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.
Damn.
And it got out the varnish and they varnished everything up and
You always look
good as new.
Well, yeah.
But we were supposed to have the unvarnished truth.
So I'm not quite sure what we're going to have to strip it now.
OK.
We'll strip it down and bring you the unvarnished truth as we always do each and every morning.
Good morning, everyone.
I'm in such a good mood.
Happy time.
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, that's
unusual on a Monday morning.
That's not gonna happen.
No.
Wow.
Yeah, all weekend.
All of this stuff going on in LA.
I mean, seriously, San Francisco, you know, it's just a big mess.
It's just a big mess.
As Gavin Newsom, the governor said, we didn't have a problem until Trump got involved.
Yes, it's been a busy weekend in California.
Yeah.
And in Los Angeles specifically.
But we'll have much more in that coming
up.
Was it like that for the Gay Pride Parade in Milwaukee?
Were they protesting the immigration thing?
No, I didn't see any of that while I was there.
But it was a good turnout until the rain came and then kind of scared a few people off.
But the
rain
started right when the parade was starting.
Beautiful.
Really
kicking in.
Was that like a lake effect rain?
No, it was a cold front that was pushing through.
Then the rain for 20 minutes, 30 minutes,
whatever it
was, then everything went back to being okay.
Well, that's good.
I was going to go and then there's a little story behind that.
Oh, really?
Yeah, halfway there.
I think it was about an hour in, heading to Milwaukee.
My car just gave up and so the check engine light went on and then I parked on the side of the interstate.
Wow.
Yeah.
Did you have insurance?
Did you get a tow and everything like that?
I just put it in, I just put it in, I stopped the car and then I just waited five minutes, called my parents, freaking out, and then I turned the car back on and no check engine lights, and then I went to a gas station.
It was good from there.
Do you have to top off the oil or anything like that?
No, nothing, everything was good.
I don't, I'm using my roommate's car right now though.
Ah, okay.
So you're getting yours
checked out?
I'll have to get mine checked
out, yes.
Oh, good.
Oh, they had a good turnout in Milwaukee.
Yeah, sorry, you couldn't make
it.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was okay.
We had our civic media unit in the parade, and it was
a good turnout throughout the parade.
Well, that's good.
It's good to see in here, you know.
I mean, we did this last year.
It was a big
event.
Yeah.
And it was all, as far as I know, it was peaceful.
So.
I didn't say, I mean,
it's a big parade.
Yeah.
Oh, is it really a big
parade?
Oh, God, yeah, it's huge.
Does
it go down the avenue,
Wisconsin Avenue?
Over 200 units.
I don't know Wisconsin.
I don't know Milwaukee.
Oh, OK.
So I couldn't give you the parade round.
OK.
Sorry about
that.
You're right.
You're right now.
You know, maybe it's Farwell Avenue.
Maybe it's Prospect Avenue.
Maybe that's what the parade.
All I know is it goes through several different neighborhoods.
Went
down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Probably not downtown.
I
would assume not downtown.
I
don't
know.
You know, being able to walk in myself.
Yeah.
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a Milwaukee.
Are you remember that?
No.
The, uh, uh, no culture, culture club takeoff.
I'm,
I'm a Milwaukee.
We'll have to see if we can dig that out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's probably out
there somewhere in the internet.
Mm hmm.
Well, here it is Monday morning, 10 minutes past the hour.
It's a bit cloudy out there this morning.
It is.
We might get a sprinkle or a scattered shower.
Not much there, but...
Not quite sure how long that smoke is going to be pouring down from Canada.
Right.
No, it depends on the direction of the wind.
Yes, that's true.
So we'll see what happens with that.
It's going to stay kind of cool today.
All right.
What are we going to do to check the afternoon high?
Do we have the roulette wheel standing by the weather roulette wheel?
Yes, we do.
Well, why don't you give it a spin?
Let's see what's happening here.
Yes, the afternoon high, I know it's going to be cooler than normal.
So let's see.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Black 65.
65.
Wow.
What is
the
number?
What is your
WMDX watch?
The Weather Watch says 65, too, is a predicted high, low, around 53 tonight, and currently around 56 degrees.
What time is sunset tonight?
Do you have that handy?
Well, that's a damn good question.
You're really on this thing, you
know?
I got to know the sunset.
I just,
you know, it's
something I...
It really bothers
me.
Now if you have the
gazebo out,
sit out there and
watch the sunset.
Well, I can't see the sun from where the gazebo is.
Well, you can paint a picture and say that you can.
836
sunset time.
All
right, good to know.
We have our
Our second week of the 2025 Scotty Summer Text-to-Win Contest, we'll tell you what the keyword is in the seven o'clock hour.
I'm sure you can't give us a little hint here.
Well, I could, but I'm not going to.
A clue?
Yes, I could.
Starts with... In theory, I could tell you that, but I'm not going to.
By the way, want to remind you of...
We have the poll up on the WMDX radio website.
If you go to WMDXradio.com, this is a new thing that we have.
There's a poll there.
And the question on the poll is, what is your favorite summer event in downtown Madison?
And you have your choices of Art Fair on the Square, Farmers Market, Madison Night Market, Concerts on the Square.
By the way, Madison Night Market is this Thursday from five to nine downtown State Street.
We'll be there.
It's gonna be a good time.
And let's see, so far in the poll, the farmers market is in first place, Madison Night Market second place.
And then it's kind of a tie for third place, Art Fair on the Square and Concerts on the Square.
But you can go there and vote.
Just go to wmdxradio.com, check it out.
And we'd like to know your thoughts.
What's your favorite summer event in downtown Madison?
Well, the least favorite on this poll is the Art Fair on the Square.
So if you're a big supporter, get out there and vote.
Well, I mean, it's tied with concerts on the square.
Yes,
yes, it is.
I know.
Well, it's a tough choice, because all of those are great events, you know?
You're right.
They're all
fantastic events.
I'm so glad I didn't say how much I dislike concerts on the square.
Really?
Why would you not like that?
It's a very pleasant gathering.
Actually, it is.
It is.
I just think...
Yes, sitting on the lawn is not
it's like a picnic
not your idea of fun No, it really is walking through the crowd people on their blankets.
Hmm.
No doesn't doesn't throw me at all
Okay, you're curmudgeon again.
Yeah, I am.
Yeah, let's see
Anything happening in the history books there, Don?
Let's check it out.
What do you have?
Let's let's let's check it
out.
Yeah.
So we are 1934.
Well, what about what happened to the calendar?
All of a sudden, you know, we skipped that.
That's
no
one.
No one cares about the calendar.
I know that.
But I just want to know what we're missing.
That's all.
All right, would you like to go back to that?
Well,
well, can we?
We can surprise Dom here.
All right.
Let me get his stuff together.
Dom is
startled.
Yes.
It's National Earl Day.
If your name is Earl, this is your day.
Oh, that's all I know about
that.
They're not a lot of people are named
Earl.
I can't think of anybody off the top
of my head.
I know a kid in a grade school named Earl, and that's
about it.
Same here.
Yeah.
I wonder what ever happened to him.
It's national strawberry rhubarb pie day.
Oh, yeah.
Strawberry rhubarb pie.
Yeah, they try to drown out the taste of rhubarb with strawberries.
No, I like rhubarb a lot.
I don't think you need the strawberries, but a lot of kids don't like the, the, it's kind of a flat taste for
rhubarb.
So they
spice
it up with the
strawberries.
I'm not a fan of rhubarb.
Oh yeah, I got this great rhubarb cake.
rhubarb yellow cake.
It's just unbelievably good and you don't have to do anything at all.
You got to bring that in this week.
No, I'm not going to do that.
I'm not cooking for you guys.
I'm already doing that for two guys at home.
Well, doesn't Anne do some cooking too?
She does almost most of it, but she's working on a book and she's on a tight.
Deadline so I've been doing everything I can to fill in good for you.
Okay, Dom Let's get to the history books here because we have Pam Yankee waiting for us.
I think in a few
minutes.
You're correct So yeah in 1934 Donald duck duck made his first appearance on TV He wasn't on TV in 1934.
Oh, yeah, I guess no.
Yeah, no actually no short animated film the wise little hen
1934, yes.
Yes, there you go.
Nice little hint.
Wow.
You're
gonna have to take his word for it, Gordon.
You're just so skeptical.
I didn't trust myself there.
And then in 1902, the first quote-unquote vending machine was made in Philadelphia.
But it was really bad back in, I'm sure, back in 1902.
1902.
What were they selling in vending machines back then?
Boy, I don't know.
That's weird.
Okay.
All right.
Birthdays?
Yeah, birthdays.
Gary.
Yeah, Gary Stark weather.
He was the inventor of the laser printer Wow, thank thank goodness.
Yeah, he came up with a printer out
that You know printed out stuff that does melt in the rain.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, I just I just hate ink jet Yeah, you can't they always just blur get wet
What a mess.
A couple
other birthdays.
Yeah, we got about two more.
We have Johnny Depp, 1968, you know, Rango and all that stuff.
And then David, I don't know if I'm saying this last time right, but Cope, David Cope, he was a writer for Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones, all the other stuff.
So that's pretty cool.
You know, Johnny Depp was with Jeff Beck.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
before you
die.
Let's go to the phones here.
We've got Dick on the line.
Dick, what do you got for so early in the morning?
Yeah, good morning, Dick.
What was the name of that Donald Duck movie?
Yeah,
strange little hen.
Yeah, I think it's called the wise little hen.
Hmm.
Why?
Why wouldn't you even fit nowadays?
Republicans have taught that out right away.
Right.
Yeah.
To
this situation in california yeah right i think this is about a year earlier than i thought marshal law would be uh yeah you know
yeah
throwing out there and i told you a while back what his name is and here it is crisis management created crisis and try to manage it and here we are
yeah
you know and then the best part about all this let's get active duty marines
That suggestion just shows that he has no idea what he's doing in
that
position.
Absolutely no idea.
The
implications of doing something.
He was trying to get on the good side of them, so I had suggested that.
Yeah, I know.
It's just a wonderful idea.
Beautiful idea.
When I just get the tanks out like they do in
China.
Yeah.
Well, we got, you know,
we're going to be
covering this extensively at about 651 or so.
We'll be doing.
Stay tuned.
Yeah, we'll be doing a lot on this.
All right.
Dick, thank you for that.
Thanks, Dick.
Phone lines are open.
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You know, we're dealing with a real intelligent adult person when this guy goes out and he starts tweeting Newscum.
new
scum really that's how he refers to the governor of california's new scum high school yeah i know i know it's so juvenile it's it's mind-boggling and he's president believable unbelievable in case you're wondering who i'm talking about
i think we all guessed it right off the bat all right 19 past the hour just getting rolling on a uh monday morning when we come back
here it is here it
is Pam
Yankee
Monday, Monday.
No one likes them.
I know I don't like them.
Mondays are always
a little tough.
Yeah,
a little rough.
Yeah.
We have partly cloudy skies this morning, 56 degrees highs in the mid sixties, 23 past the hour.
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Pam Yaki is with us this morning.
Good morning, Pam.
How are you doing?
Same kind of money as you are.
Yeah.
Did you go to cows on the concourse?
That was happening this weekend, I think, right downtown?
Yeah, we had a couple of different things that were going on this weekend.
Cows on the concourse was one of them.
We also had Salk County, Iowa County, Rock County breakfast on Saturday and Richland County on Sunday.
So a lot of running around.
Plus we hosted
mallards game against the wasa woodchucks on saturday night and out there on the mound so yeah definitely uh not not worried about grass growing under my feet right now as far as activity yeah we've got another big one that starts today not formally necessarily but you guys might even notice that even after either on the air when you guys are heading home there's about 900 FFA students that came into madison early
for their day of service this week the Wisconsin State FFA going to have their 96th annual convention at the Align Energy Center and to do kind of make sure the kids keep their sense of direction on why they're in the FFA about 900 of them came into town early today they are going to be involved in about 13 different projects around Wisconsin everything from picking up trash in the city parks
to going to the Arboretum and helping them pull weeds, spread mulch, stuff like that.
They'll be at the Goodman Community Center at the Ronald McDonald House.
They're also going to be at the Alliance Energy Center.
They want to build 60 beds for children and families in the Madison area.
They're working with sleep in heavenly peace.
They're also going to be collecting twin sheets and pillowcases, stuff to go along with those beds.
And they are going to work as a team
and assemble about 100,000 meal kits for the meals from the heartland.
So we've got a big bunch of kids that are going to be active around the Madison area today.
They've put together, they started this back in 2009.
And since then, just this one day that the kids involved in the FFA dedicate, they've done over 5,000 volunteer hours that they've donated to Madison and the Dane County area just for this one day of service.
Really, it's really cool.
I know my team is going to be following them around today, depending on how the weather treats them.
I mean, sometimes they're at Troy Garden doing things and, you know, it's really a matter of what group put in the request and where the kids want to end or ultimately end up.
But, you know, I bring it up not just because of the volunteer hours, but just stop and think about how much money it costs for these FFA chapters to bring kids in early.
It's transportation.
uh, people got to get co and then you've got hotel e don't, they'll start comp and the opening session i they'll name the office before they all pack up for home.
So like I said, t the Dane County communi kind of happy that the
flowing down to give back to the community that supports them.
Yeah, I was looking it up here.
I
looked up before we came on here and the future farmers of America, basically it's not just for people to want to become farmers or get into agriculture in some way, but it's also a way for them to inspire people to get into teaching, you know, scientific research, all that stuff.
Right.
Today, our FSA advisers, because remember,
If you're in FFA, the teacher has a 12 month contract.
I think I reminded you guys about that before, but when you're involved in FFA, that teacher has got a 12 month contract because they're so busy with the convention, county fairs, et cetera.
And like I said, that's why it's more than just showing animals or being involved on the farm.
It's about food science.
We've got a lot of these teachers that now are team teaching science classes.
back in the high school because there's so much crossover and so much sharing of curriculum really.
So the agriculture instructor a lot of times partners up with the science department and they team teach on a lot of these things too.
Yeah well it's amazing so 900 kids around here for the next few days are helping out and making
their presence
known.
If you drive past the Alliance Energy Center, you'll see a lot of them in formal dress.
This is one of the groups that still, they actually have courtesy corps that patrols the hall to make sure that the kids are properly dressed.
So black dress pants, a shirt for the ladies, and the blue and gold jacket.
And if you've got an officer medallion or something like that, there's proper ways to display that too.
So when they are at convention, every one of those kids
is in official dress.
Yeah.
Blue epiphae jacket black jeans or black jeans, black pants, black skirt.
Well, I
can see by the look on Gordy's face that he wants one of those
outfits.
I do.
I'd love to have it.
It's too late for me to join.
I'll work on it.
Let me see what strings I can pull for
you.
Bam.
Thank you so much.
You have a great week.
You bet, guys.
Talk to you on Friday.
See
you later.
That's Pam Yankee from the Midwest.
Agricultural report, in fact, that's coming up next.
Food and farm for your table.
And then some mediocrity.
Right around the corner 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 fallen shelter right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
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Okay.
All right, let's, uh... Idiocracy time.
Let's get to a little bit of idiocracy here.
Where do we start?
I don't know.
There's so much to cruise from.
Where do we start?
That's right.
Oh, my God.
You know, it's almost too much for for us to handle.
All
right.
Well, you know, I'm starting to get really angry at Trump.
So
really
just starting.
You know, what we
do starting for today,
just say what we do on this program is we pepper in a little Trump for humor.
The guy's a clown.
That's why that's why I play cuts from Trump only because he is so sadly.
Out of touch?
Well, yes.
There's so many choices that I can't actually pick one of them at this moment.
But the thing is, we add him for the humor effect.
And otherwise, but now, I tell you what he's saying and doing in California with immigration is starting to really just really, really make me angry.
Well, it's
dangerous.
And I just don't, I don't want to feel like this.
want to treat him like the clown that he is.
He's
trying to ramp things up.
Yep.
All right, well, let's get to someone we know very well.
It's a standup comedian, Eric Hovde, who ran for Senate against Tammy Baldwin.
Where
has he been
lately?
In a scary event of all time, he lost by just one percentage point.
I don't know how that happened, but this guy, he's challenging Tammy Baldwin in the lake, you know, a lake dip.
Remember that?
Right, yeah.
Wanted her to go in and have a dip in the lake in the middle of winter.
What a challenge and what a brilliant.
brilliant mind.
Anyway, Eric Hovde, multiple sources are saying, and this is according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the talks have included Hovde being a part of the administration.
not just a part of the administration.
The administration wants to send them out of the country, which is a great idea.
As a foreign ambassador, please do this for us all.
Where's he going to go?
Now, we haven't seen anything with Eric Havde in recent memory only because he lives in California, right?
Wants to run run here in the state now as governor.
So he's going to be a leading candidate for governor according to the right wing.
This is what qualifies him, living in another state.
Yes, come to Wisconsin and control our state from California.
But the administration wants to send him somewhere?
Yeah, they're
talking to him and the rumor is that he might be an ambassador.
But they don't say where.
No.
OK.
No, they don't.
It's just a rumor.
But you know, he's deeply in a real estate.
Right.
So maybe he'll go to Greenland.
Maybe.
It works some deal there.
Maybe, you know, develop Greenland somehow.
Or the Gaza Strip.
Could be.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Special ambassador.
What is it?
The Riviera?
The Riviera of the Mideast.
There you
go.
All right.
Now let's get to Ron Johnson.
When he celebrated Veterans Day.
Okay.
Memorial Day, rather.
This is what he said, we all owe a deep debt of gratitude on the finest among us to serve and sacrifice over one million pay the ultimate price to defend our freedom on this Memorial Day, let us honor them.
So the thing is, Ron Johnson is a sociopath.
His words are just words.
As ex poster kid Riles explained about Ron Johnson and his wonderful sentiment, you worship a rapist who called the fallen
suckers and losers.
You spent our nation's birthday in Russia.
You moved your family business to China.
You voted against health care for veterans.
Your words mean nothing.
You sicken me.
And I have to concur.
I just, yeah, put to...
puts a fine line So and I want to get to that one thing about China, okay China may be mega's biggest economic enemy, right
but
not for the Johnson family This is what Bruce Murphy from Urban Milwaukee wrote recently Johnson himself benefited from a family connected companies cozy deal with China according to a story in the Guardian
Johnson made $57 million in income in his first 10 years in office, and that wealth was boosted by another company owned and managed by his family in China, acquired businesses in China, and took tens of millions of dollars in loans from the Bank of China.
This is the guy who's working against China, right?
In one case, the company run by Johnson's family sued the US government.
to try to press them for softer trade relations with Beijing.
So putting it in perspective, Johnson is making a lot of money from China.
57
million.
Yes.
Big time.
This
is a big bank.
Yeah, that's good.
And of
course, you know, they made a tax deal here that benefited his family and they've got what they've got ski lodge cabins all over the country.
Hmm serious Wow, that's amazing.
It's a
it's a guardian had that it's a tough
life Yeah, yeah, I love the fact that he's made 57 million dollars his first ten years in office isn't
it odd?
Well,
that's odd Well, that's a lot of
money not be that much
he must be getting a paid a lot of money Would you think you would think so yeah as a senator?
That's
my
first acknowledgement that he's a senator.
Mark that on the calendar.
Got this guy's a joke.
What a
clown.
Okay, here we go.
Well, okay, now you know that he's made all that money.
Well,
he's been a senator, right?
Mike Johnson argues Congress needs stock trading to support their families due to frozen salaries.
See there, the Congress members aren't making enough.
The senators might be the ones making all the dough because as we know, 57 million dollars this first 10 years, not bad.
Somebody should talk to Ron.
Anyway, but
Mike Johnson, they're not related, but here we go.
Yeah, the Trump administration Corruption continues here Attorney General Pam Bondi sold up to five million dollars on Trump media stock on April 2nd the same day Trump announced sweeping tariffs that sent markets tumbling.
I wonder what she knew
what
a
coincidence.
Yes But Johnson said when you adjust for inflation Congress is making 31% less than they made last year.
Oh, it goes
down every year.
If you stay on this trajectory, you're going to have less... Wrap your head around this.
If you stay on this trajectory
of
losing money for Congress people, you're going to have less qualified people who are willing to make the extreme sacrifice to run for Congress.
Can we get less qualified people in Congress?
Is it possible?
You're just there for the money barely
he says at least let them like engage in some stock trading So they can continue to take care of their family to take care of their family.
She's pleading with us.
Please help us take care of our family poor things and yet capital trades which tracks congressional trading has already revealed some startling numbers freshman representative Rob Breznan a Breznan hand
Who introduced a bill to ban Congress from stock trading made over five point six million dollars Wow with four hundred and ninety trades since he was elected last November This
guy
wants to stop Stock trading but
in the
meantime he made five point six million dollars in stock trading since last November get it quick and then make the law yeah Get that money in the bank
Well, okay, you know, he's a Republican.
You got to give him some credit, right?
I mean, Democrats are doing the same thing.
We're taking money from billionaires, even though we want to ban money from politics
completely.
Yeah.
So
it's true.
You work with what you have, I guess, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
It's all about the money.
Well, that's what it's all about.
Yeah.
I always like
Comments from Joe and at the Joe that we talked to on the phone here on the show But this is Joe on X and she writes this about the administration and how dumb it is Trump's pick to head FEMA didn't know we had a hurricane season His head
of
homeland security doesn't know
what habeas corpus is.
His head of the department of education who thinks AI is a steak sauce doesn't know what the Tulsa race massacre was and his social security commissioner didn't even know we had a social security commissioner.
It's just what in what again we're living in a bizarro world.
Everything is upside down and inside out.
Yep.
She continues and All all the while his head of the Department of Defense is drunk texting war plans His head of health and human services is citing studies that don't exist His head of transportation won't fly in or out of at least one of the airports due to safety concerns and the guy he tapped to lead an 18 million dollar terror prevention team
is a 22-year-old former grocery clerk and zero government experience of any kind.
It's
true.
Yeah.
But sure, keep talking about Biden.
Wow.
That's putting it on the line.
Okay.
It's all in
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Yeah.
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It's going to stay on the cool side highs in the mid sixties right now, 56 degrees.
So.
What should we start with?
The situation in Los Angeles.
What are we gonna do?
Okay, I got a web wisdom, I thought, was kind of a way, a good way to start this off.
And this is, it sums up kind of what everybody's thinking.
I know what I'm thinking.
And most of us have been thinking this, I'm sure.
So why don't we just play this?
This is Matt is Superman.
That's the guy.
And this is his thought.
Okay.
So they told you we were getting invaded, right?
They told you we were under attack and that our country was getting taken over.
Follow me here.
They told you that it was the immigrants sending their worst, their crime lords, their gang members, their drug dealers, their grapeists.
They told you all of this stuff.
And as much as we tried to tell you that it's simply not the case, this is simply an over exaggeration.
This is fear mongering.
This is race baiting.
Look at the data.
Look at the statistics.
compare and contrast.
No, it was easier to follow the fear mongering and the race baiting.
It was easier to take the bait and to hate.
And how do they prove their point?
By making sure they were crashing elementary school graduations to get parents.
By making sure they were interrupting the immigration process at the immigration offices to collect the people trying to do it the right way.
To make sure they were busting into kitchens and workplaces and home depots so they could scoop you up right before you were really knee deep in some work.
You realize there's a reason they have to cover their face and you realize there's a reason cities are getting torn apart as we speak.
Because if they were actually doing this the right way, regardless of whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, they would be getting celebrated.
These ICE agents would be getting treated like superheroes if they were actually busting up crime rings and getting away criminals and getting away Grapist and getting away gang members and saving and cleaning up our streets.
They would be getting celebrated.
Instead, they're doing some of the most unethical, brutal and inhumane operations and tactics.
And it's sickening
Shame on you that is it is sickening and I've got a letter by the way This is a an interesting letter from the co-founder of latinas for Trump and we'll get to that in a moment But first I want to get to the post that Donald Trump made untrue social and this is what he wrote governor Gavin Newskim and mayor Bass
should apologize to the people of Los Angeles for the absolutely horrible job that they have done.
And this now includes the ongoing LA riots.
These are not protesters.
They are troublemakers and insurrectionists.
Remember, no masks.
I guess, you know, he can declare laws,
I guess.
No
masks, really.
Is that a lie?
I'm quite sure.
Anyway, the Florida state senator, Ilania Garcia,
The co-founder of Latinas for Trump issued a sharp rebuke of President Trump.
This is what she wrote.
This is not what we voted for.
I have always supported Trump, real Donald Trump.
through thick and thin.
However, this is unacceptable and inhumane.
I understand the importance of deporting criminal aliens, but what we are witnessing are arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings, in many cases, with credible fear of prosecution and persecution, all driven by Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation goal.
She says this undermines the sense of fairness and justice that the American people value.
Boy, I mean that's that.
That's a Trump supporter.
A Trump supporter.
Yes, Latinos for Trump.
Wow.
Yes.
Not anymore.
Yolana Garcia.
Yeah.
State Senator in Florida.
So good luck with that.
Yeah.
All
right.
Kevin Newsom is called, you know, this is a manufactured chaos.
Manufactured chaos and
violence.
And he has also stated we didn't have a problem until Trump got involved.
I mean, they're trying to ramp it up.
They're trying to push a riot.
Exactly.
out of these skirmishes.
Well, then there is even a comment we just saw at CNN this morning that Trump, there's a clip of Trump actually saying we'll get the clip tomorrow, but spitting on ice and military individuals.
You're going to be hit hard if you do that.
According to Trump.
Yes.
Spit.
Right.
Pretty brutal.
Yeah.
But I hope it don't get injured with getting hit by spit.
Wow.
Sounds very dangerous.
Yes, real, real dangerous.
How about this?
2000 National Guard troops is a little bit of overkill.
We've mentioned that, Gavin Newsom says, purposely inflammatory.
The administration described protesters as lawless rioters.
Caroline Leavitt, liar, Caroline Lyre, should we call her that?
Said Trump called in the guardsmen to address the lawlessness.
that has been allowed to fester.
To fester?
What, one or two days is festering, right?
I don't know.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hecks, of course, says he's going to call out the Marines if this continues.
Oh boy.
And let's see here.
Let's play this next cut.
Cut 89.
Can you play cut 89 real quick?
All right, here we go.
Let's play this.
This is Mike Johnson.
that active-duty Marines there at Camp Pendleton, there by San Diego, are on high alert and could be mobilized?
Could we really see active-duty Marines on the streets of Los Angeles?
You know, one of our core principles is maintaining peace through strength.
We do that on foreign affairs and domestic affairs as well.
I don't think that's heavy-handed.
I think that's an important signal.
You don't think sending
Marines into the streets of an American city is heavy-handed?
We have to be prepared to do what is necessary.
And I think the notice that that might happen might have the deterrent effect.
Wow.
Well, I
think
that's just a little outrageous.
A little heavy-handed.
Yeah, a little
heavy-handed.
Just a
little over the line.
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All right, let's get to what's going on out in California.
My son is keeping me updated on this.
That's crazy.
And this is...
This is what he's at least sent me.
I'm watching stuff covering the LA situation and all the streams I can find are basically reporters standing in front of hundreds of cops driving military vehicles and convoys of cop cars around in lines.
And the reporters are saying things like these cops are under attack.
They're not.
There's hardly anybody around.
I remember watching a live stream just
for a few moments anyway of these cops with their big shields and they're all in a line and they're pushing the crowd back, pushing them back.
We're about 12 people in that crowd.
I don't know where they were pushing them or why they had to push them in the first place, 12 people.
Seriously, they're making more out of it than they actually need to.
They just have the people out there, so why not?
Go through the motions, right?
Well, and all of downtown LA has now been declared an unlawful assembly area.
That's by the city of Los Angeles has done that.
But Trump is saying that you need to send in more troops, send in the troops.
That's the latest word.
My son also writes here, reporters are saying that firefighters can't get to fires because the streets are unsafe and the firefighters are being blocked by some of the other streets as well.
And then the LAPD chief is still distinguishing in interviews between peaceful protesters and the ones doing vandalism, which is a low bar, but it's important.
The feds are not making that distinction.
And the LAPD, they're using rubber bullets, they're shooting at reporters, which is normal for them, I guess.
There are actually lots of videos of people taking pictures of the cops randomly shooting people who aren't doing anything.
So that's what's going on.
According to my son, at least he keeps me updated on this thing.
And then I check, I found this story, the House GOP.
Oh, let's, you know, why don't we just play this?
You're gonna hear the voices of Representative Ken Liu, Eric Swalwell, and Jasmine Crockett all talking about this.
This is just what happened in the house recently.
So this is cut 88, cut 88.
Let's check it out.
Okay.
An amendment that says ICE cannot deport U.S.
citizens is batshit crazy.
This should not even be a discussion.
It's not even a question.
U.S.
citizens cannot be deported by ICE.
It's the law.
It's a constitution.
I will be astounded if Republicans vote no on this.
A few moments later.
I'm stunned that I have to tell you this.
Republicans just voted.
every single one of them to allow Donald Trump to deport, deport U.S.
citizens.
They just voted to give Trump the ability, legally, to give him the ability to deport U.S.
citizens.
That is what they voted for.
A bunch of elected U.S.
representatives, that is how they voted.
Am I telling a lie, Eric, or not?
This is always where it was going to go, but that's a dictatorship.
That's a dictatorship.
There you go.
Wow.
I gotta say that a few
moments later thing was pretty funny.
Yeah.
Somebody added that in there.
That's kind of crazy.
But yeah, the Republicans are all on board with what Trump is doing.
There's no distinction between the two.
And of course, allowing US citizens to be deported is important.
And I just unthinkable in so many other ways.
Now, let's go down south of the Cheddar Curtain here for Illinois representative candidate who's also got a comment about ICE.
This is a candidate, Cat Abu Ghazali.
Abu Ghazali.
I can't really see it, but
she
does shorten it professionally.
She shortens it to Cat Abu.
And she's running for Congress and she had this comment is cut 91.
Let's let's listen to what she has to say.
We have to decide are we allowed to have extra judicial gangs go around our communities take people from their homes ship them to God knows where is the president allowed to have his own secret army secret police that can just
take people, hurt people in Chicago.
There was just an ice raid this last week where they tricked people who were following the legal immigration process into coming for a check-in and then arrested them and assaulted protesters and elected officials.
This is beyond the pale.
And just because Stephen Miller wants to get quoted as a brown people that he doesn't want to see on the streets doesn't mean that we should think it's okay.
All right.
Good comment.
That is again a cat Abu Ghazali.
That's how you say it.
And or cat Abu and that's uh She's from promising candidate for Congress from Illinois.
Yeah, she sounds pretty good now I found this headline New York PD and ice mistakenly arrest a Chilean woman in New York City on Vacation and left her 12 year old daughter alone in the street when they took her away This is this is what's happening.
Yeah, this is terrorism.
It's truly is the president's scaring people
terrorism across the United States.
All right.
So now, how about sending troops everywhere?
Now, this is continuing the terrorism alert that Trump is trying to foist off on the American public.
And I think we're all kind of getting the message here.
This is called 92.
Reporter asked Trump about invoking the Insurrection Act to send troops everywhere.
Listen.
We're
going to have troops everywhere.
We're not going to let this happen to our country.
We're not going to let our country be torn apart like it was under Biden and his auto pen.
What's the bar
for sending Marines?
The bar is what I think it is.
I mean, if we see danger to our country and to our citizens, it will be very, very strong in terms of law and order.
It's about law and order.
We're going to see what we need.
We'll send whatever we need to make sure there's law and
order.
That's right.
Law and order.
Sending troops everywhere.
All right.
That was
on the plane last night, right?
Yeah.
That's where he
stumbled?
Yeah.
Where he stumbled?
Yeah.
Yeah, he can't handle himself, I guess.
Yeah.
Let's go to the phones.
He should be claiming board med flight.
Mark, go ahead.
What do you got for us today?
order my ass with him pardoning all those January 6th protesters which is that law and order sir I mean and and as far as wearing masks I will be wearing my mask the protest is coming week then I wear it all the time I got a yellow I get a yellow and blue a mask from Lutma in support of Ukraine they got the Ukrainian colors on it and and they don't like it they can kiss my
yeah
yeah my yes
ever-increasing but that uh
well thanks mark for that descriptor appreciate that thanks guys okay whatever that was
But you
know,
the mask thing is really driving me crazy.
It really is.
You know, we really haven't talked about the mask issue.
But it's okay for all the ICE agents to wear the masks.
Yeah.
Yeah, they don't have to be identified.
They don't have to wear IDs or have any official identification on them.
That's right.
I think I wrote a story on that.
Yeah.
Yeah, Trump decreed he would ban the use of masks by protesters after
two
days of unrest.
Masks will not be allowed to be worn at protests.
What do these people have to hide and why?
They have to protect their families if you need a little hint there, Trump.
The same excuse that you're giving for masked ICE officers.
See, it goes both ways, I guess.
Remember the Boston Tea Party protesters wore masks.
That was a long
time ago.
I don't know.
They should have banned them too.
They should
have banned them.
And they wore the mask because of their employers were pro-government people.
And plus the British crown could go after them if they knew who they were.
So they wore a mask.
Makes sense in many ways.
Now, we didn't wear a lot of masks in the 60s during the war protests.
In fact, I don't believe anybody did.
I don't remember that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anybody wearing masks then?
So, you know, privacy experts say the mask ban is actually a free speech issue, and they should have the opportunity to wear masks or not wear masks if that's what they choose.
Yet surveillance, get this, and I thought this was interesting, surveillance technology has made masks old-fashioned, like stingrays.
that impersonate cell phone towers to track nearby cell phones and masks, or geofence warrants that let law enforcement request location data from companies about all the devices in a certain area without a warrant.
professional social media monitoring firms that maintain scores of clandestine accounts to surveil activists, networks of automated license plate reading cameras, and even gate analysis technologies that can identify someone based on how they walk.
They
say
that's as good as a fingerprint.
That's what they're saying.
No, so you don't really need the mask.
You can just do stuff like that.
That's wild.
Got a comment from Mark.
We just talked to him.
Or
maybe I will haul out my Guy Falks mask that I wore at the Fitz Walker stand protest.
Yeah, I have my own Guy Falks mask.
Really?
Yeah.
It's a great, you
know, you gotta really
see it.
V for Vendetta.
Fantastic movie.
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Good morning, Brittany.
Good
morning.
Good
morning.
Good to have you back.
You
too.
Thank you.
It's good to be back.
It really
is nice to have you back from your sick vacation that you took.
We're glad you're feeling better now.
Yeah, now you're feeling better.
I know the combination of everything that's going on up in Wausau probably contributed to whatever it is you had.
So it's good to have you healthy again and ready to do the weather.
And do us justice down here.
I mean, we're flailing.
We don't really know what's going on in the weather anymore.
Please, please help us.
Update us,
please.
What's going on?
It's up.
It's down.
It's everywhere.
It's unsettled.
It's wet.
It's dry.
We've got it all this week, unfortunately.
We're in the mid fifties, upper fifties right now.
We'll climb to those mid sixties today.
Still a little breezy on the cooler side of things.
Um, spotty showers and small storms are expected to spark up again this afternoon and into the evening.
So some small chances for those.
Otherwise, a high pressure moves in tomorrow and into Wednesday.
So.
Super sunny warming up mid seventies tomorrow mid eighties on Wednesday.
And then we've got another low pressure system that moves in Thursday, Friday and Saturday, of course, bringing more chances for showers and storms.
So a wet end to the week.
Well,
it's been cloudy all morning long, and as soon as you started talking, the sun came out here in
Madison, right
outside our window.
Right on cue.
Yes,
it's perfect.
That's good.
I love that.
Well, you know, we need the rain for all the new plantings that we have around the yard, you know, got to keep them watered.
I was going to say, it's nice to have the rain do it so that you don't have to keep up on it.
And then it's also like a free car wash as it's raining.
So there's so many positives to the rain.
You're so right about that.
I've got a lot of trees, a lot of a lot of flowering shrubs around the house.
And every time I go out to my car, it's covered with pollen.
It's just coated with pollen.
And I needed that rain desperately and everything is fine now.
So today kind of a cool day mid sixties or so and then the rest of the week, the warm up comes back.
Yeah, so little cool still today, decent tomorrow in the mid 70s, nice and warm on Wednesday, but then we fall back down to those upper 60s, low 70s to end the week.
It's a
little bit more crisp and cool, but then by Sunday, we're right back up towards 80 again.
So a little up and down there, but mid week and the end of the weekend, look in the warmest.
Okay,
so
we have the Madison Night Market on Thursday evening.
So how's that looking weather wise?
Unfortunately, we are looking at that low pressure system pushing through that.
And so chances for some scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Yeah.
Well,
it
looks like I
won't
be there.
Well, come on.
No.
I'm sure we'll be fine.
All right.
We'll dodge the raindrops.
That's who we will.
We have a little temp over us anyway.
OK.
Brittany, thank you so much.
So
good to have you back.
We'll talk
to you
tomorrow.
Thank you.
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Yeah, why we can't do that?
What do you mean?
Well, I'll tell you what, instead of, I'm sorry, I was gonna kind of continue with the protests out on the West Coast, but we run out of time.
Why don't we play the song?
that I have up there, okay?
And why don't we just play that song?
Everybody used to love humming to this.
This is an earworm that everybody used to pick up
on.
And by the way,
this is a precursor.
This got everybody involved in immigration.
Everybody suddenly knew how dangerous immigration was.
Let's
listen to this, okay?
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats.
They're eating the pets of the people that live there.
They're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats.
They're eating the pets of
the people that live there.
People love Springfield.
Please don't eat my cats.
Why would you do that?
Eat something else.
Yeah, please.
We will continue with more of Johnny Gordy in the morning.
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In Springfield, they're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats.
They're eating the pets of the people that live there.
They're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats.
Sing along.
They're eating the pets
of
the people that live there.
Amazing stuff, absolutely.
You know, this
kind of got
us into this position in the first place by...
Raising the fear level of immigrants in this country and the odd part of course was Springfield Represented by JD Vance of all people who apparently didn't do a very good job If they were eating pets in Springfield Why didn't you stop it?
This is their representative.
I don't know you know
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Not right.
Let's get back into the the ice problem out there in California.
You know, Tom Holman was asked about the masks.
And I want to play this tough guy.
Yeah, he's a he's a real tough guy.
And I don't think anybody is going to agree with what he's saying here.
But why don't we listen to Tom, his reasoning, his logic behind the mask situation.
Okay.
Tom, I wonder if you can speak to that a little bit.
Explain to us more, help everyone understand the threat that our ICE agents are facing by just doing their job, why they need to wear these masks, and also what actions need to be taken against Democrats who are demanding that they be unmasked.
And what would happen if they do dox them and at least publish their identities?
Look, it's incredible where at a place where the guys, the men and women who enforce law, they're the bad guys and the ones who break up all the victims.
You kidding me?
How come they didn't say anything about BLM?
They were a mask.
How about the protesters on the college campus?
They were protesting against Israel and the Jewish students.
They were wearing masks.
I didn't hear a word about that for what these protesters were wearing masks.
But all you say is they were wearing masks for one reason, because the Sultan Ice Officer is up over 400%.
the Sultan Ice officers.
There are being docks across the country.
And their families are being attacked.
Their families are being docks.
Their families are being threatened.
And I certainly understand that.
I allow death threats.
I've been docks.
My family's been docks.
I understand it.
But they're wearing masks for one reason only.
Protect themselves and their families.
They're doing a dangerous job.
This is already a dangerous job.
They got to wear a gun.
They got a pair of Kevlar vests every day because they're doing a dangerous job every day.
While the rest of
All right, I just want to pause here.
I don't think he realizes that the protesters have a dangerous job as well.
Don't they?
Shouldn't they protect themselves, their identities?
Right.
Not having their pictures out there, sometimes showing up at a job interview, somebody pulling up their picture saying, weren't you here at this protest?
I mean, that's a serious issue nowadays because of surveillance.
So I, you know,
He has a good point for these individuals out there in the streets wearing their masks, although I don't think they should.
I think government, anybody working for the government should not wear a mask.
You know, you signed up for the job.
These are the risks you take, okay?
So no mask for government workers, but certainly for the people protesting if they want to, they can.
Again, in the 60s, no one wore a mask.
Let's go to the phones quick here, and we'll get back to that cut from Holman.
Joe, what do you got for us today?
Oh, I'm just fascinated by this mask issue, and that the president just says, I'm just going to outlaw them, period.
Oh,
yeah.
I'm going
to argue that, yeah, there's some real interesting things that could come out of that.
Number one, put a flag on your mask, and then call it protected speech.
Okay?
Put a prayer on your mask.
Hey, that's it.
That's it.
Perfect.
Yeah, put a prayer on your mask and then just say it's religious expression, you know.
Say, I'm
an old
person, I have certainly taken turtlenecks and rolled up the top of the turtleneck to cover my face in cold weather, as many other people have.
Is that a mask now or is it not?
When I wear a little buff as a fashion accent around my neck and I roll it up over my face, is it a fashion accent or is it political speech?
I don't know.
Isn't it hard to tell?
And I
would add that it would be really great to put the First Amendment on a mask and then you could highlight the parts that are pertinent to this.
Number one, free speech.
Number two, right of assembly.
And number three, the right to petition the government for the redress of grievances.
So I would say that there are a lot of opportunities in a mask and it would be a wonderful quagmire to get into.
Let's have some court cases where we decide when a mask is okay and when it's not in terms of the protesters.
Thanks a lot.
Wow, Joe.
You just broke this open.
Oh man.
Those are really good points.
And you know, you could paint one on.
You could paint a face mask.
Sure.
Like a big clown smile.
No one, no one would recognize you.
Right.
Interesting.
Yes.
That's a good idea.
All right.
You could do that.
Well, there we go.
I love that idea.
Joe, thanks for that
call.
Yeah, yeah.
Now let's continue with Tom Hohman's point of view on masks.
Let's listen.
These people like Hakeem Jeffries are sleeping in his bed at night at 3 a.m., nice and comfortably and safe.
There's men and women of ice on the street.
Okay.
Hold up.
Now he just talked about Hakeem Jeffries.
Right.
Sleeping at 3
AM.
House Minority Leader.
Is he suggesting that maybe somebody should wake him up, visit his home because he's asleep at night at 3 AM?
Is he suggesting some violence against Hakeem Jeffries?
Yeah, that was my impression when I heard it.
Okay, let's continue.
Keep going.
and the death of ICE agents.
ICE agents been threatened or families been threatened.
And we got members of Congress.
You got some judges out there that compare ICE to the KKK, ICE to the Nazis.
You got city council people saying ICE are terrorists.
They're feeding the hatred.
And here's my concern.
I've been doing this for a long time.
It's a matter of time before ICE takes a life.
Or an ice agent loses their life because a rhetoric is at an all-time high and you got the point
Don't you
who should be more responsible?
Elected officials, especially who should we keep firing up this rhetoric?
I'm telling you it's coming There's gonna be a tragedy because they keep for throwing gas on this flame.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, they are
they are
throwing
gas on the flame
really
right I Mean this is such an extreme
attack on immigrants in California that No one's seen anything like this and it was unannounced by the way that that's another issue
Yeah, so governor Newsom didn't call for troops to come in
right
Trump did
yes
the LA mayor didn't want any troops coming in Trump did
exactly
They're the ones instigating all
this and I think you know we had a web wisdom earlier and He brought up the fact that if
They had just gone after the criminals.
That would
have been the best way to do it.
They would be heroes at this point, but instead they set people up, they set up court appointments to have these immigrants come in, they followed the law, the rules, the regulations of our government, they went in, and then they got captured.
It was...
You know, you can't set people up like this.
People who want to follow the law become citizens of this country who already probably have jobs or supporting their community, and then you set them up, you bring them into a court, and then you arrest them.
This is so unfair and I think the American public is getting...
really fed up with this.
And I think that's what's feeding this.
And ICE has everything to do with the fact that no one likes them.
And remember, even before all of this happened, the Democrats wanted to ban ICE.
They wanted to disband it because it was unfair and it really targeted people at a very vulnerable time.
And now they're going into schools, you know, they're going into the courtrooms, they're going into churches.
This is an extreme and no one thought this was going to happen.
I like Monday anymore.
Monday is really bad.
This
is
horrifying.
It's
tough.
It
makes me
so angry listening to you.
I don't know how you're keeping your cool.
Well, like I said, you know, we play Trump for levity on the show.
Yeah.
And now I'm beginning to hate this guy more than anything.
Yeah,
you know
anybody in Los Angeles.
I have friends in Los Angeles We gotta get some of them on the air
you
tell us what's really happening on the ground.
Yeah Well, my son is definitely keeping me updated on this through discord.
So it's good stuff.
I appreciate his help
And the situation is still it's evolving and ramping up.
Yeah.
Well, why don't we let's get to Terry Moran?
He's
A reporter for ABC, you know, he's one of, he's just a, like a very stable, standard, everyday anchor-ish kind of guy in the middle of the road, Terry Moran, you know.
So he put out a tweet that said this, the thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism.
Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualize the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translate them into policy, but that's not what's interested about Miller.
It's not brains, it's bile.
Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.
He's a world-class hater.
You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatred for his spiritual nourishment is his spiritual nourishment.
He
eat his hate.
Trump is a world-class hater, but his hatred only is a means to an end, and that the end is his own gratification.
That's his spiritual nourishment.
That's what Terry Moran, ABC News reporter, he tweeted it.
Now the question becomes, can news anchors, can news people project that kind of opinion?
in print any place or is that maybe the direction that reporters should take in their reporting now and you know stop stop you know being delicate with this issue these people are in our face they're threatening the democracy and we're sitting here saying well we're going to play by the rules uh you know we don't want to really say anything about what they're really saying or doing uh but I think Terry Moran stepped out and he uh
I think it may start a trend of reporters saying what they really think.
So he put out that tweet and then the White House objected and then ABC News has suspended him.
They suspended him.
Yeah.
So there's
where we're at.
Should ABC News have suspended him?
Yeah.
And should reporters or could reporters at least have a little bit of interpretation
in some of their stories.
You know, they could actually report the story and then have maybe a little paragraph in the story itself where they can actually express how they've interpreted.
that.
And I would, I respect what reporters are thinking, their interpretation of it because they're so close to it.
They've seen so much
of
this.
Yes.
Yeah.
So whatever they have drawn as a conclusion should be included in those articles.
I think we, we need to start doing something like this.
Will you already do?
What are you kidding
me?
Well, we're, we're not necessarily reporters
here.
You're in 100% opinion.
Although, although I was called a journalist on CNN.
You were back in the
1900s.
During
the protests for Act 10, CNN had us on me and Vicky McKenna.
We did a show together for about a year.
But anyway, yeah, they introduced us as journalists.
And then Rush Limbaugh called us journalists as well.
So I was very impressed by that.
I'm gonna have to
find that.
I'm
gonna
have
to
find that show.
Do you keep in touch with Vicki?
Oh, yeah.
We are all sending each other cards every once in a while.
Every Christmas.
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You got to like this for the first day of the week.
It's good.
752, seeing a little sunshine peeking through the clouds, highs today, a cool 65 degrees.
I haven't seen the leaf blower guys out there on State Street.
Where are
they?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Might be two or three leaves.
They've
neglected to take care of this morning.
I see a few flower petals out there
that I don't think they've... Got a dust,
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They've managed to move to the streets,
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Okay, just a few minutes here.
Let's go to the phones right away.
We've got Kathy, who's been waiting a long
time.
Well, hi.
Hi, Kathy.
Well, hello, hello.
Thanks for taking my call.
I've been enjoying the show.
This might not be very original, but I just thought I'd come out with a slogan, let's ice, ice.
otherwise known as Trump Trump's Gestapo really
absolutely
and then oh and then I was kind of excited to hear that it was strawberry rhubarb hi-day today I've made a couple recently and people do seem to like them yes so I thought and plus I have all the ingredients for another one really and if I get around to it I might bake one today and deliver you
like three separate pieces of pie in time for tomorrow's show.
You know, if
I could be in
a box.
If I could leave it in a box in the parking lot or something, I know what you're going to address.
Where should I put
it?
Leave it out on the curb in front of the door.
No.
Just kidding.
All you have to do is just
text us, and Dom will take that text, and we'll know that it's sitting out in front on State Street next to our door.
Absolutely.
You can do it that
way.
How's that?
Yeah,
or if you're going to
deliver
it later in the day, the door will be
open.
No, don't do that.
No, we got to get it
here in the day later in the day.
Later today.
No,
in time for tomorrow.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
Yeah, we got a fridge and everything.
We got a refrigerator.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Well, it'll keep for, you know, it'll keep for a day.
But and if you don't like it or take a bite and if you don't, I'll bring plastic for
it and don't
like it.
Pass it on to somebody else.
Kathy, we will eat anything.
We're in radio.
Like if you didn't eat breakfast or if you can save it for dessert or whatever.
That's right.
I'm
trying to do that today.
Laura has dropped us food off as well.
And we have scarfed it down very quickly.
So bring it here and we'll have it in the morning and we'll tell you what we think.
Thank you, Kathy.
Strawberries, if you add it to anything, you
can
just go out into the yard and pull up something and put it in a recipe and just put strawberries on it and they'll eat it.
See?
That's
how you
hide the taste of rhubarb and that's how you hide the taste of anything else that's growing in your yard that you want to get rid
of.
Just add strawberries.
And have
people eat.
Okay.
Just add strawberries.
Good to know.
Thank you for that cooking tip.
Well, you know, just ask John.
That's what
it's all about.
You gotta
bring something in.
You gotta bring something in.
Boy, you have to, you know?
What's that?
Have you talked about what's happening at eight o'clock yet?
Well, it's a little confusing.
We're going to be the guests on Pat Crichtlow's show.
He has a three-hour show instead of a two-hour like we have, and so we're gonna go into that third hour, his hour, and we're gonna...
Be guessed every Monday every Monday
on
the network
Yes, except
on WMDX
Exactly but the only place you are not gonna be is
this the
app they can bounce over to practically any other I choose walk walk a shot.
Yeah, okay, okay
All
right.
Grab that and they can listen to you for another half
an hour.
And that's my first on-air job is in Wauk.
Oh my gosh, that's right.
Yeah, that was my first job.
So, yeah.
They have a plaque there with your name on it.
I understand.
Well, no, they burned the building down because they knew that I started my
career there.
Anyway, yes, check it out.
We'll be guests every Monday with Pat Crite Low at eight o'clock.
That'll be fun.
Yeah.
I love
it.
He wants to know what's going on in Madison.
That's
what you're
bringing.
No, no, that's not exactly.
He's going to talk
to us about
anything we want to talk about.
What you should be Madison.
Oh, oh, yeah.
Okay.
Sure.
All the big stories here.
Go on.
Tell me.
Tell me about the ice agents here in Madison.
Oh
my God.
if that ever
happened.
Wouldn't that be something?
You know, the thing is, it's something we're talking about, but it's so distant, so far away.
Right.
That's why I want to get people from LA to call in or get your family.
I've got to find some people.
But if it were happening here in town, boy, I tell you, all of us would be agitated and nervous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is coming.
It is coming.
It is coming.
Yep.
It is.
Hey, coming up tomorrow on the big show here.
Very positive.
A big thumbs up to the.
last few words of I don't know okay encouragement
on our Tuesday show from the Dane County Humane Society Lisa Bernard will be joining us and coming up on Let's see.
Is it Wednesday that we have Jim in?
Do we have Jim Santel in?
Jim
Santel
is on Thursday Thursday.
Okay, Dave is Wednesday.
Ah, that's it
Of course.
And of course, Thursday night, we'll be at the Madison Night Market.
That'll be a lot of fun from five until nine right
across the street.
I hope we get busted pencils back in Tim Slacker.
Yes.
Because he's been in transit, he's been moving.
He got a new
job.
So I understand that.
But everybody is waiting to hear Tim Slacker and his points of view on education here on the program.
So we hope to have him back on Wednesday morning.
I'm starting to lose, no,
it's
Thursday
morning.
Thursday morning.
Okay.
We'll straighten all this out tomorrow, I think.
Soon as
Catherine comes in here,
thanks for just cares.
Okay.
Stephanie Miller's next.
