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.
And I can't believe it.
What are you going to do?
This just kind of blows my mind.
You know, this post that we have for the mic stand?
Yeah.
Mines me my coffee cup.
Yeah.
And I'm
sitting here very casually seeing that over there thinking, yeah, I'll reach over and get a nice swig.
And all of a sudden, I don't have my mug with me.
It's in the car.
I'll see you later, man.
You can go get it if
you want.
We can tap dance for a couple of minutes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that's all right.
I'll do it during the
break.
Okay.
Um, yeah.
Morning
everybody.
WMDX 92.7.
It is the big John and Gordy early morning show.
Yeah.
I almost said family show.
That's what we used to call it.
Well, we can call it any damn thing we want, right?
Call it the hullabaloo.
The shindig.
All
that.
Yeah.
It's where it's
happening.
That's right.
Seven minutes past six.
It's a cool start this morning.
59 degrees.
Highs around 80 today.
And once again, once again, we have an air quality alert until noon.
Charlie Shortino said that may be extended like we've been
doing the
last few days.
That's
ridiculous.
I don't know why new is the cutoff point.
It just doesn't make any sense.
We see the pattern.
Stop the pattern.
It's not working.
Yeah, I'm sitting here in this chair.
I'm kind of sitting lower.
Chairs are adjustable.
I know that.
And you know, my feet don't touch the ground.
when I let them hang over the edge of the chair, so I guess that's a good thing.
I like sitting up.
But at the same time, I feel like I'm crunched.
Do you really?
I want to sit higher.
Well, folks.
You want to
stand.
Somebody help me, please.
Help me.
Well, you can adjust the chair.
Yeah.
Well, no, I'm fine.
It's just that I feel like I'm at a news desk.
Well, you are at a news desk.
We've got news.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
We've got a lot on the desk.
Idiocracy, we call that news nowadays.
Yeah.
Oh, there's a new season after, what is it, 15, 16 years?
What?
Of what?
Of whose guy?
You know, it just slipped my mind.
I was going to bring it up.
It's that great cartoon we used.
The cartoon.
Red and Stimpy?
LP.
Jets LP gas what what show
what?
Oh, oh king of the
hill king of the
hill
Oh King of the hill is back on after about 15 years Yeah, it's back on it.
I watched the first episode A part of it anyway, I wanted to watch a movie last night, so I just watched part of it But I am gonna get back to it.
It is great.
It's on Hulu.
So if you're a big King of the Hill fan, and I am now
It is it's it's good.
Oh, uh, what's his son's name?
Do you remember?
Oh God His son has grown up now.
Oh, really?
Oh, really?
And he runs his own I think it's a Asian restaurant
That he has
created with Texas recipes And I'm telling you it is it's it's hilarious.
It's good stuff All right.
It took him 15 years to
write these new seasons
Um, yeah, what is his son's name?
Okay.
If you know, you can text us or call us 608-879-8255.
That's right on the tip of my tongue.
I can't think of it.
It's Bobby, right?
Bobby.
Bobby.
That's what it is.
Bobby.
Did you know that?
Or did somebody tell you?
No, Google.
Well, thank you.
Thanks.
Thank you, Google.
Good morning to Dominic Lee,
our
producer.
Yeah.
Good
morning.
How are
things in your life?
Pretty good.
I'm going line dancing again.
No!
Why are you doing this?
You're making me
sick.
It's every Tuesday.
I have to go.
It's kind of...
Is that a girlfriend thing?
Yeah, it's like
an ultimatum.
It's kind of an ultimatum, right?
Man.
Uh, well no, there's nothing wrong with it.
I, you know, I didn't know you had the affinity for country music,
but
square dancing and
such.
It's grown on me, it's grown on me.
Line dancing is just square dancing stretched out.
That's all
it
is.
So you get all the moves you do all the stuff Yeah,
they
run you through is there's a training program before you
do like a ten minute like tutorial before we actually Go on and do it ourselves.
Yeah, and you know the instructor is still up there doing all the dance moves and all the jigs right and I don't I don't listen to half of it,
so
Okay
And your girlfriend is she proficient
at the same country?
No, nope
We both aren't.
So which is why I was surprised.
I was like, why are we doing this?
What's going on here?
Just to do something.
Yeah, that's what it was.
Isn't it
like an aerobic exercise for you guys?
That's kind of what it's come out to be.
I'm sure you get some exercise out of
it.
Yeah,
we do.
I don't know.
Do you have to wear cowboy boots?
Is that a requirement?
No, even if it was a requirement, I still wouldn't wear them.
But most people do in there.
And it's red rocks, so.
Yeah,
it
is Red Rock.
Okay.
I've never been in there.
I go by there all the time.
Well, if you want to go line dancing today, seven o'clock.
I went in there once.
It was really bright.
It wasn't very moody.
It wasn't atmospheric at all.
It
was just
bright.
They do dim the lights for line dancing.
Just letting you know.
Oh, okay.
Well, there is a positive.
There
we go.
So if
you do want to go,
let me
know.
All
right.
Okay.
Good enough.
And Red Rock was fantastic.
It was a little brewery.
right down the street from here.
It was really a great place.
They had great smoked ribs and meats, but I don't know if they do that now or not.
Do they serve food in Red Rock or is
it just a beer?
They do, but I don't know about any of the food that you're talking about.
I think it's just basic bar food.
Okay, and water beer.
And yeah, and water
beer.
I
hate that
stuff.
I still can't understand, you know, drinking, but or anything, anything American.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Yeah,
I
mean, you know, that kind of, you know, I just want to specify, American doesn't mean the micro breweries.
Okay.
Okay.
I mean, micro breweries, whole different industry, much better.
Save the beer industry completely.
Yes.
From these horrible, horrible monster.
corporations that water down their beer and sell case by case by case by the knuckleheads that go in and buy this stuff because it's cheap.
My God, is that really the value you put on your life?
Cheap cases of beer.
Oh my God.
Okay.
I had to get that.
I've been saving it up for 20 years.
You've been carrying that around a long time.
Wow, I had no idea.
Okay, but nothing against the people that buy
that stuff.
I know a few people do, and it's fine, they're cool people, they're very
good.
I didn't want to say anything because I bought that
stuff.
Cheat beer,
okay.
A little bit later on we're going to talk to Luz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa.
She'll be in to give us some ideas of what you can do with your pet this time of year when it heats up when it gets really, really hot.
Yeah, she's talking about the hair,
the fur on your dog's body.
They have two layers.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a short layer and a longer layer.
And I didn't know that that.
Could become a problem area if you're thinking about maybe giving your dog a bath sometime We're trying to cool a dog off or even trimming the dog.
Yeah, and she'll get into
all that.
Okay, and then we'll also Talk to Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society Some new pets up for adoption.
They're having an adoption special right now, too And we'll find out about that.
We've got some pictures already and some we
do a
couple of cats
Well, you can't see them there.
I see the
dog.
Is that a wolf?
Wow.
Don't think so.
It's carrying a human body.
No.
What?
What?
This?
Yeah.
No, that's not a wolf.
So, Mark in the sax says, Dom, just think of it like the Paul McCartney song, Ballroom Dancing.
Oh, yes.
That's a great song.
That's great, Mark.
That is
great.
Ballroom Dancing.
That was on the, I think, tug-of-war album.
That's what I think about every single time I go.
And then, you know, it strives me.
It strives me to go each and every week.
So thank you, Mark.
Thank
you.
Dom, do you have a what would you rather do thing happening?
Yes, unfortunately, we do today.
All right.
Oh.
Sigmund, we can't get rid of.
You know, yesterday I tried adding more reverb, but there wasn't any.
There wasn't any.
It was so much reverb already on it.
Yeah.
I couldn't even add more.
There were a lot of reverb at the reverb store.
All right.
Let's see what we got here.
Oh, my.
All right.
I don't even have it up right now.
Okay, would you rather not do it?
No, we have to do this.
Okay, we have to okay.
All right first question.
Would you rather fight Mike Tyson in his prime for one round or sound like him for the rest of your life?
Well, I wouldn't want to fight him because he'd probably kill me.
But if just you think you can take him for one round not take him but like
Hold them off.
Hold them off.
Run from him.
Run around the ring.
Yeah, I
think I can.
Really?
Yeah.
For one round.
Yeah, one run.
I could definitely be a light on my feet.
What was it that Cassius Clay used to
say?
Oh, I don't know.
Cassius
Clay.
Butterfly.
Oh,
float like a butterfly.
Sting like a bee.
There
you go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Gordy, what
about you?
Well, I don't know.
I guess I could outrun him, too, maybe.
You think
so?
So I wouldn't want to talk like him.
No, that would be the end of whatever career I had left.
After this feature, who the hell knows?
Luckily people were able to vote for the best of Madison before we got this feature.
Yeah, the best of Madison.
We won't find out till the end of September.
We made the grade.
So it was down to six contestants, or six teams, radio teams.
We know we made that cut.
Yes.
But we don't know who made the top three.
So
we'll all find out together in about six weeks.
It's too long.
It's too long.
All right.
All right.
What do you
got?
One more?
One more, yes.
Oh, there's
another.
There's still got one more.
We've forced into this, all right, you know.
Would you rather be a chain smoking country singer?
Which, you know, what kind of works?
Or an alcoholic NASCAR driver.
Oh, jeez.
I'll go with the country singer.
Country singer?
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that was the way of life.
You
know, that's the way to be cool.
Yeah, I smoked back in my early years.
You have cigarettes?
What
was
your cigarette of choice?
Old gold.
Old gold.
Yeah, I don't think they make those anymore.
I'm not sure.
I was an old gold smoker, too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Then
I switched to cools.
I got into menthol.
Oh,
yeah, menthol is pretty good.
I can see why it's addicting.
That's why they wanted to make it illegal.
They wanted to take it off the market.
But still, I'd
rather do that than alcoholic
NASCAR.
I've got
an
old gold jingle.
Oh, yeah?
Old gold jingle.
Old gold cigarette jingle.
Really?
Yeah.
Would we be sent to Alicator Alcatraz if we play this?
I don't know.
Well, I'll look
it up.
I'll look it up.
I think I might
have put it on the internets, but I doubt it.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Well, that
was fun.
I mean,
you know, I just I
just
want to mention
your neighbors.
They sent
us a text here.
Oh,
they said John Miller beer is a union.
And that's why I drink it.
Is
your
crafty stuff unit?
Maybe, I don't know.
I really haven't checked.
I
drink beer for the taste.
We're coming back with more of John and Gordy for Tuesday morning.
Stay with us.
We'll be right back.
It's 92.7.
John and Gordy in the morning.
It's a great looking day so far
today.
Beautiful.
Looks great on State Street, right downtown Madison here, a block off the capitol, some sunshine, although it is going to be kind of hazy today, high near 80 degrees right now, 59.
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It's back to school time.
It's hard to imagine we still have school.
I know they did away with the Department of Education.
Yeah, maybe
that's next year.
Maybe so.
Remember yesterday, we played that cut with that Texas taxpayer who was very angry.
Very angry.
Yeah.
And, you know, play a little bit of that, Dom, if you can.
I want
to start out by saying this.
He was caught cheating on video on the golf course.
Yeah.
He cheated on his taxes.
He cheated on his business loans.
He cheated on his wives.
He cheated on the business contractors that he stiffed through 40 years of business and he tried to cheat in the 2020 election.
Now he's trying to cheat and win this 2026 midterm election because he knows he can't win.
He has ordered Governor Greg Abbott.
to obey his command and cheat on a Texas redistricting scam.
The gerrymander five knew grossly.
All right, you get the idea,
right?
Right.
Yeah.
He was just doing a laundry list there.
And I thought it was Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.
He sounds exactly like him.
He was out a lot in the press.
Well, I was John last night, I was lying in my bed trying to get to sleep and it started.
dawn on me, this cut came back to me in my head.
I started
to dream.
I started having a little nightmare.
I had to get up and I put on, well, I put something together here because I just couldn't sleep anymore and I wanted to get this out of my system.
So
go
ahead
and play that cut.
I want to start out by saying this.
He was caught cheating on video on the golf
course.
He
cheated on his taxes.
He cheated on his business loans.
He cheated
on his wives.
And he tried to cheat in the 2020
election.
He cheated on the business contractors that he stiffed through 40 years of business.
Now he's trying to cheat and win this 2026 midterm election because he knows he can't win To me house Republicans in this case are like a bunch of buzzards on the fence waiting to swoop down on a dying carcass of democracy In other words
I mean, in a philosophical way, not a sexual way, but he's asking every one of the Republican representatives in this room to be one of his prostitutes.
He
was caught cheating on video on the golf course.
There you
have it.
Oh,
yeah.
On the golf course.
Wow.
I missed
that one.
Finish.
I want to see how you started with it and you ended with it.
That is great stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's beautiful.
A little bit of Hank Williams there and get you going.
I just love that buzzer on a fence.
I know.
That says it all.
That's where we're at here.
Yeah.
Great stuff.
Yeah,
nice.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, very good.
I got the razor blade out.
I did a little fancy editing with the tape.
You just need some reverb now.
A
little bit
of reverb.
Then you're good.
Tom wants reverb on everything.
We should do an all reverb.
All reverb all the time.
I remember we were saying we should do an all reverb show.
I don't know.
That would hurt my ears.
We could do it.
It's what they used to, you know, they used to do that actually in the late 60s.
WLS, WCFL, they had a lot of reverb all the time for their jocks in the background.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, man.
Oh, I'm going to pull out some tape.
Wow.
OK.
More
reverb, you know, I mean, that's the next bit on Saturday
Night Live.
More
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that.
We're
hearing aids last night
as I
watched
What?
What you watch?
A fantastic movie.
Was it really
good?
What movie was it?
Blade Runner.
Oh, Blade Runner.
I watched both of them, the first one, and then the second one, which was Blade Runner 2049.
Oh.
So, and it was great.
It was a really good movie.
A lot of slow.
areas in it.
But I did stay awake and I watched the whole thing, so that was kind of fun.
Was it in focus?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it was in focus.
Good audio.
Good audio because I had the high-tech hearing aids.
Excellent.
High-tech.
Yeah, you can adjust them,
right,
to the movie.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I tried a whole bunch of different
adjustments.
It was fantastic.
You could hear the background noise disappear.
Nice.
It was really cool.
Okay.
Coming up, uh, Idiocracy is right around the corner.
We got a lot of stuff.
Oh boy, do we.
Yeah.
Stay with us for more of John and Gordy in the morning on WMDX Madison.
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 fallen shelter right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Okay.
Oh, they're dumb all the time.
And, oh boy.
Another town hall gone crazy.
Really?
Yeah.
In Nebraska?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mike Flood.
Mike Flood is, he was out there a lot in the other.
Town halls we watched over and over and over and he kept on you know Sticking to his guns, but the crowd just came back at him and this time they're doing the same exact thing it's
like you
play I don't know if it ain't if it's close to Brian Styles town hall here in Wisconsin Right, he really got an earful he sure did now this is happening again, and I think we're gonna be seeing a whole lot of this
You know, this is like the Tea Party.
Remember the protests way back when the Tea Party came out against Obamacare?
You know, just to come out against something, I don't know, who wants health care for the American public, you know?
Yeah, that was
a big protest.
Oh, they
hated that.
Oh my gosh, they were so happy with the current system that we have, you know, getting ripped off by their insurance companies left and right and being turned down for care.
That's the kind of system I envision.
Really?
But, you know, I guess those people want everybody covered.
What are they
thinking?
I don't know.
It's 637.
That's John Peterson.
I'm Gordie Young.
Oh, yeah.
Dominic Lee in the producer chair.
It is sunny.
Downtown Madison looking great on State Street here, highs around 80 degrees today, but look for some hazy sunshine because that air quality, that alert is back again.
It hasn't left, I don't think it's left.
No, we got it for another day and of course it expires at noon unless they decide to extend it, which they've done for the last week or so.
I want to see what Brittany knows about this.
I want to see if she is like, okay, it is definitely going to be done tomorrow.
Yeah, that noon.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah.
Well, apparently nobody knows because they keep extending
it.
It is awful.
It is awful.
Oh, okay.
Idiocers.
Yeah, you know, I just came across a visual here on my laptop of the White House and Trump sitting in there with Netanyahu.
And I'm just looking at this.
Have you
actually
seen a picture?
Oh, of the inside.
Oh, no, I haven't
seen a wide shot like that.
I know.
I haven't seen
a wide shot like
that ever.
And it is.
It is.
That's horrible.
That is.
That's just.
Don't let Trump ever decorate your room.
Lots
of gold on the mantle.
What a bunch of junk.
All those gold frames of all the older.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, talking about
making these great pictures,
these
portraits look like junk.
Wow, it's over the mantle, all of the stupid
statuette things that he's applied to the vases, to the mantle and everything.
It's very gaudy.
It is
gaudy.
Yes, that's the word.
Yes.
All right.
Hey, we have a phone call.
Oh, we do.
608-879-8255.
Let's go to the phones.
All right, let's go.
Good morning, Joe.
You made the morning your interstitial material set to your cheating heart.
Oh, probably one of your high points ever.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, that was beautiful, isn't it?
Well, let's make it go viral.
I'm gonna put it
on Facebook after
the show.
Yeah,
absolutely.
And you should be, you should be running it every day.
Find a place to put it.
I think the repetition is really good because it reminds us of the simple cheating at golf and then all the way to cheating at elections.
It really covers it.
It's very rhythmic and the line, the buzzards on the fence.
I know,
I know.
Yes.
Couldn't get better.
I just wanted to add two points to this.
Um, you know, your discussions today, you were talking about the interior of the White House.
Do recall that he just paved over the rose garden today.
Apparently there are reports that he loves the way it looks because it's very white.
Oh my God.
Really?
He actually said.
Yeah, and do note that the sewer grates, you know that the drainage grates on in this area are in the shape of American flags, which I think
What
an idea Sure, that was his idea
Yeah,
that's crazy.
So, at any rate, keep playing that.
That is just absolutely perfect.
Just set me up for the day.
Thanks very much.
All right.
All right.
Sure.
Sure.
We'll play that a lot.
Yeah, we'll play it again maybe in our next hour.
Could go viral there.
Yeah, I think so.
Gordy, I think that's a fantastic idea.
I need some video with you.
Yeah, how are you going to do that?
I don't know.
We'll figure something.
I'll give it over to AI at that point.
That's right.
It'll construct
something, right?
Don't come up
with something,
right?
Yeah, I think it
would.
I
don't know
about that stuff.
Tom, do you know about it?
Well, yeah, it'll just transcribe it.
All right, we'll try that.
Yeah.
All right.
We'll
workshop that.
Workshop it.
Workshop's getting a workout.
You
know, speaking of A, I got a warning for everybody out there.
If you're cruising X, if you're still going to Twitter X, then you got to look out for these two
bots their AI bots I ran this by my Gen Z sons yesterday one is Jackson I won't get into the exact name, but the the first part of it is Jackson He he's described himself as an AI creator and Propagandist as far as I'm concerned and there's also another one called nas and that's NAS dash tech dad
AI.
Now these two individuals are putting together very slick pieces of production and propaganda.
They make very small, insignificant stories from the administration seem like bold plans that we should all be just, you know, just...
sucking up you know
I
mean this is this is the good stuff but it isn't it's just minor little things they're blowing out a proportion to make it seem like this administration is doing really good things and they spin it in a fantastic way they're very slick and the dead giveaway though this this gives it away yeah
how do you know there
you know there are threads
You're familiar with the threads?
Yes, threads.
And there's about 15 of them.
There's 15 posts on that thread, usually about 15 or 20 posts.
So they take up a lot of space on X. So if you run across there, there are actually AI bots put together by individuals who program in.
Again, you can kind of spin.
What you want AI to tell you that's the part that makes me very uncomfortable and then they put in in this very
nice presentation and again, it's Jackson and NAS Okay,
look out for those
two AI bots out there and you can usually tell because they have about 15,000 followers Okay, you know, I've got about 600.
I think maybe and I've been doing this for well, I think since 2008 I don't have 15,000 people yeah, but they have other fake bots following them which adds to the number of
followers, so just watch out for him.
It's slick stuff.
It really is.
It looks really good.
But
running by me again, how would you know it's a bot?
I mean, how can you figure that out?
Just because it has so
many followers?
I'm going to defer to my older son, who's 26.
He knows this stuff.
He knows this stuff inside and out, and he knows how that
these people can do what they're doing and why it's so standard to have like 15,000, 16,000 followers.
And then in the description, in their name, they have AI.
They're
both creators of AI.
And they have the profile pics as well that just make it.
You can just tell.
You can just tell,
like, the hair, you know, if it's someone's face, the hair is kind of messed up just slightly, you know, the neck is not proportionate to the body, like, it's also all in the profile picture as well.
Okay.
These
are rabbit
holes, and they're just warring
you.
Scary
stuff.
You know, I got caught in both of these.
That's why I'm warring you.
It's such an incredible waste of time.
You know, I'm sitting there questioning everything that I'm reading, and it just makes me want to go to the next one, and the next one, and the next one, and in, oh, what an amazing amount of time wasted.
I don't have these kind of time you need to take a break.
Oh,
yeah, that makes me angry now.
All right, so and I you know
It's not good when you get me angry.
But I
love the
stuff.
I love the thing you put together there.
Let's just let's just play that again.
Should
we play?
Get that queued up and ready to go so John can relax.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
This is this makes me a little tense too.
Trump again is threatening to declare martial law and appoint military governors.
throughout the midwest probably.
Trump reposted a truth social meme from the account extremely stable genius that makes an alarming comparison between modern sanctuary city mayors and southern governors during the civil war labeling them as insurrectionists.
See?
That's how he's doing it.
Trump's repose risks normalize in extreme measures that weaken democratic institutions and threaten civil liberties and signals a willingness to bypass legal norms and inspire violence or intimidation against public officials.
So there you go.
It's
a
mouthful.
I know, I know, but you know, I have to have to report what I.
what I read.
And I don't read very,
I
don't read on the air room.
I
don't
like doing that.
That's why I play a lot of
clips because I just hate it when people read from the newspaper
on the air.
It seems a little
lazy.
It seems silly.
But yeah, that's why I play clips.
And but every once in a while, I have to word for word read exactly what they're talking about here.
And this is this is frightening stuff.
I never I didn't know that you could appoint military governors.
No, that's a new one.
Yeah, I think that's something he's just making up yeah Marshall law I don't I don't recall anybody ever appointing governors Yeah, you know even in World War two or I mean any other time I know I know that's
of course he's you know comparing
the
sanctuary city mayors to the southern governors During the Civil War, okay, so I don't know
mayors and
governors.
Why is he making that comparison?
Well, maybe they did do some of
that.
He is a stable
genius.
This is from the extremely stable genius account
Yeah,
I've never heard of a pretty stable genius before in my life.
Oh, you haven't ever.
Oh, yeah.
He's called himself.
Yeah.
He's done that for a while.
Pretty stunning stuff.
Yeah.
How about something a little bit smaller, a little more insignificant here?
Okay.
And this
is the consumer.
What is
it?
Consumer Product Safety Commission?
What?
Consumer Product Bureau.
Okay, I can't remember the CFPB What is it
CFPB the consumer financial Protection Bureau that was it sure had finalized the rule that aimed to limit overdraft fees charged by large banks, right?
Limited them to
five dollars for overdrafts
and after that by
the way when
they did that the banks got rid of all their fees.
Yeah
That was really cool,
how that
happened.
But Trump and the Senate and the House passed a resolution while back that overturned that rule.
Now overdraft fees may go back up to about $35 per transaction.
Now that's money out of your pocket,
right?
And then the Federal Trade Commission has finalized a click to cancel rule for internet
things that you have subscriptions to and get charged for.
Well, just click and you're canceled.
But they got rid of that.
And that, by the way, was in a court of law saying you can't do that.
That is overreach and they got rid of.
Click to cancel.
So we're back at
getting
the run around trying to cancel your subscription
to whatever it is you have.
Yeah, wheels have come off the wagon.
648, when we come back, Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society will join us on John and Gordy in the
morning.
Oh, we start up where the singing starts, but we'll have to wait a while.
Yeah.
Bob Dylan.
We waited long enough here.
Okay, go ahead.
Here we go.
Just this
line.
See?
All right.
There we go.
So anyway, a big introduction here in WMDX 92.7.
It's John and Gordy in the morning.
Check out the Civic Media app.
We're there to text us and voice notice as well.
And we welcome Lisa Bernard back from the Dane County Humane Society.
Good morning, Lisa.
Good morning.
Good to have
you with us.
Doing all right.
Doing all right.
So you have something big going on
right now
called Clear the Shelters.
Tell us what's happening during the month of August here.
Yes.
So we have Clear the Shelters.
We are asking our community to help us clear our shelters.
So right now we have a promotion for cats going on.
It started on Friday and it's gonna end at the end of day on this Thursday, where their adoption fees are 50% off.
And then we're gonna switch to a different promotion on Friday, which is to be announced.
And then it'll be three weeks of promotions and we're gonna then hold a finale.
where it's a one day finale where we're going to extend our hours and try to get, try to find homes for all of the available animals and that is on August 23rd.
There will be also promotions on that day as well.
Okay.
All
right.
Very good.
We're very excited.
Now you've highlighted three animals for us to talk about this morning.
So let's get to those that are up for adoption.
Who do
we have first?
The first one is actually a dog.
Yes.
So his name is Detroit.
He's a young adult Alaskan Husky mix who has mostly tan on his body and then some white on his face and his chest and then black.
areas on his head and back and tail.
He's about 55 pounds.
He can be nervous around new people at first, but once he feels safe, he's very friendly and affectionate.
He can get a bit jumpy when he's excited, but he walks pretty well on leash.
And sometimes he shows his softer side and just wants to enjoy snuggles and pets with you.
When it comes to other dogs,
he'll do best with a slow introduction.
So he's looking for a family who's going to continue to work with him on his positive reinforcement training and the good thing is that his adoption fee includes a
Scholarship to an online dog training program called Good Pop.
Okay, and that's Detroit, the dog.
Okay.
Detroit.
Let me just mention that at this point that this portion of our show and Dane County Humane Society Appearance is brought to you by Serenity Petspaw.
Serenity Petspaw with three locations around Madison.
Okay, Lisa, back to you.
Who else do we have?
So
now we're going to switch gears to cats.
So we have Sam Wise, who is a five-year-old kitty, who is mostly white on the bottom half of his body, and then orange on the top, like his head and ears in the top area of his body.
Yeah,
it's very, very cute, yes.
He's very handsome.
He came to DCHS in late July.
He's very shy, but give him some time and then he'll enjoy some gentle pets and he'll even ask for them.
He likes to snuggle up close.
He loves treats, which you can use to help make friends with him.
We've been told that he's very affectionate and likes to cuddle.
Especially up on the sofa as you're watching TV.
So if you need a friend He also likes to be picked up brushed stits on laps plays without types of toys But he's looking for quiet and calm home.
He doesn't like loud noises So he wants a peaceful home where he could just hang out with his person He'd love to be your best companion
Very cute.
Very handsome.
Yeah.
Okay.
Curtis.
Yes.
And one more here quickly.
I've got olive oil.
Olive oil.
Another
cat.
Yes.
Yeah.
She is seven years and somehow she's also mostly orange with a little bit of white around her chest and her mouth and she's got white boots.
She's a long hair cap, but you wouldn't quite notice that right now because we had to give her a haircut.
When she arrived in early July, her hair was very matted.
So her family, they've been fighting an illness and they couldn't care for her anymore.
So she was surrendered to us.
She also is very shy, more shy than Samwise.
So she likes to hide a lot.
But give her some time and she'll come out and explore.
She allowed soft pets, but she's still very nervous.
But we were told by her former family that she loved being brushed, playing with toys.
She likes to look out the windows.
And she also does not like loud noises.
So she's looking for a quiet home where she can just hide to her heart's content and come out when she's ready to hang out.
Sounds good.
So we have that's that's olive oil.
Before that, we had Sam Wise, the cat, and the first pet up for adoption, Detroit.
And if someone out there is interested in finding out more about any of these or some of the other pets that you have up for adoption, the website is giveshelter.org, right, Lisa?
Correct.
Do we have time for me to mention something really quick?
Very quickly, yes.
Sure.
Two day only, thanks to a grant from the ASPCA.
We're actually lowering adoption fees for senior cats and adult cats even more.
So they're going to be completely waived today.
Thanks
to the Rescue Effect Grant.
So
if you come in today, Samwise and Olive Oil, their adoption fee is going to be completely waived.
How late are you open today?
We're open until 7.
We open at 2.
So until 7.
Lisa, thank you so much.
That's a deal.
Appreciate
it.
Thank you.
It's Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society.
And we will be back with more of John and Gordy in the morning.
Coming up after news on WMDX.
We got the big story.
Oh, yeah.
Very good.
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.
And we're going to have a lot of fun tonight.
I'm upset.
Outraged and angered.
Everything you said was all a lie.
What I say is what I say.
Okay, I want a damn concerted effort.
This is a god-last damn time.
I want somebody to use his fucking brain.
This is a job for John Peterson
and Party Young.
You're from the 60s.
I will tell you this is going to be something special.
Just a show about nothing.
I don't have any answers for you.
I don't give interviews.
I just want to be left alone.
Ponderous.
Ponderous.
It is.
At times it is.
Ponderous.
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I hope your morning is going as well as out.
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We're going real well here.
So And all you have to do is check us out by the way on the Civic Media app Bluetooth us into your car stereo is you're on your way to work and you can also watch us on YouTube at the same time, right?
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It's easy to do and the lights are all timed.
You don't really have to look up.
The car pretty much drives itself anyway.
Pretty much.
Now, you know, the space car that I have, yes, drives itself.
pretty much it bought.
I mean, it is just so easy to just handle.
It stays within the lines all by itself.
I don't even know how to handle
a steering wheel.
You said it reminded you to put your
hands back on the steering wheel, right?
Yes.
Yes.
I did say that.
Why were your hands not on the steering wheel?
You thought it just would drive itself.
It pretty much does.
It keeps in the lane.
Yeah.
Okay.
But I, you know, I was attentive.
I didn't let it drive on itself.
Thank
you.
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Well,
yesterday I didn't bring a cut in.
misplaced it somehow and it was really important because this thing is blowing up big time.
This is all about gerrymandering.
All the states
are wondering should they gerrymander now and do it to counter what the Republicans are doing and being encouraged to do by Trump.
Trump called up Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, to have
A new redistricting plan for the middle of the decade for some reason.
We don't normally do it that way, but then
nothing is normal under Trump.
He wanted five more.
Republican exactly get rid of five Democrat votes
and even some of the Democratic governors are breaking away from the governor's Association, so they don't want to be a part of this anymore But the Democratic governors Association just coincidentally last week met here in Wisconsin with Governor Evers and they urged all their colleagues to get tough in countering the Republican-backed efforts to gerrymander Texas and other states as well the chair is
Governor Laura Kelly and she said it's incumbent upon Democratic governors if they have the opportunity to respond in kind.
So I put this clip together and I just want to mention who you're going to be hearing from in order.
It's going to be Governor Kelly of Kansas.
It's going
to
be Dan McKee of Rhode Island and of course our governor.
Governor Evers using whatever words he chooses to use at the time Which I always find fascinating this is a little little on the longer side But what they're saying is very important and I think it matches the interest that the entire nation has on this
very big problem that we have right now.
Let's listen to this.
Okay.
On the first question on the Texas redistricting, uh, first of all, I think it's going to be ruled unconstitutional.
You know, it clearly will go to court.
So, uh, we'll see.
But in the meantime, I think it's incumbent upon, uh, Democrat governors, uh, you know, if they have the opportunity to respond in kind, you know, I, I'm, I'm not a big believer in unilateral disarmament.
I love bipartisanship.
That's
is how my entire career in the state Senate and now as governor has operated.
And I do everything I possibly can to bring the parties together to come to consensus.
This is clearly a situation where they're not asking for input.
And so I think we need to respond in kind, which I think we do to protect the American people.
If they are allowed to succeed,
Uh, you know, we know what will happen, you know, and things are bad enough in Washington right now.
Uh, what it would look like if there's even a greater majority, uh, that this president controls, uh, you know, that helped the United States of America.
So I think it's incumbent upon us, uh, to respond.
Yep.
I not being asked, but I'm from Rhode Island and I'll kind of weigh in here a little bit.
Look, this is part of the chaos that is coming from Washington.
Little insecure.
I talk to people every day in my state.
They're very unsettled.
They don't have a lot of confidence on what's coming out of Washington right now.
And this is just more of the chaos with this redistricting strategy.
So they're just going to keep on piling on and piling on.
And what happens, you ask, how this is going to impact health, education, or economy, when you undermine the confidence of the people who live in our states,
collectively in the country.
And this by this is not just blue states and red states.
This chaos is causing a great deal of unsettling in the minds of the people who live in the state in the country and clearly in the state of Rhode Island.
This move is.
It's again breaking the system.
It's again meant to game the system.
I want to stress again, Democratic governors, whether 23 of us represent the majority of the public.
and a large majority of the economy.
And in many cases, by gerrymandering and moving things around, it's an unfair representation.
Now, that being said, we go back to the unilateral disarmament, that Democrats are expected to have the decorum.
We're expected to protect the institutions.
We're expected to follow the rules on this.
We're not playing with a normal administration.
We're playing one that is throwing all the rules out of there.
And if the courts that he has packed
aren't going to do that, then I think it is incumbent upon states that have the capacity or the ability to make sure that we are responding in kind.
It is a terrible spot we're in as a country, but not responding is going to make it even worse.
So I agree with Governor Kelly.
But it just goes to show what this is all about.
It's a bold president, and we are going to do whatever we can do to stop this from happening.
It's rigging elections.
When you come up against you're up against the wall You have to do whatever you can to stop it now Yes, I we're not changing our maps here in the state of Wisconsin We worked hard to get fair maps and we're going to continue to do so because of those fair maps that we had we were able to pass a relatively bipartisan Budget and it was a good budget and so in my heart of hearts.
This is where we have to be
But when you're up again, you have a gun against your head.
You got to do something.
And so collectively, I think it has to be examined so that the president can rethink his stupid option.
There you go.
Good stuff.
But anyway, that that's Governor Evers throwing his two cents in as well.
And everybody has been, you know, throwing their comments out there.
And I think it's it's it's it's great that the media is also focusing on this issue.
And they're wondering now, what about those independent redistricting commissions that the Democrats took that high road?
Yeah.
Well, let's listen to cut 30 here.
And this is Governor Huckle from New York.
I'm
tired of this you know last decade we did we redid redistricting hard to say Do you think given this situation where we've had these court battles?
Everything that in this 2027 amendment that you may put forward that the independent redistricting Commission should be disbanded or changed in some way so that you don't have to go through that again in 32 Yes, wow, I'm
tired of fighting this fight
with my hand tied behind my back, with all due respect to the good government groups.
Politics is a political process.
And to think that we're gonna do this with a purity test and make sure it's completely fair to everybody involved, the reason we are able to draw the lines, because we're Democrats, because the majority of people in this state selected us, elected us to be leaders.
And when we say that we cannot use that power to its fullest,
that were abdicating the responsibility that we all have.
Republicans take over the legislature, they can have at it.
But until then, we're in charge and we're sick and tired of being pushed around when other states don't have the same aspirations that we always have had.
And I hold those dear, but I cannot ignore that this, the playing field has changed dramatically.
And shame on us if we ignore that fact and cling
tight to the vestiges of the past.
That era is over.
Donald Trump eliminated that forever.
There you go.
Pretty specific, you know, a lot of the Republicans in the Megas are saying, well, you guys have your gerrymandered states.
But the point is that the Democrats do have gerrymandered states, but they want these independent commissions put in place.
And as soon as they get a chance to do it, they do it.
And that's the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.
We have our general mandate states, but we want to get rid of them.
We want independent commissions making those decisions about redistricting.
And the Republicans and Maggis do not want to do that.
And so that was Governor Huckle, right?
It was Governor Huckle from New York.
That's right.
Yeah.
And they did have that independent commission, but she's.
That's
done with that.
Now, you know, let's hear from a Texas representative.
This is cut 33 and she left the state to make sure there's no quorum so Texas can't pass this redistricting.
Let's listen.
I'm asking everybody to remember that quorum break is a tool that the founding fathers of Texas put in place when the minority party knows that the majority has gone off the rails and is doing something against the interest and will of the voter.
Thousands of you have come out.
to say you do not want your seats stolen by Trump.
The big ugly bill passed by one vote, one vote, and he is afraid of you going to the polls in November of 2026.
He has asked Governor Abbott to break the rules and get him five new Republican seats.
You all spoke up in Austin.
They pushed it.
They put it on the floor.
And so please know.
that this extraordinary step of our core break is so that your voices can be heard.
If they're not going to be heard here in Texas, then we are breaking for them to go to the nation and say, this is it.
You must stop, stop, take over.
That's right.
Yeah, this is just going to keep on going.
It is.
And you might even remember the Wisconsin 14.
Yes.
And that's when the Democrats left the state, went out to Illinois and stayed there for quite a while protesting act 10.
Yeah, they were there for quite
they were there a long time.
Yeah, two or three months.
Scott Walker put out, you know, the police wanted to, you know, capture each capture each and every one of them and arrest and find them.
None of that came to be because the courts turned all turn that stuff away.
Yeah.
We'll see what happens here in Texas anyway.
Yeah, he wants to arrest him too.
Yeah, Governor Abbott.
Okay, 19 minutes past the hour.
When we return, we're going to talk to our chief meteorologist, Brittany Merlot.
Find out when we're going to get rid of this air quality alert jazz.
Coming up on John and Gordy in the morning, WMDX Madison.
before he starts singing.
WMDX 92.7.
John and Gordy in the morning.
This is one fantastic day.
Why don't we just talk over whatever
he is
singing at this point?
Oh, too late.
23 minutes past the hour.
Sunshine today.
What's it going to be like for the rest of the day and the rest of the week?
Well, let's talk to our chief meteorologist, Brittany Merlo, and find out.
Good morning, Brittany.
How are
you?
Good morning.
How are you guys doing?
Doing great.
Much
better.
Wow.
Yeah.
Fantastic weather.
Whoo.
Yeah.
It's looking pretty good here this morning.
Yeah.
I was looking at... Right.
I'm saying your AQI is at a 56 right now.
You're sitting yellow, nice and pretty, thinner smoke.
I mean, I'm in the orange farther up north in Dore County.
We're still in the red.
Yeah.
But
we do have grass pollen increasing dramatically.
Yay.
Yeah.
That's one thing.
It's the other, right?
I
know.
That's right.
So is this so the air quality alert is on again, I guess today, at least for our area till noon.
But there's some some hope on the horizon, right?
We're going to get rid
of this
phase and this smoke.
We are hoping a majority of it has moved off to the east.
It's really sitting over actually New York right now.
So is the high pressure system.
But we're still getting a little leftover smoke still stuck here and it could linger through tomorrow morning.
So just a heads up that maybe it'll get extended or that alert might come back on.
But right now, not too bad.
Hopefully it'll stay this way through the rest of the day.
It's all on those winds, right?
So you want them to get a little breezy.
You want them to mix that wildfire smoke out of here.
So.
Fingers crossed for stronger wins.
Otherwise, we're still comfortable today.
Nice summer day, highs at about 82 degrees.
Honestly, not bad.
Still tomorrow, 85 degrees.
Then it starts to get sticky Thursday.
Two points are going up.
Two points are going up
again.
Oh no, a two point alert.
Oh yeah, two point alert.
We need that.
Do we?
Just when we go to the 70s.
We really do, don't
we?
Yes.
Why
not?
Let's create the... So heat and humidity by what?
Friday and Saturday?
Yeah, those look like the worst days when we're pushing about 90 degrees, probably feeling closer to triple digits again.
So that'll be Friday, Saturday will be the highest heat.
But then it starts to get stormy too.
We could see some of that rain start to move in as soon as Wednesday night, so tomorrow night possibly.
But a lot of it wants to hold off until Saturday when another front really pushes through and sparks those storms.
So yeah, the summer weather right around the corner.
And with all of that, the wildfire smoke will be gone.
Yeah.
Okay, good.
Well,
thank you, Brittany.
We appreciate that.
Thank
you for that, at least in the next couple of days.
That kind of weather.
I want to see more of that.
I know you have to use these days sparingly.
But thanks for
giving us a couple
more.
Thanks for giving us some hope.
We appreciate it.
You're welcome.
All right.
Thanks, Brittany.
That's Brittany Merlot, our chief meteorologist.
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All right, we got a few texts here.
Kurt wonders, why is it that Democrats are so slow to understand the game?
that they're involved in.
I know, it takes
us an awful long
time.
You know, we take this high road, and again, you know, a lot
of
people say
that
we lost the election because we tried to protect the status quo, and people were tired of the status quo, and that's why they took a chance with Trump to stir things up a little bit.
But, you know, the status quo...
We can change the status quo without destroying the entire government.
Right.
We don't need to dismantle every department in order to change things.
And Doug out in St.
Francis, Milwaukee says, can you guys do an entire show making fun of Michael McDonald?
Yes,
we could, but we don't want to.
We did that, done
that.
And then, of course, Catherine Lake sent
us a
little map there saying smoke is surrounding us, but not actually on us.
And that is according to the
radar.
Well, that could be a radar anomaly.
See, there's a coverage problem when the radar shoots out the beam.
It shoots out the beam constantly 360 degrees.
close by the radar.
It doesn't detect it.
It doesn't pick up stuff.
It's always Charlie Cortino could explain it a lot better than I
could.
My theory that, you know, Madison and the lakes suck all that stuff underground.
That's your theory.
And
we're unaffected.
Yes, that's my theory.
Not a really good scientific basis for that theory.
Sure.
Okay, well,
I mean, you can stick you
can
stick with that.
Yes.
But I think I have something.
All right,
let's get to the
What?
I was going to mention the website, WMDXradio.com.
We have that new poll up about who's the most popular mayor from the last 40 years.
What did we get to that?
Paul Soglin is leading that at 44 percent.
Joe Sensenbrenner, Sue Bauman.
And what's that other guy's name?
Dave Slewitz.
Anywhere close?
I was gone when he was mayor.
Give me a break.
Chess Leavitz.
Chess Leavitz.
Chest Levits.
Chest Levits.
That
sounds about right.
Chest Levits.
Levits.
What do you know?
You're from Illinois.
Yeah, that's true.
I don't know.
Well, aren't you from Illinois too?
Yes, but I've been up here for 30 years,
so give me a pass.
All right, we'll try to do that.
Okay.
Chest Levits.
Got it?
Okay.
Got it.
You know, one of the things everybody's kind of waiting for, this one shoe to drop, and that is the inflation.
Numbers to increase and it hasn't been happening now, you know for like two decades from what I remember We have been waiting for that inflation thing to happen for two decades even though, you know, we had gone up and down Everything has taken place with the administration changes and Trump in there for the first term Nothing happened.
We have a very stable economy
but it's now taking effect.
We are
seeing a little inflation and
we're
seeing a lot of job losses because of the tariffs.
So we'll see what happens.
We'll explore that and more.
Coming up next, the Fabulous Farm Babe and the Agricultural Report.
We're coming back with more of John and Gordy in the morning.
We'll have our special guest, Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa coming up.
We're back.
WMZX.
It's John and Gourney keeping the company in the morning here and we have a fantastic day as we heard from Brittany Merleau.
Nice day coming up and in fact a couple
of nice days coming up.
Hi today near 80 degrees, lots of sunshine, a little bit of haze.
The air quality alert is still on till noon but it does look like it's getting a little bit better out there.
And now, time for us to welcome in Liz Johnston.
Always good to see you from Serenity Pet Spa.
How you doing, Liz?
I'm doing good.
Good morning, guys.
Yeah.
So you're
done.
Join this.
slightly cooler weather.
Yeah.
A little break.
It's going to be nicer for a few days, but yeah, they're talking about it heating up once again and more humidity by Friday and Saturday, really hot and humid.
You know, and I live in a neighborhood where there's lots of dogs and lots of dog walking
and I
see all kinds of dogs out there.
But what should people be aware of when it gets really hot out, hot and humid like we're expecting again?
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of people, you know, they'll kind of be calling us up in there, and especially when it comes to the dogs, those shedding dogs, you know, your golden retrievers, your Bernese Mountain dogs, your Huskies, and, you know, one, they're saying, hey, the hair's all over the house, but also my dog's so hot.
And we do get a lot of people that are like, do we cut the hair?
Because you think, well, if you cut the hair, shorter hair should be cooler, right?
Yes.
But it's actually the opposite.
How
is that possible?
It doesn't make sense.
So you kind
of got to think of it as in like, so in the winter time, they grow a thicker coat, and it's almost like you wear in a wool sweater.
You're going to wear thicker clothes in the winter because it's going to keep you warmer.
So then in the summer time, they shed that undercoat.
They have like a soft undercoat, and then they have a harsher top coat.
So what you want to do is actually get them bathed, get them blown out, get them get a good de-shed.
All sorts of special products that professionals have.
get that undercoat out, and then you can get a little airflow on the skin.
So it's
actually gonna cool them off.
But if you cut that, it actually can do the opposite.
So it's actually gonna make it, the undercoat grows faster, and then they're just nothing but undercoat.
They don't have that top coat to give them that barrier against the sun, the elements, and that airflow at the skin, so.
Wow.
Yeah, little known facts.
What about with short-haired dogs?
I mean, if their fur is already short, they're just good to go.
So it's a little bit of both.
So obviously like super short hairs like that pit bull type that's really just only like that short single coat.
Yeah.
You know, not much you can do with them other than, you know, cool them off with a little bit water hose outside
feels great,
right?
But even like the labs do have like a denser undercoat that we can get a lot out of for those medium-coated dogs.
for
sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you don't want to you don't want to shave or cut the give him a haircut like a summer
cut.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So a lot of people though they'll come in and they'll ask for it because it makes sense to you.
Right.
Yeah.
Cut it shorter make it cooler.
But it actually it does not help at all.
It
actually can hinder it because it does it when it grows back.
Basically when you think of it the technical the most like easy technical way of saying
it
is there's like three undercoat hairs to every one top coat hair.
when you cut it, the undercoat actually grows faster.
So then you have all this undercoat in no top coat, so nothing to cool them off and everything, they grow that wool sweater back fast.
It kind of disrupts their natural cycle.
So you want to do, the dog is built to keep itself cool.
We get all crazy and start cutting hair off and changing what they're naturally built to do.
So yeah.
So how often should you actually bathe your dog?
It really depends on the dog.
I usually save her four to six weeks.
It keeps the coat in good rotation.
Most dogs, it's like a three to four week rotation for skin and coat growth.
It's about a 21 day.
Again, technical with it.
You save her
four to six weeks is gonna keep the shedding down your house, save you some vacuuming time, and keep the hair at the salon.
Keep the hair at the grooming salon.
You don't need that in your bathtub.
Like
clogging the
drains.
So you've got your new location up and running, right?
Yes, we do.
And where is
that?
So that's off Junction Road, so it's down in that kind of little area towards Middleton, not quite Middleton.
We call it Middleton to make it easier on people to understand which locations which, because we have our west on O'dana Road, so it's not super far from the other one, but it's far enough that it's a lot easier for some of our far out Verona and Middleton people, and they can cross planes and they can get over to us.
was pretty easy, it's right off the belt line.
And the east side
location?
East side, yeah, that one's off American Parkway, it's on
East
Park, so yeah, yeah, very much so.
So you just got back from a show, right?
Well, I mean, I've always
got
back from a show.
You're always on the road.
You're all over the place, because you're like, people think of you as a professional dog groomer, but you win these national awards.
Yes, yeah, I'm currently number two, I believe in the country, so.
Wow.
Yeah, I rank number two right
now.
Do you know the number one person?
I do, she lives.
New York, so
I
mean...
You run into each other all the time.
Is there a rivalry there?
Yeah, it's pretty friendly.
See, we tend to like compete in different classes, so like we don't actually beat each other very often because she's in like these two cat classes and I'm in like this one.
So, but I'm number two and I'm only competing like in one class and she's competing in three,
so...
The odds are in her favor, but I'm only a few points behind,
so we're
doing all right.
We're
feeling pretty good this year, so.
But yeah, I'm getting ready to drive out to Vegas next week.
Oh, you're gonna drive?
I'm driving.
Why?
Because there's no dogs in Vegas that I can borrow, so I have to bring my dogs
and
drive them out to Las Vegas.
Wow.
How many dogs do you typically take to a show?
Usually, right now, I'm only taking one or two.
I'm taking two out to Vegas, so yeah, so I gotta spend a week in Vegas.
It's okay,
they
hook us up, they give us a good pool party.
It's fun.
You
said you're driving out to Vegas, right?
I
am driving.
It is like 24 hours.
Yeah, it is 24 hours.
That is crazy.
It
is crazy.
I
have done it for the last three
years.
Yes,
the worst is this is my
kryptonite show that I don't usually win at
and I always drive
out there
And then I don't win so I gotta I
gotta
keep
going until I until I win it But I have to get home and then turn around and there's a show in Chicago the next weekend
Oh,
it's just and
then two weeks
later.
There's one in Pennsylvania in Hershey So yeah, the year is cranking up.
So how many shows do you do in a year?
There are
14 or 15 total like sanctions shows that you can get points at and I try I probably do at least Seven to ten of them depending on the year and what my goals are
So we're trying
to make
the this is a year to try to make the team.
So next year we'll compete at Worlds.
So we're.
And where's that?
It was in Belgium last year.
We haven't decided yet.
It could be in France, could be Italy, could be Spain, could be Belgium.
Wow.
Again.
So yeah, we'll compete against usually about 20 to 30 other countries.
They bring a four person team and we compete.
Yeah.
So I'm striving to be on the team right now.
OK.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We got uniforms in the
pictures.
We
wave the flag.
We do like the whole opening ceremonies, like little groomer Olympics.
Yeah.
That was fun.
Let's mention, again, your locations, three locations.
People want to find out more about Serenity Pet Spa.
Where do they
go?
Website's best, so it's super easy.
It's serenitypetspaMadison.com.
Excellent.
Yeah, you can find us online.
And you can book online super easy right there, but yeah.
Excellent.
Very good.
Well, Liz, thanks for coming in today and we'll see you again next month.
I'll be here.
Appreciate it.
All right, that's Liz Johnson from Serenity Pet Spa.
I'm trying to convince my border colleague.
power to make a visit to your spa, and I'm hoping that she gives us the okay on
that.
Power is very energetic,
Liz.
I mean, we're pretty good with that type.
Really?
We're pretty good.
Yeah, we're pretty good.
You haven't met this dog.
Winning them over.
Oh my God.
You know,
you just have to, you got to just focus them on the right thing.
Yeah.
And so it's like, it's going to be all about teaching her hey.
Like, you're a good girl if you do this, and she'll be like, ooh, a new job.
That's all Border Collie wants.
They just want a new job.
New job.
Just give them a new job.
And her new job can be getting pretty.
And then she
gets
treats and feels pretty afterwards.
So it's like a win-win all around.
You should take her.
Book
her in for an appointment.
Come on.
She's traumatized me.
She's scared both of us, mom and dad.
We don't know what to do.
Sometimes she gets burrs, and it's almost a battle, a fight to just get burrs on, much less.
We should take her into the Serenity Pent spot and make a
video out of it.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
She would love it.
You'd be surprised how much they have you wrapped around their little finger.
Yes.
And then you go to us, and we're like, you're fine.
And she's like, yeah, you're right.
I just do this for my dad.
Yeah, exactly.
They're manipulators, these dogs.
You know the psychology.
They're very good at it.
Oh, man.
She is something else.
Very good.
All right.
Well, again, thanks for coming in.
See you next time.
Thanks, guys.
Very good.
Good.
All right.
Well, I want to get to something so crazy and so ridiculous that it's hard to even imagine.
But Senator Josh Hawley says he has new legislation that he wants to propose that will send a $600 tariff rebate check.
to every American that deserves it deserves it.
Yes.
Not the Biden voters only the Trump blue collar voters.
That's how this works.
Supposedly and if if we could queue up cut 29 that would be a huge benefit to the program to me and to our listeners.
Cut 20.
You know, I see Dominer just kind of checking out, you know, but, you know, it doesn't run on sound here.
Sorry about that.
Let's listen to Josh Hawley, you know, explain what he wants in that $600 tariff rebate check.
Okay.
So this is not going to the hedge fund managers or all the Biden voters.
This is not going to the Wall Street Kingpins.
They don't need it anyway.
This is going to the Trump
blue collar voters, the people who Joe Biden crushed, the people who didn't get a raise under Joe Biden for four long years, the people who cannot afford their gas because Joe Biden shut down our energy, who can't afford their groceries because Joe Biden drove up the price of everything.
And it is a message from us to them, from Trump to these folks that he is here to deliver for them.
You know, I got the idea from the president.
I mean, the president said, maybe we ought to do a little rebate.
Great.
Idea it tells our people the working people that we are here for you and these policies are gonna benefit them And we're in it for the long haul these Trump policies are here to stay
All right, that is That's that's Josh holly, you know, he's raised out there, you know to work working real hard for the American Worker rebate act
of 2025 or refundable tax credit for Trump voters.
$600 per adult.
And remember, we played that cut yesterday where a person has a blue card and another person has a red card.
Yes.
And they reap the benefits of their party.
So this might be one of those instances where this would come in handy, I guess.
I, I, I, now here,
here's the
qualification.
It phases out for incomes exceeding $75,000 for singles and $150,000 for joint violers.
And according to, uh, more on this, our working class blue collar of all those who.
powered the Trump revolution who got this president into office multiple times and who are the backbone of this nation will get that rebate.
Wow, they are the backbone.
I had no idea that in all the blue states that are basically funding the red states, we're the backbone, but maybe I was wrong.
Tariffs pass much of the increased costs onto the American consumers through higher prices on their goods.
So here's the analysis on this, okay?
these tariffs, pass much of the increased costs onto the American consumers through higher prices on goods so that the rebate check would likely be swallowed up by the price of the increased price of the product.
Boy, okay.
So the rebate is probably just, you know, paying for already what you've already paid.
Out of one pocket into
another.
Exactly.
It's it's it's insane.
It's nuts.
How complicated this is.
I really worry about the next president trying to deal with all of the BS that he
has to unwound here.
It's going to be crazy.
748 coming right back with more of John and Gordy in the morning.
WMDX.
I want to start out by saying this.
He was caught cheating on video on the golf
course.
He cheated on his taxes.
He cheated on his business loans.
He cheated
on his wives.
And he tried to cheat in the 2020 election.
He cheated on the business contractors that he stiffed through 40 years of business.
Now he's trying to cheat and win this 2026 midterm election because he knows he can't win.
To me, House Republicans, in this case, are like a bunch of buzzards on the fence, waiting to swoop down on the dying carcass of democracy.
In other words, I mean in a philosophical way, not a sexual way, but he's asking every one of the Republican representatives in this room to be one of his
prostitutes.
He was caught cheating on video on the golf course.
Wow.
It says it
all.
That is so good.
Good
stuff, man.
I love that.
I do love that.
Wow.
Assist there from Hank Williams.
Yes.
You're cheating hard.
I just emailed you a cut here, and
I
think that maybe we should check it out.
Oh, you got it.
It's Mike Flood,
a
Republican Mike Flood at a town hall.
Didn't go well.
Did you not get it?
I didn't get an email with anything, no.
Hang on a
second.
Oh,
there it is.
There it is.
Just came in.
The
lights must be busy.
What's the smoke and the haze all week?
No, that's clearing up according to some reports.
OK, we got a text here.
I thought this was interesting.
Please remind people that Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, jumped out of a second-story window to prevent a quorum.
He did.
Democrats use the tool of preventing a quorum to defend democracies.
So there you go.
And according to Mark out in the sack, he says, Josh Hawley can kiss his ass.
So there you go.
And I think that
sums it up for everybody listening to this program this morning.
OK.
All right.
Can you play that cut here?
This is a person in the audience asking a very interesting, long question.
But I love it.
Listen to this.
All right.
My question is fiscal with 450 million FEMA dollars being reallocated to open alligator Alcatraz and 600 million taxpayer FEMA dollars being used to now open more concentration camps and ice burning through 8.4 million dollars a day to illegally detain people.
How much does it cost for fascism?
How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?
Wow!
Nailed it!
Yeah!
Come on!
Nailed it!
Go!
Got him!
Mic drop!
Yeah!
Okay, that's all there is.
Isn't that great stuff?
Wow.
Mic flood.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, these town halls, it's amazing they're still doing these town halls.
They haven't learned yet, apparently, that they're just chaotic.
That's right.
And
going for this redistricting thing, which is so transparent, ridiculous, and obviously they don't have anything else to run on.
That's the bad thing.
We really have to fight fire with fire.
We can't let this happen, right?
Right.
Well, that's what many of the governors are starting to realize that, and J.B.
Pritzker and Gavin Newsom.
Yeah, got a fight fire with fire
and and thanks Tom Hartford for the encouragement.
Well done guys.
I have this Jessica Tarloff is the conservative on Fox News and she comes off with a few good ones.
I thought this is an interesting comment from her about redistricting but at the same time she's
She's never interrupted.
I thought this was probably the only moment.
She has never been able to get out a complete thought without having everybody talk
over her to make
sure that she doesn't get that complete thought
out.
But let's listen to cut 31 here.
Let's go with it.
OK.
Well, hopefully she won't.
But odds are that that is what's going to happen once everyone does eventually have to come home, whether that is tomorrow or it's in December and they can hide out that long.
And.
This isn't about populations coming in and out of blue states.
It's about the fact that JV Pritzker can afford to do this.
And when they went to DC a few years ago, they ran out of money.
JV Pritzker is never running out of money and he's got a bunch of hide hotels and they can each have a suite and they can hang out there for as long as they need to.
But the idea that people are watching this happen or at least people who vote like I do or have similar values.
to me are seeing this just as people running away from their job is ludicrous.
What they are seeing is the fact that Donald Trump called up Greg Abbott and redistricting is supposed to happen once every 10 years.
That's when the census happens.
He's saying I want a mid-cycle redistrict because I only have a three seat majority and I need a bigger cushion.
So get me five more seats.
So Greg Abbott calls a special session not about the flooding not about what happened in Camp Mystic but so that he can steal seats from Democrats so that Jazzy won't be able.
to have her seat any longer.
It's important to remind people that in 2021, there was a bill before the People Act, HR1.
And it would have banned all gerrymandering.
And every single Democrat voted for it.
And every single Republican voted against it.
Republicans want it this way.
They want to use this to their advantage.
And of course, there are some states if.
If you can do it, why wouldn't you get as many seats as possible?
But the way in which Abbott is going about this has made people, even like Eric Holder, who runs an organization that is fundamentally against this, change his tune because the California proposal, and Newsom has been out of front on this as well, only has this happened for a few years.
And then, of course, the Republicans in Texas voted to track down and arrest Democratic lawmakers.
Yeah, they're going to arrest them.
They're going to
arrest them.
Call them back
to
Texas.
Put them
in Alcatraz.
in the actual elk drives when they open that up in California.
Oh boy.
Oh my god.
And on it goes.
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