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And we broke that story.

Matt, every news outlet, now they didn't generate headlines we liked about it, but every single news outlet for days Did that story, whether it was Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin State Journal, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

I pulled up the headlines.

I mean, they were headlines that were like Republicans pounce or, you know, dumb things like that.

That's why, because it's so disruptive, I can't teach.

So again, we started this by saying, these are the things you need to talk about.

Tom Tiffany can't spend, won't get an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel talking about this, or an article in the Wisconsin State Journal talking about this.

If he wants to get people to know about it, he's gonna have to buy advertising.

In Wisconsin, that is the fact.

That is the Wisconsin State Journal.

That is every single television station.

It is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

And the number one voting bloc are people over the age of 50 That's that's who they're affecting.

You can say, well, you know, the subscriptions are going down for the Journal Sentinel.

There were subscriptions are going down for the Wisconsin State Journal or whatever.

It doesn't matter.

that it's either true or false, except for these firsthand witnesses, one of whom has signed an affidavit.

Wisconsin State Journal, Cap Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, do your jobs.

Do your jobs.

Were this Tom Tiffany, this would be front page, top of the fold.

So if you hear any clicking or rumbling or voices, we are in a press box.

We're probably annoying other people doing this podcast, but we had to bring this discussion to the people the night of the game because that's how... much there is to talk about and bill huber here on the green bay beat and with me at the athletic and you on sports illustrated and paul at the wisconsin state journal we don't like to blame the refs we really don't um i don't know that i've really ever focused after a game on referee mistakes but you feel differently tonight why is that

So this is my 19th year on the job, and I've never, ever, ever written this.

I mean, you might pick out a call here and there that you think is kind of crap, but they got screwed today.

I don't know, Tuesday evening and Thursday morning, maybe.

So just follow us on socials to see when we.

When we put that out, he's at Paul underscore Bredel, Wisconsin State Journal, at Bill Huber, NFL, Sports Illustrated, myself at Match Nightman on The Athletic.

We will talk to you next time.

That's going to raise our electricity rates, but it's also ultimately going to raise our food costs because it's going to sideline some of our beautiful farmland here in Wisconsin.

So there it is, Frank, and you actually directly addressed this in a recent piece that you had published, I believe, at Madison.com, the Wisconsin State Journal.

So let's talk about this.

How on earth would you take a power pig, like a hyperscale data center, and run that thing on wind and solar?

Now we're going to have to go almost a full year here.

So from January of 2025 now to December of 2025, this is from the Wisconsin State Journal.

And they say a man charged, of course they mean James Barnes Morris, a man charged with killing a 24-year-old McFarland woman whose body was found in a pond on Madison's near west side last year pled guilty to first-degree reckless homicide, according to court records.

James Barnes Morris, 26, originally had been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Brooke Stratton.

I remember it well because it was about 4:00 in the morning, and Mike Grebe and I were sitting with then Senator George Petak.

And if you remember back then, the vote had failed twice in the Senate, and the headline that morning in the Wisconsin State Journal actually said, um, "Stadium Vote Fails by One Vote, But Diehards Refuse to Give Up." We spent the next hour trying to chor- talk George into voting, changing his vote, which he ultimately did, and at 5:00 in the morning on October 6th, 1995, the half-cent sales tax passed 16 to 15 in the Senate.

So that kinda got the first part of this story rolling.

So how was the legislation to create a new ballpark passed? How did you ultimately get it to be a yes?