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It is that time again for another great week of Trump news.
Oh, no.
Nah.
And we got more.
We got more.
Oh, come on.
It's not just all Trump news.
We'll try and find more, yes.
Well,
maybe we don't have any.
All right.
But, you know, we're working on it.
Okay, this is WMDX, John and Gordy in the morning.
Good morning!
Yeah, big weekend where a lot of awards were passed out for,
you know, Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.
Yes.
For Civic Media.
For Civic Media personalities.
Yeah.
Certainly, we were passed over this year, you know.
Well, we didn't get anything, but that's okay.
Well, we won.
the year before, and we wanted some other host to have a
chance at it, right?
Some question about the year before.
If we were in the right category or the right market size,
apparently
there was a lot of doubt.
You
ain't cheating.
You ain't trying.
Well, we
were third place in the wrong category, in the wrong market zone.
Other than that.
Perfect.
So the caveat here is we were winners last year.
Right.
But they said it was a mistake.
Yeah.
They took it back.
Yeah.
Well,
that's
that was hard to take.
Actually, I think it's the greatest way to get third place by mistake.
Oh, man.
But this year we had, there were other winners.
Maggie Dawn was a big winner, so congratulations to her.
You know, I mean,
Brittany
Merlot, huge winner.
Brittany Merlot, three time winner.
I know, I don't even think she wants to be on the show anymore.
No,
she's moved on.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, but it was a fun weekend.
Well, I didn't really actually see you at the party.
And then you called me after I left and said, where are you?
You had showed up real late.
I was about 1030 or so.
Everybody was gone.
Everybody.
Yeah.
What kind of party are you?
Yeah.
Well, you know, the last time, last year, I mean, it seemed like the damn thing, the actual dinner ended at 1030.
Right?
So I was planning that.
So that's why I came at that time.
But, you know, there were like, I saw three people from the station and that was it.
Well, I had encouraged you earlier in the day to come to the party since, you know,
I had
TV to watch.
Okay.
Okay,
really?
Yeah, I never get to watch TV anymore.
You know, it's a little luxury that I kind of miss.
So
you'd rather sit at home.
Yes.
Watch TV.
Yeah.
Go to the nice big award ceremony
with
people from all over the state.
Yep.
All
throughout the company of civic media, all the way asking me, where's John?
It's good to see you making words.
John, where's Peterson?
Except because they didn't care
about meeting you.
Yes, barely.
They didn't care.
Yeah.
No, it was
fun time.
So yeah, did you tell him that I'm just stuck up and, you know, he refuses to associate with other people?
What I
said is he lives right across the street.
Right across the other side of the belt line.
Hey, we can all go over there.
Yeah.
That was a good time.
It was fun times with lots of pictures.
I think some of them will be on our websites.
You can check them out there.
Look at the
outfit.
What?
Oh, my God.
What's she
wearing?
Oh,
my.
I don't know.
Somebody on CNN is wearing some very bizarre.
She's one of the anchors there.
She's standing there in a black and white outfit, but the white is on the edge of her outfit.
Her suit.
And it looks like she's like copy pasted into the scene.
Right?
Yes.
Like
a bad green screen or something like that.
Looks like
a really bad green screen.
That's kind of what it looks like.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know if that's a good outfit.
No.
Ten minutes past the hour.
It's partly cloudy this morning.
We're at 44 degrees a little bit on the cool side, but it's going to be a pretty nice day.
Should we get the weather wheel going?
Get the roulette wheel.
Spin it around.
Let's see what our afternoon high may be.
All right.
OK.
Ready for this?
Sure.
Two.
Wow, that's really good.
Black 62.
That's amazing.
And even though all of the weather people have said all weekend long,
oh,
it's going to be great all week.
No rain.
Suddenly we have a chance for rain this afternoon.
What?
A little bit of light, very light sprinkles, maybe a couple of showers.
Rule
number one, never trust a meteorologist.
Any weather people
at all.
So we'll see about that.
But we'll check with the award-winning.
Brittany Merlot.
She
gave us the wrong weather forecast on Friday.
It's okay.
I'm going to have to change my plans.
It's just a very, very slight chance of
rain.
It's
crazy.
We don't have a waste basket in here.
Why is it?
How come every Monday we don't have a trash can in
here?
Somebody's trying to tell us that we don't deserve a waste basket.
I don't know.
It's in here so you would think they'd emptied it.
put it back in the same spot that got
it.
Sam is on the button
here.
Well, Sam gets the waist best.
That's our waist best over here, over here.
You think you'd know this?
Yeah.
John's the only one with waist.
Sam doesn't want to be here.
You guys just can't be happy with anything that I do.
Oh, here
we go.
Sing the blues.
You know, he's only got, what, three weeks left?
Four weeks left?
That's it.
Well, you know, he's alone now.
Oh,
no.
Don't.
Alone
again.
Alone again, naturally.
Yeah, where's that Gilberto
Sullivan song about suicide when you need it?
Is that what it's about?
If
you'd never heard the lyrics,
oh my god.
I
really know.
It's one of the
most
depressing songs ever.
It is.
Yeah.
Um, let's see.
Oh, it's, uh, let's check the national day calendar.
Okay.
Oh, yeah,
let's do that.
All right.
Is it or is it not?
Cinco de Mayo?
Huh.
See,
is it the fifth day of May?
Could be.
Is it national astronaut day?
Um, national hoagie day?
Let's see.
National Wild Birds Day.
Yeah.
National Cartoonists Day.
Which one of those days does not belong to us?
It's not National Hoagie Day.
You're wrong.
It is.
What?
It is National Hoagie Day.
Somebody made a mistake.
No, it's that.
We'll get to that in a moment,
Sam.
Would you care to guess
or you just
get it?
Didn't we just have astronaut day or something like that?
Is that your guess?
Yes, that's my guess.
You're wrong.
Aw,
man.
It's
like we're always talking about space.
It's not National Wild Birds Day.
Okay.
Cinco de Mayo.
Cinco de Mayo.
What can we say about Cinco de Mayo?
Come on.
Here we go.
It's computers a little slow this morning It's deeply rooted in the history of the Franco Mexican war influenced by Mexican American communities in the early years of the American Civil War in the early 1860s as the Civil War erupted these communities took up the banner of Cinco de Mayo
as a way to commemorate the cause of freedom and democracy.
Today in the US, Americans celebrate Mexican-American heritage and pride annually on May 5th.
So Happy Cinco
de Mayo
Day.
Very nice.
Okay, let's move on to National Astronaut Day.
Why would May 5th be National Astronaut Day?
Well, each year on May 5th, astronauts
are celebrated as true heroes.
The day's mission is to inspire all to reach for the stars by sharing out of this world astronaut stories and experiences.
It was on May 5th, 1961.
We remember it like yesterday when astronaut Alan Shepard Jr.
became the first American in space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule.
The brief suborbital flight lasted just 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere.
It was a milestone achievement.
And, yeah, that's why today May 5th.
Now the Russians already beat us to the punch on that.
Yes.
They had, I think, Yuri Gagarin.
You went up there first.
Yes.
Good memory.
You watched any of Alan Shepard's flight on TV at the
time?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I watched it.
I think I was in, let's see, second grade.
Strap and young lad.
Yeah.
Yes.
It
was a big deal.
Yeah, it was a fantastic deal.
They brought a TV into the classroom, yeah.
Yes.
It's kind of fun.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh,
never mind.
Okay, let's check out National Hoagie Day because I know you were surprised that this was the day but celebrates a hero of a sandwich.
The Hoagie goes by several other aliases, the sub, the grinder, the Italian, the torpedo.
Those are just a few, I never heard of torpedo,
but
okay.
Just a
few of the many names, some of the names give a hint as to how to make a hoagie.
Like a hoagie, I guess, what's a sub?
Sub sandwich, they're good.
We had
those
last night as a matter of fact.
Did you really?
Yeah.
Celebrated a little early, I guess, didn't know it.
Making yourself?
No.
Go to Subway.
Yeah, Subway.
It's National Cartoonist Day.
Honoring all those creative ink stained artists past and present with the fascinating pieces they have created throughout the years Let's see American comic strip writer and artist Richard out Cald.
Am I boring you?
I'm just barely awake.
That's why Yon was audible all across all across the state Yeah
Richard Alcalt, it was the inventor of the modern comic strip.
He was just 15 years old.
That's great.
So, yeah.
Anything in the history books there, Sam?
What
do you
think?
Oh, we got a couple of things.
All
right.
Do I have to open up the book?
No, just
go online.
Just dial it up.
The Kindle version.
Sure.
Okay.
Yeah.
What happened?
Not much, but...
You got something.
I got a couple things here.
I didn't spend a ton of time on it on Friday.
Today at 1905.
He's got
one foot out the door
already.
Oh, come on.
Today at 1905, the trial, I was surprised that it was brothers, Alfred and Albert Stratton, this happened in England.
Their trial began.
It was the very first murder trial to ever use fingerprint evidence.
1905.
1905.
You know, last week, I think it was Thursday, I had to go and get my fingerprints taken for the first time.
So I can't commit any crimes now.
I'm gonna be on the grid.
Yes.
Why did you need?
Yeah, what happened
what?
Well, I'm working on becoming a teacher right now and apparently I got a they got to do a deep background check on you if you want to make sense that makes
sense
Okay, and you already covered the other thing that I had Alan Shepard becoming the first American in space Got a few birthdays here though.
No, it's Karl Marx's birthday
Well, I'm celebrating at home.
Carl Marx posters.
Well, everybody
thinks we have those posters up in our home.
Oh, I'm sure.
Of course.
Yeah.
OK.
Crazy communists that we are.
Yeah.
Carl.
How he was
born in 1818.
1818.
So he would have been 207.
Really old.
OK.
Well, yeah.
I mean, with a beard like he had, he must like be old and wise and all that, you
know.
Okay.
And then
James Beard.
Yeah.
James Beard, yeah.
His beard was strange.
All right.
No, I have no idea.
He was a chef, right?
Yeah, that's okay.
I was trying to remember what his deal was.
He was an American chef and like one of the very first TV chefs, right?
Yeah.
That's right.
It's also Adele's birthday today.
The British pop artist.
Very good.
Yep.
All right.
Well, when we come back, we're going to check in with Pam Yonkey and find out, well, what's going on around the state of Wisconsin in the
world of food.
Wisconsin best
beef burger.
Beef.
Beef
month.
Beef.
It's what's for dinner.
Yeah.
Coming back with more of John and Gordy on a
Monday.
WMDX, 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning. 622, it's 44 degrees, partly cloudy skies, starting to see some sunshine breaking through the clouds here.
highs in the low sixties today, maybe just a sprinkle or two along the way this afternoon. Time for us to welcome back Pam Yonkey. Good Monday morning to you, Pam. How you doing? Yeah, indeed. It is a good Monday morning, although I'm finding muscles I haven't used for a little while after a pretty decent weekend, weather wise. Oh, yeah. Yeah. A lot of yard work, a lot of stuff to do around the house. Yeah. Yeah, we had to, you know, get the lawnmower set up, clean up.
Stuff that you let lay during winter and little tinkering around out at the farm picking up brush and stuff like that. Yeah, well it was a good weekend to do that. Yeah, it was a personal weekend for that. Yeah, I'm hoping this weather stays nice and dry like that for a lot of folks and if you did any driving this weekend, a lot of folks that are kind of farther north than to the east.
still have standing water in field. So we'll need this dry weather to persist for a little while so they can get started with field work. Or just plan on your next getaway to find the best burger in Wisconsin.
Yeah, that's the other thing figure was the first weekend of May and I'm I know around a lot of Wisconsin yards the grill was on so that's exactly what the Wisconsin beef tonsils trying to focus in on May is beef month in Wisconsin and to get everybody ready for the month of May they announced last week the winner of their best beef burger contest
And it's an operation called brazen head pub in West Bend. It's almost mean to do it to people. You start giving them menu items like this at this time of the day. Their stomach starts to growl early. Brazen beer cheese burger is the winner. It's a half pound of Angus beef topped with cheddar cheese, bacon, onion rings, and harp beer cheese that they put on a pretzel roll.
I sent a picture to you guys last week. It looks yummy. It looks terribly offensive to my clothing. It looks cheesy. It was kind of draped in cheese. I'm thinking that's going to be all down the front of my shirt no matter which way I decide to attack it. But man, what a good shit. They had eight restaurants around Wisconsin that ended up in what they call the elite eight.
And I was teasing Katelyn Kessler from the Wisconsin beef council about how did the judges feel about the elite eight because somewhere as far away as like Hayward, Ashlyn, that kind of thing. And she said they might have been a little grumbly on the drive to wherever they were going. But they were generally smiling pretty big when they left their destination. So they went out and physically evaluated all eight elites.
or Elite 8, I should say that made it. If you want to pop on over to beeftips.com, you can find the rest of them and you can also find directions on how to- Beef tips? Beef tips, yes. Okay. Beef T-I-P-S, yes. Oh, okay. That's where you'll find the directions to all of them, including the brazen head pub in West Bend, so I hope it was a busy weekend for those folks. Well, you know, I wouldn't mind volunteering to taste these burgers myself next year, right?
I'll see if I could put you boys' name on the lab. That would be fantastic. I'm guessing there's a few that might be willing to take a bullet for the team, but yeah, we'll see how that goes. The other thing that you might want to keep in mind about beef, Wisconsin Beef Month, May-Being Beef Month, is they partnered with QuickTrip. So if you're going to be fueling up or be by the pumps at QuickTrip, don't be surprised if you hear a message about May-Being Beef Month. They've got
They're also partnering with pit boss, uh, to connected grills to give you a connected grill, the navigator eight 50. So you don't even have to stand outside and monitor the fire. You can simply look at your smartphone and monitor. No kidding. I think, I think that kind of flies in the face of why you grill, but anyhow, a lot of people, a lot of people that like technology. And this time you get to partner it with your back.
your grilling experience. So keep your eyes open for those chances to enter and win at your local quick trip. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Yeah. I drove by a quick trip athletic field. I couldn't believe it. It's near DeForest. Right. Yeah. Right on the interstate. It's gigantic. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Well, think about it fellas. Our age, we remember when that was.
the ABS bull stud farm. Yes. Oh, oh, it was. Okay. Yeah, it's right in front of that. Oh, it is. Yup. Correct. Of course, you and Gordy always talked about the ABS joke that was posted up there. Well, he used to always drove by there. I don't remember. Yeah, but yeah, they always, they still put up some, some funny puns at times. Yeah.
It's usually all from employees. It's all employee generated. So I think the guys throughout on the road going out to visit farms probably have a short piece of paper in the truck that they jot things down. And there they go. They're playing the fame on the interstate for a week. A lot of semen jokes out. Oh, come on now. Keep it clean here. All right. Listen, try to talk about AI in my circles and mean artificial intelligence.
In my circles, it's still artificial insemination. Oh, that's right. Oh, my. Oh, yeah, that's great stuff. We only got about a minute left. Yeah. Can we touch on the Wisconsin Ag Use big deal with 15 high school seniors? Yeah. If you get a chance, the sixth class of Wisconsin Ag Use Council members was announced last week by Wisconsin Ag Secretary Randy Romansky, high school seniors from across the state that applied
It's all designed to raise their awareness, not just about Wisconsin agriculture, but about the agencies, the association, the infrastructure that works with agriculture that could be a part of their career future. So it's a little bit of civics, if you will, and a little bit about agriculture as an economic driver in the state. But boy, I'll tell you, once the seniors have had a chance to interact specifically with career planning and career objectives, they really walk away impressed.
They do most of it virtually. So if you want to see all the names from all around the state, pop on over to Midwestfarmreport.com. We've got them there. All right. Well, thank Pam. Very good, Pam. We'll talk again soon. You have a great day. That's Pam Yankee. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Pam Yankee from the Midwest Farm Report, which is coming up right around the corner, everything about food and farms, good things from Wisconsin. Coming back with Idiocracy on John and Gordy.
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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.
Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. But you said some dolls are going to cost more. I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls. When you say they could have three dolls instead of 30 dolls, I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. Hello, daughter.
This is Louis's Donald. It's so nice to have you back where you belong. Oh, thank you. Louis, I'm struggling with singing about this particular incident. What is it? He's hung up on this doll thing. He's got it on the mind. Maybe it's just because as a child, Donald Trump never received a doll for Christmas.
Perhaps. Yeah. Yeah, he was even talking about it on the plane last night. There's more stuff about the dolls. We haven't caught up to it yet. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. There's more stuff. Oh, yeah. So we don't have that in here today. Yeah, we'll find it.
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All right. Oh, man. 637, by the way, and 44 degrees going through all all of the the Trump information. They just seemed to dump everything on Friday and it left a lot of homework for me on Saturday and Sunday. It's just one thing after the next. Is that why you were late to the party? Yeah, I was going through my paperwork and I had to had to get all the quotes from Trump. Yeah. And.
The one thing I have noticed about everything that he is trying to do and what he set Elon out to do is cut everything away from the government. All government spending, all departments, everything the government has ever done for the American people, gone history out of here.
And and that's one of the things depressing things that you have to kind of deal with when you're going through stuff I don't know why he feels like he just has to do this, but then he started bragging about how much money they're making from tariffs They're just raking it in I mean huge amounts and and and Then he said
He said about the tariffs and the money coming into the federal government. He said, you know, pretty soon we won't even have to have taxes. Oh, really? Anymore because it'll be replaced by the tariffs. And he said the whole purpose of raking this money in through these tariffs is to give tax cuts. That's it. It isn't to save us money. We're paying.
It's it's it's actually a value-added tax. It's an extra tax on us We pay the higher price for the products that come into this country paid by the distributor who bought the products from another country He'll tack it on and then we pay the price and then of course We're paying the higher price for a product and it's taking money out of our pocket so we're becoming poorer stripped down and
we can't maintain even living paycheck to paycheck anymore. That's what we have to look forward to. That's where I'm coming from. And not only that, I've got this other story. I was kind of like preempt idiocracy completely because my son last night came up and he was just whining and complaining about Trump's proposals for tax cuts.
And it's a scary thing. This is his idea. He's giving it to the Congress if they could write it into their bills. And you wouldn't believe what he's getting rid of. I mean, section eight, housing for the poor. That would be, well, I think devastating. My idea is this, and I'm gonna be the first radio announcer in the country to come up with this idea. Mark this down, Sam.
Right this time. Well, I was the first one to say he was the dictator, right? Okay. Okay, this is another one. What he's trying to do is strip the American public from their money, from their hard-earned incomes. Yes. And he wants them to become refugees who have to leave the country. He wants all the poor to leave the United States. And he wants us all to become refugees moving into Canada or Mexico. You know what that means. We all just got to stop working.
If we don't work, he doesn't get any tax money that he can give to billionaires. There you go, see? OK. Well, now he's still going to do it. He's going to just, you know, rob a till. Yeah. And give the tax breaks to the rich, as usual. But again, that's my theory. He's trying to make us all so poor that he wants the poor to leave the country as a refugee from America, believe it or not. And that's just my theory. But I'm the first announcer to come up with that theory.
I may be the only answer to come up with that theory. So we'll have to get the poor people, the people that can't afford it, they're gonna have to get passports and, you know, get you balls to take their stuff. Whatever you got on your back. Well, you know, the refugees that go across the border, they don't have passports. No, okay.
All right. All right. All right. So anyway, he wants, you know, to replace taxes with tariffs. This is from Trump. This is what he said as a quote. When tariffs
cut in, many people's income taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated. It will be a bonanza for America. The external revenue service is happening. Remember that he renamed it. The external revenue service is taken in the taxes. Well, no, I mean the tariffs. Again, tariffs are taxes on products that negatively impact
middle and lower class Americans who have to buy these products. Okay. All right. In fact, why don't we pay, do you have this cut? Okay. Why don't we play, this is Gary Cohn, businessman and former economic advisor to Trump in his first term. So he's not a crazy man completely, but he's not agreeing with the tariffs. Let's listen. Wait, the president also says,
you may pay more here, right? But I got you on the tax cuts. In fact, he tweeted, when tariffs cut in, just this morning he said this, many people's income taxes will be reduced or eliminated and he's gonna focus on those making less than $200,000 a year. This is not gonna get done by Memorial Day, is it? I don't know. That would be very fast for it to get done. The other thing,
We need to understand about tariffs, and I think this is obvious, is tariffs are highly regressive, meaning that poorer people
end up paying a disproportionate percentage of the tariffs because they spend 100% of their paychecks on goods. So they're going to Walmart, they're going to their stores, they're buying goods with their paycheck. Wealthier people say the bigger percentage of their paycheck. So the tariffs are gonna affect the poor people more. We gotta leave it there, Gary. Gary, we're leaving it there. You're depressing, man. We're moving on. You had your chance at first.
Well, it was his e-accuracy, folks, and I made my prediction, so I'm going to live with it at this point. Phone lines are open, 608-879-8255. You can call us or text us on the Civic Media app. We have time to go to the phone. Let's go to the phones quickly. Mark is with us this morning. Good morning, Mark. Mark, what do you got for us? Good morning. Sorry for the background noise, but I mean...
Why can't the rich do without another tax cut? I mean, why do they need to get big huge tax cuts for Christmas? Right. And rather than no little girls are getting $30 for Christmas, for God's sake. It must happen someplace. I know. What is he talking about? He's hung up on this thing. I mean, if we can do without it, if we can do without it, they can do without a tax cut. I mean, why did it?
When you got that much money, how the hell much more money do you need? Yeah, I mean, it is just beyond me that these people are richer than Crocius. Yeah, I know. And they want more. I mean, I do not understand unless they're like Scrooge McDuck diving into a pile of money. Scrooge McDuck.
Yes, diving into a big bed of coins. Or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or,
It is just disgusting that people don't... It says a lot about... It says a lot about you, Mark, that you watched the Beverly Hillbillies. Those go adamantly. And Scrooge McDuck. Yeah. Well, that's... I mean, that's, you know, over 50 years going on. Right. 55 years and going on. I know. That was our image of the wealthy at that time. I still remember it. Yeah, I know. I mean, and... And it is just sad that more people aren't just screaming about this. And, uh... I mean... Yeah.
Well, you know what? Revolution's French, I mean... Mark that.
I think the money-making scheme for most of us Americans now will be taking money from George Soros so we could go out and protest. That's going to be our next occupation, my occupation anyway. What about you, Gord? You want it? Oh, I'm in. I never got my George Soros check. You didn't? Wow. Never did. You should look for that. You probably threw it out with all the other junk mail. Resonant mail. All right, Mark, thanks for that call. Thanks, brother. Yeah, I mean, the greed is just on.
Unbelievable you mean the fact that on the White House website they're taking you know You can order crypto coins or whatever Trump is selling and we're going right into his pocket. We got a big story in the crypto thing How about this though the surreal notion that protesters are paid to protest Is crazy enough right one America now's real America host Dan Ball seems outraged that activist group
With paid staff, you know, these guys are, you know, they act to activist groups. They pay their staff. It's an organization that takes funding, are going out spreading the word during protests. Why not? They're there, right? Kind of like all activist groups do. They aren't paid protesters. They're the activists that work for an activist organization that gets funding, all right? So let's listen to Dan Ball Weirdo, nut job at One America Now. Let's listen to him.
I don't know how you sleep at night. I would not do your job. I do not like it. So people can literally call your company and get a bunch of paid actors, if you will, to stand up there, hold signs and scream on the street corner because that's what your company does. Number one, it's not actors. We're providing activists who are truly engaged with the cause, right? Are they? I just showed you a video of a guy going, I don't even know why I'm here. They got signs and they got sheets and they said, go say this and talk to cameras and hold signs. It's challenging for them to get.
sufficient turnout to a lot of these events, compensating people, just like Dan, you're compensated for hosting your program. These are your real views on this program, but you're compensated. I am, but I don't pay my viewers to watch me. So I love the fact that I can go on the street corner and say whatever the hell I want, a grievance against my government or call my neighbor or whatever I want, because that's America.
But I don't like that companies try to stage it all and hire people and set it up. It should be organic. The American people should want to come out, get on their soapbox. My show, I'm talking. They should come out and want to gather together and say, here's the cause I'm sticking up for. But you see guys like you and the bureaucrats and the folks in DC love stirring up the pot.
between us Americans and so you pay people to do this and you make a scene look bigger than it really is. You make an issue bigger than it truly is and so I don't like your business. I'm going to end it there but I appreciate you coming back on.
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Yeah, when is that?
I guess everybody forgot.
No, we want to know.
545 was sunrise time.
Now, if we just look at the sunset time.
Yeah, what would that be?
We're past eight o'clock now.
803 Wow, yeah staying lighter longer.
That's great.
It's 653 great observation.
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Well, it's we're paying the price.
Well, that's true.
You know, I was taking pictures at these rock concerts way, way, way, way, way, way back.
You were a photographer.
That's right.
You've got some really good pictures.
Yeah, I
got some great
shots.
Big
stars.
I started putting them on Facebook.
I forgot to keep doing it.
But
what were some of the big rock star pictures that you made into?
Well, I've got a lot
of cheap
trick.
Yeah.
Really, really good pictures of cheap trick.
Yeah.
I had Rod Stewart.
No, that
was a Chicago concert that I managed to get pretty close up to.
I don't know how I did it.
Yeah.
Elvis Costello.
Nice.
Yeah.
The tubes.
Hmm.
Well, we'll have to dig some of those out and put them on the, on the website.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Leo Kotke,
whole
bunch.
Oh, he's coming to the Barrymore in June and
joining Mitchell.
I have that.
Oh, Stevie Nicks.
Wow.
Really neat shot of Stevie Nicks on stage.
Okay.
Well, I'll start posting again.
Okay.
Phone lines are open.
608-879-8255.
We do have a text here.
We're
talking about, well, my theory that Trump is trying to get all the poor people in this country to become refugees and leave the country.
Leave.
Yeah.
And we got a text here.
He only wants the poor.
people of color to leave.
Remember, he also wants to increase immigration in our country from white Scandinavian and European people.
There you go.
He also is ready to sign in order to open up Alcatraz again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know it sounds like a joke.
It's not a joke.
It's going to open up Alcatraz.
That'll be for the low income individuals that can't cross the border, I guess.
I don't know.
But you know, he is, uh, he's spending a lot of taxpayer money on golf.
Trump's golf tab is skyrocketing.
Okay.
What's, what?
Sam's got his golf tracker ready to go.
Oh, okay.
I can see him dialing it up right now.
All right.
Uh, and this is an amazing thing.
Uh, you know, as, as, as they strip the government away from all of us, hardworking taxpayers out here, he is running up the bill.
Let's listen.
Cut 36
all
right here we go.
You know John 36 was the one cut that I was missing this morning.
Oh, no, what
I hope you're kidding
I Went from 35 to 37 and I made a note to myself.
Hmm.
I should ask John about that Yeah, it wasn't important enough
a note.
There's nothing there in the description about golf or anything like
that.
There's
no
Did
you dial up the golf tracker anyway?
I did.
Speaking of the Trump golf tracker, he spent 105 days in office of those 105 days.
He spent 24 of them out on the golf course.
More than one in five days he has spent golfing.
That's wonderful.
It's nice to know he's able to relax on our dime.
That's all on our dime.
Well, it says
here 104 days in office, 40% spent golfing on his own properties, over $140 million.
and taxpayer cash.
It's all on golf carts, luxury suites, and as he describes it, billionaire bootlicking and buying crypto as well.
He's bragging to everybody.
Even what is it?
He was speaking at a college where they graduate.
What is it?
Commencement?
Commencement
speech.
Yeah, it was at a commencement speech.
Went into his ridiculous, you know, typical speech.
And then he goes in and he says that, you know, he's got everybody kissing his ass.
And the students started applauding.
Really, really sick.
I mean, I guess people are, you know, getting normalized to this crap.
But anyway, Meg is love a leader that loots the taxpayers, don't they?
Apparently so.
It's sweet.
I don't know.
We're gonna have to find that cut.
You know, because now you've got me on a quest here.
I know I've got that someplace.
We will keep looking.
Oh, one minute?
Yes.
Oh.
Coming
up in our seven o'clock hour.
I
have enough
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Hold that yawn.
We've got Liz Johnson coming up in our seven o'clock hour from Serenity Petspa.
All right.
Also the award-winning Brittany Merlot.
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Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, but you said some dolls are going to cost more. I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls. When you say they could have three dolls instead of 30 dolls, I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls. I can have three. Hello, daughter. This is Chris.
It's no nice to have you back where you belong. What is it about dolls? Why is he so hung up on a doll thing? Maybe, you know, maybe he had to buy 30 dolls.
Maybe he thinks everybody buys 30 dolls for their kids every Christmas maybe or maybe they think that you know the parents and then relatives buy all these dolls for the girls right in the family Yes, that's the way it is. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's wrong here. It's just really really pathetic, you know, yeah, it is
It's 46 degrees, partly cloudy skies, highs and lows 60s today. We'll see a good deal of sunshine, but some clouds at times and maybe a couple of sprinkles late in the day. Maybe think somewhere along the way that kids get Christmas gifts in bulk. Maybe that's it. Could be. Yeah, so they have a lot of dollars just in case they break one. Don't your kids get Christmas gifts in bulk? You buy everything in Costco. I know, everything, yeah. Well.
You never know. They might have 30 doll packets now. Perhaps. You know, maybe that's, that's what he started here. Might be the right. Can we play? Why don't we play the whole cut there? Cut 35. Let's hear that whole segment. That's cute. I love the, uh, hello, Dolly.
That's terrific. Okay. That's really nice. We're going to expand on that. But let's just, yeah, let's get maybe about a minute's worth of that whole interview. Let's check it out. Okay. Said this week, got a lot of attention. You were at your cabinet meeting. You said quote, I'm going to quote what you said. Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. Yeah. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally. Sure.
are you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to go up? No, I think your tariffs are going to be great for us because it's going to make us rich. But you said some dolls are going to cost more. Isn't that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up? I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs, that's 11 years old, needs to have.
30 dollars. Who does that they can have three dolls or four dolls? Because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Would you say they could have three dolls instead of thirty dollars? Are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves? No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five pencils.
What about a racer About balloons what what so it's okay to have objects beer and store shelves just as long as and everybody's not getting $30 or pencils for that matter unbelievable
I don't know. What about the crayons? I don't know. You know for some reason I ended up with thousands and thousands of Crayola colored pencils. Really? And I have no idea how we ended up getting so many of them. It's like you know they use one or two a lot and then you buy a whole new packet and we just have
like thousands of those. By the way, they're great colored pencils. Doug is texting us from St. Francis this morning. He says, will we move doll manufacturing back to the U.S.? Maybe that's the plan. That's it. And then buy $30 for your kit. Again, he's focusing on taking toys away from girls. Yeah, I don't know why. What is this? I have no idea.
You can call us right now, 608-879-8255. The Civic Media app is the easy way to go. You can text us or call us from the Civic Media app. Dick is on the line this morning with a call. Good morning, Dick. What do you got on your mind? Well, he proves on a daily basis that he's far more complex than we ever gave him. And I'm going to ask you something. I need some help with this. I really do. What party?
has traditionally just hated Hollywood elites, Hollywood, everything about it. And now he's going to come to the rescue of Hollywood and the movie industry and put tariffs on foreign movies. I mean, that is, that is another huge story. Another one from the what Ben? I mean, I mean, back in the fifties, they were after like, you know, Henry Fonda and
And Robert Mitchum and and and and you know what I'm saying Republicans in general don't like Hollywood elite Jane Pond and right and now he's gonna ride in on the horse and save Hollywood. That's right Yeah, he doesn't want he's going to tariff 100% I believe Hollywood foreign films Hollywood studios going to different countries to film their movies again
I can't imagine. James Bond?
Not going to another country. That's what he does. And, you know, they're filming all of this stuff all around the world. I mean, it's a global industry. Right. And we're the envy of the world. Hollywood is the envy of the world. And having Hollywood go out to these different countries and using their locations is just a fantastic thing. And now Trump wants to stop that. He wants to just film here on studio sets, I guess. That's more original.
That's the way he wants it. And destroy everything about Hollywood just because he's got this inclination. Who is this guy? What is wrong with him, right? No idea. Oh, I'm glad you brought that up, Dick. That's a really good point. That was one of the big stories we were going to cover this morning.
So, but we have a, we have a different one to cover and that is Governor Evers. Now, last week we played a cut from a web wisdom, this guy who found out about a memo that Governor Evers released to public employees and, and that's cut 34 on. We'll listen to that cut 34. Okay.
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.
Alright, so that's that we played that last week and I couldn't find the actual story any place, but it turns out to be real Yes, and that's why I played it, but at the same time then borders are Tom Homan
came out with a very threatening uh uh uh edict for everyone out there listening and that was for governors elected politicians anyone resisting ICE including governor evers okay now governor evers took it seriously and he took it personally and uh he has a uh uh a message for the state but we'll get to that in a moment because there's a coalition of advocacy organizations on saturday that expressed support for evers
and they wrote, to threaten our governor over his legal direction, to his gross overreaction by our federal government and is not occurring in a vacuum. They continued warning that the administration's rhetoric and actions represent a chilling attempt to normalize fascism. Now this is really scary stuff. This speech, I'm gonna play the whole thing because this is really important. This is Governor Evers and thank God he is our governor at this point. But here he is, let's listen. Good morning, Wisconsin.
Governor Tony Evers here. And speaking to you today as your governor, but also as a concerned American, yesterday as Trump administration official, and not so many words, apparently threatened to arrest me for distributing guidance that as state agency employees to consult with an attorney of federal agents show up at state buildings with legal documents. The goal of this guidance was simple.
to provide clear, consistent instructions to state employees and ensure they have a lawyer to help them comply with all federal and state laws. Nothing more, nothing less. But Republicans and their right-wing allies, including Elon Musk, lied about this guidance, spread misinformation, accused me of doing things I didn't do or say, and fueled a fake controversy of their own creation.
Now, I'm used to Republicans and the right-wing lying about me. It comes with a job. But this time, these lies came at a cost. I haven't broken the law. I haven't committed a crime. And I've never encouraged or directed anyone to break any laws or commit any crimes. But when President Trump's hand picked a pointy,
Tom Holman was asked about me in this guidance after he apparently threatened to arrest elected officials across the country. He said, wait till you see what's coming. Wait till you see what's coming. Overnight, Republican lawmakers piled on encouraging the Trump administration to arrest me, showing threats like this should be of concern to every Wisconsinite and every American who cares about this country and the values hold here.
We live in the United States of America, folks. We are a country of laws. The rule of law matters following the law matters. In this country, the federal government doesn't get to abuse its power to threaten everyday Americans. In this country, the federal government doesn't get to arrest American citizens who have not committed a crime. In this country, we don't threaten to persecute people just because they belong to a different political party.
These threats represent a concerning trajectory in this country. We now have a federal government that will threaten or arrest an elected official or even everyday American citizens who have broken no laws, committed no crimes, and done nothing wrong. And as disgusted as I am about the continued actions of the Trump administration, I'm not afraid. I've never once been discouraged from doing the right thing, and I will not start today.
You know, I swore an oath when I took this office to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and to faithfully discharge the duties of this office to the best of my ability. I will never waver from that promise. I hope and pray every elected and appointed official in this country, including the President of the United States of America, will do the same. Forward and for Wisconsin always.
There you go. Tony Evers, governor of Wisconsin. Screenly important speech. I'm surprised the media nationwide hasn't picked up on it. Again, this is a threat toward a state governor. Yes. And it's huge. This is really big and this is blown up on a proportion simply because a few right wing radio announcers in Milwaukee brought attention to the judge and then took that and then they
Managed to expand it to include anyone now anyone who resists eyes and they can they don't have to help as a state Again, this is not a sanctuary law. There's no such thing. It's just that they don't necessarily have to cooperate with them in regards to it It's a federal government. Yeah, and good for Tony Evers coming out on it. Yeah, really strong really strong message for everybody Certainly something to worry about eventually absolutely
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Looks like we're going to break out the surf music for summer.
Yes.
Yes.
722.
We're seeing bright sunshine now and a lot of clouds earlier.
And it's going to be a nice day all in all.
Let's.
Well, let's
find out
from the
award winning Brittany Merlot.
Right.
WMDX meteorologist.
Yeah.
You raked in three whole awards.
Wow.
Oh, I can't even believe it.
I was just so excited to be.
Yeah, this was at
the
Wisconsin Broadcaster Association, Shindig,
Saturday
Night, here in Madison.
Yeah, so tell us about the awards that you won, Brittany.
Don't take
a long
time.
It
happens so fast though.
Honestly, I had no idea and it was like one after another.
It was just a whirlwind of I'm just shocked still.
I'm still in shock, but so you deserve first.
Thank you.
Thank you guys so much.
It was a lot of hard work, but it was also a lot of fun to make these stories too.
Because one of them was a feature story.
So it was on EAA, World's Busiest Airport.
You guys remember me there live and all that stuff talking to you.
But I did a story before it even started and it was kind of talking about how hard it is for these pilots to fly into the small little airport that becomes the world's busiest.
And so we talked about things from VFR to IFR, different flight rules, how much traffic was going in, how close they're landing and how dangerous it is and it's hard.
And then we talked about the different severe weather that rolls through and how they tie their planes down or they try to get out.
How do they evacuate with all this expensive, amazing, you know, aircraft sitting there at Oshkosh because we had a tornado come by and rip in.
It was two years ago and threatened that event.
The story was just based on advice and how to do it and how to handle the weather and get there safely in and out.
The thing that the the landing field is just a parking lot for a supermarket is just amazing to me that they turned in.
They
were able to do that.
No, I think it's a whole new meaning to death by driveway.
Death by driveway.
A quote from
Brittany Merleau right here on the show.
Okay, so that was one of the awards.
What were the other?
two awards.
So another one I got was Best Spot News, which was a story on the cranberries and the economy here in Wisconsin and then the freeze that was happening at that time.
So basically I talked to an owner up north and he was worried about the lack of exports and where the economy was going with cranberries and where you can buy them, how you can use them.
And he was just talking about all that stuff.
But then what had happened was a frost hit.
So they got ice on top of the marshes way too late in the season and it damaged a lot of crop.
talked about how hard it was to try to melt that ice, get the crop down and just how they're standing knee deep in this freezing water with, you know, fire hoses trying to get the ice off.
It was, it was a lot going on over there.
So that was one of the stories for best spot news.
And then I also had best newscast.
which had a compile of a bunch of different stories.
But one of them that was much longer was kind of focusing on Granite Peak and Red Mountain here in Wasa area.
And what they're doing right now is they're doing trail planning and stuff.
So they're trying to change the trails around because
of climate change.
The skiable days are dwindling.
And so what are they going to do with this resource that we have?
How are we going to keep people coming in tourism and the money and stuff like that?
Well, you know, zipline is one thing you can do.
That would be awesome.
Look at you have the answer.
I
know.
That'd be cool.
I would do it.
Did you say there
was a mountain up there in
Wasup?
Yeah.
Wow.
It's a
glorified hill.
What's it called?
Rib Mountain State Park.
Rib
Mountain?
There
is
no mountains in Wisconsin.
There
are no
mountains.
Okay, so anyway.
Okay, well.
If it rains, then most of the state.
Well, congratulations on all those awards.
Thank you.
So
weather-wise today, let's get to that because we're seeing a lot of sunshine this morning and looks like a pretty good week ahead of us, right?
Absolutely.
I mean, oh, we've got an Omega block.
I'm sure people.
Oh, the Omega block.
I love the
Omega blocks.
Right.
Yes.
I
think that's just great when we have them.
Tell us more.
They are.
They are.
So just nothing but sunshine, dry weather, nothing to talk about.
My job is easy this week.
Yeah.
I mean, phone
it in.
Right?
The only chance of brain we have is, I mean, there's a few sprinkles maybe this morning.
We have a war-winning
meteorologist here, and you're telling her to phone it in.
Well, there's nothing going
on this week, really.
Wow, you're encouraging.
Just saying.
That's what I used to do, right?
OK.
All right.
Well, it was your secret.
So things
pretty
good
all
week long.
Temperatures near or above normal.
We're going to be hanging out in those mid 60s to mid 70s.
Enjoy it.
Yeah.
Very good.
All
right.
Excellent.
Brittany, thank you so much.
Thank
you guys.
We'll talk to you tomorrow.
That's our award winning WMDX chief meteorologist Brittany Merlo.
Okay.
Wonderful.
Bye bye.
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Well, we got about a minute here left.
You know, coming up right after the news here,
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We'll be talking all about what...
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And how they make your pet relaxed and just take it all in.
It said it is, right?
That's what they use.
That's a drug.
Well, we'll ask Liz about that.
You know, this week also, Thursday night is the Madison Night Market.
We'll be there right across the street.
in front of the Overture Center.
And we're gonna talk with Matt Trammell tomorrow about the Madison Night Market.
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seven thirty five. We've got sunshine this morning. A few clouds out there highs in the low sixties this afternoon. It's going to be a gorgeous day. Maybe a sprinkle or two late in the day or early this evening. And it's time for us to welcome back from Serenity Pet Spa, Liz Johnston. Good to see you again, Liz.
Good to see you guys. Good morning. The sun is shining this morning. We're having a good day. So tell us about Serenity Pet Spa. We had you in a while back a couple of weeks or so ago, and we really just got started with that. So for people that don't know about Serenity Pet Spa, give us the overview.
The overview of serenity. So we are a grooming salon for mostly dogs. So we service all dogs, all sizes. We focus on kind of making it a good experience, a bit of a spa day for the dogs. So we do kennel free.
for when they're there, they're not sitting in a crate, everyone's not barking at them. And then we have two locations now, a third opening this summer. Don't have a date yet. Do you know the location? You want to mention it yet? Yeah, it'll be in the Middleton area. Yeah, like the far west side. Yeah, yep. So you have Madison West Side on Odana Road, and then on the east side at East Park Boulevard? Yep. Yeah, it's right off American Parkway.
Okay. And how long have you been doing a pet? So I've been grooming for 20 years professionally, started showing dogs, well, about seven years before that. So been doing my own dogs before that. And then I've been, I opened Serenity, it was 10 years ago in September. So yeah, about 10 and a half years. Now you mentioned you do mostly dogs. Yeah. Once in a while I do a cat, if it's a good cat.
Really, very particular about the cats. They have to make the grade. Well, if they bite you, you go to the hospital. So you prefer dogs. Oh, yes. Well, also, a lot of the cats don't like our shop because of the dogs kind of being kennel free. So it has to be a cat that will tolerate dogs walking around them. And most cats are like, I don't want any part of this. I consider those very important caveats. Yes. So, yeah.
in all the years that you've been in business and you're expanding now, you have other groomers, I assume working with you, it's not a one person operation. No, I'm just grooming all the dogs all day every day. I don't sleep, my hands fall off. No, I actually have a training program. So I bring in people who want to learn to groom and they start off, you know, kind of learning the basics, the foundations as I like to call them of bathing, how to get a dog clean, how to treat a dog, how to understand their behavior. Because understanding their behavior is
the biggest part of being a good groomer. Because if you can't tell if that dog is stressed, uncomfortable, and pain, just overexcited, if it's going to be aggressive, it's not safe to be a groomer for either the groomer or the dog. So I have my own training program, which is going really well.
What do you do with an unruly dog when they come in? I mean, is there a way to calm them down? Yeah, and it really depends on what the issue is because sometimes dogs are just a little bit of like a separation anxiety because they're used to being with their owners all the time. They just need to like decompress. Some of them have had past experiences where maybe an inexperienced groomer did something that made them uncomfortable or made them scared or some are just a little
kind of bullies and they don't want to do something and maybe they got away with it once so they're like, I can get away with it every time now. So it really just depends. You have to understand where that dog's coming from. It's just like having a toddler.
Like, you have to understand why is that toddler having a tantrum? Is the toddler hungry? Is it tired or is it scared? Is it angry? You know, so I'm calling kids an it now. But, you know, it's fine. We know what you mean. Yeah. But, you know, so you really have to understand that. And there's plenty of times that we send a dog home without grooming it because it's not ready for it that day. And we set him up with like a rehab program to get comfortable with us with us and build trust. Well, John has a very active dog. You should maybe take it in this room.
Yeah, she doesn't like to be groomed and she doesn't like getting burrs taken out behind her ears and it's really irritating me and plus she's a border collie and they have this really nice coat at the back end by their tail and it's long hair but you know we have been able to
Tackle that yet. It's all matted out. Yep. So yeah, she would be a great a great customer Just too permissive of a pet parent
We've never had this before, you know? I mean, we had two border collies before that. They were fantastic. We could do anything. They'd let us do anything. She is just completely different. See, every dog has their own personality and their own text. Neeks needed just even my own dogs of the same breed. I have different personalities in each one of them. So you really have to kind of cater to that. And one of the biggest mistakes people can make is if their dog doesn't like grooming, they avoid the groomer.
So all that does is create more of a stressful situation when ultimately they need to have it done. So it's nothing but a negative experience. For dogs that don't like the groomer, I recommend going more often. Because the more often they can go, the easier it is on the groomer, the easier it is on the dog, and the more they start getting used to it. They're never gonna love it, but they can at least be like, okay, this is what happens here.
Nothing really terrible happens. I know this person. I trust them and like, I'll just, let's just get it over with. They kind of get that like, let's get over it mentality. Yeah. Now, I know when I take the dog to the vet, you know, they're constantly giving her little treats in order to calm her down and relax and become familiarized with her. And, and then, you know, they're much more acceptable of what's going on. You don't use treats in order to tempt them. I don't use treats mainly because.
You know, we're not dealing with dog one-on-one.
If we were doing the dog one-on-one, I could give it that treats. Anytime we let treats in the shop, somebody never fails, they steal it. So when we have dogs that come in that have allergies to certain things and we don't want any dogs going home sick, so we don't really use any treats, we just try to do it mostly on praise and play. So they're getting rewarded with play, they're getting rewarded with, you know, attention because we have more time to spend with them than a vet. A vet kind of needs to make a friend as fast as possible. Yes. Where we have them at the
shop a couple hours so we can let them just sort of get to know us a little and get comfortable and get a little praise and attention as their reward. What kind of special equipment do you use? I mean everything.
Yeah, so much. Oh my goodness. I don't want to talk about. So well, actually, the most specialized piece of equipment we have is it's called a theroclean machine. It's a micro bubble system. And what it does is it creates microscopic bubbles that go underneath the dog's skin and release any of the allergens that are underneath the surface. So a lot of like your shampoos, they just kind of put a bandaid on any skin issues. And this goes underneath the skin and pushes it out. So that's
That's like our most specialized piece of equipment we have that most people don't, but it works really good for any of the dogs with major skin issues and arthritis. We have a lot of old dogs that come in and it's almost like a massage. It feels really good. We put our hands in it all the time. But yeah, it's a really cool little system. Well, that's cool. Yeah. We're talking with Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa. Now you mentioned a few minutes ago, you have the dogs for a couple of hours, right? So that's, is that?
Is that the usual time? So a lot of shops, I feel like especially in this town, a lot of shops do dogs like straight through. And there are situations where that's good for some dogs that they like just kind of a quiet one-on-one thing, either like a mobile groomer or a smaller shop. We cater more to the dogs that need a little energy to take off. They need to settle in for a little bit first. And so we're able to let them hang out and play. We give them breaks between every step and just spend a little bit more
time with the dogs, because I mean, ultimately, that's why we work with dogs is because we like them. So so they get especially the puppies were like, no, you cannot have your puppy back in an hour. We want to play with it. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. So now if people want to find out more, they can contact you how
Our website is always the best place to start. It's serenitypetspommadison.com. And then you can kind of select your location. You can reach us directly through there. Email is always great because our phones ring like crazy and we're busy dealing with dogs. So we try not to spend time on the phone. And I noticed on your website you have a portion here where it says join our team. You're looking for groomers. Always. We're always looking for new people, especially the new location coming. So we're always looking for people that want to learn to groom.
Or just want to play with dogs all day and just become bait. Because we have some people that just want to be baiters. And they don't really go past that. But we have people, we always have spots for people that want to learn to groom and we're always hiring. And yep, I added three people last month. I got a question. You sort of alluded to this earlier. You said you've been professionally grooming for 20 years and showing dogs for seven before that. And I think on your website it mentioned that
You've been in dog grooming competitions. What does a dog grooming competition look like? So a dog grooming competition is basically you go into this ring and there's like 40 plus tables in there and they're all set up and everyone shows up. Their dog is clean and bathed and it's combed out, but it's got all this hair growth on it. So at least like six weeks of hair, which is kind of common rotation for most dogs. So enough to make a big difference. So you show up in the ring and you have to groom it.
on a time frame. And then the judge comes through and they comb every single hair and they find everything you miss because there's always something. And so they comb through and then they judge you based on how well you groomed the dog to that standard. But yeah, I know I'm currently number two in the country right now. But I haven't been competing a lot this year. The knee surgery kind of took me back a little bit. But yeah, so I'm currently number two. And I was on Groom Team USA last year. We went over to Belgium for the World Competition.
No kidding. I didn't realize this was such a big deal. That's amazing. Yeah, there were about, I think, 46 countries represented at the World Show. 26 competed, I think, with a team. So, like, it's a four-person team, and they compete in, like, the different classes, and you get ranked, and it's a whole crazy thing. So, yeah, it was quite an experience. Wonderful. All right. Well, Liz, thanks for joining us. And again, if people want to find out more, you go to SerenityPetSpaMadison.com, right?
That's the one. All right. We'll see you again sometime soon. Absolutely. I'll be here. Very good. That's Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa. Thanks. All right. Yeah. That's wild stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. OK. 746. This portion of the show is also brought to you by Virlo Mattress of Madison. One thing remains constant since they opened their doors in 1958. They are still direct to consumer providing superior products at unbeatable prices. Check them out at two locations in Madison.
east side and west side, or just go to verlo.com. All right, we've got a few texts here from stuff we've already talked about.
Steve Huntman Horb says, I need 32 by four studs to complete a project. Trump thinks that I only need a couple. Prices have already gone up and we're talking about, of course, the 30 dolls instead of just two very expensive dolls. You can build a garage with two studs. I'm sure you could do it. Oh, I'm sure you can. OK. Yes. How about Doug in St. Francis? I think he sounds a little irritated this morning that we seem to be
You know, I'm not taking a lot of this seriously. Spending air time.
of Trump's doll theory is amusing, but it's a win for Trump creating distraction while his administration is piece by piece dissembling the country. And he also wrote back again, in the last week, Trump has signed executive orders to end NPR and the endowment for the arts. This is not a distraction. So, you know, he's kind of frustrated. I know there's a lot of stuff out there that, you know, he's certainly taken care of his.
His latest budget, which is something I really wanted to focus on, that he was suggesting to the Congress to at least include a lot of his ideas into their budget.
is crazy stuff. And I mentioned it earlier that he wants to create not just, you know, people in Americans living paycheck to paycheck, but refugees that want to eventually leave this country. So that's my theory. I'm the first one in the nation to have presented that. Is that right? I didn't realize that. Yes. It's amazing. Okay. 748. When we come back, we'll wrap up the show. A few leftovers, a few odds and ends, a few tidbits. Stay with us for more of John and Gordy in the morning.
Let's roll!
Terrific, if you like eating leftovers. Leftovers. Leftovers. I kept the leftovers. The leftovers. Just some leftovers. Leftovers for a week and a half. He ate those leftovers. You know, leftovers. Leftovers. Enjoy. Well, I hope you enjoyed. Some of the stuff is just wacky and crazy. Some of it's really, really serious. Let's get to...
the Hollywood thing. Brian Stelter reacted to Trump's post saying he wants a 100% tariff on all and any movie coming to the U.S. and produced in a foreign land. You can't do it. He doesn't want to have it.
This is coverage that I found yesterday from Brian Stelto. Let's listen to this. Okay. And he's saying that he wants to authorize the Department of Commerce and the U.S.
trade representative to begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any and all movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands. What is this about? I have a couple questions, but just what's your first reaction to that?
It's unclear how this would be enforced, but it's really interesting on two levels. Number one, there's something known as runaway production in Hollywood. This started actually literally in Hollywood when filmmakers would go in other parts of California to make their movies. Now, runaway production is a global phenomenon. Filmmakers go to Canada, to Great Britain, to other countries to make their movies because there are tax incentives and there are other reasons why it's more cost effective. Location. So I think Trump is responding to that phenomenon, which is very real.
a big problem for U.S. entertainment companies. And I think he's also reacting to China because in recent weeks, China has said that it's going to release fewer U.S. films in Chinese theaters. That was one way for China to retaliate against Trump's tariffs. So Trump here using the American movie industry, trying to say films should be made here in the U.S. and trying to punish filmmakers who are making films outside the U.S. Yeah, it's interesting because you have to think again, we're just trying to kind of sort.
through this, there's a lot of film studios out there right now, or producers, directors that are scrambling going, we're supposed to, we're set to film wherever, Canada, like you said, or maybe if it's, you know, you think about Harry Potter shot in Great Britain. What is it, would it affect them as well? I mean, those are American made movies by American studios, but they're shot somewhere else. Yeah.
Right, that's partly what's so interesting about Hollywood. Hollywood is a foreign export, you know, and every other country wants a version of it, you know. There's so much envy of the American movie industry, even as the American movie industry is increasingly multinational and happening all around the world. So Trump is saying the actual production should be in the U.S. How this would be implemented is unclear. And I think, you know, it does raise questions about productions that are happening right now, for example. There had been talk, though, in recent months about tax incentives, other ways to encourage U.S. production.
What he's trying to do here is punish the outside the U.S. production as a way to incentivize production at home in the U.S. You know, you should incentivize, you know, other countries producing their movies here in this country, not doing it the other way around by... Never mind. Just a, he's an idiot. I don't think he's even been to a movie in years. Now, let's get to a big story, and this is huge.
Go ahead. Yeah. Kristen Welker on NBC heard Trump say he has a voter permission to deport immigrants without due process guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. Apparently voter permission supersedes any old constitutional mumbo jumbo. Voter permission. And besides, there are too many deportees, and that would take forever to prosecute and give due process. Here's Cut26. This is Kristen Welker with Trump.
Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
I don't know I'm not I'm not I don't know I don't know the Fifth Amendment I don't know it seems it seems it might say that but you're talking about that then we'd have to have a million or two million or three million trials we have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on earth but it's some of the worst most dangerous people on earth and I was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it yeah but
Even given those numbers that you're talking about, don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president? I don't know. I have to respond by saying again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation.
Unbelievable lawyers have a different you just said yeah, there are different little nuances in every possible word you can think of so I know Could you play cut 27 real quick? I think we can get this. This is a immigration lawyer Let's play a little part of it anyway. I'm an immigration attorney and just the blatant disregard that this administration has had for very clear court orders has been Absolutely terrifying. What's your take on the president invoking the alien enemies act of 1798? You look at the history of the times we've used that law in our country
and it's not exactly, you know, a gleaming point in our history. Why is it important to protect people that do have a legal status, even if they did come into this country illegally? If one person doesn't have due process, none of us do. Under the Constitution, everybody has due process, not just citizens. So it's not as if, you know, citizens are in our own special category. Like, no, it is due process for all. So due process for losing it for one person means that it's at risk for every single one of us. Yeah, yeah. So there you have it.
Yeah, I don't know. It seems like it's pretty troublesome. I mean, you have to deal with that. There's so many people that have to be deported. It's just ridiculous. You know, there are just a few maybe criminals out of all of the tens of thousands they want to ship out of here. Yeah, innocent people. But, you know, due process would discover those innocent people and we don't want to take all that time. That's too much time. Yes.
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