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Still?
No.
No, it's just so frustrating.
It really is.
You know, I had gone through the whole Scott Walker era.
error and I created a Wisconsin map that showed a dog peeing on parts of the state.
And you know when a dog pees, they're marking their territory.
And that dog represented the Republicans.
And they'd go around the state and they'd destroy this and destroy that.
And they'd mark their territory by destroying things throughout Wisconsin.
I made that map.
I put it on my blog, demochermudgin.blogspot.com.
Don't try to find it.
It seems like YouTube and its handling of YouTube channels is really bad, you know.
Is it?
Yeah, they took out all my videos, the old videos, they just took them out.
You know, they created them as private videos instead of public videos, which everybody could go back and watch and find out what people really said, politicians, you know.
their point of view.
I want it out there, but they hid it all by making it private.
Now, I could watch it, but no one else can.
Anyway, they're doing that now.
The magas are doing that to the country.
They're marking their territory, and it's going to be very unusual, very hard for us to unmark what they're doing to this country.
And I am specifically focusing in on the national parks, removing historical items that disparage, in quotes, disparage the US.
Today is the day.
It's the deadline day to remove all of the signs, all of the statues and get this, the memorials that dot this country and our parks.
So I.
I haven't heard anything about
to
And, you know, this is, I know it's shocking, isn't it?
It's just, again, they want positive.
Reinforcement that we're the greatest country in the world and you can't question that and if you do we're coming after you I think Pam Bonnie said something like that
the whole thing here is that you know hate speech is something that Republicans said net doesn't exist
They stuck to that for like 15, 20 years.
And Pan Badi comes out and said, no, we're going after people with hate speech.
Well, what is hate speech?
We don't even know what hate speech is.
And we'd have to probably arrest every one of those neo-Nazis out there marching down the streets of our great cities, right?
But we allow that.
That's the First Amendment right people have.
We detest it.
We find these groups emphormed.
abhorrent and and and it's just one of those things that you know we have to just live with it was hard for me to accept as a teenager and a kid seeing these really nasty groups out there I thought well how could they how could they allow this but you know I didn't understand the Constitution at the time but anyway that's one of those situations where you know she's not going to be able to walk this back the administration is
Full bar going for this they're gonna go after they this is their opportunity to break up every left-wing group that they think is a left-wing group Hmm, and and this is their opportunity.
They see the door open and they're going to rush through it Okay, well, I'm I'm done.
Is
All right.
Well, a little bit later on, we're also going to be talking to Wolf Repass.
He's a financial tech person.
Going to find out everything you wanted to know about bitcoins and that kind of stuff.
When are we going to talk to him?
Crypto.
Crypto.
When are we talking to him?
At about $6.50.
OK.
Yeah.
And Mike McCabe will join us in our seven o'clock hour.
He's got a new sub-stack article out.
And weather-wise today, we're at 59 degrees, highs in the mid-80s again.
Mid-80s.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One
Yes.
Yes.
And Catherine is the one who instigated this because she is also very curious about Bitcoin.
And we're all kind of curious about it.
If you don't understand it and it just sits out there, you know, Trump is making billions and billions of dollars of Bitcoin investments.
And none of it, of course, is cash.
So we can't use it.
But someday it will be cash, and he will be
able to use it, and he'll be a
say here.
We'll
And not only that, but Scott Dickers participated in, I think, the very first Onion Radio broadcast.
We had it at WMAD.
You and I. We asked him, could you do this?
And he came up with a broadcast news edition of The Onion.
And it was just great.
Their first foray into radio.
That's right.
On the John Peterson show?
Yes, and I'm sure it's in the book.
No one certainly
Alright.
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We've got Scott Dickers on there who came up with The Onion and we've got two reporters from The Onion and we treated each and every one of their important stories as if it were
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after flying.
Wow.
That's a
Katherine, go a little farther down there.
I'm not bringing Grumpy John to the WBA job fair today.
That's right, the Wisconsin broadcasters are having a big job fair from 10 to noon at, I don't know, what's the hotel over there?
Marriott West.
All right, uh, you know, we're obviously, you know, going to get into some, uh, heavy topics here.
Um, AI advising kids.
This is, uh, an area they're getting into, uh, all sorts of things.
And, uh, I mentioned yesterday and I wanted to get to it.
It's the, uh, Stephen Miller rant.
I, I just, you know, it's just something funny about him.
He's angry about the left wing and they want to destroy us.
This really got him going.
He was on...
a rant for immigration for a long period of time, but now he's found a new subject and he likes this one.
Okay, he really likes this one.
And then Ilan had a few things to say and Morning Joe, they had something to say about the Civil War that is supposedly coming up here.
And Laura Loomer, what a strange, unusual person.
She wants to lock up the left and then we've got
Confirmation bias everywhere is something like that confirmation bias.
No, it's it's where you Reinforce what people already believe is true even though it isn't true so that you just keep repeating it in other words if you're little I long enough it becomes the truth But that's it.
That's what you're doing when you reinforce this stuff.
It's confirmation bias and I've got a great example of that from Fox News It's just wonderful.
Okay, and you hear that you'll know what?
confirmation biases.
Are we going to play that for our listeners now or are we going to hold that over?
Well, that's all part of idiocracy.
Bringing them down here, you know, it's, you know, we've got so many things coming up tomorrow too, you know.
The right wing seems to want to put kids on the front line.
Everything they're doing again is for kids.
Now it was easy to do with CRT in the schools because there wasn't CRT in the schools, but they created that scenario and people bought into it.
And everybody talked about kids and saving the kids.
And they put them on the front lines and all the parents stood behind them because they don't have the courage of their own thoughts and ideas.
So anyway, the kids are out there again now on the front lines and the culture war.
And it's really disgusting.
And we'll get into that tomorrow.
And coming up in our seven o'clock hour, as he does every Wednesday, Mike McCabe will join us.
And this time around, he's got a new substack article about reverse engineering.
There's a reason it's called doom-scrolling and not hope-scrolling.
So he'll tell us more about that in our next hour.
Yeah, okay, and My job is mr. Positive, you know.
Well, yes Somebody's got to be I gotta say I hope scroll a lot then.
I hope scroll.
Yeah way too much.
You're
And coming up in about 20 minutes, we'll talk to Wolf Repass.
And he's going to tell us about Bitcoin and crypto financial stuff.
We'll learn all kinds of things.
Everything you wanted to know about Bitcoin.
We were going to start from the beginning because none of us understand it.
That's right.
All right.
Midwest Food and Farm Report is coming up.
And then we're back with more of John Peterson, Gordy Young, and you, dear listener.
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Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
All right, just talking about something prior to Idiocracy here.
Yeah.
Well, we were kind of talking about Idiocracy in a way.
It's this monuments
Day today, it's a deadline for Monuments in our national parks right to be taken down if they're not positive Okay, and and mark wrote in surprise trumped hasn't insisted on the statue of Hans Christian Hague
be removed from the Wisconsin state capital because he helped steal slaves and helped them escape to Canada in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act.
And he was an immigrant from Norway, one of those socialist countries.
So, I mean, you know, all
those
access.
brought up here in our text.
See, we get your text and we want to talk about the subjects you are interested in.
That's the way it works.
And he says, are you fellas going to talk about Constitution Day?
Monday in the school districts, they're told by the Ed Department, the federal Ed Department, under secretary to honor Constitution Day in school or lose federal funding.
There you go.
Forced nationalism.
You love that stuff, huh?
Okay.
it's never it's never been mandated before everybody can you know participate if they'd like to in their schools but it's it's now being used by this administration to press and force that nationalism on us you know we're the greatest nation in the world even though we have fallen well behind all the other nations at being great
But
Yeah.
Okay.
Stephen Miller vowed that the Trump administration would dismantle and alleged vast domestic terror movement that he linked to the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Now I'm unfamiliar with this movement just like I'm familiar unfamiliar with all the checks that I'm getting from George Soros No one keeps me updated on any of those checks or where they're being deposited Yes could be a big crime somebody stealing my money, but and a plus they don't get a lot of the the memos that the Republicans say we get in order to you know come to yeah some
March the March March
so anyway He said Stephen Miller said this we are going to channel all of the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks Okay, we don't know where they are, but okay He says we are going to use every resource we have the Department of Justice Homeland Security and Throughout this government to identify disrupt dismantled destroy
Always a positive message.
Where does he come up with
Where the left calls people, enemies of the Republic calls them fascists, says they're Nazis, says they're evil, says they have to be removed, and then prints their addresses.
What do you think they're trying to do?
They're trying to inspire someone to murder them.
That is their objective.
That is their intent.
It is.
And when you see online, Sean, as we've seen for the last few days, tape after tape after tape of federal workers, bureaucrats.
Staffers in the Pentagon, educators, professors, healthcare workers, nurses.
Celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
These are radicalized people.
There is a domestic terrorism movement in this country.
And let me tell you something, I don't share with anybody.
But the last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven, was he said that we have the dismantle
and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence.
That was the last message that he sent me before that assassin stole him from all of us.
And we are gonna do that.
Under President Trump's leadership, I don't care how, it could be a Rico charge, a conspiracy charge, conspiracy against the United
insurrection, but we are going to do what it takes to dismantle the organizations and the entities that are fomenting riots, that are doxing, that are trying to inspire terrorism and that are committing acts of wanton violence.
It has to stop.
And my message is to all of the domestic terrorists in this country spreading this evil hate, you want us to live in fear, we will not live in fear, but you will live in exile.
It really is surprising to hear these people talk about all of the people that are out there celebrating Charlie Kirk's death You know what leave alone.
It's it's none of your damn business
What they say, what they do.
They're saying this stuff.
If they want to say it on social media, that's their problem.
Why do you have to get involved?
Why is it your business?
That's the question I have over all of this.
These are the bad neighbors, the cravitzes.
Living next door to you and they're all over the country reporting what their neighbors are doing.
I'm gonna stop my neighbor from saying this Leave of Malone.
It's none of your business do something constructive
the Kravitz is just for people that don't know what that reference is Talking about the show be witched
Back in the early 60s.
One of my political references.
The Kravitzes were the neighbors of the Bewitch people.
Gladys Kravitz was something else.
She always had the binoculars looking at the neighbors next door and looking at, you know.
Samantha and Darren.
Why do these people feel like they need to say anything about these people?
So what?
And then of course, you know, they talk about it and then it blows the whole thing out of proportion.
And then it seems like everybody's doing it.
Everybody's celebrating, you know, the death of Charlie Kirk and they're not.
It's just a few people here and there.
Leave it alone.
do something else with your damn lives holy mackerel yeah all right and you know here just added note here the president uh said he's considering designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization and bringing organized crime charges against those racing funds for alleged
Agitation.
You know, we heard about agitation so much during the Walker administration because everybody in the protests were agitators brought in from out of state.
Oh boy.
Well,
that
Anyway, Antifa is short for anti-fascist, which isn't a bad thing.
No.
It's an umbrella term for a diffuse far left number of groups all over the place that form instantaneously to fright right wing.
violence.
Yeah.
Right.
So I mean, that's the whole point.
Antifa isn't an organization.
Now, my mega friend in Milwaukee, so yes, so it's a, it's a global organization.
It's global.
Everything, you know, is bad globally.
Okay.
So anyway, I, again, I'm just so tired of these people making all these villains off.
Good morning.
The only thing Steven Miller was missing was a mustache and slamming his fist on a podium.
saying something
Texas.
Yeah paint.
Oh, you know rolling paint out the thing here is okay It's it's it's ugly enough just having somebody spray paint something on a sign outside and people get to see it But then you have this guy with a big paint roller Making a huge mess dripping paint all over the cement the sidewalk everything else.
Yeah Well, he probably hasn't handled a paint
It's not a good look.
It's nice to know he's, you know, trying to do his part.
Okay.
Let's see here.
We've got to come back here with Oh, our guest, our financial person.
Wolf.
What is it?
Repass.
Repass.
Wolf repass.
We'll join us next on John and Gordy in the morning.
We're going to talk financial stuff like Bitcoin and crypto finances.
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We had a little phone problem there.
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Good morning, Wolf.
Welcome
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Good morning, guys.
How we doing?
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That's where the majority of the Bitcoin industry space lives.
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