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That's right,
He was tired.
Yeah, he was trying to
Well, barely keeping consciousness out there in the stands.
That was really an embarrassment.
And I enjoy that, you know?
I was just on the way here.
I was looking at pictures of it.
And they had a back shot of where Trump sat.
And he was standing up, I guess, you know, that he was giving his speech or something like that.
But he was standing up in front of him across the street, empty.
Empty seats.
Really?
Oh, that's too
she's gonna give us, you know, the lowdown on what's been happening in Los Angeles for the last week or so.
Right.
And of course we'll be talking to Pam Yonkey here in about 10 minutes or so.
Get the food and farm report from the Midwest.
Lots of things coming up.
Over the weekend, last couple of weeks we had our Scotty Summer Text-to-Win Contest.
And I was able to get ahold of one of our grand prize winners.
Do you have that queued up there, Dom?
Yes, we do.
Yes, we do.
Let's play it.
All right, let's listen
All right.
Hello.
My name is Gordy.
I'm calling for Trace.
This is he.
Wait, is this Gordy of John and Gordy?
This is.
How you doing?
Cool.
Hey, man.
What's up?
Well, let me tell you, you have been selected as one of our grand prize winners in our Scotty Summer Text-to-Win Contest.
Are you kidding me?
No.
I'm not kidding at all.
Oh, my God.
I told my wife.
I was like, I'm going to manifest this.
We're winning it.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Oh, my God.
I love you guys.
I listen every day on the way to work.
Well, Trace, you have won a two night stay in the White Lace Inn in Sturgeon Bay in Door County.
Congratulations.
That's great.
I can't believe it.
I would just told my wife that I'm going to win this contest because I never win anything.
So this is great.
Fantastic.
Well, congratulations from everybody at Civic Media and at WMDX.
We appreciate you listening.
Thank you all.
I love you guys this show.
I listen every morning.
Terrific.
Thanks, Tony.
I appreciate
Hold on to your hats.
Okay, what else?
Alright, and then in 1903...
The Pepsi Cola Company forms.
Oh, there we go.
What a moment that was.
Very, very, very nice there.
Yes, yeah.
Okay.
And then in 1933, the FDIC is created.
So there we go.
All right, that's really exciting.
Absolutely fascinating
Tupac, 1971, birthday with today.
Okay.
Catherine Graham, who I didn't know I had to search that up, 1917.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, she made the Washington Post.
She transformed into the one of the most leading newspapers in the U.S.
today.
That's true.
And then Bob Ryland.
I have no idea who this is.
1920.
He was the first African-American to play professional tennis.
second
Yeah
Do you have a tent?
We made a tent.
It was kind of janky, but we ended up making it.
And we only spent, like, half a night there.
And then we left early in the morning.
What?
Just half a night?
Yeah, we gave up.
We gave up.
I realized I'm not good outside, so I tend to just stay inside.
Any mosquitoes out there?
Where did you
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah, that should be a lesson.
Dom, never go camping again.
I learned my lesson back then as well.
So, golden age, you learn never go camping.
Well, I mean, when it's raining, yeah, that's miserable.
No, it's miserable no matter what.
Really?
Yeah, you gotta sleep on the ground.
That's
Don't you go anywhere.
But I turned my car on this morning and my windshield wipers are going.
Yeah.
And the back windshield wiper was on.
I didn't do that.
That wasn't something I switched on.
I don't know how my car knew it was raining and put the wiper blades on.
It's a smart car.
But it completely freaked me out.
No, it's not.
So I don't know what happened.
All right.
Just a little note.
Thank you for that report.
Thank you.
Yeah, we've got some drizzle, some light rain right now and temperatures in the mid sixties.
We'll get up to about 80 today.
It's going to be warm and humid this afternoon.
Pam Yankee joins us now from the Midwest.
food and farm report.
Good morning, Pam.
Yeah, morning, guys.
You know what?
Mine does the same thing.
Automatically turns on my back windshield.
Weathers don't my front one.
Well, all of a sudden just randomly start.
If it feels any moisture on my windshield, it did it yesterday afternoon.
I was coming from bearable and all of a sudden I didn't notice.
I didn't even notice the raindrops or, you know, the speckles on my windshield, but it did.
So
But you
You talk about freaked out.
That's the way a lot of little people were feeling on Saturday when they got up close to some of the dairy cows at the Hinchley dairy down by Cambridge.
First of all,
Thanks to all the volunteers.
Thanks to everybody that showed up.
They were guessing north of 5,000 people that were there starting at 7am the line.
I got a chance to have a pancake.
I looked down to eat my pancake.
I looked back up and all of a sudden there was a swarm of humanity waiting to stream into the machine shed for breakfast.
So it really happened fast, but it was a well-coordinated effort.
I thought it was really interesting to see what people are gravitating towards.
mean, obviously the cows, the cows are the big attraction.
Everybody wants to see them and kind of get a little perspective on how they, how big they are.
But it was also cute to see they had three barn kitties, three barn kitties and kids could line up to hold the barn kitties.
Now, I mean, kitties, I mean babies of any kind are cute.
But when you put barn kitties with little kids, it was just...
If you want to see the pictures, I've got some up at Midwest Farm Report and Fabulous Farm Babe on Facebook.
The moms and the parents would be with the little kids so they didn't hurt the kitties or do anything like that.
But I thought to myself, holy man, are those kitties going to sleep well tonight?
They've been passed through hundreds of homes
course of the morning, but no, it was really well done.
Third time that the Hinchleys had hosted it.
So again, like we said, really, really well done for sure.
Well, it's their part of it.
So I didn't even, I didn't know that this was going on.
If you live or drive, drive through the Jefferson area.
So what they're calling this is a food and beverage innovation campus.
And what they're doing, Jefferson County, I don't know if you're aware is home to
quite a few different food companies.
Nestle Food is down there.
There's a lot of different food related companies.
now they've decided to try to bring them all together in this food and beverage innovation campus.
Kiko Munn is the first to financially commit to building their factory there and that's already underway.
According to the economic development people that are connected with it, they said they've already invested about $563 million to create this
welcoming area and one of the reasons why Jefferson is so well suited for this is the workforce.
That's something that Jefferson pouted for a long time and they want to continue to bank on that.
So this looks like it is very well supported not only in Jefferson County as far as public money but also as far as the agribusinesses and food companies that are interested in coming there.
The next phase after they get started with the actual brick and mortar
of the food manufacturing side of things will be focusing in on creating the residential element for all the employees that these companies are going to be needing.
They
they know that they're out there, but they want to make sure they're close to where they're going to have to work.
So that'll be the next phase.
Yeah.
Oh, they, so long as you like to, to your point, so long as you've got something for them to do.
And that is exactly what Cooper, the six year old border colleague, a 15 year old, four age girl named Addison Connelly up in Galesville in Treplo County has been fascinated and partnered up with her dogs really since she was a little kid.
And through 4-H, the clover kid, she got started with this dog, Cooper, who's now sick.
They are on their way to Portugal in a couple of weeks for the 4-H Team USA Junior Open Agility World Championship.
The dog's going along right now.
He's going through his shots and making sure he's got papers.
He has seven different commands just to get him through the jump obstacle.
Think about that.
usually
her voice now.
Yep.
She did use she did use hand signals and now Cooper's so good.
She can use her voice.
because it's an international like like the 4-H team Olympics will be 4-H kids from around the world in Portugal doing this.
They've got border collie competitions all over the world.
All over, huh?
Go to Ireland and watch how they work those border collies.
right, buddies, we'll talk on Friday.
All right,
wait.
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,
We can duck and cover.
There's a fallout shelter right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
And, uh, finally we caught another dumb one.
Yeah.
Uh, Vance Bolter.
Yeah.
Captured in a woods.
Major manhunt there and they managed to have him crawl to them on the ground to just make sure he was somewhat safe still armed though Yeah, they have the killer in custody at this point in Minnesota
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Yes, they captured that suspect, Bantz-Bolter.
Yes.
The shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses.
He was arrested late last night, overnight.
Largest man, Hunt, in Minnesota's history.
He's charged with two counts of murder in the second degree and two counts of attempted murder in the second degree.
shooting allegedly State Representative Melissa Hartman and killing her and her husband.
They were shot on Saturday.
Same gunman shot Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife who survived this attack.
And that's where things stand this morning.
So he's been captured.
We even asked about Mr. Bolter's political affiliations and David Carlson.
Once again, his roommate and best friend known him since fourth grade did say Bolter voted for Trump and that he was a strong supporter.
for a while but yeah and and the previous governor who was also a democrat so uh it was a volunteer thing it's a it's a uh uh kind of a citizen panel and they ask people to be on it and he's been on that a few times so uh yeah yeah supposedly oh yeah big big trump fan uh and uh get and he's a he's a christian nationalist
As well, I have another cut here, cut 146.
And this is an example of him dancing and preaching on stage for Jesus.
Let's listen.
And I'm just as excited
about Jesus.
Right
here,
right
now.
And
when I get excited,
I want to dance.
And what Jesus did for me!
Oh, Jesus is God!
He saved my life!
I'm excited about God!
And I want to worship him!
And he's got plans.
He's got plans
and purposes for each one of you.
And for me.
Well, you know, I mean this is kind of gonna catch on I think as well members of a several far right mega affiliated groups are now urging members to carry out acts of violence against protesters and The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that members of the proud boys were making violent threats on their app telegram
One proud boy organizer reportedly said, you just have to impale a few of them while another declared it was a riot season again.
Shoot a couple, the rest will go home.
And that's what they're talking about.
But you know what?
I got a web wisdom for you here.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is somebody who's saying, you know, they hear as well as we have been hearing that a lot of people are saying, this is what you voted for.
This is what you voted for.
Well, and they're saying, no, this isn't what we voted for.
No.
You know what?
No, you did vote for this.
Let's
listen.
Come back to the front, come back to the front.
Y'all was all loud and bold and proud of everything.
No, no, no, no, this is exactly what you voted for.
Don't sit up here talking about something you were lied to.
No, baby, you believed the lie you told yourself.
You were trying to rationalize the thoughts of an irrational person and now you sit up here acting like you're in confusion.
No, baby, this is exactly what you voted for.
Now that Meemaw and Paw Paw don't have the Medicare coverage they need to take care of dialysis, now you talking about something that's not what you voted for.
Now that he took away research funding for cancer treatment and HIV vaccine,
Now this ain't what you voted for.
Now that you and your kids can't eat no more because he took away snack benefits because you're disabled and can't get medicated for you and your kids no more.
Now that ain't what you voted for.
Oh no baby, you voted for it all.
You voted for it all.
But because you thought it was gonna affect people who look like me and other marginalized communities, you was more than willing to vote for him because you thought it was not gonna affect you.
I'll say it once, I'll say it twice, I'll say it 3,000 times.
Unless you are a millionaire, billionaire, or a dictator, you are a minority.
as well to that man.
And now the rest of us got to find out because you decided to f around.
Telling it like it is.
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five, five.
We have
But just enough where he is uncomfortable driving at night because of the tinted windows, something I didn't think about.
But anyway, yeah, that's one possibility, but I don't know.
Maybe, maybe not.
You don't know.
But I do have something, I have something else here, and this is David Glosser, you know who he is?
David Glosser?
He's the uncle of Stephen Miller.
Oh.
Crazy man, Stephen Miller of the administration.
He calls Stephen an immigration hypocrite.
And this was his interview with Anderson Cooper.
Listen.
Okay.
PC wrote, you describe your nephew Stephen Miller as an immigration hypocrite.
What do you mean by that?
It's an important question.
And I have to preface my response by saying that I wrote this article more in sadness than an anger or resentment.
Our family history is entirely dependent upon the fact that our family was able to escape from a terrible situation in what is now the country of Belarus.
Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist.
And
so this notion of chain migration, which is something the administration calls the opportunity for somebody who has come to the United States to apply to get their parents to come, their cousins, brothers or sisters to come, that has been part of your family history, of Stephen Miller's family
history.
That is the classic story of virtually everybody in America who isn't a Native American or who was brought over unwillingly as a slave.
That's
everybody's story.
You referred to your nephew, Stephen, as an immigration hypocrite.
Do you see this administration itself as hypocritical?
The first lady, her parents, just got citizenship based on what the administration would call chain migration.
Well, let's think of it for a second.
As far as I understand, Mr. Trump's grandfather came over, or either his father or his grandfather came over as an immigrant from Germany.
trying to avoid drafting to the German army.
He's trying to find a new life here in the United States.
And he is married, what's the count now?
Three immigrant women in the United States and has just, through chain migration, her parents have been made citizens of the United States and I welcome them.
Do you see a racial component in this
administration, how they view this issue?
All those epithets are the sorts of things which were said about Jews, Irish.
Poles, Hungarians, and virtually Italians, Sicilians, Sardinians.
Everybody from southern Europe, eastern Europe, from the Balkan countries were all condemned and vilified by the so-called America firsters of their day.
These people were described frequently as slime pumped out of the mud tanks of Europe, rapists, murderers, thieves, gangsters.
It is hard to escape the conclusion.
Based on the administration's actions and policies, rather than their rhetoric, it's hard to escape the conclusion that they want to disadvantage people coming from countries based on their religion, based on their ethnicity, and based on their countries and regions of origin.
Did it surprise you?
that Stephen was involved in this, that I'm going to see him as a leading voice in this, in the administration.
Sadly, it's no surprise.
It appears that much of his professional identity and his personal identity has been wrapped up in this particular issue, though I do not know why.
Oh, so much to do.
I wanted to comment on the fabulous parade, of course, with the squeaky tanks and the empty stands.
One person described it as a triumph of the will designed by Bart Simpson, and I thought
nice.
I did want to come in on the immigration hypocrisy and just to add another layer to it because, you know, Trump had a very bad weekend as we know and came out with this incredibly aggressive.
message that he's going to be directing ice to be upping their game and going to blue city new york at los angeles again and chicago but at the same time he said that g you know we're having an effect here on in terms of a bad effect on uh... ag and hospitality industries and so he's asking ice to halt raids on people working in hotels farms
and
restaurants meet back so
Okay, so what are we getting down to?
Like the home health care aids and roofers?
I mean, if you go and you seek an exemption, every industry is going to go seek an exemption.
Of course.
And so it'll be interesting who gets to see the wrath of Donald after this poor showing on the weekend.
It's a big layer cake.
Joe,
good point.
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I don't think it was, I don't think it quite made that.
No, I don't think so.
Maybe a couple thousand at the most.
You know, I saw a picture this morning of him standing up in the stands.
This was a back shot of Trump in his stands.
Yeah.
And he was facing the street and the stands across the street were completely empty.
And you would think those would be the most high in demand stance, but, you know, no one was there.
No one was there.
It was laughably bad.
And certainly something that he is never going to live down, not on this side of the aisle anyway.
You know, and I'm not, you know, we're not political in that way, but, you know, we do at least recognize there are two sides of the aisle.
And one side, the left side is going to be remembering this for a long time.
I noticed
of
I've got a post here on X and it explains it.
Former army here, it takes about a week of drill and basics to learn how to march.
Once you do, it's ingrained in you for life.
You know how to self-correct if you fall out of step.
And if there isn't a commanding officer leading the march, there's a designated point person within the ranks to call out left, right, left, right.
If they notice there's disorder in the cadence,
right?
Yeah, rockers should take care of that one.
Okay.
Of course, you know, there were a few signs out there as well.
There were lots of signs.
I jotted down a few of them here.
Our expectations for you were low, but holy F. Or you know it's bad when a straight white guy makes a sign.
which I thought was one of the better ones.
I think you texted one, no parking anytime.
They took the park off, so it's just no king anytime.
I'd like to do that taco.
Oh, oh.
Tacos to go, that was one of them.
But did you see the videos on X?
People dressed up as tacos?
Yes, tacos and they had taco tanks.
Oh man.
Oh, those were gorgeous.
Yes, real patriots don't join the Gestapo.
They stop them.
J.D.
Vance puts his cast iron skillet in the dishwasher.
Stop pretending.
What?
had some issues.
Stop pretending your racism is patriotism.
Yes, your red hat does make your...
D, you look smaller.
Why do I protest?
It's easier than hiding in my family in an attic.
Twinkle, twinkle, little czar, Putin put you where you are.
I fought fascism in 1945 at 102.
I'm doing it again.
Cleanup on aisle 47.
Imagine being afraid of diversity, but not dictators.
You know, it's bad when an introvert shows up.
If Kalma were president, we'd be at brunch right now.
You're eating the checks, they're eating the balances.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
If Melania doesn't have to live with him, why do we have to?
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