you
WMDX, 92.7.
Oh, this Canadian air is not, it's not healthy.
It's not good.
It's not healthy.
So this is the way they're getting even with us for those high tariffs.
All right, I got you, man.
You know, you made your point.
Smoke is coming right across the border.
Wow.
It doesn't have a passport.
It just comes right in.
It
truly infiltrated the home last night.
All the kids were up.
We're all outside looking in the yard, seeing if anybody built any fires of some sort
surrounding our
house with
it.
A little hazy out there this morning.
It's bad.
It is really bad.
You saw the radar, the smoke radar.
Right.
Yeah,
you showed me that.
Yeah, pretty wild,
huh?
It's incredible.
We're getting a lot more smoke in the area.
I thought we would.
I didn't think it was just going to pass through last week.
You didn't think so.
No.
Well,
happy June.
Good morning.
Well, happy June to you.
Welcome to John and Gordy in the morning.
That's John Peterson.
I'm Gordon Young.
And we have Boris McKenzie.
Dominic Lee.
There we
go.
Usually, this is the second time you said Boris, so maybe we just keep it with Boris then.
Do you like Boris?
I'm starting to dig it.
I think we should keep Boris.
Boris the
engineer.
OK.
Well, uh, do you have a good weekend?
Boris, it was pretty good.
You know, I got some
furniture yet.
Yes,
I have full furniture now.
I'm completely decked out.
I have a couch, I have a TV, and I have a carpet, and that's all I really need.
I don't need anything else.
How did you
accomplish all that?
Did you have a truck?
Yeah, you hauled it all the way from Oshkosh.
Oh, so you
had all your old furniture.
You finally moved it down.
I
finally
moved
it down.
Yeah, I'm a new man now.
Yeah, that's great.
Boris is our new engineer.
Sam is gone.
He's out of the building.
We kicked him out.
He's long gone.
He burned, you know.
He couldn't take the pressure.
You think he's listening to us right now?
I doubt it.
I think he's probably sleeping in.
Oh, yeah.
Why would he get up early if he didn't have to?
Right.
Yeah, but welcome aboard, you know, and we're happy to have you.
Thank
you.
Gonna have a lot of fun.
Thank
you, guys.
Yeah, weather today, I guess that smoke and that haze is not going away anytime soon, apparently.
It isn't.
It isn't for a while.
Those fires are incredible.
Some of the video is just amazing.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
We closed the windows last night after we thought, you know, we were in the middle of a forest fire and we've got the air conditioning on and it's just in time too for the high humidities and dew points.
Well,
do you have your WMDX Samsung watch ready to go?
Is that a new
watch?
I shined it up.
No, it's oh you
just cleaned it
up.
Yeah, just yeah, you know
kind of sparkles
very nice.
Thank you.
Nice
Currently I'm seeing a temperature of 53 degrees from the WMDX thermometer outside our
window.
I have 55 on the official WMDX weather watch and 86 is a predicted
high.
Really?
Okay, I get this.
Yeah tonight only a low of 68
degrees.
Okay.
Wow,
that's nice.
Boris likes that too.
It's so really hot.
What about the sunrise and sunset?
Oh, we got there.
Well, sun rose at 520 this morning,
and
it is going to go down at 832.
It's all
going down at
832.
Well, let's check the afternoon temperature according to the WMDX weather wheel, the roulette wheel.
Go ahead and give it a spin there.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
We got it going.
Okay.
All right, round and round it goes.
See what the afternoon high would be today.
You said 86.
This is saying Black 84.
Black 84 is the number.
All right.
OK.
See, it should
have been red 86.
Red 86.
So.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
I
had my number on
that
one.
Do you go to the casino a lot these
days?
I actually
don't.
because they have roulette wheels there, you know, actual, you know.
The last time I
was in a casino, they allowed smoking at the time.
At that time.
They don't do that anymore.
No,
I don't think they do.
They did up until the pandemic at Ho-Chunk in the Dells.
You could smoke and boy, it was awful to go in there, but now they cleaned it all up, so much better.
Yeah, it's so much better now.
I think Madison's always been that way, smoke-free, or at least mostly smoke-free.
So good for them.
I don't know.
Should we get to history items for today, or do you want to check the National Day calendar?
I guess we don't really check that anymore.
We don't really.
But let me just see what we're missing.
We really don't.
We hate, we hate the National Day calendar.
We do.
But
you know, sometimes we just, we've done it all.
Wonder, you
know, what day is?
This
day.
This is kind of ironic, since Sam isn't here anymore, but it's International Volkswagen Bus Day.
Oh, yeah.
He's gonna miss this.
He's gonna miss this.
He took off
in his Volkswagen, his 74 bug, and is not looking back, I don't think.
Rotisserie day.
Rotisserie chicken day today.
Who comes up with this?
National Bubba Day.
Wow.
All right.
National Leave the Office early day today.
We have to leave early.
and National Rocky Road Day.
Oh, Rocky Road Ice Cream.
Yes, Rocky Road Ice Cream.
All right.
Great stuff.
And that's it, huh?
That's it for the national teams.
We're missing.
But this gives us more time.
We're missing the
descriptions of those days.
Well, you said you didn't want it at all.
Let's
not do that.
OK.
All right.
Hold me back.
How about the history?
Do we have any history,
Sam?
I'm sorry.
Oh, my bad.
Got to switch it to Boris now.
Yes, we do have some history on this day.
1835, P.T.
Barnum and his circus began their first tour ever in the U.S.
Wow.
Yeah,
excellent.
1835, you say.
Wow.
I didn't realize it was that.
It was.
I've never been to a circus in my entire life.
Really?
Consider yourself
lucky.
You
know, they have an operating circus all summer at Baraboo at the Circus World Museum.
Yeah, they have the Big Tent there and they have acts.
Yeah, it's quite the show actually.
Maybe I shouldn't be so negative about the circus.
They have, I think, three shows a day, maybe four shows a day.
It's pretty cool.
Kids love it.
I went to a movie called The Circus of
Horrors.
And I
guess
that stayed in my head for a long time.
And yeah, the clowns weren't too nice.
And a lot
of kids are still afraid of
clowns.
And the circus acts, well, you know, a few people dropped to the ground from the trapeze.
So it was always not a really pleasant event for the crowd.
Well, thanks for sharing that.
Circus horrors.
For the people of the Circus World Museum, I'll prepare them.
We're happy that you shared that as well.
Anything else on the big history list there?
I think they worked out some of the most problems.
Yes, they figured it out.
Get a net.
Yes, so... What do you got there?
Yes, also in 1928, Kraft.
uh rose out velvita cheese
oh god roll
out their cheese oh yes roll in and out gotta keep
up with the wisconsin tradition so is there any actual cheese in velvita i mean is it really it's not it's all it's not y'all all fake it's not i know i think it's not really a dairy product i think it is a dairy
product okay yeah all right
even the even
those uh american cheese slices have actual cheese in them i don't
I
was
I was always told they didn't
and
so yeah, I had to check the ingredients because my kids like the the sliced American
cheese smells
Yeah, on the smash burgers and you could ask for that at Culver's instead of actual cheddar cheese Which I'm trying to get them to eat more of but they're not doing it you know they're going after the
The cheese slices.
Because they
melt better, right?
It melts better.
But that's not the reason why you eat it.
It tastes good, right?
And, you know, American cheese is really bland.
That's,
I
guess, the bad part of it.
But Velveeta, I don't even know what to think about Velveeta.
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.
You know, the ingredients she just talked about are all dairy products and it all sounds cheeshish.
Well, according to the FDA.
Is
there a word like cheeshish?
Cheeshish.
According to the FDA, true cheese must be made primarily from milk and salt with minimum percentage of cheese solids.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
Well,
that's pretty close.
So the
debate goes on,
I
don't know.
We're
gonna
have a,
like, cheese making
day or something now.
I'm getting hungry.
Yeah, are you?
Okay.
You know, Sam used to press cheese together and then slice it up.
He worked at a cheese factory.
Yeah.
No, he didn't.
Yeah, he did.
Yeah, he did.
Really seriously, he did.
He did.
Strange.
He didn't share that with you.
I'm surprised.
He usually tells everybody.
Oh, he
talks about that all
the time.
About his days at the cheese factory.
Um, anything else on the history or the birthdays?
Got anything?
We
do have, we have no more history, but we do have birthdays.
Um, and on this day, Pete Conrad, it was his birthday today.
Astronaut.
Yeah.
Third person to walk on the moon.
Yeah.
All right.
You don't get a lot of recognition for being the third
person.
Apparently
not.
I never heard of this guy.
Well, there was Neil Armstrong, of course, Buzz Aldrin.
Buzz, sure.
You know, they were the first two.
Yeah.
And then Pete Conrad.
Pete Conrad.
Number three.
Not a lot of recognition.
I don't know who your next birthday is here.
Go
ahead and spring it on us.
Maybe John knows.
Gilbert Baker.
He actually was the creator of the rainbow flag.
Oh, really?
Oh.
OK.
That's right.
June is
Pride Month.
Yeah.
So that makes sense.
So Gilbert Baker created the Pride flag.
All right.
When were you going to tell us
that it's Pride Month?
You're the guy with the calendar.
This is
June 2nd.
You're the guy with the calendar.
I would have told you yesterday if we were on the air, but we weren't, so I'm telling you today.
Catherine's got the whip and you've got the calendar.
Okay, really?
So, yeah, anyway, June is Pride Month and 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 gonna be happening again on Sunday.
All right.
Okay, is that it for the birthdays?
That's it.
We got all the okay.
Yeah, so
Well, anything you have a good weekend besides being smoked out of the house last night.
By the way, that was that was a trip.
I want to mention this.
I mean, this is huge.
Yeah, we'll start this in our seven o'clock hour.
The twenty twenty five Scotty summer text to win contest.
It all begins after seven o'clock and we'll have a couple of weeks of great prizes, including pairs of Brewer tickets, the club level seats.
These are great seats.
These are the all the hourly prices at 7 a.m.
11 a.m.
2 p.m.
and 4 p.m.
and It will have either a hundred dollars cash or a pair of brewers tickets during those giveaway times and then Everybody that enters is eligible for the grand prize will have a couple of different grant prizes to choose from a bearable dels Wisconsin vacation or a door County getaway
Those are the big grand prizes at the end of the
contest.
Yeah, it's going to be great.
So listen after seven o'clock.
Coming up next, we'll talk to Pam Yankee and find out what's going on with the Midwest Agricultural Report.
It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning for Monday.
Stay with us.
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It's John and Gordy in the morning.
It's a hazy, hazy day today, kind of yellowish outside.
It's
almost like we're broadcasting from some kind of flashback, you know, in the movies.
Oh, maybe.
They
always add this color.
Yeah.
It is 623.
It's 53 degrees.
Kind of a cool start, but it's going to warm up and get a little humid later on today.
Two points are going to be rising, John.
Yeah, I'm locking myself in the house.
I know you're afraid of two points.
And high about 84 degrees.
That's right.
OK.
Do we have Pam ready to go there?
We do have Pam.
OK.
Good morning, Pam Yonkey.
How are you?
Hello fellas, how are we doing this morning?
We're doing okay.
We were just debating Velveeta cheese, whether
it's cheese or not.
It was invented on this day or went out.
It became marketable at that point.
So
yeah, kind of a velvety cheese.
Are dairy farmers angry when you bring up Velveeta?
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 outright 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?
Belveda and the other you know mixture ends up in macaroni and cheese and I mean all that kind of stuff, so it really has Changed consumption patterns quite a little bit since it was invented.
What what what year was it?
Do you guys
remember?
It says well 1928 it rolled out
1928 was when Kraft rolled it out, but it was actually invented in 1918 by Emil Fry and Catherine Textus on this.
And the name comes from its velvet-like texture.
Well, it has
a
lot.
It has milk products in it, you know.
Milk concentrate to canola
oil,
though.
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
too.
Me too.
I'm trying to get the kids to steer clear of the slices of American cheese.
Yikes.
You know, remember though, Wisconsin takes that kind of thing seriously.
Remember there was a time when, when margarine with outlawed.
Exactly.
You know, you, you, you, you just weren't getting it if you crossed into America's Gary 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,
you know, I was one of those kids.
I went with my parents to get the yellow margarine because they added the color in Illinois.
You couldn't get you couldn't get yellow margarine in Wisconsin.
Yeah,
right.
Yeah, nothing to offend or nothing to offend our dairy intellect.
Yeah,
exactly.
But, you know, it it came.
It came out to be a really good law in this state where you have to have a pad of butter on the table at restaurants, along with margarine if you want.
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.
Yeah, that's true.
Is Kerry Gold just a regular butter but from another country?
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
lately, boy.
Well, let's get to the virtual fence thing, because
I
wanted to get to it last week.
Electric fences for this time stock,
right?
And so I think it's kind of interesting if you're a pet owner, you may have a virtual fence.
You
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 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 on their smartphone.
And that does save a lot of extra labor and running just trying to find your livestock wherever they may be.
So
Something to think about fellas, you think your dog has cornered the technology world, now they're talking about livestock.
Well, I've got your dog.
I've got a Border Collie and my Border Collie is constantly looking for work.
Yeah, I could rent her out, I guess, you know, instead of getting in these electric
fences.
Does it roam out of your lawn?
I mean, do you consider getting an electric line?
No,
she's pretty good except, you know, she wants to kill the squirrels.
Oh, well.
All
right, Pam, that's another topic for another
time.
Off
the rails
early.
Yeah, exactly.
Pam Yankee, have a great day.
We'll talk to you again later in the week.
All right, see you later.
That's Pam Yankee, Midwest Farm Reports.
And ideocracies coming up next Monday morning on John and Gordy in the
morning.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything.
That could be considered a rational thought.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber,
you go and do something like this.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fall each other right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Oh, man.
There's some stuff today.
Oh, boy, we got a lot to get to.
Yeah.
It is 6.35.
We're seeing hazy conditions out there this morning.
Maybe some Canadian smoke.
Yeah, I've had, again, I've mentioned this before.
I've had some Canadian smoke.
It's not bad.
No.
You could get it at some of the dispensaries.
Dispensaries.
Up in Michigan, upper
Michigan.
Sure.
Sure.
But yeah, it's kind of hazy out there and temperatures in the 50s this morning will get into the mid 80s.
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That's happening now.
Oh,
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How the hell did that happen?
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All right.
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.
OK.
It's Brett Farr, Aaron Rodgers.
What the hell is wrong with our quarterbacks from Wisconsin?
Yeah, they start out great.
They have wonderful seasons.
You know, I mean, both.
Really, Wisconsin.
The Packers have had great luck with quarterbacks over the decades.
Right.
And then they get a little flaky toward the end.
That's right.
My
former girlfriend of Aaron Rodgers says he was a little abusive mentally maybe really not physically
Was
a Danica Patrick,
okay?
Yeah, the racecar driver.
Yeah.
Yeah, and you know, it's Nothing huge or anything like that, but she started talking about it normally they never really say anything
but
that's just one thing 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.
Ron Flipkowski's reporter he does a lot of posts on X and he he wrote this I thought this kind of fine-tudent bottom-line did okay Yeah, the documentary that included his 16 scandal with a Jetson ploy while married and His welfare fraud is all about him liking Trump.
Okay.
Got it another mega victim
Okay,
all right.
Thank you Ron for summing that up for me
Okay.
So did Aaron Rodgers actually sign up with anybody yet?
I think he was thinking about the Steelers.
Steelers, I think.
One other team, but I never heard if they actually came to any kind of agreement for this.
I don't think so.
We could Google it.
They said, yeah, Aaron Rodgers has not affirmatively told the Steelers he's signing.
There you go.
It's not confirmed yet.
He hasn't signed to anyone yet.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I guess they still have
a lot of time.
Steelers fans want him around.
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 know?
Be happy with your millions and go away.
Yeah, why does he
need any more?
Go back to the cave somewhere in Arizona and think about your naval.
Go ahead.
Hit the sports show circuit, if you want.
Yeah, get on the Pat McAfee show.
No, 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 really unusual.
Ice deported an Iraqi vet and not just any veteran in the U.S.
military.
Okay.
This guy has, uh, has an incredible past.
Let's listen to, uh, this.
Okay.
is now deported and detained in El Salvador.
Where is your line?
This makes no fucking 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 dealing with, uh, Kilmar.
Jose needs to be home now.
This is crazy.
This is not American.
This is fascism.
That's true.
That's what it's all about.
And how about that raid on, uh, representative, uh, um, where is
that?
Yeah.
There was,
yes.
Um, okay.
Keep searching.
I know.
You've got it in
there.
To rate on his office, they thought they
were a US
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 filled it out.
It comes up filled out.
So you
just make changes where the changes are needed.
Now
they make you fill out the whole form over
again.
And this time
twice a year.
Then
you
have to work 80 hours a month.
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 the 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 health care.
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 the cares about healthcare, I can reassure you that healthcare, 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 of those benefits being taken away?
No, I mean, obviously my goal is to not do anything that damages Medicaid.
Right.
Right.
Exactly.
Every single one of those Republicans just voted to damage and dramatically cut Medicaid.
Every single one.
There you go hmm 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're 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
really worse certainly around the All right, okay Here's another one and I think we have some time
and we got
about a minute.
Yeah
I've seen that look before.
Don, you've got it down.
I'm sorry, man.
That's okay.
That's all right.
You're keeping your eye on the clock and that's good.
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It's 6.52.
Temperatures in the mid 50s this morning.
We'll get into the mid 80s later on today.
It's gonna 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,
especially.
Well, last night we closed all the windows.
It was so strong.
I started coughing.
I was laying in bed.
I'm going.
I'm thinking, no, no, I got to close the windows.
I can't do this.
You
can't take it anymore.
Yeah,
like it was kind of nice because
it's
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On the
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Right.
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You know, we've got the leap blower guys out there again this
morning.
One of them almost walked right into the path of the street sweeper, right at that corner over there.
I was watching it as it happened, trying to warn
them.
But
it's 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.
No
kidding.
They're banning them.
Yep.
They don't want them around.
They add to the pollution of obviously a noise pollution.
Yeah, noise.
So the battery operated.
Leaf
blowers
are the ones to go with.
That's the way to go, right?
So just a little tip there from...
Just ask John.
Okay.
Do we know if those are gas powered leaf bows?
Obviously.
They're very loud.
They're pretty loud.
Yeah.
If we can hear them with the closed
windows.
They should have the headphones on.
Yeah.
All right.
I want to get to this.
This is a daily show cut.
John Stewart, I believe, is talking about Doge.
Certainly, it is actually the heart of waste and abuse.
So let's listen to this.
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 not.
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?
Essentially.
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.
There you go.
Good stuff.
Wow.
You know, they presented that on a daily show.
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
Yeah.
Pretty much says it all as well.
Well, and Elon has left the building, right?
He's no longer a part of the White House operations there.
You know, away he goes.
Off into the
sunset.
With his chainsaw.
And I'm sure that Tesla really wants him
back.
Right.
Well, he's got to he's got to you know, make some corrections there.
Tesla's been struggling for a few months.
I think a few corrections.
Hmm.
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-bound on erasing mothers?
It's disrespectful and absurd.
No deporting mothers from their babies.
There you go.
That's uh, wow, he's
pretty upset
about he's really upset
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
Tiffany.
OK, well, we'll keep track of that.
Tom wants to run for governor.
Does he really?
That's why he's
complaining
so loudly lately.
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I'm
fascinated by this post on X of a celestial object.
I
showed it to you.
It's like
a big pink red ball in the sky.
Right.
And the person wrote, I just love this.
Breaking news, a mysterious massive red celestial object is leaving Florida residents confused as they upload footage of the moon and the sunset as a bright red circular object, which some viewers claim to be the second sun, while many viewers believe the object they see is simply our sun.
The actual sun.
Well, it does look very odd
circular as well.
Yeah.
Well, there you go.
But it is interesting.
It's a kind of a big pink moon is what it or sun rather what it is.
Yeah.
Boris,
you want something to add to that?
Yeah, it's only in Florida, right?
Only in Florida.
Only ever happens in Florida.
Right.
Only in Florida.
You
can't see it otherwise.
Things will always
look different in Florida.
Yes, they do.
different perspective completely.
Well, let's get to Joni Ernst.
She
had a talent haul recently and the crowd got a blatantly responsive take from Joni.
Well, she kind of said something off the cuff and it didn't go over well,
right?
No.
Well, yeah, when the crowd says people will die because of the Medicaid cuts and
SNAP cuts, Ernst
had this totally amazing response.
So let's listen.
to what she said.
So when we're talking about the corrections in this reconciliation bill, again, it's corrections of overpayments and people that have not been eligible for these programs by law as it is currently written.
So when you are arguing, when you are arguing about illegals that are receiving Medicaid benefits, 1.4 million, 1.4, they're not, they are not eligible.
So they will be coming off.
So we, people are not, well, we all are going to die.
I
was not expecting
that at the end there.
I don't think anybody was, but they just put it right out
there.
They already have a new mega hat, red hat.
Do they really?
Well, we're all going to die on it.
Gotta get me one of those.
So so what's the follow-up?
Well the
follow-up obviously she had to you know
say something
say something about what she had said just off the cuff She did her best Karen impression with this totally psycho non-apology.
I want you to wait for it.
Let's play this cut
Hello everyone, I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall
See, I was in the process of answering a question that had been asked by an audience member when
a
woman who was extremely distraught screamed out from the back corner of the auditorium, people are going to die.
And I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes,
We are all going to perish from this earth So I apologize and I'm really really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the Tooth Fairy as well But for those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you to embrace
My Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
That's quite sincere.
Nothing
sells
Jesus more than making fun of people dying from starvation and disease.
She threw the tooth fairy under the
bus.
On top of everything else, right?
That's just another curveball.
mentioning this story because first of all, Joni Ernst is nuts.
And second of all, she doesn't really have any kind of compassion for human beings at all.
Apparently.
Yes.
A sociopath, another one.
But the reaction on X was just fantastic.
And
I want
everybody to, you know, think of their best Bible verse, okay?
Because many, many did think of their Bible verses when it came to, you know,
supporting Jesus.
Really?
Yeah.
Here's one.
One of my favorite Bible stories is the one where that leper came to Jesus asking for healing and Jesus said, why bother?
We're all going to die.
You
know, I don't remember that Bible.
I remember that.
I
was a little surprised by that.
I asked the pastor what he was talking about.
Here's another one, or when he told the multitudes who came to hear him speak, you don't need no stinkin' loaves and fishes, get a job.
So that's another Bible verse.
Don't remember, it was a long time
ago.
I know, it's a long
time since Sunday school.
I haven't read it for a while.
How about this, my favorite is when the starving man asked Jesus to teach him how to fish so he could feed his family and Jesus said, sorry, but the Republicans kick me off Medicaid and I can no longer afford any fishing poles.
True story, true story.
Okay, all right.
How about this?
And lo, Jesus told the crowd,
Your poverty has angered the Lord.
How about this?
Yes, that was ludicrous 420.
Ludicrous
420.
Okay.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
And it sounds like a Bible passage to ludicrous.
I see where you're going.
Mark is well versed in Bible verses.
Yes, I'm sure he is.
What do you
got for us today here on the show?
Let's go to the phones.
Okay.
I feel I shouldn't need to remind folks about Matthew 25, what was 35 through 41, that what was most important was supposed to be taking care of each other.
That's the most important thing Jesus laid out to us.
That's your ticket to heaven, not excessive prayers and making sure everybody knows who you are by making your loud and rambunctious prayers.
That you actually commented on that as not being the right thing to do.
but let's remember that you know dickens to comment on this and you know the uh... with the second spirit actually said you know told uh... screws the unreformed scrooge when he had reminded him of his comment about surplus population just better to die and you know
exactly right
and uh... you know the spirit said remember you know scrooge that you might be part of that surplus population and uh... good old joanie urst i mean that she uh...
as health care for life now.
I mean, because she's served in, you know, that she's served in the Senate and that, you know, no matter what happens with her, you know, that she's going to keep getting up.
She's got her covered.
That's what makes me angry.
You know, we're paying for their health insurance, but they're keeping health insurance away from us.
That's the deal.
I mean, it's cheaper to keep people healthy.
then it is for them to get sick and then we have to take care of it then.
Yeah, exactly.
That's true.
Thanks, brother.
Mark, thank you for that call.
Let's go to Dick on the next line there.
Before we
get to more Bible verses
here,
as suggested by ex-users.
Okay.
Dick, good morning.
Go ahead.
I've got another Bible one.
Only the filthy rich will inherit the earth.
Yes.
That was always one of my
favorite ones.
Right.
Pretty much there.
Oh, you know, I'm old.
Yeah, that's a game plan.
Yeah.
My buddy, you saw he say their whole thing is hooray for me and F you.
That's right.
That's what
they're about.
There was one that said Jesus pulled out a marker and made the eye of the needle a little bit larger.
Is that right?
I don't remember that one.
Well, okay.
Dick, thank you for that phone call.
Thank you,
Dick.
Here's another one.
My favorite Bible story is where Jesus taxed his Israeli brethren into poverty and government dependency to do it.
Now, you might have missed that part of it, but in here, Jesus, what do you think I am?
The tooth fairy?
I remember that as one
of
the more stunning responses from Jesus.
This tooth fairy thing keeps coming up.
I know it.
I didn't realize that.
And here's another one.
My favorite Bible story is where Jesus pardons the money changers and suggests that the needle eyes need to be radically resized.
And
there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down to him and saying unto him,
If thou wiltst, thou's can make me clean, and Jesus saith unto him, if you have verified your low income, and are aged between 19 and 64, and oh, have you completed 80 hours of work this month?
Again.
Keeps going.
Was that the King James version of the Bible, or was that a different version?
That was the Trump version of the Bible.
Yes.
See, that's the difference.
It makes perfect sense now.
And
when the crowds were hungry, he chose to only feed the wealthy attendees.
Or this, did Jesus tell the leper to leave a note for the tooth fairy?
The tooth fairy thing, that's going to have some shelf life.
It's going to follow her around for a while.
Wow.
I
think so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
OK.
Well, you know, just sometimes you just read through the comments to some of these more ludicrous stories.
Well, I understand.
Yes.
Ludacris 420,
my favorite Bible verse.
That's all good.
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Am I pronouncing that correctly?
Yep, very good.
Adam, good to have you here.
I was going to say, for anyone who was a baseball fan, my cousin Gene Braupender played for the Braes.
Oh, that was way back.
Yeah, that was way
back.
OK.
And Adam, you are an activist for disabled folks, correct?
Tell us a little bit about that.
How long have you been doing that and what's that all about?
Well, I've been doing it for several years.
I've been doing it ever since I was about 18 or 19.
But the type of activism that I do is advocate for people with disabilities.
For example, all types of disabilities, I advocate for different kinds of legislation, both at the federal and both.
the federal and state, such as advocating against the Medicaid cuts that Congress recently proposed.
At the state level, I advocate for policies that would help disability communities such as more mental health funding, Medicaid expansion, and more money for caregivers.
who take care of the disabled and frail elderly.
I think we met you at one of the night markets here right across the street, correct?
Correct.
So you've been doing this for a while.
Is it just you doing this or do you have an organization that you work
with?
Well, I work with two different organizations, the type of stuff.
I'm co-chair of the Disability Caucus through the Democratic Party.
of Wisconsin is by getting the word out about the caucus and attending state conventions, proposed resolutions such as make Medicaid like so people won't lose Medicaid.
And that would help the disabled community.
It first must come from the county level example, Dane County, then move up to the
congressional district conventions, there's eight different congressional districts across Wisconsin, and then the state convention, which is held every year around the state.
And then there is the disability network through the National Association of Social Workers.
I usually have monthly meetings
with other members of the organization to discuss topics concerning concerning the disability community and attend the annual conference that is usually held in October of every year and report what the disability network is up to to other social workers around the
state.
So if people want to find out more, maybe help you volunteer to do some of this work, what's the best way to contact you or one of the organizations?
Well, the best way is to go on the Democratic Party of Wisconsin website for the Disability Network and scroll through the caucuses, and then you'll see my email and my contact information there.
Through the Disability Network,
you can go on the National Association of Social Workers Wisconsin chapter, but you have to be a member of the National Association of Social Workers.
For any social workers out there, please look at the disability network, see if it's your liking, and then you can either contact me directly or contact
Nadir, he's the Membership and Communications Director.
All right.
Well, very good, Adam.
We appreciate you coming in this morning, and it's good to see you again.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me on.
I really appreciate it.
I know disability
Issues our broad topic.
If you ever need me to come back for a longer segment, let me know.
All right.
Definitely.
Very good.
All
right,
Adam.
You're doing great work, Adam.
Thank you.
Yes, we really appreciate it.
Thank
you.
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All right, you know, I'd be remiss if I didn't get to another Joni Ernst story.
There's
more?
Senator Joni Ernst, yes, yes, yes, yes.
She wants Trump to do anything he wants.
That's why people voted for him, right?
Right.
So he could do anything he wanted.
But Megas keep telling us that.
Well, hey.
They voted for him.
This is what they wanted.
Yep.
Uh, well, not everything, but anyway, uh, you might have heard about this story and elderly former naval line officer completely tore into her, uh, about Trump.
And, uh, this is, uh, cut number five, Joni Ernst at a town hall.
My name is Harrison Cass.
I'm a former naval line officer.
We clearly have a president.
who is destroying the federal government.
You've sat back and done nothing.
We're still seeing on the Senate, it looks like there's a little gumption to fight back against the new dictator.
But this has been like a Nazi Blitzkrieg and you folks have sat and done nothing.
So my question is this.
Are you afraid of Trump?
Are you corrupt like Trump?
Or are you just at the point you don't care anymore and that's why you don't do anything?
Thank
you for your service.
I do appreciate that Obviously, I I don't agree because I don't think our country is being destroyed on the other hand I see I See that our country our country is being with the federal government and because I've worked on these squeal issues for so long, which is the new
which is, I'm not squealing, ma'am.
Yes, you are.
You're wondering what the heck was a squeal?
What's
that about?
I was wondering about that myself.
It is at her website.
She gives out squeal awards to those whining about her attacks on those committing waste, fraud, and abuse as she sees it.
Now, this is this is something she's squealing about here.
So far, she's tracked down.
Now, these are supposed to be bad things, right?
She's tracked on waste of taxpayer dollars on risky research, you know, that medical research that is pretty risky.
How about teleworking bureaucrats, you know, people working from home?
Boy, she's tracked that one down.
Empty government buildings.
Well, you can blame Doge for that by it.
I don't know.
Or if you're working from home, maybe it's better that way.
Maybe we found out something new during COVID that might work out.
Or this is another thing she tracked down.
Billion dollar boondoggles.
Hmm, okay, and tax dodging get this tax dodging IRS agents Not the wealthy that are dodging taxes, but it's the
actual
employees themselves who are not
paying their
taxes on time and boy She was right on top that Joanie here, and she's really working for us Those
are all a part of her squeal report or what it will squeal their squeal award.
Okay, like this
because she you know used to
Race pigs.
I don't
know really seriously.
Yeah, I didn't know that I've only been here for two weeks.
Yeah, but I've never seen so many Johnny Ernst things on this page right now There's so many just
from
just
from her.
We've never talked about her on the show before but She bragged about castrating pigs.
Okay, and
that was sure
that was her big talking point
By the way, that got her elected.
Isn't
it
really?
Are you serious?
That's an
appealing subject for a lot of Megas out there.
Wow.
Okay.
She can do that.
She's from Iowa, right?
Well, Christie, no, I'm, you know, killed a pet.
So, yeah.
There are certain things that attract the mega.
All right.
Now, I never, you know, I don't read a lot of articles on this show.
But I'm gonna read one here.
This is about Ron Johnson.
Dumb Ron Johnson, I used to call him.
I haven't
called him that lately.
But I never talked to him.
I never talk about the position that he has in Congress because it's embarrassing.
So I just call him Ron Johnson, okay?
And I call it the tangled mind of Ron Johnson.
And this is from Ruth Conniff, great writer, and she's out there at the Wisconsin Examiner and she wrote this.
I thought this is really good stuff.
Johnson hardly agreed that everyone wants a pristine environment.
He said, I mean, I love the outdoors, he declared.
But then he added, we shouldn't spend a dime on climate change.
We'll adapt.
We're
very
adaptable.
Wow.
Okay.
How are we adapting to the smoke coming over from Canada with all these fires every year?
Is that part of climate change?
I mean, it's going to be awfully dry up there, apparently.
Yeah, I'm
wondering what outgrowth on our face we'll have adapting
to masking.
He also asserted repeatedly that Medicaid is rife with waste, fraud, and abuse.
Slashing Medicaid will be easy, he's suggested,
since
nobody would be harmed other than the grifters who are sucking down the waste, fraud and abuse.
Grifters, really?
The Georgetown University School of Public Policy dismantled those claims and concluded, this premise is false and the thinking is dangerously wrong.
How about this a college student in a badger care recipient living with lupus Said it was scary to realize she could lose her Medicaid coverage She said to me this is life or death when she found out about the Medicaid cuts.
It shocked her I cried she said I felt fear and dread this is what we're doing to the American public
This is
the American way.
These
are true
Americans.
These are patriots Johnson replied but again
You know after hearing the story about this woman with lupus losing her coverage.
Yeah, he says but again Obamacare expanded the waste, you know when a lot of these people ought to be really getting a job Okay, so the bottom line according to Ruth Conniff is so when asked what he can tell his constituent who are afraid they're about to lose life-saving health care his answer is simple and unapologetic Get a job
OK, well, that's a
big drop.
I had to just pass it along.
I mean, this is Ron Johnson.
So I thought he was recently, you know, in the last week or so talking about how we're not going to cut Medicaid that much.
And we're not going to.
That's too.
The house has gone too far.
The Senate's going to, you know, cut.
We're not going to do that.
But now he's wavering
on that.
No, he wants to cut more.
He does.
Yeah, this wasn't enough coming out of the house.
He
wants to cut
even more.
And he doesn't care about people losing their Medicaid.
He has his health care.
By the way, I
have this big expose in Johnson, which we never got to on the show.
But just to kind of touch on it briefly before we get to it in some other day, some other morning, his family has
businesses in China.
So they're making money in China with their own businesses.
Now, he can bash China all he wants, but he's got businesses there.
His family's making a lot of dough there.
And by the way, they asked Trump to take it easy on their business that they have in China.
Okay?
Yeah, yeah.
No tariffs.
Do you get a little tariff exemption maybe?
That's a little, you know.
Ron Johnson actually said we can't afford this tax cut that's in the bill now believe this or not he wants more tax cuts he wants bigger tax cuts but in this case because of the bill spending still too much money for him and he wants more cuts in the Senate bill this is he actually came right out and said this and I can't believe it the press should be jumping on this this is a Ron Johnson cut 15 let's listen
okay
Sorry, give me one second.
Okay, get it going here Run Johnson the work requirements for Medicaid don't kick in until
2029
What's with that?
Precisely.
What's with that?
Again, this is a game they play.
They get a score, and again, this is like with the, I would gladly pay a Tuesday for hamburger today.
And this bill's primarily about tax cuts.
We can't afford to cut taxes when we're running over $2 trillion a year deficits for the next 10 years as far as I can see.
All right.
He just said we can afford the tax cuts.
I would jump on this
if I were to
press.
It's a big issue right here.
And I love the fact that for many of those who are unfamiliar with Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons, he quoted Wimpy about the...
Yeah, the hamburgers.
Gladly pay you Tuesday
for a hamburger today.
Yeah, that was the famous line.
Wow.
Yeah.
All right.
Nice reference point there.
Love that.
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Yeah, we don't hear a lot of Popeye references.
We got to bring those back.
Yeah, we should bring those back.
They're poignant.
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Did I pronounce that correctly?
Galante.
Galante.
I'm sorry.
Galante.
Yeah.
Hi.
You're a filmmaker.
Hi.
Thanks for coming in this morning.
Thanks for having me.
You've got a new movie coming out on June 7th.
You're previewing this movie, right?
I do.
Tell us about it.
What's the name of this?
The movie is called Sanguine Teeth on a Driftless Road.
And it is a horror comedy movie, but I say horror loosely.
It's not scary at all, but,
you know.
Is it a slasher
movie?
It's not really a slasher, either.
OK, all right.
But some people do get their heads
cut
off.
So, you know,
OK.
But it's borderline slasher, then.
So is this, I mean, would you bring the family to this?
Or is it too bloody?
I would not.
OK.
It's rated R, for
sure.
So what do you mean by sanguine teeth?
Well, it's a movie about four vampires that go on a road trip to a cabin in the woods and all of the... That sounds like fun already.
Right, things that ensue during that adventure.
It's quite an adventure.
Did you make this film around here?
Did you shoot it here?
Yeah, I shot some of it in Madison, some of it in Milwaukee, and then we spent six days at a cabin in the woods in DeSoto, Wisconsin.
And then we also shot a couple of scenes in the town called Harmony, Minnesota and in Iowa as well.
Okay.
Now, do you have a hard time finding actors to play some of these roles, especially, you know, vampires at this point?
No.
People love to
hear
this, right?
There are so many actors out
there.
Oh my goodness.
I had like 600 people apply to be in this week.
600?
Yeah.
You're kidding.
How did we miss that call?
I don't know.
Yeah, there's a lot of hungry actors out there.
Yeah.
Okay.
So the film previews,
June 7th.
Yeah, June 7th at 3 p.m.
and you can get tickets on my website, MarshmelloNapom.com.
It's just like a little link at the top of the page.
MarshmelloNapom.com.
What theater are we looking at for
this?
It's at the Marcus Palace Cinema.
Oh, okay.
In Sun Prairie.
In Sun Prairie.
Right.
Okay.
Three o'clock.
3 o'clock.
June 7th.
Okay.
Well, it's great that they're able to do that for you as well.
You know, Marcus Theater is opening up for local filmmakers.
That's
great to hear.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you've made, is this your debut film or have you
made some films before this?
This is my second film.
I made an extremely low budget film before this as sort of like, let's see if we can do this.
Yeah.
What was that film called?
Sweet Killing Machines.
Okay.
So you're kind of in the horror genre?
Actually, no, that's more
of
an art house comedy about two hitmen and it's like their night before a hit that they have and they're...
They're put in a hotel room together.
So not a lot of scenes, not a lot of locations, just very simple rudimentary entry level thing that you tried,
right?
There are some other, you know, locations and scenes, but I would say, you know,
yeah, pretty
simple.
80% of that movie is in our hotel room.
So how do you make the films look like a movie?
You know, sometimes you look like home movies, sometimes you look like films, sometimes.
Well,
lighting is kind of one of my favorite things.
So I think, you know,
lighting
really
makes the mood of, and then,
you
know, knowing how to use a camera.
I mean, you know, a lot of filmmakers are, you know, from Wisconsin and one of the more interesting ones I think was like Michigan Monster, the guy who did that.
Have you seen that one at all?
I have not.
Or hundreds of beavers was that I believe
that's another movie.
Yeah.
Yeah, do you get involved with entering into these these film?
Festivals that kind of thing.
Yeah The last film the first one I did that won like 37
awards.
Yeah, and then this one I you know I just started submitting but it's it's won five things
so
far in some smaller festivals and then I submitted
to mostly bigger festivals this time.
And a lot of those don't happen until September or October.
Oh, okay.
So I will find out.
So do you have any movies coming up after this one?
Do you have some ideas for future films?
I do.
I'm shooting another movie this summer called, What Have We Won?
And it stars Robert Lassardo in it.
So.
Do you need any... What is that
about?
It's about two sort of like...
Happy-go-lucky idiots that win the lottery and move to Montana to pan for gold.
God,
we'd be great for that part.
When's your casting call for this?
Because that sounds like it's right up our alley.
Anyway, well, Austin, thank you for coming in.
Austin Galante, your film previews June 7th at the Marcus Theater in Sun Prairie.
We wish you all the best with that.
If people want to find out more about anything that you're up to, how do they do that?
Uh, just go to marshmallow napalm.com.
You can see other stuff that I've done.
And then also there's a link for the tickets.
Tickets are only 10 bucks, but there are only about 40 left.
So might want to talk to Pete
Traba.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Our evening host here on the civic media network will connect you with him.
Awesome.
Thanks for coming in, Austin.
Yeah, thank you for having me so much.
Appreciate it.
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