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So, folks, if we're going to waste this committee's time just to glorify one man's ego, I propose that we at least be efficient about this, right?
I mean, that's the theme of the day, efficiency from Doge and others.
And so the great Wayne Gretzky once said, you don't skate to where the puck is, you skate to where it's going to be.
And my amendment tries to do that.
I mean, why do all of this Trump glorification in a piecemeal manner?
Why not cut to the chase and I am proposing that we rename the entire planet Trump In the world that this administration is building and this committee this committee is enabling Everything is about Donald Trump anyway Republicans are proposing that we put his face on currency
His name is apparently going to go on Air Force One.
You've introduced a bill to add his head to Mount Rushmore.
His whims are shaping everything from who gets prosecuted to who gets silenced and who gets to participate in democracy.
And so I would not be surprised if one of you actually proposes a 60-foot statue of him looming over the National Mall.
As we've taken
you know, some liberty to depict what that might be.
We're trying to get ahead here and skate to where the puck is obviously going.
So let's skip the endless parade of one-offs here.
It's far more efficient to just cut to the chase.
If you want a world where science is sidelined, facts are optional.
Public service is gutted in favor of gold-plated self-promotion.
Congratulations, you're living on planet Trump.
Let's stop pretending.
that any of this is about patriotism or efficiency.
It is all about power, control, and making everything about one man.
So let's just make it official.
Show Donald Trump how mindlessly cultish you are.
He's going to love this.
Let's go ahead and rename the planet, Planet Trump.
double nickels.
Okay, so pretty
So here it is Monday and a little bit later on we're going to talk to Judy David off from the Isthmus update and what's in the latest issue.
There's a great always great articles, but yeah, we're gonna check in with Judy and In just a few minutes.
We'll talk to Pam Yankee
She was very busy this weekend, apparently.
She gave us a big list of things she did.
A
Yeah, I guess you can expect that when you come to the reunion because you're looking for the guy, you know, the people that are your age.
Yeah.
Most of them aren't around anymore.
So yeah, the younger people are, you know, having their reunion, you know, maybe 20 years, 15, 10 years, whatever it is, I don't know.
Well,
There is an official one.
Well, yeah, probably.
They were asking for old air checks of our shows when we worked there.
And I really, I really had a really good one.
And I still like to pass it along to Sean Prebel over there.
OK.
But well, you never know.
Yeah.
We've got kind of a reunion coming up on Monday, unfortunately, today.
Today.
for Van.
Yeah, Van Edwards.
Yeah, passed away
I didn't know him very well, but when we met, he was always, he acted like we were old friends.
He was that kind of person.
Super nice guy.
And you and I have always got into and we always like those radio announcers who weren't.
competitive, they were just friends, right?
Oh boy Just throw it out there.
Okay.
All right.
Let's get to the national day
Oh really?
Oh, maybe you'll have a chance to say hello to her today.
Maybe.
Probably.
What is it today?
What is it?
Is it one of these days?
Is it National Gardening Day?
How about National Dolphin Day?
National Book Lover's Day?
National Look Up at the Sky Day?
National Pecan Day?
National Ex-Spouse Day?
Or National Reach as High as You Can Day?
Which one of those days?
It's not National Book Lover's Day.
You're correct for a change.
talk
We were saying just before the show today...
We still don't have mic arms in the studio here.
We need to prop up our table stand microphones with books to get them up to, because John is freakishly tall.
And I saw that you raised your chair up even higher.
I did
You just like playing with your chair, don't you?
What anyway?
I do.
I was saying that we could use all of these stacks of books under our microphones as proof that John is such a well-read individual.
OK.
Yes.
We've got this brand new studio.
And the mic stands are sitting in the other room in boxes.
Right, the booms.
But I think our engineers were on some kind of... What, medication?
No, well, yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't think you'd bring that up.
But they were at some kind of conference.
Oh!
Not medication.
Well, they...
Maybe killed two birds with
At that conference.
I'm sure that's a wild one.
engineering
Is there anything historical?
We didn't even get into any of the National Day calendar.
I was expecting that to take the whole time.
Oh, sorry.
I just skipped right
I don't
I'm hoping the grass grows all summer long.
It's not too late.
get this press.
You've got a hose, don't you?
but you really
And, you know, I
Well, I don't want to get into, you
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minutes past the hour.
Yeah.
I'm shaking my hips.
That was Bookham Dannell when I was a kid.
That was a big darn deal at the farm when we when Bookham Dannell was on.
It's a great show.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah That and Elvis were two of the high points on my on my list if I could catch them all in the same day.
So yeah,
Um, I don't I guess I can't say I don't know about every yeah and part of the reason is that I'm of the genre where I probably came in on the tail end of
of him, but
mom was a big fan, so then you in turn became a big fan.
Oh yeah, whenever he was on.
Yeah, I created a marathon at home.
It was all on prime.
You know, they had all these movies at one time and I just went all through them.
And I don't know why they put girls in the title at all.
But anyway, it's fun stuff.
It's crazy stuff too.
And some of those songs in the movies are just ridiculous.
And that's what's so great about the
you
Good weekend.
I don't know about you guys, but the weather helped to keep the momentum going.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
I'm, you know, in fact, I was kind of crisscrossing the state in between all these things.
And I did notice that some guys were out there with us doing some spring tillage work, trying to maybe work some of the low ground that was still a little wet.
I don't know if it was
recreation therapy or what it was that they were out there scratching around.
And for anybody that was around, I'm sure they're grateful if they went to the Midwest Horse Fair.
This was the kind of weather that you can only hope for.
And big crowds again this year.
Terry Gianetti, who is the general manager, said they figured they'd have somewhere in the neighborhood of 16,000 people that attended.
I'm sure once they get done with the count,
officially today they they'll come close to that maybe even surpass it the one thing that I thought was intriguing I wanted to talk to you guys about is the rare breeds that they brought in this year now I will be the first to admit I know very little about horses didn't grow up with them so you know how that goes if you don't grow up with them you're not necessarily as familiar with it but there's a group of horses that were exhibited at the Midwest Horse Fair that they call rare breeds
Now, the definition of a rare breed is that there's fewer than 5,000 of the animals left in the world.
So if you saw a couple of those horses at the Midwest Horse Fair, consider yourself fortunate.
I thought some of the, some of the reason why these horses are rare is kind of interesting too.
I can't, I don't know if I'm saying it right.
A call, techie, the golden horse, that's one of them.
That horse originally came from Turkmenistan.
So obviously over by the Soviet block,
And one of the reasons why that horse has just about gone to extinction is because the Soviet Union were very strong supporters of horse slaughter back in the day.
And apparently this horse, either the meat or the yield or something made it very attractive to them.
And they just about slaughtered it out of existence.
So that's one of the horses that was at the horse fair this weekend.
The other one that I thought was interesting kind of looks like a mutt breed to me.
They call it, what is it, the Nokotas.
So basically these were feral horses, horses that got loose from ranches and farms and started running around the badlands out there.
Well, here comes to find out that when they closed off the parks to create kind of the Badlands National Parks, some of these horses were left behind and that turned into its own breed.
So you're only going to find them in that
that particular area and they're only limited as far as numbers.
Like I said, the definition fewer than 5,000 in the world.
So just kind of cool that the other one were the Dale ponies out when I'm not sure about the numbers, but they come from the UK and they were kind of connected with the lead mind business that was so dominant in the UK for such a long time.
So just kind of cool.
You know, like I said, the horse show itself always educational, but then you add that kind of little twist in and
Like I said, even for somebody that's not necessarily familiar with the industry year, it catches your attention.
now.
And I think the name speaks, like you said, to that region.
So it's cool that way too.
she was a
yeah.
Wisconsin's got a really big, uh, following, not following, but competitively speaking, we got a lot of young high school people that are very, very involved in Wisconsin high school rodeo.
We've had a chance to visit with a high school queen, the rodeo queen.
And, uh, like I said, there.
They're stone cold serious about that profession.
Well, so Thursday and Friday last week, the egg lenders
They always have a spring conference.
They were up in Wisconsin Delft.
And these are basically all egg lenders.
They may be in the farm credit system.
They may be independent, but they all got together.
And normally at this time of year, guys.
Farmers are extremely optimistic.
You know, they're excited to get out and start planting.
Everything's looking good.
We've got all kinds of hope for the future.
Well, the aglenders said that this year they're noticing far more pessimism about what 2025 is going to be.
And even the aglenders are more pessimistic.
They have started to reevaluate their portfolios.
It's not so much about the federal dollars that have been frozen up.
That would be more on the research side and some of that type stuff.
But they are concerned about
the land values, for example.
We just had a sale in Iowa of $21,000 to an acre for farmland.
Now, when you start seeing pretty strong prices like that, you know that ag lenders are getting nervous that we have overdone it, and we'll see a correction on that.
2025 could be the year they correct.
So even ag lenders are going back through their portfolio, reevaluating land values, reevaluating the farm equipment they've made loans on, reevaluating
the commodity that you might be raising or growing.
So a whole lot of pessimism on both sides of that margin that, uh, unfortunately that's not the way we normally approach spring, but this year it
Well,
you, Pam.
Beautiful.
I'll bring back story.
You bet.
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It could have been two weeks ago.
I am ending dual citizenship under the espionage act and all these traders will be denaturalized and Deported to the country they came from no exceptions
That wouldn't mean a lot.
That's what I'm waiting for.
He's a dual citizen.
Well, he's a triple citizen.
Yeah, I think he's Canadian, South African, and then all of a sudden, America.
How did he do that?
I don't know.
I think
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of warm but This this is a headline in Politico Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to us Really?
Yes.
No.
Well, see there you go
Yeah.
So, you know, if not only can you be disappeared off these streets and sidewalks of the US, but they aren't going to get you back either.
In case somebody complained.
Right.
It's not, it's not something they feel they need to do or have to do.
I think we should all be reassured.
Really?
You know, on Friday, we said that today on the show.
We were going to be, you were going to be offering free tax cheat advice.
I should have waited until after the show today.
Oh, that's right.
Yesterday, yesterday afternoon I finally got around to filing my taxes and for the first time ever I had to pay in.
And, man, it's tough.
Why do I have to pay taxes and Elon Musk doesn't?
Exactly.
you use
Yeah, I used TurboTax for it.
No, I didn't.
Did it cost money?
It did cost money because I do contract work,
Tax
Yeah.
Well, we tried a little bit now.
You know, the Democrats passed the opportunity for people to file freely.
They can file for free.
Right.
Yes.
And the Republicans came back in and they said, no way.
No way.
You're not filing your taxes free.
You have to wonder why they're doing that.
That would be like, who would do something like that?
What do they think that looks like?
In what pocket do you think they're in?
It's the most ridiculous proposal ever.
I don't know if it ever went into effect.
I don't think it did.
I think we do file.
freely, but I don't know, and was complaining about paying a lot of money.
So we
decided
I don't do the tax.
You could still do it completely free on paper if you wanted to, John.
The very first time I ever filed taxes, I was a teenager still and I had horrible handwriting.
I did it on paper and they got my name wrong.
So the next year when I filed taxes on a computer, it was a real ordeal with the IRS trying to get my name
know,
She's smart.
She's great
This morning I wish I could remember the source but that there is a school system that's going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-k's have A1 teaching every year starting that far down in the grades and that's a wonderful thing.
Kids are sponges.
They just absorb everything, and so it wasn't all that long ago that we're going to have internet in our schools.
Now, okay, let's see, A1, and how can that be helpful?
How can it be helpful in one-on-one instruction?
On your hamburger?
My friends, what is hamburger?
Chopped ham?
It's chopped steak.
And what's better on steak than A1?
A1 makes hamburgers taste like steak burgers.
Of course
it does.
At A1, how could
They never make the eye look like an eye.
They always make it look like a one.
So I hesitated to always mention MI6.
What is MI6?
Yeah, I'm not, what are you talking about?
Well, you don't know.
It's a secret intelligence service in Great Britain.
Oh.
It's military intelligence section six.
So secret, we didn't know.
Yeah, military M.
Intelligence, I, and it's section six.
Can you call it M16
or something?
because I just wasn't sure.
Just avoided it.
Because I
You ought to know.
She is the secretary of education.
I don't think it's something that we should say, you know, well, yeah, she wouldn't know.
But, you know, I talked to my sons about this too because I said, you know, she is right.
They're using
cameras in order to gauge the interest level of the students,
the
maybe
So
for that, my friend.
It is a little too late for that.
Even at UW here, they don't have it to help with learning exactly.
They do have it.
It's called Honor Lock.
It's an exam-taking thing.
So if you take an exam on a computer, there's a camera on you, and then it uses AI software to figure out if you're looking at a phone or somebody walks into the room to.
Like give you an answer or something like that's a
No, it's it's all thankfully I've never had to take a test with honor lock But I have heard no good things about it from students at least
Yeah, well, that's why I'm working in radio, John.
They
And this is your
Supposedly it's the world's largest.
I haven't seen any official documentation for that, but they call themselves the world's largest trivia contest.
about it.
I didn't see
was a bunch of people getting together.
How many questions did they have?
Well, it's 54 hours straight from 6 p.m.
on Friday to midnight on Sunday.
out.
Yeah, it happens on the radio, so you read a question and you play a song, you read the question again, you play another song, and that's all the time that you got to call in with an answer.
And then you do eight questions an hour, and you just keep doing it hour after hour all weekend long.
me.
You should listen to it, because it was all music that I'm sure that you would like.
Oh, really?
Yeah, all the sort of short songs from the 50s, 60s, 70s.
We know those.
Oh, sure.
It was a good time.
I don't get to do music in radio very
we'd like
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It's
today?
rambles.
I love the rambles through the rambles.
It's really important why trivia contests are so much fun.
Speaking of trivia, I was going to call today with some thoughtful
stuff on where our nation is and all that sort of stuff.
But let me go back to the MI5.
With you guys, I thought it was, you know, M one five until some somebody was more erudite said, no, no, no, no, it's MI, which is military intelligence.
And so they have the, you know, MI six is for
foreign intelligence work.
MI5 is for domestic
there is a great series that you can find on Prime and Britbox and other places put together, I think by BBC on MI5.
It runs for about eight seasons and it's fantastic.
I couldn't recommend
it
enough.
So if you want some good viewing on the thriller side, go to MI5.
on any of this, any of those streaming services.
But then that prompted the whole question about what about MI1, MI3, and apparently it goes all the way up to MI19,
was POWD briefing.
So it's military intelligence 19 with POWD briefing.
And then they fold it in these things and now they just really have MI5 and MI6.
However, there are some who believe that there's MI-17, which is about aliens.
Yeah.
So instead of offering you something that's, you know, useful, let's let's go into the arcane-ness of MI5 and MI6.
Okay.
I believe there's,
for that.
I
Joe, we always appreciate your call.
Thank you.
You know, like I said, they really never, uh, made the I
look like a capital, a capital I, you know, the little things in the top and the bottom, right?
So you were confused.
Yeah, yeah.
I understand.
And having been an actual Uncle Agent at one time in my childhood.
Do you have the kit?
I did have the kit.
Me too.
I had the, I had the gun and I had the pass or the ID.
The ID card.
The ID card.
Yeah, it's important to have that.
I think they had a
You got
go.
Easy.
I'll try.
I'll try.
Do
Do some meditation.
Really?
Yeah.
Settle down.
Coming up in our next hour, we're going to talk to Judy David Doff about the latest issue of Ismus, some really great stuff in this latest issue, including a terrific picture on the front page of this dog.
I don't know who.
We'll have to ask her about that because it's really different.
Really?
later this week we'll be talking with one of the the programmers of the festival seeing what we just had the Wisconsin Film Festival now I guess we're heading over to Milwaukee to watch some movies
yes well it's gonna be a big deal the 2025 Milwaukee Film Fest from runs from April 24th to the May 8th and has a little something for everyone they have local and international films comedies documentaries everything in between 15 days in the heart of Milwaukee
Films will be screened at the Oriental and the Downer theaters with events like panel discussions and filmmaker question and answer sessions.
So again, that's going on from April 24th through May 8th at the Milwaukee Film Fest.
We've got tickets coming up.
All right.
Well, your neighbors have sent
it's already blown into their yard.
Really?
Oh, yeah, the contest was way different back.
It's been going on for 50 plus
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