The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 714- The Milk Strike- Live

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine explor the Milk Strike! SOURCES TOUR DATES OFFICIAL MERCH

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you're listening to the Dolop. What? This American History podcast for each week I, Dave Anthony, read a story from American history to a person I don't like. Carrath Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic

is going to be about. Yeah. Well, it's about you. What? It's about you. Wait, no. Yeah. That'd be fucking brutal.

That'd be terrible. 1930s. Could be me. Wisconsin. Yeah. State of our Lord, J-Town. Jesus. Jesus.

He loves cheese curds, J-Town. That's Luke. What? That's Luke. Luke loves... Luke, yeah. Yeah, Luke loves... I bet if you smelled Luke's hands right now.

That should be a game. Would anybody ever do that? That should be a game. No, it shouldn't be. We should turn that into a game. No, I just see a lot of throwing up. We should turn that into a Merv Griffin production. Smell Luke's fingers and gas.

No one's going to... The only place that you'd be able to do that is on our Patreon. Nowhere else would air that. I think it's a great idea, though. Even YouTube would be like, we can't. They'd be like, well, But everyone keeps guessing bugles. It was bugles.

Because he still got him on his fingers. Luke, you have to take the bugles off your finger before people guess. Oh, right. I was playing Witches Claw. I turned him in the van and he had a bugle on his tongue and he was like, this is how we do it.

Yep. The badgers. State. It's Wisconsin. You still got badgers? Oh, yeah. You see, you see them a lot when you're growing up? Oh, yeah. Yeah, they got one. Really? Oh, yeah. A lot of badgers?

Oh, yeah. It's not like four left or anything? No, there's a lot. It's a ubiquity. Do you know what that word means? No. Yeah. The badger state was the largest producer of milk. in America. Yeah. And aren't

they happy about it? County of cows. Yeah, girl. Cedar lawn. Waukeshaw. Holston. Breeders assing. They were... They just did, like, a recent paint job on, like, nine letters?

Like, I was like, shit, I thought it was gonna be the whole sign. They're like, no. Just couple ends and o's. We don't gotta do the whole thing. No, you can read most of it. Just a couple parts. You know, we got some models for the day. Bikinis?

No. No. They're gonna come from church. No. Stand right by the side. They'll both be facing the front. One of them. Other one we're going to do profile.

She'll be pissed. Anywho. There were over 125 dairy farms. 63% of all land in Wisconsin was farmland. And 71% of that was dairy farms. You guys aren't fucking. No, we weren't. Yeah.

And yet, it was a horrible time to be a Wisconsin dairy farmer. Oh, dole. Jesus Christ, I don't even understand what's happening behind that depressed man. That's the house? Well, I'm even, well, that better not be the house. That's the house. That's the outhouse, I would hope. No, that's the house.

That's the actual house? Yeah. Oh, Christ. And they got, and there's the chair? I'm more curious about, like, the child who has the child. Oh, no, that's... He's the father. Is that, like, a magic trick with that child's legs?

What do you mean? It looks like an optical illusion. In what way? Like half the body's off of the legs. No, you... No, what? I've been drinking paint. Do you know what pants are?

I do know what pants are. Well, those are just shorts. The leg isn't disappearing. She's got shorts on. It's not like a magic leg growing out of his fucking waist. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, not the child, not the smallest child, the other one. Look at a wolf kilter.

The guy that's standing up straight with his torso on his legs. All right, copperfield. You've seen it all. Besides the Great Depression, there was a... That guy is the walking great depression. Yeah, he really is. Fuck. I'm doing this for the next 10 years.

I don't even have the energy to go to a bridge. Pop, are you okay? Shush. No. Okay. I thought the house would be bigger. Well, we got that chair finally. Soon can we afford that surgery

where my torso gets put back together? Damn it, the torso's right. I don't think it is. Look real close. I am. You never seen a big shirt before, boy? All right. We get it.

You're a hot shot who knows it all. I'm living it, and I'm telling you, I had Hoyt's. Besides the Great Depression, there was a decades-long war against farmers and their wallets. Big distributors, major corporate creameries, and other profiteers controlled the price of milk

and they were artificially lowering it. It's big milk! Whoa, what the fuck? It's a milk. That's a lot, yeah. That's where they do it. Yeah. That's where they put it all together.

Some they had a milkman, yeah. Right in the bottles. Yes, sir. Yep. That's the heart of it. Yeah. When Robert Kennedy goes to sleep, that's what he envisions. That's right. Why would a company artificially lower the price of its own product?

Well, to destroy competitors, and to do that, you destroy the farmers. The farmers couldn't fight them one-on-one, so farmers started co-ops. Nice. Some guy, what happened up there? Some guy was like, oh! Yeah. Some guy's an emotional, guttural feeling. Yeah, I felt like there was...

Co-op! Co-op! They democratized their economic situation to strike some balance against big milk, like the Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool. I would love to get in a milk pool. Fuck yeah. I would get in a milk pool right now.

What? I'd get in a milk pole right now. Yeah, you should, by the way. That'd be nice. Yeah, I both feel nice. Yeah. Swim and drink. Just lap it up.

Yep. Lap pool. Yeah. Put on a skim suit. Just get a cheese noodle. Huh? Get out of the pool. No.

Get out of the pool. I'm hanging out of my cheese noodle. What? I'm flutter out of my cheese noodle. Sir. Anyway, they got a milk pool. It was a smaller, the milk pool was a smaller, but more militant group of dairymen. I like that, militant dairyman.

Yeah. The military. Yeah. I think that's pretty good, and I think when people listen to it, they'll appreciate what just happened. Disagree. The Wisconsin Farm Holiday Association, which was by far the biggest and most powerful co-op, but it was a lot less radical than the milk pool. Okay.

So the milk pool is radical. They're the bad boys. The bad boys of milk. The bad boys of milk. That's right. All right. So once they had their co-ops, big milk came at them hard. From 1929 to 1932, the price of milk was cut by more than half.

Wow. Yeah. Well, what? Going to the wrong business. Sure. Or just don't drink it. That would be... Don't drink milk.

Yep. The Great Depression had a big hand in this, but this was a purposeful move against farmers and the cost of production was now more than farmers were making. Dozens, if not hundreds are having farms and homes foreclosed upon. They were making one third less than before. Conglomerates, grocery stores, and distributors were taking it all. Fucking sons of bitches.

Look at that asshole. That's a fucking... That's a corporate milkman? Fuck that guy. Do you know that or is that just... You're just saying that? Oh, I got a feeling. Okay, because it seems like he's...

I feel it in my bones. All right. Son of a bitch. All right. Seems like he might just be a nice guy, though. He's not. All right. That bottle's full of poison.

And I don't agree on that. He's gonna kill her. That's speculative. No, now you're being awful. Yeah, they seem happy. By the way, I thought you just dropped it off the door. I didn't think you had to go meet the guy. I didn't think it was like buying weed in eighth grade.

Fucking, you got that shit? Now there's a bunch of like chunks in this. Don't drink that. That's cool. I'll sort it. I didn't even know there were different strains. Apparently there's 2% skim, D, hole. Yeah, butter. Butter? Huh?

Milk. Orange. Speaking of Luke. Speaking of, Luke, he did come back from a bike ride once with a big thing of orange milk, and he was like, this is pretty good. I was like, I don't even want to... Who gets fatter on a bike ride? I don't know.

It's just all sweaty. He's like, I put on 100 calories. So, this situation was untenable. In April 1932, a conference of farmers and dealers met and agreed to create a price control board so that farmers got more money for milk than it cost to make. Now, what do you mean? Who met? The farmers and the milk dealers.

So the big guys? No. Oh, no. So just the... The guys are getting fucked, basically. So they had three demands. A price control board, a moratorium, a moratorium on foreclosing farms and auctioning off all the stuff that they had on the farms. And strict regulation of the middleman's cut.

or let the farmers like sell directly to customers Right And then they presented that to the state government And the state government went I don't care They said they don't care Well I think they did this

Were they like yeah or no No they shrug their shoulders And then they're like What are you saying? And then they went And they're like well Surely when people look back at this moment They'll have an answer as to what you're saying

What would they say this is? In like a hundred years when someone is like, what did you think? What would you say? On September 2nd, 1932, Arnold Gilbert's, of the Farm Holiday Association

spoke to over 5,000 farmers at a rally. Why is it called the Farm Holiday? I don't know. What are they doing? Are they having a holiday? Well, that's part of the problem. We're going to need you guys to work. No more days off. It's ridiculous. How dare you? Bad name. I don't know why they. I tried to figure it out

and I couldn't and there's there in other states too. They have farm holiday. Yeah, farm holiday. All right. So Gilbert told the farmers at the rally quote, we'll solve our problem. with bayonets, and I don't mean maybe. So the farmers are going to start cutting heads off and shit.

I felt like he was singing that a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. Now, that's the moderate group of guys. Right. Those are the chill ones. And then Walter Singler, who was... Oh, by the way. You don't need to tell me where he falls on the spectrum. Otherwise, we'll do it with bayonets.

Oh, we could auction their souls to the devil. What? Just the theory. There's a way to suck a soul out of a man if you do the right spell. Pull that book off the shelf. And when that door opens, take a step down there,

and I'll show you a single two. Walter Singler was the new president. Take a step into the cheese river with me. Now, I don't even know what's going on. Don't hold your breath under here if you believe hard enough. Cheese river? Take my hand and we'll go down the river of cheese. Does they even flow?

Does the cheese ever even flow? It's hard to swim against the river of cheese. And a boat can't go on it. We once had a boat and the boat did sink. Well, in the cheese? In the winter we freeze it and it becomes. comes a skidding rinkled river of cheese. Anyway, you can't get through this one, so.

Here, let's take the stairs. It's faster than going down the river of cheese. Yeah, I mean, yeah. But anyway, the proposition is if we command the right demonic forces, we can steal their souls. Just so you know, to me, a river of cheese is just a different kind of land. Look, move on from the river of cheese.

I was just kind of flexing. But I'm kind of stuck on it. No, just come through here. It's a shortcut. I am trying to think about how the boat sank and the river of cheese. Well, look, if we must get into it, I build a boat and I had three men on it, and we were trying to row through it.

Row through what? The river of cheese. Okay, but it's like not... It's hard. Yes, it's too hard. Exactly. Yes. So what's so hard to believe?

Well, how did it sink? Because we couldn't get through it. Well, that doesn't make any sense. It would just sit there. No, it wouldn't it? with sick eventually, you idiot. You know what? Go back to the bayonet guy. I don't like your attitude.

I have a whole way of removing the souls from these people and you just can't get out of your own way. So get out. Now. I'm not... Out. Now. Out. Can I walk across the river of cheese to get out? Yes.

Yeah, everybody can. It's not a fucking river. It's not a fucking piece of land. Well, you better walk with some pace. Why? Because it's not fully solid. You can leave now if you walk through the river of cheese. Is it like a breeze? What, it's not a breeze?

Okay, well, just trying to figure this out. What are you talking about? Well, how is it? It's yellow. What does that even mean? Well, it's clearly... Cheddar? Potentially, yes.

Well, then it's not that soft. What, you just are so out of your element. The type of cheese. The type of cheese does not determine the fluidity of the river of cheese. I feel like it does. You just, get out, honestly. I'm so fucking done with you.

To think that I ever reached out to you to help you, I have a way to remove the souls from the big cheeseman. Don't even. I feel like the big cheeseman had their souls removed a long time ago. Just like, whatever. Walter Singler was the new president of the milk pool. Quote, about six feet tall and heavy, he wears a Westerner's broad-brimmed hat,

a checked vest, and a carefully clipped mustache, and goatee. He also sports Pearl Grey Spats. He met his wife, his second, while visiting Paducah, Kentucky three years before. She was a slim, attractive woman with a six-year-old son. The town of Shokton considers her the best dress. woman. Whoa, what the fuck just happened?

I broke it all down. You've done some research on this guy. I took you through his whole fucking deal. Now you know. So he looks like the devil and his wife's hot. Yeah. Yeah. Singler began organizing for a strike.

And strikes were in the air, even though, and were even being editorialized positively in the papers. Papers are actually like, yeah. Interesting. What a time. Which is fucking crazy. Yeah. The marsh field. news herald quote think what farmers could do if they were organized instead of

pleading for a fair price for their products they could demand it or refuse to deliver any more milk it is merely another object lesson it's so funny to imagine like being like we will not give people milk was like legitimately a threat what do yeah everyone was like Jesus Christ what will we do water milk you could drink that fucking cheese you keep talking about excuse me You won't be able to drink the river of cheese. You'll die. What?

You'll die for two reasons. Why would you die? Because it's non-digestable and a wizard's put a curse on it. Wait, the cheese isn't digestible? That's right. It's purely river. Is it ornamental cheese? Get out. You get out.

I can't. I'm unable to. Why? Because 400 years ago. Oh, no, no, no, no. Do you want to hear the story? Not really, but I think I'm going to have to, but I don't want to, no. I'm what they call...

Cool? Cool. Okay. A cheese vampire. What do you think of that? Yeah. Does that mean you... That, yeah, that just...

No, it just sounds like you eat cheese. Like, it doesn't sound like you're just a guy who eats cheese. I am. Okay, so that's not a vampire. Yes, it is. Unless you're eating cheese out of people and people are made a cheese. Well, well, well. Well, well, what?

Someone's got their finger on the pulse of the situation suddenly. You're out of your fucking mind. Am I? Nobody has made a cheese. They don't have to be made of it. I just have to eat it out of them. What in God's name do you think a cheese vampire is? Do you go through the stomach?

I go through wherever the cheese is. What if it's just in a pocket? That won't work. That's just regular. a cheese. So the cheese has to have been eaten. Yes. So kind of digested.

On its way, yes. On its way, where? To digestion or being digested or digested in some cases. How far into the digestive process will you go? I'll go as far as the cheese goes. Now you're all of a sudden, you're like, well maybe I do want to do

business with this guy. This guy does seem like he might be a little more for real than I gave him credit for. Well, well, well. Fine, I'll bite you. I don't want to be bitten. You could join me. I haven't had any cheese.

In the forever dance. Nobody wants to be just a forever cheese eater, like digging into people's intestines. I'll be honest, there's a downside that you probably can't see. I just, I think I just said it. It's not all sucking digested cheese out of people and cheese rivers.

I've grown quite lonely even though my wife's a smoke show. She's mortal. And I'm not. But I am looking for a partner. Someone to go with me the whole way. Put your hand away. I'm not going to...

Come on. I'm not going to be a cheese, bro, or whatever you got. Come on. No. I'm anti-chease. You've awoken. the spirit. You're four.

My layers shaking. I'll be back. Yes, I know. I'm very aware. By February 8, 1933, the farmers were organized, and Singler called for a milk strike to begin one week later on February 15. everyone's on board Charles Goldimer

the president of the Liberal Holiday Association told the meeting of 500 farmers quote we are going to strike until doomsday unless our rights are recognized and we receive cost of production plus a profit

one leader declared quote when a man when a city man and his family that's you fucking city what are you Madison they might have driven here nah what no I know them it's not that big of a town fucking Madison

big city sons of bitches leave alone you and your god damn big city britches you live in L.A nah when a city man and his family begin to get hungry he is going

to recognize the power of the farmer and join in assisting him to get recognition it is awesome that literally if you're like Like, if they don't have dairy, people will lose their fucking mind. All hell breaks loose. They won't know what else to eat. Just setting things on fire.

Just like eating sausages, flipping cars. We're not right. But then, the not at all radical holiday association met to vote and waffled. They tried to have it both ways. They would not pick it, but they wouldn't scab either. Jesus Christ. This meant that they would withhold their milk but not pressure other scabbing farmers

or middlemen like creameries or distributors. They're just like, we won't endorse. Yeah. The main tactic of the actually striking farmers was the roadblock. Wow. You know, part of the advantage back then was like there was one road.

Like strategy was so easy. Like, yeah, 30 of us are going to go down there. Well, looks like we can't go anywhere today. Those 30 people are here again. They got twigs. Their goal was to stop every milk truck from coming in or out of their counties. And they did not fuck around. Some built barricades of logs, other stacked heavy boxes,

some laid down their bodies to stop trucks. Wow, fucking Tiananmen squaring over milk. No, you! No, you don't. So here they were taking... Yeah, logs. Logs, but they would set one end on fire and then hold it in front of the...

I do like the two guys who are like, hold on, wait, do you have your parking ticket? That'll be 425. Oh, you got validation? 2.10. 2.10. Quote, at each blockade point,

Two groups of pickets about two blocks apart are station. As the motorist or truck driver approaches, the first group he is flagged down and his vehicle examined for the presence of farm produce. Whoa, they fucking search. Searching for farm shit. Jesus. Shit, honey, drink it all. Drink it all.

Pound the mill. Quick, kids, guzzle it. Excuse me, has anyone here got any dairy on them? No. Oh god Harold If nothing is found He is permitted to proceed

If produce is found He is turned back If the driver fails to stop At the signal of the first group The pickets wave to the second group Down the road Which throws spiked planks Into the path of the car

Holy fuck Hey, so it's a picture of a spiked plank, so you just put a board down and you put nails through it, and that stops cars from driving around, I don't know, kidnapping people and whatnot. If that were to happen. If that were to happen. Spikes have the design effect. Is that what they're looking for? Huh?

Huh? Milk? Yeah. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

What? Yes. Cricy. And cheese. What? Y'all got any charcuttery? Shit. The spikes have the desired effect, and the search is then made at that point.

Then they search cars for dairy. Yep. Fuck me. And cheese. And cheese. It was wildly successful, so successful that Big Milk tried to spin the narrative. and complain that vulnerable people like children, the elderly, and the sick weren't getting the milk they needed to survive.

A lot of babies die. A lot of babies dying because the babies aren't getting milk. There's no other way for a baby to get milk. Not from humans. No. Well, they were not allowing the women to... Excuse me, ma'am. Were you breastfeeding?

Yes. I'm afraid, Doc Collins. What? Get out of the car, man. Ma'am, you've got to empty the breasts. We're going to have to empty your breasts. Go ahead and put it right there. Sir, this won't take long.

We're just going to have to empty your wife's press. Right in a bucket, ma'am. There you go. This is Pete. He's a farmer. What the fuck? I can go ahead and milk him or you can do it on your own. No, he's not going to be doing that to me.

All right, well, then go ahead and shoot her in there. Wait, what? There you go. So do you guys live around here? I don't want to make small talk with you. All right. By the way, Those are nice.

Compliments. There we are. What do you do with the milk? We give it to the cattle. That's disgusting. I agree. So, instead of playing into it,

the farmers cut a deal with local physicians. And now, if you could produce a doctor's note, you could have your milk. Oh, my God. So it is like the early days of medical marijuana. Yes, basically. They're just like, oh, I need it.

My bones are snapping. Repeat, there you go. Get yourself a little doctor's not there. There you go. And the complaint ceased. So the farmers were sacrificing a lot. Refusing to sell during the Great Depression was not easy, but they stayed resolute.

One said, quote, we will suffer a loss in this strike, but we will have, we have reached the point where we are in a desperate situation and we must sacrifice now in the hopes that our condition will be improved. We can't go on under our present circumstances. If you can't, no, it seems very unrelatable. The heads of the largest co-ops, especially the Holiday Association. They should be called cow-ops. Don't encourage him That was barely encouragement That was like 30 people clapped twice

That's right I don't need that Do the numbers in your head, do the math Understand where you are I'm the rain man of applause breaks That's definitely 18% liked it Definitely 18% were into that 82% were on the fence

So the heads of the largest co-ops, especially the Holiday Association, met on February 22nd, a week after the strike began. Now, FDR's first term, oh, you fucking, aren't you having fun? Aren't you having a good fucking time? Why are you mad at me? I don't know. Yeah. I'm like the only guy who ever tried. And I was a rich prick.

FDR's first term would begin in less than a month And FDR had promised to help farmers And the Holiday Association was hoping he would So their members wouldn't have to strike They wanted They wanted to give FDR room to do his stuff Sure basically Right

And Singler agreed But he held strong quote There will be no letting up This is not a peace but a truce We have proved that a strike is a good weapon And we will use it again good smart so month goes by nothing changes so singler even went to dc to implore fDR to take action quote mr roosevelt was too busy to see any of us we left deciding that we would get his attention

in another way uh-oh yeah by april 12th singler could wait no longer families losing their homes farmers are going penniless, and the price of milk remained. So he announced a strike to take place in one month or less, and his men were ready. The number of farmers in the milk pool had doubled since February strike. That's way too many. That's overcapacity. You can't have that many in the milk pool.

As he shouted out the need for direct action to a cheering crowd at a local fairground, someone else was making their entree into the strike. Uh-oh. Governor Albert Schmediman, Schmediman. Schmediman? Schmediman, Schmideman. Who cares? Apparently, nobody here cares.

Nobody cares. I don't know. And no one went. Shmedamen. You're waiting for that. Schmettermann, like Chetteman. He was a... Schmetteman like Chittaman can't find a badaman.

That would be my slogan if I were him. Can't find a schmittman. He was a skinny, bald, mustachioed man of German stock, whose official portrait made him look like a concerned ghost. Oh. Whoever took the picture did him wrong with that white background there. They really did. They really did.

I mean, it makes him look like an eraser. Yeah. It does. I've sucked all the cheese out of this one. All the remains is no empathy. Fuck, that is how you go bald. Yeah, it really is. That is like textbook bald.

Yeah. This is before they knew you could shave the sides, which they never... Now they know. They didn't know for a long time. In the 70s, they were like, wait a minute, that's way better. That is way better.

So he's when they were like, well, you got to flaunt what you have, grow it out. So he was like the OG type of corporate Democrat that we have now. Really? You don't look like it. By the way, he's still in Congress. And not the oldest one. No, he's 107 and he just voted for re-election. Even though he gave up his power of attorney 10 years ago. You see, you don't need to be in Congress.

control of your faculties to still be a Democrat in Congress. That's not important at all. That's right. You just need to be able to hold someone's hand to get in and out. What do you mean? What is a vote? What is a vote? Oh, yay.

Yay! Yay! We're so fucked. I want to go home. What? Oh. Yay! Ow!

What do you think the odds are that the Democrats take back the House in the midterms and then one dies and they don't have the House anymore? Pretty good odds. So good, I bet Chonsie Billups put money on it. Why can't they replace people with under... They only know 90-year-olds.

I know, it's crazy. You're going to love her. She's 95. she's ready to go. I've never been ready to fight more. I'm so angry. I'll show you all. I'm a Dixie Krat.

Ma'am. What? Whoa, show Ronald Reagan a thing or two. Ma'am. Man. No, put your arm down, ma'am. I heard a pop. She broke her arm and ribs.

Wow. So, Sheetaman's parents had fled Germany Sheeteman's new Sheeteman Shedeman Shedeman Shedeman Sheteman Shetamon Shetamon

What's called the whole thing His parents fled Germany After the failed 1848 Revolution and those immigrants Who had traditions of labor And radical militants Built Milwaukee's socialist politics But Shetamon

His virtues were Obedience and Caution He didn't come from activism or organizing but from Madison Gas and Electric, where he was a comfortable executive. He really, but... Yeah!

Woo! You know what? M. M.E. M.E. M.G. We should be able to financially profile. Like, that guy looks like a real rich piece. Like, we should be able to just throw eggs at that. If you see that guy, yeah, fuck that.

Yeah, fuck him. Maybe not eggs, because that's kind of going against the argument. we're having right now but yeah farmers like not helping but you don't want to go to market because you're trying to bring up the price so you could throw eggs out of them

yeah I guess yeah you'd go buy them hard boiled eggs yeah ow just welting him oh so as a businessman Democrat he built a reputation

for bureaucratic competence Without vision. Bureaucratic competence is such a funny term. I'm really good at being a piece of shit. Super skilled at sucking. I'm the parliamentarian. He modernized city services, but to the benefit of urban elites and the university, not workers. AI.

When strikes hit Wisconsin cities in the 2010s and 2020, I'm sorry. In the 1910s and 1920. Yeah, I showed him. I'm still here. Yeah. He never put his weight behind organized labor as Madison's mayor. He stayed neutral in public while letting employers set the terms. So, now with the Great Depression...

So they haven't had a platform for like 100 years. Yeah, basically. So now with the Great Depression, as capitalism is collapsing, Shetteman offered stability for the status quo. They offered concessions to farmers, but only if they booted Singler from the Milk Bowl leadership. What? Get rid of this fucking loudmouth guy.

I'm not even a loud mouth. You've upset me in the wrong way. If only I could go out in the day, I'd show them a thing to it. Well, that's just the point. We don't want any cheese vampires leading the farmers. Maybe you go out at night and see a show or something like that. Then on your walk back, as your shadows get large in the alleyways, you hear the footsteps.

and the fluttering of winged beast. It is I, the cheese vampire. Okay. I didn't know you were a bat also. What's that? Hello? Oh, that was you turning into a person? Yes.

I didn't know. Had any cheese? Because you made this sound with your mouth. Had any, let me, had any cheese tonight? I had some milk. When did you have it? Three hours ago. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

You fool. It's not cheese. Lift up your shirt. It's not cheese, no. It's still dairy. Yeah, but you said cheese. Oh, I did, didn't I? Have you had any cheese?

Yeah, well, no, I haven't had any cheese, and you really fucked up. Would you mind not going to the bathroom for about a month? It'll curdle and slowly become what I need. Actually, wait, would you like some of these cheeses? Have a cheese. No. You can't give me cheese. Please have one.

No. Look, my niche is very specific and in a tiny window. Your niece? Neish. Eat some. No. Here, have some salami. I don't eat alley cheese.

Put it on a cracker. Put some on a cracker and have it with some salami. No. And a tiny pickle. Use a truth pick. I don't want to. Yeah, help yourself. Make a bunch of stuff.

Guys, are all cheese vampires, this dumb. I'm sure that you have some of the cheeses. I'm starting to get why there's no movies about you guys. Please. Have some. And by the way, there are a lot of movies about it. No, there aren't. Yes, there's not one.

Yes, there are. Name one. Uh, uh, uh, the, uh, the, uh, uh, uh, see? Uh, uh, dracoutery. I don't know. Yes. That's not a movie.

Yes, it is. Of course you've heard of Dracutery. He's our famous cheese. Why we're talking about this? Help yourself. No, I don't want any cheese. Have a tiny pickle and make a little burrito and make the cheese the flour tortilla. You're more...

Come on, why we're chatting. Have some. You're more of a nuisance than something to be afraid of. Can I just put some on your neck? You're like... Let me put some cheese on your neck. So a cheese vampire is like a six-year-old woman. No.

When you go over to the cheese farm and she's like, have some cheese and you're like, no, I don't want, I don't feel like having a cheese. Well, have a little. When you go home, will you have any? No. What is that? I'm over here now.

Why do you make that sound with your mouth when you do that? I became a cheese bag. So the farmers refused to boot Singler from, leadership. So he put out a six-point program to deal with the strike. First of all. Governor. You do it out. One, close all creameries, milk distribution plants, and cheese factories. Two, milk to be delivered

to families with kids under eight, sick or invalid people, and hospitals. Wow. So only... Three, permits for those drivers to turn their milk trucks into de facto ambulance with a white cross on a red background in the words public welfare written on the cross. Are we in... Are we right now living in

cheese COVID? Health officials may keep milk plants open for health related purposes. What? For health related purposes? Sheriffs will become guardians of the milk trucks. What? This milk trucks.

getting through no matter what they try, boys. Come with me if you want some cheese. I'm what they call a cheddar sheriff. A sheriff. I'm a sheriff. I'm with the Bree police. Bree PD. Everybody shut the fuck up.

Scabs would be encouraged to organize against the strike by petitioning and by any other convenient means demonstrate that the majority of farmers in a given committee are against the strike and then Shetaman would send in the sheriffs to bust up the strike.

Wow. So when he closes the factories and plants, everyone cheers because it looked like he's in solidarity with the farmers. Right. But he's not. Shetiman wanted to pacify the farmers as he quote, prepared the machinery

of war to be used to crush the strike. Jesus Christ. You don't fuck around with fucking milk in Wisconsin. Yeah, I mean, I recognize it, but still. This is shocking. According to one paper, the plants had only been closed to prepare for a miniature civil war. Holy shit.

Cheese wars? Yeah, the cheese wars. The milky wars? The cheese wars are upon us. Wow. Singler in the milk pool had convinced. the larger holiday association to participate this time. So they got the bayonet people to finally...

Yeah, now they're finally helping. Well, well, well. Looks like you finally come to my side. So combined, the strike would deal a much heavier blow to big milk. But as the May 12th strike date came closer, the Holiday Association got cold feet and pulled out. Jesus Christ, what's with them? And they chose to negotiate with the governor instead.

So that's what they do. Yeah, that's what they always do. We're sorry. Oh, but we like you, too. We're so torn, because we don't have a spine. It's so difficult to decide because we have no actual principles. It's going to be great when we go fucked again. I don't know.

I'm like a golden retriever. I just want to make everybody happy. So they bail at the last minute, and they leave Singler and his milk pool against the entire state. Well, where, well. Here we go. Here we are. Wait until dark. Why?

Because I'm unable to. to go out in the light. Okay. You know who I am. You're that weird cheese guy that like runs around saying... I'm a cheese vampire. Yeah. It's quite different than a weird cheese guy.

No, it's exactly a weird cheese guy. It's literally the definition of a weird cheese guy. No, a weird cheese guy would be like, I only eat Swiss. That's a weird cheese guy. But that guy just likes... I'm a cheese vampire. I'm much more complex. I'm an immortal cheese fighter.

Fighter? Yes. Now he sounds like you fight cheese. I'm on behalf of cheese battling. How are you battling for cheese? Because right now we need to make sure cheese stays pure. How does that have anything to do with you? Yeah, because they're farmers, you idiot.

Rather than big dairy takeover, I'm on side of the little guy because they care. Right, okay. Yes, got it. Now we're engaged. Look at us, having a fucking party. What in the... Here, have some chat. Have this little chocolate curry while we do this.

What in the fuck? Take some of the salami, wrap it around the cheese, put a pickle on the inside. It says, a burrito. You know what? I'll just have the salami, thanks. No, ah, fuck, that's the most ex... It's such a good plan.

Who just eats the salami? It's good. It is good, but it's so much better when it's part of a bigger bit. Sometimes, but sometimes you just want straight meat. That's it. No more salami until you have a bit of cheese with it. Okay, all right, cool. So, can you explain to me how you... I'd really rather not dig too deep into this.

Can you... Come on. Can you explain... Come down the cheese... Can you explain how you... We're gonna go down the cheese river... ...a cheese vampire helps the small farmer. How what?

How you being a cheese vampire helps the small farmer. Because the people that I'll eat the cheese out of a bad, mostly. Sometimes I can't help myself. Come down the cheese river, I'll show you. Come on, take my hand. No. We could go there like a whole new world in Aladdin. I know.

Yeah, it'll be great. Come on. Nope. Ha, ha, ha. So, the holiday association... Such a tease. The Holiday Association bailing just made the farmers more militant than ever.

And they steal the... themselves refusing to back down even after Shetterman quote passed harsh collective punishments on any county that embargoed milk. Wow. But now the farmers have widespread support from the people

and were able to hold their ground. So Shetteman brought in the National Guard to bust up the pickets. This is so fucking dumb how like literally every time we're like all right we're finally on the side of the workers like all right bring in the people is going to beat the shit out of them.

It's like, wait, that's not cool. Come on, beat the shit out of them now. Here we go. Now, will you stop? We're going to beat the shit out of you. Now we're going to start shooting you. That's how to kill you. That's how we do it.

You shouldn't want to make money. Come on now. Enough. So they're going to bring in the National Guard, bust up the pigots, which would stop milk from being, because they're destroying the containers and dumping out milk,

just tons of it. So it's like prohibition with milk. Only in Wisconsin, but they'd be like, no! There's some guy in the sewer who's like, oh, ah, ah, ah, ah, la ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, la. There's a line of, like, five dudes. They're like the polar bear club, but for skim. Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Oh, fuck, they're that. Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Well, he drowned. He milk drowned. If they couldn't physically dump the milk, they'd go to the production facilities and do things like poor enough kerosene into vats to ruin 25,000 pounds of milk.

Which we now do and allow. Yeah, now that's... Now that's making milk. Now that's pretty much how it happens. The farmers believed this would raise the price of milk, but it didn't. The law supply and demand only works when rich people want it to work.

Many farm... Did some guy just say no? No, someone just wooed. Oh. A guy down here said, made it know like... I heard a woo that was like, fuck yeah, let the rich decide. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Hey, what show is this? Yeah. Do you remember when we did the Sacramento show? Oh, yeah, this is where the people walked out. No, no, this is in Sacramento where three... Oh, this is where people walked out. This is where people walked out. We were doing the Native American one.

And they were like, fuck those people! Yeah. What podcast? This isn't the Joe Rogan experience. No, no, no, but... Cheese on our face, because we learned shortly thereafter, there is this theory that we subscribe to. now, which is that the native people in America

took it from white people before the white people got here. And we were here. We've erased that. Being here second is the new first. Yep. So we just took back what they made all fucking, like, it's like, gross. This is where we could put a Costco everywhere.

Like, I would say that Native American people could have it, but they never built a fucking Arby's. So what were they doing with it? No, and to be honest, Dave, if you ever talk to them, they have no interest in keeping the Arby's. Crazy. It's insane. The land.

Like, we're just going to get rid of all the Arbyes. All the beauty we've put upon this earth. They have no respect for it. They do not respect the Arbyes. And let me tell you something, Reynolds. They want drinkable water. They want the trees. It's disgusting.

We've got the meat. Yes. We. We are the meats. Yes. Yeah. America. We are the meats.

Yeah. Fuck yeah. Two more people walk out. The same people like, Jesus Christ. Now we're gonna be safe. Many farm wives support of the strikes, but refused to... Farm wives? Wow.

But refused to... That's a Bravo show I'd love to see. I'm sure it exists. Farm wives. My name's Dahl. I'm Catherine. I love living in the main house, but I'm not afraid to get icky in the barn from time to time.

I'm Julie. I like to fuck in the barn. All right, Julie, we're going to do yours one more time. Okay. All right. Just can you do the line that we wrote down for you, please? Just say, I'm Julie, and while I might not be on horseback, I'm certainly there to brush them. All right, ready, and do your spin, and go ahead, Julie.

I'm Julie, I'll fuck you out by the pigs. No, sorry, Julie. And I'll ride the pig after. No, no, no, no, no, don't ride the pig. Because your back will be broken. We're not rolling anymore. We're not rolling anymore. We stopped rolling.

Just get one and say, I'm Julie, I'm married to Dan. Okay, spit, no, just turn around and do the spin again. Julie, when you spin, just face forward. Don't do a full spin, face it back like you did just there. So do a full spin, half spin, 2K. You know what a 180 is? Do a half spin, hunt. Do a half spin for us, okay?

There you go. Great. And then deliver the line. I'm Julie, and I'm married to Dan. I'm Julie. Dan's fucking weak. I got to do all the goddamn work around this fucking farm. Because he's out getting liquored up.

And that's why I fucked the help. All right, Julie, just turn around and just... And a lot of the help don't want it, but I take it. Okay, Julie. Julie, I mean, you're confessing to crime right now, Julie. So I'm going to need you to not even do that at all. We're going to pretend we didn't hear that. My farm, my rules.

Nope. You know what? That one's actually pretty good. Will you just turn around to do that one? Barn wives. One little girl remembered being made to churn butter for weeks in a row. Trim butter? Churn.

It said trim. That's nice. You're going to make this pretty. Churn butter for weeks in a row saying that she and her mom. made at least one year's supply of butter in a handful of days. Wow. Because it's fun.

Jesus Christ. You and your best friend making butter. What year did they discover cholesterol? So the one, that's not a mom. Those are two girls, right? I'm not comfortable with what you're doing or asking you to. I'm just saying the one that's down below

is a little bit of a crush. What? Yeah. Don't get, this is Wisconsin pornography you're doing right now. Do you hear all those fucking creepy? Fuck, yeah, she wants that butter. She's dying to lick the beaker. Do you want me to lick the butter?

Should I just keep licking it in the same place? No, no, no, eat it. Don't be a fucking asshole. Like a rhythmic. No, eat it. Eat the fucking butter. The pickets, meanwhile, became far more violent than the February

strike. Desperation to end led to escalation on both sides. Whoa, looks like one side, it's doing pretty good. That would be me. By the way, in any of these, I'm that guy in the back who's like, yeah, let me know when you're... You guys, feels like I'd just be mucking...

You guys got a good rhythm right there, so I'll just kind of... I'll be back here. Who wears white pants to a fight? You're going to have a pasture fight, and you're like, I got get on the white pants today. I came from polo. He's the guy who's like, he's like, I like to see the blood.

All right, Clark's crazy. At Shawano, Sheriff's Deputies beat the shit. Shano? Shano? Shano. So you don't say the W at all. So the W is like not there, but it's in the word.

Stop it. So you're going to keep it. and just not use it. And then yell at people and they get it wrong as if you're not the fucking crazy ones. I get it. I tell I get it.

Just keep letters. No, it's a silent W. What in the fuck are you talking about? Oh, sorry. I forgot. You're from Wisconsin. You foolish little bitch. At...

Coming to our house. At Shano, sheriff's deputies beat the shit out of protesting farmers. But it was not brutal enough for Governor Shetteman. He fired the sheriff for neglect of duty and malfeasance and, quote, not properly handling the situation. Jesus Christ. And then he brought in a World War I officer and creep named Oscar Dittman, who, quote, immediately turned the county into a war zone. He brought in a World War I guy?

Yeah. That's right. Yes, it's got to be suffering. I'll show you what's what. Beat him. Drop a bomb on him, Oscar. What? Let's go with mustard gas.

There we go. With a goal of total domination. Wow. The governor gave Dittman control of the National Guard and random special deputies to swear in. I cannot fucking believe we've got a dairy ice. We do. Which also sounds like a delicious summer treat.

Yes. I mean, that's the problem. That is the problem. Dairy ice. Now my tummy's grumbling. Is that dairy ice? Those are the special deputies that were sworn in. Wow. At least they have. the decency to show their mouths.

We all brought dildos. Quote. That's summer sausage, Dave. Shit, I don't know how we're gonna resist their charms. They're not there to beat them. They're just there to offer them. You guys want some sauce? That'd be great. Come on, come inside.

Yeah, you're right. Fuck it. Fuck it. Quote, but even such extreme terror as this could not stop the farmers. With rocks and clubs, they beat back one attack after another. When gas bombs were hurled at them, they caught them and flung them back at the deputies. Right there, that's where I would appear as in my true form. Out of the gas cloud? Yes, from the bat, yes.

Why would you be there, though? Because that is just basically how I would appear. Well, it's daytime. Yes, I would be... Well, it's cloudy. If it's overcast... Wait, you can come out, if it's overcast? If it's overcast enough, yeah.

Yeah. It's not like... It's not a one-to-one for a vampire. It's a cheese vampire. It's different. It's... Like, I have a fang. I also...

I don't need to be invited into a house, but I'd rather be. Yeah, it's just being nice. If you throw holy water on me, it doesn't burn, but I'm like, really? What about a mirror? Can you see yourself in a mirror? I don't want to.

Especially after the holidays. I've put on so much. Well, yeah. Because I was just sucking so much cheese out of Victor. Yeah, go ahead. Shuck it so much cheese out of people. Exactly, yeah. Do you turn other people in the cheese vampires

when you suck the cheese out of them? It's a good question, isn't it? I don't think it is, but I asked it. Yes, I can decide. I can decide. Yeah. Sometimes if I want them to stay with, that was what I was talking to you about earlier.

You could live with me. I don't want to. In the layer. It sounds absolutely awful. In the cheese river. You and me. in the river of cheese, I think at the end you'd be saying, please,

you and me on the river of cheese, getting caught with cheddar to our knees. River of cheese, river of cheese, if you want it, I will appease the river of cheese, River of cheese, come on with me, if you please, come on boy, be on, be on. Be a man.

Get inside of this cheesy van. Take my hand through the river of cheese. I think you will understand the appeasement. I want you to live with me in a layer that is really deep. In the underground where we'll stay. Sometimes we can go out during the day. If there's good coverage of a cloud, We will stay right in sight.

But if we decide that it's better to hide, we'll do that and you'll abide. River of cheese, river a cheese, river a cheese, River a cheese, river a cheese, River a cheese, river a tea, river a cheese, River a cheese, river a cheese, I'm just glad you're gone. I'm glad you, like, I'm just so glad you faded away with that.

That was really good. I was still here. The songs are that. Shit. I guess, oh, okay. You don't disappear when you're done with a song. Well, you were. You go back into dialogue.

You were fading away. Like the natural dialogue would be like, so what do you say, Amiga? No. Oh, fuck. The battle line stretched for 20 miles with farmers tangled up in barbed wire, laying in fields, moaning and paying, and being attacked. with clubs, bats, and bayonets. See, I don't get these guys.

Like, who in the fuck wants to beat up farmers? Like, it's just like... Yeah. Like, who's mad at farmers? Kill them with tariffs. Thank you. Thank you.

Give all the money to fucking Argentina. Yeah, you don't need to be there. There's a weirdo down there who needs it. Yeah, yeah. Some guy who looks like Elvis's corpses down there doing stuff. Quote, one 18-year-old farmer boy was shot in the bat. by the captain of one of the companies of guards,

another farmer was pushed from a truck and killed. Holy shit. So farmers weren't the only one taken casualties. One fired tear gas into a creamery owner's eye obliterating it and knocking it out of the socket. Oh, my God. Jesus Christ. It's fucking...

Dairy Saigon. The guy on the right here, like literally looks like, He's in World War II. Yeah. I mean, yeah. One of the worst clashes happened in Waukesha County. In what came to be known as the battle. Ocashah.

In what came to be known as the Battle of Durham Hill. National Guardsman took on around 350 strikers with tear gas and then a bayonet charge. Wow. I mean, the fucking bayonet is hanging in there. a weapon far too long. Just fucking, just pay them. What are you doing? I honestly, just pay them, obviously.

It's like they can't afford to live. But even the bayonet part is crazy. It's all insane. That's, oh, fuck. An account, quote, unbelieving farmers kept looking around to see if they were really being prodded with cold steel. Like, what the fuck?

It is so fucking crazy. It's so fake to be like, we love our farmers. I've been saying that for so long while slowly just fucking them over. They're at the heart of America. But if you fucking want more money, we'll put you on the ground.

So on and on and went. By the fifth day, farmers were intercepting and toppling trucks, pouring out bottles, creating milky rivers flowing down the streets. Milky river, eh? If you leave that, no, no, if you leave that, you let that sit for a month, guess what you have? Sour milk. No. You wish sour milk.

So in your mind, cheese is made by just leaving it in like a bucket for a month? Yes, the way it was discovered, exactly. Yeah, that's how it was discovered in France. I was there. You weren't. I'm sure there's some farmers in here that are very upset right now. Yeah, because they've not been bitten. And if they want to after the show, form a line outside.

If you've had cheese in the last day, it'll work. that the farmers were able to do this at all was a miracle, as the police were attacking them with everything they had, including throwing huge stones at their heads. Jesus Christ. Quote, the farmers were fighting for more than a higher price of milk. They were fighting for the right to live. So the farmers made more progress in May than they did in February,

and the price of milk rose a little bit. It was noticed by Shetterman, who, Sheterman, who increased concessions to the farmers, and he agreed to a main farmer demand, a price control board with farmer representation that would work to ensure milk production didn't cost more than the price of milk fetched for the farmer. So they would get a profit.

Right. Wow. Which is a huge concession. What a great governor. What a good guy. So that pacified the co-ops enough and the labor organization supporting the milk pool that Singler had to call off the business.

strike but this is always the phase where I'm like hang in there I know like I completely understand going like fuck it but it's like dude they're finally on the ropes a little bit but they lost the they lost

the other groups of labor the other yeah it's obviously easy to sit here in a chair in a theater 80 years 90 years later be like here's what I would do but the win in marginal increase in the quality of life of the farmer was almost immediately reversed because prices went back down but now there's a big difference

the government was afraid of the farmers that's when you need them she might have been rushed to D.C. to beg FDR for help he went to Chicago to plead with other governors to do something to shut these farmers up he went to Chicago to be like... Well, there was a, I think there was a meeting of governors, meeting of governors. Sure.

Or in your brain a dairy conference. You did say D.C. He even brought in Singler in a desperate move since he was publicly attacking Singler for being a demagogic Marxist agitator influenced by foreign interests. It never stops. They used to, they've never stopped using the same language. Literally the same playbook the whole time. It's always the same. Well, well.

Well, well. You wanted to see me, did you? No. Yes, you did. Oh, no, I wasn't talking about you. Yeah? No. Yeah.

Are you a Marxist? What? Didn't you want to see me? No. Who'd you want to see? I was just talking about foreign governments. No, but then? A demagogic, Marxist agitator influenced by foreign interest.

There was no point in that that I requested a cheese vampire. Well, I'm here now. I really feel like you're a little bit desperate. Does that make sense? Like you're a little bit too eager? I haven't eaten it a while. Well... When was the last time you had some cheese?

I haven't. I'm on a cheese diet. Meaning you'll only eat it? I won't eat it at all. I'm not eating it. No, I don't need to touch. Maybe wrap some salami with a pickle in the middle like a burrito? Oh, do you have salami?

I would like some salami. No. Only if you swear to God, you'll eat it. the cheese. I want to eat the cheese. I'm dying. Good. I need to eat cheese from someone. Go find a cheese person.

Why the fuck he's following me around? It seems really oddly personal. Like you're a terrible cheese vampire that you just follow. We don't want to hang out together. I don't like you. Why? What the fuck are you? I'm the guy who sang River of Cheese, baby. Schederman had Singler choose members of the milk pool for a state delegation to go to DC and demand the government set a uniform milk price.

But Singler was not optimistic. He was willing to give the government some time. He still implored the farmers to keep marching, rallying, and organizing as the strikes were why this had moved this far in the first place. And the governor told farmers at a rally that if marches would solve the farmers' problems, quote, I would myself step down. And the farmers burst into applause. It's like the town halls they're having right now where they're like, what do you want me to do?

Change stuff and people are like, yeah, you're looking at it. All right, all right. I can't. I can't. I can't change stuff. Come on. Come on. You work for me.

Farm Holiday Association, the liberal group finally grew a spine. Their members were... We're ready to endorse. Their members were sick of waiting for the government. FDR's policies weren't working. It still costs more to produce milk than what the farmer got for it.

So they called the strike on October 21st. But, asked farmers to just withhold their own milk not stop other farmers. The farmers still set up pickets on their own and turned milk delivery drivers back. and checked cars and trucks.

I love that they're still doing the checkpoints. Once they stopped a truck and asked if it was milk, and the driver asked if they wanted to see it and smell it. And they leaned in and got a big whiff of bootleg liquor. On your weight. As you were, sir. Just don't make a white Russian. So is this prohibitiony times, too?

or they were just out. So people are only able to have water? No, no, it's after prohibition, but I guess there's still illegal boots. Yeah. They asked the driver if they could have a can, quote, no sooner had they got the words out of their mouths when another car drew alongside it with a machine gum mounted

put that can back on the truck and beat it, and the farmers complied. Whoa. So they were like, we're buddy. Never mind. Oh, my God. Don't shoot, I'll stop? I'm not a bootlegger. Don't shoot, I'll stop.

I mean, it's like one of those bumper stickers I'd be behind and be like, what? Talking about. Don't shoot, I'll stop. Yeah, because if you... Oh, well, there's no punctuation. Okay, there should be. Don't shoot, I'll stop.

It's crazy. Well, you can't punctuate us on like that. Oh, yeah. So you want punctuation on bumper? bumper stickers? Yeah, I do, as a matter of fact. And on vanity plates, I want parentheses telling me what you're trying to say. Oh, come on.

Yeah. Sick and tired of sitting behind some guy where he's just like, light to years. Like to yours? Like to years? They're not all for you. Light years. Singler and the milk pool distrusted the holiday association because of all the holiday stuff they did.

Backstabbing stuff. They had been through this. in May when the Liberal Association bailed at the last minute, so Singler waited a bit to ensure the Holiday Association was for real. And after week, he was satisfied and the pool formally entered. Literally the next day, the Holiday

Association pulled out. Christ. But the only people in the Holiday Association who decided to call off the strike were Arnold Gilbert's, the state president, and a few other men in leadership. ship.

Who's that? That's Gilbert. Wow, he's not doing great. I mean, I get what year it is, but go ahead and shave it. Shave it? Go ahead and shave the top part. Yeah, go ahead and shave that.

Other people, but again, they didn't know that was a, you could do that back then. How could they not know it's an option? They didn't know. They were like, well, got to hang on to what you got. Got to do it the way they want you to do it. Stigler said, quote, Neither Gilbert nor any other man has the power to call off this strike. It's up to the farmers who have been carrying the load to decide that question.

It's up to the men who froze their feet on the highways to say whether they will quit. We may get the clubs and the gas when the holiday leaders pull out, but we are not quitting. The strike now became more intense and brutal than ever. Seven creameries were dynamited. Seven creameries were dynamited. Tens of thousands of pounds of milk were dumped or tainted. Another farmer was murdered. Jesus Christ.

I'm just saying I know who did it. Wasn't that the corn strike? Hey, how long is that picture going to be up? That's up for a while, actually. Yeah, you're welcome. On October 28, 1933, violence broke out on the picket line in the town of Burke.

A car had a headlight broken as it tried to push through the blockade. Later that night, the same car was stopped. A passenger pulled a gun and shot into the crowd. The bullet killed a six-year-old farmer who was just delivering food to strikers. The shooter would plead guilty to manlaughter and receive two to four years in prison.

Man slaughter. Otherwise, you said man lauder, which I believe would translate to man laughter. Which is a weird thing to plead guilty to. Why? I found it hilarious, yes. Did you shout that man? You shoot that man and laugh.

In a funny way. I plead guilty to man laughter. The vines led to more fear, on the side of the farmers and more repression from the state with the holiday association out the milk pool couldn't shoulder the entire burden and prices went up by a bit

but they got more promises from the government and the strike slowly fizzled out and local news just stopped covering it. Oh shit. History has judged the strike a failure however it's impossible to ignore its effect on FDR's administration in part because of the

strikes FDR acted more urgently on behalf of the dairy farmers and in 1933, he passed the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act. The bill, among other things, established minimum prices, implemented milk pooling. Revenue from all milk sales were pooled, so all farmers in a cooperative received the same price. Purchased surplus milk, the government bought out milk supplies

to both remove excess supply from the market. In 1934, the year after the strikes, milk prices went up 37.8%. Holy fuck. Mm-hmm. So it works. They didn't get exactly, you know, but they did win.

Yeah, right. The 1933 Wisconsin Milk Strikes show that with good organization Steely Resolve and the desire to take control of the means of production, you might not be able to change your material conditions overnight, but you can scare the shit out of your governor enough that he gets the president

to do what you want. Also, milk! Milk. Free milk. Oh, fresh milk. I thought it said free milk. It's like, that's not good. There's just a cow in there.

Ah. Milk. This was written by Josh Androsky, the sources, the Merrill Daily Herald, the Marshfield Daily News, the Wisconsin Milk Strikes of 1933 by Nick Cesperano. Farmers Strike by Farrell

Scherning from the Labor Defender Adams County and the Great Depression Milk Strike by Harry Davis. Wisconsin's Milk Wars of 1933 by Erica Janick. Wisconsin Milk Strike 1933 by the Manitouic County. Manitowoc.

Nope. Manitowoc. Disagree. County Historical Society. You're not allowed to disagree with the people who were on this land the second time. The 1933 Clark County, Wisconsin Milk Strike by Greenwood Gleaner or Glenwood Glomer Milk Liener Back Home by Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune.

There you go. You know, David, it's an interesting timed piece you've presented tonight because farmers are actually in a little bit of trouble. I don't know if you've heard about this. I haven't. Yeah. No, they're struggling right now.

And we've talked about that, but it's like, it's one thing to, like, have a government fucking try to assault every industry because of whatever capital or worker. But this is, like, food. Food, agriculture, those things. It's like the cell. It's like when we poison water, and you're like,

but it's like water. We need that. We need those things. And farmers, you're right, it is like a political talking point, but I still can't process what our plan is. No, I can. What? You bankrupt the farmers.

And then you have four places that... Buy the land. And then that's it. And then you own the land. Right. And the farmers don't own the land anymore. Right. Yeah, we're, yeah.

As farmer suicide rates skyrocket and they go out of business. Yeah. They don't care about that. Right. You're welcome. I think when we air this episode, we should probably put River of Cheese right now again. It's not... Just as a...

It's not like Thiel and the Trump family created a business together to buy farmland or anything. It's not like that happened. You know what I like about... Go ahead. Peter Thiel. the sweat the shiny that he's made of Vaseline

that his last name sounds like a neosporin yeah feel a layer of gelatinous evil that coats him almost like he has to decoupage in his devil

All right, nobody ruined the Packers game for me. I'm recording it. Thank you, everybody. Thanks for coming out. I appreciate it. Thank you. You could live with me. I don't want to.

In the layer. Sounds absolutely awful. Near the cheese river. You and me in the river of cheese. I think at the end you'd be saying, please. You and me on the river of cheese Getting caught with cheddar to our knees. River of cheese, river of cheese.

If you want it, I will appease the river of cheese, river a cheese, River of cheese, come on with me, if you please. Come on, boy, be a man. Get inside of this cheesy man. Take my hand through the river of cheese. I think you will understand the appeasement. I want you to live with me in a layer that is really deep. In the underground where we'll stay.

Sometimes we can go out during the day. If there's good coverage of a cloudy night, we will stay right in sight. But if we decide that it's better to hide, we'll do that, and you'll abide. Riverer cheese, river a tea, river a tea, river a cheese, river a cheese, river a tea, river a tea, river a tea, river a tea, river a tea, river a tea. I'm just glad you're gone. Hey, dollheads, you're now the Garifor's, you know that.

Hey, listen, I've got some stand updates. I'm very excited to let you in on. You can go to garethrenolds.com for tickets and information to all these things. I'm going to be on New Year's Eve in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, at Soul Joles, that is December 31st, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Soul Joles. I then January 2nd and January 3rd. I will be in Kansas City at the Comedy Club of Kansas City. I will be on the road in February 4th. I will be in Spokane, Washington.

February 5th, I will be at the volcanic theater pub in Bend, Oregon. Then I'm going to one of my favorite places, helium in Portland, February 6, February 7th. Go to Gareth Reynolds.com for tickets and information. Come on, join me. Come on.