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We're truly
It's a partly cloudy start this morning.
I think we'll see some sunshine at times.
A little hazy.
a little hazy and maybe a sprinkle or two, but not much.
Right now, the official WMDX thermometer right outside our window, the old Mercury is saying 55 degrees.
What is your Samsung WMDX watch telling us?
It's 56 degrees, but then again, it's on my warm wrist.
Could it count for another degree or two?
I don't know.
I don't know if it really works that way, but I wonder if they tested it out.
I don't know, maybe.
But I have 76 today.
Oh, well, let's see what the
lottery
Oh, wow.
our
great to see all the people stopping by the book.
I'm wearing a shirt
My son wanted to get a sewing machine.
Is that right?
You know, because he's into superheroes, he wanted to make his own costume.
So he wanted to buy a sewing machine and I thought, what?
You know, I had the image of the old sewing machines and you know, I found out that they're all digital now and they can do these things almost by themselves.
It's almost robotic.
So you can do a lot of stuff.
because
and dissolved the company, which is really killing everybody.
There really is no place to go now because Joanne Fabrics had everything.
They really did.
They had zippers.
Have you ever broke a zipper?
They had snaps.
They had all these different things that you could do and a lot of yarn.
Mm-hmm and and and fabrics, you know, I did you just can't get that stuff any place else Well, who's the
Yeah, so it makes sense Also in 1971 New York Times began the publication of the Pentagon Papers Danielsburg.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, and then June 13 1983 Pioneer 10 made history as the first human
human-made object to leave the solar system, man-made.
Oh, satellite that's going.
Yeah, the space probe.
I feel like a lot of this history is always having to do with space.
Yeah.
I'm,
Yeah, well, he fit that role.
Amazing you know he started off as the human torch in a fantastic for film But you know there were two of those But I thought when they picked him as Captain America thought why did they take him away from being the human torch?
But man did he fit the Captain America role really wow now he's playing villains in a lot of movies the gray man I think was the latest one and what a great movie.
Oh my gosh, yeah
Yeah,
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Don't on me as I was looking at the markets this morning
Everything started unfolding in with Israel and Iran and it's nothing but triple-digit lows and and then all of a sudden I'm like, oh, yeah Friday the 13th.
Here we go.
What a way to start.
Oh my gosh
So well, let's talk about you know some of the topics that are really going on and in your industry and that is the dairy the Dean County Dairy breakfast everybody looks forward to this one.
This is a big event tomorrow morning at the Hinkley dairy farm.
Is that correct?
Yeah, you bet It's gonna be a couple thousand people where usually see between five and six thousand people that attend the Dean County breakfast on the farm and for another second time
The Hinchley family in Cambridge are going to be hosting and I love this dairy.
This has been basically not constructed, but it really fits well with education.
The Hinchleys have a lot of school kids that end up coming through their farming operation.
And one of the reasons why is they use robotic technology to milk their cows.
Now, when I talked to Tina, you know, that's not a small investment for a farm their size.
to make.
I think that Tina and maybe around 200 to 250 cows.
So you really gotta push the hard to make sure it's working, but it is.
And more importantly, not only do the cows respond well and go up in milk production because they have the opportunity to get milked when they want to, not when the farmer has to.
It also gives a quality of life to Dwayne and Tina.
I mean, I've known these guys pretty much their whole farming career and it's funny.
how rested and relaxed they look now when I see them out as opposed to always looking at the watch.
When do we have to leave to get home for chores?
And the other thing about the Dane County Dairy Breakfast, if you join us tomorrow morning, they start serving at seven.
And those robots will be milking cows.
Now I'm sure I can imagine what's going through you guys' heads.
Yes.
When you think about robotics.
Yes.
Think about the
Yeah, exactly.
The one running around with an apron on.
Well, this is not, this is not that case at all.
This is literally if it's just a square box kind of where the cow walks in, it's all automated as far as using laser levels.
So it knows exactly where the cow is standing, and it knows exactly where her udder, where the milk comes out is all four teats.
They've got laser levels on it so that the milking machine basically, once that cow walks in, it cleans her, then it puts the milking machine on her, milks her, and then it disinfects her or cleans her when she's leaving.
And for that, she's rewarded with a couple cubes of high protein feed while she's standing there.
And
remember, they decide.
they decide when they want to get milk.
So some of these cows have gone up by, you know, literally double milk production because instead of waiting for the farmer when they feel like they need to be milked, they go in and they just continue to, you know, grow their milk production.
So it's very cool.
It's something that you'll be able to see tomorrow.
if you join us at the Dane County breakfast on the farm.
And again, like I said, be patient.
We're still kind of putting together all the volunteer forces because of everything else that's going on.
I think I mentioned you guys last week, there's 16 different june dairy events going on tomorrow around Wisconsin.
That's just Saturday 16.
So
That's right.
And I love it.
I love to watch them because there are cows just like people that will try to game the system.
So they'll go milk.
And then all of a sudden you see them literally just like kids in a school lunch line go right back around and follow the next one in because they really, really going to get a feed tube.
Yep.
Absolutely.
It's just hilarious.
And there are some that are so catty.
They will go to another milking machine just to try to get that feed.
But they are wearing a little bit of an electronic collar that's designed for milk production tracking.
But it also says, uh-uh, you've had your treat for right now.
Move on.
They make sure that.
But it is funny how there's some of them that are so smart on how to game the system and they know what's going on.
They will stand in line, literally.
They stand in line waiting for the next one to get out of the machine so that they can go in if it's, you know, certain times of the day.
So kind of looks for the animal patterns that those robotic milkers that you get to the farm.
It's just hilarious to see how they.
They love it.
They really do love it.
They'll stand there if you don't get them out of the way.
They are.
It is true.
They are.
Yeah, we're probably going to run out of time, but we can talk more Monday.
So what's what's spawning this is the world high market price for butter.
Right now, US butter is about a dollar a pound cheaper than the world butter market.
And what that's forcing is for us to change up how we do butter.
In the United States, our average butter has 80% milk fat, right?
The world market wants 82% butter fat.
Now,
It doesn't seem like a big deal, but actually it can kill deals.
It can kill deal.
So some of our U.S.
butter producers have gotten savvy.
It's not hard to increase butter fat.
We've got plenty of it around us.
So our U.S.
butter makers are doing artisan batches at 82 percent that they can then market for a premium on the world marketplace.
been going on and it looks like it's going to keep going on.
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.
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We can duck and cover.
There's a fallout shelter right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
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For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
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I think you should think safety.
That's what I'm thinking here.
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Yeah.
All right.
Well, let's get to, you know, something that.
The Magus have realized that maybe this wasn't the best idea and that is having this proof of citizenship law in place So yeah, Texas legislators Surprisingly ended the 2025 session this week without passing a proof of citizenship bill one reason for the bill's failure advocates say Republicans were worried that married women rural voters
and GOP-leaning groups might be hurt by it.
I think that includes everybody that votes for Republicans.
Really?
Yeah.
That's what they're saying?
Yeah, they're, you know, they're a little reluctant now to pass something as ridiculous as that.
You know, there's no escape hatch.
You know, once you have a birth certificate, there's not like an argument you can make in front of somebody saying, but now I have a married name.
Well, it doesn't, you know.
Yeah.
It doesn't prove anything.
So that's not a good thing.
You know, I tried to play off the fact that it's going to be no Kings Day tomorrow.
And I came up with an idea.
and it is a miserable failure.
What?
Oh no.
You were trying to come up with a, how we can have some fun.
Trying to be funny, trying to be clever.
Oh, no kings?
Yeah, no kings.
Go with the king theory.
Yeah, and my idea was a, there's a backlash now from all the kings that we have in this country.
Like what kings?
They're opposing, you know, no kings day.
And I wrote spokesperson Barbie as the island princess sent out press releases stating that the kings were not going to be intimidated and won't tolerate disobedience.
I just
uh mr rogers mr rogers well i friday is just part of the uh large contingent of kings that will be making it out for for the backlash against no kings i'm king friday what's going on i think you'll like this the entertainment will be provided by king crimson really the court of the kings crimson kings yes they're gonna play that yes and uh
And the Frost King will supply the AC.
Frost King?
They're very relieved, though, the one cancellation that they were looking forward to was King Kong, because there's a lot of destruction tied in with that.
It's an elaborate joke.
It's an elaborate joke.
You must have stayed up all
me long to put this together.
But I thought, geez, I don't know.
This is, you know, kind of slapstick, right?
Okay, so.
And then I said, the star studded lineup includes old King Cole, King, King Arthur of the flower company, King of Hearts, King Lear.
Oh, and the tune King Leonardo.
Do you remember King Leonardo?
Was that a cartoon?
He would say, yeah, he was a lion.
Oh,
Yeah, a foreign king of the mountain King Theodon King Aragorn who these this is from Lord of the Rings.
Oh, okay.
King Smurf.
You might be familiar with that one.
Little King.
Remember the Little King.
I never I never understood these old old comic strips.
Little King.
Oh, the little guy.
I don't I don't I never understood that.
How about King of the mole men?
I'm sure that you're familiar with No, all right, how about King of the mountain King Odin King Mufasa the Lion King for all the
kids out there,
not like
Did not.
That's good.
All right.
OK.
Should we get to.
You know, I put together so much stuff for today.
I think I'm just gonna put, I'm gonna call some ad libs here, okay?
Some audibles?
Yeah, here, let's go with AOC.
I thought, look, she made a great point yesterday, and this is something that didn't occur to me.
I think it didn't occur to a lot of people, but now when you think about it, wow.
this is really the reason why all of this is going on, this opposition to immigration, and how they're taking people out.
Who are they taking people out?
A lot of people have thought, well, they're gonna take out all the bad people, all the criminals,
the gang
But when they say illegal versus legal immigration, they are trying to end legal status in the United States as well, correct, Governor Pritzker, with the end of TPS and making people undocumented by removing legal status, ending legal status, and then having the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented, correct?
Taking students' visas away from people, taking their legal right to be in the United States away from them when they've been granted maybe years earlier to stay.
So I don't want to hear...
about how this is about illegal versus legal immigration.
They are attacking legal status and removing legal status.
The Republican majority is anti legal immigration in the United
make that very
and I yield back.
They're making it illegal for legal immigration into this country.
They're taking it out.
It didn't occur to me because they're reversing all of these visas.
They're calling people into these courts to renew their visa or talk about it in court.
But anyway, they're arresting people and it's ending.
Taking it away.
Yeah.
Why, it was a great thought, really a great thought.
Now, yesterday when we were talking about the LA situation, you know, everything that's happening there, and personally, you know, as I watch all of the action going on, it's really a kind of a show, a Hollywood show, of explosions and bombs and sound and action, right?
Caused by the National Guard, caused by...
the local police.
And when people see the videos of this stuff, the Megas just love it.
I mean, they just eat this stuff up, the explosions, the flash bombs, they love this stuff.
And seeing people running and being carried away and zip tied, it's a show.
That's all it is.
And all these people that are being forced to the sidewalk and off the road,
They're not doing anything.
They're just standing there protesting like anybody should in this country against their government if they disagree with it.
And that's all it is.
They're just creating a situation and making it seem bigger than it really is, right?
I mean, that's just the crazy part of all of this stuff.
But then we've got the other people, the megas out there that are saying, oh, look at all those flags, you know, the Mexican flags.
You don't want to see those.
And I'm wondering, well,
What about those flags?
Yeah.
Now, we had, we had a texture, a Tria from Milton who, who called us out on this.
He's saying, hmm, Democrats supporting other countries riding in Los Angeles is a new form of terrorizing the American population with all those foreign flags flying in LA.
That's not American people.
That's a foreign invasion.
the fact that you're not asking why so many foreign flags are being flown in LA tells the tale.
So I'm just thinking, wait a minute here, no.
Well, one thing my mega friend in Milwaukee called me and said the same darn thing.
So my response to that is basically, and I think your response too is, you know, we've seen a lot of different flags.
And we don't know, no one's ever asked the person carrying the flag, are you an American?
Are you supporting the Mexican immigration into this country and the people that are working hard here that have the legal visas that
are
I remember seeing Confederate flags.
I remember
seeing Trump flag superimposed on the American flag.
I'm sorry, I saw a lot of different flags myself.
Trius, I don't know what you're complaining about.
Again, this is a very superficial thing.
to take note of, you know, flags.
But, you know, everybody deserves a chance to make a better life in this world.
And there are no borders, visible borders.
So what we need to do is just find a better immigration policy.
And immigration reform seems to be off the table and no one's talking about it.
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you?
And this is Magic Bugs.
Put King Leonardo as his enemies.
Big A, what is Pesto?
And I want to thank Tria for, you know,
Posing the question in a text, he's from Milton, and I'm not angry at you, I'm actually angry at my mega friend at Milwaukee.
But the flag thing is a little superficial.
You didn't see Biden flags, you didn't see Obama flags.
You know, the left doesn't do these kinds of things.
You know, there's the Gadsden flag, the Confederate flag, the Trump flag, and you know what, we don't mention anything about it, we never bring it up, it's not a big deal.
damn flags who cares you know
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Okay.
Good morning.
I find it interesting they're worried about these flags and yet you have a defense secretary
Comes just short of carrying a Russian flag say who he wants to win that war situation yesterday With the senior senator from California.
I had the opportunity to see it Just about in real time shortly after it happened when I got home.
Yeah, and he clearly says who he is There's no question about it.
So the way they operate as a party shouldn't we have one Marjorie Taylor green
hold her stunt during the State of the Union, they should have put the takedown on her and drug her out of the room.
out.
Yeah.
So, you know, you're not even able to ask a question of somebody from Homeland Security.
And then she claims she didn't know who he was.
Okay, yeah.
I don't think maybe she was actually aware of him at all.
And I blame the guy.
I believe one of the security guys for actually taking action as quickly as he did, just from a guy asking a question.
Right.
So a lot of that is on him.
They seemingly couldn't say who exactly that was, even though they had FBI's.
stuff on, you could clearly see.
They weren't sure whether it was Secret Service or FBI.
Well, who knows, you know, the way they know about their business now.
We don't know anymore.
I mean, you know, no one has to show an ID or a search warrant.
So this is really off the rails.
This is so far off the rails.
All right, Dick, I appreciate it.
Thank you for that call.
Let's move on to Mark here.
Mark, what do you got for us?
Yeah, good morning, guys.
Yeah, all the ethnic festivals here in Wisconsin, they're always flying the flag of like Norway or Switzerland or Sweden.
sure.
Whatever.
And for another flag, the Virginia State flag holds, has the goddess of liberty with her foot upon a dead king's slain king's
at her feet with the crown lay in the land you know it off off his body that uh... so if you know if there's was flying that flag uh... you know a insult to donald trump i mean to the king's that you mentioned were actually king's uh... so some of the fans to like aquaman king name or what people dedicated to the actual people not to themselves
and to the orange menace that wants to make himself king and all these other countries can have their kings but here in america we do not have kings the king the president is subject to punishment and disgrace as a stated by hamilton and federal sixty seven and that is right for sixty nine federal sixty nine i'm sorry that uh... but i mean he's not the man he's not supposed to be the man that's right hamilton tried to assuage the uh...
The fears of the Anti-Federalist who thought he was going to be crowned and surrounded by minions and mistresses with his murdering janissaries at his disposal, well apparently that's what Megal wants and that's not what we're supposed to have.
Well,
Yeah.
Foreign flags.
Has Stoten been invaded by Norway?
That's right.
They fly a lot of flags down there.
Yeah, they do.
I lived there for about two months.
Yeah, I loved it there.
Rick, the coffee cup was just fantastic.
Why did you only live there two months?
Well, I had a radio job in Jamesville.
Oh, and it didn't work out.
Yeah, it didn't work out at all.
I'm sorry to hear that.
And then we have a comment from Steve Clemmons out there in Sun Prairie.
There is no country called America.
There are two continents called America, North America, South America.
The United States of America is a country in North America.
North America.
Yes, that's very good.
Thank you for pointing that
Good point.
Yep.
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