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We did want to spend a little time on this because this is a big issue for a lot of folks.
Social security is an important thing.
And we had brought this up a couple of weeks ago when it was reported in the Wausau Daily Herald that the Doge website, of course, which is supposed to list all of the great savings,
that Elon and his lackeys have found, they listed a social security office in Warsaw that they were going to shut it down as part of their big cost-saving measures.
We have been accused of fear mongering, Greg Bach, when we talk about these things.
We're actually just reporting things that appear in publications.
But OK, here is something that just happened.
This is from The Washington Post.
Social Security scraps far-reaching cuts to phone services after a Washington Post report.
So this is what they were going to do.
The Trump administration and Elon Musk.
Late yesterday, the Social Security Administration dumped plans.
They were going to end phone service for millions of Americans who file for retirement and disability.
because they wanted to cut this off to root out alleged fraud.
So what they wanted to do, you would no longer be able to call a Social Security office if you had questions, if you wanted to apply, if you had anything, no more phone calls.
Now you would have to rely on the internet and in-person offices
in order to process your claims.
Of course, that's going to be problematic if you're in one of these communities where they want to shut that office for cost savings.
That could make it a little sticky.
There was so much pushback on this, they've now backed off, but only because I'm assuming other fear-mongering outlets like us shared their plans.
Well, and that seems to be the way, I mean, like I'm looking.
I hate that I'm looking at this right now.
I'm looking at the doge.gov website.
And all it is is tweets.
It's, if you scroll, if you look at it, you scroll down, it's just tweets.
It's all this.
It's not like here.
Like, like before they were showing the seats, which were being taken down at a phenomenal because they were
making so many mistakes
or make it like they did not spell millions.
Millions doesn't start with a B. It starts with an M like as in millions, but
The things they're just putting and the everything they're putting on here is just to to rile up their base the USDA at USDA was funding a $397,000 grant in San Francisco Bay Excuse me to educate queer trans and BIPOC urban farmers and consumers about so you gotta click you gotta click see that thing is you gotta find out more yeah about food justice and values align markets That's not a bad thing
food justice, food deserts, making sure that people have access to growing access to supplies.
They make it seem like it's a horrible thing, and they're cutting these programs.
And they're putting these ones up on the front now because they're the ones that will rile that base up.
The receipts before, they took down because it just, it's too-
Well, it was so inaccurate.
It's so dry.
This is now, you basically have your own little doge tweet central, and it's just...
I don't like it.
Well, again, they backed off on this plan.
They were going to make sure that people could not call Social Security anymore, which a lot of elderly Americans do.
I know people who are not necessarily Internet savvy, who rely on making phone calls to process claims and things like that.
They were going to cut that out and make people elderly and disabled.
We either rely on the internet or go in person, which is so easy for everybody, and it's not, to process their claims.
But again, the pushback was so great.
From this portion of it now, they've backed off.
However, customers will no longer be able to change a direct deposit routing number or other bank information by phone.
They say that is where all the fraud is and again, I'm not against finding, I'm not against finding waste and fraud and abuse.
I'm really not.
I just
want to know
the specifics of where you found it.
And I want someone to be held accountable then too because if it's fraud, if it's wasteful spending, cut it if it makes sense.
If it's fraud, please bring someone to court and say this person, but what I'm hearing when you're saying this is
You have someone who's not computer savvy calling, I need to change my routing number.
It's fraud if you're doing it in a fraudulent way.
If that's something that happens on a regular basis and a number is, it's taken down incorrectly, that's not fraud, that's called a mistake.
And you rectify the mistake when you don't get your check.
But I wouldn't...
refer to this as like the main well of fraud.
According to the Trump administration, approximately 40% of Social Security direct deposit fraud happens when someone calls the agency to change their direct deposit bank information.
So that's going to stop at the end of this month, according to Doge.
The statements did not say how much fraud is believed to happen through this channel.
All it says is all other social security administration telephone services remain unchanged.
Jane, what is the E in do stand for in this situation?
I believe it's efficiency.
Does this sound like a really efficient use of time, energy, manpower, all those things.
And then is it sound like it's efficient for the people who have to make these phone calls?
No.
Yeah.
So in recent days, this article from the Washington Post Musk's team at Social Security.
has led to a fast downsizing of staffers and services.
They had considered these telephone service changes to claims processing until again, all of this pushback happened.
That's why it's important that we stay up on this stuff.
And I know it's exhausting and I know sometimes it's dry and I know sometimes you're like, well, that doesn't affect me.
Ultimately,
it will.
It does.
Anybody who's listening to this, anybody?
who has a job who's of any age, they're paying into social security.
This affects you because this is what we're talking about now.
Meanwhile, in the Congress, they're working to gut social security.
They're working to gut Medicare and Medicaid.
They're making it so that they won't even need these phone lines anymore because there'll be no more money to give away to begin with.
And me, 47 years old, I won't even, I won't even bother when I hit the age I get to collect on because it'll be done.
It'll be a thing of the past.
And people who are lying it right now will be, I don't know what will happen to them.
Will they just get to get the rest of their money and they'll be done?
I mean, this is just such, I cannot believe that people who voted for Donald Trump wanted this to happen.
I don't think they wanted this.
Regular folks.
I'm talking
about regular
like working class, blue collar people.
They didn't want to see their social security get, get messed with.
But here we are.
Here we are.
Chainsaw on hand, and this year is going to hurt people.
Well, good heavens.
I mean, Elon said it.
There's going to be two years of pain.
And that seems to be the new mantra now.
I have seen some Trump officials on various outlets talking about, yep, it's going to be bad for a couple of years, but ultimately, down the road, it's going to be great.
when
they're all out of office.
That's
the new sell.
That's the new selling position.
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Good morning, Jean.
Thanks for joining us.
Well, thank you so much for the service that you provide because people need to know this information because of the fact.
And they've spread so many lies and misinformation that poor people
They need to hear this information because this is going to affect the whole economy.
They stopped this, and it isn't an entitlement.
It is an insurance policy that people have paid in for years and years, so people need to know and understand it.
And I hate to say it because I've been independent and I've voted for people in the past.
but not anymore because if they look at history the same thing kind of happened under the bush not like that but you know people's claims weren't being processed they had less feedback time and then when obama got in
Boy, they had call back numbers.
You know, you didn't have to wait for two, three hours on the line.
And Obama had it where you could press this thing, and they'd call you right back, you know, when it was your time, and you didn't have to sit on the phone.
I mean, there's just such a difference in the way Democrats handle people and the way Republicans abuse people.
So thank you very much, guys, and keep up the great work.
Thank you.
Thank you,
Gene.
Thank you so much, Gene.
Really appreciate it.
Alright, Brittney Merlot.
We're gonna talk weather and start lightening things up a little bit when we return.
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Today, Todd will chat with Chef Dan Jacobs.
He's working with Main Street Alliance.
We've talked to them a number of times about they are having a day of action next week, and they're going to talk about what the next Wisconsin budget could include to support.
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So yeah, join Todd today from noon to 2 p.m.
It should be a great discussion.
And then they always do their own lightning up.
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It's a lot of fun.
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She joins us every Thursday at this time for a little weather and wine.
Civic media meteorologist Brittany Merlo.
Good morning, Brittany.
You're a meteorologist.
This stuff is good for you.
I know changing weather is exciting.
Yes.
Oh, yeah keeps me on my toes.
I know right this one.
We're working in Hawaii would be so boring you did nothing to talk about That is not the case here in Wisconsin.
We have nothing but non-stop.
It feels like whiplash weather
Yep tis the season for it.
So my goodness.
We've got everything going on Everything you could think of is probably headed our way.
So a
little bit of everything
Yeah, I want no complaining.
No, I'm just kidding.
You can complain about this one.
This one's pretty bad.
So here's what we've got going on
Nice, comfortable today, right?
Gorgeous, sunny.
It's
beautiful.
Yep.
Can't complain.
Love it.
OK.
But tomorrow, things are going to be changing.
It's going to get windy.
We're going to see gusts up to about 30 miles per hour.
We could also have some small storms in the morning.
So don't be shocked if you hear some claps of thunder early.
Those aren't the bad ones.
That is moving in along that warm front.
We are going to have those winds whipping us to temperatures in the low to mid 70s, which is
crazy.
Yes.
Crazy.
It's outrageous.
I know.
So a gorgeous warm day, but we're not looking at much sunshine.
It's also going to get a little humid and muggy.
Nothing oppressive, but you're going to notice a difference, right?
OK.
And those things are all acting as fuel for severe thunderstorms.
And it's the classic setup when we get these crazy warm temperatures spiking up and then a cold front slams into that.
That's what we're going to see tomorrow night.
So a strong line of storms wants to push into south and western areas around nine o'clock.
quickly moves over to the Madison area around 10 and in towards Milwaukee around 11 and we're looking at a slight risk for those areas all the way from the cross to the Dells to Milwaukee and what a slight risk means is scattered severe or isolated and intense strong storms so that means
It's going to be worse down into Illinois.
It's going to start to weaken as it pushes into Wisconsin.
And yes, we could still get a couple leftover tornado warnings are possible.
Wow.
And then also some damaging wind gusts approaching 70 miles per hour are possible and some hail.
So this is definitely the stronger of it is going to be into our southwestern parts of the state.
And then, of course, it is going to lift north.
Everyone's going to get storms tomorrow night.
But far into the Northwoods, it'll just be some more thunder, heavy rain and hail.
Well, certainly people want to stay up on those on the potential for any tornadoes.
That's really frightening.
But so we're 70 mile an hour winds.
That's not good.
Nope, both do some pretty bad damage.
So and people are like, it's winter.
It is.
And we had a tornado in February last year, if you remember.
So that was the first time we ever had a February tornado.
So middle of March isn't too crazy.
I guess these days.
I think the only thing that's consistent about Wisconsin, whether it's its inconsistency, no matter what, throw a dart on any month in the year and you can say, well, it's December.
So there's going to be snow, probably not, not at all.
I
was trying to forecast for the draft in Green Bay and I'm like, okay, I know what the average is, but let's be real.
April in Wisconsin, anything can
happen.
Well, and I think it's important what you just said with the time that we have left Brittany, I want to talk about the cuts that the Trump administration is making at the, at NOAA.
and the National Weather Service.
And I just read something that they're stopping training now for a meteorologist.
In the past, they have sent meteorologists to areas that are dealing with wildfires and floods and things like that.
And those people actually report to like local television stations and help them coordinate the information that's going out to the public.
Now, those positions have been eliminated.
They've cut that program.
What does that mean?
I
mean, loss of communication.
from where it's coming from to the TV, out to us as residents, we're in more risks from all of this.
I mean, if we're taking away our younger population of scientists trying to learn, they're not going to learn.
And we're going to be stuck with retiring people, aged people.
Like what?
Where's the future?
And the weather's only getting worse.
So with those people missing, there's just major problems ahead.
And plus the forecasters, you think about a severe weather outbreak.
That's about to happen right now into Illinois and portions here.
There are less people working there.
This means delayed warnings going out.
This is all going to affect us.
It's scary stuff.
And as
a meteorologist, you can't do forecasts if you don't have the data that is collected by these agencies, correct?
Correct.
I mean, model forecasters that put in all the data to put out what I'm looking at to tell you the forecast right now is going to get worse and worse.
So even my forecasts, you know, if I don't have the data, what am I going to give you?
I guess I'll put the question out to the people who think that all this is great as far as who they voted for.
Tell me why this is good.
Tell us, tell me why less information, less communication, especially in this kind of situation, why that's better for us as a people.
I'd love to hear from you.
Brittany Merleau joins us every Thursday at this time.
Hang on to your hats this weekend and please stay up on the forecast.
We don't want anybody to get hurt.
We want everybody to have a good weekend and we will join, we will see you again next week.
Brittany, words are hard.
It's
okay.
Thanks.
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We have some basketball action this afternoon, JR.
We do.
I love March.
It's not just basketball.
It's the
Sort of the NFL free agency was going on.
That's kind of cool thing leading into the draft.
Baseball is wrapping up.
We're getting to the real stuff here toward the end of the month.
We'll actually have games in March.
So this is the time of the year for gurus, for Journal Sentinel Sports gurus, like myself.
Absolutely.
It is a happy time.
The basketball gets going in earnest really for Wisconsin and Marquette, both of whom played this afternoon, early afternoon games in the conference tournaments.
Wisconsin will play Northwestern.
getting going very soon here in the Big Ten tournament.
They kind of need the win to keep their hopes alive of hosting games in Milwaukee.
Hosting is the wrong terminology, but to be assigned a first round venue in Milwaukee, they really need to be a solid top three seed in the tournament.
They had a late, late regular season loss to Penn State.
That's just really bad.
I mean, Penn State wasn't playing for anything.
It was in the Cole center, just a really rough loss.
And I really feel like right now that is the difference between them playing in Milwaukee or getting sent to like Denver or Seattle.
So they really, really need to win this game.
probably could stand.
I mean, obviously they could stand to win a whole bunch of these games.
They're still going to the NCAA tournament.
They're safely in.
There's no concern there in some regards that makes this tournament just to tune up for, for the big one.
But, oh man, they could really, really use that victory.
And, uh, it's, it's been, it's been tough for both teams.
Both men's basketball teams have really been in late season swoons, Marquette as well.
Like if Marquette, I mean Marquette could win the biggest tournament and that would help their cause to some degree, but really they're kind of.
They're down now to like a six, seven, maybe even an eight seed and if they're an eight seed.
They would play one of the four best teams in the tournament in the second round.
That would be a really tough, tough road to hoe for them.
So, uh, it has not been a great second half of the season by any stretch for Marquette.
They could stand to show well also, but again, they are also safely in the tournament.
There's no concern there.
So these tournaments are fun, but really the big stuff begins with selection Sunday followed by the tournament next week.
Just in case you wanted to catch today's game, by the way, JR, uh, Wisconsin at Northwestern broadcast starts today at 12 30.
You can listen on.
media stations WLAK and Amory at WFHR in Wisconsin Rapids and also on WRCE in Richland Center again, Wisconsin at Northwestern today, our coverage starts today at 12.30 on those stations.
So on to from basketball.
I just like as we share notes in the morning about what we're going to talk about.
I love the the bucks are bad.
But last week,
Bucks good.
Yeah.
Well, you know, it's it's an up and down.
It's a it's a journey for the Milwaukee.
It is.
They have lost three consecutive games.
They play the Lakers tonight.
LeBron James will be unavailable.
He's injured.
Luka Donch is a little banged up.
Good, good game coming up for the box because they're scared.
This is part of a really tough schedule.
They got 18 games left in this season.
I think it's kind of asking a lot for them to finish 500 in those games.
You know, nine to nine would be, I think, pretty solid given how tough the schedule is.
They just haven't shown well against really elite competition.
The Lakers are pretty good.
Oklahoma City will be facing off the Bucks in the not too distant future.
That's going to be a very difficult test.
And then they've had these recent losses to teams that aren't elite, but are kind of in their bracket, you know, Indiana, they lost the other night on a basically a buzzer beater.
It was, it was not quite a buzzer beater, but with three seconds to go, a three pointer by Tyrese Halliburton, Oshkosh's own really burned the Bucks with a foul.
They made the free throw and the Bucks lost by one.
They lost to Orlando before that.
They lost to Cleveland in pretty convincing fashion in between those two games and Cleveland is one of the elite teams right now.
So the Bucks just, just.
are missing something like they do they do have stretches where they win games they're a playoff team they're a sound playoff team but there is such a big chasm between where they are and the very best teams in the west too but primarily but the east it's it's the nicks it's the cavaliers and it's the Celtics they would be in those teams not one time this year so they absolutely need to figure out a way to level up i mean they've got two of the best players and you know in basketball they just
Don't have it when it comes to winning, you know, winning against really tough competition.
There's a five game West Coast road trip coming up.
That's really going to test them.
You know, like I said, most of these 18 games left are primarily against pretty good teams.
They're going to win some of those.
But really, like if you wanted to say what are the buck's best wins this year, I think you could distill it down to like two games.
They beat Denver at home, which was really nice.
They beat Oklahoma City in the NBA cup final, which was their most impressive performance by far.
That game doesn't even count in the standings.
And it was a long time ago.
They have to show that they're that team because that team can win the NBA championship.
The team we have seen since
then just is simply not that good.
Calvin, you were upset with a particular call.
You want to chime in on this?
Well,
going back to the end of the Indiana game, credits Tyrus Hill, Halliburton, incredible shot, fantastic shot, but I don't know in what world Yannis followed him.
He looked to be straight up.
I didn't see any contact in the lower body.
It's a
I think it was a bad call.
I agree with you, Calvin.
I would say this, though, the shot goes in, so it's already tied.
I mean, bucks are probably going to overtime.
Maybe they lose it over time.
It wasn't like that call took a loss, you know, took a win from them.
But yes, it made it much easier for the Pacers to finish that off.
It was not a good call, but.
It's the risk you run you just they gave up too good of a look I think with three seconds left off of an inbound and Halliburton has been kind of this agent of chaos, you know He likes to mimic dames, you know dame time celebration.
He likes to he's been some teta tets I guess with the bucks and Tyrese Halliburton, so There's been
a dance
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You mentioned the Packers free agency briefly.
What, uh, what exciting, scintillating things came out of that or, or not so much.
It was
It was, it was not scintillating.
It was.
Fine.
I mean, I really, and I think I've even said on this program, I thought the, the Packers would be maybe more involved on some of the bigger names.
I thought they were equipped to do that.
They, they brought in a guard offensive lineman named Aaron Banks.
He's fine.
A cornerback named Nate Hobbs from the Raiders who's intriguing.
I think there's some, some upside there, but these are not, these are not even like top 50 guys on the, on the free agent market.
At the same time, they lost some players.
Nobody I think is going to be upset that they lost.
Truly key contributors last year.
Like Josh Myers, their center was probably the biggest name who went elsewhere.
But there's definitely a sentiment that they could be better without him, you know, like they could maybe Aaron Banks comes in Elton Jenkins moves to center.
Now we're talking about a much, much improved line from what they were last year.
So that's not a huge loss.
Eric Stokes just never really developed.
He was a first round draft pick speed guy who maybe just didn't quite have the skills and then injuries took away the gifts he did have.
So.
That was that was unfortunate, though, his career arc, but his departure is not going to be felt too dramatically by the Packers.
A.J.
Dylan, fan favorite, Philadelphia Eagle.
So that's maybe a tough one for fans.
But but he did not play last year.
He was injured and quite honestly was kind.
I mean, the writing was very much on the wall that he was on his way out anyway.
So we're not, you know, you're not talking about a loss there in terms of on the field stuff.
So there the free agency is not.
Over per se there they could they could still add some some guys but again We're not talking about big names there.
There's a possibility of a trade There's a possibility that they you know still still do something dramatic before the draft But they're probably not this is probably the team that they're gonna run with and then they'll hope to supplement some stuff in the draft Calvin you want to chime in on this?
speaking about AJ Dylan's fan favoritness and
The way this Wisconsin election turned out, maybe this increased his fan favoriteness in many people's eyes, but
I
saw it as a fall from grace when he attended the Donald Trump's Green Bay Rally and appeared to fully endorse and support the current president's bid for the presidency.
I mean, I don't want to cast aspersions anywhere across the world, but like Green Bay Packers fans are kind of a lot of in that boat.
So like, I don't know if that really impacted his fandom.
I think, you know, when it comes to sports fans, like, are we fickle?
Yeah.
Are we fickle?
Oh God.
Yes.
Of course.
Of course we're fickle.
Like, you know, on field performance, Trump's everything.
Trump's the wrong, maybe the, but like when it comes to like political affiliation or anything like.
Ultimately, if you succeed on the field, that's going to supersede everything.
I think AJ Dillon, he got hurt.
He just wasn't that effective.
He wasn't as good as I think his skill set suggested he should be.
And not that that made people sour on him.
He still had his fans.
He's a Dork County superhero, but I think people just kind of let him go.
You know, they kind of maybe moved on from him.
They should have made AJ healthy
again.
wrap it up with a little bit of brewers.
What is happening with the crew?
Obviously a preseason is underway.
Yeah.
We're a couple of weeks away from
I've never heard sport.
I've never heard baseball called preseason.
Well, they're not in the regular season yet.
I'm not making fun.
I just I'm
I've never heard someone refer to baseball as breeze.
It's fine.
It just, it was a new way of taking it in.
A lot of people are calling it the MLB lately.
It's a clubhouse.
It's not a locker room.
You wear a notes or something else.
It's a manager.
It's not a head coach.
You know, like we've got, baseball's got some, some particular.
It sounds like wrestling is like, you're not wrestlers.
We're superstars.
Calm down the rock.
Um, so we're two weeks, two weeks away.
Spring training is almost over two weeks, uh, March 31st is the start of the season.
So, uh, that's actually the start of the home home opener.
They'll, they'll have a series in New York before that.
I think things are pretty much on track.
My favorite thing to watch is a relief pitcher named Craig Yoho.
Y O H O people are going to love him.
Really?
It's just a roster crunch, essentially, but make make no mistake.
He is one of their best relievers.
He is sensational.
He's a guy that they got out of Indiana.
He had arm trouble.
They paid him next to nothing when they drafted him in 2023.
He has been dominating the minor leagues.
He's totally out of the blue, basically.
He's it's a long story, but basically they signed him to save money elsewhere in the draft.
And he has not only saved them money elsewhere in the draft, he himself is fantastic.
I wanted them to bring him up last year.
They didn't do it.
I, you know, you will see him this year.
It's not going to be right away.
But I think this is going to help Brewers fans move on from Devon Williams very, very quickly.
I don't know if he's going to be their closer right away, but.
He is just that good.
And they they have they have a few young players that are worth watching, but that that guy I think is going to make a major impact this year.
And you'll remember him because his name is Yoho.
Well, I was going to say, I hope he does well because those are just memes waiting to happen.
The play on Yoho is I mean, the possibilities are endless.
He can
only come up to pirate music.
That's it.
We
He throws a very good change up.
They're calling it the yo-yo pitch right now.
So.
We are, um, this is, this is going to be a big moment.
Um, and you know, nice thing, Reese Hoskins, he's doing pretty well in spring training.
He's at five home runs.
I think it's five.
Maybe it's only four, but he's, he's really pounding the ball.
He, he hit home runs last year, but was ultimately not that good.
Like it was a really rough signing, but let's imagine him being fully healthy coming in this year, being a little bit better.
That would be a massive upgrade for the brewers.
If the guy who, the incumbent at first base turns out to be a more complete offensive player this year.
There's a, there's some really, there's some, there's some nice signs there.
Greg, I'm starting to feel.
slightly positive thoughts.
We're leaning a little bit more into it.
Are you feeling hope?
That's not good.
Crazy.
Hope
makes Bruce fans very uncomfortable.
It's just, you know, like things are going okay.
There's really no other bits of injuries, but nothing.
first shattering Brandon Woodruff is on track.
You know, the guys that you want to see performer performing, you know, Jackson Cherry is hitting the ball really well.
Reese is hitting the ball really well.
It's
not
pessimism either.
I love I love that.
I just that should be a shirt.
It's not hope, but it's not pessimism either.
JR Radcliffe, you can read all his wonderful stuff in the Milwaukee Journal set.
No, thank you so much, JR.
Appreciate it.
We'll see in a couple.
Alright, see you in a couple weeks.
Welcome back to Matt Nair on air.
Jane Matt Nair, Greg Bach, Calviente on the board, coming to you from our studio at Radio Park in Racine.
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Breaking news just as we're coming back on the air.
A federal judge ordering the Trump administration to offer reinstatement.
to thousands of fired probationary employees at the Department of Defense, Treasury, Agriculture, Energy, Interior, and Veterans Affairs.
The judge said that the mass firings are a sham, strategy by the government's office to try and sidestep legal requirements for reducing the federal workforce.
We'll see what happens with this.
I don't know, call me crazy.
It doesn't seem efficient to come in with a chainsaw to an agency and fire a whole bunch of people only to be ordered by a court to bring them all back because you can't do that that way.
Yeah, I mean some would say it's a brainless thing to do and
a waste of time waste of
money Let's just see how the supporters justify this one.
Oh, the courts are left leading
But again this breaking just as we're coming back on the air tens of thousands of fired federal workers must be reinstated immediately Judge US District Judge William Alsup described the mass fireings as a sham strategy
by the Trump administration to get around legal requirements in order to legally shrink the federal government.
It is 11.53, Calvin.
That means it is time for.
This shouldn't be a thing.
Should you have a thing you think should not be?
Email it to Greg and me.
Jane says at civicmedia.us this from the Associated Press.
No byline that's unfortunate headline reads man found with live turtle concealed in his pants by TSA at New Jersey Airport a Pennsylvania man going through security was found to have a live turtle in his pants It was found Friday after a body scanner alarm went off at Newark Liberty International Airport a TSA officer then got the lucky duty of patting down the man
and determined, I think there's something in that area of your pants.
When questioned further, the man reached into his pants and pulled out a turtle about five inches long, wrapped in a blue towel.
He said this was a red ear slider turtle, which is apparently a popular pet.
The man was escorted from the checkpoint by Port Authority Police.
and then ended up missing his flight.
Oh, well, the turtle was confiscated.
It's unclear at this point if the turtle was the man's pet or why he had it in his pants.
Excuse me.
I don't mean to be forward, but he said, turtle in your pants, you just happy to see me.
This a quote from Thomas Carter, who is the Federal Security Director for New Jersey for the TSA.
We have seen travelers
try to conceal knives and other weapons on their person, in their shoes, and in their luggage.
However, I believe this is the first time we have come across someone concealing a live animal down the front of his pants.
as best as we could tell, the turtle was not harmed by the man's actions.
Oh, it was harmed.
Up here in its brain.
Psychologically, that turtle is never going to be the same.
No.
He said the incident remains under investigation.
It's unclear if the man will face any charges or penalties.
My favorite part of this entire story, the turtle confiscated.
Not clear if the turtle was the man's pet.
or why he had it in his pants.
What I really enjoy about that story is he told them what kind of turtle it was as if TSA were going to be like, oh, well, then go on.
Sir, you've been upgraded and your turtle has its own seat
now.
It's a red-ear slider turtle.
Why didn't you say so?
Move up into first class.
You
both have TSA pre-check, of course.
He gets a free seat.
There you go.
That wraps up today's edition of...
This shouldn't be a thing.
Tomorrow is
Friday.
It is.
Dan Schaefer will be here.
He is the founder of the Recombobulation Area.
He is also Civic Media's political editor.
Yeah.
I highly encourage you to join us in hour number two when Dan Schaefer is here.
I am working on a blog post that hopefully will be posted sometime next week.
We do talk about this.
We know things are serious.
Yes.
We know that people are concerned.
We are too.
Yes.
And that's why, personally, I think it is really important to find whatever small speck of good every day.
I agree.
If we
can.
If we can.
There's nothing wrong with that.
And more importantly, as you say, Jane, what do you say?
Well, I'll get there.
OK.
Thank you, Greg
and Calvin and all of our engineers without you.
Nothing works.
And thank you most of all for calling and for texting and for listening.
I do not say that lightly.
It really does mean the world.
I hope you find some joy today, even just a little bit.
And you have the chance to share it.
Keep it here.
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We'll see you tomorrow.
