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Got it.

A few rules.

We have to have structure on this program.

Is that?

Yeah, that

must be it.

OK.

I don't know why, but, you know, things sometimes real out of control.

We just have to reign it in.

And that's the way it is.

I mean, you just can't, you know, what I'm talking about.

Yeah.

Got to roll with it.

You have to.

Yes.

You really have to.

Happy Friday.

Hey, rise and shine.

Shake a leg up and out of top of the morning.

Hard to believe we made it this far already doing two shows a day.

Yeah.

That's right.

We got another show this afternoon.

Yeah.

Two until five.

We hope you'll tune in then, but just getting going this morning.

It's 36 degrees.

It's cloudy.

It's going to stay cloudy through most of the day and highs in the mid forties and a good looking weekend ahead Saturday and Sunday.

Mid to upper forties tomorrow with clouds and then Sunday supposed to sunny and 52.

Wow.

I know.

I like it.

Yeah.

A great looking weekend ahead.

Excellent.

Well, I can change to the headlights.

I'm a little Prius.

Oh, yeah.

Without too much trouble, I guess.

Well, you know, this is early on in the program, but I just want to say that I will be going line dancing this weekend.

I have decided.

I'm switching it up and I'm going to do it.

I'm going to do it.

Is it because you're getting pressure?

It's because I'm getting pressured, yes.

Well,

I can...

So I can definitely understand.

I've been there, done that, you know, had to go to discos, had to get out on the dance floor.

I've been there.

All right.

Yep.

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to it though.

I'm not.

I'm not.

No, I'm not.

I'm not.

I just want to have a relaxing weekend, you know, maybe lay in bed for a while.

Yeah.

Well, here's the thing.

I always thought that women were just playing around with guys, you know.

basically trying to make an idiot out of them and watching them.

Trying

to dance?

Making an idiot

out of them.

Said, yes, yes.

That's what I thought.

I honestly thought that and I still kind of think that.

You know, they just want to see what they can get their boyfriend to do.

And and obviously they know no guys don't necessarily dance real well.

So they anticipate a goofball.

and somebody they can make fun of later in life, you know, if it lasts that long.

The

first time, the first time I went line dancing, you know, my girlfriend told me, you know, get out there, get out there.

Sure, sure.

Yeah,

and I didn't know what to do and I can't move my hips real well.

I'm just bad.

I'm just bad at dancing.

We all are.

Right.

I had some roommates that were very good dancers as they came from New York.

And, uh, yeah, and they were roommates of mine in Milwaukee.

You think that

New York, they knew how to dance.

Man, true dancers.

Oh

yeah.

For some reason they had to, I guess maybe they were trained to be good dancers, uh, because they're from New York from, from

early, early age.

The city.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's interesting theory.

And they had the accents, right?

They had to play those up when they were talking to most people just to kind of impress them.

Sure.

Yeah.

That's the way it goes.

I was

impressed.

But I was impressed enough to take him as a roommate.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

Do you have a lot of different roommates along the way?

I did.

Yeah.

Well, not a whole lot.

Just a few.

But these two guys from New York are crazy.

And they're dancers.

And they'd go to the discos and try their luck, maybe come back with somebody who knows.

You know, it was

just... Those were the days.

I wasn't really crazy about the apartment.

It's one of those lofts.

Man, I still don't understand the reason why anybody would have a loft apartment.

Was this in Milwaukee?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's just awful.

Yeah, I know.

I mean, it's just a platform that you can't do anything with.

You can look down on the living room, I guess.

You

want to feel superior, but

there, you know, you can't have a TV up there because it interrupts the TV downstairs.

Just

stupid.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't understand that either now

that you mentioned it.

And some

people would have like a little bed out there for guests.

Oh yeah.

But there's no privacy, right?

Yeah.

It doesn't

seem

right.

You put up a screen, I guess.

But I, again, I don't understand loft apartments.

I don't get them why.

And usually, you know, tall ceilings, which is a lot to heat,

right?

Yeah,

the heat goes up.

Yeah.

So that's where I'm at.

Well,

thanks for explaining that

second

L.A.

check.

Yeah.

All right.

A little later on, we're going to talk in.

We're going to check in with Savannah Tomay Olson, get the latest news updates of what's happening around Madison, surrounding areas.

And Rocker will be in the studio with the Maxing preview.

Yeah.

Seems like he was just here.

We did.

That's right.

We actually

hosted him last night.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're weird.

We're talking about the afternoon as last night.

Yeah,

I know.

It is, it is

dark.

It gets dark by the time we're done with the show.

Yeah.

You know, we start out in darkness and we end in darkness.

Well, it sounds like a George Harrison song.

Beware of darkness.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Great tune.

Great album.

I love that album.

That whole album is just unbelievable.

That's the number one solo Beatles album.

Really?

Yeah.

And out sold anything that the others had done after the Beatles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that is, that has always been my favorite album.

I used to listen to it on my way out west when I used to visit Arizona every once

in a

while.

Yeah.

And it reminds me of going to Arizona.

It reminds me of the landscapes, the long drives, triple album set.

Can you imagine how that kind of built up inside?

Had

to get it out to stack those songs up and get them done.

Yeah.

And they're all just beautifully made.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Terrific album.

Yeah.

All right, what else is happening?

Oh, you know what?

We need your past.

What days of future past.

Oh, that's a great.

Oh, yeah What are you talking about that?

No, well, what is it?

What is the one time George Harrison's album?

What is it?

I don't know.

Not sure which the first one the

big

one.

Oh all things all things must pass.

That's it.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah, you nailed it for the moody blues

That's right

Hey, we need to tell you about Schwab's big movie coming up, The Godfather of Green Bay.

It's happening at the Atwood Music Hall on Thursday, December 4th, 7 o'clock, brought to us by Doundrens Distilling.

In fact, we're gonna give away a pair of tickets right now, okay?

Wow.

Yeah, so...

I know it's early, but I know we have a few listeners out there during the early going our number is 608-879-8255 that's 608-879-8255 and We'll just take the very first caller that comes on in all right a pair of tickets to the Godfather of Green Bay again.

This is happening at Atwood Music Hall

Thursday, December 4th, 7 p.m.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Pete Schwabbo will be there.

We'll be there as well.

Introducing Pete.

He's going to talk about the movie and take some questions after the show or

during the show.

And we'll have some fun giveaways during the, uh, during our time there.

Yeah.

Give away a few things.

Ah, we got a caller here already.

Excellent.

All right.

Let's see.

Can we put them right on the air?

No.

Yeah, we can.

We got time.

You want?

Why not?

Want to?

Yeah.

Right.

Let's go to Cottage Grove and Fred.

Hey, Fred.

Good morning.

Howdy.

Good morning.

Hey, Fred.

Are you able to go to the Atwood Music Hall on Thursday, December 4th at 7 p.m.?

Yeah, I'm not sure what the Atwood Music Hall is.

Is that the old... It's exit.

No, it's it's right near the it's right around the corner

from the

barrier Yeah, it's actually a fairly fairly new venue that just opened up a few months ago, and it's a beautiful place Terrific place to see so so we'll get your information here off the air

and

will the last send you a pair of tickets to the actually We'll get you on the list and you'll be going that night Thursday December 4th to the godfather of Green Bay, and we'll see you there Fred

So fuck you, bitch.

Thank you.

All right.

All right.

Congratulations.

Stand the line for it.

All right.

Yeah.

Hang on the line there.

Dom will get all your information here in just a moment.

Okay.

Well, here we go.

We're going to give away more tickets a little bit later on in the show.

All right.

So.

Two

tickets,

right?

Yep, a pair of tickets.

And it's all brought to them by?

Downdren's Distilling.

Got it.

And we'll be giving away some, we'll be giving some of the portion of the tickets to your portion of the admission price, which is $10 to go to the show.

A portion of that goes to the Dane County Humane Society.

So.

All right.

All for a great cause.

Lucky out there in Cottage Grove today.

Yeah, Fred from Cottage Grove, congratulations to you.

Okay.

All right.

Good deal.

And

Catherine's kind of half listening to the show this morning.

We'll we'll guide her through.

She continues to fire questions

off

at us.

Just waking up.

Yeah,

Scott.

I

imagine.

OK.

OK.

You know, I got this interesting story out of Great Britain.

They're passing laws.

They're very concerned with men's health out there.

Yeah.

You you were listening to, you know, the.

debate here in Parliament.

I was playing it here in the studio a few seconds ago, and they were talking about men's health.

They're concerned about this stuff, and they're giving away tests for prostate cancer, so on and so forth.

But the other thing they're taking up is never drinking alone.

Really?

Yes, never drinking alone.

Okay.

What are they suggesting that you do?

drink, but you got to be with people.

You have to be with people

after 9 p.m.

This is a law they're trying to pass?

Yeah, they want to make this a regular thing for all bars.

There's a bar, a karaoke bar, alibi, reportedly implemented in unusual door policy when they first opened three years ago.

Solo particles are restricted.

They're verboten.

No single entry reads a sign at the door after 9 p.m.

Yeah.

If you are with guests already inside the venue, please contact them in advance of entry.

This is for the safety of all guests.

So yes, and they're defending this kind of decision.

If something happens to that person in a late night busy bar environment where people are drinking, it's an absolute nightmare for us to deal with.

the bar anyway.

They explained that someone entering the bar alone was immediately in a vulnerable situation, adding, if anything happens to someone, we're clear, we want to know who they are.

Is this a law they're trying to put in just in this town?

Or I think I

think I don't know if it's I don't know localized or what they They fall over and bang their head they get locked in the toilet They're drinking alone or they have to lock

Okay, they lock the doors

in the

restroom.

What have they had to drink?

Because situations arise where the friend group gives you all the information you need.

If there's no one with them, we don't have that information.

Wow, it sounds like they're really concerned about nothing.

So this is only after 9 p.m.

Before 9 p.m., you can come in single and drink all you want.

Right?

Yes, thou dost worry too

much, I think.

Right, you're concerned about the small details.

Getting locked in the

restroom?

Apparently, a lot of lonely people in that town.

You know, you don't want them just all walking in one by one.

They don't know anything about them.

That's the way we like to keep it, actually.

All right, we're just getting going on Friday morning.

It's John Peterson, Gordy Younglaw with our producer Dominic Lee, live from downtown Madison on State Street.

We're back with more after this on

WMDX.

What's trending?

What's trending?

You

can ask me what's

trending.

Trendy.

What's trending?

Trendy.

Well, thank you for asking.

This is John and Gordy here in the morning.

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Weather for today, no big deal.

36 degrees this morning.

Cloudy skies highs in the mid 40s this afternoon

and a

good looking weekend.

And that's according to the weather window.

That's right.

Have we checked the

WMDX Samsung watch for

sunrise and sunset times

lately?

We haven't

got up with our duties.

I know, I know.

So what time?

We've been punished and penalized for that.

We'll be docked.

Our pay will be docked.

$6.58, sunrise time.

$6.58.

And then if you

look ahead here to the sunset, just mark that down.

$4.28 this afternoon.

$4.28.

Got it.

Good.

And I go home after this, you know, about five, 30 I make at home, and then I have to go out in the yard, in the dark playing soccer.

And look who's here.

It's our

pal.

Well, this is crazy.

Pat Critello.

Pat Critello's

here.

Pat, what are you

doing here?

Shouldn't you be on the

air?

Well, if you've heard about this, they have this wonderful invention called magnetic tape, and you can record things ahead of time.

You

can.

Wow.

And I've got guests that don't want to show up at 20.

Oh, no, no, no.

Yeah.

So if you guys ever thought about doing this, it gives you a lot of freedom to just bust into other people's studios over here.

I think that's great.

You can listen to Morning to the Pac-Rite Law on the Civic Media app.

I mean, that cross promotion thing.

You could

do

that.

I know, isn't that great?

Yeah.

Well, you

didn't bring the donuts though.

I mean, you know,

break into these studios.

Is there a place to get donuts at this early hour?

I don't

think

so.

I'm not

sure.

Madison's a sleepy little town this time of day.

It is.

It's not like

up north where everybody

gets home at about 7.30 in the morning.

Well, at this hour, yes, they're getting set to head to deer camp.

That's right.

That's right.

That's going to be a good weekend.

Hey,

do we have deer camp coming up again on the air?

Deer hunters round up.

Deer hunters round up?

Yes, we do.

Can't wait for that.

Oh, that is great.

I know.

We had one of the guys on.

on Greg Gunderson, talk about it.

And what a great tradition that is.

It is an amazing show to listen to.

I just love

the stories that these guys

send in.

And they took my story just fine about my dad trying to take me hunting.

Yeah.

In the same way he tried to take me fishing.

In both cases, I was invited to go back and wait in the pickup.

Apparently I have a problem staying quiet.

You're

supposed to do that.

Well, look at this.

I'm supposed to be sitting quietly listening to my interview right now and instead I'm tackling you guys.

Just

wandering the station.

Well, you know, it's great when, you know, the hunters themselves let their kids call into the show and then

tell the

hunting stories.

heartwarming.

Well yeah I've got a couple of grandsons who are hunters out in Idaho and I mean they're getting like these big old mule deer and elk and things like that because their dad's a professional hunting guide

and

so I'm really jealous but I'm really happy for them that they get to learn part of the tradition and in that part of the country they can do so and

try to avoid being eaten by a grizzly bear.

You know, we don't have that hazard here.

No,

we do not have that

hazard.

So it's not

something we have to worry

about.

Yeah, we're okay there.

So I hope everybody stays safe.

And you know, this is, thank you for letting me.

You really should lock this door.

I mean, you just never know who could wander in that place.

I was thinking the same thing.

Well, thank you guys.

All right, Pat.

Come back later if you want to.

I'll go through your question more in interviews.

Okay.

Good deal.

That's Pat

Krightlow.

I didn't know he was.

was here,

uh, doing his show on a shirt day as well.

So I've got over here.

I missed the memo.

I've got my,

I've got my demo

or

denim shirt.

All right.

It's, uh, we got a few minutes here.

Let's go to the phones.

Matt is on the line from Middleton.

Good morning, Matt.

What's on your mind?

Morning guys.

Happy Friday.

Uh,

You know, the Madison area has a doughnut deficiency, I think.

It's hard to find a good doughnut around here.

That's right.

Well,

especially early in the morning.

But they usually used to be open very early in the morning,

about

six or so.

Yeah, the main point I wanted to make or comment, get your opinion on this, but it feels as if with the collapse of the middle class,

And jobs in a lot of parts of the country since Reagan It feels like the culture war became an actual civil war Even though you know with Trump's recent rhetoric you can see that we're in a kind of political war We

are yeah,

and they didn't nobody wanted to say as much even when they stormed the Capitol and all these things It's obviously a war, right?

Yes, but it seems that the cultural war so my question for you guys is like

think we kind of do have to break up as a country in some way have some kind of I don't know what you call it but when you know one significant part of the country the Bible Belt wants this Confederate Christian culture and the rest of us want a democratic multicultural you know democracy driven culture

Well, I don't know because you know if you give

But if you

put the Christians in one area of the country then they'll have all the porno And so, you know, there will be people in

the other part of the country

Pornography is

most popular

in the Christian parts of the country.

That's that's where pornography is most popular.

Hmm.

And

I

learned that I learned that from a guide put out by Harlequin

Hmm romance novels.

Yeah, well, yeah, my wife used to write for them and they put out a survey nationwide poll survey research that they put in together and they found out that the Christian parts of the country are the heavy porno users So tell and then you know, they would keep it from us the rest of the country I mean every once in a while, you know

little dose but forget it that's just

the way it is okay it is 629 I

mean it's accidental most of the time

okay sure the Midwest

food and farm report is

next with the fabulous farm babe Pam Yankee then we're back with idiocracy on John and Gordy in the morning WMDX

As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.

God, I'm so stupid!

Stupid!

Foolish, gullible, doltish, dumbbell, lay back!

I'm an extremely stable genius.

Okay.

It's all fake news.

It's phony stuff.

It didn't happen.

You are fake news.

That's the best stupid thing I've ever heard this week, man.

Hahahaha!

Idiocracy!

For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty

dumb sometimes.

It happens.

It does happen.

Idiocracy.

Wow.

Wow.

We.

Hey, we had to correct ourselves here.

There is a donut shop that is open at six a.m.

And thank you, Linda out in Middleton.

She must have been there a few times.

It's duck donuts.

We were there.

Yeah.

Once and boy, it's really, really cool.

I mean, they got fresh donuts coming out of the fryer and a huge

variety there.

Oh,

yeah.

They're right on University Avenue near Shorewood Hills.

And you can have any kind of donut.

they can make it for you.

Yeah, they

custom

make them

as you are there.

And not only that, they even give you a donut while you're waiting for the donut that you weren't made for you.

Really?

Such a deal.

Yeah, it's a great place.

Shall we

go to the phones?

Why not?

Well, Mark has been waiting a long time, so let's get to

Mark right now.

Mark, good morning.

What's happening?

Morning, man.

Good morning, guys.

Well, tomorrow morning, I'll be up my tree, waiting for a white tail to come by at the same time.

No kidding.

OK.

I'll have my little wire bird feeder hanging next to me that the chickadees come and visit me all day.

Keep

you company.

The

chickadees are not hatches, and the keep me company, and not hatches, and various other birds sometimes come in that the big, pillied woodpeckers never come to that feeder, but the littler woodpeckers will come in.

Grab some sunflower seeds and that to keep me company and keep me entertained.

Are

you are you just like the inanimate while you're there?

Birds are afraid of humans normally

just moving around.

Chickadees and chickadees and not hatches certainly aren't the chickadees.

I mean I've had chickadees land on my hat when I'm out putting my

game counter.

Okay.

All right.

And to talk about the Christian nation that they want to have, I would remind my Christian brothers and sisters that want to have this Christian nation.

That's from Matthew 25 the client kind of closes up the king will answer back them back I tell you indeed where we've refused to help of these the least important ones refused to help me They should remember that that you know these people don't want to cut back on welfare and all that it is just We're supposed to be taking care of our brothers and sisters and not be passing judgment on them and these people couldn't be

Super Christians, they certainly aren't following what Jesus taught.

No, not at all.

Would you believe he was divine or not?

Simply his philosophy.

If that's what you believe in, we should be taking care of our brothers and sisters, no matter here or around the world for that matter.

Well,

just to

just

you

know give you a heads up We're going to have a guest on next week Monday on the afternoon show and we're going to have a guest from the Freedom from Religion Foundation and we'll be talking about white nationalism in Christianity.

Yeah,

so that's some that's Monday after.

Yeah.

Yeah Very good.

All right.

All right.

Okay.

Um So what's in our idiocracy?

Oh,

yes

File today.

What num.

I don't know what I'm

doing.

It's the end of the week here.

I know.

We've been working day and night, so here we are.

All right, let's talk about the $2,000 rebate, the tariff.

rebate.

When's that happening?

When's that check going to hit the mail?

Tariff rebate is twice as much as actual tariffs brought into the country.

I can't explain this.

Anyway, they're going to limit who gets the tariffs to those who earn under $100,000 a year.

So

if you

make less than that, you're eligible to get the tariff.

And that is obviously money.

you ended up paying for as an added price to the products you've been purchasing.

Since Trump took office.

Wow, are we suckers or what?

Oh my gosh, I can't believe this is actually happening.

Now, they're estimating 42% of households in 2025 earn more than $100,000.

So that means like...

two and five families would be ineligible if that cap stands, and that's what they're looking at so far.

That's where the cap will be at $100,000.

It sounds ridiculous.

And I think, and it sounds pretty obvious about what they want to do.

They want to release this around the middle of next year.

Okay.

What's coming up around the middle of next year?

Or a little bit later.

Middle of next year or a little bit later.

No, seriously, that's what they're saying.

It's

election

time.

That would be, is that election time?

It is election time.

So that would be a bribe for people to vote for Trump during the election.

And it's in the form of a tear of rebate taxes you paid in.

What a coincidence.

Wow.

They're really, they're really playing us.

What are we, what are we doing?

Oh, hey,

we

talked to Tim Slacker from busted pencils.

Dr. Tim Slacker, education, educators talking about education in educated ways.

I'm not quite sure how they

say it.

I think you got it right.

Educated educators talking about education.

There you go.

That's even better.

That's how they say it.

And we played a little cut from somebody who was saying that they want to be a nurse, but that's no longer considered a professional degree nursing.

Yeah, I don't get that.

Or teaching for that matter is no longer.

Well, my wife actually caught this little article.

They have a list of the things that are no longer

professional degrees.

All right.

And this is perhaps maybe an occupation you were thinking about getting into.

Well, what are these education, including teachers, master's degrees, nursing, MSN and deep DNPs, social work, public health, physician assistant, occupational therapy, physical therapy, audiology, speech language pathology.

business masters, engineering masters, counseling and

therapy degrees.

So if you're in you're going for those, those are no longer professional

professional degrees, which then are useful in getting student loans.

Yes.

Right.

And Grant, so this is and that's what the Department of Ed was professional at doing.

This is what their job was to make sure that

you know, these student loans were given out, and also the grants.

So, and that answers CJ's question from yesterday,

which I

can't stop thinking about.

Well, there you have it.

But anyway, it seems like a lot of these occupations, by the way, are women-centered, right?

Oh, yeah.

You know, it seems like they're taking aim at women's occupations.

in many ways.

It's just an observation.

Women's entry.

Let's get into what happened.

This is interesting because the jobs numbers came out for September.

Oh really?

Yeah.

That's the last time they've actually taken a look at this stuff and I think they had a pretty good

turnout for jobs, 150,000 jobs created, which their touting is just amazing, right?

But the two months before that, which I think were negative territory, actually lost more jobs.

So I wouldn't, when they didn't brag about it because they certainly want to avoid that topic.

Now there won't be a jobs number for October because no one was around to make the calls and do anything about it.

So we won't get, we won't ever.

get the jobs numbers for October.

Really?

I know it's disappointing to Dom, who was looking forward to that.

Yeah, Dom and I

wait every month for those numbers to come in.

Yeah, that was the point.

We were going to have a party

and

everything.

Yeah, make a little chart.

Yeah,

yeah.

But.

Update

it.

But I know get the whiteboard out, right?

And update it.

But this is not taking.

advantage of and that is the income growth now we haven't really looked at that but there's a damning JP Morgan Chase report that came out Income growth in the US sank to a near decade low With him employed 25 to 29 year olds bearing the brunt of the stagnating wages and remember we talked about this yesterday stagnation.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, right Basically, that's what we're sliding into at this point

Not inflation, but stagnation.

A separate investigation reveals Americans may be applying to jobs that don't exist.

To get this, they do not exist.

They're applying for jobs that don't exist and make believe shadow job markets are out there where one in three job postings go nowhere.

Well that now we're not talking about it, but I think this is going to be something big in the future where we're talking about a shadow job market What an applying for jobs that don't exist

Why would those applications be out there for jobs that don't exist on those job openings?

Who's doing this who has the time to do something like this?

I guess you know

All right.

Let's go to something.

This is in regards to health care now, the Affordable Care Act.

And Matt Fiedler, he was from the Center on Health Policy.

He had a statement about the ACA repealing the tax credits, the supplemental that we so depend on.

Let's listen to this cut 95.

Check out.

This cut, this is Matt Fielder.

He is from the Brookings Institute.

He knows what he's talking about.

So let's listen.

All right.

Here to talk about the causes and

possible responses to this challenge is Matt Fielder.

So most people who buy their coverage on the individual market, around 85% of them, receive a subsidy from the federal government that helps pay their premium.

What I'll say is happening at the same time is the sticker premium, the sort of pre-subsidy premium that ensures that those are rising too.

Insurers expect that when the subsidies go away and the sort of

broad swath of enrollees in the market face higher costs, that some of those enrollees are going to drop out of the market and that the people who are going to left behind are going to be sicker than the average today.

For people who receive subsidies, they're pretty insulated from year to year swings and premium costs because when premiums go up, the amount of the subsidy goes up and the amount that the enrollee pays stays the same.

So when the subsidies were expanded in 2021, we saw enrollees see big reductions in what they paid and we're now about to see that go into reverse.

with subsidy shrinking and really seeing big increases in what they're expected to pay.

There's a timing dimension of this that if Congress was going to extend the subsidies, it would have been...

better frankly to do it many months ago because that insurers would have assumed that they're going to retain the healthier risk pool they have today in setting their premiums for 2026 and that would have translated into lower costs from subsidized enrollees.

Now that's important to note that they're wondering well you know the price wouldn't weigh up and Ron Johnson is out there

giving speeches, see, this is what happened.

It's flawed.

The ACA is a bad thing because it couldn't keep prices down and prices went right through the roof because of the ACA.

Also because the supplements weren't continued.

Insurance said, no, we're gonna raise the rates now.

Thank

you

very much.

And it really is the fault of Trump and the Trump administration policies.

Are

you okay?

No.

We don't have time

for an eight minute story.

I just made it up.

I have no idea.

I have a really short story, but we don't need to get to it right now.

We've got more coming up here on Idiocracy.

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sparkling on the street.

There's people at the pick-up stations craving someone new to meet.

For me, I'm just sitting here drinking a bottle of good German wine.

Pleasure moves on too early, but you are the best.

They could take its time.

People all around us, they're eating, drinking, laughing, partying, carrying on.

Somehow, whenever we're at the toad, it's a special kind of fun.

Yes, it is.

The Stone

Toad.

The

Stone Toad in Milwaukee, a bar I used to hang out at.

It was just a great place.

Got a commercial from it, so I thought I'd play it for you.

Sounds like a fun place.

It

is.

Yeah, just eating, drinking.

Party.

All right.

This is Johnny Gordy in the morning on WM DX 92.7.

It's a cloudy start.

We're at 36 degrees highs in the mid 40s for today and it's going to stay cloudy through the day and tomorrow too, pretty much the same story.

But Sunday is going to be bright and beautiful and sunny and highs near 52 Sunday afternoon.

Yeah.

So good looking weekend.

I should bring in the suburbia.

sandwich ad.

That was also a musical thing.

I think Belushi did it.

Oh, really?

Yes.

Could be wrong, but that was the story at the time.

I remember suburbia.

Do you remember it?

Yeah, we had it here in Madison, too.

Okay, yeah.

It was a while ago.

In fact, my wife worked at suburbia.

No kidding.

Yeah, she knew the secret seasonings that they had on it.

You know, suburbia had

a very unique flavor to any other sub sandwich in the world.

And because of the two guys that own suburbia,

they

couldn't agree on what they were going to do with the recipe when they got rid of the business and they kept it.

That was it.

And then eventually sold the franchise to somebody and they have kind of the recipe, not all of it, but

it

tastes just like suburbia.

Suburbia sandwich flavor, it had that flavor.

So the one thing about Suburbia is that they had very oily

sandwich.

Was that

just a

local

place or was that a

franchise?

I don't know if they branched out too much further than Milwaukee at the time, but boy, well, I mean, they were in Madison too.

It looks like only in

Wisconsin is where it's worth.

Only in Wisconsin.

It's not around anymore, though.

Not anymore.

It's kind of creepy.

Some of these commercials, you know, like clowns all over the place.

Is that like... I don't

remember that, no.

Are you creeped out by clowns?

I'm a little creeped out by clowns.

I can't say.

Wow.

Okay.

Well, that might be their new ad campaign.

Not a success story in any way she performed.

Oh, hey, I got a local story.

They're thinking about doing something to the belt line.

This is from WMTV channel 15.

Really?

What are they going to do?

Well, they've got some plans.

They've been working on this for a whole hell of a long time.

I don't think there's a lot to the plans, but let's listen to the plans.

OK.

The DOT has created a road map for the future of the belt line.

But before any projects take shape, they're looking for the community's input on their suggestions.

But as a tow truck driver for finish line towing in Madison, he's at a front row seat to some of the most dangerous situations.

When the flex lane opens up, it's just they're flying.

Even if the flex lane is not open, the left lane, everybody still goes super fast.

That's one of the main things we're looking to address is

pinpointing where those safety issues are located, whether they be at interchange, some of them are occurring as you get off the belt line.

The weaves are obviously a concern.

One possible fix, adding space where drivers merge on or off the belt line or extending the flex line.

We are seeing congestion issues on the belt line.

So the proposed improvement does include.

looking at either an extension of the flex lane to the west or an additional travel way into the east.

Now

all of these projects would require environmental impact studies and approval for funding by the state.

The DOT expects some projects could start construction by the early 2030s if they are approved.

Nicole, thank you.

The DOT will hold a public meeting for input on December 4th.

You might want to show up for that,

buddy.

Can't wait.

Okay,

okay, you

know, I mean how how much more can they expand the belt line?

I mean really I mean as far as the lanes go.

Yeah

looks like the flex lane on both sides takes up all the space

It kind of

ends to they

yeah,

right?

I know the flex lanes and but

they want to extend those it ends before Gammon Road Okay, what I remember anyway, right?

They have no place to expand.

Yeah, once they get past Gammon Road.

Yeah.

Yeah out of space, but

I don't know, the flex line is kind of crazy and a little scary.

Yeah, a little scary.

You really have to go fast in those.

And you know me, I like to go fast.

Put the pedal in the metal.

I don't like the speed, but I do like to go fast.

I have the suggestion, I think, and they did mention it.

I think they kind of mentioned it in a way that no one really understood it, but it's that it's adding a lane that you turn off and exit.

Or it's adding that lane where people turn onto the belt line.

And that lane continues to the next exit.

Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes.

It's from entrance to exit.

There's an extra lane for cars to get on and off.

And it really does free up traffic.

Do they have enough space to do that kind of

thing?

I think they do.

I think they can't put those in that extra lane.

Yeah, I think that's a much better idea.

Well, maybe you ought to go to this meeting that's coming up.

Explain that to them or bring a map.

I missed the meeting where they were thinking about putting speed bumps in front of my house.

How's that working out?

You like those?

I hate them, but I don't have to drive on them mostly.

They're just beyond my house, which is kind of nice.

So I'm happy with that.

Here Dan says they need to put in a bypass to the south or for traffic, not going to Madison.

That was always a topic, an issue they thought about Dan for a long time in putting a southern south belt line in for just through traffic.

Yeah, so yeah, that's a good idea, but probably difficult because of all the neighborhoods and expansion of those neighborhoods in that area.

Put a

tunnel in underneath the belt line.

Express

tunnel.