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work on that and do it before breaks.
But you know, it's, it, we've all been there, right?
You start your day, R starts particularly early, and you realize that the night before you had an entire list of things that needed to be done.
And then you look at that list and you're like, huh, I didn't do that.
And I need to start my day with that because it is highly important that this information gets into the hands of other people.
So there you go.
and I've sent out the
information that you need to have and you can come back to me with any questions you have later on in the day when you get around to checking your email.
That's always the rule that I've...
I kind of followed because my day for so many years has started so early.
And I understand that for some people it's annoying.
You won't believe the email I wake up to every day at 4 a.m.
So, you know- I
you know,
We didn't see it.
Oopsie.
Yeah, sorry.
No, that doesn't work for me.
I'm not an oopsie kind of person.
So here's the information you need, please.
Please at least read it.
Please ask me any questions you may have throughout the rest of today.
And anybody who works on the news talk side of things knows that I am pretty much available all weekend, anytime they need something.
So they know they can always reach out, which is perfectly fine.
But
So I think there's been.
There's been a lot of meetings, there's been a lot of...
you know, small things that we've had to put fires out on.
So I think it's one of those weekends where we're going to try to decompress just a little bit.
Sundays are usually considered a bit of a workday at our house.
And so starting about noon, that's pretty normal for our schedule.
So we try to basically take most of Friday and all of Saturday.
We're always connected.
We always have our phones, but we try to at least do something that is not sitting at home, sitting at a desk.
doing what we would normally do.
We'll see.
This weekend we're exceptionally tired, so it might just be us staring at each other in our living room, watching movies too, I
I don't know, even though it was a shorter week.
It was a long week.
And I wonder if other people are starting to experience that.
I mean, yeah, but we didn't work Monday, so we had Monday, and it doesn't seem, it seemed so long ago that Monday was a holiday.
But yeah, I don't know what it is.
This week has just been especially long.
I don't know
Yes, that's exciting.
Her second bridal shower.
She had one out on the East Coast for Ian's family.
It's with the Midwestern folk.
She had and so today tomorrow is like with her bridesmaids are coming in and the relatives on this side sure Ian's mom and sibling are coming in and everything but So the discussion last night arose when she got here about Opening gifts at the shower now.
I don't I didn't go to Debbie shower guys
didn't go to the
What I love about where we're at in the world is there's really no standard rules about anything anymore.
It kind of feels
like,
it kind of feels like whatever feels best for that individual.
I did not have a bridal shower because we eloped and because we were already living together.
I was like, I don't, I don't need to have a bridal.
shower.
It's just not something I wanted to do.
So we did not have one.
I've been to plenty over the years.
I've had some friends who absolutely refused to open gifts at the bridal shower.
I've
And that's just it.
Most of my friends who chose not to open gifts at bridal showers, it was simply because first of all, it's a bridal shower.
So there's always some, that weird crazy aunt who's like, let me go get that, that piece of lingerie that the groom might like.
My friend was like, I don't want to open that in front of everybody, right?
Or something off the registry, not on the registry that you really hate.
And now you got to put on that.
No, right.
So I don't know what's happening tomorrow.
But that's still up in the air.
Because I guess at the other shower, the well, Molly's future mother-in-law was throwing it and they wanted her to open gifts there.
But I don't know if tomorrow, like Debbie is...
Debbie's like it's up to you and Molly's like no, it's up to you and I'm like, oh, I'm glad I'm not involved in this Yes, I'm going to bed.
I'll see you tomorrow So it's it's one of the many the many things that I don't understand about You know weddings and showers.
I think it's really your future.
Maybe
because I'm the one who cooks, and a lot of the gifts had to do with culinary items.
I was more excited than my wife was, to be fair.
So you get the kitchen appliances?
We did, and I think you kind of have to.
I think if a bunch of people are spending a bunch of money on you, and this is more, I don't think the younger crowd cares.
I've been to some show.
I went to one shower.
My cousin, it was a baby shower, so it was a little bit different, but it was coed.
But they said, we'll open a couple of presents.
and they made sure to only open the presents that were from, like, the grandmothers.
Or the great-grandmothers, because they're the ones that really care.
Yes,
nice.
me to do it like that.
was the
The gift registries for me are really weird too because I felt like I was just walking around scanning things because I felt like I had to.
We were one of those weird couples.
We really didn't want anybody to get us anything because I am a little specific.
I don't like pomp and circumstance.
And I was like, if I want something or I feel like I need it, I don't need to wait for my bridal shower or anybody to get it for me.
I'm just going to go get it because I probably need it in that instance.
We have stuff from our wedding shower.
that we ended up gifting a long time ago or putting into thrift because we never opened it.
Ever.
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It's Daybreak with Brian and Jamie.
Thank you so much for joining.
A beautiful start to your day.
Gonna be a gorgeous day around the state as we touch into the mid 80s around most of the state.
We're also gonna have a lot of sunshine today as well.
So if you're able to get out and enjoy some of that beautiful early.
Summer, late spring weather.
It's that weird
Why am I sitting in trying to watch CBS's news programming when it has gone to hell in a handbasket?
Do you still even watch CBS's news programming after all the changes?
Maybe you're on the side that's like well finally they got rid of this but
Jamie you and I are old enough to remember CBS being the bastion of journalism with Edward R Murrow and Walter Cronkite and the Tiffany Network and they were the they were the place in 60 minutes with Mike Wallace and all those guys who got to the bottom of all kinds of things and even when Dan rather was there before he went crazy, you know, it was it was great.
Well, it's
Lately it is the luster is off the Tiffany network and it continued yesterday.
CBS News editor-in-chief Barry Weiss has replaced the executive producer of 60 Minutes naming outsider Nick Bilton, a longtime technology journalist and documentarian as the show's new leader, Tanya Simon, who was the executive producer, is leaving about a year after being named to the job following 30 years at 60 Minutes.
This move is a part of the turmoil.
of the news magazine that appeared, premiered in 1968.
It's known for its ticking stopwatch.
You've all seen it.
Everybody, everybody who likes in-depth stories and news magazines, I mean, 60 Minutes was the pinnacle of that.
And you'll remember a lot of this started back when there was the story about the prisons in South America.
And Barry White killed that story.
Well, she said in a memo yesterday that their goal was
Building a show that thrives in the 21st century, and that requires a new approach, expanding 60 minutes beyond a one-hour television broadcast, deepening its role across CBS News, and holding everything we produce to the ambition, fairness, and fearlessness that have defined 60 minutes at its best, unless it upsets the president, and then we won't do it anymore.
a really
People are getting more of their news, whether we like it or not, from podcasts, YouTube, TikTok, social media, newsletters, cable network streaming services.
There's countless resources for it.
And we also know that the Trump administration's frequent attacks on the media with terms like fake news, regularly targeting reporters, networks, late night hosts, certainly contributed to a different environment.
But media organizations have, I think, in some respect, because they have capitulated in multiple times, since Donald Trump descended on an escalator.
They've capitulated multiple times.
So I think they've also hurt their credibility with a lot of people.
My concern isn't whether somebody leaves 60 minutes or not or actually the changes they're making.
It's the concern to the institutions and the fact that Americans as a whole are losing trust in those institutions.
Oh,
And because when that trust collapses, especially when we're talking about media, and this is where I get on my soapbox just a little bit, but people are going to retreat into the separate information bubbles.
And this is where you stop talking to your neighbor and you stop agreeing on basic things.
Political divisions are going to definitely deepen.
And then this is where it also becomes harder to have any sort of productive conversation about things like public policy.
elections, accountability, any of that, right?
And sometimes it's not even that deep of a conversation that we absolutely can't agree on because those institutions, those trusted sources are now gone.
And that's what I think is my biggest issue when we talk
the personnel the personnel is not the issue like you said for me the personnel is it's just a symptom of what's going on there where we're going to take out away these longtime people see 60 minutes was never it's a news magazine so they you know they're not giving you the top headlines they're giving you big stories and they're they're going in depth on those stories and giving you interviews with people that you might not have heard of my concern is now that those
those stories that are covered in those interviews will all lean one way and we all know that all media has some sort of bias to it but this is so bald-faced in its attempt to get rid of anybody who questions the administration and it's it's just one more nail in the coffin of journalism one more nail in the coffin of free speech and we're
There's nothing we can do about it.
We just have to be aware of it And I think it's it's important to point this out every once in a while not dwell on it forever, but just you know, here's here's what's happening and I don't like it you shouldn't like it and The ratings are showing it the the ratings are plummeting their nightly news Took as soon as they got rid of a real anchor and brought in brought in the new guy Yeah, they toppled, you know, they just went right in the
And because people are distrustful, as you said, but we have places that we still held out hope for, and that we still clung to some, not blind faith in them, but enough faith in them to go, okay, they're gonna give us at least both sides, or...
If they're giving us one side, it's not going to be so heavy handed.
Well, that's gone now from CBS.
So any trust you did have, even the little bit is gone.
Now back to more of Daybreak with Brian and Jamie.
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Right?
Especially now because yesterday all the new numbers came out and inflation is on the rise so where are you feeling the biggest challenges to your family's finances?
We know it's
Maybe it's gas, maybe it's groceries, wherever it is, 85575 Civic.
So inflation jumped to 3.8% in April compared to a year ago, according to the Commerce Department.
And it's up from 3.5% in March, the highest since May 2023.
Now, on a monthly basis, prices rose 0.4%, which is down from 0.7%, which was the big jump in March.
It's still higher than the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve would.
for and I'll be honest for all the years I've been talking about inflation and prices and percentages.
I don't truly understand it.
All I know is prices have out are higher than income.
That's all I need to know.
And that's probably all you need to know because you hear these numbers too and you're like, I don't know what that means, Brian.
I know my groceries have skyrocketed.
My salary has not gone up.
Debbie, my wife just got her annual review and she got her little raise and it's not even a cost of living rate.
Right.
And she was at the highest end of what her firm is giving, but it's like a couple percent.
Like most people, she works so hard.
We all work hard.
And then you're like, oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah, we're not making as much.
And it's costing us a lot more.
And the numbers back it up.
But just remember, folks, if you're starting to panic about this, and Jamie, you especially, I want to remind you, inflation is made up.
Affordability is a made up term.
Everything is fine.
Everything is peachy key.
In fact, the president has said that increases in gas prices, which by the way are up more than 50% since the U.S.
and Israel launched those attacks in the Middle East on Iran, amounts to what he called peanuts.
And previously, if you remember, he had said that, you know, the personal finances of Americans, he doesn't really worry about those even
what he's going to do with the war.
No, why should he?
So, I mean, if you think that this administration is going to bring some relief or has a plan to leviate the cost that we're all paying because not only of this war, but let's also remember because there's still tariffs in place, you're probably not going to get much help from this administration, unfortunately.
up his
peanuts it's not it's affecting you know maybe maybe you and I can not drive a little as much maybe we can cut back a little but every everything that is
moved around by diesel fuel, farmers trying to get their equipment out.
This affects everybody.
This is not just a soccer mom and a minivan, if that's what he's thinking.
This is, you know, how does he think all the machinery for his big white trash wrestling or UFC show, and not that UFC is white trash, but he's making the White House look like a carnival.
It's a
which runs
fill this
up.
It's so cheap.
Roger and Steven's point chiming in on the text line saying, in addition to the gas and groceries, my internet bill is up 13 per.
over last year.
Yes, we're starting to see
the
rise in utility bills as well.
Mark from Prairie to Sack also commenting this morning saying, but Trump is now a real billionaire, so nothing else matters.
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Now, interestingly enough, when we talk about these numbers in the Midwest, by the way, just so everybody's aware, inflation is running around 4%.
And the thing about Wisconsin that it feels a little off because our unemployment rate right now is relatively low in comparison
to the
going to
When I was doing a little research on these inflation numbers last night, and I'm no economist, so my eyes start to glaze over, so you gotta talk to me like I'm five when we start talking
about numbers.
But I learned a new term, and I found this very fascinating.
Economists sometimes describe this type of economy as a K-shaped economy, because it means some people are doing very well financially, others feel like they're falling further behind,
And that's part of why the economy can feel strong on paper, but it feels very different around the kitchen table.
So they call this a K economy based on the ups, the downs, and the fact that it's kitchen table air quotes issues.
But I found that a little fascinating.
I'm like, OK,
the
They know exactly what it means.
They know maybe they know that the numbers mean nothing.
Sure.
But they but they they are confident you and I all we know is what comes out comes into our paycheck and goes out in our bills.
And if we're working and we're making money and we can afford certain things,
We're feeling good, and if we can't, we don't.
But it is scary, and it is depressing to know that the people in charge don't care.
We all kind of know that politicians don't really care about us, despite all their protestations.
And they're, oh, we are for the working man.
We know you're not.
But at least we like to create the illusion.
And then you hear these kind of statements and you go, boy, the illusion isn't even there anymore.
roughly, right?
Have we ever hit inflation under a Republican president?
And I'm asking this seriously this quickly, because with the trickle-down economics, the way Republicans like to basically structure the budget, and especially with this administration, we knew that there was a pretty good chance for session inflation.
Those were all going to be things we didn't factor in maybe the tariffs or a war that would maybe exasperate that and ramp up all of it.
But have we
ever hit inflation this quickly under a Republican president?
It feels like we always have to work into it a little bit more and then maybe the last year or two things are really bad of that presidency or maybe longer if they win another term, but it just feels like this has been very quick and very sped up.
Of course.
They inherited, even though the numbers don't back that up at all.
This is all on the Trump administration.
But to your point, I don't think so.
Everything, though, feels accelerated because every day we are being hit with a deluge of new either atrocities or unprecedented...
messing with the rule
of
It all just keeps coming at us.
So everything seems fast.
And then you throw the war in and that's going to throw everything topsy-turvy.
And then his vacillation of the treatment of this war where we're going to get such volatility in the markets and the oil prices because
he says one thing to drive the prices up, then he backs off of that and the prices drop.
And somebody's making a lot of money on this.
It's not you and I know what somebody is.
So I just don't know.
But I guess there was one positive sign in yesterday's report, core prices rose just 0.2% in April from March, that's down from 0.3.
The previous month.
So again, oh, yay, one tenth of 1%.
is I don't know what that means.
When
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to
walk around and see whether it's something silly like the cows or when Minneapolis did all the Snoopy the peanut stuff or just the fire hydrants, whatever it is.
I love those kind of things.
I like to just Just be overwhelmed by art because I'm not an I'm not an artist by any stretch of the imagination But I do believe art opens our eyes.
It gives us a little culture and it is a
a vessel and a avenue for artists to get their thoughts out and their views of the world.
It makes you think about something in a different way than maybe you normally do.
That's what I always appreciate about art.
It uses that part of your brain that sometimes we like to just let go dormant a little bit because everyday life.
And so that's what I always appreciate about art.
And it's really hard if it's a public art display not to just run smack dab into it, right?
And
I don't know the way the face contorts or the shape or just, I don't know what it is, but you're thinking about it.
Well, there's a piece of political art coming to the capital grounds in June, and it is the consentivist poll.
It is just a poll.
It's an art installation that's going to be erected, a satirical First Amendment poll targeting President Trump and his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Now Chaz Stevens is the artist.
He's from South Florida.
He is a provocateur and an artist.
I would like that title.
I want to be a bon vivant and a provocateur.
Seinfeld.
Yes.
The Festivist is my favorite holiday.
because we will all be airing our grievances as we look at this about Trump and Epstein.
And it's gonna be about five and a half feet tall.
It predominantly features a word consent and his drawing of Trump's profile also reads, the official drink of felonious life choices.
I cannot wait.
Now other states turned him down.
He
But Iowa wrote, upon further review, your request is denied.
So Iowa makes sense.
You'd have to go to either a blue or purple state, I think, to get this approved.
What do you think?
Is it too political to be in the capital?
I don't think so.
What about you?
But that's OK, isn't it?
It's going to be interesting to see their reaction, though, I think, right?
If they go in there and will they even pay attention?
That's the other thing, because you're on a tour.
It's pretty fast-paced.
They take you through.
areas so some of them might not even pay attention.
and I just because I like it doesn't mean you have to like it but the the only question I can see is okay
Being in the rotunda means it's state-sanctioned.
And is that going to be a problem with some people?
Because our government should be for everybody.
It doesn't matter.
It should be for whoever you vote for.
Now, if it was out on the lawn of the Capitol, I would say that even though it's on Capitol grounds, it's not in the rotunda.
I don't have a problem with it, but I can see that being the one thing that people say, is this a state-sanctioned message?
is being against pedophilia a partisan issue.
It should not
No.
And I'm going to assume that if there's any comments back to the state, they basically...
say this is art.
You know, it was installed here.
It's going to be here for one day because it is going to be there on June 12th starting at 9 a.m.
and then it'll be taken down in the afternoon.
So it's going to be a very short lived, come check it out if you want to and then
don't really have rules on this.
The only rules they really have are that anything, for rules of anything being displayed at the Capitol, it has to prohibit stickers, labels, tape, or any other adhesive material that might leave residue or damage to the building.
That's essentially the rule that we have at the state facilities at Wisconsin.
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