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Happy Tuesday.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's a
happy Tuesday to you, my friend.
Kimosabi.
Okay.
That's John Peterson.
I'm Gordie Young.
Dominic Lee is in the producer chair flipping those switches and pushing those buttons.
Good
morning, Dom.
Good morning.
How are you guys doing?
Yeah, you know.
Yeah.
It's cloudy out there.
And 64 degrees, some areas of fog being reported.
A few low lying areas.
So if you're out there walking around, don't lie down in any of those low lying areas because you'll be foggy.
You don't want to do that.
No.
High today about 76.
It's going to be a nice day, but the clouds are going to hang in there for a while.
It looks like seems a little humid outside right now.
I hope that humidity is kind of pushes away from our region.
I believe it's at 100%.
Do you have your Samsung WND watch?
Looks like I'm going to
have to check now because I brought it up.
I might as well just, you know, get into it here.
Please also check the sunrise and sunset times for us.
Make sure the sun is still rising and
setting.
I don't think so.
Humidity 98% the dew point 65 degrees.
Ouch.
That's not good.
And then, of course, the sunset time.
Boy, I hope we have one.
It's
going to be 753.
Very good.
Two
minutes earlier than yesterday.
Yes.
Wow.
Yes.
A lot of street construction out there.
Have you noticed downtown
Madison?
Well, I've seen some of it actually going away, and I think that's terrific.
Well, it's
time for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, I think.
Oh, yeah.
Get rid of some of these barricades.
My God.
It's been a long summer as far as construction goes.
Everywhere you turn, there's something going on.
Something being built.
I guess that's
good.
You know, I can never understand when they put these little detours in, you know, with the little posts that they put up in the middle of the road.
Right.
And there was one right over here in the corner of Johnson.
Yeah.
And University Avenue.
Right.
Yeah.
And there was a cement.
Parking deal that they had put in and it like it reached out into the lane Yeah, and they had metal metal spikes in the top that protruded out and I Think it somebody's gonna run over that damn.
It's really hard to maneuver around You're trying to get someone to crash there.
Do they I
guess do they not look at this stuff the angle Which in which people drive
they don't care.
They really don't care.
No, I think you hit it
Yeah.
All right.
Hey, checking WMDXradio.com.
I always like to check the poll first thing in the morning.
See what's on people's minds.
Oh, yeah.
We have a poll question up right now.
That's a really good one this week.
Yeah.
If John and Gordy did one thing for their morning show, they should.
And here are the suggested answers.
They should A. Not change a damn thing.
Keep
doing what they're doing.
That
gets 33 and a third percent.
The second possibility is include more stories and idiocracy at the risk of their own lives and freedom.
That's 66.7% The third choice sound depressed angry and lash out at even their closest friends and callers That's got a zero percent.
I can't
believe
that we do that every day.
I know
People apparently don't like that.
And immediately, here's the last choice, immediately be replaced by AI controlled robots.
And that also gets zero percent.
Well, I have
14.
So that's, I have 14.3 percent.
I have zero.
Whoa.
You need to update your.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, John refresh
it.
Update is.
Refresh it.
I did.
I
just refreshed it.
Oh wait.
No, it did just change.
What?
It just changed.
Mm-hmm.
Well, let me refresh my own thing.
John, were these your questions?
Oh,
yeah, 14%.
Somebody just voted.
This is my question.
Why?
Yes, I put this question
together
and the options.
Can't tell.
Makes a lot more sense now, yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
So you can take part in the poll.
Just go to wmdxradio.com.
Catherine, refresh
your page.
Yes, I just, okay.
Boy.
But you're in the bubble.
You're in the bubble, my friend.
Okay.
Not
the first time, wouldn't be the last.
What does Doug have to say here?
He said Arnold Schwarzenegger would no doubt question why you refuse to boost your show by joining the man's sphere and remain in the wet noodle sphere.
Wet noodle.
Wet noodle.
Wet noodle.
But
noodles.
Yes, yes.
We're gonna
have to make that move, Doug.
We're depending on you to come up with the
rules and regulations.
Yes, you can text us or send us a voice note at our Civic Media app.
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She's got some, she's already sent the pictures of these animals that are up for adoption and every one of them is very, very cute.
I know that's why we do this feature.
We're
really trying to give a home to these big, beautiful pets.
Well,
some of them are not that big.
Well, yeah,
you're
right.
But it's important to find them a home.
It's hard to believe
that they're sitting out there waiting to find a loved one somewhere
in some place.
The fact every other week, Lisa comes in with a whole new different amount of animals tells you a lot.
I have to get
out the tissue every
day that we do this.
It's just... I know.
You're a sauté.
I well up when it comes to...
you know, the animals in adoption.
That's true.
Yeah, that's true.
How's your animal at home
doing here?
The Kraken?
I mean, power.
We haven't mentioned him lately.
Yeah, I haven't mentioned power lately.
Yeah,
why
not?
Oh, she's fine.
She's fine.
She's got me trained.
Uh-huh.
So, okay.
Well, that's good.
I have my routines that I have to maintain with her.
Yeah.
Okay.
What kind of routine do you have to you have to play at certain times of the day?
I get home from work this morning I'm gonna get there and she's gonna want to go out with me and play yeah, and we play soccer out in the yard and then
Oh, but four hours, four hours later, I have to go out again and play soccer with my, my adorable border colleague.
And then, no, I don't know, four hours after that, I have to go out again.
And then just before bed, I have to take her out and play soccer with her again,
which
is about seven o'clock at night.
Does any of your sons play soccer?
Yeah, well no, they don't do it anymore.
It's mostly just me because I'm her
plaything.
Why is it soccer all the time?
Is she not good at frisbee?
We don't do the frisbee
thing because it's unpredictable where that frisbee is going to end up.
I see.
And we have her on a leash.
And it's an adjustable leash,
and it's about
20 feet.
But yeah, you can't really judge anything that way.
You can kick a ball a certain distance, but not a frisbee.
It's no fun.
I wouldn't much rather just sit back and do other things, but I have to do that.
Yesterday, we had that major thunderstorm roll through,
right?
And she ran into my lap.
Recliner and she's she feels safe Getting on top of me, you know, she's only 45 pounds not a small dog.
No, she thinks she is but That never changed so she gets on top and boom.
I'm taking her go
and
she's worried.
Yeah By the way, you know, I I it occurred to me yesterday.
We really haven't had a lot of thunderstorms in the area, right?
for
the last 10
years or 15 years.
Not as much as we used to.
Yeah.
And
now all of a sudden, this whole summer is filled
with thunderstorms.
Right.
Yeah.
I remember yesterday we were talking about Brittany, like, is there a record for this?
Because I don't think this has ever happened.
The amount of rainfall that we've gotten so far is just
absurd.
Yeah.
And I would like to get somebody out there, you know, record the thunder so we can have actual thunder sounds in movies and cartoons and wherever they want to use a thunderstorm sound effect.
You don't think they use
that?
I don't know.
They create and manufacture thunder for movies.
And when you have thunder like we had yesterday, wow.
I mean, that was just, you know, that was a dream come true for a sound effects person.
Me,
for
instance.
I thought they used very natural thunder sounds in movies.
No, they had actually done.
They create them with synthesizers.
They don't think it sounds real enough.
Widgets and gadgets.
That's sad.
Should we get to what would you rather do, one thing or the other, this or that?
I was
actually trying to stall so we wouldn't have time.
All right, go
ahead.
Let's put that.
I knew you were going
to do that.
All right, two and a half minutes.
First question, I couldn't hear it all that time.
Would you rather be stuck on a broken ski lift or in a broken elevator?
I'll take the ski lift.
I would do the ski lift too.
Me too.
I couldn't handle the elevator.
Yeah, a little claustrophobic after a while.
That happened one time while I was in eighth grade.
You were stuck at an elevator?
I broke my foot.
I had to use the elevator and I... It was stuck one time and I was stuck in there for a half an hour.
I missed my class and everything, yeah.
Alright, second question.
Would you rather spend eight hours listening to someone scratch a chalkboard with their nails or have a mosquito buzzing around your head as you try to sleep every night?
That's a good one.
That's a good question.
Two big negatives
there.
Neither.
You have to choose.
I think chalkboard.
Scratching on the chalkboard, I think.
I'd
rather have that than a mosquito plug in me all night long.
Yeah, I would do
that.
A lot of
mosquitoes this year.
Yeah.
Fortunately, they've stayed away from my place.
I don't know how that's happened.
You got lucky.
I
did.
But the gazebo has been taking it lately.
the gusty winds and stuff a little.
Yeah.
How did that work?
Well, a little of these, I had a couple, I had a one or two little tears and those have expanded quite a lot.
I thought, well, I'll fix that one.
You know, I take it.
No.
You could have fixed that last week.
I could have.
You waited and now it's too
late.
No, I need to find some gaffers table.
It's too late.
No, it's not too late.
But I got to let it dry out now.
And that
thing, that's the thing.
It gets all wet and, you know, and.
I want to take it down and then, you know, fix some of the tears.
You've become a fixture in the neighborhood now.
I
don't
think that's the case.
It's hidden in the back there.
It's covered by the house.
No, it's not that
hidden.
Really?
Not
according to the neighbors.
Okay.
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That
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Okay.
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All right.
All right.
So what's happening?
What
do you mean?
What's happening?
What's happening, man?
Well, it never stops.
It really doesn't stop.
And I hear from my make a friend all the time in Milwaukee.
He's always passionate along some ridiculous video from TikTok and
And it's just getting irritating.
He sends me a lot of videos that are produced in order to project the propaganda.
In some way, shape, or form, they manage to make it sound like reality is doing something else.
You know what?
It's not.
These fantasies that he sends out to me, he believes each and every one of them.
And I can't believe it's possible that anyone could fall for
every damn thing that they put out there on TikTok.
Come on, man.
Get a life.
Please.
Oh.
It's hard to believe anything.
You can't believe anything.
And the AI-generated videos are driving me crazy.
Yeah.
I remember when AI just started coming and when we were doing this program, right?
We tried a few things with AI.
Yeah.
We tried to come up with a Johnny Gordy theme song.
Yeah.
Wasn't that great.
No.
Now when I listen back, I'm thinking, oh my god, please stop it.
Yeah, that's awful.
It doesn't work.
It has this artificial feel to it.
Right.
If it's done,
in a highly produced way and has a story to tell and has great characters.
It's usually, you know, taking a shot at Trump.
And that's not a great character.
But anyway, you know, they're sometimes entertaining and they can add to the historical context of what we're living through now.
Well, some of them are very
realistic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, that's what I mean.
It's great
stuff.
It's really
difficult
to.
tell whether it's
AI
or
not.
And that's the bad part.
That's it.
Right.
That's where we are now.
Yeah.
Now, I like what Gavin Newsom is doing with AI, some of the videos.
Right.
He's having some fun.
Anything to poke fun at the orange blob
that we have in the White
House right now.
There's no excuse for that.
And I was just reading a story early this morning about how
Some judges, US district judge, basically said that the president has the ability now to make the decisions about what's spent and what isn't.
He can make those decisions.
This is not in the Constitution.
There's nothing that says the president has this ability.
It's Congress.
They
have
the appropriations.
And the thing that I think bothers just about everybody is that Congress is doing absolutely nothing to protect their territory, their territory.
They're letting go.
And I guess if this becomes normalized, maybe the courts, maybe the Supreme Court will go along with something like this.
Antonin Scalia essentially said that you read the Constitution the way it's written and what it was meant to be.
And I just, you know, I am not one of those people.
I like kind of a...
a breathing constitution, something that you could add to because we change, things change, and
we have
to add to it because times change.
But he wants to read it verbatim, and it's not verbatim anymore.
These guys are making up their own rules, their own thing.
We have to expand on the court, by the way.
You know, if we ever take over, you know, Democrats better add three or four or five liberal justices because this is done.
I'm done with this.
We don't know what they're going to decide.
Each and every
Well, you know, we're on the edge of our chair.
Every time the Supreme Court starts coming out with their decisions, we don't know where they're going to go with this.
Because it's not so much an interpretation.
It's that we know they're going to make something up, you know, and they're going to give the president more power.
And it's just driving me crazy.
That's all.
That's the trend right now.
Yes.
Yeah.
I know.
It seems like it's out of control.
It is out of
control.
And there's very little we can do at the moment.
It's a protest, you know, write your congressman, phone him, send him texts, get out there,
you know, make your voice heard.
The whole thing here is yet, when you read the constitution, you know what it says.
And then all of a sudden they said, well, we have to go back in history and find out what history says about it, all the past laws.
And then they make a decision based on the past laws, which are all wrong.
And that's why we've changed those laws since then.
But they bring them back and make them a reality.
Well, coming up, we've got Idiocracy right around the corner.
First up, Midwest Food and Farm Report with Pam Yankee.
It's all straight ahead on John and Gordy in the morning here on WMDX.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point.
Intelligence continued to decline until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
No!
You dense, irritating
miniature beast of burden!
Idiocracy for the smartest guy in the world.
You're pretty dumb sometimes.
Well, boy, man, you know, one of these days we'll just have to clear out, you know, with everything that I have stacked up here on the desk because it just keeps accumulating.
That's one of these days.
That's
that's that's what it means to be ruled
by idiocracy.
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Is that chair comfortable for you?
I had to rearrange the furniture in here.
This
chair is great.
I have no idea how you have a problem leaning back
in
the chair.
I had to
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And Papa Bear decided his
chair was best.
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is too soft.
You stole my chair.
This chair is not proper.
No, it's the lean back
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The lean
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All right.
I want a solid back on the chair, and that's the one that you had.
Well, somebody rearranged it.
Maybe Todd Alba.
Todd.
You know, Todd comes in here, and he thinks he's big stuff because he's on the network.
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This is,
uh, this is something, you know, when Fox News comes out and says, Hey, inflation is here.
You got to listen up, right?
But maybe not the S&P global ratings said revenues from Trump's tariffs will help soften the blow to the US physical health from the president's tax cuts
Why did we
why did we have that fiscal blow in the first place?
Providing tax cuts.
Why do we have to recover from it now?
What is that all about?
Anyway
Fox News is now admitting that Donald Trump is overseeing the largest rise in inflation in the last three years.
This is certainly something we could gold plate if we were able to do that with audio, but let's listen to it right now.
Okay breaking news right now and a spike in the producer price level of inflation Take a look markets are selling off here because the July PPI came in up nine tenths of a percent Worse than the estimated up two tenths of a percent.
This is the headline number It was expected up two chance came up up nine tenths of a percent year-over-year It is up three point three percent versus an estimate of up two point five
percent
now when you look at core it's also
troubling because in the core PPI it was up 9 tenths of a percent versus an estimate of two tenths of a percent year over year the core up 3.7 percent also higher than the estimated expectation which was up 2.9 percent these numbers have caused markets to a drop the Dow industrial is down 105 the Nasdaq down 71 and
the S&P
500 lower by 19 we want to take a look at producer prices with the transportation secretary
Sean Duffy will be here to talk about other things.
Other things.
Something other than the inflation
number.
Right.
Well, you know, he'll probably talk about all the derailments around the country that he's supposed to be at,
right?
He's supposed to be there, just like Pete Buttigieg was supposed to be at every one of those events.
You know, ribbon cutting, here we go with another trained derailment.
Boy.
Wow, did he get a lot of flak for that, huh?
Yeah, but you know the thing was that Pete bootages is a little bit stronger and you can lift those trains onto the track again all by himself And that's why they wanted him there.
I see Sean Duffy doesn't have that ability.
You know, he's a
lumberjack
Yeah, well, I wonder what he had to say about the inflation numbers.
Yeah, we still
waiting.
We won't know actually because S&P is just having a field day.
Oh, this is a great way.
Those terrorists will pay for all the problems they created on their own.
Great.
All right, let's get to the Smithsonian.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
What
happened?
Well, you know, it's getting revamped by this administration.
It's too woke.
Too many things are wrong at the Smithsonian.
Did you know that, you know, when we went through with my kids and everything, we
didn't
notice all the incorrect writings that they had for each and every display?
Boy, oh
boy, these guys are pretty sharp.
The magazines, they know their history, don't they?
Well, they had a display about
the impeachments, right?
Yes,
they
changed that, they got rid of it, and then they brought it back.
They brought
it back.
But it was missing a little information.
That's better than all the information.
Consider yourselves lucky at this point.
All right.
But anyway, who better to talk about the, uh, the problems with the Smithsonian than Stephen Miller.
We, uh, we haven't heard from him for a while.
Well, he wrote something.
I thought I'd pass along to everybody this morning and uplift your day.
Can't
wait.
He says that the Smithsonian.
is supposed to be a global symbol of American strength, culture, and prestige.
I don't know who wrote that, but maybe that's what they think.
A place for families and children to celebrate American history and greatness.
Well, that's true.
Instead, he said, the exhibits have clearly been taken over by left-wing activists who have used the Smithsonian as yet one platform to endlessly bash America and rewrite e-race.
our magnificent story.
These activists have obscenely defaced this beloved institution.
Man,
I
felt the same way
when I was young.
A bunch of garbage.
It's a science and history museum.
That's what it is.
But it's how you... Yes.
I
guess reframe and rewrite history.
That has more to do with this administration.
The Trump administration, he says, will proudly and diligently restore the patriotic glory of America and ensure the Smithsonian is a place that once more inspires love and devotion to this nation, especially among our youngest citizens.
Because if you ask them after their tour of the Smithsonian,
They were disappointed in this country.
Do they read all the plaques?
Oh, yes.
They take it all in.
It was a dollar trip for
many kids.
But now, thanks to Stephen Miller and the Trump administration, they are going to improve history, make it sound more patriotic
than ever before.
Somebody's got to do it.
Might as well be them, huh?
Great.
That's great that Stephen Miller took the time out to explain all that to us.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
It's good to know that he's the watchdog Right now this I didn't know and I just I'm gonna pass this as long as this is like I saw this last week Melania Trump
is demanding that Hunter Biden retract false defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements about her, threatening a one billion dollar lawsuit.
You know, I bet they get around to the kitchen table and they go, you know, we're making a lot of money with lawsuits.
Let's come up
with some more.
Melania,
what do you got?
One
billion dollar lawsuit.
One billion
dollars.
Unless Hunter Biden removes the content and apologizes for what he is saying.
What
would he say?
The thing is, and this is the caveat to all of this, Hunter didn't say that Epstein introduced Melania to Donald.
He said, that's what Michael Wolf said.
Ah.
But, you know, Melania is not suing Michael Wolfe for some reason.
Yeah.
Why?
Why wouldn't she go after him?
He's a book author and yeah, or, you know, or what?
I'm not sure.
Now,
here's the headline.
Trump privately dismisses Epstein victims as Democrats.
Okay,
so you
know and this is you know in response to this particular story from Melania Yeah, it's again something you know Epstein we got to forget about that because all it all it really had to do with is the victims who are Democrats and we don't need to help the Democrats.
Yeah Well, you know the
Epstein is still going to be on the minds of people.
I mean, former Attorney General William Barr was at Congress yesterday and talking about the Epstein files.
I guess
Congress is taking a look at a few of them,
right?
Yes.
They announced that they're going to receive some of the Epstein files anyway.
Yeah.
So, you know, they're making some progress in that regard.
The Epstein files.
The Epstein files.
Let
me just... Well, I know.
We have Mark on the phone.
We'll go to Mark in just a moment.
Yes.
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That's a Saturday and it's coming up.
It's our listener appreciation party.
Everybody's invited and we'll have some folks there from WMDX.
John and I'll be there and a few other surprises.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And everybody's invited to come and socialize and build community over a few drinks.
They also have, by the way, a really nice
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That's where I'm gonna be.
Are you really okay?
I'm gonna master the monkey bars.
You've
been waiting to do that for a long
time.
Yeah, I gotta make up for some wash time.
You say I know what you're gonna say like that comes out of your
mouth.
I had no clue you're gonna say that.
Really?
Yep.
Let's get back to the listener appreciation party, because you could get a VIP invite.
What does that include, you ask?
Somebody
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Good morning, Mark.
What do you got?
Good morning.
Well, this whole view right in history is common for monarchical government.
Yeah.
Monarch used to trace the lineage back to the gods.
We read from history and rewriting history was something common as well.
Not just that the European tribes, apparently the Aztecs did it as well because they didn't like the image of them being kind of a low group on the totem pole.
They were wandering around and they wandered out to the island.
the lake and following the snake on the cactus bush.
But they rewrote their whole history once it became powerful and formed the triple alliance that they, you know, it is probably the more accurate term, but what Trump rewriting history like this is that, what's
it?
Mark, hang on, we gotta take a break.
We'll be back with more.
Just
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Good morning, Lisa.
How are
you?
Good morning.
I'm good.
How are you?
Good, right?
This is one of those segments where it's best to watch the whole thing on YouTube or whatever social media channel
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Yeah.
Yes, because we've got some some pictures of some wonderful pets that are up for adoption.
So let's go for this time.
Yeah, four pets.
So let's get to it.
Yeah.
All right, Lisa.
I have
plenty of furry friends to talk about.
We're going to start out with a bonded pair named Dane and Tucker.
Oh, no kidding.
Okay.
Yes.
So that's that's Dane.
Uh, they're multi's mixes.
So they're all white.
Uh, their hair is a little short right now cause you know, they needed a haircut.
Um, but Dan is three years old and about eight pounds.
Whereas Tucker is about four and a half years old and about six pounds.
And they were among.
15 small breed dogs who were transferred to DCHS last week from an overcrowded shelter in Texas.
They were very, very nervous and shy when they first arrived to the point where when they came off the van, they kind of just stood there and were like, can we pick you up to help you?
And they were like, yes, pick me up please.
So they are a little bit shy.
They're looking for a patient adapter who's going to give them the time they need to settle into their new surroundings.
But best of all, they get to do it together because they are the best of friends.
They love to hang out together.
They love to play together, nap together.
They're good about sharing their treats and their food and they love treats.
Yeah.
So that's
great.
Yeah.
They're a
pair.
Yeah.
My parents had a similar pair of dogs like that.
Oh, they're
beautiful.
They're really
sweet.
They're very cute.
Yes.
Yes.
All
right.
Well, that's Dane and Tucker.
Okay, so they're a pair.
Yes.
Let's move on to the next pet.
What do we have here?
Frisky?
Frisky.
Frisky the cat.
So
if you're looking for a lap cat, Frisk is your friend.
So he's 11 years old.
He's a black and white tuxedo cat.
He was surrendered to DCHS in mid July because his family is facing a serious health issue and they didn't feel they could give him the time he needed.
So he does have, you can tell by his photo, an abnormal left eye that
has some cloudiness to it, but it doesn't appear to be bothering him at all.
And his previous vet noted it and there's been no change.
So we don't think it's an issue at this time.
So Frisky did have a severe dental issue when he arrived.
He was very uncomfortable.
So our vets determined that he would be best almost toothless.
So they removed most of his teeth.
He has one canine left.
Oh, yeah.
And he's been thriving since then.
He went to foster and was relaxing and recuperating there.
And he is such a friendly cat.
He loves people, even loves strangers.
and he'll just climb in their lap and expect them to pet him, give him tons of attention.
He has met dogs and cats and he was fine with them, but he's not really interested in playing with them.
He prefers his human companionship.
So really any type of home that wants a cat who is gonna just want to be showered with attention and sit on your lap for hours.
That's the home for him.
Alright.
Frisky.
That's
frisky.
So
that
would be a soft food cat.
Is that correct?
Yeah.
Actually, they can eat hard food.
They just tend to swallow it.
Oh,
okay.
Well,
most animals do that
anyway right away.
Okay, one more pet up for adoption here this morning.
So I have a little friend with a big personality.
His name is Fiji and he's an absinthean guinea pig who is
mainly tan around the top half of his body and head.
He's got
some white around his nose and his eyes, his eyes are red.
And then he's kind of silverish white on the bottom half.
He's about three years old.
He came to DCHS recently, his family is moving and they can't take him with.
So, but he's really affectionate, they said, and he loves to have
to be snuggled and receive pets.
He loves to hide in hidey houses and in boxes.
So he's looking for a new cage where he can be the only piggy living in there because he prefers all the love and fun times with his new family all to himself.
All right, that's Fiji.
Okay, so if Fiji or Frisky or Dane and Tucker are out there and you want to find new homes for them and people are interested, how do they do this?
So they come visit our shelter on Vogue's road when we're open we're open later today at 2 o'clock right now also through Friday our critters like Fiji are Have a reduced adoption fee by half price as well as well as our feathered barnyard friends So we have some roosters of quail and a chicken also looking for new homes.
Really?
So yeah, it's part of our clear the shelters campaign and then mark your calendars
Because on Saturday, we're doing a huge Clear the Shelters finale.
So we're going to be open longer from 10 a.m.
to 8 p.m.
To try to clear our shelters.
So we hope everyone will come and adopt a friend.
We'll have reduced adoption fees for everybody.
Oh,
that
sounds great.
Sounds great.
Yeah, thank you, Lisa.
We appreciate it.
Thank you.
From the Dane County Humane Society, some great pets up for adoption in that big event on Saturday.
Yeah, that was fun.
All right.
Thanks again, Lisa.
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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
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?
Well, 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.
You know what, I think 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 then giving up, by the way, and giving up military.
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 was very interesting because 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.
Oh.
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.
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.
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.
And 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.
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Brittany?
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She's frozen.
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Weather wise today, we're starting out with a lot of cloud cover here in Madison.
Humid, high dew points.
What's going on?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
At least you don't have a thick fog.
There's plenty of thick fog up north.
So the dew points right there in those upper sixties pretty much matching our temperatures, but they will break away from that.
It will feel more dry and a little bit more comfortable as we go through the day.
We've got highs reaching about the upper seventies.
More spots of sun later, so that's
good news.
Yes, but we could see more fog overnight tonight.
That might make its way towards us, but though, oh wait, we've got a high pressure.
High is right about 80 degrees.
So
today, tomorrow, Thursday, Friday, and then we start to feel like fall over the weekend.
Really?
A cold front moves in Friday.
That's our only chance for rain next, so staying dry.
Bright and beautiful.
The only chance of rain will be Friday as the cold front moves through and then we drop down to the mid 70s on Saturday and the upper 60s on Sunday.
Wow, taste of fall.
She
is.
Wow.
Yes.
I'm ready.
And then we'll sneak preview.
I did go up north this weekend.
Yeah.
Now, whole trees aren't changing, but you can see half of them are the very tip top starting to change colors.
So.
This is way, way up north Wisconsin.
It's already starting.
Oh, I'd love to see it.
Yeah, that's great.
All right, very good.
All right.
Well, Brittany, thank you for that update.
We appreciate it.
You're welcome.
Enjoy the
day.
You
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Trump
is basically saying that Putin is right about the mail-in ballots that he 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, just,
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 that we have states that Run their elections through the mail.
Oh, right.
Why don't know Guess that hasn't worked for them.
I haven't read that it hasn't worked by the way Trump himself voted by mail
Yeah.
And
he encouraged his supporters to also mail their ballots in in the 2024 election.
That's what I
remember anyway.
Yes.
That's what happened.
All right.
So let's get to some of these texts that we've got.
A bunch of texts.
Hey CJ, Epstein files.
That's from Zach at 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.
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 Britney You
know
what it's not the new glasses so much, and I am gonna have new glasses, but I'll tell you what I've got so much stuff on my I'm using the space car, and I don't have all my wipes in the space car yet, so I
fumbling around.
He
has allergies, you know,
it
really dies, like
it's
falling apart.
We got a lot of problems.
No, I don't have a lot of problems.
You're the problem.
Oh, really?
Okay, now
it's me.
We had a couple more comments.
Yeah, and me 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.
Yeah, it's 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 a first.
Watch your step.
Be careful.
Trump spouting Russian propaganda.
Couldn't definitely find stuff like that from, oh, here, we got another call from Milwaukee.
We only
have a minute left.
All right, let's go to Charles.
Charles,
what have 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.
Did not know that was a requirement.
Charles, thank you for that, Paul.
Yeah, that's good.
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It's John and Gordy in the morning, just checking out a text here from CJ.
So John and Gordy, you guys, you're trying to rewrite history again, huh, man?
We'll get back to that.
Well, it's tough to do, you know, we tried so hard at the Smithsonian, I guess now you're gonna correct all that stuff, so.
It is 7.35, it's cloudy this morning, we'll see some sunshine hopefully along the way in highs in the mid-70s.
Right now it's 65 degrees.
Abby Abrovich has joined us from Dundren's 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.
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Everybody can come out on September 6th.
That's a Saturday.
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In fact, I want to come out maybe this afternoon and walk around and take a, take a look at things.
But, um, for people that have not been there, uh, tell us what Downton's distilling is all about.
Yeah.
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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 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.
Oh fun.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
So
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 still 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, someone told me you also have trivia.
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, but so like this month our theme is It's a music trivia.
Oh, and so our theme it's 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.
But that kind of changes.
You're into that.
Yeah, I am.
And then like next
month, for example, the theme trivia is classic video games.
So
it's all over the place.
But then so that's the last Wednesday of every month.
And then like I said, Thursday is every night on Thursday is 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 have
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, 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, Abby from Doundren'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 pile.
What does that now stand for?
Thanks, Abby.
Okay.
MS Now.
MS Now.
A lot of people are playing with this thing now.
A lot of people on the right.
Oh, really?
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 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, the same
MS now.
Yeah.
Some on the right are putting a period after MS.
So it's miss now.
Oh, okay.
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.
I don't know why they had to do that.
Don't know either.
Who cares?
Just call an MS now.
Yeah, we don't.
It doesn't have to stand for anything, really.
Geez.
They were good through all these
confusions, but they are separating themselves from NBC News, basically.
Yeah, so later on, yeah.
So that's the deal
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 yet
other Norse news sources so far, you know trying to you know steal people away
in
the MSNBC Prez Rebecca Kultler says while our name is changing, you know
Who we are and what we've done has not changed.
All right,
so just you know Make everybody feel a little at home there.
Well, there's rumors that Stephen Colbert could wind up there.
Yeah,
that's what I hear.
Yeah.
Yeah, wouldn't that be
great?
It would be good.
Yeah Now I wonder if you
know Stephen gave up, you know when he was with the Daily Show Yeah, we're in and beyond that the Colbert report he gave up being very political and now
Yeah.
Now he's got to go back to it again.
I would like to see the Stephen Colbert report guy again.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I liked his character.
That was a good 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 $1.6 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?
Yeah.
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 was Biden's economy?
Let's listen to what Grock 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% and unemployment at 4.2.
Stalled jobs, tariffs reducing GDP by 0.9%, almost 1% while adding only 1,000.
What you guys are, you know, telling me to get out of this.
Well, you know,
maybe,
you know, it's a lot of numbers, but
no,
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.
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 a net over me next time, you guys.
So many numbers.
Our heads are exploding here.
You know, that's it.
I'm gonna headache.
Yeah, you have to headache.
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Yeah, okay.
Those are great.
Yep.
Why don't we get to something here?
I want to just touch on two.
incidents that happened.
The Gestapo in DC, you know, we're increasing the Gestapo in DC.
The red state seemed to be sending their national guards there.
I don't know why.
What's going on?
What is this all about?
This is some kind of show of strength within our own country, sending the military into DC from all these different red states.
What the hell are they thinking?
What's the point of that?
And the crime rate's down, you know, more than, I mean, it's,
it's never been lower in 30
years in DC.
You can dispute who's putting the facts together on that, but it's down.
Yeah.
this is ridiculous okay let's find out what's happening in dc because of this huh let's listen this is the uh tennessee holler uh they posted this uh the masked fat agents attacked in handcuffed a delivery worker on the street outside his cafe let's listen to this all right let's listen here
wait
so you guys are just
masked
we're just
masked up who are you who are you guys can i see some bad words
You guys are ruining this country.
You know that
right?
Oh All right now, I mean this is just gotta stop, you know, this is ridiculous stuff and then there's another one This was a peaceful protester in Portland.
Hmm.
All right, and let's listen to this here.
Let's cut 134 okay 134 here we
go
Right there These these agents slam.
No, you don't have to cut it off.
Just bring it down a little bit there Okay agents slam this guy to the ground then pinned him down with their body weight and golfed him with tear gas And then this is what he was just standing there.
They have a video of this is just standing watching these soldiers walk by Yeah, and somebody from behind another soldier walked by just nailed him down to the ground And then of course they no reason at all jumped on top of them a whole bunch of guys
Just ridiculous.
This shouldn't be happening.
This delivery person on his motorbike tackled and hauled off.
I don't get any of this.
What the hell is going on, right?
It's out of control.
Man.
And how about, well, let's play this.
This is Tim Miller from the Bull Work.
Now he had something to say about, this is cut 150.
And he was talking about these masked individuals doing all this stuff, getting away with murder.
Let's listen to Tim Miller's argument about this.
Let's listen.
for starters, we have ev it is really quick.
Let's
He arrived at work.
He was a US citizen.
Ice agents surrounded his car.
He identified himself as a US citizen.
They broke his window, pepper sprayed him, and dragged him out.
He was in detention for three days.
So we do have evidence that they're not being trained or assigned appeals rights.
And on the masks, this is crazy.
Do you know how many judges have been threatened?
These guys have been threatened.
There have been judges who families have been threatened.
Their lives have been threatened.
There are a lot of people in public life who have been threatened.
You still don't get to wear a mask and be a secret judge.
Not in a free country.
You don't.
I'm sure you get threatened.
I'm sorry.
If you're an agent of the government, if you're a representative of the people, you need to show your face and name yourself so that you have accountability.
Yeah, exactly.
So, you know, this, the idea of wearing masks, these individuals get in a way with whatever they want because they've got a mask on.
How are they going to get docked?
I mean, where do we have
Facial recognition, open to the public, somewhere, I don't think so.
We're not gonna know who they are, but we can recognize them in a lineup and point out who these people are.
They're getting away with this stuff.
We don't have these secret police walking around.
arresting people, delivery people, pedestrians, just watching the action as the military and their Humvees drive by, this is so uncalled for.
Still no due
process at all.
Not identifying themselves, they're masked, just picking people at random it seems.
Yes, and the peacemaker, our president, is allowing all this to happen, has done nothing to solve this problem.
A long time ago, when we talked about LA, we were talking about the fact that maybe this is a problem that the United States needs to deal with, the administration needs to deal with, the masked problem.
Now, Trump came out, no one in public can wear masks.
You know, you can't wear them at a protest, but then they mask all the people who are going after the protesters.
This is ridiculous, you can't do that.
But they are doing it and they're getting away with it.
And I think it's time that we call them out on this over and over and over again.
You can't just do it.
It makes people afraid to go out and protest in the first place.
And Trump is up in the air.
He's sending in troops from West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Missouri.
They're bringing in more
troops to DC.
And he's threatening all the other blue cities as though they were sanctuary cities, you know, holding up immigration.
No.
Unbelievable.
This has got
to end.
Yeah.
Well, and we've got to end it here.
Stephanie Miller is waiting in the wings.
She's up next, and we will be back tomorrow with Mike McCabe.
We'll join us.
He's been off for a couple of weeks.
Good to see Mike again.
That'll do it for us.
We'll talk to you again in 22 hours right here on 92.7 WMDX.
Have a good day, John.
All right, all right.
Take care, everybody.
See you later.
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