Oopsville: 100 Days of Chaos

From the depths of a digital abyss, where truth drowns in a sea of clickbait and algorithms, a beacon ignites.

From the heart of Badgerland, from our studios on State Street in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, it's John and Gordy on 92.7

WMDX.

Incredible incredible day of topics a lot of idiocracy to fill the airwaves with I Wish we had more time here an extra hour, but I could use an extra hour

extra

hour Well, yeah, I

do really

I do so much preparation that I hate to waste all the preparation that I put into this program

I have all of these clips.

Well, not all of these clips.

I think I have two or three clips broken up where Rachel Maddow listed all of the bad, stupid mistakes and things that happened in the first 100 days.

Now, I heard Maggie Dawn talking about she put her own list together and she was narrating it herself.

But I love the way Maddow does it.

So I was going to play

this,

so everybody got a taste and a feel.

I wanted CJ and I wanted my mega friend in Milwaukee to hear it, that it isn't running smoothly and not well, and it's almost a disaster to watch.

So, you know, I wanted to play that stuff.

I haven't...

Really played anything so Well,

we'll make time for

today.

I'm starting to get a little nervous Maybe you guys are phasing me out and you know, I'm just not gonna play any of my clips anymore

Well, that may be

true, but you know, I

wouldn't worry about it.

All right.

All right Well, that's a

great assurance.

Thank you.

Well, good morning and happy May Day to you May 1st.

Well, May Day is It's a warning.

It's like an emergency.

It's an emergency thing.

That's John Peterson

Gordon Young producer Sam is raring to go.

It's raining outside.

It is.

Big time.

I didn't expect that.

I suppose I should

have.

Did you not listen to the

forecast?

Well, I don't expect rain.

I don't think it's going to rain, so I see it.

Even if it's in the weather forecast, it's always a surprise to me.

Yeah, so much

for April showers bring May flowers.

Yeah.

It's not supposed to rain at all in May, right?

Well, I don't know.

I don't know.

Well, if you go by that, say, only if you live by things.

Yeah, it's we got some pretty good showers.

That habit there, Sam.

Looks like we'll see rain off and on today.

And currently at the WMDX weather window outside the window, the WMDX thermometer says 48 degrees.

It does.

Yeah.

What is your WMDX Samsung watch say?

Well,

I'm glad you've asked me that question.

Yeah.

because

I'm really prepared for that.

48 degrees currently

and

54

is the predicted high temperature.

All right, well, let's roll the weather roulette wheel and see what the wheel has to say about it.

Okay.

For the afternoon high today.

Yeah, I think it'll stay on the cool side.

Here it goes.

Red 56.

Red 56.

All right.

Scoring at home.

All right, you're using a lip balm in there, aren't you?

Well, yeah, my lips get chapped.

They could try.

So is that a chapstick you may have found on the ground?

No.

Why would I

use chapstick?

Because you seem to scrounge around in the back alleys of Madison and dumpsters.

You're finding mattresses and ping-pong tables.

I found it in a couch.

OK,

I

can't lie that I've never dumpster-dived for food.

But I wouldn't use the same chapstick that I found in the dumpster.

Wait, you've gotten food out of a dumpster, really?

Yeah, because I saw who put it in there, and

I knew

them.

It was at work.

It was when I worked

at a food place.

Made its way into the dumpster, and you took it out.

It was a

clean bag, Gordy.

It's okay.

Oh,

man,

okay.

I'm still here.

I'm still alive.

Well, just barely.

I know you're leaving in a month.

But here's the thing.

There was a center and eye bit.

about somebody finding chapstick.

And then, you know, they're standing out in front of a business.

Do you don't remember the chapstick bit?

And then the guy's using it.

And then standing there, they're on the, you know, as to the sidewalk waiting for a bus or something.

And

then

somebody stands next to him and says, hey, can I use your chapstick?

Really?

And then another person walks over, hey.

Yeah, got the chapstick.

Did I try it?

We'll have to dig

that

one out.

That is a classic set in an alive bid.

It's just unbelievable, and it's gross.

It's just gross.

You know the movie Elf?

Sure.

The scene in the movie Elf where, buddy, he picks the gum off the bottom of a railing and

tries it out.

He's

static about how good it tastes.

That was a great movie.

Yeah, really, a Christmas classic.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, let's get to the National Day calendar for this very first day of May.

What do you say?

Well, sure.

Forced to be excited.

Is it or is it not National Investing Day?

Is it National School Principles Day?

Is it National Music in the Schools Day?

National Chocolate Parfait Day?

National Mother Goose Day?

National Loyalty Day.

What day does not belong, John Peters?

Not National Superintendent Principles Day.

Well, you're wrong.

It is National School Principles Day.

Sam, do you care to take a guess?

I'm a

little worried about the idea of it being Loyalty Day.

Who

are we being loyal

to?

Is that your answer?

Sure, yeah.

Um, you're wrong as well.

Oh,

man.

Oh, yikes.

Is that something that Trump put in place?

Well, we'll find out.

Uh, it's not national music in the school's day.

Uh, that might be some other day, but it's not today.

Okay.

All right.

Let's, uh, go back up top here.

It's not just Tim

Slicker

about that.

Why don't we have a national music in the school's day?

Tim will be joining us in just about a half hour, but, uh,

We want to ask him about that Supreme Court case, right?

The one about Catholic schools?

Yes, Catholic charter schools.

Charter

schools, yeah.

That was a big case that got some news yesterday.

Anyway, it is National Investing Day.

You've got a lot of investments in the markets, don't you, John?

You've got stocks, bonds, you know, you're a day trader.

Well, you know, I'm rolling in cash.

You're Mr. Big Shot.

Big cigars and motorcars.

That's John Peterson.

I'll be wearing a top hat and monocles.

Get the cane.

It's National Investing Day, encouraging people to dedicate at least one day in the year to explore how they can get invested and stay invested for strong financial futures.

It would be a good day to do that as the stock market continues to take dives every two or three days.

Whether you're setting aside your first $100 or managing a growth portfolio,

This day is about getting involved, so check it out.

You know, talk to your broker today, I guess.

Okay.

And your financial advisor.

All right.

Let's see, National School Principles Day.

You were doubting that this was today, but it is.

And it's a reminder to take time to say thank you to the educational leaders who look after your children every day, after all they guide academic success and set the tone for the entire school.

Yeah.

Principles are some of the hardest working, yet can be the most underappreciated people in the education system.

Or underappreciated people.

You guys get

sent to the principal's

office a lot as a kid?

Two or three times.

Just once.

I got suspended for using the car at lunch.

Really?

It was a ban on using cars for luck.

Really?

I said the

principal's car or what do you mean?

If that would be.

It took a random car.

That'd be cool.

Where did you drive to just out for

a one set day?

I went home.

I didn't bother eating lunch at schools.

And I was accused of doing wheelies or something.

Wheelies?

What?

Well, patching out

in front of somebody's house.

Peeling out?

OK.

and it was a stationway, a Rambler station wagon, so no, that didn't happen.

I

don't know what these people were thinking, you know, and I took all the greasers out to the nearest shopping center.

They knew I was going and then they picked up on it and everybody asked for a ride.

I

became the friend of the greasers in her school.

Yeah, and it was kind of fun and everything, but

I

got suspended.

And because I was a good kid and all that kind of stuff, the teacher did not send me home or give me any time off, which... I mean,

is that really a suspension then?

Did

you get a detention?

No,

it wasn't a detention.

Not even a detention.

It's National Chocolate Parfait Day.

You like chocolate parfaits?

I love them.

It's kind of, you know... They're hard to resist.

Yeah, well, they're hard to make.

The delicious layers of chocolate cream and more chocolate, sweetly stacked together, is enough to make us skip lunch and go straight to the dessert, chocolate parfaits.

I think people eat too fast now, to actually put all that time into

making those layers, yeah.

Okay.

I bet you are a

big fan of the Jell-O molds with the vegetables

in it.

The fruit, Jell-O salad.

Oh, God.

They tortured us with those as we were kids, yep.

I don't know if I mentioned National Mother Goose Day, but it is that

today.

Yeah, okay.

Let's see Mother Goose Tales.

Let's see when those those started way back late 17th century Elizabeth Foster Goose a lot of a lot of very very dark tales Not good outcomes.

Yeah, she was a widow.

She moved into

with their oldest daughter and started telling these tales.

That makes sense.

Okay.

They always killed and roasted kids.

Wow.

Yeah, mother goose.

I guess it goes back even further let's see 1695 there were some books that had all some of these

tales

I mean tales of torture

stealing

kids

yeah

yeah good things to put kids to sleep with wolves eating kids which is yeah national loyalty day does it have something to do with the great orange king no I don't think so

Since 1955 every US president has proclaimed May 1st as a day to call on Americans to raise their flags Oh, no, you're kidding me pray and so the president

on their heritage

presidents have

endorsed this day since

1955

I'm sad that a Democrat would do something like this.

This is a little

authoritarian Well, 1955 of Eisenhower was president back then so I didn't

seem like he would promote something like

that,

but I guess he did

Let's see.

First observe, oh wait, it goes even further.

Let's see, we dig back into it.

Sure.

First observed in 1921 as Americanization Day, National Loyalty Day, counterbalance the Communist celebration of Labor Day on May Day.

Hmm.

Okay.

Wow, communism.

Wow.

Rears it's ugly heading.

So you know that.

To

the actual holiday, they were like.

We want to have a holiday on May 1st, too.

We feel left out.

So it was President Dwight Eisenhower.

He proclaimed it on 1959, even though they started it occasionally, you know, further back.

They actually made a holiday, but observance day on 1959.

May 1st.

Yeah.

Did we talk about this last year?

I

don't know.

I don't remember talking about this particular

day last year.

I don't remember what happened 10 days ago.

I think

withholding days here.

Next year, there'll be a different day that they withhold this year.

Perhaps

so.

OK, we got a minute and a half left.

Sam, do you want to open up the history book?

Oh, it's so dusty.

Log in.

OK, well,

do whatever you want.

Yeah.

It's up to you.

Why are you

leaving it up to

me?

Whatever you think.

Okay, open the book.

Just get on with it.

Some of it's coming in here.

Ventilation in there is awful.

There is

no ventilation,

Gordy.

No, there isn't.

There's no fresh air.

Oh, man.

It's so dusty.

I don't know how that book gets so dusty every day.

Yeah, I do.

So I remember we

talked about this thing in the history book.

Are we even going to have time or is John just

going to last his way to the break?

I

don't know.

Go ahead, Sam.

Do it.

Go ahead.

I could read this text from Mark, if you want.

Yeah, let's

hang on with the history.

What does Mark say?

Lindsey Graham says, Trump should be pulp.

I thought being Catholic was a prerequisite for the job, as well as knowing something about faith.

But no, not really.

And the commies stole Labor Day from laborers.

Yeah, see?

Mark knows his history.

It is almost 20 past the hour coming right back.

WMDX.

Johnny Gordy in the morning, 92.7 on your FM dial, and it's a great song.

You know, that is so, so Keith Richards.

Yeah, it is.

It really is.

It's 623, 48 degrees, rain showers today through much of the day, and high around 56 degrees.

We were getting into the history books.

When I was so rudely interrupted by John just busting out laughing.

Well, do you need to reopen the book

again?

No, thank God.

Yeah, do you want to open that up again?

I already opened the book.

Okay.

I've got my dose of asbestos for today.

Who would have thought?

that who would have thought to cover a book in asbestos like this, or whatever this gigantic layer of dust is on the

cover?

Well, we had a big conference on it, and we spitballed that for a while.

You did it to me.

You did it to me.

Yes, exactly.

That's why I was laughing.

Oh, that's right.

Well, today in 1840, I remember we talked about this last year, because it was news to me.

Oh, God.

Today in 1840 the UK they issued their very first prepaid postage stamps and What was news to me last year was that when you guys were young you still had to lick a stamp in order to stick it on a page Yeah,

wasn't

that long ago that day.

Well, I've never known anything besides self-adhesive Really peel it off and stick it on like a

star.

Okay.

Well, that's crazy Yeah,

but the thing that I thought was funny about

the UK and their prepaid postage.

Prior to 1840, you had post-paid postage, where the receiver had to, like, literally pay the mailman whenever they got a letter.

Yeah, that's right.

That was kind

of

weird.

Yeah, that was in the early days of John Peterson.

You were around in the 40s, the 1840s?

1840s, yeah.

Remember like it was yesterday.

Today in 1924, iodized salt went on sale for the first time.

Yeah, there you go.

The article I was reading, they called...

Michigan specifically, I don't know why they were singling out Michigan, the goiter belt, because people didn't get enough iodine in their diet.

That's right.

There's a big issue with that.

Goiter belt.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

I

understand it also helps keep or retain the color of your hair.

That's what I've read someplace.

Salt?

Yeah.

Oh, I know.

The iodine.

The iodine.

The iodide.

The iodide.

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

Okay.

And I

died.

Yeah, I think I died as poisonous.

I'm not

pretty sure.

But anyway.

Why would they name them so similarly?

I don't know.

Yes.

We got some labor history on May day today.

1926 Ford, they implemented the 40 hour work week.

1926.

Yeah.

It wasn't a completely new thing, but at that time in the 20s, the majority of Americans were still working like 12-ish hour days.

They were working more than.

eight hours a day.

I'm surprised that hasn't been proposed yet.

What, longer hours going back to that?

Yeah, it's all, are you

kidding me?

Sure, they're looking at slave labor, child labor.

Well, I think radio never really adapted to the radio.

No,

it never did, no.

Today in 1960, the U2 spy plane incident.

The Soviets shot down an American spy plane.

Gary Powers.

Yeah.

We tried to cover it up.

I thought it was funny.

It happened two weeks before there was supposed to be an East and West summit in Paris, and it was such a national embarrassment to the United States that we decided to cancel it.

That was a big deal, actually.

That spy plane being shot down

in Russia.

I

remember

that.

Oh, do you?

Number ten.

That was a big time.

Anything else you ever you ever ridden an Amtrak train?

Oh, sure.

Mm-hmm Amtrak began service on this day in 1971 I've never rid I don't think I've ever ridden a train outside of like okay, I guess one time one time I have ridden like a city tramway when I was in San Francisco Outside of that the only train that I think I've ridden was at Disney World

If that counts.

Well,

that counts,

kind

of.

Kind of,

yeah.

Amtrak stations in Milwaukee and up in Portage and the Dells.

Right.

Goes

that way.

But not Madison.

Why would they run through Portage and not Madison?

You can go to North

Freedom at the train museum.

And I think they

have train rides in

the

summer.

The Midcontinent Railway Museum.

Yeah, they do have train

rides.

Where's

that at?

It's in North Freedom.

Wisconsin,

just

look

it

up.

Go up to

Baraboo and take a left.

Go about 10 miles.

It's out there in the country.

They have a cool

little binder up

there.

It's really nice.

It's very cool.

My

daughter used to work there.

And they have old trains and they work and they do like an eight mile run around Rock Springs

and

North Freedom.

Are

we talking like steam trains?

No, they don't

do

steam.

I'm a big sucker for steam trains.

They have quite a collection of old trains.

and train cars.

Yeah, they

do

events.

We went up there for the Santa train.

Oh, sure.

They had a little celebration.

OK.

Yeah, they

do

that.

And it's tough.

And they do... It's not easy to get into those trains during sub-zero weather.

Right.

They are a little different.

It's like going into an ice box.

And I remember changing a diaper.

outside the train car.

Really?

Yes.

It was just your diaper or somebody else.

Yeah, it was somebody else's diaper.

I changed diapers for other people's kids.

Yeah, they have train rides in the fall

to

look at the fall

foliage.

It's great stuff.

I took a train ride from

Milwaukee.

Foliage.

Foliage.

Thank you.

Yeah, Milwaukee to Green Bay.

I took a train ride.

Yeah.

I love that

stuff.

Trains are a lot

of fun.

Yeah.

They didn't like me on that train though.

I was swinging a sword around.

I was into Zorro at the time and I had a sword and I went up and down the aisles swinging that thing around and these people were really worried about getting hit by that sword.

But I love the train rides.

I just love trains.

Big times.

Yeah.

It's

29 past the hour.

OK, well, cut me off now.

Well, you want to wax poetically.

No, I'm not going to wax poetically.

OK.

Coming up in just a few moments, we've got Rachel Maddow.

And she's got a list of all of the problems encountered in the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

And it's just

part one.

So we'll take a listen to that.

Tim will not be here today for Busted Pencils.

We'll be back with

more of John and Gordy in just a few

minutes.

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 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.

Well, let's talk about how dumb they are most of the time.

First 100 days of the Trump administration, outrageous and ridiculous.

This is WMDX 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning, but holding off on this, I put so much work into this.

Yeah.

But yeah, I have to shorten these segments up just a little bit.

Rachel Maddow did a review of all of the mistakes in the first 100 days.

So I had to split it up and take some of the extra stuff out.

That's

a lot of extra work for you.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Well,

let me just mention at this point in the program that it's 40.

You

know, we all feel for you.

I get it.

It is a lot of

work.

I know.

I'm looking for sympathy.

We

got rain showers this morning, John.

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We probably won't have time for the second one because that's a long one.

I have to split that one up.

We did a

lot of extra work on those.

Sure did.

Sure did.

Give me credit.

Okay.

Where credit is due.

All right.

Here is the first segment of Rachel Mano taking a look in the past.

The first 100 days of the Trump administration, all the problems that they might have experienced.

Let's check it out.

In fact, we all experienced it.

Let's go with it.

Do you

remember the first big surprise destroy the government thing that he did right after the inauguration?

He sent out a White House memo ordering the freezing of all federal funding, all federal grants.

Less than 48 hours, oops, had to take that back.

Headline, Trump White House rescins memo freezing federal grants after widespread confusion and legal challenges, quote, President Donald Trump's budget office on Wednesday rescinded a memo freezing spending.

So it was kind of the first big thing he did.

And then they immediately had to take that back.

And then right on the heels of that, you remember this one when they accidentally put somebody in charge of the FBI, who they didn't mean to?

quote, White House officials goofed on the White House website.

You don't see the word goofed in the Wall Street Journal all the time.

White House officials goofed on the White House website and listed the wrong man in charge of the FBI.

People familiar with the matter said, instead of correcting the error, White House officials let it stand.

Immediately after that, oops, turns out they accidentally put the names of hundreds of CIA officers in an unclassified email.

That same day, we learned that Trump has accidentally made it impossible for the Postal Service to accept mail from China.

Oops!

By then, the president's top campaign donor was working his bizarre magic in Washington, so we got the accidental firing of the National Nuclear Security Agency, which handles the safe transportation storage assembly and dismantling of our nation's nuclear weapons.

Oops!

Trump administration fires and then tries to rehire nuclear weapons workers in Doge reversal.

Then this was the very next day.

Headlines, New York Times.

Doge claimed it saved eight billion dollars in one contract.

It was actually eight million dollars.

But you know, don't forget, these are the smart guys, smart kids.

Next day, headline, agriculture department tries to rehire fired workers tied to bird flu response.

Oops, we accidentally fired all the bird flu people in the middle of the bird flu.

Oops, can we get them back?

That same day.

Headline, Trump administration reverses plan to end free COVID test program.

The taxpayers bought all these COVID tests, perfectly good COVID tests.

They're still COVID.

People are still testing for COVID to see if they have COVID.

But because the Trump administration doesn't like COVID, they're gonna what?

Incinerate millions of tests?

Of perfectly good tests?

So Americans instead have to buy more of them?

No, not seriously, reverse that one too.

This was also that same day.

This is a big day in Oopsville.

Headline, Trump administration reverses its previous decision and reinstates legal aid for migrant children.

Yeah, it turns out babies don't make great lawyers.

Yeah, they've reversed that too.

They have since tried again to take away the lawyers for babies and little kids in court after this initial reversal.

So this one actually remains a live issue.

Two days later, oops, we accidentally cut the program that helps the 9-11 first responders.

Did we mean to do that?

I think we did mean to do that, but we certainly can't defend it now that people are asking us to defend it, so that one gets reversed too.

Then...

Trump's top campaign donor, Elon Musk, tries on the federal government the same thing he did to destroy the company, Twitter.

He sends out the, what did you do last week email, insisting that anybody who doesn't immediately respond to that email will instantly be fired from the federal government, no exceptions.

Headline, federal agencies can ignore what did you do last week email, Trump administration says.

Then this is the following day, we get news from the VA.

Where Trump has cut things like, oh, I don't know, little liberal woke programs like cancer treatment and support for veterans with cancer and burial services for veterans.

Trump cut burial services for veterans?

Really?

Yeah, for a hot minute until people freaked out.

And so yeah, he reversed that too.

Next headline, VA contract cancellations halted in major reversal.

Maybe at this point they're getting a little shy about screwing up so much, about having to take back and try to undo all these things that they're messing up.

No, they're just getting warmed up.

We got this headline, Elon Musk admits Doge accidentally eliminated prevention measures combating Ebola virus.

Oops.

The next day, headline, Trump administration reverses course after putting veterans crisis line hires on hold.

There you go.

There's

more, right?

There's another six-minute segment, which I will split up, but it hasn't been an overly successful administration so far.

The list goes on and on and on.

But they're all big things.

They're very big things.

And in the thing, it's a scatter shot of getting rid of programs that they need, or people need, or they would have at least thought a few seconds about and

said, you

know, this sounds like something we should keep.

We shouldn't do anything about.

Right.

I mean, it's hard to wrap your head around getting rid of all of these very important things just willy-nilly, you know, instead of somebody seriously contemplating, well, this sounds like a bad thing to do during the bird flu and get rid of the researchers for taking care of bird flu.

When

it just jumps out.

Yeah, it really does.

You know, really, I mean, come

on.

Yeah.

You know, and COVID, I mean...

It's just it's going on and on yes,

and they're not stopping destroy the COVID test because they didn't think well It was actually a Biden plot.

Oh take down the economy Yeah, so they're gonna get rid of all the COVID tests instead But of course now they're letting everybody get free COVID tests in the mail.

Mm-hmm.

Yep It's just again mine.

There's nothing responsible being done by this administration nothing is thought out they just

take a shot at something, get rid of it, and, you know, take it back if they have to.

Yeah, nothing is off

limits.

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No, it

is.

Yeah, all right.

You got something to say, Gordy?

I don't know.

Someday, one of these days, I will write an editorial.

Yeah,

I thought you were going to do that.

And it will be in the

newsletter.

Why don't you write for the newsletter?

Yeah.

Well, maybe someday.

All right,

why don't we put it

on your list of things to

do?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, thanks.

Yeah, thank.

All right.

Well, hey, you know, not a lot has been going on well with the Trump administration, right?

And and the economy is tanking badly.

Let's queue up to 42.

It is actually on the list underneath the Tim's slacker stuff.

All right.

So let's get to this.

This is, you know, Britt Hume.

Oh, yeah, I remember him.

He was with ABC for many years,

and he went over to

Fox.

Fox and destroyed his career.

Right, destroyed his career, became very right-leaning.

And now, as it becomes older and older and older, grumpier sound, and he sounds more authoritative.

So anyway, let's listen to Brett Hume talk about Trump being underwater.

Well, a couple things.

There's a list of issues that we ask people what they've felt about, and the president is underwater in all but one, and that one is the border.

where he's got high approval on that.

Majority approval, he's above water.

Everything else, including immigration, which for some reason was separated from the border in this particular poll, he's a little bit underwater on immigration.

He's way down on, right at the moment on the economy, and even way down further on tariffs, which are, of course, part of that.

So, you know, foreign policy, rating isn't good, and so on.

My thought about this is this is not really unexpected in my view, Brett.

His overall approval rating, as you noted earlier, is 44%.

So much of what he's undertaken remains a work in progress.

They haven't got any trade deals yet.

The tariffs are out there and people are worried about them and don't like them.

They don't know how that's going to play out.

We don't know how the foreign policy endeavors are going to pan out.

We don't have peace between Ukraine and Russia, which he promised.

So there's a lot of work to be completed, which if done successfully, I think would dramatically elevate his current

pool.

If these things could only improve,

then his ratings would improve.

The long list I just gave you accidentally here on Fox News.

I'm sorry about that.

I know Trump is watching right now.

Please, please don't kill me.

Oh boy, that is crazy stuff.

Let's talk briefly about the Supreme Court.

They were talking about allowing a Catholic charter school.

And the problem with this whole idea is that, you know, suddenly we as taxpayers will be paying for religious teachings, religious schools.

I mean, this is in a front of the whole thing.

I know that they get in on what are the schooling, you know.

But they're but now they wanted to have their own separate charters for Catholic schools for Lutheran schools Eleni Kagan said this there'll be a line out the door of religious groups seeking to establish their own

publicly funded charter schools if you can do this consistent with your religious belief.

So we'll be teaching, these are Sunday schools essentially.

And we'll be paying for them as taxpayers and we shouldn't object to this I would think.

We will be back with more on that on John and Gordy.

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I think I saw a pee we out in the street.

Yeah.

Shows he out

there shouting something.

Yeah, I couldn't quite open the window next time he passed.

Oh wait.

There he is.

Yeah

All

right, let's get back to your umbrella with you to work today check your windshield wipers

Let's get back to this big case before the Supreme Court Catholic schools turning their own schools

and

getting paid by

taxpayers come on no one wants this right the Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked this Catholic school from joining the state charter program so they can't do it so it went to the Supreme Court

yeah

and we have the deep thinkers on the Supreme Court like Brett Kavanaugh okay and this was this is what he said all religious school is saying is don't

exclude us on account of our religion.

OK.

Well, that's the reason why it shouldn't be funded by taxpayers.

Oh, God, this guy is awful.

And he says it seems like rank discrimination against religion.

Oh, sure.

That must be it.

No, no, taxpayers aren't supposed to be paying for religion.

Right.

We're not

supposed to be

endorsing a religion.

Exactly.

That would be endorsing a religion.

I would think anyway.

And as I mentioned, Elana Kagan said there will be a line outside the door of religious groups seeking to establish from publicly funded charter schools.

If you can do this consistent with your religious beliefs, why not, right?

John, why don't you start a religion and then you can start a school and get all this public money some money.

Don't I was

careful.

Why didn't I think of

that?

Damn That's not too late.

All right.

Well anyway Justice Amy

Coney Barrett recused herself.

Why?

So now

the split

is 4-4.

So if Justice Roberts decides, then it will decide one way or another whether this will be allowed in the country.

Did you say why she

recused herself?

Because she went to Notre Dame maybe?

I don't know.

It doesn't say here, but if it were 4-4, then it would affirm the Oklahoma Supreme Court decision banning it.

from joining the charter system.

All right, so we'll see what Justice Roberts decides on this when they finally decide the case.

This is crazy stuff,

though.

Yeah, it is.

Isn't it?

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

I can't I it's just We don't know what they're gonna decide.

No, so it's I mean,

yeah

It's for

grabs.

It seemed like at least for the justices were definitely on the side of allowing religious charter schools and taxpayers paying for it Why can't we complain about it?

You know a lot of Megas they don't want to pay for this that and the other thing because well, you know that we shouldn't pay for that You know

Here we have an instant where now liberals, Democrats and progressives have to pay for the right wing endorsement of religion by our government.

That is...

Listen, John, you know the Snopes trial, the very famous teaching evolution trial back in the 1920s.

That case failed and they could keep teaching creationism all the way up until the 60s.

I forget what state it was in, but it was less than 60 years ago or so that started teaching evolution and all that time the public schools, publicly funded schools were still teaching religion.

We can go back to that.

Why not bring that back?

All right, we cut so many other.

So many other topics here.

Let's get to Robert Wolfe.

He has been making the rounds.

He's on Fox News quite a bit, but he's all over the place and all the different networks.

And he's talking about the crisis that we have with the economy.

And

I thought we'd play this cut.

He said this actually on Fox News about the manufacturing crisis we have in this country.

I

don't know, Robert, some of the people we talked to say incompetence, probably the wrong word, unclear, might be a better word.

What do you say?

I mean, this, I've been in finance for 40 years.

This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of enforced errors.

The execution of Liberation Day was pathetic.

I mean, you have Kevin Hassett in 2019 be very clear, trade war is a bad trap, tariffs are tax, Steve Moore, another Trump advisor.

trade wars are bad, tariffs are taxed, the GOP, tariffs are taxed, trade wars are bad, we're for free trade.

You saw April until, for the most part, the president blinked both on Fed Chairman Powell, which I'm glad, as well as the China trade war.

Then the markets recovered somewhat, but it was on for the worst month since 1932.

And that's not even considering what's going on with bonds, where there has been an incredible lack of confidence in the U.S.

dollar and U.S.

investments.

All right.

Yeah, it's incredible.

Manufacturing.

The CEO of GM, Mary Mara, said these tariffs are going to cost the company up to $5 billion this year.

$5 billion.

Wow.

I mean, that's it, right?

It's costing everybody a lot of money.

We were going to talk to Tim Slicker about how a lot of these schools are canceling, upgrading, and school renovations that they have planned out.

and they passed referendums for, but now they have to put it on hold because they don't know the cost of what those renovations will be because of the cost of the materials being used.

They're also putting off buying new school buses.

Because of that as well, they can't predict what those buses are going to cost.

The list goes on and

on.

Yeah, I mean, it just throws

everybody into a limbo.

And I think Walmart and Target said the shelves are going to start backing up in the supply chain in the next two weeks.

That's

right.

Yes.

So get out there.

So that's why my wife went out and bought all the products you could.

Excellent.

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Yeah, the big news was the press conference Trump had and it didn't go well.

Press conference?

Well, you know, he had a press conference about the economy.

He was talking about how well the economy is doing currently.

But he decided because it wasn't doing well to blame Joe Biden for everything.

And let's let's play cut six here.

And this is Trump explaining this to the reporters in the room.

Let's listen.

The stock market in this case is it says how bad a situation.

We inherited.

I took place.

This is a quarter that we looked at today.

Oh boy.

And I took, we took all of us together.