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which I think kind of got buried by everything happening in Los Angeles and Donald Trump calling in the National Guard and all of those things.

But the headline from the Wisconsin Examiner says, wrongly deported Maryland man, Abrego Garcia, returned to the US.

You may recall many Trump administration officials saying, out loud,

He's not coming back.

There's no way to bring him back.

No El Salvador is a sovereign country.

We have nothing to do with it He is in their custody.

That's it.

He's there.

The president said I have no power to bring him back.

Yeah, that was not true He's back Yeah, I break a certain Garcia landed in the US on Friday now they're accusing him of being a human smuggler Originally, he was an MS-13 gang member.

Yes,

right

Correct.

Yep.

They had a court, a court said absolutely without, without equivocation that he had no proof that there was, he was part of a gang.

So it was just pushing a narrative over.

And we heard people say he's in a gang, but there's no proof that he was in a

gang.

It's that whole proof thing.

But again, a Maryland Democrat, Chris Van Hollen says, I, as I have repeatedly said, this is not about the man.

It's about his constitutional rights and the rights of

all.

Yes.

So again, if he is found guilty of these things, then deport him.

I don't have a problem with that.

The problem I have is with our government snatching people off the streets and deporting them without putting them through due process to which they are entitled citizen or not.

Correct.

Yep.

We spoke at great length with Jim Santel, with Judge Paul Michelle about this.

The Constitution does not, one, the Constitution does not just cover, well,

If it says all, it means anyone.

Also, there's no such thing as habeas corpus for some.

It's for all or not.

And it either is in, in effect, or is not affected.

Can't just be like, well, Jane, we like you.

So you get some habeas corpus, but Calvin, you don't get any habeas corpus cause we don't like your glasses.

So that's not how it works.

No, that is not

how it works.

So at least again, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the United States.

He returned on Friday.

Contrary to all the things that the Trump administration told us, no, there's nothing we can do.

He's there.

He's never coming back.

Oh, now he's back.

Well,

now he's back.

And now he's more dangerous than ever.

Right.

We should have just wrote a list of other suspected crimes of Kilmorrow, Brigga Garcia.

Because before it was MS-13, that was just it, even though there was no proof.

And the court said that.

And he was a protected person in this country.

And from Maryland.

Yep.

But now he's come back and he is just, I mean, he's back in America and he's done all these things.

And it's just, okay, you're just gonna pile on all these claims, these claims, not charges, not proof, not convictions, but just, you know, as you said, Jane, bring him back, let him face it.

Let him go

through his due process and then take it from there.

But I did see another, and just briefly because we're going to move on, but I did see another article this morning that said 25% so far of the people that ICE have taken into custody have no criminal records.

And they know that too.

Like, it's, this is willy-nilly, pulling people up on graduation ceremonies at hospitals and in courtrooms.

And this is not the way to do things.

I thought the whole goal was to get rid of dangerous felons

or just

dangerous criminals

or people who are here illegally or didn't go through the process.

I also understand that motive as well.

But yeah, the criminals were the number one problem.

They were gotta get the criminals off the street.

If we don't get the criminals off the street, then the streets aren't safe, Jane.

And what are we going to do?

But no, it just seems willy nilly pretty much.

Yeah, pretty much.

Okay, we're going to move on to things a little bit more local and talk about the Wisconsin State budget.

Oh, great.

Robin Voss, Speaker of the Assembly.

On up front on Channel 12 yesterday, speaking to Matt Smith, Robin Voss says it's a lie that the Republicans refuse to invest in education and childcare as the budget talks break down.

Robin Voss telling WIS ends up front.

We're willing to do it.

Just not as much as Governor Evers wanted.

That's the difference.

He makes it sound like we were at zero.

We were not at zero on any of these topics.

We tried to find a way to invest in childcare that actually went to the parents and to make sure that we weren't just having to go to a business.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

But what the Republicans suggested that we talked about last week

was giving a tax incentive to businesses to open childcare centers.

Correct.

And did

I

imagine that?

No, we talked about there was an article.

I know I posted that article in the show notes.

But like there are a bunch of components to this matter.

And we've had Karine Hendrickson on many times.

She's been on many shows here on the Civic Media Network.

And it's about incentivizing the businesses that run the daycare centers themselves.

One of their big things is

giving some money to release.

So they don't have to keep raising their prices to pay their people a little bit more, not millions of dollars a year, but I think they said their target was to get them at $13, which is quite reasonable in my opinion.

And for the work they do still underpaid, but also, yeah, like there's the parents, there are the businesses.

And I mean, I don't actually have a problem with them incentivizing.

Companies to open up their own daycare centers, but that shouldn't be the only thing they're doing right which seems like the only thing they're doing

pretty much Yeah, I haven't seen any other things suggested from the Republicans and I I would love to see more businesses step up to this

but the

fact that we're not seeing that May see wonder if this is if this is a good enough incentive

I think it's a misdirected, directed incentive.

It comes back to the age old thing of like, they just want to help businesses.

They think businesses can do it right.

But what's weird is that, I don't know, Karine Hendrickson and all of her colleagues, they're business owners.

They are business owners.

They employ people.

They're job creators.

They contribute to the economy.

And if you give them the ability to run their business well and, and.

You know, I don't think any of them are looking for handouts that will allow them to become billionaires.

No.

But you allow them to have a partnership with a state that runs a solid business.

Then it's going to be a it's gonna be a net gain for the parents a net game for the child a net game for those businesses Because I bet you a lot of those businesses who are not in childcare like I don't want to open a daycare Do you know what will happen if I do that over I what I have to do in order to get that to happen Yeah, but what I mean, it's Robin boss Robin boss always says no even when he says he's saying yes, so

I don't trust him as far as I can throw him.

Well, and the other thing that kind of jumped out at me during this conversation, again, Robin Voss and up front on WISN yesterday, talked to Matt Smith, who does a great job.

But Robin Voss never once talked specifics.

No.

He never talked actual numbers.

No.

So it's just the governor asked for too much.

We didn't give him what he wanted.

So the governor walked away.

Well, we'd like a little more specifics about...

what you offered

him in

these deals.

Yeah, well, one of the things they said, you know, in the education portion of the conversation with regard to the UW system, he said that they are making, they want to require professors to work 12 hours to show they're working at least 12 credits.

One of the things we wanted was a guarantee you'd have every professor teaching at least 12 credits.

So 12 hours in the classroom for a full-time job.

and they just couldn't get there.

Robin, maybe let's not talk about full-time jobs.

I'm

just saying.

Well, also, do you know what it takes to be a professor at a college level?

You're brought to a, you're usually, if I'm not mistaken, because I have friends who've teaching in college, you can be an associate professor, you can be a teacher, you're teaching classes, but some of these professors are there because they were brought by the university to do research.

And write papers.

Write papers, be published.

raise the profile of those universities.

So yeah, they'll teach, but they're not going to teach all the classes.

That's why you have TAs and assistants.

And that's why like the system's in place to do it.

I mean, my parents didn't want me to go to college and say like, but I better make sure you better make sure that you're being taught by teachers.

That's not how this works.

And so his concern all of a sudden for the way the UW system is, it just seems, but then again, this is the same guy who said,

we gave more money to the public school system than anyone else in a generation.

Yeah, because they were getting nothing before.

For a decade.

Yeah, if you give them five bucks, that's

more.

Yeah.

Robin Voss also said that we want tax relief for the middle class and we believe that it should be something focused on retirees keeping more people in Wisconsin by having a lower tax burden and hopefully not having people move to a warmer climate for six months a year.

Yeah, that also doesn't make sense to me.

And if there's anybody who's listening, who is a snowbird who, who lives in Florida or is Arizona from anywhere, three to six months a year to get away from the winter, I get it.

My mom's slowly going that way too.

But as far as I know, my mom in her retirement, she's not a citizen of Arizona.

She's a citizen of Wisconsin.

So any taxes that are incurred on her behalf that she has to pay, she pays Wisconsin.

So.

I don't know what this means either.

It is once again a nice Robin Voss workaround where he's just saying a bunch of words that sounds smart or he's truly ignorant to how people pay taxes.

Yeah, we were talking about this before we came on the air to it again.

So for six months, they're not going to pay sales taxes here.

Correct.

Yeah.

But if you are a snowbird, I'm curious to know, would you not go to Florida for six months if your taxes were lower?

Yeah.

Well, they want to like do a thing of like, it's no tax on $75,000 a year, like your first $75,000 a year, which at the end of the day, for me personally, it's Robin Voss.

So it's always, there's, when they say tax cuts for the middle class, it's really not, it's tax cuts for their bodies, for their donors, for themselves.

Pretty much.

I have yet to see a real plan from the Republicans that gives a solid tax cut.

not just for retirees, no offense retirees.

I want you to get your money, get your bank kids, but also tax cuts for, you know, like for me and my wife, we don't have children.

So we miss out on a child tax credit.

Yep.

Just a basic middle class tax cut that benefits us all.

Show me the work, show me the money, show me how you're getting it done.

Don't just go on TV and talk about how Tony Evers can't be worked with.

Robin also says he's not overly concerned with the massive tax and spending plan moving through Congress despite projections that will affect Medicaid and food share.

Robin Voss says, I'm not all that worried.

It's an exaggeration for my friends on the left.

There are not cuts in Medicaid.

When they tell you there are cuts, it's untrue.

We're going to return after the break and talk about someone who worked for Doge and the vast.

Waste, fraud and abuse, he found.

That's all on the way.

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Matt Randolph, Mr. Global.

Oil and gas industry expert will be joining us as he does every quarter now.

Just

about yeah,

just

about

yeah, so stick around for Matt Randolph coming up after the 930 news right now that we were talking about Robin Voss appearing on upfront on WISN over the weekend and Talking about all the waste and fraud and abuse and the federal government and I just wanted to do this quickly before we get to some really important things in the budget.

Oh, yes.

Yes

a former employee of Doge Said he found federal waste fraud and abuse

were relatively non-existent.

What?

Sahil Lavinga told NPR, I personally was pretty surprised actually at how efficient the government is.

Lavinga is a software developer.

He joined Doge in March.

He told NPR, he just really wanted to make government websites easier.

That's why they brought him in.

I thought, cool, this is cool.

Yeah.

But.

He says, in working there, I did not find the federal government to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse.

I was expecting some more easy wins.

I was hoping for an opportunity to cut waste, fraud and abuse.

I do believe there's a lot of waste.

There are minimal amounts of fraud and abuse to me feels relatively non-existent.

We talked about this before again.

It's easy to say we keep finding waste fraud and abuse fraud is a crime

Yeah,

if that's the case then I would like to see these cases move forward in the courts from people all these people who are committing fraud and getting benefits They're not supposed to

it just seems like all the wasteful spending they did seem to find either was being Done quote-unquote done by

departments ahead of who Elon Musk had a vested interest in staying away from or social programs, which just seemed to help the people.

And for minimal money in terms of government spending, when you're talking about like millions, even $5 million

is nothing.

Seven digit to even low eight digit numbers.

That's nothing in government spending and to attack those programs.

And they're usually social programs.

Yes.

Helping to wait for it.

The poor, it just seems more targeted and, I don't know, just mean.

I know that sounds very childlike, but it's doing it because those individuals have no power.

They don't have the ear of a senator.

And who's gonna fight for them?

Exactly.

Who's gonna

fight for them?

Nobody, because they fired everyone who could fight for them.

Well, thankfully, there is someone out there to fight for the tanning bed people.

I'm who the tanning bed people are they a huge lobby that this came up over the weekend they slipped you know a couple of things in that big budget bill we did mention them last week yeah but Kelvin I believe we have a clip from speaker of the house Mike Johnson talking about tanning beds and this this break we're gonna give tanning bed owners let's take a listen

What about tanning beds?

It eliminates a 10% tax on tanning beds.

I mean, how did that become a priority

for you?

Well, look, I think that was an unfair thing that the Biden administration put on industry because they... It

goes back to 2010.

It's

been

around

for 15 years.

Long time.

But the Biden administration enhanced it.

And there will be modifications probably to that in the final package as well.

But we'll see how it comes

out.

What?

I love it.

I love that.

Biden did this while Obama actually implemented it.

And it was for, it was for health reasons too.

It wasn't just because they hated it.

And there were lots of

health groups that signed on

to this.

But Biden enhanced it.

How Biden?

Oh my gosh.

Like, like it must be great to be Barack Obama because.

Before it was all him, thanks Obama, Obama did this, it's Obama.

Now it's all Biden's fault.

It

could, I mean, like, oh my gosh, I stubbed my toe.

Well, because of Biden's policies,

I

stubbed my toe on my bed, because my bed is too small.

You know, listening to him, and honestly he's in similar jobs, when I listen to him or Robin Voss try to weasel their way out of policies that are just.

Let's face it, this one's ridiculous.

This is ridiculous.

To just be like, well, it's Biden.

But

that's their go-to.

That's the go-to excuse for everything.

Also slipped in this bill is a little thing about gun silencers, which I know Wisconsin's Joint Finance Committee heard all about when they went around traveling around Wisconsin and all the people who came forward pro-gun silencer.

Calvin, let's play that clip,

please.

There is a provision that eliminates attacks on gun silencers.

Now, this is a tax that has been on the books for about 100 years.

Long time.

Why are you suddenly...

cutting attacks on silencers.

Well, there's a lot of thought and deliberation that went into that as well.

The Second Amendment is a critical freedom in the Constitution.

And there's no real rationale for adding taxes on these pieces of equipment.

And we had the votes to do it.

I think it was a long time overdue.

I think we have to protect the fundamental freedoms of the American people.

And there's no rationale.

The government should not be making money on something that you have a fundamental and alienable right to.

Hold on

one second here.

I'm just going to look up on the second.

amendment.

I just want to read this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Bring up the second unless they

unless they've amended the amendment, the second amendment of the Constitution protects the right.

Oh, well, it says a well regulated militia being necessary to secure the free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Nothing in here about silence.

That's because they didn't exist.

It was hard to load a gun back in those days.

Could you imagine attaching a silencer to a musket?

Yeah, I don't really see this as a free and fundamental thing.

Taxes.

I believe that this legislation was authored by a Republican in the house who owns a gun shop.

That's right.

He does.

That's right.

Yes.

Just one of those little things they slipped in there.

So Wisconsinites.

Let's call our Republican representatives who all voted for this measure.

And just ask them about the tanning bed thing and the gun silencer thing.

If you're not sure how to contact them, go to myvote.wi.gov.

Myvote.wi.gov.

Let's call.

Robin Voss, well not Robin Voss, call Scott Fitzgerald and Brian Stile and all our other-

Glenn!

Call Glenn growthman and ask him, he's using tanning beds, isn't he?

That's who this is for.

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with Mr. Global, Matt Randolph is here, oil and gas industry expert.

Good morning, Matt.

How you doing?

I'm great.

How are you?

We are good.

Thank you.

Good to see you again.

Lots of things going on.

Just a couple.

We wanted to start.

I know.

I thought we would start, Matt, with the Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, visited Alaska.

And I've seen some things.

some chatter about the Trans Alaska LNG Pipeline.

So that's why Doug Burgum was there talking about how great this is and it's all about making America energy dependent that we're going to drill, drill, drill.

And so what do you know about this Trans Alaska Pipeline?

Well, you know, first of all, the administration keeps pushing these projects that could have easily been done.

Anytime in the last 50 years if they were actually economically viable like they just keep you know this thing in Alaska with the LNG wanting to double oil production build another pipeline There's there's been no real restrictions there that would have ever stopped anyone from doing that if they thought it was the best place to invest their money So I just want to say that right off the bat the vast majority

of, you know, this project would all just be gas that would be exported out of the country.

It wouldn't help, you know, as far as energy goes, it wouldn't help the United States at all.

It would make corporations a few billion dollars, I'm sure.

But this is all for export, like everything else we do now is to export.

And I think that's really important that folks understand that because, again,

If you don't dig too deeply into some of this stuff, it sounds pretty good, right?

It's like, yes, let's get another pipeline.

And this is going to help America become energy independent and gas prices will come down and all of that stuff.

But when you dig a little deeper into it, as you said, this is just a transportation portal for fuel to leave the United States.

But first it gets to cross the United States.

Right.

Yeah, and you know I I I don't know the economics of it, but I have I have serious doubts about whether this is even economically feasible you You're talking about basically one company would be producing

natural gas and having to build one singular 700 mile pipeline across the state of Alaska to get this gas to an LNG terminal just to send, you know, we've built LNG terminals all across the Gulf Coast and that's because there's just tons of existing infrastructure there to support that.

There's tons of pipelines already there, you know, from offshore and the Northeast corridor.

Everything anyone would need to do that is already there.

they're going to have to build this from scratch and and I'm just I just don't see how it's economically feasible but I you did say one thing I don't know if you heard my new catchphrase um it makes sense if you don't think about it right

um you

kind of touched on that a second ago I started saying that the other day and it took off so I

I like it that that works it makes a whole lot of sense just don't think about it too hard

But no, you're right.

I think I think the big problem though is like, you know, when you don't think about it, and as Jane said, when you just say, we're going to drill and we're going to do this.

And then when you try to offer just even a small bit of advice or a small bit of information on this, it then becomes, well, you're wrong.

You're just fake.

You're why don't you want us to have energy independence?

Well, I mean, I'm not saying we don't take in.

oil exports from other countries, but we are rather we have we have a lot of oil that we can drill that we've been drilling for ourselves.

Am I wrong?

No,

no, that is exactly right.

Yeah, so this narrative of like energy independence, it sounds really good.

And it sounds great if you love America and I love America, but it also just as a false narrative.

And going to like mentioning the prices to is like, one of the things that

Donald Trump said he was going to do.

I don't think he said it on day one, but he did say he was going to do this was cut energy prices in half.

I just need to know because you're an expert.

Has that happened?

No.

Okay.

No, that's not a thing.

Yeah.

Well, and let's go because we talked about this with you before.

And again, for people who are not familiar with you with you, Matt, Matt Randolph is an oil and gas industry expert.

This is something that you have to earn.

It's not like you get to be self title yourself this thing.

You actually have to earn it.

And he's got 30 years experience in the oil and gas industry industry.

So he knows of what he speaks.

But

Again, a lot of those things just sound good when he first talked about cutting oil and energy by 50%.

You essentially said, well, then we're going to stop producing natural gas.

We're going to stop doing all these things because if energy producers don't make any money, what is their incentive to do these things?

Yeah, and we've done the math on this.

Oil would have to be below $20 a barrel to cut the price of gasoline in half.

And I was interviewed by a gentleman named SV Date with the Huffington Post.

And I did an article that was backed before the election.

And when I told him this, it just blew his mind.

And I'm like, there's no cutting gas prices in half.

That's just not a thing.

It's 2025.

inflation is a thing that exists, right?

And you're wanting prices to go back to like what they were 60 years ago.

Nothing costs what it did 60 years ago when adjusted for inflation, right?

Right.

It's just, and you have to think in terms of how an oil company thinks, you know, we go back to this LNG thing and all this oil in Alaska.

If you was to ask anybody, you know, what's an oil and gas disaster, you know, the Exxon Valdez would be one they would bring up.

Sure.

And when was that?

1980?

I think was 45 years ago or so.

I could be off a little bit on that.

But the fact of the matter is that disaster was minuscule compared to Deepwater Horizon.

But people will still think of Valdez first because it's in Alaska.

It's in a place that people view as beautiful in nature.

This is another reason companies don't want to expand their businesses up there, because in their mind, hey, if we have a disaster along the Gulf of Mexico, people will talk about it for six months.

But if we have a disaster in Alaska, people are going to talk about it for 50 years.

They literally think about this stuff, right?

And that's why we're...

Whoops.

He got so... Whoa, somebody yanked Mr. Global off our live stream.

Oh my God, Jane.

They were all right.

He was here and now he's gone.

We will try to reconnect with Mr. Global on the live stream and get him back on the air.

We've never had this problem with Mr. Global

before.

But that was just mid-sentence, too.

Usually they have the decency to freeze up first, so we have an idea.

But he's

just like magic.

But that kind of blows my mind that, that Alaska, and I looked it up and it happened in 1989, the Exxon Valdez.

Okay.

Spell.

And it's almost like, and I will confirm with him once he returns it, it's almost like a marketing thing too, is like Alaska is, is dangerous to, to drill in because if they're, oh, he's back.

There he is.

Welcome back, Mr. Global.

Yeah,

lucky.

So you were saying before the internet had its way that they take into mind about doing work in Alaska because of the history there with Exxon Valdez and that it almost seems, and forgive me if I don't want to sound insulting to them or anybody, but that's almost like a marketing thing too.

It's like the marketing of Alaska for oil is hard because everyone immediately goes to that.

Yes.

Well, and

it's it's the same reason it's the same reason they can't get any traction and anwar, right?

It's it's if anwar was in West Texas Everybody would want a piece of because it's West Texas

explain what explain what explain what anwar is for folks who don't know

The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge that Donald Trump keeps trying to open up for oil and gas drilling and nobody will buy any leases You know, we've done this three times now had lease sales up there

They think there's a lot of oil there.

It's completely unproven It's on the it's north and west or north and east of Prudhoe Bay.

It's an untouched area of Alaska where Trump is convinced we need to drill I don't know why Trump thinks he knows anything about where we need to drill but Nobody wants to go there.

It's it is a hot button issue.

It's a topic

it would create, you know, believe it or not, as bad as the reputation as big oil companies have, they do care about their image and their brand.

And they're not going.

That's the last thing they need is to look even worse.

So what you're saying that is that these leases are available to drill in these areas, but oil and gas companies are like, yeah, I'm not doing that.

Let somebody else stick their neck out.

Again,

on the off chance that something goes wrong, and that's gonna stay in the public's memory for a really long time.

By the way, it's really interesting to me, and I know that you're right about the Exxon Valdez staying in folks' memories more than the Deepwater Horizon rupture, but I remember watching the film of that thing just gushing oil for days, and it was horrific.

But you're right.

It was under the surface and we didn't necessarily see the poor seabirds covered in oil so it didn't have the same impact

It's just it's I can call it vanity call it whatever but if something terrible happens out in the desert of Texas

People don't care as much as if it happens in the forest in Alaska.

You know what?

I mean,

that's that's just human nature There's nothing wrong with it.

That's just how it is

and now it's it's a monetized business.

It's called optics It's called optics and yeah, I mean that makes I can't believe about this place that actually makes me feel something of Love for these oil companies say, you know what?

We don't need to go to Anwar to do this We don't need to we don't need to risk this for for as you said unproven oil amounts that

It could also affect that part of the world and the animals that live in it.

Well, and as you said too, Matt, drilling is really expensive and exploration in and of itself is very, very expensive.

Yeah.

And.

that no place more expensive than where Donald Trump wants them to do it.

And we're laying down rigs in places where it's fairly cheap to drill.

We're certainly not going to be doing any drilling in the most expensive places in the world to drill.

Like it's just.

It's not a thing.

Yeah.

They don't get it.

They don't get it.

Yeah.

And one of the things I think I can't speak for Jane or Kelvin here, one of the things I've learned is that, you know, it sounds crazy, but like, you know, these oil companies just.

They're they don't want to drill oil They want to make money and making money comes from drilling oil and they're going to drill oil when they can find and they do the research I mean How long of research they do on a piece of property before they even put up a bit of equipment down?

To find out this is how much we can get this is how much we can net and we're gonna make a profit If not, we're gonna move on to another part of the country or the world

Yeah, and with today's technology It's very fast.

Yeah data mining systems built with AI

It used to be years, now it's days.

We're

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He is Mr. Global Oil and Gas Industry Expert.

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We're joined by Matt Randolph, Mr. Global Oil and Gas Industry Expert.

And we were talking about the pipeline in Alaska that the Trump administration is all touting now.

And we wanted to talk a little bit about gas prices, too.

Yeah, in the previous section, Matt, we were talking about the notion of basically cutting the prices of net of energy and half.

And one of the things that people always talk about, it's a it's a it's a real thing.

It's gas prices.

And we've talked extensively about gas prices here.

But and you discuss the point of when prices of oil are low, that's when gas prices can go down.

But that also means that the oil companies aren't making a profit.

And I want to harken back to

2020 where some of us were paying $0.89, $0.99 a gallon for gas because the demand was so low, the price of oil was so far down.

What damage did that do to oil companies as far as their bottom line?

I'm asking the question basically, this is why we won't see gas prices lower because they can't afford to do that period.

You must be muted, Matt.

technology.

Got me?

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, you know, first time in history, oil prices went negative.

Wow.

And then when they stopped being negative, they were still like, you know, 10, 15, $20 a barrel, we had more, we had the largest oversupply of oil and gas we've ever had in history.

And they

Couldn't hardly give the stuff away, right?

Um, but they were losing their shirts that that That's

Now we lost you again, Matt, you're muted again There we go now the mic there we

go Yeah, but but yeah, we you know oil went negative and then it was really low and companies were losing their shirt and

If you're paying 99 cents for a gallon of gas, you're pretty much just paying the taxes on it.

Like nobody's making, nobody's making any money.

But just in my, I live in one of the cheapest states in the country for gas.

And if I was paying 99 cents, it's, everyone in the supply chain is losing money except for the tax collectors.

There's, there's no profit anywhere.

And, but

We would have, the world would have to completely stop for us to get back to those prices again.

There's no possibility of that happening with people still driving and business going on, you know, on a normal function every day.

That's just, it's not a thing that can happen.

I guess my point, and that's the point I like to make to people is like, there's no incentive for oil companies to make- To cut their own profits.

Yeah, to create a world in which we pay far less.

And they somehow make money.

If that's, yeah, as you said, as we said, it's not a thing.

So.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, we're already laying down rigs like crazy.

I think we're up to about 40 rigs.

We've lost since Trump took office.

And, you know, that's with oil between 60 and $65 because inflation exists with companies too, right?

$65, $60 today doesn't, you know, how far does it get you?

Right?

Um, not very far.

That's so essentially where oil prices are today or below $40, where if you looked back five, six, seven years ago, it's we're having the same effect as sub $40 oil.

So we're going to lose more rigs.

We're going to lose oil production.

And, you know, gas prices will probably continue to fall, but it's not going to be a great thing.

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Jack from Merrimack.

Jack, we've got about two minutes left.

Thank you for joining us.

What did you want to say?

Well, I had a couple of things, but let's just look at this.

Can Matt explain what the depletion allowance is and how it works, please?

Did you hear that, Matt?

Yes.

So the depletion allowance is one of the

tax deductions that oil companies are allowed to take.

So let's say you have, we'll just try to keep it simple.

Let's say you have 10 acres of mineral rights and there's a specific amount of oil and gas that is expected to be in that 10 acres and you own that oil and gas, right?

As it depletes, the value of that asset is dropping.

And you get to take a tax deduction on the loss of the value of that asset Does that make sense

does that explain it would

be for you jack it would

That explains what it is but Why is it because you're producing you're getting profits from that oil that's been now pumped out of there

Exactly

I didn't say it was fair or correct.

I just said this is what this

is what it is.

Interesting.

It's just like the intangible drilling cost deduction.

You know, you're you're getting all of this value, but you're getting to write off 100% of that as well.

So yeah, I understand.

We had another question on the on the live stream at it.

I don't know how much time we're going to have to get into this.

We only got about a minute left.

RFK one says what would happen if oil and gas became a public utility nonprofit?

What would the price be then?

Maybe we should mull on this and we can bring you back and kick it around next time because again We only have about a minute left unless you want to try and touch this real quickly

That's about an hour Go

to his YouTube channel go find mr. Global on YouTube.

There's tons and tons of fantastic videos there

I would suggest also watching his story, Mr. Global's story.

That's a great half an hour video of his origin story.

Absolutely.

Matt Randolph is Mr. Global.

Thank you so very much, Matt.

Hopefully we'll get you back on in a couple.

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We are joined by State Representative Christian Phelps is here.

Good morning, Representative.

Thank you so much for joining us.

How are you?

Good morning.

I'm great.

Good to see all of you.

Good to see you as well.

We wanted to talk about the equality agenda.

Democrats in the state legislature, this from those kinds of examiner call for LGBTQ plus

Equality measures.

So what are we talking about?

What does this cover?

Yeah, it's basically an effort to take the month of June this year to not only, as we've done before, Governor Evers raised the pride flag in front of the Capitol, introduce a resolution proclaiming

June as Pride Month in Wisconsin.

But also to look at what that really means from a policy perspective.

Our LGBTQ plus caucus in the legislature is more than twice as big as it was last session.

I'm one of the new members.

There are 12 of us now who are serving in the legislature as out LGBTQ plus people who stand for a pro LGBTQ freedom agenda.

Uh, and so we believe our role is to outline, um, the parts of Wisconsin law that need to be ma...

Yep, he just froze.

We'll see if he comes back.

Technology is not our friend today.

It is not working in our favor today.

There you are.

Now you're

back.

Welcome back.

Did you lose me?

Well, yeah, you

froze for just a second there.

Okay.

All right.

Sorry.

Well, uh, we...

So the equality agenda in this case also means things like repealing the still-on-the-books constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Wisconsin, which of course isn't in practice because the US Supreme Court declared that marriage equality was, I guess, bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional in 2015, but we haven't removed that from our state constitution yet.

Then more alarming, things like

The fact that we haven't banned so-called conversion therapy, which is a torture practice that basically sends people to So-called therapy measures in an effort to talk them out of their own identity their sexual orientation or gender expression or gender identity And the gay and trans panic laws that are still on the book which basically say that if somebody is alarmed or scared that somebody is

transgender or LGBTQ in any way, they could lash out violently at that person, it would be framed as self-defense.

And so there are a lot of ways, and you know, earlier this year, we also introduced just updates to our non-discrimination laws to include gender identity and gender expression and things like non-discrimination on housing and employment.

So there are a lot of very tangible ways that our laws are not

Up to date with how I think the average person in Wisconsin feels, which is that they know and love at least one LGBTQ person and they want the best for them.

And this month, particularly this year with the administration that we have in Washington, trying to write some members of our community out of existence, it's very important that we not just celebrate our community, but recognize the ways that we need to modernize our policies to make it a more welcoming state.

And that's, you know, something we were talking about earlier before about attracting people to the state of Wisconsin.

And I know that I had conversations with some people who live in the surrounding states.

And they say things about, you know, the laws on the books regarding the community as well.

And women who just also don't feel seen as people to have autonomy over their body.

I mean, from a policy and campaigning standpoint, this is good for Wisconsin.

And everything you've spoken about so far, Representative, it's been very seems, you know, we shouldn't have a law in the book that will allow people to be violent towards people they perceive to be gay or lesbian or so.

these seem like very measured points.

What is the kickback?

Is there any blowback?

Who's defending this?

Who's

defending

this?

Who doesn't think this is good for Wisconsin?

And I'm not asking you to name names, I can guess, but I think that just that, you know, the tut-tut waving the hand, well, the morality of it all, we've heard it a thousand times, but it's not the case.

Yeah, good question.

As somebody who's in my first term in the legislature, I will say that one of the striking things is how seldom the majority party speaks with us.

And so they're kind of directed not to.

There is appetite in Wisconsin communities for bipartisanship.

But I don't feel that same appetite inside the Capitol because the question is more about who's going to get credit for things than about what's the right thing to do.

So I haven't had, I've not personally had conversations with my Republican colleagues about how they feel about these bills.

But the pattern that I've seen play out is that there are always excuses to keep us from actually achieving

you know justice in wisconsin um and it's because their economic agenda is incredibly unpopular and so they can only succeed politically if they are scapegoating and marginalizing groups of people so that um their constituents are focused on that instead of on the fact

that they don't want to expand badger care, don't want to invest in public schools, and other things that I know from living in Western, West Central Wisconsin with many rural constituents are not popular on their merits.

And so I don't know how many of my colleagues personally feel that LGBTQ people don't deserve freedom and don't deserve to have these laws modernized, but that's kind of irrelevant at the end of the day.

Ultimately, they've already spent a number of taxpayer days in session this spring and winter attacking trans people.

And it's because those are days they don't have to spend defending their very unpopular economic agenda.

You make that such a good point.

It really is.

Again, it's

Let's pick the biggest distraction we can find and make people look over there So that you don't look over here for things that are really gonna have much more direct impacts on your lives When we're talking about economic things when we're talking about healthcare when we're talking about education Those are the things that really directly impact people.

Yes, and that's something that you you know

You mentioned just before about, you know, this is your first time, this is the first time serving in the in the assembly.

You had to knock on doors.

You had to talk to the people.

I mean, I had to be your goal is to talk to people and you talk to rural, you talk to city, you talk to, you know, more affluent, less affluent.

And there's all these shared values here in Wisconsin.

And whether we're talking about access to abortion care, we're talking about education, we're talking about childcare, we're talking marijuana legalization and and

the LGBTQIA community as well, it seems like these are things that Wisconsinites tend to over to agree with.

But yet we have a, as Robin Voss puts it, a representative democracy in Madison that doesn't seem to agree with that.

And what you and I said before, these are measured points you're you're putting out there to grant freedom for all.

And yet it's about scaremongering to say like, well, but then but to give their buddies tax cuts.

Yeah, no exactly.

I mean I did I spoke with like 10,000 people at their doors last year We is a competitive part of the state and I had a competitive primary election and then a competitive general election There were a lot of conversations to have I come from the public education world when I go into the rural parts of my district and and knock on doors and say I want to fight to keep your public school

Alive and I think you shouldn't have to go to referendum and raise your property taxes while Republicans in Madison have sat on a four billion dollar surplus that they could have used to fund that public school I don't really find a lot of people that disagree with that But that's a conversation that the majority party has been trying to throw us off of having for over 15 years because

privatizing education in Wisconsin isn't something that's very easy to defend.

And when I ask people what their what their main concerns are just recently, you know, as a state rep, you know, I'm hearing that people are really, really worried about healthcare and about Medicaid cuts.

That was the number one concern I heard last weekend when I talked to people.

Almost nobody says that their number one concern is making sure that gay marriage stays illegal in Wisconsin.

I started to laugh at that.

I just now I'm imagining someone sitting at a picnic table actually saying that like, you know, I don't really care about the economy.

It's those men for marrying men.

My goodness.

If you're just joining us, Representative Christian Phelps is our guest.

He is a Democrat from the Eau Claire area.

I'm curious, Representative, what you heard when you went door to door, when you were running, did you get a lot of pushback about the fact that you're gay?

Did that even come up?

Almost never.

You know, I think this is very... I'll keep using the analogy to my education work because that's kind of my area of expertise.

And we've talked about how Republicans have really used populations of people as scapegoats and trying to thrown people off of the message that we really should be focused on.

I've always been captivated by the fact that when you ask people how they feel about education as a whole,

Versus their own local public school their opinion changes quite a bit and I think that's the case with with LGBTQ people as well You know Republicans have invested a lot of time and energy into villainizing education villainizing educators They've also spent a lot of time and energy villainizing LGBTQ people and particularly transgender people and so some of that works eventually when you invest a lot of resources into Trying to get people to feel the way you want them to feel sometimes you're gonna make

some headway on that.

But when you ask people, you like the teachers at your kid's school, and do you like your own niece who is transgender, their opinion skyrockets.

And so the blessing of being an assembly representative where we each have about 60,000 constituents and we really actually can build a meaningful relationship with a pretty big percentage of our constituents is that we can kind of localize those messages and say,

You know, I'm fighting for economic justice.

I think we shouldn't have a school lunch dead and children and poverty in our community.

And I have an economic plan for you.

And if you're worried about something like public education or LGBTQ issues, let's talk about what that means in our actual community.

Do you care about your neighbors?

Because generally people do.

Yep.

And I find it fascinating.

And we've talked to other folks who have said the same thing as you representative as far as when you when you ask people about their own public school.

They, we like our public schools.

It's that one that's bad.

It's that other school district that is bad, but not mine.

It's that other school district in the southeastern Wisconsin area that's right by the lake.

That's so full of people that I don't even know.

That's a terrible one.

I was told that.

We're going to continue our conversation with Representative Christian Phelps on the other side.

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She gives me, and she starts to cry.

She takes a swing, man.

She can't help.

She don't mean no harm.

She just don't.

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After the 1030 news, a segment we call Audio Sorbet.

a little chance for us all to take a breath and get away from the news and focus on something else for a little bit.

So we're going to be talking about the dumbest way you hurt yourself.

And I got a dumb

one.

Oh, I think we all have one.

What is the dumbest way you hurt yourself?

That will be our audio survey after the 1030 news.

So stick around for that and then we'll wrap up the show as we always do with this shouldn't be a thing.

Today it is the corn clave edition.

There's a visual element I highly encourage you to stick around for.

That's all coming up.

Don't shake your head.

I'm whatever.

You and your puns.

We're joined by Representative Christian Phelps is here representing Eau Claire and we're talking about equity in Wisconsin and our LGBTQ plus population.

We were also though talking about education as well.

And there's been, there has been a, I think it was earlier this year, Assembly Speaker Voss went on upfront and made a comment that they gave

the greatest funding to education in a generation.

He said like three times in that interview, and I'm pretty sure I'm correct if I'm wrong because you are an expert in this field.

You talk about education a lot.

It may have been a great injection, but it was also one of the first ones they actually had done.

They had been, they were suffocating.

the education system here in Wisconsin.

So I feel like, yeah, when you give five bucks away, you can say that's the greatest amount we've given away, but it's not like he quantified it.

He just said the greatest in a generation.

Can you talk more on that statement and what the reality was for the educational system here in Wisconsin?

Well, I'll give them a little bit of credit.

There was there was something historic about the last budget It was the largest ever and first standalone giveaway of public dollars to private voucher schools in Wisconsin history.

That was certainly historic.

Yeah

They are now receiving

In many cases, more dollars per student than many, many public school districts are in Wisconsin, even though they do not have to follow the same nondiscrimination laws.

They don't have to employ licensed teachers.

They are not banned from instituting corporal punishment, and they don't even have to keep the students that they don't want.

So there was something very historic about the deal that Robin Boss was able to strike with the governor to...

Invest a historic amount of our tax dollars to unaccountable private schools.

Yep.

That was very historic But to your point, yeah, I mean if you Rob somebody of everything they've got and then give them 10 bucks back like 15 years later You can say why aren't you grateful for those these 10 bucks?

But it's not that hard to see why they wouldn't be

The reality is that people can tell because hundreds of districts have had to go to referendums just in the past year.

And those are operating referendums, which means like this referendum is to keep our lights on, our doors open and our teachers employed, nothing new just to keep everything running.

And then most of them pass, but people are gonna run out of the ability to pass those eventually.

We are paying our taxes twice.

first for the Republicans in Madison to sit on them and give them a way to private schools.

And then again, through property taxes, through referendums, just to keep the lights on in our local public schools, that's not a fair or sustainable way to fund education.

And this is a perfect example of something that they would rather not talk about while they are peddling anti-trans propaganda instead.

Yeah, it's a great distractor.

It's a great look over here.

Look over here.

Be scared of this.

Let's not look at where we're actually doing.

And I think

You said something so important.

And that is my biggest gripe with charter schools and private schools is there is no oversight body.

They don't have to report to anybody.

And as someone who comes from the education space representative, how do they justify that?

I'm genuinely curious on how they justify not having to be accountable for their curricula or anything like that.

And yet they are getting public dollars.

Yeah, I mean,

There is nothing wrong with having issues with your your public school In fact, I think the beauty of a public system with an accountable locally elected school board with open meetings laws and Taxpayer participation is that we are supposed to have Critiques and issues with our public schools and then work on them together and get through them But I think that if your goal is to

privatize and profit off the system instead of to provide for every child in Wisconsin as our constitution requires and our moral compass requires.

You see critiques and issues of public schools as an opportunity to say instead of working on the public system together, we should go over here, hide the money, have a

Profit based private system and then invest a bunch of resources into kind of building a narrative around that they call it school choice I say yeah, the schools do have a choice they get to choose whether they want your kid or not

Yeah, and if

they can just kick them out That's something a public system can't do and they get to choose if they want to listen to you or not there They don't have to hold an open meeting and and tell taxpayers what they're doing so

It's a little bit of a misnomer when they call it that.

I just call it privatization.

But it's kind of two schools of thought.

When you look at the state budget and you see how many state resources have to go towards education, I see that as our state.

Having a responsibility to provide as the state constitution requires a fantastic public education to every young person in Wisconsin, no exceptions.

But some people see that pie as a bunch of money that they should get their hands on.

And that's kind of the fundamental difference between me and somebody like Robin Voss or billionaires.

What is that website that you've used?

Actually, from a group that Christian has worked with for a lot, the Wisconsin Education Network.

There is a formula there that I will put in the show notes.

You can see how much money is going from your taxes to private school through the voucher system.

And it's a lot if you're losing a certain

amount.

It's a lot more than you think.

Represented from

$100 million a year statewide.

Representative Christian Phelps has been our guest.

Thank you so very much for joining us.

We'd love to have you back.

Thanks

so much

for inviting me.

Good to see you all.

You as well.

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Great comments on the live stream about Representative Phelps.

And hopefully we will be able to have him back.

He was great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So many things we can talk to him about as well.

Absolutely.

Right now, though, it is the portion of the program that we call Audio Sorbet.

The Harps.

But we like to lighten things up take a break get walk away from the news just a little bit and Cleansing for your ear as it were and we were talking before we went on the air about silly dumb ways you have hurt yourself and I think we've all Done one or two or five Dumbest ways you have hurt yourself eight five five seven five two

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Who wants to start?

I'm going to start with a woman named Gail who emailed us in at Jane's.

I actually know you can email these Jane says at civicme.us but use a different email.

Point is stupidest way I hurt myself.

Drinking and dancing to Love Shack at

A wedding, I broke my wrist.

Then surgery with metal plate inserted.

Ooh, fallout on, foosh, fallout on hand, stretched hand, is it a real medical term?

Oh, I see what you're saying.

Foolish fallout on the hand.

Lesson, no more drinking and dancing, one or the other, not both,

when you're

over 60 post-menopausal.

Gail from New Berlin.

Look, I don't like the idea that you hurt yourself.

I want everyone to be safe.

But if you're going to hurt yourself, that's one way to do it.

Drinking and dancing to the B 52.

That's a that's a wonderful story.

Worse ways.

Exactly.

855-752-4842.

Dumbest way.

You have a hurt yourself.

I have to try and narrow it down to one.

Yeah.

Ollie from the Northwoods is on the line.

Good morning, Ollie.

Thanks for joining us.

How did you hurt yourself?

Well, I

I don't think I can beat that other Lee.

Give it a

shot.

Well, when we were kids, we used to play a lot in the woods behind our army barracks and there was a tree and we all decided that we were going to play Tarzan out of

that

tree.

And apparently I wasn't very good at it.

fell out and cut my leg clear down to the bone and they had to run home and get my mom and she wasn't very happy about

it.

Isn't that interesting?

That's so funny, Ollie, because that is parenting from when we got parented.

Yeah.

There was no, oh, Ollie, are you okay?

It's like, no, you idiot, you fell out of the tree.

Look what you did.

Right?

Where is your sympathy?

Where's the oh my baby you hurt yourself?

It's like no you were stupid.

I was talking to your aunt Carol and now I gotta come take care of you my goodness That owl owl Yeah, and now all the like it's it's in my head that compartmentalized to not just the dumbest ways I've hurt myself But the different ways are like oh, you know lawn accident.

Oh

bike accident.

Oh, this said this, like there's so many different.

We've all done it.

Yeah, we've all done it.

Thank you, Ali.

Appreciate it.

Dumbest way you have hurt yourself at 855-752-4842.

Nancy on WAUK texted in earlier, Nancy from Illinois, trying to get a piece of cement out from under the soil in my backyard, the cement one.

Alicia on the live stream says, dumbest way I hurt myself, stepped out of a FedEx truck onto a curb and spraining my foot.

Just stepping out.

It's those things.

I got a subent story.

I'll tell that in a moment.

But it's the ones that we're just trying to live.

Yeah.

Not doing anything special.

I'm not jumping out of a plane.

I'm not trying to run a 100 yard dash or even trying to.

get cement out of my backyard sometimes like one time I was laying in bed and as you lay in bed and you like oh I gotta stretch I got a big stretch coming out there's one of those stretches where it's full body like the whole thing and like I just stretch so hard that something in my back just pulls

That's how I got sent home from work that day.

I was in bed.

I pulled my I've stretched so hard I pulled something in my back I walked into work.

I could barely walk.

They said just go home.

You're useless.

I wasn't trying to do manual labor I was just trying to wake up and I hurt myself Welcome to your 40s.

I'll just wait it gets better 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 our question today on audio sorbet is the dumbest way to

You have a hurt yourself.

Whistler from Richland Center is on the line.

Good morning, Whistler.

What you want to share with us?

Well, this is kind of strange, but it happened.

Taking a nap one afternoon.

And well, I dream a lot.

And I guess I got a little rambunctious and started reacting and threw myself off the couch, hit the coffee table and cut my knee open.

Whoa!

So you're having a really active dream and you fall off the couch and hit the coffee table and rip out your knee.

And then when you went to the doctor, wasn't it embarrassing when you went to the doctor because you have to explain to him how you hurt

yourself?

What was bad is that my granddaughter was sitting in the chair next to the coffee table I hit.

Oh,

you must have scared her to have to death.

Just

watching you.

Oh my gosh.

Well, thank you very much, Whistler.

We appreciate the call.

Cassandra on the live stream says, bending over to pick up a wheelchair pedal, strain my back.

Yeah.

Just bending over.

Sometimes you're just trying to live people and your body's like, oh no, I'm going to make this one hurt.

What is the dumbest way you have hurt yourself?

8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2 Sarah and Green Bay listening on WGBW.

I won $5,500 on a dive bar slot machine.

Dang.

My sister and I were kind of hopping up and down celebrating and I heard a pop.

My knee gave out.

I tore my ACL having to be off of work for three months.

So there went my profit from the win.

Look at this, Liz from Stockville, another blew out my ACL on my left leg while mashing at a party at my mom and dad's house.

Well, I mean, I can get that, mashing it pretty, pretty tense.

That can happen.

That can happen.

So I'll tell my cement story real quick.

I used to work my senior year for a summer.

I worked for a guy who did tile work.

And we go all over the region to do jobs.

And one day we just had to do a quick cover up, quick patch job.

And he said, all right, and I used to mix the concrete.

And I usually mix it in a barrel, in a wheel barrel, but this time it was a small thing.

So you just take that bucket, mix it in.

And so I had this bucket in my arm, and like you're holding, and I'm mixing it with a trowel real, real quick, you know, just, and all of a sudden it just came and I threw concrete into my eye.

That is the first step.

I had to put everything down it immediately started burning Oh God, and I I don't even remember if I told my boss, but I had to like wipe all the concrete out of my eye and like really

So before it hard, well, Jane, don't get ahead of me here because I thought I got everything out.

I went to a concert with my cousin and I slept over at their house that night when I woke up.

I'm not kidding you.

My eyelids were sealed shut.

My eyelid, my left eyelid was sealed shut with tiny specks of concrete in there.

And it was, I, my aunt had to like literally pull them apart, like had to like take a walk, pry them open.

It was one of the most terrifying things, but just, I remember

Whipping that concrete in my eye going, yeah, of course this happened.

Naturally.

This is my fault.

I know it's my fault.

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Lori from St.