The Trump Administration Is Arresting Judges Now (Hour 1)

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But right now I want to get to breaking news of the day.

Our friend and colleague Jane McNair and Greg Bach on McNair on air along with our news director at WAUK in Waukesha, Racine were the first ones to talk about this this morning on Jane's show.

It's been a fluid story throughout the morning and wanting to pick up on this.

Our friend Matt Flynn is standing by

in Milwaukee, we're going to go to him to help us suss all this out and understand it in just a moment.

But I want to start out kind of putting the story in context and where I'm going to start from is a great story.

by CBS News, Scott McFarland, great reporter, tells it right down the middle.

Honestly, he covers the federal courts, all done a lot of stuff on January 6th to other places.

Scott McFarland really puts this in the context at CBS News.

So that's where I'm going to start and we're going to bring Matt in.

So this is from the CBS story.

The FBI this morning arrested a Wisconsin county judge

on obstruction charges accusing her of preventing the arrest of a man by immigration authorities during a federal law enforcement operation at her courthouse.

FBI Director Cash Patel said Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan

quote, intentionally misdirected federal agents away, unquote, from an immigrant who is in the US illegally and was set to be arrested.

Gonna step away from the story a minute.

He put this out on Twitter this morning, has since taken it down.

But of course, you know, once things are on Twitter, they're always there.

Back to the CBS story.

Patel said that this man, Eduardo Florez-Ruiz, was later arrested and is currently being detained.

Dugan was arrested at eight o'clock this morning at the courthouse where Dugan works.

According to a federal law enforcement source, she was charged with two counts of its obstruction and released from detention after making an initial appearance in federal court.

Now I'm going to paraphrase this next part.

There was a sworn statement by the FBI agent this guy had been deported from the U.S.

back in 2013.

The allegation is he illegally re-entered the U.S.

again and had been in court for allegedly committing battery.

Back to the story.

After a fingerprint match from Flores Ruiz's first arrest in 2013 and a local case in Milwaukee, a warrant for his arrest and deportation was issued by ICE.

This next part is important.

While Flores Ruiz was scheduled to appear before Dugan in a criminal court appearance, law enforcement waited outside her courtroom to arrest him on an administrative warrant.

Matt Flynn's going to explain the importance of that in a minute.

Back to the story.

The FBI agent said in a statement that, quote, arrest team members reported that while waiting outside of the courtroom, a woman approached and took photos of arrest team members, unquote, just before Flores Ruiz arrived at the courthouse with his attorney.

A courtroom deputy told the FBI agent that the woman who took the photos of the arrest team showed the pictures to Judge Dugan while she was on the bench in her courtroom, and, quote, Dugan became visibly angry, commented that the situation was absurd, left the bench, and entered chambers, unquote.

Judge Dugan then approached the arrest team with another judge in the public hallway, quote,

Witnesses uniformly reported that Judge Dugan was visibly upset and had a confrontational angry demeanor, unquote, the agent wrote.

Dugan, according to witnesses, told the arrest team to go to the chief judge's office to speak with them about the permissibility of making the arrest inside the courthouse and looked around the hallway near her courtroom to seek out other law enforcement officers who are waiting to arrest Florez Ruiz.

One agent, who Dugan did not recognize as part of the arrest team, remained in the hallway waiting for the suspect.

After that, the special agent said multiple witnesses in Dugan's courtroom saw her say, quote, wait, come with me, unquote, to Flores-Louise.

He headed towards the public courtroom exit where the officers were waiting, quote, Judge Dugan then escorted Flores-Louise to his counsel, or end his counsel.

out of the courtroom through a, quote unquote, jury door, which leads to a non-public area of the courthouse, unquote, the agent wrote, adding that Dugan also instructed the man's attorney to also leave the courtroom through that door.

Agents later spotted Florez or Lee's, quote, looking around the hallway, unquote, in the courthouse and followed him out of the courthouse where a foot chase ensued and he was arrested.

Dugan's arraignment is set.

for May 15th.

I wanted to set that stage as being reported by CBS News at this hour.

Scott McFarland, a great reporter.

And remember, a lot of that is according to the FBI.

who is part of this whole deal, to make sense of it, to put it down there where the chickens can get at it.

Our friend always says history is being made every moment of every day.

Let's go to the front lines of history.

Matt Flynn, an attorney and author, a veteran of the United States Navy and one of our friends as well, a former chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, two times, by the way, Matt, thanks for being here.

Good to be with you, Todd.

I always love being on the Todd Olbo show.

And this is a very, very concerning story.

And I want to say right from the outset, I know Judge Dugan.

I have supported her and I have known her for years.

She's a very fine judge.

She's very, very honest.

She's committed no crime.

And let's just explain real briefly the result of what happened.

First of all, this is an administrative warrant.

It wasn't a judicial warrant.

An administrative warrant is issued by, in this case, ICE or the Naturalization Department.

without any judicial oversight whatsoever.

Ice has been corrupt.

Now, many ice agents are very fine people, but at the highest levels, they've been corrupted.

You take something like Kash Patel.

Kash Patel, I don't believe, really has American values.

He sort of reminds me of Narendra Modi's Hindu Nationalist Party values, frankly.

So what they do is they come to the thing.

She tells him to leave go to the chief judge's office judge Ashley who also somebody I know and they they many leave but one of them Slightly stays behind She then goes in and she says to the guy and his lawyer Leave by that exit.

There's nothing wrong with that.

She can control her courtroom I Litigated in Milwaukee for 40 years and the whole issue of cameras in the courtroom who can go in the courtroom is up to the judge

is up to the judge.

These people should not be going into the courthouse, much less a courtroom.

So she did it.

She didn't mislead anybody.

And now they, as an intimidation tactic, have charged her with two felonies in federal court.

And she is innocent.

She has committed no crime.

And I think you're going to find people, including judges, will be uniformly supportive of her.

Matt, let's go back to a second to this guy, Flores Ruiz, who was the...

the guys are going after the FBI.

So he's here apparently on not, he's not, help me understand this.

He was not going to judge Dugan's courtroom on any sort of immigration charges.

It was a separate allegation of battery that he had done.

Apparently, according to the reporting by CBS, he at one time at least was undocumented and is accused of coming back in undocumented.

But this has nothing to do, correct me if I'm wrong,

with whether this guy is legal or illegal or keeping people in or out, this has to do with the sanctity of law in a Wisconsin courtroom.

Am I right about that?

No, you hit the nail in the head and I'll go one step further.

When a judge in Wisconsin controls her own courtroom, it's as simple as that.

And if someone is disruptive or there's something she thinks is wrong, she can control it.

She did control it.

She personally went out.

didn't mislead anybody.

She said, get out of here and go to Judge Ashley's office.

He's the chief judge.

They all went away, but one, he sneakily stuck around.

They did not have a judicial warrant.

They had a warrant, quote, warrant that was simply signed by one of their team, by one of Cash Patel's team.

And then she went back in and said, you can leave by this exit.

She can decide whatever exit she wants to have them leave.

None of their business.

There's none of their business.

Then they went off and they finally caught the guy.

This is absolutely of a piece with everything Trump is doing and all of his cabinet, which is to try to intimidate American citizens in this case.

Hannah Dugans an American citizen in a highly regarded judge.

New reporting from Dan Bice, the journal Sentinel at this hour, Milwaukee says a new statement from Hannah Dugan, quote, Judge Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge.

Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously and looks forward to being exonerated, unquote, new statement from Judge Dugan as reported by Dan Bice at this hour, Matt.

Right.

And remember something.

This was not a judicial warrant.

If they want to arrest me, a judge can write a warrant and that's a very substantial thing.

An administrative warrant is somebody within the agency.

In this case, this agency has shown its colors, its invading courtrooms, and some guy signs it and says, okay, this is a warrant.

Well, it does not trump Judge Dugan's power over her own courtroom.

And she can she she comported herself absolutely lawfully and absolutely by extending new process.

About a minute left here before the first break.

I'm going to come back in here from US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is already on the conservative airwaves talking about this after the break.

But I want you to talk for a minute here, explain the latitude.

that a judge has in the state of Wisconsin over their courtroom, because it's fairly broad and I don't think a lot of people

understand this.

A judge has absolute control over the courtroom.

If there's someone disruptive, they can send them out.

In this case, ICE was being disruptive by coming in without judicial authorization and about to interfere with her court.

The cases that I had, I would try to get TV cameras in for TV stations.

The judge can decide.

If they don't want them in there, out you go.

Out you go.

And so in this particular case Judge Duggan acted with restraint and absolutely she has control of her courtroom.

or we'd have a circus, and what's going on here is sort of a Putin tactic of trying to intimidate judges.

That's what's going on

here.

Yeah, absolutely.

We're gonna come back, so we say we have Attorney General, US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Fox News this morning, talking about this case and allegations against all judges.

What does this mean, not just for these judges, but what is Trump really up to here?

What does cash patel up here?

Is this up to?

Is this intimidation, and what does it mean for us as Wisconsinites?

We'll come back, discuss it, well, with our friend,

Matthew J. Flynn, attorney of Milwaukee, our friend of ours.

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But he's here today in helping us understand what's going on in Milwaukee.

This breaking news first reported by our colleagues, Jane McNair and Greg Baca along with Stuart J. Waddles on McNair on air this morning.

They were right on top of this as soon as it happened and went through this story on CBS News.

Scott McFarland, who's a longtime judicial reporter, I think put this in great context.

and talking about this arrest this morning in Milwaukee County Courthouse of this judge, Judge Hannah Dugan, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge, who had this guy in her courtroom who, the Fed's alleges here illegally, but he was in there for an alleged battery charge.

Just talking about that and and so the the the fed show up the FBI ice whatnot and Cash Patel puts out this tweet this morning the head of the FBI and since deleted it and and basically calling for Judge Dugan to not basically did call for Judge Dugan and she got arrested the allegation is that somehow she helped this individual who is alleged to be undocumented slip away

by saying, hey, exit my courtroom for a certain door.

And just like what happened with Trump rounding up alleged Venezuelan gang members and sending them to CCOT, this high-security, almost gulag-type prison in El Salvador, Matt, it seems to me, again, this isn't so much about

whether, you know, look, I'm not for people being here, quote unquote, illegally.

I think we should have strong borders.

It's not about that to me in the, in the case against the folks going to El Salvador due process, whether you're a citizen or not, constitution guarantees due process.

And here in this case now with the judge in Milwaukee, Matt, it seems to me this is not about whether this individual happens to be, quote unquote, legal or illegal, but it's about Ken the head of the FBI in the United States of America.

just out rounding up and arresting judges for seemingly trumped up charges pun intended.

That nails it.

Just exactly what she said.

I know nothing about this defendant.

He may be a bad guy and he maybe should be deported consistent with the process.

In this case, they're not just going after him.

They're going after the judge.

And the judge was very upfront.

She came walking out of her courtroom and she said, stay the hell out of my courtroom.

Get out of the courthouse.

And if you have a problem with that, go to see Carl Ashley, the chief judge.

That's what they should

have

done.

A whole bunch of them went to see him, but one sort of lay in the weeds and to stay back there.

And she went into the courtroom and told the lawyer and apparently told the lawyer and the defendant, you can leave by that door.

That's her right.

It's her courthouse.

It's her courtroom.

That is her right.

I've litigated in those courthouses for a long time now She had no obligation to go out in the court and say oh you snuck around and you're still hanging here.

You look suspicious That's okay.

Why don't you do whatever the hell you want in my court?

That's not what Wisconsin law says you what they are doing the Trump administration

It's having people like Cash Patel and it could be somebody like Christine Ohm next time sign a piece of paper to say go grab this guy and that's what good.

Well, first of all, it's not good.

It's not depressed.

But secondly, and if you don't turn them over, we'll arrest the judge.

I don't think so.

And there is going to be a strong reaction from Wisconsin on that one.

We're going to get to that minute.

Senator US Senator Tammy Baldwin has already put out a statement before before we do that.

want to play this cut this is from Fox News just a few moments ago US Attorney General Pam Bondi was on there and they're asking her not just about Judge Dugan who was arrested in Milwaukee but another judge on on similar kind of made-up charges because in the eyes of the Trump administration they're not adhering to what they think they should and and so Fox News asked US Attorney General Pam Bondi about this here's what she said

What's happened to our judiciary is beyond me.

Yeah, so when when the American public hears this and they think these were once upstanding people in their communities and and and there are professions and they put it all on the line for this and Have you dug into their motive like what inspired them?

to carry out these acts and harbor

criminals.

They're deranged is all I can think of.

I cannot believe I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law and they are not.

And we're sending a very strong message today.

If you are harboring a fugitive, we don't care who you are.

If you are helping hide one, if you are giving a TDA member guns, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and we will prosecute you.

We will

find

you.

that from US Attorney General Pam Bondi, the supposed top law enforcement person in the United States of America, that to me sounds chilling.

I mean, a person with that much power and standing to say, we're going to come after you and find you.

If I were Hannah Dugan, I would sue her for defamation for large damages for saying that she harbored a criminal and that she was deranged or whatever else was said.

There's absolutely false.

Pam Bondi.

is not, in my view, a legitimate attorney general.

She's sort of a bond girl.

She was hired for her appearance, just like Hague Seth was for his appearance.

These people have absolutely no ability whatsoever.

And she got on there and she just lied.

She didn't harbor a criminal.

Hannah Dugan didn't harbor anybody.

Hannah Dugan has what's called a courtroom.

And the defendants in what's called the courtroom.

And Hannah Dugan said to people, get the hell out of my courtroom.

And then she told the guy they could leave by a certain door.

It was absolutely false what Pam Bondi just said.

I don't know who this other judge is they're talking about.

But if Trump thinks that he's going to start having people like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel sign pieces of paper that say warrants at the top and therefore their committee felonies, baloney, we're not going to put up with

that.

Yeah.

Matt, I really appreciate your time on short notice coming in and helping us explain this because I.

Think in moments like this, when rhetoric gets turned up, we need to focus on the law, what the law says, and follow that.

And nobody does it better.

I appreciate you, my friend.

Thanks for being here today.

Good to be with you, Chad, always.

Thank you so very much.

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Want to talk about tariffs a little bit but from a different perspective reports today that president Donald Trump going to dial back More of the tariffs particularly on China And what hasn't been talked a lot about Part of some people are say well, you know, he's his internal economists came in and said well, they're probably not the right thing to do What has not been talked about is earlier this week

Some of the big guys, I think they're all guys from places like Amazon and then more so Target and some of these big box stores came in for a private meeting with Trump and said, yeah, here's the thing about all these tariffs on China.

By summer, these store shelves will be empty because most of our things we put in Target and Walmart and the big box stores,

come from China.

And that seemed to resonate because Trump, if you draw him a picture, you understand, he gets those things.

In crown.

Well, yeah.

And so he, so he, uh, so that probably would not be a good look on Twitter.

So he's reconsidering this.

This is a great thread on, on Twitter this week from Ryan Pedersen.

And for those listening from Richland Center, no, not that Ryan Pedersen.

Great guy, by the way, Ryan Pedersen.

This is a different Ryan Pedersen.

Maybe he's he pronounces at Peterson, I'm not sure.

Founder and CEO of Flexport had a great take on this.

He writes, in the three weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down 60 percent industry wide.

Get this the US imports 600 billion with a B billion dollars worth of goods from China every year 95% of that Via ocean freight Those goods sell at retail for two trillion dollars So think about that all the goods annually that come into the United States They sell at retail for two trillion dollars

Peterson writes if the tariffs on China continue at the current levels We would see a two trillion dollar hit to the economic activity in our country the failure of tens of thousands of American businesses and the laying off of millions of employees We'll also have mass shortages this summer as goods don't show up the first ships carrying goods paying the duties

arrived on Monday, this past Monday, and the decline in freight arrivals will hit in the coming weeks.

Company is stocked up on inventory in anticipation of April 2nd's tariffs, so it'll take a while before the shortages hit.

If Trump reverses course very soon, he could head off the worst of this catastrophe, but every day it gets worse.

With bookings down 65% ocean carriers cancelled 25% of their salings from China the last two weeks Those ships are already being repositioned to other trade lanes So again step away from Peterson's writing What he's saying is you know because of what Trump has already done

If he doesn't reverse it, which now he's talking today, he might a two trillion hit to the economy in retail sales over the course of a year and That bookings so what happens is you have you know all these all these big carrier ships that call all of our Crap from China that we that we buy myself included at Walmart and Target and

even true value, even, even our local, some, some of our local mom and pop stores, look at the bottom.

It says Made in China.

All right.

So all that stuff has to come on a container ship.

There's no railway that carries it, no semis.

I guess some select things come via plane, but the vast majority comes via containers.

And these, when we say containers, so all these great big huge barges that are blocks long.

are these containers.

The containers are basically railway cars.

So think of how big a car is on a train, on a carrier train or a cargo train.

Well, those are called containers and that carries all the stuff from China on a ship here.

They get taken off the ship and they get put on a railroad car and then some of them get onto 18-wheelers and whatnot and that's how it gets into our local stores.

So these container ships many of them are owned by private carriers So bookings are already down 65% and ocean carriers have cancelled 25% of their say of the salings of the bookings already All right So back to this a long thread by Ryan Peterson really informative He writes quote soon

We may find ourselves in a bullwhip scenario where Trump relaxes the tariffs, but all those canceled orders get rebooked, creating a huge surge.

And with all the canceled services and repositioned vehicles, get this, there won't be enough throughout the pipeline in the ocean network to keep up.

The result.

will be surging prices on the ocean perhaps higher than we saw in 2024 when the Red Sea was cut off for shipping.

And approaching levels from 2021-2022 when container rates from China to the US hit $20,000 each.

Air freight rates also surged that year as just 1% of ocean freight volume being converted to air is enough to send prices

above $10,000 a kilo as we saw during COVID.

He writes, it's a strange time in the logistics world as we have to plan for the unimaginable while hedging for regression to the mean, basically mean relatively normal trade relations.

He writes, thankfully, we're all well versed in operating in crisis mode here at his company called Flexport.

It's why we'll likely be working in this industry.

We have learned to run tight Observe observation oriented decide act loops.

That's that's for people in logistics.

They those people get that But basically what he's saying here if you boil it all down to look what he's written This is the guy who deals in this industry That because of this self-inflicted wound by Donald Trump ie these unprecedented tariffs

Even if he starts relaxing it and reversing it today or the coming days, which is good We're probably still going to see either a a shortage of goods this summer and or higher prices at the stores Because of the short-sightedness and self-infliction wound of Donald Trump because these ships that carry all of our stuff to us

25% of them have already booked with other clients around the world.

So you can't just undo that in a moment.

It's going to take time already for the shipping industry to go back to some semblance of normal.

And in the meantime, we're going to have goods sitting in ports in China that can't get here and those goods that are here, prices are going to go up.

I just think it's important that we understand this because we're going to hear a lot of lies and rhetoric in the coming weeks and months as prices go up and goods aren't here.

Blaming Democrats, probably Joe Biden.

I think it's important to pause and reflect the real reason why these things are happening.

And the really important thing is none of this had to happen.

It is the fault.

It is the actions of one person, Donald Trump, to bring these tariffs on the United States that's going to cause all of this havoc.

And none of it is good.

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We'll see we'll see if that continues on through the summer Want to touch on a couple of things because there's we don't and again I get it a lot of this stuff is to distract us, right?

From what's really happening in Congress, but I also feel like some of this stuff.

We have to also talk about But I do want to take a few minutes major things ahead for Congress and we're going to continue to talk about it on Monday Congress and recess right now

One of the things Congress has to keep their eye on the ball is recessions Congress expects to get president Donald Trump's list of suggested cuts From current spending sometime this week.

Well the week's running out We're told by a familiar source these are known as Recisions I should I think I said recessions recisions What what could the cost of recisions be?

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Congress sending President Donald Trump a list of suggested cuts from current spending.

This is from Punchbowl News.

This is not just the new budget, but this is from current spending.

So these rescisions differ from the traditional cuts considered by Congress, whereby lawmakers usually vote on the next year's spending.

But here,

President Trump expected to propose cuts to current spending, including possibly eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which would affect some 1,500 local public media stations, as well as national public radio and public broadcasting, PBS, which includes PBS News, Sesame Street, amongst others.

Once Trump proposes the rescissions, Congress has 45 legislative days to either accept them or amend them.

Otherwise, his request lapses and the next funding or the funding rather stays intact.

So while we're hearing all of these kind of more politically media sexy stories, we have to keep our eyes on what's happening in the halls of Congress to see what they're doing to possibly

make cuts there.

Another thing we have to look at more next week, reconciliation.

Last we left Republican lawmakers, they have passed the first critical step toward expanding and extending Donald Trump's tax cuts, a budget resolution.

This blueprint opens up the reconciliation process that allows Republicans to pass tax cuts and some other agenda items, though the Senate, or rather through the Senate, with a simple majority vote.

They do not have significant time if they want to make their deadline.

The budget resolution sets a May 9th deadline for committees to write the tax cut portion of their next larger bill.

Doing this will not be easy.

The budget resolution left most of the hard questions unanswered.

Amongst them, how much spending must be cut and where the cuts come from?

How much should the debt ceiling increase?

and which tax cuts should be added for whom and for how long.

In other words, it's the nitty gritty.

It's the details, right?

Devil's always in the details.

So while the big story is making news, we have to keep our eyes on that.

There's these things that are happening in Congress that really affect you and I as taxpayers and what happens in our daily lives.

Also, the future of Medicaid, we'll get to that next week as well.

855-752-4842.

Let's go quickly to Rick in Waukesha, listening on WAUK.

Rick, you want to talk about tariffs?

What's that you?

Yeah,

Todd,

I got some thought on this.

Have you ever heard of a pipeline bubble?

I have not.

Okay, what this is, is in the oil industry when they have one pipeline.

And they have multiple products.

They'll put a wash bubble through there.

They'll clean the pipe and empty it and then change the product.

Got it.

Okay.

So that's a pipeline bubble.

And what I'm wondering is if this situation is intentional to help the oil industry for some payback in the shipping.

And then also I'm wondering

if this tariff, you know, the oil industry is going to start having trouble because China has built this huge dam and they're going to start producing a lot of electricity.

So, you know, there's a reason that maybe this is all going on.

Yeah, the story, I appreciate the call, Rick.

Thank you so very much.

What we were talking about earlier is the tariffs more so on produced goods, not so much energy.

But things like, you know, I don't know, summer times come in like beach balls that we buy for the kids at the beach or or coolers.

Almost all that stuff's produced in China and it all comes across on a container ship.

And so now this story we were talking about Ryan Peterson here posted on on acts.

A guy who works in the industry is saying that, you know, 25% of the ships that normally carry that stuff because of the Trump tariffs, they're already reassigned to other places.

So even if Trump relaxes some of these tariffs on goods from China, it may not even be able to get them on ships in time to get here for the summer into the fall.

It takes time to set all this stuff up.

But interesting thought there, Rick, on industry and oil as well.

Of course, under Biden, we're now our own largest oil producer here in the United States.

We have a lot of energy.

And of course, you incorporate green energy, expanding solar and wind into that as well.

But Rick, you bring up an interesting point, we'll have to look into that.

855-752-4842, 855-752-4842, we'll welcome your calls as well.

But we're gonna keep on top of this, as we said, lots of things coming as Congress gets back into session in the future of Medicaid.

Also, nomination holds, lots of people that have been put on hold for,

for nominees from President Trump.

So all that to come next week.

And of course, summer is with you in two days in today's news cycle.

Anything can happen.

Who knows?

It's truly anything.

Anything.

Here's what I know is going to happen.

We're going to take a break.

News, weather and sports come back with Brandon Ewing on the other side.

What's it like to be a family member and wait while your brother gets drafted in the NFL and also NIL.

Name, image, and likeness comes to high school athletics.

Parker Klein, your deal with Culver's is done.

Back after this on the Allball Show.

Live from the Civic Media World headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, it's the Todd Alba show.

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

Listen to this crowd.

Oh, baby.

Matthew Golden, wide receiver of Texas.

And he's here.

And courtesy of the NFL Network, that was the call last night toward the pick.

Mark Murphy, Packers president for the final time in his tenure.

He is retiring after this year announced to the Green Bay Packers for the first time in a long, long time.

Actually got him.

a wide receiver.

Welcome back to hour number two.

Everybody glad to have you along.

Aaron Zommer is on the board.

It is seven now past the hour of three o'clock here on the Tottenham Bowl show Friday, April 25th, 2025.

A great day to be a Wisconsinite, particularly if you're a Packers fan.

And this was great.

Our sports reporter, Mike Clemens, got got Golden's autograph on this helmet and already sent it down to me this morning.

I'm just kidding.

I don't actually have the autograph.

It's just the Packers helmet.

Here to discuss the draft and so much more, he joins us occasionally.

Usually we have Brady Ewing on, former Green Bay Packer, former, would that have been fantastic?

Former Wisconsin Badger fullback and spent three years in the league, the NFL for Atlanta and Jacksonville respectively.

He's on the road today.

Or so he says,

here now.

So he

says his older brother joining us live from the old hometown of Richland center.

Brandon, you knew it was also a Wisconsin high school football coach in his own right.

Brandon, always great to have you along.

How are you?

I'm doing awesome.

Thank you for having me.

How are you doing?

I'm great.

Thanks for asking.

It was great at a good time last night.

I just sat by myself.

I had a, you know what I had left?

I had a, uh,

a,

uh, a new Glaris.

Strawberry rhubarb beer left over.

I cracked one of those.

Those are so good.

And a hot dog.

I had brought hot dogs and I was going to grill on the show, but I couldn't find a George Foreman grill.

Everything to tailgate and studio except the grill.

Why didn't you call me?

I would have driven one right over.

Do you have a George Foreman grill?

My grill, yeah, my grill outdoors kind of took a crap on us.

Anna came home.

My wife came home with a bunch of hot dogs

last

week.

And she's like, well, I got these hot dogs.

What are we going to do with them?

And I said, I have just the thing.

RIP, George Foreman.

Look at see.

But.

Yeah, I'm

sorry.

We got it done.

I

should have called you.

I should have called you.

So I thought, well, I got all these hot dogs.

So I went home last night and put them on a proper grill.

And so I hadn't had I sat and had a a beard hot dogs.

I watched the draft.

That was

my so good for you are not the first one.

That when Todd told this story too, the reaction was, why didn't you call me?

I have a George Foreman girl.

They're like three other people who said the same thing.

Exactly.

It turns out a lot of people have.

They love you.

We love you.

And we would do that for you.

I appreciate that.

I appreciate that.

What do you think last night, Matthew Golden from Texas, a wide receiver coming to Green Bay?

What was your take on the pick, Brandon?

Well, first and foremost, what about Murphy's enthusiasm?

Did you did anybody know he had that in him?

No, like I just I was shocked

to

see you know, just how he handled that and Yeah, it was great.

It was great.

And then the pick that's something that we as Wisconsinites I mean you go from far to Rogers.

We haven't needed that those guys made everybody so much better Jordan I can do that but

I think putting weapons around him is probably the right thing to do.

And then Goody makes a joke today.

He plays it great straight face.

So he said, yeah, I actually sent another name and Murphy just completely ignored it.

And it

was a joke, but it was very funny.

That's that Trump card that he's got.

Yeah, right.

Exactly.

But going back, Todd, can I interject real quick?

Yeah.

You know, I look at last year and what I thought truly was a position of strength and wide receiver.

You know, you got Christian Watson who, to be honest, we can't, we can't.

lose sight of him because I think that when he comes back he's got a lot of those intangibles that we're looking for and

he

will make our offense better but you know you have him with his ACL you've got Romeo Dubs with his concussion issues and then the the disappearing act that was Jaden Reed it really was a position of need and and so to to pick up Golden who

had a lot higher on their draft boards right there at that 23rd pick was pretty exciting.

I went back and forth watching ESPN ABC.

I kind of settled in on ABC because I like the college game day, guys.

And Nick Saban, former Alabama coach, a seven-time national champion, the crew asked him before the pick, who would you, if you were Goodacons, who would you pick right now?

And Coach Saban said, look, if I'm in that room, I'm picking Golden.

And he had nothing but good things to say.

Of course, he has a direct connection to Texas coach Steve Sarkasian.

And I guess Texas had nothing but great things to say about this kid.

His work ethic is just kind of, I'll do anything for the team, his ability to really pick up systems quickly.

Because he transferred in, right?

And it only spent a year

in Texas.

From Houston.

From Houston, yeah.

And so I thought, well, man, if Nick Saban thinks this kid is good, that's good enough for me.

Yeah, and honestly, you look at how...

And I'm not saying that I watched every Texas football game last year, but you look at how they transition from having him be a piece of the puzzle to late in the year when they were going through their championship stretch,

where

he was really a focal point and how he excelled in those positions.

So yeah, I'm not going to say he's going to be the cure-all, but he absolutely will be a fit within this offense.

And sounds like Jordan loves pretty happy.

Somewhere Aaron Rodgers is saying.

Why not me?

Why did they do that when I was there?

You know what, he's a whole famer in his own party.

Exactly.

Any other standout things from last night's draft that really stood out to you?

Picks or otherwise?

Yeah.

Shoulder Sanders, you know, who would have thought that he wouldn't have been drafted day one?

You know, that is a talented.

Yeah.

We're on a group

chat with Brady and Brandon and myself last night.

I'll say Brandon called this before the draft even started, that Sidor Sanders was not going to be taken in round one.

Of course, the standout quarterback from Colorado and his dad prime not looking too happy.

And you were right, Brandon.

Yeah, well, a lot of the things that I was seeing and reading, you know, it was going to be a stretch and, you know, looking at some of the gambling odds, you know, the odds kept getting worse and worse.

And so it just kind of told the story.

Somebody knows something and he's not going to be out there long today.

I mean, somebody's going to snatch him up early and he is a talented quarterback and a good leader.

Some people don't like the other stuff, but

It's Dion's boy.

What else do you expect?

And Coach Sam was making a big deal about this last night.

He was getting really irritated.

He kind of called out his own company.

He called out ABC ESPN for like, why are we talking about this?

Because it doesn't matter where you really get drafted.

If you're in the first couple of days, it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference if you get drafted in the first round or the second or the third.

getting opportunity and making the most of that opportunity.

And Saban was not happy about all the hoopla around secure last night.

Yeah, I mean, it's you're exactly right.

It's the only the only benefit of going in that first round is just that that fifth year option for the teams.

So, you know, to be honest, I was actually interested to see what was going to happen at the tail end to see if somebody would try to trade into that spot so that they had that fifth year option.

But, you know,

It is what it is.

He's not going to last long today.

I don't know.

This is the best reality TV I think that you can get right now.

Would you agree?

No, it's really fun to watch.

And that's a good transition into why I was actually really happy to have you on today is because one of the coolest things that I like about the draft is

the family members who get to finally talk because it's their son or their or or their brother or or their grandson who gets drafted and then to hear all these parents and grandparents and brothers and sisters talk about the guy who gets drafted that's really cool and so I want just to get your take you know it's been a few years now but when Brady got drafted what in the fifth round right and and so but

And for those that don't know, our parents live a house apart in the neighborhood in Richland Center.

So I've known your family quite a while.

And when you and Brady come on together, the love you have, you're a very tight-knit family.

And so what was it like for you personally, for your mom and dad, for your sisters to be there watching this all unfold and Brady's on the clock, as they say?

Yeah, Todd.

And thank you for asking that question, because honestly, it was such a special day.

We knew that he wasn't going to go in the first couple of rounds.

So, right, you're watching just to kind of see how everything shook out.

And, you know, from a fullback and H-back perspective, Brady was one of the top two or three guys that, you know, people felt were going to get drafted.

So, yeah.

He that that that third day when we started watching, we just had anticipation and we knew who was very interested in him based off of some of the conversations that that he had had.

So yeah, we're we're watching and once those teams started to come up, it's like you're kind of watching with beta breath.

Who's going to call?

You know, there were a couple of times that as we were sitting there, um, and, you know, those teams would pop up and we kind of look over at Brady and be like, okay, cause he was getting tax, right?

And you would tell people, Hey, just, you know, try not to, uh, communicate with us on draft day, but, um, you know, people were just interested and excited.

And, you know, from when he did get picked, um, to, to be a part of that or just be a fly on the wall, to hear the conversation to.

see his excitement, to see my parents' excitement, to be able to experience it with my wife, with Brady's wife at the time.

Honestly, it was a special moment and a moment that I'll never forget.

And

I mean, it has to just be cool.

I mean, I know my sister and I felt going to the first couple of games when he was at Wisconsin.

And here's a kid from Richland Center, a town of 5,000 people, makes it to Wisconsin and ends up earning the scholarship.

starts as a walk on.

And the first couple of times we saw Brady get a big play week.

We got we got emotional as just friends of the family.

I can't imagine what it's like to see your own brother finally get drafted into the national football league because so very many few individuals in our country ever reach the professional leagues, let alone make it to the NFL.

Yeah.

And Todd, you said it.

We're a small town.

We're small town, small community.

you know, what you felt and your sentiment is what others had in our community as well.

So when he got picked, it felt like the community, the community all around, it was like their brother was picked.

And yeah, so later that night, right, David, my father, my brother, myself and a couple other family friends, we have a fire pit outside and it was a chilly night, but we were out there lighting off fireworks, having a couple of cocktails and just enjoying.

And I'm telling you, people would drive up.

people wanted to be a part of that, to experience it with him.

And that's a testament to Brady.

Brady is such a humble, honest, caring, loving individual.

And people like him and like to be around him and wanted to experience that with

him.

It's still a source of pride for our hometown, I know, to have somebody from our, because it makes, I think, for younger kids, maybe you've seen this in your high school coaching, to make other kids think,

Whether it's sports or music or whatever it is, hey, I can do that.

I can come from

a small

town and I can achieve my dreams.

But look at him.

Brady is, he's just kind of the every man.

He's not overly big.

Um, he wasn't the best.

I mean, he was a very good athlete, but he wasn't the best.

But that kid just worked his tail off and that is a testament to others.

That's why Brady is a motivation.

Like Brady is a phenomenal motivational speaker because he means it.

And, and he's got that, that ability to kind of convey what it takes to be successful.

And he's done it at the highest level.

So I always say if Brady had my body,

he might still be playing right now.

But, you know, he just wasn't blessed with that, so.

I love it.

And again, my wife sitting over here, smirking Todd.

Come on back.

We'll talk more of the Brandon Ewing.

NIL comes to high school sports.

Who's going to get the first deal after this in the Civic Media Radio Network?

You can never pretend that I don't love you.

You can never pretend that I'm your man.

It's exactly the way that I want it.

It's exactly the way that I am.

And you call me in the morning.

If you're in

Richland Center this weekend, say it around a campfire.

You may hear that song.

If you're in the neighborhood.

By request, our guest this half hour, Brandon Ewing, joining us via StreamYard from the old home town in Richland Center, a high school coach in his own right.

talking a little bit about his big bro Brady Ewing being drafted a few years back as the Wisconsin Badger going to the Atlanta Falcons.

I've said this before, I still cannot get rid of my Atlanta Falcons gift shop emails that come to me all the time because I bought

a Falcons

hat and shirt and flag.

And I've tried to like, especially after I went to Jacksonville, I'm like, I don't need this.

And they still come to my inbox.

They're very good at marketing down there in Atlanta.

I can tell you that much.

They're great.

Brandon, thanks for being with us off of the YouTube channel.

Terry Barr, very own Terry Barr, by the way, we played her slice of Wisconsin yesterday, kind of setting up the draft.

Great job by Terry, if you haven't heard this, is that right?

Another thing with Terry Barr, tonight on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba, in the second hour, for most of the second hour, it's a bar band Friday night.

I pre-recorded it with Terry and Pete yesterday, and it features a 12-year-old singer-songwriter.

And let me tell you, she is amazing.

Really?

Her name is Paige Claibor, and you should definitely listen to Nightlight tonight.

Fantastic.

I will.

It's great.

I got Terry Barr.

I got Pete Schwabba tonight from six until eight right here in Civic Media.

Great heads up.

Terry says, this is a terrific conversation with Brandon about hometown, home state pride.

And she says, I'm personally thrilled the way my hometown area, Green Bay, is presenting itself.

Thanks, Terry.

Yeah, talking earlier, Brandon, just what it was like for you and the family.

a few years back to see Brady being drafted in the NFL, and not just your family, but as you said, our hometown and our home area, and just inspiring to think that a kid, whatever your means are from a small town, if you believe and work hard enough, you can achieve your dreams, not just in athletics, but

in anything.

Absolutely.

I mean, it's, again, not to reiterate what we said earlier, but just it is a testament to hard work and perseverance and a little bit of luck.

But I tell you what, Brady really did his best to position himself and prepare himself for those opportunities.

And you hear it every time that he joins your show, just again, that genuine nature, that hard work, that work ethic and that.

you know, will to be great.

He had it.

He really does and continues to do that in the hometown and what he does right now.

He'll be back with us here.

I still think we're going to see him on the stage giving the Atlanta pick tonight in the second round of the Green Bay.

We'll see.

Let's change gears, Brandon.

I'm away.

Oh, yeah.

Go

ahead.

Okay.

No, I was just going to say, I thought the Packard, I thought Green Bay showed out yesterday.

Oh my gosh.

Yes.

It just the beauty, the, you know, it.

brought me back to what it was for me to feel like that is why I'm a Packer fan.

Yeah.

You know, it's it's family, football, you know, friends.

It's it's just everything and it and it just it was beautiful.

It was wonderful.

It was majestic.

Yes, they did such a good job.

The all theatric

and great, great television program.

As you said, a great reality show.

There's a new reality for high school sports, of course.

You've been a long time coach in in Richland Center area, Brandon.

WIAA, Wisconsin Inter Scholastic Athletic Association voted today.

We talked about this with sports director Jimmy Cusco to start the week.

WIAA voted to allow high school student athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness.

As a coach, Mr. Ewing, what do you think?

This is a can of worms.

And you know, I am all for as you know, you look at the college level, like those kids need an opportunity to make they can't work, you know, having conversations with Brady, you know, knowing what it entailed to be a Wisconsin badger, like there was no opportunity for him to go out and

you know, earn any money, additional money.

And he was in a scholarship guy, you know?

So, yeah, to have those guys get the opportunity, I completely understand.

But, you know, the high school level, what does that mean for small town Richland Center, Wisconsin?

You know, if there is an athlete out there that that has potential and, and, you know, maybe has the opportunity to earn some NIL stuff, he's not sticking around Richland Center, Wisconsin.

He's going to go to a private school in a bigger community to where he can grow and earn those opportunities, more opportunities.

So it's great.

I mean, kids should be awarded an opportunity to earn off of themselves.

Honestly, it doesn't bode well for small town sports.

Just a couple of minutes left, according to Wisconsin Public Radio, the policies allow high school athletes to sign endorsement deals to make money from promoting products.

Wisconsin's policy restricts athletes from participating in NIL deals associated with a student's school team, school conference, or the WIAA.

Also, they cannot wear their school uniform in any endorsement deal, use the marks or logos of the school, so on and so forth.

So it's gonna be restricted more than college, it sounds like.

But yeah, to your point, Brandon, I guess we're the, Jimmy Cusco told us one of the last eight states in the country that didn't have some form of this.

So it was gonna come whether we liked it or not.

But again, I think it just marks, I don't know.

For me, it's just another turning point that we're entering a new era and I'm not so sure that it's a good one.

Well, and Todd, they're, and I don't have specific names, but there's been specifically on the basketball side of things where we've had some tremendous athletes that have went to, you know, other states, to other schools so that they could capitalize on some NIL stuff.

Yeah.

So at least, you know, we're one of the last, right?

But it may keep some.

you know, athletes here back in state.

So and honestly, from a basketball perspective, which is where you see a lot of this jumping around.

Wisconsin has a rich history of deep, good, wonderful basketball players.

And yeah, we need to keep those athletes here.

Brandon Ewing.

Thank

you so very much.

I appreciate my friend.

Well, I might see you around the neighborhood this weekend and have a good weekend.

Heck yeah.

Thanks, Todd.

Thanks, Amherst.

Thank you very much, Brandon Ewing.

Come on back.

Peter Rapine with the Week in Review on the other side of the Civic Media Network.

My mom was better than sex.

Oh, yeah.

Welcome back to the show.

Zomers has gone wrong.

It's 25, 35 minutes past the hour of three o'clock on the Hall of Balls show, The Cinex Media & Media Network.

Thank goodness it's Friday, TGIF, dialing up little Senator Kennedy there.

That's a real quote from Senator Kennedy.

He likes

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better than sex That's a great way to start off our our next segment every other week We are joined by our ongoing contributor and friend from beautiful Brooklyn, New York He is the managing editor of ebombsworld.com You can find all these stories.

We're gonna talk about today at ebombs world He is Peter Rapine the one the only you know, we love him

Peter, how the heck are you?

I'm doing fantastic, Todd.

It's Friday.

It's spring.

We have the door open at the office.

I was playing music on my speaker earlier.

And after this, I'm going to have a cold one in my hand as soon as

possible.

You know what you are, Peter, right?

Fine for me.

You're like a spiritual gummy because I always feel better after talking to you.

I feel more chill.

I feel happier.

That's what you are.

I appreciate it.

Well, I do say it's we always talk on Friday.

Maybe if we did the show on Tuesday, I'd have a different different vibe.

So it's good we catch up with you on Friday.

And

thank you,

by the way, for adjusting your time frame, because now we're later in the afternoon.

So I know that kind of sucks for you.

But thank you for doing

it.

No, it's OK.

Well, yeah, what's the deal with that?

Just, you know, things get changed.

And so they said, Todd, we're going to put you in

two to four, so here we are.

We're happy

to be here,

but even happier that you were willing to come along for the ride.

Yes, yes.

Of course.

And

honestly, it kind of makes my Friday just that much better, because this is the last thing I'm going to do.

Oh, right.

After this, I'm closing my computer and I'm out.

You're

done.

You're done.

I'm done.

I'll be remiss if for those watching on the stream on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twix and the like, Peter is wearing his beloved San Francisco Giants hat.

Peter, your guys beat up on my brewers.

Out in the Bay was not good last night.

Giants five or six Milwaukee five.

The Brewers had a player's only closed door meeting after that loss was.

They

were not

happy.

They

were not happy at all.

So I've been hearing.

See, I'm not I don't follow baseball as much as I probably should or are used to.

But I do know that the Buster Posey era is off to a good start.

Yes.

I'm excited to see.

Yeah.

Sadly for the Brewers, the Brewers play tonight against the St.

Louis Cardinals, 640 broadcast time on select stations across civic media.

All right, Peter, we're always happy when you join us.

These are actual headlines from actual wacky, weird human beings.

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So this is the first place you're going to see this.

So all right, Peter Rapine, first headline.

And they're all incredibly childish.

So which is a great way to end the week.

Some childish headlines.

All right.

Very good.

All right.

First one reads, parrot please with with itself after asking its Alexa to fart a parrot.

pleased with itself after asking its Alexa to fart.

Do you explain?

Well, he's pretty self-explanatory, I would say.

This parrot, obviously, I think we have an audio for it.

Oh, we have audio.

All right.

All

right.

but basically the parrot realizes it can tell alexa fart and you can't see it but you can hear it and just know that there is a giant smile on the parrot's face and the parrot bobs its head up and down uh after every fart so here we go here we go here we go

that was a triumphant one try asking me for a gassy fart

alexa

That was a long and crispy one try asking me to fart 17 times in a row

Alexa art Alexa art

Funny cuz the bird kind of sounds like a robot voice itself.

I was gonna say a robotic voice confused which one is which

exactly now This is real and the audio the video on this is amazing

I mean, we played the audio portion of it, but the video is absolutely up, because you're right, the parrot is very excited that it has learned how to tell

Alexa how to do this.

I know.

It's probably fun for the owner to teach it that for an afternoon,

but

then you're like, crap, I either have to get rid of my electric or get rid of this parrot.

This never stops.

Right.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Right.

And the fact that Alexa goes, that was a crispy one.

I know.

You ever designed that like Alexa model?

Like have a little bit too much fun.

I think

we're off to a flying start here, Peter, Peter Ray Pine.

All right.

Next exclusive headline from E-POM's world right here on Civic.

All right.

The headline reads, Pastor says we need to be more like bacon and we have no idea what that means.

All right.

Pastor says we have to be more like bacon and we have no idea what that means.

This is confusing to me.

And this is one of those like very, I don't know what they're actually called, but one of those pastors that just kind of says stuff and they say it in a way that's very hyped.

And

so it

sounds like it's, you know, deep knowledge.

She's just playing the video, the audio.

There's

nothing I can say to cue this one up.

Here we

go.

You go fry some fish you gonna need some You go fry some vegetables you gonna need some You go fry some bacon you need some No, you don't need no oil when you fry bacon cuz what

What you were meant to be, you produce your own oil and

allow

others

to taste

and see that the Lord

is

good.

You're

going

to produce

your own oil.

If that

woman gave the Easter sermon and she would pack the house.

Honestly, I think in another life, I was one of these pastors.

I feel like that's a gift I have.

You're a spiritual animal.

You're a

spirit

animal.

I'm not sure what that means, but I'm on her side.

I'm on her side too.

They don't need oil.

No, when you say something in such a, when you have such conviction, right, it works.

It's beautiful to hear.

Be more like bacon people.

Mark and Perzac text into the text line and says, everybody loves bacon.

Right?

They should.

The bacon's beautiful.

All right, Peter Rapine, all of these, not all of these headlines, and you're debuting some of these here exclusively on our show.

We appreciate that.

But after the show, you'll find all of these at ebombsworld.com.

Actual headlines from actual crazy people.

Peter Rapine, next headline.

All right, this one is the short one, and this comes to us from an event called The Gathering of the Juggalos.

Juggalos.

If you know what a juggalo is,

You don't need me to say anything.

If you don't know what a Juggalo is, there's nothing I can say to help you understand.

They are the fans and at one point we're labeled a gang.

They are the fans of the Insane Clown Posse and they have a gathering every year where the great most interesting people gather for a weekend of music and partying.

And one woman brought a special item with her to the gathering and the headline reads, woman shows off replica of her husband's penis that's also an urn filled with his ashes.

A woman at this gathering shows off a replica of her husband's penis that's also an urn filled with his ashes.

And we have audio.

We have actual

replication of my husband's penis.

with his ashes that I have slowly been spreading around the gathering and uh, goes here.

This video is magical.

And she's sitting there and she's holding it in her left hand.

And it's clearly see-through.

So you can see that there's like about half of the ashes left.

And I like to imagine that she poked a hole in the tip and is just kind of walking around.

Blessing