In hour two, News Director Terry Bell joins us for today's Big Story: a rise in gun deaths in Wisconsin. We also get the scoop from Terry on the first day of early voting in the state, before talking more about Trump's work-for-show at McDonald's. Brittney Merlot makes her daily appearance for a local and interplanetary weather update, and later, the guys are joined by attorney and host of Amicus: A Law Review, Jim Santelle. He, John, and Gordy chat about the idea of a unitary executive, or a president with unchecked power, as well as Schedule F of Project 2025, which would classify civil servants as partisan positions, and allow the president to essentially fire them all, and appoint whoever they want. After the break, we also ask Jim about some of the electoral shenanigans that may go on in the event that neither candidate gets 270 votes.

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