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We're truly sorry.
Why don't you just like keep doing a show where you have to shout all the time
one corner of the room the mics in the other corner
Yeah,
Are they like this with other people?
Like, do they challenge other people's opinions or just yours?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're very, very opinionated.
Are they contrarian to whatever you're espousing?
No, I have to be more specific or at least maybe radical.
You know, I have to take a side.
I can't be in the middle, I can't say, well, you know, this has been going on for years, and this is why, and you really can't make that kind of decision without thinking about this first, and you know, they're, oh no, no, no, no, it's this way.
dad, it's this way.
Okay, all right.
So much for nuance, you know, just, you know, and I appreciate that, you know, I mean, yeah, I think that's great.
You know, I want my kids to be radicalized.
You know, we've been accused of being radical, right?
The radical left, right?
So why not?
Why not live it?
It's so funny because it's so much projection.
Everything they do, the other side, the conservatives, Republicans and Megas, everything is just the opposite.
It's opposite day every day for these people.
And so we're not the radical ones unless going to a different economic system globally is just normal every day.
the way things should be.
I don't know.
It just seems crazy to me.
Well, I'm sorry that you
I do love it.
It's just that they expect Mr. Handyman here to help out with everything.
But it's cool, you know, I tell them when you're, you know, fixing something or you want to try something different, you know, like furniture or an outlet or speakers, I say go for it.
Yeah, just give it a shot.
Give it a shot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's the only way you learn, right?
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
You can only destroy it once.
Get another one.
Okay.
house once.
No, no, but you know, we had a plug drain in the bathroom when we first bought the house and I had a plumber because I was really afraid to move a pipe, you know, to take a wrench and twist it.
And that guy came in with this gigantic wrench and he was...
pulling on that thing like, like there's no tomorrow.
There's no tomorrow.
And I said, aren't you afraid you're going to break that pipe?
You looked at me like, no, not really.
So I realized that, you know, sometimes you just got to use brute force.
Yeah, some impact movements.
That's that's that was my lesson in being a home handyman.
Let's go
You
know, you guys, you have this extensive past, you know, and what you think happened and what he thinks happened, you know, sometimes collide.
Remember, he was on our show a lot.
He was.
On our cable access show, Media World.
Yeah.
With Dave Gray.
With Dave Gray.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
And that was always a really fun experience, but you guys, man, this is... We got it.
Major conflict.
I
We, uh, Dave Gray wanted to host the show.
Oh, I remember he wanted to host everybody.
In fact, he wanted, he wanted us out to quit the show.
And, uh, we gave him a chance to fill in every once in a while.
And we took a little time off.
But anyway, the taco watch and taco warning is a big thing out there.
And you and I didn't know about this, but Mike knew about it because he watches TV on the road every once in a while.
And he found, uh,
a weather forecast that had a big taco on the screen.
It's all about the tacos.
And he didn't know what the hell was going on.
It's a weather forecast and there's a taco on the screen.
And it's a taco watch and taco warning analogy.
It went viral and they're all using it.
All the ingredients are laid out, but the taco hasn't been assembled yet.
In weather terms, the conditions are favorable for a taco.
For people to understand this thing a little bit more.
Taco watch.
By using tacos.
What TV station is using this?
They're all using it.
Up north?
Pittsburgh, I'm just looking here, yeah.
Pittsburgh.
Yeah, Pittsburgh.
A lot of TV stations are using it.
The taco watch.
Yep.
says here with severe weather in the forecast, it's a good time to go over the differences between a watch and a warning.
So they go watch.
We have the ingredients to make the tacos.
Warning.
We are having tacos.
It's all about the tacos, I guess.
It's sad that you quit too soon before the taco watch came
Oh, well.
Hey, let's get to the National Day calendar.
What do you say?
Sure.
Okay.
You don't care.
Doesn't matter.
Nothing about tacos on here, but there's some food involved.
Is it or is it not National Unicorn Day?
How about National Library Outreach Day?
National Education and Sharing Day?
National Winston Churchill Day?
National Name Yourself Day?
Or National Carrot Cake Day?
Which day is it not?
It's not carrot cake day.
Well, you are correct for a change.
All
Ah, you talking the
night of the festival?
What are you talking about, John?
You didn't go see the movie, I did.
You did?
You saw the movie?
Well, I kind of got snuck in, yeah.
what was it called?
It was called friendship.
remember
really it was just were
I
went to go pick up my like my name tag my badge for the festival and then
Ben Ben riser one of the guys that we had in here that was programming the festival He said you should just go and sneak in and find a seat and so I did Okay,
It's just like a weird weird movie, but you're very funny.
okay.
He was only inaugurated once, wasn't he?
National name yourself day.
Why would we want to name ourselves something else?
Yes, we could.
This is a day devoted to, if you had it for yourself to name yourself, to rename yourself, what would you name yourself?
You know, you're stuck with the name that your parents gave you, right?
Right.
This is National Name Yourself Day.
All right.
So if you want to take a different name, you can do that today.
do you think
what do you think of Lil Nas
to?
This is him, yes.
N-A-S.
Nope.
L-I-L-N-A-S.
I
Okay, give us... That's fair.
He's... He's... He was born in 1999.
He's pretty young.
Oh, okay.
Well, what's the story what I thought it would be funny to well, it's his birthday today Oh, and I thought it would be funny to play a little little Gen Z music I guess you could say there you go.
That's
yeah.
a
Yeah.
Thank you.
You all right?
I'm good.
I think you
I think I needed...
sip of coffee to make myself feel good.
Yeah, there you go.
really
Just supplies this whenever we need it.
It's great.
Taking a look back in the history book today in 1865.
Yes.
Generally surrendered the Confederate Army in the beginning of the end of the Civil War.
Not the beginning of the end.
Sort of the middle of the end.
Yeah.
Sort of the middle of the end actually.
Apparently there was another surrender after this that I didn't know about.
But this is this is what marks like the official end.
Hundred years later, 1965, the very first indoor pro baseball game took place at the brand new at the time Houston Astrodome.
what they were doing.
No,
and they couldn't see it.
I think
did they replace it?
Some Vietnam protest history today in 1969, the Chicago Eight, who they say started the riot at the DNC in 1968, the year before.
They pled not guilty to doing that.
Uh-huh.
It
Chicago Seven, yeah.
Kicked one of the guys.
Right, right.
They just needed somebody to blame for everything that went down there.
I think they had
were... Tom
people fed up with
resource we could use to rip these things up.
Jonathan, if you ever get arrested, I feel like they're going to have to do that to you in the courtroom.
Gag you,
we mentioned little noss sacks, but there's a couple other important ones.
Curly Lambo has a birthday today.
Oh, Curly.
Yeah, Curly.
Hugh Hefner has a birthday today.
of years ago.
Yeah, that's right.
He would have been 99 today, getting up there.
And this is an interesting one.
You ever seen the pictures of like, from the 1800s of a horse galloping, it was like the first quote unquote motion picture?
Yeah, I have seen that.
The guy who did that.
He has a birthday today.
He spells his name weird, so I'm gonna pronounce it wrong, but it's Edward Moybridge, I think is how you would say it.
Early motion picture history.
All right, a little bit later on, we're going to give away Peter Frampton tickets.
So why don't we be real sneaky about this?
Okay.
And sometimes, sometime in our seven o'clock hour, when you hear a song by Peter Frampton, just start calling and
We'll use the word, or no texting, sorry, text in.
Use the word Frampton when you hear the Peter Frampton music in the seven o'clock hour.
And we will select a winner there.
He's appearing in Milwaukee and we'll give you more details on that.
Also, Mike McCabe will be in during our seven o'clock hour.
boy.
That's an expensive car bill
right?
It's like a family film.
Is this like a heartfelt movie or is this like a... No, I think it is.
I think it
And Doug from St.
Francis, Texas, moving ahead for a promotion for the John and Gordy Taser Challenge, he's... Doug has taken it upon himself to become our marketing director.
Yeah, so this is really taking off now.
He's promoting the John and Gordy Taser Challenge, working on a deal with Monster Truck Tour.
Oh, he's working the deal out where we would be tasering each other.
as a feature act of a monster truck tour.
That would be kind of fun.
Keep working on that, Doc.
deal?
During
you
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Okay, idiocracy.
What do we got here?
All kinds of idiocracy going on.
Yes,
Mm-hmm.
So there's nothing in Conflict there.
All right.
I mean just to open with
But I have this.
This is, I just found this this morning.
This is representative Melanie Stansberry.
And I mentioned her a few times.
We've played a few cuts from her.
She's fantastic from New Mexico.
I want to play this because the house is back in session.
And she noted it by saying this rant in the house.
Do you have it cut 100?
Be nice if you would tell me what number it is.
It's
digging for it.
is why we have a show planning sheet.
You just add this in today.
Are you sure about
Did
gone through 99.
House feud is spilling over into the Twitter sphere.
Peter Navarro, President Trump's top trade advisor, who also apparently goes by the pseudonym Ron Vera, dismissed Elon Musk's push for zero terrace between the U.S.
and Europe, calling the Tesla CEO not even a car manufacturer, but a car assembler, reliant on parts from other countries.
Musk, meanwhile, just posted on X, quote, Navarro is truly a moron.
There's been some public sparring between Elon Musk and the president's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, on some of these tariffs.
Musk actually referred to Navarro today as being, quote, dumber than a sack of bricks.
Are you one of ours?
The administration, the president, all concerned.
No, look, these are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade and on tariffs.
Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue.
And you guys should all be very grateful that we have the most transparent administration in history.
our federal government, right?
Welcome back.
to my friends across the aisle.
It's really nice to have you back here in the people's house, especially after last week.
Your leadership shut down the United States House of Representatives rather than accommodate new moms voting remotely with a newborn child.
Stellar work, my friends, you have simultaneously managed to shut down the house and enrage millions of moms across America.
because the American people actually want a government that represents them.
And that's why they're also outraged by the agenda that you've gotten this rule and are putting on the House floor this week, including the SAVE Act, which would disenfranchise millions of Americans, including millions of married women, and you refused to take up an amendment that would protect them.
So congratulations.
How about the rogue ruling act that is also being heard this week that would undermine the courts?
a couple of bills to roll back consumer protections to keep them from banks ripping them off.
Is that your agenda?
That's it?
You're going to rip off American consumers, undermine their voting rights, undermine the judiciary and insult moms?
cool You're also gonna tank the economy while Donald Trump is playing golf and you're gonna try to pass a budget That literally will cost the American people 37 trillion dollars over the next 30 years while gutting their Medicaid their food and housing assistance Now luckily the American people are not falling for it and millions of Americans are speaking out are marching in the streets and it is because of their
actions that Elon Musk
Thank you very much is finally leaving the building.
But make no mistake, this agenda will continue as we see here this week.
So that is why it is vital that the American people continue to speak up, speak out, keep marching, keep showing up and keep telling these folks that we reject their agenda and its harmful impacts to the American people and we will
continue.
You know, we
The press pool around them now are just right wingers at this point.
And I just think this particular question to the president is a perfect example.
It's 294 from last month, 294 and it is
It is sickening and you might, if you have a gay reflex, you might want to just back away from the radio.
Wow, okay.
This is one hell of a question to the president.
Tough stuff.
Really tough stuff.
Let's check this
out.
You and your team apprehended a top three leader in the violent gang, MS-13, yesterday, just 30 minutes outside of Washington, DC.
What has made you and your team so effective in finding, locating, apprehending, and deporting these violent, illegal migrants?
I
You heard Lucas's reporting there where the president says he doesn't care if the prices go up on US cars.
So what's the message to the US consumer?
The message is that tariffs are tax cuts.
Tariffs are jobs.
Tariffs are national security.
Tariffs are great.
For America, tariffs will make America great again.
Whatever.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
I think it was a box of rocks, maybe.
But anyway, that's crazy stuff, right?
All right, let's get to, this is a daily show.
They put some clips together of golf outings by Trump.
And then, of course,
juxtaposed it with the soldiers from Lithuania coming back.
And Trump oddly didn't attend the ceremony of the returning soldiers.
And on top of that, on top of that, he didn't even say anything, make some kind of announcement, even at the gulf outing, right?
He could have said something, right?
Just a little... No, he doesn't do that.
He could have said that.
But instead, three days of golf, ignore the whole situation.
Let's play this, cut
83.
Here we go.
To actually check his watch, not once, but over and over again.
Looks like he was being inconvenienced by having to show some respect for these American heroes.
Check his watch during the dignified transfer of 13 troops.
We all saw it.
What would he need to check the time on?
Why would he do this?
As soon as I saw it, I paused the TV and I thought, is that what I thought I just saw?
I am disgusted.
And I just don't understand.
He is
callous at base.
That is what this man is.
He simply does not care.
The remains of four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania will be returned to the US later today.
President Trump is in Florida.
He is not expected to attend.
After that very moving send-off from Lithuania and from the government and the people of Lithuania, the White House announced here in the United States that when those four young fallen American soldiers
landed back home here in the U.S.
President Donald Trump would not attend the dignified transfer.
He would not be waiting at Dover to pay respects to the service members who died, even as Lithuania's president made sure he was there to see them off.
Donald Trump has decided instead that he's going to Florida to watch a golf tournament and to go to a golf dinner tonight.
What was it again that the Lithuanian president said about service?
He said, for us,
It is more than a duty.
It is an emotion.
just sad.
But
didn't have time.
Here we
and
in the morning in just a
played even more than they played it all the time back.
It was actually a really great album.
But again, overplayed just a little bit.
But we've got tickets.
He's coming to, let's see, the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on April 15th.
So when you hear the Peter Frampton music in our seven o'clock hour, you'll want to be the first to text us.
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But the app is preferred, you know.
Right.
You get in a little faster that way, I'm just saying.
Right.
That's the way to
Yeah, good morning.
Yeah, you're talking about Joe Biden support, you know checking his watch I don't know how many times he checked his watch it just kind of ridiculous point But did Donald Trump even bother to pick up the phone and call the call the families on on this?
I mean, for no, because
they would
have talked about that, because for him not to show up is just to go golfing.
And the context is, let's remember, Joe Biden actually has sacrificed a son in service to this country because his one son got brain cancer from being exposed to the burning pits, and the Republicans have been trying mightily to cut the funding for those soldiers.
right service people that are you know that uh... for the long term because there's going to be more people dying of those diseases because of the exposure to those burning pits not only american servicemen and women but also people over there in iraq that were exposed to those burning pits as well and now they're cutting
they're cutting the funding for that and it's just uh...
Well, they're cutting funding for the vets, you know, in general.
Yeah.
I don't know if I've said, I don't know if I've said here, but I see all these commercials for the wounded warriors projects and the heroes project and all this.
Right.
And what disturbs me is that why is not our own government paying for the services for those, for those soldiers, service people, rather than having to, you know, put the go hat in hand and, uh, and get, uh, you know, private service.
private funding to give those service people the services, sorry.
that they deserve.
that
Well, I just want to build on what Mark was saying.
Yeah, essential disrespect.
It's worth noting that
within Lithuania, apparently, citizens and villians designed the streets to pay homage to the Americans going by and had very, very kind words to say that they understand the sacrifice that the American soldiers had given them to try to keep Lithuania safe.
How long it's going to have, you know, continue with this nutball in charge.
You know, I have a feeling we're going to be out of NATO as soon as you can, you can manage it.
But I did want to point out one other thing with this situation with the Lithuanian government
and that are people and that is that they also donated tens of thousands of dollars to the families of these four servicemen to help them in this time of grief and sorrow.
I mean, they are giving more than we're cutting and the Lithuanians are giving to these families in order to make their lives easier.
What an incredible, generous and kind thing to do.
So let's put a tariff on them.
You know, you know, and it's just it's so
Burningly disrespectful and you keep this up and sooner or later people will go.
Well, this isn't a Player that I want to be on the in the game with you know, we're gonna exit so mark was absolutely right to indicate that We're cutting while the Lithuanian people are giving and that's a pretty sad state of affairs.
Thanks guys.
All right Joe.
well, that's the
He's talking about Elon Musk, but from the past.
