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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.

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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.

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The American dream is killing us all.

We've got sunshine today, highs in the mid to upper 60s.

Time for us to talk with former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin.

Good morning, Paul.

Morning, guys.

Pretty good weekend, though.

Boy, it really was.

I mean, what a...

great get together out at the Capitol on Saturday, just fantastic.

I was out there and Gordy missed it because he was in the process of moving, but so many people turned out, so many costumed characters turned out for this protest.

I want to get your input on that.

What do you think of turning up in costumes for these protests?

I mean, I'm trying to figure out a better way to protest.

Really?

costumes is the way to at least, you know, present a different kind of image, right?

I mean, instead of the smoke bombs and the flash bombs and everything else, you know, when you have a costume character, it lessens the impact of those.

Well, when the

cops are hauling off a unicorn, you

know, that's what the sign... Yeah, you know there's something wrong with them, right?

There's something weird going on.

It's not the unicorn.

Yeah.

Anyway.

Yes, and especially if it's...

Shall we say some something or someone that we treat with affection?

Yeah Like a princess

right or

a

giant bee.

I like the giant bee

Yeah, yeah

dinosaur.

Yeah, we're getting off the wizard.

Yeah Well, okay

It was a great protest.

You've been through a lot of protests yourself here in Madison.

I mean, we are the protest city.

What are some of the things that you remember way back when that seemed to work and things that didn't work exactly?

Well, I think the important thing to remember is this, that protests generally are important to invigorate the base.

They give us energy.

They give us

the momentum to go on to do other things.

Protests don't necessarily expand the base.

They do energize it.

And so what you do, you don't hop from protest to protest.

What you do is you have protests, then you do the work of expanding the base, more protests expand the base.

There's almost a rhythm to it.

And as it progresses, you see political change.

You do see end to wars.

You do see legislation pass that produces social and economic justice.

And so, yeah, now it's time to double down and

Go out there and expand the base.

You know, it

was a great weekend across the country.

You know what they're

doing now internationally.

Oh, yeah internationally too.

Yes, but what they're doing now is they're creating more of a of a show, you know with some of the weaponry with some of the smoke bombs

All of that stuff creates a show for the administration, you know, and it creates confusion among the protesters and no one knows what's really going on and they can present it any way they want.

They can spin the images in the way that they want to because of those show busy type of situations they want to create and put out on social media.

Well, I think one of the things

especially as long as the protests stay peaceful, and including in peaceful, I include disruption.

Disruption has its role.

I draw the line at tractions.

But one of the things that, going back particularly to the Nixon administration,

And now we see it with the Trump administration, is you have repressive governments that do not know how to democratically respond to those protests.

And that works our advantage because that does highlight the fact that they are emperors, they are kings.

that they have no regard for the other branches of government, the legislative body, and particularly the courts.

Now, the big challenge for us as Americans now is will the courts stand by the Constitution?

The packing of the Supreme Court with Trump appointees, obviously, I think the most

terrifying thing we've seen in the history of this nation.

The combination of a president who believes that his will is more important, more powerful than the other two branches of government.

Well, Amy Comney Barrett, she did an interview and she mentioned that President Trump can do almost anything he wants.

She can

He can defy the court, the Supreme Court, if he wants, because they have no way to stop him.

They don't have police powers to stop him.

So that's an amazing thing to say.

Well,

it's the reality.

And it goes back to one of the very first Supreme Court rulings.

May very recently, Madison, we talked about that where after after the Supreme Court decision,

Uh, the president said, in effect, they, uh, they made that ruling, let them enforce it.

Sort of, you know, jokingly mocking the fact that the Supreme court has no other way of enforcing its decisions other than the, basically the will of the president and the Congress to abide by the rulings.

That's right.

We're talking with former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin.

Paul, before we went on the air, you mentioned a New York Times article

that

caught your eye, basically talking about how there's maybe a lane for more moderate candidates in our near future.

Tell us more

about that.

It's an interesting article this morning, which discusses the fact that while there's not a lot of competitive races,

It's it's an opinion piece.

It's entitled America still has a political center and it's the key to winning and While there aren't that many competitive congressional districts or even Senate districts there are some and the key to winning and they uses some Wisconsin examples here the elections of Tony Evers and and reelection in the last time of Tammy Baldwin the point is

You don't have to be as left-wing and progressive in these more moderate congressional districts as say an AOC or a Mark Polkant that if your party wants to build a majority, speaking in this case of the Democrats, let's elect one moderate people who will be there, maybe not on every issue, but certainly

in enough to control a House of Congress.

And you see it in two different ways, first in terms of more moderate people in these swing districts.

But also, I'll use the example of Tammy Baldwin, who's got a plethora of physicians on issues.

Uh, in certain parts of Wisconsin, for example, maybe she ought to talk about some of the efforts that she's made in terms of combating unnecessary government regulation rather than speaking about some of her more militant positions in regards to social and economic justice.

That's

a pretty good idea.

Yeah.

So that middle lane is pretty much wide open.

For candidates

like,

yeah, like,

yes, they can drive

through there.

Yeah.

Yeah,

go

ahead.

Read a portion of the article.

Um, and it, the author of this piece suggests the strategy and then writes left wing Democrats and right wing Republicans have spent years trying to tell a different story.

They claim that reaching out to swing voters is overrated and then they are wrong.

But they do have an element of truth in what they're saying.

And their point, their office point is this.

They are not, there's not as many swing districts in this country that are left to be competitive.

But there's still enough swing districts for either party to create a majority.

So good luck to all of us.

Yeah.

I know.

kind of play

what that exactly could mean.

Well, I just wonder if moderate and mid, I guess we wouldn't know until they try, but moderate and middle candidates do,

you know,

how do they do in fundraising?

Cause things are so divided now.

And it seems like big money is driving the train still.

Yeah, that's for sure.

But isn't there a move, a youth movement as well that we're looking at?

you know, getting the fresh new faces in new blood in the

democratic

party.

I think that's critical as well.

And we've seen that in some of these instances where we've got challenges.

We have challenges to some well entrenched incumbents.

Republicans have absolutely no problem throwing some of their older

Shall we say more moderate leaders under the bus?

Democrats are a bit resembling a bit reluctant to do that But I think the key is is understanding the nature of the constituency and finding the candidate who can win that election

And then with time, and this is critical.

It was the key to my success in hearing Madison, and the first time I was elected mayor in the 70s, prove that you're going to represent the people, prove that you're going to look out for their agenda, and then prove you can govern and take them with you to a more progressive position.

Organized labor in Madison in the 1970s was horrendous.

Public employees unions were not looking out for women.

And one of the greatest battles we had was the city's efforts that were successful to hire women firefighters.

The women, the firefighters union adamantly was opposed to it.

And if you look at the list of some of the alders,

particularly so-called downtown progressives.

They voted against the appointment at that time of Judith Pedersen to the police and fire commission, and I had nominated her as an appointee of somebody who was going to work diligently to change the hiring standards for the department and make it more inclusive to include women.

Now,

There was a bad battle itself, but not only was there that battle, but then we had to move forward With the firefighters union and keep them in effect on the progressive side Because in terms of elections, they've been key to my first victory

Well, we need to leave it there.

We appreciate you joining us always good to talk to you and we'll talk to you again next month

Well, hopefully it'll be as warm as it is now.

Yeah.

We

appreciate it.

Yes.

Thank you, Paul.

Thank you.

We appreciate your

point of view on that.

Paul Simon, former Madison mayor.

We're coming right back after this.

It's very clear you're being unpacking and we're going to run it all away with no more kings.

We're going to elect a president.

No more kings.

He's going to do what the people want.

No

more kings.

We're going to run things our way.

No more kings.

Nobody's going to tell us what to do.

To put it kindly king, we really don't agree.

They knew our time had

come for them to take this.

92.7.

It's John and Gordy in the morning.

We're all holding hands.

trying to make it through the next three and a half year.

That's right.

There will

be here for you.

752.

We've got a few more minutes to go here before Stephanie Miller.

I mentioned earlier that they were flooding social media with old mass protests trying to discredit the major protests and no Kings protest around the nation.

The right wing was very busy putting videos out there of protests that don't

actually happen, you know, now.

They happened many years ago.

And one of the big ones, and this is, this is what the post read countless leftist mouthpieces on X, including Elizabeth Warren.

have been caught sharing a 2017 MSNBC video from a Boston counter protest to make it appear as footage of the 2025 No Kings rally after lower than expected turnout.

No, the turnout was rather large.

You know, I don't know.

We saw a lot of homemade signs, a lot of costume characters out there.

I think this is a fantastic

turnout.

Even in Middleton, one of the corners in Middleton

was

jam-packed with people holding signs and protesting.

What a great site that was.

And tomorrow, thanks to a listener who sent us the audio, Judge Everett Mitchell's opening speech, which was very difficult to follow.

John Nichols did a good job right afterwards, but it was a great speech.

We'll get a little

piece of that tomorrow so uh... uh... it it was uh... just a fantastic speech right uh... let's get to uh... we have uh... cg and a lot

of a bunch of

calls for those of you to get to all of what do you got cj

morning gentlemen

i

don't think i'm gonna call i'd like uh... i thought some uh... videos were

newscasters were rocking around to these protests.

And I love where they asked them why why they were protesting.

And they didn't have any idea.

So what is he doing as a king?

They didn't have any idea.

And Mr. Soglin talked about getting the youth vote.

Turning Point USA.

Charlie Kirk blowing up

Gentlemen,

yeah,

the churches are packed.

The youth are looking for positive messages and they're finding it on the Republicans

But you know the the the message that Charlie Kirk had wasn't a positive one It was a horribly negative one.

It was masked in in Christianity.

It was masked in Christianity It pretended to be a religious point of view and it poisons the poisons

religion

country that's just a terrible message isn't it guys well that's why I

think it's more detailed than that

millions of you are

Headed towards the conservative side as you guys well, you can

say that

crazy people like mendani.

Yeah,

a communist Marxist

well, you know He'll look it will see we'll see how successful he is.

We'll see how successful he is on that Okay, we're gonna take a next next caller here.

It's Charles.

What do you got for us Charles?

Charles got a couple of minutes

Good morning guys, man.

I hate I had to

He had to come before me.

What he does is he really shows his racism.

He does.

My dummy hasn't done anything to anyone except for talking about trying to help everyday normal citizens.

One thing you don't hear coming from the right anymore is helping people.

It was all about, oh, the grocery prices.

We got to bring prices down, housing.

Donald Trump has not said one thing about helping everyday normal citizens.

Exactly.

Good point.

I was calling about the protest.

My wife and I went down to Cathedral Park in Milwaukee, and it was amazing.

Earl was the emcee, did a great job.

Maggie Dawn had a speaking part.

She did great.

It was terrific to see all humans out there, different shades, just enjoying themselves and

trying to save the democracy of this country.

There was no hate speech.

There was no, we hate America.

None of that.

And I think Republicans are but hurt because there were no issues and they thought they were going to be.

I was glad of the time limit thing from 11 to 2 o'clock you dispersed because if you let it linger on, that gives the opportunity for the hooligans.

that they want to come in and disrupt things and then have broadcast it all over the news.

Oh, look at the riots.

They're tearing up stuff.

We thought it was fantastic.

Couldn't ask for a better day.

Exactly.

All right, Charles, thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, great point of view.

And that's what happened during the, you know, King's rallies.

Now let's go to Tim Burchett.

He's a Republican and he was out at Burger King.

Let's listen

to him.

your friendly neighborhood Burger King and join my No Kings Day.

It's some traditional flame, broiled goodness in my hand right now.

Could you imagine the Democrat Party calling about No Kings?

And they literally elected their candidate for president, Mala Harris, with no election.

Imagine

that.

Man.

We are irony of it all.

We don't have a king in this country.

All

right, now he also wrote celebrating the fact that I don't have a British accent with a charbroil Whopper in my hand.

Okay, wait a minute.

You know that voice on the familiar Could you play 165 for me here?

Let's listen to this because I think

this

is with the British accent though.

Okay, this is Tim Bershady.

I

think

Cappies is the point where the best hamburgers ought to be found for only 15 cents.

All right.

I think you're right.

Sounds like the same guy.

I know it does sound like the same guy.

And he tipped his hand.

He said, I

don't