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We're truly sorry.
Those are here.
You want to trade?
What?
No, it doesn't matter.
We'll look at it later who took all the
But somebody comes in and rearranges everything just to irritate us.
Yeah, just this time the headphones kind of moved them all over the place,
Yeah.
We had four or five sets of headphones in here before, and now we have three, and one of them is way on the other side of the room.
That's right, that's right.
And then when it was over there, nowhere near you, you had no headphones here.
Yes.
So just moments ago.
I'm done.
Well, now we're back at it.
Thank goodness.
around.
Oh, no kidding, really.
They don't look like that.
But they were
and he
is a
We should do it.
OK, I'm ready.
But on the poll, let me get to it now.
That's a first camber thing.
Yeah, hang on.
Oh yeah, we got the poll.
That's not it.
That's not it.
That's not it.
Here it is.
I want to read it precisely here.
Yes.
As soon as I can find it.
You know, the funny thing is, you know,
Sometimes.
There you go.
I think it's fine.
What else would be the heart of Madison, other than State Street?
State Street is the heart.
It is.
And we're right, you know, we're a block off the Capitol right in the heart of the heart.
I guess we're the ventricle band.
What belt would that be?
Well, I think there's a blockage.
Okay.
We need the fibulators in here.
Oh wait, hang on, she's on the phone.
Let's get it going here.
Good morning, Cass.
We
That's what I was calling about.
Jesus Christ.
I'm just lying here, waiting to get up.
You're telling me you can't find it.
It's not on your page.
It is on the home page.
I thought you'd like this one because you're always talking about state streets.
But I think we
Oh, okay.
I should have done that.
now, it's 100%.
Yeah,
yes, it is the heart.
That's your
Willie Street.
Yes.
Well, that's the soul of Madison.
Oh, I would say.
The state street is the heart, again with the aorta and the ventricle.
Valves and they're okay.
All right.
There we go.
Okay.
Never go twice.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you, Catherine.
All right.
Straighten that up.
I'm glad we got that.
Did we do the weather?
I feel better.
67 right now.
77 for high today showers and storms.
Hey, it's 7 11 day.
It's the 11th
Yeah.
right.
I would show fur.
I would you show fur.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean man roommate already is one, so oh Easy enough, you know, you drive, you don't drive.
No man, he drives me around everywhere.
He drive you here this morning?
No, not only to work.
No, but everywhere else.
He loves driving.
He got a new car and everything.
Sorry, Mason, I'm sorry.
You sit in the back?
Well, I'm
Oh, yeah.
We will reveal that.
Oh, I don't think we have time to play that at the moment.
Have to be next, yeah.
And we'll come back with that.
And Rocker will be in the studio with the Max Ink preview in our 7 o'clock hour.
Excellent.
Yeah.
That's all I got on my list.
You got anything on your list?
Well, we got a few stories, you know.
Yeah, of course.
I hate to bring that up.
Bring everybody down.
We've got
96.
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Okay, now it's time for us to check in with the fabulous farm, babe.
Pam Yonkey.
Good morning, Pam.
Good morning, gentlemen.
How are we doing today?
right.
So tomorrow about one o'clock I'll be up in Salt County in Baraboo helping the youth up there with their annual livestock auction and then next week is the Dane County Fair and I'll be out there Friday evening is the youth livestock auction.
I'll be
announcing that show and then Saturday, next Saturday, my Farm Bay Boogie tractor parade where we invite anybody that's got a tractor to come and join us.
No charge.
It's just an opportunity for us as those tractor owners to show the non-farm consumers
that have little kids that play with tractors on the carpet every day or the sandbox, see the real deal.
So that'll be Saturday starting at about 11 AM.
We'll be parading around the Dane County Fairgrounds, park the tractors, let families get close, take pictures, and then I'll buy the driver's lunch.
And then when we get done with that.
parade off.
So yeah, fair season is in full flex.
Not our tractors, but as I understand it, the Dane County Fair does have some tractor rides, but not the private tractors that show
much of a parade route but I mean we you know let's face it tractors in Madison people start thinking protestors something like that.
We kind of keep it close to the fairgrounds and for safety's sake we don't want to stretch our
uh, you know security personnel too much so but but like I said what I am always amazed at is those tractors are like a kid magnet when you get to the fairgrounds you're you might be you're like geez there's nobody here doesn't look like there's anybody here and then we turn on the tractors we get in line
and just the you know just the way a tractor engine sounds I swear it reverberates with anybody under the age of 10 and all of a sudden you see these swarms of families that are coming out to see the tractors drive
drive into the center alley at the Align Energy Center grounds.
And then, like I said, then everybody's up
tractor seats and they're all driving.
And like I said, it's a great photo opportunity.
I just, I hope the weather cooperates with us.
exactly technology, buddy.
It's amazing to me.
I agree with you completely.
It's a far cry from what I grew up driving.
But now when you get in a tractor, there are computer screens like it's your office.
They are usually rigged with videos so that if a farmer is driving and they need to talk to somebody or call somebody, it's already built into just like your vehicle.
It's already built in and then everything there's not any steering wheels anymore You you might be kind of confused when you get in a tractor cab these days because most of them are driven by joysticks and And like I said even for me that
I think it would take a moment for me to get my bearings with, uh, with a joystick and that kind of horsepower.
I mean, it's one thing if I'm fooling around at a video arcade,
another thing when I got a couple of ton of equipment I'm sitting on with another couple of ton following behind me.
up
no.
Oh, he wasn't on the tractor with you.
had
John Deere, we had a John Deere B that had what they call a pony engine.
So you started a smaller.
a smaller flywheel that ultimately got the bigger engine going.
That one was always, to me, my father was a magician on
how
he could get that dirty pop started.
So that one is still sitting at home in the shed.
I personally have a Case 500 diesel wide body
that not
only fits the style of the person driving it, but also it's the tractor I grew up with.
So that's a hand clutch.
Well, hopefully you'll be able to see it next time.
We'll catch it Monday, boys.
now
we love our house.
know, we
don't
or or just old rags So So I I'm thinking well, you know, this is like why do I even need this car now?
Everything is just fine.
I've got the 2014 Prius
2006 Highlander, and 2006 is kind of old.
And it's not just the body.
I mean, the body on this thing is gorgeous.
The problem is the batteries go.
You don't buy an old...
car with a battery because because what they do is they die out after about 10 or 15 years
yes yes or any well
I'm resting in peace in the cemetery.
God.
I like the way you, when you get to be our age.
Yes.
Well, you're not gonna be around forever.
They use that phrase.
Yes, they do.
When you're no longer...
with us they're already planning your death they're afraid
Excellent, excellent.
exciting.
East Madison Hospital.
Yes.
Well, I am so excited.
And I listen to you guys every day.
I really appreciate all the hard work you do.
I love listening to you guys.
the best.
Yes.
I can't wait.
This is great.
Yeah, we're gonna do pizza parties every week this summer.
And because of our advancing age being in the hospital is just perfect.
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All right.
Well, that's fantastic.
It should be a lot of fun.
All right, let's do it.
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As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.
Yes.
Until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
Exactly.
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.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fallen shelter right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
I had a very strong conversation with President Putin and he understood and I won't go into the great details of the conversation because nobody has to know that but I will tell you it never ever would have happened.
Well tonight we're learning those details as the audio reveals that Trump says that he threatened not just President Putin but also China's President Xi Jinping
And this is what he told donors about what exactly that conversation looked like during a private fundraiser last
year.
Oh, yeah, that's uh, I hope you
guy,
Okay, anyway, that's that's it.
That's the twisted weird mind of of our fearless leader.
Okay, now I'm gonna ask that you queue up
cut 50 for me.
This is Jen Psaki.
I talked about this yesterday.
Jen Psaki is looking at life in a very twisted way.
And I love her approach to a lot of these stories now.
This was a great one.
It's five minutes.
We're not going to play the five minutes, but I do want to at least give you a sample, a taste of what Jen Psaki is talking about, the stupidity of what Trump is doing as president.
Let's listen.
Today was supposed to be the deadline for those 90 deals.
It was today.
And Trump has delivered none of them, zero, none of them.
So this week, Trump kicked the can yet again, saying that most of his tariffs will not take effect until August 1st.
But when asked why he was delaying the tariffs by weeks, Trump denied that his deadline had ever changed.
So again, Trump was presented with a document to literally move the date from his original deadline of today to August 1st on Monday.
He then signed such document.
But when asked about it just one day later, he says it never happened.
Or can we just accept the obvious fact that Donald Trump on any given day at any given moment has no earthly clue what is going on around him?
I mean, as part of his I'm not chickening out tariff announcement, Trump announced a bunch of new completely arbitrary tariff rates he plans to implement on August 1st.
And today he was asked an understandable question about how he came up with those new rates.
Here's what he
said.
Sir, can you explain how you calculated your latest round of tariffs?
Was there a formula that was used?
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My old stick story?
Yeah, could you?
I was in a band that played, we were warming up for sticks at this one big gig.
This was right when sticks was just starting to make it.
They're out of Chicago.
And we were a Chicago suburban band.
We got the call to be their warm-up band at the YMCA.
And I wish I could remember the chorale.
It was called the chorale.
And I think it was La Grange near Chicago.
Oh,
So we're in there, you know, and we got our stuff set up on our stage and then they had a stage next to our stage and the sticks guys are in there and we're thinking, you know, these guys are hot.
They've got a hit song on WLS in Chicago.
Their first big hit, you know, Lady is playing and they're starting to go national, but they still have these leftover Chicago gigs.
And
Wow.
We
maybe 19, 20.
I could see why, yeah.
us
I I gotta get something off my chest because I was driving in and I'm hearing these stories about Trump and his tariff deal again And the thing here is we've kind of taken this as a normal thing, but the president is
operating through X. You know, we're hearing about everything he's going to do with his posts on X. Or Truth Social.
just to recap there, it's common sense, plus deficits, plus how we've been treated over the years, plus some run numbers.
The rarer, the better.
Look, I'm no mathematician.
He's clearly not either.
It's kind of hard to crunch the numbers when two of those four variables are based entirely on vibes, I guess.
I mean,
vibes wrapped in a word salad of economic lingo and words he may have seen in briefings at some point in time.
I don't know.
The question, though, was in part prompted by the letters Trump sent to the leaders of several countries, announcing those new tariff rates that he came up with using his special formula word salad thing.
For instance, here was a letter he sent to the leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It begins with, dear Mr. President.
which is awkward because the leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina is neither a president nor a mister.
Her official title is Your Excellency and you can see her right there.
Here he was today in a meeting with the president of Liberia.
Very interesting.
I mean Donald Trump was so impressed by the Liberian president's English.
I guess nobody told him that the official language of Liberia is in fact English.
But that is what you get.
when our nation's diplomat and chief has no idea what he's doing.
Here was Donald Trump just this weekend announcing new plans to ease up on deportations for farm workers after pushback from big agriculture.
If a
all of the workers off the farms.
Now, here's what happened next, according to the Washington Post.
Trump's comments led to intense public pushback from MAGA figures who warned about plans to offer amnesty to some migrant workers.
What are they talking about, Trump?
It's upon seeing the criticism.
I never talked about amnesty.
Now, by the end of the day, Trump Secretary of Agriculture was announcing that the mass deportations on farms were back on and that the administration was working toward a 100% American workforce.
So.
He doesn't know what he's saying, does not know what he's promising people from one minute to the next.
Last week, the Pentagon abruptly paused weapons shipments to Ukraine and moved that political reports was a shock to some Trump allies.
And yesterday, Trump was asked, who ordered that pause?
This was his response.
Last week, the Pentagon paused some shipments of weapons to Ukraine.
So who ordered the pause last week?
Apparently, he has no idea who in his administration is making major decisions about US military.
Oh, God.
Now, he could have asked somebody after
that.
But today, Trump was asked again if he made any effort to figure out who is making these consequential decisions without his sign off.
And here's what he said today.
Yesterday, you said that you were not sure who ordered the munitions halted to Ukraine.
Have you since been able to figure that out?
What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you knowing?
I haven't thought about it.
Okay.
So Trump says he still doesn't know who gave the order to stop sending those weapons.
But if a decision is made, he'll be the first to know.
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