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right
A lot of
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
been here the whole time the show's been running just about.
That's true.
on.
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.
OK.
Yeah, 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, 724, they had Saturday night at the movies.
Yeah.
And really, the family would kind of wait and see what big movie they would have.
They always have a first-run movie.
Right.
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.
The nightmares after that.
You
won't go on a boat.
I didn't know that you had a fear of water.
knuckling the railing the whole time
You're stranded out floating out there.
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
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.
What's the clown doing?
He
and Gordy
the morning!
Dang it!
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Okay.
I'm pretty sure it was all women.
And they said that Bezos fell.
And when he got out of the caps, he started walking and then he just fell over.
Well, I don't think he was.
So they show somebody falling over.
I thought it was Bezos.
Well, she kept her married name.
I don't know.
Well, 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 cap.
So what a chickens way to get out of it Take your chances.
Here's
I Okay, I didn't see that part of the story.
I guess I'm looking it up now.
All right, let's see
What 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
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.
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.
He began franchising McDonald's.
He opened his first McDonald's location and boy, did it grow from there.
they still have a dollar menu at McDonald's?
fast, didn't they?
Well, it wasn't too long ago that you could still get just like a plain hamburger
for
one dollar, I think.
I don't know if you can anymore, though.
But back in 1955, when he opened his first location, a hamburger was 15 cents.
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 my 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
Uh, birthdays.
It's Leonardo da Vinci's birthday today.
I
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
500, some 550 something years old.
He's getting up there.
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.
What?
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?
Yeah.
What?
Being grouchy.
Grouchy captain.
Grouchy captain.
I've never heard of this.
Grouchy captain.
I've never heard of this.
Grouchy captain.
I've never heard of this.
Grouchy captain.
I've never heard of this.
Grouchy captain.
I've never heard of this.
Grouchy captain.
I've never heard of this.
Grouchy captain.
I've never heard of this.
Grouchy captain.
I've never heard of this
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.
Dumb all the time.
It's John and Gordy, 92.7 WMDX.
It's cloudy this morning.
We had a little rain earlier.
Currently 37 degrees highs today, right around 50 degrees.
Coming up in our seven o'clock hour, we'll have another pair of tickets to go to one of the movies at the Milwaukee Film Festival.
Also, we're going to be talking with the Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society.
And a little bit later, Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa.
So we're going to be talking about some animals.
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 cords on the charts, and put it down in the log.
Cappies is the port where the best hamburgers are to be found for only 15 cents.
Cheeseburgers are 20 cents and french fries are just 15 pieces of 8.
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-flick shakes are as good as gold, you know, and they're only 22 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 62nd and Fond du Lac.
Cappy's driving.
Remember the old grouchy captain invited you to come aboard.
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,
there is this recorded off a radio?
radio off a radio back in the probably fifties.
I'll cap 66 then Fond du Lac streets in Milwaukee
Should
corner there and see if Capy's is still there?
Well, it sounds like...
Fifteen
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.
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.
she
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.
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.
So
do you think you made a mistake then?
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interest...
In presuming that the self interest of organizations, specifically banks and others were 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.
You feel
that your ideology pushed you to make decisions that you wish you had not made.
Well, remember that what a not 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.
But if I may, may I just finish and answer the question?
You found the flaw in the reality.
The 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 dying 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.
The free market philosophy failed completely.
The Great Recession hit us hard.
And Ellen Greenspan, of course, admitted right there that the free market didn't work.
Exactly.
Now, a year later, he changed his mind and he thought, you know, he thought through the whole thing.
It still could work.
Second and third
Yeah.
OK.
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.
Good morning.
Yeah.
So yes, he's, he's a one year old pit bull mix.
Um, he, 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.
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.
He has lived with other dogs, but we do recommend slow introductions.
And he's really interested in cats.
So if you have one, I would suggest
being careful or maybe not having a cat in your house.
Also, because he's more afraid of loud noises, we're also recommending that he doesn't go to home with children.
That's true.
They've been together 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.
Yes.
But they make up so quickly and it's almost like it never happened.
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.
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.
Uh, well, right now we have, uh, summer camp that's still looking for kids who want to join.
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.
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
the chain.
And it's just a fun time to hang out, learn more about animals, deal engaged 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
chill.
with us.
All
find out more?
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