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Do you remember what the question is?
Hell no.
What part of the belt line has the worst traffic when it gets really busy?
I should remember that one.
Leading the way right now is Midvale Boulevard, Verona Road, Todd Drive, and Fish Hatchery Road.
That area, 55%, that is a bad area when it gets busy.
Let's follow it up by the entire belt line sucks when it's busy, duh.
That's the second that's coming in second and then gammon mineral point old sock road as is tied with John Nolan drive to the interstate
When do they open that extra lane?
Like what's the reason when when do they do that drive time?
They do it whenever they feel like it.
Yeah, when they that's what it seems like, you know Sometimes when I come home from work, it's on and then sometimes when I come home from work, it's off.
I'm like, I don't understand What's the reason of the traffic?
I guess so.
I don't
Oh, yes, that's right.
They're suggestions.
You're right.
You know, they put the 20 mile per hour speed limit and then they have the speed bumps where, you know, these neighbors, they never ask the other neighbors, you know, Hey, is it a good idea to put a speed bump in?
You know, those neighbors say, No, no, I have a suspension on my car that I want to take care of.
I don't need the repair shop bills.
Okay.
Leave me alone.
Go away.
You're not a fan of the speed.
I hate them.
I hate them so much, and they're gonna put one in front of my house.
Are they really?
Just in spite, I think, you know, they're mad that I've been bothering them of a lot of charging station in my house.
But you finally got it, right?
I finally got approval to get that charging station put in.
Oh, you just got approval.
I thought you already had it put in.
Oh, no, no, I got it.
I got the approval and I ordered the...
Gizmo, the unit itself, a couple of days ago, and it's expensive.
Yeah.
Like how much?
$600.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you think that's a lot?
It's about $2,000 to install it.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Oh, my.
So it's really costly getting
listen
All right.
Glad we agree on something.
Yeah, that was the first time I think we all agreed really.
You would never hear this on a radio station.
Mark this down here.
All right.
What's the next question?
What's the next question?
Well, this was actually inspired from yesterday's National Day calendar.
OK?
OK.
And would you rather
It was actually National Cheese Toast Day yesterday.
And it was, would you rather eat cheese toast for breakfast for the rest of your life or have a double cheeseburger every day for dinner for the rest of your life?
And the double cheeseburger was also on the National Day calendar yesterday.
a cheeseburger every
Let's hit it.
Wow.
I get a little irritated sometimes when I hear a story here and there.
And the Bob Thurston story this morning happens to be the call by the right.
by the administration, people in the administration and Republicans, to turn in anybody who has enjoyed or made fun of or posted anything about Charlie Kirk.
Is that what they're doing?
Being killed.
Yes, they want to, let's just say it as it is, it's doxing people.
for simply voicing their opinion, whether it's an ugly thing to do.
But if they want to do it, they should be able to do it.
That's it, period.
And if the employer finds out eventually, not through doxing, not because there's a right wing edict out there saying you have to report these people, then that's the way it is.
But I'll tell you what, doing this doxing
thing against your opponent is the exact thing that they said they don't want the left to do am I am Am I wrong on that?
I don't have I mean they have masks on ice and every other law enforcement Organization going against immigration and even American citizens wearing masks because they don't want those people to be doxxed and Threatened right but instead
They're doxing people for voicing their opinion about Charlie Kirk being killed.
I don't get that.
Yeah.
Well, I should get it.
I suppose I do understand it.
They have certain rights.
We don't.
The people on the left do not have those rights.
And I don't like to say that we're left because we're apolitical.
But that's the situation that really bothers the hell out of me.
Look, it just seems wrong.
First, to say that you can't do this because, you know, you don't want to dox ice agents.
And they really have to conceal their identity because they don't want to endanger their families or themselves for that matter.
We can't get their names.
We can't get their information.
But boy, oh boy, they can certainly
Tell their contingent out there the cult to go after anybody they hear say anything about Charlie Kirk in a way that celebrates his assassination, you
know, so a
Yeah, the administration is going after everybody.
They're going after everybody on this thing.
And they're acting like it's our fault when they don't even really know the intent of the killer first.
We do know that he's a griper, which is part of the right wing white nationalist movement as well.
So I don't know, you know, maybe we're not sure, maybe we are sure, but they're trying to blame us first.
Just getting
just a moment.
Who will be their guests?
What will they be performing?
Jan and Gordy in the morning.
Are they funny or are they boring?
Jan and Gordy in the morning.
Will you be awake or will you be snoring?
Jan and Gordy in the morning.
The radio's on.
Are you ignoring?
80s, you know we're talking about doxing regular people and getting them fired from work just because they celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk and of course This administration doesn't want anybody to dox the ICE agents or any of the other agents that are going out there arresting people Right and putting masks on them so they wouldn't get doxed so they don't mind if the public gets doxed
But it's okay if they avoid getting docs themselves.
Yeah.
Apparently that's double standard.
Weird system of government.
I don't know.
Mark, Texas.
What was the statement at Orwell's Animal Farm?
Some people are more equal than others.
Yeah.
Pretty much saying it all right there.
And then of course,
stemming from Charlie Kirk's assassination, the White House has requested an additional $58 million, $58 million of our tax dollars in security funding for the executive and the judicial branches following the assassination.
The funding request is being actively processed in the context of a stopgap funding bill.
I see, again,
They want to protect themselves in their little ivory, ivory castle, you know.
They want to protect themselves but leave the public exposed.
We're warning people about that very thing seems like one time Well now it's happening.
We live in that kind of society We've got so many other things here.
Let me just get you the latest
Pull this up this morning.
Uh, Trump has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times for defamation and libel.
This is almost like an onion story.
Uh, why you may ask, why is he doing that?
Why would he do that?
Don't laugh.
Okay.
Uh, he's alleging the publication caused him reputational damage.
You don't think he's doing that to himself just automatically
Each and
every day Trump cites a series of New York Times articles in the suit including an editorial from before the 2024 election that said he was unfit for presidency Well, they were right about that as well as a book Penguin published last year with the title lucky loser
how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success.
I think that probably sets it all and that sounds right to me from what I know.
And it gets funnier.
The New York Times is one of the worst.
This is a quote now from Trump.
It's one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the history of our country becoming a virtual mouthpiece for the radical left democratic party.
I view it as the single largest illegal campaign contribution.
Wow.
Sell that in a court.
Their endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put dead center on the front page of the New York Times, something here too far.
Unheard of.
What the hell?
Here to four.
And of course the acquiescence of media that decided not to fight back.
He brings that up.
Trump boasted about his successful lawsuits against 60 minutes in ABC, which he claimed knew they were falsely smearing me through a highly sophisticated system of document and visual alternation.
You know, I got to say they've been doing this for like 40, 50, 60, 70 years since media began.
And he's just finally noticing and by the way it isn't manipulation at all Or alteration it's trying to keep the stories within the time limits each and every television show has Does
he not know
Text us.
Uh, one of Trump's brats mocked the assault of Nancy Pelosi's sons.
So that was okay.
According to this.
Wow.
Uh, another text here from Gary.
He says the so-called ICE agents aren't arresting people.
They are just taking them.
There may be no records, no bookings that anyone knows of.
That's true.
We probably don't know.
Right.
The United States Army ramps up activity.
Inter-president assures the uprising will be dealt with swiftly.
Highs today in the low 80s, right now 58 degrees.
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I
we'd
add a little extra to the show, because there's so much news that I never get half of this stuff in.
In fact, I lost almost all my stories this morning, so I'm on the computer reading the story.
I don't know what ever happened to the stuff I did prepare, but it doesn't matter.
I don't need to prepare for my...
And the clerk says we do not do political posters and they refuse to print it.
And that's their policy.
Right?
And I think a memorial for Charlie Kirk is a politically driven poster.
He was Mr. Political.
Hmm.
Okay.
I don't think there's any question about that.
Right.
And she did the right thing, but then of course, Office Depot.
Oh, there's too much trouble here.
So they fired the clerk who stuck to their policy about not printing political posters.
Now fired her.
and apologized publicly to all the people offended by such a policy.
Well, that's nice.
See, we're acquiescing.
We're going along with all this stuff now.
It's a bit of a
It's autumn.
That's it.
Oh, this is just so outrageous.
And of course they're going after people who are celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
As repugnant as that is, they have the right to do it.
It's a First Amendment right, and they can post this on social media if they want, but doxing them, telling the employers that these people are doing that, finding out
who they are doxing them is wrong.
It's just wrong.
You know, and you don't want to do something that obvious on social media in the first place.
I mean, it's an ugly thing to do.
And it could come back to haunt you as you apply for other jobs.
So you don't want to post that kind of stuff.
But doxing them is not a good thing.
And I don't want to get back into that story, but it's just.
You know, there's a double standard going on here and it is horrific.
Now, we had this assassination on a white campus by a white guy against another white guy, national Christian person.
So what we have here now is this faction within the right wing fighting each other.
All right, now this is on a white campus, but guess what last week and I didn't get to the story but multiple historically black universities Had to go under lockdown after receiving threats now Why would they be getting threats?
They
On alert, non-pause, at least six historically black colleges have halted activities after receiving potential threats against their campuses.
The lockdown measures come in the wake of yesterday's shooting of Charlie Kirk, though officials have not linked.
any of those threats to that shooting.
Our Alex Prashay joins us now with
more.
We're tracking now at least seven of these HBCUs that have been under lockdown in the past 24 hours following that assassination of Charlie Kerr.
Now some of these universities have already begun the process of lifting these lockdowns.
But I can tell you that we've been in touch with a number of students including some on the campus of Hampton.
Our team has and you know.
As you might imagine, Akira, this is really shaking a lot of these young students up.
There's fear of uncertainty and also possible violence as this is yet another instance of their campuses being threatened.
This
They're waiting to set things off in some way, shape, or form.
And I think they're on their way, certainly on their way at this point.
Um, and this you may find hard to believe.
Um, I, this didn't get a lot of press.
I don't know why it didn't, but, uh, uh, Lisa Murkowski, Senator Lisa Murkowski cast the deciding vote to block the Epstein files.
Did anybody ever talk about this?
I
You know, for a woman to do this, it's, I think unthinkable.
Why?
Wow.
I mean, this should, uh,
This should make a difference in her reelection, I think.
Republicans are officially the party that protects pedophiles, according to the story.
Remember, this BS during the midterms, if you can, but, you know, no one around here is voting for Murkowski anyway.
Well, yeah, she's in Alaska.
Yes, I
think
hi guys great show as always i was interested in um looking at this whole uh situation of the assassination of uh charlie kerrk and it's it's
Let us put the framework on it, instead of they, all of the they that they say, you
know, that
they've got this now rundown of they are at war with us as Jesse Waters.
They killed Charlie Kirk, Nancy May said.
They couldn't silence them, so they killed them, said at least
If you put a framework on it of the average police officer, and let's just make it fictional, let's make it Chicago PD, okay?
Hey, for Chicago PD, and his people come into him and say, you know, it wasn't this guy Tyler Robinson that did it, instead we think that George Soros did it.
Oh, really?
Yeah, where's your funding chart that would show that he received money from George Soros that made, that allowed him to do this?
Okay.
All right.
No, I think it was a liberal organizations like NPR that caused him to do this.
Oh, really?
Let's let's chart this out to figure this out.
It just, it doesn't bear any, it's like these guys have never seen a police procedural, you know, it was done by one nutball with a gun.
It's terribly tragic.
You could look at his motives, but when you get
the court, it's, okay, so he had motives.
You can't blame anybody but himself for what he did.
And when it comes to motives, it comes out of that war between Nick Fuentes' group and Charlie Kirk's group.
So there ain't no they there.
Just one person
pulled that trigger.
that's what needs to be looked at.
Thanks you
All right.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thanks for that comment.
Clarifying on that.
That's so true.
And, you know, they do want these generalities posted out there.
They really just want, they don't want to get into the details because, you know, the cult does not read.
We know that.
In fact, they have the story, Cash Battels, FBI.
They're, they're, they're, they're working on investigating the left.
Now, you know, the vast organization of the left, we don't organize.
They call the Democrats the party of cats only because, you know, it's like herding cats.
Yeah, you can't hurt
cats.
You
So they're looking at disbanding this organizational left of there.
Supposedly,
seen out there.
The FBI and state agencies have launched investigations into multiple leftist groups in Utah for possible advanced knowledge of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Was there advanced knowledge of this?
I don't remember that.
They're also probing whether or not these groups provide material support after the killing.
What?
At least one group deactivated their social media page soon after the shot was taken.
So, you know, all of this is just manufactured and they're going to go after this and we're not going to hear about this story again until they can manufacture something else, something in addition to this.
But Cache Patel is horribly mismanaging the FBI.
Well, he's
And then he said he captured the person at a certain time, but it wasn't that time that they actually captured the person.
He's just making this stuff up.
Oh, okay, all right.
Anyway, it's just the way it is now.
You know, you have to kind of go along with that, I guess.
All right.
There was this like rumor.
You saw the videos of the shooting and there were a few videos that.
Notice that there were two individuals standing on the side of the stage
right
and
they were giving out signals what would appear to be like baseball signals only signals and Each one of them coordinated the other guy watched the other one signal and then he signaled and they're thinking there might be a conspiracy now These are the bodyguards that Charlie Kirk put in place security guards These aren't these aren't just people standing around.
Yeah
We don't know where they're signaling the sniper.
We don't know, but this kind of circulated for a little while.
Joe did mention Nancy Mason.
It's always fun mentioning her.
She's a little on the insane side.
She interrupted Representative Sarah Jacobs with an unhinged scream, and I just love hearing the scream, but I also think the message from Representative Sarah Jacobs is important to post as well, and this is cut 78.
So let's listen to... What, do we have that?
Here we go.
They've already got the cops on the street that are, I mean, that are not cops, that are the military.
They've already got the National Guard on the street.
They already have all your
I would just like to point out that I think it's very interesting that my colleague from South Carolina is so obsessed with the issue of trans people using
horrible slurs to talk about them when many people in this body have received gender-affirming care.
Filler is gender-affirming care.
Boobjobs is gender-affirming care.
Botox is gender-affirming care.
Lots of my colleagues have received gender-affirming care, and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender-affirming care that they need, and I think we should respect everybody in this country.
With that, I yield
back.
Ridiculous.
You are absolutely ridiculous.
upward.
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she is a brown tabby with white on her chest.
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She enjoys receiving pets and leans in for them.
She's looking for a patient family who will give her the time she needs to settle in and then spoil her with lots of pets and love.
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So this is Hazel and when I was reading about her, I was just my heart was pounding Yeah, so she is five years old.
She's a tan Dog who's about 60 pounds.
She has white on her chest.
She's believed to be an English that are pit bull mix, but She's from Hawaii
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They had four kids, two parents, and her family was transferred to another country, and they couldn't take her whip.
So they re-homed her in Hawaii, but it didn't work out, so she ended up in a shelter there, and a relative of her original family reached out and had her flown to Madison.
Unfortunately, that relative can't take care of her either, so they've entrusted us with finding her
Yeah.
So she's very, very sweet.
She loves to lay near, if not on her people.
She loves to play fetch.
She loves to go for walks and run.
She knows sit.
cute.
She's trained to stay in a kennel when you're not home.
nice.
I mean, this family obviously loved her so
that they really want to find her a wonderful home.
So we hope to help with that process.
Yes.
And it's really sweet too that they've written her future family a letter.
Oh
So to
talk about like some of her little quirks and stuff and how to work with her so she'll thrive in their
all?
We do ask for a profile about them so we can pass that on but they fill that out as well as done in additional letters.
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So, you can look at our website, giftshelter.org slash adopt, or you could stop by our shelter on Bogers Road and come visit them.
We open today at 2 p.m.
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Well, that's good.
Yeah, it's a good deal.
Coming up in our next hour.
We've got Gary Albrecht will be joining us.
He's a cancer survivor, and he's a part of Badger Challenge.
He's been doing a number of runs around, and he'll tell us more about that.
He'll be in studio with us coming up in our next hour.
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