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Tomorrow.
No, today.
No, we'd be going today, so I, you know, I'd get in the way of my preparations for the two shows that I have to do with Gordy tomorrow.
So, you know, it's like, trying to get this done, you know.
I'd like to go there.
I don't know what we do, you know.
There's so much to do.
I know.
Well, there's so much to do.
But, you know, when you do it, you kind of make a major investment in to do it, right?
I mean,
The
But I would take them on a, you know, maybe a duck ride.
Duck rides are shorter than the boat rides.
Boat rides, you're committing for a couple of hours.
Oh, no.
You want to do a duck ride, but if it's crowded, watch out, because you could be waiting for like an hour.
That is not happening.
Okay.
Now
We cannot go.
We cannot go because it's going to take too long just to stand in line.
I'm not doing that.
Okay.
But I have to say they have the fastest go kart track of them.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, sure.
They say they're the fastest.
I believe them.
It's one of the nicest go-car tracks I've ever been.
Do you go to the one with the Trojan horse?
There isn't officially an air quality alert, but Charlie Shortino was backing off of that.
He goes, it's really actually worse than it was yesterday morning, even though they didn't put an alert day up.
Like, okay, Charlie, well, make up your mind.
Um,
So it could be a little hazy this morning and some smoke out there.
And right now 58 degrees highs in the mid 80s.
What is your WMDX Samsung watch?
Well,
It says it currently at 60 85 degrees high temperature low tonight 66.
Yeah.
And if you want to go to the, uh, the more in depth look at humidity, you gotta live and die by the humidity.
The dew point is really low right now, 58 degrees, so anything above 70 or 65 is bad, but we're pretty low right now.
I feel pretty comfortable.
It's gonna
plant.
When you put one squash plant in, that's all you'll ever need.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh my god, this is huge.
Butternut squash plant, it's all over the damn garden.
I mean, you know, I can't wait for the squash and the butternut squash, but it's huge.
And I can't imagine, I've never seen it like this before.
Usually, we go through dry spells in the summer, and then the leaves get
old and crinkly and die off and then the plant kind of sags.
But this thing is like wild.
You know, it's like something out of a little shop of horrors.
Really?
Yeah.
So I took my, my life into my own hands when I entered that garden.
And one of the great things about having those peppers and what you do is you douse them in oil and you put them on the grill and you grill them into nice.
brown.
Yeah.
Cooked and they're just absolutely delicious.
Wow.
I just, I really got to try it.
It seems odd, but it really works out well.
I've got
Okay.
feel
I don't want to discourage people from, you know, going out, taking the kids out to Taco Bell.
It's kind of an event for them.
They outgrow it once they.
They have it three times a week, which may have happened in our family.
Oh, really?
Okay.
Well, they love, you know, they like getting all, well, with the big, the big 10 tacos in a box.
Yeah, that's a thrill.
It's ridiculous.
I know.
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John and Gordy sitting here in the morning overlooking State Street a block away from the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin and a good morning to everyone including you listening on your car radio right now driving into work or in the kitchen Mac making breakfast or grinding up the beans for your coffee You know, I mean we're here for you.
That's
Don't know.
Maybe a century from now and after that, we won't even need it.
We'll have dilithium crystals powering everything.
You know, dilithium crystals aren't right.
Dilithium crystals?
No.
Well, you should watch Star Trek.
Star Trek sometime, yeah.
Dilithium
paying any
outer space.
Yeah.
still in
Yeah, so Okay, yeah, I mentioned this a few
Times before but I think the Democrats should at least take up the mantle of health care for all universal health care in this country We're looking at some cuts from a town hall Mike flood getting getting the heat from his constituents asking for universal health care You know I I mean it's just a simple simple
thing to get behind.
This doesn't require a lot of concentration.
It doesn't require a lot of political information or any experience in politics.
All you have to do is say, should we have health care for all?
Sure.
You know, every other industrialized country in the world has some form of universal health care.
Yes.
Yes.
So Mike Flood brought this up and he asked whether.
Yeah.
Well, he brought it up because he was talking about, you know, healthy people sitting on their couch, not working.
Should they get health care?
And the crowd said yes.
He
wasn't expecting
I'll get the actualities on these tomorrow, maybe even today if I can.
But it is truly amazing that this is the simple thing to get behind it.
We're not getting behind it.
I don't know what the Democrats are doing, what they're planning, what secret room they're hiding in at this point.
But they really have to get out there and say, this is what we plan.
Now, I'm really happy to see that the Democrats have gotten behind redistricting.
and getting rid of having these separate entities decide how to redistrict.
I mean, that's always been a great idea and the Democrats want to do it.
Once in power, they'll do it nationwide, not individually by state.
We learned a bitter lesson here, not to do that anymore, but now every Democrat is now talking about...
the possibility of redistricting in democratic states and one up in Texas and a few other Republican states that want to do this in order to secure the majority, even though they don't have any ideas, any real plans in destroying the country and we really don't have a USA anymore.
But I guess, you know, they're trying to go for all the brass rings in this one.
Finally.
And when we finally went ahead and we backbone, we decided to make it an independent agency.
Yeah.
Now we're, uh, no, we're eating our words on that one.
That's not, it's not working out anymore in the day.
You know, the Republicans, they do all these things.
They step out, they go out on a limb.
Why?
Why don't the Democrats do that more often?
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France 24, you know, I always watch France TV and France 24 does it in English, which is a big help.
Really?
Because you don't speak French, so that would be kind of slow down the process.
I think it's a fake language, but you know.
They keep trying to pull a wool over my eyes and I'm not falling for it.
All right, here we go.
Um, so how do you say?
Oh, great.
Here we go.
Julian.
Okay.
Nevermind.
All right.
Anyway, an 18 year old Frenchman was detained in charge with being part of a terrorist criminal.
Enterprise Wow really something what I made reports of an increase in Masculinism I'm not kidding.
That's how they have it here a belief in the supremacy of men and advocacy of Outmoded gender roles among young men it is the first time that French anti-terror authorities have launched an investigation into someone for activities linked to the involuntary celibate
and incels.
Wait, run this by me again.
It's the incel movement.
Okay.
So these are men who have decided in an 18-year-old guy,
They have this thing, this toxic masculinity thing going.
And it's because they've been rejected by women and they have this resentment toward women.
In fact, incels feel they have been rejected by women and have adopted aggressively misogynist views in response.
Originating in Canada, believe it or not, in the 1990s, masculinist ideology has taken off.
in part thanks to the internet.
Melissa Blaze, professor of sociology and a specialist in anti-feminist movements, says, in cell communities, there's something going on that's conducive to mass murder.
Women are dehumanized, labeled as famoids, seen as creatures to be fought.
Dehumanization is a part of...
Mass murder and that's why blaze calls it kind of a mass murder situation the same approach is being done to immigrants and the left the woke so again, this is the in cell movement is Very very strong right now in cell.
I've never heard of
Okay.
Yeah
an
Morning guys.
I want to talk about this incel stuff.
Okay.
I've seen some of that in a friend of mine son Who fell into it and I think it's deeply wrapped in with this digital World of ours and video games.
cuz these what happens to young young boys.
I think is that Video games are kind of an evil trick, right?
It's like you feel like you're entering something fun and amusing
Now you have a lot of social games where you're meeting people through the internet on these games.
You don't know who they are.
And there's all this coded language that's thrown around that kind of bashes women.
And then I think there's also right wing players who take advantage of that space because that's also what fed the Q and on people was the video game culture.
Yeah.
And then you have this addiction that arises where, oh, well, like my friend's son fell into this.
He had to play the game eight hours a night because his friends were playing it, and he had to join them.
And it was a social thing.
It's bullying.
Why weren't you playing last night?
That kind of nonsense.
But the stuff that boys lose by putting all that time in is they're not out meeting people.
They're not learning how to socialize.
And then the pandemic on top of that.
There are a lot of, like Scott Galloway talks about, there are a lot of these young boys becoming grown men now, approaching the age of 17 or so, whatever, who to learn how to talk to girls at that age,
the damage is done.
my view.
I think we
to get people out more.
We're saying back centers, whatever Something away from the tablets and the TVs and all that stuff
Oh, yeah, that's all through the night one.
Yeah, it ruins his schooling
he's kind of very introverted now at the age of 19.
He's having trouble holding a job
it was
It becomes a false friend.
It's kind of a relationship, but it's really not.
You're never going to see these people.
They're not going to help you get a job or go outside or exercise or do positive things.
We're all trying to, you know, come out of the COVID situation that we were all put in.
And my sons, you know, one was graduating from college, the other graduated from high school around the COVID time plan.
I was just, it just threw everything completely off.
They didn't have graduations.
And, you know, we had to kind of stay home most of the time unless you got a shot.
Yeah, it was just a mess.
And these guys socially were stunted by that.
You know, I feel bad about the fact that they couldn't hang out with their friends, go out to
we're laughing at the guys.
Girls are better at forming social groups.
Yes, they form them all the time.
All right.
Thanks, Matt.
Thank you.
Have a good one.
You too.
I know my son is online doing this kind of stuff and I mentioned it once or twice before but you know he had to get together with them and they all met in Las Vegas.
They're from all over the country, one from Canada.
They all came down to meet finally in person and they partied in Las Vegas for about a week.
And they met online?
Just met on video games?
They used to play together all the time online and they finally got together.
So it's kind of crazy isn't it?
Your supporters have had issues with these numbers.
Now they've used the numbers for a long time.
But today we're doing so well.
I believe the numbers were phony just like they were before the election.
And there were other times.
So you know what I did?
I fired her.
And
know what?
I did the right thing.
for the prior months.
Yeah, they always update things.
And it went from 144,000 jobs created in May to just 19,000, which is quite a drop.
Wow.
And then of course, in June, it was 147,000 jobs created.
But no, that was wrong, a little high.
It was only 14,000 jobs created.
That is, I don't think I've ever read those kind of numbers, job creation numbers ever.
Anyway, we don't know what's going on for July, but CNN wrote this.
This is the worst economic jobs report since the end of the pandemic.
So really seriously, fire the person because she's just doing her job.
Maybe there's some satisfaction in firing people.
Maybe that's what it's all about.
Alright, let's get into this.
You just mentioned Scott Galloway.
Why don't we get to a comment from Scott.
I'm just going to throw this one.
This is cut eight.
And he is talking about Ghislaine Maxwell and getting off and it's baked in.
They already have made this decision.
Let's listen to his point of view on this and end more.
He talks about more.
I think it's already underway.
I think somebody has communicated to Ghislaine Maxwell in prison that if she exonerates the president, she'll get a pardon by the end of his term.
I think it's already underway.
Which makes it worse though, right?
Correct?
Doesn't that make it even more?
I don't know.
I think his base.
I think if she quote-unquote, I mean think about how ridiculous this is.
All of a sudden they've decided they might want to speak to Delaney Maxwell.
That just dawned on the Attorney General's office that
maybe they should
go speak to her.
So it's been, in my opinion, just logic has said, okay, if you provide us with information or credible information or just basically say he had, he was there, but make it, make it believable.
Like he was there, but he never engaged in anything like that.
Before the end of the term, wink, wink, you're going to be back in...
in Long Island or wherever she's from.
I think the fix is already in.
I think someone has already communicated to Tulane Max.
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Well, let's get to something I mentioned earlier.
We did get the clips, so we're going to talk about it briefly here.
And that is representative of Mike Flood.
He had quite a meeting.
He's a punty little guy with these glasses.
He looks like Dexter, the cartoon show.
Have you ever watched?
Dexter?
He
looks like
mean,
It talks about two big changes to the Medicaid program.
One of those changes.
is that if you are able to work and you are able-bodied, you have to work.
If you choose not to work, you do not get pre-healthcare.
You do not get
question.
Rephrase it.
So here's a question.
Do you think that people...
who are 28 years old, that can work and refuse to work, should get free healthcare.
I don't think that a majority of Nabaskans agree with you.
Oh,
Oh, really?
I don't think you're reading the crowd.
Reading the room well.
That is just priceless stuff.
It went on for more than an hour.
It was like an hour and a half.
Well, you know, the thing is, you know, healthcare, they're using it as a weapon against the American citizens.
We pay for their healthcare, but they're penalizing us, punishing every American out there that needs healthcare, that has healthcare debt, can't get it off their record.
In fact, Trump made it impossible to take it off their credit record.
It was off, according to Biden, he took it off our credit reports, but
I don't know why, but Trump said, hey, let's put it back on there.
Let's make sure people can't buy houses or cars.
Okay.
What
a great
A lot spins talked about Medicaid, healthcare, et cetera.
A lot of countries in the world, Europe, Canada, they have healthcare for the people there.
Outside you, just now you said, you know, you don't want to see a lazy 28 year old get healthcare, whatever.
My point is, every working and retired American should be entitled to healthcare.
Would you?
Would you sign on or?
Right up a bill for Medicare for All.
We've got Medicare now.
We can start rolling back the age.
Five, ten years at a time.
Would you support that?
We can't afford that.
We protected Medicaid as the safety net for those who cannot care for themselves, who are vulnerable, for those who are able-bodied
I will tell you this and I cannot take any credit for it.
President Trump is going to bring down prescription prices because the countries you mentioned have been paying way too little for way too long and we've been subsidized then.
And if we as a country start, I want to pay the same price for the drugs that are in London as they are in Lincoln.
And that has not happened for a long time.
We've been subsidizing these foreign governments and our socialized healthcare.
This will get solved by President Trump.
It will mark the biggest change in healthcare spending in 50 years.
And I'm confident that's where we're going.
First of all, the American public has subsidized the development of drugs at our universities.
And it's going on to the National Institute of Health after that.
And then it goes to the drug companies to market.
So we've been paying huge prices.
Second, Trump has raised the prices in Europe on drugs to match the high prices we have in this country.
Drug prices really aren't gonna go down and not only that but all we have to do is as a country negotiate drug prices all the drug prices now if we had universal health care we could do that yes we could negotiate we would we would buy in quantity lowering the price of drugs in this country and worldwide that's the solution not
Not whatever Mike Flood was talking about.
It was convoluted jigsaw puzzle.
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