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This is The John and Gordy Show on 92.7 WMDX.
92.7 it's John and Gordon in the morning and It's kind of brisk out there this morning kind of and I guess we are going to have weather like this for the rest of the week Is that correct?
It's gonna stay cooler than normal.
Yeah, right now.
It's 45 degrees Wow, and it's going to only get to a high maybe to 50 maybe
and it's
gonna be really breezy again today So it's gonna feel pretty chilly
It's
going to be kind of nice, you know, seeing all
the fall leaves blowing around.
Yeah.
So bundle up, you know, dress in layers, you know, wear an extra jacket, a sweater,
a skirt, a
beanie.
You could wear beanies.
Where do you buy those beanies anyway?
I buy them on this place called Teemu.
It's online.
Teemu.
Yeah, it's... Really?
I get
reminders from Teemu all the time.
Well, your prize is waiting for you.
A prize?
I have no idea what they're talking.
and about most of the time, and I don't care.
I know I've been to Timu.
I think I even purchased something.
Really?
On there's some, you know, doodad of some sorts.
Yeah.
Kind of, you know, pocket flashlight of some sort.
But I actually, I don't know what I bought on there, but I know I did, and that's why they're on me.
I
know yeah, I buy a bundle of them for like ten bucks.
I buy like five beanies for ten bucks.
They're really good.
They're very cheap and very you know, not the best quality, but
I love them.
You always wearing sweatshirts too.
Sweatshirts and sweaters.
Now's
the time.
You
got a beanie.
Yeah.
You're not too warm in there in
the little producer booth?
No, no, it's perfect temp.
Have you had your thyroid check?
I think you've done something
wrong.
Bugs are good up there.
Wow.
Good to see you in your 80s.
We won't be able to see you under all the
sweaters.
Wow.
Okay.
It's eight minutes past the hour.
What's the sunrise and sunset time?
John,
can you check
your WMDX Samsung
watch?
Yes.
19 minutes after seven o'clock sunrise.
Wow.
We got to set the clocks forward here.
No,
fall back.
Fall back.
That's right.
You know what?
I haven't.
Haven't entered the code in my watch it.
Oh, no.
Now it's now it's back.
Okay.
I'm good.
Is it working?
Yep.
Now I can tell you what the sunset time will be at six oh five Okay, so five good enough
Well, it's gonna be pretty breezy around sunset time.
Well, one of the things I don't have to report anymore on is the Do points.
Oh, yeah Well,
that's all
over
But, you know, we could get some rain, a pretty good chance of rain today, mainly in the afternoon and into the evening.
But then once that clears out, the next few days are going to be dry.
They're going to be cool, but the next like week is going to be dry.
Yeah.
Well, you know, one of the things about damp fall weather is that it's easier to rake up leaves while they're damp.
Right.
Yeah.
So.
That's the time to get out in the yard.
Have you done that?
Have you
raked up any leaves?
No, I haven't.
In the last three or four years, I have been mowing my leaves and mulching them.
I think that's the way to go.
Although I bet your dog would love to jump into a pile of leaves, don't you think?
I don't think so.
No, it's a human thing.
Well,
I see these videos of dogs just going tearing into the, you know, and leaping into
a
big pile of leaves.
I guess a few dogs have that.
I mean, you know, dogs are so unique.
You never know what they're going to be into, what quirk they're going to have.
You know, my dog has this weird quirk about sitting on the love seat and kind of like back on her hind legs, you know, and she's her.
Her, her, her, she's just pawing us, you know, and looking sad and lonely and, and, and desiring a hug, you know, and this is, you know, this is a medium sized border collie.
And my wife wanted to make sure that she liked to hug.
And I think she went overboard with this, with this particular dog.
We're just going to have to sell her.
I, I've had it.
Wow.
Yeah.
You know.
Oh man.
Well, you've been dealing with it for a couple of years, right?
The dog.
Yes.
Yeah.
Two and a half
years old.
And your dog has not been really calmed down at all.
Oh, now, she's much better now.
Is she?
Yeah.
After about two years of taking her out into the yard and moving her to the borders of the yard and playing with her there, we have desensitized her to the desire.
to run out of the yard.
Now she doesn't do it.
She's not on a leash anymore.
Does she have any tricks that she, like, does she do any tricks?
She does fantastic leaps into the air to catch the ball.
How about Frisbees?
Is she into Frisbees at all?
I haven't tried Frisbee.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
But now, you know, I couldn't because she was on a leash.
Now, oh, man, does she... It's funny.
I mean, she's really smart.
She understands when she's on the leash.
how far she can go, like 28 feet, and then, off the leash, she's running all over the yard like a, you know, a stallion.
You know, it's just amazing.
She's a smart dog.
You know, these border collies are smarter than human beings most of the time, you know?
They're certainly much smarter than any mega that I've ever talked to.
Okay.
Just thought I'd throw a
little politics
in.
Sure.
Why not?
Well, Trump's been busy tearing down the White House.
I don't know if you've seen
the video.
Yeah, I thought it was going to tear the whole damn thing down.
Looking
good, you
know.
First he said he wasn't going to, they weren't going to touch that building.
We're going to put up this new $250 million ballroom.
Yeah.
But, you
know, now that they
got into it a little bit.
There's a little video taken down the West Wing
wall.
Oh, there it goes.
Oh.
Yeah.
Oh, it's the East
Wing.
Oh, it's the East Wing, yes.
They all look the same, don't they?
Well,
he paved over the rose garden.
Yeah, the rose garden.
It's not
just a gigantic patio with a bunch of cheap-looking tables.
You would take umbrellas.
You would take somebody with the background of Donald Trump that a patio wouldn't exactly be something you'd put in.
That's a big patio.
You know, John has a patio at his home, but I don't think, you know, a billionaire is thinking, you know, gee, I wish I had a patio.
Well, in a $250 million ballroom, what do they need that for?
How grotesque.
He is just grotesque.
But he's saying
it's not being
paid by the taxpayers.
It's private funding.
Go ahead, rip the White House down.
Because somebody else
is paying for it.
There have been other renovations done to the White House over the years.
Nothing like this.
So
although I'd like to see the one where they toured on most of the structure.
Hmm.
I left a skeletal structure and rewired a lot of the stuff and did things way back.
I mean, at this point, they'd have to rewire again.
I imagine so.
Yeah.
But then they'd have to.
Oh, I don't know.
You know, I can't speculate what Trump is going to do next to the White House.
About that video of him.
We didn't we kind of touched on it yesterday him up in a plane dropping poop
protesters I've got a big story on that coming up.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah, save that.
There's more to it than than what we Watched yeah,
yeah,
you remember when when the when the poop came down on this crowd right protesting, right?
There
was a guy in the front.
Oh
Okay, the guy in the front is part of the story later on he is a he's a very young Podcaster for some reason the White
House went after him White House didn't make that video though, right?
They just
shared
it.
I don't know really.
I don't know
maybe I don't know
made it.
Okay, well Kenny Loggins is upset about it because they use danger zone in them
Well, I mean, Kenny Loggins is complaining to the White House.
Yes.
This podcaster is dumped on in the video, and he's blaming the White House.
So somewhere along the way, the White House might have something to do with it.
And I'm not giving him a free pass on this at all.
OK.
So all right.
Well, we'll get into that in a little while.
Yes, we will.
We've got Tom and Christie Mannis coming in in our seven o'clock hour They've been in a couple of times before they travel all over Wisconsin.
They travel all over the world But
yeah,
they're gonna tell us about some of the highlights this time of year around Wisconsin.
I chatted a few down.
Oh, did
you?
Yeah, okay the Duncan yoyo thing.
Yeah, the lambda lakes battle which they says continuing the cozy in
The cozy in and where's that and the in the leaky boot?
which is just some of the amazing things that you can see here in Wisconsin.
The leaky boot thing I think is hilarious because we just get into weird things, big musky statues and the giant Paul Bunyan in the dels.
We just love stupidly large unbelievable things and just really
Trivial things, right, you know, yeah, there's plenty of
those
all over the street That's the great thing about Wisconsin just never know what you're gonna drive into next when you go into these small towns and it's just wonderful, you know, I mean what a what a job it is for the Tom and Christie for Tom and Christie to just go around with I know just discover this stuff.
Yeah,
this insane thing
Oh, God.
What is there?
There's some museum in, I think it's in Sparta, which is a little tiny town, north of Richland Center, quite a ways.
And there, there's, it's some sort of space museum.
No.
Out the middle of nowhere.
Yeah.
You know, saluting the space program.
Somebody from Sparta was, I think an astronaut or something.
We'll have to ask them.
Yeah.
Because they know.
They know everything.
And then, yeah, everything is, people are very angry now about.
You know how the right wing takes one tiny little thing that's going on in the country, just, you know, some weird event and then they just blow it up and they put it into the media machine, you know, and everybody knows about it, everybody's talking about it, everybody's out, again, outraged over it.
That's a lot of deflection.
And the thing, you know, I watched the video yesterday, I didn't make...
anything of it, really.
I could care less.
But this kid was beating up on a Trump pinata.
Oh.
And he, I think he had a knife too, you know, a sword or whatever, a chef knife.
And he was jabbing it and stabbing it and stuff like that.
And it blew up on the internet and they're like, well, they're promoting killing Trump, you know.
And no, it's a pinata, you dumb asses.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
That's why it's on a string or a rope.
I guess you complain about bird pinatas too if you want, you know?
Oh, those birds, you know, act like a windmill and knock those things out of the sky.
I don't know.
They're just so trivial and mindless most of the time.
Okay.
So here we are, you know, we're just kind of shooting the stuff here.
Yes, phone
lines
are
open.
608-879-8255.
You can always download the Civic Media app and reach us that way.
on the app big apology to everybody yesterday why
some of the text we did not have a chance to get to and we'll try to get to those today also somebody wanted to know more about a certain thing about the farmers we didn't have a chance to ask the farm babe about it but we'll we'll do that on friday okay to let him know what what is it about
the farmers we needed
to well say there's a rumor that the farmers doing really well under trump
And now, we have to ask the farm babe whether that's true or not.
Okay.
All right, we'll hold that question off till Friday.
It's 19 minutes past the hour, just getting going on a Tuesday morning with John Peterson, Gordy Young, Dominic Lee, and you.
Come on back.
You can ask me what's trending.
What's trending?
You can ask me what's trending.
What's
trending?
You gotta ask.
Just ask.
Trending.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's trending.
We got a few things here in WMDX, 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning down at the controls that are trending.
I just want to bring this up.
I've been watching Netflix lately.
Now, we kind of stay away from the serials because when I have time to actually sit in front of a TV set, not researching stuff for this program, I want to watch a movie.
I just want to watch a movie.
Something long, mindless.
terrific, right?
Yeah.
And but we're into the series where it is like a movie.
What series?
It's called The Diplomat.
And this is like season three, I think.
Yeah.
And it is just, just really, it's just a great show.
The character development of this thing is just killer.
The Diplomat.
Yeah, the Diplomat.
It's
I don't know if you remember Carrie Russell at all.
Oh, sure.
She had the real wavy hair and the real tight curled hair.
That's right.
Beautiful woman, yes.
Little, you know, she was a teenager in the TV show that she was on.
Yeah.
Well, she's matured.
She's all grown up.
And she's gorgeous.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Anyway, she is the star of this and one of the producers as well.
And she is just phenomenal in this role as the diplomat for the president.
And her husband also is now vice president in season three here.
And it
is just there's so much going on.
And it's such a great story.
And the characters is so real and so incredible, so developed.
I I highly recommend this.
Series if you have a chance just start at the beginning.
Don't worry about it You know a lot of times, you know, I find a show that's really interesting But I find out it's like season five and I think I'm not I'm not Yeah, but really just in fun just start with the diplomat and just start from the beginning and just go through it It's just excellent stuff.
I saw a good movie over the weekend on prime video.
Yeah, Bob Odenkirk
You know, one of our favorite actors, you know, from Breaking Bad, Chicago guy.
In this movie,
nobody.
Nobody,
nobody too?
Nobody.
I just nobody.
Is
there
a nobody
too?
There's a nobody too.
Oh, you've seen both of them.
I didn't
know
what to expect.
You know, it
starts
out as a little thriller and then it just takes off.
Yeah, I thought the first one was really good.
You like the
second one too?
The first one kicks ass.
Yes.
The second one does the same thing.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's just one thing after another.
It is one thing after another.
And Odin Kirk's dad, right?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, Christopher Lloyd.
Christopher Lloyd.
Yeah, he's great.
Yeah, he's brutal.
Well, I have to check on nobody.
Then of course, we find out his wife has some issues.
Technical.
Abilities as well.
Oh, really?
She's a fighter
probably form away probably a former agent as well.
Oh, I guess he gave a whole thing away Thanks do that I don't know I do that a lot.
You know my my kids love it I'm gonna watch it now.
All right.
We've got an early morning phone call here.
It's all right.
Well, it's good Matt in Middleton.
Hi Matt.
Good morning Matt
Morning guys
I'm curious what you think about the possibility that considering the level of crimes that the Trump family is involved in, their friends with the USC people who are former mobsters from Vegas that own that, and then the ties to Russia.
And what do you think the chances are that some of this Gestapo that's out there kidnapping people?
When something like the organization that that Epstein was running when he gets taken out It's not like that that entity just goes away.
Someone takes it over.
Good
thought But some of these kids that are disappearing and stuff are just being funneled through the human trafficking because we have no
Yeah,
we can't track these people that they're ripping from the streets
And
someone brought that idea up to me the other day and it really kind of shook me.
It's like, yeah, we have no idea.
They could just be doing human trafficking with these people.
Yeah, they always say that this is the most open presidency effort and it is absolutely not that.
You know, the thing is they have done away with all paperwork, all records.
They don't want records.
They don't want paperwork.
that somebody can go over when they're out of office eventually, and accuse them of crimes beyond anyone's imagination.
So yeah, they're trying to hide everything.
And that's a really good point, Matt.
You never know.
You know, it created a void.
Somebody's got to fill it, right?
And now, and plus they're covering it up, which is the most amazing thing of all.
This is the biggest human trafficking story.
that we've heard in this country and they refuse
to deal with it.
Putin took all those kids from Ukraine and Trump didn't mention it to Putin once.
That's
right.
About all these kids they're stealing.
Yes, I guess they
returned many of them, I believe, but who knows right now.
This is not an open administration at all.
So we can create any store we want.
Matt, thank you
for that.
Tough luck.
Appreciate that call.
608-879-8255.
Yeah.
Who knows where they're taking some of these
people, what they're doing with them.
And you know, it's softly delivered by Mike Johnson, you know, he is such a devout Christian, you know.
He would never do anything.
He would never hide something like this, except that he is, and he's putting it off.
This is just outrageous.
It really is.
I, he, he's a scary individual.
He's got that soft tone, constantly soft, soft way of selling us all his ideas.
Yeah.
You know, but he was, he's been wrong about everything so far, especially the, uh, uh, no Kings day.
Well, and the shutdown too, keeps blaming the Democrats for
that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Come on.
Oh,
completely Republican.
The big story today.
Stay tuned a little after seven o'clock.
Really?
We have the speech at the Capitol on No Kings Day.
Oh,
do I put that together?
I cut it.
I cut it down.
It's it's a little over four minutes.
But you know what is so worth to hear?
It is really worth it.
You got to hear this thing.
So
that's coming up.
We'll have that in our seven o'clock hour.
Then it is six twenty nine straight ahead.
We've got the Midwest food and farm report.
Then we're back with idiocracy on.
John and Gordy, WMDX.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
This is grade A weapons grade stupidity.
Just
doing my civic duties, sir.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fall each other right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot.
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Oh, all the time.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, man.
It's mind-numbing.
Yeah, it is.
Hey, you know the story that Pim...
had on beef prices.
Yes.
You know, we have very high beef prices for the least the last five or six years.
And one of the reasons why is because of the screw worms that the beef had in Mexico.
It's what kind of worms, screw worms, screw worms.
Right.
And you can look that up if you'd like.
I'm not going to define what they do or how they affect cattle.
But we don't want screw worms in
the U.S.
And that brought the beef prices up because we weren't importing beef from Mexico anymore, slightly fattier beef, which adds to the beef that we have, which is leaner, and it brought prices down for a while.
It's like just regular hamburger that you buy.
But now,
You know they want to import or at least Trump has floated the idea of importing Argentinian beef and
Bring down the
price
of US beef.
Well, I wouldn't mind having you know lower prices for beef I'd love to you know, I'd like my kids to taste beef once in their life
Okay,
we do get ground beef
for dinner, but you know just a steak, please I'm just like like to show them what it looks like at least In Costco they have all of these displays all this beef.
It's just beautiful cuts of beef, you know, like $50 $45 No ain't happening here, you know, I live at Costco
Right,
you
have one of the new apartments that
you're building above there.
I'm in
the spice aisle.
You
used to be in the technology area, but
you moved over to spice.
Yeah, I thought that would be good.
Why'd you do that?
What was wrong with the technology?
Well, you
know, you've got to change a little
change.
Well, variety is the spice of life.
So there you go.
Now, in Idiocracy, which is what this feature is in Idiocracy, Costco is a city, a
very big city.
Right.
But anyway, that's what's happening with the price of beef.
And if they put Argentinian beef in there, it might lower the prices.
But then again, the far over the cattle ranchers that really want to keep the prices where they are, or at least stabilize, they're trying to stabilize the price of it.
Right.
And bring cattle back up.
Yes.
So they can lower the price a little bit.
But putting this effort into maybe lowering the price too much or
in a sudden shock of imports, that could be a problem.
Not a good idea.
For the cattle industry.
Yeah.
It is 638.
Weather.
Oh, it's WMDX.
Yes, 92.7 WMDX.
John Peterson, Gordie Young.
Um and weather for today is cool 45 degrees currently and it's gonna stay cool and breezy all day long winds are gonna pick up again high of just 50 look for some rain today later this afternoon and tonight and Then it all clears out for some nice weather for about a week after that.
That's right mark has a few texture.
Yeah In fact, he's
on the line
right few I oh, oh, okay.
Yes.
Let's go to mark on the line
Mark, what do you got for us besides some of these wonderful texts that you have?
Kerry Russell being a part of the cast in Waitress.
I forgot about that.
She was the lead in that.
It's a great movie.
Even though I had some doubts about the Nathan Fillion character, I was a little bit more toward him.
Here in the previous call,
the children that kidnapped how many of those how many of those little girls now or little boys are now sex slaves and you know that the compounds of Trump's buddy oligarchs over there in Russia yeah that and and there's with George the George Santos thing that he would do is ask if he's gonna pay a restitution to the people he cheated he says well no not really because I don't have to now
somebody was telling about uh... the woman I heard a report of all the fines that trump pardoned away and I did it back in napkin calculation of it over a billion dollars these these people and that trump would be in one case with six hundred seventy six million dollars just one case and you know and it's bad enough to find sort of getting forget you know the government's not going to collect what about the people that
the restitution they were ordered to pay to the victims and now they're not going to have to pay it that's right yeah explain explain that a way to explain how great donald trump is when doing this when he's actually hurting american citizens hurting victims of crimes yes but donald trump has has has done this and don't give me this crap about joe biden what he's forgiven because nowhere near what did what donald trump has done exactly and i mean that the
People that worked at that medical, that one medical facility there where the guy was pocketing the money rather than turning it over to the government.
And those people, do they get credit for that money going to their, you know, to their social security accounts or probably not?
No.
Explain that, you know, old Mr. Donald Trump and now he's destroying the White House.
It's going to be bigger than any time.
This addition that Trump is slapping on look like Palace of Versailles.
Twice as tacky as big as the entire east wing.
It is.
It's outrageous.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
All right.
Thank you for that.
Thanks, Mark.
Yeah, a lot of a lot of good points in there.
But you know, Trump has had a long history with the Russian mob in New York.
I mean, yeah, talk about corrupt and money laundering.
Okay, you say, well, he hasn't been accused of it, or he hasn't gone to court, he hasn't gone to prison for it.
It's a well-known fact.
He has laundered money for the Russian mob in New York.
He's been doing it for ages.
Well, how many of those condos inside the Trump Tower were sold to Russian oligarchs?
I mean, tons of those in the Trump Tower.
sold to Russians
and then and then Baron this son.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's he up to?
I saw a story on that.
I don't know if it's true or not, but he has a boyfriend.
Oh, is that so?
Yeah.
I didn't hear that.
And I guess there are floors above and below the floor that Baron is inhabiting.
And I guess they've been closed off now and Trump is
a little angry or protective.
I'm not quite sure what the reason was for
that,
but that's one of the stories that are just floating out there.
So
it's idle speculation at this point.
We don't really know.
We don't have to be faxed back.
It didn't seem like idle speculation from the person delivering it.
Okay, but I haven't researched it.
So it's idle speculation as far as we are concerned here on the Johnny Gordon in the morning show And by the way Kenny Larkins is on the line.
He doesn't like us using
the danger zone on our show Really not happy about Trump using it in that video.
Yeah dumping poop on all the protesters.
Yes.
Yeah, we've got that story coming up,
you know, yeah, that's right Who's the
Is it the the puppet the dog puppet that
oh poops on everybody?
Oh, yeah Okay, it'll come to us or somebody right is this can't remember now.
It's oh god.
Is it triumph?
Triumph.
Thank you Triumph.
Yeah Angry dog Yeah, what brought that to mind
well, you know, I mean
You know, dumping poop on
people
from the airplane.
Oh,
yeah.
So, yeah.
And Triumph always liked to poop on people.
So
that was
his, that was his famous line.
Triumph the insult comic doc.
Yes.
All right.
Okay.
So just rambling
ideas.
Well, we're hopelessly lost, but we're making good time.
There you
go.
Thank
you.
All right, well, you know, this was a big fiasco out in California.
You know, people were warned, you know, what happened was the military, they were going to shoot, they were going to have drills, and they were firing live ammo over a highway in California.
Some just for training purposes.
Training purposes,
yeah.
And
that must have been fun if you're on the 101 or whatever it is out there.
And Governor Gavin Newsom was saying, hey, you can't do that.
I mean, this is dangerous for the people driving on Highway 5, I think
it was.
Oh, Highway 5.
Oh, that's a good
one.
So busy.
Now it's one of the busiest.
And so Gavin closed down the highway briefly.
Oh.
Yeah.
and caused a lot of people a lot of pain obviously a very busy highway but he did it just for safety's sake and then he was criticized by the administration by all the magas out there uh thinking you know he's just doing this to get back at trump well a 55 millimeter shell fell from the sky pieces of it anyway
detonated early before it got across the highway, blew up above the highway and, uh, and rained its, uh, particulate down on the highway and hit a, uh, California highway patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of, get this, uh, vice presidential, uh, vice president rather, JD Vance's, uh, protective detail.
What?
So it wasn't getting even with Trump, and it was done for safety's sake.
And because the highway was closed off, at least, you know, the citizens in California were safe for the time being, but the shell went off early over the highway and rained down its particulate on everybody below.
Including J.D.
Vance's...
J.D.
Vance's protective
detail.
Yes.
Well,
you know...
What a coincidence that was well, yeah, you got to think Wow, that's not a good thing or Trump and JD getting along.
Okay, you
know, I don't think so
No, I
think JD's just waiting to become president on standby Okay, another bombshell, I don't know if this is necessarily a bombshell or not, but this is a big huge cut in regulations for the EPA
So we're trying to protect the environment.
We're really desperately trying to maintain a good environment in this country.
But the new EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, said, nope, deregulation, trillions of dollars.
Let's go to cut 136.
It's cut 136.
And let's listen to what Lee Zeldin wants.
We have that.
Not 136.
Oh, oh, stand by.
All right.
That's Jesse Waters.
Don't want that.
No,
not that.
All
right.
Okay.
Well, let's forget that Zeldin refers to a 2009 endangerment finding which concluded that six greenhouse gas in gases endanger public health and welfare.
Well, that will be gone now.
Okay.
The all six greenhouse gases that endanger the public
Those regulations are gone.
So everything's okay.
Just don't worry about it.
Wait a minute.
He's
saving trillions of dollars, okay?
He's
saving trillions.
Okay.
Do we have it now?
Okay, let's let's play the
cut.
Okay, basically half of the president's deregulation agenda.
Wow.
And we are more talking about trillions of dollars of deregulation.
In one year, we will do more deregulation at the Trump EPA than entire federal governments have done across all federal agencies across entire presidencies.
Just one of the proposed deregulations alone, the proposed rescission of the 2009 Obama endangerment finding, if finalized, is the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.
Wow.
Let's celebrate that.
Okay.
Great.
Wow.
All right.
Well, thanks, Lee.
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Okay.
All right.
Well, I promise that we'll get some stuff on the John and Gordy side.
Okay.
Yeah,
we have
to get that going.
We've got it.
I've been promising Dom that I'm going to send them all these videos from the No Kings Day thing.
I have not done one thing.
Well,
that was a couple of
days
ago now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
Too
late.
Facebook's hard to navigate, though.
I can't even blame you.
I mean, Facebook, putting stuff on Facebook is difficult nowadays.
It's
difficult at least to be considered a creator on it.
Right.
Yeah.
So we're trying to get trained for that.
Trained.
Potty trained.
All right.
Is that hard to post stuff, really?
Look.
I only got part of that story in about Lee Zeldin.
Trillions of dollars of deregulation and at least most of the gases that will kill us in the not too distant future.
But
a report just came out recently as CO2 growth rates have tripled since the 60s and reached levels that existed more than 800,000 years ago.
irreversible changes causing a sequence of systems collapses in a domino effect.
That's what they're saying.
We're there now.
Carbon dioxide levels jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilization and turbocharging the Earth's climate and causing more extreme weather costing lives and billions of
dollars.
My
God!
Don't bring me down, man.
That was a big part of my story.
And now I'm laughing about it.
Come on.
We're in the verge of extinction here.
It's horrible.
All right.
I know it is.
Don't laugh.
I'm not laughing.
Don't laugh.
Crying.
All right.
Let's get to Tom Tiffany.
I'm the only guy in the state covering Tom Tiffany's run for governor.
You got the goods on
Tom Tiffany.
I
do.
You got it.
I do.
I don't like
that guy at all.
Tom Tiffany's stories.
He's blaming.
Governor Evers for everything that the Republicans who have been in charge for 14 years have done over the state Which is just stunning to me.
I just can't wrap my head around it, but that's why I'm bringing this up He's made a couple of claims here, and I want to play this is cut 143 and he's wrong blatantly wrong on one of the issues that we just found out about in the news yesterday So let's listen to this cut from Tom Tiffany
The thing that we used to hear from people on the Democrat side in regards to education Democrats should never be like Mississippi So we highlighted that in our ad because that's how far Wisconsin has fallen now.
Let's give Mississippi some credit
They are rising and Wisconsin now could perhaps take a lesson from them, but still we're in about the middle of the pack.
Wisconsin has always had a proud educational system.
That's one of the best in America.
It's been defunded scores consistently in the top.
Defunded.
We need to set higher standards rather than what the education governor Tony Evers has done is allow lower education standards.
No.
No, he hasn't.
He was the superintendent of schools in the state.
So that was not his intent.
Again, you know, the Republicans have defunded everything in the state.
And and also Tom Tiffany is saying that there's this huge deficit, a billion dollar deficit caused by Governor Evers.
We found out yesterday that there's a one billion dollar surplus.
Okay.
I guess you'll have to update that part of the ad.
Okay.
God, this guy is a tragic accident.
Um, you know, stand up comedian Eric Hovdey.
Where's he been?
Was a disaster and he almost beat Tammy Baldwin, which is just frightening.
What is wrong with the voters?
I'm
shocked that he hasn't thrown his hat in the ring during a run for governor.
Yeah.
Well, maybe he likes it out
there and what
Long
Beach was it somewhere in California?
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Well, he has his bank, you know sure and his bank is buying up other banks that have small business loans and they're calling all those small business loans in their bankrupting all the small businesses that had loans with these banks that they're now absorbing and he's the small business guy Don't think so doesn't happen that way.
All right.
Now another thing
Just a second, I think I got time for this.
Turning point, USA in the schools, political parties, and schools is not a good idea, but somebody's saying it's a first amendment right.
Here's an attorney's comment on saying it is a First Amendment right a reminder to public schools and universities considering denying turning point USA chapters at their campuses doing so violates the First Amendment right My firm will provide legal services to any turning point USA group denied and the school will pay the fee There you go.
So what we should have now in middle schools and high schools is a political party
sitting there indoctrinating our kids.
Now, I don't know how many parents are for something like this, even if you're conservative.
Do you want something like this?
Because John and Gordy's.
Yes.
And Tifa after school will also be in those schools as well.
Antifa
after school program.
Yes.
From John and Gordy.
And we're trying
to
work shopping a little bit.
We are.
But as soon as it takes off, I think everybody's going to want one of these in their local school system.
Viral.
And it's going big time.
Yeah.
Can't wait.
Yeah.
Still got to work on the logo a little bit.
A couple of minor things,
marketing wise.
We're creating a whole new Antifa logo.
Can't wait.
It is 6.59.
We've got news, weather, sports, updates, straight ahead, and then we're back with a big story for today, Tuesday.
I'm
Johnny Gordy.
Yes, great speech at
the No Kings rally.
Yes.
Can't wait to hear it.
In the morning.
In the morning.
Just
in the morning.
I'm just throwing
it in there.
It's John
and Courtney.
The
place it goes in the stands the student stands boy something we're almost naked out there.
What are you talking about?
I'm watching video of it right here and they have a Film yeah, somebody recorded it and the stands out there I mean the students were running up to the top of the stand big
Yeah,
there's not a
lot of students out there, but once it did appear, you said you saw this too,
right?
I did, yes.
I saw that too.
And actually, my roommate went to the game, and he saw it for himself with his own two eyes, and yeah, it was legit.
So no naked people, just guys in underwear.
Yeah, and their boxers.
I mean, what else do they have to root for, you know?
So.
Okay.
Just part of our world.
Okay.
Just as weird as it
gets.
There's nothing else going on and not winning,
so why not?
Why not have a party?
Yeah.
Alright.
92.7 WMVX.
It's John and Gordy, along with Dominic Lee, our producer.
Seven minutes past the hour.
We've got clear to partly cloudy skies.
It's chilly out there.
45 degrees rain this afternoon and this evening.
That's right.
The high near 50 coming up in about a half hour.
Talking to Tom and Christie Manus our friends who travel all over the state they go all over the world But they specialize in Wisconsin and we'll find out what they've been up to lately.
They've been staycationing Yeah, all right.
Let's get to something really important.
This was one of the best speeches I've heard in a long time.
Okay, this was at the no Kings rally here in Madison the capital.
Yes, and he was like
the first speaker and just blew everybody's socks off.
Absolutely.
This is Pastor and Judge Everett Mitchell.
And I pieced this together.
I got rid of some of the crowd noise and all this other stuff.
So it's down to about four minutes and 50 seconds.
But, you know, it is so good.
I gotta pass it along to you if you didn't hear it or you weren't there.
This is the kind of talent that we have here in the Madison area.
Judge Everett Mitchell, by the way, like Raphael Warnock, graduated from Morehouse College, so he's
got
some cred in.
And this was provided by Linda Ketchum.
I want to thank her for sending this video along.
Let's listen.
again to judge Everett Mitchell, great speech at the No Kings Rally.
I recognize it calls as many of us to question what kind of nation are we living.
For many this moment in our nation and our world feels monumental if not suffocating.
The air is thick with uncertainty.
The anxiety being built after every five-minute news cycle or tweet and breaking headline changing from one controversial and consequential issue to the next is leaving the most passionate advocate grasping for breath with little or no time to organize.
Unwitnessing immigrant families living in the shadows of a nation built upon the DNA of the enslaved.
the blood of the indigenous, the sweat of the Asian community, the hands of the immigrants, and the whip of injustice.
Despite all of that major siege of mounting the only line of defense, you got to learn how to organize.
And yes,
organize, we must.
The temptation in this moment is to sit idle.
staring at the television and scrolling on your phone, tapping at the screen, just hoping that if we keep our heads under water long enough, the shadow will pass and normal will return to our shores.
But let me be the bearer of bad news.
Whatever normal was, is, or could be, is not returning to us.
We are not going back.
The only way is for us to go forward.
Because right now, we are living in the redefinition of our democracy.
Right now, our legal systems are being retooled, reconfigured, and realigned to incentivize ultimate power.
From the United States Supreme Court all the way down to individual classrooms, the war for civil rights is being waged all over again.
So as we stand here on King Street,
It reminds us that the Voting Rights Act, the seminal legislation that sought to protect my vote, the black vote, your vote, everybody's vote of the marginalized, it's been sliced and diced from one justice to the next.
And for what purpose?
Yeah, you better move about that.
And for what purpose?
If we think it is merely an attack on voting, you are missing the larger picture.
This is about power.
about consolidating it into the hands of a few who can control the outcome before it happens.
So this is not new territory of Wisconsin.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his letter from the Birmingham Jail offered an intellectual blueprints for how institutions consolidate power while people wait.
Dr. King smuggled from his cell.
He said, for years now, I've heard the word wait.
And it rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity, this idea that weight almost means never.
And we must come to see that justice too long delayed is justice denied.
So this is the message I want you to consider.
How are we using our time?
Yes, time.
Yes, time.
How are you spending your time?
Because make no mistake, our time is being stolen with algorithmic precision.
attention space, time, reading durability, time, the capacity to sit, think, refocus and reimagine the world.
Time is being stolen, the calmness that allows for creativity to bind us.
Time is being taken away and after scrolling for 30 seconds it teaches a generation that if you don't want to face hard things just scroll to the next one.
And the feed keeps feeding us.
It stars the very story that we need time to understand.
And while we scroll the system tightens, the black unemployment rate rises to the level that it was in 1968 as DEI programs are being gutted.
350,000 black women have lost their jobs in spaces that were created to bring inclusion.
And why is this the moment?
Because I got to remind you right now, Wisconsin, now is that time.
Because of now is not the time.
I don't never know when time is.
Now is the time.
Beautiful.
Just unbelievable.
Just you get goosebumps every time I hear that.
Just as ever.
Inspirational.
Wow.
Wow.
Yes.
The pastor and a new judge.
So great speech.
Amazing.
So that was at the No Kings Rally.
At the Capitol on Saturday.
It was just a fantastic time.
I know Earl Ingram and Maggie had been involved as speakers in Milwaukee at their No Kings Day Rally.
Wow.
That was an
electric moment there.
I hope you
enjoyed it.
I know it was a little long, but it didn't seem long to me.
I mean, it was a great message.
That was amazing.
And all the way around the world in Paris, France.
Yeah.
What happened there?
They were also having a No Kings Day, and this is what they were singing.
Cut 170.
Let's listen to
this.
So that's what they were singing over there in Paris, France.
No Kings Day.
Pretty impressive.
Yeah, emotional.
Also, Mallory McMorrow, she's a state senator, but she's running for the U.S.
Senate.
And she went out into the crowd on No Kings Day and did a few interviews, asked people what they thought.
Let's listen to this.
She's pretty good.
Let's listen.
Donald Trump and the Republicans are telling Americans that protesters are being paid to be at no-kings protests.
So we came to a no-kings protest to find out.
How much are you paid to be here today?
Absolutely zero.
Zippo zero none.
I wasn't paid a penny.
It was my pleasure.
I actually had to spend over a hundred
dollars in this junk to be here.
A whopping zero dollars.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing
came out for free.
Zero dollars.
Zero dollars.
I see a shirt that I think gives me the answer.
How much rebate be here?
I'm
a registered Republican and I am not paid to be out here.
Not paid zero dollars.
Zero dollars.
So are you telling me that Donald Trump might have lied about this?
This?
Everything pretty much?
Why
are you here today?
To defend democracy.
Defend democracy and labor rights.
Labor rights.
Absolutely.
Yep.
So we came out here and we talked to dozens of people and we couldn't find a single person who was paid.
So I don't know who Donald Trump is talking about, but we found a lot of people with a lot of good reasons to be out here protesting for our country.
All right.
We have it.
She's good, isn't she?
Yes.
You know, she's running for the U.S.
Senate.
I think she deserves to be there.
She is a state senator in Michigan and great stuff right there.
Fantastic.
All right.
Well, you know, the No Kings Day, it was exciting time.
It really was.
And a lot of people were there.
Catherine was hanging out in the March.
In fact, I think we have some sound.
I just sent you something here.
Oh, all right.
Moments ago, yeah, she was out before the rally.
And she was telling me that, you know, this as the March was coming up East Washington, yes, that that was an amazing site.
In fact, there was some video on Rachel Maddow last night from Madison.
Oh, that that high speed video of the
marchers.
They showed that on Ben.
Ben
Winkler.
Oh, did he make
that?
Ben Winkler did that.
He walked through the crowd and he put it on fast forward.
Right.
And it was just, wow, that was really
impressive.
Yeah, they showed that on
metal.
That was really
good.
We were going to post that.
And Catherine was talking with some protesters.
This was right at the early part of the rally.
All
right.
Let's listen to that.
You got that?
Here
we
go.
Do we have it?
OK, stand by.
It's not coming up.
Do
you have it now?
There we go.
Like, say, Oregon, Illinois, and I think that's a county to see it, but still, you know, when you see a couple hundred folks there that have convened on that square and have signs and have opinions, I mean, something's going on and people are tuned in and they're concerned.
It makes you feel a little more optimistic when you see this number of people out and making a statement.
When I see what I'm seeing here on East Wash, I feel like, wow, like we've got some power.
I was at the February
protest.
This is way, way bigger.
Yeah.
So a little bit
of side
there.
Yeah.
Anyway, that was, uh, you know, people really came together on this one and pretty emotional.
At some points it
it was it was and my son a great great shot of the Movement up East Washington Avenue.
He was at the very top of
the climb to the top of the rotunda was open Yeah, and he was up there in the rotunda on one of the balconies before they closed it off and Recorded it was just wow
That kid, you know a lot of those those after-school Doers really help We're gonna come back in just a few moments.
We have something from the dark left and it's about ash It's about fascism and how easy it is to just make it normal Okay, we'll get to that
all right and coming up in about 15 minutes We will visit with Tom and Christie Manis They travel all over the state of Wisconsin and they're gonna share with us some of the things to do this time of year
It's coming up on John and Gordy on WMDX.
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all right we're going to get to the dark left in just a moment but first let's go to the phone lines and we got joe waiting for us joe what do you got morning
uh... thank you so much for that uh... speech that you had uh... previously from Mr. Mitchell that was just absolutely stunning and love to have you return to that again at other occasions because what he had to say was just very very inspiring it was yeah i wanted
I wanted to owe up to a mistake that I made on air yesterday when I was speaking up about Representative Galvalda from Arizona.
Speaker Johnson refuses to swear her in because once she's in, of course, that vote can happen that allows the Epstein files to be voted on.
And boy, he does not want that.
So his latest is to say, I had said that she can't get in her office.
I was wrong about that.
She can get into her office.
However, once she gets into her office, she doesn't have squat.
She doesn't have government email, no budget to hire people, no computers, no phones, no government website.
She can't do constituent services such as helping people with the VA or IRS or Social Security problems, which is a big part of what representatives do because she's not been sworn in.
go ahead and do your job.
But you know, the phones don't work, the computers don't work, you don't have a staff, but go ahead and do your job.
That's where he believes that she should be going.
And I wanted to let people know that the AG of Arizona is looking at this situation and the fact that those people don't have representation and looking at a lawsuit.
And it gets very interesting because you get into the weeds about who can actually swear a member in.
And there was some talk by a representative from the Cato Institute, a very conservative institute, that said, technically, a noted republic could do it.
Because what you're saying is you affirm that you're going to honor the Constitution, all of the things that are part of that.
And it is customary to have the speaker do it.
And some would say legal by some points.
And this is where this is going to blow up.
There's going to be a big lawsuit about who can actually swear her in.
And I thought.
This is what we're spending our time on.
I cannot even believe it.
It's just, we're going to be spending our resources on, can you swear in a person who has been voted in by her people?
It's a shame.
It really is.
It's a shame.
So thanks guys.
All
right,
Joe.
Yeah,
it's
not
normal.
No,
it is
not.
I
can't think of any other case like this.
This has never happened before.
No, they rush it.
They
usually rush these people in.
Yes.
Yes, where I'm in immediately no matter what right government shut down or not doesn't really matter when yeah This is a definite lawsuit now.
Let's go to the dark left and and I don't know who this guy is I think he's from Wisconsin because he's got a Wisconsin type team hat on stuff on the back wall so Whoever he is he's good and he he's talking about fascism and it's
how it becomes normalized in society.
This is really good.
Check this out.
Okay.
Pay
attention for a moment.
I want you to look at these photos.
What's important about them isn't what you see.
It's what you don't see.
These are pictures of Berlin that were taken during the height of fascism in Nazi Germany.
No insanity or chaos in every corner.
Just people buying bread or reading the newspaper going to work.
And that's the point.
Fascism doesn't necessarily look like chaos.
It looks like normal life.
While something evil spreads quietly underneath it.
See, a lot of people say today, well, my town looks normal and my life's the same,
but
that's not how it works.
Sure, they see the chaos on.
But then they turn the TV off walk outside and say everything looks fine.
They drive to work and traffic still bad That's how it fools you fascism doesn't look like a movie It looks like your morning commute and too many opt to ignore what the Trump regime is doing because it's easier for them to sleep believing There's no way we're headed towards 1930s Germany than to admit that this administration's actions are of a fascist nature for fascism to work It needs your comfort your avoidance it needs you to look away and think everything is fine because that
That's how it wins by quietly taking your freedom while convincing you that you still have
it.
Now I got to say that when I heard that for the rest of the day, I was very uncomfortable and I kept coming back to that.
Everything is normal.
Everything's just fine.
You know, nothing's happened.
I'm going out shopping later on.
You still go to Costco.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's go to the phone lines again.
Hey, it's good to hear from pizza box Mike.
Hey, how you doing?
Good morning, pizza box.
Mike.
Great.
Yeah, no, I gotta tell you, I talked to Everett Mitchell, right?
I guess moments before he spoke, you know, because I used to see him in the street all the time.
When I was in the fight for 15, Vosin's Daylaprontera, poor people's campaign, and the guy just lit a fire under me, man, I'm ready to go again.
This is the time.
I mean, we said that back in 2011 and 12.
If we don't stop this now.
We're going to be a fascist nation.
And of course, we were criticized for calling people Nazis who practice Naziism.
I mean, I'm tired of these clowns asking me to define it.
Open your dictionary, clown.
It's right in there.
Yeah, it really is.
And in fact, it's all around as well.
Thank you, Mike.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good.
Yeah, it's it's creeping into our society, but it is.
It is
a
chilling effect.
And we see it all the time.
People.
dragged out of their houses, out of their cars, taken into unmarked vehicles by masked men, and they disappear, and we
are outraged
by it, and it really is, it's the visual part of it that we're seeing that's just outrageous.
But at the same time, we go along our lives, we're shopping, we're doing stuff, and it's becoming normalized.
We are accidentally normalizing fascism by not having it in front of us constantly, and a reminder of it.
So it's like scrolling, you know?
You move on to the next story.
If you're
uncomfortable with the story you're on, you scroll.
There's no beginning or end to it.
You just keep scrolling and rolling along.
Yeah.
Wow.
Scary times.
All right.
Well, we're going to get to less scary times.
Yes.
Well, right around the corner.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll take a break from all the politics here for a while and talk to Tom and Christie Manis.
Explore Wisconsin.
Yes.
They go all over the state.
They go all over the world, but we're going to focus in on what's happening in Wisconsin, especially this time of year with all the fall leaves changing colors and.
Fun things you can do around the state that's coming up after we check in with the Midwest Food and Farm Report.
Stay with us for more of John and Gordy WMDX.
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WMBX, 92.7.
It's John and Gordy in the morning.
Dom at the controls.
Keep that up.
Keep that up.
I want to hear the gas.
Yeah.
Here we go.
There you go.
I feel better.
735.
clear to partly cloudy skies this morning look for rain this afternoon high near 50 today that's it and it's going to be really windy tonight with the showers and moving on through then weather it just clears up and gets nicer for the rest of the isn't that nice yeah this time of year when it's fall you know the leaves are changing you want to travel around the state
Who better to talk to this time of year than Tom and Christy Manus?
They are the authors of a couple of books, one of them is Secret Wisconsin.
Let's
see other book titled.
Historic Wisconsin Roadside.
There we go.
Yeah, it's
fantastic.
It's good to have you back again.
Two great books.
We really have to
check
them out.
We love coming to see
you guys.
No, you got up at what hour?
Did you start traveling from where you live?
Well, we left Eau Claire at 3.30.
3.30.
Thanks for making
the effort
to
come
down here.
Talk to us for 20 minutes.
It's always fun.
We can always stream you in here, but next time we're going to set up a tent in the lobby so you
can camp out a little
overnight.
It's a great idea.
Roaming
around
the office.
Did you find anything out there?
Did you find some snacks and some coffee?
Well, yeah, somebody needs to restock the Snickers.
Now they do, right?
Okay.
I agree.
I only found one.
All right.
Okay.
Well,
at least there was one left for you.
Okay.
But now let's get to some of the, you know, besides just the books that you have here, you've got some new things for us here.
And I believe this is one of the great times of the year for me anyway.
I love Halloween.
I love ghost stories.
I love all of that, the trappings.
Unfortunately, we don't get many ghosts and ghost guests in here.
You know, I wish we could at least talk about spirit world and hunting them down and stuff like that.
But you've got something for us, right?
Oh,
yeah.
Where do you go if you want some hauntings?
What do you do for a kind of stuff?
When it comes to hauntings.
Well, there's this unique place in, do you say it, Wanna Walk?
Yeah,
Wanna
Walk, Wanna
Walk.
Get right close to that mic
there first, Steve.
Yeah, the spiritual camp.
Oh, sure.
Oh, I've
heard.
Are you familiar with this?
I've
heard about this.
I had never heard about this.
Yes, my sister lives
in Reedsburg, and they, yes, they've been talking about this for a couple of decades.
There's a spiritual camp up
there.
You call it Spook Hill.
That's what the locals call it.
Spook
Hill, okay.
Now, see, I never knew about it, and I just learned about it.
Well, Gordy never
kills anybody.
Well, I don't know much about it, but I've heard about it.
I don't know what they
really do there.
Well, let's find out.
I guess they have seances.
Yes.
If the spirits are coming, that's where they're going for the most part.
Oh, I like the music.
That's perfect.
Thank
you.
You can stay there.
They have rustic cabins.
I'm not going to stay there.
But one of the cabins is lucky number 13.
And it has a light bulb on the door that has been glowing steadily for like 30 to 40 years.
So
they call it the living spirit.
I don't know.
That is scary.
I'm scared.
Yeah.
I wonder, you know, I don't know if like, my dad said he stayed at a motel where it was haunted as well.
And you know, just, it was a pain in the ass dealing with ghosts, but you know, he did.
Now, I don't know.
Is this one he
walked?
Is this open to the public?
Or is
it?
It is.
You can go and walk the grounds.
It's free.
Supposedly spirits live in the forest.
Yeah.
See, you guys going?
I'm not.
Oh, yeah.
I would do it in a half second.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, have you been down to the Orpheum?
Yes.
You know that's haunted, right?
Right next to us here.
Yeah.
Yeah, right on the block.
That's
haunted.
There's supposedly a teenager fell from the balcony and still can be seen sitting in a seat when there's nobody there.
Yeah.
But if you walk in and see him, he disappears.
the projectionist from way back when committed suicide in the projection room.
And he haunts the place and the way he does it is he moves things.
So there's things that are constantly moving around.
That's right down the road.
Yeah, I've seen a few movies at the Orpheum.
I have
too.
Sometimes the sound and the visuals are so bad that I feel like I've died.
And I think my spirit still haunts some of the seating area.
What
are you talking
about?
They have improved the sound and audio and everything, and that's a beautiful theater right now.
Is it open again?
Yes.
Oh, it's a very active
theater.
Yeah.
They have comedians in there.
They have special guests all the time down there.
Elvis Costello the other night.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yes.
Well, they have lots of big acts there.
But you can see the ghost of me still traumatized by some of the audio of the movies I've seen.
How was the focus?
Was the focus okay?
No, the focus was bad, too.
It was not a good
theater at the point.
Now, up near us, just outside of Eau Claire, there is an Elk Mountain.
If you're driving on the interstate, it's on the north side.
You can see a big flag.
It's a two-story castle with a lookout on the top.
Wow.
But it's in our Secret Wisconsin book.
But this Elk Mountain castle is what it's called.
It was dedicated to dead postal employees.
And what they did is underneath the flagpole, they have every single rural route.
I think if I remember right, there might have been 13.
Don't hold me to that number.
But they have dirt from each of those rural routes underneath the flag.
Wow, nice.
And it has an incredible view.
You can, you know, walk up to roof, you know, look it up.
But it's also rumored to be haunted.
It's the rumor is a family was there and a ghost or somebody as they were walking down the stairs.
Push the wife down the stairs.
Oh, and they witnessed it And they said well, yeah, there was nobody around but it was obvious something pushed her and it has you know weird sounds at night also weird lights at night Screams in the woods, you know things like that.
So where is this?
It's an elk mound.
It's it's just west of Eau Claire a few miles.
Okay, right off the interstate.
Yeah
Wow, that's scary.
Okay.
All right.
Well anything dealing with
Post employees is scary.
Matt, are you
listening?
The
caller Matt works for the post.
Okay.
Next.
What else you
got?
Well,
up around Baraboo, I know they have a lot of ghosts too.
We've talked about that a number of times.
Well, isn't there a bar?
That's pretty haunted.
It's like the most haunted place in
Wisconsin.
You can't think of the name of it
though.
Is that near Baraboo?
Yeah, I can't remember the name of it.
Well, down by Delavan.
Yeah,
Delavan.
What's that?
There's the Circus Cemetery.
In
Delavan?
There's
two cemeteries.
And both of them have, I mean, it was a huge
a wintering home for circus performance and stuff.
And so both of the cemeteries have a lot of circus performers there and each one is marked with a sign, you know, it tells about the performer and the name and so forth.
But it's also haunted.
Yeah, that's scary.
If you think about it, clowns haunting.
I
know
that
that is a frightening thought
right
there, you know, a spring grove cemetery.
And
St.
Andrews is the other one.
Yes.
Yeah.
OK.
Well, there was a movie way back when in the 60s called Circus of Horrors.
Yes, I remember that.
And then, of course, there's Killer Clowns from Outer Space.
Well, that sounds interesting.
That is actually a really great movie.
Okay, I never would've guessed.
I thought it'd be something like a Sharknado movie.
It is, but the clowns are just really the scariest looking clowns you'll ever see.
Well, I don't like any clowns, so I don't want to see a scary
clown.
Well, no,
yeah.
I'm
looking at this Delavan cemetery and they're talking about, okay, people have claimed to see ghosts of acrobats, clowns, and even horses wandering through the cemetery at night.
Yeah,
if you want a unique haunted experience, yeah, that's definitely one of them.
Yeah,
OK, Delavan Spring Grove Cemetery.
And those are in our historic Wisconsin roadside
book.
And I believe that they pass out 3D glasses at the at the gates.
I'm just thinking
of
13 ghosts.
They had a circus performer who put his head in the mouth of a lion.
Yeah.
And in the lion chomped down on
his
head.
Didn't work out that time.
Well, ironically, at the park, Tower Park in Delavan, they have a bubbler that's the mouth of a lion.
Oh, really?
There you put your head on that.
It's kind of
scary now.
No, I'm not even going to do that.
OK.
It's obviously, you know, a fall.
What else you got for
us?
Well, have you guys been to the Wonder Bar?
Yes.
Yes.
It recently closed.
Where's that?
That was on Olin and
John Nolan.
John Nolan.
Right here in town.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Oh, that
one.
Okay.
Yeah, tell us about that.
That
was a really cool place.
It was.
Right near the
Coliseum.
Right.
Yeah, it looks really cool.
We haven't been there, but it looks really cool.
It's really old building.
Yeah, it's got a lot of history.
Yeah.
It was
the
gangsta.
Yeah, they bought it in 1929.
So it was a competitor for
Who was it the gangster in Chicago?
Al Capone.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah, how can I forget?
Yeah, yeah, it was it was competitive for him really In the North Chicago area Well, he sent his brother up to open the the North Tower and so it had you know if you remember it had the turrets on both sides Yes, and they had little slots for the Tommy guns the Tommy machine guns really easy and And there's a lot of things that happen at this Wonder Bar
One is underneath it, it said that there was a tunnel that went to Lake Mandora where a lot of people supposedly lost their lives that crossed them.
And also the one of the brothers is they he disappeared and they think that he's buried or was buried in the walls on the second floor next to the fireplace.
So it was it was notoriously haunted for years until it shut down and.
And major mafia names also visited Babyface Nelson.
I mean, all the big names.
They used to frequent.
I think I've passed by there.
It's still there.
It's just vacant, right?
Yeah, it's vacant.
Yeah, it's boarded up.
Yeah.
Talking with Tom and
Christy Manus.
You guys travel all over Wisconsin.
Getting some texts here about, it was the old Baraboo Inn.
in Baraboo, that's
the bar,
and that's still there, and that still opens
for
haunted tours, and you can still drink
there
too.
And the church key in Madison, just down the street on University Avenue.
Oh wow, never thought about that
one.
All right, well, anything else this time of year, as far as, you know, I mean, the leaves are changing.
We can talk about more haunted things if you have them, but...
We have all kinds of stuff we can talk about.
Well, this time of year, it's the leaves are changing.
I know a lot of people head to Door County, but there are other places, of course, everywhere.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Check out them.
And if you know us, you know that we like the things that don't necessarily show up on the first few pages of Google search, right?
You know, the Delft or counties, you know, things like that.
Well, yeah, let's go a little
deeper.
I found one, you know, it's the it's the boy with the leaking boot.
Yeah, what's
that about?
Yeah, we just love weird things.
You
know, tell us about that.
Well, Stevens Point bought the boy with the leaky boot in the 1800s.
Yeah.
And
what is it?
What
is a
boy with a leaky
poof?
It's a statue.
We've got
a minute here, but keep going.
It's a statue, and it pours water out.
And supposedly it was from like the Civil War or whatever.
Anyway, Stevens Point got it.
It was in disrepair.
It used to be in the center of Stevens Point.
The fire department took it over, put it in front of fire station number one.
Right
downtown.
Yep.
And the original is in the basement because with the campus there,
People kept stealing it decapitating it.
So they put I know so May through August it's out other times It's in the basement.
They have to bring it in during school.
Yeah, okay.
That is such a cool thing to see I'm gonna have to
look for
that.
All right.
Can you stick around a couple more minutes here?
All right We're gonna keep Tom and Christy with us.
We'll be back with more of John and Gordy right after this on WMDX
Great
song.
I love this.
Tom and Christy Manus are with us today.
They have a couple of books out, Secret Wisconsin and Road Sides.
What is it?
Road?
Historic Wisconsin.
Road Sides, okay.
That was
close.
Yeah.
Don't
have it in front of me.
92.7 WMDX.
A few more minutes here with Tom and Christie.
So let's talk a little bit more about, we mentioned yo-yos.
We were talking about yo-yos during the break and you brought a yo-yo with us to remind us.
That's right.
Everybody loves a yo-yo.
Who doesn't?
Yeah, it's a wonderful story about Duncan Yo-yos.
It is from 1946 to 1964.
They remain a little town in northwestern Wisconsin called Luck.
Luck luck population 900 900
Everybody worked there and they made about 70,000 yoyos a day
A day
20 million a year during those years.
No, this is before cell phones
We
had nothing else to do Play with your yo-yo
I have
a huge collection of Duncan yoyos.
I was really
into it.
I was not that good But I really tried to be that good some lit up.
They had sparkles in it Of course, they went up there in luck Wisconsin because of the wood
they did because they were made of wood
time sure
and maple is what they wanted the hardwood so
that was
the ideal ideal wood for the yoyos
and the reason they shut down is they started to lose popularity so a company flambo bought them and made them out of the plastic that it is today and i believe flambo flambo
is imperable i believe
yeah wisconsin company oh yeah i still see a company tackle boxes and all kinds of stuff like that
yeah
There's
a museum there.
You can go see the museum.
The world's largest yo-yo
is in the
museum.
It's actually, it's a smock.
In luck.
In luck.
In luck.
In luck.
How big is the largest yo-yo?
Pretty darn
big.
Waste,
waist high maybe.
Now the thing is, they were made out of wood initially, but didn't, wasn't it Duncan, what's his first name?
Dan, Don, Don Duncan.
Don Duncan, wasn't he in the ads for Duncan Yo-Yo for a while?
I think so, yeah.
He was also, he also invented or created the good humor.
Good humor.
Yeah, with the ice cream.
Yeah, that's something else too,
yeah.
They moved the factory from Chicago to Luck because they could find workers for one, but
it's
also right there where the wood was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I was wondering, did
They changed the plastic and the plastics and the acrylics while he was still in charge of it or was just
flambo at
that point.
It was after that.
All right, just had to know.
No one cares.
Come
on, we care,
right?
Yeah, we were talking about tops too.
At the same time, they had the yo-yo craze going on.
We had tops.
Now you said the yo-yo is still very popular.
Where is it popular still?
In the Philippines.
Okay, all right.
It's
crazy popular.
Really?
Wow.
And they're doing all the tricks and really keeping it going.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Anything else?
What do we got?
A couple
of
more minutes here.
Oh, Cozy
N.
Yeah, that's what we were going to talk
about.
Okay.
So the, um, Lucky Yo-Yo Museum is in our book, Secret Wisconsin, as is the Cozy N in Jamesville.
And the Cozy N is, is a Chinese restaurant
that
everybody drives by, you know, every day.
But it's the second oldest Chinese restaurant in the same location in the United States.
And it's also the oldest Chinese restaurant in Wisconsin.
But the thing is, we called it traveling egg rolls because people are, they're notorious for ordering, you know, 10, 20, 30, 40, even 100 egg rolls at a time to take back on the plane when they go home or in the car on a road trip in coolers.
And they're that famous.
And we actually had a friend of ours in Northwest Wisconsin.
She came down here and bought 48.
Put them in the cooler because she's doing everything in the book.
Or they're doing everything in the book.
Wow.
Wow.
Okay.
And they
invited us over for dinner and shared them.
But the story not only is about the egg rolls.
The owner's mom was a famous Chinese chef at Toy's Chinese restaurant in Milwaukee.
I don't know if you remember
that.
Sure.
Cool.
I think it was a six-story building, but that's also in our new book coming up in the spring.
But she wanted to buy a restaurant so she found the one and knew the people that own the Jameswell restaurant the cozy and she bought it our kids grew up there as teenagers But an interesting fact with this is Tom Fong and his wife Amanda Tom is the son they run it now and his dad was a One of six Chinese survivors from the Titanic And they said that he was the last person rescued from the wreck
They found him floating on a door, strapped on what they think was a state room door, but he was strapped on with a belt.
So there's a lot of history there.
But the thing is, when you pass something, you have to look deeper and go, hmm, is there a story here?
Sometimes there's not, but oftentimes things you pass every day have a story that would blow you away.
Yeah, that's really interesting because it's there and you discovered it in some way, shape, or form, because other people have discovered it.
How are the egg rolls though?
Oh, they're incredible.
They're
very good.
They must be really good.
Are they big, small
or long?
They're big.
They're handmade every day.
No kidding.
Right.
It's a two day recipe and they have a hint of peanut butter.
That's kind
of mean.
A two day recipe.
Yeah.
It takes two days to make.
It does.
It's a family recipe that takes two days.
Wow.
And
it's not like the process when you get now and you get off the truck.
It's actual, you know, cabbage and pork and stuff.
Yeah.
And if you want to see more about it, we do a show with NBC or
TMJ for NBC, Milwaukee, where we take Stephanie Brown around to these places and introduce them to them.
And Cozy N was one of them.
So you
can learn more.
That's great.
We'll have to look for that.
All right.
Well, we're out of time.
But Tom and Chris, do you have a new book coming out in the spring?
Yeah.
Tell us about that.
What's the name of it?
It's Lost Treasures of Wisconsin.
OK.
It's about things that aren't here anymore, but everybody has good memories of.
And people want to find out more.
How do they find out?
You got
Facebook?
You can go to Tom and Christie Manus on Instagram.
Our website is smalltownplussize.com.
You can order the books from our publisher, Reedy Press.
Just do a search for us.
You'll find us everywhere.
Very good.
Tom and Christie Manus.
Christy with a K if you're Googling, okay,
right?
Okay,
and we depress is R E E D Y.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
Thanks for joining us.
Thanks for coming.
Come back.
Really?
Come back
tomorrow.
Yeah, sure.
Right.
Right back.
Oh, we love coming down.
All right.
That's going to do it for us.
Stephanie Miller is next tomorrow on our show.
Mike McCabe will join us because it's Wednesday.
Okay.
All right.
Have a great day, John.
All right.
I
know.
Okay.
See you later.
So
long everybody.
So long.
Christie, Tom.
Good
day.
Good to have you.
