to make you spin up your coffee when you heard
Almost.
Good morning.
I'm a little afraid to go on the air now, you know, living up to that.
You know, coming up here on the program, we're going to get to a summation, an AI summation of the show the last hour yesterday.
Yeah.
And it always sounds like it's the only reason we're doing it is because it makes it sound so
Interesting.
It's
being replaced anyway.
What does it matter if I get replaced with a machine or
Nobody values what I do around here.
I
a half.
For a year and a half and we've
quite hyperbolic
the name of the game in the business of radio, right?
us out.
that's
him about movies.
He was just here this past weekend for the festival.
I know.
No, for him coming on your show, you just gotta like take him out of his hotel room and cart him over here.
Although we
yes.
Are all the cookies that were in the kitchen gone already?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, man.
We didn't even hear about that.
them to be here this morning.
For how often you write the snack cabinet in there?
I'm surprised you didn't see them.
Yeah, I did not.
Were they
They were hidden in plain sight on the counter next to the coffee maker.
Then we missed
56.
Currently 31 according to the Samsung Watch.
Well, we're close.
Yeah, 29 is what our thermometer says.
I've been getting alerts for pollen.
Pollan alerts seems a little early for that.
Yeah, not Maybe I mean the afternoon it warms up a little bit.
Hmm.
I have to admit though somebody spray-painted Frost on my cart window this morning, so
Really?
You had to get the scraper
out?
I had
Oh my
I did too, except I forgot to put the, because I'm driving the bug now, I still have my ice scraper and my other car just up north right now.
And I didn't have a cassette case to use.
So I had to use my credit card to scrape my
Good morning, guys.
I wanted to read something quick.
I think it's kind of the big issue behind a lot of what we're suffering here in the West.
The G7, the global south, consists of over 40% of the world's population.
Their combined military is over 13 million some active members.
Economy their GDP surpassed us in 2018.
I believe that's before they What is it Indonesia joined the bricks
right
and I was not aware of this but Indonesia's population is 230 some million people almost that of the US.
You've got Saudi Arabia.
I ran Egypt.
They joined you've got a
Japan and South Korea now trying to make deals with China because of Trump's madness, right?
But I really think that it's the back of it all that's what's behind all this the Empire is crumbling.
We know we can't compete economically anymore and Trump and the Capitalists are just basically trying to you know, rob the ship while it's thinking.
but that's what it's all about really.
Yeah
You get a louder buzzer this time.
There you go.
It's not Barbershop Quartet Day.
too.
Oh, no.
Give
submarine.
Submarine underwater.
It's pretty simple.
What other,
Okay, let's move on.
And watch the submarine days.
Were you waiting for a response?
Well, they would
Well, I did get it working, but Gordy, I hate to break it to you, but I donated it back to Goodwill.
Did you really?
Working in a coal mine going down,
down, down, down.
Working in a coal mine going
Working in a coal mine going down, down, down.
Working in a coal mine going down, down, down.
Working in a coal mine going down, down, down.
Working in a coal mine going down, down, down.
Working in a coal mine going down, down, down.
Working in a coal mine going down, down, down.
Working in a coal mine going down,
down, down.
Working in a coal
horse.
Remember when your mom used to compare you to a horse?
Stop horsing around!
Get off your high horse!
At the Midwest Horse Fair, we embrace that comparison.
We have horses of a different color.
It's okay to eat like a horse.
Always put the cart before the horse when you're shopping.
Move it on over to the rodeo or the Sunday derby.
It's the Midwest Horse Fair in 20th through 26th.
MidwestHorseFair.com for more.
It's this weekend.
Woo!
Have a little horse after that.
Pam,
Oh, indeed.
Oh, indeed.
Yep.
And, you know, that's, I've been thinking about it for the past couple of days.
One thing about the horse fair is it always stretches parking availability at the Lion Energy Center.
And if we would have had the wet weather, cool, sloppy stuff.
that we had last weekend, that would have not bowed well for the visitors.
But it looks like weather is really going to straighten out here and they're going to be ready to go coming up in about an hour.
Yeah.
So this is something pretty cool that actually was started several years ago.
It started in 1993.
So think about our Wisconsin cheese makers.
You know, we always talk about master cheese makers.
Every little shop's got kind of their own specialty.
Well, it's the same for Wisconsin's meat industry.
These would be your local butchers, the people that come up with the recipes for the
brought for the cured bacon, the hams, all that kind of stuff that you find locally.
And the Wisconsin Association Meet Processors is meeting at the Marriott West in Middleton.
I got over there last night because it was time for their Hall of Fame induction.
And talk about names that are legends in the industry.
So one of them you'll probably recognize right out of the chute.
And that's Fritz Yousinger.
If you've ever listened to a Brewer's game, you know that
The legend Bob Yucca always talked about Yousinger Broth.
Well, it's a family-run company to this day.
And Fritz Yousinger is the fourth generation of family members that's making it happen.
About 144 years they've been in the Milwaukee area doing what they do.
So it was great to talk to him.
I said, how in the world do you keep the family succession going?
Because literally family members have been the ones that have been at the helm.
And he said, well, first of all, instead of Christmas presents,
Kids get shares in the company, and that helps to motivate their focus on being involved.
But he said, you know, a lot of it is just osmosis.
He said, when I was a kid, I was hearing about it at the dinner table.
I'd walk in the plant with my dad.
So Fritz went to school at UW, got a meat science and food science degree, and he said some of the bacteriology classes that he had, the food science classes, still come in very helpful today.
in their plant.
So he was one of the inductees.
They got a chance to visit with them.
They do have fifth generation youth singers in the wings coming on as leadership there.
Then the other guy is pretty cool.
Dan Sutherland is his name and he too grew up in the Milwaukee area and his family was involved in meat processing.
Again, I want to stress this is in the Milwaukee area running the Milwaukee Stockyards.
People don't realize that there was a very vibrant livestock yard.
Kind of right where the pot a lot of me gaming Casino is now in Milwaukee down in the valley.
it.
Well, okay Yeah, and then Sutherland dad was one of the operators of that and then Danny eventually took it over from his dad So he's done everything from managed plants been involved in me purchasing rendering even the foreign market in 82 he joined Johnson bro Johnson bill brought
Now listen to this, the sow, S-O-W, sow procurement.
And I said, what is it, sow?
I said, I've never even stopped to think about what kind of hog you want for brats.
And he said, oh yeah, a sow is because they've got more meat.
and more fat and more flavor.
So you've got a really nice ratio of lean to fat.
And he said, so he really learned the skills from others in the industry.
Did not go to college or anything like that.
He learned it by doing it.
So Dan Sutherland, the other inductee into the Hall of Fame last night, they're going to continue with their convention.
through about one o'clock on Saturday at the Marriott Well.
for a new
Yep.
I'm bringing it up fellas, because normally if you say Girl Scouts, people start thinking about their favorite cookie, right?
Yeah,
right.
Yeah.
This started, I want to say, probably about five years ago.
A dairy farmer north of Madison in Dane named John Hague decided his kids were, his girls were involved in Girl Scouts, and they earn those badges or patches, I should say.
Well, there was no patch that would connect those young people to anything about dairy.
That's how it started, was a dairy patch.
The troops would go out visit the dairy farm, learn a little bit more about dairy, then they'd earn their patch.
And it kind of went from there.
Today, the girls go to have the opportunity in Wisconsin to get a patch that not only is about dairy, but all Wisconsin agriculture, the girls go through 10 different stations when they go to a visit, five in the morning, five in the afternoon that are interactive, about 15 minutes long to introduce them to new career opportunities in agriculture they might not have thought about, like natural resources, animal health, education, agronomy, dairy science, all that kind of stuff.
And it's really caught on.
There's a lot of participation from the Girl Scouts, and more importantly, Girl Scout leadership are kind of like, duh, why haven't we been doing this before?
If you've got a young lady that's involved in the Girl Scouts, it's more than just selling cookies,
so.
Reach out to them as well, you bet.
so much.
Great
industry They will they will do free hot dogs All right,
morning.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
Now listen, Grapehead.
I'll explain it so even you can understand it.
We
and
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Welcome back a lot of stuff today.
It's a Friday.
It's John and Gordy 92.7 WMDX producer Sam Doing his thing.
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Okay, we got to catch up on some...
And
sure acts like the master blue meanie.
right.
we
John and our two.
John and Gordy celebrate being nominated for Best of Madison Radio Due, buzzing about anticipation for the June 1st voting.
They dive into the chaotic world of tariffs, unpacking Trump's 90-tade tariff pause and the economic panic that it sparked.
As bond markets tremble and tariffs raise sneaker prices, Fox News surprisingly tells the truth about U.S.
companies bearing the tariff burden.
That's right.
The duo
doesn't understand the national day
national days.
You know, our two.
I just had a great idea.
AI is now another listener to the show.
Why don't we just make...
more AIs to listen to the show.
We can make our own listeners.
We can make our own audience.
You're right.
Wow.
okay?
It
that's why
Laura Loomer is
such a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist.
I mean, she's an unapologetic, I think you had quotes in the intro, white nationalist like has said that about herself, like cheered the deaths of Muslims, said like she hopes for more.
I mean, like just nasty person.
And anybody who doesn't believe it could just Google Laura Loom or crazy or just look at her ex feed if they wanted to, to get a sense for this.
The fact that she is in the White House talking to the president saying, you should fire people who are in charge of national security.
And he apparently said, OK, Laura, great.
And fired a couple of people.
And that's how the country is being run.
And we have a Fox and Friends weekend host that is running the military.
So it shouldn't be that surprising.
But I think that it is really just important to marinate on that, that the people with power
in the White House, or outside the White House, are like these extreme fringe conspiracy theorists that have big followers online.
They can dictate who is in charge of our country's security, your family's security.
And just on this point, one other thing, over at the DOJ today, they had a briefing at the Department of Justice and it was like banning...
Benny Johnson, and it was just a whole rogues gallery of rumor-esque weirdos that were like having
a briefing
at the DOJ about the politicization of our government.
So, you know, Justice Department national security decisions are being decided by MAGA conspiracy bloggers.
So that should help you sleep at night.
rogues gallery.
Well put.
think about
If you decide to run, what case are you making to the people of Michigan and why you'd be the choice?
We need new leadership.
In this moment, we have a Democratic Party that does not feel like it is prepared to meet this moment.
This is no longer the Republican Party.
And to be very clear, I represent Mitt Romney's hometown.
That time is long gone.
This is the MAGA party, this is Trump's party, and we need democratic leadership who understand that, who know how to fight, who believe that there is a future worth fighting for, and are going to lay out that clear vision.
You know, I'm a member of the millennial generation.
By and large, we did worse than our parents.
Can't afford to buy a house, can't afford to start a family, are not living the life that we were promised, even if we did everything right.
Democrats have to put that vision forward, and there is a big decision to make, but that's what I'm thinking about as we think about the rest of the state of Michigan.
good
That reminds me.
I don't think we've mentioned it today on our show.
Ben Wickler is not running for DNC chair of Wisconsin
Were you just about to get to that?
Did I take the words out of your
he's burned out?
Did he release a statement or anything?
I
else.
You know
He is very very good at Talking about what the Democrats should be about.
Mm-hmm.
Why shouldn't he run for office, right?
And I hope he is I hope that's in his plans, but we don't know yet.
It's fresh news.
Yes, it is
All right.
Okay.
All right.
Now let's get to, uh, uh, Trump going after the traders that have worked in his previous administration writing books.
Now they're going after him.
This hit the fan last night on the talk show.
So, man, people are really kind of worried about this.
This is true dictatorship.
Uh, let's listen to cut 109.
Here it is.
The next presidential memorandum we have for you relates to Miles Taylor.
You may recall that Miles Taylor served in the Department of Homeland Security during your previous administration.
In his
capacity with the Department of Homeland Security, he leaked classified information.
He wrote a book under the pseudonym anonymous, making outrageous claims both about your administration and about others in it.
What
this
presidential memorandum is going to do, one, it's going to strip any act of clearance.
that he has in light of his past activities involving classified information.
It's also going to order the Department of Justice
to
investigate his activities to see
what
else might come up in that context.
given his egregious behavior during your previous administration.
I had no idea.
I saw him with CNN, or one of them, I guess, CNN.
It's not a big deal.
I think we have to do something about it.
You can't have that happen.
If that happens to other presidents, it wouldn't be sustainable for the president.
Oh, he's doing it for other presidents.
And if it was a Democrat president, I'd say, that's a terrible thing.
A thing like that can happen.
That's a terrible thing.
And it's time to find out whether or not somebody can do that.
Can they write a book?
Because it happened to be one.
of a lot of people in a room, and they go out and write a book,
and
I mean, he always felt that way anyway.
He felt like he could do whatever he
in just like a
Now the focus is on RFK Jr.
because he's an idiot.
Well, the brain worm.
Oh, I know, we've got to give him that, right?
All right, here's RFK Jr.
You know, he was asked about all the big cuts and HHS and CDC and $11 billion in cuts.
to get more specific.
These are state and local programs we're seeing all over the country.
Since his appointment in February, Kennedy has facilitated sweeping cuts for programs and staffers alike.
You proposed more than $11 billion in cuts to local and state programs addressing things like infectious disease, mental health, addiction, and childhood vaccination.
Did you personally approve those cuts?
I'm not familiar with those cuts.
We have to go.
We'd have to go.
There's, like, more than 50 pages of, you know, of cuts that I actually went through.
These
were mainly DEI
cuts, which the president... There were a lot, but I'll give you, for example, about $750,000 of a University of Michigan grant into adolescent diabetes was cut.
Did you know that?
I didn't know that, and
right?
Well, okay, I don't have these people working for me anymore.
Maybe I should do something about that.
Maybe that's why he hasn't done anything about measles in Texas, which he was catching on and even spreading
more and more.
We've got a couple of calls here now.
Do we have time for any of them
What are you talking about?
Well, percolating.
like teaching kids how to...
Perking teaching kids language.
Well, that's like a foreign word to a lot of younger people nowadays.
Yeah,
bring it back in here.
We got to use it as a sound effect.
We can put it right up next to the microphone while it brews.
You know, I thought there came Perk leading up through my head.
Tool security.
when three-year-olds collecting social security.
Actually, you know, that's probably survivor's benefits, you know, because that's actually, you know, pretty useful thing.
I mean, we collected social security for a while when my dad was disabled, partially disabled by a drunk driver back, before that's back in 1970, before
he was
able to go back to work.
We collected SSI, you know, that kept us going when his disability benefits at work had run out and
was able to go back to work.
I mean, that kept our family going.
I mean, I could put Paul Ryan and his mother through college so they could do
various careers.
So Elon Musk should pull his head out of his rump and actually
Look at what actually Social Security actually provides for the American citizens.
That's why it
They wouldn't make this accusation.
They wouldn't call this fraud and abuse if they understood the system on this.
And you know, I even experienced this myself because I was collecting Social Security at the time my kids were growing up.
very young and the Social Security agent, because I went to the office, said, you know, you have kids, you can get an extra benefit for them.
They acted like I was already dead and they paid, they paid these benefits to my kids.
I felt a little offended, but also happy.
So anyway, yeah,
Hey guys, great stuff.
Please bring that percolating song back again.
That is just a delightful little thing.
And yes, most of us do not percolate anymore.
Instead, maybe the word marinate is a better one that you had from one of your previous bits that you had.
Percolate, marinate, you know.
Anyway, I just wanted to commend you.
You had the comments from the...
a legislator in Michigan who's planning on moving ahead.
And she said, we have to know how to fight.
And I was going to commend to your readers.
I had mentioned this guy's name before, and I just want to throw this into the mix.
He's a writer out of Canada.
His name is Dean Blundell.
It's B-L-U-N-D-E-L-L.
And he's got a sub stack.
And the title of this one article that I would offer people, it's Carney's Checkmate, How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump
to drop tariffs.
His point is that this guy, Mark Carney, the interim prime minister of Canada, is one smart guy.
He said these tariffs went into place that what Carney did was head to Europe.
and work with Japan, which is the number one owner of our debt, to the tune of a trillion dollars.
And then these EU nations like Germany and France also owning a whole great deal of our debt.
And basically worked out a little scheme with him to say, if he goes farther with these terrorists, we're just going to do a slow drop of US dollars.
And boy, as the bond market drops, that'll get their attention.
And indeed, he was right.
And that this play behind
behind the scenes, very quiet, which has made the point, we can get you where it hurts.
Just shut up with these tariffs, and indeed that pause took place as these other countries started dropping US dollars.
Of course, Trump's not going to say that, but that was the power play that made him go a little game out of here with all of this tariff stuff for 90 days for whatever happens there.
But if people would like a little in-depth look at that, it was just
What a apex predator move.
It was really something.
So I just wanted to say to know how to fight these days.
We can get easy to be discouraged.
But boy, there are people out there that are figuring out how to game this in a way that's most effective.
Yeah.
Thanks guys.
Love the show.
And I'll let that percolate.
Yep, and also, once again, we have Peter Frampton tickets to give away.
If you want to go to that show, it's April 15th in Milwaukee, and when you hear some music from Peter Frampton, what do we have for a word?
What do we want to do for a word, Sam?
I'll leave it up to you in our next hour.
Why don't you keep doing this?
I
know
one song
from Peter Frampton.
You know, that's okay, but we'll I'll tell you what we'll discuss it during the break and we'll figure out what we're gonna do that Okay, and then of course we have rocker because it's Friday and he'll have the maxing preview a lot of great Regional and local music from Wisconsin to tell you about some events as well It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning on WMDX
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