Like a fine wine aged to perfection, until the bottle shatters against the rocks of history, two ancient warriors of radio broadcasting take to the airwaves of Madison for anyone brave enough to listen to the unvarnished truth, or something like that.
It's John and Gordy in the morning on 92.7 WMDX.
WMDX, John and Gordy in the morning.
It's a tariff free show this morning.
It is.
They got a judge rule that the Trump tariffs are illegal and he's not able to do those things.
I think there were three judges involved in this.
So trifecta.
So the tariff has been lifted on the John and Gordy show.
Thank goodness.
Finally once and for all.
Good.
Good.
No taxes here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is great.
I feel free.
Me too.
Yeah.
Good morning.
Happy Thursday.
Yeah.
It's cloudy outside again.
Yeah.
Drury out
there.
Yeah.
I wasn't supposed to improve.
Brittany told us it's more toward the weekend, right?
Maybe Friday and Saturday I suppose.
Yes.
All right.
It's going to get better.
Sunset tonight is at 8.29.
I'm sorry to interrupt you, man.
It's so important to let everybody know.
Thank God.
829.
Good.
Yeah.
What time was sunrise this morning?
Is it already up there
somewhere?
No, yeah, it's 522.
Okay.
That's when the sun rose.
Now, let me get to the weather forecast.
The official WMDX weather watch.
Yes.
And that's me.
What's that?
That means it's it's got to be believed here.
Sure.
What is it?
What's the afternoon high?
The face refreshed.
Hold on.
Okay.
What are you going to?
50.
52
degrees currently.
High of 70.
I got to learn
how to work
this watch.
All right.
All right.
So you're saying a high of 70 or the Samsung WNDO.
The
official
weather watch of the show.
I'm waiting for a
check from them soon.
Yeah, I'll keep waiting.
Yeah.
Well, let's
check the
bar dice.
We have
a bar dice.
The bar dice is a good thing to
check.
Let's see, can we do the bar dice there?
All right,
there we go.
Ooh, that's nice.
Oh, there's a six and a seven.
Didn't know that I could do a seven, but...
Six out of seven, so I guess 67
or 76.
Like have you ever played like a role-playing game Gordy where they've got all of these different number sided die like dice?
Like instead of a regular D6, a six sided die, you've got like eight sided or ten sided or 20 sided dice.
I've seen those.
Is that what we got in the... You know what, maybe... What are you asking me
for?
You came up
with the bar dice.
That's right.
Tom was the one who rolled them today.
That's
right.
We have role-playing dice.
Okay.
There we go.
Officially.
Okay.
A little bit later on, we'll be talking to Jim Santel, our attorney-at-law.
Yes, we will.
We've got some legal things where you'd need to
straighten out with him.
Why do we?
You know, just ruling the fact that these tariffs were all illegal, almost all of them.
Right.
Yeah.
Individual ones like on vehicles or whatever.
Those are
in place.
The Trump administration is already saying they're appealing all of this.
Of course they
are.
They've already put that out.
Yeah.
So that means they're not going to change anything.
What else would a dictator say?
Of
course.
Yeah.
And we
were going to talk to Tim Slucker, but he's he's pretty
busy.
It's
a tough time for him.
He
bought a new house.
He feels bad about having inspired me to go on to pursue a career in teaching.
He can't show his face to round here anymore.
That's right.
That's right.
Are
you guilt-tripping him now that you've joined the teaching
profession?
I am not doing anything in particular, Gordy.
I don't know what he's feeling.
OK.
But
we
do have we do have a lot of the stories who are gonna cover with Tim slinker and we'll be talking about those educational stories not from educators
All right, well good we'll get to that in a little while
Are we ready to check the calendar?
Well, we never really
want to check
the
calendar.
But what are we missing?
Well, I can't tell you because I don't have it dialed up here yet.
But we do have birthdays and what happened on this day
in history, I think.
Was this all a ploy just to get rid of the Jeopardy theme and the guessing game that we used to play?
Did you get sick of hearing that?
Every single day.
Well,
I got tired of it just from the game itself on
TV.
My parents are like the biggest fans of Jeopardy!
I don't know what is up with them.
Yeah, I don't know.
I watch it almost every day.
I
don't know.
I watch it a lot,
yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, it's great.
I was gonna say it's very challenging.
It's a sign of senility.
My grandparents' favorite.
My grandparents' favorite game show was Wheel of Fortune.
That's what they did to pass the time in retirement.
You're too young to remember concentration.
Remember
that day?
Yeah,
yeah.
That was a very odd game.
Yeah, it was.
All you got were pieces of a puzzle.
on a game shore, or on a board, and they had to try to figure out what the phrase was that the puzzle was indicating.
It was really mind-blowing game and really difficult.
What was the devil one?
Wasn't there some kind of evil game
show?
Are you talking, press your luck?
The Whammy's?
No.
But I thought it was going to be kind of fun having the game show channel.
Did
they have that anymore, the game show channel?
I think they have that.
I
haven't seen it
though.
Maybe they got
rid
of it.
Sam's nodding his head, yes.
They do?
Oh, they do, okay.
Yeah, they have all those old games over there.
Okay, as long as they don't have Queen for a day on there.
Wow.
That was the biggest mistake
ever.
That was such
a disaster.
That was hard for
a long time.
should go on YouTube and see if we can find some Queen
of the Day
stuff.
People come on and tell their sob stories and just
three contestants.
Three moms telling how horrible their lives are and how bad things turned out for
them.
And you were supposed to pick the one that you felt more sorry for.
And the losers, of course, went on ahead even a worse day.
Yeah,
yeah, you're sorry your story was really sad,
but it wasn't sad enough.
So,
you
know, here's $25 The bus ticket home.
Yeah, that was it the
winner winner would get a crown walk around
Queen for the day brand new kitchen with appliances and all that stuff.
Yeah, it's quite a concept
Okay, well, what are we doing here?
So if we were going to do the National
Day Calendar, we would
know that it was National Paperclip Day.
That's
the big standout day
today.
We finally got paperclips in the studio here.
Oh, yeah, we do.
Chris from Janesville is texting us this morning.
You couldn't call us or text us.
608-879-8255 or do it the easy way on the Civic Media app.
Uh, the devil was on a card game.
They would spin the reel.
It has three cards.
Okay.
What was that?
Yeah.
What game was that?
The devil.
We're trying to
come up with the name of that show.
Hmm.
Okay.
Thank you, Chris.
Okay.
Maybe we'll get some more information.
Uh, so there's really nothing happening on the national day calendar anyway.
So let's, well,
how would you pronounce this one?
You would know how to say that.
That's
why
you
know
it.
National Coke on Vinde.
Coke on Vinde.
It's some sort of dish.
Coke
on Vinde.
Going
back to paperclip day, you ever hear the story about the guy who he got a paperclip and he like traded it all the way up to like trading a house for like he traded, okay, he traded this paperclip for a series of like successively like better trades like he traded it for, I don't know, a piece of string and then a stapler and then whatever on and on and up.
Kept trading
up.
Yeah, until he traded it for a house.
Have you ever heard about this guy?
No, that sounds good.
There's a Wikipedia page for it.
Dom just pulled it up.
One red paperclip.
There's a website created by Canadian blogger Kyle McDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of 14 online trades.
That's incredible.
Why don't I do that?
Why don't you
do that?
I'm looking for a place to live.
Within a year, I could get a house just like Kyle McDonald.
Yeah,
it started off with, yeah, a paper clip, and
then went to a
doorknob, and then went to a camp stove, and then a Honda generator.
Sounds like the
stuff that
Sam collects.
OK, where'd it go from there?
Go up the line.
OK, and then after that, it was a Budweiser sign, what it looks like.
And then a ski-do snowmobile.
Oh, see there.
That's a big jump.
And then a box truck.
And then it just keeps going.
A recording contract.
A recording
contract.
Motorized snow globe.
There's so much stuff
here.
Motorized snow globe.
I don't even know what that means, but.
Well, that's
one of those automatically.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Snow in the snow globe.
Wow.
Sounds very Midwestern, doesn't it?
The first trade
there.
paperclip for a doorknob.
That
was the
first step up.
The trade up.
You knew you were on to something.
Wow.
All
right,
well, anything happened on this date in history since really
something happening?
Is there anything going on?
Day of calendar.
There was actually.
Either of you
have anything?
Yeah.
Did you know, 1848, Wisconsin becomes the 30th state in the U.S.
That's not a big deal.
30th.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Yeah, Wisconsin's old.
1919, Charles Streit files a patent for an automatic pop-up toaster.
So that's pretty cool.
Yeah, that's nice.
I need
one of those
for my apartment.
You don't have a
toaster?
I
don't
have a toaster.
They're not really essential.
I should get one for you as a housewarming gift or something.
Did you ever use one of those antique toasters where you'd lean the bread against a stove burner?
Catches your house on fire.
Exactly.
It's
very
dangerous.
Well, there's one side that folds up, right?
It folds
the bread onto the
heating element.
Yeah, those are kind of crazy, aren't they?
But I just want to mention in Wisconsin, becoming the 30th state, back
In 1848, 1849, they banned abortion.
Is that right?
And the Republicans want to stick with that before women had the right to vote.
Yeah.
Sweet.
Okay.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Well, okay.
Anything else?
I'll just sit back here.
You're
fine.
It's all good.
Anything else there, Dom?
Hello.
The World War II Memorial.
is dedicated, sorry, still needed.
I thought you dosed off for a second there.
The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
in 2004.
So that was 2004.
Yeah, yeah.
Pretty late.
Why did that take so long?
I don't
know.
Okay.
In 2025, Trump took over the World War II Memorial.
Put his big face on it, yeah.
And then, so you used to talk about birthdays, 1972.
Laverne Cox, don't know if I'm saying that right.
Laverne, that's what it is, Laverne Cox.
And then 1961.
I don't know who that, who is that?
She's a songwriter.
She's a prominent African-American songwriter.
Okay.
And then in 1961, we got Melissa Ethridge.
Sure, sure.
And then in 1917, John F. Kennedy was born.
Okay.
All right.
Good
line
of a birthday.
There we go.
Let's see.
What?
Our birthdays are coming up pretty soon.
They are.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It'll be too long.
July.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well.
Well, no one's gonna care.
Oh, here it is.
What?
Joker's Wild.
Oh, The Joker's Wild, 70s game show.
Yeah,
that was the one with the devil on it, everyone.
Yeah.
The devil would pop up.
That's what I was thinking.
All your money.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
The game show with the devil on
it.
Who would have thought?
All right.
Coming up, we will get into some education talk.
And some news, and in
our next
hour, Jim Santel, attorney at law, will join us.
It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning for a Thursday.
Glad you're with us.
Stay right there.
A big, beautiful bill.
Man, they are so proud of that name.
They can't stop saying it on social media.
They officially gave the bill that name, and I get it.
I'm a huge fan of alliteration myself.
I think the repeated Bs give it a certain je ne sais quoi.
But if we're going to be repeating Bs, I actually think we could have gone even further with it and been more descriptive as to what this bill really is.
I would have gone with something like a budgetary boon for billionaires, or a brutal butchering of benefits for the bottom bracket.
or maybe a blight on the biosphere for our barren buddy's bottom lines.
I guess I'm just bedeviled by this blunderbust of a budget bill which bears the blatant branding of all the backscratching backdoor billionaire buy-ins that broker tax breaks for big business while ballooning the budget, blowing up bipartisan breakthroughs, and bankrupting the already broke.
But hey, you can bet your bottom bitcoin there'll be a backlash back home for all these billionaire bootlickers, so buckle in,
bitches.
It's a big bed build.
Was that a web?
It was a web
wisdom, yes.
I love
that stuff.
It's a random thing from the internet.
Yeah, isn't that great?
Yeah.
WMDX 92.7, this is John and Gordy in the morning.
It is 623.
It's cloudy.
It's kind of cool.
49 degrees, highs close to 70 today.
Maybe we'll see a little bit of sunshine along the way.
Checking with Brittany Merleau in a little while
Boy some crazy stuff.
You know, we're gonna take a look at the headlines in this right particular part of the show,
right?
And there's a there's a real big one and it's amazing because the person who heads up the department yeah is a female and she's going after female businesses or
you know, minority businesses in this case.
Which department are we talking about?
We're talking about the Justice Department.
Okay.
Pam Bobby?
Pam Bobby.
Yeah.
I just, I just, I really cannot.
I cannot take Pam Bondi at all.
I mean, she is such a sycophant that is just hard for me to look at a person like this.
Well,
that's why she
got anything.
That's why she got hired.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, the Justice Department has decided to reevaluate its position on the Transportation Department's program that has carved out an estimated 37
billion dollars for minority and women-owned businesses.
They say it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
Man, we've been doing this for a long time.
You know, maybe the Supreme Court justices who are now making decisions based on history,
let's
go back in history and see if this is a well-accepted norm now.
Maybe that is one way to protect.
these small businesses and women-owned businesses.
Right.
Yeah.
But anyway, that's my, I'm just trying to help.
Well, Pam Bondi needs all the help she
can get.
Now she's gonna, she is gonna go out and destroy women-owned businesses, or at least the proliferation of women-owned businesses in a settlement that they want to put in place is the disadvantaged business enterprise program will be prohibited.
from awarding contracts based on race and sex effectively ending its founding mission.
So anything is horrible and just really unconstitutional as the disadvantaged business enterprise program.
I'm sure, you know, I'm really glad they're on top of this.
And they're certainly protecting all of us, all of us white people to make sure that, you know, that money doesn't go to other people.
Right it should only go I mean this this Lee the problem with the ending DEI is it It essentially takes the money that we were helping everybody with right it you know This is just a program.
This is just a percentage.
You know 37 billion dollars.
Yeah was
you know, put aside to help these businesses out.
Other, there's a whole other side that are helping other businesses, white businesses, big corporations.
Yeah, small business
administration,
list goes
on and on.
There
you go.
I mean, the thing that gets me with all of those kind of deals is they're helping the economy, they're helping the grassroots of the economy, right back into the economy.
Those, that money.
is going to build businesses, build jobs, you know, the whole bit.
But no, let's just cut that stuff out.
Isn't that
amazing?
We don't
want to help anybody.
It's incredibly short-sighted.
Almost everything they're doing at this point, destroying all businesses and all possibilities of people starting their own businesses,
all of
that now is essentially being put aside.
Right out the window.
And all of this will, you know, obviously affect us in maybe a year or two or three.
Time to move business underground, John.
Oh, there you go.
The underground economy.
Yeah.
Let's go for that.
Black market.
Yeah.
Well, now that they have Bitcoin, we can pay for that.
OK.
Yeah, we're all going to
Bitcoin
now,
right?
Yeah.
We're going to be
crypto.
Everybody's getting to it.
Yeah.
We're going to support that.
Now, did you hear this?
Trump is, or Trump, Musk is out.
He's out.
Yeah,
he's been up for about a month or so.
But he's made it official.
His
time with the Trump administration has come to an end.
And he doesn't like the big bad bill,
by the way.
He
does not.
Yeah, too many.
It's not cutting out enough.
That's why he's leaving.
Mr. Nazi is leaving.
Wow.
Well, I think the rest of the cabinet kind of got sick of him too.
Getting all the spotlight, getting all the headlines.
Maybe Trump.
For
some reason it just seems really unfair that a billionaire, one of the richest people in the entire globe, is saying that we don't need any of the support, any of the help, spending money on the public.
We don't need...
a civil society anymore.
We just need everybody living out on their own and fasting for themselves and repairing the road in front of their house or maybe filtering the water into their home so they don't have poisonous toxins.
You know, we're on our own.
That's it.
Well, AI is going to take care
of everything else.
That's the
solution.
It's going to think for
us.
Absolutely.
We've got an AI story coming up in the educational part of our show.
How are we doing with that so far?
Tim Slecker couldn't be here today, so we're filling in.
It came out wrong.
We're
really
trying to educate you all the way through the show.
Of course we are.
That's what we do, educate and inform, and try to entertain and inspire when it's all about 6.29, something like that.
When we come back, Idiocracy, right here on 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.
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 fallout 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.
We're trying to sort through the idiocracy here.
Give you
the
best of idiocracy.
There's so much of it.
Yeah.
Every, every day we have more and more and more.
It looks like it's getting darker.
What
I don't really stare.
Yeah.
Yeah clouds are
gather over head.
Yeah, right over our station Hope that's not a bad sign.
I
Who knows yeah, let's not like the stories we've covered so far
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All right.
In a big tip of the hat to Dee in Jamesville, she said that musk is planted as people.
More to come, in my opinion, she says.
Well, that's
the
truth.
But
that is true.
Yeah, a lot of these people with the doge have actually been hired.
in each one of the departments now to keep track and make sure that everybody's doing the right thing.
You know, I was thinking about that.
I know, this is crazy stuff, right?
I mean, we're talking about fraud, right?
And they always come up with the statistics for fraud.
And a lot of times they say, well, you know, fraud exists in this certain department by 28%.
There's 28% fraud in this department.
I'm thinking to myself, and yesterday I was thinking this, well, wait, how do we know it's 28%?
How do we come up with that number right?
It's not just fabricated.
You know, I think it's 28% no They've actually discovered
fraud
Yeah.
So the whole point here,
Doge is of course out there trying to discover fraud.
So they come up with a statistic, not Doge, but you know, the departments have their own statistics.
They have their own auditors to find all the fraud.
They say it's 28% or 10% or 4%.
And that's because they've caught the fraud.
They've taken care of it.
It's no problem.
Yeah.
They all have auditors, like you say, and solicitor generals.
That's
why they have those guys.
Exactly, and it kind of neutralizes any effect that Doge might have had.
There was really no reason for that.
All it did was carry out Project 2025, and that is to completely take over the government and put all of the government departments under the purview of the president.
That's it.
That's
what they wanted to do.
Disassemble the different government agencies and have Trump put in charge of all of it.
Yeah In
fact, I've got a story in it coming up a little bit later on and it is What does it call?
Oh, it's called the fourth pillar.
We're gonna get to that story
next hour
pillar.
Yeah, the fourth pillar That's what they called it and I didn't know this we covered
Project 2025 extensively on this program, right?
And I didn't hear about the fourth pillar, but that is what is going on with Doge.
They were part of the fourth pillar to get rid of all of the departments and put them under Trump.
Why is it
the fourth pillar?
Why isn't it the, you know,
I don't
know.
What are the other three pillars?
That's a good question.
Is that okay?
What?
I was gonna say is it
Is it the executive is one pillar and then the legislature?
Legislatures?
No, I think they neutralized the legislature at this point, too.
The other one is the Justice Department?
And then,
no, that
doesn't have anything to do with it.
Why would it be a pillar
anyway?
We'll get into it next time.
Maybe we'll find
out.
You're just not an appreciator of architecture, Gordy.
Pillars are very aesthetic, you know.
I'm more into the Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.
I don't think he used...
pillars very
much.
That's right.
Yes, it's
based on curves and stuff.
Right.
Yeah, it's part of the architecture that Trump wants to put in all the federal buildings,
right?
Okay.
Right.
Sure.
Now, mostly they're pillars.
What is that architecture called?
I'm phasing out
right now.
Like Roman architecture?
I don't know if that's the actual name for it.
Yeah.
Classical.
That's
it.
That's a classical.
Right.
Yeah.
The kind of stuff they had in the south.
Okay, the pillars.
Wonderful.
All right.
Hey, how about I want to add something to something I talked about last hour and that is Pam Bondi going after the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program that distributed money to to minority businesses and women's businesses.
And I mentioned kind of a reference that, you know, just off the top of my head, but now it's actually
A thing, this program was funded by the government, but administered by the states, and get this, according to this story, the federal government can earmark at least 10%
of funds allocated for transportation infrastructure to women and minority-owned contract firms.
So it's just a mere 10%.
90% goes to all the white businesses out there doing stuff for the transportation department.
But they just earmarked 10% to go and help.
That's it.
That's all it is.
It's not discrimination in any way, shape, or form.
10% come on.
All right.
And they're going to get rid of that now.
This DEI thing is out of control.
It's kind of an illegal way to put racism back in to the country.
All right.
Anyway, let's get into a little bit of education here from two uneducated people
I
wish I knew what is it they say?
What is their little
educated educators talking education?
That's very good.
You guys are you guys are both college dropouts technically, right?
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, you guys are the perfect ones to talk about
education
Okay, that's what I'm thinking
and you're about to become an educator.
Yeah
Tomorrow's
your last day.
We should point out.
Tomorrow's your last day.
That's right,
yes.
Episode number 400 of the John and Gordy
show.
Sam
leaves the John and Gordy show.
What do you mean they're about?
You said it was gonna be episode 400, right?
Well, we've had so many shows that we, like, compiled or prepared stuff in advance.
It all counts.
It all
counts.
Yeah, so it the count is right around 400.
I may have right around You try counting to 400 over the course of a year and a half Gordy Well you were so
matter-of-fact about the number
Now I'm disappointed.
I
think it's about 400.
Well, you know what, I'll take that.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
What do you want to have happen tomorrow on your last day?
You want to
sit back and let Tom run the show?
Just relax?
Or do you want to have some breakfast here?
I was joking in the break right beforehand.
I was going to bring in a hot plate and fry up some pancakes.
Instead of us going to short stack, I'll bring short stack to us, right?
Oh, well.
Ah, why not?
And I also thought about bringing this back quite a while ago.
It was after the WBAs last year.
Right.
Because I gave you guys a couple of congratulations gifts.
You Gordy gave me a...
An eight track player that you've half broken eight track player you found at an antique store Yes, I just came across another one.
I thought I could give it back to you as a white elephant gift.
Oh, that's great Now you didn't tell the rest of the story you actually ended up giving that eight track
player to somebody else But I didn't I didn't have any eight tracks to play sitting around so I dropped it off at Goodwill one day
And
then after the show we're all gonna go out and get snot-slinging drunk
Is that the plan?
That sounds like a great, you know, I don't, I think only on one occasion have I ever day drunk and that sounds like a great, great way to end the show.
Okay, I think
that's one.
No, that's not gonna happen.
No?
No, I can't handle it.
Okay.
But go ahead, you know.
Tear the town apart, man.
Okay.
Okay, Doug and St.
Francis has contributed a little bit here to the show a little bit and I'm emphasized a little.
College dropouts and radio.
Now there's a story.
All right.
So true.
Hey, let's go to the phone lines.
They're open right now if you want to get in on the action here.
I've
got this big story here.
Okay, Mark, go ahead.
What do you have for us
today?
Yeah, with your discussion about what Doge is going after fraud, it sure seems kind of ironic with Trump pardoning all these fraudsters.
What the one guy that didn't submit like $44 million of his employees' access to the federal government and now the Chris Lees.
with their massive frauds too, and apparently those people are going to have to pay restitution for the crimes they committed, you know, and for the people, you know, not for the people that that medical guy didn't submit that with the doctors and nurses and working for him.
I mean, that he's not only defrauded them, but he defrauded the American taxpayers, but Trump has said, oh, that's okay.
You know, he gets a million dollars from the guy's mommy and that guy gets away with not having to
You know reimbursed the taxpayers and right so what happens to the money those people kick you thought they were kicking in for their Social Security and Medicare and that money just evaporated to do those accounts get credited for that or or the SOL
Well, you know, this is all because Biden weaponized the Justice Department as you might remember
And this is all based
on that.
This is
all based on that.
These are all people that support a Trump that got these pardons.
Funny how that works.
I have an entire list here I
was going to read.
And I'm glad, Mark, you brought this up because the pardon of Scott Jenkins, the former sheriff who was convicted of accepting more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing individuals as auxiliary deputies.
And that means that they can.
get through line seizure and faster and say, I'm a deputy.
I'm here to investigate and they can get right in all that kind of stuff.
And well, that's good.
That's good for them.
That's good for Trump.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
Mark, thanks for that call.
Thanks, guys.
Appreciate it.
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Party.
Party at
Gordy's Gazebel.
Oh, that's Gordy, my neighbor's party for Sam at the gazebo.
We could do that.
Go over there after the show.
Why
not?
All right.
Now here's got a minute.
Oh, just a minute.
He pardoned Paul Walzak, a former nursing home executive convicted of misappropriating about $10 billion in employment taxes for personal luxury spending.
Wow.
I can see why the list goes on and on and on.
We'll get to more of that coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
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Deliver me from the days of old.
Long live rock and roll.
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All right,
so that's fantastic.
You've had your eyes glued to the TV almost this whole time, John.
What are you looking at?
Well,
I
was looking at an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.
Oh, I heard about that.
Wiped out a town.
Yeah, buried a town in a valley.
The surprising thing is one person is missing.
One.
Not
a lot
of
people in that town.
Not a big population there, but.
No.
Apparently
not I didn't see pictures of it, but I heard cuz it's the Swiss Alps They have cattle there.
I heard that they airlifted the cows out of there cuz they evacuated everybody They knew maybe that was probably gonna happen.
Yeah, I wonder where that one guy is the town was pretty small So if they evacuated everybody beforehand, where'd he go?
Yeah Yeah, there was roughly about 300 residents to really only one missing
that's pretty darn good.
Yeah
except for that guy.
Yeah.
It sucks for that
guy.
Yeah, the big story that we could have probably mentioned tomorrow.
Anyway, we're going to mention it today.
And that is Trump canceled the contract with Moderna, who was developing a vaccine for the bird flu, which would help a lot of farmers.
I mean, they could certainly inoculate their cattle.
It'd be hard to deal with chickens.
Hell, that would be a job I would not want to have vaccinating each and every chicken.
Anyway, they do have a bird flu vaccine in development, Moderna, and they're going to continue that research.
Are
they?
Yeah, because they had some very successful preliminary results.
And they think that they're on to this.
And what a time for the Trump administration to withdraw funds.
Just pull the mug out from my
throat.
I don't know.
You know, it's whatever he feels like doing at the time.
Yeah.
You see that the CDC courtesy of RFK has now rescinded their recommendation for pregnant women.
And I think children, I forget what the second group is for getting the COVID vaccine.
Right.
Yeah.
Yesterday I was at the doctor.
I got two vaccines, actually.
One was a COVID booster.
The other one was tetanus, because it's been 13 years since I had one last.
But my arm is mighty sore.
Yeah,
it's funny because I think it was Newsmax or one of the alternative news stations had a big rant about how ridiculous it is to get a vaccine for tetanus.
No,
that's not
something you want
to get.
Do they want lockjaw?
Do they want to be able to not eat food?
Yeah, it affects your joints severely.
You get froze up, you can't move that.
So it would be nice to get tetanus.
Everyone has to experience it at some point, John, right?
Got to get that tetanus shot once every 10 years, whether you want it or not.
Now, Aaron Rupert is a reporter.
He posts a lot on X, and he posted.
He posted a picture, a poster picture that Trump posted and he said normal stuff.
And the poster basically is Trump walking down a darkened street with the lights shining glossily off the streets.
And it's Trump and it's saying he's on a mission from God and nothing can stop what is coming.
That is a post from Trump.
Is it really?
Yes.
Are we sure about that or is
that made up?
No, he wouldn't have posted it.
No, this was an actual post from Trump.
Okay, you know we're gonna talk about AI a little bit earlier and and I thought this was I wanted to get Tim selectors put if you want this because he talks about AI all the time You know in a way that you know we should kind of accept it But accept it in the best way possible and try to at least regulate it a little bit to prevent abuses But anyway, this is from the co-founder of Google.
He says AI works better
when you threaten it with physical violence.
What?
What?
No, this is what he said.
No, it works better.
He said the word he or the phrase he uses, I'm going to kidnap you.
And that works in a forces AI to do what you want it to do.
Who says this?
This is the
co-founder of Google.
He shouldn't
know.
You're kidding.
It's like people's resumes who say that they work well under pressure.
OK.
Yeah.
AI
works with threats.
So that's a
violence.
Okay.
Exactly.
Try that.
You know, that kind of suggests that maybe AI has a conscience of some sort or kind of an emotional insecurity.
I don't want to see that.
All right.
We've got a few responses here.
We've got some texts coming in.
Let's go
to those.
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College dropout career trajectory steers John and Gordy to ultimately become the carnival barkers of the progressive radio circus.
Proof, we don't need universities.
There you go.
Thank you, Doug.
And
Robert McFarland
at a
White House press briefing Wednesday, Trump was asked about a new term circulating, and that is called the taco trade.
Oh, yeah.
Which stands for Trump always chickens out, the acronym.
He's not
happy.
By the way, I have that.
I have that clip where the reporter, I have to say, this reporter had guts to bring up
the taco phrase.
Right to Trump's face.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Of course he, he lashed out.
He lashed out at that.
Of course he did.
Of course he
did.
Yeah.
So it stands for Trump always chickens out.
Yeah, he, he heard about it.
And then of course he did not happen.
Then what's circulating, you know, the Saturday Night Live a bit that Trump did dress as a chicken selling Trump chicken.
Oh boy.
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What?
You know, we were talking about AI.
It's getting pretty smart these days.
Yeah.
The summation of our last hour via AI.
says John and Gordy dive into the illegal Trump tariffs ruling, joking about a tariff-free show.
How did it know I was joking about that?
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It's got a slight
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All
right.
Okay.
Well, last armor, we broached the subject.
Well, I'm going to get into it now.
It's, uh, it's the acronym taco.
Trump always chickens out.
Uh, we have a reaction from the golden idol.
Uh, what did he have to say?
Was he happy with this new
thing?
He'll surprise a prize award to the reporter who asked the question.
So, uh, why don't we play?
This is cut 201.
Let's hear it.
Okay.
Here we go.
Mr. President, Wall Street analysts have coined a new term called the taco trade.
They're saying Trump always chickens out on your tariff threats, and that's why markets are higher this week.
What's your response to that?
I kick out.
Chicken out.
Oh, chicken out.
I've never heard that.
You mean because I reduced China from 145% that I set?
Yes.
Down to 100, and then down to another number?
Yeah.
I gave the European Union a 50% tax.
And they called up and they said, please, let's meet right now.
Please, let's meet right now.
And we have an end date of July 9th.
You call that chickening out?
Because we have $14 trillion now invested.
Committed to investing when Biden didn't have practically anything.
Biden, this country was dying.
You know, we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
I went to Saudi Arabia.
The king told me.
He said, we have the hottest country in the world right now.
The king
said
that.
Six months ago, this country was stone cold dead.
No?
We had a dead country.
Is that envy of the world?
We didn't think it was going to survive.
Envy of the world.
We were going to ask a nasty question like that.
But don't ever say what you said.
That's a nasty question.
Go ahead.
That's the nastiest question.
That's the nastiest
question ever.
Boy, oh boy.
Sure leveled that one
off.
He doesn't like the taco thing at all.
No.
I don't know why.
He does chicken out.
Trump always chickens out.
How
does country in the world?
Maybe he is acknowledging climate change now.
Oh, there we go.
That could be it.
There are no signed deals for the tariffs.
There are none.
Now, I know we had Great Britain, right?
They signed on to something.
But, I mean, they didn't sign on to anything.
They said they were agreeing with Trump.
on an agreement, but that's about it.
It was in words, not writing.
No writing at all, so no one has agreed to any of this stuff.
And now, of course, we have a judge who says he has no legal right to do this with tariffs.
Oh, yeah, well, that's right.
Yeah, the judges.
Congress.
Yeah, they ruled that last night.
Yeah, that's great stuff,
isn't it?
Yeah.
All right, now we played an interesting cut from Scott Pelley.
from 16 minutes, right?
He talked to a Wake Forest crowd, commencement speech.
And it was inspirational and it was a warning to everybody about the free press.
But, you know, Fox News had their own interpretation.
And Greg Gutfeld and Kayleigh McAnie, McAnie, that's right, turned over a few little things that they thought were important about his speech.
So why don't we here cut 200 here?
CBS anchor Scott Pelley, unloading his BS on 47 while giving a college commencement speech.
In this moment, this
moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack.
Journalism is under attack.
Universities are under attack.
Freedom of speech is under attack.
And insidious fear.
the fear to speak in
America.
He wasn't arrested after that.
You know, he wasn't
arrested.
Look, he should have been because there is an overt lie.
What do you know about journalism being under attack?
What does he know about that?
I mean, 60 minutes should be reduced to zero minutes.
Yeah, it seemed like an ego trip for him, Harold.
The thing that gets me is that these people choose to say these things on a one-way street, like at award ceremonies and commencement addresses, because they know that people can't talk back.
It's not a conversation when you go up there and shout at people.
Like we do.
Yeah.
Like we do.
Okay.
Well, okay.
All
right.
Well, Scott
Pilling
has a lot to learn in his commencement speeches.
Apparently, right?
Here's something we, we promote a little bit here and this is the fourth pillar.
Okay.
A project 2025.
Yeah.
What's this all about?
Yeah.
And I thought, you know, we should have covered this in some way.
She performed, I did not.
know about this.
The Heritage Foundation had been hiding the most controversial elements of Project 2025.
Remember when they came out and they said, well, you know, we've got something else cooking, but we're not going to tell anybody about it.
Right?
Yeah.
It's the fourth pillar.
That's what it is.
It was to expand Trump's power over virtually all executive agencies, which is what
doged it.
They destroyed it.
They
tore
him apart, including the Justice Department, who advance his own interests, even if they undermine those of the country.
It's got to be the interest of Trump.
Why don't we listen to this?
This is a representative talking to Brendan Carr, who is the FCC chair, and she was grilling him about the fourth pillar.
Now that you know a little bit about it, let's check it out.
Yes or no?
As the main author of Project 2025, are you aware of this fourth pillar playbook?
Well, to be...
Yes or no?
To be clear, I'm here in my official capacity.
Yes or no?
So I
don't have any confusion
on that.
I'm reclaiming my time.
You are under oath, and I don't want you to filibuster.
Yes or no?
Are you aware of this fourth pillar playbook?
Okay, just so I can be clear, that writing that I did was in my...
Personal capacity.
Oh after getting the
reclaiming my time.
I didn't ask you that are you aware of the fourth pillar playbook?
And can you detail as you were under?
What exactly it calls for?
Again, I've not seen this fourth pillar you playbook.
I find it hard to believe that you don't know the details.
Well, please under oath and do not waste my or the public's time.
There you go.
So he wrote it, but he's unfamiliar with it.
I never heard someone dodge so many questions
in my life.
You're good at it.
You're about to, once you take over as our producer.
Again, this is a 180 day transition playbook.
The fourth pillar was to expand Trump's power over all the executive agencies.
Now we talked about this too, the Chevron.
doctrine, which was also repealed by the Supreme Court, which allowed these agencies to overlook or oversee rather all of the legal ramifications of their agencies.
You know, the Congress gave them this power, they gave them regulations to enforce, and these departments could enforce those regulations and maybe expand on them a little bit to cover things that Congress didn't think about or didn't anticipate.
But the Chevron doctrine passed...
rejected by the Supreme Court now after so many years, a half a century.
Now the departments didn't have any power at all.
And so they had to leave all the power of these departments up to the courts to decide what is important, what should be regulated and what shouldn't be.
Now they went one step further with the with the fourth pillar by just giving all the power to the president.
Yeah, just hand it over.
Yeah.
and destroying the departments and firing people and closing off buildings.
All right, so that's essentially it.
And that's Brendan Carr, the chair of the FCC.
Get rid of this guy.
Anyway, he certainly, he wrote it, but he's unfamiliar with it at this point.
Let's go to the phones.
Dick is on the line this morning with a question or a comment.
Good morning, Dick.
Go ahead.
All right, guys, if you see the new Ackerman, I guess that's what it's called for.
Trump for the big heavy hitters on Wall Street, what they call him.
Yeah, the taco.
Yeah, we just, we
just, oh, I'm sorry.
We just played
it.
No,
we played
it.
Great.
Yeah,
it really is.
And that reporter, boy, she had guts.
Yeah.
Ask him
about it.
Also, the wonderful little session he had with the broadcast today.
when he was pressed on, you know, what do you do with Putin as far as sanctions?
Yes.
And then he, of course, went to his old playbook.
This is Biden's war in Putin's war in Zelensky's.
Biden's?
Really?
And then, then I liked when he went all ward cleaver on him.
He goes, I'm very, very disappointed.
I mean,
Wow, Ward.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He really put the beat down
on him.
I know.
I mean, he was so, he was proven so wrong.
You know, he anticipated, he said that he knows Putin and he, he, and he was surprised that Putin would do what he did.
He was just surprised by that, which is an admission that he has no idea what he's doing at all.
All right.
Well, he pays no attention to the last 25 years.
Like we've said many times, I mean, Putin is what he is and he always has
been.
Right.
Exactly.
But he also said he's gonna get Putin back into the peace talks in a couple of weeks.
He always He's gonna come back in a couple of weeks.
Okay.
He was gonna get his Cadillac yalt care to the last term Take 13 million people off.
Oh, you
know,
yeah,
whatever.
All right.
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We've got some
legal
stuff coming up.
Definitely big legal things coming up.
Oh,
yeah.
Stephen Miller ain't the smartest tool in the...
Toolbox,
Shed, whatever.
I'm
never good at these
things.
I'm bad at old scenes.
Anyway,
here's
Miller's statement.
CBO claims extending the current tax rates, not raising them, will cost the government $4 trillion in revenue.
Since when?
have libertarians argued that not raising taxes cost the government money.
Well, I know the original tax, Trump tax cuts will continue to cost us money and add to the deficit.
Yeah,
easy.
I don't know.
That
was pretty simple.
Right.
Pretty straightforward.
719 coming back and we'll check in with Brittany Merlot.
All about the weather next.
Just
a few moments here.
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All right, he's on the last Vegas right now doing
his
own thing doing that stuff.
We got to get a hold of him again Yeah, he's got all these cassettes all the music on it and he sings to it.
I'm sure it's not cassettes anymore, but
He's upgraded to CDs
Probably probably WMDX here 92.7 John and Gordy in the morning
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It's pretty cloudy here this morning.
Let's find out what's going on with the rest of our weather for the rest of today.
And next few days, Brittany Merlot is with us, our chief meteorologist.
Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning guys.
I must say when you get a song like that made for you.
That's when you've made it.
That's pretty cool.
That's what
we're thinking.
But then we
open up the
mic and well, we're starting over again.
That is good stuff.
Oh man.
I wish the weather was going to be good stuff though.
Yeah.
Yeah, so overcast still stuck with a lot of those clouds right now.
They should start to break up a little bit more as we move into midday.
But then as we go into the afternoon, we have a chance for some scattered showers and maybe a thunderstorm popping up probably after two.
Now this would be brief.
It'd be a small little one in high temperatures today should be flirting with about 70.
So a little bit more mild compared to yesterday.
And then we start the warmth, right?
That climb by tomorrow will be in the upper 70s.
It'll be super sunny, kind of breezy though tomorrow.
How's the dew point looking?
Hanging in there.
For now.
For tomorrow, you're okay.
You've got about one or two days left until a two-point starts to get annoying.
Really?
Over the
weekend, it's going to get humid?
Is it?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's going to start to creep in.
You'll start to feel a little bit of mugginess by Friday.
Then we're really going to feel that humidity on Sunday and Monday.
And then it's going to start to crank up as we go into middle of next week.
And so does the temperatures.
We're going to be hovering.
in the mid eighties to potentially some nineties are going to be sprinkled in into the areas.
So
really.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Full force, summer humidity, Florida weather, making its way to Wisconsin.
And I don't know.
I'm kind of sad about it.
I like the crisp warmth that we've been actually feeling like last weekend.
So yeah, I don't like it when it gets humid either.
I'm not a big fan of the heat
and humidity.
But you know, I have it's summertime.
So what do you
expect?
Right.
True.
Kind
of water, right?
Stay cool.
Absolutely.
Stay hydrated, okay.
Beach weather.
Very good, Brittany.
You guys, you guys head to the lake out there?
What do you do?
Do you boat?
Do you fish?
Do you kayak?
Well, you know, Sam boats a lot.
I just brought it back to Madison actually over the weekend.
He's got a styrofoam dingy or whatever.
It's a sailboat made of styrofoam, yeah.
I can pick it up and carry it to the lake.
That's right.
Wow, that's cool.
I've got to see that.
After that, they decided that Sarifone was better for cups.
You know, tomorrow is Sam's last day, Brittany.
It
is.
That's
right.
It is crazy.
Oh my gosh, I'm going to miss you so much, but I'm so excited for your new adventure.
Yeah.
Thank you.
And then Dom will be stepping in here after that.
Our
new
producer.
Yeah.
All
right, great.
That'll be good stuff.
Sam, I hope you come back and visit, though, OK?
Yeah, I'll, I mean, I'll have to say hi if I'm in Wausau sometime.
That's right.
Absolutely.
All right,
Brittany.
Thank you.
Thank
you.
We appreciate it.
Yeah.
We'll come up with a
boating.
We'll come up with a boating expedition sometime in a boating forecast.
We'll have you along and boy, that ought to be a real trip.
Sam, lead it with the styrofoam.
Yeah,
exactly.
All good.
All right.
Thanks, Brittany.
That's Brittany Merlot,
our
chief meteorologist.
Okay.
All right.
Let's, you know, Caroline Levitt has a nickname.
Did you know she has a nickname?
I did not know.
Yeah.
Well, I'd say, I'd say the whole word, but I've been barred from doing that.
You know, I definitely
think
that the S word should be said on the radio, but no one agrees with me.
So I'm going to have to just say BS Barbie.
That's what they're calling Caroline Levitt BS Barbie.
Who's calling her that?
The other
press people there
everyone is where have you been man?
Okay, they took a look at the first 30 days and she told 317 lies in those 30 days So not bad not bad I'm sure she got a big gold star from Donald Trump for that.
Well big thumbs up Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
I think still probably beats her Okay, Caroline Levitt bigot
I added that.
They're telling us who they are, folks, you know, when they talk.
This will make it perfectly clear the kind of monsters slithering around the halls of the White House now.
Believe it or not, she's making perfect sense to the mega party.
Let's listen to, can we listen to cut 195?
Do
we have time?
Here we go.
No, I'm afraid not.
We don't have
time.
Can't listen to part of it.
Okay,
all
right,
well, we'll save it.
All right, we'll get to
it.
We'll put that on hold.
You gotta build the anticipation.
Yeah.
That's
right.
All right, we'll do that.
We will do that.
Caroline Levitt.
Telling everybody how big a bigot she really
is.
Okay, that's coming up.
Also, attorney Jim Santel right around the corner on John and Gordy in the morning.
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Oh, Dominic Lee.
Dominic Lee.
We're still getting used to your name.
I knew I was close.
And Sam Donaldson.
I can see how you got that
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No.
My dad's friend from high school also had a kid named Sam, and whenever we hung out together, he would call me Sammy Jean, because that's
my
middle name is Eugene, so instead of calling,
yeah, he'd
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Yeah, I heard you on Todd yesterday, you were coming up with nicknames for Sam, right?
Did they mention the luggage, like Samsonite?
Samsonite, yeah.
That's
a good one, yeah.
Well,
Sam's last day is tomorrow.
Samwise-Gangy?
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I like that one.
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Tomorrow is Sam's last day.
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You guys want to ignore this, but Todd, yesterday, Sam was doing his show with him.
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I thought you were moving away completely.
Yeah.
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Now, I just wanted to mention BS Barbie, Caroline Levitt said something that revealed just how big it is this White House really is.
Let's listen to cut 195 here.
This is Caroline Levitt, BS Barbie is her nickname.
And the president is more interested in giving that taxpayer money to trade schools and programs in state schools where they are promoting American values.
But most importantly, educating the next generation based on skills that we need in our economy and our society, apprenticeships, electricians, plumbers.
We need more of those in our country and less LGBTQ graduate majors from Harvard University.
And that's what this administration's position is.
And we also are not going to tolerate the illegal criminal anti-Semitic behavior that we saw take place at Harvard and many other college campuses across the country.
There you go.
So now we know where they stand.
guess so
boy oh boy I mean they're just making a pretty pretty damn obvious and there was a survey by the way saw on CNN where people had a lot of confidence like 65% confidence in going to college and getting a degree but now it's down to 35% so this mega attack in colleges it's working it's working yeah
All right, let's get to our guest today.
And of course, we always love to talk to Jim Santel about legal issues.
He is the attorney here on civic media, right?
With amicus.
And every Saturday you can always listen on Saturday 9 to 11 o'clock and Jim we got a lot of topics to talk about but we last hour talked about or this hour the fourth pillar at the beginning of the hour we talked about the fourth pillar and I mentioned that this was being something that they're starting to talk to Brendan Carr about he's the FCC chair
because he's the guy who wrote most of this.
And he can't remember exactly what he wrote, but he did write it as a person, individual, not part of government.
And so that's the excuse.
So what can you add to the- Tell us about the fourth pillar.
Yeah, Gordy wanted to know more about the fourth pillar and what it's all about.
Yeah, sure.
And it may well be once again that our administration is invoking the word fourth in at least two different areas.
I suspect by virtue of the examination of the FCC chair, you're probably talking about what's sometimes called the fourth estate, which is media, right?
That's press.
Those are the people who keep us under the First Amendment.
The first thing that James Madison wrote, obviously, after our Constitution was put in place many years ago.
And is there an attack by this administration on that
that fourth estate that fourth pillar again in project 2025 but since the president has been in office absolutely we think about the lawsuits right that are being filed the threats being made against legitimate and and frankly even smaller media outlets across the board telling them basically 60 minutes is the big one that's of course on the
on the agenda today, right?
And CBS News, they want to also be acquired through Paramount and need the authorization of the administration.
And so attacking 60 minutes and saying, don't do what you're doing.
You've got departures there of the news chiefs because they're not going to put up with it.
And the concern there once again is when you lose a free press, not just 60 minutes, but across the board.
Print media, frankly.
of civic media, other entities like this, that talk the truth and talk about what's really going on there.
That is the bastion.
That's one of the standards against which this other attempt to try to disinform and try to uneducate American population.
That's what the media does.
That's one aspect of the fourth pillar.
The other one, much more simply, is this attack on agencies.
It's also kind of the fourth pillar of our government after the legislature, the courts, and the executive branch.
And there we've seen, you talked about this as well in the past.
You're attacking any agency that's out there.
Why?
Because those are the people who know what they're doing, right?
There's a scientist.
Those are the educated folks.
who understand how the world works and keep us safe and secure.
We don't trust those folks anymore.
And that's also a fourth pillar type attack, administration using fourth in a number of different ways, all of them, all of them wildly inappropriate and hugely dangerous.
Well, it's scary.
It's really scary that the attempt here, of course, you know, is to just do away with them and put everything under the executive branch.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And that's also called, also in Project 2025.
Again, you have talked about this as well.
If you need the sort of crazy legal term for it, it's called the Unitary Executive Theory,
the
notion that the President is responsible for every single, every single executive aspect out there.
And you might think, well, gee, that sounds right.
It doesn't because we've got all these administrative agencies
Oh, for example, like the Federal Reserve, right?
And they create, again, economic policy, including interest rates, designed by the Congress to be what?
Independent.
You
don't want political decision-making coming out of that entity.
Jerome Powell basically threatened recently with his own job.
And again, that notion that, no, all of that, the unitary executive, all that should be responsible to just one person, the executive.
Donald Trump it is again very dangerous and it's contrary to what the legislature has put in place by the way If you want to do this you can once again do these things you have to get legislation in place That's the big sin among others of this administration, right?
You can't simply legislate by executive fiat You got to go through legislative mechanisms and make it the law, right?
And that's again so many instances of that You can't simply issue statements and say I've changed the world
That's what our Congress is for.
You want
to
get rid of the Education Department, you can do that, but you can only do it through legislation, Mr. President.
That's the frustration of all this procedurally.
Talking to Attorney Jim Santel here,
yeah.
Yeah, the Unitary Executive was just a crazy idea at the time.
Now it's for real.
They've actually emphasized it.
They didn't let this thing go, and now it is generally accepted.
at least under the Trump administration.
You did mention also that the Supreme Court just made a decision that Jerome Powell can't stay in his job, he can't be fired, but other departments, even though they're non-political, even though they're independent, they can be replaced.
I don't understand the differentiation here.
Did they ever make a difference, a reason why there's a differentiation?
spot on when it comes to the analysis here, because what they said was, well, the Federal Reserve, there are uniquely structured and agency that kind of is special.
Well, that's also all these other agencies as well.
The Merit Systems Protection Board, those are the people who decide on personnel issues.
The National Labor Relations Board, we all know what that does.
Those are the labor folks, right?
And again, created by the Congress to be independent.
There's no real distinction.
And again, this past week in one of those many issues that kind of flew under the radar, Supreme Court does say, well, Jerome Powell, you're okay.
Apparently that's a bridge even too far for John Roberts.
We don't want Donald Trump messing around
with
economic theory.
You're okay.
But these other folks, yes, indeed, you can remove them while the underlying litigation about whether removal is appropriate still goes on in the courts.
Stunning.
Once again, that's the Supreme Court.
embracing at least part of this on Capitol Hill too.
Not a small decision and doesn't abode well for what the Supreme Court may do in other unitary executive theory cases coming up.
Well, that's true.
And we're just going to wait and see now what happens with a judge's decision blocking all of the tariffs.
Most of the tariffs that Trump has put in place.
You have any information on that?
That just came down, I know.
Yeah,
yesterday.
What's
your opinion on that, Jim?
Sure.
And so this is another federal court.
It's a federal court of international trade, international issues.
And it is a federal court.
You can appeal this, of course, to the next level.
But again, a three judge panel there looks at all of this and says, you do not have the authority to do this.
And it says to a couple of countries, Mexico and Canada, and then more generally, they kind of issue two different orders here, completely much related.
but separate in terms of their sort of status.
It is, again, these are people who know what they're talking about.
They're judges who do international trade issues.
That's all they do.
And the fact that they would yesterday, the three judge panel, returns this order.
Again, another one in this great line, federal judges saying, Mr. President,
You might like to do this,
but
you can't.
You don't have the authority to do this.
And if it was taken at, again, be the serious thing that it should be viewed as, it should stop him from doing all of this so-called negotiation.
I know in the past hour, once again, you just, particularly this notion, there's nothing in place.
He's got nothing negotiated, even with Great Britain, as he just said.
We've just got these words out there
about
a plan.
But all of that, even the
Okay as Jim frozen caveman lawyer Let's play that We'll see if we can get Jim back here in a moment.
Let's please stand by okay, what do we do here Sam?
I'm sure that he can probably hear us, but you know at the same time The Supreme Court is probably regretting
putting the official acts place where he is protected from anything he does in office, right?
Right, yeah, he's got immunity.
What is that immunity?
Well,
it looks like he's back.
Jim, do we have you back?
Yeah.
I'm so sorry for they probably, probably it was the administration or the secretary
saying, no, no,
we've got to get that guy
quieted up.
Yeah.
It's making a good point.
Sorry about that.
Yeah.
But that is right.
You again, you've got judges.
We're making these these balanced decisions and telling him no and he is simply saying I don't care.
Yeah.
So they're going to appeal this thing from the this federal judge and eventually it goes up to the Supreme Court.
They make a ruling and he ignores that too.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean that's been the that's been the system so far.
OK.
Got to take a brief time out here.
We'll come back with attorney Jim Santel in just a moment.
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Our guest this morning, we should have him in here all the time.
Jim Santel, Amicus Allaur, if you can hear it on Saturdays from 9 to 11 o'clock.
What else do you got for us there, Jim?
You know, it's sort of an education morning, isn't it?
We're talking all about the importance of education.
And along the way, apparently our Secretary of State, who has three of us have talked at great length in the past, has a lot of assignments these days inside the executive branch.
Just last night, just Wednesday, he announced that the Department of State, one of his assignments, which we thought was a principal assignment, is going to, as he said, aggressively revoke.
I don't know what that means exactly, but aggressively revoke visas of Chinese students who are here.
He invokes the notion that they have ties to the Chinese Communist Party here in the United States of America.
And they're studying these critical fields.
And he's going to basically pursue those who are, again, Chinese of origin, properly here, by the way, studying in America.
And again, the notion is, we don't know exactly what the focus of this is going to be, but the notion once again is that they're going after the scientists.
The idea that somehow we have Chinese nationalists, maybe members of the Communist Party invoking, again, 1950s scare tactics in America.
All these communists here from China being educated and they're learning all of our secrets, taking them back to China and therefore we're going to revoke.
That's really what this is all about.
It is, once again, the latest attempt to attack education, which we should support worldwide, right?
Right?
And we benefit from that as well.
And this notion, once again, that the other, whether you're Chinese, whether you're immigrants, those people are dangerous to America.
It's just the latest iteration of that.
It really is amazing what is happening here.
And I predict that we're going to have just an entire decade where
things just go absolutely wrong and we no longer have the businesses that we need in this country.
We don't have the scientific research anymore in this country.
Everything is being moved and outsourced to other countries because we're just not accepting them.
And we have this paranoid feeling that, you know, the students that are coming in from other countries are here to spy on us, which is just amazing and just truly unbelievable.
We saw that too in the secretary's recall.
We've talked about this on this wonderful program.
Got the Columbia student, the Georgetown student, tough student, all of them arrested.
Why?
Because they're speaking out about positions.
Yes, it has to do with Palestine.
And again, Marco Rubio says what?
He says that that very speech on our campuses
is
undermining our national security
and our safety.
Pretty fragile.
And we are very fragile, apparently.
And then we got to get rid of them.
And although they've been released now by federal judges, we arrested them.
We detained them for a while.
Thank God federal judges stepped in
and said,
no, no, they're not risk of flight.
They're not dangerous.
But they're still facing deportation proceedings on this absolutely anti-American theory that somehow international students who are here
Speaking their minds, again, it doesn't even matter what they're underlying.
It is important, but it doesn't matter.
It's just expressing their First Amendment rights and capacities, and they pose a threat to all of the good people in America.
We need to get rid of them.
That too is Marco Rubio.
That too is your Department of State in this nation.
No small
thing.
Well, it's kind of crazy to think that these international students don't have constitutional rights while they're in this country.
It's a ridiculous thought.
It is a ridiculous thought.
You've affirmed this routinely and has have a Supreme Court Justice like, oh, I don't know, Antonin Scalia and even John Roberts and others out there.
The fundamental civics notion we repeat all the time because it's still just can't put this thing to bed.
When you are here in the United States geographically, you have a right to benefit from not everything.
You're not able to vote.
You can't run for office, but you've got rights of protection, things like
due process.
Yes, indeed.
Kristi Noem, habeas corpus.
That also applies to people who are here on our soil.
Equal protect all those kinds of things.
And yet there's this notion, well, they're not citizens anyway.
So we can deprive them of those rights.
And oh, by the way, we can also pack them up.
and arrest them and send them to planes all around the nation, around the country.
I'm
around the
world, rather.
And we can do that because they have no rights.
Simply wrong.
And again, America needs to at least embrace that concept, at least embrace that, that they do have rights.
That's right.
You know, and I think Trump is doing what DeSantis did in Florida with the liberal arts college, you know, completely changing it over and scaring people away from that college.
Now he's doing the same thing to Harvard.
Right.
Absolutely.
And you do have a judge once again who's stopping much of that, but it's an attempt to attack not only the DEI issues there, but also the basic curriculum, anti-education, anti-learning.
That's our president these days.
What I don't get, though, is why hasn't somebody challenged the whole idea of making DEI illegal?
I just don't get that.
I mean, they're basing everything.
They're putting racism back into this country with the excuse of DEI, which isn't illegal.
It's just a concept.
It's just a, it's an education theory, right?
Right.
And that's the problem.
It shouldn't be, they're having some success in federal courts, but again, that's the issue continuing to push back on that ridiculousness.
Yeah.
Jim Santel, we have to leave it there.
You can check out Jim on Amicus, a law review every Saturday, 9 to 11 a.m.
on Civic Media Radio Network.
Thanks, Jim.
Talk to you again soon.
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