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Yeah.
I kind of got tired of the helicopters flying over and the ambulances and the police sirens and the end of stream of nurses walking by.
Right.
Well, that was, yeah, that I could get used to.
Wasn't there a high school over there too?
I mean, yes, students right out of the street, West high school.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're all over the place and a lot of college students and everything.
No, it's a great neighborhood.
It's a regent neighborhood.
Beautiful neighborhood.
Wonderful houses there.
But you were forced to move.
They didn't like you.
Well, no, they were selling the house.
Oh,
What?
Yeah, they are.
Well, at least that's what they said.
Now I think they're going to, they've changed their mind and they're going to rent it out again.
I don't know.
You're not sure.
But so meanwhile, no, I found another place and it was a little, I mean, I loved the neighborhood.
a little busy traffic wise your neighbors do they know that you're well they know now they were very nice I think they're down in they might be traveling right now I'm not sure oh okay might be down in Louisiana yeah you know they were great to me and now all the other neighbors that I met
be neighborly anymore with anybody.
That doesn't happen anymore.
Pretty much everybody's isolated themselves.
Everybody is.
Everybody.
They don't even know who lives next door.
I think
Crops up in our conversations with the neighbors whenever we run into them, but I think somewhere in there They don't want to broach the subject.
They don't want to come up so everybody just stays in their home and You know peers at the window Wondering what you're
Open 24 hours.
Yeah, it's, you know, this, this is like Bible built area of Wisconsin, right?
We don't have billboards like that in Madison or Milwaukee or any place that I've seen.
It's all in the Apple Valley up north,
I'll get you going in the morning.
Yeah, well, it's cloudy out there this morning.
And that's it.
OK, now let's move on to the next one.
We'll see a little bit of sunshine.
We had a little rain overnight.
And earlier this morning, it looks like we're mostly clearing out of the rain.
Highs near 70 this afternoon.
So we have a
She's settled in and boy, she's, you know, energized.
They're winning and they're hitting home runs.
And then I come out twice now, you know, before I went to bed and I said, you know, don't forget, you know, put the cover on the pellet grill tonight.
gonna rain probably you know okay yeah no problem and then i had to get up and i got back uh into the living room i said no don't forget because i can see you're all energized over the cubs and not even paying attention to me i said don't forget oh yeah i've got that you know yeah wasn't covered this morning i mean last night when i got up about
one or two, so I had to get my robe on and to go outside, put the cover on the damn thing because she didn't think about it.
Oh.
So, you know what?
Rain really I mean it is pretty waterproof, but you really do want to cover it anyway for the gizmos and gadgets that are inside this damn There's timers and sensors and everything else you can think of how much did you use it this summer?
A lot.
Did you really?
A whole lot.
We're getting, actually, we're getting a replacement grill cover inside the grill itself.
You can move the plates back and forth in order for direct grilling or indirect grilling.
And that is so covered up with fat and char and whatever.
We're just, we bought a new one and we'll put it in for next year.
Okay, good.
But it's an amazing thing because, you know, these little pellets, these pellet dropped right in front of this very hot electrode, and it just burns instantly.
sense off the smoke and that's how it works.
It's not like this big plate of grill, you
can get
Well, we've got Pam Yankee coming up in just a couple of minutes with the, uh, you know, the Midwest food and farm reports preview and what's happening or agriculturally.
around our state.
Also, Rocker will be in with the Max Ink preview, some great local music and what's happening around some of the venues.
And Savannah Tomei Olson will be checking in in a little while with some news headlines.
I didn't bring it up yesterday because I was traumatized.
But there was this tiny little spider inside of the windshield.
On the space car?
Yeah.
And it was crawling up.
You know, I'm thinking, is that going to be right above my head soon or not?
Oh, man.
And I was, you know, driving all the way in, watching this damn spider.
You know, these car spiders are crazy.
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This
Dom at the controls.
Catherine keeps wondering.
what those pellets look like in my pellet grill.
And I didn't think something like this was going to take off.
I said, well, you know, people want to buy charcoal, they want to buy the wood and do the smoking that way and not get these pellets.
And then of course, you know, the pellet companies grow out of business, they leave you high and dry with a pellet grill.
But no, it took off.
And I'm really glad we got this thing.
And the pellets are very small or like normal pellets that you feed.
animals with and and and they're smooth
Okay.
And
Good morning and pellets in my world are completely different fellas than what you find firing your grill Yeah, maybe the same color may be smooth.
Maybe the same size, but origins definitely different in my world
I look I know that they used to feed animals some of these pellets, you know I remember dipping in and helping feed sheep or something I
I can't remember who I was feeding at the time.
Maybe some kids.
I'm sure they didn't like it.
Okay.
Look, Pam, before I go off on some kind of tangent here, which I have no idea why I'm doing this, let's talk about something really wild and no one ever really thinks about this, but it's lights out Wisconsin.
That's tonight to save birds.
Tell us a little bit about this.
I don't think I ever real Wisconsin is a major a birds going over the sta folks in Wisconsin are to how many birds actually fly fly at night.
So they're in the neighborhood of 26 million birds will be o as they try to migrate so
outdoor lights from 11 p.m.
tomorrow morning because they say that these artificial lights can actually disorient the birds.
It can make them come into urban areas.
where they have a whole lot more risks of being hurt, damaged, or killed, especially from window collisions.
Because when they see those lights reflecting off glass, it just goofs them up.
And I know I found a songbird by our radio building the other day that just ran into the glass.
So the goal is to try to minimize that reflection to keep them on their patterns outside of urban areas.
And they say the best way you can do that is shut off your outdoor
lights.
They even suggest that if you can pull your drapes or something like that, if you're a night owl or something like that, anything to just kind of allow them to use the night skies, the stars, the moon, what have you to guide them on their path.
But yeah, that number blows my mind.
21.3 million birds just in one night over Wisconsin, or 26.3, I should say.
That's just
I mean, it just creates a whole visual.
You know, John's worried about his spider in his car.
And now I'm living Elkard Gitchcock in my backyard, you know.
Really?
One night.
One night, boys.
Stop and think about no there.
No.
No, do you all get the email that says okay everybody?
No, no and that again just begs the question about how many birds fly over I mean if you stop and think about a city park and all the Canadian geese that are now our residents now imagine 26.3 of that assorted type bird over Wisconsin tonight
again You know the other story we were talking about and we'll get to or not get to you know
They're back doing the high path avian influenza.
There's suspended poultry shows in Jefferson, Waukesha, Walworth and Rock County because these birds are not just flying.
They are leaving the wood pellets behind and that turns into high path avian influenza.
So like I said, it's kind of a two-fold deal just to raise awareness on how many birds are over the state of Wisconsin.
And like I said, that's going to be tonight from about 11 p.m.
to 6 a.m.
26.3 million birds.
Yep.
All right.
that's, you know, again, why they kind of want to
Let them do their thing and get out of the way before air traffic starts up again or
Yeah.
Yeah.
We, one of my gals interviewed the secretary of bird and pigeon group in Jefferson County.
He did not get the message.
They've got a poultry swap that was supposed to happen tomorrow at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
All of a sudden this guy is setting up cages pulling all birds and he gets a text message from his buddy that says, Hey, did you hear his name is?
Dan Schwant and he said, he is ticked off.
He said the last time this kind of a suspension went in effect, Department of Ag reached out to him directly because they know he's part of the organization.
He didn't get word one on this until the rest of the world heard.
And their show, like I said, was supposed to start tomorrow morning.
So Jefferson, Rock, Walworth and Waukesha counties, no movement of any kind of birds, poultry or otherwise in those four counties
protect against high path.
Yeah.
Yep, I don't see snow on the forecast, so we'll be timely.
All
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.
This is grade A weapons grade stupidity.
Just doing my civic duties.
We can duck and cover.
There's a
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Right.
Exactly the exact images.
But anyway, he might be, I'm not sure, not really getting it a lot, you know.
from the story here just watching it, but he might be banning the products and that would close down a whole bunch of shops just like we were talking about here in Madison and Wisconsin.
So it would have a huge impact if he did something that dramatic or that drastic.
So we'll see what happens in Ohio, but they are also dealing with the fact that there's some qualities in these products that get you high.
they should be doing instead of courses regulating and making sure that they don't have these products that look like children's candies.
So that's all I have to do, but that requires work and we know that Republicans, when they hold any kind of office, they don't work.
They don't do anything.
They don't govern.
They don't manage anything.
They don't help us out at all.
They just punish us constantly all the damn time.
All right?
Okay.
Good morning.
WMDX.
I just wanted to mention we have some showers moving through downtown right now.
Yeah.
And yet the leaf blower guy is out there.
this morning, uh, getting wet.
He's drying off the leaves.
Yeah.
The leaves and then pushing them along showers this morning, but it should be a partly sunny later and highs around 70 today.
Well, thank you.
Oh, this is a big one.
Didn't have a chance to get to this one.
It's the flaming ball of cheese.
What?
Yes, the flaming ball of cheese in downtown Mount Horrib at the Vita Bella.
Bella, rather.
Vita Bella, it's an Italian restaurant down there, and they have decided to stand out among all the Italian restaurants in Mount Horrib.
Here's another one.
This is Tom Tiffany is running for governor and he has so many different things.
He's he's focusing You wouldn't believe it.
It's not anything that will help most of us out, but he certainly is focusing on stuff Representative and candidate Tom Tiffany channel Trump
promising to end crime as governor.
He's gonna end crime.
I'm not kidding.
He says, we must restore law and order in Wisconsin.
Criminals belong behind bars.
Well, law enforcement, did he notice that suddenly?
Law enforcement deserves our support and prosecutors must do their job and prosecute criminals.
Well, no kidding.
Oh my gosh, what an idea.
came up
because they had a altercation on Langdon Street just recently downtown here where a student was shot by a gun in the ear.
He's okay.
That person is okay, but he's reacting to it because, you know, crime is rampant.
You have one isolated incident where a guy gets shot, clipped in the ear, but, you know, crime is everywhere and he's got to do something about it.
And boy, there won't be any crime when Tom Tiffany is governor in this state.
All right.
Okay.
So I just wanted to let you know that that is what he's running on.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Okay.
Now, this is what you were doing.
A reporter posted this.
Benny Johnson took Russian propaganda money.
Remember that?
He says that Christine Noem was out there bravely looking over the Antifa crowds in front of ICE offices.
She was out there looking out over a rooftop.
Uh, she
up, up on the roof, looking over and, uh, watching Antifa protest, uh, the ice occupations in, uh, in Chicago.
Hmm.
Okay.
So, um, out there went, well, the camera panned around and saw a few middle-aged protesters strolling around the sidewalk.
Just a handful of people.
Yes.
And a guy, you dressed in a chicken suit.
That
Yeah And you know when you see when you see something like that you think army got to bring in the army for stuff But you know the whole thing here is they're talking about protesters now as Antifa They're not just protesters right anymore.
They're not Americans going out to address their government
Redress their government.
They really want to go out there and and become antifas and the bad thing about antifa is that these are people who are anti fascists see they don't like fascism and I don't know about you, but you know, this is an unwarranted attack on fascism You know I want to see more of it and that's what we're getting and that's why the anti
Fascists are out there right now.
And this is an interesting note.
John Jackson, former Republican and veteran of the Ukraine army, posted this web wisdom about Antifa being as bad as Hezbollah, this is cut 94, and ISIS as bad as them.
But who knew, right?
Average Americans going out to protest who are now being called Antifa are as bad as ISIS and Hezbollah.
This shows you Pam Bondi and of course Kristi Noem and her ridiculous groveling not to be outdone is here on this tape claiming that Antifa, which is basically anybody who opposes Donald Trump like half the country, is just as bad as ISIS, as Hezbollah and other huge terrorist organizations.
And the point of this exercise is I'm going to show you if they think that Antifa, which is again like human chemtrails, it does not exist.
It's a loose philosophy, which means anti fascism doesn't seem so bad.
then what do you think actions they're willing to justify?
What are they willing to do?
How far can they go if they think that people who oppose Trump are actually this bad?
Let's listen to the tape.
This network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them.
Wow.
They are just as dangerous.
They have an agenda to destroy us, just like the other terrorists we've dealt with for many, many years.
And today is the day that we have a president that won't tolerate it.
What they are doing is using the rhetoric to justify the same behaviors they would against ISIS, against Hezbollah, against al-Qaeda to turn inward.
And that should be devastating and scary to all of us.
And your imagination, I promise you, cannot even fathom how far they're willing to go.
We're just getting started.
Buckle up.
It's going to get unbelievable soon.
John Jackson, a former Republican and veteran of the Ukraine army.
He posted that another web wisdom and who knew that we were as bad?
You know, I think she came out in that quote.
If you were listening, she came out and admitted that they are fascists and they're trying to stop the anti-fascist movement.
She
Okay.
All right.
If you're Chuck Schumer, and a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, including our men and women in uniform,
Maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish.
Is that really why Chuck Schumer ran for office?
To inflict pain on other people so that he can have a good day,
For himself.
When that is your measuring stick for a good day is how much pain you're inflicting on other American families, you have lost your way.
And yet they vote over and over again to keep the government shut down.
OK, well, you know, you could stop that if you wanted to and get everybody back into the house who are on vacation, by the way.
Here they're going to be on vacation next week too.
And they're not negotiating.
They're not trying to get this thing done.
They're not trying to help people afford healthcare because that's running out at the end of the year.
That's why we're doing this, Steve.
My God.
You know, just digging in.
Just to keep healthcare away from us while we paid their healthcare is just unimaginable to me.
I just can't wrap my head around this.
Now, one of the people that are really angry about this, and this is another.
I can see the story coming across that news wire right now.
President came out just yesterday.
Okay.
And he says, I'm going to pick and choose which federal employees that I give back day to.
OK, so once again, he is indicating that he's going to violate the law and do something that's unconstitutional and despicably, despicably, not treat people fairly like we should in this country.
OK, but decide, pick and choose whether he's going to give back to the federal employees that he likes.
The president.
His job is to serve this country, not treat the US Treasury like it's private piggy bank.
That's the American people's money.
How dare you go out there and say, I'm going to give back pay to the people that I like and not for the people that I don't like.
We are in a dangerous spot in this country when the president thinks that he can just ignore.
Ignore laws that are written in plain English that law that you must give back pay to federal employees Okay, that is written in plain English and he's just telling the American people that he's gonna ignore it.
Okay, nobody I don't care who you are
I don't care what side of the aisle on it, it doesn't matter.
You got a constitution, you got to faithfully execute the constitution and he's ignoring it.
And so both, both parties and every good, every American should be furious with the threats that this president is making to federal employees in this country.
as, I'm as
It's all next on John and Gordy WMDX.
Hope you're enjoying the morning so far.
I mean, we had a little bit of rain here on WMDX.
The station is wet now.
But of course, if anybody has our official portable weather window, you could use that.
You can use that now.
Put it in front of your window and you'll be able to see through that window and your window.
It's amazing how that works.
And see actually what's going on outside.
It's an
You know, we were talking about Antifa and all the protesters now are being referred to as Antifa.
So, you know, Trump can somehow
Occupy everybody city because Antifa is out there trying to fight fascism.
We don't want that to happen.
Not now as we roll out fascism throughout the United States.
So let's listen to let's listen to this voice note.
Okay.
Good morning,
Good morning.
Real quick to the whims of the president and he decides who does and doesn't get money.
It's a little off topic, but it's right here in Madison.
Just finished reading about the, uh, causeway project.
Well, guess what?
Get used to driving on two lanes forever because the second phase of it is federally funded.
And do you think he'll do it?
I do.
He'll cut the funding in Madison.
Yeah.
The next time you saw Mayor Sagan on former mayor's on asking him what he thinks about it, because a huge portion of the second phase from what I read in this most is federal.
Funding
a that's true.
Yeah.
got?
Yeah, I hear that Trump is gonna be going into Walter Reed and that since Walter Reed is a federal facility readily funded So those people are getting paid so they're not going to be getting paid
to take care of trump sari asked when he's in in the hospital there
have a
no i just i just heard this morning that he was supposed to go into walter read you know that that is
right i mean i just wonder what he what
People are gonna be taking care of him and they're not gonna be getting paid to take care of him.
I do I do have a cut here on that somebody called in and asked the question about what's going to happen now You know with some of the money not being paid to these These veterans that need to have that money we'll get to that in just a few moments.
Okay, but I want to get to the story about
Oh, okay.
Oh,
vehicle.
You gotta watch out for those.
I know
of it here.
All right.
Got the idea?
Yeah.
Here it is.
yeah.
All around me are ice agents.
Hate all races except white faces.
Bright and early to catch brown people.
No expression.
Just regression.
The tear gas going up there.
This is no expression.
No expression.
I find it kind of funny.
I find it kind of sad.
That ice makes more money than all our veterans.
Mega world, mega
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