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Now live from the civic media studios in Madison, Wisconsin, where the political party is just
beginning, welcome to the devil's advocates radio show.
When is proving its never personal, only politics?
And now here's your host, Dom and Croutes.
Welcome to the devil's advocates radio show, the Wednesday edition, Dom, we got president.
Joe Biden in the great state of Wisconsin, I got you here at the WMDX, 92-7FM Madison
studios.
Welcome back, everybody.
Hey, Croutie, great to be with you once again, happy hump day to us all Uncle Joe and
Town, man.
It's almost like Wisconsin's kind of a big deal in this election cycle.
Do you come to Milwaukee often?
No, I just saw a couple of Harris, not more than a week ago, on the Capitol Square.
She was in Madison, Wisconsin, my hometown.
You know, we are going to be quite flexible today and deference to the president, because
we may or may not have guests, you know, we got to work around his speech schedule.
We are going to take his bunch of the live speech as we can.
We expect president Joe Biden to speak in the four o'clock hour, we'll see how that
goes.
Yeah, we know all these politicians are, man, and we saw him, was it in LaCrosse?
He was vice president at the time, right?
You know, we are on our fourth presidential cycle.
That's crazy.
I mean, we saw Barack Obama the day before he won reelection on Baskham Hill in Madison.
We saw.
Oh, that wasn't party.
But Joe's always late, man.
Joe was in UW LaCrosse doing a speech, and he was outside the Eagles, the bar, right?
He was doing on the street interviews, and he should have been in the gymnasium.
And he acknowledged the fact when he was talking to folks.
I was supposed to be giving the speech 15 minutes.
Well, let's finish this.
Yeah, Uncle Joe, president Biden in Wisconsin.
That's excellent.
That is excellent.
Dom, you know, who occasionally visits the great state of Wisconsin?
Senatorial candidate, Eric Hubdee.
Hubdee.
He comes here occasionally.
I heard he's running for Senate, but I'm not sure where, because he didn't say his
campaign, dead on arrival, Dom, a new Rolling Stone exposing this one.
Is unforgivable as the headline states.
And, you know, be your own judge.
Don't believe just because crudey says it.
Here's the headline, GOP Senate candidate took bold stance against the sale of alcohol
in Wisconsin.
You know, he's not from Wisconsin, Eric Hubdee, who's running for office in the state
famous for its booze, but bone the commercialization of alcohol in 2017.
Prohibition was so much better.
Hi, Eric.
Dom, Wisconsin is famous for its booze and the devil's African, of course.
The brands Miller, Schlitz, Papst and Blatz were all thundered in Milwaukee, a city whose
baseball team is the Brewers, in which is often called the beer capital of the world
across the state bars out number groceries stores, roughly three to one.
I don't know if I'm proud or embarrassed by the whole thing, there's a sandwich in every
beer.
Very efficient for a total of about eight pubs for every 10,000 people, you know, at
least you can get service that way to say alcohol is an important industry in Wisconsin
is to undersell the fact and accounts for more than one hundred and sixty one thousand
jobs that pay roughly three point two billion and wages a year.
And that's just what they tell the IRS and generates two point six billion in tax revenue
according to the most recent figures available from the Wisconsin tavern league.
When we go drinking crudey, it's like community service supporting our neighbors.
Is that what we were doing last day is all of that is why it's surprising to hear a
potential political candidate, vying to represent the state in the U.S. Senate, say it's
a bad idea to commercialize alcohol tastes great.
Less filling.
I mean, come on.
You really?
Really man.
I was considering another run for office Republican air called the said that.
If it were up to him, alcohol would only be available to people who brew it or distill
it themselves.
I thought those were moonshineers them.
I thought the revenue, the revenues would come looking for you, acknowledging that it
would be difficult to find back the commercialization of alcohol.
It would be when I say the horse is out of the barn and it's going to be hard to put
back.
Hmm.
But are you going to try to put it back?
Interesting question.
Why would you oppose the commercialization of alcohol?
That seems like a unpopular stance here in the great state of Wisconsin.
Simulay, a hubby, a banking executive and real estate developer is challenging at
Tammy Baldwin for her seat in the fall.
The campaign is hubby's second bid for the Senate in 2012.
He lost to Tommy Thompson whom Baldwin later defeated in the general hubby explored a
second bid for Senate in 2018 before ultimately deciding against jumping into the race.
But in May of 2017, when he was still mulling the possibility, he attended the Jefferson
County Republican Party's Pints and Politics event in Johnson Creek, where he was asked
about weed according to a recording of the event shared was asked about weed weed at
the Pints and Politics.
Somebody beat him beat you to the punch down because if Ben vocal from his campaign ever
responds to our request, our very respectful inquiry that Eric Hudvey join us here on
the greatest radio show ever.
I'm sure you would have gotten around to ask him the weed question while hell, man, at
least Senator Johnson brought beer.
I can't imagine how he's going to do that if that's his attitude about it.
What's his attitude about tequila?
What about legalizing marijuana, a member of the audience asked Hudvey?
I'm opposed to that because I think it's a gateway, but that was the question.
Hudvey responds, gateway to cool this.
You know what?
I'm opposed to it as well and where I am on it is this.
I get the argument that marijuana is a lot less harmful than any other drug, including
arguably alcohol.
I don't think it's arguably.
And that kids might try marijuana because it's illegal and think, oh, I handled it.
I can try something harder.
So I get the argument from people that are pro marijuana, the easier situation would
be just decriminalize it.
Don't make it a commercial enterprise.
I'm, again, Hudvey speaking, I'm a libertarian in most cases, not when it comes to drugs.
Let me pause for a moment here, but a libertarian who's opposed to legalizing drugs.
When we were in college and I first kind of got involved, I voted.
I found out there was just a thing called a libertarian party.
I was like, what?
And they're down for legalizing marijuana.
I was like, what?
And so I voted that because the dems weren't around the Republican.
They inspired you.
They did.
They moved me.
Hudvey goes on to say, but if somebody says, okay, the medical reasons or whatever, I want
to grow a plant.
I want to smoke it.
Fine.
But why do we want to commercialize marijuana a plant?
I want to smoke that plant.
And if I'm too busy to grow that plant myself, or I don't have a green thumb or, or,
or whatever the case may be, I want it commercially available, readily available, but Uber eats
delivering my weed, man, in Detroit, you can get delivery, bro.
You know what?
I want to stay.
I go to the butcher.
I go, I go, I go.
I go to the passenger.
Come on, man.
Hudvey, why?
Do we want to commercialize marijuana?
I don't get that.
It's just another thing that society is going to have to bear the consequences and cost
of.
We just heard the consequences of a cost of the booze, right?
Billions of dollars.
Well, at least he's consistent because he's against the commercialization of the booze
and the marijuana.
He's prohibitionist across the board, isn't that?
Man, that didn't really work out, really kind of funded the gangs back in the day.
I mean, think of Donald Trump's favorite guy, Scarface.
But I continue, though, Rolling Stone article regarding Senator Wannabe Hubby, who hates
the booze and the weed.
As Rolling Stone reports, marijuana, both medical and recreation remains illegal in the state
of Wisconsin, despite efforts to decriminalize it as recently as this legislative session.
Hubby will not just suggest that cannabis should not be made into a business, adding
that alcohol should never have been commercialized either.
They're quote from Hubby, the prohibitionist.
So if we just decriminalize marijuana, fine.
No one's going to go to jail, no one's going to get arrested for it.
That's your self-determination, but you're not going to turn it into an enterprise.
Frankly, it should never, it should have happened with alcohol, hubby said in the audio.
I mean, look at alcohol has a lot of negative byproducts.
If somebody wanted to distill it, drink it fine.
Go ahead.
But sadly, as we know, it's produced a lot of negative byproducts as a part of society.
I don't think adding more negative byproducts to society is a healthy thing.
And saying that, I think the cat's out of, or the horse is out of the barn, it's going
to be hard to put back.
Has, has he never heard of bathtub jet?
You know, I kind of like a regulated industry when it comes to my booze drinking.
No, no doubt.
And what, what is it about enterprise?
I mean, don't you want, you know, a capitalistic society, aren't these free market capitalists?
And you know, not everyone.
Some people have really great thumbs, are really good at growing weed, they're really
good at brewing beer, whatever the case may be, you know, not everyone's going to want
to do it.
I want to go on, buy it from someone, perhaps.
And if I'm like engaged in that, well, perhaps this should be taxed, you know, I'm
bringing some revenue to the state.
That's what we do around here.
There's a sales tax at least, right?
Uh, in, in the regulation, as an unlicensed pharmacist in college, I respected, adored my
customers, but I had to give them what I got, you know, stem seeds and all.
It wasn't an option for me.
It wasn't regulated.
I don't know if there was any mold or other things in it.
It was just, oh, there was, you know, so these, I got a, I got a niece in Michigan.
Just got a job, uh, going around and doing like samples of weed that's their new job.
I know a matter.
I was there with you.
I know.
I know what I'm saying.
So it creates jobs, it creates a safe product, a service that engages entrepreneurs that
otherwise may not, uh, be involved in there's, oh my god, there's a huge demand for it.
Imagine that.
Here's the quote unquote libertarian, what denouncing, free market capitalism denouncing
the freedom to imbibe and engage in whatever activities drug or otherwise, it doesn't seem
very libertarian to me, uh, back to the Rolling Stone article briefly, Scott Stinger, who
represents the Tevern League of Wisconsin, took issue with how these remarks, you could
probably make that same comment about big Macs.
I don't think it's very informed to look at reality of the economy, whether it's in Wisconsin
or anywhere like anything, whether it's hamburgers or alcohol, there's a way that it can
be enjoyed responsibly to deny that it's not part of our economy is not just, is just
not looking at the facts.
It's a significant piece of our economy, and I think neighbors, regulators and legislators
understand that then vocal, our buddy, they spoke to him for a hubby, suddenly candidate
still backs decriminalization of marijuana and that he probably supports Wisconsin breweries,
distilleries and wineries, really?
Not only if you do it yourself, I don't want to make a big Mac at home, if I want a
big Mac I'm going to McDonald's, they make really good big Macs, they do it a lot.
If I want beer, I'll go to a bar or maybe Dominic's house, because those are the people
that do it best.
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Eric Hudby, you're dead on a rival man, don't even take the next flight from Laguna
Beach back to Wisconsin, don't bother.
If you've lost the tavern league, you've lost the electorate, there's not enough T totalers
in this state to help you win the US Senate.
I mean, Tammy Baldwin, she's had some spot at cows, at least during the summer conventions,
Tammy always is good for a barrel or two of the spot at cow.
So I just don't get it, you know, the revenue, again, we talk about the alcohol here in
the state of Wisconsin, according to the Rolling Stone, 160,000 jobs, $3.2 billion in
wages, and $2.6 billion in tax revenue.
Why would anyone want to enterprise it?
Because they're money in it, and people want it, and not everyone knows how to grow it,
or cares to know how to grow it.
I mean, that's why we do it.
I'm having a stilless, a little dangerous, making math in your house.
It's discourage-stactivious, I mean, by his logic, okay, I'm not down for math, but if
you're going to do it, make it at home, you know, maybe the spare bedroom, or the kids
sleep.
And the freedom, what about the free- oh, you can do it yourself, but, you know, what,
so what happens if hub, these philosophy comes to light, well, you can't sell it, there's
no regulation, and then what are you going to do?
Are you going to enforce people, you know, throw them in jail?
No, you can smoke it, but you just can't sell it?
Of course, how's that going to work?
It's not going to work.
Just like you're saying you can't smoke it, people still going to sell it.
Like, can we do it right now in a state of Wisconsin?
Hell, how many millions of dollars in tax revenue are we losing to Illinois and Michigan
right now?
And that's just ours.
And Illinois is really expensive, though, but I want you to try it, right?
Curbside service crewdy, they bring it out to you, man.
That was nice.
It is nice.
That was nice.
You used to call it an open-air drug deal.
Now it's curbside pick, baby.
See, hubdy, get with the times, man.
I had not thought of it in those terms, but it was very convenient and they fulfilled both
of our orders.
Yeah.
And I gave them cash, and they brought me back cheap.
Ah, there's all sorts of deals and giveaways, and they just kind of run the thing because,
you know, apparently when there's lots of supply, hubdy, you should know this as a banker,
lots of supply.
Well, prices go down, so you got to move it.
Supply and demand, hubdy, they should go back to school.
Come on, man.
That's terrible.
An alcohol.
We haven't learned this lesson, and we were still dealing with prohibition, right?
We're still dealing with the effects of prohibition, man, for real.
Think about how heavily regulated the alcohol industry is right now.
What?
Evers and all these folks are very, very happy that they kind of redid how booze is done
in the state of Wisconsin.
You know, some arcane laws got updated, basically.
Well, what were the reasons for all those things?
Well, because all stemmed from the prohibition, man, all the money going to the gangs.
Well, his libertarian thoughts, this Eric Hudby, you know, let the free market solve
this one.
Those are the cartels.
You know what I mean?
Left to their own devices.
You're saying let the cartels commercialize because someone's making revenue, someone's
filling the need, if you will.
And just, you know, Dom's peers in college, we know them.
There's a very strong demand.
Yes.
Someone had to fill that.
And taking advantage of an opportunity, fulfilling a need.
Again, I kind of feel like it's, it's our, it's our duty, it's our community service.
Well, I'm here for you.
If you'd have gotten caught, you'd have gotten worse than community service.
I think, I think the statute of limitations has expired.
I think so.
But on Hudby, I mean, it's 2017, you know, the newest comments he's making, well, I'm
still not down for the legalized marijuana because, you know, it's terrible in California
where I live.
Well, according to Ben Vocal, Hudby is backing decriminalization of marijuana and proudly
supports Wisconsin decriminalization, distilleries and wineries.
You know what decriminalization means?
They can still use it as probable cause to pull you hopeful isn't that the whole one?
Search your car.
Yeah.
Especially if you're brown or black.
Yeah.
Isn't that, isn't that convenient?
Confirmalization of marijuana has not been a good policy for, for some people.
Now, as a white guy, it's been very good policy for me because I've never been busted.
And I should have been many, many times, never, never, uh, oh yeah, that one, an open
air drug deal.
I called you on the way over it.
I said, dammit, this doesn't feel right, it's real right.
But you had a need.
There's someone willing to give, uh, you don't fulfill that need in a black market way.
Ain't it that neat?
It's trapped.
You probably were, you know, you know, they don't, they get the guy that pinched him to
go upstairs.
Hey, man, who can you get roll over on someone?
I know a dumb ass.
He was show up for some green bud.
And you know, what, what, what's great advice for 40 bucks?
What advice?
Did the police officer give you, Michael?
Well, he, he said the marijuana probably came over the prison purse of some illegal immigrant.
And I said, no, it didn't.
I said, that's, that's the good stuff.
That's some hydroponic stuff that's, that's crystallized.
And this was before, you know, we could go find that.
Before you could go to a dispensary and any state other than the state of Wisconsin.
And he said, you know, you could have done a lot of good with that $40.
Yeah.
What did you do?
You were literally sitting outside him.
He pulled me over in front of a bar on my way home, uh, monkey shines on the far west side
I think at the time.
I said, what, what, what could you have done with this 40 bucks?
I said, it could have been that bar hammer drunk for 40 bucks.
Right.
That's what I would have been doing.
But if you have, you know, he had to pull me over.
So I got quite the lecture and, uh, well, I mean, that wasn't happening.
And of course, so the ignorance is, is obvious, uh, not just with that particular police officer,
not with even friends of our like former sheriff, uh, my home, yeah, I mean, in, in, in
helping guy.
Yeah.
No, it's nothing about.
Nothing.
No, of course, that's, that's okay.
You don't have to be an expert on everything, but just because you're running for
Senate or just because you're a police officer, it doesn't make you an expert on the cannabis.
You know, once upon a time, Alan Roberts sends an expert on the cannabis, uh, David, uh,
David Mahoney told us he could help us buy him out to weed for like 100 bucks.
And at the time going to raid on the street was significantly higher than, uh, you know,
I knew a guy and it was more than that.
And we said, if you know guy and, and you're guys 100 bucks an ounce, like a brother up,
yes, please, please, sir, please do.
And he was still in line first, but at that time, and we were having the conversation
on the radio.
So it was probably awkward for him being called out as such, you know, didn't want to give
a way of trusted friends name or anything.
But now, now the answer is go to that place that Dom goes to a fernglaid Michigan, fern
Dale.
Oh, my bad.
Yeah, ferndale.
Yes.
Ferndale, Michigan.
It's much better when you say it like that.
Right off of 696, curbside pickup, man, you barely, uh, you can't fill your gas up
any quicker than that.
I did that mid tone Madison one time, I got put in handcuffs, now he drives to Michigan.
David, you want to know where it's cheap now Michigan?
Yeah, real cheap.
It's great there.
The president's going to be there tomorrow, but he said Milwaukee today and we got Joseph
Pecky, our good friend Dem strategist.
He's joining us next, Vegas Joe, Milwaukee Joe, our buddy Joe, come back with us more
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He is Vegas, Joe, so Pecky, he's a friend of ours, it's going to help us rage against
the machine.
Joe, how you be always how you bet Joe Biden in Millay, Milwaukee and he does go there
often.
At least he's got to be wheels down by now.
Yes.
He has arrived at the boys and girls club about three o'clock, a 306.
Joe, he's been on the ground for at least 28 minutes, Joe, speech of fire and supposed
to happen after four o'clock, we're going to cover, uh, give you the live Joe Biden from
Milwaukee on the Devils Afghets next door, but now we got Joe.
So are we getting jacked up Joe Biden like we did last week?
Yeah.
Paper caffeinated Joe, I love this, Joe.
This is my favorite Joe Biden.
What do you think, Joe?
I, it was like the embodiment of a home game.
Never has a human looked more at ease and more comfortable.
And then you stop and think about it and you're like, Oh, right.
This man has spent more time in the United States capital surrounded by legislators and
lawmakers of both parties, he's like a fishing water, you know, like a pig in stink.
That is where that man belongs and man did he do a phenomenal job.
And part because Republicans have so overplayed their hand, right?
They want the American people to believe that the president of the United States has taken
his meals through a straw, drooling in his soup, whatever, you know, weird version of the
world they want you to believe is is so disconnected from reality.
Like Joe Biden is old, stipulated.
He is also doing the job and doing a fine job of being president of the United States.
And that disconnect between what Republicans want you to believe about Joe Biden was finally
fully put to rest with, I thought a state of the union for the ages.
Good for old Joe.
The old guys still got it.
Joe Sipeki, my, my only fear.
Can he ever top that performance again?
Now he's got to go out there on the campaign trail and sell it town by town by town.
Milwaukee today, Michigan tomorrow, I mean, we, we bring the enthusiasm each and every
day.
Joe, it takes effort.
It's work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You got to build up to campaign mode.
That's right.
And, you know, for 226 days or whatever is left, Joe, Joe Biden is going to bring it, right?
I mean, there, there's not a lot of people alive who wanted to be president for as long
as Joe Biden and then got to do it.
If you think for one single solitary second that this man is not going to fight and scrap
and claw and bring his a game every single day to defend this country from what is we are
at risk of if Donald Trump is restored to that office, like, forget it, man, like, is
he old?
Yes.
Does he look old?
Yes.
Are there going to be days when he sounds old?
Yes.
This nation has for continuing the progress we've made.
No question.
Take it to the bank.
So I, I, I want people to sort of lighten up a little bit, you know, we've had old
presidents.
We've had young presidents.
We've had presidents in the middle, right?
We have old CEOs.
We have young CEOs.
It's like, everybody just chillax.
Joe Biden's got this.
Are we going to air a cut V spank?
Take it to the bank, maybe.
Joseph Becky Demstredges, our friend.
Thank you for joining us.
So I agree.
I think President Biden did a fine job and I also think you're right, man, the expectations
of the Republicans have laid out for the American people were so wrong and so out of
whack.
I mean, he had to get up there and what did he say when he started?
If I were smart, I'd leave right now.
You know, it was just, you know, I mean, self-deprecating and, and also wise and knowledgeable
and, and fired up.
And I think, and really angry about some of the things that Donald Trump has said and
done.
And I think justifiably so, people should be angry about these things.
Donald Trump is a, is a, is a threat to this country.
And I think Joe Biden specifically articulated some of the very things.
Joe, you cannot love your country only when you win here here.
And in addition to being genuinely angry about what Donald Trump represents, the way that
Joe Biden presented a vision of a more optimistic, you know, America is on the march.
There is nothing that this country can't do when it sets its mind to it.
We are strong and growing stronger.
When you think about where we were at the depths of the pandemic, four years ago this week.
Right.
Just think about what your life was like four years ago this week.
We, we didn't know what was next.
Schools were being canceled.
Businesses shut down.
You know, no sports for.
We didn't know how long it was genuinely terrifying.
And here we are today with an economy that is the envy of the world with the production
of semiconductors and the chips that are going to power the future, being reshored to be
built in America, you know, roads and runways and railways and bridges being rebuilt because
of a bipartisan infrastructure law that Donald Trump turned into a punchline for four years.
But Joe Biden got done.
Like that difference of Joe Biden saying we are still the envy of the world.
We are still the indispensable nation that every new business that starts as an active
hope.
That's sunny.
I'll say morning in America, disposition, right?
I mean, that stands in stark contrast to Donald Trump who would have you believe.
And he's not the only Republican, by the way.
A lot of these ultra maggot guys that that's their whole stick.
It's midnight in America.
Everything is terrible.
We have to turn back the clock because America's best days are behind us.
I call BS on that.
Our best days have always been ahead of us.
Joe Biden understands that.
He told that story to the American people last Thursday night.
And that's the choice in this campaign is it's not just between a 91 times or I don't
know, maybe it's only 87 after today, federally indicted, you know, a potential felon and
a guy who has kept his nose clean and had a administration free of scandal.
It is also between looking forward and looking backward, an optimistic view of America in
our role in the world and a guy who wants to retreat from the world.
And we'll look you in the eye and tell you America's best days are behind you.
People ain't gonna buy that.
Joe, comparing and contrasting the content and the delivery of the president versus Senator
Katie Brit, I'd like to get your take on the senators.
A breathless bridge content and delivery.
You're a me to consultant Joe.
Did you prefer that?
I did not I would not and I stand by my initial reaction, which is I do think that there
were some logic to what they were trying to do.
Republicans have a problem with women, they have a problem with young women, and they
have a terrible problem when it comes to the issue of abortion and the adopter's decision
and rovy way, just like what's happening with IVF in this country.
So I understood strategically what they were trying to do.
And I do think there are much to my dismay and presumably yours.
Millions of Americans who believe that that is what a wife and woman should be.
So I don't think that that speech didn't work for anybody.
The delivery was odd and what was even worse than the delivery is what turns out to be
the truth.
Right.
Which is that she lied?
She lied to the American people.
She wanted you to believe that because of Joe Biden's border, this 12 year old was
sex traffic and rape.
When the reality is it happened 20 years ago, it didn't happen in the United States.
Like she lied about every dang part of it.
And what that lie represents is a choice that she and other mega Republicans have made.
They want you the American people to be scared and they want you to be afraid because they
think those are the only two feelings you can have that benefit them politically.
That's a shame.
It's a travesty.
But it is clearly what they are trying to do.
I'll find guest Joe Sopecki, Joe, will you indulge us?
You've got the president speaking in Milwaukee in real time, Aaron, if you would, please play
President Joe Biden addressing the full promise of America.
Today, we're recognizing that history to make new history.
I'm here to announce the first of its kind investment, $3.3 billion, $3.3 billion in 132 projects
and 42 states are going to help write historic wrongs.
And in the process, delivering environmental justice by reconnecting disadvantaged communities
and neighborhoods, new opportunities for future prosperity and many possibilities.
These investments advance my Justice 40 initiative to deliver at least 40 percent, 40 percent
of all the benefits from clean transit, clean energy and climate investment to disadvantaged
communities.
That's the commitment I made and we're keeping.
Here in Milwaukee will mean $36 million in new federal funding to rebuild six streets.
Congress will be more very happy about that.
The main writer sidewalk for children walking to school, safer bike lanes for residents
and visitors, dedicated bus lanes to get to work faster, new trees to provide shade to
modern infrastructure to prevent sewage from flowing into Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan.
These are life changing improvements.
They're also going to make it easier for historic black communities in the North and Latino
communities in the South to access jobs, school and entertainment.
These are the city and central hub from watching the Milwaukee Bucks play to attending Milwaukee
area technical college.
And if I didn't mention the technical college, I'd go home asleep along because my wife
is a full-time teacher at the community college.
You all think I'm kidding?
I'm not.
We're going to ensure that good paying construction jobs created in this project go to members
of the community, benefiting the very same project.
With the help of your congressional delegation, especially Senator Tammy Baldwin, who worked
so hard for these funds, we're making sure that the construction materials of this project
are made in America.
Good point for Tammy there.
If I can address for one second, look, you know, I've been very involved for a while.
I know I don't look like I just arrived, but I'm all kidding aside.
I didn't realize, even though I was deeply involved initially in a civil rights movement,
it got me involved to run for the first place.
I didn't realize that back in Roosevelt's term, when they were going through the fights
where the unions could organize, they added a provision to the law that not many presidents
paid attention to.
And it says that if the Congress appropriates money for the president to spend on a public
project or any project, that he must use an American worker, and he must use American
material, folks very few, very few lived by that, very few presidents did that, but not
any more.
That's why we're Britain jobs.
Look folks, you've lived in and felt the decisions made decades ago.
Today, today, we're making decisions to transform your lives decades to come, and we're doing
it all across America.
Let's be clear.
This groundbreaking investment comes from two historic laws I signed with the support
of Tammy and Gwen.
My bipartisan infrastructure law, most significant law modernized our roads, bridges, and so
much more in generations, and I was a consequence of investing in it.
So all the inflation reduction act, which is the most significant investment in fighting
climate change in events, the environment, ever in history, anywhere in the world.
That's not hyperbole.
And they're already making a difference.
Look, let me give you one example.
Back in December, I was in Milwaukee and met with a plumber named Rashan.
Who owns it?
Is he here?
All right.
Who owns his own small business, Hero Plumbing?
Let's remove hundreds of pipes, lead pipes, so children and families in this community can
turn on the faucet, clean water comes out without a risk of brain damage.
Well, it was supposed to take the city 60 years to eliminate all these pipes, to do this
work because of the infrastructure law I signed.
We're now getting it done, all of it done.
Every lead pipe in this city within 10 years, gone.
I was proud to have a shot as my guest at the State of the Union of the West last
week.
And folks, round away delivering clean water to every American, we're on the way delivering
affordable high-speed internet to every American, at low cost.
The community's too often left behind, we're rebuilding.
We're rebuilding the roads.
We're filling in the cracks in the sidewalks.
We're creating spaces to live and work and play safely.
And to breathe clean air and to shop at a nearby grocery stock with fresh and healthy food.
We're taking on housing discrimination, increasing access to home ownership, and building
more homes and apartments to bring the cost of rent down to most people.
Everything we're doing.
You're listening to the Devils F. Kennedy show, very special edition, we got Joe Biden
in Milwaukee, we'll come back after a brief break with more of the President's speech
live from Milwaukee to the Boys and Girls Club.
Keep it locked, Devils F. Kennedy out.
$8 million in Wisconsin for the State Small Business Credit Initiative, helping countless
small businesses grow.
And Milwaukee, small business application, we're up 70% compared to before the pandemic.
Small businesses make up half of our economy.
The Devils Advocates, because freedom.
Hey folks, Dr. Fils listening to the Devils Advocates Radio Show President, Joe Biden
in Milwaukee, the Boys and Girls Club speaking right now, we'll go back to that sound, please
Aaron.
And led by your Senator Ron Johnson, every single Republican and Congress voted against
that as well, every single one.
I signed a law to beat big farmer by giving Medicare the power to price prescription drugs
and lower drug prices for seniors significantly.
Every Republican voted against as well, and by the way, guess what?
It lowered the federal deficit by $160 billion.
Didn't just save money for seniors, didn't just save money for seniors.
It meant Medicare didn't have to pay out those exorbitant costs.
For example, everybody knows somebody who needs insulin for diabetes.
Well guess what?
Just lowering the price to $35 and only cost ten bucks to make, by the way, instead of
four hundred bucks a month, saved the government all that money.
And now they're trying to cut Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security.
Wisconsin's very own Senator Ron Johnson calls Social Security, I get this one, I am amazed.
He calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme.
Oh, I'm serious, think about it.
Did you ever think you heard anybody say that?
A Ponzi scheme?
Give me a break.
You know, just this week Donald Trump said, cut the Social Security Medicare on the table.
When asked if he changed his position, he said, quote, there's a lot we can do in terms
of cutting, tremendous amount of things we can do, end of quote.
I want to assure you, I will never allow it to happen.
I won't cut Social Security, I will not cut Medicare.
Instead of cutting Social Security Medicare to give tax pay to the super wealthy, I'm
going to protect and strengthen Social Security Medicare to make the wealthy begin to pay
their fair share.
Look folks, let me close to this.
Four years ago this week I came to office, our country was hit by the worst pandemic and
economic crisis in the century.
Remember the fear and anxiety everybody felt?
Worker job losses, raging virus that would take more than one million American lives.
And for every life lost, I expect there was estimated eight close family behind, eight
children, mother, father, uncle, dance, a mental health crisis, a isolation and loneliness,
a president, my predecessor, who failed most basic duty, any president owes the American
people.
The duty to care, just to care.
This is where we're going to give a lot of money.
I came to office, determined to uphold the duty that gets us through one of the toughest
periods in our nation's history.
And we have, and now we're building a future America full of possibilities, building an
economy from the middle out in the bottom up, not the top down, that top down stuff, not
the whole lot landed on my cats, kitchen table growing up.
Investing in all America, and all Americans, to make sure everyone has a fair shot, where
we leave nobody behind.
Look, our plan is working and America is coming back.
That's America.
That's what this project is all about, the projects for jobs and justice, prosperity,
and limited possibilities.
And that's why I swear to God, I've never been more optimistic about America's future
than today, not because I'm president, because we're one of those inflection points in history.
We really are.
Things are going to change no matter who's president in a big way, they're going to change
much for the better or much worse.
All we have to do, folks, remember who in God's name we are, were the United States
of America.
But the only major country in the world has come out of every crisis stronger than we
went in.
Stronger than we went in.
There's nothing beyond our capacity.
I mean, it's sincerely, think about it.
There's nothing beyond America's capacity if we do it together.
And that's what we're going to do.
May God bless you all and I got protect our troops.
Thank you so much.
That was President Joe Biden speaking live in Milwaukee.
Proud to bring it to you live and find guest to boot.
We got Vegas, Joseph, he stuck around, appreciate you doing so, Joe.
Not quite state of the union, Joe, but still damn good, Joe always.
Get all of us in the president comes to Milwaukee.
It's great to have him.
And I don't, he's done speaking, but apparently he's hanging out.
I don't know.
He's going to go have a brought in a beer or something.
I don't know.
I'm sure you'll find some ice cream along the way, Joe.
I mean, you know the president.
I hope so.
You guys do.
Do you remember when he went to cops about 14 years ago?
No.
I do not.
But my understanding is he's staying at the fister this evening, staying in Milwaukee
and then on to Michigan tomorrow.
That's right.
Sleep over in the Midwest.
The best coast.
I hear there's ghost at that hotel.
You're right.
Okay.
So number one, thank you for your time and your flexibility.
Are you able to stick around over the top of the break for maybe one more segment on
the other side?
Yes.
Okay.
Excellent.
Yes.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill, the inflation reduction act, we heard a little bit about
that.
I, you know, one of them, as mentioned, bipartisan the other not so much as we came back from
a commercial and the president was talking specifically about Ron Johnson and the Republicans.
I love the fact that the president is, is, is, is reminding everyone.
I think people need to be reminded all the time, not only from, you know, the last,
the pro, his predecessor in January 6th and all those things, but some of the actual legislation
and efforts that are being done by a push by this administration, you think it's going
to be effective.
Do you think that's going to, you know, catch on in the next 200 some days?
I do.
You know, like, for example, listen, today there is no question that what is happening in
the Middle East between Israel and Gaza is causing some political problems for president.
You know, we can sit here and point fingers and say, well, Biden is better than this and
would be better than somebody who wants to do a Muslim ban.
That's not the point.
There are voters right now on the left who should be Biden voters and who we hope to have
as part of that coalition between now and November.
A lot of work has to be done to earn those votes, sort of back or earn them outright if
we didn't have them in the past.
And one of the things that's going to be a factor in that are this records, this president's
record of accomplishment, the fact that he did the biggest climate change bill in world
history and is taking this on.
And so when you look at that choice and that reality compared to the fact that not only
to Donald Trump not get that done, there was not a single Republican in Congress who voted
for it.
They didn't vote for lower healthcare costs.
They didn't vote for climate change, you know, incentives to build a new way to power
our future.
And so those types of issues are going to be at the forefront because they are central
to the broad coalition of never Trump Republicans, once upon a time Trump Republicans, but no
more independence and Democrats who are going to be needed to assemble in coalition to
protect this democracy.
Joe, are you and all disappointed that the Robin Foss recall effort apparently has come
up short of signatures because you know Trump would have come to Wisconsin, probably to
proceed to campaign against Robin Foss.
I'm not surprised, but I'm disappointed that once again, somebody who made choices isn't
going to have to face the consequences of those choices.
We can talk about those choices after the break.
Make good choices, says Joseph Pecky.
No promises, says Tom, come back for devil's advocates, make good choices, stick around,
you know you will be a comparable, Joseph Pecky.
