The Bird Flu is Back!?!? (Hour 1)

When the chips are down and democracy's back is up against the wall, two radio veterans step up to the microphone to right the wrongs, standing for truth, justice, and just because.

To say what needs to be said, it's John and Gordy on 92.7 WMDX.

And another beautiful day.

John and Gordy in the morning on 92.7 WMDX.

Good morning.

Hey.

Happy

Friday.

Yeah.

It's

finally here.

Yeah.

It's been a long, long week.

Yeah.

A lot of stuff going on this week.

Wow.

I didn't think this could happen.

It was like a condensed one year version of what the administration would look like, but I'm mad.

I don't know.

It's, you know, it's even getting worse today.

I mean, so many things, so many shoes have dropped.

Never a dull moment.

There really is.

Well, what a nice way to put it.

Never a dull moment.

Yeah.

Try to look on the bright side.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why not?

Why not?

Silver lining in every cloud.

There is.

Sure.

Yes.

Yes.

It's all good.

It's Friday, so, you know.

Ha

ha, weekend

is here.

Well, with the Trump administration, we'd have to call it a gold lining.

Everything is gold.

Oh, this is the golden age.

Yeah, you know, you're right.

Yeah.

It is beautiful out there this morning, nice and clear and cool.

56 degrees highs in the upper 70s today and looks like a good weekend ahead of us.

In just a few minutes, in about 10 minutes or so, we'll be talking with Pam Yankee.

the fabulous farm babe, get an update on the Midwest food and farm report and what else is going on in our area.

And then we'll check in with Savannah, Tomei Olson, uh, after our seven o'clock hour in, in our seven o'clock hour, I should say, and rockers here with a maxing preview, uh, beginning at seven 35.

Yeah.

That's the big lineup for today.

Rocker texted me and

he

said, yeah, he said he was excited.

He was excited for today.

I don't know what that means.

I don't know.

Is

there something special?

I don't know.

That he's bringing to the table?

I don't know.

Probably.

I would

expect nothing less from Rocker.

You're right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm just looking at the WMDX poll.

Okay.

Are you planning to cut cable to protest the networks borrowing to the Trump administration?

Well, you know,

Yeah, not a lot of people did Technically I mean on a national level it really didn't happen and I think people kind of backtracked and went back Yeah, to you know the pluses, you know hulu plus and YouTube TV and

Well, I was only suspended he wasn't yeah, and you know So he was off for a few days.

I

know a lot of people like said canceled.

He wasn't canceled.

Yeah

Just

off

the air just on vacation just taking a few days to siesta cooling off beer.

That's right

Yeah, he's back

now.

Yeah, and People here on our poll mentioned that it's just a temporary thing and that is 9.5% Yes

But I am still using streaming services, which is the most popular one, 61.9%.

That's one I chose.

And no, it hurts too many people, 19%.

And no, I support Trump and his efforts to clean up late night TV.

9.5%.

I would assume the 9.5% is like one person voted for that one.

Maybe.

They didn't get a full, you know, 10, but that's okay.

We made sure they didn't get that full 10%.

You still have a chance to get into the poll.

Today's the last day and we'll change it to whatever the next question is.

Something very current.

I'm sure.

Something hard hitting, very serious.

Yeah.

Something cutting edge.

Sure.

You think so?

I don't know.

It would be cutting edge, right?

I mean, you're Mr. Positive here this morning.

I have no idea what the next poll question will be.

You know, I don't either.

I thought you were the one that was coming up with

all of these.

Well, I came up with this one, but I haven't come up with another one.

Okay.

Catherine comes up with these things.

Really?

And then I kind of twist them and shape them when I can into something that

You and I could use on this show.

Remember, this show is for the listener out there.

You are the main person for this program.

I mean, we are

taking your

comments.

We're taking your calls.

We're taking your voice notes.

That's true.

It is your program.

You are the ones controlling the horizontal.

And the vertical.

Beyond.

What was that show?

Those are the outer limits.

The outer

limits,

yes.

Yeah, phone lines are open.

If you want to get in during the early going here, 608-879-8255.

And you can always text us on the Civic Media app.

And also in our seven o'clock hour, of course, our go for the green and gold contest will continue.

So lots on our plate for today.

Mark suggested that maybe you should play Monty Python's always look on the bright

side.

Yeah, we

haven't played that for a while.

No, it's something Well, I mean it's hard to look at the bright side Right while all of this is happening You know somebody texted us yesterday.

I know this a little too early.

Maybe they're not up yet But we can bring it up later on too

How do they access our old shows?

They want to listen to some of the older podcast shows that we did because they want to check out all the times at CJ.

Was on the program and listen to CJ's response

Well, they would be to our questions.

Yeah, they would be able to if they go on civic media the civic media website and Look into our shows and they can just go to previous keep clicking on previous previous previous shows if he really wants to go far back And there is CJ as like a guest it would say call her CJ

and then

oh really?

We go

to

civicmedia.us.

In the

credits, where would he find the credits?

The credits?

I

could not tell

you.

How do you know CJ's?

Can you just plug in CJ and do a search?

I don't know about

that one.

Yeah, I give it a try.

I'm not too sure about that.

All right,

well, you

know,

high tech.

Did I just do something?

Yeah, you clicked something there and now everything's all screwed up on the screen.

Thanks.

Oh

Yeah,

you can't okay sure go ahead and try that Always good when you get control of the mouse.

Well, I didn't do it way

over to the it's

out of my reach So, you know,

there you go.

And now you got it back where it sort of belongs Okay, um, oh we have Matt on the phone this morning.

He's uh, he's up early.

Good morning

Matt.

What do you got for us today?

Good morning guys you asked for a call, so I thought I'd deliver Happy Friday I'm just wondering today.

It feels like the culture war where the evangelical Christians and all of the Insecure white people that were afraid of being replaced all that kind of nonsense Kind of turned into a real revolution with the white nationalist problem

Yeah,

and it just makes me wonder.

It's like there's a reason that their culture did not take over America and the West Because it's so effing boring.

Have you ever?

Like these mega churches the shows they have are so hokey and and kind of just really lame and That's why it never took over television.

This is why they're so angry with the left kind of dominating

Hollywood, culture, music, things like that.

Because

their stuff is so lame.

I know.

They don't want to push that on everybody.

And no one's going to pay to watch that stuff or consume it.

It's kind of like a doom loop for them, right?

It is a doom loop.

You have brought a smile to my face this morning.

You're

absolutely right.

You know, and if they do try, you know, Christian nationalist programming on our networks, good luck with that.

Yeah.

But I'll tell you what,

if you go down, if you go down, if you travel to people to watch it, you have to pay people to watch.

Well, yeah,

yeah, maybe we can

make a little money that way, right?

But if you go down south of the Mason-Dixon line, it's a different story.

You still see those shows all the time.

Yeah, I mean there are tons of really I'm not kidding.

Yeah, so

there are like Jim and Tammy's

oh, yeah still just of this day.

Yeah modern

day,

but wow Yeah,

they're still out there.

By the way, did you watch Jim and Tammy when you were watching TV back then?

Well, even at the age of five, I knew they were a nightmare.

Yeah

They

were they were actually fun to watch

Yes,

she would get very emotional yes,

those

were the days they were

Just love it.

Oh,

you know, there's a big you know

The big fiasco that took place at the UN, rather, and at the Union.

That would have been a fiasco down here at the Union.

But anyway, the British newspaper came up with a headline that I just thought was excellent.

The UN fiasco, the British newspaper, The Mirror, posted this,

most powerful man baby.

And in big letters, deranged.

Take a picture of Trump

on the front there.

Trump rants to UN about climate, migrants, Gaza, Sharia law, London law.

escalators, marble floors, and teleprompters.

Well, his prompter didn't work, so he was on his own.

It's

just something else.

I've got that story coming up later on, I hope.

Sometimes we don't have time for this stuff, but yeah.

I've got

how that all worked out, and a web wonder with it.

Excellent.

We'll see.

Do we have time for, would you rather?

Sure we do.

All right.

Hit it, Tom.

All right.

Oh, there we go.

I do like the music more than the last one by a

long

shot.

Yeah, me too.

So what do you have today for a question?

All right, first question.

Would you rather have a five star personal chef who can prepare any meal at any time of the day?

Or have a chauffeur that drives you to and from anywhere you want in any vehicle you want?

Man, I'll take the chef any day of the week.

Really?

Really?

I want to drive.

I love driving.

You want to?

Yeah.

I think I would do the driving, though.

I would do the driving.

Yeah, I think I'd go in far away.

I don't care about the chef.

What do you mean you don't care about the chef?

What was that question again?

It was a personal chef who could prepare any meal you want or a chauffeur who can take you in any vehicle you want everywhere.

One or the other.

Like forever,

I mean forever

you have a chef

with you forever.

Yeah, and you would want a chauffeur not a chef.

Yes.

Yes

Wow, okay, I didn't expect that answer

All right, well especially around here.

I mean, you know, there's no parking anywhere in Madison.

I can't find any place.

It's not that bad.

Oh, okay, really?

Okay.

Alright.

Next

question.

I'll take the

good food

item.

Next

question.

Would you rather have your hair change color based on your mood or have your skin temporary change texture based on what you last ate?

I'll take the mood.

I think the mood hair.

Yeah, I would do the mood hair too.

Yeah, I think I'd go with that.

Wouldn't that be fun?

Yeah, I think that'd be cool.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

Yeah, I want to do it.

soon, actually.

You know, that might be a great experiment for somebody to try and come up with a drug that makes your hair change according to your mood.

You know, maybe we could

ask the

pharmaceutical

industry to jump on that one.

That might be our next piece of merchandise to put on the John and Gordy coming soon page.

That's right.

Let's work on that.

Yeah, we have to work on that one.

Okay.

Yeah.

All righty, 19 minutes past the hour.

Well, when the whistling guy gets here, it's time for us

to take a break.

We gotta move along and Pam Yankee is waiting in the wings with the Midwest Food and Farm Report behind the scenes.

She'll tell us what's happening.

Coming up next on John and Gordy.

WMDX getting on the Goodfoot 92.7 also on the Civic Media app.

Choose WMDX and listen through your car radio or just on your phone, you know, that's that's and you can also watch us.

That's right.

Yes.

We're both wearing our fancy t-shirts today.

You have the WMDX t-shirt.

That's right.

And I have your sandwich guy might.

My sandwich protester guy throwing a sub sandwich at an ice agent or national guard

guy.

I don't know.

It didn't hurt him though.

It's 23 past the hour.

Clear and cool this morning.

56 degrees highs in the upper 70s.

Let's talk to Pam Yonkey, the fabulous farm babe.

Good morning, Pam.

Morning, guys.

And I'm wearing my Green Bay Packers shirt, which is my traditional garb on the Friday before game.

Oh,

yeah.

Yeah, I got a pack or shirt on this one.

Oh, yeah, he's got a green shirt.

Yeah.

You know, with egg prices down and everything, everybody's forgotten about the bird flu, but now that is back in Wisconsin again.

Yeah, they just confirmed our first case this fall in Jefferson County, and it shouldn't surprise anybody.

We know that as migratory birds pass over Wisconsin headed for their southern homes, they're bringing along with them the chance that we are going to get infected.

High path avian influenza in a commercial flock, a large numbered flock in Jefferson County.

My one of my

thought is, I worry that it's the same flock that has almost routinely been infected with high path avian influenza.

I mean, I was talking with Nick Lewandowski, who's the president, past president of the Wisconsin Poultry Association.

And he was telling me about how just like anything when it comes to agriculture, we're seeing a lot of consolidation in the poultry industry, not just in Wisconsin, but really around the United States.

And he said, you know, when some of these operators get hit,

with something that's as devastating as high path avian influenza.

Because remember, they have to depopulate the entire flock and then start over again.

He said, you know, that's impetus for a lot of these operators to decide they're tossing in the towel or going to let another company acquire them.

That's a concern that Nick's got.

He's expanding his hatching operation.

up in the Beaver Dam area, he's actually going to be moving to Horicon to get a bigger footprint.

And he's got, uh, cooperators all around Wisconsin is telling me about some growers that he's got up by Nina and some growers that he's got in Northwest Wisconsin.

So, you know, whenever I see one of these cases pop up, it just kind of worries about, worries me about how it's going to, uh, brittle the rest of the poultry industry in Wisconsin.

So, uh, gotta keep an eye on it.

Hopefully this is only going to be an isolated case this year.

And

And the department of bag is mobilized and trying to get that under control.

Well, it sounds like a better idea is to instead of these large stocks of birds, can't you just split it up?

And, you know, if one is affected, the other one isn't.

So if you split all these big farms up, that would be a better idea, right?

And they do.

And they do.

We do that in Derry as well.

They call them satellite locations.

So you may have, like, say, the office in one area, and then you'll have additional barns in different areas.

That's why Nick's got his growers kind of dotting the state that operation in Jefferson, like I said, may just be

One situation where they've got all their laying hands in one area or something like that But a lot of the poultry industry have those satellite locations like you said so that they can mitigate some of that risk But I'd be taking another look, you know, you also have to talk to your backyard burgers

a lot of

people have chickens now boy And I'll

tell you

it's not just chickens it be ducks or geese you get my

here

But boy, I'm telling you you start to let them out at you know, you want to let them out so they can be out on the grass and

all

all that kind

of stuff.

Well,

without good biosecurity measures in place, you are risking your backyard birds to the same infection that that commercial flock in Jefferson was exposed to.

Well, I'm glad you scared everybody who does have those birds now.

So, let's get to the, I know, you know, I thought that was the biggest flaw in the idea of having your own chickens for eggs.

It seemed like you really couldn't control that.

You don't have the science there.

You don't have the, you know, the, the, the checkup.

on your birds to see whether they have the bird flu or not.

So yeah, that's a dangerous thing.

All right, let's get to the cranberry crop, which is a huge, huge part of our economy here in Wisconsin.

So what's happening with that?

Well, I just want to remind people that the harvest has started.

This is one of those unique times of the year from now until probably toward the end of October.

If you want to take a drive and you want to decolor, we don't have color in the leaves necessarily, but

pretty soon you're going to see color in the cranberry bogs.

And if you head up towards Warren, Wisconsin Rapids, even Eagle River, there's growers that would love to have you come out and visit the bogs.

I don't know if they're going to let you walk in the bogs, but you'll be able to see the harvest unfold and it's really beautiful.

I was talking with one of the growers by Eagle River, though, and he said he's a little concerned that their yields might be off a little bit this year because of all the smoke that came in from Canada.

It

was

a bad timing.

The

cranberries really needed straight on sunshine to get the most out of their buds.

And that didn't necessarily materialize.

And then they had that scare earlier in September when we got the cooler temperatures.

So I'm thinking we're still going to dominate North America with Wisconsin cranberry production, but maybe not a record breaker like we've seen in the

past.

Yeah.

And Pam, how are the fall colors looking across the state up north, starting to get close to peak?

Well, we talked to a DNR specialist that's keeping an eye on it.

And then I looked at travelwisconsin.com and I think we still have a little time yet.

You

know, we're going to be in the 80s this weekend again.

And I don't think that any tree is really getting the feel that winter's on the way.

Even in the Northwoods right now, they do not have much for color.

But the DNR specialist we talked to said because of the cooler temperatures we had in September and ample water, ample moisture, he thinks this could be one of the most beautiful falls Wisconsin seen in a few years.

So travel

Wisconsin.com has a color map.

If you want to kind of keep an eye on that, I think now is the time.

If that's something that you really get your jam on liking to drive around and see colors, you should have plenty of opportunity coming up in the next few weeks.

All right.

Excellent.

Thank you, Pam.

You have a good weekend.

You bet your

fellas.

Talk to you next week.

You too.

Talk to you Monday.

Have a good game.

We'll see you.

29 past the hour when we return.

It's a special web wisdom edition of Idiocracy.

It is.

Oh, I'm John and Gordy.

And that's to laugh, to smile and dance and sing.

When you're feeling in a dumps, don't be silly chumps.

Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing.

And always look on the bright side of life.

Come on.

Always look on the bright side of life.

As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point.

Intelligence continued to decline until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.

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.

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Well, we've got a lot of that this time around, and this is a very special edition of Idiocracy, and this is a Web Wisdom edition.

We'll get to those in just a moment.

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And coming up in about a half hour, it's our go for the green and gold contest.

We'll reveal the next keyword in that contest.

Super.

All right, the Web Wisdom edition of Idiocracy.

That's right.

Got a lot of web wisdom stored up here.

Ready to go.

We

do.

We do.

Um, let's see here.

Yeah.

What?

Is there an introduction or anything like that?

We're wisdom.

All right.

There.

Oh, I was trying

to wait for the time to say it.

Short and

sweet.

I was waiting for that to jump right in and worked a long time on that.

Yeah.

It's going to be

a little

longer.

Well, he had some help.

All right.

Okay.

All right.

You know, I learned a lot from my kids.

We, uh, we get into discussions and those discussions last sometimes for a couple of hours, which isn't good at bedtime.

Sometimes I stay up really late, but we have good discussions and, uh, they tell me what's going on, you know, on the internets on the big tubes.

And there's one person that they used to watch a long time ago.

They have since.

abandoned him, but his name is Destiny.

He's a podcaster out there, left wing, but this is an odd guy.

Anyway, he has done what Charlie Kirk has done.

He's gone out and he's talked to students.

And this is him in front of a group of college students taking questions.

And I thought what he said was very appropriate and smart.

Let's listen.

How do we just have formed that peaceful dialogue?

How do we get through this?

I mean, nobody likes the answer, but I mean, like the right has to be willing to take accountability for things and to like all political balance across the spectrum.

Nobody we've been doing that though.

That has been doing that for the past

decade.

It's

not, you can't, it's, the both sides thing just doesn't work anymore.

It's like a boat rowing with one paddle, like the left can row harder and harder, but we're still gonna go around in circles, until the right is willing to actually come out and say, hey, everybody, including us, everybody needs to tone it down.

I'm not even saying it to save themselves personally.

Like everybody has to do it.

Donald Trump cannot condemn violence in this country without also talking about the radical left in Joe Biden.

He can't do it.

I agree.

I wish you would stop that rhetoric.

The reality is like when,

When there was supposedly a threat from Iran to assassinate Trump, Biden increased his secret service detail.

After the assassination attempt against Trump, which was by a registered Republican, Joe Biden didn't make it political.

You know, he had a lot of even more security to Donald Trump, and he told everybody in the United States they needed to calm down.

After this last shooting happened with Charlie Kirk in like 12 hours, the right wing had spun up, including Donald Trump and J.D.

Vance and Nancy Mace and Stephen Crowder and Matt Walsh and every other alternative you don't like had spun up an entire conspiracy theory about who the guy was, but we knew anything about it.

Both sides are not equal here.

That

is

Destiny, a podcaster.

And I think he was right on.

There was just a flood of information out there on X. You couldn't avoid the right wing media fix in all of this.

It was just outrageous.

And in fact, that's our next.

It's actually an anti-web wisdom.

All right.

Here's the audio of an animated piece of propaganda from the mega AI abusers that is part of the final push to capitalize on all that turmoil left by Charlie Kirk.

It's projection, of course.

encouraging bad actors from the megaculture commit violence capitalism is on the line folks a system that forces Americans to live paycheck to paycheck minimum wages of $7.25 an hour to be homeless to die preventable deaths a shift from your wealth to the upper wealth

That's what it's all about.

That's capitalism.

If you like that, well, you're going to love this.

So let's listen to Cut 187.

The left devours itself.

In a stunning act of political desperation, New York Governor Kathy Hochul endorsed socialists Zoran Mamdani for mayor, trying to stop the bleeding within her fractured party.

The response, a public and utter humiliation.

Mamdani's blatant refusal to return the support was not just a snub, it was a power move.

A declaration that the old guard is irrelevant and that the socialists are now in command.

The radical wing, emboldened by a climate where political violence is excused and even celebrated, is taking power by storm.

Socialism has become the dominant ideology among their voters, while capitalism is seen as the enemy.

They nurtured the monster of radicalism, and now the monster devours them from within.

This internal rot sets the stage for a spectacular failure in the general election, which will be their funeral.

The right is grateful, watching as their opponents self-destruct.

there you go wow so uh yeah the democrats are bound to lose the next election keep telling yourself that wow

okay

you know this you know it's late stage capitalism whatever you want to call it obviously you know living paycheck to paycheck and then of course after this year we're gonna all lose our health insurance

because we

won't be able to afford it on the affordable care act on obama care

the marketplace.

That's all going to happen.

And right now, the right wing is repeating over and over and over again what the Democrats aren't doing.

They don't want to pass any kind of bill, any kind of bill, until they get the Republicans to agree to continue the tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, which makes the premiums each month

affordable for every American in this country.

Instead, what they're saying is that this effort by the Democrats really wants to give healthcare to immigrants, illegal immigrants.

I have no idea how they stretched it to that point, but that's what they're saying.

They're not saying anything else.

It's actually us.

It's the American public that will be losing out because we'll be losing those tax credits, okay?

And I'm...

soapbox again.

I'm big on health care, you know, this is the whole thing here.

And there's a government shutdown looming and showdown on that before too long.

We have Mark

on the line here.

Let's go to Mark right away.

Let's see what he's got for us.

Good morning, Mark.

Good morning from Mondami.

I thought, you know, they were complaining about him taking over the grocery stores or something like that.

But I thought he just proposed that at

in these places where there's food deserts where there's not a grocery store available to the population there he wanted the government to step in and actually build some or actually you know establish some grocery store so people are actually able to have access to food um... yeah maybe i got that wrong but that's what i remember you know it's hearing from him i haven't been paying close enough attention perhaps but uh... that's the kind of socialism that uh... he is proposing that when they when they

private sector isn't providing for that the government has a responsibility as jesus pointed out what matthew twenty five thirty one to forty six we actually have a responsibility to our fellow man and that uh... that's what it should be about because capitalism hasn't served you know that it serves in some cases but doesn't serve well in other cases and that's all they're saying so yeah freak out over that is uh...

It's outrageous.

The only thing I will suggest to Mondani is that I wish he would stop saying it's free.

A lot of these services, it's not free, it's paid by taxpayers.

So stop saying the free stuff.

But it's taxpayers all pulling together to lower the prices of all of these services that he wants to provide in New York.

All right, let's go on to Joe.

Joe, what have you got for us?

I appreciate the fact that you're talking about health care yet again and do remember that our president just announced yet again that he's going to deal with pharmaceutical prices by they're going to drop by fifteen hundred percent which as we know as we know means that if you pay a hundred dollars for your drug that you're going to get

fourteen hundred back from the government one of them and i know when you're talking about with them i did want to uh... echo thanks remarks calling as always and i did want to echo thanks to charles for uh... from the walkie yesterday for the words he said about your conversation with cj and i think that there was some wisdom in great wisdom in what you did in that instead of trying to reason cj out of his weird

thing that he's got going that instead you said to him specifically give me one specific example and he couldn't do it.

And he's got this miasma, the sea around him of unhappiness and resentment and anger toward liberal and progressive people, but he couldn't name one thing that was bothering him.

And I think it's a really important point.

There was, you know, I really try to have a specific example like this, this pharmaceutical example.

CJ could look at that to sort of say, what is it?

Is there one thing that is bothering you?

And then we could parse that out.

But instead, when you just have this bad sea of, you people, and it doesn't help at all.

So I agree that what you're challenged to say, give me one specific example, was really, really helpful.

And it's helpful for me too, because I'm going to start to do that more concretely by saying,

One specific example.

I think Donald Trump is a moron.

I think his example of saying that he's going to drop pharmaceutical prices by 1,500% is my evidence.

Yes.

All

right.

Thanks, Joe.

Thank you

for

that.

Yeah, that was well said.

And adding to the drug prices is something new

from

Trump today.

What?

100% tariff on all brand name drugs.

coming into this country unless they'll lift the tariff.

if those drug companies produce those drugs in the United States.

So

until

then, the brand name drugs, 100% tariff on all of them, tell me that's not gonna raise the price of those drugs.

And by the way, that does not apply to generics, which I think owns about 80 or 90% of the market.

So again, not all drug prices will go up, but brand names, if you need one of those, 100% tariff unless they're manufacturing them in the United States.

Wow.

Yeah.

He doesn't care if the prices go up for us.

You know, he really, he really doesn't care.

It's an adjustment.

We'll all have to deal with it until all of his policies fall into place.

Until then, of course, we're going to go broke and we're going to be homeless.

I don't know how anybody can allow something like this to happen, like CJ or my mega friend in Milwaukee, how they can sit by and let this stuff happen.

But I don't think they're paying attention to this or maybe.

My mega friend in Milwaukee is probably the person I'm talking to at this point.

I think CJ is a little bit more understanding.

He understands a lot of the different issues that are out there in a different way than I do.

But, you know, my mega friend does not pay attention.

He's sidetracked by all of the crazy stuff the Magus throw out there as you red meat, you know, chum.

Yeah, that's it.

It's just, you know, it's a waste of time.

And he likes

wasting his time on all this small stuff.

Yeah.

Phone lines are open again, 608-879-8255.

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John and Gordy in the morning 92.7 You know this is a special edition a web

wisdom edition of Idiocracy this morning.

We'll get to more of that.

I just want to mention here, we heard something on drug prices and we also heard that the ACA is certainly going to go up.

as far as prices are concerned because the tax credits won't be continued.

I just want to pass along this.

This is a tweet.

President Trump says he will not cave to Chuck Schumer's demands of $1 trillion for transgender surgeries for minors and health care for illegals.

That is how they're packaging the tax credits we're getting on the Affordable Care Act.

That's their excuse, which is an empty excuse.

It's not happening.

So just keep that in mind.

Just a red flag.

I just wanted to present out there in case you read all of this stuff from the right wing that actually come out with the exact same line over and over and over again.

It's not.

It's a tax credits for the ACA and a lot of people will be losing their health care, including my family.

Oh, man.

Yeah tough

times

ahead.

Yeah,

no doubt

Okay, okay and Okay, let's let's continue with web wisdoms here.

All right.

Now.

This is a couple talking to another couple a lefty couple and a righty couple and The lefty couple is saying hey, this is the question Yes, is Trump overreaching With what he's doing

his

agenda

Is it overreach or not?

And I just want to play this for you.

This is their response to it.

It's

frustrating.

Imagine you were a soyboy liberal for one second.

Can you empathize with my point of view?

I know it hurts.

Empathize, when I see the president of the United States in an unprecedented way, putting his thumb on the scale, trying to attack universities, law firms, the media for sure.

You can't deny he attacks the media.

He doesn't he sued multiple like ABC recently?

NPR.

All of these different lawsuits.

Does that not worry you that it's executive overreach?

Can you see where we're coming from?

For suing people?

No, not just suing people but using the executive branch to place pressure on universities and law firms and media.

Do I see that as a problem not necessarily?

Why not?

Because I think if he's fighting for things that need to be done then...

What if we replace the word Trump with Biden?

Yeah, if this was a liberal

administration, you'd be like, this is horrible!

Oh my God!

Well, like I said, sometimes it can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

Okay, so it's only good when it's people you agree with.

Got it.

Well, putting your thumb on the scale to influence the country is kind of what politicians and the president did.

Oh, that's not the idea.

That's not how that works.

Okay, so

there exists something called checks and balances.

Oftentimes courts or law firms or all of these things exist as a check on the executive branch.

What Trump is doing is intentionally eroding

all of these checks by attacking the courts, even Supreme Court Justice Alito had to come out recently and say, Trump, you gotta stop calling to impeach judges.

It's not the place of the president to call to impeach judges without due process.

So we can go across the board with like courts, universities, everything, and Trump is always applying pressure in a way that he shouldn't be, not as the president, not going through Congress and passing some law, and...

I just wonder if you can empathize with my point of view there.

I just think that he's doing the will of the American people, and I love to see it.

Wow, what a politician answer.

What a politician answer.

You're like Vivek Ramoswami, bro.

Oh, don't compare me to that.

Okay, fine.

JD Vance.

All right.

So, you know, the thing here, and you'll notice that the guy on the left had to present, like, example after example after example.

Right?

Yeah.

The other guy.

No, I just think he's doing what the people voted him to do.

Thanks for that answer, I think.

He brought up a name I hadn't heard in a while, Ramaswamy.

Whatever happened to him?

Ramaswamy.

I don't know.

Probably went on to some major corporation as a CEO.

Like Ryan Walters.

We've got Charles on the phone.

Good morning, Charles.

Go ahead.

Hey, good morning, guys.

I haven't heard any of Trump supporters complaining about them trying to negotiate a $20 billion swap line to help the president in Argentina win the race.

He's not doing that well there.

Their economy is horrible.

So we're planning to spend $20 billion to help

This president in Argentina win.

I didn't know that he ran on that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know if we voted for that helping

out here Yeah, I hear anything about that 20 billion dollars To help this guy win in Argentina because the economy is not doing that great and they want this guy to stay in office

I'm sure he's working for the American people in in that

in that effort.

I don't know, we're losing a place for the homeless to live here in Madison, but he's helping Argentina.

I know, I know.

$20 billion.

I won't mention anybody's name, but I wonder when he, when he called into the show, will he say that that's a disgrace and we should not be doing that or is that okay because it's his guy, Trump that's doing it.

Yeah.

Yeah, very good point, Charles.

And, you know, Bob in Oklahoma, Texas, he said, don't worry, CJ, we'll be calling the day after you challenged him.

Maybe he has found something to complain about when it comes to education.

Remember during COVID, the parents finally saw what the kids were learning in school and they hated it.

They just hated it.

And we're trying to find out what it was that they disagreed with.

There weren't any answers.

Let's go to one more.

I think we have time for here.

I'm squeezing them very quickly.

Oh, no, we actually don't.

All right.

Well, let's hold on to that.

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Good morning, Savannah.

Good morning.

Well, we talked about it last week, but today is the day where all the residents have to leave Dairy Drive so the city can start demolishing things there.

There was that really emotional hearing last week when they kind of had that.

will marry to try to save it or at least extend it until the springtime.

And I just listened to that again yesterday.

And I mean, it just kind of puts a pit in your stomach, you

know,

there's one person who came up and said, I'm sure lots of you voting on this or listening or going home to your warm beds and a kitchen, you know, and it's,

it's just

rough to try to

watch people figure out where they're going to go from here.

The team at Madison Street Medicine is in charge of all that though.

And, you know, they have so much trust with the people who live there on Dairy Drive.

The next step is finding where everybody can go.

Well, the question I had is, this was temporary, right?

I mean, temporary quarters for these individuals.

Was there high turnover or did they find a home there and they were kind of planted there?

for a long period of time.

I mean, it sounds like the woman that you interviewed and that every time I hear it in my eyes well up listening to that, she's doing it for her son.

Is it something that they can stay there a long period of time for?

Or, I mean, if this had gone on, could they

have

stayed there?

Yeah, I listened to one man named Kenneth Shapiro who had been there since 2021.

Not long after it opened.

And he talked a lot about how they were building relationships among each other there and trying to ensure that it was a safe community

for

everybody because then there started to be more people who were camping nearby Dairy Drive because they had community with the people who lived in the tiny home shelters

there.

They really started to build something together and there were people who even suggested like, you know, can we plant some sort of community garden and then that way we can contribute to food banks in the area and you know, they really wanted to find some sort of solution.

But the city has lots of other priorities and that includes the shelter at Bartalon Drive that they'll be opening in the springtime.

So just keep moving them all over the place.

I can't wrap my head around this.

So this all failed by one vote.

And then there was a charity that stepped up that was willing to donate some money to at least extend it for a few more months till these folks could find other places to live.

I don't understand this.

It just boggles them up.

That's right.

I mean, they find out that they're not going to be staying there.

And all of a sudden they're just supposed to have plans.

These are homeless people.

Right.

You know, quite have a lot of plans.

Yeah.

Well, that was something that Brenda Conkel, who's the executive director of Madison street medicine, talked about a lot.

She talked about they can't, they don't know what day it is because they're busy thinking about how they're going to get their next meal and where they're going to sleep.

That's it.

And so the idea of trying to figure out what to do next is really in the hands of the people at Madison Street Medicine who kind of have to lead that charge for them.

So what's going on at Dairy Drive that they have to move this out?

What's happening there?

On Dairy Drive?

Yeah.

Is there anything

going in there?

Is there some reason we have to get rid of them?

You move these homeless people away.

It's because all the federal funding ended and so it costs about a million dollars a year to run Okay, and so the all the federal funding that all came from pandemic money from ARPA funds Yeah, and all that money ran out So the idea was and the structures also were not built to be Built to be permanent.

So a

lot of them started having some issues there, too But they're also really switching their focus to

the Bartelon Drive shelter now that that is getting closer to being up and running.

All right.

Anything else in the news quickly?

You want to touch on Savannah?

That's about it.

Okay, that's

plenty more than that's more than that's right.

Yeah.

All

right.

Well, thanks for that report and and bringing that to everybody's attention.

Yes, we appreciate

it.

Yeah.

All right.

Thanks, Savannah.

Talk to you next week.

That's Sabanatome Olsen

from WMDX News.

Incredible story,

just incredible.

You think the

state would just step in?

Yeah, the state or the county or... This is what they're

supposed to do.

I don't

get it at all.

Yeah, but they...

Always blame spending.

Well, we're not going to spend money.

We can't spend money.

You know, that's the government.

You know, I would just like to draw the line and the sand as as the public.

I don't know how we would do that.

But we'll take away your health care until you give us health care.

We're paying for your health care.

Right.

But you're keeping health care away from us or making it more expensive.

We want to take it away from you until you give us the same thing you have.

Seriously.

Why don't we have that kind of power?

We're... I don't get it at all.

We're helpless

to our own politicians, the people that represent us.

That's

driving me crazy.

Well, and I read that it's going to cost like $280,000 to tear down dairy.

Oh, yeah.

To tear down... That's right.

Maybe that could have gone toward repairing them and, you know, extending it.

But, well, I guess it's got to go.

Got to

go.

All right.

All right.

Let's go on to the next web wisdom.

All

right, this

is interesting.

You heard about the $100,000 H1B Visa price tag, right?

Well, there might be some downsides to that as well.

And this is cut 189.

Let's listen to Anton Martel, a web wisdom.

So Trump over the weekend implemented a $100,000 H1B Visa fee, which typically there was no fee for going through this H1B Visa application.

And the reason why Jeff Bezos is pissed is because they employ more than 14,000 H1B visa holders.

Way more than Microsoft, Meta, and Google, which all had around 4,000 employees with an H1B visa.

Azos and other CEOs in America are also pissed because this means the talent pool may not come to America anymore.

We might have the best developers, the best employees in the world that are amazing at their craft go to other countries.

And other countries are taking advantage of this and they're doing marketing campaigns saying, come work in X country.

Instead of going to America, come work in our country and you don't have to pay this super hefty fee.

What do you think about this?

Do you think this is going to be good for the country or bad for the country?

Well, I'm guessing probably bad, given those reasons.

But again, a web wisdom,

a lot of good stuff out there.

You

know,

people are putting good thoughts out.

Let's go to the phone lines right now.

We've got Dick on the line.

Dick, what do you got for us this morning?

Good morning, Dick.

Subject.

Call me what I said yesterday.

I'll stand behind.

if anybody should have an axe to grind with him, it would be Hillary Clinton for, you know, kind of dropping that 12 days before the election.

But what do you guys think of this situation?

I think we've crossed into

I was

thinking about it too, because now, you know, coming was the big villain, you know, took down Hillary Clinton, essentially.

And now we're sitting here thinking he's going to be the big hero, depending himself against something that is just cooked up by the Trump administration.

Amazing stuff.

Just a reversal of everything we ever thought could happen in this life.

Right?

Well, and his description of Comey was more of himself.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

And

I don't know how the

grand jury decided, you know, to continue this thing.

It just doesn't seem to

make

any sense to me

at all.

That one's totaled beyond me.

Yeah.