Gavin’s Antics, Trump’s Tariffs, and Left-Leaning Fox? (Hour 2)

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Later this hour in about half hour, we're going to talk to Steve Cochran from Chicago, Chicago radio personality and podcaster and stand up comedian.

He's got a lot to say about Chicago politics.

And boy, there's always stuff going on there.

And of course, JB Pritzker, he's been making a lot of the governor

of

Illinois.

He's been making a lot of appearances on national talk shows.

I would assume

he's running

for president.

Well, I think a lot of people are assuming he's, uh, he's a possibility

for that

billionaire.

He can do it.

Yeah, we're three billion plus.

Yeah.

So we'll talk to Steve Cochran in about a half hour.

You know, I'd like to see some billionaire put a big pot of money aside.

Yeah.

And fund National Public Radio.

Oh,

yeah.

With just the interest alone they could fund National Public Radio.

That's a good idea.

You gotta do that.

Well, somebody should talk to Pritzker about that.

Okay.

I'm looking

at

here.

I'm looking at here.

I'll email him right now.

All right.

All right.

Let's get to the big story.

And that is Putin owning Trump.

All right, boy.

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 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.

Yeah.

Those are the

old days.

Yeah, the old days.

But you know, I thought this was kind of an interesting offhand comment from Trump.

Yeah.

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.

Okay.

It's a Monday.

Got to keep this in mind.

Let's

listen to this very short clip.

Okay.

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.

Man.

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.

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.

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 Mart

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 Okay, I'm not buying

that 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 remark.

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.

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.

I thought the Cowboys meet up with us next weekend.

Are you guys just a little early?

It's hanging out before, you know?

Oh, they're

great guys.

Oh, perfect.

Federal agent.

Cowboys are great guys.

They love the United States.

They love the United States.

This is perfect.

Yeah, there you go.

Okay.

All right, now let's play cut one turn and I just boosted the levels a little bit here.

Cowboys meet up with us next weekend.

Are you guys just a little early?

It's hanging out before, you know?

Oh, they're great guys.

Oh, perfect.

Federal agent hot boys are great guys.

They love the

United States.

They love the United States

This is perfect.

Yeah, okay, so there you go United by way, this is really the lead.

This is the biggest story ever.

All right, it's 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

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 past 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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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 good.

It was okay.

Kind of wet a little bit.

Did you

stay dry?

Yeah.

How

about yours?

What'd you

do?

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, yeah, it 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.

It comes

down

hard.

We must be way above our amount of rain for, you know, the month of August.

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 set a record yet, but yeah, more than we need.

We're all good on the

rain.

Right?

Yeah, no kidding.

Yeah.

What about the rest of the week?

What are we looking 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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All right,

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, uh, 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 608-879-8255 is our number.

Good morning dick How

you doing guys?

It can't help happen soon enough in my mind, but that'd be great But to this meeting last Friday and then the upcoming one today

Apparently, Hagstaff must have been in charge of security.

Yeah.

And I have a way, guys, that follow this, maybe, maybe not.

I always look at stuff pretty weird that that meeting last Friday didn't happen at all.

And this is how.

If that walk down the carpet by Trump, by himself, would have been a field sobriety test, he'd have been tough to take.

Wow.

He was all over the place.

Yeah.

Oh my God, he totally walked off of it almost.

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.

Yeah.

They're all word salads.

All right.

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.

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 just, you know, we know it's a race to the bottom.

You know, 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 think, 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

Midwest Food and Farm Report coming up and then we'll talk to Steve Cochran from Chicago on WMDX.

Johnny Gorni in the morning WMDX in the capital city Madison a black way

from the capital We have rain showers today high around 80 this afternoon right now 67 degrees it is 735 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 some window right on the street and let people come over there and flash or do whatever they do because we used

to have

fun.

Jesse Ventura, who is 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.

We'd have to build

a scaffold or something to get people to climb the ladder.

You

know, I want to take over the downstairs, too.

Come on, you're calling 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.

Did they put a gap in?

How come you don't have it anymore?

Yeah, I

don't know.

That's a great question.

What 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 of 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, but 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.

That's what it is.

Okay.

Live from

my

office.

And then it's the second one called anything but politics and the premise is once a week.

If you could just get away from people screaming at each other and you know, I felt that folks on and we just talk about anything with 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 live

from 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-spoken.

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.

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.

I 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 if things, but no, I think Pritzker's got a very good shot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, now here's the thing.

And I mean, that's serious 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've got to 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, uh, 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 a 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, but she ran a terrible campaign.

You know, her campaign was basically, it's my turn.

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 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.

Everybody gets a shot.

Everybody gets a fair share.

You don't have to worry about being outside when guys and home depot 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 Newsom, 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

or

what?

Oh, now you know the name.

You don't know the name of my podcast, but you know her name.

All right, 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 the one 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?

But fear in them.

I totally

agree.

Totally agree.

And the attorney general should be in jail tonight.

That's true.

The cabinet is a complete joke.

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 got 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 the 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 is appalling to me.

He's eminently beatable.

But as the Green Bay Packers, 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's famous Catherine Lake.

I

miss you.

She's tremendous.

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 for

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, trying to get the best out of you.

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, retitling of your

podcast.

Get out of my

office.

Yeah, brand new title, I believe, is Closed in the World and 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 sub-stack and one of the things I write is called TWIT, T-W-I-P.

It's this week in Trump,

where it is

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 it.

So, check that out on sub-stack.

There you go.

That's fantastic.

Yeah, we've got a copy of it here.

We were emailed a nice-looking copy of your sub-stack article.

I just found 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 Mark 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.

You can do it, everybody.

All right.

Very good.

Steve Cochran.

Well, 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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