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Dude.
It's been fun while it lasted.
Yeah.
Good morning, it's Monday.
But take that for show promo.
Oh yeah, I'll take that.
He's selling the Catherine now.
Yeah, really.
Here it is, Monday, the 22nd day of December, Christmas, just a couple of days away.
You all ready?
Yeah, amazing.
You all ready for the holiday?
I
about
By the way, you know, speaking of my Amazon bill, I have an Amazon card.
Okay, credit card.
It's a city bank.
And I found out that I was about a month and a half late on my payment.
Now, I've been longer overdue than that.
The thing is, I just kind of let it go for a couple of months and then I just pay the damn thing off.
And I pay it off every time.
But anyway, and it's exorbitant.
I mean, you know, we're talking $3,000, $4,000.
You
No, I pay the whole thing off.
Wow.
Yeah.
And everything kind of goes through that card because then we get points and then we get discounts on things we purchase on Prime.
The thing is, because I was late and I don't get this at all, this is a weird time of the year to do this, but they froze my charging abilities.
So yeah, I'm trying to tune into my hulu plus account and apparently it needed a payment for the month and I couldn't get the hulu and I got really I really got pissed off So I talked to a representative at Citibank.
Yeah, and she's well.
That's what we do.
So no you don't
I've been later than this, and I never had this happen, and you're doing this at the holiday season.
What a wonderful Christmas gift for me.
And so, by the way, what makes it even worse is that I had just paid the bill.
You know from my account at the credit union.
I just it's an electronic transfer But I had just paid it the whole thing off and then all of a sudden this happens So so I go to their website and they have Pay now, you know, you can make
a
I mean, this happened all on Saturday.
So, you know, being Monday, I would assume that the electronic transfer will go through and everything will be fine.
The normal way we pay, but I can't do it online.
I can't do it on their website.
Oddly.
But we'll see what happens, you know, keep updated.
I'm really mad.
And I'm thinking of going to my Costco card and putting all of my subscriptions on the Costco card and screw prime screw Citibank.
And I'm going, I'm leaving these people behind.
If they want to do this on the holiday season, they can go to hell.
I'm just thinking, you know, you guys, and it's like, OK, we also base this on your credit.
Yeah record and I said well my credit record shows that I paid the damn bill every couple of months off, right?
You know, I don't just make little payments here and there and I don't know you know, I just thought yeah, and I've got a credit score of like 820 or something
like that
like
Morning, guys.
Just wait John wait until your credit is attached to your allegiance and your online comments related to clinic point USA Then you'll get a good credit score as long as you be a good little white nationalist
You
bet I wanted to talk about this AI thing quick because I I talked to my 12 year old niece yesterday We went out to dinner with the family and she says that
Something like eight out of ten of her classmates are already cheating on their exams their papers Cheating as much as they possibly can using AI And it's all the rage as we create the idiocracy before us.
and I now think that this and I also saw that in San Francisco.
They had a power outage
at a data center that caused all the Waymo cars to go dead in their tracks,
major backups on the street, everything, major chaos.
Oh, no.
But that's okay.
We just need to go go fast and break as much as possible because the billionaires need more power.
the traffic backups.
They were literally stopped in the middle of the street.
Matt, thanks for that call.
You know, I thought I had problems.
OK.
And then those Waymos, of course, you know, they have 360 cameras on them.
So, you know, can surveil its area, which still freaks me out a little bit.
Remember the protests in LA?
Yeah.
The.
burned Waymo's because of the cameras and they were using the cameras by the police force in order to find protesters.
So I don't know, you know this surveillance society is driving me crazy.
We were talking about this over Christmas and my family and it was just like
There will be a time when we'll look back at this time and think, wow, we were really free.
We had so many possibilities.
You know, we could go online, we could do this, that, we could find things.
We had privacy.
None of that will be true in about 10, 15 years.
Actually, I don't have a Costco I
thinking of maybe getting one and then using that for some reason to I get points yeah for that one, so I don't know You know one way or another we're going to Get even with Citibank whether it's I don't know destroying their buildings one by one
Really?
No, I'm just kidding.
But you know, it's not fair during the Christmas season.
The thing is, you know, you could just be building up, building up, building up, making a lot of purchases, raising that bill up, and then suddenly they do this, which seems really odd at a weird time of the year to do this.
But I don't know.
You know, maybe they're just flexing their muscles.
Maybe the billionaires are flexing their muscles and say, nope, you can't.
You can't do that anymore.
Mmm.
We gotcha.
Yeah, good morning.
Yeah, I was just thinking that it's like the billionaires are Colossus and at the end when Colossus is saying we were supposed to regard them with with a respect and awe.
And we're supposed to come to love them because you know that freedom is just an illusion and that the only thing people that should actually be free is
are the billionaires because we are just the serfs and the only thing is is to make them wealthier so they can be like the old Beverly Hillbillies where Milvren dies they would put out of the vault and swim in the cash.
There's
It's just sad because these guys, you know, that it's like we're living in, you know,
19th century England and they're all Ebenezer Scrooge We're just supposed to be grateful that you know, whatever crumb is drop off the table that
that's where we are.
It's fools gold and that's iron pyrite and that's what is that isn't that lead and iron and lead mixed together I think
I
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Yeah, good morning, guys.
I know how that goes, especially around the holidays.
We were sitting down as a team trying to figure out who's going to be where and who else is covering what they're doing and whose voice is going to be where.
can't believe that I found myself cheering for old number 12 last night against the Lions.
That was that was crazy Put aside my old childish Could act in like a diva side and actually good for the old man to come
Seven o'clock this Saturday, seven o'clock.
That's such an odd seven o'clock on Saturday for
Ravens game.
that's just.
For the people that come to our house up by Green Bay, I have to struggle.
Am I feeding you lunch or dinner
what am I putting out for you that you might feel engaged to want to eat?
menu planning has begun in earnest to try to figure out what a seven o'clock on a Saturday.
With this weather too, that's the other thing.
Normally I can lean on things like chili or something to keep your body warm, but now it seems like if
anything will be taken layers off by the time we get to Saturday.
uh, yeah, not have to worry about getting up for work the next day theoretically.
them talking about that.
Yeah.
The heaters were there, but they wouldn't blow or whatever.
So yeah.
they were uh and it looked windy as the dickens boy i
know for folks that might have been at soldiers field but
i was watching just the pants legs of the refs and how they were slapping in the wind it's like man that's you forget how much wind you can get off the lake in the in the
Toilet bowl.
Well, yeah, that that's one thing that I just think is kind of interesting.
I think we talked about it a little bit last week is how the Wisconsin Farmers Union decided that they really wanted to walk the walk when it comes to buy local and know your farmers.
So what they did is focus in on trying to make sure all of their convention meals were emphasizing local.
And it was pretty cool.
Lane.
Cosolino is the director of special projects for the Farmers Union that had to work with the Chula Vista Resort, their staff, their menu folks, and try to come up with some creative ways.
They fed 280 attendees seven meals each with a local emphasis, 70 local ingredients, and 40 farmer members that were incorporated into the menu.
And they didn't want to make the chefs
completely irritated.
So they did try to work with what their menu had and then just incorporate local ingredients from local farms.
And then during the meal, they highlighted the members in the audience that were supplying some of the things like legumes, mushrooms, different dairy products, some of the stuff that they added on storage, potatoes and garlic and things like that.
But I just thought, you know, think about how how much extra work for a convention it is.
to try to work with an institutional buyer like a restaurant and try to incorporate those local ingredients.
I just thought it was worth a way to go start on a Monday at the Wisconsin Farmer's Union for not only talking the talk, but walking the walk when it comes to that buy local, know your farmer
I knew somebody and they have all these restaurant tours there and they'd have displays and all the food would be laid out and that was something that, as a radio announcer, Pam.
That's the only way I could be fed.
Send me to those.
Yeah, I'll go to that one, sure.
I'll be happy to
I'll spin on that one for just a minute, John, because on Friday we had our all-building Christmas party.
And I'm a food pusher.
It's what I do.
So I
brought the
cheesy potatoes.
I brought the shredded pork and all that.
My
husband
wanted to bring apple crisp.
And he was absolutely vexed.
We don't have an oven at the office.
He said, why don't you have an oven?
I said, you know the people I work with.
You know radio people.
That's just not insurable in our building.
he knew the toaster oven to warm his apple crisp.
because he was absolutely convinced that nobody would eat apple crisp that wasn't warm.
And then he also brought ice cream.
I said, ice cream, are you kidding?
These people are going to be so full.
But again, it's his farm ethics that believe you cannot serve apple crisp without ice cream.
And like
you
said, I swear to God, everybody that had a Ziploc in their office came running down the hall when they heard that the food was going to be served because that is just radio.
That is radio.
It's truest
boys, I'm going to be gone now, yeah.
catch up with you in 2026, my friend.
Yeah, and you can call us at 608-879-8255 weather for today, maybe a few flurries or sprinkles no big deal
31 degrees currently highs around 37 with mostly cloudy skies through the day.
Got some information here, John, from the Madison Streets Department on Madison Street Collections, and I'll pay attention to this because
it's a
Madison Street Collections on Wednesday or Thursday in honor of the holiday, there will be no
Madison Streets Collections on Wednesday or Thursday.
You got that?
And the drop-off sites will also be closed.
If your household normally has Tuesday or Wednesday pickup, have your carts to the curb by 6.30 a.m.
on Tuesday.
Got that?
If you have Thursday or Friday pick up, get them out there by 6.30 a.m.
on Friday.
Everybody knows
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.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything.
That could be considered a rational thought.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
We've got three damn warriors in this.
Yeah.
I mean, we've done away with public health, which, you know,
That's a serious item.
Yes, and Well and every day, you know, they change what they're going to do with rebates checks in the mail Tariffs drug prices anybody following how they're making these drug prices lower.
I'm not I can't and I know everything about health care I can't make heads or tails of how they're doing this.
Yeah
Oh good.
Well, this is from speech, you know, he likes to likes to go on the road every once in a while, you know, just to get out of the White House Well, this time he was in North Carolina at Rocky Mount, North Carolina
And this is on the affordability tour.
Okay.
So you might remember the FBI's raid on, you know, at Mar-a-Lago about the, you know, all the files and all this stuff.
He's
Oh god.
Oh, that's outrageous.
Again, he is running Trump's campaign here in Wisconsin as Wisconsin governor, which is really bizarre.
Now, he just got passed a bill that allows hunting wolves again in the state.
This guy is like, he's like a, he's like an earth mover.
You know, he just, he doesn't care what's in his way.
He's just gonna plow through it.
He allowed sand mining next to schools.
Remember this?
And the school and the parents were worried about silica dust being in the air because it is, it's not good for your health to cause his cancer.
So he, he got, he got these pits to be.
made near schools.
He didn't care, right?
He
a look at Minnesota.
Millions, billions of Somalian led welfare fraud that Tim Walz ignored.
Yes, boo.
Look at Illinois, billions and free benefits for illegal aliens while American families struggle to pay their bills.
Look at New York where felons walk free and they'll try to lock you up for defending yourself.
No, that's not right.
Those are the real consequences of Democrat rule and they want Wisconsin to be the next victim.
Let me ask you, do you want Wisconsin to look like those failed states?
No, we don't.
Repeat after me only louder.
No, we don't.
And
socialists who will likely run against me in this governor's race said America's founding was awful.
Let that sink
I am sick and tired of politicians who enjoy America's freedom and opportunity, yet spend every day trying to tear it down.
We deserve leaders who thank God for America.
And we need leaders that will not apologize for it.
wow.
You know, I, the word leader just really just turns me completely off.
You're not a leader.
You're working for us.
You dip.
Yeah.
And, and of course, you know, it's like, Oh, well, uh,
You have your healthcare, but we don't.
How about that, huh?
We put you there to help us out, spend our tax dollars, and give us healthcare, but no, no, no, you guys are the elite.
You're in your ivory towers there in Congress.
You don't need to worry about us out here struggling to pay our healthcare
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Well, I would like to return to Melania Trump's underwear drawer.
I found that a fascinating little bit.
First off, she's going on and on about what her underwear drawer looks like.
Now,
you tell me, you dig through your wife's underwear drawer.
I mean, do you open it and just look and oh, honey, that's just amazing.
I mean,
isn't it?
This is Ludacris and the idea, number two, that she's folding the underwear.
Oh, yeah, right.
She has staff, honey.
She's not folding
it.
Yeah, and steaming
it.
What was I
thinking?
And he starts out on these lies, and it just takes you down this river of disbelief with all these little eddies and currents to it.
I mean, was he trying to say that when they released the warrant to search for the box of the classified
top secret material that he had and classified material that he had stolen from the White House that they were going to Melania's underwear drawer.
I mean that there was underwear strewn all over because it doesn't a warrant have to indicate where you're going to search.
And does he think, what did somebody say?
Melania's underwear drawer is one of the places we're going to search for boxes, for taxes, for material.
This makes no sense at all.
I mean, you might say her closet.
But in that case, it would be her shoes, her clothing, her underwear.
Everything was strewn all over.
But his specificity about the underwear drawer.
Can you imagine being married to somebody who brings us up in a big crowd?
I think the only thing we can do is to query every Republican now.
as to what their wife's underwear drawer looks like.
Because we want to take it from the top.
If you looked at your wife's underwear drawer, and what does that tell us about you as a candidate, and how you're going to run the
The last thing I wanted to mention was that, again, last week, Trump in his River of Disbelief had floated this idea that we're going to have this
$1,776 payment to service members.
You know, everybody, they're going to get a one-time payment of that.
And he of course was claiming it was going to come out of the munificence of all of the money he's raised on the tariffs.
And now we find out that it's going to be coming out of the housing allowance that Congress sets aside for service people to help them with their housing if their pay isn't enough and if they're living in an expensive part of
of the country and they need that money.
So they're going to get a one-time payment and it's going to cut down on what's available for housing allowance.
You know, the housing allowance is every month.
Every month you're paying for housing,
a one-time
ridiculous.
And as some of these service people are saying, you know, $1,776, it's just like a half of a housing mortgage payment for a lot of people, you know,
or
one month's rent, you know, whereas you could, if you keep that money intact, you're not going to blow it up for service members.
They're going to be able to, at the same time you're cutting the VA, we are in La La Land.
We are just in a very odd place, but I'm very interested to follow the story of Melania's underwear drawer.
go.
Thank
You're right.
He's like a riffing commuting.
I mean, he's trying to be.
He's trying to be a comedian.
He's trying to be funny.
Yes.
But just start talking about the first lady's underwear drawer.
Man, oh man, and it doesn't get fun.
Can you imagine any other president doing anything close to that?
No, just But
Yeah,
Unlike the left, we stand against treating anybody.
And I love what Nikki said about this.
We don't treat anybody different because of their race or their sex.
That's a lie.
So we have relegated DEI to the dustbin of history, which is exactly where it belongs.
That's fair stuff there.
What are you doing?
It's
diversity.
In the
United States of America, you don't have to apologize for being white anymore.
Exactly.
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