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The one-arm bandit.
Okay, let's do that.
And we'll see what's going on.
Okay, first numbers are zero, seven, four.
74 for a high.
Is that what you're saying?
Something, watch, is also predicting?
For a high, eight to interrupt you.
Busy over there doing a lot of paperwork at sea.
79.
Okay, well predicted.
I would be warm.
It'll be kind of humid We do have a chance for showers and thunderstorms later on today That should hold off till late this afternoon.
It's gonna be cooler this evening though.
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So I got a lot coming up a little bit later on.
We're going to talk to Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa and find out what's going on there.
What's the latest and greatest from Liz?
And also we've got the, of course, we've got the 2025 Scotty Summer Text to Win contest.
We started that up yesterday.
That'll happen in our seven o'clock hour.
What's the
And we blamed Trump, even though it's really not his fault.
It had more to do with the burnt flu.
But he would do the same to us.
So we're blaming him for the...
the rising price of eggs.
And it's a better price now.
They're almost back down to normal.
Is that right?
Yeah.
That's not a victory, by the way.
The price of eggs is still up there, okay?
The same thing with gas.
Oh, gas prices are down.
Two or three cents?
What are you talking about?
Wow.
Yeah, let's get into some history in 1965 Yeah, there's actually the first American astronaut walked walked in space We're going with this with this astronaut trend.
I think yesterday was the it was the same thing Yeah, do you know the astronauts name?
Yes, Ed White Ed White yeah, all right during the Gemini for mission
He
yeah,
also have a story for you guys, and I don't know if you guys tell us of this But it was very recent It involved a man using a Molotov cocktail and a makeshift flame thrower And he injured about 12 people in Boulder, Colorado.
Yeah, that just happened.
Yeah, it just happened It was during a pro is Israel
Rally mm-hmm.
We've got one Where the government has decided to surveil the citizens of this country And it seems like a big issue.
Yeah seems like something we would not want
But it's actually happening, and we'll get to that in just a few moments.
And we've got the big story coming up later on, and that is RFK Jr.
and the FDA commissioner, but they don't have good plans.
These plans are a disaster waiting to happen.
And once you hear a lot of this, the FDA commissioner, Marty McCary,
went out on the talk show circuit and he had a really, really bad interview.
And if you look at the criticisms, the criticisms are from the magas who are saying that the host of the talk show was really bad and just got killed by McCary, but that isn't the case.
It's a strange, strange thing.
They hear what they want to hear.
Well, we'll sample a little bit
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So what's happening?
When it comes to research and studies and in advances in science, in medical care for Americans, but he doesn't seem to care about that.
And I said this all along, Project 2025 is something that was put together by the right wing.
You know, the Heritage Foundation put it together.
Russell's vote is in the administration now.
He's carrying out all of the points that they made up in Project 2025.
He denied it.
He was asked that point blank.
Well, aren't you carrying all of that stuff out?
Aren't you just, you know, doing that?
Oh, no, no, these are all.
Trump's ideas.
Can you imagine that Trump never had an idea in this damn life?
It's all, it's all getting even with people that did him wrong.
And that's what he's doing now.
He's getting even with everybody who did him wrong.
And that's all he is able to do.
He is freed up to do that because Project 2025's writers and creators are in the administration carrying out
All of it.
Then they put together all of his executive orders.
And all they had to do was sign them.
He doesn't know what they're about.
As we all watched, can sign those orders, they had to explain what they did.
good morning guys uh i don't know if you've ever listened to professor richard wolf the economics economics professor
okay yeah it i really think he's correct in what he said recently that uh the big plan behind this doge and firing tens of thousands of people and
It's kind of about an idea that to bring manufacturing back We have to suppress the wages of average Americans to even lower than they currently are and Take down our standard of living bring us back to a place where Chinese citizens were 15 years ago or something and This is going to be decades of pain
if the manufacturing even comes back, which I doubt it will.
So it really is a strange thing to think that they even think will work, first of all, but also to think that I wonder if it's going to be especially painful for us because we were grown up into a certain standard of living.
And to have that taken away is especially painful.
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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,
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
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Alright, I think they took down
Okay.
The scale is staggering.
President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars, as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors.
Just this week.
We learned of pardons to tax cheats, including a man whose pardon was granted weeks after his mother attended a million-dollar head fundraiser with the president.
The Trump Media and Technology Group raised nearly $2.5 billion from 50 institutional investors whose identities have not been disclosed.
The SEC dropped its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency firm Binance days after Binance began listing the cryptocurrency launched by World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm started by Trump's family.
This unprecedented money making by a sitting president and his family, summarized by critics like the Atlantic's David Frum.
Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency, he writes.
Throw away the history books, discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past.
There is no analogy with any previous action by any past president.
The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House.
This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship.
I'll do my impression of CJ.
But what about Hunter?
What about Hunter Biden?
Right.
Oh, man.
Yeah, they have no explanation.
They can't call the show and they can't tell us what they think because they know when they get the hard question.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
They don't know what to say.
Exactly.
They don't have any comeback.
Nope.
All right.
We've got Mark
Well, I think for some of these guys, they can't even come up with a hard question, let alone anything else
true.
But and it is just uh, what staggers me is that um, and Hamilton actually said there might be a president come that uh, interested in his own, uh, betrayed the interests of the public for his own enrichment.
You know, it's fed with 75, but what gets me is, um, all the criticism from the right on, um, you know, Ukraine's strike of, uh, you know, taking out the, uh, hardware that, uh, the Soviet Soviet or the Russians had and the criticizing that.
And the same, well, you should let Trump know, well, Trump would have given, you know, given a good old Putin a heads up on it.
And, you know, if you can't see that, I mean, you're,
blind or just, you know, just a Russian operative, which I think there's a good chunk of mega that is, I mean, they're pulling for Russia and
yeah.
And they're taking on military targets rather than civilian targets
Putin is all the time.
Exactly, yes.
I mean, I'm tired of people bleeding, you know, whining about poor Putin and poor Russia.
Well, Russia started this whole thing and that they're paying the price.
And if it just so happened that Putin was visiting one of those sites when, you know, one of those strikes happened, oh, too bad, I wouldn't.
So sad.
right.
OK.
All right.
Go ahead.
Let's listen to it.
So here's a quick question for Maga.
Are you OK with Trump's military parade next month?
It will not only have.
hundreds of American soldiers, but 6700 American soldiers, 50 in-air helicopters, 34 horses, and 28 70 ton M1 Abram battle tanks.
The cost?
$45 million.
Enough money to feed 246,000 starving children for the next year.
Don't pretend you care about the national debt when you're blowing $45 million from a stupid military parade to make us look like North Korea.
going to
We've got a couple of texts in here.
We've got Doug texting in here, and Doug says, John and Gordy should learn from Ukraine.
Create lightweight...
lightweight drone based transmitters that can be released at 6 a.m in Milwaukee Doug lives in Milwaukee.
Yeah, what's this over there?
While broadcasting our show, you know, at least these drone based transmitters John and Gordy invade Milwaukee.
Okay.
Thank you.
Well, I'm all for that.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
He also had a couple other ideas here.
He wants us to add a call to action segment where listeners learn how and where they can take action to make a difference.
We should workshop that.
That's
mean added work, you know We're trying to get all the good stuff here for idiocracy and we have another big story.
Okay.
You've probably heard about this Job Corps Was killed, you know, goodbye It's it's goodbye to Job Corps because it really was a DEI based program, right?
I mean, it's out there helping low-income individuals get a
Get a job, essentially, or even housing at this point.
It was established as part of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
So it goes back and it's proven itself over and over again.
It provides a free residential education and job training programs for low-income people between 16 and 24 years of age, and students can also earn a school diploma or a GED.
get vocational training and even get this, learn how to drive.
Job Corps works.
Save Job Corps.
Job Corps matters.
We matter.
This is our home.
This means everything to us.
We may be a financial loss to y'all.
But this is our world.
This is everything we have.
This is our future.
And without this, so many of us are lost.
So many of us have nothing to do.
They had us go to the wreck at about...
and they broke the news to us and they had us go to the dorms pack our stuff.
The staff on site would not say a word to us, but sources tell us it was shut down after recent cuts at the Department of Labor, which oversees the program.
I didn't want him to be statistic, so I wanted him to be focused and get his education.
16 year old Carlton Davis lived here and his mom recently lost their house and there's more.
I have breast cancer surgery next week, so now I'm debating having my surgery canceled.
So I can make sure my son is okay.
I'm livid.
I am livid.
I am.
I cannot believe this
community activist Pastor Moe trying to help out here after getting calls from frantic mothers.
He's worried about the short and long term solutions for these kids.
The ones who were trying to get it right.
That's why I'm so pissed off.
These are not kids who are in a youth home who got caught in a quive.
These are kids
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All right, I just want to add to the Job Corps cancellation and how it helps minority communities and individuals between the ages of 16 and 24, giving them a little help.
It is truly a disappointing moment in history.
Since 1964, this program has been in place, Job Corps, and it's been helping people.
And according to the Trump administration, their reason for getting rid of Job Corps, it is financially unsustainable.
and it costs over $1.5 billion.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, that's so much money, isn't it?
And then this, the Labor Secretary said, the program has been found to no longer achieve the intended outcomes that students deserve, citing an in-depth physical analysis.
You know, for some reason, I'm just not believing any of that.
Just not believing it.
Hey, let's go to the phones.
All right, we've got Joe on the line.
Hi, Joe.
Good morning.
Hey, guys.
Good morning.
Great show as always.
I wanted to pick up on some of the comments that Mark had started with in reference to Trump and his treatment of soldiers in the suggested parade and this strike that happened against Russia.
I find it just...
I mean, sickly comical that we're talking about a $45 million parade in D.C.
at the same time the administration is cutting, I think they're projected $83,000.
positions within the VA.
Yeah, you're using the expression that this was the parade was meant to be a tip of the hat to soldiers.
Anything more disrespectful than when you really need it, when you are disabled enough to be eligible for VA care.
And I just find it kind of comical, too, that here we have this administration where our Secretary of Defense Hexeth was blabbing the details of that military operation against
the Houthis, a while it was happening.
And these were soldiers that said, gee, that doesn't seem real safe.
So if you really wanted
do a tip of the hat to soldiers, is this the way that you would do it?
I'm thinking no.
thinking
might not be
Everyone who takes a look at Trump's reconciliation bill, including his allies like Elon Musk and folks at the big banks, agreed that all this bill will do is make Americans poorer, sicker, in debt, and less educated.
Why would he do that?
All you have to do is take a look through history at the rise of authoritarian governments.
They virtually all start by leaders declaring an enemy, like, I don't know, migrants, and then intentionally hurting the country under the guise of keeping them safe from this threat.
Authoritarian governments always go after journalists, academics, teachers, anyone working to educate the public on what's really happening.
Putting people in an economic crisis makes them desperate and makes it more difficult for them to pay attention to what's going on around them.
and cutting their health care, making them sicker, literally makes them easier to physically control.
I know it sounds like a really dark conspiracy theory, but truly, if you study history, if you take a look at how authoritarian movements have organized and taken over entire countries, this is the playbook.
If you really stop and think about it, there is no good reason to make people have to choose between paying their rent and getting their insulin.
There is no good reason for making people have to choose between buying groceries and paying their student loan debt.
And there is no good reason to defund the scientific and academic research that is literally saving people's lives.
Unless you want to make people weaker, more fearful, and easier to control.
And that's exactly what we're seeing.
It's not a big, beautiful bill.
It's really a death sentence for democracy.
Perfect is right.
Yeah.
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