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WMDX 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning.

Boy, you know, it's garbage day for a lot of people in town, man.

Did

you

see the dumpsters just outside the parking ramp here?

No.

Wow, what did they have?

Some kind of wild party?

I mean, that is full.

Are they?

That's

been a show at the Orpheum, maybe?

Yeah, could have been.

Yeah, yeah, maybe.

Could be.

You know, a lot of people, you know, throwing stuff around and...

Party time.

I

don't know what, why am I talking garbage?

You know, I was so glad to see our garbage cans moved out to the street.

I forgot to do it last night and, you know, my kid, maybe, had done that.

That would be a screaming...

Moment of history really I can't hear anything.

What's the matter?

What's

better?

Which one are you in?

You're in this one.

Can you hear anything now?

Hello?

Can you hear me now?

Can you hear me

now?

We can hear you.

There we go.

Okay.

I'm good.

Okay.

He talks to himself a

lot, doesn't he?

Producer Sam, good morning to you.

Hey, yeah, yeah.

It's John Peterson, Gordy Young, Producer Sam and...

Our new producer, Dominic, is riding shotgun with Sam today.

How's it going?

Dominic Lee, welcome aboard.

There he is, yes.

Thank you for having me, guys.

You betcha.

You betcha.

Okay.

This is episode number 391, if you're keeping track at home.

Dominic, you will regret this decision.

Write that number down.

That's your first warning, so.

Yeah.

All right.

And the way we figure it, Sam.

Sam's last day will be produced, will be episode number 400.

Wow, so exactly 400 episodes.

Yeah, it's like we

planned it straight from the beginning.

Well, we did, didn't

we?

Actually, we never expected to be here, episode 400.

Yes,

that's

true.

Boy, it's chilly this morning.

It's ridiculous, isn't it?

Yes.

It's cloudy out there.

We might get some rain, I guess, later tonight and into tomorrow.

But right now.

Ah, forgot my watch.

You forgot your Samsung WMDX watch.

Oh, man.

What the hell?

What are we going to do?

No,

I don't

know.

You're just

going to have to use the old method

of

determining the temperature for today.

Well,

we'll look outside the window on the WMDX thermometer right outside here.

It looks like it's 40 degrees.

What do you think the afternoon high may be?

You want to just take a wild guess?

Yeah, I did kind of look when I was at home,

and I think

it's

going to be around 58 today.

Well, let's check

the

weather inlet wheel, and we'll spin the wheel.

Get the ball in there, round and round it goes, and see.

Well, that's shiny.

It's, I know it's.

It cleaned it all up for the weekend.

57, red 57.

There he goes, huh?

Yeah, that's pretty close.

So you just guessed 58 just out of the clear blue sky.

Okay.

Well, that's where you get the

weather, the clear blue sky.

What temperature

did you say it is right now?

If that's our high?

Right, 39, isn't it?

Geez, Louise.

Yeah, well, I've got 40, but yes.

Okay, 40.

Yeah.

And it's a little breezy too, once again today.

Yeah.

Okay.

I don't think it'll hurt the basil plants that we have outside, but keeping my fingers crossed on

that.

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I really, really wish that I had had a Verlo mattress over the weekend.

I

told you guys on Friday my roommates and I were going to bike to New Glaris.

Yes.

Did you do that?

We did.

We biked down to New Glaris on Friday afternoon.

and camped the night, and boy, I cannot sleep on a ground anymore.

I used to be able to just pitch a

tent and

lay down

in there with a

blanket, and I'd be good for the night.

That is not the case anymore.

You're an eagle scout.

You should be able to do anything.

It's like being a green beret.

You could do anything.

You can survive out in the woods.

I made it through the night, all right.

I didn't sleep well.

I was shivering the whole time.

Gordy, Gordy, we've got to congratulate him for finally, you know, making it into a...

adulthood I mean finally you know you're

saying I've reached the point

point where yes now you're a full grown adult you can't lay on the ground anymore you know I know I know everybody thinks it's some kind of preference thing no you really can't lay on the ground just don't do that yeah you don't need that

All right, let's get to the national day calendar.

I know you've been waiting for us.

I thought you were going to say something about not meeting Maddie the mattress.

You know, you're going to be leaving here.

Maddie the mattress.

Oh, God, I didn't

even think about that.

I'm so disappointed.

You're right.

We got to get him in here in the next two weeks.

We got to get him in here in the next two weeks.

That's got to happen.

OK, national day calendar for Monday, May 19.

Is it or is it not?

Is it national roadie day?

Is it National Upside Down Pineapple Day?

Pineapple Cake Day?

What is it?

National, wait a second.

Wait a second.

National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day or something like that.

National Devil's Food Cake Day?

Or National May Ray Day?

What day is it not, John?

Uh, cake day?

Well, which one?

There's National Devil's Food Cake Day or National Upside Down Pineapple Cake Day.

Pineapple.

What the hell are you talking

about?

Did you

mix up the

pineapple?

No, that is the thing.

National Upside Down Pineapple.

Well, then you got me completely.

I don't

know.

You don't know?

And give him the buzzer, Sam.

Wait a second.

It is not it is you're right.

It's not national upside-down pineapple.

What the hell

you

mean?

All right, I gotta look it up now because I saw it before I

just

didn't

oh

you did keep it.

Yeah, yeah National upside-down pineapple day

It's not today Wow upside-down Pineapple cake day pineapple.

I can't spell and think of talk at the same time Yeah

upside down pineapple cake recipes right here.

See?

Oh,

yeah.

You see that?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So

it's a thing.

It's just not today.

I see.

Yeah.

So it's like in a jello mold and the pineapple lays at the bottom of it.

Right.

And so when you

flip it upside down, it's at the top.

You got it.

But that's not today.

It's National Rode Day.

You know, Rode, they help the band slow

up.

Oh, yes, yes,

yes.

Yes, I... You were a Rode in a band once.

Weren't you touring with Bach

and Turner

Overdrive?

I had a part-time relationship with a girlfriend of a Rode who was on the road an awful lot.

You care to tell us more?

No.

No, that's okay.

National roadie day honors the unsung heroes who work tirelessly tirelessly behind the scenes to help the show get on the road Okay, there are this what?

Pineapple upside down cake my dad's fave.

Oh, see

Wow.

Not upside

down pineapple cake.

Okay, I got a little twisted around, but you know what I meant.

Okay, all right, wise guy.

But it is a thing.

It is a thing, yeah.

By the way, when are we having our banana cake recipe competition?

Well, I asked Catherine if she wanted to do it, like actually on Monday, because we've got a lot to do today.

And it was like

nine o'clock at night last night, and I really didn't feel like...

Starting to bake something.

Okay, so

we'll

have

to push

it

back again tomorrow or

Wednesday

Let's do it Wednesday.

See, I'm insisting on the fact that you have to have old bananas to do that.

I don't have old bananas to do that.

Well, you can buy some

today and then wait a couple of days.

Then they're old bananas.

Yes, but you guys want this competition at a time when I don't have old bananas.

You

go on Facebook Marketplace and say, in search of

your old

bananas.

I'll go to Facebook Marketplace and see if I get it.

Get somebody to sell their old bananas to me.

Should we shoot for Thursday or Friday for the thing?

That give you time?

If you buy bananas today, will they be ready to go?

Yes, yes, probably.

OK, it's Devil's Foodcake Day.

All right.

Who doesn't love heavenly chocolate devil's food cake?

Oh, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's National May Ray Day.

What could this possibly be?

Yeah, what is that?

What does that mean?

I'm clicking it, but it's not coming up.

Here we go.

Um, National May Ray Day celebrates the bright sunshine and warmer weather with just a slight breeze to cool your skin.

What?

Outside and enjoy some spring weather.

Well, I don't think it's going to be pretty nice.

It's a little cloudy today.

Yeah.

Cloudy.

I think it might rain later today or tonight.

Yes.

So today is not a good day for May ray day.

Okay.

Any history book stuff, Sam?

You got anything?

Well, I didn't have time to do it on Friday.

What do you mean you didn't have time?

I'm so

busy running around from a remote broadcast on Friday.

This morning, however, I did find one golden nugget for you.

Just for you, Gordy.

Today in 1884, the Ringling Brothers Circus was founded.

Wait a minute.

Are you kidding me?

I'm not kidding you.

You know, the Circus World Museum up in Baraboo, they're open and they have performances, I think, seven days a week up there.

It's always a good time to take the kids.

Have you ever been

to...

Baraboo to the

Circus World Museum.

When I

was probably 10, I went there, yeah.

I want to check out a podcast with Pete Schwabba.

He just recently talked to the person up there taking care of that.

That's right.

That circus.

Oh, they got a big top circus there.

Big top circus.

Yeah, they got one of the big tents and they have acrobats.

And the only thing that

I really remember from being there as a young kid was was the elephants because I mean elephants.

Pretty darn cool to a 10 year old kid.

Yeah,

exactly.

They phased out their animals in the show.

Yeah, the elephants went away either last season or the season before.

Yeah.

No more elephants.

Mickey Dolan's, what was his circus boy?

Circus boy.

Boy, that's from the 50s.

He had a pet elephant, right?

He had a pet elephant.

Yeah.

He was a circus boy.

Mickey Dolan's, of course, eventually became the monkey's drummer.

Yeah.

And a great vocalist,

I

think.

He's still around.

He's the last monkey

last one standing.

Yeah.

Any other birthdays or anything else to celebrate today, Sam?

We got a couple of birthdays

here.

It's Ho Chi Minh's birthday.

All right.

Yeah.

And it's also Malcolm X's birthday.

OK.

Happy

birthday.

The two of them.

Yes.

Malcolm X had a tragic end in 1925.

A lot of people are jogging on the

Ho Chi Minh trail.

Just throwing that out there.

Okay, coming back with Pam Yankee, right here on John and Gordy in the

morning.

Here we go

Johnny Gordon in the morning

90.7

623, it's cloudy and chilly this morning, 40 degrees, the high just in the upper fifties.

We'll get a weather update along the way from Brittany Merleau in just a little while.

Right now, Pam Yankee joins us from Midwest Farm Report.

Good morning, Pam.

Good morning.

Thanks.

Thanks.

For sure.

quite a change from the heat and humidity we picked up last week.

Oh yeah, this is incredible.

I'm actually going to enjoy this.

When

the

dew points are gone, I'm happy.

I'm a happy person, all right.

He's all about the dew

points.

I hate dew points.

Hey, a big announcement, the new Alice in Dairyland, huh?

Yeah, forward to it.

We met her on Saturday night.

Some of us had no honor.

Since she was a little girl, her name is Sarah Hagnell.

24 years old, grew up in Poinet, just recently graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in food science marketing and also international marketing.

She's been very involved in 4-H and FFA as a kid.

And then when she was up at the University of Minnesota, got involved with the Gopher Dairy Club up there, she's done quite an extensive amount of internships.

So she's definitely ready for the job.

On Saturday night, there was a couple different historical perspectives that those of us in agriculture or the followers of Alice and Dairyland probably didn't miss.

First of all, Crawford County had never hosted Alice and Dairyland previously, so that was the first time for them.

And wonderful turnout from what my reporters have told me.

More than 200 people that were at the beautiful Douseman host in Prairie de Sheen.

just a fantastic venue for the event.

And then a lot of our former Alice's were there as well, which is kind of a tradition.

If they can make it back, they do.

I know that not all 78 of them were there, but still.

And then the other historical perspective is the fact that Sarah is Ashley Hagenau's sister.

Now, if that rings a bell to you, Ashley Hagenau was our 76.

Alice in Dairyland.

So just two years ago, she wore the crown and tiara and spoke as Wisconsin's agriculture ambassador.

And now Sarah will be taking over the spot now.

It's going to take a couple of weeks before you actually get a chance to see Sarah out on the job, although she's super excited and obviously ready to go.

The Department of Ag Train Consumer Protection decided a couple of years ago that it's kind of a rough transition to start a brand new job as Alice in Dairyland.

in june dairy month you can imagine the calendar is pretty frenetic and there's a lot of different bells and whistles you've got to try to get used to so they postpone the beginning of the new alice's term until july so we'll get a chance to shadow our current alice hailey heinzel for a month or so and then we'll be on the job starting in july the other thing we found out on saturday night is that marathon county

is going to be hosting the 2026 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days.

That'll be May 14th through the 16th in Wausau.

And Sarah has committed to visiting Marathon County every month of her tenure so that she can help Marathon County prepare what's obviously going to be a fantastic event for 2026.

So and congratulations to mom and dad.

Lisa and Bob Hagenau from Poinet.

Bob the real player in the dairy industry has been his entire career and I'm sure he's just pumped up with pride this morning to have both of his girls.

getting to speak up for Wisconsin agriculture.

It's

almost sounds like a movie, doesn't it?

You know,

the two sisters

compare notes.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Now we were talking about the, uh, the weather as we started out, it's a much cooler today.

And of course we had those big storms that rolled through last week.

And I understand they're still doing some cleanup in Dodge County.

Is that right, Pam?

And I know that, uh, folks have probably been seeing some of it on social media.

It just breaks your heart.

I mean, I've been watching a lot of my listeners have shared stories about particularly the Schmidt farm in Juneau.

We also saw a farm by Alto that was almost a direct hit with either straight line winds or tornado.

I'm sure National Weather Service will come out with more clarification.

But I want people to slow down and think about how it's tragic wherever these storms occur.

But if you're a dairy farm, it is so complicated to try to put pieces back together.

Immediately, you've got to try to figure out, first of all, veterinary care for those animals if they were injured, if they've got to be euthanized.

And then the next thing is, if the facility is gone, now I have to find a farm nearby where those cows can go.

Now, most farms that was counted are already pretty much at capacity.

So you're asking a big feat, a big favor of somebody to let foreign animals, literally animals you don't know, animals you may not know health on, to come into your herd.

Then the next thing is, where is that milk going to go?

the farm that you may be at was built for a certain capacity.

Now you're bringing your cows over.

Then it's the extended care of the animals that may still need some care but are being fed and milked.

And that's the other thing.

Where's the feed now?

The feed could be scattered across three counties by now.

How are you going to pull that back together?

So thoughts and prayers to those folks in Dodge County, the farmers that were hit because just once the storm ends, the real nightmare of the situation can just begin.

So I'll be following up with them to see if there's anything we can do or say.

Well, you're right.

I mean, those cows have got to get milked twice a day, right?

Yeah.

I mean, that's still.

Wow.

And you don't think about, you don't, how many times have you driven around any place in Wisconsin?

The barn may be there, but it's been idle for so long.

There's no water.

There's no electricity.

There's no milk handling equipment.

I mean, there may be a building, but what the dairy farm needs as far as, like you said, milk and cows and doing that stuff, and then figure animals are creatures of habit.

Those cows don't know that barn.

They don't know where they're supposed to stand.

They don't know where the water in the feed is.

They're already agitated because they've been through a traumatic experience.

So like I said, I'm going to follow up with some of the veterinarians that were stepping in to try to help those farms after the storm had passed and see what the status situation is there.

I'll see if I can't pass a couple of notes on to you guys later.

They'll like to hear about that.

Yeah.

Well,

very

good, Pam.

We appreciate all you do for us here and for that update.

Midwest Farm Report, food and farm going to your table.

We have that all the time here on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Pam, have a good week.

We'll talk to you on Friday.

Yes.

See you later, boy.

All right, take care.

It's

Pam Yankee.

In fact, that Midwest Farm Report is right around the corner.

And when we come back, idiocracy for a Monday morning.

Oh, boy, we got a lot.

Can't wait.

We got a lot to tell you.

I'm John and Gordy in the

morning.

you

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

This is grade A weapons grade stupidity.

Just doing my civic duties.

We can duck and cover.

There's a fall each other right there.

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

Idiocracy.

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

Well, they're dumb all the time and we always say that Just a set the record straight Okay, you know, this is WMDX 2.7

All right, I got that in okay.

It's 635.

It's cloudy.

It's chilly.

Yeah, this

morning grab a jacket.

Yeah, and it's gonna stay cool high about 57 today

Okay, all things I was gonna say Sure, that's why we work together You know I'm just starting to get a clue that's why we're together

I'm just getting warmed up here.

It's a Monday.

Always a little slow to get things going on Monday.

You know, the kid's going to be leaving us soon.

You know, he's going to be in the spring and from the past here.

By the way,

I am younger than half of John's kids.

That's right.

You are.

OK.

By the way, you didn't did you?

show our new producer Dominic where the coffee machine is and I did.

Okay.

Did you inform him that we have to have fresh coffee all the time?

Oh, okay.

Good.

Our coffee guy is here.

Over here.

Come over this way.

Over here.

Okay.

There he goes.

Damn.

Go away.

Just let him go.

He never sees us in here.

I know.

Oh, anyway.

Must be the mirrored windows.

You know, he always says, does anybody want coffee?

He doesn't actually save.

that he's offering.

He's going to give it to him.

Yeah.

You know, you can find that.

Actually, it's a video of this guy and he really, he just went into a convenience store, grabbed a pot of coffee and he had somebody, you know, camera guy with him and just started going around the store and then he goes out by the gas pumps and he's yelling.

Everybody's chasing him.

The people from the store, the cops show up.

It goes on and on.

Yeah,

it's

good though, but we're glad he stops in here.

every once in a

while.

Yeah, well, let's talk about, I was gonna say, you know, Sam is leaving and everything, he's leaving the nest and he went to an interesting bar that it's self-serve.

This is like a big experience for you here at Tamp House, is what they call them.

Oh, are you talking about what I mentioned

right when you came

on?

Yeah, I went to, I was in New Glairs over the weekend, and my roommates and I biked down there.

We went to a place called The Dirty Dog, and

it

was a game-changing experience for me.

It was this TAP house where you gave them

your credit card and then

they

gave you a card that you could just swipe on any of 30 taps and try as many and as much beer as you wanted to.

That's dangerous.

And what it does is it keeps track of how much you pour.

It's kind of fun at the end of the night though, like when you get your receipt back, how much of each different kind that you got, my roommates and I were comparing and it was fun and interesting.

That's pretty cool.

So there's no bartender at all?

Not

really, no.

Just

somebody at the checkout.

Right,

yeah.

See, I always thought, you know, doing the census in in Maisel, Mania, of all places, they have a tampon.

Right.

Isn't that crazy?

You were drinking on the job.

This small tiny little town.

All right.

Actually, I did.

Well, it

was

the

last place I visited.

I don't normally have any kind of alcohol before.

Obviously,

I'm not going to sit there.

I'm

not going to sit there and talk to people, interviewing them.

It smells like he's been in a bar for a while.

That would not reflect well on the US government.

But it was my last call and it went in there.

It was kind of interesting and fun.

And these people, you know, small town like that, they obviously live there, so it's nice to support a local business like that.

But it's great to have, and we have, I believe we have one in Middleton as well.

Yeah,

there's one there, and I think up in Baraboo, they're sprouting up everywhere.

It's the new rage.

It's the new thing.

I think there's one in Middleton that might be non-alcohol.

tap house, but I know you can go in there and buy all these different styles of liquor, but no alcohol in them.

They did

have 1919 root beer on tap.

That was one of

the options.

Oh, they did.

Wow.

That's kind of nice, isn't it?

That's good.

All right, let's get to a lot of this idiocracy that's out there.

You know, we're hearing about

We're hearing about the Medicaid cuts, right?

And we're really kind of surprised that the radical crazy man, Josh Hawley, is a senator, and he was starting to make sense to us.

That's right.

When that happens, we have to feature it on this program.

So it's

unusual

for him.

Yeah, so why don't we play this cut?

Josh Hawley actually making sense for once for the...

in regards to the cuts that they're making to Medicaid.

Let's listen.

Do you agree with the speaker?

Is this bill not a cut to Medicaid?

Well, the right thing to do is not to cut Medicaid.

So I'm glad to hear him say that.

Manu, it ought to be just a basic foundational principle.

It is wrong to cut health care for the working poor.

And that's what we're talking about here with Medicaid.

My state is a Medicaid expansion state.

over 20 percent of Missourians, including hundreds of thousands of children, are on Medicaid and mono.

They're not on Medicaid because they want to be.

They're on Medicaid because they cannot afford health insurance in the private market.

These are working people and their children who need health care.

And it's just wrong to go and cut their health care when they're trying to make ends meet, trying to help their kids, trying to make sure that they're able to provide for their families.

So I hope that the House GOP and the Senate GOP will get the message here.

By the way, President Trump has said the same thing.

No Medicaid benefit cuts.

Yeah, right.

Okay.

Well, anyway, pinch me, I must be dreaming.

Every once in a while they say something that makes sense.

Now, if you can think like that, then why don't you think like that about everything else that they're making cuts on?

But, yeah, who am I?

I'm just asking questions.

Well, I think that bill passed late last night.

Oh, it did.

I didn't see that.

Now, I

don't know what, yeah, apparently it has passed, but I'm not sure what last minute changes they may have made

to the bill.

Oh, you know, I saw a couple of pundits talk about this, you know, the possible vote, and what happens is these guys who come out strongly against it.

Yeah.

They change your minds right at the last moment.

I

see your eyes are glancing upward.

Are they running the story on CNN

right now?

Yes, they

are.

As

holdouts

change votes.

Yeah, that happens all the time.

These guys, it's a show.

That's all it is.

It's a performance.

Everybody knows that politics is a show.

Yeah.

Well,

now

they

do.

Well, I

guess not

everybody.

Well, I declared it now.

It is.

Everybody knows.

Thank you for doing that.

Here's a profound comment.

You know, we listen to Trump all the time on this program only because it's comedy.

To me, that's why we played this.

It's comedic.

You never know what he's going to say next.

Exactly.

But this is a guy in the crowd where it was a rally with Pete Buttigieg.

He

was taking questions from the crowd.

And one guy stood up and he said, this is cut 114.

And he said something that just the crowd loved it and they even gave him a standing ovation.

Oh, yeah, this is great for this for this simple comment.

Let's

listen

Talk in complete

sentences

sometimes.

We've never done that.

Yeah, we could try, I guess.

I just love that.

By the way, I'm really angry with the pulp.

Where did that

come from?

What did he

do?

He's only been Pope for a week.

Pope Leo the 14th.

He said some really, really awful things over the weekend.

What?

He came out against gay marriage.

Pope Francis tried to smooth all of that over.

He's not for it.

The Catholic Church isn't for it, but it's okay as long as you love the individual and everybody should.

to just get along.

Well, not with Pope Leo, okay?

That's not happening.

So, I'm really disappointed and that's all I can say.

Really, just one issue?

No, it's not just one issue.

I'm out with a bunch and I'm just bringing it up here.

I'm just not happy.

Okay, all right.

Can we expect more of further investigation of the Pope?

No, I don't really care.

See, I'm a Lutheran, you know?

That explains it

any chance you get to bash the Pope you're taking it.

I'm gonna take that shot Yes, no actually, you know Martin Luther he he came out against the Catholic Church And I firmly believe in what he believed in and you know the Catholic Church at that time way way way way back when they were forcing people to pay into the Catholic Church or you could not get Penance or whatever the hell they call it

So, you had to pay money, and Luther said, no, this isn't happening.

So, you know, the whole religion sprung up around that, and that's... He said this isn't happening.

That's a direct quote.

He started his

own damn

church.

Thanks for that little history lesson through religion in our times.

I

just barely remember some of this stuff from Sunday school.

Confirmation class in Sunday school.

OK.

Thanks for that refresher.

Appreciate it.

Well, thanks for pointing that out.

By the way, I'm making me look like a complete idiot.

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It's not hard.

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Okay.

Well, why don't we hear

something from the jovial orange man.

He made a really ridiculous comment.

It's cut 108 and and well, you know, he likes to play up to these individuals, the power players, the decaders, the kings, the princes.

He loves playing up to him.

Let's listen to this very short cut.

OK, I think we're good.

Young, attractive guy, tough guy, you know, strong pass or a strong pass fighter.

But he's got he's got a real shot at pulling it together.

There it is.

A Syrian president.

He just loves a Syrian president.

Young, strong, zero attractive

boy.

You know, just you're wondering.

And now today, Trump is supposed to talk to Putin.

That's they're going to have a phone call.

They're going to have a phone conference today to sort

out.

It's about time they caught up.

They haven't

even talked to each other.

They're old friends, right?

They're going to sort it out.

They're going to sort out the whole Ukrainian Russian war today.

figure

it all out.

That's not really going to happen.

Not happening.

Let's talk about the crypto buyers.

They're mostly offshore was the big news recently anyway and analysis by Bloomberg News shows that all but six of the top 25 holders who have registered on the website

are offshore.

This is crazy stuff.

This means that there may be a pay-to-play thing going on here with Trump.

These individuals offshore, of course, by favor from the president and then get special treatment.

And that is what's taking place.

Shocking that

you would do

something like this.

Pay-to-play.

I know.

Who would have guessed that, right?

All right, now a recent case, of course, was before the Supreme Court recently, and Trump attorney didn't, I guess, say the best things to justice bear it.

Just one minute, is that it?

Less than a minute.

Less than a minute.

I'm a great chunk.

Trump's solicitor general, Sauer, told Kony...

Amy Comey Barrett, that Trump generally tries to respect federal court decisions, but he has the right to disregard legal opinions he personally disagrees with.

Really?

So, Comey Barrett seemed to be in disbelief from that comment directed at her and the other justices.

She was astonished.

Yes.

Okay.

It is 648.

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All right.

Now, you know, we all...

I often talk to Tim Slacker, busted pencils about education, and one person's name always comes up, and that is Ryan Walters.

He's the superintendent of education in Oklahoma of all places, right?

I mean, this guy is a crazy man, he's a right winger, and he didn't get the big top spot, you know, the Department of Education spot.

That's right, he was kind of vying for that.

Maybe he should get into wrestling.

I hear that's what they're looking for these days.

Wrestling.

Oh,

well that's true.

Linda McMahon.

Yes,

Vince.

So anyway, he had a little run-in with the local TV station there, and I just want to give you a little background

on this

because this is the big story.

I'm looking at the big picture here, not just Oklahoma and Ryan Walters and what he wants to do.

This is happening all over the country.

You know how the right-wing magus were complaining about how government

colluded supposedly with social media to block some of the misinformation that they were spreading on social media, right?

And that was horrible.

It was censorship, they called it.

Well, I don't know.

Now we have, I guess, this MAGA, the Ryan Walters, again, Superintendent of Education in Oklahoma.

He wants a censor, and he has censored.

This is the this is a big picture story.

Okay, it's not so much about Oklahoma again I'm just showing you what's happening across the country here.

Okay, so let's go back to 2024 and a judge had granted Oklahoma TV station KFOR they call it K4 a request for a temporary restraining order on Ryan Walters, okay, so let's just play this a little cut here.

Let's play

KFOR TV, along with the Institute of Free Speech Today, filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction.

For months, our journalists have been refused access to public, state board of education meetings and placed in an overflow room.

KFOR has also been excluded from press conferences held by Walters following those board meetings.

Walters and Isot claiming News 4 and its 75-year broadcast history is not a legitimate news organization.

In addition, damages in the amount of $17.91.

Why that, you ask?

Well, because 1791 was the year the First Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution was ratified protecting freedom of speech.

And

there you go.

Okay.

Isn't that sweet?

They weren't looking for a money settlement.

They

were

just making a point

and they

did get that restraining order in place against Ryan Walters.

He was again censoring the TV station from covering his press conferences.

That's censorship.

That's

government censorship.

Okay.

You

think so?

No?

Yeah.

Well, he's preventing that news agency from covering the

news.

Right, yeah.

All right.

So it's the exact same thing that's happening at the White House, them not allowing like AP and other groups into their press conferences.

And they were told to put the AP back

in.

Put them back in, and they're back

there.

So fast forward to now, Superintendent Ryan Walters lashed out at a local KFOR.

reporter for asking if he should take responsibility for the state being consistently rated at the bottom of education.

So let's

listen.

So let's take a look at that question.

Again, K-4 gets fundamentally wrong, which at least you're consistent of being wrong.

So we're not in the bottom of education.

We've continued to see dramatic increases in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.