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My Gen-Z or my younger Gen-Z or a 23-year-old takes these little boxes of instant pudding and he mixes it up and he eats the whole thing in one sitting.
They're like four servings.
I told him, there are four servings in a thing.
He said, oh, I know, I didn't have a very good night.
Yeah, well, no kidding.
Yeah, I guess you got to learn the hard way.
Jim Santel will join us, attorney-at-law.
Also, Brandy Grayson a little bit later on from Urban Triage.
They have a harvest festival going on.
And she's going to tell us that's happening September 6th.
We'll find out more about that.
And let's see.
What else?
Oh, we've got some brewer tickets to give away.
Yeah.
We're going to do that right now, Dom?
What do you think?
What's your call?
It's my call.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
We're going to the Brewers game.
It's against Philadelphia.
It is on September 4th.
Yes.
And it's an afternoon game.
If you would like to be going to that game, give us a call right now.
608-879-8255.
It is an afternoon game.
It starts about three o'clock.
And you'll be sitting next to John and Gordy, thanks to Dondren's Distilling.
in Cottage Grove, Downlands distilling, helping you to go to the Brewers game with John and Gordy.
Again, give us a call at 608-879-8255.
Yeah.
Okay?
And if you are selected, you'll be going to that game.
All right.
Yeah, he came out and said that.
Say it again.
I'll just quote the thing.
It says, the rule of law is eroding like we've rarely seen.
Maybe he should have thought of that before ruling the president above the law.
You don't get to burn the house down and act shocked.
It's on fire.
So anyway, that's a reaction to his latest comments on that
then the other story that I have here is this is one of the big stories There is US espionage on Greenland At least three men close to Trump have been exposed while infiltrating Greenland eight independent sources reveal major US foreign influence campaigns on Greenland most likely
directed from the White House.
Wow.
So that is the big story.
What?
Commentator Brian Krestenstein, he wrote this, after Trump allies were exposed running covert operations in Greenland, the US is a threat to Europe.
I say this as an American who loves America.
Denmark is an ally with the US and a NATO member.
This is a violation of numerous international laws.
Trump is out of control.
Now, Megas
are
by what could happen if Russia had access to Greenland, Russia had access to Alaska, Russia had access...
I don't know.
Do they know that Trump is working with Putin on all of this?
It's just wake up guys, you know What one guy wrote this about Brian's comments about you know Trump allies exposed as Colvert operations in Greenland.
He writes cry harder Brian You're quick to call the US as a threat but ignore how Greenland strategic values protect the free world from China and Russia Trump's allies are exposing
Denmark's weak grip on a critical ally.
Your anti-Trump obsession blinds you from real geopolitics.
Wow, okay.
Well,
meet you there.
Well,
Yeah, that's the big one.
Okay.
All right, let's see here.
The other story, I love this one.
Now we get to listen to Stephen Miller.
Oh boy, how do we have to?
It's a rant.
Oh my God.
As you listen to this cut from Stephen Miller, he's talking about domestic extremist organizations, okay?
Once you listen to this, this is cut 202.
I want you to think about the gun problem that we have in this country, the shootings in Minnesota.
We can't ignore it anymore.
We have to do something about it.
One guy from Doge gets beat up in DC, right?
He got beat up in DC, so what do we do?
We occupy DC.
And here we have a shooting, two kids shot and killed, and there's no call to occupy all Christian schools.
Maybe they should do that, right?
But anyway, think about the gun problem.
When Miller talks about what's happening in this country,
He's really exposing the problem we have with guns.
That's what occurs to me as I'm listening
to
Democrat Party does not fight for, care about, or represent American citizens.
It is an entity devoted exclusively to the defense of hardened criminals, gang bangers, and illegal alien
killers and terrorists.
The Democrat Party is not a political party.
It is a domestic extremist organization.
Look at Chicago.
They've shut down the police department.
They've handcuffed law enforcement.
And as President Trump says, they have turned the streets of Chicago into a bloody killing field here in Washington, DC, before President Trump
launched the federal law enforcement Liberation in DC gun problem murder on the streets of this town every other day body after body after body gun problem gun problem Washington DC Residents were afraid to go to restaurants.
They were afraid to go into entire neighborhoods gun problem getting car jacked right and left Robbed and beaten.
Yes, that was Washington DC
Now we're two weeks, home beside free.
The safest the city has ever been in its entire history.
Oh,
Democrats, instead of jumping up and down and saying, thank you, President Trump.
We're occupying the city.
Thank you for saving our lives.
Thank you for saving our cities.
Thank you for scrubbing away all the graffiti, the trash,
homeless encampments, the drugies.
Instead of cleaning up the city, instead of thanking him for that, they're saying,
President Trump, how dare you save our lives?
How dare you save our children?
How dare you save our city?
The Democrat Party, Sean, that exists today, it disgusts me.
I do not recognize
party, Sean.
But truly, I mean, he's talking about the gun problem we have in this country.
They're not doing anything about it.
Nothing at all.
You know, I heard a little segment from Tom Hartman just caught the end comment that he made about guns and the problem in this country and why other countries don't have it because they have rules and regulations in place.
But the last thing I heard was that they need to get insurance to have a gun.
Okay.
And I think that was a great way to block.
the crazy people from getting guns, because if you have insurance, you're on the line for it.
You pay, and the insurance company pays, and they're gonna make sure that they're giving that insurance policy to a responsible person.
So I think that might be that one final regulation that prevents the crazy people from getting these guns.
All right, let's go to the phone lines.
morning.
Well, to this latest tragedy, how about this, Stephen Miller, instead of thoughts and prayers all the time, how about action and laws?
And I'm going to tell you something.
Here's something else I thought of, and that doesn't make no sense to anybody but me.
But if these legislature people in the Republican side of the aisle, for the most part, both in the House and the Senate, if they were doctors,
They'd all be sued for no practice.
All of them.
Yeah.
Good point.
It really is.
They're doing
Nothing wrong with the country that has as you said twice as many guns as we do people.
Nothing wrong there.
Yeah, no
think the solution
I think that's the real solution to all of this.
Remember in the old days when they were arguing for having guns, carrying guns, they said, well, you never know who's going to have a gun, so it's going to cut down on crime.
Anybody remember those arguments that they made?
I don't think so.
It seems like we're fighting guns with guns at this point.
It's
Good morning.
I keep brainstorming how we could screw with ISIS head and Trump's head.
I thought of another one.
Pritzker just needs to hire every band out of Louisiana, out of street bands.
Oh, yeah.
And bring them up to the streets in Chicago.
I just tons of bands and parades and silly string and stuff just.
Yes.
Screw with their heads.
WMDX.
the governor.
Good morning guys.
We've got nothing but good news.
How's that?
that great.
the
Well, the weather is gonna be fantastic.
It's gonna be partly sunny today Downright comfortable mid 70s.
This is what people sing about right perfect California weather
in
Wisconsin today, but tonight
Just so you know, way up north, just in case people are leaving early for the holiday weekend, it is going to be frigid.
We're talking about a frost advisory already out in Ashland, Iron County, way up north, where they're dropping down to the mid to low 30s tonight.
Now here for us now, upper 40s, so it's still cold.
But yeah, we're getting a pretty chilly
up north.
Otherwise.
Hanging on to those low 70s into tomorrow, Saturday.
We'll get a little boost to the mid 70s on Sunday and into Labor Day.
It turns a little bit more muggy.
I think crazy.
And then we'll be in the upper 70s as we push into next week.
And we hold off on all rain until Wednesday of next week.
No, it really couldn't.
And, you know, the sun is still warm enough and nice enough to where you still want to dip in the water when it's mid to upper 70s.
So I don't think any plans are going to be ruined for Labor Day.
true.
It's true.
It's going to work out for you.
Oh, man.
Yay.
Catherine
has
for Brittany.
I have an official question for our meteorites.
Hi, Brittany.
Hi, Catherine.
I'm questioning whether or not our seasons are shifting.
Did you do a story about that this week?
Did I see?
Yeah, so I was talking about the fact that La Nina is kind of heading in.
There's a La Nina watch that has been issued, so we're going from an Enzo neutral phase.
Into a La Nina which would change the jet stream a little bit send us a little bit more water weather and cooler temperatures as well Now it's not totally in full force But we are ceiling seeing the cooling of the ocean in the area that it matters So those changes are coming and you can already feel it a little bit.
It's already
fall for sure.
It's not supposed to be what to the 22nd or 20th of
Well,
Did we?
Yes, I think
So things are shifting a little bit, maybe not permanently, but
we'll have an early spring too.
way up north, their leaves are already changing.
They are, okay,
they're just getting longer.
Yes, actually.
If we've shipped into a La Nina before, so if we really do this, it is going to
increase and enhance that hurricane activity for fall down south.
So that is not a good thing if we switch into that.
Well, I think gosh,
Wait, wait, John, did you know how to get the memo?
Oh, wait.
Sorry.
not funny to Brittany.
You notice that?
That's not funny.
They are taking apart so many things, and that's Brittany's world.
It's devastating.
Those are my friends.
Those are my colleagues, you know, doing their jobs.
My world just crumbling.
It's been tough.
I am.
Excellent.
That's September 6th.
Yay.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
I need
a place to stay.
I got to spare a bedroom for you, girl.
in the studio with you.
You're here early.
Yeah.
What
angry.
morning.
That's it.
It's about you.
And I wanted to make sure I caught you before you left the building.
It's about me.
It's all about you always.
Oh man.
Okay.
All right.
Okay, I just want to kind of set the record street with this Albrego Garcia situation.
Okay, a lot of people don't know he's been
alleged to have done such and such and such, right?
Alleged.
I just want to set the record straight here.
I looked this up last night.
A judge said this about the accusations against him.
Poor attempts to tie a brago to MS-13, saying the court would have to make so many inferences that the conclusion would border on fanciful.
Including the photograph that was doctored to put a tattoo on his hand.
Right.
It was
No, it was also just a doctored photo.
They put it on.
It was a
That's why they did it.
And then a Bregel Garcia's wife, Jennifer, a U.S.
citizen, filed protective orders against him in 20 and 2021.
This is what she said about that.
She said, I acted out of caution following a disagreement with Kilmer by seeking a civil protective order in case things escalated.
Things did not escalate.
decided not to follow through with the civil court process we are working through the situation privately as a family including going to counseling so none of this is true all these allegations that Pam Bonnie is out there making against Garcia is is false not proven and and they wanted to deport him anyway
he's a poster boy based on the poster boy yes for
It was, uh, uh, Lake LaBelle.
LaBelle.
Yeah.
I was, I attended a
overnight camp on Lake LaBelle.
Oh, is that right?
That's a two-week nightmare.
When you were a kid?
Yes.
Oh, boy.
Wow.
It was a cold lake.
First thing in the morning, swim lessons.
That was not a good time for swim lessons.
I hated that.
All right, well, let's get to our guest this morning, Jim Santel from Amicus the Law Review.
You can hear that every Saturday between 9 and 11 o'clock.
And there are so many things that I guess
we really have to get to this time around.
I mean, it never ends, does it, Jim?
Even after going through and explaining, describing, entertaining questions, those kinds of things, I always pause after I've gone through four or five sentences and suddenly realize convoluted, overwhelming, it's a lot.
And so if you are overwhelmed, you're not alone.
I join you in that sentiment here.
There is just so much going on.
And very little of it is good.
I
What are you doing?
she's out
Exactly.
And at core, it's once again this huge contempt that our president, that our attorney general has for the rule of law and the authority of federal judges to make decisions.
Remember, once again, we've got two cases pending with respect to Abrago Garcia.
There's the criminal case in this indictment that, again, has been reviewed by one of the judges who'll preside over it.
And he has decided to release, he did decide to release Abrago Garcia.
Why?
In part, he's not a risk of flight.
That's important.
Number two,
found pursuant to what you just said in your previous segment, that there just isn't compelling evidence to support the allegations in this indictment.
So no risk of flight, no danger of the community here, and the allegations not sufficiently compelling.
They release him.
And of course, then you've got the other case.
This involves Paula Zinnis.
She's back in the news again.
She's the other federal judge.
She's in Maryland, where Abrigo Garcia's spouse has brought this challenging the immigration status.
Justice has said in a number of different orders, don't you dare now deport him until we get all this adjudicated.
She's now scheduled a hearing down the road.
He's back in custody.
It is just so convoluted, as you say.
And it fundamentally comes from this notion that the administration, the Department of Justice, doesn't care what judges are saying.
As the judges have said, you need to follow the rule of law.
these folks, our elected and appointed representatives, have simply decided that they're not going to do that, that the judges are powerless.
We engage in name calling, which of course my president does on a regular basis, and dismiss all of this as just contrary to our policies.
No, no, there's a process here.
It is afforded every person in the United States.
And again, in and out of custody.
Yes.
And again, all in the wake of plainly machinations.
And we forget, we don't forget actually, we always remember that the initial representation by the government was that this was, remember this administrative era, he was deported initially among the 238 to El Salvador by mistake.
And
we had an
assistant United States attorney appears in front of Paul Zinnis and confirms that and she says, okay, right?
You know, get him back here.
And that's the frustration of months of things.
What happens to that assistant United States attorney?
He is suspended.
And then our deputy attorney general fires him for not being a good advocate on behalf of the United States of America.
That's the United States of America in 2025.
Wow.
I begin with laughter only because it is just frivolous.
It is ridiculous, but it's also serious.
So what happens is
Paula Zinnis and other judges, the same district, are entering orders to basically say that before you can go ahead and deport people.
If there are immigration cases pending, gotta give us some time to figure all this out because there's so many of these cases.
So the judges enter a kind of administrative order saying, do not deport until we can decide whether or not do a process been afforded.
What happens is Pam Bondi decides she doesn't like that by these judges.
And so, and I think it's unprecedented.
and I may be able to find any precedent for it.
She sues all
of the
Every judge turns around, sues them, and says, knock it off.
Don't do this anymore.
And because, of course, it's in Maryland, can't be tried by a judge in Maryland.
You've got another judge, Tom Cullen.
And he says that the lawsuit is novel, which is giving it a lot, and potentially calamitous.
And it basically says this is frivolous.
He dismisses it.
against all 15 judges along the way.
He takes some important shots and he follows up on what we're talking about right now.
He says, you know, when you're talking about federal judges, he lists them all being left wing liberal activists, radical politically minded rogue, unhinged, outrageous, overzealous,
crooked and worse, he said.
None of this.
None of this is helpful.
And then goes on to say, and here's the language again.
So much about his order that should be written on in every textbook these days.
He says, although some tension between the coordinate branches of government is a hallmark of our constitutional system, this concerted effort, and yes, he's talking about your attorney general and your president by the executive to smear and impugn individual judges
who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate, goes on basically to say, case dismissed, knock it off, don't do this, no basis for doing it, you're done.
And again, not only does he do resolve this, again...
plainly to the dismay of the administration, but tells them along the way, says, you know, you've got all the alternatives.
If you don't like what the judges are doing, you can appeal.
Gosh, there's a novel idea of Pam Bondi, right?
That I think they taught you, maybe in law school, but says, also some other things are out there.
He says, but instead you chose a different and more confrontational path.
The executive decided to sue and in a big way.
case dismissed.
And again, it is a decisive statement by a federal district court judge.
Again, his name is Thomas Cullen.
We should identify and recognize the significant work of federal judges who are the bastions pushing back on some of this.
Cullen, C-U-L-L-E-N.
And he is today, again, my hero, if you will, in terms of trying to put an end to some of this abject.
craziness coming out of the department.
There was no oversight on any of these violations of the Constitution.
That's not
going on in Congress.
You've got a Supreme Court that, again, as we've talked before, shadow docket, giving the president authority to do all kinds of things without any description.
Simply go ahead and do it.
Again, you've got some other heroes on the Supreme Court.
There are names are Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan and Katanji Brown Jackson, but they're losing.
They're in the minority.
They're speaking out against this.
That's going on.
There's a little bit of another hint out there that maybe there's some federal grand juries out there.
We don't know about what they're doing.
We shouldn't, but there's
some grand juries out there that apparently in Los Angeles, maybe in the District of Columbia, that are refusing to indict people.
Here's a report coming out of, again, New York Times.
Remember this fellow we talked about, his name is Sean Dunn.
He's the sandwich thrower.
Yes,
These are the people of the United States of America saying, what are we doing?
We're not going to bring criminal charges for someone who throws a turkey with mayonnaise and lettuce at a at a givenly government official.
That's an abuse of process.
The stories may be out there also pushing back.
And the other pop culture part of it, of course, is I think you know this.
that that image of him with the sandwich in his hand, his arm cocked back about to throw it, that has become a major feature of Washington, D.C.
It's being posted all around Adams, Morgan, other places, and you can get t-shirts, you can get bumper stickers,
can get
he's been
for
Right.
John, let's talk about what you did on July 1 of last year when you basically said that the president is immune from prosecution for crimes committed in office.
And oh, by the way, you also gave him the express authority to undermine the rule of law by saying, a president's got to be strong and muscular and virile and got to be able to respond quickly to these things.
And so go ahead and do that.
John, that's what you wrote.
That's what you wrote 14 months ago.
You're bemoaning the fact that the rule of law is falling apart.
No kidding.
the
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John Peterson,
We got a text from Tom in Hartford, and he had some nice words to say about Brittany Merlo, and then he was asking, when is the listener appreciation party?
Tom, thank you for asking.
It's happening on, let's see, it's happening at Doundrens Distilly, and it's September 6th, right?
Is that right?
I think you got that right, yeah.
And everybody's invited.
That's free and open to the public.
And you're welcome to join us then.
It starts about three o'clock on that date.
Now, there are other things going on next weekend as well.
And now it's time to welcome in Brandi Grayson.
She is the founder and the CEO of Urban Triage.
You can hear her show on WMDX on the weekends here.
And Brandi, good morning to you.
Good morning.
How are you guys doing?
Yes, it is.
We're super, super excited.
It's our fourth annual Harvest Festival.
Oh, I'm sorry.
that.
Yeah.
It's okay.
Yeah, it is on the farm at the Farley Center.
That's where Urban Triage grows all our produce, all of our food, and also where we run our hemp programs.
So we're super excited.
a
What
then?
I don't know.
Urban Triage is known to do too much.
So our vents are also too much.
Okay.
So we have stilt walkers.
We have airless.
We have jugglers.
We have a magic show.
We have a caramel apple station, popcorn.
We have the balloon, not balloon, but the bubble guy.
He comes and does this huge performance and sets up all these stations.
um with the kids cotton candy a spoken word free food soul food um free wine free beer um it is just going to be a hoot and we have two bands we have two
Um, we have one local band, a deem, um, R and B and jazz.
And then we also have a band coming from Milwaukee.
They're called the cigarette break band and they are also jazz and R and B. Um, so we're super excited.
And we have a golf carts for, um, folks who have, um, just different abilities to move around the farm, um, to, and we have people who serve as our elders.
So we have a reserve area for our elders and folks who will go get your food, your wine and beer.
So you can just hang out and listen to the.
music.
It really is a big community event and everyone is invited and the purpose of our event is to celebrate our harvest, celebrate community and celebrate agriculture.
So please come out and join us located at the Farley Center and the event is from 3 p.m.
to 8 p.m.
right?
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
It is.
It's about 15, 18 minutes away from Park Street, if just in case people are wondering how far that is.
It really isn't that far.
So please come out and hang out with us.
I guarantee you
a phenomenal time.
Bring your family, bring your partner, bring your grandmother, okay?
Coming out with Urban Triads,
like a
and all kinds of
for the kids too.
right, Brandy.
You can't lose with free beer.
No.
That's a big trick.
I go on every Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m.
Central time.
thanks for
Thank you guys for having me.
I appreciate you.
All
While
fascism, and this is what we're doing right now, fascism features a mixed system where the state directs private businesses toward national goals with state ownership usually limited to essential services or strategic industries rather than the wholesale nationalization.
seen in some other socialist models.
So we are going into a fascist system of government.
Whether you like it or not, it's there.
And by
the
long.
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