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It's the John and Gordy show on 92.7 WMDX.
you do?
And
It's been pretty nightmarish and huge, huge ponds and flooding is going on right now.
What are you talking about?
Well, no, not really.
I'm just kidding.
Slightly damp out there.
Slightly damp.
Not to be exaggerating.
Strizzling just a little bit.
Just a little.
Here and there.
Yeah.
My automatic windshield wipers are detecting some kind of moisture in the air.
The space car.
Yeah, the space car.
You have radar in the space car?
It knows.
Well, you know, it's like 360 cameras, you know.
I can see everything all the time.
It's wild, except when it rains and then it.
has water on the lenses and you can't see anything at all.
Yeah, that's what they should have.
What the hell, you know?
You know, they're little balls, you know, they're little half balls and of course, you know, it has that the droplets on it and everything.
I'm trying to see it and I rolled on the window and I wiped it off, you know, on the rear mirror on the outside and it didn't do any good.
But it's it's cool, you know, it's cool.
It's a space car.
What do you expect?
Yeah.
So I don't have rain in
Yeah, you know, we were talking off the air about the brewers and Cubs games and my wife just loves the Cubs and she was listening to the radio broadcasts the play-by-play and during the breaks they had these promos of
previous cup highlights which they played forever and ever and all the time three or four times per break and my wife knew every word and every one of them and you know you're saying she's obsessed she
She, you know, repeated everything exactly as they were saying it in these promos.
And, you know, I'm a casual person listening to this stuff.
You're
I'm very relaxed.
You're not as uptight as you are here.
Putting together this show.
I'm a coiled spring.
You know, and, and, and I'm just trying to put everything together and I have to listen to these cuts seven or eight times in a roll because she starts, you know, talking about these promos again.
And I'm just like, oh, I can't stand it anymore.
Anyway, and I'm glad that that's all over.
Yeah.
The Cubs are out of it.
So you don't have to hurry that, hear that anymore.
But, but, you know, it was fun, you know, having somebody in the house and so energized about her team.
It's great to see.
Does your kids like the Cubs, or do they like the Brewers?
They don't do any sports.
Really?
Not at all.
Nope.
I know, and they don't do any alcohol of any sort, beer, anything.
Nothing.
Nothing.
No coffee?
You know, I failed as a father, I guess.
What the hell?
I pushed coffee like crazy on this show.
You do.
We've created a city of addicts.
Coffee.
We haven't really pushed coffee very much lately, have we?
No, we haven't.
Where's the coffee guy?
Oh,
well, there he is.
I just made a fresh pot of coffee.
Anybody want coffee?
here.
Anybody want coffee?
Right over here.
goes.
You
Yeah.
And
They turned on the volume of the ringer and I guess it didn't turn it down all the way.
And whatever was remaining of the volume was just as loud as the full volume.
I did not get that.
But anyway, yes, they had trouble getting in because my wife didn't open the door for me.
Because she was asleep?
Yeah, probably.
But here's the thing, you know, when you install one of these things, it's like a plug-in and outlet that you have in the wall for a stove.
So
it has
It's
So you have to get a special one that is made specifically for EV charging.
And they had that, but it was larger than the normal outlets for
stove that you normally have in the wall and and and and it's larger and they have a
box that they put these outlets in protected from the weather outside because it's outside.
So you have to have a cover on it.
So they get it all done?
No, because of the, because the cover was too small for this EV outlet.
So I'm waiting for a new cover.
Everything else
It's fantastic.
I thought for sure this wasn't going to go in.
because you have concrete all over the house.
Yes, it's like a bunker.
I mean, it is a bunker, you know, the walls and ceiling of the basement are all poured concrete.
It's kind of an unusual setup.
Yes, yes, it makes it really hard to rewire anything
Yes.
Dodgers are the second highest salary team.
Now they're winning a lot.
So yeah.
Get the money out of it and make it all fair.
But that's not going to happen.
OK.
Yeah.
Good.
Well, that's a good observation.
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Anything else?
I
I
know, the day
you
You know, they've learned how to game the system with protests now.
They don't have the National Guard here to game that system, but I don't know.
I don't want to go as, you know, a superhero or act like we're the Avengers and we're going to save the city and save the country.
All right.
But Anne wants to do
was trending.
You can ask me what's trending.
I mean, it is here and it is ready to go.
Just as the weather window is always ready to look out and check out the real weather as it's happening.
Sunrise is at 7-eleven.
I'm sorry.
That weather window, that's what we're going.
That weather window, man, I'm telling you.
It's really something.
A window in a window.
And it never shows anywhere.
That's another big benefit of having that.
It's amazing when you do it.
It really is.
Let me see.
614 sunset time.
OK.
Yeah.
Be ready for it.
It starts getting darker much, much earlier.
Yeah.
OK.
We have just read a text that we thought was just a text, but it's a voice note instead.
So.
We never play these, we never get them.
So let's hear how John and Gordy mangled
our
of this
they're
Just that
it
And then of course,
This is a horrible repercussion that's taken place because our orange blob that sits in the White House, watching Fox News all day, decided that he doesn't like green energy.
He doesn't like alternative energy.
He doesn't like the windmills.
He doesn't like those.
The windmills.
Yeah, the ones that, you know, grind up
grain into flour.
They
five year plans to carry out this green energy.
General Motors being one of them, they took $1.6 billion in investment and shelved it.
They made a U-turn because, you know, we're giving up on EVs because the great orange one doesn't believe that they should be there.
Remember when he said all of the above for energy options, right?
All
of
Well,
not exactly equal all of the above so he's phasing out the EV factor and all of the charging stations being installed all across the country and General Motors is taking it in the shorts 1.6 billion dollars forwarded the same thing
This is, this is a devastation for the auto industry.
Now they have to go back on it and start churning out gas engines again.
I say they should have EV demonstration stations all over the country.
Really?
People to try and EVs, see if they like them.
They will change their minds instantly when you get behind the wheel of an EV and drive it.
It's fantastic.
When I
us.
Human evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence.
There's no natural predators within the
Oh my god!
There was a place without boundaries.
A place without limits.
Welcome to Costco.
I love you.
A place that is about to be violated.
It is 6.35.
We have clouds.
We have some rain moving through downtown Madison at the moment on State Street.
It is looking pretty wet, but this should move along and then we'll just be left with clouds and highs just 57 for today right now 49 degrees.
Had right before we went to the break and you spilled the coffee all over the place, you know On your laptop.
I did right across the keyboard.
Is it work?
Laptop working okay now, you know, it seems to be
So should be here fairly
Pretty heavy.
A little bit more showers.
Nothing heavy.
This I didn't get to the story last week, but this was something I thought worth mentioning.
The Oregon Republican Party is facing a backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using, get this, a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.
Well, that's what I always think of when I want to
have an actual picture of Portland.
I go to South America to get pictures from there.
The Guardian found this story.
They reported how the Oregon Republican Party used these photographs as evidence supporting Trump's claim that Portland's protests were out of control.
So it's out of control protest in South America to prove their point.
Showing a line of riot police in a crowd with flares creating red smoke.
However, the image was a digital composite of two unrelated photographs from different South American countries.
They didn't even go to just one country, they went to two with a clear indication of its non-US origin in the pictures.
Really?
Yeah, an officer's shield marked Policia.
kind of gave that all away.
And that is a Getty image from 2008.
Nice.
Well, well, you know,
When a journalist pointed out the image is inauthenticity, the Oregon Republican Party responded on social media with a cavalier admission.
We're not reporters.
Just bad memers.
Well, that's great.
It's good to... Wow.
It's good to at least confess to making a big mistake.
They came right away.
Yes.
Good for them.
All right.
How about that insane logic around COVID?
This is an interesting, bizarre story.
Omega posted this.
25% of people who got the COVID shot regret it.
The others are dead.
So 25% regret the COVID shot.
The others are dead.
That was the statement from this poster on X.
So
another one noticed that and said, apparently 75% of those who got the COVID shot are dead and the other 25% regret they got it.
Anyone out there who has had the COVID vaccine is not dead yet and does not regret it.
please respond.
And he says, I'll start me.
That's good.
That's good stuff.
See, it wasn't the story didn't end prematurely.
That was a good follow up.
Should we go to the phones?
Yes.
In fact, it's good to hear from Mark this morning because I was going to read your post on Putrid Pete, as you call him.
Yeah, Mark.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Yeah, I'll let you read the post separately, but you just switch ears a little bit on.
Sure.
Scott Walker did the same thing back in 2011 when Fox News and Fox News did the same thing back in 2011 during the Act 10 protests when they're picturing protests from Tunisia trying to claim they're from Madison, Wisconsin.
And what occurred to me yesterday and the meme that's been running through my mind is that Donald Trump is a lot like Anne Rand's here, superhero, William
the guy who kidnapped a girl and chopped her up and took her hostage.
I mean, that's precisely what Trump is doing to the United States.
I mean, he's taken the nation hostage, chopping it up and saying that that's okay.
I mean, that he's trying to destroy the United States democracy and it's all about Donald Trump and Donald and the guy's superhero statement was, is what is good for me is right.
And that's what Donald Trump believes.
What is good for him is right at it.
Damn, to be the rest of the rest of the world, if as long as it's right for him.
family get gathering wealth.
I mean, maybe it's a little, you know, it is.
I think that Trump is equally as twisted as William Hickman.
He might not have actually, you know, kidnapped, kidnapped a little girl and murdered her, but he certainly has tried to try to destroy our democracy.
Absolutely.
don't know, but, but Peter Pete really, really is, yeah.
All right, thanks a lot mark.
I appreciate it You know we talked to the other day about some of the protests in these cities in a Portland is doing it the right way They're dressing people up in costumes, you know big animal costumes a frog and in fact the frog thing is taken off in mean form on X they have but really AI created animations, you know like George Washington
Okay, and if I just it's just fun stuff, but anyway what happened is they had a protest the other day and It was the nude bike protest
and that
I understand they're getting quite quite rainy out there But at this other this is this was just incredible.
I saw this video and it was a takeoff on the nude bike protest.
It was a nude die-in
So they covered this entire, it looked like a bridge, but the entire bridge was just covered with people just lying there.
A lot of them naked.
You know, we had, you know, the costume people, we had a half clothed Santa Claus laying out there and a few naked people, but it was covered with people just.
performing a protest, a Diane protest, on a bridge out there in Portland.
They know how to do it right.
Wow.
And those guys are good, right?
That's interesting.
I
Yes, well, some did.
Some did, not everyone.
They were not all naked.
But maybe we should start doing that all over the country.
Maybe that would be a way to counter.
you know, ice in the National Guard, pushing people around, wrestling to the ground.
I would like to see them wrestle to the ground a bear or a
frog or a
bunny rabbit or maybe a cow with an udder.
You know, I just want to see them, you know, tackle these.
Animated
We're working on it.
Okay, um I want to get to this this is kind of a odd story if the FBI is very serious about going after Antifa
You know, they want to break up the Antifa network, which no one ever heard of until just recently.
Doesn't really exist.
No, no.
And it kind of piggybacks with the John and Gordy Antifa after school, which is something we're trying to bring to each and every school in the country.
I mean, if they can put Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA in the schools, which is a purely political.
organization and plop it in the schools with conservative thinking.
I think that maybe the Antifa after-school program is just what we need to counter that, right?
Yes.
Okay, so anyway, the FBI is very serious about going after it.
Antifa members and now we're gonna have to start looking over our shoulders because of our after-school program,
Gordon.
But anyway,
he said.
But if I were in that imaginary group of Antifa, which by the way has imaginary leaders Leaving the country to go maybe to imaginary countries
outside of the
US I would be very concerned if I were part of anything that was Sending money their way or assistance their way.
I don't know.
I might be a little concerned because the FBI is dead-ass serious
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Donald Trump, Kash Patel, and all of the agents at the FBI.
Yes,
they're going after... Yes, they're certainly going after the Antifa Organization Network, whatever you want to call it.
Now here, the brewer, the owner of Manawa Brewing, posted his sign, Wisconsin's next governor needs to be Antifa.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
And that piqued the interest of our governor candidate, Tom Tiffany.
This is a disastrous campaign.
It was almost as bad as some of the other ones that we've talked about.
But Tom Tiffany is on this thing like flies on, you know what, every petty
Comment every rumor every sideshow every random opinion every obvious lie Tom Tiffany is going to jump on board and this is what he said more discussing the rhetoric from a Democrat leader in our state and Tifa is a violent domestic terrorist organization the media should ask every Wisconsin Democrat governor candidate if they support and Tifa again and Tifa is anti
Fascist.
Yes.
So do we support anyone who's against fascism?
Well, that's an easy question to answer.
Yeah.
Oh, this Tom Tiffany is a disaster.
I don't think he even knows what Antifa, you know, the thing is, they come up with acronyms, you know, they really hate acronyms.
And it makes it very simple for them to make their point.
They don't even have to think about what the acronym means, what the words are.
Antifa is like an acronym.
They just say it now and everything is the Antifa protesters, right?
I
mean,
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Good morning, gentlemen.
How are you?
Not bad.
How'd I look?
Did I look dapper?
You were all dressed
Yeah.
pulled it out of the mothballs, just for you guys.
you get a lot of
up at the Capitol?
I talked about those little ninja people, Antifa, as they run around the country.
quotes.
If we follow them as much as you think they aren't quite as smart as the Black Lives Matter leaders who had people send in millions of dollars,
Whatever happened to those leaders, they bought themselves mansions and cars and stuff.
Boy, they really cared about the black lives, didn't they?
What's that organization?
Well, what happened to those Black Lives Matters leaders?
know.
They don't care about the Black Lives.
They just took the money and ran.
Every time they talk about all these big protests, in fact, the No Kings protest, they're saying that the George Soros paid protesters are turning out for the No Kings protest.
Yeah, they are.
Where is this money?
I, you know, no one, no one, no one's getting paid that I know
of.
They're going to follow the money
they're going to see where that money went,
the Black Lives Matter.
They live in mansions now.
Isn't that quite amazing
no one cares
Now it's fact.
All right, now what about the paid protesters?
They keep saying these are paid protesters and we've never ever been able to come up with...
with a paycheck or no one I know has ever been paid.
Why is that?
George Soros.
Yeah, why is that?
I don't know.
Good question.
All right.
Well, anyway, that's the big question I have.
This is something I got it.
I have to pass this along, dude.
This is just blew my mind.
This is a Fox TV affiliate up north.
Winnebago County.
This is just really something else, okay?
They covered this story.
The Winnebago County Democratic Party is being criticized for hate speech materials at their farmers market up there in Winnebago County.
what now listen to this story they have absolutely no proof that any of this happened but they're covering the story anyway it blew my mind just check this out this cut 130 let's listen to this okay
some people in Oshkosh are criticizing the Winnebago county democratic party
it comes after some at this past weekend's farmers market say a party volunteer handed out hate speech materials
it's hate speech i mean it's literally
wishing death on somebody, which isn't appropriate in any scenario.
Katie Newbauer says she and her family were enjoying their Saturday morning at the Oshkosh Farmers Market this past weekend.
took a turn, she says, when her eight-year-old child was handed a bracelet from a member of the Winnebago County Democratic Party's booth.
The guy behind the tent table said, hey, give this to your mom.
She's going to really want this.
And one of the children comes running up, gives us the bracelet, and we're looking at it, and it literally says, is he dead yet on the bracelet?
Newbauer and the Republican Party of Winnebago County assumed this was a hate speech referenced to President Donald Trump.
Fox 11 was unable to get a photo of the bracelets.
We've
been
working to get questions answered by the county Democratic Party.
Fox
11 also reached out to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
It declined an interview, but instead the party's communications director Philip Shulman texted us a statement that reads,
Oshkosh Farmers Market tells Fox 11 it received about 10 complaints from customers about the bracelets.
The bracelet.
Market
manager Michelle Schmid Schultz also confirmed it was the Winnebago County Democratic Party's booth handing out the materials.
The organization will be allowed to set up for future markets.
In Oshkosh, Tony Langfellow, Fox 11
one bracelet that
I couldn't believe that they actually
Had this story on your newscast There's no proof.
Why would they jump on something like this?
I mean to this day No one has even created an AI rendition of what that bracelet might look like.
Okay, and guess what?
Our governor candidate, Tom Tiffany, is on this one too.
Oh boy.
He wrote this past weekend at the Oshkosh Rd, the Winnebago County Democratic Party, gave a kid a bracelet that read, is he dead yet regarding President Trump?
You don't know if it's regarding anybody.
This political hate and violence has no place in Wisconsin.
Well, thank you, Tom, for straightening that one out.
We were questioning that all along.
He's running with it.
He's a disaster.
Just wait it.
Oh man.
Oh,
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