In a world filled with chaos and confusion, in an echo chamber filled with lies and deceptions, comes a ray of light.
Live from Madison, Wisconsin, it's John and Gordy in the morning on 92.7 WMDX.
Good morning to you on a rainy morning, John and Gordy in the morning WMDX, it's 92.7 and also on your Civic Media app, just go there and text us, give us a call or voice notice as well.
Yes, good morning.
Rise and shine, shake a leg up and Adam, it's Monday.
Hope you had a good weekend.
Well, you know.
Yeah, it's pretty rainy out there and you know, usual.
Just grab the umbrella and check your windshield wipers.
But it looks like a pretty good soaking rain at least to start things out.
And I guess we're going to see this off and on through the day.
I think so.
67 degrees currently high near 80 this afternoon.
And.
Yeah, it's a soggy
start.
So just be prepared as you walk out the door.
I feel like that's how always Mondays go.
They always are just drowsy.
Yeah,
I know, you know rainy days and Mondays always bring me down.
Yeah, I don't know about you.
It sounds like that could be a song.
Could be in a
ear musician.
You should come up with a tune.
Yeah.
Yeah,
sure.
Do that.
All right.
So start of another week here.
Later this week, we've got the Thursday night, the Madison night market.
That's happening.
We'll be right across the street in front of the Overture Center for the night market.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's going to be fun again.
You know, we
love that.
We're
going to have any kind of
Gift giveaways, you know
little
prizes for people.
We've
got a new t-shirt coming out.
Oh wait a minute.
So we'll be debuting that.
You
mean it's the
call letter
one?
Yeah, okay.
The call
letter one.
You got all excited, right?
I was waiting for the screen.
What, the other one?
The screen print one
or
whatever it is.
No, no, we're still working on those.
Jose, bring me down, man.
Bring me down.
But you like,
you're going to like the new.
I am.
Call letter t-shirts.
I
definitely love those already.
I was going to order one before everybody else had one.
Oh, yeah, sure.
But I
never did.
Okay.
Well, you'll get a chance to see them.
They should be arriving in a couple of days here.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So that's
happening.
Yeah, that sounds like.
a fantastic moment in time on State Street.
Did we ever find the straights, not the states, yeah, the State Street song.
No, the John and Gordy theme from Art Paul.
Art Paul Slosher?
No, not yet.
Have we
not found that?
We have not
found
that yet.
Did you
come up with that Gordy?
Did you send it to me and did I send
it
to
you?
Yes.
Yes.
You sent it?
I think I
sent it to both of you.
I don't know, it was quite a while ago.
I'll have to go deep diving into my email though.
Dig it, dig through it.
I mean, if
we're
gonna, you know, it's a big time, big time production there.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And of course we've got some more VIP passes to give away to our listener appreciation party that's happening September 6th.
That's a Saturday, 3pm at Downgrens Distilling in Cottage Grove.
Tell you more about that as we move along here.
and reveal the next keyword.
That'll come up in about 20 or 30 minutes.
Yeah, do you have a good weekend?
Do you do anything fun and exciting?
Well, I kind of relaxed a
little bit.
Yeah.
You know, we found out we weren't filling in for, uh...
For beach robber tonight.
Tonight and tomorrow, yeah.
Yeah, next Monday and Tuesday, not tonight, not tomorrow night.
So I sat back and I just relaxed and prepared for the show this week.
Did
you?
That's
how I relax.
Okay.
Boy, we got some stuff.
Wow.
Yeah?
Really?
Crazy stuff?
Yes, yes.
It's like a madhouse out there.
By the way, did you check your WMDX watch to see what the dew point is going to be today?
Because I have a feeling the humidity is going to be pretty high.
Yeah, it will be kind of stupid, won't it?
Getting warm again and also wondering about that sunset time, you know, because I like to see the sunset.
One thing at a time, my
friend.
One thing at a time.
The dew point is currently at 66 degrees, which is very high.
Anything above 60 is normally uncomfortable.
65 is really uncomfortable and we're at 66 right now.
98% humidity.
Of course, it's raining out there and we've got more showers on the way according to
the
radar.
My WMDX weather phone.
You have too much of them here.
And you know, the WMDX weather window is quite wet this morning, but still reveals the actual weather outside.
Yes
it does.
It's never incorrect.
And you want to know when the sunset is?
I was curious about that.
Sunrise is at
607.
Oh, sunrise.
Okay.
Yeah.
And so it just came.
755 is sunset time.
Okay.
All right.
As we lose... Earlier and earlier.
Daylight
hours.
A little bit later on, we're going to talk to a Chicago radio personality, Steve Cochran.
He's a legend in Chicago.
And we'll be visiting with him.
He's big into Chicago politics, Illinois
politics,
and plus he's a stand-up comedian.
So...
Is he?
Yeah.
Oh, he's been doing stand-up for a long time.
And I'll check in with Pam Yonkey shortly, too.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
So that's the big lineup today.
Should we, uh, what should we get to here?
Should we get to what's happening?
Oh, oh, Mark's on the phone.
Oh, Mark.
I've got an early morning call.
6-0-8-8-7-9.
We're struggling here.
6-0-8-8-7-9-8-2-5-5.
Mark, you're up early.
What's going
on?
Yeah, what's
happening,
man?
Yeah, well, I'm gonna have to get out and walk the dog, but I see that I got a text from you guys about me winning a VIP thing.
Yes, yes, you're gonna be there.
You know, I'm gonna be there and I texted my address.
Yeah, okay.
That's great, man.
That's that's pretty cool.
Yeah.
And if I get around to it, maybe I'll bake some of the cookies that brought to the last.
Oh, you know, when when Dom and Crut were on there.
Oh,
yeah, definitely
do that.
Yeah.
Yes,
yeah, but it's
what kind of cookies are those
They're done.
They're what they got dark chocolate white chocolate almost and craze and And they're gluten-free.
Oh, there you go.
Sure.
Well, that sounds really good.
Yeah, he darn good the union always like that when I think those the union meetings back in the day.
Yeah, yeah A friend called them
Yes, I got to get the dog out and before the flooring starts pouring down again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that listener,
listener appreciation party, September 6th, the downturn's distilling.
Uh, you, you also can bring somebody along with you to
that.
I saw that.
Yep.
I'm going to try to do that and that, uh, looking forward to that.
And today I got to get out there and I guess to get out there and get the antmovis permits, I think go on sale today for the, uh, wait till hunt.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I didn't realize it was this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's that.
Wow.
Already.
Okay.
Geez.
Yeah.
It's a little more complicated than what used to be, but that's the way it goes.
That's the way it happens.
I know.
Well,
the congratulations, Mark.
Thank you.
Yeah.
All right.
Oh, did we, oh, we lost him just like that.
That quick.
I think he was done.
By the way,
I'm just sending anything else.
I just sent you the art, Paul.
song.
Oh, okay, you found it.
Okay, nice.
Yeah.
All right.
You know, when you, well, you know, you're, you're just starting here.
You're only, you've only been here about three days.
So we, okay.
No, but you know, every time there's a feature or something like that at the top of these lists, find a place for them.
Yep, yep, yep.
There are new additions to our regular lineup.
Okay.
All right, so... We'll do.
All right, so we get to Would You Rather?
Let's do, yeah, let's do a little bit of Would You Rather though.
Would you rather do this or rather do that?
I'd rather do anything else.
Okay, let's hear
it.
Oh, yeah.
This is it, yeah.
This is where dreams are made of.
You updated this, sir.
No, I didn't.
Man, look how clear that was that time, though.
Alright.
Okay.
First question, would you rather always forget to buy one thing at the grocery store or always buy five things that you don't need?
Well, I already accomplished the
first one.
Yeah, the first one
is I always
automatically
do
so, you know, there's no getting rid of that one You guys always forget to buy something at
the I always remember Yeah, I make a list and then usually I forget the list I get to the grocery store.
I left the list in the coffee table I
usually you know I'm on my way to get that one item that last item Yeah, I get distracted by something else and I forget to get it
and
I have to go back
in
Okay irritating.
What about Utah?
I think I would I would always buy five things.
I don't need
I like
to be I like to be mr.. Opposite here.
I don't know.
I like I like having things.
I like having random stuff.
I don't know
Okay, no, that's good.
I mean
sure
that's a young
type of thing
to
do a good is it a good trait to have yes sure why not there we go all right second question
Would you rather ruin the surprise for a surprise birthday party?
Or show up in a costume to a black tie event?
So it's with soup.
What was the first choice again?
Ruin the surprise for a
surprise birthday party.
Well, that would be awful.
And in the other choice, show up in a costume to a black tie event.
I'd go with that one.
I mean, you know, that'd be fun.
I just do that naturally
with the selection
I
pick
for
clothing.
Just your regular clothing.
I think I would do the same.
It's always a clown show.
I think I would do the same.
I would show up in a random costume.
I like doing that.
It's pretty
funny.
Yeah.
Do you have a lot of costumes?
Yeah, I
have my Bucky the Badger outfit that I got to start
with.
What?
I have a whole outfit out of it.
What
no
you mean a mascot.
Yep.
I'll maybe I'll bring it tomorrow.
You've got a mascot.
Yeah, I have a whole outfit.
It's a
one
not again Did you
get hired as bucky the badger for some event?
No, they
said I was too short, but
Wow, yeah,
I have a full onesie.
I'll maybe I'll bring it in
So you applied to be a mascot?
You got rejected.
No, I didn't apply to be a mascot.
The thing is Sam was a mascot.
Did he wear a Scooby-Doo outfit or something?
Well, he wore
that on State Street.
But he also wore a mattress.
How did that work?
He worked at a mattress.
Well, no, I
think it was a fundraiser, and he had to wear the mattress outside.
Wear the mattress?
Yeah.
Then he gets a snowplow.
He might knock him over.
He
was in a snow drift for a couple of hours before he could struggle his way out.
Yeah.
Speaking of mattresses, John.
Oh, Tom.
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Oh, that's great.
Are we checking in with Pam Yaqui?
We are.
All right.
Good.
I would assume so.
Yeah.
And then we'll reveal the next keyword in our listener appreciation party coming up in our next half hour.
We're just getting started on a Monday morning.
It's John and Gordy and you, dear listener on WMDX.
you
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.
He's still
cheating.
He's cheating.
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.
Pretty tough
words there.
Pretty tough.
All right, John Icordi in the morning, WMBX.
That was an average voter in Texas.
Beacon as onions
for a committee
when they were talking about redistricting.
And now that's happening, right?
Yeah.
Cause the Democrats have come back to Texas.
Anyway, 24 past the hour.
Do we have Pam Yankee on the line?
I think we do.
Good morning, Pam.
Morning,
guys.
How was your weekend?
Uh.
A lot of rainfall monitoring.
That's kind of what I'm running around with this morning.
Some folks got more than others and some folks got some actually damaging winds.
Really?
Did you end up going to the Badgers-Steamon engine show up in Baraboo?
No, I had some commitments up in Green Bay.
I had to take care of my assistant Ben Jarbo did.
So we'll probably be hearing about that when we get in the office later today.
this week the weather looks great for any of those.
There's another threshery coming up this weekend up by the Campbell's Port Eden area.
It goes in swarms with county fairies.
June is all about dairy breakfast.
July and August are all about county fairies.
And at this time of the year we start to see a lot of those antique tractor shows and thresheries happening all over the place.
Well, yeah, why don't you fill us in on this WISCO net weather network approaching the completion speed
of
weather in Green County?
What's that
all
about?
Chris Vigasky is the guy that's on campus trying to coordinate a unified effort across Wisconsin to get Basically remote weather stations set up in some of our most remote areas
It's fine if you've got people that have rainfall reports and that kind of thing, but trying to hone in a little bit more on not just rain, but also winds.
Is there other weather related items that are happening in an area?
So they received the grant and are now populating.
I think he said it's about 72 maybe more weather stations that are all across the state of Wisconsin.
The part that brought me into the conversation was though Chris Bogosky said that they are lacking in green company.
He sent me a map and he said specifically he's looking for a landowner somebody that could put a
uh, weather sites on their property just off of highway 69 by new glare.
And so, uh, I've been doing a shout out to my, uh, rural community.
It doesn't take much as far as ground commitment is concerned.
I visited the one that they've got at the Arlington ag research facility and literally it's just a few square feet.
It's not the kind of thing that you imagine going way up into the sky.
I suppose it's probably 10 feet tall if you get one of the big ones, but they do have smaller units.
So Chris is just trying to put the final pieces in place to get the Wisco net weather system in place.
And that should be functional, the good news.
That would be functional, hopefully by the harvest of 2025 into the winter of 2025.
You know, when it comes to how dependent we are on weather and agriculture, if there's somebody out there that's got a little parcel of paradise off of Highway 69 by Nuglaris, I sure would love to hear from them.
You can find details about how to reach out to Chris on our website if you want to take a look.
public service announcements specifically for people in New Glaris.
Well,
make a visit to New Glaris Brewery.
I'm sure they've got a little spot
somewhere
around there.
We'll
have to talk to Dan and Deb, see if they want to put it up.
Dan and Deb could be in our educational space down there.
Yeah.
Let me ask you, is that remote contact?
You know, uh, read those meters or, or, you know, the, oh, remotely.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's, uh, that's the whole deal is to make sure that, and you can watch the weather now from the stations they've got.
If you just go, uh, wisco net.wi sc.edu, you should be able to see the live site.
That's already giving us real time readings from the locations that they've already populated.
Oh, that's fantastic.
What's that website again?
Wisco net.
Yeah.
One other
thing, the Trump administration wants to get rid of the satellite that takes readings for the environment, climate.
Change they don't like climate change.
So they're trying to get rid of this satellite up there for no absolute reason What about farmers using that satellite as well?
Is there some concern about that that they may not be able to use that do farmers use that satellite
Oh farmer.
Yeah.
Oh for sure have almost every tractor today is connected to a satellite through GPS Okay, the catch is which system so a lot of what farmers are using is a commercial system So if you want a contrast
Instead of the federal government, it's probably an Eli must project or something like that.
Yeah, it's coming from remember at this time There's a lot of satellites orbiting in space and farmers are generally toggling between perhaps USDA data or like you said Noah yeah data and private private properties some of the
Commercial items that are available, but yeah anytime that you see a tractor rolling or especially combines when we get closer to the harvest They will be GPS activated and they will be monitoring from the satellite
all right very good Pam Pam we got to leave it there.
You have a good day and good week.
We'll talk to you on Friday again
Sounds good boys.
Thank you.
All right.
That's Pam Yaki from Midwest Food and Farm Report.
That's coming up.
I want to start
talking about Cranberries one of these
days.
Oh, I know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's
that time of year.
We'll be back with Idiocracy and much more on John and Gordy for Friday morning right here on WMDX.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.
with no natural predators to thin the herd.
It began to simply reward those who reproduced the most and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
What an idiot!
Oh, what a loser!
Now listen, Grapehead.
I'll explain it so even you can understand
it.
Idiocracy!
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
All
the time.
WMDX, John Accordi, in the morning, 92.7 on your...
car radio dial.
So let's start
this morning
showers working their way through the mad city and we've got a lot of cloud cover out there.
67 degrees.
Looks like we'll see rain showers and maybe a couple of thunderstorms along the way.
High near 80 today coming up in our seven o'clock hour.
Steve Cochran from Chicago will join us.
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Okay.
All right.
Let's get to a little, uh, oh, I don't know.
Christian nationalism.
Oh, yeah.
We've got a few stories coming up this week on Christian nationalism.
Let's start off with speaker Mike Johnson.
Now he says that voters have been misled.
Oh really?
That religion should be separated from government.
For all this time, did you know that?
I think that's an amazing revelation.
And not out of the Bible either.
Speaker Mike Johnson argued Americans are unaware the phrase derives from personal communications between Thomas Jefferson and the Danbury Baptist Association.
I don't think a lot of people are unaware of that.
You know,
this is certainly a communication from Thomas Jefferson.
We all know that.
We know that the separation, this wall is not written in the Constitution.
Thanks, Mike, for that little help.
I think everybody's as stupid as those followers.
Johnson argued religious and moral values help prevent political corruption.
Well, that's helped.
And the abuse of power.
Wait a minute.
Let me just read that again.
He's arguing religious and moral values help prevent political corruption and the abuse of power What what are we seeing right now?
What is that right?
I Yeah, we're there.
I'm just stumped by this, you know, there's this, you know, which came first the chicken or the egg on this thing because
They say that the Ten Commandments are the laws human nature.
Before that, no one had human nature.
Okay.
The Ten Commandments gave us these laws and that's what everything is based on.
Those laws.
And I say, no, that's not true.
It's human nature that came first.
And some guy made up the story that they're chiseled in rock and that Moses had them.
Come on, man.
This is just ridiculous stuff.
We are different.
We have this built into our jeans.
Blue jeans, by the way, as I hear.
Anyway, I'm just saying that this thing where he's saying that, you know, religious and moral values are making us a better society.
And that's why God loves America because we have all these things.
I'd say that we're really going off the deep end.
We're going a little stray on this one.
Oh man.
Yeah.
So that's Mike Johnson's latest take.
Yeah.
Okay.
Latest take that, you know,
that voters have been misled for the last 250 years.
You gotta keep that in mind.
Wow, we fell
for that one.
All
right, now.
I mean, didn't we start this country based on religious persecution?
That's why the pilgrims came
over.
Of course, you know, that went off the deep end too, you know, I moved pilgrims, right?
They didn't set a very good example right off the bat.
They got a nice rock there, though.
Yes, that's right.
All right, now let's get into something I think that Musk and Trump have in common.
And that is they don't pay their contractors.
A multi-million dollar contract to help build a sprawling new Texas headquarters for Tesla.
Yeah, that's his new city by the way where went bust for Jennifer's Meisner who says that the deal let her into personal and professional bankruptcy Elon the world's richest guy Stop paying her company for the work that they were doing and that they finished so where's this again?
This is in Texas the headquarters for Tesla and I believe it's Tesla City or some ridiculous name like that
Tesla City, okay
They're taking after Costco.
They want to build their own
cities.
It could be.
It could be.
What is it?
Is it the Tesla diner?
Is that a Tesla diner?
Yeah, a Tesla diner.
That's right.
With the big screen TVs outside.
What a monstrosity.
So bad.
There's somebody took pictures of the interior of that thing and it's just outrageously ridiculous.
Talk about cold and ruthless.
I would not want to sit in that restaurant.
Anyway, this woman is, you know, not getting paid.
The same for other contractors owed more than $110 million with more than $24 million still allegedly owed to dozens of businesses.
You'd think that somewhere along the way they'd get the clue that he and Trump don't pay their contractors.
Yeah, well, what are the contractors going to do?
Go to court and then it's all wrapped up in court.
All the lawyers come in and delay after delay.
They never pay
up.
Really?
Well, they end up paying up in some of the cases.
But just a percentage.
Yeah, a percentage.
And that's how Trump negotiates as the price down later in court.
Yeah.
Yeah, OK.
Some things never change.
It's a con man's game, and I'm just not used to it.
Yeah.
All right.
Now, let's get to this is really interesting, Medea's son.
debated Alan Dershowitz recently.
And guess who won?
Mehdi.
Mehdi defended Palestinians against the lies of Dershowitz.
And I thought maybe we could play this here.
Let's listen.
Israelis have no agency, apparently, according to Alan Dershowitz.
Everything is the fault of the Palestinians.
So many falsehoods in there.
There was no Palestinian state offered in 1967.
That's when Israel began its illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
And even if we buy this nonsense that Clinton and Barack
offered... I didn't interrupt you when you were speaking.
Can I say
my point?
You've said all your falsehoods.
Now I'm going to debunk them.
You said that Clinton and Barack offered a state.
Not true.
At Camp David, both sides turned down the deal.
Shlomo Ben-Ami, who was the foreign minister, said, I wouldn't have taken that deal at Camp David, the Israeli foreign minister.
then Tarba came along and Tarba fell apart because Barak went to
the polls and lost the elections.
And
who'd brought up lost the elections?
He was a lame duck Prime Minister, Sharon came in.
So you can rewrite history all you want.
No one believes that's the case.
But even if you were telling the truth, which you're not, let's talk about today.
Benjamin Netanyahu brags that he's blocked a two-state solution.
The guy who you volunteered to be a lawyer for in front of the International Criminal Court, wanted war crime suspect, has openly bragged that I blocked a two-state solution.
His words, I blocked a two-state solution.
So you can rewrite history all you want.
The present day is proof that you're talking nonsense.
This Israeli government, this far-right government, has no interest in peace with the Palestinians, only interested in ethnic cleansing.
And the best part of listening to you speak about agency, everything you said could be said about Hamas and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians would say, Hamas is a result of Israelis not giving us our freedom.
Hamas is a result of Israelis besieging and boycotting Gaza for decades on then.
Hamas is a result of Israeli leadership coming and killing our leaders and imprisoning our leaders.
So the same arguments you use to defend genocidal fascists in the Israeli government could be used to defend Hamas.
Wow.
All right.
Nailed a lot there.
Yeah, you won.
You won that one.
Hmm.
And a lot of facts in the thing is he's done a fantastic job of of debating a lot of individuals.
Yeah.
He's good.
He's
got his talking
points down.
Yeah.
There was one moment.
I think I might have that later if we have time for it, but it's where many is talking to Pierce Morgan about Pierce saying that a lot of these.
Ice agents are getting threatened if their identity is revealed to anybody.
And of course, Mitty says that's...
absolutely untrue, a complete lie.
And it's a it's a great debate.
We'll probably get to that sometime this week anyway.
Okay.
All right.
It is coming up on 645.
Time for us to reveal our keyword for today for the WMDX listener appreciation party.
Everybody is invited.
This is open to the public and free to come to it's happening September 6.
That's a Saturday, 3pm at Doundren's Distilling in Cottage Grove.
We're gonna
get together and socialize with some of our listeners we hope you're one of them and now we also have a VIP invite that you are eligible to win and what that gets you on that day is a free tour of the distillery and you can taste some of their spirits and get a WMDX swag bag so
Here we go.
All you have to do is text this in and you'll be in for the drawing of a couple of listeners like, let's see, Linda one from Middleton, Don or Dan from Madison, Liz from Sun Prairie, Rita and Steve from La Crosse.
They're coming in from La Crosse for this party.
Troy and Sean.
Anyway, you could be next on that list.
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I recently caught a dem strategist going through a list of things she thinks the Democrats should stand for in the upcoming election in 2026.
All right.
Like what?
And I'm going to play it for you.
But I think she left one thing out.
I'll get to that one thing.
But let's listen to cut 127.
We are standing up for democracy.
We're standing up for the rule of law.
And we're standing up.
for the future of
this country.
Are people going to tune into that instead
of talking about
kitchen table issues, wallets?
Yes, because what Democrats, who are the vast majority of voters
in
California, are just dying for.
rank and file Democrats for somebody to just take the fight to Trump.
They are so tired of their elected officials talking at a 90-foot level when they should be down in the gutter.
I've said this before, I've said it on this show before.
When they go low, we get out the excavator and we bury them.
That's what we have to do.
We have to keep going as low as they are.
If we sit here and talk about, you know, this isn't right and this isn't the way it should be, of course it's not right.
Of course it's not the way it should be.
But we have to fight them in their own terms because they're not going to stop unless we stop them.
You are saying fight, fight.
with fire.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right.
Yeah.
Dem strategy is Julie Roginski.
That's her list.
And I have something to add to that.
I mentioned it here a few other times before.
And that is Democrats have to threaten the current regime.
OK.
We've got to threaten them.
We've got to put fear into them once they lose power.
We should threaten to go after every one of these people appeasing the golden lump of Trump.
All right.
That is something we need to at least pass that message along.
They have to know that they can't get away with this.
This isn't scot-free just because Trump wants it.
They're going to be they're going to be pursued in the courts.
Legally
put their feet to the fire
and we should threaten them with that That is our only that will stop a lot of what's going on right now.
Okay.
It is 6 49 Coming up in our next hour Steve Cochran will join us from Chicago.
He's a sub stack blogger Chicago radio personality and a podcaster talked to Steve about some of the politics going on in Chicago and JD Pritzker Coming up on John and Gordy in the morning
Tell me why I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why I don't like Mondays.
I
want
to shoot the whole
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Former radio announcer from Chicago will be in at about 7 35 this morning.
Mm-hmm.
We've got a whole bunch of topics And I think the big topic is Gavin Newsom.
Well,
yeah, we'll
have that after seven o'clock He is he's pretending to be like Trump and I think it's one It's it's one of the great bits this thing is really not a control and
I do love it Yeah, we'll talk to Steve Cochran in our
Next hour is about, like you said, 7.35.
And I talked to him about Governor Pritzker, too, J.B.
Pritzker.
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Idiocracy continues with Steve Bannon.
He says he's been pushing for a census redo for 10 years.
Oh, really?
At least from the last time they tried to do something like this by not counting immigrants.
All right.
His guest, Alex Degrassi, says that he's got a plan here and it's between, you know,
stealing seats in Texas, which they're going to do now, a new census and attacking the Voting Rights Act, all those things and more.
Okay, so why don't
we
let's check out what the grassy says.
So we zoom out, Steve, we've got three things here.
Okay.
We've got, obviously that we've been talking about on the show all week and prior, of course, the Texas redistricting you're looking at.
We talked about 12 seats.
Now it's 13.
Now they're talking about 15, 16.
You've got South Carolina.
You've got other states looking at things.
That's one front.
And we'll get more in the weeds on that.
Obviously, the census and not including illegal immigrants, which again, something the war room and, and you have been talking about for like, since the start of the show, of course, Steve, would be
systematically change modern American politics.
And the other third aspect that we're talking about here, Steve, is the voting rights is up in the Supreme Court.
They said, wait, hold on.
Do we need race-based seats?
Does this go against the 14th and 15th Amendment?
And does the Constitution supersede racial seat drawing, of course, now?
And if that happens, you've got these three vectors.
You know, back in the envelope map this morning when I woke up with a smile was Democrats could lose 42 seats.
Um, and that would, that would change the whole game here.
Pretty wild, huh?
Wow.
Okay.
I love those reruns, these little capsules that they put out there and they put music behind us.
Like, what are you doing?
Why are you playing that?
I have no idea.
Um, yeah, you know, California is going to be interesting in this because they have to vote on it.
Politicians have to vote and then
it
has to go to the voters
to
prove it.
I'd like to see what happens with the voters.
Oh, they're gonna like maybe gerrymandering California completely, right?
I don't know.
It just it seems strange to me.
What is odd plot?
What a way what a weird way to win?
It seems like Republicans or Magus at this point are burning every possible bridge along the way
Thinking that they're never going to lose power that they're always gonna be there that Trump is gonna live forever because They're doing all of this stuff you you don't
You don't think that, you know, maybe we'll bring this up later on.
And wave this in their face whenever they try to make a point or try to, you know, own us.
We've got a lot of things we can bring up now.
And tell them to go take a walk, man.
You know?
All right.
Well, they've got power and they want to hold on to it.
Yeah.
You know, indefinitely, forever.
That's it.
Okay, I've been holding on to this story way too long.
Okay, which, uh,
this is,
this is, I know.
Got
a backlog
here.
Okay.
Well, anyway, Jeff Bezos.
What's he up to now?
He has a wild type and they're producing an FDA approved lab grown salmon.
So, you know, the billionaires are taking over.
So we're going to be eating.
things they make up in the lab and And not only that because they're in charge now with Trump the FDA of course, you know skip the independent testing and animal trials
and
right to rubber stamping Lab grown salmon.
They say it's safe corporate science just wrote its own permission slip
They
skipped real testing and just took wild types word
like the corporate chills they are, no independent trials, no animal safety checks, just a rubber stamp and a pile of BS.
So they can
create actual salmon swimming around in the pool.
I think so.
This
ain't science.
It's a money grab that puts our health on the chopping block.
It says here, wild type won't even tell us what the hell is in their proprietary nutrient mix that they call salmon loaded with
who knows what.
I mean, if you search, if you search up lab grown salmon, Bezos on Google, it comes up and it's the most perfect looking salmon you'll ever see.
It's almost too perfect to where it doesn't look, it doesn't look real.
Like it's AI.
Well, they put them in molds, you know, and then they just kind
of.
So molds.
What?
You know, just pour the gel into a mold,
let it harden and just throw it out there as a
piece of salmon.
It
says
here it makes their fake fish pink.
Some of the
chemicals in it.
So it tastes like salmon.
It has the texture of salmon.
It's salmon.
Yeah.
I like salmon.
I know you do.
That's why I brought that story in, just for you.
Thank you.
How about
this?
I try it
out.
We don't have time for it.
Okay.
All right.
But yeah,
this is, you know, now we've got the Bezos salmon.
And Bill Gates, Bill Gates butter, this fake butter.
Yeah, they're just going to keep rolling down this road of making fake food.
You know, Soylent Green,
I believe Mark wrote that up last week.
And I think there's
something about that
that we have to start worrying about.
It is 6.59 after we check in with news and weather and everything else.
We'll be back with more of John and Gordy for Monday morning on WMDX live from Madison.
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He's got a lot to say about Chicago politics.
And boy, there's always stuff going on there.
And of course, J.B.
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All right, all right.
Let's get to the big story, and that is Putin owning Trump.
It was a stunning moment for everybody as we watched a Fox News reporter say that Trump got steamrolled by a Putin.
Yes.
Putin got the red carpet treatment.
Yeah, they rolled out the red carpet for a war criminal.
Yeah.
So there you go.
Yeah, dictator.
All right.
So you gotta
ride in the
limo too.
Let's listen to that reporter.
Okay.
Let's listen.
It was just very unusual, atypical, and I think we're all awaiting the readout because the way that it felt in the room,
Was not not good.
It did not seem like things went well and it seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled Got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left.
Yeah, that's it Yeah, and now get this this next clip was just minutes after that reporter gave that particular report.
Okay, there wasn't good news Fox News tried to save it
Yeah, the reporter didn't exactly seem to buy the spin exactly so let's listen to 136
And he also said in a scale of 1 to 10, I give today a 10.
So that's the president creating what he thought of the meeting.
That's excellent news.
And exactly what we needed to hear.
We needed to hear that.
Because
obviously there's a reason why he allowed things to happen the way that they did.
He allowed Putin to address the world here and take the stage, even if there were no questions asked by
the
press.
There was a reason for that.
We didn't get a lot of explanation in the moment as to why that happened.
And so I'm happy to hear that the president feels good about the progress that was made today.
All right, there you go, see?
And I'll tell you what, a Florida mega propaganda outlet picked up on this Fox spin, noting, update, Trump said the meeting went well.
And this same reporter backtracked big time.
I don't think she did.
And the reality was she was right.
Now, one question at the press conference and...
The Russians canceled the lunch, which was scaled right after that.
Well, maybe they just didn't like what was on the buffet.
Here's what I heard.
After this, Trump went golfing in Alaska.
Oh, is that right?
Yeah.
Was
Sarah Payland?
I think maybe, you know, Trump canceled it just so we can go make his golf date.
I see.
Well, you gotta be on time.
Emergency.
Emergency.
Batman
speaking.
Yeah.
Warning all of you to brace yourselves for big news.
Okay.
All right.
There's some breaking news
this
morning on CNN.
You know, Trump and Zelensky are meeting this morning and Trump saying all Zelensky has to do to end the war.
Give up Crimea and never join NATO.
Oh, that's it, huh?
That's it.
Wow.
See?
That's all it takes.
That is
something brilliant like that.
That's truly amazing.
Give up Crimea.
Join and
never join NATO.
He's just got a promise.
What a deal and all of this right after he bombed Ukraine before the meeting with Trump Yeah, you know, I don't know this guy seems like he's trying to get along Wow All right, I got this is a clip from 2018
Now, a lot of people try to pass us off as a new clip from Arnold Schwarzenegger, but it's from 2018, and I think it's very apropos.
Let's listen to cut 147 here.
President Trump, I just saw your press conference with President Putin, and he was embarrassing.
I mean, you stood there like a little wet noodle, like a little fanboy.
I mean, I was asking myself, when are you gonna ask
him for
an autograph or for a selfie or something like that?
I mean, you literally sold out the Dispressed Conference, our intelligence community, our justice system in worst of all, our country.
You're the president of the United States, you shouldn't do that.
And what's the matter with you?
I mean, whatever happened to the strong words or to the strength of Ronald Reagan when he stood there, the Berlin Wall, and he said, Mr. Gorbachev,
tear down this wall.
Well, it's not like that
anymore.
Those
are the old days.
Yeah, the old days.
But you know, I thought this was kind of an interesting offhand comment from Trump.
And I think this is probably why he still loves Trump so much.
I mean, Trump's Putin.
I mean, Trump loves Putin so much.
It's a Monday.
You got to keep this in mind.
Let's
listen to this very short clip.
133.
Okay.
Here we go.
There are a lot of people dying.
And if we can end that war, it would be very good.
And I was very happy to hear him say, if I was president, that war would have never happened.
See, there you go.
That made him.
Oh, that's it.
Oh, he felt so good after that.
We got a couple of texts
here.
I want
to read a few.
Yeah, we've got some comments here.
I want to read a
few.
There we go.
A little bit more.
No?
Okay.
Okay, Doug has something from St.
Francis Milwaukee.
You can talk at the same time, you guys.
Just put Gordy on the right channel and John on the left.
Okay.
There you
go.
He was listening to the start
of the seven o'clock hour, apparently.
And Anna says the lab-grown salmon sounds like the fake tuna scandal at Subway.
Thank you, Anna.
Yeah, and there's another one there.
Oh, yes another one from Doug says I love it when Arnold uses the the wet noodle reference
That's a standard
thing
I also heard by the way, I also heard that Fox News might be changing their tune a little bit a recent court ruling and family infighting will likely leave the news network left leaning
What because
in
this ruling the left-leaning children who will be taking over Fox News Will change it radically.
So Rupert Martin
this is according to
a press report out last week.
Oh, yeah, I Hardly any any news coverage on that but yeah
It was Rupert.
He wanted to leave this to his son who was going to keep the tradition of Fox News right wing right Propaganda well well the court decided that he didn't deserve it and the other kids do deserve it
and
they're going to be getting the network and change it into a left-wing Propaganda network and I can't leave it.
Yeah,
I'll believe it when I see you're not buying
it.
No, all right.
Sorry no sale
Okay.
All right, let's get to the federal agents in DC, okay?
Okay.
We just got a message
from Mark.
I'm sorry.
Lab-grown salmon and butter are both made of the homeless.
Trump is now rounding up.
Wow.
Okay, here comes another soylent green reference.
Oh, yeah.
This lab-grown salmon is a hit today.
I know.
Apparently
so.
People are into it.
A federal agent in DC shouted out how proud he was of the Proud Boys.
So I just want to play this.
Here's the original recording without boosting.
I'm going to boost the audio so you can hear it really clear.
But I just want to make sure I'm not really changing anything.
Just the level of audio.
So this is the original recording just so you can hear it.
Maybe you can hear what this federal agent is saying.
Listen to 138.
That's
Proud Boys Meetup with next weekend.
Are you guys just a little early?
It's hanging out before, you know?
They're great
guys.
Oh, they're great guys?
Yeah.
Oh, perfect.
Federal agent.
Crowdboys are great guys.
They
love the United States.
They love the United States.
Yeah.
This is perfect.
Yeah, there you go.
OK.
All right, now let's play a cut one turn and I just boosted the levels a little bit here.
Listen.
Crowdboys meet up with us next weekend.
Are you guys just a little early?
It's hanging out before, you know?
Troubles?
They're great guys.
Oh, they're great guys?
Yeah.
Oh, perfect.
Federal agent.
Crowdboys are great guys.
They love the United States.
They love the United States.
This is perfect.
Yeah.
Okay.
So there you go.
United States.
By
the way, this is really the lead.
This is the biggest story ever.
All right.
It's a NPR broke this thing three guests at a hotel captain cook hotel captain cook found documents in one of the hotel's public printers of the meeting between Putin
and Trump.
What?
They took pictures of the docks revealing the printed packet.
It disclosed the sequence of meetings, including the specific names of the rooms and the exact times of those meetings.
It's also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a ceremonial present of an American bald eagle desk statue.
Boy.
So there you go.
All of that NPR found.
I found it on a copier in the hotel.
Oops.
The whole thing?
Unbelievable.
Boy, okay.
Wow.
19 pass the hour when we come back, Brittany Merlot will get in.
Get an update of the weather, rain moving through, coming up on John and Gordon.
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It's John and Gordy in the morning.
Yeah, rain showers moving through southern Wisconsin right now and a couple of thunder boomers in the forecast.
Let's check in with Brittany Merlot and find out what else is happening today and this week.
Good morning, Brittany.
Hello.
Good morning.
How was your weekend?
It was all right.
It was good.
It was okay.
Kind of wet a little bit.
Is it dry?
Yeah.
How about yours?
What'd you
do?
Well, I enjoyed Saturday morning when those storms rolled through.
I just had breakfast on the patio,
you
know, covered, watching the storms go by.
But, you know, today a little bit of a different story.
More rain, more rain, potential flooding, all that jazz across the state.
And humid too, John Yuck.
I know
yesterday was
a miserable day.
It was just awful.
It was so thick outside.
Yep, yep.
Got another day of that today.
Great.
82 degrees.
OK, or 60s out there right now.
It's going to stay cloudy all day.
Rounds of rain expected.
Possibility for another one, probably around lunch and then another round this evening for sure, probably starting around five or six or so.
And then we're looking at those thunderstorms continuing from early this evening done by about midnight or so.
Good, quick inch or two is possible.
So be careful of
that.
We must be way above our amount of rain for, you know, the month of August.
Yeah, are we setting records here or what?
I mean, it seems like.
I
need to look into the records.
I'm not too sure if you've set a record yet, but yeah, more than we need.
We're all good on the
rain.
Right?
Yeah, no kidding.
What about the rest of the week?
What do we look at?
Honestly, it's not looking bad.
There's
a
teeny tiny chance tomorrow morning a little bit of showers may linger, but becoming partly sunny, a high pressure system builds in.
very comfortable and dry the rest of the week.
Highs right there in those upper 70s to low 80s.
Well, that's good.
All right.
Yeah.
Good news.
Can't complain about something like that.
That's
for sure.
Well, thank you, Brittany.
You're welcome, guys.
We will check in with you again tomorrow.
Have a great day.
See you again.
You too.
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Alright, you know, I'm kind of enjoying the fact that the recent court ruling basically said that the news empire, Fox News, may be in control of his left-leaning, Rupert Murdoch's left-leaning children, who by the way have vowed
to radically change the network.
No kidding.
I'm looking forward to this.
The thing is, I'm thinking if they don't have Fox News to lean on or to get the message or understand how to frame the issue, I think the whole MAGA thing falls apart, completely goes away.
Really?
Yes.
So I'm kind of looking forward to this All right, I'm gonna celebrate.
Yeah.
Hey, let's go to the phones dick is on the line with a question or a comment 6 0 8 8 7 9 8 2 5 5 is our number.
Good morning dick How
you doing guys?
It can't help happen soon enough in my mind.
That'd be great But for this meeting last Friday and then the upcoming one today
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He must have walked an extra 10, 12 feet.
And nobody says anything about it in the media.
You know, it's just like, if that had been Joe Biden.
Where would they have run with that?
That would be replayed all the time on Foxes.
You know, the thing is, I did watch it.
Now, I only watched the sped-up version of it.
I wanted to see the actual slowed-down, regular, normal, everyday
version of it to
see how he weaved down that red carpet.
That was weird.
Well, strange, wasn't it, Dick?
Man.
Almost
as weird as that word salad from last
week.
They're all word
salads.
Thanks a lot, Dick.
I appreciate
it.
Dick, thank you for
that
call.
Yeah, let's get to Gavin Newsom.
He's making some news here.
He's making a lot of news, actually.
Well, yes.
It's not just the gerrymandering thing.
Now he is actually getting out there and he's trolling Trump, writing...
He's writing posts in capital letters.
Exactly
the way Trump would do it.
Let's start with this message to the Dems that Gavin Newsom gave recently, cut 142.
We know it's a race to the bottom.
You may call upon those other states.
Can you just do five and California will stand down?
Week.
Step up.
These guys have been dominating in the narrative.
They have been defining the terms of the debate.
It's time to get on our dam off our heels, onto our front toes.
It's time to do just that.
Dominate the narrative, flood the zone, and surround sound.
It's time for us to all band together.
Okay, so Newsom's
looking very much like Trump at this point.
Fox News chimed in with their point of view.
Let's listen.
Gavin Newsom, meantime, posting this on X, Liz, using all capitals, of course, trying to mock Trump, use Trump's style.
He's been doing this for a while now.
He says, quoting, Trump just fled the podium with Putin.
No questions, nothing.
Total low energy.
The man looked like he'd just eaten three buckets of KFC with Vlad.
Admit it, Donny J. You're terrified because this was the worst week of your life because of me.
Gavin C. Newsom.
I think he's trying to
be funny.
I mean, I don't know what he's trying to do, but it comes across.
as childish, and what are you, the governor of the biggest state in the union?
What are you doing?
Honestly, I feel like he's trying so hard to be Trump, but he's coming off like Kanye West.
He seems absolutely insane.
Really?
No.
You know, he's coming off like Trump.
Yeah.
And he's
the
leader of the country, and yet they're making fun of Newsom.
for taking off on Trump and he's the leader of California and he's making himself look silly.
I don't understand any of that.
729
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We want to welcome in our friend from Chicago, Steve Cochran, Chicago Radio Personality and Podcaster.
Good morning, Steve.
Welcome to the show.
Good morning, boys.
And you've got a great setup there.
And for years on WJM, we had the Street Studio.
And I'm advocating to blow up the front out there and get some fine Wisconsin men with hammers come in there and get stuff a window right on the street and let people come over there and flasher and do whatever they do because we used
to have
fun.
Jesse Ventura, what he was governor of Minnesota, I knew Jess for my time in Minneapolis.
He came up to the window and pulled up his shirt and rubbed his belly against the window.
There's a lot of good things that can happen.
He got to be open to it.
Well, we do have a window, but we're on the second floor.
That's
the
problem.
That's the problem.
We'd have to build a scaffold or something for people to climb the ladder.
You
know, I want to take over the downstairs, too.
Come on, you're telling Gordy,
please.
You know, for a while we did, we had a studio down there, right?
Well, that was just during the election time.
Yeah, we
had a studio down there, yes.
Well, did they put a gap in?
How come you don't have it anymore?
I
don't know.
That's a great question.
We'll have to bring that up next time we get a meeting.
Yes.
We'll demand that studio.
That's what we'll do.
All right, so you have I
want to I want to mention before I forget you
Before you get to the bucket okay, okay You guys doing two hours a day you must be so tired at the end I did I did about 11,000 shows 40 plus years right 25 we figured out 25 or 30,000 guests
And, uh, you know, uh, those are three and four hour shows.
Yes.
You guys at this rate could go, I mean, listen, you guys could go to 120, 125.
You're still going to be on the air.
Yes.
Well, um, yeah.
You know, we should go for three hours.
We should.
We'd like to go three hours.
I know it.
We need
you as our agent.
Maybe.
Thanks, Steve.
I appreciate
that.
So you do you do a podcast called what is it?
Welcome to my office.
Get out of my office.
What is
it?
I'm in my office and nobody's here.
Get out of my office is a great title.
It's called live from my office.
Okay.
Live from
my
office.
And then it's the second one called anything but politics and the premise is once the week.
if you could just get away from people screaming at each other.
You know, I have folks on, and we just talk about anything but politics.
You know, you find five stories didn't get talked about because we had to do more politics yapping during
the week.
I'm not
against it, but there's a lot of stuff that doesn't get covered.
Yeah, you're right.
And so that's anything but politics.
So yeah, those are the two.
Well, yeah, like your favorite TV shows.
movies you've just gone out to see.
Get out of my office.
The new title of
the life of my office.
Why don't we get to shouting at each other with the politics here and touch on a few things here.
You know your governor down there is just fantastic.
We love the way he speaks out all the time.
I mean he can afford it.
You know this billionaire guy.
Do you think there's a chance that he's going to run for president?
I think there's a very good chance he's going to run for president, and he's got more money than the rest of us, and he's willing to spend it all.
He's well-smoken.
He's done a lot of good things for Illinois, but he's got to watch out for the hypocrisy when the Texas Democrats came to Illinois.
You know, it should be mentioned that Illinois is one of the most gerrymandered states in the country as well.
So, you know, you do things like that, it can come back to bite you.
Granted, I'd run from Texas too at this point.
But I think Prince has got a lot of positives.
He's a very smart guy, and it's very tough for people to fight against.
For instance, Robin Manuel, who did a great job as mayor of Chicago.
Robin Manuel wants to run.
He's going to be on my podcast.
What is it called?
Get out of my office?
Get out of my office, right.
Yeah, Ron, uh, Ron, uh, mayor manual is going to be on with me.
So we'll talk about that.
But no, I think Pritzker's got a very good shot.
Yeah.
Uh, now here's the thing.
And I mean, that's curious when I say this, uh, there's the, there's concern about his health.
He's a big fella, you know, and, uh, people would go, Hey, Steve, you're not willing to talk.
You know, I'm two pounds over ideal weight.
Yeah.
But Pritz, but you gotta be healthy for this job.
Yeah.
The current occupant of the White House, maybe the exception, because I don't know how he still lives.
But the way he lives and what he eats, it's incredible.
But, uh, yeah, Pritzker, I think if he stays healthy and, you know, you can pull it off.
You never know.
Well, you know, Rob has some baggage because he's from the previous administrations.
We want to move on.
We want new blood in the Democratic Party.
So I think Rob might have, uh, Ram rather.
Yeah.
Ram might have a problem, uh, you know, running for that particular office at this time.
Wouldn't you think?
Well, it's possible, but you know, we got equipped throwing people out that have great experience You know, Hillary was probably more qualified than any person that ever ran.
Yeah, she ran a terrible campaign You know her campaign was basically it's my turn.
Yeah And everybody thought it was a home run and it turned out not to be you got to convince you know and Democrats need to stand up and I've talked to Senator Durbin about this but big fan of Senator Durbin and he is stepping aside now and
And I talked to him about this as well.
Democrats need to stand up and say, look, yeah, we've made a ton of mistakes.
But we have the ability to write the ship in this country that everybody gets a shot.
Everybody gets a fair share.
You don't have to worry about being outside when guys and home people are going to come out, not with lumber, but in mass and take you away.
And the city of Guatemala.
There's a lot of positives that Democrats can do, but we've got to stop playing this game.
of it's their fault, not our fault, and just come on over and we'll tell you what we're going to do later.
That's a big problem for the Dems.
Well, having said all that, what do you think about Gavin Newsom and his tactics of possibly redistricting in California and some of the Texas putting out that are similar to Trump's with the capital letters?
Yeah.
What do you think
about it?
Well, you know, it's funny.
I like Newsome, and I think he's a super smart guy, aside from the time he was married to his first wife.
The former Mrs. Donald Trump
Jr.
Kimberly Gornfoil.
Oh, now you know the
name.
You don't know the name of my podcast, but you know her name.
I got it.
Okay.
But I think his biggest problem is he's from California and there's a bias against California.
That's going to be tough to get over.
But I like the fact that he's standing up to Trump because Trump's a fool and a bully and somebody needs to get in his face.
It didn't work out well for Marco Rubio back in 2016, but that was same party.
So yeah, I like what Gavin Newsom is saying.
He can turn it into a role remains to be seen.
Yeah well you know there there are talking points the Democrats are trying out on the public at this point but what I've kind of been pushing here on this program is that we should be threatening
you know, legal challenges against the people carrying out the Trump agenda.
You know, they're breaking the law.
They're obviously doing things they shouldn't be doing, unconstitutional things that they shouldn't be doing.
Shouldn't we threaten them a little bit saying, if we get in power, we're coming after you.
You know, you can follow Trump.
You can do all of this stuff, but we're coming after you.
You're going to be legally liable for everything that you've done under Trump.
Wouldn't I
totally agree
with fear in that?
I totally
agree.
Yeah,
totally agree and the attorney general should be in jail tonight The cabinet the cabinet is complete joke.
Yeah, and they're not qualified and they're just suck ups and the greatest thing I've seen in regards to Malpractice and not doing their job is the United States Senate Congress is supposed to protect us against a nightmare like Donald Trump
And the Republican Senate has done absolutely nothing to do that.
So you've got standing up.
Chuck Schumer's got to go.
Chuck is saying, thanks Chuck for the service, but you can't stand up and go, we wrote a strong letter to the White House.
Well, congratulations Chuck.
If he knew how to read, maybe he'd see it.
Oh boy.
I know.
It's got to, it's got to stop.
I mean, it's got to stop.
There's going to be a unified message and there's got to be standing up to this guy because it has to stop.
Now you've probably heard that Trump's Staff left the entire agenda the meeting that they had in Alaska the entire agenda was left on a copier in in the hotel This seems really like a big story to me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they said no no it was just a menu for lunch these fools
Yeah.
Can't get out of their own way.
So for the Democrats to not be able to figure out a way to beat him as appalling to me, he's eminently beatable.
But it's the Green Bay Packers, but it was a frowling with Chicago Bears.
We have a game plan.
We put it together and we execute it.
And then we leave Chicago with another win.
You know, maybe follow the Packers playbook and see if we can get it done that way because.
The Democrats stop arguing about, are we left enough?
Be American enough.
Because
what we're getting from the White House is not American.
Talking with Chicago Radio Personality and podcaster Steve Cochran.
Steve, a friend of yours just walked into the studio.
She wants to say hello.
Hi,
Steve.
And now his phone goes out.
Yeah.
Catherine Lake is joined.
The world famous Catherine Lake.
I miss you.
Oh, I miss you back.
And I know you're the boss there, so congratulations.
Thank
you.
You're here to announce John and Gordy's new expansion to six hours.
Six hours.
Taking over the show.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
So the two of you work together at WGN Radio in Chicago.
Years.
Yeah.
Years and years.
Yes.
Years ago.
Yep.
And she's tremendous.
And she does something a lot of management doesn't do.
She listens and she helps.
promote.
Try to get the best out of it.
You don't see it that
much.
You guys colluded, right?
I mean, this is a setup.
I
love to get out of my office.
Get out of my
office.
Yeah, brand new title, I believe, is closed.
Don't let it hit you
in the back.
Exactly.
Exactly.
By the way, I'm at two plug time because I don't get a lot of time.
Having done a few of these but I write weekly for a sub stack and one of the things I write is called twit TWIP.
It's this week in Trump These little bite-sized pieces because we all have attention deficit disorder where you can find out the horrible things Trump has done in short order and be entertained when you're reading so if you check that out on sub stack
Yeah, that's very good.
That's fantastic.
Yeah, we've got a copy of it here.
We were emailed a nice looking copy of your substandard article.
I just smell the typos.
That's all I do.
Take it easy.
Sorry.
Sorry.
And people can find your podcast wherever podcasts happen, right?
Wherever they are, remember the title because John and Gordy don't.
It's called, I need a bigger office.
No, no, it's not.
That's not it.
No, it's called live from my office.
If anything, the politics is there.
And for those of you who follow Chicago Sports, I know that a lot of folks do.
There's a sportscaster here named Marc Jean Greco who was a legend here for years.
And I'm doing a live show with him in a couple of weeks.
And if you're up for it, it's worth to drive down.
Lots of laughs.
He's going to tell stories he couldn't tell on TV.
Steve,
we got to leave it there, buddy.
Thank you, everybody.
All right.
Very good.
Steve Cochran.
I'll go back to my office.
Steve Cochran's going back to his office.
Thanks for joining us, Steve.
Thanks for joining
us.
Thank you, boys.
All right.
Back with more of John and Gordy in a moment.
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All right.
We're talking about Gavin Newsom,
of
course, you know, taking off on Trump's tweets.
Interesting stuff from him, and one
of
the memes is now Gavin Newsom's gone way too far.
Oh, of course he
has.
What
is he thinking?
It's weird stuff.
They reenacted the assassination attempt with a bottle of ketchup, and ketchup dripping from his ear.
This is a video that's making it out there.
It's great stuff.
Newsom was asked by a reporter if he's just trolling.
Trump, okay?
What do you think?
And we have cut 144 here.
Newsom had a bigger message to say instead.
Let's listen.
What's going on with those folks on X that are clearly trolling the president?
What?
Can you just talk about
that?
Is that like a strategy?
I don't know.
I hope it's a wake-up call of the president of the United States.
I'm following his example.
If you've got issues with...
What I'm putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns about what he's putting out as president.
So to the extent it's gotten some attention, I'm pleased.
But I think the deeper question is, how have we allowed the normalization of his tweets through social posts over the course of the last many years to go without similar scrutiny and notice?
That's not a great point.
That's it.
We
did
it
all
during the first term and now he's
doing it all through this term We should we should call in a question how ridiculous these tweets are in caps.
What is wrong with that person?
Well, anyway, let's get to Trump his latest comment about all the money he's making from the tariffs this is cut 145 and You know, he's got
He's got his little story here.
Let's listen.
Last week, they found twenty nine billion dollars and they couldn't figure out where it came from.
I said, check the check the tariff shelf.
And he said, how did you know that's all came from taking in billions and even trillions of dollars in tariffs?
There you go.
Check tariff shelf.
So they keep the cash on a shelf.
So, you know, he.
Did you notice that he mentioned oh, we've got billions I'm trillions sure now wouldn't you have led with trillions?
And just
and just say at at least billions but it said we've got billions wait trillions
And just
the
way he says billions billion
yeah, it's just boy
Just calling it a question What how he talks yes
Got
his
own style.
Yeah.
Let's talk about the economy that he's leaving us here.
This is stagflation.
That's what it's really called.
Bowork Andrew Egger takes on Trump's economic mess.
Let's listen to what he has to say and cut 141.
Let's listen.
These are really actually quite bad numbers.
I mean, we were kind of expecting to see a certain amount of inflation just in general because of the tariff regime, kind of wreaking havoc on supply chains, as well as just the actual cost of the tariffs.
These were kind of a slobber knocker.
It's not just 3.3% increase year over year in the producer price index.
It's almost a whole percentage point up just from a month ago.
And you know, these are like, as far as a single month jump, that's like a shocking increase.
hard to know what to say about it because, again, it's what everyone expected, that instead of a global pandemic doing that to the economy, now it's just Trump's fun economic decisions.
Just like his decision, his unilateral decision to reshape global markets according to
whatever his daily whims were from April to June.
Services increase as well, 1.1%, a 1.1% jump in a single month.
This is all happening at the same time that demand is softening.
Here we go, and we're doing none of this for any reason, and it's a manmade crisis.
This is stagflation.
This is literally stagflation.
You have unemployment creeping up, job growth starting to flatten out, demand softening, and...
prices going up.
Well, Daddy Trump says that everything is great.
Everybody who is subject to leverage from the president of the United States, which is basically everybody, is going to pretend that things are good.
Isn't it possible, Andrew, that with Donald Trump in our faces six hours a day every day and the entire business community sort of
like like in a hostage video pretending that everything is great.
Everything is great.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
That's it.
Yeah.
OK, now I want to leave you with this.
Gavin Newsom has come up with a new nickname and I think this is going to stick.
Carol Lyon.
Levitt.
Oh, Caroline Levitt.
Caroline Levitt.
Just think about that.
There's a few out there that are saying BS Barbie or Pinocchio Rose, but I like
Caroline.
That's
good.
Yeah,
we'll have to workshop that running around the table.
See you in salutes.
All right.
Hey, that's going to do it for us today.
Coming up, Stephanie Miller is right around the corner.
And tomorrow, Dane County Humane Society's Lisa Bernard will join us.
And a whole lot more coming up later in the week.
We've got the Madison Night Market Thursday.
We do.
Yeah.
Got a big week ahead of us.
I'll be
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