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Please don't 60 high of 83 according to the watch 83 in a low of 64 tonight, you know, I have to laugh because You know, we've had pretty hot days here in the last couple of weeks, right and my son likes to take a walk
Early evening, sometimes late at night, but he wears a lighted strap.
But here's the thing, he wears, he wears a hoodie.
In this weather...
He wore the hoodie
Hey, I got a big kid here.
I was shopping at Costco many years ago, and I got one of their rain-resistant jackets.
And there's nothing to them except just the shell.
And you put it on, and it really does shed the rain.
pretty well and it's hooded.
And now we put that on, not for the rain, but for the mosquitoes outside.
I mean, it is so bad out there in our
yard.
Yes,
She's allergic to mosquitoes When she gets bit it's just basically like a huge ball on her arm and everything really bad Yeah, yeah, I've never heard of anyone allergic to mosquitoes.
Yeah, but she is one of them and yeah, she doesn't like it What's your sister's name?
Vanessa
Vanessa, you have other, you have brothers and sisters?
I also have a brother too.
Yeah, my brother's two years younger and then my sister's five years younger.
Oh, what's your brother's name?
Brandon.
Okay.
Now you
Because, uh, the big bad bill had some things that, uh, dealt with AG.
Mm-hmm.
The Wisconsin budget had a lot of things that had to do with AG.
So we had a few things to talk about.
You know, how the money is being...
spread out throughout the state.
They're finally releasing some of that money.
It's really crazy, isn't it?
Again, I'm shocked at this.
I'm shocked they kept a billion dollars hidden away.
Yeah, because you know this they could have given that away as a tax cut as well, but they didn't they left
or
it
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I haven't been out there yet, but everybody says it's just a wonderful place.
So Dondren's Distilling, well, you know, they're going to foot the bill and we're going to go to a brewer's game with some lucky
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That's something I do.
That's why I'm making it out.
I would do that, I would say.
You would do that.
You know, we are kind of busy.
Oh, well, you know, we got to do the dishes.
But
check out the V9.
Yeah, they have them
Still, at Costco, they were on sale last time I looked.
But anyway, it charges up in the base.
You can take it outside, use the battery for that, blow the mosquitoes away.
Really?
With that fan, you can blow them away and just sit out there and enjoy yourselves.
The fan just, mosquitoes can't handle the wind.
You know that.
Little wind.
They're up all the way.
They're afraid to come out.
I did know that, I guess.
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Little piece of history from some book, some place, written up in a review, but they talk about the old days when people had popcorn.
They put it in a bowl and poured milk on it, and it was their breakfast cereal.
Popcorn.
Popcorn with milk?
Yes, popcorn with milk.
You don't have the butter on it.
You don't have the salt, obviously, but you do have the popcorn.
This is Johnny Gordy in the morning.
I don't know why I brought that up, but I didn't know either.
Thank you.
Well, it must be must be the vitamins.
Yes, so new vitamins.
All right.
Well, let's go.
Oh, you have something.
Good morning, fellows.
Yeah, that one I had not heard before.
I mean, it kind of makes sense if you're looking for calories and something to crunch on.
But
Yeah.
I don't know if I'm even intrigued to try that one.
For me, popcorn is all about the butter and the
For the rest of the day.
Yeah.
You
Yeah, you know, I don't want to make anybody's head spin after a Fourth of July weekend.
But yeah, there is a lot of detail that we're still breaking down from the budget that was passed last week, guys.
And so much of it is about Wisconsin agriculture.
So just a couple of highlight points that people should be aware of.
There's about million, little over a million dollars that's being dedicated to dairy processing grants.
Really, this is designed to keep Wisconsin's dairy infrastructure healthy.
So processing capacity, innovation, efficiency,
meat processors, although this was something that really became glaringly obvious during the pandemic when we had a difficult time processing all our livestock.
The commitment financially stays in place with about $1.6 million for facilities to upgrade or improve their meat processing facilities.
That's always good.
We've got watershed grants out there.
So when farmers put in conservation related processes or maybe they need to put in some mechanism that helps with
management or something like that.
Sometimes they turn to the state for a little financial assistance.
It doesn't pay for the whole project, but it helps.
offset some of the costs and they put two million dollars in that producer led watershed grants and that money is distributed across the state.
That's one of those areas I think we've talked about before where now in Wisconsin literally almost every county has a producer led watershed grant or producer led watershed where farmers are voluntary farmers and landowners voluntarily coming together to do these conservation projects but like I said every once in a while they need a dollar or two so two million in that.
They're also looking at the Farm Center mental health vouchers.
They're going to keep another $100,000 in that so that folks can turn to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and their Farm Center for mental health vouchers, different support mechanisms there.
Also, we all know and have been paying attention to what's going on with the federal monies for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP.
Well, Wisconsin is keeping $10 million in play for food security grant programs.
So that should help provide direct grants to our nonprofit food banks, help them purchase Wisconsin grown and processed food, which is something that most of them are already trying to do.
So they've got about $10 million that they can try to lean on there.
know it's not nearly enough, but it's something.
We're also putting a half a million dollars in to help with tuition costs to train new commercial drivers, CDL driving, you know, if you're a semi driver.
that's got CDL or those kinds of certifications, you're so valuable, not just to agriculture, because we need CDLs, but to think about all the milk trucks that get hauled.
Think about all the product that's got to move from place to place.
We need more CDL drivers, and that's going to help them with offsetting some of the tuition costs there.
The other thing is they put another $20 million aside for what they call the Dairy Cattle Innovation Program.
This is one where we're still going to be waiting on details, but really it's designed
for farmers to invest in on-farm equipment or technology upgrades, a lot of software and things like
that that
will help them improve efficiency, animal care, and long-term viability for the dairy sector.
This should go directly to farms and stop and think about the heat we experienced over the weekend, fellas.
Every time that you turn the switch on for an air conditioner, a sprinkler or something like that, it's money out of a farmer's pocket.
So hopefully some of this technology would help us, especially on those kind of high-stress situations.
That's something that was decided late in the budget process.
I still need to work on details and how we might be able to execute that.
cool out of the
And like I said that, and even to your point about renewable energy, that's one under the big beautiful that I still have to fair it through today and see how much money remains for all those solar arrays, wind, you know, whatever renewable energy.
I know that there was a lot of discussion about stripping that out.
So I got my work cut out for me on Monday.
Just a little bit, just a little heavy, heavy reading for the farm babe.
early soon.
That's the way I'm hearing and for some of those solar arrays, for example, that were forced to kind of get their panels outside the United States.
I understand that there's a tax that could be leaned against them starting after 2026.
So like I said, I've got to check in with my renewable energy folks and find out what their read is on the big, beautiful bill that signed in.
There's a lot of agriculture in that too, but I think we're going to probably have to wait until maybe Friday to discuss
corner.
with no natural predators to thin the
There is a place without boundaries.
A place without limits.
Welcome to Costco.
I love you.
A place that is about to be violated.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Idiocracy.
in the
Here we are.
Yep.
6 36.
It's a cool start this morning.
Yeah, not so humid either 60 degrees highs in the low 80s today.
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What a deal there.
Wow.
They're not good negotiators at all.
Got this from NPR.
Get ready to pay a whole lot more for products from Vietnam while businesses importing the goods charge Americans more.
And Trump rakes it in for the federal government.
Here's the deal on it.
Okay.
This is the deal.
Vietnam is going to pay.
Well, they don't pay.
Actually, but anyway, the products coming from Vietnam will be charged 20% tariff.
Okay.
That's not a great deal, right?
This is not a very good deal.
No.
So anyway, what, what does the US get?
Nothing.
No tariffs.
Somebody better.
Get in government in Vietnam and negotiate these things a little bit better.
So anyway, Vietnam says, okay, you know, 20%, okay,
Lutnik.
Get in there, Lutnik.
What is with...
No, that guy you know a lot of people are saying he doesn't know much about tariffs or how any of this works And I I believe in it I do I believe that too now you know now that I turned in my resignation at at the census now I can actually start talking about it I can't reveal secret information because it's all private.
I'm sworn for life
really
if you're
everybody in this country and spread it around.
But here's the thing.
Now the census, the administration wants to take out all immigrants who were swept up in the census.
They want to take those people out like they did the first time Trump got into office.
They wanted to not count immigrants in this country.
But the Constitution states that you have to count everybody on US soil.
Yes, yeah, we got to count everybody here because they count you know, I mean they eat they use energy We got to know what's going on.
They are in districts.
They're part of the population we Count people in the population.
That's what's good about the census.
It does specifically that That's what it's all about what it does count the people.
Yes.
So now again, they're trying to not count immigrants in
All of this.
You know, they're trying to do so much stuff.
And the problem I have, of course, with Trump, and I mentioned this a few times, he's micromanaging.
the U.S.
economy.
How do you do that?
You can't.
You can't, obviously.
And that's why things aren't working out the way they should.
All right, now let's move on to another big project.
Project 2025.
All right.
I got a web wisdom here.
Cut 31.
And, you know, remember Joni Ernst saying that we're all going to die.
Right.
I mean, basically that's their philosophy.
I
mean, if
I want to talk about the ultimate plan that Trump and Musk and Project 2025 have for us.
Ordinary people who aren't billionaires.
And I'm not exaggerating when I say the ultimate plan they have for us is for us to die.
That plan, having a policy that tries to make sure that people aren't super rich, die or die young, has a name that's been around for almost 200 years.
Social murder.
And if you don't believe me, look at what Doge and Elon Musk did with the National Weather Service.
Musk, Doge, cut the National Weather Service right before tornado season in the South.
That's
right.
And what's happening?
People are now experiencing, in Kentucky, soon elsewhere, tornadoes without warning.
And in Kentucky, people just died.
The GOP is passing a budget basically created by Project 2025 that's going to cut Medicaid to such a degree that over 8 million people, over 8 million people are going to lose their health care.
What's going to happen?
Yeah, people are going to die.
Across the board from workplace safety, food safety, air and water quality, everything's going to be degraded.
more people are gonna die.
You and me.
So why are they doing this?
Which the Christian right, by the way, is 100% behind.
Doesn't sound very Christian or moral to me to let people die.
It's because they ardently believe that the role of government exists simply to make wealthy people even wealthier.
Regulations and rules that allow you and me to live a little longer, that's not part of their equation.
And we know long term it has never been part of their equation because Americans flat out don't live as long as their counterparts in Western Europe.
And in fact, our lifespans have been declining.
The goal of Trump and Moscow Project 2025 is to make sure by policy that you and me don't live as long.
of use to them as young, able-bodied workers.
Off we go.
why are people voting for this?
Voting for their lives
shorter and shorter every year because a billionaire class has been successful at distracting the working class by saying don't worry about that.
Don't worry about the fact that you're not gonna live as long.
There are trans playing sports.
Worry about that instead.
And somehow we've got to wake people up and that's not being woke.
Wake people up to the fact
that they have been conned.
Yeah, I found this...
this morning, actually, it's a cut, well, not a cut, it's a quote from Trump.
He's saying, Democrats are blaming your federal cuts for the death over Texas, a reporter asks Trump, who could not audibly hear this reporter.
So we just said, I can't hear you.
And he moved on to another reporter and then asked later,
if he had plans to look into whether the cuts at the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency left key positions vacant, Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutek shook their heads.
Okay?
Trump said, they didn't.
They didn't.
They didn't plan on looking into this.
That's very comforting.
He says, I'll tell you.
You look at that water situation.
That was really the Biden set up.
Oh, what blaming Biden?
Yes, that was not our setup.
What do
you
he just
I would just say this is a hundred year catastrophe and it's just so horrible to watch.
It's not so much a hundred year catastrophe anymore.
We have global climate change here and it's happening all the time.
He's not obviously reading about the natural disasters all across the United States.
Apparently he's missing that.
Yeah.
He missed that one.
Skip that one.
He did.
He did.
All right.
How about the big lie about men, healthy men, sitting around watching TV all the time and not getting out there working and collecting Medicaid benefits, right?
Well, okay.
First of all, you don't get Medicaid benefits.
If you get sick, you use Medicaid, but normally you're not using it.
So all these healthy men out there watching TV, they're not using Medicaid because they're healthy.
It's not an issue.
And if it was an issue, if they did have an accident of some sort
or
some kind of healthy vent, they'd have to be taken care of anyway in the emergency department because that's how the government is set up in this country.
We take care of people when they're in need.
So regardless,
It's ridiculous to say that healthy people should be working, but they shouldn't be on Medicaid.
And I just think that's, you know, absolutely ridiculous because Medicaid is not used by healthy people.
But what's this
It's Americans on the Medicaid piece, though.
There's obviously going to be a big debate about this.
I mean, there are like almost five million able-bodied people on Medicaid who simply choose not to work.
They spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.
And if you can't get off grandma's couch and work, I
don't know where you're getting those.
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no,
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The guy's couch.
It's grandma's couch.
How did grandma's couch get in there?
Throwed grandma under the bus.
Apparently.
What's not her fault?
She's got a couch.
Make it sound worse, right?
And by the way, if you're watching and they always blame them for watching video games or playing video games all day, right?
Well, if you're playing video games, you'd know that they're damn awful expensive.
You got to have a job if you're going to play video games because you got to buy extra things
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Happy
Happy birthday to you.
It's Gordy's birthday.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
Happy birthday to you.
Thank you.
Art Paul, this is
Happy birthday.
And Martin got back to us.
I was wondering if it was one of those connections you put on a hose and then it mists the area and keeps it cool and also may get rid of those mosquitoes.
Well, he
got back to us and said it's actually a hose and sprayer is what it is.
You spray the lawn with it and it mixes it with the hose water and that's it.
Okay.
So that's easy.
That's something
to do.
Thank
you, Doug.
Good morning guys.
Happy birthday.
I think art Paul slasher would do a better job Cementing these trade deals and these clowns we have in charge right now Right, but I wanted to mention I was watching this running man movie over the weekend One with the game show that they kill criminals, you know
And the scrolling text in the beginning where they described the world that you're about to enter, right?
It basically said that the American economy had collapsed.
The only source of any kind of economic function is the police state and the security forces.
It's basically a fascist America,
And the irony there is that...
They have this game show to distract the masses, right?
Give them something to pay attention to while they destroy everything.
And imprison people, everything else.
And then I look at my phone during it and like Trump wants to have UFC fights at the White House.
That's
Yeah.
And they're adding a hundred billion to the police state for ICE to go in and beat people up and wants to deport anyone that doesn't, isn't white and Christian apparently.
Yeah.
very odd.
Well, the bad part is we don't have a hero.
Where's our Arnold to come in and lead the resistance?
Right.
Well,
Well, thanks,
that out again.
Yeah, it was a fun watch.
and people are talking about coal and we're gonna in people are talking about coal again, which I think is great God put it in the ground.
Let's use it everybody across the world using it and they're passing us by and the president wants to get out of bed with with stuff that doesn't matter like like solar and wind, you know, we haven't had a major discovery in solar in over 20 years and wind is
is very subjective and it's very expensive.
And there's a reason, as President Trump told me, I believe it was thirsty.
that, you know, there's no, there's no windmills in China, but they, but 99% of them, of them that are sold are made in China.
So I think there's a lot of things in there that are going to happen.
It's going to be great for this country.
Yeah.
You can imagine.
How did God know we would dig up coal in the first place and then burn it, think of it, thinking of burning it and did God make coal deadly also?
You know, taking it out of the earth and then inhaling whatever is left of the burnt coal.
So God had a lot in mind, I guess, one way to kill us.
And let's get to the solar discoveries that have been constant.
They have solar discovery, new innovations with solar.
So
They keep improving the efficiency and output of solar.
And solar and wind are already less expensive than coal and natural gas.
It's just the infrastructure, putting that in, that's expensive and raising their bills.
The bills better come back down, I tell you, once we have all this stuff up.
So why don't we get to this cut here.
This is, finally, this is Trump, where he actually told everybody about the windmills.
does.
From ruining our
fields and our valleys and killing all the birds and having very, being very weak and very expensive, all made in China.
You know, I noticed something that with all of the windmills that China sends us, well, we waste our money because it's the most expensive energy.
No, it actually isn't.
I see that, you know, they make about 95% of them, the wind turbines.
I have never seen a wind farm in China.
Why is that?
Somebody check that out.
Tom Emmer, would you please check that
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