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This is The John and Gordy Show on 92.7 WMDX.
So, you know, I just want to reveal something that I think we found out on this show.
You know, we celebrated our second anniversary, which is just unbelievable.
It's still stunning to me.
I had the...
Had to like come down a little bit when I got home thinking it's in real two years.
I mean, you know, just it was ridiculous But one thing we did find out on this program that coffee is a hallucinogen We have discovered that it is something that we can't do anything about what are you talking about?
Once we meet that chemical discovery that coffee is definitely an hallucinogen, you've listened to it, you've experienced on this show, our hallucinations.
I'd like to think that a lot of what we talk about is just a hallucination, but no, it's real.
How did
I have an announcement.
Are you talking to me?
What's the problem, pal?
I'm here on a mission of mercy.
A cup
of
coffee in the big
time,
yeah.
A cup of coffee in the big time.
Put that
You don't know
Saturday
anyway.
It seems like it's either
or snow
Well, you know, I had everything.
I had dreams.
I had dreams of what I actually saw an apparition.
Yeah.
I've had my experiences.
I wish I had more of them with my son, who was also very much into it.
And it just, it was really exciting just playing along with them and going into the basement and seeing if we have spirits
And of course, yeah.
Rocker will be in the studio later with the Maxing preview.
You know, it's kind of interesting, the Future Farmers of America, FFA.
I gotta tell you, I didn't know what FFA stood for.
Future Farmers of America.
So I went, or I just said that.
I know.
Here's the thing, I had to do a search on it, and I kept doing a search on
it.
And I
And they have all this paraphernalia, all of these events, everything they're talking about, but they never said the name.
They never wrote the name on their website.
I couldn't find it on the website.
I had to eventually just go to Google where people ask these questions, what does FFA stand for?
So I finally found out I did not know.
But, you know, doing the research for this program, trying to get everything straight.
That's wild.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
It's like, oh, we're supposed to know that already?
No.
No, it doesn't work that way.
A lot of cartoons later, I really never got into a lot of comic strips.
I didn't really check out anymore.
Since I moved out of Milwaukee, they had something called the green sheet in Milwaukee and they made that a very special section.
It was green paper.
a light green and they had their comic strips on it and feature articles on the green sheet for entertainment.
Yeah, it was in there for many decades.
A
Dan Aykroyd and
for it, all the
that the movie put out.
The whole
Well, I've never regretted all the money I spent on Hot Wheels.
You know, the thing with Hot Wheels is that
a dollar, a car.
I mean, you hit the hot spot, the sweet spot for adults.
You could buy a couple of bucks and you satisfy the kidneys, got something to play with for the next week.
Right?
Yeah.
Hot wheels are cool.
But one of the big things about Hot Wheels were the animated movies that they made.
They had a three-part movie.
I think it was Highway...
45.
Highway 45, I believe it was.
And they also had one called Accelerators, which was really, really cool.
Somebody went through all the work of making them into 4K.
They weren't 4K.
Mattel decided not to redo them or make them better
the
I
Babe.
Next!
This is where I worry about the visual element in mic stands that just, you know,
Civic might might want to think about a visual filter
I was thinking about that.
Remember when kids used to dress up like bats?
Yeah.
Batman, yes, but just bats in general.
Now, if you're not a popular game...
character, something like that.
It doesn't seem like you show up on the streets in costume.
But yeah, it's international.
This is an international thing.
That's what caught my attention is, well, it may make some people a little anxious when they see bats, you know, if you slow down and think about it a little bit, they really do an awful lot for us.
that's primarily what International Bat Week is designed to try to help you understand the amount of insects that bats can consume.
You know, you think the insects are bad now in a summer in Wisconsin.
Just imagine all the things that would be crawling around if they weren't a part of our ecosystem.
They have obviously a lot of flies that they eat, the mosquitoes, all that kind of stuff.
So it not only helps farmers by keeping most insects down, it helps us to enjoy things too.
And remember, Wisconsin's got some unique elements that
Don't get talked about a lot.
We've got our little brown bat that was at the brink of almost extinction, but Wisconsin's been working really hard to try to restore that population.
We're not there yet, but they're working on it.
And you know, remember, even though you might not, you know, it's not like they sneeze or anything like that.
Little white, the bats do have something kind, kind of like a white nose.
disease, right?
Yes, correct, correct.
And so that's been impacting some of our bats in Wisconsin, too.
So like I said, I don't want to dwell on a lot because at this time of the morning, it may be the least thing that people want to imagine.
One almost flew into my head this morning
I walked into the building.
Just bear in mind that it is International Bat Week and you can find out more at batweek.org.
They've got all kinds of suggestions on things you can do.
You can hold parties.
You can create habitats for them.
taken urban bat walk.
They got all kinds
suggestions if you really want to buy into it on holiday.
We had bats in our attic for a long time.
I think they're not there anymore.
I don't know, but I used to go outside at night in the early evening, see them flying all over the place, dive bombing me.
And I just loved it.
I thought that was fantastic.
Thanks for taking care of that mosquito for me.
Right,
right.
Yep, they do.
They do.
I think they eat like almost twice their body weight in insects.
Now, now, now they're, now they're a wee bit snobby.
They prefer FFA only.
They don't want the future farmers of America reference anymore.
But, uh, one thing I thought was kind of, you know, true, seriously, if, if I make a misstep and happen to reference the old phrase, I'm fairly quickly, uh, correct it.
Yep, correct, correct.
So one thing I thought might be interesting for your audience is if anybody remembers.
where the FFA convention has previously been held.
Now, it's in Indianapolis.
They made the announcement this week.
They will stay in Indianapolis through 2040.
But one thing I really think, I mean, obviously I could get into the length of Wisconsin winters and all that stuff.
But, you know, you just stop and think about over 72,000 young people under the age of basically 18.
That's
Between middle school
18 years of age.
that are all coming together and they have to be in a place where the association feels like they're going to be safe.
Some people have said to me, well, why don't they go to big places like California, Las Vegas?
Well, okay, the venues might be there, but you have to think about the security risk for those kids.
They're still kids.
So they've committed to Indianapolis for until 2040, but I thought if you want to light up your talk text line,
or interaction on the civic media website.
Does anybody remember the places where the FFA convention has been held previously?
They had the first one back in 1928.
There were 33 attendees and the first national FFA president came from New Jersey.
That tells you how long
And like I said, so from 33
to today, that organization's got more than 72,000 kids in the Indianapolis area this morning.
The convention wraps up tomorrow.
But like I said, if people want to venture a guest, I will tell you the last time.
So it's been in Indianapolis since 2006.
It went 2006 to 2012.
Then it went back to Louisville, Kentucky.
And
that's
where they hold the Kentucky State Fair at those fairgrounds, which are, which were wonderful for the FFA.
And then before that, it was Kansas City, Missouri for the longest time.
That's where I first went to the FFA convention
from
1928 to 1998.
It was there, but quite frankly, Kansas City is just landlocked.
They can't do anything more.
But like I said, if people have got memories or something that they remember from their trip, they can probably share it with you guys this morning.
Yes.
Halloween.
Go
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.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber.
You
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Unable to solve her simplest problems.
No true words were ever spoken.
Oh my God, this is ridiculous.
Then we have to go through this shutdown for absolutely no reason at all.
Only because one side is
trying to convince the other side or everybody in the country that it's not their fault.
I think that's the only reason they're doing this is just to see if they buy into this we can do anything we want.
Clear skies this morning.
some clouds, maybe a little rain around Halloween time, 4 p.m.
to 7 p.m.
is our best chance, 20 to 30% chance for rain.
So maybe a few sprinkles and that's it.
Right now it's 37 degrees and time for idiocracy.
So away we go as phone lines are open, 608-879-8255.
Let's get into
They're putting in their bill that they want us to vote for.
They want us to vote for taking millions of people off of Medicaid.
a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare and increasing by two or three times the cost of health care policies for America's working families.
You want us to go vote for that bill to open up government?
You must be crazy.
Very
Easy to understand.
Even the Megas can pick up on this.
CJ is probably jotting all that down.
Right.
And my mega friend in Milwaukee is probably having an epiphany.
Oh, I wish.
Oh, I wish.
All right.
Well, anyway, that's that.
Now, we talked about surveillance yesterday.
Well, now, let's keep going with this.
I want to go with Jen Socke had a really good point she made last night, okay?
And this is about being held hostage over healthcare.
Who's really doing it?
Well, it's obviously the Republicans.
Let's check this out.
Cut 154, right?
All right.
Remember, the core of this entire shutdown is that Republican leaders are refusing to extend tax subsidies that make healthcare affordable for millions of Americans.
Republicans are refusing to acknowledge the very real pain that would be inflicted on Americans if those subsidies are not extended.
They're out here decrying the so-called forthcoming health care crisis, they say.
I don't think this is going to be any kind of gut-wrenching problem if these hand subsidies just go away.
Unless those tax credits are extended, those subsidies, the average plan will increase for Americans by somewhere around 115%.
Do you believe that Congress should extend those subsidies so that most Americans do not receive significant increases in their premiums?
Where'd you get that 115% number from?
Kaiser Family
Foundation.
They retracted that.
That data was run inappropriately.
They changed the messaging on it.
Go back and look at the website now.
Here is the Kaiser Family Foundation website.
They have not, in fact, retracted their data.
The foundation still estimates that the average ACA enrollee's monthly premium would more than double, increasing by 114% if Republicans refuse to extend the subsidies.
But they have a real problem on their hands because they are lying about things that directly impact the lives of millions of people.
And that means millions of people in this country are starting to see the impact in their own lives and realize that what people like Mike Johnson and Dr.
and JD Vance are saying is not true.
If you use Obamacare, you can go to healthcare.gov right now and see how much your monthly premium is going to go up next year.
When you see that number, you can decide for yourself if this isn't a problem like Republicans are saying.
It is a problem.
Today, journalists from Punch Bowl News also reported that inside a meeting of House Democrats today, pollster Molly Murphy presented data on the shutdown.
Data that showed that by a nearly two to one margin, voters said that preventing huge increases in health premiums for 20 million Americans was more important than ending the shutdown.
The Mike Johnson plan here is not working.
The Trump plan is not working.
The JD Bans plan is not working.
And that polling, by the way, was from more than a week ago.
Now.
Republicans, leading Republicans, are trying to hold food access for more than 42 million Americans hostage.
I don't think the American people, no matter who they voted for or what their political party is, are going to like that.
But the question now is with a Republican party that is willing to go to extremes like holding food hostage and who do not seem all too responsive to any political pressure other than from their boss and who are more than happy to just lie about everything they're doing.
How do you negotiate with
party like that?
How do you negotiate with people like that?
Just lying through their teeth in just the most obvious way.
And I gotta remind you again, this is a Christian nationalist.
This is a guy who goes by the Bible, Mike Johnson, lying through his teeth and he's been doing it for the last month.
It is so outrageous to see this.
Well, there's deceptive mood that he puts on every time he gets in front of a microphone.
It's just very calm and very well, you know In any he gives it uncomfortable laugh He just really drives me crazy now.
Let's get to Well, let's go to the phone lines and and get to CJ CJ.
What do you got for us?
I bet
you're
Happy Halloween, CJ
hey good morning to you um well you know i want to remind you that uh this affordable care act is not affordable and as the subsidies rise um and are promised to rise it only proves that the republicans were right in 2009 when they said the affordable care act is not going to be affordable and now the democrats
No Republicans voted for the ACA back in 2009 and now the Democrats want the Republicans to save it Well, the mere fact that it wasn't gonna be sustainable the Republicans are right and Mike Johnson and the house already passed a Can clean continuing resolution?
Yes
down is Tammy Baldwin and the Democrats.
Well, let me just deal with every one of those little issues you have.
In regards to the Affordable Care Act, the prices continue to go up.
Healthcare prices continue to escalate.
It does get more and more expensive.
And that takes more and more of taxpayer dollars to supplement the Affordable Care Act.
so everybody can afford their premiums.
The prices are all going up.
I absolutely agree with you on that, CJ.
And that is healthcare.
But if you think for one second a free market healthcare system is going to bring prices down, we went to Obamacare so we could maintain lower prices and have a slower escalation of prices and make it affordable.
And now let me just deal with another thing here.
We have these escalating prices and the tax credits are getting higher and higher and we're paying more and more into this.
We have Medicare, we have Medicaid, we have Obamacare, we have taxpayer dollars going to each one of those.
Let's just have a universal healthcare system, my God, why do we have these different functions that keep getting more and more expensive?
We can't afford
free market health care.
We've already gone through that.
I went through a whole list of things that made it incredibly impossible for people to even get any kind of health care at all.
We just have to go to a universal health care system.
I don't know why, but I think at least CJ, you would probably agree with me that if we had universal health care, it would take care a whole lot of problems in this country.
Think about the small businesses that need health care.
I mean, people are locked
into their company that they're at because they get healthcare through it and their family gets healthcare through it.
If they had the ability to freely move to their own business if they wanted to create it and have their own healthcare because we have a universal healthcare system, it would save this country so much money and create so many new entrepreneurs and businesses out there, we would blossom as a country.
That's where
Go ahead.
Hey, good morning.
Good morning guys.
This this party just just lies though And if John Thune they wanted to in the shed now John Thune can go in today blow up the filibuster And get this passed but Republicans don't want to do that because they know if they did that People would lose their people would lose health care people's rates would climb sky and they don't want to get blamed for that Yeah, and they were hoping that the Democratic
Politicians would have cased by now so they could try to put the blame on them and and another big question They've had years Donald Trump was president in 2016 Every two weeks he was coming out with a health care plan.
He never stopped running to be president That's right.
So you guys still don't have a health care plan.
You're talking about we got a great plan Well, if you had a great plan
instead of Donald Trump pardoning all the thugs that he got out there rounding up people now, that's the first thing that they would have, they would have, they would have did was, was got rid of the affordable care and brought in their healthcare plan, but they don't have a healthcare plan.
And most people can afford healthcare plans from their jobs that they're not making money from.
right.
to go online,
Not everybody's going to do it right away, but when people see what their prices are going to be like,
There is going to be such an incredible pushback on this that they're not going to be able to get away with this showy thing they're doing right now and creating all this pain for healthcare in this country.
I think we have
Good morning.
I thought I heard that actually the Affordable Care Act is actually based on a Republican plan from back in the 1980s.
I think actually coming out of the Heritage Foundation, it
some of that.
And so now the Republicans oppose it.
Well, if they're for them, the reason they oppose it now, they oppose it then, is now when they actually passed it.
It's because it came from a black man.
It came from Obama, and they didn't want to go along with Obama or anything.
We should have national health care in this country like every other...
I mean, for God's sake, Turkey has national universal healthcare.
Hungary has national universal healthcare.
All these dictators that Trump ad-admires have a country where they have universal healthcare.
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And what I don't have to show you, one more ad for it, especially as it basically recaps everything I just said, I'm gonna do it anyway.
Because it is magnificent.
Okay, hold on.
Hold
Honey, we already have Medicare.
Why do I need to call?
Alan, the Feldman said we may be able to get additional benefits with a Medicare Advantage plan right here in our zip code with $0 monthly premium.
This is real.
Honey, what do you mean additional benefits?
We turned 65, we got Medicare.
That's all there is to it, right?
I'm talking about Medicare Part C, commonly called Medicare Advantage.
We have traditional Medicare, which is only Medicare Parts A and B, but not Part C. Wait.
So not everyone on Medicare is a Part C plan?
No, that's why we need to call because there may be plans available with additional benefits that aren't covered under Medicare Parts A and B. We don't have a Medicare Part C plan which covers everything in Part A and Part B plus extra benefits in Medicare Part C.
What kind of extra benefits?
There are great plans that may be available with extra benefits like dental, vision, and hearing.
Did you say dental?
That is,
and this is true, only the first half of that commercial.
You know, I realized too that Obamacare is actually a lot less costly than Medicare, believe it or not.
People are in fixed checks, fixed checks and incomes, and they have to pay money out of their social security in order to buy Medicare.
Right.
And then you have supplemental insurance, which is another $200.
It's $200 just for Part B. That's just normal.
They take it out of your social security.
Then $200 for supplemental insurance, that's another, that's $400.
And then there's Part D, which is your drug plan.
That's another $200.
They're taking $600 out of your social security check.
You're living on nothing, basically.
You don't have rent.
And that's more expensive than the ACA Obamacare that we're getting.
And when we go to the phones right away here, I have more cuts, but we'll probably won't get to them.
Joe, what do you got for us?
Good morning, Joe.
Boy, this is just a whirlwind this morning.
It's hard to figure out which...
Tendril to follow but I'll follow one thing you just said right there, which is that they're talking about cutting SNAP benefits and there are 13% of the people getting SNAP benefits are people who are elderly, who are on Social Security.
So there's a reason why they need to pay out on the medical side.
You've just delineated so very well.
I will just throw into the mix.
If we go back to a pre-market, that means we go back to people can be booted off.
their forms, there's no help for pre-existing conditions.
And everybody has a pre-existing condition.
They were dropping people for acne.
They were dropping people because they once had a broken leg.
They were dropping women because they had been pregnant.
I mean, that's what we'd be going back to.
They're
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Exactly.
All of these reasons you're dropped.
And once you're dropped, you're...
you're deadly on between insurance companies.
I would add into the mix that our president is dealing with this in his usual fantastic way.
As somebody pointed out, he said 15 years to craft a replacement to the health care system.
You know, there's so he was going to do a day one on his first term.
said on a tweet last night
where he said
uh uh rates are going through the roof for really bad health care or rates are going through the roof because he pulled the supplemental insurance for aca da and then he says do something democrats exclamation point exclamation point that's it it's exactly right
10 years to craft something, and here we are.
So thanks guys.
Happy birthday to you on this big birthday celebration.
Thank
I appreciate that.
Thank you very much Joe.
Somebody texted here, CJ and the ACA is what we got as a compromise, ACA Obamacare.
It's Romney Care.
You know, Mitt Romney, a Republican, it is Romney Kier as I recall.
Now, I gotta tell you this story.
Last night, my wife is trying to set up her doctor appointments before the end of the year with a current plan.
And she was even emailed, you know, in a reminder that she should get a certain kind of exam.
So she called to set up an appointment for that exam.
She couldn't get it.
There's no room this year.
So and and she got so angry she wrote an email to these people and she said here I am I'm gonna pay the next two months worth of premiums and I can't get in for an examination and I can't use
My insurance, because you can't fit me in.
That's the kind of goofball plan that we have in this country.
And they didn't include the, what was it, the plan where you could join Medicare for All?
The option.
I can't remember, they call it some kind of option.
But you could join, and people would have flocked into this general.
universal health care plan, if they included it in Obamacare, and we talked about it the other day, they of course killed that.
One Democrat killed that whole thing for everybody.
Unbelievable.
Oh, it was called the public option.
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