Rainy Days and Rants

When the chips are down and democracy's back is up against the wall, two radio veterans step up to the microphone to right the wrongs, standing for truth, justice, and just because.

To say what needs to be said, it's John and Gordy on 92.7 WMDX.

WMDX, 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning.

A very rainy morning.

Huge storms rolling through.

Still rolling through, I believe.

I'm just pulling up the radar right now as we speak.

All day.

It's going to be all day rain.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I'm going to just see my storm tracking weather forecast that I'm so famous for.

Let's see, well yeah, yeah, I don't know.

It's mainly rain, I don't think.

It's just gonna be rain.

Yeah, not too many storms, but we might hear a couple of rumbles of thunder.

Yeah, okay.

A couple.

Well, yeah, very casual, very easy growing guy this morning.

Grab the umbrella before you head out this morning.

Are you sure to check your windshield

wipers?

You

gotta make sure they work.

Get your, get your muck locks on and your, your galoshes and your hip waders.

No.

Could be some flash

flooding out there.

You never know.

Rain, rain, rain.

Rainy day.

And what are we comparing the rain to?

What do you mean?

What is that comparison that the weather forecasters have made that we weren't even aware of?

Tacos coming down in buckets.

What we're like comparing tacos

to tacos.

Yeah,

remember that?

Yeah, man.

Yeah, some kind of taco thing.

Yeah.

Can we call up one of your famous weather guys here in Madison to find out what that is?

See, we can get a hold of Charlie Shortino.

Try to put a call out to him.

Channel 15.

I'm sure they'll take it.

They'll take the call.

Yeah, what is

it?

Gordy, do you have any compilations of like best moments from over the, over your course of your years as a weatherman?

Being a TV weatherman?

Yeah.

Somewhere in a box in my basement, there's some old videotapes, yeah, from the old days.

Yeah?

Yeah, I've got a few.

Any that come to mind of any like disasters that happened on the

air?

Well, you know, I once, you know, I...

over channel 15, you know, March coming in like a lamb and out like a lion that whole deal.

You heard of that

phrase.

I brought in a lamb

into the

studio and it peed all over the floor on the air.

It was great.

Yeah, I got a call from the general manager after that one.

Where

did you just borrow a lamb

from?

Well, that's a good question.

I don't remember.

There was some farmer nearby that was a fan, I guess.

Yeah, that was a good one.

Aren't pets well-known to be, you know, taking a leak or whatever?

Indoors usually, I mean, it's not like a taboo, you really shouldn't do it, bring a cow in or horses.

Yeah, I couldn't have planned it any better, it was great.

Yeah, that was a good idea.

Another time I was doing, you know, we had the Olympics, NBC's had the Olympics forever, so we were doing an Olympic coverage and I was doing, I had a, I fashioned a torch.

I was doing, I was pointing at the weather maps with the torch.

Oh, that's nice.

No, Sam's not even paying attention.

So I was,

And we had lighter fluid inside this torch-like device.

And it was lit.

And

I was

pointing a thing.

And the bit was the floor director was going to douse it with water at the end of the forecast.

You know, now we're going to put out the torch.

He threw the water.

The flame came out of the torch and hit me on the, right at the microphone on my.

on my lapel, destroyed the microphone, could have burned me really

horribly, but

it destroyed the suit.

So that was fun.

It pushed the flame off the torch onto your shirt.

Splashed onto my jacket.

That's why you don't pour water on a grease fire.

Well, yeah.

But it was a great bit.

Did it show your panicked look?

Oh, yeah.

There must have been a panicked look.

Yeah, I've got that on tape somewhere to dig that out.

It just

framed that.

frame it antics like that that got me the best of Madison that year 1994 it

was all

worth

it

then

oh

of course um so we have rain today

what's

the uh what do you think the high might be for today on your wmdx samson watch

well i'm going to high temperature wow what do you

think 50 degrees today well i don't

think it's

47 i don't think so like uh

I don't think we're gonna get any warmer than we are today.

Do we have a way of cutting that out?

How about the... What do we got?

What do we have?

We have the bar dice.

Did I not put the

weather wheel on there?

On one of those?

Oh, and we have the weather wheel?

I thought I put it in the...

I sure don't think so, John.

Cutsless.

Okay.

All right, well, let's use whatever you got

there.

Yeah, you want the bar dice?

Sure, let's hear the bar dice.

Definitely

use the bar

dice.

Shake them

up.

Smack it down.

Here we go.

There it is.

Well, this says 44 by later days.

So temperatures are really going to slide from highs

near

50 this morning.

Okay.

Down to about 44.

Oh, it's

two

fours.

Okay.

We're competing then the WMD and Samsung watch.

Okay.

And the official weather forecast of the weather dice.

Okay.

Or die.

What do you call it?

Die.

You can't have one die that says 44.

Well, there's two fours, right?

Right.

Yeah.

That's exactly right.

Yes.

But die is plural, right?

And that's what I'm talking

about.

No, dice is plural.

Oh, it is?

Yeah.

A die is just one.

No,

I think die is, no.

Why are we arguing over this?

Die, I think is plural.

I don't know.

Let's get to the National Day calendar.

That's

about time.

Going

down and flames over here.

God.

What is it today?

What is it or is it not?

Is it National Keesh Lorraine Day?

Remember Keesh

Lorraine?

She had a great act

with Vegas for years.

Terrific dancer.

People are just, yeah.

It comes Keesh

Lorraine.

Yeah.

It's a national streaming day, national rescue dog day, national comic strip day, national pick strawberries day, or a national be a million, be a millionaire day.

Which one of those days doesn't belong

not

be a millionaire day.

Well, you're wrong.

It is national be a millionaire Who comes up with this crap Sam, what do you think?

I was gonna say it's too early for picking strawberries, but I might be wrong I would have picked that one.

I'm still going with it's not strawberry.

Yeah,

I would have picked that one It's it is national

We

got a

text in just in from Catherine.

She says are you kidding me?

It's one die roll the dice

Exactly.

One

die is a die.

It one dice is a die.

All right, never mind.

I

stand corrected.

Did you even remember the list?

I did not.

He's taking after me just like I taught him.

Way to go, Tom.

You're in with the in crowd.

It is not National Comic Strip Day.

You're both wrong.

There you go.

That might be some other day,

but it's

not today.

Yeah, there aren't very many comic strips out there anymore, aren't there?

No, there aren't.

You know, there used to be

Sunday comics, used

to be the thing, you know?

In Milwaukee, they had a green sheet.

They called it the green sheet.

It was a green sheet in the paper where all the comics were.

Yeah, in features and some features.

Why would they?

They had green paper.

They printed the color

comics on green paper

was a no no this was during the week During the week they had the the comics, but on Sunday.

It was all color

Okay, it's national quiche Lorraine day.

Do you like quiche?

Keys is nice.

I like

it.

Yeah, quiche.

Yeah, sure

quiche Lorraine has origins beginning in the rural Lorraine region of France.

Oh boy

How do we pronounce Keith Lorraine?

So

how

do you

say

croissant?

No, not

croissant.

With a typical French pronunciation.

No, Keith Lorraine, never mind.

Julian is stuck on that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wait, get out of here.

I think we're looking it up right now.

Okay.

Keith Lorraine.

The origin.

How hard is that to say, though?

Keith

Lorraine.

I guess it's okay.

All right.

Keith Lorraine must include eggs, heavy cream, bacon, Swiss cheese, and a flaky crust.

They can be hungry just

talking

about it.

Yeah.

Okay.

I mean, if I had cream in the refrigerator often, I'd try something like that, but, you know, you never have cream in the refrigerator.

You don't?

No.

Who does?

I don't.

It doesn't last long.

Nope.

It's National Streaming Day.

The first computer was invented, it says here, in the 1940s, but it wasn't until the late 1990s that streaming became accessible.

Since then, technologies made huge advancements, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You ever buy from, or rent from Netflix back when they were still a mail-order DVD service?

I miss those days.

I

think it was really recently that they stopped doing that service.

You could mail order a DVD from Netflix up until like...

two years ago or something.

No, really?

Yeah.

Well, no, I don't think so.

So I gotta be 10 years ago.

Okay.

Stream

to celebrate.

Let's Google it.

Good thing that we have this magical Google

machine.

Stream to celebrate National Streaming Day.

Watch movies, listen to a variety of music.

Okay, we know

about streaming.

We don't really... We could stream podcasts like this show.

We

could.

Yeah.

It's National Rescue Dog Day.

National Pick Strawberries Day.

And let's check out National Be A Millionaire Day.

Yeah.

By the way, September of 2023.

What?

Last time you could mail over a DVD from Netflix.

2023.

Yeah.

But

then I just, what?

I can't

wrap my head around that.

That seems very, very

recent.

It's National Be A Millionaire Day.

We celebrate National Be A Millionaire Day and wonder what it would be like to be a millionaire.

Have you ever imagined what it would be like?

Well, if you have, this holiday's for you.

Wow, there you go.

That's stupid.

Well, that's quite the explanation.

Here's how to become a millionaire.

Start a savings account,

it says.

Review your financial portfolio with a trusted expert.

Review your investments.

Add to your 401k.

Pay off your credit card.

Review your spending hat, okay.

Anything

about meme coins in there?

No, nothing.

Nothing.

All right.

Let's get to the history books here.

Can you open one up there?

Oh, gosh, it's so dusty.

Go ahead.

You got to teach Dominic about this.

Do you even know what's about to happen?

Oh, don't.

Oh, dear God.

Stand back, Dominic.

Oh, no.

Oh, cough.

Look at the look on Dominic's face.

Oh, man.

Oh, God,

it's so

dusty.

It's so, uh, yeah.

Now

you know it.

How you know what you're in for.

What's that,

Dominic?

What'd you say?

Oh, it's my last day here now.

Oh, geez.

Okay.

They didn't tell you about the asbestos.

No, I suppose

not.

All

right.

Well, what's on the history

book?

I swear to God, somebody just like has like a salt shaker and sprinkles it on this book cover every day.

There's gotta be something wrong.

I know.

He's playing a prank on it.

Well, we're going way back.

Today in 1774, Parliament, British Parliament, they passed the Intolerable Acts.

You think they were very tolerable?

No tolerable what no no they were not they were intolerable intolerable it was a series of five acts of parliament The ones that everyone remembers they closed the port of Boston What are you pointing at?

We have a phone call, but go

I'm just trying

to point it

out to John.

John's in his own world here.

He doesn't care about history.

He sits right next

to me.

I can't get his attention.

No, I saw your arms.

I realized what you were doing.

You have to give him the special John and Gordy hand sign.

Yes, the hand signal.

Oh, ow.

Yeah.

OK, go ahead, Sam.

Finish off the hand sign.

Yeah, this is

intolerable.

Just go

ahead.

They close the port of Boston.

That's kind of a big deal.

This is in response, mostly, to the Boston Tea Party.

Britain's way of getting back at Massachusetts.

Oh, excellent.

They revoked Massachusetts colonial charter.

They just kind of made it not a colony anymore for a while, which is a big deal.

And one of them also was the quartering act, which made colonists, like, you could be forced to house British soldiers in your house, which was a knot.

Not great.

No, that's not a good thing.

That's why we have the Third Amendment nowadays.

Right.

Okay.

All right.

Well, we'll get to more of the history book stuff.

You have a few things

more, don't you?

I do have a few more things.

All

right.

And Matt, hang on the line.

We'll get to your phone call as well.

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That's our number if you want to call it or use the Civic Media app.

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What?

What's your problem?

Well, Catherine, you know, she has to be so confrontational.

Are you kidding me?

We're coming right back with more

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us.

Why

are

we playing share?

We should have had this as an intro to your history lesson each

and

every day.

You know

you're so right.

That was it.

We should have

had instead of opening the damn book every morning.

623 rain this morning, rain all day off and on.

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Matt, what's happening this morning?

Yeah, what's, what's going on out in Middleton?

Good morning guys.

It's raining and I'd like to rain on the parade of these tech oligarchs and their ridiculous fantasies.

Future that they're trying to sell everyone over in Saudi Arabia.

You had a lot of these CEOs and and they're promising this 50 trillion dollar Industry of robotics, right?

Yes.

Yeah, and we're now being led in America by a used car salesman Elon Musk is a salesman.

He's not very he might he was okay at selling the idea of him being brilliant And that was a good sales pitch

But I'm just wondering what you guys think about this idea that makes no sense to me.

But they say $50 trillion in robotics, but when you get all the robots doing everything, where are the consumers anymore?

It's all done, right?

That's the end of capitalism as we know it.

That's right.

Yes.

Yes.

But they're trying to sell it like it makes sense.

Right.

And we won't be able to afford the robots.

Right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then, of course, they say they'll need people to fix and program the robots.

But, you know, I think they'll

have robots to do that.

Another stage in the decline of capitalism, because the first big error I saw was when they're starting to make everything subscription and you can't own anything anymore.

They have to keep the revenue coming and no one's happy about that.

And no one seems to be happy about this robotic future either.

So do you think we're just going to devolve into two different civilizations, one that does not have the digital tech field economy and then the other one that's more hands on and can't afford to be in that one?

What do you do for a living?

Are you worried about Lucy, your job to a robot?

What do you do?

Well, I'm a mailman and I love it.

Yeah,

yeah, I work for the public sector.

So I have to put up with conservatives giving me snares all the time because they know that I get paid decent.

I have a union.

I'm represented and they can't just crush my job without a fight.

Yes.

But

you're trying to do now.

But, you know,

I think that we worried about all these things before, you know, I mean, you know, being replaced by robots.

Well, you know, way back when we had Gilligan's Island and Hillbillies and we were watching that and thought.

Everybody thought that society would decline dramatically after watching those

shows.

Well, man, maybe they'll furnish you with a robot companion driving around in your postal truck that'll be delivering the mail.

You'll just have to make sure that the robot is okay.

And you won't have to worry about any dogs coming up and biting you in the ankle.

Well, they've got robot dogs too.

Oh, well, see,

everybody, you know, everybody forgets there was a movie Robocop.

You know, we already replaced the police in movies.

Yeah, but that robot still had feelings, so.

That's right.

All right.

Okay, man.

All right, man.

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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.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be

considered a rational thought.

Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this.

We can duck and cover.

There's a fallen shelter right there.

There's no way to survive this, you

idiot.

Idiocracy.

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

Oh, man.

Oh, yeah.

92.7 WMDX, John Peterson, Gordy Young, along with producer Sam and new producer Dominic.

Yeah, we got the whole crew here this time.

Yes, yes.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And rain.

Rain rain rain all day long off and on anyway flash flooding possible Lightening both thrown in there Yep, and temperatures in the 40s.

So kind of chilly breezy and rainy.

That's it

now we just saw on the screen

and

CNN

that a representative is now being charged with roughing up some of the security, I believe that's the time when the mayor was also arrested.

And this was

during an ICE raid?

Or was protesting an ICE

raid?

They were at the ICE facility

to

inspect it, and the mayor was arrested, I think now, because of the videotape, now they're charging a representative.

Hmm This is a weird strange government is I mean they're they're going to lock up judges Representatives mayors anybody that gets in their way.

Yeah, and we kind of will eventually get used to this this kind of a behavior and Under the iron fist of the administration

This is really kind

of crazy

really scary stuff.

It is

now.

I was just checking X out here and Joe who's a regular poster on X Not the one that calls into the station here, but this is another Joe and she writes about the Ashley Babbitt

who was killed yes

in January 6 during the raid.

Yeah

She writes, she attacked her capital and was shot in the process.

She was trying to get our lawmakers.

She was warned.

She did not comply.

And that is why she was shot.

And the madman she did it for is giving her family $5 million.

Is that right?

In compensation.

Yep.

Wow.

But you can't fund cancer research for kids.

Okay, so anyway, yeah, let's just reward January 6 people, right?

I mean, just pay them for

damages.

The protesters.

It was a day of

love, John.

Well, it was a day of love.

Yeah, it

was just tourists going through.

Right.

Just like they normally do, you

know.

And the Speaker's podium was a big souvenir, right?

Right.

I heard they sell those in the gift shop now.

That's right.

So it's just insane.

It is.

Lawlessness, that's what it's all about.

You get rewarded for it by the Trump administration.

Right?

All right.

Now, here it is.

I'm not going to do this here.

I am going to do this here.

All right.

Trump has ordered the federal department to purchase and erect huge banners of his face on all federal buildings at an estimated cost of $184 million.

Wow.

Trump says they'll

They, they do it in North Korea and China to show respect for their supreme leaders.

So why shouldn't we, you know, you'd almost think that's not really a quote.

Sounds like a joke.

He actually said that.

So, uh, let's, uh, let's listen to a theme song.

I know they're going to be playing there.

Oh,

really?

Yeah, yeah.

It's gonna be a big,

big parade.

Wow.

The Ruddles.

Have you seen the posters?

People are using

AI to create their own posters.

Well, I saw pictures last night on the news of some huge banners.

And I don't

know which

federal building this was,

but

they had a big picture of Abraham Lincoln, a huge face of Abraham Lincoln.

I mean, it was.

I don't know, 50 feet tall.

He was giving him the finger, right?

With

poster after poster after poster,

right?

No, I didn't see that.

His arm

outstretched.

No, really.

I didn't see that one.

No, this was a different thing.

See, that's what they're doing on mine.

But Trump, they had a big Trump picture there.

I mean, it had to be 50 or 60 feet tall.

It's crazy.

Yes, he wants that on all the federal buildings.

Okay, so why are we doing this?

You know, why are we having this huge celebration?

Well, Pete Hagseth, he had a few comments about it.

Let's listen to this.

We're not a militaristic country at all.

So showing how great our weapons are is just something that we just don't do in this country.

But anyway, here's Pete Hagseth

with this comment.

In the minds of young people who then turn around and don't love their country, a huge part of ensuring we have a room like this.

full in the future is ensuring our kids and grandkids know why America is such a special place.

What our founders gifted us 250 years ago.

There's a reason we're gonna have a big old army parade on June 14th of 2025.

It's because what we celebrate in this country is a reflection of what we value.

There are a lot of vapid things to celebrate, plenty of reality shows and garbage music and

No.

Stuff on Netflix.

No, we don't celebrate those things.

How about we hold up our special operations community?

How about we recognize the Army and the Marine Corps, the United States of 250 years, the sacrifice of those men who stood on bridges 250 years ago and said, we will live free.

We have an incredible story to tell.

If we're willing to tell it, and then if we're willing to raise young men and women willing and able to raise their right hand to defend this

nation.

Oh, there you go.

Yeah.

What about freedom of assembly and freedom of speech?

I think we have a lot of freedoms.

We have a lot of holidays that celebrate the military and the actions and victories that we've had.

I don't think we need a parade to see what our military equipment

looks like.

Well, it's not just a parade.

It's, you know, the Orange Ones birthday party.

That's right.

It's a celebration of the Orange One.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow.

Well, I...

You know,

you get used to this.

He's going to normalize this kind of activity.

And then we'll have presidents from now on having their military parades and giant banners, right?

These huge banners hanging from office buildings.

And how is this saving us any money

by these

huge expenditures?

Yeah, what, what, whatever happened to that, right?

Yeah.

All right, let's get to something very unusual, very strange.

This is an interaction from CNN.

An African-American host, I think you're familiar with Victor Blackwell

on CNN.

African-American, and he was interviewing Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant secretary for public affairs at Homeland Security.

And they argued about the 59 ephraconers.

that were imported into this country on their way to citizenship, okay?

Let's listen to this discussion, I guess you'd call it.

All right, listen.

If I see people in distress, I don't care what color, what they look like, what anything, their size, their height, their eyes, I don't care.

But I think that from all evidence, the farmers in South Africa are being treated brutally.

And it's been reported, and nobody wants to cover it.

But they happen to be white.

And if they were black, I'd do the exact same thing.

And we treat people very well when we see there's a genocide going on.

So if it's a genocide, that's terrible.

And I happen to believe it could very well be.

So we've made a home, and we'll make a home for other people that have been treated

badly, no matter what their color.

Afrikaners are not facing genocide.

Absolutely not.

President Ramaphosa says that although the law was signed in January that would give the government the purview to take the land, no land has been taken from Afrikaners.

Also, the definition of genocide is aimed at extermination, right?

And so although there is violence in South Africa,

There's violence against black South Africans, too.

So when the president says that there is genocide, where is the evidence?

Can

we take a pause and recognize the fact that you are defending race-based discrimination?

I'm

not defending race-based discrimination in any way.

The president uses the term genocide.

There is no genocide in South Africa.

And frankly, it does a disservice to people in countries around the world who are facing genocide in the Congo, in Sudan, those who faced it in Rwanda.

and Bosnia and Cambodia, it does not exist.

We should probably just start with that truth.

It is quite frankly disturbing to me that members of the media, including people who are on this very network, are trying to whitewash the facts

and

whitewash the

fact

that these individuals have faced discrimination, racial violence, the seizure of their land based on nothing but their skin color alone.

You clearly are not going to acknowledge there's no genocide in South Africa.

What about the genocide in the Congo?

You have a specific number on asylum.

How many of those are from the Congo from the Sudan?

I'm happy to come back next week and give you, lay out all the single facts, and you seem to want to whitewash

the

fact that these...

South Africaners are facing persecution and I can't understand why and I think a lot of Americans can't understand why and it's left to believe that it's because of the color of their skin, Victor.

So you suggest that I am the one here who is focused on color of skin when the president has let in Africaners specifically and I'm asking how many of those who are actually facing genocide who are being let in under some expedited path that the president has created for Africaners?

how many times I have to repeat this fact, 8,669 individuals have, if you'll let me speak,

have faith's persecution are given

asylum.

I'm exactly answering the question.

We

are letting those in who are facing persecution, Victor.

I look for

those numbers.

All right.

Not

genocide, but persecution at this point.

Do they, do they seek out people with really horrible voices to be representative of this administration?

Wow.

Yeah,

I know.

That's just irritating as hell.

But anyway, I think it's fascinating that, you know, here we have an African-American CNN host being accused of whitewashing history.

My head explodes, just trying to imagine this.

Can we go to, do

we have time

for Joe right now?

Yeah, let's go to her.

All right, let's try.

Joe is called us.

Hi, Joe.

Good morning, Joe.

Welcome.

Yeah, great show as always.

I just

wanted

to return to the issue of this military parade that Pete Hegseth was talking about and how we should honor those who raised their hand and joined the military.

I think one of my favorite quotes from the first Trump administration was from his son, Donald Trump Jr.

And note that

There's no one in the Trump family that's ever raised their hand to serve in the military.

Ever.

And in his book, he talked about it was one of my favorite moments from a puke inducing, of course, but one of my favorite moments from the first Trump administration.

John Jr.

said in his book, they drove past Arlington Cemetery.

It really nearly brought the tears up in his eyes because he thought of the sacrifices his family has made.

Oh my

God.

Yes,

but

a

golden moment.

Oh,

thanks,

Joe.

Joe, thank you for that

call.

Coming up on... Just

amazing,

isn't it?

Yeah.

We've

got more idiotic

accuracy

coming up.

Right around the corner, and it's a rainy day.

We'll talk to Brittany Merlot at about a half hour.

How much rain are we gonna get?

It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the

morning.

This here's the Trumper Duck.

You got a copy on me, Pigset?

Come on.

Uh, yeah, 10-4 Pigset, for sure, for sure.

By golly, this channel is secure.

Clean to Yemen, come on.

Yeah, it's a big 10-4 there, Pigset.

Yeah, we definitely got no journalists on this channel, good buddy.

MercySync's alive.

Looks like we got us a neoconvoy.

It was before our charge on the Ides of March on our iPhones attention hogs hung over Pete with an uncleared app and little Marco that's Trump's lap dog.

We was heading to war with the hoodies now, not them, not the blowfish kind.

I said pick Seth, this here's the Trump product and we're about to be asked to

resign.

Wow, that's

great.

It's perfect, man.

It writes itself, doesn't it?

It does.

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John

L. Middleton suggests Kurt Vonnegut's novel piano player.

Yeah.

It's a great take on a world without labor.

hilarious and frightening.

Thanks, John.

That's for, of course, Matt out in Middleton as well.

Who is worried that the robots will take over?

Who doesn't think of Terminator when we're talking about the robots, right?

Right.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

All right.

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All right, now let's get to our local representative, and that is Derek Van Orden.

Oh,

does

he want

to, he wants to cut the VA.

Oh man, do you think he's going to be very popular with the Republicans?

Well, let's check this out.

This is called 137.

Here's what happened.

Mr. Secretary, I had to, my crack graphics team draw this up so I can explain

to some

people what's going on.

Just the line.

That's the whole VA.

Pencil drawing.

The

problem with the VA.

Yeah.

Okay.

This is the increase in bureaucrats.

These are the doctors.

It's almost a flat line.

And then we have an increase with the veterans because of the PAC Act, right?

So when we are going to cut the VA, and I hope you do, sir, this is where you need to make the cut, right there in this line, right there, sir.

If Mr. Secretary,

if you cut this,

then this line with the doctors and stuff that people are actually touching our veterans and providing care can go like this, right?

And then we can match the increase with vets.

So, Mr. Secretary, I'm incredibly happy and looking forward to working with you and your administration.

And if there's anything, just if you have a top-line item that we can do from the congressional side, power the personnel and that stuff,

if you can, you know,

rattle off one or two and it'd be great, we'll

write

these down and we'll take it for action.

Mr.

Secretary?

It's kind of an action plan, doesn't it?

Why don't you just give him a little tip on how to change a tire up in front of the building?

Which

is something

he did with a whole bunch of representatives where the car almost fell off the jacks.

That was a moment.