From the depths of a digital abyss, where truth drowns in a sea of clickbait and algorithms, a beacon ignites.
From the heart of Badgerland, from our studios on State Street in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, it's John and Gordy on 92.7 WMDX.
I don't think so.
You know, this is the very first morning that I came in and the headphones are all set up and ready to go.
And almost at the right volume.
What happened?
I don't know.
It's
crazy.
It's
nuts.
Yeah, I know.
We have the right books to prop up the microphone
stands.
Yeah, everything has the books are the same.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Oh,
you know why?
Because Todd Alba is on vacation.
Well, he's not on vacation exactly.
He's on a road trip.
So now we know
who's the one messing things up.
Because he wasn't here one
Friday.
Oh, we're
going to get there.
I'm thinking I'm thinking it's Rocker, though, because he's he's here on Saturday.
Yeah, Rocker's
here.
That's true.
So he didn't.
So this
is the same.
And maybe we impressed on him that if anybody changes these books underneath our microphones, taking the place for Mike.
boomstance They'll be held to pay.
I was just going to say that there'll be held to pay
How do you pay with hell?
I don't know how that works.
Yeah, but it sounds good It does happy Monday and happy birthday John Peters.
Oh, yes.
It's a big birthday celebration
Good morning, producer Dom Lee.
Good morning, good morning.
And we actually have a song for John too.
What?
Really?
Yeah, we have a song for him that Gordy and I kind of put together.
It actually was all Gordy.
Wait a minute here.
Yeah,
wait.
Are we going to play that now?
Yeah, let's listen.
Let's
listen
to
that.
OK.
Wow!
It's personal,
honest.
Kind of a spinal damper
version
of that.
Okay.
You
should
see
the YouTube video too.
It's just like a bunch of explosions and everything.
It's the craziest overstimulating thing you'll ever see in your life.
Actually, I saw it.
I have that cut in.
in the track list.
I've got a few other cuts in the track list, so let's not play that.
Again, try the other ones if you can just preve him a little bit.
Yeah, that's
great.
It's
just really bad.
I didn't find these things.
My wife did, you know?
Yeah.
Now, I look for
you when it
was your birthday last Monday.
Right.
And I came up with three, right,
you
know?
And birthday sex was the...
That's the one that you was the one that brought us all down But But she found all of these different versions of birthday in fact she got one that was the three stooches really yeah And the good one on this one is that it is an explosion as well.
Yeah,
let's let's listen.
Okay.
All
right.
Here
we go dial it up Here we go push the button and away.
Okay.
Sorry.
All
right
Never mind.
Just ruin your birthday.
We baked you a birthday cake.
If you get a tummy ache and you moan and groan and woe,
don't forget we told you so.
Happy
birthday!
Happy
birthday!
Wow.
See you
blow out the candles and it explodes in.
Nice.
Nice.
Three Stooges birthday.
That's great.
Yeah.
Fabulous.
All right.
We have any more?
We have art polish washers
saying happy birthday to John too.
Oh please, please,
we can sing that all day long.
Earworm.
Okay, let's listen to that.
Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you.
Not a lot of people know he's from Liverpool.
Happy
birthday.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you.
All right, well, there we
go.
That's a hard ball.
Fabulous.
So you got big plans for your birthday?
You're
going to go out
later and start drinking?
No.
Do
some day drinking?
Because my wife's birthday is the next day tomorrow.
Oh.
Yeah.
Really?
They're together.
And we always celebrate hers.
Who cares about mine anymore?
You know,
once you get
this age,
you
know, they're ready to throw you out the window.
You said that coming in too.
You're like, I hate my birthday.
As soon as he walked past me, I was like, wow.
Mr. Grumpy
pants
over there.
Grumpy pants.
Yeah.
So
she's a cancer too.
So you're both moon children.
That's really weird.
Yeah.
Wow.
And
it works
out
OK.
Get along on everything.
It's like I mentioned, you know, we're looking at that car.
Oh, yeah.
By that.
I actually did.
I have a 2022 vehicle, something in the 20s.
Woo.
Oh, man.
I know.
To take a look at it.
Thank you very much.
I want to take a picture of it later.
Well, I didn't bring it in.
Oh, you did.
Well, I think it's covered by the insurance, but I didn't
want to
take a chance.
I still don't have it completely covered there There's two versions of that car that I have.
What is a GT?
It's super fast,
right?
And the insurance coverage is really high And I think that's what they quoted me when I when I went on to just add it and I thought I can't do that.
Hey, yeah, I got a complaint this morning.
Oh, okay
What the hell happened to the lights?
What on the way in
I
don't
know.
Did you notice that?
Yeah, something changed.
Yeah, I had to sit there for a
while.
What the hell is the mayor doing?
Oh man, if you're coming in from the west side on University Avenue, you might as well just forget it.
Might as well hitchhike.
Give it up.
Yeah,
it
did take a while.
I only
have a
couple of
lights.
Every light is bad.
I don't know what happened.
Is it formulated for outbound?
Usually that's how you get.
the bad lighting by bad.
What do you mean?
Like we get
a red light every
one.
Yeah, you're always getting
all the
time.
And there's
no traffic.
The hour.
They should just leave them flashing to about six thirty.
See, we go back to the time
when they had flashing yellow lights.
Right.
That's all you
really need at night when it's nighttime flashing yellow lights.
We all live by that.
Just the caution lights.
And now they just they
I don't know.
I don't know why they went to something else.
But yeah.
Anyway, that's uh, it was a nightmare and I'm I'm really angry, you know, we're gonna have to talk to the mayor about this is not working out for us You
can get sat your roads
on the phone
Yeah, I don't know what the deal is it baffles me every time when they do something like that I don't know if it's just that they had to they had to shut the system down for a second
for
the art fair.
Well, maybe
Yeah, maybe it was for the art fair.
Maybe they didn't put all of the automatic stuff on the back on.
I don't know, we'll see if we can find
out more information.
I'm drifting here.
Well, let's get to
our morning segment of the
morning segment.
What would you do if something happened?
What
is it
called?
Would you rather?
Is it the last time?
It's the last time.
What do
you mean
it's the last time?
I mean, this is the last time I'm going to tell you the right title.
Oh, OK.
Now, here's the thing.
You know, we're living without Catherine listening to the radio show.
Yeah, she's traveling.
Yeah, she's on the West Coast.
So she can't get up early enough to see, or he rather, the show.
Right.
And that is a sigh of relief brush.
Now,
anything's
gonna
happen.
Yeah, but she'll be listening to the podcast, so, you know, she could still, you know,
send us some notes.
She'll give us critiques, no matter what.
That's alright.
Okay.
Alright, let's
listen
to it.
Would you rather,
would you rather,
let's
do this.
Hit the music.
There we go.
Come on.
Hit it.
Alright, let's get into it.
Get into it.
Is this new music?
No,
it's the same old same
old.
Okay, let's go.
Would you rather buy a product that has no demo or a product that has a negative review with no explanation on what's wrong?
So take a chance
I'm buying something with no demo no reviews yep like a Lego pack you open it up, and there's no directions
Oh,
okay, and or a product that has just a terrible review with no explanation on why it has a terrible review
I
guess I never would do that so I don't go with the first one.
I think I would
Yeah, I know it's so typically men.
Of course, we don't look at the instructions, right?
Yeah, we
look at it once we get it all screwed up and
have to start over like my bed frame When I first moved here, I didn't I didn't use no instructions.
I just went I just free-balled it really and it worked.
It worked.
I think I hopefully didn't fall down tonight.
That's why you fell off
Okay, what's the next question all right next question would you rather take a pill that gives you a hundred more healthy years Or a pill that makes you ten times more intelligent than you already are
Well, I'm happy where I'm at right now
Add the ears.
Yeah, I'll be ten times more intelligent.
I think I got room for improvement.
Yeah, I'm going along with you.
Yeah, I gotta go a
mr. No, at all
All right, all right third and final question would you rather eat chicken flavored cookies?
No good or cookie flavored chicken
Cookie flavored chicken.
I'll do that.
That was the quickest response you've had all day Boy, that's no there's no good answer.
There's really not I think I'm gonna go chicken flavored cookies though.
I like yeah I like the consistency of the cookie But I do like the flavor of it of the chicken
Okay, well they make a product for you.
I'm sure they do I mean chicken flavored crackers and chicken flavored
Cookies, I wouldn't
doubt.
Yeah, I guess.
Would exist, so I guess that's what I'd do.
Or that would just be dog food at that point.
Okay.
Good me.
Alright.
Alright.
That's it.
Is
that
it?
That's
all we got.
Always three questions.
We're done.
Well, I got nothing.
Well, let's look at the weather for today.
We haven't
done that
yet.
You know, here it is, July 14th.
We're almost halfway through the month and it looks like a pretty nice day.
We've got plenty of sunshine shining on State Street, downtown Madison.
Block off the Capitol.
But
we've got an air alert.
Air quality
alert.
Still noon, I
think,
right?
Yeah, something like that.
I doubt that.
Why noon?
What's that all about?
Good question.
Did they stop the fires by that time?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
66 degrees.
Currently it feels like 66 degrees and a high of 87 today low tonight again around 65.
Okay.
What time
is sunset tonight?
John, do you have that handy?
I like to know the sunset time.
Excuse me comfort in my old age.
Well, look forward to 835.
Okay.
If I make it that far, I'll check it out.
All right.
Okay.
Well, that's good.
A little bit later on, well in just a few minutes, we're going to check in with Pam Yonkey.
And find out what's going on.
Of course, you know, the big Dean County fair is this week starting up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Then we'll be talking with her about that.
And
how about the ice cream trail?
Oh, yes.
Was that in our promo?
It was.
Over the
weekend?
Yes.
Yeah.
The ice cream trail.
We'll find out about that.
And that's about it.
Okay.
Well,
I don't have
anything.
Well, it's a Monday.
Yeah, that's trying to get everything back in order here.
Okay.
Chicken and the biscuits exists.
That's your neighbor.
Oh,
yeah.
I forgot about
that.
Oh, I should tell them I decorated the gazebo over the weekend with all the beads that they've been giving
me.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
I
didn't know they gave you
the beads.
You'll have to come over.
Yeah.
Be back with more of John and Gordy.
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Beautiful sunshine today.
Highs in the mid 80s.
And Pam Yankee joins us this morning.
Fabulous farm babe.
Good morning Pam.
Yeah, good morning guys.
It and tomorrow look great.
Unfo weekend, some of that rain th on friday night, saturday no fair as I know that my was at the Sauc county fair a had to cancel their truck on friday night.
And same thing fair in Darlington on saturday had to cancel their they got so much rain th was just about underwater.
Wow,
really?
Where
was that?
done by Darlington, Lafayette County.
If their fairgrounds just happen to lie right next to kind of the river and the low part of the grounds where some of the barns are in that head standing water from the reports that I got.
So, you know, that's something we don't talk a lot about when it comes to county fairs.
Everybody knows that it's usually really super hot.
We think about the animals taking care of the animals during the heat.
But what we don't stop and think about are those mitigating circumstances that also
like the rain that we pe
They don't get a do over, you know, the truck and tractor pull people have a schedule.
They've got to move on the concert.
Sometimes you'll have a music performer or something.
They've got to move on.
You guys know that you've been in the business long enough.
So a lot of our county fairs, a lot of our county fair is one of the major challenges they have is trying to find insurance companies that can deal with them and deal with them in a financially fiscal, you know, responsible, responsible way.
And we talked to a guy that is
a specialist in working with county fairs, state fairs and things like that, trying to make sure that if there's that kind of an extenuating circumstance, they don't lose everything because stop and think about it.
The money is already invested.
Those performers, those artists like the truck and tractor.
companies, they've got to be paid.
Now they may have a certain percentage that comes off if the show doesn't go on, but they're still going to get their their expenses covered.
But the fair does not, you know, so there's a lot of risk riding on some of the stuff that you see at county fairs that I hope people appreciate.
And it's a very unique insurance that they've got to investigate.
Short period of time.
interest, you know, you're, you can't change weather, can't change events.
So it's another one of those elements that I like to try to remind people about when they get ready to enjoy them.
Well, that's a good point.
Are you real?
I never thought about it.
And I have been to a county fair in a little while.
So, uh, yeah, that is something to think about, especially the tractor poles, right?
I mean, you got
to bring all that
equipment in and, uh, man.
Yep.
Yeah.
Well, and you guys know, you've been in the business long enough.
Think about how many
concerts you've been to, the setup, the lighting, the staging, all of that.
And if it's an outdoor venue, and the artist says, well, you know, there's lightning, we can't do like they had to Harley Davidson.
Concert over in Milwaukee that got canceled on Friday because of the lightning possibility Well, you know you you know how that goes you got to be able to cover some of that risk And that's where the unique insurance that county fairs turn to comes into play.
Why I really did rain Friday Friday night Friday afternoon.
It was just incredible my god.
Yeah
Wow, yeah didn't I haven't gotten official some official totals this morning, but like I said and they
were calling for.
uh, you know, measurable rain again on Saturday night.
And that's why like when you've got saturated ground, there's just nowhere for the rain to go.
And that's really unfortunate when that, when it's a once a year event like a county fair, you know, a lot of people look forward to those kinds of things.
And if you're one of the pullers and you're, you're chasing after points or you want to get on the leaderboard or something and you spend your time loading up and bringing your entire Reagan crew to a site that ultimately isn't going to have a pull.
Boy, you're kicking yourself.
You could have gone farther north or gone in a different direction and maybe still caught that pull.
Right?
Absolutely.
Hey Pam, let's talk about the Ice Cream Trail, the Wisconsin Ice Cream Trail.
What's this
all about?
Yeah, don't you love
it?
I sure hope that people get a chance to take a look at this.
So this is something that the Wisconsin Farm Bureau puts together.
If you go to gatherwisconsin.com, gatherwisconsin.com, you will find the Wisconsin Ice Cream Trail.
Now, in Wisconsin, we've got 49 different licensed ice cream plants that are making it.
But this map focuses in on, I believe it's 20 or 21 unique stops in Wisconsin.
Every one of them has got a story.
And if you take a look at, I was teasing one of my TV guys on Friday about it.
If you take a look at it, tell me how many you have visited.
I've been to one or two, but I'm surprised by how few I've gotten a chance to visit, and I'm a pretty big ice cream fan.
But like I said, every one of them has a little bit of a story, and they're located from really all across the state of Wisconsin.
And I think that the Gather Wisconsin folks are interested for feedback.
If you find
one that's unique, that's not on the path.
Now for you two, if you feel ambitious and you want to celebrate John's birthday properly, you will walk just down the street to Babcock Dairy.
Babcock Dairy is just on the street from you guys and that's one of the
20, 21 stops on the Unique Ice Cream Trail that you can take a look at.
GatherWisconsin.com.
It's a downloadable PDF that you can tuck in your glove box if you're somebody that travels for work or if you're taking the kids on vacation and you want something to have them remember special about a location.
They've got them all over the place to take a look at.
We might have to do that right after
the show, John.
We've got the John and Gordy hike up to Columbus for Sassy Cow.
Oh, yeah,
the Sassy
Cow.
We like that, too.
That's another good one, too.
Yep.
I wholeheartedly endorse that,
too.
Great.
Pam, thank you.
Pam, we're all out of
time.
All right, happy birthday, John.
Thank you.
That's Pam
Miyake, the fabulous farm babe.
We'll be back with more of John and Gordy right after this.
Human evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence.
There's no natural predators within the herd.
There was a place without boundaries.
A place without limits.
Welcome to Costco.
I love you.
A place that is about to be violated.
Geocracy.
You're the smartest guy in the world.
You're pretty dumb sometimes.
Oh
my God.
I didn't know they had a Costco down in Verona.
Yes, yeah.
Really nice.
Yeah, big brand new one down there.
Yeah.
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Okay, idiocracy.
Idiocracy.
There's a lot of it.
Yeah, what's happening?
You know by the way over the weekend.
I just want to mention this I went to the art fair on the square you did and off the square took a few pictures threw them online there You can see them on our Facebook page Facebook page.
It was on the Johnny Gordy Facebook.
Yes, I threw it on there Wow yesterday.
Yeah, you didn't look no Well, you know what and did there's so many and told me that you
yeah posted some photos there.
Yeah
I mean, it was a great time.
I went there yesterday afternoon, and it was starting to wind down a little bit.
I don't like to go on Saturday, because it's really crowded, usually.
But yesterday was fine.
Oh, really?
Sundays look slower.
That's the way to go, but yeah, it was really great.
And I spun the wheel at the Channel 27.
Wheel of Schlock or whatever you want to call them.
Wheel of Merch.
And I got a little tote bag.
It was nice with their logo on it.
That's pretty nice.
You didn't get one at
15 when you worked
there.
No, never got anything there.
I worked there almost five years.
It's got nothing.
No leather
bag.
Nothing.
You didn't even get a number two pencil with the logo on it.
Nothing.
It was great to see people yesterday and it was a beautiful day for the art fair.
It's
fantastic.
No, on the idiocracy, for your birthday.
Happy birthday, John
Peterson.
Thanks for bringing that up again.
Anybody you want to wish John a happy birthday greeting, why don't you send him a voice note?
Go to our Civic Media app.
Click on the voice note and just rubbing it in now or express your wishes to John Peterson's birthday.
All right.
Well
You know, it's every time it's my birthday, I think of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
No, who doesn't?
So I got a whole story here.
Marjorie
Taylor Greene.
Really?
For
a diocracy.
Oh, what did she do?
Well, this
time.
She doesn't know that the mega plan is to keep the middle income families down,
you know.
She had to figure
that out.
They have to live paycheck to paycheck.
That's normalizing their low expectations for their life.
And so now.
She's complaining.
She doesn't understand that this is the whole makeup plan.
So anyway, let's listen to her finally, you know, kind of telling it like it is.
This is
what we're all.
We've been saying this for years, Marjorie.
Okay, let's listen to this
here.
Seven trillion dollars in debt.
Um, just like you and I were speaking before our kids generations, my kids are 22, 25 and 27.
And our children's generation, they can't afford rent.
They can't afford to buy a house.
They can't afford insurance.
They can't buy a new car.
They can't find a good paying job.
They're living month to month paycheck to paycheck credit card bills stacked up.
And they literally look to the future going, how am I ever going to realize the
American dream and it seems hopeless for them.
There you go.
Yeah.
Yep.
Welcome to the club.
Yeah.
Welcome to the make a plan for the economy now that we've given all the tax cuts to the wealthy.
Right.
Let's keep going with that plan.
Right.
Oh my God.
I mean the make a party made them unable to buy the house.
You know.
Right.
They're against the minimum wage hike.
Yeah.
They're taking away your health care.
And they've killed the American dream because they're creating something new.
It's making America great again.
Whatever the hell that means.
And now, of course, they're blaming the debt on poor people.
Not the tax cuts, but poor people are spending money left and right
from the government.
And
they're making the government go broke.
if if only they would just get a clue and it's so simple it is so sad isn't I think it's driving everybody nuts
so
simple understand this
right
we just can't break that barrier that weird cult barrier that they're up in yeah
well it's finally it's good to see the Marjorie Taylor green green is uh
going through the
same horrible experience she's seen the light
She hasn't
seen
the light.
She thinks this is normal.
This is the way it is.
I don't know how she thinks her kids, she has Jen's ears, how they're ever gonna get ahead.
I mean, what is she doing about them being able to buy a house or getting
a higher
wage or
having
health insurance and not living paycheck to pay?
What is she doing for it?
Nothing.
My God, I just, you just, well.
Anyway, just settle
down.
It's your birthday.
There's nothing you
can do.
Now I'm really mad.
Just hang on.
Take a deep breath.
There we go.
You're loud.
It's your birthday.
You can rant all you want today.
Why not?
All right, okay, you know this is you okay
now.
I am I'm I'm kind of better, but I've got another horror story here Okay, bring it.
This is a diocracy bring it right.
Yeah.
All right This is this is gonna freak everybody out.
I think if you haven't heard about it, you had David Ferenhold He's a reporter investigative reporter.
He came out with this this bomb in a court filing the tax agency
Said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members in other words that Yeah, you're not supposed to endorse candidates from the pulpit.
You can't do it or else you lose your tax exempt
status.
Now, I don't think anybody's ever lost their tax exempt status.
If they've picked a candidate, you know, on the Republican side, they're notorious for breaking this rule.
Right.
And they haven't been penalized for it, but it's, it's, it's actual.
This is now in place.
Now the thing is, I think, you know, do they really want to go down this road, right?
Where religious beliefs now represent a political position.
That seems
like a really dangerous prospect, right?
Partisan politics, infecting religion was a surprise nuking, I think, in this case, of the social fabric that we have in this country.
You know, you have the freedom of religion,
but you
don't cross it over.
You don't bring it in.
You don't bring your religion into your politics or else when your politics are out of favor, so is your damn religion,
right?
So you don't want that.
And they keep wanting things that will completely destroy everything we have going in this country in the first place.
That's what it's all about.
Now I got a clue.
Now I'm starting to catch on.
It's a
slippery slope.
It is a slippery slope.
Religion and politics.
But you don't want to cross over.
You don't want them to co-exist.
Be the same.
That's why we're not a Christian nation because once you do that, Christianity can get a really bad name when you have Trump in office.
Wait, that's going on right now.
What am I talking about?
God, please.
All right.
Mahmood Khalil.
You remember him?
Mahmoud Khalil.
He filed a $20 million claim against the Trump administration for false imprisonment.
The Guardian wrote, Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an anti-Semite, as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in the campus protest, Columbia.
Remember this?
Yes.
Columbia College.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he, uh, he's suing them and, and rightfully so, man, this
guy
went through a lot of hell.
Right.
He said, uh, Trump and his administration, they chose the wrong person for this.
That doesn't mean there is a right person for this.
There is no
right
person who should be detained for actually protesting a genocide.
And that's a comment from him.
Khalil is returning home to his son now.
He has a chance to go.
And his son was born while he was in prison.
Well, that's that's good that he's
got that chance and
suing and and I hope he gets the 20 million dollars.
Yeah.
What the
hell?
That's absolutely ridiculous.
And you just participated in protests.
Mm-hmm.
You should be
able to do that in your in this country.
You know, they
act like the only US citizens can do this stuff.
Anybody can do this stuff.
It's freedom.
Right.
That's what it's all
about.
They were
the beacon of
freedom in the world.
It's
supposed to be.
You can come here and you know.
Right.
Be
free.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, I'm just catching on to that myself.
All right.
As we sit in this, in this, I don't know.
What?
What are you talking about Madison?
Yeah.
Well, no, I
was
thinking of a FEMA camp, you know, as John and Gordy broadcast live from the FEMA camp.
Try to set up that.
Yes, I know.
Remote from the.
Yeah, I think, yeah, the Elcatraz.
What is it?
The
alligator Elcatraz?
Yeah.
I've heard the Auschwitz Elcatraz as well.
What?
Yeah, that's what they're saying, too, that
Auschwitz Elcatraz.
Well, they've gotten some video, some pictures out of the place, and yeah.
It is, they're in cages.
Yeah, politicians went in and they were
just devastated by what it looked like.
Yeah,
Florida legislators were allowed to go in and take a tour.
They didn't
like it.
A Democratic representative went in and she was complaining about the toilets in
the
sink.
And it was
just
minimal stuff.
That was W. Was
it?
Was it?
Now, here's the thing.
Ann is familiar with all this stuff.
She writes novels.
And
so she, she just stays out like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she said that, uh, what, what Wasserman Schultz was describing is exactly what they have in prisons.
It's not downgraded.
It's not torturing, trying to torture them or, or give them something, uh, that's, uh, you know,
substandard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's the way it is
in the prison.
It's a combination toilet and sink.
Basically.
Yeah.
Similar to that.
Yes.
It's all combination.
You're not.
Yeah, you're not washing your hands
in
the
bowl.
Alligator Alcatraz, we're hearing from Scott.
Thank you, Scott.
Yep.
And alligator Auschwitz, somebody else piped in here.
You can text us.
Okay.
Yeah, well, she was Debbie Wasserman.
I can never get her right.
Wasserman Schultz.
Yeah, she was describing the conditions in there and it wasn't good.
I mean, yeah, it's
awful.
It's not great.
But
yeah, I heard that, you know, they give you really substandard food.
Well, there's
worms in the food.
So that's really so
standard.
I'm glad you added that.
I would complain, too.
And what is
this?
And they said the mosquitoes were like, like birds, fat birds or bumblebees.
I mean, they were gigantic.
And there's no way of stopping that.
So everybody's kind of, you know, in
this
horrible, horrible hell.
It's terrible.
Yeah.
Well, we got one minute.
OK.
All right.
Well, yeah, let me mention that this for you because, you
know, the is that sale over now?
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You'll thank me.
You'll thank me.
Oh, everybody's thanking you.
My name is Bonzo, and today is a very, very special day, because today is somebody's birthday.
Uh, whose birthday is it, Bonzo?
Is it the Gingerbread Man's birthday?
No, no, no.
Is it Little Bo Peep's birthday, Bonzo?
No, no, no.
Is it Humpty Dumpty's, Bonzo?
No, no, no, you guys.
It's John's birthday.
Hey!
Oh, choppy.
Okay, everybody, let's say happy birthday to John.
Hey.
Happy birthday, John.
Happy birthday, Sean.
Happy, happy birthday.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
You want to tell everybody how old you are?
No.
John
is 117
years old today.
I wish you hadn't said that.
Well, happy birthday, big guy.
Yeah, well, I hope
you enjoy it.
Get one a year that's all
you're
allowed.
I think we've got a happy birthday voice note
as well.
All right, that's
fantastic.
Let's hear it.
All right.
Here we
go.
How are you from Mount Hora?
Peterson, for your birthday, that young guy should shut his yap.
Yeah.
There you go.
Hey,
wow.
Is he talking
about me or is he talking
about you?
I know.
I
think he's talking about me, I'm pretty
sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
That's
fine.
Yeah,
just get on the Civic Media app.
You can send a voice note there just right from the app.
Look for the button.
Okay.
Looks like John is starting to lose it because he's so old.
For some reason, I keep tipping my coffee away from my face after I'm done sipping it and it's splashing up in my face.
What the hell is going on?
You know, it's funny you mentioned
that because I have the same problem.
You have almost the same one.
I do.
I do.
But my problem is after I take a sip, some of it for some somehow gets on my nose.
Oh, yeah.
I have no why.
I don't know why.
How that gets up there.
I don't.
Yeah.
It doesn't make any sense at all.
But I always have to wipe.
Yeah, anyway, nobody cares.
Sunshine today, highs in the mid 80s.
Right now it's about 65 degrees and looks beautiful all day long.
OK.
I got a story that is so surreal that it really is hard to even believe or imagine.
But anyway, this this actually happened.
You know, we've got that smoke coming down from Canada.
I
know when's that going to stop?
Well, I hope it stops right away or at least thanks to the pressure by a few of our Republican friends in Congress from our state.
And that is I'm going to name them Tom Tiffany and Glenn growthman.
Thanks to them, maybe this will end.
Really?
You know, this is such a big story.
But the BBC had it.
No kidding.
I'm not kidding.
Smoke from Canadian fire fires is drifting south and making it difficult for Americans to enjoy summer.
Six members of Congress wrote that in a letter to Canada's embassy.
It was signed by Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grossman.
This is what they wrote.
We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke, filling the air to begin the summer.
Oh my gosh.
Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grofman blamed a lack of active forest management and arson.
They said with all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting fires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken.
What is wrong with
these
people?
They must have all been drunk when they signed this thing.
Let's just listen to
this cut.
It's kind of a
summary
of the whole thing.
I don't know.
Let's listen to
this thing.
Is Canadian wildfire smoke ruining summer for Americans?
That's what this letter from six US lawmakers says.
In our neck of the woods, the summer monks are the best time of the year to spend time outdoors.
But this wildfire smoke makes it difficult to do all those things.
The Republican lawmakers
say
Canada isn't doing enough to
manage
its forests and wants to know how Canada plans to mitigate the smoke.
They also blame arson for multiple large wildfires in Canada.
While many wildfires are caused by humans, that doesn't mean
they're caused by arson, which is intentional.
Experts say actual arson incidents are rare,
and
the letter doesn't mention climate change, which has been proven to worsen wildfires and other extreme weather events.
So what do Canadian officials have to say?
Well,
I've shaken the hands of American firefighters in northern Manitoba who are helping us out.
And I would challenge these ambulance chasers in the U.S.
Congress to go and do the
same.
had a unified statement on fighting.
forest fires.
I know that there is some unity around the leader's table on this issue.
But could anything actually be done to curb the smoke?
We asked a few wildfire experts and they say these fires are really difficult to control.
Some of them are
sparked in remote areas by lightning.
Some have actually been burning for years underground in the winter and resurfacing in spring and summer when it's dry and hot.
Canada is also huge and the boreal forest makes up a ton of its landmass.
One expert told me managing all of it is basically a pipe dream.
are ways that wildfires can be mitigated, like prescribed burning.
That's a type of fire set intentionally and then controlled to undercut the intensity of future wildfires.
Canadian officials say there will be a response to the letter in due course.
When they get to it.
Get
around to it.
This is so
ridiculous.
Stop that
smoke from getting into our country.
Stop that smoke.
You know, it's so weird.
I mean, to actually say that we have the technology at our disposal.
that we can do something about this.
We can reverse this action, right?
Well, have they forgotten about the massive U.S.
fires in Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, California?
The largest New Mexico fire ever, Virginia.
The Texas Smokehouse fire, the largest in Texas history, the largest fire in Hawaiian history as well just happened in 2023.
Maybe.
Why didn't we use this incredible technology at our disposal to prevent these wildfires?
What are they talking about?
Tom, Tiffany, Glenn, Rofan?
Get off the drugs!
Get off the booze!
They've
got a lot of time on their hands.
And of course now the rest of the world knows we have these idiots in charge.
Thank you BBC for telling everybody.
We're trying to keep them
secret.
You know, we don't want to tell everybody.
That's crazy.
Okay.
659 after the news and we got we got big stories
coming up here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll get to
more Christian
home.
Oh boy.
Yeah.
All that coming up on John and Gordy for a Monday morning on WMDX.
Stay with us.
These are the times that try men's souls.
In the course of our nation's history, the people have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened.
Today, a new crisis has arisen.
Citizens, hear me out.
This could happen to you.
People think I'm controversial, but the truth is, I'm a nice guy.
You know who I am?
In the field of live entertainment.
Oh my God!
I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
Let me tell you something, you lowlife lion, four-plush and sack of shit.
I will tell you this is going to be something special.
Just to show about nothing.
Hell, I like
you.
Well, it's just ponderous, man.
Ponderous.
Ponderous.
Ponderous.
Ponderous.
It is like ponderous.
WMDX 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning, my big day today, my birthday.
Celebration here in the studio.
Taking your calls.
Thanks for
all the streamers.
Texts
and good
voice notes.
Appreciate all those.
Yeah, yeah.
Got any big plans for your big day?
We're going to take
a ride the new electric vehicle.
Oh boy.
Boy, you were showing me pictures of the console there.
It is absolutely gorgeous.
It looks like the Jetsons.
It looks so, you know, into the
future.
It's 60s cartoon show for adults.
And we're...
going back to that as the future.
It's still a future.
It's still the
future.
We always wanted, remember it was, the big deal was getting a flying
car.
Flying car, that's the big
thing.
Yeah, and we've been
looking for that
year after year after year and they, you know, every year they come out with a picture of a new flying car idea.
Yeah.
But they're always gigantic.
The wings are huge.
They have, yeah, they have like giant fans that are pushing the car up in the...
It just
doesn't make any
sense.
So
we've given up on that idea, but now, you know, you get one of these electric vehicles.
Wow.
I
mean, you are in the future.
Pretty fancy.
Yeah.
It's fantastic.
And, you know, I got to tell you, I told the story on Friday, you know, it's one.
One dispute that my wife and I had.
We agree on everything.
Accidentally, we always agree on the exact same things, but this was something she didn't necessarily want to do is to get a 2022 electric vehicle.
Why was she holding back on that?
She wanted to put a garage and add some value to the house.
I forget that.
Well,
you can always build a garage.
So, you know, so, you know, and then, and then my kids, they think it's a no big deal with the Prius.
You can have your little Prius.
So I'm sitting there thinking, you know, I've got nobody on my side on this thing.
So we buy the car.
Yeah.
My wife fell in love with the vehicle.
Really?
Oh, she hadn't seen it yet.
No.
And
then she just loves this thing.
Oh, well, and then I took all works out.
I
took my young gen zero out in it and.
And he loved the vehicle.
You can't wait to get
out there and use.
I'm thinking, wow, did I make the right decision here or what?
He
definitely did.
So here's the thing.
And now I know why I fell in love with it right away when I got behind the wheel.
I thought, man, this is it.
This is I'm in Jetsons territory here.
But you didn't bring it to work today.
How come?
No, I got to insure it.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
OK.
You gonna bring it tomorrow, maybe?
I might.
So we take some
pictures, maybe go out for a ride.
I think it's a
little too fancy for the parking ramp.
Really?
Okay.
All right, well.
Looks like I'm gonna have to park on the roof floor.
You gotta do a photo shoot.
You gotta find a place where you can do a photo shoot, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know exactly.
It
was John and Gordy standing outside.
Yeah, there you
go.
Let's do that and put it up on Facebook.
Okay, I like it.
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Okay.
I just want to mention also
that it's a Kia EV6 Wind.
EV6.
The
brand name is Wind.
They have a GT,
which is very fast, but the Wind is the high tech package.
Let me tell you
what.
The high-tech
packaging.
Yeah,
I don't know.
Maybe you don't want to get that I love it, but I'm wondering if I should love it.
There are huge gigantic
quick reference manuals to it.
It's the quick guide.
Learn it really quickly.
You gotta do that.
Yeah, get started quickly.
It's like 300 pages.
You
better study up.
I'll be studying for the next three years to figure this car out what it can do.
There's even voice recognition in it, but
I don't think
that's at the end of the book.
I always check out the end to see what happens.
Good radio system in there, good sound system.
Oh man, you wouldn't believe
how beautiful it is.
I'm looking at the pictures right now and it looks beautiful.
It looks really good.
And it's red, which I'm not a big fan of.
You know,
I'm
not
a fan of
white, red, silver, you know, but I don't think color matters anymore.
So we just, you
know, I
don't look, I'm like a mega, I don't see color.
Can you play CDs in it?
So have a CD changer?
I
don't think so,
no.
We're going to pass that.
The Judson
CDs are on
way back
today.
Yeah, OK.
All right.
All right.
Let's get to something I think is rather cute,
a
candidate out in New York.
for mayor, Zoran Mamdani.
He had a problem repeating one word over and over and over, and he realized that.
But let's find out.
A lot of people don't say his name because they're not sure how to say it.
Zoran Mamdani, right?
Right.
Well,
you got it, right?
But does Julian...
Oh, our pronouncer guy?
Our pronouncer guy, right?
In France.
Yeah.
Who gives us English pronunciation?
Yeah.
I just love that.
Okay, let's listen to what Julianne has to say.
Okay.
Name pronunciation.
If you want to learn more confusing names, including from US politics, make sure to stay tuned.
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Zohran or Zohran Mandani in English pronunciation.
Soran, Mamdani.
Soran, Mamdani.
Here are more videos on how to pronounce more confusing words and names.
Too many mispronounced.
You know, the thing is, I don't know if he has any time to do anything else but record pronunciations.
Where does he... He's got such a... He's already got
this.
It's like a hypnotic voice that he has.
He has a very... Yeah.
Makes you...
Almost hypnotized.
Yes.
Well, here's,
here's mom Donny.
He had the problem that he had and he brought it to light.
He wanted to tell everybody because obviously there'd be a campaign issue.
Okay.
So let's, let's listen to this.
So the other day, my comms team was giving me some feedback that I used the word ultimately a little too much and then I need to take it out of my vocabulary.
Then a few days later, I went home, opened up Tixac, and I saw this video.
Ultimately.
Ultimately.
And ultimately.
Because I'm ultimately... And ultimately.
Because ultimately.
And ultimately, I think.
And ultimately.
But ultimately.
So, you know, I'm listening.
I'm learning.
I sit down for an
interview with News 12.
And I almost pull it off.
The president himself, he has called you a communist.
He has threatened to arrest you if you enforce ICE raids.
I will not back down from that fight,
because what New Yorkers want.
So please keep sending me your feedback, because ultimately, I will get better.
Well,
good
luck with that.
He's learning.
That's good.
Seems like he's addicted
to that word.
I
know.
Well, yeah.
Don't work it out.
Do
we have a word like that that I don't
know?
I often say.
Say you up and
say
or
down.
Do you say a word?
I'm trying to think of a word.
I mean Yeah, I say usually a lot, but you know, that's not really the same.
It doesn't hit the same.
Yeah,
I say the F word a lot, but Yeah, but not on the air.
Okay.
Oh,
I just love this, you know This FEMA thing.
Oh, it's getting worse and worse for these people because they're so incompetent.
They don't know what they're doing
You know, they're just plant by ear, you know, shooting from the hip.
On Fox News Sunday, Homeland Security's Secretary, Christine Nome, outright lied to keep the megabase ignorant and happy.
What?
Because even though it's obvious she's lying, the Megas will believe every single word
and syllable that
she speaks.
Really?
Well, I don't know.
Listen to this and see if she's convincing.
OK, I want to give you a chance to respond to Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat, who said this on X. He says the floods ripped through Texas on July 4th.
On July 5th, FEMA received 3,000 calls from survivors.
Only 1% went unanswered that night.
He says Trump and Nome fired the people who answered the calls.
So on July 6th, FEMA received 2,363 calls.
65% went unanswered.
July 7th, 85% went unanswered.
He ended by saying sick.
Were people fired who
could have been helping at the time?
It's an absolute lie.
And that's what I think is so disingenuous
and
horrible about the situation.
Nobody
was fired.
No contracts were ended.
Everybody was there answering calls and doing all they could to help the people of Texas.
So the fact that Democrats are politicizing this while people are still looking for their babies, they're still looking for their family members, I think is absolutely despicable.
And the American people just, I think, need to know the truth of what they're doing and how they're taking advantage of this situation to help them.
themselves politically.
It's a disservice not just to the people of Texas and these families that are going through grief right now.
It's a disservice to our country.
Oh, it is.
It's a disservice listening to you lie so blatantly outrageous.
Thousands of calls to FEMA from Texas flood survivors went unanswered after the agency fired hundreds of call center contractors due to expired.
contracts.
I
don't
know if we
call it fired so much as the contract expired and they didn't
renew them.
And
they didn't renew them.
I
see.
And that's according to the New York Times.
The contracts were eventually renewed five days later.
And, you know, that's a problem.
That
is
a problem.
There was a lapse of time there.
Yeah.
So she just, I mean outright lied.
Yeah.
It is.
That's
what they do.
Hey, we've got Dick on the phone line here, 608-879-8255.
Good morning, Dick.
What's on your mind?
Good morning.
Well, speaking of lying, this Epstein thing that's really blowing up, okay?
It is.
Mm-hmm.
I smell something here, and I'll just run up by you guys and see what you
think.
Sure.
Here's what it is.
This guy's the biggest kind in the world next to food.
I'm talking about our guy in the White House.
Right, yeah.
And these guys that are all crying, follow up on it, the worst this weekend ban and, you know, the whole group with the exception of Elon Musk, who watches out there, they are all in one category.
They're deeply into Trump.
I think that they're just sitting on it like Barr did with the Mueller report, chopped it all up.
And then at a point in a week or so, Trump will come out, benefit the good energy and all this net.
and you'll get a big nothing burger that he's not involved in whatsoever.
Yeah, exactly.
And it'll also throw Eli Musk totally under the bus, too, because he'll try and come up with, you know, the real thing.
And no one will believe that.
That's right.
I think it's going to go.
I
think you're
absolutely right about that.
That is the, well, that's what they do.
So yeah, that's great stuff.
And they are good at it.
Yeah, they are very good at
it.
Yeah, I mean.
Like I said, the only bigger con man in the world is the guy that he's being conned by on the daily base.
Yeah.
By the way, Dick, I have a clip, a collage of clips where they're promising and promising and promising to release the list.
And then, of course, it all blows up.
But I got that right after our break here.
But I appreciate the reminder on that.
Thanks, Dick.
Yeah.
We'll get to that in just a few moments.
I don't think Elon's going to let this go.
He hasn't let it go yet.
Right.
I think he's going to keep on this until.
Well, the
whole reason I bought this electric cars because of the rebates expiring at the end of September.
They
forced my hand on this and I'm glad they did
actually in a way.
Well, it's your birthday present to yourself.
That's right.
That's right.
19 minutes past the hour.
When we come back, we'll check in with Brittany Merlot.
Get the latest on the weather for this Monday on John and Gordy.
That's how my new
EV
sounds.
WMDX, 92.7, John and Gordy in the
morning.
Wait, wait.
Daughter,
Judy.
You, yeah, you have a crush on her.
One more, one more, hang on, hang on.
Jane, his wife.
Okay,
we can move on now.
Sorry.
See, I got this EV and now we're thinking, geez, John just entered the Jetsons
age.
Jetsons, yes.
It's all very futuristic.
It is.
723, beautiful sunshine in Madison this morning.
What's it like across the rest of the state?
Let's find out from Brittany Merlot, our chief meteorologist.
Good morning, Brittany.
How are you?
Good
morning,
guys.
How's it going?
It's going good.
Good.
How are you doing?
Good.
I hear it's John's birthday, so we have nothing but sunshine all day
long.
There
you go.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Beautiful.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad we talked to you.
Yeah, right?
That's what gifts I bring.
You ask meteorologists, you get sunshine.
Thank
you.
Yeah, it's great here.
Is it sunshine where you are in Wausau?
Yep, it's bright.
It's beautiful.
I don't see too much haze or wildfire smoke at the moment.
And it shouldn't be too bad by you either.
It looks like it really sticks by Milwaukee this morning.
Um, and then that air quality alert should expire as we go through this afternoon.
So hopefully that kicks on out of here.
We'll stay dry and sunny tomorrow too.
But both days, upper eighties.
Fantastic.
Wow.
I'm loving it.
You know, uh, Tom Tiffany and Glenn growthman, uh, you know.
Ask Canada to keep the smoke up there.
And
for some reason,
they think we have technology that's at our disposal to prevent these wildfires, even though we
couldn't do it.
We couldn't have done it in our own country for some reason, but yes, they do.
Anyway, boy, that's crazy stuff.
But you know, this smoke, I don't know.
I think they still have the fires going.
It's just a direction to the wind that's blowing in, right?
Is that why it's going to clear out of the state?
Yeah, there's two things that work so the direction of the wind right obviously if it's coming from Canada It's gonna make its way here But the high pressure system does a lot with it high pressure kind of calms and settles and sinks the air
What
it's doing is taking everything from high up in the sky bringing it to the surface and there's your wildfire smoke for us to breathe in
so the high
pressure
Isn't the best and if you've probably seen the trend we're either getting hot and humid sunny days with storms Or we're getting comfortable sunny hazy days and that's because of the high pressure system mostly.
Yeah, okay.
All right Well, we'll just deal with it and then some rain midweek, right?
Yeah, so right now We've got a front stalled way up in Northwestern parts of the state and it's gonna slowly sink down towards us probably Wednesday and Thursday
then it clears on out.
So still sunny for Friday.
Good, gorgeous end to the week.
Excellent.
Very good.
Well, thanks for that.
And thanks for
the sunny skies for my birthday.
I
really
appreciate that.
You're welcome.
I hope you enjoy it and have a good one.
All right,
Brittany.
Thank you very much.
We'll talk
to you again
tomorrow.
That's Brittany Merlot, our chief meteorologist.
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Okay.
As I promised, Dick, we have a compilation of clips together of promises to show us the Epstein list.
Okay.
And let's let's listen to that.
Okay.
How is it that my father can be convicted of 34 crimes, but no one on Epstein's list has even been brought to light?
How is I'm trying to figure out how that's possible, right?
It's almost like they're trying to protect those pedophiles for some reason.
I can't imagine why, right?
Yeah.
Why is the FBI protecting the greatest petarist, the largest scale petarist in human history?
Simple because of who's on that list everybody in politics has a vice that's much worse than alcoholism is the way that I put it But we we release the list Seriously, we need to release the FC list that that is an important thing the
DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Well, that really happened
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
That's been a directive by President Trump.
In this case, in Epstein's case, it is incredibly disturbing.
We have flight logs, we have information, names.
That will come out.
I'm not ever going to let this story go because of what I heard from a source about Bill Clinton on a plane with Jeffrey Epstein.
I'm not letting it go ever.
Oh,
okay.
Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes.
This guy's been talked about for years.
Yes.
You're asking, we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things.
We
have
that.
And are people still talking about this guy, this creep?
That is unbelievable.
It's a creep that he hung out
with.
Yeah.
It was your good buddy.
Lots of video on it.
Yeah, lots
of
pictures.
He doesn't want to
be
caught.
It's not only the list, but they have video.
Lots of video.
Yes, and I'm surprised you know the thing is they don't really have to release the list Why don't they just investigate the people that they have on the list or in the videos Talk to them and see what happened.
What's going on?
It may not be strong enough evidence
in order to, you know, indict anybody.
Right.
But at least, you know, check it out behind the scenes.
I don't care about the damn list.
Just check out the people on the list and get their comments.
Well, there are a lot of Megas that are still very upset about this, and they're not going to let this go.
No.
Not easily.
Well.
Yeah.
So they're going to have to do something to release the list.
If there is a list.
Well, maybe release one of the videos.
Oh, sure.
They could do that.
Don't do that, don't do that.
They're gonna
just investigate.
It's
all gonna come out.
My God.
Okay.
It's 29 past the hour.
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Yep.
Yep, coming up.
Happy birthday to you.
God, God.
This is your special day.
This is your special day.
Yeah, yeah.
Happy birthday to you.
Yeah, yeah.
Happy birthday, John.
Hey, thank you.
Thank you.
My birthday wishes from all over, including Hawaii.
Fantastic.
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All
right.
Let's continue the program.
Let's go to the phone line.
All
right.
It's Mark.
Welcome, Mark.
Good morning, Mark.
Yeah, we've got pedophile protector Pam Bondi.
I mean, the, you know, PPP that... Yes.
And it's just pretty disgusting that probably, because wasn't there some 14-year-old girl like that that had accused Donald Trump of...
being one of the ones who assaulted her along with Jeffrey Epstein that and he never went and sued her for to fit defamation because my guess is it's like the Republicans back in when they destroyed the evidence of Scott Walker's crimes back when the Supreme Court says yeah we're gonna declare the one law unconstitutional destroy all the evidence so I
I wonder what kind of shredders have been in operation there at the Department of Justice.
And the whole problem is, is that too many people have seen that information.
So they get called upon to testify against, to see what they've seen about that information is it's going to be slightly bemusing to see, you know, when they call Donald Trump out for the crimes that he probably, it's not inconceivable that Donald Trump was involved with Jeffrey Epstein assaulting young girls.
We're good buddies.
Well, that 14-year-old had quite the story.
I mean, she testified.
You know, it's all documented.
And it sounds just like what they would have done together with Trump because he is a problem with touch, you know.
But anyway, yeah, I think he is guilty of being a participant in Epstein's, you know...
Club
so I
I think that somewhere along the way They should start investigating this and they should look into it and look into it whether privately or publicly Publishing the list, but yeah as you saw that list.
I mean they talked about it.
They promised it They really threw it out there.
This is you know chum for the for the Cult right they love this stuff and now they're disappointed that they're not
Ever going to find out who's on that list.
Yeah, so
well, I I think that you know that their duty is is to release that information and that Yeah, the whole problem is you can unless you start wiping people off because people have seen that information right and that they just can't they can't hide it forever and they're gonna just Hoping to make they're hoping this all just goes away and now with mega getting all upset about it I'm afraid mr. Trump that we're gonna see that stuff and you know somebody'll just it'll actually end up someplace and
people will see it and they'll see that Donald Trump indeed is as bad as we all thought he was.
Yeah.
Mark, thank you for your call.
Thanks.
We appreciate it.
Yes, it's going to come out.
It is going, some day it's going to go, they can delay it all they want, but it's going to come out.
Right.
It's
probably out there and the next president can certainly release it if he wants to.
We got a message here from, let's see, Laura Voice Note, right?
Oh, yes.
We got a voice note.
Yeah.
Let's hear
that.
Yeah, let's listen to
it.
OK.
All right.
Here we go.
Happy birthday, John, from your friend, the sparkly Costco lady.
In honor of your birthday, hot dogs are $1.50 today.
Oh, wow.
Excellent.
All right.
The sparkly Costco lady.
Here we go.
That's Kathy.
And we also got a message from Laura in Madison, who sent us a text.
Happy birthday, Mr. Peterson.
Mr. Peterson, wishing you 117 more.
Yeah, you're
117 years old today.
Yes.
Good for you.
Well, you know, it's, and we got one from Catherine here too.
You want
it?
Just says happy birthday, JP.
Yeah, that's from Catherine.
She's out on the West Coast.
I think so.
Very early in the morning.
Yes.
Okay.
So no big plans for your birthday.
Nothing special.
Ah, nope.
Could be a surprise party if it works.
Tomorrow,
we're celebrating my wife's birthday.
Oh.
And that's how we always celebrate my birthday is the next day.
And we're going to
go to a
movie.
Oh, really?
We're going to go see Superman.
Oh, that's right.
Yes.
Yes.
How are the reviews on that so far?
I heard they were
mixed.
They're really
good.
Are they?
Yes.
Yes, good.
I want to see it.
Yep.
Yeah, I want to see that.
I want to see Mission Impossible.
I actually just saw the other day Jurassic World Rebirth.
Oh, did you?
Yeah, and it was like it was pretty good.
Yeah, it was pretty good.
Yeah, I mean, I watched all the other movies.
So yeah, this one obviously is not the best, but it was up there.
It was good.
Okay.
Yeah,
I
recommend.
Okay.
I'm definitely going to see that as well.
Okay.
Good deal.
All right.
Why don't we get into Charlie Barron's list?
You know, I've been promising this.
So we're going to play it instead of getting to my next story about FEMA.
No,
Charlie's, he's got some... This is good stuff.
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Yeah.
Right?
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Okay.
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We're going to be talking to Charlie.
He's got a big tour lined up that starts in the fall.
And yeah, we're going to.
Talk with him about that.
I want to get a little bit closer.
Great guy.
The Bud Light thing.
You
know, I gotta say,
this is like a video and they show the Bud Light bottle upside down in a plant.
Pot right so it's draining into the pot
because
it's water.
Yes
No plants were injured.
All
right, I really really enjoyed that.
All right, let's get back to the fiasco known as as FEMA at this point
They want to do away, you know when they want to get rid of it when he
when he talked about getting rid of FEMA everybody's like what what
is he saying?
Yeah, why would you do that?
Yeah, what can you imagine?
Katrina without FEMA.
Man.
Anyway, this is Trump talking about this cut 59.
Let's listen to cut 59.
Trump lying about FEMA not being there after hurricanes.
I mean, it was all made up.
FEMA was there for the hurricanes.
Few people complained that were magas and made a big deal about it.
And Fox picked up on it and they spread that information all over the place.
But really FEMA was there.
They blame Biden.
They wanted to blame Biden for something.
They made it up.
And here it is.
Listen to this.
The
federal government is doing a very bad job.
They are not doing the job.
They don't have people there.
They don't have the people.
Kamala Wind and Dined in San Francisco and all of the people in North Carolina.
No helicopters, no rescue.
I just got back from a tour of the suffering and devastation in Louisiana.
Obama ought to get off the golf course and get down there.
Just a quick note to you and to our viewers after his trip to Texas.
President Trump is heading back to his golf club in Bedminster.
So there you go.
He's
going to
play golf after the big storm in Texas.
Yikes.
So why should we continue supporting FEMA?
Like we would even have to say it.
This is cut 60.
Listen,
listen, this is
North Carolina Governor Josh Stein.
OK.
Carolina Governor Josh Stein yesterday talking about that federal expertise that you referenced North Carolina is a bigger state than most so we have a pretty sophisticated emergency response team But here's the thing we don't get a huge storm every year.
Yeah, the country does It doesn't make sense for each state to have a fully staffed emergency response team because they may not have a storm for five years or ten years But we know the country will so let's have that expertise in the federal government
Right.
It's just common sense.
I know, but common sense ain't so common.
I love that.
Common sense ain't so common.
Trump again doesn't want to think about FEMA anymore, rips into this reporter.
Let's listen to cut 61 here.
Let's listen.
Okay.
We've worked from are obviously upset because they say that those boardings, those alerts didn't go out in time.
And they also say that people could have been saved.
What do you say to those families?
Well, I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances.
This was, I guess, Christie said, a 1 in 500, 1 in 1,000 years.
And I just have admiration for the job that everybody did.
There was just admiration.
bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you.
I don't know who you are, but only a very evil person would ask a question like that.
I think this has been heroism.
What?
It's easy to sit back and say, oh, what could have happened here or there?
Maybe we could have done something differently.
This was a thing that says never happened before.
It
has.
And nobody's ever seen anything.
I've never seen anything like this.
I've gone to some real bad ones.
I've never seen anything like this.
So I admire you, and I consider you
heroes and heroin and I think you've done an amazing job
with heroin Yeah, well nice nice ripping into the reporter for just asking a simple question
Do that once in a while, I mean I know that's a tough
question
Yeah, why would you
ask?
Why would you ask a question about a problem
that we are having your evil?
Yes, and we certainly want to put it under the way out.
We want to hide this problem, okay?
Why bring it up?
What are you doing?
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You know, RFK Jr.
is taking a lot of credit for getting the food dies out of food.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
But I hate to tell everybody, but that was kind of already something that was happening.
Oh, what?
You might as well take credit for it if you can get it.
In the fall of 2024, dozens of people rallied outside Kellogg's Battle Creek, Michigan headquarters, demanding that it remove artificial dies from cereals.
All right, so Kellogg and General Mills listened and since then they pledged to phase out the dies
Before
rfk jr.
Demanded it.
He didn't know I made now he probably doesn't know to
credit
for it anyway.
He knew you think so.
Yeah
Alright, anyway, you got polling shows.
Get this, and we have Dom in there to confirm this for us.
It shows that Gen Z consumers, who were born between 97 and 2007, eat more vegetables for breakfast than other generations.
Do you find that to be true, Dominic?
No, I am the most unhealthiest guy ever.
However, my roommate does a lot.
He does.
So a lot of veggies.
All
right.
So there you go.
But then also you're less likely to eat breakfast, but still by ready to eat cereal, suggesting they're eating the cereal as a snack other than a meal, like a breakfast.
Now that is true.
That is very true.
I agree.
It's true.
Both my sons, Gen Zers, they eat the cereal all day long.
Cinnamon
toast crunch.
Yeah.
Cinnamon toast crunch.
I eat that.
Yeah, I don't eat that for, you know, it's not like, it's just something I eat.
I don't know why, but
my son found a raisin brand to be something
he likes.
I like raisin bread.
Likes the snack on,
and
plus I guess the frosted shredded
wheat is a popular one.
Mm-hmm, frosted flakes and stuff like that too.
Yeah, those are all really good.
A lot of
sugar though, aren't they?
Well, it doesn't matter.
It
gets you
going.
It's an energizer.
Okay.
I want to play cut 58 here.
This is, uh, yeah, there were a lot of cartoon based serials.
You know, they always have the characters on the box,
right?
Yeah.
Well, I've got this clip from 1985.
And this was Ralston Parina.
They had a whole bunch of cartoon serials out there.
But listen for the Ninja Turtle poster that comes with the serial.
Just
listen to this whole
thing.
Ralston Purina stepped right in where the other cereal companies left off and started their own never-ending lineup of cereals in 1985.
Grocery store shelves were stuffed full of cereals for Donkey Kong, G.I.
Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Barbie, Batman.
And
Gremlins.
Licensing characters for serials lasted well into the early 90s.
With such hits as Spider-Man's Serial,
Bill and
Ted's Excellent Serial, and everyone's all-time favorite, Hercules O's.
However, most of them lasted only 14 to 18 months.
And when General
Mills spent $570 million to purchase the Ralston portion of Ralston Purina in 1996.
They largely ended the trend of never-ending licensing.
What's more, as the 90s dragged on, consumers became increasingly critical of the amount of sugar in cereals geared towards children.
So companies began to load up their cereals with extra vitamins and minerals.
When that wasn't enough, they began to reduce both the use of artificial ingredients and the amount of sugar they were putting into the recipes.
In other words, they made cereal
blame again.
Yeah.
Wow.
What is Erkl O's?
I've never heard of
that.
Erkl O's.
Is that what it's called?
Erkl.
Yes.
Yes.
What are they?
Well, you remember Erkl at all?
No.
Steve Erkl.
You
know
what?
Don't look it up.
Okay.
We don't want you to know
anything about
Erkl because it was like a
TV show.
It's a black hole in the TV history that we have.
Erkl.
But anyway, I love a Ninja Turtle poster that turned your room into a sewer.
Because they, because they lived in the
sewer, right?
Teenagement and Ninja Turtles.
That's just what
you want.
That's what every parent wanted
was their
son or daughter's room to look like a damn sewer.
Unbelievable.
Wow.
What a promise.
All right.
Hey, John, I hope you have a great birthday, you know, in honor of your birthday.
Yes.
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Oh, man.
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Yes.
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Okay.
I just wanted to bring that up
and your neighbors, by the way, say that the hubby is celebrating a birthday.
Let's
meet under
the
Gordy Kazebo.
Yeah, come on over.
It's all decorated now with the...
The beads and all that.
Oh, I can't wait to see those beads.
Tomorrow on The Big Show, Matt Trammell.
We'll be talking about Maxwell Street Days in Madison.
That's gonna do it for us for today.
John, I hope you have a great birthday.
You know, enjoy it.
Kickback.
Yes.
Bringing that fancy new car tomorrow.
We'll all take a look at it.
Wouldn't that be great?
I'm going to get you a cake as well.
You have to drive
it though.
It's incredible pickup.
You don't feel those pistons trying
to push
the
car
along.
It just moves
smoothly.
Enjoy.
Stephanie Miller's next.
Have a great day.
So long.
