lot of
legally changed my first name to producer now.
deal.
What episode number is this, Sam?
Well, I think I told you before the show.
Now I lost, I think it's like 371.
371.
year.
Yeah, we passed 365 without.
even recognizing it.
I didn't catch any but.
got a lot of spray from the vehicles in front of me.
The big news of course this morning is that Pope Francis died at the age of 88 after having, maybe it was just too strenuous yesterday, you know, because he made the appearance, he was in the Pope mobile.
Yeah, he had touched a lot of hands at that point and then he just passed away overnight.
yeah yeah my aunts and family they have a get together yeah some of the kids come in from out of state and go to grandma's house and we sit around and we have food
Yeah, we had Swedish meatballs, which is an odd thing to have.
By the way, they weren't even Swedish meatballs.
I'll be honest.
I don't know what the hell.
No.
We had a well, let me see.
We have a trance.
We have we have some of the stranger other.
relatives that showed up.
But I got to say that everybody's really cool.
They kind of hung out together.
The young people hung out together.
My son went off in a corner someplace and talked about tech.
But it was just one of those things I was asking about.
the Swedish meatballs because I make Swedish meatballs for the kids because you get the egg noodles and you put the Swedish meatballs and the sauce on top and it's really a great meal.
But I asked the person who made it what they put in the Swedish meatballs and she just made it up.
They weren't exactly Swedish, we should just made stuff and put stuff
together.
Finally, somebody else who doesn't follow the recipe.
Yeah, there were no
You know, it was just like, like, like ground turkey and then she just threw stuff in.
Was it good?
Actually, it turned out pretty damn good.
Okay.
But, you know, I was expecting more of a recipe and an actual Swedish meatball recipe, but it wasn't.
So, and nutmeg adds a little bit to that Swedish meatball sauce.
Nutmeg.
Okay.
Yeah.
A little
exciting?
Well, yesterday, I just kind of sat around.
Good.
Okay.
Thanks for that
thought you were going to say that you like painted your back patio, which is your entire backyard is just concrete.
I thought you were going to paint it a greener.
No,
Gordy, you're renting this place.
Why are you putting in this much effort?
Well, it's not that much effort.
I mean, I just want to clean the place
I don't think I have a lot of dandelions.
Well, at least not yet.
I think it's a little early.
All right.
Well, let's get to the national day calendar.
I'm glad everybody had a good Easter.
It makes me feel good.
Maybe we shouldn't have said anything at all and just gone to the calendar.
Okay.
Well, there's not much on the calendar today, but for April 21st, is it or is it not national rendering day?
National Yellow Bat Day?
Yellow Bat Day.
What could that be?
Is it National Hobby Day?
National Chocolate Covered Cashews Day?
Or National Kindergarten Day?
Which one of those days does not belong?
National Kindergarten Day is not the day.
Well, you're wrong again.
It is National Kindergarten
I actually wasn't sleeping.
The tiredness hasn't kicked in yet.
It's not a hobby day.
It
It's not happy hobby days.
any hobby day.
It's
No, it might be some other day, but it's not today.
But it is National Rendering Day.
What do you think that's talking about, huh?
Sam, do you have any guesses?
Sam?
Never mind.
Well, National Rendering Day.
Well, it's a day to bring awareness to reducing and eliminating food waste through our process known as rendering.
I don't know if I'd call it food that you're getting through the process of rendering, but it's basically using all of the parts of the animal.
when you butcher an animal that aren't usually used for food, putting it to different
North Americans consider roughly 50% of an animal inedible.
This leaves a lot of leftover materials that end up as food waste.
On National Rendering Day, we learn about how we can eliminate this waste and what rendering means and why using the rendering process is a smart choice.
Okay, let's move on.
Well, that could happen.
There's a bunny rabbit.
Is there?
In my yard every once in a while.
So we'll see what happens.
National yellow bat day.
What could this be?
Honors Yellow Bat Day.
Let's see on this day in 1967 the army activated the 265th Army Security Agency Company Airborne with the 101st Airborne Division What does this have to do the official signal or oh insignia of the 265th is a bat with outstretched wings?
It kind of looks like the bat signal.
you
WMDX 92.7 John and Gordy in the morning just kind of rambling on and on here, but we've got to get back to the National Day calendar, don't we?
Because we can't miss a few of these important days.
You know, and we completely forgot about the weather, but we'll get to that as well.
No,
we covered that a little bit.
No, we didn't.
OK, we didn't do all of the
details.
622.
It's raining.
What else do
you
need to know?
Rain off and on today.
53 is the current temperature according to the WMDX thermometer outside the WMDX window overlooking State Street.
What's your,
what's your Samsung WMDX?
Samsung watch, the official watch of the WMDX.
John and Gordy in the morning show.
Yeah.
What is it?
52 currently and 54 is predicted.
I think I was right last week when I predicted a certain high temperature.
I think I was right on the money.
Yeah.
I was seeing it myself all through the house.
I was right.
I was right.
I should call them up.
I should tell them I should text them.
Okay.
Okay.
Settle down.
But I didn't relax.
Yeah.
This is the high today and then it's downhill from here.
Temperatures are going to be dropping
slowly.
Over over the day through the day.
It's National Kindergarten Day, John April 21st Honors the birthday of a man who started the first kindergarten Frederick Wilhelm August Frobel of Germany Started it in 1830 wait Yeah, 1837 he started it Frobel was a German teacher and a student of Hosan.
Oh, no, Johan
Pestilosi.
Frobo laid a foundation for modern education, recognizing that children learn through play and experience.
So we salute all the kindergartners and all the kindergarten teachers out
there.
That's a tough, tough duty.
That's a tough job.
Watching all those little kids running around.
Well, so, you know, some of these kids have, uh, you know, little problems that you have to iron out
their first
experience with
schools.
So, you know,
And that, too, trying to socialize them and if they have some kind of phobia of some sort.
I know my kid did.
It's
just not easy.
He had
a difficult time touching things.
Very touch sensitive.
Really?
Yeah, he didn't like to get his hands dirty, all that kind of stuff, you know.
He still liked that?
Yeah, just a little, but, you know, not phobic.
You know, nothing too dangerous or crazy.
Okay.
Well, let's get to the history book.
Too
much
information.
I don't know.
I got nothing.
What's going on in
history?
It's Monday.
It's Monday.
It is Monday.
I'm glad you asked, Gordy.
We're
just getting going.
You know Henry VIII?
No, go ahead.
You know Henry
VIII?
Not personally, but no, go
ahead.
He's a party guy.
I thought you would have met him back in the day.
Well, today in 1509, Henry VIII ascends to the throne, one of the, as far as I know, most infamous British monarchs.
He had like five wives killed, almost all of them.
Yeah.
Not a nice guy.
No.
He was a tyrant.
Yeah.
But we remember him on this day.
Maybe we shouldn't.
It's like honoring Trump.
Yeah.
Remembering
Trump.
You know, that's kind of true.
There are plenty of like American presidents though like we we celebrate the I guess you could call them good things that they did and then kind of sweep under the rug every horrible thing that they did I hope that doesn't happen in the future with Trump, but you know 100 years down the line.
I wouldn't be surprised
Yeah, we'll see
anyway today in 1918 some World War one history the red Baron the flying ace of World War one he was shot down on this day
He was given a full military burial by the British, and they called him our gallant and worthy foe.
Wow.
Well, thank gosh.
Snoopy was there to shoot
him down.
I
know.
Snoopy and the Red Baron.
That's a great start.
You know the famous picture of the Loch Ness Monster?
Yes.
That was published on this day for the very first time in 1934.
Nobody really knew about this legend before the early 30s.
um like it like very locally it was but like this was the big story that kind of made it blow up from there and because people have been so interested in Loch Ness Monster over the years Loch Ness in Scotland is like one of the best mapped bodies of water in the world
absolutely yeah
yeah it's really funny if there's any if there's any body of water that we know that there's not a monster in it's Loch Ness it
would be that place yeah
It's funny they never found a floating body of the Loch Ness.
Right?
I don't know.
Something to ponder.
Anything
else in the history?
Yeah, today in 1989, the pro-democracy protests in China centered in Tiananmen Square, they really started taking off on this day.
About 100,000 students started to converge on the square.
Those protests lasted about a month before...
We all know what happened.
Government came in, cracked down on everything.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It was a big deal.
A famous picture of a student standing in front of the tanks.
Tankman.
Yeah.
We still don't know who that person was.
Really?
Yeah.
Nobody knows.
So now anyone come out
of
the woodwork and say, I was there.
That
was me.
Well, I don't know if he's around anymore.
It is a while back.
Birthdays today?
Yeah, we got a couple birthdays.
John Muir, I think he's from Wisconsin.
He certainly did a lot of work in Wisconsin, the naturalist.
Conservationist.
That's right.
And it's former Queen Elizabeth II's birthday.
She was born in 1926.
Okay.
All right.
That's it for the birthdays.
You know, I gotta say that the weather is a little unusual.
We have a southern facing door.
And as I was walking out this morning, it was pushed.
pushed open on me.
The wind was windy.
There was like this massive pressure.
It didn't seem like it was windy at all, but it was
just a pressure.
It opened itself for
you.
Yeah, it just slammed into me.
It was
really crazy.
Are you sure you didn't install an automatic door and forget about it?
Maybe I did.
Maybe I
did.
An automatic garbage
dumpster lid as well.
We got to talk to Brittany Merleau about this.
I just looked at the weather for the rest of the week.
It's going to rain just about every day, or it's going to be gloomy at least.
I'm not looking forward
to it.
Well, we'll talk to her in a little while.
We'll blame her.
OK.
OK.
We've got Matt on the phone.
But Matt, why don't you hold on here?
We'll get to you in just a few minutes.
We're just getting started on this Monday morning on the 21st day of April.
Right?
Yes.
That's what it is.
You know, Matt's on Middleton as well.
You know, maybe maybe Matt and I can get out the little shotguns and take care of a few rabbits.
All right, well, I'll let you take care of that with Matt.
We'll move on.
We'll be back with more of John and Gordy Idiocracy, right around the corner.
Right here.
Over to you,
yes.
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For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
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Let's go to the phones.
All right.
Matt's been hanging on
Morning, guys.
I, for one, like the rabbits.
I enjoy seeing some nature once in a while.
Yeah.
Even though they get caught in a lawn mower occasionally.
Oh,
come
on.
I find it very calming.
I lived in Texas for a while.
I didn't see much of that at all.
dry, hot, and drought-stricken.
I wanted to poke fun at the Mad King and his Joker vice president, two men in charge of the mannispere that wear makeup and are clowns.
And
I
like seeing the Chinese troll Dady Vance the way they are.
Because it's such a hypocritical thing, right?
Like, I support their right to wear makeup and dress in dresses at their home or have a show, you know?
But like, in all these conservative men at CPAC that are blowing up Grindr, you know?
It's like,
right to be yourself, you know?
I'm fighting for you.
a
I was trying to tell you 182.
Oh,
happening here?
borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.
That is not a recipe for economic prosperity.
This is the comment from JD Vance about Chinese people calling them peasants and now listen to a savage reply by a Chinese analyst.
You will know the comments from the vice president JD Vance calling the Chinese peasants.
How does, where does that leave US-China relations and any sort of talks between the two presidents do you think?
Allow me to be very brief.
JD Vance and I went to the same law school, your law school.
I was 20 years ahead of him and I'm ashamed for the ignorance and the bigotry he demonstrated.
Because he called China the peasants, the peasants financed them, the peasants sold them goods.
Let me just make one single point.
The middle class in China is larger than the total population in the United States.
The urban population in China is about three times as big as the total population of the United States.
So my advice to my alumni at Yale Law School, JD Vance, is wake up or you go back to school to study more diligently, to avoid making yourself a fool in front of the world.
He's, you know, going to green.
Diplomatic is not the right word.
Well, he's attempting diplomacy in his own way.
He just saw the Pope the other day just a couple of days ago.
Yeah.
He didn't get a.
big audience with him.
He had a private meeting with the Pope and a translator there.
He didn't stay long.
It was just a hello, and that was pretty much it.
they acclimate themselves to the poison.
Last night or yesterday.
web wisdom
okay the united states is trying to reach a trade agreement with you
JD Van says there's a very good chance it's going to happen, but a source close to the administration says there's a sticking point.
There's something that's like a red line item for Donald Trump.
And if he doesn't get it, he doesn't want to do the deal.
What could be that thing?
Oh, he wants them to repeal their hate speech laws that protect the LGBTQ plus community.
He doesn't like those.
And if they don't get rid of him, he's saying.
not going to do a trade deal with you unless you get rid of that stuff that protects LGBTQ plus people.
Wow.
What's the music?
typical Tik Tok background music.
He's in a lounge, actually.
That's why.
comments.
Was it was it?
The Supreme Court of the UK that like last week ruled that trans women aren't real women.
Maybe they are giving into Donald Trump's trade deal demands then.
Yeah.
Well, SuperVillain from a James Bond movie, Sebastian Gorka, is out making public appearances again.
He kind of does fit the mold, doesn't he?
He really does.
When you hear his voice, you know, it's just crazy, right?
He's the counterterrorism czar.
That's why he's out there working with Trump.
And he's setting up Trump, Bondi, Patel, and Levitt.
to accuse and deport anyone protecting due process.
See, he's helping them make that argument.
So I thought Cut 186 would be a perfect way to introduce Sebastian Gorka to everyone.
I realize that the taxonomy of politics in America is dead.
It's not left and right.
It's not even Republican or Democrat.
There's one line that divides us.
Do you love America or do you hate America?
It's really quite that simple.
And we have people who love America, like the president, like his cabinet, like the directors of his agencies, who want to protect
Americans.
And then there is the other side that is on the side of the cartel members, on the side of the illegal aliens, on the side of the terrorists.
And you have to ask yourself, are they technically aiding and abetting them?
Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute Rob.
Lock him up, half of the country, right now.
That's true.
And I think what he's doing is he's helping Trump, Bondi, Patel, and Levitt talk up deportations of American citizens.
That's what I think is being set up here by Sebastian Gorka.
And why not give him that duty?
After all, he does sound like an arch-villain in a James Bond movie, or maybe even...
Go on it, you know.
I'm Man for Monkko,
My papal history.
Did the Pope like get shot at or something in the past that they found it
I thought
at your
Well, yeah, you know, the Supreme Court, wow.
Just never.
There are two people in the Supreme Court who we can guarantee are going to try to destroy the country in every way they can at San Milito.
Yeah.
and Justice Thomas.
These two guys, you know the way they're gonna vote.
And there's something wrong if you know they're gonna vote a certain way.
There's something wrong.
They're obviously not looking at the law and calling balls and strikes.
They're twisting the law into pretzels.
Okay, we got Dick here.
Can we get Dick right away?
Yeah,
Well, good morning, guys.
I've one thing real sad about the Pope is that somebody as good and decent as him.
Yes.
He
had to pass to keep the media from the first thing out of the box this morning was not Trump.
The first 40 minutes was about the Pope.
Right.
And nothing of Trump.
But when it did come, it was about the administration.
I got a new job for Pete Hestett.
He's going to be put in charge of Trump's birthday parade because Trump wants the whole world to know about it.
better.
That's
With his wife now, his brother and his personal attorney.
