones that got you mildly buzzed as opposed to the stuff that they sell right now that turns people into mass murderers. Anyway, with Kalil Gibron pop platitude , he is seeking absolution for his own obsessions by project by projecting his own guilty desires onto others. Oh there's a gospel about this , teaching of Jesus In which he suggests that when we attack others, we ought to listen to what our attacks are because we're attacking others for the sins that we ourselves possess . Kind of makes you introspective . If you're somebody that's constantly gossiping about a couple of your friends . The thing that you're gossiping about may be the things that you do . And that's what VDH Victor Davis Hanson is suggesting that Obama does here . And he's going to in just a couple of paragraphs , just eviscerate him the latest, this is Hansen. At the dedication of his narcissistic Obama presidential center in Chicago , an eight hundred fifty million dollars flak tower monolithic boondoggle mired in debt . Obama lectured us on the need to resist the allure of money, attention, and fame I'll admit , even I could handle this tape, but Hansen does it really good. Can you think of anybody less suited other than maybe Trump to bitch about money, attention and fame that Obama thus spoke, this is Hanson, thus spoke the owner of four homes , three of them multimillion dollar mansions whose last inert year in office was spent closing book and Netflix deals that ensured he would become a multimillionaire the moment he left office and on spec Jet's private to sermonize to various audiences often at four hundred thousand dollars a shot on their own false consciousness shortcomings . In other words, the point that Hanson makes is of all the people has no business getting up there and bawling the rest of us out about resisting the allure of money and resisting the allure of green . These two hutsters , how would be a great if I wanted to do a series of ninety seven podcasts that only two percent of you would listen to, but it would be kind of fun to do. Who were more self aggrandizing? Who prostituted themselves more from their time in the White House, the Clintons or the Obabas, boy would that, be an interesting fight? Every now and then, back, I don't know about the UFC thing. I don't know how people even handicap that stuff. But in boxing, you kind of handicapped. I always thought the glory days of boxing was not the heavyweight era. It was the light to middleweight area. People fluctuated in weight passes in the seventies. When you had Hagler and Sugar Ray and Hitman Hur and Zed , Duran was around and so many of those matches were great because they just seemed dead even . That would be the taking advantage of a position in the White House and monetizing it and being arrogant about it at the same process. Who would be better at that the Obamas and the Clintons? I'm telling you that's a dead heat. You would have to examine that question for hours to be able to come up with an answer . I have a quote here. I found this on a news aggregation site that I come up with Thomas Sowell, who's still with us . Another one of the great thinkers of the last one hundred years in America . This was not in reaction to this. This is just a quote from him . Every envy once was sorry, envy was once considered to be one of the seven Dudley sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name social justice . Isn't that true? Isn't that the whole basis of socialism ? Resent everything that everybody else has ? There was a time in which we realized that envy was not only self destructive but a sin. It was morally wrong . Those days are long gone, what I will tell you is there's no payoff at enemy . Jealousy in the long run gets you nowhere . You'll never be happy happy at preventing over something that somebody else has. It may make you feel good during the time that you're doing it, but it'll leave you with the same emptiness afterwards. Quote here from JD Vance . This whole question of are we letting Iran off the hook . By the way, I do know it now, the number of commentators that are saying that Trump and Vance are blaming Israel for everything in the Middle East. This comes only two months after the other segment in America claimed that Trump was hoaring the United States out to Israel . You don't see any of the people who opposed the war early on and said that Trump was selling out her national interest to Israel now praising Trump for attempting to end the war before Israel wants it in. Anyway, JD does ask this question and I've been asking it myself as well for people who want to press on after we've done considerable damage to Iran, should we try to deliver what the so called knockout punch would be and some on the war right are pushing for this . And Vance, I think, offers a reasonable quote here in wondering whether or not It would accomplish anything. Let's imagine we bombed for ten more days . Here's the quote from Vance . I understand that argument , and what I would say is what is additional military action, which is always on the table . We can always do that . What does the additional military action accomplish for us right now . We could kill more of their leaders . But you're going to have additional leadership below that. Fundamentally, unless the people who run the country change their behavior over the long term , you're always going to have this problem . And so what we're seeing is we're going to pause here . They say that they want to do things differently . Let's give them that opportunity . If they do, great . And if they don't , we can always go back to the other options. Now , if you've been listening to me, you know that I agree with this. I have said repeated ly that it is not the role of the United States to overthrow the government of Iran. In other words, traditional military victory. Traditional military victory means the other side surrenders , they lose their country , and we come in and install a new leadership. That's what happened at the end of World War two . We installed new leadership in the countries that we toppled, gave them a lot of money to rebuild and so on. That is traditional victory. I have said that I do not believe you can achieve traditional victory in Iran other than a ground war . That we could, if we invaded on the ground, knock off the government of Iran. I believe you could do that . But I do not believe that it is worth it. And I don't believe that it is in the national interest to have a bloody ground war in which we would be mired in there as deeply as the Russians were in Afghanistan or for that matter that Russia and Ukraine is now involved in , that it is not worth it . That in the end, it is up to the Iranian people to find the wherewithal to stage a revolution in which hundreds of thousands may be willing to die in an attempt to topple their government and put in place their own. And given the fact that they don't have weapons, it'd be hard to do. And if they don't do it, then we're stuck with living in a world in which there's an Irad. But what we can accomplish is dramatically weaken them , damage their economy , knock out their military , to make them less of a threat than they were before. And the other point that Vance makes, just because you're not bombing them right now, doesn't mean you can't start bombing them again in three months if the occasion would present itself . So I do agree with this notion of pausing here and seeing what happens, knowing full well that you were dealing with evil monstrous bastards and every one of them that we kill we come up with another evil monstrous bastard. However , as an observer here that doesn't have any skin in the game , it does seem to me that Iran no longer speaks with one voice . I think that the people who are in charge of actually running the country on the ground, the mayors, the regional governors , they are the ones that are in the receiving end of the shortages, the real hardship that the people have, and they're probably hearing the most from the fact that the overwhelming majority of Iranians are not happy with these religious mullahs that other than the fact that they're target s are being killed by us have been exempt from the suffering that the regular old people have, which is why I think some in Iran were pushing for accommodating the United States more than others But I think the analysis of Aans , not just continuing to bomb for bombing's sake or worse doing what the Bill Crystals of the World want, which is or for that matter, I think the Lindsay Grahams have a mess of a ground war. Now this item as her last act in office, outgoing director of National Intelligence, Tosi Gabbard declassified what I'll call the Fauci files . They basically prove what many of us suspected . We have black and wh ite documentation that Fauci did fund the research at Wuhan that led to the led to the COVID virus existing at all. It's been pretty clear that that was the case, but the documents are now out there. They're not classified . That it was Fauci. And again, some of these records were out, but now they've been officially released, that Fauci created the cover story in which the Lab Leak Theory was supposedly going to be debunked , which is a lie. All these scientists signed that and why would they not want the truth to come out? Because if the truth came out, people would then wonder, well, who paid for this research in the first place and we would realize that it would actually be Fauci and then lied to Congress . The files that Tulsi released and to this day, we don't know if Trump authorized the release or not . Telsi's gone, what can Trump do to her ? Did Trump who has his own mixed record on COVID, remember that the vaccine was developed initially while Trump was there, it was put in distribution under Biden . And Trump for reasons that were understandable at the time didn't do what in retrospect we should have done, the moment COVID broke out, fire foul cheese ask and ask and do your best to expose the fact that he was the guy who illegally funneled money to the Wuhan lab in order to do this dangerous gain of function research in the in the first place in any event . What the release of this document does is prove that I've been right all along . I have been on this in the beginning and a lot of people say, Well, Mark, we knew it came from the Wall am. I know, but we were told again and again and again that it didn't. That was the original said and understanding that it came out of the Wuhan lab and that was done in Wuhan because you couldn't do it in the United States because it's illegal to do it here, that Fauci funneled the money through a nonprofit because he's in the d heude',s one of these evil weirdoses of let's create a germ to see how we fight off the germ . We then kept in place a guy running our COVID policy who was only looking out to provide cover for the fact that he's the guy that funded creating COVID in the first place . As I've said from the beginning , this is another story in which you will never the see leftist stop defending Foci , but you will never see them come out and acknowledge that Foci is one of the worst Americans of this current century . He's a monster . He did a terrible disservice to our nation . And they defended him and defended him. Oh, he's doing science. Even though he's making it all up as he went on, put the mask on, don't put the mask on, give us two weeks to flatten the curve. All this crap and it was all an attempt to stop an overreaction to the thing that he most feared, the discovery of the fact that he broke the law pump money into letting the Chinese mess around with this deadly virus, a virus that will now as it continues to morph , be around for the rest of life think humanity, hopefully, will continue to develop immunities so it gets weaker and weaker. We can keep fighting it off . But we didn't have the COVID virus before. It didn't exist. COVID nineteen didn't exist. Now it exists, and now it's going to be out there forever because of this creatin . Bouchy . You know what I think I think that this segment has been so good that it's time now to end it and we'll take a brief break on the Mark Belling podcast. 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The Marquette soccer and laws fields are down there and a little bit farther around. That's where the Pottawatomi casino is. There was a terrible crash . Two people were killed . The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office criminally charged both drivers . The driver of the vehicle involving in which the young people were passengers , that driver, according to the testimony at the trial, was driving terribly recklessly . The estimate of the speed was about fifty three miles per hour in a thirty mile per hour zone rolling through a red . The vehicle that struck that car was driven by a woman who herself was drunk . Now normally this would be a simple answer for people. You've got a fatal crash and one of the drivers was drunk out of her mind . Should she be charged in connection with the accident ? The jury found her not guilty . The jury found her not guilty , essentially arguing that even though she was drunk , the accident primarily was not her fault that there may and there's still going to be civil suits, of course. This is the criminal . And there's a different burden of proof than the criminal. One of the jurors who said she anguished over the decision, allowing the woman to walk and get away with it is we think she may have contributed to the crash but not, to the fatality . I'll quote from the JS Online story on this . Amandrea Bruner, forty two of West Alice was arrested on the scene of the september fifth crash at north twenty seventh Street and West St. Paul Avenue near the Marquette campus . It ended the lives of Scott Mashaud nineteen and Noah Snyder . And again, for those of you who don't know this, this is very, very close to where you get off by ninety four and get on to ninety four. The entrance there is the twenty sixth Street entrance. You get on by twenty seventh and you get off at twenty six and it's right in there and Saint Paul is a little bit south, you know, there's Wisconsin Avenue and then there's going the right direction . Michigan and Clyborne and so on. And West St. Paul is the next and St. Paul is one of the streets that kind of goes into into the area in the bottom of the hill and potawatta be a few more blocks south of that. So in any event I've been to that intersection a lot of times and it's a cocky intersection because there's hills and the roads curve and it used to be that there was almost no traffic there, but now there's a ton of it because it's one of the ways that people going to and from Potawata become through. Plus the Marquette soccer fields and lacrosse fields and so on are down there so there's a lot of students that come there anyway . It can be dangerous and there've been wrecks . Let me again quote from the description in the story . Bruner, that's the forty two year old woman. She was driving the vehicle that did not have the students in it, faced six felonies, two counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, two counts of homicide by use of a vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration, two counts of homicide by use of a vehicle involving a controlled substance. Assist Attrorictney Em Zimmmaers said Bruner should be held responsible for the crash because she was drunk and that her level of intoxication rendered her incapable of operating a vehicle safely. Bruner's defense team , Dustin Davidson and Abigail Ruck Dasher Ruck Dashle said the driver, Peter McColgan, also a Marquette student, was traveling at fifty three miles per hour when the cars collided. The speed limit in the area is thirty miles per hour. McColgan fac es two counts of homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle . And CBS FDA quoted a juror, I can say that I'm confident that Brunerner, that's the forty two year old woman, not the driver of the car with the students, contributed to accident the, but I cannot speak, cannot say that she contributed to the death. So what you have here is a situation in which clearly the other driver is drunk . And clearly there was a terrible accident Well, let's imagine I have an accident and it's my fault and the car I hit is driven by somebody who's drunk . The fact that the person is drunk doesn't change the fact that it was probably my fault. Now , was the other person's drunk enness, did that contribute because they didn't avoid well enough, etc ? That's where in a civil case, juries come in and divide out responsibility, whose insurance pays more for this and so on. I am not going to say whether or not this verdict is the right verdict or not because this is one of those cases at which you literally had to hear all of the testimony as to what vehicle was where and how much the impaired nature of the first of the driver bro oner impacted the crash if at all, but it is certainly possible that the jury got it right. Now let's go to a case in which not surprisingly, a Walkashaw County judge got it wrong. The good news about the judiciary in Walkashaw County is two of the worst judges in the county, maybe the two worst are leaving the vege . Ralphie Ramirez and William Domina, the bad news is they're still on the bench. We're in that lame duckery period of them . Domino was appointed to the bench by Jim Doyle when he was the governor. Doyle left office in twenty eleven, so he was appointed a few years before that. He's been on the bench forever and he's been a lame ass Walkersaw County judge. Not terrible , just not to the standards of a conservative community. I want you to listen to this case and I'm going to tell you right here that the guy got a walk . No time second offense operating while intoxicated . His name is Bret M einike . He was at a level of three two . The legal limit in Wisconsin is zero point zero eight . That's four times the drunk level . I think even in my younger days when I drank way more than I do now , I just don't believe I ever in my never mind driving got to level of three two. Fortunately I'd be, somebody who either pukes or passes out long before that. I just would not be able to get there. I just could . That's a good thing. Point three two Now body size and all of that. They've estimated in the past that each drink takes you up another two. So eight for a person of I don't know what the weight size is say one hundred eighty would be about four drinks in an hour. After that the, alcohol wears off a little bit and are you just drinking more to outpace it? The people who slam down shots are the ones that often get really drunk or the people that go on one or two day vendors and so on. But he was at a point three two which is really really really, drunk . He struck two vehicles and hit a pedestrian injuring his knee and fled the scene. Second offense, drunk driving. The judge in the case, William Domin in Waucasher County gave him one hundred and eighty days in jail and then stayed the sentence. Stayed means you don't serve it . For this all of, this, all he gets is prob ation . Now, my opinion, as I've expressed forever, is a first offense drunk driving without any other factors , you didn't hurt anybody already. I think you just kneeled for first offense drunk driving. We don't need to ruin somebody's life. It's already can cost you your job. It's a scarlet letter that follows you. It has an impact on your insurance it sets the stage for the second one being serious, but you don't have to ruin a person's life because a lot of people get a first offense drunk driving are not people that deserve to have their life wrecked. But once you start getting into the multiple and when you get into the aggravated, you leave the scene, you hit someone, you injure someone, or you're way out the limit zonkered . To give this guy a walk is despicable . Now, I know Domino a b'leseding heart , and as I say, it's a good thing that he's getting his sorry ass off the bench and take his fellow Lefty Relphi Ramiras with him. I've been riding the two of them forever and people ask me, what do you have against these two? What I have against him is I think that they're crappy jud ges . And the reason that I say this is I admit that there are judges in Milwaukee County as bad as Bill Davida , but he's in Walkershaw County and I hold it to a higher standard because the majority of voters in Walkershaw County are conservative and they don't want lefty judges. And if you're wondering why he's lasted on the bench all these years, nobody runs against him . The only time you get a challenger for a judicial office in W aucasaw County as if it's a vacant seat and not even always then , or if you have a judge that was just put on by Tony Evers, fortunately, they've run against them and they've beaten all of them. But this was a duel judge, and nobody ever challenged him. Nobody took him on. The Walkersaw County Court system was like a little click the same as it is everywhere else. I'm not saying that Domino has made bad decisions in numerous cases , but this is one out the door and it was just it was like the Obama thing that he built in Illinois flipping off anybody who wants any level of accountability at all . It would seem to me that one hundred eighty days in jail that he was that he's s ays that he stayed was about accurate . It was OWY repeater enhancer . So that implies to me second . So the second matters to something, then the level of intoxication, the fact that he left the scene hit and run, and the fact that a pedestrian was injured being hit in the knee, he was in a parking lot . All of this to me calls for time And other than maybe another talk show host, sadly, I don't think anybody's going to get on Domino four this and he's gonna suffer no consequences whatsoever for depraved indifference to the damage that this guy caused . Now to this , Bob Baumann, the downtown Milwaukee Alderman . I have a pretty good relationship with Bauman. He's a lefty , but frankly, where I live , how you're not going to have a lefty . So I at least want one who's responsive and accountable . Now, this is one of those stories that I've been telling you forever was bound to happen . Once the first scooters came in they were bird scooters . And people said, why do they call them these different? It's the name of the company. People said, Why do they call them bird scooters? Bird's the company. Now the majority of the scooters in Milwaukee are lime scooters. Why do they call them line? Because lime's the name of the company. Why do people have such a hard time with these things? There's the same situation with these scooters going on where I live in Florida. Heavily I live in a really heavily traffic street, like the most heav ily trafficked street , maybe in the side of Shanghai or somewhere . The traffic's bumper to bumper moves slowly and these scooters are flying in and out of traffic and worse they're on the sidewalk in Milwaukee, it is illegal to ride the scooters on the sidewalk. They are a complete menace to pedestrians, especially older people or dog walkers and so on because the scooters now can go really fast . You have to ride them on the street , but a lot of the people on the scooters don't want to ride on the street because they're woosies and they're afraid that they're going to get hit by a car . So I love this . They're afraid of themselves getting hurt, so they get on the sidewalk where they're the ones that can do the damage . In addition to that, everybody knows that even the traffic laws aren't enforced in Milwaukee because the cops are simply too overwhelmed to be out there doing traffic enforcement. They're too busy trying to catch murderers. So there was a terrible accident in which one of these scooter operators hit somebody who's very well known in the Milwaukee . He's one of the operators of a really prom inent gay bar in town and he suffered a bad injury and there was footage of it and I haven't seen the footage of Bob Auman said it's nauseating. It's sick to your stomach to see how bad the accident occurred. I want to quote from the J S online. He was the owner of the Lakaj Night Club in Milwaukee, Dave Wolves. I don't believe I've ever met him and the name doesn't ring a bell, but that just might be because it slipped out of my mind. He was hit by a guy riding a limestone bomb and said it was brutal to watch. There is a guy that's facing criminal charges in connection with it. Bauman is now saying that there needs to be more restrictions. He doesn't say what they should be, and this is the problem. Now I've stated my position on this and I stated it when the first ones started showing up a few years ago . I think they should be ban ned . Oh , you , that's what people react . These scooters are motorized . In addition to that, the premise of the scooters is, I think , unsightly . When you ride the scooter, you simply leave it wherever it is. So the scooters just lay around all over town and on the east side . They're operated off of an app. When you get off the scooter, if you don't have the app , they are deactivated. The scooter doesn't start. The lock mechanism is engaged and the motorization of it doesn't start. So you could steal it, but there's a tracker on it and it does it doesn run't unless you have the app . So nobody really steals them so they just leave them laying around and then every night the company that runs them scoops them all up and throws them in a truck and then redistributes them in the morning so anyway They're dangerous . And anybody who drives downtown with this has had the same situation that I've had many times, they'll come up on your right side and you don't often see them because they're coming so fast and it's not like a car or even a bicycle. It's just the person whizzing through along the curve and there's been any number of times where you almost hit them because they just come upon you so f ast secondly , many of them will dart in and out of traffic on these things. None of them, it seems to me, honor red lights, and fourthly , despite the fact they're not allowed to go on sidewalks, many of them go on the sidewalks . In the community living in Florida, the city there is just dealing with this exact same issue and they just passed a bunch of restrictions . I think riders have to wear helmets. They have to be on the streets , you can't be on a sidewalk. But again, the problem is you can say that they're not going to be on the sidewalk. What are you going to do if somebody's on a sidewalk? Here's what I think should occur given the fact that I know that we're not going to ban them. I think you need to have a driver's license insurance . You're operating a motorized vehicle on the street . And I've said the same thing with regard to these e bikes that are now going thirty miles an hour. What's the difference between an e bike and a harley? Well, the Harley's louder and it can get to one hundred and twenty , but the Harley's not going one hundred and twenty on congested streets in Milwaukee because nobody can go one hundred and twenty because you're stuck behind cars . Now I understand we've got a lot of people who don't have a driver's license in Milwaukee, but if you're operating a motorized vehicle in the street, I think it should have to be licensed and you should have to have insurance . And the ability of you to cause harm is just as great as it is in a car , perhaps greater, especially if you're in the sidewalk. I'm not driving my car on the sidewalk, but some of these people are riding the e bikes and the scooters on the sidewalks and they can crash into people . And I think they offer virtually no benefit to society unless we build them with speed limiters . And if Bird and Lyon I think Bird is gone. If Lyman, whoever else is operating these scooters wants to put a limit a limit these things to about ten or twelve miles per hour, then maybe I'll listen . Many people have said, well, what are you worried about because if anybody gets hurt, it's just going to be the people on them and almost none of them are wearing helmets. That's just to me the weirdest thing. I'll see somebody riding just a regular old bicycle with a helmet on. But they're on the scooters that are on the street and they don't have a helmet. I think the bike is saf er . I don't know what is safer . So Obama didn't say what he thinks that should be done about it, but he's saying, well, there ought to be something to do with it. And I'm a problem solver. If we can ban them, which we don't, make them have drivers licenses, which would require, of course, that they be at least sixteen , and make them get insurance as they would with anybody else . The problem of course is that the police would never be able to enforce it because they can't enforce the people that are violating those own laws with cards right now, but at least they could face some consequences if some sort of bad accident occurs. You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast. How much would it take for you to be wealthy and financially comfortable? Schwab recently asked Americans that question 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. 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I believe it's possible there are others . If there is a sport in which stuff happens in secrecy, it's the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks today just hired the basketball coach of Michigan, Dusty May, I had read no rumors of this at all . They kept that completely quiet. When the bucks signed Damien Lillet a couple of years ago, there had never been any leaks of this. There may be somebody else in play, but we know the media has reported widely that there are two offers out there . The Miami Heat is offering four average players , Tyler Harrow, whose they've been offering and trades forever and ever and ever . Milwaukee native, Kellware, who is a young wing who's pretty good, I guess . Jamie Jacques's name has been mentioned in several others. And then the belief is Miami would offer about five or six first on draft choices . The other offer that's been mentioned is essentially a one on one . The bucks would get a little more than one, but you would have a trade of superstars with the bucks in Boston where the bucks would send Yanis to Boston and the Celtics would send Jaylin Brown who was sixth in the voting for MVP this year . Who's a high scoring guard ? Likely the Bucks would also get Boston's number one pick and maybe one or two other players in there , but Boston's pick in the draft is late in the draft because they had a good season. You would betraying Yanis who's away for Brown, who's a guard, but Brown is younger than Yanis and maybe less vulnerable to injury . I'm not so old on the Miami trade because I think that the players at the bucks are being offered Just aren't that good . No knock on Tyler Harrow who I don't think the bucks have a need for anyway because they're loaded with guards like him as it is . They'd probably just move him anyway. I think Cal arew is not he's somebody whose hype is greater than his talent is . If Miami doesn't give up bam Abadio, I mean, I'm down there Miami. I watch that team. They don't have a lot of talent on that team. They have Abaddio and a bunch of guys that are kind of okay. Jamie Jeques is okay. They're not going to trade the two guys that are okay because in order to win with Yanus, they need to have something around them so they can give up all their spare parts and then you hand off draft choices. But here's the thing. If it works in Miami , and it probably would . Then the draft choices you're getting the next five years of the twenty fifth, twenty eighth, thirtieth pick of the draft Almost a second round pick . In order to turn a team around, you need picks that are early in the draft and I don't know how Miami brings that to you , which brings you to Boston . If you did make the trade for Jayalen Brown, you could then flip and send him to a bad team . Brown is not somebody who I think can take a bad team and turn him into a contender right away and maybe get better first round picks, or you just roll the dice, get an additional number one , take on Jaylen Brown and see how if you could put it together with the other players that the bucks currently have. I think more likely, Janis isn't the only older player that the bucks are going to move on from. I think that probably Bobby Portis and Kalkusma are likely to be included in a trade here. Both of them are players who don't seem to be playing to the potential of their paychecks right now but might be attractive to other teams and get a deal done that way either way , this moment is as significant to the box as when they traded Kareem way back in the nineteen seventies, a trade that kept the box as being okay for many, many years , but didn't give them the value of Kareem. It's very hard to trade Yanis to get the value of Yanis, but Yanis is a year left in his contract. If he isn't traded right now you're likely to get nothing for him. And as I said , Yanis is now so banged up. I don't know . I don't know that Yannis can go anywhere and be the guy . He could go to a team like Boston and be one of the two or three guys that they have, but I do think that the move is going to occur. And finally, this now with the Milwaukee Brewers, Pat Murphy is going to have a minor back procedure this week and then a hip replacement in a month. I worry about this. One of the strengths of the breweries is manager is just at a different level in terms of running a team. He handles the clubhouse as well as anybody , and he's a very good in game strategist . I'm certainly open to the notion that just as I don't think David Stearns was the reason the brewers were as great as they were the last few years, I think it was his right hand man Matt Arnold I will remind everyone that when Craig Counsel came to the Brewers the guy he hired to be his dugout coach was Pat Murphy . And the brewers have gotten better since Counsel left as Murphy's now running the show, how much of it all along was Murphy . I worry this about Murphy . I know people that have had you ready back problems, Jason , Gowen right now . Often when you have back problems, you're on strong pain meds. I don't want Murphy doped up in the dungout . The one thing I will say is I know people have had hip replacem ents . Every one of them feels better almost instantly . What you have to recover from is the soren that cut into your hip . But the hip itself feels better. What hurts is the slicing that they did into your body and you'll need some opioids to recover from that. But you know the hip replacement I endorse. I'm always worried about back surgery. It just seems to be that everybody that I know that's had back surgery never gets any better. The Tiger Wood Syndrome. The hip replacement though , when you get to be, I haven't had any of this stuff. I haven't had a knee replacement, haven't had a hip replacement. Boy, boy, it seems like almost everybody I knew has had one in the all said they feel