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croissant called cottage cheese.
I know.
Another beautiful day.
Fantastic day.
I mean, we had a little rain overnight, but right.
Other than that, we're OK.
We're doing OK.
This
is WMDX.
John and Gordy in the morning.
You know, I love it when somebody turns down all the headphone volumes.
Yeah.
I'm
wondering
why that is.
Why do we
do that?
Why would they ever do that?
All of them?
Yeah.
Every single one of them.
So once again, we're, you said 10 seconds and we're just sitting here waiting, waiting.
Yeah.
Soon.
Where's the music?
Oh yeah.
Headphones are not.
Yeah.
Why would anybody turn down the headphones completely?
There wasn't even
one that
was
up.
Well, oh well.
Weekenders.
Yeah.
You know, you got to save energy.
I mean, there might be some kind of, you know, electrical field in each one of those.
Well, maybe so.
Happy Monday.
Hey, a few sprinkles out there, a couple of showers.
Wait, you got, what's wrong with your finger?
You got a huge bandage on your finger.
Or is it a brace?
It's just a brace.
I have levers for doorknobs around my house.
You know, it's easy because when you have a lever, you have your arms full of
groceries and all you have
to do is just pop the lever up or down.
Yeah.
And that that hurt my finger.
I hit it a little too hard at the wrong angle and it like hit a nerve and it just I keep hitting that same nerve or muscle or whatever it is and it just.
Bothers the hell out of me.
So I'm trying to get it to I just got this yesterday.
I just got this brace in the mail.
So I'm I'm trying it out.
We'll see if it works The other thing and this has nothing to do with that I fell in my yard.
Oh This over the weekend
fell
I fell actually
how did you there's
a there's a very rough part of my yard You know, it's I our house is built like on a quarry
Um, and, uh, and there's a part of the yard that just is kind of lumpy.
And as I was running, playing with my border collie, uh, I just tripped and for some reason my hands, I, I was holding onto the leash.
So again, it's like holding onto a
can of beer.
Yeah.
Uh, you know, not getting the foul ball.
I fell over and I, and I face planted.
I mean, seriously.
Face down.
I just thought, what did I just do?
Did
anyone, did anyone see it or were you by yourself?
I was by myself.
Look, see?
Oh yeah, you got a little bruise on the nose.
Yes, right on the bristles
of my nose.
Now that's, I didn't realize that the size of my nose could be some kind of protection for my forehead.
It saved me from getting some kind of brain damage, but.
It
was bleeding and I'll tell you
what, this is a cool story about it.
My nose started bleeding and it cut my hands around my face and I was getting up and I went into the house but my little border collie, not wearing a leash anymore, she's pretty good out in the yard.
She followed me in.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
She knew you were hurt.
She knew it.
She was...
Yeah.
Guiding you.
Yes.
She came right in.
She
didn't do anything else.
She just came right in with me,
which is
just really heartwarming.
That's
great.
And I didn't notice, you know, too much because I was trying.
You were screaming and cursing.
I was trying to get to the
sink.
Yeah.
I'm cupping all this blood coming out.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Wow.
You had a rough weekend there.
Well, you know, it...
It's a check on your mortality.
That's
what you're calling it.
A
simple little fall.
Right?
Wow, that's... I kept thinking about
Max McGee.
I kept thinking
about Max McGee when this happened.
Because Jim and Max called in the Packer plays.
Right.
But Max was...
You know, he's an older guy, you know, older than me and he was up on the roof cleaning
the
leaves
out of the gutter fell and
died.
Oh, I didn't know that.
That's how he died.
So, you know, it's those little accidents that you're working around the house with and, you know, when you get to be a senior citizen, well,
all those anyway.
Yeah, you just have to.
I'm not
saying I am.
Okay.
I could.
Wow, that was kind of a tough weekend for you.
It was, yes.
You know, I know you're moving and all that stuff.
Moving, yeah.
And I moved a lot of stuff over the weekend.
Everything except the big stuff.
Now we got the professional movers for the final things.
Tom helped me out a little bit on Friday.
I did, I did.
He helped me get it going and it was big help.
And this morning here, you know,
Barely anything left in the old house, but I'm still at the old house.
Yeah, you know, yeah moving probably over today the rest of things and I forgot my cell phone today unbelievable.
I know I'm like, oh no I got to work.
I'm like, where's my phone?
I left it at home almost turned around and went back and got it.
But now well, that's good news because we always get
a call after the show from Catherine.
So she won't be able to reach
us.
Won't be
able to do that.
She did send
us
a text already.
You've got to be kidding.
You've got to be kidding.
I guess she's
talking about
probably the headphone
volume and not knowing we're on the air.
Well, she'll have to call you.
Hey, look,
it's a Monday.
What do you expect?
Yes, that's right.
Oh, and we also have Pat Krightlow right after the show.
We'll be doing that.
We do.
About 20 minutes this time.
Yeah.
We've got cloudy skies out there this morning, a few sprinkles, but nothing to be really concerned about.
What's the sunrise time today, according to your WMDX Samsung watch?
Well, sunrise is at 7.09.
Okay.
All right.
It took me a long time to research this.
What
about?
And it's on set about six, seven.
Okay, 617.
You can expect an awful lot of darkness.
Okay, looks like it's gonna stay cloudy through the day.
A couple of scattered showers along the way and high about 69 degrees right now, 59 degrees.
In just a few minutes, we're gonna check in with Pam Yonkey, the fabulous farm babe.
She's up in Green Bay this morning from her location up there.
She probably was at the game yesterday.
Oh, yeah.
That was a big game for the Packers and they
They won
that was yeah, that was a pretty exciting game.
I
know yeah was good and The Brewers beat up on the Cubs.
I mean it was a close game.
That was nice But yeah brewers move on they play the Dodgers this evening true first game of the National League players this evening.
Yes Great
What you can't wait, huh?
Well, you know, I'd like to watch other things than baseball, you know, and
what's going on the TV set when it comes to baseball.
What are you talking
about?
No, come on.
It really isn't leading up to the World Series.
Well,
OK.
Great games.
All right.
Just to reveal
what I
have done today because of the Packers.
Oh, and the Brewers win.
You
wore your Brewers t-shirt.
My Brewers t-shirt.
I wore
it
today.
In celebration, I'm just gonna take off the old plaid.
All right.
I'm all
set.
Good for you.
There we go.
The Patchers were not so fortunate.
They lost big time.
Big time.
I mean they got blanked out.
I feel like that's
scored
nothing.
I feel like that's normal for them at this point, you
know Every week.
I just sad you know a guy who gets into all these games for free Because he was a former governor Scott Walker.
Oh, yeah, you know praising the Packers for their big win.
Hmm, but here's this guy Yeah, always taking pictures at the Badger game and a Packer game
He said, boy, the badges really suck.
I mean, nice, nice thing to hear from the former governor of the state.
Wow.
What a
jerk.
What a total jerk.
Did you see the there's a picture of fans in the in the student stand?
No.
And there's hardly any students out there for the game anymore.
Is that so?
Yeah.
Really?
Yep.
Attendance declining
with students.
Yeah, they're playing people who are good, but not great, and they're still losing by that much.
It's sad to see.
Yeah, you gotta back them up.
You gotta get out there.
The whole thing about the Badgers is that you go out for the game anyway.
You don't care if they win or lose.
We used to do that forever.
It was a tradition.
You didn't care.
You just had fun out in the stands.
Well, you know, they're used
to winning days are over.
Yeah.
A little bit later on, we're going to talk to Steve Cochran.
Steve is in Chicago and he's a radio personality and podcast personality there.
And we can change the world.
Yeah, it's going to get us all caught up in what's happening in Chicago with the ice folks running around.
And
yeah, they're they're held at bay, I guess, for a couple of weeks, maybe according to a judge.
So we'll see what happens with
that.
Trump doesn't follow anybody's directions.
Well, Trump's been busy.
He's in the Middle East this morning.
He's in Israel.
And that's live.
He's making a speech before the legislature.
Looks like somebody just got tossed out there.
They had some security
people
taking a couple of people in the legislature out of the out of the meeting.
And Trump is probably making some jokes right now.
He looks like, okay.
Because he's always very funny, you know,
he's always
able to, you know, throw out a couple of really clever lines.
You notice how to riff, you know, he's really good at it.
Oh, so good at it.
I
wonder if he's telling the
old sharks and battery story
again.
I'm sure the Israeli legislature will appreciate that.
Well, why, why isn't he telling us the sharks and battery story?
I don't know.
He's kind of dropped that one.
All the other stories are still out there.
He still brings them up.
But not that one.
And I've always enjoyed that one.
I hated the snake story because, you know, the snake, you know, it was an old pop song in the 60s.
And I thought, well, that's what he's telling.
But, you know,
he doesn't.
He tells that story and he's the snake.
I don't know why he keeps telling a story.
He's the guy, you know, that old crazy.
You thought you were a friend with the snake?
Well, what do you expect from a snake?
Yeah, that's the that's it.
That's
the whole
story right
there.
Tom, were you here over the weekend when the weekend folks were here with their Max Inc preview?
I was not.
I was I was home.
I was home home in Chicago.
Oh, you were sweet home Chicago.
Did you see
any?
Ice military
folks running around.
I did not I did not because I'm a little bit more south of Chicago kind of close.
Oh Tindley Park Tindley Park, correct.
Oh, yeah But I also I also got to see tofu we have it we got a new dog She's awesome
I love her to death.
That's pretty cool name.
Did you name it?
I didn't name it.
My brother did.
He for some reason gets, you know, higher order over me.
Why would he name anybody a tofu?
What is he into tofu?
He likes tofu.
He does like tofu in general, the food.
Vegetarian?
Yeah, he is.
So he does, you know.
What kind of dog is it?
Golden
retriever.
My favorite.
My
favorite dog.
Yeah, those are really friendly dogs.
Really smart.
Yeah.
Not
as smart as Border Collie, but anything.
Okay, it's
okay.
All right.
Good enough.
Well, in a few minutes, we're going to check in with Pam Yaki, and we'll be talking about this high demand for cottage cheese.
Wow, this is a huge headline.
This is a big story.
This is
a huge story.
We won't get to it.
Cottage cheese.
You know, there was a great band named Crow.
Yes.
That had a song cottage cheese.
Yeah,
great song.
Great song.
We'll have to
bring
that out here in a minute.
Okay.
We're just getting going on a Monday morning, 20 minutes past the hour.
John Peterson, Gordie Young along with Dominic Lee.
Coming right back with Pam Yankee.
John
and
Gordy in the morning, WMDX, 92.7.
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It's a Monday.
It's kind of cloudy out there.
Some scattered sprinkles and showers and highs around 69 degrees today, right now 59.
Pam Yonkey, Fabulous Farm Babe joins us this morning.
Good morning, Pam.
Good morning, guys.
Good morning.
Yep.
Smile on my face.
The Packers managed to get back on a winning way yesterday.
Yes, they did.
Were you at the game?
Did you go to the game?
I had my brother use my tickets, but my house up here is just about a block from the stadium.
So I
can watch it in the backyard.
Yeah.
You know, I used to go up and buy tickets outside, you know, from a few people that didn't want to go in and then enjoy the games.
You know, I think they still do that, even though they have it organized a little bit, but there are people out there still.
Yeah.
And it's great.
It's crazy.
Yeah, it's crazy.
In fact, you bring that up.
I remember when there used to be scalpers on the corner trying to sell tickets, and then we got on kind of our Super Bowl run, and now scalpers don't even want to come to Green Bay because there aren't enough tickets for them to get their action going.
And now with StubHub and all those online services, I had friends that came up from Springfield, Illinois, just on a wing and a prayer yesterday, and they bought
two standing room only tickets for the game.
So there's, there's all kinds of options these days versus standing out in the elements, trying to get somebody to give you your price.
Yeah.
That it's great to do something like that and get to one of the games and see the Packers live.
That's just, there's nothing like it.
It really is.
Well,
they handily beat the Bengals yesterday, 27 to 18 with
a great substitute kicker, which did a fantastic job.
Right.
Yeah.
you know it's funny your topic something you want to talk about today the amazing demand for cottage cheese I was just thinking about cottage cheese over the weekend now what can I do to make lasagna better and it's cottage cheese
Yeah,
that's
right.
Honestly though, you're like a lot of other people that are finding new ways to use cottage cheese.
Social media, if you get one of those influencers or somebody that is passionate about cottage cheese and starts kicking up recipes, that's part of the driving reason why Westby Co-op Creamery in Western Wisconsin, they are literally overwhelmed with demand on their cottage cheese.
Here's what I didn't know.
Thanks to my
hardworking assistant Stephanie Hoff, I found out that Westby Co-op Creamery, their cottage cheese plant is the only cottage cheese plant in Wisconsin.
Now,
I
think that, you know, considering America's Dairyland, yeah, I would have thought there was at least one other, but they are, they are it.
And their sales, the marketing manager told us that they are investing over $14 million right now to modernize their cottage cheese plant because
Everything that they're producing right now is already sold.
Yeah.
Wow.
So they're trying to and they said they get calls every week from organizations companies that are looking for cottage cheese.
She said part of it is that social media chatter and part of it is the high protein diet demand for people that are on weight loss and then they also have a clean label.
something well I mean come on cottage cheese doesn't have that many ingredients it's kind of
you know
milk and salt and that's kind of it but uh that's that plays perfectly to what the consumers are looking for today I was I mean I get the numbers they said that cottage cheese demand nationally some of the big brands saw a 25 percent increase last year in cottage cheese demand even in wisconsin in the upper midwest we saw a 6.5 percent increase in cottage cheese sales
So, I mean, those numbers are impressive, but what blew me away is that we've only got one cottage cheese plant in the state.
I know.
Is it that they contract out to all these other cottage cheese makers in, not cheese makers, but other manufacturers of milk products in the state?
Is that what they do?
Yeah.
So, you know, in Wisconsin, a lot of our emphasis is on cheese, you know, the regular hard cheese, but you'll find that some of the major cottage cheese, sour cream,
like Philadelphia cream cheese those are a lot of those plants are located in the northeast New York State Vermont New Hampshire and That's that's kind of where most of that production is but like I said one plant in Wisconsin's finding tremendous favor with consumers these days in there
build that little community to try to support it more.
All right, a little tip here.
My my sons are really in a cottage cheese right now and they like they don't like the creamy stuff.
They like just, you know, getting those curds.
And the one,
the
one percent is usually that one.
The other, you know, full percent milk is definitely creamier.
So if you're looking for one or the other, that's just a little tip from Just Gas, John.
Thank you,
John.
Keep for that.
I'm running it down.
We'll follow up on that story.
All
right,
good.
Keep that in mind.
All right.
What else is going on, Pam, in your world this week?
you know, kind of back to the weather forecast you brought up.
I'm getting some talk text messages this morning about just sprinkles and a lot of the farmers that are talking to me this morning are saying, yeah, maybe it'll keep me out of the field.
And of course, they still have the harvest they want to get going on.
But I think that there's started to be more and more conversation about just how dry it is.
You know,
there's
we haven't had measurable rain rain for a couple months.
And, you know, for some of these guys, they're going to pull a crop off and then they may go back in and try to plant something like a fall grass.
or a cover crop and you really need some moisture to get those seeds established and they can't afford to miss a beat when it comes to the money and watching the.
Bottom line, we heard last week from Brooke Rollins, the US egg secretary that until Congress comes back into session, tell federal governments reopen none of that disaster assistance or that federal aid that we talked about last week.
It is not moving until the federal government is back up on, on its legs.
So I guess said farmers better not be cashing any checks yet because it looks like that's a long ways off.
Boy, there is a tough year for them when it comes to trade.
Wow.
Pam, thank you for joining us.
You have a good week.
We'll talk to you.
Later in the week.
Yeah, right Friday.
Thanks guys.
All right.
Take care.
The fabulous farm babe.
We're going to check in with the Midwest food and farm report next and we'll be back with idiocracy on John and Gordy the morning 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.
What an idiot.
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
What?
What the f*** is going on around here?
Holy s***.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
All the time, really, absolutely stupid people.
Well, we bring it to you each and every day and...
You know, it's really depressing.
Sometimes I just have to take a walk.
I get my exercise that steps in, but at the same time, you know, I just got to relax.
A lot of this stuff is really depressing.
Take a deep breath.
It is 635.
We've got cloudy skies, a few sprinkles and highs today around 69 degrees.
You know, Trump is speaking before the Israeli.
Legislature, a couple of legislators got tossed out of the meeting.
I'm not sure exactly what was happening there.
He's doing the weave.
Remember how he does the weave?
Yeah.
Waves.
Goes from
one story to the next.
Yeah.
Well, it's a big, you know, they're waiting for the hostages to be released.
So he'll keep talking until they release them is
maybe so hot.
I don't know.
Oh, this is awful.
All right.
Well, anyway, we've got him on our screen.
Thank goodness we can watch.
Yeah, you can see the proceedings.
Watch that guy.
Yeah.
Um, you know, I'm at Up North News on my laptop here.
Oh,
yeah.
And the big story is Wisconsin Republicans introducing a new bill.
to ban absentee ballot boxes again all my god because
there's
such a threat to our election integrity
Well, I couldn't get to the story.
I wanted to know more about it, but it asked for my email.
Wouldn't let me through unless
I
gave him my email.
Why do you think I have the, why do you think I have it up on my computer?
I've already signed up.
My God, what is wrong with Pat?
Pat Crichtlow, get it together, man.
Anyway, we'll
be talking about that later and you can bring that up.
I will bring it
up.
But anyway, you know, these absentee dropboxes, please, you know, they're just a dropbox.
That's all they are.
You know, you go there, you drop your ballot in, they're secure, they have cameras on.
My God, what is wrong with these people?
You know, they keep fighting these stupid, silly battles, which mean nothing to anybody.
Yeah, oh my god, you know, I
Virtually no voter fraud, you know, I mean zero point zero
zero percent
It's
just you know, yeah, like if there's gonna be voter fraud from somebody who dropped something in a ballot box It obviously it doesn't make any sense, but yeah These are this is how they're going to run the state they have been running it
like for the last 14 years like this but you know if they elect a republican governor we are doomed forever to be swirling around until we're taken right down the drain oh my god please someone help us save us from this nightmare all right anyway we've got some really bad news for everybody today on
Great.
Idiocracy.
Oh, what do you got
for
us?
Well, I'll deliver it in a very smiley, happy way.
Okay?
Sure.
Billionaire Larry Ellison, owner of Oracle, CBS, CNN, and now TikTok wants data centralization and total surveillance.
That's what he wants now.
So why don't we go to cut 59 here and listen
up.
Your body cams will be transmitting that.
The police will be on their best behavior.
because we're constantly recording, watching and recording everything that's going on.
Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on.
And the first thing a country needs to do is to unify all of their data so it can be consumed and used by the AI model.
You have to take all of your healthcare data, your diagnostic data.
your electronic health records, your genomic data.
But it's fragmented.
It's not easily accessible by these AIs.
We have to take all of this data we have in our country and move it into a single, if you will, unified data platform.
So we provide context when we want to ask a question.
We've provided that AI model with all the data they need to understand our country.
So that's the big step.
That's kind of the missing link.
We need to unify all of the national data, put it into a database where it's easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you
like.
So that's not fraught with problems.
You know, the government might be able to do that.
Yes, Larry.
But so will somebody who's hacked in be able to do that.
And all the data is right there.
They don't have to try and find it over here or over there.
It's all in one place.
How convenient could that possibly be for somebody who has bad intentions?
Like, well, our own federal government, for that matter.
Did you watch 60 Minutes last night?
No, I didn't.
We had a big deal on China having all of our data already.
Already.
And they have data, they have all the passwords they need on all the infrastructure things, you know, your
water
plants, your power plants, they've been working it for years, like four
or five years.
Sure, sure.
They
have passwords they can get in and they could shut off the, you know, they could shut off the power, they could shut off cell phones, they could do everything.
And it was it was a frightening report.
It was like, oh, no.
Yeah, they've got it all.
Well,
now
maybe they'll share it with the, you know,
very Ellison will put all that information in
one
spot for the Chinese to be able to
tap into.
Make it easier for them.
Yes.
Every time I change the password, just, you know, to play it safe, they'll know what I changed it to.
Yeah.
How
cool is that?
Right.
608-879-8255.
Let's go to the phones right now.
We've got Mark on the line
this
morning.
Good morning, Mark.
What do
you got?
Well, this is what China, the Chinese already have, that they have universal.
They have cameras everywhere recording whatever everybody does.
But this is like some damn dystopian novel, that transcription novel, that we were always supposed to be afraid of, that where this clown is talking about that, you
know, but,
oh dear, they talk about liberty and freedom and we're supposed to be
getting observed at each and every moment of our life that well, you
know, citizens will be on their best behavior.
I mean, that is just so insulting.
I can't I can't
grab my head around
that.
So
I don't know if you guys remember that TV movie Colossus, the Forpin project, but that was universal.
The computer was observing everything everybody did in their entire life.
No, I don't see
that.
Well, yeah, I don't remember that either, but it sounds like something I should catch.
So if you can, just put that up on our screen and we'll find out what movie that is.
Yeah, again, you know, citizens will be in their best behavior.
You said that without even blinking, you know, no problem with that.
Now, this is the guy behind the digital ID push.
And again, now we have three more years of Trump to realize their dream and the end of ours, I think so.
That's our first positive story.
Thank you for that.
Mark
that
down.
Okay.
All right.
This is this is uplifting because it's so stupid.
And again, now.
you know the republicans want to ban drop boxes again
because it's
such a big threat to the state all right well tiffany tom tiffany is out there and he's worried about all the little things not the big things not solving problems in the state like scott walker ignored all the problems in the state too but took care of the little things you know making sure that the
Republicans did their thing, you know, they put their agenda in place, which is no agenda at all, no problem solving, just their agenda, their outline.
Well, what's Tom
Tiffany have in mind?
Well, this was, this is something Tom Tiffany reacted to.
The Libs on TikTok posted this.
They posted, a quiz is introduction to cultural geography at the UW Oshkosh.
And it demonizes ICE, they say, and Trump's immigration policies, they say, in this quiz at the UW Oshkosh.
Now, the Libs on TikTok, they always get outraged by just about everything.
You know, maybe they'll come out against my preference to a thinner 1% cottage cheese as opposed to the full milk cottage cheese.
Who
knows
what they're upset about.
today.
Anyway, they suggest Trump is detaining American citizens in this quiz.
Ice agents are facing a 1000% increase in assaults.
By the way, you know, I take objection to that.
I mean, really a
1000% increase in assaults for ice agents.
they have the masks.
How do we know who the hell they are?
How could that be increasing?
See, they just make this stuff up.
So, mini-Trump, Tiffany, he said this, he responded to this ridiculous X thing, we need to make the University of Wisconsin serve Wisconsinites again.
indoctrination doesn't belong in our public universities, and it's time we demand accountability for the taxpayer dollars funding them.
Can you believe?
It's a quiz, UW Oshkosh, just a simple quiz about the introduction to cultural geography, and it just mentions ICE and immigration, and it asks you, by the way, it's a multiple choice questionnaire.
So anybody can fill it out in which way they believe politically they want to fill out.
They could answer any of the questions the way they feel like answering them, but this isn't a requirement.
So you can imagine that Tom Tiffany wants to control a lot of what the UW Madison and all the university system universities are presenting to the students.
Well, I was, I also, I went to UW Oshkosh.
Yeah, that's right.
Strong point.
Yeah.
So multiple choice quiz questions not not on the top of the list for Libs on tiktok They are awful.
All right now here mom's for Liberty.
Let's go on Liberty now boy mini Trump Tiffany
Uh, fell for Mom's Reliberty Post claiming a transgender individual used a girl's locker room.
Okay.
Now here, here, here's this is, this is the story.
Okay.
Uh, with no proof, Mom's Reliberty are either taking the word of a whistleblower or just making this stuff up.
They offered a screenshot of a document stating school policy in Racine, but no whistleblower report or any reference to a written complaint about a man
In a girl's locker room none none whatsoever.
They this is in their post But it's not anywhere in the proof that they're offering up mini trump tiffani reacted in anger to this Posting this on x when I'm governor girl sports locker rooms and bathrooms will be protected for girls and Common sense will win no more of this crap.
Well this time tiffani He is on
you know,
this is his agenda.
This is what he's finding very important
And
this is a breaking news.
A
grown man in his 40s is repeatedly walking into the women's and girls locker room at the Racine Unified School District.
So, it lives on TikTok by the way.
I mean, Mom's for Liberty called this one.
And this is the interesting thing about it.
This happened in Middleton, my hometown, on the west side of Madison.
What happened?
Where they are saying this man went into the girls locker room.
That is not real.
that didn't happen.
There is no such story.
There's no report.
I live in Middleton.
I know the high school there.
This has never happened in Middleton.
And they made it up.
They said, this happened in Middleton.
Oh boy.
But it really, if they want to report on another story that may relate to it, but not similar, a 40 year old man is walking into the
women's locker room at the Racine Unified School District Aquatic Center.
So there you go.
They can chase that one down and blame somebody else for it, but not.
But not in Middleton.
Not Middleton, Dan.
I'm
standing up from my hometown.
Okay.
All right.
Good for you.
Well, that's
That's enough for that.
Okay.
I've had it with Tom Tiffley.
We got a text here from Rhonda says, as you mentioned the Truman Show when we were talking about,
you know, Big Brother and
everything else.
Okay.
It is 6.48.
We're coming right back with more of John and Gordy in the morning.
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It is
6.53.
We have some rain downtown at the moment.
Yeah.
State streets.
Streets are a little damp out there.
So maybe grab the umbrella before you head out.
Some scattered showers today.
Highs around 69.
It'll stay cloudy through the day.
Right now 59 degrees.
Well, it's one of those days today.
Maybe because of the rain, they're going to put off putting the speed bumps.
Oh, I'm the road in front of my house.
Well, you know,
you'll survive somehow.
This
is karma.
This is, uh, this is
well, rainy days and Mondays always bring me down down.
So yeah, I'm sorry for you.
Well, anyway, uh, hey, by the way, tomorrow is the big day for me.
I'm going to put
my
charging station.
Oh, that'll be a great
day.
My, uh, my Kia.
EV6.
You're going to have a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Call the
wind, you know.
Or the space car.
I like space car much better.
Space car.
Well, that'll be great.
You'll have your own charging station.
Will other people be able to use your charging station?
You could charge admission for that.
Hey, there it is.
You could make a little money on that side.
That's not a bad idea.
I might just try that.
Put a sign up
there.
All right.
Well, let's, so let's go to the phones right now.
We've got Joe on the line.
Hi, Joe.
Good morning, Joe.
Well, I, you know, it's, it's six in the morning.
He's probably a little too early to start drinking, I suppose.
It's up to you.
Um, I think it's true.
Larry Ellison and his plan to consolidate all the information on everyone, all their medical information, all their IRS, everything in one spot.
And, and subjected to AI, I thought was fascinating, particularly with the rate of, of what they call AI hallucinating, where
it
makes up evidence that this has happened in law court filings, where it's made up evidence.
And there's now what, and it fits with the story that you also had where this moms for liberty were making this, this charge.
And as they said in the paper, and I thought this is a wonderful phrase that we should keep reusing.
Without proof, they said.
That's where we are.
It's without proof.
And I will just top off this little cake, this little Monday morning cake.
We had this wonderful, um, Texas President Trump sent out during the weekend where he said that the Biden FBI had placed agents in the crowd on January 6th to January 6th, 2021.
Now, this would be hard to do because he wasn't president then.
He wasn't president until January 20th, 2021.
But apparently he called up and got 274 agents into the crowd.
And then there was this language that Trump used in the tweet, which I think really sums things up.
He said, if this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be able, oh, big apologies.
If this is true, which it is.
So I'll be
right there.
I know.
What?
So I think the phrase that we need to keep, uh, keep in mind as we, we plunge forward is without proof, so and so said.
That's true.
Yeah.
It all works
together.
Doesn't it?
Yeah.
Thanks guys.
All right.
Thanks a lot.
You know, I did all this research on the mom's rule or these story because I'm thinking, did I miss something?
Am I not?
Finding the right story here, you know can do searches, but the story doesn't come up or something But no no and and and all the proof they presented in regards to a man going into a locker room All of that was just rules and regulations.
It were screenshots of rules and regulations No accusation whatsoever.
No reference to it.
And I just thought wow
These people, you know, so somebody's gonna walk away and they're gonna see all this proof.
And they'll walk, wow, this really happened.
Nope, there wasn't anything there.
They just made copies of rules and regulations, but it looked official.
All right, now let's get back to mini Trump Tiffany here.
He's whining.
that energy costs way too much in Wisconsin.
Now, we
have known
that for many, many years.
There were decades.
We have higher energy costs than most of the states in the Midwest.
Now, forgetting, of course, that Republicans have only done one thing in the last 13 years since they've been in charge.
They delayed wind and solar.
There you go.
Well, what's the connection?
But you know, market
forces aren't waiting for the mega politicians because they're moving forward because capitalism says
Let's go to wind and solar.
Anyway, this is mini Trump Tiffany repeating Trump energy talking points.
So let's listen to cut 80.
This is cut 80.
I'll never forget 30 years ago, we'd see those rankings where Wisconsin was among the lowest cost electricity producers in the Midwest.
We're like number two.
Now we're the second highest here in the Midwest.
It is a key issue we have to deal with because Wisconsin is so manufacturing heavy.
And
those
manufacturing businesses use an enormous amount of electricity.
When you add AI in, we should not be closing a plant.
Governor Evers Public Service Commission has been closing plants ever since he came in as governor.
We should not close a single plant.
That's where we start.
And then we start building new, including nuclear.
We have some of the best minds on nuclear that are right here in Wisconsin.
We should be taking a hard look at that rather than closing them like we did.
up in the Manitowoc area.
So we have to get back to abundance with electricity if Wisconsin is going to thrive.
And by the way, this whole conversion of some of the most beautiful farmland, not just in America, but in the world, thousands of acres here in Wisconsin is
It is just so misplaced.
Oh, it is.
And we are destroying some of the best farmland.
No, we're not.
Intermittent sources.
We're not destroying it.
Shut this guy up.
He's an
idiot.
Doesn't know what he's talking about.
They got farm animals going on, you know, using the crops that they put underneath these solar panels.
So, you know, just an idiot.
By the way, solar storage batteries now.
So they work even at night.
My goodness, somebody please fill this guy in, you know?
That's Tom Tiffany, yes.
You know, this is a guy that actually is putting in big sand pits, you know?
That's worse, I think, than the solar panels.
We'll be back with more in our seven o'clock hour, including Steve Cochran from Chicago.
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Good
morning, Madison.
Wow.
It feels so much better now, despite the rain, right?
And idiocracy stories that brought
everybody down to it.
Despite the fact that this is day one of construction on John Nolan Drive, down
to
one lane in each direction, good morning.
How
are you doing out there?
Really, the end result will be just fantastic, 80 years from now, when the fun is restored after Trump leaves office.
Yeah, it's not gonna work out.
I had just have a
bad feeling about this Okay, all right
All right, let's get to a few
stories here.
Okay, because these are the big stories.
Oh, coming up in a half hour, by the way,
John,
don't want to forget Steve Cochran from
Chicago.
Yes, Chicago radio personality.
I know what's going on in
Chicago.
Exactly.
Yeah, so much happening there with ice in town.
So we'll get the latest from Steve coming
up.
All right, you know, we've been waiting for the Republicans to come back from vacation in order to negotiate a deal.
They know
they need the votes of Democrats in order to continue the government funding.
Some reason they didn't think they needed to negotiate with the Democrats at all and just expected them to vote with them.
I don't know.
Does that seem stupid?
It does.
It does really seem stupid.
But the thing they don't get is that Democrats are doing this in order to restore the tax credits for the Affordable Care Act so our premiums don't go up skyrocket.
Right.
Each and every month.
And actually bringing down the economy because that'll take a lot of money out of the economy right into the insurance company.
So anyway.
Senator John Kennedy, who's killing that name.
He was wrong about the ACA subsidies and I just, I couldn't believe this.
He would love to steer the conversation away from the subsidies and just do something else.
Calling the ACA a failure that hurts people is just an amazing thing.
Let's listen to this.
The other thing is being lost in all this, Tim.
the democrats say it's about health care and about extending the old obama care it's that we also need to have a conversation
what's that
about obama care itself
oh really
subsidies are no subsidies the damn thing's broken
yeah
and we were told that if we passed obama care health insurance would be cheaper
and more accessible.
It is.
And it's been neither.
We were told it would make our lives better.
It's made our lives worse.
It has.
So whether you subsidize the thing or not, it's got to be fixed.
And that's what's being lost in the debate.
Here's the thing about fixing the ACA.
Yeah.
Republicans tried to kill the ACA so many times they can't even count how many times that was.
50 or 60 times.
On top of that, we knew that there were some small problems in the ACA, which I can't even think of at this point.
They're just small.
But they need to be adjusted.
When you pass any kind of bill, you'll find out whether there are some flaws in it, some things you need to take out or add.
The Republicans refuse to do anything with the Affordable Care Act.
They will not update it, they will not change some of the flaws, they will not do anything about it.
So to sit there and complain about the ACA is outrageous.
First and then of course, you know, it has made it cheaper because we do get the tax credits And it's and it's it's made it easier for people to get health care and it does include those people with pre-existing conditions That's the whole point of
this thing and he's just making this stuff up and he doesn't want to talk about the tax credits again.
The Republicans knew that they needed the votes of the Democrats and they refused to go along with that and now they're still not gonna they're never gonna negotiate this thing by the way and by the way the insurance companies also went in before as that big bad bill was being talked about and written
They went in there and said, you can't do that.
You can't get rid of these credits because we are going to dump out of the Affordable Care Act.
We're not going to offer it in these states if you do this or the premiums are going to go skyrocketing if you do this and they did it.
Anyway, there are all these different elements that they just completely ignored to get their way.
They do not listen.
They don't care about anybody in this country.
And again, if there is a way that we could have a referendum, a nationwide referendum, and just take
their health care away in Congress.
Take it away until they give us universal health care.
That's what I'm pushing.
That's what I want.
And if I can't get that, at least Democrats, I know you're working on the ACA tax credits, but whatever you do, start talking about universal health care.
My God, what do we have to do?
What do we have to do?
I have to stay at my foot.
Come on.
You know who's with you on this is Marjorie Taylor-Green.
Yes, I know.
I mean, you know the world's
changing when she jumps
on board.
Well, we went out for a beer the other night.
Yeah, you
talked her into it, huh?
Yeah.
Wow,
good for you.
She's aggressive.
All right, here, let's move on to project.
Well,
you know,
Project 2025 has come and gone and, you know,
we're realizing every element of Project 2025.
But get this, Heritage Foundation has a new story that they're working on, and it is something that you'll be amazed with.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing, the Republican policy apparatus went into immediate work
The Heritage Foundation, which published Project 2025 and its spin-off, The Oversight Project, issued a call for the FBI to designate, get this, this is the term, transgender ideology-inspired violent extremism, or TAVE, as a domestic terrorism threat category.
so they want to make transgender ideology inspired violent extremism a terrorist threat category which by the way they can't do in this country we can't designate terrorist organizations in this country like neo-nazis or anybody else or even antifa you can't do it you just can't but anyway that's the story they're working on it and that's why they are being
so aggressively targeting transgender individuals.
Just to let you
know.
Just to keep you updated on that.
Okay, now the word is, Gordy, the word is that Antifa, the network still has not been found.
They're
still looking for it.
They're still
looking for the Antifa network.
There aren't any burning cities, no violent protests.
Ice getting docks, none of that.
The neo-Nazis and proud boy organizations are not also categorized as terrorist groups, only just Antifa, the network Antifa.
This is all through the looking guy stuff.
Now I found this, somebody put all these cuts together of people saying there's no Antifa.
Okay, so let's listen to cut 115, this is cut 115, no Antifa.
There's no Antifa.
This is an entirely imaginary organization.
There is not an Antifa.
Like, I don't even know what Antifa is.
There is no group.
It's not even like far-right groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers compared to right-wing extremists.
Antifa-linked violence is rare and limited.
It isn't an organization.
It is a...
in many ways mythology.
It's not like the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers, you know, sort of defined terrorist organizations with leadership that leads violence.
It's not a highly organized movement.
It's a moniker.
It's not a unified group like the Proud Boys are.
Things like Antifa are things that are thought up.
It's all in the
skies of going after Antifa, which is nothing.
There's no organization called the Antifa.
Nobody's a member of Antifa.
because it doesn't exist.
They are just.
declaring into existence something that doesn't exist.
There is no Antifa organization so maybe that's good for social media but it really has is non-existent.
They exist on
the internet in chat rooms and
in
4chan and discord in places like that where they run discussion boards, trade tactics, documents, things like that but none of them are called Antifa.
No, in fact I looked at a lot of
that stuff, mega found the proof in photo interpretations and manipulations, random videos, and get this, even a crowd in a Simpsons episode where they pointed out who the Antifa members were at Duff's bar.
Really?
Yeah.
In the Simpsons?
Yes.
Yes.
Cartoons.
They actually pointed out which ones were Antifa members.
And of course, you know, only Antifa wears black.
So photos of January 6th, magas.
in black are now Antifa, although I thought they were in disguise dressed as Megas.
Anyway, Cal from Truth Justice USA posted, speaking about January 6, the fact that Trump deployed the National Guard to states over the wishes of their governors, yet he didn't deploy them on January 6 over the supposed objections of Pelosi when, you know, he
Wasn't in control proves that he was lying about the deployment of the National Guard Okay, and this is very interesting by the way if you want to follow somebody this is Del Cameron He's a journalist for wired magazine.
You got it.
This guy really he's updated on this really well
He has covered topics related to Antifa, notably debunked misinformation about the movement during the 2020 wildfires.
His reporting has detailed how Trump's Department of Homeland Security attempted to create a narrative of an Antifa terrorist network in the summer of 2020.
I didn't know that.
Cameron highlighted how the DHS used a catchall term, violent Antifa anarchists inspired.
VAAI, it made an acronym out of it to conflate different left-wing categories and justify intelligence analysis against protesters.
So if you've got to follow anybody, Del Cameron at Wired, check him out.
He's been doing this for a long, long time.
He deals with data stuff as well.
So check it out.
Okay, let's go to the phone lines.
We've got a lot of calls here.
Let's go to Rick.
What do you got for us, Rick?
Good morning, Rick.
Go ahead.
I was calling in, the trouble is with your narrative about the shutdown.
Government shutdown is exactly what they want.
It fits the modern Republican Party's narrative that government doesn't work.
We need to destroy it, tear it down, and implant a monarchy, a unitary executive.
to run everything.
Right.
And it's the same thing with the ACA.
They don't want to negotiate with the ACA because two-thirds of it, the vast majority of dual-verbing is stuff that the Republican Party insisted needed to be in now.
Yep.
So that's, they, they want it broken.
They want to tear it down.
I agree, Rick.
And they want it.
Yeah.
I agree with you on that.
Absolutely.
And that's why I don't believe that they have any intention whatsoever to negotiate this particular point.
In fact, the thing that bothers me about this is that they're now tearing apart other departments now to go and reduce the size of government.
And it's even getting worse and worse now.
So this is not a great situation to be in.
And I think that they really do love the fact that they're making people suffer, firing them when they could be on deferral
deferral.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
They could be furlough furlough.
I was, you know, working for the census at one time.
I was on furloughs as well for a few of those shutdowns.
Yes.
And you got your money eventually.
I did.
I did my money.
Yes.
I'm a wealthy man now.
Well, good for you.
That all worked out for you.
Okay.
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We have some rain showers working their way across Madison right now some wet streets out there looking out our state street window here.
It's damp and people are carrying their umbrellas so not a bad idea to grab that on the way out the door and
Temperatures today pretty mild high around 69 scattered showers this morning, then just kind of cloudy.
Didn't the Beatles once have a song rain?
Yes, they did.
It was a great song.
No one.
You know, as well.
Nobody ever.
Always one of my favorite
songs.
Oh, I know.
It was really.
And no one played it.
Was one of the first
psychedelic songs.
I mean, the one that they look back now and go, oh, yeah.
Things really changed with that song.
I love that song.
Yeah, I know.
All right.
We'll have to
find that down.
All right.
Well, let's delve into what's going on in Israel right now.
We've been watching Trump.
Who stopped talking
finally finished up with the legislature there.
Yeah, and the hostages have been released.
Yeah.
Yeah, some of them.
So the ones that survived.
Yes.
All right.
Should we go to the following?
Sure.
Let's let's talk to CJ moment here.
Please don't tune out folks.
All right.
Good morning,
CJ.
Wow, guys, you finally got to the world news.
Oh, we mentioned it a little
earlier.
You know, I guess I shouldn't be surprised you get your news from the Simpsons, but, um, you know,
no, I, no, I was, no, that wasn't, that was a mega who posted the Simpsons picture from a cartoon of people in a bar and he designated a few people in that bar animated cartoon people as Antifa.
So that's the proof that Antifa is out there infiltrating our cartoon network.
All right?
I guess listening for your party for two and a half years that the border was secure.
Yeah,
you know, we'll find out the truth in the long run.
Well, you forget that the Republicans came up.
They're going
to follow the money.
That's what it's going to lead to.
The Republicans came up with an
actual bill.
Yeah.
No, hold
on.
So much news that I like to backtrack a little bit, if I may.
Well,
talk about the ASA, the Affordable Care Act, which it isn't.
Um, you know,
I don't know.
I've been a part of it.
I think it's very affordable.
I'm part of
it.
The one caller said that, you know, the Republicans got all kinds of amendments in there.
They didn't get one amendment.
The one they wanted was to allow companies to sell across state lines and the Democrats fought that.
That would have given competition.
Competition means lower
prices.
Can I respond to
that?
Can I respond to that?
Okay, when insurance companies were approached about selling across state lines, they decided it was a really bad idea because they had to establish new companies, new offices in those states, and it wasn't a good investment for
them.
So they didn't know.
No, insurance companies did
not want to go across state lines, most of them, all right?
Now you have the big ones, Humana and...
healthcare organizations, but most of them did not want to cross state lines.
All right?
So just to let you know what happened way back when.
Okay.
All right.
Keep going.
Oh, we got it.
All right.
We have Charles
on the line.
We have Charles on the line.
Let's go to Charles and Milwaukee.
Good morning, Charles.
Hey, good morning, guys.
You know, this guy.
I never heard not one Democratic politician say the border was secure.
Not one.
Now, if he can give me the name of one, then I'll research it.
But I've never, I don't know where he comes up with this stuff at.
It's like he just picks it out of the air.
I never heard one Democratic politician say the border was secure.
My
second question is, I wonder what does Mr. Stone have to say about Qatar?
building the Trump led in the Qatar, build an army base for training on United States soil.
Right, Idaho.
And he's got the nerve to say follow the money.
You're right, follow the money because Trump and his family has made a whole lot of money and what I think it's only been like maybe seven or eight months since he's been back in office.
Right.
Well, you know the thing here is and I did look at a post from a mega and he was actually Pretty right on about that army base what what's happening is we sell all of these products to all these different countries and those products have to be you know
their arms, of course, they have to be trained in order to use those.
And what they do is they set up training grounds here in the United States at these Army bases.
And that's why they have done what they've done.
I mean, there's a German Army base in Texas that they're also helping with.
So there are two other countries in this country, and there's actually one other one at the same base that Cutter's going to.
So they train them how to use this weaponry.
And that's why we're doing this and helping them out.
Charles, make sense to me,
Charles.
All right, yeah.
All right.
And I learned that from a mega posted a long video, but I thought, you know, this makes sense to me.
So yeah.
Really?
OK.
Hey, coming up, we're going to be talking to Steve Cochran from Chicago.
Tell us what's really going on on the ground there.
And he's Chicago radio personality and podcaster.
Got a couple of cuts.
I got JB Pritzker.
We'll play that for him and a few other.
I think there's a Chicago priest that also spoke.
about a state of emergency there in Illinois.
And again, it's day one of John Nolan Drive construction.
So if you're out there this morning and the rain going down that one lane going each direction,
well, they got one lane in one direction, one lane in the
other.
But yeah.
It's only day one of what, two-year, three-year project, something.
And you thought you woke up from a nightmare.
Yeah,
really?
Yes.
Okay.
We're coming back after a check of the Midwest Food and Farm Report with Steve Cochran with John Peterson and Gordy Young along with Dom Lee.
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Donna at the controls.
We're heading down to
Lake Shore Drive
in downtown Chicago.
Let's join Steve Cochran.
He is live from his office this morning.
Good morning, Steve.
Good
morning, fellas.
Tell me a story.
What's it like to have winners everywhere?
What's it like when the Packers win and the Brewers win and the Bucks win?
What's it like?
What's it like?
It's really cool.
You know, we gather all the greatest sports players in the world in Wisconsin because it's so safe, no earthquakes, no fires.
Of course, I'm a transplanted Wisconsinite.
I grew up around Chicago, so I was rooting for the Cubs all the way.
My wife is rooting for the Cubs too, but she's now rooting for the Brewers, and we're going to have the Brewers on our TV set in the evening now.
And that's not good because I want to watch something else.
Well, they start tonight against the Dodgers.
Yeah, I know.
It's going to be fun.
It's going to be fun.
And honestly, LA's had enough.
That's
what
I'm thinking.
Let's do it for you.
Let's do it for you.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bob Uker.
You know, um, you guys are talking about, you know, uh, the risk and danger and things before we came on and I did something stupid this weekend.
I, uh, I was hitchhiking.
Not a great idea with my sucks sign.
Yeah.
Pulling
over.
I mean, you know, I haven't run that far in forever.
That is fantastic.
What a way to get picked up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a rough way to get, it's a rough way to get a ride actually.
It is.
Yeah.
That's what I'm
thinking.
It's a cookie, cookie, cookie time in which we live.
You know, you know, I'm thinking, Steve, that maybe because we're so close to Lake Michigan that we might have to start pirate radio stations again.
Out in the water, yeah.
Out in the water.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Avoid.
Stay away.
Avoid ice.
There was a,
some people might know the name of the famous diss Jackie in New York and Scott Shannon.
Oh, sure.
And he had a pirate radio thing that he was doing for a while.
And I think he actually thought he was a pirate.
You know, he kind of had that voice and the whole thing.
If you don't protect what's in the bill of rights, you got nothing.
You've got to stand up and scream and you got a shot about it.
As you know, the war in Chicago.
Oh, good God, the
war.
Yeah, how's that going?
Oh, it's just completely unsafe.
You can't go to Walgreens without trying to find a parking space and not knowing if you're going to get one.
And how about Portland?
Oh, you talk about trouble in Portland.
You know, Portland is the city of roses, and it's just slightly more violent than Iowa.
Um, so I
think,
I
think it's trumped up just a
bit, just a wee bit, don't you?
Yes.
I, you know, I would think it is a little trumped up, but I like what they're doing in Portland.
They're dressing up in Halloween costumes and protesting that way.
How do you haul somebody like that away?
It
looks
serious, right?
Yeah, take it away.
Children's mascots.
Good for you.
Good for you.
You must feel great when you look in the mirror.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
Now, I understand in Chicago, though, some of the folks there have been, well, when they see ice coming, they lock up their doors.
They
lock
up the restaurants.
They don't let them use the bathrooms.
They've been kind of fighting back or, you know, towing their trucks away and stuff
like that.
Well, really?
Yeah, and good for them.
The amazing thing is that
Um, you know, it's all hypocrisy out of Washington to begin with, but the idea that you want to have your bread delivered to your table and your plates bust by the hardest working people in the restaurant.
Oh, and you also want them arrested
and
then
you can't understand why
you don't have your bread and you don't know, and you're busing your own table.
And that's just a small example.
You think about the farmers, man.
I grew up in dairy farm country.
You guys know a little bit about dairy farm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do people think is going to happen?
And I still cannot find a single person who's actually been hurt, hurt by one of these crazed illegals.
You know, it's all a fallacy of Fox News.
It's all, it's insane.
You're out of words on how to describe it.
Well, you know, I did read a story about some in the White House are complaining that he is watching way too much Fox News.
And they hear him yelling and shouting at the TV all the
time.
Grandpa gets crazy.
Give him some more butterscotch candies because he's all wound up.
Well, how are things going in Chicago?
I mean, you know, this is like, uh, this is ground zero truly besides Portland.
I mean, this is the place.
And now a judge has said, you know, for two weeks now, they can't send ice agents in or a or national guard from Texas into the state.
So, uh, how's the situation, uh, playing out over there?
I know I have a cut from JB, by the way.
Okay, let's, let's listen to this cut one 16.
This is JB.
Here we go.
There's
another thing that's happened and very few people paying attention.
You probably are, uh, which is they, they asked for, they demanded the DOJ did our voter data, not just ours in Illinois, every state's voter data.
Why?
They won't tell us why.
And actually what they seem to be looking for,
remember back to the 2020 elections, is they want to be able to find voter fraud, which lots of organizations have been looking for voter fraud, as you know, for a long time.
There's very little voter fraud going on, very little.
They're calling for all these databases so that they can look through them, and yet they won't tell you when they're going to come up with any conclusion about whatever it is they're looking for.
Next year, when we have a November election, I think you're going to see two things that occur.
One, you won't have had any results from this mass collection of data, of voter data.
And then the second is you're going to have soldiers or people dressed as soldiers at polling places saying we're protecting your voting rights.
You know, this is about voter integrity.
And then
the possibility that they'll be doing what Michael Flynn urged the president to do back in 2020, which is seize the ballot boxes at the polling places so that we can have the military do a fair count.
Now, if you put all the things together that are happening right now, that doesn't wouldn't surprise me at all.
Think about how hard they fought on this issue of whether the election had been stolen.
in 2020, right?
The January 6th riot being an example of that, but lots of other things.
And then all of those people at January 6th, you know, being pardoned, all of that, put all those together and ask yourself, do you think what I just said is completely ridiculous?
Do you think what I just said is something that's really possible with Trump as president and Stephen Miller in the White House and, you know, and all the same people kind of advising the president that are at the, you know, at the edges of the law?
Well, Steve, I gotta say, J.B.
is a real fighter.
He is.
He has been amazing and to also be funny in the process as well.
I hope people saw the video of him from ground zero with his black jacket on.
But what he describes is exactly right.
And the frustrating thing for me, and I know you guys feel the same way, is through the last few years, the lack of an extension of common sense.
You cannot fix an election in this country.
You cannot fix a national election.
There's Democrats and Republicans involved.
And there's too many people involved.
It would be the greatest conspiracy ever.
People can't keep a secret for five minutes about their neighbor without jumping on social media.
And you think you can fix an election?
It's an insane premise.
And the biggest criminal right now in all of it is the attorney general.
She should have been arrested.
and thrown in jail right now.
She's an absolute shill for Trump.
Unbelievable.
And the backstop we have, the only backstop we have are the courts.
And if the Supreme Court doesn't actually do their job, I don't know where we go.
Yeah.
Well, in just a few days ago, I mean, the ICE guys down in Chicago went after a journalist through WGN, a camera person or a producer to the
ground.
Yeah, Debbie Brockman.
She worked with her briefly don't know her well at all But you know nice lady, you know speaking up.
I don't know if she yelled out the window good Lord in America You can yell out a window.
Oh, we got to shut that down But this notion that this older lady was a threat and she's viciously thrown to the ground as her pants pulled off practically Who are you kidding?
Yeah, yeah, nobody backs it.
Listen, I backed the police
I back law enforcement.
They have an unbelievably difficult job.
This is law enforcement.
This is thugs.
It really is.
And what you've seen, you know,
Videos, all right, we're watching this in real time.
We're watching children being cuffed and hauled away separate from
their, from their
parents.
It's just outrageous.
I can't even wrap my head around what's happening and it's being accepted by the mega contingent out there.
I don't understand how this can be acceptable to them.
It may come around to them one of these days.
Right.
All right, that's the thing you don't understand, right?
To what end?
You think this is going to stay this way?
Provided we all survive through the other election that the governor was talking about.
How do you think this is going to turn around?
Of course it is.
And then what happens?
And you have to count on the Democrats being the ones to be the grown-ups to do the right thing and not act the way this has gone on.
But the fact is they've set up levers and systems and things that you can't unravel.
And you can't unravel quickly.
And there's going to be payback.
even if it's an intentional payback against Republicans who believe in this nonsense.
That's right.
We're talking with Steve Cochran.
He's a Chicago radio personality, has a great podcast, and you can find him in his office, a sub-stack article that he has every week or so.
Yeah, there's a sub-stack.
You know, we've got a little bit of stand-up comedy coming up.
Yeah, what?
What do you have stand-up was?
Where are you going to be?
November 17th.
I'm sorry, November 15th.
I'm going to be at the Copley Theater in Aurora.
Two days before I get my other knee replaced.
I had a right knee replaced.
I'm going to get a left knee replacement because the right knee is three or four years old.
The left knee is 64 years old.
So the right knee wants to run.
The left knee wants to sit.
I just spent a whole day spinning.
And, uh, so we're getting the left knee done and, uh, yeah.
And, uh, but two days before doing standup comedy, it's all like Cochran show.com.
Thanks for the plug boys.
All right.
Yeah.
Sure.
Well, maybe we can plug a John and Gordy's, uh,
Antifa After School chapter that we're trying to get in all the public schools now that Turning Point USA is trying to get into the all the K through 12s.
We're thinking of Antifa After School And we're hoping that maybe we'll be accepted at a few here in Wisconsin, right?
Yeah, we're working on it.
We're gonna workshop a little bit
more.
I wouldn't change the name.
No.
But by the way, I don't think they've found any Antifa networks out there still to this day.
Yeah.
No, again, it's part of the fantasy world.
They live in, um, but make sure you get the pens and the chotchkees and teeth after school.
Those are collector's items.
Oh, they will be.
Absolutely.
Oh, okay.
Well, anyway, what do you think
else?
Like fellas, what's it like to have a winner?
Yes, the brewers.
Well, you know, that's even baseball.
It was, it was tight.
It was a tight series.
Yes, it was.
And I feel bad for the Cubs, but at the same time, Milwaukee hasn't been at a series for ages.
Right.
And like you said before, this is all in memory of Bob Uker this whole year.
Yeah.
So it's great to see them move on.
That's right.
And
I'll leave you with this.
He said he knew his career was over when his baseball card came out with no picture.
OK.
Steve
Cochran, Chicago.
We'll be back with more.
We'll wrap things up after this on WMDX.
WMDX
92.7 and also on the civic
media.
Okay, it's cloudy out there and kind of cool 59 degrees.
We'll see highs around 69 today.
Few scattered sprinkles and showers out there, but no big deal.
Yeah.
Yeah, no big deal.
Why don't we go to the four lines right away and wrap up the show with a couple of callers, right?
All right, let's go to Dick on the line here.
Good morning, Dick.
Good morning.
Real quick, to that mutual admiration society meeting speech to the Canessa, where they're blowing smoke up each other's behind.
The only thing I did hear from Trump, I watched very little of it.
He said I hate war proof of it is the paraphrasing them I've ended eight words in eight months Well, how come you can't end the war on the American people?
Yeah
Right.
Yeah,
I know quickly.
Yeah
to the sports over the weekend.
I got a suggestion for Wisconsin football
Yeah,
enter the team in the transfer portal and move to division two
OK,
that good.
Well, we'll put that up as a poll question.
Shut out.
Yeah, shut out.
All right.
Thanks a lot.
Oh, man.
Wow.
I
feel sorry for the Badgers.
Yeah, students aren't even showing up to get rowdy in the stands.
That's pretty sad, actually.
It really is.
Yeah.
Well, we'll have to maybe, you know, we can get the John and Gordy
churros.
Need uniforms for that.
We got to get uniforms first.
No,
it'll be a
nude
cheering squad.
And I think that'll get him out there.
Can't wait for the tryouts.
Yeah.
All right.
Really?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
All right.
Let's talk about Young America's Foundation President Scott Walker.
Okay.
I'm going to
end on a high note.
Yeah.
He loves young kids.
oh does he love them he hugs them he just cherishes them
Because, you know, they have very young minds.
What are you talking about?
Easy to brainwash.
No surprise, of course, because, you know, he is the president of Young America's Foundation,
which
is a college organization.
Yes.
Well, he just loves the idea of Christian nationalist turning point USA getting into those K through 12 schools.
He does.
This is Walker on X. This is what he posted.
They should absolutely be able to have a chapter.
We will fight for students to have Turning Point USA or any other conservative group at their schools.
Any other conservative group?
How about all any other groups like John and Gordy's Antifa after school?
I think that could work.
We should be
there
on this list.
We still have a curriculum to put together, but we'll have one in time to compete with Turning Point USA.
All right.
So anyway, the funny thing is that Lake Country Classical Academy has turned down Turning Point USA.
Now they're a little more on the conservative side,
but
they're a great school and they have great credentials.
So they don't want to have anything to do with Turning Point.
USA.
You
know Scott Walker's been out there a little bit more lately.
He's been on CNN a number of times on some of their roundtables.
I don't know why you know he's a dumbass you know I don't I don't know why we entertain that guy you know it's just not very smart.
I'm laying out there, I tell the truth here on the program all the time, you know.
Speak your onions.
Yeah, sure, challenge me on that.
Somebody go ahead, call me, tell me.
What smart thing did he do?
I'm thinking about it.
I know you're deep in thought now.
You know the thing here is what happened just a few moments ago.
Katherine walked into the studio and all the air just sucked out of the room.
She's just
she's just staring at us.
She's sitting in the corner away from the microphone
just staring at us.
What happened?
I feel a meeting
is coming
on.
It's
Monday.
Monday.
And we get five minutes left, and I look at five minutes left, and I look at some happiness.
Like, what are the first words out of your mouth as I walk in?
Let's talk about Scott Walker.
With five minutes left, what do you think Joe is going to be able to avoid slitting her wrists now?
I
don't know.
Well, you know, I don't have any really funny stories that we could tell right now.
But we're going to see
what we're saying.
Make one
up.
But we're saving that up for our quite low appearance here.
We're on in a few minutes on the network, so we saved all the happy news for that.
That's right.
All the happy, happy, joy, joy news.
Yeah.
Why don't we play John Oliver cut 86?
Do we have time?
Yeah, he's kind of a funny guy.
Right?
We got two minutes.
This is John Oliver, a few words for
Trump.
OK.
One day, the history of the time we're living through is going to be written.
And when it is,
I'm not sure it's those in this administration who are even going to come off the worst.
Now, don't get me wrong, they're going to come off terribly.
But history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better, but still let things happen, whether it was for money, convenience or just comfort.
And I know this is something of a tough sell, and it can be a bit of anathema to risk averse business leaders.
But I will say this, if we've learned nothing else from this administration's second term so far, and I don't think we have,
is that giving the bully your lunch money doesn't make him go away.
It just makes him come back hungry at each time.
They are never going to stop.
They've literally said that openly.
After Kimmel's suspension, Trump posted, that leaves Jimmy and Seth two total losers on fake news NBC.
Their ratings are also horrible.
Do it, NBC.
And Kara's hinted that the view might be next.
The f***ing view.
Look, at some point,
you're going to have to draw a line.
So I'd argue, why not draw it right here?
And when they come to you with stupid, ridiculous demands, picking fights that you know you could win in court, instead of rolling over, why not stand up and use four keywords they don't tend to teach you in business school.
Not, okay, you're the boss.
Not whatever you say goes.
But instead, the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away, and that is, fuck you, make me.
There you go.
That's how you
deal with a bully.
Hey, that's going to do it for us tomorrow on the show.
Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society with some animal adoption ideas for you.
Also, Jesse Christensen on the latest THC laws.
We're out of time.
Stephanie Miller's next.
Have a great day.
