Monkeying Around In Phuket, Thailand (Hour 2)

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Monkeying Around In Phuket, Thailand (Hour 2)

The Todd Allbaugh Show · Mon Mar 3, 2025

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Good afternoon, everybody.

I'm Todd Alma, all the outstanding producer, Mr. Aaron Zommers on the board.

It is six past the hour of one o'clock.

Welcome in hour number two of the big program here, Downtown Madison Overcast Skies.

It is Monday, March 3rd, 2025.

It is a great day to be an American, great day to be a Wisconsinite.

Glad to have you along here on the show.

Feeling more like spring.

Although they say tomorrow into Wednesday so much needed rain by the way although be prepared because much of the ground is still frozen So it's supposed to get one or two inches of rain and that's just gonna run right off.

So maybe some localized flooding be aware of that We repeat it every time we get big rains Turn around don't drown if you see a big

More than a puddle, but if you see if there's water over the roadway Just please don't go through it because you don't know what's underneath and then that's when a lot of bad things happen So I'll be aware of that maybe some snow particularly for listeners up at Amory Hayward Eau Claire WCFW up there the cross area Most of the snow there a little bit in Richland Center Maybe an inch or two right now in Madison although this storm track isn't

does can change at any time.

So some precip, precipitation Tuesday into Wednesday.

And then after that, things are going to warm up.

Spring is on its way.

Jimmy, the ground dog in some prairie was basically right.

An early spring.

How about that coming up in this hour?

Another edition of what's worse, talking about air, air today.

So we're going to have that for you a little while also a little bit later.

And this is I cannot wait for this story We hear at the all balls show we love any stories involving monkeys Then we have a monkey story for you We have a monkey story and where the monkey story comes from is also half the fun So I'm looking forward to that as am I so the monkey story is will be will be arriving a little while

So stay tuned for that.

And we'll talk some badger basketball.

The Badgers tough game over the weekend lost to Michigan State 71 to 62.

The Badgers no longer in contention for a regular season, big 10 title, although I believe it's Ken Palm still forecasting the Badgers as a number two seed, number two seed in the NCAA tournament.

So we'll talk a little bit more about that as well.

We've got it.

I'm not well.

It doesn't it doesn't air I don't think over the entire network, but here in Madison and WMDX We have a promo right now from our great farm director for the Midwest farm report.

She calls herself the formula, the fabulous farm babe, Pam Yonkey talking about this is real.

There's something called the testicle festival Happening just outside of Madison here later this month where they bring in, you know, Rocky Mountain oysters.

I don't know what

Goat testicles or whatever.

And they

do I think

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I don't they deep fry them.

And you put all kinds of sauces on it.

Anyway, our ongoing contributor and friend, Jeff Perry says on Facebook, Todd, if you'd like to hold your own testicle festival for the show, I would love to be involved.

Call me.

Thank you, Jeffrey.

Appreciate the offer.

Maybe I mean, you know, they have they have collars on the concourse.

Why not testicle festivals on the square?

I think we can make it happen Todd just turned his head and coughed And now he's coffee too much to speak probably after I said that

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no, I'm fine Take a sip of water Lovely time to take a sip of water Tim and his past the hour of one o'clock I want to finish up this story on social security

And then we're going to get into Pete Hegseff and the ongoing retribution of Dougie, the made up Elon Musk department.

This is from CNBC, legitimate news source.

Interview the former and this is, here's the deal.

All, not all.

Much of the news this weekend was all around what happened in the White House on Friday.

We covered it for 90 minutes because it was breaking as we were on the air.

And it's very important.

Don't wanna say it's not.

The sitting president and vice president of the United States sided with Russia.

The Russian official over the weekend saying, here's the quote,

The Trump administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations.

This largely aligns with our vision, unquote.

That's from Moscow, from the Kremlin.

So it's a very big story.

But all the fallout, see, they do these things and, you know, Trump himself says, this will be great for television.

But here's what's happening that doesn't get much of the news coverage.

CNBC, Social Security,

had never missed a payment, has never missed a payment since it began 80 years ago.

There are 72 and a half million Americans who receive some form of Social Security SSI payments.

The former administrator of Social Security, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, told NBC over the weekend, quote, ultimately, you're going to see the system collapse and an interruption.

of benefits.

I believe you'll see that within the next 30 to 90 days.

It says people should start saving now, unquote.

So Social Security relies on multiple systems and technologies.

Those systems and technologies have been the focus, the target in part of Elon Musk criticizing them as unneeded.

O'Malley himself told Congress, while he was administrator, that the agency needed more funding for IT, in other words, tech modernization.

O'Malley said doge leaders are now making changes at the agency and significant staff cuts have already led to some system outages.

Those intermittent IT outages may, keyword may happen more frequently,

and for more extended periods of time until there is, quote, a system collapse and an interruption of benefits, unquote.

Neither the Social Security Administration nor White House responded to requests for comment to CNBC.

Again, if this were not a possibility, why wouldn't the administration or the White House say, this is fake news, this is lies, but they didn't?

One of our listeners on YouTube Says that most of the programmers Do cobalt cobalt I think is a type of programming language and from 1990 to 2000 it was a mainframe code Says most of the programmers are my age 55 plus and so these young kids These 19 and 20 year olds that Musk brought in they don't know cobalt

It's part of the problem.

According to the story, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is not a federal department, and Musk, whom Trump brought in, is not an elected official.

And they're looking to slash spending.

So whose benefits may be at risk?

Experts say the benefit Americans rely on could be at risk based on the Trump administration's overhaul of the agency.

The American public needs to understand that one of their major social safety nets is in dire jeopardy, unquote, said Jill Hornick, a union official at the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1395, which primarily represents social security offices in Illinois.

Hornick said, quote, it'll take a while

for the effects to be felt, but they're coming, predicting that what will happen to Social Security is going to be, quote, far worse, unquote, than the planned cuts to Medicaid.

For people who are already receiving Social Security benefits, most of that is automated and may not be affected, she said.

However, processing new claims, whether it be for retirement,

or disability benefits may take longer since those cannot be processed without social security employees, she said.

So it appears what they're saying is that if you're already getting those automated payments, less likely for you to be affected.

More so, the new claims for people going into retirement or those who are trying to get disability benefits.

On Thursday,

The Social Security Administration sent a notice to employees that gives them until March 14th to decide whether to take an early buyout.

Unlike a previous January offer, this now includes service employees.

And staffing reductions in that area may impact how quickly the agency processes benefit claims and provides other services.

For example,

If a woman files for a survivor benefit, after her husband passes away, she needs to provide a copy of her marriage license.

A Social Security employee then needs to code the system to verify that they have seen that document and the applicant is eligible for benefits, Henrik said.

She said, not everybody can do things electronically.

Boy, do we know that.

particularly the older adults and disabled individuals who, of course, are the ones that Social Security Administration serves.

She says if you don't have people to run an agency that requires hand-on customer service, then of course there's a risk that you could end up with benefits being either denied or interrupted."

Again, the story is that CNBC headline, Social Security has never missed a payment.

Doge actions threaten interruption of benefits, ex-agency head says.

I'm not trying to bring anybody down.

I think it would be irresponsible for me not to pass on information that I have that I've found from credible sources, because we don't want to get three, six.

months down the road and have people say, oh, Todd, didn't you know this?

Well, yeah, I just, I didn't want to scare anybody.

Why didn't you tell me?

These are the real life implications, folks.

Whether you own a farm, you're trying to get CRP payments, whether you're a dairy farmer, whether you're a forest person, whether you get social security benefits, all of us rely, male, how about male service?

All of us rely in some ways, shape, or form on federal government much more than we understand or know.

And when you slash and burn arbitrarily without taking time to really understand where things could actually be cut, and there are places they could, but you gotta use a scalpel, not a chainsaw.

Come on back, it's the all about show and set of videos.

you

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My Spanish isn't fluent.

Are you fluent?

No.

I can hear it really well and understand it, but speaking...

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I tell

people I have gringo

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español.

I can get the message across by sound like a four-year-old.

Forty three million people or 14% of people in the by the way, that was that was the bomb

by Richie Valance

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by Richie Valance Long way before you were born a great docu movie called the bomb about the story of Richie Valance It's an incredible incredible story credible movie check it out 43 million people or 14% of people in the United States speak

Spanish as their primary language.

Spanish speakers contribute 2.3 trillion with a T dollars a year to our economy, which means more than the gross domestic product of any other Spanish speaking country in the world.

Because of these realities, Donald Trump approved several Spanish language ads.

during his 2024 presidential campaign.

We forget that, don't we?

Trump paid for Spanish language ads during the last campaign.

It worked.

He won the highest percentage for a Republican candidate in decades.

But over the weekend, in Washington, before he went golfing,

Trump is rejecting Spanish speakers with an executive order making English the official language of the United States What what here's the deal

Years ago when people immigrated here, there were papers in your own language.

But it was more critical that people learned English right away because guess what?

We didn't have these phones or all these other things, how to learn the language easily.

Over the years, it became more available and easier.

to keep your language and live in your own community.

Many folks who immigrate legally to the United States are not fluent in English.

Never been a requirement before.

And so in order to do it legally and fill out the paperwork of which I can tell you as someone who did a lot of immigration cases, there's a lot of paperwork.

Back in the 90s Bill Clinton Democratic president and the Republican Congress under Newt Gingrich said you know what let's make it easier for folks Let's have government forms in both languages So they did worked out really well And now Trump after

Running Spangler Spangler Spanish language ads during his campaign Now signing the executive order saying no more US forms in Spanish Ain't that the pot calling the kettle black it's 25 past the hour one o'clock time for what's worse.

Let's go

time once again for what's worse nothing to give away no prize money involved simply your chance to have your voice heard across all 11 news talk sports stations in the civic media radio network largest privately owned radio network in Wisconsin no better way to have your voice heard across the state all right this is timely timely indeed as Mike Lucas is fond of saying

because we're getting into that time of year.

Now it's been very dry, very dry over the winter.

We're starting now.

Gonna have some rain tomorrow night into Wednesday.

It's going to get moist.

At least more humid.

It's because the summer's coming, you understand?

Spring is coming.

And so this creates the debate.

Today's what's worse, humid air or dry air.

What's worse?

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What's worse, humid air or dry air?

Again, humid air or dry air?

Zomers, do you have a feeling on this?

Neither is great.

Like in the winter, I always need to get a bunch of lotion and I get nosebleeds and things like that.

But for me personally, I still think humid air is worse just because

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of how

much I overheat.

If it's hot and humid, I am much more miserable than when it's cold and dry.

Really?

All right.

Because I just get so sweaty.

And it's miserable for the people around me, presumably.

I don't know.

My nose is bad.

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Kurt, let's see on WMDX in Madison.

On WMDX, it says, well, if you change the question to which one is more healthy.

Then it's humid air.

Well, that's not the question Kurt with all due respect The question is the question is what's worse humid air or dry air

Cam and Appleton mentions another thing humid air makes me scared for my computers Yeah, I a lot of my hobbies do not like humidity like guitars can get wrecked with that computers Cardboard from games.

All

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right Human air or dry air?

What's worse?

8-5-5, 7-5-2, 4-8-4-2, 8-5-5, 7-5-2, 4-8-4-2.

What's worse, humid air, I mean it's dry right now.

My skin is very dry.

I need some lotion.

Necesita, necesito una loción.

Oh, un novio.

También.

Regreso aquí.

on Civic Media and on Civic Media, a radio network.

Vamonos.

Well, I'm doing it.

Welcome back to the Talomal Show on the Civic Media, running at work, 34 minutes now, past the hour of one o'clock on this Monday, March 3rd, 2025, Zombers on the Board.

Glad to have you along with us here as we are in the middle of what's worse, an air addition, not air Jordan, but literal air.

What's worse, humid air or dry air?

Now, this is timely because as we go into spring here,

It is the transition air phase, you understand?

You've got, we're in dry air right now.

My skin has been particularly dry this year.

I've given myself a rash for good sake, just by using my phone, I'm not lying.

You must diligently apply lotion.

Very, very, very dry.

And so now we get into more humid air, spring arrives.

What's worse, dry air or humid air?

855-752-4842-855-752-4842.

A few more texts here.

Steve in Mount Torib says humid air is worse with a couple of emojis like sweating, hot.

Tyler in Wisconsin Rapids says ask your mummy, M-U-M-M-Y.

I guess mummies don't like humid air.

They make some decompose.

I don't know, I guess.

What else do we have here?

This is a DJ, listening up in a wassauce of a beautiful bullfault.

Radio's was taught and experienced both extremes while living in Texas, the great state.

In college station, you have to become accustomed to being constantly wet with a puddle, following you around everywhere.

Everyone just accepted it, and it was socially acceptable.

In El Paso, you get cottonmouth 24-7.

Outdoor activities are miserable.

In this case, however, humid air is much worse, rather be dry than soaking wet.

Now, that's DJ in the saw, not the shaw, but the saw.

That's a great point, DJ, and I appreciate you bringing that that knowledge, that expertise from Texas, people who have never been there.

And I have had the honor and pleasure of being there.

People who have never been there do not understand the geographical mass that is the great state.

That's what they call it down there, the great state of Texas.

Great place, great folks down there.

Yep, I've been to the Hill Country, been down to San Antonio, Waco, Dallas, Fort Worth, traveled, and the way to see Texas, of course, is by roadway.

So that's a great, great point, DJ.

Dave in New Berlin says, dry air is worse.

My sinuses tend to dry out and get a nose bleed.

I'm not a fan of hot humid in the summer, but my nose doesn't bleed when it's humid.

All right, very good.

What else do we have here?

Kurt in Madison says, sorry, I was guessing I was being selfish because I have asthma.

Yeah, Kurt

said that humid is better.

And yeah, I will say I don't have asthma.

My one of my sisters does and she basically just can't go outside in winter.

Oh, really?

So I recognize

because dry.

Yeah, because it just sets off her asthma so bad and I recognize that dry air is probably worse because of that.

But selfishly, I still think humid air is worse.

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All right.

Well, I'm going to say for me personally, dry air is worse.

I don't like being dry.

I don't like having to, you know, lotion up or get.

My skin dried out.

It just feels weird.

So I'll take I'll say dry as words.

All right.

That's how we play.

What's worse?

Appreciate you all played along.

We'll have another edition tomorrow in hour number two.

What's worse?

Always glad to have you on.

One more quick sneaking in under the wire.

John and Ash gosh listening to W I S S says humidity by far.

Trump.

Swamp.

But I'll say struggle is

real.

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That made me laugh, John.

That was fantastic.

All right, let's see here.

Oh, should we do monkeys first or should we do the Oscars first?

I want to make sure we get these monkeys.

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You want to get the monkeys in?

All right, here we go.

Introducing this segment, our old friend Kenny Chesty.

Here

we go.

There you go!

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Little Kenny Chesney!

That's a great song!

Bucket?

List.

How about that?

Absolutely fantastic.

Love Kenny Chesney.

Here's why I put that and it says play on words.

I understand.

So here's a play of words.

And first of all, we hear at the show love monkeys.

Absolutely love monkeys.

We love any story about monkeys.

So here's monkey steals tourist phone and manages to grab a selfie.

The reason I played the Kenny Chansey song, I had Zombers play it, is the name of the place that happened.

And at first I'm like, how am I gonna pronounce this?

And then I looked it up.

It says a monkey ran away with a French tourist mobile phone in Blank City, Thailand.

Now, the city is spelled P-H-U-K-E-T.

Let me spell that

for

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you.

Let me spell that for you again.

P-H-U-K-E-T.

In English, we would say, P-H is an F sound.

So it's exactly what Kenny Chesney said.

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It's followed by bucket.

It's bucket, but with a different letter.

Right.

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And I'm like, I can't say that.

I was like, is it fool?

I'm like, how do I do that?

So I looked it up.

It turns out in Thailand, P.H.

is pronounced with a puh.

And the U is oo.

The city is called Phuket.

Okay, all right.

Phuket.

We can say that.

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We can say Phuket.

All right, so a monkey ran away with a French tourist mobile phone in Phuket, Thailand, and left a surprise on it.

The paper is called The Tiger.

The Tiger reported,

After three local Thai tourists retrieved the phone, the tourist noted that the monkey had taken a self-video and a parting gift of sorts.

The tourist, she identifies herself as Justine Fortemps on TikTok, shared the monkey's handiwork on TikTok on February 28th with the caption, monkey hill attack.

In the footage,

I've seen the footage in the story.

This is a raw story, by the way The footage the footage the young monkey or it says the young looking monkey.

I'm not how does this person?

Disseminate whether it's a young looking monkey must be a monkey expert In the footage the young looking monkey was holding the tourist bright blue phone with its front paw

looking up from the phone to the French TikToker dressed in pink.

Suddenly, he, the monkey, darts for a tree, and the tourists can be seen worried but laughing at her predicament.

The monkey's cinematography included a selfie video showing the monkey sticking his tongue out at the camera before flipping the phone video to film the surroundings.

At the end of the day, the French tiktakers seemed to get a kick out of the footage on her phone and even made her profile picture a screen grab of the monkey selfie.

The tiktok soon caught the attention of Thai users on the social media platform.

The incident occurred at a common tourist attraction that I cannot pronounce is known for its sunset views and monkeys.

Jeff

Perry's

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right.

Yes, Jeff Perry's right.

The number one rule of comedy, monkeys is fun.

And he's absolutely right.

And if you see the video, it is pretty funny.

And first of all, if you're going to be going to a place that's known for monkeys, wouldn't you want to secure all your belongings?

And I'm surprised that the woman got her phone back from said monkey.

They're nothing but trouble, you understand?

The monkeys are.

Well, anyway, that's the... Oh, you

should definitely... People listening, you should definitely look up this video.

I just looked it up.

It's

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pretty good, right?

It's pretty

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good.

Yeah, it's a pretty good... I only wish that... I only wish that we had... Well, we do have a stream, but, you know... Anyway, it was a fun story.

Never know when you're gonna monkey around.

All right, so here last night...

The Oscars, Oscar, Oscar, Billy Crystal, one of the great hosts of the Oscars of all time.

But last night, Conan O'Brien, a host of the Oscars, I thought he did a fine job.

I'm a big Coco fan.

That says his fan base is called Team Coco for Conan O'Brien.

And so a big surprise.

Everybody thought this was going to be maybe Wicked was going to pull off the for for biggest or best picture because it was just everywhere.

Some people thought it was going to be the.

I can't say the religious the movie about the Cardinals and the Pope and all that Clearly I didn't watch a lot of movies this year.

I was hoping see I really wanted the that the our friends at Just a bit outside the store the 82 brewers they were they're qualified to be nominated for best documentary of the year and unfortunately they did not get nominated and so

It was another film that was very, very serious.

And that's fine.

I'm sure it was a fine film.

But anyway, what's the what's the the movie exhalbers on?

You are on the phone there.

The Catholic movie.

Conclave.

That's it.

Thank you.

Conclave.

So some people thought Conclave was going to win.

Some people thought it was going to be wicked.

Other guesses out there.

But a Nora.

And here's the cool.

I mean, I've not seen the film.

I kind of want to now.

It's a it's a very serious touchy subject having to deal with sex workers and it's a young Russian oligarch kid like the son of a Russian oligarch who starts, you know having a a business relationship, shall we say with a sex worker in the US and and this movie was made for six million dollars Which

is budgets.

That's like

Five cents,

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which in Hollywood today is not much at all, like at all.

And so the cool thing is here's some people who just wanted to tell a story and did a lot of research, apparently, and told this story very authentically.

And this film knocks out all the big studio films in Hollywood.

So I think that's the kind of a cool story.

But Conan O'Brien.

after the film had won a couple of Oscars already.

This is what Conan O'Brien said coming out of a break last night at the Oscars.

You know, Enora is having a good night.

Yeah, that's great.

Yeah, that's great news.

Two wins already.

I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

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Our...

Nicely done Conan a lot of us a lot of a lot of applause It was a great Oscar and Demi Moore Demi Moore who everybody she had cleaned up at every other every other award And then last night she was beaten out by the actor who played the the street worker in a Nora So a Nora one best lead lead actor female.

I'll see it I get very confused because I'm old and and I'm told by by people in the industry.

I know it's fine.

I mean, I'm totally

on board with it, but you no longer supposed to call female people working and acting actresses.

You're supposed to just say everybody's an actor, which is fine.

I'm fine with that.

But last night now, instead of the award, instead of the award saying best actor female, they still call it best actress.

It's just confusing.

I'm very confused by that.

Anyway, in that category, they thought Demi Moore was going to, she did not.

But big, big night for I think Wicked won for like costume and maybe a couple of technical awards, but otherwise nobody

won.

They won best production design, which makes sense.

They made enormous and incredibly detailed sets for that movie.

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Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

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So anyway, I'm sure Pete Schwab will have more tonight on Night Light with Conrad from six until eight.

Make sure you tune into the old Night Light program tonight.

But yeah, it was it was a fun Oscar night.

And all I mean, again, I thought Conan O'Brien did pretty well.

The opening was all tributes to they had numbers from the Wizard of Oz, the Wiz and then Wicked.

So it was a cool way to open it up.

But some of the day some of the choreography was just absolutely mind blowing.

And how about Haley Berry's dress last night and Haley Berry herself?

She looks stunning.

I did not

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as did Oprah and whoopie.

There's only one of each.

So.

Anyway, come on back.

We'll wrap things up on the other side.

Maybe go down our bucket list on the all ball show on Civic

Media.

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Welcome back to the Tahleball show on the Civic Media radio network.

It is now nine before the hour of two o'clock at the top of the hour ABC or CBS News, depending upon which of our great stations you're listening to, followed by a weather update sports with our great sports reporter, Mike Clemens.

And then the Manki Dawn show from two until four, Dom Selvia four until six and the great Pete Schwabba.

Tonight night light.

I'm sure they will review the Oscars from six until eight.

Let's go back to the phones very quickly here Jack in this is fantastic Jack and Merrimack has a monkey story Jack.

This is a great way to end the show.

What do you

got?

Yeah, that I got you up with so many positive

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That's

fantastic.

Yeah

Um, so I was in this probably back in the 1980s sometime.

I was in the, uh, so-called Republic of Malawi in Africa.

Uh, they had a, uh, a, uh, president for life at that time.

That's another story.

I'm not going to go there today.

Um, uh, but I was meeting with a friend who was in the Peace Corps there and, uh, she and I were both climbers and we were exploring some rock climbing.

Actually did some first ascents in, uh,

Lake Malawi National Park.

And so we were camped there and one afternoon we were having a late lunch and there was a monkey in the tree and we had some of our food at one end of the table.

And the monkey suddenly dropped down from the tree, grabbed the food and started to scramble up the tree.

Being a climber,

you out you out monkey the monkey

Yeah, normally I don't I don't like scaring wildlife, but this was an exception.

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Well, I mean the monkey got more to bargain for it because the monkeys looking down thinking this is just a goofy human here doesn't know anything.

I'm a smart and suddenly the human is going right up after this.

The monkey did not know that you were a tree climbing person.

Wait, you're not supposed to be able to do

that.

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That's great, Jack.

And you got your sandwich back?

Well, it was not really out of black.

Well, yeah.

Right.

But the monkey wasn't going to be stealing any sandwiches for a while.

It's not from

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us.

Well done, Jack.

Thanks for the great story, Jack at Miramaq.

See, once you start going down the road of monkey stories, I mean, just the fun ensues naturally.

It's fantastic.

Weird animal stories in general.

Exactly.

My guess is our friend, Peter Rapine, will have that story for us in a couple of weeks.

But I thought, I can't wait two weeks.

We're going to go to that now.

Also, I wanted to do just because we said at the top of the show, we would touch on this big sports story yesterday.

Wisconsin men's basketball, tough loss against Michigan State 71 to 62.

The Badgers led by two at the half.

They shot like.

three of whatever three of 17 for the three point are from three point range Could barely make a three-pointer to save their lives and even with that They were within two or four with like five minutes to go and Then they had a couple of turnovers back-to-back turnovers in which Michigan State scored and then they just the Badgers just went dry down the stretch Greg guard coach Greg guard said he was actually happy with some of the looks on some of those miss threes

But just couldn't get him to fall Badger has played aggressively right through the game.

I love that about him But would have liked to have seen him pound it in the paint just a little bit more, but hey look I'm not winning any coach of the year awards.

Just a just a fan Michigan State solidified its position as the front runner for the Big Ten title after the key win against Wisconsin and also they beat Maryland

I remember we talked about that on the last second half court shot beat Maryland.

Michigan remains in contention and contention for a share of the title, needing victories in their final games against Maryland and Michigan State.

With the whole thing could come down to that final game, Michigan, Michigan State.

Wisconsin's title hopes were dashed after that loss to Michigan State, but the Badgers remain a strong contender for a deep NCAA tournament run.

Illinois, this is a big game right after the Badger game.

Illinois showcased its potential with a decisive win over Michigan, keeping their Illinois NCAA tournament hopes alive.

Several teams, including Iowa, USC, Northwestern battling for the remaining spots in the Big Ten tournament.

Remember now, since the Big Ten went to 18 teams,

Not all teams are going to get into the Big Ten tournament.

Wisconsin, of course, safely.

Right now, Wisconsin is trying to stay in the top four, so they get a double buy in that tournament.

So we will see Badgers have a good shot of getting, I think, finishing the top four, getting the double buy, could make a run deep into the Big Ten tournament.

And right now, as we said earlier, Badgers being forecast as a two or three seed in the NCAA tournament.

Why is that important?

because one of the regional games in the first round or one of the sites is Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.

It is very possible if the Badgers can secure a number two seed in the NCAA tournament, their first round games would be at Fiserv in Milwaukee, which could propel them on to the second weekend of the sweet 16.

So the Badgers certainly have something to play for and they will do that on Wednesday.

I think I said earlier it was Tuesday.

I was wrong.

It is Wednesday, March 5th.

The Badgers will be in action up in the Twin Cities, taking on the Golden Goats, Minnesota, 730.

Pre-game show at 7.

You can hear it on the Civic Media app or select stations around Wisconsin.

Great show today.

Appreciate you being along.

Luke Mathers will be here tomorrow.

Thanks to Zomers.

Thanks to you.

Stay tuned next.

Maggie Dawn, whatever you're fighting for, whatever you believe in, this is Todd Albaul saying, keep banging your drum.

See

you tomorrow.