There's too much going on not to podcast so here's a special interim update.  The Mark Belling Podcast returns for its second season May 1 but here's a special set of hot takes

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Data overwhelmingly shows schools improve when cellphones are banned (why aren't all schools doing it?) Is the demise of a legendary Fox Valley radio station an ominous harbinger?  Two very different local land use battles: a treatment center in the suburbs and a nightclub in downtown Milwaukee.  Plus, our weekly football preview, and a wrap on Paul's producing and the 2025 podcast season.

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The Somali scandal explains everything: crooked Democrats, insane immigration policy, an inept media, a welfare state easy to defraud and the nincompoopery of Tim Walz.  Also, the price explosion in gold and silver, a proposal to remove huge chunks of Brewers parking and are smartphones making children myopic (literally, myopic)?

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Mark discusses the critical acclaim for Song Sung Blue, the movie about a Milwaukee musical couple and how the film avoids the normal Hollywood condescension toward middle America.   A new theory on why President Trump is targeting Venezuela, and Milwaukee's corporate welfare recipient Kanan Haywood Sr. offers yet ANOTHER plan for his 27th and North project.  (He's years overdue in paying back his massive taxpayer-funded loan.)  And, our weekly football preview including a discussion of whether the Packers will be motivated now that they have clinched a playoff spot.

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Mark looks at three compelling trends: why affordability is always worse where liberals are in charge, growing evidence that saturated fats are not bad for you and the move of the Oscar telecast to YouTube.  And, Linus reminds what Christmas is really all about

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Nicki Minaj becomes a top conservative influencer at Turning Point's big shebang, Illinois blows off the Bears (not that we blame them) in an idncation of how anti-business Democrats are, a Milwaukee deputy court clerk stands by his claim ICE agents are fascists and we ask his boss what she thinks about that, and, yes, a review of the Packers-Bears debacle

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Mark rolls the odometer as we hit Podcast #100 with a look at a new essay that dives into the conscious attempt to rid white people from top positions in our popular culture.  Also, Hartford's Jordan Stolz is winning every speedskating race in sight as he targets a dominating Milan Olympics.   And, will those Olympics be Mikaela Shiffrin's Simone Biles-like redemption after her 2022 disaster?   And, the Daily Mail exposes Ilhan Omar's family's close ties with Somalian oppressors and questions whether she really ever was a "refugee."

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President Trump targets Venezuela and fentanyl as he looks out for regular Americans.  In the meantime, Trump's chief of staff evidently regrets spilling her guts to Vanity Fair.   A fellow judge testifies she was shocked Hannah Dugan aided the attempted escape of a defendant who was the subject of an ICE warrant.  And, as the FBI foils a planned Christmas attack in Los Angeles it is becoming more apparent Christian and Jews are now being targeted for killing all over the world.

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Local media wrongly name a local man who had nothing to do with the Brown University slayings.    Rapper Nikki Minaj continues her rightward turn by going after Gavin Newsom for saying he wants MORE trans kids.  And, some thoughts on the nightmarish Micah Parsons injury and why ACL tears are becoming so common among elite athletes

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It's not surprising justice is a joke in Dane County, but it's a disgrace that conservative Washington County is pathetically soft on crime because all four of its elected judges are Evers appointees.  Mark dives into it.  Also: how Michigan's football coach ruined his career and landed in jail because he couldn't keep his pants zipped.   Fascinating information on another "dewormer" drug and its potential: can it stop cancer?   And, our weekly football preview plus a look at the one moderate Democrat who is joining their huge primary field for Governor.

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