Disconcerting Echoes Of American History (Hour 2)

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Disconcerting Echoes Of American History (Hour 2)

The Todd Allbaugh Show · Mon Mar 24, 2025

Live from the Civic Media Studios at WRCE in Richland Center, Wisconsin, it's the Todd Alba Show.

And now, pursuing truth wherever it may lead, here's your host, Todd Alba.

across Wisconsin on the Civic Media radio network and streaming worldwide on the Civic Media app.

Good afternoon, everybody.

I'm Tom Albaugh, along with our outstanding producer, Mr. Aaron Zommers on the board.

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

Welcome into hour number two of the big broadcast here on this Monday, March 24th, 2025.

It is a great day to be Wisconsinite.

As Terry said, they're at the top of the show.

One more day here on location at the beautiful studios of WRCE sister station to WRCO here in Richland Center, Wisconsin, the old hometown for Todd, the driftless area.

So fantastic to be out in this part of the state.

You can actually hear birds in the morning, Mr. Zahraus.

When you wake up, you can hear them singing outside.

The red-winged blackbirds are back.

The robins are back.

Spring is in the air.

There were

birds in the sky, and I never heard them singing.

Indeed.

There's also birds outside my window for the last week or so.

It's been very nice.

Yeah, it's great to have the birds back.

Now look, during the break, coming up this hour, by the way, we're going to do some break into spring.

text-to-win contest It's not really trivia, but whatever Your chance to win big prizes and I hear now that the tickets this hour the tickets I've given it away the the prize this hour Could be a hundred bucks one day.

It could be a package to Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dell's another but today The prize is brewers tickets So we're gonna do that and everybody gets entered in that plays

to win a Verlo mattress package.

Going to have that, going to have a little what's worse for you involving backs and posteriors, which is worse in terms of having a sore one.

I'm going to do that and also a little news of the day here.

But before we do any of that, a couple of people over the break texted in and said, Todd, what we really want to know, here's Tony, Tony watching on Facebook.

The heck with the real news, how'd your battle with the groundhog go?

I am also very curious.

Inquiring minds want to know,

Todd.

If you were not with us on Friday, here's the deal.

I'm here.

Mom still lives back here in Richland Center.

And I was staying with her and she has had a resident under the deck of the house that she does not want.

She wants them evicted.

It is a groundhog.

And here's a hitherto unknown fact.

as my former teacher Ken Lewis has fond of saying.

Did you know the Summers?

Male and female groundhogs do not live together.

They have separate burrows.

I did not know that.

Yes, it's true.

And so it appears now that she has a male groundhog, a single bachelor groundhog.

Oh,

even worse.

Well, I'm not sure I'm not sure if the the ground dog bats for my team or not But who is a single male ground dog under the house?

And so she has charged me with and so we had a great segment last week It was my favorite segment of the week.

I think where people called in and Suggested how I got to get rid of the ground dog.

So I have the live trap mom already had a live trap and so I have used the

The information from our listeners, I disguised the trap by putting some pine boughs and other stuff around it to make it look more camouflage.

And I used cantaloupe and lettuce and put a little trail out front and then more in the back of the trap.

So he has to go in and then set it and then trap himself.

And I used pieces of wood and cut him in a V wide and then it narrowed to the part of the entry to the trap.

I can report to you.

That so far the groundhog is still free The groundhog has his is still on the loose there is a groundhog on the loose Like Tom says on YouTube.

I want to see the live video of Todd getting the groundhog.

All right Well, if it happens today, I'm going back to Madison today, but if it happens today, I will send you video of the captured groundhog

He

says the groundhog.

It would be

like Bill Murray and Caddyshack.

And yeah, that's what I was thinking of too on Friday when people were calling in with tips on how to get the groundhog.

It's just like the dancing groundhog that Bill Murray is trying to catch.

Well, it's not a golfer, you understand.

It's a larger than a golfer.

A larger than a golfer.

It's a ground but not a beaver.

So somewhere between a beaver and a golfer, it's a groundhog.

Anyway, we'll see.

Alright, eleven minutes now past the hour of one o'clock.

I'm very excited.

Make it a return.

Get your cell phones out and your dialing, texting fingers ready.

And it's time, once again, for Civic Media's Break into Spring Text to Win

Contest.

Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why.

Very

good little ELO for not ELO, not ELO, but ELO.

Mr. Blue, do we like this?

Electric Light

Orchestra.

Electric Light Orchestra.

Do we like this opening for this segment now?

Because we're stuck with it for two weeks if we don't like it.

Should it be that or should it be springtime for Hitler?

We'll have to figure that out when you're back here.

From the musical, the producers.

But no, that was fine.

That was a fine selection.

All right, this is very exciting.

For the next two weeks, tune in every day at this time in the one o'clock hour.

I, your friendly radio and streaming host, Todd, will give you, our wonderful viewing and listening audience, a key word.

What you do is you text it into us on the Civic Media app and somebody this hour is going to win.

Not from everybody else's show, just from people that listen in this hour.

Somebody today.

is going to win a pair of Milwaukee Brewer tickets.

Not just any tickets, by the way.

These are club level seats.

They're right below the sky boxes.

They have nice arms on them.

They're kind of cushioned.

There is air conditioning right behind you if it gets to you.

And the great thing is, is that they have their own bathrooms for that level.

Not your individual bathroom, but it has been to the bathroom.

It's hardly ever aligned the bathrooms, the concessions.

It's all very, very nice.

Yeah.

You

understand.

Previous, you know, games and concerts I've gone to.

I'm always like, I don't want to go to the bathroom.

I'm going to miss something.

And it's like in and out.

Yeah.

In out over.

So today is somebody that went a pair of Milwaukee Brewer tickets and then everybody who enters gets put into the into the hat, the metaphysical hat and.

Somebody after two weeks is going to win the grand prize.

It is a fantastic mattress set from Virlo mattress.

And here's the thing.

Springtime, we're coming out of our slumber, out of hibernation.

We're a little more active, if you know what I mean, in spring.

And so you're all set now with a brand new mattress to break that puppy in in springtime.

It'll be absolutely fantastic.

So here's what I do.

Here's what you do.

If you say, well, Todd, how do I get the Civic Media app?

Thank you so very much for asking.

Go to your phone.

One of these things right here, your smartphone, all right?

And you go to your app store.

On Apple, it looks like a letter A with popsicle sticks.

And you click on that.

There'll be a search bar.

You type in Civic, C-I-V-I-C, Civic Media.

It'll pop up a CM logo.

You click on that.

It'll take less than a minute.

It's free.

It isn't going to cost you anything.

Don't ask for your social security number.

It doesn't ask for a credit card number.

It is free, all right?

You download the app.

Then, just like I have here on my great device, and then after you open it up, look at this, it'll pop up.

There is a list of all of our all of our great stations.

The first 11 are the news talk sports stations that we're on.

You click on the one closest to you.

If for whatever reason you don't have one close to you, just click on whichever one you like.

You start at W. A. U. K. At the top, walkie-shot Milwaukee on the lower right hand side.

Little it says text with a couple of bubbles.

Looks like cartoon bubbles.

You click where it says text.

Now it takes you right.

to your phone's text, and I'm going to give you a word every day.

You type that word in and hit send.

That's how easy it is.

All right, let's go.

Here we go.

Today's break into spring text to win contest word is melt.

The word is melt.

M-E-L-T.

In the spring, what will the snow do?

It will melt.

M-E-L-T.

M-E-L-T.

M is a Mary.

E is an Edward.

L is a Larry.

T is in Todd.

Melt.

Make sure you type it exactly that way.

Melt.

Because here's the thing.

If we got variations of that word, zomers, I would say, we know what they meant.

No big deal.

But you understand, everything is computerized these days, right?

So the computer reads these.

To be eligible for the

pair of Milwaukee Brewer tickets this hour, and for the grand prize of the Verlo mattress, you have to type it exactly, as I said it, melt, M-E-L-T.

Anything other than that, the computer rejects it and you're not put in there.

So text carefully, melt, M-E-L-T.

You type in melt, you might get a reply back that says they got it.

And they might ask you to do something else, sign up for newsletter or whatever, something like that.

If you don't, you don't have to.

But if you do, guess what?

That gets you a bonus entry.

What my granddad used to call an X tree.

You got yourself an X tree entry right there.

So it's up to you.

You could just do the MELT and do that, or you could follow up the confirmation text and do what it says and get yourself an X tree entry.

MELT.

the word this hour.

You know the best part

of this contest?

What is the best part?

It's statewide.

Good luck.

Thank you for reminding me that because I would have been I would have been pulled over when I got back into Dane County.

The lawyers tell me I have to tell you, as Omar says, in order to stay compliant with the law and we don't want to fight the law because law wins.

This is a statewide contest.

It is a it's not just it's not just here in Richland County.

It's not in Madison, not Milwaukee.

It's every place in the state of Wisconsin.

It is a statewide card.

Thank you, Zommerz.

All right.

The word is melt.

M-E-L-T.

M-E-L-T.

I'm excited about this one because people, somebody's going to go away Zommerz this hour with the Brewer's tickets.

And of course, we're getting ready once again on several of our civic media stations to carry the Milwaukee Brewer's radio network.

Going to be very different this year without Bob Euker after his passing in January.

But Jeff Levering and the entire crew are set to go

Brewers had a pretty good spring training.

Now it gets down to BrassTax, Jackson Churio, the Fidon for the Brewers, had a particularly, I think he was close to hitting 500 in spring batting practice.

When Luke Mathers was down there doing some scouting, he said, look pretty good.

So I think the Brewers were in for another exciting season.

Coach Pat Murphy in his second year as skipper of the Brewers.

Of course, Murph was named the National League Manager of the Year after getting the Brewers into the postseason once again.

A lot of people didn't think they could compete for that.

They won the Central Division, so it's going to be very, very, very interesting.

All right.

The text word this hour is Melt.

M-E-L-T.

Text it in right now on the Civic Media app and you could win two Milwaukee Brewer's club level tickets.

Come on back.

We'll do a little What's Worse for you after this on the Civic Media Ready

Network.

Truth or ever if they lead and having fun doing it Welcome back to the town of all show on the civic media radio network glad to have you along with us here 21 now past the hour of one o'clock on Monday the 24th Todd's and Michelin Center.

I'm people don't like well some people I do it cuz I guess funny occasionally Talk about myself the third person and people say why are you doing that because I just think it's I'm making fun of myself as weird

Anyway, I'm here

to do from time to time.

I don't do it all.

There are people that do it all the time.

I know that's too

much, but you don't do it all the time.

No, I try that too.

Anyway, I'm in Richland Center, beautiful to be RCE Studios.

I'll be back in the Madison Studios tomorrow.

We have a brand new, thanks to our great engineering team, a brand new table to sit at.

I understand this.

I could just have like food brought in.

Door dash constantly

the fruit plate Jane still hasn't gotten a fruit plate and Racine, but now you're gonna get one here

Right exactly.

So I'm very excited about that tomorrow.

I'll be back at the home studio with mr. Zomers as well right now We're in the middle of the text to win spring into springtime no spring to spring break into spring break into spring spring time trivia text to win

And here, there is no trivia.

All you have to do is text us on the Civic Media app.

You understand?

The keyword this hour is Melt.

M-E-L-T.

Emma's and Mary E-L-T.

Melt.

Text Melt right now.

And somebody this hour.

Not from the entire day.

It's just from the pool of people that text this hour.

So your chances are pretty good statistically.

Somebody this hour is going to win a pair of Milwaukee Brewer tickets at the club level section.

Beautiful plush, fantastic seats.

Melt, M-E-L-T.

And everybody will be put into the pool to win a brand new mattress set from Virlo Mattress.

And who doesn't need a brand new mattress in springtime?

I could use one.

Mine's getting a

little

uneven.

It's pretty old.

I hear you.

I

hear you.

I, however, cannot enter this contest.

No, no, we are not eligible.

Melt, M-E-L-T is the word you want to enter in right now.

All right, 23 passed down at one o'clock.

Let's open it up.

Time once again for What's Worse.

Here we

go.

Time

once again for What's Worse.

I'm not going to say what I usually say because that'll mix people up because we are actually we are actually giving things away this hour.

Give me those Brewer tickets, but that's you have to text the word melt.

Melt to do the Brewer's tickets.

This is just for fun.

All right.

You can do both, by the way.

You could text melt and be eligible for the Brewer's tickets and the Verlo mattress and you can call us or text for today's what's worse.

And this is timely because speaking of springtime.

A lot of people are going out and doing spring work in their gardens or their lawns.

They're trying to catch rogue ground dogs.

It can weigh on your, it can weigh on your back, you understand.

And then some of us are sitting in a chair way too long, watching way too much sports and football or basketball right now.

And also like, have you ever like fallen and like hurting your, hurt your tailbone or your hip or something like that, your posterior?

So here's the question today.

What's worse?

a sore back or a sore ass?

We'll see the way I interpreted it because we have these great pictures now and a sore back has a person grabbing their back and you can see an outline of the spine in red like

clearly

they're in pain

and

a sore ass has a picture of an older guy in a suit just kind of a little hunched over with his brow

furrowed

and red glasses and a big frown on his face so I'm thinking it's more like a sore ass as in

A

person

who's just grumpy and irritable.

I see.

I thought about a sore ass.

He's just a sore ass.

I was taking it literally.

Like you fell or you spent too much time sitting.

I did

have that the first time I got COVID.

And you're saying that no, this is just a sore ass.

It's a guy who's just always grumpy.

All right.

Well, take it whatever way you want.

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

What's worse, a sore back or a sore ass?

It depends on how you say it, right?

It does.

A

sore ass or a sore

ass.

What's worse, a sore back or a sore ass?

Greg from

Genesee Depot is a sore back.

That's what you use, by the way.

That's what you use when you're trying to look up and find out an alternative word.

You use a sorus.

All right, what have you got?

Go ahead.

Greg in Genesee Depot texts in that a sore back is worse, and Todd in Oshkosh texts in a thorax, like the body part of an insect.

That would be a combination, right?

That's very good.

What's worse, a sore back or a sore ass?

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

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

We have a lot going on this half hours and hours.

You could text us the keyword of Melt, M-E-L-T, to be eligible to win Milwaukee Brewer's tickets this hour at a brand new mattress.

And you could also text us or call in for what's worse, a sore back.

Or a sore ass It really does depend on how you say it It

really does.

All right.

All right, we'll we'll do that Calls coming in fast and furious here at least text messages.

We appreciate everybody who is doing that Brian and Milwaukee listening on the UK says you said sore ass as in but well, that's the question is it is it relating to like sitting on your posterior too long or is it

What Zommer said, a person who's just always angry, grumpy, and sore all the time.

Is it a sore ass or a sore ass?

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

Try that again, Todd.

How many times do I say this?

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

Let's go to Jim, listening on AUK and Brookfield.

Jim, a sore back or a sore ass?

What's

worse?

Tom, a sore back.

You get much more incapacitating.

You can't move around with a sore ass.

All you have to do is sit on your ass.

But with a sore back, it's hard to get up and move around.

I think you're absolutely right.

Because at different times of my life, I've had a really bad back problem.

And it can be debilitating, right?

Yes.

Now, what's your remedy?

Do you just kind of walk it off?

Do you use a chiropractor, a massage therapist, a doctor, meds?

How do you take care of it?

I get the heating pad take some ibuprofen get the heating pad and put it on my back and lay on it and Maybe a warm shower to get that warm water on the back, but heat heat and IV

that's a good way to do it Yeah, that's great.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

I appreciate the call 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2

Come on back, we'll play a little bit more of What's Worse, some news as well.

Don't go anywhere, and don't forget, text the word, melt, M-E-L-T, this hour, to win Milwaukee Brewer's Tickets.

It could be you, come on

back.

or ever if they lead and having fun doing it.

Welcome back to the title ball show on the Civic Media Network.

We're now 34 minutes past the hour of one o'clock on this Monday, the 24th of March, 2025.

Glad to have you along Zawar's back at the World Headquarters in Madison where I will be tomorrow along with him today.

One more day here at beautiful studios in Richland Center at WRCE.

We are right in the middle of a couple of different things going on today.

First and foremost, somebody this hour, in the next 25 minutes, somebody is going to go home, or at least be told, they will win a set, a pair, two Milwaukee Brewers tickets to the club level at Amfam Field.

We are in the middle of our break and spring text to win contest.

Everybody, everybody who plays gets entered in for the grand prize of a of a Verlo mattress set.

All you have to do is text the word melt, M-E-L-T, melt.

Text it in right now.

You have until the top of the hour to be eligible.

All right.

So go ahead and do that.

Also asking what's worse today, our regular segment, a sore back or a sore ass.

Now is it a sore ass or a sore ass?

We've gotten some text

responding

both ways but goes both ways as it turns out 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Brian in Milwaukee listening on WA UK Brian What's worse a sore back or a sore ass?

Probably a sore ass.

I mean the more I think about it

It really depends what you eat, too.

There was one time at my grandparents' 70th wedding anniversary.

We had an eating competition with the spicy buffalo wings.

Oh,

boy.

At the same time, my cousin and I were eating them.

And the record player was playing Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire.

And that's an entirely different take.

But I think we've all been there at one point or another when you've had simply had too much spicy food.

And the fact that Johnny Cash's ring of fire was playing at the same time stay away from the spicy buffalo wings, right?

Unfortunately Alright Brian, thank you very much appreciate you play along once worse a sore back or a sore ass 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 can also text us on the civic media app Also hit us up on Facebook like Tony did

Tony says a sore back is worse, definitely from someone who can only stand or walk for only 15 minutes at a time.

Yeah, I mean, legit back problems can be debilitating.

I mean, it really is serious stuff.

So anything else on the Oh, Amanda, watching on Facebook says our friend

from WGVW.

Oh, yes, Amanda WGVW.

Very good.

A sore back.

Great station, by the way.

And coming up tonight.

From the studio as a WGBW at six o'clock, our great friend and colleague Pete Schwabba has on one of our favorite people and guests who appears on this program occasionally, the wonderful John Roach, great filmmaker, great person, Wisconsin alum.

I'm sure he'll be talking with Pete tonight about his brand new documentary coming out at the Wisconsin Film Festival about

Howard Moore's family, the basketball coach at Wisconsin, whose wife and daughter were killed in a wrong way drunk driving accident that hit he and his family.

Howard Moore and the son survived.

And then Howard Moore had a stroke during recovery and his complete journey.

It's an incredible film.

So join John Roach tonight on Pete Schwab's night light at six o'clock.

Anyway, Amanda says a sore back is worse laying down can fix a sore ass, but I'm not but not your back depending upon where it hurts.

Well, that's true, right?

I'm gonna

have to agree.

I think that a sore back is worse because whether you mean a sore ass or a sore ass

With a sore ass, like Amanda says, you can lay down to relieve the pressure.

But with a sore ass, you can just walk away unless

your

back is too sore.

Here's somebody from in Dailyville, Ken Bob.

I like that name.

Ken Bob in Dailyville texting in and saying a sore back is much worse than a sore ass.

If your ass is sore, you can cure it by just getting off of it, whereas sore backs are notoriously hard to get rid of.

That's that's very good.

Tyler

Columbia County text in says a sore back is worse a sore ass only happens with me after a good day of riding my motorcycle

Very good LA Tom Checking in from beautiful Los Angles, California saying I've had two back surgeries from playing football and it's debilitating and it also it also pits you

In the worst move, I'm not sure what you in the

worst mood.

It

might put sometimes use his

voice to text So

I gotta put you the worst mood.

Yeah, you're right.

I mean boy it can back like I say back surgeries or back problems or nothing to sneeze at Marty

Check it in from Bangor.

Is that Bangor main, perhaps?

Or maybe it's a Bangor on Western Wisconsin near the Mississippi River.

On WLCX out of La Crosse, Marty in Bangor says, quote, I'm a sore ass.

Smart ass, a sore back is much worse.

Well, at least he admits it, right?

Very good.

What else do we have here?

Oh LA Tom check in with For those that didn't hear there was a great story by a britney merleau on otters There are two otters that escaped from the the green I'm not making this up from the Green Bay Zoo Now I'm not sure if they're hanging out with the groundhog down here But this is real and they're trying to lure them back in so That's an LA Tom talking about otters there Once worse a sore back

or a sore ass.

Here's Sherry from Horicon listening on W. A. U. K. says, I have a sore butt.

I got an eight hour.

She had an eight inch tumor removed.

Oh, my gosh.

That's terrible.

That's that would make that worse for you in particular.

That would make that very bad.

Steve in beautiful Mount Horn listening on W. M. D. X. Says a sore back.

Hard to pick anything up with a sore back.

Very

true.

Todd,

what about

you?

I think that a sore back is worse as well.

Someone who I haven't, I don't want to call it debilitating back issues, but I have had back issues before and it can really put you out of commission for a while.

So I would, I would definitely say a sore back is worse.

All right.

And you've already gone, right?

You already saw what you thought.

I agree.

Yeah.

All right, very good.

So there you go.

There's a little of what's worse for you.

Appreciate everybody that played along today, more in our second hour tomorrow.

And right now, as we said, until the end of this hour, our text to win contest, text the word melt, M-E-L-T, M-E-L-T to the Civic Media app.

Somebody this hour is going to win a pair of Milwaukee Brewer tickets and everybody is eligible.

for that Verlo mattress set, which is a grand prize.

All right, a little quiz question for you today.

Which US Senator said this?

Which US Senator said this?

And I quote, I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of comedy, fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear as an American.

I condemn a Republican fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat communist.

They are equally dangerous to you and me and our country.

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves."

Which U.S.

Senator said that?

This is any any guesses on us.

I'm gonna take a guess relying wait hold on first.

Let me double-check that this person is a senator Yes, okay Mitt Romney

That would be a very good guess actually a very very good guess And I bet if we put that out there we get more guesses for that one I'm just gonna say it because it's a I don't want to call it a trick question, but it's interesting It's even before my time the person that said that

Was in fact Republican She was from Maine not Susan Collins It was Margaret Chase Smith Republican of Maine who said it on June 1st 1950 Wow in the United States senator She was the rare individual brave enough to put country ahead of party and ahead of self to stand up to guess who

Wisconsin's very own Senator Joe McCarthy and his ilk.

McCarthy, of course, was a liar, a bully, a fearmonger, so bad that his tactics are still known as what McCarthyism.

Chase ended her comments that day with this warning, and I quote again, it is high time that we all stop being tools.

and victims of totalitarian techniques.

Techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life."

Again, the words of Margaret Chase Smith, Republican of Maine, who said these words on June 1st, 1950.

The more things change,

Unfortunately, they stay the same.

But think about that.

A Republican back in 1950 standing up, pardon me, standing up to Wisconsin's very own Joe McCarthy because of what he was doing was simply un-American.

And unfortunately, that has continued into today.

A little post here by the intellectualist over the weekend.

Donald Trump's mass deportation machine and the shadow prison in El Salvador Not missing disappeared.

No phone call.

No charges.

No lawyer and Days later a message appears that an individual has been deported to a country He's never been to locked in a concrete hell designed for gang leaders and killers That's

Not a story from Argentina's dirty war or Stalin's gulags.

It happened in the United States in 2025.

And it's still happening.

The story says in the intellectualist as you read this.

It's the story of the disappeared 238 Venezuelan men secretly deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's most notorious prison, Seacot.

A facility condemned.

by the United Nations, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch for Crimes against human dignity.

And over the weekend, many of these stories have come out.

One, Andreas Enrique Caraballo, a 23-year-old man who is a makeup artist and a hairstylist who happens to be gay.

And there was a time reporter, a time photographer, like Time Magazine, got access and was embedded in this prison in El Salvador as these people were taken in doing intake.

And as they're shaving his head and pushing him to the floor, he's screaming, I'm a makeup artist.

I'm not a member of any gang.

And what's happened here?

Here's an individual who came into the country legally Because of delays in the paperwork and the processing He became you know without papers that were current and got swept into this and shipped off to El Salvador with no due process as I said last week on this program I'm not here to defend legitimate criminals

That's not the point.

The point is in the United States of America.

We have something called the bill of rights In which that that guarantees rights to everyone not just citizens There's a way to do things in this country Had this story last week was in the Journal Sentinel in USA today An American a white guy.

I'm just gonna say that because that matters to some people a White guy from Wisconsin a Wisconsin native married a woman from Peru

They went on their honeymoon to Puerto Rico.

He says he was a Trump voter and still is When they came back into the country his wife was detained by ICE and taken to detention This this power that Trump is seizing In which they want to defy the courts and the the judicial branch of government is deeply disturbing and it's setting up a constitutional crisis that we're already in

And now Trump today is taking part of this and petitioning the U.S.

Supreme Court to take these things up because they don't want judges, in their words, interfering.

Spooky stuff.

Come on back.

We'll wrap up the show after this here at our studios at W.R.C.E.

and Richland Center's The All Ball Show on the Civic Media radio network.

Welcome back to the Taliban show on the Civic Media Network.

Glad to have you along.

It is now nine before the hour of two o'clock coming up at the top of the hour.

A little news for you from ABC or CBS Radio News, depending upon which of the great stations you are listening to across Civic Media Network.

A little check of weather from our meteorology team.

Mike Clemens, our great sports reporter, talking more about that great Badger women's hockey victory over the weekend.

National champions.

for the eighth time.

Truly incredible.

Wisconsin men's basketball team, Marquette men's basketball team both take losses on the first weekend.

They are done, but the tournament continues to the sweet 16 next weekend.

Looking forward to that.

And then after that, Maggie Dawn, the Maggie Dawn show every afternoon for two until four.

But today,

Our very own in Madison, John and Gordy filling in for Maggie Dawn all week, right?

John and Gordy are all week.

Yes.

So it's a chance for you to get a taste of their show.

And John and Gordy, by the way, those guys deserve some, I don't know, extra bagels or something because they're doing their own show from six until eight in the morning on the BMDX of Madison.

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I'm going to talk a little bit more about this tomorrow.

But I want to touch on something else that happened over the weekend.

Not getting a lot of news this morning.

This comes to us from James Tate, says Jessica Aber's death feels like one of those stories that's meant to fade quietly into the background, a tragic headline that people are supposed to forget.

But when a career prosecutor who spent her life chasing Russian cyber criminals, CIA leaks and war criminals turns up dead just after resigning, forgetting isn't an option.

Aber

The former U.S.

Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was found dead at her home in Alexandria, Virginia on March 22nd.

She was just 43 years old.

Police have not said how she died, but the timing and her unfinished business makes it impossible to ignore.

The prosecutor who went back down, Jessica Aber,

wasn't just a lawyer, she was the person you sent in when things got messy.

Back in January, just before her resignation, Abra helped to put Ashif Rahman, a former CIA analyst behind bars for leaking top secret information about Israeli military plans against Iran.

The information ended up splashed across social media last year.

Aber didn't mince words when Ramon played it guilty.

She warned that his leak had, quote, placed lives at risk and compromised our ability to collect vital intelligence in the future, unquote.

That's prosecutor speak, for this guy seriously screwed things up.

Whenever, whatever Ramon leaked, it wasn't just embarrassing.

It was dangerous.

Big cases, bigger enemies.

Aber's case didn't stop there.

In November of last year, her office prosecuted a Virginia-based company accused of funneling sensitive U.S.

technology to a Russian telecom firm with Kremlin ties.

Was not exactly an accident.

The company allegedly disguised shipments and played fast and loose with American tech and Russia wasn't supposed to have.

And there were more crimes and indictments.

Disturbing, as well, say.

Chilling is the word that came to my mind.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Jessica Aber knew that things mattered.

Things that powerful people wanted buried.

She chased down those Russian cyber criminals, locked up a CIA leaker who compromised military intelligence and tangled with foreign operatives who wouldn't hesitate to make problems disappear.

And now she's gone.

and the timing stinks.

Maybe her death was just an awful accident and coincidence.

Maybe it wasn't.

But when people investigating corruption start turning up dead, there's only one possible thing to do to start asking louder questions.

That is via MSNBC and James Tate.

I think it's important to keep Jessica Abur's story alive.

to keep her memory alive, her service alive and to be vigilant in these very dangerous times when you have an administration and the Trump administration who now wants the Supreme Court to give them leverage because people are being their words instigators.

Uncool.

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