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But it was a good turnout until the rain came and then kind of scared a few people off.
But the rain started right when the parade was starting.
Beautiful.
Really kicking in.
Was that like a lake effect rain?
No, it was a cold front that was pushing through.
Then the rain for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, whatever it was, then everything went back to being okay.
Well, that's good.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Halfway there, I think it was about an hour in, heading to Milwaukee.
My car just gave up, and so the check engine light went on, and then I parked on the side of the interstate.
Wow.
Yeah.
Did you have insurance?
Did you get a
And it was all, as far as I know, it was peaceful.
So.
I didn't say, I mean, it's a big parade.
Yeah.
Oh, is it really a big parade?
Oh, God, yeah, it's huge.
Does it go down the avenue, Wisconsin Avenue?
Over 200 units.
I don't know Wisconsin.
I don't know Milwaukee.
Oh, OK.
So I couldn't give you the parade round.
OK.
know.
A clue?
Yes, I could.
Starts with... In theory, I could tell you that, but I'm not going to.
By the way, want to remind you of...
We have the poll up on the WMDX radio website.
If you go to WMDXradio.com, this is a new thing that we have.
There's a poll there.
And the question on the poll is, what is your favorite summer event in downtown Madison?
And you have your choices of Art Fair on the Square, Farmers Market, Madison Night Market, Concerts on the Square.
By the way, Madison Night Market is this Thursday from five to nine downtown State Street.
We'll be there.
It's gonna be a good time.
And let's see, so far in the poll, the farmer's market is in first place, Madison Night Market second place.
And then it's kind of a tie for third place, Art Fair on the Square and Concerts on the Square.
But you can go there and vote.
Just go to wmdxradio.com, check it out.
And I would like to know your thoughts.
What's your favorite summer event in downtown
rhubarb.
So they spice it up with the
I'm not a fan of rhubarb.
Oh yeah, I got this great rhubarb cake.
rhubarb yellow cake.
It's just unbelievably good and you don't have to do anything at all.
You got to bring that in this week.
Well, no, I'm not going to do that.
I'm not cooking for you guys.
I'm already doing that for two guys at home.
Well, doesn't Anne do some cooking too?
She does almost most of it, but she's working on a book and
What was the name of that Donald Duck movie?
strange little hen.
Why?
wouldn't even fit nowadays.
Republicans have taught that out right away.
Right.
Yeah.
To
this situation in california
right i think this is about a year earlier than i thought marshal law would be uh
you know
throwing out there
told you a while back what his name is and here it is crisis management created crisis and try to manage it and here we are
know and then the best part about all this let's get active duty marines
something.
He was trying to get on the good side of them, so I had suggested that.
wonderful idea.
just get the tanks out like they do in
Yeah.
Yankee
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We have partly cloudy skies this morning.
56 degrees highs in the mid sixties.
23 past the hour.
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Yeah, we had a couple different things that were going on this weekend.
Cows on the concourse was one of them.
We also had Sauk County, Iowa County, Rock County breakfast on Saturday in Richland County on Sunday.
So a lot of running around.
Plus we hosted
mallards game against the wasa woodchucks on saturday night and out there on the mound so yeah definitely uh not not worried about grass growing under my feet right now as far as activity
we've got another big one that starts today not formally necessarily but you guys might even notice that even after either on the air when you guys are heading home there's about 900 FFA students that came into madison early
for their day of service this week the Wisconsin State FFA going to have their 96th annual convention at the Align Energy Center and to do kind of make sure the kids keep their sense of direction on why they're in the FFA about 900 of them came into town early today they are going to be involved in about 13 different projects around Wisconsin everything from picking up trash in the city parks
to going to the Arboretum and helping them pull weeds, spread mulch, stuff like that.
They'll be at the Goodman Community Center at the Ronald McDonald House.
They're also going to be at the Alliance Energy Center.
They want to build 60 beds for children and families in the Madison area.
They're working with sleep in heavenly peace.
They're also going to be collecting twin sheets and pillowcases, stuff to go along with those beds.
And they are going to work as a team
and assemble about 100,000 meal kits for the meals from the heartland.
So we've got a big bunch of kids that are going to be active around the Madison area today.
They've put together, they started this back in 2009.
And since then, just this one day that the kids involved in the FFA dedicate, they've done over 5,000 volunteer hours that they've donated to Madison and the Dane County area just for this one day of service.
Really, it's really cool.
I know my team is going to be following them around today, depending on how the weather treats them.
I mean, sometimes they're at Troy Garden doing things and, you know, it's really a matter of what group put in the request and where the kids want to end or ultimately end up.
But, you know, I bring it up not just because of the volunteer hours, but just stop and think about how much money it costs for these FFA chapters to bring kids in early.
It's transportation.
Uh, people got to get co and then you've got hotel so they don't, they'll start tomorrow and the opening is on Wednesday.
They'll team Thursday morning befo and head back for home.
So l just hope that the D
Slowing down to give back to the community that supports them.
Yeah, I was looking at I looked up before we came on here in the future farmers of America Basically, it's not just for people who want to become farmers or get into agriculture in some way, but it's also a way for them to inspire people to get into teaching You know scientific research all that stuff,
right?
today advisors because remember
If you're in FFA, the teacher has a 12 month contract.
I think I reminded you guys about that before,
when you're involved in FFA, that teacher has got a 12 month contract because they're so busy with the convention, county fairs, et cetera.
And like I said, that's why it's more than just showing animals or being involved on the farm.
It's about food science.
We've got a lot of these teachers that now are team teaching science classes.
back in the high school because there's so much crossover and so much sharing of curriculum really.
So the agriculture instructor a lot of times partners up with the science department and they team teach on a lot of these things too.
you drive past the Alliance Energy Center, you'll see a lot of them in formal dress.
This is one of the groups that still, they actually have courtesy corps that patrols the hall to make sure that the kids are properly dressed.
So black dress pants,
shirt for the ladies, and the blue and gold jacket.
And if you've got an officer medallion or something like that, there's proper ways to display that too.
So when they are at convention, every one of those kids
is in official dress.
Blue FFA jacket, black jeans, black pants, black skirt.
I'll work on it.
Let me see what strings I can pull for
You bet, guys.
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,
Idiocracy.
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All right.
Okay.
All right, let's uh... Idiocracy time.
Oh my God.
do
The guy's a clown.
That's why that's why I play cuts from Trump only because he is so sadly.
Out of touch?
Well, yes.
There are so many choices that I can't actually pick one of them at this moment.
But the thing is, we add him for the humor effect.
And otherwise, but now, I tell you what he's saying and doing in California with immigration is starting to really just really, really make me angry.
In a scary event of all time, he lost by just one percentage point.
I don't know how that happened, but this guy, he's challenging Tammy Baldwin in the lake, you know, a lake dip.
Remember that?
Right, yeah.
He wanted her to go in and have a dip in the lake in the middle of winter.
What a challenge and what a brilliant.
brilliant mind.
Anyway, Eric Havde, multiple sources are saying, and this is according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the talks have included Havde being a part of the administration.
not just a part of the administration.
The administration wants to send them out of the country, which is a great idea.
As a foreign ambassador, please do this for us all.
Now, we haven't seen anything with Eric Hubdy in recent memory only because he lives in California, right?
Wants to run run here in the state now as governor.
So he's gonna be a leading candidate for governor according to the right wing.
This is what qualifies him, living in another state.
Yes, come to Wisconsin and control our state from California.
All right.
Now let's get to Ron Johnson.
When he celebrated Veterans Day.
Okay.
Memorial Day, rather.
This is what he said, we all owe a deep debt of gratitude on the finest among us to serve and sacrifice over one million pay the ultimate price to defend our freedom on this Memorial Day, let us honor them.
So the thing is, Ron Johnson is a sociopath.
His words are just words.
As ex-poster Kid Riles explained about Ron Johnson and his wonderful sentiment, you worship a rapist who called the fallen
suckers and losers.
You spent our nation's birthday in Russia.
You moved your family business to China.
You voted against health care for veterans.
Your words mean nothing.
You sicken me.
And I have to concur.
I just put a fine line on it.
not for the Johnson family This is what Bruce Murphy from Urban Milwaukee wrote recently Johnson himself be benefited from a family connected companies cozy deal
with China, according to a story in The Guardian.
Johnson made $57 million in income in his first 10 years in office and that wealth was boosted by another company owned and managed by his family in China, acquired businesses in China and took tens of millions of dollars in loans from the bank of China.
This is the guy who's working against China, right?
In one case, the company run by Johnson's family sued
the US government to try to press them for softer trade relations with Beijing.
So putting it in perspective, Johnson is making a lot of money from China.
57 million.
Yes.
Big time.
This
What a
Well,
Mike Johnson argues Congress needs stock trading to support their families due to frozen salaries.
See there, the Congress members aren't making enough.
The senators might be the ones making all the dough because as we know 57 million dollars this first 10 years not bad.
Somebody should talk to Ron.
Anyway,
He says, at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family.
To take care of their family, she's pleading with us.
Please help us take care of our family.
Poor things.
And yet capital trades, which tracks congressional trading, has already revealed some startling numbers.
Freshman representative Rob Breznanahan, who introduced a bill to ban Congress from stock trading, made over $5.6 million with 490 trades since he was elected last November.
This guy wants to stop stock trading, but
in the
Yeah.
OK.
All right.
It's all about the money.
Well, that's what it's all about.
Yeah.
I always like comments from Joe and not the Joe that we talked to on the phone here on the show.
But this is Joe on X. And she writes this about the administration and how dumb it is.
Trump's pick to head FEMA didn't know we had a hurricane season.
His head of homeland security doesn't know what habeas corpus is His head of the department of education who thinks AI is a steak sauce doesn't know what the Tulsa race massacre was and his social security commissioner didn't even know we had a social security
All the while, his head of the Department of Defense is drunk texting war plans.
His head of Health and Human Services is citing studies that don't exist.
His head of transportation won't fly in or out of at least one of the airports due to safety concerns.
And the guy he tapped to lead an 18 million dollar terror prevention team is a 22 year old former grocery clerk and Zero government experience with any kind
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Even though they'll probably get big heads and won't want some farm boy from the middle of nowhere on their show
Okay, I got I got a web wisdom I thought was kind of a way a good way to start this off and this is It sums up kind of what everybody's thinking I know what I'm thinking and most of us have been thinking this I'm sure so why don't we just play this isn't Matt
Superman that's the guy and this is his his thought.
That's
a
Okay, so they told you we were getting invaded, right?
They told you we were under attack and that our country was getting taken over follow me here.
They told you
that it was the immigrants sending their worst, their crime lords, their gang members, their drug dealers, their grapeists.
They told you all of this stuff, and as much as we tried to tell you that it's simply not the case, this is simply an over-exaggeration, this is fear-mongering, this is race-baiting.
Look at the data, look at the statistics, compare and contrast.
No, it was easier to follow the fear-mongering, the race-baiting.
It was easier to take the bait and to hate.
And how do they prove their point?
By making sure they were crashing elementary school graduations?
to get parents by making sure they were interrupting the immigration process at the immigration offices to collect the people trying to do it the right way to make sure they were busting into kitchens and workplaces and home depots so they could scoop you up right before you were really knee deep in some work.
You realize there's a reason they have to cover their face and you realize there's a reason cities are getting torn apart as we speak.
Because if they were actually doing this the right way, regardless of whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, they would be getting celebrated.
These ICE agents would be getting treated like superheroes if they were actually busting up crime rings and getting away criminals and getting away Grapist and getting away gang members and saving and cleaning up our streets.
They would be getting celebrated.
Instead, they're doing some of the most unethical, brutal and inhumane operations and tactics.
And it's sickening.
That is it.
It's sickening and I've got a letter by the way This is a an interesting letter from the co-founder of latinas For trump and we'll get to that in a moment.
So first I want to get to the post that Donald Trump made untrue social and This is what he wrote governor Gavin Newscombe and mayor Bass
should apologize to the people of Los Angeles for the absolutely horrible job that they have done.
And this now includes the ongoing LA riots.
These are not protesters.
They are troublemakers and insurrectionists.
Remember, no masks.
I guess, you know, he can declare laws,
I
Is that a lie?
I'm quite sure.
Anyway, the Florida State Senator, Ilania Garcia,
The co-founder of Latinas for Trump issued a sharp review of President Trump.
This is what she wrote.
This is not what we voted for.
I have always supported Trump, real Donald Trump, through thick and thin.
However, this is unacceptable.
and inhumane.
I understand the importance of deporting criminal aliens, but what we are witnessing are arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings, in many cases, with credible fear of prosecution and persecution, all driven by Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation goal.
Um, she says this undermines the sense of fairness and justice that the American people value.
Boy, I mean, that's
Yeah.
But I hope it don't get injured with getting hit by spit.
Wow.
Sounds very dangerous.
Yes, real, real dangerous.
How about this?
2000 National Guard troops is a little bit of overkill.
We've mentioned that.
Gavin Newsom says purposely inflammatory.
The administration described protesters as lawless rioters.
Caroline Levitt, liar.
Caroline Lyre, should we call her that?
Said Trump called in the guardsmen to address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.
To fester?
What, one or two days is festering, right?
I don't know.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hexner, of course, says he's going to call out the Marines if this continues.
Oh boy.
And let's see here.
Let's play this next cut.
Cut 89.
Can you play cut 89 real quick?
All right, here we go.
Let's play this.
This is Mike Johnson.
The active duty Marines there at Camp Pendleton, there by San Diego, are on high alert and could be mobilized.
Could we really see?
active-duty Marines on the streets of Los Angeles?
I don't think that's heavy-handed.
I think
an important signal.
You don't think sending Marines into the streets of an American city is heavy-handed?
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