We Cannot Lose Sight Of The American Ideal (Hour 2)

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Welcome into hour number two of the big program six past the hour of three o'clock.

It's Thursday.

July the 3rd, 2025.

It's a great day to be in Wisconsinite for the world headquarters in downtown Madison.

Blue skies, warm out.

It's 4th of July weather.

I'm not sure what happened at the opening.

Yeah, I accidentally redacted your name.

Sorry about that.

Is there something I don't know?

Is there somebody new in the chair on Monday?

If you don't know

it, I don't know it either.

I wouldn't say that around here.

I wouldn't say that at all.

As

far as I know,

as far as I know, it's still the Todd Allball show.

So we've got that going for us.

A great first hour.

Glad to have everybody, everybody along.

Many thanks to Dan Schaefer, our political editor here at Civic Media.

Big second hour in store, a holiday edition of What's Worse.

Sparklers are firecrackers.

We're gonna talk about that in a minute.

But wanted to finish up conversation on the state budget that passed in the wee hours of this morning and signed into law by Governor Tony Evers at 1.31, 1.32 this morning.

According to Dan Schaefer and again many thanks to our great news department for staying up.

You could find their great article detailing the state budget at Pacific media dot US Check it out there want to go to the phone lines to start off the hour 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Troy in Montorrem standing by Troy.

Thanks for holding.

What do you got?

I'm just

want to make sure that

Governor Evers got assurances from boss that they're gonna spend the money and not hold it up and join finance like they did the PFAS money and on and on in the last budget.

I think that's good.

Because writing this budget doesn't do any good if you don't actually spend the money.

Yeah, I think that's a great point and all I can say is I hope I agree.

I hope there was some handshake assurance.

It seems, it seems, obviously I wasn't in the room, but from the reporting and what I've heard and written, or heard and read, is that the agreement, essential between Voss and Evers, with a little bit of Senate Republicans and Democrats sprinkled in, the agreement they came up with.

And again, I've gone through this budget process from the inside before.

And the way it was fostered through the Assembly and the Senate, essentially on the same day, and Evers signed it into law minutes afterwards, I'm here to tell you that this thing was cut and dried before they even hit the Senate or the Assembly floor.

It was done.

And

so,

I think that they, however,

Much of a gentle person's agreement you want to say I think that they've said I'm trusting you if you trust me and neither one of us better Blank it up or or they'll be held to pay and and we'll come after the whatever side breaks the agreement So I would hope that you're right Troy, but who knows unless you are in the room

All right.

Have a great

day.

Yeah.

Hey, happy fourth year, Troy.

Have a great Independence Day weekend.

Thank you so much for calling in 855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

I'll say this.

Again, I don't think it was a great budget bill at all at the state level.

But I can't give you a better solution right now.

My old budge, uh, old boss Dale Schultz used to say, well, I was a young staffer and I come in and say, well, Dale, you know, how about this?

So this isn't going to work.

And he'd look at me and he'd say, don't bring me problems.

Bring me solutions.

And at first it really ticked me off, but he was absolutely right.

And so if I'm going to sit here and criticize it and say, well, you know, it was a terrible thing.

Nobody should have done this.

I because I wasn't in the room I've had a little experience with with boss and meetings like this There would have been a point in my opinion where he would have just folded up the tent and gone away I think the Republicans at least in the assembly were ready and prepared either a not to have a budget and Let current spending continue which would have meant zero dollars to childcare Or they would have just passed an even worse Republican version that they knew evers would veto in full

And then they would have campaigned next year for legislative elections saying, look, we produced a budget and it would have given you so much more in tax breaks and everything else.

But, you know, the liberal democratic governor decided to veto it.

And so my guess is only a guess that Governor Evers and his team said, look, a partial loaf is better than nothing.

And you've heard me say this before, if you're a regular listener, the old Star Trek adage, it's a Kobayashi Maru.

It's a no-win scenario.

There was no win here.

And I'm very disappointed.

My biggest disappointment in Governor Evers and Democrats is they made a choice.

They chose to hold the line.

Their red line, Evers' red line, was at least some funding for childcare, which I agree with, but as Dan Schaefer said, it's only for a year.

And they made a red line for at least some of the UW expenditures.

And any regular listener of this program knows there are a few larger proponents and cheerleaders of the UW system to meet.

But much of that money is for one-time money for facilities.

What you get is great.

Also, there's a little nugget in there that allows the legislature to oversee professors' workloads, essentially.

So I know how this is going to happen.

Next time, next biennium.

If Republicans are in the charge of the assembly, they're gonna go back through, and they're basically gonna audit professors at EW campuses, which by the way, many, not just Madison, are research universities, so it's not just how many kids you teach, you're researching, you're doing research writing, you're doing publications, all that's part of your tenure, which this bill does not take into account.

So I don't think it's all you know sure there's some good things for UW in here, but it's it's not but so evers decided to make UW and At least some childcare money his red line What he chose not to make a red line is funding for K-12 public schools And I think that's by any fair measurement a disappointment

of a three-time state school superintendent and someone who likes to be known or call himself the education governor.

And that more than anything else is the reason that I don't think that Tony Evers is going to run for other term.

Because politically, I don't see how you run on that.

Sure, to Dan Shafer's point, you can run around saying I had a bipartisan bill, but you're going to have Democrats, key Democrats, who are really good at social media,

and ginning people up, calling you out.

And that's for the people that love you.

And the other side is going to use that against you as well.

So I think the budget was a Kobayashi Maru.

I think this is not a budget and also not just the budget, but the way he signed it in his office with a handful of staffers around.

That's not a marketing type of situation where you launch a third term for governor.

But maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe I wouldn't be the first time but those are my thoughts on that 14 minutes now past the hour of three o'clock Should we do the thing first then go back to some more serious things?

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What's going on red panda?

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This is a holiday edition Zombers.

We'll see how this goes Today's category timely timely indeed we don't have a graphic today because Originally we were gonna do a kind of a best of today but

Couple days ago Zomers and I said too much breaking news.

We're gonna be and I'm glad we were

because this was important.

This is important So this is this part is not important But it might be fun once worse sparklers or fire crackers sparklers or fire crackers

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All right, what's worse I get off track sparklers or fire crackers 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Julie listening on WXCO Bull Falls radio in beautiful wassauce says fire crackers are worse for persons with PTSD or dementia also for pets and wildlife sparklers cause more injuries

but that is the fault of the person using them.

All right, very interesting indeed.

855-752, Tammy listening out in beautiful Virginia.

Hello, Virginia.

It's not like very King now.

Hello, Virginia.

Tammy in Virginia says, firecrackers are worse.

Wes, listening in Middleton on WMDX, not much to celebrate this year for the fourth.

Tomorrow will be a solemn day of reflection.

No patriotism in this house as what our nation once stood for is dismantled.

Wes, that's a little morbid.

But no, I get it.

I get it.

I get it.

I know friends last year.

Close friends who went to a Fourth of July parade but were black because they were so down.

And that was last year.

I don't discount what you're saying, Wes.

And do I believe that American democracy is on the verge of death?

Yes, I do.

Do I think we're quite there yet?

Not quite.

Close, but not quite.

But as I said in an earlier program this week, I think that when we say that we're so down, we're not going to celebrate the 4th of July, we're attaching politics to it.

We're attaching current occupants of the White House to it.

The American dream is still alive.

I see it traveling around Wisconsin all the time Neighbors helping out neighbors people raising money for for someone whose house burned down People help get their neighbors boat in down the water.

They're not asking them.

Hey, who'd you vote for a Trump or Biden?

Hey, you know your boat you need to have your your doc help put in I'll help you out That's the American spirit.

I'm celebrating We it's still alive.

Don't make a mistake about it firecrackers

or sparklers.

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Come on back.

Welcome back to the Toutalball Show on the Civic Media Radio Network.

23, you passed the hour of three o'clock.

That was fantastic, Zombers.

Trigby Olson, our friend of the Lincoln Project, his girls, dragged him to Katy Perry concerts.

He's not a fan.

And I love the fact you played that.

Yeah, and then I played that music anytime he came on for months.

But because we saw him once a week, for me, it wasn't that much time that I experienced.

For him, it was every time he saw us, he heard Katy Perry.

Right.

Right in the middle of what's worse, sparklers are firecrackers.

Sparklers are firecrackers.

855-752-4842.

Our very own Parker Olson, the great producer of almost an up north news.

It's morning to pack.

By the way, happy birthday, Patrick Jerome.

Quite low.

Happy birthday.

His birthday up there at Lake Wissota.

He's a couple of old fashions in, I hope.

He deserves it.

He deserves it.

Parker is his great producer, says neither of those are fun fireworks.

I guess firecrackers are worse since they don't have any sparkles.

All right.

I think that's a fair, fair take.

My sister, Heather, watching on Facebook up a beautiful Eau Claire says tough one.

Growing up in the farm, firecrackers and cow pies were not fun.

They weren't.

But getting sparks from sparkles, or getting sparks from the sparklers on your bare arms and legs was also not great.

But honestly, cherished memories from those times, I guess I'll go with firecrackers being worths.

She also follows up and says, I'm also celebrating the original reason for the 4th of July, saying no.

to a king even more reason to celebrate this year.

Let's go.

Now, see, we're on the same page.

Imagine that me and my sister on the same page.

I mean, I...

I wasn't going to get into the series.

Well, first of all, let's do a quick one here.

This is Erica McFarland.

Erica McFarland on MDX and New Texture.

Thank you, Eric, for tuning in.

Says, can you follow up on a story I heard that Wisconsin needed to pass and sign the budget, the state budget, before Congress passed theirs so that Wisconsin could claim the taxes that health providers paid to the feds?

That's essentially got it right, Eric.

We addressed that earlier on with Dan Shaffer.

No problem if you missed it.

But to answer your question quickly, yes, that was part of the reason they had to get that.

done and signed at the state level in order to be eligible for federal money for health care and rural and hospitals before the feds passed their budget and Trump signed it.

So that, yes, that's essentially true.

Thanks for listening, Eric.

Appreciate it.

John, in Menominee Falls on the 4th of July, says, I would argue the American dream is still alive for white people, for African Americans, this predominantly poverty and gun violence, for Hispanic people.

It seems to be poverty.

and being abducted off the streets by ICE agents.

I've always taken the view that if everyone isn't free, then no one is free.

This has never been more true than it is today.

There won't be any celebrating at my house.

John, thanks for listening.

And again, I get the set of it.

Believe me, I get it.

But all I'm saying is I think that when we look at it that way,

that we're allowing Trump and Trumpism to steal the American dream from us.

You know, I'm gonna get a little bit like Mr. Douglas here for a second in Green Acres.

I need some fife and drum music.

But the American dream doesn't live in one person.

It's not in the White House.

The American dream and ideal lives in each and every one of us in our hearts.

It lives in people in foreign lands that up until recently looked at America as the one place to come for freedom and democracy and opportunity Yes, there's some yahoo is right now some extremists in the White House Maga leadership most the Republican Congress who is attacking that dream But if we just throw up our hands and say well, it doesn't exist anymore that it won't We it's up to us eternal vigilance to keep it alive

So don't let those people steal it from us It's up to each and every one of us to keep the American dream alive and yes as Joe Biden says We've never fully lived up to the American ideal the never fully lived up to the American dream But we have to keep fighting for it.

I Think there was a lot of us in this country who didn't serve in the military who who are too too young

to have lived through World War II and the terribleness of that and the loss and the sacrifice.

But we survived.

And I still believe that we can survive this.

But we can't give it up.

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Kurt in Madison, thanks for listening to MDX.

Kurt, what's up?

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you.

Why?

And here is, and this is how I see it.

By not participating in the Fourth of July, I think you're conflating your argument for starters.

But by not participating is really no different than marching on the Capitol protesting what the president has done.

It's a function of protest.

It's not saying that democracy is dead, but it's recognizing those who have been

be traded by our country and have been swept off the streets.

So I just simply disagree with your viewpoint on that.

No, you're entitled to that.

I appreciate the call.

I always appreciate listenership, Kurt.

Let's go quickly to Gordy down in the town of Dunn.

Gordy, thanks for calling in.

What say you?

You got 45 seconds.

I'm glad your sister had the cow pie experience.

It's parking back to where I was going.

a young lad growing up on the farm and we were blowing up very fresh cow pies and my buddy Jack lit one and it never went off and never went off.

He went and checked on the dud and just as he bent over he got a face full of fresh cow stuff.

That's fantastic Gordy.

See you get it.

You get it.

Thanks, Cory.

Have a great 4th of July.

I appreciate you.

Come on back.

Take some more phone calls.

Some texts as well.

We're in the middle of what's worse.

We're talking about the 4th of July, what it means to you.

We're going to talk about the Red Panda and traveling with TSA before it's all done.

Come on back.

Welcome back to the Toddleball Show, the Civic Media Ready Network.

No, it's just not Disney's.

It's a small, small world.

It's the Toddleball Show across the Civic Media Ready Network 35 past the hour of 3 o'clock.

That is music Xamers tells me.

from the big red panda show ever been like a bucks game or or something like that.

This woman goes by red panda.

She's enormously popular.

Instagram, all of her socials.

I mean, she's she's an acrobat extraordinaire.

But guess what?

Gravity won out.

Yeah, it turns out being on top of like a six to 10 foot tall unicycle can be dangerous.

It can be dangerous.

We'll

talk about that in in just a little while.

Right now, in the middle of what's worse.

Also talking a little bit about 4th of July Independence Day tomorrow What it might my position is that yes things ain't good in this country right now for a lot of people But I simply believe that the American dream lives with each and every one of us and If we just allow Trump and Trumpism to co-op that and say well, it's all over Then you know it will be

because we have to be able to believe there is still hope.

And there has to be a sense that we can go to the voting polls, which we hope is still the case in a year, year and a half, and make our voices heard.

And we have to continue to help out our neighbors.

That's America is showing community.

And I see this all over Wisconsin.

I understand in people's homes, if you don't travel a lot,

If you don't interact with other people, you can, certainly if we just watch some of the news silos and social media, it gets depressing.

But I see great stories of human love all over the state.

Every month where I travel.

That's what I'm talking about.

That's what I wanna celebrate.

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Rob.

Our friend Rob Wheat down in Monroe, Wisconsin, beautiful Green County, texting in on W-R-C-E.

Said about the word in the middle, what's worse, by the way, as well.

Firecrackers are sparklers.

What's worse?

Wheatie says, firecrackers.

Sparklers only annoying to those in the immediate vicinity.

Firecrackers annoy a larger area, a larger audience, especially later in the evening.

Oh, and did I say it already?

Get off my lawn.

Zomber's what's worse firecrackers or sparklers?

This I'm gonna walk through my thoughts on this firecrackers I feel like are more boring because they just blow up.

There's no fun colors It's like, okay.

That was loud.

I guess or I don't I don't know They're just not exciting to me sparklers.

I haven't been injured by one, but I know they do like they

Put the idea that fire is safe to put your hand right next to in little kids' heads, and that's not great.

But at the same time, they're still fun and I haven't gotten hurt by it, so it must be fine.

So I'm gonna say firecrackers are worse.

Firecrackers are worse, all right.

I'll tell you mine to second.

First of all, our friend Gordy Kopke down in Oregon, I'm gonna cut him off because we were up against the clock there, right before I went to a commercial.

I can't say the B word is taboo.

Gordy in Oregon says, I'm married to love of my life, Anna.

on the 4th of July, that is what I will celebrate.

Happy anniversary, Gordy and Anne.

It's a very lovely picture from wedding.

Yes, and a dapper Gordy Koppke at that.

Dressed in a

red, white and blue tux.

Dressed in a red, white and blue tux.

Happy anniversary, Gordy and Anne.

That is truly something to celebrate.

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Uh, I'm gonna say, and this is based on, what, where was that text from Mark and the, was it Mark and the Sacks talking about, talking about the legality of firecrackers in Wisconsin?

Yeah, anything that blows the ground and, or blows up and or leaves the ground is not actually legal unless you have a permit, but we all know it's, it's not hard to get a hold of those.

I believe the statute of limitations is over.

Let me tell you, I've shot off a lot of fireworks and firecrackers in my day.

But again, use your common sense.

Don't do it in a residential neighborhood.

This was out at the farm.

You know, there was nobody within a half a mile of us.

So I'd do it safely and use water and all that.

Of all the firecrackers I lit up on the farm, never had an injury.

I cannot say that about sparklers, which, you know, either.

You know someone laid down a fresh hot one and it with some old ones and he went to pick them up and You get burned or somebody you know is tossing it around and hit your arm or your leg I've been I was injured more sparklers back in the day.

I never got injured with the firework So I'm gonna say Sparklers are worse

before we move on from the fireworks discussion the other day I think yesterday one of our engineers Chris Casper here

He showed me a meme about, you know, we teach our kids, you gotta stay away from fireworks.

Let the adults who are intoxicated handle it.

And he made the point that he wonders how many people going into this weekend don't realize it is their last day with all 10 fingers.

Boy, that's a morbid thought.

Yeah, just be careful the main he

said it jokingly the

main thing is do it to be careful

if you're too drunk to do it safely have someone else do it or just wait Yes, absolutely

eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five two four eight four two Let's go down to Stoughton beautiful Stoughton, Wisconsin here in Dane County CJ on the line CJ.

Thanks for holding.

What's a you?

You want to do what's worse?

What's worse firecrackers or sparklers?

I think firecrackers

Really?

I got a lot of good memories with my four little daughters with sparklers, and you're right.

None of them burned their hand.

Thank goodness.

But yeah, happy 249th birthday coming up.

Happy

Independence

Day.

Yeah, I agree.

I agree.

You know, but I gotta admit, I did hear you talk earlier, you know, about Todd the frivolous lawsuit against Trump.

It wasn't frivolous.

If you watch 60 minutes, they edited Kamala Harris' interview to benefit her.

But it wasn't.

Hey, there's one quick correction.

It wasn't CJ.

It wasn't CBS suing Trump.

It was Trump suing CBS.

Yes, and he won.

And there's

going to be more.

There was a settlement.

But, but number one, it was proven that it was edited like he would edit any other thing.

And there was nothing edited out to change the context of what the vice president said.

Wrong.

Wrong.

They're both out there.

All right.

Have a fight before the July CJ.

Thank you very much.

I mean, I mean, I'm not going to call the sky green.

It's blue.

That's just a fact.

So it was edited like any other television interview, and it was not edited to change the context

of

Vice President's comments.

That's just a fact.

60 Minutes has always been one to edit their stuff tightly to get as much information packed in as they can.

And also

maintain journalistic

integrity.

It's extraordinarily dangerous for the President of the United States to interfere in the First Amendment of freedom of the press.

And that's exactly what happened here.

And Trump did not, quote, unquote, win.

CBS, basically, Paramount Global, the parent company, agreed to mediation.

And in mediation, they agreed to settle.

And there is no apology as part of the settlement on behalf of CBS.

Trump just wanted the 60.

He just wanted the money.

It's always a grift with Trump.

Did you see he came out with a Trump perfume and cologne.

It has literally a golden Trump on top of it this week.

It's like the golden calf in the Bible, but yet all the fundamentalists want to praise him.

It also doesn't actually say anything about what it contains.

Like, legit perfumes will say, you know, they have a blend with these certain notes of this and smells like that.

And there's just like, it's Trump, so you should love it.

If it smells like Trump, I don't want it.

Throw it back.

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Dick at Madison on MDX.

Thanks for calling Dick.

Happy Independence Day.

What's up?

I'll back at you.

Can I comment real quick on the big bill?

Sure.

Go ahead.

Well, this morning, I heard one of the talking heads and I totally agreed with him on MSNBC and he put it beautifully.

Is it not ironic that on the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson declaring the war on poverty that 60 years later, it's become the war on the impoverished.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's sad, but true.

It's very true.

And it was so, I mean, everything about that bill.

And then supposedly there's news coming out now that Trump wasn't even aware of the cuts to Medicaid.

Yeah, I was listening to another program this morning.

They were talking about that.

And apparently what he meant was some of these House Republicans.

because he had said that, you know, well, it doesn't, it doesn't touch Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security and someone in this meeting, when he was trying to, uh, to whip their vote, he, they said, well, no, Mr. President, this, this is Medicaid and he seemed unaware of that.

So.

Which proves again, where the man is.

I mean, he's in some alternative reality that's just, you know, he's like,

Chasing the fly ball in the outfield that hasn't even been hit yet.

That's pretty good.

I like that.

All right.

Thanks, Dick.

I always appreciate the call.

Have a safe and happy, uh, happy fourth.

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We'll be back with all new.

What's worse on Monday with a live show tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Amherst and I are going to be out shooting firecrackers.

Uh, did they off tomorrow, but have no fear.

We're going to be in with a, we were pre-recorded some new material.

for Independence Day, take a little look at history.

As we have become tradition on this show for three years now, we are going to play some patriotic music, some John Philip Susan music, country tune or two, and also brand new material in terms of brewers tickets.

Be listening tomorrow, an all new chance to win four club level seats for a Milwaukee brewers game to be named later.

And I tell you what.

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Club level seats, four of them up for grabs.

Tomorrow will be listing between two and four.

We'll give you the word.

You can still text it in, even though we won't be here live.

So tune in for that alone.

Also going to look back at some time with our friend Kira Saban, a positivity and life psychologist.

Also, Trigvie Olsenai, one of our trips to River Falls, River Falls days, and our time spent at the Timber Rattler Stadium up in Appleton.

So it should be a great show tomorrow.

Be listing then and then back with all new live show on Monday.

I believe State Senator Kelder Royce, member of the joint finance committee will be in on Monday to take a look back at the budget process as well as all that coming up on Monday.

All right, according to the Washington Post, while entertaining the crowd at Target Center in Minneapolis during the WNBA commissioners cup final between the Indiana Fever and the Minnesota Lynx,

I know I'm gonna pronounce her name wrong, so I'll say it.

I'll try.

Believe it's wrong, new.

The popular halftime show performer known by the stage name Red Panda suffered what her agent described as a severe fracture on her left wrist in a fall.

The injury occurred just after the acrobat believed to be in her 50s.

Began her act.

She's 50.

She can kick.

She can ride a unicycle.

She is 50.

That's from Saturday Live.

News agent Patrick Figley said Wednesday via email that the mishap was caused by a faulty left pedal on her unicycle, which he said had been damaged during transit.

Don't they go out?

Don't they look at this before she goes out on the court?

Video of the incident showed new after climbing a ladder to sit on the reportedly seven and a half foot tall Unicycle peddling a few times and gesturing to the audience then tumbling to the court Medical personnel came out to check on new who walked to one end of the court before she was taken from the floor by a wheelchair According to Figgly a pair of links staffers stayed with new during an 11-hour hospital visit in which she underwent

a surgical procedure.

Well, best wishes, heartfelt wishes to Red Panda.

She says she's very grateful for the assistance she received, and she's gonna recoup her.

She'll be back!

She's 50!

Red Panda, back to wrap up the show after this.

On the Civic

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Welcome back to the title ball show on the civic media radio network where it is now eight minutes before the hour of four o'clock at the top of the hour.

ABC, CBS or James Kelly news, depending upon which far great stations you're listening to a check of weather could be some storms later on this afternoon overnight across parts of Wisconsin.

Looks like a pretty good fourth of July for you and a hot but nice weekend as well.

Remember, hydrate or died rate, as they say.

So stay hydrated.

Coming up then after the news, weather and sports is going to be our friend, Matt Ross Child, who is sitting to write.

I can see him.

He's preparing right through the glass right there.

He is filling in today for Maggie Dawn, hosting the Maggie Dawn show.

So stick around for Matt Ross Child.

It'll be a great time had by all.

And then Pete Schwabba and Nightlight from six until eight.

Alright, this is fantastic because a lot of Fridays.

I know today is Thursday, but it's our Friday We have Pete Peter Rapide our friend Peter Rapide from e-bombs world on to talk about the wild and wacky of human behavior So this is kind of a supplemental to to that today because this is real it really happened and I love every part of it All right, so if you're traveling this weekend via it's gonna be hot.

All right

And George Carlin once said, some people just need practical advice.

It's going to be hot.

If you're traveling via airline, this is the story for you.

According to vice.com has reportedly has reported on a sticky situation with the Transportation Security Administration.

A woman traveling by air passed through security in two U.S.

airports.

Both times, when a TSA officer waved her scanner around her body, it flagged her groin area.

She had no piercings, no medical devices, and her pockets were empty.

The culprit?

Her sweaty crotch!

She posted her experience on Reddit.

And other travelers said the same thing has happened to them.

What's happened to me

in?

TMI

specifically my crotch.

It was my entire body.

I was drenched in sweat They swabbed the back of my hand.

I was like, what are you doing?

They're like we're testing.

I'm like testing for what and it was really quietly like explosives

in one case the TSA officer called it a case of swamp crotch.

Oh

gosh

Turns out TSA scanners detect more than just metal.

The technology responds to anything that disrupts the signal, including moisture.

According to TSA expert, Shauna Redden, an alert may be triggered by feminine products, body fat, and perspiration.

These false alarms are why France, Germany, and other countries have stopped using this type of scanner.

Not so in the good old USA.

So if travel by air and your thighs often stick together, don't be surprised about extra attention from the TSA.

Either that or try moisture wicking underwear.

Some people just need practical advice.

Some hot travel tips.

Making a great Fourth of July, hey.

Gonna end with this the boss Bruce Springsteen on a recent concert tour said this about the USA And I think it does a great job better than I ever could summarizing what some of our callers said today about the current state of the country But also what I have said this is still a great country because American freedom and democracy lives in each one of our hearts Don't forget that have a safe independence day whatever you're fighting for whatever you believe in do not give up Here's the boss to take us out.

We'll see you Monday.

There's some very

weird,

strange, and dangerous going on out there right now.

In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent.

In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world's poorest children

to sickness and death.

This is happening now.

In my country, they're taking sadistic pleasure in the pain that they inflict on loyal American workers.

They're rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and plural society.

They're abandoning our great allies.

and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom.

They're defunding American universities that won't bow down to their ideological demands.

They're removing residents off American streets and without due process of law.

are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons.

This is all happening now.

A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government.

They have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American.

The America that I've sung to you about for 50 years is real.

And regardless of its faults, it's a great country with a great people.

So we'll survive this moment.

I have hope because I believe in the truths of what the great American writer James Baldwin said.

He said, in this world,

There isn't as much humanity as one would like, but there's enough.

Let's pray.

Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism, and let freedom ring.

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