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Gonna have a lot of fun.
Go ahead and give it a spin there.
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Okay.
Yeah.
I think
cheese smells
because they
I
I was just doing some research here while you were yammering on and it says, no American cheese as commonly sold in stores is not considered real cheese by the FDA.
While it contains cheese, it's also blended with other ingredients like emulsifiers and milk and solids and making it pasteurized processed cheese food.
You know, this is something we could ask Pam Yonkey in a few minutes.
Yeah.
Okay.
You know, she's coming up in about five minutes.
So yeah, anyway, June is Pride Month and you know, there's big parade in Milwaukee next Sunday actually.
Okay.
Yeah.
And that's a huge deal.
I was over there last year and that's going to be happening again on Sunday.
All right.
Okay, is that it for the birthdays?
That's it.
We got all the okay.
Yeah, so
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Well, you know, honestly, you're kind of kid, but
They are feuding words for some.
I mean, I've talked to some dairy farmers that just thought, right, are ashamed that it's even on a shelf and allowed to be called cheese.
But, you know, honestly, it did revolutionize how people looked at cheese.
I mean, just think about how many different ways you've got it's process.
It's pasteurized cheese.
How many slices have you gone through in your life on sandwiches, you know?
and the other mixture ends up in macaroni and cheese and all that kind of stuff.
So it really has changed consumption patterns quite a little bit since it was invented.
What year was it?
Do you guys
So it's got some dairy base to it.
But like I said, most especially Wisconsinites take offense to it being really called a cheat.
Me
You know, remember though, Wisconsin takes that kind of thing seriously.
Remember there was a time when, when margarine with outlawed.
know, you, you, you just weren't getting it.
If you crossed into America's dairy land.
So.
I still have people that make that will tell me stories about when they were kids or their parents would make a run for the border so that they could get margarine.
Well,
right.
Yeah, nothing to offend or nothing to offend our dairy intellect.
Yeah,
You know, and honestly, you know, right now there's a big debate and it may end up in court on how Wisconsin is so rigorous about dairy standards like Kerry Gold butter would like to make a big play in Wisconsin.
But between stores.
objecting and there's apparently a law in the book someplace about international butter or something.
I sat next to an attorney on a plane once that educated me and I never did a follow-up after that.
But if you look at stores, Kerry Gold, for example, an international butter has a hard time finding store shelves.
So there are different percentages of butter fat when you start talking about butter in the United States versus butter abroad.
Kerrygold, if you look at the packaging, will probably have a higher butter fat content.
than we do here in the States, or it could be the other way around.
Like I said, you're hitting my Achilles here on butter.
I'm not boned up on butter
right?
I think it's kind of interesting if you're a pet owner, you may have a virtual fence.
know, you bury a line in the ground or whatever the dog wears, a special collar, when it gets too close, you get a little bit of a tickle to keep them back.
Well, now they're talking about expanding this to livestock.
So if you think about it in the West, for example, where you've got cattle and sheep, horses that are literally roaming sections of ground, you're not going to be building fence for that particular space.
So what they've decided to do instead of, you know, and part of this is keeping track of your livestock is you would be able to take basically GPS coordinates and create a virtual fence.
Now the animals would be collared.
They would have to wear something that, that basically gave them a tickle.
Um, and they said it's as much farmers learning how to use it as this livestock learning how to respect it.
Some animals will test it as we've all.
probably experienced in our lives.
There's always one in the crowd.
So there's a learning curve for both the livestock as well as the farmers.
But they said the technology has become so good that literally farmers can move those animals from, let's say, one field to another by simply changing coordinates on their smartphone.
And that does save a lot of extra labor and running.
Just trying to find your livestock wherever they may be.
Something to think about fellas, you think your dog has cornered the technology world, now they're talking about livestock.
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Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber,
We can duck and cover.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
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Idiocracy.
It's time once again to get to a story that I didn't have time for last week, but here we are.
Let's get to it now.
Okay.
It's Brett Farr, Aaron Rodgers.
What the hell is wrong with our quarterbacks from Wisconsin?
Yeah,
but
But this story is, it's nuts.
Fox News posted this.
Brett Favre suggests Netflix documentary targets him for his Trump support.
Because yeah, Netflix put a documentary together on Brett Favre and now he thinks they did it simply to target him because he's a Trump supporter and Runflip Kowsky's reporter he does a lot of posts on X and he he wrote this I thought this kind of fine-tudent bottom-lined it, okay Yeah, the documentary that included his 16 scandal with a Jets employee while married
And his welfare fraud is all about him liking Trump.
Okay, got it another mega victim
No.
What?
How old is he?
65 or something like that?
He's getting up there.
Yeah.
But you know, he's still got a little, he's still got his arm.
I'm talking football years.
Okay.
Yeah.
I think he's 43 maybe.
But you know, that's, that's pretty old for the NFL.
Yes it is.
They're out there on the field.
Right.
And Mr. Fragile, of course.
The older he gets, the more fragile he becomes.
We don't want him out there in the field.
Aaron disappear, you
Hit the sports show circuit if you want, you know, get on the Pat McAfee show.
Idiotic story that you have about your faith.
All right, let's get into something else here.
Two web wisdoms.
All right.
Commenting on deporting a vet.
You get this.
This is this is really unusual.
Ice deported in Iraqi vet and not just any veteran in the U.S.
military.
Okay.
This guy has an incredible past.
Let's listen to this.
Okay.
First you're okay with them deporting children.
Then it was okay with children with cancer.
Now, children that are U.S.
citizens is okay.
Today I wake up to a U.S.
combat marine that served in Iraq, fought for this country in Iraq.
is now deported and detained in El Salvador.
Where is your line?
This makes no sense.
This gentleman was one of the most wounded soldiers to ever come out of the military.
This US soldier fought for this country, came home one of the most wounded in US military history.
And this is how he's being treated.
Jose Barco needs to come home now.
There needs to be no delaying, no d***ing around like you're doing with Kilmar.
Jose needs to be home now.
This is crazy.
This is not American.
This is fascism.
I know.
To rate on his office, they thought they were a U.S.
representative.
Yeah, they thought that he had, they were holding protesters, hiding protests.
Yes, some hiding protesters.
When did that become illegal?
I had no idea, you know, but well, I can't, I can't find it.
All right, well, keep looking.
Yeah, when do you want to find something?
Oh, Jerry Nadler.
Oh, okay.
Really?
Yes.
Jerry Nadler's office.
See, the thing is, Nadler's office is, I think, a floor below the immigration court.
So it's in the same building.
And there were protesters there earlier in the day protesting the immigration court.
And later in the afternoon, these police officers came in and raided Nadler's office to look for these hidden protesters.
oh my god what's it coming I really have no idea all right now let's get to something here that you we've heard it over and over again and in fact are continually saying this that the Republicans the Magus have not done anything to cut
Medicaid.
They're not cutting Medicaid.
They're making sure that the program is safe.
They're just improving it as they always do with everything that they improve and make better.
And they say they're not cutting.
Of course, now we know, since they passed the bill in the House, that they have cut it.
And they've made it very difficult for people to maintain their Medicaid coverage because they've added
things to the process like signing up twice a year instead of once a year.
And I think I remembered them also saying that you can't have the blanks filled in from your previous reporting online where you fill it out.
It comes up filled out.
So you
Now
again.
And this time
you
Okay, which is crazy.
Just, you know, use the math.
Yeah, that's a lot of time and a lot of people they don't have that kind of time They can't work them that many hours because of either taking care of their child or they have something else going on Yeah, you know, they have a job, but they can't work two jobs in order to make those 80 hours So they are definitely cutting Medicaid.
So let's listen to a whole bunch of Republicans talking about how they're not cutting it and this is Jen Psaki's clip
role.
Let's listen.
Democrats will tell you it's going to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and take away your healthcare.
They're lying and nothing can be further from the truth.
We are not going to be touching Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
I also will stand with President Trump in opposing gutting Medicaid.
My position on this has not and it will not change.
Cisco Monty says he supports both programs, writing a letter to Republican leadership saying he will not vote for any legislation that lowers Medicaid coverage.
Let me
tell you again, as a nurse practitioner and person who understands
and
cares about health care, I can reassure you that health care, that Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security is not places where we're looking to.
to cut services.
A budget bill that does not protect vital Medicaid services and address the cap on state and local tax or salt.
These deduction, if they are not there, it will not receive my vote.
Would you vote to have that potential, those benefits being taken away?
No, I mean, obviously my goal is to not do anything that damages Medicaid.
Exactly.
Every single one of those Republicans just voted to damage and dramatically cut Medicaid.
Every single one.
And then just adding to it now They're going to shift the cost to the states the states which aren't paying for anything anymore if they at least have a Republican legislature So they're shifting the cost from 90% if you have expanded Medicaid and that means that it's a 90
10, the old version.
Now it'll be a 80 20 for the state to pick up 10% more, which they are not going to do because they're also saving up to give tax cuts within their own states to the wealthy.
Right.
So it's a tug of war again.
It's really worse.
Circling around the.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
Here's another one.
And I think we have some time.
We got about a minute.
Yeah.
I've
You're keeping your eye on the clock and that's good.
Yeah, we'll get to more.
Idiocracy coming up in a moment.
Coming up in our next hour, we're going to talk to Adam Brabender.
He's an activist for disabled folks.
And he'll be telling us about the National Association of Social Workers.
And then also we'll talk to Austin Galante,
a filmmaker.
morning.
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It's six fifty two temperatures in the mid fifties this morning.
We'll get into the mid eighties later on today.
It's going to get muggy as well.
We've got a Canadian smoke fog in the area as well.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, it's been kind of intense over the weekend.
I'd noticed it yesterday.
Yeah.
Well, last night we
It was so strong.
You know, I started coughing.
I was laying in bed.
I'm going.
I'm thinking, no, no, I gotta close the windows.
I can't do this.
Can't take it anymore.
Yeah, well, it was kind of nice because it's like sitting next to a fire.
I can't fire.
In the backyard.
Right.
And then all of a sudden, you know, you just can't breathe anymore.
Yeah, it's not
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But it was too late.
Now, if we had a few of those flowering trees, it could be going off the pedals that fell to the ground.
But not in this case, we don't have those kind of trees.
And by the way, I just wanted to mention that there are a whole bunch of cities across the country right now banning gas-powered leaf blowers.
Is the Department of Government Efficiency not that efficient?
Speaking of ineffective.
Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected.
Elon was quickly forced to hit control Z on many of his layoffs, which is the shortcut for undo and not the name of one of his kids.
So the administration decided to put us on administrative leave and then they just started another round of firing.
But since I got fired once already, I was
not able to get back into my laptop, so I don't know if I have a letter or that.
So you got fired, and then they essentially sent you a text that said, you up, and you responded yes, and then they ghosted you?
Yep.
So are you saying that this government is being run by f*** boys?
Thank you.
It also doesn't help that Elon keeps revising down the amount of waste he's finding.
I think we can do at least $2 trillion.
$1 trillion?
Half a trillion dollars.
$150 billion.
Classic boy behavior, over promising and under delivering.
Do you believe that the intention behind DOGE is to actually cut unnecessary spending?
If you wanted to take over all of your competitor's business, one way you could do that is you could go to every financial regulator, every government agency that has sensitive data from the private sector.
You could suck that data into some sort of AI, large language model, and then you could use it to undercut
all of American industry.
Do you think there's any chance that Elon is doing something good with all of our data?
Like, maybe with having access to all that data, he'll finally understand the mysteries of the human heart.
No?
Well, they've removed the watchdogs.
And the danger of that is that Congress doesn't have a transparent way of knowing what is happening within these agencies and departments.
It's almost like they've set out on this journey.
to find fraud, waste, and abuse when really the fraud, waste, and abuse was inside them the whole time.
Okay.
Well, let's get to the lazy man's representative.
Okay.
That would be Tom Tiffany.
Okay.
Our own state representative.
He's outraged at words, not cuts to Medicaid.
This is crazy stuff.
Tiffany's focus is on Governor Evers changing the word mother to pregnant person.
He's not outraged over food, stamp cuts, lowering age, dependency to cut kids off of Medicaid.
No, no, he's angry about the changes.
Tom Tiffany is furious saying Evers tried to change mother to inseminated person.
Now Wisconsin Democrats want to change expectant mother to pregnant person.
Why are they so hell-bent on erasing mothers?
It's disrespectful and absurd.
No deporting mothers from their babies.
There you go.
That's uh, wow, he's
But actually it's gender neutral.
That's what the Democrats are trying to put into wording here.
It protects same-sex marriages from the Supreme Court.
If one day they repeal that, right?
They also changed mother to inseminated person in state law dealing with parental custody.
Legal matter and not ideological.
So there are reasons for these changes.
Complicated reasons that just stump the mega-mind.
That's Tom
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