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In an echo chamber filled with lies and deception.
Comes a ray of light.
Live from Madison, Wisconsin.
It's John and Gordy in the morning on 92.7 WMDX.
Happy Monday.
I did 2.7.
It's a big, big first Monday after the No Kings rallies in March.
This is just, I mean, it was something else.
It really was something to see.
And a lot of great speakers at the Capitol on Saturday.
And one of the most surprising speakers was, I think, a pastor and now judge.
who got up there and gave a incredibly, incredibly inspiring speech.
Just unbelievable.
You know, I was checking out the newscast and, you know, there were some TV stations there recording some of this stuff.
Now, one had a clip of this guy.
And I'm thinking, wow, this is like, you know, this is like the ML King Junior thing,
got
Uh, there are a lot of, um,
Bad things on the right that they would like to present to the American public and deceive everybody We'll get into that as well.
You know, I don't know, you know It seems to me that we're We're kind of treading water here, you know, we we do all these protests, you know I had Matt fill an interview one day and yeah, I asked Matt I said don't you think you know all these protests are a little
Eh, not a big deal anymore.
I mean, isn't it gotten old?
It's like, you know, saying shame, shame, shame.
You know, I hear that.
I just want to crawl into a hole someplace and say, God, just end this, please.
You know, we
can't come up with a better
I mean, didn't it give you a sense of bonding with your fellow human beings out there while you were protesting and, you know, seeing the crowd there?
Wasn't that inspiring?
And the speakers that you talked about there?
Well, I'm glad you brought that up.
Yes,
to
You know, personally, why do it again?
I mean, prices are just outrageous at this point.
I don't know why, you know, the needle hasn't moved on inflation very much.
It's just or the needle hasn't moved on unemployment very much.
I know what is going on.
You know, you, you remove 350,000 federal workers and 700 more and then 700,000 more.
And then you're sitting here, but the needle hasn't moved for unemployment.
I don't know.
Maybe those numbers really not anymore.
I don't.
I mean, well, of course, you know, he's fired everybody that delivers those numbers.
Now we don't even get the numbers anymore.
Right.
And inflation is way up.
As far as I'm concerned, you go to the grocery store, prices are right through the roof.
Gas prices are down a little bit.
place.
what?
I passed out.
and I was like, what
This is a
Did they carry you out, or were you able to walk out on your own?
I was able to walk out on my own, but I was just in a date.
I didn't know really where I was.
How long were you out?
I was out probably for 30 seconds, 20, 30 seconds.
Why do you assume dehydration?
I just didn't drink any water the entire day, and so I... Wow.
I think that kind of answered the question.
That works for me.
Was it stuffy in there?
It was really hot in there.
And really, it was just... That was a mosh pick.
And
I'm not
You stand there for a long period of time waiting for the group to come out, right?
It's really tight in there.
You don't want to lose your place.
I don't know what it is, but I also had a problem drinking water.
I never
I rarely drank any water growing up.
I really didn't.
I just didn't.
It was like, oh, I didn't see a need to.
And that's really a dumb, dumb reason.
The best thing to do is drink a lot of water all most of the time, not a tremendous amount, just, uh, just enough,
Hey, how's it going?
What's happened to me at a Packer game?
Wow, and for me it was blood pressure I went up to the The booth the medical booth and my blood pressure is 200 Wow over something
it's dangerous
from cheering, I guess.
Yeah.
just had too many brunts.
No, no, I try not to either drink at the stadium because that's I'm not that rich.
Oh, prices are outrageous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
So but yeah, I remember thinking
Don't fall forward because I could feel myself.
right.
And I remember thinking, don't fall forward, don't fall forward.
And I fell forward anyway.
forward?
on the guy in front of me and they're all mad.
They thought I was drunk.
I haven't been drinking.
I've got my 14 year old kid with
Well, that's true.
That was a fantastic story.
I appreciate that.
So you may be you may be having trouble with your computer.
Are you having any trouble with your computer this morning?
I have not, no, because the Amazon cloud.
based computing services had some sort of problem after midnight and there were a lot of things affected but apparently everything is coming back online now.
Hmm would have their tentacles out so far and and why you know Amazon is everywhere apparently AT&T Canva Delta Airlines Disney plus fortnight Hulu McDonald's Pokemon Roblox snapchat and United Airlines all of them affected by the server outage I would assume from Amazon so
It could be.
But everything seems to be getting back online.
overnight, so all right.
All right, it's 19 minutes past the hour.
We're just getting going on a Monday morning.
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Pam Yocke's right around the corner.
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Yeah, good morning guys.
I say a little frost on the punk in this morning You guys I haven't been outside for a little while, but I think we hit Probably hit our coolest since I went into the office this morning like I think about an hour ago Probably about as cold as we're gonna get overnight but yeah a lot of folks this morning checking in with me that they got a little frost
we've
well today, but the wind is going
wind is going to be noticeable.
That's one thing we're going to, I think the wind is going to take a little of that temp down, you know, as far as what it feels like.
Hey, look, you know, I want to get into the pumpkin thing, but we got to talk at least a little bit about the Packers and how, how about the kicker?
Oh my God, a record.
With all the great kickers that the Packers have had throughout the entire, you know, expanse of the team, this one guy comes in his second time starting and he kicks the record what a field goal.
Yeah.
Come on.
He's got an interesting.
Did anybody else notice his gesture?
He does something with his right hand.
Like, it must just be, you know, they all got their quirks.
he uses something with his right hand.
He makes a gesture every time he's going to kick, but I don't care.
Whatever he's got to do.
Yeah, I'm glad that we've got him.
I was not real confident.
When you put the game on the line with a guy like you said that's only been out there twice.
It's like, uh, okay.
Yeah, but he's holding on good.
I
yeah, sometimes you come
you know, Mikowski did that.
I'm surprised, you know, realistically, they could have grabbed baggage claim.
Did you hear what happened?
They got held up in Green Bay at Austin Strable because the plane that carried LaFleur and the players had a mechanical.
So they had to fly another plane in from Detroit.
Now, what I would love to see, and I hope somebody gets it, I would love to see the cameras from inside Austin Strable airfield because LaFleur decided to do a walkthrough with the whole team
at the airport while they waited for the plane to come in because they couldn't leave
really
and get back.
So they did a walkthrough because they weren't going to be able to get to Arizona in time to do it.
And if you've ever been in Austin Strable airfield, I mean, Dane County looks like a palatial space compared to Austin.
I've been to Austin Strable.
I don't know where in the world they found enough space for that many people to be spread out.
I don't know if they had to do calls around the carousel or what the world they did, because it was just not that
pretty
Yeah.
All right.
Well, three hours late, I think.
Well, why don't
And what's going on with that?
You know, the Democrats are trying to get the tax credits passed by the Republicans.
They want to hold off for a while and maybe pass it, maybe not, probably not.
But it's really important for the farmers to get something like this, including Medicaid, by the way.
Right.
Yeah.
And this affordable care act is kind of something that came in in 2010.
And really, it has cast a lifeline for a lot of Wisconsin farms to be able to afford health insurance.
Remember, farmers help to self-insure.
Unlike you and I, who may have a company that's kind of, even if it's not a great.
health care policy, at least it's something farmers have got to try to do that themselves.
And what I know from growing up on the farm and being in the farm arena is usually they have to buy what they can afford, which means an incredibly high deductible.
Basically, you're only going to the doctor if your limb is hanging off.
And that's not much of a health care package, if you know what I mean.
So the Affordable Care Act gave them some options in the marketplace.
And now last week, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin had a virtual roundtable, one of the
folks or one of the groups that helped organize it was the Wisconsin Farmers Union and Baldwin says that she's been getting routine calls from family family farms and a lot of small businesses that say they're expecting their health care premiums to double next year if those tax incentives don't stay in place.
About 270,000 Wisconsin residents she was estimated they figure will at least see their premiums double next year probably another 30,000 or so that will not be able to get health care.
at all if the Affordable Care Act goes away.
So
it
is a big deal and like I said I know from personal experience that is one of the biggest expenses on the farm and you know if you're young you got to have it for the kids and that type of thing but oh everybody every farm almost every farm you talk to is one
major health incident away from bankruptcy.
I mean, it's just that precarious.
This is something that a lot of farm families are watching.
When I was
will almost nothing, or they'd have a loss that year because they have a net income that they have to adjust for, and then they get Medicaid, and then of course Medicaid is going away after the next election, conveniently of course, and that'll be a big problem for them as well, so we'll have to keep our eye on their healthcare needs.
Yeah, it's something that I bet a lot of people didn't know about.
We found out about it.
Oh, probably a few years back and these people are stone cold serious about giant pumpkins.
They they covet their own recipes on how they grow their pumpkins.
Let's just leave it at this fellas until we can talk again this year.
The giant pumpkin was weighed in up in El Tuna and that would have been about a couple of weeks ago.
This year's winner 2,491.
And that's not even a record.
Oh my God.
That's not even a record.
I know.
That's amazing.
That's not even a record.
Pam,
Thank you.
We'll talk more about that later.
Say a
Okay.
back with Idiocracy
next.
Necessarily reward intelligence with no natural predators to thin the
Oh my god!
There is a place without boundaries.
A place without limits.
Welcome to Costco.
you.
A place that is about to be...
violated.
Diagrocy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
southern
Well, you know, I've got John Peterson's feel like weather forecast.
Did you check out?
I just make stuff up.
What about the sunrise and the sunset?
We didn't check that.
I can always provide accurate information when it comes to that from the WMDX Samsung watch.
Right.
You know, my maker friend in Milwaukee said, are you getting paid for plugging in the Samsung watch?
No, no money.
No, no George Soros money either.
Sunrise 717 this morning and sunset about six minutes.
past six o'clock.
Okay.
Yes.
All right.
Earlier and earlier.
One of these days we'll have daylight same-in-time end.
And we'll have to fall
All
652.
Okay, I'll write that down.
I didn't know that.
Okay.
I'm not quite sure how to promote that, but I just did it that way.
All right, that's our clock here in the morning.
So anyway, we'll get to all of that stuff and more.
And by the way, I want to thank Larry out in Deerfield for the recording.
Uh, that, uh, it, it is, uh,
And his name, he just knocked everybody out.
It was Everett Mitchell.
He's a judge now.
In fact, this was a day before his judgeship.
And, uh, he was just something else and, uh, Larry's provided the audio for that.
We'll go through that maybe today, but probably tomorrow.
Alright, okay, we'll go through it.
It was a longer speed So I don't necessarily think we should take up almost all of the program with it We'll we'll get to some of the highlights and appreciate that Larry very much now.
Let's get to something that really is a
Just a very scary thing for me.
It's this turning point USA chapters and in our grade schools and middle schools and high schools.
I'm not happy about this at all.
I saw a video of a little girl in her classes.
I would assume this is elementary and she was talking about people she admired and that was Charlie Kirk.
and had a little video presentation in the classroom, which just scared the daylights out.
I mean, she is unaware of what Charlie Kirk really stood for, sadly, anyway.
Radio mega Dan O'Donnell, oh, I love that name, isn't it cool?
Trumpeted the news about Turning Point USA.
The Milwaukee School of Engineering.
wanted Turning Point USA in their school and they approved it.
Yes.
Now, they took a long time to come to that decision because they were insisting that Turning Point USA denounce their professor watch list before they even allowed Turning Point USA at the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
And they never did.
They never got rid of the professor watch list.
that did was, it smeared professors, it doxxed them, and it created death threats to their families, harassment, and it resulted in a lot of these instructors quitting, going someplace else, or just basically getting fired.
This was devastating.
This Professor Watchlist was a devastating thing that Turning Point USA put in place.
And I guess, you know, we should honor Charlie Kirk for that.
What a nice thing
for him
We're not supposed to dox people with masks abducting people off the street and pulling them out of their homes into unmarked vehicles.
But we certainly want to dox all of those professors out there educating our kids.
Which school was this?
This is the Milwaukee School of Engineering, MSOE.
And they finally acquiesced without getting rid of the Professor Watch List.
Oh, what?
And Dan O'Donnell morning radio guy, I think he's on the road nine o'clock in Milwaukee in the morning.
And he is very, very happy with this.
He's very, very confident that this will.
Change that school around a little bit.
Yeah Why why engineers would care?
I don't know and why why they would want something like this.
I don't get it either
This is you know for me You know putting these chapters up is like putting up a confederate general statue somewhere on their on their campus, right?
Yeah, I mean who wants this stuff right?
Yeah
Why would you do that?
I don't know.
I don't know.
And Dan O'Donnell's honest thing, like glue, he thought this was a big gotcha.
This is a quote from him, every single Democrat in both the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate, except one voted against a resolution condemning the assassination and honoring of the life of Charlie Kirk on what would have been his 32nd birthday.
Oh my gosh.
Nothing worse than this you worship who you want to worship.
Okay, Dan O'Donnell, please Someone divisive bigoted racist except for the colored people that liked them sexist and and you know Most insane about him Tom Tiffany is also on this by the way.
He's running for governor
It's getting a lot of press from me.
Really?
Well, yes.
I'm talking about him an awful lot.
Right?
I'm not getting to the Democratic candidates at all.
Come on, guys.
Start doing something controversial, okay?
Say something outrageous.
Let me, let me put it on the program here.
Anyway, Tom Tiffany is also circling around the drain with this comment.
This follows Gwen Moore voting no and Mark Buchan voting president in Congress.
Wisconsin deserves leaders who condemn political assassinations.
No, it's not the assassination.
They don't want to honor his life work.
OK, that's Tom Tiffany.
He doesn't get it, right?
Yeah, we support assassinations.
What is he talking about?
Anyway, that's Tom Tiffany is really a strange character.
Yes, he is.
You just plug in his name.
Just put it in there.
And the first thing comes up is a summary of his life in the legislature.
I sent Dan Schaefer a whole list of that, and he really appreciated that.
Go good.
All right.
Well, I did that with everybody.
You know, I have quite the history of almost everybody since the beginning of Scott Walker and on.
It's just all there.
What's that website again?
Oh, well, let me see.
It's demokermudgeon.org.
Well, that's why.
in.
few days or so.
There's a puppy that needs heart surgery.
Oh, get this.
And of course, now I lost the page.
Here we go.
And if you go onto their website, you can find out about it.
It's a really an adorable pup.
His name, you see him here?
Yeah,
perky ears they stand straight up there now he needs a specialized surgery that cost thousands of dollars now they're hoping to raise seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars in donations and I know they've started something it's the dog's name is Ricky and he was born with a serious heart defect
But so they've already
started a
Let's let's get to kind of good news.
I'm not quite sure how to take this.
There's a.
clear way to end Citizens United, apparently, by changing state incorporation laws.
Oh, really?
Yeah, this is a little in the weeds, but it's good news for anybody who wants to end Citizens United, and I think that's just about everybody, including Magus.
Rolling Stone had the article, the measures proponents note that Citizens United is predicated
on state laws, giving corporations the same power as actual human beings, including the power to spend on politics.
But they pointed out that in past eras, state laws granted corporations more limited powers.
And states never relinquished their authority to redefine what corporations can and cannot do.
Now, Montana is experimenting with this with an initiative, and it's a proposal to simply use that authority, the state's authority, that they've never relinquished to change the law.
In
this
you're trying to
And you contradict it totally by saying money doesn't corrupt.
Come on, it doesn't.
OK.
You know, then you know that there's something wrong with the Supreme Court.
And from that day on, I knew the Supreme Court was definitely gunning for everything.
They were going through their checklist, the conservative checklist that these
judges and justices have wanted to do for years for the Republican Party, and they are doing it now.
In fact, Coney Barrett basically said that Trump can do almost anything he wants.
He doesn't have to listen to the Supreme Court decisions, that they have no way of enforcing them.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, we'll give him a little roadmap there because he isn't a smart man and say, you know, you really don't have to do anything because we can't
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I mean, some other people have.
Yeah, they've done in the past.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
It didn't happen this time.
Or how?
Or, you know, why didn't we just put out a video, an AI video of a fighter jet?
Oh.
bombing bombing the crowds no king protest crowds with poop Yeah, dropping poop on everybody.
What was that
That was oh wow.
I know that's that's what our commander-in-chief.
Yeah, that was retweeted.
I saw that yeah, he had to do that, right?
Oh my god.
I mean, it's an AI version of him in a fighter jet dropping poop on the crowds.
Unbelievable.
He's a class act, man.
He sure is.
Yeah, a lot of world leaders are
Well, I knew it as the hate America rallies.
Oh, I just this is one of the most unbelievable comments from anybody with any kind of responsibility at all.
That's Speaker Mike Johnson.
I'm still I can't believe he even said this.
But anyway, let's listen to cut 160.
It's unbelievable.
We call it the hate America rally that will happen Saturday.
Let's see who shows up for that.
I bet you see pro Hamas supporters.
I bet you see Antifa types.
I bet you see the Marxist in full display, the people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic.
And we do.
And that's what we're here doing every single day.
These guys are
playing to the most radical, small, and violent base in the country.
You'll see them on Saturday on the mall.
They just do not love this country.
And these guys are afraid of them.
We call it the Hate America rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up.
Thank you, George Soros for that.
Hey, this is, okay, this is what I wanted to do.
A lot of people dressed up in costumes, right?
Yeah.
And I think that's the best way to protest.
Besides shutting down the economy, I think dress up in costumes because dragging a dinosaur away or giant bee or frog doesn't work.
You know, it's not it's not it's not a good look No, but I thought this is the thing but I thought but you know, maybe people wouldn't take it the right way I wanted to dress up as a George Soros check cashing ATM
No, really.
Okay.
And you know, asking people, you know, give me their George Soros checks, I'll give you the cash.
But I didn't know how to give people the cash.
So I could have bought a lot of, you know, phony money, but I could have.
But then they thought, they might think that I'm for, you know, the other side.
Oh, well, oh, so is that stuff.
Yeah, he's making fun of us getting the George Soros check.
Yeah, but I thought it would have been kind of fun to do that.
Um, a group with almost no, well, this is just another comical mega name, the Americans for public trust, which it ain't.
And it's executive director, Caitlin Sutherland warned of dark money going to millions of democratic protesters.
And she warned everyone on the Laura Ingram angle.
Notice how Ingram never conclusively says any of this is true.
So let's listen to this cut 153.
And this is again, Caitlin Sutherland from the incredibly nicely named Americans for public trust.
Now, most of you know that George and Alex Soros are causing real damage to the country.
not.
But is what they're doing illegal?
Well, Donald Trump thinks so.
Today, he urged that both be prosecuted.
under federal racketeering status known as RICO.
Their organization Open Society Foundations has funneled millions into the groups behind the protests that we've seen over the last few years.
Gotta stop that.
Like Indivisible.
That's the group behind the National Tesla protests.
Then there are the protests here in Washington being put on by a group called Free DC.
It also gets money from nonprofits like Community Change and Community Change Action.
But where do they get money from?
Well, again, you have to do this diagramming, but millions from that can be traced to left-wing dark money mega donors, which include George Soros and his foundation.
Oh, of course.
So whether it's protesting Tesla or backing progressive DAs, his money has touched a lot,
and
not much of it is good, including illegal immigration.
We are going to need all of that fuel to continue to combat
this administration that continues to bring political terror to our black, brown, working families and immigrant communities.
The group
is called CASA, which is fighting to keep alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Brego Garcia here in the United States.
That's also got money.
In 2023, the Open Society Foundation's awarded CASA 1.6 million.
you
Oh my god.
Yeah.
You know, Elon Musk contributed a whole lot of money.
Oh, yeah.
Merriam Adelson contributed a whole bunch.
How about the Richard and Uline fundraising campaign?
They, uh, they contributed a lot.
Moms for Liberty got their money.
Peter Thiel.
I don't know.
You know, maybe they've got a lot of money on their side.
Yeah, that's
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