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Styrofoam, you know?
over there and
Good morning and happy Tuesday.
I think so.
July 8th.
The sunshine this morning.
Another beautiful morning.
It's amazing.
Pretty low humidity.
It's going to be warming up to a high near 80 today.
And we might see a shower at thunderstorms afternoon.
Yeah, that's what I check your Samsung X watch
That's good.
A little bit later on, we'll be talking to Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society.
Get the latest from her and find out about some pets that are up for adoption.
And then we're going to be talking with Jim from Madison Hearing Aid Center.
in our second hour, in our seven o'clock hour, and get caught up with them with Jim and Sarah, right?
Well, that's good, yes, yes.
I think it's, I'm not sure if both of them are coming in or just Jim, but in any case, they'll be here.
Jim and Sarah, yeah.
They'll be here from Madison Hearing Aid Center.
All right.
So.
Yeah, good day yesterday.
I did it.
Oh man, did I have a good day?
I didn't get the lawnmowed unfortunately.
Oh you didn't?
What the hell were you doing man?
You said you were out and about.
I was like, I was thinking about it and I thought, well why should I mow the lawn on my birthday?
I really shouldn't do it.
I shouldn't strain myself.
I just relaxed.
You rewarded yourself.
Take it easy.
I rewarded myself.
Oh that's really nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What did you do?
You texted me at one point.
Yes.
And I went out and I was shopping for an EV.
Yeah.
And I am completely unfamiliar with EV.
I've never driven one.
I haven't been in one.
I haven't been in a modern car in thousands of years.
I went home after looking at the CV.
I took it off for a test drive.
And I told my wife, I said, well, welcome to the Stone Age family here.
Man, I'm
and it's
The
and
So I went out and I looked and man, it's gorgeous, absolutely, I'm sold on it.
Sadly, I have certificates of deposit with all my money.
And I'm wondering how am I going to get at least one of those out.
This would be my comic book money.
But I'm thinking a modern car with all the conveniences, with all the warning systems in place.
Tells you you know pedestrian is walking you know car in front of you stops you stop automatically I was fascinated by the button on the on the council.
There's like automatic parking and
It has a very, very smooth dashboard screen.
And it's sectioned into two, but it's absolutely gorgeous.
I don't remember seeing that when I was on CarGuru.
Which is, you know, the app I check out all these cars with.
I mean, you can find out, you know, what's a good deal, an average deal or a bad deal from there.
You have to go there.
It's the best car app because the other ones kind of throw you into new car dealerships.
Okay.
You're going line
Where?
Do you?
No, seriously.
You gotta take a picture.
That's gonna scare me.
I don't think I'm gonna do that good tonight.
I don't think I'm gonna do that good at all, but
So you're going with your girlfriend Isabella?
Correct.
Correct.
Okay.
And in another person?
Does she roommate?
Yeah, roommate as well.
Does she know how to line dance?
She knows how to dance, so it's better than me.
Of course they do.
Yeah, right?
I'm going to take two steps.
I'm going to lose where I'm going.
is a terrible
Next question!
Okay, alright, I think I had an idea of what's going on here.
Well, you know, I've been told.
I don't want to see him.
I don't even want to-
So you want to see them and smash them, right?
But if it's a room full of them, you know, it'd be scary.
Gathering
I didn't think the question would turn to that.
Okay, last and final question.
We got about a minute and a half, alright?
Would you rather spend an hour going back in time to observe the dinosaurs, and you can pick the time period, or would you want to spend an hour on another planet?
Oh, this one's a lot.
This one's a little high.
I want to see the dinosaurs.
I want to see the dinosaurs too.
I agree.
I would go to another planet.
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We indeed will do that.
Jim
well, you know, it's not easy
not
No.
It's not easy working with him.
Oh well.
No kidding.
I guess he wouldn't have made those promises then, right?
Apparently, should have.
The thing is, there would be peace in the world if Trump were president.
We heard it over and over and over again during the Biden administration.
And now as we're experiencing Trump as the president, it ain't happening.
It hasn't happened.
And I guess the Megas aren't bringing it up very often, like CJ or my mega friend in Milwaukee.
Yeah, never bring this stuff up.
No, no.
Kind of gotten worse.
Of course, then better.
And then the surprise announcement, you know.
Pam Bonnie is the second biggest liar in the administration and that's saying a lot.
You
know,
But she said they were sitting right on her desk.
And she even said that it's quite the list.
Yeah, it's quite the list.
Yeah, but now it doesn't exist.
No, there is no list.
No list.
No.
She was, she made a mistake.
No pictures.
Apparently not.
No.
And a lot of people have seen those pictures.
Apparently.
You know, it was another sheet another list It was a Christmas list that they had and sure they accidentally Bought it was something else.
That must be it.
Yeah
I don't know how these things just float by, they let it happen, and the media just moves right out because they've got another story, another disaster.
And now we're looking at what's happening in Texas, and a lot of people are pointing fingers this way and that.
morning.
Human evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence with no natural predators to thin the
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There was a place without boundaries, a place without limits.
Welcome to Costco.
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It's time for idiocracy.
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Idiocracy.
Yes.
I
He sent me a video yesterday from X and it was apparently some kind of ganglin war out on somebody's deck.
They were having a party, a lot of people on that deck and everybody ducked and covered as everybody was like, you know, firing away at each other.
Yeah, people were freaked out.
It was crazy.
I just casually looked at it because it's so disturbing.
And I texted back to him and I said, this is what guns bring to society.
You know, I think this was a scorching indictment
course they all
very
But anyway, he wrote this, it's never the guns, it's the heart of man.
And he has been saying that for years and years.
It's, it's not the guns.
It's, it's the people that are firing them.
Okay.
Now here's the thing.
And I thought of this after I read that, I thought, wait a minute.
So you want to put the cart ahead of the horse on this one.
Right?
Why not?
See, he's suggesting that if you just changed the heart of man, it's okay, then guns will be fine.
Why not do that first?
Right?
Take the guns away.
You know change the heart of man first and then give them the guns Hmm, but he instead wants to keep the guns out there right give them the guns But then try to change each and every heart out there to make sure that they're using the guns in a proper way Mmm.
Well, let me just, here's a little comment on the upside down world that we live in.
You were talking about Ted Cruz previously.
There's a wonderful article in The Guardian about not only was he trips around Greece and as this event was happening in his backyard, he had this wonderful line where he finally got home on Monday and he said, the fact that you girls are sleeping in their cabins when flood waters are rising,
Something went wrong there.
We got to fix it.
We have to have a better system of warnings to get kids out of harm's way.
Note also that Ted Cruz specifically in the big bill before he went on vacation, he got a $150 million fund that would accelerate advances in improvements in observation systems, modeling, forecasting.
taken out of the budget.
So
$150 million to do what he was just talking about.
He was responsible for eliminating somebody who's taken care of his state.
So again,
Just another chapter in upside down world.
Yeah, it
Yes.
So end of discussion.
put some warning system in there.
They didn't have a warning system to specifically warn these campers to leave the premises to go.
And, you know, they're right on the river and it overflowed and swept their entire camp away.
And it was just devastating.
America is the greatest country in the world, and I fight the nasty America last Democrats in Washington to keep it that way.
I fight against gun control.
Open borders.
trans agenda coming for your kids and women's sports.
And I blow away the reckless government spending on my Doge subcommittee.
Under Joe Biden, Democrats gave away trillions to illegal aliens, the Green News scam, and their NGO, Deep State Friends, to destroy our country.
But America elected Donald Trump, and now I'm working by his side to make America great again.
And we are fighting to protect our faith, families, and
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Why enter to
win
this gun?
Because in America,
Yeah, and I'll always fight for your right to keep and bear arms.
why is she
I guess, yeah, it was devastating, just unbelievable.
But again, nothing, this is a manufactured world that they live in.
Where we're gonna end the country, we give lots of money to illegal immigrants, all of this stuff.
It's just fantasy.
I'm not even sure really.
Yeah, do I know him?
Is he where does he try?
All right, treasury secretary.
Oh, treasury secretary.
Oh, the guy that's always smiling.
The stiff guy.
Yeah.
Yeah, barely gets an expression on his face.
But he always has a happy smile.
Yes, he does.
Even if he's talking about horrible things.
and calls them alarmists.
Is that true?
Do you think so?
In Tennessee, Medicaid is 10 care and 1.6 million are covered by it.
310,000 are projected to lose their coverage.
Most of it is aimed at those who are already working.
So nice work here, Scott.
You know, they've got to fill out all this paperwork.
They've got to find their W-2s or the current W-2s in order to reapply every six months, not a year, six months.
What about those who don't have access to the internet?
Right?
Yeah.
Do you find it easy to fill out forms on your phone?
No.
All right.
So anyway, let's listen to Scott being quizzed about this.
Well, inevitably,
force the people who need that Medicaid coverage off the rolls?
Well, first of all, it's the Republicans are not the most vocal on this.
It is a group of Democrats who unfortunately seem to think that poor people are stupid.
I don't think poor people are stupid.
I think they have agency.
And I think to have them register twice a year for these benefits that is not a burden.
But
want to infantilize the poor and those who need these Medicaid benefits are alarmist.
time
You got to go through the whole thing every time, twice
And that's what takes people off the rolls, just continually doing something like that, like they've got time or the internet to do it.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says Trump
put rural hospitals at risk.
He says work requirements are just red tape for everybody to get kicked off.
Let's listen to, uh, and sure.
Well, we want everybody that can work to work.
And right now in Kentucky, we have the most people working, the most jobs filled in the largest workforce.
in our history and that is with our current Medicaid structure.
That's because these work requirements really aren't about getting people
back
to work.
They are about increasing the paperwork on everybody.
That's the senior because 70% of our long-term care costs are covered by Medicaid.
And that's children as well with half of Kentucky's kids covered by Medicaid.
These work requirements aren't just for specific people.
Everybody else has to check all the boxes saying they're not able-bodied.
And what happens is when somebody misses that one box,
They are kicked off for six months or more, Governor, meaning families have to take that parent or grandparent in.
It means they have to cover all those other costs.
All this is is is more red tape meant to kick people who should get Medicaid off of Medicaid.
Governor, I just asked that very question to the Treasury Secretary about the increase in red tape and his responses.
Democrats think poor people are stupid.
It's amazing.
Listen, I know a lot of people on Medicaid.
These are our parents with special needs children that could have never covered it otherwise.
These are busy people all working two jobs already to support that child.
And now if they miss a deadline, if they miss checking a box, look at what happens.
I mean, you can lie all you want about what's in this bill, but the numbers are the numbers.
The predictions by the Congressional Budget Office are there.
It's going to devastate rural health care, all while adding trillions of dollars to our
national debt, and it's going to upend every state budget across the country.
You know what's sad is that while Democratic governors are speaking out, we're not speaking out because we're Democrats.
We're speaking out because we're supposed to be the best governors of our states that we can be.
All these Republican governors that aren't saying a thing, where their rural hospitals are going to close, where they're going to see massive layoffs and people lose their coverage, that's pretty sad.
You know, our jobs is to stand up for and represent our people, and I wish people would get back to that.
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He didn't spend a lot of time.
He got a bunch of studio musicians just went in there and went for it.
It's one of his great albums.
It really is a really great album.
He didn't think that much of it in later years.
So anyway, this portion of the show is, oh, I know what I wanted to mention.
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So let's start with pancake because everyone likes pancakes in the morning So pancake is an adult female cat.
She's mostly orange with white on her face chest stomach and legs She's extremely shy,
but
with patience and gently spoken words She may slowly approach to check you out She'll start asking for pets
I was meeting with her yesterday.
It was my first time.
And she was at first unsure.
And then slowly she approached me as I kept going, oh, aren't you pretty little thing?
Aren't you so pretty?
And she came up and she let me pet her head and she kept head bumping me.
And then she started to purr.
And she did this little dance.
There wasn't quite biscuits because she then would add a little spin to it.
such a little cutie.
just wanted more.
So she can be easily overwhelmed.
So she's looking for a very quiet home with a patient family.
He's going to give her the time she needs to feel safe and loved.
So let me call you, Chase Worth the Wade.
really Let me just remind everybody why I wanted to say this at the beginning of this segment that this portion of the Dane County Humane Society In our visit with these animals that are up for adoption is brought to us by our friends at Serenity Pet Spa Absolutely, Renny Pet Spa our sponsor of this segment.
Okay continue Lisa
So then we have a dog named Cinder Cinder is five years old
She's a black Labrador retriever mix who's nearly 70 pounds.
She was surrendered to us in late June because her family is facing health
issues.
She's super friendly, sweet, and very loyal.
She enjoys receiving pets, but hasn't expressed a lot of interest in playing with toys.
We've been told that she knows sit, down, come, and stay.
She can pull a little bit on the leash, especially when she's seen those critters running around in the wild.
So that's why we're recommending that she doesn't go to a house with cats.
She may chase them.
And she's lived with another dog previously and did well.
So she might enjoy living with another dog in the future.
Obviously full introductions.
Uh, it also might help her ease, put her at ease when she's left alone because she doesn't quite like that that much.
Uh, she's looking for a family to spoil her with lots of pets and loves, love and some
So this.
is a Lips McGee.
Okay.
He's just a little baby.
So he's young.
He's listed as a white Chinese Sharpay mix.
And he's got chubby little cheeks.
Yep.
Some look like a hamster.
So he was found straight in Madison a couple days before the fourth.
He's very energetic because he's still puppy.
He's wiggly.
He can be jumpy.
But he'll sit quickly for treats.
He
loves to play, loves to cuddle.
But he has a lot to learn.
So he's looking for someone who's going to invest that time with him while also spoiling him with fun adventures and lots of love and treats.
He is adorable.
Everybody loves him.
Visit our website at giveshelter.org or stop by our shelter.
So today we're open from 2 to 7 p.m.
and then we're closed on Wednesdays, but we'll be open again on Thursday at noon.
Lisa Bernard, thank you for joining us.
We appreciate that and hopefully we'll get those pets new homes real soon.
Very good.
All right, Lisa.
Thank you.
Talk to you in a couple of weeks.
That's Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society brought to you by Serenity Pet Spa.
All right.
Coming up in our seven o'clock hour, we're going to talk to Jim and Sarah from Madison Hearing Aid Center.
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