The Kennedy Center and Machete! (Hour 1)

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This country

is doomed.

Good morning to you, too.

Four

years is not... Not

gonna make it?

We're not gonna make that four years.

You know, this country is sinking slowly, slowly, slowly into the West.

We are done.

We are done.

Did you get up on the wrong side of the

bed or what?

You know, come on, man.

It's not that bad.

The truth is gone, history, we don't have the truth anymore, we just get out there and we just say whatever we want to say, lies, lies, lies, and that's the administration.

But here on this show, you hear the truth constantly.

All the time, it never stops.

Okay, what, this is WMDX, 92.7.

Out of the gate, you're just like just spewing.

I

am

crazy.

I am

not gonna sleep last night or

Well, you know, we're making a little adjustment here on the show.

You know, we are, uh, we are getting rid of the calendar, the national date calendar, which we will take a look at.

But, you know, I'm looking over the news headlines and stuff like that and I get super depressed.

And now I'm, now I'm kind of angry about.

the latest story in that is the Kennedy Center.

It's going to have a big celebration.

All the power people are going to be at the Kennedy Center.

As you know, Trump has taken

over the Kennedy Center.

He has grasped it.

He has taken it.

It is his own now.

It's his palates.

And this is where he has his plays and his power play where he invites all his friends to walk down the red carpet into the Kennedy Center.

He's going to bring the Kennedy Center back.

Oh, yeah.

I'm surprised he hasn't renamed it the Trump Center.

Well, entertainment zone.

Yeah.

How

could he keep at the Kennedy Center, right?

I know.

So here's the thing, you know, the first big play for him is one of his favorite plays, Les Miserables.

Oh, really?

Okay.

So Les Miserables.

Yeah, I'm just like, Les Miserables.

I don't remember that.

What, what's a story of Les Miserables, right?

Okay,

so do you know?

I don't know.

Yeah,

it

is.

You said lame is Rob?

What?

What did you say?

Lame is Rob?

Yeah, yeah.

Lame is Rob.

Lame

is Rob.

Lame

is Rob.

And this is the big play and he's talking it up.

He loves the music in it and apparently he's played some of the music from Lame is Rob.

at his rallies, okay, but what is it about?

This is the big, he loves this play.

All right, so anyway, it's about inequality and social class issues.

It's a set in France, a five volume novel, explores the struggles of people in the lower class and how they grapple with unfair treatment.

So this is his favorite play.

Talking about the...

the lower class and their struggles.

Well, thank you.

Thank you.

So it's just like a tip on how to make them

more

miserable.

I don't know.

Maybe so.

You know,

it just seemed like the wrong play and I'm just, I'm done,

you know.

It's a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, you know, the plays based on that.

Right, right.

Published in 1862.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Maybe we can talk to Julie Belschner about this in a little while.

She's in the theater, you know, from the Redbud Players Community Theater group.

I bet she knows.

We'll

talk to her.

Here's another description offers a profound meditation on the power of kindness Not just as an individual virtue, but as a catalyst for change both personal and societal So there you go.

That must be what Trump is actually doing with our country.

I'm sure

Good morning, that's John Peterson.

I'm Gordie Young.

Lee is in the producer's chair.

It's kind of draining, drizzly.

You know, we need to

mention the weather is

kind of crummy.

Yeah, I would call it mist.

It's mist.

It's misting out there.

Misty Drizzle.

Yeah.

Remember her?

She was great in Vegas.

She had an actress.

She was killed.

Mr. Drizzle was fantastic.

She killed.

Great pole dancer.

Yeah.

Fabulous.

Um, and it's playing misty for you this morning.

Oh, yeah.

Remember that movie?

Oh, did you see play misty for me?

Yes.

Yes.

Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walters.

Oh my God.

Have you ever heard of that movie now?

I have heard of it, but I've never watched it.

But I do love Clint Eastwood.

Yeah.

Well, he

plays a jazz DJ

at a

station

in... In a

maniacal fan who goes after him, right?

Yes.

It's almost... It's scary.

It reminds me a lot of Catherine who pursued us to do this morning show.

Oh my god.

She's

gonna

call in soon for that.

Just watch.

You can take that one.

I'm

always trying to find a way to get her to respond to the

show.

Oh, she's gonna respond now.

You think so?

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Lynn out in Golden Valley says the miserables.

Let me guess.

That's the way you would say it in English.

Okay.

Thank you for

that.

We should ask Julian.

Oh, Julian?

Well,

Julian was a French play.

Yeah.

So,

you know, you're

right.

I don't think we have him available at the moment, but we'll try.

It's 57 degrees currently.

What is your WMDX watch, say the Samsung watch?

Let me just tell you right away.

Sunset tonight is 833.

It's getting later and later and later.

Here it

is.

Currently 58 degrees.

Okay.

High of 78 today.

Really, 78.

And a low of

51.

But I can tell you one thing, I feel the dew points, and they're up there.

It's very humid out there.

Yeah.

Do we have the bar dice available there, Dom?

Do you have those standing behind you?

I think we do.

It's right next to the beer.

It's right next to the beer.

Let me go check it out real quick.

OK.

Go ahead and roll them and slam them.

Let's go.

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Oh, I don't know.

I don't remember the crown.

It's a seven and a three.

Our dice have a seven and a three.

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Yeah.

And, um, you know, we'll, uh, as we go along, we'll check.

I guess Brittany is not going to be with us again.

Yeah.

Must be really into the weather.

Yep.

Well, there you go.

And that's, that's a hard, it's a hard thing to be when you're a weather person.

Yeah.

Okay, shall we check the, let's find out what happened on this date in history.

Tom, do you have anything for us here?

There we go.

All right.

In 1974, beer was sold for actually 10 cents during beer night.

1974.

Yeah, 1974.

The Cleveland Indians.

It was intended to kind of boost attendance, but instead it just became a riot.

Yeah.

And people were intoxicated, and the game ended up being forfeited.

That's clean.

That's why we

don't see too many of those 10 cent beer nights.

You ended there.

And then in 1896, we're going way back, Henry Ford drives his first Ford through the streets of Detroit.

Pretty plain and

simple there.

That must have been a great day.

It

must have been.

And then in 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed the women in the right.

vote mm-hmm 1919

yeah that seems incredible you know that they didn't have the right to vote I mean when I when I first found that I just wow yeah well it's incredible

they still haven't passed the equal rights amendment well yeah that's incredible

you know

you pay for some

reason they're holding back on that night

They say it passed.

I mean, Biden had said it passed and he was going to put it in place, but I don't remember.

No one knows.

No one knows why it's still not enforced.

Okay.

Any

birthdays for today there?

Birthdays.

Yes,

birthdays.

I

got

two birthdays here.

We got Russell Brand.

He was an actor in Despicable Me, which I really like that move.

Anybody a

fan of...

Russell Brand anymore.

Boy, he's noxious.

Okay, let's

go on to

Angelina Jolie.

It was fantastic.

Yep, Angelina Jolie

as well.

She's a great actress.

What a great

actress.

I was just sort of this little thing and you talked about Henry Ford drives the first Ford through the streets of Detroit.

Right.

It's Henry Ford who put us on this wrong path.

with gasoline

engines, yeah.

They were going with electric there.

They

started off

that way, but he was convinced by the lobby from the energy industry.

I don't know how much power they had at that time, but yeah, he went with gasoline.

And

here we

are today, controlled by big oil.

And nothing's really happening on the National Day calendar today.

It's

National Hug Your Cat Day, you know, for all you cat people.

It's actually National Cheese Day today.

So that, you know... Well, that's big here in Wisconsin.

That's really big.

That's a big deal.

It's National Cognac Day and National Old Maid's Day.

Wow, that still exists.

Go back to National Cheese Day for a moment.

I feel like we've been talking about cheese for the past three days.

I know.

Vita cheese and then, you know, cheese today.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

We're in a cheese roll.

A cheese roll.

There you go.

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It's John Peterson, Gordy Young in the morning in that song.

Great song.

No, not really.

Sir Robert.

It is, but, you know, we don't play the lyrical version of it because it's a, well, you know, it's kind of dated.

Music to watch girls.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah, that's not something to do anymore.

It's

that's called

harassment.

Yeah,

six twenty three.

It's cloudy.

It's a little rainy out there this morning and 57 degrees highs in the 70s and We welcome Julie Belschner in from the redbud players of community

community theater group that's in Columbus.

Julie, thanks for coming in this

morning.

You're welcome.

Hello, John.

Good morning, Gordy.

Hello.

We love Columbus.

It's a great little town, you know, great history and historic buildings there.

It's just wonderful.

I was only there once, but I was there when they had a brewery.

still

still have it has a long history of breweries

actually yeah

and there's still you know there's there's still the brewery buildings there there's just a lot of you know really cool things awesome parks

so

it's a great place to live

yeah so tell us a little bit about your redbud players community theater group and

what you've got coming up here?

Well, unbelievably, this is our 26th year.

Amazing.

I know.

I have not been with it that long, but it's been around for quite a while.

Kind of sunk down a little like everybody did during COVID.

So we're kind of in a rebuilding phase.

So we've got coming up auditions for Charlotte's Web.

and that's going to be from 6 to, let me make sure I said that right, yep, 6 to 8 p.m.

June 16th and 17th.

And

that's gonna be at the

Columbus Middle School.

So these are open auditions?

Open auditions.

Yeah, we're

looking for adults, teenagers, kids, eight and over.

I

know you had these before.

What kind of people turn out for these auditions?

You know, it's amazing.

And we had like, last year a young kid came in, he's like a junior in high school.

Never.

been in a play before in his life had no idea what he was doing.

He ended up being the star.

We

did.

Yeah.

Yeah, we did the play last year and he was Aslan,

which is the

lion, right?

And these kids just bloom.

I mean, they start out being nervous and scared.

And by the end of it, they're just amazing, full of confidence.

And that's

pretty much what the group

is doing

at is helping kids.

Did he go on to an acting career?

Well, he's just, he's just a senior this year.

But we have a couple of, there was one who, he

was

so funny, a young kid and just gets into every role he's in.

And yeah, he, his goal is to be an actor.

So we've got some great actors

in our group.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did they come from all over the

area?

They do.

We get them from, you know, even from down by Madison.

because it's, you know, it's only 20 miles to Columbus, but still, you know, it seems like a ways, but all the little towns around, we pull in actors and both adults, kids.

Now, it sounds like kids.

I mean, what age do you think most of the cast members will be around?

Well, and I spoke to the director, Carla's director, she has a lot of years experience being

a

director.

She's a teacher.

And she said she's looking for

probably, um, six to eight adults.

Unlimited pretty much a number of kids because

you can always put, they call

it a choir.

It's not really, they don't sing, but they have like a bunch of kids on the side doing extra

things.

And so, yeah, we're looking for a lot of people, but yeah, six to eight PM, June 16th and 17th.

So I understand you also have a summer camp for kids.

We do.

And this has been going on again for many, many years.

It's held in Fireman's Park, which is the big park in Columbus.

And it's a week long.

They spend,

of the fourth through the eighth.

And that last day, then they put on a play for friends, family, whoever'd like to come.

So you should have a really good attendance at

that.

And you're not only looking for actors, you're looking for people behind the scenes, right?

Production people, I mean, they don't have to help build things.

And I'm

kind of the vice president, but I'm also the marketing person.

And

so the

first thing I'd say is I could use a marketing assistant.

There you go.

I have one.

I could

use more.

But no, we need people to build sets.

We need people to do makeup, to do hair, or even just come help with the little kids.

You know, they need somebody to kind of, you know.

heard them around the corral.

How young are we talking

about?

We try not to go below eight years old.

Occasionally we do, but, you know, and it's not that you can't find a good actor, but we aren't really babysitters.

So,

you know, it's

kind of hard to have little kids running around.

So.

So the auditions for the fall production, Charlotte's web or June 16th and 17th.

Yes.

And then the actual production is in the fall.

Yeah.

So the actual production is always at the internet always, but we've been doing at the end of September.

Um, so we're doing Friday, Saturdays and Sundays and Sundays we do a matinee that we open up at $5 each for anybody who wants to come just to give more people an opportunity to see the play.

So Charlotte's web is about what?

Um, sure.

That's what it's, it's based on that classic book by EBY where, you know, Charlotte is the, is like, I'm going to get this backwards.

Charlotte is the spider

and

they have what were the pig.

And so they have this whole thing going on at the farm and it's just, it's a really great kids play, but it's also one that adults enjoy.

So, um, we try to get something that, you know, will resonate with a large number of people and it does.

So it's going to be fun.

So, Julie, you just have a minute left here.

If people want to find out more or maybe get some tickets or get more information about what you're up to there in Columbus with the Redbud Players Theater Group, how do they do that?

Best thing is to go on Facebook and just search for Redbud Players.

It's Facebook slash Columbus Redbud Players.

Do you need a couple of old guys in the play?

We desperately do.

Really?

Yes.

Do we get costumes and stuff to put on?

Oh, you get costumes.

You

bet.

You know, we'll make you look really good.

We'll talk.

I want to be a wizard.

Do they have that in Charlotte's web?

Oh, yeah.

You know what?

We can put one in.

Julie, thanks for coming in.

Welcome.

Thank you for having me.

And break a leg with the Red Buds Players Community Theater Group.

We will be back with Idiocracy.

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

Morning.

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 ball of 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.

All the time.

All the time we prove it over and over and over again.

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Right now it's 57 degrees here.

All right, before we get to any of the idiocracy, let's go with the current idiocracy that's going on right now.

This, I thought, was, and it is just headlines, the White House is approving disaster funds.

for those states that are requesting it.

But they're not telling FEMA.

Well, wait a

minute.

They're not telling

them?

No,

they're not telling them.

Well, that's the way that goes.

I

know

there's a story in there, simply.

They're not talking.

Just use

your imagination.

All right.

And you know, and here's the thing.

Trump thought he had this whole Ukraine Russia thing.

Oh,

yeah.

Solved and done.

Peace was on its way.

He was

going to solve it in one day.

And then he kind of admits that Putin is a little hard to work with.

Right.

And he's not cooperating, right?

And it's almost like an epiphany for like a discovery.

He

thought they

were

buddies.

Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

They could work it all out.

So now, you know, the headline is Trump.

Complain's President Xi is hard to work with.

No, China?

You know, I'm just like, did you not know this?

What did he think that the power of his personality would convince these people to work with us and kowtow to Trump's line?

It's not

like he didn't work with them before in the first term.

I mean, he had some communications with them.

He must have known how they

are.

But he's, he's discovering the Putin's hard to work with.

And now she is hard to work with.

Well, maybe it's, maybe it's you, baby.

Maybe people don't like working with you.

Mr. Trump.

Okay.

Because he's flip-flopping like a pancake on a Sunday morning with these tariffs.

That's right.

They bunced the tariffs off again on steel, right?

Oh, yeah.

From 25% to 50%.

So that'll raise

prices on just about everything you can think of out there.

So that's going to happen.

All right.

All right.

Well, you know, they're making a lot of changes, you know, with social security and Medicaid and Medicare.

They're doing a lot of little, little...

I had a little twig, what do you

call it?

Tweaks?

Tweaks, that's it.

Tweakies?

Tweaks, and

they're

making those little tweaks here and there, and everybody knows Chris Sanunu, he's a politician, and he has a comment about kids accepting what?

The Republicans are thinking of doing right now, and I just want to play this cut 131 and and and and Chris Inuda had this to say and I'm wondering how many young people are going to agree with this comment.

You said

131 daily show Trump debate

Hillary

Okay, uh,

no, perhaps not.

Yeah, hang on.

April?

April.

Going back to the April file.

Going back to the

April file, okay.

You're gonna have to give me

a

second

here.

All right, we'll get you going here in a moment.

I have to differentiate that because, uh, I was kind of, you know, going over some of the stories that I thought were really, really interesting and last a long time.

Right.

And when you have Republicans saying that, oh, the kids will like this, uh, that stays with you.

So are you fine in it?

Searching for yep.

We're trying to try to find it.

Okay, Sununu Coming up by the way after seven o'clock.

We'll reveal the next keyword in our Scani summer Yeah, text-to-win contest.

That's coming up.

I can't tell you until after seven o'clock Just explain this to you

every day.

All I'm asking for is just a hint.

I'm not telling you, you know the

spelling or anything like that

Actually, I it's it's sealed in an envelope.

I don't open the envelope

I can't open the envelope until after seven o'clock.

Okay.

All right.

Get the

envelope.

Well,

yeah,

I'll just, I'll let you go with that one.

That doesn't set right with me, but okay.

Okay.

Dom, did you have

any luck finding that yet or no?

Thank you.

I ended

up finding it.

I didn't end up finding it in the April file.

Sorry about that.

All right.

No, that's fine.

It's all

good.

I'll tell you that next time.

But actually, I can make a copy of it and put in our current folder.

So, you

don't

have

to do this, but I did not do this this time.

So,

just to give you a hard time, you're new.

Make you panic and sweat a

little bit back there, okay?

So, refresh us.

What are we about to hear again?

Oh, I

don't know.

Listen to us

saying

that people, the kids especially are gonna really love the Republican plans for Medicaid and Social Security and Medicare.

Oh, they'll just love everything that's being changed.

Let's listen.

You can't.

Do what Elon is saying he's doing without touching the programs that American people don't want to get touch and

yet Congress doesn't want him to get touch Americans will accept

it.

I don't

think I'm young.

Wow.

That touched off

a firestorm there.

It really

did.

Here's the thing, you know, they always, magas seem to always know what the public wants.

And they always say that, you know, the public wants this, you know, people are asking for this, you know, I'm so tired of that ploy.

Yeah.

No.

It

doesn't work that way.

They haven't really asked for any of that stuff.

But anyway, that's Kristen Nunu.

Thinking that the young people, the Gen Zers, will just kind of go along with everything that's going on right now.

Sure.

You know, they are so rebellious.

My kids are so angry about all of this, you know?

Yes.

I have to prevent them from going out to get firearms and bombs.

No, God,

no.

Don't go that way.

Yeah, that's what

I'm saying.

And I, you know... It's not good.

We've got...

Basement full of fertilizer now.

I'm just

oh

no, no, no Okay, let's get into this story, okay It's very possible that doge may end up costing the federal government now I mentioned this to you the other day and

I

found this story Because I couldn't find it.

I thought where is that?

Where did I see

that?

But he caught up cut all

these

programs and let go of all these people How could it cost more than well doge

claims don't you heard?

the clips, but Doge claims that they've saved about $160 billion.

That's a lot less than the two trillion that he said he was going to find.

But that effort may have come at the cost of taxpayers with analysis from the nonpartisan research group estimating that Doge's actions will cost about $135 billion this year.

So we're looking at what Elon is telling us, $160 billion savings.

We can't really verify that, but it's going to at least cost the government $135 billion just to pay for all of this nonsense.

Absolute, complete nonsense.

And it's cost to Elon, a lot of stock at Tesla.

Oh, yeah.

You know, they've had a lot of problems since he wasn't around, so maybe he can get back on track with there and, you know, help out his own company.

Well, that's what I'm

thinking, right?

Because, you know, we're worried about him.

How much money he's lost personally.

Well, you know, in Europe, again, Tesla is having a really difficult time.

And having him back at the head of Tesla.

I don't think that's a good idea, but he thinks, well, you know, people will just love him for

who he is in charge,

right?

He's got the money.

So maybe you can do his Nazi salute for everybody

to see how

that goes over again.

They'll like that.

Or how about this?

This is again, this is idiocracy.

The mega minority is canceling out what the voters are deciding they want.

as government.

Despite Missouri, this is Missouri's problem over there, despite Missouri voters overwhelmingly approving a ballot measure guaranteeing paid sick leave and minimum wage increases last November, the state Republican Party passed a law repealing the provisions just days before it went into effect.

So there you go.

Anybody want to vote for these guys who are countering what the public actually voted in and want All right now the Missouri GOP passed a similar bill that will repeal reproductive rights in the state which voters also decided to protect via a ballot measure last November Missouri Republicans have blatantly criticized direct democracy

in the state.

What?

They don't want the people having control.

They want the control.

Wow.

They got a control problem.

Just

saying

it out loud,

huh?

Yeah, and

that's happened everywhere.

You know, we had, we have a similar thing about sick leave in Milwaukee.

They had a referendum there and they passed it in Milwaukee head.

paid sick leave.

And then the state legislature filled up with jury-manded Republicans decided that, you know, it's not good having a patchwork of laws

all over

the state.

You know, let's

have just one big one, although they do like local control.

Do they?

Anyway, so then they passed a law banning any community from passing these kinds of referendums.

No kidding.

Yeah.

So you really can't do this anymore.

They have controls.

GOP.

They love local control, though.

Hmm.

All right.

That's what it's all about.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

How about this?

Uh, uh, Mexican security chief confirms a cartel family entered the U S in a deal with Trump.

Oh, wait a minute.

Yeah.