Funky Tucks and Falling Beds (Hour 1)

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We are dressed to the hilt here this morning.

You're

you're you're in reverse you're in I'm still in reverse your mirror your camera is mirrored Although mine is the way it should be.

Yeah.

Why is

that?

I think it has to be adjusted on this computer.

It must be Yeah, it

looks okay.

Yeah, it looks fine.

Yeah, but I wonder why I think we never we never had that before huh before this week anyway

Good morning.

Yeah, we've got sunshine this morning.

No wonder I'm confused.

I'm in reverse.

What the hell?

I don't know.

Is it confusing to you?

Now it is.

Okay, well glad I pointed it out.

Seven minutes past the hour and looks like it's gonna be a warm day ahead of us right now 66 degrees.

Do you have your Samsung WMDX watch handy?

Do you know?

What's the afternoon hot?

Maybe.

I always have it handy.

It's on my hand practically.

Let me see

here.

67 degrees currently.

A high around 88 today

in a

low of 60 tonight, even though it was pretty hot over the evening hours here.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, let's use the weather wheel.

I

had the air conditioning on.

Okay.

Roll the wheel and see what.

Yeah.

with our WMDX weather wheel.

You said 88.

This is

84.

Okay, so a little bit of a difference.

It's going to be warm.

It's going to be warm.

It's

sunny.

It's a red 84, right?

It's red.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Yeah, it's red 84.

Hot 84.

That's what it's going to be.

Okay So here it is Wednesday a little bit later on Mike McCabe will join us as he does every Wednesday You know if you're new to the program you may not know that but he's a sub stack author and blogger and He'll be with us and then also Judy David off from Ismus will join us.

Yes.

It's been a while since we

Talk to her, but yeah, we'll find out what's in the latest issue.

They've got all kinds of summertime events in this is what they really do is summer time.

It's all

there to pick up the isthmus because if you

want to

go to an event this month,

it's in

there.

It's in there.

You've got

it.

Yeah.

Yep.

And we'll check in with Brittany Merlot in a little while.

Yeah.

On these on the warm weather and then I guess rain on the way for tomorrow, but she'll tell us more about that.

So what we found out was a producer Dom has a hat on this morning, a sock hat, because he's hiding the injury.

He got falling out of bed.

What?

Overnight, right?

He just outed me.

Yeah.

Okay.

Were you drinking before you went to bed?

No, I was

sober sally, and then I went to bed.

I woke up, could not see anything, and I kind of just did a barrel roll out of bed, and I hurt my leg, and I'm still limping right now.

Oh, no.

So I'm hoping it'll be better in a couple hours, but... Gonna be okay?

Yeah.

Need to go to the doctor?

I might.

Look, see, little background, he's never had a bed that is so high off the...

ground because it has a frame and then a box brand and then a mattress and they make them very very tall at this point

and I'm not tall myself right it's the bed is the size of me so

I

just fall off the bed and there you go so we'll get

those children's guardrails right if we can have somebody donate them they probably still have them around the house they've had kids I

lose my

dignity

And yesterday at my house, I saw my neighbor.

Uh-oh.

She was sneaking up the sidewalk.

You know, my neighbor's two doors down.

Well, they're

afraid to come up to her

house.

There are a couple of incidents, yeah.

No.

But she left.

See what this thing?

I mean, this is obviously, they go down to New Orleans quite often.

She and her husband.

Yeah, that's.

And they, they, I don't know what this is.

What is this?

It says funky tucks.

I'm assuming maybe that's the name of a bar down there.

And this could be their little... You know, I've seen it from a

distance.

I'm thinking hair.

You think

that looks like hair?

And the stars are not breasts, but actually eyes.

I'm showing it to the

camera.

And there's a banner underneath

it.

Yeah.

So I think that's... I don't know what it... Unless, you know, unless your neighbors are listening and can't get to the phone

and text us.

Well, I don't know.

I think

they... Here we go.

We'll go

with that.

We'll go for that right

now.

I think they listen later in the day.

All right.

Anyway.

Oh, really?

They listen on... Yeah.

They listen on the app.

Well, they do.

They listen to the podcast, maybe.

But if they're listening live, they could text him.

From time to time.

Let me know what they say.

They have texted us here in the morning.

Yes.

Funky tucks.

It's the name of whatever this thing is.

It's gotta be a bar.

It's gotta be.

Yeah, I would think.

But it's pretty cool.

Really big beads.

So.

Right.

And very strong beads.

They're not the crappy beads you find around here.

Yeah, those are heavy.

These are professional New Orleans

beads.

Stop.

Yeah, because they certainly make great trinkets.

They

throw a lot of beads in New Orleans, you know, so they got to be good quality, you know, that's true, you know We want to get the desired result.

You want, you know, good

beads.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, good beads from what I've seen online the funky tucks They are the ultimate Mardi Gras experience really.

Yeah, you can discover parade updates events membership perks for New Orleans the New Orleans area, so well, that's it, but it's I don't know.

That's

just

Is it a bar or just like a store?

An

event site?

It's like an event planning site.

Okay.

Yeah.

Weird.

Okay.

Very interesting.

For Marty Gros specifically.

Very unusual design.

I really can't, I don't understand what

that is.

They're really strange down there.

I'll tell you.

I had a hard time maneuvering down there.

Yeah.

But they have, there's a coffee.

Chain down there that

is

just the best really you know, it's like Starbucks up here, but man, they got the best coffee chain down there ever Really don't they know how to make a cappuccino do they

yeah, I Was down there once when I was a kid when I was like five or six years old the family went down there and I don't remember anything of it That's you know just down and down and back that's

All I know.

Yeah, that's a really good

point.

You know, as parents, we try to take the kids and take them on these nice trips.

They don't remember any of

it.

Yeah, it's family vacations.

We're trying to program their brain to understand what it's like to travel and new things.

But, you know, then they don't remember any of it at all.

What a waste.

We could have waited till now

to go on these trips.

And then enjoy the trip with your grown up.

Yeah, kids.

Yeah, that's the way to do it.

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So yesterday I went to the dentist

so the

rock-and-roll dentist Chris Cameron.

You were gonna get a filling maybe?

Well, it turned out to be a lot more than that.

But yeah, I was in the chair there for about two and a half hours Not that I was you know watching the clock, but yeah, it was there a long time

I had a lot to do there, but I was good to catch up with Chris.

He's a great guy.

And I appreciate all his hard work there.

But man, yeah, that was a time.

Well,

a big

shout out back

to Chris for saying hello to me.

Yeah?

Oh, yeah, he said hello to you.

Say hi to John and your new producer, Dominic.

He said hi.

That's great.

He didn't.

He's a great guy.

He knows what he's doing.

I'll tell you that.

He does.

Well, did you get anything done?

I know you were over two and a half hours.

I was there a long time.

Yeah, I had to have a tooth pulled.

Oh, did you really?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

I'm not going to be smiling for a while.

Wow.

But if I'm having a little trouble speaking today, or if it sounds a little different, that's why I'm still recovering.

Yeah.

Because they put that Novocaine.

Well, I don't think they use Novocaine anymore.

And there's some.

some better stuff now, but it takes a while to wear off completely.

So, yeah.

Anyway, good job,

Chris.

Big thumbs up.

And, oh, John, you went to the movies yesterday, was that right?

I did.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

What did you see?

I saw Ballerina, and that is, what do they call it, Inquil?

Think it was an inkwell.

That's what we an inkwell.

Yeah, it was between a couple of episodes of of

What

do you oh not a sequel but

no in between

it in between John Wick movies

and I

can't remember which ones I think maybe two and three but I it really doesn't matter because John Wick was also in ball arena Yeah, the thing is these appearances

are just wonderful and, you know, everybody loves John Wick.

Everybody

loves him.

Yeah, absolutely.

He's a lovable guy,

you know?

I'm

sure.

A lovable... Well, I don't know about that, but yeah.

The wild thing is, if you're not familiar with John Wick movies,

they're very violent, a lot

of killing,

a lot

of... And you know, that affects me because

I don't like

seeing a lot of the... I don't like to see a lot of the extras killed.

Because I'm thinking they have families.

You know, hundreds of people at once.

And I'm

thinking, what about their families?

Are you not thinking he's a brother, sister, or maybe even a dad?

You know, this is his night job.

Right.

So you like the movie.

So I did a big thumbs up for it.

Oh, you know, it's crazy how all these spinoffs of John Wick are so good.

They're so well done.

Same

director for all these movies?

Or they have different directors?

I don't know who they

had

directed these.

So was the movie in focus?

Sound good?

Well, the movie was in focus, Gordy.

Good.

I'm glad you asked.

I'm always concerned with the focus.

My son's like, we go out to the point and they have a thing.

You know, these Gen Z kids, you know, they know everything.

With they they love the super screen.

Oh sure.

It's a big one They don't like the ultra screen because and the ultra screen is the digital screen They like the super screen because it has a really crystal clear picture.

It's not digital though And the audio is fantastic and the theater is a little bit smaller the ultra screen is a huge theater

but it has digital and I see, I love it, but they don't like it because it can hear a little bit of the projector.

My son, I hear that, I hear that all the way through the quiet moment.

Really?

It drives him nuts.

You can hear

the projector.

There is something in that.

that he doesn't like, I can't hear it because my hearing is gone.

That's before the hearing aids.

So I haven't been in there since.

So you don't wear the hearing aids at the movie?

Or do you?

No, I, yeah.

You do wear them.

You

do, yeah.

But you know, the sound is really fantastic in these movies.

But

anyway, it's a super screen that is really, really good.

Big thumbs up recommendation.

Go to the silver screen.

Super screen.

And

not the ultra

screen.

If digital bothers you, it doesn't bother me at all.

Okay.

Well, good to know.

All right.

There you go.

A little tip, a little big, big thumbs up tip.

Okay.

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And it's a really hot, muggy, awful morning today.

So you might want to just stay indoors, turn up the air conditioning.

If you can stay in bed without rolling up.

All right, falling on your ass.

You're never going to let that

go.

Nope.

No.

But you're going to be OK, Dom.

You're going to be fine.

I think so.

We'll see you in a couple hours.

I didn't notice he had a little limp this morning.

That's why I asked.

What happened to you?

I was hoping you didn't notice.

I like your hat your cap.

What is that?

It's a knit cap.

What does it have a what is that?

Yeah, I got

it.

I got it off tiktok shop and it's stew STU Instead

of

stew STW.

I don't know the

meaning behind it, but it's really comfy and it helps with my my bedhead so

I hear that it's a gang symbol

And be

careful.

And there's a war with that particular gang on State Street.

So I would be very careful wearing that outside.

Wow.

Take it off

now.

OK.

Sammy had the worst bed hair.

He didn't care.

It was

fine.

It's good to cover bed hair up with with a hat.

No, we haven't heard from Sam.

You know, I thought he'd check in every once in a while.

You know, you know, he hasn't texted us.

He texted that one time.

He was getting that pinball machine.

Yeah, I wonder what happened.

You ever come back from Chicago or is he still there?

It was probably a roost to get him to go down there.

Held

captive or part of human trafficking?

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Whatever happened the same.

OK.

You can check out the latest poll on the WMDX radio website.

Just go to WMDXradio.com.

Would you like to know where the poll stands?

Is it the

same old question?

Well,

it's a question we've had up for a few days.

Yes, it's the same old one.

Yeah.

Well, you want us to change the question?

I do.

I do.

Yeah.

The question still is, what is your favorite summer event in downtown Madison?

Right now the farmers market and concerts on the square are both tied at 30.8%.

Art Fair on the Square is 15.4% and Madison Night Market, which is tomorrow night, is at 23.1%.

Somebody's tweaking is on this thing.

What do you mean?

Provoting for concerts on the Square.

Because I made a comment about how boring it is and how pretentious it is.

You know, people sitting out there in the carpet of green and lawn

and enjoying themselves at the bottles of wine.

It's a nice family event.

I'm sure you took the kids there when they were younger, right?

No?

How hoity-toity.

Oh, you know, I'm just

not a fan of concerts on the square,

okay?

So

then everybody started voting for it just to make me look silly, which isn't hard to do.

By the way, Aaron Rodgers did sign up with the Pittsburgh Steelers and surprise announcement.

He got married a couple of months ago.

I don't know who he got married to.

We could look that up.

Oh God.

What a mess.

He got married.

What a mess.

Got 13 million for signing up with Steelers.

So we'll see how that goes.

That's great.

Yeah, good for him.

Here's a comment from Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House.

Mike Johnson is warning the country.

All right, this is this is tough stuff That if Democrats take back the house in the midterms that the the Trump presidency will effectively end After only two years.

So that is the warning from Mike Johnson.

It's pretty tough stuff Pretty tough.

It's gonna end.

It's gonna

yeah

because effectively

will end because the Democrats will have taken

control at the midterms.

And we don't want to see that ever happen.

That would be... Well,

you know,

the Republicans have done so well by just giving Trump all the power.

Yes,

they... I don't

think they should be blamed for that, do you?

Yeah, that's pretty tough stuff.

So that's what Mike Johnson... Yeah, Mike Johnson.

Coming

right out there and saying that there are more arrests Last night in Los Angeles keeps going up every day and they keep you know kind of ramping things up there starting to arrest more people and Getting them away from the federal buildings.

You know, that's the goal now and they shut down the one-on-one I think we're gonna talk to somebody on Monday Rocker helped us get in touch with somebody a disc jockey or somebody.

Yeah, yeah, so we're gonna

trying to get a hold of them on Monday, I believe.

Yeah,

it's

so funny because so much is being made of of the riots that don't exist out there.

Not really.

There's some

skirmishes.

There have been.

There is nothing going

on.

Well, they lit a couple of cars on fire.

Yeah, that's that's about it.

Right.

That's it.

Autonomous cars

are on

fire.

Yeah, right.

Right.

And

that's it.

You see the small crowds, you see the police lined up with their shields,

and

their guns, and their rubber bullets, and they shoot at people just willy-nilly, no matter what.

They're just standing there, I saw a video of a woman saying, I gotta get to my apartment, and the policeman shot her with a rubber bullet.

Yeah,

for no

reason at all.

They shot

that there's

no unrest around them They're just standing there and they're just taking potshots at the citizenry.

I don't get it.

I don't know why this is happening I don't know why there aren't repercussions from The police doing this the police using their horses in order to beat up a guy laying on the ground Those are unsettling.

There are two videos like that.

Hmm.

I haven't seen those.

Yeah.

Yeah, and they shot that one reporter rubber bullets

and another

reporter in the leg where he needed surgery.

So yeah, it's pretty tough stuff and they're just taking shots.

And when we see the videos, there are very few people, hardly any people, and they're just pushing back on like 12 or 15 people and pushing them across the

street.

It's the way it's been going and it's still continuing today.

Yeah, and they're just

making up these stories about riots and how I really it is and how many people are showing up and it's just it's not true.

Mm-hmm.

We'll see how long

it goes on to Okay, 629 now.

It's true because they're all angry.

Well, you accused of rioting, right?

Yes Coming back with idiocracy next on John and Gordy in the

morning

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

that could be considered a rational thought.

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

We can duck and cover.

There's a fallout shelter right there.

There's no way to survive this, you idiot!

Idiocracy.

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

And yet each day, we do survive this.

We

do.

Day by day, though.

But we get dumber and dumber as we hear

these stories.

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Yeah, we got a new one right now.

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I would like to hear more of John Peterson if he could just yap, yap, yap more.

That's all I want to hear.

You have that other one too?

Where's the other one?

I think we have that one from yesterday.

I don't think we have that anymore.

Tell that John Peterson fella he ought to mind his own damn business and shut his piehole once and for all.

Apparently we have a lot of listeners from Kentucky.

They're dialing up the show.

Catching a southern accent.

Why are we doing that?

Why

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I don't know.

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Okay, idiocracy.

What do we have today?

Well,

we

often talk about having universal health care in this country, just like all the other industrialized countries in the world.

They

found a way to do it.

They're not going broke.

Socialism hasn't all of a sudden brought about dictatorships, but it happened in this country for some reason, and we don't have universal health care coverage, so I don't know, maybe this socialist thing isn't...

all, you know, what it's cracked up to be.

Okay, here's the story.

All right, this is a little bit shocking.

Goldman Sachs asked in biotech research report, this question, is curing patients a sustainable business model?

There you go.

Now it's time, right?

They have universal healthcare coverage.

That's...

That's what's going on behind the scenes, folks.

It goes on to say the potential to deliver one-shot cures is one of the most attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically engineered cell therapy and gene editing.

However, such treatments offer a very different outlook with regard to reoccurring revenue versus chronic therapies.

And while this proposition carries tremendous value for patients,

and society, it could represent a challenge to genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.

And

that's what they're concerned about.

Goldman Sachs

asked this

in a report.

They were wondering just how they're going to keep up the bottom line if we start curing diseases.

Wow.

That's enough to

take

your breath away for a few minutes.

Yeah, yeah, it's my head is spinning.

That's a golden sacks.

Yeah.

See, that's what happens when you have a for profit industry.

Yeah, they want profit.

They want they want to make some money on the backs of health care.

And right

now

what they're doing, of course, is they're punishing people by taking away their health care because they're not a value to society.

If they don't work, if they don't have a job, they can't have

healthcare because they're worthless.

Now we had Scott Walker say that point blank when he was governor.

People don't have a value.

They're not contributing to society anymore, so they shouldn't get healthcare.

They're just feeding off of everybody else.

But you know, these countries that have universal healthcare, if you're a tourist and you're in their country and you have a health event of some sort, they treat you and you leave without paying any kind of bill.

For some reason it works for them.

works

for us if we're there.

They figured it out, yeah.

So it just, it boggles the mind that this is a question that they actually asked, is curing patients a sustainable business model?

Wow.

All right.

Well, big farmers making big money out of it.

Oh, yeah.

You know, I guess.

Well, for them,

it's profitable.

It's universal health care.

Their prices would be negotiated.

Yes.

And even in countries where they have universal health care, but it's really a free-market system, government does control the prices.

You can shop anywhere you want and get health care from any place, but...

There are price limits on what they can charge.

All right, let's get to the next big story here and his former doge engineer is saying that the federal waste and fraud thing

Mm-hmm.

Relatively non-existent.

How do you like that?

Wait a minute.

A former Doge person?

Yep.

An employee told NPR that he found that the federal waste, fraud, and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were relatively non-existent.

He said he felt that Elon was pretty clear about how he wanted Doge to be maximally transparent.

So he thought, oh, that's cool.

So when a blogger asked,

For an interview, he talked to the blogger and he said he didn't find much inefficiency in government after all.

And shortly after that interview, he got an email saying that his days at Doge were over and his access

was

revoked.

So that's

not as open as Elon had.

had given the impression that they needed to be.

The former Doge employee again emphasized that personally was pretty surprised actually at how efficient the government was.

This isn't to say that it can't be more efficient and what he means by that is elimination of paper and elimination of taxing or faxing rather.

Faxing.

Yeah.

Faxing.

So that's what he's talking about in efficiencies.

elimination of the paper

trail

and getting rid of the fax machines in your office.

Well, you were having trouble with finding a fax machine

anywhere around

here.

Yeah,

that's

true.

For whatever reason, you had to fax

something.

Yeah, well, I retired from the Census Bureau, and I've officially been off for the last week, but I'm still trying to get the paperwork finished, and they keep insisting that I fax them the stuff, and I don't have a fax machine, and no one has a fax machine, and most of the places, by the way, allow you to fax out, but you can't receive faxes in.

Well, that doesn't make any sense.

I know.

I don't get it.

They have the fax machine.

It does go back and forth, but

they

only let you do it one way in the library.

I think you suggest

the library.

I suggest they go to the library or it's half a block away.

The library

only lets you fax things out.

Well, that's crazy.

But you

can't receive faxes.

But I did find a few places, and I believe that FATX provides it.

And I believe UPS has it because I'm working with UPS now to get all of these signatures done.

Anyway, so that's the inefficiency that he's talking about.

But

he said there aren't necessarily any fraud or waste or abuse that they found.

So they're just rooms to modernize and improve.

And that's it.

To bring them up to the 21st century level.

Excellent.

Well, phone lines are open right now.

608-879-8255.

Mark is on the line this morning with a question or a comment.

Didn't you

want to make...

Mark wait another hour

Unfortunately, we did make him wait a long time yesterday, but we want to get him on the line right now mark.

Good morning.

What's

happening?

That's okay guys.

You just were talking about Goldman Sachs and their whole thing about If whether it's right the whole revenue stream.

Yes me of a when I watched the

Superman doomsday cartoon at the animated version where Lex Luthor was pondering and he came up with a cure for muscular dystrophy.

And then he, a complete cure of it.

People would be completely cured for it.

A hand stock to his one of his engineers says, all right, here's the cure for muscular dystrophy.

Make it a lifelong treatment so we can make more money that way.

Wow.

I mean, there

you go.

But they're thinking like Lex Luthor now.

That's what I was thinking of there is that they do not want people to be healthy.

They want a lifelong revenue stream coming in for some of this stuff.

And that's what occurred to me there is that having forbid we get to be healthy with a simple solution.

Let's make it lifelong profit for them.

Well, it's crazy, isn't it?

I mean, this is their big dilemma now, right?

It's now that we're, we're advancing in science where we can actually cure diseases.

It's hitting the bottom line.

They got to watch out for that.

So we'll see what happens.

Thanks guys.

All right.

Thanks a lot, Mark.

Appreciate that.

That's a, that's interesting.

So Goldman Sachs is just like Alex Luther at

this point.

Amazing.

Yes.

Never a good image.

We're living

in

the bizarro world

again.

That's true.

Yeah.

Okay.

Ag report.

We should take this up with Pam sometime.

The Ag report stopped because of farm trade deficit was at $50 billion.

Trump US Department of Agriculture stopped the release of reports showing that they were behind $50 billion.

Yep.

The

trade

deficit is $50 billion in farm trade.

Yeah.

Whoa.

So they stopped the report.

Let's listen to cut 80.

Okay.

Breaking news.

The Trump administration has blocked a U.S.

Department of Agriculture report showing a $49.5 billion deficit in agricultural trade products with the United States and the rest of the world due to his tariffs.

The report was dated May 29th and the report has been heavily, heavily, heavily redacted.

Donald Trump.

held it up because he didn't want the world and didn't want US citizens in MAGA and others to see that because of his actions farmers are going to lose billions and billions of dollars thanks to Donald Trump's trade policies.

They did so before in his first term where he had to bail them out in a platoon of about 30 billion dollars because of his trade war with and tear forward to China at the time.

still seeing the same thing now.

China and many other countries have canceled contracts with the United States.

They're looking outside the United States to purchase and farmers and those that are employed on farms are going to pay the price for Donald Trump.

There you have it.

I love just my Democrats, my Magus, my Crazies, my Cuckoos and my Burndale labels.

They want to hide everything just like Ron DeSantis in Florida want to hide everything.

There you go.

And then you gotta wonder what they're hiding.

What else they're hiding?

Yeah, they redact from the report.

Yeah.

Or what aren't they telling us about the rest of the government?

Well, yes.

Yeah, that's true.

So, yeah, we've heard that they're making stuff up and they're actually just keeping a lot of the bad news away.

Not that that would have any effect.

They could put all the

bad news out there and just say it's all good news and the cult will be happy.

By the way, this isn't from CNN.

Tonight, Trump is scheduled to go to the Kennedy Center for the opening of Les Miserables.

And 10 of the cast members are not going to be on stage.

They're going to refuse to go on.

Well, I don't leave a big hole in the performance.

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WMDX 92.7 and we're

what?

People are going to work.

Yeah, coal mine.

That's right.

Yep.

As we look over the state

street, just a block away from

the

capital,

capital city medicine.

Partly cloudy skies, temperatures today, getting into the mid to upper 80s.

Right now it is hot.

It's just hot.

It's like 66 degrees or something.

Is it really?

something like that.

67 right now.

What did I get?

Okay, thanks.

67.

Thanks for correcting me.

Let's go to the phones.