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Rise and shine, shake a leg up in 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, 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.
Yeah, it's a soggy start.
So just be prepared as you walk
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Do you do anything fun and exciting?
Well, I kind of relaxed a little
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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.
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What's going on?
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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.
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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 Koot were on there.
Oh,
They're done.
They're what they got dark chocolate white chocolate almost and craisans And they're gluten-free.
Yeah, he darn good the union always like that when I think those the union meetings back in the day.
Yeah
friend called them
Yes, I got to get the dog out and before the flooring starts pouring down again.
that.
I saw that.
Yep.
Yeah.
I'm going to try to do that and that, uh, looking forward to that.
And today I got to go out there and I guess to get all three, get the antlers permits, I think go on sale today for the, uh, white tail hunt.
Yeah.
It's a little more complicated than what used to be, but that's the way it goes.
But he also wore a mattress.
Yeah, he wore...
How did that work?
He worked at a mattress.
He worked at a mattress.
Well, no, I think it was a fundraiser and he had to wear the mattress outside.
Yeah.
Wear the mattress.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Then he, I guess a snowplough came out and knocked him over.
He
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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.
still
He's
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.
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.
I had the, I had some commitments up in Green Bay.
I had to take care of, but my assistant Ben Jarbo did.
So we'll probably be hearing about that when we get in the office later today.
But, you know, that's, uh, the, what, you know, this week, the weather looks great for any of that.
There's another threshery coming up this weekend up by the, uh, Campbell's Port Eden area.
Kind of seem, you know, it goes in swarms.
Sure.
county fairs.
One, you know, June is all about dairy breakfast.
July and August are all about county fairs.
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.
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 a 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.
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.
that's kind of my...
public service announcements
for people in Nouglaris.
Well,
have to talk to Dan and Deb,
to put it up.
Dan and Deb could be in our educational space down
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.
Wisco net.
Yeah.
One other
thing, you know, the Trump administration wants to get rid of the satellite that takes readings for, you know, 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.
I 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 Musk project or something like that.
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, NOAA 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.
Sounds good boys.
Thank
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.
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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.
You know, Mike, I don't think a lot of people are unaware of that.
You
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 human nature
Before that, no one had human nature.
That 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.
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, latest take that, you know, that.
Voters have been misled for the last 250 years.
You gotta keep that in mind.
Wow, we fell
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, that's his new city by the way, went bust for Jennifer's Meisner who says that the deal let her into personal and professional bankruptcy.
Elon the world's richest guy stopped paying her company for the work that they were doing and that they finished.
So, where is this again?
This is in Texas.
The headquarters for Tesla and I believe it's Tesla City or some ridiculous name like that.
So bad.
Somebody took pictures of the interior of that thing and it's just outrageously ridiculous.
Talk about cold and ruthless.
Ugly.
Wow.
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.
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.
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... Have that in 1948.
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 Taba came along and Taba fell apart because Barak went to
the Barak
and lost the elections.
Who'd Barak 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.
a lot there.
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 it's great debate.
We'll probably get to that sometime this week anyway.
All right.
It is coming up on 645.
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All right.
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.
It's 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.
And 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 right.
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 fire with fire,
Thank you so much.
All right.
Yeah, Dems, Granted, 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.
Okay, 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 gonna be, uh, they're gonna be pursued in the courts legally.
up on John and Gordy in the
morning.
WMDX 92.7 John and Gordy in the morning again Steve Cochran our guest Former radio Nazi from Chicago will be in at about 735 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 of the great bits.
This thing is really not a control
We'll talk to Steve Cochran in our next hours, but like you said, 7.35.
And talk to him about Governor Pritzker too.
JB 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
So we zoom out Steve, we've got three things here.
Okay, we've got obviously that we're even 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 1516 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 Chris 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.
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 approve 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 Megas 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.
So, you know, the billionaires are taking over.
So we're going to be eating.
things they make up in the lab and Lab 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
There's nothing wrong
This
let it harden, and
throw it out there as a
of salmon.
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