John and Gordy in the morning and a big hat tip and a dedication to Van Edwards passed away.
We attended his funeral yesterday and and
I
mentioned it because He was a legend in this town
right
broadcasting.
Yeah, WIBA FM He was the voice of that station for so many years and he was just a really good guy and I wanted to say something because
Of course, we broadcast over the airwaves, and I'm hoping that somewhere along the way, he catches wind of this.
There you go.
Yeah.
It was a celebration of life.
Yeah.
Kind of get together and saw a lot of other people from broadcasting, from our era, from the earlier days, all getting up there.
in the years.
Yeah.
Yeah, we all kind of
changed our look a little bit.
Just a little.
Yeah.
It was good.
It was good celebration.
It was.
It was.
A lot of old stories, things I didn't know about the past, things we did.
Yeah.
So, uh, Jack Mitchell, my old program director.
Yeah.
From IBA?
Yes.
Yeah, he was there.
Guy hired me at Q106.
Really?
When I first moved to Madison, he put me on at the station and moved me around to a few time slots.
Mm-hmm.
But he had a few stories, you know, that I didn't remember.
I actually don't remember much from those days.
Right?
A long
time ago.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Sly was there.
Saw Sly
talking for a few minutes.
We hope to have Sly on the show a few times now that he's retiring from doing voice tracking for WIBAFM.
So yeah, he'll be in here and hopefully, you know, have a few opinions, never short on those.
Right.
Yeah, a few other personalities we used to work with that triple M were there.
Yes.
Some other some other folks.
So it was good to see everybody and get caught up.
Yeah.
Yeah, now I'm caught up.
Yeah.
Okay, good.
It's John and Gordy in the morning.
That's us, along with producer Sam Davison.
Oh, yes.
Flipping the switches.
We've got a producer for the show.
Yeah.
If you're not familiar with him yet, he's Sam and he's... It's only like I've
been here the whole time the show's been running just about.
That's true.
Well, yes.
From day
one.
We're looking for your replacement and, you know...
Yeah, we want to replace you.
It's nine minutes past the hour.
Yeah, we had a little rain earlier.
Yeah.
And currently it's a little chilly out there, 37 degrees.
But do you have your Samsung WMDX watch fired up yet?
I actually do.
Afternoon high.
I'll look past right at the window
there, the window thermometer, the WMDX outdoor thermometer.
Or again, you know, the official WMDX Samsung watch.
Right.
indicates that we have 37 degrees currently and a high of 52 today.
52.
Okay.
Well let's get the sunset sunrise.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, let's get that.
Sunrise at 6.15 this morning.
We're very close to that right now.
And I'm kind of excited about that.
And then tonight's sunset at 7.40.
We talked to Gary Canolte yesterday.
Yeah, Gary was there.
I hadn't seen him in many, many years.
27 weather, right?
Channel three.
Oh champ forever and ever.
Let's see.
I knew
it
But here's the thing.
Yeah, I asked him about the the taco burrito.
Oh Whether right
Gimmick that they used to have and he knew about it.
I know.
Oh, yeah, we've been doing that for years You didn't know anything about it.
No idea.
Well, I didn't yeah, I think Indiana
even knows anything about the
probably
probably not I don't know I that was the first I'd heard of it Yeah, yeah, it was Gary.
It was great to catch up with Gary Canaldi.
Yeah, you look good.
Yeah,
he's relaxed.
Yeah retired, you know, yep
Does these he does those holiday trips, you know, he still does that.
Yes, you're going to Alaska and he told me they're going somewhere else, too He's got Alaska lined up and some other some other faraway place fiance met his fiance.
Is he married?
Yes, he's remarried.
Yes,
okay.
He's remarried.
Yeah, okay, and he met her through through one of the vacations.
Yeah.
Yeah anyway
Wow.
I mean, you know, we're filling in on what's going on.
If you're familiar with Gary, he's a nice guy.
Super guy.
Yeah.
Big Cub fan, by the way.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
He's got season tickets every year.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's let's move
on.
We didn't check the afternoon high on the what do we use?
What do we use today?
We haven't done the one
arm
banded.
Let's hit that.
First number zero four nine Forty-nine is predicted how you had 51 and you're
55.
I
think wasn't it was 51 Sam doesn't
know He's already checked that's why you're looking for my replacement, right?
Actually 52 was the predicted high for the official WMD
Let's get to the national day calendar, see what, you know what day it is today.
April 15th, it's national tax day, okay?
Oh boy.
It's also, is it or is it not national glazed spiral ham day?
Is it national Titanic remembrance day?
National rubber eraser day?
National take a wild guest day?
Or national suspenders day?
Red Suspender's Day.
It's not
Red Suspender's
Day.
You're always trying to force yourself on us.
That's
your go-to, man.
No, it's not national.
You win on a shiny new dime.
There you go.
All
right.
Hey, we got a, we got a texture from Anna said Van Edwards.
Had a great voice.
Had a great voice.
He was the voice of the Devil's Advocates for many years.
That's right.
Yes, that's, that's true.
Yeah.
And
Oh, somebody, Anna also says I was on a holiday Rhine River cruise with Gary Canofi in September.
He's a good guy and the trip was great.
Yeah, that's
fantastic.
He does two or three of these trips a year, that's it for him.
Yeah, it must be, that's a good gig.
It is, yeah.
see the world okay it's national laundry day why would we need a day
to do your one day a year this is kind of a general reminder that maybe you should do your laundry it's not like everybody you know oh i can't wait to do it because it's natural national laundry day seems
like a made update
okay
yeah national glazed spiral ham day do you like
Spiral.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You have it all the time.
Oh, but you get spiral hams, I hope.
No.
Really, you cut it yourself?
No.
What?
No.
Spiral hams.
What
am I going to buy a whole ham just for me?
No.
Well, your
family?
You get together every once in a while.
Not really.
No.
OK.
I'm sad.
They've disowned me.
They've disowned
me.
OK.
National Titanic Remembrance Day.
Remember the Titanic?
Yeah, well, it started sinking on April 15th in 1912.
1500 people went down with the boat.
The unsinkable ship, they called it.
Well, that proved not to be true.
And it's maiden voyage from England to New York City.
Okay.
You know, one of the
things that I remember.
Yeah, you like the movie?
Yeah, yeah.
The very first Titanic movie, which was traumatizing for me as a kid.
Way back in the old days, before streaming and movies, 24 hour, 7, 24, they had Saturday night at the movies.
And really the family would kind of wait and see what big movie they would have.
They always have like a first run movie.
And Titanic was
on and I was a young kid and when I saw that thing and the devastation
And the horror traumatized me.
I think maybe that's where I got the fear of water after that.
I'm thinking I'm not getting in the water anymore.
This is it.
Nightmares after that.
You
won't go on a boat.
I didn't know that you had a fear of water.
I don't like water at all.
No, deep water freaks me out.
Really?
Now I did take a few cruises across Lake Michigan.
Yeah.
And that's kind of fun.
I don't know why it
knuckling the railing the whole time
Well, yeah, I was talking.
Yeah, I wanted with friends that you know kept me distracted But I'm thinking, you know, why is this fun?
You know, there's nothing there's nothing really to see out in the middle of it like Michigan Do you like
going on the ferry up at Merrimack?
I do.
I love that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's a short dress.
That's a white knuckler there.
You never
know
That machine is going through, you
know.
It's on a big cable, you know, some big cables underneath it just
goes break.
All of a sudden you're stranded out floating out.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know if anybody saw this thing, but if you have a chance, there was it's hit.
X and it's all over but there's a monster truck a big I think a big green monster truck and it's loaded up with Megas on top of the truck on a big platform on top of the mega truck I mean this is really high right okay and so they decided to go through a pond
Oh wait, I did see
this.
Did you see that?
The video
and then people
start falling off.
Yes.
Well, the truck is
completely submerged.
You can see the
driver's ready to get out.
Oh, the driver did get out.
He's bailing out.
And all these people had jumped it off and it was a total disaster.
Right.
What were they thinking?
It was crazy.
Maybe they should have known it was a little deeper pond than... Perhaps.
Oh my God.
Yeah, that was scary.
Watch that.
Well, in anybody with a monster truck, I can see them doing that.
All right, back to the national day calendar here for a moment.
We got a couple more.
National rubber eraser day.
It's okay to make a mistake, John.
Correcting mistakes since 1770.
The national rubber eraser people commemorate this date as the invention date.
The eraser now this is our second year doing this, you know I remember rubber eraser day because I told you the horror story that nightmare I had I Was a little kid and the dream I had the rubber erasers are actually the clouds in the sky Oh God with a giant clown on stilts remember that
Holy
crap He's
walking around and I'm looking up at him and then the clouds that are rubber erasers It's something well obviously I haven't forgotten it to this day.
You had a troubled child with my friend
Okay, that's it for the national
day
calendar.
We'll check in with Sam Davison on history stuff coming up on John
and
Gordy
We came
back brown Brown, brown I don't care if they think she's bad I fell in love cause she looks so sad I got a date tonight with the leader of the laundromat Dang it!
One for you, nineteen for
me.
Today is tax day.
It is.
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We've done our taxes.
Got them all done.
Yep.
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Okay.
All right.
All
right.
If I'm not mistaken, you know, that rocket ship went up with some women on it, right?
They were all women.
It was
all women.
I thought there were some men on
there.
No, there were no men.
Are
you sure?
I'm positive.
You doubt my word, my friend?
Well, I've been watching the video of the people getting out of the capsule.
I'm
pretty sure it was all
men.
And they said that Bezos fell.
And when he got out of the capsule he started walking and then he just fell over.
I don't
think he was so
they show somebody falling over.
I thought it was Bezos.
She
kept her married name.
I don't know.
I don't know.
You're looking
at it up there.
I'm not making it up.
You know, you kind of lose
your balance, you know, your weightless maybe for a few minutes or seconds.
I don't know what they went up.
They're in the first place, but I think they should have come down on the rocket ship and not in some kind of damn camp.
So what a chickens way to
get out of
it Take your
chances.
Here's the picture of all of them.
There's Jeff Bezos, but he was you know, he's dressed in jeans He wasn't on there and then here's another guy on the other end of it.
It was all women six women Kale King Katy Perry and then four other women.
Well, I guess you prove me wrong
No,
I'm sticking with the
story
All right, they went up they came back everything's good.
They were up there only for like 10 minutes It wasn't a long
I
know
but but they made a big deal about the fact that somebody fell.
I Okay, I didn't see
that part of the story.
I guess
I'm looking it up now.
All right.
Let's see
It's time
for the history here Sam here watch watch
watch excited Jeff Bezos face plant in a painful tumble as he As he got out of the capsule Wait, he was up there too.
Yeah, it was carrying his fiance.
Okay
He was in it in space though, I don't know doesn't really matter.
I think
he just went in to get her out of there To welcome her home
Okay, all right.
Well, you know, we'll delve a little deeper into this.
Seems like we're going to go around in circles.
Okay,
excuse me.
But it's good to know he face planted anyway.
I'm happy about that.
Are you?
Okay.
It's billionaire jerks.
Sam, do we have anything in the history books?
Oh boy, do we.
Okay.
Where do we even start?
Today in 1865.
President Lincoln passed away at about 7.22 in the morning.
That's right.
Yeah, after being shot at Ford's Theater the night before.
You mentioned a little earlier, the sinking of the Titanic also occurred today in the middle of the night.
Yeah, 2.20
a.m.
Today in 1947, Jackie Robinson, he made his big league debut with the Dodgers in 1947 today.
Today in 1955, Ray Kroc, you guys know Ray Kroc.
Sure.
Sure.
He began franchising McDonald's.
He opened his first McDonald's location and boy, did it grow from there.
Boy, it
took off.
I
don't know how many.
You just get like a bag full of hamburgers.
The big deal, the thing they used to advertise was you get change back from a dollar.
I
know it.
Yeah.
Burgers only cost 15 cents.
Do they still have a dollar menu at McDonald's?
No.
Boy, they phase that out
fast, didn't they?
It wasn't too long ago that you could still get just like a plain hamburger for $1, I think.
I don't know if you can anymore, though.
But back in 1955, when he opened his first location, a hamburger was $0.15.
That was a long time
ago.
It was a long time.
When I was a kid, we ate at McDonald's not all the time, but with some.
regularity i guess did you guys ever do that or was it too early for no sure oh yeah we did it
all the time i my neighbor was a gearhead and he put engines together taught me how to do it but you know he'd be working under the car and say hey could you go to mcdonald's and get a whole bunch of this i'll buy a couple hamburgers and
You know, it's not like he was super generous.
They're 15 cents apiece.
But yeah, I took my bike and I rode like two or three miles down the street to get hamburgers at the first McDonald's.
There was one time my dad, a friend of a friend of my dad was remodeling his house and he said, hey, if you come over and help me do some demolition for the day, then I'll pay you.
And so my dad and one of his friends showed up to this guy's house and they, after a long day were like,
really tired out from tearing down this wall and all that stuff.
And he's like, hey, can you pay me for my day's work?
And the guy was like, oh, you know that McDonald's you had for lunch?
Well, that was your
pay.
Uh, birthdays.
It's Leonardo da Vinci's birthday today.
I don't know if that's... How old is he?
Well, he was born in 1452, so how old does that put him at?
I don't know.
You're the math major.
500, some 550 something years old.
He's getting up there.
He's a historian.
He
likes history.
Although
he
has tried to do numbers here on the show, I don't know.
I'm going to send you... What?
A competitor to McDonald's in Milwaukee.
What's it
called?
It was called the Grouchy Captain.
The Grouchy Captain?
What kind of food did they
sell?
It was the same kind of food.
But I gotta tell you that it was just so much fun to hear the Grouchy Captain come on and talk about, you know...
They had a mascot?
Like an actual guy dressed up as a Grouchy Captain?
Well, he would go on these commercials and talk about, you know.
Yeah.
What?
Being grouchy.
Grouchy Captain.
I've never heard of this.
Grouchy Captain.
I'm
gonna try to send you an ad
and we'll see what happens with that.
Alright.
Okay.
Coming up, the Midwest Farm Report with Ham Yankee and we're coming back with Idiocracy on John and Gordy in the Morning.
Stay with us.
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 can duck and cover.
There's a fallout shelter right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
634.
Dumb all the time.
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All right, and we all
sit to play these ancient old ads from Cappy's Drive in the...
competitioned to McDonald's in Milwaukee.
Is this what the grouchy captain is over here?
The grouchy captain did all the ads for him.
This was way back when.
Way back when.
Okay, let's listen.
Grouchy
captain at Cappy's driving at 62nd and Fondlack.
If you and your crew feel like you've been in the brig on bread and water for days, set sail for Cappy's.
The driving where even the Admiral stows away his chow.
If it's Easter sailing, Capy's is on your port side.
And if you're sailing westward, then Capy's is on your starboard side.
So get out your compass, plot your course on the charts, and put it down in the log.
Cappies is the port where the best hamburgers are to be found for only fifteen cents.
Cheeseburgers are twenty cents and french fries are just fifteen pieces of eight.
A sense.
Sorry, mates.
Ever since I found that old treasure chest in Milwaukee, I've been dreaming about gold.
Landlubbers tell me my triple-fig shakes are as good as gold, you know, and they're only twenty-two cents.
Yes, sir, if it's treasure you want, then Cappies is the place you'll find at the business end of your telescope.
Let the winds blow you straight to sixty-second and find a lack.
Cappy's driving.
Remember the old grouchy captain invited you to come aboard.
Grouchy captain.
So you had to kind of wonder why the shakes were 22 cents.
Extra
two cents.
I don't
understand that exactly.
Should we play the other one?
Oh, sure.
Why
not?
Let's play the other one.
They're kind of fun to listen
to the
prices anyway.
So you set sail without supplies, did you?
Well, now the best place for a hungry crew to put into port is the Grouchy Captain's Galley.
Cappy's driving the top of the mass place in town.
I've got the fastest cabin boys who ever swabbed a deck to serve you, and the best hamburgers, shakes, and french fries this side of Singapore.
In American money, a hamburger will cost you 15 cents.
Steer a street course now.
Head into 62nd and Fond du Lac.
Cappy's driving Wow,
that's okay.
What was that?
That was the jingle after
that
is there is this recorded off a radio?
Yeah, no radio off a radio back in the probably fifties.
Yeah, man.
Wow.
Cappy's driving Wonder whatever happened.
I'll cap our 66th and Fond du Lac streets in Milwaukee
Yes.
Should I go to the corner there and see if Capy's is still there?
It's on the
north.
It's on the north side, so
it's a
little north of Capitol Drive.
Yeah,
Capy's driving.
Okay.
Well, should we get to idiocracy?
Phone lines are open.
608-879-8255.
Would it be great if the Grouchy captain were still around today?
I would listen to those ads.
I don't know if those ads are all that appealing to kids or, you know, to anybody.
What is your impression of the Grouchy Captain?
Well, it sounds like it.
I don't know.
He sounds grumpy.
He sounds grouchy.
You know, why would you want to go there for hamburgers?
You don't know what's going on behind the scenes there.
He seems a little ordinary.
Well, you know, he seemed kind of happy in one because he just found that treasure chest gold.
Pieces
of eight 15 pieces of eight
Okay, very
strange man,
okay
He's very very very sad But that's my past Okay, sad past.
Okay, we're gonna get to some well,
you know, this is a
democracy
and I'm always
trying to explain idiocracy We're all trying to do that and we also have one of my favorite people Melanie Stansberry.
She is best describing what's going on there in the house So why don't we why don't we have a cut from her?
It's
It's 120 and it's how doge is looting the government.
Let's check this out here.
Now anyone who's in business knows that if you're gonna go in front of a boardroom and present your case You've got to have compelling data.
You've got to have an analysis of what you're trying to accomplish You've got to have an analysis of the money that you're gonna save and a proposal and a plan for how you're gonna execute that and I think the thing that is Trumbling about the entire doge exercise is that it doesn't seem to have a coherent theory It doesn't appear to have a plan.
It doesn't appear
to be utilizing data and it doesn't appear to be executing on any kind of coherent theory of how we're saving money for the federal government.
As we learned here today, it will actually cost the federal government more money if they sell these vital assets to private companies who will then lease them back to federal agencies for more money.
It's troubling to try to understand and I think it kind of goes along with the troubling theory of the case that Donald Trump seems to have about the economy overall because as my colleague pointed out we're sitting here talking about microphones and furniture in an office building while the economy is tanking and trillions of dollars in losses are happening and we know that the potential for both a recession and costs are going to go up which will cost the federal government.
more money.
So what's the theory of the case here?
What I think is interesting about what we heard here today is that some of the quiet part was said out loud.
In fact, what was stated by some of the other members on this panel was that they'd like to sell valuable real estate to private developers, potentially demolish federal buildings like this, sell them potentially to private equity and developers, and then they can lease back and make money off of it.
And that's exactly what this scheme is all about because this is what we're seeing across the entire DOGE effort and across the administration.
That's right.
And this is not really about public interest.
This is, as we keep saying, the private equity model.
Privatize, buy low, sell high, make lots of money.
This is what the DOGE bros are all about.
But we know that there is real data coming in July, as was stated by the GAO, that will help us take a data-driven approach.
Now, I also want to point out some other ironies one of my colleagues quoted Milton Friedman, which I found actually quite funny because Elon Musk himself has also been quoting Milton Friedman over the weekend because he thought the international trade was good and tariffs were bad.
Anybody, anybody, Donald Trump is crashing the economy over tariffs.
We also heard my colleagues across the aisle talk about right sizing and writing the fiscal ship while they're literally about to try to vote tomorrow on a budget proposal that will increase the deficit by $37 trillion over the next 30 years.
This would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion just this year and would cost the United States the largest amount of debt ever in the history of its 250
So if what we're about here is
trying to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, make the government more efficient, save the government money.
What are they trying to do with the sell-off and privatization of the federal government?
What are they trying to do with downsizing and firing thousands of federal employees?
So I'll close out by saying this.
Hands off our social security, hands off our Medicaid, hands off our Medicare, hands off the VA, hands off our education, and hands off our vital programs and the services and the federal assets that
make them
possible.
There you go.
Okay.
Fun, huh?
That says it all, huh?
She is so good at laying this thing out.
Who was that again?
Could you queue up 86?
That was Melanie Stansbury.
Okay.
And she's a representative from New Mexico.
And
she's been
doing
this.
I
mean, we're constantly playing her cuts now because
she
is really out there.
She's on
top.
Kind of breaking this whole thing down.
She knows what she's talking about.
She also mentioned that, you know, Elon has been posting videos of Milton Friedman.
Yeah.
And it's just crazy stuff.
So I used to watch these Friedman videos on YouTube.
in the past and they're just hilarious because they're just so out of touch.
Let's listen to this cut.
This is Milton Friedman and his perspective on free markets, no governments.
When you go down the store and buy this pencil, you are in effect trading a few minutes of your time for a few seconds of the time of all those thousands of people.
What brought them together and induced them to cooperate to make this pencil?
there was no commissar sending out offices from sending out orders from some central office it was a magic of the price system the impersonal operation of prices that brought them together and got them to cooperate to make this pencil so that you could have it for a trifling sum that is why the operation of the free market is so essential not only to promote productive efficiency but even more
to foster harmony and peace among the peoples of the world.
Yep, there you go.
So
could you queue up 87?
Cut 87.
This is what happens when you just go with the free market, the invisible hand of the free market.
Let's listen.
This is green.
What
do you think you made a mistake then?
I made a mistake in presuming
that the self
interest hold on.
I just want to explain this.
Okay.
Henry Waxman represented of a grilling Ellen Greenspan.
He was the guy who really just took off on this free market stuff and it crashed the economy with a great recession.
Let's listen again.
In presuming that the self interest of organizations specifically banks and others was such is that they were best capable.
of protecting their own shareholders.
The question I have for you is, you had an ideology.
You had a belief that free, competitive, and this is your statement.
I do have an ideology.
My judgment is that free, competitive markets are by far the unrivaled way to organize economies.
We've tried regulation, none meaningfully worked.
That was your quote.
You had the authority to prevent irresponsible lending practices that led to the subprime mortgage crisis.
You were advised to do so by many others.
And now our whole economy is paying its price.
Do you feel that your ideology pushed you to make decisions that you wish you had not made?
Well, remember that what an ideology is, is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
Everyone has one.
You have to.
to exist, you need an ideology.
The question is whether it is accurate or not.
And what I'm saying to you is yes, I found a flaw, I don't know how significant or permanent it is, but I've been very distressed by that flaw.
But if I may, may I just finish and answer the question?
You found a flaw in
the reality?
A
flaw in the model that I perceived
is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works,
so to speak.
In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right.
It was not
working.
Precisely.
That's precisely the reason I was shocked because I had been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally
well.
And
it didn't.
After almost two decades of public service, he realizes that the economic philosophy that he had pushed so hard, resisting regulation and derivatives, he realized that there were some fundamental flaws in that whole philosophy.
Yep, there you go.
The free market philosophy failed completely.
The Great Recession hit us hard.
And Alan Greenspan, of course, admitted right there that the free market didn't work.
Exactly.
Now, a year later, he changed his mind and thought, you know, he thought through the whole thing and it still could work.
Second and third doubt.
These
guys never really changed
their stripes.
He had to rethink it a couple of times.
Yeah.
Okay.
It is 648.
Coming up next, we'll be talking with the Dane County Humane Society.
Lisa Bernard will join us talking about a few pets that are available for adoption.
And then coming up at our seven o'clock hour, we've got tickets to the Milwaukee Film Festival.
And also Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa will join us in our seven o'clock hour.
Right here on John and Gordy in the morning with producer Sam.
pushing those buttons and switches, raising his eyebrows.
Sam's the producer.
He is the producer.
We're coming right back.
Well, you can find some pet to love.
Sure.
Right here on WMDX, John and
Gordy in the morning.
It's 6.51.
Some clouds out there.
We had a little rain earlier.
Looks like that's moving out.
Our high today, about 50 degrees.
with a mix of clouds and some sunshine.
Time for us to welcome in from the Dane County Humane Society, Lisa Bernard.
Good morning, Lisa.
Good morning.
So you've got a few pets up for adoption and let's get right into it.
What do we want to start with?
Rambo Jr.
You've got a looking at a picture of Rambo here.
He looks like a friendly, friendly dog.
What kind of dog is
that?
A 70 pound pop.
Wow.
So
yes, he's a one-year-old pit bull mix.
He is a little shy at first, but I heard a few volunteers chatting about him rather gushing about him because he is just a snuggle bug once he gets to meet you.
He loves to lean into you as you're petting him.
He loves to just get really close and snuggle with you.
Um, he thinks he's a 70 pound lap dog, which is just adorable.
He wants the
best friend to love.
He's so loyal that when you go out to the yards with him, he's like right next to you.
He's like, I'm here.
I'm
right
next to you staying close.
Uh, he has lived with other dogs, but we do recommend slow introductions and he's really interested in cats.
So.
Uh, if you have one, I would suggest being careful or maybe not having a cat in your house.
Uh, also because he's more afraid of loud noises, we're also recommending that he doesn't go to home with children.
Okay.
That's Rambo Jr.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Let's get to the parakeets here.
You have two of them because it's Scarlett, the female in Vance.
the male and they've been together for two years.
You've got to have them both together.
You can't separate these two, right?
That's true.
They've been together since since they lived in the previous house.
So Scarlett's a blue parakeet whereas Vance is a white one.
And they're looking for a home together.
Like you said, they are very, very, very sweet together.
And that's why they should go together.
Um, they love to cuddle.
They groom each other.
They're very, very sweet.
They even snuggle with each other when they sleep.
Um, you know, like all couples, sometimes they get into little squats with each other.
Really?
Yeah.
Yes.
But they make up so quickly and it's almost like it never happened.
Yeah, that's pretty wild.
That's
pretty cool.
All right.
And you also have a very shy cat named Lucky.
Tell us about Lucky, Lisa.
Yes.
So Lucky is a black cat.
He's two years old.
He came to us and he's very, very shy.
So we put him in an office and he's been coming around more quickly.
He's more comfortable in his surroundings.
And as he becomes more comfortable, he's becoming also more social and even enjoys laying on laps.
We've been
told that by his previous family that he's really friendly and affectionate and that he enjoys being brushed and playing with toys.
I'm sure that once he gets more acclimated to his space, he's gonna start showing those other
activities and interests as well that he likes.
So he's looking for a patient family who's just going to give him the time he needs to settle in.
Yeah.
And that's, that's a story on lucky.
And again, you have those two parakeets, Scarlett and what was the other?
Oh, Vance and Rambo juniors, the pit bull mix.
So if anybody out there is interested in perhaps adopting one of these animals, how do they do that, Lisa?
So they would stop by Dane County Humane Society when we are open on Tuesdays our adoption center is open from two to seven and for Lucky your best thing to do is to just go to the adoption center and ask about him because he is in an office that is not accessible to the public whereas
Scarlett Vance and Rambo Jr., you can see them in the public areas, but you still have to meet with them, so you'll have to chat with the adoption center staff or volunteers and meet with them.
And we'll tell you everything we know about them.
Okay, very good.
Anything else we should know about what's happening at the Dane County Humane Society this time of year?
Any upcoming events or open houses, things like that?
Uh, well, right now we have, uh, summer camp that's still looking for kids who want to join.
Oh, that's right.
Uh,
so we have camp paw prints and we have our new camp wild side.
And then this Friday we're trying something new for camp where it's adults camp.
So the kids don't get to have all the fun, right?
Right.
Right.
So, um, but and you could, uh, either show up.
and pay $25 or pre-register for $20.
What happens at these camps?
I'm just, you know, I'm familiar with this.
Adult camp seems kind of fun, but I'm not.
You don't know what you're in for?
Yeah, what are you doing at these camps?
So for the adult camp, it's gonna, they're gonna have different themes and it'll be held on a Friday night once a month except during the summer.
And this one is gonna be, they're gonna learn about
body handling for animals as well as how to crochet cat toys.
And your skill level can be, I've never crocheted before or I'm a master at this thing.
And it's just a fun time to hang out, learn more about animals, deal and get with our classroom animals, which is really fun too.
We have two rats, Thelma and Louise, two guinea pigs.
And we have a 20 year old corn snake named Ranger Jake.
Ranger Jake.
He's so cool.
He's just very relaxed
and chill.
So come on down.
We've got
rats
and
snakes.
Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society.
Thank you for joining us, Lisa.
We'll talk to you again in a couple of weeks.
Good to have you with us.
All right, thank you.
We want to find out more.
You can go to their website, giveshelter.org.
Coming up next, we'll give away some tickets to the Milwaukee Film Festival.
and a whole lot more on John and Gordy.
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It's 7 0 6.
Good morning.
That's John Peterson.
I'm Gordy Young along with producer Sam Davison and it's cloudy out there to start things out.
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Hey John, we have a couple of tickets to give away
to the
Milwaukee Film Festival.
This is going on from April 24th through May 8th.
These tickets for one of the movies that you select.
Okay, so a pair of tickets.
Up for grabs, you can text us on the Civic Media app to win these tickets.
Text the word film, okay?
Film, and we'll pick that winner sometime this half hour.
Text her number five today.
Text her number five, Sam says.
So again, text us the word film to the Civic Media app.
Milwaukee Film Festival.
Okay.
Love Milwaukee, my hometown.
Yeah.
We got a few texts here, Doug Houtens, St.
Francis says, don't people even use pencils anymore?
Well, you know, people don't even use.
I don't think they use pencils anymore.
Do they really?
I still use pencils.
Like a mechanical pencil, right?
I hate mechanical pencils.
You like your old number two pencil.
Two modern, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Might as well have that lead.
A nice Dixon Ticonderoga.
That's my favorite brand of pencil.
Oh, really?
What kind?
What?
Dixon Ticonderoga pencil.
OK.
Is that kind of a soft two or what is it a three or four
five regular number two pencil?
Okay number two pencil all right
my art teacher in middle school put me on to them.
Yes Okay Well having gone to art school, you know familiar with all that so
but I like the mechanic
I love the mechanical pencils just just because because you never need sharp technology Yeah, I just love them
Well, you can sharpen them on sandpaper.
What?
Is that the way to do it?
They had sandpaper boards.
Yeah, you sanded them down that way.
What kind of mechanical pencil are
you talking about?
like the kind that you click and then click and it comes
out right and the lead comes out right yeah but these are the very thick lead pencils oh yeah okay i
haven't used those
i was gonna say if you if
you take like the kind that i'm talking about and put it in a pencil sharpener you can sharpen it once but you can't sharpen it again after that
well it was we took some kind of blueprint class mechanical okay and they had mechanical pencils in high school
I
took a drafting class.
A drafting class, that's what it was.
Yeah, that
was
really cool.
Yeah, it was.
I thought for a
while that I might want to be an architect after that class,
because
it was, you know, you did all this drafting and learned how to use all the equipment
there.
And again, the
pencils were really cool.
The pencils were very cool, and a lot of cool projects.
And then, you know, right after, I thought, you know, this would be a fun profession.
But then they came out with a computer.
Aided design and well went to computers drafting, right?
You know, you didn't need a draft table and all the cool things that came with the draft table.
Yeah,
anyway Coming up in about a half hour Nostalgic
shows.
I know we're splashing
back.
Maybe yeah, I don't know why that is.
I don't either Yeah, maybe it's because we saw those other radio people yesterday and retired
We're still, we're still doing it.
Still fondly remembering.
Coming up in about a half hour, we'll talk to Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa.
She'll be in here to tell us how to treat your pets, how to best manage them and groom them.
She's a world championship dog groomer.
I know
it.
Yes.
Yeah.
Very interesting stuff.
We'll get into that.
All right.
I don't know what Matt called
us up and he
hit.
Oh,
yeah.
We didn't get to his call.
We
couldn't take your call, but I.
phone lines are open if you want to get in now.
608-879-8255.
I want to get into something, we're talking about the economy and how bad it's going so far.
And it seems like a lot of people are talking about Wall Street, the big corporations, how well they're doing or not doing so well.
But we're forgetting about the farmers.
And it seems like they're a second thought here.
you know, and with the tariffs on China, this is again, affect the farmers in this country.
Not only that, but, you know, Doge has canceled a whole bunch of programs that you utilize
the
farm community.
So let's get to something.
I have a story here from a Trump voter farmer.
He voted three times for Trump and now he's regretting it.
So let's get to cut 139 here.
All right, let's listen.
Jim Hartman has one eye on his bees and the other on his bank account.
Ideally, we'll get 100 pounds of honey per hive per year.
How do you feel about paying more for
things?
Well, you know, if you find someone who says I'm happy about paying more for something, you point them out to me.
People who already couldn't afford fresh vegetables, who couldn't already afford to put good food on their on their plate are.
The ones that are really going to be hurt by this.
Did you ever think when you voted for President Trump that things were going to cost you more and you were going to lose money?
I never thought I was going to lose this much money, this fast.
Jim is a Republican who voted for Donald Trump three times.
How do you feel about your vote for Donald Trump now?
Well, I feel like perhaps I should have considered some other options.
Among other things, Jim imports packaging supplies for his honey, so he's paying real close attention to the tariffs Trump just put in place.
We just bought our year's supply of bottles from Taiwan and our year's supply of quirks from Portugal about three weeks ago.
So that would have been another $5,000 or $6,000 out of my pocket.
Which is partly why he's repairing instead of replacing this 40-year-old forklift.
The cost of equipment has just gone through the roof to buy anything like that because it just would be cost prohibitive.
He's also holding off on improvements around the farm.
Well, we're not going to hire any more people.
That's for
sure.
It's more than just the tariffs.
For the past two years, Jim has been selling honey to the federal government, which then provides it to schools and food banks.
But after Donald Trump took office, the USDA cut those programs suddenly as part of the federal government's effort to streamline spending.
For a lot of other local farmers around here, it was a major source of reliable revenue.
For me, you know, it's going to cost me around $150,000 a year.
$150,000.
Yeah.
Yeah, roughly 50% of my revenue.
That's a huge hit.
That's a massive hit.
There you go.
Wow.
So it's not going real well for a lot of local farmers to find food to their communities.
Well and you also think about the equipment that they need and you know the equipment that needs repair and you need parts for a
lot of it is so high-tech now that it does cost quite a bit of money even to repair right at this point so the economy it's tough the whole economy is kind of tanking and it's
In some ways it's slow and some ways, as we heard from that farmer, it's very fast.
And it's
going to start impacting food prices
as
well, you know, with a little bit of inflation mixed in with that at the grocery stores.
I have a cut here from the view public speaker, academic author, podcast host Scott Galloway had this look at what was going on in the economy.
It would be hard to think of a more elegant way to reduce prosperity this fast.
Let's talk about Apple.
The notion was we were going to bring back all those great jobs.
The average Apple assembly person in China makes $500 a month.
The average Apple employee focusing on more high value things like design, store management, makes $200,000 a year here.
We want to wear nikes.
We don't want to make them.
We have outsourced low wage jobs overseas such that we can create more profits, more investments and create higher wage jobs.
If these tariffs hold, your iPhone is going to go from a thousand bucks to $2,300.
To make an iPhone in the US, it would cost $3,500.
As a result, the threats of these tariffs take Apple stock down the value of Walmart in three days.
If these tariffs hold,
80% of toys under the Christmas tree are from China.
So 90% of US households are budget constrained.
So we're talking about half the number of toys.
We're talking about a destruction and shareholder value such that your parents can retire as quickly.
And we're talking about the entire world rerouting their supply chain around Brand America, which quite frankly right now is toxic uncertainty so they can bypass a series of
unpredictable, epileptic, sclerotic decisions, but we finally need to acknowledge we have someone at the wheel of the global economy that is blackout drunk right now.
I love blackout drunk.
That's one way of describing it.
What do you love about blackout drunk?
It's a great way of describing it.
It's how you were talking for personal
experience.
They were talking about Apple and building the phones here in this country, but Tim Cook went out and he's talking about this stuff too and why they manufacture in China, not in the US.
And the hint here is that the tariffs aren't going to fix it anyway, so let's listen to cut 141.
There's a confusion about China and let me at least give you my opinion the popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor cost I'm not sure what part of China they go to but the truth is China stopped being the low labor cost country many years ago the reason is because of the skill the quantity of skill in one location and the type of skill it is like the products we do require really advanced tooling and the
The precision that you have to have in tooling and working with the materials that we do are state of the art.
And the tooling skill is very deep here.
In the US, you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I'm not sure we could fill the room.
In China, you could fill multiple football fields.
It's that vocational expertise is very deep, very, very deep here.
Yeah.
And, you know, the thing, do they have courses for tooling?
I mean, that's the whole point, you know, that everybody there seems like they're a tooler and they can handle, you know, putting these iPhones together.
But can they have that here in this country?
According to Tim Cook, they don't have the talent here to tool these types of the phones.
So, you know, you never know.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, it's, it's going to cost more either way, right?
Yeah.
I mean,
It
is.
And they kind of brought up an interesting point about this.
We don't want to start manufacturing shoes in this country.
I mean, there are countries that already do this.
They import them in.
We buy them very inexpensively.
Why do we want to duplicate that here in this country for some reason?
You know, let's create higher paying
jobs.
Coming up shortly, we'll be talking to Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa.
We still want to give away those tickets to the Milwaukee Film Festival.
You get to go to a film there if you text us the word film into the Civic Media app.
You could be a winner.
We'll be back with more of John and Gordy in the morning, right around the corner.
WMDX, Johnny Gordy in the morning, and it is a beautiful cloudy day today.
Really?
I'm
just going to get used to it now.
Every day is a cloudy day.
Seems like it's 721, yeah, but
with
Trump as president.
Oh, OK.
It's like this all
the time.
Well,
get used to it, I guess.
Some sunshine, though, hopefully breaking through those clouds a little bit later on.
We had some rain earlier, but here to tell us more about what's going on weather-wise is Brittany Merlot, our WMDX chief meteorologist.
Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning.
How's it going besides the cloudy, dreary
black?
Well, it's going okay.
I guess at least the winds have calmed down a bit.
It was really breezy yesterday, but my gazebo, it didn't go anywhere.
We wanted to, you
know... The neighbors wanted it too.
Gordy, how do you know that it didn't go somewhere and then come back?
Come
back?
Oh, that's a good question.
I don't... Yeah, you're right.
I don't have a security camera on it, so I couldn't tell you.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
Well, I'm so happy to hear that it survived yesterday.
So then there's no problem today because
the winds
aren't, like you said, as strong.
They're still a little feisty, casting around 30 miles per hour instead of 40.
And of course, we're still in a very high fire danger because of those darn winds.
They're whipping so fast.
It's so dry out there.
Our grass isn't quite green yet.
And over the weekend and yesterday in total, we saw 68 wildfires burn 135 acres.
So no burning.
Burn bands are in place by you.
Very high fire danger still today, but the winds will ease tomorrow so that should lower and then we've got more rain on the way for Thursday night and into Friday.
So that should help those conditions out as well.
But spring is the season for wildfires.
I've got my smokey the bear.
Awesome.
Yes.
Yes, that's quite
the cool.
Quite the nice sweatshirt you got there.
That's good.
Thank you.
Looks very
festive.
We would have had Smokey the Bear the song queued up for you had we known you were wearing that sweatshirt today.
Next time.
Can we find it maybe?
No?
Well, you mentioned to us Smokey the Bear.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I call him.
The Bear.
But some
people call it just Smokey Bear now.
Smoky yeah, they took out the
and and it's wrong and I've been against that ever since
Why take it
out right?
It's the bear.
It's smoky the bear not the bear not bear, right?
It's not
the last name Yeah, it's not proper
English
Now getting back to whether you know not only were you worried about you know burn it, you know
We have the burn bands on but it's also we're getting into the heart of tornado season or at least the start of tornado season, right?
So we need to at least keep keep it keep aware of that, right?
Yeah, I would take the time now to just be prepared and ready for that I mean we're already looking at potentially some strong thunderstorms moving in Friday afternoon and into the evening and
then of
course it's another round of next week so the season is right here so just
know where you're going to take shelter.
Know what you're going to do if you are in the path of a tornado because let me tell you when the situation actually happens, use your mind.
You can't think straight.
You're in a panic.
You forget things.
So just know where your safe space is.
Plan it with a family.
Talk with friends.
Go through different scenarios and situations, different times of the day.
Where are you?
Where would you go?
Obviously, you want to go to the lowest room, the basement.
first floor, anything, most interior room, and you want to put as many walls between you and the outside as possible.
You want to stay away from windows.
Those things will shatter in.
Yes.
And of course,
you
know, a lot of the roofs go out, the end walls, things like that in the weaker tornadoes.
So just know where you're going to go so you can go right there, head there as immediately as possible and stay safe, hopefully.
All right.
Okay.
Very good.
Good.
Good wise words there.
Let's practice that right now.
Let's go downstairs.
Yeah, where would you guys go?
Well, we're surrounded by windows here.
So it's a little tough.
But I guess we dive under the big desk here, the, you know, the new news
desk
that we have.
But Brittany, thank you very much.
We appreciate all of that.
And we'll talk to you again tomorrow morning.
Yes.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
You too.
Take care.
That's Brittany Merlot, our WMDX chief meteorologist.
OK, did we get a winner yet in our ticket giveaway?
Well, we did, but I'm waiting to find out what their name is.
OK, OK, so we all
right.
Very good.
They'll be confirmed that they'll be going to the Milwaukee Film Festival for a select film there.
And we'll have more tickets to give away tomorrow.
Just kidding.
They said they said I was just making a Seinfeld joke.
I wasn't actually interested in entering.
You can take the next person.
So what I guess I guess I'll take the next person.
All right.
So
OK.
Well,
the key word is film.
So if anybody wants to jump into the last second.
Okay.
And there you go.
Okay, well that sounds easy enough, you know the film festival we have so many film festivals in Wisconsin You know
keeps Pete Schwab a very busy.
I know that
It comes into town for just so I had one here in Madison a
walkie's
got it going up there and they had it in Green Bay I believe they had a film festival around there as well really so a lot of film stuff is going on in Wisconsin
And the thing, the crazy thing about it is that the Republicans have prevented the film industry from getting any kind of tax credit when they do filming here in Wisconsin for their major, you know.
Yeah,
studios.
Do they even have a film office or anything?
I don't think they have that anymore.
The Chicago's had that for years.
Yes.
Of course, they do a lot of film and, you know, a lot of TV shows in Chicago and a lot of locations to do that.
But they've really promoted it over the years as a good
location.
And of course, you know, they're doing it because they consider Hollywood very liberal, right?
And they don't want to give
tax breaks to Hollywood to those
individuals.
But of course, their
entire
administration is filled with entertainment people.
They just don't make any sense at all.
And they're really, I mean, think of all the films that could be done in Wisconsin and how it brings in tourism.
I remember they did some Johnny Depp movie here in Wisconsin,
in a small
town.
And we went out there.
Was it on the Derringer film?
No.
Who was the big gangster?
Yeah,
I can't remember either, but you know, we went out there to that small town just because of the filming of that movie there.
They had, you know, they still had posters up.
They still celebrated the bank that Johnny Depp was in town.
They're talking John Dillinger up in here.
Dillinger, that's what it was.
Woodruff or wherever it is up north.
Somewhere up there.
He was around, yeah.
But we
went to this town and it's
just a
really, small towns are just wonderful, beautiful.
So we went up there and it really does promote tourism and say, well, we filmed this here, we filmed that.
then you
talk about how
they changed uh in the names of some of the businesses on main street for the filming of the of the film it's just it's something that we should promote here in the state we have such a fantastic looking state
absolutely yeah it ought to be a thing yeah I mean why not I mean Milwaukee's got plenty of great locations and you know again all the small towns
yeah all
the all the scenery yeah
okay so you didn't get
You didn't get Smokey the Bear.
I looked everywhere.
I couldn't find it.
We had it for a while, didn't we?
That's buried somewhere.
Smokey
the Bear
is buried somewhere.
We'll be
back
with more of John and Gordy in the morning.
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That's right.
Also coming up another protest the 50501 movement and Indivisible are some of the organizers they are mentioned as
part of a group of organizers, but in any, in any way, they're going to do it also at the state capitol again.
Like
they did a couple of weeks ago.
That's on Saturday.
And I believe things get underway right around noon or before noon and we'll
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I want to thank
Liz and Gary both for giving us the information on Public Enemies, the movie of John Dillinger, Johnny Depp filmed out in Columbus, Oshkosh, Beaver Dam, and other places as well.
You mentioned...
Yeah, my ex-wife, Deb, and our daughter, Megan, went to that.
Got a picture with Johnny Depp.
And
they
were all thrilled about
that.
They bring people into the community, especially during the filming.
Yeah, they had a lot of fun.
So it's a lot of fun and it's a moneymaker for Wisconsin.
Sure, puts us on a map again and again and again.
Right.
Oh, we should have stuff like that.
You know, I was thinking about, you know, being Easter weekend and everything.
I saw a little picture on X. I thought it was very clever.
Very cute.
It showed a scene out of the movie, The Birds.
Oh,
really?
And
you remember the schoolhouse
and the
monkey bars?
Oh,
yeah.
And the seagulls
would
gather up on there, or the crows would gather up on there, right?
And instead of those crows, there were peeps lined up on... What?
What are you talking about?
They had peeps on the monkey bars as the threat, as the birds.
Right, and when you get it, you get it right.
I mean, I
haven't seen the birds, but yeah, I get
it.
You haven't seen the birds?
No.
Hitchcock?
I think I've only seen one Hitchcock movie.
Maybe two, actually.
Well, the birds is definitely something you have to watch.
It's insane.
It's brutal.
Do you see Psycho?
I have not seen Psycho.
Oh, OK.
Really?
Sorry.
I could probably count
on... How about Rear Window?
No, I haven't.
OK, well, there's three you should...
Definitely.
The two that I have seen from Hitchcock are Rebecca and Rope.
Oh,
okay.
All right.
Well, the thing is, I have a Barbie.
A special... The bird's Barbie.
The bird's Barbie.
Yes.
Is she in a phone booth?
It is scary
as
hell.
Oh, God.
It shows her standing there with these birds.
Actually, they have little birds inside the box.
Oh, no.
They do, and she's being attacked by those birds.
It's attached to her, I think.
curtain figurine but anyway it's uh it's so surreal that they would have done something
like that I don't know by the way Sam did we get a winner did we confirm our winner we did Milwaukee film festival
Martin out in Verona is our winner
all right well congratulations Martin and again we'll have more chances to win the rest of this week a pair of tickets each day
I want
to
get into
the big controversy over shower heads, okay?
What?
What?
Shower heads?
Shower heads, not giving us enough water.
to shower in.
I remember this was a thing during the last Trump
administration.
Oh, I know.
He keeps bringing it up like it's a brilliant idea.
He's not a sharp person.
What's the problem?
Well, we'll find out what the problem is.
Let's go to the Daily Show.
Desi Lydic had a little bit on this.
This is cut 140.
OK, let's listen.
Water pressure, really?
What Trump's going to be focusing on?
Absolutely, Desi.
And it's not just water pressure.
A few minutes ago, he passed another executive order that says, a shower faucet can't do that thing where you turn it, and it's cold, cold, cold, but then super hot.
There has to be a warm middle.
If that makes sense, you know what I mean.
This is the stuff that he's passing in the middle of a trade war?
What a waste of time.
Hard disagree, Desi.
I like this version.
of Trump.
Let him have his little showers, okay?
Who does this help?
The real question is, who does this hurt?
And the answer is, no one.
Right?
OK?
They're going to do bad things anyway, Desi.
But if I'm going to be spending five hours a day stress pooping on the toilet, at least give us an executive order like the one this afternoon that says, no more itchy tags on clothes.
It's too, too, too, too itchy.
OK, I do agree with that.
Tags are itchy.
But shouldn't he be focusing on bigger, real things?
He's bad at bigger, real things.
95.
Yeah, that's bad.
95 of these executive orders are about punishing people who just disagree with him.
So I'm fine with side-quest Trump, okay?
Would you go up to Hitler and be like, why are you painting?
You've got work to do.
Is it too much to ask for a president who's not Hitler?
Yes.
Apparently it is so just focus on the winds.
Yes, he's putting door the explorer on a flight to El Salvador,
okay?
Daily show says here speaking of the birds this is from Martina and Verona Oh, Tippi Hedrin was in my mom's home room at Minneapolis West High School class of 48 Wow.
Yeah, Tippi Hedrin.
Yeah, she was in
The birds and I think maybe one other hitch guy, you know, he
liked it.
Yeah, as an actor.
So,
uh,
but, uh, scary, scary movie.
They have a really nice cleaned up version of it.
Do they?
Yeah.
Digitized and, uh, high definition 4k version of it.
So it's, it's, it's gorgeous.
I think it
still holds up as a great movie, even though some of the special effects obviously, you know, are a little dated, you know, but.
Uh, it it's it's a frightening movie.
It still looks like birds.
Yes.
They look like they're really attacking.
Yeah, they for that time, it was just fantastic special effects.
Right.
And then, of course, the scene where the the woman has her eyes pecked out that.
Oh, no, you know, the thing is that scene last like like.
I can't even imagine how short a second
it could be.
It's so quick, you miss it immediately.
But it's the way Hitchcock filmed it, it's just very impactful.
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Well,
you know, the Trump administration is quietly carrying out a plan.
I think that everybody should be interested in this.
That aims to kill hundreds of bands on highly toxic PFAS forever chemicals and other dangerous compounds in consumer goods.
Meaning
they want to bring more PFAS back?
They do.
It's not a really important...
part of what's going on in this country.
So they want to just kind of streamline government and get rid of all these programs to get rid of all these killer chemicals that, you know, of course shorten our lives and create the misery throughout society.
Largely at a state level, they're prohibiting everything from children, poisonous things and children's products to mercury.
Yeah.
in personal care products like our thermometer, the MDX thermometer outside the window.
It's gigantic.
Mercury Thermometer my god Anyway We want to put up more of that and PFAS and food packaging and clothing That's what we need the EPA is changing the way it carries out chemical risk evaluations Which would also preempt state laws that offer the one of the few ways of keeping checks and balances in the system of chemicals that are toxic to
human health.
And the plan could also spell the end of federal prohibitions, including an early 2024 ban on asbestos.
So let's bring back asbestos.
Asbestos?
We're okay with that now.
It's all
right.
Just bring it on back.
You know, all these little things, the government was micromanaging everything, you know, and we got to streamline it,
get rid of all this
micromanaging.
Just let it happen.
That's what's wrong with big government.
Okay.
And it just gets rid of all of these dangerous chemicals.
Just we're rolling backwards downhill out of control.
I know.
I hate it.
I
know.
But you know, we're finding we're finding now that the people that we thought were really dumb-ass people like, you know George W. Bush are sounding intelligent after a while Well, when we listen to what they're saying about the economy at
this point
in time
should we go to
mark?
Yes,
do we have mark on the line here?
Oh lines are open.
Let's go to mark mark What do you got for us today on the John and Gordy morning show extravagance?
Where you
at?
Yeah, well, I think the Donald Trump should like these
first emperor of China, take a big heap and teaspoon of mercury every morning because that will make sure that he'll live forever.
I mean, that's that his astrologers and sorcerers were telling the first emperor of China.
So he should just, uh, you know, just, just do that.
Maybe a little ground up, uh, deep breath of asbestos every day and, uh, you know, that asbestos milk, um, PFAS milkshakes and his, his burger.
And now let's see how long Donald Trump, yeah, he can be the perfect.
You know, an example of
how
we live in Korea.
He can show just how safe this stuff is because, you know, we all know that it's just all fake that Korea is dangerous, or Spesicis is dangerous.
Well,
you know the thing is
the thing is he just had a physical and he's in
great shape So let's see how
all of these PFACs chemicals and asbestos and mercury affect his body because he can't be in better shape than Trump is right now with all those outings on the golf course I've never I've never understood why golf is a sport like you know something that Keeps you fit
Especially when you're on the
golf
cart most of the time.
Yeah
What's that, Mark?
Trump is just another Adonis.
Oh, he
is.
He really truly
is.
Thanks, guys.
All right, Mark.
Thank you for that
call.
Phone lines are open.
608-879-8255.
You can call us or text us there.
I want to place something in it.
Sometimes we don't agree, but now we do agree.
In another tariff conversation, it was Larry Kudlow and Rand Paul.
And now we're ending up enjoying the fact that we agree with them.
Let's listen to this cutting.
They're opposed to what Mr. Trump is doing.
Tell us why.
Tell us what you're thinking.
Well, you know, I'm kind of old fashioned, Larry.
I don't like taxes and I don't want more of them.
I also think that if you tax something, you get less of it.
And I don't want less trade.
I want more trade.
There's a fundamental argument we have to have in this country is trade good or bad.
The president and his counselors seem to think that in trade, someone gets ripped off.
The truth of the matter is this, that all trade is mutually beneficial and really the U.S.
doesn't trade with China, you trade with Walmart.
So when I go to Walmart, if I pay $10 for a shirt, I want that shirt and they want my $10 and we both go away from the deal.
having succeeded, we mutually benefited.
That's the only reason trade happens.
And then if you add it all up and say, oh, China's ripping us off, it makes no sense.
Trade deficits are not real accounting.
It's a fake accounting, and it doesn't mean anything.
What means something is, if you look at trade deficits in proportional to prosperity, the higher the trade deficits, the more prosperity.
The lower the trade deficits, the less prosperity we get.
We get a reduction in trade deficits when we go into a recession.
We get an expansion of trade deficits when we're in a boom.
So really nothing about a trade deficit gives any real useful instruction to the economy.
Well, actually, I don't know whether you're surprised or not, but I agree with you about trade deficits.
Actually, we've been riffing about it on the show.
All right.
That's, I think, a lousy bench.
Yeah, so there it.
Yeah.
Oh, are we on that?
Here we go.
What are you looking at me for?
We're done.
Yeah, that
cut is over.
Yes.
Oh, okay.
I thought we were in a break already.
No.
But yeah, you can see that, you know, Rand Paul agreed with him.
Kevlo agreed with Rand Paul.
Right.
So.
And on it goes.
Strange bedfellows,
that's for
sure.
That's it, yes.
All right, it is 749 and 40 degrees, highs today, close to 50 when we come back.
I've got a cut from
John Oliver, and again,
he agrees now with a lot
of
the
people
we don't agree with
normally.
Back with more of John and Gordy right after this break.
So we're having a very good time this morning.
We're getting a lot of a lot of texts love this stuff And yeah, we're talking about the economy the tariffs agreeing with people we normally disagree with here on the program right and
one more right
I do I actually have John Oliver this time.
Okay.
Yeah, he was talking about the tariffs as well.
Why don't we play that cut?
Got that all handy
You have a number on that one, John?
I'll help
you do.
This is John and
Gordy in the morning.
This is
148.
OK, here we go.
No one, no one when the economist jokingly said, I run a chronic trade deficit with my barber, he never buys a damn thing from me, which is just.
a classic economist's zinger.
Nevertheless, Trump applied both those beliefs to his initial tariff plan, imposing massive penalties on countries indexed to the size of our trade imbalance, which led to some of the incredibly stupid calculations on Trump's chart, perhaps the dumbest of which was actually explained pretty well by Jim Kramer.
Let's go to the southern African nation of Usutu.
which had the misfortune of being one of the two most highly-tariff nations on Trump's list.
They're being hit with a 50% duty on their exports to America.
That happened because Lesotho only imported $2.8 million worth of U.S.
goods last year, whereas we imported roughly $240 million worth of stuff from them.
Now, the thing is, Lesotho's a really tiny country.
Virtually everything we buy from them is either apparel or diamonds.
But because it's a very poor country, they can't afford to buy much from us.
So what happens now?
To start, we're going to have to pay a lot more for any apparel or diamonds from Lesotho.
Maybe we can replace the apparel with diamonds?
I mean, that's a lot harder.
And the only way for Lesotho to get out of this jam is by importing more stuff from America, which it can't do because it doesn't have any money.
So the president has likely just made things more expensive for Americans and not really changed the behavior of our trading partners.
He's right.
Shit.
Jim Cramer was right.
I think I'm going insane.
Hey, there we go.
I think
we're all
going a little bit insane.
Yeah.
That's what happens.
It's crazy stuff, isn't it?
I mean, it's really truly happening.
Could you cue up cut 144?
This is, you know, it's nice to hear from Paul Krugman every once in a while, economist, so.
Yeah.
Let's find out what he has to say in regards to all of this.
OK.
People talk about the famous infamous smooth holy tariff.
This pause is a tariff rate that is higher overall than smooth hauling.
This is a bigger shock to the economy than any trade policy in any country's history as far as I can figure out.
So this is a really big and really destructive deal.
Wow.
We've talked to quite a few people.
When you put it like that and that's supposed to be the retreat or quote unquote better position, it's really striking.
Yeah, very striking.
All right, that's our Melber on MSNBC and Paul Krugman.
Now, I want to play this very quickly.
We got this cut 143 and this is China 24, a channel out there.
They
posted a news story of Trump merch that they produced.
Let's listen to this.
There's little evidence of a trade war at the Jahao Flag Company in Anhui Province.
Workers bustle and sewing machines hum.
A current house seller, blue and white banners declaring the centerpiece of Trump's reelection campaign.
What
I'm making here now is the Trump banner.
I know that he's the U.S.
president.
Every day we must produce over 1,000 of this.
We already made so many badges of them.
The banners highlight a paradox in China-U.S.
relations under the current Trump administration.
At about $1 a piece, even the suppliers to the Trump campaign can't resist the low price.
The factory also made banners for his 2016 campaign and said its business has been great since then.
Buy American and hire American.
Oh, sure.
Trump has long railed against Chinese imports and launched a controversial trade strategy this year to punish Beijing.
Yet his move is merely making America more expensive.
The U.S.
Department of Commerce said flax and other textile products will be subject to a 10% levy.
One seller said that would be enough to double the price of a Make America Great Again hat.
Yes.
$220 a pop.
and his hard-line stance towards China could eventually repel suppliers like the jiahao flight company.
Personally, this is my own feeling, but if he continues to demand tariff increases as he has been doing, I definitely would not be able to accept more orders.
That's because everyone can have a patriotic heart, so we won't let him improve his own economy, while us Chinese just shoot ourselves in the foot.
I
know that Trump's tariffs targeting China will have some effect, but we're not worried at all since we're producing foreign flags every single day.
If Trump's midterm election rallies have no flags to fly, there's only one man to blame.
All right, and now this morning we found out that he's reconsidering the tariffs on cars.
Yeah, every day it's a flip flop.
It's red light, green lights.
It's on, it's off,
it's on again.
Boy, I tell you, if one guy with whatever he says can cause this much economic chaos, he's already got too much power.
Oh, I know, I know.
You know, I'd like to see the BYD, the EVs that they're building in China.
Those are fantastic vehicles.
They are very inexpensive, like $10,000 to $15,000 for these.
And they're very high tech.
They get high mileage per battery.
It is just that these are great vehicles that we're never going to see.
And now Europe is tying its
Wagon yeah to China there.
You're doing a lot of trade with China now at least they're attempting to and on it goes Yeah, so they're replacing the US with China absolutely.
Yep, and who knows what'll happen tomorrow, but we'll be here
for
God.
Yes That's gonna do it for us today.
We are going to reschedule with Liz Johnston She was supposed to be with us today, but there was a security that they put new locks on the door down stairs couldn't get in
But she's here now and we're gonna have her in tomorrow.
Yep, and we'll get caught up in what's happening with Serenity Pet Spa at that time.
Also, Mike McCabe from Substack, blogger.
That's it for us,
Stephanie Miller is
next.
John, have a great day.
And you too, Sam.
I really truly, sincerely mean it.
No, I mean it.
We're all gonna have a
great day.
Yesterday, I didn't mean it.
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