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Yeah.
Today's gonna be beautiful though.
We're at 64 degrees and bright, beautiful sunshine overlooking the capital this morning on State Street.
Looking good for the rest of the day.
Humidity level, not bad.
Not bad.
Two points seems to be...
Lower than 60, I'm guessing.
I could be wrong.
That's just a guess in my part.
Do you have the WMDX?
I do not have the deep point exactly at this
going to
My
ready to roll
I'm pretending like I know what I'm doing right now.
Yeah, that's good.
What do you got on your head there?
What is this?
Is that a beanie?
Yeah, I wore this before, but I just like the way it looks.
I don't know.
I bought it off Timu for like $5, and so I've been wearing it ever since.
Very comfy.
Does it have
Yeah, it looks like markings.
It looks like markings of something.
They're hieroglyphics of something.
Yes, but that's why I think it's pretty cool.
I like the hieroglyphic kind of lettering.
I don't know what it means, though, so maybe it might not be a good idea to wear it all the time.
Well, is there a way that you can
Yeah
What's happening there?
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And that was groundbreaking.
And they were spies.
Yeah.
And they were cool spies.
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And Kulp who wrote episodes and directed it.
And was a guy I looked after.
I mean, he just had a presence.
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And now I read a story where there is a clothing manufacturer suing Costco because Costco used to sell their clothing, but all of a sudden now there's a Kirkland brand that seems to have the same kind of clothing.
If you ever shop there, Kirkland replaces almost everything in the store of brand names.
They have their own eventual name tacked on these products that they used to sell from other manufacturers.
I'm wondering if how true this is that they've been kind of stealing products from
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Yeah, they had done that over a course of several years.
Yeah.
They were just when they were messing around in the studio, they had, and you can tell it's kind of a montage.
It goes from different little bit to different little parts.
And yeah.
So that's the just the end.
I know it's a weird character.
I mean, it's almost like I've seen
What is it?
What would you rather?
Which would you rather?
Which would you got to get this right?
Would you rather?
Would you rather?
That's better one or the other would you rather?
Okay, let's rather.
Let's start this off.
Shall we?
Alright, first question.
What's worse?
Yeah, basically.
Point.
2.0.
Go ahead.
Would you rather swim in a pool full of Nutella or a pool full of maple syrup?
It's sort of a chocolatey thing.
It's a chocolatey mixture.
Not really, though.
But it's not.
But it's not.
It's hard to explain, honestly.
I can't explain it.
That's why it's so good.
And I also really like marshmallow fluff, too, which I don't know if you guys know marshmallow fluff.
Marshmallow, I can... Yeah, that's okay.
my
sleep in the bed?
No, she
I don't know how she
Oh, boy.
OK.
what,
days or something?
Yeah.
The River of Mosquitoes.
No, it doesn't.
Yeah.
But apparently it wasn't that bad.
No.
So find out more.
Times have changed.
629, we're coming back with Idiocracy on this edition of John and Gordy in the Morning.
635 beautiful sunshine for Wednesday highs in the mid 80s right now mid 60s John we got a We get these every once a while an email.
Oh,
this is
I guess you can fill out a questionnaire or something from
one of our websites and anyway it says what are you looking for in local news that's the question and uh D answers real news the truth and we found it on your station along with enough levity to start our day off right starting the day on levity that's what we bring to the table right some levity once in a while um we got a lot better than the s word all right we got a text here from Doug
Yes.
We were talking about Alligator Alley, right?
Or Alligator Alcatraz.
That's right.
Yeah.
My
from
Well, he was part of a holiday parade or something, but and it wasn't in the 50s either.
No, what was it?
Well, we were working in the 80s, right?
We were working at Channel 47.
They tried to bring back a modern version of Leave it to Beaver.
So it wasn't bad.
It wasn't bad, but it was the new Leave it to Beaver, you know, and they brought back Eddie Haskell in that TV show and Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow.
You know, they're much older adults than and they had their kids of their own that were getting in trouble.
Jerry
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.
There's no way to survive this, you
idiot!
She
The gentleman yields, no one loves veterans more than President Trump, and he's made that apparent.
That's why he's working for peace right
now.
I'm the chair of this committee.
I'm the chair.
You're not recognized, Ms.
Stainbury.
You're not recognized
either.
You can't just speak anytime you
the
chair
of this committee.
recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury, you're not recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury, you're
recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury, you're not recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury, you're not recognized.
Stansbury, you're not recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury,
you're
recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury,
you're
not
recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury, you're not recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury, you're not recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury, you're not recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury, you're not
recognized.
Ms.
Stansbury, you're not recognized.
How can she do that?
She just gavling, you know Stop losing the argument.
Oh my gosh.
She is You know, but the thing is, you know, you got to think about the people who voted her in We think she's bad.
How about the people who said hey?
We like her for our true Taylor green.
Oh, man.
All right.
Okay.
That's a great opener.
I think.
Okay.
Now.
Yeah.
I thought of this the other day.
Um, uh, you know, we're under a dictator right now.
I was the first one
it.
Okay.
Time has
come for us to sit down and reason together.
Too often serious world problems are discussed in an environment full of passion and unreasoning anger.
The day when a fiery orator could influence an audience with feminine tirades has long since passed in this age of sophisticated political awareness.
Let us then communicate with each other on a civilized level.
Even President Justin disdains the impassioned appeal to the emotional sensibilities of his cattle, his people.
it.
Not for me, the rabble rousers scorching indictment.
Of course, it is true that some leaders have made progress with recalculated peoples through the use of demagogic emotional displays.
But that is to be expected when dealing with a great bulk of the lower and middle class peasants who are easily swayed by pyrotechnic performances.
But if I am elected, I shall lead this nation forward, as never before, to a position of preemence throughout the world.
I believe it is our manifest destiny to dominate the oceans of the world and to bring the white man's burden to the underprivileged nations of the earth for they are better accustomed to
And whether I say the dominance of this country and world trade military power shall be enhanced and enlarged to the point where entire nations shall bow down and wobble in the dust at our feet.
show marched together in a tremendous fight for the manifest destiny that shall be ours.
What's the dove in
running.
No doubt.
Yeah.
All right.
This is kind of a weird one.
Um, the Wall Street Journal reported this stuff.
Walmart coin.
Okay.
Wow.
Yeah.
Walmart.
coin could be coming to a superstore near you thanks to the cryptocurrency industry-backed genius act.
God, Walmart, Amazon, and even some major airlines are considering issuing their own stable coins.
Now these are the ones that are a little bit better than all the other ones, but they're still prone to corruption.
The new bill
I
Crypto stuff at all, right?
The new bill rolls back federal oversight of stable coins and permits corporations like meta and X to issue their own made-up monopoly money with Exorbitantly high fees see and in the whole reason why we had have this this crypto idea going is that X wanted to become the next PayPal
As well so you can make purchases on it and he can make some money and charge a lot of money The Justice Department meanwhile is currently suing Apple for alleged antitrust violations that trap iPhone users into using its own tap-to-pay and digital wallet technology using our current cash system Now I don't understand it because you know Samsung has its own wallet.
And in one state, I even believe they have their driver's license in it.
So you don't have to carry that around anymore.
You don't need a wallet or a purse.
Anyway, Oracle, an artificial intelligence firm, also reported they're tapped by the administration to stage a purchase of TikTok.
And Palantir, the mass surveillance corporation, reportedly compiling a master list of American data, is also trying to pick up on TikTok.
Oh, great.
Now we just heard from Trump that, you know, there's some kind of deal going with China on TikTok.
So we've got Oracle, China, and Palantir vying for TikTok, and it still isn't sold.
And Trump said he'd released that in a couple of weeks.
But he doesn't have a sense of humor, so I kind of wonder about that.
Right.
Meanwhile, the new Defense Department initiative just recruited executives from Palantir, Metta, and OpenAI to join the U.S.
Army Reserves as part-time military officers.
Together, they form a new executive innovation corporation.
dedicated to bringing about a new era of defense technology.
It sounds scary
Here's the problem with that
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Hey everybody, Tim Miller from the Bull Work here.
I was just on MSNBC with Chris Janssen and we were talking about this supposed so-called alligator Alcatraz, this new ice detention center in the Everglades.
And I wanted to share the conversation with you.
I got to tell you, Chris really kind of brought me down.
This doesn't usually happen on TV, but I hadn't seen some of the details around how, let's just be blunt, how excited.
MAGA voters are, I guess, about this detention center in the swamp.
People are buying T-shirts, little hats.
Let's talk with Cam about this because Denny Johnson on one of his feeds wearing alligator Alcatraz hat.
It's just like, it is so dark and so cruel.
It's so gross on so many levels.
It's like that we are screwing with this natural habitat.
like to just because we want to create some 80s action movie detention center for people, some of whom I am going to presume are not even violent criminals.
That's right.
It is it's deeply disheartening.
So we talk about that with Chris Janssen.
We talk about the reaction to Cuban community in Florida, which I think might become a problem for Trump.
And
You know, what I, what I didn't get into as much as I wanted was just how, how sick it is.
Just how sick it is that this is the priority, that this is what these guys are doing.
The president and Florida governor Ron DeSantis seeming to delight in how the natural environment of a swamp, the wildlife that comes with it as well, would make it difficult for anyone trying to escape.
The stakes are fast, but alligators, we're going to teach them how to run.
away from an alligator, okay?
If they escape prison, how to run away?
Don't run in a straight line, run like this.
And you know what?
Your chances
go up about 1%.
The security is amazing, but what?
Natural and otherwise.
Five people have died in ICE custody since January.
The latest, a 75 year old Cuban man who came to the United States nearly six decades ago
but died after three weeks in detention.
Is the threat of cruelty the point here, a deterrent?
I think so.
The whole thing is extremely dehumanizing.
Like the idea that somebody had spent here for 60 years, you know, needs to be held in a cell, like for what?
What it has, though, Tim, been big plus for the MAGA base.
I mean, the Florida Republican Party is selling all kinds of alligator Alcatraz merchandise.
There you see some of the t-shirts.
They've got hats.
One Florida Republican Party official said that the traffic to their website and the donation links have skyrocketed by 400 to 500%.
So now you're just
trying to depress me on midday.
I'm just
stating the facts.
stating the facts, Tim Miller.
Well reporting now to that the money to do that was stolen from FEMA.
Wonderful.
Yeah, that's great real quick.
Here's something for you.
Who said this?
foreign policy slash military actions Are a little more nuanced and watching shows like me press.
I'm paraphrasing.
Pete
Wow.
Okay.
Wow.
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