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Here we are.
It's a bright, beautiful, sunshiny kind of day in the capital of Wisconsin here in Madison.
And we're broadcasting at our home studios here, the headquarters.
And it's looking nice out there.
Sunny skies and temperatures are much milder than they were.
when we left you last week.
When they were just a Ringo song,
sunshine.
There we go.
Yeah.
Yikes.
Did not do that song.
over
Apparently they stopped doing it a while ago because really killed too many drivers safety safety reasons and cost and logistics Because that it's become harder to find junkers and then get them there for cheap You can't just I mean apparently you could just roll up to a junkyard and be like I will take your finest piece of crap car Please and just roll out with it for really cheap before and now you can't do that and so they've decided it's not worth it.
And this is really weird, but she was skier at Wisconsin Dells at the Tommy Bartlett Show.
And she was a great skier.
And also, she was part of the Nervless Knox, where they climbed the big tall 60-foot poles and hang around up there and go upside down and do all the acrobatics while the poles sway back and forth.
And she was fearless.
And she decided she was going to take up monster truck driving.
And she, she did.
So she does that in the off season.
Wow.
Angelina knock.
Yes.
I don't know where she is now, but I think she, I think they live down in Florida.
The knock family.
So do you, uh, do you watch the Grammys last night at all?
Anybody see that show?
I caught some of it.
I did.
Yeah.
I, uh, I enjoyed the performance by, um,
Well, Lady Gaga came out wearing a lampshade or something.
I don't know what she was wearing.
Some kind of birdcage lampshady thing over her head.
But good, great performance though.
Really great singing.
Wasn't there a guy that showed
songwriter he wasn't up for new artist but I think he was up for Americana yes album that and Americana hit you know song you know that was a couple of them and Bruno Mars
did a opening performance.
I thought he's always, he's really fun.
He's really unbelievable.
He really is one of the best.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But some of those outfits, those people were wearing eye opening.
Are you going
Lack of gravity, I don't know.
Lack of gravity.
Well, I remember Jennifer Lopez when she wore that really revealing outfit.
Sure.
Maybe this is like 10 years ago, 15 years ago.
It was more than that.
It was more than that.
It was more revealing than that.
The dress was called up by some jewelry.
That's it.
Good call there, Aaron.
It doesn't make any sense.
Well, it's just a good thing it was in Los Angeles, and it's nice and warm there, because, you know, it's just, otherwise... That's what you're concerned with, right?
Well, you know, did she get chilled?
She got a chilled, you know, could get to, you know, bronchitis or pneumonia or... He would only lift the dress up, I think.
Yeah,
that.
Well, it looks like the White House is learning an incredibly painful lesson tonight that
just because you can bully your way into things doesn't mean that everyone else on the playground is going to be forced to continue playing with you.
I'm referring to the shithead in the Oval Office's sudden announcement tonight that the Kennedy Center will be closing for two full years starting on July 4th supposedly for
renovations.
Totally believable, not at all just a very obvious excuse to cover up for the fact that upon him taking over the Kennedy Center, attempting to rename it and make it all about himself, artists started canceling any performances there in droves, including most recently, world renowned composer Philip Glass, you know, the guy that's done about 100 different movies.
This year is the 250th anniversary of our country.
There is no world in which an art center like
the Kennedy Center would have scheduled renovations that would take them out from participating in the massive celebrations that are going to be going on.
This is just yet another example of conservatives having to learn the hard way.
You can believe that might makes right, but that does not mean that the cool kids or the talented kids have to continue associating themselves with you.
You are not a king.
Artists are not court gestures.
You do not get to force them to perform for you.
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Hey
guys, yeah in San Francisco game kicks off Sunday at 5 30 Wisconsin time and
I'm at the NFL headquarters where all the media's at doing live broadcasts and it's pretty busy today.
Usually it kind of starts picking up a bar on Wednesday that San Francisco might have something to do with it.
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
My birthday started off with
Did you feel something?
And then about an hour later, yeah, 4.0 on the Richter scale.
Really?
We went out to the Golden Gate Bridge, and then there's a little national park where you can go up there and take a picture of it.
And one of the guys in our crew was saying, as we're driving through this Holland Tunnel-like thing, to get over that area, he's like, man, can you imagine me stuck in here in a traffic jam and then they have like, you know.
I shifted the plates a little bit.
It was, shut up!
Shut
up!
And then
12 hours later, 4.0 out on the bay.
So yeah, that worked out nicely.
You
that.
A little bit, a little
Seahawks had a short flight from Seattle and the Patriots came in from New England.
Patriots had a pep rally in Foxboro at the stadium.
And Mike Rabel, one year after struggling the last couple of years with the Titans losing records,
Derek Henry moving on the star running back to the Ravens and the Titans fire him and Robert Kraft the owner of the Patriots hires him and in one year the Patriots are back in the Super Bowl and they've got this quarterback this Drake May in his second year that I mean you know he's throwing some passes to look like Brady so somehow the Patriots are back in this thing their general manager Elliot Wolfe
Elliott is the son of Ron Wolf.
And once upon a time, Bob McGinn, who covered the Packers for the Journal, said, I think this is the next GM in waiting, because Ted Thompson's got him, you know, as an assistant, like 14, 15-year-old guy, like he was being groomed for the job.
But when Ted stepped down and Mark Murphy had to hire somebody, one of his co-workers, Brian Goodikins, got the job instead.
So Elliott had to go to the Browns, a couple of other stops, but now he's with a good organization, with the Patriots.
And in two years, he's got the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Yeah, I haven't seen that.
And I don't get into that stuff so later in the week because I need to talk to these teams.
But we're going to have access to these teams tonight.
What they call opening night.
They'll have them on the stage.
broadcast and NFL network.
And then we get to talk to these guys Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, sit down, have a literally have a cup of coffee with them and talk for 20 minutes or so to the coaches.
And we get the injury reports.
So that's stuff all factors in.
But Sam, Donald, a little more experienced quarterback.
We have a very good defense with Seattle against this, you know, young explosive Patriots team.
and
were
but they have yeah, they have I mean Seattle had a win in their hands and a guy named Malcolm Butler a rookie
intercepted a dumb call instead of it giving the ball to Marshawn Lynch.
Russell Wilson attempted a short little pass and it got intercepted there at the goal line and saved the sea auction having to go ahead score and Tom Brady and the Patriots upset and won that game.
So that's the last time these two guys these teams met in the Super Bowl.
Yeah, and for security reasons too.
I mean, okay, you know, it's like TSA times 10.
Oh,
yeah, blockades, one way street shut down, and it gets worse as the week goes on.
But you know, we've had a tax.
you know it's a some more dangerous world so there's those kinds of things and it's tighter it's tougher and tougher to get in to this thing i've probably i'm like on number 22 or 23 and that's probably why i still can get you know credentialed for this thing plus with all the stations that we have across the state has helped me out as well but
Yeah, you have a schedule of events to cover and various press conferences meet with this, and then to put the stories out.
And we're pretty much here to help the NFL see if they can break last year's record of viewership.
More than Apollo 11 a couple of years ago.
How about
a couple of days.
I'm at the game.
They do have some publicity stuff like that.
But yeah, whatever.
It should be a good game.
You know, two younger teams, if you will.
I think you've got the coaching experience on the Patriots side with Mike Rable, the former Patriots linebacker.
But
there's a lot of,
there'll be plenty of matchups to figure out this year.
And I don't mind from the standpoint of, you know, there's, there's new faces in terms of the players in this thing to cover this week.
Absolutely, yeah, yeah.
And I'll have a little update for you throughout the week.
great.
where the good free food was for the media.
Yes,
lawsuits
heads.
of the year.
Congratulations, Billie Eilish.
Wow.
That is a Grammy that every artist wants, almost as much as Trump wants Greenland.
Which makes sense, I mean, because Epstein's Island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton, so... Oh, I told you, it's my last year.
What are you gonna do about
Now, something that it really kind of bothers me a lot is the FCC.
It is kind of, it's sitting there.
It's kind of calling balls and strikes.
It's not.
taking a proactive approach to what's on the broadcast airwaves, and we're talking about airwaves.
The old media, right?
The three networks and all of radio.
All the broadcasters.
Yeah, all the broadcasters, right.
So anyway, Brendan Carr has taken a proactive approach pushing conservativism, and this is recording a little while back.
when Senator Andy Kim had talked to Brendan Carr about who his allegiance is to the Constitution or to Trump.
Let's listen.
Is President Trump your boss?
President Trump has designated me as chairman of the FCC.
I think it comes as no surprise that I'm aligned with President Trump on policy.
I think that's why he designated me as chairman.
But ultimately, you consider him your boss?
Ultimately, the...
Well, president of Desigamea is chairman.
I can be fired by the president.
The
president
is your boss.
Of course
he is.
Look, the decisions of the commission are going to be based on a
vote.
You
swore an oath when you came into your job, right?
Does the oath have the word president in it?
Senator, again, I'm not tracking this line.
What I'm saying is every decision you
made.
Do you remember
the oath that you took?
Yeah.
You swore
an oath to protect what?
So every single
decision.
What is it
that you're protecting in this job?
We're based on the
Constitution of the United States.
Would it be appropriate for the president or senior administration officials to give you direction to pressure media companies?
I'm not going to get into hypotheticals.
What I can tell
you is that the easy answer is
no.
Trump is not your boss.
The American people are your boss.
I do not trust you that you can make these decisions with the independent mind that is needed.
And with that, I'll yield back.
you go.
Wow.
OK.
could force daytime talk shows like the view and late night talk shows like the tonight show or Colbert to think carefully before inviting on candidates
for political office.
Now, if you do something like that, it is pretty much a threat, right?
That's what he's doing.
Talk shows have qualified for an exemption as a bona fide news interview.
They have an exception.
They can have these guests on, but they don't have to have equal time in regards to these guests.
They get an exemption.
He is repealing the exemption.
That's what he's proposing.
Okay.
And by, by the way, just coincidentally, the 24-7 Trump networks, all of them are on cable.
Fox News, Newsmax, One America, new, or now, I don't know, Real America's voice.
They're all on cable, not on the air.
None of them are required to have equal time.
Now, how odd is that?
Because they were cable.
right
So
anyway car said this there wasn't a relevant precedent that we saw that was being Misconstrued on the radio side of all of this
Now, that's, that's what I think most people would call a word salad.
Doesn't really mean anything at all.
We look, we look, but you know, radio's doing a pretty damn good job, you know.
Yeah, that's right.
And Commissioner Anna Gomez reiterated that the rule change will necessarily have to apply to all talk radio as well.
Because
And this is what she wrote.
We must keep in mind that the primary motivation for this action was to lend a hand to the political operation of this administration, not to help consumers.
And I also want to note that what the administration is not focusing on,
that these rules apply to all broadcasters, television and radio, and they must be applied evenly to the administration's friends and critics alike.
Again,
walk
Yeah Again is more of an attempt to rewrite history Which when when the communists and North Koreans and Chinese did it?
They call it reeducation.
That's what it
what the attempt is.
But I don't really have a problem with equal times for conservatives on talk shows.
And
I don't think you guys do either.
I think you've invited probably plenty of them.
And they've just decided
there's
no way to answer the questions that you'd have.
So they don't come on.
And that would be my hope is if you get
something like Jimmy Kimmel, and he has to have a conservative person on.
I'd hope that people like that would give him the third degree and really say things like, you know, what you just said is a lie.
It is not a
fact.
And if more of the legitimate, quote, unquote, news sources had done that,
I don't know if we'd be in the situation we're at, but that's an entirely different topic.
Anyway, thank you
those talk shows?
Will
They won't be
And does it make a difference whether the person, is this mainly for political candidates?
I mean, did they have, it's just political candidates.
They have to be running for something in order for this thing to kick in.
Okay.
We're coming back with more of your calls and texts, 855-752-4842.
It's John Agordi.
Stay
with us.
Great show.
Just a quick comment.
We've been calling those 6 million files, the Epstein files.
We should really call them the Trump Epstein files.
Because he wants to rename everything after himself,
you know,
like
the
Kennedy Center, the Trump Kennedy Center.
We can be calling his files the Trump Epstein files with an emphasis on Trump because he's been in so many of them.
Here's the bad thing about the files being released all these files coming out and all these pictures, right?
I don't know what's real and what isn't as far as pictures are concerned, you know You see the comments.
Oh my gosh.
This is outrageous Look for girls surrounding him on an airplane and I'm thinking is it real?
I don't
I agree.
It should be the Trump up the Trump Epstein files.
Yeah Yeah, you know, we know I mean there's enough stuff.
It's unbelievable.
Yeah, you know all the all the different stuff that's in those files But you know when you think about what they haven't released is Is it even worse can get much worse than as far as the content?
I don't even
I don't think I have a number of
And I thought, is this real or not?
Now, all of these.
pictures have been released, a lot of them, and you don't know which ones are fake, deep fakes.
But anyway, this is kind of fun.
I mean, we know he's mad, he's insane, and he's in charge, and he's delusional too.
Esquire's Michael Wolfe supposedly has conspired with Epstein to harm Trump somehow.
I am not kidding you, this is what he is alleging.
You can tell this guy isn't well, right?
Let's listen to the content.
It looked like this guy,
Wolf, was a writer, was conspiring with Epstein to do harm to me.
And I didn't see it myself.
And I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me, it's the opposite of what people were hoping, you know, the radical left.
That Wolf, who's a very great writer,
was
conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to hurt me.
politically or otherwise.
And that came through loud and clear.
So we'll probably sue Wolf.
Oh, okay.
And maybe the M.C.
in the state, I guess, I don't know, but we're going to certainly sue Wolf.
We're going to sue everyone.
You may, I guess so, because he was conspiring with Wolf to do harm to me politically.
Wow.
You have done that yourself.
go ahead.
It just is deeply disturbing that there's a lot of these people that would actually still support Trump even if it was proven all those allegations against him were true.
I think someone would even forgive him murdering these little girls, I think, because he's
their lord and lord and chief and that uh... you know the supreme court would probably re-declared right designors as uh... the right of the lord that uh... if you're rich and powerful you should have to have these rights to you know commit this kind of activity i mean it is just deeply disturbing that uh... and the way they're releasing these things they're not protecting the victims here i mean that
the
incompetence of
Information they released they did not protect the victims.
They've been protecting all the rich and powerful and the rich and powerful's men They should be hung out to dry.
I
mean
that if they're doing this stuff hang them out to dry.
I mean it is just Disgusting that these guys get away with this stuff because they've been getting away with this stuff for decades.
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