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Get Out of the Bike Lane!!! (Hour 1)

John & Gordy · Fri Sep 5, 2025

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It's kind of snappy.

It is real snappy.

It's real peppy.

Good morning, Madison.

It almost sounds professional.

Almost.

Yeah.

Hey, it's John and Gordy on a Friday morning.

Good morning, John.

Well, good morning to you.

Yeah.

It was a perfect day for a baseball game yesterday.

I have to admit that.

Yeah, we were at Amfam Field to watch the Brewers and the Phillies.

Brewers didn't do that great.

Yesterday.

No, they lost two to nothing.

Yeah, we went we went to two games so far I'd say the first game was definitely better than the second game in terms of just action You know, there wasn't a whole lot of things the brewer did.

Yeah, there

were nobody scored till after the sixth inning.

Yeah pitchers dual till then Well, they got all

these different terms Make it sound like something something happened.

Yeah, it's a pitchers dual

It was a good time, though.

It was great to hang out with our listeners who won tickets.

That's right.

We had Bob there, we had Troy, we had Carrie, and we had Charles.

Yeah.

And they were great.

They were, we had a lot of fun with them.

Yeah.

Bob from McConnell Walk and Troy from Mount Borough.

Mount Borough.

Yeah.

Yep.

And Charles.

And Carrie

from Tosa.

Yeah.

Charles from Milwaukee.

Yeah.

And fun to hang out with them.

It was a good time.

was.

We enjoyed ourselves.

Boy, they're crazy.

And a couple of them are going to be at the listener appreciation party tomorrow.

I think Troy and Bob and their plus ones are going to be joining us.

That listener appreciation party at Doundren's Distilling.

It's a beautiful place.

You really love it.

Yeah, and it's open to the public, free admission.

And

no obligation.

You can stop by, you know, just

see what

Johnny Grady look like in person.

And then leave really quick.

Well, I don't think

that's really the plan.

And a bunch of civic media peeps

are going

to be

there

too.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

We're going to have a lot of people.

I hope.

hope.

I hope.

I hope

I hope we should remind Pete, because we talked to him two or three weeks ago about that.

Look, I'm not going to put him on the spot.

Don't do that.

You know, I think we should do it.

He said he was going to be there.

Oftentimes I say, yeah, I'm

going to try and

make

it, but, you

know, something more important always comes

up, you know,

getting some sleep,

maybe.

Um, a little bit later on, we've got free ticket Friday.

Yeah.

More tickets to Brewer's baseball game.

This one, uh, against St.

Louis.

Uh, we've got a four packet tickets.

We'll start that up in a little while.

And, uh, also Mike Clemens will, uh, yeah, stop by near the end of the show to, uh, give us a little packer preview of their first game against Detroit this Sunday.

And, uh, Pam Yaki is up there.

She's not with us today.

She's getting ready at her at her up in Green Bay.

She's got it.

She's got a

I don't know.

What is it?

She's got like a house up there.

She's got a palatialist.

It's a party up there

next to Camp Randall.

Yeah, and she has some huge parties.

A party house.

Yes.

And Savannah told me Olsen will stop by and also we've got rocker a little bit later on.

A little surprise for rocker.

What was the what was

the message from Pam Yankee?

you

remember?

It was really good.

man.

Let me find it.

That

was something else.

Oh yeah.

Screwing you again.

And

she's

always, she's apologetic that she's not going to be with us today because she's getting ready for the Packers Sunday.

That's

fine.

That's wonderful.

Yeah.

Good for her.

No better reason than to prepare for a Packer game.

Absolutely.

Well, let's see.

you know yesterday we kind of ran out of time we didn't have time for would you rather and now should we do two of them today or we're just gonna do I don't have to I only have

one really didn't come up with a new one for today I didn't have time

yesterday you know you didn't have time okay but yeah let's let's see I allotted extra time for you today to do well I didn't

I didn't have time to do four stories last night when I got home but I did that's true alright

here

we go

Okay, that's what it is.

All right.

What do you got for us for this Friday?

All right first question.

Would you rather empty a swimming pool using just a fork?

Or get in a swimming pool for half an hour with a box jellyfish

With a what?

A box jellyfish.

It's one of the most poisonous jellyfishes in the world.

Well now we know.

You can learn something on this program.

Okay, let me go into my my spoon thing.

Yeah.

Yeah, because I'm into a Sporks now I Have I mentioned that on this program?

I got into the sport.

Yeah, because forks should be Indented a little bit it should have a bowl in it just a slight bowl, but it like

the same

things roll off.

Yeah

And that's really irritating, so I bought a bunch of Sporks at Amazon, and I kinda like them actually.

I get razed at home about using the Sporks, but that's okay.

Now I don't know if I could empty a pool with a Spork.

That might take a decade

or two.

Yeah,

probably.

Yes, I'll try that.

I think I would too.

I would do that too.

I don't want to

get poisonous jellyfish on me.

Again, I'm not saying I wouldn't

avoid it.

The most dangerous jellyfish

in the world.

Alright, that was the first one.

Um, all unanimous there.

Second question, would you rather... Would you rather smell like cheese, which has been left in the sun?

Or smell like a hamster cage, which hasn't been cleaned in two years?

Well, this was something

like, not so nice

choices.

Yeah, there's no good choice.

The first question there was the good choices though, you know.

Yeah, I guess in the hamster.

I'd go with that.

I'd rather smell like cheese.

I love cheese.

I smell like bad old cheese.

Well, I guess cheese, you know, it's this cheese state, so we might as well just go with

cheese.

I would keep up with the trend with cheese, yeah.

Hamster cage I couldn't do.

All right.

Well, that's it.

That's all I got.

That's it

for Would You Rather for this Friday.

You know,

sometimes you smell like, you ever notice how socks kind of pick up on a scent?

You know, and you have to disinfect them every once in a while.

No, I wash my laundry.

I don't know about you.

No, you can wash your laundry.

But the problem with laundry nowadays, it's usually washed in cold or warm water, which

doesn't

kill all the germs and bacteria in your clothing.

So over time, it builds up.

And over time it smells like you know wet socks old socks And cheese so I'm before cheese

and just

for the hell of it But yeah, I mean that's what happens and they make disinfectants now because a lot of these washers Are you only using cold?

What does it make sense to you Gord?

Come on.

You got it.

You don't roll your eyes

at me

on this thing.

Well, I

I've never had socks that smelled like cheese.

No, I

But yeah, but you know it kind of smells right

you had those right?

don't know why it is but a lot of black T-shirts or a lot of black shirts end up smelling like that.

I don't know

what it is

about the color black Yeah, I have no idea it just happens that way, but I've learned this and you know, we have a front-loading washer and I use that every

Every once in a while to disinfect.

Yeah, and plus in the newer washers, of course, they give you a chance to steam your clothes and steam is probably one of the better ways to disinfect your clothing without adding another product to it.

I didn't

know the newer washers did steam.

Yeah, and

add steam.

It's sort of the dryers.

They had

steam as well.

But you have to add water to the dryer cabinet in order to create the

steam.

Have you guys ever heard of bean boozled?

It's like these little jelly beans that you can either get a really good tasting jelly bean, or you can get something like smelly socks, what you were talking about, or like cheese.

And it's like a 50-50 shot.

Yeah, it's a game.

I'll bring it in one time.

Okay.

Let's see, let's check the poll, the WMDX poll, which you can always...

Check out at WMDXRadio.com.

This is the last day for the polls, so get those answers in.

Now, she better not pull this poll before people get a chance to check it out later this afternoon to see what the final results are.

You know, this is a very important poll.

The mayor looks at this poll just to make sure that they're on track.

So to refresh your memory, the question is, would you support a motorized vehicle-free State Street downtown Madison year-round?

First answer is yes, I only want feet, bikes, scooters, and other personal mobility devices on State Street, and no delivery trucks.

That's only at 22.2%.

Same percentage for yes and install bollards to keep vehicles off so pedestrians can feel safer on the street.

That's also 22%.

And the big winner, nope, we need to allow buses and delivery trucks, but no other autos, which is the way it is now.

And that's at 55.6%.

Popular.

And the last answer gets 0%.

Nope, we should allow all traffic on State Street, like the old days.

You know, one thing I've never been able to figure out.

Is it what is legal when it

comes to a

motorized vehicle on a sidewalk?

Because they have the little they they have the skateboards motorized skateboards.

Yeah, I mean, that's just a skateboard.

You're not you don't want to be on the road for Riding your skateboard or how about that that one wheel the one

wheel job?

Yeah,

that's those are really cool, too.

Now, what about maybe a little

stand up

scooters?

Yeah, the stand up scooters, right?

Yeah,

we stand out.

Yeah, I see those on sidewalks.

Now, those are motorized and I don't know why.

Yeah.

Why you would ban them.

I think they should be legalized on sidewalks.

Really?

Yeah.

Scooters?

The little scooters.

Yeah.

Where you put one foot on it.

Yeah.

And the surfboards.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Okay.

So,

I don't

know.

I'm

looking

at those.

I don't know what the law is.

I'm not sure how.

That kind of industry, you don't want to see those items in the street.

In the bike lane, you don't want to be out there.

Right.

In fact, I wouldn't be out there on a bike.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I do

not.

It does seem kind of dangerous.

I don't trust bike lanes at all.

Yeah.

So.

Well, it is a problem, especially downtown here.

There's so many cars, bikes.

And yeah, I don't know what the rules are, though.

But you know, get somebody from the motor vehicle division.

And we can't always forget about how

Some bicyclists ruin it for others, right?

Because sometimes, you know, you're driving along, you're just driving like a normal everyday human being in a vehicle, and the bicyclist turns around and, you know, gives you the finger and shouts something, and you're thinking, well, what happened?

Well,

maybe that's just the way you drive.

No,

you're there in their lane.

I'm in my lane.

Nothing's really going on.

Nothing happened.

You know, it's just normal everyday driving.

They

just give me the finger.

And they

just go through the roof.

I don't know what's wrong with them, but they give all bicyclists a bad name because now, you know, no one likes bicyclists because, you know, they're all arrogant bastards.

Well, wait, wait, you're just.

Rationalizing.

Yeah, I'm rationalizing.

That's what people think.

I go on TikTok all the time and there's always this one guy that says get out of the bike lane, get out of the, he just screams that and that's every single video and he's a biker.

That is the reason why I don't like bikers either.

Yeah, because you know when we were kids, I

had

a paper up.

I did

my paper up on a

bicycle and they didn't have bike lanes and I usually drove on the gravel.

And I stayed out of the way of most cars on the

shoulder

that I could and And here we have these special lanes for bicyclists and they still get angry they act like no you're too close to my bike lane get away What is wrong with these people I used to drive on gravel my god leave us

alone

How do you feel?

You can give us a call.

Madison, 608-879-8255.

I finally got that off my chest.

Yeah, thank you.

This has been stewing for the last seven years.

It's been a problem, man.

19 minutes past the hour.

We're just getting going on this Friday morning.

We'll continue in just a moment on 92.7 WMDX.

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We don't like bicyclists.

It's a bike-friendly city.

Aggressive,

aggressive, angry bicyclists who are unreasonable.

That's who we don't like.

Other bicyclists are fantastic.

It is a biking city.

We've got so many paths going in.

We got a new path along the belt line in Middleton.

I didn't even see that one going in.

Really?

Yeah, it's along the belt line.

Okay, pretty one.

Oh, well anyway We've got a voice note.

Yes, so we are WMDX 92.7.

I forgot to do that.

Yeah, and Johnny Gordy in the morning.

Yeah,

it's partly cloudy 55 degrees gonna stay cool all day long highs just around 60 Okay, let's check out the voice note that we got.

All right.

Who is this?

There you go.

That's Matt Middleton.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, I think he reflects exactly what everybody thinks about bicyclists.

speaks for all

of us.

That get angry at just simply driving in their lane and leaving us alone in ours.

My God.

Okay.

Many people see it's bothering you for a long time.

Do you have a bike?

Do you ever go out biking?

I have a bike.

wish

could get rid of it.

Why?

Well, you

don't

use it anymore.

No, no, my my kid, my younger one, wanted to bike to school.

This is elementary school every morning.

So yeah, we did that.

Oh my God.

And, you know, once he got elementary school, you didn't want a bike anymore.

That was it.

Yeah.

Now we've got these bikes and just sitting

in the ground.

You know, you don't have.

We were going to do it as a family.

And then this is the other crazy thing.

They have bicycle racks for your car and vans.

So I got this really good bicycle rack.

I can't remember what the name of it is.

But I had two of them, actually.

Uh, and one was still in the box.

Cause I hadn't opened the box yet cause we already had one on the car.

So I tried to sell it.

And so, you know, you'll get a biking person looking for these bike racks.

And these people are crazy.

Sometimes, you know, I'm just, that's another irritating part of these people.

And they take it away.

So he's, he's saying, so you haven't opened this box before.

He was questioning you.

He was

questioning me about the box being opened at one time.

I mean, it is factory sealed.

There's no doubt that this is factory sealed.

I think it even had straps on it.

No, I really haven't opened it.

Okay, well, you don't mind if I check it out.

Well, it's brand new.

Do you need to check it out?

Oh, yeah, I do.

So they open the box, he's

looking it over and

seeing if it actually is a brand new one without any usage.

He didn't trust you.

Oh my God.

Did he buy it?

He bought it.

But, you know, he seemed reluctant to buy it.

That's

how irritating some of these people can be.

Maybe he thought you were laying a guilt trip on him after he opened it.

And he felt, well, I guess I got to buy it now.

Well, I didn't care.

You know, I mean, the box was totally sealed.

I mean, the flaps were glued solid on that box.

There's no way I could have created that or done that.

It's not factory sealed in my home, but there it is.

And the guy.

Had to see it, had to open the box before he bought it.

My God, these people.

So what if it's slightly used?

Who cares?

It's a bicycle rack.

Okay.

All right.

Oh, is that enough?

Okay.

Yeah.

Hey, I'll set my piece.

Tell you what, let's get going early here because we got a jam-packed show.

I'm sorry

to hold things up here, Gordon.

No, I'm not blaming you.

I'm not trying to lay a guilt trip on you for talking too much.

Going on and on about a bicycle wreck thing.

No, I can see that.

Yeah.

We have a four pack of Brewer's Tickets up for grabs.

And this time around, it's for the game on September 14th against the St.

Louis Cardinals.

And the key word this time is base.

B-A-S-E.

Okay, there's a statewide contest this time around and a four pack.

A four pack of brewer's tickets.

And again, the keyword is base.

So all you need to do is get on Civic Media app, find WMDX and go to go there and text us the word base.

Okay, we do this every Friday because it's free ticket Friday and

We'll have other keywords later on in the day on the Civic Media Radio Network, so listen up for that.

We'll remind you again a little bit later on, but get that keyword to us base before eight o'clock this morning.

Yeah.

Okay.

And a

little bit later on, we're going to talk to Savannah Tomei Olson about what's happening around Madison.

Also, we've got Rocker, got a little Max Inc.

surprise for Rocker.

And Mike Clemens, we're going to talk to him near the end of the show about the Packers.

They have a big game, the first game of the season against the Detroit Lions on Sunday.

All right.

That should be good.

Yeah.

You all ready for football season, John?

I haven't really thought about it much.

You

know, stay away from preseason.

How about

you, Dom?

Do you have a favorite team?

Yeah, my favorite team is the Chicago Bears.

Oh, my God.

I can't believe you admitted

that.

Oh, my gosh.

I don't think I've

ever knew that.

6-0-8-8-7-9-8-2-5.

Oh, God.

Talk to Dom.

Don't call in, please.

We're taking application.

Maybe Sam's still around to

help out.

Oh, I did not expect that

answer.

I don't think I ever told you guys that.

So yeah, we grew up near Chicago.

So did I, but I've been living in Wisconsin for, I don't know, about 30 years altogether now.

Yeah.

Well, that's, uh, that's on you buddy.

Yeah.

All right.

That's dangerous going past, uh, past the Chitter curtain south of the Wisconsin border.

You don't

want to, you don't want to camper with those people down there either.

Nope.

Coming up right around the corner, idiocracy.

Yeah.

We got some stories.

Oh boy, do we.

It's all coming up.

John Peterson, Gordy Young, along with Dominic Lee on this Friday morning.

Coming right back.

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The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

No!

You dense, irritating miniature beast of burden!

Idiocracy.

For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.

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Well, this is wmdx 92.7.

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24 7 that's what it really is It's a cloudy cool start this morning John and highs about 60 degrees currently 55.

It's gonna get breezy at times today Winds up to about 30 miles per hour from the west.

Yeah, I should have gotten the gazebo down, you know

Wow.

A few days ago, you came over yesterday and said, man, that thing is in bad shape.

It's in bad shape.

It's barely standing now.

Just let it blow away, I guess.

You are a neighborhood eyesore.

It's a gazebo tent.

Nobody can see it.

It's way in the basement.

I'm surrounded by buildings.

So I guess the people in the apartment building next door could see it.

Yes.

They have their decks

overlooking

your gazebo.

Yeah.

Well, we'll see if it stands up to the 30

mile an hour winds today.

You are so close to those decks.

It's unbelievable.

You

really are.

They're almost

on top of

you.

Well, I know it.

I've talked to a couple of, you know, people don't use their balconies like they used to.

We used to grill out and do all these things before they, you know, band grilling out in your bed.

I mean, really, when was the last time you actually saw people out in their bed?

We've got tons of apartment buildings surrounding all downtown.

You ever see anybody out there?

No.

Why did they make it balconies anymore?

It's just waste of space.

I'm

doing my walk in Middleton.

We have these new buildings

up here.

have the porch out there.

And no one's ever out on the porch.

So, you know, I can sing as loud as I want as I'm walking along.

As you often do.

Yeah.

Just sing a song.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

So what was my point?

Anyway, so yeah, nobody ever... No one's out on the...

those decks, the balconies, chicken or fist edge.

Take

that thing down.

No.

And, you know, I have a little fire pit out there as well, which I get going every once in a while.

And some of the, sometimes the smoke goes right into the apartment building complex.

Nobody ever says anything.

They don't come out and yell at me or anything.

So, you know,

that's on that.

Maybe some of that smoke and he could raise that.

This

is the gazebo.

Yeah, your gazebo.

I'll keep

you

posted.

It's a fun little setup that you have.

Don't

try to backtrack.

And you've got the New Orleans beads out there, too.

I do.

Yeah, my neighbors gave me.

Yeah.

And, you know, they gave them to me with the intent of, you know, you can string this up around the gazebo.

Yeah.

I just kind of hung them up in clumps on the post.

Well, they were all tangled up.

I didn't know how to take the time to untangle them.

That's why we never hear from them anymore.

I don't know what happened to them.

You pissed everybody off.

Apparently so.

All right.

Well, that's my problem.

That's

okay.

But it's fine.

You know, it's a gazebo.

It comes down for

winter.

It's a 10 kind of

gazebo.

Yes, it's good.

All right, let's get on to you.

Well, you

put it up because it has the screens.

Yeah.

So you can

go in there and you're not

bothered by mosquitoes.

I, yes, I did it with the intent that I thought, you know, maybe some of my fellow co-workers could stop by occasionally, hang out and, you know, have a beer too.

That's never happened.

That's you know thought it would be a gathering place.

Well, I always thought

that gazebo is a little dangerous I didn't want it to collapse on me.

Okay

All

right, all right, let's move on

let's let's go on to this boy Trump has linked his personal fate and political aims in a single campaign message a development that Intersected with recent

public remarks in which he said he was trying to get to heaven.

Yeah.

Anyway, it says here, this is a quote from Trump.

I want to try to get to heaven if possible.

I'm hearing I'm not doing well.

I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole.

I don't know who told him, but yep, that's true.

Probably

Melania, I don't know.

Could be.

If they're talking anymore.

the way, the thing that fell from the White House window.

Oh, yeah, they were tossing out garbage bags

or something.

Well, there's bulletproof and you

can't open a window there.

That's not true.

They were doing work on the windows.

Okay.

That was it?

Yeah.

Okay.

Big story.

Funny, they didn't print that one up.

Well, President Trump said it was, he thought it was AI.

Yeah, but he doesn't know anything.

I don't know why people even ask him any questions.

BS is everybody constantly, you know, they have a deal now with Japan, you know, they finally have a written deal with tariffs.

Oh, really?

With

Japan.

Yeah, they finally put this thing together and Japan has settled for I don't what's going on with these foreign powers.

They settled on paying 15 percent tariffs into this country.

And you know, they have a lot of vehicles.

They sell

lot of Japanese vehicles here in this town.

I mean, the thing is.

It's going to raise the price of cars for each and every American in this in this country So I don't know if that's something we should celebrate.

Oh, that's a great deal right there.

Thank you Wonderful unbelievable 15% Yeah, I think it used to be like two or three percent for these vehicles now It's 15% and the thing is you know, they penalized every country in the world with high tariffs, right?

And so now and I don't know why the media bit into this thing, but they

They act like, whoa, well, this is half of what it used to be.

Well, they did this just to make it seem like it's a better deal.

Come on, you guys.

Are you, are you stupid or what?

Man, it just drives

me crazy.

All right.

Should we go to the phones?

Why not?

All right.

Joe is patiently waiting there.

Good morning, Joe.

What do you got for us?

Well, first off, have a fabulous time at La Partee.

It should be the soiree of the century.

I'd already committed to hosting a birthday party for a buddy, so I will not be there, but I send my regards and I'm going to send you the next one.

And I wanted to say, you know, when you're talking about these tariffs, we do have the situation where India got really slammed with very, very high tariffs.

And I think we've got a solution for world peace and for you guys to really make a difference here, because apparently,

Part of what happened here was that Trump is on his list.

He's on his campaign to get that Nobel Prize, right?

And it's not working out so well.

So apparently, Pakistan had called and said, yeah, he'd be a great guy.

You really should have him do that.

And he wanted Modi from India to say, yeah, to call up and say, yeah, he should be nominated for the Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize.

And the reason being is that I brokered the deal.

And of course, when he broached this idea with Modi, Modi bristled and said, forget out of here.

There's no way that that's happening.

So he slams out the 50% tariffs on India.

And so I think that what would really help things, if you guys would come up with a new prize that you could offer for the president, better than the Nobel Prize, you know, over in that Scandinavian country, it could be the John and Gordy World Peace Prize.

It could be the very first recipient.

And you guys could do so much to sort of draw the temperature down and, you know, have a nice award ceremony,

you

know.

So this I think would be a nice way for you to...

offer something, you know, beyond discussion, but truly solving diplomatic problems.

I think that would be terrific.

It sounds like a great item to have at our store.

Well, good.

People can buy there the John and Gordy Peace Prize.

There you go.

Yeah.

And you'll be up for sale.

You can definitely buy the prize.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Why not?

You need the money.

Exactly.

That's what I'm thinking.

Joe, that's a fantastic idea.

It really is a great idea.

All right.

We'll spitball that.

Joe, thank you so much.

Is that what they say spitballing?

Yeah, spitballing, yeah, workshop it, running up the flagpole, see who salutes, all those things.

Used to spitball in class.

In high school.

Do they do that anymore?

That's what was the only thing that big pens were good for, spitball.

There it is.

You

don't know

what I'm talking about, do

you?

I do.

Do you really?

Yes, my brother got in trouble at school for it one time.

Yes.

takes the cartridge out of the big

pan of the big pan.

hate big pans because they are

God awful on your fingers.

Terrible.

We hate them and Catherine loves

them.

She thinks they're the best.

She has stocked us up with big bands.

There's a whole cabinet full of them.

Out of the hallway, the office supplier.

They have

all those edges on it.

They're just awful, right?

Oh, boy.

Maybe that's what she was into, you know, the spitball thing.

And she's thought, you know, people still love

the big band for that.

Yeah.

We got a text here from Matt from Middleton.

He said, Trump would win a piece.

for going away leaving us all alone.

The whole world would be clapping.

Wow, that is a good

idea.

They could win the John and Corey PD prize.

We would actually give it to him if he would just go away.

All right, now let's, what do I have here?

Big stack of stuff there.

Boy, I do, I do, I do.

I mean, you're really chopping the trees down.

You got a pile of papers there.

I know.

This is not good, you know.

Well, I'm a

very good at recycling.

How can you keep

all right?

Let's get into a line.

You know, we haven't really talked about Elon.

Yeah, what's

been

up to

recently?

He's got a strange transgender theory.

which exposes his brilliant mind is not so brilliant after all.

This is a quote from him.

My observation is that a major driver of white males becoming trans is the relentless propaganda portraying white men as the worst human beings.

If those lies land, especially during vulnerable teen years, and they are given an option to be a celebrated group,

Some will do it What?

That's his theory on yeah, sounds like the growth plan for magas really doesn't it?

I mean the worst human beings in the world take that option We're a celebrated group where the magas we stand behind Trump, right?

I mean, that's the whole plan there.

he's

transferring that he's projecting that to transgender individuals Sad very sad it is okay.

Oh no, it looks like I'm going to have to promise to get to the AI dating story that I stole from NPR.

We'll play that at another time.

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Well, that's select a winner Yeah, if you win they

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Well, here's something the secretary of energy doesn't know what energy is believe it or not No surprise there Secretary Chris, right?

This is a quote now Even if you wrap the entire planet in solar panels, you would only be producing 20% of global energy

Really

that doesn't seem to make sense

Also, he continued, one of the biggest mistakes politicians can make is equating the electricity with energy.

Okay, well, what?

That's a huge mistake.

What are we missing?

I don't know.

It's poorly worded, by the way, equating the electricity with energy, the electricity.

What?

Anyway.

Yes, electricity truly is energy.

We want to make sure that, you know, what's the confusion there?

There's no confusion on this

one at all.

Don't understand that at all.

All

right.

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lives in my hometown make sure drive the road is called and it'll take you up or down from rats on up to riches 15 minutes you can fly pretty blue lights along the way got you right on by and the blue lights shining with the heaven the grace got you right on

C-O-M-D-X, John and Gordy in the morning, and I gotta say that, you know, this is a great song.

It's a great song about a great city as much as we poke fun at Illinois.

Chicago is just a great place to go.

I just love Chicago.

Yeah, me too.

I do, I do too.

I love

it.

And I always thought that we opposed high-speed rail here in...

Wisconsin, Scott Walker really badmouthed it, Republicans hated it.

But if you go to Chicago and you take the L, doesn't it just automatically change your mind about rail?

Yeah, getting around.

Yeah, getting around the city.

Yeah.

And it changed my mind completely.

I mean, I'm really a rail fan.

And I can't believe that some of the politicians here who might have gone on the L, it didn't change their minds.

I don't get

it.

You know, it's such a great idea.

Yeah, it would have been great if Madison had done that, you know?

I mean, really, we're a perfect city for that kind of transportation.

Exactly, it really does.

And we have real systems already in this city.

They just raised the track up.

would have been cool

yeah hey we want to remind you tomorrow is our big listener appreciation party everybody's invited it's free and open to the public we're gonna have a lot of fun at downdren's distilling and cottage grove and we'll have our winners there that won the swag bag and the tour of the distillery and it should be uh good starts at three o'clock tomorrow goes till about six uh so uh show up you know we're gonna have some fun

and downdren's

downdren's is so pretty too

isn't that great yeah i

mean

It was huge and you know, it's got all the tables and chairs.

Well, you know, I tried to throw my two cents

by keeping the pineapples hanging from the ceiling,

but I

wish they would do it.

Just leave my

tiki light field.

Yeah, I

think they're cool.

I thought that was cool.

Yeah, I find out.

Yeah, and they've got some video games inside too.

Not just a few, but plenty to keep you occupied.

It's going to be a good time.

Tomorrow at Downer and Distilling.

I have one of your favorite

characters within the administration here.

Really?

Who's that?

And that's Howard Lutnick.

Oh, Lutnick!

Get in here, Lutnick!

C'mon!

C'mon, Secretary Lutnick.

That's why I quit the census.

He was my boss.

What a knucklehead this guy is.

That really is...

How is Wall Street allowed to do certain things?

And when they screw up and they want tax frays to bail them out, what about that too?

Well, we've got a web wisdom here, and this is about Cantor Fitzgerald.

You'll be a little bit surprised that Cantor Fitzgerald has some relationship with Howard Lutnik.

Lutnik.

All right, let's listen to this.

Cut 13.

Oh, okay.

So that's the scam.

They're running with the tariffs.

Okay, now it makes sense.

Do you know Howard Lutnik?

So this is Trump's secretary of commerce.

He is the man behind the tariffs.

He was also Jeffrey Epstein's next door neighbor.

His sons are now running his former company, which is called Canter Fitzgerald.

They are a super sinister finance firm, and they are making absolute bank off of these tariffs by pulling the strings themselves.

Listen to this.

Here's the scam Lutnik is running.

You have small American companies that have to pay the tariffs.

Cantor Fitzgerald offers to loan the companies a small amount of money to cover 20% of those tariffs.

In exchange, if those tariffs end up getting reversed by the courts, Cantor Fitzgerald will collect 100% of the refund of those tariffs.

It is absolutely

predatory lending.

And here's the thing.

It is the Commerce Secretary himself running the scam.

He controls the tariffs in the first place.

Big

surprise,

right?

Let

me just add on to that Senator Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren asked in a letter to Brandon.

Lutnik, CEO of Canter Fitzgerald and son of Commerce Secretary, for details on work that this tariff refund is all about.

They've got financial products created by Canter Fitzgerald that would allow clients to hedge against business risk posed by the uncertainty over the tariffs.

Specifically, Canter has created a litigation finance product

that places the company in the position of betting that the courts will strike down Trump's tariffs.

They're betting against the tariffs.

This is our commerce secretary.

The fix is in.

Wow.

Holy moly.

That

blows your mind or what?

Oh, geez.

we have time for a

quick call?

We've got CJ.

No, CJ may want to get in on the Lutnik scam.

Good morning,

CJ.

What do you think,

CJ?

Good morning, gentlemen.

Thank you for taking my call.

You know the greatest cabinet ever assembled.

Come

on.

That is

great stuff.

Come

on.

What do you think about Lutnik?

Were you were around the table with with Trump is that

I love it.

I love it when he goes around the table Yes, you know Are you guys gonna have you know you're competing with the badger game?

Are you gonna have a big screen there for all of us badger lovers?

You know they do have screens inside.

Yes

Okay,

so yeah,

that's a very good point.

Yeah

Yeah, I know crudy used to love when I showed up

Yeah,

we're looking forward to it.

Yeah.

Yeah, we

hope you can make it.

No, we want to see you there That's

that's

for sure.

All

right.

I I really would like to meet you guys face-to-face.

Yeah Well, you went out with

you you went out with Matt once didn't she met Rothschild?

Yes, yes went out to lunch with Matt Rothschild and

Yeah,

he's a great guy.

Yeah, he really is.

He's wrong politically on a lot of issues, but he's a great

guy.

He did a lot of nice things to say about you two.

No, he really did.

enjoyed this

lunch.

CJ, thank you for that call.

Yeah, we got to go.

Yeah, we do.

In our seven o'clock hour, Rocker will join us with the Maxing preview all Savannah.

Savannah Tome Olsen will check in in just a few minutes and Mike Clements with a preview of the Packers and the Badgers and all that coming up.

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