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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, 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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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.
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Hmm.
All right, we've got a phone call before we continue with the the the quid
pro quo, uh, you know, the, uh, resort in cutter
and cutter saying,
Hey, you get a big general on it.
Yeah.
Well, how, how, how is that?
All right.
Well, it's, it doesn't, it's, it's not a violation of the constitution whatsoever.
At least according to, you know, Pam Bondi, why don't we take Dick here?
He's on the, on the line right now.
Let's take this call.
Dick, what do you got for us today?
Um,
Air Force one as of now, but as of the delivery of this it's going to be the world's largest eavesdropping device I mean seriously really
yeah, yeah You
think there might be some
bugs in it.
It might be some bugs in effort
I think so possibly you I mean really the first the first term
He had all the Russians to the White House and they didn't do any checking for bugging devices or anything.
That's right.
That's true.
Yeah.
So this plane, it's going to be the world's largest eavesdropping device.
Yeah.
Could be.
Well, you know, they're going over that airline right now.
The US government is going in there and they're preparing it for the president because the president gets special equipment in that airline.
Sure.
That's what they're saying, so maybe they'll be checking for bugs.
I
hope they are anyway.
Thanks for reminding us of that.
I forgot all about that.
Well, Pam Yaki did say that it's bug season again.
Oh dear, you're right.
There it is.
Ooh,
there's the hand
tip.
Maybe, well, I told them the story in the break right before she was on.
I picked up a piece of furniture off the side of the road last summer and it was filled with bed bugs.
Maybe Qatar is going to play a prank on President Trump.
Could be.
Fill it with bedbugs.
Could be.
But, you know, the right wing wants to change the, I guess, the violation of the Constitution into something positive.
Well, the
Ammonium is clause?
Ammonium
is
clause, yes.
They want to make believe that that doesn't exist.
So this is what they said, and this is just one.
One comment that I thought was perfect.
Here it is.
Lion propaganda puppet, John Carr, who by the way did the story on this, has been caught again in community notes.
None of this is true.
Boeing is so far behind with the AF-1 order that a Florida defense contractor overhauled a 747
once used by Qatari government.
All you do is lie.
Now, it's so filled with missing information here.
First of all, this Boeing AF-1 was owned by Qatar at one time.
And that's the one they're donating to Trump.
They're giving it to Trump.
Just a
gift.
Yes, it's a gift.
and this defense contractor is overhauling it, well, that's a defense contractor.
Again, they're fixing it up for the president.
They're adding certain facilities
within this, yeah,
certain equipment in
order to protect the president.
So, no, this isn't some idea, some, you know, I don't even know what they're trying to say, but they're trying to say it's not really happening, it's not a quid pro quo at all, and it certainly is, all
right?
But isn't this connected to the golf course that Trump is?
Yeah, the resort
and cutter.
Okay.
That's what they want to build or they already built it.
No, well, the plan is to build that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, but it's not a quid broke.
Well,
no,
no,
definitely, definitely not that.
It's a $5.5 billion golf course and resort.
Oh, Trump resort in cutter.
And so, you know, cut the thought, well, you know,
the president deserves a luxury jet
castle in the sky doesn't seem like an even trip five billion dollar resort four hundred million dollar jet always does it's not exactly no so maybe it may
be
he can do
that it's not a lot okay
all
right all right now i want to get to something here we have a look
I
gotta tell you
this, Charlie Sykes.
A lot of
people don't like Charlie Sykes to this day because of what he did during the Scott Walker era.
And I understand that completely because I was there, I watched and listened and WTMJ had a huge, huge signal throughout the entire state and influenced a lot of people into believing that
Scott Walker would be a good governor.
In fact, he was a great governor all the time.
He was governor because of Charlie Sykes.
But I forgave Charlie Sykes.
You did.
Yes.
Yeah.
And I think he saw the light.
That that's me.
OK.
A lot of
people was
you're doing a lot of people.
No, a lot of people disagree with me on that.
But I have proof now that he has changed completely.
The conversion from the dark side is.
is now complete and Charlie Sykes has joined the resistance.
He has.
Gordy.
Okay.
Tell us how this is handled.
Well, Sykes said this about the current Star Wars series on Disney and or he said this, it's probably helps if you're a Star Wars fan, but it's not strictly necessary to appreciate the power.
of the speech delivered by Senator Mon Mothma in the latest episode of Andor.
Now, I'm on episode five now, but here it is.
The whole second season has been a masterful portrayal of an authoritarianism, disinformation, brutality, and resistance.
But this episode is extraordinary for its timelessness and its eloquence.
Here is that speech, and it's really a cool speech.
You
gotta hear this thing,
okay?
A lot of little cuts are interspersed in this, but this is right from the series.
It's Andorra's senator, Mon Mothma.
She's a wonderful woman.
Let's check it
out.
Okay.
Friends, colleagues, allies, adversaries.
I stand before you this morning with a heavy heart.
I believe we are in crisis.
Continued an inexplicable Gorman resistance to imperial norms.
between what is said and what is known to be true, or the
propaganda,
has become an abyss.
Terrorism strikes again in Gorman.
They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.
Of all the things at risk.
The loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous.
With the right ideas planted in the right markets, we can weaponize galactic opinion.
The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.
The only story that matters is Gormand aggression.
When truth leaves us,
when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands.
We become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.
This chamber's hold on the truth was finally lost on the Gorman Plaza.
What took place yesterday was unprovoked genocide.
Help us!
And that truth has been...
Is there no one who can help her?
And the monster screaming the loudest?
The monster we've helped create.
The monster who will come for us all soon enough is Emperor Palpatine.
There you go, the monster we helped create.
Okay.
Trump.
Wow.
It's the second season of Andor.
It's a scary reminder of today's America becoming a corrupt fascist authoritarian kleptocracy.
This is a comment, by the way.
I am finding it hard to watch it as it is so scary and realistic.
Doesn't feel like science fiction.
And here's another comment.
The whole speech is great, but the death of truth.
is the ultimate victory of evil is a good resistance slogan.
America needs this particular speech and by the way in this conversation over Andor that Charlie Sykes had, he had it.
with Atlantic writer Tom Nichols,
okay?
Now I'm bringing this up because this is very important to our program.
We have idiocracy, right?
We pass along those stories to you, but here's a conversation with Tom Nichols talking about idiocracy.
Let's hear it.
I mean, how do you catch up with the reality of today where we have Jeanine Pirro named the acting U.S.
Attorney for Washington, D.C.?
?
I mean, seriously, or this Dr. Casey Means, who is the new surgeon general, and apparently Lorda Loomer is playing a significant role in the selection of the critique.
I mean, I'm sorry.
I think the producers of Idiocracy should sue our timeline for plagiarism.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it's it's creepy.
I can't watch Idiocracy anymore.
I mean, I used to really laugh at it.
Now I'm like, no, it's just two on the nose.
I can't.
And like at night when I'm watching ads, you know And it's and everything is about you know, our many medical problems and you know, she mail water Viagra and you know, I'm like, oh, they you know, they
Poor Mike Judge must be feeling like the world just ripped him off.
Mike Judge, of course, wrote the movie and it's just a fantastic film.
Now, I mentioned that when I first saw the movie, I thought, well, this is absolutely ridiculous
and I didn't like
it at all.
And now
I'm
looking at where I think what is it a wrestler becomes president, you know, he brings out a AK-47 or something.
Yeah, keeps the piece with a machine gun when the crowd gets too loud.
It's just unbelievable
stuff.
When did they make that?
Was it like 10 years ago?
I don't
know.
2005, I think.
Oh,
okay.
Really, 2005.
Wow.
So
idiocracy has become real.
It's a little scary time.
We're
even the writer for the Atlantic that watch it anymore.
It's too close.
I know it.
And Trump keeps hiring the craziest people to be part of this administration.
It's beyond
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I mean, Trump is just an example of a violation of the Emoluments Clause and how they can actually say what no violation of the Emoluments Clause because Congress has not approved, you know, Trump's acceptance of this gift from, because that's how you could make it actually legitimate, but it certainly is not.
I mean, Trump is
I advise people to go out there and get a copy of the Federalist Papers.
There's some nice annotated versions of that because Trump is just an example of what Hamilton pointed out that a President could become in 75, you know, interested in own self-engagement and enriching himself, you know, at the, betraying the interests of his constituents, you know, for his own self-gain.
I mean, that he is, I think, what the anti-Federalist feared that the President would become this imperial
king thing was surrounded by millions and mistresses with uh you know issue in fourth is murdering janissaries as as he you know it illustrated in 69 that was six yes 67 that um i think it it is just uh you know the anti-fascist were concerned the president would you know crown himself a king and uh that he would just be surrounded with millions and mistresses and have you know his own little you know we'd call today's you know what they call back then janissaries but crope has his
You know, ice troops go out there and roughen people up and wearing masks.
And I mean, I'm just amazed that some of those, those guys in the black mask haven't gotten shot because, you know, that we're supposedly standing around in this state and you see somebody getting assaulted by people.
Yeah.
People not wearing, actually wearing a uniform, wearing some black suit with no badges or anything like that.
And you don't know if they're gang members or.
You know what?
You brought up a really good point.
This is something I was going to focus on as well.
And since I've done research on it, I also have a real fear of these people just now, I don't know, just anybody going out and grabbing people for, you know, trafficking reasons or whatever it is.
They can steal people off the streets and disappear them.
And we don't know where they're going to end up.
or who's doing it because they don't have a uniform.
And I looked it up, but ICE agents don't require a uniform, but they must have identification posted on their clothing.
So I know it freaks me out that these people are in jeans, they're up in, you know, they're cosplaying militia members, right?
And it could be anybody stealing people off the street and throwing them in a truck.
That's my fear as well as I know it's your fear.
And the Constitution itself, before we even got to the Bill of Rights, they actually said all crimes require a trial by jury.
I mean, it was just, and if these people are indeed committed a crime, then they're entitled to due process even before you get to the Bill of Rights.
They're entitled to a trial by jury.
I mean, because you can't just say, you know, unless they're just saying that, because from my understanding, the immigration laws are not a violation, it's not a crime, it's a, it's a, yes.
I don't know, quite the definition,
but it's
not actually a crime, it's some other kind of violation that has happened, but I mean that we have to adhere to the Constitution.
Cash Patel's better pull his head, you know, to actually read the Constitution rather than pretending he's reading it and flying down to Las Vegas to be with his boyfriend.
I
know.
It's pretty bad.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
I had to look into it because I was just, I was thinking, why don't we have a uniform for ice agents so
we can
identify who they are, but they don't have to have a uniform, but they do have to wear a badge identifying who they are.
They should also, by the way, have a requirement to show some kind of identification or at least a warrant signed by other ice agents.
Wow.
That's really.
official or
just be, you know, you don't know
who it is.
It could be a
vigilante on their own pretending to be an ice agent just coming in
and ripping like that.
Yes, they're not showing identification.
They don't wear the identification.
And then of course they ban protesters from wearing masks, but ice agents can wear masks.
They don't have to show their face.
Exactly.
That's also part
of the
Part of the law.
Part of the deal.
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Well, the Catholic Church has elected the first ever pope from America.
And as an American Catholic, I could not be more proud, which is a sin, and now I'm ashamed.
The Vatican has selected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who is from the south side of Chicago, to be the new pope.
And you can tell he's from the south side because he's got his hands up.
I also love that conservatives are already complaining that this pope is too woke.
How woke can a 69-year-old man from Chicago be?
It's not like he came out and was like, hey, I'm Pope Leo the 14th.
He, him.
The reality is there are no woke Catholics.
If you're a woke Catholic, you're just not Catholic anymore.
President Trump said he was interested in reopening Alcatraz because it represents something horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable and weak, which are also his nicknames for his five children.
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7.36, beautiful sunshine today, warming up to the low 80s this afternoon.
It's gonna be nice and warm for the next few days.
Maybe some stormy weather by Thursday or Friday.
Might have to jump in the lake again.
Did I even tell you guys that?
What?
What happened?
Again.
Is this what
you did over the weekend?
That's right, John.
What'd you do?
Well, apparently it's a thing for some graduates from UW to show up the day after graduation at sunrise to the Memorial Union Terrace and jump into the lake.
So I showed up, I wasn't graduating even, I showed up to the terrace 5.45 in the morning, it was cold out, air temperature was like 40 degrees and I jumped in the lake.
You were the only one there?
Were you the only one there?
No, I got a picture.
One of the docks out there was full of people.
Really?
There were a bunch of people on the shoreline, yeah.
You know, there's a whole side of you, I don't
know.
I'm
a man of mystery.
Yes, you are.
We've been working
with you for a year and a half, and we still don't know all the
crazy things you've
done in
your short lifetime.
Gents ears.
They'll try anything.
Yeah.
Um, all right.
Well, coming up, we're going to be talking with Jennifer McFarland from the comfy cauldron.
And we'll find out about a big event they're having their slice of heaven.
No, I don't usually think of as a cauldron is being very comfy.
Usually you cook in a cauldron.
It's like a kettle, right?
I don't think of being cooked is very
comfortable.
She'll explain it to
us.
All right.
Doug, Doug mentions Trump.
is 23 Fox on-air personality so far for his administration.
This may be the way to pump new life into the John and Gordy show too.
How about hiring Fox News Peter Ducey to expand your show to threesome?
Well, I think that might be it
right there.
Yeah, because he's leaving the morning show.
Peter Ducey after many years of there.
Well,
let's pick
him up.
You think
so?
You know, that'd be kind of fun, you know?
Having somebody ask the questions he asks.
Sure.
All right.
Well, let's get to this.
While we are here, you know, in the studio, I thought this was just hilarious.
What's that?
Can I get to this?
Do you want to get to something for it?
Well, I do.
Well, sure.
I want to remind Wednesday.
Wednesday.
I want to remind everybody we're gonna be a short stack eatery.
You know, we used to
go there every Wednesday.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, stop by if you can.
Yeah, they're closing down in a couple of weeks.
They're
moving on and doing something else.
But we wanted to have one more broadcast from short stacks.
So we're going to do that this coming Wednesday morning.
And remember our young friend, Zennan, he's gonna be joining us.
Oh, excellent.
Yes.
I think he's a freshman now in high school.
I think so.
And I think he's
a
freshman year.
Yeah,
nearly seven foot.
Tall, I understand.
Well, quite the gross part.
We'll catch
up with you.
I wonder if we're going to witness another.
Now there's explosion out in the street, like happened at short stack once before.
Why would you say
that?
Don't give anybody any ideas.
You just gave away
the big surprise.
Well, the last one that happened, it blew a manhole cover six feet into the air.
I know.
I still don't know what happened.
I know.
We're working
on at least three manhole covers this time around.
So it
was going to be
a big surprise.
You kind of let the cat out of the bag,
I'm sorry
to
say.
Yeah, you should have just.
All right.
Anyway, here, this is something.
Anyone.
Anyone ever get an overdue notice from your local Library of Congress?
This is too much.
The Library of Congress gets a copy of every book published in the United States, print or digital.
It's part of how copyright is established.
It is a research library, not one where kids go to check books out, making the criticism of placing inappropriate books in the Library of Congress for children factually incorrect.
and irrelevant to its function.
And I'm reacting basically to this comment.
This is cut 86, all right, from Caroline Levitt about the Library of Congress.
It's almost shocking.
Let's listen.
Question now, the president fired the Librarian of Congress.
Why did he choose to
do that?
We felt she did not fit the needs of the American people.
There were quite concerning things that she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
And we don't believe that she was serving the interests of the American taxpayer well.
So she has been removed from her position and the president is well within his rights to do that.
Oh, OK.
He's within his rights to do what?
She
put
the wrong books into the Library of Congress.
Wow,
it's a DEI policy that
they
keep using over and over again.
And kids don't check out books in the Library of Congress.
It just doesn't happen.
I don't think they have that function, no.
You know,
the fact that
they're using anti-DEI racism to cleanse our society of anything that isn't white is just starting to get under my crawl a little bit.
My mega friend in Milwaukee also repeated what Trump has said about this.
DEI is racist.
Full stop.
That's how they describe it.
All right?
Trump has essentially declared DEI thinking
forbidden, illegal.
Yes.
That's according to him.
Yeah.
And he's using coercive threats of defunding and boycotting anyone freely expressing themselves.
I think there's something in the First Amendment.
Freedom of speech.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Isn't this the very definition of government censorship?
Right.
That's how I look at it.
The weirdest thing has been happening to me recently.
On my Facebook, powered by algorithms of course, just kind of feeds you whatever it wants to feed you to keep you on there.
It's been for whatever reason, feeding me random racist content from weird right wing content creators.
And I've been getting these right wing, I guess, political cartoons.
Here they're complaining about DEI, meanwhile, I guess they're just trying to.
push actual racism on people who obviously don't want it.
Maybe
the
algorithm knows that you're going to become a teacher next in your profession, and they're trying to influence
you before you get into the profession.
Three moves ahead of me in this game of chess.
Exactly.
That
must be
it.
Oh, man.
By the way, we got this information in.
I'm not sure where this...
came from?
We were handed a few flyers at the night market last Thursday from some organizers in the community about some events and rallies coming up and our next one's on Wednesday.
Yeah, it's Wednesday 5 p.m.
at the Capitol steps on State Street.
There's going to be a rally outside the Capitol there.
They'll have speakers beginning at 5.30.
It's all about state employees.
State worker power presents this
This rally, you can join state employee union members and their supporters and call on state leaders to reinforce state programs under the threat from federal funding cuts and protect the public during this crisis.
They'll also be collecting donations for UAW 291.
And this happens Friday, or I'm sorry, Wednesday, Wednesday at five o'clock on the Capitol steps.
Save our services, save our state rally.
Okay.
Sounds great.
I've got something here from the Daily Show and, you know, uh, you know, the tariffs.
Okay.
I guess there's a big, big deal going on here.
The U.S.
and China, they are lowering their tariffs now.
Right.
Yeah.
Down to
80%.
A little bit.
Just 80% instead of 100, whatever it was.
It's a compromise by both parties at this point.
But, you know, there is something new.
You know, we were talking about all the $30 that people won't be able to hit.
Children will not be able to get their $30 right well here.
Here's an ad from the Daily Show check it out
Okay.
Ten-year-old girl, nine-year-old girl, 15-year-old girl, doesn't need $37.
Hey,
ten or nine or 15-year-old girls, when you can only have one doll, there's only one doll to have.
Tarot Tilly, the perfect companion to help you write out our magical trade war.
I love playing along with you.
Tarot Tilly is the ideal replacement for those $37 you want, but do not need.
China is eating her lunch.
That tarot roll, pal.
It's a loser!
Lower rates now!
You'll love playing with Tariff Tilly during off-work hours.
It's 5 a.m.
Time for your shift at our on-chord lithium factory.
And don't forget to grab Tariff Tilly's hottest new accessory.
Things that you carry in the babies around you.
That's right.
Tariff Tilly's thing you carry the babies around you.
Now just $7,000.
And now you can feed Tariff Tilly with real American-made baby formula.
Uh-oh.
Looks like you got a tainted bat.
Oh, a hell of a...
Oh boy.
Hey, maybe the
administration could pick up on that and make a little money.
Part of their grift that they're in the process of right now.
No person in the history of the U.S.
has made more money off being a president.
Yes.
Or at least even running for president.
Unbelievable.
It's not even close.
You know, Trump testified in his New York deposition that the value of his brand went from three billion dollars to ten billion dollars the day he got elected in 2016.
He's bragging about that.
The Monuments Clause.
What happened to that?
And that's before he started the grift line of products that he has.
Two minutes, really.
What do you want from me?
Do you want me to slow down the time?
Could you could you speed up the time of this cut note?
No.
No.
But yeah, I mean, it is truly an amazing thing to watch all of this happen before very eyes.
The grift just
keeps
happening.
Yeah, it keeps happening.
I don't know what the heck, right?
Got the crypto coin.
You know, we're working on our own John and Gordy crypto coins.
So far, we haven't gotten very far with that.
No, we really have to push that along.
Yeah.
What's holding us up?
Is it the
material?
Yeah, the materials that the coins are made out of, that tariff's on them now.
Yeah, I know.
See, we have to check.
We're going to make it like balsa wood coins.
And I understand that we're waiting for the laws to change to allow more child labor in the state.
So we can make them
real cheap.
Real cheap like.
Yeah.
We're working on it.
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Oh, I know.
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Next.
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you.
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you.
And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do.
He said
that.
But there's a big deal in the old days when you could sing along to that.
Right.
And
now I'm
embarrassed that I actually like the chipmunks at the time.
But you know that.
I like them as a
kid
now
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Yes, John and Gordy along with our guest Jennifer McFarland Jennifer welcome to the show.
Good morning.
Thank you for having me
It's
good
to have you here.
It's a comfy cauldron.
Yeah.
All right, why don't you explain the
comfy cauldron to us.
You're in DeForest, right?
Yes, we are.
We're right across from the Veterans Memorial Park in DeForest.
It's a beautiful little location.
We have a nice big lawn and a river running next to us.
Oh, it's beautiful.
And what do you
do there?
What's the comfy cauldron all
about?
So I am a psychic.
I delve in the...
spiritual realms.
I talked to the dad.
Oh, you do?
I read tarot cards.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
That
was Jerry Garcia doing nowadays.
He asked me to say hi when I got here.
Okay, great.
Yeah,
well, you know, we were big friends back in the day.
I want to ask you, do the spirits sound pretty much like they did when they were living or is there like a ghostly sound to their voices when you're talking to them?
To be honest, everyone is different.
For me, I can hear some of them telepathically, and some of them I can actually hear audibly.
Depends on the spirit's ability.
Oh,
okay.
Well, telepathically, I didn't... You threw me a curveball on that, I wasn't?
I never heard of that, okay.
John saw a ghost when he was a kid.
I did.
Well, an apparition actually.
I was about five or six crawling around on the floor of an old farmhouse.
They farmed and I went into the parlor which they kept closed because they stored stuff in it.
I went in there investigating and there was a piece of cloth and I pulled on it and realized it was actually somebody's pants.
I looked up and it was an old man looking down at me.
I ran out of there screaming of course and there was nobody really in there but I experienced that.
That's how I got where I am.
I didn't choose to be this person.
I had
Several paranormal experiences that kind of led me to realizing I'm a little bit different than other people Yeah, and so now instead of running from that I run into it and I help other people understand it and speak to people that they Can't have a full conversation with anymore brings a lot of closure a lot of love a lot of understanding of where to go in your life and then the slice of heaven is where we help them to gather and kind of
maybe pallet me better because like you said, I throw curveballs.
Yes, yes, you do.
Well, let's talk about this event that's coming
up
this coming Saturday,
right?
Saturday, May 17th from 10 to four in DeForest.
And where is this happening in DeForest at your business?
Yes.
So like I said, we had that big, beautiful lawn.
We set up all of our vendors in there.
I believe we're over 40.
Starbucks is going to be giving away.
free hot and cold coffee
to
all of our guests.
The first 30 people in the door, we do have a little gift for that come up to the comfy cauldron.
And then we have a wonderful variety of offerings from local talents and businesses.
Like handcrafted items,
that kind of thing.
All kinds of stuff, handcrafted items that can get services.
There'll be other psychics there.
There's all kinds of stuff to
do.
People if they're intending to go then should clear out their thought process because you guys are gonna deep
dig deep into their brains.
What happens when you get a bunch of psychics together?
Can you predict what each
other is going to?
Everything levitates.
Everything
leving.
Wow.
Well, this is a free event.
It's also you.
I'm looking at a poster here that you have on Facebook, on your website here.
And it says it's a family event.
Yes.
So
you got some stuff for the kids happening?
Yes, we do.
We've got some stuff for the kids.
We've got some prizes and there's a lot of the vendors that do like, it's really big to crochet plushies right now.
So we have a lot of different,
yeah.
We have a lot of different offerings that our vendors make for children.
It's beautiful.
That's kind of what we aim for is all ages because like you said, I was a child who didn't understand what was going on for me.
You had an experience.
I want to be an adult that can help those children.
So this is a second annual event.
Yeah,
I did this last year slice of heaven makers bakers and healers.
Yeah, that's the collection of more than 40 vendors
Yeah, cuz we gotta eat to I love me some food
Are they mostly from deforest or they come from all over
they come from all over.
Yeah
Excellent
You know, you have candles in the shop, you have crystals in the shop, and all of that kind of adds to what?
The ambiance or what a person's, I don't know, adding something to your room, right?
Yes, it does add to the aesthetic.
I do work and I am a witch.
So I do work with witchcraft.
I do move energy.
So the crystals, the candles, all of those help to call upon the energy that you're wanting in your space or in your life, you know, each one of them holds a different vibration like rose quartz.
That'll help you love yourself more.
You'll notice that your decisions start to be made from a place of loving yourself instead of hurting yourself.
Yeah.
Jennifer, if people want to find out more about the event that's, again, taking place this coming Saturday from 10 to 4 in DeForest, what's the best place to go?
Head on over to our Facebook.
We also have a Facebook event page.
It tells you all about the vendors and everybody who's going to be there.
All right.
Did you watch the series on Disney, the spinoff from One to the Witch, her neighbor?
had a spin-off series on Disney, and they were all a group of witches getting together.
Was there anything that offended you on that, or did you watch
it?
I did watch it, and honestly, those witch shows are wonderful.
I don't find offense in any of them.
I feel like any way that they can start exposing children to that in a positive way is wonderful, or our culture as a whole.
All right.
Excellent.
Well, Jennifer, thanks for joining
us.
Good
luck with the
event Saturday.
Melanie, thanks for being here as well.
Yeah.
And again, it's Saturday in DeForest at the Comfy Cauldron, downtown DeForest.
for this Saturday the slice of heaven okay that's gonna do it for John and Gordy
coming up
next Stephanie Miller and tomorrow we will be talking with Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society and don't forget Wednesday we're back at short staff
and we've got Idiocracy as usual okay horror stories from this administration
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