So, folks, if we're going to waste this committee's time just to glorify one man's ego, I propose that we at least be efficient about this, right?
I mean, that's the theme of the day, efficiency from Doge and others.
And so the great Wayne Gretzky once said, you don't skate to where the puck is, you skate to where it's going to be.
And my amendment tries to do that.
I mean, why do all of this Trump glorification in a piecemeal manner?
Why not cut to the chase and I am proposing that we rename the entire planet Trump In the world that this administration is building and this committee this committee is enabling Everything is about Donald Trump anyway Republicans are proposing that we put his face on currency
His name is apparently going to go on Air Force One.
You've introduced a bill to add his head to Mount Rushmore.
His whims are shaping everything from who gets prosecuted to who gets silenced and who gets to participate in democracy.
And so I would not be surprised if one of you actually proposes a 60-foot statue of him looming over the National Mall.
As we've taken
you know, some liberty to depict what that might be.
We're trying to get ahead here and skate to where the puck is obviously going.
So let's skip the endless parade of one-offs here.
It's far more efficient to just cut to the chase.
If you want a world where science is sidelined, facts are optional.
Public service is gutted in favor of gold-plated self-promotion.
Congratulations, you're living on planet Trump.
Let's stop pretending.
that any of this is about patriotism or efficiency.
It is all about power, control, and making everything about one man.
So let's just make it official.
Show Donald Trump how mindlessly cultish you are.
He's going to love this.
Let's go ahead and rename the planet, Planet Trump.
Broadcasting from Planet Trump from the mothership WMDX civic media.
It's Johnny Gordy in the morning boy.
I'm I'm so glad that we finally named the planet something that makes sense for once.
I know
yeah that was representative Jared Huffman
of
California.
Wow.
U.S.
Congressman bringing that idea home.
My
drop.
Yeah.
Why not just name it Planet Trump.
That's it.
Yeah.
Well, good morning.
Happy Monday.
It's eight minutes past the hour and a little cloudy out there to start the day.
I'm checking the WMDX thermometer.
It's right 51
degrees.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Starting today, we've got five more days to do the show.
Have you gotten some sort of notice that that's it?
I'm waiting for the sixth day to drop, you know.
Remember in the old days, we used to work six days a week.
Yeah, on the weekends.
Sometimes five hours
a
day.
Wow.
Maybe six on weekends.
Something like
that.
Yeah,
it was a nightmare.
All right.
Well, I suppose you're you're wondering, John, what does the WMDX official Samsung watch have to say about the weather forecast?
You took the words right out
of my mouth.
So, well, we have 53 degrees current, 54, sorry, you just
changed.
Temperatures really climb.
And I have only 56
today.
All right.
Well, let's check the weather roulette wheel, the WMDX weather roulette wheel, and see what that has to say about it.
And round it goes, and... Black 55,
double nickels.
Okay,
so pretty
close.
pretty uh so mid fifties today it is going to get windy this afternoon but i put up the gazebo in my backyard no kidding really i tied it all down very careful but it could get 30 mile an hour 35 miles an hour maybe 40 miles an hour today
at times, but
you said last year, none of that matter.
Yeah, it sustained it all the way through last year.
Well, you're kind of
between houses.
Well, the
garage doesn't really pick up too much.
Exactly.
There's garage on one side, the apartment building, the gigantic apartment building behind me and then my house.
And so it's
really
protected well on three sides.
Yeah.
So I
think it's
going to
be fine.
Forget that telescope that you look into the windows of the apartment.
Still working on that.
Oops, I shouldn't have said
anything.
So here it is Monday and a little bit later on, we're going to talk to Judy Davidoff from the ISMIS.
Get
an update on what's in the latest issue.
There's always great articles, but yeah, we're going to check in with Judy.
And in just a few minutes, we'll talk to Pam Yankee.
She was very busy this weekend, apparently.
She gave us a big list of things she did.
A
lot of important things took place.
Yeah.
Horse fare.
Yes, that was huge over the weekend.
That was happening.
Farmers market happened the first one of the year.
That was well attended.
Did you go to
that?
I did not.
I missed it.
Yeah, I slept in
for a
change.
I don't sleep in very often, but I slept in Saturday.
Well, it was a big day.
A
big reunion, a surprise.
It never took place.
There was a little mini WIBA, WMAD reunion.
I went to that for a little while and met a few people I'd never met before.
So it wasn't really much of a reunion, but I mean, it was just a warm-up to other reunions, I guess
you could say, that are happening.
Well, here's the thing.
You didn't anticipate the fact that the reunion would include newer employees.
People we've never met before wouldn't know.
Exactly.
So that was kind of a surprise thing to realize.
As old as
both of you
and
I, you know, as old as we are.
Yeah, I guess you can expect that when you come to the reunion because you're looking for the guy, you know, the people that are your age.
Yeah.
Most of them aren't around anymore.
So yeah, the younger people are, you know, having their reunion, you know, maybe 20 years, 15, 10 years, whatever it is, I don't know.
Well,
there is
supposed to be another WIBA reunion sometime.
We missed that.
There is an official one.
Well, yeah, probably.
They were asking for old air checks of our shows when we worked there.
And I really, I really had a really good one.
And I still like to pass it along to Sean Prebel over there.
OK.
But well, you never know.
Yeah.
We've got kind of a reunion coming up on Monday, unfortunately, today.
Today.
for van.
Yeah, for being Edwards.
Yeah, passed away
last week.
Yeah.
So, uh, yeah, that's, uh, that's going to be a sad reunion.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yep.
Uh,
There's
a good guy, a
lot of good people in radio.
You
worked with him closely.
Well, I didn't work with him really close.
I didn't know him very well, but when we met, he was always probably, he acted like we were old friends.
He was that kind of person.
Super nice guy.
And you and I have always got into and we always like those radio announcers who weren't.
competitive, they were just friends, right?
I think they knew the business.
There was a lot of camaraderie in that, that, you know, it's a struggle to be a radio.
Can't
be anybody who tries, you know, we have incredible respect for them.
That's it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there's, there's
People that you meet along the way like that and then there
are
other people that are backstabbers.
Yes, you know near
do wells
and they just disappear into the woodwork.
So they don't really last usually Dave Anthony.
Oh boy Just throw it out there.
Okay.
All right.
Let's get to the national
day
Let's check the national day calendar,
you know, I could say
yeah, I can mechanical really
Oh, maybe you'll have a chance to say hello to her today.
Maybe.
Probably.
What is it today?
What is it?
Is it one of these days?
Is it National Gardening Day?
How about National Dolphin Day?
National Booklovers Day?
National Lookup at the Sky Day?
National Pecan Day?
National Ex-Spouse Day?
Or National Reach as High as You Can Day?
Which one of those days?
It's not National Book Lover's Day.
You're
correct for a change.
Well, thank you.
How did you...
Well, I knew we'd talk
about the reading books, I think, on Friday.
Ah, yeah, Library Week and everything.
So I'm just relating the topics.
We were saying just before the show today...
We still don't have mic arms in the studio here.
We need to prop up our table stand microphones with books to get them up to, because John is freakishly tall.
And I saw that you raised your chair up even higher.
I did
not know it went this high.
You just like playing with your chair, don't you?
What anyway?
I do.
I was saying that we could use all of these stacks of books under our microphones as proof that John is such a well-read individual.
OK.
Yes.
Really?
Have you
read any of these books?
Well, here, Bill Clinton and James Patterson, the president is missing.
Yeah, that's a novel.
And then you got the Milton Burrell book
there.
You got the Milton Burrell private joke file.
We could work on that one.
Well, that's got a ton of really stupid jokes.
There's other books over here, a Bobby Kennedy book, and I don't know, something else.
These are our mic stands.
We've got this brand new studio.
And the mic stands are sitting in the other room in boxes.
Right, the booms.
But I think our engineers were on some kind of... What, medication?
No, well, yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't think you'd bring that up.
But they were at some kind of conference.
Oh!
Not medication.
Well, they...
Maybe killed two birds with
one stone.
Maybe.
At that conference.
I'm sure that's a wild one.
The engineering conference.
There's probably a lot of shuffleboard in there.
You guys aren't in the greatest shape.
The boom stands, the mic stands, they're in the other room.
Why don't we just do it ourselves?
No.
Maybe just do it yourself in time.
Yeah.
Just get out and open them up.
I mean, how hard can it be?
Right?
Well, I got an idea.
Let's get the John and Gordy volunteers in here.
Anybody who wants to show up at the station at noon today, I won't be here.
Tell them I sent you.
Why not?
Do we have time to take a look at the history books, Sam?
Is there anything historical?
We didn't even get into any of the National Day calendar.
I was expecting that to take the whole time.
Oh, yeah.
I just skipped right over
it.
It's National Gardening Day.
OK.
Encouraging gardeners and would-be gardeners to pick up a shovel, plant some seeds, and kick off the...
this beautiful time of the year.
Okay.
Is it being the time to do it?
Have you done any gardening?
I'm really, I'm really kind of mad and I don't know what's going on with me.
I'm putting, getting these, uh, the seedlings into the ground.
You know, my grass starting to turn green and I think it is too late, right?
So,
uh, I don't
think it's too late.
I'm hoping the grass grows all summer long.
It's not too late.
No, but I'm just worried that we're not going to get the kind of rain that we need.
to at least
get this crest.
You've got a hose, don't you?
Well, yeah,
but you really
have to wet it down.
And I'm, you know, I
got to get the hose out.
It's still packed away.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, I don't want to
get into, you
know, just ask John here, you know, how he is going to manage the lawn.
We'll do that some other
day.
We don't have time.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a promise.
Okay.
It's National Dolphin Day each year on April 14th.
Recognizes
the
social and intelligent mammals of the water.
Okay, we'll get to Pam Yonkey is coming up.
Oh,
yes.
You can celebrate National Pecan Day, a spouse day, and more coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
Pam is next.
WMDX, Johnny Gordy in the morning.
And when you hear that music, you know it's time for Pam.
Wife on the phone.
Okay.
21
minutes past the hour.
Highs in the mid fifties today.
Yeah.
Keep playing that.
I'm shaking my hips that way.
That was Bookum Dano when I was a kid.
That was a big darn deal at the farm when we when Bookum Dano was on.
Oh, yeah.
That's a great show.
Yeah.
Really fun.
Oh, yeah.
That and Elvis were two of the high points on my on my list if I could catch them all in the same day.
So
yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Do you have you seen every Elvis movie, Pam?
Um,
I don't, I guess I can't say, I don't know about every.
Yeah.
Um, and part of the reason is that I'm of the genre where I probably came in on the tail end of, of, uh, him, but my mom was a big fan.
So then you in turn became a big fan.
Oh yeah.
Whenever he was on.
Oh yeah.
Well, you don't be deceived by the, uh, the titles of the movies there.
I know there's always girls in the titles of the movies, but it doesn't relate to.
anything about girls at all in the movies.
Except that they're
around.
Yeah, I created a marathon at home.
It was all on prime.
You know, they had all these movies at one time and I just went all through them.
And I don't know why they put girls in the title at all.
But anyway, it's fun stuff.
It's crazy stuff too.
And some of those songs in the movies are just ridiculous.
And that's what's so great about the
movies.
There
you
go.
All right.
You
had a busy weekend.
Yeah.
Yes.
You had a lot going
on.
Good weekend.
I don't know about you guys, but the weather helped to keep the momentum going.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
Um, I'm, you know, I, in fact, I was kind of crisscrossing the state in between all these things.
And now I did notice that some guys were out there with us doing some spring tillage work, trying to maybe work some of the low ground that was still a little wet.
Uh, I don't know if it was.
recreation therapy or what it was that they were out there scratching around.
And for anybody that was around, I'm sure they're grateful if they went to the Midwest Horse Fair.
This was the kind of weather that you can only hope for.
And big crowds again this year.
Terry Gianetti, who is the general manager, said they figured they'd have somewhere in the neighborhood of 16,000 people that attended.
I'm sure once they get done with the count,
officially today they they'll come close to that maybe even surpass it uh the one thing that i thought was intriguing i wanted to talk to you guys about is the uh rare breeds that they brought in this year now i will be the first to admit i know very little about horses didn't grow up with them uh so you know how that goes if you don't grow up with them you're not necessarily as familiar with it but there's a group of horses that were exhibited at the midwest horse fair that they call rare breeds
Now, the definition of a rare breed is that there's fewer than 5,000 of the animals left in the world.
So if you saw a couple of those horses at the Midwest Horse Fair, consider yourself fortunate.
I thought some of the reason why these horses are rare is kind of interesting too.
I don't know if I'm saying it right.
A call, techie, the golden horse, that's one of them.
That horse originally came from Turkmenistan.
So obviously over by the Soviet Black.
And one of the reasons why that horse has just about gone to extinction is because the Soviet Union were very strong supporters of horse slaughter back in the day.
And apparently this horse, either the meat or the yield or something made it very attractive to them.
And they just about slaughtered it out of existence.
So that's one of the horses that was at the horse fair this weekend.
The other one that I thought was interesting kind of looks like a mutt breed to me.
They call it, what is it, the Nokotas.
So basically these were feral horses, horses that got loose from ranches and farms and started running around the badlands out there.
Well, here comes to find out that when they closed off the parks to create kind of the badlands national parks, some of these horses were left behind and that turned into its own breed.
So you're only going to find them in that
that particular area and they're only limited as far as numbers.
Like I said, the definition fewer than 5,000 in the world.
So just kind of cool that the other one were the Dale ponies out when I'm not sure about the numbers, but they come from the UK and they were kind of connected with the lead mind business that was so dominant in the UK for such a long time.
So just kind of cool.
You know, like I said, the horse show itself always educational, but then you add that kind of little twist in and
Like I said, even for somebody that's not necessarily familiar with the industry year, it catches your attention.
Yeah, this band land, uh, horses, Nicotas.
I love that name.
So that's a breed
now.
Just because they were left behind on their own for so long.
Yeah, that's, that's pretty
cool.
And I think the name speaks, like you said, to that region.
So it's cool that way too.
Yeah.
Well, my wife is into horses.
Yeah, she's one of those horse girls way back when when she
was
a child quite a lot.
Yeah.
She had, uh, she was competed in, uh, uh, quarter horse competitions.
So
yeah.
Wisconsin's got a really big, uh, following, not following, but competitively speaking, we got a lot of young high school people that are very, very involved in Wisconsin high school rodeo.
We've had a chance to visit with a high school queen, the rodeo queen.
And, uh, like I said, there.
They're stone cold, serious about that profession.
They are, they are.
Well, let's talk about the egg lenders.
I think this would be a big, big issue because a lot of loans were promised, a lot of grants and funding was promised to the farmers, and all of a sudden, a lot of that has been canceled.
What do you got on this, Pam?
Well, so Thursday and Friday, last week, the egg lenders
They always have a spring conference.
They were up in Wisconsin Delft.
And these are basically all egg lenders.
They may be in the farm credit system.
They may be independent, but they all got together.
And normally at this time of year, guys.
Farmers are extremely optimistic.
You know, they're excited to get out and start planting.
Everything's looking good.
We've got all kinds of hope for the future.
Well, the aglenders said that this year they're noticing far more pessimism about what 2025 is going to be.
And even the aglenders are more pessimistic.
They have started to reevaluate their portfolios.
It's not so much about the federal dollars that have been frozen up.
That would be more on the research side and some of that type stuff.
But they are concerned about
the land values, for example.
We just had a sale in Iowa of $21,000 to an acre for farmland.
Now, when you start seeing pretty strong prices like that, you know that ag lenders are getting nervous that we have overdone it, and we'll see a correction on that.
2025 could be the year they correct.
So even ag lenders are going back through their portfolio, reevaluating land values, reevaluating the farm equipment they've made loans on, reevaluating
the commodity that you might be raising or growing.
So a whole lot of pessimism on both sides of that margin that, uh, unfortunately that's not the way we normally approach spring, but this year it
is.
A lot of uncertainty there.
Yeah.
Well, Pam,
thank you for joining us.
I know you're going to be off for
a couple of
weeks here.
So, but we'll talk to you on your return.
Yes.
Thank
you, Pam.
Beautiful.
I'll bring back story.
You bet.
Okay.
I know you will.
Thank you.
It's Pam Yankee, Midwest Farm Report, and we'll have Idiocracy right around the corner on John and Gordy in the
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Okay, idiocracy.
Well, idiocracy, I'm still waiting for this to drop.
What's up?
This was a declaration by...
Donald Trump untrue social and nothing has happened with it yet, and I am waiting Patiently for this
be a target.
Well, he wrote this starting on Monday.
It could have been two weeks ago.
I am ending dual citizenship under the espionage act and all these traders will be denaturalized and Deported to the country they came from no exceptions
That wouldn't mean a lot.
Wow.
That's
that's what I'm waiting for.
He's a dual.
Well,
he's a triple triple citizen.
Yeah, I think he's Canadian, South African, and then all of a sudden America.
How did he do that?
I don't know so quickly, right?
Came here on a student visa, never became a student, which violated the visa itself.
So he's
Broken law a few times.
I think
it's time for sending him off packing him off.
Yeah deport him.
Yeah, let's get him out of here I think El Salvador would be a perfect place for him By the way, here's a headline.
I
hear it's nice this time.
Yeah, you too.
Yeah, it's kind of warm But this this is a headline in Politico Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to us
Really?
Yeah.
No.
Well, see, there you go.
Yeah.
So, you know, not only can you be disappeared off these streets and sidewalks of the U.S., but they aren't going to get you back either in case somebody complain.
Right.
It's not something they feel they need to do or have to do.
I think we should all be reassured.
Really?
Wow.
Yeah.
That makes me kind of nervous.
A little.
A
lot.
A little bit of a chill.
Yeah.
So Trump continued, he goes, no exceptions.
America is for Americans, not all these foreigners who hate a great country and don't even pay taxes.
And you know, that is also true, that Ilan doesn't pay any taxes for, I think Tesla hasn't paid any taxes in this country for years.
You know, on Friday, we said that today on the show.
We were going to be, you were going to be offering free tax cheat advice.
I should have waited until after the show today.
Oh, that's right.
Yesterday, yesterday afternoon, I finally got around to filing my taxes.
And for the first time ever, I had to pay in.
And,
man,
it's tough.
Why
do I have to pay taxes and Elon Musk doesn't?
What the heck?
Exactly.
See, that's what's wrong with the whole system.
you put your finger on the button.
Did you do your software on that?
Yeah, I used TurboTax for it.
And did you freely submit it?
No, I didn't.
Did it cost
money?
It did cost money because I do contract
work, which is a pain.
Tax days tomorrow, so get those papers in order.
What a nightmare.
Right?
I mean, then the government will know even more about us, especially...
Elon as he plums the depths of our economy and of our personal information.
I don't know why we're settling for something like that.
What happened to the days where we were talking about just doing your taxes on a postcard, you know?
That was actually a pretty good idea.
Let's completely simplify the tax code.
Just do a flat tax or something.
Those kind of ideas need to come back.
They really, really
should come back.
Yeah.
Well, we tried a little bit now.
You know, the Democrats passed the opportunity for people to file freely.
They can file for free.
Right.
Yes.
And the Republicans came back in and they said, no way.
No way you're not filing your taxes free You have to wonder why they're doing that that would be like Who would who would do something like that?
What what do they think that looks like right in what pocket do you think they're in?
It's the most ridiculous I know proposal ever.
I don't know if it ever went into effect.
I don't think it did I think we do file
freely, but I don't know, and was complaining about paying a lot of money.
So we decided to just mail the stuff in, which is a lot cheaper than sending it.
And I think it's like, right, you have to pay to send the sending your taxes.
So
that's
the way it goes.
So I don't know if they got their way.
Republicans did change all of that around.
I'm not sure.
So I don't do the tax.
You can
still do it completely free on paper if you wanted to, John.
Never.
The very
first time I ever filed taxes, I was a teenager still and I had horrible handwriting.
I did it on paper and they got my name wrong.
So the next year when
I
filed taxes on a computer, it was a real ordeal with the IRS
trying to
get my name
corrected.
Yeah, a nightmare.
You could have sent you off packing, you know, El Salvador, my friend.
It seems like the solution to everything in this country now.
Just, you know, make it disappear.
Wow.
One-way ticket.
Well, I know what is that all about, right?
Shall we
get to Linda McMahon?
You
want to talk about
this?
Yeah,
let's go to Linda.
She's the head of the Department of Education, right?
Well, she knows everything.
She's really, really brilliant.
She's smart.
She's great schooling.
Super smart.
But
she may not know everything about high tech stuff.
It's still maybe a mystery to her because she was talking to her.
She was at a conference of some kind.
Yeah.
And she was talking about, you know, artificial intelligence.
And she called it A1.
Instead
of
AI.
Instead of AI, throughout this, well, let's just listen to this part and you'll hear what I mean.
This morning, I wish I could remember the source, but that there is a school system that's going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-Ks have A1 teaching every year starting that far down in the grades.
And that's just a, that's a wonderful thing.
Kids are sponges.
They just absorb everything and so wasn't all that long ago that is we're going to have internet in our schools now.
Okay, let's see a one and how and how can that be helpful?
How can it be helpful in one-on-one instruction?
You got
state for breakfast and absorbing, you know more information for those fast learners.
It can be more one-on-one Directed and those are the kinds of things and innovations that I want to see continue to develop.
Yeah, I wish they had a one sauce at every desk
How can she...
Of course it
does.
At
A1,
how could
she be the head of the Department of Education and not know AI is AI?
Well, at least somebody might have said it once or twice around her.
No, you
would think.
Wow.
I made a mistake way back when I would.
I never knew how to say, am I six?
What do you mean?
Because the eye, they never make the eye look like an eye.
They always make it look like a one.
So I hesitated to always mention MI6.
What is MI6?
What are you talking about?
Well, you don't know.
It's a secret intelligence service in Great Britain.
Oh.
It's military intelligence section six.
So secret, we didn't know.
Yeah, military M.
Intelligence, I, and it's section six.
Can you call it M16 or something?
Yeah, well, I tried not to say it, because I just wasn't sure.
Just avoided it.
Because I had heard, you know, people say it MI6, but I wasn't sure, so I didn't bring it up.
So you can relate to Vince McMahon's
wife.
Yeah, I can
see her mistake on this.
Linda, it's an easy mistake.
Sometimes you just don't make it
really
clear.
She's not up on.
A1.
No, I'm not giving her a pass.
You ought to know.
She is the secretary of education.
I don't think it's something that we should say, you know, well, yeah, she wouldn't know.
But, you know, I talked to my sons about this too because I said, you know, she is right.
They're using
cameras in order to gauge the interest level of the students, the speed level of the students, and see whether they're wandering, whether they're, you know, maybe moving too fast or too slow with the subject matter.
And I thought, you know, this is going to help them a little bit for home learning, for online courses.
And we talked about it with Tim Slacker from Busted Pencils.
And it is something that could
definitely help and benefit these students.
You think it's a little big brotherish?
No, you know, they're watching you all the time.
What's next?
They're going
to
set you up with an electronic pulse thing on your fingertips or
give you a little zap.
It's a
little too late for
that, my friend.
It is a little too late for
that.
Even at UW here, they don't have it to help with learning exactly.
They do have it.
It's called Honor Lock.
It's an exam-taking thing.
So if you take an exam on a computer, there's a camera on you, and then it uses AI software to figure out if you're looking at a phone or somebody walks into the room to.
Like
give you an answer or something like that's a really great idea.
No, it's it's all thankfully I've never had to take a test with honor lock But I have heard no good things about it from students at least
because you cheated
Prior to that?
Yeah,
well, that's why I'm working in radio, John.
They caught you.
And this is your sentence.
Take care of two old guys
on the
radio.
By the
way, Sam, was it a trivia contest all weekend?
Like a 50-hour trivia
contest?
Supposedly, it's the world's largest.
I haven't seen any official documentation for that, but they call themselves the world's largest trivia contest.
There was a story on NBC 15 this morning about it.
I didn't see you in there, but there were some other people.
there.
Boy, that was a bigger deal than I thought.
I just thought it was a bunch of people getting together.
How
many questions did they have?
Well, it's 54 hours straight from 6 p.m.
on Friday to midnight on Sunday.
Oh, and you were helping out.
Yeah, it happens on the radio, so you read a question and you play a song, you read the question again, you play another song and that's all the time that you got to call in with an answer.
And
then you
do eight questions an hour, and you just keep doing it hour after hour all weekend long.
50
hours plus.
It seems a little boring.
You should listen to it, because it was all music that I'm sure that you would like.
Oh,
really?
A lot of music.
Yeah,
all the sort of short songs from the 50s, 60s,
70s.
We know those.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
Wow.
It was a good time.
I
don't
get to do music in radio very
often.
Well, at least, you know, we can keep that myth going here, Gordon, because we're not, we don't know all music.
We're not the best sometimes at that.
But the oldies.
We like to pretend that we know a lot about music here.
Actually, you know a lot more.
You were heavily into rock and roll.
Yes.
But I was into all the 70s and
I was into all the different kinds of rock and roll, you know, bubble gum music, the underground music scene.
I think we'd both
do well with 60s and 70s.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.
Beyond that, I don't know.
I don't
know much.
Yeah, did you slip out of music at around the 80s?
Yeah, well, that's when I got into TV, you know, and that
sucks.
MTV, right?
No, MTV.
No, TV weather.
Oh, and that just, you know, that sucked all the intelligence right out of my brain.
You know, I mean, it was completely different world television.
Well, a lot of people got into MTV.
I get
into TV Lenny.
TV Lenny.
Hey, Joe is on the line.
Well, let's see.
Do we
have time for her here?
Let's hold her over, and we can get to her in just a moment.
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All
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Joe has been waiting for us patiently.
I know we kind of ramble on every once in a while.
Do you think?
In fact, most of the time.
That's what we do.
Joe, what do you got for us today?
I love the rambles.
I love the rambles through the rambles.
It's really important.
It's why
trivia contests are so much fun.
Speaking of trivia, I was going to call today with some
thoughtful stuff on where our nation is and all that sort of stuff.
But let me go back to the MI5.
I
thought it was, you know, M15 until somebody was more erudite said, no, no, no, no, it's MI, which is military intelligence.
And so they have the, you know, MI6 is for
foreign intelligence work.
And
MI5 is for domestic intelligence work.
And
there is a great series that you can find on Prime and Britbox and other places put together, I think by BBC on MI5.
It runs for about eight seasons and it's fantastic.
I couldn't recommend
it
enough.
So if you want some good viewing on the thriller side, go to MI5.
on any of this, any of those streaming services.
But then that prompted the whole question about, what about MI1, MI3, and apparently it goes all the way up to MI19,
which
was a POW debriefing.
So it's military intelligence 19 with POW debriefing.
And then they fold it in these things and now they just really have MI5 and MI6.
However, there are some who believe that there's MI-17, which is about aliens.
Now that would be a good show.
Hmm.
Yeah.
So instead of offering something that's, you know, useful, let's let's go into the arcane-ness of MI5 and MI6.
Okay.
I believe there's, uh, am I interesting, you know?
All right.
Well, thank you for
that.
I
appreciate
it.
Joe,
we
always appreciate your call.
Thank you.
You know, like I said, they really never, uh, made the I
look like
a capital,
a capital I,
you
know, the little things in the top and the bottom, right?
So you were confused.
Yeah, yeah.
I understand.
And having been an actual Uncle Agent at one time in my childhood.
Do you have the kit?
I did have the
kit.
Me too.
I had the gun and I had the pass or the ID.
The ID
card.
The ID card.
Yeah, it's important to have that.
Yeah.
I think they had a badge or something.
I don't know.
It seems like they had three or four things and a little attache case.
Right.
So
we were.
Yeah.
from Uncle.
Yes.
Yeah.
Which one were you?
Were you Ilya Kuriyakhin or Napoleon Solo?
We all thought that
Ilya was really the
cool
guy, right?
He was very cool.
But I really
liked, I liked Napoleon.
Napoleon
Solo.
Because, you know, he was
so cool,
so suave.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, he was so smart.
Yeah,
I picked up a few of his mannerism.
Oddly.
But I really looked up to iSpy and Robert Culp was my idol, absolutely my idol.
I just
loved him.
He
was
great.
Yeah.
Very funny too.
Yeah.
Did you ever see him on there?
Everybody loves Raymond.
No.
Oh my god.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, completely different side of Robert Culp.
I
forgot that he was on there.
Yeah, very funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway.
All right.
Well, we're rambling on again.
Thanks to Joe.
point out what we
do.
Well, you know, it's easy.
It's
easy to get confused.
If you don't make an eye, a capital
I look like
a damn capital.
Why?
What the hell
is wrong
here?
You got to let it go.
Easy.
Relax.
It'll take a breath.
I'll try.
I'll try.
You some yoga, do some meditation.
Really?
Settle down.
Coming up in our next hour, we're going to have talked to Judy David Doff about the latest issue of Ismus, some really great stuff in this latest issue, including a terrific picture on the front page of this dog.
I don't know who, we'll have to ask her about that because it's really different.
Really?
Yeah, I got it right.
Yeah, let me show you.
You've seen this one, right?
Well, hang on.
This looks good on the radio, doesn't it?
Let's see.
Where is the front pit?
There it is.
Oh, look at this dog.
I mean, that's a great picture.
Oh, that is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I saw that and that was just fantastic.
It really
is.
Oh, look at the tongue on that.
I know.
Wow.
Yeah, I
didn't see the tongue, but I love the reflection in the pool of water.
Right.
Yeah, that's
really great on the side of the street.
Terrific.
Yes.
Good stuff.
So we'll talk to Judy Davidov coming up in our next hour.
All right.
And oh, we've got tickets to give away to the Milwaukee Film Festival.
Can't forget about that.
In fact, we'll have tickets all week long.
Big Film Festival in Milwaukee.
We'll tell you more about
that coming up
later this week we'll be talking with one of the the programmers of the festival seeing what we just had the Wisconsin film festival now I guess we're heading over to Milwaukee to watch some movies
yes well it's gonna be a big deal the 2025 Milwaukee Film Fest from runs from April 24th to the May 8th
and has a little something for everyone.
They have local and international films, comedies, documentaries, everything in between 15 days in the heart of Milwaukee.
Films will be screened at the Oriental and the Downer theaters with events like panel discussions and filmmaker question and answer sessions.
So again, that's going on from April 24th through May 8th at the Milwaukee Film Fest.
We've got tickets coming up.
All right.
Well, your neighbors have sent
us a text here.
Oh, did they?
Yeah, I didn't see.
And
they send us a documentary or link to a documentary, Trivia Town.
And that's from 2006.
So if
you're
into watching something about trivia contest, I suppose.
I don't know.
I thought that you were going to say they were texting me about the gazebo I put up over the weekend.
Well, they
obviously.
It's already blown into their yard.
Really?
It's going down University Avenue.
Obviously, it's an iron chore.
It's our campus drive.
God.
This is supposed to get windy today.
They did say that they participated with a large group of friends when there was no internet.
Wow.
Oh, yeah.
The contest was way different back.
It's been going on for 50 plus years.
Yes.
Yeah.
OK.
Alright, we will be back with those ticket giveaways and more coming up on Johnny Gordy.
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Wow.
All right.
Where do we begin?
Should we get to the Bill Mar thing right off
the
top?
Well, we could.
You want to do the tickets?
I'm confused.
Sam,
you're the
producer.
Tell us
what we
told you to do.
Let's give away tickets.
There we go.
The Milwaukee Film Fest.
Okay, let's go to the movie.
Let's do
that.
Okay, well, the movie, the film festival is going on in Milwaukee.
You okay over there?
April 24th through May 8th.
This is a huge deal.
They'll have all kinds of films, comedies, international films, documentaries, everything in between.
15 days in the heart of Milwaukee, again from April 24th to May 8th.
Would you like to win a pair of tickets?
Well, you can do that if you text us the word.
What's the word, Sam, that we agreed upon at the meeting?
Movie.
Movie, that's easy enough.
Movie, M-O-V-I-E.
Just text us with the Civic Media app.
You can do that right from your app and text us the word or you can text us at 608-879-8255.
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All right, very good.
Milwaukee Film Fest, okay.
On with the show.
Well, you know, I think the big story is the the terrorist attack on the Pennsylvania governor's mansion,
the
residence.
That is something else.
You know, they've got a lot of pictures of this video.
Governor
Shapiro.
The
interior of the building.
It's just amazing.
It looks like one of those those abandoned houses you walk
into
and still got the furniture in there and it's all ripped up and burned
out.
It really is just an amazing sight.
And this guy said if he would have ran into Josh Shapiro.
the governor.
You would have beat him with a hammer.
Yeah.
And I guess he left behind a sledgehammer to break into the residence as well.
So
did quite a lot of damage.
Yeah.
At least one portion.
Molotov's Contail threw
in there and that's what started the fire.
Middle of the night.
Yeah.
Two or three o'clock in the morning.
Yeah.
Families there sleeping.
Yeah.
Luckily they all got out.
You know, no injuries there, but
this is the kind of America that Trump is promoting.
Yeah, this is the kind of radicalism that we're going to see more of sadly.
I wonder if this guy's citizenship will be revoked or maybe, you know, because he's such an evil person, they should just send him to El Salvador.
I think that's what the administration
is talking about, doing to the worst of the worst.
Is that the punishment for all crimes now?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whether you're a citizen or not, you're going to El Salvador.
This is their answer to everything.
I think this guy will be sent there.
Who knows?
You know, he's on the side of the Megas.
Yes.
You just never know, right?
Absolutely.
This is crazy.
This is
really
bad stuff.
I want to mention, did you see this Bill Maher explanation of his visit to Trump, to the White House?
I watched some of
it.
Yeah, it was about 10 or 12 minutes.
He took time out from the show.
He had got this set up from Kid Rock.
of all people, and they went to dinner with Trump, and he explained all this, and it was 10 or 12 minutes long.
I edited it down to about three minutes here of some of the
highlights of this,
so let's give a listen.
This is Bill Maher
talking about his
dinner with Trump.
Meet up in person, maybe it'll be different.
Spoiler alert, it was.
First good sign, before I left for the Capitol, I had my staff collect and print out.
This list of almost 60 different insulting epithets that the president has said about me.
Things like stupid, dummy, lowlife dummy, sleazebag, sick, sad, stone cold, crazy.
Really a dumb guy, fired like a dog, his show is dead.
60, I brought this to the White House because I wanted him to sign it.
Which he did.
Which he did.
With good humor, and I know as I say that millions of liberal sphincters just tightened.
Oh my god, Bill.
Are you going to say something nice about him?
What I'm going to do is report exactly what happened.
You decide what you think about it.
So no, I didn't go MAGA.
And to the president's credit, there was no pressure to.
Just for starters, he laughs.
I'd never seen him laugh in public.
But he does, including it himself.
And it's not fake.
Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it.
Example, in the Oval Office, he was showing me the portraits of presidents, and he pointed to Reagan and said, in all seriousness, you know the best thing about him?
His hair.
I said, well, there was also that whole bringing down communism thing, waiting for the button next to the Diet Coke button to get pushed, and I go through the trap door.
But no, he laughed.
He got it.
At one point, we were walking through his amazing, it is an amazing tour of the whole house.
And I don't remember exactly what we were talking about, but it must have been something with the 2020 election, because I know he used the word lost.
And I distinctly remember saying, wow, I never thought I'd hear you say that.
He didn't get mad.
He's much more self-aware than he lets on in public.
Look, I get it.
It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian.
It matters who he is on the world stage.
The most surreal part of the whole night was when I got home.
I flew back right after the dinner, and I'm in bed watching 60 minutes from the night before.
And there's Trump in one of their stories, standing at a podium in a room that looked to me like one of the rooms and places we'd just been in.
And he's ranting, disgusting, you're a terrible person.
And I'm like, who's that guy?
What happened to Glinda the Goodrich?
And why can't we get the guy I met to be the public guy?
And I'm not saying it's our responsibility to do that.
It's not.
I'm just reporting exactly what I saw over two and a half hours.
That's my report.
You can hate me for it.
But I'm not a liar.
Trump was gracious and measured.
And why he isn't that in other settings?
I don't know.
And I can't answer.
And it's not my place to answer.
I'm just telling you what I saw.
And I wasn't high.
So there you have that's Bill Maher.
Yeah talking about his dinner with the president Yeah went on for you know, like I said 10 or 12 minutes, but not some of the highlights not a lot of people,
you know Put pressure on him not to go like You know Joe Scarborough.
Oh, yeah,
I wonder
maybe it's because he didn't go through Kid Rock Maybe that's the whole reason why everybody laid into Joe Scarborough possibly but yeah, that's a
very complimentary meeting that Maher had with Trump.
And surprising too, I don't think we've ever really seen him laugh.
I can't remember a time, no.
And it's interesting that Maher brought a list of 60 insults that Trump had said about Bill Maher.
That's great stuff.
And he signed
that.
He signed the back of it, yeah.
Well, actually, there's no breath.
Yeah, it was two-sided.
The comments that Trump had made.
Yeah, that was fun.
Well, that's kind of interesting.
Got Mark on the line.
Let's go to the phones here.
608-879-8255.
Mark, what do you got for us this morning?
Well, getting the whole criminal prosecution thing for this guy in Pennsylvania.
Yeah.
I remind you that no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless
a presentment of indictment by a grand jury.
So this guy's entitled to due process.
And he's also entitled to a public trial.
Like all the people they've snatched up and shipped off to El Salvador, they were entitled to a public trial here if they were charged with the crime.
This BS of just being able to snatch people up is just beyond the pale.
It's a complete violation of the oath that all these people took to the Constitution.
I mean, these people were not snatched up on the battlefield of this.
and it's not an actual invasion going on in this country, because if that is the case, that's been going on since the nation began, especially for people coming across from Mexico, because for decades and decades, people were crossing the border, coming here to work, and then going back across the border when the crops were harvested or their job was fulfilled.
And this is just recognizing reality that these people are coming here, and maybe actually make it so it's possible for these people to actually come because
Are they going to like you for commenting last week?
Are you gonna have six-year-olds six-year-olds picking the crops because we don't think they're good enough students at school down in Florida They're gonna be harvesting our orange the orange grow the orange crops or picking strawberries in California because all the color fun It's gonna be you can work all day and and we'll give you five dollars for working all day and that would just be fine with these I Don't know for it is just yeah.
Oh, no disgusting.
Well, it is not willing to cut
Well,
I wouldn't either.
Of course, I'd never do that.
But at the same time...
We've got the White House making comments saying that they have no responsibility to bring these people back, even if it's a mistaken deportation.
And then we had Trump over the weekend say that he respects Justice Robert's decision to bring these people back if they're mistakenly sent there.
All these contradictory statements, it's ridiculous what's happening.
We don't know what's happening.
And I think that's what's keeping us all on edge, Mark.
And I'll point out that the fact that
There's also a prohibition in this country about cruel and unusual punishment.
And simply because we're farming out the cruel and unusual punishment doesn't mean they're not violating the constitution.
Yes.
Yes.
Right.
We're shipping them over to El Salvador because we don't know what's going to be happening.
We don't even know if the guy that really was mistakenly shipped there as a probably 75% of the ship there are still alive.
I mean, Trump could just give a wink and the guy is dead.
Right now.
couple would actually take responsibility for.
Well
that's kind of what I was thinking that they're kind of delaying this making sure that maybe you know something happens along the way that they don't even have to deal with it eventually.
Mark thank you for your call.
Phone lines are back open six eight eight seven nine eight two five five
yes.
You know the guy that actually you know started the fire at the governor's mansion in PA.
And welcome to The Dating Game.
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7.21 and temperatures in the low 50s this morning, mid 50s this afternoon.
It's gonna get windy.
We're gonna talk to our...
chief meteorologist from WMDX, Brittany Merlo.
In just a moment, just want to congratulate our winner of the first pair of tickets that we're giving away.
We're giving away tickets all week long to the Milwaukee Film Fest.
And by the way, these are general admission tickets to the film of your choice during the festival.
And congratulations to Doug, who won a pair of tickets
We'll be in touch with you, Doug, and get those tickets passed along
to you.
It's about time the John and Gordy Super fan finally got something out of this
show.
All
right.
Milwaukee's been with it.
It's been
tough.
Doug's been with us
since the beginning.
He has to keep listening, and then all of a sudden he finally paid off.
Yes, over there in Milwaukee.
All right, so we'll
have more pairs of tickets to give away all this week.
Now let's get to the weather with Brittany Merlo.
Good morning, Brittany.
Hey, how's it going?
It's going
great.
I mean yesterday was a fantastic day It
really was but and today's just kind of cloudy, but I put up my gazebo over the weekend so
we should have
strong winds How windy will it get today
Oh my goodness.
While we're looking at winds sustained, so a constant wind at about 20 to 25 miles per hour throughout the afternoon.
And then it looks to gust around 40.
So we'll see.
Wow.
I think it's been through 40 miles per hour.
I think it has, yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
40,
45 miles per hour.
It's pretty sturdy.
The neighbors
are hoping that something will take it
away.
Blow it down
University Avenue or campus drive for sure.
A funnel club.
Just look at
me.
Take it away.
Uh, but
I, I think, uh, I think it's securely tied down and, uh, we'll find out later today, I guess.
So that's, that's the main deal today, but what about the rest of the week?
How's that shaping up?
Well, we've got a cold front moving through tonight.
We're making this conceivable legendary.
What's that?
What's that?
You have beads hanging from it yet?
No,
not yet.
You're waiting for
your neighbors to
donate
some of those beads.
I know, from New Orleans.
Yeah, I'm gonna decorate it all.
If it survives today, I'll start the decorations later this afternoon.
Yeah.
Oh, good, good, good.
And then
people that are passing by, you can yell to them, you know?
Throw
me some
beads.
You can throw them beads if they... Yeah, do something.
Never mind.
It's the old New Orleans thing.
Okay.
Anyway, let's continue with the weather back to the weather
All right, yeah, so bad news.
Okay.
Here's the front that comes through overnight It's gonna bring some showers probably after 10 o'clock this evening through the overnight and maybe Maybe you wake up to a flurry flying in the morning.
Don't be shocked if it happens But we're not looking at accumulations.
Don't worry about that either but colder air is definitely moving in and then behind it
We're going to warm up.
So at a blustery cold start through tomorrow, we'll gradually get sunny through the afternoon.
Highs will hit about 50.
We'll stay in the low 50s on Wednesday too.
And that's when the winds finally will calm down.
So midweek, they're done.
Sun is still shining.
But then we've got more rain moving in Thursday evening and into our Friday.
So Friday looks wet and dreary at the weekend, bright and beautiful and in the mid 50s.
All
right,
good.
Well, that sounds great, actually.
by the end of the week.
Yeah, it looks like I'm gonna have to plant that grass seed in the next couple of
days.
Just
do it,
man.
Just
keep
talking about it.
Brittany just said it's gonna be windy and then the grass seed is just gonna blow away.
That's not gonna, okay.
Put it?
What it?
I don't think so.
Is it spraying it?
Is this gonna go?
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, Brittany.
All
right.
Well, thank you for keeping track of all this for us and we will talk to you again tomorrow morning.
Thanks.
Have a good day.
That's WMDX meteorologist Brittany Merlo.
Okay.
Over to you, John Peterson.
What's
going on?
What's
happening?
Well, yes.
Yes.
What do you got for
us?
Well, I do want to mention that, you know, the guy that set the, uh, the mansion on fire in Pennsylvania.
Yeah.
Governor Josh Shapiro.
Yes.
Um,
A text here from Scott Madison says they'll make him a cabinet secretary eventually.
Yeah, that's that's his take on it.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're getting all
they won't
send them till El Salvador yet.
Right.
Right.
We got some other texts here.
Didn't we?
I can't find it right now.
Some
people who dislike Bill Maher.
Yeah.
Well, yes, here's a text saying Maher has increasingly been been leaning on fake laughter on his show over the years.
He attacks his audience when they groan at his bad jokes.
Well, that's true.
That's kind of his thing.
Yeah.
Or like all narcissists, Bill loves it when people are nice to him.
Yeah.
Well,
yes.
The more famous, the better.
Marr is addicted to attention and Marr is an idiot
for that.
And the
end.
The end.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's just
interesting to hear his take on
it.
Yeah, I think it's important to...
I don't know.
I'll hear different perspectives.
Absolutely.
Even if they might not be true, it's still what people believe.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, like I said, my son, you know, when I edited another Marr comedic bit, which I thought was fairly funny, you know, they told me, don't play him on the radio.
He's the fascist.
Right.
You know, I think he just dishes it out equally pretty much left and right.
Maybe
he
leans a bit more right than he used to.
I think he does, but when he dishes it left, he's wrong.
That's all I can say.
Look, it's not, again, we're apolitical here.
We don't have a political axe to grind.
What we're trying to do is do the best thing, the least expensive thing, the best thing that benefits society, our democracy.
We're pro-democracy.
That's the whole point of this program.
We're not trying to be left or right.
We're just trying to make it better.
Yeah, wherever
the good ideas come from.
Exactly.
That's what we're looking for.
That's what we're looking for.
That's our mission here.
That's why we do the show.
That's why we turn up
every day
and work so hard to bring you this information.
That's why we may or may not be in the Best of Madison Awards this year.
You know, we don't
know.
Exactly.
We don't know.
We have no idea.
Why would we be in the running for the Best of
Madison?
I don't know.
It's just a
rumor.
It's only a rumor.
That's it.
That's all it is.
Really?
Are we going to do a big ad campaign on that?
I don't know.
Why
not?
I would
have
run it around the table.
You
know, workshop
it, spitball it, run it around the table.
Well, here's what I'm thinking.
You know, everybody should get their friends together and make sure that they vote.
I don't think you can vote until June.
Even if you don't listen, you know, get them to vote anywhere.
All right, or we could we could do the I know yeah, you know, we got such big paychecks here We could do the Elon Musk thing and offer up a big paycheck to somebody the gigantic who has voted Federal
elections will take that up and meeting
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coming up We're gonna talk to Judy David Doff from Isthmus find out more what's in the latest issue right here on John and Gordy in the morning
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We've got so much to get to and I want to send a big hello out to Bryant and Madison, send us text here.
He says here, I think HBO Max does something to their political talk show hosts.
Look at Dennis Miller and how he turned out.
Of course,
you
know, he kind of went.
mega ish.
Oh,
yeah.
Very early on.
9-11 changed a lot of people's heads.
I think so.
And I think that's what happened.
I don't know if it's HBO Max very much that did anything or advised him in any way.
Of course, he writes here, God forbid they do something like that to John Oliver.
He would never let that happen.
Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen.
We're seeing some sunshine break through the clouds.
It's 735 and low fifties this morning high of mid to high fifties later.
And it is going to get windy at times for today.
We're going to get to one of my favorite politicians who's making a name for herself.
Yeah.
Melanie Stansbury from New Mexico represented there.
We'll get to that in just a moment.
But we have Dick on the line.
Let's go to the let's go to the phones right now, Dick.
Welcome.
Good morning.
Oh, good morning.
To this situation with Salvador, I fear much like Mark that this person may not even be alive.
Also, tell me we're not in a constitutional crisis when we've got the Justice Department now telling the Supreme Court to half off.
And then I would submit that this guy's the most ill-informed president in history.
And here's a couple things from just the weekend.
Um, when he was asked about the situation in Pennsylvania, that it's very, very, very big.
And then, of course, the bombing in, uh, Ukraine, uh, oh, it was a mistake.
Right.
Yeah.
That was a
mistake.
Yep.
There wasn't a lot of criticism about that.
No.
No.
Yeah.
No.
And there never will be because that would have ruffled potence feathers.
I
just think it's so amazing that, you know, in the tariff war that he's, he's.
Done.
It seems crazy that he would come right out and say that, you know, other countries should kiss his ass.
You know, I don't know, but maybe you don't want to say the quiet parts out loud.
No,
he has
no
filter.
The only thing I should say that he did good this weekend at all is.
At least give him credit for staying out of the Masters because you know he would have won if he was
in there.
Yeah.
He would have given Rory McElroy a run for the money, I'm sure.
I
think McElroy probably would have broke down in Christ after something like that would have happened.
Yes.
Yeah.
Anyway.
All right.
Dick, thank you for that call.
Lines are back open, six, eight, eight, seven, nine, eight, two, five, five.
That was quite a master's.
I watched the last round.
You know, I put it on in the background.
I do that every year and just have it on in the background while I'm doing other housework and stuff.
And it was, it was
good.
It was kind of a replacement for your lawn that you don't have, right?
That's
right.
You can see the greens, you know.
I can see the greens.
Yeah, I went into, you know, overtime and not overtime, but they had to do an extra hole because it was tied at the end of the 18th.
Well, that's that.
Sounds like a really good game.
It was exciting.
I tell you about my Border Collie.
Yeah,
my very first
Border Collie.
He used to watch TV and he watched sports and he watched the Packers love the Packers But he didn't like golf at all.
Why didn't he like the
golf?
I don't
I don't know.
I
don't know what's going on in Border Collie's
brain.
I think you said once before every time the golfer would say four.
Yes
And there's just silence around that, but once they say four, they just goes off the TV screen, attacks it.
You
know, attacks the damn TV screen.
Luckily, you know, this was cathode day.
You know,
cathode day.
Yeah.
Well, you
know, these are hard tubes, so
we couldn't possibly, you know,
wreck the screen.
But yeah, this is, you know.
He had the same attitude I had
with golf.
I want to charge the
screen too.
The Masters is the only one I really watched just because it's the Masters and it's the end.
It's usually a great tournament and it was again this year.
I'm
unfamiliar with the Masters.
You don't like the new technology where they can track the ball as it takes off?
Actually, that's pretty cool stuff.
It is really
cool.
I like that.
I like that.
It's the little thing.
I've got this story.
I'm gonna bring it up only because I have kind of a slant on this thing.
Pam Bonney, she bragged and bragged about arresting the head of MS-13.
She's the attorney
general, yeah.
This is cut 116.
And I just wanna play this for you.
Let's hear her.
The great men and women of law enforcement have been working on this operation for days and days and probably weeks.
This morning, early this morning, one of the top leaders of MS-13 was apprehended.
He was the leader for the East Coast, one of the top three in the entire country, right here in Virginia, living half an hour outside of Washington, DC.
He is an illegal alien from El Salvador, and he will not be living in our country much longer.
Well, I guess you're wrong about that.
See, it should have been MSI3.
You see I'm
just I see what you're going.
I'm playing with this a little bit.
Okay, but I also want to mention that Pam Bondi dropped the charges
Oh, really?
Yeah, I didn't after Homeland Security spent all this time tracking this down.
Yeah, they're dropping the charges So see they create these stories these myths and then they kind of take them back later, but
No one noticed.
Did anybody notice that you dropped the charges here?
They didn't say why they dropped them?
On
Henry Valetario Santos.
They never explained that, huh?
No.
It's a mystery.
kind of a plan.
All right, let's get to one of my favorite representatives who is just telling it like it is speaking on you.
I love this stuff.
This is Melanie Stansberry and she's going to talk about the tariffs and everything that Trump is doing to blow a hole in our economy.
Let's listen.
The amount of gas lighting in this chamber this afternoon has been absolutely stunning.
Truly as I've sat here this afternoon because what the GOP is doing is they're putting a budget resolution that takes the worst of the House and the worst of the Senate and puts it in one big beautiful bill that's going to blow a hole through the national debt, raising the debt ceiling by $4 trillion, cutting $1.5 trillion in vital programs, giving $7 trillion
permanent tax breaks to billionaires and raising the debt by $37 trillion over the next 30 years.
And how are they going to pay for it?
On the backs of the American people.
Cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, housing, school meals, clean energy, and selling your public lands.
And what's the craziest thing is they said they wouldn't vote for it if it would raise the debt and the debt ceiling.
And here they are.
So bravo, my friends.
You are blowing a hole through the debt ceiling and we will vote no.
All right, there you go.
Okay.
Fantastic stuff, isn't it?
Wow.
Mic drop.
Ah, yes.
All right, now, you know, Trump has been also promising to have election reform where it's finally something you can trust, you know,
building in that election integrity that the Republicans, the Magus, have been promising for so many years.
How's he gonna do that?
What's he up
to?
Well, he's got a plan.
He's got an idea.
Let's listen to cut 118 here.
I think you'll be surprised at...
How easily this maybe, maybe done.
Let's try.
Okay.
Let's see what happens.
We're
going to get good elections pretty soon.
There's a lot of clamor for it.
I think it's something that you, you should work on.
You should go out and put a bill in demanding, you demand, you know, because the states are just an agent of the federal government of you.
Not really.
You had to demand paper ballots.
You had to demand one day elections.
It's easy.
You know what they do when it's longer than one day?
All of a sudden we're fixing the room up, move those boxes.
We're putting an air conditioner.
Oh, really?
We'll move the boxes back in a few days.
We're painting the room.
Please move the boxes.
And you notice the boxes go out.
And then they move back in about half the number.
Oh, it's so sick.
One day election, you don't need any more than that.
No.
One day election, paper ballots.
I think you should put a bill in.
I mean, I don't know.
Who's in favor of a bill?
Who could not want it?
Who could not want it?
What?
What?
I think you should do a bill on that.
I think it would be so popular.
Yeah, well, yeah,
it
must be really popular.
One day elections, you know, for like Chicago or Los Angeles.
With one polling location.
Probably they'll narrow that to
one polling location.
Like,
do we,
do we, uh, struggle proposed here in the state?
My God.
Oh, it is crazy though, isn't it?
But here it is, you know, how easy it was to detect voter fraud, election fraud by just moving the boxes around and saying you're going to paint the place or put a new air conditioner in.
We're going to put a new air conditioner in.
We'll just have to move the machines out of here for a few boxes, take the boxes out.
Where did he get that story?
Wow.
Well, his poll numbers are dropping.
Oh,
yeah.
The latest approval ratings keep going down on the economy and inflation for the Trump administration.
Yeah.
How low has
it reached now?
Let's see, 34% on inflation.
That's the favorable rating.
Yeah.
34% on inflation and the economy is also in the, or it's 54% on the economy.
Yeah.
So he's in trouble.
Yeah.
It's not looking great.
Tomorrow on the show, when I mention we will be welcoming in Liz Johnson.
Yes.
And from
Serenity Pet.
Say that again.
Instead of giving you a number, you look confused at what I was trying to
communicate.
I was confused momentarily.
Waving your hands in there, I wasn't sure.
I was just saying hi.
Hi, Sam.
Liz
Johnson tomorrow, right?
Pardon me?
Liz Johnson tomorrow.
Or John Stun,
sorry.
And also, the Dane County Humane Society will be here and we'll have more tickets to the Milwaukee Film Festival.
All right, we've got
comments from
Kenneth out in Stoughton.
The claim that the Trump administration can't get a prisoner back from El Salvador is BS.
You're right, absolutely right.
Just tell the president of El Salvador, we won't pay the multiple million dollars.
We do pay them for torturing people and we won't pay them.
You know, money talks.
Ken of Stoughton said, Kenneth, thank you for that.
It seems kind of easy to do.
And by the way, don't we negotiate trying to get prisoners released?
We've done it with other countries.
Memory serves.
I
don't
know why this would be
any different.
Well, they don't seem to be big on documentation of any of this stuff, where there's no papers involved.
No, they don't do any
of that.
They don't keep track of
anything.
Sadly, they can't do this on signal.
No.
Oh,
well.
God.
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I hear there's some really nice mattresses on the side of the road.
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There's nice writing on them too.
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By
the way, has
that
spacecraft taken off yet that's going to have Gail King on it?
You're going to talk about that.
Kate Perry and Jeff Bezos wife is on that.
It's all women on this flight.
Wow.
And I don't see that it's taken
off yet.
I see that liftoff is scheduled for 9.30 Eastern time.
Okay, so that's 8.30.
And they're going to
Mars, right?
Is that they're going to Mars and then going to go on to Pluto after that.
They're just going to make a tour of the planets going from one planet to the next.
Well, it looks like this isn't going to be the one that William Shatner's on.
No, no, he had his chance.
I mean, he went up there.
I think he's still going.
You think he's going again.
He's going to go
to Mars.
Oh, is that?
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's coming up.
Well, I hope okay.
I know I want I don't want him to go up there By the way, we'll reschedule with Judy David off from the isthmus.
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Yeah, John and Gordy stay with us
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Leftovers.
Leftovers?
I kept the leftovers.
The leftovers!
Just some leftovers.
Leftovers for a week and a half.
He ain't those leftovers!
Funeral leftovers.
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Yes.
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Are we?
We don't know.
We heard.
Not sure.
We might have been.
It's just a rumor.
We don't really know
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We don't know anything.
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right,
I want to mention this is a really important because LeBron James came out as a Mattel.
A Barbie doll.
Barbie doll, Ken, right?
Yes.
Yeah, LeBron James Ken doll.
Yes.
And I'm wondering if the box is extra tall.
It should be, right?
I mean, they should have him actual size.
Yeah.
It's a collector, an actual size.
It's a collector's
item.
Well, okay.
I mean, actual size Barbie dolls.
You mean compared to cats?
Yeah, to the actual, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I think they probably did that.
I assume I can at six
feet.
I would imagine.
Yeah, it should be a
taller box.
That's what I... I heard it's retailing for like 75 bucks.
Oh my gosh, really?
Wow, I hope you get sneakers
with that.
I don't
think you do.
Okay, so I'm ringing it up because now there is a Barbie Careers Fashion Doll.
Yeah, it's a Barbie made-to-move career doll that lets you explore and role play with different athletic abilities, okay?
So Barbie basketball player doll is made to move with 22 joints so kids can help her dribble around the court, shoot hoops, and score!
Also included is a basketball so kids can get in the game, huh?
What?
Yes, I know playing with a tiny little doll on the floor and dribbling a ball around it.
I don't know.
Does that work?
And it says here, inspiring imaginations to dream big.
Barbie doll makes a great gift for kids three years old and older, especially those who love sports.
Well, since the Barbie movie came out a couple of years ago, I guess all the Barbie
stuff has
become,
you know,
popular again.
But
the cool thing is that all the joints are movable, so you can really make her, you know, like she's doing a layup and stuff on the basket, right?
Do they have a basket?
I wonder if they have a basket with this thing.
Well,
you
gotta believe they do.
They made the ball, you
know.
Well, I don't
think so.
Well, I'm sure they have accessories.
They always have done.
Well, with the accessories, accessories for everything.
You can buy Barbie house, you know, with appliances and everything.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, should we get to a story here?
Well, sure.
Why not?
All right.
Let's listen to mega representative Mary Miller.
Oh, no.
Do we have to?
She says that climate change is a sham.
And this is cut 129.
An amazing thing, you know, from an adult.
These remember these people.
help me elect in our adults.
Okay.
You have to kind of remind yourself of that every once in a while.
You mentioned God's design.
And one of the things that's really bothered me that, that I've been fighting is, uh, these green new deal policies that really go against God's design nature and how he created this,
this
world that we live in.
Uh, can you talk, I know you've been very active and, and vocal on, um, solar panels and some of these alternative energy.
initiatives.
Can you talk a little bit about your position there and the work you're doing in DC in that front?
Here's Mary Miller.
Sure.
I've been very outspoken about this.
Um, it's a sham.
The whole climate change is a sham.
Um, first of all, God controls the climate because he controls the sun and the sun controls the weather primarily.
Well, that proves
it.
Case
closed.
I'm surprised I didn't think about it that way.
It makes so much sense
now.
Now it does.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, this climate change thing, you know, is really against God's plan to pollute the planet and see a sky
slowly from diseases created by pollute.
And solar panels are just a fad.
They've been around for 30 or 40 years now.
But for some reason, they don't seem to be
puffy.
I know they seem to work and save money and save energy.
Well, yeah,
clean.
But they're very clean.
All right.
Let's listen to this.
This is a
The five, I believe, Jessica Tarlove is on there.
She is on there, I think, right?
Okay, anyway, she shocked everybody by saying that $4,400 per household.
It'll cost $4,400 per household a year with all these tariffs.
All right, let's listen to cut 121 here.
This is, again, Jessica Tarlove, the only liberal on Fox News.
He's also trying to market this as the fact that he paused the tariffs and he absolutely did not.
He canceled the reciprocal tariffs but we are still as Dana said, tariffing the entire globe 10% even the people that we have good relationships with like Australia.
And there was questioning of James and Greer our trade representative earlier this week about why we're possibly doing that.
And he had absolutely no answer for it.
The Yale Budget Lab just came out with new figures based on yesterday's tariff numbers that says that this will cost each American household
$4,400.
This is the highest tariff rate since 1909.
Who came up with that?
The Yale Budget Lab.
Oh, not the
Yale Budget Lab.
Oh, I'm sorry that I didn't pull it out of a cartoon or something.
Where are you going?
We'll see you tomorrow, everywhere else.
The Yale Budget Lab.
Why are you making fun of smart people that calculate things?
Oh boy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they focus on the budget lab instead of the $4,400 that it's going to cost American families over the year.
Unbelievable.
Good stuff.
Get out of a cartoon.
You get your information from cartoons.
Coming up tomorrow on the show, we'll talk to Dane County Humane Society's Lisa Bernard, also Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa, and more tickets to give away to the Milwaukee Film Fest.
That'll do it for us.
Stephanie Miller is next.
John, have a great day.
I'm outta here, man.
Alright, Sam, you too.
So long.
