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the amount of rain that falls and what that equates to.

If it were snow, correct, it's pretty mind blowing.

Yes, it really is.

So Britney is going to join us coming up at 9 50 hour number two.

It's Friday.

He is back.

Dan Schaefer will be here.

Civic media's political editor and the creator of the recombobulation area.

He just got back from vacation.

He did indeed.

And we're going to talk a little about that this this morning.

Yeah, at audio Sorbet that comes up after the

10 30 news where we lighten things up, trying to take a breath, get away from the news.

And so for audio survey today, we're going to go with the where did you go on summer vacation?

Where was your getaway?

Did you do a getaway?

And Jane, did I hear you correct?

It's Friday.

It is Friday.

It's what does that

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That means Greg buck.

It is free ticket a Friday.

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Speaking of the Brewers, they are in action today.

They're on the road in Cincinnati.

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This afternoon, our broadcast starts at 505 and now we have the details about the free burgers.

That's the reason why you showed up, people.

That's why we know you're here because of the big announcement from George Webbs.

George Webbs, the local diner chain announcing the details for its upcoming free burger giveaway.

It's going to happen August 20th, so that's next Wednesday from 2 to 6 PM.

This is only the third time in franchise history.

And it was almost two times this

year,

right?

We were on the precipice of two times of free burgers.

Fans can visit any one of the 23 George Web locations during that four hour window to get your one free hamburger.

Don't get crazy.

They're also offering vouchers starting today if you would like to get your burger at a later date.

So if you don't want to go on the 20th and deal with all the crazy, for some folks, that's part of the fun.

Yeah, that's not fun for me.

Jane, what if I want to commemorate this burger?

I don't want to eat it, but I just want to hold on to it.

You can do that.

I can.

There is a gentleman who would be crazy enough to do that.

There's a guy who's had a burger since 2018.

He's preserved it.

Oh, I'm not quite sure what that means.

And I'm not quite sure why he would want to do that.

No, I don't know.

But it

exists to get it to get the story.

Maybe I guess is it hermetically sealed?

Is it let's hope

is it underneath?

Is it

under glass for presentation and observation only little embalmed burger?

Yes, indeed.

But the tradition of the George Webb free burgers has only been fulfilled twice before first in 1987 when they handed out almost 170,000 free burgers and again in 2018.

giving away thousands and thousands of free hamburgers.

Keep in mind as well, if you're going to go next Wednesday, don't go and ask them for like chicken tenders and stuff because it's going to be a limited menu for that day.

Really?

Yeah.

Okay.

I wasn't sure.

They're not going to.

Yes, they're going to have thousands of people trying to get a burger and you're going to have the one guy going, can I get breakfast?

I think if you want to get breakfast, you should be able to get breakfast.

Make

it at home that day.

Oh, I feel like you're just stepping on my freedoms right now.

trying to do that.

Free burgers, the George Webb's giveaway happening next Wednesday, two to six p.m.

But again, starting today, you can go into a Webby's and pick up a voucher that you can then turn in to use at a later date.

If you don't feel like waiting in line.

That would be my choice.

Yeah, I would definitely do that.

I've not had a George Websberger in a very, very

long time.

Yeah, it's been a long time for me and I'm trying to remember.

We didn't do, I think my mom or dad may have gotten in line and gotten the free burgers at home.

But we didn't, I didn't do it in 2018 because it's just a line of people.

I'm like, no, thank you.

I

gotta say, yeah, I'm from Illinois.

So I've never even heard of this, you know,

burgers for everyone.

It's a thing.

I

never knew it was a thing and now I'm fully switched over to a Brewer's fan now.

Just specifically

because of this.

We bought you with one burger.

So here's the question.

You're from Illinois.

What team do you usually root for?

Unfortunately, the White Sox.

Yeah, it didn't feel like it was much of a turn.

I

feel like a burger is all

it would take, honestly.

Ouch.

Yeah.

I love the White Sox.

Don't get me wrong.

There's a kinship that we feel with the White Sox, the Brewers fans.

They're a little baseball shade.

Yeah.

I mean, you are really only better than the Rockies right now.

Yeah.

Last year, we were the worst team.

in all of baseball ever.

So it can only go up from there.

But

there you go.

That's almost a win.

That's almost a win.

It really

is.

It was something.

They were alone in that coveted dish space.

Really polishing

this one, aren't you there, Jay?

I'm really trying to help out, Tom.

He's helping us out.

So anyway, yes, Free Burgers next Wednesday, 2 to 6 PM at George Webbs.

And starting today, you can go in and grab a voucher.

Yes.

And turn it in later.

Also, just a reminder, we are still seeing a lot of stories coming out about the flooding that happened last weekend.

If you were affected by the flood, they do ask that you go to 211 or call 211.

211, if you call it, I know they've been swamped.

Yes.

With so many people trying to report the flooding.

You can do it online.

I did this yesterday.

OK.

So if you don't want to hang on the phone and wait.

It is important as far as getting help, should the federal government decide to give us help, to know how many people were affected and what kinds of things you lost and damages and stuff like that.

And I'm sure they use that information too for their records so they can understand for predictions and whatnot.

And it's just, if you can get that information to them, it's a good place

to start.

It really helps.

Yeah, it does help.

And it's also been interesting seeing some other articles come out about, we talked about the big,

storms in 97 and 98 that I remember specifically I was living in New Berlin and there were some changes instituted in various communities after that flooding.

And I know in Wauwatosa in parts of the village of Wauwatosa the city bought up a whole bunch of houses and knocked them down.

And then in other areas of the city as well they've tried to expand some of the arable areas adjacent to our parks.

And the other thing that they're doing and have been doing a lot of these water, waterways spillways are lined with concrete.

So that just shoots water.

And so they're removing the concrete from the sides of these areas so that it will soak in a little bit more and help absorb it.

But I guess this isn't helping people who had four feet of water in their basement right now, but some of the stories I'm seeing is

There have been efforts to try and address some of these things What worked in in in 97 and 98 isn't working anymore.

No, and it's about now as we all speak with Brittany This is becoming the new normal.

It's something we should be getting used to in southeastern Wisconsin We are not an area of the state that gets a lot of flooding at least to this extent

But we should prepare ourselves for the future because this is where we're headed.

And it is, and you know, people aren't going to want to hear it and they're going to tut tut and hand wave it away.

But this is direct, a direct effect of climate change, specifically global warming.

And I met the point now.

I'm tired of calling it climate change.

It's global warming.

Climate change is just a nice way of putting it.

But the temperatures get warmer.

The atmosphere has more moisture because of that.

It gets trapped in the clouds, more moisture in the clouds means more rain, more rains means more flooding.

You do the rest of that math, but either way it's something we need to prepare for.

And that's something we need to talk to our municipalities about because they need to have plans in place to take care of what's going on.

But the thing that gives me pause and a bit of, of frustration, sadness, anger, whatever you want to call it is the fact that we have

a state government that does not want to spend money on a lot of things, even though we have a lot of money to spend.

And we have a federal government that just basically says, you don't get anything.

You're on your own.

You're on your own.

Sorry.

You guys should have been taking care of this on your own for a long time.

You should

have known better.

It's not our problem.

Sorry.

FEMA is now just, you can come check out the FEMA museum for all the stuff we did in the past, but you don't get any money.

And it doesn't matter who you voted for, by the way, either.

Texas, North Carolina, Arkansas, Wisconsin, all voted for Trump.

Doesn't seem to matter.

Yeah.

Doesn't seem to matter.

Yeah, yeah, it's so sorry I spun that out a little bit But it's it is frustrating because this is the time we need to come together as communities and come up with plans

Well, it'll also be a good time to perhaps call your elected officials.

I think that's a great thing might be

hesitant to acknowledge that things are changing and we need to adapt along with our change in climate.

Where would I go, Greg Bach, if I would like to call one of my elected officials and I just don't know where to find them?

You're going to go to myvote.wi.gov and you're going to put in your information on the front page.

It's going to come up with everything you need.

Not only your rep information, but you can find out where you vote.

You can find out what's on your ballot.

If there's a sample ballot available, you can register to vote, which is very important.

We

talked to Deb Cronmiller about this, the fact that they've

you're going to get a call from the president.

Take it off a bunch of names like hundreds of thousands of names.

Check the voter and make sure you're still registered.

This was not evil planning.

This was something this was maintenance, right?

But you can go and find your reps information from the president down to even if you still elect a dog catcher, and you can give him a call because phone numbers and addresses are in there.

When you do call, please be respectful because you're talking to an eight and or an intern.

So.

tell them that you want to see plans in place and don't let other representatives say, well, that's a Milwaukee or southeastern Wisconsin problem.

That's not how you approach a problem.

And this is affecting all of us.

Correct.

I mean, good heavens, there have also been articles about how we used to, everybody thought Wisconsin was this climate haven, right?

Yeah.

We're the safe place.

Wisconsin, we don't have hurricanes here.

We don't have, you know, a lot of wildfires here.

Well, we're not such a, there isn't going to be any havens anymore.

No.

No, not at all.

That's kind of a thing of the past.

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We do have more rain coming in for the weekend.

Oh, yeah.

So she'll she'll join us to explain how long that's going to be with us.

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Oh yeah.

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That's gonna happen next Wednesday We were also talking about the flooding and flooding aftermath and all of those things if you'd like to join us 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Joe from Madison has been very patient waiting on the phone.

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Joe.

Thank you for joining us Hi Joe

Joe

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Gonna talk a little bit once we get back from the news about school supplies.

Yes.

If you are a parent, if you are a grandparent, I would be very curious to hear from you about what you are seeing

As you head into the stores, free notebooks and pencils and erasers, I'm assuming they still use those things.

Do I look like I go to school anymore?

Dominic's the closest to school.

You're our fill-in resident young person for Calvin, Dominic.

Pencils?

Are pencils still a thing?

Yeah, pencils are still

a thing.

I'm

just asking.

I don't use them that much, you know?

But every now and then, I mean, back in college, I used pencils all day, every day.

I was a big notebook guy, so I always write.

Yeah, same here.

I would not type on a laptop during the class.

I wrote everything down.

Took hand notes?

Yeah, and I didn't do that back in the 80s, by the way.

This was in this century.

Thank you very much.

And it's unfortunate, too, because now they're all requiring laptops only.

Notebooks

are going out

of style.

I

know a few of

my classes, they were like that.

The clickety-clack of keyboards just absolutely distracted me during classes.

And I've heard Melissa Kaye talk about this on Path Show.

There is a connection, at least for me,

When I have to write something with my hand, I remember it better than if I typed it.

I remember it best when I write it with my toes.

That stands

out,

I

suppose.

It's a real experience.

That'll be something that would stick with you.

Appreciate that, great guy.

Again, we're to talk school supplies and back to school shopping.

Coming up in just a little bit, we have news on the way.

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Let us know what's coming up for us this weekend.

We do have more rain.

Oh, yeah.

We do have more rain on the way, at least for central parts of the state, I believe.

So, Brittany will be here to explain that.

Hour number two, it's Friday.

He is back from Vacay.

Dan Schaefer will be here.

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Gonna talk about the governor's race.

Yep.

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Next Saturday's game is the Bob Euker Gulf umbrella game.

Oh boy.

So if you get these tickets, you're also if you're one of the first, I think 125,000 people, 120

people.

No,

no,

no.

25,000.

Oh, there's thousands.

That's a lot of that would be a lot of

umbrellas.

Three.

That's three Miller parks.

OK, that's a lot of lot of rallies.

Twenty five thousand umbrellas.

That's still a lot of brawling.

Next Saturday at MFM.

One

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Well done, Rita from La Crosse and Chad and Laval and Ron and Oregon.

And just makes me happy.

I like to see him come in.

Yeah, I know.

Okay, we wanted to talk prices a little bit back to school shopping underway.

School has got to be starting up in a couple of weeks, maybe even sooner than that, depending upon where you go.

I believe some schools start next week and then the bulk of them start after Labor Day.

But yeah, it really it depends on the school depends on the district.

It depends on a bunch of things.

But yeah, in the next few weeks, we're going to see school full blown back in session.

And that means and honestly, it's meant since last month back

to school

sales.

Yep, big time.

Unfortunately for moms and dads and probably grandparents as well, first day school supplies expected to cost an average of 7.3% more, almost three times headline inflation over the past year.

This is from the Century Group, the Century Foundation came out with this.

Price increases for some things like index cards.

are up 40%.

Binders and folders, parents will pay 13% more.

Overall, families expected to pay about 163 more this year for school lunch staples.

That's up over 5% from last year.

Things like juice boxes, grapes, strawberries, up an average of 22%.

This compounded by the effects of the Trump tariffs, which are hiking prices of clothing and shoes by as much as

40% electronics by 30% college textbooks by 10% Yeah,

it's This is that Kitchen table economy that people have been talking about for quite a while now and and that is something that I will forever be You know a little embarrassed that I didn't I last year when we were talking about the presidential election everyone talked about how bad the economy was

I always pointed towards the economic indicators with stock market, jobs, forecast, things of that nature.

But learning about the kitchen table economy, I don't have children, so I don't worry about back to school purchases.

But this is a great example of the fact that prices just are not coming down.

As was promised.

As was promised.

Day one.

Day one,

the prices would come down.

And on top of that,

you know, prices are going to go up regardless.

That's just the world we live in.

That's what we should expect.

They're supposed to go up by matter to match inflation.

We have found out through news sources that there are some companies who admit to price gouging and using inflation, using the pandemic as far as supply chain problems.

They'll use what they want to get us to pay for what we need and we pay for it because it's our things.

We need kids need school supplies.

we don't really have a choice.

And you can say you can go to Amazon too to find it, but it doesn't make it cheaper either.

The prices, I remember we talked about a couple of weeks ago, the price of backpacks have skyrocketed.

So, you know, this is

This is a real world thing that affects everybody.

This is not, you know, my backpack isn't more expensive because I voted for a Democrat.

My backpack is more expensive because it's more expensive.

Yeah.

And then we got this news yesterday, which we didn't have a chance to talk about yesterday when this came out.

Yesterday, a 0.9% single month jump in the producer price index.

That is the largest since the inflationary days of 2022.

This jump pushed the PPI 3.3% higher compared to this time last year.

It rose all the way to 3.7% year after year.

None of these numbers are good.

Thank you very much.

I mean, it's far more nuanced and complicated to talk about in a few minutes that we have here, but

really like we want to know from you, the listeners, what are you be, especially for those, for those people buying school supplies for the kids, what are you seeing as far as price hikes?

We're seeing, you know, whether it's

the index cards or you still use, I'm just amazed anyone still uses index cards.

I mean, it's yeah, I think that

I think this is one of those conversation pieces that we forget because, as I mentioned yesterday, there's so much happening all the time that we're, everything that we're upset about on Monday, we forget by Friday because not only is there a new story, but we have lives that we have to, you know, I have bills to pay, I have places to go, I have things to do.

So I can't keep my eye on it all the time and we understand that.

So it's important to talk about it again.

These prices are not coming down.

In fact,

they're only going up and much higher.

And there are things that play into it like inflation, things like tariffs, things like economic instability, and also companies who will just take advantage of the fact that people are just willing to pay more because they have nary a choice.

The Century Foundation did a survey of over 2000 voters.

American families are struggling six in 10 Americans blame Donald Trump for driving up the cost of living.

eight in 10, that includes 68% of Republicans are worried the Trump tariffs are going to raise prices on things like clothing.

Yes, we're already seeing that, especially on shoes.

More than eight in 10 people are also worried it brought the price of food in today's economy.

Yesterday, I saw a report that said that vegetables are up 32%.

I saw a tweet of someone showing us a piece of meat, same meat.

option from Costco last year in April It was like $49 this year same cuts almost the same size off by just a just a bit The price per pound went up five bucks.

It's now nearly $79 for that same cut of meat same size same place I mean the prices are just going up and there's no getting around it.

There's nothing we can do Unless I shouldn't say there's nothing we can do but they're there

It should spark a conversation on what we look for in our leaders, too, because we were told, as you said, day one

prices are going to come down.

Along with ending the war in Ukraine and many other things that were supposed to happen day one, because it was all so easy.

School supply shopping will be 7.3% more expensive this year compared to last year.

School meals and healthy food this year families can already expect to pay over 160 bucks more Just to pack your kids lunch Mm-hmm And what if you need a laptop?

Everybody needs a laptop laptops have prices have almost doubled from 650 bucks to $1,200

Thanks to tariffs.

Well, and that's the other thing too is when I think about those bigger purchase, whether they're laptops or tablets or, you know, some kids require certain kinds of calculators because of their math class, although I know that on phones nowadays they have scientific calculators.

I don't, I don't know, you know,

Well really quick, Dom, you were in high school and grade school a lot sooner than we were.

What was any kind of big tech purchases that you may have needed to make to be in school

before college?

I think for me it was the calculator, one of those big nice calculators, the TI-84 pluses.

Those were so expensive.

And that was, you're right, that was when I was in high school, eighth grade.

It should have been just a basic calculator, but you know, I had to spend the extra.

Get the fancy one.

Yeah.

Well, and I mean, when I was a kid, that's the TI calculator, which all kids in a certain math got was like in high school in the nineties was like 60, 70 bucks.

They're like 130 now.

And so yeah, I mean, but my point with is, is these larger purchases.

That's when I think about parents and grandparents and guardians and whomever.

They're like, well, I got to slap a credit card down now.

I have to make a big purchase.

Okay, that's a 14 to 29% interest rate on that purchase that you're going to pay off over time.

So really, it's just pushing these parents into spending that they might not be able to make, but they have to do because schools require certain things too now.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

When I hear you say that a percentage of Republicans are nervous that prices will go up, when were you asked that question?

Because they've been going up.

Are you nervous?

Are you upset?

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that

yeah American companies and American consumers are the ones who pay the tariffs

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Yeah, I have nothing but bad news again.

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Thanks a lot.

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Enjoy your weekend, everybody.

Goodbye.

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next week.

Just kidding.

No, oh my gosh, I wish it was that easy.

This weekend is just going to be kind of a repeat of last weekend.

To be honest with you, there is going to be flooding somewhere in the state.

A good widespread two to four inches is expected.

We are seeing places that could get up maybe six, seven inches of rainfall depends where this boundary sets up again, where those storms are going to line up and just keep going.

So kind of like last weekend, we're going to get that high heat, high humidity.

We're feeling it today.

Temperatures reaching about 90 degrees far south, dew points in the mid 70s, feeling close to 100 degrees.

It'll

stay that way south tomorrow.

Then we're going to start to get a little bit of relief from the heat, but that's of course versus the storms and the rain starts to drink all of that juice and dump it on us.

So I think it's all going to start early this evening tonight.

You can see it probably starting in Minnesota and Iowa and it's going to cross into our western borders this evening.

We're looking at potentially high winds, hail, maybe a tornado too in the north woods, more of a chance up there.

We're going to see waves tonight.

We're going to see a.

Decent bow echo that may come through, blast through the Northwoods tomorrow morning.

Southern cities, you could get the low end of that.

You know, the southern end of that line could scrape you tomorrow morning.

Again, getting warm and humid, still staying sticky tomorrow afternoon.

More storms start, and I think that this is when it's really gonna start setting up that boundary.

So from Eau Claire to Milwaukee, maybe even the Fox Valley, this line keeps moving, so we're not exactly sure where it's gonna set up.

Yeah, Saturday afternoon into the evening and into our Sunday morning.

I think that's when the flooding is going to become a big concern there.

So of course, shots of heavy rainfall, localized flooding, definitely possible, but the aerial widespread where it's going to keep hitting is going to be that Saturday afternoon night and into Sunday morning and it doesn't stop there.

I wish it did.

We got more rounds Sunday into Monday, potentially scattered showers still lingering into Tuesday before we see a dry break.

Same scenario system hits front stalls more low pressures come through Enhancing that rain risk and then it sits in stalls and it doesn't leave till next week

And that was the problem with last weekend too, right Brittany is that these storms slowed down and It isn't it called the train effect where it just keeps coming and coming and coming and going over the same area over and over and over again

Yep, just like the train tracks, right?

It's set on that track, one spot.

Where's that front?

That front, that train track is going to see some flooding.

So again, stay tuned because this is changing every minute here of where this front's going to go.

But either way, rounds and rounds expected, strong to severe storms and heavy rains.

So hunker down this weekend.

It's going to be a gross one.

And you and I had a conversation earlier this week about the same topic.

And two things I want you to, you specifically to cover here and just talk about is one, that this is now going to be the new norm as you put it.

And also, would you just give people a really quick overview of that snow to water ratio when it comes to snowfall versus rainfall?

Because that was something that I made you repeat in that interview because I was shocked by that statistic.

Yeah, it's pretty shocking.

So for sure, we had two day rain totals over a foot of rain.

When you put that into what it is in snow, that's 10 feet, 10 feet of snow, 10 feet, not inches, feet.

It's hard to wrap your brain around that.

It really is.

But we're getting a little heads up about it now.

Better to be prepared than be taken by surprise, which I think so many people were last weekend.

I know I was.

I was gonna say, it might be a good idea for people maybe hit the store today or tomorrow.

Get some squeezy mops,

get some bleach.

Flashlights.

Get some gloves, get some flashlights.

What else?

I

mean, get some

power sources, maybe a generator that you run outside and also some waterproof containers.

And a stock of some good non perishable foods in case maybe do a little grocery shopping.

Just be prepared.

And like you said, Brittany, right now, we don't know exactly where this flooding can hit.

So it's better to be prepared than it is to be caught off guard.

Yes.

And even if you don't get the crazy flooding to remember that the soil is saturated.

If you get winds, high winds and some of these storms, power outages trees could come down much easier over a whole different battleground these days now.

Going to be a busy weekend for our civic media meteorologist, Brittany Merleau.

Really appreciate the time, Brittany.

Stay safe this weekend.

We will talk to you next week.

Thanks, you too.

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Lots of things to talk about with Dan Shaper.

And before we got in the air, we were just talking about the flooding.

You live in Milwaukee.

Were you guys affected at all?

Luckily, we were not.

We got really lucky.

We were just had a, only had a

Whatever we had to clean up could be done with paper towels.

So we got really, really lucky.

That's great.

We live on a hill in Washington Heights right up the, so like right down the hill from us was when there were some.

of the worst flooding was

happening

around State Street.

I don't know if you saw some of the videos in Tosa Village with the really high rushing waters.

They had to close that pedestrian footpath.

I took some photos and all that this week.

And I was in Germantown helping the news team out, get some photos.

They had all four lanes of traffic closed at County Lane Road because

it

was flooding all the way across.

There was a neighborhood there that had been kind of voluntarily evacuated that the police were saying.

They put a couple

people up in the super eight motel nearby while the, while the floodwaters receded and all of that.

And yeah, I guess we're going to, we're looking at a tough forecast for this weekend

too.

And it's just,

it's, it's really challenging for so many people.

And, and, you know, I think first responders have been doing just a phenomenal work all over southeastern Wisconsin helping people out, but there are so many people facing really, really difficult things.

I, you know, I saw this, this story that really connected with me that I saw on a TMJ for last night.

This woman just lost.

like she heard the flood insurance is not going to cover her house.

Her house is not livable anymore.

And she just doesn't know what to do.

It's just brutal.

So many people are in these really, really challenging situations.

And it's just, my heart goes out to him.

Absolutely.

And I think all the time about.

I'm lucky.

I have siblings who are not far away.

I have a niece and nephew who are pretty close.

If we had to go stay with somebody, we've got friends, we've got family, we could impose on for a month if we had to.

But for folks who don't have anybody, what do you do?

Where do you go?

It's it's just There's no easy answers for any of this.

It's it's such a difficult thing and I saw one one story that I saw this week that the Milwaukee Journal sent I was putting out about Milwaukee County's efforts to get Enough people to log there Yeah,

the two one one.

So if you have like any, you know

major damages in your home or whatever, log those with two on one and then Milwaukee County system, because that will help get the federal funds, hopefully, to get the federal funds to assist.

Because they said that the volume of damage that was happening here is equivalent to something like a hurricane.

Like it is an enormous amount of damage that Southeast, people around Southeastern Wisconsin, you know, I know there was a lot in West Alice and Wauwatosa and some of those Western suburbs there and a walk, Shaw guy hit

really.

There was a number of places that really dealt with some, some terrible, terrible damage.

The North side of Milwaukee, like, you know, some of these just like lower lying areas that are close to rivers and whatnot just really got rocked.

And, and hopefully, you know, fingers crossed that that federal support will come through.

I

don't think anybody's holding their breath on that.

I don't think anybody's holding their breath on it either.

They're still waiting in Texas.

Right.

They're still waiting after that horrible flooding down there where over 100 people were killed.

Right.

Yeah.

And in Arkansas and in North Carolina, we've seen this over and over again over the course of the year since the Trump administration has come back.

It's just the support is just not there.

And so yesterday, there was actually a press release put out a bipartisan one.

So that doesn't that doesn't happen all that often Tammy Baldwin Gwen Moore and Republican Brian style are calling on the Trump administration and FEMA to support Wisconsin's request for federal support for flood damage

Only Brian style only Brian style.

Yeah, not Fitz

not

not Glenn growth man.

I think Tom Tiffany

I feel like Fitz did Fitzgerald.

So I think he represents some of the years.

He did call on some support.

He didn't sign on to this particular letter, along with Baldwin Moore in style.

And

no Ron Johnson.

I was going to say, our senior senator, where is he?

Is he just on

Fox

again?

He's got to make sure that anyone was affected.

First, they were vaccine injured before he did even take up the case.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry if I'm the, if I am the, the, the no good Nick, bad news guy, but I don't see this going anywhere.

Simply because when I see sit Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas, Josh Hawley, Senator from Arkansas saying, or Missouri saying, please help us, please help us, please help us.

And he's saying.

I got a golf game to go to.

I don't think he's going to see our state with any more loving eyes.

And that really upsets me.

But I think that Wisconsin at this moment, and I'll be shocked if it happens, we're on our own.

And this is where I say to the state legislature, step up.

We have people in trouble, people who are your constituents, your neighbors, and people you want to vote for you.

We got to step up now and do something and and just speaking what to use speaking to what you said Dan with regard to the the story about the woman whose house is basically destroyed Because this is going to be the new norm because we have to factor these things into our everyday life and planning It's probably a good time now to sit down with family and friends and say all right Dan if if flooding happens

you and the kids and your wife, you come stay with us for a little while.

Well, you know, like have

a plan

make plans

because

that's all we that's all we can control and do right now is make a plan to get by and to help out because that's what

is most important is to help out.

Well, and another thing that, by the way, if you're just joining us on Matt Nair on air, Dan Schaefer is here.

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We're talking about last weekend's flooding in Milwaukee.

I saw an article in the Journal Sentinel this morning about a couple in Wauwatosa who, when they bought their home three years ago, it was not considered in a floodplain.

Determination was changed in 2024 and put them in a flood floodplain and they didn't know that.

Oh boy.

Now, I don't know how that works.

Is it the municipalities responsibility to contact people when that designation is changed?

Is that part of like the home assessments that they do?

Is that our responsibility as homeowners to find out whether or not you are now in a floodplain?

That had to be a very unpleasant surprise.

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

That's yet another challenge that arises with all of this.

You know, you just like, we're seeing all these stories about, you know, businesses and homeowners and just different people.

Like I, there was that story about the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.

It just moved all of their operations into Albatosa and

they lost

$5 million worth of their supplies and all of the things that they used to put on performances and all

that too.

Kathy Holland, they're in downtown Tosa is going to be closed for at least six weeks.

Yeah.

They're...

kitchen is in the basement, which if you've seen those photos from downtown Wotosa with that river, it's amazing to me.

There is a stairway that's outside of Cafe Hollander on the river side.

That's a miracle that that thing has never been swept away that ladder.

I know it's astonishing to me.

I actually I went down there on Monday to take some photos because the there was there was like a bunch of debris and like it was just down there.

It was kind of a funny moment because I was down there at about 5 p.m.

And about 5 35 45 governor Evers showed up.

So I just missed him by about a half hour.

I also

ran it on purpose.

I

also ran into former state superintendent candidate Brittany Kinzer while I was walking

around on their

photos.

It's just a strange little political moment on on in downtown Wauwatosa while people are assessing all this storm damage.

But

You know, yeah, it's, there's just so many different questions that arise with all of this.

We, I hope the federal assistance comes.

I'm not optimistic.

I do think it's encouraging to at least see some level of bipartisan support for this.

Like Brian style.

I don't agree with him on a whole lot.

He's at least being an adult here and just signing onto the letter with his democratic counterparts.

This should not be a matter of politics and the fact

that it

could be in the fact that.

50% of our senators from the state are a part of this.

And the other 50% is like you said, Fox news, news nation, where, where, where is it?

I don't know where he is right now.

It's definitely

Ron

Johnson.

Nobody knows.

Well, it's like the, you know, people talk about us having like the two most different senators, right?

Both ideologically and I think in a practical terms in a lot of ways, because Tammy Baldwin is like an A plus level senator when it comes to constituent services.

It's really

her hallmark in a lot of ways.

I think Johnson, he just never.

shows up and said, like I had somebody, when I posted the news about this on Twitter, I had somebody reply and say, why doesn't Ron Johnson ever do this sort of basic stuff as a senator?

And it's a good question.

Cause he just never, ever shows up.

Because honestly, he is in his third term and he has found out through 12 plus previous years of service that he does not need to.

Yeah.

He keeps getting rewarded.

It goes back to the example we used when we were talking about fair maps.

Politicians.

who want the job, have to run for the job.

They have to knock on doors.

They have to get in their car and talk to people and talk to people who disagree with them.

But if your job is, it's not secure, but if he's won now three elections, two of those re-elections, he knows that he doesn't have to show up.

We're not counting on him.

That's the thing is, if you're listening, Ron Johnson, here's the thing is, you won.

We know we can't count on you.

But you can call him.

Yes.

And you can call our other lawmakers and ask them,

Why didn't you sign on to this thing asking for help from the federal government?

If I wanted to call them Greg Box say Tom Tiffany or someone like that, where would I find that number?

You're going to go to my vote.wi.gov for all the information you need.

Just fill out a simple form that asks your name and your address and that will give you the name of all the people who represent you from the president to the dog catcher with phone numbers, addresses.

Please be kind.

Please be respectful because you're going to be talking to an aide.

and or intern about this.

But just just let you know, Glenn growth man and Fitzgerald and some of those guys let him know that we're paying attention Fitzgerald.

I forgot he was a congressman.

Isn't that because he's so quiet.

He never does

anything.

I did a really cursory search on the Google's and about who notifies who regarding floodplain changes.

And this isn't a this is just what I got from when a floodplain changes.

It is a primary responsibility of the local government to notify affected homeowners.

I'll say that saying this, each community participating in what's called the NFIP, the national flood insurance program has a floodplain administrator responsible for working with FEMA on mapping and enforcing local floodplain ordinances.

And they would, they

are their responsibility,

but that is if you are participating in this program.

If you don't like, I don't live in a floodplain at this moment, not that you know of, but so I don't know if Kenosha.

is a part of this.

If they are, then I would assume there's someone in the municipal building whose job is to work with FEMA, which I don't know if FEMA's going to be doing this work anymore, but to notify us.

So it's about checking your mail, too.

That's the weird things.

Sometimes you get those letters, you don't know what they're about, and it's important to see that, too.

Sometimes you have to open the mail.

I know.

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We're going to talk about summer vacations.

Dan Schaefer just back from his big vacay.

So we're going to talk about that.

Where did you go on your summer vacation?

I'm looking forward to it.

Yeah,

I hope you took lots of pictures.

Took lots of pictures.

I got a lot to show you, Jane.

Excellent, excellent.

Let's talk a little bit about the gubernatorial race.

Yeah.

In Wisconsin, there's a new poll out.

I see Tom Tiffany is at the top of the list.

Yeah.

So, well, I want to thank all of the candidates across Wisconsin for not making any announcements while I was on vacation.

That was very nice of them to really go around my schedule, which is what I appreciate.

You know, in the run up to vacation, I was completely expecting Tony Evers to make his big announcement.

Like while I was on the tarmac right about to get to get in the air, just to ruin your life.

Exactly.

But grateful that he did that.

Grateful that nobody else.

announced.

while I was gone.

But, you know, I think the interest now, now that we know that there's going to be a primary on the Democratic side and we're going to see some candidate announcements and Calderois made some news on civic media this week.

Absolutely.

But I think we're going to start seeing what's going on on the Republican side now that they know who, you know, that they're going to be running against an open field instead of the incumbent.

I think that changes the dynamic a little bit.

So we saw a poll by a Republican pollster that was released on the daily call.

yesterday, breaking down kind of the three top potential or declared candidates.

So you have Congressman Tom Tiffany, Washington County Executive Josh Showman, and Southeastern Wisconsin businessman Bill Barion.

And of that group, just polling those three, Tiffany was at 40%.

Showman 13% and Barion at 10%.

So, you know, if that were the field, if it was just the three candidate field, it seems like Tiffany would have a pretty large lead.

And they also did this kind of like push-pull piece

of it

too, where it was just like, if Tom Tiffany were to be endorsed by President Trump, who would you support?

And it was like, if he got the Trump endorsement, basically it would show that he would clear the field, right?

So if he got the Trump endorsement, it was something like 65% would go for Tiffany or something like that with that endorsement.

And I do think a Trump endorsement is going to be extremely critical in this kind of primary too, because...

He's the guy, right, in the Republican Party.

So if he were to endorse anybody in the race, I think they would get it.

And I think particularly with Tiffany, if Tiffany gets into this race, if Trump endorsement endorses him, he clears the field.

But we also assume that his endorsement is still going to be golden by the time this comes around.

And if the economic numbers are any indication, that might not be the case when it comes to next year.

No, but I think just given the fact that like Trump has won Wisconsin twice now and given the fact that he drove turnout the way that he did in 2024 and like even though his poll numbers nationally are bad and continuing to get worse and the economic situation is continuing to get worse and inflation is on the rise and there are unemployment concerns and there are he's firing the the Bureau of Labor Statistics director and so many different things we could go on and on and on.

And we have, but I think they're, you know, he still has extremely strong support within the Republican party.

Like this is one thing that Charles Franklin at the Marquette poll always comes back to it's just like, even if his net, his overall, you know, he's, he has 0% approval rating among Democrats.

Maybe it's like 25% among Republicans.

He's still like 90% among, sorry.

independence still like 90% among Republicans, you know, so Republicans have just not wavered from their support of Trump.

And I think we saw it in the multi multi candidate Republican primary in the eighth congressional district last year that Tony weed ended up winning and he won the race and he did that on the back of the Trump endorsement.

And I think the similar dynamic is in play for the gubernatorial race here.

I did want to share this Ronnie from horror context to the same listening at WAUK Fitzgerald has officially requested financial aid for flood victims.

Hey, he did.

something right for a change.

So I just want to get that in there.