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Yeah, State Street block off the Capitol 69 degrees currently the high today just 75 a little bit cooler fall like air moving in for the next few days What is your Samsung WMDX watch tell
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I figured it out.
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I don't mind.
You know, there are ways to treat it.
They have the steroid nasal sprays, which take care of that.
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And you can also take an antihistamine.
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You
But I want to get his impression of what's going on out there I want to get his feelings about you know, the situation that we have politically I also and this is the question of when I ask him.
Yeah What about the guard rails on AI?
What do you think we should put up as guardrails for AI?
And my specific question is, should we have age verification?
Should that be the first guardrail?
Age verification?
Really?
Yeah.
Because age verification is something that Google's putting in place.
The Democrats are kind of jumping on board with this.
Europe or Britain, I'm not sure who it is out there in Great Britain.
I'm the other side.
United Kingdom?
All I'm thinking is that maybe one of those countries or the European group itself has this new law that will require age verification.
Yes, but it's not it's not really even
where the cutoff point is.
It's being able to track down people.
Once you verify your age and you give proof of it, maybe a driver's license or some kind of identification, then you're giving them the ability to track down and follow everything you've ever visited on the internet.
That is very scary.
It's mind blowing.
It is, it's mind blowing.
I'm thinking that is not a good thing.
And again, the Democrats showing that they really don't know anything about the Internet and why we need Gen Z's in there.
Let's vote younger people into the Congress, please.
Please, please.
We don't want that.
We don't need that.
Things have been going pretty well.
the way it is, as far as age is concerned, okay?
I mean, other than that, I think there should be guardrails, but the age verification thing is really, really not a good idea.
Well,
Well, yeah.
A little bit
minutes.
Well, I'll try to condense what I'm seeing here.
Okay.
this morning.
It's all
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go to our WMDX radio page.
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We have something new there.
It's the events page.
You go to the events page and you can see what kind of events we have coming up like tomorrow night.
We have Madison Night Market.
We didn't have one in July.
They skip July because there are too many other things going on, but we'll be back right across the street from our station in front of the Overture Center.
Tomorrow evening we'll be there from five until...
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We usually cut out a little early.
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Your laptop shows everything differently.
For some reason, I have the mobile version of our site on my laptop.
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None of the other sites show up like this.
It's just dollars.
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Of course, you know, the question is the one that I wrote.
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And the question is, if John and Gordy did one thing for their morning show, they should, A, not change a damn thing, keep doing what they're doing.
That's at 38%.
That's 20.
38.5%.
Choice B is include more.
stories in idiocracy at the risk of their own lives and freedom.
That's 30.8%.
We
collars.
Well, you do that anyway.
I did that
And this one, dad.
But Willy Street, all these crashes, you know, city traffic controllers are grappling with a rash of...
car crashes on Willy Street.
On Willy Street, yeah.
You
know, that mother's fool, mother fool's coffee house has been hit a bunch of times.
And there are other stores along Willy Street.
It's just, you know, what happens is they open up on weekdays, the city opens the eastbound lane on Willy Street to accommodate rush hour traffic.
Is it four
to five, four to six?
Four to five
thirty.
four to five 30
Do you
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That's it.
That's would
you rather.
That's my point.
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Do you know who?
No.
I've never heard of her.
There's a picture of her sitting on the couch with the other hosts and apparently she has a off screen.
Why do they say that off screen relationship with Sean Hannity?
No, they're gonna have a relationship on screen.
What is live reality?
Anyway, uh, Trump called and he just kept talking about it and yabbering about it and they were trying to change the subject on and on.
So, you know, that's the thing that's trending right now.
about his fears about his future death and the afterlife.
We'll have that tomorrow.
There's a link to that story.
Well, anyway, Trump made her relationship the main focus of his call into the show.
It comes after Trump's subtle gesture revealed that he really thinks about Melania.
after the high stakes meeting.
So, yeah, we'll find out what he thinks about Melania later.
But that's what's trending as far as meaningless news is concerned.
So Trump was rambling.
Just rambling on and on, yeah.
Now, Republican Senator is saying that he thinks Obama could be charged.
in regards to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
He thinks he can be charged even though the president has this new immunity thing, the Supreme Court bestowed upon the presidency.
So he thinks he can still go after Obama.
I think they just want to make this an issue.
and just keep it alive and well.
And this is how they do it.
And their outrage machine will keep this going for quite some time.
Really?
Yeah.
They think they can go after Obama.
Obama for investigating Russian influence in an election.
Seriously.
We seriously would not want to know that.
We don't want to check into that.
Yeah, that's pretty serious stuff right there.
You don't want that to happen.
This is kind of interesting.
The traditional 9 to 5 is now being replaced with Infinity Workday.
Infinity work day.
What does that mean?
Well,
you're always
Yeah, they work at night in the morning.
We check our emails.
We check our chats.
We check in constantly to see if we've got something new.
We're searching for tomorrow.
Yeah, never always working.
We're always working.
That's not good.
I don't know.
I'm gonna look at that story.
We might even have that story tomorrow.
Heinz ketchup, by the way, has confirmed
Of course, they've been writing it on their product for a while.
But
anyway,
That's breaking
Well,
I
don't refrigerate it anymore because it's got a lot of vinegar in it, and that's a preservative to a degree.
You don't need to do it, but Heinz is recommending do it.
Heinz says, oh, you've got to capture the flavor and refrigerate it, and it's just a bunch of bull.
They're just playing us.
Okay, and the biggest news, and this is, I'm going to look into this, apparently, Howard Lutnik.
Lutnik.
Lutnik.
Howard Lutnik.
is proposing that the government buy a little piece of intel.
They want a piece of intel because their excuse is that they have been giving grants to intel.
And Lenick is out there saying, hey, why are we giving them money?
Why don't we get something for it?
This is a transactional.
It's always transactional.
This is
of the action.
Maybe they don't know that.
right around
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.
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
What?
What the f*** is going on around here?
Holy
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The big disappointment is that millions and millions of people who have filtered through the Smithsonian over the many years have been misled.
Absolutely misled.
Just nothing but woke.
And this is what has been, you know,
Well, the trouble with the US is that they have been influenced and exposed to this propaganda at the Smithsonian, and it has changed a lot of people's minds.
They have become Democrats, liberals, progressives, going through the museums as they exit.
We have changed their vote.
I remember
our kids.
Look what happened
on
It's too crazy to even imagine.
And yet here we are.
We're talking about this every damn day.
All right.
Let's move into the territory of our wonderful and beloved postal service.
Oh, boy.
In June, the Senate parliamentarian unblocked
a Republican proposal in a major tax and spending bill to sell off the agency's new electric vehicles and infrastructure and revoke remaining federal money.
It sounded really stupid to do that.
We just bought new EVs for the post office, unique vehicles that have the driver on the right side.
But we're gonna sell them off.
I don't know who's gonna buy them All that money wasted and spent they would rather have wasted the money just to make a point make a mega point and then of course, you know Take all the money federal money back that is going to these companies that are manufacturing these cars for
the post office and a lot of jobs lost there
crazy just to make a point it's again it's a mega thing you know they got to own us right well the parliamentarian did stop them but not long enough because now the republican magas are saying that the postal service should still
Stick to just delivering mail and not driving EVs as a statement a political statement driving those EVs.
That's a political statement.
Hmm.
Yeah.
So anyway, uh, Joni Ernst, Senator Joni Ernst said this.
It didn't make sense for the Postal Service to invest so heavily in an all electric force.
What?
What is she?
What is what?
The whole thing here is these postal trucks the ones that are out there right now were built in 1987 what so if we get the EVs now yeah maybe in 40 or 50 years they'll still be out on the road right why would it be crazy to invest so heavily into all electric vehicles at this point they're gonna be on the roads for a long long time folks my god
So anyway, she thinks it's just mail delivery.
It isn't making a political statement buying an EV and making sure that the, I guess, climate remains environmentally safe for most of us to breathe.
Oshkosh Defense was given the award.
The Grumman Long Life Vehicles, I mentioned, built in 1987, have a fuel efficiency of nine miles per gallon.
Not good.
What?
New trucks are equipped with airbags, blind spot monitoring, collision sensors, 360 degree cameras, and anti-like brakes.
Wow, there's something new.
Nice.
And air conditioning.
Wow.
I'm just
Yeah, good morning.
Yeah, you just kind of lit a fire under me with this latest.
You just talked about this.
But I've talked to my postman, you know, frequently that, um, that, uh, you know, chatting with the man that, uh,
And saying, you see these vehicles stop and go, they stop and go, and they stop and go in town.
And it makes so much sense to have electric vehicles for that.
For the love of God, the first vehicle, some of the first cars we had were electric cars back at the turn of the...
of the twentieth century back in the early nineteen hundred said because the only problem was is that the battery technology wasn't good enough electric vehicles electric vehicles to some extent are much simpler than then internal combustion engines that there's no there's no uh... it converts you know the electric motor turns and it doesn't have to go through a uh... transmission like the uh... question is some kind of transmission
But it's not.
Yeah.
And these vehicles are getting aged.
They're they're getting very old now because they're an older vehicle.
And now we've already got these electric vehicles on hand just because Donald Trump.
Donald Trump was all excited when he drove the damn Tesla.
Yeah, it is just idiotic and these people, you know, everything that woke statement out.
He doesn't they don't And it's pure Stalinism now for the whole attack in the museums.
I can remember seeing there's a program on PBS about It was what I think about dog on dogs and talking about the evolution of dogs and a guy in a guy in in the Soviet Union couldn't son study science
the way he wanted to, because the science wasn't in line with Soviet socialist
So no science has to be in mega, whatever it's thought now, mega-fascist
can't be around.
The museum has to match up with mega-fascist thought.
I mean, what we're going to expunge from the historical record, the fact that the Confederacy was based on supportive slavery.
Read Alexander's
Stevens you know cornerstone speech, which says the natural place for for the for for the for the black man is as a slave That was the moral truth for the for that
Yeah,
That was the Tammy decision that was dread Scott.
It didn't just say that that Scott didn't have any rights It said that no black person should have any rights in this country because they're not equal to a human being
I mean, it is just beyond me that we're, that we have to have this debate once again, and these people should be ashamed of themselves.
They're all terrified of Donald Trump.
At some point in time, the man is gonna flop over dead, like the rest of us flop over dead, and that Donald Trump will be gone, and they'll have to live with the fact that they've been supporting this jackass.
I want to bring up something or something I heard on the way in.
Thank you for your call.
And that is that the pediatric society, you know, doctors, physicians for pediatrics, they came out with a statement saying that children, babies to, I think, four years old should be getting a COVID shot because their systems haven't gotten the kind of ability to fight off diseases yet.
Right.
They're not as immune as people have said they are.
And they
have
They are trying to make a opposing statement to the government statement.
See, now we can't even trust the government websites anymore with giving us the right kind of information that we need to make decisions and for insurance companies to make those decisions.
Because if we're not requiring these shots for babies, infants, then the parents will have to pay for those COVID.
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So it affects us, our pocketbook, and it affects our lives as well.
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was just a miserable failure now before CBS pulled the plug on let the late show with Stephen Colbert season four of HBO's hacks had already dealt with a similar situation in which that same thing had happened along with the vein the vein row Well, okay, I'll tell you
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We'll get into it.
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Instead of me explaining about comedy and how it isn't really something.
that you can find on the right wing.
I mean, they're just not very funny over there.
And I guess I would imagine that watching the five, whatever they call it, that's funny to some people.
It's pretty sad.
Now, what are comedians doing, though, to affect society?
To affect what's going on in society?
It happens that Mark Merritt mm-hmm
Now, here's the podcast.
Does he still have that
You know, to be in a fucking club where, you know, I walking down the hall at the comedy club, and, you know, in one room, someone's doing their bit about trans people, and then I get down the hall and there's someone on stage going, well, I guess I got to do my bit about trans people.
Like, no, you don't.
You don't.
It's hack now.
I mean, you know, you guys got the freedom you wanted.
You can now say whatever you want.
They're defeated.
The rights have been denied.
The policies that you guys encouraged, which are your stupid material, are now policy.
And now, like, you know, half the people under the umbrella of anti-woke, we've lost a tremendous amount of democratic leaning ideas and movements.
So whether they knew it or not, that's what they were spearheading.
So now it's reality.
And you want to still keep kicking them?
I don't know that comedians have had that much power.
Are
you out of your mind?
No,
I'm
you know, you can't you can't separate like if the movement is like, you know, we're being censored.
No, you're not you're not there's no constitutional
censorship issue with your free speech.
You say things and in a Democratic show of an environment, you know, like Twitter or whatever, there's cultural pushback, but that's a specific issue.
To frame it as some sort of free speech problem was a misdirect.
It wasn't.
It wasn't a free speech problem.
It was that people were getting cultural pushback.
That is not a constitutional issue.
No one was being put in jail for saying anything.
That's a free speech issue.
But my problem is is you're going to start talking about anti-woke and that's going to be your point of view.
That's going to be your ideological, you know, grounding for what you do.
OK, that's fine.
But why does it have to be the same four fucking things?
You know, it's like they talk about the same shit and I don't know a better definition of hack.
I mean, after a certain point, it's like, you know, what, so what juice is the word hard really had?
How much do you have to give trans people?
You know, what is your big problem with gay people?
What's your big problem with women?
It's like, what is this, the f***ing 80s again?
to a
And then they act like, well, gee, you're pushing back on me.
You're trying to censor me.
No, that's the feedback you're getting.
You're accountable for what you're saying.
And they've always been that way.
And that's why they're afraid to speak up in college classes now because, well, somebody might actually have an opposing view to their point of view.
Yeah.
Comedians have always been
They've always been on the front lines of, you know, oh boy, that's controversial.
That's, you know, edgy.
We don't know if that should be allowed.
Should we censor him?
Should we not let him?
I mean, that's the way it's always been.
And if comedy makes you feel a little bit uncomfortable, it's actually a good thing.
It gives you stuff to think about and to, you know, make up your own mind about how you feel about issues.
That's my take
about
But
And I think Marin is certainly making a great point that it's not funny stuff anymore.
You can go on and on and maintain this separation between left and right, but it's not funny and it's not making society any better or more comfortable.
We're all kind of at war with each other simply because of comedians going on.
The point was that, well comedians don't have that kind of influence.
They
do,
Yeah.
There you go.
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