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0:00Live from the Annex Wealth Management Studios in downtown Milwaukee, its Wisconsin's Midday News. Making stories come to life. Now here are your hosts, Greg Matsik and Jessica Ty. With you until three o'clock this afternoon, that is Wisconsin's afternoon news, a little field trip for John and Julia today, which we'll tell you about in a second, Brewers Baseball tonight with coverage beginning at 505. Here's your top two at two on Wisconsin's Midday News. Brewers, postseason tickets are now on sale for Wisconsinites. Jump online and go get them like now, because they are not going to last. They are going very fast. We expected that. There should be some available tonight, however. We were told that at the rally for October at Ampham Field, Wisconsinites can buy them in person at the box office that rally starts at 4 p.m. Yesterday at midday, we talked with the Brewers Chief Operating Officer Marty Ronsky. She described the rally as a can't miss celebration. This is going to replace the drive through the pancake breakfast we did last year.

1:02We just thought we'd try something different. We've got these big screens on our plaza now. So we've got a game at 540 that we're going to turn on. We're going to do the pregame, live pregame from the plaza area. We're going to have our mascot out. We're giving away, win our way, T-shirts to the first, 2,500 people out. We've got beer specials. We've got hot dog specials. So come on over right after school. We will see you at the kids. Have a good time. We've got our mini golf open. The playgrounds are opened. And really, there's going to be fantastic music and just a whole lot of celebrating and ushering in. Hopefully our 99th win. Yes. We're chasing 100 wins a season. Let's do it. A franchise first. I like how they do this. They open it up to Wisconsin residents first and then all other residents around the country can dip in a day later. They did this a year ago when it looked pretty clear the Brewers would face the Cubs. Right. I mean, not the Cubs fans don't live in the state of Wisconsin. But the idea is that if you do most likely are a Brewers fan. There's more Brewers fans in the state than any other baseball team. So get it into Wisconsin hands quicker than anyone else and maybe you'll have a dominant

2:07force behind the postseason games in American family field. I did go online to try and do this. Tickets were moving fast. Right. I just plugged in four in a section in the 200 level and I was like, well, what about this section? What about that section? And then bit by bit the sick tickets that we're looking at were gone. They've gone fast. I'm not sure how many are available now, but it's worked. People are coming out for tickets. Yeah, no, they are going, going gone. I saw it earlier this morning. There was like, it was section 224, row seven, seat 12. You get to look like 150 bucks for each ticket right now, though, as I'm going on. I've kind of perused. There's a lot of standing room only. I see, but there aren't many seats left. I do see right now, though. Or the division series brewers home game number two. And remember, this is all like date and time, TBD, which is hard sometimes if you're trying to plan, right? But other people are like, I don't care. I'm going to be there. I'm going to be in that seat. I see one seat right now. Section 110, row 23 seat 11, one seat.

3:10200 bucks. You get to get it? Two, how did that? That's not bad for that. Sip, sip, sip of myself. I'm going to go the game by myself. I need at least, I need at least two seats. Well, there is a misfactor here. This will start that first game, game one. Likely Logan Henderson and game two. You don't know the opponent yet, but I don't think that matters in this situation. Certainly, there's some added juice if you play the Cubs in a playoff series like we saw last year. But any playoff atmosphere is going to be great at American Family Field. It's one seat is cracking me up, though, because other than it looks like the Miller High Life loft, which that's a spot where I know they're standing room only. It looks like there's some standing room only seats there. But other than that, I think this might be the only seat left that is at least up for grabs right now. They may have like the small allotment for people going to the rally tonight, but it looks like there might be this just one section 110, row 23. Well, number two, three news outlets banned from the White House by President Trump on Monday filing a first amendment lawsuit to restore their access.

4:13CNN, MSNOW, and Politico seeking a temporary restraining order demanding the White House restore their reporter's credentials after Trump announced the ban on Friday of last week. On the start here podcast, ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers breaks down the latest in White House press outlet bans. And that sound is not available. Oh, wait, here it is. We're all fiercely competitive and everybody's trying to get scoops, but at the same time, we work really closely with all of the networks. They're producers, they're correspondence because of this pool system where you are working together and every day you're sharing duties. So yesterday was CNN's turn. They were not going to be able to fulfill their pool duties because of that access being blocked and the decision then was made to not have anybody else go in. And ABC's Karen Travers is being filed today by those who are banned by the White House. Did you get the ticket yet? Did you sign in and get it? You have to sign in to I know all of a sudden I was trying to look to see you got to sign into the MLB account, which makes sense.

5:13And I have done that before. But if you were listening and you're thinking, okay, section 110, row 23, seat 11, I don't mind. I'll go to the game. I'll go to the game by myself and just zone in and watch the game. Some people like that, right? There are some restrictions to that seat. Netting located at the front of the section. Some people don't mind. Some people don't mind it. Some people it's not their favorite, but sometimes especially for this and the pool season, you just got to get inside the ballpark. Yeah, absolutely, right? Absolutely. Looking forward to that. I'm going to be a guest. You bet. It's 215. The USDA just announced new actions to improve animal welfare. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says the Department plans to propose updated standards for dog breeders next year after receiving more than 7,500 comments from the public, more than 7,000 comments. She also revealed the USDA recently deployed a new animal protection bureau. This team of specialists will target bad actors across the dog industry by rooting out

6:15unlicensed breeders, shutting down illegal dog import routes, tracking unauthorized activity through data and business records, and working with state, local and federal partners to stop regulatory evasion and enforce the law. We know there are tens of thousands of dog breeders, puppy mills, if you will, in this country. And we have to get bigger, stronger and more intentional about pulling that underneath the umbrella. The USDA is also sending reminders about existing rules to more than 2,000 breeding facilities. If you are not compliant with the Animal Welfare Act, you will be held accountable, full stop, no questions asked. So the Department says it's denied suspended or revoked licenses involving nearly 20 dog breeders this year and plans to review breeders who surrendered licenses in the state of the past two years to determine whether any are trying to avoid a federal oversight. Rigland Farms by the way in Dane County, which shut down its dog breeding operations last

7:16month, was mentioned during this big announcement. We have accelerated enforcement against the bad guys. We have issued 15 official warnings for concerning circumstances and terminated eight licenses for unfit applicants thanks to tougher licensing rules made during the first Trump term. This includes of course the termination of Rigland Farms in Wisconsin that made national news and continues to make news. So standing with the Ag Secretary for this big announcement was Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. US Attorney Jeanine Piro. And someone we've come to learn a lot about is the Rigland Farms story unfolded. I'm watching this. I am looking at everybody and there I see the founder and CEO of Big Dog Ranch Rescue Lori Simmons. It was her group that secured the release of more than 2000 dogs at Rigland Farms and the final beagle to leave Rigland was in Simmons arms. I'm wondering how much. What happened at Rigland Farms triggered this or how long this has been in the works,

8:17right? It seems like a Rigland Farms really exposed a lot in this world. But as you mentioned, they're cracking down on license scurding. They're increasing their enforcement personnel by 20%. They've got people literally on the ground in these areas that will do the inspections and much more strict inspection rules will be a part of that process. But yeah, I wonder how much the Rigland Farms story really brought all this to light and got this to where it is today. Well, here's the interesting thing I find about this too. And when I was going through this announcement, basically, not a press conference, it was just this big announcement from the USDA. I've heard it before, like the Trump administration taking credit for what happened at Rigland Farms. And I find that interesting. And I think some people would argue with that. They certainly have made changes. And as we see right here, they're taking action to make sure that animal welfare is improved.

9:20But I think when it comes down to it, there were a lot of groups and a lot of entities involved in ultimately coming to the conclusion of Rigland Farms shutting down its dog breeding facility. And don't get me wrong. Big dog ranch rescue in Lori Simmons and her crew were a big, big part of that because they secured the release. They got that contract out there with Center for Humane Economy was part of that first, that first release with Big Dog Ranch Rescue. But then Center for Humane Economy was not a part of that second one. It was Lori and her team who got that contract together to get all of the dogs, all of the remaining dogs out of Rigland Farms. But then also you have that other group with remember Greg months and months and months ago. We really were talking about well before most of us, I had never heard of Big Dog Ranch Rescue. We were talking about the group that broke in to Rigland Farms, the people who called it a mass open rescue.

10:21Some people who were very involved in things like that around the entire country for many years, other people like a teacher and Denver, Colorado who had never done anything like that before. So that exposed people around the world to a lot of what was happening and they could make their individual decisions. But you had people who did break in to Rigland Farms, though they'd tell you wouldn't break in. It was a moment that we were rescuing the dogs, right? And then you have these other groups who are saying we're not, we're not going to be breaking any laws, but we want to get those dogs out. So I, I find it fascinating because there's been a lot of different groups, different entities involved in all of this. But most of them have the same goal. Yeah, it is interesting because that was our first sort of clue into what was happening. You're like, oh, look at this, right? Wayne Chung was the name that we, we bantered about what March going back to March, probably further than that. It feels like several months. It was in the worst. It was the first clue I had to something going on at Rigland Farms.

11:21I'd never even heard of Rigland Farms. So that was their goal. Cause of disturbance, get eyes on this location in Wisconsin that you may not have heard about, but we think some shady things are going on there. And then they did it again, right? So I think they accomplished their goal, but you, you're right. Multiple groups sort of kept us in the news to its ultimate resolution here. Well, and there were so many layers to this too. I mean, it's like peeling an onion back because some people think that it all started because of Wayne and the people who broke in. But Lori Simmons from Big Dog Ranch Rescue told us during your interviews with her that they had been talking with Big Dog months before that ever happened. And they were trying to get the dogs released. So so many layers. Yeah. Yeah. It's 12, excuse me, 24 here on WTMJ Wisconsin's Midday News podcast built by citing unlimited wherever you get your podcasts, you can find us also. Keep in mind, we are on YouTube. So if you'd like to follow along on our YouTube stream, you can check us out. Wisconsin's Midday News find the WTMJ YouTube page and you'll find us.

12:28And iconic movie car will soon be on the auction block. The song probably gave you a big hint, huh? 1992's Batman Returns was Michael Keaton's second time playing the Caped Crusader and the second outing for his iteration of the Batmobile. Now that movie prop is going under the hammer at the Los Angeles-based Julian's auctions. It's estimated to fetch between five and seven million dollars at auction in November. If it does, it would beat the $4.6 million figure of buyer paid for the 1966 Adam West Arab Batmobile during an auction in 2013. Like the busky. ABC News Okay, so in the movie, the Batmobile is powered by a flame-throwing jet turbine in reality, though a Chevy V8 provides motivation for the 19-foot long hero car. Well, how many miles does it have on it? Right? Wouldn't that influence the price? Right? You'd like low miles here. Is it kick-good gas mileage? That's bad. These are all things you got to consider, right? You want to have something. You don't have to fill up all the time.

13:29It's safe on the road. Are there airbags in this thing? I feel like when were airbags invented? It seems like that was... It seems like the Batmobile... I'm going to go ahead and guess Volvo created the airbag in like the 70s. Maybe the 60s. Let's get to go back, boys. This thing is amazing. The Batmobile has gone through many iterations. If you go back to the Adam West Batman and Robin Daze, right, that old TV show, the Bang, the Pow, the Wop. That was a fun... It's sort of comedic, cartoonic sort of a treatment to that whole thing when they were hitting each other. They'd have to like the comic book sort of splashes of a power or a punch. That's cool. That was always good stuff. You know, you've got to have a big, big garage space to put that in. I was in the back to the future car once, which I think was at Universal Studios or something like that. But the Batmobile, that'd be fun. Well, it's up for bidding. It's up for bidding through the... I mean, I think it's a big, big garage space to put that in. I think it's a big, big garage space. I think it's a big, big garage space.

14:31I think it's a big, big garage space. I think it's a big, big garage space. Well, it's up for bidding. It's up for bidding through the near the end of November. It's Tech Tuesday with ABC News Technology Reporter Mike Devosky. We're not sure if he will be a judge in the upcoming AI Beauty Pageant, but he is our guest every Tuesday on Tech Tuesday. The latest and greatest in the world of tech. Test was next product. They call it a Robo Taxi. These are AR glasses. They're called simply the brain. On Wisconsin's Midday News. It's Tuesday. That means Tech Tuesday and our weekly check-in with ABC Tech Expert Mike Devosky. Hey guys, how are you? They're doing great here. So let's talk all things meta here and a shiny new pull the wraps off AI agent called Muse AI. What does Mark Zuckerberg develop here? And what is it supposed to do? Yeah, so a few weeks ago Muse AI came out. This is an AI agent from meta. And we've heard a lot about this type of technology recently, guys.

15:33These AI agents are these programs that can execute on tasks for you. Not just answer questions. So if Chatchy PT is a chatbot, you type out a question. It gives you an answer. An agent like Muse can go one step further. It can go put something on your calendar. It can go organize your photo albums. It can do some online shopping for you. Well, it has been pretty popular over the last several weeks. Regularly topping, app store charts. We don't have specific numbers. But you can see kind of why this was such a phenomenon for meta. Meta owns huge platforms. Facebook and Instagram used by literally billions of people worldwide. This is in front of a lot of eyeballs. And while open AI and anthropic and others all have similar agentic technology out there, they have to do a lot more work to get it in front of people. Whereas meta basically has this sort of baked-in strategy, this playbook to get people to try new technologies that they're working on. It seems to have worked at least to some degree with Muse.

16:33However, it hasn't been without speed bumps, guys. Meta, as we said, marketed this as something that could potentially do some online shopping for you. Well, that has now spiraled into a growing standoff between Meta and Amazon. That company over the weekend started blocking Muse AI from browsing on Amazon. Seemingly, because Amazon never agreed to allow Meta's AI to use the platform in the first place. I actually tried to get Muse AI to go buy some toothpaste off of Amazon just as like a test yesterday. And the way it works is it basically calls up its own little digital desktop that you can see it kind of clicking around and trying to solve the problem that you're giving it. And once it went to Amazon, it kind of gave back this firewall with Amazon's website reading continued access by an unauthorized AI agent, violates Amazon's conditions of use to which our customers have agreed. Basically, they say that Muse isn't identifying itself as a bot, and that's a violation of their terms of service. Well, that's interesting. It seems like Muse can be really useful,

17:35but then at some point it might start to get risky to how much access does Muse need to your personal information, like your email or your calendar, or your payments to actually buy that toothpaste if you were able to do so. Yeah, so there's sort of two levels of it, right? You can bake in access to things like your Google calendar, which I did yesterday, and I gave it a task. I said, hey, you know, put these items on my calendar, find some time for them in the month of October, and I was able to do that and actually pretty adeptly. I did it on my phone. I was able to watch it actually working on my desktop, almost like a ghost was controlling the computer. It's kind of eerie in some ways, but that is like baked in integration. Google has this partnership with Meta to allow that to happen. If you don't have that partnership, if you're a platform like Amazon or GrubHub or others, Muse can still use it, but it's basically using it like a person would use it. So it's literally going to its digital desktop, calling up a browser, going to amazon.com,

18:36and trying to log in as you and execute on that task. That does require you to hand over some credentials. Meta has had a string of security and privacy breaches over the course of its history, which should give some people pause about how much you trust this company to handle that data properly, especially when you consider that AI technology adds this extra complexity and is still pretty imperfect, right? Still hallucinate, still goes wrong, still does all sorts of weird stuff unexpectedly, and that creates this extra threat when you're handing over potentially sensitive information. The other big thing to think about here, guys, is that as Amazon blocked Muse AI, it cited this violation of terms of service. Well, the whole reason that Amazon doesn't want these AI bots clicking around on its platform is because it could potentially lose a real revenue stream if these agents become more prominent. Amazon makes its money, yes, by taking a cut of every purchase that happens on that platform. But they also make money on things like sponsored listings. Those

19:40preferred items that show up at the top of your search results. Well, a company pays Amazon a little bit of money for that preferred treatment. It's a big revenue stream for them. Advertising on Amazon is huge, right? You see a banner ad, you see different ads across the platform. Amazon makes money on that. If a bot is clicking around the platform, Amazon doesn't make money. Bots don't care about sponsored listings. They are trying to find whatever it is that you gave them the task of going to find. And a human is not looking at those ads. That could potentially reshape how online business is done. Not just at Amazon, but on other platforms that sell services to the general consumer. Things like Uber, which also relies on similar business strategies. Grubhub, DoorDash, ZockTock, the potential of AI agents is that they add convenience. But if they remove the human from the process of going out and ordering those services or ordering those items, well, then the business on the back end could potentially be disrupted. And that's kind of the

20:40bigger point here, guys. We've spent the last couple of weeks talking about the far-reaching existential threats of artificial intelligence. And whether it's all going to kill us or whatever it happens to be, this is a real concern that's in front of us right now that's playing out. That is only going to grow as these technologies become more prominent. It's kind of a familiar story with AI, right? Here's this shiny new tool. If used properly in an ideal world, here's how it will help your life. And then all of a sudden, you start to learn data concerns, privacy concerns. Maybe I'm enrolled and didn't even know it. And then before you know it, maybe two weeks from now, we'll have a story about how this thing went rogue. And all of a sudden, Mike Debusky bought three Volkswagen beetles that were involved with us, right? I mean, isn't that how this all works? Yeah, potentially. Again, I think that the kind of bigger takeaway is that even in an ideal world, Amazon dies here, right? In an ideal world where it's just agents doing this work, there's no business strategy there for Amazon anymore, or there's no business strategy for any of these other companies that employ this business. The architecture of the business of

21:42the web relies on people looking at advertisements and clicking on sponsored listings in large part. That is even a threat if AI works 100% of the time, which it doesn't. So again, it kind of just goes to just how messy this situation is right now as we continue to reckon with the role of artificial intelligence in our lives. Meta for its part has regularly found itself kind of behind in the AI race and has been pitching Muse AI as like a way to catch up. Let's not forget that Open AI and Anthropic and Google and the leaders in this industry, they all have AI agents as well. This is nothing new, but they have to do a lot more work to get people to use it, right? You have to go out of your way and download a different app from Open AI or whatever it happens to be, maybe even subscribe to get the privilege to use it. Meta AI is free to everybody. And as we said, billions of people use Facebook and Instagram. This is just in front of a lot more eyeballs than it used to be. It's kind of like threads in many ways. If you remember that platform,

22:45was pretty popular there for a couple years, although it has sort of waned in influence, certainly. But in large part, it was popular because if you had an Instagram account, you were like 80% of the way to having a threads account. And why not? It's free. Muse AI is kind of running the same playbook here, although with all the added concerns that AI brings with it. It's Tech Tuesday, Mike. Can we look ahead to to Meta Connect? What are the big announcements or developments that you're looking forward to? Yeah. So this is Meta's annual tech conference. It's basically like an Apple event. They show off new hardware and new software. In the hardware space when we're talking about Meta, we are generally talking about smart glasses, which they've run a pretty robust business on. They have this big partnership with Elselor Luxotica, which makes Raybanz and Oakley's and other popular brands. They integrate Meta's technology into those glasses. So you can kind of chat with the various AI's that they have. You can take pictures. You can record video. You can listen to music through these glasses. We might see new generations of the Raybanz smart glasses. We might see a new generation of the

23:46Raybanz display, which is the version of this technology that actually has small screens integrated or projected onto the lenses. They're pretty cool, interesting new way to think about how you use your phone or you interact with technology out in the world. They've also been rumored to be working on smart glasses that don't have cameras in them. And this has been the point of a lot of controversy recently, guys, with people using these glasses out in the world to record people without their knowledge. Some critics have even gone so far as to call them pervert glasses. So in a post on Instagram recently, Meta's CTO Andy Bosworth said the company will have more to say about all of that at this conference. That's something to look out for. A couple other just assorted items here. The company also said that the Muse AI agent that we've been talking about is going to be available to talk to through the glasses as well. So that could be announced here. The Long Roomer Phoenix project, which is a mixed reality headset that they've been working on. That could get its wraps pulled off tomorrow at this event. And a kind of weird one here, guys.

24:48CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly created an AI version of himself that can interact with Meta employees, kind of like an internal tool. Go talk to the CEO, but the AI version that maybe will show up tomorrow. And that's been it. We'll just have to wait and see. Oh, could you could potentially be Mark Zuckerberg on one shoulder? Then like an evil Mark Zuckerberg on the other shoulder is our own Mark Zuckerberg. Right. What are you going to do? Right? It's a famous looney tunes cartoon. Yeah, I'm cleared. 2026. Always good stuff for maybe C's Mike Debusky at a tech Tuesday. We appreciate it, Mike. Thank you. No problem, guys. Take care. Well, the rally for October fan celebration gets underway in a little over an hour at American family fields. UW credit union Plaza. This is a great thing to celebrate the brewers. Not only winning the NL Central, but looking ahead to the post season, they're going to have a watch party tonight when the brewers take on the Phillies. John Mercurian, Julia Fellow will be there with an abbreviated Wisconsin's afternoon news. So can get in some of the excitement on the day. Playoff tickets. Go on sale. They have so much going on out there. It's going to be a blast. Rally for

25:53October, the first 2500 fans get a free commemorative post season t-shirt. Do you have your shirt? I do. Waited around for everybody watching on YouTube and streaming on social media. We're in our way t-shirt. Very, very yellow. Yeah, that's how Milwaukee does it. They've got $2.50 brats, hot dogs and beer until the first pitch tonight. $5 beer specials during the game. Local food trucks are going to be out there. You've got so much good stuff. A lot of post season gear and the mask. I'm going to be out there. I swear Milwaukee has the most mask. Don't might be true. I mean, from the racing sausages to Bernie Brewer. So many. Yeah, the nationals have four presidents to a president's race, kind of like the brewers to the sausage race, but I don't know if they've got like a nearly as fun to watch presidents run. Well, it, she is pretty funny. If you've not seen Abe Lincoln, you would laugh just thinking about it. They've got an auxiliary mascot, but they don't have like a barrel man like another, you know, you're right. The brewers have Bernie. They got barrel man. The sausage is so many different ways to represent and mascot form. I'm all for all of that stuff. Okay. By the way, for fans, if you are headed out

26:57there tonight, have a blast. Number one, also you are welcome to bring chairs for additional seating around the plaza, tailgating coolers and carrying alcoholic beverages, though, not permitted. So don't bring your own food in, but you can bring your comfy chairs. Some people, you know, you're out at all those soccer games or you're going to tailgate. You've got your comfy chair. You can bring it tonight. Well, bring John and Julia snack there here with Wisconsin's afternoon news until 5.05. Starting next. Go brewers.