The Benjamin Yount Show-3-23-26-What Evers vetoed, Ice to the airports, Brittney Kinser on school board races

The Benjamin Yount Show-3-23-26-What Evers vetoed, Ice to the airports, Brittney Kinser on school board races

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is good to be back as much fun as
I always have going down for the cooking bacon and
sort of watching basketball extravaganza that is my NCAA tournament.
I am so happy to be back here, back home
and back with you. Good morning, Good Monday morning. I'm

(00:22):
Benjamin Yont. This is what we like to call the
Benjamin Yont Show. Thank you for starting your day, Thank
you for starting your week with us. We've got a
big show. We'll get to news you may have missed
with Gregory John and Jason Gotch here in a second
coming up after seven point thirty, President Trump is about

(00:43):
to make the Karens Go ballistic. Ice will show up
at the airports today. Not sure that's gonna help you
get through tsa faster. In fact, it very well may
make things worse, but not because of what the President
is doing. After eight o'clock, the government that's closest to

(01:03):
home is always the government that's the most important. Britney
Kinser is going to join us to talk about school
board races and why you really need to know who
you are voting for, because early voting starts tomorrow. And
I have to laugh at Howard Dean. He doesn't. Yeah,
but he does something, just as stupid protests in twenty

(01:26):
twenty six are becoming ridiculous. The Adventos dot com talking
text line always open because you make the show better.
You can join us four one, four, seven, nine, nine
eleven thirty. Good weekend, gentlemen. Did you get to watch
nearly as much basketball as I was forced to? I did?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I did it. It kind of all blurred together. Isn't
an amazing how? I saw like two really good games,
But I can't tell you. I can tell you last night.
The Iowa game was good.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
That was the one game that I concentrated on.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh they beat number one Florida, that's cool, but the
rest of them.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Saint John's was really good. They wanted it the buzzer.
They blew a huge lead to Kansas in the last
six minutes.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Okay, that's the other one that I saw. I took it.
Kansas kept fouling.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
They had only had two files with like fourteen seconds ago,
So Bill self decides to keep fouling Saint John's to
run the clock down, and they get it to half
corp with about four seconds ago.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
They inbound it.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Guy takes it, goes right down the right side lane,
goes strong in the basket, lays it in his time,
expires great, great handing. It looked like that game was
going over to me.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, by the way, I noticed something watching these games,
sort of out of the corner of my eye. Well,
I got a beer in one hand, and I'm making
bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich is in the other. A
lot more of these kids are driving to the hoop.
I like that, not merely as many just chuck it
up three pointers as you see in the NBA. But yeah,
I don't even fill out a bracket. But that's that's

(02:48):
the conversation today. This, By the way, we'll talk about
the nonsense that is the CBS NCAA in between, like
their halftime shows, their transit. That's just garbage. But this
will be the last time that I think about college
basketball because the Brewers open up on Thursday, and after

(03:09):
that I really don't. It's I am the biggest college
basketball fan from the end of football till the beginning
of baseball, and baseball begins this week. I've got some
Badger women's hockey that we got to get to in news.
You may have missed, but there was this crash at LaGuardia.
Oh yeah, and this is the big national story. They're
still trying to figure out exactly what happened. But the

(03:32):
latest update is the pilot and the co pilot of
that Air Canada jet died. This is being described as
a collision with a fire truck. Now collision is a
very specific word. We don't know who crashed into who.
That's gonna become known. But the pictures planes up on
its back wheels with the nose in the air. The

(03:55):
only problem is there is no nose. The cockpit is
a centally gone. A lot of people on the plane injured.
Not everybody, but a lot of people. They're saying it's
foggy at the airport. Several dozen passengers which boarded in
Montreal had minor injuries. So this is a story We're

(04:15):
going to keep the eye on. You had this in
the news at the top of the hour chasing there
was a bus crash in Green Bank. This was a
tour bus going from Chicago to the casino up in
the up and somehow they stop in Green Bay for
a snack getting back on to the interstate. It sounds
like they get into a crash. It says they crashed

(04:37):
into a snow bank. You said they crashed into a building.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, my story said building. Some of these things. It
depends on where you read it.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I don't know what happened. Wow, it doesn't sound like
the weather was bad. It just you know, buses and
snow and all of that. Who who knows where it goes.
There was a violent weekend in Milwaukee. Two shootings made
the headlines. Happened Saturday morning. This was on the North Side.
Five people were shot, one of them died. Shooting was

(05:06):
the result of an argument, according to the police. That's
nice and specific everybody there involved in their twenty second
shooting happened very very early yesterday morning on Water Street.
One person died in that shooting. Two others were wounded.
The two wounded people were eighteen and nineteen years old.
This is going to sound very cruel, but I'm going

(05:28):
to say it anyway. No one's going to be really
bothered by the five people who were shot on the
North Side. Crime happens in crime ridden neighborhoods. But Milwaukee
needs to get a hold of the shootings that happened
on Water Street. That's where the tourists and the suburbanites
go to grab a beer. And if you can't make

(05:48):
those parts of your city safe, then you're you're gonna
have a part.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
We're gonna have to start wearing kevlar to go down
after eleven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
This insane. This is the people just aren't gonna go.
We go to back of the day. It was like, Oh,
that's cool. I'd be nervous going down there. Absolutely, people
just aren't gonna go. You know, you live outside of Chicago,
you I imagine hardly ever go into the city for
any sort of entertainment daytime.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Only at night. You don't want to be down there.
It's it's why there's so much you can do in
the suburban areas. There's so many safe areas. Why go
down there and put yourself in jeopardy. When these cities
all embrace this restorative justice nonsense. They don't want to
put the bad guys in jail, and they're surprised that
these things happen. It makes no sense.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Look, I'm not going to drive all the way in
worry about having to drive back, pay, pay to park,
and then oh you go down the wrong block at
the wrong time and either your car gets broken into
or you get shot better news. Wisconsin women are national
champions again. This is their second straight national championship in
hockey three two over Ohio State yesterday. It is the

(06:55):
fourth national championship for the Badger women in the last
six years. It is their ninth overall. That is the
most of any college women's hockey team ever. I think
Belling had one of the better posts on this yesterday,
he said. In the last month, Badger Carolyn Harvey won
an Olympic gold, was named MVP of the Olympics, won

(07:17):
her third NCAA title, and was named College Player of
the Year. Quite a four weeks said she's the greatest
defenseman in the history of women's hockey. She is the
female Bobby Orr. Yeah, that is a great That is
a great compliment. By the way, is this where we
have to ask the question out loud, why does a

(07:38):
four and eight Badger football team get fifteen million dollars
in taxpayer nil money? How much of that goes to
these girls women? Because they absolutely deserve it. But I
imagine they're gonna get maybe of the collective a grand
total of ten grand. Five of them were on the Olympic.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Teams either Canada or America, so that tells you how
good they are.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Come on before you send me the text and please
dadventnos dot com talking text line four one four seven
nine nine to eleven thirty. The reason that the football
team's getting fifteen million dollars is because even if you
wanted to watch, like you knew this game was on
the schedule, you had to have ESPN the O Show
in order to watch it. You can find a bad

(08:20):
Badger football game either on the Big Ten Network or
ABC pretty much any weekend, but you gotta go searching
for Badger women's hockey, which is a shame because it's
a better team and a better product. Chuck Norris died
last week. This was the news that started to spread.
Was it Friday morning? And at first, because you had

(08:42):
so many of the Chuck Norris means, none of the
guys that I was watching college basketball with believed it.
They got the news to Learneryody was like, oh no,
Chuck Norris can't die, and yeah, Chuck Norris passed away.
There's now one of those growing flowers and moment to
kind of memorials out in LA. He had a star

(09:04):
on the Hollywood Walk of fame. It's funny to think
that his first national debut was in nineteen seventy two
in a Bruce Lee movie. Oh really yeah, The Way
of the Dragon. But everybody remembers him from Walker Texas Ranger, which,
by the way, is it is a verifiably terrible show.

(09:24):
Have you watched Walkernger recently? It just it did not
age well. We in the nineties and early two thousands,
we were watching some crap on TV. We really were.
But Chuck Norris just famous for being famous almost at
a certain point. And I did notice all of the

(09:45):
obituaries in the legacy media pointed out as politics. Yeah,
I know, I forget who it was that shared the
side by side on X, but they had the headline.
I think it was from the New York Times obituary
of Rob Reiner, a vision entertainer, and then the obituary
for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris beloved by America's but politics

(10:07):
made him a divisific It's guys, really, yeah, they always
have to do that. You cannot just say. Chuck Norris
beloved American icon. He really liked all the memes, he
liked all the jokes. I saw him reading he was
I don't kimmel or whatever.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
And he was just reading these memes, these jokes, and
he was laughing with them, and the memes that came
out were funny. And my favorite one was the malas
are pissed because all the all the virgins are gone
within twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Chuck Norris arrives and aven sorry, guys, no more, no
more virgins left for you. I like I missed that one.
I'm not sure I agree with this this survey. I'm
not sure that I buy this. Wire Story News survey
says gen z would rather not drink. That's undeniable. This
is a younger kid's kids in their twenties, that's gen

(10:57):
Z don't drink. Lending Tree. Fifty three percent of gen
Zers say they don't drink. Forty seven percent of baby
boomers and gen X also don't drink. Millennials, the survey
says we're the most likely to drink, sixty three percent
saying they do. Overall, fifty six percent of Americans say
that they have a drink at some point. I'm not
sure that I buy that. Millennials, people in their thirties

(11:20):
and maybe early forties don't drink or sorry, drink more
than we do. I'm a proud gen xer, and I'm
towards the lower end. I'm fifty one this year. I
don't know anybody of my age who not only doesn't drink,
but doesn't go to the bar and have a drink,
two drinks, three drinks. And our parents, the baby boomers,

(11:44):
that's the mad Men generation. Man, these are the people
who you know, patented the three martini lunch. I don't
know that people in their thirties are drinking more than
older folks, certainly not here in Wisconsin. I mean, I
can point to seven bars where it's all people my
age and they're not holding back.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Could be health issue, though, as you get older. Sometimes
I know a couple of people who used to be
avid drinkers and now they've stopped because they have some
health issues. So the doctors have said, hey, cut this
out for this reason. So maybe for that reason, but
it does seem a little surprised.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I just don't I don't buy. I mean, I absolutely
agree that younger generations. My kids two three of my
four kids probably never gonna drink. They just they watched
me drink all that beer for all those years and
They're like, yeah, I don't want to do that, So

(12:37):
thanks Pop for doing this. I'm on board with this.
There's some sort of back and forth on X between
Chili's and Ruth's Chris the steakhouse. Ruth Chris has a
dress code, and they got written up in the New
York Post because they've started enforcing their dress code. And Chili's,
of course, because Chili's is Chili's said, hey, look, the

(12:58):
only thing you have to wear to eat at a
Chili's is clothes of some sort. We don't have a
dress code. Come in whatever you want. But I think
if I'm going out for a steak, that's seventy dollars
on its own. I kind of on on Ruth Chris's
side here. The following attire is not permitted in our
dining rooms Jim ware Pool attire, tank tops, clothing with

(13:21):
offensive graphics or language, revealing clothing, or exposed undergarments. The
other problem is apparently hats that if you show up
wearing a ball cap, they're going to ask you to
eat at the bar. Now I wear a hat, twenty
four to seven people are amazed. I was doing the
show and one day I came in I think I

(13:41):
just got my haircut or I took my hat off,
and Jay Weber was furious that I had hair. Jay
had lost his hair, and so he said, you've got hair. Yeah,
I used, did you wear a ball cap? Like? What
don't I don't take a shower before I come in
and before in the morning, said, but you got hair,
why do you wear a ball cap? But so I
could understand if you're wearing a ball cap and they say, hey,

(14:01):
you got to eat in the bar, Okay, I get it.
But if you're showing up for your steak dinner in
your bathing suit, yeah, that's a little I don't want
to eat next to somebody who's spilling out of their
bathing suit.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
That's not even a strict dress code. That's more common
sense when you go to an establishment like that to
just dress the part a little bit. Don't wear your
bathing suit in your workout clothes.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
On cruise ships, where people spend a good chunk of
the day in their bathing suit, they tell you don't
come in in your bathing suit, right, put a cover
up dress on or wrap something around you. And look,
this isn't a problem for us dudes, unless you're wearing
the banana hammock. It's not a problem for us, dudes,
because your swimsuit is probably just a pair of shorts

(14:46):
and put on a shirt and go in. But this
is you know who this is for. This is for
ladies who decide that they want to really show off
the goods, whether the goods are good or the goods
are just plenty. They're showing off the goods. But yeah,
if they have to remind you at the door of
a steakhouse, don't wear your tank top and your ratty

(15:10):
hold workout shorts, that's gonna be a you problem, boss,
not a Ruth's Chris problem. Six twenty three, when we
come back, Quick check of news with Jason, look at
the forecast. Not bad this week, not bad at all.
And then Governor Evers signed some new laws but made
it very clear what he wants Wisconsin to be with

(15:32):
the laws that he didn't sign. I'm Benjamin yont this
his news talk eleven thirty WI said it is not
sombrero talk. Texter in the two six to two, every
time I've ever mentioned a hat. By the way, I've
got to get a Trump had i gotta get a
forty seven or a Make America Great Again had before Friday,

(15:54):
they rescheduled the Walkershaw County Republican Lincoln Day dinner. I'm
still on the hook to and I just I just
decided I'm not even gonna try and style my hair.
So I'm just gonna give you a Trump hat and
wear that because you can do that at a walking track.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Absolutely, it makes you a popular guy.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Get away with that. It won't make it look like
I'm lazy and I don't shower. It will make me
look like a patriot. Coming up twenty minutes from now.
Governor Evers scuttled more new laws than he signed, and
the ones that he decided to kill far more important
than what he created. But first, quick check off the

(16:31):
headlines and Jason gotch Ben.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
We have an update on that overnight hours plane crash
at Leguardi Airport you mentioned at the start of your show.
There was a Regional Air Canada Jetta Collidie with a firetruck.
The pilot and co pilot dead, forty one people sent
to the hospital. But now there's audio from air traffic control.
Looks like one of the air traffic controllers screwed up here.
It's a quote. I try to reach out to them,

(16:53):
and we were delinking with an emergency and I messed up,
and then another controller says, no, you did the best
you could. So that's part of this story.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Now, Well, he was not too long ago that air
traffic controllers weren't getting paid in the last government shut down, right,
So I fully expect that somebody, some dumb Democrat, by
the end of the day, we'll be laying this at
the feet of President Trump. Got another one I do.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Over the weekend here in Milwaukee, a small group of
demonstrators gathered to protest the Trump administration's pressure on Cuba.
This was on the upper East side of town. They
don't want the US to pursue any military action. They
demanded the Trump administration lift sanctions in the economic blockade
against Cuba, pointing to blackouts the country often endorsed. They're

(17:36):
blaming the US, not the Cuban communists for the problems
that I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Talk about this at about eight thirty because I saw
a group of the same the same types. We were
driving through Tosa and they were just on the street corner. Yeah, Trump,
And it's like, what do you what are you doing?
Did you see the code pink people that went.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
They went to paint the wall and they stated a
five star hotel, hotel that was the only hotel that
was lit up in the whole city. That was the
old They had generators running, and these stupid, colde big
people didn't even realize it.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
It is.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
It is white Savior syndrome on display on X. It is.
But we'll talk about that come out of Bay thirty.
Because when you have an organic protest, when people really
are fed up enough that they say, all right, we
are going to take to the street to scream, because
no one else listens to us in any way, the
American people listen to that. We need it is oh,

(18:29):
for God's sakes, again, what is it? What is it
this time? What country? What other countries? Flag are you
flying today? And so if you're if you're following along,
first it was supposed to be the Palestinian flag, and
then the Iranian flag, and then the Venezuelan flag, and
then the Iranian flag again and now the Cuban flag.
These are the only people buying flags the state capitol

(18:52):
and protesters are the only people buying flags. In twenty
twenty six, appreciated Jason forecast from the Fox six weather experts.
It's partly Sunday. Today is still cool. Thirty eight's the
high tomorrow up to fifty three Wednesday partly Sunday sixty.
I saw that we are going to be warm during
the day for opening Day Thursday, but there could be

(19:14):
a rumble of thunder. I don't like that because I
don't want to have to carry a jacket around. I
just want to show up, watch the Brewers, and enjoy
the day. It is twenty nine degrees outside right now.
It's six thirty five on News Talk eleven thirty WISN
Monday morning. Today does not feel like a Monday. Maybe
it's because I had a couple of days off. I'm rested,

(19:37):
I'm refreshed, happy to be back here. Maybe it's just
because baseball is right around the corner and Hope springs eternal.
I really do. I'm trying to get Rick Sleschinger with
the Brewers on either Tomorrow or Wednesday. We got to
ask about parking, we got to ask about the construction,

(19:57):
and we got to figure out where we're going to
watch the Brewers on TV. I also kind of want
to ask about the nachos on a stick. I didn't
get invited to that press conference. Of all of the
people in Milwaukee media, who is going to spend the
most time talking about nachos on a stick? It's your
uncle Ben. Come on, guys, get with the program coming
up just after the news at seven. I didn't know

(20:20):
who Joe Kent was a couple of weeks ago, and
I still don't care who he is. I'm going to
turn to Bill Maher to make a point that just
because somebody on a podcast somewhere is talking about this stuff,
it doesn't mean you need to waste your time caring
about it. Wisconsin lawmakers did their jobs last week, and

(20:43):
on Friday, the governor did what he does. He signed
a dozen new laws. He vetoed fifteen others. He didn't
sign the online sports gambling plan. He said he wants
to talk to make sure that all of the tribes
are now on board with this, but there is I
think one of the tribes up north was at the
Monominee who maybe having second thoughts about that. So that's

(21:05):
going to be interesting, and with all of the money
that went into it, it would make me smile to
see that piece of legislation get vetoed, after all of
the lobbyist money that went in on both sides, after
the way that it was just jammed through the state capitol.
I would do nothing but chuckle if the governor killed it.

(21:27):
But the twelve laws that the governor signed are pretty minor.
A lot of them were technical, you know, basic stuff.
Most of the twelve new laws are things that don't
grab any headlines. He did sign a law that's going
to add jail time to people who have a previous
shoplifting conviction. I don't know. I can't believe we need

(21:49):
a new law for that, but this is Wisconsin. There's
something about the smaller version of hospital transparency. The biggest
headline grabber, though, is a new law that clarifies the
rules for bar bingo. As long as you don't have
to pay to play the game at the bar, it's legal. Now.

(22:12):
I don't want to start to question the legality of
bar dice or shake of the day. I know that
the pull tabs are legal because those are technically what
is it a dairy incentive programmed token? Is that the
way that it's written into the law. We'll just leave
Wisconsin's bar games alone. It's none of the government's business

(22:33):
what I'm shaking for. Just you know, you leave that bee.
But it's what the governor didn't sign that is more important.
One of the things that he vetoed was the plan
that would ban China or Chinese nationals. But there aren't
really Chinese nationals who are buying farmland in the United

(22:55):
States just simply because they want to grow tomatoes or
milk cows. Yes, it's a way to park money, but
if you take a look at where some of these
farms are being bought, they're all very, very very close
to either key infrastructure or to military bases. The governor's message,

(23:15):
I object to the Wisconsin state legislature placing blanket prohibitions
on all real property ownership, regardless of these specific circumstances,
whether or not any real threat exists. This is Tony
Evers refusing to believe that the Chinese are the bad guys.
I don't want to waste time on the well, there's

(23:38):
no iminent threat. China wants to supplant the United States
as the pre eminent world power. They do. They're very
clear about this. Everything that they have done for the
past twenty years has been to make them the center
of the world economy and not the United States. They
are not our friends. If you moved here after Tana

(24:00):
Square and you want to embrace the American way of life,
we absolutely welcome you. But to allow Chinese companies or
the country of China to just buy up tracts of land,
I'm sorry. It is not racist. It is part of
national security. The governor also vetoed a plan that would

(24:22):
have barred some ex cons from changing their names now
right now. Current law says, if you're convicted of a
sex crime, you can never change your name. You can't
be sex criminal Jim Smith, and then on Tuesday, after
filing some paperwork, you become John Cooper, and well, nobody
knows who you are. This plan would have expanded that

(24:44):
to include murder, battery, kidnapping, stalking, human trafficking, and sexual assault.
There is in some of the discussion about this, people
who are not just changing their names, but changing their
You don't get a pass for being a sexual assaultist

(25:06):
or a killer, or a kidnapper, or a stalker or
a human trafficker by changing your name from Jim to Brenda.
Part of the reason that the governor vetoed. This is
certainly because that is part of the conversation. One of
the ones that just blows me away is telehealth. Here

(25:27):
in twenty and twenty six, when you can order everything
from a pizza to a date to razor blades on
your phone, we still have this idea that talking to
a doctor over the phone is a bad idea. You
get out to the rural parts of the state and
there just aren't as many doctors. I mean, you need
to go see the doctor when you're having a baby,

(25:49):
but for a lot of things, you're just checking in
with the doctor. They're asking you some questions, and they're
signing off on a prescription. Mental health counseling is all
just talking to people. You don't need to do that
in an office in Franklin. You can do that on
the phone from your living room in Euclair. But the
governor said nope, because it doesn't mean more nurses. He

(26:12):
also killed what's being called the red Tape Reset, and
this is where it goes from just a news story
to the point of the news story. The red Tape
Reset is the plan that was embraced by pretty much
every single Republican at the state Capitol. Tom Tiffany is
running for governor by talking about this. Wisconsin is the

(26:34):
thirteenth most regulated state in the country. We are the
second worst in the Midwest. The only state in the
Midwest that has more rules and regulations for everything from
where you can build a fence to what a business
can do to the environmental protections. The only state that's
worse is Illinois. There are one hundred and sixty five

(26:57):
thousand regulations on the books. You can go A to
B to C between half of those regulations and a
cost for your business, or you have to get a
license for this, or you're not allowed to do this
because some environmental regulator in Madison thinks cows are bad.
Cows cows emissions. Now cow's fart, they're cows. That's what

(27:22):
they do. I don't know how dinosaur farts were perfectly
fine for the world, but cow farts aren't. But let's
not spend twenty minutes talking about that. Will had a
piece that said the cost of those regulations, the cost
of what they were trying to eliminate in the red
tape reset, would be six billion dollars. Just a ten

(27:44):
percent cut would be would save six billion dollars over
the next decade. One of the things that the governor
refused to make into law was a plan that would
require a seven year review of every regulation in the
state of Wassen. After seven years, lawmakers have to sit
down and say, does this still make sense? Is this

(28:07):
something that we can repeal. In that same vein, there
was another piece of this package that said, for every
new regulation that gets added, somebody has to take away
another regulation. You can't go beyond one hundred and sixty
five thousand. If you want a new one, you gotta
find one that needs to be repealed. This is common

(28:27):
sense stuff, but Tony Evers doesn't embrace the idea. Instead,
what he wants is the biggest government possible, and that's
the theme of his vetos. The theme of his vetos
is he doesn't really care about the people of the
state of Wisconsin. He cares about the government of the

(28:48):
state of Wisconsin. I will tell this story Friday night,
But I became a Republican because of Ronald because of
Abraham Lincoln. A government of the people, by the people,
for the people. What Tony Evers wants is a government

(29:08):
of the government, by the government for the government every
single one of these regulatory reforms that he killed. Is
the reason why the budget for the state of Wisconsin
is one hundred and eleven billion dollars over two years.
We are spending just as much as the state of Illinois,

(29:29):
but they have twice as many people, and they have
a multi billion dollar pension hole that we in Wisconsin
simply don't have. So where is all of the money going, Well,
it's going to the bureaucrats, it's going to the unelected administrators.
It's going to the people in Wisconsin who feel they've
got a government id and a job in some agency

(29:52):
and they've got to do something, and so they are
going to do whatever it is that they want, and
what they want is generally to grow the size that
cost the scope of government. There was a time and
a place in this country when we needed to make
sure that people didn't just throw their trash out on
the street. You're old enough to remember. I'm old enough

(30:13):
to remember the crying Indian TV commercial. Dude just throws
a bag of McDonald's at his feet. That doesn't happen now.
But the rules that were set in place back in
the nineteen seventies to clean up our air, our parks
are water. They're still on the books in Wisconsin, and
it can still be used to stop somebody from building

(30:34):
a subdivision or a school or a power plant. The
governor signed a bunch of new laws, and most of
them are technical, and very few of them are actually
going to be big sweeping changes. But the things that
he killed, the things that he said no, I don't
want to do, they all send one message. Tony Evers

(30:55):
will do everything in his power to protect the government,
to make sure the government has as much money, to
make sure the government has as much power as it can.
And what it means is you're going to pay the
price and you're not going to have the freedoms or
the opportunities, because well, when you have a government of
the people, by the people, for the people, you have

(31:18):
a government of the people. When you have a government
of the government, by the government for the government, you
have what Tony Evers once here in Wisconsin six fifty five,
coming up after the news, it is not only okay
to not get caught up in the conservative twitter back
and forth. You are not alone if you don't know

(31:41):
who is who and why we're mad at this person
today I'm Benjamin yont this is News Talk eleven thirty wism.
The sun is now fully up. I can see it
over my shoulder. What we're going to gain like an
hour of daylight over the next sixty days. This is

(32:02):
one of the things I love this time of year. Though,
this is this is the difficulty, This is the only
difficulty of this job. I once again have to train
my body to go to bed when the sun is up.
I once again have to train myself to sleep when
the neighbor kids are out riding their bikes and shooting hoops.

(32:22):
But look, I do it for you. Just just know,
I go to bed like a toddler so I can
be here with you every single morning. Good morning, I
am Benjamin Yonce. Thank you so very much for starting
off your day with us. Coming up. About a half
hour from now, Ice is headed to the airports. We
are once again getting the videos of the hours long

(32:44):
security lines at major airports. This is likely going to
get worse, not just the waiting, the chaos because the
Karens are.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Going to Jeffries said they're going to kill people at
the airports.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Ice guys. He actually said that yesterday in a Twitter tweet,
the Wine Moms, the Resistance Moms, Grantifa. They've never let
Ice do anything anywhere. And it's a lot easier to
go to the airport than it is to drive to Minneapolis.
We'll talk about that coming up here. And just after

(33:20):
eight o'clock Britney Kinzer, remember her, she ran for state superintendent.
She should have won that election. She's gonna join us
to talk about who you're voting for, because early voting
starts tomorrow and I'm willing to bet most of you
have no idea who the conservative candidate for school board is.
We'll talk with her about why the government that's closest

(33:41):
to home is the government that is the most important.
That whole idea is where I have to start this conversation.
And some of this may be me understand this from
the drop. Just factor this in to every time I

(34:02):
ask a question out louder or really everything I say,
I intentionally keep my universe small. I care about Wisconsin,
about Southeast Wisconsin first, but Wisconsin more than anything. I
don't really pay too much attention to all of the

(34:25):
national back and forth. One it changes to its mostly performative,
but three, the government that's closest to home is the
government that matters the most. It takes Congress years to
screw up your life. We have a presidential election every

(34:47):
four years, millions of people voting that if you want
to elect or unelect a president, it takes a couple
of billion dollars. And what did Joe Biden get? Eighty
million votes? Yeah, eighty one. You can flip your city
council with a couple of hundred votes. Some of these

(35:07):
school board races that will be on the ballot come April,
they will be decided by literally hundreds of votes, because
it doesn't take much to get elected to your school board.
Those are the people who can within two weeks pass
a tax increase your city council, your county board, your
township government. These governments that never get any real news coverage.

(35:32):
They're the ones who can raise your taxes, who can
institute new rules, who can say yeah, no, you can't
build that fence, or hey, you know what, we don't
like data centers, so we're just gonna pass rules that
say no data centers. Where are they gonna be built?
I don't know, I don't care, just not in my backyard.

(35:52):
One of the other reasons that I keep my universe
small is because I can't be bothered to care about
all of the little tiny tiki tack back and forth
inside the Beltway, inside the movement fights. It was what
last year where there was this whole big sharks and

(36:13):
jets thing between the Turning Point USA folks and the
Wisconsin Republican folks. We didn't talk about it because that's
really only important to a small number of people who
really think it's the most important thing. Most of us
don't care, and that's okay. I didn't know who Joe

(36:37):
Kent was until after he was fired. I was a
little worried because there was all so much on conservative
to it. Oh they did Joe kenned? Who is this guy?
Did I miss this? I really thought for a half
a second that I had forgotten about a US senator,

(36:58):
or that I had forgotten about somebody who was in
the cabinet. Joe Kent, if you don't know, is some
guy who worked on Tulsi Gabbard's staff who was apparently
a soldier. Was he a Green Beret? He quit last week,
stormed out in a huff, wrote a letter the President

(37:19):
Trump of Israel's war blah blah blah. Within hour's conservative
Twitter exploded with the receipts. Well, just just last year,
you were. Bill Maher made the point on his show
on Friday that this is what happens when you allow

(37:42):
people who are terminally online to drive the narrative. This
is what happens when the people in power, or the
people on television or in this case talk radio, spend
their day doing nothing but perusing through X, reading Facebook,
getting knee deep in all of this inside the Washington,

(38:03):
DC bubble kind of back and forth, and I had
to bleep out one of his curse words. But again,
Bill Maher, who is not a conservative, who is every
bit of Hollywood left you think he is, he is
more than right when he talks about this.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
Right now, there's a big fight going on between Megan
Kelly and Ben Shapiro about Candice Owens, and as it
plays out, it's very important to remember that the most
common reaction to it from Americans is I don't know
who any of these people are, and I don't know
what the you're talking about. During most primetime nights, less

(38:45):
than one percent of the country is watching Fox News, CNN,
and MS NOW combined combined, a guy in TikTok pressure
washing his driveway gets bigger workings. Seventy six percent of

(39:09):
Americans watched less than one hour of any cable news
in a month. You thought opera was getting its ass kick.
If you ask most Americans what their opinion of Tulsi
Gabbard is, the renser is going to be what's a
Tulsa Gabbard.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
He's not laughing at us. I've watched enough mar to
know when his jokes are pointed at us. He's laughing
at the people who spend their days online, or, more
to the point, the people who are on Fox News
or MS whatever it's called, or CNN who really get

(39:54):
caught up in the back and forth over this. I
didn't know who Joe Kent was and a a talk
show host on the most listened to radio station in
the state of Wisconsin. And it's not that I'm dumb,
It's that I would rather care about Tammy Baldwin and
Ron Johnson. I'd rather care about Tom Tiffany and Frannie Hong.
I'd rather care about the race for Congress up in

(40:17):
the north Woods than I would about somebody who's inside
the movement mad at somebody else inside the movement. I've
said this for years. You're not dumb, you're not uninformed.
You're not some rube who's just waiting to get home

(40:38):
and put on cops and drink a beer or a
glass of wine and sit down on the couch and boom.
You've got a life, You've got a job, You've got kids,
You've got things that are far more important in your
day than what the House Transportation Subcommittees vice chairman said

(40:59):
in passing in the hallway to a podcast from North Dakota.
Most people in this country know who the president is.
If I went out on the street right now and
asked who the governor of the state of Wisconsin is,
most people would probably know. If I asked you who
your state rep was. If I asked you who the

(41:25):
mayor of your city is. If I asked you who
your alderman is. If I asked you who the president
of your local school board is, I think I'd get
a lot of blank stares. And that's okay. That's where
we need to focus our efforts. That's where I need
to do a better job. Now. It would be just
as boring for me to come on here and get

(41:47):
into the minutia of the mcgwonago school board as it
would for me to get into the between the fight
of Megan Kelly and Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens and
she's gone crazy. By the way. You know this, if
you've listened to any candas and stuff, Churchill is not
the bad guy of World War Two. Let's just put
it at that. Mar's not wrong. Most people don't know

(42:11):
who Joe Kent is. They don't know who Stephen Miller is,
they don't know who Reid Hoffman is. It's not that
none of these people don't matter. Stephen Miller is one
of the driving forces inside the Trump administration. But if
I'm driving by and we'll talk about protesters coming up

(42:32):
about an hour from now. If I'm driving by and
you've got a sign that says Stephen Miller needs to
get out of the White House, I don't know who
he is. And nobody else who's driving down the road
in Wawatosa on a random Saturday knows who he is either.
We spend an awful lot of time on this radio station,

(42:53):
on this radio show talking about four or five things, schools,
a lot of schools, because that's what matters. We talk
to Ron Johnson, we talked to Brian Style, We'll talk
to Derek van Orton. We'll talk to Wisconsin members of Congress,
We'll talk to state lawmakers. We talk about the government

(43:16):
that's closest to home, because the government that's closest to
home is the most important thing. I've never wanted to
be a national talk show host. There's some guys who
you can tell want to be national dudes, right. There
are some talk show hosts who really want to talk
about national stuff all the time. And it's easy. There's

(43:36):
a ton of national stuff out there to talk about.
It's hard work to try and make sure that you're
up to date on the latest of the capitol, to
make sure that you understand all of the little tiki
tac things that go into running a state. I don't
want to have to spend the three hours that it's
going to take me to get familiar enough with the

(43:57):
school tax levy to understand it to see, Okay, well
this is where we're going. I literally had to reach
out to a couple of people yesterday and say, explain
this to me, because I don't understand that matters. I'm
willing to do that work. I can't be bothered to
track down the latest opinion on Steven Miller or Joe Kent,
because these people largely don't matter in your world. In

(44:24):
most people's world, like mar was saying, you don't know
who Tulsey Gabbert is unless you're listening to this radio station,
watching Fox News, or or online all the time. Most
people are far more concerned as to whether or not
their wife and their daughter are getting along, or their
mother and their wife are getting along, or whether you know,

(44:45):
drunk Uncle Kevin is going to show up at the
Fourth of July again this year and become more of
a nuisance. That's a real world issue for ninety percent
of people in the state. They're far more worried about
the fact that gas is now a dollar more expensive
than it was just a month ago. They're far more
worried about their power bill going up. I understand this

(45:08):
could be me, and I never make any excuses for it.
I intentionally keep my universe small. And I know that
there were some people who were trying to make the
point off of what Bill Maher said, see nobody watches
Fox News. Well, if you really want to get into
that ratings game. More people watch Fox News than watch
MS whatever it's called, and CNN combined. Every single day,

(45:32):
more people listen to this radio station at some points
during the day than watch CNN. The ratings don't lie.
But as we sit here and we talk about what
matters and what doesn't and what's lost in the noise,
understand that an awful lot of this stuff is just that,
just noise. This month, we're all focused on this one

(45:56):
dude who said one thing about the president. Two weeks
from now, it'll be something else, somebody else, and again
and again and again and again. And that's not going
to make our schools better, or lower our property taxes,
or make sure that another house actually gets built in
the state of Wisconsin so that your kids can move
out of the basement and start their own life and

(46:16):
not have to rent for the rest of their lives.
I intentionally keep my universe small. The government that is
closest to home is the government that's the most important,
and that's the reason why we talk about it all
the time here on this show. Seven twenty four Quick
check in news, look at sports, get your forecast update

(46:37):
when we come back. I don't always like it when
President Trump does things just to troll the left. But
today I am one hundred percent on board. I'm Benjamin Yon.
This is news Talk eleven thirty wisn coming up a
couple of minutes away. President Trump sending ice to the airports.

(46:58):
I wonder how long before we see a protest. We'll
get in to that, but first check of news from
Jason gotch Ben.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
Interesting story out of wes Ben on property owned by
the Girl Scouts. A man who was living there with
his wife who worked for the Girl Scouts facing multiple felony, firearm,
drug and other related charges arrested there. He's a convicted felon.
This kind of crazy story.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Convicted felons can't have guns. We don't know that he
was growing the weed. He just had the weed and
the mushrooms and he kept it in the bedroom. If
I was writing this story, if it was still Benont
news guy, I may have gone cheesy with the lead.
It wasn't Finn Mint and Samoas that police found out

(47:44):
a Girl Scout camp in Wisconsin. Instead they found drugs,
guns and cash. This is one of these stories that
I know you're not supposed to make light of dangerous things. Like,
you know, felons and guns and kids. But come on,
you gotta play. Whoever's writing this for the wire has
zero creativity. Come on, guys, there are about a dozen

(48:05):
different leads that you could have gone with. But anyway, Yes, scary.
His wife used to work for the Girl Scouts. I
believe that she's been relieved of her duties for letting
her drug dealing, pot smoking, gun toting boyfriend. Got another
one I do for those of you worried about teen
drivers out there, Oklahoma wants teens who get a driver's

(48:26):
license to do one thing before they have done that.
They would actually this is for drivers under eighteen. They
would have to prove that they can read in an
eighth grade level before getting a permit or a license.
Going to a house vote in Oklahoma another one of
ways to Senate vote. So you've got to read if
you're going to drive in the state of Oklahoma. First
of all, it's terrifying just how many people who are

(48:47):
driving don't read at an eighth grade level. Secondly, this
would keep an awful lot of teenagers because with two
thirds of kids in the state can't read at grade level,
there would be an awful lot of teens, but once
you turn eighteen, and this is a generational thing. There
are an awful lot of kids the age of my
youngest kids who just wait till they're eighteen. Anyway, they

(49:10):
don't have to take his MAY tests. Maybe they're not
in a rush to go anywhere. Everything's on the phone,
but yeah, if you can't read, maybe you shouldn't be driving.
Seven thirty five. Could you check the forecast from the
Fox six weather experts partly Sunday today high of thirty
eight tomorrow up to fifty three with some suns. Sixty

(49:31):
on Wednesday Thursday for Brewer Opening Day, looks to be
warm in the sixties, but we are gonna see some storms.
Temperatures will fall as the day goes on. Twenty nine
degrees outside. Right now on New Stock eleven thirty WISI,
I really do want to see an ice contingent walk

(49:52):
into an airport. Just bring a hype man. College football,
they now have teams that take the feet with a
giant boombox. Yes please, that would be please. Tom Homan,
take this idea and run if not. If not, then

(50:13):
somebody who's good with this online. Once we get the
first videos of ice walking in just do it. Come
on all.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Already getting into Atlanta right now.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
I just saw a video this morning. Give me fourteen seconds,
give me a TikTok video, ice ice, and then have
one of them just do a little dance. Oh that
would be just oh chef's kiss. Welcome back, Benjamin Yon Show,
Monday Morning. Coming up just after the news at eight.
Britney Kinzer. She ran for state superintendent. Should have been

(50:45):
the state superintendent. She's gonna join us to talk again
about the government that's closest to home. Why it is
that you really need to pay attention to who's running
for your kid's school board. We'll get to her. Plus,
the protest in twenty twenty six aren't just as lame
as the protests in twenty twenty five and twenty twenty four.

(51:06):
In twenty sixteen, Howard dean beclowns himself again adventnows dot
com talking text line. Always open little slow this morning,
but always open four one, four seven, nine to nine,
eleven thirty. You can find me on x I'm there

(51:28):
on Twitter at eleven thirty. As I've been saying all morning,
this is going to be a very interesting day at airports.
Across the country. I don't know that it's going to
be a problem. Here in Milwaukee, we tend to have
a relatively problem free airport. It's small for a bigger city.
Oh Claire's Airport shouldn't see any problems. I mean, if

(51:48):
it's even open. If they are one jet is flying
to Minneapolis today. But you go to Atlanta, you go
to New Orleans, you go to some of these other
bigger cities, and it's going to be an interesting day.
We've already seen all of the video and they started
coming out over the weekend of the three and four

(52:09):
hour long waits to get through TSA. I say this
whenever somebody goes to Disney World. It's not worth waiting
two hours to go on seven doors mind train. I love.
It's a small world. You sit in the boat. It's
a small world, after all. I wouldn't wait thirty minutes

(52:31):
for that ride. I could not imagine the frustration of
sitting and wait, standing and waiting in line to check
your bags to fly to your spring break trip or
your business trip, or your family reunion or a funeral
that you don't want to go to, and then you
have to stand there for four hours. Transportation Secretary Sean

(52:53):
Duffy was on Fox News yesterday and he said, look,
this is bad, really bad, but it's probably going to
get worse.

Speaker 6 (53:03):
Bus So I think as we look forward to Friday,
that's when the next paycheck should come. And if this,
if this Homeland security funding isn't resolved, I think you're
going to see more TSA agents. Has we come to Thursday, Friday,
Saturday of next week, they're going to quit or they're
not going to show up. A lot of the starting
salaries at TSA they're right around fifty thousand dollars. So
if you live in you know, one of the big

(53:25):
cities of America, LA, or New York or or Miami,
it's hard for these individuals already to make their ends meet,
but with out getting paychecks, it's even that much more challenging,
and so they're going to take other jobs to put
food on the table and pay the rent. So I
do think it's going to get much worse. And as
it gets worse, I think that puts pressure on the
Congress to come to a resolution. Democrats have to say,

(53:47):
you know what, we're not going to defund this, We're
going to actually work together, have some common sense reform
that the President we'll work with us on, and you know,
let's get America working again. And the last thing you
want as you try is to deal with political fights
at the airport. Let that stay in Congress, but don't
extract paint out of me and my family as I'm

(54:08):
trying to just go to Florida and get some son
on my bones during spring break with my kids.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Don't bring your politics to my spring break vacation. That
is a very simple message. It is so simple, it
is so common sense. Dana Bash on CNN made the
miraculously made the point when she was talking to Hakeem
Jeffries over the weekend. She asked, what was an absolutely

(54:37):
obvious question.

Speaker 7 (54:41):
The whole reason, as you just laid out, that DHS
is not funded right now is because you're trying to
push the administration to enact some policy changes on how
border patrol and ICE act when they're out looking for
illegal immigrants. And now what you're saying is that you're
okay with funding TSA, which has been I think the

(55:05):
biggest point of leverage that you possibly had in order
to get what you want on ICE, because ICE already
has its money. So what was the point of this shutdown?
If you're okay with funding TSA, well, we never approach
these things that are in front of us with respect
to government funding in the context of leverage.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
That's a lie. That's a provable lie. Everything for Democrats
on Capitol Hill, at the Wisconsin Capital, nationally, on TikTok,
everything is about political leverage. The problem here is that
they're using the wrong leverage. The problem is that they

(55:50):
missed the last segment that we talked about, where Bill
marsaid most people don't know who Toulsy Gabbard is. Most
people in the United States support ICE. The polls are
clear on this. Somewhere around ninety percent of people want
every single illegal immigrant criminal rounded up and deported. Depending

(56:12):
on how you ask the question, fifty five percent of people,
according to a New York Times poll, want every single
illegal immigrant in the country, no questions asked, deported. Doesn't
matter if you came here two years ago under Joe
Biden or you came here twenty years ago. There is
half the country that wants to round up everybody who's

(56:32):
not here legally and take them back to the border.
John Kennedy, the Republican from Louisiana was on Fox yesterday
and he made the point that the problem that Jeffreys
and Democrats have is that they are not listening to
the American people. They are listening to these screechers and

(56:55):
screamers in their new base.

Speaker 8 (56:57):
Well, the party line that we're supposed to parrot is
that we're talking and we're reasonably close. Dream Weaver, if
you believe that you'll never own your own home, we're
not even on a scale one to ten, we're minus seventeen.

(57:21):
Here's why there is no bill, no compromise involving Ice
that the Democrats will vote for. Why because the Karen
wing of the Democratic Party is in control, and the
Karen wing of the Democratic Party will punish any Democrat

(57:42):
that votes in any way to help Ice. That's just
a fact, and we need to stop looking reality in
the eye and denying it.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
The Karen wing of the Democratic Party will not accept
Democrats doing anything anywhere that in any way, shape or form,
looks like they are working with Ice. The Renee Good
supporters have driven the Democrats to an untenable position. Most

(58:18):
people in this country fly once or twice a year.
Most people fly for a very specific reason. I've been
saying for years that thanks to Joe Biden and some
of his COVID policies, thanks to just the way that
the airline industry is run, flying in this country is
now as bad as taking a Greyhound bus. Democrats thought

(58:43):
that by making it worse, they would find the political
leverage to push President Trump on ICE. But most Americans
want mass deportations. Most Americans want illegal immigrant criminals rounded
up and taken out of the country asap. And when
they have to win eight for four hours, they're going
to be furious. And a Texter here in the two

(59:05):
six to two hit it on the head at vendos
dot com talking text line four one, four seven, nine,
nine to eleven thirty Ben, Today's gonna be an awesome
day at the airport. Any protesters that get out of
hand like Minneapolis are gonna be wonderful. Just think of it.
Every violation in an airport is federal. I absolutely guarantee

(59:30):
you that the same Karen wing of the Democratic Party
that can't stand Ice, the Grand Tifa types, the Antifa types,
the local college Democrats, the Democratic Socialists of America, they
absolutely are gonna jump in the car and go down
to the airport today and they're gonna protest ice. And

(59:51):
you know, the one thing that would make a four
hour long wait to fly out of Atlanta worse is
having to have some green hair or per hair or
blue haired weirdo screaming, fighting, pushing, jostling, causing trouble, making
a scene while you're being stuck. Democrats picked a ninety

(01:00:13):
ten issue where they're going to die on the hill
of the ten percent, and they are doing this to
you intentionally. When CNN says, yeah, this isn't working, you
know it's not working when everybody who is flying in
and out of a major airport in this country is saying, yeah,
this is a problem. You know the Democrats have a problem.

(01:00:33):
But because this is who the Democratic Party is now,
the Party of Karen's, the party of screamers, the party
of screechers, the party of protesters, it's only going to
get worse now. I'm generally not a huge fan of
President Trump making policy decisions just to troll the left,
but here today, this one with ice in the airports,

(01:00:56):
I gotta say, honestly, I'm a fan, and they want
more of it. Seven fifty five when we come back
after the news Britney Kinzer, who's running for your kids'
school board and why this may be the most important
race that you're going to see on your ballot next month.
I'm Benjamin Yohns. This is News Talk eleven thirty WI.

(01:01:18):
It still amazes me how quickly this show can fly by,
already nine minutes after eight o'clock. I know it's Monday,
but back up, back at it. Thank you so very
much for spending the morning with us. Coming up probably
twenty thirty minutes from now. Howard Dean beclowned himself over

(01:01:41):
the weekend. That's not the headline. The headline is that,
in twenty twenty six, I'm not moved by yet another
anti Trump protest, and I'm gonna have to disagree with
the President. I'm gonna have to before we get done
here this hour, explain why the President should have just

(01:02:04):
said nothing about Robert Muller's death. Take your calls, your text,
your tweets, Cuz shows better when you're a part of it,
So please be a part of it. The advent knows
dot Com Talking text line four one four seven nine
nine eleven thirty on x IF that's where you're looking
for me. I'm there at Yunt eleven thirty. Early voting

(01:02:24):
here in Wisconsin, believe it or not, starts tomorrow. And
while you may know who you're going to vote for
in the race for Supreme Court, probably you don't know
who you're gonna vote for for school board because you
may not know who's running. They've seen some signs, but
you don't necessarily know who those people are. Joining us

(01:02:46):
now to talk about school board races and why school
board races are so important. Britney Kinser, she ran for
state superintendent. Thank you, Brittany. I understand you're calling in
from the airport in San Diego.

Speaker 9 (01:03:00):
I am calling in, yes, from standing on visiting family.
I'm flying back today, so I'm not there yet. I'll
be on my way there soon.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Well, I was going to say, tell us, tell us
how TESA was. If you haven't gone through Tesa yet,
our thoughts and prayers are with you, because it does
not look like it is a fun time, I said,
the Supreme Court race, that's the sort of big headline race.
But there's just one statewide race on the spring ballot.
There are how many local school board races, hundreds thousands,

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and this is the sort of the government that's closest
to home, and yet it doesn't get an awful lot
of attention.

Speaker 9 (01:03:40):
And so that question there how many. I was trying
to find one source on where do we find how
many school board races there are? And there is not
one place where you where you can find that information.
So that's something too, I'd like to change in the future,
because you cannot find it in one location, and you
think you would think you could, right, I had said
in my op ed. It is the largest school board

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member of school board candidates and members are the largest
elected official body in our entire country, and they are
the ones deciding so many important things for our schools.
Especially their main job is to make sure our kids
are reading proficiently and doing math and writing so that
they can have a bright future. And so few people

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know about the races, know who the candidates are, and
know about their qualifications.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
We talk an awful lot about schools here on this show.
It's one of the things I get very soap boxy about,
and I have to try and contain it. I will
get too preachy if if I don't police myself. But
do you get the sense that enough people actually know
that it is their local school board who decides what

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ninety percent of what goes on. It's not the state,
it's not the US Department of Education. Ninety something percent
of the decisions day to day from what you learn
to you spend, that's a school board's job. Do you
think enough people understand just how important these races that

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they largely ignore are.

Speaker 9 (01:05:11):
No, I don't. I don't think people realize that. And
I also I was surprised to hear as I traveled
around the state last year that many school board members
don't know the results academic results for their districts if
you ask them. Okay, so tell me. I have questions
on our guides at kidswin dot org. You know how
many kids are reading proficiently in third grade? How many

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kids you know? If you break it down by school
by class, they cannot tell you. And that there tells
me that the response that responsibility is not clear to
many people, even school board members.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
I want to ask you about some of the comments
on school funding here before we get too far down.
But if I have a problem with what's being taught,
I have to go to my school board. If I
have a problem with my kid in their school, I
have to go to the school itself. But superintendents, principles,

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all of those people, all of those hiring and firing
decisions that's made at the school board level. Have we
seen you said this and it was interesting that there
are an awful lot of school board members who don't
have some of these answers. Is this one of the
reasons why we see so many superintendents out there driving
the bus here that school boards maybe themselves don't realize

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the power or the responsibility that they have.

Speaker 9 (01:06:35):
I think so, And I think that's you know, I
don't think that it comes from a place of not
wanting to know that. It's just I'm not having that information.
And that's exactly right. So if we can spread the
word and make sure that school board members have that
information at kidswind dot org, I think it's we believe
it's very important that school board members are given updates,
you know, in the beginning of the year, where are

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students at, what are our goals? Then in the middle
of the year, and then at the end of the year.
It's it's key to see how our students are growing,
are they meeting their proficiency goals, Are they growing? Are
they meaning their growth goals? Because if not, then we
would get into this situation where we're at now, where
the nation's report card shows us that only one out
of three fourth graders are reading proficiently, only one, you know,

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out of three, So that means two out of three
are not. And so we have that's why I built
the tool and the kids Win websites so you can
go and see how your school district is doing and
compare it across the across the state. So it's just
it's really key that we start that our school board
members are educated on on the information that they should
be you know, presented to This information should be presented

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by the superintendent to the school board. And that would
also mean to the community.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
If anybody's supposed to know how well kids at Miller
Elementary or reading, it should be the people who are
in charge of Miller Elementary, and that includes the school board.
There we're talking with Britney Kinser. She is the CEO
of Kids Win Wisconsin. We talk to her all the
time whenever we want to talk about education advocacy. Be
because Brittany, you're one of the few people in the
state who we can go to that isn't sitting here

(01:08:10):
trying to spin this for some sort of political point.
The teachers' unions are great, or we need to fully fund.
I want to ask you a question, and it just
jumped out of my head, so I will go to
this easy question. We're going to hear a lot opening.
Early voting starts on Tuesday, and this is the time
that if you're going to hear from your school board member,

(01:08:32):
the school board candidate, it's going to be between now
and election day in April. What are two questions? What
are three questions that if somebody knocks on my door
I can ask to say to judge who they are,
because that's the problem. I don't know who's the conservative
or who's the liberal, or who's just the concerned mom.

(01:08:53):
I kind of want to make sure that I'm not
going to accidentally vote for the teachers' union hack. Who
is only going to vote to benefit for teachers' unions.
What are the questions that we can or should ask
if we happen to bump into one of these candidates.

Speaker 9 (01:09:10):
So if you happen to U, don't my guess, I'm sorry,
I'm a little tired, bump into them. The question I
would ask, especially coming from Kids Win, when we're focusing
on literacy, do you know the current third grade literacy
rate in our district? And you can go to my
If you don't know what it is, you can go
to Kids Win Do or go to the literacy tool

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and you can see that right away. And then I
would ask, what systems will you put in place to
monitor progress, celebrate growth, and move us towards ninety five
percent of students reading proficiently. So right there, they're going
to be able to tell you whether or not they're
aware of academic results, are they focused on the kids?
And then what are they going to do? Is it

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their responsibility? Do they believe it's their responsibility to make
sure that kids are able to read? And we know
that ninety five percent of kids can read if they're
taught using the science of reading. So those are just
the top two questions I would ask. But if you
go to our website you can see the other questions
I have right away that would tell you if they're
kids centered, and I think that's so important as we're

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talking about school board.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Number, the science of reading. If there's anything that you
as a mom, as a dad. If there's anything you
take away from this outside of the school board election,
the science of reading that shows that schools are serious
about helping kids read. And we talk about third grade,
by the way, because if a kid is behind in
reading in the fourth grade, they'll be behind in the

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eighth grade. They'll be behind when they get to high school.
They will be behind when they graduate. And when you
have some of these starknes, ninety five percent of black
fourth graders in Milwaukee can't solve a simple word problem.
That's not a state testing problem. That's a kid who
is going to be behind in reading and math for
the rest of their life. Let's talk about school funding

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real quick, because there's an awful lot of conversation from
Democrats at the Capitol. They just rolled out a new plan.
And I can be open to a special education enhancer.
I can be fine with saying, Okay, we're gonna have
to spend more for special ed kids. But when I
hear things like fully fund and fair share, we are

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already spending more money per kid in this state than
we ever have. What do you make of all of
the talk, particularly in the governor's race, when you hear
the words fully fund or fair share, what comes to
your mind?

Speaker 9 (01:11:33):
So, like you said, I think it's very important that
we need to fund our special education. What comes to
mind for me is that I don't hear anything about
why what we're fully funding for what. I don't hear
about the accountability for making sure that our kids can
read and do math well. I don't hear about any
of that. I just hear fully fund, fully funded, fully

(01:11:56):
fund for what? And where are we fully funding? There's
a soule lot of just a lot of words being
put out there in statements, and I don't hear enough
about how we're going to improve education for our children,
and so I think that's really important. And then this
last still that was put forth is leaving out fifty thousand,
about fifty thousand students in Milwaukee. They're not including all

(01:12:19):
of the children in Milwaukee. And that is not okay.
This should be about our children and it should not
be about just the adults. And so that's what I
think about when I hear that. I want to know
what are we fully funding? How are we making sure
this means that more kids are reading well so they
can have a great future And not just these words
about fully funding towards what so I think that's more

(01:12:41):
political than about the children.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
I have never seen from the state what an actual
the state's share of that fifteen thousand or so per kid.
Because I remain convinced, and I've been a school choice
supporter for years and years and years, even though my
kids go to public school. I've been a school choice
guy since I first started covering education back at the
Illinois Capital Because if it's five thousand dollars or six

(01:13:06):
thousand dollars, I promise you there is a charter school
or a private school that really does want to teach
your kid to read that would be more than happy
to educate a kid at five thousand or six thousand
dollars per year as opposed to fifteen thousand dollars state
wide average or twenty five thousand dollars per kid, which
is what Milwaukee is. I'm going to ask you this question,

(01:13:27):
even though I don't have it written down, and if
you don't want to answer it, that's fine, But I'm
really genuinely interested in this. What's it going to take
to get more acceptance for school choice. I understand the teachers'
unions hate it, I really do. I understand that they
hate it because they don't want competition. They know that

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if a kid can get a better education outside of
a public school, that it only makes public schools look worse.
I thought for the longest time that school choice was
gonna hinge on going to Hispanic families and saying, look,
we can get your kids a really good education, and
we're not going to push a bunch of secular nonsense
on them that never worked out. What is, in your opinion,

(01:14:12):
what do you see as the turning point? Because you
could make a case for racial fairness to get you know,
why is it that ninety five percent of poor black
kids are stuck in public schools where they don't learn.
What's gonna be the argument, because I've never seen one
beyond yeah, we like school choice, we like better schools,

(01:14:32):
we like better opportunities. I think they need something else
to turn on the better sales pitch, to make it
the simplest.

Speaker 9 (01:14:40):
I think that. I mean, I think the voice needs
to come from the parents who are choosing, who want choice,
who are choosing the schools that they're choosing based off
of you know, maybe their traditional public school is not
serving them well, so they are looking for a different option.
I also wanted to remind people that, you know, open

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enrollment is a form of school choice, and so many
people also choose that they don't send their child to
the school in their community, they send their child to
another school, another public school. So that's also that's the
number one school choice. And so I think it needs
to come from the parents because when we talk about, oh,
I don't like school choice, it's this thing, or we're

(01:15:24):
talking about institutions, there's actually children and families are who
are in the school. So we have to start humanizing it.
It's not it is not just this thing. And so
I think that's what the change needs to be. We
have to start seeing the faces of the families and
then hearing from them. It's much harder to look at
a family who's you know, school in their community. This

(01:15:46):
is real. Maybe only has one percent of children reading
well enough, you know, to go on to college or
have a career or master a trace. I'm looking for
something better, and wouldn't we all be looking for something
better if that's what's in our community, right And so
that's that's that is my take on it, that we
have to start making it up. The faith has to
be the families and the children.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
This is why I get so soap boxy about this, Brittany,
is because it's the kids. Really, it really just as
as as a as a parent, as just a normal
human being. It's not like you're beating the system. These
are kids, and and every time a school fails, you're
failing kids. You're not failing adults. You're not failing the

(01:16:29):
people who voted against you. You're failing kids. And no,
I like that. We need to hear from the families.
It needs to be the moms, the dads, and the
kids who got out of these failing schools. If you
want more, go over to kidswin dot org. Right, I'm
looking at that. I don't have I don't have my

(01:16:50):
I have my glasses on right now, Britty, I can't
read the tiny little tight and Britney's got an op
ed over it with politics. I'm going to write this
story for Center Square. You'll probably see that in about
an hour. Brittany, thank you and good luck with TSA.
And anytime you want to talk schools, you can jump
on my soapbox and we'll do it here on the

(01:17:11):
big eleven. I appreciate it, really do. Thanks for calling
this morning.

Speaker 9 (01:17:13):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
I appreciate it. I really enjoy talking to her. And
I know that last question wasn't great. That's why you
write him down. By the way. I got a text
over the weekend from Sam Hughes's campaign. First time this
has ever happened to me. He's running as a conservative
candidate in Elmbrook and I think that if that's your

(01:17:34):
school district, you want to vote for the first name, guys,
it's Sam, and then two others. He used the word
conservative in that text and warned about one hundred and
five million dollar referendum in Elmbrook schools. That's the only
way you're going to know, in some ways who is
the conservative who's not. There's also the wiz Red Local

(01:17:58):
Voter Guide. Walkeshawty GOP has their Spring primary voter guide
out now. Just go to their website Waukeshaw countygop dot
org and look for the wiz Red Voter Guide. They've
put a lot of work into this. Because I drive
up and down every road in Brookfield every day, well

(01:18:19):
not all of them, I mean Brookfield Road, and I
see the signs, But I don't know who's who for
the kids, for the schools. That doesn't mean anything. Which
one of you is there for the kids and which
one of you is there for the teachers union. If
you want to know about your school board candidates, if
you want to know about the most important local election

(01:18:40):
on your ballot next month, go and find the wiz
Red voter Guide Waukeshaw County. GOP's got theirs up. Do
it today, quick break eight twenty six. When we come back,
I am no longer moved by a bunch of old
hippies on the street corner holding signs that support well,
thing and everything, because it's all played out. I'm Benjamin Yont.

(01:19:04):
This is News Talk eleven thirty wis N Somebody asked
me about Dan's voter guide. I in no way I
would I ever want this to sound like an insult.
But that's a Danny question. Man. We we don't talk.
We when we do talk, we spend too much time
chit chat in the hallway. But you guy, you guys
think that we like sit down after the shows and

(01:19:26):
Dan and I ships in the night. Racine County Republicans
sent me a note saying that they've got their guide
out racinegp dot org, so go there if you're down
in Racine County. We will talk more about local elections
because again early voting begins tomorrow. And yeah, the government

(01:19:50):
that's closest to home is the government that matters the most.
Ad Ventos dot Com talking textallan always open four one, four, seven, nine,
eleven thirty before or we get done today. I don't
want to beat this drum again, but really, box checking
during college basketball's biggest weekend didn't make anything better. Went

(01:20:17):
out to breakfast on Saturday, went down to Tosa. Place
was packed, so I'm dipped out. I wasn't gonna sit
with There was some sort of hen convention. I don't
know if it was somebody's birthday or a bridal shower,
but I wasn't about to try and eat my omelet.
While I was having to shout over Becky and all

(01:20:38):
of her friends as we're coming back home, go down
North Avenue and they're in front of the high school
whatever it was. There was a group of older hippies
and they had their Trump signs how much they hate Trump,
and it was you know, I lie and or bat seriously,

(01:21:01):
it was generic anti Trump nonsense. There was nothing specific,
nothing new. They weren't really protesting anything other than Donald
Trump as the president. These are the same people who
protested the week before, two weeks ago, or a month ago,

(01:21:21):
or six months ago. These are the people who got
their feelings hurt in twenty sixteen when Donald Trump beat
Hillary Clinton. And they've never recovered it. They've never recovered
from the idea that he said, hey, you know what,
when you're rich, uh will, let's just grab him by
the biscuit. They were so offended by that that they

(01:21:42):
swore in that moment they would do everything they could
to oppose Donald Trump. And now it's just noise. That
is the only thought I have when I hear nonsense
like this from Howard Dean, who was on MS NOW
over the weekend. And I really want you. I included

(01:22:03):
this question because I want you to listen to the
jaw droppingly stupid way that our friends on the left
view themselves as patriotic protesters.

Speaker 4 (01:22:16):
These no Kings protests have had a big, big impact.
The Minnesota protests, by the standards of American history.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
Had fast impact.

Speaker 4 (01:22:26):
I mean, you saw civil rights and other protests role
for years. There was tragedy there and the government killed
people over time, though the protesters very quickly got a
lot of the ice folks out, that was the demand,
got leadership changed there, and then got know them fired.
Although people can debate the many reasons, de Niro is

(01:22:47):
promoting what's going to be this big national note kings
rallies as well, So where does that fit into all this?

Speaker 10 (01:22:54):
It's very important that people go out on No Kings Days.
It's a reminder of where the real Americans are. And
it's so interesting to see this happen in this generation,
this generation that de Niro is my generation. But a
lot of this has been is done by twenty five
and thirty five year olds, as we did during the

(01:23:14):
Vietnam War.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
A lot of this is not done by twenty five
and thirty five year olds. There, Howard and the idea
that the No King's protests have done something, done anything,
it's laughable. This is not the new civil rights movement.
This is a bunch of people who, as Dean actually said,
did this during the Vietnam War. They created such chaos

(01:23:42):
for the Democrats that the Democrats couldn't run. Lyndon Johnson.
They got themselves a president. Boy, they were all hyped up,
and now they want to do the same thing again.
This is, as we continue to make the point, this
is a theater camp for Grantifa. This is what the

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seventy to eighty year olds who remember the no Nukes
protests or the green Peace protests, this is what they
do now that they are retired and they've gardened as
much as they can garden. They've painted sunsets as much
as they can. They've now moved on to this is
their hobby. In general. Dean is absolutely incorrect. On a

(01:24:28):
larger scale as well. Protests matter when they are rare,
when they are focused, and when they are organic. The
no Kings protests are none of those hands off, the
Women's March, all of the other protests that you see

(01:24:50):
on a regular basis. They're not organic, they're not focused,
and they're not rare. If every weekend I can go
to some liberal commune and find somebody protesting in support
of something, it becomes background noise. The anti Trump protesters

(01:25:10):
are just that at this point. They're not saying anything
new and they're not convincing anyone. This is all for them.
Jason had the story in the news and CBS fifty
eight had the write up. There were a handful of
people out in Milwaukee over the weekend protesting for Cuba.

(01:25:31):
They didn't want the blockade. Donald Trump shouldn't be putting
pressure the poor Cuban people. The blockade that's been in effect,
the rules against Cuba, they've largely been in place since
John Kennedy was president. This is not a Trump thing.
And your sudden support for the Cuban people does not

(01:25:52):
make you a good person or a wise person or
a civil rights pioneer. You're just simply following along, glombing
on and looking like a moron. If I was transitioning
to talk about a democratic politician, I would say speaking
of looking like a moron. But I have to transition

(01:26:15):
to talk about what President said. What President Trump said
about Robert Muller by saying, some of you are not
going to be very happy with this. Muller, of course,
died over the weekend. He's the former FBI director. He
was the one who ran the investigation into whether or
not Russia colluded with President Trump to get him elected.

(01:26:38):
On the right, the Muller investigation is a witch hunt.
It's been shown, with the evidence that we now have,
that the Obama administration really did spy on their political rival,
really did try and set early Trump administration people up
to be caught in federal crimes that they weren't committing.

(01:27:00):
I mean, entrapment is a thing. I'm not here to
defend Robert Muller in any way, shape or form, but
I am here to say this is one of the
examples where President Trump could and should have said less.
He didn't need to say, Robert Muller just died. Good.
I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.

(01:27:24):
This is one of the times where restraint is the
better strategy to go with. Every time we talk about
something like this and I criticize the president, I get
a lot of texts from people who will tell me
that I'm a squish, that I'm a rhino, that I
have a never Trump bias, and that's absolutely not the case.

(01:27:45):
This is a situation where the President was clearly wrong.
You don't kick dead people. You don't speak ill of
the dead, even if they personally wronged you. The moments
after their death is announced is not the time for
you to take out your revenge. It doesn't matter where.
If it's your high school bully, your political rival, or
the person who mistreated you for your entire life, you

(01:28:06):
can save that for another day, another time, another place.
This is one of these ones where President Trump was wrong,
and I point that out not to say President Trump
is wrong, but so that the next time the President
is unfairly accused of trying to dance on someone's political grave,
when the legacy media takes the president's comments out of

(01:28:28):
context and tries to make it in a big thing,
the next time that we have to defend this president
from unfair criticism, we have a leg to stand on.
I say it all the time on this show. Honesty
is the key to doing what it is that we
do here. I'm honest with you, you're honest with me,
and we are honest with ourselves, and we can honestly

(01:28:51):
call out the president and say this one wasn't his
best moment, he shouldn't have done. This doesn't mean that
I don't support ninety percent of everything else that this
president does. It doesn't mean that Donald Trump could not
become the most significant president in American history since Ronald Reagan.
It just means that in this case, he shouldn't have

(01:29:12):
done it. He should have put down the phone. He
should have waited, at the very least and found different
words to throw the CounterPunch at his political rival. I
understand this is President Trump being President Trump, but this
is one of these ones where he didn't have to be.
And if we can acknowledge that, if we can say, hey,
you know what, this case, this is one where the

(01:29:34):
President stepped over the line, we then have the honesty,
we have the credibility to the next time that MS
NOW or CNN or the New York Times wants to
make a big deal about what the President said or tweeted,
we can then come and say, no, I was with
you there, but here you're wrong, legacy media. The President
is right. Nobody gets in trouble at work anymore for

(01:29:57):
drinking on the job or jumping into the breakroom with
the secretary. It's always, always, always whatever it is that
you put out on Twitter. Eight forty six. When we
come back, I watched ninety percent of the weekend basketball
on mute. It looks like I made the right choice.
I'm Benjamin Yon for This is News Talk eleven thirty
WISI oh, I should have told you to play one

(01:30:19):
Shining Moment. We're not gonna worry about that. I love that,
by the way, I will from time to time, after
a beer or two, go find on YouTube like the
past NCAA one Shining Moment, But they're all from the
eighties when it was good, when it was Duke and unlv.
I guess maybe that was the nineties, but ye, what

(01:30:40):
the best song? Welcome Back Benjamin Yon Show Monday morning.
I'm already thinking of tomorrow's show. I'm gonna have to
do something on John Fetterman because boy, have they turned
one tweet from this guy? Maybe we should be able
to fly and the Left is out for blood. Will
get to that tomorrow. I don't know if you watched

(01:31:02):
a lot of the NCAA tournament. I did. It's the
one time of year I watched college basketball. And the
way we do it, it's more of a get together
of friends, cook a lot and have some beers, sit
around and just visit. But the games are always on.
Buddy Mine's got three TVs in his living room, so
we're always watching a game, and we'll listen to the game.
The play by play will actually listen to, but everything

(01:31:25):
else just goes straight on mute. And I put this
out on X over the weekend. By the way, I'm
there at eleven thirty that I finally was sitting down
at my own house and watched maybe about five minutes
of one of the halftime shows or one of the
transition shows. It was terrible. It was Charles Barkley and
Clark Kellogg, some woman who played for the WNBA, and

(01:31:48):
Nate Burlison, who's an NFL guy who's part of CBS's
NFL coverage. And there was no analysis, there was nothing
actually useful. It was just it. It'd be like sitting
down at the end at the bar at Bobby's and
listening to two morons talk about college They knew nothing,
they had nothing to offer, and this is apparently a thing.

(01:32:10):
Newsweek had a whole piece that I linked to up
about the reaction. A lot of people aren't happy, and
one of the reasons is this is box checking one
oh one. Burlison's a black guy, and they want him
to be there to broadcaster, so they're shoehorning in an
NFL guy into college basketball. Charles Barkley is Charles Barkley.

(01:32:32):
He's the star on the set, the young woman Renee Montgomery.
By the way, if you can tell me who she
is without looking it up on Google, I'll give you
a dollar. But this is what happens when you take basketball,
which is for a very specific audience and try and
make it for housewives. Sorry, ladies, I know you may

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be watching the NCAA two. But the stuff that's important
to sports fans is and that's what is not what
is important to sports broadcasters, and certainly isn't what is
important to sports networks. A fifty four all we got today,
See you tomorrow. I'm Benjamin Yance. This is News Talk
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