Like a fine wine aged to perfection, until the bottle shatters against the rocks of history, two ancient warriors of radio broadcasting take to the airwaves of Madison for anyone brave enough to listen to the unvarnished truth, or something like that.
It's John and Gordy in the morning on 92.7 WMDX.
Company OMGX 92.7 and John and Courtney in the morning rainy day here in the capital city Madison.
Yeah,
yeah
Showers maybe a couple of thunderstorms early and then it should clear out midday and then a high around 85 this afternoon still gonna be warm and muggy all
day
We might get some showers and storms tonight, too.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Well, they've got a dome over the stadium.
Yeah
What I hear we're gonna be we're gonna be in
Milwaukee this evening.
That'll be nice Cubs and Brewers tonight.
We'll be taking our winner Linda To see the game along with either her daughter or granddaughter.
I think she was trying to decide which one ah
It's gonna, she's gonna take, but I think it ended up being her daughter.
And yeah, that'll be fun.
She's our Brewer's winner, thanks to Doundren's distilling for helping us out with that promotion.
And it should be a good time
tonight.
It should be a really important game because the Brewer's are now one game up
on
the Cubs.
The Brewer's won last night,
or
yesterday rather, not last night.
But yeah, it's gonna be a big game.
And because it's so big, we have decided to take Wednesday off.
That's right.
Yeah, we're expecting the game to go into extra innings and we'll be in Milwaukee all night long.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah.
So, yes, we're...
We feel bad about it because we like to get to all the current information and news out there and we'll have a pile of news to probably sort through on Wednesday to bring you on
Thursday.
That's
it.
You know, it's just one of those sacrifices.
We really tried to get a day game.
Tried to.
They wouldn't give it to
us.
Well, they
didn't have enough tickets.
That's what
they say.
So anyway, here we are going at night and it's just going to be a really long night.
Yeah, not a lot of show prep either.
So
so we pre-recorded Wednesday show or we're going to be doing that today a little later on today.
And yeah, we'll take most of Wednesday up.
But we got our Sugar River pizza party.
We still have that.
Yes, Wednesday.
We're doing that.
Yes.
And we're taking care of that.
Yeah, Wednesday.
All right.
So all right.
Well, they're fine.
Yeah.
Well, they're finding out this Manhattan shooter.
Yeah.
Had a grievance against the NFL.
Oh, is that right?
I haven't heard that.
Yeah.
He had a note in his pocket and
he was
angry with NFL.
And that's why he ended up in the NFL building or a building with the NFL in it.
No kidding.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How could
you have a grievance against
the NFL?
I don't know.
It's horrible.
Yeah.
Yeah, terrible downtown shooting in New York City.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that situation was resolved pretty quickly, but, you know, it was awful while it was happening.
Nine minutes past the hour and, you know, wet day ahead of us as we said, is it time for.
What should we do?
What should we matter?
This is early this time.
What are we going to do right away?
Oh,
you want to hold up?
No, no, I'm good.
It looks.
It's our
new camera angles here.
Oh, there we go.
Yes, yeah.
If you want to check out the YouTube or Facebook,
we do have new camera angles.
We're backwards, right?
Yeah.
Why is it, uh, John should be on the left
and I should be on the
right.
But then the names are all wrong.
You know, John and Gordy is on the right side.
Instead of the left side.
Wait a minute.
No,
I'm on the left and he's on the right side.
Gordy.
Well, it doesn't matter where the names are, where they are.
That name he's talking about this.
Oh, that.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
You can't move
that.
People kind of know.
Can't move the
name.
I mean, I guess I could, yeah.
I could do
that.
I'm not
used to the close-up.
I would have worn my makeup this morning, but
there you go.
Sure, good face.
All right, let's do the would
you.
What would you rather do?
Yeah, let's do some would you rather.
Is this a new open?
Nah.
Ah, no.
Here we go.
What?
Would you rather?
I can understand it more and more as
the
days go by.
Me too, I'm starting to get used to it kind of.
Alright, so first question.
Would you rather visit Hogwarts or Hogwarts or Narnia?
Hogwarts, I'm sorry.
I would do Narnia.
Narnia is very luscious.
Hogwarts is kind of scary.
I never understood Narnia.
I don't get it either.
Yeah, I'd go Hogwarts, I guess.
What?
Why would you guys go Hogwarts?
Yeah.
What's the reason behind it?
I mean,
why should
I go
into some kind of cabinet in somebody's room and then go into a different world that I didn't understand?
Yeah, but then you open up through the cabinet.
You're not living in the cabinet.
You're living in Narnia.
I
know, just too
scary.
You know, many, many, many years ago, like when I was three or so, we had a cabinet in our bedroom and...
And it was scary, you know, it had doors on it and I always thought of going in there and Finding myself in another room similar to ours, but covered in spiders.
Oh, so I for some reason I'm just not into cabinets and climbing into them.
All right, you know, it's okay.
All right, just so leave me alone.
That's a good explanation All right second question.
Yeah, would you rather always talk in rhymes or sing instead of speak?
Um, I'd talk in rhymes, I think.
I think I would talk in rhymes, too.
Yeah.
I can't sing
to save my life.
Yeah.
Singing would be tough all the time.
Yeah.
Right off the
dome, I wouldn't be able to do it.
Well, I'll go with singing just because you guys, you know, like to be different.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'll break from mold here.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
There we go.
That's all we got.
Yeah, unless
we can come up with one ourselves.
No, we're good.
Yeah.
I think that's plenty.
Okay.
Is it any kind of special day today that we, you know, we would
Like kick ourselves all day long for not having celebrated a specific day.
Well, let me just see.
National day.
Yeah.
Calendar.
I know you miss
it.
Historical
day.
Some, no, I don't actually
miss
it.
But sometimes, you know, we're sitting here like, you know,
take an
aspirin
day,
a really important day like that.
Well, do you
like lasagna?
It's national lasagna day.
That would be it.
You're right.
part Italian, you might like that.
You would like the lipstick day.
National lipstick day, sure.
Yeah, I like to try out different lipsticks from time to time.
It's also national chicken wing day.
You know, it's weird, I've been thinking about buying chicken wings in the prepared stuff that they have frozen.
I don't like chicken wings at all.
Not into them.
Yeah, sometimes they're kind of fatty, right?
You're eating the skin.
It's
just gooey, greasy look.
I like chicken wings.
Well, I do too.
But there is some fat on there.
But
we had somebody stop by and give us the chicken wings.
We were talking about wings
over Madison.
Wings over Madison.
That's
right.
They had great wings.
They
were really good.
It was
fantastic.
And again, we appreciate them stopping by.
They have a reformulation.
And it works out.
It was really good.
I remember
after the show,
John and I were in the kitchen about for like a half an hour trying to figure out what wings we want to take home.
That's right.
Took us
forever.
We really have to get the goat rays in the lunchroom every once in a while.
It'd be nice to take something home with us, but they don't have goat rays.
Goat rays.
Okay.
You know what goat ray is.
Like a tray to
go.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, you know, really, that's that good.
Well, yes, sometimes
we have, we had pie.
Laura brought in a pie and, uh, uh,
well, okay.
Be a good time for
a joke.
This is an idea.
You know, every once in a while I come up
with these fantastic ideas
and no one cares.
It's so okay.
No, it's a good idea because we do get food dropped by every once in a while.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're not begging for it, but if it comes by, we'll take it.
And Kathy too, I believe, dropped off some great food.
Don't want to forget everybody that's brought in food, certainly.
Remember the old days
when we depended on that stuff?
Oh yeah.
Every once in a while, some donuts come in.
That's nice.
Yeah, every once in a
while.
Be sure
nice if somebody brought in donuts today.
Can't depend on
it.
No, no, you really can't ask for too much.
We're not live on YouTube today, according to Catherine.
Yeah, there was a problem with our... What's the deal with that?
Destination.
We couldn't connect.
Our destination?
Yes, I clicked live a couple minutes beforehand and couldn't get connected.
No wonder
why.
Well,
that's it.
I'm
going home.
Okay.
How we doing on Facebook?
Are we on Facebook?
We are on Facebook, yes.
How about X?
Are we still on X?
No, we gamble.
Yeah, X has not been a... Has not been a friend lately?
Has not been a friend.
Go figure.
What's this about Facebook?
What?
Facebook's
all
good.
We
weren't good a couple days ago.
He always likes to go back and forth for some reason.
I don't know why.
All right.
Mysteries.
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Amazing thing, amazing story on CNN right now.
Trump prepares to return to DC to put
out
fires.
He's going to put out fires.
Trump
is
going to do that.
He's got to take care of some problems.
You know how he is at problem solving.
Fantastic guy.
Just
unbelievable.
He gets everybody in the same room together and solves it.
He really does.
Maybe put a little bit of too much into Putin.
The trust he had for Putin and that didn't turn
out a little well for him.
No.
Yeah, that didn't work that didn't work.
And of course, he's always supported Bibi.
Mmm.
Netanyahu.
And of course, that didn't work out either.
So he hasn't really learned too many lessons from the people who betrayed him.
Apparently not.
Yeah.
Bibi.
And then there's a piece of work.
Bibi Netanyahu.
There's no, there's no starvation going on in his world.
No, no, there's not a problem.
It's just so outrageous.
The more and more.
individuals, people are finding out about this and it's just, it's so outrageous.
And then Ghislaine Maxwell is appealing to the Supreme Court.
You remember last year when we appealed
to
the Supreme Court to allow us to get more hours and
it just didn't work.
They didn't take up our case.
Not at all.
I don't know.
So
it's easy to go to the Supreme Court
just to ask them something, anything.
Gee, why would she get any special treatment and go right to the Supreme Court with something?
Isn't it strange?
It's odd.
Still in
jail.
Maybe it's a favor.
Maybe
it's a favor that the Supreme Court owes Trump.
Possibly, yeah.
A little bit later on, we're going to talk to Patrick McBride.
He's author of the book, The Luckiest Boy in the World.
Yes.
And, yeah.
And he's, man, he was, he was a Brewer's Batboy.
He worked with the Bucks.
He worked with the Packers and he's going to come in and get us all revved up and ready to go for the Cubs Brewer's game tonight that we're going to.
And that should be a lot of fun.
He's always a great, great time.
to hang with him.
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One Step Beyond!
and rainy start this morning looks like the rain is moving out already and we'll see a mix of clouds and some sunshine highs in the mid 80s today feeling muggy out there this morning 72 degrees currently so we want to congratulate our winner of the pizza party this Wednesday will be visiting Lindsay Nelson does that name ring a bell John Lindsay Nelson does yes yes
Remember, there used to be a sports announcer named Lindsay Nelson, very famous sports announcer back in the 60s.
Worse, outrageous sports jackets.
He was really good.
Anyway, this is Lindsay Nelson, who works at the State Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
And we're going to go there and have a party.
You know, you're right.
They may have a room for us.
That's it.
And maybe we'll even take.
Take a slice.
Who
knows?
This is the way to lure us in.
I think so.
Ice agents will be waiting for us.
Anyway,
congratulations to Lindsay and we'll be visiting Wednesday with the Sugar River Pizza Party.
You can still enter.
We're going to do this all the way through August.
The Sugar River Pizza Party.
And as soon as I get the rest of the information in front of me, that would be great.
Here we go.
John and Gordy, how do you do this?
Well, it's very easy.
You just let us know.
So easy we have to search for
information.
We're doing this because we were nominated from Best of Madison for Madison Magazine.
So is Sugar River Pizza.
I heard they
take that
back now.
Is that right?
Yeah, I decided otherwise, but we're going to continue to soldier on here.
But just go to our website, wmdxradio.com and fill out the entry.
It says sign up here right at the bottom of the page.
When you see the Sugar River, River Pizza banner at the top of the page, just click on it, enter and who knows you and your party.
Can have a pizza party at your office.
All right.
Okay.
I had a visit yesterday from a plumber.
They have an experimental program on out there and I volunteered to be a part of it.
And what they do is they attach something to the water softener in the home.
and it reduces the amount of salt in the water that you use in the home, even though that I think was supposed to be the reason why we have a water softener.
Right, isn't that the
purpose?
To adjust the amount of salt in the water to soften it and keep the minerals out.
But anyway, it's attached now and I hope to see some kind of improvement.
We'll see.
Good,
wow.
We'll see.
Wow, I'm just seeing some devastating news for Cubs fans, and this is no kidding.
Oh yeah, yeah, Ryan Sandberg.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
Ryan Sandberg, dead at the age of 65.
Wow, okay, he was unbelievably great second baseman for the Cubs for many years.
You're
a big Cubs fan.
Yeah.
A lot of people are familiar with Ryan Sandberg, but I've heard the name.
He was amazing.
Yeah.
He was really unbelievable.
Yeah.
Wow, sorry to hear that.
Okay.
All right.
I'm bringing everybody down.
Well, I
use so much.
I was trying
to be positive here in the program this morning, but sorry.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to bring everybody down then.
Great.
Pete Buttigieg is out there and he's he's he's bringing up the fact that maybe the Democrats stuck too much to two words.
What's that?
And that that is status quo.
Mm hmm.
He was talking about the status quo.
We
as Democrats were saying, hey, let's let's keep that status quo going.
And, you know, it was a it it was a kind of a catch 22 for us because, you know, Trump wanted to change everything.
He is doing what he said he was going to do in a destroyed government and change everything in the economic balance in the world.
So we were saying, no, no, no, don't do this.
Yeah, let's just improve what we have I guess to Pete Buttigieg That's the status quo and I think we were just trying to protect at least what we have now We can improve all that stuff without destroying it and getting rid of it and then starting over again We can do it while we while we continue to have those same departments just improve them dramatically We can do that status quo, but we were accused of
Supporting the status quo and leaving everything the same and people really want to change.
Mm-hmm Wow, they got it and I and I hope they're happy now.
I hope they're happy.
Yeah Well Pete Buddha judge has been making the rounds on a lot of different podcasts.
He's going to podcast land.
Yeah about anywhere anywhere you can He was on breakfast club, which is an I heart radio
Get together, I guess I'm there one of their podcasts and he was talking about You know, maybe you're reaching out to magas and just saying look you don't have to agree with this on everything But you know take a look now see what's see what's happening and I think he's reaching a few but it's an uphill battle I think
It's gonna
take a while.
Well, I mean he said this is a quote here It is wrong to burn down the Department of Education But I
actually
think it's also wrong to suppose that the Department of Education was just right in 2024.
It's that's not the argument Pete That's not the argument.
You don't destroy it burn it down as you say But then you know start all over again or at least distribute it into other different
departments that have no experience doing anything with us.
I am just on pins and needles wondering what's going to happen to the funding for college education.
I don't know
how that's going to work out.
Right.
Because they're so incompetent that it's hard to imagine them getting their stuff together.
All right.
Well, anyway.
All right 29 minutes past the hour.
We've got a lot more show to go again in our Coming up in a little while here.
We'll be talking with Pat McBride He's written the book the luckiest boy in the world and we'll be visiting with him in our 7 o'clock hour Yeah, and the trade
deal with the EU not a great deal
And really, we mentioned it yesterday, but we're going to get into the details of it today.
Everybody seems so happy it
was
done.
Yeah, that we're going to pay 15% more for products from Europe.
Yeah, I should be just celebrating.
Yes.
We'll have more of John and Gordy in the morning after this.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything.
That could be considered a rational thought.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fall each other right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
And it's pretty apparent that we have the dumbest president in our history.
This is Johnny Gordy in the morning, uh, WMDX, 92.7.
And he has certainly, uh, let us know how stupid he is.
Recent comments.
Uh,
we're probably some dumb presidents back
in Scotland
in the early days.
You think so?
Yeah.
Millard Fillmore comes.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
He's pretty dumb.
Yeah.
Well, we don't have too many quotes from him.
No.
No.
I suppose we could look them up.
Got no video, got no audio, so
really don't
know how to tell me this.
Then it doesn't matter.
It didn't exist.
It's
not on
X. No.
That's right.
636.
It's cloudy.
A little rain that's moving out.
We'll see some sunshine.
Highs in the mid-80s.
Gonna feel muggy once again today.
Okay.
All right.
Not as hot as yesterday.
Okay,
let's get to these dumb comments.
Okay.
Remarkably stupid.
I think you would describe it that way.
Let's talk about wind turbines, okay?
Not windmills.
Unless you're making grain of some sort grinding
up
grain.
Yeah, they're really turbines.
That's what they really are.
It's kind of what they are.
Yeah, so let's listen to cut 150 here and listen to what he recently said about the ugly, ugly windmills out there.
Well, I say two things to Europe.
Stop the windmills.
You're ruining your countries.
I really mean it.
It's so sad you fly over and you see these windmills all over the place ruining your beautiful fields and valleys Killing your birds and if they're stuck in the ocean ruining your oceans
They're stuck in the oceans.
All right, well Yeah, you know, it's so unbelievably stupid that it is just tragic that we have this person in charge And he's micromanaging the country on top of that.
Yeah, well he
wants to manage the whole world now
You know, that's what he's going for.
So what we need to do is keep cranking CO2 into the environment.
We need to crank particulate into the atmosphere so we all die prematurely of diseases we don't necessarily need to have.
Just because it doesn't look good to him.
The windmills.
The Dutch windmills that we've seen all over the countryside.
this guy's all right now this happened just recently there was a Canadian six-year-old Canadian out fishing in Lake Champlain and and he ran into the Coast Guard out there the US Coast Guard really and they
Thought maybe he had gone too far to the US border or over into the US border and they gave him a really really difficult time I have a television coverage of this.
This is the 151 and this is how the whole thing transpired the guy is you know Traumatized let's listen.
Okay.
I'm never gonna be
the same You see it comes it goes I can stop it
Edouard Lallement is still very emotional when he talks about what happened on Sunday evening.
Lallement was out fishing near Venise en Québec.
The water connects to Lake Champlain in the U.S.
But Lallement says he knows for certain he was on the Canadian side.
I'm
seeing them.
They're coming towards me.
And I know.
In my heart.
I didn't can it.
I said you can't.
The boat that was approaching, he says, was the U.S.
Coast Guard.
They asked him to turn off his engine.
He complied.
They told him he was in U.S.
territory.
No, I'm very sorry.
I'm in Canada.
And I said, you know, I'm delighted to talk to you guys, but you cannot arrest me.
You can't come across the border and pick me
up, yes they did.
Lalman says he started his engine and tried to make his way further into Canada, but he says the Coast Guard followed and tried pushing him into the US.
Eventually his boat capsized.
Lalman was in the water and says he was drowning.
You know what they're doing?
They're tying my boat to their boat.
They're not even taking care of me.
Not at all.
I'm the one who told them.
The third time I went down,
Coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said, throw me a
buoy.
He says he was handcuffed on the US Coast Guard boat and eventually turned over to Border Patrol.
He was detained and placed in a holding cell without a proper explanation, he says.
I said, are you
arresting me?
No, sir, you're detained.
I said, detained for what?
I said, you're aggressing me.
I didn't do nothing to you guys.
I didn't even hit you guys.
He's like a beaten man.
He says he was injured, but he just wants an apology from the US Coast Guard, and he's speaking out as a warning to other Canadians.
I want the people to know
and to be aware, stay away from the border, even if it's 500, 600 feet away from there.
Wow.
That was a bad experience for him.
I guess so.
Yeah, he's traumatized.
He's getting a little aggressive at Coast Guard.
Just expanding they're expanding the Coast Guard.
They're gonna really really make them a fighting force military fighting force So which is crazy, and I don't think anybody wants to see is that what we voted for guy could have drowned We have yeah, we essentially yeah, they let him go down for a third time Isn't that the cartoon version of rounding right okay?
Let's go to the phone.
Let's go to the phone.
6-0-8-8-7-9-8-2-5-5.
Mark, good morning.
What do you got for us today?
Well, you kind of blew me away with his last story.
I mean, don't you have GPS?
I mean, if the guy had GPS, he could prove that he was in still in Canadian
water.
That's kind of shared waters, for God's sake.
I
mean, unless the guy's approaching American shores, what the hell
is the
problem?
Right.
The trumpet get all excited when he sees the big old smokestacks and belching out.
black coal smoke that used to coat my car with fly ash when I used to park down off a main street there down at the capitol and they had the coal plant.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
You know, you think you think for bringing it up, I thought of the same exact thing.
I mean, are they attractive?
Is it really great watching the smoke belching out of those smoke stacks?
No, it's not pretty.
I don't know.
That probably gets Trump excited.
He doesn't need a bag if he sees those big old smokestacks.
Yeah.
Reminds me of just how small he is.
Yeah.
Well, true, man.
All right, guys.
All right.
I appreciate it.
Thank you, Mark.
All right.
This is kind of a crazy thing.
And I was going to talk to Tim Slacker.
We'll probably bring this up during our...
Meeting with busted pencils Tim slecker on Thursday But this is out of Lawrence County, Tennessee boy a lot of weird things happen in Tennessee You don't need a or actually they don't want a doctor's note from a student anymore.
Oh
really?
This is cut 147 this is television coverage of it that describes it perfectly, but it is so wacky and so insane and so authoritarian
Let's listen.
Lawrence County School System's new attendance policy.
Doctor's notes will no longer excuse an absence.
Students will now just be marked absent or present.
The policy states at three absences, schools will start intervention.
If the student keeps missing school.
eight or more days, there will be a juvenile court referral.
You could end up failing the grade.
You could fill the course.
You're going to be petitioned to court.
You're not going to participate in graduation, get your driver's license permit.
While there will be exemptions for verified chronic illnesses and several other things, director of schools Michael Atkins and other district officials said in June's school board meeting that students need to learn reliability and work ethic.
And if you've got the sniffles, that's fine.
You're going to have them when you go to work one day.
We're all going to work sick, hurt, beat up.
The district sent this letter to local medical providers last week, asking them to, quote, emphasize the importance of regular school attendance while treating school-aged patients.
If a child goes to school sick and the school nurse sends that child home.
I can say it will be marked as a tardy.
How does that make sense?
As a parent, how can we give someone else the right to say what's wrong with their child?
We reached out to several local districts about their attendance policies.
Metro, Rutherford, Wilson, Williamson and Clarksville Montgomery County Schools all told us they accept doctors notes to use absences.
Put your kids health first, right?
Back in Lawrence County, Sanchez and several other parents upset over the policy.
How did this get passed?
are bracing for the new school year less than two weeks away.
Ultimately, I'm gonna do what's right for my kid, regardless of this policy.
Courtney Allen, WSMV4.
Well, you know what they're doing is giving them a legal trail.
What I'm saying, a record.
Yeah.
Give these students a record right away while they're still in school.
Yeah, I really want to see what Tim Slucker thinks of that.
I really want to know what he thinks.
I mean, I
probably
already know the answer, but I really want to know.
What he thinks of that
since when was a
doctor's notice not good enough?
Yeah, come on.
I know it costs a lot of money getting the doctor's note My god if they if they were that seriously ill that that would kind of tip it over into you know They're sick.
Yeah, but instead they want to just you know juvenile record and then maybe even take the kid away from the parents Who knows you know,
right?
Well, doesn't the parent, can't the parents just write a note?
I mean, the next day, they
can't do it either.
They can't do that
either.
They
can't.
Yeah, they can't do any of this stuff.
Okay.
It's
crazy.
It's all it's all punishment.
That's what it's all about by the Republicans This is where they lean.
This is how they think life should be for Americans in this country I don't think so and we're seeing of course at the top with Trump,
but boy, this is also Tennessee My dad and grandparents and great-grandparents grew up in Tennessee.
It's it's a different world there.
It is
Yeah
Oh,
man.
Back in the hill country there.
Well, you know, they are doing their own thing out there.
Wow.
Okay.
All right.
And then this will also be something we'll talk to Tim Slacker about.
I think we have time for this.
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters pushed 10 commandments, you know, in the public schools.
He wanted to force Christianity, taught his history and banned books, of course, with sexual material.
Forget about all that.
He had a very embarrassing moment while he had a board, a school board meeting.
And there was a video on the monitor just behind him.
he was speaking, let's listen to cut 157.
New tonight, the governor is responding after reports that nude women were shown on a television behind the state superintendent during an executive session of the Board of Education.
Thanks for joining us tonight on Evidence Time.
I'm Jessica Shambach.
The governor is saying tonight, I trust and appreciate my board members.
They are volunteers who are sacrificing their time to serve Oklahoma students.
Should these allegations be true?
All I can
say is that I am profoundly disappointed.
Now,
according to the Oklahoma,
board members Ryan Deathridge and Becky Carson say they saw nude women on a TV screen behind Superintendent Ryan Walters during that meeting.
They described to the Oklahoman that the video appeared to be something from the 1960s.
The
incident happened during this closed door session yesterday.
We reached out to both Deathridge and Carson.
Neither would confirm what they saw specifically, but Carson said in part quote the images that board members were exposed to yesterday in this meeting were inappropriate to say the.
there has to be accountability.
Deathridge also providing a statement saying in part we hold educators to the strictest of standards when it comes to explicit material.
The standard for the superintendent should be no different.
And Superintendent Walters telling KOCO some of these board members are blatantly dishonest and cannot hide their political agenda.
Disappointing that they are more interested in creating distractions than getting work done for Oklahoma family.
What about the video?
What?
What?
We'll let the monitor having the nude women from the sixties on.
What is that?
Any?
How did that happen?
Any way to explain that, Ryan Welters.
No explanation.
Wow.
All
right.
Yeah, grainy sixties, porn
films,
great.
Super.
648, cloudy in Madison, capital city, 72 degrees, back with more of John and Gordy in the morning after this.
It was
people started started singing with socks in their mouth
and
because it was very big deal that was with my Michael McDonald Yeah, don't
I'm gonna be
done playing that Don't play that.
Yeah, cuz
you know we're gonna talk
about Michael McDonald for the next half hour.
Yeah,
let's not do it again.
Don't play that again
WMDX, this is John and Gordy, just still freaked out over Michael McDonald's help on pop music.
Yeah.
We're getting some texts in here about that story that
you were
reading in Oklahoma.
Yeah, that was, you know, for video.
For one thing, Catherine asks our program director, how do you know they were a grainy?
Because they're from the 60s.
The
video.
They
didn't have high definition back then, okay?
They were videos.
Somebody forgot to change the channel, Ryan Walters, I would think.
And another one, Doug asked, how could they tell they were from the 60s?
Again.
Grainy.
Grainy video.
Yes.
I mean, yeah, they were always grainy.
Always.
That was the look in the 60s.
That's how it looked.
It was before high death.
Like home video is what it was.
Oh, and she goes, oh.
Okay.
Oh.
Okay.
Let's go to the phone.
Yeah.
Joe is on the line with a question or a comment.
What do you got for us, Joe?
Good
morning.
Oh, just, you know, I could be going on for several hours, I suppose, but I'll leave the two items here.
First off, in reference to the previous story you had about the poor Canadian fisherman who was capsized by a very aggressive US Coast Guard, my question is,
Who pays for the boat?
I mean, does he have to, what does an insurance form with?
The Coast Guard rammed me and uh, it both took, I have a class to him, you know, he was very nice.
I just won an apology, but who pays for the boat?
And then the second thing is on this superintendent of Oklahoma schools who couldn't quite figure out how to uh during a zoom meeting to turn off his 60s porn that was apparently paint playing.
One of the things they said in the story about it that I thought was just such a relevant detail the two people were able to see that this weird stuff was going on with these nude images of women and one of the women said I turned into a mama bear and I said what is going on here and
This reply was, I can't turn it off.
I can't turn it off.
Yes, you can
turn it off.
Which is
really interesting to me because he's a superintendent of schools for Oklahoma and one would think that STEM, you know, science, technology is kind of important that you should be able to learn how to turn off porn on your Zoom meeting, you know, that that would be a real basic for the superintendent of schools.
Anyway, it might you sense on a one more flailing amazing story.
Yeah, thanks guys.
Appreciate it.
Thank you,
Joe.
Filling in the blanks.
That's it.
Yeah, it was it was an interesting story about Ryan Walters again.
You can't stop making the news.
You really can't.
Yeah.
All right.
Now this is something, you know, Lara Logan, remember Lara?
Oh, yeah.
She
What happened to her?
She was a plastic reporter.
She was on 60 minutes for a while.
Yeah, she was out there.
She was in the field in in war zones and she was doing a fantastic job.
All of a sudden she just flipped.
Went nuts, became mega.
Sorry about that.
You're going to find out now.
She she's talking to filmmaker stuntman Mike Smith.
He claims that top level Hollywood demands a blood sacrifice.
What?
Yes.
Top Hollywood, top level Hollywood demands that there be a blood sacrifice or transitioning of a child as a symbolic act of loyalty to Hollywood, okay?
Now,
you would think that
Lara would sit there going, yeah, sure, uh-huh, uh-huh.
But you'll be surprised at the very last comment from her in this report.
163, let's listen.
Is it true that to get to a certain level in Hollywood, these famous people have to sacrifice their firstborn child?
Is that a crazy thing to say?
I've heard, okay, let me just say for the record, I don't know any of this to be, I can't prove what I'm about to say if you ask me what I can prove, I can't prove this.
But
if you ask me what I believe, I believe.
that there is a club and I do believe that there are certain people that to attain certain stature or certain level of influence or I believe this guy is crazy whatever you're required to either sacrifice a blood sacrifice whether it be a mom or a relative or whatever or transition one of your kids because it's all worshiping their God
They're false gods.
So what are the signs that you see that make you think that that's true?
Oh, this is good.
What do you mean?
Go Google.
Go Google your stars and see how many of them lost a parent or how many of them lost a kid.
But that happens.
You know, to die in accidents or died, died during, you know, a certain period of time in their life.
But that's normal.
Go Google.
Go see how many stars have transgender kids.
Who do you think's pushing that?
Oh, come on.
Where do you think that comes from?
Hollywood?
That is, that is boffamid.
That is satanic.
It's dark.
It's evil.
It's
very dark.
That's her.
That's a
response.
That's
dark.
Lara Logan now believes even that.
Okay.
Wow.
That's weird.
I know.
Well, check out.
Maybe their parents did die.
Maybe a loved one of theirs passed away.
You know, yeah, yeah, that's, yeah.
The way it goes sometimes.
You would think that's life, but maybe not.
Maybe it's the way Hollywood is asking these people to sacrifice somebody for loyalty to Hollywood.
I
don't.
You know, it's good to see Laura Luggins working hard
on the big story.
The
big
story.
The ones
that we don't have time to cover.
Right.
Exactly.
Nuts.
It's so sad to see somebody who has been reduced to this level of mega.
Yeah.
Well, yes, anything goes, apparently.
But, you know, every time they have an actor that goes into politics, it's okay.
They're the good ones in Hollywood.
Everybody else is bad.
That's it.
Well, we got so much more.
You know, we got some really good stuff coming up.
Yes, we do.
We're going to be talking about the Trump deal with the EU.
It's so ridiculous and so stupid that I can't wrap my head around it either.
You've got
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And the rest of the day, it's going to be just really muggy
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Thank goodness, Amfam has a roof because it might be raining.
Yeah.
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All right, let's get to our big first story here.
And it is FCC chair, bread and cars.
threatening the view he's threatening major news networks really he's threatening everybody this is the wrong chairman for the FCC as you might know by now anyway and and of course a lot of people are celebrating the fact that Trump somehow negotiated a way to get
Stephen Colbert off the air because, you know, he's a cancer.
He's destroying America and he's criticizing Trump, which you can't do.
You can't even do it in humor, in good humor.
So they're, you know, obviously cleaning house.
It's called Cancel Culture,
I
think.
Cancel Culture, yeah.
That's what MAGA is.
What happened to freedom of the press?
Well, that's gone.
That's out the window.
The Fox News senior correspondent went on the air recently and warned Fox News viewers that there is a problem with their cancel culture ways.
Let's listen to cut 164.
All right.
Here we go.
This isn't taxpayer funded.
This is a decision that the viewers make on a daily basis, whether or not they're going to watch them and if they enjoy them.
And as much as it would be nice to think about like, oh, the view is going to go away.
Whew, that sounds nice.
We also have to consider, this isn't the only administration that's gonna be there forever.
A tool that can be used by this administration can very well be used by the next.
And if they were able to do away with the view, they could very well, the next administration that comes in that doesn't like Fox, could get the same.
Yep,
I think that
is a wise warning.
A
wise warning.
You think?
Yeah.
I've been saying this for the last couple of weeks, at least.
Yeah.
that Democrats should pick up on this.
They should go after this.
They should actually threaten that they could do the exact same thing.
Not that they will, but they could do the exact same thing Trump is doing against the right-wing media.
Why not?
I mean, they could do it.
They could do a lot of things
that
they're doing, and they could also threaten to overturn everything that Trump is doing right now.
They could threaten to do that.
They have done none of this so far.
They haven't put on any kind of offensive that I have seen.
Now, they tried a few weeks, I think.
That was the energy level that they had.
Tim Walz was out there, AOC was out there, Bernie Sanders was out there.
They
got a lot of press, a lot of coverage because of the huge crowds that were turning out.
Then all of a sudden they just went silent.
That was it.
That was their effort.
That's how much energy they wanted to expend on something.
I'm sorry.
You just can't do that.
You've got to spend four damn years doing it folks.
Mm-hmm.
That's I mean, that's what I've been saying.
Yeah
Well, I just wanted to qualify.
That's John Peterson's
idea.
Well, yeah, they did try to do that.
And then Congress came back in session.
Now they're out of session.
The
house is resuscitated for a couple of months now.
So they should be out there, again, doing town meetings some more
of
that.
Heard much of
that
lately.
What what's wrong here?
I don't know what's wrong here.
I'm not sure.
All right.
Now you got the next story.
This is the big deal that Trump negotiated with the EU.
Yeah.
Looks like the EU ate our lunch.
Yeah.
I guess so.
Okay.
Here is a response.
I'm going to read this response because it nails it perfectly.
Okay.
Here we go.
Actually, from the EU's view, it looks a little different.
this deal between Trump and the EU.
He said, yes, the EU agreed to drop tariffs on US goods because that benefits Europe.
Cheaper American products, great idea, great for European consumers and businesses.
See, there's no tariffs.
Right.
From the US to them.
Right.
So, yes.
Yeah.
The person writes, we love a good deal.
Meanwhile, the US keeps a 15% tariff on European goods, which means American consumers now pay more for European cars, tools, wine, cheese, machinery.
That's not you're bending the knee.
That's you're getting a win-win and the US choosing to tax itself.
Oh
my god, that says it
really does say it all as for Canada They just didn't show up to celebrate the US paying more for their imports But but sure if calling it a victory helps you Helps the whole thing down a little bit easier and paying 15% more for whatever you buy at the store is
a
good thing then
Go celebrate.
Yeah.
And I mean, really seriously, that is what it's all about.
And now when I heard about it, I thought, well, geez, I don't know.
This doesn't sound like the best deal in the world.
I wasn't sure until some this guy put it into words.
Yeah.
So and I was wondering why aren't they.
paying some kind of tariff, right?
Right.
Everything is free from the US going into Europe.
And they act like that's a good deal.
Well, yeah.
Yeah, they're getting a great deal and we're
paying 50% more.
Yeah.
And by the way, that's not a done deal because European Union has to approve that each and every one of the countries and France is not liking any of this stuff.
Really?
They just thought, wow, this is the dumbest, worst deal ever.
Although when you think about it though, you know, they're getting everything for nothing.
Yeah.
No tariff from the US.
All good.
And we have to pay 15% more as consumers in this country.
It's bizarro world again.
There's something wrong here.
Everything's upside down.
All right, you know, and I...
You know everybody loves Jeff Daniels.
Yes his performance on the show the series Newsroom was just fantastic.
I really just a tremendous thing I want to play a cut from that show just so you remember what Jeff Daniels said on that show This was a great thing.
He was being asked a question by a college student right about how great America is classic and he just he just leveled with this truth.
Let's listen to cut 171 here.
Okay, 171
We might not have it here.
What?
I don't think it's
up here.
No, we really don't.
I'll look through it though.
Okay, do you have cut 169 at all?
We do, yes.
Okay, all right.
Okay, let's instead of remembering how great that first thing that we remember Jeff Daniels was saying,
why
don't we do this?
He's giving a critique of Trump, his second term.
Okay, he was asked this on a news show.
It's almost like it was written for him for Newsroom actually, right?
Okay, this is a comment he made without music underneath.
So it's still great.
It's great thought.
It just doesn't have the dramatic music underneath.
But let's listen to cut 169.
We've lost decency.
We've lost civility.
We've lost respect for the rule of law.
Lost it.
We have normalized verbal abuse on the internet.
We've normalized bullying.
Much as the woke generation tried to, you know, change that, it's back.
And along out the window goes character, integrity.
I mean, nobody has great things to say about politicians.
They never have.
Go back to Mark Twain.
But ideally, we're supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us.
He's everything that's wrong with not just America, but with being a human being.
All right.
Okay, there you go, right?
Yeah, that's that that was a great comment And I think a lot of us can go along with it and and agree with it, right?
Mm-hmm.
All right now hang
on a second Dom I just forwarded that other Jeff Daniels comment to you if you can
find it.
All right Let me
go find it.
Just check the email there.
Definitely.
Yeah, we gotta play that I'm glad you did that the one in the middle.
All right, okay And now let's listen to that same comment mm-hmm with a little dramatic music underneath
to see if the message isn't amplified just a little bit.
Let's try it.
He's everything that's wrong with not just America, but with being a human being.
We've lost decency.
We've lost civility.
We've lost respect for the rule of law.
We have normalized verbal abuse on the internet.
We've normalized bullying, much as the woke generation tried to, you know,
Change that, it's back, and along out the window goes character, integrity.
We're supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us.
Beautiful, isn't it?
Now that just has
so much mood into it.
I'm
thinking what we need to do is have music under each and everything that we do.
They make it seem more dramatic.
We're really seeing something important here.
We should do a whole show like that.
I don't like that idea.
Now do you have the cut that Gordy just sent you, the original cut from Newsroom?
I believe
this is...
Bleeped out, but just have your finger on the button just in case but here.
We're good.
All right We got it.
Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?
Well, it's
not the
greatest country in the world professor That's my answer and with a straight face you're gonna tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom
Canada has freedom.
Japan has freedom.
The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom.
So 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.
All right.
And yet you, there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world.
We're seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports.
We lead the world.
in only three categories, number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies.
Now none of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are, without a doubt, a member of the worst period generation period ever.
Period.
Period.
When
you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what you're talking about.
You sure used to be.
We stood up for what was right.
We fought for moral reasons.
We passed...
Laws struck down laws for moral reasons.
We waged wars on poverty, not poor people.
We sacrificed.
We cared about our neighbors.
We put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chests.
We built great big things made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy.
We reached for the stars, acted like men.
We aspired to intelligence.
We didn't belittle it.
It didn't make us feel inferior.
We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn't we didn't scare so easy We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed by great men men who were revered First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one yeah America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
Yeah, we will be back with more of John and Gordy after this
What's new with the weather?
What's new?
What's with the temperature
now?
What's low?
What is it?
What's the low?
We have
Brittany Merleau with us.
722 right now, low 70s.
I guess we're going into the mid 80s later or maybe a little warmer.
But the humidity is still out there, Brittany, even though these showers and move through.
Yeah.
Are we stuck with the humid conditions today?
What do you think?
You got one more day, unfortunately.
Looks like your heat index is going to be feeling about 95 degrees this afternoon.
Oh, no.
One more.
What?
I know 88 degrees will be the high temperature that humidity still sticking around you could feel it right now Yeah clouds will start to clear you'll see some more sunshine by this afternoon Maybe a spotty shower or thunderstorm this evening maybe six or seven or so it'll be pretty brief But other than that staying dry until tomorrow tomorrow looks a little dark and damp rain throughout most of the day Wow
That rain's gonna cool us down.
We want that.
We want to welcome that front right there.
Yes, definitely.
So about a half an inch to a quarter inch of rain is possible tomorrow.
We're not looking at severe storms, nothing like that.
Just a steady kind of rain.
It could ramp up a little bit more in the evening, but then the high pressure system builds and it dominates Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, holidays.
Yes, mid 70s, upper 70s, refreshing, no humidity.
Gorgeous.
There
was a light at the end of the tunnel.
Yeah, there's
big headline on CNN a dramatic cooled down is on the way for the US but it comes with a cost and that is hurricane forced winds tearing through the Midwest and the plains.
So
yeah, there's always a cost.
There's always a price.
Yes.
Yes, but it's missing us as usual.
You know,
people are going to
start moving to the Midwest to Wisconsin just because we have such fantastic weather here.
Right?
I know.
They're going to find out.
Yeah.
Once they can handle the snow, they're going to come in waves.
I know,
but we're going to have to, you know, try to tap that down a little bit by talking about our mosquitoes and the big giant flies that we have here.
And the ticks.
And the ticks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ramp up on the tick dog.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very good.
All right, Brittany.
Well, thank you so much.
We appreciate your report as always.
We'll talk to you again
soon.
Thank you guys.
All
right.
Yeah, have a great day.
You too.
You too.
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You know, yesterday, very unusual.
We
had a call from CJ.
Yeah.
And we didn't talk politics.
Oops.
You know,
Doug in St.
Francis asks, that wasn't the real CJ yesterday.
He said it was
an AI.
I call AI fake.
Well, now, really?
We were talking about the bar that's closing here in Madison,
one of
the major student bars.
And
we started reminiscing about all bars out of close.
Yes.
And we started talking about Cadillacs and cool cars.
Yeah.
It was everything except politics.
And it was fine.
CJ seemed very good with that, too.
Yeah.
That was a great call.
All right.
So, you know, just one up.
Was that the only time that's happened for you guys got along?
Well, I think for some reason we get along.
It's not, I know more than you, this massive, angry debate that normally goes on.
We just have a discussion.
And
that's
it.
And that's the way we wanted here in the program, right, Gordon?
Yeah, that's it.
That's it.
Exactly.
Catherine's asking, what about Milwaukee weather?
Oh, it's pretty much the same.
Well, we were going to be under the roof, so we're okay, even if it rains.
Yeah, right?
It doesn't matter.
Cubs and brewers.
And by the way, Catherine, you won't be driving in my space car, obviously, but I just want to say that my windshield wiper sense rain.
So, I don't know if yours does.
Did your car turn on the windshield wipers this morning?
This morning, yes.
Yes.
It went fast when it needed to.
It went slow when it needed to.
I mean, I, you know, I don't even know if I even have to think anymore while I'm behind the wheel of the car.
Well, great not to say that.
You don't want that, do you?
No.
God,
no.
All
right.
Well, that'll be cool.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah,
yeah.
When are we, do you have something
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Yeah.
Yeah.
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Yeah, well, we've got dick online.
Let's go.
Yeah,
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We've got
just about a minute.
Dick, what do
we got?
Well, you know the CJ in that situation I'm hearing that more and more about uh Trump supporters right now because I tend to believe that they haven't got their marching orders yet as to what to believe with the Epstein situation.
Oh,
yeah, until that happens.
I don't I think they're all gonna go kind of radio silent
about politics because they don't know which way to go on that yet, till they've been told of course.
But, you know, one of the real quick things, the tragedy in New York, just kind of watching
the
mayor, Adams, going on and on about the diversity of the police department.
And here's a guy whose buddy would probably throw half of that police department out of the
country.
Yeah, you don't want to, you don't want to bring attention to diversity with this administration.
They see DEI everywhere and they, and they tramp it down.
I mean, they are really going after DEI, anything at all.
It's gone.
If it, if it even, if it even smells like DEI, it's gone.
So
Eric Adams is going to get the beat down then because that's all he talked about.
Oh yeah.
Oh my
goodness.
Yes.
Yeah.
Thank you, Dick.
Appreciate that call.
Yep.
729.
When we come back, we hope to be talking with Patrick McBride.
He's the author of the luckiest boy in the world.
He was a brewer, a bat boy.
He worked for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Packers.
He'll be coming up next on John and Gordy in the morning.
WMDX it's John and Gordy in the morning.
Just a little warning here because John and Gordy are going off to see the Brewers and Cubs this evening and it is going to be a late game for us.
I won't be able to prepare for the show and we won't get home until maybe three or four.
We always go out to the strip clubs in
Milwaukee.
Sazas,
yeah, Sazas, right?
Yep.
Get some ribs on there.
The thing here is that we're going to be off tomorrow.
We've got some
great stuff
coming up.
We're
recording a show, yes.
We'll have some original stuff tomorrow as well, but we'll be playing a best of just because we couldn't get that day game going.
We didn't have enough tickets for it.
If
it tells Saz that Irish sent you,
Oh, really?
OK.
Probably won't get a free beer.
You might.
OK.
That's the voice of Patrick McBride, who's joining us here this morning.
Patrick, good to see you again.
Good to see you.
Yeah.
So the Brewers are in first place, at least temporarily.
They won last night, I take it.
Yes, they did.
Yeah.
Cubs in second place, one game behind.
So this series is pretty important this week.
Start to and you know get into the stretch run here at the end.
Yeah big money is not
winning
small
market team
Yeah.
Brewers are having a great season.
It's phenomenal.
I know, and the former manager is down there in Chicago.
Just a great
council.
Yeah.
We got
our guy,
Pat Murphy, the Irishman.
Right.
Leading
up.
Look at you.
You've got your Irish hat on.
The green brewers.
The brewers.
It's green.
Live lucky.
Live lucky.
I'd rather be
lucky than good.
That's great stuff.
Well, the name of the book is... If you're watching this right now, you can...
Yeah,
the name of the
book is the luckiest boy in the world.
He wrote this a few years ago with your brother.
And for people that you've been on the show a couple of times here, but just to recap when you were younger, give us a little bit of your history of how you became involved with the Brewers and the Bucks and the Packers.
Well, Bud Selig was trying to get a baseball team to Milwaukee.
And of course, he did more
in
first place.
But I won an essay contest to be the first bad boy for the Brewers.
And that meant in those days they were
I also have in Packer games in Milwaukee County Stadium.
So I got to work for the Packers because I hustled and helped out.
And then I thought, well, why not just call the box and see if they have a job opening.
And they were interviewing
the
next day.
And I got a job with the box set on the bench for the first year.
How young were you when you were with the Brewers when you got the first 15?
15 years.
1969, actually, when they were playing the White Sox in exhibition games because Bud was trying to get a team.
And.
I am responsible for those Cubs losing in 1969
because I
was the Batboy for the first Cubs game that year and I put the curse on them.
Did you?
Yes, you did.
I was the Batboy for the first game they played the
White Sox in Milwaukee County Stadium
in 1960.
That's your next book, I Cursed the Cubs.
I Cursed the
Cubs, yeah.
I
was, you know, Batboy for Ernie Banks and Ron Sano and Hanley and... Yeah.
All the great, you know, all the great Cubs, Glenn Beckert.
Yeah.
It was a great, great team.
Fergie Jenkins, Leo, the lip, DeRose, sure.
Sure.
But I'll tell you what, what's the difference between these brewers and those Cubs?
Well, I think the brewers could go all the way.
It's obvious they're beating the Dodgers, they're beating the Cubs.
So the Cubs didn't have a strong bullpen and a strong pitching staff.
I mean, if you look at that Cubs team in 69 compared to these brewers,
the Brewers have an outstanding pitching staff really deep.
I mean, they don't even know who to keep up and who to send down.
And they've got a great bullpen and they can go deep.
You know, they really can bring in a lot of people and Murphy's managing it really well.
I mean, he's managing pitch counts and I mean, my God, they bring in Miz, Miz kind of.
Struggle a little bit, but it had some really good innings last night.
He pitched three really good innings.
This is a really great baseball team.
Yeah.
So the last few years, it's it's come down to the Cubs and the Brewers and the Central Division.
I mean, this is a true rivalry.
It is.
Especially the last two.
Oh, in the
Midwest,
I
feel bad for these coasts.
Don't
you?
The East and the West.
Hey, how about those Brewers?
Who are they?
You know, cares about them, right?
You know, yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
Uh, you know, you're familiar with the, uh, uh, the, uh, the nanas, right?
Oh, yeah.
The savanna.
Yeah.
Are you guys going to do any of those things when you're down there?
You know what?
We would love to get out on the field and do a dance routine of some sort in the back.
But don't you think that that would.
Add to the game just a little bit in the professional league if they brought some of the antics that the Savannah bananas bring to it all
100% I mean people love that.
Yeah, you know at least bring a bat.
Wait a minute
I don't want to replace the bat boy with
a bat
dog.
No.
No.
That's right.
That's true.
My job.
That's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I love
the bat.
You know, that kind of stuff
is flips.
And I think fans just completely
love catching fly balls of whoop in the back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And flipping them
over their head.
Just unbelievable.
Whole skits and
everything.
People should watch YouTube's of the Savannah bananas.
It's just fabulous.
I don't know why, but every weekend I somehow land on that on ESPN for some reason.
They have a they have.
of a broadcast of it, live broadcast.
It's just fun to watch.
But I keep thinking, why not bring a little bit of that, right?
Like, what is the batter thing that they do?
They bring in, you know, it's like, you can pick somebody out of the lineup to go out and bat for somebody.
Yeah.
A pinch hitter.
A pinch hitter, but they call it something else.
And it's just a fantastic way of doing it.
Well, you know, the reason the...
Brewers had so much there were lapses obviously in the brewer's successes for
a long time
sure, but they always had Bob Uker
Yes,
because people love the joy of going to
the
game and listening
and listening to Bob.
Yeah, and
hey get up get
out of here gone Hey Robin, that's it right there.
That's so good.
Yeah, you brought him
Back.
Yeah.
We gotta have Bob.
That's
Patrick McBride.
He's author.
Tell us about this book.
What made you want to put this book together?
Well, you know, I had so many stories.
I still have a lot of stories I'm thinking about doing book two.
But when you get inside a locker room, there's a lot going on in there, especially in baseball.
There's
40 guys, there's 35 players and five coaches, and the coaches are full stories.
But I mean, I met coaches like Yogi Berra and Joe DiMaggio
and
Mickey Mannell and all kinds of guys.
And the annex that they did were crazy.
I mean, they put hot stuff in people's jocks and cut the bottoms out of their dress
pants and, you know, tied their ties
up or stuck their suits in the whirlpool.
I remember one time guys went fishing and Lake Michigan caught some salmon and a guy named Cesar Tovar in the Minnesota Twins was very superstitious.
He was in the whirlpool and they slipped.
Two of the salmon into the whirlpool.
I've never seen a guy
jump out of a whirlpool that quick.
So, I mean, there's always something going
on in a locker room.
No, there's hot sauce in a jockstrap.
Was that like before they went out in the field?
If
anybody was ever in a locker room before like high school,
we had
this Kramer's hot stuff
for your wounds, you know?
Yeah, they
would put that in your jockstrap.
So that's why they handle themselves out on the field so often.
Yeah, they ran a little quicker.
You know what I mean?
They got on and off the field a little faster.
That's true.
Yeah, and basketball was completely different.
These guys had college educations then.
You had to go four
years, right?
Yes, she did.
And
so they were very studious and stuff.
They were listening to jazz and playing chess
and
reading books and talking about books.
I'm not kidding you.
Wow.
It was quiet.
It was completely different.
I did not know that.
Yeah, it
was completely different.
Even in, so all the visitors, you know, Bill Russell was in the other locker room, all these characters.
It was unbelievable.
Dave DeBusher, the guy memorized the New York City phone book.
He
knew how to memorize.
You
remember this?
Yeah, and you could go in there and you could say, you know, who's on page 450?
And he'd start listing, you know, all these people.
You're like, what the hell?
Didn't you tell us before that you got to know Kareem very well?
Yeah, I
still know Kareem.
Yeah, you're still in touch with him.
Really?
Absolutely.
He's an amazing.
Do you read his emails?
Yeah, I read his subject.
Yeah, you know, and he's he's so scholarly.
He's
written over 30 books.
Yeah, I know it.
Yeah, and the books are spectacular.
History of civil rights in America, the history of jazz.
You know,
they're spectacular books.
I mean, people should really look at his books.
You know, he wrote a fantastic book on his work with John Wooden and what John Wooden meant to his life.
And, you know, it's just the book covers are worth looking at, to be honest.
You know, Kareem's brilliant scholar.
Yeah, and a great actor, airplane movies.
Yeah, airplane.
Absolutely.
If
you can go toe-to-toe with Liam Neeson, you've
got something going on.
And
now talk a little bit about your time with the Packers.
How did that happen
now?
So the Packers played five games in Milwaukee County Stadium.
Well, you know, in those days,
it was
because Vince Lombardi was afraid that the NFL was going to put a team in Milwaukee
and compete with that was why.
Yeah, really?
Yeah, because I thought it was just to share the backers.
Well, you know,
it was the thing.
But it was when you
really
look at
when I
read Vince David Marinus is
going to be
somebody, you know,
he said
it was a small market team owned by a small city.
And
They were afraid.
But so here we had the Packers and that's why we still have Milwaukee games and Green Bay games, you know, in
those tickets.
And so we had football played on this stupid baseball field.
It was really ridiculous.
And it led to a lot of injuries.
I mean, the infield was never covered up.
It was rock hard.
It was as hard as this table.
And, you know, we were carrying guys off on stretchers that were injured on that field.
But Milwaukee loved it.
And so I got to work these games.
And then we crammed 80 football players and 20 coaches into a locker room for 40 people.
And it was mass chaos, you know, as a bunch of guys grunting and slamming each other and.
You know looking at themselves in a jockstrap in a mirror if you can picture it, you know before games and posing Yeah before that was a thing Now
it is
yeah now it is and I thought God this is craziness, you know Yeah, so I much preferred baseball, but football was it's really I mean I was watching her batter Lee and Ray Nitschke and Bart Starr and all those characters right there on the field right after they'd won the first two's football You know the Super Bowls.
Yeah, the Josh jockstrap
Photos didn't go well on on John According's website.
No, no.
I
mean, the sunglasses are cool, but
you know, yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
The neck off is good.
Next.
Yeah.
I think that's probably a good tip.
Yeah.
So and you easy today on don't streak at the game
tonight.
OK.
We'll try.
And I was thinking bring bringing that back.
OK.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whoops.
You'll get national news.
Yeah, but now you've let the cat out of the bank.
That was our big surprise.
We were going to do that.
A seventh
inning stretch.
Yeah.
So, Patrick, what are you doing these days?
Well, you know, I'm writing.
I'm consulting with some health systems.
And I'm helping young students supplied in nursing school, medical school, pharmacy, helping frame their applications and look at it right.
That became your career, right?
I mean, getting into the medical field.
Yes, I became a physician.
You know, when I was in the locker room, I was thinking about a long-term career in sports.
And one of the trainers said, you're not going to spend your life in a locker room.
And he convinced me to go to medical school and I eventually became dean of students and then dean of faculty.
Beautiful.
You know, I hope that same thing happens to Sam.
We told him to get the hell out of here and become a history teacher.
But now Dom here, you know.
Dom is taking his place.
Taking over.
Taking over.
I had to.
Taking over.
Yeah, I'm
all work with you.
Yeah, all right.
I would like
that.
I would like
that.
Patrick, can you hang around a couple more minutes?
Sure can.
All right.
748 will be back with Patrick McBride, the author of the luckiest boy in the world.
Here on John and Gordy in the morning, stay with us.
Okay.
Ready?
We're ready.
Yeah.
So to the left and deep.
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Okay.
Now we're back with Patrick McBride, who's written this great book, the luckiest boy in the world.
He's been telling us all kinds of stories and you met all kinds of great baseball stars and basketball stars and Packers, but tell us a little bit more about your time with Bob Euker and getting to know him pretty well.
Bob Euker, his whole career.
I mean, I proceeded him by a year, but it's 1970.
I was 16 years old.
And I ended up getting my tonsils taken out.
And I was in St.
Mary's Hospital and listening to the Brewer's Game.
And all of a sudden, Bob Euker's talking to the great Merle Harmon.
And he says, hey, Merle, you know our Bat Boys in the hospital just had his tonsils taken out.
And I hope that he doesn't bring them back to the stadium.
But I'd like to give a shout out to Pat McBride.
and wish him well with his tonsils and get well, Pat, and come on back to the stadium and hustle like you always do.
Now let's bring up, you
know, Lou Kraus.
How did that make
you feel?
Oh, I was like, holy crap.
Ready to put on my uniform.
Too bad you didn't have a recording of that
one.
Wow.
You know, the guy was always like that.
You know, he was always local.
You know,
here's this national figure.
Yes.
National television.
Johnny
Carson show, yes.
Number one guest of all time.
But
he always, and I just ran into the head of U-Singers at a Get Together, John U-Singer.
And the guy said, always mentioned U-Singers, even though the sponsor was Johnsonville Brown.
And he'd always slip in U-Singers because he was the friend of U-Singers Brown.
And the guy just always cared about everybody in Milwaukee.
He'd always be like,
Well, Mabel up in Ambro just won the Bratworth Special for, you know what I
mean?
I
remember that.
He was just bringing people up and everybody was equal to him, you know?
Everybody.
It wasn't like a special interest or they advertised and they don't advertise, you know, he just,
everybody was
included.
He'd
go outside of the press box and go sneak up and sit next to a couple from Annego.
And they'd be sitting there, you know, excited about the game.
And I'll say, oh, my God, it's Bob Uker.
And he was just he was a Milwaukee kid.
Yeah.
Never
changed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Me too.
Yeah.
We never changed.
We're all more kids.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So you're thinking about another book.
Yeah.
Are you?
Yeah, I'm serious.
Yeah,
I'm already got it sketched out.
I'm going to be about the imposter syndrome.
And
I'm going to talk
about kids that just don't
believe that they can really make something out of themselves because you know a lot of us grew up in tough circumstances or Never really believed that we can get to where we want to get.
I never believed that I could Get out of school.
I never believed that I could go to college I never believed I could go to medical school, but people mentors people kept propping me up pushing me up
we
all stand on the shoulders of giants and Actually, I think cream wrote a book called the shoulders of on the shoulders of giants and
I remember a mentor saying that to me.
We stand on the shoulders of giants.
And I'm sure that's true in the broadcasting
world as well,
right?
I mean, you had people that said, do it.
And who gets behind the microphone?
It's a scary place to be.
But I did it.
And then I'd say, I don't think I could do that.
And then somebody said, let's do it together.
And then we do it together.
And that's true of all these sports teams.
I'm telling you, when you get
five people together on a court.
You get nine people on a field.
There's somebody standing right there with you.
You strike out, I'm telling you, these guys pull together.
You watch tonight.
I'll tell you what, nine people.
Murphy, watch what he says to these people in the locker room and these youth soups.
It's really, you do it as a team.
So I want to write about imposter syndrome.
I want to write about a lot of the stories where I watch people do that.
When you watch Oscar Robertson get in somebody's rookie's face and tell him he can do it.
That rookie did it out of fear
more than confidence.
Because if you screw up Oscar
Robertson is going to put you
right there.
Wow.
People want to find your books.
They can get them all in the usual places.
Yeah.
They can get
them in local bookstores here in Madison
and
on Amazon.
Patrick McBride, thanks for being with us.
Hey John and Gordy, you guys are the greatest.
Can't wait.
Can't wait for the game tonight and thanks for getting us all revved up and ready to
go.
Go crew.
I know it's you know two guys
that really
aren't big into sports,
but this guy loves the Cubs.
You know, I'm Cubs fan, true blue.
And if you're a Cubs fan, you can talk sports even if you don't know anything about it.
You
know what, it's great for baseball.
And you know what, they
got beer there.
Yeah, I know.
Oh yeah, that's right.
They
had brass.
It makes it all
better.
You know, when I was
there, just a quick story, they did not have bratwurst anywhere in any stadium except Milwaukee, and they'd say, go get me one of those white sausages.
That's what they do.
And in the
bullpen,
they trade baseballs for bratwurst.
And now everybody's
got bratwurst.
Yes.
I know.
I know.
We're going to have a few of those tonight.
Yeah, thank you guys.
Thank you.
We will Patrick McBride.
That's going to do it for John and Gordy for today.
Stephanie Miller is coming up next and then
Yeah, we're off to the Cubs and Brewers this evening.
We'll have a day off tomorrow, but we'll have reruns of some great stuff.
So check it out and some new material as well.
Yep.
Yep.
Have a great day.
We'll talk to you very soon, right?
All right.
Are you all ready for the game?
I never
ever.
Are you taking the space car?
I am taking the space car.
Yes.
Excellent.
All right.
I'll meet
you there.
Thank you.
So long.
So long, everybody.
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