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Good morning.
Hey, man.
Monday.
Something a little different,
right?
Sure.
It's seven minutes past six, top of the morning to you.
Rise and shine, shake a leg
up an
atom.
Let's go.
Well,
I know you're
feeling pretty good because you took care of the weeds in your yard.
I did.
Yeah.
I did a lot of gardening.
Yeah.
Took care of things.
You actually stopped by.
I did.
I was driving
by on a
census run that I had.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You
didn't intently.
You weren't
intending.
Intentionally.
No, I wasn't intently going to stop by, but I saw you out there in the sidewalk and I thought, wow.
Well, you know, it's not easy parking around to your place.
So it's not like the first thing I'm going to do.
I'm just going to drop by Gordy's.
No, it's impossible to park anywhere near
my place.
That's right.
That's going to get worse because you're going to work on the road right
outside your house.
They're going to tear up Highland Avenue for like six weeks.
So I don't think I'll be able to get in or out of my garage.
And there's an apartment building right next to that.
And I don't
know.
I don't know what's going to happen.
30 or 40
apartments in there.
There's a garage under their apartment.
I think
they're locking them in.
Some kind of agreement with their employers.
It's going to be a fun summer.
That happens in June and July.
Oh,
God.
Yeah, they gave us all notices.
You know, heads up like, oh boy, great.
Nowhere
to park.
Well, you think they might put Highland, you know, on a bridge, you know, and then you have these huge pillars outside your house.
You know, I actually wouldn't mind that if there was another way, you know, if it was sort of two level and I could get in and out still.
They're not
going to do that.
It'd
be crazy to
do it in that neighborhood.
Anyway.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
So here it is, Monday morning.
And let's check our weather.
There's some dicey weather, perhaps, coming our way tonight.
Oh, really?
Yeah, some storms, some maybe tornadic activity.
Oh, no.
Oh, yeah, possibly.
Wow.
I'm a
volcanic activity.
No volcanic.
All
right.
Nothing
near us,
anyway.
All right.
So it's John and Gordy and producer Sam
had a big
weekend.
Yeah,
we'll
get to that in a moment.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh boy.
And right now, you know, they're saying it's clear skies, maybe at the airport, but there's some clouds around here.
Yeah, it looks
a little easy on
State Street.
It's currently 53 degrees.
Let's check the afternoon high.
Let's get the weather wheel spin.
And see what's happening here.
You ready for this?
Yeah.
Yeah,
I'm always ready for this
afternoon.
Hi.
Black 77 77 today.
That's outrageous.
It's going to be
hot.
It's going to be humid.
Yeah.
Let's check the WMDX Samsung watch.
Oh, yeah.
See if that mentions
high 81.
Oh, okay.
So there you go.
Yeah.
It's going to be very warm and humid and maybe some strong thunderstorms this evening and tonight.
Keep a close eye on things, but yeah, it could be pretty windy later on today.
Well, it's not good.
Well, it's not good.
It's what we have.
Get ready for it.
You got no place else to go, Peterson.
Batten down the hatches.
Producer Sam, did you have a good weekend?
I had a pretty good weekend, yeah.
Now, you sound like your little voice is a little strange.
A little force or something.
Yeah, I'm
surprised how bad my voice sounds this morning.
On Saturday, I was at a training weekend for the summer camp that I'll be working at again that I've
worked
at a few years in the past.
And I guess I overused my voice.
You were yelling as a kid.
I can't picture you doing that.
Yeah, I
know.
It's crazy.
Like most of my normal life, like here and...
With friends and stuff and Madison is completely different from how I act around these crazy
camp people.
That's a crazy thing, you know, you're very sedate around here.
You're very bleary-eyed though this morning.
Yeah, I have never gotten allergies before.
I don't know what it is, but
I
my eyes are watering like crazy and they're like really puffy.
That was why we were like 10 seconds late to getting on the air this morning because I like my eyes are a little blurry and I miss red witch channel the
Music was playing on
we'll see I told you we were 10 seconds late 10 seconds.
Oh, no,
so you do pay attention to the clock called John.
Yes You know
I do let's say I'm a new clock anyway.
No, what's this?
I hear that you slept in your car Yeah, that's right
after after this training day on Saturday spent the night at a friend's house down in Stevens Point also who works at the camp he was having his birthday party and
Late at night, after we all had had a few, we decided to go out for pizza and then...
Some of them decide to walk back to the house and I thought I was following them, but I guess I wasn't You lost sight of them
They lost them
purposefully
So
I was wandering the streets of Stevens Point Eventually wound up back at my car and I just decided to try and fall asleep there until I drove back to Madison in the morning
in the VW bug Is that got luxurious sleeping quarters in the back?
Oh, you
know
If you lay down in the back seat, you only have to squish your legs up a little bit in order to fit.
No, that doesn't work.
That doesn't work at all.
You're not convincing me at all.
I keep forgetting.
I mean, I know you're a young Genzier.
Yeah.
And you have to go through all of this in order to figure out that maybe this was really not the thing you should do when you're 30, 40, 50, 60.
Well, good thing I'm not 30, 40, 50, 60.
Well, I know.
I'm young and strong.
Live it up in your 20s.
I don't know.
Let's go crazy.
Yeah.
I think you should drink responsibly.
And you're not drinking responsibly.
It's not that I was that drunk, Sean.
I just don't know what happened to the people I was with.
Well, good for you for not driving.
There you go.
Yeah, I would never have driven
home that night.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Well, let's check the national day calendar and see what's going on there.
Oh,
okay Did you have more
John?
No No, I probably did but I forgot what it was.
You know my attention span isn't very good.
Really?
Oh, yeah, I had
noticed really Okay, is it or is it not here we go Pardon me and a frog may throw
Global Pay It Forward Day.
Is it that?
Is it National Superhero Day?
How about National Blueberry Pie Day?
Or National Great Poetry Day?
Or National French Toast Day?
Which day is it?
Not French Toast
Day.
You're right, John.
Right out of the box.
First one of the week.
You got it
right.
Well, you know, it's my famous French toast that you're referring to
this.
I am, yeah.
which make with a secret recipe.
Yes.
A secret recipe that I've told everybody about a thousand times.
You put cinnamon
in.
I put cinnamon on the toast as it is frying.
As it's
cooking, right.
Yeah, it's frying on one side.
I put the cinnamon on the other side, a lot of it.
And when you flip it over, you fry the cinnamon, you brown it, and it really adds a different flavor to the cinnamon.
Kind of a nice edge to French toast, and it's just wonderful stuff.
You like that?
Yeah.
Well, look, I'm saying it's wonderful.
It's not just me saying that.
It's
everybody in your household.
It's everybody just loves that French toast.
Oh my gosh.
Well, maybe you could share the recipe with our listeners, you know, put it on the Facebook or YouTube.
I think that you should
bring a griddle in here and we should make it on the air someday.
Oh, what a great
idea.
You could do that.
There is one ingredient I haven't really stressed a lot.
flour.
I put about a half a cup, the three quarters cup flour.
What?
In the bowl, then I mix milk into it and, you know, to diffuse it and make a nice, creamy... Blew your base?
Yeah.
Blew your base.
You don't know.
No, no either.
Sort of
like a
word.
You can get away with it.
So, you know, it's kind of a, it's kind of a breading.
Essentially, it's a breading.
Okay, and it helps coat the French toast a little bit as you're frying it
by the way before we get the national day calendar.
Yeah
junk.
Doug from St.
Francis piped up already.
Hey, guys, just want to follow up.
I reached out to Vicki McKenna about participating in the John and Gordy Show Taser Challenge.
You know, Doug's out there working
the show.
And he says, is there any chance Sage can kick in some cash prizes or maybe a new car?
I'll let you know when Vicki gets back to us.
Oh,
yeah.
So
it's good that he's reaching out to Vicki.
And
I think a
taser challenge.
You know, I could see doing a hatchet throw challenge.
A
hatchet throw?
Okay.
I mean, I know Pete Hegseth was real successful with his throw.
Was he?
Do you remember that at all?
No.
What are you talking about?
No.
No.
What
did he do with the
hatchet?
He did a hatchet throw, but on the other side were band members of some kind of marching band.
Oh, no.
And they were practicing.
What?
What did he have against
the marching band?
And he overthrew the target.
Oh, no.
And the hatchet went over the target into the area where the people were, you know, with their instruments practicing.
And he knocked an instrument right out of the hands of somebody.
Lucky didn't kill
anybody.
Oh, I mean, Lord.
That's horrible.
Well, let's see he's in charge here Let's see let's today national day of global pay it forward day This encourages people around the world to engage in small acts of kindness.
It's a day to respond to someone's kindness toward you
by being kind to somebody else.
John, I know you do that just about every day.
Every day I think
about
it.
Yeah, you
do.
Good for you.
Thank you.
Okay, let's move on.
I'll take credit for that.
Okay.
It's national superhero day now.
This is a day that you know all about, right?
I sure do.
Kids love being superheroes.
They sure do.
That's starting off the right way, by the way, thinking that they can help the human race.
Well, you know, you look up to
people like Batman, Superman,
Captain America,
Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man.
These are just a few of the superheroes.
The list goes on and on.
There must be 40 or 50 superheroes by now.
Even though they're fictional, superheroes provide role models for our children.
Absolutely.
Says here.
Yeah,
that's
it.
You think so?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They serve and protect while fighting evil.
We
could
use some superheroes in Washington.
It's not just fighting evil.
A lot of these superheroes have personal lives, which are troubled.
And that was one of the things that Marvel Comics specialized in was writing about the troubled times that these superheroes have in their private lives.
And that's why Spider-Man is so popular.
Because Peter Parker was rejected by everybody.
He was a geek in school, no one liked him.
And that was my attraction to him as well.
Spider-Man, one
of the more super superheroes out there.
Here's how to observe superhero day.
You ready for this?
All right, let's find out.
Take your
favorite superhero to lunch and say thank you for all they do.
So can you get in touch with a superhero and take him to lunch?
I don't know.
Draw your version of a superhero.
These are for kids, I think.
If you have one superpower, what would it be?
What would it be then?
That's a good idea.
Let's ask people.
Yeah.
I thought you had an answer for
that
Sam,
you're
just giving me a time
queue.
He's giving you the
time queue.
Okay.
It's also a National Blueberry Pie day.
Oh, like Blueberry Pie.
And did I read this one?
National Great Poetry Reading Day?
No.
Didn't we just have a poetry thing
last week?
Shakespeare.
Speak.
Oh, that's right.
Speak.
Speak.
What?
I can't.
Okay.
I can't even speak
at all.
See you later.
Speak.
19
minutes past the hour.
We're going to be back and talk to Pam Yocchi, you know.
She was at the
What do you call it?
The
draft thing.
She's
gonna give us a complete thing.
Total report of
some sort of deal up at Green Bay.
Yeah, something was happening.
Got that coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
We'll be back
shortly.
I asked the Green
Bay Packers, WMDX 92.7.
John and Gordy in the morning were talking about the Green Bay Packers draft with Pam Yankee.
Good morning, Pam.
Hello, fellas.
How are we doing on a Monday?
Oh, we're doing OK.
Not too bad.
It was a wild weekend with the draft.
That's for sure, you know.
Oh, yeah.
Like I said to you guys off the air, I had to come back to work to get some rest.
I was up in Green Bay last week.
Basically, we got into town on Monday because we had people that were arriving from long distances.
starting that week, and then got an invitation to the taste of the draft, which is something that is normally held during the Super Bowl, giving the community a chance to kind of highlight some of their flavors while they decided to try it in Green Bay.
And it was a resounding success.
It was organized by Gen Youth.
which is a non-profit that was organized by dairy farmers of America, all across the country's side, and the NFL.
And really what it's designed to do is draw attention to food insecurity that a lot of people face.
And I'll tell you what, they had former packers there.
Literally, it was at Shriver Foods World Headquarters in downtown Green Bay.
And they'd never done anything like this in their facility.
So that was interesting.
Then you've got supper clubs from all across Wisconsin.
I want to say they ended up with at least 12, could have been more, that had one piece, one item off their menu that they featured.
Paul Bartolato from Milwaukee, for example, had beef stroganoff.
There were little sandwiches.
There was everything imaginable from
appetizers through the desert and then there were Packer alum stationed at each one of these as well.
So while I was doing my interviews with the folks from the Dairy Management Incorporated Group, I geeked out a little bit and grabbed a picture and an autograph with Mason Crosby and Nick Barnett.
Antonio Freeman was there and Andrew Zimmer.
You know it was it was just one of those deals where it was everything the farm babe, but had to hope for and then Yeah, why
it'd be great to meet Antonio free him.
He gave us so many great moments so
many
great
moments Yeah, yeah, you know, they're they're just digging it because they're back in the spotlight in Green Bay again
And, you know, like I said, a very, very well received all the way around.
And the other part that I don't want to gloss over is the fact that they were really speaking passionately about food insecurity.
Chef Andrew Zimmer has really made this quite part of his crusade and really definitely was very focused on don't just enjoy this food, but think about people that are
questioning where their next meal comes from.
And they had some fantastic silent auction items that were used to raise money for, let's say, food school equipment and some of those kinds of things, nonprofits that provide meals for others.
So that's the way it kicked off on Wednesday night for me.
And then from there on out, one of the things that was highlighted at the taste of the draft was
cheese carvings.
So a friend of mine that used to be with Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin is now a cheese carver herself.
Vicki Janich is her name.
She's from DeForest and you can follow her on Instagram as Artistic Agriculturist and she was charged with using a hooks cheddar cheese from mineral point blocks.
and turning it into the Lombardi trophy.
It's one of all these people.
So I was talking to Vicki, it was a warm venue.
The weather in Green Bay for that Wednesday event was great, but it was warm and both Vicki and I...
are notorious for being hot in Sub-Zero weather.
So she was working way on that cheddar cheese.
It looked just beautiful, though, and it was just a really cool story that kind of brings it back to, you know, Wisconsin's love of cheese.
And I don't know if you saw any of the draft or that, but it seemed like cheese curds were kind of front and center in front of everybody.
I was watching all the sports shows that were broadcasting from Lambeau Field, and not a one of them got away from...
cheese curds or cheese or a broth.
So it really was about Wisconsin agriculture, Wisconsin food, Wisconsin celebrations.
Well, you mentioned something here in your email about the Guernsey girls from Freedom and they were passing out cheese curds in the middle of traffic
there.
Yeah, literally, if you were walking down to the draft theater, you couldn't miss the Guernsey girls.
These are dairy farm gals up by Freedom that have started their own cheese marketing from their Guernsey dairy herd.
And I was talking to them and they said they had 40,000 pounds of cheese.
I caught them Saturday late afternoon.
They said the NFL had asked them to please stay longer because people were so happy with their product.
Well, yeah, but then when they're sad and they're Saturday afternoon, it's about ready to head to the draft theater and then Brad Paisley and the girls were like.
We have $40,000 of cheese, Pam.
Can you help us promote it on social media?
Because we got to take it back to the store and freedom.
So there was definitely big volumes, but not necessarily the volumes that some had planned for.
Wow.
You're right here.
Kurds were everywhere.
Literally.
You couldn't find a table anywhere from the draft theater to the war rooms.
Everybody was always offered cheese curds, and most of them were deep fried in one way, shape, or form.
Oh, sure.
What
do you think the impressions of the out-of-towners and out-of-staters and people coming into the draft?
Did they enjoy themselves?
It looked like they did.
Looks like everybody
had a great time.
Well, think about it.
Think about it.
Where else in the world do you get 600,000 people together and end up with one arrest in the course
of three days?
Oh, my gosh, really?
Wow, that's it.
That's amazing.
600,000 people want to rest.
Yeah.
So like I said, I was, I would, like I said, growing up just north of Green Bay, I was exceptionally proud of the way the community handled it all the way around.
It was beautiful visually.
I'm just glad I was a part of it.
A little sliver of it, boys.
Wow.
You are part of the legend up there now.
Pam, thank you for that report.
That
was
great.
That
was good stuff.
All right.
Talk to you next time.
Yep.
Yep.
That's Pam Yonkey, and in fact, the Food and Farm Report coming up next.
Also, in our next hour, Amy Horak from David J. Frank, all coming up on Jada Gordy.
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.
This is grade A weapons grade stupidity.
Just doing my civic duties.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fall at each other right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
All the time.
All the time, John and Gordy in the morning, WMDX.
Hope you're having a good morning, a little hazy out there.
I'm not quite sure if this is rain type weather or not.
Well John,
let
me inform you.
Okay, yeah, fill us in.
We've got
weathermen at one time.
This comes naturally.
You don't
even have to look at your weather forecast in front of you.
That's right.
It was clear overnight.
We've got some clouds moving in now.
And those clouds are going to be followed by some wind a little bit later
on.
And it's going to get really humid and hot later on today.
Right now, 53 degrees could be in for some strong to severe thunderstorms later on this evening and tonight.
So just keep an eye.
of the sky in the air right here.
Wow.
Okay.
And we'll get the inside on the outside, whether we like it or not.
Brittany Merlot, our chief meteorologist for WMDX a little bit later on.
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Is
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Do you
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Really?
At the most.
Really?
It just makes that much of a difference.
What happens if you do it the opposite way, where you raise your feet like an inch?
You can do that.
Sure.
And then you put your head down lower.
Yeah, you can do that.
You can do any of those positions that you want.
Do you sometimes change it in the
middle of the night and, you know, wake up?
All the time.
Really?
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All right,
should we get to what?
Time for idiocracy.
Idiocracy, yeah.
I mean,
everybody's talking about it.
Idiocracy now.
Yeah.
Okay, let's get to one here.
You know, the Megas have a hard time figuring out what authoritarianism is.
And if you bring it up to them, they accuse Biden of being an authoritarian.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Everything is the opposite
in
their world.
And Laura Ingram had a guest on, a Democratic Congresswoman, and the
And the congresswoman was getting at this authoritarianism and also mentioning a few other things, but Laura did not want any of that message getting out to her listeners.
So let's listen to cut 229.
And what happened?
Okay.
I'm not here to really advocate for one person that needs to happen in court.
No evidence has actually ever been presented in court.
You went to El Salvador.
Now you're saying it's not about him, of course it's about him.
You went to El Salvador for a political stunt and now you're saying it's not about him.
It is about this
case.
Laura, it is about the rule of law.
This is a bipartisan issue.
It transcends partisan politics.
That's why a conservative leaning Supreme Court
has
said that Donald Trump must facilitate
the return of this individual.
This is very dangerous.
We are turning into an authoritarian country, and there are Americans from all across the political spectrum who are deeply concerned about this.
Again, my office has not received more calls about any other issues since I have been a congresswoman
than
this one.
Tariffs being the second one and the lack of real
logical economic policy,
but the issue of due process.
No,
these are the, and I'm going to tell you all the other night, this is the
issue.
Talk over her.
I love that.
All those calls you got into your office are robocalls.
Not people complaining about the Republican agenda or the authoritarianism or the takeover.
No, no, it was robocalls.
What is she talking about?
Is she on acid or something?
Holy crap.
Well, it is a bipartisan issue.
that Congressperson was trying to say, you know, in between, because there are a lot of conservative Republicans that are just as upset about it.
They're just not speaking out about it as much, it seems.
Well, yeah,
they've bent the knee.
They're ignoring due process, and
that's
what that whole thing was about.
By the way, she was accused, this Congresswoman was accused of a photo op.
Oh, really?
In El Salvador for going down there.
That's why she went down there, photo op.
happened to remember a recent incident.
I think it was Kristi Noem.
Oh,
yeah.
Went
down there for a photo op.
Yeah, stood in front of the jail.
Yeah.
All the all the prisoners in the background.
Yeah.
All dressed up in her mega gear.
Well, I don't know.
Was that a photo op?
Kind of seems like it.
Gee, I don't
know.
But you know, when the Democrats do it, you never want to see that happen.
No.
You know, take advantage of the situation.
Oh, God.
All right.
Now let's
Let's, uh, this wasn't mentioned very often, you know, the, the pope passed away and, uh, and, and Marjorie Taylor Greene had a reaction, uh, to the pope's passing.
Really?
I didn't hear that one.
Yeah.
Well, this is a web wisdom, uh, from Tizzy and we've heard from him before and he was, uh, covering this particular story.
So let's listen to Tizzy.
I'm not speaking of Pope Francis.
No, I'm speaking about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
who in response to the death of Pope Francis tweeted, Listen, I got lots of issues with churches, Catholic Church, definitely.
But one thing you can say about Pope Francis was he tried to do something better.
He was very progressive.
He's someone who, what we would call in Christianity, tried to live his life Christ-like in that he showed love and compassion and empathy to people of all walks of life, to people of different faiths, to people who had maybe different ideas about sexuality or their gender, all of these things.
He was someone
who defaulted to empathy and kindness.
Unlike Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had the nerve to say that his death was evil being defeated by God.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She manages to stir things up a little bit with stupidity.
The big spoon of stupidity.
Help us
all.
Just never
ends.
All right.
Well, okay.
Here's something.
This is a big vote now in the house.
You know, they're going to cut Medicaid.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
What they're trying to do is, this is just an amazing thing.
You know, they made a big deal in Wisconsin when we were debating, should we take Medicaid expansion or not?
and the state didn't want to do it.
You know why they didn't want to do it?
Because even if we took it, and the split was the federal government paying 90%, and the state paying just 10%, they kept warning us, that's not written in stone, it could change, those damn Democrats could change it and throw everything off balance.
Well, guess who's throwing everything off balance?
The Republicans.
The Megas in the House at a town hall in Texas when discussing Elon Musk and ways to fix Social Security and expansion of Medicaid.
Let's listen to Representative Pat Fallon, his idea in order to get people off that important program called Social Security in this particular instance.
Let's listen.
No one has said that they're cutting Social Security.
Or Elon is not setting calls.
And I don't
think he said it.
I've never
heard him say it.
I have not heard him say
it once.
Social Security is the biggest pricey scheme of all time.
So it's just, anyway,
so the way we fix Social
Security, one of the ways is to tell young people you're going to get a different deal.
So you give them 40 or 50 years notice so they can, you know, they can get a second job.
Okay.
You
cut the end of that, right?
Get a second job.
Not like we're already doing
that.
This thing where they're going to tell the youth of America today, you're going to have a special deal.
Oh, sure.
We're going to cut it way back, and you're going to have a tough time later in life when you want to retire.
You're not going to have the money.
It's not going to be there.
But it will be in Wall Street, and they would have made a lot of money off of you.
You know, just simply get that second job.
That's as easy as you can make it.
You know, this sounds like just like the debate between Herbert Hoover and FDR in 1932.
Hoover said people deserve a square deal.
Doesn't matter.
They deserve what's fair.
What's
fair to them.
And we
get
to decide what's fair.
And FDR, well...
We don't get to decide what's fair.
You get to decide what's fair.
You get to decide what your new deal should be, and that's where you got the term new deal.
We shouldn't have Elon telling us that we got to get a second job.
Social security's going
away.
And
that's
what they want.
I mean, that's kind of a weird solution to it.
That's the first time I've heard that.
Get a second job.
That'll
help you
with
your
social security.
I mean, it's true, you know, a lot of people find it very, very difficult to retire.
They do retire from the job that they have, but they get some other job.
It's kind of crazy.
And I know I've done that.
And you've done that.
I've done that,
yes.
So,
I mean, everybody's kind of
done that.
to come right out and say, well, the solution is also security, even though we're going to make some cuts to it, just get an extra job and supplement those payments that you get every month.
Wow.
Well, we've been relatively lucky in the health department.
So, you know, as far as our personal lives, you can still get a second job and stay active.
I want to.
So, you know, I want to work.
I want to work as long as I can.
You
know, stay active.
But some people can't do that.
You know, they get a little older and they can't.
They've
had very tough jobs throughout their life
and
their body is breaking down.
Everybody has a different biological makeup.
So you never know.
You know, a lot of people, it's very difficult.
You know, a lot of people don't understand that when you see somebody walking down the sidewalk, they're overweight.
Maybe it's because they can't exercise because they have other health problems.
Maybe it's genetic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, were you going to say something?
I was about to say, uh, it's 647 phone lines are open.
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What?
You know, on the
subject of age,
okay?
Yeah.
I'm a little older now.
I got
my glasses on.
Yeah, I need it.
I need it to read.
And, uh, is there any way we can make the print on the...
Computer monitor any smaller is there?
Look how small
read that yeah, that's a little on it Now I'm mad now I'm really angry we did get a text about by the way we did Elon Musk from our friend Doug and you know I saw him over the weekend.
I think I mentioned
that
and But he wanted to text in this morning hate to tell you this but just confirmed that Musk's vision of human beings being an
interplanetary species does not include radio personalities.
We're being left on earth.
Oh, it must, you
know, show up
into the space.
Sure, everybody.
Okay.
We should take in William Shatner with him.
Is
that right?
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
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It's a little cloudy out there this morning, John.
53 degrees highs in the upper 70s, or maybe low 80s.
It's a gas.
All right.
It is.
It is.
Sam,
why don't you belch into the microphone?
Yeah, we're talking a little by the way.
Hold it.
That's disgusting.
Wait, look, some more,
here.
Wait, again.
Really?
Man.
All right, Mad Magazine.
That's enough.
It was a
cardboard record.
You got it from Mad
Magazine?
Legendary, actually, the Legendary.
They had a couple of albums, too.
Robert texted us.
He said hold down the control button Then move the scroller wheel on the mouse and it'll make the text bigger.
Thank you.
Thank you, son
We know that only they could read that though that's
true see that that was my problem
It's
not just how easy it is.
It is.
And Mark had a comment here.
We were talking about, you know, get on Social Security.
Well, just get a second job if that's not enough money.
That's what Republicans want.
Right.
Mark says they think you should work till the day you die, then the corporation should get your body to convert it to Soylent Green.
Remember that movie,
Soylent Green?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Everybody's favorite snack.
Yeah.
Yeah.
To make a profit on your death.
that as well.
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Yeah, well, you gotta wonder, you know, they're making a lot of cuts in the government here and a lot of the Republicans are going along with it.
They don't care.
You know, it's it's a lot and blame him.
And and they're not paying attention to what's going on all the cuts.
And CNN host Breanna Keeler asked Senator Jim Banks about the Trump administration's changes to the VA.
And you'll notice he's completely unaware of the details.
on the large bureaucracy distraction that he likes to repeat over and over, so let's listen to this cut.
Does it put veterans first to cut people who work on their benefits or who provide
them health care?
I'm just not convinced that that's happening.
I'm not convinced that that's
happening.
It is.
Are you talking to your constituents?
I hear from my constituents every day.
They want the VA to be less bureaucratic and more focused on the veteran.
I am a veteran.
That's what President Trump is focused on.
That's what I'm focused on as well.
The talking points of the VA cutting necessary employees who are focused on veterans is bogus.
It's not provable.
The fact is that Doge, President Trump, myself, Republicans in the Senate and the Congress, we're going to make sure that this VA works better for veterans than ever before.
I
guarantee it.
aware they cut people from the hotline right and then reinstated them but that there are still a number of key support staff on that hotline who have not been rehired the the silent monitors and other folks I mean are you are you tracking that?
I'm tracking that the VA is a large bureaucracy and there are ways to make it more efficient to work better for veterans.
That's direct care to veterans who are utilizing.
There are no signs that the VA is
There are no signs that the VA is working less for our veterans today than what it was 45 days ago.
President Trump is focused on our veterans, delivering care to our veterans, and we're going to do that and we're going to make it, we're going to do it even more efficiently than ever before.
So you endorse the cuts to key support staff on the veteran hotline.
That's something that...
There have not been cuts to key support staff at the VA.
So there have.
The VA is going to work more efficiently.
It's easy to find.
And Doge is going to find, is going to recommend and find ways to do that.
And Congress...
It is true.
The 45 days into this administration.
President Trump is focused, I'm focused, Republicans are focused on making the VA work better.
I mean, the fact is what President Trump did in his first term to provide more community care and better options to our veterans, whether it's at a VA hospital or at a private private hospital.
He did historic and great things for the VA in his first term.
He's going to do even more and greater things for the VA in his second term.
I'm not changing the subject.
But you can't prove that the VA is less equipped to care for veterans today than what it was 45 days ago.
The fact is President Trump's going to make the VA work better than ever before.
Oh, that's a nice cliche.
Just keep repeating that.
That's all.
Representative Jim Banks.
He has absolutely no idea of the cuts that are being made.
And then he goes back to the first administration of Trump.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
Let's go to the phone.
But she's great, isn't she?
Isn't she one of the great debaters?
Yes, she is.
Oh my
god.
She's excellent.
She's
excellent.
Yeah.
Matt is on the line here with a question or a comment.
Good morning, Matt.
Go ahead
Morning guys Why are we such a stupid country?
I don't understand it like you have European nations that that have figured out certain things that work a lot better Yeah, but we're too proud and ignorant to learn from other countries I've only had one economics course in a technical college and I can even figure out that our two big problems is
Our tax system is extremely cruel.
The poor in the middle seem to pay a higher percentage of our income and we're taxing off a lot with, you know, mandatory insurance premiums and all these things.
Like the internet's gotten a lot more expensive and we need it.
While France like you made it a utility and people in France pay a lot less for internet.
Like it's all these simple answers.
They're too stupid and controlled by the billionaires.
You don't pay taxes.
You cheat the system.
They get into government and then they put the slave system on the rest of us.
And I just want to ask, can I get a pitchfork that has Wi-Fi so I can listen to my Spotify while I'm protesting?
Good
idea, Matt.
Pitchforks and torches.
I'm ready.
I'm ready for that.
You
can get
those
at Menards.
Give me
your signal.
Okay.
Very good.
Very good points.
Matt,
thank you for that,
Paul.
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Well, we've got a lot of clouds moving in downtown now and saw just a ray of sunshine, but I think the clouds are going to be taking over at least at times today and we've got some chances for
some rain along the way late this afternoon and maybe some thunderstorms tonight.
Some strong to severe thunderstorms.
We'll check in with Brittany Merlot, our WMDX chief meteorologist in about 15 minutes and get the latest.
But yeah, could be really
strong tonight.
That ray of sunlight you saw.
Yeah, what was that?
That was the look on the leaf blower's face.
They're out there very optimistic getting that job done.
Well, they do a great job because I don't see any leaves out there at all Because every day they're out there if they're one or two leaves they're after
them.
That's a cleanest street in the world
State Street, right?
It
truly
It truly is.
Well, the Mifflin Street block party was happening over
a week.
Oh, yeah.
No, I drove down here on Saturday.
Oh, man.
What
a nightmare.
Don't
ever do
that.
No, don't.
There are a million people
out on the streets.
They don't let you drive on any of the side streets.
They have it all blocked.
Yeah.
Oh, that was a nightmare.
All right.
Shouldn't have done that.
And they're done that.
All right.
Let's talk about the arrest.
of the judge in Milwaukee, which just hit the fan nationwide.
Everybody's picking up on this.
And that's because the Trump administration is going after the judicial branch.
They're threatening judges all over the place.
And this is their one big opportunity to go after a judge in Milwaukee.
And this could be a trumped up charge on her, no pun intended, but I
Accidentally, I was tuning around the AM dial, and I ran across an afternoon rerun, I think, of Dan O'Donnell's show.
He's on, like, at eight or nine o'clock in the morning in Milwaukee.
And he was taking all the credit for noticing what Hannah Dugan, Judge Hannah Dugan, had done with an immigrant in her courtroom.
And he had discovered it.
It was his news story.
And he even thanked the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for giving him credit for God.
Okay.
And I'm bringing it up only because this is how it starts.
One of these Republican talking disc jockeys out there bringing up the subject matter and then it gets blown completely out of proportion, gets picked up nationally, and then of course the Trump administration found out about it, sent Pam Bondi, AG, into the area and scooped her up in public.
Purple walked.
In public, it has to be like that.
That's a big show biz thing for them.
Photo op.
So thank you, Dan O'Donnell, for discovering that egregious behavior by a judge.
All right, so there's a lot of different points of view on this.
I saw one recently from some attorney on TV and they said that it's based on what she said to the immigrant that appeared in her courtroom in order to leave the courtroom.
See, Hannah knew, Hannah Duggan knew that the ice was outside.
So she directed this immigrant, after his court case, to leave out the side door through a back hallway.
Now it depends on how she phrased it.
Now, did she block ICE?
Did she lie about it?
This is the analysis from Brian Krestenstein.
He reported this.
Here's why Judge Dugan, her arrest is a complete joke.
DHS ICE only had an administrative warrant.
not a criminal judicial warrant.
Administrative warrants don't authorize agents to bust into private spaces like a courtroom without consent.
At the time in question, the man was inside a private courtroom, not wandering the public halls.
Quietly telling someone, take the jury door instead, isn't a crime unless you lie, threaten, or physically block agents.
The affidavit makes no claim that Judge Dugan
Had done any of those things according to the government's own documents after the hearing ended Judge Duggan allegedly pointed Flores Ruiz the immigrant and his lawyer Toward a non-public jury door a back exit used by staff and jurors.
That's it That's what she did.
That's the case.
No lies.
No threats.
No physical obstruction.
No crime.
That's his analysis of it now Governor Evers
Over the weekend, I guess, released a memo helping state employees deal with ICE agents.
And this is a web wonder.
I don't even know where he got this.
I tried to research this.
I couldn't find this story anyplace, but this guy came up with it.
And here it is.
This is cut 255.
You got that?
All right, let's listen to this.
We have some breaking news right now.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has instructed state employees to limit cooperation with ICE officials.
Folks, this is significant, and this comes one day after FBI agents arrested a Wisconsin judge over allegedly obstructing an ICE arrest.
So this is the memo that was sent out from the state of Wisconsin Department of Administration to state employees, instructing them about how to act if state employees encounter ICE or other federal agents.
at their workplace.
You can read the full memo here, but it's also online.
There are serious concerns after this judge was arrested both in Wisconsin and across the country about ICE agents interrupting official state business.
And while now Governor Evers, who is a Democrat, is stepping up to ensure that ICE does not dictate what happens within the state of Wisconsin.
It'll be curious to see whether or not other states follow suit.
That's right.
So that is what took place.
I haven't been able to find that story any place, but that supposedly is what happened.
All right.
So... I know Maggie Dawn
has
had some comments on this the other day.
Yes, she looked at the whole thing.
You mentioned that she is a friend.
Yeah, she knows Dugan.
She's
been before that judge.
Yeah, Maggie worked in Milwaukee County.
Still, I think works in Milwaukee County doing...
I'm not sure in what capacity her lawyer stuff, but she's worked there for decades at this point and yeah, she knows Hannah Dugan has worked with her before and She was she was one of the first people to find it find out and she told us about the news I was I was recording an interview with her on Friday when the news broke This
is you know such an extreme act.
Yeah, I
You know, the Republicans love this.
The Magus love this.
And this is their big talking point now.
You know, the judges ought to be arrested, put in jail.
I guess they're throwing around like Hannah Dugan, committing at least two felonies.
And, you know, it's just, it's crazy.
The right wing has really picked up on this and we'll see what happens.
Don't wait for the day in court.
Get the mileage you can now.
Right?
Cues are of everything and then, and then.
backtrack and then be proven wrong.
That's how it always happens on the right anyway.
They live in opposite day every day on that side of the aisle.
That's the way it seems, anyway.
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All right, let's go to the phone lines.
We've got Mark waiting.
Good morning, Mark.
Good morning, guys.
Yeah, for why didn't ICE, if they're gonna detain this guy, say coordinate with the court.
You know, coordinate with the judge's staff and say, we're gonna detain this guy.
But we understand you have a court proceeding.
So let her complete that court proceeding and then do what they needed to do, because this court proceeding has now been delayed.
As far as I'm concerned, you know, the state of Wisconsin has its first crack at the sky because he's, you know, accused of apparently some battery charge, apparently.
The state of Wisconsin should have got its chance to have this guy have his court proceeding.
And then ICE could detain him rather than
sending in the flying squad in there to Interrupt with the state of Wisconsin's first crack at this guy.
Yeah, you know to administer justice I mean that it is just ridiculous that they did this they could have coordinated all this and for all I know that they wanted to embarrass you know They want to come up with some embarrassing incident, you know, I'm a daily basis And
that's what they do.
Yeah, it's just it's just deeply disturbing and shows that
the lack of thought that went into this whole detention process because it is just a, you need five guys to arrest one guy.
I mean, I just, I don't get that.
I know, I know.
But you know, none of this is legal.
None of this should be happening because we really don't have an emergency in this country.
We don't have it.
You know, it's, and if we had stopped this originally and had.
some court case that challenged it and eventually won by the people challenging it, we wouldn't be going through this mess.
And I don't know why we're allowed to let all these things happen, slip by.
And Donald Trump wears a blue suit to the Pope's funeral rather than black like everybody else.
Yeah.
Well, the fact that he fell asleep and his jaw was wide open while he was sleeping there in front.
And he
wasn't supposed
to
be sitting in the front row, but he demanded to sit.
Oh, he did.
Oh, yeah.
So everybody could see him, right?
Yeah, with Melania.
And then, of course, you know, he texted a few things.
He wasn't even paying attention.
He was texting.
Unbelievable.
And then he fell asleep.
Yeah.
And his mouth wide open, sleeping in the front row.
Yeah.
We all know he was going to embarrass himself in us.
And we really shouldn't be surprised.
No.
Right.
I know.
Mark, thank you for that call.
Sometimes you just throw up your hands.
You just can't imagine how this is happening.
But I don't think the Magus get the whole point of this.
It's due process.
That's what the whole thing is.
That's the whole thing.
I mean, they've sent deportation.
Another big story we're going to get to here, and I'll just bring it up now a little bit anyway, the three children, American citizens sent away, taken out of the country, deported.
Now, and one, I think one or two of them had health problems, dangerous health problems, one cancer.
So, unbelievable.
There has to be some day in court, due process, find out what's going on, these kids at least could have been taken care of in some way, shape, or form, you know, custody, you know, give the parents some peace of mind.
Working through that but instead they scooped up one mom who had a what a three-month-old baby and sent her to Cuba and Cuba does not allow any flights into this country So she's not coming back.
Yeah You know the Biden administration did deportations Obama's administration did
deportation, but they did it with due process.
That's the thing.
That's the thing.
You know, my mega friend in Milwaukee sent me this video, and it was from a Fox News host saying, well, he did all of this.
Obama did all these deportations.
What's the difference?
Well, you know, maybe you should look it up.
Due process.
This would be an easy thing to find out.
Yeah, it was due process, a day in
court.
It's 19 past the hour.
Coming up next, we're gonna get an update on the weather.
We could be in for some severe weather later on this evening and late tonight as well.
We'll get the update from WMDX meteorologist, Brittany Merlo on John and
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Right.
Now
we're seeing sunshine again.
Yeah, what the heck is going on here?
You're
just singing the blues, you know, a little too soon, my friend.
Well, but the clouds are eventually going to take over and maybe some... Oh, you
still have to be right, right?
Oh, yeah, the clouds will be at...
Well, let's check in with our professional meteorologist.
Yeah, you know, to get the real word on what's happening here.
Our chief meteorologist for WMDX, Brittany Merlot.
She knows
what's going
on.
But there's some thunderstorms near you in Wausau this morning, right?
Yeah.
They woke us up in northern Wisconsin.
They've been rolling through about five o'clock this morning.
It started and it has not stopped Got a lot of cloud to ground lightning big thunder rolling through but that's about it besides some heavy downpours I mean we had the chance for hail, but we haven't had it yet But you can just tell today.
It's something's in the atmosphere.
It's
Got an eerie vibe to it this morning.
I mean, we had the, I don't know about you, but I had a red sunrise.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Legend has it.
Right.
Yeah.
The morning.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And say the rest of the freight, there's more, right?
There is.
I don't, I don't know it.
Do you know it?
Is it green sky at night?
Sailors delight, I think.
I could be wrong about that.
There was only a source of sexual anion doing that.
What are you bringing up here?
What are you, a drunk?
Okay.
Let's get
back on track here.
So there's going to be a lot of heat and humidity.
Like the temperatures are really going to jump up this afternoon, right?
Yeah.
So you're going to hit about 80 degrees in Madison and your dew points, John.
You love this one.
65 degrees so that's that's muggy that is I agree and all of that of course is the perfect mixture so we've had the warm front left in we're gonna get hot humid unstable and then we've got a cold front that wants to sweep through tonight so it's gonna do a couple of things first with the heat of the day
Those storms could spark up probably around five or six o'clock a little bit off to the west and then I think those are gonna be rolling towards you around six or seven So I think you're gonna get a first round around six or seven and some of those Definitely could be severe.
I think those have the potential for strong tornadoes.
Maybe EF2 or higher Wow, which could rip roofs off shift foundation.
I mean, we're talking about some strong intense storms tonight, so
I'd stay weather savvy from at least five PM through maybe one AM or so.
I know that's through the overnight hours.
But as the cold front actually moves through, I think we're going to get another wave of storms later tonight, maybe around midnight.
And that is going to probably have 70 mile per hour wind gusts as the line comes through, probably hail with it.
And we could also see more tornadoes embedded, hidden in that line, rainwrapped, surprising us as that moves in like 50 miles an hour.
So.
Okay,
you're sufficiently scared of the
daylights
out of us.
I'm sorry.
I hate this part of my job, but I have to take the
gazebo down again.
That's right.
Yeah.
Here I'm
thinking we're going to have to break off the cuts in the basement.
You're worried about.
A lot of time in the game.
Maybe you should
take shelter in the gazebo.
Well, we've been sufficiently warned and thanks for the update and boy, we'll just keep a real close eye on things.
I'm a scared now.
Well,
make sure you got a weather radio.
Don't be scared.
Yeah, yeah.
I got it right here.
You got a radio ready to go.
Oh, yeah.
The way to go.
Yeah, the weather radio.
Yeah.
And you know, most of your cell phones will give you warnings.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
I
get on my Samsung watch,
the official
weather watch.
It works though.
That's all that matters.
That's right.
Stay safe.
All right.
Okay.
Thank you, Brittany.
I was wondering, do you have a little
extra time, Brittany?
I do.
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Because we have something very special here
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Yes.
What
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From the comfort of any room in the house with a
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I can't
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All right, we're spitballing.
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All right, Brittany.
All
right.
We'll workshop that one.
Yes.
And we appreciate
it.
If you have any
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All right.
We will do.
That's
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OK.
Yeah, we do need to work on that one a little bit.
I can just hear
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Well, we got another call.
Yeah, that's right.
Dick is on the line with a question or a comment this morning.
Phone lines are open.
6088798255.
Good morning, Dick.
What do you got for us,
Dick?
Well, Brittany explained it beautifully in the newscast without Noah and Mark brought it up.
Soon she won't have the ability to scare us.
We'll just be able to just
Fonder through this in the dark You know, what's what storm why do we need to know about a tornado?
There's
something else that happened this weekend the Sunday talk shows Yeah, oh boy Marco Rubio now, I didn't realize this maybe you guys had heard this but apparently Justin Trudeau asked to be annexed
because he said we really can't compete with you if we change the tariff situation.
And according to Rubio, that's what Trudeau said before he left the office to Trump.
Oh my god.
Oh sure.
How much more delusional does this guy
have?
That sounds nuts.
Yeah,
I'm sure that happened.
Oh my god, really?
Unbelievable.
Yeah, so, you know, they're in such a desperate way, but also more on that.
Looks like Nissan is going to close some plants and also one of them.
Other ones is talking about American plants in Indiana, Mississippi, Subaru, and Nissan both.
Wow, I did not
hear that.
That'll
help.
That'll help the job situations, won't it?
Yeah, that was such a good idea doing the tariffs.
And you know, I love, I think it's a New York state is that I believe the governor there is going to get rid of all the Tesla dealerships out there.
They were given an exemption to have dealerships for Tesla, and they're going to take the exemption away.
Because they're company owned, right?
They're not sort of franchised or whatever.
Yeah,
they're going to have other dealerships, other car manufacturer dealerships sell the Teslas as well.
But anyway, they're going to get rid of the special dealerships, which aren't allowed in this state.
And thank goodness for that.
Yeah, there's some more.
Auto plants closing all over the place.
There's CNN is on a story here
with
plants closing in Kokomo, Indiana and a number of other places here.
Well, this is not getting through it.
No.
No,
it's
not.
Well, thanks, Dick, for giving us a heads up on that.
Appreciate that.
Yeah, Dick.
Thank you for that.
A little bit later on here, we're expecting Amy Horak.
She'll be here with the Horticultural Report from David J. Frank.
Yeah, you're doing yard work over the weekend or gardening.
I was
doing, yeah, I cleared out a whole side of the yard there and getting ready to, yeah, I need to know what to put in there.
John, John, has your entire sack of grass seed, has any of that started growing yet?
How's that been
working?
No, no, it got washed away.
We
knew it, really.
She told us that would happen.
I know and it happened.
I didn't think it would.
I was taking my chances and I lost that one.
I do want to mention this, though.
This is devastating news.
Tariffs could increase the price of coffee.
Oh, what?
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Throughout the entire medicine area, this is not good.
Local roasters and shop owners are also concerned the tariffs could impact the coffee industry from higher prices for raw green coffee to the menu prices.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
I'll tell you.
What are you
going to do?
Yeah.
Oh.
We sure want
coffee.
We're not gonna be able to get it soon though.
I know it.
How expensive is it?
I've noticed at some of the restaurants.
I think you're scalping as
well.
Some of the menu prices are already jumping up.
Yeah.
Quite a bit.
But what are they going
to do?
First for eggs, now for coffee.
Have any of you been to a restaurant where you had to pay a surcharge for some kind of egg dish?
Surcharge?
No.
I heard that some places were doing that where you had to pay extra.
if you were getting like an honor
or something like that.
Because
of the bird flu it wasn't the president's fault,
it wasn't
Trump's fault, it wasn't anybody's fault.
Except
for the
bird flu.
And
I mean, of course
we're gonna blame Trump because he would have done the same for Biden.
So we blame him for the high egg prices.
What goes around comes around, my friend.
Laura Salinger, Johnson, co-owner of JBC Coffee Roasters says everybody's going to be impacted in some way, whether it be the coffee drinker whose coffee is going to be more expensive or the coffee grower who is already fighting to sell coffee at a higher price just so they get paid better.
So it affects everybody, you know, those free market coffee roasters as well.
Well,
yeah.
These tariffs are going to start really
impacting yeah
market are really going to start Impacting yes in the next couple of weeks.
They're saying the supply chains are you know we can we can tell Prices are gonna start jumping
so there's also something you know earlier story.
I did mention this but
they're making all these cuts throughout the government.
And a lot of those cuts were rescinded by the courts and a lot of people got their jobs back.
But the big cut is coming this summer because everybody, all these government employees were offered buyouts.
And a lot of people, a lot of the employees took the buyouts.
So if...
if in fact the courts stop these people from being fired and we go with the buyouts, we're still gonna lose a heck of a lot of people in the government who make it run smoothly for all of us out here in the hinterland.
So that's the big thing that's gonna hit in summer and that will have a major impact on a lot of things that we take for
granted.
Things that Trump has been doing, it's all delayed effect.
You
know, we haven't really seen the biggest impacts yet.
Really just, except for the stock market, which is all over the place.
I mean, the thing here is, you know, the getting rid of so many checks and balances.
You know, we have a free market kind of system, which really isn't a free market kind of system.
They say it is.
But we do have these administrative office buildings that
oversee what's going on in their particular industry.
And without them overseeing it, without them making sure that businesses toe the line from what government has demanded of them to do, then they could do anything they want.
They can rip people off.
I guess we're getting rid of the idea of examining chicken for salmonella.
Right.
We're
loosening regulations on that.
There is no bottom note to that.
Well, if it has seminella fine, just send it out there.
We don't care.
Well, and what about milk inspection?
Dairy
products?
Yes.
Taking loosening restrictions on inspections of that.
Exactly.
So you can't tell me that's not going to have a major effect somewhere down the line, right?
Mm
hmm.
Oh man, I tell you.
Um, let's see
here.
We've got.
Oh yeah.
Here's the story right here.
Okay.
A USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella in their products.
Okay.
That sounds worse
than what I was
describing.
Yeah.
It's it's halting the Biden administration's effort to reduce food poisoning from contaminated meat.
What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe
Trump will eat some of that salmonella contaminated meat.
All right,
I'll tell you what, I've got something here.
Fareed Zakaria had an interesting comment about the national emergencies that Trump has put into place, and we were talking about that.
That's why they're scooping up all the immigrants out here, just doing whatever they want, because it's a national emergency.
Let's listen to this.
This is
cut 258.
he called it a national emergency.
And now for the last term.
This month, when President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on the world, he didn't just frame it as a smart economic reset, he called it a national emergency.
Similarly in January, Trump sought funding for securing the southern border by declaring a national emergency.
And for a way to boost fossil fuel production, you guessed it, a national energy emergency.
So far, Trump has declared eight national emergencies in his first 100 days.
More than
any other president.
That's according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
The reason for this is clear.
Invoking an emergency has come to mean that the president can bypass Congress, intimidate courts, and run rough shot over normal procedures
even civil liberties.
Unlike many other countries, the U.S.
Constitution says nothing about how to declare or end an emergency.
This has allowed presidents to organically assume a wide range of powers.
This usually happened during wartime.
As Deborah Pearlstein, the director of Princeton's program in law and public policy, told GPS, these statutes were lying around like loaded weapons for a president
who was not acting in good faith to use them.
And in his second term, Donald Trump is pushing the boundaries of presidential power in a way that is well beyond what the Constitution envisioned.
And yet, despite a distinct danger of creating a super presidency that would undermine America's democratic system, Congress and the courts have been largely acquiescent.
When they wake up, it might be too late.
You.
Well,
that's uh, I wanted to bring everybody down.
Well, you certainly did.
We were having too much fun.
Reality there.
Well, yeah.
Reality check, uh, Fareed, Zechariah, and another comment.
Everyone totally comes out with some pretty good ones, you know.
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You know, one of the interesting things is that, you know, Trump never goes by polls.
No, he doesn't believe in polls.
And you know, because he's the king, he's the authoritarian.
He doesn't care.
It doesn't matter what the polls say.
Right.
Let's listen to A.G.
Secretary Brooke Rollins, who is a major asker herself.
She can't tell the truth.
If it kills her, let's listen to what she had to say about all those damn polls.
Let's listen.
259, you got 259 up there.
Now he does.
Here we
go.
Thank you, Sam.
I think the first and most important thing that is really relevant to today is this president has never ever governed by poll.
He's never worried about this poll yesterday or that poll tomorrow.
We've got the highest poll numbers that I've ever had in that any Republican
WMDX.
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the morning.
This is plant
music.
Plant music.
Plant music.
This is the, I told you guys before, this is the lead track off of an album of music written for plants.
That's
right, plants actually, if they're listening to this, they're gonna like it a
lot.
Yeah, they're gonna grow better.
And I just want to mention everybody that we'll get to the polls that Trump doesn't pay attention to tomorrow.
Okay.
Very important story.
It is 753 and 55 degrees now.
Maybe some storms late today and definitely tonight.
Looks like we're going to get some very stormy weather.
Time to get those pre-emerged down.
Well, there
you go.
And Amy Horak joins us now from David J. Frank with the Horticultural Report.
Good to
see you again, Amy.
Good to see you guys today.
How are you doing?
We're doing
OK.
So it is the pre-emergent time, isn't it?
It is definitely time for pre-emergence.
So that is going to a pre-emergent helps protect from weeds coming up before they emerge.
So hence the pre-emergent name.
Putting it down at this time, usually before rain is usually ideal, otherwise you'd usually have to water them into the soil so that the chemicals can start working and the plants can take them up.
But that would be a really good thing to consider doing right now in the month of April and into early May.
Okay, so tell your boss you're leaving a little early today to get that pre-emergence done before it rains.
Hey,
it's a lawn, come
on.
Now, what about, is there anything else we should be aware of this time of year as we're getting into the heart of spring and warmer weather?
Yeah,
so you can, along with pre-emergence, some of them are also like a fertilizer, so you can apply it to the entirety of the lawn, not just like to your gardening beds to help do weed control.
So you can do that.
And you can also start lawn herbicide applications as well.
If you want to start spot treating, I've definitely already noticed in a couple of different lawns and just even at home, the large, the sole plants have come up.
So those are really great to step on.
Not really.
So if you have pets or children in the yard, maybe going around and just scouting those types of things out, maybe doing some preventative weed removal of that nature.
A lot of dandelions already coming up as well.
Some people love them, some people hate them.
Yeah,
what should we think about this?
Because there are two, you know, some
people do love them.
There are some extremes to that.
Some people are the worst nuisance they've ever seen in their life and other people, it's like, well, it's just a cute little flower.
So, I mean, I feel like it's kind of up to you.
I mean, if you really want to go with the natural look, leave them alone.
They're one of the first things that do pop up in the season and, you know, bees and pollinators, that's a good early food source for us.
A lot of some people, you know, it's Wisconsin, it's a brewing state.
So there are people that make dandelion wine.
So there's a lot of uses for them if you don't like them, but still want to use them in a different nature instead of spraying chemicals onto them.
You have some options.
If you have children dandelion crowns, you learn how to make them.
They're fun for kids.
So
oh, yeah Yes, it's not like, you know dandelions don't fertilize and and seed other people's lawns or anything like
that That's the other thing so if you you don't want them spreading so maybe if you want to be a good neighbor and ask your neighbors Hey, are you already paying money to take care of your lawn and not have dandelions?
Maybe
Try to figure that out.
Or maybe have your neighbor pay for your dandelion.
Oh, are that too?
There you go.
Hey, that's
an idea.
It's a weird area to kind of navigate.
But
yeah,
leave or stay.
I mean, it depends if you want that perfect green lawn or if you don't mind a couple little spots of flowers.
Let me ask you something here.
You know, we're talking about herbicides, but what about bugs?
Bugs, um, yeah, I don't want to scare people but I've already seen mosquitoes Out and about with this wet weather and this warmth we've gotten so early.
Oh, yeah It's early, but as soon as those temperatures hit the right thresholds those bugs are going.
Yeah, so definitely do some insect scouting um
You can, if you notice insects that are already starting to cluster, like things like tent caterpillars that might be a little too early for them, but just noticing if there's feeding on any of the new leaves on your plants, definitely getting ahead of the game instead of just reacting to it once the problem is really bad, because once they're there, it's going to be more of an uphill battle.
So do a little insect monitoring?
Yep, monitoring.
So kind of looking if there's nest, if you see really small, just looking at your plants, and if you start seeing bugs on there.
I know you can use some different like online resources like Google.
If you have like the image search, you can kind of hold it up to the insects, snap a picture, and it can sometimes pull up like a pull up online what that bug just might be.
So then you can eat more accurately treat for it.
Prevent for
it.
John's getting on his phone right now looking.
Yeah, but you have
an insect monitor.
I don't have an insect.
Well,
you came over to my house.
I came
to your house yesterday.
He was trying to identify this one bush in my house.
He pulls out his phone.
It was
like dead and I only had a couple of blooms or leaves and I thought it would identify with it, but it actually didn't identify.
I
have some sort of
unknown plant.
Yeah, it was some kind of alien plant that
came
from outer
space and it's there.
It's called flora.
Let's see what a flora.
Incognito.
Really?
No,
that sounds like
a fake
name.
That sounds incognito flower.
Yeah, it
sounds like an unknown plant.
Yeah.
See, it says my observations.
It has little flowers that you press, and then it scans the flower or the leaf, and it tells you what it is.
But we couldn't identify a weird plant that Gordy has at his house.
I didn't put it there.
It was there when
I moved in.
I don't know what it is,
but
it's all bushy and out of control.
Sounds like the plot to Little Shop of Horrors.
You're not feeding him.
Meat, are you going to?
No.
I mean, they do make blood meal fertilizer, which is from the slaughterhouses.
It's really high in nitrogen, but it is a type of organic fertilizer that is animal-based, and it's just another way to get rid of that stuff.
Is it in powder form?
Yep, it'd be a powder.
Well, Amy, we're just about out of time, but we appreciate you coming in with a horticultural report.
If people want to find out more, they can go to a website.
davidjfrank.com.
Yeah.
very good Amy thanks for coming in thank
you guys
tomorrow on the show we're going to be talking with Abigail sweats from fair Wisconsin and we'll have a whole lot more
oh we've got so much more too much I
can't even go there okay Stephanie Miller is coming up next we hope you have a wonderful day and watch out for the weather we'll keep you updated see you later so
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