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or
Okay.
Well, let's check the weather roulette wheel, producer Dom.
Why don't you spin the wheel and see what we get here for an afternoon high.
Ooh, that's been in this morning.
It sure is.
Wow.
Look out.
Must have put some WD-40 in there or something.
82, red 82.
So you said 84, so we'll see about that.
Okay, usually right.
Yeah, you are yeah a little while from now I infected about 10 minutes or so we'll talk to Pam Yonkey Get the latest from her on what's going on the fabulous farm babe
Lots of things happening.
Do you have a good weekend?
No.
Well,
I fine tune all of the stories that we have never gotten to on this program.
I threw a lot of them out and I fine tuned it.
Now we are going to be presenting a lot of those stories during idiocracy.
Can't wait.
Going back in time.
I can't.
I almost want to bring out the time tunnel, but in this case, it's not that
I
Do you have a good weekend Dom?
I did have a good weekend.
Yeah, I brought my I brought my parents up here.
I brought my parents got to see the the wonderful world of Madison Yeah, and they enjoyed it.
They scared them.
Yeah scared them a little bit especially with that Morgan Wallen concert.
Oh boy Last few days over by
It was a good show.
The whole thing about going to Alpine Valley is trying to get out of the parking lot.
Yes.
Because it usually rains and it's a mud field.
It rained that night for the stones.
And you can't get out.
And then you sit there and wait for hours.
For a couple hours, yeah.
Traffic to filter out on a country road.
It's like, it's busier.
I never go.
You're finding
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Maybe we should dig out our
it.
With the press hats, yes.
Press.
Press, press.
Remember the press?
Yes.
three stooges?
Yeah, that was probably it.
They're trying to sneak in to someplace.
Press, press, press, and then Curly has pull.
Stole the buttons off.
I
It
the
You know, the kids have moved, you know, into their apartments now, but they'll leave a lot of stuff out in the open in the middle of the walking area and I'm thinking, well, I'm taking care of this.
These guys are never going to get back to it.
I know kids, you know, that's the way they are.
Yeah.
Oh, good.
So dad took care of it.
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Gordy are up for best radio team.
You know, I'll tell you this much.
If they're friends of Pam Yankee, they're friends of me, okay?
morning, Pam.
Do they lay your clothes up for you before you leave
job of it.
That all
Yeah, me too.
And it's kind of one of those deals where that the dairy competition side of the Wisconsin State Fair just keeps growing.
Like I said, they had 50 different classes of different dairy products that they evaluated.
That's already done.
It is part of the Wisconsin State Fair, but obviously you don't want to try to get everything done through the course of that event.
And you can imagine trying to get the experts together that are required
for this kind of a category.
You've got literally people that have to be specialists in every area of the dairy complex and then there are expertise in specific areas too.
So just wanted to give a shout out to some of our local Wisconsin cheese makers, butter makers, custard, ice cream, that's all part of the categories.
They keep expanding because there's so many new categories.
I thought it was interesting.
I looked at, for example, custards and ice creams and it looked like, to me, almost all of them, along with the fluid milk, are coming from locations along the lakeshore.
Let's say from Green Bay, right along I-43 down to Milwaukee.
I thought that was really interesting.
And then of course we've got our standard cheese makers that are really doing an excellent job.
Car Valley cheese, Cedar cheese, Bob Wilson is crew, the Emmy Roth location.
They've got plants in Madison and the Monroe area.
It looks like Klondike cheese basically dominated everything around the monster, cheese side of things.
So a lot of our local Wisconsin cheese makers now will wait and see if their entry gets them the grandmaster title at the Wisconsin State Fair.
The one everybody kind of watches grandmaster cheese maker, but they'll also select a grandmaster in all the other dairy categories too.
So I've had a couple of pictures that I was sharing about all the judging that has gone on at State Fair Park and now we'll just wait for the final announcement of the grandmasters.
That'll be coming up right before the Wisconsin State Fair.
a
I don't know about a leader, but I will tell you that because it's really interesting, I've talked to a lot of individual dairy farms that have started their own ice cream.
making a facility on the farm or gelato is another category that's growing.
And some of it seems to be the startup cost to do a small scale ice cream or custard.
It's not as huge an investment either in time or in actual physical machinery to be able to do that.
If you think about it to make cheese on the farm, you've obviously got the dairy there.
but then you also have to do different recipes, different batches.
And remember most cheese unless it's like cheese curd has to age for a little while.
That
requires not only space, but obviously some patience.
So we are seeing more and more dairies that are either going to bottling their own milk or in some cases, like I said, really getting creative with the flavor profile of gelato or ice cream.
And they are getting help from the Center for Dairy Research on the UW Madison campus.
simple things that I don't think about like crystals in ice cream or gelato.
You have to work through specific procedures and processes to make sure that's not going to turn your audience off.
So like I said, it fascinates me every time I investigate this stuff.
But remember, all these products are a good chunk of these products are going to be auctioned off during the Wisconsin State Fair, the Blue Ribbon Dairy Products auction on August 7th.
And then the money from that will be used by the Wisconsin State Fair Dairy Promotion Board.
And it all goes basically towards financial support of what we call Dairy Lane.
If you're at State Fair Park, you'll see Dairy Education platform areas and also for scholarships for kids that are pursuing careers in the dairy industry.
So kind of a full circle event coming up for Wisconsin.
Yeah, that's kind of a brand new gig.
And basically what it is, is trying to recruit rural kids.
to go to school on the UW Madison campus for College of Ag and Life Sciences.
And I hadn't thought about it.
I went to school up at UW River Falls.
But for a lot of rural kids, the campus itself can just be intimidating.
So this rural scholars program brought 30 kids from seven rural Wisconsin communities.
They got to stay on campus for four days.
So living in the dorm and getting a field for that.
And one of the gals, Tanya Cutforth,
basically said that when she talked to students after the four days, they said they had finally felt comfortable like UW Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences could be their next home.
Now we just wait and see if they enroll.
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Kurt says.
Sounds like bribery to me.
No, no, not really.
We're just celebrating the fact.
I know, you know, I had a few stories on this big bad bill and I can't read them now because it's changed.
Because they keep changing the bill.
They keep changing it.
The parliamentarian in the Senate keeps saying, that ain't gonna do it.
and then she sends it back and then they rewrite it and she looks at it again and then they approve the changes that have taken place and a lot of it is just, you know, mind-bogglingly detailed.
So we'll have that eventually.
I didn't know that they were still kind of rewriting that stuff and the Democrats were supposedly reading this off.
in
the
that we have a president coursing people to vote for a budget bill that they don't like.
Or they don't think is very good.
I mean, coercion is not the way you pass a bill, right?
I mean, you convince them by the process, by saying that this is going to do this, this and this.
And it's not just threats.
I don't know.
What a world.
What a change.
in atmosphere in this country.
Well, it's the dictatorship for you.
So he would much rather put apartheid in place.
So I'm, you know, I'm not taking his advice anytime soon.
Right.
In fact, Professor Scott Galloway, he's got an opinion on Musk as well, and I'm gonna play something from him in Idiocracy.
Okay.
Did we play Idiocracy's intro already?
No.
We did the Best of Madison.
Oh,
it.
A little snippet
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.
Here we
Galloway is, is a wonderful person.
He knows how to fine tune his message.
And he really knows his stuff about the economy.
We're going to hear his opinion in just a moment, but I want to get to a little introduction that Nicole Wallace did for Scott Galloway a while back.
And I have this, this cut here.
This is how he, she describes Scott Galloway.
Let's listen to cut 70.
Enter Scott Galloway.
New York Times has called Galloway the Howard Stern of the business world, serving up a, quote, heady cocktail of data-driven analysis that appeals to his core audience of men and gives them something they're not getting elsewhere, quote, permission to have feelings.
Galloway stands alone in his ability to crack the code of the Manosphere and not just understand that world, but reach through to them his best-selling books and podcasts.
He's an author, an entrepreneur, professor, and hosts many hit podcasts.
yeah, some
get
Somehow we've decided in America that innovation and money replaces or obviates or excuses to poverty.
cutting off aid to HIV positive mothers, deciding what veterans should get benefits, cutting off SNAP payments, which have shown to have a positive net return when people run out of money for food at the end of the month.
I mean, I think one of the wonderful things about being an American and quite frankly, for me, what it means to be a man and what I try to teach my boys is the whole point of prosperity is such that you can protect people.
And I think the two of you are more impressed with Mr. Musk than I am.
I think if somebody is making Nazi salutes, if somebody is being sued concurrently by two women for sole custody of their child, because that person has not spent any time with that child, when someone is so severely addicted to drugs, they can't get together to show up to the White House without looking exceptionally high.
I don't think that's the right role model for young men.
So what I would ask to all of us is look at what money has done to us.
That if someone can land a rocket on metal scissors or create a great AV, he's a genius.
He's the wealthiest man in the world.
But does that mean we should excuse depravity?
Does that mean unlike Bill Gates, he's not using his billions to help people?
He's not planting trees the shade of which he won't sit under?
I think this is an individual who has literally come off the tracks, who was rabidly addicted to drugs.
and is using his immense power to get people elected and that too many of us excuse what is abhorrent behavior.
I think his legacy is not going to be an EV or putting rockets into space.
I think it's going to be unnecessary death, disease, and disability of the world's most vulnerable.
That is not what it means to be an innovator.
It's not what it means to be an American.
It's not what it means to be a man.
Wow.
Yeah.
We got so tired of Elon, right?
Yeah, it's so nice to see him not around anymore, right?
Yeah.
Yeah now We still have Trump to deal with him.
Wow.
All right, but you know somebody else has kind of a Not so great opinion of things going on and it's Joanie Ernst Remember her about you know, maybe you know, everybody has to die right um well I Saved
this
laughably funny.
It is a pundit, a Republican pundit, trying to defend Joni Ernst's condescending comments.
And I thought, you know, it's so much fun to hear them dance around this and try to explain it and make it sound better than it really is.
You can't repair this.
But anyway, they try and I don't know who this is.
Like I said, it's a right wing pundit.
Let's listen to her struggle with this.
And I'm really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the Tooth Fairy as well.
What did you think about a sitting U.S.
Senator responding that way to her constituents'
concerns?
I think she was trying to do a play on words, actually, is, listen, the fear-mongering has got to stop.
We are cutting, we are not cutting Medicaid.
We're
educate up so it's there for the people that need it most.
But these town halls have gotten a little bit out of hand
with the
fear mongering and just quite frankly, the flat out lives.
Let's have an open and honest constituents.
I mean, I mean, I'm with the
Americans who are expressing concern.
Well, there's a what there's a right way and a wrong way to express the concern.
Do it in a respectful fashion and let's have a conversation.
I
they're
for the conversation
Yeah,
of this.
that has been
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Then it should stop it nationwide because that's the way it's always been.
The Constitution applies to the entire country.
And that's the way it's been.
That's the way it's been.
Until now.
How they made that change is stunning to me.
I don't get it.
I wish Jim Santel was here right now because I have so good questions.
Done with the Supreme Court.
I've never seen a more radical Supreme Court in my entire life.
I am, you know, all weekend I was just pacing, I was thinking, why didn't we just change the number of people on the Supreme Court?
Why didn't we do that?
We listened to the old Democrats.
Oh, we can't do that.
Everything's
Well, you know, it's just one of those things and we really have to, you know, change the way things are.
Although I, you know, I really have
I don't want to see Governor Evers go.
I think that he should run for election.
Really?
Again.
Dan Schaffer is saying, no, no.
You know, he's great.
He's good.
I really like him.
I think he does well.
But he's too old.
My ass is too old.
Well, he's your
Stop it.
Yes.
Yes, he's my age.
So I think that has something to do with it.
It has a lot to do with it.
I feel insulted, Dan.
OK, that was a hidden reason why I didn't want to tell anybody.
But thank you, Gordy, for telling everybody my secret.
Well.
But I don't think, you know, it's time to turn them out
not up
This market poll came out, OK?
And it seemed like, you know, people were tipping toward not having him run again in the poll.
Right.
But if you broke down the poll...
you'd find out that like 91 or 92% of the Democrats want to see him run it down.
And the only reason it looks like they don't want to see him run again, it's because like 98% of the Republicans don't want him to run again.
So we can't go by.
that poll, that's ridiculous.
So let's please, I want to see him run.
He's, he's moderate.
And I think
the
tell us
here.
There's gotta be some waste, fraud, and abuse.
There's no question about that 600 billion dollars.
There's waste, fraud, and abuse throughout government.
There's no question about that, and we have to go after waste, fraud, and abuse.
No.
But let's recognize that two-thirds of the people in nursing homes are paid for with Medicaid.
Right.
It's senior citizens.
But you can
see that there is room to trim in that area.
No.
Yeah, but what we're seeing from
what we've been seeing so far.
A lot of it's just been reckless.
You have
to have a plan.
It can't just be reckless and just cut, cut, cut without a plan as to how you're going
to still deliver the important service.
That's right.
So there's agreement that something should be done.
Just a question on how to do it from your perspective.
all
this.
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