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Yeah.

Well, yeah.

OK.

Happy Wednesday.

So here we are again.

Yeah.

Struggling.

Yeah.

Struggling to make sense of what's going

on in this

damn country.

Wow.

You know, I have, you just, you know, don't you just get the feeling that this is Trump's play thing at this point.

Yeah.

Right.

The country is his toy, you know, he's going to do whatever he wants.

It's like, you know, one of those road rugs you get when you're a little kid, you know, just lay it out.

Do whatever you're going to do, build into whatever you want.

People never stop playing with toys once they grow up.

Their toys just get bigger, and Donald Trump is just the biggest guy around, so he's got to have the biggest toy.

He has the biggest toy.

Hey, who knows?

The US.

They're going to have the pope election today.

He might be elected pope, you know, since he threw his hat in the ring.

Boy, you got to know.

He looked good.

He looked good in that hat.

He

did.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's eight minutes past the hour.

Boy, the sun is just beaming through this morning.

We have

a few

clouds

out there,

but it looks like a nice day ahead of us.

It does.

Yeah.

It's going to be another warm one.

Now, Brittany called for rain in the evening.

Was that last night or for this evening?

I think we just had a

slight

chance

for a sprinkle last night, I think.

OK, yeah.

I think the rest of the week is looking pretty dry.

I got to say it right now.

That's one of my pet peeves, by the way.

What's that?

You know, where the weather person, they kind of stick in this.

There's a slight chance for rain.

It's

just a

cover you're asking.

Exactly.

It's a cover of my ass type of thing.

And I'm just, I'm tired of it.

I sit up nights worrying about work.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I got nothing else to do except, you know, count the days this country has left.

Oh God.

Well, are we gonna we're gonna talk about the Gulf of America bill?

Yeah, that's going before the whole house vote the Gulf of America if you want to know what the big story is today.

It's the Gulf of America bill Help us all please someone help

you have to put it up for a vote for the whole House of Representatives.

Oh my god.

Oh my

god

because, you know, they want everything changed.

They want to change it in all the history books and everything else.

All the official documents they want to

change over to the Gulf of America.

See, there's a representative, a very good friend of Trump's.

Sorry, but they're all really good friends of Trump's.

But anyway, this guy is an ally of Trump and he put this bill forward, the Gulf of America bill.

And that...

stirred the whole house up all man all of a sudden now there is significant frustration among the Republicans that what are we doing don't we have this this reconciliation bill don't you want to pay for things in this country or cut funding for everything we want to make Americans suffer right away don't we yeah but

You know, this Gulf of America bill.

It supersedes everything.

Now they have to vote on this and look like complete idiots doing so.

It seems

like they ought to be doing, you know, actual work there, actual working in budgets.

Yeah.

Well, appropriations, things like that.

What is it, Sam?

My theory, I just came up with, if they can change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and then make everybody forget about the Gulf of Mexico, they can do it with anything else.

They can make people forget anything else.

There

you go.

I think that's it.

It's a good theory.

If they can do this to

the

Gulf of Mexico, then you can do anything you want.

You can rename America.

Don't give them any ideas.

So then they can market new hats.

What?

New hats.

Instead of make

America great again.

Yeah, whatever

it is great

again.

Donald Trump land.

You could change the hat every once in a while and make a ton of money.

Well, they have those electronic hats

now that you can dial

up.

You can start doing it, yes.

It's like a walking billboard.

Yep.

Well, let's check the weather.

What do you say?

There's something

we can all

agree on.

There

will be weather today.

There will be weather.

I updated my my Samsung phone to the new UI and it's pretty fancy shamancy stuff.

You know, I have new AI on my phone.

On my Samsung

phone.

Wait, why did you

call UI?

What's UI?

User interface.

What?

User interface.

Yeah.

Okay,

so you haven't got many of those, have you?

No, I don't know.

Okay, the official WMDX Samsung Watch now updated to the new UI.

Indicates it'll be 72 degrees today as the high.

Really?

Was I right?

Yesterday?

I was right.

Were you?

You guys said mid-70s.

Yeah.

It went up to almost 80.

It was really warm.

It was really hot yesterday.

Yeah,

so you're saying 72.

Is that what you're

saying?

I'm saying that seems kind of cool.

But today was supposed

to be a little bit cooler today, right?

Well, let's get the hot this morning.

Do we have the bar dice handy?

We can check out the temperature and predict the temperature.

And we never know which is the.

First number, but there's a seven and there's a zero.

How does a bar dice have a zero?

It's

very

unusual

dice

We

got a workshop these things a little more yeah running around the table

Spit ballots.

Currently it's 51 degrees.

It's a little cool this morning.

It is.

Let's check out the national day count.

Oh, could we?

I know you just can't wait.

Yeah, what is it today?

I can't see your screen.

Good.

Is it?

Is it or is it not?

One of these days.

Wow.

National Tourism Day.

National Interpreter Appreciation Day.

National skilled trades day.

National postal workers day.

National packaging design day.

There's a lot of days today.

National bike to school day.

National school nurse day.

National roast leg of lamb day.

It's not that.

You just made that one up.

That's ridiculous.

What?

You just made that one up.

No, you're wrong.

It is

national roast leg of lamb day.

Oh my god.

Sam, do you care to take a guess?

Or did you doze off?

I was so distracted by how outrageous that one was.

Okay.

That would have been my guess.

I guess I get the buzzer anyway.

Okay.

Hey, I want to see something new on my computer now that I've updated it.

Yeah, sure.

What?

I'll get my computer.

Throw

in these

laptops around the room.

Well, I

gotta move it over here anyway.

What do you got there?

What is that?

It says new and there's some emoji there.

What

is that?

Yeah, it's kind of weird television television ish Thing it's just new.

It's just moving back and forth on my screen.

I have no idea what you're

fascinated by the most simple thing

I am what web well technology is interesting, you know, what I mean I went to this weird website blockchain.news

Never been there before, but this is where I got the the Gulf of America bill explanation Which I thought was more interesting than the normal networks hmm story on this okay, and it's got a little it's got yeah It's got symbol there.

That's kind of flashing and it looks like a you know my my cousin Martian My favorite Martian

Well, it's National Tourism Day, John, on May 7th.

It is.

Well, that's

nice.

A lot of people are coming to America to see it.

Get one more and look at it

before it sinks into the ocean.

Well, but they're not taking airplanes because hell, we don't have an FAA anymore.

They don't have any radars at work.

They got air traffic controllers walking out.

Wow.

Just hanging it up.

But it is National Tourism Day.

For those who travel, it comes as no surprise when they find themselves receiving mailings and other offerings to visit exotic places everywhere.

Marketers in the tourism industry are hard at work seeking new ways to draw tourists into their communities.

Let's salute all the tourists.

Come see America before they rename that too.

Lynn in Golden Valley, Texas.

Trump-Sylvania.

Thank you, Lynn.

That's

good.

Yeah, I like that.

You can text us or call us on the Civic Media app or 608-879-8255.

Let's

come up with names

for this country.

New names.

New names for

the USA.

Oh, sure.

Well, we can

rename the Gulf of

Mexico.

Yeah.

Let's try

America.

Gulf of America, yeah.

Okay.

It's National Interpreter Appreciation Day.

Oh.

Why

do we

appreciate interpreters?

Because they're on their way out, right?

We're firing them all.

They're being replaced with AI, right?

Exactly.

That's one of the big updates on my phone.

It translates everything now.

You could speak gibberish into my phone and translate it into some kind of, you know, Trump comment.

Great.

All right.

Well, we salute all the interpreters out there.

Well, you

still have a job.

On with this.

National Skilled Trades Day.

Yeah.

Lots of skilled trade workers for construction workers.

They're all over the place in

Madison right now.

They're really working on the

leaf blower.

Yeah.

Occupation.

Where are the leaf blowers

this morning?

They should be out

there.

National Packaging Design Day.

We salute all the packaging design people out there national bike to school day The kids still bike to school

There's a every time I drive past Madison East if I'm like going to the store out on the east side or something I see a ton of bikes out

there,

so they must oh good

That's

good.

I gotta get my bike fixed those kids are rebels.

You know the ones that drive their bike to school.

I They're loners.

You gotta look out for them Did you bike to school or you alone I did

When we were kids.

Well, yeah, if you if if you bike to school you were different from all the other kids.

In what

way?

But you're a little more independent.

You didn't get on a bus with a whole bunch of other people, you know?

You didn't need them.

Did you do this yourself?

Yeah.

Wow.

Most of the time.

Yeah, when it was good, you know, when you could drive a bike.

Ride a bike.

I

guess it's national school nurse day salute all the school nurses out

there.

Yes.

Yes,

especially the one

that caught me licking the Mimeograph off the off the sheets.

I can't imagine what she thought.

I bet she still talks about that to the state.

She got out of nursing for

that.

It's national paste up day.

Paste up day.

They don't paste up newspapers anymore.

Do they?

I don't think that's how

that

works.

So unless you're crazy,

you're gonna

waffle up news articles Let's find out about national roast leg of lamb day.

Yeah, do

you like leg of lamb?

Have you ever had a leg of lamb?

Well,

you know, it's kind of cruel to the lamb kind of

You don't know there's nothing there.

Lamps are

cute.

They're adorable.

Yes Okay, when we come back Sam's gonna open up the history book

Tell us what happened on this day, May 7th.

Can't

wait

back in history.

It's all coming up on John and Gordy for a Wednesday morning.

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from laughing this morning.

Laugh it up.

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Now I know why I'm so frustrated with the Gulf of America bill.

It was sponsored by Marjorie Taylor Green.

Oh, wow.

Everything she does, everything she touches turns to insanity.

She is just...

She's just trying to do her part, you know?

She's trying to represent her people.

and help out Donald Trump.

Yes.

Change it to the Gulf of America.

How does she keep getting elected?

Well, actually, she's not doing well in the polls in her

state.

Really?

I did not know that.

There is hope.

But the other thing is, when you change the Gulf of Mexico to America, you've got to change all the documentation.

And that's what this bill is all about.

And it helps the House, Congress, to pay for all the changes that have to be made.

Well, that's

yeah Okay, all right.

Well, let's

open up the history books here.

I'm focusing on this because this is the dumbest story of the day and we're gonna be Definitely covering this, you know as civic media is always covering the hot stories.

This is the big one.

That's it.

You got it Sam time to open up the history

book

Glad I got that out of my system.

No, you're

okay.

What's happening?

Well, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole yesterday about America's first serial killer.

You know the kind of people that like watch true crime documentaries have like really deep but weird knowledge of serial killers?

Yeah.

Well, I'm surprised I haven't heard about this guy, H.H.

Holmes.

He was put to death on this day in 1896.

Was this in Chicago?

I forget exactly where it happened.

Keep

going.

But yeah, in the 1800s, supposedly he killed...

more than 130 people, which is insane, crazy that that happened.

Some World War I history today in 1915, the sinking of the Lusitania.

Are you familiar with that story?

They hit it with a bomb or something,

didn't they?

A German submarine, German unrestricted submarine warfare.

It was a passenger ship.

Supposedly there was a...

no war supplies on board headed to Britain.

That's what they say, but it probably was because it exploded and sank really, really fast.

But that was a big deal back in 1913.

Back

to, I wanted to check on this because H.H.

Holmes, his first serial killer, this

was

the guy I was thinking of.

They wrote a book about him.

And this happened during the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893.

He was known as the Beast of Chicago.

There's a book called The Devil in the White City, which is a really good book.

Have you read it?

Yeah, I have read

it.

Wow.

Yeah.

And yeah, it was fascinating.

This guy was just,

you know, a madman.

Yeah.

Well, he was a con man in addition to just being a killer.

He like scammed people out of their money and then killed them and used like insurance fraud to kill people and get their money.

It was wild stuff he was

getting.

He confessed to 27 murders, but they think he did a lot more than that.

Yeah.

He lost track.

He lost track.

Well,

it was before they had calculators.

That's right.

Okay.

On to more

history.

Today, in 1992, the 27th Amendment was ratified.

It had been a pending amendment for so long that some states had forgotten that they ratified it.

Why they had Megas back then?

It was first proposed back in the 1700s.

Basically the 27th Amendment keeps congressional pay raises from going into effect before your current representatives can get reelected.

Your representatives can't just keep raising their pay while they're in office.

They have to get reelected before their pay can go up.

I thought that this was funny.

The reason that it became a big thing again back in the 90s, there was a history student, like in eighth or ninth grade, who said that it could still be ratified, that it's still open for ratification.

And his history teacher didn't agree with him.

And so he wrote to his congress member and they brought it up.

They found it out.

Wow, that's amazing.

It is.

It's fascinating, Sam.

Anything else?

Some more recent history.

You know microplastics?

Sure.

I have a whole bunch of them in my head.

A spoonful of microplastics in our brains.

Today in 2004, the term microplastics was coined for the first time.

And we still haven't done anything about it.

We still haven't done anything.

No, well, there's

nothing we can do about it.

We seem to be fine.

I've got a plastic spoon in my head.

How would you know?

I mean, I haven't known anything else.

I was born in 2001.

But I seem to be doing fine.

No, that's true.

I'm not that

crazy.

Yeah, well, you're here, aren't you?

Of course

you're crazy.

Doing OK.

All right.

All right.

Are

you

guys good about that now?

I mean, just as long as we have straightened that out.

Microplastics, I'm a big fan of that.

Well,

you gotta have a little bit in your diet, right?

That's right.

Well, sure.

Okay, go ahead, Gordy.

Any

birthdays today, Sam?

Oh, I've got a couple.

Yeah, I know you love the birthdays, Gordy.

I do.

Rushing composer Tchaikovsky.

Oh, yeah, he wrote a lot of good stuff.

Yeah.

Well, the Nutcracker, the 1812 overture, there was a couple.

Exactly, those were the ones I was gonna point out.

Still waiting for a Lifetime Achievement Award

for the Grammys.

It's also actor Gary Cooper's birthday today.

Cooper, yes.

Far before my time, but I'm sure you guys... He did a

lot of great westerns and he was actually a really good actor, yeah.

Well,

you see, rather quiet guy, right?

But, uh, yeah, I didn't know why people thought he was such a great actor.

You have to fill me in during the break.

I don't know why.

I can't name a movie he

was in.

I have no idea.

It's 29 past the hour, right around the corner, Idiocracy.

A little bit later on, Judy Davidoff will update us on what's in the latest Isthmus and Mike McCabe.

It's all coming up on John and Gordy.

you

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.

Sometimes you can be very frustrating.

Yes,

you know, like the the Gulf of America bill that's going up for a vote today.

I can't wait for the debate on that.

All right, we'll get to that

in just a

moment.

It's 635.

We're not getting into it any more than that.

We're scratching the surface.

I think the title of the bill says it all.

Yeah.

Just about as dumb as you can make anything.

Well, we want to explore it.

I mean Marjorie Taylor Greene took a lot of time to put this build together.

You're right.

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Okay.

All right, well, let's get to our big first story here.

Oh, boy.

And it's Trump having a hard time with numbers, you know.

He's trying to justify everything that he's doing, his terrifying idea.

or terrible ideal.

I think

that's what they really meant.

It was a tariff after all.

It was just terrible.

But anyway, this is a quote where he actually takes out all the bad numbers and he keeps in the good numbers.

So let's listen to

it.

Of course you have the Declaration of Independence.

What does it mean to you?

Well, it means exactly I

don't think this is the right time Do we have what's the number again?

Do you have a number 14?

It's not 14

It isn't okay

made a mistake in this

this early on okay Well, we sort this out our phones are open 608 879 8255 you can call us or text us on the civic media app That's the easy way to go.

Well, thanks for

filling in while

we try to figure out what happened to find the

system that we have Okay, you've got it.

All right.

Let's listen

first quarter GDP numbers just out today core GDP now we're removing

Distortions from imports inventories and government spending was up plus 3% But this is Biden's economy because we took over on January 20th Yeah,

so I took out all the bad numbers and put in only good ones and it sounded pretty good pretty positive.

You know,

I like it

when it sounds better Who cares,

you know, it's accurate.

Maybe once Trump's presidency is over he can go retire to a cherry orchard

That'd be great.

He can just pick cherries all day long.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Sounds like good time for him.

You know,

I might

like that.

Now, let's go to Stephen Miller, uh, advisor to the president and certainly, uh, one of the bright spots in the administration.

Scary.

He is a really scary looking guy.

I mean, if, if anybody were a vampire, this is.

This is the guy.

I can just see him dressed up as a vampire.

All right.

You know, Nick Cage could do him.

in a movie.

Oh, that'd be perfect

casting,

yes.

Yeah,

it

would be.

You know, Nick Cage has played a vampire in a couple of occasions.

That'd be great.

He played a contractual in a more recent movie.

That was actually a very funny movie.

All right, anyway, let's get back to Stephen Miller.

He knows.

He has a philosophy.

We own our children.

Okay, and we're going to teach them the right things in schools.

So let's go to cut 11.

I hope I got this one right.

All right.

Okay, I'm gonna have to work.

Back to school, John.

All right, let's listen to this.

Children will be taught to love America.

Children will be taught to be patriots.

Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding.

So as we close the Department of Education and we provide funding to states, we are going to make sure that these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology.

For any nation to be successful, it cannot teach its children to hate themselves and to hate their country.

So these are a few of the areas in which President Trump has fought the cancerous communist woke culture that was destroying this country where we led to believe that men

were women, that women were men, that racial discrimination was good, that merit was bad, and that safety and physical security mattered less than the feelings of liberal ideologues.

Wow.

Well, I'm encouraged now.

I'm glad they've done away with the Department of Education, because all we need is Steve Miller there to teach our kids the right things to know.

Anytime he takes the podium I just

scary stuff.

You just don't know what he's gonna say next But he gets on a roll.

You see his rants.

Yeah, you know, he has that little that that head twitch

that he does.

Yeah, he's got the Yeah, he does Especially with reporters when he gets it

Questioned by a reporter and they do follow up.

He goes

right off the rails.

He does.

He's talking backwards about so many things.

I wonder if you would speak normally about more things if we turned him around and drew a face on the back of his head.

Good idea.

Only one way to find out, right?

That sounds like a fun thing to do.

Well, anyway, the question was, and this is from Representative Dan Goldman, okay?

He presented this question in Congress.

The question is, is deporting children with cancer to our U.S.

citizens, is it wrong to do that?

And this is cut 12.

Let's listen.

How about this?

Raise your hand if you do not think

Children with cancer who are American citizens should be deported.

No, it looks like it's all the Democrats

and none of the Republicans that was yesterday in the House floor then discussing immigration house rep Dan Goldman goes Hey, we're trying to find common ground here Can we at least all agree that a child who is a US citizen who has cancer?

Shouldn't be deported Don't ever come at me with pro-life.

Don't ever tell me about protecting the children you all don't give a shit

you don't care about people on a basic human level.

And that is, uh, that's it.

Bottom line in it, right?

That was, uh, that was a web wisdom.

Oh, okay.

That was, uh, uh, ant.

I can't remember, uh, ant.

Ant.

Ant.

Tizzy ant?

Tizzy ant, yeah.

Tizzy ant.

Tizzy ant.

He's out there at TikTok doing his stuff.

Yep.

Okay.

But good, you know, it's good to know we're good to know that the Republicans don't care I Mean this that it seemed like an easy question.

Yes.

Now this let's let's throw him a softball Not not gonna happen this time not happening.

All right How about this?

Trump is using Taxpayer money now to pay immigrants to self-deport.

You might have heard the story a couple of days ago

You saw that, right?

I did.

Yeah.

Like, he's paying people $1,000 to leave the country.

That's right.

I'm thinking about taking a vacation to Canada in a couple weeks.

Where's my thousand bucks?

You know, are you going to go north up Sault Ste.

Marie way?

I have no clue where I'm heading yet.

Okay.

It's only seven hours away.

All you have to do is say the magic words.

I want a self-deport.

He'll give you $1,000.

Here

you

go.

I did go to Toronto.

That was my only excursion outside our country.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've been to Canada, I think three times, four times.

Yeah.

It's

good.

It's good.

Well, let's find out more about the self-portation right here on Fox News.

OK, it's you.

So Fox News can report exclusively that DHS will announce today that they're going to start paying for the commercial flight of illegal aliens who self-deport from the U.S.

And on top of that, they're going to pay them an additional $1,000 stipend once they're confirmed to have left the country.

Now, DHS says doing this is going to be significantly cheaper for the American taxpayer.

They tell us that right now it costs on average about $17,000 to arrest, detain and deport someone.

They say paying

for self deportations and the stipend will only cost about $4,500 per person.

That's about 70% cheaper.

Aliens are going to have to register to self deport on the new CBP home app to access that DHS financial assistance as well as announce their intent to leave the country.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem tells Fox in part quote, if you are here illegally, self deportation is the best, safest and most cost effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest.

There you go.

So $1,000 for that plane ticket to self-deport, right?

Nothing says tough on immigration than paying somebody to leave the country.

Here's a

check.

See you later.

Sam, all you have to do is be an illegal alien.

You could just fake that, couldn't you?

I'm sure I could.

I could just burn my birth certificate.

Problem solved.

So while they pass out these checks, right, to get people to leave, we're trying to avoid bankruptcy.

For the United States now they're calling this you heard the numbers there So you have $17,000.

I think that's the that's the headline.

Yeah, what $17,000 to deport

one

individual

right?

We could just leave them be one immigrant still contributing to the economy They're

actually contributing to the economy and they're contributing to Social Security and Medicare which they don't get back.

Yeah, yeah

Wow.

Wow, what a deal.

We are so good

at numbers.

Let's do the numbers.

Oh, man, I tell you.

It's frustrating.

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All right, so let's see the new brakes I'm trying to figure

out what we've got for time.

Hang on.

You've got a minute and a half,

John.

We do.

OK, let's get something here.

I think this is kind of bizarre, interesting, maybe a little out there, but the self-deporting thing was just enough of craziness to actually try to absorb.

This happened.

The Trump administration removed the federal government's memorial to victims of gun violence.

Did you guys know about this?

You're kidding.

Yeah, I didn't even know they had this but

it's you know It's in in DC.

They have this memorial every year.

They set it up They took down 120 portraits of dead Americans including police officers and children killed by gun violence

And I guess they don't want that reminder to be out there that that's one of the problems the Trump administration doesn't feel like taking care of at this point because we have more important things like the bill Bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, which is huge.

I mean, we really got to take care of this one Okay

We will be back with more idiocracy.

Let's rock.

Okay.

Let's rock

Coming right back.

WMDX 92.7 Johnny Gordy in the morning.

We're hoping that you have a really good one this morning because it is so beautiful and nice outside and is just gorgeous, you know, it's fantastic both wore t-shirts in here this morning our

high

today about 70 degrees Sam Sam the producer also has a t-shirt on a

t-shirt day,

you know

Let me just ask you, is that a white t-shirt?

Are you color- you can't be white colorblind, what are you talking about?

What are you saying?

You're

saying it's a little off-white?

Yeah, it's a little off-white.

Well, it's been worn and washed plenty of times.

Yes, I

know, I can see that.

I

don't-

I don't separate my light and dark colors in the laundry.

Well, I

don't either, but that's a felt-faded

outfit.

It's

a faded

white.

Yep.

Kind

of a

grunge white.

What

would you say, John?

Do you want me to bleach it when I get home?

Just a little tip, OK.

Johnny's laundry tips.

OK.

What do you got?

If you're looking for a new girlfriend, I wouldn't wear white t-shirts any place.

OK.

Oh, god.

Um, coming up.

No, no, seriously.

For some reason, I don't know.

I don't know why this is true,

but I

found this to be true over time.

White t-shirts are not a favorite.

Women do not like them.

They don't?

No.

Okay.

But change the color and you're

good to go They're great for working around the house, you know doing handyman type things

which

which you do all the time You're constantly working on stuff.

I understand that but you know in public leave the leave the white t-shirt

Because

I'm digging

that hole man.

You see it like I'm wearing like my pajamas outside or something like that.

Well, pretty close.

Pretty damn close.

All

right,

I could be wrong.

You know, we're always, you know, we're always fishing for text.

That's a new feature we have, fishing for text.

Fishing for Texas?

Yeah.

Okay.

Cast the line out.

Cast the line out.

Let's see.

Let's see if anybody else feels the same way about white t-shirts.

Catherine says, Sam, do not take dating advice

from

John Peterson.

Oh, boy.

She

really has a good point.

Yeah, drop the mic.

That's, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, she nailed it.

Coming up in our next hour, we'll be talking to Judy David off from the Ismus.

I know what's in the latest issue and also checking with Brittany Merleau on weather and Mike McCabe also from Substack.

Yes.

Okay.

Man.

Don't go out on State Street just standing around because they'll probably arrest you for vagrancy.

It doesn't look ragged or anything.

It's just...

See, I've been traumatized.

You know, I was criticized for wearing white t-shirts.

And it bothered me ever since.

I like white t-shirts.

I like working in them.

I think they're fine and they reflect a lot of light.

They're cool.

Wear it in summer.

You've got some repressed trauma,

John.

I was traumatized by the fact that whoever it was that said, don't wear white t-shirts, they bothered me.

Bothered me for a long time.

living through that trauma.

As

you can see.

And I'm taking it on you Sam, sorry about that, but now that you're leaving, who

cares?

It's going

to be an interesting couple of weeks here.

All right, I think we've

run out of time.

We were going to talk about planes, weren't we?

We were.

We're going to talk about Newark, so Liberty Airport.

What

is going on here?

Massive disruptions there.

800 flights canceled delays up to five hours staffing issues and air traffic control system failures.

They've got all that kind of stuff.

Let's get to Sean Duffy.

Oh, an

excuse on that.

Here is a report on what's happening.

Listen.

Monday's bad weather complicated an air traffic control staffing nightmare that started last Monday.

After a number of system outages, controller's screens essentially went dark for up to 90 seconds, losing the ability to track aircraft at a key facility handling traffic in and out of Newark.

It was a breaking point for about a half dozen controllers who requested trauma leave due to the working conditions, allowing them to essentially be off the job for up to 45 days.

They're frustrated.

They're angry about having

use this old equipment.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says cracks are showing in the nation's aging air traffic control system.

The

delays that we're now seeing in Newark is what's going to continue to happen around the country.

Duffy is expected to announce a multi-year plan to

overhaul and update the system this week.

He's so smart isn't he?

On Jen Psaki last night this was Duffy and listening to what Buttigieg has to say about cut 55.

How close were we for potential

disaster there?

We have backups in place.

Let's talk about what happened.

So we have really old infrastructure in America.

It hasn't been updated in the last 30, 40 years.

This should have been dealt with in the last administration.

They did nothing.

What do you make of that?

It's just politics.

Look, I hated the technology that we inherited, because it did need to be upgraded.

From the last administration and

prior

to this?

Yeah, I mean, look, these problems have built up over a long time.

I didn't sit around saying, who can we blame for this?

We launched a contract to modernize the infrastructure, take what's basically a copper wire system, and transform it for the internet era, get fiber going there.

Now, that's not something that could be done overnight.

One of the things that's hardest to do when you leave an office like that is you hand

over the keys and it's up to the new guy to take it to the next level.

But that's very much something that we had underway.

So there were really two sets of issues.

There was the technology piece and that's one of the things we did about that.

And then there was the workforce piece.

We all know that we haven't had enough air traffic controllers.