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Very excited to have temperatures in the double digits, even though they're just in the double digits 10.
But hey, we're on our way.
Oh man, I can't believe it.
Follow me.
I have had a heater going in our basement bathroom for a week and a half now trying to thaw some pipes.
So when I hear 10, I'm almost defreezing.
How's that going
and
that bathroom Yes, it's always very well They're only gonna be here for a couple minutes because they come they drop off the dog and then they're going to their friends so But it's still nice to have the other bathroom so I figure I've got a lot to do I'm going to wait till the end of the week because if God forbid a pipe is broken It's easy to handle on the weekend when we don't have shows
like the mindset, Brian.
I'll tell you what, the walls are very warm in the back.
And now the ceiling is war.
Everything is warm.
So I'm hoping now behind the wall, it's warm as well.
But you know, that's neither here nor there when it comes to my bathroom may be shut down, but that's nothing.
The government is also shut down.
There's a segue for you.
And you know why?
Because we can't decide on funding.
But we also have to worry about
elections because there's been calls for nationalizing elections.
You know the president has set the FBI down to Georgia to rehash the 2020 election and now the president is also promoting false claims.
about a Wisconsin's election system.
He is reposting and amplifying social media posts and videos that allege widespread voter fraud and if you were here during the last election you know it's all been investigated.
There is no actual fraud.
Trump shared claims asserting Wisconsin has roughly three million more registered voters than eligible adults suggesting state election officials are enabling mass fraud and it goes all the way back to some
conspiracy theories and with that in mind we decided that we need to get to the bottom of this because we are all about facts with our opinions thrown in but it's fact base and we love to have lessons because sometimes we all need to go back to school so Parker I think it's time for a really all we took our segment and we jazzed it up hit it
Take your seats, kids.
It's time for a civics lesson.
exciting.
When you talk about this and you talk about the last couple of days, and yesterday, if you were able to join this program, we mentioned that Wisconsin's own Brian Stile has written an act called the Make Elections Great Again Act that they're trying to introduce for this nationalized election takeover.
But we got to start with a little timeline, okay?
Because
these words from this current president go back.
November 2020, okay?
After he lost Wisconsin to Joe Biden by about 21,000 votes, the president falsely claimed widespread voter fraud, recounts, audits and courts upheld the results, and the recount actually slightly increased Biden's margin of winning.
interestingly enough.
And then late 2020 to 2021, Trump backed lawsuits in Wisconsin, those were actually dismissed.
The GOP legislature launched an investigation led by former Justice Michael Gabelman, which let's remind everybody, failed to find any evidence of fraud and Gabelman actually lost his law license for three years because of helping with these claims and doing this investigation.
Then we go to 2020.
through about 2025, Trump repeatedly revived claims that he won Wisconsin and suggested the election was stolen, despite consistent debunking by election officials.
And this is on the state side, this is on the local side, so these are just a couple of people.
This was a whole group of election officials saying, no, you did not actually win the election in Wisconsin.
And then we go to last week, right, where you mentioned it.
He amplified these false claims at Wisconsin.
Johnson has millions more, millions of registered voters than eligible adults and conflated active and inactive voter lists.
So he actually made this post on truth social last week where he shared a video that featured testimony from a gentleman by the name of Peter Bernager.
And Peter is an election conspiracy theorist who has previously been convicted of fraud.
Interestingly enough, you know, the company you keep kind of thing.
So Bernagher's claim relies on the growth of Wisconsin's overall voter database, which officials say reflects record keeping, not fraudulent voting.
And these claims suggest that Wisconsin has roughly, as you mentioned, three million more registered voters than eligible adults.
An assertion that election officials in this state say is misleading and incorrect.
These allegations echo conspiracy theories tied to Trump's efforts to basically undermine confidence in the 2020 election.
of which have been substantiated to this point.
So here's where your facts come in, okay?
According to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, the state had about 3.6 million active registered voters as of January 1st.
Wisconsin also maintains roughly 4.6 million inactive voter records, a standard administrative practice.
So election officials basically say that keeping inactive records helps prevent fraud by flagging duplicate registrations or attempts to vote under another person's name, because these inactive voters include people who have died, moved out of state, registered elsewhere, been convicted of a felony, ruled incompetent by a judge, or removed due to long-term activity.
They cannot vote unless they re-register with valid proof of insurance.
only active voters appear in the official poll books on election day.
So no, Mr. President, Wisconsin's voter roll figures are not a sign of quote unquote, fraud waiting to happen.
That was.
I don't understand, and again, sometimes it feels like we're just beating a dead horse.
Because you can only say, how can you create an alternate reality so many times?
And then you start to think, well, maybe I'm in the alternate reality.
Maybe I'm the one who doesn't understand.
And that's what gas lighters count on.
That we're at some point going to just get so overwhelmed that we're going to give up.
that this election, the 2024 election, was not rigged or fraudulent.
So there is that discrepancy.
If I win, everything's okay.
If I lose or anybody, if any Republican loses, the elections are rigged.
Where does this stop?
And how do we
How do we educate people to say these I Guess where does all the distrust come from this is why I'm struggling because I can't in a I tend to think in common sense terms which gets me in trouble a lot of times But I tend to think yeah, don't if it's so obvious that things are wrong.
Why is it so hard then to?
Not convinced.
I'm not here to change anybody's mind.
But how are other people not seeing this?
How do you not look at this and go, all right, there's a pattern here.
This is just like a child.
If they don't get their way, something's wrong.
Somebody cheated them.
It's like when you play a game with your kid when they're very young and you beat them, which I believe every once in a while you should do.
Not physically.
You should be victorious in a game of chance over them.
just to clarify because that's all I need.
That's the one thing Parker would pull and make a promo.
You should beat your kids.
Thanks, Parker.
I see how y'all are.
Hey, what do you have against me?
Geez.
Nothing.
I just know you're all, I know you're committed to accurately portraying the show.
That's right.
And so,
I'm committed to your downfall as well.
You never know.
Listen, I sense it.
I just, I'm an empath that way, where I always think people are plotting my downfall.
But back to the point, children will always say, you cheated, you cheated.
And that's, listen to the similarities.
But how do we courts, counts, audits, none of this seems to matter to people.
That's the purpose of all of this.
All of this is to sow mistrust so that people don't want to vote or people don't want to go vote because let's be realistic.
For a lot of these particular candidates that the GOP is rolling out.
They probably wouldn't win elections without the mistrust because they're not vetted good candidates Not because I have
That's what I was just gonna say But there there there is a there is a purpose to all of this it is to so mistrust so that
people don't want to go stand in line to cast their vote.
And so that when the courts say to us, uh, no, these are all legal, there's enough mistrust that's been put out there that, uh, you know, this, this administration can say, no, no, there's not because look what happened to me in 2020, but in 2024 things were fine.
And, and that's essentially
It goes all the way back to the sixties in Vietnam and all that.
People always question the government.
But when did the questioning the government turn into complete blanket distrust?
I mean, I know now why we don't trust the government because they lie to us constantly.
But where did this this desire to believe the falsehoods that are proven time and time again to be falsehoods?
Where did that come from?
Where was the turning point?
Was it Watergate?
Because we, you know, we questioned during, like I said, the Vietnam War.
We questioned the government
during
all
There was always questioning of the government.
So it wasn't like we lived in a utopian society up until now.
But what has changed in the populace?
And that's, listen, if you want to answer that question, we'd love, if you think you know the answer, 8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2-8-5-5-7-5-CIVIC, because it seems like we reached that point where questioning became nothing that comes out is going to be believed from either
No, and honestly, and I don't want to blame all of our world perils on social media.
but it doesn't help.
It doesn't help the situation at all.
I mean, because you have the conspiracy theorists who are posting videos, like their actual fact, and you have your own administration out there posting videos, like their actual fact, and then you have government officials who are also posting conspiracy theorists, and then you have AI-generated videos, and a lot of people can't tell the difference right now between the AI-generated and the real stuff, and you have all of this compounding, and then you have people living in, as we were talking earlier,
this morning in this bubble of self-awareness or
lack
And it's really hard to get out of your own head and to get out of the heads of anybody who's telling you this information if that is the world that you are constantly living in.
Touch grass, read a book.
Those are not things that are far off in this country.
Like we should be touching more grass and we should be reading more books just for that purpose.
Anything.
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It doesn't surprise me that there's another cover-up in this administration.
But this one, this one has the potential to be very, very serious.
What I'm talking about, if you didn't see this story yesterday, and I saw it quickly, and then it seemed to spread like wildfire.
A U.S.
intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
Remember her?
Yes, she was very prominent, that she went away, and then she appeared
looking like she was sneaking around a corner in Georgia, but there's a whistleblower complaint.
According to the Wall Street Journal's reporting, it is so highly classified, it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress.
That's according to U.S.
officials and others familiar with the matter.
It has prompted a continuing behind the scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it with the whistleblower's lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint.
Jamie, this is again a term that is thrown around a lot with this administration unprecedented in how it's being handled because this is not usually if there's a whistleblower complaint.
things were handled differently,
Also, since it's navigating unusual classification and legal issues, well, first and foremost, let's be clear.
If Tulsi Gabbard has effectively buried a whistleblower playing about herself for eight months, and even Congress hasn't seen it, despite clear legal requirements, this is a...
this is a major, major
issue.
And this should be a much bigger, and you're right, it did take off yesterday, but I actually thought that this would be a much bigger story just based on the ramifications of it than it was yesterday.
Everybody was talking about it, but there weren't a lot of people doing in-depth conversations about it.
And I really feel like those are needed because,
The president also fired the inspector general and then replaced them with someone who's seen as a loyalist to Gabbard, which then raises even more serious questions.
Not that we haven't seen this happen again already with this administration, but about independence and oversight in this particular case.
And these claims that the complaint is too classified for Congress, that doesn't hold up.
Congress
no
and
decide whether the complaint is credible within two weeks of receiving it, then to share it with Congress within another week.
So three weeks is the limit of what the law says should be done with a complaint like this.
Now.
This was filed in May, so you can do the math.
I know I'm not using the administration's two-week timetable on everything, but that's a long time.
And there's reports that it's being held in a safe.
So you're right, Jamie, if it is as Tulsi Gabbard and her attorneys in her office would state that it's frivolous and politically motivated, has no merit, blah, blah, blah.
then why bury it?
Why is it buried like this?
At least to get, at least, maybe we don't know about it yet, but Congress should have known about it a long time
The fact that there are people involved in this that say, according to the Wall Street Journal, quote, it could cause grave damage to national security, this is probably something that Congress should be involved in.
And, you know, there have been reports over the past few months that,
Tulsi Gabbard's popularity with the president has been waning just a little bit.
And I find it fascinating because we, at one point in time, we saw her basically disappear from the cabinet meetings, from the light, essentially, as we like to say.
And we didn't see really much of her until she trotted out in Georgia last week when they were going through the election warehouse, right, in Fulton County.
So I also think it's really interesting if this is something that the president would decide to cut ties on, or if this is so gravely dangerous that this is a situation where he feels like, and his administration feel like, he has to keep Tulsi Gabbard around.
Because they make rash decisions, right?
They don't make the
most
Because there there's a point if you're if you're a Republican member of Congress And your whole thing is national security, right?
That's why we want to take Greenland remember Greenland from a few weeks ago And all of a sudden two or two weeks ago if all of a sudden we have the a scandal with national security ramifications so great that it's taking this long to talk to Congress about it
How can Republican members of Congress turn their back on this and not call for her removal?
Right the president's removal if if it's as bad as it would as Indications would point to we don't know yet for sure, but we'll
We'll find out.
And I'm Brian Noonan, and Boy Quorum didn't know this, but that song brings... I used to end my first full-time radio program in Sparta, Illinois with that song every day.
Because at the show would end I'd say it's time to go for a walk and then we then I'd hit the walk of life So that was when Dire Straits was big big big brothers and I was a brothers and arms was at the album Who knows you know why you know why we're talking about music and not politics?
We this is the beauty of live media.
Yes, you never know we had we're waiting
We think U.S.
Representative Gwen Moore is going to join us.
Looks like she's connected right now.
Oh, and she is.
Very nice.
This is very exciting.
U.S.
Representative Gwen Moore, she represents Wisconsin's fourth district, is joining us.
And if you have any questions for the representative, you can text them to us.
And if we can get to them, we will try to get them to the... We
time for me.
Hopefully it will not be the last time as well.
We'll see.
We'll see how you feel when it's over.
But no, we're we're very excited to have you here.
I want to start with a lot of focus on the house coming up.
So do you with the current spending bill being debated?
Do you support the funding bill in its current state or are you holding out?
to try to separate the DHS funding from the rest of the bill?
Well actually that has happened in the Senate and what we're going to see is a package with five bills and the Homeland Security Bill split out from the other five and with a continuing resolution until February 13th so that
there can be some discussion of some accountability for ICE.
And I would say rather commonsensical things.
I mean, like not wearing masks, being able to identify yourself, wearing body cameras, things that they should have been doing all along as law enforcement officials.
You know,
I hope those discussions will also include making sure that we preserve our First Amendment rights.
I mean, something that everybody sort of took for granted, that you could protest without, you know, being shot or, you know, tear gas, but our Fourth Amendment rights.
illegal searches and seizures.
I mean, someone just break your car window open to snatch you out that there would be some restoration of some probable cause before you could approach somebody.
So, you know, I think that what we're asking for is not extraordinary or excessive.
It's just take us back to what is legal.
We just want the law.
followed.
a case like that?
Listen, that is the Republican talking point.
According to them, everything is a Democrat's fault.
I mean, if you listen to Donald Trump, he's still blaming Joe Biden for what we're experiencing now and the way of affordability.
But, you know, it is so painful.
They are clearly in the majority.
They are clearly in charge.
We just swore in Christian McAfee,
the seat that was once occupied by Sheila Jackson Lee and then Sylvester Turner took the seat and died literally within days of his being sworn in.
And a whole year, Republican, the Republican governor held up filling that seat because the majority was so narrow.
And because Speaker Johnson doesn't want to,
Invite Democrats to be part of our democracy.
So no.
You know, I can't see where the Homeland Security bill will fail again.
You know, we have Democrats who will vote for it.
We're unlike them.
We're not under some sort of, you know, archocracy.
where people have to do whatever the democratic leader says that we wanted to do.
But we do want to drill down on making sure we can preserve people's civil rights and constitutional rights with regard to ICE.
And I'm hoping, you know, so it doesn't have anything to do with whether the government is opened or closed.
This is whether or not we can rein in this
private police force of the presidents
were joined by u.s representative gwen morshi represents wisconsin's fourth district uh representative you you rightly said the republicans are in the majority they they run things but we've heard and we say and i've said it many times
We're wondering why Congress can't do anything to curb this administration.
So behind the scenes, give us, for those of us who don't get to be on the floor, what is it like trying to reach any kind of consensus with the Republican members of the House?
And are you starting to see any cracks in this blind support of the administration?
Well, you know, I think we've all seen some cracks and they've manifested themselves.
in ways that are, you know, fortunate or unfortunate.
You have people like, and I'll call names, Don Bacon from Omaha and Nebraska.
I mean, that is a definitely a blue spot in the entire state of Nebraska.
But he is a former Army general or Army general.
He has represented that district with some dignity, but he's voted for all of Trump's crap, although he's a moderate, but if what is he doing to get out of this situation, he's retiring.
You had Marjorie Taylor Green rebel against Trump, dragging her into the White House, demanding that she take her name off the Jeffrey Epstein.
uh uh uh uh
the documents yeah yeah yeah the the the bill uh and when she didn't do that he called her Marjorie you know Trader Green and uh literally ran her out of the house or she you know she saw she was no longer going to be his girl uh and so
I think the, you know, Republicans are trying to hold their heads down when you talk to them on the elevator.
They, you know, I have had Republican women chase me into the bathroom to try to convince me that they were one of the good ones.
but, but
That's right.
Chasing me into the bathroom.
And so, you know,
All of us want them to grow a spine.
But when they do, there are serious consequences for it, and they know it.
It's not an enviable position.
The big solution here is to take over the majority of at least one of the houses.
And I think we're in really good shape to really take the Senate so that we can really make Donald Trump a lame duck in the second half of his presidency.
That's the only solution y'all.
So Congresswoman, let's kind of switch gears to that because you actually had an op-ed that ran in the Wisconsin State Journal on January 30th.
And when you talk about, you know, flipping the Senate, that goes back to voting in each and every state.
And you discussed the fair map situation here in Wisconsin in that op-ed.
So why is this, for anybody who's still on the fence about why we need these fair maps or what they are, why is this such a critical moment for these
redistricting reform here in the state of Wisconsin, especially going into the elections.
I think it's really important to level the playing field.
I mean, we saw what the president did.
Most notably in Texas.
I mean, wiped out really redistricted on the basis of race.
You know, wiped out.
seats held by African-American members.
In Missouri, there are two African-American seats.
One is St.
Louis, which would be hard to get, and another in Kansas City, a representative cleaver, Emmanuel Cleaver, wipe that seat out.
tried to get Indiana, except the state legislature wouldn't go along with them.
And California, in response to what happened in Texas, did it because they were trying to create a permanent majority.
What's happening now, we just saw that in Fulham County, Georgia, in Atlanta.
the president so enraged about Georgia voting against him that he has now gone in and taken boxes of actual voting ballots out of Georgia, furious with Minneapolis, which is besieged by ICE, and I guess maybe we'll talk about that, but bottom line,
is the president has said as recently as within the last 24 hours.
Yeah, I won Minneapolis three times and they've been cheating.
No, no.
They didn't vote for you, Donald.
No.
You know, and, and, you know, and so right now, Mark Focan and I are the two Democrats from Wisconsin when this is the 5050 state.
It's a 5050 state.
So, how do you figure six seats for Republicans and only two for Democrats?
The math ain't mathin'.
It's because of Jared Mandery.
I love that.
Congresswoman, we only have a couple minutes left.
We, again, appreciate your time.
Do you think that there's a possibility of an ice occupation in Milwaukee or Madison or anywhere in Wisconsin like we're seeing in Minneapolis or is...
Are we safe because they're using Minneapolis as more of a testing ground?
I don't think anybody is safe.
They're in Colorado now.
I mean, they were in Maine.
I don't think anybody is safe.
I think the important thing for us to do is to...
do what Josh Cowell, our Attorney General is doing.
I think we need to lean into all of the judicial solutions we can to make sure that they uphold citizens' rights to protest.
When they come here, there are trainings that are going on in Wisconsin for how to be a legal observer.
I am concerned because I think our...
We've got a wonderful police chief, but I do think our police union almost immediately endorsed the Republican candidate for governor.
I can't imagine what the basis of that was.
I served with Tom Tiffany, and he ain't all that to be endorsing on day one of his candidacy.
You know, we're all shappin' around.
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families.
And Anson is actually.
And so underdog pet rescue says that his appearance in the puppy bowl is a really great way to highlight how dogs with disabilities can also thrive in loving homes.
I had friends who had a, their dog now is about six, but he is a pit bull and he is deaf.
And he is one of the most incredible dogs I've ever met.
Everything he knows is by hand signal.
And
so
Here's a question for everybody.
Are you an adopt?
Or a shop when it comes to your pets Do you go to rescues like Jamie mentioned these two dogs are from the underdog pet rescue of Wisconsin, which is fantastic Or are you a shop and I come and please jump in eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic because I am I have always been an adopt one because I'm cheap and two I don't need my pet to be a status symbol.
Yeah, I
We didn't grow up with dogs because My parents and doctors said that I was allergic to dogs now I've had dogs for over
my
Because there's so many great dogs out there.
But now all my brothers, they're fancy dans.
And they have bought pure breads.
Gotcha.
And their dogs are beautiful.
And they're good.
But it's like, I didn't, it wasn't that important to me to have a specific breed that I was going to spend thousands of dollars on.
and I just absolutely love her to pieces, even though I can admit sometimes she drives me absolutely bonkers as well.
And we've always been the adopt people.
I've never had the desire to go in and purchase a dog for, like you said, thousands of dollars, mostly because there are so many amazing animals in
shelters
And so I've always had this soft spot in my heart for...
for an adoptable dog.
And I have to say that we actually, when we were looking at Ms.
Aspen, we actually went to underdog rescue and we looked at a couple puppies they had available.
Not quite the right match, right?
It's like matchmaking.
It's like matchmaking.
You gotta do it.
So, but no, we are definitely adopt people.
Tom over on the text line chiming in saying he visits other people's dogs.
Thank you for that from the MDX area.
We've got Mark from
prairie to sack saying he ran into a guy with an eight week old yellow lab after breakfast over the weekend.
Cuter than cute version of his seven year old yellow lab chief.
It's cause it's a puppy.
Puppies are dressed up most amazing.
I had both, but the last two have been rescues and this one is.
just turned two on January 1st and we've had him since he was a puppy.
And he's the most amazing guy.
He's like a mixture.
He's a main dog in him is a cholo, but he's also got a doxone mixed in.
And even though you'd call him a mutt, I have never seen a dog in my life so perfectly symmetrically marked.
That's awesome.
The front paws are brown to the same height.
He's got brown patches over his eyes and the rest of them all black.
Cool.
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