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Now, what he said.

Oh, yeah.

OK.

Good morning.

Happy Friday.

Yes, it's WMDX 92.7 John and Gordy in the morning and we're hanging out here in the morning as long as allowed by the federal government As long as they Don't cast their eye this way.

We're we're good and And we're very happy that each and every day we're able to do this.

Yes, we are And to bring you the latest news

and commentary and the hopes that in the not too distant future, we won't be broadcasting from some kind of FEMA camp of some sort or prison cell.

Happy Friday morning to you.

Rise and shine, shake a leg up and

out.

You're so positive.

I keep losing the internet on my computer here.

Really?

I don't understand it, yeah.

Pines

working okay.

You see, there were, uh, ICE arrests reported in Madison yesterday.

Yeah.

Seven people were arrested by the, uh, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Northeast Madison.

Thank God.

You know, I thought, when are

they gonna get here?

Well, they're here.

We've got trouble and they're not paying attention

to

Madison.

Wow.

You know, this isn't, this isn't right.

Yeah.

Anyway, um,

So it's Friday.

Yeah, it's a great great.

It's going to be a great Friday.

I guess it's going to be hot today.

But by the way, there's a prediction that tomorrow it's going to be a record high.

Oh, is that

so?

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

And then Sunday, of course, we have our walk to end Alzheimer's at Warner Park.

It's going to be warm mid 80s, I think.

I should be pretty good.

Good walking weather anyway.

And yeah, and the Cubs Cubs are in the playoffs.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm sure you watched the game yesterday, right John?

No, you didn't see it.

You

missed it.

I heard my wife listening

was on

ESPN.

I know I

heard it.

Okay.

I heard it

Look, I like the play-by-play announcers for the Cubs.

Oh, sure

Pat and Ron.

Yeah, Pat Hughes

and Ryan Coomer.

I think

they're really good.

They're excellent.

Yes.

Yeah So so the Cubs take on the Brewers

beginning tomorrow with that series in Milwaukee.

Five game set.

Are we giving away tickets for that?

Do we need to?

I

don't think we have tickets

for that, at least

not that I'm aware of yet.

Well, Gordy, would you still go if they make it far in the playoffs?

Would you go to a game?

Of course I

would.

Yeah, absolutely.

Would you turn down tickets?

What?

Would you turn down tickets if you had an opportunity to

go?

No, I would accept those tickets.

Would you ever?

Whatever

that

contest was that we used to

do.

Would you

ever?

Would you ever?

We took that one on the shelf for a while.

Nine minutes past the

hour and well, we got a question here, Bud texted us and said, did I just hear in a news report that the Coliseum can hold 100,000 people?

He goes, ah, I don't think so.

I don't think you're talking

about.

I don't know.

You mean the Alliance Center Council?

Yeah, I don't think so,

yes.

I don't think it holds that many.

We're Dairy Expo's taking place, right?

That's right, the World Dairy Expo,

yes.

In fact, we're going to be talking to Pam Yankee in about 10 minutes or so.

Get an update on that.

And also, of course, Rocker will be here with a Maxing preview in our next hour.

And we'll check in with Savannah Tomey Olson.

And it's our last day for the go for the green and gold text to win contest.

Excellent.

Yeah.

So one more chance.

One more.

Well, several chances throughout

the day.

Seven o'clock, nine o'clock, eleven o'clock, one o'clock, two, three o'clock.

Five

o'clock, seven o'clock.

I don't know.

It goes on and on.

It does go on and on.

But yeah, plenty of chances to still get in to win those tickets.

OK.

What do we got?

Yes.

What?

Ice in Madison?

Yes.

Yes.

That was

the report.

That's on the news.

Did they repel from helicopters overhead?

Oh, my God.

Can you believe that happened in Chicago?

I know.

We'll get to that story in a

bit.

Yeah.

But yes, ice was in Madison yesterday and they arrested seven people in the northeast side of Madison.

Yeah,

that's, that's the word we're hearing this morning.

Let's see, we're getting some more texts

in here.

Just hoping, just hoping an urban assault vehicle like the one in Stripes doesn't show up at my house.

Stripes,

what a great

movie.

That or

Black Hawk

helicopters, again, repelling down.

to invade your home, an entire apartment complex in Chicago, which is just so extreme, so, so overwhelming to take these individuals out of the apartments and put them in trucks.

The kids in trucks, half-naked people in trucks out of bed, just repelling down, take them out of their apartments and put them in trucks.

That's, the thing here is,

We're not talking about immigration immigration anymore.

We're talking about this is the way our society is treating the American public now This is what's happening in this country.

This is that next step and it's a very very fast pace that they're going on.

Yeah, so I You know we try to

Try to add some humor to all of this, but sometimes it's really frustrating.

Well, it's not funny.

I

know.

Yeah,

it's

just outrageous.

It's outrageous and it's sad.

Yeah, it's awful.

Yeah, so a little bits of What's up

What's going on?

I can't I can't stay I can't stay on the internet here.

I don't know what's going on.

What really are

you?

I'm fine.

Yeah, all the time I had like

five stories.

I wanted

to

talk about very quickly here It just keeps going in and out and in and out.

Okay Medicare users could soon lose perks that they love and that is

Choosing their doctor they may not be able to choose their doctor anymore It might be just the health care companies deciding who you see and when you can see them You got to get pre-approval.

This is the new revamped Medicare what they're trying to do now is they're trying to cut costs anytime you hear that

from the administration, especially this one, you know that you're going to lose a whole bunch of stuff.

Now

they're

saying this is very close to Medicare Advantage, which is the private version of Medicare, and they offer more perks with Medicare Advantage.

I've actually enjoyed it over the last five or six years, but I'll tell you what, they are denying a lot of claims.

And so that's the kind of screening process

they're going to put Medicare into now.

And if the doctor doesn't think you should see a specialist and you think you need to, they can turn you down and you can't see that specialist.

And

this is a cost cutting measure by the administration.

Cost cutting and healthcare doesn't go together in my book.

So this is not a good thing.

It's awful.

This is outrageous, if anything.

So, you know, I don't know.

This cost-cutting thing is really driving me crazy because they're, you know, they're killing programs and we're going to get into why they're going after democratic liberal states, blue state

programs

and funding is just, you know, if you're going to run a campaign for the midterms, I don't think that's going to be a plus.

You know,

I cut blue state funding.

Yeah.

I heard a whole bunch of people in Wisconsin.

Yeah.

Yeah, I can't see it.

I don't see that.

Yeah.

Well, the government shutdown continues.

Yeah.

Day

three here.

Yeah.

Nothing's, nothing's changed overnight.

Well, you know, the billionaires are added again.

This is another quick story that finally the page came up.

Apple.

has removed the ice tracking app that they had at their site.

Oh, really?

After Trump pressured them.

Now,

you know, I, for some reason, remember how much they complained.

They still complain about how Biden pressured big tech to take down or try to tamp down misinformation on the internet, right?

Remember

that?

You

can't do that.

That censorship, right?

Yeah.

Apple removed the ice tracking app after Trump and the AG pressured them to do so.

So here we go, you know, it what what they can do they they have a separate policy for Mega and and they can do anything they want We have another policy over here, and we are under their thumb the iron fist of the mega

Okay, okay, I'm just so happy for

Can we start over?

Yeah, yeah, I know it's these zip-tied kids in Chicago.

Yes, they did.

Yeah.

Thanks

Mark.

Yeah, I know

just to make us happier just from knowing that Anyway, you know just moving the ice tracking app.

I don't know.

Maybe you can still get it someplace else.

Maybe maybe has

it maybe

Referring back to this Urban Assault vehicle like the

one in Stripes.

Yes.

Such a great movie.

I love the part where they just say, lighten up, Francis.

And you got to go into Czechoslovakia.

It's just like going to Wisconsin.

Some great lines in them.

Yeah.

It was a great

movie.

John Candy.

I just saw that there's no ice.

App that you can't get anywhere.

You can't get you can't get the tracking app anywhere on any device Yeah, but you can get there's an ice immigration alert on only on Android that you can get which makes which is crazy But that might be the app.

Maybe that's it.

It could be just it's just an alert.

Yeah

Okay,

just an alert.

Yeah, all right Hey by the way

You know of course I mentioned before our walk to and Alzheimer's is this Sunday.

We are inching up to our goal We still have a long way to go though.

We're up 51% now Our goal is just thousand dollars.

We're at five hundred and six dollars, but we're gonna encourage you to

To help us out here today, this is our last day to be able to reach out.

Of course, the walk is this Sunday at Warner Park.

It starts at 10 a.m.

You can get there a little earlier.

There are going to be a lot of speakers and a lot of research material and things that you can find out about Alzheimer's and it's really a good time.

We did it last year.

We're going to do it again this year.

If you would like to help us out, go to wmdxradio.com, find the Alzheimer's link on the image carousel, that's at the top of the page, should be the image there, the first image, and you can join us by clicking on that image, and it's purple.

It is?

Yeah, I'm

in color

blind.

I didn't know it was

purple.

Yeah.

I thought it was blue.

So just click and sponsor our walk for Alzheimer's.

What am I leaving out here, Tom?

Did I get it all go to oh, I see I'll click on the join in giving image that should take you to our page on ALZ.org

so you

can donate right to our page the WMDX radio page We're a little over halfway now 506 bucks.

Hey chip in five or ten bucks at all counts.

So the link is the first

Visual and our website It's a carousel at the top I

I didn't find it as a first image.

I think it was the third or fourth.

Anyway, it's called a

carousel because it goes round and round.

I

was going to say, and no one knows what that is.

I was trying to figure it out when you first told me, but I thought, yeah, that makes sense.

It's a second image.

It's purple.

It's a second image.

It's a second image on the website.

All

right.

19 past the hour.

When we come back, we'll check in with Pam Yonkey, the fabulous farm babe, and find out what's happening at the World Dairy Expo.

Down in Gordy in Madtown.

Yes.

Beautiful morning in Madison.

Overlooking State Street.

No leaf blowers.

No sidewalk buffers.

No.

Not yet anyway.

It's still pretty dark out there.

But we've got some high temperatures coming today.

High around what 88 degrees.

Yes.

Maybe a record high tomorrow as well.

Yes.

This is what do they call it in Indian summer?

I think they call it global warming.

Yeah.

But it's similar.

It's okay.

Okay.

Global warming.

That's even more positive.

It makes me just smile when I think about it is

23 past the hour.

And yeah, it's going to be nice all day long.

You know what I'd like to do is I like the reason we put CJ on is to find out what magas are thinking, why they think the way they think.

And I have

a whole bunch of questions I'd love to ask at this point, especially about climate change.

And I was thinking about that this morning.

Climate change is one of those things that there's overwhelming support for the idea of climate change.

In the

scientific community,

yes.

But the scientific community also has those naysayers who are saying, well, it's the biggest hoax.

ever perpetrated in the rest of the world.

They still believe it.

I hate that line.

Yes, they do believe that.

Here's the thing I'd like to ask, you know,

why do

Megas think they can drag us down with them?

Take them, take us with them into this climate hellscape that we're we're entering.

Right.

That's what I want to know.

I want to know why they think they can take us down with them.

And what pleasure they receive from doing that.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, that's something to ponder, but

but first, but first, let's go to Pam Yonkey, the

fabulously farm farm babe.

I didn't see that.

I

didn't see the phone up here.

So we're joining us via stream or stream yard this morning.

Good morning.

Good

morning, Pam.

Yeah, believe me.

I didn't know where we were going either.

I was starting to rifle through my notes quickly to figure out if I could compliment what John was talking about.

Unfortunately, I am one of those sitting in the dark and sweating already at World Dairy Expo.

That heat that you allude to, though,

Guys has really been quite an issue for a lot of the livestock operators out here.

This is just flat out too hot.

Yeah, this is this was not expected.

And so they have had to turn to all kinds of technology, both purchased and just jumped up to try to keep these animals cool.

You know, you got to remember cows average body temperature is 102.

That's when she's healthy.

She loves.

she loves temperatures that are more in the mid forties that is when she feels her best so they and when they start showing stress they just don't walk is nice they don't they just they're like the rest of us you just don't look your best and so there's been all kinds of investments i'd love to know what the

local cash receipts look like at Blaine's Farm and Fleet and places like that because they've been buying what we call swamp coolers, which is basically humidifiers, dehumidifiers that can kind of kick out air conditioning right next to the cow.

So anything that they can do to try to keep these animals comfortable, barn fans are going crazy.

The Allian Energy Center and its electric bill is probably just spinning at the speed of sound.

And they're just doing what they can to try to keep these animals.

They're all going to be well taken care of, but they are going to be on their way into the show ring.

Some of them are already at the wash rack.

Today is the big day.

It's about four o'clock this afternoon.

We will announce the Supreme Champion.

And there's a bunch of Wisconsin cows that are still in the running for that.

And then after that is done, they will actually release the cows and then it's up to the people that own them if they decide they want to put them on the truck and try to move them.

or if they're going to stay on grounds and try to use the facilities that are available to keep those animals comfortable.

So it's going to be an interesting 24 hours to see exactly how these dairymen from across North America decide to manage it.

Yeah.

So today is the last day for

all

of this.

So

it

wraps up late this afternoon.

And then do they start heading out of town right away?

wait till

tomorrow.

They will some will, especially those that are, you know, maybe just a few hours from home.

Those that are going to be, you know, to think about it, a lot of those semi trailers are not air conditioned.

They keep the slats open so that the wind comes through, but a lot of them are not air conditioned.

So they may wait until dark because obviously it's cooler at night and then

take them halfway if they're going to Canada or take them halfway if they're going to California or something like that.

But they're really going to have to watch these temperatures.

And to your point, I think I saw projections for temperatures near 90 tomorrow.

And that's not just Wisconsin.

That's going to be around all the upper Midwest.

So they really have to plan these.

strategically plan how they're going to get these animals home once the show concludes, unless, yes, today is the last day, nine until four are the official hours.

And then like I said, if you want to watch online, World Dairy Expo has got Expo TV.

If you want to see the Supreme Champion at about four o'clock this

afternoon.

Oh, okay.

All right.

That sounds great.

Okay.

Well, I hope things go well on this last day there because

that's

a, how's attendance been this year?

It's always pretty

good.

It's pretty good.

I won't say it's fantastic because the weather is too good.

A lot of Wisconsin farmers, for example, stayed home to take care of field crops.

But I think everybody's very happy.

And despite milk prices, it's pretty upbeat.

Next week, we can talk about some of the other hot topics that got attention, which yesterday was immigration reform and also talking about what the federal government shut down means to farmers.

We can pick that baton up and toss it next week, boys.

And I'm sorry, John, that I disemboweled your climate change.

You had a good thing going there, man.

You were going ready for the closing argument.

And then, oh, here's Yankee.

Oh, yeah, that's

right.

I usually just go by what I see up on the screen, and I saw just a black spot.

I thought you weren't there

yet.

I was

just trying to fill some space.

But I do get frustrated.

I'm a black spot here at World Dairy Act.

That is true.

I'm a black spot at World Dairy Act.

Oh, come

on.

Your array of sunshine.

You are the fabulous farm babe.

No doubt about it.

All right, Pam.

Thank you.

Pam, thank you so much.

Have a good weekend.

Have a good Monday.

We'll talk to you

Monday.

Very good.

That's

Pam

Yackey, fabulous farm babe.

In fact, the Midwest Food and Farm Report.

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Idiocracy.

For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.

Dumb all the

time.

24 seven, but it's all about really.

Oh, yeah.

We're in the shutdown.

This is John and Gordy in the morning on WM DX 92.7.

It is 635.

Nice clear skies this morning.

It's going to be a hot one though.

Temperatures topping out in the upper eighties for today right now, 60 degrees.

Want to remind you once again, Hey, today is the last day for our go for the green and gold contest.

We'll have

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where they walk to end Alzheimer's, which is this Sunday at Warner Park.

Yeah, shut down time and everybody's wondering where we're going to go next with this thing because it appears that the administration is not going to negotiate with the Democrats at all on anything at all.

That seems to be the case.

They're drawing the line.

And it's a really good indicator.

as to what they really want to accomplish and what they want to do.

This has been something that they just can't drop.

They want to kill health care for the American public.

It's just hard for me to even grasp this.

They've hated Obamacare since it began, before it began.

They hate it and they tried to kill it so many other times.

50 or

60 times officially in Congress.

Here we are.

Now they have an opportunity to kill it, but kill it in a way that is kind of voluntary by making it too expensive for people to buy.

So that's the way they're going to kill the Affordable Care Act, the ACA Obamacare.

Uh, and they're not going to come back to the table.

They don't want to negotiate this one particular item because this is their chance to do away with this.

And I've heard so many times these other Republicans talking about, well, let's just go to a free market system where there's competition.

Let's do that.

We have had that in the past.

It didn't work.

It did not work.

And then I heard one of them.

play the cut later, but I think they said something like, well, you know, people should understand how expensive healthcare is.

What?

Really?

Well, I didn't know that.

Oh my

goodness.

Gee, what a revelation.

Is it expensive?

My goodness.

I don't know where that person is living, what

world they're in,

or they've just had company employment.

Healthcare

there's still

some

of that.

Yes.

There's a lot of that But if the people at work for companies that supply health care, they're they're completely shielded Insulated from the prices.

They don't know anything about it and corporations and businesses small businesses especially Can't afford the premium prices that are going up It's not just going to be so expensive that people won't be able to get it on the Affordable Care Act

businesses won't be able to sign up for it because it's way too expensive.

And they may even cut back on a lot of the things that they get as benefits.

So this thing, they are going to kill the Affordable Care Act by making it too expensive.

And I have mentioned this and we've been talking about it.

Haven't we for

the last day one

five months

on this thing?

Yeah before even before this became an issue But we've been talking about the fact the Democrats have to go out there and fight for the premium support They also have to fight for universal health care.

That is the solution to all of this not the free market Not the way it used to be which was a disaster.

That's why we have the Affordable Care Act and

existing conditions covered.

They want to go back to a system where they weren't covered, where you paid more if you were sick.

So anyway, this is a huge issue, and we're not seeing them come to the table to negotiate this.

They want to see this happen.

And we're going to be in shutdown mode for a

long time.

And we got a text here from Mark in the sack.

He says, and all these politicians get their health care paid by us.

Yes.

Yeah.

And that's another thing we've been beating to death on this show.

Yeah.

Why don't the Democrats say, look, we should discontinue the political people's insurance policies, all politicians insurance policies, get rid of it.

And until they come up with something for us, they don't get it either.

Right.

We shouldn't pay for their health care if they're going to keep health care away from us.

And they're using it as a hammer to beat us to death here and take away everything that we possibly have, all our benefits, all of the government services.

Because of the shutdown, they're going to cut even more and more funding to the states.

They're already doing it, especially to the blue states.

Again, great campaign slogan.

And they want to get rid of jobs soon.

They want to fire more federal

workers to

all that on top of that You can call us right now phones are open 608-879-8255.

There

were a lot of predictions about the shutdown and everything as recline put out his His thoughts on it.

Let's let's listen to what he said a while back before the shutdown

in about three weeks the government's funding will run out

Democrats will face a choice.

Join Republicans to fund a government that Trump is turning into a tool of authoritarian takeover and vengeance.

Or shut the government down.

Democrats faced a version of this choice six months ago.

We were in the full muzzle velocity stage of the presidency.

More mass firings in the U.S.

government.

Froze federal funding on projects across the country.

He is taking retribution.

The law firms have to behave themselves.

Sweeping tariffs.

But why

Canada?

And Democrats at that moment seemed completely overwhelmed and outmatched.

We will win.

We will

win.

I kept hearing people say they lacked a message.

But it's not what they lacked.

What they lacked was power.

They didn't have power.

They didn't have the House or the Senate, but they did have one sliver of leverage.

In order to fund the government, Senate Republicans needed Democratic votes, not just one or two votes.

They needed at least seven Democrats to reach that magic 60-volt threshold in the Senate.

All eyes are on Democrats and what they'll do.

I'm not going to tell you, I'm sure Democrats shut down the government.

I'm not.

At the same time, joining Republicans to fund this government is worse than failing at opposition.

That is complicity.

Democratic leaders have had six months to come up with a plan.

If there is a better plan than a shutdown, great.

But if the plan is still nothing, act normal and hope for the best, then Democrats need new leaders.

Well, I'll go along with that.

They need new leaders.

And I think Ezra brings up a really good point on all of that.

But also, Senator Alyssa Slotkin brought up a good point on it.

This was, again, a while back, but this was her suggestion.

This cut 49.

And let's hear what she had to say.

A lot of Michiganders, probably most Michiganders, are going to be getting notice this fall of a significant rate increase in your private insurance.

What I'd encourage you to do is get that letter that you're going to get, block out your address and your name and post that online.

I want people to understand that the rate increase that you're getting is because of what the president has decided to do on health care in this country.

And we shouldn't take that lying down.

Great ideas.

Yeah.

That's a terrific idea.

Post your bill.

Yeah.

How that bill went up.

Yeah.

But block out your information.

It'll freak out a whole bunch of people.

Yeah.

I mean, this is the way to go.

This is the grassroots version of fighting back against these crazy, I don't know,

brutal people.

So you have two sons living at home.

Yeah.

Are they both under the age of 27?

Is

that the cutoff?

Well, 26 would have been the family plan, but one is 26, the other is 23.

But here's the thing, they're on badger care at this point.

Oh, sure.

Because we have businesses and we deduct all the money and you know the

net

income

right

is still

below

where we still qualify for that at least for them My wife is on the ACA and of course they are too, but through badger care I see that goes away if if any of this is to continue if the magus get their way a lot of this is going away now

the BadgerCare, which is Medicaid, that goes away after the midterm elections.

They didn't have the courage to put it in place before the midterm elections.

No, of course not.

So they're gonna delay it and put it after, they've already put it after the election, so you'll be surprised and angry, but it'll be too late.

You've already elected these Republicans to continue, you know.

destroying our government and not providing health care for you and your family.

So yeah, this is a this is a big deal.

That's why I'm fighting this.

I I've always thought we should have universal health care.

Bernie Sanders has been talking about it ad nauseam for at least three or four decades, right?

Every other country in the world says it's a great idea.

Yet Republicans have the balls, the nerve to go out and say, well, we don't want to universal system.

That's crazy.

You know,

And it's like, no, every other country has it.

What is wrong with you?

They haven't collapsed.

Those countries aren't socialist bastions of craziness.

Everybody has it.

It's a way to stabilize the economy in those countries, stabilize what people think about their countries, and certainly gives a tremendous amount of comfort to families knowing that they're covered.

And

they won't have major bills to pay and spend all of their hard-earned money that they put together for their college funds all that stuff and With one emergency a healthcare emergency you spend it all and you you don't have it anymore.

Mm-hmm.

This is to keep the middle class in their place We can't move up.

This is destroying mobility

upward mobility.

Let's go to the phones Matt is on the line.

Good morning, Matt.

Go ahead

Morning guys, I just wanted to bring up this You know, we're suffering with this ice militarism because We have spent more on the military over the last 40 years then We have spent on anything

else.

Yeah, and it's a bunch of boys with toys.

They have too many toys and That's why we can't have universal health care every other country makes a choice Are you gonna take care of your people or are you gonna make a bunch of weapons?

China now has a military that can challenge us, but they've only spent a fraction of what we've spent So they're clearly smarter and more strategic.

Yeah, they also care about sustainability We don't and they don't have to worry about Christian fanatics that just believe stuff because they're raised to just believe stuff and They believe they can compete with countries that have three times as many people

Yeah, it's crazy.

It is crazy.

That's why we are here.

You have to stop funding this military jobs program.

Yeah,

good point.

All right, man.

Why we're here?

Because we keep pouring money into these weapons and toys.

We got to take a break here, Matt, but thank you very

much for that input.

You were right on.

Thank you, Matt.

We've got more calls waiting.

We'll get to those when we come back with John and Gordy in the morning.

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I don't care anymore.

No, we wanna hear from you.

I am so tired

of talking

about this.

Yes, we want everybody to.

Let us know how they feel.

The biggest

frustration for me is that we've been talking about this for the last three weeks, begging the Democrats.

Remember, I wanted to talk to the head of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin just to make sure they changed.

But I wanted to make sure that they got on board with going for universal health care and to tell everybody they're trying to save the Affordable Care Act.

Some sort of light at the

end

of the tunnel.

just started doing it two or three days before the shutdown.

That's not soon

enough.

That's not building up to this.

Oh my god, okay.

Let's go to the telephone lines and let somebody else do the talking.

Good morning, Joe.

Go ahead.

Please take

it away.

I think one of the things that's happening is this desire for clarity.

At least what I'm hearing from you and what I'm feeling myself.

save the ACA.

I mean, everybody knows

somebody who's got

a family member or a friend on it.

Just really simple, save the ACA.

When you spoke of the, I'm sorry, I don't remember the representative or the official from Michigan who said, post your insurance bill.

Yeah, yeah, yeah post the bill so people can see it and I think there's also the Democrats could do something with Okay, here are people's medical bills now Here's what they're gonna look like after the midterms if we don't change who's who's in this the house in the Senate Here's what your bill is gonna look like.

I thought that the I don't know if you focus on this or not I think you have the Congressperson Dean Madeleine Dean who cornered

Speaker Johnson about Trump's terrible performance and how this guy is sliding down the hill, sliding into the

ramp.

I'll play that next for you.

Okay, I'll play

that for you.

And I think what she says in there is so clear and concise.

And at one point she says our enemies are laughing.

That needs to be repeated again and again and again.

And it's clear and it's simple.

So same way, save the ACA is clear and simple.

Thanks

guys.

All right.

Thanks a lot, Joe.

Let's play that.

It's cut 18.

And again, this is Madeline Dean.

She's a representative.

Carter and Mike Johnson, and

Mike Johnson

was very dismissive.

But he was also admitting that maybe Trump is losing it.

Maybe.

So let's listen to this.

Yesterday, Democratic Congressman Madeleine Dean confronted Speaker Mike Johnson from the cameras and said what a lot of people are thinking, that Donald Trump is unwell.

The president is unhinged.

He is unwell.

What are

you doing?

Oh

my God, please.

That performance in front of the generals?

That is so dangerous.

You know I serve on foreign affairs and appropriations.

This is a collision of those two things.

Our allies are looking elsewhere.

Our enemies are laughing.

You have a president who is unwell.

That's right.

Very unwell.

And he so well.

He's just

well people on your side of the aisle too.

I didn't see it.

I was in a

meeting.

Yeah, sure.

I didn't see it.

Okay.

I am so tired of that excuse from the Republicans to avoid commentary.

Right.

So

I didn't

hear that.

Yeah.

Well, I didn't read that.

I don't know what you're talking

about.

Let's get to the political girl.

She has a great comment.

And this is in regards to J.D.

Vance's refusal to give emergency care.

emergency care, emergency services to immigrants who are injured.

Listen.

This

is a Democrat talking point.

They say we're not actually trying to give healthcare to illegal aliens.

And here's why it's not.

Is that it?

No, that is.

Give me

a sec.

Okay.

I've got another cut I want to get to eventually.

Oh, yes.

Who's talking about how the Democrats are handling the shutdown.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But we'll

get to that.

All right.

Let's go there.

So JD Vance just went on Fox News and lied his face off.

Listen to this and then they'd be back to explain.

Yeah.

So this is a Democrat talking point.

They say we're not actually trying to give health care benefits to illegal aliens.

And here's why it's not true.

There are two Biden era programs that explicitly gave the taxpayer health care money to illegal aliens that we turned off when President Trump took over

in January.

Program number one is there's a lot of emergency health care at hospitals that are provided to illegal aliens.

That was funded by the federal government.

We turned off that funding because of course we want American citizens to benefit from those hospital services, not to be taxed and then to have those hospital services go to illegal aliens.

So in 1986, President Reagan signed a federal law called EMTALA.

It mandated hospitals take care of any person that comes into their emergency rooms.

It didn't say legal or illegal, just person.

So if someone was in a giant car accident and they're bleeding out, no one's asking them for their passport.

MTAWA required emergency rooms and hospitals provided treatment regardless of the patient's ability to pay or their immigration status.

Meaning if you're a visitor to this country or a tourist and you have an accident or a medical emergency, you are also eligible to receive care.

What JD is talking about turning off is the payment the federal government made to emergency rooms and hospitals for the treatment of these people as mandated by the law.

Thanks to JD and Donald's administration, hospitals are now forced to eat the costs of that federal requirement, which means they are forced to pass those costs along to us, the consumer, the people with insurance, the citizens of this country, for what the government is no longer paying them back for.

So they didn't save us any money.

They just made a terrible system even worse.

But this has nothing to do with what the Democrats are fighting for and JD knows it.

We don't just let people die in ERs in America, but the Democrats aren't fighting about that.

They are fighting to preserve the health care of citizens who are going to lose their coverage due to skyrocketing costs that were engineered by the Republican Party.

The Republicans cut Medicaid, which affects Medicare, and people with private insurance.

They are closing rural hospitals, which only makes urban hospitals more crowded and understaffed.

They took federal funding that paid for MTALA, and now they are refusing to extend the federal tax incentives to offset the ACA costs so people will no longer be able to afford their insurance.

They are putting tariffs on pharmaceutical drugs, all of which will kill people.

And the Democrats are like, hey, man, we should be a cooler country than that.

Maybe our people shouldn't be dying of treatable illnesses or bleeding out in the streets while we brag that we're the hottest and best country in the world.

And the Republicans are like, nah, that Americans can die for all we care.

That's right.

But let us be sure to send billions of dollars to Argentina and Israel, both countries that have universal health care.

All right.

OK.

Good comment.

And the price is going up, up, up.

And that's what they're doing to the American public.

Six fifty

nine.

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Let's go to the phone lines right now.

We've got Dick.

What do you got for us?

Good morning.

Hey guys, what a week, huh?

First we have that wonderful speech to the generals.

Then we have the shutdown.

Now in Madison last night, I understand we had our first rust from mice.

This is that nice.

But back to the healthcare thing you were talking about.

Yeah, getting on board a little late, Democrats, but how about the whole country?

Uh, this was brought up in 1948 by Harry Truman.

Yes.

So I'd say we're really late.

Maybe, maybe he has got this idea.

I'm talking about Trump now.

He's had something affect yesterday.

Well, I have the right to strike this law and, uh, because it's never should have been signed in the first place.

I'm taking that as a good thing, guys.

He must be going to give us that Cadillac care.

that he talked about eight years ago that we're all going to get.

Yeah,

sure.

It's kind of like Nixon promising the end of the war in Vietnam and it took five years and another 30,000 lives.

That's right.

That's right.

Yeah.

And it would have ended a lot earlier with Johnson had Nixon not stepped in to prevent the negotiations from continuing

and getting a

deal.

Yeah.

And then it

fell apart when Nixon got in.

Yeah.

So I can't believe he got away with that.

That same thing happened, I believe, with Reagan.

Reagan and

Carter.

In the same situation.

And Republicans got away with meddling in that and causing a lot of people hurt.

All right, Dick, thank you.

We're going to get into the price of health care here.

We'll get into that in just

a moment.

We

need to check in with Savannah.

Tell me also.

Oh, yes.

Find out what's happening in our news world.

Good morning, Savannah.

Good morning guys.

Happy Friday.

Yes.

Happy

Friday to you.

Hot day coming up here.

What do you got for us?

Well, one of the biggest things here is that we have a budget cut coming to Dane County.

Um, we had a $31 million deficit going into this year.

And so, uh, after County Executive Melissa Agard took office, it was her job to figure out, okay.

Now, how do you fix it?

So the big plan is to have basically a lower budget for 2026, but that will include giving staff 1% pay cuts.

They're going to get more vacation hours in exchange for those small pay cuts.

And then on top of that, we have about 50 open positions in the county, and those are all going to be unfilled for at least the next year.

So we've got a hiring freeze too.

And on top of that, your property taxes will go up through the tax levy, but only by about $15.

She says that's the smallest increase in six years.

So at least your bills won't go up too much higher, but we may see, you know.

maybe a little tiny difference in services if we don't get some of those positions hired going forward.

Yeah, there's some kind of systemic problem creating all these shortages, you know, lack of funding.

The whole thing, it seems like the system is just falling apart.

You know, I don't know.

Well,

in both this, the city and the county will tell you that a huge part of that is revenue sharing from

the

state, especially for the city of Madison, simply because of how it's written and how it's written to specifically not benefit Madison.

That's

true.

All right.

Well, yes, on it goes.

Yes.

And

last, last

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And we're finding out.

That's right.

Yeah.

It's very hot there in the barns and the cattle aren't, aren't liking it.