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fear the Reaper a song obviously redone in parody form that was retweeted by Trump and the lyrics now the time has come here the power is gone Russell is the Reaper he wields the pen the power in the brain here comes the Reaper Dems you are babies here comes the Reaper gonna tie your hands here comes the Reaper well
it's
It was sounding great, but...
I could have used a little more cowbell.
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah.
Seven minutes past the hour.
It's a cloudy start this morning.
We had some rain earlier.
It looks like most of that's out of here.
We'll see some sunshine mixed in with the clouds and highs around 65 today, right now, 53 degrees.
All right, we got another
Democrats in Congress should start a bill where we remove Antifa monuments from the United States.
to show how ridiculous this whole thing is.
Let's name some Antifa monuments to remove.
This whole fabrication that every protester is now Antifa is absolutely absurd and so stupid, but you know, it's actually working.
All the magas are talking about the protesters now as Antifa, which is pathetic.
But I don't know where are the Democrats on this one?
We really have to stop that.
And so much for wishful thinking.
You know, target ridiculous, you know, it's don't fear the Reaper, a parody song.
Well, now Benny Johnson, he's a right wing.
Podcaster and he has found a way to get clicks for his website because now he's going after Netflix the cartoon characters Who are coming out as transgender in this cartoon that was canceled but?
two years ago, kids don't care, and if they did, parents need to answer some questions.
The kids really don't care about transgender, whether they come out or not, whether they're in the cartoons, whether they're a character in the cartoons, they just don't
Really?
you be in favor of?
the Netflix leadership being asked to sort of testify over this, around sexual
ideology.
Every time we're on, I always say I'm going to do something that makes news.
Here's what I want to do on this one, because the First Amendment and all that.
Let's get on it.
I'm going to follow up with my folks after we get off and we'll call them and say, which committee?
can may be brought in front of is who I think what we have to look at who regulates the FCC and then since it's cable does that count I don't know I don't know enough about it but yeah
yeah
they need to be brought
what their agenda is and why they're pushing this stuff because from what I understand that little cartoon is apparently the number one rated
cartoon they have on their show.
I haven't seen it.
It looks kind of like claymation or something.
no, it's not.
You know, I said something about it and immediately immediately the left pounded on me and said something about, oh, you're just upset because it's a racial family.
You know, and and I know some gay folks and they are getting a little more ticked off about the transgender situation.
Oh, they are getting lumped in.
That's not their fight.
I don't think that's their fight.
They need to pull off all that garbage.
And because, you know, they got their win, they got their marriage thing going.
And nobody cares.
Everybody's looking for a fight.
And nobody.
I live in East Tennessee and nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
And yeah, so
I live your
own dad gum life.
Just I always tell people, don't put it in my face and don't tax me.
And that's all I care about.
Right.
That right there is recruiting.
That is grooming.
That is
That is the worst of the worst because they're taking young minds and they know they can do that.
So in what happens to those young minds, they're introduced to transgender individuals and that's not a good thing, I guess, somewhere.
According to him.
Of course, he doesn't want it in his face.
As long as it's not in his face and he's not taxed, he's okay with it, except now he's not okay with it.
This grooming thing that they keep coming back to, that's all they think about.
In response to that, here's a response from one of the individuals.
This is pure political theater, Netflix showcasing trans characters, isn't evil, it's representation and inclusion, non indoctrination, dragging private companies to Congress for diversity in programming is an overreach of government power and a waste of taxpayer money.
Thank you.
Well, I did, I did want to indicate that, uh, you know, every, um, conventional system comes with an off switch.
So if you really
Yes, it's remarkable.
off button.
There is a solution.
did.
You mentioned Tim Burchett, the Tennessee Congressman, and it was ringing a few little bells.
And I just wanted to add to the picture that Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett believes that extraterrestrial beings may inhabit five or six underwater bases off the US coast.
In a discussion with UFO researcher, now get this name, Red Panda Koala.
Oh, I don't
He mentioned that Navy personnel site high speed underwater crash that can, that exceed conventional submarines.
And he said these entities could have been remained hidden in the oceans for thousands of years.
that's Tim Gershed.
So let's take advice from
underwater alien bases.
one?
Koala.
it
Yeah, yeah.
The alien entities,
are just getting him a little spooked.
you know, I highly recommend an off switch.
You can always go to an off
Children will be taught to love America.
Children will be taught to be patriots.
Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding.
So as we close the Department of Education and we provide funding to states, we are going to make sure that these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology.
For any nation to be successful, it cannot teach its children to hate themselves and to hate their country.
So these are a few of the areas in which President Trump has fought the cancerous communist woke culture that was destroying this country where we led to believe that men were women, that women were men, the racial discrimination was good, that merit was bad, and that safety and physical security mattered less than the feelings of liberal ideologues.
Okay.
That's
we go.
Good morning.
Real quick.
I think you guys should be ashamed of what you did to CJ before you got his talking points yesterday.
Really?
Yeah.
I thought you were fair journalists until that, but off topic, but onto Miller.
Yes.
This supposed interview that CNN did with the president.
That's some scary stuff because it's done all by a text back and forth and he's given.
How do you know who's behind that?
phone texting back.
You don't.
Right.
So it's not an interview in any sense of my, you know, I tell my kids, I very rarely text people.
There's a lot left out of the equation, especially if you're the president and you're talking to a reporter about something, you know, you don't have voice and play, you don't have a lot of things in a text, but you truly have nothing when you don't know who's texting you.
It was probably Miller
was texting back the messages to CNN.
the courts allow you to ultimately send in the National Cardinal to Chicago and Portland.
Do Democrats not have reason to be concerned that there are long-term plans by this administration to keep U.S.
military or the National Guard in American cities like what we're seeing here in Washington?
Why should they be concerned about the federal government offering help to make their cities a safer place?
They should be concerned about this.
They should be concerned about the fact that people in their cities right now are being gunned down every single night.
In the president, all he's trying to do is fix it.
And there has been a complete smear campaign by the Democrats and the media, quite frankly.
I was reading political playbook this morning, one of the most inside the Beltway newsletters you can find.
And you guys are framing this like the president wants to take over the American cities with the military.
president wants to help these local leaders who have been completely ineffective in securing their own cities.
Well, the president isn't really supposed to send in the military unless it's an emergency and there's a national, you know, exactly lisha that's called for You know all the governors don't want the military coming in and
You know, they can call up the National Guard if there's really an emergency.
They can do it in, you know, in their states.
They think that they have the solution to stopping crime altogether.
You know, we've got Tom Tiffany running for governor and he's angry about a crime that took place outside of fraternity here in Madison saying we've got to take control of this.
Seriously, if he's governor, we're not gonna have that happen anymore.
There's no crime whatsoever in the state if he becomes governor.
What are they talking about?
They're just outrageous and Tom Tiffany is trying to be the next Trump.
I call him mini-Trump Tiffany because he is jumping on this bandwagon
There's no way out of this.
No way.
We'll see sunshine along the way cool temperatures all day mid 60s this afternoon right now 54 degrees Brittany Merleau is on vacation.
I'm going to step in here and it's time for Uncle Gordy's weather trivia.
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Every ready for this.
Yes.
All right, John.
Wow.
Dom, here's the question.
Here's the trivia question for today.
From the
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the
that's our weather trivia
to the link solder
Oh, yeah, I really don't have too many but We want to go after Let me see that mouse by the way.
Oh, yeah, the mouse.
Oh trying to scroll up a little bit there, but we know we need a system where
We can both get to the scrolling device here so we can check out the messages.
Never mind.
We've been talking
Yes.
And she said, Drumpf was offering help to cities.
Ah, he is doing it at gunpoint.
That's right.
Now let's uh you know speaking of that uh Trump is okay with using the insurrection act and this is cut 73 which is kind of a shocking thing and it sounds kind of flippant so I think he wants to do this and there's a reason why they're talking about insurrection all the time everything they talk about is insurrection
So far it hasn't been necessary, but we have an insurrection act for a reason.
If I had to enact it, I'd do that.
If people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that.
I mean, I want to make sure that people aren't killed.
We have to make sure that our cities are safe.
No, it's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge
assumes for him or herself the powers that have been relegated or delegated by the Constitution to the President that that is a form of a legal insurrection.
And we have seen...
we have seen over the last nine months a ongoing legal insurrection.
in which district court judges, as they class in many cases, have issued, which might have been overturned so much, have issued rulings that are flagrantly unlawful and unconstitutional.
And it is an insurrection against the laws and constitution of the United States.
And we need to have district courts in this country that see themselves as being under the laws and constitution and not being able to take for themselves powers that are reserved solely for the president.
One more
He's actually referring to the Supreme Court decision where they actually came out and said that these judges are acting like executives, taking some of the executive power away from the president, which is just a weird way of describing anything.
I can't believe the Supreme Court justices are judges and they're coming out against all the other judges in the country.
Every one of them in the country, they're going after.
Now, a judge had blocked the Trump administration.
And Tim Miller was, Stephen Miller rather, was talking about that.
And this is, in Miller's response to this judge's decisions was claiming that judiciary is shielding terrorism and that he should be dismantled, or this should be dismantled, the judicial system.
Really, I'm not getting.
And the next day, the judge that put this block on the Trump administration, her home blew up.
It is 735.
We've got cloudy skies downtown over State Street, and we'll see the clouds breaking up for sunshine highs today, getting into the mid sixties.
right now, 54 degrees.
Tomorrow on the show, Mike McCabe will join us.
I'm going to be gone for a day or two tomorrow.
That's right, you're
Good morning, guys.
Good to be
Yes.
And Serenity Pet Spies with three locations around Madison.
They are internationally award-winning grooming salon.
And what's on your mind this time of year for pets?
What kind of surprises have you seen so far?
We've been talking about, John's pets are all, they're shedding their fur.
Yes, they're doing that.
We talked a little bit about this last time.
Yeah, they're doing that
shed, getting ready for the winter coat.
dogs are confused this year because it was like 80 degrees last week.
nobody really knows what's happening.
top's still off my Jeep.
I don't know where we are.
might be a little bit of a weird season.
Yeah.
But I feel like this spring was kind of the same way.
Like I couldn't decide when it wanted to get warmer, colder, what was going on.
So
Yeah.
I mean, and I wouldn't necessarily even brush every day.
Really just getting a consistent schedule of getting it all out in a bath, like, you know, about once a month, once every six weeks, something like
We're losing some of that warm weather here.
So if you're doing it outside, you know, with a hose, that's something you could certainly try.
But I got a question for you.
We want to brush our border collie.
And she's not really a fan of being brushed.
I bought a brush with the little nubs on the end of it.
Oh, yeah, that's her use.
One of those.
That's her use.
Now, let me just describe it.
It's just like the short.
Brush with the sharp pin like needles on it.
It's but they don't have pin like needles on it You just have a little nubs on it.
Is that effective?
No So the issue the
so they started putting those pins on it
rather than just selling a higher quality brush.
So your higher quality brushes, when you touch the end of the pins that are quote unquote sharp, they don't scrape.
Like you can brush your own hand with them.
So like we sell some in
our
salon that's like, you can brush your own hand with it and it doesn't hurt.
So it was like they solved the cheap like rugged, you know, jagged pin problem that was cutting dogs by putting a ball on it instead of just getting a polished end.
and a softer brush pat.
But yeah, those balls on the end, it just makes it so that the pins can't get through to the base of the coat as well.
No.
favorites are the ones with like that on one side that look like a human hairbrush and like the bristle on the other
Yeah, the higher quality ones are not as scratchy.
They're more of a polished end.
So they're not breaking and damaging coat and skin.
And then they also, they're just a little softer pad.
So
like
the padding has more flexibility that it's actually on.
And so it's softer when you're brushing the dogs.
So like a higher quality, it's like, yeah, you're going to spend a little more on a brush, but it's also going to last you longer.
like cheap brushes at the common pet store, they die within like a couple uses.
So these ones are made for groomers.
So they're used to getting a beating.
they're used to brushing, you know, 15 some odd dogs a day.
So they'll last you years at home.
Does
Yes and no.
It kind of depends if they're good at the brushing.
And it's also, it's a reason why we require rotation because it's like once you get past that like two months without a bath,
it
doesn't matter how much brushing you're doing at home.
That dog is dirty.
It's full of dandered.
code isn't coming out anymore and it just, it needs to get in to get a good bath.
so,
Yes.
Oh, I was just looking at one the other day and I was like, wait, how old are
doing this to you since you were a puppy.
I think she's like 10.
like, how'd you get so old little girl?
You
attached to him.
grooming?
Most dogs every four to six weeks.
for like a bath, nail trims, those nails grow fast.
There's some people that go the eight weeks and for a lot of dogs, it's fine for if they're like a short haircut or a short hair dog.
But I find just to keep the nails done, the ears clean.
a check like overall their spot check on health because we can see lumps and bumps and things that you can't find.
It's just some of our best are just they come in like regularly in a perfect world.
Everyone just comes and visits me once a month on a rotating schedule and everything's easy and the dogs are always clean and the owners never have to brush them at home at all.
That's my perfect world.
the more often they come the more used to it They're thinking like you know think of like your toddler going to a new environment versus somewhere that they see every week They see their same friends.
They know the people so they're better behaved because they understand what's happening So so yeah, but no, it's not really it's not really dog.
There's not like a certain breed.
That's good.
other, there really isn't.
It's just, it's, are they on a consistent schedule?
Are they a well mannered dog?
Are they a well bred dog?
So they have a good kind of mental head on their shoulders, raised well as a puppy, started grooming as a puppy.
So they're used to the process.
Those are going to be the best.
your like low shedding dogs, any of your, the poodles, obviously.
are great, Portuguese water dogs are great, Spanish water dogs, Otterhounds, there's a lot of purebred, low shedding or no shedding dogs out there other than getting a doodle that can have a lot of health issues.
I'm gonna make a lot of enemies with that phrase.
They
wonderful
dogs, but
they are
free of health
Oh, yeah.
No, just get like a really, really short, short, short-haired dog.
Yeah, because that's the thing the trade-off you don't want shedding you're gonna have a lot of hair to cut off
doesn't if it doesn't
kind of
15
We have acreage and we run around and we do things okay, yeah
It's fine.
Luckily
a grooming salon because grooming would get really
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, because I have my grooming competition dogs.
So because of how many competitions I go to and
are a year, I have two for each class that I compete in.
So
that's six dogs right there.
And then
breed collies.
So I have my collies that I breed and show and I have like seven, seven of those.
So between retirement age down to like three months old.
kennel runs.
We have like, I
12 foot runs and they pretty much are in there, you know, during the day.
And then they run on a big acreage.
all day when I'm home and
Yeah, yeah
would never own one.
They're too smart.
It's dangerous.
Smart dogs are dangerous.
my regular colleagues that are kind of pretty and dumb.
Like they're just like sweet and happy to be with
want.
Those like smart dogs are like, you're stupid.
Like they look at you like you're dumb.
My poodle does that sometimes.
like as
first one owned me because I wasn't prepared.
Now I'm a little more prepared.
Yes.
So we have East Park.
That's our East Side off American Parkway.
We have our original store, Nodana Road.
And then we have our new location.
We call it Middleton.
It is far west.
It's on a junction road.
So.
Okay.
Yes.
I'm nowhere.
I don't, I don't think this skin, but, but no, I was
like, um, holidays are, we are only like seven weeks from Thanksgiving.
Um, if you don't have a holiday appointment for your dog, you better be calling your rumor because it's getting real scary.
SerendipetSpaMadison.
Keep
There is a debate.
going on.
The guy is, he's a podcaster, Parker get a job.
You can tell that his parents were telling him to do something other than just talking on the internet.
Parker get a job, but he, he, he's a lefty and he talks to righties all the time.
And I just thought this conversation is so frustrating and so ridiculous that you just have to listen to it.
Okay.
All right.
So let's put it on.
Cut 56 here.
And he supports science, by the way.
He doesn't.
He said the climate was going to start cooling in science just doesn't know it yet.
He said that windmills are causing whales to die and numbers never seen before.
He said that Tylenol usage during pregnancy causes autism, which there's no evidence indicating any of those things.
That's a health issue that has nothing to do with science.
That does have to do with science.
What is science?
Health and science is not the same thing.
What is good for your health is not the same as science.
He was denying the science about what
is healthy for Americans?
So, yes, when I was talking about his stance on health, it was related to him denying science.
I do have to clarify that first.
None of that stuff.
None of that stuff is correlating to science.
Yes, it
is.
It's just an
opinion.
What is science?
It's not a health issue.
You said something about Tylenol, and then you said something about windmills.
What does that have to do with science?
What is science to you?
Are there scientific studies on health outcomes?
health outcomes rely on studies for medication, what is causing something, and what is going to be helpful for someone.
That has nothing to do with windmills or what the reason why we need for climate change.
That has climate change.
None of that has anything to do with science.
That has something to do with climate.
Yeah.
Climate science has nothing to do with science.
I totally agree.
Climate science.
So so now we're changing the subject again.
So we was talking about climate change or climate windmills or whatever it was.
And now we're talking about climate science.
OK, so yeah, the climate is how something to do with the weather.
It has something to do with it.
different.
And the seasons and things of
things of
that
Climate does not have to do with just
the science.
So again, we just want to add, we just want to know if you even know what science is.
I know.
OK, so you and Ross.
The process in which we use to expand our
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Was still riding the school bus at 17.
Oh, is that right?
Who rides the bus?
They're senior year.
No friends, maybe?
Hmm.
Creep.
Steven Miller.
Yeah, I did not know that.
Okay.
And of course, that last cut that you heard, Matt chimed in and said, haha, science is an opinion.
Sums up the mega nicely.
I know it is incredible.
What a frustrating interview that must have been.
All right.
So let's get to, uh, let's get to, uh, Kat Abou and, uh, she
All right.
And she talked to Jen Psaki the other night about the violence and brutality of ICE at their facility in Chicago.
I want to get this on right away because it's a couple of days old.
Um, so it's freshness date is, is arrived.
This is what Gen Z.
is all about.
And I tell you, just listening to her is very energizing for me.
Let's listen.
Chicago has long been one of Donald Trump's favorite targets.
At this point, it is frankly difficult to keep track of all of the ways he is trying to intimidate that city.
I mean, just today, the Trump administration announced that it plans to claw back $2.1 billion in federal funding for Chicago's desperately needed
infrastructure projects.
In the early morning hours on Tuesday, agents repelled from Blackhawk helicopters and reportedly broke down people's doors, pulling men, women and children, some of whom were naked, out of their apartments, separating families.
Those families' belongings, everything from shoes to toys to food, were ransacked and thrown into piles in the building's hallway.
Democratic Congressional candidate Kato Gazzale has been taking part in those protests and was thrown to the ground by ICE agents herself.
You can see it right on the video there.
Earlier today, she spoke at a press conference outside of the Broadview facility.
Can you just describe how the situation there has escalated over the past couple of weeks?
This facility is where anyone that is abducted in the Chicago area probably ends up.
They're held in inhumane conditions.
Every single week we have seen one-sided escalation from ice.
We come with songs and chants and signs.
They come with tear gas and pepper bullets and flashbangs.
They have started abducting protesters into the facility.
They have started arresting press for doing their job.
I have watched them target press multiple times.
They tell families that are trying to deliver medication to their loved ones to leave before shooting them with pepper balls.
They have tried to drive vehicles through protesters multiple times.
This is a war zone, except it's a one-sided war.
It is ICE agents in masks.
We don't know who these men are.
We don't know what they're allowed to do.
We don't even know what agency many of them work for.
And they are just allowed to brutalize anyone that they want.
All the things I just described don't compare to what is actually happening in that facility.
Yeah, I think Christine Ohm should have consequences.
I think she should be tried at the Hague.
What we are seeing from her operation are crimes against humanity.
They should
What I really want to stress to people is that none of this is normal.
It is not normal to have masked men repelled down from helicopters into apartment buildings to arrest families in the middle of the night.
is not normal.
Today we were corralled into a free speech zone and I'm not a big fan of that term because it implies there are areas in the US that are non free speech zones, mainly everywhere else.
It is ISIS responsibility.
to respect and uphold our rights.
It is not on us to accommodate them.
And it's not on us to accommodate Kristi Noem's racist fascist agenda.
Canada because I'll never hold back.
I really appreciate you taking the time tonight
speaking out so forcefully about such an important issue.
or the
And then suddenly if somebody does fall or something like that, then the agents swarm around them and arrest them.
And that's my observation.
That's where I see all of this.
The conflict is really caused by the government and the ICE agents and the National Guard because they're just pushing people back and sometimes they fall, sometimes they are not being able to be pushed back because there are people behind them and it just gets to be a scuffle, a mess, and then people get arrested falsely.
It's
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