A Five Year Old Could Explain This (Hour 1)

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A Five Year Old Could Explain This (Hour 1)

Matenaer on Air · Tue Jul 22, 2025

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Our friend and colleague and recent travel companion Todd Alba, host of the Todd Alba show from two to four across the network, joining us after the 9.30 news.

We're gonna talk about Wisconsin's own Sean Duffy.

Oh boy.

Head of the Department of Transportation.

Something happened over in Minot, North Dakota yesterday.

They're just having all the bum luck.

Yeah, not good.

It was not good.

So we will be talking about that with Todd.

Also, this is breaking now just as we're coming on the air.

Departments of Justice Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Twitter this morning.

announcing that they are going to interview Jelaine Maxwell about information related to the Epstein files.

So this is gonna be their, what, third, fourth, tenth conversation with

her?

This will be the first one.

They've never talked to her before?

They have never spoken to her before.

And now they need some distraction because people aren't happy.

No, they're not happy, but there are definitely a lot of individuals who want to quote unquote help the cause by also saying things like we need to focus on other things and move on This is an important nothing to see here weird cuz two weeks ago It was the end all be all of importance and now all of a sudden we've got we've got things to take care of Jane that are more important like I don't know

I really don't know.

I have no idea.

Well, we're gonna get we're gonna kick that around with Todd around 950 in hour number two, Corinne Hendrickson, who has been on the show many, many times.

Childcare daycare on a daycare center in Wisconsin is now going to close it.

Yes.

Has announced she has to close her daycare center because even though in the state budget that was agreed to what was it last two weeks ago.

just a couple of weeks ago and did not include all of the childcare funding that had been asked for and she just can't make it.

She just can't make it.

So Kareen Hendrickson is going to be joining us after the 10 o'clock news for a little update about that and then we will lighten it up as we do.

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Today it's the Here Kitty Kitty edition.

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So that is all on the way.

We did want to give you a little heads up as well.

We're going to be off tomorrow.

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And it's just keeping everybody in line.

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It'll be fine.

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So yes, we're going to be in Madison all day tomorrow, but Matt Rothschild will be here and he's done a great job covering for us in the past.

We're very, very appreciative of that.

All right, we wanted to start off with this, though, this from WISP Politics and the headline reads, MMAC leader says Trump just wrong on tariffs.

So tell me more about this big.

Gigantic liberal telling me that Donald Trump is wrong.

Who is this lily lily livid lefty lunatic?

Yes, the crazy lunatic lefty president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce is Dale Coynga.

I've heard of him.

Yeah, he was a Republican lawmaker here in Wisconsin.

Oh

Yeah, yeah, he's a Republican.

Mm-hmm.

Just want to say that again.

Yeah case some people are

not hearing correctly.

Dale Koanga is a Republican and says Donald Trump is just wrong on tariffs as trade and key partners are the ones who take a hit amid the uncertainty about US policies.

Because again, with this Mr. Dealmaker, great deals in 90 days.

Well, we're past that now.

Far past that.

Now it's in two weeks or

A deal here, a deal, they're trickling in.

The Trump administration says they're being inundated with calls.

Everybody wants to make a deal.

We just can't announce them yet.

No, and if I'm not mistaken, I feel, I'll look this up right this moment, but I feel like there actually hasn't been a single deal made.

Well, he keeps moving the deadlines.

It's like, don't cross this line.

Wait, let me move it.

Don't cross this line.

Well, I'll push that back too.

Oh, according to this, we have struck a few deals with some countries

like

four Vietnam, one to European Union, Indonesia, China, United Kingdom, Kingdom and Vietnam, which, you know, hey, nothing to shake a stick at.

It's more deals than I've done.

But the way they make it sound like it, I think they said something about like 200 deals.

I'm like, there's only 192 countries.

But also the note, the notion that what you just said here is that is that

maybe if the, if the, the tariff deal was announced and actually stuck to like, Hey, we're going to raise tariffs on Canada by 5%.

And then do that instead of saying, we're going to raise tariffs on Canada, 250,000%.

Oh, we're just kidding.

It's 12%.

The, the, it's constantly being changed.

There's

no consistency.

Well,

they're moving the line all the time.

And that's something business doesn't like, although.

I want to check the stock market.

I feel like the stock market had initial problems in April, like when we lost like 5% of our worth on the stock market.

But now I feel like the stock market just knows that no matter what happens, whatever he says, it's going to be fine because he'll walk it back and change his mind.

Those huge dips

are

happening as much as they were

because they're

just like just give it if in 48 hours It still looks like this then maybe but for now just just let it go

What does that tell you that Wall Street is ignoring Trump?

Yeah, essentially.

It's like yeah, he says that now Let's just ignore it for a couple days.

You're right and see what happens.

Yeah, that's so comforting Signing those close to the president as well as Donald Trump's own remarks Dale Coinga said

Trump truly believes tariffs are a positive economic tool.

He's just wrong about that, says Coinga, the Republican who previously served in the state Senate.

He also pointed to a large consensus of mainstream economists across the political spectrum who say more free trade is better than tariffs.

Are you kind of pointing to like, I don't know.

Science and math and all that stuff?

I don't know that that's gonna fly, Dale.

Well, I mean, we don't... We don't believe science anymore.

Well, some people don't believe science anymore.

This is just another example of what a former politician can do and say when they leave office.

Isn't that amazing?

It's amazing how they don't have to worry about backlash or punishment.

They're unencumbered to speak the truth.

And the truth isn't a... I mean, he takes a swipe at university funding and research in there.

So he's not some liberal... He's not some former Republican who's now a Barack Obama liberal.

He's still a conservative.

Yes.

of beliefs, he's just speaking common sense and logically that when you raise tariffs, prices go up, we have to pay.

And that puts a strain on the economy.

And that has been explained seven ways to Sunday on various social media news programs where it's just, it's that thing of like, how do you not understand this at this point?

And I feel like the tariff discussion for those who are still very like,

Mega like they're like, oh, they love mega.

They just can't get enough of it They kind of they kind of say like well, we you know the tariffs are the tariffs don't worry about that because they know that they're gonna pay more They already know

they're

gonna

pay more what we were told that we were told to expect two years of pain

Elon said two years of pain and and the president said on through social just deal with it so

It's it just goes back to the thing of like we keep on explaining this point that the prices are gonna go up and the and the economy Can get worse and we are now five months into the administration as James Vanderloo said who is the president of OEC OEC Milwaukee he said that it's gonna take three to six to twelve months To understand the full impact of these tariffs as these as they are solidified because right now the deals have been struck with less than a dozen countries, but we will see the impending

Pain that is supposedly coming

one again as you said it takes a while for this to show up Port director Port of Milwaukee director.

Yeah is seeing lower activity overall Port director Jackie Carter says salt shipments coming from Canada are almost 60% lower than at this point last year Some of that has to do with what we had in stock and where we don't have space to replace those cargoes, but a lot of this

has to do with a slower start to the year because of all the uncertainty.

And as Koinga points out to the Port figures, he says, by the way, we don't have salt mines in Wisconsin.

So saying we don't need it from Canada, we'll just make it here.

We can't make salt.

No, Jane, you're wrong.

We're just going to

make it.

We're going to create salt mines.

We're going to put kids in there.

They're going to mine that salt and then America will be great again because we got.

kids working good jobs, they'll pay them, I don't know, a dollar an hour.

But yeah, it's, it's, it's this also in that same article, it says that, you know, Wisconsin has a trade surplus, $2 billion trade surplus with Canada, because Wisconsin is a very powerful manufacturing sector.

So we could lose that surplus and lose that viability.

If these things continue, these, these tariffs have knock on effects for not only the consumer, but also the people who are in the industries that the tariffs

effect they're going to be affected because as we saw with ginseng if it comes too expensive for Canada to take our goods they'll find

them somewhere else and they'll

never

Come back.

Exactly.

We're still reeling from Trump 1.0 the first time around with all the markets that our farmers lost because of that mess.

Gene from Eau Claire, I see you on the line.

We will take you on the other side.

We got a text from Don in Waukesha.

I want to share with you as well.

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We were talking about tariffs and the...

Former Republican lawmaker here in Wisconsin the head of the Metro Milwaukee Association of Commerce Says President Trump is just wrong mm-hmm on tariffs Because trade and key partners are the ones who take the hit he didn't mention you as consumers because we take the hit as

well absolutely,

but that's kind of a ring from the

administration line.

And in other news, breaking Dale Koenga is labeled as Rhino by the mega party.

This just in Dale Koenga, Rhino.

Rhino.

Because he's dare speak against dear leader.

And honestly, as I mentioned before, just said something that's based in logic and common sense.

Well, we can't have that doesn't even take honestly, doesn't take economists or doesn't and doesn't take

you know, finance experts to explain how tariffs work.

It really does.

Apparently it does.

Oh, my God.

Apparently it does.

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Good morning, Jean.

Thanks for joining us.

Well, good morning, guys.

Now, this is my own personal biased opinion.

OK.

OK.

My first response is, yeah.

And another thing is, God dang, I don't even call by his name.

I call him like a DJT.

It's like a disease or illness that's infected our entire country and the world.

But I'll go aside from there.

And he's like a weapon of mass destruction through weapons of deception and chaos.

And

he takes

from the poor,

and give to the wealthy, hey, they got their pocketbooks open and they run into the banks.

Well, anyway, also, I hope people are watching the hearings with his yes men, who are now running our country, taking from our department that every single American depends on and spending it for his alligator alcatraz.

Boy, people ought to look at that.

and every country is watching us and they're wondering what the devil's going on with those americans they must be different than what we thought of because they keep voting these people until people wake up and watch those hearings watch the hearings oh on Epstein oh my gosh you know hey we've got a history of pedophilia in the republic

Republican party, I'm sorry to tell ya.

I mean, the Democrats, they may do some things too there, but the pedophilia that they, you know, don't look at me, look at that guy over there who really isn't doing it, but I'm gonna distract and point him out.

And you know, the guy, I can't remember his full name.

He was a speaker in the house and he was Republican.

Oh, Denny Hastert.

Yeah, Dennis Hastert.

Yeah, Denny Hastert.

Yep.

And the way they went after people all the time and hear that man was in prison, I don't know where he is now because there's too much going on to follow up on that one.

But he had young boys.

And you know, this is so alarming to me because people need to wake up and look at the facts and see what's going on here.

And that man needs to be sent home or wherever they want to put him in a prison really and seriously.

But that's my opinion.

And you guys have a good day, and I'm continuing watching those hearings because you know what?

They don't have budgets, and they don't know where a lot of the money's going, billions, so pay attention, folks, because you're getting robbed.

Have a good day.

Thanks, Gene.

You keep watching them.

Yeah.

You keep them watching.

You keep watching them.

Keep them honest.

Gene's on your tail.

She is.

And I applaud Gene

for it.

Absolutely.

She really watches what's going on.

She

does.

Don from Waukesha texted in listening on WAUK.

General Motors, I saw this yesterday, General Motors reported that its core profit sank over 32% in the second quarter.

This has tariff headwind sapped $1.1 billion from its results.

The Big Three automakers warn the hit will be deeper in the current quarter.

providing food for thoughts to investors who are looking at the Trump trade policy.

And when I'm thinking about, you know, when we were discussing the farmers from Trump 1.0 being decimated through various... They got their bailout.

But that's the thing is, they get their bailout.

I think it was $12 billion.

This country has a history of bailing out the audio industry in recent years.

So if they lose enough, what stops Detroit and other manufacturers from just putting their hand out saying, hey, we're about to go under.

We need your help.

And Trump's saying, well, yeah, I got you.

We'll put together a package because we have to save the auto industry.

Well, I'll put together

a package for you.

Want to donate to my library?

Yeah,

absolutely.

Because that's how things work within the Trump world.

What are you going to give me

if

I give you?

Absolutely.

It's very

much a quid pro quo, transactional kind of thing.

Which if that does happen, I'm just going to put this out here.

I would love to see Elon Musk's reaction because they're his competition and he doesn't like them and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that stuff.

But yeah, I foresee bailouts.

more than just the farmers and and and honestly I don't even like calling it bailouts to the farmers because they were hit without like this wasn't nefarious on their part they needed to help and they got help and that's good but

I don't know the auto industry to two bailouts and this this has not happened by the way It's just how I see it.

The piece is falling down the road.

Well, we'll watch it.

Yeah, exactly

watch it and see

what

happens We have news coming up next and then when we return our friend and colleague Todd all the host of the Todd all by show from two to four across the network joining us on the other side Wisconsin's own Sean Duffy

We want to go to Minot, North Dakota.

I think there's some things going on there.

That's all on the way.

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And now he is back with us once again.

Todd Alba from the incredible Todd Alba show two to four across the civic media network is live from his patio in Madison.

Good morning, my friend.

How are you?

Jane, Greg, Kelvin together again.

So the Muppets,

right?

Yes.

Yes, yes.

We're

back together again after spending much of last week together.

What a thrill.

It was great.

We had a great time with all the stops, but that cabin at Lena's in the North Woods there, Lena's Northern Pines Resort.

Greg Bach and I went out and had coffee in the morning.

It was absolutely quiet.

And we both looked up and said, Serenity now!

It was great.

It was.

It was just a wonderful trip.

And thanks again to everybody who put it together and helped pull this off and all of our wonderful guests.

And we just had so much fun.

It was it was fantastic.

Hopefully we'll be able to do another one.

I'd like to get back on the road.

Looking forward to it.

Yeah, we should get us get ourselves back on the road.

Next month or

two we talked about this three of us over over a beverage or two and I think we kind of all agreed you guys correct me if I'm wrong

One of the greatest, not the greatest takeaway, at least for me, is I always get more out of going on the road than I feel like I give into the community

visit.

Yes.

Because I get so much out of it listening to people on the ground.

It reminds me of what's really important, the vast majority of Wisconsinites.

And it's just nice to finally, you know, we do this every day and we're looking, in your case, you guys are looking at each other.

I'm looking at a wall or zombers or out on State Street.

And, you know, you think, well, is anybody listening sometimes?

Right.

And then when you meet

the people who are, and they tell you what's really on their mind, that just re-energizes me.

So I thank all of our listeners and viewers.

Yes, very much so.

And just to have the folks, we had Logan stop by when we were here and Steve stop by and just those little...

We listen.

We love you.

It means the world.

It really does.

It absolutely means the world.

So thank you to everybody, again, who came out and supported our shows as we took them out on the road.

I did want to talk a little bit about Wisconsin's own Sean Duffy.

Todd.

Our head of the Department of Transportation because he's traveled on roads and he's been in planes.

I assume that's pretty much He's

also in charge of rockets

and rockets and he can roll logs So what why wouldn't you appoint him the head of the Department of Transportation?

This is a really concerning thing that happened.

I believe it was yesterday This is from CBS Skywest flight does aggressive maneuver

to avoid a B 52 bomber.

Oh, this happened Friday night.

The pilot of a Sky West flight told passengers he had to perform an aggressive maneuver to avoid a B 52 that was in flight as he was coming into land in Minot, North Dakota.

Apparently.

There was an air show going on, or there was a North Dakota State Fair was happening, so the B-52 was doing a flyover over the fair.

The air traffic controllers in Minot don't use radar.

It's all visual, and I know that this isn't unusual for some airports, but this is a tragedy that was narrowly averted.

Yeah, no, I totally absolutely was a tragedy early averted.

I I watched the reporting on this this morning CBS for all of its problems these days They still have some great reporters and one of the great reporters at Chris van cleave, which is their transportation reporter and and according to their reporting and

Look, I'm not I'm not disputing.

Could there be more qualified people than Sean Duffy to be the transportation secretary?

Oh, yeah, I think the answer is yes on that I mean he was a member of Congress in addition to his reality TV and Fox News stuff and you know, he did get both Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson from Wisconsin voted to confirm him So that's something but this thing in North Dakota it appears kid is very very early yet It appears what happened is as you said Jay the

There was an air show, just like we were at last weekend in Oshkosh, not nearly as big, but a similar air show.

The B-52s or that squatter of B-52s is based, I don't know, 10, 12, 15 miles away from where this air show is happening.

And to your point, Jane, as I understand it, I'm only reporting what other legit reporters have said, that apparently the air traffic controllers at the Minot Airport are

from a private company.

And so that airport doesn't have this own radar.

They rely, whether it's the Air Force's radar, 15 miles away or wherever.

But it's a private, I think one of the key things, this is a privatized company.

And

we don't.

These are contractors and I don't we don't know yet exactly what happened again the keyword It appears that perhaps the air traffic controller as a contractor made a mistake Air Force claims it went through the route before the B-52 flew over the Delta pilot coming out of the twin cities going to Minot says everything was copacetic there big credit to the pilot of the Delta Airlines flight according to a passenger did a major U-turn and looked out the window and they all you see is ground I mean that's that's how

hard it was

Well, and let's

just look back when the Trump administration took over in January and how they handled.

say the FAA and our air traffic controllers.

And first it was, we got to fire everybody.

And now they're like, you're 65.

Do you really need to retire already?

Why don't you work a couple more years?

Come on.

Why don't you stay?

When's the last time we heard about the old doggy doggy Yeah, doji, you know suddenly you don't hear a lot about that anymore.

No, no, it's out of favor It's no longer.

It's no longer cool to talk about apparently not, you know two things that mean on this topic one It reminds me though the conversation we had with dick napinsky last week in Oshkosh where he did, you know, this is not to

Not to say what happened wasn't important or wasn't it was tragedy averted but What I didn't know was that air travel has actually been safer over the past 50 years, which is good to know Unfortunately, we don't talk about that in the press conferences and the press releases but what's happening with the FAA is a systemic problem that's been also happening for decades as well and and I would like to see

Sean Duffy do something about it because these individuals are still working on pieces of paper and Technology that is not technology

anymore,

right?

So, you know, there's a whole like this just honestly this whole thing in mind Just brings up the conversation again to say what is being done and to speak to your point Todd as well Yeah, the the the ones who who hold the the flag for privatization of everything

There's no guarantee that it's going to be better.

And that's gonna save you money.

That's the other thing to it.

It's gonna be better because it's private.

It's gonna save us money because it's private.

That

doesn't always

shake out that way.

No, it doesn't.

No, I I agree and and again, I think it's be interesting.

This is moves forward and we learn more about about the facts Hopefully from good reporting out there in in South Dakota.

I you know, I Spend a year.

I think I was like six years old My parents went through North Dakota up there.

My not so I don't remember that trip as it turns out, right?

But I think it's a you you guys and I We were in small towns in northern Wisconsin and last week and we heard how you know

things done they just have to kind of come together as a community and rely on one another because

whether you want you not you but the the general you whether folks want to you know say well there's not enough government funding or whatever it's these individuals just say hey we're going to get this done so i want to know from the folks up my not had they asked for federal funding for air traffic controllers and it was denied by their republican representatives there and in congress did they just say hey this is the best we can do air service is important to my not we're going to go with private contractors because that's all we can afford so i i think the backstory of this and

And then is how is that replicated around the country?

That'll be interesting to watch.

Well, and you may yes, that's those are very good points, Todd.

And I also think it's important.

I mean, Kristi Noem did say when they were trying to divert attention from some another plane incident that had happened that they're in the process of upgrading these systems, which as you said, have been kind of neglected for a very, very long time.

Our government has done all kinds of kicking the cans down the road in all kinds of different areas.

And this would be one of them.

Yeah, absolutely, and I think that's why my opinion

When the Biden administration and Pete Buttigieg's transportation secretary worked into bipartisan fashion to get that transportation funding bill that infrastructure bill It truly was historic because it was taking on particularly bridges roads, but also airports

and

aging infrastructure I mean Jane you've been to Europe more than any of the three of us on this panel you can speak to when you go to Europe Transportation is as I understand it is quite a ways ahead of what we have here in the US because they invested it

Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely.

Oh, absolutely.

And they don't see it as a controversial topic.

No.

Like there's nothing, there's nothing.

This is not a 24 hour news cycle story that would be overseas to be like, they're going to extend the, they're going to extend the travel.

Like they're going to make it easier to travel.

That sounds like a good thing.

It's good for tourism, good for business, but we here have to make it about.

Well, don't you want to buy a car?

What about cars, everybody?

Cars need to be cars.

Jenny on the live stream says, privatization solves nothing, often making the problem worse.

Need I remind everyone of the DOT emission slash plate renewal process in Wisconsin, awful.

And during the Walker administration, they closed down all of those centers and they made it that private businesses could do emissions testing.

And I will say,

the

last few times I've had to do emission testings,

I'll go on a website.

There is actually a website that gives you a very up-to-date listing of those who do it, but they would say on their website, yeah, we do emissions testing.

You call them, yeah, we don't do that.

Or our machine is broken.

It's very, yeah.

Privatization is not the guaranteed answer.

I'm really curious because I've never lived in Milwaukee here in Southeast Wisconsin.

Is that like a certain county region where you have to do emission testing?

Because like we don't have that here.

Really?

It must be Milwaukee

County then.

That's interesting.

I thought it was just every, every couple of years you have to do it.

Calvin?

Nope.

I've

never done an emissions

test.

I think it's, I think it's by county because I know when I was in high school, um, I know in Waukesha County you have to do it.

And then in Jefferson County, I don't think you do because we

licensed old car we didn't think would pass at my grandparents house in Jefferson County.

You killed

me taking it to the man.

There you go, I love it.

Yeah, I did not know that.

I thought that was a country-wide thing.

I thought we all just got admissions testing, but yeah, that was one of the, at first I'm like, yeah, this seems like a good move.

And then every time I would call they would say, yeah, we don't do that, or it's broken, or it's not today, or

it's not convenient.

And I was just gonna say, now it's hard to

find places that do that.

Because again, it used to be a Department of Transportation job.

That's what they did, and yes, and then they contracted it out.

And yeah, that's not necessarily the answer for everything.

There's a website, if you're looking for it, if you need to get emissions testing in Wisconsin where they require it, I'm learning something new every day.

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What you got coming up today on the show, Todd Alba, you do have a show at two o'clock, by the way, just so you know.

Do I?

Do I?

Okay, well,

I'm glad to know that.

I'm glad to know that.

Like Colbert always look over my shoulder.

I guess I'm still having a

show

for

now.

No, today we're gonna, actually it's a really important topic.

I didn't know this until I found out from our friends over at WisconsinWatch.org, a great media site and publication here based in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Watch.

They did a story on senior...

death by suicide increases over the last couple of years.

I didn't know that this was a thing to use the vernacular of the matineeure show, the matineeure on air.

But it is a thing.

And it's a really important thing.

It's gone under talked about and under reported.

So the folks over at Wisconsin Watchers have a great article on this.

We're going to have one of their great reporters on and to talk about that.

And then we'll we'll do some goofiness in our two with a little What's Worst?

I believe it's a a breakfast edition today.

Oh, excellent

pancakes or waffles.

What's worse?

He's already Greg's already stuck.

He's thinking about that for a while.

You

lost me.

You

lost me

at sweet breakfast.

Goodbye.

Oh,

all right.

I wanted to talk a little bit.

We don't have a whole lot of time left about now.

It seems like Jelaine Maxwell.

Well, the Trump Department of Justice just can't wait to talk to her, Todd.

Yeah, it's it's really fascinating.

Here's here's my whole kind of bottom line.

This little Epstein thing.

Guilty people don't fight evidence being released.

Or innocent innocent people don't fight evidence being released and and so if Trump really had nothing to hide He'd be all over this in my opinion and say let it go Release

them

blow in the wind.

Yeah, so so I find that fascinating We've already heard him on tape during the 16th election saying that he'd grab women inappropriately bothered genitals And he didn't care about it and they and quote-unquote they let you do it when you're a star so we know we know he has nobody to guard for

for women and inappropriate behavior.

So there's a lot of evidence that we've already seen and known in the public.

And I think this is as tragic and as serious and as terrible as the alleged sexual assaults are this whole thing of young girls.

I think the politically Trump really has himself in a problem place here because his base believed this was the basis, the impetus for overlooking all the other bad stuff that Trump had done allegedly done.

It was like, yes, he's imperfect.

Yes.

But he's going to get to the bottom of this.

He's going to release the names of the pedophiles.

He's going to.

And this is the whole QAnon, this is what QAnon was largely based

on.

And now there's a chink in the armor.

And Trump doesn't know where to turn, and that's in my opinion, why you're hearing all this goofiness about he's going to arrest Obama.

He's going after Obama, or he's going after Biden again.

I mean, the list goes, oh, and by the way,

I have to give him credit on this one.

There is a new Coca Cola product of sugarcane coming out, which I actually am happy about that.

But yet another another shiny object for distraction.

There's.

Yeah, exactly.

And I think that's why all this is going on because he's trying to to divert his base away from from what they wanted.

And they said this is why we're willing to look past all of Trump's stupidity and support this

guy.

I just feel and we spoke about this.

before we got on air that if this leads to a pardon or some sort of dismissal of charges, I do not know.

And I say this, I don't know what the reaction will be simply because we of course have people on the right who are saying this is unacceptable up to Cash Patel and Dan Bongino.

And you have you have celebs, social media influencers saying they're upset.

But you also have a group of people like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro and others who are saying

That's not a big of a deal.

Let's move on.

Nothing to see.

We need to move on.

Well, and I found this this morning.

The program is called Washington Journal, and I believe it airs only in DC.

But host John McArdle opened up the phone lines to ask Republicans if they want to see more Epstein files released.

Does the Epstein file story matter to you?

Women calls in.

from Virginia and says, no, it does not matter to me.

What matters to me are the lies the Democrats are putting out.

I honestly believe if anybody's on the Epstein list, it's probably a lot of them and Republicans.

Here's what.

Start out to me because you know, it's human nature even when children are used I was abused when I was three for the first time So I know what it is to have to deal with that all your life.

I'm now 74 That's just human nature to sexually abuse children That I don't I don't think she is alone in that kind of reasoning.

That's terrifying

Yeah, I I don't know that one one went through or

didn't

go through but There's a lot going on there.

I just think that here's the here's the other tragic thing, right?

In my opinion, you guys agree disagree I think all those files all the actual evidence is gone destroyed digitally paperwise I think that Trump and Pam Bondi and made sure

and bill bar that

is gone

and bill bar

Yeah, I think that's all so so we're probably never gonna get to the actual truth and these things are probably never gonna be released I think that's the reality

Yeah.

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Happy to be joined by our friend.

Corrine Hendrickson has been our guest many, many times over the past few months, particularly as we talk about childcare issues in Wisconsin.

You were a childcare provider for a long time, Karine.

And good morning, first of all.

And now you have to make a change.

Yeah, good.

Are you able to hear me or did I just get weird?

No, you're good.

You're good.

We're good.

Okay.

So, all right.

So yeah, my oldest son is actually going to college.

So I'm on the Memorial Union Terrace while he signs up for his classes.

And yeah, I

looking at I will be closing my business August 29th because there just wasn't enough funding in the state budget for me to continue staying open without outpricing my my parents and at the end of the day after 18 years I finally am realizing I need to put my family and myself first too and I have to be able to you know know that I will be okay and if I would have tried to struggle like I did last year last year

The open spots right now was not getting them filled and it was end of September before they were filled.

And I struggled with like wondering what do I do?

How do I stay open and where do these kids go?

So this summer, as I was watching the budget proceed and realized we're probably not going to get what I need in order to stay open and affordable.

I started talking with my colleague, Brooke Legler, who has a group center to see if she would have a couple spots for the children I have left to take in September because that's how childcare works.

We

rotate our kids in September because that's when they go to school.

And so, yes, she was that she would be able to get them in.

So I'm at peace with how I'm closing, but I'm very upset and, you know,

I'm angry, I'm honest, I'm angry that I'm closing in this way because I was not ready to close my business.

Well, and you've been doing this for 18 years and we've talked about this many times before, Karine.

You weren't doing this because you were making just scads and scads of money and you have a second home in Vienna or wherever.

You were doing this because you like children and you believe in...

preparing kids to go to school and that is not just babysitting what you do and what so many of our child care providers do is really set them up to learn and teach them how to learn.

So I think still, I think there's a lot of misconceptions about what our child care providers do.

Oh, yes, absolutely.

All the hours and all the trainings, all the courses, all of, you know, I am passionate about inclusion of children with disabilities and making sure that they have places to go.

I've had over 15 children who have had special needs as small as speech and as large as autism.

And, you know, really taking the time to learn about those kids and how to meet their needs and also really work with their parents to first take away the stigma that it's not anything they did wrong as a parent, that their child needs extra support, but then give them help and support.

to access that.

And a lot of what I do too is teach parents how to be better parents and how to navigate parenthood and just, you know, prepare these kids to be good humans.

And not only do I have kids up to the age of five, but in the summertime and after school, I get my alumni, I call them, they come back.

And so, you know, I have had kids now this summer on 11 year old, she's been with me since she was born.

And, you know, it's wonderful that I get to get her back in the summertime and, you know, continue that care and education that they need when there's no school fail.

Right.

And I think that's the biggest piece we're missing is that school is one thing, preschool, keep pushing down, what's fine, whatever.

But what do those parents do outside of those hours?

They rely on child care and high quality environments for their kids to learn.

And schools rely on us to exist so that those kids are in good places during the summer and before and after school.

It's a vicious cycle that we are perpetuating for absolutely no reason.

Kareen, for people who don't know, and we're watching the budget talks and the signings that happen.

Some of them might be saying, well, there was money put into the childcare funding and you guys got money.

Why are you closing?

What's the problem?

Can you explain to them the truth behind the funding that you were going to be getting through the budget that was signed a couple of weeks ago by Governor Evers?

Yep, absolutely.

So yes, $360 million was allocated to childcare.

A billion was closer to the number that we were asking for total.

And so we got about a third.

480 million separately was for direct state investment to get us back to the monthly payments we were receiving in 2021 and 2022.

And how much has inflation gone up since then?

Let's be honest, like that's not even what we needed.

And so of the 480 million direct that goes to 4,700 regulated programs, about 200,000 children and 30,000 teachers and employees, we got $110 million for 11 months.

When you break that down with those massive numbers, you understand it's tiny.

and it's not nearly what we need in order to keep teachers in place.

And one of the things that I did notice that was in the budget was Senator Markline earmarked, well, 2 million was earmarked for Senator Markline's district.

I don't know if he did it for Southwest Hospital for a grant, which they already had matching funds in order to build a child care center at the new hospital.

Well, this, I've talked to some of the providers in that area.

They have empty classrooms and they're terrified those their teachers are going to go now work at this hospital because the company that is going to run it is out of Minnesota has over 100 programs.

They can offer a little bit more money.

So they're going to take those teachers from those small locally owned businesses and they're going to hire them because they're qualified and can pay more.

And then those programs are probably going to close because they can't then hire new teachers.

And so yes, the idea is

to open new programs becau you'll get more spots.

But it doesn't matter.

We have s sitting right now in pro know of a single group s have empty spots because teachers.

And so

by addi to the problem, it doesn't

because of the closures.

Yeah, just to clarify for folks who are listening, you're not talking about open spots for kids.

We're talking about needed child care teachers.

That's what we need.

Yes, open spots for children because there's no teachers to fill to be there for the kids.

So these programs have, like Brooke in my community has, she could have 60 more children in her program, but she doesn't have the teachers for those kids.

And there's kids on that wait list.

And so the problem is the teachers and being able to afford to pay the teachers, but parents can't pay enough for us to pay ourselves or teachers.

Well, and it goes back to so another Republican fix for this was, well, let's just lower the age of teachers and let's lower the qualifications for teachers.

Let's just bring in some 15 year olds and that's going to replace someone who has been educated in child development and all of those things.

There's the fix.

That's not a fix.

No, not at all.

And especially when I have kids in my program that are exhibiting some behaviors like biting, I have a hard time talking to those parents about why the child is getting bit and why the child is biting and how to support that and how to move through it because it's a developmental stage.

I don't know how a 16-year-old is going to have that conversation with a parent.

That's

not going

to happen.

that 16 year old is going to be blamed.

Those parents are going to be mad.

And I really would make want to make sure that there's a requirement if we have people under if we have children watching children in our programs that there needs to be parents signing off understanding that that's who is in that classroom at that time.

And another thing is a lot of insurance companies aren't going to allow it.

So these solutions are things that we're not even going to be able to access or they tell us it's a choice.

Well, I'm sorry.

It might be a choice, but it, you know, I might starve to death and you might offer me moldy food and I'm choosing to starve.

But at the same time, like it's not,

it's not a choice.

It

doesn't have to

be.

If you're, if you're just joining us, we were talking to Kareen Hendrickson, who is a family child care provider, uh, had to made the, had to make the very difficult decision to close her business, announced it last week on, on Pat Kretlo show about it.

And Kareen, one of the things that, you know, I guess,

Because I don't work in Madison and I don't work in this industry, I guess the question I have for you is the responses you may have gotten from those who didn't want to give you the money.

They gave you these official fixes, whether it, and when I say fixes, I mean in heavy quotations, but it just, I guess to me, the question I have for you is why wouldn't they just say, yes, here is more money to educate our children.

It seems

It's short-sighted is a nice way of putting it but it seems like deliberate and just mean spirited to say well We're not gonna give you the money and you have to deal with it and if you can't then well, that's that's the free market

Yeah, I wish I knew because they refused to tell us why

they refuse to say why they do not want to invest.

And so I can infer it's because they want women to stay home.

I can infer that it's because they don't think our children are worth a penny.

I can infer a lot of different things.

I

can, you know, think that they think 16 year old and more children is the answer because they're looking at children as a mathematical equation

and not as

human beings and that we're taking away their

their ability to thrive.

We are going to put them on the path to go to prison, which, hey, by the way, you get a million dollars per child to incarcerate them per year.

So for the low, low price of 480 incarcerated children, we could support our entire child care system.

And I want to touch on that moment, that that just that point of young people teaching.

And I, it was either you or Tricia Peterson who spoke about it.

And I'm going to phrase this.

cautiously.

There's nothing wrong with younger people teaching children because you have you have programs which will basically be like

apprentice programs or they can learn they're paired with an adult teacher someone who has experience and that that type of program as someone who was an apprentice seems like a great thing to fund to take those 16 year olds that you say yeah you can teach but let's make it so over the next five years you are going to learn all of those all those skills and then when you're 20 something you're certified you're ready you can open your own business or whatever but I mean

There is the kernel of truth that 16 year olds working this job isn't a bad thing if they have the supervision, the oversight and the desire to do it.

It can also just be like, hey, do you want to babysit this summer?

And they're actually teaching kids.

Yeah, and I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Minnesota actually does is doing a mentorship program where the children, the students, adults also are able to access the classes for free and then the mentor gets paid by the state to do the mentoring.

And then the mentee gets paid by the state to learn.

And so it's not overhead cost on us, if the childcare owners to do that.

And yes, like I would love to apprentice, you know, a 16, 17 year old in my program where I can teach them and I can watch them and observe them and give them positive feedback and let them open their own family childcare when they're, you know, mid 20s.

That's be fabulous.

But the way we're doing it right now is we're throwing these children in to the wolves and they're going to run away screening and not even want children

by

the time they're done with this experience.

You know, Karine.

This could all be fixed if women like you would just do it for nothing.

You know, I just, gee, that'd just be such an easy fix if women just dropped out of the workforce and did labor for free.

I think that's the answer.

I'm going to say nothing right now.

Ron Johnson has told me that to my face.

Oh, God.

That you should do it for free.

seriously

in his office.

Yes, in his office a few years ago when I was in DC, he literally said it wouldn't an elegant solution being for moms like you to watch other people's children while they work.

And I was like for free.

And he

did not respond to that.

And so that answer was a yes.

Well, I got to digest that for just a minute.

I'm never going to forget that.

And we're going to continue our conversation with Kareen Hendrickson when I recover.

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Kareen Hendrickson is our guest 18 year childcare provider in Wisconsin and now is going to be closing sadly at the end of August because the budget agreement that was reached

here in Wisconsin is not doing enough for our childcare providers.

And right before we had to take a pause, you mentioned a conversation with Ron Johnson-Careen that I don't know that Greg and I have ever heard this before.

I've never heard this.

I think let's go back to that conversation you had with Wisconsin senior senator Ron Johnson about the need for childcare in Wisconsin.

How did that go?

So yeah, I was there with Main Street Alliance.

There were several of us talking about small businesses and the need for investment and things that would support small businesses, including childcare.

And he called me health care about three times also, and I kept correcting him and saying, I run a childcare.

And then he, you know, I said, why don't you think we should fund?

And he goes, I think an elegant solution, it would be for moms like you to stay home.

And so the other moms can go to work.

at their whatever, maybe more important jobs, I don't know.

So that they can go to work and then you can keep their kids.

And I said, well, and I shouldn't get paid for that.

And he just kind of looked at me and tried to change the subject.

And Sean actually then said, you don't think that people like her should be able to run their small business and get paid.

And he just kind of stared at us.

And I said, that tells me all I need to know.

And then the conversation moved on.

He was very

It was a group of men and women.

And with the women, he was very much in our faces.

And then when the men talked, he was very laid back.

No.

So the group of us tried really hard.

Like the guys in there were very supportive.

And so they would try in their way to kind of like say what they could to bring the conversation back around and talk about how as restaurant owners, they needed childcare for their employees and things like that.

And it was just, it was a one-on-one and what is wrong with our elected officials, honestly.

I'm okay.

Where do I start?

First of all, an elegant solution.

That was him trying to be fun or

whatever.

And once again, missing the mark as he always does, as he needs a sense of humor and human emotions to do that.

But also, do you think there is a business person on earth who would walk into his office who would say, I'm struggling, I need help?

I manufacture a widget that, you know, steals something for cars.

Do you think he would dare have the notion to say, well, if you just did it for free, I mean, why don't you just do it for free?

Then you should be fine.

I mean, what's wrong with just doing your job for free?

Then you'd have to worry about it.

Why didn't he tell the restaurant owners to get servers who will just do it for nothing?

Then that's our answer for everything is we need more people doing jobs who don't get paid.

That's the

fix.

That's the fix

work.

That's kind of how things work.

We exploit people for the lowest amount possible

I mean, it is what it is.

They just don't say it's a blatantly obvious.

And I do think it's because women in general, our entire system of childcare is built on the backs of women with young children who quit their jobs, who cannot find care, who open their own family child cares or go work in a group center so that their kids can be around

other kids

and they can bring in a tiny amount of salary.

That is what our entire system has been built on historically.

And it has worked in the past because enough of us are willing to do it.

Well, we're no longer willing to do it and also

any job pays way more than what we get paid.

And so there's not people that are, I guess, desperate enough to have some income and do this high, high, intense.

job that is mentally, physically exhausting and draining, but yet at the same time, so wonderful and fulfilling at the same time.

And that's kind of what keeps us going.

And that's why we're in this weird space.

Yeah.

And that's why the system keeps perpetuating upon itself.

And we need to get elected reps at the state and federal level who absolutely understand that childcare is education for our children.

It is workforce development.

It is crime criminal gets rid of crime, it gets rid of crime, it reduces health care costs.

It is the lynching

of our entire society.

And if we care about kids, we need to take care of them from the beginning and their families and the communities that support them.

I feel like the bar is set really low at this point where I would just like to have a representative who understands the difference between a health care provider and a child care provider.

Can we just let's just

start there.

Well, if you would like to call Ron Johnson and point out the distinction between

health care and child care, there's an easy way for you to get ahold of him.

Very easy.

Go to myvote.wi.gov and let Senator Ron Johnson know how you feel about his idea that the elegant solution to our child care problem is just for women to drop out of the workforce and watch everybody else's kids for free.

I think I might call my vote.wi.gov.

Let Rojo know what you think about him in the nicest way possible.

Hashtag let Rojo know.

Let Rojo

know.

Corrine Hendrickson, thank you so very much for making time out with us.

We will continue our conversations with you and love to see politics.

I don't know.

Maybe think about it.

We'll

see.

We'll

see.

Gary and Hadrickson, thank you so very much.

Take care.

We'll talk to you soon.

You're welcome.

I

will have lots of time.

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It's dubbed from a different language into English.

And for me personally, dubbing is off-putting.

Yes, it's I can't I have to I can't watch it because I'll see their faces and Their mouth won't match the words and it's like when you watch shows on television and the audio isn't quite in sync with the video and it ruins your life

well, it's hard to stay up with the plot when you're so Distracted by that half a second right

half a second delay, a half a second that's off with the lips and the

sound

and all that stuff.

And that's all you can, that's all I can think about then when I'm watching that movie is, oh, you were so close on dubbing that, but that didn't work.

Yeah.

I think that I'll watch movies dubbed especially like, you know, movies from Hong Kong or from China or Japan.

I think that it's my brain has negotiated.

the differences but when it's it's just I can't do dubbing it just throws me way off I have to do subtitles that's how I would and to be perfectly honest subtitles are how I watch shows in English

thank you which no it's not just me oh it certainly is not you I think my my whole closed captioning thing started with the final season of game of thrones yeah because not only was it so dark you could barely see anything

Couldn't hear anything.

So I started putting the closed caption on it so I could at least know what was going on while they were flying around in dragons in the complete dark But now it's like Fight scenes and explosions are so loud Compared to the dialogue That now I keep I have closed caption on all the time.

Yeah, so I don't have to blast people out of the room because

If I, if I haven't loud enough to hear the dialogue, then I'm, then when the explosions happen, it's like, I'm going to get shot across the room.

And the whole, the whole point of this conversation started with the, do you do subtitles or dubbing, but it immediately morphed into this where we're like watching television and the, cause it's true.

When I watch TV, the dialogue will be a, usually a certain level quieter.

And then the action is so loud and the commercials.

Yes,

my husband says that too

Calvin you brought this topic up and you said that your parents have a very interesting history with this.

This is great.

Yeah, so I mean I In college I watched a lot of anime Japanese animation and I was a bit of a snob where I would only that was a it's a big debate sub or dub and

Sub

people are a little snobby and I tend to

fall in that category because the dubs are a lot of times annoying, in my opinion.

But yeah, my parents, I think it started with they tried to watch the first season of Squid Games and they just, they watched the dub and I would like catch pieces of it and it would just bother me that the dialogue wasn't syncing up

to the

vows.

And then they, and then this goes even further, they

decided they couldn't hear it.

So they started using the subtitles, but kept watching the dubs.

So they were watching dubbed with

subtitles.

That is a see, like we can have all these converse and it was funny because we had all these conversations before the show just to like, you know, we just got into it.

We were talking about it.

And then you said that.

And I feel like you just stopped the room.

We're like, wait.

What that's great.

Why Kareen Hendrickson who was our guest earlier this hour actually chimed in our chat that says I agree on the dubbing I can't stand it when it doesn't like it I can't I have to close out go back in to Start it again because just that it will it will correct itself when you start again But then again this technology a little off.

I shouldn't have to deal with this I paid a lot of money for this television.

I but yeah dubbing is just

impossible for me to concentrate with.

I have to do subtitles.

And I said to the two of you, when I used to, when I would go to my mother-in-law's house, she is a subtitle stan.

She loves it.

She does it all the time.

Period.

That's always what's happening.

And I was being like, why are we doing this?

It's distracting.

I don't like it.

We can hear it.

Turn it up.

All the things that my brain was saying.

And then one day I'm at home and I just turn it down.

I go to myself, oh wait, the subtitles are not.

I gotta turn the subtitles.

I'm like, no!

What did I do?

You got sucked into the subtitle Vortex

without even realizing

it.

Subtitles, closed captioning, or dubbed.

Which do you prefer?

Which do you detest?

855-752-4842.

That's 855-756.

Our audio sorbet conversation for today.

Terry from the Northwoods is on the line, not for audio sorbet.

Terry, but you wanted to say something about the brewers.

I just hope they do.

They stand back, no trade, keep that clubhouse together.

Yes, sir.

Don't tweak it.

Don't tweak it.

Just let it be.

That's all I got, guys.

Terry

couldn't agree more.

Terry, it's kind of a surprise.

I mean, I don't think anybody had big expectations for the Brewers

this

year.

No.

Right?

It was like,

yeah, hopefully we'll not suck.

Hopefully be a 500 team.

That's what Paul said.

That's what our JR said.

That's what I said.

I don't have as much knowledge of baseball as they do.

Terry, thank you so much for calling and giving us your opinion on the matter.

I totally agree.

Keep it straight down the air, straight down the path.

Don't mess with anything right now.

Don't mess with it.

You got great pitching.

You got great path.

And by the way, Terry, I just want to say, and I'm going to speak on behalf of Jane and Todd when I say this, we went to the Northwoods this past week.

It is so lovely.

Yes.

loved being in, I don't know where you're from exactly, but in your neck of the woods, it was just so beautiful.

Thank you so much for calling Terry.

We appreciate it.

Yeah, really

appreciate that, Terry.

Terry Ryan, listening on the, on WAUK says, subtitles all the way.

Thank you, Terry.

Appreciate that.

I agree with you.

Now I

leave them on for everything.

I do too.

for things that are like even, like I know some people who will turn subtitles on when they watch BBC shows, because I understand sometimes the accents are, can throw you a little bit, but now it doesn't matter.

It can be, I can be watching myself on video, I'll have subtitles on because I'm just like, you never know, I could miss something.

8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2, subtitles or dubbed, do you have a preference, do you use neither?

Maybe your hearing is really, really good and much better than mine because I need subtitles now.

855-752-4842.

And it gets to the point because we were, again, when we were talking about this off the air.

When you first start using closed captioning, that's all you're watching Yes, right is your you're reading the dialogue and you're reading things as it goes along so you might not be watching the action itself I think it gets easier as you do it more.

I think so too I think you also you trust yourself to know that if there's no action happening if it's just conversation You're not missing much visually right, but I did mention this too that Netflix has been reported as as

their scripts for their original programming, excuse me, they over-explain things in the scripts.

Their characters will over-explain what's going on because they know their viewers are actually listeners.

They're not watching.

They're looking at their phone, they're looking at their tablet, they're looking at their device.

It's out in

the background.

Yes, exactly.

So they need to know what's going on.

So it's all in the script, it's all in the back and forth.

So that to me says a great deal about us.

Us, not you, of us.

Us.

Carmella from Milwaukee listening on WAUK.

Definitely subtitles.

Like Jaina got tired of trying to hear what they were freaking saying, especially after rewinding numerous times, trying to figure out what I missed.

I also find it hysterical when subtitles have misspellings.

Oh.

Or they use the wrong word.

Yes.

Yeah.

Little moments of happy there.

We were watching a show.

and I can't remember the name of it right now.

We watched it.

Oh, good cop, bad cop.

It's a CW show.

It's kind of ridiculous, but it's fun.

And the subtitle, the subtitles were so far behind, they were like a, like think, think about time as a construct.

They were a solid 45 to 60 seconds behind.

We just had to turn them off.

We were like, oh my God, you must have been so confused.

I will say this too.

And you know this, and anyone who watches Subtiles, I think the only problem with Subtitles is the reveals come immediately.

If

it's a long, slow conversation, and yeah, they get to the spoiler.

Before anything's, oh

man, now I know who killed the guard.

It was the other guard.

All right, when we return.

This shouldn't be a thing.

Today it is the Hey Kitty Kitty edition.

Calvin found another good one.

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Calvin will be here.

Matt Rothschild, it is gonna slip in.

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We are going to Madison Civic Media's headquarters, World Headquarters for an annual beat the hosts about the face and neck with sticks.

So we do this once a year.

It's

fine.

I was

told there's going to be pie.

And after they beat us around the face and neck with sticks, it's fine.

It's fine.

So Matt, we'll be here tomorrow.

We will be back with you on Thursday, but we're going to do our show for Madison.

Correct.

So but Calvin, you.

You are still going to be producing for us on Thursday, aren't you?

I will be here.

All right,

double check and make sure

everything's OK.

Make sure our show is completely in subtitles.

That's a reference to the last segment.

We talked about subtitles

like that very much.

OK, it is just about 1054.

That means it is time for

this shouldn't be a thing.

If you ever have a thing you think should not be send it into Greg and me at Jane says at civic media dot US J A N E S A Y S Jane says at civic media dot US Kelvin as always found this one.

This is from CBC Canada news

Courtney Dixon with the byline headline story.

Yeah,

I headline reads BC couple dodging dozens of calls about their missing cat But their cat isn't missing Natasha Lavoise phone number is featured on a shirt by a US designer

For more than a year Natasha Lavoie and her partner Jonathan have been feeling dozens upon dozens upon dozens of phone calls from strangers Saying they have found their cat Torbo They don't have a cat named Torbo They do have a cat named Mauser.

Yeah, he's not missing.

He's right there.

He's right there They have photos of him.

Yeah, sometimes like six times a day.

I'm getting these really random phone calls

and people leaving me voicemails saying that they found my cat and they want money in order for me to turn over my cat.

I'm like, my cat's at home in the air conditioning.

I don't know what you're talking about.

After months of this and trying to figure out why this was happening, she finally asked someone how they got her number.

The caller explained the number was listed on a shirt that looks like a missing cat poster.

So somebody's got a t-shirt with a kitten on it that says missing cats and underneath is the phone number.

She said, why would you use that phone number on that shirt?

I have a feeling it was a randomly picked like you

just

randomly generated

number.

You

just picked 10 number.

I mean, I think in Canada, it's the same system as ours.

It's going to be 10 numbers and you just simply

Put it on, yeah, and you think, well, you know, it's a number.

Who would, who's going to do that?

Jane, who in their right

mind would call it?

Hundreds of people.

CBC News reached out to the company that made this shirt wisdom.

Yeah.

W-I-S-D-U-M-B.

Wisdom.

Gross.

New York created this shirt and says they are no longer selling it online.

Although on their Instagram page, they do have photos of missing cat posters with various area codes attached.

The use of a real number within this artwork was not intentional, according to customer service at this Wisdom New York website.

Okay.

I, I think it's very, I don't know.

Call me what you will.

I think there's something very sweet about the fact that this woman who's being called many times a day, she doesn't change her number.

She wouldn't do that.

She's hesitant to change her number.

She said, we've thought about it, but we have a 604 area code that was British Columbia's first area code.

It's like New York.

And now you can't get it anymore.

That also feels very Midwest.

I don't want to get rid of my phone.

I'm not changing

my number to 60.

I'm not getting rid

of that's where I grew up.

I've had my number for 20 years.

She says, I don't want to change it.

I'll just keep not answering.

And their cat is fine.

So if you do see a t-shirt with a missing cat on it, it's got a number.

Don't call it.

Don't don't call

it.

I just love this, I love the idea that people may, well, I don't like the idea that people are like, if you want your cat, I want money.

I have to imagine some people called and said, hey, I think I saw your cat.

I think I found your

cat.

Half the time they just cut you off and go like, no, I've got your cat, I want money for the cat.

And then they hang up.

She does say.

And I think this is the final word.

I feel like I deserve a free t-shirt after this.

Wisdom, are you listening?

I feel like she should get a t-shirt with the CEO's face on it in his phone number saying missing intelligence.

Missing intelligence.

I like it.

That

wraps up

today's episode of.

This shouldn't be a

thing.

Thank you Greg and Calvin and all of our engineers and all of our guests.

Without you, nothing works.

And thank you most of all for calling and for texting and for listening.

It really does mean the world.

I hope you find some joy today, even if it's just a little bit and you have the chance to share it.

We got news coming up next, followed by.

Tom Hartman 11 to 2, Todd Alba 2 to 4, Maggie Dawn 4 to 6, Pete Schwabba 6 to 8 PM with Night Light and some great evening entertainment as well.

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We have a very busy show coming up today.

Our friend and colleague and recent travel companion, Todd Alba, host of the Todd Alba show from two to four across the network, joining us after the 9.30 news.

We're going to talk about Wisconsin's own Sean Duffy.

Oh, boy.

Head of the Department of Transportation.

Something happened over in Minot, North Dakota yesterday.

They're just having all the bum luck.

Yeah, not not good.

It was not good.

So we will be talking about that with Todd.

Also, this is breaking now, just as we're coming on the air.

Departments of Justice, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

on Twitter this morning, announcing that they are going to interview Jelaine Maxwell about information related to the Epstein files.

Greg Bach

So this is going to be their third, fourth, tenth conversation with her?

This

Jane Matenaer

will be the first one.

Greg Bach

They've never talked to her before?

They

Jane Matenaer

have never spoken to her before.

And now they need some distraction because people aren't happy.

Greg Bach

No, they're not happy, but there are definitely a lot of individuals who want to quote unquote help the cause by also saying things like we need to focus on other things and move on.

This isn't important.

Nothing to see here.

Weird.

Cause two weeks ago it was the end all be all of importance.

And now all of a sudden we've got, we've got things to take care of Jane that are more important.

Like, um, I don't know.

I really don't know.

I have no idea.

Jane Matenaer

Well, we're gonna get we're gonna kick that around with Todd around 9.50 an hour.

Number two, Corinne Hendrickson, who has been on the show many, many times

Greg Bach

a

Jane Matenaer

child care daycare owned a daycare center in Wisconsin is now going to close it.

Yes.

Has announced she has to close her daycare center because even though in the state budget that was agreed to what was it last two weeks ago.

just a couple of weeks ago and did not include all of the childcare funding that had been asked for and she just can't make it.

She just can't make it.

So Kareen Hendrickson is going to be joining us after the 10 o'clock news for a little update about that and then we will lighten it up.

Yes.

As we do.

With what, Jane?

It's called Audio Sorbet.

Oh, I heard this is fun.

Oh, my God.

Are those harps?

They are harps.

Where did those come from?

It's a cleansing for our brains, a little cleansing for our ears, just a chance to get away from politics and more serious things and take a breath and laugh a little bit.

Greg Bach

Audio Sorbet.

A shower for your brain.

Jane Matenaer

I like that.

Thank you.

A shower your brain with

Greg Bach

us

Jane Matenaer

after 10.30.

Yes, you can keep your clothes on.

Whatever, whatever works for you.

Audio Sorbet today is going to be subtitles or dubbing.

How do you watch television, streaming, whatever?

Yeah.

Do you keep the subtitles on or will you watch a dubbed program?

That's coming up after 1030.

We had a pretty interesting discussion about this as we were getting ready to go on the air.

Greg Bach

Get your answers ready.

We'll be coming up with that as always at 1035.

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Jane Matenaer

Dubbing

Greg Bach

or subtitles.

Jane Matenaer

And then we'll wrap up the show as we always do with this shouldn't be a thing.

Today it's the Here Kitty Kitty edition.

It is a good one.

It is a good one.

They're all pretty good.

We like our tis bats.

So that is all on the way.

We did want to give you a little heads up as well.

We're going to be off tomorrow.

Matt Rothschild is going to be slipping in and covering for us.

We have our annual host meeting at the World Headquarters of Civic Media in Madison.

It's our once a year meeting where they hit us around the face with sticks with our face and neck.

And it's just keeping everybody in line.

Greg Bach

I've been told to say nothing, so I say nothing.

Jane Matenaer

It'll be

Greg Bach

fine.

Yeah, it'll

Jane Matenaer

be fine.

So yes, we're going to be in Madison all day tomorrow, but Matt Rothschild will be here and he's done a great job covering for us in the past.

We're very, very appreciative of that.

All right, we wanted to start off with this, though, this from WISP Politics and the headline reads, MMAC leader says Trump just wrong on tariffs.

Greg Bach

So tell me more about this big.

Gigantic liberal telling me that Donald Trump is wrong.

Who is this lily lily livid lefty lunatic?

Yes, the

Jane Matenaer

crazy lunatic lefty president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce is Dale Coynga.

I've heard of him.

Yeah, he was a Republican lawmaker here in Wisconsin.

Greg Bach

Oh

Jane Matenaer

Yeah, yeah, he's a Republican.

Mm-hmm.

Just want to say that again.

Greg Bach

Yeah

Jane Matenaer

case some people are

not hearing correctly.

Dale Koanga is a Republican and says Donald Trump is just wrong on tariffs as trade and key partners are the ones who take a hit amid the uncertainty about US policies.

Because again, with this Mr. Dealmaker, great deals in 90 days.

Well, we're past that now.

Greg Bach

Far past that.

Jane Matenaer

Now it's in two weeks or

A deal here, a deal, they're trickling in.

The Trump administration says they're being inundated with calls.

Everybody wants to make a deal.

We just can't announce them yet.

Greg Bach

No, and if I'm not mistaken, I feel, I'll look this up right this moment, but I feel like there actually hasn't been a single deal made.

Jane Matenaer

While he keeps moving the deadlines, it's like, don't cross this line.

Wait, let me move it.

Don't cross this line.

Well, I'll push that back too.

Greg Bach

Oh, according to this, we have struck a few deals with some countries like four Vietnam, one to European Union, Indonesia, China, United Kingdom, Kingdom and Vietnam, which, you know, hey, nothing to shake a stick at.

It's more deals than I've done.

But the way they make it sound like it, I think they said something about like 200 deals.

I'm like, there's only 192 countries.

But also the note, the notion that what you just said here is that is that

maybe if the, if the, the tariff deal was announced and actually stuck to like, Hey, we're going to raise tariffs on Canada by 5% and then do that.

Instead of saying, we're going to raise tariffs on Canada, 250,000%.

Oh, we're just kidding.

It's 12%.

The, the, it's constantly being changed.

There's no consistency.

They're moving the line all the time.

And that's something business doesn't like.

Although.

I want to check the stock market.

I feel like the stock market had initial problems in April when we lost like 5% of our worth on the stock market.

But now I feel like the stock market just knows that no matter what happens, whatever he says, it's going to be fine because he'll walk it back and change his mind.

those huge dips are happening as much as they were because they're just like, ah, just give it, if in 48 hours it still looks like this, then maybe, but for now, just let it go.

Jane Matenaer

What does that tell you that Wall Street is ignoring Trump, essentially?

It's like, yeah, he says that now, let's just ignore it for a couple of days, you're right, and see what happens.

That's so comforting.

Signing those close to the president as well as Donald Trump's own remarks, Dale Koinga said, Trump truly believes

tariffs are a positive economic tool.

He's just wrong about that, says Koinga, the Republican who previously served in the state Senate.

He also pointed to a large consensus of mainstream economists across the political spectrum who say more free trade is better than tariffs.

Are you kind of pointing to like, I don't know.

Science and math and all that stuff?

I don't know that that's gonna fly, Dale.

Greg Bach

Well,

Jane Matenaer

I mean, we don't... We don't believe science anymore.

Well, some people don't believe science

Greg Bach

anymore.

This is just another example of what a former politician can do and say when they leave office.

Isn't that amazing?

It's amazing how they don't have to worry about...

uh, backlash or punishment.

There are unencumbered to speak the truth and the truth isn't a, I mean, he takes a slight, he takes a swipe at, at, uh, university funding and research in the, in there.

So he's not some liberal.

He's not, he's not some former Republican who's now a, uh, Barack Obama liberal.

He's still a, he's still a conservative and he has conservative beliefs.

He's just speaking common sense and logically that when you raise tariffs, prices go up.

we have to pay and that puts a strain on the economy.

And that has been explained seven ways to Sunday on various social media news programs where it's just, it's that thing of like, how do you not understand this at this point?

And I feel like the tariff discussion for those who are still very like,

Mega like they're like oh they love mega.

They just can't get enough of it They kind of they kind of say like well we you know the tariffs are the tariffs don't worry about that because they know that they're gonna pay more They already know they're gonna pay more

Jane Matenaer

what we were told that we were told

Greg Bach

them to

Jane Matenaer

expect two years of pain

Greg Bach

Elon said two years of pain and and the president said on true social just deal with it so

It's it just goes back to the thing of like we keep on explaining this point that the prices are going to go up and the and the economy can get worse and we are now five months into the administration as James Vanderloo said who is the president of OEC OEC Milwaukee He said that it's going to take three to six

Kathryn Lake

to

Greg Bach

twelve months to understand the full impact of these tariffs as these as they are solidified because right now the deals have been struck with less than a dozen countries, but we will see the impending

Pain that is supposedly coming

Jane Matenaer

one again as you said it takes a while for this to show up Port director Port of Milwaukee director.

Yeah is seeing lower activity overall Port director Jackie Carter says salt shipments coming from Canada are almost 60% lower than at this point last year Some of that has to do with what we had in stock and where we don't have space to replace those cargoes, but a lot of this

has to do with a slower start to the year because of all the uncertainty.

And as Koinga points out to the Port figures, he says, by the way, we don't have salt mines in Wisconsin.

So saying we don't need it from Canada, we'll just make it here.

We can't make salt.

Greg Bach

No, Jane, you're wrong.

We're just going to, we're going to make it.

We're going to create salt mines.

We're going to put kids in there.

They're going to, they're going to mine that salt and then America will be great again because we got.

kids working good jobs, they'll pay them, I don't know, a dollar an hour.

But yeah, it's, it's, it's this also in that same article, it says that, you know, Wisconsin has a trade surplus, $2 billion trade surplus with Canada, because Wisconsin is a very powerful manufacturing sector.

So we could lose that surplus and lose that viability.

If these things continue, these

These tariffs have knock-on effects for not only the consumer, but also the people who are in the industries that the tariffs affect.

They're going to be affected because, as we saw with ginseng, if it comes too expensive for Canada to take our goods, they'll find them somewhere else and they'll never...

Come back.

Jane Matenaer

Exactly.

We're still reeling from Trump 1.0 the first time around with all the markets that our farmers lost because of that mess.

Gene from Eau Claire, I see you on the line.

We will take you on the other side.

We got a text from Don in Waukesha.

I want to share with you as well.

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We were talking about tariffs and the...

Former Republican lawmaker here in Wisconsin, the head of the Metro Milwaukee Association of Commerce, says President Trump is just wrong on tariffs because trade and key partners are the ones who take the hit.

He didn't mention you as consumers because we take the hit as

Greg Bach

well,

Jane Matenaer

but that's kind of a...

from the administration line.

Greg Bach

And in other news, breaking Dale Koenga is labeled as Rhino by the mega party.

This just in Dale Koenga, Rhino.

Rhino.

Because he's dare speak against dear leader.

And honestly, as I mentioned before, just said something that's based in logic and common sense.

Well, we can't have that.

Doesn't even take, honestly, doesn't take economists or doesn't, and doesn't take, you know,

Finance experts to explain how tariffs work.

It really does

Jane Matenaer

apparently it does Apparently it does 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 if you'd like to join us Jean from Eau Claire has been patiently waiting.

Good morning.

Jean.

Thanks for joining us

Good morning guys.

No, this is my own personal biased opinion Okay, okay My first response is draw and another thing is God being

I don't even call by his name.

I call him like a DJT.

It's like a disease or illness that's infected our entire country and the world.

But I'll go aside from there.

And he's like a weapon of mass destruction through weapons of deception and chaos.

And he takes from the poor and gives it to the wealthy.

Hey, they got their pocketbooks open and they run into the banks.

Well, anyway, also,

I hope people are watching the hearings with his yes men, who are now running our country, taking from our departments that every single American depends on and spending it for his alligator alcatraz.

Boy, people ought to look at that.

And every country is watching us.

And they're wondering,

What the devil's going on with those Americans?

They must be different than what we thought of because they keep voting these people until people wake up and watch those hearings.

Watch the hearings on Epstein.

Oh my gosh, you know, hey, we've got a history of pedophilia in the Republican Party.

I'm sorry to tell you.

I mean, the Democrats, they may do some things too there, but the pedophilia that they, you know,

Don't look at me, look at that guy over there who really isn't doing it, but I'm gonna distract and point him out.

And you know, the guy, I can't remember his full name.

He was a speaker in the house and he was Republican.

Jane Matenaer

Oh, Denny Hastert.

Yeah, Dennis Hastert, yeah.

Yeah, Denny Hastert,

yep.

And the way they went after people all the time and hear that man was in prison, I don't know where he is now because there's too much going on to follow up on that one.

but he had young boys and you know this is so alarming to me because people need to wake up and look at the facts and see what's going on here and that man needs to be sent home or wherever they want to put him in a prison really and seriously but that's my opinion and you guys have a good day and I'm continuing watching those hearings because you know what they don't have budgets

And they don't know where a lot of the money's going, billion.

So pay attention, folks, because you're getting robbed blind.

Jane Matenaer

Thanks, Gene.

You keep watching them.

Yeah.

You keep them watching.

Keep watching them.

Keep them honest.

Gene's on your tail.

She is.

And I applaud Gene

Greg Bach

for it.

Jane Matenaer

Absolutely.

She really watches what's going on.

Greg Bach

She

Jane Matenaer

does.

Don from Waukesha texted in listening on WAUK.

General Motors, I saw this yesterday, General Motors reported that its core profit sank over 32% in the second quarter.

This has tariff headwind sapped $1.1 billion from its results.

The big three automakers worn the hit will be deeper in the current quarter.

providing food for thoughts to investors who are looking at the Trump trade policy.

Greg Bach

And when I'm thinking about, you know, when we were discussing the farmers from Trump 1.0 being decimated through various... They got their bailout.

But that's the thing is, they get their bailout.

I think it was $12 billion.

This country has a history of bailing out the audio industry

Kathryn Lake

in

Greg Bach

recent years.

So if they lose enough, what stops Detroit and other manufacturers from just putting their hand out saying, hey, we're about to go under.

We need your help.

And Trump's saying, well, yeah, I got you.

We'll put together a package because we have to save the auto industry.

Well, I'll put

Jane Matenaer

together a package for you.

Want to donate to my library?

Greg Bach

Yeah, absolutely.

Jane Matenaer

Because that's how things work within the Trump world.

What are you going to give me

Greg Bach

if

Jane Matenaer

I give you?

Greg Bach

Absolutely.

It's

Jane Matenaer

very much a quid pro quo, transactional kind of thing.

Greg Bach

Which if that does happen, I'm just going to put this out here.

I would love to see Elon Musk's reaction because they're his competition and he doesn't like them and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that stuff.

But yeah, I foresee bailouts.

more than just the farmers.

And, and, and honestly, I don't even like calling it bailouts to the farmers because they were hit without like, this wasn't nefarious on their part.

They needed help and they got help and that's good, but.

I don't know, the auto industry, two bailouts, and this does not happen, by the way.

It's just how I see it, the piece is falling down the road.

Well, we'll watch it.

Yeah, exactly.

We'll

Jane Matenaer

watch it and see

Greg Bach

what

Jane Matenaer

happens.

We have news coming up next, and then when we return, our friend and colleague Todd Alba, host of the Todd Alba show from two to four across the network, joining us on the other side, Wisconsin's own Sean Duffy.

We want to go to Minot, North Dakota.

I think there's some things going on there.

That's all on the way.

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We just got back from several days on the road.

And now he is back with us once again.

Todd Alba from the incredible Todd Alba show two to four across the civic media network is live from his patio

Todd Allbaugh

in

Jane Matenaer

Madison.

Good morning, my friend.

How are you?

Todd Allbaugh

Jane, Greg, Kelvin.

together again.

So the Muppets, right?

Kathryn Lake

We're

Todd Allbaugh

back together again after spending a bunch of last week together.

What a thrill.

It was great.

We had a great time at all the stops, but that cabin at Lena's in the North Woods there, Lena's Northern Pines Resort.

Greg Bach and I went out and had coffee in the morning.

It was absolutely quiet.

And we both looked up and said, Serenity now!

It was great.

It

Jane Matenaer

was.

It was just a wonderful trip.

And thanks again to everybody who put it together and helped pull this off and all of our wonderful guests.

And we just had so much fun.

It was it was fantastic.

Hopefully we'll be able to do another one.

I'd like to get back on the road.

Todd Allbaugh

Looking forward to

Jane Matenaer

it.

Yeah, we should get us get ourselves back on the road.

Next month or

Todd Allbaugh

two we talked about this three of us over over a beverage or two and I think we kind of all agreed you guys correct me if I'm wrong

One of the greatest, not the greatest takeaway, at least for me, is I always get more out of going on the road than I feel like I give into the community visit.

Yes.

Because I get so much out of it listening to people on the ground.

It reminds me of what's really important, the vast majority of Wisconsinites.

And it's just nice to finally, you know, we do this every day and we're looking, in your case, you guys are looking at each other.

I'm looking at a wall or zombers or out on State Street.

And, you know, you think, well, is anybody listening sometimes?

Right.

And then when you meet.

like the people who are, and they tell you what's really on their mind, that just re-energizes me.

So I thank all of our listeners and viewers.

Jane Matenaer

Yes, very much so.

And just to have the folks, we had Logan stop by when we were here with Steve stop by and just those little.

We listen.

We love you.

It means the world.

It really does.

It absolutely means the world.

So thank you to everybody, again, who came out and supported our shows as we took them out on the road.

I did want to talk a little bit about Wisconsin's own Sean Duffy.

Todd.

our head

Greg Bach

of the

Jane Matenaer

Department of Transportation because he's traveled on roads and he's been in planes I assume that's pretty much

Greg Bach

he's also in charge of rockets now

Jane Matenaer

and rockets and he can roll logs so what why wouldn't you appoint him the head of the Department of Transportation this is a really concerning thing that happened I believe it was yesterday this is from CBS Sky West Flight does aggressive maneuver

to avoid a B 52 bomber.

Oh, this happened Friday night.

The pilot of a Sky West flight told passengers he had to perform an aggressive maneuver to avoid a B 52 that was in flight as he was coming into land in Minot, North Dakota.

Apparently.

There was an air show going on, or there was a North Dakota State Fair was happening, so the B-52 was doing a flyover over the fair.

The air traffic controllers in Minot don't use radar.

It's all visual, and I know that this isn't unusual for some airports, but this is a tragedy that was narrowly averted.

Todd Allbaugh

Yeah, no, I totally absolutely was a tragedy early averted.

I I watched the reporting on this this morning CBS for all of its problems these days They still have some great reporters and one of the great reporters at Chris van cleave, which is their transportation reporter and and according to their reporting and

Look, I'm not I'm not disputing.

Could there be more qualified people than Sean Duffy to be the transportation secretary?

Oh, yeah, I think the answer is yes on that I mean he was a member of Congress in addition to his reality TV and Fox News stuff and you know, he did get both Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson from Wisconsin voted to confirm him So that's something but this thing in North Dakota.

It appears kid is very very early yet It appears what happened is as you said Jay the

There was an air show, just like we were, we were at last weekend in Oshkosh, not nearly as big, but a similar air show.

The B-52s or that, that squad or a B-52s is based, I don't know, 10, 12, 15 miles away from where this air show is happening.

And, and to your point, Jane, as I understand it, I'm only reporting what other legit reporters have said, that apparently the air traffic controllers at the Minot Airport are

from a private company.

And so that airport doesn't have this own radar.

They rely, whether it's the Air Force's radar, 15 miles away or wherever.

But it's a private, I think one of the key things, this is a privatized company.

And we don't.

These are contractors and I don't we don't know yet exactly what happened again the keyword It appears that perhaps the air traffic controller as a contractor made a mistake Air Force claims it went through the route before the B 52 flew over the Delta pilot coming out of the Twin Cities going to Minot says everything was copa static there big credit to the pilot of the Delta Airlines flight according to a passenger did a major U-turn and looked out the window and they all you see is ground.

I mean that's that's how hard

Well and let's

Jane Matenaer

just look back.

when the Trump administration took over in January and how they handled, say, the FAA and our air traffic controllers.

And first it was, we got to fire everybody.

And now they're like, you're 65.

Do you really need to retire already?

Why don't you work a couple more years?

Come on.

Why don't you stay?

Todd Allbaugh

When's the last time we heard about the old doggy doggy doggy, you know, suddenly you don't hear a lot about that anymore.

Greg Bach

No, no, it's out of favor.

It's no longer.

It's no longer cool to talk about.

Apparently not.

You know, two things that mean on this topic.

One, it reminds me, though, the conversation we had with Dick Nipinsky last week in Oshkosh, where he did, you know, this is not to.

Not to say what happened wasn't important or wasn't it was tragedy averted but What I didn't know was that air travel has actually been safer over the past 50 years, which is good to know Unfortunately, we don't talk about that in the press conferences and the press releases but what's happening with the FAA is a systemic problem that's been also happening for decades as well and and I would like to see

Sean Duffy do something about it because these individuals are still working on pieces of paper and Technology that is not technology

anymore,

Greg Bach

right?

So, you know, there's a whole like this just honestly this whole thing in my not just brings up the conversation again to say what is being done and to speak to your point Todd as well Yeah, the the the ones who who hold the the flag for privatization of everything

There's no guarantee that it's going to be better and that's going to save you money.

That's the other thing to it.

It's going to be better because it's private.

It's going to save us money because it's private.

That doesn't always shake out that way.

No, it doesn't.

Todd Allbaugh

No, I I agree and and again, I think it's being interesting.

This is moves forward and we learn more about about the facts Hopefully from good reporting out there in in South Dakota.

I you know, I Spend a year.

I think I was like six years old My parents went through North Dakota up there.

My not so I don't remember that trip as it turns out, right?

But I think it's you you guys and I We were in small towns in northern Wisconsin and last week and we heard how you know

things done they just have to kind of come together as a community and rely on one another because

whether you want to, not you, but the general you, whether folks want to, you know, say, well, there's not enough government funding or whatever.

It's these individuals just say, hey, we're going to get this done.

So I want to know from the folks up, my not, had they asked for federal funding for air traffic controllers and it was denied by their Republican representatives there and in Congress, did they just say, hey, this is the best we can do.

Air service is important to my not.

We're going to go with private contractors because that's all we can afford.

So I think the backstory of this.

And then is, how is that replicated around the country?

That'll be interesting to watch.

Jane Matenaer

Well, and you may, yes, that's, those are very good points, Todd.

And I also think it's important.

I mean, Kristi Noem did say, when they were trying to divert attention from another plane incident that had happened, that they're in the process of upgrading these systems, which as you said, have been kind of neglected for a very, very long time.

Our government has done all kinds of kicking the cans down the road in all kinds of different areas.

And this would be one of them.

Todd Allbaugh

Yeah, absolutely, and I think that's why my opinion

when the Biden administration and Pete Buttigieg's transportation secretary worked in a bipartisan fashion to get that transportation funding bill, that infrastructure bill.

It truly was historic because it was taking on particularly bridges and roads, but also airports and aging infrastructure.

I mean, Jane, you've been to Europe more than any of the three of us on this panel.

You can speak to, when you go to Europe, transportation, as I understand it, is quite a ways ahead of what we have here in the US because they invested it.

Greg Bach

absolutely

Todd Allbaugh

absolutely

Greg Bach

absolutely and they don't see it as a controversial topic no like there's nothing there's nothing this is not a 24-hour news cycle story that would be overseas be like they're gonna extend the they're gonna stand the the to travel like they're gonna make it easier to travel that sounds like a good thing it's for good for tourism good for business but we here have to make it about

Well, don't you want to buy a car?

What about cars, everybody?

Cars need to be cars.

Jenny on the live stream says, privatization solves nothing, often making the problem worse.

Need I remind everyone of the DOT emission slash plate renewal process in Wisconsin?

Awful.

And during the Walker administration, they closed down all of those centers and they made it that private businesses could do emissions testing.

And I will say

Jane Matenaer

the

Greg Bach

last few times I've had to do emission testings.

I'll go on a website.

There is actually a website that gives you a very up-to-date listing of those who do it, but they would say on their website, yeah, we do emissions testing.

You call them, yeah, we don't do that.

Or our machine is broken.

It's very, yeah.

Privatization is not the guaranteed answer.

Todd Allbaugh

I'm really curious because I've never lived in Milwaukee here in Southeast Wisconsin.

Is that like a certain county region where you have to do emission testing?

Because like we don't have that here.

Greg Bach

Really?

It must be

Jane Matenaer

Milwaukee County then.

Greg Bach

That's interesting.

I thought it was just every every couple of years you have to do it.

Calvin?

Nope.

I've

Todd Allbaugh

never done an emissions test.

I think it's I think it's by county because I know when I was in high school.

I know in Walkshaw County you have to do it and then in Jefferson County I don't think you do because we

Licensed a old car.

We would didn't think would pass at my grandparents house in Jefferson County Yeah,

Greg Bach

I did I did not know that I thought that I thought that was a country-wide thing I just got admissions testing, but yeah, that was that was one of the at first I'm like, yeah, this seems like a good move and then every time I would call they would say Yeah, we don't do that or it's broken or it's not today or yeah

Jane Matenaer

Not convenient and I was just gonna say now it's it's hard to

find places that do that.

Because again, it used to be a Department of Transportation job.

That's what they did, and yes, and then they contracted it out.

And yeah, that's not necessarily the answer for everything.

Greg Bach

There's a website, if you're looking for it, if you need to get admissions testing in Wisconsin where they require it, I'm learning something new every day.

WisconsinVIP, the number two dot org, it gives you an up to the date.

listening of those places that do emissions testings.

Jane Matenaer

We are going to continue our conversation with Todd Alba.

All of a sudden, the Department of Justice wants to talk to a potential witness about Jeffrey Epstein.

Things that make you go, hmm, on the other side, stay close.

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Greg Bach

Lange.

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Jane Matenaer

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So join Maggie today for her show four to six p.m.

across the network.

Our guest Todd Alba also has a program on civic media two to four across the network.

What you got coming up today on the show, Todd Alba, you do have a show at two o'clock, by the way, just so you know.

Todd Allbaugh

Do I?

Do I?

Okay, well, I'm glad to know that.

I'm glad to know that.

Like Colbert always look over my shoulder.

I guess I'm still having a show for now.

No, today we're gonna, actually it's a really important topic.

I didn't know this until I found out from our friends over at WisconsinWatch.org, a great media site and publication here based in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Watch.

They did a story on senior...

death by suicide increases over the last couple years.

I didn't know that this was a thing to use the vernacular of the matineeure show, the matineeure on air.

But it is a thing and it's a really important thing and it's gone under talked about and under reported.

So the folks over at Wisconsin Watchers have a great article on this.

We're going to have one of their great reporters on and to talk about that.

And then we'll we'll do some goofiness and in our two with a little what's worse.

I believe it's a a breakfast edition today.

Oh, excellent pancakes or waffles.

What's worse?

Jane Matenaer

He's already Greg's already stuck.

Todd Allbaugh

He's thinking about that

Jane Matenaer

for a while.

You lost me.

Greg Bach

You lost.

Jane Matenaer

It's

Greg Bach

sweet breakfast.

Goodbye.

Oh,

Jane Matenaer

all right.

I wanted to talk a little bit.

We don't have a whole lot of time left about now.

It seems like Jelaine Maxwell.

Well, the Trump Department of Justice just can't wait to talk to her, Todd.

Todd Allbaugh

Yeah, it's it's really fascinating.

Here's here's my whole kind of bottom line of this little Epstein thing.

Guilty people don't fight evidence being released.

Or innocent innocent people don't fight evidence being released and and so if Trump really had nothing to hide he'd be all over this in my opinion and say let it go Release them blow in the wind.

Yeah, so so I find that fascinating We've already heard him on tape during the 16 election saying that he'd grab women inappropriately bothered genitals And he didn't care about it and they and quote-unquote they let you do it when you're a star so we know we know he has no regard for

for women and inappropriate behavior.

So there's a lot of evidence that we've already seen and known in the public.

I think this is as tragic and as serious and as terrible as the alleged sexual assaults are this whole thing of young girls.

I think the politically Trump really has himself in a problem place here because his base believed this was the basis, the impetus for overlooking all the other bad stuff that Trump had done allegedly done.

It was like, yes, he's imperfect.

Yes.

But he's going to get to the bottom of this.

He's going to release the names of the pedophiles.

He's going to.

And this.

the whole Q and others what Q and I was largely

Kathryn Lake

based on

Todd Allbaugh

and now there's a chink in the armor and and and Trump doesn't know where to turn and that's in my opinion why you're hearing all this goofiness about he's gonna arrest Obama he's going after Obama or he's going after a Biden again right I mean the list goes oh and by the way

I have to give him credit on this one.

There is a new Coca Cola product with sugar cane coming out, which I actually am happy about that.

But yet another another shiny object for distraction.

There's girls.

Yeah, exactly.

And I think that's why all this is going on because he's trying to to divert his base away from from what they wanted.

And they said this is why we're willing to look past all of Trump's stupidity and and support this guy.

Greg Bach

I just feel and we spoke about this.

before we got on air that if this leads to a pardon or some sort of dismissal of charges, I do not know.

And I say this, I don't know what the reaction will be simply because we of course have people on the right who are saying this is unacceptable up to Cash Patel and Dan Bongino.

And you have you have celebs, social media influencers saying they're upset.

But you also have a group of people like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro and others who are saying

that's not a big of a deal.

Let's move on.

We need to move on.

Jane Matenaer

Well, and I found this this morning, uh, the program is called Washington, Washington Journal, and I believe it airs only in DC.

But host John McArdle opened up the phone lines to ask Republicans if they want to see more Epstein files released.

Does the Epstein file story matter to you?

Women calls in.

from Virginia and says, no, it does not matter to me.

What matters to me are the lies the Democrats are putting out.

I honestly believe if anybody's on the Epstein list, it's probably a lot of them and Republicans.

Here's what.

Start out to me because you know, it's human nature even when children are used I was abused when I was three for the first time So I know what it is to have to deal with that all your life.

I'm now 74 That's just human nature to sexually abuse children That I don't I don't think she is alone in that kind of reasoning that's

terrifying

Todd Allbaugh

yeah I I don't know whether that one went through or didn't go through but there's a lot going on there I just think that here's the here's the other tragic thing right in my opinion you guys agree disagree

I think all those files, all the actual evidence is gone, destroyed digitally, paperwise.

I think the Trump and Pam Bondi and made sure and Bill Barr and Bill Barr.

Yeah, I think that's all.

So so we're probably never going to get to the actual truth.

And these things are probably never going to be released.

I think that's the reality.

Jane Matenaer

Yeah.

Todd Alba hosts the Todd Alba show from two to four across the civic media network.

Thank you, my friend, for taking some time out for us.

We will be listening at two o'clock.

Thank you, guys.

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Todd Allbaugh

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Jane Matenaer

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Today it's the Here Kitty Kitty Edition.

I would encourage you to stick around for that for a few laughs.

Tisbat, as we call it, wrapping up the show.

This shouldn't be a thing coming up around 1051.

Happy to be joined by our friend.

Corrine Hendrickson has been our guest many, many times over the past few months, particularly as we talk about childcare issues in Wisconsin.

You were a childcare provider for a long time, Corrine.

And good morning, first of all, and now you have to make a change.

Yeah, good morning.

Are you able to hear me or did I just get weird?

No, well, you're good.

You're good.

We're good.

Okay.

So all right.

So yeah, my oldest son is actually going to college.

So I'm on the Memorial Union terrace while he signs up for his classes.

And yeah, I

looking at I will be closing my business August 29th because there just wasn't enough funding in the state budget for me to continue staying open without outpricing my my parents and at the end of the day after 18 years I finally am realizing I need to put my family and myself first too and I have to be able to you know know that I will be okay and if I would have tried to struggle like I did last year last year

The open spots right now was not getting them filled and it was end of September before they were filled and I struggled with like wondering what do I do?

How do I stay open and where do these kids go?

So this summer as I was watching the budget proceed and realized we're probably not going to get what I need in order to stay open and affordable.

I started talking with my colleague, Brooke Legler, who has a group center to see if she would have a couple spots for the children I have left to take in September because that's how childcare works.

Kathryn Lake

We

rotate our kids in September because that's when they go to school.

And so, yes, she was that she would be able to get them in.

So I'm at peace with how I'm closing, but I'm very upset and, you know,

I'm angry, I'm honest, I'm angry that I'm closing in this way because I was not ready to close my business.

Jane Matenaer

Well, and you've been doing this for 18 years and we've talked about this many times before, Karine.

You weren't doing this because you were making just scads and scads of money and you have a second home in Vienna or wherever.

You were doing this because you like children and you believe in...

Preparing kids to go to school and that is not just babysitting what you do and what so many of our child care providers do is really set them up to learn and teach them how to learn.

So I think still, I think there's a lot of misconceptions about what our child care providers do.

Oh, yes, absolutely.

All the hours and all the trainings, all the courses, all of, you know, I am passionate about inclusion of children with disabilities and making sure that they have places to go.

I've had over 15 children who have had special needs as small as speech and as large as autism.

And, you know, really taking the time to learn about those kids and how to meet their needs and also really work with their parents to first take away the stigma that it's not anything they did wrong as a parent, that their child needs extra support,

but

then give them help and support.

how to access that.

And a lot of what I do too is teach parents how to be better parents and how to navigate parenthood and just, you know, prepare these kids to be good humans.

And not only do I have kids up to the age of five, but in the summertime and after school, I get my alumni, I call them, they come back.

And so, you know, I have had kids now this summer on 11 year old, she's been with me since she was born.

And, you know, it's wonderful that I get to get her back in the summertime and, you know, continue that care and education that they need when there's no school fail.

Right.

And I think that's the biggest piece we're missing is that school is one thing, preschool, keep pushing down, whatever.

But what do those parents do outside of those hours?

They rely on childcare and high quality environments for their kids to learn.

And schools rely on us to exist so that those kids are in good places during the summer and before and after school.

It's a vicious cycle that we are perpetuating for absolutely no reason.

Greg Bach

Kareen, for people who don't know, and we're watching the budget talks and the signings that happen.

Some of them might be saying, well, there was money put into the childcare funding and you guys got money.

Why are you closing?

What's the problem?

Can you explain to them the truth behind the funding that you were going to be getting through the budget that was signed a couple of weeks ago by Governor Evers?

Yep, absolutely.

So yes, $360 million was allocated to childcare.

A billion was closer to the number that we were asking for total.

And so we got about a third.

480 million separately was for direct state investment to get us back to the monthly payments we were receiving in 2021 and 2022.

And how much has inflation gone up since then?

Let's be honest, like that's not even what we needed.

And so of the 480 million direct that goes to 4700 regulated programs, about 200,000 children and 30,000 teachers and employees, we got $110 million for 11 months.

When you break that down with those massive numbers, you understand it's tiny.

And it's not nearly what we need in order to keep teachers in place.

And one of the things that I did notice that was in the budget was Senator Markline earmarked.

Well, 2 million was earmarked for Senator Markline's district.

I don't know if he did it for Southwest Hospital for a grant, which they already had matching funds in order to build a child care center at the new hospital.

Well, this.

I've talked to some of the providers in that area.

They have empty classrooms and they're terrified those their teachers are going to go now work at this hospital because the company that is going to run it is out of Minnesota has over 100 programs.

They can offer a little bit more money.

So they're going to take those teachers from those small locally owned businesses and they're going to hire them because they're qualified and can pay more.

And then those programs are probably going to close because they can't then hire new teachers.

And so yes, the idea is to open new programs.

because ideally you'll get more spots.

But if you don't have teachers, it doesn't matter.

We have 33,000 empty seats sitting right now in programs.

I don't know of a single group center that does not have empty spots because they don't have enough teachers.

And so by adding to the, you know, it adds to the problem.

It doesn't take away and you end up actually making fewer slots overall.

because of the closures.

Jane Matenaer

Yeah, just to clarify for folks who are listening, you're not talking about open spots for kids.

We're talking about needed child care teachers.

That's what we need.

Yes, open spots for children because there's no teachers to fill to be there for the kids.

So these programs have, like Brooke in my community has, she could have 60 more children in her program, but she doesn't have the teachers for those kids.

And there's kids on that wait list.

And so the problem is the teachers and being able to afford to pay the teachers, but parents can't pay enough for us to pay ourselves or teachers.

Jane Matenaer

Well, and it goes back to so another Republican fix for this was, well, let's just lower the age of teachers and let's lower the qualifications for teachers.

Let's just bring in some 15 year olds and that's going to replace someone who has been educated in child development and all of those things.

There's the fix.

That's not a fix.

No, not at all.

And especially when I have kids in my program that are exhibiting some behaviors like biting, I have a hard time talking to those parents about why the child is getting bit and why the child is biting and how to support that and how to move through it because it's a developmental stage.

I don't know how a 16-year-old is going to have that conversation with a parent.

That's

not going to

happen.

that 16 year old is going to be blamed, those parents are going to be mad.

And I really would want to make sure that there's a requirement if we have people under, if we have children watching children in our programs that there needs to be parents signing off, understanding that that's who is in that classroom at that time.

And another thing is a lot of insurance companies aren't going to allow it.

So these solutions are things that we're not even going to be able to access or they tell us it's a choice.

Well, I'm sorry.

It might be a choice, but it, you know, I might starve to death and you might offer me moldy food and I'm choosing to starve.

But at the same time, like it's not, it's not a choice.

It doesn't have to be.

If

Greg Bach

you're, if you're just joining us, we were talking to Kareen Hendrickson, who is a family child care provider, uh, had to made the, had to make the very difficult decision to close her business, announced it last week on, on Pat Kretlo show about it.

And Kareen, one of the things that, you know,

I guess because I don't work in Madison and I don't work in this industry, I guess the question I have for you is the responses you may have gotten from those who didn't want to give you the money.

They gave you these official fixes, whether it, and when I say fixes, I mean in heavy quotations, but it just, I guess to me, the question I have for you is why wouldn't they just say, yes, here is more money to educate our children.

It seems,

Short-sighted is a nice way of putting it, but it seems like deliberate and just mean-spirited to say, well, we're not going to give you the money and you have to deal with it.

And if you can't, then, well, that's the free market.

Yeah, I wish I knew because they refuse to tell us why.

They refuse to say why they do not want to invest.

And so I can infer it's because they want women to stay home.

I can infer that it's because they don't think our children are worth a penny.

I can infer a lot of different things.

I

can think.

that they think 16-year-old and more children is the answer because they're looking at children as a mathematical equation

and not as

human beings, and that we're taking away their ability to thrive.

We are going to put them on the path to go to prison, which, hey, by the way, you get a million dollars for a child to incarcerate them per year.

So for the low, low price of 480 incarcerated children, we could support our entire child care system.

Greg Bach

And I want to touch on that point of

young people teaching and I it was either you or Tricia Peterson who spoke about it and I'm going to phrase this cautiously there's nothing wrong with younger people teaching children because you have you have programs which will basically be like like

apprentice programs or they can learn they're paired with an adult teacher someone who has experience and that that type of program as someone who was an apprentice seems like a great thing to fund to take those 16 year olds that you say yeah you can teach but let's make it so over the next five years you are going to learn all of those all those skills and then when you're 20 something you're certified you're ready you can open your own business or whatever but I mean

There is the kernel of truth that 16-year-olds working this job isn't a bad thing if they have the supervision, the oversight and the desire to do it.

It can also just be like, hey, do you want to babysit this summer?

And they're actually teaching kids.

Yeah, and I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Minnesota actually does is doing a mentorship program where the children, the students, adults also are able to access the classes for free and then the mentor gets paid by the state to do the mentoring.

And then the mentee gets paid by the state to learn.

And so it's not overhead cost on us as the childcare owners to do that.

And yes, like I would love to apprentice, you know, a 16, 17 year old in my program where I can teach them and I can watch them and observe them and give them positive feedback and let them open their own family childcare when they're, you know, mid 20s.

That's be fabulous.

But the way we're doing it right now is we're throwing these children in to the wolves and they're going to run away screaming and not even want children by the time they're done with this experience.

Jane Matenaer

You know, Karine, this could all be fixed if women like you would just do it for nothing.

You know, I just, gee, that'd just be such an easy fix if women just dropped out of the workforce and did labor for free.

I think that's the answer.

I'm going to say nothing right

now.

Ron Johnson has told me that to my face.

Jane Matenaer

Oh, God.

That you should do it for free?

Yeah.

Jane Matenaer

seriously

in his office.

Yes, in his office a few years ago when I was in DC, he literally said it wasn't an elegant solution being for moms like you to watch other people's children while they work.

And I was like for free.

And he

did not respond to that.

And so that answer was a yes.

Well,

Jane Matenaer

I got to digest that for just a minute.

I'm never going to forget that.

And we're

going to

Jane Matenaer

continue our conversation with Kareen Hendrickson when I recover.

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Today it's the here kitty kitty edition.

Right now Kareen Hendrickson is our guest 18 year childcare provider in Wisconsin and now is going to be closing sadly at the end of August because the budget agreement that was reached

here in Wisconsin is not doing enough for our childcare providers.

And right before we had to take a pause, you mentioned a conversation with Ron Johnson-Careen that I don't know that Greg and I have ever heard this before.

I've never heard this.

I think let's go back to that conversation you had with Wisconsin senior senator Ron Johnson about the need for childcare in Wisconsin.

How did that go?

So yeah, I was there with Main Street Alliance.

There were several of us talking about small businesses and the need for investment and things that would support small businesses, including childcare.

And he called me healthcare about three times also, and I kept correcting him and saying, I run a childcare.

And then he, you know, I said, why don't you think we should fund?

And he goes, I think an elegance solution, it would be for moms like you to stay home.

And so the other moms can go to work.

at their whatever, maybe more important jobs, I don't know.

So that they can go to work and then you can keep their kids.

And I said, well, and I shouldn't get paid for that.

And he just kind of looked at me and tried to change the subject really quickly.

And Sean actually then said, you don't think that people like her should be able to run their small business and get paid.

And he just kind of stared at us.

And I said, that tells me all I need to know.

And then the conversation moved on.

He was very,

It was a group of men and women.

And with the women, he was very much in our faces.

And then when the men talked, he was very laid back.

No.

So the group of us tried really hard.

Like the guys in there were very supportive.

And so they would try in their way to kind of like say what they could to bring the conversation back around and talk about how as restaurant owners, they needed childcare for their employees and things like that.

And it was just, it was a one-on-one and what is wrong with our elected officials, honestly.

Greg Bach

I'm okay.

Where do I start?

First of all, an elegant solution.

That was him trying to be fun or

whatever.

Greg Bach

And once again, missing the mark as he always does, as he needs a sense of humor and human emotions to do that.

But also, do you think there is a business person on earth who would walk into his office who would say, I'm struggling, I need help?

I manufacture a widget that, you know, steals something for cars.

Do you think he would dare have the notion to say, well, if you just did it for free, I mean, why don't you just do it for free?

Then you should be fine.

I mean, what's wrong with just doing your job for free?

Then you don't have to worry about it.

Jane Matenaer

Why didn't he tell the restaurant owners to get servers who will just do it for nothing?

Then that's our answer for everything is we need more people doing jobs who don't get paid.

That's

the fix.

Jane Matenaer

That's

the fix work.

That's kind of how things work.

We exploit people for the lowest amount possible

Greg Bach

Yeah.

Oh, I mean, it is what it is.

They just don't say it's a blatantly obvious.

And I do think it's because women in general, our entire system of childcare is built on the backs of women with young children who quit their jobs, who cannot find care, who open their own family child cares or go work in a group center so that their kids can be around other kids and they can bring in a tiny amount of salary.

That is what our entire system has been built on historically.

And it has worked in the past because enough of us are willing to do it.

Well, we're no longer willing to do it and also

any job pays way more than what we get paid and so there's not yet people that are I guess desperate enough to like have some income and or and do this high high intense

job that is mentally, physically exhausting and draining, but yet at the same time, so wonderful and fulfilling at the same time.

And that's kind of what keeps us going.

And that's why we're in this weird space.

And that's why the system keeps perpetuating upon itself.

And we need to get elected reps at the state and federal level who absolutely understand that childcare is education for our children.

It is workforce development.

It is crime criminal gets rid of crime, it gets rid of crime, it reduces health care costs.

It is the lynch

of our entire society and if we care about kids, we need to take care of them from the beginning and their families and the communities that support them.

Greg Bach

I feel like the bar is set really low at this point, where I would just like to have a representative who understands the difference between a health care provider and a child care provider.

Can we just, let's just start there.

Jane Matenaer

Well, if you would like to call Ron Johnson and point out the distinction between health care and child care, there's an easy way for you to get a hold of him.

Very easy.

Go to myvote.wi.gov and let.

Senator Ron Johnson, know how you feel about his idea that the elegant solution to our childcare problem is just for women to drop out of the workforce and watch everybody else's kids for free.

I think I might call.

myvote.wi.gov.

Let Rojo know what you think about him in the nicest way possible.

Greg Bach

Hashtag let Rojo know.

Let Rojo know.

Jane Matenaer

Corrine Hendrickson, thank you so very much for making time out with us.

We will continue our conversations with you and love to see politics.

I don't know.

Maybe think about

it.

We'll see.

We'll

Jane Matenaer

see.

Gary and Hadrickson, thank you so very much.

Take care.

We'll talk to you soon.

We have news.

You're welcome.

I will have lots of time.

Jane Matenaer

Yeah.

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We do clean it up for language, but yes So today for audio Sorbet,

which is where we are right

Jane Matenaer

now This is the portion of the program where we like to lighten things up take a breath get away from the news have a couple laughs audio Sorbet for today is subtitles or dubs when you are watching a movie

Or anything, actually.

If it's a dubbed film, will you watch the dub?

Or do you bring up the subtitles?

Close captioning, as it were.

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Yeah.

Greg Bach

Dubs?

Wow, that was

Jane Matenaer

closed caption.

We

Greg Bach

should have had dramatic like music there Wow, that was amazing like I'm like what happened to didn't news just break did something No,

Jane Matenaer

and we had a text from earlier that I wanted to share from Isaac who texted in early in the show from bearaboo He says this is for the audio sorbet.

This is Isaac.

I usually turn on subtitles no matter what show or movie I'm watching Thank You Isaac

Greg Bach

so Calvin brought this one up because

There are shows on Netflix that are in other languages and Netflix.

I mean, they're not the only one, but there are a lot of shows I feel like on Netflix that have just their base option is just dubbing.

You don't even have to like choose it.

It's dubbed into a language.

I think the one I'm thinking of is Money Heist.

It's dubbed from a different language into English.

And for me personally, dubbing is off-putting.

Yes, it's I can't I have to I can't watch it because I'll see their faces and Their mouth won't match the words and it's like when you watch shows on television and the audio isn't quite in sync with the video and it ruins your life

Jane Matenaer

Well, it's hard to stay up with the plot when you're so

distracted by that half a second, right?

Half a second delay, a half a second that's off with the lips and the sound and all that stuff.

And that's all you can, that's all I can think about then when I'm watching that movie is, oh, you were so close on dubbing that, but that didn't work.

Greg Bach

Yeah.

I think that I'll watch movies dubbed especially like, you know, movies from Hong Kong or from China or Japan.

I think that it's my brain has negotiated.

the differences, but when it's, it's just, I can't do dubbing.

It just throws me way off.

I have to do subtitles.

That's how I, and to be perfectly honest, subtitles are how I watch shows in English

Jane Matenaer

too.

Thank you.

Which, nope.

It's not just me.

Oh, it certainly is not you.

I think my, my whole closed captioning thing started with the final season of Game of Thrones.

Yeah.

Because not only was it so dark, you could barely see anything.

Couldn't hear anything so I started putting the closed caption on it so I could at least know what was going on while they were flying around in dragons in the complete dark But now it's like Fight scenes and explosions are so loud Compared to the dialogue That now I keep I have closed caption on all the time.

Yeah, so I don't have to blast people out of the room because I

If I, if I haven't loud enough to hear the dialogue, then I'm, then when the explosions happen, it's like, I'm going to get shot across the room.

Greg Bach

And the whole, the whole point of this conversation started with the, do you do subtitles or dubbing, but it immediately morphed into this where we're like watching television and the, cause it's true.

When I watch TV, the dialogue will be a, usually a certain level quieter.

And then the action is so loud and the commercials.

so

Jane Matenaer

loud.

My husband says that too.

Greg Bach

Calvin, you brought this topic up and you said that your parents have a very interesting history with this.

This is great.

Yeah.

So I mean, I in college, I watched a lot of anime, Japanese animation, and I was a bit of a snob where I would only

It's a big debate, sub or dub, and sub people are a little snobby, and I tend to fall in that category, because the dubs are a lot of times annoying, in my opinion.

But yeah, my parents, I think it started with, they tried to watch the first season of Squid Games, and they watched the dub, and I would catch pieces of it, and it would just bother me that the dialogue wasn't syncing up

to the

mouths.

And then they, and then this goes even further.

They decided they couldn't hear it.

So they started using the subtitles, but kept watching the dubs.

So they were

watching dubbed with

subtitles.

Greg Bach

That is a, see like, we can have all these conversations.

And it was funny cause we had all these conversations before the show, just to like, you know, we just got into it.

We were talking about it.

And then you said that, and I feel like you just stopped the room.

We're like, wait.

What that's great.

Why Kareen Hendrickson who was our guest earlier this hour actually chimed in our chat that says I agree on the dubbing I can't stand it when it doesn't like it I can't I have to close out go back in to Start it again because just that it will it will correct itself when you start again But then again this technology

Jane Matenaer

a

Greg Bach

little off.

I shouldn't have to deal with this I paid a lot of money for this television, but yeah dubbing is just

impossible for me to concentrate with.

I have to do subtitles.

And I said to the two of you, when I used to, when I would go to my mother-in-law's house, she is a subtitle stan.

She loves it.

She does it all the time.

Period.

That's always what's happening.

And I was being like, why are we doing this?

It's distracting.

I don't like it.

We can hear it.

Turn it up.

All the things that my brain was saying.

And then one day I'm at home and I just turn it down.

I go to myself, oh wait, the subtitles are not.

I gotta turn the subtitles.

You

Jane Matenaer

got sucked into the subtitle vortex without even realizing it.

Subtitles, closed captioning, or dubbed.

Which do you prefer?

Which do you detest?

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Our audio sorbet conversation for today.

Terry from the Northwoods is on the line, not for audio sorbet.

Terry, but you wanted to say something about the brewers.

I just hope they stand back.

No trade.

Keep that clubhouse together.

Greg Bach

Yes,

sir.

Tweak it.

Don't tweak it.

Just let it be.

That's all I got, guys.

Terry

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couldn't agree more.

Well, and it's kind of a surprise.

I mean, I don't think anybody had big expectations for the Brewers this year.

Greg Bach

No.

Right.

It was like, yeah, hopefully we'll not suck.

Hopefully be a 500 team.

That's what Paul said.

That's what JR said.

That's what I said.

I don't have as much knowledge of baseball as they do.

Terry, thank you so much for calling and giving us your opinion on the matter.

I totally agree.

Keep it straight down the air, straight down the

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Don't mess with anything right now.

Don't mess with it.

You

Greg Bach

got great pitching.

You got great path.

And by the way, Terry, I just want to say, and I'm going to speak on behalf of Jane and Todd when I say this, we went to the Northwoods this past week.

It is so lovely.

Yes.

Greg Bach

loved being in, I don't know where you're from exactly, but in your neck of the woods, it was just

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Greg Bach

Thank you so much for calling

Jane Matenaer

Terry, we appreciate it.

Yeah, really appreciate that, Terry.

Terry Ryan listening on the, on WAUK says, subtitles all the way.

Thank you, Terry.

Appreciate that.

I agree

Greg Bach

with you.

Now I leave them on for everything.

I do too, and.

for things that are like even like I know some people who will turn subtitles on when they watch BBC shows because I understand sometimes the accents are can throw you

Jane Matenaer

a little bit

Greg Bach

but now it doesn't matter it can be I can be watching myself on video

Jane Matenaer

I'll have subtitles on because

Greg Bach

I'm just like you never know I could miss something

Jane Matenaer

eight five five seven five two four eight four two subtitles or dubbed do you have a preference do you use neither

Maybe your hearing's really, really good and much better than mine, because I need subtitles now.

855-752-4842.

And it gets to the point, because we were, again, when we were talking about this off the air, when you first start using closed captioning, that's all you're watching, right?

Is your, you're reading the dialogue and you're reading things as it goes along.

So you might not be watching the action itself.

I think it gets easier as you do it more.

Greg Bach

I think so too.

I think also you trust yourself to know that if there's no action happening, if it's just conversation, you're not missing much visually.

But I did mention this too, that Netflix has been reported as their scripts for their original programming.

They over-explain things in the scripts.

Their characters will over-explain what's going on because they know

Their viewers are actually listeners.

They're not watching.

Jane Matenaer

They're looking at their

Greg Bach

phone.

They're looking at their tablet.

They're looking at their

Jane Matenaer

device.

It's out

Greg Bach

in the

Jane Matenaer

background.

Greg Bach

Yes, exactly.

So they need to know what's going on.

So it's all in the script.

It's all in the back and forth.

So that to me says a great deal about us.

Us not you of us

Jane Matenaer

Carmella from Milwaukee listening on WA UK definitely subtitles like Janna got tired of trying to hear what they were freaking saying Especially after rewinding numerous times trying to figure out what I missed I also find it hysterical when subtitles have misspellings.

Oh, or they use the wrong word.

Yes.

Greg Bach

Yeah

Jane Matenaer

little moments of happy there.

Greg Bach

We were watching a show

and I can't remember the name of it right now.

We watched it.

Oh, good cop, bad cop.

It's the CW show.

It's kind of ridiculous, but it's fun.

And the subtitle, the subtitles were so far behind.

They were like a, like think, think about time as a construct.

They were a solid 45 to 60 seconds behind.

We just had to turn them off cause.

We were like, oh my God, you must have been so confused.

It's like three seasons.

I will say this too.

And you know this, and anyone who watches Subtiles, I think the only problem with Subtitles is the reveals come immediately.

Jane Matenaer

If it's a long, slow conversation, and yeah, they get to the spoiler.

Before anything's, yeah.

Greg Bach

Oh man, now I know who killed the guard.

It was the other guard.

Jane Matenaer

Yes.

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Welcome back to Matt and air on air Jane Matt and air Greg Bach doctors slide on the board coming to you from our studio at Radio Park and Racine where you can join us call or text at 855-752-4842 leave a comment if you're watching on the live stream on Facebook YouTube and what used to be Twitter we will not be here tomorrow Calvin will be here Matt Rothschild it is going to slip in

to our show and cover it for us tomorrow with Kelvin producing.

We are going to Madison Civic Media's headquarters, world headquarters for an annual beat the hosts about the face and neck with sticks.

So we do this once a year.

It's fine.

I was told there's going to be pie.

And after they beat us around the face and neck with sticks, it's fine.

It's fine.

So Matt, we'll be here tomorrow.

We will be back with you on Thursday, but we're going to do our show for Madison.

Correct.

So but Calvin, you.

You are still going to be producing for us on Thursday, aren't you?

I will be here looking forward to it.

All right.

Double check

Greg Bach

and

Jane Matenaer

make sure

Greg Bach

everything's OK.

Make sure our show is completely in subtitles.

That's a reference to the last segment.

We talked about subtitles.

Jane Matenaer

Like that very much.

OK, it is just about 10.54.

That means it is time for

this shouldn't be a thing.

Jane Matenaer

If you ever have a thing you think should not be send it into Greg and me at Jane says at civic media dot US J A N E S A Y S Jane says at civic media dot US Calvin as always found this one.

This is from CBC Canada news

Courtney Dixon with the byline headline story.

Yeah, I headline reads BC couple dodging dozens of calls about their missing cat But their cat isn't missing Natasha Lavoise phone number is featured on a shirt by a US designer

For more than a year Natasha Lavoie and her partner Jonathan have been feeling dozens upon dozens upon dozens of phone calls from strangers Saying they have found their cat Torbo They don't have a cat named Torbo They do have a cat named Mauser.

Yeah, he's not missing

He's right there.

He's right there.

They have photos of him.

Sometimes like six times a day, I'm getting these really random phone calls and people leaving me voicemails saying that they found my cat and they want money in order for me to turn over my cat.

I'm like, my cat's at home in the air conditioning.

I don't know what you're talking about.

After months of this and trying to figure out why this was happening, she finally asked someone how they got her number.

The caller explained the number was listed on a shirt that looks like a missing cat poster.

So somebody's got a t-shirt with a kitten on it that says missing cat and underneath is the phone number.

She said, why would you use that phone number on that shirt?

Greg Bach

I have a feeling it was a randomly.

picked like you

Jane Matenaer

just

Greg Bach

randomly generated

Jane Matenaer

numbers.

You

Greg Bach

just picked 10 number.

I mean, I think in Canada, it's the same system as ours.

It's going to be 10 numbers and you just simply put it on.

Yeah.

And you think, well, you know, it's a number.

Who would who's going to do that?

Jane, who in their right mind would call it hundreds of people?

Jane Matenaer

CBC News reached out to the company that made this shirt wisdom.

Yeah.

W I S D U M B.

Wisdom.

Gross.

New York created this shirt and says they are no longer selling it online.

Although on their Instagram page, they do have photos of missing cat posters with various area codes attached.

The use of a real number within this artwork was not intentional, according to customer service at this Wisdom New York website.

Greg Bach

Okay.

I think it's very, I don't know, there's some, call me what you will.

I think there's something very sweet about the fact that this woman who's being called many times a day, she doesn't change your number.

She wouldn't do that.

Jane Matenaer

She's hesitant to change your number.

She said, we've thought about it, but we have a 604 area code that was British Columbia's first area code.

It's like New York.

And now you can't get it anymore.

Greg Bach

That also feels very Midwest.

I don't want to get rid of my phone.

Jane Matenaer

I'm not

Greg Bach

changing my number to 60.

I'm not getting rid of

Jane Matenaer

that's where I grew up.

I've had my number for 20 years.

She says, I don't want to change it.

I'll just keep not answering.

And their cat is fine.

So if you do see a t-shirt with a missing cat on it, it's got a number.

Don't call it.

Don't, don't call

Greg Bach

it.

I just love this, I'd love the idea that people may, well, I don't like the idea that people are like, if you want your cat, I want money.

I have to imagine some people called and said, hey, I think I saw your cat.

I think I

Jane Matenaer

found your cat.

Half the time they just cut you off and go like, no, I've got your cat, I want money for the cat.

Okay.

And then they hang up.

Oh man.

She does say.

And I think this is the final word.

I feel like I deserve a free t-shirt after this.

Greg Bach

Wisdom.

Are you listening?

I feel like you should get a t-shirt with the CEO's face on it in his phone number saying, missing intelligence.

Jane Matenaer

Missing intelligence.

I like it.

That

Greg Bach

wraps up

Jane Matenaer

today's episode of.

This shouldn't be a

Jane Matenaer

thing.

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Tom Hartman 11 to 2, Todd Alba 2 to 4, Maggie Dawn 4 to 6, Pete Schwabba 6 to 8 PM with Night Light and some great evening entertainment as well.

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