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morning.
It's
they're
John's not a fan.
Just say that.
They have concerts up there.
People show up.
It's really nice.
It's beautiful.
Sit out on the grass and they bother everybody else by getting in everybody's way.
And they're very cool and hip.
So hoity-toity.
I'll have to go myself and I'll be the decider.
I'll be the decider.
That's where all the elite go.
That's real fun.
There you go.
Right.
Yeah.
Dancing in the street.
Yeah.
We're gonna, we're gonna see that.
Well, you might like
When I first moved here, I was very wary of medicine, you know, being from Milwaukee, very blue collar.
And I didn't know what to expect.
But what I did,
Didn't acknowledge was that there is a certain element here in Madison and I used to call it metasensitivity.
Oh sure and It's super super liberal stuff That just drives me crazy.
It's green party stuff.
I'm not you know, I I'm all for green energy I'm just not into this green party thing and and it was just something that I
bothered me a lot and I call it mad asensitivity.
Okay.
I coined that phrase.
It's in the dictionary.
That's
it.
on
two
You
is kind of an elitist thing, and I'm just not into it.
Okay.
All
right now.
What is your Samsung?
Do you have something that you want to contribute to the weather forecast today?
I know that it's 70 degrees on the WMDX thermometer outside our window.
The official WMDX weather watch says 70 degrees currently.
Okay, so we're in agreement.
I have 79 today in a low tonight of only 71 degrees.
Okay.
Yeah.
What time is sunset?
Well, the sunset time is 841.
It's going to get any further than 841.
Okay.
on turning.
But
It's accurate.
All right.
So OK, here's here's the thing.
And I listened last night.
I listened to Pete Schwabba last night.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no.
I heard you on that program, Dom.
Oh, no.
What did he say?
I didn't listen to that.
Trump just keeps sweeping more information out of Dom's head.
And I'm just like, OK, Italian, Mr. Italian in there.
Oh, OK.
Well, that's something you have in common.
Right there.
Right.
You had work.
I'm Italian as well.
Yeah.
What's that all about?
It's smutton eggs.
really?
they
Yes.
Is that the deal?
No, I haven't
and
It's in the Valley area.
All right.
And the funny thing is, I used to go by there all the time when I was doing the census, kind of a short cut underneath the bridge, but there's no name.
There's no sign.
There's no sign.
It's Freeport Road.
You gotta know where it is.
Yeah, it's Freeport Road, but there's no sign saying this is Bennett's.
different and all that.
going
the
Goin' about it.
Alright, first
I would go with that.
Yeah.
Okay.
A little bit later on in the show in our seven o'clock hour, Amy Horak will be in with the agricultural report.
What to do with your lawn when you get all this rain and have to deal with that.
We'll be talking with her.
And oh yeah, we're gonna, I'm gonna fill you in on the something new that we have.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, we got a well the Sugar River Pizza Party.
Oh, yeah.
Oh,
yes.
I love you more about this
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Somers in the check clear yet?
Nope.
Oh, forget that.
Thank you, Todd.
I think.
parties to
Did you?
They have a beautiful location there and their other location in Verona.
Hmm.
Yeah.
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Yeah, it's that easy and then we'll get some nominations in here for that.
There are some entries in and we'll start picking out a few to go have pizza parties.
They really do, you know, and they age the dough in there and they have a special way of baking them.
And it's just, it's really, it's really a fantastic time.
So quite a bar, too.
Oh, taps.
98 beers or so.
I can't remember.
It was a lot.
There are a lot of taps in there.
A lot of taps.
And it's just a beautiful, beautiful place to have dinner.
going early.
She's going to come in here.
Now I can't shut off the faucet.
This is going to be a continuing stream of consciousness.
Yeah, you warned me.
You
you know what touched her off is the concerts on the square.
I
telling
uh, that's right,
of
hoity-toity
but the punching bag punching bag might be good.
I like that.
Yeah.
Well, look at
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I'm gonna get something off my chest right away.
Yeah, you can tell I'm a little angry about this.
This is a story I came across today, and it was in the Senate that a discussion took place between Mitch McConnell, former leader there, and a few other Republicans that were very worried about the cuts they're making, even more dramatic cuts to Medicaid.
Right?
And I just want, I was going to save this till tomorrow, but what the hell, I'm really ticked off about this one.
So McConnell gave him a little speech, you know, a little, hey, come on guys, you know?
And this is what he said.
I'm not kidding.
He said this.
I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid, but they'll get over it.
Oh, you know, people will lose their healthcare, but you know, they'll get over it.
Right.
This is the kind of attitude that these people have.
They are so far.
Yeah.
They, they talk about being for the working man.
I don't think this is something that, uh, we'll go over well with the working man.
It'll kill a lot of people, in other words.
Right.
and they call that preventable deaths.
And that will increase dramatically even after the ACA drops a whole bunch of people because people won't be able to afford their premiums each and every month because the premium supplement is going away, part of it anyway,
is
That's one of the weird things.
You know, Republicans don't like it when people get things they don't have.
Oh, you're entitled, huh?
That's something they get angry about.
And yet they're not angry about the fact that they're paying for their representatives to have health care.
But their representatives don't give a damn about giving them health care back.
Right.
Again, it's something I think the Democrats should jump on right now because when everybody starts losing their insurance it'll look like the Democrats are reacting to it instead of Proactively going after this what we got a call right now.
Let's go to the phones mark.
What do you got for us?
Well to repeat what I've said before I don't know if I said it here, but and To channel dickens once again.
Oh God to hear the insect on the leaf commenting on too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust I mean this is another whole
You know, hurry up and die and decrease the surplus population is what we're hearing from this current crop of Republicans.
That's pretty much it, yes.
Mitch McConnell should just be ashamed of himself.
I mean, the one thing, the most terrifying part of the whole Dickens thing when you see it is the two children beneath the
his presence, beneath his robes, you know, and the girl is wanting the boy's ignorance and these Republicans seem to ignore
the fact that uh... ignorance up on his brawler written doom i mean these guys are ignorant and doom is going to be because they're just so damn ignorant i mean it permits throughout the republican party these days some in parts of the democratic party to these guys just don't give a rip about it or will they'll get over it well you know some you know some won't get over because they'll be dead is that what you want mitch mcconnell and that's what you want republicans i mean it is just beyond me that they want to do this
I mean, even in the fascist countries over in Europe, like Hungary and Turkey and that they actually have national health care.
They actually have health care programs over there.
And they don't want to have, but heaven forbid, we have in this country, which is supposed to be a small L, small D, liberal democracy, but they just simply do not want to provide that kind of help.
You know, that scene out of Dickens is probably one of the most impactful scenes.
in each and every one of the film versions of it.
It's just, it's horrific.
And for McConnell, and let me just repeat that line again.
He says, I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid, but they'll get over it.
That's the attitude that they have in this country.
That's the attitude.
I can't believe, and Mark, I don't know if this is true, but can all Republicans be sociopathic?
It sounds like a negative, right?
It sounds like I'm calling them sociopaths.
But could they be all sociopaths because they live by this mantra?
Well, I mean, it's apparently well the same mantra that they allow that Anne Rand has become a secular saint to them, where we are just eaters and consumers and that democracy is actually a form of totalitarian government.
We just don't need to have it.
I mean, because that restricts the individuals right to do whatever the hell he wants to his fellow man.
And we don't need regulations at all.
I mean, it is just hell.
It's just, like you said, it's,
just don't seem to care.
too.
said, I think,
Tell that John Peterson fella.
He ought to mind his own damn business.
and shut his piehole once and for all.
Boy, he's
you, Gordon.
He's from Tennessee, I'm pretty sure.
And do we have Troy as well?
Yeah, let me see.
I mean, we probably should.
We got that
one.
Sure, we have.
Troy from Mount Horror.
Tell that bittersing guy to shut his, yeah.
I
If
All right.
He may regret that vote.
Let's go to talking about having no shame.
This is a line that Judge Swift gave the Trump administration.
Federal Judge William Young and others have mentioned this before about the Trump attitude toward ignoring court...
decisions.
Oh, yeah.
What did they have to say?
Well, Judge Young and Boston declared that Trump's termination of the NIH research grants was unlawful and arbitrary and capricious.
The ruling alleges potential racial bias, by the way.
And that's what ticked off Young.
He wanted officials to clarify the meaning of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Tell us, tell us all about it, won't you?
He raised concerns over canceled grants targeting health disparities and noted a troubling pattern of discrimination against racial minorities and the LGBTQ community.
No kidding.
Again, we have said it so many times on this show, any anti-DEI
individual
Anyway, the Trump administration shot back saying, I love this, HHS stands by its decision to end funding for research that prioritized ideological agenda over scientific rigor and meaningful outcomes for the American people.
Right.
Well, just to build on what Mark had said, in reference to those one little liners that tell you just mountains about people in terms of Mitch McConnell saying they'll get over it in reference to huge cuts to Medicaid, health care, their lives, their health, et cetera.
And anyway, there was a lovely one that our president had to, Governor Huckabee, out of her state after it had been devastated by a series of tornadoes that went through.
She applied.
as my governors do for FEMA assistance was turned down.
And apparently, Trump said to her, you'll figure something out.
There
Oh, wow.
Beautiful.
do have to add, you know, former press secretary, she said, president, appealed the decision.
And finally, I think it was about a month and a half later, was able to get some assistance.
I don't know if they got all of what they requested, but they were able to get some.
And there's this lovely picture of the governor in the Arkansas advocate, and she's standing there with some constituents,
and their
house is level, you know?
roof top all that is you'll figure something out yeah
yeah
right thanks guys
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Maybe a couple of thunderstorms along the way and highs in the upper 70s.
And coming up in our next hour, we'll talk to Amy Horak from David J. Frank, find out what you should be doing with your lawn and garden this time of year when, you know, we've got all this heat, we've got all this humidity, and then occasionally some heavy rains.
Oh, I screw up my lawn.
Yeah, what's going on with your lawn?
Goodly.
I don't think we're really political.
We're just looking at how can we make life better in the U.S.
for everybody, less expensive for everybody, safer.
more healthy.
How can we do that in this country?
It's not left or right.
It's just how can we progress?
How can we make life more accessible and healthier?
for people in this country.
We
I want to give my children and my guys, I hope they can do something with this gig economy.
The fact that I think there should be a basic income for everybody in this country because we're not getting the benefits and the pensions that we used to get.
And in some way, you know, everybody's going to be changing occupations every so often, especially with AI, things will be changing dramatically.
They're already changing dramatically.
How are we going to keep up with that?
It's going to be very difficult.
And if there was a basic income that we could spread out throughout the entire country.
We could all at least basically live and and maintain a home and buy some food But at the same time everybody wants to make some kind of money have a job somewhere I mean, that's just you know part of our DNA So if people don't want to sit on the couch and not do anything and live off the the land that doesn't happen It's just a myth the right wing created Everybody wants national income a
Yeah, if we could just do that.
Other countries have done similar things, and it seems to be working out for them.
I don't know.
I see on your screen there, you got Murkowski.
Yeah.
Lisa Murkowski is thinking about maybe being an independent or a Democrat.
Yeah.
She's rolling it over.
Bernie Sanders does.
He's an independent buddy.
He works on the Democratic side.
So that's interesting.
They could throw the whole Senate
Good morning.
Tom Hartman tells a story quite often of a U.S.
reporter interviewing a
a millionaire businessman in Germany and they're, they're sitting in an area where there's outside feeding and food being served.
And he said art, he pressed me says, well, aren't you upset that they're paying so much in taxes?
You know, you could be worth so much more money.
And I'm literally paraphrasing, but he tells reporter to look around.
So I see all these people here enjoying themselves and you know, look forward to food and promote
you know,
business throughout the community.
He said, I'd rather be surrounded by all of them, making sure that they're making a living wage than me being worth millions of millions and being surrounded by nothing but the poor.
That's a great story.
Kurt, thank you.
Appreciate it.
In fact, Hartman used to talk a long time ago about how when people are stressed out, when times are really tough and no one knows what's going to happen next, they always vote conservative.
Isn't that something?
Isn't that crazy?
And that's why...
we're seeing what we're seeing today is that they're voting conservative because they're very worried about the economy.
They have no economy to worry about.
By the way, Biden left a great economy.
We were the envy of the world.
Remember those headlines?
Yeah.
Yeah, I remember them.
So it's, you know, it's hard to imagine that everybody fell for the line that we were sinking deeper and deeper in debt and we weren't going to make it and it was destroying the country.
And that was never more false.
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