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Good morning.
Nice to have you back here up north.
It's a Monday morning, October 27th, 2025.
And it is time as we do each Monday morning at this time to head down to Madison, not just to Studio A2.
Parker Olson is standing by.
But Studio A one we go we go to the big round the big on the hall.
The big studio.
John Morty are standing by and john yes, you can you can hear their show weekday mornings on our station 927 W MDX in Madison or through the civic media app.
Guys, how are you?
Good morning.
All right.
That's tight.
I'm good.
Thank you.
Let's let's see if I get some some vindication or not.
Packer game, 720 p.m.
start.
You stayed up until the end of it.
Yes or no?
No.
No.
Thank you.
I feel much better.
Good night, everybody.
at
you.
Thank you.
Great.
All right.
There are so many people raising a glass of metamucil to us right now going, good
And I will I will put it on on McBannis, but I will say in being fair to whatever degree
those field conditions, that field was garbage.
I mean, it
was,
it was like on a beach with the little tufts of grass here and there.
Here's one of the things you never, you never see anymore.
I never see NFL games being played in baseball stadiums.
And you know, when they get when they get
that
space between like second and third base, they're playing in the infield dirt.
Right.
It always looks weird.
And it never happens anymore, thankfully.
But the whole field looked like that.
It just
you know, what, again, that shouldn't matter to me, but they make a lot of money.
You know, I've seen the price of an NFL ticket, you could keep the grass, you know, watered or something for for what you're getting.
But yeah, well, they're thinking
I mean, that's just of
they
getting out of
games.
Well, they can make more money off.
If you if you if you want to make more money, here's what you do.
You come up with these merchandise ideas, alternative uniforms, and then people will buy the alternative uniforms, the throwbacks, because they are so cool.
You are a Pittsburgh's dealer fan wondering why your team was dressed as Minion Prison inmates
terrible and not even matching pants, flesh colored pants,
different times I had friends going, are they wearing pants?
all cool bear here.
turned
at first.
I didn't know.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See.
Right.
See Parker.
It's not just me.
No,
it's not.
I was I had a problem with uniforms too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anyway, we so we've covered the uniforms and how we don't think they're going to be making some money off of those anymore.
I don't
All right.
Well, we come storming into Halloween week and boy, if there's one place people love to be on Halloween, it is Madison.
It is it is fun.
It is raucous.
It is it is really something unless again, you're of a certain age and then you turn your porch light off and you go to bed early.
I don't know.
Are you are you guys
candy hander outers.
Are you party attenders, especially with Halloween being on a Friday night?
Does this Halloween work for your social calendar?
it doesn't work on
I grew up in a big apartment complex.
And so you took a pillowcase
it it got
pretty full.
And of course, with that many kids, I mean, you had to buy that much candy to hand out or you just
didn't answer the door at some point.
But yeah, yeah, I I missed that.
It's also why my my dentist, you know, drove a Lamborghini.
I mean, we just there was a lot of work needed to be done there.
Now, like you said, really, I'm in more of a rural area.
And, you know, usually single digits, number of trick or treaters that we end up handing out here.
So
Oh, I did not know this.
So it's, it's not the big deal that it was, you know, when going to college in the early 80s, still that was like the place you wanted to be, I guess.
Yeah,
Yeah.
miss those
It was a big party.
Yeah, you guys have a favorite from you know, whatever year in the past where you go the best costume you ever wore was not
you're gonna
to bail us out of this one.
All
I've got a neighbor who really takes the the costumes seriously.
And he always he does such a great job year after year.
He's got just kind of a gray scruffy beard.
And so one year he went as the most interesting man in the world, you know,
from the from
the from the beer commercials.
Last year he died the beard and went as is a rip from Yellowstone.
And his wife dressed up as one of the else on care.
He also has a resemblance to Madden.
He was the former manager of the Chicago Cubs, blanking on his first name.
And I'm always kind of jealous that, you know, there's people that really want to put themselves into it.
Whereas me, it's like, I'll put a sheet over my head, cut a couple of holes.
Oh, boo, I'm a ghost.
Last
He's like six, four.
He's walking around very thin.
And everybody thought he was Spider-Man.
Even the people who are a little stoned on the sidewalk were saying, Spider-Man!
And he didn't know how to take that.
He said, that guy is drunk, isn't he?
I don't want.
Yeah.
And it's like, well, who cares?
He's on the other side of the street.
Don't worry about him.
You
know,
Well, it's good on Halloween.
A little less so like if you're in Times Square on any random Wednesday.
There's like four different Spider-Man guys coming
in looking for
looking for you know donations.
We were we were once on a tour in Spain.
I don't know if it was Madrid or where and we have
photos of
ourselves with a
a morbidly obese Spider-Man.
Don't know how he got into that costume, but he did all the poses and everything
because that's
how we made a buck.
And then there's Tony who, you know...
fills up our comment sections on YouTube from up in Ashland.
Is Dom able to put on your monitor there?
Yes.
Tony and his family.
His wife made the mystery machine out of a cardboard box and one of the kids is Scooby Doo and Tony appears to be Shaggy and his wife appears to be Velma over there.
I can't make out what the little ones are, but they're just adorable when you go through the whole thing of actually making, you know, using that cardboard box to make a mystery machine or other things that take much more labor than
the generic, you know, packet at the spirit of Halloween store.
I got it.
I got to applaud that.
I think that's great.
Thank you, Tony.
Yeah,
they they was basically usually you take a cardboard box, you can
to make it look like a White House.
And then like a corner of it, you just
tear it, mangle it, maybe, maybe singe it a little bit or something.
Yeah, just make
I want
Yeah.
sort.
It would work.
We're talking to John and Gordy from our Civic Media Station in Madison, 927 WMDX.
You can hear them on the Civic Media app as well.
John, you said you wanted to quiz me on something political or something like
Well, you were in the Senate, a state senator.
And I want to ask you, look, I want to reform.
I want the Democrats to win the election in the midterms.
And I think we're falling behind.
We don't really think ahead too much.
And I want to run these ideas by you as a former legislator.
I think that because we're fighting so hard, we're holding up everything because we want to fight for the ACA premium discounts, okay?
That's what we want.
We want the tax credits.
But can't we also piggyback?
that with universal health care, wouldn't it be a good idea if the Democrats got behind the idea of universal health care to piggyback onto the tax credits that we're fighting so hard to keep?
Wouldn't that be something?
Oh, and because people are seeing their premiums go up, they might just want to jump on board universal health care.
I
will tell you something that as as of last week, I was helping my mom pick out a new Medicare Advantage program because the old one is getting dumped.
And so there's like 158,000 people in her who are in her plan to find new ones, which is not the same as the ACA.
But in both cases, you're looking at these things, all of the hoops that you have to jump through.
Yeah, there's no way to compare apples to apples.
And you go
Why how are we still doing this after all this time instead of universal health care?
Like they have figured out in every other developed country in the world and that we don't because the Affordable Care Act was the compromise.
That's how it got passed was you know instead of a single payer or you know universal plan
To get you know, some Republican votes.
It was okay.
We'll keep the private companies in there, but we'll have an individual mandate and everybody will get covered and It still didn't get any Republican votes.
They've never voted to make any improvements in it So it's not as bad as it used to be but it sure should be better and Frankly, yes more Democrats ought to be running on universal.
They
see how
they would have except for a guy named Joe Lieberman who threatened to sink the whole thing.
So yeah, so thanks, Joe.
Wherever you are.
I have
you're former legislators.
Well, let's take care of that after the break then.
So I will I will answer John and Gordy's questions.
I like this.
I get to be the political analyst for once.
That's coming up.
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We are visiting with our friends, John and Gordy.
You can hear them six to eight on 927 WMDX in Madison or through the Civic Media app.
And before we went to break, we were talking a bit about universal health care in a in a game we like to call John tries to stump the former legislator John.
I
Jump on board and start presenting something as big as universal health care in this discussion trying to at least just keep the tax credits for the affordable care actor Obamacare Yeah, but I think because people will you know just be freaked out by the high price of premiums that they'll say you know Maybe we should really consider that and then we'll have some time to actually talk about it till next year
I mean, we'll have all that time to assure people they can keep their doctor.
Every hospital will be their hospital.
Every doctor will be their doctor.
I mean, it really opens up.
And by the way, then when you talk about the ACA tax credits, because they're going up as well, all the prices are going up.
We're really putting a lot of taxpayer money into the program anyway.
Why not just convert to universal health care, put the money where it belongs, negotiate with the hospitals and negotiate the pharmaceutical prices and bring prices down for everybody.
And all it is is just a small sum of money out of each check like Medicare and Social Security that will boost this program for everybody.
There'll be no more debt, no more health debt.
in this country.
I
think that the way the way you get that you start with that idea, and the way you get it across the finish line, because they'll go, Well, why is it coming out of my check?
Or why is it coming out of my benefits?
Is you point out that once again, we went from a time where there was like, one billionaire in this country to
however many thousand billionaires there are now, because our tax system is so out of whack that if for once, and I'm not saying it has to be Elizabeth Warren's plan, but if you put in some kind of a wealth tax and you remind people that, you know, instead of having $20 billion, by the time the wealth tax is done, you know, a guy like John Bernard or Dickie Line or or Diana Hendricks, they'll have 19 point
$9 billion.
But we can still pay for healthcare.
That might be a help.
And that's where I will, I'll be the first to say that I was probably more of an incrementalist or a moderate in the legislature.
But you know, the years have somewhat radicalized me, I guess you could say, to the point where it's like, look, just go with where your values are.
And instead of trying to catch up with public opinion, how about you work on moving public opinion?
toward you based on the merit of your arguments.
And John, what's your, what's your outlining there?
I think would sway a lot of people.
at least in
Alicia puts it well on YouTube.
I know a group of people who went bold and it worked.
The Republican Party, we need to stop cowering.
And she's right.
I mean, that that party has just decided we're just going to go far right, not necessarily always being truthful with the voters.
But you know, we'll do that.
And they have gone so far to the right that now they have opened up this opportunity.
If Democrats are willing to be a bit more bold about
how they would do things if, if they could get 60 votes, if there weren't a Joe Manchin or a Kirsten Sinema or something like that.
That is always the thing that, you know, gums up the work, shall we say is how, how things were going to go in Obama's term and suddenly Manchin and Sinema were, and now it's John Fetterman from, from Pennsylvania, who's, yeah, it's not outrageous.
It's like every, every time you think you're making, you know, one step forward, you end up, somebody gives you two steps backward.
And that's kind of what we're faced at the moment here.
I'm ready
This is this is a little thing that Scott Walker tried when he was governor.
Before he became governor, he threatened James Doyle, the other governor, to not do things because he didn't want him to do those things.
Scott Walker told Doyle, don't
do this.
Okay.
Well, the balls.
What is this guy talking about?
He's not even governor yet.
And he's telling the for the current governor what to do, what not to do.
Right.
And that made me kind of angry.
So I'm thinking now, why don't we do this?
We know that Trump has opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling, right?
Right.
So why don't we as Democrats threaten anybody who
sets up opening up the wildlife refuge.
Why not threaten and say, well, you can set it up.
But when we get in power, you're going to be kicked out.
And that will stop anybody from exploring, setting anything up.
It absolutely will.
I think that's a perfect thing to say is, yeah, you can make the capital investment, but we're warning you.
They're putting you on notice that you will have invested in something that you're going to have to leave to rot and rust or whatever it does up there on the tundra.
I like in another area, this is already happening with
Trump tearing down part of the White House and that's a different discussion.
But you know, this big beautiful ballroom is going to be put in this place.
And people are already saying, and I love this, whenever Democrats get back into office, promise you don't care what they name it, it's going to be named the Barack Obama ballroom.
we talked about that.
That's a great name.
Do that.
Yeah.
It's like, okay, you, you can do whatever you want, but just remember that, you know, this is American politics and the pendulum swings both ways.
And when the pendulum swings back, you know, you're, you're not, you're not going to destroy last.
Joe Walsh
might
ballroom, but definitely called it the Brock Obama ballroom.
I love it.
John and Gordy, you can hear him weekday six to eight on 92, seven WMDX in Madison or the Civic media app.
Thank you guys very much.
Yep.
You as well.
Much more coming up ahead here.
I'm Pat Crite low from up North news.
This is the Civic media radio network.
Welcome back.
While Latinos across the United States worry about a government that is now hostile to their dreams or maybe even existence, certainly their residency here in the United States, there are still plenty of people who are carrying on with visions of creating their own American success story.
That includes an Altoona woman whose journey from Mexico included the creation of a successful small business here in the Chippewa Valley.
And she shared her story last week with a virtual summit for the Wisconsin Latino Chamber of Commerce.
Carmen Solis started MKS Cleaning Services in Eau Claire, and she shares her advice to others making their own path through the free enterprise system, one that can still hold promise for new arrivals to our country.
Here is some of our conversation from late last week.
Tell us about how you came to start the
company.
I had a job that was normal.
nine to five, eight hour job.
And as a mom having to drop off my kids at school, at daycare, it was sometimes challenging because sometimes I would have to leave work to go to an appointment or for something for school.
And so at the time I worked at a cleaning job and I decided that I wanted to have my own schedule and that I wanted to work for myself.
And so at first I was a little scared, but at the same time I was prepared to start working for myself.
And that is something that I also enjoy doing is cleaning.
Why did you decide to become a member of the Latino Chamber of Commerce?
I didn't know enough to guide my business at first and I became aware of the chamber when they came out to Eau Claire last year.
So how this helped me was with meeting different people, knowing how to get my first client, either my first house or my first location, commercial location.
These have helped me overcome this fear of reaching out to people and also learning how to make
my own business cards or to make that outreach.
to potential clients.
The Chamber helps us have a firm purpose in what we're doing.
It gives us more security and confidence in what we're doing as a person, as a business.
And it helps us be able to share our businesses with others.
And so not being afraid to talk to others to network.
This would be really important.
At the Eau Claire virtual business summit, you will be sharing your business journey with aspiring entrepreneurs.
What are you most excited
to share at the summit.
So I'm excited to let them know that as a business owner if I was able to do it they can do it too.
To also trust in God and to get closer to organizations like the Chamber of Commerce.
So it's important because they give us opportunities like this one to be able to connect to different organizations, communities in Wisconsin and also to motivate those entrepreneurs that if they have a dream to not give up even
when times are difficult, they can still do it.
It doesn't matter what type of business you open, it is always important to be open to any skills that you might have that you might be able to develop or continue developing and always discovering those talents that you have and always trusting in God that you have something special and that you keep continuing whether there is any challenge in the road.
There is always going to be success and to always be humble and have faith that things will turn out well.
Carmen, can you tell me more about your own personal history and how long you've lived in the Eau Claire area?
I have been living 26 years in the United States.
I currently have three kids, two daughters and one son and one granddaughter.
I have been living 15 years in Altoona and I really like this place because it is very calm and it is very nice.
I always feel the support from the community and although English isn't my first language, I still am able to connect with others in the community so I like to be able to participate.
in different kinds of events.
I do speak to my family in Michoacan.
It's about 26 years since I haven't seen my family, but my family is very proud.
My parents are always telling me to keep going.
Always encourage since I was little.
I always had it.
I was always dreaming of doing more things
I am so happy that you have taken time to Talk to me about your history and your business.
So I do want to just give like a final message For those entrepreneurs that are wanting to start If they have any kind of doubt to just give that first step Because you never know what that first step can lead you to and then if somebody
asked me about my business or any advice on how to start a business I am always welcome to help them.
So I'm always open to questions and then I will also always refer them to the Chamber of Commerce as they always give me advice on what to do and always give me those resources to be able to expand my business.
Then again, it was Carmen Solis.
I talked to her late last week through an interpreter about her own journey of entrepreneurship and the remarks that she delivered last week to the Wisconsin Latino Chamber of Commerce.
You can learn more about the group by going to LCC for Latino Chamber of Commerce, wi.org.
That's lccwi.org.
Because again, despite the
environment out there that is decidedly hostile.
There are still people who are looking to encourage others to share and chase their dreams.
I know there's no shortage of articles about Latino business owners saying that customers have been staying away out of fear of either being detained or deported or being simply on the scene when something bad is happening, when Trump's masked police are showing up here.
And so there's been a lot of push to support Latino-owned businesses.
The Latino Chamber of Commerce has represented both Latino and non-Latino business owners throughout Wisconsin, helped with economic development programs and providing access to networking opportunities, as you heard from Carmen there, basically advocating for a fair.
and merit-based business climate and being a champion for public policy that opens the doors of the marketplace for both emerging and established businesses and promoting lasting economic developments.
And again, to learn more, head over to lccwi.org, lccwi.org for the Wisconsin Latino Chamber of Commerce.
Jane McNair is coming up in just a little bit.
She's gonna tell us what's coming up on her program She and Greg Bach will be along from 9 to 11 today across the Civic Media radio network and then let's see Todd Todd almost coming up at 2 to 4 and He will actually have Jane as a guest at 235 and then of course There's the Maggie Dawn show today from 4 until 6 across the Civic Media radio network Parker Olson is producing not only the whole 3-hour shirt.
He's digging up entertainment news to keep
those of us who are news nerds in the know about things away from the front section.
And those of you, you know, five people left subscribing to USA Today, who have the purple entertainment section in front of you know exactly what what park is going to do next.
He's got entertainment news for us.
Or
do
you?
I have news of entertainment.
Alright, bring it along.
Johnny Depp is in negotiations to be Ebenezer Scrooge.
I would watch that.
I now bear in mind as we cover every holiday season on this program, I don't know that anybody will be a better Ebenezer Scrooge than Michael Cain in the classic Muppet Christmas Carol.
But oh, and if you haven't watched Muppet Christmas Carols, you are missing out.
I mean, what?
I think this might be a slightly different version of a Christmas.
Oh, it's totally going to be different.
But the thing that made Michael Keynes work is that Michael Keynes said, I will not take this role unless I can play it straight.
And so the Muppets are doing Muppet things all around him.
But he's not at any point winking in the camera.
He's not, you know, going along with the joke.
He is totally
Bah, humbugging his way through it.
And it's incredible.
It's really good.
Well, Johnny Depp's version of Muppets.
No, it's said to be a darker thriller version of the story.
Everything have to be darker.
Hey, let's remake Batman.
It was a fun campy series in the 1960s.
Yes, but we're going to make it much darker.
How about Superman?
Yes, but we're going to make it darker.
It's time for the fourth Spider-Man remake.
Great.
Can we make it darker?
Is any is anybody
Making things a little lighter, a little more tongue-in-cheek nowadays.
Not
many.
Not many people at all.
I'll tell you what, Pat.
I watched Casino Royale.
I finally got around to putting a little James Bond in my life.
Well, congratulations on your first James Bond movie.
Thank you.
Thank you very
much.
What did we think?
I thought
it
was fine.
Gonna
be totally honest.
Yeah, I was
you know what you tried you broke the seal on it That's that's the important thing.
Yeah that there there may be there may be another one now I would not go any further than if you weren't that impressed by that one the rest of the Daniel Craig ones I'm gonna do it.
You know go go watch Roger Moore or Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan go watch one more that way at least you can When the conversation comes up who was the best James Bond you can at least say well, I liked this guy better than that guy.
Yeah
And that's it.
So, but Johnny, Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge.
Okay.
But that's just talk.
So we have no idea when, when this would be filmed or come out or anything like
that.
No, but I think it's pretty darn close to being contracted.
So we'll get in there.
We'll know soon.
I bet we'll know by Christmas.
Okay.
Well, will it be on par of the Chris Farley biopic?
I mean, because that's, that's something that's getting a lot of popular buzz right now.
Surely that'll be an entirely different vibe.
Oh, without a doubt.
I
mean,
it's on our watch list.
We haven't seen it yet.
We're waiting till after our next target run because apparently we're going to need extra boxes of tissues
because
it's a real tear jerker.
Farley will be played by Paul Walter Hauser, who actually was just in the new naked gun movie.
And the Farley biopic will be directed by Josh Gatt.
Oh, wait,
wait,
wait, wait.
This
is new.
We're not talking about the Chris Farley documentary.
Oh, no, that was John Candy.
Sorry, got my committee.
John Candy documentaries on our watch list.
A Chris Farley biopic is in the works.
Yes.
Oh, you know, I really should have shown up for rehearsal.
I would have caught this thing in dress rehearsal if I'd have been there.
But I was not my apologies.
So a Chris Farley biopic.
Okay, not the same as a documentary, which also means
this thing could either be really dead on or it could make a lot of people upset
if it does
not give what they think is a fair representation of
it.
Biopics are kind of murky water.
I don't know if we need to be doing that.
I don't
know.
I get a weird
vibe.
I mean, I would I would like to see somebody do a really good Chris Farley biopic.
But you know, when when that happens, again, you could either get a Rami Malik who does a very
good job with Freddie Mercury and have something like that.
But we, you know, there's been no shortage of examples where the person just fall short or the story telling fall short.
And so, yeah, I will be, let's just give it the generic, I will be interested to see how this comes along.
But I will be watching for it.
All right, anything else we want to cover here, entertainment wise?
Would you like an update on the Louvre jewel heist?
Did they find the jewels?
They found two suspects connected to the jewels, which are worth 102 million dollars.
who?
Well, in that case, the next question we have to ask is, when will the biopic be made of these two suspects?
Because that's all we do now is we we dwell on the crime stuff.
I'm sure they've got a backstory.
There will be a documentary.
They will show up on daytime TV and talk about their troubled childhoods.
These guys were arrested by the I believe it was the Paris gang brigade.
was the police division that got them.
I am very excited for this Scooby-Doo remake documentary.
Scooby-Doo remake of the Lou Feist.
I love it.
Tony puts up on YouTube.
Back to the Chris Farley biopic.
I wonder if David Spade is involved.
That would be a good indicator of quality.
That is very true.
Yeah,
all right.
Now we know now we know what to watch for and see if this thing comes together.
All right, like I said, Jane McNair show comes up next along with Greg Bach, Matt Nair on air.
So Jane will join us to talk about what she's got on the show this week coming up in just a bit.
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That would be Matt Nair on air with Jane Matt Nair and Greg Bach.
Jane Matt Nair, good morning.
How are
you?
Good morning, Pat.
Good morning.
Parker, good morning, everyone.
And hello, Livestream.
Sorry about that little slip in the secret
show.
Yeah, the secret show is a little spicier that way.
But we were telling stories.
The
word I never use.
Never, never, ever.
No, don't ask Greg.
No,
it fell off.
But we were talking about age differences in people and recognizing people.
And I don't know if I've told you how Sherry and I now identify
elders in the crowd.
As we started, as we were going out to things in public and we'd, we'd say afterwards, I was going to say something about that older couple.
But then I realized they're not really older.
They're our age.
And they're us.
They're us.
You ever notice for like, you know, when when toddlers are like 18 months old or maybe two years old, and they see somebody that's pretty much their age, and they point to them and they go, baby,
baby.
Yes,
we realize that's what we're doing now is we're just so now when we see a couple and we're not sure if they're really older than us tonight, we just point go
baby.
Oh, that's really funny
pet.
Yeah, my husband and I continue to try and dilute ourselves like when we go away on vacation.
And we'll look around and go well, we're the we're among the younger ones here.
Yes.
We used to be I mean, I used to go on these holiday vacations travel trips.
And and Sherry and I would go and we would bring the average age
of the bus down down down
to
like 77, you know.
And now we're not we're not a drag on the average anymore.
We're much closer to the mean than ever before.
But you know, it we now are at at that point on say a Tuesday, we're like, Well, do we need to run over to the grocery store and get something?
We could wait till tomorrow.
We get the senior discount on Wednesdays.
You
and that's how it used to sound like.
Like, I guess we'll get the senior discount.
And now it's like, wait until Wednesday.
On Wednesday, we'll get the senior discount.
This will
be great.
Absolutely.
They're at some point you finally embrace that stuff and go, you know what?
I am this age.
I'm getting the I'm getting the 5% off.
Darn it.
I don't
care.
You embrace you go I am a baby.
That's exactly
it.
I am baby
girl apparently.
I did.
Oh yeah, you got called baby girl over the weekend.
It
was so weird.
It's
weird.
Our family, our whole extended family is on a big old Snapchat chain.
And I don't know if you snapchat or not, but you can also create like these avatars, these little cartoon characters of yourself.
Sure.
And I did finally have to acknowledge I was sending a happy birthday to my younger daughter today.
And I'm looking at going, that's not me anymore.
So I had to go to the little avatar and I had to make the hair a little greater.
Yep.
Make the the face is a little fuller.
And I'm looking at, but yeah.
That's me.
And that is in no way depressing.
But it is.
It just is who we are.
You don't have to be honest with an avatar.
Pat, come on.
That's what that's your one opportunity to embrace falsehoods.
That's not what my family would say.
Hey, somebody's little out of date there.
You think you're in middle school?
No.
No, I'm
dry
dad.
Yep, exactly.
What is coming up on Matt and Aaron air today or this week?
We are going to talk to Mr. Global.
Matt Randolph is going to be joining us after the 9 30 news.
talk about energy costs.
And of course, that was a big promise of the president's that energy prices will be down and we're going to drill baby drill and
it's all going
to be fantastic.
And Cole is back.
And yeah, no.
So we're going to talk about a number of those things coming up with Mr. Global, Matt Randolph, who will be here after 9 30.
We're going to start off the show talking about the FEMA dollars that have now been denied to Wisconsin.
Also a story about Michael Gable.
Remember Michael Gabelman who Robin Voss hired a taxpayer expense for what $2 million we paid him and did a
quote-unquote investigation worthy of Inspector Cluzo from the Pink Panther
movies and found absolutely zippered nothing as far as shenanigans going on with the 2020 election.
And now there is some talk that Michael Gabelman should have to pay for some of those legal fees.
Yes, he should.
I think that's kind of a I don't know.
I think that's kind of a good
thing.
I'm more motivated than ever because we have a president who is currently shaking down the Department of Justice for $230 million, meaning he's shaking down taxpayers.
And so the extent to which, you know, we can get that from people who have unjustly built taxpayers the way that former Justice Gableman has, I think that would be completely fair.
And our number two, we're going to start off with Scott Bassent.
Of course, he's our secretary of the treasury.
Yes.
He is just nothing more than a lowly struggling soybean farmer.
Pat, did you know that?
Oh, no, I
did not know that.
I didn't realize that until he said over the weekend that he too is a soybean farmer.
Of course, I think he's worth $500 million.
But aren't they all side?
That's just a little side note.
But yes, we're to talk about poor Scott percent struggling apparently.
because of tariffs.
The struggles, the struggles are real for them.
They are.
All right.
Well, I wish him well.
And I'm sure that anything that we have to say about that will more accurately reflect, I don't know, the real soybean farmers of Wisconsin and the uncertainty that they're going through right now.
Thanks to these guys.
So for all that and more, Jane, Matt and Eric, Greg Bach coming up right after the nine o'clock news, you're across the Civic Media Radio Network.
Thank you for that, Jane.
Appreciate
it.
Thank you so much.
We'll see you next week.
See you later.
And again, coming up later this week on the program, we will be talking, we talked about health care.
And on Thursday, we'll talk to an expert on Medicare Advantage plans, because those are also a health care feature that cost could be going up sharply.
If you don't know exactly what to do, whether you're an elder or the caregiver of one.
So tune in for that later this week as well.
I'm Pat Cratlow from Up North News.
Thanks for being here today.
We'll see you tomorrow morning, right in early 6am here up north.
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