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It's John and Gordy in the morning with Dom at the controls.

Another beautiful, fantastic looking day coming up.

Wow.

Yeah.

You know, you can't ask for a better day than the last two days over the weekend.

Come on.

That's ridiculous.

It was so nice.

Happy Monday.

It was breezy, not humid.

It was just, just the best.

It really was.

And it felt a

Little bit like fall only because you could smell the scent of the rotting leaves.

Right.

Yes.

Just love that.

That's correct.

Best time, especially oak leaves.

There's a certain scent that oak leaves have.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Today is going to be kind of cloudy though.

Other than that, it's going to

be

and not as warm mid

60s.

You think you think that's going to happen?

It's warm right now.

Is it going to get colder?

It's 65 right now.

It is.

It's going to stay.

Wow, in the mid sixties all day.

And then we

might have a little bit of rain this afternoon.

But

other than that, yeah, it's going to be beautiful.

So

what is your

WMDX Samsung watch have to say about

it?

It

says feels like 64.

OK.

All right.

And it also says that we'll receive a high temperature of 62.

But

it's already 64.

And it should start raining at about 11.

Okay.

All right.

This morning.

There's the update.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, it felt good.

Thanks for bringing me down, man.

Sorry about that.

Yeah, I just, I'm not a weatherman.

You're the guy who just, you know, off the top of your head knows what the weather is going to be.

I can't help it.

It's

gonna be just fine.

It's a little on the cool side, that's all.

I felt warm this morning, didn't it?

You know what, I'm looking at

Dom,

but Dom always wears a damn sweater and a sock hat.

So I'm thinking,

well, it's gotta be warm every day for him.

It is, 100%.

Yeah, it's like, it feels like 80 for me.

I don't know why I always wear these.

I don't know why I

do

it.

I don't

either.

Do you have a good weekend, Dom?

I did, yeah, because I, you know, I went to the Alzheimer's walk on Sunday and that was... And we were there yesterday, yeah.

That was really, really fun.

It was really well attended.

There were

a ton of people there.

And it was a beautiful day.

I

think more than, I think more than last year was a big turnout there.

Yeah.

And everybody on the walk here, you know, it all went fine.

It was, it was good.

The DJ was loud, man.

That DJ, yeah.

I was ready to go over

there and ask him to turn it down, but I didn't want to be the cranky old man to do that.

Well,

turn

that thing down.

Well, yeah,

just, just a

little bit, like 20%.

We did that a big, uh, at our big broadcast celebration, right?

I remember the guy had the bass up so high.

Oh no, it was their Christmas party.

That was crazy.

That was crazy stuff.

But you know, he,

So no one was injured during the walk.

As far as we know,

everybody seemed to be in good shape.

They have plenty of hot dogs and donuts and all kinds of health food there.

Chips, Fritos, it was great.

It was a good time.

It was good to see everybody there.

Just a few minutes, we're going to get caught up with Pam Yonkey and find out the all the details of the World Dairy Expo, the final days of it.

Yeah.

Because we talked to her on Friday and they were very concerned about all the heat and getting the animals, you know, out of the heat and into the trucks and everything.

So we'll find out how that all went.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And a little bit later on, Art Paul Schlosser will join us.

the amazing singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, performer, artist.

He'll be right

here in the studio performing his song, the John and Gordy theme song.

That's right.

He has a whole week lined up of different places he's going to go.

I mean, where have

you stopped?

He's on

tour.

Yeah, he's on tour right now.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Where day one?

He's

the first guest.

Well, is that just around the city or is that...

all over Wisconsin.

I think it's just around the city, but still.

Okay.

To

where?

We'll find out when he joins us in our seven

o'clock hour.

That sounds good.

Yeah.

So how was your weekend, John?

I hesitate to ask, did you get any lawn work done?

Did you take

the cracking for a walk?

The Kraken, I took her for a little play time outside, as I always do in each and every day, three or four times a day.

I go out there and I kick the ball around for her, popping it up into the air and watching her reach up and grab it.

It's so much fun.

It's great exercise for her, also for me as well.

I get a lot of my steps in doing that out in the yard and it's just...

I got, again, you know, it's just a great weekend.

You look up into the sky, you see that blue sky with these beautiful clouds floating by.

I mean, it was just like a, it was like an LSD trip.

I wouldn't know what that's like.

All right.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah.

I was, I was thinking, actually, I was thinking of a song, Bet Your Sweet Bippy, I'm a hippy hippy hippy by the rest.

And the lyrics in that song are reflective of how I, how I responded to the good weather this weekend in the yard.

You had an OSD flashback?

Is that how you responded?

No, no, I was just, you know.

Skippin', flippin' in the air.

Okay.

You know, it's really hard to imagine that, but okay.

And in the line, the big line is picking lint from my belly button.

Oh, that's,

yeah.

I

think Dom is looking for that song right

now.

I don't think he's gonna find it, but... This one's hard to find.

I'm not gonna

lie.

Okay.

I'll keep trying.

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It's happening October 23rd through the 26th.

Yeah.

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So now's a good time to get in on that.

All right.

Well, that sounds easy.

Taking care of business.

Well, OK.

All right.

I'm with you on that.

You know, I just.

I have to say that I had a really negative experience on X this morning as I always open it up to see what the latest stories are.

Is that the way you really start your day is to jump right in?

Well, I have to because I can't somebody's got to do it.

Somebody's.

Yeah, that's that's exactly it, Gordy.

I know.

And it was all X is almost turning into another.

right wing website.

It's almost complete.

What do you mean, almost?

It's almost complete.

It's there.

No, it's almost complete.

OK.

We get the, I sent you a few versions of the song.

I'm not sure which one is just the song or which one is a clip from a radio broadcast that I recorded.

But check it out.

Just try to play the one that isn't from the radio.

OK.

It's better sweet, baby.

Okay.

I think Tom is efforting right now to get that.

It's in

the drop box.

Okay.

But anyway, I gotta give you an example of what's going on here, okay?

Because this is outrageous.

On X?

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is just ridiculous is what it is.

I opened it up and it said,

This is from John Strand.

Breaking.

Cash Patel just confirmed what many of us have said for years.

Pelosi blocked Trump's offer of 10,000.

Oh, good lord.

This again.

Her team was filming a documentary.

Oh, right.

While the chaos unfolded and 250 FBI agents were undercover provocateurs.

And all of that is from a national newsroom interview.

The interviewer, by the way, didn't sound very competent.

But of course, Cash Patel has his side of the story.

Of course he does.

Yeah.

So

obviously he's lying.

The guy lies constantly.

Who would believe this man?

You know, when the Democrats take over, it's investigation time.

And these guys have nowhere else to run.

Unless you know they change their allegiance and try to get out of the country in time But you have that song all cute up there.

All right, okay, let's say it's not spectacular, but let's listen

I bet your

sweet Bippy.

I'm a hip.

That's from the rest.

And it's a local Milwaukee

group.

Yeah.

Right.

They took that phrase.

Bet your sweet Bippy.

Yeah.

That was out of Rowan and Martin, right?

Yeah.

Laugh

in.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Interesting.

Interesting songs.

Thank you for that critique.

I don't quite know

what to

make of that.

I don't think anybody does.

Okay.

By the way, game two tonight cubs and brewers.

Yes.

This is a night game.

It

doesn't start until eight o'clock.

It's gonna be at

eight

o'clock.

Really?

MFAM Field.

Yes.

Eight.

Why?

I know.

Well, because

just because it's Major League Baseball, it's

Monday

night.

Central

time eight o'clock.

I could care less about the other time zone.

Well, right.

Right.

Yes.

It's eight o'clock tonight.

Now, I don't know why they look.

NFL football has Monday night football and that's usually earlier than that.

Yeah, so they let football take take precedence just let these These little playoff games

Start later, I guess and again probably won't end until like 11 or 10 30 or even later.

I know and Cubs are down, you know brewers won the first game.

Yeah, so it's a best out of

Best out of five.

Yeah, they really won that first game.

Yes.

It was not even close.

93.

Exactly.

He

was the final.

Yeah, it was awful.

Yeah.

For Cubs fans.

Now, you're a big Cubs fans, right?

You were wearing your Cubs uniform and stuff.

And so that's the lucky uniform that he wears every time they play.

Wonderful.

Anyway.

It's superstitious.

You know, you are a superstitious individual.

Oh, yes,

I am.

19 minutes past the hour.

When we return, we will check in with the Fabulous Farm Babe from Midwest Food and Farm Report.

Hey, I'm Yankee.

We'll give us the...

All right, let's listen to the song.

All

right, we're coming back on

WMDX.

WMDX 92.7

it's John and

Gordy

in the morning.

Good Monday morning to you.

Cloudy skies today.

Temperatures staying in the mid 60s all day long.

Maybe a few spots of rain along the way later.

It's going to be a fantastic day today.

That's what John thinks.

Okay.

Let's go to Pam Yankee from the Midwest Farm Report.

Fabulous farm babe.

Good morning Pam.

Hi Pam.

Yeah, I'll take, I'll take this over what we had last week to be honest with you.

I mean, you know, that World Dairy Expo pound and round on all that concrete and back and forth and back and forth.

It was, it was not friendly to this old broad.

It was, that was hot.

And, you know, I was talking with people out there as well.

You know, that gets me a real issue towards the end of the show because now these guys got to decide, how are we going to transport these animals long distances?

when the heat and humidity had kind of built during the day.

So one fellow that I talked to that had to get his cows back to California, Steve Maddox is his name from Ruan Derry.

He had seven cows on one trailer and he said, my goal is to get through Las Vegas by daytime tomorrow morning.

So they were going to load up on Friday afternoon as soon as the show released them, which would have been about 5 30 and hit the road and be hopefully he said through Las Vegas by a daybreak on Saturday morning.

He said if it got too hot or if their schedule got compromised, then he would have to take his cattle north towards the Rockies.

where temperatures would be cooler, he assumed, but that would add on about another eight hours driving.

So it was all about the cows by the time we got to Friday afternoon.

And man, I'm telling you, some of them were pretty stressed out, you know, kind of going to the home stretch.

And so were the people, you know?

Yeah, definitely.

But, you know, it seems like it would be hot in those trucks, right?

And listening to a lot of ventilation.

Is that what they have?

Yeah, they got a lot of it.

Yeah, they got a lot of ventilation.

All the animals have water right in front of them.

And they do stop and take periodic breaks.

It's all about keeping her schedule.

So if she's used to being milked every six hours, then they stop and milk her.

They've got lines on the truck.

So all they have to do is basically hook up to pressure and they can milk the cows while they're in the in the stands.

And some people have friends along the way, they'll actually stop unload milk at somebody else's barn and then give the girls

a chance to walk a little bit and then get back on the truck.

I mean, they go over the top.

These are, and that's kind of why I wanted to make sure I highlighted some of it.

Wisconsin cows did fantastic this year at World Dairy Expo.

I just was going back over my show notes.

So the Junior Supreme Champion, the Junior Show Supreme Champion with how that came out of Whitewater, Tessa and Stella Schmacher.

Exhibitor exhibited this animal and she was the junior show grand champion our supreme champion I should say and then the supreme champion of the show overall came from caucana a red and white holstein

that was exhibited by Milk Source, Lori Fisher, Steincrest, and Crescent Mead of Caucana.

So a lot of these cows are just so incredibly valuable.

You see, I call them syndicates, you see multiple owners.

You know, it's kind of like the Thrillbred Horse Breeding that you hear about Kentucky Derby.

There's always seems to be more than one buyer on some of those animals.

Well, it's going to be that case at World Dairy Expo too.

Also honorable mention to animal an air shire from

Lamira exhibited by Bud John Farms and Peter Vale, Guernsey from down in, I believe, Green County, Cadence Farms, and then another Guernsey that was exhibited by Leela Shuler and Brittany Taylor.

I'm not exactly sure where that cow is, how is, but she's in Wisconsin.

So like I said, just a fantastic showing for our Wisconsin genetics.

Yeah,

that's

great.

You know, I know that you're a fair food connoisseur.

What was your favorite food this time around at the Expo?

Oh, yeah, you got to go with the Badger Dairy Club's grilled cheese.

Oh, yeah.

You know how it is, fellas.

Sometimes when you're in the media room, you get a chance at everything.

Yeah.

They're kind of soliciting you to lay your lips on stuff.

But the Munster grilled cheese that the Badger Dairy Club did was, I think that was the Tuesday

grilled cheese, they change cheese flavors every day.

Yeah.

Something special, some specialty cheese.

Friday they had Havarti dill, which they told me was like a dill pickle.

I'm like, yeah, but wait a minute, where does the where does the cheese part come in?

I don't want to just be biting into a warm pickle.

I know.

But yeah, that and then.

They had ice cream all over the place.

And yeah, there was a lot of good food at World Dairy Expo.

But I think the one that most people stood in line for the longest was the grilled cheese sandwiches by the Badger Dairy Club.

All right.

All right.

What about the turkey prices for this Thanksgiving?

What can we look forward

to?

I'm sure we're going to.

I don't want to be, I'm kind of like the canary in the cave.

I'm just giving you fair warning.

American Farm Bureau Federation already came out with an alert last week from their media gathering or market intelligence folks and they are projecting that turkey prices could go up as much as 40% by Thanksgiving.

If we have another outbreak of high-path avian influenza, this would be an absolute terrible time for the turkey industry to be struck because

a lot of the birds right now are just in the finishing stages.

Many of those frozen butter balls that you and I will enjoy are going to be on the way on a truck on the way to the processor, probably in the next, I'm going to guess 15 days or so.

So if we get a big barn with high path that has to be depopulated, that could put a big divot into available turkey supplies.

So like I said, I don't want to be a bearer of bad news on a Monday, but just kind of keep an eye out if you find.

If you find a sale, you'll like buy it now instead of waiting for it later, maybe.

All

right.

That's the best advice.

Some things to be concerned about.

I think

I often do that, actually.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, but it's probably a good week to mention that it's a rural mental health week, you know, with all everything's going on and kind of tough times for soybean farmers.

We don't have time to get into it right now, but boy, that seems to be a big story.

That's that's happening.

A lot

of stress going

on with

farmers.

Yeah.

That's right, and we got the harvest, and now, like you said, a little bit of rain coming in today.

Maybe that'll give them a chance to take a break, but we can talk more about that on Friday, too, guys.

Very good, Pam.

Thank you very much.

You have a good week.

Talk to you then.

You, too.

Thanks.

Pam Yankee, and in fact, the Midwest Food and Farm Report coming up, and we'll be back with Idiocracy.

It's all coming up, and Art Paul Schlosser in our 7 o'clock hour on John and Gordy on WMDX.

As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.

This is grade A weapons grade stupidity.

Just doing my civic duties.

We can duck and cover.

There's a fall each other right there.

There's no way to survive this, you idiot!

Idiocracy.

For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.

All right, this is another big edition of videocracy and wmdx 92.7 we we search high and low for all of these stories So

much out there

it captivates you it disappoints you it raises your expectation levels We have every one of those kinds of stories this time around excellent it

is 636 cloudy 65 degrees

Temperatures staying steady in the mid sixties today.

Maybe a few spots of rain along the way later.

Okay.

Well, idiocracy.

Let's get it right.

Let's get into

it here.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was asked, are Democrats a domestic extremist organization or not?

That's not a push question.

Well, what do you think?

I

mean,

you're suggesting it.

What

was her answer?

Well, I'm going to give you two examples of hateful rhetoric that I think could turn me into a violent extremist myself.

No, no.

Both the H.S.

Secretary Kristi Noem and J.D.

Vance are pushing Americans into an ugly confrontation.

All right, so let's listen first.

This is from last month, 203.

You got that?

All right, this is Kristi Noem.

But as the DHS Secretary, would you say that Democrats are a domestic extremist organization?

Yes or no?

views are extreme and they don't align with the American people at all.

And I wish that our media, and I wish reporters like you, Caitlin, would talk about the victims every day that we interact with, that we send you the stories on, that you refuse to tell about the poor little girl and baby that was strangled yesterday by an illegal criminal and died, that baby died overnight.

That was the first news I got this morning when I got up at 4 a.m.

Well, let's just pull the story out of the newspapers from someplace, somewhere and blow that out of proportion and make it seem like it applies to everyone and everything across the United States.

You know, they are so cruel, so brutal in their portrayal of what's going on in this country.

No wonder everybody's a little depressed and maybe even thinking about going to war.

You know, picking up arms and going to war simply because we're just fed up and you see the occupation and everything.

It's crazy.

All right.

Now JD Vance's comment.

Listen to this.

Remember Gavin Newsom passed a law banning masks worn by these 21st century brown shirts.

Well, we've all seen the outrageous videos of people hauled off in the streets, taken from their homes or cars, shoved into unidentified vans, disappeared as if.

That's what American law is all about.

Well, here's JD Vanst normalizing that bit of fascism.

And I think that is the most disgusting thing.

The very people who keep us safe ought to be honored and protected and praised

by

Democrats and Republicans

alike.

It is time to stop the rhetorical assault on law enforcement.

Because here's

what happened.

What?

What?

I

don't.

I don't.

which is violence against our law enforcement.

You can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.

Well, that's not

encouraging

violence at

all.

You're gonna go straight to hell.

We don't feel like being violent, right?

Not after that.

Oh my God.

All right.

And

it's just amazing.

You know, I mean, we do see these videos now all the time.

Yeah.

All across the country, wherever they've sent in troops, I should say, but especially in Chicago.

My

God.

Oh my gosh, what's going on in Chicago?

You're ridiculous.

I do have a story from Chicago.

Okay.

And we'll get to that.

Cat Abu.

was reporting out of Chicago, and she's also going to be a candidate for the Congress, I believe.

But anyway, let's get to JD, continued to pout about Kimmel, I believe, 205.

You got that?

All right,

let's listen.

He didn't actually say sorry to Charlie Kirk or his family.

Oh, no.

And the reason that so many people, including me, were so upset with what Jimmy Kimmel said is that he accused Charlie Kirk's murderer of being a MAGA, where he right-wing American.

It wasn't a joke.

It was straight-up disinformation.

And I really wish Jimmy Kimmel would apologize for

it.

We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize

This kid who murdered Charlie Kirk is anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

Yeah.

Well, you know, all we heard was that the killer was from the left.

That's all we heard from them.

So they didn't lie, did they?

It's like, don't don't see or don't notice what we're doing.

Look over

there.

The left is doing this.

We're not we're just saying then you know a left winger Was the assassin and that is not true in any way

So anyway, that's a little story I pulled from the past.

I thought everybody could, you know, start their day off, right?

Thanks

for sharing that.

All right.

Well, the other thing too, on the right, you know, they blow everything out of proportion just a little bit.

And MAGA is certainly stressing the idea that Antifa is out there now protesting all over America and Antifa and Antifa.

Or that's a rocker likes to call it that because fire

and tie right

and then fascist and Tifa sounds like some

other

worldly thing.

So anyway, and Tifa is now out there in the in the protesters causing trouble in man.

OK.

First ever and Tifa domestic terror arrest in U.S.

This is the headline.

First ever Antifa domestic terrorist arrest in the U.S.

Several Antifa members were arrested and criminally charged after surrounding an ice building in Eugene, Oregon, causing terror for employees.

Oh, really?

Talk about blowing it out of proportion.

A few of them caused terror for the employees inside the ice building in Eugene, Oregon.

Wow.

That must have been a very stressful time.

to see those three or four domestic terrorists, Antifa out there surrounding the ice headquarters.

Did they say what they did to make them a scare?

Oh, no, it's

you just get a scared seeing them.

I see.

Okay.

Seems like flimsy reporting there.

That was my impression.

Come on give us some details

Okay, well they could have had an ice cream stand out there for all we know And I've always liked the double scoop antifa special That's really good waffle cone.

That's what I'm thinking.

Yeah

next time Next time they're out there.

You know, they'll always have that stand Let's go to mega Anna Polina Luna

Okay.

She wallows in projection, but never looks in the mirror.

Exploiting the Kirk shooting, opportunist as ever gave Maga's a chance to trash anyone who tells the truth about their agenda and behavior.

We're all supposed to shut up now, right?

Well, Maga, Paula, Anna, Polina, Luna.

Wow, it sounds like some kind of pop singer.

Yeah, a dance.

She said this.

How many times have they called us fascists, Nazi or war crime?

You know, sometimes maybe it fits.

Well, you know, we just don't bring up these words just out of nowhere

in there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How often have they claimed the American people will lose their rights?

We haven't seen that happen yet.

Or smeared us as authoritarian dictators.

Well, certainly that we're exaggerating there How often have they attacked Charlie Kirk and others like him?

Well, we're just repeating what Charlie had said so many times.

We're

not tagging him.

We're just quoting him All right.

Yeah She wants us to shut up Okay, yeah, because we are

actually encouraging homegrown left-wing shooters out there to go out and commit violence.

Oh, you know, and she even gives examples like the Butler shooter.

Wait a minute.

No, that was, that was the right winger.

Or the golf course shooter.

No.

No, that's not it either.

Or the Minnesota shooter.

No,

that wasn't it.

No,

no.

School shooters.

I think we're drawing a blank on that one.

How about the attacks on transgender youth?

No, not that either.

Oh, you know, she's working on it.

One of these days she'll be right.

All right.

This is interesting stuff.

Median household incomes increased in 2024 during the Biden administration to $83,730.

Black American wages fell an average of 3.3% to $56,290.

Now we're going to have an exam later on, so keep those numbers.

OK.

Get ready for the quiz.

All right.

Hispanic households saw income increases of more than 5%.

and Asian household medium income was 121,000 as compared to the average American household of 83,000.

That's pretty high.

The medium income for white Americans showed no significant change from 2023 levels.

A family of four earning less than $32,130 was considered impoverished.

And that shouldn't happen in the wealthiest country in the damn world, right?

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

I know.

Just thought I'd pass that.

Oh.

Thanks for those statistics.

Again, an exam

at the end of the

show.

All right.

All right.

Get ready for

that.

All right.

School lunch debt.

Wisconsin is skyrocketing Trump cuts made it worse WMTV TV looked at the school lunch menu Figure and that was that that was rising and that's before Trump's big bad bill stripped away the three point two million dollars in food stamps Keep in mind this debt is a symptom of a bigger problem Wisconsin Republicans refused to solve It's called punishment and discipline in the state and nothing more.

They're not going to solve any

You know, farm to the table programs.

No, no, none of that stuff.

Not going to do it.

They're just going to starve the kids.

Yeah.

Remember when they complained, right?

Yes, we've got John live, but we're going to go, we're going to wait till after the break.

I can wear.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's fine.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

But anyway, you know, the.

They killed all these programs.

It didn't help farmers because this was one way that they helped local governments and local schools to have some food.

They criticized Obama, Michelle Obama for healthy meals in the schools.

Now they're going back to healthy meals because RFK Jr.

He's a genius.

said, we should have healthy foods in the schools.

Suddenly

their

minds have changed.

Those kids need healthy food.

They do.

I mean,

shouldn't we

all agree with that?

I think so.

All right, 648.

We'll come back with more.

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Cloudy skies.

Looks like the clouds will stay with us through much of the day and temperatures in the mid-60s.

Maybe a few spots of rain along the way.

That was Ivory Library.

Ah, yes.

Remember that?

Yeah.

The old 92.

Yes.

Oh, those were the days.

Oh, yes.

Oh,

yes.

Very much younger than I am.

I remember.

Well, wait a minute.

I don't remember anything.

That's

right.

All right.

Hey, shall we go to the phones?

Let's do that.

Let's see what's on Joe's mind this morning.

Good morning, Joe.

Hi, Joe.

Well, great love and also a great...

I don't know what I would call it when Pam Yankee is talking about grilled cheese sandwiches, first thing in the morning.

Oh, God.

Oh, hungry all of a sudden.

Hungry, very, very hungry.

Thank you,

Pam.

At any rate, I did want to talk about JD Vance telling anybody who disagrees with ICE that they should go.

straight to hell.

He's very authoritative.

No side trips to A&W to get a soda or anything like that.

You're going straight to hell.

And I think what's interesting to me about this, I saw some footage of an attempted ice arrest in Chicago and two men wearing blue jeans, T-shirts, sneakers.

and then a vest that's ice across it, that you can buy online.

You can buy this stuff online for a very minimal amount of money.

So here you have two people who are wrestling this man to the ground, no warrant, no ID, they're wearing masks, and nothing else that indicates law enforcement.

I've been trying to get an exact number, but all I can come up with was accounts saying at least a dozen.

cases where people have bought this ice regalia and dressed just like this, and abducted people.

And the thing that I find amazing is that Vance ought to take a look just in his own family.

He has a beautiful, accomplished wife, and she is dark skinned, as are their children, their multiracial children.

The Supreme Court has said,

Fine.

You can stop them and haul them away just based on ethnicity.

That's enough reason to stop people and take them away.

How would he feel if this situation were reversed?

And he's not the vice president with Secret Service Protection, but his wife is walking down the street and abducted.

It has happened.

It's not like it could happen.

It has happened.

Not this specific individual.

cheese talk about a guy that can't uh... you know if you thought a situation from somebody else's perspective this is terrifying this is like nazi germany people are picked up and hauled away

and

why not his wife his children

So anyway, it's a depressing thought.

I much prefer thinking about the grilled cheese sandwiches, because here's where we are as

a country.

All right.

All right, Joe, thank you.

We're going to talk a little bit about what's going on in Chicago from Kent Abu.

And she, well, she has a longer name, but they shorten it.

It's easier to say.

In fact, she is married.

To the onion CEO.

Oh, really?

Yes,

Ben

Collins.

So anyway, she's got a very interesting perspective on what's going on down there She's been thrown to the ground a number of times by I so we'll be getting to that next hour Why don't we get to that cut from Rick Wilson?

Yes Yes, this is all about the shutdown and Rick Wilson was interviewed and just basically laid it out how Democrats are handling it and how Republicans are

Handling it and let's listen to Rick Wilson

47% of the people say that the Republicans are responsible for the shutdown and 30 say the Democrats and why is that because Donald Trump chose this shutdown the Republican Party chose this shutdown they and the Democrats I think yes, they want a message on health care and policy I get that but they should be saying attributing the blame look at what the Republicans are doing They're attributing blame to the Democrats that does not exist whereas the Democrats have the opportunity to point out to America once

Once again, Donald Trump rules Washington with an iron fist.

He controls the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court and the White House.

He's the guy who chose this, and he's the guy who's been engaged.

economic damage to the country this is one more thing on top of the tariff taxes that he's caused on top of the damage to our farmers our manufacturers that he's caused now this his choice his party his shutdown in order for Democrats to quote win the shutdown politically what is the thing that you would have them say simply and repetitively over the coming days and weeks this is crazy and Donald Trump is hurting you

This is crazy, Donald Trump is hurting you.

And Americans already ascribe chaos to Trump.

They already ascribe, increasingly ascribe economic damage to Trump.

His numbers on the economy, on inflation, on prices, on the tariffs are absolutely underwater by 10, 20, 30 points in some cases.

And so, playing into that damage, he's already cost himself by these terrible economic choices, including the big bad bill and everything else.

I think that is an area where Democrats are able to insulate themselves from the Republican reflex action when the word healthcare is mentioned.

And it also denatures this lie about illegal immigrants getting

free healthcare and get why they're using it.

It's perfect red meat.

But the idea that Trump is the chaos agent, that Trump is the cause of the harm farmers in America are getting screwed right now.

Manufacturers, construction workers, the harm is rippling out there.

And I think as Democrats go through this, this shutdown fight, they've got to be out front and center saying, we're going to fix this, not just this shutdown.

We're going to fix the rest of this.

If you give us power in the fall of 26.

That's Rick Wilson.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he's right.

Well, he is right the way the Republicans frame it.

And Democrats frame it completely differently.

A lot of people believe in the Republicans on this.

They're winning the war on propaganda.

One of the things, I guess, Mike Johnson was on the weekend show.

And he was talking about, oh, the Democrats want to pay the emergency rooms for taking care of illegal immigrants.

And yes, yes, because we don't want people to die in our emergency rooms.

all the sense in the world.

He's trying to get sympathy for not

paying the

hospitals and if they don't get paid, they raise the prices on us to make up for losing

that money.

Yes.

Coming up in our seven o'clock hour, Art Paul Schlosser will join us, the singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and we'll get the latest from him.

It's all coming up, John.

What?

Yes.

And we've got a storybook for everybody about writing cursive.

Oh, boy.

Yeah, you won't believe this.

OK.

It's really something.

Coming back.

It's a beautiful morning.

First of all, you guys put on a good show, and I think that goes without saying.

I love your show.

I listen all the time.

You have a pretty fun show.

I listen to it all through time, you know.

Keep up the good work.

No, it's disgusting.

It's a ploy.

God, I love you.

Get the hell off the stage.

OK.

Thanks for work,

everyone.

Sharp broadcast.

Really good.

Good morning, John and Gordy.

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Good morning, John and Gordy.

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And we may have jumped a little early.

I don't know.

Good Lord.

I'm gonna cut myself over here.

Look at

this,

I'm completely like a sieve.

Wow, how did you

do that?

I scraped me, see this?

Oh, yeah.

These are really sharp edges on the edge of the mic thing.

I just went

across it with my

arm and now I need stitches.

All

right, well, while you bleed out.

Why don't we take this call from Mark.

Let's do that.

All right, Mark.

Good

morning.

Yeah, good morning, guys.

You know, every time, you know, I talk about the cruelty that happens out there,

Who the heck was it that bragged about shooting and shooting her dog?

Oh,

yeah.

Her goal, I mean, that if it was something needful to be done, that's something.

Yeah.

And not that she needed to do it like that, but that's not something you brag about.

And she acts like it's something just wonderful and courageous that she did.

And I would just hogwash her to play about cruelty.

And all these people that got roasted from their beds down in Chicago in the middle of the night,

Children and people hauled out of their apartments naked, and zip-tied together, whether they're guilty or not, and they sorted it all out later.

How many people did they roast out of their bed?

How many were there hundreds of people that they roast out of their bed, and they got like 36 arrests?

So it's just a way out, so we're sorry we arrested, we hauled you out and put you in cuffs and hauled you away for a while, but no harm done.

We just had to get these people out here.

Why the heck that rate couldn't have been done in the daytime, or when these people are coming, you know, that... The terror that they caused, it's not going to tear.

I mean, these nitwits that got good that they were terrified about the ice for the antifa protesters.

I can remember back in this is... Oh, I don't remember if the protest at Ralph Overdoll's church was making at the DNR building there when they were upset that the...

you know i wasn't doing up to close down the maze of many beach right and they were marching out there with a sign screaming at the dnr employees as they come up nobody called the cops and said we're terrified here you know that these these people out here protest it was just a good just normal everyday event you want to work for ice these days and given what ice is doing like this i don't think any violence should be happening to these to the ice people at all but the fact that people are confronting terror the terror that they're causing this country violating their rights acting like

brown shirts and black shirts from Nazi Germany is something we need to address because that is what the Nazis did.

They arrested people in the middle of the night, hauled them away, and God only knows how many innocent people they still got stuck in these facilities.

People are actually citizens because I don't carry my passport around with me.

I don't even have a passport.

I don't carry my ID with me when I'm sleeping.

Right.

That's right.

Well, I'm

traumatizing the kids too and separating from their parents.

It's just unbelievable.

What's

happening?

They damaged people's property.

Who's going to pay for that?

Insurance companies?

I don't think so.

Well, you know, what irritates me more than anything is being approached by these individuals in these outfits, you know, masked.

And the first thing I want to do is fight back.

I want to at least push back.

I mean, no one's going to grab me for nothing, you know.

So, you

know,

just for doing that, I hauled off the jail.

Yeah.

I crack open my Sportsman's Guide catalog that I get, or I get the advertisement on the mail and I see, I could get a full body armor out of Sportsman's Guide, including the bulletproof plates and gas mask in the whole nine yards for under a thousand bucks.

I could outfit myself like that.

And that would be spending a lot of money there.

I mean, it is just... Yeah.

I just don't know.

These people, if you're doing regular law enforcement, you can dress like regular law enforcement with the normal gear that they have now because all the cops, including DNR wardens now, are all wearing bulletproof vests.

But they don't need to be wearing masks.

I don't see my DNR wardens wearing masks.

I don't see the cops doing regular patrols wearing masks.

The ICE agents are just, who knows if these guys are actually

Actual law enforcement of the January 6 protesters that Trump pardoned

first come of the earth.

You know, I mean they could look bad.

Yeah, all right

Mars a lot

mark.

Appreciate your comments on that.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Now the big story for today is n or n spm 7

All right, that's the new playbook they're going by.

The acronym stands for National Security Presidential Memorandum Seven.

I don't know what six was, but this is number seven.

And this is all about what you

think.

Yeah, what you think, and they have every right.

Now to take you away for just opposing somebody who has a different moral set of values.

How do you like that?

Yeah.

Here's our 21st century gobbles.

Stephen Miller.

Brattle this is ever spreading fear and paranoia to the masses.

This is cut 61.

Cut 61.

Stephen Miller.

Stephen, how concerned are you about violence in Portland?

Because it's not good.

As you know, well, the situation there is not good on the ground.

Well, I mean, we're extremely concerned about violence, but here's what the more important point is.

We're the federal government.

We are not going to tolerate a lawless insurrection.

We are not going to tolerate domestic terrorism.

And we are going after the Antifa rioters, the insurrectionists, the violent assaulters.

And we aren't only going after them.

We are going after their network.

We are going after their funders every time we make an arrest.

We are initiating an investigation into the entire domestic terrorist network.

The president issued a national security presidential memorandum, an NSPM, making clear that it is the national security priority of the United States law enforcement to dismantle, disrupt, defeat, and destroy these domestic terror networks.

And that is exactly what is taking place.

It is what we are doing.

It is what will happen.

Yes, you're an extremist and a terrorist if you disagree with the administration on race.

You're a terrorist if you disagree with the administration on gender, or maybe American views of family, or the American views on religion, or maybe the American views on morality.

You are a terrorist if you disagree with the administration each one of those topics.

And again, this is NSPM.

Now, he's not using the seven, so I think we can skip the seven

thing.

Okay.