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Hello,
hello.
Can you hear us now?
Can you hear us now?
I can hear you perfectly.
Are we on the air right now?
Yeah.
We have no headphones at all.
Hello.
Let's see if that's working.
Did something get unplugged when things got moved around?
It could be.
Yeah, it could be.
But I can hear you right now.
Pretend that we can hear
ourselves.
Good morning.
We'll just talk.
Okay.
Yeah, it's one of those mornings already.
You know, something always happens during the weekends.
Yeah.
And I'm not blaming rocker.
I
am.
All right.
But some of
the, you know, the musicians that he brings in.
I'm going straight to him on this one.
I
think have a fun time, you know, with some hijinks on plugging things.
Are we sure?
I promise.
Like the back
end.
This is really weird to not be able to hear ourselves.
It says here, oh no, loud and clear.
Thank you
Linda for Middleton.
This
is the first time I've ever done a show with headphones on.
I know, it's very strange.
This light should be on right
yeah, I
think this yeah, I think this is the problem I think it's unplugged
is it on must I got
on jack could we get a listener in here and help us out?
You know here it
is
here.
I know they're
there Wow
look at you you might as well be an engineer Wow
I hope they don't have a
hope they don't have a union
Union steward listening.
I can hear it now.
There we go.
All right.
We
are
back
on track.
Gordy are an engineer.
Yeah, the power supply was not plugged in.
Somehow that happened.
You know, talking about, you know, experience doing electronics.
Yeah.
I came across my FCC license.
Did you really?
I found it.
Oh man, I wish I could find
mine.
Yeah.
It's so generic and so ridiculous.
Yeah.
I mean, it didn't take any time at all writing it and it's on this cheap piece of paper and it's very short.
Yeah.
Tiny.
It's like, I don't know.
It's
like the size of a driver's
license or less.
You know, it's just really stupid.
Third class license, right?
Work so hard for that.
Went down to Chicago twice.
Yeah.
Same here.
Yeah.
Those were the days.
when we had to supposedly read meters.
We
had problems, we call the engineer.
Right, that's the way it
is.
Yeah, I had a lot of problems over the weekend.
I mentioned one of the problems to you.
I couldn't get serious exam.
Yeah, what happened with that?
You were trying to do what with serious XM?
You were trying to, you normally just dial it up and away you go.
I get up in the morning, I turn on XM and I put on spa and I go in the shower.
That's it, you know, I just want to relax I want to ease into the day because I know but I'm gonna be inundated with a lot of crap from the Trump administration So, you know, I just I you know, I just got to get into it sure and so I couldn't get on XM and they wanted they wanted my Log in and I don't carry it with me in bed normally so
Password so I had I had I have a whole list in my office So I had to go in there and look and and I entered everything and and nothing happened And it wouldn't let me in and it didn't recognize my login and I was really getting really ticked off because There's something about XM.
I don't want to talk to you They don't want to make it easy for you to talk to anybody and get some help, you
know
So yeah, and that fiasco lasted for I don't know about an hour and a half
No, just straighten it out.
Now that was after I talked to you.
You called about going to see the Packers right at Catherine's house, and I right, you know I do my show during that because if the Packers lose then I have not lost any time I Know it's the way I think right, but anyway Yeah, it took a long time during the prep time then going through show material.
Yeah, I'm on a chat with XM ah
Well, you were angry when I called you right away.
Well, that was
not the first thing I wanted to do in the morning.
Yeah.
Well, um, so was the problem that your subscription had expired?
No,
no,
that
was not the problem.
The problem was, is when I got the EV, it comes with XM, but they only give you a month and then they make you sign up for the vehicle can already had a subscription.
So I had to change that subscription to the vehicle.
And I kept telling them, I don't live in the car.
I don't need it in the car as much as I need it on my phone, on my computer, my PC, my laptop, my smart TV.
I don't need it in the car.
Why am I subscribing in my car?
But they forced me into it.
And then there are two logins now.
There's a login.
the one I was using.
And that's for just going into my settings.
Okay.
Okay.
You know, my information, my email, the payment system.
And then there's another login for the software or streaming.
And I'm thinking, when did that happen?
I had no idea at all.
But the chat person gave me this.
ID, this user ID, I've been using supposedly
for years.
And that's straightened everything out.
I finally figured it out myself.
Anyway, yeah, that's just really a frustrating situation for me.
And then, you know, I told you I was going to prepare for the show.
I'm preparing, preparing, preparing.
I can't do the Packer game with you guys.
One thing I didn't realize was I had to snow blow the...
driveway for every one of the people living around my driveway.
So that took another hour and a half.
I'm sitting there, and I'm trying to get the show prepared.
Well, there wasn't that much snow, was there?
I mean... Well, it could be one inch.
It could be 20 inches.
It doesn't matter.
You still have to snow blow it.
Okay.
So there I am.
Yeah, take care of that.
Yeah.
You're a busy, busy guy.
I know.
It's just one of those things at the end of these...
Weekends turn into, you know, nightmarish situations.
Yeah.
But
fortunately,
maybe it's not so nightmarish, but, you know, it's trying.
Everything builds up on Sunday.
The Sunday, the day I need to prepare for the show.
All the latest news.
It is gossip.
tough being you.
It really is.
Thank
you.
Well, thank you for that acknowledgement.
The Packers,
you know, they beat the Bears.
I don't know if you knew that because you were busy doing other
things.
I looked up from time to time.
Did you?
Yeah.
It was one of those games where, you know, just wake me up when the game's over.
What?
What are you
talking about?
It was a one-score game.
I said it was a great game.
28-21.
No,
it was really.
It was a fantastic game.
It was a true nail biter.
It would have been fun to be there, you know, partying with you guys.
Shippin' down champagne.
We
had some good
food.
We had that.
It was really great.
Too
bad you missed it.
Well, no.
I was thinking, jeez, I'd be there with two.
Bears fans, you know, Catherine and you.
No, I was not.
I was, I was rooting for the Packers.
No, you weren't.
No way.
When it comes down to this part of the season, they're both doing great.
It doesn't really matter who you're rooting for, but I was rooting for the Packers and they won.
So, I mean,
Catherine is, you know, needling us already.
Great idea.
Waiting until you're on the air to figure out the headphone jack.
Well, usually that's something that
that's the only way we know we're on the air is because the music and the introduction and can hear it in our headphones, right?
Well, usually Dom doesn't you know goes through the checklist
See
the headphone device has lights on it and when the lights are on everything's fine, but when the lights are off that means
It doesn't have any power.
It took the three of us to figure that out, but, you know, it was me that finally figured out, oh, the light's
not on.
It's a
genius.
It's a genius.
So it
actually became unplugged at some point.
Probably when we were readjusting things here in the studio, Dom and I.
Well, you know, we might as well just tell everybody.
I mean, we might as well just come clean.
Really?
Just come out with it?
Yeah.
We were sitting back.
eating donuts from Quick Trip.
I brought the donuts in.
We didn't look at anything.
We didn't care.
We just, you know, thought, well, let's just talk into the microphone.
So now, again,
you're blaming me for bringing in donuts.
Is that
the problem?
It turns
out
it was the donuts after
all.
OK.
All right.
Well, no more donuts for you, I guess.
Hey, it's
a great idea.
What possessed me to do
that?
They were on sale.
I was in quick trip.
I'll
treat everybody.
Whether it pour today, it's gonna be really cold.
It's only two degrees to start things out this morning.
We'll get up to a higher on 22, and maybe some late day or evening snow.
What does your Samsung WMDX watch say about sunrise and sunset time?
I'm glad you asked because I'm looking right at it now.
716 is the time the sun will be coming up, and 422, sunset time.
Okay, good enough.
In just a few minutes, we'll check in with Ham Yaki.
from the Midwest Food and Farm Report.
And in our seven o'clock hour, it's time to fire up our grown-up gift list multi-state contest.
More chances to win 200 bucks cash each and every day this week.
And of course, maybe be in for those grand prize drawings.
So we'll tell you more about that coming up.
Why, there's so much to get to because with Pam Yonkey, Pam Yonkey wants to talk about the dairy farmers of Wisconsin.
I know.
They have really been doing a lot of research and
Believe it or not, it looks like cheese is going to be the nutritional giant food of the future.
You know, cheese.
It's just amazing what they're doing with cheese and milk products.
So we'll be talking about that.
Okay.
I'm really kind of energized over it.
Right.
Not only that, you know, they're working with prebiotics.
They're
We're working on ways to not create so much waste from the cheese and use that and sell it to the public.
What are you talking about?
Well, we'll let Pam handle the heavy load
talking about cheese.
Yes, cheese.
I love cheese.
She's also got some statistics about the county fairs and why they're good for
Wisconsin.
real shot in the arm for local communities.
Absolutely.
And have those county fairs.
They have one out in Richland Center, don't they?
The county fairs in just
about every county, I think.
Well,
that's why they're county fairs.
What's it called?
Is it the Butterfest or
something?
That's Reedsburg.
The Reedsburg Butterfest used to be a lot bigger.
It used to be
the butter capital of
Wisconsin.
I don't think it's that anymore.
Not everybody.
Declare's being the butter capital of Wisconsin.
I guess not.
Tom,
did you have a
good weekend?
Did you do anything fun and exciting?
I just watched the Packers Bears.
I once a little small little get-together.
Eight, nine slices of pizza.
It was really good.
It was fun.
And a
pizza.
Where'd you go?
Little Caesars.
My kids are starting to, you know, test all these other pizza places.
And that's great.
I remember when it was pizza pizza.
Yeah.
From Little Caesars?
Little Caesars.
Is that still there?
It's still
there.
It's still slogan.
All right.
We'll take your phone calls too.
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It's John Peterson, Gordy Young along with our producer Dominic Lee.
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Wisconsin landscape has lit up five million shining stars.
I am trappling up the evenings to the land of the under-21 bars.
I'm going to cheese land, cheese land.
The Dales
and Door County, I'm going to cheese land.
It's John and Gordon in the morning and what a what a nice cold morning.
It's turned out to be I have Seven degrees on my Samsung weather watch.
Yes single digits across Across most of our area and highs today this afternoon about 22 degrees Pam Yaki joins us now.
Yes Midwest Farm report.
Good morning, Pam
Morning guys.
Yeah, I was at the game last night.
It was plenty chilly there, too
Good
outcome though.
Yes, very good.
Very good.
About gave me a heart attack, but very good.
The only good thing about letting go of field in this weather is that you're sitting so close to one another, you're generally trying to coning on somebody else's body heat to keep you
there.
Yeah, I know.
It's really crazy out in the stands.
At least, you know, when you're out in the stands, in the weather, because I went out there for one of those really, really, really cold days and we were drinking beer.
I've told you this story, but the beer was dripping down our chins.
Our chins were frozen, Pam.
So we didn't feel the beer pouring down our chins.
And we looked down and we had beer.
uh early bibs what yes yes okay yeah
i went with my 19 year old nephew yesterday and i turned and looked at him and he had had something to eat and it was literally frozen on his face did you not ever hear of a napkin he's like what are you talking about his face was so frozen he didn't he couldn't tell that he had anything there so
yeah
Yeah, that's great.
That's crazy.
That's why they got out in the stand with the icicles.
Yeah.
It's real.
Great game,
though.
All right.
Well, let's talk about the county fairs and the impact they have economically around Wisconsin.
Yeah, this is kind of cool.
It's it's been a year long project that the Wisconsin Fair Association of Fairs undertook.
It's part of a national collaboration to take a look at the economic impact that fairs have.
on their communities and obviously then to the state and uh they're going to be talking about this at great length in january when they have their state convention in wisconsin dels but jamie budke the executive secretary of the wisconsin association affairs was telling me a little bit about uh the boy i guess we'd say the economic punch that county fairs bring to a community i think a lot of us imagine county fairs are
It is about community.
You get together.
It is also about education.
That's a major component.
Jamie said that the other thing that they have to engage in is volunteer recruitment.
Since the pandemic, people don't want to volunteer.
So trying to find those volunteers that county fairs depend on and giving them a story that they can resonate with.
Obviously, it's not like you're volunteers by its definition.
You're not getting paid, but they're trying to find out ways that they can get people excited about that.
Now, the economic part of it, like I said, I don't have all the details, but I took a look at some of the information that they had previously, and also that some individual fairs had commissioned.
And it really is striking.
I shared with you guys just a few of them.
They figured that over 33% of all citizens in Wisconsin attended a county fair.
That's a pretty good average.
That's
a
really good
average, yeah.
That's, I think that's pretty fabulous.
And a lot of it, if you think about what fares have gone through, through the pandemic, a lot of fares rely on every year's income.
You can't bypass one year and stay healthy.
And then trying to get your crowd to come back out.
So I'm happy to see that they're doing well that way.
Then take a look at some of the fares that have done an exceedingly great job at generating money.
Walworth County Fair, now that's
What's the what's the
what's the
holidays?
What?
Well, the holiday, what is it Labor Day Memorial Day?
What's the one in September
Labor Labor Day Labor Day.
Yeah.
Okay.
So there's kind of cascades over Labor Day.
So does Iowa counties and those fairgrounds generated about $9 million in financial economic impact in the community.
And and they've got basically 70 full time jobs that
are supported by the county fair in well worth county.
That's a big one.
Out of gamey county, that's kind of up here where I'm at, just outside of Green Bay, 1.3 million in Iowa county.
Like I said, another one that goes over that Labor Day weekend, almost a million dollars.
And they figure that one supports about 12 and a half jobs in Iowa county.
Now, like I said, remember, when you start looking at those counties, like you said, John, they're all over the place, 72 county fairs
in
Wisconsin.
And think about some of the
sparsely populated counties where the county fair is not only your gathering spot, but it is an economic driver.
You know, there's
vendors that depend on that.
So I'll be curious to see all the details when they get together in January.
Jamie Buttke, our executive secretary, just received the top recruiter award by the International Association of Fairs and Expositions because she got 23 Wisconsin Fairs to participate in this national economic impact study.
So
It should be interesting.
I'll
look
forward to some of the details.
Well, Gordy's putting together a Elvis impersonation act that he wants to perform at all of these games.
Give
me your card.
I'll be your representative up at their convention.
I'll put you right next to the tractor and truck poles and the carnival clouds.
Oh, that's a good gig, man.
I'll tell you what.
Right in.
That's a choice gig.
We've got about a minute or so left, but we want to touch on all the
cheese information
that we've got.
Right, we can't get through
it all, but I really want to touch on this.
I want to get into it even deeper the next time we talk,
but this is
really a fantastic story about what the dairy farmers of Wisconsin are doing with cheese.
Tell us.
Yeah.
well it's look anywhere you're going look for the proudly wisconsin badge it's basically a hand holding up a wheel of cheese and that'll let you know no matter where you are that's wisconsin cheese and remember 90 percent of our milk in wisconsin goes into cheese 90 percent of the cheese we produce sells outside of wisconsin
yeah and then the byproducts are all being part marketed as well turned into something really healthy
We can tackle that on Friday.
I'll give
you a
whole laundry list of what we do after the
cheese.
It's fascinating stuff.
Very good, Pam.
We'll talk to you again on Friday.
You have a good week.
That's Pam.
See you later, boys.
All right.
And the Midwest Food and Farm reports right around the corner as well.
And then we're back with Idiocracy for Monday morning.
And Matt, we'll open up Idiocracy Forest.
Yes.
Coming back with more after
this.
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 go and do something like this.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fallen shelter right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Alright.
Dumb all the time, as we always say here on the show.
This is Johnny Gordy in the morning, 92.7 WMDX.
It is 6 36.
We've got cloudy skies, just two degrees to start things out.
We'll get into the low 20s later on today, maybe some snow on the way tonight and tomorrow and into Wednesday too.
The big thing now is illegal detention.
What are you talking about?
People are getting arrested, you know, ICE agents are picking people up and illegally detaining them for long periods of time without an attorney and without a reason.
And who could have guessed that this would happen?
Did we not see this coming?
Oh, my God.
I mean, it has to get really bad before anybody says, you know.
I heard somebody talking about this before on WMDX.
Who the hell was that?
All right, anyway, let's go to the full lines before we get to more of idiocracy here.
Matt, what do you got?
Good morning, Matt.
Morning, guys.
Good
packer game.
Go
back.
So I'm just wondering today, I was online and I'm seeing this theory out there, which is definitely a right wing enabled concept if it is real, but it's just thought that
with all these robots and stuff that they're promoting, that the Davos, you know, the World Economic Forum, these big elites that gather, the idea is to get the world's population down to a billion, which is that eight right now, roughly, and use robots to kind of replace all the labor.
You no longer need average or below average intelligence people.
Just get rid of them all.
And I think it might be true because a lot of these people like feel and must who have the money and the power to try to Make this happen.
They are into eugenics.
They do believe whites are special and everyone else should just be gotten rid of But my question for you guys is like it seems the vast majority don't like this dystopia that they're trying to push on us
Is it possible they like at a local level we could we could rebel against it and build something different?
Or are we just all screwed?
We're
all
screwed.
That's my take on
it.
Yeah, I haven't occurred to me, but yes on a local level maybe we could you know somehow keep the robots at bay.
With sticks and rocks
and
stuff?
Maybe.
It's come to that.
Here's a there's a static problem So we just put carpeting under all everything we have, you know, oh really might short them out, right?
Oh,
there's
an
idea
I do I do
have a story
about a big
gathering big gathering of people Yeah,
and they
have a plan for the rest of the world
by
the way.
Really?
Yeah, we'll get to that sometime later
on.
A little
bit later on.
All right, let's
get to more of the stories here.
This is AI related.
House Republican leaders are searching for a legislative vehicle they could attach language to that would effectively ban state regulation of artificial intelligence or otherwise known as AI.
Okay, okay because as you know the big bad bill wanted to have that in it But they took it out in the Senate and the House approved that of course and Trump signed it so AI regulation can happen in the country now they want to still work on making a Law nationwide that prevents AI regulations
Okay, seems like we need some regulations.
We need the guardrails.
We need those guardrails.
This is one of the worst
ideas.
I mean, they took it out in the Senate for a damn good reason.
It's not a good reason to go around and say, no, we don't need guardrails for something that could take over the human race someday, right?
Yikes.
Anyway, the response I thought the states were laboratories of democracy and the federal government arrogantly abridging their authority was bad.
A Republican saying Reagan was wrong.
So there you go.
See, I mean, states should have this option, but I will say this.
I don't want just states to have the option.
I don't want to live in a bad state.
That's why we're not going to regulate AI, you know, and then they're the state responsible for the entire global takedown of humanity, right?
Well, Tennessee, because of Tennessee, yeah, total.
World has been taken over by robots and so anyway Yeah, I think it should be a national thing where we actually start putting in AI guardrails
Because
we definitely need it.
We've got these data centers going in going in that we'll be doing a lot of AI work Mm-hmm.
So well, we need the regulations.
I don't know where I saw this but there was an AI expert on one of the channels over the weekend and he was really
quite alarmed by how there are no regulations, and we're not getting to that quickly enough.
And AI is already out of control, and it's going to be really tough now to catch up to it.
He was really sounding the alarm bells like, hey,
We got to get on this
and we
have to get on it now.
We can't wait another couple of months.
We can't wait six months to do.
We need
to do it now.
And he kept coming back
to this point.
And it was really, it was, it was like that movie that we saw.
Don't look up.
It was, it was like that.
He's screaming out loud.
Please listen to me.
Listen to me.
We needed to get control of it now.
That's right.
Okay.
Well, good luck to us
all.
Now let's go to the voter fraud way with this.
Remember when Charlie Kirk turning point USA senior director and disgraced
Arizona legislator Austin Smith was convicted of voter fraud for forging hundreds, hundreds of voter signatures, including dead people.
Oh, you don't remember that?
You know, they don't talk about it very much on the right.
For some reason, I don't know why.
Um, well, anyway, turning point action and turning point USA are corrupt.
and this is just one example.
This guy, Charlie Rehard Austin as a senior director of their political arm after he committed, after he committed straight up election fraud.
Must have seen something good in Austin to hire him in order to commit more election fraud.
That is just amazing.
I mean seriously, hundreds of voter signatures including dead people and you know,
The right wing, magas, they hate dead people.
They really do.
They hate them when they take money from Social Security.
They just hate dead people.
And those dead people are taking all the food stamps, too.
I don't know.
My god.
You know, I just get a kick out of the fact that so many dead people are taking advantage of the system.
Really, they had to just stay dead.
You
know, maybe if they could just stay dead for a while and not use up all our resources.
Right.
My God.
They've been watching too many of those zombie TV
shows now.
I think so, yeah, the
zombies are taking over.
Oh, I
don't
know.
It
is crazy.
Yeah, all right.
Coming up after seven o'clock, we'll fire up their grown-up gift list multi-state contest, so stay tuned for that.
Well,
you
know what?
We were just talking about AI.
We've got a guest coming up this afternoon on
our other show.
That's right.
Reed Ribble.
So former Republican representative of the Eighth District.
He's going to tell us a little bit more about what's going on with AI.
Yes,
that's great.
And we'll also be talking with Mark Jacobs, who's a former Metro editor of the Chicago Tribune.
So, we'll find out what he's talking
about.
What
is he talking about again?
Authoritarianism.
Authoritarianism.
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, we're seeing a lot of that lately.
Well, it seems like it, yeah.
Now, I wrote this a little screen because I'm just tired of this, you know.
You know, professionalism is one thing, but you know, you can't sit back in the weeds and let everybody just kind of...
flounder, but not throw your two cents in if you're a psychologist.
Okay.
Okay.
Um, never has there been a call for a deeper, more relevant analysis of mega mania than now.
And I'm begging psychologists to please activate yourself.
Please.
Can we psychoanalyze the leaders and followers of this cult, like, you know, this incredible allegiance to King Trump?
All the obvious symptoms are there enough to draw some kind of conclusion?
Please, why are we not hearing from these people?
I think it's like a professional thing where they can't psychoanalyze people that aren't necessarily a patient of theirs.
Oh, okay.
And I think that's the
thing, that there
is a professionalism.
Skip the professionalism, start helping us analyze these psychos.
Again, this is a psychoanalysis of a political party.
The dangerous signals of a serious mental problem that the real world will suffer the consequences from.
Please help us.
I mean, they've got projection, they're cruel, narcissistic, insecure, they have anger problems, and of course, paranoia.
They fear everything.
It's a cult.
Immigrants, the left, opposing ideas, protesters, racial diversity, DEI, they fear everything.
If there was anything clearer than the symptoms these people are demonstrating, please have some psychoanalysis out there.
Help us out, you psychologists.
Please.
Is
anybody going to listen to me on this?
Yeah,
maybe not.
Maybe I'm just ranting again.
Well, Noe, I think you're right.
They have some professional code of conduct where they feel like they can't do that kind of thing.
I think they've said that.
Well, especially when it concerns the president.
But I don't know why they couldn't make some more broad statements about, you know, the
the broader implications of just
say it he's comes across like yeah or uh or something manby pamby but i'll take that just just at least support us make it seem like we have some sanity of our own that is being offended on a daily basis okay well
well we'll reach out to the
Psychologists of America or whatever their their group is called.
I don't know you think they have a union.
I Think so Well, you know, you have some kind of an association you would think that they would be you know talking about
on way up But there's always this professionalism that sometimes gets in the way of
you
know helping us all kind of deal with life as as we know it now, right?
All right, Stephen Moore a longtime conservative econ
Oh, do we have time for this?
Economist and informal Trump advisor.
He's nuts.
Stephen Moore, guys, crazy.
He really is.
He used to write editorials for the Wall Street Journal.
Anyway, he said, the Republicans are trying to stave off another government shutdown in early February and to address Americans' rising health care costs.
He said, people are facing 15% to 20% premium increases starting very soon, Moore said.
You think people have an affordability...
Affordability problem now wait until those those premiums hit.
Mm-hmm.
I think he's
Right
for
one under something.
Yeah,
right for one.
Okay, but he's nuts otherwise
Never believe anything he says phone lines are back open 608 879 8255 We'll take your calls.
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Disco.
It is a cold start this morning.
Two degrees highs in the low twenties for today.
Cloudy skies and maybe a little bit of sunshine peeking through later, but also a chance for some snow developing later on today or tonight and into Tuesday and Wednesday.
And we've got some.
information that arrived over the weekend.
You know, we were talking about Wisconsin Eye last week, how they are.
Well, and they're ready to go out of business, apparently, because they
need a million dollars to support themselves.
And if they didn't get that in the next week or so, and that was it for Wisconsin Eye.
Now,
from what I remember,
You almost had to subscribe at one time.
I think they got rid of the subscription thing.
But you had to pay money in order to just see some of the videos, which was really incredibly unfair since we do have a chance to see what our government is doing.
Why pay for it?
Right.
And it was kind of like a C-span for Wisconsin, right?
Exactly.
So
I think the fees went away, but they need the money and the legislature doesn't give a damn about having anybody watch what they're
doing.
And we had a comment from one of our listeners here talking about Wisconsin Eye being really ineffective.
They've been true to their mission of documenting state politics without spin.
They give them points for that.
But this listener says they've been ineffective as far as promoting
or making the public aware of what they do and where to access it.
Instead, primary users of Wisconsinite content have been lobbyists and elected officials.
But if you ask anybody you meet on the street, if they've ever heard of Wisconsinite, most people have not heard of it or have any idea about it.
So they're really pointing the finger at some of the management there, just not promoting Wisconsinite to the public.
Um, and kind of ineffective, uh, as far as their, um, their work model.
So they didn't want to
advertise.
Well,
they didn't want to advertise, but they also said, uh, the people that run it, the CEO paid himself a quarter million dollars for doing it.
So I mean, maybe there's some, there's some internal things there that we know haven't really heard about until now.
So I mean it is set up and it's you know, it's not expensive.
It doesn't look expensive You know, they're just set up cameras and that's it static cameras that
let
you
watch what's going on.
Yeah in the legislature and they do have a special program and I believe they have One of the people from With politics and and a news person from one of the TV stations they used to go at it Emily Fannin
And I can't remember the guy from WizPolitics who was on the show as well.
But anyway, they would talk about the hot issues and it would take about a minute.
And that was it.
But it was very beneficial.
It's a great channel.
And you can find a lot of stuff there.
And I used to get a lot of drop-ins from my radio show and from my blog for that.
So it's a great site.
Well, we'll see what happens, but it's apparently close to closing down completely if they don't get some, some funding.
I can't imagine them running ads.
I don't know what that.
Well, watch your government perform.
Yeah, actually not.
You know, the thing is, they take an entire year off, a year of vacation.
So what is
what Scott's
and I going to do?
There's nothing to show.
Maybe that's why they're going to close it down.
I don't
know.
Yeah, I don't know.
But anyway, we, you know, John and Gordy should definitely get out there and have a fun drive.
You think so?
For Wisconsin.
I should be out there, at least on the sidewalks of Statesry.
Panhandling money for
Wisconsin.
It's kind of cold to do that.
I don't know.
Well, this listener says close it down.
Oh, yeah.
That's outrageous.
Why would you close it?
No, we have to watch what's going on.
This is a great.
Way to kind of keep track.
Yeah,
I mean they call it Wisconsin.
I for a reason.
Mm-hmm.
It's an eye and Wisconsin in other words
You know, I never thought of that before
it's if you just flip it
around Maybe they just make a better sense.
Yeah, be need a better logo.
They need a better publicity department
Okay, it says here marks his aren't citizens
Forbidden from recording video from the gallery.
Yeah.
Um,
I think that's the case.
Yes.
You can't do that.
So you have to use Wisconsin.
Yes.
I mean, it seems like a good service, you know, like C span.
So all right.
Uh, we're getting some more texts about it here.
Well, Larry sent us
a connection to the Wisconsin.
I, uh, network, uh, problem.
There's
a story in Ismus about her, too.
That's what Larry has sent.
Oh, okay.
In the most recent edition, I believe
we have... Are we
getting Judy David off in here pretty soon?
I hope so.
We should.
Yeah, definitely.
It should be time.
It's been a while since we've talked to her.
We'll have to get that going.
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Coming up next hour, it's a big story.
It's the Peace Award from FIFA.
For Donald Trump?
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
Boy, you know, when you were a little kid, you wanted to hide your face when you were embarrassed?
Yeah.
I had that feeling again when
you were
watching this.
I just thought, this can't be
happening.
And he can't be a sucker enough to believe that this is real.
This is a
thing, yeah.
I think they just kind of made it up just for him.
Great stuff though.
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All right, John Peterson, over to you.
I was pleading some psychology, get out there and start talking, talking.
Tell us what we're seeing in this administration is crazy.
Tell us that.
Group psychology.
And Sally Sumwalt gave us a little tip here about a book by Brandi Lee.
She's an MD and she organized the Yale Duty to Warn Conference
The book is a collection of psychiatrists and mental health experts assessing the president.
Wow.
OK.
Oh, got it.
You're on.
We're trying to get her on and talk to her about this because we need a reminder that this guy's nuts.
Well, and his
own
niece,
Mary Trump is a psychologist.
And
she's she's on his case all
the time.
But
she's not on enough.
No, I know.
Well, she's
got her own website.
blog and everything and has written books about it, but yes It needs more attention.
It does and we were talking about AI doing something with AI guardrails of some sort controlling it before it destroys mankind Monica
It's something pretty funny.
Doom and Gloom set up right there.
Monica from Mount Horro.
Yeah, she said we can treat AI the same way we do climate change.
You know, study it for decades, deny there's any issue, do nothing, and wait for the country to implode.
That's pretty much the plan,
yeah.
Boy.
Yeah.
And we're taking your texts and your calls to 608-879-8255.
I'm
not the only Debbie Downer around here.
And Mark out in the sack says, I got some really nice all-clad factory seconds.
Oh.
Even stuff in damaged packaging for great reduced costs.
You know, I've been to a few places like Marshall's and what's the original one?
Max.
I don't know.
Oh, I can't remember the name of it.
Anyway, yes, they have a lot of that stuff and you can go in there and buy it very inexpensively, but get the really, really, really solid stainless steel stuff because that stuff will last forever.
And it is really high quality stuff in it.
Incredibly affordable price.
So check that out.
I know there were some nonstick.
Yeah,
Teflon stuff,
things you could put on it, not Teflon, but Teflon doesn't use the
PFAS anymore, but they do have some non-stick stuff on stainless steel now, and I'm not I've never tried that.
I don't know what it's like It seems like it'd be hard to clean, but no no All right, let's go to the full lines real quick here.
We have dick dick.
What do you got morning dick?
Good morning this weekend.
I'm watching one of those weekend shows on what was MSNBT at?
Whatever, you know, I'm talking about
MS now MS now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And anyway, it struck me as hilarious and the guy was a reporter from the Wall Street Journal and he was maintaining that the strike on this boat, you know, they were still a threat.
And it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in television.
Jonathan Capehart goes
I do you still believe in Santa Claus?
Everybody on the set just cracked up and this guy if looks for to kill he was not happy But he got called out in a big way and it was hilarious I mean you'd have to believe in Santa Claus to believe their explanation of this whole thing Yeah, and they're letting it out just like
the Hegsted or I mean the Epstein files, you'll never, we'll never hear or see the whole thing.
I don't think
this is truly amazing.
They're not the one is one of the most open governments we've ever had in this country.
They talk about it, but they don't release anything.
And if they do release something, it's a total lie and it's made up and it's obvious that obviously it's not real.
So yeah, you're right.
You're right.
Thank you,
Dick, for
that phone call.
Let's see here, you know, I remembered I was T.J.
Maxx where you could get all that stuff.
Oh sure, T.J.
Maxx, yeah.
And they got great kitchenware in there and a lot of stuff to choose from.
I just love that.
I go in there and I just spend hours looking.
I've gotten so much clothing from there.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it has great like flipping stuff, yeah.
Good to know.
Shopping hints.
By the way, Marshall's and Marshall's and Home Goods, they're all the same.
They're owned by the same corporation.
If you want a different kind of shopping experience, go up to Delaney's near Sock City.
Delaney's Wholesale.
You know about
that
place,
right?
No,
I don't.
Really?
Delaney's?
It's been there forever.
It used to be huge.
Then they had the big fire and now they only have one building left,
but they
have
all kinds of discontinued items, and it's randomly organized there.
You just go through it, and you can find some amazing thing at Delaney's Surplus.
It's on Highway 12,
right?
I'll have to check that out.
Right by that artistic display, Mr. Oh, I forget the name of that place now.
Right.
It's right near that.
Okay.
All right.
Highway 12, right at the big curve.
Right at the curve.
On Highway 12.
Yes.
Exactly, yeah.
Yeah, that's great.
I'll have to check that
out.
All right, we have Joe on the line here.
Let's go to her right now.
Hi, Joe.
Good morning.
Well, happy Monday to all.
We will see what this week brings.
Yes.
Last week brought the, as we know, the arguments between the architects for the each wing demolition and she has vacated the premises.
We don't know whether he was
It was fired at whether you left it on a cord, but nonetheless, there's been a rupture there in the...
200 million dollar project is now 300 million and there have been battles over what it should look like in the size with the architect saying you shouldn't have the ballroom overwhelming the White House.
I
know we were talking about that yesterday.
We're talking about that last week on Friday how that thing is so huge that the White House is not even noticeable anymore.
And people go to DC just to see the White
House.
I think it's just started because the thought went through my mind.
Well, you know, could he demo the whole thing?
Could he just go ahead
and
demo the whole thing?
And
apparently, yeah, I was looking it up and they said that there was a couple that filed suit and the lawsuit is going through to try to stop this construction of the East Wing
based
on the fact that it's blowing out national historic preservation guidelines.
But apparently within that law from 1966,
It exempts three buildings from its provisions.
That's the Supreme Court, the Capitol, and the White House doesn't require them to identify the impact of their changes on historic buildings.
And so one guy said, yeah, we could see the whole White House come down if they
decide.
Oh my God.
Well, you know,
so that's where we are.
So I think.
Well, you know, he wants his mitts on everything.
Um, he started small, but he's got time.
He's got three more years theoretically going forward with this.
So, um, you know, visit now, I guess I would
say this is like a dog market is territory, you know, and we're going to remember him long after, you know, maybe, maybe they'll add floors to the White House, just make it proportional.
Just
build up maybe build out
maybe hey, that's an idea right there.
Oh, I hope no one's brought that out to him.
Yeah, you got okay.
Let's get to the FIFA Peace Prize Hmm, you know This is so bizarre you You know you we're watching this whole thing roll out in real time getting the peace prize from FIFA and and
And and and we're we're thinking ourselves.
Well, this is this is probably the most gratuitous kiss up I think I've ever seen in my entire life.
It created this
these price.
They did just for Donald Trump.
We're all so stunned.
It's hard to even imagine.
explaining this to anyone at all.
I mean this is like going into the upside down as far as I'm concerned.
So let's listen to this section from Chris Hayes.
He went through it as well.
This is this is fun stuff.
Chris Hayes here.
The story about Donald Trump's consolation peace prize participation trophy that we brought you at the top of the show.
Really, you had to see it to believe it, and you can go look up the whole thing.
It was one of the most surreal spectacles of the second Trump term.
I felt like I was hallucinating.
Because President of the United States, he's walking the red carpet and pretending like he doesn't know he's going to get this fake prize that was
specially made for him.
One that the soccer conglomerate FIFA.
made up specifically for him as a way of ingratiating themselves because everyone understands like you got to give the guy prizes and gifts and gold and then shuffling across a lengthy stage to meet FIFA's president with sort of grave solemnity and accept his important peace prize.
The most indelible image is arguably this one, the president theatrically pulling his medal out of its case before immediately putting it on, surprising the head of FIFA.
Like, look how proud he is.
You can't wait.
Look how proud he is.
Look how proud he is of his little gold medal.
Donna, that spectacle today.
I have to say, I almost, it was, I couldn't stop watching, but my level of secondhand embarrassment surpassed anything I think I've ever seen with something involving Donald Trump.
It was really a sight to behold.
Well, this was a SNL skit that just
wrote itself from the very
beginning.
And the
fact that he couldn't wait for the,
place the metal around him and he took it out of the box and put it on himself.
I mean, first of all, it was like very undignified.
But it's a made up trophy.
It is the t-ball.
Everybody gets a piece trophy.
And so, and
you
know, I think so many people and Infantino joins the line of people over and over again who think that they can
butter up this president in these kind of ways in order to, you know, gain his attention, his satisfaction to feed his ego.
And this award today was no different from that.
And
it was, I mean, I was so embarrassed.
I mean, I really
had to
grab myself because I was embarrassed.
Yes, I was too.
Donna Edwards,
thank you.
Yeah, it's it really is that tragic.
All right, well
and and yeah, he could not wait to put it on himself That metal
just
was kind of awkward too.
It's so stupid very weird, you know Mark writes it's truly like Superman's bizarro world Mm-hmm where insanity is the norm and our normal isn't of course, you know bizarro world is a square planet Where everything is the opposite of this planet.
Yes
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We were talking about that place Delaney's Supply House, which is right around the curve from Dr. Evermore's museum, that outdoor sculpture place
on the curve of Highway 12.
Metal sculptures out there.
It's really lots of very
cool stuff.
And Delaney's is still there.
Right
next to North Freedom, I believe.
Yeah, it's very close.
OK, let's go to the phones.
Mark from Prairie to Sec.
is with us this
morning.
I
bet Mark knows that area very well.
Good morning, Mark.
I know Delaney's, I've been in there a number of times.
I haven't been in there for a while, but I bought a few things there.
So this peace prize, people just invent this peace prize.
I mean, I've never heard of it before.
I mean, and it truly is a bizarro world that we're, you know,
Yep included upon ours.
I mean it just
It
is
and I've got I've got a frame from the comic book in front of me I actually screen captured this thing because it said it all it said here finally the original bizarro and bizarro Lois appointed themselves the rulers and made their hatred of earth
Law and this is it.
This is their declaration listen to bizarro code us do opposite of all earthly things Us hate beauty us love ugliness is big crime to make anything perfect on bizarro world and now we are bizarre world seems
like it With it with this new ballroom coming in yes bigger than the White House.
I mean it is just
And how often is this thing going to ever going to be used aside from Trump having some grand feet there and then it's going to get torn down once he leaves office.
And how much is it going to cost?
I mean, $400 million, $500 million, a billion dollars to build this atrocity that is a copy of the Russian throne room.
It is just beyond
me.
I've got I've got rotating images on my computer screen,
you
know, and you know pictures from
picture files that I have and one came up from the Wisconsin Dells
of
the upside down White House.
Yes.
Well, that's still
there on the strip.
Yeah, right at the corner of County A. I think everybody should go there and get their
picture taken because
that's the next step.
And you could say you were there because I was there in front of this thing and the whole White House is upside down.
Oh, I know.
It's a bizarre
attraction.
No one talks about it.
It's like, you know, it's a great.
thing to just step out of your car, take a picture.
Yeah.
And you can go
inside.
It's,
it's only like,
well, everything is upside down
on the side of
it too.
Um, and you can take
more pictures.
I've
never been inside.
It's only like five bucks admission
to deal.
Oh, I should.
Oh, the kids love
it.
Yeah.
And it's right near, uh, some of the go-karts too.
So you can, yeah,
you know,
When they did that, all of a sudden it was there.
I know.
We had gone to the Delos quite often to go down Main Street
and some
of the shops.
The
kids found a lot of those shops pretty interesting, especially the ones with the giant trolls in them.
But the upside down White House was all of a sudden there, and we took pictures of ourselves in front of this damn thing.
Well, yeah.
And you gotta wonder,
Who thought of putting it there?
Well,
that's a great question.
I don't know.
I think it's connected with Mount Olympus, but...
Oh,
really?
In any
case, it looks like it was thrown,
you know, like it had an
upheaval and it lanced because it's all busted up, you know, intentionally looking that
way.
Yeah, the column's
in
front.
They're broken.
But yeah, people just pull over and take lots of pictures.
And now they have these Android kind of figurines
in
front of it, like it's been taken over by a robot.
Oh, really?
Oh, yeah.
We'll have to look online.
See if you can find some
pictures of the upside down now.
White House.
Oh, yeah, it's really some more pictures.
They
look like, oh, what do you call them?
Oh, I forget.
Those little toys that you could turn in, you know, it started out as
a
car and then you'd
turn it into a robot.
Transformer?
Yeah, kind of like the, but they're gigantic.
Transformer type robot robots that are kind of wandering around outside of this busted up upside down White House.
It's like a Power Rangers Zord.
Yeah, I do all these things with it.
Right.
Oh,
yeah.
Somebody from the Dells give us a call.
Yeah, I can't remember the exact title of that attraction now.
But
it's called
Top Secret.
Oh, that's it.
Top Secret.
Yes.
Yes.
Do they have a current picture of the of the robots?
Yeah, I'm finding that.
Wow, they're
huge.
Yeah, I know.
They're gigantic.
The Dels is the craziest place.
Well,
it
is in the country.
It really is.
Maybe the water park oases of the world.
See these.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'm talking.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, they're
gigantic.
Yeah.
And it doesn't seem like
they really fit the area, but they're there.
Well, they started adding them a few years ago, and now they're all over the place, the big robotic creatures.
Okay.
Time for another trip to the delts.
Yep, always a fun time there.
Okay, 29 past the hour, we'll check in with the Midwest Food and Farm Report, and back with more of John and Gordy on this Monday morning after these
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What's that number again?
Wow.
It's
amazing how they knew the town and everything.
I know.
That's fantastic.
Okay.
We're talking about the upside down White House in the Dells.
Right.
And the giant robots outside.
It's called Transformers.
Top Secret.
Okay.
Yeah.
And I thought of this.
Now, you know, they have a wax museum.
It's
not just any wax museum.
It's the Royal Wax Museum.
It's royalty is involved.
Wow
So it's an official wax museum in other words and because of royalty I would assume that Trump's wax figure is in there, too Why
don't
they have why don't they have?
Trump figurines all over the White House upside down White House top secret.
Yes.
That's a great idea.
Wouldn't that be it?
Well, it's the Dells.
Anything for a buck, you know.
They get you coming, they get you going.
Yeah, that top seeker is at the corner of the strip, the main strip and county A
right there.
It's
pretty wild.
It's pretty great.
Fun place.
All right, let's go to the phones right now.
We've got, you know, talking about crazy stuff in the Dells.
CJ, what do you got for us?
Good morning, gentlemen.
How are you today?
I'm pretty good.
I'm doing all right for Monday.
Yeah, awesome.
I know, isn't it great?
Yeah, send all those bear fans home from Lambeau Field with a loss.
It was beautiful.
Hey, they do have a fan up there to that wax museum.
They got an empty suit and an auto pen.
Okay, nice one, CJ.
Good
one, CJ.
Well, thank you, guys.
You know, but as the world praises the peace president and we listen to you guys piss and moan about the beautiful award that he got.
The FIFA
made
up award.
It's a first recipient.
Did you watch the presentation?
I did.
They made off all the wars, the eight wars that he's ended.
Cambodia, Thailand, Kosovo, Serbia, DRS, Rwanda, Pakistan, India, Israel, and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia.
You believe
all that.
And Islamion.
And Israel and Hamas.
Those are the eight.
And they named them.
So, you know, as you guys claim that he's such a bad guy, the world loves him.
And he's going to be
Known as the peace president and he should be because president Biden didn't and war.
Okay started.
Okay.
Now, let me ask you a question because Gordy wanted me to ask you this question.
He could ask.
Is there anything that you disagree with?
We
got rid of him.
Oh, yeah, I lost him.
I didn't know you guys had an extra
question.
Call back CJ.
All right.
Well,
let's go to Charles in Milwaukee here.
for some sanity.
Charles, help
us.
It's
always you and CJ,
Charles.
He's not going to answer.
You guys are wasting your time.
You know, when I heard about this peace prize thing about a month ago, that this guy was going...
I'm like, wow.
It reminds me of when I was teaching, when they would give out awards in the grade school and for the kids that weren't going to receive a award.
You know, there was that kid that got an award for the best door holder.
That's
what this is all about.
And I heard that, you know, I got to do a little more fact checking, but that this has to do with the...
Money laundering issues that FIFA is having right now.
Yes.
Yes.
So there's always there's always there's always Something behind it all Yeah, so there's there's something to do with with money laundering and them trying to get the Trump administration to dismiss this case
that's going on against FIFA.
So there's always something behind it.
Like I said, always, always, always follow the money because trust and believe, like I said, the front of the house is on fire and he's still in money out the back.
He always has his hands out.
Just like Tom Holman got a bag with $50,000 in cash.
You better believe Trump is getting some money somewhere, somehow, him and his family.
They're all a bunch of grifters.
Um, they, they all are.
There is even a podcaster who caught out Charlie Kirk's wife and, and, and the past Charlie Kirk and how they're just grifting people of mining.
It's all about money and these stupid idiots thinking that they're doing something for the American people.
Trump hasn't done nothing for the American people yet.
bring out more hate and racism.
And if you support him, that's what you're supporting, unless you're a millionaire billionaire and you're benefiting from him being the president.
Otherwise, it's just about hate.
All right.
Well, no, that sums it up.
Charles Well said.
Thank you for that.
Thank you.
And we have that question for CJ again.
What was the question?
Just wondering if there's anything that
CJ disagrees with Trump about and I think we have CJ back on the line here Just looking into this FIFA gate.
It's called FIFA has been under the watchful eye of the Department of Justice
since 2015.
You can forget that.
They'll probably toss that, baby.
Yeah.
$150 million in bribes and kickbacks.
FIFA gate, it's called.
But
you won't see that.
Yeah.
Since they gave Donald Trump a peace prize, maybe that's probably going to go away.
I would assume it would.
Yeah.
CJ, what do you think?
Is
there anything that you disagree with with the president, by the way?
Is there one thing that you didn't like him doing?
What was it?
What was it?
Quickly, what is it?
Um, I can't think
of anything.
All right.
Well, that's great.
Okay.
We
got that.
Wow.
All right.
I've got this, uh, what?
Never mind.
Let's just move on.
Okay.
All right.
And we, we are moving on kind of, uh, you know, about, uh, the problems with FIFA.
Um, no one cares, right?
I mean, in the upside down, uh,
Bizarro world.
The talk is that this is a pretty nice award and Fox News, I guess, chimed in a little bit.
Let's take a look at Cut 47 and give a listen to this.
I also love that the peace prize from FIFA.
It didn't go to like Greta Thunberg or some silly little piece.
It was created for the president.
So
what
do you what you got what's your
beef with this.
No problem.
So
it wasn't
what's the what's your point.
Do you wish that it was the international or the Greenpeace.
I don't
understand why FIFA needs it.
I'll tell
you.
I don't know why FIFA has a peace award.
You know, that is the question.
Why do they have a peace award?
Well, they are kissing
his butt because they've been under investigation for about 10 years on this FIFA gate with bribes and kickbacks of 150 million bucks.
Well, that's truly amazing, isn't it?
So they give the president a peace award and that thing will go away.
Yeah, the investigations will definitely end very, very soon.
Yeah.
Well, the FBI is on it and the IRS is on it.
So, you know, those are both under control with Trump's purview.
So, yeah, we can expect those to just fade
in.
They will fade away and go away forever.
Yeah.
All right.
I'll tell you what, when we get to something.
I did.
Did we play the nah, I don't want to play that.
I'm just thinking well, I do want to play Do we have a dark left cut that we could play here?
Oh, okay.
I had I planned that I'm trying to figure out
well while you're looking for that let's Remind everybody we're on this afternoon on the network will be on from two until five with our guests read rebel
He's going to be talking about artificial intelligence, and also he's a former Republican representative from the 8th district.
And I understand he does a lot of mentoring with younger people about government.
Also, Mark Jacobs will join us.
He's a former Metro editor from the Chicago Tribune.
All right.
OK.
We've got the dark left, and he's got a comment about Mark Kelly.
Oh, OK.
All right.
And telling
military men and women to ignore the commander in chief.
How dare you do that?
I never served in the military.
I have family members who did.
Some of my best friends have.
I haven't heard one of them.
Not one of them.
say that was okay but you know better senator kelly you're a ranking senator you can go to the senate you can go to the house you can try to start articles of impeachment if you think there's something illegal i mean damn it ain't like y'all haven't done it before you impeached a man twice had you left him alone in 20 since 20 maybe you wouldn't be back
terrorizing a democratic party the way that he is.
You know, being loud doesn't make you right.
The man you're judging has actually worn a uniform and sworn an oath and understands the difference between lawful and unlawful commands yet somehow you manage to misunderstand, misquote, misrepresent the easiest military principle on earth.
Mark Kelly didn't tell the troops to ignore the commander-in-chief.
He said, don't follow the legal orders, but you turn that into how dare you tell the military to ignore the president.
No.
How dare you pretend that ignorance is insight?
You've admitted you've never served but have friends and family who did as if your loose proximity is expertise.
And with your impeachment lamp, with a straight face, you said maybe Democrats should have left Trump alone and they wouldn't be terrorizing them today.
So your solution to crime is just let the criminal cook and maybe you'll get bored.
That's your big brain moment.
You use volume in place of value because you have nothing of substance.
You scold a veteran, an astronaut, a senator for defending the rule of law while you run defense for-
a guy who wanted to weaponize the military against American civilians.
The group you're trying to side with treats people that look like you as political accessories, not equals.
And you're out here tap dancing for approval from a crowd that'll hand you a script, but not a seat at the table.
They'll quote you, they'll use you, they'll clap for you, but they're not letting you in the f***ing room.
You act outraged because you don't understand the basics.
You're yelling at the wrong person because it plays well to the wrong audience.
You're not defending the law.
You're defending the man who wants to break it.
And that's why you're f***ing
Outrage sounds were host and your logic sounds borrowed.
Nice.
Dark
left.
The dark left.
Yes.
Telling it like it is.
I'm going to get the guy in the program one of these days.
Well, you've been in touch with him, right?
I have.
And we scheduled him and then all of a sudden everything changed.
All the schedules changed.
Ah, yes.
Well, we'll have to reschedule.
So yeah, we're trying to get him on.
But anyway, I want to get to something here about.
how Biden is still a relevant figure in the Trump administration.
They constantly bring him up.
They constantly blame him for everything.
They were a
year into this thing.
And they're still blaming Biden for everything.
Scott Besant, the treasurer secretary, recently did.
It took a mind-boggling pot shot.
at Biden, I don't know.
You know, it's just sometimes you just gotta ask yourself, what the hell is going on with these people?
What kind of drugs are they?
And I think Mark asked that in one of our texts.
Why don't we listen to this?
This is Besson who appeared on CBS News.
This is cut 48.
And he was talking about meat prices and then all of a sudden, you know, not beef anymore, it's turkeys.
What is he talking about?
Let's listen.
Well, I mean, grocery prices are nearly 3% compared
to last September.
The president seems to be acknowledging that grocery prices or at least beef prices are a challenge because he put out this order just yesterday saying they're going to investigate corporate price gouging for high beef prices.
Isn't suing the food companies the same thing the Biden administration did.
didn't really work?
Well,
nothing.
How's this any
different?
Nothing the Biden administration did work.
So why are you
doing that?
Because
this isn't the same thing.
Why are you
doing it then?
If they had done this, if they'd done it properly, we'd be in a different spot.
And beef is one component.
Thanksgiving turkey was down 16%.
No, that's not the same.
No, it's not the same.
Turkey's beef?
No, it's not the same.
We got a
text
in here from Kurt in Madison asking about the dark left.
You can find the dark left on YouTube.
Just go to the dark left.
Yes, and you
can find them on acts.
You can find them on a sub stack.
Yep.
He's all over the place.
Okay.
It is 748.
We'll come back with more of John and Gordy.
Wrap things up after this.
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All right, Don.
Well, you know, I think we've hit the peak of topics on this show, and that is...
The Upside Down White House.
In Wisconsin Dells.
We should have a John and Gordy trip up
there.
I know.
You know, get our
listeners to
meet
us there.
We really, really should.
Upside
Down White House.
It's called Top Secret.
Top Secret.
Right on
the main strip there.
It doesn't really sum up what you see, you know, it's just very strange.
But again, they really need at least some Trump statues, some Robotron robotic Android.
Yeah, like, yeah, statues or cabinet.
How much inflatable inflatable Trump
Trump.
Well, what would you call those figures that were out front those robots?
Those
are
Transformers.
Oh, those are
transformers,
but they're gigantic.
They're
like 30 feet
tall.
They're all over
this thing.
Very cool place.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, let's get to something about, you know, the Trump administration style.
They love to do this.
They like to threaten people.
They want people to be afraid of them.
I don't know why.
They just want, they want to raise the fear level to a whole different level.
And Eric Swalwell actually came up with this a little while back, but I want to bring it back because it relates to what Marjorie Taylor Greene just said on 60 Minutes
over the
weekend.
So let's listen to Eric Swalwell first.
This is
cut 50.
We have had conversations
you know, privately with Republicans who have said privately, they don't like what the Trump administration is doing.
They don't like the way Speaker Johnson is leading that.
But the number one reason they won't do it and they tell us this is personal security.
They said the second I do that, my life changes, the death threats come at me and.
you know, that like your spouse and your kids are saying, don't do that.
I mean, that that's the environment we're in right now.
You know, for crying out loud, the president of the United States is essentially calling for people to be hanged.
He did that.
The stakes are too high right now to just, you know, think about your own security when others are suffering because of this guy.
That's right.
And I'm assuming that those threats aren't coming from Antifa.
Right?
No.
That's pretty scary stuff.
Well, let's listen now to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
She was interviewed on 60 Minutes.
This is cut 55.
You
can
see what she has to say about the same thing.
I'm going to ask you about this almost solid support he has among Republicans in Congress.
Is there in that support fear?
Does the support come about because they're afraid that they'll get death threats?
I think they're terrified to step out of line and get a nasty truth social post on them.
Yes.
And they're watching what happened to you.
Yes.
Behind the scenes, do they talk differently?
Yes.
How?
Oh, it would shock people.
Well, let's shock people.
Okay.
I watch many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me.
constantly for supporting him to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started, uh, excuse my language, Leslie kissing his ass and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time.
Wow.
Okay.
That's from Marjorie Taylor Green.
Yeah.
60 minutes.
Wow.
Yeah.
We live in troubled times.
Well, man.
Yeah.
The Republicans just don't, they can't, they can't.
Get it together to stand up against him, but they're willing to talk behind the scenes.
And I mean, I mean, it's the contention.
It's the cult.
It's it's them threatening other Republicans to fall in line or else.
And we heard this from some of the authorities who know about authoritarianism.
And that is one of the characteristics of authoritarianism.
Once they take control, they go after the followers and people follow them.
And we're going to be talking about.
authoritarianism with Mark Jacobs.
He's a former Metro editor of the Chicago Tribune.
That'll be on our afternoon edition of John and Gordy between two and five.
We're also going to check in with Reed Ribble.
He's a former Republican representative and
fairly reasonable guy and talking
about AI.
Yeah.
Putting guardrails on AI.
We'll find out what he thinks about that.
And he
also mentors
you know, some students that are political science students and thinking about getting into government.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Reed Ribble
will join
us this afternoon.
You
can't
forget the fact that he's a Republican.
Well, okay.
I mean, uh, Reed Rebel comes across very nice and he's very reasonable, but well, he's a Republican.
Yeah.
Well, still
still some reasonable Republicans, not
many seems no, no, he's willing to admit that.
But yeah, if they don't admit that we need universal health care in this country, then they are a Republican.
Okay.
There's no reform.
Okay.
We'll go with that.
My God.
You know, I know I make a big deal about universal health care, but it's the one answer to all our problems.
Once we have that in place, things will smooth out in this country.
Bring us together.
It will.
It will absolutely.
It
will unite us again.
And it'll put everybody on a level playing field.
Big business won't be the only ones offering health care because no one will be offering health care.
Okay.
My God.
That's going to do it for the morning edition of John and Morty.
You're right, go again.
I'm going off
here.
Okay.
All right, take a few hours off and then we'll see you this afternoon.
We'll be on from two until five.
We're going to be on with Pat next.
That's true.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, we're on with Pat Kratlow here in just a few minutes.
And then Stephanie Miller is coming up on WMDX.
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