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WMDX 92.7 John Peterson Gordy Young your guests and we appreciate you inviting us into your home.

Good morning.

You looked at me like guests.

What are you talking

about?

We're guests in everybody's home.

We're guests in somebody's car as they're driving to work.

They have us on, video-wise, on their phone and listening Bluetooth in their car stereo.

And it's very intimate, very intimate.

So that makes us guests.

in their vehicle.

Now I'm just picturing somebody's driving into work and then they turn to their right.

They see John Peterson in the passenger seat.

Freak out and drive off the road.

Freak out.

Or next to their steering wheel looking right at you.

Happy Monday.

Have a good weekend.

Wow.

I mean, you know, it turned out to be a really nice weekend, a perfect weekend to get outdoors.

Wonderful.

And sadly, that's the whole reason why I had to go out and work in the yard because it was such a nice weekend.

I think a lot of people did the same thing.

Yeah.

Got out there.

I did a little lawn work and

yeah.

Yeah.

Well, maybe somebody can come over and take care of the vines and the hillside of my yard.

Yeah.

That'd be great.

Man, I tell you those things.

Oh, wow, they're they have a life of their own.

What kind of vines?

What do you mean?

Oh, I know just a lot of vines.

Yeah, and they cover all the bushes out there They cover all the trees and I'm really not happy with that last year I didn't go out at all because you know I have very little time to do anything Yeah, you know so

what's it?

Yeah, it was so

this year.

I'm doing it.

I'm definitely gonna take care of the yard this year.

Damn it

Good for you.

You can't stop me, man.

Don't try.

I'm

not gonna.

I wouldn't dare.

But of course, you're out there taking care of the yard.

I don't have much of a yard to take care of, but I do have a little.

garden area.

You got to scrub the concrete every now and then, right?

I do.

Yes, I do.

Those concrete flowers are wonderful.

Yeah.

And today's the day that they start working on the Highland Avenue exit and the UW sewer project, whatever the hell that is.

Yeah, that's going to be for a few months.

Just right

outside your apartment.

A

couple of months.

A couple of months of construction and trucks going by.

you know, trucks backing up.

Beep,

beep, beep.

See, we actually share the same problem.

Why?

What do you mean?

You got

to notice in the mail the other day that the city of Middleton is warning us that the belt line, which is right next to my house, is going to get repaved.

It is.

Yeah.

All the way from my house,

in

front of my house, all the way to Gammon Road.

Oh gee.

Yeah, going east.

Oh.

South and east, yeah.

Okay.

Now, I don't know why they're doing this because I know that they paved it, maybe when they redid the whole bridge in that area, they paved it and it was black top and it was really quiet.

The cars were, when they went by, you didn't hear it.

Really?

I don't know why now, they're gonna repave it.

I'm gonna have to drive through there again.

Drive through there all the time, but now I'm gonna look and see what the hell they're

talking about.

See what the problem is.

Why

they need to repave the belt line.

So the belt line's gonna have major construction this summer.

Great.

Yeah.

That's wonderful.

Of course, you know, then I'm gonna have to go out and get the damn house filters again, because the dust will be insane,

just like it

was when they were fixing the bridge next to my house.

Oh

boy.

I'm not that close, but I'm close enough.

You

know, high point road and then there's this little tiny green space and then it's the belt line.

Yeah.

And when they put in those giant, um, electrical lines.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah.

Because they didn't want to put it through the country side.

It's too beautiful out there.

They wanted to use an ugly space.

Like

John's backyard.

Yeah, my backyard.

So they put it right on the belt line.

They thought, well, if we put

it right

along the belt line,

it's not

pretty.

So let's just put it there.

So let's make it more ugly.

Yes.

Those are enormous power lines.

Yes.

I don't know what you call it.

Some transmission lines.

Yeah, transmission towers.

Yeah.

Crazy.

Supply Northern Wisconsin with electricity.

Well, I'm pulling the plug.

That's it.

Really?

Okay.

You know, it was beautiful all day yesterday and Saturday was wonderful.

Today's warming up a little bit more.

It is.

Yeah, it is.

But right now it's a little cool 45 degrees at the official WMDX thermometer.

We try to wake up.

And let's see what the afternoon high might be.

What is your what does your watch say?

What is your Samsung?

WMDX

Samsung watch official weather.

Well, it's

49 degrees.

Hardly,

it

says.

Temperatures jumping up already.

And what about the afternoon?

86 is the predicted high.

What?

86.

Really?

Yeah, I don't know what you're thinking.

Well,

let's roll the dice here.

What do you got there, Sam?

We got the bar dice.

Well, one of them says eight and one says zero.

So 80 I

guess a

special dice Yes, they are very special magical WMDX.

I never saw a blank

side on on dice before

So it's gonna be warm any way you look at it.

Yeah, okay.

That must be kind of some kind of Yahtzee dice or

some kind of weird

Dice that has zero on it.

Yeah in large numbers.

I guess.

Yeah, we'll think of that.

Okay

Let's get to the National Day calendar.

Let's whip through this thing.

What is it?

What is it today?

Don't take your time.

Just whip through it.

Is it National Nutty Fudge Day?

Is it National Yo-Yo Day?

National Odometer Day?

Or National Limerick Day?

Which one of those days does not belong John Peterson?

It's not.

National Odometer Day.

Well, you're wrong again.

It is National Odometer Day.

Why we need a day for that?

We'll find out.

Yeah,

I don't know.

Sam?

You know, one of your go-tos for trying to trick us, Gordy, has been National Yo-Yo Day, and I highly doubt that today is the actual National

Yo-Yo Day.

Well, Sam, I have a surprise for you.

Yes?

You're right.

Oh, right!

It's not National Yo-Yo

Day.

I hate that.

He always

he

see I go first.

Yeah, he gets a better shot.

Yeah, we can't

give him credit for actually

Picking the right answer,

right?

It's national nutty fudge day.

Do you like fudge?

Do you like nuts?

There you go.

It's national nutty fudge day sweet and delicious Yeah, next up

on the big

list.

Yeah

Okay.

National odometer day.

This was the one that seems a little odd today.

And odometer is an instrument, John, that indicates the distance traveled by a vehicle.

Maybe electronic, mechanical, or a combination of both.

The word odometer comes from the Greek words, hotus, H-O-D-O-S, meaning path or gateway, and metron, meaning measure.

In some countries, an odometer is called a myelometer.

Or okay.

Wow.

Or a triple meter.

It

sounds like something from the 40s.

Yeah, I don't know.

A mile a meter.

A mile a meter.

Yeah, it doesn't.

Okay.

All right.

And it's also a national limerick day.

Do you like yourself a limerick?

Okay.

Anybody got any limericks that we can clean up and put on the air?

Yeah, they're typically very sexist.

Yeah.

Or brutal.

So

no.

I'm looking for something

good here, but yeah.

Really gonna try to

find one on the fly?

No.

No, I'm not.

Let's take a look at the X. Let's go to history today.

Yeah, let's go to history.

Plenty of

history

to talk about.

Oh boy, the book's real dusty from over the weekend.

Okay, well look out.

All those graduates came to town.

They're all over town.

Lots of dust everywhere.

They're walking with their parents, you know.

Oh boy.

I know.

Do you have

to

drive through downtown at

all?

Yes, couple of

times.

Yeah, I avoided downtown.

I live like two blocks from the Capitol.

I still avoided downtown at all costs.

Nightmare.

Yeah.

Well, did you open the history

book?

Oh, God, I'm just trying to delay the inevitable.

Only a few more

days to do this.

That's

not good.

That's

a lot

of black smoke there from the...

Yeah, why is it smoking?

The pulpinout.

The pulpinout.

That's it.

Oh, yeah.

You're gonna have to teach the new producer how to open the history book and cough like you did.

Yeah.

I mean, it can't be that hard just to cough, can it?

Well, you perfected the cough into

something, you know, that we looked forward to hearing.

Into something that's a little

excessive.

No one's ever gonna be able to produce that.

Yeah, same cough.

Might have to come up with his own thing.

Maybe

I should record an album of cough sounds for the new producer.

Coughing and crying with Sam Davis.

Well, in the history book, today in 1846, the ill-fated Donner Party embarked on their journey to California.

Okay,

that's wonderful.

Donner

Party.

Yeah, we always heard about the Donner Party, what a wonderful group of people.

I'm glad

they had a good party, right?

Party worked out really

well back

in 1846.

It must

have been a hell of a party to get it marked down on the calendar.

really tasty snacks.

Come on, refresh our memory.

What happened

with

the Donner party?

The Donner party got, they got stranded on their way out to California in the middle of the winter and they couldn't find food, had to resort to cannibalism.

A number of the people who managed to make it through the winter like got found, they made it to California, but boy, what an experience.

Oh God.

Okay.

Let's see, today in 1949, the Berlin blockade ended.

Part of that was the big Berlin airlift when the Allies were flying supplies in by parachute to the city.

This was surprising to me.

Today in 2002, Jimmy Carter, the only current or former U.S.

president to visit Cuba since 1959, he visited Cuba on this day in 2002.

Pretty good.

groundbreaking.

We got it.

We got to take back Cuba.

You know, we have to reestablish communications with Cuba.

We have to reestablish some kind of exchange of tourism.

No, we started doing that.

You just want those cigars, don't you?

Yeah.

Well, what

president was it?

It was Clinton that was doing that?

No, it was Obama that

started that

relationship

with Cuba

again and tourist flights.

Right.

Yeah.

And

they were

starting to get back on their feet, and things were starting to look up a little bit, and they got shut down.

Yeah, it got shut down.

I don't know what happened.

OK.

I don't know.

Why do you want to go to Cuba, John?

Well, you know, it's kind of fun.

I mean, if you think

about it, they

still have the old 50s cars.

That's true.

They got a lot of old cars.

That's true.

Got a couple birthdays here.

Catherine Hepburn has a birthday.

Oh.

Yogi Berra.

You ever heard his yogi-ism?

Those are great.

George Carlin has a birthday today, and also Tony Hawk.

Tony Hawk's a lot older than I thought he was.

Famous

skateboarder.

Yeah, like everybody thinks he's still in his, well, I picture him in his early 30s, but he's older than my parents.

Yeah, yeah, okay.

Well, that's pretty old, isn't it?

Yeah, it is,

Gordy.

Okay, not really it is 19 minutes past the hour when we come back Pam Yankee will join us from the Midwest farm report talking about food and farm Allison Dairyland that's coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.

We're just getting started.

Good morning

This is where the action is.

WMDX

92.7, John and Gordy.

It's a beautiful morning.

Temperatures in the 40s though, a little cool, but it's going to warm up nicely into the 80s later on today.

Time

for us to

welcome in Pam Yonkey from the Midwest Farm Report.

Here, this is where the action is.

That's right.

We have her on the line right now.

Good morning, Pam.

Morning guys morning guys.

Yeah, you're right.

It's gonna get warm and sticky out there today for sure.

Oh, yeah, yeah the high humidities and probably high dew points, which I'm allergic to You're allergic to the dew point.

I can't handle dew points Well now we've

got

and we've

got all this hippie Christmas going on with his furniture Graduates.

Yeah, the graduates are gone now,

but let's let's get

Let's get to Alice in Dairyland.

We didn't get to the last time we talked, but how is that thing going?

Well, so this is a big week for the six candidates that want to be the next Alice in Dairyland.

The 78th annual Alice in Dairyland selection process will start later this week, Thursday in Crawford County.

So we've got six young women that would like to be the spokesperson for Wisconsin Agriculture.

Now, remember, this is a paid position through the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.

Basically, she's in the marketing division.

I think the last time I looked, the salary $45,000 obviously gets a state car and all that type of thing and a lot, a lot of road miles.

On average, they put on around 40,000 miles in the year that they serve as Alice.

and it can it can deviate quite a little bit but they'll head towards a parade of sheen on Thursday and be around Crawford County doing tours of different businesses farms etc then on Saturday night is the finale they'll start with the banquet around four o'clock banquet reception and then wrap it up that evening with the announcement of who our next Alice is and I gotta tell you guys

I know that most of the girls that are up for the position this year, and it is a strong field of candidates.

I mean, we're not going to go wrong with any of them.

But like I said, just a really, really competitive field of young professionals that want to be a part of this campaign.

I thought it was interesting.

I was looking back at the history.

This actually started back in 1914, and it really was to raise awareness on.

the diversity of Wisconsin agriculture, but it was really more of a beauty path in fact then.

They make no bones about that, but it's definitely more and transformed a lot of different ways today.

So I wish the six of them best of luck.

It's going to be a tough decision for the judges.

That's right.

A lot of women entrepreneurs are getting into farming.

It's a great thing.

It really is.

Who's going to be the crazy mad cheese header this year?

What?

What are you talking about?

I'm just making it up.

You know, it's Alice

in Wonderland,

Alice in Cheeseland,

and

Dairyland.

Dairyland.

Come

on, you

guys.

Is this the way it goes with you guys on Mondays, making it up that kind of thing?

Yes.

Sure.

Sure, why not?

Yes.

Yes.

Right.

Right.

Well, you were mentioning hippie Christmas and all the goodie goodies that somebody is going to be enticed and try to pick up off the streets.

Yeah.

And I believe there was conversation about what comes along with that.

Speaking of which, and do point, you may notice that you're starting to make those involuntary gestures of swatting in the sky more and more this week.

P.J.

Elish, our university extension entomologist, said that the insect counts are on the climb.

And that's not just important for those of us that get irritated by mosquitoes and worry about ticks.

Farmers are also going to have to keep an eye on insects.

He told me that they have been tracking

kind of the migratory pattern, the swarms of bugs that get carried up to Wisconsin on the wind patterns.

And you and I both know winds have been pretty strong

over the

past couple of weeks.

So

we've got some really big numbers coming of blackleaf cutworms and armyworms, which are two really devastating insects that can take really damage our crops a lot.

So farmers are gonna have to keep an eye on that.

A lot of farmers that keep drive out in the country.

and see our L-cells of fields, big lush green fields.

That's another place where weevil, L-cells of weevil like to move in.

So keep an eye out for that.

If you were out and about this weekend, check for chicks on you, your kids, your dogs, because PJ said with the mild winter that we had in Wisconsin, chicks have actually been actually very active for probably the past couple of months.

They do not necessarily slow down a lot.

Well, they do slow down a lot, but once that node disappears, they can be crawling all over the place.

So check yourself if you were out hiking or in the wild over the weekend.

There's a kind of a new worm infection, infestation that's taken place that eats the soil and destroys the soil.

What?

Yeah.

Well, and we've got other insects that are all all screwworm is something that our livestock industry is monitoring in the south right now.

That could actually kill cattle.

I'm trying to pull up on it myself.

We haven't haven't seen it in Wisconsin.

But boy, it is devastating to cattle herds that that get it.

You know, and I was mentioning about mosquitoes.

Yeah,

we all know that is coming around Wisconsin can't can't get away from that.

But he told me and this all this just makes me ring my hands even more.

that Wisconsin is home to 55 different species of mosquitoes.

Wow.

I had no idea.

I didn't either.

To me, they all look the same.

It's 55 different species.

So yeah, that's why we love to talk to PJ.

He's always got something up his sleeves.

on what we thought we already knew.

55 mosquitoes up his sleeve.

That's what he's got.

I

can't imagine his job.

Oh, no,

no.

How about mental health muscles?

Touch on that briefly.

Only got a minute

left here.

Yeah, that's all right.

I will talk about it again.

I'm sure just reminding people that may as mental health month and just like all of us farmers are dealing with a lot of stress right now.

So you can help minimize that by being respectful when you're sharing roadways.

With that large farm equipment, they've just got to try to get this done before the rain moves in later this week.

Visibility on their machinery can be difficult, so don't make any foolish moves that add stress to everybody's life.

But just kind of remember that that farmers are under a lot of stress, as is everybody else.

There are

resources available to reach out if you need

them.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Thank you, Pam.

Very good.

That's Pam Yankee from Midwest Farm Report, which is coming up next here on WMDX, everything about food and farm and agriculture.

Yes, John.

Well, Catherine says it was Pam Alice once, and I don't know.

Oh, you know what?

I forgot to ask her that.

Well, next time.

We'll talk to her first.

All right.

We'll be back with more of John and Gordy.

As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.

This is grade A weapons grade stupidity.

Just doing my civic duties.

We can duck and cover.

There's a fall each other right there.

There's no way to survive this, you idiot!

Idiocracy.

For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.

Well, you know, we've got we've got a few interesting people talking about idiocracy next hour.

Really?

Yeah, Charlie Sykes had a guest on from the Atlantic writer and He was talking about how we can't watch that That movie anymore.

Is that right?

Yeah, we'll get into that.

Okay, but just thought I mentioned it because this is idiocracy time again Every day each and every day is

at 6 36.

That's right.

We're right on time.

And we've got sunshine out there this

morning.

It's a beautiful morning.

It was great all weekend long

and it's going to continue today.

Highs in the 80s.

Right now we're in the 40s.

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Well, you know, it also could act as a community notes, right?

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I mean, AI could check on whether something is true or false.

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Well, a lot of peace.

A lot of peace there.

You know, something just occurred to me.

We're talking about Alice in Dairyland, right?

Yeah.

This is interesting.

Maybe Alice Cooper could be a special guest at Alice in Dairyland.

What would he do?

I heard a story, you know, I was listening to some music this morning on Sirius and they were talking about how Alice Cooper and his original band is getting back together

again.

Oh really?

Yeah, I mean they were some real true rock and rollers.

Yes.

And as I mentioned before that was the very first rock and roll concert.

I was ever taken to.

Was that in Milwaukee?

Yes, it was.

Yeah.

I'd seen James around before that with my sister, but that's not rock and roll.

When

I saw Alice Cooper, it blew my mind.

It was really, really great.

A lot of showmanship.

They didn't have all the animals and crazy creatures on stage as they did later on in Alice Cooper concerts.

They didn't have the snake?

I

don't believe they did.

They had the guillotine?

They had the tooth.

You know, the tooth.

But remember the dentist pulling Alice Cooper's

tooth out?

Yeah.

Well, I never saw him in concert, but yeah,

I do recall that that was part of the act.

Yeah, some song, sweet.

Did he

give his speech on Milwaukee from Wayne's World when you were there?

Did he?

Yeah, I'm asking you.

If

he was playing in Milwaukee, did he talk about...

I don't, I don't remember.

It

was my very first concert.

Do you realize what you're like, are you familiar with what I'm talking

about?

No, I'm

not.

In Wayne's world, like Wayne and Garth go backstage to meet Alice Cooper and he goes on and on about the history of Milwaukee.

Like

he's a history bumper or something like that.

I did not know that.

Well, that's fantastic.

I will definitely look into that.

Yeah, we'll have

to check that

out.

They wouldn't get something on that here.

We can drop it into the show every once in a while.

All right.

But anyway, yes, Alice, Alice Cooper in Dairyland.

We'll bring that up with Pam Yankee.

Maybe she has some strings she can pull.

Hey, we're living in

idiocracy.

What do you expect?

Cash Patel is a crazy guy.

What did he do?

What did he do now?

Well, he was being grilled over the fact that a report is due.

From the FBI and he has not gotten that report budget.

He was supposed to put together a budget So why don't we listen to this cut here?

This is this is cash saying that he'll get to it

The

thing

is, they keep saying that he flies to Vegas, because he has a home there,

and

he's always there, and he goes out at night in Vegas.

He's always part of it.

It's like he doesn't take it seriously, and that's not me saying it.

That's what the stories are talking about.

So,

okay,

let's listen to Cash Patel's interesting reasons for not having that budget reporting.

So, Director Patel, when should we expect this FY 25 spend plan for the FBI?

Have you seen it?

Have you reviewed it?

When will we get it?

I'll get you an answer, ma'am.

I don't have a timeline on that.

It was due last week by law.

I understand.

And your answer is you just understand you're not going to follow the law?

My answer is that I am following the law and I'm working with my interagency partners to do this and get you the budget that you are required to have.

And you have no timeline?

No

Okay Wow So if you're breaking the law But you still don't have a timeline and he doesn't seem to be in a hurry to come up with one

You know, the least he could do is treat it like he's, if he's a kid in school and this was like some major

project.

Yeah,

homework

assignment.

You could

at least do a half ass

version

of it and turn it in.

Yeah, my dog ate the report.

But here's the thing, you know, he doesn't seem to be in a rush to even try to convince the people interviewing him that maybe he should get it done.

There's no deadline.

And even though he is...

breaking the law by not having that report in, he says he's still following the law.

Now that's the part that drives me absolutely crazy.

What?

This is how they do it,

right?

This

is how they get into your head and start driving you absolutely nuts.

And I walked around all day yesterday thinking, what?

What is he trying to say

that he's just ignoring it?

Yeah, it just yeah, it'll go away apparently if you don't do it at all and they'll stop asking questions Yeah,

and no rush.

Well, I'm gonna come up with a timeline.

I'll get it here right away.

That report is in the mail No, no promises folks.

No promises at all.

Nope

Okay, and we're going through this big deportation problem, and I truly think it's a way that Trump, inadvertently, but eventually, came around to thinking this is a way to terrorize America, to scare people, to think that people

who are walking around on the streets can be disappeared instantly.

They can be

taken away.

They're taking after a lot of moms, for some reason, they're capturing moms out there because they're pretty dangerous, pulling babies out of their arms and then deporting moms.

Yeah, they're going after the moms.

I've got like three or four stories we haven't even gotten to on this show.

I'm just waiting to play them.

But yes, these moms are being taken away in front of their families.

It's cruelty beyond anything.

But anyway, this is a way to terrorize the rest of the country.

And we wouldn't have to be going through this if they had passed that immigration bill.

Remember that?

Remember when Trump said, don't pass that immigration bill.

We're running on this.

And because this is a way to terrorize the country, he needed this.

And Senator Jim Langford had this to say about how all of this

could have been prevented.

Let's listen to cut 67 here.

This is Jim Langford.

Looking back on the compromise you forged on immigration, do you think we'd be better off if that had happened or are we better off now that it didn't happen and we just have a different president?

No, we do have a different president that's using the same law that's been there for decades and actually enforcing it and we're seeing very different outcomes.

Thinking about the bill that passed, it should have passed.

It would have fixed a lot of the loopholes during the law and it would have been easier to be able to do enforcement now because one of the challenges that we have is our asylum laws do include a lot of loopholes in them that cartels have exploited for years.

They become experts in exploiting our law because it's billions of dollars of income to them when they can find those loopholes in gaps.

I heard a commentator just last week saying the courts are challenging these different ways that President Trump is enforcing the law.

Somebody needs to bring up a bill.

True story, somebody needs to bring up a bill to be able to close some of these loopholes.

And it was a conservative commentator that was saying, and I laughed, and I thought, I know somebody that's brought one of

them.

I know a guy.

Yeah, I know a guy, and I know a bill that could do that.

Now, was the bill everything that I wanted?

No, I'm negotiating with the Democrat White House at the time to be able to get it done.

But many of the areas that we need to close the loopholes were in that bill.

And some form of that, we will eventually get done.

And if I read that bill, legislative summary correctly, would have had more of the personnel to adjudicate things faster.

Right.

Yeah, we were adding more judges.

We were adding more ICE agents.

We were adding more Border Patrol agents.

We added more Border Wall.

We added additional funding that the administration is looking for now would have already been there January 1 to be able to be there and ready to be able to go when the new White House is actually sworn in.

So it would

be better off if I hear you correct.

I do believe we would be, and I think the other thing is, last year we had a million people that illegally crossed our border after that bill failed.

That million people wouldn't have been here.

That's right.

Wow.

So all of this could have been avoided.

Who was that?

That's Senator Jim Lankford.

Okay.

Yeah.

And he's the guy who turned them in originally.

He's always been talking about this.

They had this bill agreed to, everybody was on board, and then they got, you know, the word from Trump, elect.

president at the time saying, don't use it.

Don't bring that up.

Don't

pass it because we don't want the one issue that we have here.

You know, remember, you know, immigrants were eating dogs and cats at the time.

They really went overboard pushing this.

One big issue

they had.

They didn't want to wreck that great idea.

Wow.

I know it's it's bad stuff.

Mm hmm.

But it could have been avoided and I just wanted to bring that up and let everybody know and this is of course another episode of idiocracy

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We'll be finding out all about that.

Just a slice?

Well, a slice of heaven, though.

So all you need

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about heaven, I guess.

We'll find out.

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John and Gordy in the morning one of the great songs from my past 18.

Yeah.

Good

stuff.

I love this.

Crank it up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Great song.

Tanks there.

Why are we playing this again?

You could use that was your first concert first major concert there Yeah, I went

to besides James Brown before that but that was soul music.

This was rock and roll and change my life completely and You said you saw a great clip of Alice talking about Milwaukee my home.

That's

right.

It's from Wayne's world.

All right

Wayne's

world takes place Well, let's

listen to that

clip.

All right, great.

So do you

Come to Milwaukee often?

Well, I'm a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors.

The French missionaries and explorers were coming here as early as the late 1600s to trade with the Native Americans.

In fact, isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?

Yes, Pete, it is.

Actually, it's pronounced Mealy-Walke, which is Algonquin for the good land.

I was not aware of that.

I think one of the most interesting aspects of Milwaukee is the fact that it's the only major American city to have ever elected three socialist merits.

Does this guy know how to party or what?

Huh?

Huh?

Huh.

Okay.

Well, we gotta get going.

No, no, no.

Stick around.

Hang out with us.

Cool.

Yeah, we'll stay and hang around with you.

Without

this Cooper That's great, that is truly great stuff.

I didn't hear that and I'm so proud of my my hometown now The good land yes, it didn't sound like they really wanted a history lesson, but

They got it

anyway, they sure did a walkie

Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that or at least who was pronounced like that.

That's true.

That's tremendous stuff.

All right, let's get to something that everybody's talking about now and it's this crazy gift.

Oh, no, the

400 million dollar jet.

Yeah.

From Saudi Arabia.

That's right.

Donald Trump.

Yeah.

In exchange, of course, you know, Donald Trump announced that he has a 5.5 billion dollar golf course.

and Trump Resort in Cutter.

So Cutter said, you know what, we have this extra jet liner.

It's like a, what, a castle in the sky or

something

like that.

We're just gonna pass it along to you, that's fine, you know?

Why would they do

this?

Pro quo, right?

I mean,

something like that is sure sounds like it

to me.

It

sounds like a corrupt deal

of pay off time.

Don't think it's really legal to do that.

You know, are there some sort of.

rules, some regulations about gifts?

I think

there is something about that

in the

Constitution,

but of

course no one's following the Constitution anymore, except when they're, you know, told to by the Supreme Court, which is run by Republicans now, and they're really not out there trying to do anything.

Oh, before we get to this story, let's go to Joe first, all right?

Let's take this call.

Joe, good to hear from you again.

Good morning

Joe.

Hey guys, I just wanted to chime in a little bit more on Cash Patel and it does point into what you're talking about.

Rolling Stone added a few more comments beyond what Senator Patty Murray said when Cash Patel showed up to a budget hearing where by law he's supposed to have a budget and he doesn't and has

no time.

But he is following the law even though he's not really following the

law.

Well, it gets better.

Apparently, Senator Merkley out of Oregon was questioning him about the Trump's administration policy of deporting immigrants without due process and asking whether the FBI would investigate this because it's against the law.

The Constitution specifically says, do process to all people, not just citizens, all people.

And the Supreme Court has reaffirmed this, that it extends undocumented immigrants.

Patel says, this is how you can start your work week, because Mercury says that's what the Constitution says, and Patel responds, no, it doesn't say that, and simultaneously insisting that he reads the Constitution every day.

Suri does that's why he doesn't have the budget done, because he's busy reading the

Constitution every day.

Oh,

that's good.

That's a good excuse.

Instead of, you know, the dog ate my homework or, um, somebody made a booboo with a computer and we lost the budget.

It's taken him a long time to get through it.

Yeah, apparently.

All right, Joe.

Thank you.

That's great stuff.

All right.

Uh, again, you know, with this, uh, this cutter deal now, you know, the 5.5 billion dollar golf course and Trump resort.

being in exchange now, we didn't know, for a jet airliner.

I

mean, that's what's going to happen here, right?

Wait, he's exchanging a golf course?

What?

No, he was allowed a golf course and Trump Resort and Cutter.

Oh, OK.

Yeah, to build one.

Right.

And in exchange, again, a quid pro quo, hey, what they're going to do over there, they're going to give them a jet airliner.

So Ron Flippkowski, normal everyday journalist out there, he wrote, disgusting, naked, open, blatant corruption, whether it is crypto, Trump media stocks, real estate developments, licensed deals or jets, foreign governments continue to buy our presidency by bribing our criminal president.

Jonathan Karl wrote, President Trump is poised to accept a luxury jet as a gift from Qatar.

It's to be used for Air Force One and then transferred to the Trump Library in 2029.

perhaps the biggest foreign gift ever.

Department of Justice insists it's legal.

Not a bribery, not a violation of the emoluments clause.

Okay.

It's legal somehow.

All right.

We'll keep following that story.

It's got some legs.

Okay.

I think so.

659.

In our next hour, we'll talk to Jennifer McFarlane from Comfy Cauldron in DeForest.

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