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We're truly sorry.
Hey, rise and shine, shake a leg.
Should have got into radio if you didn't want to dress up for work.
Does anybody really dress?
I guess there's... Do they do that anymore, right?
You see a few suits and ties, but not too much anymore.
Yeah.
It's pretty casual laid back here in Madison, you know?
Would you say I'm dressed up?
Oh, yeah.
I got a
Dominic
the guy,
the guy that fills in for Charlie Shortino, Charlie decides, yeah, he just doesn't feel like coming in.
Too much smoke.
Yeah.
And he put some number on it, just like, well, it's up to 121 and the air quality alert, you know, gauge or whatever.
I'm like, okay, compared to what?
What is it normally?
I don't know is 121 apparently that's that puts an air quality alert out there Apparently so I guess we need some gusty winds, but that's not happening today Well, it says visibility five
Until and you always give it till noon.
Why did they do that?
It lasted all day yesterday.
Yeah pollen outlook though.
It's It's decreasing so it's low right now.
So you don't have to worry about that, but you can't see past your arm Forest fires in Canada by the way my wife wondered if if we don't have a have to pay a tariff on that
Yeah.
Every once in a while, those breakdowns, like a cable will break and just kind of hangs there for the rest of the game.
Watch out for that.
You have to run around.
Doug Pipeson from St.
Francis, he's our first texter of the day.
What does the radio quality index say today?
He doesn't care about the air quality.
Kind of.
Yeah.
Now, if you're on the Belt Line, you're driving away from the gigantic Candelabra Tower on the west side.
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for a little while here and there.
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Oh, no, really?
Yeah, well, they want to be able to fax us, you know, because there's some people who still have fax machines, and so they want to be able to fax us on the app.
What?
Really?
No, I'm making it.
Oh, okay.
Come on, you guys.
You know,
she
That's true.
Normally, we'd have rocker in in our seven o'clock hour, but because of the Outwood Music Fest and, you know, he always takes this week off.
He needs some time off.
Yeah, just relax because that is such a huge thing.
And he's a big part of it, you know, taking, keeping track with 30 bands and all the food and, you know, the.
Stage stuff.
Yeah, so he's taking a week off.
All right.
Why not?
Yeah, just to make sure only because I want to see if the numbers actually change so please go there and and and choose here's the question if John and Gordy could fit a few more stories into their jam-packed morning show
I'd like to hear more of.
And the first choice is in-depth hard-hitting political criticism that could land John and Gordon alligator Alcatraz.
I know that's attractive.
It's a thought.
Or
Media, movies, and tech information.
Remember, we tried doing that.
We just couldn't fit anything in because of Trump sucking the air out of the room.
Right.
That's a 21%.
And constant reminders to buy things at the city media store.
And Gordy commemorative plates.
How many people like that one?
And the weather window.
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They wouldn't be able to hear what we were saying.
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Okay.
Yes.
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That's true.
It is 619.
When we come back, we will kick off the free ticket Friday.
I will reveal what the keyword is for this four pack of Brewer tickets.
Okay.
It's to the August 8th game coming up at Brewer's
Let's see, it's against the Mets, brewers and Mets at Amfam Field.
And we will reveal that keyword and have a whole lot more coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
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Madison.
Swing, swing, swing baby.
Johnny Gordy
around the State Street area downtown just to block off the Capitol looking pretty good out there.
Hazy sunshine.
It's going to be a nice day.
High near 75 for this very first day of August.
Can you believe it?
You have to rip the calendar page right off the wall there.
I know a lot of work in this transition from one month to the next.
Okay, let's hey, you know what let's oh, I wanted to give an update by the way on the studio equipment update Yeah, we had to adjust the we have the microphone arms
Chris Casper, yeah, he and I came in here and with a lot of effort, it took, you know, maybe all of two minutes.
How come yours didn't work like mine?
Well, because I don't know, it just, they're positioned slightly differently, I guess.
Mine's at the three o'clock.
and yours that's too, nevermind.
Anyway, Chris Casper found the proper tool, the wrench, and went underneath the console here and adjusted it perfectly for you.
Because we were so concerned, because yesterday you were beside yourself with the new mic stands, you couldn't adapt.
I was angry, I left the studio in a
we have
talk
I just saw an ad on TV here.
We have CNN on the studio just to keep up to date on everything.
Right.
There's an ad for Jim Beam Pineapple.
So if you're
It's good imagine what that would taste like.
I don't know Jim be should get some let's try it out Pineapple try it out.
Yeah now.
We're in the middle of some work getting near the end here I know they came out with a pineapple Wow, okay a little late to advertise
good.
Friday.
This is for the August 8th game.
That's next Friday, August 8th against the Mets.
OK.
Um, here is the key word.
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Yeah
So, and I have a question for Mike and, you know, somebody pointed it out to me that the, did you notice that the umpires had these little flash units?
Did you see?
No.
Like the first base umpire we could see.
And he flashed this light every once in a while.
And I was, I was wondering about that.
I did a little Google research.
I think I have an idea,
but I want to
Yeah.
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All right, so let's talk about
Right yesterday.
His followers went to Truth Social and saw Trump, a posting that he put out there, and behind him was a giant fist.
Really?
And on it was written Donald Trump dealmaker in chief.
Well, isn't that the nicest message you could send to the rest of the world?
a fist saying you're a deal maker.
And if you
So anyway, Trump of course is not on that side of the aisle So he came out and said wow Canada has just announced that his backing statehood for Palestine That will make it very hard for us to make a trade deal with them.
Oh Canada Okay, really?
Yeah, so he's unbelievable.
So he is essentially all for ethnic cleansing, right?
Yeah, you know clearing that whole area of Gaza so we can put his buildings in his hotels, right?
A lot of people are starting to support and say things that normally they would have been accused of anti-Semitism, but we're all tired of that excuse, hitting us over the head with, you know, such a name issue.
Just leave us alone.
You know, we get to say something in this country
That's what they think.
And the mega contingent, the cult, just love every second of this, and they don't know it, but we're permanently putting in place higher prices for everything coming into this country.
I mean, it's permanent.
I don't know what administration in the future would come in and say, well, we're going to cut prices, we're going to cut the tariffs,
and
Sorry.
of
I mean, three stories.
Actually, if I can get through this real quickly here.
All healthcare stories.
Okay.
And this is from a great place to go for news.
It's called the lever.
All right.
The lever.
The lever, yes.
It's a great story.
It's a great commentary there.
I would call it the lever.
I don't know why it got stuck calling things levers.
I think it was too many Frankenstein movies.
Oh, the lever.
Flip the lever.
You are?
Right, exactly.
So anyway, here's the first story.
Rising costs associated with Trump's global tariffs and expiring federal premium tax credits are threatening health insurers' ability to remain competitive.
Now you thought I was gonna talk about us, you know the tax credits going away or at least most of them the COVID tax credits are going away So prices each and every month the premiums if you're on the ACA Obama care are gonna go up dramatically by two three hundred dollars a month Go with that.
So now
Guess who's complaining the insurance companies are saying hey, we're not going to make enough money now without those premiums Okay, so they're pushing to raise American premiums by as much as 75% up for some policies according to a recent state regulatory filing and the states get all this information
First hand, so they're telling us, yeah, the insurers are asking for huge, huge increases.
Wealthy corporate health insurance reported more than $1 trillion in revenue and more than $31 billion in net income last year.
So they're not making enough, you can see that.
The proposed increases come as insurers dole out billions to further enrich top brass and shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends.
More than 21 million
Americans who don't have employer sponsored health insurance rely on the ACA American place for coverage according to health insurers.
Rates are rising largely because an expanded federal tax credit during COVID is set to expire at the end of this year unless Republican leaders and Congress intervene and renew it.
This tax credit reduced health insurance premiums for more than 22 million people this year.
or 92% of all ACA policy holders, and without it, insurers argue that they can't afford to cover the bill, instead passing on increased costs to the consumers in their premiums.
And then on top of the premium increases, the copays, the
premium tax
imagine,
We, we're in for a huge mess.
And Trump is killing federal rules and programs designed to protect Americans from getting ripped off.
And now he's adding higher costs to healthcare.
That would push more Americans into debt.
Millions of hardworking Americans are expected to lose health insurance in the coming years as a result of the big bad bill.
COVID shots will now cost you a lot of money.
going up on Medicaid, and Trump is rolling back regulations, that would have removed medical debt from consumer credit reports, eliminating any chance of buying a car or home in the future.
Now, I don't know why they're doing that, but they are.
And then Trump said, you won't even notice it.
So, I mean, you know, just keep that in mind.
Yeah, it's just waste, fraud, and abuse.
So you
Well, I wish I could be cheery, but I can't.
yeah just two points uh... real quickly uh... there are two articles are kind of illuminating uh... on uh... what businesses take and what's going on one was from bloomberg and they they titled it uh... they use the expression in their article as chaos on in aisle nine
was a uh... three they said and they said part of the problem is that
You know, him blabbing about, we have a deal, we have a deal.
That is not a legal document by which people can assess tariffs.
So you're talking about the fact that the customs and border patrol, which is in charge of this stuff, is looking at the softwares not been updated.
They don't have any direction on what they're supposed to do because they don't have the legal framework because he's just blabbing on truth socials and blabbing here.
And that is not a legal document.
So that was one part of the chaos that the businesses are going through.
We know do we owe, don't we owe?
But there is another article that folks can look at.
Paul Krugman has a very good sub-stack.
And the title of this one really says that, well, it says, Trump slash Brazil, delusions of grandeur go south.
And the subheading is, Trump thinks he can rule the world, but he doesn't have the juice.
And they're talking about this.
brazil agreement was similar to what you were talking about with canada where he's making the argument that we're going to increase the terrace because uh... both the narrow is not an office right now and he wants you to be and in in canada's case uh... you canada you can't say that you're going to recognize power palestine we're going to impose tariffs you can't do that in the legislation for what you you know he at least had the phony baloney when he started it out against uh... canada to say that that now of which
you know reports from canada was like point zero one percent isn't a national emergency in under that rubric you can accrued go for care but he's just he's flailing around saying i don't like who you elected so all you're gonna have a care
None, none, none.
That's going to be going through the courts and uh-uh, that's not going to fly.
Hang on, folks, and check out those two articles.
So chaos in aisle three.
Get ready.
good deal.
All right, it's for Bloomberg.
Thanks a lot, Joe.
Appreciate
The
Do you think
No.
he's going
He wants to go back to the late 1800s and early 1900s when it was the gilded age, right?
It was not a good time for the American public at all.
The wealthy did damn well.
Now we've got a White House ballroom.
I mean, talk about just dripping and just gold pl-
I don't know.
I just I'm just so tired of seeing this this this king People don't
know
I think he's pretty much there.
Yeah
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It's understandable why Trump's struggling to get even his own base to take his word for it that there is nothing to see here.
Because to do so, you essentially have to believe everything we've learned about Trump over the years is irrelevant or sheer coincidence that all
who Trump did was repeatedly host Epstein at Mar-a-Lago, have him at his wedding, hang out with him at Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows, get listed as a passenger on his plane eight times, joke with him at a party while pointing out hot women and saying something into his ear that got the most grotesque smile in the history of human expressions.
Tell a reporter I've known Jeff for 15 years, terrific guy, he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the youngest side, and allegedly hosts a calendar girl competition where other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment,
the only guests were him and Jeffrey Epstein.
You'd also have to forget about Trump bragging about his ability to grab women's genitals and claiming he'd go backstage at his beauty pageants while women were getting dressed, something he was accused of doing by five Miss Teen USA contestants, and once remarking of his own infant daughter Tiffany that she's got marlous legs, we don't know whether or not she's got this yet, but time will tell.
Beyond that, though, there's nothing there.
Yeah.
Except...
Except for a jury finding him liable for sexual abuse, but other than that, there's nothing to see.
WMDX.
Yeah,
Highs in the mid 70s.
There is that air quality alert.
So be careful out there.
If you have breathing problems, just stay inside with your air conditioning if you can.
Let's recap the brewers of four pack of tickets.
You could win them here on free.
ticket Friday.
Four pack of tickets for the Friday August 8th game against the Mets.
The keyword this hour is fly.
And all you have to do is get on the Civic Media app and you get that at the Apple or Google Store.
Find our station, WMDX.
Use the text button to send us the keyword fly.
Don't forget, we'll have other chances to win later on in the day on the Civic Media radio
to
I
Warn all the contractors out there, you won't get paid.
If history is any lesson, you won't get paid or you'll go to court where they'll reduce the amount of your contracted work.
That's how you get paid from Trump.
So good luck.
So good luck with that, all right?
And then of course, you know, they've got this drug deal now between the EU and...
the US.
Remember
If
on everybody there who are paying almost nothing,
Okay, here's the deal.
Currently, Europe pays $20 for a drug from America.
Okay.
Americans pay $240 at that.
same time uh-huh so that's what's going on currently but the new system is everyone pays a hundred and thirty dollars so instead of twenty dollars in the EU now they're going to pay a hundred and thirty how nice how great how perfect but you know why it stabilizes the price of all these drugs and it stabilizes the big profits made by big pharma
I mean, you know, he's certainly looking out for them.
I don't think he's looking out for us, but I'm just guessing.
I'm spitballing that one.
Hang on.
We have Matt on the phone here.
But before I get to Matt here, did I mention the keyword?
The keyword is fly.
If I didn't mention it, that's the keyword for the contest.
Okay.
All right.
Let's go back to, let's go to the phones here.
Matt is on the line with a question or a comment.
Good morning, Matt.
What do you got?
Good morning,
guys.
Wanted to give us a little hope for the weekend here And first the big thing for me and my family since MAGA is the question of morals and To see the complete collapse of America's moral center.
to see evil enacted in the name of Christianity.
I'm not religious Mostly for that reason.
I always thought religious
and religion was kind of used in a lot of bad ways to manipulate people.
I kind of found my own spirituality.
But I want to give some hope with this James Calarico, a liberal pastor legislator in Austin, Texas, where I lived for 10 years.
And this guy is the answer and antidote to this manipulated kind of crazy Christianity of the far right nationalists.
And I recommend people look at him and watch some speeches that he's giving because Man, I'm not even religious and he has me Feeling some things, you know, okay, and I think it's what we need to if we're ever gonna preserve this union Which I fundamentally think is done right now.
I I often think we should split up because I don't see how you can have Even share a state or a system with people who now fundamentally think that
People on the left should just be killed and disappeared much like Melee in Argentina once said last year in an interview that Which is what I what would I think these freedom people and these maga people really think in the back of their head these fascists Yeah, they're better than us and we should go away and they don't want us here
good point.
And this guy has some hope, I think.
I think so.
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