Chaos in the Tech World (Hour 2)

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That's a little too much energy for me.

WMDX.

Okay.

All right.

Is it too much for

you?

Wow.

All right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I feel like taking a bow on stage.

Okay.

I'm going to tackle that guy.

Oh man.

All right.

Well, we

got

some big stories coming up here.

Yes, we do.

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That's John Peterson.

I'm Gordie Young.

Dominic Lee is our producer.

And starting out with sunshine this morning, the clouds have cleared out and we'll see sunshine through the day highs in the low 80s right now, 59 degrees here.

All

right.

How about this?

This is something that surprised the heck out of me.

And this is something the Democrats should be saying, doing.

Oh, occupying their time in Congress.

What is it?

Oh, well, the Megas are coming out swinging against big tech AI.

The revolution, they feel regulation should be coming in that direction.

Now, you might think this is something Democrats would have picked up on, but nope, no, no, no, get this.

Marjorie Taylor Greene fired off a tirade on X, complaining that AI could create mass poverty by replacing human jobs.

and giant AI data centers could have potentially devastating effects on the environment and water supply.

I

know.

Oh, Marjorie Taylor-Green said

this?

It wasn't something in your coffee this morning.

What?

This is really happening.

Wow.

Wow, I know.

I know.

That's why I wore the psychedelic shirt today.

We're all on acid now.

Yeah.

Wow, I don't even know where to go with that hardly, except the story continues.

And thanks to Trump's big tech billionaire backers, they're about to own us and replace us, get this on stage at the National Conservatism Conference, Josh Hawley, Republican, criticized AI revolution as a leap towards transhumanism.

a human machine future that he said is currently why they you know they always do this I Bush did this W said this same kind of thing you know

I

can't remember what it was but it was always combining something with humans anyway Mark tell me what that word was it

George W. came up with.

But anyway, a human machine future that he set us currently against the working man

and the

teachings of the Bible as well as installing a rich and powerful elite in this country.

That's coming from two Republicans.

Wow.

Yeah.

And more on a medieval level.

Let's get to that part of the right way.

Steve Bannon chimed in comparing the pursuit of AI super intelligence to summoning the demon and since then think tankers and populist conservative outlets have continued to stoke worries about federal policies that turbo charge

AI developments.

Of course, we've talked about this with Tim Slecker from busted pencils where, you know, maybe we should put some guardrails in when

it comes

to AI.

And of course, I don't know if the big bill did include AI being unregulated.

I can't remember how that turned out.

Yeah, I don't know.

But in relation to what Marjorie Taylor Greene said that AI could create mass poverty by replacing human jobs, this came out and this was on LinkedIn.

The job cuts, the share of 21 to 25 year olds employed at large public tech firms has been halved since 2023.

It dropped from 15% to 6.7%.

Meanwhile, the average employee age in public tech has creeped up five years.

So they're older people in tech now from 34.

point three years to thirty nine point four years with millennials dominating the sector.

College graduates stand out look listen to this for twenty to twenty four year olds with a bachelor's degree the unemployment percentile has hovered around sixty percent for the past year or two meaning their jobless rate is higher than in most months of the past quarter century.

the jobs involving repetition processes are beginning to show up now.

In other words, factory jobs, boring, laborious jobs, factories, or service work.

And this, this is a tip from this particular article, master the AI tools.

You may see these as your biggest enemy, but flip the perspective and you will see that this is your

only way to survive master AI.

Wow.

The only way is to

attack your enemy.

Really?

Yeah.

So we all should learn about AI.

Yep.

That's it.

Master it.

Take some courses.

Then in some way, shape or form, you can fight the robots.

Okay.

Wow.

Oh, I know.

I feel like I'm living in a science fiction movie now.

Yeah.

This is Terminator all over again.

There are Nazi protests starting all over the country.

And this is due to the death of Charlie Kirk.

Here is a web wisdom that I pulled out in regards to this.

This is cut 105 and it's a Nazi protest that sprung up and this guy is talking about it.

Let's listen.

Okay.

So a white man shoots another white man and then a bunch of white men get together and chant how white men need to fight more.

I don't know.

I think the problem might be white men.

There you go.

So that's a short little bit.

Um, and also remember we got a call yesterday from CJ, right?

Yeah.

And, uh, and, and CJ, we had a little thing about empathy and sympathy.

And I remember seeing something about.

Charlie not liking empathy, but liking sympathy more I found the cut.

Oh, and I just thought I play that that's cut 106.

So let's play a cut 106 here Charlie Kirk listen the new communication strategy

is not to do what Bill Clinton used to do where he would say I feel your pain Instead it is to say you're actually not in pain.

So let's just a little very short clip

Bill Clinton in the 1990s, it was all about empathy and sympathy.

I can't stand the word empathy.

Actually, I think empathy is a made up new age term that does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.

Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy.

That's a separate topic for a different time.

And there you go.

Just proving my point.

It wasn't a big issue.

It was just something I remember.

And I thought, well, right.

Did I remember that correctly?

And I had to check on what I was saying here on the air.

There certainly isn't any sympathy or empathy in this particular idea.

And this would be cut 107.

All right, let's listen to cut 107.

In fact, I even think that we should bring back, you know, public executions on certain people.

No, but think about it.

I think that and you guys should laugh.

It should be public.

It should be quick.

It should be televised.

By the way, you could

fund the government.

You could have, like, brought to you by Coca-Cola.

And no, I'm not kidding.

So there you go.

That was, again, lacking any sympathy or empathy.

It's OK.

All right.

And here, I'll tell you what, before we get to the next cut, let's go to Charles in Milwaukee.

Charles, what do you got for us this morning?

Hey, good morning.

Good morning guys great show like always so thank you the whole thing with AI my stepson He works in IT he builds websites for companies and he was selling his mom a couple weeks ago Where it normally takes him maybe two to three weeks to create a website He saw AI do it in like in like less than five minutes Wow Wow,

okay.

Yeah

That's amazing.

Well, I

glad my kids didn't take my advice about going into site design.

Yeah, his mom told him you may want to start, you know, looking into something different.

And then if I could just quote the real quick on an empathy thing, you can empathize with someone.

My dad had long problems.

And my dad went through this thing where he started having issues with breathing.

He wanted everybody around him not to say anything, not to touch him.

Years later my dad passed I have I develop lung problems.

So before I had my lung transplant I was at Rochester Mayo They did a bronch on me in it.

I had bad results from it and during that time when I had issues breathing where I didn't think I was gonna make it I felt the thing my dad said when when when my breathing issues got that bad where it felt like my complete air was cut off I didn't want

I don't want my clothes on.

I don't want anybody to touch me or anything.

So you can empathize with somebody.

You can empathize with somebody that has cancer and you've gone through that battle.

So you can empathize with people.

Interesting.

And you guys stop taking Charlie Kirk out of tech.

You guys didn't listen to the whole clip.

You guys didn't get the whole clip right.

Because that's what CJ and everybody else will say.

That's exactly what they'll say.

All right, you guys

took it out of

context.

You know, there was so much context there already.

You know, you don't need any more context on it.

That's for sure, Charlie.

Hey, thanks.

I

appreciate your call.

All right.

Thank you, Charles.

And let's go to Mark.

Mark, what do you got for us?

Yeah, I actually had to look it up because I enjoy actually finding the facts, finding things.

Empathy is not a new fangled, new age world.

It was actually coined in 1908 by a German.

And empathy is actually based off a German word.

I can't pronounce the German word that

it

is, but I mean, it's just ridiculous.

I mean, actually, philosophers, Adam Smith and David Hume talked about it.

the fellow feeling, understanding your fellow.

I mean, the concept has been wrong for ages.

You feel another's pain, you understand their pain because you're a human being as well.

And what's remarkable to me is that Charlie Kirk has some level of empathy, has so many of these others that he was able to understand what is getting these people angry there.

They're afraid because the jobs aren't there anymore.

They're afraid because they don't feel they're reaching the heights that they should reach in their lives.

They're afraid that are they ever going to buy a house?

Are they going to find a spouse?

And they're able to channel that rage against the people underneath them.

or at the same level, you know, economic level, and they're, rather than being angry at the people that are really responsible for those guys at the very top.

Millionaires and trillionaires and billionaires that are manipulating the whole situation to their benefit, where the rest of us are fighting over the crumbs.

That's right.

Yeah.

All right,

Mike.

Thanks.

Yeah.

Thank

you.

Thank you.

All right.

And I got one cut here.

I think I could,

I don't want about a minute and a half.

I don't

want to fit that in.

Okay.

But, you know,

just dicing the words here you know we're always you know we're trying to get to the bottom of the logic the reasoning and we're trying to understand what magas are thinking what their strategy is why they think what they think and it's

It's still pretty much a mystery to both

myself and Gordon.

We haven't

gotten

very

far in that quest.

We're working on it.

We are

working

on it.

You know,

I think that's probably why we bring a lot of these audio cuts.

We're hearing them say it,

and

we're hoping to get the nuance

of what they're saying in order to figure out where you're coming from, man.

And we will continue that

quest in just a

moment.

Coming up next, we'll talk to

Brittany Merlot.

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Numbers.

608-879-8255.

Sunshine today and highs in the low 80s.

But let's find out from our WMDX meteorologist, Brittany Merlot, what to expect weather-wise for not only today, but the next few days.

Good morning, Brittany.

Good

morning, guys.

You crack me up.

I love you.

How have you been enjoying the warmth?

Have you been outside?

Oh, we have.

Oh, we're enjoying the heck out of it.

Yeah, I loved the lawn yesterday.

It was great.

It was wonderful.

Yeah.

Love it.

How about you?

Second summer.

Yeah.

I have been enjoying it as well.

I went and had a beach bonfire on Lake Superior.

What?

I attended a mountain bike race.

I saw like thousands of bikers just biking through the American Berkey trails.

Wow.

It was

pretty cool.

Yeah,

wow.

Working on the suntan, I guess.

But last little soaking up the vitamin D.

Yeah, that's good.

It's been

gorgeous.

Was that some kind of a major event?

Yeah, it was.

It was, okay.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yep.

It was up in Cable, Wisconsin.

It was called the Shawamigan 40.

Okay.

We'll hear more about that, I'm sure.

That's too many miles for me.

Really?

It was nice to watch.

So how long is this nice weather going to last?

Yep.

We've got a couple of days we've got today hitting 85 degrees nice warm sunny We put that on repeat for Wednesday same thing on Thursday, and then we're still hitting 80 degrees on Friday a few more clouds out there Wow, we've got chances for showers and storms so a wet weekend Unfortunately, and then that does drag our temperatures down a little bit so for the weekend probably mid to upper 70s

Yeah, all right.

Well that sounds fine.

Yeah gorgeous.

Yeah should be good

All

right.

I've got to preserve the wood on my deck here.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah, you've got to put that special sealer on, right?

I do have to do that.

So

you

need a couple of days.

I

think I need a few more days before the dry out completely.

A five-day span of dry.

Yes.

Yes, something like that.

We pressure sprayed it.

So it's really gorgeous now, but we're going to put that preservative on it.

All right, Brittany.

Well, I'm sure everybody cares.

Well,

keep us posted.

I know you want to keep me.

Let us know how it all comes out.

Keep me from putting that job off.

Okay.

Right.

Hey, by the way, you see the t-shirt here?

You see that?

He's

in love.

Yeah.

He went

to see Ringo.

Yeah.

I

went to the Ringo concert

in Milwaukee there on Friday.

Yeah.

Friday.

Gordy Scott, one two.

Yes.

Very good.

I'm not wearing it today, but I'm glad.

We don't want to be the Bob C. Twins.

We kind of hate it when that happens.

That'd be cute.

Well, thank you.

Brittany, thank you.

You have a good day.

We'll talk to you again tomorrow.

It's WMDX meteorologist Brittany Merlo.

Let's get to another episode involving

Charlie Kirk, this was Bill Maher.

He had a Charlie Kirk on as a guest and Charlie made a big mistake and Bill Maher corrected him.

All right, so let's listen to cut 108.

Here we go.

We got it.

Sorry, I'm having some trouble here.

You all right?

All right, please stand

by.

As we check

out the

technical situation, are we good?

Okay, here we

are.

So a white conservative was shot by another white conservative in a predominantly white Mormon state at a conservative predominantly white college and black universities are being threatened now?

Got

it.

Okay.

Is that it?

Was it the wrong?

Oh, yeah, that was the wrong one.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, I'm just

making mistakes left and right here.

Well, let's uh, so Yeah,

you can regroup here while we let me

find it while you

guys.

Okay.

We got some breaking news here breaking news here Robert Redford has died 89 years old movie star great movies like the sting

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.

Oh man, so many good movies.

Yeah.

Wow.

And he even had a big role in one of the Marvel Universe movies.

Oh, is that

right?

Yeah.

No

kidding.

And so, yeah, he was involved in all these great

great movies and in some, you know, just character roles.

I just, he was a fascinating individual, you know, personally.

Oh

yeah.

Appearing in a superhero movie was something else.

It was just crazy, you know.

So anyway, do we have that transgender?

Yes we do.

Okay, let's play.

We got less than a minute here, or a minute and a half.

We got

it.

A lot of it though is this woke stuff that would like take your breath away.

I mean, research into transgender mice.

I mean, it was just

U.S.

taxpayer dollars funding that I called that out on my show that was It wasn't transgender see that worries me about you Charlie.

You seem to have swallowed that one whole Like a snake does a mouse without looking into it.

It was transgenic.

I'm sorry.

It was not but it's hugely different Transgender that's just going along with what the mob thinks it wasn't

He got it wrong, and no one was around to tell him that he got it wrong.

He just went with it.

Transgender.

It wasn't transgender.

It was transgenic.

They were studying mice for health reasons, serious cancer-solving reasons.

Nothing to do with transgender.

So... I stand corrected

on that.

Okay.

There it is.

Stands corrected.

Fantastic.

Okay.

Well, anyway, I mean that was one of those moments and another one.

We don't have time now because I played the wrong cut.

That's okay.

Maher had to correct Ben Shapiro and we

might get to that soon.

Very good.

Coming up next after we check in with the Midwest Food and Farm Report, we'll be talking with Gary Albrecht.

He's a cancer survivor involved with Badger Challenge.

We'll tell you all about that coming up on John and Gordy.

All right.

WMDX 92.7 it's John and Gordy in the morning on State Street just down from the capital to capital city Madison, Wisconsin and a good morning to everybody out there including you.

Beautiful sunshine today highs in the low 80s right now 59 degrees and we welcome into our studio Gary Albrecht.

Good morning Gary.

Good morning.

Gary is a cancer survivor and involved with Badger Challenge, and you've done a number of runs.

How many runs have you done, say, this summer?

This summer, I'll be completing seven.

I have three in right now, so I've got a few more to go.

And how did you first become involved with Badger Challenge?

And

why?

Well, actually, I've been doing some running for the past 10 years.

I got back to it 10 years ago.

And so in the spring, I started looking for runs.

And this one appealed to me because of the cancer benefit.

And so I decided to register for that.

And it just interests me.

And I thought it was something that I could do a small piece for the cancer community.

Well, tell us about the cancer connection

here.

You've had cancer in the

past.

That's right.

I had cancer back in 2008, and actually came through that quite well.

I've had some other kinds of things along with that.

And that motivated me as well to kind of start getting back in shape.

It took me kind of a while to get on that track, but that's been a real motivator for

me

to stay in shape.

And I understand your wife is also a cancer survivor.

Yes, three times.

Wow,

yeah.

Now, I had a little bit of skin cancer.

This was maybe 15 years ago.

It was just a basal cell carcinoma, but I caught it very early and had that taken care of.

But do you mind talking about your personal bouts with cancer?

I had prostate cancer back in, like I said, 2008.

It was diagnosed fairly early.

And diagnosis, it kind of...

took time over six months to a year and so then I had it treated and moved on from there.

Now let's talk about the the run that is coming up here in in Madison right?

When is that happening?

It's my first time in this run so I'm really learning a lot about it this year.

It's on Sunday.

There are some other events along with it like a marathon and a biking event.

I believe there's events for walkers as well and the 5k and it's out in the area of Sun Prairie.

where the UW Clinic is out there.

Yes, East Park Boulevard.

Yeah.

4621 East Park Boulevard.

So that's where the medical center is for UW.

I'm not quite sure how many runners or people are participating, but you can go online and donate to individuals.

None of that money goes to us, but it goes directly to UW Madison.

Yeah, I'm checking out the website right now.

It's badgerchallenge.org.

And it's got the weekend.

It's got a lot of really good information here about how to register, how to donate.

There's an event schedule here, a number of community events coming up.

So why did you decide, or how did you decide to be this kind of...

A constant runner.

A

runner.

You could have picked fast walking if you wanted to, but instead you picked running.

What's the deal?

I was a cross-country runner in high school.

And then after high school, I ran some, not very much.

And then like I said, back in 1989, I trained for a marathon.

It took me a year to train for that.

And I was

in

Duluth.

It was an interesting run because when we started out, it was 45 degrees.

And when the run ended, it was like in the 70s,

you know,

in June.

So it was a great run.

But then I did some five or five and 10 Ks at that time.

And then after an illness in 1990, I didn't run again until 2016.

It was tough to get back in.

Oh, it

was, you know, you take those steps

and

it's like, what happened?

Because

in your mind, it's kind of like you can still do this.

Yeah, I know.

And I

still get trapped in that when I get out,

like

with pace and stuff.

It's like, I feel like I can go faster, but not quite there.

Do you run every day?

I mean, just as a casual.

Yeah, I don't run every day because I just think that's not, that wouldn't be good for joints and stuff like that.

So I run now, usually about two or three times a week.

So this Sunday, there's a half marathon.

According to this and I have 5k run and then something called a global runner.

Yeah, I'm not sure what that

I think

that's just a long time.

You got to go around the whole globe and we'll see you in a few months.

Yeah.

And I think it is a

long I didn't read about that one, but I think it's a series run that takes place over time.

Yeah.

Now, do you have a group of runners?

You I mean, are you part of any kind of organized team or anything that you run around your neighborhood?

No, once in a while.

Yeah, I've done this just on my own.

Yeah, we live out near the zoo.

So there's a

great area out there.

Yeah, you

know.

A

lot of hills.

Yeah,

get the cardio going.

Yeah, that's good for you, too.

And I gotta ask.

Yeah, I gotta ask Gary.

What was your most favorite run you've ever done?

I know you've said you've done a lot.

What is your favorite personally?

Well, I'd have to say my son helped get me hooked on this back in 2016 by doing the Disney run because he's kind of a Disney freak.

And so we do and we do that.

We've done that one every year and we're going down there again on the 20.

Something of October to do the 5k that goes through Epcot

and it's really a

rush because the first mile is a service road and then you come in the side of Epcot and The the torches are on and they're playing Star Wars music

Wow You can't

stop then it's just great.

It's just a great event.

Wow.

So those

those are my favorites

See also, they've had a number of biking events here on the website, right?

Again, badgerchallenge.org.

We don't like bicyclists here, so.

We don't talk about that.

I'm sorry.

I have to remind John that Madison is a bike friendly.

Yeah, sure is.

We have bike paths all over the place.

I'm going against the grain again and I'm a rebel.

I'm a rebel, Dottie.

So once again, talking with Gary Albrecht here.

So the run, so people can still be involved.

We want to

let

people know you can either donate or you can run, be a part of this run.

And again, it's Sunday, East Park out in Sun Prairie.

We encourage people to become involved or donate.

Anything else you want to mention about the run

here?

No, not really.

Just that it's one of those things that's,

you

know, the way I feel it's bigger than me, it's a lot, this whole event.

And it's something I think many people can do and help a little bit in some way.

Great.

Well, Gary, thanks for joining us this morning.

And good luck with the run.

Let us know how that goes.

I was going to run down here,

but I thought that was taking a

chance.

That

was taking a

chance.

It's been

a half hour catching your breath.

Thank

you, Gary.

Appreciate it.

I always hesitate a little bit, because as

an

older guy, you don't want to look like an old guy trying to run.

So there's a certain grace in running, and if you don't have it, then don't run.

Is

that your

excuse?

Well, it's a visual thing.

Yeah.

Maybe that's not

important.

I do the fast walking, so

that's where I'm at.

Gary, thanks again.

Gary, thank you for stopping by.

Appreciate you coming in.

Yeah.

OK.

That's fine.

And again, if you want to find out more, just go to BadgerChallenge.org.

We'll put some more information on our Facebook page.

Thanks again to Gary for joining us.

I want

to bring up something else, sports related a little bit.

You know, we went to the Brewer game.

Yeah.

Watching the Cubs, I was out in the stands and I almost caught a foul ball.

Right.

I had a beer in my hand

so I

didn't use both hands and I reached up with one hand and the ball hit my hand, rolled down my arm, into the seat and the guy behind me picked it up out of the seat and got the ball.

And I don't care about baseball so he can have the ball.

It's not a big deal.

I'm not a Karen here.

Yeah.

So you didn't

end up on the cam fighting for the ball.

That's

exactly.

I don't even know if it was on the cam.

I don't know if anybody

was watching.

You know, you were concerned about your peanuts or something.

I don't know what it was.

Excuse me.

No, not peanuts.

You can't do peanuts.

Yeah.

Anyway,

allergy.

That's right.

You were worried about that.

Are you going to talk about the letter?

Yeah.

Okay.

We've got.

Do we?

The Bob

Euker letter.

Oh, yes, I want to get the letter in

but I

also but I

I also want to talk about Anthony Rizzo.

Oh, yes.

Okay.

We talked, you know, to Pat Krightlow about this, but on this show, we have not mentioned it.

I am in the same league as Anthony Rizzo, former cub.

Yes.

And first baseman.

He was part of the World Series team.

He was out

in the stands.

In the left field, they were doing the seventh inning stretch out there.

Fly ball out there, a homerun, a homerun.

Yes.

He put his hand up.

Right.

And then

the ball hit his hand, rolled down his arm, just like me.

Yeah.

And, uh, somebody

else hit it up with the ball.

So

it was out there with Cindy Crawford and, uh, Eddie Vedder.

Yeah.

So it's even worse for him.

I know, embarrassing in front of the

celebrities.

So

anyway, I am right in the same league with Anthony Rizzo just

to let you know.

Okay.

Good to

know.

Same year.

Same problem.

Dom, do you have that clip?

OK, so the other day, the other day, what, the brewers clenched going into the playoffs.

Yes.

And the manager, Pat Murphy.

And this was a

big moment.

This was a moment.

Yeah, they were in the locker room.

And well, let's take it.

Let's take it there.

And this is something saved up for this particular moment.

For this particular moment.

And Pat Murphy is going to read a letter from Bob Uker.

I got a letter today from you.

And before we toast, I want to read it next time.

I thought it was fitting the last time that we celebrated.

You was with us.

Howdy boys.

Never a doubt you would get this invitation.

You did it by believing.

Really miss you guys and I wish I was there.

Things are good.

The God Almighty picked me to be on his team up here.

I'll be it.

I'm the third catcher.

It's a great league.

No day games after night games.

No shadows.

But you got all the sticky you need to have up here.

Told the big guy about you guys.

You play hard every night.

You're not afraid to play for each other.

He's obviously very interested in the group with this uncommon goodness The fact that you have the best record in baseball the best road record in baseball is caught his attention You don't really need me I know you guys really don't need me, but I've got to tell you I'll be on the headset every night watching and don't forget To take it all in enjoy it keep it light and believe in each other

Yeah,

Bob Euker So let's toast to him and to our team what we've achieved so far.

Yeah, that's

Such

a great letter now actually Bob Euker didn't write them.

We didn't know that was actually penned by Pat Murphy

the

manager who just read that

Well, he

was good friends with Euker.

I mean they hung out for a long time together and You know, we were talking to our author

Pat McBride, about Pat Murphy just kind of stepping up since the death of Bob Uker, because he had the same kind of humor, same kind of sensibility and kind of funny, you know.

So he came up with that.

That would

be kind of cool if he kept on that kind of tradition.

I think that's a great idea.

Wow,

that's great.

That's excellent.

Oh, by

the way, Linda.

Linda texted and said the ball hit her in the head.

I apologize for that Linda.

And that particular

letter made her cry as well.

We're coming right back with wrapping things up here and look ahead to tomorrow and tell you more coming up in a moment.

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Extremely edgy.

Well, we're debuting a new segment today here on the John and Gordy show of things to be happy about, right?

No.

Yes.

There are things to be happy about.

See, here's the thing.

What's

the problem?

You know, they're like good news

stories.

Yeah,

I get that.

But isn't it more fun listening to Stephen Miller go on a rant?

No.

No,

I don't think so.

Come on.

Come on.

We've heard him do that.

We don't need to do that anymore.

Do we?

Come on.

All right, well, I'll just wait till tomorrow.

During idiocracy, we'll play it.

OK.

Well, here's the

high point of tomorrow's morning.

Tomorrow morning show.

OK, wait.

So what are some

good news stories?

Well, here we go.

Kentucky nurse.

Let's get some music going.

Yeah, let's do some music.

Kentucky nurse revives drunk raccoon found in dumpster by using CPR.

See, that's happy because the raccoon could have died in that dumpster.

That can't be good.

He was drunk.

How did the raccoon get drunk?

Probably drinking some, you know, from half-drunk bottles of beer in the dumpster.

Yeah, that's not the part I'm concerned about.

But a Kentucky nurse.

CPR is what I'm concerned about.

I don't know about how do you do CPR on a raccoon.

How do you do that?

Very carefully.

Yeah, that's how.

All right.

Yeah, her name is Misty Combs.

Oh, that's good.

That's nice.

Of the Lecture County Health Department in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

So that's happy.

Yeah, right?

I think so.

Okay.

One of what else is happy?

Yeah, well, let's hear it.

Today.

Yeah.

I am going line dancing.

Are you kidding me?

I'm not kidding you.

Again, you're going, didn't you sprain your ankle last time?

I did hurt myself last time.

I did, I did one song and I hurt myself on that one song.

So, but I want to go again.

It is out of my own.

You

like the country music,

huh?

I do.

It's all right.

Really?

It's all right.

Yeah, I prefer rock, but...

I think that's why they

wear the cowboy boots to prevent your ankles from being sprained.

Yeah, I was wearing my Nikes, so

I don't

know if that was the best

move

to work.

I don't know.

I'm just thinking.

Okay.

Do you have any happy news you want to share, John?

No, I...

I don't really have happy news, I live in a

world of despair and depression.

That's true.

66 year old man fulfills life long dream and becomes the oldest member of the LSU marching band.

66 years old went back to LSU, became a member of the marching band.

They were

short people,

they needed more people to help.

Okay.

All right.

Anything else?

Anything bubbly or chirpy?

Well, I'll tell you tomorrow,

Mike McCabe will be here.

That's happy.

You've ran out of good news already.

No, no, there's more.

No, there isn't.

That is good news.

No, there is good news.

Because I got... Here.

Here.

I have Stephen Miller.

It's fun listening to Stephen

Miller.

He's like, that's happy.

It's never fun listening to Stephen Miller.

Come on.

Stephen Miller.

a lost painting looted by the Nazis found hanging on a wall in a real estate listing.

See, that's happy.

That is happy stuff, isn't it?

Okay.

We want to end on a happy note.

We don't want to be positive.

I got a happy note story.

Okay,

here it is.

New Mexico becomes the first state to offer no cost childcare to every family.

Wow.

I think that's positive news.

That's great.

There we go.

States should do more of that.

You think?

Yes.

We're trying to do that here.

And it says here that the families in New Mexico could save up to $12,000 a year per family.

No, that's not a bad savings,

is it?

That's a good

thing.

That's kind of worked

for all of us.

Yeah,

that makes sense.

A daredevil kite surfer breaks the Guinness World Record flying 1,500 feet in the air above a...

iconic landmark.

Wow, that's really good news.

That's happy stuff.

Hey, I got I got a story here.

Okay, smoky bones, barbecue chain.

Yeah, they're closing locations.

Oh, that's not and they're and they're converting those old smoky bones barbecue locations into

Twin Peaks restaurants.

Isn't that great news?

Twin Peaks

restaurants?

Yes.

I have a