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It's the John and Gordy show.
Do you know what this means?
Wouldn't you like to know weather, boy?
You're pretty high and far out, aren't you?
What kind of kick are you on, son?
You're
it is.
On 92.7 FM, WMDX.
Take it away, boys.
To
Great.
So anyway, now the new one that I have, uh, was an old one that I had in the cabinet and I thought, geez, yeah, why haven't I used this?
And, uh, you can tip it over, you know, you and I continually knock our cups over.
Right.
So, uh, this is an insulate, of course, a steel one.
And it's nice.
And, uh, and you open and close it by a switch in the back.
That's a great idea.
But it does this.
Yeah.
So.
That's noisy and it's not something you do on the radio.
You
doing a Pete.
that
Yeah.
Okay, okay, you happy Friday.
What there's a there's a Paul over the studio this this morning The sad news and I hate to break this news to everybody first thing especially the people put so much effort into trying to get us Nominated and and win the best of Madison competition for morning.
No radio duo.
That's radio team radio team
Of course, you know, I was watching this very closely.
It was the category.
We got into the final six.
We did.
We did.
We lost.
We didn't
has
Yeah, I don't think it's fair and I think you and I were talking about this a long time ago about What has happened in the best of Madison?
They try to make it as simple and they cut it down to just the basics right and a lot of times That's really kind of a good idea, but what they have never valued is radio or TV
I mean, we both know that.
They make these very small categories, maybe even just one category for this broad category of TV and radio.
And we're in talk radio, and they paired us up with music radio people.
And that's just truly, there's two completely different things.
We'd be up against Mel and Floyd, I guess.
And I'm insisting that,
John and Gordy go to one one day a week Make it happen And and we and we're opposite Mel and Floyd from one to two in the afternoon,
Doug Moe?
Yeah, I know.
I mean, the thing is, we both know Doug Moe really well.
He's very good friends.
Yeah, he'd be great.
But he's not going to sleep in these days.
Not going to wake up?
Yeah.
All right, fine.
Why put yourself out for long friendships?
I did my deck, you know.
I needed a dry day or two.
And of course, it rained right after I put the stuff down last night, early this morning.
And they'll be rain all day long, because I see these showers on the radar moving into our area, just little blips.
It wasn't even enough to do anything.
You know, I'm looking under the trees as dry as hell, but just enough to get on the wood and on my new finish and prevent it from drying completely.
Well, that's sad.
Are you going to have to do it again now?
No, no, I find so many problems with the, it's not really a deck that I'm.
putting this coating on.
It's the stairway going up to a deck, which isn't wood.
But it's a two-story stairway.
And it doesn't take any curves or anything like that.
It's just a straight up.
And normally those kinds of stairs, they don't do too many of them anymore because that's a long span.
They don't make it.
They don't like
Maybe there's even a code for any of you from having such a long stairway made out of wood going up to your deck.
So anyway, yeah, and there's rot and stuff like that, which I did not anticipate.
As I was putting this finish on, I'm thinking, oh my God, this thing is up here by the grace of God.
Maxing preview.
Lord, I
This
I was, I was.
Um, but, you know, I couldn't get the kids to go up with us.
That was the whole exciting part of it.
Ann and I had, uh, had gone up there so many times, you know, we.
realized at least her dad had made me realize you could just go up outside the stadium buy tickets and go in you know from somebody selling them outside not for the big games of course but you know just get in and have some fun
be at Lambeau Field I mean that's the whole thrill and and and I thought the kids would also kind of like that maybe get into it but they never did we took them up a few times and it was in okay
Yeah, that's sad.
They like to go down the snowy slide that they have up there.
Oh, OK.
Have you been up there at all?
Not lately.
They've got like a park where kids can play and stuff like that.
But there's this huge slope where you can slide down in winter on the snow.
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Yeah.
Can I just, let's complain.
Look, I want to complain about meat prices right away.
We were talking off the air and I'm just kind of revved up.
I have noticed meat prices being so high for the last three or four years and now everybody's talking about it like it's something new.
This isn't anything new.
And Pam, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we have a problem with meat in this country simply because of a parasite, right?
If that's part of the conversation in reality it goes back deeper than that because remember John back in the day we had
Uh, uh, severe storms that hit the plane states.
I don't know if you remember how people were having to snowmobile out of their houses because the drifts got so ha so tall in agriculture in places like North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, all the way down to the Texas Panhandle, the people that had beef cattle could not get to their cattle to feed their cattle.
Beef cattle do not go in barns generally.
Beef cattle are a little less domesticated than dairy cattle.
So they want to be in the outside.
They want to be in
open but when you have severe storms that showed up like that so that that really knocked off a big percentage of
cattle, just livestock in general.
So that was the beginning.
Then remember, the states in the West have been facing critical drought
probably the last five years.
If you don't have grass, you can't feed cattle.
If you can't feed cattle, you have to move them into the food processing chain faster.
You don't keep as many mama cows back.
If you don't keep mama cows back, you can't have calves that keep the herd growing.
So that's really what has kind of led to this precipitous
increase in beef prices.
Now what you're talking about is the new world screw worm.
This is
parasite that's in as close as Central America, Mexico, scaring the bejesus out of the United States because this thing shows up, it flies.
It's a fly, kind of a gnat.
And
if it gets into the animal through a nasal cavity, an ear, something like that, it literally starts eating that animal from the inside out and will
kill
it.
The only way that you can kill this parasite is with another fly, a sterile male fly that helps decimate the population.
that's a lot of technology people got invested in, including the USDA.
They're doing it, but that's the other part of this conversation.
So what we have noticed as far as the escalated beef price is really layers and layers of what's been happening for at least almost a decade.
Now, you also mentioned things like tariffs or something like that.
So now we've got,
want to say it's either I can't keep track.
75% or 90% tariff against Brazil.
Brazil's both the only place that we bring in beef.
It's not the kind of beef that you see.
at the grocery store and restaurants.
Usually it's beef that helps us with ground hamburger because our beef is so top shelf quality.
We need to blend it a little bit, but that's when Brazilian beef shows up.
So we can't bring Mexican cattle in because New World screw them.
We are bringing Brazilian beef in because it's
Tariffs up the kazoo
we can't afford it and our beef herd in the United States cannot you can't just snap your fingers and make babies appear Did you want me to go down that road of how babies?
No
go to the
couldn't keep
Yeah, well, the industry's aging.
So yeah, so it's narrowed down to just a few.
Yeah, if you get beat up.
year after year after year, how many years do you want to kind of keep trying to buy calves that you're going to grow?
Remember, it'll take, if you buy a calf that's let's say a couple hundred pounds, it's going to take you almost 16 months or better to try to get that animal to market.
You don't know what's going to happen in the meantime.
It could die, market could collapse, a lot of things can happen.
So a lot of the folks that are of a certain vintage have decided they're going to pull the chips off the table and exit the industry.
That's not helping us rebuild
let me give you the cliff notes on that one.
So the Wisconsin Beef Council has partnered with Gather Wisconsin, which is a flange of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, and they created this prime rib trail.
It's a map of Wisconsin that shows you the supper clubs and restaurants that really do a good job
on
prime rib, nominated by the customers, nominated by the communities.
Right now, they've got 16 locations on this map that will take you all around the state of Wisconsin.
What they're saying is for the 2026 version, they
are welcoming your nominations for where you enjoy prime rib in your vicinity and you can go to beeftips.com and find the prime rib trail map.
that as it is and you'll also find the social media links that you can suggest other additions to that trail for the 2026 but uh you know talking about beef prices i don't know exactly how many people are necessarily uh turning to that page of the menu when they get to the restaurant let's face it just like a friday night fish fry it is a staple of wisconsin's dining out culture so they are trying to put that prime rib trail to good use
areas
and go
you don't do
of a splurge
If you're like me, it's not necessarily just the meal, it's the ambiance.
Some of these places, some of these places I've never heard of.
So I'm kind of jacked up if I'm driving in the community, I'm doing a story or something like that, or I'm going to be around.
Maybe it won't be Prime Rib Saturday, but I'm going to try to check them out.
Prime Rib Trail,
Yeah, that's right.
WMDX.
I love your show.
I listen all the time.
You have a pretty fun show.
I listen to it most of the time, you know, keep up the good work.
No, it's disgusting.
It's a ploy.
Well, geez, thanks.
Okay.
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Well, you never know.
You're going to start swearing like a sailor.
What are you going to do?
Well, you know, it's the discussion.
It's the topic that we're about to discuss here and it is AI doling out.
and sex advice to kids on their phones.
So why don't we check this out?
This is a story that I've been holding on to for eight weeks because it is a dumpster fire Friday.
We're clearing it out.
We're clearing stuff out.
So here we
Children in teens are turning to AI chatbots to ask for advice on sensitive topics like sex.
A new report finds they spend more time chatting online with AI than texting with their friends.
Experts warn that some kids may be confusing chatbots with actual human relationships.
Those are the findings in a new report from the company Aura.
They found some children are having conversations with AI chatbots that are 10 times longer than the text they
their friends.
analyzing how kids are using the tech or a found AI interactions ranging from homework and mental health to shared personal information and even sexual and romantic role-playing.
They have more magical thinking than adults so they can really attach to an AI chatbot and
think that it's human.
Joana Parga Balinky is a pediatrician and neonatologist.
There are just not a lot of safeguards in place to stop AI from telling children, false, harmful, over-sexualized, or even violent things.
Experts say it's important for parents to take steps to talk to their children about safe and appropriate uses for AI.
No, you can't really do that either.
I mean, I'm against any kind of limitations.
You know, just give them the stuff and give them advice.
See what happens.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Be their friend.
Okay.
So they talk to you instead of the AI.
My God, you know, that's what I did.
Of course.
That all happened when there wasn't AI so now you have AI to lean on I don't know Well, we'll see
And it was just experimental at the time tablets.
Yeah, they were mostly Japanese made and they weren't compatible with Google with their App Store.
So you had to download another app in order to apply these Google apps and it never worked and the kids were very frustrated.
This is their big Christmas present, you know.
What a disaster.
But you know,
And then you see how much violence there's on the left
with our friend Charlie Cook getting murdered in cold blood this week.
And people on the left celebrating it openly.
The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder.
I mean, let that sink in for a minute.
That's who we're dealing with here.
Well, I think it's great.
He said talking about the left is the party of murder.
I believe it was Fox News was suggesting they should just kill the homeless
Yeah, congratulations on the winning anniversary and I just also wanted to add a little something and I'm sorry about you not placing or getting to the place you wanted in the Competition, but I would say you should take Trump's role way of doing it Which is to say next time the voting happens.
We won't even have to vote
think you won't even have to go.
You know, a little threat of the mob going on, and I'm sure that'll do it.
was calling for Duster Friday because I could certainly talk about plenty of other things, but there's a wonderful charming little something that came up through Channel 3000.
If you want to look at the video, it's very wonderful.
This is so great.
The Capital City chapter of Muskie's Inc.
docked apparently 2,300 little muskelunges into the Madison chain of lakes.
with
help of a DNR.
So as you go swimming, watch your tootsies, just be careful, absolutely be careful.
They interviewed one guy who said they were fishing in Canada when a muskie latched onto the boat but was not
So apparently, this group is absolutely wonderful.
Maybe you want to get them on air.
They're the capital city muskies.
They're with an international group that is seeking to improve fisheries and promoting scientific research.
But I just thought 2,300 more of those little guys in our lakes.
Watch your toes.
That is
Yeah, I think we need to be careful here that in the whole boycott thing that because we're going to be punishing people that don't need to get punished because of the cowardice of the top management there at ABC and these other stations that, you know, I'm seeing now that Rick Scott
wants to declare october 14th a national day of remembrance for charlie kurt one of our national days of remembrance for all the other gun gunshot victims i mean and that we do not know you know you know you're on mojira you're on must talk about also left it so violent so left it so violent well that's not really true we don't know why this guy did what he did it was not any left buff wing thing that did it i mean it was for people to be celebrating charlie kurt's death that uh...
And, you know, even criticizing what he said is considered not the thing to do well.
We should confront evil things that are said because it's truly evil for Charlie Kirk just have said, you know, that black women don't have the brain power, you know, that they're still in jobs from some white guy that...
that
They go by merit only, and every time he brings up the color of the individual.
You know, every time he sees somebody of color doing something, did they get it because of affirmative action, or do they actually have the talent?
You know, that is racism, pure racism, as far as I can tell.
And, you know, it is just sad that, you know, it's very, it's horrible he was murdered.
But the fact of the matter is that these guys are using as you've mentioned the Reichstag fire.
I can't remember the name of that.
The German that, uh, they had the bloody shirt and the bloody flag that, uh, banner that they had that, you know, they used, you know, that the Republicans are going to be using this.
You know, now they're going to have a whole day of their renting out there.
They're having a whole stadium for his funeral.
I mean, the guy was not, the guy was not a saint.
I mean, and that too, to elevate him to that level.
I mean, that.
Well, what next they're going to have?
They're going to have him venerated.
They're going to have miracles performed at, you know, over, you know, touching his clothing he was wearing or something like that.
Is this beyond me that that.
Well, you know, it's like throwing meat into a shark tank, you know, with Kimmel being pulled off the air.
Now they're using Kimmel as the example to show how bad the left is and really.
When people are said to have celebrated Kirk's death, they're really not celebrating.
They're bringing up some of the things that Kirk has actually said.
And when they quote Kirk, Kirk, they're actually celebrating.
That's according to the right wing, the Megas.
If you bring up anything he's ever said, you're celebrating his death.
That's really what I've kind of, I found that out just reading through all of the comments on X. It's just one.
reference to somebody saying something about what kirk said and that means they're celebrating it's also skewed and so wrong it's such a big lie out there and they're they're capitalizing on the lie that's the whole thing
and any other any other president would have would have
at the president it's time to mourn charlie it's we need to mourn charlie kirk's death we have we need to you know speak out against the violence that
was committed against him.
We can't blame any one particular person over that particular action right there and try to actually bring the nation together rather than saying there's the enemy there, go get them, go get them, go get them, because that is what Hitler did.
That is what Donald Trump is doing.
Everybody thought it was more important to have a talk break about his dance floor, say something like that.
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Are they funny?
Or are they boring?
I ain't guarding in the morning.
Will you be awake?
Or will you be snoring?
I ain't guarding in the morning.
The radio's on.
Are you ignoring?
Good morning, CJ.
Good morning, gentlemen.
Thank you for taking my call.
Happy anniversary.
Yes.
Is it John or Gordy's celebration?
But I was at the wedding.
And I met Ann.
What a beautiful lady.
You're a lucky man.
Well, thank you.
Yes.
Well, now to the news.
This is where you'll probably not be so happy I called, but you know, Charlie Kirk and...
And the misquotes are the incomplete quotes that I've heard.
No,
You never play the sympathy part.
But beyond that, I don't know if you guys had researched that assassination problem your party has.
from the report or the survey that i refer to i don't know if you've ever researched that we have not looked into that the jimmy kimmel thing yeah um well the affiliates did it just the way they did it uh um steven colbert who was losing 40 to 60 million dollars a year uh you know um it was a financial decision it wasn't
the FCC.
So you guys need to tell the rest of those stories.
There you go.
He's got it.
The rest of the
know,
still out.
Yeah, I know.
I read that.
Yeah.
He said.
We don't believe this reflects the spectrum of opinions or views or values of our local communities in which we are located.
determined that.
Isn't it
in contact with those
advertising.
Tell us what to think guys.
Billion dollars in one day.
The
the air.
anything to that?
$6 million guys in one day from their advertisers.
saying we don't want to report this anymore.
Sharon,
How do you believe that, CJ?
You're smarter than that.
You don't think Brendan Carr saying we can do this the easy way or the hard way?
How do you think to do it?
Yeah, Brendan Carr threatened.
the network, threaten the network.
And then they had all of these deals working behind the scenes.
We didn't know about that.
Now we know about all those stuff.
And we're finding out that, you know, this is just a game.
This is what they're doing in order to take over the media.
And I think this is just part of it.
Well, you don't think that we've been misled by the media Russia gate for two and a half years?
You don't think we've been misled?
By Fox News?
By
I
yeah.
So was Adam Schiff correct when he said that he had evidence of Russia collusion for two years?
Yes, yes.
Well, and Joe Biden had his wits about him, too, right?
Yeah.
I mean, we're finding out that certainly wasn't the case.
Hunter was helping decide who got the pardon.
You guys need to, you guys are smarter than that.
those words
there was
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