Mark Belling Podcast #170: A great reckoning is coming for the big universities that promote Marxism and crank out useless doctorates (I'm looking at you, UW-Madison). On the other hand, how about the Badgers?----the football team has been resurrected. And can the leadership of the Milwaukee suburbs get any weaker or irrelevant?

I don't know exactly how many people who listen to my podcast were listeners to my old radio show.

My guess is about 60%.

Might be a little bit higher than that.

We don't really know for sure.

We do know where the podcast listeners are from.

It's easy to track that, whereas in radio, the ratings companies are very secretive about the information that they gave you, and that was only an estimate.

In podcasting, you actually have hard actual numbers of the number of downloads.

And about a little over, right around 50 to 55% of my podcast listeners are from Wisconsin, meaning they're probably people who carried over from my radio show, and the other 45 to 50% are from elsewhere in the United States, but some of them are people who used to live in Wisconsin and so on.

Anyway, one of the things that I would do about every four months on the old radio show that I don't think I've done on the podcast yet, is share a story with you and tell you to find the story.

In other words, there's a news story there, and I think there's something really interesting in that story, but it's not the thing that the news reporter thinks is interesting.

I found that in doing that, it helped make the audience become analytical, so that you start picking up on the things that the media's not picking up on, that there are nuggets of information out there that you can learn that the media doesn't think is interesting at all, but are buried inside your stories and you can find them.

The story is about a write-in primary challenge to a Democratic member of the state senate from Madison.

On its face, dull and uninteresting.

But there is a story within that story, and we're going to get to it in a moment.