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What are you doing your Jimi Hendrix impression there
with the feedback?
That's what I'm thinking, you know.
If I can't play a song and end it with feedback, I'm gonna do it with the headphones right here on the air, okay?
Thanks for killing our
ears here, buddy.
Thank you.
735, it's chilly out there, low 20s right now.
We'll get into the mid 40s later on.
And did we...
Want to announce our winner there?
Yeah, if you want to, you can go for
it.
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Congratulations to Laddie.
Where's Laddie from?
Oh, in
Madison.
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We will be in touch with you if we haven't been already about how to get those tickets.
I'm gonna send those out to you and you'll be enjoying the Jenae Hayes show at the Overture Center this Saturday.
Very funny comedian.
Tomorrow we'll be giving away Peter Frampton tickets.
He's appearing at the Riverside Theater April 15th.
So more on that.
Coming up, Sam, I noticed as I was in the break here, coming back through your part of the studio over there, you're using
You're using Catherine's
coffee cup.
Oh, well, wait a stir the pot now.
She's going to come in and yell at me.
I don't
think she's going to like that.
You know, I'm using Catherine's mug today.
Why did you select her?
Why did you do it?
I'm not stirring it up.
You're stirring it up, man.
Well, today I'm the boss,
Catherine.
Why?
Why have you declared that?
If I have the mug with the K on it, that means that I'm the boss, right?
Yeah, that's right.
You really start to, you know, everybody knows you're leaving for a career in education soon.
And
so I get to push people's buttons.
Yeah, so you can do anything
you want.
You've got one foot out the door,
so you're just going to stir things up around here.
And he walks around the studio here with his Mamma Mia sweatshirt on.
Yeah, really?
What's the deal?
How
innocent is that?
How innocent.
I'm just an innocent person.
By the way, if you'd like to apply for Sam's job, there's still openings.
Yeah, we're taking openings right
now.
I think he may be leaving sooner than you think.
Yeah, you can find out more on our career page here at wmdxradio.com.
Oh boy.
All right.
Well, I don't know.
I was talking to Sam during that break how 60 minutes isn't considered as important as it used to be.
And he brought up the fact that they did get some press because of the way they edited the Kamala Harris interview.
But that was no different.
than any of the other interviews they've ever had
on the show for
the last 40, 50, 60 years, whatever year
they started.
My point has been Donald Trump brought attention to it.
That makes everyone view, everyone who supports Donald Trump views 60 minutes in a lesser light.
That's right.
And now they either had a broadcast or their broadcast is coming up this weekend.
I'm not sure, but there was a post on X where they said that
There are no criminal records for 75% of the deportees that went to El Salvador.
75%?
75% of those who were shipped to El Salvador, there are no criminal records for them.
Okay.
And of the 22% that had records, the vast majority are for not violent crimes.
Okay.
But still, the Trump administration insists that their terrorists, even with no criminal record, they're terrorists, all right?
And the Supreme Court just came out with a decision yesterday about the Aliens and Enemies Act, that they can actually do this.
The Supreme Court is allowing this, I don't know how they can let this happen, right?
They're allowing the enforcement of this.
This is why we have due process.
That's right.
There is a caveat to their decision though, and this is it.
It said that from here on in... Oh, from now on?
Why would it be from here on in?
I mean, there are people affected.
Right now!
Lots of deportees, alright?
I mean, that's 238 people.
Shipdale, Salvador, that's a lot.
But from here on in...
God, this is an activist court.
The alleged gang members need to be given notice of deportation and the opportunity to contest the deportation.
So they'll have the day in court.
But only from now on.
Screw the 238 people before that.
Again, 75% of those deported
did not have any criminal records at all according to 60 minutes.
So, there you go.
And of those, 22% that had records, the vast majority, nonviolent offenses.
That's right.
That's right.
Unbelievable, isn't it?
So, away they go and they'll stay in the jails there, you know.
Yeah,
Salvador, El Salvador.
Well, they act like they can't get them back.
Once they're there, they can't do anything.
You know what?
I think they can because they're paying for the torture in El Salvador.
They are.
They're paying for it, paying the prison for doing this.
That's crazy.
And all I have to do is say, well, we're not going to fund anymore.
And I think they have some sway at that point.
I was going to say, well, why don't we just take a...
boat down there and bring them back ourselves, but ... Styrofoam?
Exactly.
They're actually behind bars.
Well, that might be a little harder.
It might be dicey.
A little bit difficult.
Work through the paperwork.
Yeah.
They don't have any paperwork.
I feel like you two are the kind of guys who would know how to break out of prison.
Do
we?
What do you know about
us?
Listen, I spent 20 years in Indiana.
I was prison enough.
Oh, man.
I'll go on with
that.
All right.
Anyway, let's
move
on.
Well, let's move on to John Stewart.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he's got a little something here and the Trump.
stock market plunges that everybody's so interested in yeah those graphs just keep going down down down they do they do they do so let's listen to John Stewart on the stock market
this turmoil could have lasting effects on the global economy on everyday americans and most worryingly the stock portfolios of members of congress mr president now is the time
to soothe a worried nation.
Donald Trump put this out on social media.
Don't be weak, don't be stupid, don't be a panicking, which he has termed a new party based on weak and stupid people.
A panicking?
Panicking?
The genius who gave us classics like Sleepy Joe.
And crooked a Hillary just out Europe Panic and How about hysteric rats?
Rappoussicons How about how about cryontologists?
Did the overseas factory you had been sourcing your nicknames from get shut down during the tariff?
So we're gonna try this again, mr. President
Can you ease the fears of this nation?
Like a true leader.
President Trump holding firm, posting on true social, only the week will fail.
Your economic policy has the same tagline as season three of Squid Game?
By the way, in case you didn't get the point that he doesn't give a f***, he spent the weekend showing not telling.
He played not a round of golf this weekend, a tournament of golf, a three-day tournament, 812 holes of golf with his live golf Saudi benefactors.
And in case you're wondering about the venerated journalists who are now allowed to be in the press pool, this was literally the first question he was asked on Air Force One in the middle of a financial
meltdown.
Because I won.
It's good to win.
You and I won.
You and I won.
I know the stock market is not the totality of the economy, but if I remember correctly in the run-up to the election, Trump seemed very concerned about the stock market.
Yeah.
If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash, a 1929 style depression.
And anything she can do, I can do better.
I can do it on my own.
Here it is, John Stewart Daily Show.
It's crazy.
A little look at that.
Let's go to the phones right now.
We have Dick on the line.
What do you got for us, Dick?
Good morning,
Dick.
Well, he doesn't mention how many mulligans he takes, probably about 12 per nine
holes.
Yeah, easily.
This situation with these people that were sent to El Salvador, here's what I fear happened, guys.
You remember some of those kids from the last term that they never found?
They may not even know where some of these people are or if they're even alive and They're covering their butt right now because they know this I'll bet money on it that they can't account for a good share of that 75% Yeah, yeah,
that's amazing isn't it?
And yeah, you'd
think that
maybe the Supreme Court had that information.
They must have known that
I
I don't
know.
They're totally covering for a month.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Well, I am.
Yeah.
That's what I'm thinking too.
Sounds like an
activist Supreme Court in the corner of
our dictator for that
call.
Thanks, Dick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, man, I tell you.
All right,
let's
Yes, Sam.
Well, we were talking about golf a little bit before when Trump was talking about his big win at his golf tournament, right?
Oh, yeah.
You got the golf tracker?
The Trump golf tracker, yeah.
And I'm a little surprised how far along we are into his presidency.
We've got 22 days left of his first 100 days.
We're at day 78.
He is currently spent just under 27% of his time in office golfing.
21 days spent out on the golf course.
It's
a
lot.
Unbelievable.
Yeah.
What?
Yeah, I have a cut somewhere about his golfing.
Do you?
Yeah, he, he, it's just a whole bunch of clips together where he's talking about not having time to golf.
Too busy.
Well, wait, if he becomes president.
Oh, yeah.
How could a president have any time to golf?
That's right.
Yeah.
Oh, do you have it?
I
think so,
yeah, okay.
Yeah, let's play this
I'm gonna be working for you.
I'm not gonna have time to go play golf Obama.
It was reported today played 250 rounds of golf everything's executive order because he doesn't have
Enough time because he's playing so much golf.
Obama ought to get off the golf course and get
down now.
I'm going to be working for you.
I'm not going to have time to go play golf.
He
played more golf last year than Tiger Woods.
That plays more golf than people on the PGA Tour.
I love golf.
I think it's one of the greats, but I don't have time.
If I were in the White House, I don't think I'd ever see Turnberry again.
I don't think I'd ever see Doral
again.
I'm not going to
be playing much golf.
Believe me, if I win this.
I'm not gonna be playing much golf.
Believe
you.
Thank you for finding that.
Right.
Yeah, it's an amazing thing.
Completely opposite of what he's doing right now.
Completely opposite.
And you know, it's also the complete opposite that he's a good businessman.
He's a genius, right?
Yeah, right.
So we got a text here, John.
You want to go for it or shall I?
Don't go ahead.
Martin from Verona.
Favorite protest sign from Saturday's protests.
Fred Trump should have pulled out.
Martin of Verona,
thank
you for that.
Thank you for that.
Now let's talk about the genius that Trump is at business.
We know that he's had a few bankruptcies, right?
So let's first get into Trump praise, and I hope you can control your gag reflex on this one.
This
is Fox News spewing Trump praise.
This is cut 91.
Let's listen to this.
is that this is precisely what Donald Trump said he was going to do, which is always a shock when a politician does that.
And it's what he's been saying for literally decades, that this is what needs to be done to save the American
economy.
Just let him do what he's gonna do, give him some time, because he is a businessman, he's a billionaire, he knows what he's doing.
And when does America say, we're tired of paying the most?
We're tired of paying and paying and paying and doing whatever the administration has done.
When do we say we're standing up for ourselves and we're gonna make free and fair trade?
If you're charging us this amount, we're gonna charge you that amount.
He knows what he's doing, right?
He does.
But I thought the fascinating part of that was where they said, he's saving the economy.
We had the strongest economy in the world under Biden, right?
I mean, we were rolling along.
What was it to save?
We recovered from inflation faster than any other country in the globe.
We were rolling along.
They are now saving the economy from that?
Markets keep dropping
every day like a rock.
We've got Mitt Ronney talking about how bad a businessman he really is right
after this.
All that and some more leftovers.
Terrific if you like eating leftovers.
Leftovers.
Leftovers.
I kept the leftovers.
The leftovers.
Just some leftovers.
Leftovers for a week and a half.
He ate those leftovers.
You
know the leftovers.
Leftovers.
Enjoy.
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Everybody knows
how much we love coffee on this show,
right?
Coffee.
We love it.
And, uh, you know, we
have the spirit coffee.
Oh, here he is.
Celebrating
Twin Peaks
again.
Yeah.
Coffee.
Yes.
Coffee.
I saw the spirit of, uh,
The Macho Man here in the studio.
Yeah?
Yeah.
What did he have to
say?
He had a lot to say.
Really?
Yeah, let's listen to him.
Cup of coffee in the big times.
Cup of coffee, man, yes.
Coffee, yeah.
Macho Man.
I miss Macho Man.
He's something else.
He was great.
We got a text in here from Sherry.
Yeah, Hork, huh?
We hear from her just
about every
morning.
You know, she calls other shows, but she just texts us when she never calls us.
I'm pretty satisfied with all those eggplant
emojis you sent.
Oh yeah, it's been a while.
Good morning, John and Gordy and Sam, great show.
I saw a sign.
Fun fact.
The protest.
Fun fact, the Boston Tea Party was a protest against tariffs.
That's right.
That is true, yes.
There were lots of great signs at the protest.
There really was.
And it's all about the business genius of Trump.
As you heard before that break, everybody has this well-respected
Idea of him being the genius and he's gonna help us through and save He's
gonna
he's gonna save the economy from being very successful at one time ain't ain't like that anymore So times
have changed.
He's saving it by putting all these tariffs on countries and the stock markets dropping
Yes,
I don't know but
Mitt Ronnie came out with a statement on this.
So let's listen to cut 89.
All right,
okay
So even though Donald Trump has offered very few specific economic plans, what little he has said is enough to know that he would be very bad for American workers and for American families.
But you say, wait, wait, wait.
Isn't he a huge business success?
Doesn't he know what he's talking about?
No, he isn't.
And no, he doesn't.
Look, his bankruptcies have crushed small businesses and the men and women who work for them.
He inherited his business.
He didn't create it.
And whatever happened to Trump Airlines?
How about Trump University?
And then there's Trump Magazine, and Trump Vodka, and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage.
A business genius he is not.
There you go.
It
says it all from Mitt Romney.
We miss Mitt.
Bring back Mitt.
Yes, I know.
when he was talking to those millionaire billionaires, you know, that was that was the deciding factor for his presidential run.
All right, now let's talk about Fran Liebowitz, photographer extraordinaire, right?
Yeah, she's great.
Yeah, she's fantastic.
But she's also very political.
No, I think you're thinking of Annie Liebowitz.
Oh, Annie Liebowitz.
Fran
Liebowitz is
the author and journalist.
Yeah,
columnist.
And she is that's right.
So anyway, she came out with a fantastic comment.
I thought, you know,
Because some people may disagree, but you be the judge of what she has to say about the mega Republicans right now.
Let's listen to Fran Leibowitz.
Do you think that the Democrats, you talk about the Democrats a lot, do you think that the Democrats have learned anything about those people that Hillary Clinton called the deplorables?
You know, I think that it's very hard for people who are reasonable to understand these.
Republicans.
So I always say to people, it's very easy.
First of all, they're not Republicans.
They're anarchists.
You know, I know the left and the United States, you know, a lot of them, pride themselves on being anarchists, but they're not.
The Republicans are anarchists.
They're destroyers of government, destroyers of democracy.
So the Democrats are always trying to analyze them.
Why do they think this?
Why do they think that?
And I said, you know, a six year old could tell you what's wrong with these people.
They are mean and they are stupid.
And it's as simple as that.
And they pride themselves on their stupidity, their ignorance, and their meanness.
They're really mean.
The things that they want to do.
Let's not give any food.
We have something in our state called food stamps, which is if you don't make enough money to buy food, the government can give you these stamps, which you can use to buy food.
This is something they're very much against.
At the same time, that they're very much proclaiming their Christianity, which is I always say, look, I'm not an expert in Jesus.
But I feel like food stamps
Jesus might have had that idea himself.
So they're very mean and they're really stupid and they're very proud of their ignorance.
Let me just ask you this because Bernie Sanders has been saying and said in fact on our program recently that he wanted Australians to understand that all of those people voting Mago, voting Trump are not racist.
They're people who have suffered.
Well, he's
wrong.
He's often wrong Bernie Sanders, by the way.
So he is wrong.
They are racist.
Racism is the central appeal of Trump.
Misogyny and racism.
Racism first, and then misogyny.
So that Bernie Sanders is just wrong about that.
I mean, there are many people who suffered.
Of course, there are people who suffer.
that if you're talking about people, I mean, what Trump talks about and what, you know, other people like Trump talk about is, you know, I'm going to bring back what, the 1950s.
That's what they talk about.
I'm going to bring back the 1950s.
I'm going to bring back what they're talking about.
I'm going to bring back industry.
That's Fran Leibowitz, author and columnist.
And that's got to do it for us for
today.
Yeah, Stephanie Miller is
coming up next.
Tomorrow we've got Peter Frapp did tickets to give away.
Oh, and we'll be talking to sub stack blogger and author Mike McCabe, you know,
what goes around
comes around.
That's right.
That's his thought.
That's it.
Have a great day, John.
Take care now.
All right.
Let's go drinking.
Yes.