The ‘America First’ Test (Hour 1)

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Yeah, that is a little AI magic for us.

Yeah,

the John and Gordy AI singers putting

that together.

Good morning, Madison.

Hey, rise and shine.

Shake a leg up an atom.

It is a brisk morning.

We've got two shirts, flannel shirts in a light jacket over that.

It's not good.

Well, you got to dress in layers now.

No, yes, you do.

Remember.

Yeah.

Yeah, the game is today.

We're going to be off.

this afternoon to a brewer game and we'll have some of our listeners there as well.

Yes.

It should be a lot of fun.

You know, we'll see what happens.

Should be in

the low 60s this afternoon.

It should be a hard game for you because you're not a big fan of the brewers.

You're a Cubs fan.

I am a Cubs fan.

You dumb.

What are you?

A

big Brewer fan, right?

I'm a Brewer fan, but I actually am a White Sox fan at the end of the day.

White Sox?

Unfortunately.

God's name.

What is that?

All

right.

What's that noise?

Please.

Now, how are you on a, you're a fan of the South Siders,

Chicago.

Yeah, that's where I'm originally from.

So always, you know, I've always been a White Sox fan, but Brewer's are close second.

Go Brewer's.

What

part of Chicago were you?

Yeah.

Like the South South side I mean like

specifically what neighborhood against you.

Yeah, no matter what in the park.

Oh Tindley Park.

Oh, yeah.

Oh boy.

That's a troubled

area What's the stadium the soccer is the soccer stadium there?

It's a big convention center So it's a big concert kind of stadium rather than a soccer stadium more more concert venues are there.

Yeah

Yeah, that's what we're known for.

That's it

there once for a couple of

Shows there takes Steely Dan and oh really might have seen Clapton's Crossroads.

I think that was there.

They probably were.

Yeah, it's huge Anyway, it's 43 degrees.

That's how chilly it is.

It feels it too.

So, you know bundle up dressing layers Taking extra jacket and extra sweater the hoodie.

Yeah, whatever you got

just thrown on this morning.

Yeah, it makes sense to me highs about 63 today.

Do you have a

A track on the Sunrise and the Sunset

numbers.

I actually do.

WMDX Samsung Watch.

The latest

numbers came in this morning.

You about to share those with us, or you got

to keep it to yourself?

No.

626 Sunrise and Sunset is set to set at 726.

Okay.

Very good.

That's amazing.

Okay.

Well, you know.

It's it's tough to keep track of all this stuff.

Hmm, but But my Samsung watch is able to do that and more.

That's great

Back to the brewery game

for a second.

Yeah.

Now.

I know your wife is a Cubs fan.

Yeah, I'm a Cubs fan It'll be great because the Brewers are taking on the Philadelphia Phillies and Kyle Schwerber's on that team.

He was with the

Cubs

when that

Did you

just clear

your throat or something?

Kyle Schwabber.

Not Schwabba, Schwabber.

Yeah.

He was on the World Series winning Cubs.

Oh,

with the Cubs in 2016.

Yeah, well, that's great.

Great news.

So I'm sure all the Cubs fans that are going to the Brewer game will enjoy seeing Kyle Schwabber once again.

What are we watching?

Kettle Moraine.

What is this?

Kettle Moraine heating.

They have an add-on and they have like...

dressed in dressed in stars star costumes.

Yes, because that's how many stars I guess their customers

are giving them.

Okay, like four star, five star something.

That was surreal.

Okay.

That was a

big, a big thumbs up.

Get them

a rain heating.

We've got Tim Slecker lined up in about a half

hour

or less and talking to him about whatever is going on in the world of education.

And then Paul Fanlin.

from the Capitol Times.

He's the publisher.

He's gonna be talking with us in our seven o'clock hour about Cap Time's Idea Fest.

That's happening next week.

Man, they've really got a great lineup this year for Idea Fest.

JB Pritzker there, the governor of Illinois.

He's gonna be there.

Tim Walls from Minnesota, governor there.

Also Jennifer Rubin, Norman Eisen.

Maureen Dowd, Eugene Robinson.

And

the list

goes on and off.

You forgot our names again this year?

What?

Yeah.

I don't think we were invited.

I would like to think every once in a while, you know, we come up with a good one.

A good idea?

Yeah.

No, I don't think we're on the list.

Good analysis here on the show every once in a while.

We would have known by now.

Yeah, I got, I got to say, you know, we got, we have Tim Sucker coming up from Busset Pencils.

We'll be talking about Oklahoma again.

Ryan Walters.

That state is just, I don't know what's going on.

Collapsing under the weight of Ryan Walters.

Yeah.

But they're doing some interesting things, you know, testing teachers from out of state to make sure they're not woke.

And we'll be getting into that.

We have a cut that we're going to play.

A little after seven o'clock, the big story is Florida getting rid of of their mandated vaccines for children.

Um, I just I like that it's really hard to wrap your head around what the Republicans or magas I think I don't know.

What do we call them now?

I am just tired of throwing these names around.

Is there a way that we could combine Republican and mega together?

No, I don't know.

I'm

trying to see if there's anything online mega plan

mega mega publicans mega.

Yeah, that's

You like that?

I want to tell him why.

So if we can do something like that and just, you know, get rid of this, there are no Republicans anymore.

The magas are purely a construction of Trump.

Yeah.

This is, I mean, this is totally Trump.

This is his agenda, whatever that agenda is, it changes constantly.

And, and this is what happens when you have a guy like RFK Jr.

saying that, you know, we

Don't believe in vaccines anymore.

You get rid of the CDC.

You get rid of all of these people that know what to do about the next possible pandemic.

And then you have Florida reacting to it by a knee jerk reaction saying that all mandated vaccines are now gone.

You don't have to get that.

It's just

up to you.

Yeah.

But no guidance.

This is big.

You know, I have a full speech.

from the Surgeon General in Florida.

It is so surreal and so horrific and so monstrous that I'm going to play the whole damn thing.

It is just unbelievable.

Can't wait.

Yeah, I know, it's great.

I'm also going to say this.

He says the same thing over and over and over again.

And

that's one of

the

scariest parts of his speech.

He has nothing to add.

I see.

And then he's the surgeon general.

He's like the head of the Department of Health.

And he's there saying, who am I to tell you what vaccines to get?

You're the head of the Health Department.

Your head explodes.

Of course we.

I can't wait to hear that now.

I expect you to be the person to tell us.

Anyway, you know, he doesn't have to actually take responsibility for it.

I mean, all of these mandates were put in place before we got there.

Why not just keep it going?

Why bring it up?

Right.

That's pretty much what Bobby Kennedy said.

Bobby Kennedy Jr.

in front of Congress.

Well, you know, I'm not, I'm not the one to listen to for health

advice.

Basically, yes.

Great.

I remember that.

And now there's

But, you know, a thousand CDC former workers have signed on to a petition to get rid of Bobby Kennedy

Jr.

Well, he's obviously not going to listen to that.

No, he's going to stick with it as long as possible.

Well, you know, we were in trouble when they named the surgeon general in Florida.

Yeah.

because he's just nuts.

They call him a doctor.

I assume he is, but this is Joseph Ladoppo, and he has been saying crazy things ever since he became the Surgeon General down there.

And of course, DeSantis, who used to support the COVID vaccine, is against it.

And

so this is all part of DeSantis's...

vision of what that state should look like.

He doesn't want mandates of any kind in his state and they're getting rid of all of them.

So they call it freedom.

You have the freedom to die from diseases in Florida.

Thank goodness for that.

Apparently so.

Anyway, that's a big story coming up after seven o'clock.

Okay.

Hey, checking our poll numbers here, wmdxradio.com, you know, poll question.

I still got a day or two to go on this.

I think we updated either on Fridays or Mondays.

I have to double check on that.

I think it's

Fridays.

Well, I really wanted that.

Are

you

sure?

Yes, it's Fridays.

Can

we

nail

that down

finally?

OK, that's great.

Tomorrow we'll have a new one.

Is that what you're saying?

Or is it?

It's after our

show Friday.

OK, so then it's Monday.

Well, it is after our show on Friday.

So technically it is Friday.

And that's when it changes.

That's when it changes.

Can't it change during the weekend sometimes so we can see the results on Friday?

We have all day to look at the results.

Yeah,

I guess that would make

sense.

Because we need a whole day to

review.

I mean we had a whole week of getting this poll going and then we get rid of it on Friday when the poll results are there finally for everybody to see.

Well, let's talk about those poll results for

this

question.

Would you support a motorized free state street downtown Madison year round?

And the first answer is yes.

I only want feet, bikes and scooters and other personal mobility devices on state street.

No buses or delivery trucks.

That's at 25% now.

Second answer is yes and install bollards.

to keep motor vehicles off so pedestrians can feel safer on the street.

That's at 12.5%.

The big winner here is, nope, we need to allow buses and delivery trucks, but no other autos.

That's at 62%.

That's

the way

it is now.

I'm glad a lot of people are

deciding that that makes sense.

You gotta have delivery trucks.

There's

no other way they can

get.

A lot of these places

don't

have the alley behind

them.

And at zero percent, nope, we should allow all traffic on State Street.

That's at zero percent.

Remember when we allowed all traffic on State Street?

I remember that.

Many, many, many years ago.

And they

closed

off

for the Halloween celebration.

Yeah.

Do we have time for a would you rather or do you want to hold it over?

Okay, you want to go to the phone?

Let's go to the phone.

All right.

Mark is on

the line

from the sack this morning.

Mark, what do you got for us today?

Morning, Mark.

Yeah, I'd say except for the apparently, you know, the rising

seemingly pro-slavery movement of uh... the mega republicans here that i'd say they should be sure a lot come with the old no-nothing party from the nineteenth century where they early nineteenth century was actually opposed uh... very nativist they were very nativist and they opposed immigration uh...

uh... there's

a strong anti-catholic vibe to the no-nothings of course you know they're they're trying to incorporate you know that uh...

Heal some of the schism between the Catholics and the Protestants because I can remember not all that long though There were some of the Protestant churches that were you know saying the the Catholic Church was the or church and Lying with Satan because the whole Pope thing and

yeah,

no nothing kind of kind of a new know-nothing party

because the know-nothing party Yeah,

it's gonna kill hundreds of thousands of people and if not millions

And disease spreads across state lions.

Well, that's what we're going to get into that, because that's the big issue for me.

Mark, thank you for

that call.

And Dr. Ladopoul also says that these mandates are the closest thing to slavery.

Wow.

OK.

It's coming up on 20 past the hour.

We'll be back with more.

We'll be checking our trending headlines coming up on Johnny Gordy in the Morning WMDX, Madison.

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It's a Thursday

chilly start

this morning

40 43 degrees and the highs just into the low 60s for today.

Hey, before we get to trending want to remind you our listener appreciation party is this coming Saturday and You are invited.

Yes, it's open to the public and it's happening Saturday the 6th at Doundren's distilling in Cottage Grove We're getting everybody together all of our all of our listeners and

We hope to see a lot of our regulars like Joe and Mark and Dick and, you know, whoever else.

What do you got going on over there?

I don't know what's going on.

It's a trending thing.

I'm going to bring it up in just a moment.

OK.

We can hear that.

You can.

You can actually hear that.

Yeah.

All right.

Mike goes off.

I mean, there it is on my little laptop.

OK.

Back

to the listener appreciation party at Dondren's.

Hey, we want to see you there, including all of our VIP winners.

Don't forget you'll be getting that swag bag and starts at three o'clock at Dondren's Distilling.

So everybody show up.

We're gonna have a good time.

We have a text here from Tina and she says, does this mean that insurance companies will not have to pay for vaccines for people who want them?

Will people now be paying out of pocket?

And that's one of the big

issues.

If the

CDC doesn't recommend them, and Health and Human Services doesn't back them, the insurance companies will not provide them.

And you'll have to just pay for them yourself, and usually about $150, $200 per vaccine.

Right.

Got another text here about the get together at Downrens at the Listener Appreciation Party.

John Gordy, of course, will be there and other stars in the WMDX lineup.

Todd Alba will be there.

Brittany Merlot is going to be there.

Pete Schwabba is going to be there.

Who else?

Dom Lee will be

there.

Yeah, I'll be there.

And you said, so Pete Schwabba is going to be there?

Confirmed.

He's committed to it a couple of weeks ago.

I don't know if he remembers.

I doubt he'll remember

that.

He's going to have to cruise in from Green Bay.

That's a long drive, man.

So a

little bit of a cruise, yeah.

But

yeah, I think for three hours, you know, Maggie Dawn, I think maybe Maggie might be there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So yeah.

And Jim Santel.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We invited him.

Yeah.

So it's going to be a good time.

And they're going to have a we've lined up a food truck to be there.

And oh, yeah.

And don't forget CJ is going to be there.

Yes.

And you know, it's a great facility.

It's just a beautiful place.

Yeah.

Just fantastic.

We're all going to gather

around.

CJ, we're going to hold hands and sing Kumbaya with CJ and try to have a little intervention with him.

I hope he shows up.

Well, yeah, if we if we dump the life of the party, come on.

Well, yeah, he's the guy that people will just sit there and laugh at, I guess, you know, he will be the life of the party.

It's a mega.

Maggie Dawn and also, you know, people from Max Inc.

Oh, Rocker's gonna drop by.

Terry Barr.

Yeah, Terry

Barr,

yeah.

And big lineup.

Okay.

Well, you know, so big thank you and a big salute out to Catherine Lake for helping us with that.

I think Catherine Lake will be there too.

It's gonna be a fun party.

Yes.

Looking forward to it.

Okay.

All right.

Do we have time for Would You Rather?

No.

Did we do Would You Rather?

Oh, we we didn't

but if you guys do we do that or trying well the trending thing is so it's a very visual thing, but it's so so It's so awful.

You know the thing is I want to post this on our Facebook site because this this is so

Well, what is it?

Yeah, tell us.

Okay.

Briar's ice cream, you know, those court-sized things.

Yeah.

A person has a grill out, a flat grill outside, and they put three of these containers on a hot grill, flip them upside down, and they start grilling ice cream.

And then they have Keri Gold blocks of butter, and they put those slabs, two of them, on this grill.

So you've got ice cream melting all over the grill.

You've got Keri Gold

butter melting all over the grill.

Then she puts white bread all across the grill.

I'm not kidding.

What's she making there?

And then she pours cinnamon.

gobs of cinnamon just like layers of cinnamon on top of this bread and then she's like mixing it up and then she flips oh oh wait one of the quartz is chocolate so there's chocolate to vanilla carry gold cinnamon on white bread on this grill outside and she starts flipping them over because they're you know grilled on one side already they're black

It is the funniest, most outrageous thing.

And then after all of that sweetness, all that junk that's on this French toast, all of this stuff, she sprinkles on, get this powdered sugar.

And it's, and it's all, it's like two tablespoons of this powdered sugar on there.

She starts knocking a little bit of it off saying, I don't want to make it too sweet.

three quarts of ice cream, sugar and cinnamon and you've got butter and she doesn't want to make it too sweet with the powder.

Why would you put any kind of sugar on top of this thing, this concoction of horror?

Did it actually work?

This is just, I am telling you this is, we had to post this thing.

Okay.

So outrageous, you know, as a cook.

This offends me.

All right, now, do we have time for whatever, no.

How about would you rather, no?

No.

Can't do it in a minute, huh?

Can we do it when

Tim Slecker joins

us?

Maybe he'd like to join in.

He would love

to join.

I think he would love to join.

Can we do that or no?

No, I don't want to.

You don't want to embarrass ourselves in front of him.

I just don't want him to hear the intro

is what it is.

Okay.

Okay, well, we'll skip that then.

Okay, all

right.

We save it for tomorrow.

We'll find out what

What's, whatever.

Well, he can improve on it.

He can rethink some of those questions.

I'll add to

it, yeah.

I usually want to improve on it every single time we talk about

it.

Well, okay.

All right.

Would you rather, I guess, we'll take a pass for today.

I'm kind of disappointed in that myself, but that's okay.

It's 29 past the hour.

We've got the Midwest Food and Farm report.

What do we have?

I don't know.

Okay.

We're taking all your texts.

It's a...

It's a text day, apparently.

We're getting a bunch of them this morning.

We'll be back with Tim Slecker talking education on John and Gordy in the morning on WMDX

Madison.

with the America first test.

And I mean, it's a very important issue we're going to get to with busted pencils, Tim Slacker in just a moment.

92.7 WMD exits, John Peterson, Gordy Young, along with our producer, Dom Lee.

Madison is looking bright and beautiful this morning.

We have clear skies, but it's chilly out there.

43 degrees currently highs in the low sixties this afternoon.

And Tim Slecker joins us now from the great podcast, Busted Pencils, all talking about education.

Good morning, Tim.

Good

morning, man.

I know.

You know, I'm, I'm, I'm feeling good.

Are you?

Yeah, I, you know, I, I proved to myself that I

I put America first.

Is that right?

You took, you took the test.

I

took the, I took the test.

Yeah.

This is the Oklahoma is providing this test for teachers coming into the state, especially California, New York.

They are definitely too woke for Oklahoma.

And this test is directed really toward them, but anybody can take this test if they want.

In fact, you, you took the test.

So I, I, I did.

I had to because.

I was, you know, I was concerned.

You know, I spent four years in New York as a teacher educator and

I

was worried

that

maybe...

They got to you,

right?

I may have become too woke

for those years that I

was there.

But I took that test and I proved to the world that...

I still put

America first.

That's amazing because some of those questions, if you answered them, I think it might reject you.

Right?

There are a couple of weird questions.

Like what?

What questions are you talking about?

How was a child's biological sex identified was one of the questions, right?

Yes, yes.

And I gotta tell you, that makes me feel a little uncomfortable, that question, you know.

First of all, you're talking about children, and then you're talking about identifying their sex.

In one question, in this test, seems really kind of sick to

me.

You don't see the commitment to America in that

question.

No.

I missed it.

So,

you know, that's

a very unusual question to ask.

It

seems what well, okay, then what about you know, this is truly an America first question which chromosome pair determines biological sex in humans.

Oh Yes, that is a truly America first question.

Yeah,

and you know,

and then why is the distinction between male and female considered important in areas like sports and privacy

now?

Well, that seems like a push

Push type question.

How many questions are on this

test?

It's like 35 questions.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, um, you know, I got one wrong.

Oh,

yeah.

Oh,

you did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, which one?

Oh,

he's

concerned.

I'm

not sure I want to reveal, I don't know that I

want to reveal that publicly because people might question my Americanism.

Yes, we want to keep that a secret.

Okay, well no, I'm even more curious about it.

Your producer, Jacob, took the test and he passed as well with flying colors, right?

Well, I mean, you've seen Jacob, right?

I mean, that's a real American right there.

We have seen Jacob, yeah.

He bleeds red, white, and blue, yeah.

Here's the thing, you can lie on this thing very easily.

And, you know, why don't we, there was a television report on this in Oklahoma.

Why don't we just play this before we dissect it, all right?

Sure.

All right, let's listen to this.

The test that will undo the damage of what's being taught to teachers is now available for teachers in Oklahoma, thanks to you, Superintendent of Education Ryan Wolters.

Well, hey, we're thrilled.

We have been focusing on getting education back to the basics, getting it away from all the woke, indoctrination, all the nonsense.

State

Superintendent Ryan Walters' new test called America First is now active on both PragerU and the State Department of Education's website.

You don't have to be a parent-teacher student to take the test.

And I could click Teacher right now and hit OK.

and I don't have to prove that I'm a teacher, it immediately goes on to the first question.

But there's also

a few questions such as, how is a child's biological sex identified?

And there's also questions such as, should teachers be allowed to express their own political viewpoints in the classroom in order to persuade the students to adopt their point of view.

The issue here is not so much the content of the questions or what's being asked, it's kind of the integrity of the test.

If you look here, I can click on

Any answer.

It says, sorry, that's not right.

I can try again.

I can say B.

You know, I'm not even looking at what the answers are reading, and it's just saying, no, those aren't right.

Let's just try the last one.

That's correct.

And then I'm able to move on to the next question.

So theoretically, I could pass this test without ever really looking at what answers I'm making.

After 34 questions, I passed the test and received the certificate.

This is what Superintendent Ryan Walters wants out of state teachers to show upon applying to become a teacher in Oklahoma.

Listen, we have to make sure that the teachers in our classroom as we're recruiting these

individuals aren't a bunch of woke Marxist

activists.

It's something

Democrats at the state capitol are calling an insult to teachers.

The constantly alleged that our teachers are somehow woke indoctrinators is a disservice to the public school professions and to the kids

they serve.

While Republicans are saying he needs Board of Education approval before a change like this can be

made,

that would then require the state legislature's approval.

And it's not.

I just get to wave a magic wand.

and say, I want to do this.

The state superintendent says he wants to make this test required for all teachers coming here from out of state, but specifically those coming from California and New York.

As of now, there's no state law that requires the Prager U test.

There you go.

Nice.

Now, I think that Ryan Wolters probably does have that magic wand.

Well, you know, I mean, he.

He's a leader.

Yeah, really.

And leaders sometimes, you know, they break rules because, you know, he wants to put America first and, you know, that legislature just gets in the way.

It does.

Well, here's the question I have now that this is posted already.

You can look at the questions and the answers if you'd like, kind of game the system ahead of time and then take the test.

The best part of it is though, like they were saying, is that you can't

fail it because you can't pick a wrong answer and then move on.

That's right.

It forces you to pick the right answer.

Shouldn't all testing be like that?

Yes.

I was like, if there's any breakthrough in what's happening here, we have finally found a way.

to have all kids succeed.

That's it.

It's perfect.

I like

it.

It's really.

It's a break.

It's a

break

through.

Oh, man.

I wanted to get a wrong answer and I couldn't.

Oh.

Well, I don't know, you know, Sir Ryan Walters guy, he's a real head trip.

How do they deal with this guy?

I'm serious.

Not everybody is a hardcore Ryan Walters fan, you know.

No,

no.

And in fact, you know, the piece we were looking at too when it was released was, you know, was out on one of the Fox News affiliates.

But at the end of the test, there's, you know, there's a

a piece by a superintendent in Oklahoma, um, who talked about, he's like, uh, you know, quote this morning, I took the new teacher qualification test that Ryan Walters says teachers will need to pass in Oklahoma.

My score, 100%.

I

guess that makes me highly qualified in under five minutes.

Um, and, and, and this superintendent really goes on to, to rail.

Um, and this is a superintendent in Oklahoma, which

the point out going like the whole entire state isn't crazy.

Although we're getting that idea.

No, no, and that is the the other kind of I guess you'd say you know disservice to Oklahoma parents and kids and the current teachers there is is that it kind of cast this shadow as if you know this is what they all are about in Oklahoma and you know

superintendent is kind of like on this isn't what we do here you know we're still about actually teaching your children and you know we're about excellence

But yeah, it casts this sense of going, my god, who would want to go to Oklahoma?

And then the potential of going, you know, you're sitting in there.

I'm like, that's superintendent.

You know, I have no idea, but.

My guess is is that his his his application to become superintendent in other states now has risen quite quickly Yeah, you know, but

he's

qualified in

Oklahoma He's

highly qualified, but I you know, you're going to push out of Oklahoma

you're good people.

And that's the kind of lens to bring to this is to say, what's actually going on here?

It's silly.

It's a circus.

It's ridiculous.

But then what will be the effect of this?

And look at this and go, anybody who's looking to leave Oklahoma, boy, this is one that we're like, OK, I am out.

Maybe

you don't want to put that on your resume that you actually took the America first test.

Oh

my God, wait, I forgot on my LinkedIn profile to add that to my credentials.

Well, you better get through

that.

I'm glad I reminded you.

You know, this is kind of a sad statement about what education is like in America now.

Now that we've done away with the Department of Education, Linda McMahon is in charge of destroying that and of course distributing parts of it to other parts of the administration.

It just seems like this is the next logical step of where it all goes because there's no guidance anymore.

Yeah, well, I mean especially, you know using a one to really push that forward is yeah, you know again one of those things, you know, it's it's it's Can you make a serious note?

It's frightening and there's actually another piece that for our show on Saturday that we're gonna, you know be talking about which is going

Is this, and not just what's happening in Oklahoma, but at this point, is this the end of public education?

Because of the attacks have been, you know, Johnny and I point this out.

In earnest, since 1983, a report, Nation at Risk, released by the Reagan administration, beating up on public schools, it feels like they may be saying,

enough, we're done, we're broken.

You guys have won.

And public schools in America, you know, we're just done.

We're out of this business.

And what are the implications then for that is, boy, what will America look like in five years with a totally new education system?

Yeah.

Wow.

Scary.

Well, that sounds like a good program.

That's for sure.

We'll have to check that out on Saturday.

Yes, you can check out Busted Pencil's latest podcast on the Civic Media Radio Network, our website, civicmedia.us, with Tim Slicker and Johnny Lupinacci.

Tim, thanks for joining us.

Talk

to you next

time.

Yeah.

All right.

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Gordy.

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Well, you know, Tim Schlecker brought up

a reference to Linda McMahon's A1 sauce.

Again, to remind you that she got AI wrong on that.

She thought it was A1.

And so... That was a moment.

Mark texted us and said, I prefer Heinz 57 on my education.

Good one.

Okay.

Boy, a lot of stuff.

I hope Mark shows up to the WMDX Appreciation Party.

Yeah.

Because he's right with us every morning.

You

know, time in

and he's got a lot of history

rolling around

up in the spring.

I mean, he can call up things from 300 years ago, just like that.

I know.

How does he do that?

I don't know.

Is he an AI generation?

I don't think so.

I hope he shows up.

We'll find

out.

Well, let's get to a really big story that happened yesterday.

A whole bunch of stuff happened, but this is one of them here in the state anyway.

Both candidates running for governor on the Republican side of the aisle, that's Bill Berrien and Josh Schoeman.

They both have signaled that they want troops to go into Milwaukee.

Really?

Yeah, they actually do.

They are already admitting that they both aren't up for that job, can't run the state without begging for federal help immediately.

They're not even governor yet.

And they're asking for help.

And apparently, I don't know if these guys have paid attention to the Republican Party in the state or not, but the Republicans have been starving Milwaukee.

They haven't been, you know, giving them enough money to operate the city and hire more police officers.

So maybe they don't know that yet.

I mean, these guys are ill-prepared to become governor of this state.

These guys don't have enough information.

And this is, this...

Tells you everything about them that they would actually ask for National Guard assistance in Milwaukee when in fact all we have to do is fund Milwaukee and give them money for the police department the police department there of course the union Presidents says they may need help

So send some surplus revenue to Milwaukee you guys instead of trashing Milwaukee, you know Republicans have hated Milwaukee for at least two or three decades and they've been starving it.

They hate it because it's a Democratic voting bastion here in the state So obviously they're gonna be against it.

Yes, but now of course, you know and then of course they wanted

concealed carry they wanted to strip all the gun laws that we had in the state and they did that so now we have gun deaths running rampant in the state at least you know enough of them to that for these guys to notice that Milwaukee has a problem and now what

the solution to Republicans or mega is is to put more weapons and soldiers and National Guard and police into these cities in order to control all the weapons that the Republicans have allowed.

into these cities for regular everyday citizens to carry and shoot each other with.

Bring in the military.

Wow, come on folks.

Bring in the troops.

Yeah.

Oh

boy.

You know, the mayor, Cavalier Johnson, is against this.

Tony Evers is strongly against something like this.

Of

course.

And by the way, they also noted that serious crime in the city has also dropped as if July violent crime decreased 17% over the last year.

So it always seems like these, the crime statistics are going down.

They want to put more security into the

cities.

and then you know be around for at least a little while and

then

get out and say what a yeah what a success that was right

and and and lieutenant governor I don't want to give her short shrift Sarah Rodriguez yeah she was the first Democratic candidate to throw her head into the ring for the governor right she says variants quick support for calling in the National Guard shows he doesn't have a serious plan to keep us safe truly

That's exactly my impression.

When I heard that both these candidates on the Republican side want the National Guard to go into Milwaukee, I thought, who are these people?

Obviously they're not prepared to run the state on their own.

They need Trump to come in and handle this for them.

This says everything.

And I think these guys have lost a lot of people's vote simply by doing something

ridiculous like this.

They just want to get Trump's attention and get his money to run for governor.

That's right.

Don't you think?