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We're truly sorry.
It's John and Gordy in the morning with Dom at the controls.
Another beautiful, fantastic looking day coming up.
Wow.
You know, you can't ask for a better day than the last two days over the weekend.
Come on.
That's ridiculous.
It was so nice.
Happy Monday.
It was breezy, not humid.
It was just, just the best.
It really was.
And it felt a
A little bit like fall only because you could smell the scent of the rotting leaves, right?
then we might have a little bit of rain this afternoon.
But
Okay.
All right.
This morning.
There's the update.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, it felt good.
Thanks for bringing me down, man.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, I just, I'm not a weatherman.
You're the guy who just, you know, off the top of your head knows what the weather is going to be.
I can't help it.
It's
I'm
It was a beautiful day.
I think more, more than, I think more than last year was a big turn out there.
Yeah.
And everybody on the walk here, you know, it all went fine.
It was, it was good.
The DJ was loud, man.
That DJ, yeah.
I was ready to go over there and ask him to turn it down, but I didn't want to be the cranky old man to do that.
Well,
They have plenty of hot dogs and donuts and all kinds of health food there.
Chips, Fritos, it was great.
It was a good time.
No, it was good to see everybody there.
And just a few minutes we're gonna get a...
caught up with Pam Yonkey and find out the all the details of the World Dairy Expo, the final days of it.
Yeah.
Because we talked to her on Friday and they were very concerned about all the heat and getting the animals, you know, out of the heat and into the trucks and everything.
So we'll find out how that all went.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And a little bit later on, Art Paul Schlosser will join us.
The amazing singer, songwriter.
Entrepreneur performer performer artist.
He'll be right
I took I took her for a little play time outside as I always do and each and every day three or four times a day I go out there and I kick the ball around for her popping it up into the air watching her reach up and grab it It's so much fun.
It's it's great exercise for her also for me as well I get a lot of my steps in doing that out in the yard and it's just
I got, again, you know, it's just a great weekend.
You look up into the sky, you see that blue sky with his beautiful clouds floating by.
I mean, it was just like a, it was like an LSD trip.
I wouldn't know what that's like.
All right.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Um,
I was, I was thinking, actually, I was thinking of a song, Bet Your Sweet Pippi, I'm a hippy hippy hippy by the rest.
And the lyrics in that song are reflective of how I responded to the good weather this weekend in the yard.
You had an OSD flashback?
No.
Is that how you responded?
No, no, I was just, you know.
Skippin', flippin' in the air.
Okay.
You know, it's really hard to imagine that, but okay.
And in the line, the big line is picking lint from my belly button.
Okay.
I'll keep trying.
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It's happening October 23rd through the 26th Yeah, and if you would like to win a sugar river pizza gift card well
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All right.
Well,
Somebody's, yeah.
That's exactly it, Gordy.
I know.
Um, and it was all X is almost turning into another, uh, right wing website.
It's, it's almost complete.
What do you mean almost?
It's almost there.
No, it's almost complete.
Okay.
Uh, we get the, uh, I sent you a few versions of the song.
I'm not sure which one is, uh, just the song or which one is a clip from a radio broadcast that I.
Recorded but check it out.
Just try to play the one that isn't from the radio.
Okay.
Um,
lord.
obviously he's lying.
Who would believe this man?
You know, when the Democrats take over, it's investigation time.
And these guys have nowhere else to run.
Unless you know they change their allegiance and try to get out of the country in time But you have that song all cute up there.
All right, okay, let's say it's not spectacular, but let's listen
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Good Monday morning to you.
Cloudy skies today.
Temperatures staying in the mid 60s all day long.
Maybe a few spots of rain along the way later.
It's going to be a fantastic day today.
That's what John thinks.
Okay.
Let's go to Pam Yankee from the Midwest Farm Report, Fabulous Farm Babe.
Good morning, Pam.
Hi, Pam.
Yeah, I'll take, I'll take this over what we had last week to be honest with you.
I mean, being all that World Dairy Expo, pounding around on all that concrete and back and forth and back and forth, it was, it was not friendly to this old broad.
It was, that was hot.
And, you know, it was,
talking with people out there as well.
You know that got to be a real issue towards the end of the show because now these guys got to decide how are we going to transport these animals long distances when the heat and humidity had kind of built during the day.
So one fellow that I talked to that had to get his cows back to California.
Steve Maddox is his name from Ruan Derry.
He had seven cows on one trailer and he said my goal is to get through Las Vegas.
by daytime tomorrow morning.
So they were going to load up on Friday afternoon as soon as the show released them, which would have been about 5 30 and hit the road and be hopefully he said through Las Vegas by a daybreak on Saturday morning.
He said if it got too hot or if their schedule got compromised, then he would have to take his cattle north towards the Rockies.
where temperatures would be cooler, he assumed.
But that would add on about another eight hours driving.
So it was all about the cows by the time we got to Friday afternoon.
And man, I'm telling you, some of them were pretty stressed out, you know, kind of going to the home stretch.
And so were the people, you know?
Yeah, they got a lot of it.
Yeah, they got a lot of ventilation.
All the animals have water right in front of them.
And they do stop and take periodic breaks.
It's all about keeping her schedule.
So if she's used to being milked every six hours, then they stop and milk her.
They've got lines on the truck.
So all they have to do is basically hook up to pressure and they can milk the cows while they're in the, in the stanchion.
Some people have friends along the way.
They'll actually stop unload milk at somebody else's barn and then give the girls
a chance to walk a little bit and then get back on the truck.
I mean, they go over the top.
These are, and that's kind of why I wanted to make sure I highlighted some of it.
Wisconsin cows did fantastic this year at World Dairy Expo.
I just was going back over my show notes.
So the Junior Supreme Champion, the Junior Show Supreme Champion with how that came out of Whitewater, Tessa and Stella Schmacher.
Exhibitor exhibited this animal and she was the junior show grand champion our supreme champion I should say and then the supreme champion of the show overall came from caucana a red and white holstein
that was exhibited by Milk Source, Lori Fisher, Steincrest, and Crescent Mead of Caucana.
So a lot of these cows are just so incredibly valuable.
You see, I call them syndicates, you see multiple owners.
You know, it's kind of like the Thrillbred Horse Breeding that you hear about Kentucky Derby.
There's always seems to be more than one buyer on some of those animals.
Well, it's going to be that case at World Dairy Expo too.
Also honorable mention to animal an air shire from
Lamira exhibited by Bud John Farms and Peter Vale, Guernsey from down in, I believe, Green County, Cadence Farms, and then another Guernsey that was exhibited by Leela Shuler and Brittany Taylor.
I'm not exactly sure where that cow is, how is, but she's in Wisconsin.
So like I said, just a fantastic showing for our Wisconsin genetics.
Oh, yeah, you got to go with the Badger Dairy Club's grilled cheese.
Oh, yeah.
You know how it is, fellas.
Sometimes when you're in the media room, you get a chance at everything.
Yeah.
They're kind of soliciting you to lay your lips on stuff.
But the Munster grilled cheese that the Badger Dairy Club did was, I think that was the Tuesday
grilled cheese, they change cheese flavors every day.
Yeah.
Something special, some specialty cheese.
Friday they had Havarti dill, which they told me was like a dill pickle.
I'm like, yeah, but wait a minute, where does the where does the cheese part come in?
I don't want to just be biting into a warm pickle.
I know.
But yeah, that and then.
They had ice cream all over the place.
And yeah, there was a lot of good food at World Dairy Expo.
But I think the one that most people stood in line for the longest was the grilled cheese sandwiches by the Badger Dairy Club.
to?
I'm sure we're going to.
I don't want to be, I'm kind of like the canary in the cave.
just giving you fair warning.
American Farm Bureau Federation already came out with an alert last week from their media gathering or market intelligence folks, and they are projecting that Turkey prices could go up as much as 40% by Thanksgiving.
If we have another outbreak of high path avian influenza, this would be an absolute terrible time for the Turkey industry to be struck.
because a lot of the birds right now are just in the finishing stages.
Many of those frozen butter balls that you and I will enjoy are going to be on the way on a truck on the way to the processor, probably in the next.
I'm going to guess 15 days or so.
So if we get a big barn with high path that has to be depopulated, that could put a big divot into available turkey supplies.
So like I said, I don't want to be a bearer of bad news on a Monday, but just kind of keep an eye out if you find, if you find a sale, you like buy it now instead of waiting for it later, maybe.
on with
That's right.
And we got the harvest.
And now, like you said, a little bit of rain coming in today.
Maybe that'll give them a chance to take a break.
But we can talk more about that on Friday, too, guys.
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.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
I
What was her answer?
Well, I'm going to give you two examples of hateful rhetoric that I think could turn me into a violent extremist myself.
No, no.
Both the H.S.
Secretary Kristi Noem and J.D.
Vance are pushing Americans into an ugly confrontation.
All right, so let's listen first.
This is from last month, 203.
You got that?
All right, this is Kristi Noem.
But as the DHS secretary, would you say that Democrats are a domestic extremist organization?
Yes or no?
views are extreme and they don't align with the American people at all.
And I wish that our media, and I wish reporters like you, Caitlin, would talk about the victims every day that we interact with, that we send you the stories on, that you refuse to tell about the poor little girl and baby that was strangled yesterday by an illegal criminal and died.
That baby died overnight.
That was the first news I got this morning when I got up at 4 a.m.
Well, let's just pull the story out of the newspapers from someplace, somewhere and blow that out of proportion and make it seem like it applies to everyone and everything across the United States.
They are so cruel, so brutal in their portrayal of what's going on in this country.
No wonder everybody's a little depressed and maybe even thinking about going to war.
You know, picking up arms and going to war simply because we're just fed up and you see the occupation and everything.
It's crazy.
All right.
Now JD Vance's comment.
Listen to this.
Remember Gavin Newsom passed a law banning masks worn.
by these 21st century brown shirts.
Well, we've all seen the outrageous videos of people hauled off in the streets, taken from their homes or cars, shoved into unidentified vans, disappeared as if that's what American law is all about.
Well, here's JD Vance normalizing that bit of fascism.
And I think that is the most disgusting thing.
The very people who keep us safe ought to be honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike.
It is time to stop the rhetorical assault on law enforcement.
Because here's what
Because here's what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsom did say that these people are part of an authoritarian government.
When the left-wing media lies about what they're doing, when they lie about who they're arresting, when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they're doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence.
You don't have to agree with my immigration policies.
You
don't have to agree with Donald Trump's immigration policy.
But if your political rhetoric encouraged
which is violence against our law enforcement.
You can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.
Well, that's not
at
Oh my gosh, what's going on in Chicago?
You're ridiculous.
I do have a story from Chicago.
Okay.
And we'll get to that.
Cat Abu.
was reporting out of Chicago, and she's also going to be a candidate for the Congress, I believe.
But anyway, let's get to JD, continued to pout about Kimmel, I believe, 205.
You got that?
Cool.
All right,
let's listen.
He didn't actually say sorry to Charlie Kirk or his family.
Oh, no.
And the reason that so many people, including me, were so upset with what Jimmy Kimmel said is that he accused Charlie Kirk's murderer of being a MAGA, where he right-wing American.
It wasn't a joke.
It was straight-up disinformation.
And I really wish Jimmy Kimmel would apologize for it.
We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.
doing everything they can to score political points from it.
The left is doing this.
We're not, we're just saying that, you know, a left winger was the assassin and that is not true in any way.
So anyway, that's a little story I pulled from the past.
I thought everybody could, you know, start their day off right.
Thanks for sharing that.
All right, well, the other thing too on the right, you know, they blow everything out of proportion just a little bit and MAGA is certainly stressing the idea that Antifa is out there now protesting all over America and Tifa and Antifa or that's a rocker likes to call it that because fire and tie right and then fascist and Tifa sounds like
Some other worldly thing.
So anyway, Antifa is now out there in the in the protesters causing trouble in me.
Okay, first ever Antifa domestic terror arrest in us.
This is the headline
First ever Antifa domestic terrorist arrest in the U.S.
Several Antifa members were arrested and criminally charged after surrounding an ice building in Eugene, Oregon, causing terror for employees.
Oh, really?
Talk about blowing it out of proportion.
A few of them caused terror for the employees inside the ice.
building in Eugene, Oregon.
Wow.
That must have been a very stressful time to see those three or four, uh, domestic terrorists and Tifa out there, uh, surrounding the ice headquarters.
Did they
That's what I'm thinking.
Yeah.
Next time next time they're out there.
You know, they'll always have that stand Let's go to a mega Anna Polina Luna.
Okay.
She wallows in projection But never looks in the mirror Exploiting the Kirk shooting opportunist as ever gave magas a chance to trash anyone who tells the truth about their agenda and behavior We're all supposed to shut up now, right?
Well mega
Paula Anna Paulina Luna Wow, it sounds like some kind of pop singer.
You're a dance She said this how many times have they called us fascists?
Nazi or war crime.
You know sometimes maybe it fits.
Mm-hmm.
Well, you know, we just don't bring up these words Just out of nowhere in there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How often have they claimed the American people will lose their rights?
We haven't seen that happen yet, uh, or smeared us as authoritarian dictators.
Well, certainly that we're exaggerating there.
Uh, how often have they attacked Charlie Kirk and others like him?
Well, we're just repeating what Charlie had said so many times.
We're not tagging him.
We're just quoting him.
Uh, yeah.
She wants us to shut up.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because we are actually encouraging homegrown.
left wing shooters out there to go out and commit violence.
Oh, you know, and she even gives examples like the Butler shooter.
Wait a minute.
No, that was the right winger or the golf course shooter.
No, no, that's not it.
Or the Minnesota shooter.
No,
it.
Oh, I think we're drawing a blank on that one.
How about the attacks on transgender youth?
No, not that either.
Oh, well, you know, she's working on it.
One of these days she'll be right.
All right.
This is interesting stuff.
Median household incomes increased in 2024 during the Biden administration to $83,730.
Black American wages fell an average of 3.3% to $56,290.
Now we're going to have an exam later on, so keep those numbers.
OK.
Hispanic households saw income increases of more than 5%.
and Asian household medium income was 121,000 as compared to the average American household of 83,000.
That's pretty high.
The medium income for white Americans showed no significant change from 2023 levels.
A family of four earning less than $32,130 was considered impoverished.
And that shouldn't happen in the wealthiest country in the damn world, right?
Right, right.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
I know.
Just thought it passed that.
Thanks for those statistics.
Again, an exam at the
All right.
School lunch debt.
In Wisconsin, the skyrocketing, Trump cuts made it worse.
WMTV TV looked at the school lunch menu figure and that was that...
That was rising, and that's before Trump's big bad bill stripped away the $3.2 million in food stamps.
Keep in mind, this debt is a symptom of a bigger problem Wisconsin Republicans refuse to solve.
It's called punishment and discipline in the state, and nothing more.
They're not going to solve any, you know, farm to the table programs.
No, no, none of that stuff.
Gonna do it.
They're just gonna starve the kids.
Yeah, remember when they complained, right?
Yes, we've got John live, but we're gonna go we're gonna wait till after the break.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, well, that's fine.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, but anyway, you know the
They killed all these programs.
It didn't help farmers because this was one way that they helped local governments and local schools to have some food.
They criticized Obama, Michelle Obama for healthy meals in the schools.
Now they're going back to healthy meals because RFK Jr., he's a genius, said we should have healthy foods in the schools.
Suddenly their minds have
shouldn't we
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Well, great love and also a great...
I don't know what I would call it when Pam Yankee is talking about grilled cheese sandwiches first thing in the morning.
Oh, God.
Oh, hungry all of a sudden.
Hungry, very, very hungry.
you, Pam.
At any rate, I did want to talk about JD Vance telling anybody who disagrees with ICE that they should go.
straight to hell.
He's very authoritative.
No side trips to A&W to get a soda or anything like that.
You're going straight to hell.
And I think what's interesting to me about this, I saw some footage of an attempted ice arrest in Chicago and two men wearing blue jeans, t-shirts, sneakers.
and then a vest that's ice across it that you can buy online.
You can buy this stuff online for a very minimal amount of money.
So here you have two people who are wrestling this man to the ground, no warrant, no ID.
They're wearing masks and nothing else that indicates law enforcement.
They've been trying to get an exact number, but all I can come up with was accounts saying at least a dozen.
cases where people have bought this ice regalia and dressed just like this and abducted people.
And the thing that I find amazing is that Vance ought to take a look just in his own family.
He has a beautiful, accomplished wife and she is dark skinned as are their children, their multiracial children.
The Supreme Court has said
Fine, you can stop them and haul them away just based on ethnicity.
That's enough reason to stop people and take them away.
How would he feel if this situation were reversed?
And he's not the vice president with Secret Service Protection, but his wife is walking down the street and abducted.
It has happened.
It's not like it could happen.
It has happened.
Not this specific individual, but jeez, talk about a guy that can't see a situation from somebody else's perspective.
This is terrifying.
This is like...
Nazi Germany people are picked up and hauled away.
And why not his wife, his children?
So anyway, it's a depressing thought.
I much prefer thinking about the grilled cheese sandwiches because here's where we are as a country.
Ben
47% of the people say that the Republicans are responsible for the shutdown and 30 say the Democrats and why is that because Donald Trump chose this shutdown the Republican Party chose this shutdown they and the Democrats I think yes, they want a message on health care and policy I get that but they should be saying attributing the blame look at what the Republicans are doing They're attributing blame to the Democrats that does not exist whereas the Democrats have the opportunity to point out to America once
Once again, Donald Trump rules Washington with an iron fist.
He controls the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, and the White House.
He's the guy who chose this, and he's the guy who's been engaged in economic damage to the country.
This is one more thing on top of the tariff taxes that he's caused, on top of the damage to our farmers, our manufacturers that he's caused.
Now this, his choice, his party, his shutdown.
in order for Democrats to, quote, win the shutdown politically.
What is the thing that you would have them say simply and repetitively over the coming days and weeks?
This is crazy, and Donald Trump is hurting you.
This is crazy.
Donald Trump is hurting you.
And Americans already ascribe
Chaos to Trump they already ascribe increasingly ascribe economic damage to Trump his numbers on the economy on inflation on prices on the tariffs are absolutely underwater by 10 20 30 points in some cases and so Playing into that damage.
He's already cost himself by these terrible economic choices including the big bad bill and everything else
I think that is an area where Democrats are able to insulate themselves from the Republican reflex action when the word healthcare is mentioned.
And it also denatures this lie about illegal immigrants getting free healthcare and get why they're using it.
It's perfect red meat.
But the idea that Trump is the chaos agent, that Trump is the cause of the harm, farmers in America are getting screwed right now, manufacturers.
construction workers, the harm is rippling out there.
And I think as Democrats go through this, this shutdown fight, they've got to be out front and center saying, we're going to fix this, not just this shutdown.
We're going to fix the rest of this.
If you give us power in the fall of 26.
A lot of people believe in the Republicans on this.
They're winning the war on propaganda.
One of the things, I guess, Mike Johnson was on the weekend show.
And he was talking about, oh, the Democrats want to pay the emergency rooms for taking care of illegal immigrants.
And yes, yes, because we don't want people to die in our emergency rooms.
all the sense in the world.
He's trying to get sympathy for not paying the hospitals, and if they don't get paid, they raise the prices on us to make up for losing that money.
really something good.
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