Freezing Potatoes (Hour 1)

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completed one of these years and so you know our headphone jack amplifier yeah has probably the shortest lead-in cords under the table you can't

be moved you can't move it very far so you

have to reach across the table and maybe even get on the table you really shouldn't touch it at all which I just did you know just to get the volume turned

It's all good.

I just can't.

It's good exercise first thing in the morning.

You know what you're right.

Stretch.

It was a good stretch.

And I understand that if you stretch, you better stretch for at least 30 seconds or else it doesn't do any good.

30 seconds of that stretch.

Hold it.

I've

never heard that.

Oh, yeah.

Is that from Jack LaLaine?

No.

It'd be fun to see what they thought exercise was back in the fifties.

Oh, my God.

I know.

I know.

But here's the thing.

I have men's health and I don't know where I got that.

The magazine?

What do you mean you know, it's it's a it's a email bulletin that I get and it might be I thought it was that magazine You're right, but it isn't it's something else and it may be Mayo Clinic or something like that, but the send me emails maybe you know three or four times a week and I read through it and it's geared toward men You know their health what happens to them at each?

Older

decade So, you know, it's really interesting, but you know you find out now I

You know, I resist aging.

I mean, our brains don't age, right?

But our bodies do, and they start collapsing.

So... What do you mean our brains don't age?

Of course they age.

They shrink.

Your brain shrinks over time.

Yeah, but you don't really think.

I mean, mentally, you really don't think you're older.

But here's the thing, when you're looking at some of the exercises and the stretching exercises that they have for seniors, you know, I was insulted.

Because I was in a very good exercise regimen at home, when I was like 68, 69, I was, you know, I was buff.

in a way, really.

I can't get buff.

I don't have that kind of body.

But, you know, I'm thin, normally thin, so it was good.

And I was really exercising, but I'd look at the senior exercises and I would just, what are they doing?

You know, stretching?

What kind of exercise is that stretching?

What are you doing?

It didn't even make it seem like people can't like move or something like that.

Now, as I keep getting older and older, I'm thinking, you know what, you got to do that.

Stretching that stretching thing.

Yeah, and and I always thought 30 seconds hold that stretch for 30 seconds and You know works it does.

I think that's isn't that what Tai

Chi is all about stretching.

Yes, they have a lot of stretching.

Yes, I think that

has

a lot to do with it very slowly through

these stretching moves, but it's

You

know, it's good for you.

A long time ago.

I was in karate and every single class that we had started with it started with a stretch.

Did you break a lot of boards?

I did not break a lot of... I was bad.

I didn't even get... I didn't get any belt.

I was out of there as quick as I can.

You didn't like it?

No, I did not because I wasn't good.

You know, when I was younger, like in my 20s, the big thing was Taekwondo.

Oh, yeah.

And I had grown up watching movies where karate was the answer to every fight.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah karate chop would disable Man from uncle.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I spy spy a little karate chopped at the back of the neck now when I watch those movies It's just funny or or Matt Helm, right?

I'm that was the dumbest, you know seeing Dean Martin try to be an action hero didn't work

never work Those were kind of tongue-in-cheek.

I mean they were kind of you know

Comedy almost

well kind of yeah, no they

were

tongue-in-cheek definitely.

Yeah, yeah mad helm

and in like Flint.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, who was that?

Coburn James Coburn.

Yeah, which he was a strange dude He was odd in in in like Flint,

but

I'm thinking he

He seemed like that kind of guy.

He's into everything, a specialist in everything.

The best foods, the best organic foods, the best energy supplies.

He was

way ahead of the

curve.

But now, it's coming back in like Flint is promoting a lot.

I don't know what streaming channel it was that I saw.

Is it in like Flint or in like Flint?

No, Flint.

It was a take off on in like Flint.

Oh, OK.

That's

right.

But, you know, if you want to have some kind of, you know, light entertainment, check out the old spy movies, like the Matt Helms series.

Fun stuff.

And in like Flint, there were two movies, I believe, on that.

All kind of taking off on 007.

I mean, that was kind of the leading thing that everybody was, you know, emulating.

And whatever you do, don't let...

uh, Bill Cosby, uh, turn you off to a, one of the great series of all time, I think was I spy.

Yeah.

That was just with Robert Colt.

Incredible.

Yeah.

They were so good together.

They really were good together.

And, uh, Cosby would always win the Emmys.

Yeah.

Robert Colt.

Robert Colt never did.

And he like directed road episodes.

He carried the whole series.

He really did.

Yeah.

And he was so cool.

He was the tennis player and Bill Cosby was his manager and they travel around the world spying.

Yeah, but it was a great cover.

It was.

Yeah, great film.

Great series.

It

was.

Well, here it is Friday a little bit later on.

We're going to check in with Savannah Tomei Olson.

Get some of the news headlines of the day and also Pam Yonkey right around the corner here.

We'll get the Midwest food and farm report and find out what she's been up to.

And Rocker will be in the studio with a maxing preview, some great local music happening around our area and around the region.

He'll update us on that.

And of course, it's a Packers week and Packers are actually traveling to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers.

And that's a big Sunday night game, primetime Sunday night football.

Weather today, we have a freeze warning in effect till 9 a.m.

It's really quite cold out

there.

No S word.

No

snow.

No S word.

No snow.

Not yet.

But frost.

We'll be able to say that word pretty soon.

Frost on the

windshield, so.

I would say no S. Yeah.

Because that just tied me up this morning.

It just threw me for a curve.

Why?

We got three vehicles out there just waiting to be used.

And I'm going out to the space car.

Yeah.

And there was frost on the windows.

Oh, no.

And I didn't have a scraper in the car.

It's a new

car.

The space car doesn't automatically sense the frost and start taking care of it before you arrive at the to get in there.

You're right.

You

know, I would think that I expected that.

You think it would do that.

Yeah, drawn from, I don't know, the heat in the universe and draw.

But, but, you know, I didn't have a scraper.

And I knew it was a cassette.

No, I knew it.

I knew the scraper was in the Prius, but I don't know who the hell in our house locked up the Prius.

So I had to go back into the house and grab the wrong keys.

That's why you were running late this morning.

I grabbed the keys for the Highlander.

Yeah.

And that didn't work with the Prius.

So I went back into the house and I got the Prius keys and I got the thing out and I scraped the windows and I finally made it.

But boy that that was just a nightmare

where either the boys awake.

They should have taken care of your vehicle

I would assume that they're probably

awake.

Yeah.

Well, I thought you had conversations

with them

every once in a while They'd be up there and they'd have conversations but not today not yesterday

Yeah, sleeping in.

Well, sometimes it's pretty cool.

You know, I can just sit there and read some of the crazy stories that we feature on Idiocracy.

And I have one today.

Do you?

Yeah.

This is the fun one.

This is the Reagan quote.

Oh, I can't wait for this.

Now, we've played this before on the show at least maybe two or three times.

It has to do with tariffs.

And well, the story is basic.

I'll just give you a heads up on it.

Trump canceled negotiations with Canada.

He's mad about something.

Because Canada decided to play the old Ronald Reagan.

Add.

Not add, but the speech that he gave, at least part of it.

About tariffs.

Yeah, about tariffs.

Yeah, he's ending the negotiations with Canada now, just because

they're using that.

Yes.

In Canada.

And he gave the most ridiculous reason, and we'll get to that.

I mean, you waited here.

I was looking for its comment from TrueSocial, but you have to have an account with TrueSocial to get on TrueSocial.

And I hate TrueSocial more than anything, but I may have to end up doing that.

Actually, no, I'm not going to do that.

Everybody manages to steal stuff from TrueSocial anyway for me.

There are new satellite photos of the East Wing demolition now.

We can see the before and after.

You know, they're trying to hide all this.

How do you demo late?

Yes.

But they've now blocked off a park that's across the street anywhere where they can get a visual of the demolition.

Now the Secret Service has stepped in and saying, well, this is a security matter.

Wait, wait, hold on.

I thought this was the most open administration ever.

Isn't it?

Of course it is.

Don't they tell us everything?

They tell us

that all the time.

Oh, but we

can't watch the demolition.

Well, it's already, it's demolished.

Now it's just a matter

of

hauling away the rubble.

They'll take that to some secret location and then start selling that off.

It was part of history.

The East Wing

makes some money on that.

So the East Wing is actually

going to be a ballroom.

Well, it's going to be a ballroom

now.

Right.

I mean, that's what the East Wing is going to be.

It's going to be a ballroom.

Yes.

Right.

Is there going to be an east wing that attaches the ballroom?

to the White House now?

No, no, not

the drawings

that I've seen.

Or just conveyor belt where we all get on that damn car from the White House to the ballroom, right?

No, this

is an escalator of some sort.

Nobody gets this.

This is not like going to be open to the public

or

anything.

We'll never

see this.

You know,

tours of the White House.

Well, yes, I guess there are tours of the White House.

Yeah, they're all they

still they still do those, but I don't think they're going

to

let anybody near the ballroom.

That's just.

for the, you know, the

buddies.

Oh no, no, this is going to be a big spender.

A real display.

Really?

I would assume that, you know, if you're out there in DC, you can't miss the ballroom.

They're rumors.

They're building

a

huge bunker underneath there for Trump and his family.

Yes.

Yes.

I

heard that.

So it's

all because there's already a bunker under the West Wing.

All right.

Yeah.

But they need extra bunkers.

Well, I'm thinking they want a high luxury bunker.

Of

course they do.

Underneath.

A lot of gold in that bunker.

Yeah.

Now you would think that like CJ or my mega friend in Milwaukee would be sitting in there going

Oh my God, what the hell is he doing?

Why is he doing this?

And they just jump on board the old Trump bandwagon.

Well, can you imagine if Obama had done anything to the

White House?

No,

I know.

Like, do

any

significant construction

or deconstruction?

He did.

He put in a basketball court.

He ripped him for it.

Yeah.

I mean, that was a week-long complaint from the Republicans when he put a basketball hoop.

Right.

On

the tennis court.

And it wasn't even a full court.

It was a half court, I think.

Well, you know, it's a tennis court and it's split in half and there was hardly anything there.

Boy, they couldn't handle that.

I mean, you know, again, everybody reminds me, and the anchors are very good with this.

They say, you know, they're really kind of renting the White House.

It's not theirs.

It's not theirs.

So, he just ripped it down.

No advice.

No plans.

Nothing.

Nothing.

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We're going to have ballroom dancing lessons at the new big ballroom.

Next to the White House.

The new East

Wing.

That's a

great idea.

They could open it up as a dance studio

and

make a little money on the side for dance lessons.

Geez, thank you.

23 minutes past the hour.

It's cold out there this morning.

We have a freeze warning in effect till 9 a.m.

Right now, 30 degrees here in Madison.

Frost on the car windows, just to let you know.

So there is a freeze out there.

Let's talk about the freeze.

We have Pam Yankee on the line.

Good morning, Pam.

Morning guys, I'm gonna digress from the freeze for just a moment

and

comment about the ballroom

Yeah, I

am personally I am personally honked off by the demolition of the East Wing I got the opportunity to moderate a White House panel in the East Wing a couple years ago

Invitation of U.S.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack asked me to moderate what they called the climate champions.

It was stories about farmers and landowners from all across the United States and different things they were doing to try to flex and moderate with the climate.

And it was in the East Wing.

And I still have the picture up in my office.

And you know, I mean, how many times do you get a chance to do something in the White House?

And then I watch TV and it's like, oh, there it goes.

There

goes right where I should

do

it.

There

it

goes.

Boy, wiping out your memories just like that, right?

I mean, that is outrageous.

It's, it's crazy.

And plus, you know, I miss Tom Vilsack and he was, he was the egg secretary for a long time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Two terms.

Yep.

Two terms he was with Biden and Obama.

So yeah, I send him an email every once in a while.

He's also a rabid Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

So

I

no doubt will have to give him a little, little slice of something before the game on Sunday.

But yeah,

like I said, I

didn't mean to break, break off your freeze conversation because that was definitely something I noticed this morning.

Rooftops, windshields, the first sign that we've got it, you know, it worked two weeks.

We're about two weeks.

compared to when we normally see freeze in Wisconsin.

Normally that would happen between the fourth and the sixth.

So we've been able to stretch it out a little bit.

The only reason I brought it up for you guys this morning is it's still maybe a little early for some of our Wisconsin potato growers.

We were talking with them this week.

They had gotten

They had to jump start the harvest because it was so hot.

And potato growers have to harvest when the temperatures are as close to about 40 degrees as they can.

So a lot of potato growers started the harvest at midnight, one, two in the morning, because that was when the temperatures were ideal to bring the spuds out of the ground and get them into storage.

Now the little rascals are laying out there in the ground.

And if the freeze occurs,

Well, they've always been describing to me as they said to think of potatoes like a bunch of toddlers on a bus.

Don't touch me.

Don't move me.

They're very picky about how they want to be handled.

Potatoes now if they are, if they accidentally get frozen or something, they can turn into kind of a poison pill when they take them into storage because they've got these big warehouses where they're

piling up potatoes and controlling the temperature and the darkness until you and I need them June and next year.

And if you put one bad spud in the middle of that, it has a tendency to touch all the other potatoes and get them, you know, soft and mushy.

So

our

Wisconsin potato growers are going to have to be monitoring that pretty close.

But yeah, they always explain it to me if you want to know how to handle a potato.

Think about it like a toddler, like a toddler on a bus.

Don't touch me.

I don't, that's too hot.

This is too cold.

They're just fussy, so.

Well, I'll go with a little rascals.

It was warm and fuzzy for me.

But here's the thing.

You say they dig them up, right?

That's the way they harvest them and they let them sit there for a little while.

Does that mean that, you know, like an initial freeze isn't going to affect them, but if it's a freeze over and over again, then it becomes problematic for these?

Well, yeah, and remember they're in the soil until they're on top of the soil.

They're still insulated Then then we can go for a while, but if for some reason say they dug them yesterday and didn't get a chance to Bring them all in then that's where they can start to get some soft spots or you know one or two that just you know for some reason were exposed but remember potatoes potatoes carrots onions Anybody that's got a garden knows you can leave those in the ground quite a little while

and they're still perfectly fine even after we get you know depending on the snow and that type thing you can leave them in the ground November into almost December and then pull them up and they're still fine because they're insulated it's just when they get exposed to that uh that air that you have to start worrying about their condition

how about pumpkins how about frost on the pumpkins this morning they're fine okay they're

cool don't worry about them

do we

have a big fruit is fine

do we have a big

Pumpkin industry here in the state where they you know provided for the canned pumpkins.

Do we have something like that here?

Here's a Here here's okay.

Take this with you for the rest of the day and share Libby's canning company.

Yeah, Libby's Libby's Libby's on the label label label.

Yeah,

that is the number one pumpkin canning company in the US and Almost all of their pumpkins are grown in one on one farm in Morton, Illinois.

Really?

How exciting a like do I leave that I can share that kind of interesting knowledge with you?

Well,

Morton, Illinois, is that downstate somewhere?

Yep.

Okay.

We'll, we'll share

that.

I think they, okay.

I can't remember how many acres.

I'll try to come up with that before, before Halloween.

How about

that?

Yeah.

We will, we'll keep that in the back of our minds.

Let's talk about the Argentina beef.

I mean, this is such a huge issue now.

I watched the whole story and ended up with Chris Hayes last night.

What's going on with that?

Just got a minute.

Go ahead.

Well, and what also got interesting is we 11, nobody thinks that Argentina beef is going to make it here because China is going to bid it up just to keep it from the United

States.

And the thing that I thought was very interesting, very interesting this week.

So Trump decides to open the US Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency offices to try to help farmers.

And then he snapped at beef producers that complained about bringing Argentina beef in.

It's like, I guess he started.

to segregate which area of agriculture he wants to side with because he slammed beef producers for criticizing his Argentina beef move.

And

like I said, most analysts don't think the Argentina beef is ever going to get here.

So we'll see.

All right.

Well, it's not a good move on Trump's part.

We have to leave it there.

You have a good

weekend.

Go Packers.

Go Pack.

Go

Pack.

You bet.

Talk to you Monday.

It's Pam Yankee, Midwest Food and Farm Reports.

Right around the corner next, then we're back with Idiocracy for Friday morning on WMDX.

As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.

God, I'm so stupid!

Stupid, foolish, gullible, doddish, dumbbell, lay back.

I'm an extremely stable genius.

Okay.

It's all fake news.

It's phony stuff.

It didn't happen.

You are fake news.

That's the best stupid thing I've ever heard this week, man.

Idiocracy.

For the

smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.

It is so frustrating WM DX 92.7 John and Gordy in the morning as we as we open up another edition of There's

just so much to get to 635

Clear skies this morning, there's frost out there on your windshield.

So you might allow a little extra time to scrape that frost out before you drive around southern Wisconsin.

The freeze warning in effect this morning for all of southern Wisconsin till 9 a.m.

It's gonna clear, it's gonna be clear and sunny today, high around 51 right now, 30 degrees

here.

Okay, idiocracy.

The big story for idiocracy today.

The biggest idiot of all, Donald Trump is making dumbass comments again and boy have we got one for you today.

So hard to keep up, but

we do the best we

can.

All right, well the big story is that Trump has hit the brakes on trade talks with Canada and he's angry that Canada is airing an advertisement using Ronald Reagan's speech about how dumb tariffs are.

So

he's breaking off trade negotiations.

He's really angry.

I mean this is a quote.

Here's a quote from Trump.

Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement which is fake.

Featuring Ronald Reagan featuring negatively speaking negatively about tariffs.

Okay.

So anyway,

I know I missed that up Ronald Reagan foundation announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement.

It's a fake.

It is not a fake.

That's what Trump.

Yeah, Trump is saying it's a fake.

It's not fake.

It's not a fake.

It's an action and they even have video.

You know, we use the audio

clips here, but this is a video.

Let's hear what Ronald Reagan said about tariffs and why Canada would want to use this in an advertisement.

Let's go with it.

At first, when someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs, and sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time.

What eventually occurs is

First, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs.

They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets.

And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs.

High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars.

The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers and less and less competition.

So soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

Then the worst happens.

Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs.

So let's experiment with that.

Okay.

Let's let's do exactly the opposite and see how that works out Let's prove Ronald Reagan wrong.

Maybe that's what Trump is trying to do here and Canada picked up on this particular speech They're using it in ads in order to attack Trump and his insistence on putting

trade tariffs in place.

And at this point, Canada is also experiencing a near recession at this point.

It might happen really soon, but they're approaching that.

So things are bad in Canada and they need to have some kind of negotiation and now Reagan has kind of inserted himself in here somehow.

And Trump is angry about it.

What can you

say?

You know, he's not making a lot of good decisions here, you know, with Venezuela.

No, Canada is one of our biggest trading partners.

It's not the biggest.

Come on,

the biggest trading partner is Venezuela.

Oh, wow.

That's a whole other kettle of fish, isn't it?

Yeah, I... In Argentina, we're working with Argentina, and now, you know, maybe Brazil will get on board, but you know, screw Canada.

It gets angry so

easily and just gets, you know, just...

Man, just chill out.

You know, what is the problem?

I don't get it.

I think he's very envious of Ronald Reagan.

I mean, that's what it boils down to.

Everybody loved Ronald Reagan.

And, you know, there's a lot of things that the Republicans revered about Ronald Reagan.

And now, you know,

I

think Trump has such a huge ego that anytime Reagan's name comes up, he doesn't like that.

I've got a

theory here and I'm just gonna throw it out there it's unsubstantiated but I mean it hasn't hasn't stopped mega from spreading their stuff so I might as well join the club here but I think you know there's all this talk about Trump and having some kind of a dementia oh yeah

right sometimes

Sometimes dementia is really hard to detect.

And when you repeat stories over and over again, it's something you're rerunning in your head that you have created and that is part of a symptom of dementia.

And he does this all the time.

And I'm wondering if that isn't what the big problem here is.

The other problem, if you have a case of dementia, you have people who are advising you.

And this sounds like he's being advised.

about the Reagan video being a fake, a deep fake.

And that's what they're telling him in the White House.

And he doesn't watch this stuff.

He doesn't understand any of this stuff.

He doesn't even know that this video ever existed prior to this.

So he thinks, well, this is all just created, manufactured, and Canada's using it.

That's my theory.

I think

that this could be an indicator of a real problem and the fact that he isn't actually running the country at all, he's just taking advice, he's just repeating what other people tell him, like what's going on in Portland.

Well, you could be right, because when he has these open press conferences kind of in the cabinet room where they're just firing questions at him, a lot

of

times he doesn't know what they're talking about.

And then he defers to somebody else.

Is that what they said?

Who said that?

You know, yeah, he doesn't.

And then, of course, you know, he looks like a deer in headlights.

A lot of times when he's asked those questions.

So it's not like he's just, OK, now he's going to create something new on his feet.

He can't do that.

Yeah.

Let's go to the phones, 608.

8 7 9 8 2 5 5 matt is on the line for middleton good morning matt

morning guys uh we are truly in the upside down world because uh i feel like there's going to be more republican communism coming as they gobble up corporations as they uh cause them to fail in some ways but

As far as the idiocracy, you know, at least President Camacho wanted the smartest people to run things.

We don't even have that.

Yes, yes, President Camacho, that's from idiocracy.

And yeah, he was he was very impressed, you know, because the smartest man in the world was, you know, unfrozen.

Yeah.

in the capital in celebration of bills being passed, you know?

Just shooing him off, right?

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

Wow.

President Comacho.

All right.

Thank you for that call.

Now, you know, when we talk about idiocracy again, you really have to see this movie and and think when we saw this when it was originally released, it was just stupid.

It was dumb.

Bizarre.

It didn't seem right.

You know, we thought, well, very far off far out.

It didn't exactly work.

It was just too crazy.

Yeah, too over the top.

And now, of course, we are now it's moderate.

Yeah.

Oh, OK.

All right.

Anyway.

Let's get into something else here that's changed the subject a little bit It's a nice trick if you can pull it off Fed employees usually get furloughed pay during shutdowns right not getting fired But now you know Trump is firing them and getting rid of them ruthlessly I'd say

I want to know, do the magas really want to vote for him again?

This is, this is cruel stuff to our fellow Americans.

Here's NBC 4 in DC, a little report on this.

Cut 107, cut 107 about firing these employees.

Let's listen.

Breaking news on a Friday afternoon.

Federal workers, many of them are neighbors here in the Washington DC area are being fired.

A post on X from the director of the office of management and budget Russ vote said rifts have begun government speak for reductions in force in plain English.

It means people are being fired in the midst of this government shutdown.

How many?

One White House source told NBC News a substantial number.

Another source said it is in the thousands.

Where are they?

How will they be notified?

We don't have those answers yet, but a spokesperson told NBC News.

It's deeply unfortunate that thousands of federal workers will be laid off as a result of the Democrat shutdown.

It's unclear if any of this is legal.

It doesn't mean it's not happening.

It'll be fought over in the courts.

In the meantime, those federal employees put in the middle.

In past shutdowns, many of them have been furloughed, asked to work without pay or simply gone without paychecks for some time.

But they would eventually get their jobs back.

Now the White House seems to be pushing the envelope and actually reducing the number of federal employees

through fire.

That's right.

Now, when I was working for the census, I was on furlough a few times when the government shut down.

And so they just keep your money until

they do.

And then it's over.

Yeah.

You get a big

lump sum.

And they tell you can't work.

Can't work.

Do not do any work at all.

Don't go on your laptop.

Don't take care of stuff you didn't finish.

Really?

Yeah.

Just stop cold.

Do not do it.

Yeah.

So anyway,

Again, why aren't any of these numbers, these huge numbers of layoffs and firings, why aren't they used in the unemployment report?

You would think that that would just escalate, go right through the roof, but nothing's ever really happened with that.

They don't have the people to put those numbers together anymore.

That's right.

They've

been fired.

Yeah, the murder hornets, boy.

Are they on the rise again?

Yeah, there's some story in murder hornets.

Shiny object,

squirrel.

I know, I look up and the guy has his hand and there are two murder hornets dead upside down in his hand.

I'm thinking, wow.

Are they invading?

I don't know.

Must be a problem.

You know what, we'll find out next week.

As we continue that story in Murder Hornets.

All right, let's get to occupying cities.

You know, there's something that snaps in the mega mind where they think that this is the safest way to go.

We really need to take care of crime.

This does it for them, you know, occupying a city with the military, some form of military.

That's the way to do it.

Police force not enough for them.

Go after the sanctuary cities.

Yes.

Bring in the military.

Especially, yes, the democratic cities.

By the way, that last story we heard.

Democrat.

It's Democratic.

Okay.

Let's not fall into the Republican way of saying Democrat.

Okay.

This just burns me every time.

But let's listen to Chief of Staff Dan Scavino.

He was talking about freedom and security and this is cut 162.

Let's get to it.

Everybody's on the same page, marching in unison to deliver the president's agenda and his goals in making Washington, D.C.

safe again, in making Memphis safe again.

Chicago, how can these guys like Chicago, how could they not want to make Chicago safe again?

I'll never understand it for the life of me, how these people do not want to work with this administration.

And I'm talking Pritzker and I'm talking Newsom.

How and why?

Oh,

man.

Wow.

It's stunning how easily they're convinced that if you put a military force in your cities to calm down crime, doesn't seem to be a solution to a problem at all.

It seems like a temporary quick solution that doesn't last forever unless you have the occupation.

That's baffling.

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Oh, yeah.

We are.

This is John Gordy in the morning, WMD.

This is

like a gift of gold from Trump, right?

Right in our lane.

It really is.

Because

this ballroom thing is going to go on for a while.

It

is truly, it is the best example of what he's doing to the rest of the country.

Devolishing it.

Yeah, just taking it apart with no permission, no plans whatsoever.

I mean, you know, it started off as $250 million.

Then it went up to three.

Yeah.

And a lot of the stories I have with me are just at three, but he increased it to 350 million dollars.

Really?

Yeah.

He keeps changing.

It's just like all the time.

Well, maybe more donors are

stepping up to contribute money to this thing.

So he might as well, you know, build it even bigger and more gold.

Well, what's a few million to billionaires, right?

And they get something for it.

You know, tax breaks, obviously.

So why don't we play a Daily Show look at the demolition of the East Wing?

OK.

The government shutdown is now in its third week.

Countless federal employees aren't being paid.

Food stamps will run out soon.

And there's no end in sight.

But not to worry, President Trump is working day and night to build a ballroom.

It's exactly what you voted for, coal miners in Pennsylvania.

90,000 gilded square feet for Trump to do the jerk off dance in.

But if you're worried such a renovation might damage the people's house let Donald Trump put your fears to rest

it wanted to fear with the current building.

I won't be it'll be Near it, but not touching it and paste total respect to the existing building which I'm the biggest fan of it's my favorite

Yeah, it's my favorite.

I never want to leave, and I'm never going to.

I believe it's his favorite building, though.

He loves the history, the decor, the immunity from criminal convictions that it provides.

But great.

The White House itself is going to be fine.

They're not going to touch it.

They're not even going to touch it.

This morning, demolition day at the White House, crews tearing down walls as construction for President Trump's 90,000-square-foot ballroom ramps up.

Yeah, yeah.

It looks like they touched it.

I mean, holy shit.

Who's his general contractor, Bin Laden and son?

Apparently not touching the White House turned into demolishing the White House.

And for what?

Does he really need a ballroom attached to his home?

I mean, it would be good to have one room where Baron didn't have to crouch, but still.

I mean, they're tearing apart the entire East Wing.

I hope there's nothing important going on there.

Constructed in 1902, the East Wing house is the office of the First

Lady.

That's harsh.

That's harsh.

Do you think Trump warned Melanin in advance or did a crane just scooper up mid-bubble bath?

Yeah, that's it right there, but... Construction company bit Laden and sons.

They did have a construction

company.

His father was a contractor.

Yeah, that's true.

Yes, wow.

Oh, that's just an amazing...

Oh, yeah, let's go to Charles.

Yeah, we

call from Charles Milwaukee.

What do you got for us, Charles?

Hey, good morning, guys.

I wanted to go back to the whole crime thing.

I was saying, I said to the day I died, it's never been about crime.

They're not going into the crime areas of these cities.

I always believe that this was a fake outrage of it's in the crime emergency.

so they could actually be able to go into the sanctuary cities and round up immigrants.

And that's what it's always been about.

Because like I said, they didn't go into the high crime areas of DC.

They're not going to go into the high crime areas of Chicago.

It's all about protecting the thugs, as they call them, the ICE agents.

And that's what it's all about.

So it's the fake outrage in there.

Oh, they, they Democrat, the Democratic party don't care about crime.

They, they want the thugs and that to just run, rap it and kill people.

And they're the ones that's unleashing crime.

Oh yeah.

The biggest criminal and at the head of the White House, 34 count felon.

It puzzles me when they talk about crime.

And then they look at him and I'm like, what are they thinking?

Well, no, they're not thinking.

They're not.

Well, you know, they've got a bigger plan and we'll be getting into that, Charles, next hour.

First thing, it's a big plan.

It was revealed on NPR.

I've got audio from NPR on this.

Thank

you, Charles.

And wait till you hear this.

I mean, it's going to be a shocker for everybody.

They're going after everybody on the left.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, or anybody who doesn't believe in the mega philosophy, which is kind of, I don't know what that is anymore.

Were you in a couple minutes here?

Yeah, you know, bringing this up, I mean, you know, if you want to get answers to what's really going on, you should go to the House Speaker, you know, Mike Johnson, because he knows everything.

You know, he's got his finger on the pulse of everything that the Trump administration is up

to.

Do we have that clip there, Don?

Let's hear

it.

This is Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House.

So just fielding some questions from reporters about what's happening.

He's in the know.

Yeah.

How comfortable are you with the president apparently seeking $230 million in the Department

of Justice?

I don't know the details about that.

I just read it.

I don't know.

I've never seen the Epstein evidence.

It wasn't in my lane.

I don't know anything about the mean point thing.

I don't know.

I don't know anything about the dinner.

I was a little busy this past week because you know.

I'm not following all the twists and turns of the...

guitar jet.