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the election instead of the the Republican who sounded very much like Trump they were making comparisons Wouldn't that have been fun?
But anyway now we have Mark Carney who drew a hard line in the sand against the US so good news You know
Somebody's got to play tough with Trump and I think most of the countries are since I haven't seen any agreements at all with the tariffs.
Is there one?
so they had 200
they're 200
yeah I thought that was including the
those islands that were only inhabited by penguins, you know.
Could be.
Those are the side
know, I
Airports.
Oh my God.
Well, good morning.
That's John Peterson.
I'm Gordy Young, producer Sam is in the box, pushing the buttons and flipping switches.
And it's Tuesday morning.
We 100 days now.
Yeah, this is 100 days of Donald Trump.
And that shouldn't that be enough?
I mean, you know, just give him a handshake and know, you know, hit the road.
That'd be nice if you could just say, you know, you've done what you can do.
I think what you're saying is didn't really work
Yeah, that's it.
Yeah.
You know, got a review and didn't work out.
Sorry, John.
So, well, the other good news is we really didn't get too much stormy weather here last night.
Like all the weather people were predicting we could be in for this or that or tornadoes or hail and all that kind of stayed way to the north of us.
I think it hit Eau Claire and Wausau.
I think it hit pretty heavily last night.
It
Up there, but.
Look, there's got to be something going on here in Madison.
Yeah, we miss everything.
You know, everything avoids this area.
This should be the safest part of the country.
Everybody should be flocking here, you know, away from the earthquakes, away from the tornadoes,
the
The weather likes us better, so it avoids us.
Sam?
Well, I was going to say, by the way, we mentioned it's Trump's 100th day in office.
Well, according to this one countdown, he's got 1,362 to go still.
It seems
to elect a new
Well, we'll you know again have to wait and see on that, but I know that there's a smiley face here on the horizon There was a ray of hope John yesterday.
I saw a little bit of Chuck Schumer remember him.
Oh You know what he they were interviewing Chuck and Chuck said well, we sent a very strongly worded letter
And
Oh, you know what was in the letter?
Are you, will you give us a response?
If he get responds to you, will you come back and tell us?
Oh, we most certainly will.
We'll let you know how he responds to our strongly worded letter.
So that's, you know, a little bit of background bone being shown.
Strongly worded letters, they get a lot of
Oh, yeah.
And on it goes.
But let's get to the national day calendar, because every one of these days today, every single one of these days sounds like a fake day.
Wow.
So you're ready for this?
Yeah.
Is it National Shrimp Scampi Day?
National Zipper Day?
National Peace Rose Day?
National Magic Day?
Which one of those days sounds like the real fake day?
National magic day is not real.
You are correct.
Oh, no kidding change.
Oh, yeah, I thought you would go one of the other ones like national zipper day We're saluting the zipper Yes But let's start with national shrimp scampi day a big fan of shrimp and
Fish food?
No, I do like shrimp a lot.
Yeah, but we don't have it very often.
Yeah.
Sam, how about you?
You like shrimp?
I like shrimp.
I
also don't have it very often.
Anyway, this day is wholly dedicated to the buttery, garlicky, lemony, and wine sauce preparation of shrimp.
So if you like shrimp, this is your day.
Okay.
There you go.
Let's move on.
National zipper day.
Hey, we all love our zippers, don't we?
This day, April 29th, 1913, was the day that they patented the modern zipper.
Boy, oh boy, that must have been a celebration.
You know, you'd kind of take it for granted.
But the first attempt at creating the zipper came from the inventor of the sewing machine.
In 1851, Elias Howell received a patent for the automatic continuous clothing closure.
They didn't know what to call it yet.
Wow, I like that.
The continuous
That's quite a mouthful.
However, Howe never marketed his invention and missed the recognition recognition.
Then they started calling it the Clasp Locker.
That didn't stick around, but then they started manufacturing the Universal Fastener Company.
started making them in Chicago, or they took it to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
And then finally in 1906, they hired a guy named Gideon Sundback, a Swedish-American electrical engineer.
He was highly skilled.
He got the grant for the modern zipper.
Yeah,
I'm waiting for Mr. Ron
Well, it here it is 1923 BF Goodrich.
You remember them?
They're the tire company.
They popularized the word zipper as it applied to the use and boots and pouches that they made.
And they copyrighted the name now for the time.
OK.
Well, that sounds OK.
Probably after the sound of it, I guess.
You know,
the weird thing about zippers is that they they make these fragile breakable zippers instead of these nice heavy duty zippers that are just super, super strong.
Right.
I don't know why they do that.
You know.
It's just planned obsolescence.
You know when the handle comes off the zipper or something happens, there's no way to replace it.
I know they have replacements, but it's almost impossible to put on.
It never fits the actual zipper that you're trying to put the new replacement on.
I have gone through this.
As you can tell, I'm traumatized by trying to replace a zipper.
I can't stand it anymore.
No, I've had to deal with plenty of
Yeah.
It's not fun.
No.
It's National Peace Rose Day.
peace rose.
I guess a lot of roses have special names for the people that do develop their different roses.
This was developed by Francis Melend in France somewhere between 1935 and 1939.
Okay, let's get to the history book because that's it for the National Day Calendar.
already got rid of all of yesterday's history.
Did you just want to get to today?
I guess you're right, it is dusty.
Open the book.
Well, let's get to it again.
There he goes, there he goes.
You know, the pollen count is really high.
The tree pollen count?
It is.
Yeah, Charlie this morning, the Charlie Chortino guy.
Yes.
He said the tree pollen is really high.
That's probably why your eyes were watering all day yesterday.
Yeah, are they still red today?
Well, they're not watering as bad today, so that's good.
It's all the
then he goes to a day camp.
Yeah.
Right.
There must be all of the dust and pollen.
That's why I have so many issues.
All right.
Anyway.
Well, I'm the only one who sits in here.
I guess I haven't talked
or not.
We have to open the WMDX weather window.
I'm telling you, every window can open at least once.
By the way,
All righty, 1429.
You remember that like it's yesterday, right?
1429.
Yes, oh yeah, I remember that.
This is
Arc.
Right.
Yeah, during the Hundred Years War between the English and the French.
Can you imagine being at war for a hundred years?
The city of Orleans in France was under siege by the British and Joan of Arc showed up leading basically an army to break the siege and she did a few days later and it turned the tide of the Hundred Years War.
It means nothing at all.
You sound a little
Today, jumping forward a little bit, today in 1854, Lincoln University, which is the very first historically black college or university, was chartered on this day in history.
1854.
1854.
Wow, that's kind of
That's right.
okay.
Why is that that strange?
Well, I don't know.
Well, I don't think he was named after Abraham Lincoln.
Yeah, because he wasn't
yet.
Right, exactly.
Okay, well, okay,
really?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I kind of interrupted the flow.
It's 20 minutes past the hour.
Shining,
gleaming, streaming, flaxing, waxing.
Give me down to there.
Shoulder length longer.
Here, baby.
There, mama.
Everywhere
Well, continuing with this day in history.
Well, don't sound so excited.
I'm a little tired and a little still.
war out still, John.
I'm
Today in 1968, hair hit Broadway for the very first time.
play.
More than that, there's a lot of things for 1968 that audiences would have considered problematic, but it was a groundbreaking musical for the time.
First rock and roll musical, I believe too.
I've seen the movie a few
You don't like it?
internet?
You're the one who's always scrolling on your computer when other people are talking.
right.
Move forward there.
Sam,
were big into this news at the time, because you told me before.
Today in 1974, Richard Nixon released the Watergate tapes.
followed the Watergate story pretty closely as it was
Yes, I was obsessed with it all.
And it just, God, I remember Nixon released them.
And of course, then it had the 18 minute gap.
Remember that?
Yeah.
They had to explain why there was an 18 minute gap and they had a picture of Rosemary Woods and she was demonstrating how, you know, she had her leg out here and she accidentally hit the recorder and erased the tapes and it was just comical.
It's ridiculous.
It was just a dumb, you know, Nixon erased him himself, didn't know what he was doing.
Set the
stage for the politics we're living in today.
some real recent history.
Today in 2018, The Simpsons surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest running scripted primetime TV show.
You don't care about that at all.
horse 15 20, but they're not
fresh.
Yeah, is it good comedy?
Yeah
Mm-hmm.
I gotta check it out.
It's
Yeah, that makes sense.
Okay, cuz they own
got quite a few birthdays in the books today.
All right.
Yeah.
Well, let's take a look at that.
William Randolph first.
Yeah, you don't know you're
What really sell it man?
All
want to hear these birthdays?
I'm telling you.
William Randolph Hearst was born on this day in 1863.
Duke Ellington in 1899.
Oh, you got any Duke to play?
I've got some songs pulled up.
good.
Willie Nelson shares a birthday today in 1933 and Jerry Seinfeld as well.
Jerry Seinfeld.
That's
That's, I'm afraid, all that we've got today.
It happened on these days
if you
cared.
know what that means?
756.
That means if somebody is listening to WMDX over AM.
AM radio who does that anymore?
No, I don't know.
It's on earlier.
Make a listen to part of the John and Gordy show.
Great.
Starting at 753 when we kick up to high power.
a big deal.
553, but two hours after Sunrise
actually kick up time.
Really?
a little long.
Weird FCC rules.
We should lodge a complaint at the FCS.
Yeah,
They care about AAM radio.
Coming up shortly in just about 20 minutes, we're going to be talking to Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society.
And then in our next hour, we'll find out about Fairer, Wisconsin with Abigail Swetz.
It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
Stay right there.
All right.
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.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
We'll get to that, yeah.
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Idiocracy time.
100
Yeah, and the amazing thing is now he wants an investigation.
of all of these media sources, all these polling places, because there's something wrong and he thinks it's a plot against him.
Now, if there was ever a moment in time, my mega friends out there, if there was ever a moment in time, I think this will tell you everything you need to know, all right?
And what we've been saying, this guy's crazy, he's nuts, he's paranoid.
Now, I think this kind of demonstrates that.
If the polling places all these different polling places and there's usually two pollsters together, you know, it's NBC Whatever
Yeah, so I mean all of these pollsters have come out with pretty much the same poll and He wants to investigate now because he's thinkers.
There's a plot.
They're plotting against him to confuse low polling numbers.
It's conspiracy.
This has got to tell you something.
Can you?
wake up
Wake up, please!
This is just, I don't know, you know, we've been talking about this and it's always just a big conspiracy theory that the Democrats are creating, you know, to create, I don't know, it just, these theories about, you know, that...
We want to destroy his character and we've always wanted to go after him and we've always been after Trump and we've been trying to impeach him twice and all this stuff because we just don't like him.
Pretty much so.
And he put out this post.
It says here, I love this.
Yeah.
If you were an American falsely accused of wrongdoing on January 6, it wasn't merely difficult to get due process.
It was impossible.
Anybody remember?
I think they went through the courts and everything.
They had representation.
But according to Stephen Miller, they didn't.
It was impossible to get representation, have due process.
The entire system was rigged against you, he says, all of it.
These prosecuted Americans could only dream of the due process afforded illegal aliens.
So there you go.
See, I mean, he noticed.
We're trying to slip this by.
You know, we prosecuted all those January six offenders.
It seemed like that took a couple of years.
It
them
Why don't the three of us head to DC and try and raid the capital on our own and see if we get due process.
Maybe
team up with the ACLU or something and do a test case and see if we get due process.
Apparently the January 6th people did not.
true.
An
They had lawyers, trials.
Most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
So, but I don't think that was enough.
It was impossible for them to get the true, true due process they deserved.
Whatever the hell that was, all right.
Okay, this is crazy stuff.
I want you to get a 225 all set up here, okay?
Caroline Levitt.
welcomed a new media source in their media pool, and it was Tim Pool.
Isn't that crazy?
Just how that happens.
Fred prosecutors say Russia paid $400,000 a month to Tim Pool, an American media company, to push pro-Kremlin messages to social media influencer Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, and Tim Pool.
Now here's Caroline Levitt welcoming our $400,000 a month Russian asset to the new White House press pool.
Let's listen.
We have an individual in our new media seat today.
His name is Tim Poole.
He's a political commentator and a media entrepreneur with millions of followers, a very big platform.
In Russia.
Currently host Tim Cast IRL, a daily news and discussions show, and The Culture War, a weekly podcast exploring cultural and political issues.
His programs feature in-depth conversations on topics such as free speech, censorship, identity politics, and societal change, often engaging with a diverse range of guests.
He's in Washington today because we are also hosting a...
local media row across the street in the Eisenhower building, which is a testament to our commitment to bring new voices into the White House to cover the president and this administration.
So, Tim, why don't you kick us off today?
Yeah, let's hear
Many of these organizations that are represented in this room have marched in lockstep on false narratives, such as the very fine people hoax, the Covington smear, and now what's being called the Maryland man hoax, where an MS-13 gang member adjudicated by two different judges, I believe, is just simply being referred to as a Maryland man over and over again.
Now, in an effort from the White House to expand access to new companies, you've created this new media seat.
So I'm wondering if you can comment on...
following this expansion, you've had numerous outlets to disparage the companies that you've had sit here as well as the reporters.
I'm wondering if you can
comment on the unprofessional behavior as well as elaborate if there's any plans to expand access to new companies.
Sure.
Well, we certainly welcome diverse viewpoints in this room, which is one of the reasons we have you in here and there's many new faces in this room.
And the multiple questions you
We want to welcome all viewpoints.
Go, my God, where was he?
All over the map.
But thank God we have him now as the press pool for the White House.
Tim Miller, part of the bulwark, endures the juvenile antics, by the way, in this next cut.
From another Russian asset, I mentioned three of them, right?
Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, and Tim Pool.
Well, this is about Dave Rubin, who also...
got $400,000 a month as a Russian asset and broadcast their message into the US on social media.
So anyway, Tim Miller joined the panel on Pierce Morgan uncensored.
And it was about representative Crockett's recent comments about Greg Abbott.
You know, he has that wheelchair, right?
Well, she called it Hot Wheels.
Oh, nice.
All right.
So they were discussing the controversy over the Hot Wheels comment about Governor Abbott and Dave Rubin's comeback for taking Russian money.
Oh, I love this.
He accused Tim Miller of taking money from the state-owned MSNBC.
Yeah, that's
that was
I am missing cut 55 John.
Oh, you are.
What?
Wait
cut 55?
missing cut 55, 53, 54, 56.
Oh, no.
All right.
Well, anyway, somebody doesn't want us to hear this.
that.
That was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck.
Oh, perfect.
Thank you,
He's got a perspective.
He knows.
center
don't.
Unless you want to end it
early.
That was a hot
mess inside a
dumpster fire inside a train wreck.
going
number?
We
about other stories.
I know.
Instead of just waiting for these cups to show up.
We do have 2.57, and it fits in time.
Oh, OK.
Let's
This is the best thing I've seen all day.
There was a pop-up protest against Elon Musk in Washington DC today where a group set up a booth and it reads, have Elon's next kid join Musk's legion of moms.
posters around the area advertising this protest.
They also had flyers.
It comes from a group that identifies as Eugen X.
if you get the play on words.
And on the back it says, Elon has fathered 14 kids with four women.
To save civilization, he's determined to sire a legion of offspring, sign an NDA, have this baby, and you will receive $15 million plus monthly child support if your lawyer can get it, plus more.
Isn't it crazy how the Republicans claim to love the nuclear family, and then they support someone like Elon Musk, who has all these different kids with these different people, and then he doesn't even support his kids?
I'm a huge fan of protests.
like this.
I love the ones that kind of get under Trump and Elon Musk's skin more than a normal one would.
you
good.
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Temperatures are going to be falling today from high this morning around 60 into the 50s this afternoon.
And it is time for us to talk to the Dane County Humane Society.
Lisa Bernard joins us this morning, this portion of the show and this segment being brought to you by our friends at Serenity Pet Spa.
Happy to have them as a partner in this regard.
Good morning, Lisa.
Watching you on video here.
You have a helper there at your desk.
Who's that?
Who's that?
So this
is my cat.
He's not available.
He just decided that he wanted to help.
does the
Puppy?
It just means more to love.
Yes.
so versi is six years old um she is even though she's uh husky mix she's very chill uh she's very calm and quiet she has very good leash manners not too interested in treats but she loves receiving pets in a lay beside you when
Just so you could shower her with lots of pets.
And she just looks hanging out with people.
She does still have a playful side.
She likes to play with her toys, especially tennis balls.
She's house trained.
We've been told that she's good with the vet and groomer.
She can get a little over excited seeing other dogs and doesn't want to share things with them, which is why she's looking for a house that doesn't have any other dogs.
cute.
Yes.
And she's all black except for a little patch of white on her her front.
And it's hard to see in the photos are she kept looking away, but she does have the piercing blue eyes.
So she's really pretty.
Yeah,
Yep, she's been her adoption fees been reduced to $200.
Okay.
Right.
Leah, Leah,
your princess.
So
She's looking for a new best friend.
She loves exploring the outdoors and she does chase squirrels a lot and rabbits.
She's living with other dogs and has done well, especially after proper slow introductions.
She enjoys hanging out with kids a lot because she used to be a dog nanny in her previous home.
She grew up with a child there and loves sleeping at the end of his
bed.
um and uh she's even though she's a senior she still has a lots of energy she likes to run around and play she knows sit stay shake lie down and she's even figured out how to open the uh doors if they have a lever handle beautiful so be
She is looking for a home without small critters just because she likes to chase rabbits and squirrels so
Scooter is very sweet as well.
He's a nine year old Shih Tzu.
He was surrounded to us because his family was dealing with some health issues.
He's only lived with adults.
He has lived with a cat and just ignored the cat.
He's looking for a best friend as well because he loves having a person, his person who's gonna just give him pets and who he can then lay near.
Um, he also likes a lot of treats and his favorite is the occasional pizza crust.
Yes.
The occasional.
So he is sporting a new hairdo right now because his fur was pretty matted.
So we had to shave his, his white and silver locks, but it's going to grow back and he's super sweet.
He sleeps a lot.
He's pretty, pretty low key with that.
Um,
He does have some dry eye issues.
That's chronic that he's on medication for.
So we are going to send home some medication for him for that for a short period.
And then he does occasionally get ear infections.
So you do have to watch out with that.
But if you're just looking for a guy who wants to take a snooze next to you, he's your man.
You can go to our website at giftshelter.org or you could stop by our adoption center later today It opens at 2 p.m.
on Tuesdays and it's open until 7 and you could pop in and meet them There is a wait list that people normally get on it's kind of like having a ticket so But it's also you could learn more about them
Yes, we do.
Camp paw prints and camp wild side for children.
So in youth, camp paw print does have four weeks that are filled, so gotta get in there really
time.
Thanks for having me.
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