When the chips are down and democracy's back is up against the wall, two radio veterans step up to the microphone to right the wrongs, standing for truth, justice, and just because.
To say what needs to be said, it's John and Gordy on 92.7
WMDX.
She's working out.
I don't know.
The anchor.
What's her name?
The CNN anchor.
Yeah.
I forget.
You know the new anchor's names.
I'm never quite sure.
Yeah, I
can't
remember.
She's
starting to look like she's working out.
John, you can look like that too.
I know.
Well, I do work on
it.
Oh, do you?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it's a battle, you know.
It's a battle with age and working out.
That's true.
Yeah, hey good morning.
Well good morning to everyone out there.
It's a gorgeous gorgeous morning This is gonna be a fantastic day.
Just have a feeling that it is gonna be a great day and a great week.
Oh man I'm as happy as I could be
What's
wrong with you
you're mr. Positive all of a
sudden yeah, forget it.
I think okay.
Yeah, well, I had to get that out.
Okay
now.
I'm
angry again.
Okay good
um yeah it's yeah it's gonna be a beautiful day it's 44 degrees currently yeah do you have your samsung wmdx watch
i do i
do have
it i went back i forgot it this morning i drove back and yeah
well i'm
gonna do a lot of walking downtown today
are
you yeah right after we get off here i'm gonna go out and census oh all right currently
49 degrees high today, around 78 damn hot degrees out there.
Holy mackerel.
That's bad, right?
What time is the sunrise?
Well, the sunrise, you would ask that.
544, it's already... It's already up.
Already up, and now sunset at it.
805.
Wow, that's
amazing down on the calendar.
Okay, we will do that.
Yeah, it looks like it's going to be pretty nice day.
I guess there's some fog out there in some areas down around Jamesville, but you know,
they deal with that.
We don't have to deal with it.
Yeah, I'm not worried.
Well, they can certainly deal with it.
I hope.
Okay.
Um, well, let's see what the afternoon high might be.
If we, uh, dialed up one of our many devices
here,
what do we, you know, we haven't
done
the slot machine.
No, we really have to do the one arm band and one arm band.
Here we go.
First number zero, seven, four, 74 is the afternoon predicted high.
You were predicting 78, your Samsung
78.
Yeah.
We'll see who's right this time.
Okay.
I think I have a feeling I will be right again.
Yeah, it's going to be.
Nice and warm.
Feels hot out there.
It does.
Might be the dew points or humidity.
Dew points are high, yes.
Check with humidity.
We'll check with Brittany.
Somehow she's impressed with my obsession with dew
points.
Well, at least it's not barometric pressure, because
you can
handle the dew points, but barometric pressure is a whole other story.
Yeah, it is.
What are they doing in the parking lot here?
They got all these cones.
I know why.
They're diverting traffic in the parking lot.
There is no traffic to divert this hour of the morning.
Yeah.
But they're setting up to do something again.
Again.
And it always takes like about three weeks before they actually start doing something.
Right.
Maybe there are different levels they're working on here.
I don't know.
Maybe they cleaned up the ramp before they should have cleaned it up.
Remember, it snowed a little bit and suddenly all this road salt and everything is back in the ramp.
So maybe they have to watch all that out.
Just never ends out there.
She repaints the lines.
When are they going
to repaint the lines?
Yeah, I can hardly see.
Gordy, why don't you grab a can of paint and go and do it yourself?
Well, damn it.
I think
I will.
Give me some paint.
Give me a brush.
Wait a
minute.
He's got the spray cans.
Oh, he does.
Oh, from the mattresses?
Yeah.
Oh, you
know, this should be a busy time of the year for you.
Yeah.
Right?
During hippie Christmas?
Yes.
Oh, you're right.
Yeah.
I didn't even think about that.
I was going to go out and look for, you know, free furniture and other goodies.
Oh, my
God, really?
Oh,
yeah.
Well, I hope you...
Hopefully you'll find a teletype in there someplace.
Well, let's look at the National Day calendar.
What do you say?
It's a six-stage.
Oh, yeah,
let's do that.
Yeah, we all made it through Cinco de Mayo.
Okay.
Is it or is it not?
Is it National Teacher Appreciation Day?
National Nurses Day?
National Beverage Day?
National Italian Restaurant Day?
or a national crepe sousette day.
Why don't you just say, isn't it national day to day day?
I mean, this is just like, this is the most boring list of days I've ever heard.
No detail in them.
I'm just thinking, it's not nurse's day today.
Well, it is nurse's day,
so you're wrong.
It's not
teacher's day today.
It is national teacher appreciation day.
You get
double buzzered.
Oh,
it just seems like so generic.
Sam, what do you think?
Oh, did you say Italian restaurant?
I did say that.
It's not Italian restaurant.
You are correct, sir.
Oh, all
right.
You got it right.
Where'd it go?
Yeah,
that
is a dumb.
That
one would jump right out.
I called you out on that one.
I must have missed you saying that.
Yeah, my attention span is.
Well, I hide the screen from you now because I know you've been peeking
lately.
Yeah.
Here we go.
There you know, you can move it back.
My head bone position.
Head bone jack is.
Oh, is
it?
Is it?
Sorry about that, pal.
Is it OK now?
Is it not working?
It's fine now.
What's the problem?
We got this gigantic desk and you two still managed to clutter it up with all of these wires and cables and now well computers.
I know
it's what we do and all these damn stories that we're bringing every
day.
Okay any let's see oh let's go over the national
Yeah, why?
National Teacher Appreciation Day on Tuesday during the first full week of May is a reminder to show your appreciation for teachers everywhere.
They do have a tough task, don't they?
More so than ever.
We are using this national day to say thank you to all the teachers for their time and dedication to educate our children.
And let's see.
National Education Association describes National Teacher's Day as a day for honoring teachers and recognizing their lasting contributions that they make to our lives.
Do you remember any teachers from your young childhood there, John?
Well, I do.
Yeah.
Well, any that stick out is.
Yeah.
I had an English teacher that was an inspiration.
Yeah.
Just fantastic.
Actually, two English teachers.
One, one.
really encouraged me to enter the debates she had in the classroom.
Yeah.
Public speaking.
Oh, yeah.
That was something else.
Yeah.
Has that led to your career in radio?
Yep.
Yeah, that was it.
That
was
the tipping
point.
What was that teacher's name?
Do you remember?
Nope.
Okay.
Did you ever go back to the school to thank her, you know, years later, you know?
I regret never having done that, especially to the one teacher that I had, Mr. Scardinia.
Okay.
He was a fantastic English teacher.
Maybe it's not too late.
Maybe he's still teaching
at the school.
When we did book reports like on Great Expectations, I drew a comic book version of Great Expectations.
Really?
It's actually pretty damn good.
You still have it?
I do.
And he encouraged it.
He was just fascinated by one of the kids in class drawing comic books.
Yeah, and he just loved the idea.
So anybody who can encourage a student to just use their creative is a friend of
mine.
Sam, did you have any teachers that you think of as you start to enter your teaching career?
No, they were all awful, and that's why I want to become just like them.
I want to ruin some kid's life.
Well, it's good to see you're motivated, I guess.
Don't anger there.
Well, take your revenge, man.
I'm not kidding.
Yeah, I had some wonderful teachers, and that's partially why I'm...
following in their footsteps.
Okay,
good.
Okay, I think I'm done asking questions on that.
Well, you know, Tim Slacker is a good person to look up to.
I really enjoy him.
He's open-minded and he's got a great sense of humor.
And we'll be talking with
him
on Thursday.
Thursday morning.
Yeah.
Did I mention it's National Crepes Suzette Day?
If I didn't, I should
have.
It is today.
Well, that was really interesting one.
All right.
Well, is that the
right way to say it?
Crescent?
Let's get Julian on the
line.
Crescent.
Yeah, let's
get Julian going here
anyway.
Yes, let's see.
While there are slightly different versions of Crepes Suzette.
The dish is quite distinct from most other crepe dishes.
Why is that?
Well, the recipe first appeared in the 19th century in Paris, courtesy of Chef... Chappanier.
According to the chef's memoir, he accidentally ruined a sauce for crepes while he was serving Prince Edward of Wales, the would-be King Edward the... One, two, three, seven.
seventh, and his guests.
With no time to recover, he tested the burn sauce and discovered the flavors blended deliciously.
See, it was an accidental recipe
that they
came up
with.
A lot of us continue to do that.
Crepe-Sousette history.
Okay, there you go.
Did we get Julian on the line on the pronunciation of crepe-sousette?
Sam?
I've got crepe.
I don't have crepe-sousette, but I think that's gonna have to do for now.
All right, let's try that.
Let's try that.
pronouncing it with a typical French pronunciation in French we would say crepe crepe the s at the end in French is silent but in English-American it'd be fine to say crepes crepes one crepe or several crepes in French again all
crepes crepes that's saying it wrong all this time crepes
is
that crepe what is it from crepe
crepe crepe crepe
Didn't
he say crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa crepa
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crepa crepa crepa
All right,
you're paying attention, but now when I go to the restaurant,
it's
crepa.
What about croissant?
So how do you say croissant in French with the typical French pronunciation?
Is it croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant?
Well, essentially, if you are able to pronounce the French R like the French do just say
croissant croissant the tea at the end of croissant
is
definitely silent so do not say croissant but rather croissant croissant
croissant croissant
croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant
croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant
croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant croissant
croissant croissant
by accident.
I could not believe.
And he's got every word.
He does.
He's got it covered.
It's National Beverage Day.
So enjoy a nice beverage and yeah, coffee.
Got the coffee going.
National Nurses Day.
We salute all the nurses out there on National Nurse Day.
Okay, I'd all love this has something to do with Florence Nightingale's birthday.
Oh,
okay
is celebrated English social reformer statistician and the founder of modern nursing
now I've got to say I think the nurses are definitely the pivotal point of health care in this country They carry the load.
Yeah, they seem to be doing everything now I mean every time I send an email to my doctor they take care of it
They do.
They're the ones that give you the advice, tell you
what to do next.
They are amazing.
Yep.
We salute all you nurses out there, okay?
It's 19 minutes past the hour.
When we come back, Sam will open up the history books and we'll see what's going on for this
day through history.
We'll try to
curb our enthusiasm here on the show.
Coming right back with John and Gordy.
That's beautiful.
I
just... He saw me do it and then he just had to copy it.
Wait till
the mic is on.
That's the best time to do that.
Well,
you know, if we would get the switch to the mic,
I never mind.
One of these days, it doesn't matter.
It's 23 minutes past
the
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This portion of the show being brought to you by... Why did you do this?
I
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making a big face at me.
A big surprise face because he said that there's really low temperature.
I'm thinking, what are you doing, man?
It's 46.
It's like 52 degrees out there.
Isn't it?
I feel like it's in the 40s.
It's
getting warmer.
I
wore a jacket on the walk over here.
I
know, but the sun is up.
It's starting to warm up.
Is it really?
It's 52 degrees already.
Is that what you're
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Yes.
Okay, 52.
We'll go with that.
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Going out to a movie
this afternoon.
You are?
Yeah.
I
thought you went out to movies already on Saturday night, and that's why you showed up so late to the WB.
No, I
was watching movies at home.
At home in his home
theater.
Well, what are you going to watch today?
Well, at
the end of the point, all the Marcus Seaters have a deal on Tuesday.
Tuesdays, yeah.
So the whole family's heading out about...
430 to to see the new movie for Marvel Thunderbolts
Thunderbolts always got a new movie don't they?
No, they don't
It's
been it's been a long long time before Marvel has come out with good movies or any kind of movie for that matter I haven't heard anything about Thunderbolts.
Is this new franchise or something?
Yeah, yeah, it's a new get-together some of the former villains and heroes all grouped together in this
kind of mismatched supergroup.
Wow.
Yeah.
Well, but there's a lot of good reviews on this thing.
Even my kids are saying, you know, people like in this one.
Normally they don't.
They're very critical of everything, including the lighting.
Whether it's in focus.
Yes, whether it's in focus.
How's the sound?
That's that's your line.
That's it.
Yeah, I'm very concerned with the technical quality of the police today.
Yeah, so much for plot.
But yeah, yeah, the Thunderbolts, it looks like it might be a really good one.
And we're just dying to have another superhero movie out there.
You know, it's probably been a decade since I saw a Marvel movie in a theater.
Wow.
More than that.
Well, you're Mr. Theater, man.
You should be out there in theaters all the time.
I know I'm just not the biggest fan of Marvel.
I don't know.
I got to work back up to it.
Okay.
Well,
the Marvel Universe, the original one with all the superheroes, the original superheroes, definitely check that one out.
You know, we don't know where they're going to go with the new list of heroes, the B heroes, I think, and the more current comic book heroes.
So they're all out there now.
They're bringing them back.
Thunderbolts is the first one anyway.
So we'll see how that works out.
I'll let you know tomorrow.
Thank you.
Johnny at the movies.
Can't wait.
Yeah, there you go.
All right.
Let's open up the history book
there, Sam.
Come on.
Yes,
you do.
You're required to open it up.
Some of it's
coming in
here.
Cough, cough, cough.
I was able to actually do an actual cough.
Thank you for that.
I can finally get a taste of what I have to deal with every day you make me open this darn book.
I hope the
new guy, you know, I hope you train him well.
Let's
hope he doesn't scare him away.
Let's
hope he
doesn't
cough.
Well, we played cold as ice on the way into this segment here because today in 1851 a guy by the name of John Goree sounds a lot like John Gordy, right?
Yeah.
But I didn't even notice that till now.
John Goree, he patented the very first ice
maker.
Okay,
really?
Well, yeah.
I mean, prior to that, you had to, I mean, for a long time.
Put water in a tray and put it in the
freezer, right?
But now this is an ice maker automatically.
Well, no, I mean, like refrigeration in general.
They didn't have that before then.
Before refrigeration, you had to take a big chunk of ice in the wintertime, store it underground where it was cold enough, and then use it throughout the year.
So the ice maker is just an ice tray with water in it in a freezer
now.
Yeah, that's what it was, John.
Okay, all right.
Okay,
what else happened?
Today, 1954, Roger Bannister, he cracked the four-minute mile that for a long time we thought humans would never surpass by being able to run a mile on under four minutes.
His final time was like three minutes, 59 seconds, and I think four tenths of a second.
So he just barely got in under that
record.
Good for him.
Is
that a big deal?
It
was a big
deal back in 1954, that was it.
I
take a walk around downtown Middleton and one mile and I get that
done
in
about
ten minutes.
You're a fast walker, gosh.
We'll try running it then.
I want to see how well you do it.
I'm gonna break that guy's record anyway.
Yeah.
Anything else?
Let's see.
Today in 1994, the channel opened.
The channel tunnel.
I love that.
Yeah, it's such a funny name between the UK and France.
You can thrive between
them.
Chunnel.
Okay.
We're coming back with more of John and Gordy after this time out from Midwest Farm Report, Food and Farm on your table.
And of course, a lot more.
Baby love.
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.
You know, it's really tough
getting into some of these stories.
I know it.
That's why it's idiocracy.
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WMDX climbing up into the 70s.
Time is exactly 635 and 49.
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Oh, wait, we have somebody at the studio door here.
Hello, everyone.
I hate to break it to you guys.
There's something wrong with you.
You're certainly not very good.
You're fired.
All right.
Well, I
thought we were.
I thought there was something wrong with him.
I'm
solid footing here, but I guess not.
Okay.
Well, I have to deal with that later.
I'm truly waiting for the guys to bust in here.
You know, ice.
I mean, we're, we're
careful what you wish for.
We're surrounded
by windows.
They will bust in here.
Oh boy.
Yeah.
Well, thank goodness we got a window we can escape out of.
These windows don't open.
They're going to roll down the side
of the building.
They don't open and we're a story up in the air.
That's
right.
So
what's happening with idiocracy?
Well, a lot of things are going on
in
idiocracy.
And I just think that maybe we should take a final look at the first 100 days listed by Rachel Maddow who titled her thing Oops.
And these are all the mistakes.
I mean.
Truly, we have been through a number of these already.
This is the final version.
The final list.
This is part three.
We have to split it up into three, three or four minutes.
I know, it's outrageous.
It just doesn't stop.
But let's try this one.
All right, let's do that.
Then this one, headline, Trump administration admits Maryland man sent to El Salvador prison by mistake.
Two days later, headline, Trump's tariffs hit remote islands.
One is home to mainly penguins.
The next day, Headline will make mistakes, says RFK Jr.
as fired U.S.
health staff asked to return.
Three days later, Headline economists reveal major math blunder in Donald Trump's Terra formula, which inflates the impact by 400% and could spark global trade chaos.
The next day, Headline.
National Park Service restores underground railroad webpage.
Oops.
Oops.
Had we messed that up?
Will you guys please pretend that that was a mistake and not something we totally did on purpose but then we couldn't defend it once we did it and so we just quietly undid it while hoping you wouldn't notice?
Can we leave it like that?
Same day, headline.
Doge cuts out of Florida Manatee Refuge have been reversed.
Same day headline Trump administration says it cut funding to some life-saving UN food programs by mistake Oops next day headline Trump announces sudden reversal on tariffs
This is every
day Friday night New York Times headline Trump officials blame mistake for setting off confrontation with Harvard quote the April 11th letter from the White House to Harvard should not have been sent and was quote unauthorized
And
it hasn't even slowed down.
I mean, just this week, headline, Trump administration reverses course, restores funding for critical weather data centers.
Headline, Elon Musk's hand-picked IRS chief lasts just 72 hours.
The story of this first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency is sometimes a very scary movie because of what he really does seem to be trying to do.
and what he has already done to some people and some parts of our government and some elements of our country.
Sometimes it is a very scary movie.
It is sometimes also an action movie with people all over the country springing into action and standing up to stop him from doing those things as best they can.
But the one thing it has consistently also been from the moment he got back to Washington is an unfunny farce.
a slapstick mess of reversals and mistakes and oops let's pretend we didn't do that and let's try to undo it and let's hope no one notices just how dumb it was when we really did do it and we can't even really defend it so
oops
I mean the one word that most sums up Donald Trump's term in office thus far heading to a hundred days in the one word that best sums it up is oops
Just because they're trying to do really really bad things doesn't change the fact that they're also just
Okay,
but they're also just what I don't know.
Oh, is that
really just where it ended?
Okay,
well, I mean
just one of those things that you know, there are some okay He is doing so many things.
There's so many executive orders We
can't
keep track of what he's signing.
Yeah next okay, so but there are so many mistakes that we can't keep track of that either
That's
it.
Fireholes.
And so we're kind of, you know, trying to keep track, keep up, and we can't.
So thank you, Rachel Metta for compiling all that stuff, because I was thinking of doing it myself.
Thank goodness she beat me to the punch.
Doug is echoing what you just said.
He texted in, while the Trump administration is destroying the country, Donald Trump himself is practicing the art of distraction.
book out soon
yeah absolutely a lot of distraction and not only that you know we're watching the monitor here in the studio at CNN they're talking about all of the lies all of the misinformation about the tariffs what's being done how much money is coming in
who's getting the new higher tariffs, who's tariffing who, why we have the tariffs in place in the first place.
You know, they're always talking about Canada, and they're always talking about how Canada has a tariff on milk.
And it's a tariff on milk only if we oversupply milk.
to Canada.
If we sell too much to Canada, we get penalized a 500 to 400 to 300 percent tariff.
If we do that, but we don't do it.
Well, the Canadian Prime Minister is going to meet at the White House with Trump today.
They're going to straighten all this stuff out.
I'm sure there's no problem.
I'm sure there's going
to be a fist
fight.
They'll
be a
meeting.
I'm pretty sure there's going to be a fist fight.
They'll sort it all out.
Could you queue up 134 from last month?
This is Stephanie Ruhle from MSNBC.
Okay, and I'm just fascinated by the title that I gave it I mean this is like a half a month old, but I wrote Stephanie rule describes the US slip into idiocracy Oh, so I'm thinking hey what a place for this particular story.
Let's listen to it
What do you think the likes of Vietnam can do to erase our trade deficit, you know what the answer is they can't
And if you want to onshore all of our manufacturing, if you want to do that, what Peter Navarro talked about, what Howard Lutton had talked about, you want to do that?
It'll take trillions of dollars and 20 years to reconfigure the global supply chain and bring it all home.
And for our allies in the West, those developed countries, they are certainly not rushing to partner back up with us.
Now with a US president who goes on national TV laughing,
saying they're all kissing my ass.
It is safe to say that the perch we and our American exceptionalism sat on even a few months ago has certainly been lowered.
We've got an agriculture secretary who tells us build a chicken coop in your backyard because eggs are expensive.
We have a defense secretary sharing military secrets in a group chat.
We are potentially lawlessly firing thousands of federal workers
and defunding science while we buy crypto.
We have lost an enormous amount of credibility and trust.
But what scares me is that every investor I speak to, even some who support this president, has given me the same message.
If the bond market continues to drop and drop and drop, you know where it goes?
It bankrupts the country.
Something Donald Trump
knows a lot about.
Sure does, doesn't he?
Wow.
Okay.
So he's doing it to the U.S.
now.
Yeah.
Gonna bankrupt us, just like the casinos.
Didn't that happen once before that the U.S.
just ran out of money?
I'm pretty sure it happened in the late 1800s.
I'm pretty sure it was J.P.
Morgan had to like literally bail out.
the country.
Maybe
that's what Trump
wants.
It's very possibly, yeah.
This is how crazy things are.
You know, our crazy Senator Ron Johnson.
By the way, mark that on the calendar.
I have never referred to him as a senator.
It's
so
disrespectful.
But anyway, I always call him dumb Ron Johnson.
But anyway, this is amazing.
Keep this in mind, okay, before we play this clip.
Johnson just voted against a measure to block Trump's tariffs, okay?
Voted against a measure to block Trump's tariffs, okay?
But he did say this, let's listen.
We'll say that I'm hearing an awful lot from manufacturers in Wisconsin.
If this thing drags on, if the tariffs remain high, their business will be put out of business.
One good piece of economic news with the recent numbers, business investment was up 9.8%.
President Trump and his team has to be very concerned if this trade
If the uncertainty and stability continues, that investment is going to fall off the cliff, and that'd be very bad for America.
So again, this is a bold, but I think it's a reasonably high-risk strategy.
I'm hoping that he succeeds, but the sooner he succeeds, the sooner we can bring certainty and stability to the American economy, the better.
Well, wouldn't that be nice if
it
succeeds?
Yeah.
So, of course, he blocked blocking.
Terrap so okay, but yeah, he's full bore with this.
You
know, he's
all
in.
Yeah, he just loves this stuff.
All right, now Let's
head to the
phones.
Let's go to Matt out there in Middleton.
Good morning.
What's on your mind now anyway?
Yeah.
Good
morning guys Naomi Klein has a new piece out in the Guardian which lays out The kind of philosophy and the the reason we're seeing a lot of this far right
Craziness under Trump, but it's also kind of worldwide with the other groups that they talked to and Steve Bannon has highlighted some of this for years And it's why the people on the far right and the so-called Patriots and the Christian Nationalists and all these weirdos They actually do not believe in a future.
They believe in a dystopian apocalyptic future Where Jesus comes back whatever the religious nonsense of it is but they basically think that
Because of their own doing, because corporations and the ruining of the environment, they kind of see it as a done deal.
There's no way to fix that.
So
they see a future of Walden communities where their chosen people have some kind of livelihood under the corporation that owns the city.
This is what Starbase in Texas is Elon Musk's attempt to do something like this.
But the sad part is they want to walk themselves off from everybody else and they see consistent war throughout the future, which is why they want so much for the Pentagon.
So the rest of us need to band together and show a future that is actually sustainable and safeguards our ecosystems.
And there's a lot of science that can do that.
But the young people have already bought into this apocalyptic future because of the Internet and all the nonsense that we're told.
Well, that's true,
Matt.
I just wanted to bring that up.
It's very dark what these people actually believe.
Yes, it is.
It
is very dark, Matt, and thank you for stealing the next story that I was going to play.
What?
That's coming
up.
We're going to get to Naomi Klein in just a few moments.
We'll be back with more of John and Gordy in just a moment.
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We've got a text here from Doug They believe that Jesus is coming we're talking about the end times by the way and and the latest book from Naomi climb the rise of End Times fascism anyway, Doug is taking off on Matt's call from Middleton They believe in is Jesus that Jesus is coming back.
Why not?
The John and Gordy show came back and then he followed that up with another text, I believe.
Just
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Wow.
Okay.
All right.
And now you mentioned Naomi Klein and so did Matt from Middleton with that phone call.
That's right.
Yeah.
She's got a article in Rolling Stone and also she was a guest on Amy Goodman show, Democracy Now.
And I pulled a clip from that show where Naomi Klein describes what she wrote about in her new book, The Rise.
of end times fascism.
End times is something that the religious right has been into for many, many years.
So let's check this out.
This is Naomi Klein on Democracy Now.
Fascism always is an attempt by the right to resolve a crisis of its own era.
I mean, if you think about fascism in the 1930s, this is before the atomic bomb.
It's before they understood climate change.
And we are
in a moment where our elites, whether they admit it or not, do understand that our economic model, and I've written books about this and talked about it with you in the past, is at war with life on Earth, right?
And they are barreling down this road of more and more extraction of fossil fuels, of
all kinds of you know basically anything they can extract from this earth and turn into energy and money particularly now with AI which is a energy and resource hog and also we're trying to understand
What unites this kind of strange Frankenstein coalition that Trump represents, where he's bringing together these, you know, the richest people in the world who have ever existed with, you know, many working class people?
So what binds the vision, right?
And what we come up with in this piece, or what we propose in this piece, is that they all have given up on this world.
Like, they all have bought into a kind of apocalyptic fever, right?
Or whether it's the more populous MAGA vision
of the fortress nation state, which is thinking, OK, we know more and more people are going to be coming.
We know that disaster is on the horizon.
I've listened to a lot of Steve Bannon when I was writing Doppelganger.
And it's all very survivalist.
All of the commercials, pretty much, are selling gold because the economy is going to collapse.
It sees the nation and the in-group
as being inside the bunker, and then it's exiling the outgroup to all of these—
Lawless territories that you've been covering on the show
you also write about El Salvador's terrorism confinement center the notorious prison say cut where so many hundreds of people Have been sent from the United States and at the same time in the last 24 hours President Trump saying he wants to reopen the notorious Alcatraz an island in San Francisco This is an incredibly bleak
vision.
So repression is always a huge part of any kind of fascist project, right?
You need to contain the outgroup.
You need to disappear the outgroup.
Trump was elected promising all kinds of things to his base, right?
He promised to eliminate inflation.
He promised to bring these great jobs home.
He's not delivering on any of that.
So the sadistic part of his project is really all he has to offer, right?
I think one of the most chilling things I've ever seen in the United States was
Trump sharing that video at his 100-day rally of just pure sadism, of just looking at prisoners as entertainment, being shaved, being shackled, being paraded.
And so this
scales up the need for the sadism and these spectacles, right?
And I think that that's what something like Alcatraz represents.
He's a TV producer, first and foremost, right?
He's producing spectacles.
And the less he has to offer economically, tangibly,
materially,
the more he leans on the sadism.
You know, what we're doing in this piece by laying out the bleakness of the vision, even though Trump talks about a golden age, there really isn't a future that the base believes in.
And this is what I've learned by consuming far too much MAGA media, Amy.
They envision a future of endless war, right?
And this is why they're bunkering down.
This is why they're buying ready to eat meals to last.
This is why they're buying gold and crypto.
They think the whole thing is going down.
So they don't believe in the future is the bottom line.
So I think that if we have the courage really to look at the bleakness of what they believe in, which is an apocalyptic future, then we have our work cut out for us.
Being the people who actually believe in this realm in this world in the beauty of creation and of each other
there you go That's Naomi Klein her latest book the rise of end times fascism her appearance on democracy now with Amy Goodman Just it's fine.
Yeah, I've been talking about Naomi Klein getting her
right
show.
She had a great book
Disaster capitalism and that's kind of what we're going through now She didn't mention it here, but it is where you create a huge problem Cataclysmic problem and you take advantage advantage of it by passing things you would never be able to pass in normal times, right?
Because it's an emergency right exactly and that's what they're doing here It's an amazing
thing
Sam, did you have something to add there?
No, okay.
And we also, we have a text here from D in Jamesville passed along a few assembly bills to us and we'll take a look at that next hour.
And also we'll find out more about the Madison Night Market and we'll check in with Brittany Merlot on all the weather around our area.
We'll be back with more of John and Gordy in the morning for this Tuesday.
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People think I'm controversial.
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Yeah, okay on discord the
in Jamesville was looking around at the 5050 one Wisconsin site and this is what she discovered and and this is out there It's assembly bill 34 right here in her own state legislative
But you're still managed by the Republicans, still gerrymandered.
And someday that'll end, I hope.
Anyway, this is Assembly Bill 34, makes it more difficult for families of people killed by the police to seek criminal justice against their murderers.
Currently, loved ones of victims can petition...
Circuit court judge to open a criminal case against the officer who killed the victim after the officer has been ruled innocent by the district attorney.
What AB 34 does, it would ban criminal complaints against officers who have murdered civilians unless significant new evidence is revealed.
AB 34 sets a dangerous precedent of stimulating due process.
Wait.
eliminate new process for crimes committed by police officers.
Wow.
Yeah.
I'm reading this like 10 feet away off the monitor.
But you got most of it right.
I got it right.
You know what this means.
What?
I think you guys should become cops now.
Then you're immune from anything that Donald Trump might come after you for.
Yeah.
That's
your operating
theory.
Yeah,
that's
right.
There's a lot going on in the state too because I mentioned the other day that Trump came out with his own budget proposal of one trillion dollar cut in everything you can possibly think of like savings more than 26 billion dollars by eliminating the Department of Housing and Urban Development's rental assistance program including Section 8 vouchers and replacing it with a plan to allow states to design their own rental assistance programs.
with their own money, eliminating $1.25 billion home investment partnership program which provides grants to states and local governments and low interest loans to developers to expand the supply of affordable housing.
Cuts to organizations and non-profits that work on fair housing issues.
Those are just some of the things that Trump wants to cut in the current proposal in the house.
Wow.
That's a lot to unpack
there.
Yeah, there is a lot, but
I'm bringing it up
very quickly because Governor Evers is out in front of this.
He has just announced a new lawsuit against the Trump administration's reckless cuts that will hurt our kids.
the families and seniors who make it harder for keeping Wisconsinites and our communities healthy and safe all to help pay for.
And this is the bottom line.
And we've been emphasizing this on the program.
All of these cuts by Doge, all of these cuts, it's to support the tax cuts for the rich and corporate.
That's what all of this is about.
This entire exercise, the destruction of the US government as we know it, is all there.
because they want to give tax cuts to the rich, and then they want the tariff money to supply the funding they need for the tax cuts to fill in the money that they're losing.
Yeah, that's the scheme.
The other way around by giving the tax cuts.
They want to fill in the blanks, but they can't because the tariffs aren't going to supply all of that money.
Enough money anyway.
Nowhere near enough money is still going to drive up the deficit by trillions and trillions of dollars.
That's right.
So Governor Evers is suing the Trump administration trying to stop all of this insanity, right?
Mm-hmm.
Man.
Well, I just want to open it up to the oligarchs and anybody else who wants to come in and buy America.
Just, you know, come in with your crypto money, come in with whatever you want, just America's for sale.
And
that's it.
That's our next topic,
by the way.
I wonder if it will work something like the stock market, where you can buy a portion of America, buy a share of America.
Maybe we could start investing.
Well You may have
that chance
if you're any kind of mega sucker.
Yes, you could start investing
right away
Because the bulwarks Tim Miller explains the open corruption of Trump schemes to make billions on the Trump coin Why don't we check those cut 32?
This is the biggest
thing
happening right now.
Let's check
it out
the Trump crypto corruption
is now off the charts.
What is happening with Trump's crypto coin is something in history that would be only akin to what would happen in tin-pot dictatorships.
We have a Gaddafi-level scheme happening right now in this country under our nose.
I want to point you to this most recent story from the UAE, which is well-reported by the New York Times, sitting in front of a packed auditorium in Dubai.
A founder of the Trump family cryptocurrency business made a brief but monumental announcement.
A fund backed by Abu Dhabi would be making a $2 billion business deal using the Trump firm's digital coins.
That transaction would be a major contribution by a foreign government to President Trump's private venture, one that stands to generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the Trump family.
That man that was on stage, Zach Whitcoff.
son of Steve Wittkopf.
So our chief negotiator in the Russia-Ukraine war, if you want to call it that, I mean, maybe the chief advocate for Russia at the negotiation table in the Russia-Ukraine war, Steve Wittkopf, his son is a business partner with the president that appointed him.
And that family business, the Wittkopfs and the Trumps, managed to shake down the UAE.
For two like for hundreds of billions like they they get a processing fee You know, it's gonna taste off of this deal that is done using their coin Why would they use a Trump coin?
Like I just didn't go this for a second Who wants to do a two billion dollar transaction with the Trump?
Like the only rationale for doing a two billion dollar deal with Trump coin is because you want to bribe Donald Trump You want to bribe the president of the United States?
Yes, that's it
It's the only possible rationale.
There's no logical rationale for it.
It makes no sense in any other context.
So we have a bribery scheme happening with Abu Dhabi and the Trump family.
There you go.
That's Tim Miller from the Bulwark explaining exactly what's going on in Abu Dhabi.
Now, reporter Ryan Grimm, who's been around for quite a while, he's got a report, a trucking firm just told the SEC
The security securities and exchange commission.
Yeah, it's borrowing 20 million dollars now to expand their business not to hire new people but to buy Trump coin to bribe Donald Trump
for trade favors.
All right, so let's listen to cut 48 here.
This is another explanation.
It's all happening.
This is one of the big stories kind of taken off here.
Let's listen.
A
company called Freight Technologies just announced to the SEC that it will be rolling out a $20 million bond offering and using the proceeds of it to buy Trumpcoin for the explicit purpose of buying influence
with the Trump administration over trade policy.
This is from an explosive news story by my former colleague SV Date over at the Huffington Post.
This is the kind of story that over the last 200 plus years would be the kind of revelation that would lead to wall-to-wall coverage and likely to impeachment proceedings and possibly even a successful impeachment conviction.
It's incredible.
It is a company saying that its intention is to borrow money
borrow 20 million dollars and use the proceeds to bribe the president of the United States to win favorable policy for its company.
And I sympathize with this company.
It's a trucking logistics company.
They are facing an existential crisis with Trump's tariffs.
And the Trump administration has set up what is effectively a bribery bucket.
And so companies that don't put coins, Trump coin, into the bribery bucket are going to have less of a chance to influence policy.
They reference in their press release, along with this, that there's this auction going on where the top 20 or top 100 or whatever Trump coin purchasers will get an opportunity to have FaceTime with Donald Trump.
And so they're telling the SEC that this is a legitimate use of money, that they're going to borrow.
from
the
public in a bond offering.
This company goes under, they're filing bankruptcy, better take a look at where you are in the lineup of whether or not you're gonna get paid back.
So in any event, just utterly incredible, unprecedented levels of corruption from the Trump administration here.
Yeah, it's not like the trucking firm is doing this as like a whistleblower.
They're doing it because they're actually justifying taking this kind of money out.
to influence the Trump administration by buying the Trump coin.
Unbelievable.
And this is literally auctioning FaceTime with the dictator as one of the highest crypto buyers.
So this isn't lobbying anymore.
No, it's way beyond lobbying.
This is state sanctioned racketeering.
I mean, it's just
good.
And where the hell is Congress on all of this?
Absent.
Yeah.
What are they doing about it?
Now, a lot of people would think this is impeachable.
Yes.
Well, it's total corruption.
We've gone that road before, and nothing ever happens of it.
We need the Senate to allow us to do that.
This is absolutely criminal.
It's fascism and broad daylight.
I hope somebody does something about this.
This is ridiculous.
Keep an eye on it.
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When we come back, we'll check in with Brittany Merlot and get the latest on the weather.
And we'll find out more about the Madison Night Market.
First one of the season is this Thursday.
It's all coming up on John and Gordy.
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Hope you're having a very good one despite all the bad news that we have here in the show.
Well, let's take a break from the bad news and get
some good news going.
What do you say,
John?
All
right, let's get some good news going.
Well, it is 7.23 and time for us to check in with the award-winning WMGX chief meteorologist, Brittany Merlot.
Good morning, Brittany.
It's a beautiful day here in Madison.
How's the weather in Wausau?
Oh, just as beautiful.
My gosh, it doesn't get any better than this.
I don't see a cloud out there, at least here.
I hear there's a few clouds by you on occasion.
Right?
You see any?
Yeah, well, we don't see
any.
We had a few earlier this morning, but the weather window tells us exactly what's going on outside.
It's bright
and
sunny at the moment.
Yeah.
It's
flawless.
You gotta sell that window.
I know.
I
know.
It's always right.
Always,
always.
Yes, and it's just going to be a great day today.
Honestly, mostly sunny skies, warm temperatures.
We're going to get those mid-70s today.
I
predicted 78.
My WMDX Samsung Weather Watch has indicated 78 degrees soon.
We'll see.
We'll see.
Yeah, face off.
We'll see.
There you go.
We have a cold front moving through tomorrow, so enjoy the mid-70s today because we are going to fall to the mid to upper 60s-ish tomorrow.
Oh, that's
freezing.
End of burr.
That's the worst news I have for you.
A little bit of a cold front that could spark a brief shower, maybe in the evening, who cares?
It'll be
after dark.
And then we'll be in the 70s for the rest of the week, and we're gonna climb to about 80 degrees as we start off next week.
And it still looks dry into next week, so a very comfortable, enjoyable pattern, and especially it's falling on Mother's Day.
I think this is a gift for the moms.
Oh, that's right.
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah.
It's the Sunday,
right?
Yeah.
Okay,
well that's fantastic.
I mean you know a lot of farmers can get their plowing in their crops planted So this is a perfect time for everybody actually and to get the grill out warm it up the pellet grills
I know
me too
We
have a text in here from Robert and McFarland.
This one is for you, Brittany.
Have you been able to find any truth to the Madison Lakes protecting us from tornadoes?
That was your theory.
My
theory, yeah.
The Madison Lakes somehow guide the tornadoes away from us because we.
Oh, you know, I don't know if they're big enough to do that.
And sometimes, you know, it could, though, if the water, you know, is changing the temperature enough that
could
stop them or move them or dissipate them.
But sometimes on an occasion.
it could enhance them too.
So it kind of depends on the actual situation.
So these lakes, you know, people see this about cities too.
Like cities never get hit.
Well, it's kind of like a needle in a haystack.
Where's that?
get a land where's that dart gonna go um so tones you know the bigger they get the more susceptible they are i don't think the lakes have too much to do with it just on occasion you could kill it or spark it up
i think she just shot your theory down no i don't think she did she's waffling under saying i think you actually brought up uh you brought up another option and that was the heat from the cities
right so
i think that is
probably
or a combination of
things
going
on.
Okay, we'll compromise.
I'm right.
You're
right.
Tomato, tomato.
Exactly.
Brittany, thank you.
All
right.
And enjoy your
day.
We will talk again tomorrow.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
You
too.
WMDX chief meteorologist, Brittany Merlot.
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I thought this was kind of entertaining and that is John Oliver on his I believe it's his Mac show that he has out there And he's talking about RFK jr.
The attack on autism.
Why don't we listen to that?
All right,
Kennedy's also been making some very bold promises like this
massive testing
and research effort that's going
to
involve hundreds of scientists from around the world.
By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.
Okay, so first...
There is no autism epidemic.
There are autism diagnoses for people who are autistic, and it is pretty bold to claim you're going to get a definitive answer to something that people have been studying for decades by September.
Almost as bold as admitting to dumping a bear corpse in Central Park, your daughter telling the world you'd decapitated a whale with a chainsaw and yet still having the audacity to make a highlight reel on Instagram that simply says, animals, keep their f***ing name out of your f***ing map.
Most people agree.
The vast majority of the rise in autism diagnosis is due to there being more research, better awareness, and more access for people to get an accurate diagnosis.
That is what can happen when you put time and money into health services.
But RFK has persisted in treating the rise in diagnosis as a tragedy.
And the way he talks about autistic people in general can be utterly dehumanizing.
Autism destroys families.
More importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which our children.
These are kids who will
Never pay taxes.
They'll never hold a job.
They'll never play baseball.
They'll never write a poem.
They'll never go out on a date.
Many of them will never use a toilet on a system.
And we have to recognize, we are doing this to our children.
And we need to put an end to it.
Fuck you!
Which is the answer that we all kind of...
Yeah,
I've said over and over
every time we
hear him
speak.
Unbelievable.
My God.
It is 729.
We will check in with the Midwest Food and Farm Report with Pam Yonkey.
And when we come back, we'll talk to Matt Trammell about the Madison Night Market, the first one of the season happening this Thursday.
Yeah, it's a scary event.
A scary
event.
It's a Halloween
event.
No, it's
not.
What are you talking about?
We're coming back with
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Good to have you here again, Matt.
Good morning.
Thanks for having me back.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, it's that time of year.
First night market Thursday and the weather is looking great for this.
Yeah, yeah, it is.
We took a little bit of a risk moving it a couple weeks earlier this year for our first night market of the year.
But we really wanted to take an opportunity to celebrate.
University of Wisconsin graduation and their students.
So I'm very excited about it.
And yeah, the weather looks amazing.
So the night market is put on by the Madison Central Business Improvement District.
Yes.
Right.
Yes, the bid.
Yeah, the bid.
OK, so that's an easier way of
saying
that.
You got it right.
What the heck is that?
Yeah.
So the bid, we basically represent the roughly 370 small businesses on the street.
And when I say on the street, what I'm talking about is State Street all the way from the Capitol down to Library Mall and then the Capitol Square and the donut around it and King Street.
So first settlement, all of those businesses, really the lifeblood and the heart and the vibrancy of downtown, those are our members.
And we do everything that we can do to create an amazing atmosphere for the entire community to be down here.
Do a lot of programming and try to host as many community events as possible.
Really the idea is that, you know, we as a community are so supportive of everything they do and want to make it the best possible environment for not only the small businesses, but for the community to be down here and have a good time and enjoy.
Everything the downtown has to offer.
Well the Night Market is so much fun.
I mean we did it all last summer and yeah, it was just it was tremendous every time a lot of energy and a lot of families come out Yeah, and it's just it's you got the music going on a lot of musicians up and down State Street and and around
So anything new this year, anything people should be aware of with the night market this time around?
Yeah, well, so last year we expanded up onto what we call the Y, which is essentially West Mifflin and North Carroll Street on the Capital Square.
So last year we expanded as we have more vendors, over 100 vendors, food trucks, of course, more live music.
But in addition,
This year, we added the family activities zone and that'll be on the on the Capitol lawn right at the top of State Street.
So, you know, you mentioned that it's family friendly.
It's getting family friendly err.
So we're excited about that.
We have a couple of activities up there.
We have a family fitness challenge with our friends at metabolic Madison Gym.
So if you want to.
kind of see if the kids can beat you at some of the activities there.
That'll be
a good time.
And then we have the Madison Reading Project, a great nonprofit that supports childhood education and reading and learning will be with us as well.
So that's new this year.
All right, so you're expanding toward the capital and around the capital now.
Yeah, yep.
We're staying steady with where we did last year.
On the west
side of the capital.
Yeah, that's right.
Top of state area.
But I will tell you that we have more demand for vending than we have capacity for.
And in fact, we have five markets a year and we change vendors, give every vendor an opportunity as much as possible to be in.
So I would not be surprised if in the future it does expand.
Go maybe to King Street,
right?
Well,
potentially, yeah, long there eventually.
Yeah, that that could be or even, you know, host mini markets over on the first settlement side as
their own
as their own thing.
So but the idea really is, you know, the vendors, you know, some of them have grown up and become, you know, state street businesses
or
which is really kind of the dream, of course.
But yeah, so it's it's it's great to see those those small businesses out there.
It's also to support the small businesses on the street.
As the saying is now, we have 50 of our businesses coming out in front of their shop.
to
be part of
the market as well.
So it's an amazing mix.
Well, we're going to be there Thursday night right across the street in front of the Overture Center, our location.
And I wanted to ask you, so the family zone, get back
to
that for a moment.
Are you going to have any clowns with balloons like winded them up or anything or anything wacky like that?
Because we were thinking maybe doing that dressing John up.
We would never step on your toes that way.
Yeah.
No, we won't.
Gordy likes the balloon thing.
He
twists them up into little animals.
to scare the kids.
Can't really tell
what they
are.
I was wondering if we're gonna have clowns on stilts.
Not yet, but that's a great programming idea.
A nightmare
I had as I was
a child.
We need some more ideas like this.
I like
your
ideas, so we might run with those if you don't mind.
Yes,
we'll have the Johnny Gordy coin out there.
It's kind of like your crypto coin.
It's wooden and it's worth nothing.
It all starts at five o'clock, right?
Yeah,
five to nine o'clock.
There'll be live music in Peace Park at five o'clock.
Yeah, five o'clock and seven o'clock, two different artists.
And then live music at Top of State Street, 200 Block of State, and Francis Street Plaza.
And one of the
great things about this whole event is that...
You have musicians lining State Street.
And as you go from one block to the next, it's just a different ambience, a different mood.
It
really is an event.
We've started to space them out more.
I would definitely anticipate that we're going to be adding more live music in the future, not only for these big event nights, and we have five of these a year, but really as much as we possibly can.
Live music, the community here.
the music ecosystem in Madison is incredible.
And we want to
give as many of those artists an opportunity
to perform as
possible.
If there are musicians out there, how do they contact, do they need to contact you in advance or are they just busking on their own
there?
They, some of them do busk on their own.
They are more than welcome to reach out to us.
You can go to VisitDowntownMadison.com and find out information about that.
But we have a pretty strong roll of decks of artists that we're communicating with all the time.
Uh, and we're always looking for more.
Yeah.
Well, good.
Cause again, John and I were trying to branch out a little bit.
Uh, he plays, he plays banjo and I play guitar.
That's amazing.
And, uh, we're kind of trying to, you know, get our act together.
Something tells me you'd
probably bust without asking.
I'm just guessing.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
So again, this is a celebration.
So this year we're theming out all five of the night
markets
for
the first
time.
What's the theme?
So the
theme is celebrating the University of Wisconsin and its graduates.
We know that there are a lot of families coming in town, perhaps many of them already here.
Of course,
it's going to be an amazing weekend for graduation.
Sure.
So Thursday night should be a fun night for them.
So we have a Bucky on Parade photo op, where Madison Traditions Bucky is going to make a special guest appearance on the 500 block of State Street, big balloon display down there, amazing photo op for
the
graduates or any UW alumni or student.
We have discounts, of course, for UW Health nurses.
This is nurses week.
And so a lot of the businesses and vendors are providing discounts for our amazing nurse community.
And then special vendors with vintage Badger apparel and license gear throughout the market.
So to find out all of the details, you can go to MadisonNightMarket.com.
And once again, with Bucky Badger, where's that going to be?
That's
going to be in the 500 blocks, so kind of roughly around Francis Plaza.
You won't miss it.
Okay.
Yeah, I assure you that.
All right, very good.
Well, Matt, thanks for coming in.
Thanks for having me.
I appreciate it.
Again, if people want to find out more, the best place to go.
MadisonNightMarket.com.
That makes it easy.
Yes.
We appreciate it.
We'll see you.
I'm sure you will be roaming up and down State Street Thursdays.
I will.
Hope you guys have a great night out there.
Stop by our booth.
I will.
We'll give you a couple of our John and Gordy stress balls.
Those are special this time around.
Well, this is the great thing about it.
This is a stress-free night.
This
is just
fun.
Exactly.
We can't wait to see everybody.
Very good.
Thank you, Matt.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
That's Matt Trammell from the Madison Central Business Improvement District bid and night market.
It's Thursday night from five to nine.
We'll be right across from the station right in front of the Overture Center.
You can't miss it.
And yeah, we'll be sure to, you know, we got to do the music thing.
I think that's where we have
to, you know.
Keep Sam from throwing those damn balls all over the damn street, you know The thing is he was starting to affect how many people are staying around our booth
Well, I just happened to find out that they work so well as bouncy balls.
Yeah
That's true, don't
say.
Don't tell Matt that.
Well, that's it
now.
Now we've been banned from that.
Don't pay any attention to what Sam just said there.
OK.
All right, let's get into another unusual story here.
And that is that Trump really does believe other countries are stealing the movies, the movies, not our movies, the movies.
No, there really is something wrong with him.
Call it paranoia, maybe the eternal victim, Trump.
has decided that there's going to be a 100% tariff on all movies produced outside of the US.
I mean, you know, James Bond is going to have to move to the US.
This makes no sense at all.
I don't know.
I don't know anymore.
Why don't we listen to cut 47 here?
Okay.
All right.
Yeah, let's check this
out.
The movies, the movie making capabilities from the United
States.
No they haven't.
They said to a couple of people, what do you think?
I've done some very strong research over the last week.
And we're making very few movies now.
Hollywood is being destroyed.
Now,
you have an incompetent, closely incompetent governor that allowed that to happen.
So I'm not just blaming other nations, but other nations, a lot of
them,
have stolen our movie industry.
And I'm saying, if they're not willing to make a movie inside the United States.
We should have a tariff when movies didn't come in.
And not only that, governments are actually giving big money.
I mean, they're supporting them financially.
So that's sort of a threat to our country in a sense.
And it's been
a very popular
thing.
I can tell you, movie makers love
it.
No, they don't love it.
It just never ends.
What is he thinking?
He's not thinking.
Some movies take place in other countries.
They use locations in other countries for the movie that is made here in the US.
There's something wrong with this person.
He is so paranoid.
People are really out to get him and now they're stealing the movies in general.
the movies by the way wouldn't you think that this would significantly raise the price of movie tickets right if they have to pay the 100 percent tariff on bringing that movie to our movie theaters oh my god it's going to put movie theaters out of business
Why is this guy meddling in everything?
This is somebody who, you know, this is why we have the departments in our government in order to handle all of this stuff and take care of this.
Again, it's all distraction.
It's all just riffing.
It's one person.
One person micromanaging the entire US.
This is insanity.
Okay.
And we're not going to survive it.
Take a breath.
I'm sorry.
Relax.
Okay, it's 7.48.
We'll come back to wrap things up and look ahead to what's happening tomorrow on John and Gordy in the morning here on WMDX.
Alcatraz.
Alcatraz.
Oh no, it's not gonna do that.
It is 753.
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I've
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It'll save your hearing a great idea.
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Excellent.
Okay, now let's get to the Alcatraz thing.
This is really unbelievable.
Now, here's something.
This was just posted the 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood
about
the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on a local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand
that the prison be reopened.
This is where
he got the idea.
He was watching TV.
He was watching TV.
Yes.
PBS the one he wants to defund.
And it occurred to him.
Why don't we just reopen it?
It's a lot closer than El Salvador.
Yeah.
Save money.
Visit the gift shop there.
And I mean, it is open for tourism, right?
Sam, you've been there.
Do
they have a gift shop?
I think they
Yeah, they did have a gift shop.
There was actually a former inmate there signing books that he wrote.
What the hell?
This is all getting too surreal.
I want you to play Cut 45 for
us
here.
This is a little explanation.
Okay, to reopen Alcatraz.
How will you use it?
How did you come up with the idea?
Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker.
We're talking about we started with the movie making it will end I mean It represents something very strong very powerful in terms of law and order.
Yeah,
our country needs law and order Alcatraz is I would say the ultimate right Alcatraz
sing
sing and Alcatraz the movies but
It's right now a museum, believe it, and a lot of people go there.
It housed the most violent criminals in the world.
And nobody ever escaped.
One person almost got there, but they, as you know, the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up.
What?
And there was a lot of shark bites, a lot of problems.
Oh,
no, not the shark.
Don't go there.
Nobody's ever escaped from Alcatraz.
We're all there.
Just represented something.
Please.
strong having to do with law and order.
We need law and order in this country.
And so we're going to look at it.
Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that.
And we had a little conversation.
I think it's going to be very interesting.
We'll see if we can bring it back in large form and a lot.
But I think it represents something right now.
a big hulk that's sitting there rusting and rotting.
It's
not, it's
a museum.
You look at it, you saw that picture that was put out, it's sort of amazing.
But it sort of represents something that's both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable, weak.
It's got a lot of, it's got a lot of qualities.
I think they, they make a point.
It's got a lot of, it's got a lot of, you know,
I had an uncle that, you know, just bashed in this kind of stuff, you know, prisons and death and killings.
You just loved, I think Trump is one of those people.
He
just loves this.
This is strong, long order.
That's what Alcatraz represents for this president.
I
wonder if you ever saw Birdman from Alcatraz.
Yeah, I was a great movie.
Yeah, what do you say?
Hi, and I'm just really glad that you guys are going to bring your instruments to the night market on Thursday.
I was so happy to hear
that.
It's got the banjo.
We're just going to yeah, we're just going to yeah, we're going to get right out there.
You think you guys
are going to meet up with our Paul?
Oh, that would be see that'd be the perfect trio.
Yeah, we could just take requests and play
all
night long.
I just want just.
documented that's gonna happen.
Guitars and banjos showing up.
Oh boy.
And the two of you.
Look out.
Behind the table.
Right.
You know, I don't think that's gonna happen
right away.
Oh come on, you say it was gonna.
We're just, we're spitballing it.
This is just something we're thinking about.
You know, we're trying to get the cardboard.
I am going to absolutely obligate you to
do this.
Oh.
We want to get the cardboard John and Gordy up there.
Yeah.
With the faces cut out.
We're
working
on it.
You
can put your face in there and be John and Gordy for that one moment in time.
Yeah,
well, we'll go on and on, but not right now.
We've got to move on here.
Dick, sorry we couldn't get to your call.
Give us a call tomorrow morning.
We'll talk to you then.
And Stephanie Miller is coming up next.
That's going to be wrapping up for today.
Tomorrow, Mike McCabe will join us.
We hope you'll join us too.
Talk to you in 22 hours.
Enjoy this beautiful day.
My gosh.
I think 70s.
Yeah, it's gonna be
beautiful out there.
Let's go to the beach.
Get your
shorts on there.
Let's go out on Sam's Styrofoam boat.
Oh, I'd love
that.
Yeah.
It'd be perfect day for it.
Sam, have a great day.
Break it in half.
You have a great day.
You have a great
day.
No, no, you.
No, you.
No, I'm giving it to you.
Okay, please.
