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I don't know.
You know, it's all bottled up inside of me.
I really have to kind of get it out there.
Okay.
We're working really hard on Monday and Tuesday.
We have a number of different shows to
To do we move to the morning show again as usual.
Yeah.
Yes, and then we're filling it for Peach Waba.
What Monday night?
Yeah Monday and Tuesday night, right Monday
No, no, no big deal.
No big deal.
You're setting us up for something.
No, there's a guest that I know that's going to be on the show, but I don't know if I want to share that right now.
Am I allowed to share that right now?
Sure.
Yeah.
What we were talking about before the show?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I think so if it's confirmed.
It's confirmed.
I'd say Todd Alba is coming on the show on Monday.
Yeah.
Yeah.
be
Yeah, why is that?
Okay.
And the lights were bad when I came in to work again.
They were good.
Stop lights?
Yeah, they were good like a couple days ago.
They've been good this whole week.
Yeah, they have been.
But today, they were the worst.
At least from my experience, I had to stop and go every single light.
What street are you going to?
What's your main... Mineral.
Mineral point.
Mineral point.
Wow.
They took me forever.
Yeah.
We'll check in with Savannah Tomei Olson, some of the news items from this week.
And Rocker will be here with a Max Inc preview.
It's also Free Ticket Friday.
We'll have a four pack of tickets to give away to an upcoming Brewer's game.
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So that's coming up as well.
Yeah.
Many, many things coming up.
You're shuffling through your papers.
She was gonna look that up and find out more about it after we brought it up the last time.
And, you know, I piqued her interest.
and the Bill Gates Butter.
We never actually played the Bill Gates Butter story for her.
It's a little long.
I mean, we could just play the first part of it and give her a taste, so to speak, of the Butter story.
But it's been
I can find it for her.
All right I don't even know if anyone else wants to hear that Okay, all right.
Yeah, would I recognize that song?
Yeah, I think you were okay.
Yeah.
Well, that's good.
All right.
Second question.
Would you rather be unable to use search engines?
So like Google or whatever ever again or always be one hour late to things?
Yeah, it's true.
Yeah, we used to have the recording of the tubes.
Right?
The tubes.
Yeah.
Remember the what?
Yeah, and you know, well the internet, you know, it's a bunch of it's a bunch of tubes, right?
Yeah, it's not like a big That's it.
Okay.
There you go.
Okay.
I love that.
Good enough It's not a dump truck, you know, it's not a dump truck, you know, just pour stuff into this dump truck and it all gets hauled away.
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Good morning, guys.
I agree with you.
It's beautiful right now.
I'm waiting to see what it's going to be like.
The Badger scheme and gas engine club show starts today up in Baraboo.
Oh, yeah.
I noticed that there are temperatures.
temperatures are projecting are going to be closer to 90 by the time the crowd starts showing up Saturday or Sunday.
So, you know, that much more resembles the August that I know in Wisconsin.
The weird machinery that they have
Yeah.
Well, that's what I was just going to say.
There's a lot of education goes on for young and old up there because they've got, this year, one of the organizers told us that they've got a well-drilling machine that's back.
One fellow that had recently kind of demonstrated quit coming,
so
that's back.
They'll be making shingles out of wood.
Just a lot of different blacksmithing, if you've never seen that in action, they've got demonstrations there.
So it's not just about the tractors or the engines that you see, it's also about the real work that they try to demonstrate for folks in the different buildings.
So if you get a chance, like I said, it's only 10 bucks for adults, 12 and under are free.
That's not a bad way to spend an afternoon, you know?
Yeah, it's part of my past, you know, taking the kids up there.
They love getting on the tractors and taking the rides with some of the people that, you know, invited them up on the seat.
And it's great stuff.
I wonder if they'd get into it now at 26 and 23.
I think they might be a little.
But, you know, never know.
Yeah, never know.
I
see a lot of people, a lot of people that grew up in it and maybe ours, you know, I have a professional career, but they'll
They'll keep a tractor on the side for parades or something like that.
you just never know.
Well, part of the reason why we're going to see the weather that we are this weekend, including possible measurable rains,
is the weather pattern in Canada that's going to influence us this weekend.
My
weather guy was telling me that this morning.
And, you know, when we were on our Canadian farm tour, we made our way from Calgary all the way across Canadian Rockies to Vancouver and Vancouver Island.
And you can definitely tell there's dry areas, which, you know, they talk about the wildfires.
They don't talk about the impact on the people.
One guy that I visited with was Bob Wilson, who owns Morningstar Bison Farm.
He's on Vancouver Island.
Now,
anything you're going to do in
agriculture on an island is going to be difficult.
If you need fertilizer, you've got to bring it over.
If you're going to market your products, you got to take it over.
And when I was talking with Bob, he actually, right while we were, I was doing my interview, a helicopter with a water bucket flew over.
There was a wildfire that was only like three miles away from him.
He'd already started to feed his bison supplemental alfalfa cubes to try to get them ready for the winter.
And he was trying to market his bison.
and bring the herd size down because of the lack of feed.
So he was getting about $10 US a pound for ground bison, about 11 and a half a pound for roast and about $13 a pound for steak.
He was sending those animals across on ferry to be slaughtered and processed in Alberta.
Then they sent the meat to Montreal.
The bison meat circulated around Montreal and even made its way in to the eastern United States.
So, you know, there's demand out there.
But boy, like I said, anything you're going to do on an island is going to be difficult.
And I wish that when they did some of these wildfire stories, they'd take a little closer look at the impact that this was going to have not just this year, but for the for the.
foreseeable future on a lot of the farmers that are trying to eco to living in that area.
You know, I understand there's a beef shortage in this country.
And we used to import just kind of fill in the blanks where we're short.
And one of those countries happens to be Brazil, which now has this huge, huge tariff on it, 50%, I believe.
So that's limiting the amount of beef we get from at least Brazil, which is contributing to the high prices we're seeing in the market.
Yeah, and we're 64 year lows as far as the number of cattle we've got here in the United States for beef, the native beef cattle.
And now when you see the drought, you look at Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, they are in extreme drought.
Well, if you don't have the pasture, if you don't have the ground to feed those animals, then you're just going to market them immediately.
You're not going to build your herd.
So same story as what Bob Wilson told me up in Canada, same thing that's plaguing our beef industry.
If you don't have the water to make the pastures lush,
for cattle,
then
you just flat out can't have the cattle.
And that situation in Brazil, most of the cattle we bring in from Brazil are used in our ground beef industry that we call that the lean.
We raise that's top quality cattle in the US.
We need the Brazilian fat beef.
the fat side to come in to grind up our beef.
But,
yeah, you're right.
not going to change anytime soon.
I'm afraid either.
you
We can do it.
I've done my research.
We can do it Monday.
Yeah.
You want to do that next week?
lot of stuff.
We'll keep it on the to-do list, boys.
Have a great weekend.
All right, Pam, you have a great weekend.
Pam, you have a great weekend.
Thank
Out in your face just for kicks.
His bedroom window, it is made out of bricks.
This national guard stands around his door.
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Oh, well, you've seen them at the supermarket.
We've got a lot of high prices out there.
We're talking about the beef prices going right through the roof.
I thought they were expensive before.
Yeah.
Before all of this.
Now they're really expensive and that ground beef, as she mentioned, you know, that's where they get the fatter ground beef from Brazil.
Yeah.
And that stuff is not coming in to help with their beef shortage here in this country.
So, uh, you know,
How
can we
I think high prices are good.
Yeah, this is representative Ralph Norman
Uh, and, and this is just an amazing thing.
You've got to hear this.
And then I'll give you my mega friend in Milwaukee, his reaction.
Okay.
Let's listen to Ralph Norman representative Ralph Norman, uh, from South Carolina.
Time, Congressman, Americans largely disapprove of the economic policies of this president, at least right now.
55% say they disapprove of his job on the economy, 44% approve.
Can you explain those numbers?
Well, I think a lot of people are seeing higher prices.
I mean our family is in the construction business and we get a lot of our timber from Canada and other countries.
Yes, it's higher, still prices are up, but it's for the good of the country.
And should we expect higher prices for a short time?
Yes, but overall we couldn't keep going
the way we were
going.
The cancer in this country was letting other countries rule the day and tax our products.
And why should we run a deficit every month?
And that's why this president is
is doing such a good job and you can't go on, you know, whole numbers vary.
They
come
up,
they go down.
The
bottom line is he's doing the right thing and it couldn't come at a better time and things will get better here.
Congressman Ralph Norman, Republican
go up down
the
I you know, don't worry about it's gonna get better Why didn't we use it?
Or or the fact that it's for the good of the country
Right?
Yeah.
Now that.
Sure.
That doesn't settle well with me at all.
The good of the country.
It's for the good of the country.
You know, just pay a little bit more and then those prices will come down.
No, we don't know that.
You know, and in fact, I'm thinking not.
You know, we had the supply chain, which really boosted.
the inflation levels, right?
And then the greedflation took effect.
And that was where manufacturers said, you know what, we can piggyback
on
So let's increase our prices, make our products smaller, give people less of what we're manufacturing and selling in the stores.
And we'll make a lot of money that way.
And that's what happened with inflation.
That's how that happened.
But here,
Well, this is a self-created inflation.
And I think it's not really that good for the country.
It's not good.
It doesn't seem like it.
Let's get used to high prices.
right.
This is, you know, this is just something that I.
I have to pass along to you if you didn't check it out already.
It's a father.
He decided to review his four month old baby.
What?
What do you mean he reviewed him?
He's going to review his baby.
And this is the audio.
It's cut 82.
Let's check out this review.
What's up, everyone?
Here is my four month product review of this baby.
So delivery takes a while.
nine plus months, but the product so far has absolutely exceeded expectations.
Super lightweight, surprisingly durable, and that new baby smell is just chef's kiss.
Now the learning curve, steep, not gonna lie to you guys, but once you figure out the whole kind of crying equals need something algorithm, it's pretty intuitive.
Now the smile feature is absolutely game changing, instant dopamine hit,
every single time.
Battery life is only about 90 minutes and sleep mode still has some bugs, but support says that will be patched in the next update.
Now performance, okay?
This thing is a machine.
Processes milk at just incredible speeds, converts directly to energy and growth.
The learning AI is honestly impressive.
You know, babies
They're a lot like having your own personal LLM if if LLM is also peed on you.
Now the features, the cute factor is off the charts, definitely enterprise grade, adorability, advanced grip functionality, surprisingly good audio.
You know, frankly, the volume could be a little bit lower and pro tip, the cuddle feature is absolutely worth the premium pricing.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this product for families looking to scale.
Yeah, they're resource intensive and they require significant investment.
It's kind of like a expensive SaaS subscription with no cancellation policy.
But the ROI is already showing massive gains in happiness metrics.
So that's my review.
Stay tuned for future product updates.
Time to go change a diaper.
All right,
secret.
All right, let's get to Tesla Tesla's European sales fell by 45% on average in July compared to last year what the drop is most severe in Germany with a 55% drop and the United Kingdom 60% drop Okay, now BYD if you haven't heard of that, that's the Chinese EV giant They're selling cars all over Europe.
They can't sell cars in this country, but
BYD is the most fantastic futuristic.
EV made, they really put everything into it and it's only about $20,000.
So, you know, UK at least they can enjoy it and Germany can enjoy it and Europe is enjoying it, but we're not doing anything here.
But if they did come into this market, it would be an unfair advantage.
Definitely an unfair advantage.
But anyway,
They BYD the Chinese EV giant their sales have quintupled Wow while in the UK they have quadrupled many more versions of this can I read?
Signaling a shift in consumer preferences competitors are surging ahead of Tesla at this point as Tesla drops by 45 to 55 percent now Tesla's board get this.
I don't know what they're thinking
Tesla's board of directors wanted to hand Musk a huge $29 billion pay raise just to stay with the company.
He's costing $29 billion a day.
Oh man, I know it's a bizarre move.
In fact, it gave Musk significant control of the company's board.
the board that's voting on this, which means Tesla sees Elon as the best suited leader to address the company's challenges in the years ahead.
I think somebody is on something that they shouldn't be taking.
Wow.
And I'll be honest, you know, I've been very soft on Tesla.
I think, you know, Tesla is an EV.
People are buying Teslas because they care about the environment.
And I said, just keep buying them.
But, you know, they should get rid of Elon.
Right?
At this point, I have absolutely no pity for Tesla.
If they can make bad decisions like this, who needs them?
Look, I've got my Kia EV6.
You're fine.
You got the
And I heard, was it on, I think it was on Todd Alba's show.
He was talking about the color of vehicles.
Do you like yellow or red?
Now, this is their question of the day, right?
OK.
And they had people who were really ripping into yellow.
Well, yes.
It had to be a specific car or yellow does not work, right?
OK.
Like yellow VWs were kind of cool, right?
OK.
No.
You say so.
OK, well, that's a clown car.
All right.
But anyway, red, I guess, was a little safer.
The third safest car because it's visible.
people see the red and red has good resale value and red is one of the most popular colors.
And as I mentioned on the show, my space car is red.
Yes.
Well, that's kind of a burgundy red, right?
What kind?
No, I'm colorblind.
I don't know.
No, no, you're right.
It is a darker red.
They always give this darker red to all the cars.
I don't know why they're afraid of fire engine red.
I would prefer fire engine red.
Yeah, I would actually.
But you know me, I really don't prefer red.
But what I told you that I bought a red car, but it didn't really matter to me I really wanted a black car, but they're the least safe car out there because no one sees it on the road Okay, all right, you're all over the map on that am I really all right anyway All right
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don't know
why just coincidence the Megas are a step away from taking away all levels of government wonderful now this is really small government
And of course overthrowing democracy at the very same time.
I don't know who this person is that's narrating here.
It's another web wisdom, but he hits every mark on this.
And these are the things we've talked about with attorney Jim Santel as well.
So this is cut 83.
And let's listen to dismantling the Voting Rights Act.
All right, okay.
The Supreme Court is trying to hide its plan to prevent black people from voting in rig elections for Republicans.
This is bad, like very, very bad.
Last Friday, the Supreme Court dropped a hint towards their plan to destroy fair elections.
You probably didn't hear about it, and that's part of the plan, according to Pema Levy and Mother Jones.
The court's announcement that it'll pick up Louisiana v. Calais signals they're ready and eager to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The monumental legislation was a major turning point for the civil rights movement, guaranteeing equal protection.
for minority voters and that their districts would fairly and accurately represent their populations.
The Voting Rights Act was necessary because previously, white people literally owned black people, so finally giving them access to fair elections was the least we could do.
The case in Louisiana was brought forth by a bunch of racist white people who say that the Voting Rights Act is racist against white people, saying that the equal treatment of minority voters is actually discrimination against white voters, partly because of racism and
Also, because people of color and black people are more likely to vote Democrat, Republicans want to make it so that they have the legal ability to gerrymander these s***.
it out of the country to make it harder for their votes to count as much as white people's votes do.
What's happening in Texas is just the beginning.
All states will be able to gerrymander elections to serve the political party they favor, and a state that is only 40% white will be majority white controlled.
None of what's happening is a coincidence.
This is a well thought out, well coordinated and well researched attack on many, many levels.
Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation, along with other leading conservative figures, have been working on this plan since pre Reagan and their plan to
capture all levels of government, including the courts, has worked.
I usually try to end my videos with some hope, but for this one, I can't find it.
This is just scary, and we will fight this
All right.
Wow.
I like to leave people in an upper note there.
Anyway, that's a good summation of just about everything we've talked about with Jim Santel, anyway.
Yes.
All right.
And this is something too.
Republicans are, believe this or not, reprising
an attack line from last year's presidential race for elections this year.
And next, by the way, betting that anti-trans messaging will help them counter Democrats running on GOP-led cuts to Medicaid and other parts of the Trump policy megapill.
Now, my head is spinning on this one because...
I don't remember the anti-trans messaging as being the pivotal point during the last election.
The last election was all about immigration.
That's what I remember.
I was there.
No, I think you're right.
We were talking about it.
I mean, we did talk about some of this anti-trans messaging, but it wasn't that big a deal.
Now they're bringing it back as the main deal.
They don't have immigration anymore.
So do you think this is the message they want?
This is the hill they want to die on?
Anti-trans messaging.
And by the way, I think the Democrats have a better message, and that's, you know, do something about the cuts to Medicaid.
I don't know, I think there are a lot of people feeling like that's going to be a big problem.
And there is also, by the way, and I don't know if I have a handy here, but they're thinking about more cuts.
Mark yes house Republicans are now pondering whether to pursue another major legislative push involving Medicaid and Medicare later this year They want to cut it more the GOP may make steeper cuts to Medicaid
This year yet, and for 2026, a major fight over government funding looms, as well as the expiration of the ACA tax credits, which I've been talking about here in the show, which could lead to drastic hikes in some Americans health insurance premiums.
I mean, these are, these are premiums that are going to go right through the roof.
My kids and my wife is still on the ACA and we have seen huge increases, not only because the
The ACA tax cuts or the tax credits are gonna go away Yeah, but at the same time insurers are saying because they're going away.
We're gonna raise our rates So there are two things going on and the ACA is gonna be almost too expensive for anybody to be a part of anymore Yikes, that's
Okay.
Well
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