From the depths of a digital abyss, where truth drowns in a sea of clickbait and algorithms, a beacon ignites.
From the heart of Badgerland, from our studios on State Street in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, it's John and Gordy on 92.7 WMDX.
WMTX 92.7.
This is John and Gordy in the morning back again from a Long three-day weekend There is a song that we normally play you play Hmm a holiday
song.
What are you talking about?
Yeah song like a three-day weekend.
It's a
Monday kind of
Tuesday.
Oh,
yeah.
That comes after a three day weekend.
Right.
And we're going to play that all day long because, you know, we don't get many of these.
We
have four days.
Well, yeah, but we plan that.
If you could just, you know, hit that up.
I want to play at least three or four times this show
because, you
know, it's a special song.
You know,
it never gets played.
You can only play it every once in a
while.
That's right.
That's right.
OK, Dom is now searching through the files.
He
doesn't have to play it now, but, you know, maybe, you know, next break or two.
All right, there
it
is.
OK, happy Tuesday.
Yeah, it's amazing.
A short week.
I mean, it's going to be a long one because we've got a lot of stuff planned.
Yeah, we do.
In the not too distant future, we're going to a Brewer game this weekend on Thursday.
That's right.
Right.
Phillies are
playing the Brewers.
Phillies beat them last night.
Yeah, it doesn't look good.
You know?
We'll be there Thursday with our winners.
We gave away tickets in the last couple of weeks, so that was fun.
What else is coming up?
You're the guy who scheduled all this stuff.
Today's back to school day for Madison schools and
many schools
across Wisconsin.
So, you know, watch out for those kids out there.
You know, be careful kids when
you're
out driving around, you know, they're getting ready for school.
They're not thinking about traffic.
They just want to jump on the bus or get in the school and have a good first day.
It should be nice today.
52 degrees currently highs in the mid seventies.
Later in the week, we've got the Brewer game on Thursday.
And then on Saturday is our listener appreciation.
Wow.
Festival party.
That's going to be happening at Doundren's Distilling.
It's a great place.
We went
out there a few days ago.
We did.
Checked it out.
Quite the place.
It is a beautiful place.
It's going to be fun.
So cool.
Fun time.
Yeah.
Don, you went to the Dells over the weekend with your entire family.
How did that go?
I did.
It
went pretty well, I would say.
I got burned so badly.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it hurts just to kind of walk and put my backpack on.
No sunscreen, huh?
No.
No, I kind of...
Really, it didn't ring.
They
weren't selling it to Noah's Ark.
Even if they did, I wouldn't have taken it.
I like to go Noah's Ark sometimes.
That'll come back to haunt you.
But no, it was fun.
I went on Noah's Ark.
Noah's Ark was, it's a really nice place there.
And there for many years.
And then Pirates Cove as well, the mini golf place.
High up on the hill.
High up on the hill.
Correct.
How did
you do in the mini golf tournament?
I got last Last I got last.
It was just enjoying the experience, right?
Okay.
Yeah, you could say that.
Yeah So this was
you and your family who was in the family?
I was all my my
Mother, my father, you know, both of my siblings and then, you know, my girlfriend.
Well,
what
did
they wear?
Both of your siblings.
You've got a brother and a sister?
I do have a brother and a sister, yes.
Yes, I do have a brother and a sister.
And it was fun.
It was fun.
I
haven't seen them in a while, so.
Look, I'm just going to sit back here and listen to you guys ramble.
That's right.
What did you do for the holiday weekend, John Peterson?
Well, no one really wants to know.
Okay, good.
Okay,
you don't
well pirates COVID.
All right Help me please.
Okay.
Oh god.
Okay.
Yeah little bit.
No go carding no go carding at all No, we went no go card I don't know why we didn't do it because you were you guys were telling me the fastest go card in the world is there
Yeah, I should have went.
I said we did mini golfing.
I don't know.
I gotta talk to my parents about that.
That
and Noah's Ark.
You didn't do anything else?
Nothing else.
Did you go downtown
at all?
We did walk downtown.
We didn't go into any stores.
We just walked.
Go up and down the strip, Amos.
What is
that crazy store?
It sells everything.
It's like mid-50s stuff.
I don't know.
Brother.
There's some kind of weird store that you walk in and it's just loud music from a time gone by.
Right?
I can't remember what it's called.
Is it downtown or
on the strip?
I think
it's downtown, yeah, on the corner.
I remember driving past it on our way to Chula Vista.
Yeah, I don't know.
That
doesn't matter.
Okay, there's
so many weird stores
downtown Dells, you know.
Oh, I know.
A lot of souvenir shops, t-shirt shops.
Yeah.
You know, down there, you get fudge.
I
remember taking the kids down there and they had these trolls, these gigantic, bigger than life trolls in these stores.
It
was on display.
I don't know whether that was just a display for that particular time, celebration
of
trolls.
Yeah, I don't know about
that.
A
little bit later on.
Nothing ever leaves
the
delts.
That's true.
It just stays there forever.
A little bit later on, we're going to talk to Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa.
Find out what you can do with your pet this time of year.
You know, a lot of pets have allergies.
It's not really on my radar, but apparently Liz is going to tell us a little
bit about
that today.
And then Lisa Bernard will be here from the Dane County Humane Society and find out how they did with their their big adoption getaway or giveaway thing that they had recently.
And they still have pets to adopt, of course.
We'll be focused on a few of those.
And yeah, that's all I got
on my list.
Well, it's great.
Well, Gordy, what did you do?
What did you do for this?
Well, I spent a little
time up in Baraboo.
I was visiting with some friends there and went out and got some water at Rock Springs that I always, I always do that every about three weeks.
Oh, I was going to say how often do you do that?
Yeah, about every three weeks.
Thank you for reading my mind.
And yeah, that's about all I did.
I
did some work around the house.
I have not yet attempted to work on the gazebo, still needs repair.
So that's about my week.
I didn't do much.
I
just pack it away.
Well,
I'm gonna just
pack
the damn gazebo away.
Because I still like to go out and sit there, you know, because it's still decent weather to sit in the gazebo, have a little fire out there, a little fire pit.
Do you have a
fire pit out there?
I
did not.
Yes.
Oh, wait, you should
stop over something.
I'm thinking
back now.
I'm thinking back.
Last time I was there, let me see three years ago.
No, no, I've only lived there two years, but yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's all on my list.
Coming up.
That was a good list.
What did you do, John?
You really haven't said what you did.
Did you have a barbecue?
I
fixed things up around the house.
I got new speakers.
I installed my new speakers in the living room.
How do they sound?
They sound pretty much like the old speakers.
A little disappointed in that.
I guess I bought well the first time.
But you never know.
You got to keep trying.
What did you do with the old speakers?
packed them away in a container and probably give them away to my kids.
Well, my one son did take up my old amplifier.
Now they don't really get into the sound thing, you know.
So they don't really need amplifiers and connect all their equipment to it.
They don't have equipment.
They really don't care.
They're on their computers.
That's where the equipment goes.
So anyway, he has adopted one of my amplifiers, a receiver, and now he can hook up those speakers if he wants to.
And
we'll
see what happens.
But I don't think.
Yeah.
Well, it's not like they play a lot of music on a receiver.
I
guess they don't.
Yeah, they don't tune in.
Wow.
Different radio stations.
No, they really don't
do
that.
No, they don't do that.
It's
hard enough.
Anyway, you're at our home.
There's
some reason I live just on the side of a hill.
There used to be a quarry and I can't get any radio signals at all.
It was perfect for me because, you know, I'm trying to get radio stations because I was working in radio at the time.
I
could not get any radio stations.
I even put an antenna.
Now
you can't get a radio.
A
long time ago, I don't have that antenna anymore.
I see.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I don't do that anymore because, well, no one.
Does that anymore?
Really.
You know,
everybody's listening on their apps normally, but in their
car,
it's easier just to
tune it in on the dial.
Yeah.
There you go.
Well, Dom, do you have a... Would you rather... Is there
anything you'd like to interrupt us with?
Yes, from the long weekend.
Do you have a would you rather?
Oh, yeah.
Lined up for today, Tuesday?
I always do.
I can't wait.
Okay.
I always do.
All right.
Here we go.
Here we do it.
Let's do it.
Strap in.
All
right.
Here we go.
Would you rather be an outlaw of the Wild West or be a pirate during the golden age of piracy?
I'd go with the first one.
Wild West, yeah.
Outlaw in the Wild West because I get seasick easy.
If I'm out there for too long.
So I don't want to be a pirate.
I think I would do.
I'd be a wild one.
Too
many what-ifs being a pirate, you know?
There are some pirates that freed the slaves, some pirates that encouraged the slavery.
I don't know, I would never want to be a part of that, although we watch part of Pirates of the Caribbean.
Did
you?
Great series of movies, just incredible.
All the way up to number three.
After number three, don't watch any of them.
Gonna sour you on pirates of the Caribbean, so I didn't know they made more than three
Yeah, yeah, they did that.
I
think they had two after that Wow
might be
three, but you know just my My advice is just don't watch either of
those Okay, they're awful Second question down second question.
Would you rather have a stingray with transparent?
This is just as a pet, right?
Would you rather have a stingray with transparent skin?
or a white fur deer.
They're, I've never even heard of those, but it sounds cool.
Fur deer.
Both sound cool.
Yeah, well, no, they're very rare.
They are the right, the white deer is very rare.
And we're always reading articles about some hunter killing one of them.
Right.
But yeah, I'd go
with the deer.
Yeah,
I'd go with that too.
Yeah,
I think I'd go with that too.
You guys really persuade me here.
How would you keep a stingray anyway?
You'd have to get a giant pool.
A giant room full of water.
Or, you know, your underground swimming pool, you'd probably have to spend a lot of money on that stingray.
Heavenly red stories about individuals stung by the stingray and were killed because the stingray stung them in the heart.
Steve, what's his name?
Oh, you know... Cochran?
No.
No,
the
guy.
He went for wild animals.
The wild animal guy.
Yeah.
I don't want it.
I'm going to look it up there.
I
mean, ever since that
happened, Steve Irwin Irwin.
I've never been a
big fan of stingrays at that point.
They always seemed really cool, inoffensive when they want to strike out at you.
They kill you by stinging you through the heart.
Yeah.
Well, that's what happened to Steve Irwin.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
I know.
What a way to go.
And, you know, he's just taking a break from his TV show and just went out and paddling around out in the water a little bit.
Got it.
Wow.
Got it from the stingray.
Yeah.
Very sad.
Okay.
Well, we're just getting going on this Tuesday morning.
We are.
Not going to rust off a little bit.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, I know.
I feel the same way.
Yeah, we were off for a long time.
Okay.
Um, coming up right around the corner, will we check in with Pam Yackey?
No, I don't,
I don't think so.
Is she gonna be here with us?
It's Tuesday now.
It's Tuesday, so she wouldn't be here.
She's not gonna be here.
That's right.
Okay.
That's right.
Yeah.
All right.
Coming back with more of Johnny Gordy for this Back to School Tuesday on WMDX Madison.
It is.
WMDX 92.7.
It's John and Gordy in the morning with Domair engineer.
Broadcasting
from downtown Madison State Street is looking just fine this morning.
I'm not sure what time sunrise is
or
sunset
John.
Maybe you
could check your WMDX Samsung watch.
Now don't ramble because right now this very minute is sunset.
So, I mean,
sunrise.
Sunrise,
yeah.
Right
now, right now.
23.
Okay.
And 729 tonight, sunset.
Okay, good to know.
All right.
Glad you asked.
Yeah.
Coming up in about a half hour, Lisa Bernard will be here from the Dane County Humane Society.
And in our seven o'clock hour, Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spa.
Yeah, we're going to get into, you know, talking about the War Department.
Oh, that's what it's called.
War Department of Defense.
Yeah, we're going to war now with everybody.
That's why we're we're changing the name from defense to war.
Pleasant that sounds.
And of course, the guy who wrote the book on BS, it's all spelled out by the way, the bug, right?
He's got a warning.
And that warning came out back in 1986.
What was the warning?
And we'll be playing that in just a few moments in idiocracy.
All right.
Yeah, it was a definite appropriate and timely warning that we should all pay attention to.
You know, anytime we mention BS.
Yeah.
Yeah, who we're talking about.
The biggest liar in the world.
Oh, man.
Okay.
All right.
And, and, and of course, you know,
there are copycat ICE agents out there now.
Now we knew this was going to happen and that's also an idiocracy.
We knew this, we warned the administration about this because you and I, Gordy, we knew and we noticed this and we thought, oh, we got to tell somebody in administration, you know, do something about this because we're going to see, you know, copycats out there and they're going to be threatening and probably, you know, in danger.
Do
you think the administration listened to us
about
our
warning about copycats?
Well, we never had a chance to warn them.
So it's too late now.
I wish they had listened, but they never listened to us here on the station.
Well, I think it would be easy to copycat somebody that doesn't identify themselves.
With a mask.
With a mask and scarf and, you know, just
jump out of an unmarked car.
Or maybe even a police officer with a mask.
Yeah?
Tip off right there.
They don't normally wear masks, right?
Yeah, so it's all these weird stories that I didn't get to in the last week and we've got new stories coming up, too.
So yes hang around for that.
Okay Let's uh the phone lines are open here 608-879-8255 all right
You know, the thing is I, I, I'm kind of mad because I shop at Menards and I get through 11% off sale stuff and you get a little rebate form and you mail it in, right?
Sure.
Well, what they've done at Menards is they've
They've narrowed the window for you to mail these rebates in dramatically to the point where you really have to get them in right away and waste all this time putting stamps on envelopes.
You know, you're spending more money on the envelopes and stamps and anything else.
But anyway, they've shortened the time period and the time period was today.
You had to mail it.
No, they had to mail it yesterday, the 1st of September, which is a holiday and no mail.
The post office is closed.
Yeah.
So there you go.
What was it that you purchased?
A lot of stuff.
I got speaker wire and all that other stuff.
I see.
We've got Mark on the line from prayer to sec.
Mark, what do you got for us today?
Good morning, Mark.
Good morning.
Yeah.
Laborfest in Madison was great.
Oh, yeah.
But going, going through, going through the news, um, that I see that, uh, Donald Trump plans on giving the presidential medal of freedom to Rudy Giuliani.
Yeah.
That's a fashion of defending our voting rights.
Right.
and uh... personal liberty and all that uh... and uh... the way these medals have been cheapened now is just beyond me and uh... i won't get into the whole department of war thing that we got rid of is is just to i don't know it must be a viagra for these for republicans to think like that because i mean they maybe viagra doesn't work for many more and uh... and it is just sad that
You know, the other reason I'm gonna talk about it, I think I got a clip and I thought it's an interesting fun clip to listen to.
What, from Rudy Giuliani?
No, no, no, this is the renaming the Department of Defense, the ward apartment instead.
So I got a clip on that and that's the only reason that we're gonna kind of rehash that old story.
But yeah, but you know, it's
so... All right, thank you,
Mark.
Thanks a lot.
It's so strange, right?
I mean, Giuliani, the guy who is melting hair, and he's gonna be getting in the middle of it.
Marcus, so right, we have cheapened every possible award because of Trump.
Everything.
Well, Rudy Giuliani, you know, when he was America's mayor, you know, after 9-11, he was, you know, he was a stand-up guy.
I mean, he really helped out the city, come back and
everything.
He
really turned the
other way.
Yeah.
After that.
He is, I think he's homeless now.
Doesn't he have a park bench that everybody stops by now?
Well, he
was in a serious car accident over the, you know, in the last few days.
Oh,
really?
I didn't
know that.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, he got, they got rear-ended.
He wasn't driving, but, you know, the car he was in got rear-ended and he went to the hospital for a couple of days.
He's out now.
Oh, okay.
But he had like a broken vertebrae.
Wow.
Yeah, I know.
It was a pretty serious accident.
Okay.
Well, we'll keep you updated on the Rulee Giuliani watch.
Doesn't make me like him any less.
But you know, I, you know, Giuliani is somebody that you don't want to aspire to be.
Yeah.
I mean, he is just, he was out there putting his entire reputation on the line for Trump.
And you know what happens when that happens?
It's not good.
Usually, no, it doesn't end well.
It's maybe it does.
Now you get a medal of honor.
Let's check in with the.
Midwest Farm and Food Report.
Yes.
And then we'll be back with Idiocracy on John and Gordy for Tuesday morning.
WMDX Radio in Madison, Wisconsin.
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.
You're the smartest guy in the world.
You're pretty dumb sometimes.
We ask a lot of questions.
We get no answers.
John and Gordy in the morning.
That's it.
Don pressing the buttons this morning.
Yeah.
OK.
Overlooking State Street.
Beautiful, beautiful day coming
up
today.
Yeah.
It should be really nice.
Highs in the mid-70s right now.
It's cool if you're heading out to the bus stop.
Bus stop weather.
It's cool.
Take a jacket or sweater.
You might want to do that.
Because
it's
50s.
Charlie Sharkino
say
that.
Bus stop weather.
He
does do bus stop weather.
Yes.
Yes.
All right.
I thought you just
made it up on
the spot.
He was not up this morning on the show.
Oh.
He's taken a few days off here and there.
They've got some new person, new weather person.
Yeah.
What was I saying?
Anyway, you know, it's a kiddie-less, kiddie-less
year this year now.
What are you talking about?
Kitty Dunn, you know.
Oh, yes, we didn't talk about this.
Yeah.
Yeah, Kitty Dunn decided to hang up the headphones.
Yeah.
Right.
Only gave like three days
notice.
Now I would have played it up here.
I would have garnered
as
much card and sympathy as I could.
Yeah.
Right.
But she, you know, just gave it three days.
Yeah, there were all kinds of shows.
And left the show with just
Jonathan knows on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Flying solo.
Oh, good.
Yeah, we worked with Kitty.
In fact, we were
mentioned in
one of the articles.
I don't know if you saw that.
No.
Were we?
Yeah, Wisconsin State Journal had Kitty's history, her career, and they mentioned us.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, that was a big surprise.
I guess I read the article from Madison Magazine.
Okay.
and that did not mention us at all.
In fact, they skipped the two years after triple M became triple M what they are today.
Remember when MAD went off the air, I went over
to the
owners and suggested taking the WMAD format and they thought it was a good idea too and they changed formats.
They hired us as the morning people and we had to convince management to force Kitty to be our news person.
Well,
if they had, if you hadn't done that, they'd still be playing beautiful music
or whatever they'd be playing
elevator, whatever they were doing, adult contemporary.
Well, if we hadn't forced Kitty to be on the show, you know, she wanted to be a news person.
She didn't want to be a part of the show.
She
wanted nothing to do with us.
In other words.
Yeah, basically.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, good luck and congratulations to Kitty.
She spent 33 years there.
33 years.
One station.
Well, you know, this is the editor of Madison Magazine, and she wrote about Kitty, and she missed our years.
So, of course, I emailed her with a brief history.
You
reminded
her.
Yes a reminder and Good for you.
I doubt there'll be a rewrite of they're not gonna make a correction Boy I know you know every time they have a reunion over there than a rask us I know why is that I know they wouldn't be there if it wasn't for us, but they don't care Maybe it's
cuz we got fired there, you know cross us off the list
We were there, like we were there for eight months, full
months.
That was it.
That was enough.
They realized, they said, well, you know, we never listened to them on MAD, but we talked a lot and they did not like that.
Apparently.
Yeah.
I
never knew about this.
Yeah.
So long time ago.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Do you have any
idiocracy or do you want to go to
the.
We have a phone
call.
We got CJ getting up early in the morning.
Help us out to hear CJ.
What do you got for us?
He's got an inside track on what Trump's big announcement is today.
Oh, yeah.
The fact that he's ill and on his deathbed.
What do you got for us, CJ?
Good
morning.
Good morning.
Hi.
I always love your introductions for me.
I wish you'd throw in WMDX's truth detector.
You know, I don't know if you did a question that I hope you had a good weekend.
Yes.
Did you happen to see JD Vance's and hear at his speech and lacrosse last week?
I did not.
No, I missed that.
Oh, it was spectacular, gentlemen.
You know, we got no tax on tips kicking in, the waitresses and everything.
We're gonna love that.
Tax on overtime.
No tax on overtime.
Well, it's
just it's
just it's just on the hours that you spent overtime So if you put in 60 hours that week you only get an exemption from taxes for the 20
Hmm
dollars over the 20.
Yeah,
so I mean and by
the way the tax on the tax on tips
has to exceed your deductible and most people who are getting tips aren't usually exceeding the deductible that they normally have so they're really not getting a Break on
that.
I was a waiter and a bartender.
So yeah, I made the fudge the numbers a little yeah
they all do you know
they'll
do but i love uh i love hearing your gentlemen the big announcement you know that i guess i would say i love hearing the democrats want more crime yes you see record number of days without a homicide well you know we're gonna send the troops to protect federal buildings so the police don't have to yeah and they can go out and do their job
So I can't wait till they show up in Chicago and maybe bring that Democrat controlled city crime written city, maybe a little under control and maybe save one young man's life.
Wouldn't that be a great thing?
Well, I think it'd be even better if they went to the southern states with really high crime and go in there and clean that up.
Yeah, they're only going to the democratic cities
with democratic mayors and
usually
most of those mayors are not white.
Tell me the cities that are run by republicans that
they have high crime in their cities and they don't even know it.
How do you like that?
You know, wow.
I know I read a story about that.
Well,
I
didn't.
I didn't know our state was high in crime more so than California.
Geez, I don't know.
I have to rethink that.
So yes, I
think that, you know, let me
ask you something really important here, CJ, before we go, because this is a big question I've always had about all of this and that you would trade having troops and Humvees and everything else traveling through your cities.
You would much rather have that because crime then is reduced because there's a constant presence of troops and police everywhere.
Is that a comfortable situation for you?
Do you like that?
Well, no, I guess I would prefer the alternative where they actually let the police Do the jobs and the judges would put people in jail for what the event that they may be perpetrated and not remove reduce a charge and The police are the policemen on the street are very frustrated that the judges
you know it's a very small percentage of people and reoccurring crime perpetrators that end up back on the street but do not consequences but aren't you uh that they actually did aren't you
trying
You're trying to actually tell a judge what to do in his own courtroom based on his history and experience as
a judge in the legal
system.
You're telling them to be tougher and
not do certain
things when, in fact, that's
their
job, isn't it?
No, I'm asking the judges to actually, the charges that the police officer said that this
But that's why that's why they're there.
They're whether actually be charged with that.
They're
weighing the crime.
They're weighing the circumstances and they come
up
with a judgment.
That's why they're called judges.
I don't know.
I don't understand this.
No, no, they're not liberal.
No, no.
No,
don't do this political thing.
Is that an excuse
so you can have conservative
judges?
What's that?
Is that an excuse to have conservative judges and get away with it by calling all
the other judges liberal, right?
I don't care if they're liberal or conservative, but when a police officer charges a criminal criminal on the street, how about actually holding them to those consequences and not reducing them to a point where they're back on the street again, you know
doing another crime.
And here we go again.
CJ, it's a feel good thought.
It's a
feel good thought for you guys out there.
But you know, I got to
tell
you that that doesn't work.
That's why we have judges.
That's why they go to courtrooms and have the hearings in order to come up with a better decision than just going by what the police officer said.
Okay.
All right, there you go.
CJ, thanks for the call.
Yeah.
All right.
All right, let's get to renaming the department of
defense, the war department.
You're going to have to change all the signs again?
Oh
man.
The station area, you wouldn't want to do that.
The
business cards.
The problem here is that this is really just, you know, in your face war department.
The beacon of freedom and peace tossed into the trash can of time, I guess.
Trump said, we want defense.
We want offense too.
He referred to the defense secretary Pete Hegseth as his secretary of war, saying the name had been changed as a result of this political correctness.
Yes, back in 1949, political correctness ran rampant.
That's when they changed.
Wow.
Let's listen to cut 200.
How do you plan to do that?
It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department to the Department
of War.
We're just going to do it.
I'm sure Congress will go along.
If we need that, I don't think we even need that.
But if we need that, I'm sure Congress will go along.
That was the name when we won World War I. We won World War II.
We won everything.
And just to me, seems like just a much more appropriate.
The other is defense is too defensive.
And we want to be defensive, but we want to be offensive, too, if we have to be.
So it just sounded to me better, really like a better name.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Defenses, too.
Defensive.
Christopher Knapp, a professor of history at Washington University in St.
Louis said this, the point was bureaucratic centralization to manage hard power going forward, whose primary goal was to be defensive, not war, which was understood as an aggressive act.
after the horrors of World War II.
So we didn't want to promote war or act like we were a country who would go to war.
Right.
We acted in a defensive way by defending other countries from somebody invading their countries and that's we were acting of as a defensive.
Yes.
And now we're on the offense.
Here we go again for a peacetime president who is saying now we have a war department.
It's a slight contradiction, but you know, this is the mega.
This is the mega.
And this is how they think.
They just have a little they like to change all the signs on all the buildings.
Then we you know, they take them over and
get
rid of the people
and make
it into something else.
But yeah, they want to go on the war path.
It's just strange to think of ourselves as a country of war.
I'm just not comfortable with that at all.
It is 648.
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All right, we've got some texts here.
I just want to get to these texts before we get to the pets.
Troy, of course, suggested when you do CJ, when you go to CJ on the phone, you're doing idiocracy.
Thank you.
Now, the rest here is homework for CJ, okay?
CJ would welcome redcoats.
Is that true, CJ?
Would you really welcome the redcoats?
Soldiers, police, how about this one?
CJ thinks police are the sole arbiter of crime and punishment.
He should be charged with stupidity.
Okay.
And ask CJ about the financial cost of what he's asking for.
Is it okay with all the money for troops?
How about using that money for maybe helping people, reforming people, right?
Okay, so there you go.
That's the homework.
Work on that and then get back to us with a long AI written paper.
Okay.
Let's get to Lisa Bernard.
She is waiting patiently there at the Dane County Humane Society.
Good morning, Lisa.
Good to see you
again.
Good morning.
Great seeing you guys.
Yeah.
How was your Labor Day holiday weekend?
Do okay?
Yeah, I think it went pretty good.
We got animals adopted.
So that's that's
always
a
really good thing.
Yeah.
Now, how did your big adoption thing go with
the shelters?
Yeah, the clear the shelters.
Thank you.
So in one day, we adopted out 80 animals.
Oh,
that's no kidding.
Yeah, that's great to hear.
That's
terrific.
We did have a few who were still there, so we didn't totally clear the shelter.
So we extended our promotion for one more day, which was Monday.
Okay.
And we had 13 more animals find homes.
Excellent.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, let's work on
the three we have today.
Yeah.
Who do you have
for us today?
Let's
start off with the first one.
Is it a kitty
cat?
Oh, you want to start with Rex?
We could start with this.
Sure, sure.
So Rex is a five year old 13 and a half pound orange tabby.
He is so handsome He was transferred to DCHS at the end of August from an overcrowded shelter in Wisconsin So we can try to help him find a home So staff and volunteers are still getting to know his personality but So far we're finding that he
starts out a little shy, but then he's really sweet.
He just needs a little time to adjust his new surroundings.
And then he's going to show you his snugly side.
He's looking for a new home to explore a window where he can lounge in soak up all that sun, watch the birds outside.
And family is going to shower him with treats, of course, and lots of love because he's sure to love you.
So how old do you think?
This
he's about they think he's five years five years old
all right
beautiful face
I know and gorgeous eyes matching the coat so beautiful
all
right
all right
he really pulls you in
yes yeah no doubt okay that's Rex now who do we have next
let's let's stick with the ours and go with Ricky all right so Ricky Ricky the road
boy he's
an adult dwarf hamster
He's less than he's less than a half a pound So he's he's a tiny guy He's mostly white with some brown on his back He came to DCHS with a number of other hamster friends in early August and
Even though he's small, he's big on personality.
He loves to run around on his wheel.
He stuffs his cheeks with so much food.
It's like, how do you fit all that?
But it will warn you,
Ricky
can be cranky sometimes.
Do not wake him up from his nap.
Well,
what happens?
He's scared.
He throws his wheel at you.
He's got personality, too.
You know, he just gets a little cranky.
He's like, what are you doing?
He gives you a little bat and stuff.
It's good to be
cranky.
Yeah.
Shows
independence.
We all get cranky.
Come on.
There
you
go.
Especially when someone wakes you up and you don't want to.
Exactly.
So his teeth are a little bit overgrown.
Oh,
really?
So, yeah.
So he would, his new home should have some different types of wooden type toys that he can, he can use to help file down his.
His teeth.
He's really cute though, very
sweet.
He is cute.
Very cute.
Okay, one more.
Vincent.
Vincent.
Oh,
what's Vincent's
story?
Vincent.
He's a three-year-old, approximately 50-pound gray vise lab mix.
Wow.
Yeah, he's gorgeous.
Never heard of that.
It looks like a
lab, kind of a brown lab, but...
So, he was surrendered to us in mid-August.
His family, they felt that they weren't giving him enough time because they had to travel for work a lot.
So he can be a little nervous at first, but he does like to meet people and he gets really excited.
He's friendly, playful, snugly.
He loves to curl up right next to you when it's cuddle time and he loves to play fetch.
He is looking to be the only pup in your life because he doesn't like to share.
So
no problem with
that.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, if, uh, folks out there are interested in Vincent or Ricky or Rex, how do they contact you, Lisa?
What's the best way?
Well, they can check out our website at give shelter.org or they could stop at our, our shelter today.
We open at two and come and meet them.
All right.
Excellent.
Thank you, Lisa.
We appreciate
you being
with us.
That's Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society, adorable pets.
Yes.
Yeah.
Adorable pets.
Thank
you, Lisa didn't think I'd appreciate a hamster, but you know if they're really angry and mad Well,
she did say that Sometimes had a little attitude when he gets woken up, you know, not expecting that.
Okay.
No, okay, that's Okay, that's it for this first hour of John and Gordy.
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We've got a new poll question up there, John.
Would you support a motorized vehicle-free state street downtown Madison year round?
Would you support a motorized vehicle-free state street?
downtown
mass year round.
Yeah.
Okay, here are the possibilities.
What are the possibilities?
Yes, I only want feet, bikes and scooters and other personal mobility devices on State Street.
So no buses or delivery trucks.
That's actually we have a three way tie.
That's 33% there.
All right.
The second option is yes, and install bollards to keep all the vehicles off.
So pedestrians can feel safer in the street, you know, those poles, right?
Yeah, those big cement posts.
Yes.
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The poll will be up for a few days.
Keep it post sounds
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Now let's go to the phones.
We have Joe on the line.
Welcome to the program, Joe.
Good morning, Joe.
Hey, guys.
Great show as always.
Glad to have you back, of course.
I wanted to just look into for a minute or two of this change from Department of Defense
to
Department of War that our president wants.
With everything, what's ahead?
What's the subjects underneath that?
And I did just a little research and apparently there's not a single country or ministry in any country on the planet except for us that has a Department of War now.
Everybody else is Department of Defense.
or ministry of defense.
Instead, we're blazing the trail to have the Department of War.
And what's interesting about that is how can you argue defense if you want to invade Greenland and take it over?
Right?
I mean, it allows you then to sort of get into what war had been in our past, which is about land acquisition.
I want it.
I'm going to go take it.
So there's no defense in there at all.
So I think that this is signaling in some pretty important ways.
When we go, they made the point, think about the language.
People talk about the Ministry of Defense.
Does anybody ever talk about a Ministry of Attack?
We don't do that, or we haven't done that.
So I would say that Greenland ought to get a little concerned as maybe Canada.
I don't
know what's happening in Venezuela with those ships that are circling around there.
But when you make a change like this, it's not neutral.
There's something going on behind it.
And I would say that something is, we want it, we're taking it.
So we're going to war.
We don't defend our country anymore.
We're going to war.
Wow, that's a great point.
That's a really good point.
Wow.
Yeah, I think they're, they're leading up to it.
Yeah.
There's something to that.
All right, Joe.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you for that call.
You can call us 608-879-8255 or get ahold of us on the Civic Media app.
Just text us or send us a voice note.
Okay.
It was a whole lot more thoughtful than the actual story that I... Well, Joe, you want to call us back?
We should have
Joe guest
host the show sometimes.
Really.
by seriously.
Okay, well, you know, I'm not intimidating.
All right, let's get to the big first story here.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, this is, uh, this is just getting out of control.
Now, Trump demanded the immediate release of data on the matter of the CDC and the problems of relieving a few employees there.
Okay.
Now this is bad.
This has been a debacle right from the beginning, of course, putting RFK Jr.
in charge of health and human services is just the worst mistake we could have ever made in history.
And I hope you and I aren't affected by this because, you know, we need all the vaccinations we can get.
Yes.
Right.
I know.
Why would they do
that?
I know.
I know.
This is just outrageous and absolutely ridiculous.
But anyway, he is trying to solve this problem.
There is a lot of people
disagreeing with what RFK Junior is doing out there.
You know, they had hearings now and they want some kind of resolution and they want the CDC board back in place in order to make recommendations so people can get the coverage that they need in health care.
Yeah, there are a
bunch of former CDC officials that are all lining up and sent a letter, right?
Yes, yes.
So, you know, so Trump is now demanding an immediate release of data on the matter while the
CDC is being ripped apart over this question.
He said that he said being ripped apart over this question He also said many people think they are a miracle that saved millions of lives Others disagree well We know the others that disagree are wrong, but I mean I just you know that let's treat it as an equal
Trump said, with CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer and I want it now.
So that's the way we're doing the CDC now.
Trump said he's been shown extraordinary information from Pfizer that the detailed effects and positive effects of vaccines have been
Wonderful, but no one has seen this proof that Pfizer showed him.
He says, why not?
They go off on the next hunt and everybody ripped themselves apart.
What is wrong with
this guy?
Okay, including Bobby Kennedy, Jr.
in the CDC, trying to figure out the success or failure of the drug company's COVID work.
We know what happened.
How many years are we into this already?
We're in five years into this.
We already know that the vaccine worked.
It saved lives, but now we still are questioning this and we must have an answer.
God.
Anyway, it's a big mess and that's what Trump is calling for right now.
Okay, let's get to this little cut from our Chris Hayes.
You
did a little segment on this and I thought I played for you.
It's cut nine from this month.
Okay, cut nine.
Let's listen.
When I call Kennedy a dangerous crank, I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly is the most economical way of describing the man's views.
He's not a doctor.
He has no public health background.
He has no medical credentials whatsoever.
He's environmental lawyer and, crucially, the scion of a very, very famous, wealthy and influential political dynasty.
And yet, here he is offering up wacky diagnosis of people he passes on the sidewalk or the airport.
I
know what a healthy child is supposed to look like.
I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street.
And I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation.
You can tell from their faces, from their body movements, and from their lack of social connection.
And I know that that's not how our children are supposed to look.
What on earth are you on about?
You can see the kids have mitochondrial problems?
their lack of social connection, you can see that.
Their faces aren't healthy to you, RFK Junior.
Should you bring your kid to RFK Junior with their face and say, what do you think, Bobby?
Healthy or not?
I know it's kind of a cliche at this point, but imagine if the guy sitting next to you at the bar or at a PTA meeting or at your kid's basketball game started opining about the mitochondrial inflammation in the kids in front of you.
You would move away.
because the guy seems nuts.
Well, that guy is in charge of our entire public health infrastructure, influencing policy that impacts your health, your family's health, whether your kids are going to be able to get vaccines.
Wow.
There you go.
OK.
Yeah, that's the kind
of
guy we have in charge, right?
Boy.
OK.
Now, you know, I pulled this clip.
This was from the hearing for a CDC director, Susan.
and here are the questions that our political party was asking this individual, you know, when she was applying for the job.
She had
the job for about a month.
Yes, let go.
And this is Minaris and what she had responded to when she was questioned
for the job.
Do you agree with the American Medical Association that there is no scientific proven link
between vaccines and autism.
I have not seen a causal link between vaccines and autism.
Any thoughts about the safety of mRNA vaccine in general?
The FDA has, in the production of the COVID-19 vaccine, had approved the mRNA vaccines as safe and had demonstrated efficacy associated with them.
So you would not be prejudiced from the get-go against such a platform, such a vaccine built upon a platform, whether it's for COVID flu, for Lyme disease, or anything else?
That is what, I have no a prior prejudices against the mRNA platform or any other approach that is being
taken to develop vaccines.
The problem here is that actually much more is at jeopardy than just vaccines.
Of course, vaccines are absolutely in the crossfairs.
But let's look at what has happened.
We've fired a lot of CDC staff over the last five months.
Essentially, now you have a hollow shell of an organization.
Obviously, vaccines are one part of what they do.
They do suicide prevention.
They do chronic disease management.
They do disease outbreaks, food outbreaks.
When there is a Salmonella outbreak, CDC goes.
All of that is now at substantial risk.
Nobody is minding the store, managing those things.
Americans count on that.
State public health officials need a functioning CDC.
And right now, we do not have a functioning CDC.
And I'll be honest, I tend not to be a kind of a doomsayer.
I don't see in the short run a path forward to rebuilding a CDC.
Secretary Kennedy has boxed us into a corner, and the American people are going to suffer as a result of this.
I don't want to suffer.
I don't want anybody to suffer
because of this
idiot.
Geez.
You know, Cheryl Heinz married this guy.
Well, that was her problem.
I don't know what she saw on this nut job.
Oh, my God.
They're still married.
Yeah, they still are.
You might remember her.
She played the wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm to Larry David.
Yes, this character.
That's right.
Oh, my God.
Hey, let's go.
Yeah, let's go to Dick.
Dick, what do you got for us today?
Good morning, Dick.
Well, Joe, what she was talking about is...
Extremely interesting as always, but was it only me that heard the laughter coming from China to with Putin?
Walking hand-in-hand with the leader of India
movie.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Yes.
What's going on there?
Anything you think
yeah, you
know, yeah The matter of fact, I think they're probably laughing at you know
You
know I'll tell you what I got that story coming up dick.
We'll do it right after we check in with Yeah, yeah,
it's just kind of a
rundown everybody is kind of knowing that this is a huge move economically globally and It's leaving the US behind and we'll get to that all right.
Yeah Absolutely cool.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you dick
Appreciate that call.
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Tony Evers noticed that we are ranked number four as best state to live in now.
Is that right?
Somebody has ranked us that at that point, so that's pretty good to check into that.
Number
four.
That's good.
All right.
Coming up, we'll be checking in with Brittany Merleau.
Find out what's happening weather-wise for today back to school day across most of Wisconsin and...
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I'm
singing the blues today.
First day of the work week for us on Tuesday.
Look at that sunshine.
That song, yeah.
Beautiful.
We can only play it a few times.
That's why we're playing it on the program today.
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I'm Gordy Young along with Dom Lee.
Our producer and Brittany Merleau is with us and we'll get to Brittany in just a moment.
I want to remind everybody our appreciation party for our listeners is at Downdrins Distilling this Saturday.
Begins at three o'clock and if you were one of our winners of the tasting tour
I'm just reminding you, you know, you want to get there on time.
Three o'clock is the start time, and I think the first tour starts shortly after that.
It's got a great garden and picnic center.
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We were out there.
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It's, it's a wonderful place.
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I didn't want
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They're paper pineapples, but, and they were taking them down.
I mean, that was from a previous party.
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A Tiki party.
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John and Gordy will be there.
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Brittany Merlot.
Said she's gonna
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Said she's
gonna be, are you gonna be there?
For
sure.
Oh yeah, 100%.
I will be there.
Excellent,
all right.
And weather looks good for the weekend, I think, right?
On the
extended forecast.
Yeah, actually.
Should be nice.
Okay.
A little chilly, a little cooler than we would want, but it will be dry.
It will be sunny and it will be comfortable on Saturday highs of about 64 degrees.
Wow, perfect.
So we are falling.
Love it.
Yep.
But what about today?
What do you think?
Today.
Today is the last summery vibe we have until next week.
It will return.
It's not going to go away forever.
But we will hit 77 degrees today, super sunny out there, chance of showers and thunder overnight.
More likely in the morning tomorrow and kind of on and off throughout your day tomorrow.
So that's going to be a little damp, little soggy, highs of about 70 tomorrow.
But then we start to crash cold where tomorrow night, the northern part of the state is probably going to drop to below freezing spots.
Really, way up north.
Wow.
Yep.
We could see our first few flurries flying by the U.P.
and across the northern edge of Wisconsin Thursday morning.
Oh, that's too bad.
Too bad for the U.P.ers.
But after that, we are definitely going to be flirting with record cold, high temperatures.
Oh my
gosh.
Thursday.
Mm
hmm.
Eyes of 63 degrees on Thursday, Friday about 62.
but
we could only make it to the upper 50s.
If that happens, we're breaking records.
Well, we're
going to the Brewer game on Thursday in Milwaukee.
I assume it's going to be rather cold out there in the stands, right?
I mean, it's an afternoon game.
It'll be all right.
It's an afternoon game.
They're probably going to close the roof because at night rain is going to roll through again.
Oh, OK.
All right.
Yeah, it's going to be a breezy, cool one.
So highs in the 60s are really going to feel like the 50s because the winds are going to be whipping at like 20, 30 miles per hour.
Wow.
Okay.
That
fall feel for sure.
Okay.
But all in all, not too bad.
Some, what time do you think the showers and thunderstorms tonight for us?
Overnight?
You mean?
Overnight, yeah.
After midnight while we're sleeping.
Yeah, okay.
But tomorrow kind of unenopped throughout the day.
All
right.
Good deal.
All right,
Brittany.
Yeah, thank you.
Appreciate
the update.
You have a good day.
That's Britney Merleau or WMDX meteorologist.
Okay.
All right Let's get to the big change in the global economy This is this is an editorial from call to activism pretty good site.
They're saying
They're deciding the future of the world without America at the table as the strongman rise well democracy fades Here's why this meeting is really a middle finger to Trump under Trump while America became a global joke losing allies power and influence the worst Happened Trump slapped crushing tariffs on India one of the most important allies that we have insulted its leader Modi when he pre when Trump pressured him
to nominate Trump for a noble peace prize.
Noble peace.
I know.
That's violating India's policy against foreign mediation.
So he can't do that.
Modi's move toward Beijing is seen as a strategic blow to the US and Trump's reckless policies.
It's so bad, by the way.
Modi reportedly refuses to speak to Trump anymore.
OK.
Yeah.
Now, India will drift closer to Russia and China.
creating a juggernaut alliance and a massive threat to America's global standing, all because Trump chose trade wars over solidifying their friendships.
This summit signals a geopolitical realignment that could reshape trade, security and global balance of power for decades.
And America seat empty.
Great.
Well, I'm sure just more great news.
I just strap in.
Well, you know, you can't really make it any worse than this, right?
I mean, when you have India teaming up with China and
Russia.
Wow.
They were all, you know, handshakes and smiles and
boy,
they were having a
good time.
They were
all over social media, along with another, I don't know, 15 or 20
countries.
Oh, yeah.
Kind of
signed on, joined up, yeah.
So they're
moving on without us.
Yeah.
But we're really going to rake in the money from all those tariffs, aren't we?
Yeah,
sure.
It's all working out just great.
I'm kind of another story somewhere here.
We're making like over $8 trillion and something so absolutely exaggerated that it's unbelievable to even think that we'll get
to that a little bit later.
Okay.
Coming up shortly, we're going to be talking with Liz
Johnson
from Serenity Pet Spa and find out what you should be doing with your pets this time of year.
You know, allergies affect pets.
We're going to talk a little bit about that.
with Liz Johnston after we take a break for the Midwest Food and Farm Report right here on 92.7 WMDX.
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It's John and Gordy
in the morning.
It's a beautiful day across southern Wisconsin.
We've got sunshine, clear blue skies.
Highs coming up to the mid-seventies today.
And right now, still in the mid-fifties.
So it's a little cool start.
I want to grab a
Jacket or a sweater as you head out the door.
Yes, back to school.
It's a very good advice.
Came up with that myself.
Thank you.
Wow.
You've always been very concerned.
I don't
want people to get a chill.
People when they go outside.
First day back.
Long three day weekend.
Yeah.
Hey,
guess who's here?
He's got a big heart, man.
You just got to love it.
Let's move forward, huh?
Liz Johnston has joined us.
Good morning, Liz.
Good morning, everyone.
How are you doing today?
Good.
I'm enjoying this not sweltering weather, except the top still off the Jeep, so it was a little chilly driving in this
morning.
Yeah.
Wait a second.
The top fell off of your Jeep.
No, no, the top is still off.
It's still off.
Oh, I thought you said it fell off.
Scared
me.
I'm perfectly
calm about this.
Is it a newer Jeep?
Is that one of those nice removable tops on it?
Yeah, yeah, so it's
hanging in my pulley system.
Cool.
So Serenity Pets, what's new there?
This is the time of year, you know, I'll tell you what.
I sneezed so much over the weekend just because of the pollen or whatever's out there right now.
This affects pets, though, too.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I mean, we're all made up of the same things,
right?
We all have, you know, skin, we all have.
Not any parts, you
know?
So the same allergies.
Dogs seem to be able to eat anything and we can't.
But how can you tell if your dog has allergies?
So there's a couple of signs to look for.
Obviously itching, that's, you know, a given.
Dogs don't really sneeze.
That's not usually an allergy sign on dogs, but itching, licking their feet a lot.
We see that one, especially with like the white dogs, if they're getting that redness.
Ear infections can be a sign of an allergy.
you have, let's see what, like rubbing and rolling, any red spots, especially in the spots that don't have as much hair.
So in between your paw pads, the belly, like little kind of sanitary area, anything around the face can be a lot more sensitive, because of course they're got their nose down in the ground.
So those are the areas to really look for.
You just see, they feel like they're rubbing and itching at those a lot, or you got any redness on the skin.
So what do you do?
So there are a couple of things you can do at home.
There are like pet safe wipes that they make.
So like if their paws are being, they're licking their paws and they're maybe
allergic to
the grass or something in the grass, wiping their feet when they come from inside, that can help it the same with the snout, the belly, things like that.
So anything you can do to wipe that residue off so they're not sitting at home with it, washing their bedding frequently is always important, making sure
that
that's not resting in the house.
So similar things that you do for yourself, air purify.
Just any of those type of things that you would do to help reduce the pollen count for you is gonna help with your dog as well.
Yeah.
So you don't need any medicine or
anything for that.
So yeah, I don't usually, usually I recommend medicine as kind of the last option.
Now there's dogs that need the medicine.
There's some over the counter stuff that obviously you can talk to the vet about.
There's some more extreme stuff for dogs with extreme allergies.
But there's also like medicated shampoos and things that can really help as long as you're making sure like, you know, going to a professional, getting it done right, making sure that's getting on the skin, it's getting soaked down into the skin and then getting.
thoroughly rinsed and then usually a good conditioner afterwards is important with those because they can be a little drying when you're using that heavily medicated stuff.
Anything else this time of year for pets that we should be concerned about besides allergies?
I mean, the pets are mostly happy right now because it's finally cooling down.
But you
will notice another what we call the fall shed.
So a lot of
people think they're like, oh, it's cooling off.
Why is my dog shedding again?
And what it is is they're getting rid of any kind of fresher coat that they grew over the summer because we're always growing hair even when it's hot out.
And they're getting rid of that coat so they can grow a thicker coat for the winter coming up.
So you'll see that a lot when the temperatures shift into a little cooler.
So they might need one good like one last de-shed before the winter comes and then they'll be all set with that bigger, thicker coat and just get maintenance
until the spring.
Are we talking about the lower coat, the undercoat?
Yeah, the undercoat.
Absolutely, yes.
And you're like double coat, like your Golden's, your Bernie's Mountain Dogs, your Collie's, your Border Collie's,
all those
dogs are maybe doing a Huskies.
Don't even get me started on
the shedding on the Huskies.
Really?
Pretty strong.
Well, they're bred to be in Siberia.
Yeah.
That people buy them and put them in 90 degree heat and
they're just
like, why do I have this hair in my house?
Well, you just kind of par for the course with a husky.
You're going to no longer own black clothes.
It's
life.
So they shed what they had and they replaced it with something new and thicker.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They only have so many hair follicles.
So if they don't
shed out a hair follicle, they can't grow a fresh new.
undercoat in there.
So you got to kind of, you got to get the dead hair out in order
to
get the new fresh coat
in.
So you have to brush or, or bathe.
Yeah.
So like with my collies, I try to make sure I'm bathing them at least every six weeks and it reduces their shedding a lot, a lot, a
lot.
So, you know, if I keep that on that maintenance, it just keeps that coat kind of coming out and it makes it so it's manageable and then I don't have to brush my dogs because I don't have time for that.
How about for short haired dogs and, you know, with very
little fur.
How often do you bathe?
Like chihuahuas.
Yeah, like
chihuahuas, your pit bulls, your labs, things like that.
Obviously, labs are heavier shedders than those other two options.
But you still want to get them in at least every other month.
Get them in because it's not just the bathing, which you got to remember about professional groomers is they're kind of your first line of defense.
You
see them more often than a vet.
With our dryers and our techniques, you can see more of the skin than a vet has.
I have found things on dogs when they
were at their monthly or monthly monthly vet checkup at their yearly checkup like the day or two before
and I
found something they had to go back in and sometimes it's nothing and I have actually found cancer before so it's
it's
things that vets can see or not that vets can't see and then groomer can so getting them in just for regular and keeping them with the same person so that like it's they have good notes and oh that's a new lump that's not a new lump is really important to help with your dog's health overall
yeah very good
Yeah, it's hard to notice the lumps only because, you know, they get the clumpiness, some clumps because of oil, I guess, you know.
So yeah, it's kind of difficult.
And, you know, we're trying to get enough courage to give our border collie, at least even take some of the burrs off, you know, at this point, where I don't know, are we bad dog owners at this point?
Do we let the dog get away with too much?
You
know, she's not a berser.
It's a real problem.
It's
a border collie.
You know, they're not going to bite us, but you know, it seems like they, you know, they really just want to avoid any, any care that we could provide them
pretty much.
Yeah.
I
mean, and that's just in the dog's nature because it's like, it'd be asked like asking a toddler, do you want to go get your hair trimmed?
Because to
them, that might be a scary experience and their hair might have feelings.
Like they don't understand this stuff yet.
So you got to really put your mindset in your dog as a toddler.
Like they don't have a rational understanding of what you're trying to do.
So sometimes you have to just show them, no, really, you'd need to do this.
It's not going to hurt you.
And they go,
oh,
okay.
And then they're fine because they trust you.
So you just kind of got to give them something
to
trust.
They
get
used to the trust.
Okay.
What about clipping their nails though?
I mean, that's okay.
Don't do it.
John says no.
Just leave it to the professionals.
Leave it to the professionals.
To do it.
And we
never use the gadgets or devices to do it because we're afraid to do
it.
And that's the biggest thing.
If ever you're afraid of doing anything with your dog or
nervous
about it is so important not to.
Because what you're telling the dogs can sense that.
They can sense that you're afraid.
They are a predator animal after all, right?
So they can sense that you're afraid.
So if they sense that, then they're like, you're going to do something that's bad.
And so they're connecting nail trimming, brushing, whatever it is with something scary and bad.
Or when they come in and see us like, I am a hundred percent confident I can do your dog's nails because I've done thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dog nails in 20 years of grooming dogs.
So,
so to me, I can pop a dog on the table and get his nails done in five minutes or less because I know exactly what I'm looking for exactly what I'm doing where it will take you five minutes to maybe do like one nail tentatively.
And this dog is.
and you're going, what is
wrong?
What is
happening?
Why
is
dad freaking out?
So it just becomes a big negative experience and you're just better off with professional groomers.
Well, the thing is, you know, our dogs forget, we don't.
If we go too far, you get a little bleeding from those nails.
Yeah, and the thing is, one thing to remember is,
It's like, so for the ladies out there, or I guess you have with your beers, you ever cut yourself shaving,
it's like a
similar issue to that.
Quicking the nail like a little bit is not like the end of the world
for the
dog.
And half the times when it does happen, because it happens, dogs kick into us and you know, you get a nail short, but they don't even notice.
They really don't.
They do not.
I have quicked a nail before and been like, oh, your nail's bleeding.
They're like, whatever.
Like the dogs don't barely even feel it.
What they associate with, because most of the dogs that pull or are bad for their feet, they do it long before I ever even trim a nail because they're connecting it to one time daddy was scared and they freaked out when this happened.
So like if you do quick and bleed, don't freak out.
Because if you freak out, then they're gonna
freak out.
And then
now that's that.
Competitive that they'll remember.
That's how they're supposed.
They're they're a reactive behavior is what you're creating.
So yeah,
you know
Calm is important
Anything new at a serenity cut spot.
You've got the third Store open up and going we're
actually opening
a fourth day over there starting next week.
Some big things as far as how we do, some people are aware and some people aren't that we do actually have kind of a training academy there.
So we teach people to groom and I actually have one of my groomers stepping into a full-time training role because we have so many people coming in and we want to dedicate more time to the best training as possible.
So
we're going to have a lot more focused training and I actually have two of my groomers just passed
two of their master exams.
So they are on their way to becoming master certified groomers.
So we're very
excited for that.
And cause yeah, they just started with us less than a year ago.
And so they're already reaching master master level.
So, so yeah, so we're really focusing on in on our training program and that's been going really good.
So excited about that.
Excellent.
And what are the three locations again?
Yes.
So we have our main big hub location.
So that's the Serenity West on O'dana Road, 6039 O'dana.
We have our East location that's on East Park Boulevard.
So it's right off American Parkway.
And then we have our West location, not our West, our Middleton location is what we call it.
So it's like our far West Middleton and that's a 310 Junction Road.
So that's our new one that's opening up and taking new clients at all of
them.
Yeah, right.
The Red Cross from Outback.
Yep, absolutely.
And the website or Facebook?
SerenityPetSpaMadison.com.
That makes it
easy.
All
right.
Yes, and you can find all three locations.
Book online right through there.
Well, thanks for clearing up all these mysteries
of how to take care of
your
pets without
freaking them out.
Guess I've been doing it wrong for so
many years.
Your dog might be a lost
cause.
I gotta tell you, border collies are so smart that they work through it.
I don't, but they work.
That's the problem
with smart dogs.
They're smarter than you sometimes.
Those border collies in the poodles, the standard poodles
are dangerous, they're so smart.
Liz Janssen, thanks for joining us.
That's Bob.
Appreciate it.
It is now 747.
Want to remind you, hey, we're going to the Brewers game on Thursday with our winners.
That's going to be a fun day.
Afternoon.
It is
an
afternoon game, three o'clock against the Phillies.
It could be a pivotal game.
You never know.
I know.
Yes.
And that should be a lot of fun.
Of course, our listener appreciation party on Saturday at Downdran's Distilling in Cottage Grove.
That's happening.
Anyone can go, but
we
have a special list of listeners who also have one.
A chance to
taste.
Yes.
Go on the tour.
Behind the scenes of these.
Taste and tour.
At Doundren's Distilling.
Okay.
Come back with more of John and Gordy in the morning on WMDX.
Stay right there.
You only get one day to play this.
Yes, we understand the concept.
So let's play it to death.
See how they put all that together?
Yes, it's great.
Thanks.
752.
All day long.
Yeah, all day long.
It is Tuesday, the day after Labor Day.
and back to school time.
Hey, we want to remind you you can sign up to help us out with the Alzheimer Association Walk to End Alzheimer's.
That is taking place on Sunday, October 5th and it happens at Warner Park and you can sign up and help us out.
Donate to our
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We're going to be walking the walk at again Sunday October 5th.
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Yes.
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Check it out at wmdxradio.com
And we're going to get those Brewer tickets out to you as well.
Yes, absolutely.
Just to let you know.
Yes, any winners that have not gotten those tickets out, they should get them in the next day or so here.
I'm waiting to.
You're waiting for your tickets?
Yes, I am.
Well, talk to Jenna in the promotion department.
We'll get going on that.
All right.
This was an interesting post.
This is the title of the post.
The White House posted that the US is now taking in eight
trillion dollars in tariff revenues so far.
Wait, eight
trillion?
Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
That's what drew my attention into this.
So I had to look into it to see what the truth was.
Eight trillion dollars seems like an awful lot.
We could pay down the debt very quickly with these.
Know was like six months, right?
Maybe not not even that maybe four or five months of tariffs so far They've managed to make eight trillion dollars Wow, why did we think of this before?
Anyway, because it it's not really a trillion dollars How much is it really Forbes writes since April start of the tariffs?
The levies have generated around $96 billion in revenue.
Well, that's pretty close to $8 trillion.
$96 billion, not $8 trillion.
The U.S.
has collected $142 billion in
tariffs
so far the fiscal year, and that includes, of course, Biden and Trump.
So $142 billion for an entire year.
only $96 billion in the few months that this has been in effect, not $8 trillion.
Just to clarify for CJs out there and my mega friend in Milwaukee, it's not $8 trillion.
Of course, you know, this is coming from, you know.
fake news so yeah what can you do i don't know uh the levies by the way will likely raise prices for the average household by nearly one thousand three hundred dollars and
this year and $1,700 next year extra that you and I were going to be paying for the price of everything.
Great.
But I actually anticipate paying more.
Do you
really?
I buy too much stuff.
The
speakers that you just
bought?
Yeah, I know.
They sound just like the other ones.
Are
they bigger speakers or smaller speakers?
No, they're the same
size.
About the same size, about the same.
I'm just, I'm really angry, you know, I'm sitting there wanting,
the center speakers for the voice.
And I was thinking that I needed a new center speaker, but I went and bought all the other speakers with it.
And just to make it easy and simple because it is Dolby Atmos ready.
Okay.
Okay.
So that's the whole thing right there.
So have you noticed any different?
So you're saying these speakers are no better than the other
ones.
I really haven't noticed a difference.
But you know, my kids will get some really good speakers now.
So there
you
go.
I thought this was very just uplifting as heck.
This is the border wall.
We know that they are painting the border wall.
Black painted black.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, they're not using a spray paint.
They're not.
Preparing the surface for the new paint job.
They haven't put an undercoating on to make sure the paint stays on.
They're not doing it.
They're just playing.
They're just putting black paint on that wall and they're going to be doing
that.
See what
happens.
Yeah, see what happens to spend our money on that.
But on the other side of the wall, wow.
What is
it?
I saw this on X, a work of art, Libru Guterres.
painted the entire height of the fence with a mural showing a cactus, plants, hillsides of flowers and blue sunlit skies with a run at river running through it.
I'm serious.
This thing is like, you know,
like 30 or 40 feet long and it goes to the top of the wall.
So you must have had like some help getting up there and somebody holding the paintbrush.
But it is gorgeous.
What a way to make the wall look fantastic.
The only comment I had and I made this to Ann, I thought, you know, this is just a gorgeous mural, just beautiful.
And I'm thinking, why did they do that?
Why didn't they just make America look like some kind of volcanic waste?
Why'd they make it look like, you know, a place
they want people to go to?
No,
no, you want to, yeah.
Right?
They want to turn them away.
Yeah, that's what I would, you know, like the surface
of Mars or
something.
Hellscape,
yeah.
Hellscape, there you go.
Demons and stuff.
The surface of Mars.
Scary stuff.
That's what you want on
the wall.
That's what I'm thinking.
So, you know, they could have made it look like, you know, Mad Max.
Yes.
That seems like a good idea.
Well,
anyway,
that's my
idea.
Instead, you know, it's a nice, beautiful mural, making it look like we have some kind of paradise up here.
When it isn't any more.
Not the case
anymore.
I have to start watching South Park because they are
They're telling the story the way it is.
I know, they're cranking
it out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good for them for doing
that.
Hey, that's gonna wrap it up for this Tuesday edition of John and Gordy in the morning.
Thank you for joining us.
Coming up next is Stephanie Miller.
And tomorrow on the show, we have Matt Rothschild and Mike McCabe will be with us.
We'll be talking about Scott Walker with Matt.
Oh, yeah.
We're gonna go deep with that.
All right.
You have a great day.
So long.
Talk to you tomorrow.
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