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Good morning.
Hey, man.
How are you doing?
Good morning.
I'm just having a nightmare here.
Well, happy Wednesday.
Rise and shine.
I
Can you override that?
Is there a way you can communicate that to the vehicle?
You can turn the windshield wiper sensors off, I found.
I see.
As I was dinking around with the lever.
I don't know, I'm just working on it.
You know, there are little tiny secrets in each and every button.
Well, I'm sure you've read the manual, right?
Oh, I've looked over the manual.
Yeah.
It's, you know, it's as big as an encyclopedia.
So I'm not sure if I'm ever going to get through it or understand every page.
I did watch a video yesterday about a vehicle.
Yeah, review of it.
And the guy took it out on the road.
He was using all the buttons on the dash and I thought, oh, that's what that button's for.
Oh, I can do that.
Those are helpful.
Yeah.
It really worked out well.
That's great.
Well, good.
I'm
Yeah.
You like those?
Oh, I love that.
That was a great van.
But I had a Toyota Celica way back when I was fascinated by the headlights that flipped up.
And this car had headlights that flipped up.
I thought, wow, that's really high tech.
It's really cool.
I'm part of the Jetsons generation, and it wasn't a big deal, and that kind of went away.
Did they ever get jammed?
Because you would see those vehicles and there would be one that was flipped up and one down.
Yeah.
I
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Oh, come on.
You're just babbling.
I just thought, oh, that's a good time to call in and babble, too.
I just want to brag.
best kid.
I have the best kid.
kid, my child, got home last night by going out to downtown, to wander downtown.
And I was worried about it.
And I had to go to sleep because I, you know, get up with you guys.
And so she was out all, you know, till like after.
10, 9, 30, something like that.
Tracking.
My ex-husband was tracking her, you know, with my phone.
Anyway, this is really a bad story, but it's not as bad as what you guys are doing.
So I wake up in the morning at 5.30, like I usually do, and I'm like, wait a second.
My thing says she got home, but she's gone again.
it's 5.41, actually.
It's 5.41 exactly.
She went out.
She got up.
She woke up at 5.30 just before me and went out and took pictures of a sunrise.
I mean,
who are you?
since until 10.30 most days.
But I'll be darned if she was.
Because I said to her just yesterday, you know, school's coming
you're going to have to reverse your schedule.
So what does she do?
She does it in one night.
Yeah.
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Because you know what made me think of it?
You guys talked about there's not much fog.
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Okay, all right.
Quite the list.
We'll be hearing a comment.
Not hearing, I'll be reading a comment from Katanji Brown Jackson a while ago, but I think it's a good thing to revisit.
from what she says, Tesla rather will be trying to keep Elon.
Good, I don't understand that one at all and we'll be diving into that.
Well,
Bill Gates making his own butter.
Yes, it's a new kind of butter, but tastes just like butter, using the same chemical ingredients.
Right.
Yes, natural chemical ingredients.
Right.
Is there a follow-up to that story?
Yeah, well, I've got another story here.
This time, billionaire Jeff Bezos, his lab is churning out salmon.
it out?
I know I had
No.
And then of course we have a guest later on and that's Dr. Jim Conway Madison professor here at the UW and He's in the infectious disease Department, and he'll be talking about that probably we'll be talking about measles here in Wisconsin right Vax rates low high and probably herd immunity.
What he thinks of her What's happening on state street?
Oh, yeah, they're getting distracted
Oh, OK, I thought somebody might have been hit.
Oh, really?
But not the city truck.
It does look like
He's running back to get it.
They didn't put up the tailgate and the leaf blower fell off the truck.
Oh, it looks like it broke, too.
They're picking up the pieces.
No, those are gloves.
Are they?
Yeah, those are the gloves that they had on the leaf blower.
Well, they're going back to the- You're pretty sturdy.
That's a steel leaf blower.
They're
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.
That's right.
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 fallout 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.
Yeah, wow.
Okay.
No kidding.
You know, they expect us all to be that dumb.
You know, from all the things he told us, what they're going to do, right?
I mean, the new guy in the Fed.
You know, he's basically saying, you know, maybe we shouldn't release these numbers every month.
Maybe we should do it every quarter because, you know, if they go down and they look miserable like this last one when the guy got fired.
Right.
Well, we don't want that to happen again.
Right.
But, you know, he.
He's now going back on it.
After a day, it's nice to know and have that kind of confidence in somebody who is true to his conviction.
Anyway, he changed his mind.
And he has worked at many of these conservative think tanks.
I can't remember what his name is, but he's gonna join the Fed board and he's going to be in there basically looking at the numbers and releasing them.
And of course, no one's gonna believe.
any of the numbers he's releasing.
They might as well wait, they might as well wait till a quarter when they readjust everything, right?
Might as well.
Yeah, but it's crazy.
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That's right, now the Supreme Court has given a list of the things that they're gonna pick up in October, I believe, when they come back in a session.
And I just wanna read a decision that,
Katanji Brown Jackson came up with her final one of the season, and I thought it was very apropos.
Something we should all kind of keep in mind as we prepare for more surprising decisions from the Supreme Court that doesn't seem to even think about the Constitution anymore.
Just how do we please Trump?
Anyway, she goes on and she says this.
It is not difficult to predict how this all ends.
Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional republic will be no more.
Okay, well that's pretty uplifting.
Putting it right out there.
And she also slammed the majority's textualism, which I always thought was just pure ideology.
You know, they always say, oh, I'm a textualist.
I go by the exact words of the Constitution.
And that's something the Federalist push, the Federalist society pushes.
But that is also an ideological point of view.
That's conservative.
It's always been conservative.
And for some reason, the news media keeps their hands off of it and they treat this textualism as something real, something that is in the middle.
It's not.
one side or the other.
Wrong.
It's always been conservative.
It is their point of view.
And she's taken a shot at it here.
She says pure textualism, the refusal to try to understand the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to achieve, turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing judicial policy preferences.
So that is what they have done they have taken this textualism They have twisted it around and made it into whatever they want it to mean You know one of the big decisions that they made was going back in history taking a look at historical context, right?
How do we decide with?
what is meant by this part of the Constitution by taking a look at what happened in the past.
And I always thought, well, that's a pretty flawed way of looking at anything since a lot of things in the past, the decisions were made very badly, very bad decisions, and we're supposed to go by those bad decisions and say, well, they did it back then.
That must mean it's okay today to do that.
No, that's not exactly the way it should be.
Anyway, they keep changing the goalposts on all of this stuff.
And that's Katanji Brown Jackson's point of view, leaving us with a very positive note.
Historical note.
Thank you, Katanji Brown.
Yes, yes.
Bill Ackman, he's the guy who really kind of spurred on this attack on Harvard University.
He's
a
Bill, I'm just wondering, you're an alumnus.
What should Harvard do where you'd say, OK, to get back in your good graces, what does the university need to do at this point?
Sure.
So the right thing to do, or I should say, the wrong thing to do is receive a letter from the administration and write back saying, we're doing nothing.
In fact, we're going to sue you.
OK, that's what Harvard did.
What Harvard should have done is should have said, President Trump
You make some good points.
No, don't do that.
You know, taxpayer money coming to Harvard, Harvard, that's a privilege.
It's not a right.
And, you know, taxpayer money, you know, going to an institution, the institution cannot have massive amounts of administrative bloat, waste, bureaucracy.
We're going to eliminate it.
We're going to hire Alex Partners, a restructuring firm.
We're going to take a 3G zero-based budgeting approach to the way we run our, you know, administration, things that are not
Inefficiency is causing harm and we're wasting taxpayer money.
President, you're right.
Harvard has become, you know, there is not.
viewpoint diversity at Harvard.
Students are self-censoring their remarks in classrooms.
Faculty are doing the same because people are afraid to have real conversations.
You can't learn.
You go to college to be exposed to a broad array of ideas.
And that's not happening at Harvard.
Free speech is not happening at Harvard.
So you acknowledge the areas where the president is absolutely correct.
Well, first of all, he's not correct about anything he lies.
All the time, he doesn't say anything that's truthful.
Second of all, you don't appease this jerk, all right, this president.
And then of course, they're not having problems with the funding.
They're not having problems with, you know, the way they're doing and running Harvard University.
They're doing okay.
We haven't read about any of that stuff.
Nothing's really hit the fan in regards to that.
All they're complaining about were the protests.
on campus and then of course they're against DEI diversity equity and inclusion but insist that we include that's part of the DEI acronym
They want us to include people with opposite views, fearful views.
The views they're afraid to tell other people in the classroom.
They're hiding away in the corner of the classroom because they're afraid the liberals will attack them for saying their, their views, their conservative thoughts.
So, you know, I, like I've said,
It's their problem.
This is their problem.
If they don't want to speak up in class, if they feel like they have to remain silent, maybe it's their ideas.
And if they're afraid to say their ideas in public, then that's their problem.
It isn't our problem.
We're not stopping them.
We're not censoring them.
Although, now with the Smithsonian thing, they want to get rid of woke ideas.
They want to get rid of the wrong ideologies.
What does that mean?
Well, it sounds very, very frightening to say the least, but anyway, this is Bill Ackman.
And one of these days, you know, at the end of this administration, whenever
it is,
These people, these are appeasers.
These are the people allowed this country to slip into a dictatorship because we're there now in three and a half years.
Man, are we going to be there?
So these are the people that allowed this to happen and they will not be forgotten.
At least that's my point of view on that.
Okay.
All right.
I'm sticking to it yet.
I just want to make sure that every story and you're sticking to it.
Yeah.
time
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Well, why why did you have to learn segment?
I'm who is this?
I veiled off using this but I saw this at this ad for an energy company.
They're called Vattenfall and They've got some wind farms out on the water
and they've hired Samuel L. Jackson to be their spokesperson.
Oh, he's got a great voice.
Oh, he has a great voice.
And Vattenfall has decided they're an energy company and they've decided to use Samuel L. Jackson's lines out of snakes on a plane.
is enough!
I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
Everybody step in!
Energy efficiency.
All right.
So here it is.
This is this is the energy company's new ad with Samuel L Jackson by the way playing off of the fact that What do we don't have time?
Yeah, we do got about a minute.
We got about a minute.
What do you think?
You know what?
I don't think we have enough time Well, they cut us about 50
Well, we had
The idea is that Trump is against windmills, you know, the windmills that grind up grain into flour.
He does not like those dotting our landscape.
But they are really turbines.
And he is taking off on that with the snakes on the plane cut.
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you know,
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OK.
Mother f***ing windfalls.
Loud, ugly, harmful to nature.
Who said that?
These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger to CO2.
Deep beneath the waves, they can become artificial reefs, creating habitats for sea light to grow.
These are wind farm seaweed snaps, made with seaweed grown at a bottom farm wind farm.
Sea is gonna make shit.
What's it gonna be?
Motherf***in' wind farms
for motherf***in' wind
farms.
They're very popular at Costco.
No kidding.
Yeah.
Right next to my bed, they have... You live at Costco?
I live there.
They put a stand right up next to my bed.
Oh, they got free samples?
Yeah.
Stuff.
Check out the seaweed chips.
That's right.
And cakes, you know, people just love, they're really thin wafers.
You could see through them.
And they look delicious.
And then you taste them and they taste like fish.
At least, I don't know, maybe I'm just, I just don't have a taste for it.
I don't know what it's like eating fish scales.
All right, here we go.
There are people that like that stuff.
All right, here we go.
White House officials said they would review the Smithsonian's
exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning, and collections, starting with eight museums.
That's all.
Ahead of America's 250th birthday celebration next year, Trump.
Now, there's the problem right there.
Trump came up with this idea.
He has detailed steps to scrutinize the institution to reflect the president's call to restore truth and sanity to American history.
The guy is not sane.
He wants to put a happy face on everything for the 250th anniversary.
That's right.
It is a happy face.
It has never been an issue before.
We've never questioned the exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute.
But you know what?
The smartest guy in the world who sits in that capital, he...
He knows what's best and he knows what truth and sanity is all about.
The initial review will focus on eight museums.
Get this, the National Museum of American History, Natural History, African American History and Culture, the American Indian, Air and Space Museum, American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Hirschborn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Now remember, he wants to make a sculpture garden of his own.
Really?
Weird.
Yeah.
Anyway, museums should begin implementing content corrections where necessary.
And, you know, they've been there for a long time.
People have been angry about the incorrect statements that they had at the museum.
No one has thought
about this ever.
with unified historically accurate and constructive descriptions.
Amazing stuff, isn't it?
That's good.
And here's the line right here.
This is, it's called, restoring truth and sanity to American history.
And it's going to be directed by J.D.
Vance to... Oh boy.
to remove improper ideology.
It's the improper ideology that has always bothered me.
That ideology is way off.
That's really woke.
I can't believe they have this here.
So anyway, let's go to the phones right now.
We've got Dick on the line.
Dick, what do you
Well, authoritarian type thing with Marshall Law declaring it.
He's trying to cultivate tourism.
I know that sounds crazy, but you know, it's way off now.
See, he wants tourists from other countries like that, you know, Turkey and the likes,
then they'll feel at home coming here.
So it's like their
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