Pennies From Heaven (Hour 1)

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Next hour, we will lighten things up as we always do around 10, 20.

We're going to talk to the Madison Mallards.

I'm

very excited.

Maybe in light of Jane of the Brewer's just being a third place.

Yeah.

Third place under 500 team.

I'll just glom on to Northwood's baseball.

I think that's the right way to go.

The mallards will go to independent baseball, like the milk man, go to a Kenosha King fish game.

Honestly, those, I love the brewers.

I love going to brewers games, but there's something about small league baseball.

That's just fun.

It's inexpensive.

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Season.

And I'm sure it's going to include some very unique theme nights.

and that's going to

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They tend to do that.

Tyler Moss will be here from Milwaukee Record after the 1030 news to talk about things going on around Milwaukee.

You're looking for something to do this long holiday weekend.

And of course, Monday is Memorial Day.

That is

the reason why we have a long weekend.

It is to remember those who have given their lives in service of this country.

And I did see someone texting.

I want to say it was to Todd's show yesterday who said if we would really like to do something.

Contact a veteran that you know and offer to mother lawn

Yeah,

or do something for them or take them somewhere or grocery shopping or go grocery shopping for them or something like that

Yeah, something someone said a while ago on social media when it was doing good for us all was you know Well, it is our natural instinct to say happy Memorial Day It really I mean we want people to be happy, but it is it and it's not a celebration It's a day of remembrance and observance.

Yes of a solemn

sacrifice that these individuals made sacrifices as a veteran's day.

This is for those we've lost in defense of our country for the freedoms we enjoy every single day.

And I would I would say sometimes take for granted.

So just in between shopping for a mattress and eating that sausage, take a moment to remember those who

we've lost and and why we have this day and if if that includes someone that you know like family you know call them and tell them you're thinking of them and just make them know make them know that their sacrifice wasn't in vain

and we remember exactly remember all right uh this kind of broke as we were coming on the air this morning and we're not going to spend a lot of time on this but i didn't think it was important to mention uh president trump this morning proposed a 50 tariff on all goods from the european union

saying that trade negotiations with the EU are going nowhere, so he wants those 50% tariffs to kick in on June 1st.

That's quick.

And then in a separate social media post, the president threatened Apple with a minimum 25% tariff if Apple doesn't start making iPhones here in the US.

Stock market reacted really well to this.

Everything is down.

Yeah.

The Dow is down.

The S&P is down.

The Nasdaq is down.

We'll see what happens with this.

I don't know.

He could back off on this in an hour.

I mean, all they have to say is, yes, sir.

And he'd be like, oh, I love everything again.

And I think you made the comment before we got on the show that if Apple somehow brought manufacturing to this country and made iPhones in the United States of America, you said they would be what?

I've seen everything from 5,000 to $30,000 per phone.

But I'm sure that's gonna happen right away.

Also, you know, the Republican Party just loving to like loves telling business how to operate.

That's their their MO, you know Stepping on the business freedom

Yeah, that's kind of seems kind of like kind of a reversal does absolutely interesting

even liberals are like hey, dude That's kind of our our stage and that's a little much

well again We'll see how long this last one if the market continues to react and the bond market hasn't been doing very well So we'll see how long this stays in place could be over by even before the end of the show never know We did want to talk about the big blob of a bill that passed the house Barely uncle rojo

Does he have concerns?

Senator Ron Johnson, Wisconsin senior senator weighing in on this bill that now goes to the Senate.

It was passed in the House, but that doesn't mean it's a done deal.

Senator Ron Johnson yesterday criticizing the House GOP bill saying they set the bar way too low in order to generate savings.

Quote, they just kept talking about 1.5 trillion.

They set the bar way too low.

The goal of the House effort has been to pass one big, beautiful bill.

It's rhetoric.

It's false advertising.

The goal should have been to reduce average annual deficits, so we have to focus on spending.

He was asked about the couple holdouts in the House.

Thomas Massey is like the number one guy

who's

been holding out on this.

He said, in the House, President Trump can threaten a primary and those guys want to keep their seats.

I understand the pressure, says Ron Johnson.

Can't pressure me that way.

Okay.

This is sort of, this is sort of confusing.

Like he's, he's upset that we're not cutting enough.

Yes.

We're not cutting enough from the government to get these savings for the, like, I'm not being funny here.

I truly don't understand.

He says this and then we have a clip.

of what he said to this reporter, which sounds like a different Ron Johnson than who's concerned about too much cutting Cal.

Can you play that clip, please?

I'm concerned about my children, my grandchildren, and the fact that we are stealing from them.

We are stealing from our children and grandchildren, $37 trillion in debt, and we're gonna add to it as Republicans.

That is unacceptable.

And that's why there's no way I'm gonna vote for this bill in its current

form.

Well, first of all, Ron, I appreciate the concern for people who aren't you, but your children and grandchildren will never have to worry about anything.

Your great grandchildren, generations of Johnsons will have to worry about nothing.

I do want to read what Thomas Massie said about the big beautiful deal because not only was it very good, but it was also just poetic.

Mr. Speaker, we are not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic tonight.

We are putting coal in the boiler and setting course for the iceberg.

Wow.

Wow.

But do you see what I'm saying though, Jane?

Like what he says here is we set the bar too low.

Because we're not cutting enough.

But then this interview he says on the clip we just heard, he's saying that we're stealing from our kid.

I don't understand how that connects.

Well, it's the whole thing is that we're saddling our children and grandchildren with this deficit.

That's how I follow this.

So does he think that even in the current form of, and I'm being serious when I ask this because

He's such a character that he says lots of things in lots of places.

He

says many

things.

So he thinks that the current version of it that they voted, they passed through the house is going to saddle his grandchildren and children with too much debt.

Or is it that the current bill that's coming to the Senate will saddle?

Well, and again, they're talking about raising the debt ceiling.

Yeah, I just, he's, it's not making sense to me, honestly, because I don't know where he's coming from.

Like all of a sudden he's concerned about people, but he wants to cut more.

Well,

right there, but he's not he's concerned about the deficit.

He's not concerned about people who will be suffering under these cuts.

That's not what he's worried about.

Oh, he's worried

about

deficits.

He's worried about the deficit.

What does he

care

about

the deficit?

They've been using that for decades.

Yeah, I know.

They've

been using that for decades and everyone seems to forget maybe I'm the only one who remembers this when Dick Cheney said deficits don't matter.

Google it.

Yeah.

Google

it.

I guess at the end of the day, that's the thing that like always confounds me the most, Jane, is when Ron Johnson purports to care about anything.

I'm like, wait, you do?

You do about what and how?

And that when you listen to that clip, you think, oh, is he really caring?

And then you couple it with

this, you're like, oh, he doesn't care at all.

No, it's about, it's about saddling our children and grandchildren with the deficit.

Notice that they're not concerned about, I don't know, leaving a poisoned atmosphere or poisoned water or any of that stuff, not worried about that with his grandkids.

Well, also, that's all going to be fine.

The version they've passed now, not the version apparently he wants, which will give him more tax cuts, tax breaks, either version

whether it's his version or what goes through the house is going to explode our deficit.

And they've, and economists of all sorts have said this.

That's just the truth.

So if he's really worried about deficits,

I don't know if you really want to try savings, maybe get rid of the pass through that you held out for last time that benefited you and your corporation and all your other rich buddies.

Maybe get rid of that.

Right off for private planes that he also was a big proponent of maybe I don't know And I know these are just little cuts because not a lot of us have that right off for our private planes So there would only be a few people that that would affect but you know you take savings where you get them

Yeah, also, let's also just you know tax the rich tax corporations.

Let's just do that That would pay for so much stuff so much 8

5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Jean from Eau Claire on the line.

Good morning, Jean.

We got about a minute

Thanks for joining us.

Great job.

As usual, every day is a great day with you guys.

So I just want to say, remember he brought up his kids first.

His wealth is going to his kids.

He's concerned about a future deficit that maybe his kids might be taxed for.

Remember the comment that he made about other people's children that they didn't, they shouldn't care about and remember that there was this really callous when people brought up children in the past.

But remember, he said his children first.

And he don't want to pay any taxes.

The guys never, ever supported any policies that help kids or parents or the state of Wisconsin.

So thank you very much, guys.

Keep up the great work.

Thanks a lot,

Jean.

I really appreciate it, Jean.

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We're gonna spend a little time talking about the big grifting dinner last night.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I mean this personal private dinner that Donald Trump hosted with people who bought his meme coin.

Nothing to see here.

Nothing to see here at all.

Because as Donald Trump's press secretary said,

He did this on his private time.

Yeah.

He did this on his private time.

Don't worry about it.

No, nothing.

Please just let it go.

Jimmy Kimmel has a pretty good compilation of last night's dinner.

Calvin, can we play that clip from Jimmy Kimmel, please?

Tonight was Trump's big crypto dinner.

He hosted the top 220 investors in his meme coin at his golf club in Virginia,

which has no

value, gave Trump's business a combined 390.

$4 million for this dinner.

In one night, seats went from $55,000 to $37 million a pop.

And no plus ones.

That's just by yourself.

The idea that our president had what was basically an auction, not for charity.

He doesn't do that.

No.

Never can.

An auction where the winner gets dinner with him.

is insane.

Reports say most of these people paid with foreign currency.

So they're probably not even from this country.

And as of now, we have no idea of who they are.

On the

president's dinner tonight, will

the White

House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president?

Well, as you know, Gareth, this question has been raised with the president.

I have also addressed the dinner tonight.

The president is attending it in his personal time.

It's

fine.

It's not taking place here at the White House, but certainly I can raise that question and try to get you an answer.

The president is abiding by all conflict of interest laws that are applicable to the president, and I think everybody, the American public, believe it's absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency.

He's funny too.

He's funny often.

Because as far as I know, he's the only president I've ever heard of who sells his own Bible and watch.

Yeah, the guy sells Trump Bibles people, but it's not a grift.

No, nothing to say here.

Nothing.

It's all perfectly fine.

300, almost 400 million dollars in foreign

money.

And do you know who is among the top buyers of this grift coin?

Justin Sun, a Chinese billionaire.

Shocking.

I thought we didn't like.

the chinese or we didn't want to do business with the chinese because you can't trust them

that's what i'm like that's kind of like the whole thing i said earlier about ron john i don't under it comes out one side of their mouth and comes out the other side like we don't like china we want to tariff the living heck out of china we want to beat them up with tariffs right but we love zhejiang ping and we will and he will take their money

just in soon this chinese crypto billionaire made a big splash on thursday reveled

in his status as one of the biggest holders of President Donald Trump's cryptocurrency, which again, essentially has no value.

It's not even something you can hold in your hand.

And also, I don't know who, like there are businesses who take Bitcoin.

You can pay with Bitcoin, but just because you have crypto doesn't mean you can pay with any crypto you have that you have to be able to

Basically, if you can spend it, fine.

You have, quote, unquote, money, but it says it's ones and zeros, and those ones and zeros fluctuate in value.

And if someone

says,

no,

I don't take Trump coin.

That's that's a that's an irrelevant thing to me.

Then you essentially don't have a valuable item in your hand or in your computer.

Mr. Sun also claims to have been awarded a Trump golden tour billion watch.

Retail price $100,000.

Yeah,

watch a video on those things and see how shoddy and terrible.

Oh, they're the highest of quality.

It's the highest of quality, Greg.

A big night for Mr. Sun who holds more than $20 million in the Trump meme coin, which he says makes him the top holder of said coin.

He also invested another $75 million in another Trump family crypto project, World Liberty Financial.

Again, Justin Sun.

a Chinese crypto billionaire was at last night's dinner, where, by the way, he had the presidential seal.

But it was a private dinner.

Nothing to do with his role as president, but the presidential seal was on a podium.

Jane, Americans think this is absurd what you're talking about right now.

Am I just being silly?

I like how she said, this has been handled, Gareth.

Like she was so like, it

was

like, ugh.

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You thought tanning beds was not good.

Just wait.

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Wanted to start off a little bit talking about that bill that the house passed.

And we spent a little time talking about that yesterday in particular.

I just snuck some things in there that weren't getting a lot of attention.

And I think it's worth pointing out when we look back at the four meetings that Wisconsin's Joint Finance Committee held around the state, and the top three things that residents were concerned about in Wisconsin were health care, education, and childcare.

Are any of these things covered in these measures passed by the House?

No.

No, of course not.

Of course, all of Wisconsin's Republicans voted in favor of this.

Of

course they did.

And what did they include in this big, beautiful bill?

But a break for tanning beds.

We mentioned that yesterday.

Calvin, I believe we have a clip that we can use.

Let's play that clip, please, about this great tax breaks for tanning beds.

So that the American public knows.

What this bill does, one of the little things that it does, would you please read page 901, line 20?

I think it would be better if you read it.

I don't

want to read it.

Oh, you don't want to read it.

I'll

read it.

I know the legislation, but I'm not going to be part of your little show

here.

So

you can read it.

It was a question.

I love talking to our people.

So I'll ask ranking member Moore to read the text.

This is in their bill.

They don't want to read a line from their own bill.

Ranking member.

I don't want to read the bill for you.

Oh

I

am I am testifying about this legislation.

I'm not going to read the bill to you.

Are you embarrassed?

Okay, I am I am

Miss Miss Lager Fernandez.

Shall I pass this back or shall I read

it?

This is Wisconsin's Gwen

Warren.

Action 111106 repeal of excise tax on indoor tanning services.

So they're gonna repeal

They're revealing an excise tax on tanning beds.

Hey, so if you have a tanning bed, you get a little bit of a tax break.

And if you need a hospital bed and World America, I'm sorry, you're out of luck.

It's priorities, Greg.

Yeah.

It's making sure we have our priorities straight.

There's a big tanning bed lobby based in Mar-a-Lago, I'm sure.

They need a break on these tanning beds.

Come on.

I said it yesterday and I'm going to mention again, there is a slight, there's a millisecond of a moment in that clip towards the end where you hear a distant voice go,

Oh

God, I think I'm going to clip that increase the volume and make it a hot button.

So every time we have to listen to this sort of junk, you can be like, Oh God, because is this important?

No,

no,

no.

And again,

We take a look at the four meetings the Joint Finance Committee held across Wisconsin tanning beds.

I don't think that ever came up.

No Shockingly,

I also you're mispronouncing what those were those were called dog and pony shows

always that way that was

yeah because nothing that was said to those individuals on the JFC was listened to or enacted or even considered they were it was simply just a it was

it was nothing it was and people waited a long time

because Sandra waited for she waited for nine hours

and at the end of the day said she wasn't gonna say what she said because everyone had already made their statements that agreed with what she was talking about and she knew she was that nothing was going to happen and like these are big

issue items, childcare, education, healthcare, and I'm sure people also want to talk about marijuana legalization, want to talk about gun safety, they wanted to talk about protecting our environment here in Wisconsin, conservation measures, or maybe just bring up the fact that, I'm sorry, I'm getting off track here, I'm just very

I'm getting very, very upset that I'm supposed to believe that this big beautiful bill or the Joint Finance Committee of Madison gives a tinker's cuss about any of us who are trying to earn a real living and live that American dream that we were told

should be attainable.

Well, you know what other, you know, you mentioned gun safety.

Yeah.

They did slip something else into this

big, beautiful

bill.

Jane, was it a measure on, like, you know, red flag laws or universal background checks?

Something that, by the way, most gun owners and Americans agree on?

No.

Oh, darn.

No, Republicans passed a tax break for gun silencers.

I thought those were either illegal or just John Wick movies.

Well, now you got a tax break for gun silencers, because again, so many of us...

Went before the Joint Finance Committee here in Wisconsin, telling him, I need this.

In a speech at 4 a.m.

on Thursday, the Republicans were pushing through their big, beautiful bill.

Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia, taking credit for this provision, which eliminates a $200 excise tax on gun silencers.

By the way, Representative Clyde owns a gun shop.

Isn't that nice?

Isn't that nice?

Then just do to your customers what other countries are doing to us and charge your customers too.

Because here's the thing is, if Representative Clyde takes that $200 excise, it's a tax stamp per device.

I'm looking at it right now.

Silencers are legal in 42 states.

That $200 tax most likely is passed on to the customer.

So here's a question for Representative Clyde.

If that goes through and the excise tax is eliminated, is he going to lower the price of that process by $200?

Probably not.

I would say not.

He's going to find another reason to charge him, whether it's convenience, whether it's professional setup, whatever, and he'll still keep that money.

He didn't have to pay in the first place, because I'm sure his customers paid it.

God, this is infuriating.

Mr. Clyde, again, who put forth this tax break for gun silencers.

Owns a gun shop called Clyde Armory in Athens, Georgia The store lists silencers for sale on its website Was previously put under an enhanced federal monitoring program Because it found that more than 25 guns sold there had been used in crimes within three years of their purchase.

Oh Well, thank God they can still at least track them For

now speaking of gun safety.

This is another thing from

Last week that we did not have an opportunity to talk about, this is from NBC News, Trump administration permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns.

Justice Department last week announced a settlement in a lawsuit brought by the National Association for Gun Rights.

The lawsuit challenged a rule banning forced reset triggers.

This is a device that allows semi-automatic weapons

to fire rapid bursts of bullets.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Department of Justice believes the Second Amendment is not a second-class right.

We're glad to end a needless cycle of litigation with a settlement that will enhance

public safety.

I know I feel much, I would feel much safer if there were more weapons that could fire bullets more rapidly.

Because Jane, my second amendment right is totally being hampered when my gun only goes pop, pop, pop.

It's got to go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

And then I feel freedom of freedom.

That's how I feel.

Vanessa Gonzalez is a spokeswoman for Gabby Giffords.

Yeah.

Who was shot in the head, by the way.

And the gun prevention group led by her, she says the Trump administration has just effectively legalized machine guns.

Lives will be lost because of this action.

This is an incredibly dangerous move that will enable shooters to inflict horrific damage.

The only people benefiting from these being on the market are the people who will make money from selling them.

Everyone else will suffer the consequences.

I know I feel much safer.

The second amendment isn't a second class.

Since when has this country ever, in at least the past 50 years, when has the second amendment ever been downtrodden?

When has it ever been in jeopardy?

But the NRA has been really, really good.

People accuse us of fear mongering, which kills me.

The NRA has been fear mongering for 50 years.

Yeah, they have been.

They're coming for your guns.

They're coming for your guns.

They're coming for your guns.

And it's never happened.

And it's yeah, it's never happened.

It's never it's and I don't I don't even know.

I personally don't know in my life a person who says get rid of all guns to me.

Get rid of all guns is as ridiculous as a statement to say as make iPhones in the United States of America.

The sheer.

breath and weight of responsibility on government local state and federal To enact programs to delete guns.

That's just let's

not do

that plus also I do believe in personal safety as far as you want to be you want to you want to defend your home yourself or you want to hunt I totally it's not my bag, baby But I'm not gonna sit here and tell you no but this constant

badgering of like the second amendment is on the line.

No, it has never been, it never will be, because even when kids die, they

still don't care.

Even better talking about this forced reset trigger device.

They will not be considered firearms, therefore they can be purchased anonymously without a background or an age check.

Because it's not it's not a gun or a weapon itself.

It's a it's a it's

a device.

It's a

device.

So

yeah, yeah, of course not Jane.

It's

all good.

Why do we want to track

these

things?

There have been several lawsuits over the forced reset trigger ban.

Lower court judges had issued rulings that came down on both sides of it.

Now the Trump administration abandoning the effort to restrict them.

A former senior ATF official criticizing the move.

predicting the courts would have upheld a ban on reset trigger devices.

These things are not like bump stocks.

And it's called a dangerous backroom deal.

Oh, yeah, this whole thing is this whole thing is it's we are in We're going to be in a world of hurt and I'm wondering and I said this to you before we went on the show today and I said I wonder how many people are going to

who are the loyal, what is going to break the camel's back for them?

And I know it's going to be what affects them directly, of course.

Even though we've seen people directly affected by certain policies of this administration who still say, well, I still support him because they're just doing what they need to do.

But my vote.wi.gov.

Make a call.

Make a

call.

Drop a line.

Be respectful.

Be respectful.

Absolutely.

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Yeah.

This is something I'm really curious what folks think about this 855-752-4842.

Are you a penny fan?

Do we care about the penny?

Penny for your thoughts.

I really don't care.

I mean US Treasury unveils its plan to end penny production This is something that's been talked about for a long time

like a long

long

time.

It's The fact that the penny doesn't doesn't have a buying power anymore

costs more to produce pennies than it's actually worth Not for a long time.

Yeah, and to and and I mean we're at the point where people just throw pennies away

Which is very weird because banks still take him you can put him those coin star machines and get some money But like Jane does

I do

I have a I have right now.

I have a I have a I have a tin a Heineken tin That's not an advertisement that I was given for my 21st birthday so long ago that I just poked a hole

in pennies

No, no, no all coins

all

coins all coins, but yeah and and was and people will actually send pennies back to the Treasury I don't know why but they will I mean, it's it's we we don't

I'll ask this question.

Why do you think we need the penny if you believe in the penny so much?

That's what I want to know

8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Calvin.

What do you think about the penny?

Well, I mean I personally don't like the penny like I don't like having it like on me or receiving it but that being said

Are things just always going to be rounded up to the nearest nickel then?

Like that seems kind of dumb.

Well, and it's either, yeah, they're either going to round up or round down and rounding down seems, call me crazy, unlikely.

Well, cause if they round up, it's going to be a matter of like one to four cents and no one really cares.

And they're not going to round down because they'll lose money.

Exactly.

But also, is there any other country in the world?

developed country that has a single penny piece of currency.

I mean, you go over to England, they don't have.

They have pens.

They

do.

So I

thought they just, I thought they did the same thing.

They just went to the, their version of a nickel, if you will.

I'll have to double check that.

My husband is listening.

He'll correct me.

855-752-4842.

Shishu on the live stream says, I'm a big fan of the penny.

It's really important to fundraisers.

Also, how are cash transactions going to be handled with items not at a nickel cost?

Well, again, Shijo, I think that's where they're going to round it up.

Yeah, it looks like they still do.

I just, I for some reason thought that they just, it was like a five, 10, 12.

No, you still get pence.

But I saw something also that said only one in five of us now actually use cash in transactions.

I.

Definitely don't anymore because I used to when I worked, I worked at two jobs that had cash tips.

I reported them and I would have cash.

And actually it was kind of nice always having like 50, 60 bucks on you just in case because you go to the odd places like cash only like, ooh, weird.

But yeah, I don't, I do not carry cash on me at

all.

Thanks for joining us.

What do you think about this?

Good morning.

I just think back to the movie office space where that was their plan that they were going to just take the few cents that the company would never miss.

And then like a day later, they like had a few million dollars because of those just those little cents adding up

right

quickly.

So, you know, I think about that.

And as far as I love using cash,

But mainly it's just because the government can track everything you do when you use a card.

And they can't do it if you play in cash.

It's true.

I mean, while I agree

with that,

I

think there's other ways for them to track you.

But as far as spending money, though,

Tom's right.

Yeah.

Thank you, Tom.

Appreciate it.

Richard from Waukesha is on the line.

Good morning, Richard.

Thanks for joining us.

What do you think about the penny?

Well, during the campaign for president,

I was promoting a 35 cent coin with Obama on one side and the other presidential candidate on the other side.

I'm vice presidential candidate because they were the first of their kind to be elected.

I was going for a 35 cents because that would save on pennies.

Everything's 99 cents.

Well, shouldn't it be a 33 cent coin then?

Well, or make a 4 cent coin, you know, somehow the mints got to change what they're doing and then save copper.

Well, thank you, Richard.

I appreciate you checking in on us.

I think

currently 2% of every penny is made of copper.

It's the outside and the inside is all mostly silver.

But yeah, I don't know.

Like for me, I want to, this thing is, I want to care about this.

And I know there are people out there who are going to be like,

We need the penny, Greg.

You don't understand.

But I'm one of those four and five that doesn't use cash.

See, and I do use cash occasionally, but I am not yet to the point where I dig in my purse so I can pay exact change.

Thank you for everyone who stands

behind you in

line.

That's going to ruin my goal of being that lady.

Your total is $4.95.

Do you take a check?

I want to be here so bad.

You will be someday.

I'm probably close.

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Yeah.

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Today it's the human sticky tape edition.

And there's a video element as well.

You want to brace

oneself.

You want to stick around for this.

I'm telling you, you want to stick around.

All right.

I would love to hear.

your opinion on this because I think it's going to cause a lot of controversy.

This is something that's been talked.

I'm serious.

People have very strong feelings about this.

This is the headline from TMJ for mixed reactions as Oak Creek police move to enforce parade viewing spot rules.

Police have announced they will confiscate property left more than 24 hours before the 4th of July parade.

This is something that happens in a lot of communities.

People have their regular spots where they go to watch parades and then they block it off or they leave their chairs, you know, on the road in their spots and they leave them there for days.

Lots of people have been doing this for years and years and years.

And I've been in the Oak Creek Parade, it's very popular.

You are a very famous GM there.

It's just part of the job.

But how do you, should they, should people be allowed to stake their spot for a parade or not?

Do you just show up the day of the parade and you take your chances?

Or should they be able to mark off their spot with their chairs and whatever else they want to bring for their parade?

855-752

4842, that's 855-75 Civic.

Should people be allowed to block off their parade viewing area two days before the actual parade happens?

855-752-4842.

I

am going to probably be very unpopular with this opinion, but I am going to say no.

No.

I think you want to show up the day of?

and plot out your, plot out your space.

Cool.

Someone has to be there the entire time.

Period.

So they have to camp there.

Or sleep in the chair.

And just no, well, they can't do it overnight either.

No, this is not like, they can't sit there for three days either in a tent.

It's the day of, you can find your space the day of, then you have to have someone there throughout the entire day.

Or someone just, or no, I just, this notion of like, I'm, first of all, nothing against Oak Creek and nothing against the fourth of July parade.

But it's the Oak Creek Fourth of July parade.

Who's coming in three days early?

It's a big, it's, there are some communities where

it's a huge, huge

deal in Racine.

It is also a big, big deal.

I mean, when I worked for the city, it was like, don't even go near downtown on that day.

I don't even talk about your car.

It's just insanity.

It's so crazy.

But I think personally, if you want to save a spot, that's fine.

you can do it the day of anything else cleared out because it's, it can also get in the way.

And, and, and let's say my like, like here in Racine, that parade runs along a residential area.

So

it's

right, it's run down, right, right down main street.

Exactly.

So people might be saying like,

If it's my property, I'm like, no, you can do it the day of.

If you were on my property, if you set yourself, it really swiped away and the day of that, then you can do it.

But let's say I need to do something like mow my lawn or something like that.

I just think, first of all, this is just ridiculous.

I can't believe I'm getting so passionate about it.

But also, I personally think, no, day of, that's it.

855-752-4842, Greg says no.

You shouldn't be able to park out a couple of days ahead of time before the parade.

How do you feel about that?

855-752-4842.

That's 855-75.

Civic Cassandra on the live stream says if they get that many people, maybe they should start renting out spots similar to people renting out parking in Madison for banter games.

One, like, what about the state fair park people?

Oh, my gosh, they do that every

year during the Wisconsin State Fair.

PJ says he also votes no.

Yeah.

How do we feel about people staking out their spots for 4th of July parades or even other parades?

855-752-4842.

This year, Oak Creek's 4th of July parade attendees can set up personal public viewing areas no earlier

than 24 hours prior to the July 4th 9 a.m.

start.

So you still have an extra day.

You

still have that and that is being generous and more than enough time.

I'm sorry, but just... I don't want to hang out with a person whose whole existence at a certain point is like, I have to stake out my place for the 4th of July parade and it's like 96 hours before the event.

People do.

I don't understand.

People do.

It's their thing.

I don't get it.

I do not understand.

And if you do this, call too.

Let me know why.

Tell me why I'm wrong.

Tell me the greatness of doing this.

Because it literally is trying to, you're trying to press information into my brain.

And my brain's like, no, don't do it.

It's tradition, Greg.

What does that even mean?

It's our family tradition that we sit in front of this house every 4th of July.

And watch the parade go by

what I what I hear when you say is it is it is tradition that every year somewhere around Wednesday Bob goes out to This area and sets down a bunch of chairs and a table and whatever else needs to happen And that's the tradition.

It's it's watching the parade is the tradition being with your family is a great tradition, but

What it says to me is that if you don't have that exact spot every year, then somehow it's less or ruined or bad.

I just don't.

Tony on the live stream says, Greg, you don't stake out your place for a Fourth of July parade.

Don't you love America?

No, he said, don't you love America?

Well, that

too.

No dedication in you kids.

Cassandra says, Greg, too, I also don't get it.

I feel like it's similar to people camping out for Black Friday sales.

Also, I'm pretty

sure I'm older than Tony, but that's not the point.

The point is, is that like, yeah, and this is just, who cares about my opinion?

My opinion doesn't matter, it doesn't.

Well, we all have an opinion.

And Oak Creek is made so you get a

full day.

Police say that the policy enforces existing laws regarding abandoned property in public spaces.

In recent years, some early parade goers set ups

have become hazards to drivers and pedestrians in the day before the parade.

Personal items put up along the parade route before 9 a.m.

July 3rd, like chairs, tents, tables, blankets, coolers, will be considered abandoned property and may be confiscated.

Those confiscated items can then be scheduled to be picked up from the city of Oak Creek Department of Public Works the day after the 4th of July parade.

Well, and that's the other question I have too, is that

One, this wouldn't be coming to light.

This wouldn't be being done if there weren't already problems.

Like they're not just willingly saying, you know what, I don't like this or, you know, they're not me.

They're not being petty, but- No, I'm sure there are reasons.

But also, like think about it, like if you put out a blanket, I get that, but if you're putting on a blanket, a chair, a cooler.

That's some money.

And what happens if someone just drives past and go, that's mine now?

Oh, exactly.

And I'm sure

a bunch of stuff has been stolen

over the

years.

It just doesn't.

It doesn't make sense to me.

Thank you, Cassandra.

She says you matter, Greg.

I know I matter, but my opinion does not.

855-752-4842.

You feeling passionate about parades?

Should you be able to set up three days ahead of time so you have your special, super special spot?

Do you think they should?