John and the Car Mystery (Hour 1)

When the chips are down and democracy's back is up against the wall, two radio veterans step up to the microphone to right the wrongs, standing for truth, justice and just because.

Hey, are they ready to go yet?

It's John and Gordy on 92.7 WMDX.

That's where it's happening as usual.

Johnny Gordy.

What?

It's the mad pad.

It is the mad pad.

Johnny Gordy in the morning and we're over in State Street in glorious Madison, Wisconsin, if you're tuning in for the very first time.

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That's what I

hear.

Unbelievable.

Yeah.

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Yes, yes.

Just check us out there.

And then, of course, you can text us or give us a voice note.

Voice note.

You

can

get a

voice

note.

Yeah.

And we haven't gotten a lot of voice notes, just one that you guys seem to overplay.

What's a brand new

dramatically?

Yeah, let's play it again.

Why?

Troy from Mount Horam.

Tell that

bittersing guy to shut his yeah.

I think Troy was just testing it to see if it worked.

Yeah, I think he really meant that.

No, no.

But we

like to play.

No, we love everybody out in Mount Horam, you know, the grumpy troll.

Yeah, the trolls.

And of

course, the apple cider.

Brewer out there as well.

Right next door.

It's kind of overcast this morning.

Eight minutes past the hour.

It's cloudy.

It's feeling a little humid.

I think the dew point is pretty high.

I would assume it is.

Yes.

Very uncomfortable.

We could have some showers and thunderstorms at times today.

We'll check in with Brittany Merleau a little bit later on.

Find out the weather for this week.

Do you have a good weekend?

Well, uh, yeah, I was okay.

I

went to the, I went to the protests on Saturday.

It's good for you.

Huge crowd.

Huge crowd.

And it was all very peaceful.

No problems there, but it was, uh, started at the library mall with the women's march at noon and then, uh, or get together there.

And they marched up State Street, up to the Capitol.

Massive crowd.

Yeah.

The Liberator Mall, did you see that event?

I did, yes.

And did

they dress like

clowns?

They did.

There were lots of clown-like, you know, costumes and all kinds of signs.

I mean, yeah, a huge collection of clown-like gear.

And, yeah, no, it was really good.

Really good.

I really wanted to make it, you know, but hurting my two sons

not

easy, not easy, and we eventually gave up.

Well, it went on until about about five o'clock.

Yeah,

and

that's what I hear.

Yeah, and then of course traffic was crazy.

I know that everybody wanted to get home to see the military parade.

Thank goodness they had a lot of television coverage of that.

Yes, yes.

You know, it wasn't as jam-packed as I thought they would.

No, it was very... I was expecting

huge crowds.

It was very comfortable, wasn't it?

I mean, you know, people had a lot of room, elbow room.

Apparently, there was plenty of additional seating in the bleachers there.

And that

was nice, you know, people could find a seat right away.

looked like the president fell asleep a couple of times during the march that's what it looked like to me wasn't all that uh

i personally think he was actually just dreaming about you could see him kind of maneuvering and you know grouchy scowl on his face

going in and out of consciousness yeah

kind of like you know move his head back

quickly.

I was like, Oh,

yeah, I

am busy.

He was tired.

Yeah, he was trying to

Well, barely keeping consciousness out there in the stands.

That was really an embarrassment.

And I enjoy that, you know?

I was just on the way here.

I was looking at pictures of it.

And they had a back shot of where Chuck sat.

And he was standing up, I guess, you know, that he was giving his speech or something like that.

But he was standing up in front of him across the street, empty.

Empty

seats.

Really?

Oh, that's too

bad.

Well, there was loud.

There was rain and thunderstorms in the forecast.

Yeah, that was it.

Sure, that kept a lot of people away.

Oh, I'm sure that was

it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, that was too bad.

I don't think he's gonna live that down.

I won't

let him forget.

That's for sure.

A little bit later on, we're gonna talk to Tiffany Hobbs.

She's from Los Angeles radio station KFI AM, big station in LA.

Yeah.

And she's gonna give us, you know, the lowdown on what's been happening in Los Angeles for the last week or so.

Right.

And of course we'll be talking to Pam Yonkey here in about 10 minutes or so.

Get the food and farm report from the Midwest.

Lots of things coming up.

Over the weekend, last couple of weeks, we had our Scotty Summer Text-to-Win Contest.

And I was able to get ahold of one of our grand prize winners.

Do you have that queued up there, Dom?

Yes, we do.

Yes, we do.

Let's play it.

All right, let's listen

to this.

All right, let's listen.

Here we go.

All right.

Hello.

Hello.

My name is Gordy.

I'm calling for Trace.

This is he.

Wait,

is this Gordy of John and Gordy?

This is.

How you doing?

Cool.

Hey, man.

What's up?

Well, let me tell you, you have been selected as one of our grand prize winners in our Scotty Summer Text-to-Win Contest.

Are you kidding me?

No.

I'm not kidding at all.

Oh, my God.

I told my wife.

I was like, I'm going to manifest this.

We're winning it.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Oh, my God.

I love you guys.

I listen every day on the way

to work.

Well, Trace, you have won a two night stay in the White Lace Inn in Sturgeon Bay in Door County.

Congratulations.

Oh, that's great.

I can't believe it.

I would just told my wife that I'm going to win this contest because I never win anything.

So this is great.

Fantastic.

Well, congratulations from everybody at Civic Media and at WMDX.

We appreciate you listening.

Thank you all.

I love you guys this show.

I listen every morning.

Terrific.

Thanks, Tony.

I appreciate you.

Beautiful.

OK,

so Trace is a happy camper there.

Very

wholesome, very wholesome.

Yeah, that's

a

great place to go, too.

Oh,

yeah.

So lucky.

That'll be a good time.

And we had another grand prize winner.

I don't have that one with me today, but another grand prize winner who won a bed and breakfast at Baraboo at the Ringling House.

Big fan of who?

Actually, listen on a different station.

I got W HMS.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Okay.

Yeah, I don't have it in front of me.

So

we had so many stations in the civic media group

25.

I think yeah 25 and counting.

Yes

So, let's see.

I stopped counting at 20.

Did you?

I don't know why I said

that.

Well, let's check the history books here.

Dom has been working all weekend long to gather the information up.

And what do you got for us this

morning?

I'm very excited for this.

I'm very excited for this.

I love this segment.

I love every day whenever we do the segment.

All right.

Well, should we interrupt him?

Because we have the National Day Calendar.

No, no,

no.

We don't really do

the National Day Calendar.

We don't do the National Day Calendar.

Well, no, we

don't do the National Day calendar, but we do want to know what we're missing.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

Let's go check it.

All right.

Hang on a second now.

You caught me unprepared here.

I know that.

It's National Fudge Day.

That's the only thing on the calendar.

What?

That's it.

That's it.

One thing.

National Fudge Day.

It's like we're skipping this day then.

So go up to the Dells and have some fudge.

Okay, back to you, Dom.

All right, let's go history here.

We got in 1884, the first purpose-built roller coaster, the Switchback Railway was made and actually used.

1884.

1884.

First roller coaster.

I would have been very scared if I went on that roller coaster.

Yeah.

I wouldn't

trust it.

Well, I know, you know, how would the guy introduce it, right?

I don't

know.

This is the very

first roller coaster.

Anybody want to volunteer?

That's the way they talked back then.

They did talk

like that.

Do I

have

some

volunteers?

It may look dangerous,

but it's exciting.

Hold on to your hats.

Okay, what else?

Alright, and then in 1903...

The Pepsi Cola Company forms.

Oh, there we go.

What a moment that was.

Very, very, very nice there.

Yes, yeah.

OK.

And then in 1933, the FDIC is created.

So there we go.

All right, that's

really

exciting.

Absolutely fascinating

in there.

Were you, way back when, you know, Gordy and I go back, were you a big Pepsi fan or a Coke fan?

You know,

there were the groups.

Always Coca-Cola for me because my grandfather.

drank Coca-Cola and it worked at a bottling plant for a while.

Coca-Cola, bottling plant.

Good

reason, yeah.

Well, how about the flavor?

Were you a hip

to the flavor?

Pepsi's too sweet for me.

That's what I was thinking

too.

Yeah.

But Coca-Cola, it's got a little kick to it.

See, I always go with the underdog and I really wanted to back Pepsi.

Yeah.

Because, you know, everybody like Coke.

Yeah.

And everybody still loves Coke, man.

Sure.

Okay.

I don't

know.

All right.

Go ahead.

Anywho, all right.

Yeah, I'm done with that one.

Let's go to not condoning any use of any illegal products.

Okay.

All right.

And then we'll, we'll go to birthdays here.

All right.

Tupac, 1971, birthday was today.

Okay.

Catherine Graham, who I didn't know I had to search that up, 1917.

She was.

Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, she made the Washington Post.

She

transformed

into the one of the most leading newspapers in the U.S.

today.

That's true.

And then Bob Ryland.

I have no idea who this is.

1920.

He was the first African-American to play professional tennis.

Oh, really?

I should have known that.

Bob Ryland,

okay.

All right.

Well, that's did you have a good

weekend by the way you went camping, right?

Yes, unfortunately, I went camping I went to what do you mean?

Unfortunately, what happened?

I went to Governor Thompson about an hour north of Green Bay and it rained the entire time it down poured every every second I mean we try to make a fire it went out after five minutes.

Yeah

Do you have a tent?

We made a tent.

It was kind of janky, but we ended up making it.

And we only spent like half a night there.

And then we left early in the morning.

What?

Just half a night?

Yeah.

We gave up.

We gave up.

I realized I'm not good outside, so I just, I tend to just stay inside.

Any mosquitoes out there?

Where do you

stay inside?

Well, I just went into my car, we ended up sleeping in my car.

That's what I was thinking.

But in terms of mosquitoes, yeah, I have a couple on my foot, I have one on my butt cheek, so I mean, I've got quite a few right

now.

Yeah, they find different places to go.

Wow.

Wow.

Yeah, that should be a lesson.

Dumb, never go camping again.

I learned my lesson back then as well.

So golden age, you know, you'll learn never go camping.

Well, I mean, when it's raining, yeah, that's miserable.

No, it's miserable no matter what.

Really?

You got to sleep on the ground.

That's not.

Spiders on our tent and everything.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

You

get a mattress.

Bugs.

Bugs.

Snakes and spiders.

And

horseflies.

Yeah.

Bad

stuff.

Bad stuff.

Well, we're glad you survived.

You know, with hotels and all that stuff and all these resorts, why would you ever sleep outside and attend?

What is

wrong with you people?

How about a cabin?

Would you go for a cabin?

Yeah, or definitely a cabin.

Sure.

I like a cabin too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Good enough.

So that was your weekend, huh?

Yeah, it was pretty easy.

And then I have my birthday tomorrow.

So I'm expecting big things tomorrow.

How old are you going to be?

I'm going to be 22 with the right baby 22.

That's really sad.

All right.

What?

What's sad about

that?

So much to learn.

So many

things to do.

OK.

All right.

Well, that sounds good.

All right, coming up right around the corner, we've got Pam Yonkey.

What's she going to be talking

about?

Big tip, do not deal pot, OK?

Do not deal

pot.

What did that come from?

What are you talking about?

John's giving me life lessons out here.

Yes, that's right.

Life lessons.

Don't do it.

Well, tomorrow we're going to talk to Jesse Christensen.

He's with Cannabis DNP.

Now

you can learn a little bit more about

it.

He's going to be telling us about cannabinoid therapeutics.

There's a whole new, I don't know, product line of taffy or something.

It's like, not gummies, but taffy.

Wow.

Cannabis taffy.

Okay.

19 past the hour.

Pam Yonkey is right around the corner on John and Gordy in the morning.

Don't you go anywhere.

92.7, John and Gordy in the morning.

Kind of a rainy morning after all.

Yeah, I got to say this.

This is really scary and ghostly.

What are

you talking about?

I turned my car on this morning and my windshield wipers are going.

Yeah.

And the back windshield wiper was on.

I didn't do that.

That wasn't something I switched off.

I don't know how my car knew it was raining.

and put the wiper blades on.

It's a smart car.

But it completely freaked me out.

No, it's not a smart car.

So I don't know what happened.

Okay.

All right.

Just a little note.

Thank you for that report.

Thank you.

Yeah, we've got some drizzle, some light rain right now and temperatures in the mid sixties.

We'll get up to about 80 today.

It's going to be warm and humid this afternoon.

Pam Yankee joins us now from the Midwest Food and Farm report.

Good morning, Pam.

Yeah, morning, guys.

You know what?

Mine does the same thing.

automatically turns on my back windshield weathers don't my front one will all of a sudden just randomly start if it feels any moisture on my windshield it did it yesterday afternoon I was coming from bearable and all of a sudden I didn't notice I didn't even notice the raindrops or you know the speckles on my windshield but it did so

yeah

But you know, but the thing is the back window.

Yeah, that one would have that doesn't do that.

Yeah.

Mine doesn't mean freak you out.

It was weird.

I'm still kind of freaked out about that.

So give us a recap of your weekend.

How about breakfast on the farm?

Yeah.

How'd that go?

You talk about freaked out.

That's the way a lot of little people were feeling on Saturday when they got up close to some of the dairy cows at the Hinchley dairy down by Cambridge.

First of all,

Thanks to all the volunteers.

Thanks to everybody that showed up.

They were guessing north of 5,000 people that were there starting at 7 a.m.

The line.

I got a chance to have a pancake.

I looked down to eat my pancake.

I look back up and all of a sudden there was a swarm of humanity waiting to stream into the machine shed for breakfast.

So it really happened fast, but it was a well-coordinated effort.

I thought it was really interesting to see what people are gravitating towards.

I

mean, obviously the cows, the cows are the big attraction.

Everybody wants to see them and kind of get a little perspective on how big they are.

But it was also cute to see they had three barn kitties, three barn kitties, and kids could line up to hold the barn kitties.

Now, I mean, kitties, babies of any kind are cute.

But when you put barn kitties with little kids, it was just...

If you want to see the pictures, I've got some up at Midwest Farm Report and Fabulous Farm Babe on Facebook.

The moms and the parents would be with the little kids so they didn't hurt the kitties or do anything like that.

But I thought to myself, holy man, are those kitties going to sleep well tonight?

They've been passed through hundreds of homes

through the

course of the morning, but no, it was really well done.

Third time that the Hinchleys had hosted it.

So again, like we said, really, really well done for sure.

All right.

That's excellent.

You know, Cambridge is quite a nice little town.

It is.

Been through there a

number of times.

Yeah.

Great little shops over there.

Love them.

Now, we did talk about the artisan butter last week.

Well, now let's talk about the food and beverage innovation camp that's going on.

Kekelman is putting this in.

Well, it's their part of it.

So I didn't even, I didn't know that this was going on.

If you live or drive through the Jefferson area.

So what they're calling this is a food and beverage innovation campus.

And what they're doing, Jefferson County, I don't know if you're aware is home to

quite a few different food companies.

Nestle Food is down there.

There's a lot of different food related companies.

And

now they've decided to try to bring them all together in this food and beverage innovation campus.

Kekelman is the first to financially commit to building their factory there and that's already underway.

According to the economic development people that are connected with it, they said they've already invested about $563 million to create this

welcoming area and one of the reasons why Jefferson is so well suited for this is the workforce.

That's something that Jefferson pouted for a long time and they want to continue to bank on that.

So this looks like it is very well supported not only in Jefferson County as far as public money but also as far as the agribusinesses and food companies that are interested in coming there.

The next phase after they get started with the actual brick and mortar

of the food manufacturing side of things will be focusing in on creating the residential element for all the employees that these companies are going to be needing.

They

said

they know that they're out there but they want to make sure they're close to where they're going to have to work.

So that'll be the next phase.

That's great.

All right.

Let's talk about border college because I have one.

I have a two year old that can't stop working in the yards.

Yeah, I used to have one too.

Yeah.

They're great dogs.

Yeah.

Oh, they, so long as you'd like to, to your point, so long as you've got something for them to do.

And that is exactly what Cooper, the six year old border colleague, a 15 year old, four age girl named Addison Connelly up in Galesville in Treplo County has been fascinated and partnered up with her dogs really since she was a little kid.

And through 4-H, the clover kid, she got started with this dog, Cooper, who's now sick.

They are on their way to Portugal in a couple of weeks for the 4-H Team USA Junior Open Agility World Championship.

The dog's going along right now.

He's going through his shots and making sure he's got papers.

He has seven different commands just to get him through the jump obstacle.

Think

about that.

Wow.

Now don't

they

usually use like signals, but she uses

her voice now.

Yep.

She did use she did use hand signals and now Cooper's so good.

She can use her voice.

So this is happening in Portugal.

Why?

Why Portugal?

Why?

Because it's an international.

International.

It's like it's like the 4-H team Olympics.

So this

will be 4-H kids from around the world in Portugal doing this.

They've got the Border Collie competitions right here in Wisconsin.

Do they?

Well, they've got Border

Collie competitions all over

the world.

All over, huh?

Go to Ireland and watch how they work those Border Collies.

Oh, yeah.

Well, gotta give them something to do and give them a lot of competitions is one way of

doing it.

Gotta keep them busy.

They want to work.

Oh, man.

I'm on a tough schedule.

Mine keeps me on a schedule.

Pam Yonkey, the fabulous farm babe.

Thank you so much, Pam.

All

right, buddies, we'll talk on Friday.

All right, that's good.

OK, 29 minutes past the hour, right around the corner.

Idiocracy, we've got a lot to get to today.

It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.

Can't

wait.

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 fall each other right there.

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

Idiocracy.

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

They're always dumb.

And finally, we caught another dumb one.

Yeah.

Vance Bolter.

Yeah.

Captured in a woods.

Major manhunt there and they managed to have him crawl to them on the ground to just make sure he was somewhat safe still armed though Yeah, they have the killer in custody at this point in Minnesota

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Yes, they captured that suspect, Vance Bolter.

Yes.

The shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses.

He was arrested late last night and overnight.

Largest man hunt in Minnesota's history.

He's charged with two counts of murder and second in the second degree and two counts of attempted murder in the second degree Shooting allegedly state representative Melissa Hortman and killing her and her husband They were shot on Saturday same gunman shot Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife who survived this attack and

That's where things stand this morning.

So he's been captured.

Hey, why don't you queue up cut 145 for us?

So this is a TV reporter talking about who Vance like most Listen

We even asked about Mr. Bolter's political affiliations and David Carlson once again his roommate and best friend known him since fourth grade did say Bolter voted for Trump and that he was a strong supporter

Yes, okay.

Yes, and it kind of clears that up.

I mean the right wing of course is saying that he he's a liberal

because he had worked for a while for with governor

for a while But yeah, and and the previous governor was also a Democrat.

So it was a volunteer thing.

It's a Kind of a citizen panel and they ask people to be on it and he's been on that a few times.

So yeah

Yeah, supposedly.

Oh yeah, big, big Trump fan.

And he's a Christian nationalist as well.

I have another cut here, cut 146.

And this is an example of him dancing and preaching on stage for Jesus.

Let's listen.

And I'm just as excited about Jesus.

Right

here,

right now.

And when I get excited, I want to dance.

And what Jesus did for me!

Oh!

Jesus

is God!

Oh my God!

He saved my life!

I'm

excited about God!

And I want to worship him!

Oh my God!

Because he's coming again!

And he's got plans.

He's got plans

and purposes for each one of you.

And for me.

There

you go.

So that's Vance

Bolter.

So that was God's, I guess, plans for Bolter, and that is to kill people.

And he's pro-life, by the way, just to let you know as well.

Wow.

Yeah, that says a lot.

Well, good news is he's been captured.

Yeah, and Now we'll face those charges.

Well, you know, I mean this is kind of gonna catch on I think as well members of a several fry right mega affiliated groups are now urging members to carry out acts of violence against protesters and The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that members of the proud boys were making violent threats on their app telegram

One proud boy organizer reportedly said, you just have to impale a few of them while another declared it was a riot season again.

Shoot a couple, the rest will go home.

And that's what they're talking about.

Yeah, that's awful.

Yep.

Well, it's not a funny idiocracy today.

No,

not a lot of tragedy.

Yeah.

But you know what?

I got a web wisdom for you here.

Yeah.

Yeah, this is this is somebody who's saying, you know, they hear as well as we have been hearing that a lot of people are saying, this is what you voted for.

This is what you voted for.

Well,

and they're saying, no, this isn't what we voted for.

No.

You know what?

No, you did vote for this.

Let's listen.

No, come back to the front.

Come back to the front.

Y'all was all loud and bold and proud.

of everything.

No, no, no, this is exactly what you voted for.

Don't sit up here talking about something you were lied to.

No, baby, you believed the lie you told yourself.

You were trying to rationalize the thoughts of an irrational person and now you sit up here acting like you're in confusion.

Now, baby, this is exactly what you voted for.

Now that me, mom and papa don't have the Medicare coverage they need to take care of dialysis, now you talking about something that's not what you voted for.

Now that he took away research funding for cancer treatment and HIV vaccine, oh, now this ain't what you voted for.

Now that you and your

kids can't eat no more because he took away snap benefits because you're disabled and can't get medicated for you your kids no more now that ain't what you voted for oh no baby you voted for it all you voted for it all but because you thought it was gonna affect people who look like me and other marginalized communities you was more than willing to vote for him because you thought it was not gonna affect you I'll say it once I'll say it twice I'll say it 3,000 times unless you are a millionaire billionaire or a dictator you are a minority as well to that man

And now the rest of us got to find out because you decided to f&m.

Yep.

There you go.

It's a web

wisdom.

Yeah, exactly.

All right.

Telling it like it is.

I love those.

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five, five.

We have a golden valley suggesting that maybe the AI on my phone turned the wipers on.

Hmm.

Yeah, your wipers just automatically came on, especially the back wiper

this morning.

Yes, freak you out.

The back wiper really freaked me out because you got to kind of turn a little knob at the end of the arm to get that to work.

I don't know.

I don't just like.

It blew my mind.

The car, again, it's haunted.

You know, this is another Christine.

Well, do you think

maybe one of the boys took your car out last night when you were asleep?

Maybe they were out driving around.

It was raining.

Did you let him borrow the

car?

That's a really good explanation.

Are they

trustworthy?

Well, I only have one son that drives, but he doesn't like to drive my car at all.

Oh, he doesn't.

Why not?

It's a problem.

It's too small.

And I had the windows, I had the windows tinted because as I was driving around while I was doing the senses, that sun really, really baked the inside of the car.

So I

had the windows tinted, but they aren't real dark tints.

But just enough where he is uncomfortable driving at night because of the tinted windows, something I didn't think about.

But anyway, yeah, that's one possibility, but I don't know.

Maybe, maybe not.

You don't

know.

But I do have something, I have something else here, and this is David Glosser, you know who he is?

David Glosser?

He's the uncle of Stephen Miller.

Oh.

Crazy man, Stephen Miller of the administration.

He calls Stephen an immigration hypocrite.

And this was his interview with Anderson Cooper.

Listen.

Okay.

PC wrote, you describe your nephew Stephen Miller as an immigration hypocrite.

What do you mean by that?

It's an important question.

And I have to preface my response by saying that I wrote this article more in sadness than an anger or resentment.

Our family history is entirely dependent upon the fact that our family was able to escape from a terrible situation in what is now the country of Belarus.

Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist.

And so this notion of chain migration, which is something the administration calls the opportunity for somebody who's come to the United States to apply to get their parents to come, their cousins, brothers or sisters to come, that has been part of your family history, of Stephen

Miller's family history.

That is the classic story of virtually everybody in America who isn't a Native American or who was brought over unwillingly as a slave.

That's

everybody's story.

You referred to your nephew, Stephen, as an immigration hypocrite.

Do you see this administration itself as hypocritical?

The first lady, her parents, just got citizenship based on what the administration would call chain migration.

Well, let's think of it for a second.

As far as I understand, Mr. Trump's grandfather came over, or either his father or his grandfather came over as an immigrant from Germany.

trying to avoid drafting to the German Army.

He's trying to find a new life here in the United States.

And he is married, what's the count now?

Three immigrant women in the United States and has just, through chain migration, her parents have been made citizens of the United States and I welcome them.

Do you see a racial component in

this administration, how they view this issue?

You know, all those epithets are the sorts of things which were said about Jews, Irish, Poles, Hungarians, and virtually Italians, Sicilians, Sardinians.

Everybody from southern Europe, eastern Europe, from the Balkan countries were all condemned and vilified by the so-called America firsters of their day.

These people were described frequently as slime pumped out of the mud tanks of Europe, rapists, murderers, thieves, gangsters.

It is hard to escape the conclusion based on the administration's actions and policies rather than their rhetoric.

It's hard to escape the conclusion that they want to disadvantage people coming from

countries based on their religion, based on their ethnicity, and based on their countries and regions of origin.

Did it surprise you

that Stephen was involved in this, that you see him as a leading voice in this, in the administration?

Sadly, it's no surprise.

It appears that much of his professional identity and his personal identity has been wrapped up in this particular issue, though I do not know why.

Wow.

And his name again, that's David Glosser.

And he's Stephen Miller's uncle?

Yes.

Wow.

Yep.

I think I've heard him speak before about Stephen Miller.

Well, he's trying to explain, give people some insight into the crazy man.

But anyway, that's a little background on him.

So you kind of kind of understand what's going on.

Why don't we go to the phones?

We got Joe on the line.

Joe, what do you got for us this morning?

Oh, so much to do.

You know, I wanted to comment on the fabulous parade, of course, with the squeaky tanks

and

the empty stands.

One person described it as a triumph of the will designed by Bart Simpson.

And I thought

that was

nice.

I did want to come in on the immigration hypocrisy and just to add another layer to it because, you know, Trump had a very bad weekend as we know and came out with

this incredibly aggressive message that he's going to be directing ICE to be upping their game and going to Blue City, New York, Los Angeles again, and Chicago.

But at the same time, he said, gee, you know, we're having an effect here in terms of a bad effect on ag and hospitality industries.

And so he's asking ICE to halt raids on people working in hotels, farms,

and

restaurants.

OK, so what are we getting down to, like the home health care aids and roofers?

I mean, well, if you go and you seek an exemption, every industry is going to go seek an exemption.

Of course.

And so it'll be interesting who gets to see the wrath of Donald after this poor showing on the weekend.

That's

right.

It's

a big layer cake.

It is a layer cake.

Joe,

thank you

for your

call.

Appreciate it.

It's a good point.

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Sounds good to me, you know, we're gonna talk about the parade, shall we?

The big parade in Washington, DC.

You know, it's raining a little today.

Maybe everybody should just stay home just like they did for the parade.

Well, here in Madison,

we've got showers right now and the leaf blower guys are out there.

The rain.

Well, you never know.

Trying to find leaves, apparently, but pushing water around on the sidewalk.

I guess it helps clean

things up.

I think he knows something we don't.

So what about the parade in Washington, DC?

They had showers.

Well, Trump

is saying that it was a major success.

And a lot of people were worried that it would be downpours of rain.

So maybe some people stayed at home, but certainly a lot of people, the entire stands.

Well,

they were predicting 250,000 people might show

up for this thing.

I don't think it was, I don't think it quite made that.

No, I don't think so.

Maybe a couple thousand at the most.

You know, I saw a picture this morning of him standing up in the stands.

This was a back shot of Trump in his stands.

Yeah.

And he was facing the street and the stands across the street were completely empty.

And you would think those would be the most high in demand stance, but, you know, no one was there.

No one was there.

It was laughably bad.

And certainly something that he is never going to live down, not on this side of the aisle anyway.

You know, and I'm not, you know, we're not political in that way, but, you know, we do at least recognize there are two sides of the aisle.

And one side, the left side is going to be remembering this for a long time.

I noticed

some of them, you know, I saw some of the video and there were, you know, a few tanks rolling through the streets and then

they have some

squeaky tanks.

They were squeaky rusty old tanks.

And then they have some guys that were, they were just walking.

Some

of the

army guys dressed in fatigues, they weren't marching.

They were just walking.

They weren't marching, you know, uniformly.

There

was

like no cadence to it at

all.

I've got a post here on X and it explains it.

Former army here, it takes about a week of drill and basics to learn how to march.

Once you do, it's ingrained in you for life.

You know how to self-correct if you fall out of step.

And if there isn't a commanding officer leading the march, there's a designated point person within the ranks to call out left, right, left, right.

If they notice there's disorder in cadence, right?

So this...

cluster thing of a parade leaves me with only one conclusion.

This was a silent protest, a Foxtrot Delta Tango, if you will.

A Foxtrot

Delta Tango.

Yeah, of course.

Great name for a band.

Don't give

anybody an idea.

Yeah, rockers should take care of that one.

Of course, you know, there were a few signs out there as well.

There were lots of signs.

I jotted down a few of them here.

Our expectations for you were low, but holy f. Or you know it's bad when a straight white guy makes a sign.

which I thought was one of the better ones.

I think you texted one, no parking anytime.

Right.

They took the park off, so it's just no king anytime.

Yeah, I saw a few of those.

Yeah, five times draft judges don't get military parades.

I'd like to do that taco.

Oh, oh.

Tacos to go, that was one of them.

But did you see the videos on X?

People dressed up as tacos?

Yes, tacos and they had taco tanks.

Oh man.

Oh, those were gorgeous.

Yes, real patriots don't join the Gestapo.

They stop them.

J.D.

Vance puts his cast iron skillet in the dishwasher.

Stop

pretending.

What?

What is

that

about?

Well, people had some issues.

He's not in the Midwestern, everybody thinks.

Stop pretending your racism is patriotism.

Yes, your red hat does make your...

D, you look smaller.

Why do I protest?

It's easier than hiding in my family in an attic.

Twinkle, twinkle, little czar, Putin put you where you are.

I fought fascism in 1945 at 102.

I'm doing it again.

Cleanup on aisle 47.

Imagine being afraid of diversity, but not dictators.

You know, it's bad when an introvert shows up.

If the column were president we'd be at brunch right now You're eating the checks.

They're eating the balances elect a clown expect a circus if Melania doesn't have to live with him.

Why do we have to?

Really

yes Yeah, and how about does it does this ass make my country look fat?

Mmm.

That's

Very creative sign making

why do like that one.

Yeah

a dog war this, nobody's eating the dogs.

Yeah, I did see that one too.

Those are excellent

signs.

Oh yeah, so this is kind of a take off on some of these super callous, fragile, bigot, sexist, he's atrocious.

Yes, yes.

Yeah.

Very creative signs.

There you go.

Okay.

Hey, coming up in our next hour, we are going to check in with Tiffany Hobbs.