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Amazing yesterday, huh?

Wow, all the thumbs who had.

Turn it up, turn

it up.

This is a great part.

Yep.

I

don't know.

Are you tired, John?

Uh, yeah.

Why is that?

Well,

I think

we went out after doing the afternoon show.

I remember we had dinner

together.

We did.

We never do.

No, we just, you know, once a year, like every other year.

It's brutal.

Do something.

We

slap food into our mouths.

It's not.

It's not pretty.

That's what we never do.

Well, but Catherine was there.

So we were on our best behavior.

We tried and we're blue played and we went across the street or down the street around there and and saw Petroppa's movie.

Yeah.

At the Atwood Music

Hall and it was a great turnout.

It was terrific to see everybody there.

It was.

It

was.

And

it seems like I missed everybody that was there.

I don't I

think maybe they

just avoided me or something because

I

didn't see anybody and you I

named all these people that were there.

They're just like Mike Mercury hadn't seen him in quite a long time Mike and his wife Barbara.

I still haven't seen him in an awful lot

of time.

Well, yeah, it was good to catch up with him.

Yeah, he asked, he asked where you were and I said, well, he's here somewhere.

I don't know.

We just walked in, you know, that we split

up.

I stood there by the entrance

all that time.

I didn't go any place.

Sort of mingled a little bit.

Well, I guess so.

Apparently.

Yeah.

A lot of people from civic media there, and that was great.

It was

terrific to see everybody.

Producer Conrad was there.

Yeah, that was each show.

I missed

Conrad too.

Dom was there.

Sam was there.

Yeah.

Our old producer.

I didn't see Dom at

all.

I was also trying to avoid everyone.

All right.

What's the matter with you guys?

Yeah, and Aaron Zamas was there.

Of course, I was blind drunk last night, so.

Maybe that's why.

You really shouldn't have started drinking at, you know, four o'clock in the afternoon, especially since the show is over at five.

That last hour, I don't remember.

We just gave it over to Rocker.

Let him do the

show.

I know.

I know.

That was, boy, that did help.

But it was great.

It was a great night.

And, you know, Pete Schwabba, man, that was a terrific movie.

And everybody really enjoyed it.

It was really fun.

Yeah, it was a good copy.

Shraba was saying to me, he said, boy, it looks really dark, doesn't it?

And I'm thinking, I didn't think so.

I

actually like the dark.

I mean,

the whole point

was, I mean, when you have black blacks in a movie, that's a really good sign.

It's a good quality print.

I think we had a great print, great audio, right?

I mean,

you

didn't miss anything.

It's just really well done out there.

And

thanks to the Atwood Music Hall.

Yeah.

Man, you know, it's a great venue.

They have a lot of music there.

They have a lot of bands, but they do a lot of other events there, too.

And thanks to Doundren's Distilling for helping to bring that show.

Yes, yes.

And also, Dane County Humane Society, we made a little money for them last night, so that was great, too.

That's right.

Well, Sam was out there.

Yeah, he was.

I saw

Sam.

He was standing outside when we were walking up, afraid to go in, I guess.

No, he was at the ticket window.

He

was, yes.

I was in a ticket window in years.

Oh, man.

That was kind of strange, but it's right there on the sidewalk.

Yeah.

And right when we walked in again, we kind of went different ways, but this guy walks right up to me and said, you must be Gordy.

I don't know who this is.

Yes, I saw that.

I did, yes.

And his name was Gordy.

Oh.

Although he goes by Gordo, you know.

And I'll tell you, there's...

There's not that many Gordys or Gordons or Gordo's out there.

That's true.

So when we find each other, we bond with the name.

Absolutely.

It's like, oh, what if you had to deal with this name?

It's a little different.

But Gordo, why Gordo?

I don't know.

I mean, it's really

just, you know.

So it reminds me of Gorgol.

Well, Gordo also in Spanish means the fat one, El Gordo.

Oh, really?

Oh,

OK.

Yeah.

I did not know

that.

Yeah.

Well, I also saw Linda from the... Linda.

from the Brewers game.

She came up to me.

Oh, I didn't see her either.

I didn't see her.

Yeah, she was in the front row and she was talking to me the third night.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

You know,

the thing is, the lights were so bright.

I mean, that's

the

way it is on stage.

But

you don't get to see the audience, you know?

And that's the big problem.

I would love to have seen some of the audience members out there and maybe interrupt shoulders a little bit afterwards, but I had to go.

You left early.

I had to leave.

Yeah, you had to leave and get some material together for today's

show.

For two shows?

Yeah.

So yeah, it was too bad you missed the question and answer.

I almost fell off the stage and that was kind of a highlight.

People were gasping.

You know it's a bad thing when people gasp.

It almost broke an ankle there.

You know, I was trying to get off the stage.

I ran around with the microphone like, like Phil Donahue, you know, used to do.

It was fun.

But yeah, when I first get off the stage there, I kind of landed oddly.

And now this morning, my back hurts, my knee hurts.

I was like, oh, I must have landed a little harder than I thought.

Any

bone charring.

And anyone try to help you

or?

Oh, no, nobody helped.

They didn't want to.

No,

it's right.

Tom, you were in the front

row.

Why didn't you get up and help

me?

I thought you had it, and you know, I don't know.

Me and Conrad looked at each other like, yeah, you

got it.

Is he OK?

OK, let's let him go.

Well, you know, people are afraid to help seniors.

That's right.

Yeah, they're afraid they'll get sued if they do something wrong.

We got Matt from Middleton on the phone early this morning.

Good morning, Matt.

How you doing?

Hey, morning, guys.

You know, if you're tired, you can just let AI do your show.

We only take about, what, 200 gigawatts of energy for a two-hour program.

It's worth it, right?

Oh, yeah.

I'm sorry I missed it.

I wish I was there.

Too bad.

Had to work.

You know, you ought to come in and host the show once in a while.

Yeah.

You know, you're one of our early morning callers.

You could come in and do a couple of segments.

What do you think?

I would love that.

But I wanted to talk about this daddy concept with these so-called manly Republican men.

It's really creepy, and I don't understand it.

But I watched this recent clips of Joe Rogan, and he's waxing philosophical through the mind of an idiot.

Talking about how I think it comes from Peter Thiel and this Antichrist stuff and their fascination with AI Where they seem to be terrified of it, but they're fully embracing it which I also don't understand but Joe Rogan saying that they look forward to this sentient AI being coming to life that

Will basically be the return of Christ or something and it's gonna be their daddy figure that's going to save us from ourselves So not because these are the people who are causing all the problems Yeah, and yet they know it's a problem yet.

They continue to do it.

Yeah

Yeah, and it gives them a chance to complain about the problems that they have By creating more of them and never solving the ones that exist currently

Yes, it's a nightmare.

It's a

real conundrum.

Well, it's a

nightmare for all of us.

It's a conundrum for

them.

They're all drinking the same Kool-Aid, you know, and they just keep drinking it.

It's bad.

Yeah.

Well, Matt, thank you.

Yeah.

Appreciate you calling.

Our phones are open here.

608-879-8255.

We're going to be talking to Pam Yonkey in a few minutes.

Check in with the fabulous farm babe.

It's almost like a comedic

bit.

What Matt does he said well, you know I ran into these guys the other day I know he

could be a stand-up I you know it could be maybe he did that in a former life We got to get him in here.

I

think so.

I think we should start Letting

our

listeners come in and kind of fun do the

show

while we take a smoke

break

Take it for 15 minutes.

We'll be back.

You

know start having our guests

One after the next

right our guest listener

because we're folks we're trying to do the afternoon show Yeah, and we feel responsible for doing the morning show as well.

So that's why we come in Glad to happy to do this.

Yes.

I mean, it's just that you know endurance wise There is that that wall that you hit every once in a while with show prep and in bringing good stories to you and

Conversations

so all that and the split shift, you know, it just screws up your body clock a lot It does

I couldn't get to sleep last night.

I was up till like 1 30 because

I'm used to staying up later now

Yeah, and so this is kind of a odd thing.

I only had like four hours of sleep I know how many hours of sleep I have because I have a Samson watch that

It keeps track of all that kind of stuff.

How about you?

No, I have several alarm clocks around me.

So I, you know, I'm trying to get to sleep, trying to get to sleep.

Can't do it.

Alarm clock to look like they're from old Looney Tunes.

Yeah, I have several.

I have one wind up.

I have two.

I have two electrics.

And then I have my phone, you know, so I have several backup systems there.

Yeah.

But see, it works quite well

like that when you

have your system right on here.

Risk.

But you never take that off, right?

I do.

We're 24 hours a day.

No, I take it off.

Day after day.

Week after week.

When I get up in

the morning, the first thing I do is take it off.

I put it on the charger

and

by the time I leave for the show here, I put it back on and it's fully charged.

But

my point is you're sleeping with it on, right?

Yes.

Okay, that seems uncomfortable to me.

Why would you have that?

Well,

it depends on the firmness of your mattress.

I mean, I have a nice mattress pad on there that absorbs any of the roughage around my

wrist.

Roughage?

Well,

yes,

that's what I call

it.

Well, it's bulky.

One of those monitors that prisoners wear around their ankle braces.

Ankle braces.

Ankle braces.

Ankle braces.

Yeah.

Ankle braces.

So it's like that.

I can't imagine.

Wouldn't that be uncomfortable?

It's not comfortable.

Yeah?

No.

They make them a little slimmer now.

They used to be huge, huge, huge.

It's still pretty big.

Yeah, but it's about

the size of yours.

No, it's not.

I sleep with my phone in my pocket.

So I went up you there.

Wow.

Okay, really?

I do.

I promise I do.

What?

What do you have these giant cysts?

These huge growths on your leg.

You sleep with

your phone in your pocket.

You're like a pajama pocket.

It wakes me up in the morning at my alarm clock on my phone and it vibrates my...

That's so weird.

It

vibrates your what, your legs.

My legs.

Okay,

we were sure we were going there in a second.

I was, but I had to

try and

clean that up.

So did you check your Samsung watch?

You know, we haven't checked for the sunrise and sunset lately.

Is that working yet?

We

weren't here.

That's right.

Sunrise at 714.

And I know that everybody's checking this one off.

422.

Sunset.

Oh, man.

Oh, we have darker early.

We have music, don't we?

Yeah, well, we can do that when we come back.

We'll come out of the break with a song about being dark during the day.

Yes.

We've

got

a

couple of cuts.

We'll try one of them.

Yeah.

Right around the corner, we're going to check in with the fabulous Farm Babe, Pam Yonkey, and a little bit later on, in our seven o'clock hour, Savannah, Tome Olsen, and Rocker with a Maxing Preview.

Just getting started on a Friday morning.

It's John and Gordy.

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It's true.

Well, that's true.

It's no fun at all.

The Holderness family.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's great stuff, isn't it?

It's Johnny Gordy for a Friday morning.

It's chilly out there, 14 degrees, highs today in the mid-20s, maybe some light snow late in the day and into the evening.

And Pam Yackey joins us, a fabulous farm babe.

Good morning, Pam.

Good morning guys now Dominic seriously you sleep with your phone in your pocket and you're telling me that's purely for the alarm

There's

a lot of there's a lot of means that I will deploy to make sure I don't miss my my alarm But I don't I don't know I'm with I can I can do the watch thing,

you know,

I've got one of those smart watches that

will try to roast me and multiple alarm clocks, but I don't think I want anything in my

pocket.

I

know.

That might be alarming.

Yeah, really alarming.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, REM is enough of a problem when you wake up.

But

anyway,

yeah, that sounds scary and exciting, all at the same time.

Right.

Well,

let's get into something here that you mentioned.

It's the Center for Dairy Research and the dairy farmers of Wisconsin are celebrating the cheese trends for 2026.

And it's a really interesting website that you pointed out in your little email that you sent us.

It's kind of fun.

It's cheese trends.

Yeah, well, and it's a it's brand new rate and looking at 2026 dairy farmers of Wisconsin commissioned this study from the Center for Dairy Research and they found what consumers are looking for.

And I think having talked with you guys long enough now, I think a lot of them will resonate.

So I'll start with number five, which is authenticity.

People want not only a great product, but they want to be able to connect with where it came from connect with the story.

behind it.

And I think in Wisconsin, we do a really good job telling that story about the dairy farmers, the cheese makers, etc.

So that's number five.

Number four, obviously, probably won't surprise you protein people because of the weight loss craze are just constantly looking for new forms of high quality protein and dairy is one of the best.

So that's another one that continues to drive in 26 texture.

I'm not sure we always think about that.

People want a choice.

So squeaky cheese curds, stretchy cheese for their grilled cheese, those texture issues, and even some of the baked cheeses, those are all important to consumers going into next year.

Health.

Now, when I say health, I mean, I think we would all agree that dairy is healthy, but people want a clean label.

They want to be able to read the ingredients that are in that cheese.

Now, cheese is pretty simple.

It's basically milk, salt, culture.

I mean, it's pretty simple.

It's a clean label to begin with.

But that's something that's driving a lot of dairy trends next year.

And then number one is sustainability.

And dairy farmers have been hearing this mantra about sustainability and telling their story.

And now it's turning into financial rewards for some dairy farmers if their dairy cooperatives work with some of the big box stores like Walmart.

a target, that type of thing where they've actually got written in their business plan that have to have a sustainability clause.

So for their farmers to share their stories of the things they're doing on the land, how they're taking care of those, then they share that information and those data points with their dairy cooperative that make the cheese, they share it up the lawn as far as information with those big box stores.

So there's that

to sustainability.

The other sustainability is what packaging our cheese makers are using.

I know that I've taught several cheese manufacturers that, you know, the film nuts on the outside of cheese, they want that get to be food grid.

Literally would not have to take it off.

You cut it and eat the wrapper with the cheese.

No, it's seriously.

And, and it's kind of, but, but it's obviously high tech science and they're still trying to figure some of that out, but bioplastics, making whatever package your cheese is, is packed.

is biodegradable and fast.

Those kinds of things are even the box that the cheese comes in and

all that

business, all those stories create the sustainability that can look for as going to

a

new calendar year.

And like you said, WisconsinDairy.org

cheese trends and you can take a look at it yourself.

Scotsanddairy.org slash cheese trends.

Kind of breaking up

a little bit, but I wanted to throw something in as far as the plastic wrap is concerned.

Yeah.

You know, a lot of people, like all my relatives used to throw cheese into a ziplock.

Yeah.

And that just scared the daylights out of me because I mean, it's not sealed up enough.

I mean, it gets moldy inside those things.

So I use, you know, a saran wrap and I just wrap it up just like you

buy it in the

store.

But if you eat well not as bad not as quickly Of course, I

eat

it

right.

What do you

do?

I eat it rather

quickly.

Yeah,

I do.

I love cheese.

Yeah, man.

Okay.

I eat it I eat quickly.

I'll put it in a Ziploc.

I just compressed the air.

Yeah in Ziploc.

Yeah, sometimes if it's a wet cheese like a

in there to absorb any extra moisture.

Oh yeah yeah

you can

do that too.

Once remember cheese by its nature is

What is cheese?

Cheese, kind of mold cheese, if you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Oh, uh, you're not, once you break the seal on that package and expose it to any kind of air, it's going to start mold.

Well, that's true.

That's

true.

But yeah, I like the plastic wrap.

I mean, it works for me.

I'm sticking

with my plastic

wrap, even though of course I'm eating micro plastics now.

So,

yeah.

All right, Pam.

Always wanted to check in with you and you hope have a good weekend and we'll check in again on Monday.

Yeah.

Enjoy the weekend!

but we could make most of it out.

But here's one

of the things, you know, she talked about protein, and protein is a great substitute.

It's a fat burner, basically.

If you have the protein, the protein will help you burn a lot more fat.

Right.

So it's something that you have to double up on, which, by the way, I'm starting to do this week.

Well, good for

you, John Peterson.

All right.

Glad to hear it.

Thank you.

Okay, 29th past the hour.

We'll check in again with Midwest Food and Farm Report, and then we're back with Idiocracy.

for a Friday morning.

And

I have to think of it more like a real news, but a fake administration.

I mean, these aren't real people.

Every time I see a group shot of these people, I think of the Beverly Hills.

Or

Gilligan's Island.

I mean, it's just a bunch of characters.

It really is, you know, and they're horrible.

I mean, they're monsters,

right?

Oh, God.

All right.

Okay, time for idiocracy here.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, here's the story.

I didn't get to about a week ago, but this is Rachel Mano.

She was reporting that former Brazilian president Javier Bolsonaro.

Who is about to begin a 27 year prison sentence doing what Trump did attempting to overthrow his country's democracy trying to remove his ankle monitor With a soldering iron

Yeah,

and and and flee to the US With get this Trump's help,

okay, okay,

so they planned on taking this

The

ankle monitor

off.

No, no, this is just too much for me.

I was trying to edit the story down and I lost the audio on it, so that's why I'm telling the story here.

But I mean, seriously, really?

He tried to get him out and, you know, take him to the U...

This guy, this guy's like a drug lord.

Bring him to the U.S.

Hey, come on over.

We'll take anybody.

It says here, Trump's, okay.

Trump was plotting with him on Saturday and Bolsonaro was arrested early Sunday morning.

On Monday, Trump was asked about Bolsonaro and Trump said he was expecting to see him very soon.

I hope they're going to be in the same cell.

When reporters told Trump that Bolsonaro was arrested, did you hear he got arrested?

Trump appeared shocked and disappointed.

Oh no.

Son Eduardo Bolsonaro is facing trial in Brazil for seeking help from Trump

to

break his

father

loose.

What is good?

I hear you know this that's just the law and order party right here boy

boy What it's what it's well.

They're like drug lords and mafia guys just take it over guns.

Yeah, I

mean that's that's what it's become

And Trump Trump, I mean, his all appearances hold the meaner is to be a mob boss.

I mean, he really admired them in New York.

And he just wants to be so much like him.

Now he's acting just like it.

Well,

although he's falling asleep at that desk, you know, everybody around him.

Yeah, it's bizarre scene.

Every day and then when the cabinet meetings, it's that's just that last cabinet meeting went for three hours.

Oh my god, three hours.

Can you imagine sitting in there?

No wonder he's falling asleep.

He loves the admiration.

He likes the lovely comments about how great he is, but you can't stay awake through all of it.

And it's so funny.

It is so weird.

This guy made fun of sleepy Joe.

Right.

And yet he can't keep his eyes open at all, even at funerals, you know, important events.

Yeah.

He just passes out.

Yeah.

Rubio was sitting right next to him during that meeting and he just kept, he kept looking over at him and I was waiting for him to just kind of reach out and.

You know, yes, you know.

Nudge him

away.

Nudge him.

Yeah, like, hey, boss.

Hey, boss, I'm talking now.

I'm laying on thick.

I

want you to hear every second of it.

And he's sleeping.

And then, of course, I think, and I mentioned this yesterday on the other shows, that that was actually posted, that video was posted by Rubio.

Rubio, yes.

I wonder what that means.

Yeah.

Taking a little shot, huh?

Yeah.

All right.

Hey, we got Mark on the line.

Mark, what do you got for us?

Good morning, Mark.

Go ahead.

Good morning, guys.

I was just kind of half listening here.

And Trump is conspiring with these criminals and other places.

They're trying to get them out of the country that they're going to base charges in.

And at the same time, he's complaining about the smallies and people, ancestry in.

Minnesota and talking about how horrible they are.

At the same time, this guy is pardoning drug lords and it is just.

Yeah.

I'm wondering, I'm

just jaw-dropping.

I'm wondering

if jaw-dropping.

Yes.

I wonder if Trump is there with the soldering iron trying to take

the bracelet off.

It's

comical.

It's comical.

You know, and I heard the story about the first, the first air strike against the boat.

And apparently they saw boxes floating in the water and that was the reason they hit again, that the people were recovering the boxes.

Well, why not pick up the boxes and then let us know that there's actually something illicit in those boxes other than the fact that these guys were grabbing those boxes so they'd have something to float on before they got smoked.

Yeah, yeah.

By, you know, Thompson Minions here.

It is

just...

It's crazy, isn't it?

I mean, we're watching them cover up the evidence.

One way or another, it's evidence.

And we want to know, and I think a lot of people, the public yesterday, I think in a poll, 70% disagree with the attacks on the boats.

Right.

Yeah.

So that's overwhelming.

Yeah, it sure is.

We got some other, we got some text here.

When you are a criminal, you tend to surround yourself with and protect with.

other criminals to normalize and distract from your criminal activities, impeach, impeach, impeach, and that's from Matt and then Lynn out in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

I am not even sure why that guy left his luxury spread in Florida to go back to Brazil to be arrested in the first place.

Yeah,

Trump

would have taken his protection with a smile.

It's weird because they really want to clamp down their shooting boats out of the water.

Trying to prevent drugs from getting into this country and releasing all the drunk lords in other countries and bringing them to the

US.

I can't quite figure that out.

Why would they do that?

My

head is exploding from all of this stuff.

I can't handle it anymore.

I just want to

leave.

All right, this is something I just had to bring up Millions of dead people supposedly are claiming social security This again, this is so easy.

This is you this is not a headscratcher anymore.

It's simple.

It's obvious now that all of this The stealing this claiming of social security of a dead people is not real.

It's fake right dead claimants.

How do they collect it?

Where are these masses savings, by the way, that now they've gotten rid of the dead people collecting all of this?

Where are the masses savings from that?

They never existed, these dead people.

They never did.

The numbers that Musk and Trump implied were evidence of massive fraud were merely database errors.

Duh.

And it says here, as the LibTards and FancyPants so-called experts claim.

So, you see, we knew right away, but we were LibTards and FancyPants so-called experts claiming there are no dead people collecting Social Security checks.

Apparently, we were right.

Social Security expert Charles Bellhouse said they were simply misreading a data file.

And a bottom line is they couldn't do anything because they weren't happening.

See?

So

that's it.

Yeah, I thought they kept some of those older numbers just on file for future use, like, you know, 50 years later, after they knew that they're... Yeah, they just take them

off.

They leave them on as a record, too, by the way.

Right.

Oh, yeah.

because they know that, you know, know it's collecting it.

We're going to have it here.

So we know, you know, how many people had had it at one time and, and, uh, you know, it just prevents a whole bunch of duplication.

But yeah, you're right.

You're absolutely right.

That's, uh, that's another reason why they kept them on the rolls for all of these years.

And there was a limit to how long you can collect these.

I

think it's like, uh, uh, 200, uh, 115.

Right.

I think that's

it.

I don't think anybody's ever made it to 115 years of collecting Social Security.

So the

cutoff point is pretty safe.

I think

we're

OK.

This point.

All right.

So border patrol surveillance of American drivers in Texas.

The US border patrol, which has recently grown even more powerful through collaborations with other agencies now, is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide.

Not just in Texas,

it's a

secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns, it deems suspicious.

Okay.

What?

Now crazy stuff.

Hey, could you go back to last month?

Cut 171.

Let's take a listen to Cut 171.

Here we go.

Okay.

There you go.

Kind of an example of what's going on.

It's the predictive intelligence programs have a network of cameras that scan and record vehicle license plates, use facial recognition to identify drivers in an algorithm that flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they are going and which route they took.

Boy, this is going on nationwide brothers

from

Texas

happening.

Yeah See all these little things are going on in the background that we don't know about right this active role beyond the borders is part of the quiet transformation into something more akin to a domestic intelligence operation watching each and every one of us that's a

This

is scary stuff.

It is.

You know, you can expect those kind of things at airports.

I get that.

Big transportation centers and, you know, facial recognition and high security and everything, but just everywhere.

Everywhere, yeah.

Everywhere you go.

Yeah, you know, facial recognition on ring doorbells is, I mean, that was over the top already.

Yeah.

Now this.

Wow.

Okay.

Well, anyway, I'm, I'm scared.

Thanks for sharing that with

us.

We

appreciate that.

Close the blinds.

Okay, yeah, we should.

On 648, it's cold out there this morning, 14 degrees, highs in the mid-20s, maybe a little light snow later.

We'll come back in just a few minutes.

Savannah Tomei Olson will join us in about 15 minutes.

It's John Nagorty on a Friday morning on WMDX.

You're listening to Civic Media.

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Let's

try it.

Mm-hmm.

God.

Darkness.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, that's good stuff.

It's

Gianna Gordy in the morning, 6.53.

And coming up in about 15 minutes or less, we will have our grown-up, giftless, text-to-win multi-state contest.

The keyword for this hour in the 7 a.m.

hour is coming up.

All right.

All right.

Sounds excellent.

It's chilly out there.

14 degrees highs in the mid 20s.

Again, I want to thank everybody who came out to the Atwood Music Hall last night

for

the showing, the screening of Godfather of Green Bay.

Pete Schwabbo was there.

We were there.

A bunch of people from WMDX were there in civic media.

It was great to see all of all of our listeners that showed up.

It was terrific crowd there.

I slipped out early.

I apologize to the individual.

I was talking to this guy

and he

remembers me from WIBA FM in the

mornings

there.

We just started the conversation and you guys pulled me away and said, we're going to introduce Pete.

I said, well, you guys can wait, can't you?

No, no, we got to do it.

No.

Yeah, what a bunch of bullies man.

Okay.

Are we gonna delay

because of that you left early?

Yeah, I was miffed you were left in a huff when you miffed and you leave in a huff That's right.

That's a bad sign

that there really is a bad son.

It's anger problems

But

I'd like to

Continue that conversation.

Yeah, I feel bad.

I wish we had hit a little longer discussion because my memory fades at that point.

I have no idea what I did back at WIPF.

It's a long, long time ago.

Except for the holiday parade that I organized.

You created.

It was theater of the mind.

It's

all theater of the mind,

yes.

The Fitchburg Parade.

The Fitchburg Days Parade.

There was no downtown Fitchburg, but I mean, it sounded like a metropolis, busy streets, lights and everything, and floats with every...

personality in town, all the TV station personalities, weather people, I had everybody on that show.

And they were on their floats, but we were stopped at red lights all the time.

They didn't time the lights for the parade.

For the parade.

Yeah, so I had to apologize to everybody for the problem that we had.

Anyway, it was a fun event and no one listens to it.

I gave it to you and you wouldn't listen to it.

And I was still sitting on my desk.

Yeah, I got to transfer it so we can all listen to it one of these days.

Hey, I'll tell you what, let's play this.

I played this yesterday afternoon, but I just love this thing.

What happened yesterday, I believe, was the advisory committee on immunization practices.

The old description of it was that it's medical and public health experts.

But because RFK juniors involved, there aren't any.

And they're just debating, well, maybe we should give these vaccines.

Maybe we should.

Maybe we should.

Well, I don't know.

What do you think?

The meningitis

vaccine?

Forget it.

We'll make the parents pay for it if they want it.

All right, so here it is.

This is a new show.

This is from The Daily Show.

And it's an ad for it's RFK hospital.

Let's listen.

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