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Truly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A little huff is good enough.
That's what I always say.
Yeah, Rocker's Big Show is this weekend, Sunday, actually, September 14th from 2 to 7 p.m.
His band Iron Plow is playing along with Mother Hive, Revolution X, and Abandon's, Abandon's, and Abandon, okay, I don't know what that says, at the Crucible, which is on Commercial Avenue in Madison.
So he'll tell us more about that.
So.
And I do have a story that Savannah had yesterday, and I'm dissecting that story in that same break we talked to Savannah in.
So I have a few comments about this.
It is, it's about public schools and what's happening with that and what the Republicans have planned for public schools in Wisconsin.
And it's not good.
It isn't really good.
Really?
Yes.
All right.
So we'll, we'll get to that.
Deep dive.
Yes.
That's it.
Deep dive.
We're going to unpack that story and all these phrases.
Break.
I think it's time for would you rather, what do you think?
For the 500th episode.
You're gonna wreck his whole episode.
That's your cue.
I almost didn't want to do it.
All right, here we go.
I heard it was a really good question today.
You're a liar.
All
Okay.
First question.
You know you gotta do it in reverb one of these days, any other questions?
Yeah, yeah.
We were thinking about doing the whole show in reverb.
Um, alright.
You could do that, yeah.
Oh man, they wouldn't even hear what we were saying.
First question.
Would you rather be an extra in an Oscar-winning movie or the lead in a box office bomb?
Extra in an Oscar-winning movie, lead in a box office bomb?
I was an extra in one movie one time that was shot in Chicago.
Yeah.
And it was kind of fun.
I think I'd do that again.
What movie was it?
It was called Four Friends, I think.
And it was an Arthur Penn movie.
Arthur Penn was in there directing everybody.
It was a movie.
It was a party scene.
And so there were like 50 people, you know,
in the
know, I
Really?
Yeah.
I don't remember this at all.
Wow.
is
Pretty rough there.
Yeah, I bet all right All
you
OK.
Oh, I thought you were going to say, oh, I'll get him out of here.
I don't want to see his face again.
How you doing, buddy?
Doing good.
For how much sleep I'm running on, I'm doing pretty well.
I was just thinking like right before I came in, it's coming up on the two-year anniversary as well.
Yes, October 30th.
all the decorations.
Streamers, yeah.
stimulated
just walking
ready?
Do you have anything?
Today in
Sam?
I have nothing else to
actually locked
again.
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Yeah, I don't know I don't know if I even should be telling you guys this or if Dom already told you when I was driving in because I knew it was gonna be a little bit late Yeah, trying to tune up the very first bit of the show and I think we were off the air Maybe it's just my radio.
I don't know I'm
Well, you see, I'm a professional deadbeat living in my parents' basement.
kid.
Yeah.
Well, for any of you who have been listening to the show for four or more months, after I left here as the producer, I went up north for the summer to work as a camp counselor.
That ended because it's not summer anymore and starting school again did do an online school right now and Desperately trying to find an apartment in Madison.
got a place to stay.
please Let me know really.
Oh, I know anything lined
crossed.
Yeah, somebody
A substitute teacher for Madison School District.
Okay.
Are we getting the special John and Gordy hand signal?
Yes.
Well, it was summertime.
There are an awful lot of bugs in
2024, I just came up to volunteer because I was working here at the station.
Yeah, I've been doing it since 2020, so quite a while now.
juice.
God, I wish we served bug juice.
I loved bug juice as a kid, but no, no we don't.
I think I called in one time saying that was a...
slinging slushie all the time.
Kids love to buy slushies like the freezy kind of sweet drinks.
I didn't even get to experience that.
I was stuck inside this camp store all day long selling slushies to the kids.
sort of.
Yeah.
Eventually, yeah.
Eventually, I'm going to be like a general
For now, yeah, I'm just kind of subbing wherever they need me.
So if they need me to, I guess I could end up in a kindergarten class for a day.
That would be kind of fun.
Do some finger painting.
get a tuition discount for working
So yeah, that's the big reason why.
But
need to, the way I said I was so desperate to find an apartment, I need to separately go and like observe classes at a specific school for the whole semester.
As you can tell, the semester has already started and I haven't started doing that yet.
Yeah,
Does that require a
on the on the very important document that you just handed me
that's why you didn't want to
in on it
saying we're changing things up We're actually preparing for the show this time
not gonna lie Yesterday well yesterday when Dom called me and then two days ago when you called me and first invited me back.
I was asleep both times.
could
for
Yes.
So
the
know you mentioned the fog is gonna burn off later today You know what I did yesterday for the very first time what I checked my windshield wipers See good I bought
windshield wipers for the first time and
So foggy this morning.
I'm glad I did.
bug?
It is, yeah.
I can't believe it because they tore down my old house in order to build a new like 10 story.
But yeah, did I not tell you guys?
Oh, no, you did.
I was driving along Johnson Street probably almost a year ago now.
Yeah, they
turning the building.
I really have to open this book?
Four months?
I'm very dusty, I know.
you like the
least we can find out what happened on this.
Yeah, blindly named Jesse Owens ring a bell.
Sure.
Olympic was.
Yeah.
He was the black Olympic runner.
Yeah.
And what would it be?
1939.
Something like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was born on this day in 1913.
Wow.
You won a bunch of medals and Hitler
Yeah.
whatever.
Yeah.
let's see.
Well,
Yeah.
we've got, uh, well, we have some more black history and some space history.
May Jemison became the first black woman in space on this day in 1992.
Okay.
And then some more space history.
The USSR, they launched Luna 2, which was the first human-made space probe to hit the moon.
And if I could be, it could be wrong about this, but I think their main goal was literally to just fire it straight at the moon.
They just wanted to see what happened.
was
where
Anything else?
Yeah, something you guys would be plenty familiar with.
Today in 1966, the Monkeys debuted on
on
Let's see if they're on right now.
Okay.
Okay.
Here we go.
Oh, it's on.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
This is a great intro.
Crank it.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Everybody watched that show.
They did.
They were our age.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it was so fun.
You're watching now.
It's a little boring, but... Well, yeah, it kind of broke the mold.
I mean, it was not a typical sitcom at all.
It was kind of a takeoff on what the Beatles had done with The Hard Days Night.
Yeah.
I mean, they kind of took that and made it into a TV show.
Or the Ruddles.
Or the Ruddles.
own
Well, they were all still musicians, weren't they?
But most played together.
They
great
on, what are
touching that thing again All
time that's about all we got
do you
Why am I your guest producer?
I don't work here anymore.
You guys are still stuck here.
We didn't want anybody to
At one place or just in China?
What
world is wrong with the management here compared to all of the other radio stations you worked
Haven't they learned their lesson
guys during the break, don't let me hijack the show.
See, I guess Catherine thinks that I'm hijacking the show.
Well, I'll only get to our first story here for Idiocracy.
It's not so much Idiocracy.
I guess it does refer to an idiot, the person we have in the White House right now.
This is Pete Buttigieg, Mayor
Pete, as they like to call him, and he was the Transportation Secretary as well, Pete's not real happy with the repeal of airline passenger benefits.
You know, when you get there and they cancel your flight or delay it, they should compensate you for it.
That's what the Biden administration decided to do.
Well, that's gone now.
Let's listen to Pete himself.
Okay.
Hey, it's Pete.
I'm changing planes and wanted to say something quickly about what's going on with passenger protections in the Trump administration.
If you know anything about our work at the DOT, what I was Secretary, you probably know that we work hard to make sure that you can beat your money back when airlines let you down.
But under President Trump, the Department of Transportation is starting to dismantle our balance.
We just learned last week that they are eliminating a rule that we lost to keep you compensation and you
And they filed paperwork showing that they may get rid of other rules or weaken them.
Like rules that make sure that you can get your money back if the airline charges you a fee for something you don't get.
Or will that just as the airlines at least have to tell you what their fees are before you pay them.
This is part of a pattern on everything from credit card fees to now the way airlines treat passengers.
The Trump administration is always picking corporations over consumers.
If there's any good news in this, it's that there is a public process coming where you can go on the record and tell them exactly what you think of these
special get-togethers in the legislature, you know, they always get people in, you know, tell them what they think about their legislation, their proposed bills, and it turns out like 99% of the people that show up are against them, but they pass them anyway.
So, you know, if the administration wants to do it, they're gonna do it.
That's the way that is.
Okay, I got another story here, and we talked about socio-democracy, right?
In Sweden,
We brought that up the other day.
Well, here's the story.
According to an individual who wanted to just get this out there about Sweden, their beloved country, they said, we have Social Security, Public College is paid for a nationally regulated, locally administered universal healthcare system.
400...
$400 cap on all your costs for health care for that year, strict gun laws, all that kind of stuff.
That's Sweden, yeah.
This is all funded with higher taxes, but remember it costs so much less when everybody pitches in and pays their taxes and paying it individually, and that's why we do this kind of stuff.
Plus you won't lose your hard-earned savings due to one health care.
cost right right one emergency and everything you've saved up over the years for your family to send your kids to college is gone in an instant so Sweden's got the right idea and it's socio-democracy it isn't uh you know socialism and you know
It's uh, this is
have no
We're coming back with more of John and Gordy for this 500th episode after this.
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She had
So we need to stop the cycle of never-ending referendums.
Now, Democrats might argue that the solution is simply to throw more money at the problem, but it does not solve the issue that there are just less kids being born today than there were 20 years ago.
School advocates and administrators say declining enrollment isn't the problem.
It's the formula itself and a lack of funding from lawmakers.
State school aid has not kept up with inflation for more than a decade.
And that's a long
That is a long time not paying for it.
And here's the one thing that should be mentioned too about school.
consolidation, the districts.
It's kind of bringing an end to local communities.
These schools keep these communities together.
They're social gathering places for those local communities.
And when you consolidate it, it breaks up the school district.
You send them off in a bus someplace, maybe a half hour, an hour of drive.
I mean, it's just ridiculous, right?
I think we should spend some of that surplus money that we always have in the till and just spend it on the schools and come up with a different formula.
We've been trying to do that for the last 20 years and they have refused to do it.
And they always, they just hate spending.
Remember, they always say that.
Well, we don't want to spend money.
We'll spend it on us.
It's our tax dollars.
Damn it.
Okay, I want
to get on
Look, the Department of Education is a big con job, and I will shut down the federal Department of Education, and we will move everything back to the states.
where it belongs and where they can individualize education and do it with the love for their children.
and sending all education and education work and needs back to the states.
We want them to run the education of our children because they'll do a much better job.
You can't do worse.
We're going to end education coming out of Washington DC.
We're going to close it up.
All those buildings all over the place.
And yet people that in many cases hate our children, we're going to send it all back to the states.
So we're going to do under President Trump's leadership.
is to return that authority to the greatest extent possible to the local level.
He's empowering parents, states, and communities to take back education.
And while White House says this order is about returning power to families, and I say amen to that, the left meltdown proves one thing.
They're not in it for the kids, they're in it for the money.
And Trump's cutting the cord and they're scrambling like roaches when the lights come on.
Experts say that student loans might get messy, rural schools might lose funds down the road, sure, but they're growing pains.
But the chaos of freedom beats the order of tyranny every time.
The current system located in Washington DC is not working, and the president is committed to ensuring that states and parents have a greater say in our children's education system.
Republicans plans also want Wisconsin to opt-in to a federal school choice program past as part of President Donald Trump's big beautiful bill earlier this year.
We don't want it coming from Washington But we do have this voucher program that we want to spread nationwide and spend taxpayer dollars on doesn't make any sense And of course, it's ideologically driven here.
I got this comment from one mega Trump dismantled the Department of Education
delivering a devastating blow to mass Marxist indoctrination, forced child trans ideology, woke Afrocentric revisionism, DEI, CCRT, and anti-white racism.
The global communist agenda took a major loss today.
Well, amazing stuff.
Who knew that we were part of that so by the way, we're that all these Republicans and make us come from if we've been indoctrinating people for the last 50 or 60 years We have been doing a lousy job, or there's no such thing as indoctrination It's just something they made up.
They're all the kids that did bad school.
That's really
what are
here?
Get the darn thing here.
Is there not enough confetti in this room?
The one paper that I need is not in here.
OK.
All right.
I'll tell you what.
We have free ticket Friday going on.
We'll tell you more about that in our seven o'clock hour.
OK.
Sure.
Yes.
We'll get up to speed on that.
Also we'll check in with Savannah Tomei Olson.
And we've also got
a little bit.
Oh, yeah.
Lower the temperature.
I am
this.
I
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