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It's 806.
Good morning.
Thank you so much for having us on today.
You are listening to the Civic Media Network, some sunshine in Madison.
Hopefully that means that there is some sunshine where you're at today because we need to dry some stuff out because it's a little soggy.
It's a little damp and there's a whole lot of flooding across portions of Wisconsin.
We're actually going to talk a little bit more this morning with Stu Waddles, our WAUK reporter.
He's going to join us at 830, Brian, because
We're going to talk about the situation that unfolded in Milwaukee last night.
Obviously, when the Brewers game ended, there was a lot of flooding.
There were people who were stranded.
There were rescues that had to happen.
So we're going to get the latest from Stu later this morning.
But first, we've got a whole lot of news, though, we have to get to this morning.
We do.
And let's look at the war.
We're entering the...
Seventh week of the war.
That'll be exciting.
Happy anniversary to the war.
Iranian officials in Pakistan's military chief will meet in Tehran today to discuss messages exchanged between Iran and the U.S.
Yesterday, the White House expressed optimism about reaching a deal, noting that a potential second round of talks would likely be held in Pakistan.
In other headlines, the leaders of Israel and Lebanon will also speak today for the first time in decades, according to an Israeli official and President Donald Trump.
Yesterday, Israel's security cabinet met to discuss a possible ceasefire, according to a source, as its military continued its bombardment targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah.
And Iran's military has threatened shipping in the Red Sea if the US continues its blockade of Iranian ports.
Reports on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz differ, though the trade choke point remains effectively shut down.
And finally, we get to talk about Treasury Secretary Scott Besent.
We don't get to do that very often.
He said the U.S.
is now willing to apply secondary sanctions on countries that buy Iranian oil to take Tehran's money, or take Tehran's money, I should say.
The department also announced sanctions on more than two dozen individuals.
Companies and vessels, it says, are involved in exporting Iranian oil and natural gas.
This
doesn't
feel like things are getting better.
Well, it depends who you talk to, Jamie.
This is
true.
You know, the bed at the top says it's almost done.
Depends on
who social media feed you follow.
Right.
And I'm following trying to follow the timeline.
This should be two weeks.
We should be at two weeks.
But you know, yeah, whatever, you just listen, you shrug and you not much we can do, except we can share more stuff we need to know.
We could do that.
It's a wake-up call in more ways than one.
Time for some sh** you need to know.
This was this I found very interesting up in Door County Because a number of boards had elections last week, you know on April 7th.
There were big elections Well, they didn't have candidates running so they had to count on right in right in votes The Southern Door County School District has two new board members and the Door County Board has a new supervisor for the district 19 seat that's been vacant for nine months
following the counting of write-in votes and the certification of vote totals from the April 7th election.
The district did not have a candidate who filed nomination papers by the January 6th deadline for the April 7th election.
This is the second straight county board election where no one signed up to run for the seat.
Wow.
Come on, board
county.
You got to get on the ball.
Somebody up there has got to be involved.
Patrick Voight won the most write-in votes in the April 2024 election.
But he resigned in June, and the seat has been vacant ever since.
So Preston Pluff received 23 of the 64 right-in votes cast in the district.
This is Mayberry kind of stuff.
I can't believe Dorkelly nobody wanted to run.
We're good with the way things are going up here.
We have Pi and Beauty.
We don't really need to get involved in the nitpicky politics stuff.
But Preston Pluff got 23 of the 64 votes.
That district covers parts of the towns of Liberty Grove and Bailey's Harbor and the villages of Ephraim and Sister Bay.
County Clerk Jill Lau said Pluff accepted the seat.
Wow.
I have been written in, but I will not accept.
But President Pluff is there.
When no candidates filed nomination papers for a county board seat, it is offered to the person who wins the highest number of right in votes in the election.
If that person doesn't accept the seat, the board will ask people to submit letters of interest for the position and appoint someone to fill it.
That was the same for the District 19.
That's
insanity.
Why doesn't anyone want this job?
It's apathy, Jamie.
Citizen apathy.
Here's the thing, though.
I get that these aren't full-time and they're not high-paying jobs, right?
They take hours, there's meetings, you have to listen to a lot of complaints.
It's pretty thankless for a
lot of people.
Yeah, but you get to be the boss of the county.
But don't you think
that it's part of this is because local politics is not what it used to be, especially on the local level, because it's become a lot more intense, just like everything
else.
It's
become so much more polarized.
And you're not just serving your community.
You are opening yourself up at these positions
to
criticism.
You are opening yourself up to social media.
You are
opening yourself up to all of these people who are going to second guess everything that you do and become an armchair, basically.
committee member, council member, whatever the position might be.
And for a lot of people, I think it's just not worth it anymore, right?
And Dorn County, let's be clear, is a very purple county if you're looking at how they vote.
It's very much
a
swing county.
So you're gonna get opinions from people on both sides of the aisle all the time because nobody understands the art of compromise anymore.
Everybody wants it their way all the time.
I think that there's probably people who are just like, no, I'm just not going to be part of this anymore.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to put myself, because here's the thing.
If you're just there trying to help your community and some group comes in and they're yelling at you about, you know, we don't like the curriculum in the school district.
We want this book banned, blah, blah, blah.
And they start hurling insults and stuff.
I'm not going to sit there and take that.
No.
I don't need this.
Nobody needs you.
I got a life.
I'm trying to help things and you're being a jerk and I gotta go.
So yeah.
I think the thing that we all need to remember though is when this type of stuff happens you get these empty seats and then you get decisions that are being made by fewer voices because when
people are afraid to step up or don't want the headaches potentially of stepping up.
That doesn't mean that decisions just stop getting made.
It just means
that there's- No, the loudest people suddenly get the- Yes.
And the people that you don't want making the decisions, the ones who cause all the issues, they're the ones who are going, well, fine, I'll do it.
because I know the best way for everybody, so I'm going to take over.
And that's that.
So it's not just Door County, but we're using Door County as the example, because that's part of what we need to know today.
Come on, a little social engagement, or civic
engagement.
Civic engagement would be great.
In other headlines from stuff you need to know today, US Senator Tammy Baldwin has introduced a new bill.
She did this earlier this week on Tuesday.
The bill is aimed at making it simpler and cheaper for people to watch professional sports.
Now
currently, Parker, that's
good.
Currently, if you're a fan of Wisconsin, if you want to watch every Packers, Brewers and Bucks game in a year, it's going to cost more than
than $1,500 annually to purchase the necessary streaming services and subscriptions, a cost that Baldwin says benefits the league and streaming service executives, as well as the billionaire owners of the sports teams at the expense of the fans.
She says this isn't just a Packers or a Wisconsin issue, this has become an American issue.
She also goes on to say, and this was at a press conference she held yesterday, what used to be grabbing the remote and hitting a button or two,
has literally turned into a maze, and she's not wrong, of streaming subscriptions, unexpected blackouts, or really high payments.
To top all of that off, she says there's no consistency, and it's all flat out confusing for fans.
Now, this is called the For the Fans Act, and it includes two major provisions that are meant to make it cheaper for all of us to watch our favorite teams.
The first would prohibit league-owned streaming services, such as MLBT,
or NBA League Pass from blacking out games that are played locally or on a third party streamer.
The second would require the league to provide a way for local fans to watch all games for teams based in the state in which they live.
The proposal comes after the Green Bay Packers versus Chicago Bears playoff game that was held in January.
It was only available on local TV in Wisconsin in the Milwaukee and Green Bay markets, meaning that in five of the state's TV
markets you had to subscribe to Amazon to actually watch that game It did apparently senator Baldwin to the point where she came up with this act
I'm gonna do something about this and when you're in that position you can try to do something about it.
Yeah,
we're gonna fix that right now And one more thing I thought we would make it through stuff you need to know without mentioning a certain
in someone.
But alas, his omnipresent Republican leaders.
No, no, this is not this.
I'm looking at the wrong story.
That's the next story is crazy.
But this does have something to do with the president because he once again yesterday threatened to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
If he does not step down from the central bank, he is renewing his attacks on a Fed chief.
He has long accused of keeping interest rates too high.
Yeah, that reflects badly on the president.
So he wants him gone.
Trump said, well, then I'll have to fire him.
OK.
That was while he was on Fox News talking about Powell's tenure as chairman, which ends May 15th if he's not leaving on time.
He also refused to distance himself from the Justice Department's criminal probe into the Fed's $2.5 billion office renovation, which prosecutors have used to ratchet up pressure on the Fed, even as the department's legal case has faced legal and political headwinds.
Trump declined to direct the Justice Department to stand down from the investigation, which a federal judge last month found to be part of a broader White House pressure campaign against the Fed.
The central bank has denied any wrongdoing in the renovation, and a federal judge last month quashed a pair of grand jury subpoenas, finding the prosecutors had no evidence of a crime.
Well, why would that stop the Justice Department then from issuing subpoenas?
Evidence, shm evidence, they said.
That's not part of the story, that's just me.
Trump's threat to fire Powell.
It'd be funny though, because basically that's what they're doing.
Evidence, shm evidence, we don't need it.
I feel like
that should be the quote.
They should
just wear the t-shirts around all the time
now.
Evidence.
Trump's threat to fire Powell also raised immediate legal questions.
Duh.
Fed governors generally can't be removed except for cause and Powell has said he has no plans to leave the agency until the probe is finished.
Oh
my gosh.
He just, and this all goes back to when Jerome Powell
publicly corrected the president during a walkthrough of the construction site.
And oh man, he made Donald Trump look...
Less than informed is that a nice political way to say that is a very good way to say it.
Well, then that's what I'll say and And that he doesn't sit well with that.
He doesn't like to be corrected And so now he's been after Jerome Powell and also because high interest rates means the economy is rougher and people complain and then they don't think he is the you know Jesus which he likes to portray.
Well, he's a doctor not I'm sorry for mislabeling
And when you look at polling, we do all agree that the economy is bad under this president.
Not Caroline Levy yesterday, Jamie.
No, she believes.
She said, haven't you seen how gas prices have dropped in the last year under President Trump?
No, actually,
I have not.
And everybody in the country went, uh,
no.
In
fact.
Actually, in the last month, it's gone up a buck and a half.
Weird.
Weird how facts are actually part of the conversation and people
don't
know this thing.
How does she say that and not just get struck by lightning?
They're all about God.
You'd think there'd be a wrath.
The wrath has to come when she just blatantly lies.
Maybe she doesn't drive.
This could be.
She would have no idea what real people are actually paying
at the pump.
But everybody who drove there, even the right-wing press, had to be thinking,
uh,
no.
She's a liar.
I think I just paid like $4 a gallon.
Okay.
Four.
Where are you shopping?
That's cheap.
Good for you.
Still under $4 here in Madison.
So hopefully it's that low question mark everywhere else.
I don't know.
$8.19 right now.
We live in crazy times.
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And I'm Brian Noon.
And speaking of crazy, the irony is thick with this one.
We'll talk about it after this.
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And I want to talk to Brian and Jamie about this.
Say it with sweets.
All right, Jamie, there's a lot of times that the news is convoluted and stories get like this and I
I think this fits Alanis Morissette's irony because I've read this story about five times.
She didn't
know what
fit irony in her
song.
No, she didn't know.
But I digress
anyway.
Go ahead.
That's all right.
So GOP leaders in the state are paying up to $550 an hour to lawyers to defend themselves against hiring private lawyers.
This is taxpayer money, by the way.
Right.
So they're using taxpayer money to fund private lawyers to fight a lawsuit saying that they used public money to hire private lawyers.
Uh, yeah.
It's, it's my mind, my head is spinning.
So
it's literally like playing.
We joke about the term mental gymnastics all the time.
You literally
have to play mental gymnastics with this particular story.
This
one is crazy.
So here's a little background.
Republican leaders, like I said, they're going to be paying
Private lawyers up to $550 an hour in taxpayer money to represent the legislature in a lawsuit that challenges them over that very practice using taxpayer money to hire private attorneys.
Now, the lawsuit was filed by liberal law firm Law Forward in February.
It followed a 2025 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation that found the state legislature had spent about $26 million in taxpayer money on legal fees to private law firms.
since 2017.
The investigation found most of the spending came after Governor Evers and Attorney General Josh Call won the November 2018 election.
defeating Republican former Governor Scott Walker and Attorney General Brad Schimmel.
So the increase in spending also follow a law passed by Republican legislatures in a December 2018 lame duck session that authorized the Assembly Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader to hire private lawyers with taxpayer money.
So this all started in 2018.
Yes.
What I love about this in this entire story.
as crazy and weird and twisted as it is.
I just love that a majority of that spending traces back to the decision that the Republicans made on their own about the lame duck session because they had lost the governorship and the attorney general race and they were passing laws so that legislative leaders had the power to hire their own private
attorneys.
All because they wanted to take the power out of the Democratic governor
and
attorney general's
hands.
26 million dollars of your money, your money going to fund private lawyers.
This is the epitome of Wisconsin politics though.
Right?
I mean, when I read this story, I don't really know the angle of this.
I see the Republicans making bad decisions that they then have to defend themselves against using taxpayer money because the decisions didn't make sense at the time and it's been tied up in courts.
And this just feels like the epitome of everything voters who have been paying attention have been screaming about with the particular leadership at the Capitol.
Wisconsin.
This
is Barker's and you should be that's the basis of this lawsuit and Jeff Mandela is the president general counsel of law forward so he had an email statement to the journal Sentinel and he said quote it's pretty ironic that the taxpayer will once again be on the hook for the legislature's inclination to spend spend spend on outside lawyers.
Wisconsin taxpayers are on the hook for a pretty hefty bill not just from the assembly but from the Senate as well.
End of that quote.
Yeah.
So just have fun with this today
as
you're driving, as you're sitting at work going, we're being sued for hiring private lawyers with taxpayer money.
So in order to fight that lawsuit, we're going to hire private lawyers with taxpayer money to fuck the lawsuit.
But that's what we saw under Robin Voss and especially during Scott Walker before he left office in 2018, right?
Under Robin Voss.
this Republican Party has essentially, it's a cycle.
They've created authority, they've used that authority, that authority's gotten challenged, and then they've continued to spend our money to fight those challenges, which if you're a voter, you should be asking real questions of your Republican leadership based on what they have done in the years past.
And let me be clear, a lot of that leadership is now stepping down.
We have seen people on the Republican side say that they are not,
They are not going to go into a reelection
or a
fit-seek reelection.
Thank you.
They're not going to seek reelection.
They are retiring to be with family, whatever it may be.
But they've been part of the problem of what we're just talking about.
Well, then why stay and try to fix it?
Or why be held accountable?
We're going to, you know what?
I don't need this anymore.
It's a higher level of what we were talking about at Door County.
But
this
time it's, oh.
I don't need this anymore because I might be busted for and busted just being exposed for something that I did that is not, you know.
And I mean,
essentially, aren't they paying for lawyers twice?
I mean, because the state already has lawyers, the Attorney General's office.
So there's that.
But those are not, those are not going to work necessarily in their favor, in their mind.
But then they're going out and they're hiring private lawyers.
So essentially they're...
They have doubled the lawyers.
You can never have too many lawyers, Jamie.
That's what I found.
I like a phalanx of lawyers to accompany me into a courtroom.
I want to look like I'm the tobacco industry.
I want so many lawyers that you can't tell with one black and navy suit from the other.
That's what I'm looking for.
I mean,
if you're on your way to work this morning and you're listening to us, if you figure out what we just said, please let us know.
Yeah, if you can figure this out.
Plus, no kudos for using phalanx.
All right, fine.
I'll just keep using my vocabulary for the best of my abilities.
When we come back, we're going to talk about the weather here in Wisconsin with some of our reporters.
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I'm Brian Noonan.
In the wake of a week of severe storms rolling through the area, major flooding is expected to cross several Wisconsin counties today.
Storms are going to continue.
to roll through.
More storms expected for tomorrow night.
Milwaukee County Racine, Kenosha, Ozaki, Sheboygan, Juno, Columbia Green, Rock Sock, all under flood warnings.
And to find out what's going on in the Milwaukee area, the Racine area, Kenosha, Stuart Waddles joins us.
He is Civic Media reporter at WAUK.
And Stuart, thanks for being here.
It's, you know, just from
watching the coverage and seeing footage coming out of that area.
It's been a rough couple days for you guys.
How are things sitting right now?
Still some standing water in some areas, but a lot of it has receded you might have seen those images last night coming out of the ballpark I mean those those images are kind of all over but the striking ones were Miller Parkway if you guys have been to the stadium all roads around there parking lots full of water people leaving the game just pulling their pants up like up to their knees and Kind of wade through this water.
So that was the striking part, but it kind of
went on from there again across the city the marquette campus brady street water street fun funnily enough um but yeah a lot of water but good for now but we're not out of the woods yet yes in a forecast yet
I'm looking
at the
radar now.
Yeah,
you guys are still getting more rain this morning in Milwaukee.
Before we went on the air, I said, hopefully the sunshine that we have in Madison filters your way pretty soon because the clouds are finally separating and breaking up here in Madison.
But you mentioned the drama that took place after the game last night.
There were water rescues that were taking place on the interstates.
What was actually happening
in some of
those instances?
This was the second night of water rescues the night before there was over 50 So last night out of my imagine I don't think they put out a number yet, but probably even more and I'm I'm kind of torn on this one because they send these TV cameras out to where they know it's gonna flood and people are driving through so
that
becomes the image on TV and I'm like turn around don't drown and
end up laughing and I know I shouldn't and I know they're safe I can see them in there but where do you guys stand on that?
I'm with you
Stuart I'd mentioned this before the first I'll give a break to the first person because they might not know how deep the water is but once that first person gets stuck if you go in there oh well
You're on your own.
Sit on the top of
the car till help comes
or till it cries out.
And then somebody stuck in a truck comes through and creates a big wave, and it's just a big mess.
And again, I try and understand that it's a very serious situation, but it's crazy that people think that they can drive through this stuff.
Sometimes common sense is our best friend.
You know, I know there was a huge round of storms last night that also affected Racine, Kenosha.
What are you hearing from those communities?
I'm going to assume that there's also a lot
of residents just dealing with flooding in homes in your area.
Yeah, flooding is a big deal and there are people in Racine, parts of Racine County and parts of Waukesha County that for the past three nights.
three nights tornado warnings so sirens going off cell phones going off first night was overnight like in the middle of the night past two nights were right at the kids bedtime so so in my house it got a little tricky trying to well we just put you to bed now get up and come on down
yeah how do you explain to little kids
why there's sirens and don't worry, it's all gonna be safe when you're waking them up and hustling into the basement.
It's a little traumatic.
The nine and 10 year old are all right.
The four year old kind of slept through it all.
That's nice.
That was beneficial.
But yeah, a lot of tornado warnings.
I think we've had four confirmed touchdowns so far.
And I think there was another report of an initial report of a twister in Elkhorn last night.
And I'm sure the National Weather Service folks are out there investigating that.
As far as now we talked about, you mentioned the flooding near the park last night and there's flooding all over.
How are the roads today?
Has the flooding receded or are we still looking at closures throughout the area?
I'm glad you asked.
The Brewers just put out a statement recently about all roads to the ballpark are open.
They've got a 1240 start today.
Oh, wow.
It's a rubber match or a rubber ducky match, if you will.
They're playing Toronto.
But again, you can get in.
I'm sure the people who are more seasoned around the stadium that know that parking lot know where to not park.
I'm sure they've walked by before and say, I'm not parking over there ever again.
Or bring a raft.
Are you hearing anything from the county right now?
I mean, I know Governor Evers declared that state of emergency in response to flooding around the state.
But are you hearing anything from county executives right now about anything that they're able to offer, whether it's the sandbagging, whether it's just aid for people right now, any communication from them?
Yeah, there's a lot of that, I think, expected to come today.
Last night, I think it was a more of an immediate.
that message that they were putting out, County Executive Crawley, Mayor Johnson, both putting out statements about, if you see some standing water someplace, let us know about it.
And they were kind of sharing that information about this immediate problem.
And today, I'm sure they're gonna be out there surveying damage and putting it out.
Both communities, both municipalities, the county and city of Milwaukee, really good with their websites and keeping them updated and keeping them brief.
I think that's important for these government websites to keep things brief and like targeted.
So if you have a certain problem,
You're not going to this government website and trying to find out what's going on, like they have a specific meaning for this website.
So they've been really good at sharing that information.
We're talking to Stuart Waddles, he's Civic Media Reporter on WAUK Radio.
Stuart, you mentioned the tornadoes that touched down near Kenosha.
Is there any estimate on damage yet?
No damage estimates the Kenosha when I think they're gonna reevaluate today.
I'm not sure if they got to Kenosha I know last night They confirmed the the beaver dam and waterford earlier in the day yesterday They confirmed to the the one near Sussex and again last night something near Alcorn Nothing confirmed though as far as those totals are coming out and I'm
sure we're
gonna find out about those and then I'm sure in a few months we'll find out that FEMA
who sent some money or didn't send some money.
And that's a whole another thing that people are fresh in their mind with last August.
So it's going to be interesting.
Well, Stuart, hopefully things quiet down, at least for today, because we do have another round of storms coming through tomorrow before we get some cooler temperatures.
But we appreciate you joining us, keeping us updated on what's happening in the Milwaukee area, or Racine, Kenosha, because I know you cover a big area.
But Brian, we have to bring in Connie Feldman as
well.
She is our civic media reporter for WGBW in the Green Bay area.
And she was going to give us a few updates as soon as we get her into the conversation.
There's Connie.
I see her.
Good
morning.
Good morning,
Connie.
How
are you?
Good
morning, guys.
Thank you so much
for joining us.
I am drowning.
You're drowning?
Yeah.
So I mean, let's just start there.
Obviously, Green Bay, a lot like other portions of the state, you guys have seen your fair share of rain.
And I know there's been a lot of flooding in that area.
So give us kind of the layout of the land right now.
Yeah, guys, this is really unprecedented here in Green Bay.
It's currently raining.
Again, I grew up on the Wolf River in Chano and never seen anything like this.
There are some areas that typically flood this time of year around the area that we all know about, but there's never been anything like this.
We still have evacuations in place.
Swamako is still evacuated today, parts of New London are still evacuated today, schools are closed, a lot of community services have canceled.
Just a lot of upheaval, trying to keep up with it all yesterday, you know, trying to get out newscast, let people know the latest evacuation notice, just trying to keep people in the loop about where to go to find a safe space.
And Connie, are there estimates on when the rivers are going to crest?
Are we past the point?
Because now there's supposed to be more rain later this week.
It depends on the river.
But yeah, some have crested or are reaching crest stage right now.
I think the Wolf River in some areas is beyond crest.
This is, I think, more rain than we've had in April in a century.
Wow.
Yeah, you know that the neat thing to see though guys is I'm sure you've heard is the neighbors helping neighbors around here.
We've had a lot of calls out for people to come help fill sandbags and put them in place and people are just really coming together to try and help out while they get their own basement dried out.
That's kind of where I wanted to go.
What is the county's reaction to this or the city's reaction to this?
What sort of resources do people have in the area right now, Connie?
There's a lot of information going out from the county about who to call, where to go if you need some help.
You know, always 511 as far as road closures.
But 211 in Brown County, call, let them know what you need.
We have several areas where they're putting together sandbags.
They're publishing road closures.
encouraging people, you know, it's great that you want to come out and help make sure you have a safe route to do that.
They don't want people trying to drive through flood waters to try and help somebody else out.
But yeah, they're just on social media is a good place to go with Brown County.
The city government website has a lot of information and resources available.
If you need some help or you need a safe place to go, you can go to those those spots.
Connie Feldman is our guest.
She's a reporter for WGBW in Green Bay.
You talked about driving through water, Connie.
I know some of the roads were closed yesterday.
What's the status on some of those roads today?
Well, rather than reopening Brian, what I'm seeing is additional road closures.
Like I said, it's currently raining now.
So those rivers and waterways that have crested have not receded yet.
So we also have a lot of agriculture here in the Green Bay area.
Farmers have fields that are underwater right now and that doesn't bode well for things to come.
So we're kind of stuck in a holding pattern right now.
I heard Stuart talking about the Brewers.
We have a local Clintonville high school baseball team whose field is currently underwater.
So they've rescheduled their game to the...
Timber Rettler Stadium on Saturday.
So we're coping as best we can, but we're in the middle of it.
And as you said, there's more severe weather scheduled to come in Friday night.
So things are expected to get worse before they get better.
Are there?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
Go ahead, Jamie.
I was just going to ask, you know, we've talked a little bit about the county's response.
You mentioned that this is a lot of community helping community.
Are there any particular resources right now from specific organizations that you know of where people can go get immediate help if they need a place to stay?
Anything like that?
Well, the Red Cross has been very helpful in sending out updates.
I'm trying to look at specific
and I'm sorry I don't have that at the top of my head but as far as specific shelter areas.
We already had three rescued from a flooded house in Suamiko.
That was two days ago.
So and I'm sorry I don't have those details right at the top of my head but
yeah.
How is the drainage of the sewers?
How are they holding up to this kind of excessive rain?
So far so good.
They have put out a warning here that if you see any drain or sewers that have blockage, anything like that, you're asked to try and help clean those out.
We have a local peaceful hiking area called Beards Creek in this area.
Beards Creek is overflowing.
It looks like a rushing waterfall.
But yeah, I mean, unprecedented.
I've just I've never seen anything like this and it's still raining and there's more to come.
Well, Connie, good luck.
Good
luck to everybody in Brown County, the Green Bay area.
We're thinking of you.
It's gotta be rough because water's worse than snow, I
think.
Yeah, thanks.
Well, that's the thing.
We got so much snow recently, and it's the combination of that melting and already saturating the ground, then getting this water.
So thanks for checking in with us, guys.
I appreciate that.
Well, we
appreciate
your
time.
Thank you.
Stay
safe, Connie.
Connie Feldman, reporter at WGBW in Green Bay.
Man, oh man, it's rough going in parts of the state and it's not going to get any better this weekend.
Hopefully by next week when things dry out a little, it will go.
But it's almost time for us to say goodbye.
But before we do, I must ask you, what is something that has made you feel out of touch?
There might be too
many things for me to get into on that.
Well, pick your top few and then let us know at 855-757-855-752-4842.
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to Lake Michigan.
This is Wisconsin's Morning Conversation, a break with Brian and Jamie.
Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
I'm just sitting here contemplating my life right now.
I'm contemplating other people's lives and they are not measuring up.
They have been weighed and measured and come up wanting.
This is why
you have to watch the stream and the show within the show, folks, because sometimes there is information that we talk about in those breaks that you can only get on the show within the show on the live stream.
I'll be honest, I miss the days when that what we talked about on the show within a show would have been an hour in the overnight.
That's right.
That would have
That would have garnered unbelievable things.
Those damn commercial breaks just cut us off way too soon because we could still be going.
Oh, and community standards, blah, blah.
But I don't think that would have violated community standards because it was published in a public figures book.
Yes.
So you're reporting on actual news and, man, we would have made it hilarious.
But anyway, that's neither here nor there because...
What is something that has made you feel out of touch?
I know now you're fearing FOMO because you didn't listen on the stream and I don't blame you.
You did miss out on something.
But what has made you feel out of touch?
855-75-CIVIC 855-75-24-842.
Today, I am feeling my age during this show because first, I did not grasp
or comprehend the importance of giving infants email addresses, which Jamie brought up last hour.
I didn't, I didn't understand why that was so important.
And now I am completely flummoxed by the fact that people are sheep and given to trends so, so greatly.
Are you Parker and Jamie?
Are you familiar with a bento box?
I am familiar with the bento box.
I love myself a good bento box periodically.
I don't believe I am Brian.
Well bento box Jamie, why don't you explain to Parker what a bento
usually like a bento box the ones that I particularly enjoy I get this box and it's it's it's some meal but in my little bento box I have like a little pocket of you know say noodles or rice and
then I get a little pocket kind of divided like the old-school TV dinner and sometimes there's a couple of
little pocket of meat and
then I have
the veggies
that go in it and then I
you know
in there.
It's like a Lunchable Parker.
It's like a fancy Lunchable.
Lunchable for adults
is what it should
be considered.
Right.
And that's fine.
And I know I knew and know what a bento box is.
I did not know that Popeyes was selling a one piece bento box.
And people were waiting in line for hours and hours to get this one piece
bento
box.
And some people even were able to get
Some trinkets some swag some merch online, but that sold out immediately yesterday Wow one of these collectible bento boxes Was on eBay sold for $350 or that's the opening bid another was sold for $200 and one bento box sold for $1,000 according to the eBay listing now
I need this disposable income
is one piece one piece does no
One piece is, I think, a game, because it comes with more than
one
piece of
chicken.
Do you
know?
Luffy is Luffy a thing?
Parker,
is that a gamer thing?
I am aware of Luffy.
I will be honest with you.
I am pretty sure One Piece is a TV show.
Okay.
It is Luffy a character in One Piece?
That is what I recall.
Captain Monkey D. Luffy?
Ooh, there you go.
Monkey D. Luffy.
One Piece is a manga
series.
Oh,
so that's at Japanese anime?
Is that correct?
Yes.
Japan animation?
I have a kid who's very much into anime,
yes.
See, and I've been into anime since I was a young boy with Speed Racer.
People don't remember.
Speed Racer was great.
There's like
a new version of it.
100% anime.
Yeah.
But this bento box has a beige lid, which looks like wood.
And on it, there's a graphic of the show main...
the show's main character, which Jamie correctly identified as Monkey D. Luffy.
Now, that's in orange or white.
And to the left of Luffy, it says Popeye's Luffy Bento Box.
That's in
orange.
Then there are two orange plastic compartments that you can put your food in and says one piece and Popeye's on the side and then it's held together with a stretchy
band.
Fancy with my stretchy band.
People waited for hours now.
I think to myself, I enjoy a nice Popeyes piece of chicken.
I like their spicy chicken is great.
I like their dirty rice.
I'm all about Popeyes.
I have no idea what this box is and I would say I pulled up the Popeyes to get a spicy chicken sandwich yesterday as is my want.
And I see all these people standing in line and thinking, man, the chicken sandwiches are good, but they've been out for a while.
We don't need to see these lines again.
And then somebody comes running out with their
Luffy bento box and I'm like do I even live in this country anymore?
Who am I?
So if you're wondering what you're what's in these bento boxes by the way
The Luffy
Box
is actually only eight bucks.
And it includes two pieces of Popeye signature chicken and a little mac
and
cheese.
You get some gum gum fruit lemonade for about $350.
That's a lemonade inspired by the gum gum fruit, the devil fruit that gave Captain Monkey D. Luffy his powers, by the way, just in case you want to know all
the back story.
But that's extra.
The box just gets you the mac and cheese and the chicken.
Yes, you have to pay eight bucks for that and then another four, about $350 for the drink.
Then you can also
get a
chopper's...
cupcake for about four bucks, which is a pink cupcake with pink frosting, also named after one of the characters.
And then if you want to get the entire bundle, Brian, where you get it all, you're going
to pay $14.
Well, I need it all because you left out the name of the Straw Hats Cruise Doctor, Tony Tony Chopper, which is a huge glaring omission in your reporting of this story.
So
please,
please, we must monkey T. Luffy, Tony Tony Chopper.
Parker the Amish.
He's on the show.
I don't know.
I didn't pause for that
picture.
I felt very old and out of touch when I read this story.
I was like, I just want chicken.
I
don't know
who these people
are.
Tell me I can get a spicy chicken and some mac and cheese.
That's all I
want today.
At least in other fast foods, I get the tie-ins.
They're usually tied into a movie or something.
This one, I'm like...
I, wow.
This stuff is really
big though.
I'm gonna go sit down and
have a cup of tea.
It is really big.
If you're
into anime, one piece
is,
it is a big deal right now.
My kid won't dive into one piece because it is too big.
Too many people like it.
He's gotta stay obscure.
Well, I don't blame him.
And now he can't get the stuff anyway.
So good for you.
If you could, if you could sell a plastic box for $1,000, good on you.
I'm happy for you.
That's some good entrepreneurship.
It is.
But on that, I am done.
We
are out of here.
It is 8.59 right now.
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