Masked Mayhem and Mail-in Misconceptions (Hour 2)

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I'm a little nervous,

you know, after Volodomir Zelinski came out and said, you know, he's optimistic.

Really?

That's what he said?

The

pox went well.

Yes.

And I'm, I'm afraid there might be

Some problems with that.

I don't

want to see any concessions.

I mean Putin invaded Ukraine.

Yes, that's what I don't want

to see anybody give anything up.

Yeah, any kind of land deal.

No, no.

So I'm not liking what he said.

Well, we don't know if there's going to be a deal or not anytime soon.

So he's trying to be optimistic.

Plus just before the meeting.

Yeah, Putin bombed Ukraine.

So that

Yeah.

Isn't a great way to start.

Before the meeting, after the meeting.

Then they

walk out and say, oh, I think we've

got

some good

stuff here.

Yeah, we've

made

some progress.

No.

Anyway, let's get to the big story.

OK, let's get to

it.

I think Putin has a big bucket of red meat, and he knows just who to feed it to.

Yeah.

On Putin's advice, Trump jumped in action and said he would lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots.

And also, he said, while we're at it, highly inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously controversial voting machines.

Really voting machines again?

Going after that.

Not one.

Right wing outlet is going to touch that one with a pole.

I mean it.

I mean it.

After all, Newsmax is going to be paying $67 million to settle a defamation lawsuit when they talked about Dominion voting machines being rigged.

Well, they can't bring that up anymore.

They just can't do it.

Now, before I get into this, the actual quote, I have a quote here.

Okay.

And it's a little diatribe by

Trump himself, but we'll get to that in just a moment.

We've got CJ on the line

and we

can play it for him.

Okay.

Good morning CJ CJ You there

CJ?

Oh,

he's there.

Hey Yeah, good morning, you know as we watch President I you know, I I love it when you bring up and the X is

truth-detector paul harvey that's me because now he's going to end the seventh war since he's taken no that's

not true the

second he

didn't he and he didn't in any of the other ones

really well you guys should do a little more research

all right we'll have to do that

and rialanda and the congo um

So, you know, but he brought him together.

Yeah,

he's bringing he's gonna end this war the biden war This is joe's war.

Oh, he said he was gonna end it on day one

war because now you can't you said you care about concessions.

Yes.

What about Crimea?

You know, we watched those concessions that was president Obama.

Oh

Now now all of a sudden you guys care your party

You know, cares about concessions.

Yes.

Well, this president cares about peace and he is the world's peacemaker.

Oh, my God.

You know, all you have to do is look at home to see how much of a peacemaker he really is, right?

Bring in the troops.

Yeah, bring in the

troops.

I know you guys hate it, but this

is success

by another Republican president.

Oh, okay.

You know, I just want to hear the truth when I listen to you guys.

Well, you know you hear the

truth all the time, but do you really think that Putin only went into Ukraine because of Biden?

Do you really

think that's true?

Who

came up with a plan to withdraw from Afghanistan, CJ?

Who did that and who made sure that we had to leave by a certain time in Afghanistan?

What about that one, CJ?

Joe

Biden did.

He wanted to be out by the 20th anniversary of 9-11.

He didn't care about the conditional with

draw that Trump had installed.

He just had to be out.

That's why we watch the chaos on TV and people falling from planes.

That's

Joe.

It was brilliant that Trump only negotiated with the Taliban instead of the actual Afghan government.

I thought that was brilliant.

Don't you?

And

by the way, and giving

up military bases as well, okay?

I just,

I understand that when you

give up a lot of things, maybe, maybe the Taliban

would go along with you on

it.

ballots back to Putin and his gullible orange puppet.

Trump said Putin agreed with him on ending mail-in balloting.

Putin agreed with him.

Now let's listen to the rest of the story as CJ would say.

OK.

Vladimir Putin said something, one of the most interesting things.

He said your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.

He said mail-in voting every election.

He said no country has mail-in voting.

It's impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.

And he said that to me.

It was very interesting because we talked about 2020.

He said, you won that election by so much.

And that's how he got it.

He said, and if you would have won, we wouldn't have had a war.

You'd have all these millions of people alive now instead of dead.

And he said, and you lost it because of mail-in voting.

It was a rigged election, but mail-in voting shown.

Vladimir Putin, smart guy.

said, you can't have an honest election with mail-in voting.

And he said, there's not a country in the world that uses it now.

I would love to see election reform.

We have to do it.

I don't know why we're not doing it.

You bring it up.

The Democrats don't want it.

Look, the Republicans want it, but not strongly enough.

I mean, they got to want it strong because it can't be, it can't be honest.

It goes through a postman.

It goes through somebody else, somebody else, somebody

else.

You know, when you go to a

really well run voting booth.

You go in, you have to hand a card, a picture of this or that, you don't have everything perfect, you get sent back, go get it.

It's really, it's very hard to...

do something fraudulent with a vote.

Yeah, paperball.

Well, in voting, they give you boxes of stuff.

You have no idea where they came from.

All the coupons.

Because mail-in voting, you can't have a great democracy republic.

You can't have it.

But maybe that's why we're going to end up with a communist mayor in New York.

I don't know.

Maybe.

He probably is very happy with mail-in voting.

But you can't have a great democracy with mail-in voting.

No.

In fact, you can't have a great democracy with mail.

Period.

I would stop there.

There's

just one thing I want to

correct here.

I mean, obviously he's lying all the way through that, but he also didn't mention that Russia also has mail-in voting, and that mail-in voting was approved by Vladimir Putin.

So, you know, saying that no country has mail-in voting while...

Putin is the one who signed the bill allowing mail-in voting in Russia.

What are you saying?

Check your facts.

My goodness, this guy is such a puppet of Putin.

He'll believe anything as long as Putin says you won that election.

Oh man, he's got him eating out of his hand.

What the hell?

Hey, let's go to the phones.

Dick is on the line with a comment or question.

Good morning, Dick.

Go ahead.

Got a couple of minutes

here.

Oh, real quick, to CJ with Afghanistan.

Who drew the troop level sound to about 2000

right

and then expected you to minister of thought and he left the estimate sandwiched for a Biden.

I'm sorry.

That's back That's

right.

Um, but to the situation with the mail-in voting I think what Putin meant to say is you do it wrong.

You see look how much I won by And give him his reforms on how to do it right.

That's

right Then we you know, and then we'd be somewhere but

Another thing that he does a giveaway in this that I can't stand.

You notice how nothing's being talked about as to Ukraine being able to join NATO.

And the reason being in my mind is this.

Trump's always beaten this drum that the Europeans should do more for themselves, which they've stepped up and did.

Okay.

But number two, they want to join NATO.

And wouldn't that be saying that we're going to do more for ourselves here in Europe?

And also, the reason, obviously, that Putin doesn't want it, is that an attack on one is an attack

on all.

Good point, Stick.

Thank you for your codley.

We'll run along here.

Back with more of John and Gordy in the morning on WMDX.

After this.

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So,

Trump

is basically saying that Putin is right about the mail-in ballots.

would have won the 2020 election had those mail-in ballots not made it through the mail.

Well Trump and Putin agree on a lot

of stuff.

You know, how is that?

I mean, it's amazing.

It's amazing,

yeah.

You'd

almost think that he was repeating Putin's lines word for word.

By the way, Putin has tried to affect the presidential election at least three times.

Oh wait, that's just a rumor that's just made up by the Democrats.

That's not true

after all.

And then Trump wrote this, with their horrible radical left policies like open borders and so much more, Democrats are virtually unelectable without using this completely disproven mail-in scam.

By the way, states, we have states that run their elections through the mail.

So, I don't know.

I guess that hasn't worked for them.

I haven't read that it hasn't worked.

By the way, Trump himself voted by mail.

And he encouraged his supporters to also mail their ballots in in the 2024 election.

It's from what I

remember anyway.

That's what happened.

All right, so let's get to some of these

uh uh

texts that

we've got a bunch of texts.

Hey CJ Epstein files.

That's

from Zach in Sun Prairie.

Thank

you.

Mike drop from Zach.

Billy and Mark both have reminded everybody that Biden negotiated the release.

No, Biden didn't release.

Wait, let me see.

Let me get this

straighter.

Uh, Taliban agreement.

Trump released 5,000 plus terrorists.

and withdrew down to 2,500 troops before Biden took office.

Right.

All right.

Yeah.

And it wasn't Biden that negotiated the release of those 5,000 Taliban.

I was just trying to see, you know, my eyes.

What is wrong with your, you need new glasses.

I noticed that as

we were talking with Brittany.

You're like, oh, you know what?

It's not the new glasses so much and I am going to have new glasses.

But I'll tell you what, I've got so much stuff on my glasses.

I forgot to clean them off before I got here.

And

I'm using

the

space car.

And I don't have all my wipes in the space car yet.

fumbling around.

He

has allergies, you know,

it really

dies like

it's falling apart.

You got a lot of problems.

No, I don't have a lot of problems.

You're the problem.

Oh, really?

Okay.

No, it's me.

We had a couple more comments.

Yeah.

And Russia does have mail-in voting that

was

voted in by, by the way, and approved by Vladimir Putin.

All right.

And here's another Gordy.

Yes, right.

A completely different comment here.

Gordy from Oregon.

Yeah.

Through modern technology, I'm hiking the Swiss Alps and listening to you burbly castigate CJ.

Keep up the good fight.

All right, that's great stuff.

Thank you, Gordy.

Yeah, that's one of, that's a first.

Watch your step.

Be careful.

Trump spouting Russian propaganda.

Couldn't definitely find stuff like that from, oh, here we got, we got another call from

Milwaukee.

Well, we only have a minute left.

All right, let's go to

Charles.

Charles,

what do you got for us?

Charles in Milwaukee.

Go ahead.

Got a quick minute here.

Good morning.

Good morning, guys.

I just love your show.

But Trump also closed down all the airports, except for the one.

Yes.

Did you also know that when he went to go vote in person, they asked him if he knew his license plate number?

Oh, no, I don't remember that.

Oh, he said that yesterday when he was sitting there with Zelensky.

Oh, my God.

They asked him for his license plate number.

That's

hilarious.

I did not

know that was a requirement.

Charles, thank you for that, Paul.

Yeah, that's good.

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Just checking out a text here from CJ.

So John

and Gordy, you guys, you're trying to rewrite history again.

We'll get

back

to that.

Well, it's tough to do.

You know, we, we tried so hard at the Smithsonian, I guess now you're going to correct all that stuff.

So it is 735.

It's cloudy this morning.

We'll see some sunshine, hopefully along the way in highs in the mid seventies.

Right now it's 65 degrees.

Abby Abrovich has joined us from Doundrens Distilling.

Good morning, Abby.

Good morning.

How are you guys today?

Doing all right.

We're good.

We're trying to recover.

We're getting a lot of response to our listener appreciation party, getting a lot of people that want to join in.

That's

awesome.

Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun.

And we want to remind everybody it's free and open to the public.

Everybody can come out on September 6th.

That's a Saturday.

Going to start things out about three o'clock.

You know, I have not been out there yet.

In fact, I want to come out maybe this afternoon and walk around and take a take a look at things but For people that have not been there.

Tell us what Downton's distilling is all about.

Yeah, so we are It's a small family business that my husband and I own Our shtick.

We're kind of just nerdy engineer folks trying to make fun spirits So we really focus on making unique

and interesting flavored alcohols where we're really trying to focus on highlighting produce from local farmers.

And so we source ingredients directly from small local farmers producers as much as humanly possible.

And then we're really trying to make spirits that really highlight those.

So some of our best selling products are like a cherry flavored rum where I'm making the rum and then we're using Door County cherry juice from a multi-generational family farm.

I

make a honey liqueur with honey out of Mount Horrib.

I have maple syrup in a maple syrup liqueur that's from Greenwood,

Wisconsin.

So we really make fun products that are something a little bit different.

And then we have a tasting room out in Cottage Grove.

Um, so we have an, we call it a tasting room, but it's really like you can come, there's a ton of events.

You can not only sample the spirits, we have custom craft cocktails.

We then serve other alcohols and non-alcoholic products as well.

Um, but we have an indoor space and a giant outdoor cocktail garden.

We host, uh, over a dozen events a month all across the gambit from, you know, this listener appreciation event

to,

you know, I do.

Drag bingo, I do pro wrestling.

So I have a big wrestling event on September 13th coming up with a cage match.

So cage.

Oh,

yeah.

You do your own.

Well, no, we bring in promoters and they like build it, but they build a ring out in our cocktail garden.

And so it's a good time.

We're just across the board all over the place.

There's something for everybody.

You were doing

it before the White House decided to have their fights.

Yes.

A lot of fun events.

And you also, you mentioned a children's playground.

Yeah, yep, yep.

So we are family friendly, pet friendly in our large outdoor like fenced cocktail garden.

We do have a kids playground.

So the space is really like a community space where people come to just enjoy time with their family and friends.

And then there's something for

kids or pets to do because there's a lot of green space outside as well.

So family and pet friendly year round both inside and outside.

What's your address in Cottage Grove?

300 Progress

Drive.

Okay.

All right.

And you

mentioned a non-alcoholic drinks as well,

right?

Yeah, absolutely.

We always have like five to eight mocktails.

So like basically a non-alcoholic.

version

of a cocktail.

And then we usually have a couple like NA beers as well because ultimately not everybody drinks and that's perfectly fine.

Everybody is welcome and we want to make sure there's something there for

everybody.

Listener Appreciation Party again is Saturday, September 6th, 3 p.m.

for all our WMDX listeners and again open to the public and having a lot of fun.

It sounds like we're with the the tasting party.

Yeah, tour of the distillery.

Yeah, I'm gonna be doing a tour for any of the winners.

So we're gonna get like kind of a behind the scenes.

tour of the distillery where we do all the production, kind of talk through, show you the stills, show you barrels, bottling, you know, some of our other processing equipment, where the magic happens, right?

And then I'm

going

to walk everybody through kind of like a small tasting flight of some of our more popular spirits and talk through how they're made and just like individual things about

them.

Well, it sounds like a lot of fun.

We're looking forward to it and should be good to, you know, uh, someone told me you also have trivia nights, right?

Yeah, we do a weekly general trivia every Thursday year round.

And then we do like a themed trivia once a month.

It's on the last Wednesday of every month, unless there's like a holiday on

that day or something, you know?

Um, but so like this month, our theme is, um, it's a music trivia.

And so our theme, it's, um, like

emo slash punk pop music trivia And so we'll like play songs and then you have to answer questions about the songs or identify the songs

And then like next

month for example the theme trivia is classic video games

So

it's it's all over the place But then the so that's the last Wednesday of every month and then like I said Thursdays every night on Thursdays general knowledge trivia

excellent

Well, great.

Well, Abby, thanks for coming in.

And we're looking forward to this party.

It's going to be a lot of good reaction to it.

So we're hoping for a good crowd there.

And again, that's Saturday, September 6, 3 p.m.

at Downdrens Distilling in Cottage Grove website.

Yeah, it's just downdrens.com.

That's D O U N D R I N S.

Very good.

Abby, thanks for coming.

Thank you so much, guys.

Appreciate it.

We'll see you on September 6th.

Absolutely.

We're going to

hit

a food

truck as well,

and we're going to have

a good time out there.

Do you have, like, monkey bars or anything

like that?

We've got a little bit of food of some other things, giant pretzels and such.

Oh,

I

actually... But he's worried about the playground.

He wants to play in the

playground.

You know, when they... It is adult friendly.

You can go on the tube slide.

Oh,

perfect.

That's, I'll try

that.

Okay.

Thank you, Abby.

I'll be from Dundren's Distilling.

Okay.

Just see me doing that.

Abby Abramovich.

Did I get that close?

Yep.

You got it perfect that time.

Thanks, Abby.

Okay.

Well, let's continue

on.

All right.

We

have, we have this big announcement, you know, MSNBC is splitting off of NBC News.

And they have a new name.

It's MSNOW.

MS Now.

They're

getting rid of the NBC part of it.

What does that now stand for?

Thanks, Abby.

Okay.

MS Now.

A lot of people are playing with this thing now.

A lot of...

people on the right.

Oh, really?

Oh, CJ is probably involved in this too.

You know, he's always involved in these things.

He always has that last word.

You think it's

a conspiracy or something?

He says, he's the world's peacemaker.

We'll strike again.

Yeah,

Nobel Peace Prize goes to 47.

That's right.

Yeah.

In your dreams.

Okay.

But anyway, this game at

MS.

Now, some on the right are putting a period after MS, so it's Ms.

Now, right?

Okay, that's very clever.

Anyway, that's going to be happening later this year.

It will become that, and it'll be a standalone news source, and they're hiring people, by the way.

They call it My Source for News Opinion.

and the world, and that's where the N-O-W stands for.

What is it again?

MS

now?

MS stands for my source, and then it's news, N-O-W, news, opinion, and the world.

Okay.

All right.

I

don't know why they had to do that.

Don't know either.

Who cares?

Just call it MS

now.

Yeah, we don't, it doesn't have to stand for anything, really.

Geez.

Go through all these.

But

there are conversions, but they are separating themselves from NBC News.

Yeah, basically.

Yeah, so that's the deal.

It says here they've been on a hiring spree of late

out of

necessity,

scooping

up dozens of journalists, not asking for John and Gordy to be a participant in the newsroom at any point.

We're not, we're not invited.

They're going out

with other new sources so far, you know, trying to, you know, steal people away.

MSNBC Prez Rebecca Kultner says, while our name is changing, who we are and what we've done has not changed.

All right.

So just

to, you

know, make everybody feel a little at home there.

Well, there's rumors that Stephen Colbert could wind up there too.

Yeah, that's what I hear.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wouldn't that be

great?

It would be good.

Now I wonder

if Stephen gave up, you know, when he was with The Daily Show, and beyond that, you know, the Colbert Report, he gave up being very political.

And now, now he's got to go back to it again.

I would like to see the Stephen Colbert Report.

guy again.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I liked his character.

He was edgy and sharp, and I thought it was more interesting

than him as a talk

show host.

Yeah.

All right.

All right.

Well, how about we have a little time here?

How about this?

The Nebraska Farm Bureau.

Tariffs are affecting Nebraska exponentially more than other states.

That's right.

The corn farmers were enjoying a one point

$6 billion trade surplus with Mexico.

Nebraska, which Trump won by 20 points, now has the worst gross domestic product decline in the US.

Oh, really?

Yes.

Wow.

Can't match that.

Well, yeah, you can match that.

I guess Ohio is also doing just as badly.

6.1 GDP drop coupled with the fact that 39 other states

also saw contractions indicates a broader economic slowdown affecting the nation.

All right, so that is due to the tariffs.

Yeah, great job on the tariffs.

Now let's ask Grock.

Well, what do you think?

Grock?

What does Grock think?

Hey, by the way, Grock answers all.

Oh,

really?

So just keep that in mind.

I don't know why, but this is like a meme on X now.

And X has to put this out there because, you know, this is Ilan's deal, but he's not happy with some of the answers.

How bad was Biden's economy?

That's one of the questions asked.

I thought

I'd bring this in.

For

CJ, just in case he's still listening, hasn't, you know, stormed off angry.

Grock was

asked

that.

Yeah.

How is Biden's economy?

Let's listen to what Grok says here.

Now I'm going to read it.

Okay.

Biden's economy between 2021 and 2025 achieved 11% GDP growth.

That's pretty good.

unemployment below 4% for record periods and inflation tamed from 9% down to 2.4% with strong job creation.

Hardly a disaster.

Of course, you know, Trump beat this drum to death for four years so people believe that the economy was a disaster when it wasn't.

Trump's 2025 first or second quarter GDP was at 3%.

Not 11% like under Biden.

But overall, growth was only 1.2% in unemployment at 4.2.

Stalled jobs, tariffs reducing GDP by 0.9%, almost 1%, while adding only 1,000.

What?

Are

you guys telling me to get out of this?

Well, you

know, maybe,

you know, it's a lot of numbers, but

no, it is

a dam.

And I'm going to tell you right now that Biden had a roaring economy that the

world

admired.

Remember, we were the winners in this.

And

now we have an completely different economy based on tariffs.

Yes, sweet.

Let's change the

formula once we have the winning

formula in place.

There we go.

Okay, 748, when we come back, we've got leftovers.

Just throw Ned over me next time, you guys.

Well, there's so many numbers.

Our heads are exploding here.

You know, that's it.

I'm getting headache.

Yeah, you have to get headache.

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