From Football Frustrations to Banana Suits (Hour 1)

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MDX 92.7 John and Gordy in the morning and it is a Regular actually a pretty nice morning.

Yeah, we've had pretty boring weather and I'm loving every second of it.

I mean, this is fantastic weather,

isn't right?

Yeah, happy Monday.

Yeah.

Yeah,

it's good.

It's nice.

Happy happy Monday, right?

It's

not a happy Monday.

No, I mean,

we're just lucky to be here again

Each and every day, we're lucky to be a country.

My God, this thing is just a disaster.

What an S show.

I am, I'm sorry, this is just beyond my comprehension.

I've never seen anything like this.

And, you

know, these guys out there, those Megas, there's gotta be a point at which they say, this has gotta be the line that I can't step over.

No,

apparently not.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

Wow.

You're coming in hot this morning.

Well, you and I were talking about the Packer game and that

got me started.

Oh, I

know.

That got

me started.

What a game that was last night.

What a great game.

I watched the whole thing.

Oh, that's fantastic.

To walk away disappointed at the end of 11-15 when I'm ready to pass out.

What?

You mean you don't like tie scores?

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

You

spent all

that time watching a damn game and they cut

it off as a tie score.

Yeah, and then it's the end of the game.

You know, it's all hugs and kisses between the teams.

Oh, that was a battle.

We both lost, but we both won.

It's like, oh, come on.

Give me a break.

That's BS.

It is BS.

Why don't they just have the two quarterbacks come out and arm wrestle or something for the final point or just do something.

Just do flip a coin.

I don't care.

Rock paper scissors.

That's what I'm saying.

Rock paper scissors.

But what a game, though.

I mean, nine lead changes just back and forth all night long.

40-40.

Yeah.

Well, you know, it's tough playing.

It's the

final.

It's tough playing Dallas because they have that that.

one star out of American flag on their helmets.

What can you do?

The America's team,

you know what I mean?

Oh yeah,

Lone

Star State.

Oh yeah, it's not from the flag, it's from their flag.

That's

right.

Oh well.

But yeah, it was a great game except the ending.

And

as I mentioned, you spend all that time watching a damn game all that time.

You go into overtime, you've got hopes.

And then they stop the game because they made some arbitrary rules saying, well, just one overtime, that's it.

Yeah,

that's all.

Why?

That's all you get.

All the people

that

drove to the stadium to see this game, and they all got stung.

I mean, this is a huge disappointment.

I hate these rules.

These ridiculous, stupid rules.

Play until you win.

That's why you play the game.

Okay.

Right.

Yes.

Okay.

I'm done.

I don't know.

You know, football thing has got me angry.

Should we go to the phones?

Matt is on the line for Middleton.

I blame Trump for this.

Okay, Matt, go ahead.

Good morning, Matt.

Morning, guys.

Yes, it is Trump's fault.

Steve?

I blame him for everything.

But I had to call, though.

Happy Monday.

I think we need to let the government shut down.

Screw these, Magga.

Let it, let it.

People voted to have it all burn and crash.

Let it burn and crash.

They need to learn the lesson.

Let the farmers go bankrupt.

Why do farmers get socialism while the rest of us get rugged capitalism?

Lift yourself up by your bootstraps.

Republicans are always messing the farmers up and then giving them bailouts with the socialism.

Why should only left-leaning Democrats

get fired to lose their livelihood while we bail out farmers, who voted to have it all burned down.

They voted for this.

This is their thing.

Oh, they didn't see it coming.

They didn't believe he'd do something like this.

Oh, yeah,

yeah.

All the excuses.

Sorry about that, right, Matt?

I mean, this is it.

We're giving them all the money.

We're giving them the tariff money that we have put tariffs in to prevent these

imports of food and exports of food.

This

is ridiculous.

I don't even know what are we doing?

$20 billion, Argentina.

What do I care what happens in Argentina?

People are really, really stupid.

I'm pissed.

Me too.

Me

too.

I'm done.

Okay

We're gonna have a great

day see the Republicans only they have the house they have the Senate they have the White House they have Supreme Court they have all the power and now they're blaming the Democrats Okay, really

right and not only that but it's fun to hear Trump say you know what if there's a shutdown yeah, I'm firing everybody That I think should not be paid

you know they do have to pay some of these people to stay on all the people that aren't going to stay on because they got to keep the government running a little bit all those people they're not just going to get laid off or you know put off for a few months or weeks or days

They're fired completely.

This is his threat.

This is what he's holding over the Democrats.

No, he's holding it over Americans.

And these are people with jobs and families and bills to pay, and he wants to fire them permanently because that's how he negotiates with the Democrats.

This is brutal stuff.

Yeah, it is.

All right, so anyway,

what are we

talking about?

All right.

Well, do you have a good weekend?

I went to, uh,

I went to Portobello Friday night just because,

you know, kidding.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Beautiful place.

I haven't been there in 20 or 30 years.

I mean, I just, it was so great to go there.

And, uh, you know, the rumor is that they're shutting down, right?

Well, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I asked the server about that.

You know, what's the deal with them shutting down?

Oh, no, that's just a rumor.

Yeah.

Like really?

Okay.

They're

at the mercy of the city.

I guess, but yeah, no, they're just saying, they were very tight lipped about it.

They weren't going to say anything.

I think, I think you just got to keep Portobello open.

Oh man.

This would bring a lot of business to Portobello

just talking about the fact that they might go away.

There's the courtyard.

Were you in the courtyard or

were you inside?

Well actually, the courtyard.

All set up, but nobody was out there.

Actually, they'd taken the chairs in and it wasn't that late.

I don't know why they didn't have the courtyard going.

Maybe they just didn't have enough servers.

But there's

an ambiance inside

Portobello.

It's

unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

I

mean, it's

like stepping into a time zone.

I know.

It doesn't

exist any words.

It was out there maybe 50 years ago.

I know.

It's such a beautiful place.

It is.

What?

OK.

We had a call, but we lost the call.

All right.

Anyway.

So that's what I did.

What did you have, an Italian dish or something?

I just had some appetizers, and then I was drinking heavily.

I passed out at the table, they had to haul me out.

No, it was.

That's why we don't go out to dinner.

I always have to carry

monsters.

Some things never change.

So now, and then Saturday night, I was driving, you know, because I live downtown, so

I'm

driving around a little bit.

All these people dressed in banana suits.

No!

Really?

I saw that too.

I mean a couple

hundred of them, at least.

Yeah.

Trust in banana suits.

I'm like, what is going on?

Yeah.

And Dom,

did you saw some of this too, right?

Yeah.

I

went to the stuff all of Saturday night, and they

were

also just there just walking around.

And I was like, did I miss a... Students, mainly.

Yeah.

And

I was wondering, what's going on?

I need to know,

what is going on?

Well, we looked it up this morning, and the banana bar crawl is what it's called.

And it's a nationwide, it's like a...

promotional thing.

So these different bars sign up to do it and then they offer discounts if you're dressed in the banana suit.

Wow.

But they hand out the banana and so

they

were like identical banana suits walking all over the place.

It was very

weird.

I thought boy oh boy did I

have too much to drink.

What's going

on?

I kind of regret getting rid of my banana costume now.

You had a banana costume?

I did have a banana costume.

I thought what an unusual thing to walk around in.

So it's like a crescent moon, which I also liked.

But the banana costume, I guess, was fine.

With the savanna bananas,

you would

think that would be the costume to wear there as

well.

Yeah.

Well, it was just very weird to see all these.

Everybody's walking around.

I wish I had seen

that.

I'll have to drive around town a little bit more.

Well, apparently there's another one coming up in November.

November 9th, I think,

yeah.

Remind me of this.

I have to go.

I might buy a banana suit and join.

Yeah,

that's how awesome it was.

Yeah,

I think you buy the tickets online.

And there were, I don't know, a dozen or so bars that were involved in the promotion.

Yeah, so it was a good deal.

You walk around, you get, you know, free drinks or whatever.

I'm surprised.

Discount drinks.

They wouldn't have something like the cow costume, right?

Those became very big, very

popular, and they're still very popular, oddly.

Yeah, and that dinosaur suit.

I don't know if you guys know it's just like this big dinosaur suit Everyone wears everyone buys it.

It's just a big onesie.

Really?

Yeah, maybe I'll buy it.

No, I'll bring it in but

it's giant.

It's

huge.

Yes Yeah, I mean

it goes way over your head

right near

walk around in it.

Maybe you yeah, you might

know I've seen one of those.

Yeah, they're

popular.

Yeah Tom, did you have a good weekend?

I did, man.

I had my anniversary with my girlfriend, my three-year anniversary.

Wow.

Three years.

Really?

Three years, yes.

You

started going out with it when you were

15.

What?

No.

When I was eight or 19.

And, yeah, it was really fun.

We

went to

the melting pot.

It was good.

We ate some raw food.

It was great.

OK.

Yeah.

Do we have time for raw food?

That's

always nice to have raw food.

Do we have time for would you rather?

I think we do.

Yes we do.

Alright.

Alright.

Let's get this out of the way.

First question.

Would you rather read the book or watch the movie?

That's anything.

You'd rather read the book or watch the movie?

I like the movie version.

I agree.

I'll go with that too.

I think that's an easy one.

Cross the board.

Never been a big book reader.

That's one reason to see the movie.

Would you rather show up to a job interview with stained pants or pit stains?

I

think I

would do pit stains.

Yeah, I suppose

so.

Might

as well look nervous for the interview.

That's true.

Yeah, that's good thinking.

That's all I got.

That's it?

You want to have a

bonus question?

Because we all agreed on the first two.

You should have a bonus question.

Which one?

Okay, what?

No, he's making it up.

Yeah, Portobello

or stuffed olive, I don't know.

Alright.

Alright.

By the way, I'm looking into seeing the movie one battle after another.

where I think we're going to set up a time on Tuesday for the family to go out and see this.

I've been reading so many really incredible reviews about this movie.

It's almost like we went out in some civil war.

I haven't heard anything about

this.

I know.

What's the name of this?

I didn't know anything about it either until like yesterday or the day before I read a review on it and see, well, it's the best movie out there.

It's a moment.

in time that is similar to what's going on right now.

So it's something I think we should probably plan on seeing sometime.

What's it called

again?

It's called One Battle.

another, after another, one battle after another, one battle after another.

I don't even

know the title.

But

I'm gonna go see

this damn movie.

Nineteen pasts the hour, we're just getting going on a Monday morning.

Next up, the fabulous farm babe, Pam Yonkey, gonna preview the World Dairy Expo.

Right here on John and Gordy in the

morning.

Those

who touch on it, it does look like a ring of friends.

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Let's check in with Pam Yankee, the fabulous farm babe.

Good morning, Pam.

Morning guys, how are you after a beautiful weekend in Wisconsin?

Yeah, it was fantastic.

Did you stay up late last night to watch the Packer game and in a tie?

I did.

Me

too.

Yeah, yeah, it's...

I knew it was going to be a tough Monday, just by virtue of when that game was.

And then the more I tried to sleep with one eye open, I knew it was just getting worse.

So yeah.

The only thing I've got good this week is the World Dairy Expo.

That'll keep me hopping.

So

I'll

regain my momentum.

We had a little discussion on this program, this rule, this arbitrary rule of just stopping the game after one overtime.

What do you think about something like that?

You spend all this time, all this effort, and then they have this weird rule that just stops the game at a tie?

Yeah.

Personally, you gave her the vintage, too.

Remember, I think it was George Carlin, sudden death, and remember that bit

he used to do about...

Sudden death versus going home and

all that

kind of thing.

Yeah, I'm I'm more of a sudden death person myself Let's let's keep scratching and crawling until there's nothing left of us.

That's

right Alright,

well, let's get to the world area.

This

is another thing sudden the world dairy Expo.

I don't know why that relates, but anyway This

is

really this is a huge event and you you gave us a little insight into

this.

Wow, I didn't know this much stuff went into the

World Bury

Expo.

This is fantastic.

Could fill us in a little bit.

I mean, the fact that these exhibitors who show up for this have to pay so much money.

Well, sure.

You know, I thought to myself when I was visiting with these folks as their cattle, they were arriving, it must have been Friday last week.

And I was talking with this guy from upstate New York that brought 14 animals in two semis.

And it took

him 18

hours to come from the Finger Lake area of New York.

and get the cattle.

Now, he had to make a stop because these cows are all about routine.

So they had to make a stop at Ohio to milk the cows.

The semis are built with vacuum lines.

So all they basically do is take the milker in the semi and they can milk the cows while they're in the semi.

And I said, well, now how do you do that?

Do you have a generator on the semi noise that we go to an RV wayside where they've got power and also that's where they can dump the milk when they get done milking them because they can't obviously

they're not

going to carry that along with them.

And I thought to myself, can you imagine a family that's pulling up in an RV and you're next to a semi load of cows with this old, odd pulsating noise coming from within.

You know, so, but you know, it took me.

18 hours to get here.

And the part that really shocked me, I actually had to ask him a couple of times.

He did the same thing last year.

He's been exhibiting since about, I want to say 2017, maybe earlier.

Last year for him, his staff and everything, $90,000 just for the opportunity to show at World Dairy Expo.

His hotel bill, he's kind of got a wee bit of a stick crossways with

Dane Coney in Madison, his hotel bill alone for him and his staff, $15,000.

What?

Oh,

man.

What does he get out of this?

What does he get out of this?

Well, the

goal is that your animals are going to do so well that the genetics that you have will be sought after and that you will

regain some of your money back that way.

But I mean, that's on a wing and a prayer.

I mean, you are in the ring with these elite animals from all across North America.

So, you know, it's kind of like catching magic in a bottle.

You hope you've got it, but you're still out that money regardless.

And the other part I thought was interesting is now it's gotten so expensive and the staff is so difficult to find.

You just don't have farm kids that are fit

cattle and taken care of thing.

So now they, this particular barn, they were cooking the meals in the barn right next to the animals.

They bring their own refrigerator.

They bring crock pots that put my tailgating to shame and they make meals.

for all of their staff and I'm not talking pizzas they had brisket when I looked in the refrigerator it was like brisket something you'd see

in a

downtown madison restaurant and they they want to feed they want to feed those kids and those helpers very very well so that they stick with them and don't get tempted

to go next aisle over and work with somebody else.

But yeah, $90,000 was his tab last year, and he said he's not sure he's going to be able to get by that cheap this year.

Yeah.

Well, I know there's the Badger Dairy Club.

They sell their famous grilled cheese sandwich out there.

That's a big event.

Correct.

And Kirschner's premium ice cream out of Barron County, they're pretty big now too.

What's the story on that?

Yep.

So tonight is the World Dairy Expo Dairy Product Contest.

They're going to recognize the winners.

One of them, as you pointed out, is up in Chatec, Kirschner's Super Premium Ice Cream.

They were the grand champion in the ice cream gelatos, etc.

And then another

Turtle Lake Cheese Company, Lake Shuman Cheese.

They won with a vanilla marscapone.

That sounds so good.

Marscapone is a cheese, but it's a dessert cheese.

And I just can't imagine with Madagascar.

vanilla.

So

yeah, they're going to be recognized tonight.

The contest concluded a couple weeks back.

Tonight they get their awards at World Dairy Expo.

OK, now I have one more thing I know less

than a

minute imported cattle come in and they have to have a passport.

The cattle have passed.

Yeah, cattle have to have a passport.

You bet.

And you sit in line with them.

You and your RV are along with them waiting for the border patrol to

go

through

all their

paperwork before you get through.

Oh, man.

All right.

OK, Pam.

Well, have fun at the World Dairy Expo.

I know it's going to be a busy week for you.

Thank you for joining

us.

We'll catch up with you for eight

days.

Absolutely, yes.

Good deal.

All right.

I mean, check it out.

All the effort they put in, I want to go to this.

The Alliance Center all week long.

All right.

When we come back, Idiocracy for a Monday with John Peterson, Gordy Young, Dominic Lee, and you.

Come back with

us.

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And currently, currently I am the most over berated actress.

Who likes football of my generation?

It's embarrassing and it's terrifying to put the target on your forehead and it sets you up for all sorts of attacks and armies of brown shirts and bots and worse and and the only way you can do it is to feel you have to you have to you don't have an option you have to stand up speak up

If we live through this precarious moment, if his catastrophic instinct to retaliate doesn't lead us to nuclear winter, we will have much to thank this president for, because he will have woken us up to how fragile freedom really is.

That's Meryl Streep responding to Donald Trump, who called her overrated, and a good

response there.

Well, you know, WMDX 92.7, John according in the morning.

You hear Trump trash other individuals, all the comedians.

There isn't a funny comedian out there

to

him.

And that's only because they have criticized him and his ego can't handle that.

And now actresses and actors are all, you know, either bad or good, depending on whether they agree with him or not.

There's something wrong with the person.

OK.

Yes.

Really, CJ.

My friend, uh, my, uh, Milwaukee friend, uh, who was a MAGA.

Come on, you guys.

I mean, think about it.

There's something mentally disturbed up there.

I mean, he is not all there.

Right.

So come on.

Yeah.

People can disagree with you.

It's not an insult.

It's not a personal attack.

It's just, they don't like you.

Okay.

It's a personality clash.

Let's

put it that way.

Yeah.

It is 637 weather today.

No problems going to be nice and warm high in the mid 80s.

Lots of sunshine right now.

53 degrees coming up in a half hour.

I'll reveal the first keyword in the go for the green and gold text to win contest.

Let's go to the phones.

Catherine is on the line this morning.

Good morning, cap.

Oh,

I didn't think you'd have time for me.

You guys have already taken like nine calls.

It's crazy.

Good

morning Monday.

Yeah, I'm just so grateful to hear that.

I saw that.

Meryl Streep cut I knew immediately what you were playing.

You know what I took away from it I'm taking back the word woke Go ahead call me woke.

Yeah, I am I am woke because like you were saying John Debate is gone.

There's no more Republicans and Democrats working together debating the very Meritus sides of a discussion

Uh, that's gone now.

It's only a one-sided conversation.

And you're, well, she's white.

Well, thank you, Donald Trump.

You woke me.

And I'm going to use that word all the time now.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah.

Let's find a, find a way to kind of work that into the show.

Mm-hmm.

All right.

Please.

Thank you.

We'll try and do that.

All right.

See ya.

Oh, thanks.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

We're wide awake now.

Yes, we're all woke.

We're all woke.

Are you

woke this

morning?

Yeah, maybe we could slip

down.

Are you woke?

I think so.

Hey, Charles is on the line.

Let's

go back to the phones.

Good

morning, Charles.

What do you got for us today?

Hey, hey, good morning, guys.

So let's see, we got, we got war average.

ravaged portland going on

right now.

Charles, we got that coming up a little after seven

o'clock.

All right.

So then, then we got, we got, we got Americans acting a plump fool at the Ryder Cup.

Yeah.

That was

something.

Yeah.

And then, and then you got Margie Taylor Green, um, letting everybody know that she's not suicidal.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

Circus is in town.

Yes.

Yes.

Are we winning yet?

I don't know.

Good question.

And I'm with Matt, the first caller.

We don't need to bail out the farmers.

I'll keep saying that.

You guys were stupid enough to vote for him the first time and he screwed you and you got lucky with bailouts.

And he screwed you the second time.

How stupid can you be to keep voting for somebody that is only concerned about their own pockets and the other rich

people?

It's like a gambler losing at the table and turning to the guy next to him.

Can you pay for this?

Hey, hey, good show so far, guys.

Thank you.

All right,

Charles.

Thanks for that.

608-879-8255.

All right,

let's get to some of this farmer talk here.

You know, Trump is killing big ag now.

Farmers can't sell their stuff, and they're losing connections internationally.

So let's listen to cut 211 here, and I think it's self-explanatory.

Let's check it out.

That alongside, of course, the President's effort to realign America around American products and making all of these new deals, we are at a point where we're looking at the harvest, where we're looking at our soybean, corn, wheat, sorghum, cotton farmers who are facing very, very difficult times.

We are currently in conversations here at the White House across the government on a farmer aid package.

In our current programming right now, we've got about 13

billion dollars moving out under ECAP, which is our old farmer payment system based on losses from last year and the year before.

So this would be in addition to that in partnership with our colleagues on the Hill.

We should have an announcement very soon, perhaps in the next couple

of weeks.

I want to take our money.

We're doing well because of tariffs.

We're doing unbelievable.

We're making more money than we ever have made.

And by the way, we're going to take some of that tariff money that we've made just to get off the subject.

for a second we're going to take some of that tariff money that we made we're going to give it to our farmers who are for a little while going to be hurt until it kicks in the tariffs kick into their benefit so we're going to make sure that our farmers are in great shape because we're taking in a lot of money

so he doesn't really get it right he's got the tariffs that are causing

this shortage and this difficulty for the farmers and now he's going to use it to help bail them out.

By the way, it doesn't always bail everybody out.

Right.

A lot of these farmers will go under because of this, a smaller ones and big corporations will probably get most of the money like the last bail out.

We have gone through this before and for some reason they voted him in anyway.

You know, they can gamble and we end up paying the debt what they lose.

Yeah.

And I'm a big supporter of farmers.

I mean, that's why we have Pam Yankee on the show.

Sure.

Because we want to support them more than anything here in the dairy state.

We've got to have that.

And I wish that we could connect somehow.

You know, the woke with farmers, please, you know, we want you to provide a field to table.

We want you to provide all this, this food for us.

And even that is almost impossible to provide now because the funding isn't there to help facilitate bringing farm food to local communities.

It's just ended.

Yeah,

it's it's hard enough to be a farmer, you know, even without all this stuff going on.

I mean, these small family farms and even the bigger ones, they're all struggling.

And it's all because of what Trump has done again to

them.

Yeah.

And, you know, a lot of these farms are going out of business.

When I was doing the census driving through the countryside, there were so many farmhouses, just abandoned farmhouses.

Yeah.

And the fields are now part of somebody else's.

We got a text here from Corey in Watertown.

Trump is going to bail out the farmers with tariff money until the tariffs kick in.

Say that a couple of times and let that sink in if you're going to bail them out with the money until the money kicks in.

Yeah.

Round and round.

And supposedly the

money was paying off the debt.

Yeah.

The national debt only because, you know, all of these tax cuts.

So now that's not happening.

This is a very well-thought-out plan here.

And we got a shutdown happening in a couple of days.

Okay, now, you know, this is idiocracy and we like to, you know, go back in time as well to relive some of the more dangerous and ridiculous moments of our life.

And I want to go back a little bit.

I want to get the British take on what happened at the UN and Trump.

All right, so this is a little bit of coverage here.

This is 198 Let's listen to this perspective.

All right, let's listen

Donald Trump came with a message to the UN about where it's going wrong and to tell its member countries what they need to change

All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle If the first lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen

and then a teleprompter that didn't work.

These are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.

He singled out Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London for criticism.

I look at London where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor.

Don't say it.

Don't

say it.

It's been so changed.

No.

So changed.

Don't go there.

Don't go.

Now they want to go to Sharia Law.

Oh, OK.

But you're in a different country.

You can't do that.

Mr. Khan has said he's not going to dignify these bigoted comments with a response.

The other great threat facing the world, according to President Trump, is not climate change, but attempts to halt it with renewable energy.

Global warming, he said, is a hoax.

It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion.

Donald Trump came here seven years ago and bragged about his achievements in office and

The people listening to him actually laughed at him.

It was a humiliating moment for him, but things have changed so much.

Nobody dares do that now.

So even as they listened to him lecture them on how they should be running their own countries with these fixations on climate change and on immigration, he was still applauded at the end of it because everybody knows they have to treat Donald Trump much more carefully now.

He's a madman.

That's why.

Now bear with me on this.

We know that the follow-ups were done by his staff on the elevator and the teleprompter.

All right, we know that.

But for some reason, no one else is telling him that.

So let's go to cut 209 here, cut 209 and listen and listen to this.

Okay.

And Trump demanding an investigation into what he is calling, quote,

triple sabotage during his visit to the United Nations.

In a social media post he wrote in part, a real disgrace took place at the UN yesterday, not one, not two.

but three very sinister events.

Your

staff.

The sinister events he is referencing involve a stopped escalator, a broken teleprompter and audio issues.

John, these are petty grievances, but it really underscores President Trump's broader complaints about the United Nations and its capacity to solve some of the world's most intractable global conflicts.

And we heard that in the president's speech.

President taking to social media to lay out in great detail.

What had happened here, unable to just let it go and move on?

Because, honestly, this wasn't a coincidence.

This was triple sabotage at the UN president, then demanding an immediate investigation.

Oh,

OK.

An investigation.

Yes, amazing.

An escalator.

Q of 207, though.

OK.

But some guy online knows a little bit more, and this is a web wisdom.

It appears

the UN has discovered who the culprit was that stopped the escalator at the UN right as Donald Trump had stepped foot on it.

And it turns out to be Trump's own videographer.

He apparently inadvertently set off a safety mechanism on the escalator that forced it to shut down and stop.

He was traveling backwards up the escalator trying to take a video

of Trump and the First Lady going up and arriving to the UN and he somehow triggered the safety mechanism.

The UN went and looked at the central processing unit of the escalator and it indicated

that this mechanism had been triggered.

This mechanism is designed to stop people or things from getting caught

under the

escalator and forced into the gears.

Trump was furious about this happening and the White House called for a thorough investigation and for whoever was responsible to be fired.

And it turns out to be one of their own.

And he was also extremely furious about the teleprompter not working properly and went on a tirade about that.

It's

ancient strange.

Even

since the regular public knows

what happened.

Right.

We're coming right back with more of Idiocracy.

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I'm going to talk vaccinations and medical stuff, get the latest on... Well, all the

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