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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?
It has to be adjusted on this it on this
computer.
It must be yeah,
yeah, it looks Okay, 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.
What our,
uh,
WMDX weather wheel.
No, I'm at 88 here.
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.
Okay.
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.
It's called
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.
OK.
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 of hours.
You're going to be OK?
Yeah.
Need to go to the
doctor?
I might.
I might have to.
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 frame, and then a mattress.
and they make them very, very tall
at this point.
Exactly.
And I'm not tall myself.
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.
If we can have somebody donate them, they probably
still have them around the house if they've had kids.
He needs them.
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... 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.
I think they will go with that.
We'll go for that.
I think they listen later in the day.
All
right.
Anyway, listen on.
Yeah.
They listen on the app.
You know, they do
listen to the podcast.
But if they're listening live, they could text
and let me know what they have texted us here in the
morning, 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.
Well,
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, is it a store?
An event, 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, yeah, 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 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 going to get a filling, maybe?
Well, it turned out to be a lot more than that.
Wow.
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 it 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 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 Bell Arena Yeah, the thing is these appearances
are just wonderful and, you know, everybody loves John Wick.
Everybody loves him.
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 elect 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, because yeah.
You do wear them.
You do, yeah.
But 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.
It's 19 minutes past the hour.
We're just getting started on Wednesday morning.
Mike McCabe will join us a little bit later on and Judy David off from Ismus also coming up on John and Gordon in the morning.
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92.7.
This is John and Gordy.
And it's a really hot, muggy, awful morning today.
So you might want to just stay indoors.
Stay
in bed?
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 gonna be okay, Dom.
You're gonna be fine.
I think so.
We'll see in a couple hours.
I didn't notice he had a little limp this morning.
That's why I asked
I
like your hat your cap.
What is that?
It's a knit cap.
What does it have us?
What is that?
Yeah, I got it.
I got it off tiktok shop and it's um 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
Okay,
Sammy's have 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.
Now he's held
captive or part of human
trafficking.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Whatever happened the same.
Okay.
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
the same old question?
Well, it's a question we've had up for a few days.
Yes.
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 us 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.
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,
I don't
think they should be blamed for that, do you?
Yeah, that's pretty tough stuff.
So that's when Mike Johnson... Yeah, Mike Johnson
coming right out there and saying it.
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 101.
I think we're going to talk to somebody on Monday.
Rocker helped us get in touch with somebody, a disc jockey or somebody on Los Angeles.
Yeah, so we're going to try and get a hold of them on Monday, I believe.
Yeah,
it's
so funny because so much is being made of the riots that don't exist out there.
Not really.
There's some
skirmishes.
There's been...
There is nothing going
on out there.
Well, they lit a couple of cars on fire.
Yeah, that's about it.
Right?
That's it.
Autonomous cars
are on
fire.
Yeah, I am 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 got to 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.
I haven't
seen those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they shot that one reporter with 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.
They're just pushing back on like 12 or 15 people and pushing them across the
street.
That's, that's the way it's been going and it's still continuing today.
Yeah.
We'll keep you updated.
And they're just
making up these stories about riots and how, uh, 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.
Well, now it's true because they're all angry about being accused of rioting.
Right.
Yes.
Uh, coming back with Idiocracy next on John and Gordy in the morning.
you
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber,
you go and do something like this.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fallout shelter right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
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.
It's 635.
We've got mostly sunny skies this morning, a few clouds out there and highs today getting into the mid to upper 80s right now 66 degrees.
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We were just talking about the new features on the WMDX app.
We've got another voice note.
You can
go on the app.
You can go on the app, and there's a new thing on it.
Right in the middle.
Right.
If you go on the WMDX site, you'll see a button that says Voice Note.
And so you can just push the button and send us a quick message, and it goes right into our, goes onto the screen, and we can record it too.
Yeah, I think we have, yeah, we have a new one.
We've
got a new one here right now.
Let's hear it.
All right, let's hear it.
I would like to hear more of John Peterson if he could just yep, yep, yep more.
That's all I want to
hear.
Apparently we have a lot of listeners from Kentucky dialing up the
show catching a southern accent.
Why are we doing that?
Why are
we doing the southern
accents?
I don't know.
But yeah, feel free to send us a voice note.
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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 what is cracked up to
me.
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?
to have universal healthcare coverage.
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 That's what they're concerned about Goldman Sachs in a report They were wondering just how they're gonna keep up the the bottom line if we start curing diseases Wow
That's enough to take your breath away for a
few minutes.
Yeah.
My head is spinning.
That's a golden
sax.
Yeah.
See, that's what happens when you have a for-profit industry.
Yeah, they want profit.
They want to make some money.
On the backs of healthcare, and right now what they're doing, of course, is they're punishing people by taking away their healthcare 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.
No, 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 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.
Right.
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.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You can shop anywhere you want and get health care from any place, but there are price limits on what they can charge.
Gotcha.
All right, let's get to the next big story here.
And as a former Doge engineer,
is saying that the federal waste and fraud thing, relatively non-existent.
How do you like that?
Wait a minute, a former Doge person?
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, okay, 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 Yeah, 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 emphasize 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 that's that's what he's talking about if it inefficiencies
elimination of the paper trail and getting rid of the fax machines in the office.
Well, you were having trouble with finding a fax machine anywhere around.
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 see I see just to go to the library or in the library only lets you fax things out Well, that's crazy see faxes, but I did find a few places and I believe that FATX provides it and I believe UPS has it because I I'm working with UPS now Please to get all of these signatures done
Anyways, 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.
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 poddering and he came up with a cure for muscular dystrophy.
And then a complete cure of it.
People would be completely cured for it.
A hand stock to his one of his engineers says, here's a cure for muscular dystrophy.
Make it a lifelong treatment so we can make more money that way.
Wow.
I mean that.
There
you go.
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.
You know with a simple solution, you know, let's make it lifelong profit for them.
Well, it's crazy isn't I mean this is the 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 Yeah
Certainly.
Thanks guys.
All right.
Thanks a lot,
Mark.
Appreciate that.
That's interesting.
So Goldman Sachs is just like a Lex Luthor 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 the PAMP sometime.
The Ag report stopped because of farm trade deficit.
was at $50 billion.
Trump U.S.
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.
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 the U.S.
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 of a tune of about 30 billion dollars because of his trade war with and tariff over to China at the time.
Still seeing the same thing now.
China and many other countries have cancelled 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.
Look at
my Democrats, my Magus, my Crazies, my Cuckoos and my Burndale labels.
They want to hide everything.
It's like Ron DeSantis in Florida want to hide everything.
There
you
go.
And 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.
Coming back with more of John and Gordon.
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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 eighties.
Right now it is hot.
It's just hot.
It's like
66 degrees or something.
Isn't really something like 67.
Right.
And
I get it.
OK, thanks.
67.
Thanks for correcting me.
Let's go to the phones Judy David off from the isthmus is joining us this morning and she does when the new issue comes out Good morning, Judy
Good morning.
You're the editor.
You're the president of isthmus.
We're always happy
to have you.
She's the dictator
dictator is a very popular now in this country
Yeah, we have the summer times issue.
This is a great issue because everything is covered.
Everything is in there.
Yeah.
I read where the artists thought, you know, putting ants on a picnic.
Isn't that inspired?
Yeah, it is.
A picnic blanket.
It's very cool.
You know, Judy, yesterday we had a story where the work being invaded by poisonous ants that sting and kill people.
So very timely.
Yes, very timely.
Thanks, Gordy.
That's what I was
going to say.
I think these are the kind pesky ones.
Oh,
OK.
All right, thanks for clearing that up.
Well, thank you.
Yeah, we certainly would wish those back again.
No.
OK, now there's a great article in here by Liam Barron.
And it is a power struggle.
And it's all about the unified electric metering that is so controversial in this state.
It's so silly.
This is so ridiculous.
I can't.
I can't wrap my head around why we can't.
move on to something like this, right?
Right.
Well, it is done.
It is done.
Of course, the utility does get more money when they're separate units.
And some people would argue that the separate units make most sense because then people are paying what they've used.
But these are other kinds of supported housing where
Perhaps the costs are not even being born, you know, individually by the tenants.
Um, maybe they are, but, um, still the argument for affordable housing is that, um, by having the, um, meters, um, the unified meters, it makes, um, much more, um, sense than it's much more affordable.
Not have that.
Well, the thing here is that, uh, this is a law that was, uh,
Made in 2002 just at the turn of the century.
We're well into that century now and it is time to maybe update this thing because what happens is they put the electric bill in your rent.
So you don't really have an electric bill anymore.
So they can unify these meters for the buildings and especially, you know, in low income housing where, you know, this would be perfect for them.
And they had the, they had the individual meters.
So people, if they didn't pay their bill would get shut off.
That was the whole point.
Well, that's no longer an issue.
If you design your buildings in a way that the electric bill is already included in your rent.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
Yep.
Yeah, so it's interesting.
I mean, he definitely, you know, there were several other people who sort of attested that the...
that there were other utilities that were able to grant this waiver without needing to go to the PSC.
So yeah, we'll see if there's any movement on that.
All right.
Now, Judy, you have an article in this month's Isthmus entitled Local Governments Mixed Record on Meeting Notices.
And apparently it really is a mixed record about meeting notices.
Tell us more about this.
I mean, this is definitely, you know, I worried a little bit.
It was getting into the weeds of open government.
But I do think it's important, you know, committees, city and county committees, government committees are required to issue notices and agendas of their upcoming meetings.
And those meeting notices are supposed to be written in a way that you can understand what is actually going to be discussed.
And, you know, I mean, I would say the majority do still, but there definitely were notices that I picked out that, you know, you would have no idea.
And, you know, I've been covering local government for a long time and
At least on the city side, if I have a false memory, I don't think I do because I remember doing this, but there used to be a staff person's name and number on each of the notices because there's a staffer who's assigned to each of those committees.
And that made it easy to, if there was something you didn't understand on the agenda or you wanted to, just get more background.
you could just call and say, hey, what's this about?
Those names and contact numbers are not there.
There's usually a name to call for accessibility issues, but really not anything regarding the content of the agendas.
So, and it's important.
It's important for news media to know what's on the agenda.
Is there something controversial?
Is there something that has gotten no attention and should therefore be written about?
And especially in advance because, you know, in my mind, that allows people to show up at a meeting where there's something discussed that will affect them.
Absolutely.
Judy, we're about out of time, but Isthmus on the newsstands, always on the first Thursday of the month, lots of great stuff about all the summertime events going on.
Yeah, and the new quiz, news quiz that you have here, I love the question, which influential person is not included?
and the Wisconsin idols.
And the answer is
Paul Soglin.
Paul Soglin in your wrote, Soglin probably not just an oversight.
But
anyway, Judy, thank you for joining
us.
We'll talk to you next
month.
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We had a few texts here.
Yeah.
One is, I wonder if Trump even knows what the story of Ms.
Robb is all about.
He's opening at the Kennedy Center.
That grand opening tonight.
How many people
do you say?
Ten people of the cast are not going to appear on stage.
I know they have a large
cast of extras, but at this point, maybe they're the stars actually
not showing
up on stage.
He says it's his favorite play.
That's what
he
says.
I wonder if
he even knows what the story is about.
He'll probably revel in a man being jailed for years for stealing a loaf of bread.
Yes, yes,
he
probably doesn't know anything about it at all.
We did forget Doug out in St.
Francis.
Where is your 24-7 coverage of Trump stumbling on the stairs to Air Force One?
Damn, I knew we were forgetting
something.
Yeah, play that video over and over again.
Yeah, they'll have that one.
Yeah, he just tripped a little bit.
No big deal.
I mean, come on.
Doug does ask, though, is the stumbling incident the reason for Trump's invasion of LA?
And I think there's a tie in there someplace.
Maybe.
Perhaps.
This is kind of making the rounds on on X as well.
The Obama administration deported 3.1.
Six million people Biden passed four million not once did either need troops in the street to do it
That's
all you kind of need to know about what's happening.
It's a good point Yeah, we'll get into a little bit more of this in just a moment at first John because we're in our seven o'clock hour.
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Now I was just checking out what's going on at CNN.
They're covering some of the action there
in
LA.
Of course, the curfew is in effect.
There's no one out right now.
So
action packed coverage.
Nothing really to cover.
But they were
showing, you know, tear gas being shot at the protesters.
You can count the protesters on one hand.
So they're throwing these tear gas canisters out there into the street, but there's no one out there.
I
guess they've got nothing else to do,
but
practice.
Is
that what they're doing?
I think that's what's happening out there.
Let's get to one of our stories here.
In a shocking moment of cognitive decline, Donald Trump blames Gavin Newsom for causing a lot of death during the protests in LA.
Let's listen to that.
When is the last time you spoke with Governor
Newsom?
A day ago.
Called him up to tell him got to do a better job.
He's doing a bad job Causing a lot of death and a lot of a lot of potential death.
What if we didn't send out the National Guard and last time we gave him a little additional help You would have Los Angeles would be burning right now.
No Los Angeles would be Not a lot different than what you saw it take place in California in Los Angeles just a little while ago.
Yeah, the fires
Now, the thing here, you gotta keep in mind that, first of all, this isn't Minority Report.
We're not predicting the possible deaths of future people at the protest.
Secondly, I think that maybe, you know, he really is the cause of all of this happening in the first place by going around Newsom, getting the National Guard involved in all of this, nationalizing the National Guard.
And of course,
Because there are zero deaths at this point.
Yeah.
You know, just bringing it up is, is ridiculous and it, and it flames the whole issue.
It does.
The whole problem that they have out there at this point.
Well, the protests are spreading to other cities too.
Again, according to CNN, there are other major cities where some more protests are popping up.
Chicago, New York, Austin.
Austin, Texas, Washington, DC, and there's a few more.
So they're starting to, you know, it's starting to get more support from the protesters in some of these other major, major cities.
And
you also heard him mention that he talked to Gavin Newsom a day ago.
Right.
He didn't.
He actually didn't.
It was a couple of days before.
I
think it was.
And Fox News reported it, but they tried to cover it up by not mentioning the day.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I thought it was like a
Friday or something.
It was a couple of days before.
It
wasn't the day before.
Did you just talk?
Oh, yeah.
I talked to him yesterday.
No,
it
wasn't like that at all.
He was
prompt lying.
Who's ever heard of such a thing?
I know.
Well, he just must have his days crossed.
You know, his mental decline is very visible at this point.
So we're
going to start stumbling and bumbling around.
Yeah.
Let's move
to the state
now.
I mean, we've
got
some of that not a lot going on curfew is still in effect But let's go to the state budget that's being debated up there at the Capitol
Wisconsin state budget.
Yes
And again as I mentioned a number of times before the Republicans find a way to always punish and penalize the UW system for some reason I don't know why Now I do know why why don't we play this is cut 87
And this is Robin
Voss.
I'll give you an example, right, on the UW.
We have given basically zero increases at the UW because most of us believe that the UW needs serious reforms.
The governor says Republicans have refused to invest in public school education, child care counts, child care in the UW system.
Did you not come to the table on that end?
That's a lie.
A lie.
Yeah, I mean, we did.
We're willing to do it.
just
not
as much as he wanted.
We tried to find a way to
invest in childcare that actually went to the parents and to make sure that we weren't just having a go to businesses, right?
There
are no, for anybody who's watching, there are no cuts in Medicaid.
When they tell you there are cuts, it is untrue, right?
Now, there are work requirements, which if you're able-bodied, you shouldn't be on Medicaid anyways.
Or, worst case scenario, buying it through the exchange like millions of people do around the country.
Mm-hmm.
Well, he doesn't mention of course the exchanges will become more expensive So that's not going to be a good thing.
All right, and then of course funding child care We need the money to go to the child care facilities because they're having a hard time Maintaining staff because they're not getting a paid enough and it's difficult to get people to go to the child care centers because Yeah, no one can afford them anymore, right?
So there's a double whammy there and they're not
funding either one of those streams, not just the parents, but also the childcare centers.
And then, of course, he talked about the UW needing serious reforms.
That's why they want to hold up funding for the UW system, because in their minds, it needs serious reform.
Is
it something very similar to what Linda McMahon wants to do for the colleges and the K through 12 systems?
There are not enough.
conservatives being hired at those schools.
So there needs to be reforms.
I think that's what he is talking about because that's what the administration at this point is talking about.
And more of getting DEI out of the curriculum.
Yes, the
excuse DEI,
yes.
Still leaning on that.
Spread the racism, make it more systemic.
And then Johnson, Ron Johnson, you know, when
We're in the media.
We have a chance to ask them the question, the real question, the bottom line question.
We never do.
This is kind of almost there, okay?
The house reconciliation bill will add $2.4 trillion to the federal debt over 10 years.
That's effort cutting, spending by $1.2 trillion.
Now, Ron Johnson says, cutting back tax cuts is a tax increase.
No, despite...
Okay, why don't we just hear this cut this is from here and now from public television and Ron Johnson Responding to a question.
Let's listen.
You know figure out how we can do something that's really hard You know one of the points the president made in the meeting is you know Democrats always so unified and I pointed out well, that's because they're doing the easy thing They're spending money there.
They're mortgage our kids future.
It's hard to be the parent It's easy to be the parent says hey, we're gonna go to Disney World.
It's hard to be the parent who says
We can't afford that.
I know we all want to go to Disneyland.
We just can't afford that.
All right, now here's the thing with him is that we want to spend money on the people.
Okay, that's a really bad thing.
And the question that hangs out there, of course, and I think Frederica Freiberg asked the question, you know, what about the tax cuts?
Let's keep going with that.
We're kind of in that position right now.
We're trying to rein in all this massive deficit spending, trying to restrain the growth of the deficits.
Well, the spending is on some pretty necessary items.
The top priority government is defense, so it spends more on defense, realizing that we're probably going to have a hard time passing appropriation bills, probably operating on a continuing resolution for the next fiscal year, and also recognizes we have to secure the border.
If adding $2.4 trillion to the national debt is irresponsible in your mind, as I've heard you say, why not dial back the tax cuts?
It's not tax cuts.
It's preventing a tax increase.
What is interesting is no matter how much you try punishing success, now I've got a great chart goes back, I think more than 50 years showing top marginal tax rate of 91%, 70%, 50% again.
All right, yeah,
Danny brings up the facts and figures and everybody's eyes roll back into their head because that's all he ever does.
But yeah, she did bring it up.
And yes, why not just not?
give the tax cut.
Why not let them expire so we can pay some of that money down, get rid of the debt that
we have
and the deficit.
So why don't we just do that instead?
Yeah,
you don't have an answer.
No, apparently.
Okay.
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We have our southern accent versions that John and Gordy performed.
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Brittany, did you know that we have that ability on the Civic Media app
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That is so cool.
It's a voice note.
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I love the technology these days.
Sometimes you don't want to do it live.
You get nervous, so you just go ahead and send it.
Right, exactly.
So we're seeing bright, beautiful sunshine at the moment
here.
It's in and out.
We've got clouds just on the horizon, but now we've got sunlight.
I guess
it's going to heat up a bit today, right?
It is.
Yes, yes, yes.
So you've got a few spiny sprinkles lingering in the area, a few clouds out there, but it's mixed more with sunshine as we go through the afternoon.
Temperatures right now in the upper 60s.
We're gonna go to the mid to upper 80s today,
so
Feeling like summer and don't worry John the dew points won't be that bad So it's gonna be like honestly a perfect nice warm day But we do have a lot of rain rolling in as we go through the next couple of days Could see chances moving in around midnight tonight Kind of lingering maybe tomorrow morning a few spotty showers there
We'll dry things out by the afternoon.
Highs go back to the mid 70s tomorrow.
So mild, not too warm, not too cool.
Then Friday, we'll go back to about 80 degrees, partly sunny, beautiful day, but then more scattered showers and storms, probably midday and through the evening on Friday.
Some of those could linger through early Saturday morning.
Clouds want to stick around on Saturday.
But overall, the weekend, nice and dry, sunshine back out by Sunday.
So a lot of the rain staying more north really just chances overnight and then Friday evening.
Okay, all right.
And we have the Big Madison Night Market on Thursday night, tomorrow night.
And
hopefully that rain will stay away from us.
Well, hopefully.
And if Brittany
can do
something about that, if you can just...
I'm trying
to take it away from you guys.
Yeah, I'm trying to lift that whole system north.
Hopefully I'll get the rain.
You'll stay dry.
That's what I'm working
on.
Okay.
All right, good.
Thank you for working on that.
Keep on
that.
We appreciate it.
All right, Brittany.
Good to talk to you as always.
All right.
Talk to you tomorrow
morning.
As well.
It's Britt Emmerlow,
our WMDX chief meteorologist.
Thanks, Brittany.
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You're familiar with Star Wars.
Yes, I've heard of it.
What do you say?
You're familiar with Emperor Palpatine.
That one
I don't know I You know I watched the first two Star Wars movies.
Yeah, that was it for me.
He didn't watch the the Senate where he was Okay ruling over the Senate.
What
about you Dom?
Do you know
Palpatine?
All right, all right, well
Gavin Newsom posted a video version of a Trump Post
on
social media
And this is a takeoff on Emperor Palpatine's message to the Senate in Star Wars.
So let's listen to this.
A once great American city, Los Angeles has been invaded and occupied by illegal aliens and criminals.
Now violent, insurrectionist mugs are swarming and attacking our federal agents to try and stop our deportation operations.
But these lawless rites only strengthen our resolve.
I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Nelm, Secretary of Defense Pete Headset, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in coordination with all other relevant departments and agencies to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the migrant invasion, and put an end to these migrant rights.
Order will be restored The illegals will be expelled And Los Angeles will be set free Thank you for your attention to this matter
So Gavin Newsom
hosted that?
Yeah, that was, yeah.
Wow.
It's so intense.
I don't know who produced that.
Again, it's a takeoff on a actually Trump truth social post, word for word.
And, you know, it has more impact, I think, with Emperor Palpatine saying it.
Yes, that's pretty good.
Yeah, that was well produced.
I know it was great stuff, you know.
Thank you Gavin Newsom for posting that.
There was great some great stuff on the daily show last night, but we'll
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I feel like everybody's keeping this a secret.
No wonder there are people quietly talking in the corner of the room, simple as, and not involving
me.
They used to be more of a well-kept secret.
People didn't know them outside of Savannah, Georgia, but now they're like a national phenomenon.
They're a traveling road show.
They're like the Harlem Globetrotters of Minor League Baseball.
They are.
You get
them
here
in Madison.
That'd be
terrific.
The announcer calls them the Nanners.
They have all kinds of antics.
I mean, it's great.
They have
bright yellow uniforms.
Yes,
they do.
And they do performance dances at home base or on the sidelines as
it's going on.
The
players are out there like cheerleaders.
Even the umpires get involved and play along.
There was one time I saw someone
hit a
home run and he was doing a front flip all
across the bases.
The first base umpire does a backflip.
They do all kinds of
when they call their place.
Fun stuff.
I was just, you know, I was, I was caught up in it.
I just loved every second of it.
It's like the world wrestling federation, right?
It's fun.
You call it the heart.
They call them the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, but there are some former players on the team as well as just crazy guys.
And I got to tell you what I saw.
This was just the most.
amazing thing ever.
It was a pop fly ball in the outfield and the guy reached behind him, self with the glove and caught the fly
ball.
They can do that.
They can do that.
Not an easy thing to do.
I used to try to do that in practice, but I would never have the guts to do it in a game.
All right.
But the thing is, they have the sports guy out on the field doing interviews with some of the players,
right?
He's
got a
long leopard codon.
Doing it.
Yeah, uh-huh.
Well,
not a lot of times you see, you know, a professional announcer out on the field with a long leopard coat on.
It's all just fun and
games.
Oh, it's high art, too.
It is.
Yes.
Really fun stuff.
Savannah bananas.
You can see all kinds of stuff
on YouTube.
The party animals, you know, they were scoring and they actually beat the Savannah bananas in
this
particular game.
But they took off their shirts and they started playing without their shirts on.
Just it was absolute a riot.
I just love watching this.
This is great stuff, you know.
And by the way, they sold out.
Two games, two upcoming games at a stadium.
They've become such a hot commodity that they took it on the road and they are filling stadiums.
Yeah, everywhere.
People love the show.
Now you talked about, they are the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball.
But you talked about the early days when the Harlem Globetrotters were very, very popular, but...
You had like a B team.
Oh, yeah, there was a B team.
You know, I went to a small, you know, I grew up in the country.
I went to a small rural school.
And so they weren't going to get the Harlem Globetrotters to come to a little town.
But there was a B team called the Harlem Satellites.
And it was they had the same kind
of uniforms.
And it was the
same sort of show.
It just wasn't the big names.
It wasn't Metal Arc Lemon and
Curly Neal and
all those guys.
But it was it was.
kind of an unknown cast of characters, but the same routine.
And it filled the gym
and
a wonderful show.
So I remember that, because I used to see the Harlem Globetrotters on TV, but then saw the Harlem Satellites in person, got a bunch of autographs, had no idea who these guys were.
Well, they're still out there.
They still travel around.
And of course, they always play the Washington Generals, who always lose.
The
Generals are not
supposed
to
win.
They accidentally won one time.
How long
do you think a metal arc lemon has?
Oh, he's retired.
Oh, yeah.
He passed away.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, this is the question I always had when I watched the Harlem Globetrotters way, way back when.
I was wondering why they didn't play like that in actual basketball games.
Why wouldn't they do that?
Why wouldn't
they
make it more entertaining
and
fun and crazy like that?
You know,
little known fact about the Harlem Globetrotters is that some
some professional baseball players played for the Globetrotters.
Fergie Jenkins, the Hall of Fame
pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, was the
Harlem Globetrotter for a time.
I didn't know that.
And I think Bob Gibson, if somebody should correct me if I'm wrong here, but Bob Gibson, the Hall of Famer from the St.
Louis Cardinals, I think also did a stint with the Globetrotters.
But I know for a fact Fergie did, because, you know,
it was...
All Cubs fans know that.
Fun stuff.
So Mike McCabe, actually, you're going to go on a little trip here real soon, right?
I
am going to Tanzania.
Because?
The Tanzanian key bean coffee beans?
Just
out of a desire to explore.
You like your travel.
A lot of people don't know this about me, but I did a two-year stint in the Peace Corps in West Africa in Mali.
Which is where Timbuktu is by the way.
Oh, but is it
great band?
I love those guys.
Oh, no, that's I've been to Timbuktu like
three.
Sorry.
I've been to Timbuktu.
Yeah, Timbuktu was a damn good band.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah,
Pat McDonald.
Pat McDonald, great
guy.
Pat McDonald and the Essentials.
Yes.
And I saw them at OK's Corral
here in Madison.
I know.
I think we may have been at the same show.
We probably were at
the same show.
It was many years
ago.
Yeah.
And the band becomes Timbuktu
3.
Right.
They had some moments.
Oh, they were great.
They
were stars.
They were
excellent.
Yeah.
But, you know, I wasn't even sure that Timbuktu was a real place.
Yes.
Because, you know, people...
It sounds crazy, doesn't
it?
Yeah, they kind of treated it as this mystical, mythical end of the earth or something.
Or is it?
Is it a real city?
But it's a real city.
And I've been there.
And it's now been almost devoured by the Sahara Desert.
It's really...
Oh, full desert and there's sand everywhere.
But it used to be a city of 100,000 people.
Now it's more like 30,000 people-ish.
And, you know, kind of living on the edge of, you know, really struggling place.
It used to be so central to trade routes in West Africa.
The salt trade, you know, salt would be brought by camel caravan to the countries like Ivory Coast, which would send up their more tropical products.
It used to be a huge trade center.
It has a thousand year old mosque.
I had a university, all of which is, the mosque still stands.
It's still, you can go to a thousand year mosque there, but the university's closed.
It's a shadow of its former self, but it's still, it's a pretty magical place.
Now
it's kind of living up to its name.
It
is the end of the earth.
Yeah, it is, but Ben there.
But I've never been to East Africa, so this is just a journey to unexplored territory for me at least, and looking forward to it.
Great.
So let's talk about your latest article on Substack.
It's entitled, let me get back to it here, Piss Pots and Yeller Dogs.
So what are you saying?
That's a headline, that's a grabber?
Yeller Dog, that's something your dad told you.
Both of them were, the title of the article relates to motivational phrases that my dad was fond of.
When I was not living up to his expectations, he would
He would say, well, you're never going to have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.
And if he didn't get my attention with that, he would then go on and say, hi, Otish.
sell you off for a Yeller Dog and shoot the Yeller Dog.
Now,
is that
a reference to Old Yeller?
I don't know.
I think Yeller Dog is just sort of...
But shooting the Yeller Dog.
Yeller Dog.
I mean, that's what they did to Old
Yeller.
That was just his way of saying what he thought I was worth at that moment.
I know, but as a
reference at that point, I think maybe the movie had something to do with...
It's possible.
You know, it's kind of country talk.
A way of speaking.
Your dad really worked.
He did.
I wrote in the article, I only recall my dad taking a full day off one time.
Wow, yeah.
In my entire upbringing, he took a day off to travel 200 miles to see my youngest sister get married.
My two oldest sisters.
were married on the farm, so he didn't have to leave.
But my youngest sister had moved away, and so he took the full day off, made me stay home, by the way, to milk the cows.
So I missed my youngest sister's wedding, because he wouldn't trust anybody to milk the cows who was outside the family.
That's the way he was.
But he worked every day, seven days a week, Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, you name it.
And in a factory.
And, you know, when he first, he was basically a sharecropper earlier in life.
That's the northern term for it is farming on halves where you're a tenant farmer.
You do all the work.
The landlord gets half of the proceeds of whatever gets produced.
And he saved up enough money to buy his own farm, but he had to work in a factory.
So he worked a full shift five days a week.
and then milked the cows before and after his shift and did the farm work on the weekends and
whatever else he
could squeeze it in.
Tough son of a gun.
And he expected his kids to have a similar work ethic and he pushed us hard.
That was his way.
Well, it's kind of funny because you made an appearance and somebody in the crowd brought up the fact that he worked
with your father.
Which stunned me because my dad was born in 1919 and has been dead and gone for...
quite some time.
But here's a guy who actually worked with him in that factory, elderly man now, but he must have been really young, must have been 20 years old when he worked
with
my dad.
Yeah.
Wow, that was a great story.
It was.
All right, we're visiting here with Mike McCabe when we will continue the conversation in just a moment.
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And we're talking about, talking about the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, the Savannah Bananas and how they have sold out two shows at a great.
American ballpark.
Yeah, Cincinnati.
Yeah, that's huge.
But I really like one thing they had in it and that is the golden batter.
Are you familiar with the golden batter?
It's a golden batter.
This is where they can enter a batter anywhere in the lineup that they want on each team.
Yeah.
I guess, you know, yeah, it's kind of fun, you know.
They have
great ideas that could certainly be their own real.
And there are some who've said that Major League Baseball should adopt that.
By the way, the golden arrow where you could take Shohei Otani and in a crucial moment, insert him.
Insert him.
Yeah, that
would be kind of cool.
But so far that has not progressed beyond probably talk radio.
The Savannah bananas.
Right.
You got to really check them out.
If you ever see them on TV, it's very entertaining stuff.
But anyway, let's get back to your.
Substack article, and that is Piss Pots and Yeller Dogs.
And the point of your post, actually, let's get to that quick.
Yeah, there is a point to all the storytelling, you know, and if people want to, you know, read it, the online journal is called A Beyond House, and it's mikemacabe.substack.com.
So people can go read it.
The point is that, despite my upbringing,
And despite the fact that it probably would make my dad roll over in his grave, I think America needs to shorten its work week.
And Iceland did a six year experiment with a shortened work week.
And then decided, the results were so positive, they decided to take it national.
And they went to a four day work week nationally.
And of course, skeptics said, well, that's gonna
Harm worker productivity and it's gonna create economic stagnation didn't happen.
Mm-hmm Worker productivity has not gone down in some cases.
It's actually improved interestingly People working fewer days yet producing more it hasn't created economic stagnation among the European countries Iceland's got the best economic growth the lowest unemployment is doing exceptionally well
And workers are saying they report fewer mental health problems, they like their work better, there's greater job satisfaction.
And I think when you look at all the stresses here in this country and the fact that we've got rates of clinical depression that are the highest in our nation's history, suicide rates that are rising,
And just all the pressures that exist, I think it's something that America should be doing.
And like I said, my dad had one day off and worked seven days a week all the time, his whole life.
But we don't live in my dad's world anymore.
And those days are gone and with the automation that you see out there.
Iceland decided to do something about work-life balance.
And they started it experimentally, but now it's national policy there.
They decided work-life balance matters and let's do something about it.
And that's the kind of discussion that we're not even having in the United States.
We're not talking about what we could do to establish better work-life balance.
And so dad, like I said, is probably grumbling at me.
and making some reference to Yeller Dogs down his grave.
But hey,
you know.
I was just going to say that Gordy and I could never, ever work a shortened week because we've got to be here for everybody in
five days a
week.
That's what it's all about.
I don't know.
Carve out an exemption for a radio show
host.
Well,
Catherine's here.
I mean,
what do you think about that, Catherine?
Because we worked
like two or three days a week.
Let's skip over the.
What?
Saturday.
I don't want to abandon everybody during the week.
You're right.
We've got to hold everybody's hands through troubling times.
John Mentor telling us that Pat McDonald's wife and Wally Ingram from Beloit on drums is into Timbuk 3.
Oh yes.
Just to bring that
up.
Thank
you.
Thank you for that.
Mike McCabe, thanks for joining us.
You're
going
to be gone in the next couple of weeks, right?
Where are you
going in?
Tanzania,
East
Africa.
Okay, wow.
Well,
take some pictures.
The cradle of
civilization.
OK.
Well, we can't wait to hear the stories when you come back.
Now, I mentioned the Tanzanian pea bean coffee beans.
They're one of my favorite coffee beans.
So
maybe they'll give us some.
Package.
They'll
let us sample.
Bring some back.
Check it out.
Yeah, smuggle some back.
BR1 Valdes.
That
is going to do it for us for today.
Tomorrow, Tim Slecker will rejoin us.
Also, Jim Santel.
Yes.
Attorney at law.
Stephanie Miller is coming up next.
We hope you have a great day.
Talk to you in 22 hours.
So long, John.
Okay, I'm going to count down the
hours.
Okay.
All right.
Have a great day.
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