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I don't know.
But yeah, I got a, like, long magenta, like, just plain shirt.
Jenta.
Yeah.
And it was only five bucks.
A button-down shirt?
Such a deal.
No, it was just no button-down.
The most plain shirt you'll ever think of.
I'll bring it in tomorrow and you guys can see it.
All right, well, we'll be
Isn't that something how all of that worked out in those old days?
Ah, yes.
All those funny names.
And we had so many hopes, wishes, and dreams.
And here we are with Trump as president, kind of dashing every, every one of those dreams, smashing them and stepping them until they're just unrecognizable.
But that's OK.
It's just another
of
some
And people loved it.
Do we have any Coldplay music going to throw something on?
The stars under the sky or the skies under the star or whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sky full of stars, right?
We got that right.
It's got full stars, yeah.
Yeah, this is when they're big hits.
That's great.
Anyway, yeah, I guess it all went off very well.
They only had two arrests.
So, you know, very calm crowd.
Very, you know, and it was a good time.
Two arrests,
I have no idea.
Seriously?
I haven't gotten to that point.
But I will.
Let's do that right after the show.
No, I don't have it with me.
I have the Prius with.
You drove the Prius today?
Yeah.
Why?
You know the thing here about the charging stations you have to now I'm in the Mg&E area.
Okay, right, so You sign up with Mg&E and you get a special deal for charging your EV yeah, and they have charging stations where Mg&E teams up with What is it called PowerPoint or something like that?
That's where you get your PowerPoint.
That's where you
Plug in your car.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
So anyway So you do that and and this is a huge company by the way So MG&E is working through them.
You get a discount for plugging in your VP.
That's it and it's wonderful But for some reason I I have charged the car twice now
with
this power station Yeah, and this time it didn't have any of my information except me and you know my where I lived and all that stuff I didn't have the credit card that I was using and it was just weird because I was like
I've done this twice.
All you have to do is, you know, tap the screen and that's it.
You
You see the thing here is I wish somebody had told me this.
They didn't explain this?
I'm learning the hard way and the thing is some of these EVs come with a charging cord, the plug-in and this car did not.
Oh, this even knew it doesn't come with it.
So I'm like scrambling to come up with just even a home charger right out of the AC outlets in your in your home.
It takes about four days to charge that way.
But I'm ready to go that route right now.
I'm just like, how do you do this?
Because I have an 100 amp panel right in my home.
And I didn't realize you have to have a 200 in order to get the
L2 level two chargers.
You
Well, no, I could have I did research it only I didn't know I had a hundred amp panel I we just got new panels in the house And I didn't realize that they just replaced the old ones with the with the new ones But but they didn't up the amps they didn't up the amps because yeah, I mean that may involve even more work more time more money Well, you're in trouble now.
I am in trouble
I'm on the run, man.
I was actually going to try and explain this on the radio, like I am right now, but in a more coherent way.
There's nothing coherent about EV charging, believe me.
You'll have another chance to explain everything.
Well, thank you.
Yes, maybe with Pat Crichtlow.
He'll just sit through his eyes, glazed over.
That's right.
We're going
Fair
Distilling all coming up.
find yourself in a swinging place you gotta fly you gotta soar you gotta live a little more don't try and burn it
Swing Swing Swing
Yeah, you just get on the civic media app and get on the WM DX part of that app and push the button that says voice note and you can send us a voicemail It's 23 minutes past the hour beautiful weather for today and two points are low and so humidity is also low and high this afternoon about 80 degrees Right now it's 59 here
And let's check in with Pam Yonkey, the fabulous farm babe.
Good morning, Pam.
How are you?
Morning, guys.
Morning.
Yeah, not too bad.
This is pretty comfortable compared to what I think we're going to be living with later this week.
Yeah, yeah, for today.
The it's always like this.
There's certain events.
You know how we always talk about when it's boys basketball state finals, there's always a nice storm or some kind
nasty weather.
Every time the Rock County fair happens, there's this kind of heat.
Those poor folks, I could just
If you want to lay down money in Las Vegas, bet on 90 for the Rock County Fair.
You are going to see a return on your investment.
know if they could handicap that.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, you're right.
They are going to be bringing everything in starting today.
And some of the judging on some of the projects that go home will also start today.
But like I said, for the most part, the real action gets started closer on Wednesday.
Yeah, that'll get started again later this week with a lot of activities.
That's pretty easy fairgrounds to find right off the main drag up in Portage.
So yeah, I'm trying to figure out exactly what my staff and I are going to
to have the time to do.
We've got a FFA foundation goal folding today and I'm glad that the weather is going to cooperate and be halfway decent today because like I said later this week it could get challenging again.
Farmers are going to have to do their best job trying to take care of their livestock themselves of course and just mitigate anything they can for the heat.
You know, I think it turned out really well.
Like I said, I had some real concerns about weather on Saturday morning for our Farm Babe Boogie tractor parade,
but that
all ended up to be not an issue because my tractor drivers figured after the rain moved through in the morning, they loaded up and showed up.
And I really want to say thank
you again
to all of them that made the extra effort.
You know, I don't, and for people that saw us at the fair, just stop and think that.
That cost those people money to load those tractors.
Diesel is not cheap these days.
Just finding somebody that's got a CDL to drive some of those rigs in is a stretch and they receive nothing from me except a free pork sandwich, a 4-H potato from the potato stand and cheese curds or cream puffs from the Stoughton FFA alumni.
So they're no high stakes game if you know what I'm saying.
And I just really appreciate them making the time and the effort to
to come and join us for that quick parade.
But boy, the kids sure love it.
I'll tell you.
One of my guys, Bill Mitchell, from by McFarland was busy, busy, busy.
He lets kids climb on his tractor and, you know, get a feel for it.
And every little, every little kid, boy or girl, seemed to want to all of a sudden be a tractor
Well, I think we'll know a little bit more, maybe as soon as midweek, everybody knows that we made, we pretty much made knee high by 4th of July.
But here's a couple little things that you may not realize.
The fields that you drive past, I think we might have talked about this before, the fields that you drive past, when you see corn in a field, chances are that is corn only for cows.
There's a distinct difference between the type of corn that we grow for cows, for livestock feed, and the sweet corn that you and I consume.
That will generally have a finer stock.
It will generally
be a little bit shorter.
on the top of the plant will be a very, very light in color.
thing.
You get closer, take a when you buy your sweet corn on a corn cob, always have a corn cob always have an even num
take a look at your corn cob as you're mowing around it w to keep count and you'l always an even number
in 16 rows.
That's an average, just an average.
You might see some more, some less, but that's kind of an average.
And like I said, remember that corn is pretty much grown everywhere in the world, not necessarily sweet corn, but corn is grown everywhere in the world except Antarctica.
That is courtesy of my friends from the corn growers telling me all that kind of fun stuff this morning.
if you come in the week, boys, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
little bit later than usual, but we should be getting it.
excellent.
Thanks, fellas.
Human evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence with no natural predators to thin the earth.
Oh my god!
There was a place without boundaries, a place without limits.
Costco.
Hallelujah.
A place that is about to be.
Violated.
Let's go.
Idiocracy.
You're the smartest guy in the world.
You're pretty dumb sometimes.
Oh
Boy oh boy oh boy.
Good morning.
Yeah.
Idiocracy time again.
And I got to tell you, though, I, uh, I have, you know, I live at Costco most of the time.
Yeah.
Okay.
Sometimes I'm, I stay at home and I sleep there.
But you're Costco pretty much every day.
Almost every day except when the sale ends and it ended on Sunday.
So now, you know, I'm going to be at home, uh, you know, watching the kids.
play their games
as they
They still have some great deals on accessories and some adjustable bases are still left.
Some of those are 30 to 50% off.
You can check them out on Madison's east side or west side or go to burlow.com and check out their lifetime comfort guarantee.
That's burlow.com.
Okay, John.
bang up against our window.
Oh no.
Apparently it really craves air conditioning and it can't get in.
So I feel sorry for it, I get it.
We were talking about the surprise about charging your EV at home.
It's not easy, it's not.
something that you think about because you think you have the ability to do that and yet I have a hundred amp in my house.
I thought I had a 200 amp because we just replaced the panels.
Unfortunately here I am you know now I can get a plug-in just a regular outlet plug-in and charge that way takes three or four days to do that we have the
Lynn
out in Golden Valley giving us a few tips on here okay she writes so we put in a 50 amp outlet and it was about $750 but she does have a 200 amp panel newer homes 200 amp the older homes do not right
Unless you upgrade somehow and it costs a lot of money to do that sometimes Then she writes maybe the utility will put in a special charger which bypasses your panel.
Okay, that sounds like an idea I don't know if they have that and then she wrote then they'd control when it charges At a lower rate,
which is
but
or allow you to get that charger, but they can't guarantee that you're going to charge it just at night.
So you could do it during the day, then you might overload your panel and cause a house fire, which is not something you need.
What could be a big problem?
Now there is a bypass and I looked it up.
There are some YouTube videos explaining this, but it's called the Emporia Pro.
Level two EV charger.
That sounds fancy.
It is very fancy and what it does is it gauges how much amperage you're using in your home and It will lower the amount of charge going to your vehicle When you're using too much amperage in your home You have a stove on air conditioning kicks on the furnace kicks on whatever you're using electricity for it lowers the amount of electricity going to your EV
It's fascinating.
I think I dozed off for a second.
Hang on.
OK, here.
I do want to bring this up, too, because.
Please
I do this research.
I come up with these new products.
And then I call the electrician or whoever else it is that I'm going to harass.
And I say, look, I got this product.
This should work.
Do you guys know about this?
No, we don't know anything about it.
So I sent a blink and they're looking into it and I
haven't heard
Mark?
good morning guys, how long is it going to be before Donald Trump adds a special charge?
charge.
And I see this over the weekend that Donald Trump is having a meltdown over the Commander's name.
Yeah.
And Washington's name.
And he's deeply offended that they no longer have the offensive Native American name attached to them.
But he's, oh, they're so proud to have these names.
indian tribes across across the country i call this every store those names i mean they're the one who offered for generations now have asked us to change those names
something that that they don't find you know they don't find deeply offensive i mean it's a small thing but donald trump is it's been more and more petty you wouldn't thought he would get any more petty but i mean he is the man is just having a complete meltdown i think i think it's uh... you know he has come out now it's been documented he's the one
has ordered the editing of the files.
make sure there's no mention of Donald Trump's name on any of the files here.
Okay.
Has the president ever interfered in this crazy?
No.
I mean, I'll paraphrase, you know, from the Declaration of Independence, every act of tyranny, you know, shows that the man is unfit to be the leader of a free people.
I mean, he is just, uh, he's
getting crazy, and we're talking about the Epstein thing, and I've got a little cut here from Chris Hayes.
We're going to talk about that.
But do we have, uh... There's another message there, but I don't know.
Let's check it out what it is here.
You don't know.
Bob.
Oh, I have the Emporia charger.
Love it.
You charge off peak hours, and you should be okay with a 100 amp service.
It will give you the cost of each charge after you program the unit with your utility.
And there you go.
Well,
see the utility I've already known some
don't think
You can check things out at wmdxradio.com, you know.
We've got a lot of things going on.
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In fact, we are taking more entries for our Sugar River pizza parties.
We've got our next one almost lined up here.
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Okay.
Well, I can't wait.
All right.
Let's get to Chris Hayes kind of summed up the whole mess around.
Epstein and, you know, the grand jury, they don't have enough details in grand jury decisions to make any difference whatsoever.
There are no names, nothing to look at really if we get the grand jury's report.
That's not going to mean anything to anybody.
So anyway, let's get to this.
Chris Hayes dealing with the whole Epstein episode so far as we know it.
Let's check it out.
I don't think I've spoken to him
for 15 years.
I wasn't a fan.
I do not think it is right and fair for this administration's labor department to have Epstein as the focus.
Not only is the department going to redact identifying information about the victims, which they very well should, they are also going to redact identifying information about anyone else whose name might come up with the documents in question.
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which of course oversees the FBI and the Department of Justice, now says that bureau agents were instructed to flag to DOJ about any Epstein records that mentioned Donald Trump.
And all this comes just a day after that shocking story in the Wall Street Journal about what the paper described as a, quote, body birthday letter bearing Trump's signature.
It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand drawn with a heavy marker.
A pair of small marks denotes the woman's breasts.
And the future president's signature is a squiggly Donald below her waist mimicking pubic hair.
Trump denies having anything to do with the letter.
He is suing the Wall Street Journal over this reporting after having threatened to do so.
I never wrote a picture in my life.
I don't draw pictures of women.
He said, it's not my language.
It's not my words.
Of course, Donald Trump has written many pictures in his life, like the ones you are seeing on your screen right now.
The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Well, that really happened.
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
That's been a directive by President Trump.
I think tomorrow, Jesse, breaking news right now, you're gonna see some Epstein information being released.
There are tens of thousands of videos.
The writer, Michael Wolf, has a recording of Epstein himself saying he was Trump's closest friend for a decade.
Back in 2002, he told the New York Magazine that he'd known him for 15 years, fun guy.
BFD, I think Chris is the official term for it, a thousand of them, and the belief somehow.
exercise in hubris unlike anything I've ever seen the idea that you're gonna have a thousand agents working under the explicit order to weed out the Trump stuff and that's not somehow gonna leak but also Trump's strategy from the beginning right this is a person who in 2015 at CPAC is trying to impugn the reputation of Bill Clinton by mentioning Clinton's activities on Epstein Island yeah it is
in like the self sabotage to do to make these choices over the course of a decade, knowing that if he won.
the chickens were going to come home to roost and and and what does he do now I mean it is truly it boggles the mind it is the most hubristic thing I've seen from a man who
has
pushed the balance of hubris to the outer reaches of the universe
but this is a
problem completely of his own creating he brought these people in they are asking for results he built a movement on it and now he sits atop it
potentially indicted in the crime that he has made everybody obsessed with.
Unbelievable.
in it
It is 648.
Coming up in our next hour, former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin will join us, and later in the hour, Abby Abramovich from Downdrens Distilling.
Got some things to talk to her about, and that's a fabulous place.
I haven't been out there yet, but I'm hearing great things about it.
She'll tell us about it.
It's all coming up on John and
Gordy.
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That justice is imposed
What's that?
Oh, no.
He needs a few months.
He wants a case airtight.
No bumps.
His A.G.
Pam Bondi says files on her desk and Magda's got binders.
They can
No.
Well, 78 degrees.
No, 65 currently.
Oh, really?
Temperatures jumped up, apparently.
Yeah, and high of 82, low of 66 this evening.
What time is the sunset?
And you always ask about the sunset time.
Because I want to know.
And I'm ready.
8.30.
8.30.
Days are getting shorter and shorter.
That's where I heard it before.
Okay.
Okay.
Good enough.
All right.
Got this short story here.
It's Christopher Rufo.
Do you remember Christopher Rufo?
No.
He's the guy who planned the campaigns against critical race theory, which was not being taught in K through 12.
DEI, he said he was going to expand on that and make everybody get rid of DEI.
He actually explained it in a post and not one superintendent in any state in the union noticed it.
Because then they could have said, screw you Christopher Rufo, but they didn't.
They never read it.
So they thought, well, we better get rid of DEI.
And Chris Rufo won that one.
Wow.
Anyway, so Rufo is now suggesting, I like this, in a sub stack post last month, that Trump should push the limits to a militarized occupation of the US.
Wow, my god.
Well, that's.
Usually gets what he wants, you know, he said hey go after the elite universities.
Well, they're doing that now.
He's saying hey militarize the US get this immigration agencies like ice should dispatch unmarked vans to follow agitators Yeah, and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking what what these are just agitate
Agitator, you mean protesters right this is this is a quote now the most effective riot control is to take movement leaders off the field infiltrate their networks disrupt the flow of funding and roll them up in federal investigations denying the left trained protest leaders now will create a strong precedent for the rest of the president's term
Wow, are you okay?
That's well, that's credible.
Yeah.
Well, there we are the that's where we're at
Wow, yeah, I got a complaint though I want to get to something this I heard this on the way and it was a radio report about kids eating a lot of protein now a lot of the teenagers and Gen Zers are using protein in their diet an awful lot and they get maybe more
more or less too much protein from all of their snacks, the protein mixes and the powders.
Really?
Yeah, the protein
bars
And then they complained during this report that these
Man, these boys now are trying to look ripped.
You know, they're trying to look really, really muscular.
Really young one.
And I'm thinking to myself, what's the problem with that?
I don't think we were specimens of, you know, that anybody could point at in the fifties and sixties or seventies for that matter.
Right.
You see some of the older movies and these guys with no shirts, they're not ripped.
No, they're not.
Nope.
So.
Is there something wrong with people looking fit and, you know, muscular?
But they're vilifying it.
They're saying maybe we're getting too much.
And I get the isolate to cut down on the lactose.
It's not lactose free, but it's pretty good.
You know, I do take a couple like those tablets just to make sure.
But yeah, I take the powder and powder every morning.
Yeah.
Well,
They get
And now they're maybe overloading on it because they can get the bars a snack.
protein snack bars, but looking ripped was the thing that bothered me most.
There's nothing wrong with that.
I think it looked very healthy and ripped and muscular.
And by the way, building muscles.
That's a great way to support your joints.
So you don't have joint problems later on in life.
Yeah.
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