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This is not going.
No one's going to allow this from the federal level.
You know, they're gonna save some money.
We have a road already across the isthmus.
We don't need another one or a new one or a better one.
We don't need to make America better again.
We need to make it great again for the guy, the orange man in the White House.
So anyway, I was checking out something here.
You know, we always know that it's Halloween because of the stores that pop up all over.
What is the big one that always...
I don't always makes an appearance in spirit spirit.
Yeah, there's a different one now.
It's on the south side around fish hatchery and and And in the battle Anyway, it's a great place dapper cadaver the dapper could have loved the name.
Yeah, yeah Halloween decor oddities gifts Guess the oddities would be the people working there.
Let's
Let's have another Halloween State Street Celebration.
Oh, yeah.
Let's bring it back.
If it's on Friday, let's bring everybody back downtown.
Remember when there used to be buses from out of town out of state used to come up and Make an appearance on State Street.
It was jam-packed
I remember the party I had.
I only had one party in my life.
Where, your apartment?
Yeah.
Yeah, and no one came.
I don't remember.
No, no, this is way back in the 70s.
I knew a few people, you know.
Mostly Stoners, and of course they never showed up.
I forgot, man.
Yeah, I forgot.
But anyway, I was in competition with the other.
People in my group and they had get this they would rent a huge movie projector and gets and get the Godzilla series movies, you know Godzilla I can't remember the other Mothra all the cheap
Japanese movies that used to come out, and they would have showings of them at their big parties that they had.
And I couldn't compete with that.
Not a chance.
This is when I was living outside of Chicago.
And a bunch of us went, I was in a band at the time.
We went, it was another band's house party.
And we went over there and had a good time.
Everybody was feeling great.
And then we realized later that somebody had spiked the punch.
And not with alcohol.
Some sort of psychedelic thing that started happening with all of us.
And the other one was oregano.
Oh yeah.
Remember people would try that from time to time.
Try anything.
Carla.
Texas and we're talking about how strange everything is our headphones are all a skew and right because somebody else thought the studio would look better with our headphones on the other side of the room Anyway, she says I just got off of work and I'm sure the first shift guy feels the same as you I hear moving tables around But I do it too because his setup doesn't work for me.
Hmm.
We should all try to be comfortable in our workspace
Well, that's a very nice thought.
It's all old hands on the same kumbaya.
and we
Yeah.
And, and.
And it's something everybody should get for their dog.
Everybody, this is how you house train your dog with that kennel because they go in there and they don't usually do anything in their kennel because it's their space.
And then you can put them in there when you go to work or go shopping or something like that.
And it's always the best way to handle your pet.
And they love going in there.
Believe it or not, they just, my dog at night is insisting that she go to bed, and go into the kennel, and she's knocking on the door, and she's bothering us like, hell, because she's got to get her beauty sleep.
What's a safe space for her?
All those border collies, you know, they're so caught up in themselves.
Yes, they are.
Also later today, we're going to talk to Judy David off the new Isthmus is out the October issue and That's what we were talking about when we started this John Nolan project.
We're gonna ask her Could I ask her if it's really is it not too late to just stop and don't do this?
We just pull the plug on this.
I have a feeling it's not gonna happen anyway because
then we'll
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It's going to be okay today.
Temperatures climbing into the mid 60s, about 65 degrees with plenty of sunshine.
Looks like we're done with the rain that's moving out.
So right now 53 degrees.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, so well the Cubs wait hang on a second.
All right Okay The Brewers beat up on the Cubs last night Seven to three.
I think was the final so now the Brewers are up two games to nothing in these this five game series, so They traveled to Chicago now to Wrigley Field
and have three games down there.
Of course, the Cubs will win all three games and go on to the next level of the playoffs or not.
Well, Brewers just need one more game.
She has the.
She doesn't even need the team anymore.
She has the clothing line.
Here's the thing about the Cubs thing, and I really enjoy the Cubs.
They've been an underdog for so many centuries.
And because of that, everybody loves the underdog.
I'm a big fan of the Cubs as well.
And when I'm watching the Cubs play the Brewers, there's nothing like it.
And I think that's why people go to the stadium to see them play because, you know, they're fans of the Brewers and they're fans of the Cubs.
Well, sure.
Yeah, good morning.
Yeah, good morning.
I heard CJ talking about page 57 again yesterday.
He was on, I heard him on Tom Hartman even.
And, and I don't know what the heck he's talking about because I looked up the document from the Democrats.
You know that they're continuing resolution
here,
and I can't figure out what the heck he's talking about this 200 Billion dollars these guys what he's quoting from their networks going right from that Document or or from something else that I haven't been able to find but
Yeah,
I don't you know that you know trying to be respectful here But I mean it that I don't know where he what orifice he's pulling that from you know, there's you know Donald Trump's
well
Tom Hartman didn't know where to go with it either he kind of you know took off on another tangent that CJ had brought up you know he brought some brings up about three or four issues at the same time so yeah
It was it was interesting, but yeah, I don't know what he's talking about either in regards to that and we're talking about you know Certainly trying to get some funding for health care Which is something the Republicans in their big bad bill had passed and they're touting how great it is that they cut health care for so many people are sticking to it man They don't even want to give an inch on helping people at the emergency room get some care.
They want people to bleed out this really does
say a lot about that right mark
well i mean that and that's that's the point i mean that it's not to give indirect money directly to these people are giving them insurance and it's just simply reimbursing the hospitals for money the hospitals are putting out and if we if the hospitals don't get it they're going to get it from someplace and they're going to get it for increasing their fees to to the rest of us and i think it's just uh... and the whole humanity thing of it at all is that
that they claim to be good Christians and that my read of Matthew 25 actually says we're supposed to be taken care of each other.
Nations and people are supposed to be judged on whether we took care of the least of our brothers and sisters.
Even the people in prison were supposed to be taken care of and why they're not recognizing this and insisting on being an Old Testament rather than the Christians were supposed to be, which is
You know, I just rely on the New Testament and I think that some of them go a little too far in actually going into the letters rather than just the Gospels
I'm surprised Christians aren't really angry about Jesus Christ giving away free healthcare and incurring people's diseases.
I don't know, you know, they should be angry about that because that said a bad president and you know Democrats are continuing that precedent as we continue in history here, but they don't want to follow that.
Jesus sure was pretty woke when he
forgive for giving the centers and pretty pretty woke when he is to chase the money changers out of the out of the out of the temple.
Is it something else?
All right, thanks.
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We've got the Midwest food and farm report.
We do, yes.
In our next half hour, Judy David off from the Isthmus will be with us.
And also later on, we'll talk to Liz Johnston from Serenity Pet Spots all coming up.
Of course, idiocracy right around the corner.
Indeed.
Yes, please stay with us.
It's John and Gordy on WMDX.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.
With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
What a idiot.
Oh, what a loser.
Now listen, Grapehead.
I'll explain it so even you can understand
it.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
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We have a new poll question up, John.
Do we?
Finally.
WMDXradio.com.
Go to our poll question.
It's, what's the true sign that fall has arrived in Madison?
Okay.
That's
Well, I don't know.
I don't know what happened.
I'm not even charged with a poll question.
I guess this was much more important than saving the country or at least, you know, getting
An idea of what people think about where the country is going at this point, but go ahead.
Yeah, let's listen about the fall colors
The true sign that fall has arrived in Madison here are your choices the first football Saturday at Camp Randall That's 20% right now.
It was weeks ago.
Okay.
Thanks farmers market pumpkins replacing zucchini That's at 40% Packer fans in every grocery store aisle
That's 20%.
And what's the last true sign that falls arrived in Madison?
A sudden need for both shorts and a parka in the same day.
That's a 20%.
It's time for idiocracy.
Well, you know, we have Matt who texted us this morning.
He said, people in the UK and Europe are also being told the same lies about immigrants receiving health benefits and housing at the taxpayers' expense.
This is highly suspicious, but only if you have, if you use critical thinking.
So.
Yeah, I know you know a lot of these countries are copying each other yeah in all of these little excuses about cutting money funding and at least taking It'll all out and somebody else right blame somebody else,
and that's
Mm-hmm.
All right, let's go to Let's go to actual it's good a health care here
Mega Mike Johnson keeps churning out the big lie Dems want health care for illegal immigrants when in fact Dems want health care subsidies for the affordable care act That's that's what we want and we also want to restore pain in the hospitals for emergency care for anybody who shows up At the emergency room.
It's not just for immigrants.
It's for everybody, but I guess you know they want to
Stop paying hospitals Wow, you know, we are really truly making America great again in some way shape or form some image that they have Hmm Johnson and every other mega never brings up the ACA COVID tax credit when they talk about this They just bring up the immigrants right right so the news networks shut Johnson's lie down
live on the air in fact checked them and I have this recording of what they did.
Let's listen to it.
law.
Okay I want to pull out just to make sure we don't offer misleading information when it comes to what the facts are and what the laws are.
legally because that's
Democrats.
He's trying to frame the shutdown as a Democratic shutdown.
He also falsely claimed that Democrats want to give health care and health care to illegal immigrants.
That is not true.
What happened?
You're talking to the guy who did it.
Yeah, what happened there?
We shot it for, it was very simple.
We shot it for five days to get their attention.
We shot it for 10, 29 days over Christmas and New Year's.
But we said to the entire country, we are doing this to get to a balanced budget.
And we did get the only four balanced budgets in the last 100 years.
So the country said, oh.
They're really serious, and it's something I want.
Now these guys are in the opposite position.
The country doesn't want to give billions to illegal immigrants.
No.
The country doesn't want to give billions to guys who won't go to work.
The country doesn't want to give billions to people who are in fact crooks.
So the Democrats are jumping up and saying, if I yell health care, you'll be too stupid to know what
I'm doing.
Right.
And if I decide I'm going to stop the government, you won't figure out I did it.
You know, the crooks,
Yeah.
Taking advantage of health care.
So what do they do?
They get sick purposely so they could be a crook and steal money away from the healthcare funding.
I get it now.
Oh, yeah, that's it.
That's the plan.
And Senator John Kennedy, who is really smeared the name of John Kennedy, comes right out and says it, no healthcare extension for the ACA.
What do you have to say?
This is gold, man.
And I want to play this over and over and over again.
Just to remind him, this is what they think truly.
This is what they think.
And a big thank you.
All right to John Kennedy, Senator John Kennedy.
Let's listen.
The socialist wing of the Democratic Party does not like Senator Schumer and he wants them to like him.
He wants them to love him.
They have asked that government be shut down and Senator Schumer has agreed.
But once you shut down government, you've got to figure out how to get it back open.
right.
A wise person once said, if you pray for rain, you got to be prepared to deal with the mud.
don't know how they're going to deal with the mud because we will never, never, ever agree to this list of demands.
When he's on camera.
Representing whatever crazy southern accent he wants.
Anyway, that's the story on the ACA.
benefits that we want to extend and keep everybody on healthcare.
That's what it's all about.
Let's go to the phone lines right now.
We've got Charles, Charles and Milwaukee.
Good morning, Charles.
Hey, good morning guys.
So yeah, so I also heard the, um, we're crazy called on Tom Hartman yesterday as well.
And I think one of the major things that people are forgetting is that immigrants annually
Pay in about almost a hundred billion dollars in federal and taxes and they don't see a penny of it
Yeah, you know, I'm glad you brought that up I often times forget to bring that up and I'm glad you did and I I believe that Tom Hartman also brought that up they do
pay in, they don't get any benefits back.
So it's huge the amount of money they pour into Medicare and Social Security and get nothing for it.
But all we're giving them is help in the emergency room, the final place where they can go to get help.
So it's brutal and it's cruel on top of that, right Charles?
It is, you know, these are the people that you see walking around with their big crosses on and I'm shocked they don't burn up with the whole image.
And one more thing before I go, you know, Mike Johnson is going to keep, he's going to keep, he's going to keep skirting around this issue because, as soon as they, they, as soon as Johnson, you know, get the nerves to swear in the
One from Arizona.
He has the votes to bring out the Epstein files.
And that's what this is all about.
That's what this is all about.
They can't bring up the Epstein files, so they will shut the government down.
They will hurt their constituents because they know the bigger picture is who's in that Epstein files.
What do you got morning gentlemen?
This is this is one of the biggest problems the Democrats have is they fail to use The word lie they have to start coming right out of the box and think he's lying Keep on using word lie lie lie every one of them and start seeing life
But you look at Jeffries, Mr. Hands.
You
Oh, I know.
I know.
It's crazy.
It's not robotic.
Oh, my God.
It's like one of those puppets, you know?
It's like a muffin.
A marionette.
A muffin.
It's just like, you know, they always use the sticks to move the arms around.
You've got to stop doing that, Jeffries.
It's driving us all crazy.
All
right.
But they just have to listen to this.
He said this lie.
He said this lie.
He said this lie.
Democrats, this is why us progressive kids so angry with, with our Democrats who represent us.
They just failed to say what it is, not a mistruth or he didn't speak right.
No, it's a lie.
That's what it is.
It seems wrong to me, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know if we have time for this.
We don't all right.
Let's go to something really silly to close out this segment of Idiocracy It's a parody song of don't fear the reaper Naming Russell vote as the reaper Let's listen to Jen Psaki.
She puts things together in the bigger picture style, which I really like I mean, she's really getting good at this This is cut 50.
Let's listen to her observation on this
That's right, Senate Republicans are proceeding with a major fundraising retreat with top Republican donors, a retreat held by the NRSC at a luxury five-star resort in Sea Island, Georgia.
It started this evening.
It's a private island with miles of Atlantic beachfront, three championship golf courses, more than a dozen on-site restaurants, and a five-star spa.
So the government may shut down.
But at least some Senate Republicans are planning to have a pretty good time this weekend, I guess.
It's also a very interesting choice, is one way to describe it, to hold lawn games in Sea Island, Georgia, while 750,000 federal workers are furloughed.
Thousands more are working without pay.
And if you think the optics of a luxury weekend vacation at this moment look distasteful or out of touch are honestly downright insane, consider what Trump posted on social media this morning.
This weird AI video, gleefully celebrating Russell votes promise to fire federal workers, cancel federal projects, and gut the federal government during an already painful shutdown.
As you can see, the video features both Donald Trump and Russ vote dressed as the Grim Reaper, all set to a bad parody of the song, Don't Fear the Reaper.
Real political genius over there, guys.
Yeah, looks good.
Because nothing reassures people in the country worried about their livelihoods,
more than the literal personification of death, which is basically what that weird A.I.
video does.
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Good morning.
Thanks for having
I'll tell you, I'm not sure we thought about that, but I'm glad that you told
all?
You
I actually I trust our city staffers.
for the most part.
I think that they're on top of these things.
And I, you know, this is a state, it's a shared project, right?
So
this is state DOT.
I think that they wouldn't say we're breaking ground on, you know, October 13th, which is, you know, less than a week away.
point.
You know, we're really unclear about the money
Yeah, it doesn't.
You know,
right.
So that's the first phase of the project.
The bike path will still be open the second phase.
they're going to have to close it down and they will be reconstructing it as well.
And a number of other things you know this has been in the works for some time and they've you know they went to a meeting I don't know it was a year ago almost yeah where they kind of explained all of this and and now it's time and it covers this issue of bismuths and this pullout section really covers
just about everything.
There's a great picture in here showing you just how many lanes, where the lanes will be, where the trees will be, where the bike path and pedestrian walk will be.
Looks pretty cool.
You know, I mean, two lanes of traffic going in each direction, essentially.
So just to kind of ease everybody's mind, we won't be, you know, it won't be one lane and making two lanes for the bike
path during construction.
the
Yeah.
That is the key.
Yeah.
But no, I think once it's done, I mean, especially to separate the uses on the bike path and the walking path, you know, more and more these paths are getting very crowded with different uses, you know, e-bikes, cargo bikes.
road bikes and The more you can separate the uses.
I think the better.
Yeah Now one of the biggest stories you have in this issue is illegal loopholes and cannabis laws leave consumers vulnerable is the title of the article and this is a this is going to have a huge effect on State Street and downtown in the city We have so many of these cannabis shops popping up all over the place This would be a huge hit to the economy here.
Think what
Yes.
if things happen that way.
Yes, and I just want to sort of clarify.
So one of the nice things since we've gone back to print as a monthly and non-profit is this collaboration we have with Wisconsin Watch.
So Wisconsin Watch actually produces this article.
They really do almost all the heavy lifting.
we publish it in print.
Their material is available really for free to anyone for reprint, but very few people really have the print option at this point, and we do.
So we try to pretty much every month do one of their stories, and it gives them a different audience, gives them a little bit more reach, especially locally.
And of course, for us, it's just great content that we get to offer.
Yeah.
Yep.
And Jane Byrne, who, you know, has a tie to Iowa, she's actually living there now.
You know, it's written about this before.
What I want to know is the Isthmus one.
Yes.
Where did they get that idea?
that mad
you so
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