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It's time for the news. Newsflash. It's Rock and Robins newsflash.
We are off of it different Tuesday. Madison's class sic rock what at one
point five, I'd be a famRobin Colbert sitting to my rights news director
from news Talk thirteen ten at WYBAAm, Robin, you guys are virtually
walked a wall from Milwaukee. Absolutely. I was gonna say, joy real
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quiet times in the news business.Huh. Yeah, that's what they call
it. Cross promotion. If youwant coverage of the Republican National Convention,
you can find it on your amdial thirteen ten. Yeah. We have
it from morning, noon until night. It's going all day long. Actually,
speaking of the convention, the RNCyesterday saw a VP pick Ohio Senator
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jd Vance, an appearance by DonaldTrump complete with a bandaged ear. No
issues reported with any protests or anysort of breaches at the event as of
yesterday and so far today. SoI hadn't seen a lot of talk about
that. I don't follow things thatclosely, but yeah, jd Vance from
Ohio Rock and the Beer. Yeah, I did see that beer. He
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wrote it was on I think itwent to streaming. Was it Netflix or
HBO or something. He'll Billy Elegykind of loosely based on Hill. Glenn
Close was in it. Amy Adams, screenwriter a kid well, he wrote
a book about and it was madeinto a movie. His dad like ditched
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the family when he was like sixyears old. He grew up and I
forget if it was like West Virginiaor something, just really impoverished and Yeah,
interesting damaging storms once again rolling throughsouthern Wisconsin last night, including Grant
County, where the roof was rippedoff the Village Bar Supper Club in Keeler
in Rock County, Flooding remains aconcern there. Residents and businesses on the
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Rock River and Lake Kashkanon are keepingan eye on rising water levels. ADS
and firefighters had to help some strandedmotorists during the deluge of rain on Sunday
night. Drivers stranded largely on theeast and north ends of town, including
Aburg and North Sherman Avenues, EastJohnson and Third Streets. Fire Department reminding
motorists a car can be swept awayin floodwaters as little as six inches deep.
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Yeah, there's been some wild videosI've seen as of late, especially
the downtown streets because there's nowhere forthat wand or to know university always is
an issue. Whenever we get thesedownpours. It's just been one thing after
another. Now we have a stretchof what hopes to be a dry stretch
and nice weather in the seventies eighties. So I was saying over the weekend,
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I feel like I can't remember whenit just kind of rained at a
normal pace. I feel like,as the latest is something normally happened.
Yes, yes, and the skylast night I've had the Fix Red Skies
at night in my hat. It'sgreat. Can I put in a request?
Sure? All right? For thedrive? Yeah, it is a
great song, The Fix, veryunderrated band from the eighties. You guys
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play it? We do. Yeah. We are in the midst of county
fair season. Both Dane Counties andGreen Counties fairs kick off this week.
The Dane County Fair will start upon Thursday at the Alliant Energy Center.
The Green County Fair will start tomorrow. Yeah. And I heard from a
couple of people yesterday they went tothe Lafayette County Fair over this past weekend.
They had a lot of pune withthe Badger's Day tractor pullers. They
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were in sound. Did you knowthis? I was telling people this last
week before I left that my grandfatherfrom the Sparta area, he was the
presidents of the NCPA, which isthe National Tractor Pullers. What is the
association? Sorry, I didn't knowthat there was like this over you know,
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arcing Governmental body tractor Pullers. He'sbig tractor. He was big time
back in the day. He Stundsretired. But yeah, the National Track
Pullers Association. Oh that's something toin your head on, something to live
up to. What have you done? Ben? Huh? All right?
What have I done in my life? Are you an Amazon Prime Member?
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Oh? My goodness, I am? And I got a text for my
wife yesterday. Did you know AmazonPrime Days is coming up soon? Today's
today and tomorrow. I'm not evena Prime member, but I'm seeing it
all over the place everywhere I look. There's a reminder, Hey, Prime
Days. I'm looking forward to breakingdown a lot of boxes cause I know
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that. See. Have you gottento the age yet or has your wife
gotten to the age at where youappreciate a really good box and you don't
really want to throw it out becauseit could be there's a use for it
at some point. You'll get there, Ben, What are you just mid
thirties now? Yeah? Early thirties. Yeah, yeah, I'll give it
a few years, but you're goingto find yourself. Like, I don't
want to throw this out. Thisis a good box, you know what
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I do. I should admit thison the air, but screw it.
I don't care. I load upmy truck with boxes that I bring them
here dumpster roy or engineering. Ihope you're not listening to this, but
I am the one that does boxesin that dumpster. So alrighty, that's
all I got for you today.Okay, have a good rest of your
day, Robin. We'll see hopefullywe'll get to the fixed tonight too.
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Yeah, stay with us all right. Russian Queen coming back on it too
for Tuesday. Also that Johnson wina pair of Santana tickets. Tough,
that's up at three point forty.I what a one point five