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That'll be nice Cubs and Brewers tonight.
We'll be taking our winner Linda To see the game along with either her daughter or granddaughter.
I think she was trying to decide which one ah
It's gonna, she's gonna take, but I think it ended up being her daughter.
And yeah, that'll be fun.
She's our Brewer's winner, thanks to Doundren's distilling for helping us out with that promotion.
And it should be a good time tonight.
on the Cubs.
or
So all right.
Well, they're fine.
it
Me too, I'm starting to get used to it kind of.
Alright, so first question.
Would you rather visit Hogwarts or Hogwarts or Narnia?
Hogwarts, I'm sorry.
I would do Narnia.
Narnia is very luscious.
Hogwarts is kind of scary.
I never understood Narnia.
I don't get it either.
Yeah, I'd go Hogwarts, I guess.
What?
Why would you guys go Hogwarts?
Yeah.
What's the reason behind it?
I mean, why should I go
You know, many, many, many years ago, like when I was three or so, we had a cabinet in our bedroom and...
And it was scary, you know, it had doors on it and I always thought of going in there and Finding myself in another room similar to ours, but covered in spiders.
Oh, so I for some reason I'm just not into cabinets and climbing into them.
All right, you know, it's okay.
miss
It's national lasagna day.
That would be it.
You're part Italian.
You might like that.
You would like the lipstick day.
National lipstick day, sure.
Yeah, I like to try out different lipsticks from time to time.
It's also National Chicken Wing Day.
You know, it's weird.
I've been thinking about buying chicken
were
to go?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, you know, really that's that good.
Well, yes,
All right.
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He's author of the book, The Luckiest Boy in the World.
Yes.
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He worked with the Bucks.
He worked with the Packers and he's going to come in and get us all revved up and ready to go for the Cubs Brewer's game tonight that we're going to.
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young in the morning with producer Dom in the air chair flipping the switches and pushing the buttons making things happen in there and Rainy start this morning looks like the rain is moving out already and we'll see a mix of clouds and some sunshine highs in the mid 80s today feeling muggy out there this morning 72 degrees currently so
We want to congratulate our winner of the pizza party this Wednesday.
We'll be visiting Lindsay Nelson.
Does that name ring a bell, John?
Lindsay Nelson?
It does, yes.
Yes.
Remember, there used to be a sports announcer named Lindsay Nelson, very famous sports announcer back in the 60s.
Worse, outrageous sports jackets.
He was really good.
Anyway, this is...
Lindsay Nelson who works at the state at Wisconsin Department of Corrections, and we're gonna go there and have up to some parties.
You know, you're right.
They may have a room for us.
You can still enter.
We're going to do this all the way through August.
The Sugar River Pizza Party.
And as soon as I get the rest of the information in front of me, that would be great.
Here we go.
John and Gordy, how do you do this?
Well, it's very easy.
You just let us know.
So easy
Is that right?
Yeah, they've decided otherwise, but we're going to continue to soldier on here.
But just go to our website, wmdxradio.com and fill out the entry.
It says sign up here right at the bottom of the page.
When you see the Sugar River, River Pizza banner at the top of the page, just click on it.
Enter and who knows you and your party.
You can have a pizza party at your office.
All right.
Okay.
Really?
They have an experimental program on out there and I volunteer to be a part of it.
And what they do is they attach something to the water softener in the home.
and it reduces the amount of salt in the water that you use in the home, even though that I think was supposed to be the reason why we have a water softener.
Right, isn't that the
of that.
I was trying
Well, I'm going to bring everybody down then.
Great.
Pete Buttigieg is out there and he's he's he's bringing up the fact that maybe the Democrats stuck too much to two words.
What's that?
And that that is status quo.
Mm hmm.
He was talking about the status quo.
We.
as Democrats were saying, hey, let's let's keep that status quo going.
And, you know, it was a it it was a kind of a catch-22 for us because, you know, Trump wanted to change everything.
He is doing what he said he was going to do in a destroyed government and change everything
in
So we were saying, no, no, no, don't do this.
Yeah, let's just improve what we have I guess to Pete Buttigieg That's the status quo and I think we were just trying to protect at least what we have now We can improve all that stuff without destroying it and getting rid of it and then starting over again We can do it while we while we continue to have those same departments just improve them dramatically We can do that status quo, but we were accused of
Supporting the status quo and leaving everything the same and people really want to change Wow, they got it and I and I hope they're happy now.
I hope they're happy.
He's going to podcast land.
Yeah about anywhere anywhere you can He was on breakfast club, which is an I heart radio
Get together I guess on there one of their podcasts and he was talking about You know, maybe you're reaching out to magas and just saying look you don't have to agree with this on everything But you know take a look now see what's see what's happening and I think he's reaching a few but it's an uphill battle I think
It's gonna take a while.
actually
think it's also wrong to suppose that the Department of Education was just right in 2024 it's that's not the argument Pete that's not the argument You don't destroy it burn it down as you say but then you know start all over again or at least distribute it into other different
departments that have no experience doing anything with us.
I am just on pins and needles wondering what's going to happen to the funding for college education.
I don't know
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.
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,
We can duck and cover.
There's a fall each other right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
could
grinding up
what they
particulate into the atmosphere, so we all die prematurely of diseases we don't necessarily need to have, just because it doesn't look good to him.
The windmills.
The Dutch windmills that we've seen all over the countryside.
This guy's, all right.
Now, this happened just recently.
There was a Canadian, a 60-year-old Canadian out fishing in Lake Champlain, and he ran into the Coast Guard out there, the U.S.
Coast Guard.
Really?
Thought maybe he had gone too far to the US border or over into the US border and they gave him a really really difficult time I have a television coverage of this.
This is the 151 and this is how the whole thing transpired the guy is you know Traumatized let's listen.
Okay.
I'm never gonna be the same
You see it comes and goes I can stop it
Edward Lalman is still very emotional when he talks about what happened on Sunday evening.
Lalman was out fishing near Venise, in Quebec.
The water connects to Lake Champlain in the U.S.
But Lalman says he knows for certain he was on the Canadian side.
I'm seeing them.
They're coming towards me.
And I know.
In my
heart.
I didn't can it.
I said you can't.
The boat that was approaching, he says, was the U.S.
Coast Guard.
They asked him to turn off his engine.
He complied.
They told him he was in U.S.
territory.
No, I'm very sorry.
I'm in Canada.
And I said, you know, I'm delighted to talk to you guys, but you cannot arrest me.
You can't come across the border and pick me
up, yes they did.
Lalman says he started his engine and tried to make his way further into Canada, but he says the Coast Guard followed and tried pushing him into the US.
Eventually his boat capsized.
Lalman was in the water and says he was drowning.
You know what they're doing?
They're tying my boat to their boat.
They're not even taking care of me.
Not at all.
I'm the one who told them.
The third time I went down.
Coming out with water in my mouth,
spitting it out, I said, throw me a buoy!
He says he was handcuffed on the US Coast Guard boat and eventually turned over to Border Patrol.
He was detained and placed in a holding cell without a proper explanation, he says.
I said, are you arresting me?
No, sir, you're
detained.
I said, detained for what?
I said, you're aggressing me.
I didn't do nothing to you guys.
I didn't even hit you guys.
He's like a beaten man.
He says he was injured.
But he just wants an apology from the U.S.
Coast Guard, and he's speaking out as a warning to other Canadians.
I want the people to know and to be
aware, stay away from the border, even if it's 500, 600 feet away from there.
Wow.
for him.
I guess so.
Yeah, he's traumatized.
Just expanding they're expanding the Coast Guard.
They're gonna really really make them a fighting force military fighting force So which is crazy, and I don't think anybody wants to see is that what we voted for guy could have drowned We have yeah, we essentially yeah, they let him go down for a third time Isn't that the cartoon version of right
Well, you kind of blew me away with his last story.
I mean, don't you have GPS?
I mean, if the guy had GPS, he could prove that he was in still in Canadian water.
That's kind of shared waters for God's sake.
I
mean, unless the guy's approaching American shores, what the hell is the problem?
Right.
The trumpet, the trumpet get all excited when he sees a big old smokestack and belching out.
black coal smoke that used to coat my car with fly ash when I used to park down off a main street there down at the capitol and they had the coal plant.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
That was a lot of
No, not at all.
It's
don't know.
That probably gets Trump excited.
He doesn't need a bag if he sees those big old smokestacks.
Yeah.
Reminds me of just how small he is.
Yeah.
Well, true, man.
All right,
All right.
I appreciate that.
Thank you, Mark.
All right.
This is kind of a crazy thing.
And I was going to talk to Tim Slacker.
We'll probably bring this up during our...
Meeting with busted pencils Tim slecker on Thursday But this is out of Lawrence County, Tennessee boy a lot of weird things happen in Tennessee You don't need a or actually they don't want a doctor's note from a student anymore.
Oh really?
This is cut 147 this is television coverage of it that describes it perfectly, but it is so wacky and so insane and so authoritarian
Let's listen.
Lawrence County school system's new attendance policy.
Doctor's notes will no longer excuse an absence.
Students will now just be marked absent or present.
The policy states at three absences schools will start intervention.
If the student keeps missing school.
eight or more days, there will be a juvenile court referral.
You could end up filling the grade.
You could fill the course.
You're going to be petitioned to court.
You're not going to participate in graduation, get your driver's license permit.
While there will be exemptions for verified chronic illnesses and several other things, director of schools Michael Atkins and other district officials said in June's school board meeting that students need to learn reliability and work ethic.
And if you've got the sniffles, that's fine.
You're going to have them when you go to work one day.
We're all going to work sick and hurt, beat up.
The district sent this letter to local medical providers last
week,
asking them to, quote, emphasize the importance of regular school attendance while treating school-aged patients.
If a child goes to school sick and the school nurse sends that child home.
Adkins said it will be marked as a tardy.
How does that
make
sense?
As a parent, how can we give someone else the rights to say what's wrong with their child?
We reached out to several local districts about their attendance policies.
Metro, Rutherford, Wilson, Williamson and Clarksville Montgomery County Schools all told us they accept doctors notes to
your kids health first, right?
Back in Lawrence County, Sanchez and several other parents upset over the policy.
embracing for the new school year less than
weeks away.
Ultimately, I'm going to do what's right for my kid, regardless of this policy.
Courtney Allen, WSMV4.
do any of this stuff.
Okay,
Wow.
Okay.
All right.
And then this will also be something we'll talk to Tim Slacker about.
I think we have time for this.
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters pushed 10 commandments, you know, in the public schools.
He wanted to force Christianity, taught his history and banned books, of course, with sexual material.
Forget about all that.
He had a very embarrassing moment while he had a board, a school board meeting.
And there was a video on the monitor just behind him.
he was speaking.
Let's listen to cut 157.
Okay.
New tonight, the governor is responding after reports that nude women were shown on a television behind the state superintendent during an executive session of the Board of Education.
Thanks for joining us tonight on Evidence Time.
I'm Jessica Shambach.
The governor is saying tonight, I trust and appreciate my board members.
They are volunteers who are sacrificing their time to serve Oklahoma students.
Should these allegations be true?
All I can
say is that I am profoundly disappointed.
according to the Oklahoma,
board members Ryan Deathridge and Becky Carson say they saw nude women on a TV screen behind Superintendent Ryan Walters during that meeting.
They described to the Oklahoman that the video appeared to be something from the 1960s.
The
incident happened during this closed door session yesterday.
We reached out to both Deathridge and Carson.
Neither would confirm what they saw specifically, but Carson said in part quote the images that board members were exposed to yesterday in this meeting were inappropriate to say that.
and there has to be accountability.
Deathridge also providing a statement saying in part, we hold educators to the strictest of standards when it comes to explicit material.
But the standard for the superintendent should be no different.
And Superintendent Walters telling KOCO, some of these board members are blatantly dishonest and cannot hide their political agenda.
Disappointing that they are more interested in creating distractions than getting work done for Oklahoma families.
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again
know they
they
Dope.
Good
Oh, just, you know, I could be going on for several hours, I suppose, but I'll leave it to two items here.
First off, in reference to the previous story you had about the poor Canadian fisherman whose boat was capsized by a very aggressive US Coast Guard, my question is, who pays for the boat?
I mean, does he have to, what does an insurance form with?
The Coast Guard rammed me and...
It both took, I have a class to him, you know, he was very nice.
I just wanted an apology, but who pays for the boat?
And then the second thing is on this superintendent of Oklahoma schools, who couldn't quite figure out how to, during a Zoom meeting to turn off his 60s porn that was apparently paint playing.
One of the things they said in the story about it that I thought was just such a relevant detail, the two people were able to see that this weird
stuff was going on with these nude images of women and one of the women said, I turned into a mama bear and I said, what is going on here?
And this reply was, I can't turn it off.
is really interesting to me because he's a superintendent of schools for Oklahoma, and one would think that STEM, you know, science, technology, it's kind of important that you should be able to learn how to turn off porn on your Zoom meeting, you know, that that would be a real basic for the superintendent of schools.
Anyway, it might you sense on a one more flailing amazing story.
Yeah, thanks guys.
I appreciate
What?
Top Hollywood, top level Hollywood demands that there be a blood sacrifice or transitioning of a child as a symbolic act of loyalty to Hollywood, okay?
Now, you would think that Lara would sit there going, yeah, sure, uh-huh, uh-huh.
But you'll be surprised at the very last comment from her in this report.
163, let's listen.
Is it true that to get to a certain level in Hollywood, these famous people have to sacrifice their firstborn child?
Is that a crazy thing to say?
I've heard, okay, let me just say for the record,
I
don't know any of this to be, I can't prove what I'm about to say if you ask me what I can prove, I can't prove this.
But
if you ask me what I believe, I believe
that there is a club and I do believe that there are certain people that to attain certain stature or certain level of influence or I believe this
you're required to either sacrifice a blood sacrifice whether it be a mom or a relative or whatever or transition one of your kids because it's all worshiping their God
their false God.
So what are the signs that you see that make you think that that's true?
Oh, this is good.
What do you mean?
Go Google.
Go Google your stars and see how many of them lost a parent or how many of them lost a kid.
But that die in accidents or died during a certain period of time in their life.
But that's normal.
Go Google.
Go see how many stars have transgender kids.
Who do you think is pushing that?
Come on.
Where do you think that comes from?
that is boffamid.
That is satanic.
It's dark.
It's
evil.
It's very dark.
That's
a
believes
You know,
sometimes.
You would
maybe
You know, it's good to see Laura Luggins working
The big stories, yeah.
The ones
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