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It's John and Gourney in the morning.
Good morning.
It's Incredible out there this morning.
I mean it it's like 51 degrees, but doesn't feel like it at all Just wore a flannel shirt over a t-shirt and I'm and I'm good, you know Yeah, what a day yesterday though my god.
Did you do the yarn work?
You promised
I did yes.
I mowed the yard.
Yes.
All right
Yeah, it was great.
It's perfect weather for lawn mowing.
It really was.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you do any lawn work?
I did not do any.
I just sat around doing two shows.
Four shows,
actually.
Preparing for four shows.
Yeah.
Yeah, we got a busy week ahead of us.
We do.
We do.
And then we're going to take a four day weekend.
That's right.
So that's the way the future looks at this point.
That's right.
We've got the Labor Day weekend next.
It's coming weekend.
It's filling in for Pete Schwab, but tonight and tomorrow.
That's right.
And we've got a lot of, uh, we've got a lot of tech news.
We've got a lot of movie star news, film news, got some great news.
And we have guests.
That's
right.
Why do we have guests?
We do not have the writers though.
Okay.
We do not have my.
We don't have what we don't have my wife and her writing partner.
We were going to schedule them.
Oh, but they ended up being very busy or just really, you know, not that interested.
So, you know, you could take your pick.
Your wife changed your mind.
No, she didn't actually do it.
I did because, you know,
we have
so much stuff.
We really do have a
lot of stuff.
I bumped her.
Wow, that's that's tough talk there.
Yeah,
we're
gonna reschedule her for the morning.
Oh,
yeah.
Oh, yes I gotta ask are you guys gonna take a nap in between shows so this show are you gonna then you're gonna take a nap and then do Pete Schwab a show I
usually do a nap anyway.
Oh, no matter doesn't matter.
Okay
No, I'm gonna I'll take a nap in the dentist chair I have a dental appointment in between you do the morning show and the evening show So we'll see how well I can talk tonight Cuz I think I'm putting it they're putting a crown in
doing some cavity work and then putting a crown.
Is it a permanent crown or is
it a temporary at this point?
Uh, it's a permanent,
I
believe.
So they, they have mold of, they took a mold, they're going to put the
thing in and send it in.
I think
so.
Pretty sure.
You don't know?
I
don't, you know, I just show up.
What?
You are mister, get the details.
I do.
I don't really, just tell me where to show up.
I'm there.
Okay.
I'd rather not know.
All right.
Well, you know, I'm at the point now that, uh, my last visit getting a crown, uh, and it was replacement crown for a bad one that's split in half, uh, with a material they shouldn't have used for molars.
But anyway, the point is the point is, is there a point?
Okay.
They, they said, okay, we're going to put a temporary crown in and you can get same day crowns.
And that prevents all of the extra shots the second time in.
But I was going by a previous age.
They don't do that, I suppose, anymore.
I'm not sure.
But when you go in for the second visit to put the real crown in, they don't give you the shots all over again.
They just kind of take their hand and just wiggle the temp off.
It just snaps off.
They don't need anything else.
They just clean it up a little bit with the new crown in.
And that was like, I mean, I was so relieved.
I can't even tell you, I went out and partied that night.
I just couldn't, I couldn't believe it.
And I'm thinking, man, times have really changed in dentistry.
So.
Modern dentistry has come a long way.
Now I've got to ask Dr. Chris if he does the same thing without insulting him.
You don't give any shots the second time.
You
know,
he's a guy that doesn't believe in drills or shots, right?
Wow.
Most
of the time that's true.
Yes.
Okay.
He's done both with my
dental structure.
No, it depends on what you need.
Of course.
I mean, for what you needed, you needed the, you know,
the numbing effect.
Yeah.
Need
a complete overall.
Yeah.
Weather today.
Let's get to the weather because it's going to be beautiful.
It is all this week.
What is the sunrise time there, John?
According to the WMDX.
29
degrees already sunrise time is 615.
We're not there yet.
Yeah.
And some set time is 744.
It is
going to be bright and beautiful all day long highs in the mid sixties.
That's what we're saying.
What is your watch?
Does your watch agree with that?
My watch
says... Well, it feels like 51, it says.
It's 53 on my watch, not 49.
And it doesn't... Well, it gives a predicted high here of... Actually, I wouldn't know.
Okay.
I
think about 67 is being
predicted high.
Now I can wear sweaters and you guys won't make fun of me, right?
No, we'll still make fun of you.
Well,
thanks for pointing that out.
You've been wearing sweaters all summer
long.
The hottest summer of Wisconsin ever.
I don't get it.
You know, my kid, he wears a hoodie when he goes out walking and it's 85 degrees out there.
What are you doing?
It's comfy.
It's
comfy.
No, it isn't.
All right.
Anyway, let's continue with the weather forecast.
Do you have
more?
No, not really.
Okay.
Um, Tom and Christie Manus will be joining us.
These are the travel writers.
Uh, they're going to be, uh, with us in a little while, uh, talking about Wisconsin roadside travels.
And then they're also going to be with us tonight.
They are on the Pete Schwabba show, a nightlight in abbreviated version this morning at about
10 50 and, uh, or six 50 rather, and
then tonight.
Yes.
So,
uh,
and former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin will be joining us in our seven o'clock hour today.
We've got more Brewer's tickets to give away today in our seven o'clock hour.
Brewer's versus the Phillies coming up on Thursday, September 4th.
So be listening for your chance to win on that.
And what
else?
We only got Pam Yankee in a few minutes.
Was it the Bob Hucker tribute dedication
yesterday?
It
was
yesterday.
Bob Costas was there, hosting Robin Yount, I know.
They did a little pregame festivities there.
You watched
the game?
I did not watch the game.
I listened to the game on the radio.
Oh, OK.
All right.
But yeah, it was quite the ceremony and quite the day, celebrating Bob Uker.
Well, we'll be playing a cut from that.
Oh.
All right.
All right.
We've got a new poll question up, John.
This went up, I guess, late Friday.
I think we saw this.
Do you support legalizing recreational marijuana in Wisconsin?
That's the poll question.
That's a good
question.
You can weigh in at wmdxradio.com right now.
Well, here are the possible answers.
Yeah, what are the possible answers?
A.
Okay, do you support legalizing recreational marijuana in Wisconsin?
Yes.
A is yes, but I forgot what the question was.
That's at 66% and B is absolutely not unless the price is low enough.
That's at 33% and the third
Question or the third possible answer is only if Trump lowers the price by 200% So they give you money back or more pot and that's got zero percent.
Oh Nobody's I
know there's
no third.
There's no fourth question.
No fourth one.
There's what happened I don't know.
There's three multiple choice.
There should be four We got to come up with a fourth one.
So the ocean blank the question that's winning right now is that they forgot the question That's the question that's winning
I know.
That's the answer.
Right.
Well, they must
be high.
Oh, maybe.
Maybe so.
And the thing is, each one of those answers is actually yes.
Right.
There's really no no.
That's the way we worked it.
Yeah.
Yep.
Is it time for would you rather?
It is OK.
Would you rather not have would you rather?
It's time for what you rather.
Well, hit the music and let's see what happens.
Okay, so far so good.
Oh, there it is.
Okay, kind of fades in You know, you know, so keep it to the mic What his head in?
It keeps
going up.
Oh, it does.
I'm too short.
We got to tighten that up.
Yeah All right.
All right.
Well, I still can't get it up to my face here.
All right first question Would you rather have eyes in the back of your head or
be able to taste with your fingers.
Um,
who's first?
Whoever you want.
John's
up.
Taste with your fingers.
I've got quite
a
head of hair here.
I don't think I'd see anything.
I'm gonna go with the eyes
in the back of the
head.
Would you I think I'm gonna taste with my fingers.
I would really yeah Yeah, like right now if I want something I would just taste my fingers and be all good.
Could you use those fingers to tighten up the I know I have to keep holding it like this all right second question Would you rather work as a bouncer at a true at a nightclub or as a personal assistant to a high maintenance celebrity
Think I would I think I would do bouncer.
I Would but I want to be but I want to be a bouncer really.
Yeah, you want to toss people out of Nightclubs my hopes and dreams that would never happen, but I might but I would love for it to happen
Well, it's it's put loose and fancy free if you go out there with a celebrity and yeah bouncing, but I don't know I I suppose locally I could do that
although
I was the subject of being bounced out at one time, so
You know, I have a, it's just kind of a sore spot with me.
I don't want to be reminded
of you.
What
did you get thrown out?
Well, when I, when I, when I disputed having a ladies night.
Oh yeah.
Remember that?
Yeah.
I
thought it was unfair to men.
You
raised a
ruckus.
I raised a big stink at the bar.
And I couldn't believe that they asked me to leave.
Seriously, I was being very reasonable.
They didn't want to eat trouble.
They saw you coming, they knew that's trouble.
What was the question again?
Would you rather
work as a bouncer at a nightclub?
No.
Or as a personal assistant to a celebrity?
Well, I'm already a personal assistant to a celebrity.
Oh, there we go.
A semi-celebrity, I guess not really.
Celebrity, I don't
know.
I don't know.
What would you rather?
I would rather be a bouncer.
I want to be a bouncer at a nightclub, you know what I mean?
Like to throw people out.
Like John.
Yeah, you could throw me out.
I don't think I would be able to do that, but...
You're just itching for a fight.
Is that the deal?
Every now and then, you know, I have rage inside me that I need to get out.
Oh
man.
Well, he's well protected.
He's
wearing about eight
sweaters every
time.
And a beanie and everything.
You still haven't got that the mic stand figured out.
Do you I still
get the one
on it's the it's the notch on the top No, not that one next one.
There you go there.
It's I completely it's it's it's tightened as No, it's as tight as it can be once we go in the break I'll stand up and do some do some work on it be a bouncer for that
all right again Pam Yaki is going to be visiting with us here shortly
And that's coming up in just a few moments from now.
And we'll have a chance for you to win Brewers and Phillies tickets to the Thursday, September 4th game.
That'll be in our seven o'clock hour.
Also, Tom and Christy Manus joining us, the travel writers, and former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin.
It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
We're just getting started for this Monday, August 25th.
He's John.
I'm Gordy.
That's Dom in the producer's chair.
We'll be back with more in mere moments on WMDX.
Freakin out here.
We've got Idiocracy coming up in just a few moments with a whole lot of stuff that will kill you too.
Or at least kill your American spirit.
Can't wait.
Yeah.
Hey, just a reminder, Saturday, September 6th.
It's our listener appreciation event.
Now, we've given away all of the VIP passes, but that doesn't mean that you can't come.
It's open.
It's free to the public.
It's Saturday, September 6th.
It starts at 3 o'clock, and it's at Downdern's Distilling in Cottage Grove.
The event, again, open to the public.
We'll be there.
I believe Todd Alva will be there.
I think Maggie Dawn is...
making plans to be there and Brittany Merlot.
All right.
And we'll be there, Chana Gordy and Dom.
You'll be there, right?
I'll be there.
Better be there.
I'll probably
be
there.
Anybody invite Pam Yackey?
Well, we should invite Pam Yackey.
I mean, she on the phone.
Yeah, she is.
All right.
Good
morning, Pam.
Good morning, guys.
How are you doing today?
We're doing good.
We're doing
good.
We're good.
You're invited to the big listener appreciation party.
It's Saturday, September 6th at 3 o'clock at Doundren's Distilling.
If you can make it, we'd love to see you there.
Yep.
I'll definitely try to fit it in my calendar.
That's a Packers weekend, so I might be up by...
Oh, yeah, that's right.
That's
your big day.
That's true.
That's true.
That's the opening.
Yeah, opening weekend.
Well,
let's talk about milk since we're talking about the Packers and your big celebration.
The last thing you'll be serving up, but milk production.
Milk production is up.
I even heard a story about the way.
Well, whey is very important at this point now, too, as well.
So they're getting an extra jazz up in milk producing.
Yeah, and the timing is actually not too bad.
I was talking with one of our analysts last week, and while most dairy farmers will ring their hands when they hear about milk production in a month going up more than 3%, Mike North, who's a fellow I talk with quite often,
from Everag a dairy consult down in Plattville.
He s
think about it, kids are going back to school.
So all of a sudden the milk need for our school districts, obviously he's going to skyrocket.
That's not a bad thing for our dairy producers at this time of the year.
Also, we are getting into football season.
And although it may not be synonymous with dairy consumption, it sure does kind of toe the line pretty well when it comes to things like pizzas and all of our tailgating activities.
So that definitely helps with milk consumption.
And then you alluded to the other one, whey.
But most people that have been around the dairy industry know that whey is a byproduct of the cheese making process.
So Wisconsin's got an awful lot of it.
And the good news is that we have been finding all kinds of new values.
four way once it's dried into powder.
It's got a tremendous amount of protein.
So a lot of what is being used now is going into sport drinks.
If you read the side of many of your energy sport drinks, you will find it may say way and then some phrase after it, which basically means that it's been dried down, but with the push for all of the ozempics and those to GLP one.
or whatever they're called that people are on to try to lose weight.
That is all about being on a protein driven diet.
So more and more consumers are looking for those high protein drinks or those high protein bars, whatever they can get their hands on.
And that has really buoyed up the demand on the way in the food industry side of things.
And that's actually turning into other spin products that you might have noticed.
Sometimes we call them
a new one over the weekend different flavored oats and again, the drivin
diets and just want to kind of keep ticking off the weight loss.
That is a key component.
So although we did see a pretty sizable increase in milk production, not necessarily Wisconsin, but other regions that produce dairy.
Like I said, the timing for the use is not necessarily all that bad.
And believe it or not, although I cringe at the thought of bringing it up, this is also when some of our large
food processors and bakers will start coming to the market and laying in their supplies for the holidays.
Because if you're a Wisconsin cheese maker, you are thinking about what the holiday demand is going to look like for you and your employees and your supplies today.
Because think about it, you guys know this, you enjoy it.
If you want an aged cheddar or a medium cheddar or something like that, well, that baby's got to sit in an age.
for a certain period of time.
So a lot of the decisions that you and I will enjoy during the holidays are being made by our Wisconsin cheesemakers right now as far as the varieties they'll produce, what they're going to put into the aged caves now so that they can pull it out when we're ready to celebrate in a couple months.
Well, that
sounds wonderful.
I love cheese.
Pam, what about beef prices?
Yeah.
They seem to keep climbing here.
Even McDonald's and Steak and Shake, they're talking about the high beef prices.
What's happening here?
It's not often that agriculture, per se, makes it into the headlines for some of those Fortune 500 companies, but it sure has been lately.
And you may notice it also in advertising.
Notice how more of the fast food chains are pushing anything but burgers.
They're pushing breakfast sandwiches, which normally would feature sausage or pork.
And in the boardrooms, they are talking about high costs of beef.
And now with a 75% tariff on Brazil, that's some of the kind of lean, we call it, that we blend in with ground beef.
Don't be surprised if you start to see more fast food menu tweaks coming to the big ones in the very near future as they go toward boardroom and earnings.
This is kind of scary too.
They didn't mention Taco Bell.
Maybe they don't use beef.
We got to
leave it
there.
Pam, you have a great week.
We'll talk to you on
Friday.
All
right,
that's Pam Yankee, the fabulous farm babe.
And in fact, the Midwest Food and Farm reports coming up next.
And then we're back with Idiocracy for Monday.
John Peterson, Gordy Young coming right back on WMDX.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
What an idiot.
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
What?
What the f*** is going on around
here?
Holy s***.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world you're pretty dumb sometimes.
All the time and we prove it each and every day during Idiocracy.
It's John and Gordy on 92.7 WMDX.
Clear skies this morning.
It's going to be beautiful.
All day long sunshine.
Highs in the mid sixties.
Very cool this morning.
Just about 50 degrees.
That's a really beautiful morning.
You know a real light jacket.
Maybe a heavy shirt over your t-shirt.
Just a heavy
flannel shirt.
Just throw it over a t-shirt.
Or wear a
sweater all the time.
Hoodie.
Like Don.
Like Don.
I'm
catching really bad strays here in this morning.
I
hate Mondays.
Can you
tighten that thing up or are you still holding it?
I tried to during the break.
It
still didn't work.
You know these kids that come in here and do their shows over the weekends.
Look at this.
Maxing.
Maxing.
I gotta talk to Rocker about this.
Yeah,
well, you know just proves my point, you know get the piston type Mike booms My sons are on it, you know, yeah, they podcast they do their thing they talk to their friends
over the
internet and They have the greatest mics the greatest Mike booms, you know, they know what to buy.
Yes Keep telling them here go to the pistons, you know get rid of the springs and the little adjust nobody listens to you
You just walk around mumbling and ranting and raving.
Nobody pays any attention to you.
Why do you even... I don't know.
I know.
That's true.
Coming up in about 20 minutes, Tom and Christy Manus will join us talking about roadside attractions around Wisconsin.
And not only are they joining us this morning, they're going to join us this evening when we're filling in for Pete Schwabba on The Nightlight Show.
You got a lot of stuff to contribute to yeah, it's gonna be wonderful.
All right, let's talk
about
let's talk about The Christian faith here in his name foundation Trashes Jesus agenda in the name of Trump nothing surprising here what all right now Fox News Rachel Campos Duffy Talk to Jack Brewer
He's the Jack Brewer of the Jack Brewer Foundation The foundations program unapologetically follows the commandments of Jesus Christ now
I thought it was
always Moses with the commandments But I guess you know Jesus somewhere along the way had a tablet that he was jotting stuff down
Anyway, it's surprising we haven't heard much about this group, the Jack Brewer Foundation.
I've never heard
of them.
After Trump closed the USAID, the Jack Brewer Foundation said nothing, even though they provide a similar service, providing food, orphan care, emergency rescue, and world relief stuff.
Maybe supporting Trump's America First agenda, which the Jack Brewer Foundation claims won't blindly dole out money without a return for the American people, like Jesus preaches, by the way, and that foreign assistance should be justified by making America safer, stronger, and more prosperous.
Oh boy, does that sound like Jesus or what?
Anyway, let's listen to Jack Brewer himself talk about the words of Jesus.
All right.
So what's the answer?
I mean, I know you have your Jack Brewer Foundation.
You work with kids after school.
But there's no substitute for family.
What can the government do?
What can the culture do?
It starts locally.
First off, in these schools, these schools have to start back disciplining kids.
They took the paddle out of the school and everything collapsed.
We got to
get the
paddle back, Rachel.
Listen, corporal punishment is the only way when you have a knucklehead
kid
that's willing to rob you or me at gunpoint with a car full of kids or anyone else.
You see, these things don't happen in states like Florida.
You know why?
Because if you car jack me,
I'm liable to shoot you, no matter what your age is.
And that happens in Red Street.
When you take the Second Amendment away from so many citizens in these liberal cities, they can't protect these cells.
And so now these kids that don't have a fear of God, they're emboldened by the culture, by the music that they listen to, by the movies
that
they watch,
by the
culture that they take into their spirit, right?
None of these kids go to church on Sunday morning.
These kids don't have a fear of God.
These kids don't think about heaven and hell.
And that's the
problem in our nation.
We've let these liberals go so deep into removing God from schools.
Now these kids don't have spirituality.
We got to put the Ten Commandments back in our schools.
We got to get the fear of God back into the children of America, particularly the young black boys that look just like me and my son, where 71% of these kids are born without a father in a home.
Every black man in America should feel despicable.
about the reality that our culture right now is terrorizing the streets of America.
All right.
Well, there you go again.
There's a lot in
there.
Paddle back into the schools, I think.
And you know, if you do something wrong, you know, people should have firearms and kill you.
So, you know, Jesus has taught all of this in the New Testament, a part that I missed somewhere along the way.
I don't remember that.
Sunday school.
So,
you
know,
And I'm thinking I'm thinking Smithsonian here, you know Trump wants to make the Smithsonian in American history more positive, right?
Did anybody hear a positive message in any of that?
I don't
think so.
It was pretty depressing.
All right, but that's the the Jack Brewer
Foundation Well, he was talking about putting the Ten Commandments back in the school.
I don't remember the Ten Commandments being in the schools when we were kids Yeah, you don't remember it
either.
There must have been a time when it was
in
every school.
I remember the Pledge of Allegiance
That was it.
That's where they mentioned
guys.
They still do that, I
think.
Yeah.
Well, good point, Gordy.
Excellent point.
All right, let's go to the Christian nationalism, okay?
We've seen the rise of Christian nationalism before, but never an administration that backs the idea wholeheartedly.
Now, Mother Jones Magazine investigates the Christian nationalist movement that aspires to take over government at all levels, from school boards and state legislatures to Congress and the Supreme Court.
Let's find out more from Mother Jones.
Yes, there are Christian nationalist influencers.
Let me introduce you to the Theo Bros.
We can't force people to have faith in Christ, but we can as a people order that.
I'd rather have a Christian monarchy.
than our current state of affairs.
We could argue that
now is a time to arms again.
So the Theobros are a group of mostly millennial Christian pastors and influencers.
Many of them, most of them even, will tell you that they are that they are Christian nationalists.
We are indeed Christian nationalists.
They're purposefully extreme and extremely online.
So they're obviously connected to JD Vance.
There's this group called the Rockbridge Network of JD Vance.
is was a founder.
Peter Thiel is involved.
And I think it's important to say that not all of them hold every belief.
That being said, I think some common beliefs that I have encountered are that we should be repealing the 19th Amendment.
They'll talk about the dead Constitution and how the 10 Commandments should take its place.
I want a Christian nation.
more than a republic.
Some
of them talk about prison reform and by prison reform they mean
public flogging instead of prison.
Some of them talk about executing heretics.
Involved in that is also execution of gay people.
America is a nation.
It is a group of people with a common history and a common future.
Doug Wilson is sort of like the boomer who passed the torch.
He has sort of built his own little Christian fiefdom in Moscow, Idaho.
Creating a legal framework in which people could create intentional communities where they could build something.
No, it would be a good idea to allow people to experiment.
But he's also built this other type of blueprint for Christian nationalist influencing.
The left is the cancer and Trump is the chemo.
Here we go.
Here we go.
He's taking some
of
these ideas.
He's really making them for a broader audience and for a younger audience.
Godly women want to feed their men.
Godly women are designed to make the sandwiches.
What?
When women were granted the right to vote, we were so much, we thought we were giving the franchise to women.
we were in fact taking it away from families.
And just for the record, you know, yeah, I think the 19th Amendment
should be repealed.
I think that because, well, first and foremost, because I'm a Christian.
If we had a Christian nation and women could vote, then within 50 years we would no longer have a Christian nation.
You bought into an idea that it's liberating to leave an eight-week-old baby to go work 90 hours a week at Goldman Sachs.
You've been had.
We have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey instead of starting a family and having children.
To me, what it is, is sort of a value system to replace the fact that they're all fundamentally atheist or agnostic.
The people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids.
There's so much more to this story, including connections to Project 2025, more about the web of JD Vance and Theo Bros.
that I can't even dream of touching on
in a
video like this.
Really?
So go read Keira Butler's full piece at MotherJones.com.
Very.
So check it out if you want to get even more depressed Apparently they don't like women too much apparently
not
yeah, don't want them to vote
don't we just
yeah in the old
in the old
kids and stay home in the old days Chris Hedges Author and journalist did stories about Dominionism and that is where you know religious folk
put together these huge communities and they wanted to create cities, massive cities that were run by the Bible, Jesus, and therefore the Constitution.
Laws that are developed in this country no longer apply right because they have the freedom of religion and none of these laws apply in their communities That's dominionism so that kind of faded away, but no boy.
It's coming back with the project 2025 here.
It's craziness.
Yeah, I
know it's scary
That's what it is.
Yeah.
Uh, all right, let's, uh, let's move on to some real, this is a current story, which is just blowing my mind.
I just can't believe this.
There is a memo out to the Democrats.
Boy, I tell you, they're bumping in the walls.
Anyway, they have a list of words Democrats should stop saying.
and uh
and
come up with this list this uh i don't know i don't know and i don't care they're just bumping into walls as usual what is going on with these people all you have to do is just be honest tell it like it is i mean you have the easiest agenda in the world at this point tell me the trump administration hasn't handed you the world in issues anyway here are the words not to be said body shaming sis gender
Holding space, I may have even heard of that one.
And never say LGBTQIA plus.
Or intersectionality.
Incorporated people.
Systems of oppression.
The unhoused never mentioned that.
Or, and this is a good one, don't bring up pregnant people.
What?
I
don't know
what that means, you know, maybe there's
another word
for, you know, maybe they don't like the people part of it, right?
Maybe.
That's pretty, that's kind
of a
reach.
That's getting out of the weeds, isn't it?
That
means a reach.
You know, why, here's the other thing, and I'm sorry to bring this up to the Democrats, but a lot of these terms are used by mega.
Yeah, against of against liberals and progressives
and
pro-democracy individuals, right?
So it's not it's not our language.
This is the language they've chosen for us.
So get get off of
this topic.
Yeah.
Back up
universal health care.
Yeah, take it because this is going to affect every American at the end of this year.
We're going to be paying huge prices for health care and people are going to be angry.
Get the issue
now.
Mm hmm.
All right.
Hey, coming up, it's Tom and Christy Manus will be joining us.
They have authored a book about Wisconsin roadside attractions and we'll be talking to them in just a few minutes.
It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
WMDX coming right back.
Yep getting on the good foot this morning with John Peterson Gordy Young in the morning with Dom our engineer.
Hello
seeing beautiful sunshine It's gonna be bright and sunny all day long highs in the mid 60s So a little taste of fall here today right now 51 degrees Time for us to welcome in Tom and Christie Manus Back for your second appearance here on the show.
Good morning
Good morning.
You did so much fun the last time talking about your books.
We had to have a back in.
That's good stuff.
You have two books here, Historic Wisconsin Roadside and Secret Wisconsin.
Did we get into Secret Wisconsin last time?
Well, I think they've got something even more urgently on the agenda here.
What?
What do you want to find out?
Something you just recently did.
We did.
Oh, yeah.
What happened?
So we had a little different experience.
Originally, we were at the Chippewa Valley Air Show, and we had planned a ride in B-25 medium bomber, which is World War II from the CAF in St.
Paul, which was incredible.
I mean,
I'm a huge World War II plane fan.
And so I was really pumped up, really excited.
And the B-25 flew in, the crew came in, and we got to the point I had the jumpsuit on.
And I was so excited, and then they had an engine problem where something was in the fuel line, and it was just something minor.
But then, I mean, I was ready to board.
Wow.
And they called it off.
Oh, no.
Yeah, but if you think about it, the plane has an engine problem.
Do you really want to go on it?
I didn't really want him getting on this plane.
I was
really
going to take a chance.
I mean, they said it
was minor, you know?
Yeah.
They just flew in.
I mean, so.
Yeah.
But she's got a good point.
Yeah, really a good point.
Right?
I wasn't going.
Yeah.
Oh, I was, I was so ready.
I mean, this was like a chance of lifetime.
Yeah.
And I read all the books in the library.
You know, I knew all my planes.
I knew everything about them.
You know, I was so excited.
And this is one of the best restored planes out there.
So I was really excited.
But, but disappointed.
So, so in comes, we're just sitting there, you know, kind of waiting.
And then I
Uh, a Huey starts flying in from a distance.
And if you know, you know, you see in the movies and stuff, you hear the, the blades, uh, coming in from way far out.
And then they came in and, uh, and landed.
And I was busy looking at the B 25, taking photos and
I was talking to the pilot, the pilot walked over from this Huey and he said, you want to go for a ride?
And I'm like, yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't even think about it.
I'm scared to death of heights.
Yeah.
I didn't even think about it.
We started walking.
I grabbed him.
I said, we're going.
We get over there.
How does that
Huey look?
Well, what does it look like for a helicopter?
That's the one with the big blades, right?
No?
Yes.
Well, it's the Vietnam.
Yeah.
And this particularly Huey was from the helicopter conservancy in New Richmond, which is...
almost to the Twin Cities.
And it's one of the last ones, I guess.
They believe it's the oldest Huey flying from the Vietnam War.
So we walked over across the tarmac, and I didn't realize how tall they are.
And I asked the guy, I said, no, you have a step stool, right?
And he
said, you know what's good when he says, ma'am?
He said, ma'am, no, we do not have a step stool.
So I shimmy it up there.
And it was an experience of a lifetime.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I loved it.
Scared of heights and everything.
They don't shut the doors.
I wasn't nervous.
I thought it was the best thing ever.
Yeah.
He was scared to death.
Yeah, but things like that don't bother me.
But what scared me was, okay, we're flying with the doors open.
Yes, yes.
Are you standing in the door, actually?
We're sitting in seats.
We're sitting next to the door.
Yeah, but the doors are, yeah, it's
open.
And I had an outside.
I told her to go inside.
I knew she wasn't crazy about heights.
And I'm like, okay, I'll take the outside.
I would have taken the outside after knowing how it was.
It was so fun.
And the seat is literally inches from the doors open, you know, so but but what really got me was when they started showing us the seat belts Now first of all imagine a like, you know a mousetrap with a lover.
Yeah,
you know that
snaps Okay, so the seat belts come together, but they have this little lover that's in a mousetrap that has a hook
that goes through the opposite side, just a hole,
but
this little little mousetrap metal thing snaps into a just a groove and another piece of metal, and it just kind of clicks in there.
And he's like, okay, you know, and this was all you do.
I'm like, well, that's simple, because I'm like, where's the like shoulder harnesses, right?
He's like, well, well, there's no shoulder harnesses.
This is it.
But
And here's where it really got me.
So it
doesn't look really strong or anything like that, kind of
scary looking?
Well, it's solid.
It's durable.
But what got me was when you snap that little lever that holds the hook in, it just barely snaps in.
I mean, we're talking about, you know, a half a moon where it just kind of sits in.
But when he said, be careful.
you know, because if you bump it, it'll come loose.
And I'm like, I'm flying in this thing.
And so I'm holding my elbows up.
because I'm like, oh, I don't want to hit it, especially when we're turning.
We're 2,000 feet off the ground.
And
when we're turning, we're leaning on my side, looking over.
I'm like, I'm holding my elbows up.
I'm like, oh, don't hit it.
Don't hit it.
Because he showed us how easy it was just to kind of snap it out.
Well, come on, Tom.
This thing has been proofing itself over the last
70 years.
Well, yeah, it has.
But I don't want anything to happen on.
to the first time with me, you know, because it just- Where it doesn't
work, yeah.
So, you know, maybe it was too old.
Oh, that's wild.
I was just excited we found something that he's scared of.
Yeah,
oh, okay.
You
know,
that and ghosts.
Well,
let me ask you about that because you just mentioned being scared.
Have you had one of those experiences, a ghostly experience, something that was really scary in either Secret Wisconsin or Historic Wisconsin road sides?
Only got a minute left
here.
Just one little story.
Just experienced on Friday.
Yeah, we were down in Racine at the library looking at the little golden books.
Everybody knows what the little golden books are.
Okay, so they have the only collection and they're locked in a cabinet.
And they said that the paranormal explorers had been there and hit on the cabinet.
And we couldn't get the cabinet open.
Nobody in the library, everybody had the key, nobody could open it.
We were doing an
interview for, we do a TV segment with What's Brewing NBC in Milwaukee.
And the whole crew was trying to get it open.
And we're like, just leave it alone.
It's
fine, we don't
want to open it.
Can you guys stick around a couple more minutes?
Of course
you can,
okay.
We're gonna take a news break here.
We'll be back with more of John and Gordy in the Morning with Tom and Christine Manis after
this.
WMDX, 92.7.
This
is John and Gordy in the morning.
Mm-hmm.
That's John Peterson.
I'm Gordy Young.
Dom Lee is our producer and we're continuing our visit here with Tom and Christie Manus.
Six minutes past the hour.
It's gonna be gorgeous all day long.
Beautiful sunshine highs in the mid-60s.
So, you know, you're gonna be here all day.
You're gonna take some pictures, right?
Right.
Yeah, for your next book.
Right, we turned our manuscript in Tuesday.
We've
lost treasures of Wisconsin, which is about things that aren't here anymore, but we all remember.
So we have some photos we need to get.
And then you're going to join us tonight as we fill in for Pete Schwabba Night Lights.
That's at six this evening.
Yeah, so you'll come right back to this studio.
Well, almost everybody in this town has at least lived in a bar or two.
Any bars or...
Anything like that is in Lost Madison or whatever it is in your next book.
Lost Treasures of Wisconsin.
The whole state.
But it is Madison heavy since, you know, Christmas
for Madison.
She has
tons of memories.
Okay,
so that's kind of where you know a lot of people hung out there and we've lost a lot of them We actually featured a whole bunch of them here on the show a few days ago when the church key Said they were gonna close down then change their mind after the outpouring of angry angry people here in Madison Who have you know passed through there and had some fun there?
So
there's there's a lot of them.
I'm amazed at the music history
from Madison when we were writing this next book, you know, the headliners, the people that played at these places.
Well,
Hendricks played here.
I know.
You two, before they were big, they were in here.
I
mean, the list is huge, actually.
I was growing up in the 80s, and I remember with the drinking age being 18, we were able, even if we weren't 18, we could get in all these clubs.
And it really made me think of who did I see back in that
time.
Because they weren't popular.
We have a bar that's kind of interesting.
Oh, really?
It's up in Spooner.
And go ahead.
So when JFK was touring, not touring.
Touring.
Yeah, touring
for
president.
Yeah, touring for president.
Yeah, 1860.
He
was
campaigning.
He stopped at a bar in Spooner, which is now called Big Dix but corned.
And you know of course has a neon sign and so that that drew our attention, but
okay
But you can you can how can I say this other than you can pee where JFK Pete?
Oh, yes,
and nothing has changed.
Yeah, it's nothing has changed since 1961 Yes,
and the bathroom is I mean and it's I don't need it might have been clean since then
Maybe.
Is there a plaque there?
There is.
Of course.
There is a plaque.
On the door.
Yes.
On the door and... That is so Wisconsin.
Yeah.
He took a break from campaigning,
went in,
took care of business and someone bought him a beer and they have a little case that has memorabilia, including the...
the glass that he used, that he drank out
of and
newspaper articles stuck on the walls.
And it's a dive bar.
I mean, it's a serious dive bar, but it is an experience because it literally don't think it's changed.
And, you know, when you're taking care of business, you're like, wow.
He probably stood here on the same
file.
I mean, it's worth a drive to Spooner just to do that, right?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Definitely.
Wow.
That's
true.
That's truly
amazing.
And I was just noticing how you laid out the book, Historic Wisconsin Roadside.
And the amazing thing is you have towns and cities listed.
And then in each section, you list the places that you went that you were interested in, and it's a where to go list of places in these towns.
This
would be a great book if you're just doing staycations in Wisconsin.
You just pick this, pick a city, and then go to each one of these places that you've selected here and probably talked about.
Well,
that's why we did it.
We wanted to take, you know, the drama and the fear out of getting out and going.
Yeah,
we did it for you.
You just have to look at the book and say, Oh, well, let's stop here.
Let's stop here.
You don't have to do them all.
You can do them all, but you can pick and choose.
And they lean toward what we love.
I mean, because we handpicked every single one, there's there's over 1200 locations.
And we handpicked every one because it has a tight history.
And also, you know, we love pop culture, so it leans heavy into pop culture and neon sign and the road trip era.
And we wanted to make sure that it's going to be around for a little while because so many places pop up and they close within a year.
And we wanted the book to last.
We want people to do things.
Yeah.
So you have two books, really.
Secret, Secret Wisconsin,
right?
Yes.
Right.
And the other one, historic Wisconsin roadsides.
Right.
Looking in here, you've got Otis Redding's last flight here in Madison,
the
Black that's at
the
Minona Terrace.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
You've
got a
story on that.
I kind of do.
Supposedly he traveled with a suitcase full of money.
Because he didn't really believe in banks.
Right.
And his wife showed up after he died and was more concerned about where that suitcase was.
Well, no kidding.
Wow.
And all the research we've done, nobody ever figured out where it went.
So that's kind of interesting.
Yeah.
And also he was he was, you know, obviously he didn't show up to the concert.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And.
Oh, yeah.
But that, you know, the Grum Reapers were opening for him that night, which was not something which was cheap trick eventually.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
unbelievable.
I think it'd be neat to go back in time and see all these things that have happened.
No kidding.
Well, you got two great books here and your website is smalltownplussize.com.
Right, right, right.
Any any other way for people to get to find you?
Oh, definitely.
These books are available on Amazon and everywhere else.
They are.
And they're also from our publisher, Reedy Press.
And I think they do free shipping.
So that's always a bonus.
And down here in town on the State Street, little luxuries.
And
also Lakeside Books, a couple in town right here for sure.
But you can really get anywhere.
I mean, big bookstores, but we always want you to check out your independent bookstore first.
Yeah.
Because they're our tie to our local community.
Definitely.
Good deal.
Well, thanks for joining us.
We'll see you again tonight, right here.
Same place.
Looking forward to it.
Right.
Same studio.
For Nightlight, as we fill in for Pete Schwab, Tom and Christy Manus.
Thanks for joining us today.
Thanks for having us.
And we'll talk to you again this evening.
All right.
OK.
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I believe that's right.
OK.
Yes.
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Are you?
Are you sure?
Selfly through the papers.
Yes, September
6th.
Okay.
So we'll take the first call there.
Dom, go right to the phones.
Let's get right, let's get our winner right here right now.
And let's see who we've got on the line.
Good morning.
Who's here?
Who's there?
Hello?
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Hi, you're on with John and Gordy.
Go ahead.
Hi, who's this?
Are the phones not work?
The phone's not working.
I think the phone's out.
You think the phone is out?
Hello
listener, can you hear me on your phone?
I'll tell you why, why don't we just, why don't you take the calls?
All right, you take the call.
We can't.
And we'll continue.
Trouble shoot this right now on me.
I want to get to the stories or we had a lot of stories, man.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
How about this?
744,300 job cuts were announced.
by companies in the first half of this year, 744,000 job cuts.
Are you kidding me?
The highest layoffs since the pandemic.
Now that's, you know, a lot of people were off during the pandemic.
Wow.
That's crazy.
And Doge cut 287,000 jobs, add to that.
Microsoft announced 9,000 cuts to jobs.
Eastern and southeastern states saw layoffs of 220% compared to last year.
And get this, and after all of what I've just mentioned here, despite all of that, unemployment is still at a low 4.2%.
How is it?
I am just... Those numbers don't add up.
No, it doesn't add up at all.
I can't believe this.
And not only that, but we have tariffs in place.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, and prices have not gone through the roof yet.
And not only that.
Well, they've edged up.
Now, you would think, yeah, they've edged up and there are some very expensive items out there that are affected by tariffs.
But here's the thing, it hasn't really taken off.
We haven't seen inflation take off, right?
And I am stumped by that.
First of all, we got the tariffs to make that leap to become more expensive.
But then,
where the companies, you know, they jumped on the bandwagon of greed-flation when they had a chance to do it.
They have a chance to do it now, but no one is doing it.
They're not doing it.
They're not raising prices or downsizing the boxes of a product that they're putting out.
I don't understand.
I mean, everything is there.
Everything is ripe for these people to make a lot of money and raise the prices and increase inflation.
But it ain't happening.
And I'm a little suspicious.
I'm stumped by this.
I don't get it.
I'm glad.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm glad that this is happening.
But all right, let's get to something so surreal and so ridiculous.
It's just hard to believe.
NASA's acting administrator, Sean Duffy, I can't believe I'm even saying that, says the agency will step back from climate science to focus on space exploration, raising concerns about gaps in climate monitoring and weather forecast.
Duffy posted this under my leadership, which is just mind boggling, we'll restore
NASA's primary mission as space exploration.
We're getting rid of the discriminatory DEI in NASA and the nonsense of climate change, Duffy said.
Now, here's the thing.
How much space exploration are we really doing at this point?
How busy are we going to be with space exploration?
We don't have the ships going out to Mars at the end of the universe.
We don't have the spaceships not exploring.
It's all science fiction.
It's a movie.
You might want to go to the theaters and experience space exploration, but you ain't going to get it here on earth because we don't have the technology yet.
Oh my God.
Anyway, you know, NASA has always said that they are there to understand and protect the home planet.
But not according to Duffy.
He's not even familiar with it.
Let's hear cut 187.
This is Sean Duffy.
Okay.
187.
All right.
Listen.
We explore, we explore space.
And so we're going to go to the moon.
We're going to go to Mars.
We're going to look at what do we do with our next low earth orbit space station, right?
Cause the international space station has another several years of life before it comes down.
That's important to us.
But all of the.
All the climate science and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we're going to move aside.
And all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration, which is the mission of NASA.
That's why we have NASA is to explore, not to do all of these earth sciences.
The mission
was to understand and predict the home planet.
I don't know.
All
right.
They had more of a mission.
We will continue with John and Gordy on WMDX and
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All right, let's check out what's going on in the weather with
Brittany Merleau.
Brittany, what do you got for us?
Brittany, good morning.
And did you like that?
That crisp, cool feel?
I loved it so much yesterday.
It was unbelievable.
It
really was.
Yes.
I know.
I was out there, I was hiking, it felt like ball, you know, windows open in the house, fresh breeze.
I feel like the first time I did that all summer long, how about you?
Same here, I think we've been breathing the same house air for like, you know, three months.
So finally, yes.
We've got a beautiful day going today too.
Oh, sure do.
Right.
Beautiful sunny skies.
Temperatures right now sitting about 50 degrees or so.
Today's high is 67.
So still about 10 degrees below average.
Breezy still today.
Those winds will start to calm down tomorrow.
We'll still sit about 70 degrees tomorrow.
Nice.
Then we get a little boost up slightly mid 70s on Wednesday.
rain rolls in at night.
Looks like it could be damp on Thursday, which cools us down to about 70 or so again.
So Thursday, Friday, dropping a little cooler, clouds clear again for the weekend.
And we start to warm things up as we cruise into the weekend.
And I mean, we'll be at 80 degrees again by next
week.
Oh, cool.
Cool.
We still have time to go out and buy some more brats and grill out.
Right.
Right.
I know it's so weird.
You guys are in short sleeves still and I'm in long sleeves up here up north
Well, it's warm in the studio, but you know, we were wore a just a flannel shirt, right?
That's it into work and it was just perfect really really nice outside even though it's kind of cool You know the temperature.
Yeah, but it felt warm.
You know, it's it's it's perfect out there I can't yeah, it's amazing
after
this summer anything is better than what we've had.
Okay
Agreed.
All
right.
Brittany, thank you so much.
You're welcome, guys.
Talk to you tomorrow.
That's Brittany Merleau, our WMDX chief meteorologist.
OK.
Why don't we get to something that I thought was rather interesting.
This is great news for Desi Lydic.
She's a host on The Daily Show.
Yeah, what's going on with her?
She does a thing called Fox Splains.
success with Fox Plains is unbelievable.
I mean, she gets about 2 million views on YouTube.
Really?
On Fox Plains.
Plus, she's up for two Emmys for the project itself.
Oh my gosh.
So that's how popular Fox Plains is by Desi Lydic.
Now who knew this?
Seth Meyers has corrections, Jimmy Kimmel has the rabbit hole, and The Tonight Show has during commercial break.
Every one of them has something like Fox Plains.
I did not know that anyway.
They all got something going on on the side.
Why don't we listen to Desi Lydic Fox Plains in this particular episode?
Let's check it out.
All right.
Finally, Donald Trump is going to release the F-steam files.
He is the only president with the courage to... Hello?
President said what?
Just like I've always said, enough with the Epstein files, alright?
Just move on already.
I've been watching Fox News for 253 hours straight and I'm ready to Fox-plain why the Epstein files are a massive scandal that mega patriots everywhere must stand up and stop being interested in.
I know what you're thinking, a secretive billionaire's private sex island sounds kind of intriguing.
Wrong.
Are you still talking about
Jeffrey Epstein?
This guy's been talked about for years.
This is old news, and not in the fun Benghazi sort of way.
Biden tripped on this
as recently as two years ago.
What about this salacious scandal?
The auto pen, which is, by the way, I think the biggest scandal.
That's the scandal they should be talking about.
Trump is right.
The auto pen is way more serious than Jeffrey Epstein.
This could be the biggest presidential scandal of modern American history.
In auto
pen, what?
How do we know we can even trust these Epstein files?
These files were made up by Comey.
They were made up by Obama.
They were made up by Biden.
This
nothing burger that you shouldn't be talking about was all concocted by Obama, Biden, Malala.
I think the Queer Eye guys even wrote a chapter.
It's pretty boring stuff.
It's shorted, but it's boring.
Totally shorted, but boring.
Obscene, but mundane.
Scandalous and a total snoozefest.
Like, white lotus season three.
It's simple, folks.
This has every element of a perfect conspiracy theory.
And starting now, I do not care about it.
Starting now.
See?
I totally couldn't care less.
I don't care.
I don't care.
Shut
up, Devin!
I just want to know who's on the list!
Just show me who's on the list!
Who's on the list!
The files were on Pam Bondi's desk.
And that is fine.
Look, the bottom line is it's over.
And as of now, I'm done talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
Honestly, I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being.
It is in fact time to move on.
They have closed the case.
I'm going to trust my friends in the administration.
I'm going to trust my friends in the government.
The government is our closest friend, much like Jeffrey Epstein's closest friend.
Listen, when someone says case closed, you can't talk about it anymore.
It's like calling shotgun.
It is sacred.
And that is why as of now.
Now, I am forever done talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
Forever.
Done.
What about?
Okay, maybe.
That's it.
That's Desi
Lydic from The Daily Show.
Great stuff,
funny.
Foxplaining.
After we check in on the Midwest Food and Farm Report, we'll talk to former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin.
Nobody went BX.
It's John and Gordy in the morning and it is a fantastic day out there right now.
Yeah, beautiful sunshine all across the area.
Downtown State Street looking bright and sunny.
We'll see sunshine through the day highs in the mid sixties.
Right now, 52 degrees.
Time for us to welcome into the show former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin.
Good morning, Paul.
Hi, Paul.
Paul, are you there?
Hello, Paul.
Stand by for
Paul Soglin.
Let me
call him
back.
We'll have any other problems with the phones?
All right, we'll give him another call.
In the meantime, we'll give you a chance too.
Call him back.
I just want to remind everybody we'll be on tonight.
Fill in for Pete Schwabba and
we've
got a whole list of guests and man, a lot of topics that we usually try to slide in here on the program.
Trump always wedges everything out, but we have technology and we have software and we have Hollywood news and movie news.
We're also going to be talking to Todd Alba.
He's going to
watch going to be in tonight.
He's going to be talking about the Brewers and the and the day for Bob Euker over the weekend.
That was really something.
That's right.
Salute to Euker at AMFAM.
Do we have Paul yet?
We got him, huh?
All right, let's go ahead.
Good morning, Paul Soglin.
Are
you there?
Good morning.
We're there.
Hey, all right.
There we got you.
Excellent.
Sorry
about that.
So last time we were on.
Yeah.
I made a mistake.
Oh, oh.
Would you like to make a correction?
Yeah.
We're talking about the band that Steve Miller and Boss Gags and Ben Sidrin played in.
Yes.
Before those other, they all went national.
And I said it was the imitations.
The imitations was a band that played around campus.
A lot of great blues.
And that was later in the 60s.
The
band that we should have named or I should have identified was the
fabulous Ardells But they played a
lot I'm sure with Steve Miller boss gags and Ben Sidrin in the band.
Yeah or so.
Yeah.
Yeah
But I still like it big.
I really love the first Steve Miller band.
Yeah, I know the early stuff.
Yeah, it's really great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Brave New World.
Oh,
I know.
It's
fantastic.
Excellent.
My children's children's children.
Yeah, yeah.
It was another
one.
Yeah.
Good.
I'm here.
I got a question for because, you know, we've been kind of following what's going on in D.C.
Trump's takeover of D.C.
And now the big threat of taking over Chicago, Paul, I.
Wonder because you've been mayor, you probably know what each and every city can do to prevent something like this from happening.
Please tell me there is a way to prevent this from happening.
Um, well, the first thing, uh, I'd start out with, and I don't know why this hasn't been raised is nationally, except for the FBI law enforcement is to be left to the locals.
And this is something that both conservatives and liberals, progressives have maintained in this country for years, that there was no national police force coming from the federal government.
And I haven't done the research on case law or anything, but that's certainly one thing that...
I'd hope an organization like the US Conference of Mayors of the National League of Cities would start working on in collaboration with municipalities like Chicago, Los Angeles.
The other thing that I'd do is I would in effect station my own police officers in places that and take up the space that
Wasn't that that Trump intends to send in these these troops.
Yeah And and and basically make them stand down.
Yep Well, I don't know if you've heard this but the Trump administration in DC officials have reached a settlement a halting the DEA director Terry Cole from taking immediate control of the Metropolitan Police Department there
so DC's always gonna be a separate and distinct
situation so
to need.
Yeah, because of the statutory authority that the federal government has
in
terms of controlling DC.
But and the interesting thing is, you know, the founding fathers when they established the district of Columbia did so, so that where the US capital was located, that it would be politically independent.
This would be great irony of what's happening.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now it's been taken over by Trump.
Um, you know, why don't we should just make it a state?
Why didn't that
happen?
The only reason they don't want to make it a state is because they don't want two senators to be added to the Senate, uh, Democratic senators.
That's it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And just for political purposes.
And they shouldn't be able to get away with that.
It's just for political purposes instead of representation.
They're doing it just for politics.
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, I just recently read that DC's population is greater than both Wyoming and Vermont.
Wow.
Okay.
Yeah,
that's a lot of people not being counted.
Let's get back to Chicago for a minute because it sounds like there's some stories out there that the Pentagon has been helping to plan this.
takeover of Chicago or to bring in the troops for maybe several weeks.
And, you know, why, why Chicago?
Is that because of Governor JB Pritzker possibly being a presidential candidate?
Or is it just that Trump wants to go in there and show he's a tough guy and start going through the streets and rounding up people?
Yeah, his point is to take over
liberal cities.
Yeah.
You know, and that's the whole point is he wants a poster child for a democratic city in a democratic state that he can use to build political sympathy anywhere elsewhere.
He's not going to pick up political sympathy and support in Chicago or in the state of Illinois.
So yeah, my guess is that's why he sees Chicago.
Again, you know, if you look at the data in terms of crime, just as the situation is in DC, Chicago significantly improved.
Right.
Well, you know, the thing is now they're touting the fact that crime is way down, you know, with the Humvees and the soldiers at the National Guard and the police force, all of those things have really kept crime way down.
How nice it is to see all of these law enforcement agents out there.
The business is way down now in DC, I understand.
Well, tourism is way down.
Yeah, no one's walking around the monuments anymore.
Yeah, and that's the challenge.
Do you want to make that kind of a commitment permanent?
Where are you going to get the money?
Commain that number of law enforcement on the streets at any given time plus you combine that with the potential Problem which which is going to happen.
Yeah, namely If you don't have property properly trained officers Something's gonna go wrong.
It's just a question of time.
Yeah So turning to local
politics here in Wisconsin.
How do you think this governor's race is shaping up?
Who else is throwing red getting ready to throw their hat in the ring?
Next, you know, I am so far out of it these days in terms of the inside game.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, I would think that that Josh call will the Attorney General.
All right, we got the
Secretary of State, we got Lieutenant Governor.
I really don't know the players on the
Republican side,
Republican side.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So that, those all offer up a challenge.
My big concern about this is how are they going to launch a campaign?
that gets them through a primary and at least on the Democratic side, which is where I planned, obviously, is get them through the general election.
And here's here's either way, I think is the challenge.
To get through the primary, I believe most of these candidates are going to run on an anti-Trump platform and how they're going to
protect us from Trump's follies, his stupidity, his danger.
But they can't do it in just the way I described it.
Because I don't think an anti-Trump campaign is going to win the general election.
Not when the key swing voters are the people who move back and forth.
between Republican and the Democratic column.
And in the last election here in the state, the presidential election, there's that key five, six, seven percent.
They voted for Trump.
They invoked for Harris.
And so that's going to be the big challenge.
Well, you know, Ed, we got to figure in healthcare too, because at the end of the year, the ACA,
Obamacare is going to lose some of the subsidies that were put in place during COVID.
And a lot of people's premiums are going to go right through the roof.
And there'll be a lot of people who are going to be very angry at the tax cuts that Trump put in place and allowed something like this to happen, even though they've delayed the Medicaid cuts till after the next election.
So it doesn't impact a lot of people, but people.
I think what you.
Yeah.
The way you've described it is the way it has to be approached.
In other words, I'm not here to bash Trump.
What I'm here to do is to protect your health care.
I'm the candidate who's going to protect your health care and then describe it in those terms and juxtapose it as to what the impact is and will be of the Trump assault.
Again, don't describe it the way I am.
but describe it as how you would positively fix this problem.
And the same thing is true in terms of agricultural policy.
Between the tariffs and the ice raids, those are real dangerous to Wisconsin agriculture and to a considerable part of our state's population that voted for Trump.
Well, I know, you know, I've been trying to get the Democrats to pick up the mantle of health care for all.
I wish they would do it.
So at least, you know, we're ahead of the game here instead of waiting to react to the health care premium increases.
See, that's that's the problem.
We should be out there on the offense instead of playing defense all the time.
I just saw a chart comparing life expectancy.
Going back 50 years ago and to the present time and where 50 years ago the US had one of the 10 best ratings in terms of life expectancy I don't think we're even in the top 50 anymore.
Yeah, that's scary stuff.
I'm pretty sure we aren't
Paul, we got to leave it there.
Thank you for joining us.
We'll talk to you again
soon.
All
right.
Take care.
All right.
That's
former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, 748, back to wrap things up in just a moment.
John
and
Gordy.
A little Bob Uker.
Oh, yeah.
Coming
up.
WMDX is John and Gordy and we've got a little story here on Bob Yooker because yesterday the Brewer celebrated and dedicated that day to Bob Yooker.
Yeah, they had big ceremonies and they had Bob Costas was there talking
to
Robin Yount and some of the other Brewer faithful were there.
It was quite a day, quite a day remembering Bob Yooker.
And my
my mega friend in Milwaukee.
Yeah, he's a hairstylist and he used to cut the hair of the Brewers way back in yonks day.
Really?
Yeah.
I noticed Robin Yonks let it grow out a little bit.
Yeah, he was a little hairy wasn't he?
Well, now he's a lot airier.
A lot airier.
The Brewers released this this post on X. I thought I played for everybody here.
Let's listen.
All right.
To
me Bob Euker just symbolizes the joy of summer.
Sitting on our front porch and bringing up a little transistor radio and dialing up the old AM station.
83 beautiful degrees of game time going.
Here it is.
Strike called.
And we are underway.
Cooking out brought some hamburgers with family and friends just always on in the background and became a familiar part of the family.
Summer's out fishing and there's my dad and there's Bob on the radio calling
the game.
It
gives all side stories that he would go on.
That's where the magic was.
If you didn't enjoy baseball, then you didn't like sliced bread either.
Brewer's head for Arizona on their up-and-coming trip.
Out there, you can hold a hot dog out your car when doing cooking.
Can't hit a curve ball with four baseball bats and a tennis racket, too.
All you got to do is turn the die on.
U-curve was always there.
Through the radio, I felt that I was literally there.
Throwed out motion, the passion, excitement, and the cold.
We're going to smash up the metal!
Thanks for listening, everybody.
Thanks for being Brewer fans.
And we'll get together again.
There it is.
A little Brewer tribute there and a couple of nights ago in Rigley Field.
They also had a tribute to...
Bob Euker.
Yeah.
They had him singing the seventh inning stretch song there at Wrigley.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was, you know, if you ever want to go down the rabbit hole with Bob Euker, just go to YouTube and go, you know, to the Johnny Carson and Bob Euker.
Yeah.
I mean, it was a regular guest.
You loved him.
Yeah.
Carson was a big fan and I think he had him on the Tonight Show more than any other guest over the years.
Amazing stuff.
And quite a day at Ampham Field.
Great stuff.
Yeah.
We're going to have more Brewer tickets to give away tomorrow too.
In fact, all this week we've got Brewer tickets to the Phillies game coming up and yeah.
So
I want to kind of
couple of minutes left.
Continue here.
You know, we talked about how NASA is going to get rid of put on the back burner climate science so they can explore space.
Again, you know, we don't have the rocket ships to do that.
But OK, I just want to get into what NASA is all about.
It says here, NASA's Earth observation satellites aren't optional.
They provide weather data the military needs for operations, farmers need for crops, and emergency responders need for disasters.
Shutting down climate monitoring could cripple national infrastructure and national security.
The 1958 Space Act explicitly mandates NASA study Earth's
atmosphere.
It's been a core mission for the last 67 years.
Earth science is less than 10% of NASA's budget and the technology directly supports Mars and lunar missions as well.
So there you go.
Put that on the back burner, huh?
Boy.
That's
what they want to do.
It's Sean Duffy from Wisconsin.
Why are we a participant in this again?
Oh my God, please.
How many jobs does he have now?
with the administration.
Well, I don't know, but you know what?
Scott NASA.
No one made a big deal about Sean Duffy not making it over to the railroad disasters.
Yeah.
Right?
The derailments that went on across Texas, and I can't remember the Missouri or wherever, there were derailments.
No one ever said, well, he never showed up like they did to our friend, Pete Buttigieg.
Right.
Yeah, they were all over his case.
He didn't make it there in time.
He
didn't make it in time.
But Sean Duffy's done none of
that.
He's done none of that and no one's ever said anything about it.
So it really was a big deal.
It was just another gotcha by the right wing.
Oh my god.
Okay.
A couple of minutes left here.
When
I
mention again, we're going to be on Pete Schwab's show tonight.
We're going to be hosting for Pete.
Pete is away on vacation or somewhere.
We know where Pete went.
I have no idea what he's doing.
I have no idea where Pete went.
I
don't
know.
He just
disappeared.
We'll try to find out.
That's fine.
That's
fine.
So tonight we're going to be talking to Tom and Christie.
We had them in earlier today on the show.
We're going to have them on tonight and talking to them.
And also Todd Alba is going to join us to talk about his memories of Bob Uker and the Brewers and everything else.
Yeah.
That sounds like fun.
I hope I'm there I've got a few other stories too we'll be talking you know some movie news Hollywood stuff really some technology
entertainment news we haven't done that a
long time but you know
nightlight will be the perfect show for
that I have a stack of stories just waiting to be told they may be about eight years old but a
What can you do?
You finally get to him once.
That's
it.
Tomorrow we've got Barry Levinson.
He's the curator of the National Mustard Museum.
Finally getting him in here.
Yep, out of Middleton.
Yes.
Right
down the block from where I live.
Right.
Yeah, you've been there many times.
I have.
I posed out there.
I mean, they have a huge festival outside the building.
I hope he brings samples.
I
hope he brings
samples.
Either Weiner won't be...
the wiener mobile down there and you can pose in front of the wiener mobile and uh the mascot yeah yeah can't wait it's a hot dog bun there we
go that's gonna do it for us Stephanie Miller is right around the corner next and join us tonight for nightlife with Pete Schwab it'll be us instead of him we hope you have a great day so see you later
