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And we'll talk to him about that.
We've got more Brewer tickets to give away.
They won again last night.
You know, last minute win.
Racking them up.
Yeah.
You're doing great.
So we'll have some more brewers tickets and you'll be able to go to the game if you win those tickets with us.
Yeah.
Your dreams have come true.
You'll come to Amfam Field and sit next to John and Gordy.
You get one chance in a lifetime.
That's it.
And you find yourself holding a beer in one hand.
And I don't usually drink beer anymore.
Boy, do I miss it.
You know, but why did you stop?
Well, you know, health health reasons.
I mean, it's not a deadly thing or anything like that.
It's just you have to cut down on the on the alcohol when you get to be a certain age over 55.
No hints as to how old we are.
I'm not I'm not telling.
All right.
But hey, fun, fun night last night on Pete Schwabba show, right?
You got another rant ready?
You have a rant ready?
We could check out the latest poll numbers here.
Oh yeah, why don't we check the poll?
We do that every morning around this time.
You can go to wmdxradio.com and participate in the poll.
You gotta tell us what you think because it's really, really important.
Oh, it's a really important question.
Do you support legalized recreational marijuana in Wisconsin?
A, yes, but I forgot what's the question.
That's at 60%.
B, absolutely not, unless the price is low enough, that's a 20%.
And C, only if Trump lowers the price by 200%, 20% for that.
Only if Trump lowers the price by 200%, that's giving him 20%.
That's what I just said.
Okay, get
just the weird
go.
What happened
They're
back.
Yep.
Yeah, let's hear it again.
I repeated it a number of times on there because it was so much fun.
Okay.
I mean, you know, back then, you know, these audio files, they really loved vinyl.
Oh, yeah.
And I just thought this was a good poke at them.
Yeah.
So I can't really find that cut any place.
Really?
I have that recording, but I have no idea where that particular track is.
No kidding.
In the library, yeah.
I got
Yeah
Yes, you're so used to it now.
First question.
Would you rather have an invulnerability field around yourself or no one in your presence can lie ever?
They all have to tell the truth when they're by you.
Wow, okay.
Boy, this is a deep question for you, Donald.
Yeah, I know.
I was trying to go funny at the start of this would-you-rather-hole spiel, but now I'm going, you know, this is gonna be intense now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
to
a
other stories broke like late last night and now this morning So we're gonna get a lot of stuff Yeah, and it's going to be just an avalanche of news tomorrow as well.
I mean it just keeps happening and happening.
I just you know
I have to kind of just get this off my chest because it gets so angry about it.
Oh, oh, we don't have any time.
All right.
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The John and Gordy show, that's us.
That's John Peterson, Gordy Young, and Dom in the producer chair there.
You may or may not know this, but the John and Gordy show was nominated for Best of Madison.
They still haven't awarded anybody yet.
I mean, we know that we're in the final six.
We don't know if we're in the top three.
Right.
We won't find out who won the.
thing until the end of September.
This is ridiculous to keep this such a secret, right?
Somebody knows, you know, somebody at Madison Magazine probably knows.
They're having competitions all the time at Madison Magazine.
Anyway, let me start again.
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Okay.
Great pizza at Sugar River.
Oh, I love it there.
Yeah, and that's at the Sugar River Pizza location in Sun Prairie.
Yeah, that's gorgeous place.
Yeah.
A lot of beer on tap, too.
Oh, man.
And those big windows.
I mean, I
they actually...
Well,
Okay.
I'm not trying to dig myself out of something that I found myself in So, you know, I got this thing that really makes me angry is heck Pam Bondi is She's not looking healthy first
Yeah, I don't want to go by looks here, but she always looks a little burnt out constantly.
She's busy.
Her eyes are red, and she's very abrupt.
She's not a happy person.
And
should go down in history save save that video Anyway, Pam Bonnie keeps going out there Accusing a bring a Garcia of being a part of MS-13.
There is never been a decision that links him to that The courts have not decided that
She continues to accuse this guy as if he were guilty.
She is not.
She's the attorney
Right?
Yeah.
Oh man, no judge of any kind has ever ruled that Garcia was ever a part of MS-13.
Get it straight.
What is wrong with her?
And then she went on on this rant.
about grooming children that come into this country and they're going to get rid of it finally once and for all.
There's nothing to any of this.
What they're doing is they're scaring the daylights out of every American that believes anything these liars say.
And that's just bothering the heck out of me.
I can't.
right,
But, you know, she came out with a comment and it just really, really irritated me.
She ended the comment by saying, uh, we're not going to set him free.
We're going to, uh, uh, get rid of him, keep him out of the country.
And we're not going to have him free in this country like the liberals want.
And I was like, what?
You're the AG, you represent all of us liberals and conservatives alike.
You don't sit there and take a shot at the liberals and oh you know the liberals, well I guess in this case we just want to hear that he's guilty sometime but if he isn't guilty and it hasn't been decided by a court then stop accusing him of something he hasn't done.
All
necessarily reward intelligence with no natural predators to thin the earth.
There was a place without boundaries, a place without limits.
Welcome
to Costco.
I love
you.
A place that is about to be
violated.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the quote.
Yeah, I have the right to do anything I want.
I'm the president of the United States.
There's nothing unhealthy about that.
But he's not a dictator.
No, not yet.
No.
Although, you know, maybe some people want a dictator.
That's what he was kind of going with yesterday.
You know, some people like the idea.
Well, he's doing
He's the boss man.
Now, interesting though, you know, with all the security that he's providing for DC and maybe other cities as well, he's also defunding the police.
And he's making crime worse.
Well, what?
All right, we've got a guy.
This is Dan Coe, founder of Rembrandt Media.
And he has a response to Trump's claims.
Let's listen to this.
Okay.
Take the argument to me that Donald Trump is the one defunding the police.
So there is no president in modern history who has done more to cut money to law enforcement nationwide.
Donald Trump announced that he was freezing 800
a million dollars, excuse me, in grants to 48 states and 550 community violence intervention programs, including for things like police overtime in Meridian, Connecticut.
I used to be chief of staff, the city of Boston.
rate of homicides per 100,000 in Boston is 3.5.
Compare that to DC at 27 or Jackson at 72.
The reason why we did that is because we brought the community together with the police.
We built that trust.
There's an organization called Youth Alive in California in Oakland, one of the places that Donald Trump pointed out.
They go to the bedside of youth after they've been involved with violence.
113 people last year went through that program.
only one got into violence again the next year, that program just lost their funding.
you tell Donald Trump how we're gonna reduce crime in neighborhoods when you're cutting the very funding that will prevent it every time.
Oh, yeah.
He debated a talk show host.
Boy, these guys aren't real bright.
Anyway, this is Patrick Bet David and they were talking about COVID and we're going to hear the old arguments about COVID from Patrick Bet David.
And Neil, of course,
has an answer to all of it, and I really like this discussion, so why don't we play this?
Here
we go.
From what we knew at the beginning of COVID to what we know today, what do we know about the vaccine today that we didn't know while we were all testing it on America taking it?
What have we learned now?
What do you mean testing it on America?
There were tests before it was released.
Nine months is not a long time to test it.
No, but it was tested.
You have a nine, but the average is 30, the average is five to 10 years.
I mean, nine months is not enough.
So you have to say, no, you have to
ask.
It was tested on in trials.
Okay.
There were trials.
That's what the point of phase one, two, three trials are all about enough to get data on how to then advise the larger population.
For you to say it wasn't tested is it is a gap between your awareness and understanding how things work and what actually happened.
Do you say, let's keep testing it while this.
virus keeps spreading.
People are dying.
Hospitals are becoming overloaded.
Do you say we have good data on the thousand?
It's not yet at a million in case you wanted a million.
Are you going to say, let's still do it on another, let's wait another six months so we get another million in here?
Will you do that as a public health professional?
No, no, I
would have said allow the individual to still have a choice that's OK with a thousand instead of a few million.
Leave the person have the choice not force him to take it or else you're gonna get out of the Marines and you've been doing this for 14 years not force him to take it or There's
a public
health versus
choice.
No, there's a public health Contract where in part we depend on each other For health our wealth our security and the like if you do not get vaccinated
you will put other people in this organization at risk, and that organization does not want to take that risk.
So you do not have this job anymore if you decline it.
There has to be a consequence to you not participating in that social contract.
Somebody may say, well,
freedom of choice, I want to choose what I want to do with the body.
If I can't force you to get an abortion, you shouldn't be able to force
me to get that.
Because it's not about you.
It's about
people you interact with, and that's the social contract.
In a case where you can contaminate someone else,
It's not about you.
COVID vaccine hasn't been tested for it.
It was something we just came out.
But let me... I don't know what point you're making.
Other than it was tested, you might... Nine months is not a... You might prefer... No, it's not a matter of time.
It's a matter of how many... Yes, the number of people is paramount.
It's as many people as you can.
I think it was
thousands, but... Is it fair
to
say that some of the side effects we may not know for five, 10, 15, 20 years?
Your decision point is not.
I don't want to take the virus because five or 10 years from now, there could be a...
effect which is a possibility.
If you say I don't want to take the virus because it hasn't been tested for five years and there could be some long-term side effect that worries me.
At 1.87% of everyone dying in the hospital of COVID was unvaccinated.
Your risk
choice is, I'm not going to take it because maybe somewhere down the line something will happen and we don't know what that is, or I will risk getting COVID.
And if I get COVID, depending on your age and other things, there's a 3% chance of me dying in the hospital.
That's your choice.
The individual not have the right to say, I don't want to
take it
because you don't have the right
to
contaminate someone else.
So what do I
do?
Stay home
all day?
Or to go to the beach.
Yeah.
I want to know how you process this as a guy that's well read, smart.
I process the data.
What happens to me if I get COVID?
There's a chance I'll get long COVID, and there's a chance I'll be hospitalized, and there's a chance I'll die.
I take the vaccine, it mitigates this, and I will accept the risk that in five years I'll grow a third arm.
That's the kind of decision that I make.
You want a world where you can do whatever you want and have it influence other people.
I'm not saying that.
You kind of are.
I'm not
saying that though.
I'm
I've never heard of him.
It doesn't sound like a great talk show host either.
But anyway, didn't make a good point and kept getting back to this freedom thing.
You know, we saw it in our own Supreme Court here with Rebecca Bradley.
Okay.
Telling our governor that he was a tyrant.
because he asked people to stay indoors and not have large groups of people get together.
He was a tyrant for that.
The whole point here is that we're not using healthcare to take over the government and become a king.
We're actually trying to prevent people from dying and it's a public health issue.
It was a pandemic.
Public health
I don't know why we were never able to kind of land this.
this idea, but the point is it's it's public health.
Yeah, it's a separate issue.
It's not political or it shouldn't be.
Maybe that's what they they see it as a political issue that they can use someday.
But the liberals don't look at it that way.
It's a pandemic and we need to save people's lives.
And a lot of people were dying.
Yeah.
All right.
So, uh, good argument.
I appreciate that.
Here's something good.
You know, I've been around a long time and you remember media matters, right?
A federal judge blocked, uh, people from trying to silence media matters.
A federal judge blocked the federal trade commission from investigating media matters for America, the liberal watchdog group that was criticized, uh, so many times by the, uh, right wing.
In fact It has been criticized because it went into it actually Posted a lot of video and comments from people who actually have made outrageous statements and they get blowback from it and they're blaming media matters for it.
Well, I mean, that's their That that's what happens.
That's
issued an injunction against the FTC ruling that its probe purportedly to investigate an advertiser boycott concerning social media platforms amounted to a violation of media matters free speech rights.
And she wrote, it should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.
And that's media matters have been criticized for so many years and it's just mind boggling because all they do is they play back the video.
That's all they do.
It's their job, yeah.
And for some reason, you know, they're lying and
they're,
get to
right They buy a whole housing like a 500 house division and they're gonna get those at a huge discount because they only make five models and they buy everything in bulk They might we might have had to pay 500,000 for it.
They're getting them at 300.
Okay, they buy 500 houses at $300,000.
Okay, they put them all in a portfolio They could flip that through a secondaries market, but even better They could hold those houses for a year.
Don't let anyone move and keep it looking like a construction zone.
Okay
And then a year later, they sell three of those houses that they bought for $300,000 to themselves in another fund for $700,000.
And
that creates
three comps in the neighborhood.
They do one of each of the models, okay?
And now the entire neighborhood each house is valued at $700,000.
And then they're going to turn them into obscene rentals.
And simultaneously they're going to have a double and a half value on that portfolio to borrow against.
And every American in that community was just priced out of everything around that community.
So clever.
So that's it.
That's what they're doing.
And these private equity firms are doing this all over the country buying these giant neighborhoods.
And then, you know,
Raising the price of each home with just individual little sales and that creates the comps and then it raises the prices for all the other homes Yeah, what a scam
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Sunshine.
Beautiful start this morning.
Highs in the low 70s later today and right now 50 degrees here.
You know, we were talking earlier about how many dispensaries are there now on State Street?
We'll have to go down.
It's down.
We're going to give you that assignment.
I want you to actually physically go, just you gotta take one walk down and one back up here.
Okay, I'll bring my notepad.
Count the number of descent.
And
Check your ID again, but okay.
All right, let's get to John Stossel.
Has socialism failed?
What?
I don't think so, but the better question is has capitalism failed?
Most people.
Now the EU is doing fine with their socialist ways, but really the question is
have consumers caught on to the fact that maybe capitalism is putting everybody where they are right now.
From paycheck to paycheck, they can't afford anything and prices are going through the roof.
Well, let's listen to John Stossel as only he can put it.
Socialist politicians
are on the rise.
I'm running for mayor.
This democratic socialist will probably be the next mayor of Minneapolis.
And socialist Zoran Mondani is likely to be the next mayor of New York City.
Socialism.
always fails.
In my last video, I covered some of Mamdani's bad ideas, but he has more, so I made this second video.
This
campaign is for every New Yorker who believes that government's job is to actually make
our lives better.
Mamdani says he'll make our lives better by giving us free stuff.
I'll make childcare available
to all New Yorkers at no cost.
I like where he stands on freezing rent, making public transit cheap and free.
Child
care, universal at no cost to New York families.
Fossils, fast and free for every New York.
And yet he has noticed that government doesn't do a great job now.
These are the slowest buses in the country.
Buses and subways are a good example of socialist confusion about what makes things work.
Original subways in...
New York were all private.
It carried tens of millions of passengers.
Private companies built most of the subways.
Then after 50 years they said let's raise the
fare from a nickel to a dime.
People didn't like the idea of paying a higher fare and the mayor took advantage of that and said well fine the government will take it over and we won't raise the fare.
But of course government did raise it.
The socialist politicians also say
They'll make workers' lives better by raising the minimum wage to $30 an hour.
That's popular.
Last year, California's fast food workers celebrated the new $20 minimum wage.
Yeah.
Also, consumers have to pay more.
Restaurants in the state have increased prices by 10% faster than all other states.
It's just supply and demand.
We freeze the
rent.
Activists like that.
But they only like it because they don't realize it creates shortages.
Everywhere it's been tried.
St.
Paul, Minnesota imposed rent controls.
The most stringent measure in the country.
So in St.
Paul's Twin City, Minneapolis, socialist Aisha Chugtai said,
I want us to follow their lead.
She's now vice president of the Minneapolis City Council.
But when I interviewed her, she didn't even know that rent controls stopped most apartment building in St.
Paul.
Builders still build in Minneapolis.
Building permits were up 65 percent.
But in St.
Paul, they're down 60 percent because of rent control.
You're not going to get more apartments by pushing this.
Conscience reveals so much.
That's right.
OK.
You know, the thing is, you know, rent control.
If you don't have it, then people can afford to rent, right?
I mean, that's the problem.
And there are ways around that.
The cities have been working on all of that.
So there are ways.
And he avoids, of course, talking about the other ways in order to keep.
Rent under some kind of control and make it affordable for everybody.
Mm-hmm.
So but you know, it's his wise-ass Smirking attitude that just really I just find it funny, you know I used to watch him all the time and I'd end up walking away from the TV talking like him for some reason.
I don't know why Calling everything into question
Why
Take a
very rich.
In the U.S.
Yeah.
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