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He doesn't have to play it now, but, you know, maybe, you know, next break or two.
All right, there it is.
OK, happy Tuesday.
Yeah, it's amazing.
A short week.
I mean, it's going to be a long one because we've got a lot of stuff planned.
Yeah, we do.
In the not too distant future, we're going to a brewer game this weekend on Thursday.
That's right.
Right?
They're not thinking about traffic.
They just want to jump on the bus or get in the school.
Have a good first day.
It should be nice today.
52 degrees currently highs in the mid 70s.
Later in the week, we've got the Brewer game on Thursday.
And then on Saturday is our listener appreciation.
Wow.
Festival party.
That's going to be happening at Dundren's Distilling.
We went out there a few days ago.
We did.
Checked it out.
Quite the place.
It is a beautiful place.
It's going to
Crazy store it sells everything.
It's like a mid 50s stuff.
I don't know brother You walk in and it's just loud music from a time gone by right I can't remember what it's called.
Is it downtown or I think it's downtown.
Yeah on the corner.
I remember driving past it on our way to Shula Vista Yeah, I don't know that doesn't matter
Okay.
So there's so many weird stores.
That's true.
It just stays there forever.
A little bit later on, we're going to talk to Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa.
Find out what you can do with your pet this time of year.
You know, a lot of pets have allergies.
It's not really on my radar, but apparently Liz is going to tell us a little
And then Lisa Bernard will be here from the Dane County Humane Society and find out how they did with their their big adoption getaway or giveaway thing that they had recently.
And they still have pets to adopt, of course.
We'll be focused on a few of those.
And yeah, that's all I got on my list.
Well, it's great.
Yes.
I got new speakers.
I installed my new speakers in the living room.
How do they sound?
They sound pretty much like the old speakers.
A little disappointed in that.
I guess I bought well the first time.
But you never know.
You got to keep trying.
What did you do with the old speakers?
packed them away in a container and probably give them away to my kids.
Well, my one son did take up my old amplifier.
Now they don't really get into the sound thing, you know.
So they don't really need amplifiers and connect all their equipment to it.
They don't have equipment.
They really don't care.
They're on their computers.
That's where the equipment goes.
So anyway, he has adopted one of my amplifiers, a receiver, and now he can hook up those speakers if he wants to.
And we'll see what happens.
But I doubt it.
Music.
Yeah.
Well, it's not like they play a lot of music on a receiver.
I guess they
Anyway, you're at our home.
There's some reason I live just on the side of a hill.
Yeah, there used to be a quarry.
Right.
And I can't get any radio signals at all.
It was perfect for me because, you know, I'm trying to get radio stations because I was working in radio at the time.
Right.
Could not get any radio stations.
I even put an antenna.
Now you can't get any radio.
A long time ago, I don't have that antenna anymore.
There are some pirates that freed the slaves, some pirates that encouraged the slavery.
I don't know, I would never want to be a part of that, although we watch part of Pirates of the Caribbean.
Did you?
Great series of movies, just incredible.
All the way up to number three.
After number three, don't watch any of them.
Gonna sour you on pirates of the Caribbean.
So I didn't know they made more than three.
Yeah.
Yeah, they did that I think they had two after that Wow might be three, but you know just my My advice is just don't watch either of
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Oh, that's what it's called apartment defense
Yeah, we're going to war now with everybody.
That's why we're we're changing the name from defense to war.
Pleasant that sounds.
And of course, the guy who wrote the book on BS, it's all spelled out, by the way, the bug, right?
He's got a warning.
And that warning came out back in 1986.
What was the warning?
And we'll be playing that in just a few moments in idiocracy.
All right.
Yeah, it was a definite, uh, appropriate and timely warning that we should all pay attention to.
You know, anytime we mentioned BS.
Yeah.
Yeah, who we're talking about.
The biggest liar in the world.
Oh, man.
Okay.
All right.
And, uh, and, and of course, you know, there are copycat ice.
Agents out there now.
All right.
Now we knew this was gonna happen and that's also an idiocracy We knew this we warned the administration about this because you and I Gordy we knew and we noticed this and we thought oh We got to tell somebody in administration, you know do something about this because we're gonna see you know copycats out there and they're gonna be threatening and probably You know in danger
Do
You know, the thing is I, I, I'm kind of mad because I shop at Menards and I get through 11% off sale stuff and you get a little rebate form and you mail it in, right?
Well, what they've done at Menards is they've
They've narrowed the window for you to mail these rebates in dramatically to the point where you really have to get them in right away and waste all this time putting stamps on envelopes.
You know, you're spending more money on the envelopes and stamps and anything else.
But anyway, they've shortened the time period and the time period was today.
You had to mail it.
No, they had to mail it yesterday, the first of September, which is a holiday and no mail.
The post office is closed.
Yeah.
So there you go.
What was it that you purchased there?
A lot of stuff.
Oh, really?
I got speaker wire and all that other stuff.
I see.
We've got Mark on the line from prayer to sec.
Mark, what do you got for us today?
Good morning, Mark.
Good morning, guy.
Yeah.
Laborfest in Madison was great.
Oh, yeah.
But going, going through, going through the news, um, that I see that, uh, Donald Trump plans on giving the presidential medal of freedom to Rudy Giuliani.
Yeah.
That's a fashion of defending our voting rights.
Right.
and uh... personal liberty and all that yeah and uh... the way these medals have been cheapened now is just beyond me and uh... i won't get into the whole department of war thing that we got rid of is is just to i don't know it must be a viagra for these for republicans to think like that because i mean they maybe viagra doesn't work for many more and it is just sad that
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.
What an idiot.
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
What the
on around
here?
s***.
Idiocracy.
You're the smartest guy in the world.
You're pretty dumb sometimes.
Yeah.
Well, that was a big surprise.
I guess I read the article from Madison Magazine.
OK.
and that did not mention us at all.
In fact, they skipped the two years after triple M became triple M what they are today.
Remember when MAD went off the air, I went over to the owners and suggested taking the WMAD format and they thought it was a good idea too and they changed formats.
I always love your introduction for me.
I wish you throw in WMDX's
truth-detector
Tax on overtime no tax on overtime.
that.
Well I was a waiter and a bartender so yeah I made fudge the numbers a little.
Yeah.
they all do
they'll
i love uh i love hearing your gentlemen the big announcement you know that i guess i would say i love hearing the democrats want more crime yes you see record number of days without a homicide well you know we're gonna send the troops to protect federal buildings so the police don't have to yeah and they can go out and do their job
So I can't wait till they show up in Chicago and maybe bring that Democrat controlled city crime written city, maybe a little under control and maybe save one young man's life.
Wouldn't that be a great thing?
are
white.
me the cities that are run by Republicans that
you
know, let me ask you something really important in your CJ before we go, because this is a big question I've always had about all of this, and that you would trade having troops and Humvees and everything else traveling through your cities.
You would much rather have that because crime then is reduced because there's a constant presence of troops and police everywhere.
Is that a comfortable situation for you?
Do you like that?
Well, no, I guess I would prefer the alternative where they actually let the police Do the jobs and the judges would put people in jail for what the event that they may be perpetrated and not remove reduce a charge and The police are the policemen on the street are very frustrated that the judges
you know it's a very small percentage of people and reoccurring crime perpetrators that end up back on the street but do not consequences but aren't you uh that they actually did aren't you
No, I'm asking the judges to actually, the charges that the police officer said that this
But
actually be charged with that.
They're weighing
They're weighing the circumstances and they come up with a judgment.
That's why they're called judges.
I don't know.
I don't understand this.
No, no, they're not liberal.
No, no.
No, don't do this political thing.
Is that an excuse so you can have conservative judges?
What's that?
Pardon me.
Is that an excuse to have conservative judges and get away with it by calling all the other judges liberal, right?
I don't care if they're liberal or conservative, but when a police officer charges a criminal
criminal
on the street, how about actually holding them to those consequences and not reducing them to a point where they're back on the street again, you know
doing another crime.
here we go again.
It's a feel good thought for you guys out there.
But you know, I got to tell you that that doesn't work.
That's why we have judges.
That's why they go to courtrooms and have the hearings in order to come up with a better decision than just going by what the police officer said.
Okay.
All right, there you go.
The problem here is that this is really just, you know, in your face war department.
The beacon of freedom and peace tossed into the trash can of time, I guess.
Trump said, we want defense.
We want offense too.
He referred to the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, as his secretary of war, saying the name had been changed as a result of this political correctness.
Yes, back in 1949, political correctness ran rampant.
That's when they changed it.
Wow, let's listen to cut 200.
to do that.
It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department to the Department
We're just going to do it.
I'm sure Congress will go along if we need that.
I don't think we even need that.
But if we need that, I'm sure Congress will go along.
You know, that was the name when we won World War I. We won World War II.
We won everything.
And just to me, seems like just a much more appropriate.
The other is defense is too defensive.
And we want to be defensive, but we want to be offensive too if we have to be.
So it just sounded to me better, really like a better name.
Yeah.
Defenses too.
Defensive.
Uh, Christopher Knapp, a professor of history at Washington University in St.
Louis said this, the point was bureaucratic centralization to manage hard power going forward.
Whose primary goal was to be defensive, not war, which was understood.
as an aggressive act after the horrors of World War II.
So we didn't want to promote war or act like we were a country who would go to war.
Right.
We acted in a defensive way by defending other countries from somebody invading their countries and that's we were acting of as a defensive.
Yes.
And now we're on the offense.
Here we go again.
For our peacetime, a peacetime president who is saying now we have a war department.
It's a slight contradiction, but you know, this is the mega.
This is the mega.
This is how they think.
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I just want to get to these texts before we get to the pets.
Troy, of course, suggested when you do CJ, when you go to CJ on the phone, you're doing idiocracy.
Thank you.
Now, the rest here is homework for CJ, OK?
CJ, listen up.
Would welcome red coats.
Is that true, CJ?
Would you?
really welcome the Redcoats soldiers, police.
How about this one?
CJ thinks police are the sole arbiter of crime and punishment.
He should be charged with stupidity.
And ask CJ about the financial cost of what he's asking for.
Is it okay with all the money for troops?
How about using that money for maybe helping people, reforming people, right?
Okay, so there you go.
That's the homework.
CJ, CJ.
Work on that and then get back to us with a long AI written paper.
again.
Good morning.
Great seeing you guys.
Yeah, I think it went pretty good.
Good.
We got animals adopted.
So that's
So in one day, we adopted out 80 animals.
terrific.
And we
We did have a few who were still there, so we didn't totally clear the shelter.
So we extended our promotion for one more day, which was Monday.
Okay.
And we had 13 more animals find homes.
Excellent.
Yeah.
cat?
Oh, you want to start with Rex?
We could start
So Rex is a five year old 13 and a half pound orange tabby.
He
so handsome.
He was transferred to DCHS at the end of August from an overcrowded shelter in Wisconsin.
So we can try to help him find a home.
So staff and volunteers are still getting to know his personality.
But so far we're finding that he
starts out a little shy, but then he's really sweet.
He just needs a little time to adjust his new surroundings.
And then he's going to show you his snugly side.
He's looking for a new home to explore a window where he can lounge in soak up all that sun, watch the birds outside.
And family is going to shower him with treats, of course, and lots of love because he's sure to love you.
he's
think he's five years five years old
he really pulls you in
let's let's stick with the ours and go with Ricky
so Ricky Ricky
an adult dwarf hamster
He's less than he's less than a half a pound So he's he's a tiny guy He's mostly white with some brown on his back He came to DCHS with a number of other hamster friends in early August and
Even though he's small, he's big on personality.
He loves to run around on his wheel.
He stuffs his cheeks with so much food.
It's like, how do you fit all that?
But I will warn you,
can be cranky sometimes.
Do not wake him up from his
wheel at you.
got personality
That's cool.
It's good to
We all get cranky.
Come
So especially when someone wakes you up and you don't want to.
So
his teeth are a little bit overgrown.
So yeah, so he would, his new home should have some different types of wooden type toys that he can
He can use to help file down his teeth.
He's really cute though.
He
Vincent.
He's a three-year-old approximately 50-pound gray viselemics.
Wow.
Yeah,
So he was surrendered to us in mid-August.
His family, they felt that they weren't giving him enough time because they had to travel for work a lot.
So he can be a little nervous at first, but he does like to meet people and he gets really excited.
He's friendly, playful, snuggly.
He loves to curl up right next to you when it's cuddle time.
He loves to play fetch.
He is looking to be the only pup in your life because he doesn't like to share.
Well, they can check out our website at giveshelter.org or they could stop at our shelter today.
We open at two and come and meet them.
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