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.
To say what needs to be said, it's John Engordy on 92.7 WMDX.
I'm lining up my books.
Lining them up.
The mic is stable.
They look a little shaky.
I don't know.
The mic is pretty stable, but yours.
I need one more
book.
You do need another book or a box.
I can't reach.
Yeah, go get the.
I'll start to show you.
No.
No, let's wait.
Create a certain amount of tension.
The amount of books we have up there is crazy.
We have so many.
I know.
What did he say?
It's not like we read them, but they are here to hold up by a microphone.
That's okay.
Just to give a little extra, you know... It's kind of...
Yeah,
there you go.
Gravitas.
Well, it looks like we're heavy readers.
We're not.
It's so strange.
It really is.
But it certainly is our signature.
I guess so.
Pretty soon we'll be sitting on a stack of books.
Remember when you were a kid?
The grandparents came over for Thanksgiving or something.
You had to sit on a, you know, like you were in a chair that you didn't normally
sit in
because grandma and grandpa got the good chairs.
And then you'd have to sit on a, like the yellow pages or something.
You had
to sit on a different chair.
You had to sit on a little higher.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They had, you know, the bad, very bad folding chairs.
Oh God.
So
that was a rough
one.
Well, you know, thank God times have changed.
Now they just put a phone in our hands.
We sit in the corner someplace all the way
That's it
worried about the next day coming It's a
beautiful day.
No, it's a gorgeous day.
Good
morning, John Peterson.
Good morning, Tom Lee Our producer
good morning everybody morning to me and a happy birthday to Gordy.
Thank you Happy birthday edition of the show today.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, we're glad that you're still here
Well, me too.
Another day, another dollar.
It's truly a gift that you're still here.
It's a beautiful
day.
It's going to be nice and
sunny all day long.
I think so.
Yeah.
High is about 80 degrees and right now it's 60.
Degrees if you're just getting
started
really yeah, well check your Samsung WMDX watch just to be sure.
Well, that's why
I got my switchered on Yeah,
that's
why don't really is it chilly in there.
Please don't 60 high of 83 according to the watch 83 in a low of 64 tonight, you know, I have to laugh because You know, we've had pretty hot days here in the last couple of weeks, right and my son likes to take a walk
Early evening, sometimes late at night, but he wears a lighted strap.
But here's the thing, he wears, he wears a hoodie.
In this weather...
He wore the hoodie.
Why
would he need
a hoodie?
And he still does.
I don't know what it is.
He came downstairs, and Ann goes, you were in a jacket.
It's really hot.
It's like 85 degrees out there.
Well, I'm going for a walk.
Well, see, that certainly cleared it up at that point.
We all felt better.
I don't
know.
Was
he worried about mosquitoes or something, maybe?
Yeah, that's the one thing.
Hey, I got a big kid here.
I got, you know, I was shopping at Costco many years ago, and I got one of their rain-resistant jackets.
And there's nothing to them except just the shell, and you put it on, and it really does shed the rain.
pretty well and it's hooded.
And now we put that on, not for the rain, but for the mosquitoes outside.
I mean, it is so bad out there in our yard.
You go out there just for a few seconds and they are just on you.
Yes, it's really, really bad where I, well Middleton is, you know, they got these big ponds all over the place.
A lot of trees everywhere.
Yeah, it's just
really bad.
I haven't had too many troubles with mosquitoes
around my
place.
It hasn't been bad at all.
Because
you're in a metropolitan area.
A lot of concrete around
me.
A lot of it.
You guys should see my sister.
She's allergic to mosquitoes and when she gets bit, it's basically like a huge ball on her arm and everything.
It's really bad, yeah.
Really?
I've never heard of anyone allergic to mosquitoes, but she is one of them.
And yeah, she doesn't like it.
What's your sister's name?
Vanessa.
Vanessa, you have other, you have brothers and sisters?
I also have a brother too.
Yeah, my brother's two years younger and then my sister's five years younger.
Oh, what's your brother's name?
Brandon.
Okay.
Now you
guys.
Do you have a Boris in your family?
It seems like that
rings a bell.
No, no Boris.
Brandon
Lee.
Brandon
Lee.
Yeah, like movie
star.
Yeah, like Bruce Lee's brother.
Yeah.
All right.
There we go.
So, well, here's the thing.
I bet your sister then must smell like deet.
All the time.
Yes,
every single time.
Yeah, she has to lather up all the time.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
Is she the only one in the family like that that has that problem with mosquitoes?
And she listens to this.
So she's going to, I'm going
to
realize, yeah, we're talking about her right now.
Okay.
Wow.
Well, it's a big thumbs up from John Nagorty.
If you are listening to smart.
So
let me get this straight.
She gets a bite from a mosquito and it
swells up like a baseball or something.
Yeah, when she was really, when she was really young, she got bit on her lip.
and her lip blew up to the size
of
like, you know, like a mini little baseball.
Oh my God.
And she couldn't go to school for like a week.
So it was
awful.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's pretty bad.
I've never
heard of anybody being allergic to mosquitoes.
Now you know.
Now
you know.
Now I know the rest of the story.
Thank you.
Well, that's just great.
Um, just a few minutes, we'll be checking with Pam Yonkey.
She's got a lot on the list today here to talk about.
Well, you know why?
Because, uh, the big bad bill had some things and, uh, dealt with egg.
Mm-hmm.
The Wisconsin budget.
had a lot of things that had to do with ag.
So we had a few things to talk about, you know, how the money is being spread out throughout the state.
They're finally releasing some of that money.
It's really crazy, isn't it?
Again, I'm shocked at this.
I'm shocked they kept a billion dollars hidden away.
Yeah.
Yeah, because you know this they could have given that away as a tax cut as well, but they didn't they left that in there Mm-hmm, especially with the Trump administration making cuts the way they are and poised in off a lot of the costs of of Everything on the states now.
Mm-hmm, you know covering Medicaid and and emergency disasters Yeah, so they're finally gotta do
something letting letting go of the purse strings a little bit
Say we got a new thing happening if you check our WMDX radio.com website.
So we got a new book?
To
stack under our microphones?
No, I know you're excited about that, but no, we got more headphones in
here
than I've ever seen
though.
I think
Rocker forgot to
collect the
headphones
after his show
or
something.
The place is always rearranged every Monday morning.
Everything is in a different place than normal.
But no, if you go to our website, you'll see that you could win a pair of Brewer's tickets to go with John and Gordy to an upcoming Brewer's game.
Who would go to a game with them?
Well, I think
a lot of people might want to.
And then they think it over for a while.
And then they decide not to go.
I don't know.
We'll be going alone.
You know, they'll decide like a moment before leaving.
Do we
really have to put up with them?
Well, anyway, the game is coming up on.
lie 29th that's a Tuesday evening and you can go to our website WMDXradio.com and I'm trying to back
it
up to the right site here it's Cubs Brewers Day at the Park that's what it's called and you could win just enter it's all brought to you by Downerans Distilling Downerans Distilling a great place and we'll
tell you more about them as we go along.
They have incredible spirits to sample.
They have a tasting room in Cottage Grove.
I
understand it's beautiful.
I haven't been out there yet, but everybody says it's just a wonderful place.
So Dondren's Distilling, well, you know, they're going to foot the bill and we're going to go to a brewer's game with some lucky
person out there and a plus one.
Yeah, a
pair of tickets.
Don't ditch us.
No, the deal is we'll meet you at the ballpark
before the game and then we'll go in.
But we want to meet you there.
Don't change your mind.
Mom, it's too far to leave him.
We'll be in touch via phone.
That's something I do.
That's why I'm really
you would do that.
I
would do that.
I was saying, you know, we are kind of busy.
Oh, well, you know, we got to do the dishes.
But this
is a Cubs Brewers game.
This is a big deal.
They're a lot of Cubs fan.
I'm a Cubs fan.
I know
your wife is a
Cubs fan.
I watched the Cubs game last night.
Yeah, they beat up on the car.
They really beat up
11 nothing.
Yeah, it was ridiculous, wasn't it?
I know it's got to be hell for those network games when they get.
It's out of hand
early in the game.
It
was 11-0 pretty early.
They were just sitting there.
Well, they were all talking about the cup's pitcher who threw all his strikeouts.
My god, that was incredible.
It really was.
Yeah, they beat the Cardinals.
They're lifelong rivals.
Yeah, enemies.
That's right.
Rivals, I
guess that's the way to say it.
But the sports business, but the brewers and the Cubs are also rivals.
And if you want to go to that July 29th game,
this is gonna be
really good.
Amfam Field.
Just enter the enter the deal.
You know, go to WMDXradio.com
and enter.
We can't promise a good show the next morning, though.
Well, it's going to be a little bit of a late night, but that's OK.
We could pull it all nighter.
You think so?
Yeah,
I
think so.
And by the way, we're buying all the food and drinks.
So
that's,
you know,
hey, that's a big deal.
Ask for as much as you want.
That's
right.
We just want a great big
bill to present to management.
Wait, am I allowed to go or no?
We'll sneak you in.
No, go sneak, okay.
I think you're probably going to go.
That's a good question.
I'm not sure.
Hey,
John, there's something
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I assume they'll be lying so get there early
You don't want to wait no
Okay, Martin has something here.
He says we're being held hostage by a billion mosquitoes last Wednesday Really?
I use cutter yard spray Thursday and not one bite all weekend.
Wow
It hooks up to the hose what so it's up to the is it like a Mr.
Yeah,
that you hook up to the hose and it just missed we mr. Cutter in it.
I guess
mr. Hey, mr.
Yeah, well that I gotta know more about that that sounds really good of Verona Mm-hmm Martin tell us more my solution was to buy a battery operated pedestal stand.
Yeah, they have them
Still, at Costco, they were on sale last time I looked.
But anyway, it charges up in the base.
You can take it outside, use the battery for that, blow the mosquitoes away.
Really?
With that fan, you can blow them away and just sit out there and enjoy yourselves.
The fan just, mosquitoes can't handle the wind.
You know that.
Little wind.
They're up all the way.
They're afraid to come out.
I did know that, I guess.
Thanks for inviting me.
Talking mosquitoes
this morning.
Phone lines are open six or eight come
out right eight seven nine eight two five five.
We're coming back with Pam Yankee in just a moment on John and Gordy in the morning.
You
know, it's reading this little piece of history from some book, some place, written up in a review, but they talk about the old days when people had popcorn.
They put it in a bowl and poured milk on it, and it was their breakfast cereal.
Popcorn.
Popcorn with milk?
Yes, popcorn with milk.
You don't have the butter on it.
You don't have the salt, obviously, but you do have the popcorn.
This is Johnny Gordy in the morning.
I don't know why I brought that
up, but I don't know either.
But thank you.
Well, it
must be the vitamins.
New vitamins.
All right, well, let's go.
Oh, you
have
something?
No, I actually don't.
Let's check in with Pam Yonkin.
That's who we have right now.
Good morning, Pam.
Good morning, fellas.
Yeah, that
one I had not heard before.
I
mean,
it kind of makes sense if you're looking for calories and something to crunch on, but
Yeah.
I don't know if I'm even intrigued to try that one.
For me, popcorn is all about the butter
and salt.
Exactly.
But you know, it has those little hulls in it, too.
And I don't know if that goes well.
You know, for breakfast, you've got to pick them out of your teeth practically.
For the rest of the day.
Yeah.
You know, in the old days, they did a lot of that crazy stuff.
You know, we used to put milk on bread.
with, with sugar on it.
What?
Yeah.
Why?
I don't know why.
Okay.
Maybe we're, maybe we're, you know, really poor at the time.
Maybe.
And parents didn't tell me.
Could be.
All
right.
Well, let's get into,
let's move into, uh, yeah, the state budget.
I mean, there's a lot of goodies in there for the ag community, Arthur.
Yeah, you know, I don't want to make anybody's head spin after a Fourth of July weekend.
But yeah, there is a lot of detail that we're still breaking down from the budget that was passed last week, guys.
And so much of it is about Wisconsin agriculture.
So just a couple of highlight points that people should be aware of.
There's about million, little over a million dollars that's being dedicated to dairy processing grants.
Really, this is designed to keep Wisconsin's dairy infrastructure healthy.
So processing capacity, innovation, efficiency,
meat processors, although this was something that really became glaringly obvious during the pandemic when we had a difficult time processing all our livestock.
The commitment financially stays in place with about $1.6 million for facilities to upgrade or improve their meat processing facilities.
That's always good.
We've got watershed grants out there.
So when farmers put in conservation related processes or maybe they need to put in some mechanism that helps with
management or something like that.
Sometimes they turn to the state for a little financial assistance.
It doesn't pay for the whole project, but it helps offset some of the costs.
And they put $2 million in that producer-led watershed grants.
And that money is distributed across the state.
That's one of those areas I think we've talked about before, where now in Wisconsin, literally almost every county has a producer-led watershed grant, or producer-led watershed, where farmers are voluntary farmers and landowners.
voluntarily coming together to do these conservation projects.
But like I said, every once in a while, they need a dollar or two, so two million in that.
They're also looking at the Farm Center mental health vouchers.
They're going to keep another $100,000 in that so that folks can turn to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and their Farm Center for mental health vouchers, different support mechanisms there.
Also, we all know and have been paying attention to what's going on with the federal monies for the supplemental nutrition assistance program snap.
Well, Wisconsin is keeping $10 million in play for food security grant programs.
So that should help provide direct grants to our nonprofit food banks, help them purchase Wisconsin grown and processed food, which is something that most of them are already trying to do.
So they've got about $10 million that they can try to lean on there.
know it's not nearly enough, but it's something.
We're also putting a half a million dollars in to help with tuition costs to train new commercial drivers, CDL driving, you know, if you're a semi driver.
that's got CDL or those kinds of certifications, you're so valuable, not just to agriculture, because we need CDLs, but to think about all the milk trucks that get hauled.
Think about all the product that's got to move from place to place.
We need more CDL drivers, and that's going to help them with offsetting some of the tuition costs there.
The other thing is they put another $20 million aside for what they call the Dairy Cattle Innovation Program.
This is one where we're still going to be waiting on details, but really it's designed
for farmers to invest in on-farm equipment or technology upgrades, a lot of software and things like
that that
will help them improve efficiency, animal care, and long-term viability for the dairy sector.
This should go directly to farms and stop and think about the heat we experienced over the weekend, fellas.
Every time that you turn the switch on for an air conditioner, a sprinkler or something like that, it's money out of a farmer's pocket.
So hopefully some of this technology would help us, especially on those kind of high-stress situations.
That's something that was decided late in the budget process.
I still need to work on details and how we might be able to execute that.
Well, you remember the story where they had the solar panels.
It looked like wings and the cattle would get under those wings.
The cows would get under the wings and stay cool out of the sun.
Yeah.
And like I said, that and even to your point about renewable energy, that's one under the big beautiful that I still have to fair it through today and see how much money remains for all those solar arrays, winds, you know, whatever renewable energy.
I
know that there was a lot of discussion about stripping that out.
So I got my work cut out for me
on Monday.
You're going to be busy.
Just a little bit, just a little heavy, heavy reading for the farm
babe.
Well, that's true.
You know, they had a lot of rebates as well.
Well, that used to be in effect.
I guess they're being phased out fairly
soon.
That's the way I'm hearing and for some of those solar arrays, for example, that were forced to kind of get their panels outside the United States.
I understand that there's a tax that could be leaned against them starting after 2026.
So like I said, I've got to check in with my renewable energy folks and find out what their read is on the big, beautiful bill that signed in.
There's a lot of agriculture in that too, but I think we're going to probably have to wait until maybe Friday to discuss
that.
All right, let's do that.
Very good.
Thank you, Pam Yonkey.
You have a great day and a great week.
We'll talk
on Friday.
All right, that's Pam Yackey, the fabulous farm babe from the Midwest Farm Report.
Coming back with more of John and Gordy in the morning, Idiocracy, right around the corner.
Human evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence with no natural predators to thin the
earth.
Oh my god!
There is a place without boundaries.
A place without limits.
Welcome
to
Costco.
I love you.
A place that is about to be... violated.
Diagrocy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Yes.
Idiocracy.
Welcome to Costco.
I love you.
It's in the movie.
Yeah.
What
movie?
What was that?
Idiolid.
Idiocracy.
That's right.
Remember when they came in, Costco is a city.
Yes.
Yes.
It's not just a store
in the
movie.
It's a city.
Yeah, it's great stuff.
Now it is
anyway.
We thought at the time it was kind of a, eh, not so good movie.
But too crazy.
Couldn't happen here.
And now, here it is.
Here we are.
636, it's a cool start this morning.
Not so humid either.
60 degrees, highs in the low 80s today.
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Yeah,
okay.
All right,
let's get into a little bit of idiocracy here.
That is making news today.
Oh, well, you know, we've got a few things here.
I wanted to talk about the big trade deals.
Yeah, all those trade deals are just about to be, you know, expired.
Right?
Well, they're going to expire
if they don't sign them.
The offer is out there, and it's going to expire Wednesday, I think, or Thursday.
Anyway, there are two tentative ones, of course, you know, the United Kingdom, and I believe
Vietnam, let's talk about Vietnam.
What a deal there.
Wow,
they're not good negotiators at all.
Got this from NPR.
Get ready to pay a whole lot more for products from Vietnam while businesses importing the goods charge Americans more.
And Trump rakes it in for the federal government.
Here's the deal on it, okay?
This is the deal.
Vietnam is gonna pay, well, they don't pay.
Actually, but anyway, the products coming from Vietnam will be charged 20% tariff.
Okay.
That's not a great deal, right?
This is not a very good deal.
No.
So anyway, what, what does the US get?
Nothing.
No tariffs.
Somebody better.
get into get in government in vietnam and negotiate these things a little bit better so anyway vietnam says okay you know 20% okay
i got it
but the us nothing they we get to just throw everything into that country with no tariffs whatsoever okay what a bargain
yeah
uh yeah hey do you think we'll get any new deals coming out you know by wednesday or thursday last minute things i you know i'm thinking maybe not hmm
I don't know, is Lutnik involved in all this?
I think he is.
Howard?
Well, Howard, what do you think?
I heard there are a bunch of deals out there ready to be signed.
They're just getting down to the last minute and
last
minute details.
Well, you know, he used to be my boss.
Howard Lutnik?
Yeah.
Howard Lutnik.
Lutnik.
Get in here,
Lutnik.
Get in there, Lutnik.
What is with...
know that guy you know a lot of people are saying he doesn't know much about tariffs or how any of this works and I I'm believing it I do I believe that too now you know now that I turned in my resignation at at the census now I can actually start talking about it I can't reveal secret information because it's all private I'm sworn
For life,
keep
these things secret, except
if you're
on doge, you don't have to keep anything secret.
You can go right into the data of everybody in this country and spread it around.
But
here's the thing.
Now the census, the administration wants to take out all immigrants who were swept up in the census.
They want to take those people out like they did the first time.
Trump got into office.
They wanted to not count immigrants in this country.
But the Constitution states that you have to count everybody on U.S.
soil.
In the census.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
We've got to count everybody here because they count.
You know what I mean?
They eat.
They use energy.
We got to know what's going on.
They are in districts.
They're part of the population.
We count people in the population.
That's what's...
Good about the census.
It does specifically that.
That's what it's all about.
That's what it does.
Count the people.
Yes.
So now, again, they're trying to not count immigrants in all of this.
You know, they're trying to do so much stuff.
And in the problem I have, of course, with Trump, and I mentioned this a few times, he's micromanaging the U.S.
economy.
How do you do that?
You can't.
You can't, obviously.
And that's why things aren't working out the way they should.
All right.
Now let's move on to another big project, project 2025.
All right.
I got a web wisdom here.
Cut 31.
And, you know, remember Joni Ernst saying that we're all going to die.
Right.
I mean, basically that's their philosophy.
I
mean, if
you lose Medicaid, we're all going to die anyway.
Maybe some a little quicker than others, especially those with money.
So anyway, this is, I thought this was a good commentary about what Project 2025 is really all about.
Let's listen.
I want to talk about the ultimate plan that Trump and Musk and Project 2025 have for us, ordinary people who aren't billionaires.
And I'm not exaggerating when I say the ultimate plan they have for us is for us to die.
That plan, having a policy that tries to make sure that people aren't super rich,
die or die young, has a name that's been around for almost 200 years.
Social murder.
And if you don't believe me, look at what Doge and Elon Musk did with the National Weather Service.
Musk, Doge, cut the National Weather Service right before tornado season in the South.
And what's happening?
People are now experiencing in Kentucky, soon elsewhere, tornadoes without warning.
And in Kentucky, people just died.
The GOP is passing a budget basically created by Project 2025 that's going to cut Medicaid to such a degree that over 8 million people, over 8 million people are going to lose their health care.
What's going to happen?
Yeah, people are going to die.
Across the board from workplace safety, food safety, air and water quality, everything's going to be degraded.
More people are going to die.
You and me.
So why are they doing this?
Which the Christian right, by the way, is 100% behind.
Doesn't sound very Christian or moral to me to let people die.
It's because they ardently believe that the role of government exists simply to make wealthy people even wealthier.
Regulations and rules that allow you and me to live a little longer, that's not part of their equation.
And we know long-term it has never been part of their equation because Americans flat out don't live as long as their counterparts in Western Europe.
And in fact, our lifespans have been declining.
The goal of Trump and Moscow Project 2025 is to make sure by policy that you and me don't live as long.
That's it.
That's one of the ideas.
And we're no longer of use to them as young, able-bodied workers.
Off we go.
So why are people voting for this?
Voting for their lives being shorter and shorter every year because a billionaire class has been successful at distracting the working class by saying don't worry about that.
Don't worry about the fact that you're not gonna live as long.
There are trans playing sports.
Worry about that instead.
And somehow we've got to wake people up and that's not being woke.
Wake people up to the fact.
that they have been conned.
All right, there
you go.
That's it, a web wisdom.
And he's writing about all of it.
And I think a lot of people are beginning to believe that really it is survival of the fittest or wealthiest at this point.
We've changed that saying.
Survival of the wealthiest.
And
everybody else, if you can't afford it, you go early.
You know, you make your exit.
And he mentioned something about the National Weather Service and cuts
to that.
This
was before all the flooding.
Yeah, this was
before this.
And now there are questions about the National Weather Service in Texas being cut, you know, lots of cuts a while back and how that may have affected getting the warnings to people in that horrible Texas flood that happened
the
last few days.
Really, something.
Yeah, I found this...
this morning, actually, it's a cut, well, not a cut, it's a quote from Trump.
He's saying, Democrats are blaming your federal cuts for the death over Texas, a reporter asks Trump, who could not audibly hear this reporter, so he just said, I can't hear ya, and he moved on to another reporter, and then asked later,
if he had plans to look into whether the cuts at the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency left key positions vacant, Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutek shook their heads.
Okay?
Trump said, they didn't.
They didn't.
They didn't plan on looking into this.
That's very comforting.
He says, I'll tell you.
You look at that water situation.
That was really the Biden set up.
Oh, what blaming Biden?
Yes, that was not our setup.
What do
you mean
setup?
Anyway, you said I wouldn't blame Biden for it.
No, no,
he just
did
I would just say this is a hundred year catastrophe and it's just so horrible to watch.
It's not so much a hundred year catastrophe anymore.
We have global climate change here and it's happening all the time.
He's not obviously reading about the natural disasters all across the United States.
Apparently he's missing that.
Yeah.
He missed that one.
Skip that one.
He did.
He did.
All right.
How about the big lie about men, healthy men, sitting around watching TV all the time and not getting out there working and collecting Medicaid benefits, right?
Well, okay.
First of all, you don't get Medicaid benefits.
If you get sick, you use Medicaid, but normally you're not using it.
So all these healthy men out there watching TV, they're not using Medicaid because they're healthy.
It's not an issue.
And if it was an issue, if they did have an accident of some sort
or
some kind of healthy event, they'd have to be taken care of anyway in the emergency department because that's how the government is set up in this country.
We take care of people when they're in need.
So regardless,
It's ridiculous to say that healthy people should be working, but they shouldn't be on Medicaid.
And I just think that's, you know, absolutely ridiculous because Medicaid is not used by healthy people.
But what's this
about healthy men watching TV and playing
video games?
I have a cut here.
This is cut 12.
Let's listen to this cut from, I believe, a Republican listen.
It's Americans on the Medicaid piece, though.
There's obviously going to be a big debate about this.
I mean, there are like almost five million able-bodied people on Medicaid who simply choose not to work.
They spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.
And if you can't get off Grandma's couch and work, I don't know where you're well
seen.
I don't know where you're getting those
numbers.
CBO, CBO.
OK.
No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no,
no,
no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
The guy's couch.
It's grandma's couch.
How did grandma's couch get in there?
Throwed grandma under the bus.
Yeah, apparently.
What's not her fault?
She's got a couch.
That's right.
Somebody's got to sit on it.
That's
right.
And by the way, if you're watching and they always blame them for watching video games or playing video games all day, right?
Well, if you're playing video games, you'd know that they're damn awful expensive.
You got to have a job if you're going to play video games because you got to buy extra things
in
games as well.
Yes.
So it's very pricey, Matt.
We're going to get to your call in just a few moments right here on John and Gordon.
Yeah, hang on the line there.
We're coming right
back.
Stay with us.
Happy birthday.
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It's Gordy's birthday today.
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Thank you, Art Ball.
This is Johnny Gordy in the morning.
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This is a British accent.
It's a Liverpool.
Art Paul.
Thank you.
Thank you for that.
Yeah.
It's my birthday all day long.
That's it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just another day older.
Okay.
Yours is next Monday, right?
It is next Monday.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So look out.
We were talking about mosquitoes earlier.
We were.
And how bad they are this year in certain places, I guess.
And
Martin got back to us.
I was wondering if it was one of those connections you put on a hose and then it mists the area and keeps it cool and also may get rid of those mosquitoes.
Well, he got back to us and said it's actually a hose and sprayer is what it is.
He sprayed the lawn with it.
and it mixes it with the hose water and that's it.
So that's easy.
Thank
you for
that solution.
And then, of course, we have Doug talking about John and Gordy joining the Manusphere promotion.
He keeps pushing this.
It's an update.
I just booked you for a live broadcast from the Harley-Davidson homecoming in Milwaukee.
You will need a couple of motorcycles and tattoos.
Well, we'll work on that.
We'll get to that.
Thank
you, Doug.
OK, let's go to the phone lines.
We've got Matt on the line.
What do you got, Matt?
Good morning.
Good morning guys.
Happy birthday.
I think art Paul slasher would do a better job cementing these trade deals and these clowns we have in charge Right, but I wanted to mention I was watching this running man movie over the weekend One with
the
game show that they kill criminals, you know
competition we're near
that
And the scrolling text in the beginning where they described the world that you're about to enter, right?
It basically said that the American economy had collapsed.
The only source of any kind of economic function is the police state and the security forces.
It's basically a fascist America, right?
And the irony there is that...
They have this game show to distract the masses, right?
Give them something to pay attention to while they destroy everything.
And imprison people, everything else.
And then I look at my phone during it and like Trump wants to have UFC fights at the White House.
That's right.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And they're adding a hundred billion to the police state for ICE to go in and beat people up and wants to deport anyone that doesn't, isn't white and Christian apparently.
Well, I'm gonna have to check out Running Man.
Definitely.
Yeah, we'll have to watch that.
A fun movie.
Yeah.
Very strange, very odd.
Well, the bad part is we don't have a hero.
Where's our Arnold to come in and lead the resistance?
Right.
Well, that's,
yeah, that's a good point.
Well,
Gordy's got a lot of youth on Arnold.
Maybe he
can pick up that role.
I'm
not
up to the task.
All
right.
All right.
Sorry.
Well, thanks, Matt.
Thank you, Matt.
Yeah,
I'll have to check
that out again.
Yeah, it
was a fun watch.
Yeah.
That's right.
Trump did announce they're going to have UF, you know, ultimate fighting.
at the White House.
At the White House.
I just... I know.
I can't... I can't wrap my head around that either.
I don't know what to think about.
I don't know where to go with that.
What?
Why?
Why do... I feel like the whole White House is going to get trashed
after that.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, let's get back to you more of idiocracy here.
We've got coal in the ground, so let's use it.
All right.
This is Tennessee Republican Representative Timbershet.
He isn't too smart.
And here's the proof.
Let's listen to his
comment.
And people are talking about coal.
Coal.
And people are talking about coal again, which I think is great.
God put it in the ground, let's use it.
Everybody across the world is using it and they're passing us by.
And the president wants to get out of bed with stuff that doesn't matter, like solar and wind.
You know, we haven't had a major discovery in solar in over 20 years and wind is very subjective and it's very expensive.
And there's a reason, as President Trump told me, I believe it was thirsty.
that, you know, there's no, there's no windmills in China, but, but 99% of them, of them that are sold are made in China.
So I think there's a lot of things in there that are going to happen.
It's going to be great for this country.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
You can imagine.
How did God know we would dig up coal in the first place and then burn it, think of it, thinking of burning it and did God make coal deadly also?
You know, taking it out of the earth and then inhaling whatever is left of the burnt coal.
So God had a lot in mind, I guess, one way to kill us.
And let's get to the solar discoveries that have been constant.
They have solar discovery, new innovations with solar.
So
that would be incorrect too.
They keep improving the efficiency and output of solar.
And solar and wind are already less expensive than coal and natural gas.
It's just the infrastructure, putting that in, that's expensive and raising their bills.
The bills better come back down, I tell you, once we have all this stuff up.
So why don't we get to this cut here.
This is, finally, this is Trump, where he actually told everybody about the windmills.
What, you know, China is right now building 68 coal generating plants.
And we're putting up wind.
Wind doesn't work, I will tell you.
It does.
From ruining our fields and our valleys and killing all the birds and having very, being very weak and very expensive, all made in China.
You know, I noticed something that with all of the windmills that China sends us, well, we waste our money because it's the most expensive energy.
No, it actually isn't.
I see that, you know, they make about 95% of them, the wind turbines.
I have never seen a wind farm in China.
Why is that?
Somebody check that out.
Tom Emmer, would you please check that
out?
Well, somebody in X checked it out and they took... Yeah.
They listed a whole bunch of pictures of windmills in China.
In
China.
Yes.
China is a global
leader,
by the way.
Global leader.
40%, 47% of all installed wind farms in the world are in China.
So Timbershet and every MAGA believes what Trump tells them it's too bad.
It's kind of a different reality for you guys And that's
idiocracy this morning When we come back we'll have more news for you coming up on John and Gordy in the morning for a Monday.
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It's a ploy.
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And a foley at the mic.
You have a pretty fun show.
I listen to it most of the time, you know.
Keep up the good work.
God, I love you.
Get the hell off the stage.
Nice work, everyone.
Short broadcast.
Really good.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Good morning, John
and Gordy.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Good morning.
Good
birthday morning for Gordy today.
We're celebrating
here
in the studio.
Quite the celebration.
Balloons, hats and horns and hooters.
You know it's a party when the hats and horns and hooters come out.
Well, I know, especially the hooters.
I don't know.
Hooters, you mean the horns?
Oh,
those kind of.
Those kind of.
Never mind.
Something else.
Yeah, it's also Ringo Starr's birthday.
We should've got him a cake.
Sorry about that.
Oh, I know.
Should've got him a cake.
Yeah, that's okay.
Well,
we lifted
it out in the rain.
And I'll never
have that
recipe again.
Oh, no.
Okay.
Yeah, happy birthday to Ringo Starr.
He's 85, you know, he'll come out again at noon today, encouraging everybody to say peace and love.
He does that every
year on his birthday.
I
did not say at noon all around the world, wherever you are, wherever it's noon.
I guess.
You say peace and love.
Let's get to the other birthday cut that I gave you.
What do you got there?
What is it?
What are you talking about?
I wanted
to play this thing all morning.
I want to go
ahead.
All right.
Hold on.
OK.
Cordy's birthday today.
Stand by.
Cordy's
birthday.
Listen to
this.
All
right.
Waiting.
Do we have that?
How's it
going?
Oh, thanks.
The white
album.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
Thank you.
Thanks
for the room,
Mike.
But we're not
sure.
I've got my birth certificate.
At this age.
Yeah.
Did you?
I keep it handy now.
You sent me quite a few of these birthday drops, John.
Really?
Yeah.
There's more?
I think there's one more.
Is
there?
Yeah, I think there is.
Throw it in.
Let's
go.
What do you got?
Birthday sex.
Birthday sex.
What was that?
I have never heard that.
What is
that?
Well, I don't know.
We did a little
search for birthday
songs and that one came up
and I just thought
I'd give you a little
sample.
Okay.
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So that's a, that's a great
big event, by the way.
All
right.
You know, social media is covering the disaster of the, uh, of the massive rainfall in Texas and, uh,
and the flash
flooding that took place there.
Yeah.
A lot.
A lot of discussions going on.
I mentioned earlier that Trump said, uh, uh, he's not looking into, uh, the reason why this disaster took place and why so many people lost their lives is not going to blame Noah.
He's not, he's not going to, he's just not going to look into it.
And he said, I'll tell you, you look at that water situation.
That was really the Biden setup.
I don't, I have no idea what that means.
So I just
thought it's Joe Biden's fault.
He set that up.
Apparently.
All right, so mega Republicans, you know, of course laid off 560 meteorologists So the wealthy could get their tax cuts then then they actually are now blaming the weather service For this weather disaster.
Okay, so Texas officials cited inaccurate
Predictions for the flood, killing 80 plus, not 90 plus people, including Camp Mystic, they were expecting three to six inches of rain guarding, not
over
10 inches that fell.
That is a direct result of the data blackouts.
Trump created those.
And then Governor Greg Abbott, you know, he took action right away and let's listen to Greg Abbott's solution to all of this.
All we know is that prayer does work.
your prayers have made a difference.
We ask for continued prayers as we continue our efforts to locate everybody who's been affected by this.
So there it is, it's the prayers thing again, and they are very effective.
I don't know what has changed since people started praying after the event, but okay, that's Greg Abbott.
Yeah,
it's up to, they have now released, they say, Camp Mystic, 27 campers and counselors were killed in the Texas flooding there.
Now that was right along the river, so they
didn't
get the warnings,
or
at least, you know, the estimate that there were going to
be
problems with, with flash flooding.
Apparently, according to what I saw with the National Weather Service, they knew about one o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the morning, this thing was getting out of control.
Yes.
But they didn't get the...
the warnings out until after 7 a.m.
That's, so five hours later, they finally started warning people after it was, after the
fact.
They want to put some kind of alarm system in the area.
Gee, you're starting to think about that now?
I mean, we have it up here in Wisconsin, my God.
It's just, the flooding is crazy.
We're watching it on CNN here.
Let's go to the phones right now.
We've got Joe on the line.
What do you got for us, Joe?
Oh my god, you can't keep up.
Can you?
No, you can't.
Too much.
Too
much.
I mean, first off, I had read that...
Data Texas is the eighth largest economic engine in the world.
So certainly can afford having alarm systems to be put in.
The idea that they don't have the money for it is absolutely horse pucky.
Obviously they do.
It's just a question of their priorities.
And I love the idea of the governor of Texas saying that prayer does work.
Not in my life.
No.
We got Trump back again for a second term.
My prayers didn't get answered.
And I love this term, the Biden setup.
We have no idea what that means, the Biden setup.
And I also love in your previous half hour, you had earlier, you had the, I believe it was a Kentucky legislature talking about, and he referred to the, he said, wind is subjective.
Because if you look at the definition of subjective, it's based on personal feelings rather than facts or evidence.
Which is what he is showing us,
you know?
And he's
talking about, well, coal is in the ground, God gave us to it.
Well, wind is in the sky and God gave it
to us, you
know?
hopefully some brain power.
It was amazing, it was a communist, his name is Juan Cole, and he was speaking about what we have just done by giving the absolute giveaway of anything that the petroleum oil coal industry wants.
They said they are jumping up with, down with joy, they have more access to federal land than they've ever had before, just historic, while we're putting the big breaks on solar and other renewables.
And his line was, Juan Cole said,
China can't believe their good luck.
We basically have destroyed our renewable industry by not, by, I mean factories are going to close and China is going to be left to be the ultimate in the world in terms of this.
They're placing themselves, they have a plan.
Well, we have.
We have the Trump setup.
I still never feel I
I do I do think that they still have the the repeal of the rebates I don't believe they put those back in the Senate didn't put those back in so I think the rebate all the rebates are going away
for,
you know,
EVs and everything else, you know,
putting
solar panels on your house.
There's a plan.
The rest of the world is going in one direction.
We're going in the other.
Oh, I know.
I know.
I know.
We couldn't have had both.
Remember, Trump said, oh, we can have both.
No, he's not.
He's not making that happen.
All right.
Joe, thank you for that.
Go ahead.
The wind is subjective.
The wind is subjective.
That's right.
Remember that, Joe.
Thank you,
Joe.
And brought that up when I told her
this
story.
And I played that bachette cut.
She said, well, wait a minute.
He put the call there, but he put the wind in the air as well.
Your head explodes thinking about it.
Top elected officials in Kerr County said,
The county didn't have a warning system because such systems are expensive.
Oh boy.
And local residents are resistant to new spending.
Taxpayers don't want to pay for it.
Okay.
Here's what one MAGA posted.
I just, this says it all.
We must not allow this great tragedy to be used to grow government.
Okay,
wow.
Oh, yeah.
Who said that?
That was just a post.
That
was
a
reaction.
That's
one of the reactions to these stories on social media.
Yeah, we don't
want
this tragedy to grow government.
Sounds like the Republicans in the state, they don't want to spend any money on the growing problems that we have here.
Well, remember in Texas, they had that power outage a couple of years ago.
that just wiped everything out for days.
That's right.
Yeah.
And it was because they didn't want to invest in the grid.
And it wasn't just wind.
It
wasn't just wind.
It was actually the gas fired
plants.
That's right.
The lines froze up.
So.
Yeah, you know, it's weird because we we have very cold temperatures here And we don't have those same problems
of
their electric lines or the gas plants or the solar We don't have those same problems, but down there they don't need all of those weather resistant Parts I guess so and they froze up and a lot of people died because of it sadly Get this grok AI, you know, this is Elon's
baby and grok blamed trump and elan for the texas extreme weather grok did this yes this is what grok posted after being asked the question um you know about who caused this
Trump's NOAA cuts pushed by Musk's DOGE slashed funding 30% and staffed 17% under estimating rainfall by 50% in delaying alerts.
Grock replied to the user who asked about all of this.
This contributed to the floods killing 27, including 20 camp girls, facts over feelings.
Grock continued, facts over feelings.
So that is a response from Grock way back when, you know.
Now we know that the estimates are well over a hundred people being discovered
killed
by this flash flooding.
Well, Elon wants to start his own political party now.
We haven't really gotten into the weeds on that yet, but Trump's not happy about
that.
That was going to be my next story.
We don't have time for that, but yeah, that is a big deal.
We'll get into that next.
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I didn't see that in the outline of what we're doing, but we'll have to have a meeting about that.
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Maybe we
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No.
719.
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Johnson landscape is lit up by a million shining
stars.
And mosquitoes.
I am traveling up deep to the land of the under 21 bars.
Yeah,
that's right, the days.
I'm going to Cheeseland, Cheeseland, the Dales and Door County.
I'm going to Cheeseland.
All right,
Don and Gordy in the morning here.
23 minutes past the hour.
We have sunshine this morning.
Highs in the low 80s today, but let's get the rest of the weather.
Yeah, from our friend, Brittany Merlot.
Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning, guys.
That jam makes you just want to go outside and do some Wisconsin things.
Oh, yeah, I know.
But
the
mosquitoes, what are you going to do about all the mosquitoes?
They're killer mosquitoes this year.
Seriously,
and I think probably everyone statewide has a bite on them right now after the weekend to scratch and something.
It's
outrageous.
I tell you, man, I guess this rain has really brought on a herd.
No, a flock.
What do you call them?
I don't know.
A
swarm.
That's it.
A
swarm.
A
swarm.
A
swarm.
Can
you see in those clouds?
those actual swarms of mosquitoes, the black cloud, those islands on the lakes.
I know, there's something else.
So what kind of weather are we expecting?
I know you're way up north and probably colder temperatures up there, but we're going to be hot down here.
Yeah, you're still hanging on to some nice summer heat, but actually some comfortable temperatures right in those low 80s today, tomorrow, even into Wednesday.
You start to get a little bit warmer into the mid 80s later in the week, and the humidity kind of holds off really until the weekend.
So, pretty comfortable.
Okay, great.
Excellent.
Well, that's it.
We'll just stop there.
Thank you.
I'm just kidding.
So did you have a good fourth of
July?
I did, I did.
Honestly, I've never seen the fireworks out in Central Wisconsin-Wassaw area before, so I stayed put.
Everybody was out on the Wisconsin River on their boats and kayaks and different things, watching the fireworks go off, and it was pretty cool because Ribb Mountain is here, and they were echoing off of the mountain.
It sounded like rumbles of thunder, so, you know, me, meteorologist, I was like, ooh, this is cool.
Very
cool, yeah.
Now, my daughter went down to Milton, Wisconsin, and they had a drone show.
Oh, the drone show.
Drones and fireworks mixed together.
I still haven't seen a drone show.
I have
not either.
But that sounds
like a good time.
Amazing.
Yeah.
Technology has come so far.
If you need to see a drone show.
You guys, EAA, Oshkosh, that's at the end of the month.
They've got the big fireworks show and drone show on Wednesday night, and then again on Saturday night.
And I'll tell you, once you see that show, you're spoiled.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's amazing.
Well, watch, we'll find out
in
the newspaper that
they probably had a drone show here in Madison, but we didn't see it.
We
didn't know about it.
No.
I think they're becoming more and more popular though.
So we'll all see one soon.
Absolutely.
So whether today you just find maybe a little rain tomorrow or what's the chances?
Yeah, there's about a 30% chance.
So get a little bit of showers maybe overnight and then a storm possibly in the afternoon, but it's pretty widely scattered.
It's going to be like one brief kind of moving through quickly thing.
Nothing severe, nothing strong.
So that's the only rain chances until about Friday night and Saturday.
So a gorgeous week.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I believe a lot of this, uh, uh, this rain and the mosquitoes, it's all set up by Biden.
Well,
apparently the Texas floods, according to
Trump, Trump said, I'll tell you, you look at the water situation.
That was really the Biden setup.
So
that's what he said.
Okay.
There
you
go.
No way.
That
replaces Noah
for information.
Okay.
Brittany, thank you.
You
have a good day.
All right,
talk
to you
tomorrow morning.
That's Brittany Merlot or a WMDX chief meteorologist.
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Give back your freedom that that took away in the first place that doge and trump took away I don't know anyway.
This is from yahoo news with no platform.
That's me saying it because I Don't know what they're supposed to do the American party, right?
Just started it, but they do have a plan.
This is this is their plan,
okay?
They want to win back the Senate and the House of course
but how they want to do it, they're deciding that they want to focus on a few districts in
each
one of the, in the House and Senate and then promote those candidates in order to make a closer majority to the minority.
So they're essentially it says here,
Their focus is on winning just a handful of Senate seats in House districts that could serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws given the razor-thin legislative margins in Congress.
First of all, there's no way to predict that it's going to be razor-thin, okay?
So I don't know if I'd count on that.
Plus, the deciding vote...
How do you know it's going to be close?
And how do you know the person that you've elected in this new American party is going to vote the way you think they should vote?
All of this is so ridiculous.
And by the way, third parties have been so successful in the past, haven't they?
I
remember Ross Perot and his
vice
president, Jim Stockdale.
Who
am I and why am I here?
Oh, those were the days.
29 past the hour we'll get to mark.
Okay after this break.
Yeah, hang on the line there mark We'll be back with more of John and Gordy after this
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I just want to remind
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Oh, you're, you know,
not
really.
Loud and obnoxious, yelling at people, getting into arguments.
Just incredible.
You're going to try to tone it down, right?
Don't
they want to talk politics
at a baseball game?
No, not at all.
I just want to interview a few people, you know, some Megas, about how they feel about the administration so far.
Yeah.
No, don't even think about
it.
Or Elon's new American party,
right?
Oh, man.
What's that all
about?
I mean, think about it.
I mean, Elon did such a good job of guiding Doge to execute their scorched earth rooflessness.
Firing needed experts, closing important departments and raking, you know,
everybody's data.
But now he wants to start his own party, the American party, right?
Yeah.
Why not?
You know, he's got the money to start a party.
I did react
to a post that he had.
He says, by a factor of two to one, you want a new political party and you shall have it.
When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graft, we live in a one party system, not a democracy.
Well, not with the American party in charge.
Well, this is my reaction to that.
I said, what a showboat, no agenda, list of policy ideas and afraid of white apartheid might not be.
received and that's that I mean this guy was a disaster
at Doge
yes and our government and we're gonna react we're gonna find out how bad it's all gonna be but then he's gonna try to sell us on his American party I don't think so and not only that what about the companies that he's running what about obviously people are gonna turn on those companies especially especially test test
Well, Trump doesn't like the idea either.
Trump said that Elon's going off the rails.
Off the rails.
Yeah.
So he's unhappy about this new party.
Well,
this is a big waste of time.
Mark Cuban is on board with this, I believe.
Is that right?
Yeah.
No kidding.
Wow.
I haven't heard that.
Are you sure?
Am I
thinking of the right guy here?
Mark Cuban from the Shark
Tank?
All
right, let's do a little research on that.
I don't know.
All right, so anyway, let's go.
We have time.
We've got
a lot of time.
All right, let's go to Mark.
All right.
Good morning, Mark.
What do you got?
Well, it's Elon's party.
He'll cry if he wants to.
And
with Brittany wearing the wild side, I just think the old Louie Reed song, take a walk on the wild side of the song, celebrating.
Somebody converting from a he to a she you know that
oh, yeah
country and it's hard nut lick not hard Ludnick that Should be the apropos for that.
Yeah, that should be a it should be And
not and now it's going to be really touching an ice agent There's going to be a crime on according to Pam Bondi So you get shoved by ice and one ice agent into another ice agent You're going to get prosecuted for assaulting that ice agent because after all you touched an ice agent well
That's always been a problem.
I thought with this whole thing where they're going to prosecute people who supposedly are resisting the ICE agents because you get pushed and shoved.
It's always chaotic at these events, right?
And how are you going to stop something like that?
You're not.
So now they're just going to arrest everybody that's around these chaotic situations.
Yeah, well, I guess if you see a nice agent having that trouble we need the Heimlich maneuver you just let them let them let them let them die rather than actually give them the Heimlich maneuver
something like
that you get charged for the salt.
Yeah,
it's just ridiculous.
I know.
All right mark.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you.
Let's go on to dick dick.
What do you got for us today?
Well, where's Donald Rumsfeld in all of this to explain that party?
You know, you remember that word from years back.
Yeah, that was a great one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that would kind of be fitting of this whole thing.
Cause he said nothing when all was said and done.
Yeah.
Donald Rumsfeld, word salad on, um, ah, what was
I'm looking up.
Remember when he said, uh, he said something.
We don't know what we don't know.
That's it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, uh, and it went on and on and on.
In the end, he said nothing, but I think that's pretty much this party.
I agree with you.
There are known knowns and there are things we know we know and then there are things we don't know that we don't
know Is that kind of like one that my dad used to say about politicians in general They'll stand before you to sit behind you to tell you something they know nothing about.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah
All
right, okay dick.
Thank you.
Appreciate it dick.
All right,
and I
also wanted to mention mark always brings up a Christmas Carol Yeah, yeah, yeah, they'd rather die than they should do it and decrease the surplus plot the surplus population and I you know I know that stays with me all the time And I don't know how the mega cult is able to watch a Christmas Carol anymore Because yeah, I mean what message are they getting out of I?
Yeah, I don't know.
All right.
Let's get to this interesting thing.
Trump has an old habit of anti-Semitic language, and it's hard to hide.
When we play this cut 17, it's Trump ripping into those greedy bankers using a term that's not so good.
Let's listen.
But if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving it to, think of that, no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases, a fine banker, and in some cases, Shylox and bad people.
Wow.
Okay.
All right.
Shylox.
He said it there.
Yeah,
that's an anti-Semitic term.
Yeah.
So, uh, and that's, uh, from the merchant of Venice, yeah, Shakespeare.
And
of course, the thing here is that he's talking about bankers ripping people off, and yet they're the ones who got rid of the department that watched out for consumer protection.
To keep those bankers from ripping people off with high bank fees and penalties, right?
So in one way he says this, and then in another way he says that, no wonder the cult can't keep up, and that's why they don't pay attention to the details of this.
Here's one post that I picked out.
Here's the president of the United States calling bankers Shylocks, but we're supposed to think he's the only one protecting us from student protesters at Ivy League schools, anti-Semitic student protesters supposedly, right?
Now, here's Trump's response to a reporter on
this.
Well, that doesn't excuse you at
all.
All right.
Yeah.
All right, let's go on.
You want to continue?
I got
another one here.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's
switch.
Get this.
I mentioned this last week.
Ice block.
Yeah.
app, right?
You use the app.
You use the here.
The app allows users to place a pin on a map where ICE agents have been spotted and users in a five mile radius will get a push alert of the sightings.
ICE acting director Todd Lyons is now calling that a promotion of an app that is reckless and irresponsible.
But is it illegal?
We don't know if it's illegal.
CNN defended its report
On this, they have to defend themselves now because they're being accused of promoting this reckless and irresponsible app.
They said there's nothing illegal about reporting the existence of this ice block app or any other app, nor does such reporting constitute promotion or other endorsements of the app by CNN.
It's called news.
All right, and then Homeland Security.
Secretary Kristi Noem, she said this, we're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute CNN for that.
What they are doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities.
We are actually going to go after them and prosecute them.
Now, Pam Bondi would probably go along with that wacky idea.
They're just reporting the news.
They're just reporting the app exists.
Yeah,
they're just going after the media.
Yeah, remember a huge majority of Immigrants, you know, we're supposedly going to be the you know
the problem here in this country.
And now, of course, they're going after people who are here legally and they're sending everybody off to these camps.
And by the way, there was a new camp going in.
Oh, really?
I can't remember where that is, but yeah.
Not the
Alcatraz.
It's not the Alicator
Alcatraz.
It's
a new
one.
They're trying to adopt the same kind of, you know, scary name, but...
It's it's not working.
Where's it going in?
Do we know yet?
No, I can't remember where it is.
Okay, but yeah, we're looking to put in a new one in There's I think I see it.
Is it camp camp-landing?
Yes.
Yes,
where it is.
Yeah, I can't land in Blanding.
Yeah,
where is it?
It's a Florida National Guard Training Center near Jacksonville.
Yeah, yeah, okay So I don't know if there are alligators there
Caleb brings some
in or
Jurassic Park dinosaurs.
You just don't know Come up with something really scary My wife brought up she brought up you know could be you know quicksand Which
was a
scary thing when we were
kids I know you don't hear about much about quicksand anymore
the one I couldn't think of but now I remember it.
It's lava
It
should be surrounded by
lava.
Lava.
That would be scary.
Now, of course, if we were up here in our country, we'd be talking about mosquitoes.
Surrounded by swarms of mosquitoes.
Yes, yes, yes.
That would be scary enough.
But again, I want to get to the Trump declared victory in holding fake news media accountable for their wrongdoings and deceit.
I want to get into that
just
briefly here.
And then we'll get to a great
great commercial on Mad TV.
It applies to today perfectly.
Oh yeah, we got all that coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
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Really?
Really?
Really?
It's your birthday,
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I'm just a messenger
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I wanted to mention that the media is folding like a house of guards here.
Every time Trump wants to sue them, they fold and they give in.
Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to Trump.
Geez, that's not small change.
$16 million has settled a CBS lawsuit.
Oh, that one.
Yeah.
And they have to pay Trump's legal fees on top of that.
But they didn't admit to any guilt or they didn't have an apology.
So, but they still, yeah.
The guy from CBS 60 minutes.
Yes.
Yes.
The executive producer.
The
60 minutes lawsuit over just simple editing that's been going on for 50 years.
Yeah.
All right, Trump declared victory in holding the fake news media accountable for their wrongdoing and deceit.
See that's now he's that he won that one and the mega cult is on board The White House said this President Trump will always ensure that no one gets away with lying to the American people Trump argued that CBS engaged an unlawful acts of election and voter interference through
malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion, which it wasn't, and that's it.
And by the way, one university professor said this, I don't understand how suits that are arguably frivolous and meritless are then settled for millions of dollars.
Now, wouldn't it have been thrown out being, you know, meritless and frivolous in the first place?
You would think so, but they, you know, they,
They go into the courtroom and, you know, how long would this take?
A couple of years to sort all this out?
And even if they, I mean, it's just, you know, all that bad publicity.
So just settle.
No, do not.
Yeah.
Well, that's what I'm just saying.
That's their theory.
Yeah.
Get rid of it.
Get.
Get it out of the limelight.
Well, there's an article by Matthew Galatius.
He writes, Trump's attacks on free speech are scary, and what's even scarier is a lot of institutions are inclined to surrender preemptively rather than fight in courts against the abuse of power.
That's a huge, huge thing.
Is it just money?
Is it just we can't afford to
fight it?
No, he's proving that the media is lying.
in that you can't believe any of it.
And when they give in, it proves him to be correct.
All
right, I
wanna get to this really, nah, I'm not gonna get to
this.
What?
You don't have time?
You've got two
minutes.
I got this Darlene McBride cut from Mad TV, and it's very apropos.
It's perfect for today.
I mean, this was many years ago when Mad TV was on.
Everybody watch Mad TV back then?
Yeah.
It was funny,
right?
It had a lot of great bits, great comedians
in
it.
It sprung from there.
But we'll get to
that another time.
We don't have time for it now.
We're not going to do it now.
We talked about it for this long.
We've talked about it some more.
Jesus.
Well, I'm
only talking about it because we're
We're not going to get to the cut, and it's a two-minute cut.
Well, we got a phone call.
We don't have time for that.
Well, you do have a phone call, don't we?
Who's on the line?
We do.
We do.
It
looks like it's from
Troy.
OK, Troy.
Troy, you got a minute.
It's all yours.
Go
ahead.
Real quickly, that settlement is because the chairman of CBS is trying to merge with Paramount.
That's right.
to get that merger through.
Yeah, that's it.
That's it.
That's
right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I forgot about the merger part of that.
I
appreciate that.
That's right.
It's a grease of wheels.
All right.
All right.
Thank you, Troy.
Thanks for the reminder.
And the voice note that you left and everybody keeps playing here on this station.
Everybody's
picking
up on that voice note from Troy in the horror.
You
still have it?
Troy from on horror.
Tell that Peterson guy to shut his gap.
There you
go.
That's a winner.
Thank you, Troy.
You can call anytime.
But you know, this is getting old.
Elon Musk, by the way, paid $10 million to settle a lawsuit from Trump.
Metta paid $25 million to Trump over his removal on Facebook.
All of these things, he's making money hand over fist.
Unbelievable.
By suing all these
companies.
Just another part of the upside down world we're living in.
He's no longer bankrupt.
I guess not.
Hey, that's going to do it for us.
Stephanie Miller is coming up next tomorrow on the big show.
Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society and anything else that we can think of that story that it won't be your birthday tomorrow.
That's right.
I just thought I mentioned that.
Yeah.
Hey, have a great day.
So
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That's what I'm doing.
