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Who is that guy?
I don't know.
I don't know.
He's here every morning.
I'd like to ask him.
He gets here real early.
You know, but he just scurries.
What?
He kind of scurries.
It's very sound
my apartment.
kind
and then
just didn't
as
it is and
I don't know if you ever watched that movie.
It's it's from like
the 60s, it's an English film and these plants from outer space invade the earth and take it over.
The day of the triphids.
The day of the triphids.
No, I've never heard of it.
Yeah.
It was kind of boring in there watching.
science fiction movie about immobile plants Not
Paul, what do you remember from way back in the 60s?
What was hot then?
Was it music?
Was it politics for you?
Was it the protests?
I want to find out what
for him was the important part of the 60s and 70s.
And see where he goes with it.
I think he's gonna appreciate that question.
But you know, maybe by then we'll have another topic and we get to ask him about that too.
Like this ridiculous, what are we calling this?
It's not a war.
You know what it is.
Military action?
I heard this on public radio and I thought, whoa.
Yes, takes you back.
What this is a preemptive war.
Okay, that's what it is Again again, we have another preemptive war it the last two and that is the Iraq war was a preemptive war and now we have the Iran war which is another preemptive war and there's they're the ones saying that they know for sure that there were bunkers or bombs, you know, I
I'm having a hard time watching any of this because this is deja vu.
I don't
This is the same BS.
These are the same lies.
They're so sure of themselves.
I don't believe anything I'm hearing from them and I don't care about their...
Damn maps showing where the bombs are.
This is all BS.
This is all just orchestrated It's theater and I'm really angry about it because I don't want to go through this again
guys
I wanted to chime in quick.
I heard you guys talking about Iran It is exactly like Iraq.
It's all lies Israel owns our government apparently, but I want to bring something
to focus here that's not talked about at all, especially in our media, is that America is no longer as strong or influential as it used to be.
America is 4% of the world's population.
India and China are 40% of the world's population and growing.
The rest of the world, this is good news, actually.
The rest of the world is actually taking climate change real.
They're moving beyond America.
They're done with us.
Trump has buried our relations with our allies, so why would you go to war when you're basically alone because everybody hates us thanks to Trump and MAGA?
And
is a disaster, and we need to impeach and remove from office immediately.
Yeah,
but go ahead But you know man, I what I'm looking at here is that we are definitely alone in this world and at this point I don't see a lot of people joining hands with us on this and again It is a repeat of the Iraq war the run-up to it reason why we've got to go in and again
If no one's repeating it enough, this is a preemptive war.
And they're just making
this stuff
And you know, it was The Daily Show, had a whole bunch of clips together and then a few other MSNBC shows, had a few clips together of Netanyahu talking about they have a bomb and they're gonna help, they've got it in a couple of weeks.
And that was like, you know, 15 years ago, seven years ago, two years ago.
It just keeps making this stuff up, and now-
And can I say one last
ahead.
The Iraq war was also the beginning of the end of America's credibility in the world, and in some ways led to Putin invading Ukraine because Russia was very angry about that war.
We had no right to do it.
It was illegal.
And here we are doing an internationally illegal war, a strike on Iran, so we're done.
We're done.
Our credibility is gone.
Remove him from office if you care about a future for America.
Did we do that?
No.
Okay.
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Good morning, fellas.
Madison.
All kinds of enthusiasm there, yes.
You know, you mentioned one of the topics that you'd like to cover today is something I had to live through this weekend with my border colleague.
She wants to go out there and play all the time and hustle me out in the yard.
But boy, oh boy, that heat is not something she is used to at all.
She didn't have to do much out in the yard to become exhausted.
And I think, you know, farm animals have to go through all of this, don't they?
Yeah.
I'm trying a couple of things that people may or may not know.
Obviously your canines and kitty cats were pretty accustomed to this kind of weather and changing up our routine.
I was thinking about it when I was driving this morning that people, natural thing is you want to get your, if you're going to do a little exercise with your pet, you probably are going to do it either in the morning or at night when you think that the temperature is down.
Just remember.
it's not so much today when we've got overcast guys but it will be I'm sure in the next few weeks when that sun is out that pavement is blistering hot on their paws so uh kind of maybe think about that get them on the grass or get them off uh pavement if you're going to go for a jog that can really wear on the pads of their feet pretty quickly the other thing that people just don't realize is how much water an animal actually will take in I saw this is what Nash National Water Day or
National Hydrate Day.
know
All right.
And I thought it was appropriate enough not for just people, but for animals too.
And it's little simple things that we might forget.
Probably just like us, animals do not like exceptionally hot water.
So if you can get a little shade over that tank.
The other thing, just like us, animals do not like dirty water.
It can really, really limit their consumption.
So out on the farm, for example, it's pretty easy for quakes or feed or something to fall in.
The drinking cups, the waterers, even the tanks out in the field.
So routinely double checking that and making sure that it's pretty clean and that there's not going to be a problem there.
Because when temperatures get to 90 degrees, the water consumption, for example, on our cows,
will just about double.
Drink almost double the amount of water at 90 versus 70 degrees.
Wow.
And now you've got to think, that's more than two gallons of water for every 100 pounds of body weight.
Most of our cows are weighing north of 1,000 pounds.
So, you know, take, just take that.
So you're looking at 20 gallons of water.
That's a cow, one cow.
We'll want to try to consume in a day.
Multiply that by a herd of 100, et cetera.
you see why double checking that water supply and making sure everything's going good.
How's do not, well, any animals are not necessarily real excited about eating in the heat either.
That's a real struggle.
We need them to eat so they produce milk.
We need them to eat so they take care of their babies.
And farmers do it a lot of different ways.
I know that many farms will feed multiple times in a day.
so that the the feed doesn't heat up and and you know they won't they don't like that farmers will also water it down a little bit so that it kind of stays uh more attractive to them and then the other stuff that i just wanted to remind people i know a lot of people are into chickens or backyard birds and stuff like that really pay attention to to your birds i remember as a kid on the farm hot days like this i mean they've got their chicken coop but most of our chicken coops don't have the best of
Uh, air movement.
I mean, it's designed to protect them, right?
But it's not necessarily real, real well ventilated.
Chickens, if you see when they start kind of fluffing their wings out, if you see a hand kind of over in the corner and she fluffs her wings out and she's open mouth breathing, that animal is under stress.
Chickens basically can only sweat by panting.
Uh, kind of the same way.
If you see a cow panting or a horse panting, watch out that something is wrong.
They are, they're overheated.
could be to the point of exhaustion.
So you really got to watch that.
And I mentioned it before, pigs do not sweat.
Pigs do not have sweat glands.
So a hog, like I think about county fairs and stuff like that, a hog has to be really, really taken care of.
A lot of shade.
That's why hogs like to be in mud or in wallows.
because they cannot sweat.
So they will open mouth breathe, but you really have to do it for them if those cars are going to be outside.
Same thing like bunny rabbits.
If you've got pet bunnies that are outside, you really have to be paying attention to them.
One of my professional rabbit people said, if they get too hot, they'll, what they call blow their coat.
They want to get rid of their hair.
You may want them to look beautiful for the fair.
If you don't give them some relief,
They blow their coat to try to cool themselves.
A lot of kids at the county fair will take old milk bottles and freeze them with water in them and then put that essentially body long ice cube in the cage with the bunny.
And I've seen bunnies on hot days.
They're laying right next to that
ice water bottle and cooling down
idea.
Yeah, that's just that kind of stuff.
Like I said, people with chickens keep an eye out.
You think they're going to be fine outside, but if you see them open mouth breathing or fluffing their feathers a lot, they need some support.
That's true.
Yep, like I said, it's just, I just thought it was important to be kind of mindful of that because we got another
nasty, beastly hot day today.
And of course, take care of yourself.
I hope that goes without saying, but, you know, we think so much about our animals.
But if you're, if you're out there trying to take care of them, you better also take care of yourself.
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.
Sorry.
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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Okay.
You know, the thing is, you got all revved up because he had a big wheel in there.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, he had a spinning wheel.
Spinning wheel.
Like we bring.
Yeah.
The night market.
So, you know, they got this big wheel in there and I'll tell you once you spin that baby that
That goes on for a long
some money.
They have a pouch
So they circulate air from one side of the barn to the other end.
Is that so?
Yeah.
I didn't know you were a tobacco barn expert.
I'm not.
But I was curious about the giant fans that they have on each end of these long barns.
They grow tobacco around here?
Yeah, sure.
Did they really?
Oh, yeah.
It's some kind of funny looking leaf marijuana or something.
I can't remember what they were talking about.
I'm just kidding.
No, but they do have they do have tobacco fields around here.
Okay, or you or used to I'm going way back.
No one smokes anymore.
So I doubt they got the tobacco fields.
Yeah, we're going to do
now
so it's kind of
Yeah.
Wonderful.
All right well anyway let's get to something
Kind of crazy and nuts.
Remember Sam Cedar at all?
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
Used to be an Air America radio announcers.
He's got podcasts.
He's been on for a long time.
He was with Mark Marin for a while on Air America.
Yeah.
So he appeared on Jubilee, I believe.
And Jubilee is the YouTube channel where people get to debate their politics and it's other things too that they get to talk about.
But I look at the debates that they have.
And this is an interesting one with Sam Cedar.
and a very xenophobic nationalist.
This is the woman who really, really, really put them on the spot, but Sam Cedar would not have any of it.
So let's listen to this.
What's the problem with xenophobic nationalism?
Do you think that's better for Americans in general?
Like
xenophobic nationalism is better.
We should
have a coherent culture.
Everyone should be a part of the same culture.
We should have assimilation.
Which do you get to choose what the culture is?
We already have a dominant culture.
What is the dominant culture?
Based on European
and Christian values and identity.
That is the dominant
culture.
It's rooted in
European identity.
So your argument is that?
That has been
the
dominant culture.
Just to be clear.
And we're not
letting people assimilate to that.
We're saying
you
should keep your culture and this is why our culture is so divided.
The argument is that Trump is good for those who want a dominant, white, European culture.
I mean, that is what America is.
It's
rooted in European identity and Christian values.
That's what it has been.
Would you really disagree with that?
What is it then, if that's not the identity
of
America?
Well, I think the identity of America... For the
majority of time, America's been a country.
You don't think that's been the identity?
Well, actually, no, I think actually the identity of America has been, you know, for better or for worse, a melting pot in that regard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe since like the 1960s, even then, like even we had this idea of a melting pot literally means assimilation too.
It means melting.
It means you're assimilating to the dominant
culture.
Is that not what melting means?
No, it doesn't mean that we're assimilating to the dominant culture.
No.
I mean, look, I got to be honest with you, like,
You and I have a fundamental disagreement.
We will never see eye to eye on this.
It's a choice.
And people, I think what you're expressing, though, is really what the Trump movement at its heart is about.
And I think that's a problem.
I mean, I
disagree.
I think Trump's like anywhere close to being a Christian nationalist.
That's ridiculous.
Like Trump's basically a Democrat from like 15 years ago when it comes to social
issues.
So you don't think that he's conservative enough for you?
Oh, definitely.
Nowhere close.
No.
He's not xenophobic enough for you?
No, he's trying to pour a bunch of H1Bs.
Are you kidding?
Right.
Oh, so you want to get them out too?
Yeah.
No, I mean, I think you're making my argument for me.
Wow.
That's
you
And it, I think it's a perfect example of what is the feeling of the right at this point.
This is what they really want.
They don't want any foreigners in this country at all.
They're going after legal immigrants in this country.
Obviously they've been doing that for quite a while now, at least the last three or four months.
So yeah, it's very xenophobic, very.
Wow.
And
Yeah, we do Let's get to this.
This is a Wisconsin mega Full bore the Wisconsin Senate approved legislation to create new felony charges for people who organize or cause injuries during a riot Well, also making it easier to sue those who cause property damage during those events.
It's
Already a law they can get sued.
They can be charged for causing damage property damage By the way, this is something that Scott Walker attempted way way back when So, uh, you know,
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I'll have to brag a little bit, but I really won't exaggerate.
Big M-A-D-I-S-O-N.
Madison, Madison.
That's my hometown.
Madison, Madison.
That's my hometown.
Well, there are many topics, obviously the impending quagmire that we haven't been around, but I wanted the woman that you highlighted who was going on and on about how we are.
and that's what we should
And they
aliens were chewing the wires.
I hate that when it happens.
Evil, evil aliens.
wanted to respond to the woman that you spoke of, that you highlighted
the previous segment, which was, we are a Christian nation, period.
We are a Christian nation.
To which I would say, which Christians?
I mean, start to look at that.
Optic Christians, Greek Orthodox Christians,
And I would point out that the whole reason this country started was those people like Quakers who said, I don't want to belong to the Church of England, a perfectly good Christian organization, but they didn't like it.
So they faced incredible.
Harassment people were died in custody in jail because of their refusal to back off from their christian beliefs So they come here and they face a persecution here But and so that's why we started out was that you could choose the religion you wanted whether you were quake quaker Coptic evangelical catholic I got almighty to that was that woman asleep in class You know
first part of the first amendment is freedom of religion
Period.
It just astonishes me that apparently history class doesn't cover this stuff anymore.
And speaking of Christian, which Christian?
Heaven knows Catholics were excluded from society for a long, long time.
Wake up, people.
Let's start with the very first amendment, freedom of religion.
I won't even get into Iran.
Well,
But again, it's a rerun of what we had gone through with Iraq, right?
And I am just so tired of this.
I don't want to watch any of I don't want to see their map showing the location of the bombs or the shelter.
All of this is just made up nonsense.
No proof.
None whatsoever.
Netanyahu's word.
That's what all we're going by at this point.
This this is driving me crazy.
You know, this is
This is what we've been doing here on the show.
We've been reliving our past, Gordon.
Yes.
The 60s protests, you know, to bring in and ring in all of these different changes, you know, the resistance to war, the women's movement, the sexual revolution.
All of this, we were there at the forefront.
Now we're going through all of this again, but it's all being repealed.
So, we're watching it being repealed.
It is a flashback.
My God, please help us.
All right, I want to get to the protests again.
I only got through half of the story.
Wisconsin is going to start
penalizing people for protesting and Scott Walker tried to do this during Act 10.
It failed miserably.
This is a bill coming out of the Wisconsin legislature.
The bill has gone even further.
Neither lawmaker nor the governor would have the power to stop
the police for making arrests during activities that law enforcement deems a riot.
So law enforcement can do just about anything they want.
Now, more so than ever, when law enforcement gets involved, the National Guard gets involved and they have the, the, the bang bombs or whatever they are.
You know, what happens is.
People get riled up.
They start running.
It looks like a riot, but it isn't
the military or the police come in and sometimes cause these riots to happen.
All of a sudden, now we can just give them carte blanche.
Go ahead.
The governor can't step in.
The legislature can't step in.
Just let the police do whatever they want.
That's what our Republicans in the legislature are proposing.
Mm-hmm bad news.
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