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Stuck in DC so we have rescheduled will we'll be joining us next Tuesday to talk about farmers and tariffs and Waiting for that big beautiful rescue package after the tariffs that
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Yeah, and also the ice raids in Chicago
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Yeah.
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What job could you never do?
Yeah, and it might not you know every Police officer, I think that I know I couldn't do that job, but I think that there are lots of other jobs
When we think about them, it's like, I know I couldn't do
that.
And I want to, it's not just a, I couldn't do it because of maybe physicality or because of education.
One where you say, I have no interest.
I could I couldn't do it because I don't care enough.
Well, and I
wouldn't be good at it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's coming up for audio survey.
And then we'll wrap up the show as we always do with this shouldn't be a thing.
Today it's the flying high edition.
Stay tuned for that.
It should be a lot of fun.
Of course, we are going to game five.
Mm hmm.
We're not going to talk about it a lot.
I just think it's important to mention that.
You mentioned it.
Okay.
See, here's my theory.
Oh, God.
Here comes Jane with in-depth sport theories.
Yes.
They want to prove to Major League Baseball that they can pull in numbers.
And so they're giving them a game five to say, sure, we're a small market, but we can still draw ratings.
Take that, Major League Baseball.
That's my theory.
I'm going with it.
I'm sorry.
I
didn't have to like it.
What were you talking about?
I blacked out there for a second.
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Go crew.
Wanted to start off.
with this.
And I think it's important we just put things in a little bit of context because we tend to forget.
I forget what we had for dinner last night.
So back in February of this year, February 17th, that's when the Trump administration started firing hundreds of FAA employees.
Hundreds of them.
This kind of created some problems that first weekend.
But the impacted workers Excuse me included People hired to monitor radar landing navigational maintenance Transportation secretary Sean Duffy at that point said fewer than 400 FAA employees were fired zero air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go However
Officials tell the AP the agency did keep employees who perform critical safety functions, but they're looking at whether some of these people were really necessary.
Now, I know that when we talk about government employees and we talk about the concepts of bloat or fraud, wasteful spending or whatever, there's there are a lot of conversations that can be apt to this topic.
And I usually think more of like the department type of stuff, stuff that's like in DC, when you're talking about like, oh, you know, this FBI or the department of defense or like all these three letter departments, I understand where people have their gripes about, well, what are they even doing?
Right?
What are all those pencil pushers?
But when it comes to the FAA, anybody who works for the FAA at the actual airport,
I feel like they're there for a very specific reason.
And we shouldn't look at those locations like the FAA department in DC.
Okay.
If there's an undersecretary to the assistant of the undersecretary, let's look at that.
But when we're talking about the jobs that you just named off, I don't feel like they should come into question because they all feel important.
Yeah.
Maintenance is kind of, you know, one of those things when you're flying maintenance, you want to check on that stuff.
So here's the article from.
Yesterday, Milwaukee Journal's Sentinel Lawrence Andrea with the byline, transportation secretary Sean Duffy now says air traffic controllers could be fired for not showing up during the government shutdown.
He said they will not get paid and could be fired.
Duffy said in an interview on Foe News, he's seen an uptick in air traffic controllers calling in sick since the government shutdown.
October 1st, and that's why he's blaming flight disruptions.
There were like 4,600 flights that got delayed yesterday.
That's a
big, and then the ripple effect from that is huge.
And it's really only going to get worse.
And we were talking about this earlier before we got on the air.
And this could be one of the things that really pushed it for a lot of people because the
You know, President Trump has been in office since the 21st of January.
So we're talking about a little over nine months, eight months, eight months and some change.
We're going into the ninth month here.
And there have been firings.
There have been things happening.
There has been the blob of the bill, but not a lot of like tangible, common things happening where my point, I'm sorry, I'm going a long way to make this point.
Being stuck at the airport because of the shutdown and because of these cuts from Doge is something that everyone, regardless of party is experiencing.
And they may see they're going, why is this happening?
Well, it's because of the shutdown.
It's because of Doge.
It's because of these things.
And air traffic controllers calling in sick.
I don't know if it's so much a protest, but that's a way of guaranteeing pay because they get sick pay.
And the president this week said, oh, I'm not even sure we're going to give them their back pay.
Exactly.
I mean, that is unheard of.
That is going to be directly in the courts.
Sean Duffy,
Wisconsinite.
Ruler of Rhodes.
Ruler
of Rhodes.
Sean Duffy said, quote, listen, we need more controllers, but we need the best and the brightest of dedicated controllers.
If we have some on our staff that aren't dedicated like we need, we're going to let them go.
I can't have people not showing up for work, unquote.
By the way,
Dupster decided to go to an air traffic control tower.
Mm-hmm.
Live.
Yeah.
Broadcasting.
Yeah.
And interrupted an air traffic controller to ask him questions.
Yep, and the air traffic controller was real honest.
I got a mortgage.
I have a wife who doesn't work.
I have kids.
I can't lose my job.
I can't not get paid.
And Sean Duffy is doing his best and I'll, and I'll try and I will find the clip.
We, the clip was, is from the, the daily show, Josh Johnson hosted this week and they played it.
But the guy doing, by the way, who's doing his job is being very honest.
And Sean Duffy is doing his best to be one empathetic.
I don't think that's something he's capable of, but also
trying to steer the narrative of this shutdown is making it hard for everyone, but it's not my fault.
It's not my fault.
Listen to this guy tell his story.
That's the shutdown's terrible.
Guess what, bud?
Your party's in charge of everything.
Yeah, pretty much.
Before the shutdown, Sean Duffy said air traffic controller shortages were responsible for about 5% of flight delays.
Right now, these shortages responsible for 53% of the delays.
And I guess one of my things is, is Sean Duffy still going to keep getting paid, isn't he?
Yes, he will.
As transportation secretary.
He will continue to
get paid.
He'll keep getting paid.
All of those congressmen and senators, regardless of party, will continue to get paid.
It's really, I mean, it's really a great deal for them.
No kidding.
And every time we've had a, every time we've had a shutdown, it's the same thing people say is, take away their pay.
See how long the government stays
closed.
Right.
Yeah.
I think I would think that that is something we could all agree on.
You would think, yes, I would.
Our elected officials, if they're going to do a government shutdown and the government workers don't get paid, they are still government workers.
Our elected officials are government workers.
Absolutely.
So they shouldn't get paid.
No.
And then I don't know, do we pay them back?
Well, we'll have to wait and see.
I think the people should get to vote on that.
I
think that I mean the president himself on We played the clip of him saying if a shutdown happens the guy up top should be fired
Yeah, it's the president's fault if there's a shutdown our current president said that
yes out loud in 2013 it's on tape and this is his Third shut
down.
Yeah third shut
down
I guess the question I have is, I don't know.
I keep on asking the question, but I don't really know what the breaking point is.
Being stuck at the airport with thousands of other people because of slow movement, because of lack of staff, because of a shutdown, because of doge cuts.
I feel like that is a real time example in front of your face to at the very least say,
What's going on?
What's going on here?
Like who is in charge here?
And by the way speaking of Doge.
Yeah, Wall Street Journal just came out with a report That said that despite Doge's actions government spending is actually up Elon.
Elon boasted that he was gonna save two trillion dollars at the beginning of January
Wall Street Journal says yet that hasn't happened.
That's not even close, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Doge did claw back some grants and fired some probationary workers, but that has not changed the big picture so far.
Total spending, excluding interest, rose $220 billion or 4% for the entire fiscal
year.
Let's remember to the way they saved money quote saved money Was getting rid of social programs grants That's their version of saving money.
Well, and then firing all these people and then realizing oh my god He had the keys to everything.
Yeah, let's hire him back.
Yep So fiscally responsible coming up.
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I really want to see this movie.
It's the story of dedicated Japanese Packer fans.
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They're going to premiere it at the Majestic in Waukesha.
Just, I'm not, I'm not, that makes me emotional.
Cause the thing about the Packers is that their fandom is worldwide and dying hard.
Absolutely.
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You cannot.
But no, I would like to, I'd love to go to that.
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I just hold Todd's hand and be like, it's so
inspiring.
It's probably gonna be, hopefully it'll have a long life in the theaters and yeah.
Get on stream and then we can all enjoy
it.
All right.
Before we get to if, uh, if you're waiting for a package from UPS, you could be waiting a while.
Uh, but Jean from Eau Claire is waiting patiently on the line.
Good morning, Jean.
Thanks for joining us.
What's up?
Well, thank you for thinking my call.
I'll tell you something.
I can't do that anymore.
Hey, Jean, are you, are you upset?
Just like, are you fired up?
Are you, uh, perturbed?
Oh, am I perturbed?
You're lucky that I'm not out on this.
I'd be out there protesting with the biggest sign you ever had, and I wouldn't leave, and they'd have to take me out on whatever.
But I'll tell you something.
I am watching what the devil's going on here, and I'm watching live, you know, these brutal attacks, animalistic behavior.
These people, if tabloids, hierarchy of needs, and people, you know, the way they live their lives, these people would be on the bottom.
They'd be like the crocodiles and alligators, and eating everything or killing everything in their sights.
Somebody said that to me once.
He's trying to kill off Americans.
No, he's not.
I couldn't believe that one.
Well, now I believe it.
It's stuff that this man is allowed to do, but it's not just him.
It's those people around him.
It's the wealthiest people in America, the people idiots that he put in those different areas that we need good people.
And they don't care, and the sad thing is I'm watching that little guy behind the glasses looking so Christian, and I'm getting mad about it because I'm a Christian and I don't wear it on my sleeve.
Hurting the churches.
Tell the lies like they're spewing out all over the place.
And people are believing it.
And in the meantime, every single American is hurting, worried, concerned, and Niger who's
are doing.
Gall d'Arne think about it and in fact they turn their nose and they go back and sit in their offices and they're going to make everybody suffer.
So the best thing we can do is get Gall d'Arne good candidates because every Gall d'Arne want him to go and Tiffany, he was involved in what happened in Wisconsin, didn't fix the roads, didn't work on anything, sent money to their big wealthy donation people and then Tony even had to come and fix it.
So wake up, folks.
You guys need to get active.
Check out these people who are running and get rid of these son of a gun because they don't give one eye out about anybody in this state or in this country.
And we got to save the children's future.
So I'm sorry.
I've been watching this stuff live.
And I can't believe it.
We appreciate it, Jean.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
She's very passionate.
She's very
involved.
If you're like Jean, Jane,
Sorry, I didn't mean to do that.
If you're like Jean Jane that time I did and you are feeling as fired up as Jean is and you want to do something about it Where can one go to maybe say voice your opinion on the matter?
You could go to my vote I have a banner on the live stream created for such a place
my vote W I dot gov all you have to do is type in your address Yes, and every elected official who represents you from the very smallest all the way to the top will give you their
Contact information.
They work for us.
They work for us.
You can call them.
You can call them and be respectful.
Call them anytime.
Leave messages.
Be respectful.
But also, if they don't know how we are feeling, if we are not contacting them, they think what they're doing is fine.
Exactly.
They do.
So let your voice be heard.
We still have a voice.
My vote.wi.gov.
It's a great resource besides the
contact information.
But thank you, Jeannie, very much.
And I just want to repeat really something that Jeannie said recently that I didn't know.
She's also an independent.
She's an independent.
She's not a loony, lefty, liberal, crunchy hippies.
Sorry, crunchy hippies.
But yeah, she is an independent.
And this is firing the independence up hard.
Myvote.wy.gov.
Makes him phone calls.
Yeah.
Drop in, drop a line.
Write a letter.
Let them know you're thinking about them.
News is coming up next.
We will tell you about the UPS story because I do want to share this with you if you're waiting for a package.
I want us to try to do this for the rest of the show and it just never happens.
We'll never get to the point.
That's all on the way.
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Today, the topic for audio survey, what job could you not do?
And
it's not just physical or mental.
It's just like, no.
I
would not be
good at this.
I couldn't do that job.
I would not be good at this job.
What job could you not do?
And you can text in your answer now if you're not going to be around next
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As promised, we wanted to talk about this.
UPS, this from NBC News.
UPS is disposing of U.S.
bound packages over customs paperwork problems.
Is this a Trump thing?
Thousands of US bound packages shipped by UPS are now trapped at hubs across the country stuck there because of the maze of new customs requirements imposed by the Trump administration.
There it is.
As packages flags for custom issues pile up in UPS warehouses, the company UPS told NBC
It has begun disposing of some shipments.
There is such a backlog of packages that now they're just getting rid of some of them.
Matthew Wasserbach, who is brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog, I have never seen anything like this before.
It's completely unprecedented.
because a couple of months ago, we covered a story where it was some companies outside the US are just no longer even shipping here because of all of the convoluted things they have to go through to get a package through customs.
They're just like, no, sorry, we're not, we're not shipping to America anymore.
Sorry, get it somewhere else.
I mean, this is what I was talking about with regard to the, the airline industry.
These are real tangible examples of how these policies are first just inept and then harm us and harm I'm using in the term of like a legal term, not like hurt me, I'm bruised, battered, but put a dent in my wallet, make an inconvenience.
I buy something from somewhere.
I expect that thing to be at my doorstep at a given time.
If it can't get through because of customs and they then throw it out, they're not even shipping it back.
No.
Or telling you that it got destroyed.
These are real life consequences of these stupid
policies.
And these policies affect not just red, not just blue.
Yes.
But independence too.
Clip that, please.
That's
Calvin for real, that was content.
That's, we're gonna
make it stop.
But it affects all of us, it does.
Yes, absolutely.
NBC News reporting that more than two dozen people, they heard from more than two dozen people who are waiting for their packages from UPS.
They talked about shipments of tea, telescopes, luxury glassware, musical instruments, some worth tens of thousands of dollars in limbo.
Or they might just be gone.
They might just be gone.
Ashley Freberg is missing several boxes she shipped via UPS from England in September.
These were journals, records, books, lots of personal keepsakes.
She said over the next two weeks she got two separate notifications from UPS.
that her personal mementos had not cleared customs, and as a result, she heard about it.
They disposed of them.
October 1st, a UPS tracking update appeared for her packages, saying they were on the way.
And she got updates that she showed NBC that the shipments revealed it was the most recent update she had gotten, but they're gone.
The stuff is gone.
There's no replacing those things.
Not
personal mementos
like that.
Do you get
your money back?
Like, what is the recourse?
What is the redress on these situations for an individual who's just, you know, doing what a lot of people have been doing for decades, which is shipping things from one place to the other?
A Boston man said he shipped a package from Japan via UPS.
After it sat in Louisville for about two weeks, he got a tracking update.
Saying quote, we're sorry your package did not clear customs and has been removed from the UPS network per customs guidelines.
It has been destroyed Contact the sender for more information
and just to give clarification to what I was talking about with regard to the earlier story we covered on the country is not shipping to the US because of
What's called the so it's an it's an easier process because of something called the de minimis trade agreement which President Trump has allowed to sunset It would allow packages that were worth less than $800 to enter the US duty-free and and it's going that that agreement is going to sunset because of that
25 member nations, UN member nations are no longer going to ship because it doesn't make sense for them to do it.
So you cannot buy from them if you live here.
Like these are real consequences.
And again, the question I have, Jane, what is your breaking point?
Mine was a while ago.
Mine was the day after the election.
That was my breaking point.
But what is it going to take for one of you listeners who love Donald Trump again?
Don't tell me you don't like him.
That's fine.
I don't care about your feelings towards him I'm saying what is going to be your breaking point to your pocketbook to your convenience to your life that will make you at the very least just say Okay, what that's where I want that's that's the level for me.
It's just okay.
What two years of pain Yeah, that's what Elon said
two years of pain.
Luckily billionaires can endure lots of pain.
They'll they'll be fine Yeah UPS says it is doing its best to get all packages to their destinations while
following the new customs requirements, quote, because of changes to U.S.
import regulations, we're seeing many packages unable to clear customs because of missing or incomplete information.
UPS said it does try several times to get missing information so they can clear those.
Contacting shippers three times, but ultimately if they can't get that information, they're out of luck.
So.
If you are waiting for a package from UPS, it could be waiting a while.
I
mean,
and that's, we talked to Schiller, Lisa Schiller last week about scams.
And one of the things that we are going to be talking about more is holiday scams.
And the reason why I bring this up is because with these problems with shipping, I have a feeling you're going to, you could, I don't want to project it into the universe.
You could see people coming out saying, having shipping problems, talk to us.
We'll think, we have a way to go around it.
Because
if
UPS is disposing of packages and you're out of money and they're a legit billion-dollar corporation, I have no doubt there's some guy in East Brunswick, New Jersey who's like, I'll start Steve's shipping company taking people's money.
So that's something just
be
aware.
Yeah.
855-752-4842.
If you'd like to join us, Ollie from the Northwoods is on the line.
Good morning, Ollie.
What do you want to say about this?
Well, I was sitting here pulling my hair out.
Greg touched on it a little bit, but I was already blowing off steam trying to figure out how are you going to get your money back?
Most people who have ordered and are waiting have had to pay on
you know, put it on their credit card or whatever PayPal or whatever, um, how are they going to get their money back?
And, um, if there isn't someone that, um, you can set up that could maybe find that out and talk to us like you're a better business lady.
We'll see what else we can learn about
this, Ollie, absolutely.
I mean, your first call is going to be UPS.
And the thing is, and I know I'm not one to sit here and sympathize with corporations, but they just want to do their job.
They want to create, they want to give an experience to a customer that is satisfactory.
So they keep using it.
And so you don't go to their competitors as there are a lot of competitors now.
So it's in their best interest to get this resolved and give you all the information you need.
I wouldn't be even surprised if there's a special website.
now on their page saying, hey, did you ship?
And the thing, sorry, here you can give you the information because it's really, I mean, the airline story that you brought up, and these are just real world examples of things that affect regular folk like me and you.
People who work for a living, we're not billionaires, I'm not even a million, I'm barely a thousandare at this point,
I'm in
a house, I'm in debt.
There comes a breaking point.
We I mean that was the chief complaint last year during the election from a lot of
it was
prices It was prices.
It was I can't I gotta I gotta make decisions is it rent?
Is it mine?
Is it my is it close?
Is it food?
Is it my kids school?
We're seeing the impact of Decisions being made and now all these individuals who last year were saying but what about the price of eggs are silent
Are you fine now?
Or are you just taking it on the
teeth because you have to?
Well, they're being good Americans and they're gonna suffer those two years of pain because that's what they were apparently a sucky America promised Switching gears just a little bit.
There was a panel discussion at last week's World Dairy Expo.
Oh,
yes
And this is an opinion piece commentary piece from Ruth Conniff in the Wisconsin Examiner and Wisconsin's own Derek van Orden
spoke trying to get my blood pressure up to the farmers.
He assured them that the Trump administration has farmers backs.
He said, Elon Musk, I spoke to Elon Musk.
I was like, Hey, Elon, there's two groups of people in the US.
We need to watch out for one of them are service members and the other are farmers.
So he really zoned in on that and grasped it.
And DVO also said another incredibly strong proponent of the dairy industry is Tom Hohman.
The borders are.
The architect of the family separation policy during the first Trump administration.
The guy who's $50,000 richer because
he took a bag full of money.
Derek Van Orden asked the dairy farmers to support his proposal for a new system to make the workforce legal.
It would impose a fine on employers and dairy workers, and require those workers to self-deport before coming back under a new program that would allow them to do their jobs legally.
The farmers had a lot of questions.
What is the workers incentive to take part in this?
How long would it take the government to process this paperwork, get them out of the country, and then send them back?
How do they know they won't get deported as soon as they come back?
He didn't answer any of those questions.
I know that's shocking.
You know, you know me, my history with this man.
It's a very one-sided battle.
I know that.
And I used to try to pick fights with him because I just want to see him get angry at me.
But the more we talk about this man, he is just an example of a human being who is so bad at his job, but yet he gets to do things like this and people are like, and it says in the article,
They're willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
What's happening?
Gonna have to give a lot more benefits going forward.
When we return, I want a Nobel Prize and I want it now.
Okay, I'll get one.
It's like, what's your face from William Wonka, the purple girl?
Did you just say William Wonka?
The hymn too.
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Donald Trump did not get the Nobel Peace Prize today, this from the Daily Beast, despite his desperate lobbying campaign for the honor appears he craves more than anything else.
Calvin, we're going live right now for a comment from the White House.
Can you play that clip, please?
Remember the funny, huh?
I want one!
I want a golden goose!
Gooses!
There it is.
There you
go.
I want it.
I want it now.
And I want it now.
Why can't
I
have it right now, Jane?
For one thing, the nomination process for all of the Nobel Prizes is an eight-month-long screening and decision-making
process.
And there's something in the process.
This is an official term they use.
They have a deadline.
They do.
They have a deadline.
They do have a
deadline.
And he'll very likely be nominated next year.
And for the record, this has happened to presidents before.
If this goes through the peace deal between Israel
and Gaza,
the nomination will make sense.
I understand the reason for the nomination.
If it holds, if it sticks, everyone does their thing.
But the incapability of grasping the fact that the nominations were due January 31st of this year for what came out this week and he was in office for 10 days Just let it go Well and let 2026 be your
year like just no he wants it now He wants it now Greg
On faux news this morning, Maria Bartiromo.
Oh my God, this... Oh, this section.
Talking to Steve Scalise, Republican lawmaker.
Maria said, on your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before January 31st.
That was only a few days into his term.
Steve Scalise said, oh, sure, they can play technicalities.
That's the deadline.
And,
again, I apologize for not having this clip ready because it's a fascinating conversation between Maria Bard Aroma, who's just always fun to listen to.
You listen to
her talk at your face.
And Steve Scalise because first she starts with, well, I don't understand why he got it.
And then she brings up a perfectly reasonable point, which is, there was a deadline.
There was a deadline.
They missed it.
Fine.
Next year.
Get your paperwork ready.
Get going.
I know you all will do it.
Then Steve Scalise says that oh a technicality then she says yeah, you're right like she just falls apart
right there Well, of course she
realizes she just did the main problem when you're on Fox News Which is you presented logic and reason in an argument and the moment she it's like when Stephen Miller started talking about plenary
whatever that plenary plenary plenary authority he just shut down short circuit and went into buffer mode because she's she's like oh i can't oh i i just i i gave a reason why he can't get something you're right technicalities
a reporter asked one of the members of the nobel committee about this us president donald trump has repeatedly said he'd like to have nobel peace prize and he deserves it he said it would be an insult to the us if he doesn't get it what do you think of this
The chair of the Nobel committee responded essentially by saying campaigning for it and media attention does not work.
He also said the Nobel committee bases their decision on, quote, courage and integrity, unquote.
This isn't the Emmys, this isn't the Oscars, you don't hire people to camp.
To
lobby for you.
But also, and while that's a wonderful statement, and that last little stinger of salt in the wound, but I will say, I will give you one other alternate answer to that question that they asked about his Donald Trump wanting it, if he just would have said, Donald who?
Oh.
Ouch.
By the way, the Nobel Committee gave this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Carina Machado She is a Venezuelan opposition leader described as a brave and committed champion of peace She's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship
to democracy.
I don't know.
We have a weekend coming up.
Maybe we could all do some art projects with our kids and make little, little Nobel Prize, little medals for him.
I'll give 10 bucks if you can put Jeffrey Epstein on the prize.
Oh, but with them side by side.
I'm just saying, let's begin the countdown clock to when Donald Trump publicly insults this woman.
He hasn't yet.
I don't
think he has.
He's probably
still sleeping.
I don't think he has.
Then he has to have breakfast and that'll be, that's
three
big Macs.
That'll take him about.
10 minutes.
Yeah, wait, I want to see what he has to say about this woman, how he's going to somehow insult her, yet think he's giving her a compliment.
If she, maybe she could give it to me or share it with me or mention me at her speech.
Like, yeah, maybe, well, maybe she'll just give it to me
because someone actually gave him a purple heart.
For bone spurs incurred during battle because he's such a wonderful hero.
He's
got plumpy muscles and he muscles all over America with his plumpy He's
got very plumpy ankle sets.
We know for that
a cankles are nothing to make fun of
news
is coming up next.
And then when we return, we're going to do some re-combobulating with Dan Schaefer, creator of the re-combobulation area.
He is also Civic Media's political editor.
We're going to talk about Josh Call, not jumping into the gubernatorial race.
Red light cameras in Milwaukee and much, much more.
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Good morning, sir.
Thank you for joining us.
Good morning.
Always wonderful to join you fine folks here on Matt and Aaron air to recombobulate on a Friday.
We'll get recombobulating in just a minute.
I did want to hit this real quickly.
Todd this afternoon on the Todd Alba show from two to four.
In the three o'clock hour, he is going to be giving away VIP tickets for the world premiere of No Packers, No Life.
So this is the story of dedicated Japanese Packer fans who fulfill their dream of experiencing Lambo Field.
The film is going to premiere next week at the Majestic in Waukesha.
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Todd, also we've been texting back and forth here with a few more details.
VIP tickets for the Wednesday premiere are $100 each, and then the film will be opening at Marcus Theatre's October 16th.
with tickets at Marcus Theatre's site.
So I hope that helps.
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We will include that in our show notes.
We'll put that in our show notes.
And then join Todd today between three and four o'clock this afternoon when he gives away some of those VIP tickets for that movie.
Again, now it's time to re-combobulate with Dan Shaper.
Josh Call announcing that he is not going to jump into the governor's race.
Were you surprised by this, Dan?
I was a little surprised.
Yeah, I think, well, I think things had been kind of trending this direction.
So I wasn't, you know, surprised in the moment, I suppose.
But I think big picture, you zoom out, you know, a little bit here.
And I think Josh Call had been making it no secret that he wanted to run for.
something.
There was a piece, a long piece in the cap times, a couple years back where he was talking about his aspirations to potentially run for governor.
But I think as things have shifted in this race, and I think with the Trump administration and all the legal threats that are present because of it, I think maybe there's a recognition there that we need a strong
Democratic candidate for Attorney General in this era where a lot of rights
the states rights, you know, in particular, as we're seeing right now in Chicago and Illinois, are under threat from the Trump administration.
So I think it is going to be, you know, increasingly important to have somebody there who has the strong legal background and the, you know, the incumbent factor from the election standpoint, but also just, you know, some stability there in the AG's office.
But I think it does kind of, you know, have a pretty significant impact on the overall governor's race.
on the Democratic side, because I wrote this kind of too early preview at the Reconpopulation Area a couple months ago and talked about how if Josh Call were to run, he would probably walk into the race as the front runner, maybe not an overwhelming one, but you win two statewide races in Wisconsin, you're probably going to be at the top of the list for a primary.
Now, I know there's some things that people might not like about Josh Call.
Would he really emerge from the primaries, the front runner?
We don't have to ask those questions anymore because that's not what he's going to be doing.
But I do think it does significantly change the makeup of the primary.
And I thought he would be among the top tier of candidates.
And I had some people telling me they thought he would be the one to emerge from a primary.
But I think he's making the right call here and running for reelection for AG.
The right Josh call.
uh one call
that's all i don't want to sue don't do that not here not now uh the so and this is this is all oh politics is all speculation but do you feel dan that a run for governor would have been more i don't know better accepted or
I don't know how to, I'm trying to put, so it feels like Josh Call has kind of come out of the woodwork in the past like nine months.
He's really gotten in the news, talking about these lawsuits, as you mentioned, really putting his name out there.
People are seeing he is Josh Call the AG.
It's not just the AG of Wisconsin.
He's got, there's a name to the title.
And that's all very important, especially if you're seeking higher office.
I know one of the big sticking points for individuals, yourself, Jane, every time his name was brought up, you always kind of, you just were like, ugh, was the fact that he did not.
pursue any prosecution of the fake electors in 2020, I think that hurt his chances with a lot of Democrats, especially ones who leaned even more liberal.
And do you think that had he done that sooner, because he did do it, they have done it finally, they were the last state, had he done it sooner and made a little bit more of a name himself.
Maybe over the past two years there'd be more power towards his campaign because I feel like it's it would been too little too late this point to make an announcement especially in the face of all these other candidates who are just kind of kicking in the door with their with their platforms
Yeah, I do think that would have been a factor.
I do think if he had been more aggressive and going after the fake electors I think he would have One raised his profile because I think it would have been especially newsworthy, but I think also it would have
Deared himself to a lot of Democratic voters who really wanted to see accountability after January 6th really wanted to see accountability after the fake electors really wanted to see Accountability for so many in Wisconsin who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election in the state and I think the you know the We saw it nationally too with the you know the Attorney General Merrick Garland and and I think the lack of urgency
towards that accountability was a problem for a lot of people.
And I think, you know, we've talked about it on this show.
I think Todd has talked about it on his show as well.
I think the lack of urgency there is going to be a problem for another number of people.
And I think in a crowded primary, that might be enough to push certain voters to other candidates.
Well, and I just think that I think Kilda Roy's
And Sarah Rodriguez are really strong and Missy Hughes as well.
I think they're all really strong candidates.
That's the thing I do think it's a it's a strong bench and and it's a strong group of candidates and David Crowley and Francesca Hong and like I think there's a lot of really important conversations to be had I think the one big question now looming over the potential primary field is what is Mandela Barnes going to do And I think that has been kind of the conversation for what is what the next big chip, you know now that the call decision now that Josh
has made his decision.
So now we're asking the question, no call, that's all.
I'm so sorry.
Oh wow.
Well guys, that's been
a fun show.
We're canceled now.
We're done.
It was inevitable.
It just kind of laid itself
out there for you.
And that really leads us into the next part of this conversation, which was, you know, you talk about your too early article on the election.
I feel like a too early poll came out this week from a group that is one Democrat, one Republican, both pollsters that gave some, I mean, I'm just going to say it.
They gave nothing numbers.
There was nothing.
The only thing that really gave us conversation was the fact that there are more people undecided on both sides than either of the front runners of either side and both had like percentages of none and most of the people they were talking about
Haven't announced or won't announce so it just felt like a way of grabbing headlines and and and and the big takeaway quote I'm sorry Mike in my face the big quote takeaways Mandela Barnes is leading the Democrats with 16%
Yeah, I don't think that I there again also I didn't really take much away from the Democratic side of that poll Yeah, it was just like this is a crowded field that they all have you know varying levels of support This is way too early to be really having this conversation on the Democratic side on the Republican side I did find it somewhat interesting how how far in front Tom Tiffany was and they also included you know Eric Hovde in that poll and Tim Michaels in that poll and some other folks who are not running I Honestly, I think the biggest takeaway from that poll was the fact that Josh
Showman was only pulling at 4%.
On the Republican side, even though he has been campaigning since May and all of that, and Tiffany walks in and he's, you know.
quadrupled factors beyond that, his support.
So I think if anything else, that was a really bad poll for Josh Schoeman.
But yeah, Mandela Barnes was, I think it was at what, 16% and the rest of the Democratic candidates were in single digits, including Josh Call.
But I just think on name recognition alone, that's probably the type of level of support you're going to see from a candidate who, in the very recent past, ran a statewide race and got more than a million votes.
Dan Schaefer is our guest.
If you're just joining Matt Nair on air, Civic Media's political editor and also the creator of the Recombobulation Area.
We're talking about Josh Kahl announcing he will not be jumping into the gubernatorial race.
Back to Mandela Barnes.
I don't think he should run.
I don't.
I just I really don't.
I think he's got he's got name recognition, but I don't know when it comes down to debating.
I don't I don't see him running away with it.
I don't.
I personally see you have someone like Keldoroi.
I mean, I'm not taking away of any of his time in government, but I feel like as far as people who have been working now.
The
nuts and bolts.
Well, the nuts and bolts, but also people working in this day and age in government in Wisconsin, especially massing Keldoroi's Francesca Hong and David Crowley too.
Like they come with this real world now experience.
And I feel like Mandela, he's a great.
Great guy great representation of like the party and its vision, but I don't think he's a strong candidate for governor.
I just don't
Yeah,
I was somewhat surprised.
So I put this question to the fine folks of Twitter.com this week to see what they would think of Mandela Barnes running.
So I just simply asked, should Mandela Barnes run for governor?
And I was, frankly, pretty surprised at how overwhelming the no vote was
in
that poll.
It was the pretty overwhelming majority of people said no.
in that poll that Mandela Barnes should not run again.
And I think when somebody loses a statewide race as close as that was, I think there's a lot of questions that people ask about that campaign.
And I think there's a Barnes.
2022 revisited column, I think I might write to take a look at what went well and what didn't in that campaign because I think in so many ways he overperformed expectations but also underperformed expectations.
It was both overrated and underrated
at the same
time in a weird way.
But I do think that the fact that he ran and lost,
Signals some doubt for a future campaign and I think we've seen it on the Republican side a number of times in recent years But they have ran somebody who has lost in a different race and it has not worked Well, so Tim Michaels ran for Senate in 2004 Then ran for governor in 2022 that didn't work out Brad Schimel ran lost in the race for AG in 2018 ran for Wisconsin Supreme Court didn't work out Dan Kelly running twice after being supported losing twice.
That's Dan Kelly with two L's
that hasn't worked out.
So I do think there is somewhat of a trend with Wisconsin voters seeing somebody lose a statewide race and not coming back from it.
I mean, look again to the Democratic side too.
Tom Barrett.
Russ Feingold.
Like this doesn't really always work out.
So I do, there's a lot of tough questions and Mandela Barnes needs to be asking himself right now.
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After the 1030 news, we're going to lighten it up with audio sorbet where we get away from the serious issues of the day.
Talk about lighter things.
Today, we're going to talk about this is a job I could not do.
Yeah, we're not talking about you're not physically able to do it.
If let's say you were in perfect physical condition and you could do any job you wanted to do, but you wouldn't do X. Yeah.
What is that job?
What is the job you would not do?
Julie from Wausau texted in earlier.
We'll save that.
But if you're not going to be able to be with us for the next 20 minutes or so, you can always text it in now at 855-752-4842.
Like I said, Dan Schaefer is here.
We are recombobulating.
We talked a little bit yesterday, Dan, about the suggestion in the city of Milwaukee to install
Red light cameras as a way to crack down on reckless driving was which is a continuing continuing issue in the city
It is a continuing issue in the city.
Yeah, they actually had a public hearing on this bill for Installing or allowing the city to install traffic cameras for red light cameras basically
And they had this public hearing at the on the summer fest grounds.
They had legislators from around the state brought to Milwaukee to to talk about this.
This is a bill that has been introduced a number of times over the years, but this is the first time it has actually had a public hearing.
So having this public hearing in Milwaukee having and the bill also has bipartisan support.
So it is being introduced by state senator from Milwaukee, Dora Drake.
She's been kind of the lead advocate for this for a number of years now.
And.
You know, they it has Republican support.
So the the Corey Tomsek, the head of the committee, their transportation committee in the Senate was also there at the public hearing.
And there is both Democratic and Republican support in both the Senate and the Assembly on this bill.
So I do think it has a chance of at least advancing forward through committees, whether it's, you know,
makes it through the Senate and the Assembly and to Tony Evers desk.
Obviously, that remains to be seen.
But, you know, this is an issue for me.
I've kind of gone back and forth on it
over the
years where I think, like, obviously Milwaukee has a terrible problem with reckless driving.
You know, there are so many issues about Milwaukee that I will go to bat for and say, like, you know, Milwaukee's being unfairly maligned for this or unfairly, you know, treated for that.
Right.
I cannot defend the driving that happens.
in the city.
It is absolutely ridiculous.
We have some of the worst driving anywhere in America in the city of Milwaukee.
I can't stand it.
And I think, you know, there are a number of things with law enforcement when it comes to just kind of like automated enforcement or using technology or facial recognition software or different things like that that I do have real problems with.
But
I will say that I think they're running into certain constitutional problems, but you don't have a constitutional right to drive a car.
No, you don't.
And
so I think this is different in that sense, where it's just the one thing that you might be running into fourth amendment concerns or whatever it might be with talking to people, but you don't have a constitutional right to drive a car.
And
I do appreciate the focus that Mayor Cavalier Johnson has had since coming into office to install some of these traffic calming measures.
I do think they are helping.
The data shows it.
I think anecdotally, just driving through the city, people are slowing down when there are those traffic calming measures there because they have to.
But at the same time, I think we need every tool in the toolbox.
to fight this reckless driving problem that we have in the city.
And some of the statistics that Senator Drake shared at this public hearing are really stark, that more than 1,160 people have suffered fatal or life-changing injuries and speed-related crashes in Milwaukee over the past five years.
Like, this is just a day-to-day quality of life issue.
And I think this...
Problem has gotten so much worse over the past years too.
The Milwaukee traffic injuries and fatalities in Milwaukee have surged 86% since 2012.
I think more than 70 people died in car crashes in Milwaukee last year.
We have to take this seriously, and I think public officials are taking this more seriously, and I think this needs to be another tool in the toolbox, and I think we should pass it.
But it's just part of when we talked about this yesterday, Dan, the folks that were doing this driving, they don't care how many tickets they get.
You really think that that's gonna stop them?
They get a ticket because they blew through another red light?
They're gonna compile their tickets and keep them in the glove compartment and they don't care about that.
So I don't, I understand it's a step, it's an effort to do something, but I don't know that those people will care.
That's like, I personally, I would like to bring back public shaming and put them in a stockade so we can throw bad fruit at them and tell them they're naughty people.
That's not gonna work either because they don't care.
For many people it will not matter.
You're right
I think for many people, it will not matter.
I think it will matter enough for a percentage of the drivers that it's going to make a meaningful difference on people.
And I think some people who are maybe otherwise very good drivers and don't want to slip up and make a mistake and might just run a red light or something, I think it will matter enough to the people who it will make a difference for.
And I think there are other measures that can come to the people who are just the repeat offenders who don't care.
Like you said, there are.
many of those who clearly do not care and are not going to show up at court or pay their tickets or any of these things.
But I think it's going to matter enough to make a difference.
All right.
Well, we will continue.
We're going to lighten things up when we return.
We have news coming up next.
And then we're going to talk.
Audio Sorbet and what job you could not do.
What is the job?
We'll kick that around coming up next.
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Dan Schaefer is here.
And when we went to break, Dan, Greg and I were talking off the air.
There is so much to cover that we don't always get around to.
We wanted to talk about the ice raid in Chicago.
Something breaking this morning that I think is worth a mention, Pete Hegseth, the Department of Defense Secretary, is proud to announce today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Katari Emery Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho.
So the government's shut down, we have no money.
There's no money for health care.
There's no money to feed kids.
But we're going to build an air base for the Qatar government.
Oh, that's right, because Trump got a free plane.
Anyway, these are the things we didn't have time to talk about today.
So starting next week, Dan Schaefer is going to join us for an extended period of time so we can...
kick around all this stuff.
So much recombobulation that must happen.
You will be joining us at 9 35 from now on.
And we're going to talk about all the news,
all the things segments always go too fast.
Yeah, we need
more.
We need more time to recombobulate.
These times are extra discombobulating.
So we need extra time to recombobulate.
Exactly.
It's also to when we're in when we're in this portion of the show, the 10 35 portion where I want to feel light and fresh and airy and you start talking about Katari Air Force bases.
That's
why we call this portion of the program, Audio Sorbet, where what do we do, Greg Buck?
So here is today's Audio Sorbet topic.
What job could you not do?
We're not talking about physical limitations.
Let's say you have all the mental faculties and you have all the physical things you need in order to do anything.
But even so, you could not do X. What is the job you could not do?
855-752-4842, that is today's audio survey subject.
We were talking about this yesterday.
Yeah, we were talking about the beforehand.
We were talking about what some comedians do when they cannot, when they no longer getting booked as much as they used to, and they have to finally find
a job job a job in the real world and many of them will go into real estate it's independent you're your own boss and you know it's really depends on how much you i mean that's the thing is it really depends on how much you can hustle if you want to be a successful real estate agent especially in the beginning you are working all the time you're basically on call all the time if someone wants to see a house
you have to prepare yourself to maybe leave your kid's birthday party because they want to see it now because there's a commission tied to it.
And as performative as real estate can be, and it's like, hi, welcome to the house and everything.
And you know, here's the thing.
And here's some cookies and blah, blah.
I could never do that job.
That is not even a job on my, well, if I lost everything today, I could go into this thing.
Real estate would never be on the list, ever.
I cannot
Do that.
It just seems... And some people are built for it.
There are some people out there who are born sale people.
Oh, and they love it.
But for me personally, it feels, and I'm sorry if this offends any of our real estate agents are out there, it feels soul-sucking.
For me personally.
I
know folks who love, who love it.
Yes.
And if you like, I love houses.
I love old houses.
I like getting into other people's houses.
So
I would probably
like that.
I love entering through the door.
I like breaking in through a window.
It doesn't matter as long as I'm getting that house.
I just want to see what it looks like.
855-752-4842.
What is a job you could not do?
That's today's audio survey subject.
Julie from Wausau texting in about an hour ago because she wasn't able to be here.
He says, I could not work at a meat processing plant.
Understood.
Thank you to the immigrants who do this work.
Excellent point, Julia.
I knew someone.
I worked with someone a number of years ago who worked at a meat processing plant in Arkansas.
The stories were... Yeah, I couldn't do that either.
Dan, do you have a job or jobs that you're just...
No way.
No, how it's not on the list.
It's not on that sideless, not a nothing.
You're like, nope, can never do that job.
So the first thing I thought of when you, when you mentioned this was.
anybody who has to do a job where they are very high up.
I am not great with heights.
I
think I've mentioned this before.
Yes.
On the show.
So honestly, I feel like it's the most logical phobia to have is a lot of people are afraid of heights.
Yep.
Right.
So like, you know, those guys who will go way up on tall buildings and clean the windows outside.
Yeah, absolutely not.
No, thank you.
I could never do that job.
No window washing ever.
I always have so much respect for the people who who do that job because it seemed I just like in no version of me could I
be up hanging there and like scrubbing the windows and all of that, it just seems insane.
I could never do that.
That's like, have you seen photos from like 1940s and even earlier from New York City when they were building New York and the guys who worked on those skyscrapers with no safety belts and they're sitting on a strut 50 stories above the ground with their feet over the edge having lunch?
Yeah,
insane.
No, that's why the kids are soft days Fun really super duper quick side note I used to work with a guy who's a side hustle was in that in the washing of windows industry And he would tell me all the time never call me a window washer.
I'm a window cleaner I'm like Craig you need to sit down and take your life a little more seriously because that's a ridiculous statement to stay out loud to people What is the
distinction?
I think I think window washer for him
brings up this like, you know, I just washed windows and, and, and, and if you are, if you are in the industry, like your job is about making sure it's the cleanest, nicest, and there's more than just then the window.
There's more to it.
So I think it's, it's a, it's a denigration.
I'll say the
matter of respect.
Basically like it's, you think of maybe someone like a Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins is, I'm going to wash some windows.
You know, so.
What job could
you- I'm sorry, what was
that accent?
I'm gonna wash some windows.
Hell
right, all right.
What job could you not do, perhaps accents?
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2, bread from brown deer, says window washers or tower workers.
Yeah.
You stole my thunder, Greg.
And Chris Alfheim from Appleton says septic system pumper.
Okay, all right,
all right.
Septic system worker.
I don't want to step on anyone's joy.
And I understand that.
I don't want to do that either.
I don't want a window wash on high bills.
I don't want a window wash at all.
Thank you.
We
don't clean, Greg.
We will be respected.
I see those signs all the time for billboard installers.
They're like, now hiring.
You're always now hiring because no one wants these jobs because it's scary.
But are there any non-gross jobs too?
I understand septic cleaner.
I don't want to work in a septic cleaner either either So I don't know I don't want to I don't put parameters on it I'm just seeing like what else besides the gross jobs are out there that people don't want to do 8
5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 PJ on the live stream says job I could not do is being a mortician Sorry Jane too creepy for me.
I get that PJ.
I get that completely.
Yeah It's not like at least the clients don't complain but I'm
What's a joke you can't do?
I don't know, telling jokes?
So for me, yeah, what I was gonna say, what about you,
Jane?
I could not be an interior designer.
For
one thing, is my taste is very questionable, but I wouldn't be able to go into people's homes and not tell them what I actually thought.
But isn't that what you're supposed to do?
No, no, because I have a friend who's done it for years and years and years.
and he was telling me how he goes into people's homes and they have like their wild animal head refuge room.
See, and if I walked into a room where someone had nothing but animal heads, I would be like, you know what we need to do in here?
Wallpaper.
Over everything.
Over the animal heads, that'd
be weird.
Yes,
over everything.
That would probably be my last interior decorating
job.
I don't know, to me, like if I'm hiring an interior decorator or designer, I don't want to disrespect your industry.
I kinda want that brutal honesty.
I'm paying an expert to walk into my home and tell me what they believe the best vision is for it.
I don't want them to ceaselessly make fun of my taste or lack thereof, but I would kinda want someone to walk me like, yeah, I see what you're doing here, but this is what, you know, and I would then feel more confident in their confidence.
But I feel like you could absolutely... If I
came in and say, oh my god, this is the ugliest room I have ever seen, we have to throw out everything.
Again, back to my earlier statement about making fun of me.
But I'm just saying, like, if you walk in, you'll be like, oh, no, we're gonna do away with all this.
That doesn't
work.
Yeah, I guess, yeah.
It doesn't
work.
Yeah,
yeah.
I think Jane, your
idea, though, sounds like it.
Your idea sounds like a great SNL sketch, though.
Something like the brutally honest interior decorator who comes in and just roasts everybody's house.
That would be fun.
funny.
You could play that role well, I think.
I volunteer.
There you
go.
Gast host Jane McNair and the sketch of the brutally honest interior decorator.
You bought
that rug?
It'd be funnier than last week's
episode.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.
What job could you not do?
Ronnie from Horecon on WAUK.
A job I would not do is work at the DMV.
There are just too many rude and demanding people to the public and I do want to give a shout out when my brother passed away a couple of years ago and I had to make numerous trips to the DMV in Waukesha.
They were wonderful
people.
the workers of the DMV.
Those guys get a lot of slack or get a lot of crap all the time.
I thought they were fabulous.
Even considering they have to deal with all of us.
In the customer service vein, Jenny in the live stream said, I would have had to in order to get by, but I would not work customer service in the fast food industry.
Customers are terribly obnoxious, rude and entitled.
And that's, you know, honestly, and it said, she also goes on to say, folks making a living in the food industry as well, don't get enough credit or pay.
for what they have to put up with.
I absolutely agree.
And it's gotten, I feel even worse in the customer service.
I left a job in the past few years because of the customers.
The pay was fun.
I loved my coworkers, but I could not deal with the entitlement in that industry.
It was in the beer industry and it was just awful.
But I feel personally, you know, there's some like Israel, you have to serve in the army for a couple of years.
I feel like every American should have to work at least one Christmas.
in one store, like a Walmart, I used to say a mall, but who goes to malls?
But yeah, you have to work one Christmas season from October to February, and you will understand.
You'll have a different appreciation.
Carol from Waukesha texting and also listening at WAUK.
I couldn't do any of the jobs mentioned thus far, but my first thought was nurse.
I have
the utmost appreciation and respect for them, but I couldn't handle it.
I'm too weak in the knees.
I'm with you, Carol.
I don't do well with leakage.
Body leakage.
All right, write that one down too.
I love to break into houses.
No good
Calvin anything real quickly Here's my resident young person because you have the dream job you've always wanted right now.
Oh,
yeah, obviously, um, I don't know I guess the only thing I really thought it was a butcher not because of I Think it's I eat me.
I'm not a vegan or a vegetarian, but I don't want it like the killing aspect
Not to go too dark or sad, but yeah the actually killing the animals would be well the butcher
the food arrives dead
Okay, well then the guy that kills the animals And
getting the last word on this we have Casper who is from our company Casper says shoveling manure been there done that not ever doing it again.
That was my first job.
I Think that kind of says it all yeah, there you go.
Thank you Dan Schaefer for joining us
for some re-combobulation.
We will see you next week.
Thanks, everyone.
Be well.
Enjoy the weekend.
Go Brewers!
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we return, this shouldn't be a thing.
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She is doing this now as a regular spot with us on Mondays to give us kind of an update on what happens over the weekend.
A lot of things drop late Friday afternoon.
It's called a Friday news dump, hoping that.
Most of us won't notice.
No.
And there's no such thing.
Yeah.
News happens all the time.
Any
time.
All
the time.
And usually a moment after we get off the air.
A lot.
Yeah.
A lot of it.
That's 12, 11, 02.
And Todd gets breaking news.
So join us on Monday, Shaly.
Pittman will be here in hour number one and hour number two.
We are going to hear from Democrats abroad, UK.
We have talked to them numerous times over the past year, and George King IV.
We
didn't make that name up, folks.
No, and I actually, when I confirmed this interview a couple days ago, I had to look at it five times, because first I thought it was King George IV.
And it's like, oh my god, we're talking to William and Kate's kid?
I think he's only 10.
No, it is George King IV.
is the vice chair of Democrats abroad UK.
So there are a lot of people who live overseas, Republicans included.
Who get to vote?
You kind of get to do that when you're a citizen, no matter where you live in the world.
You
do.
So we're going to talk to George King on Monday to find out what the view is from on the other side of the pond.
It should be a very interesting discussion.
Right now.
Yes, it is approaching at 1055 Kelvin.
That means it is time for
this shouldn't be a thing
If you ever stumble on a thing you think should not be send it into Greg and me at Jane says at civic media dot us Jan E SA ys Jane says
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This from that bastion of journalistic integrity the New York Post.
Calvin found this one from Nicole Rosenthal and Zoe Hussein.
Headline reads, New York City weed dispensary pledges, courier pigeon delivery services, and the twist is ruffling feathers.
Huh, huh, huh?
You like it?
Birdbrained marketing campaign, the big.
Apple-based cannabis dispensary announcing it will launch a fleet of 20 courier pigeons to deliver gram-sized bags of marijuana to New Yorkers.
Unfortunately, the post learned this is phony.
I'm darn it because I just wanted to listen in to all the customer service calls that came through.
Man, where's my bird?
My pigeon is late, man.
We've been waiting for an hour.
Oh, man, it's on my shoulder.
Oh, awesome, man.
The travel agency unveiled the winged delivery service set to launch in Manhattan and Brooklyn by next year with a slew of videos that they put out on social media.
As the travel agency, it's only natural we'd explore all avenues of travel for our delivery service, including pigeons.
Being in New York, we thought there's no better courier than the ever-present and beloved
pigeon.
Uh, beloved?
I think that's a stretch, my friends.
I've seen people get at pigeons.
Viral
videos spotlighted the alleged feathery fleets, downtown Brooklyn location, as well as handlers and training protocols.
They went all out on this.
Joke.
Yeah, yeah,
yeah.
Essentially, promotional posters
put up outside the company's Union Square shop, also advertised cannabis carrier pigeons.
One viral clip showed pigeons wearing tiny backpacks.
That's amazing.
That's amazing.
Near a dispensary, appearing to confirm the presence of the working birds.
There are several places that jumped on this, including Fox 5, New York.
And then they found out, Ro.
It was a joke,
but you know what somewhere probably in in San Francisco There's a board member in it at uber going hear me out.
Hey, this could work look AI is big.
We love birds who doesn't love some weed We can make this a thing uber eats now bird style
and of course now Who's mad be the is mad about how the birds were treated during these
Fake ads that they were shooting the travel agency says Animal welfare was a top priority throughout production of this campaign every shot planned in consultation with pigeon handlers and Their owners who advised the director and the crew on this safest approach
As a former vegan former vegetarian lover of animals too
I'm going to say this, which I've been saying even when I was one.
You are your worst enemy, PETA.
You are so over the top.
Shush your faces.
God.
They don't help themselves sometimes.
My goodness gracious.
All the pigeons are fine.
No
pigeons were harmed in the creation of this head.
Was anyone from PETA harmed besides inside their souls?
No, just inside their souls.
And there is no pigeon pot delivery service, maybe someday.
I mean I can maybe maybe one day but Jane I need something to believe in okay not no that rips up today's episode of
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He is a regular, well, he's been a guest of ours many times and certainly he's been very, very busy all over the networks in the last couple of weeks.
Retired Major General Randy Manor is our guest.
Good morning, sir.
Thank you so much for making time for us.
Good morning.
Always great to talk with you, Jane.
So many places to start.
Really, so many places to start.
I wanted to ask you, first of all, the training that's involved with our National Guard troops and our military troops.
And again, you were a major general in the U.S.
Army.
You were in the Army for more than 30 years.
Is the training that our troops receive the same training that local cops get?
Absolutely, positively, no.
Local police, state police receive four to six months of training according to the local city or town or state.
And that covers a wide variety of areas from local law, how to deescalate situations, what are their duties or responsibilities, as well as, of course, police activities and actions.
which includes firearms training and so on and the proper use of firearms according to the local laws.
Our military receive no training like that whatsoever.
The most they receive will be a handful, I mean 10, 5, 15 hours of instruction of whatever things they need to know for the particular mission they are doing to support
in this particular case, ICE.
So the answer is hell no, they don't receive that kind of training.
They also receive huge amounts of training in combat operations, which of course would never be used in American cities.
Well, I guess that's kind of my point, sir, is that, again, our military is trained to make war.
Local police get different training on how to de-escalate situations and how to write and try to, I mean, it's a different kind of training.
Absolutely.
It's also important for all your listeners to understand that this administration is trying to escalate tensions in blue cities and blue states.
He is not an administration.
He is not a president nor an administration who wants to de-escalate violence.
he actually wants to create environments where let's just pour some gas on that little tiny fire, or he'll start a fire where there is none whatsoever.
It was rather shocking.
I was doing a CNN interview last week where the commentator was saying, look at these national guardsmen, how they're treating those protesters.
And I said, first of all, those are not national guardsmen.
Those are ICE and other federal agents.
They are, quite frankly, Trump's Gestapo.
They are poorly trained.
They are in military uniforms.
They vary by their uniform.
Many of them have face masks.
It was a mob.
So whenever I was talking about it, the mob was not the protesters.
The mob were these untrained, poorly trained.
Again, I use this term so everyone understands it.
These are nothing more than Trump's
Gestapo
and I think it's I don't think that can be said enough That we don't know anything about these off these ice officers We don't know if they were formed if they were all January 6th defendants that he pardoned they could be made up of The Patriot Front the three percenters the people who marched in Charlottesville who said Jews will not replace us we don't know anything about these people and
The fact that we are allowing them to be masked adds a whole nother level of menace to this.
It's
meant to intimidate and it's meant to deny accountability.
I say again, those masks are meant to intimidate the people on TV and to withhold their identity.
They do not want to be held accountable for how poorly they are treating the protesters and or
immigrants or even US citizens and that is unconscionable relative to local police and to federal and to state police who do have rules who are accountable whereas it appears ICE agents are not accountable and in fact the Attorney General has and others Stephen Miller they're basically making comments that quite frankly are close to those in the past who were defined and convicted of war crimes
The Secretary of Defense is in the same category.
Rip the arms off of our enemy and feed them to the hogs.
That, those words are the words we would perhaps have heard from those people who have been convicted around the world in present and past situations of war crimes.
It's absolutely demonic what is happening with many of the leaders in this administration.
And I want to spend some time talking about
the secretary of defense.
That's what I'm going to call him.
He is the secretary of defense.
But one of the things too, from a procedural standpoint as well, and I'm thinking of Washington DC, you have National Guard troops, you also have police, but when they're also sending in other agencies as well, you have ICE, FBI, they're roaming the streets, looking for problems, they're getting each other.
I mean, the police are there to take care of the city.
It doesn't probably help them to have the National Guard on their back.
And then when you have in DC,
Agents just roaming around the streets with guns that perfect that gives a problem for just not only enforcement but keeping situations calm in the first place I'm thinking I keep thinking about a simple car accident that happened in DC and before they knew it there was two dozen various agency members With guns that doesn't help anything.
It doesn't help the police certainly doesn't have help the national the National Guard and it just seems like
As you said, it's just an intimidation factor and an escalation factor
Yes Yeah, I have to really challenge all your listeners to ask ask yourself Which part of history do you want to be on?
For your children and your grandchildren to say oh, yeah, I fully supported Trump in his thug tactics And I'm proud of it or I made a mistake I voted for him for various reasons and
how he started to implement it was against everything that I have ever taught you, my children and my grandchildren.
And you should never act like that.
And I was wrong.
Or are you going to look at your children in their eyes or your grandchildren and say, I stood up for what was right and I did the very best I could?
Or even worse, I did nothing.
and said nothing.
And said nothing.
If you're just joining us on Mattnair On Air, retired Major General Randy Manor is our guest, spent more than 30 years in the US Army and just talking about sending US troops into American cities, among many other things.
I assume that you watched Pete Hagseth address our generals and all of our flag officers essentially
insulting them and fat shaming them.
And what was your initial reaction after watching that?
So here we have a disgraced major who was kicked out of the National Guard, as well as a draft-dodging president who paid a doctor to say he had burns, bone spurs.
Neither of those people, neither of them is qualified in any manner.
to be able to address those combat veterans in the way that they did.
Every man and woman, every officer, every senior missile leader in that room has had the lives of our sons and daughters in their hands to do the very best they could to train them and prepare them for combat and to be able to treat others with dignity and respect independent
of their race, their color, their national origin, their religion, or of course their gender.
And here you have, and again, they're very well educated as well.
Everyone in that room has advanced degrees.
Everyone has been around the world.
Everyone knows what Wright looks like.
They sat there and they listened politely to the Secretary of Defense and to the President spew the political rhetoric and their warm
war criminal language and Played applause at the end But that was it no hooting and hollering because that's not what our senior leaders in our military do they don't pledge allegiance to the president they Refuse it is absolutely wrong to think that our military is serving the president They serve the constitution and they serve the American people.
That's why I mean I've talked to a few people in in Oregon I've talked to them in in Chicago as well as in Memphis
Fact that the National Guard is showing up actually is a good thing.
They are first of all They should never be there to begin with but I'm telling you they should not be afraid of the National Guard because the National Guard is Disciplined they are going to do the right thing and that they will not put you in harm's way Compared to the ICE agents and again the thugs that are
apparently called ICE agents.
I want to take this topic back about a week or so from when actually the event happened.
What was your first thought when you heard that the Secretary of Defense called for this meeting?
Because when we heard about it, there was an immediate of what is going to happen.
Also, and Jane, you brought this up, not a very good idea to tell the whole world where our, well, at the time the president wasn't going to be there.
It was going to be Pete Hegseth and all of these
Upper echelon military folks not a really good idea to put that out in the world What was your first thought when you heard about just the announcement of this meeting?
I Knew in my head that it had to be for 100 political show Whenever it was going to be televised that just sealed the deal it was 100 theater because you never ever ever Bring in all your commanders from around the world because not only is costing the taxpayer not the president
It's your money, and it's my money, millions of dollars to bring all those people in.
Not only, of course, for example, a four star commander, not only do you bring him, you bring a couple of his executive officers to manage all the tasks that have to go on, independent of the travel and the fiasco of being forced to sit in that theater, you also have to bring classified communication teams so you can stay in contact with your command.
And then you also have to bring a small security detail, because these people are targets for obviously the bad guys.
And to put them all in one room, not only has it never been done, it should never have been done.
It's dangerous.
It's a misuse of American taxpayer money.
And of course, even worse, all of those generals and admirals know that they were absolutely props, again, as part of political theater.
Although it did blow up in the face of the president who
was shocked that they were not hooting and hollering.
Yeah, he's never had an audience.
Yeah, where's
my
where's my applause?
He's used to walking into lunch and everyone at Mar-a-Lago stands up and applauds him.
Please clap.
Yeah, please clap.
Exactly.
But essentially, Major General, Pete Hegseth gave them permission in that speech to commit war crimes, right?
It was like we're removing the shackles from all these behaviors that you that we were prevented from doing.
Right.
I will tell you that if any war crimes do occur under his watch, I'm going to say with a high degree of certainty, he will be prosecuted by the International War Crimes Tribunal because he actually said it publicly around the world.
It'll happen.
We're going to continue our conversation with retired Major General Randy Manners.
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Jimmy Cusca, Civic Media's sports director is going to join us.
I believe baseball may come up.
Baseball is
fun.
Baseball is fun.
Yeah.
So, uh, that's coming up after the 10 30 news right now that we are joined by our guest retired major general, Randy Manor, who served more than 30 years in the US army.
And Greg, you had a question for him.
Well, first of all, again, I always want to thank you for being here, sir, because you said something before when you addressed our listeners and I want the listeners who disagree with us to really see it in themselves because I know they're out there and I appreciate their time.
They don't have to listen.
But you are not a super left ultra hippie liberal.
You are a career military person who sees what you do as an oath of the Constitution protecting our freedom in our country.
And first of all, thank you for that.
But also, the fact that you're asking those questions, I think it's important to look into yourself and ask them of yourself.
Because if you are saying it, I think it's important.
Earlier we had Jim Santel on who was a U.S.
attorney, and we were talking about this very thing, about sending troops in, and I asked him, is there, if the Trump administration doesn't listen to judges, who's left to say no?
Is it governors?
Is it generals?
I asked the same question for you, but more of the military.
Is there someone, can there be someone who says, I swore an oath to the Constitution, not a king.
I will not do this.
There will be repercussions, I understand that, but
Do you see that happening?
Is that possible or do we just do they work through it because they are orders?
Couple comments first of all about my own political innings.
Yeah, I have been registered as an independent my entire life in the state of Virginia They no longer require you to register your party in Virginia, but I've already always regarded myself as an independent I have voted for president and for local leaders
for Republicans as well as Democrats in my entire life.
In fact, in Virginia, we had one of the greatest senators of all time, Senator Warner, until he retired as a Republican.
I voted for him every single time.
I'd vote for him today if he was running.
So I want to make sure your listeners understand.
While I say some things that are hard-hitting, I am speaking from the middle.
I am somebody who believes in our country.
I am somebody who has at least 10 times taken the oath of office to defend the Constitution of the United States.
And I take it very seriously.
Do I know a lot about this because of my requirements of my position?
Yes, I do.
Do I believe I understand more about what I'm going to call our governmental system and the relationship of the military?
To being led by civilian leaders.
Yes, I do It's not trying to say that other people don't know as much.
It's just the fact that this was my career, right?
So I want to make sure people understand that Yes, I know a lot about this subject material number two.
I am a centralist and I know also a dictatorship when I see it or when I say a dictatorship even though the president was duly elected The way he is acting is like a dictator because I have seen
Dictators around the world.
I have been in Russia.
I've been in China I have been obviously in Iraq and many other locations where there are or have been dictators and as well as Eastern Europe I've been to the Ukraine so If people have been around the world and seen these things to see what What kind of administrations send the military against their own people
they would have a far clearer understanding and perspective, not only of current events, but even of history.
The second part, what are the guards to keep the president in line?
The legal is the best way, voting is the second best way, and peaceful protest is another way to do it.
There's a lot of concern though, Randy, that
The protesters are if protesters show up outside of ice facilities and things like that That gives the Trump administration more justification for sending in more troops and can help feed this problem
So a good point when I was saying peaceful protest yes outside of ice facility short But what I'm really trying to say is let's gather in the city in the city Let's gather in the towns in the town squares.
You don't have to be anywhere near
the ice people and I would say, stay away from them.
So we can, for example, October 18th is no Kings Day.
I'll be speaking at a rally in Virginia about that.
And those are not going to be near any ice agents.
And I would say, show up with your family, show up and say, what does right look like?
So that's what I meant by protest.
I'm not trying to say you should confront.
Right.
That is not
what I'm saying.
Right.
Yeah, and that show of the American people, but not in that manner.
We need to get in the town squares.
We need to be in the cities.
We need to say this is not the way America is supposed to.
Well, and I would I would assume also that with your experience and your experience and seeing other authoritarian countries for people who think what's happening right now is good.
At some point, you're not going to be good enough.
And they're going to come for you.
Right.
It will come for you.
Just like just like that quote, World War Two.
You know, they came for everyone else, and I said nothing, but they didn't come for me.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to say anything.
And
that is well documented.
And that will happen.
Thank you so
much to our guest, retired Major General Randy Manor, more than 30 years in the US Army.
We really appreciate your time, sir.
Thank you so very, very much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you
so much for what you guys do.
Thank you.
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Jimmy Kuska, Civic Media Sports Director is here.
Good morning, okay?
We lost last night.
Game four, it's gonna be okay.
Tell Greg Bach, Jimmy, that everything's gonna be okay.
Everything is going to be okay.
Thank
you.
Everything's going to be okay.
Thank you
much rather be up to one in a best of five series than down to one of the best of five series and the Brewers find themselves a pretty good shape going into tonight You got to consider though the Brewers had their chances in the game yesterday and everything gets magnified so much in the postseason and in Elimination games and in a postseason series all these little things people are talking about the decision whether to bond not to bond the base fronting the pitching choice like
All these things get so magnified in a single game.
And you got to remember, it's a long series.
It's a long haul.
And the Brewers still have two more chances to get this done, including today.
So not pressing the panic button yet.
Tonight, I think the tension will be a little higher on the Brewers.
But it's still good for the Brewers.
They're still up two to one.
They need one win to advance.
OK, I would like to make something perfectly clear here.
Cause Jane is treating me like I'm an invalid, incapable of handling
anything.
Very sensitive.
Very
sensitive.
Don't tell men to feel their feelings.
And the moment we start feeling our feelings, tell us, stop feeling our feelings.
I have no problem with you being sensitive.
But
my, my, my point is, is that in exactly in a five game series is a sweet possible.
Absolutely.
Is it likely?
I don't know.
I don't know statistics.
I don't math very well.
But what I did say to myself is that if we lose tonight, we lose tonight.
There are other chances.
My.
For me, and I don't know, and you're far more into this world than I am, but the melting down, and not even of CubsFans, like Cubs, okay, I get it.
CubsFans, you want another World Series ring.
I get that.
I'd like a World Series
ring.
Yeah, that'd
be nice.
And I don't know if you saw this specifically on Twitter, Jimmy, but the melting down of the Chicago sports writing intelligentsia, I mean,
When they won that second game, these guys were saying things that were, I mean, this is from a guy who wrote in the Tribune.
I'm not even gonna say his name because he doesn't deserve my words.
He said, I took one psychology class at Mizzou.
And my theory is the Brewer's fans resent the fact Chicago is a world-class city with great architecture and restaurants while Milwaukee is a place with a statue of the bronze fawns.
Everyone has their heart broken at some point, but even,
But eventually you move on Milwaukee refuses to move on from Council snub even though Murphy has been a remarkable efficient replacement I don't know what those words mean because And that is like that is the most put-together thing I could find right now.
I can't read them all but like from from
Making fun of Jacob Mizorowski for being excited from accusing from saying the brewers don't deserve any of this and also some of them are even going for the cheating aspect quote juiced balls I mean it is wild Jimmy.
Are you seeing this and am I am I have I've been missing this for years?
Welcome to sports social media.
This
is what it is
every single day.
Oh This is the roller coaster you live on with social media and this is why
You know, not only with just fandoms in general, but with the advent of sports betting, with just all these things you're tossing into the pot, people have gone really off the rails sometimes in how they analyze sports.
And that's.
And I'm not saying I'm above any of it because there are definitely days where a sports team can affect my mood.
But, you know, when you hear things like this or you read things like this, you know, take it with a heap of salt that people are too invested into this day to day.
And it's fine.
People can be fans, but there's a point where it crosses a line of being even a little toxic in a way as a sports fan.
And I can't get I can't put myself in those shoes because.
I get to a point where like, you know, I have other things in my life to feel this strongly about and generally sports.
don't elevate to that except for the sports I coach because I'm in those days.
That's a little different, but
like
a professional team, I have no control over, you know, and I hear things like that when they, when people talk about Milwaukee and Milwaukee gets talked about a lot, unfortunately, negatively by other markets.
We're seeing that with, even with the Yanis rumors, you know, like, why would you want to stay in Milwaukee?
It's cold.
Well, first of all, newsflash, Milwaukee's amazing.
I love Milwaukee and I'm from a tiny little town in northern Wisconsin, but Milwaukee's amazing.
Second of all, when, when, when people from larger markets
are looking, you know, well, how can Wisconsin have this kind of success?
And there's a little bit of envy there because Milwaukee's able to build the best record in baseball out of, out of, you know, half the payroll or a third of the payrolls other major league teams can.
And I think people are just wondering why they can't do the same thing.
Milwaukee sports, Green Bay Packers, you can toss them into that.
I've been remarkably resourceful over the years and, and finding their way to championships to success.
I think just for big markets where they spend.
huge amounts of money on rosters and all these things, they can't figure out why.
Well, if we throw money at the problem, why isn't it working?
Where these teams can go draft develop and be successful in their programs.
I think there's just, that's a little bit of it.
And on top of that, I just, just, just go back to what Greg said.
Yeah.
Milwaukee's awesome.
I don't know what they're saying about, but Milwaukee, just being a.
of broadspods.
He's great.
So well, seriously, the Chicago sportswriters sound like the head cheerleader who's all upset because she wasn't picked to be prom queen over the sax player in the band.
I mean, get over yourself, Chicago.
Give me a break.
And I think and
I think that's a perfect representation of what they sound like, honestly.
What
a bunch of babies.
And what you said to Jimmy is very true.
And I responded to that.
I respond directly called out that writer in the Tribune and said, look, we're not thinking about you all the time.
We
don't have
Chicago in
the Chicago is under the, and this is my theory.
Chicago is under the belief that places like, and I don't hear them say about these cities, but I guarantee you they do.
But, but they do say this about Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, St.
Louis.
Those are the biggest big cities around them.
I guarantee you, they say the same thing about them, they say about us, is that we wish we were Chicago.
We
wish
we were them.
And
to me, every time I hear someone say that, all I hear is, we're not LA and New York.
LA and New York don't think about you either.
Neither does Milwaukee.
Just live your life.
Chicago, you're great.
You're great.
Your teams are great.
Well, not the white socks, but you know, they're fun.
But like, it's just that thing of, as you put it, I got things to do.
Nowhere on my list of things to do, Jimmy, is wish I was Chicago.
That's not on my list.
I mean, if the, if the Cubs lose tonight, they are going to explode
because
it's because, and as you just said, small market versus big market, they're going to feel insulted.
Big markets feel like they deserve it because they're the ones who pay a billion dollars for players.
They feel like they deserve it and Milwaukee, you're fun to play and, but we have been the best team in baseball for months.
We've had
some of the best pitching we the fact that we couldn't get some runs on the people we had on base last night even we have like one of the highest rates of on base percentage like runs but it is that thing is like is like we don't deserve it because we're Milwaukee we're small the Dodgers deserve it the Cubs deserve it it's like no the best team deserves it unless you're the Astros and you cheat but
That is just, I mean, I could not believe it.
I mean, I expected some Cubs fans to be like, but like professional human beings who are
paid
to write.
Jimmy,
I don't know how you do it, how there's not like seven empty bottles of alcohol underneath your desk right now.
That's true.
I'm putting a lot of trust in you, sir.
Pleading the fifth.
Here's the thing.
You're, you're, you're also going to get this to the next round.
If the rumors advance, the next round is probably the Dodgers.
Now you're talking big market again, big payroll again, and it really feels like these two teams have been on a collision course.
You don't make
the same things that are going to come out of the West Coast market about a Midwestern city.
I mean, this is just what you live with.
We're seeing it with the honest rumors.
Well, you got us going to New York, where we've seen it with the Brewers versus LA versus Chicago versus whoever.
It is what it is.
I mean, this is something that is nothing new for Wisconsin sports fans to deal with.
And honestly, the overall response from Wisconsin sports fans has been, much like you said, Greg, we're not thinking about you at all.
Like we're
just living our best lives here, you know, with our flannels and our, you know, seven bratwurst per mule a day.
Like that's what we do.
Well, and just so LA, by the way, in case it comes down to the Dodgers and the Brewers, we don't want to be you either.
No.
Just get over yourselves, okay?
Just bring your ego down just a little
bit,
all right?
We're fine.
Where is Chicago saying those things?
By the way, if you're just joining us, I'm Matt Narenare.
We're talking to Civic Media Sports Director Jimmy Cusco, who's joining us today.
Happily, we love having you on the show.
We do.
It's so great.
I just have a feeling if they played the Dodgers, which will be a rematch from 2018,
It's going to be a lot of where even is Milwaukee.
It's like, okay, that's the best you can do.
They will say that, but I think it's funny too.
You say that people will, we'll, we'll talk about Yanis.
Why do you want to stay in Wisconsin?
It's cold.
So is New York.
So are a lot of cities he'd probably go to, except maybe LA, but that's on fire.
So, I mean, I just loved the, I loved what he posted to shut everyone up, which is a picture of him in his uniform saying, let's go.
The honest rumors are kind of an annual tradition.
Yeah, not even it's even more than an annual tradition Especially lately because his contract for better or worse shapes up for him to be a very very attractive Trade target next year than expiring deals.
So now these these rumors every time you honest his contract comes up They get ramped to infinity and you had the report coming out that all of a sudden there are trade talks the trade talks were that
New York asked and Milwaukee said, no, that's pretty much what the trade talks were.
I mean, are they technically trade talks?
maybe I'd probably not I mean it's it's one of those things over you can write a headline saying they're talking about trading honest and then you look into the context of it and it's like oh yeah I think every every other team 29 other teams of the NBA would absolutely love got us to Tana Koonvoa their team but the Brewers aren't gonna edit or the Brewers the Bucks aren't gonna entertain it or the Brewers won either because he's a part owner so yeah look at the trade of
You know that would be that would take them immediately out of championship contention And if any of the moves the last few years have been any indication they are all in on trying to find Something to crack open that championship window just for a little longer for Giannis They wouldn't make the big kind of trades and the big kind of moves they've made the last few years without that in mind So there's I think there's there's a very very little chance that that he's going anywhere this season And I know ESPN and others are rooting for it, but I don't see it
That would break a lot of folks' hearts.
There would be a lot of heartbroken fans, if you honest would leave the box.
In the time we have left, Jimmy, let's talk a little bit about Packers.
Oh, Packers, all
right.
Well, let's go.
Well,
they get to play a team this week.
I was like, I'm waiting for the lead into that.
No, because here's a little backstory.
Two weeks ago, we had Paul Noonan on the show, and he said, there's no way
that the, the, uh, the Packers could lose to the Cowboys.
Well, he was right, a half,
right?
But it's now it's sort of like you're two one in one.
Oh geez, what happens?
Yeah.
So that's a quarter of the way through the season.
We got a long, long ways to go.
The Packers are in the middle of a really weird stretch of their schedule there.
They're only getting one home game in the span of about, what, five or six weeks.
So they're in a weird spot in their schedule.
There's a lot of weird game times.
It doesn't really settle down for them until after October, right?
So right now they're just kind of navigating some of the logistical challenges of this portion of the schedule.
I think the bigger concern for the Packers is trying to figure out how to get the defense working again, because the defense came off very strong.
They hadn't trailed really a lot in any game until Dallas, and when they got back and forth at the end, I think just figuring out how to get the defense back.
on track will help them.
Offensively, things are actually looking extremely bright.
You got to remember that with all the great things they're doing on offense right now, Packers still are going to get Christian Watson back later this year, and that's going to turn this offense on
fire.
Jimmy Cusca is Civic Media's sports director.
Thanks so much, Jimmy.
Really, really appreciate it.
Go Pack, go Brewers.
Go Bucks.
Go Bucks, them too.
All right, when we return, this shouldn't be a thing.
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It's gonna get late tonight.
Yeah.
Maybe take a disco nap.
Disco
nap.
Disco nap.
Wow, I've never heard that term
before.
Really?
Yeah.
Before you'd go hit the
clubs,
you'd have to take
a little nap.
I was born when discos were popular, so I wasn't going to a lot of discos.
I took a lot
of naps in those days.
Well, you
were
napping, so it was part of it.
I was
a little boy.
Anyway, but yes, our broadcast will start tonight.
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We had a
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We have had a lot of guests and we're talking a lot about tariffs because that is big in the news and our farmers.
Will is a farmer in southwestern Missouri.
And we have talked to Will a number of times over the past couple of months.
So we'll get an update.
I'd like to hear what he is hearing from his fellow farmers on how they're being affected by these tariffs.
And now there's allegedly going to be a bailout.
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Right now, it is almost 10.55.
Calvin, that means it is time for... This shouldn't
be a
thing!
If you ever find a thing you think should not be, send it in to Greg and me at JaneSez at CivicMedia.us Calvin found this one from the Associated Press, who's the lucky person.
Heather Hollingsworth, lucky one with the byline, headline reads, Hair Museum, filled with century old mementos, closes its doors, scattering its contents around the nation.
Independence, Missouri, hosted the Laila's Hair Museum.
With century old wreaths made from human hair.
Other glass cases overflowing with necklaces and watch bands all woven from the hair of the dearly departed.
They also reportedly come from past president's Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe.
For 30 years the Heron Museum in the Kansas City suburb of Independence attracted an eclectic group including Ozzy Osbourne.
That makes sense.
That would be his kind of thing, right?
Unfortunately the museum's namesake Lila Coheen died last November at the age of 92.
Her granddaughter trying to re-home the hair collection
of more than 3000 pieces.
So she's trying to distribute these to museums around the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC.
I
don't do this often, Jane, but I will say we missed the mark on the title for today.
Should have been Hair Today Gone Tomorrow.
Rats.
But yeah.
Have you ever seen Morning Jewelry up
close?
I
have.
That is a...
Both of their it's it's somehow very beautiful yet very creepy and incredibly Seems appropriate for the times then and if you don't know what morning jewelry by me morning is and morning the death It's jewelry jewelry that would have like a locket with a picture But also a little like a little slice of hair, but again, they
also made like pins.
Oh, yeah,
yeah
watch bands Mm-hmm.
I I toured the of course I did I toured the national
Funeral Museum in Houston a number of years ago Natural Museum of Funeral History
Okay, no, no.
It's fascinating.
You
can't call it the natural.
Don't try to make it seem
like the field museum.
But it's fascinating.
But they had many examples of mourning jewelry, which is a very big thing in the mid 1800s.
Women coiled the hair of the deceased into jewelry or told the story of their family's history by entwining the curls of the loved ones into wreaths.
Hair art, though, fell out of favor by the 1940s as photographs became much more popular.
Well, there was also that movement of the age-old story of...
They used to have the body in the front room of the home and they renamed it the living room because the living Gave it more of a pop when they're trying to show because that stop that thing when I style as funeral homes Yes, yeah, they wanted to get that out of the home.
So they renamed it the living
room because
the parlor Exactly because they wanted to be like this is where the family who is alive comes and sits down and has fun.
Yeah, we really kind of Really get a number on our dead folks back in the day.
We really we really honored them back in the day Well, it was much
it was a much different thing.
Yeah
Uh, her, uh, Evans, who is the granddaughter now, says she is struggling with a mix of emotions, trying to re-home her grandmother's legacy.
Again, these are historical artifacts, a lot of them from the mid-1800s.
I feel like there is enough people, both whether it's other museums or just collectors, I feel like there are people,
this
is a market.
They'll
find
a whole
bunch of stuff.
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