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I feel as if we're watching an American soap opera that is written, produced, and starring a pure psychopath.
And the season finale is going to be early next year with the complete bankruptcy of America, because apparently they can't find money.
The treasury is low.
They're promising $2,000 to families.
No one knows where that money will come from.
They're already missing billions millions.
It's unaccounted for
It's a complete mess, but it'll be entertaining, you know.
information.
No doubt about it.
My God.
Yeah, but you're right, Matt.
It's insanity on top of insanity.
We've got a few stories a little bit later that
you know, exemplify the insanity of everything and the fact that these people go out every day and lie their asses off.
You know?
I mean, it's just, it's comical to a point where you just wanna just, you know, throw your hands up and say, I'm outta here.
But we're in this country and we're not gonna leave.
It's
But,
He's just taking it apart throwing things away firing thousands tens of thousands of people You know the thing that you normally do
if you're a responsible executive, is you make your plans, you have a plan in place to replace what you want to replace, and you slowly phase out the parts you don't want anymore.
You don't just throw them away, not have an exact plan yet, but then plan later to replace what you just threw away.
I mean seriously you don't do that no one does that and that was the dead giveaway for me that we're definitely in trouble because it's all it all builds you know people are going to need these services people are going to need these uh these uh responsibilities that the department had in order to control what's going on in certain parts of our economy
how the things actually work.
I didn't know how the wheels of government are supposed to turn.
You just don't show them the door all at once.
You don't do that.
But that's what they did because that was in project 2025.
You know, that was their plan and that is their plan.
And they've kind of gone right down the list there.
But
In just a few minutes, we're going to be talking with Pam Yaqui, the latest from her perspective in the Midwest food and farm report.
A lot of things she has to talk about this morning.
And Savannah Tomey Olson will join us in a little while to give us a news update.
and as well as a rocker with the MaxSync preview.
You've complained about it for years that whenever they got some publicity, well, they never talk about how the whole thing started and I let them on the air and we started The Onion Show.
I know.
That's my John Peters advice.
And so maybe some of that got back to him.
Maybe I should put this in the book.
And then they'll just leave me
So we should get
And Epstein was sending emails to Trump's former Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers.
Seeing Trump was a bad man.
Wow.
Okay, Larry Summers.
Very blunt.
Never know what's gonna come out of Larry Summers' mouth, but there it is.
Truly Trump had a tremendous amount to do to do with this I did a little investigating on this you because I you know when you hear a talking point from the magas You know that it's a lie So you always have to like research it and find out what the real truth is because they really sometimes ignore the truth completely sometimes they kind of Pull certain things out to make it sound like they know the truth, right?
They actually don't right and they always blame the Democrats well
Why didn't Biden release the Epstein files?
Why didn't
know,
And let's not forget that what they were doing while we are talking about it, they're clearing all of the Republican names from the Epstein list, right?
Right.
And they're leaving the Democrats on it.
Now, that seems pretty obvious.
Now, it would, you know, I mean, you look at the list and there's only Democrats on it and there's a lot of like dark black lines through the other side of the aisle.
That obviously would become very obvious.
Well, and the other part of that is there's a lot of big money donors, supposedly, from both sides on that list, you know, and maybe they've donated to both parties, you know, and so, you know.
A lot of people don't want to see those names out there.
This was a million billionaire clotty.
Yes, this was what they
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out and
huh?
Yep, good morning a little advice if you have holiday decorations that you expect to enjoy put them out now.
Oh, yeah, that's a great
it's you it is the only way I'm going to persuade my husband to do it So I'm hoping that the weather will be enough
Well mostly outside and it's a part of that
early morning mentality you guys know when you go in early having any light anything that's a little bright I'll even take like quick trip signs as my motivation it's a bright color it's a bright light because otherwise it's so cotton picking pitch black dark and it just depresses the snot out of me so I make him plug the lights in from about the day after Thanksgiving and then maybe around Easter I'll finally
Yield and let them on I it's just that it's just the complete not our darkness that I use holiday lights to try to offset
and I'm sure
to a large extent.
Yes to a large extent.
Yes.
That seems to be my universal theme whether it's down here up at the housing Green Bay, so
in
Yeah.
Well, and you know, it's kind of one of those deals.
Be careful what you wish for.
So the government was shut down and we were walking blindly without any information coming from USDA.
And
then all of a sudden plop, they jump, jump, drop it on us.
So September melt in the United States.
And there's about 14 major dairy producing states, of course, Wisconsin's in there.
They saw about a 4% increase in milk.
Now, we knew it was going to be strong.
We knew it was going to be robust.
In the Midwest, it was 3.5%.
What we didn't expect were the cow numbers.
So for a long time now, farms have been working to have younger herds.
Maybe they market older animals because the beef market's been so robust.
Well, the trends are starting to change.
USDA said we've got over 220,000 more cows milking this year.
than we did last year in September.
40,000 more milk cows just between August and September.
Now just try to visualize that.
40,000 more milk cows in one month's time.
And it's not coming from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan.
We're seeing cows in Kansas, in Georgia, in Idaho, in Texas.
And the reason that the cows are there is we have got major huge mega dairy plants that have been built there, brand new, and they're calling for that milk production.
The other thing that I had an analyst point out, and I hadn't really thought about it, you know, even in Wisconsin, we have kind of been under wraps.
and our hands tied with any milk production expansion because of dairy capacity since the pandemic.
Remember in the pandemic when nobody would go to work?
Milk processing couldn't happen.
Milk was getting dumped, and it really upset the apple cart.
And that basically made our processors tell our dairy farmers, you are not going to add cows.
You are not going to expand.
We didn't have a formal quota system in place, but the companies, the cooperatives were definitely sending the message, we will not
except your overage.
So that's what we've been living with basically since the pandemic.
Now all these big milk processing plants, largely cheese factories are coming online.
And now they're saying, Hey,
bring us your milk.
In fact, the one in Kansas, that's such a big facility that they actually were in collaboration with dairy farms to build brand new dairy farms near the plant to minimize transportation, maybe find a new way to connect the farms directly to the factories with pipes or what have you.
I'm not sure if all of that's come to fruition, but that's a big part of why we saw so much milk come on board between August and September.
And it's not just us.
She also told me that in the European Union, so your big milk producing regions in Europe would be, in the European Union would be France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
And their milk production is up between five and seven percent.
And they outproduced the United States.
by a major majority.
Like they are the world, one of the world.
Yeah.
I didn't know that either.
That kind of shocked me.
I got to do a deeper dive
on those
numbers.
That's what they tell me.
You know,
they
always be skeptic.
But anyhow, they got a lot of milk coming to the market.
And you know, the worst part is we're all competing for the same market.
We'll get our cold storage report that'll tell us how much has been moving during the shutdown, how much has been moving as far as holiday demand.
But boy, those, you just can't, those are
Those are not numbers to be dismissed in one month.
We may see it again with the next report they give us.
Was that
To a certain extent, yeah, I think you're right.
The pandemic was different in so many different ways.
In Wisconsin, we've got what would be called a mature processing situation.
Our infrastructure is mature.
um where they're plopping down these big cheese plants are places that are in wide open spaces that they think geographically may be able to get milk like look at Kansas you want to truck it towards California you want to truck it towards the east coast you want to tuck truck it towards the southeast which is always deficit milk they're kind of pivoted in the right direction so some of its geography and some of it is the products that we make in wisconsin we're so much specialty cheese yeah but yeah
Like I said, we're still learning lessons from what we did in the pandemic.
again.
Oh, actually.
Talk to you Monday.
All right.
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.
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
What?
What
Holy s**t. Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
It's a beautiful start here.
It is State Street downtown Madison nice and clear and highs today around 61 bright beautiful sunshine today and tomorrow
Tomorrow pretty much a replay of today and then Sunday it turns cooler.
46 for a high.
Want to remind you we're filling in for Pete Schwab again tonight.
Yes.
Pete continues to be on vacation.
We're going to talk to Tom Mannis and Christy Mannis.
They're a couple that they travel all over Wisconsin.
In fact, they travel all over the world, but they focus on Wisconsin.
They got a couple of great books and we enjoy having them on.
They always come up with some unusual places to visit.
Yeah.
You know, maybe for the holidays.
want to get out and see some different kind of holiday displays.
Things like that.
It's one of the great things.
They know about it
They put up big signs, big animals, big...
big figurines of some sort everywhere, and they just love that stuff, and it makes Wisconsin what it is.
Yeah, yeah.
And so, yeah, we'll be talking about all the oddities and strange places to visit and good places to visit in Wisconsin tonight with Pete Schwab.
It seems like we're working all the time, doesn't
Oh,
right?
Oh,
TV again, it's like a UFO is landed in my living room It's just it's incredible and yeah, I'm enjoying it, but I Need to turn down the brightness.
I think I don't know.
Yeah, I need to adjust You can adjust it.
Oh, I know.
Yeah, I just hate to fool around with it too much because you know I'll mess it up.
Well, I can't find
You know, you know, it looks fine.
Here's the thing.
I'm not complaining.
I could
Yeah.
He could probably help adjust it.
See the thing.
People think, oh, well, you're babying these kids.
I am in a way, but I bought them LG OLED TVs.
OK.
And a lot of people say, well, wow.
Nice going.
But the thing with an OLED TV, it is solid.
You can see it at any angle and it is self-correcting.
I mean, you don't have to make adjustments to it if you don't want.
They let you make a theater mode or a game mode.
Yes, but it really is.
It's just, it's there.
It's perfect right out of the box.
And my son, they normally, they look at the backlighting.
on LCDs, LEDs.
And they look at the backlighting on it and say, oh, look, there's patchiness in that gray scene that I just can't do.
It's really disturbing to me.
So yeah, if there's a cloudy sky and you can see the patchwork of LEDs behind it, there's backlighting in order to create a brighter picture.
OK.
And they always tone it down, but when they try to tone it down, it becomes patchier over there and there.
And I thought, you know, I'm...
I'm done with this.
So you got the OLED.
Yeah, we got the OLEDs.
I'm not taking complaints from them.
I'm not going to let them settle for less.
And that
You
Yeah.
Isn't that like a old model TV?
It is an older model.
They don't make curved TVs anymore.
I got it off the side of the road.
Well, it's like surround, right?
Yeah.
Get close enough to it.
And here's the thing with the OLED you can get as close to that TV.
Yes, there's more.
You can get as close to that TV as possible and you will not see any
any little it's nice
yeah it is
Very bright, but it, you know, helps me go to sleep.
So what can I say?
Wow.
All right.
Let's get to idiocracy because that's what we're doing here, right?
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talk about health care here because I'm a big advocate for universal health care or universal health insurance Here's a little note.
I you know, I find these tidbits every once in a while I find them very interesting this person wrote giving birth in the US approximately $18,000 average cost of cancer treatment in the US $150,000
One month ICU stay in the US between 30,000 and 150,000.
That's not even including copays, deductibles, interest, and all the other hoops you have to jump through for care.
Not only that, you have to look at your bill, see if you were over billed or double billed, stuff like that.
So you go to Canada, the cost is zero.
You go to the UK, cost is zero.
And you go to Australia, cost is zero.
There you go.
That's pretty cool and
This is insane.
Well, because Trump made it more expensive.
I mentioned this the other day.
The Trump Authority passed specific rules that are contributing to higher health insurance premiums in 2026, averaging 18%.
So he increased the price of health insurance by 18% all by himself.
Thank you very much, Trump.
And now he's complaining that, gee, you know, the AC is a failed product because the...
Democrats created this thing where costs just went out of control.
Well, he contributed to that, believe it or not.
One rule starting in 2026 increases the limits of out-of-pocket costs for many private health plans, including those offered by employers.
Now, a lot of people get their health insurance through employers.
Trump lifted the ACA's federal rate review threshold, raising the premiums up to 15% annually.
It used to be 10.
5%.
He added it to the expiration of the Affordable Care Act.
So a lot of bad things, you know, when it comes to him actually contributing to the cost of health care.
It just keeps going up, up, up.
Now, we don't like to publicize the Republican candidates for governor, but every once in a while they come up with one of those crazy ideas that you just have to mention.
A Republican candidate, Wisconsin governor, Josh Showman, is proposing moving all elections to November.
I want to know where the primaries are going to end up.
If you move them all to November, do we know who the candidates are going to be for the November elections?
That's how it works.
You drop a ballot into a mailbox.
It goes to Milwaukee first.
It may go down south.
It may go west or east.
Who knows where it's going to end up?
I've had that happen, actually.
Really?
Yeah, where things just go out to the east coast.
Well, you know, I'm waiting for a package, right?
And it's on its way to my house.
And all of a sudden it ends up in...
Kansas.
How
It's just the way things are.
That's why they have the post-date on these ballots, where you can count the ballots five days after the election closes, because sometimes these letters take a while to get there.
But let's get rid of the ballot boxes.
immediate I don't know what's wrong with these people and then he wants to do away with get this he wants to get rid of the bipartisan Wisconsin elections Commission so there's no watchdog for elections right and and so because there's no watchdog for the elections he wants voters to pick who oversees
The election, how is that done?
Economists, investors and policymakers at the Federal Reserve to receive critical government data.
The Democrats may have permanently damaged the federal statistical system with October CPI and jobs reports likely never being released.
And all of that
Oh really?
Is that right?
I
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Why not limit the health care CEOs and other top management?
with their salaries.
I mean, they are really making money hand over fist.
That's one of the big problems that we have in healthcare, disproportionate amount of pay for some of the individuals at these insurance companies.
He also said when living up north as a kid,
Our mail got postmarked at the South Range Wisconsin Post Office.
Now, if you, you'd see some postmarked Eau Claire and maybe even Minneapolis.
I remember when they were clearing out all these warehouses, postal warehouses all over to slim down because the Republicans required the Post Office to pay the pensions 50 years ahead of time.
Wow.
I mean, that, well, obviously it was meant to destroy the post office.
That was their intent.
But it did take out some of those warehouses and some of those distribution centers they called them.
And I think it took out the Milwaukee.
Post Office.
Hey, happy Friday, guys.
These people, it would do these people some good to maybe look at some video before they get up in front of a podium and lie.
This idea of not reporting job numbers was floated before by Trump.
That's why he fired the lake that gave the
They just get in front of the TV and just lie.
This wasn't just another Democrat.
The numbers are horrible.
So no, we're not gonna we're gonna come up with some big lie and and say that the Democrats probably destroyed this for forever.
The numbers are just really that bad and the sad part is the conservative people are gonna believe it.
Yeah,
And by some by some my chance that you guys happen to hear Stephanie Miller and Sean Hannity.
Oh,
Oh, this
yeah, this was a great thing.
Go ahead
it,
You have to, you have to find it.
Um, they, she, Jasmine Crockett was at an event, um, before the, the November 4th election and Stephanie Miller pretended like she got down and kissed her feet.
Oh, the, the right wing.
of manly men who were all up in arms and cloning and calling her the R word and the N word.
Oh, it was crazy.
So Sean Hannity actually knew it was a joke.
So he had her on and Sean Hannity asked her something about when did she know that Joe Biden was declining?
And all of a sudden,
She turned it on him and just started talking about, um, Donald Trump falling asleep and Donald Trump is in Eston files.
And she just, it was perfect.
perfect.
Can we get that
find that.
But yes, it's, uh, Sean
and
And I'm sure she's a great part.
The great part was that.
the audience, his, his fashion, his audience got to hear her talk about Donald Trump.
Yes, finally.
Yes.
Right.
Yeah.
She got all of that.
Yeah.
You got it.
Yeah.
You got it here because it was, it was amazing.
Yeah.
All
Yeah, I'm surprised.
I have to check over Caroline Love to see what your makeup she uses to cover up the spot where she has that cross dangling there in front of her and it starts
burning her into her flesh because she's lying so much.
You know, you wonder how much Pagan Pankuk make up, make up, she has to put over that spot where she's got that little cross there because that just annoys me when somebody's off their line like that and then they display the cross like that.
I mean, it is just a, or any religious, it's simple for that matter, you know, that one of the things that even, even Pagan religions didn't like the people lying.
It is just
It is just beyond me that they get away with this stuff, and she thinks she's getting away with it, and I guess she maybe is talking to an audience of one plus, because, you know, MAGA is just of one mind, and now it's just the corporate mindset of Donald Trump, and they'll take whatever BS he spins out, and she spins out the BS, and they go, amen, amen, amen, and they'll never follow up and look up to see what the actual number is actually like,
I wasn't a count for goodness sakes and I know numbers numbers mean something
they do Yeah, and to say that the Democrats permanently destroyed that whole system All I have to do is just get the person back who did all that work and or the number of people back the department and Just start over again.
I don't even know why they actually Put that department on hold because it's so important to our economy You know, they should have been there all along this
This administration doesn't know who to lay off and who to keep up, who to pay and who not to pay, who not to downsize and who to downsize.
It's just, it's total ma'am, I don't know.
It boggles the mind.
get a
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