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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 kind of a big pink moon is what it or sun rather what it is.
Yeah.
Boris, you
otherwise.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Okay.
How about this?
Yes, that was ludicrous 420.
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.
I mean, that you actually commented on that as not being the right thing to do.
but let's remember that dickens had commented on this and you know the uh... with the second spirit actually said you know told uh... screws the unreformed screws when he had reminded him of his comment about surplus population just better to die and
you know exactly
right and uh... the spirit said you remember you know it screws 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 gonna keep getting
She's gotta
I mean, it's cheaper to keep people healthy and...
then it is for them to get sick and then we have to take care of it then.
Mark, thank
I've got another Bible one.
Only the filthy rich will inherit the earth.
Pretty much there.
You know, I'm old.
game plan.
Yeah.
My buddy, you saw he say their whole thing is hooray for me and oh, F you.
That's what
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.
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 nineteen and sixty-four, and oh, have you completed eighty hours of work this month?
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Very good.
I was going to say, for anyone who was a baseball fan, my cousin Gene Broppender played for the Braves.
Oh, that was way back.
Yeah, that was way
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.
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, um, um, make Medicaid, uh, 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, um, 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 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
organizations?
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.
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.
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.
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Thank you.
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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.
The Megas keep telling us that.
Well, hey.
They voted for him.
This is what they wanted.
Well, not everything.
But anyway, you might have heard about this story.
An elderly former naval line officer completely tore into her about Trump.
And this is 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?
first, thank you for your service.
I do appreciate that.
Obviously, I don't agree because I don't think our country is being destroyed.
On the other hand, I see that 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.
You're wondering what the heck is 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 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, but 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.
Okay.
And tax dodging, get this, tax dodging IRS
Agents.
Not the wealthy that are dodging taxes, but it's the 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.
It's fantastic.
Those
now
so much
just
just
by
Isn't it
Are you serious?
That's an
Wow.
Okay.
She can do that.
She's from Iowa, right?
Well, Christy, no, I'm, you know, killed a pet, so.
Oh, 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
But I never talk 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 a 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.
since
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
These are patriots Johnson replied but again
You know after hearing the story about this woman with lupus losing her coverage knew 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 conif 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
Okay.
Well, that's, you know, I had to just pass it along.
This is, this is Ron Johnson.
By the way, I
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.
Really?
No tariffs?
Do you get a little tariff exemption maybe?
That's just 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, 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.
Sorry, give me one second.
don't kick in until 2029
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 Hamgra today.
And this bill is 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.
Nice reference point there.
Love that.
Yes.
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Yeah, you 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?
sorry.
right?
I do.
Tell us about it.
What's the name of this?
The movie's 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,
moving?
It's not really a slasher either.
Okay,
some people do get their heads cut
so... Well,
is it
you mean by sanguine
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.
actors out there.
Oh my goodness.
I had like 600 people apply to be in the world.
600?
You're kidding.
How did we miss that call?
I don't
there's a lot of hungry actors out there.
Yeah.
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.
this?
It's at the Marcus Palace Cinema.
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
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 in their...
They're put in a hotel room together.
right?
There are some other, you know, locations and scenes, but I would say, you know,
80% of that movie is in our hotel room.
lighting is kind of one of my favorite things.
makes the mood of, and then,
know, knowing how to use a camera.
Yeah The last film the first one I did that won like 30 some 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, OK.
I won't find out.
So do you have
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 was that
It's about two sort of like...
I don't know, 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
that?
Just go to MarshmallowNapalm.com.
You can see other stuff that I've done.
And then also, there's a link for the tickets.
Tickets are only $10, but there are only about $40 left,
You
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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