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Line Dancing, Lizard People, and the Quest for a New Car Battery (Hour 1)
John & Gordy · Fri Dec 12, 2025
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We're truly sorry.
We're back again.
Seems like we were just here yesterday.
I was just
thinking the same thing.
How does that work?
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's Friday.
Oh man.
Happy Friday.
We got Dom back again.
We do.
Hi Dom.
Long
time no see.
I miss you guys.
It's been a while.
Did you do something different with your hair?
No, I let it grow out.
I'm not wearing a beanie.
Oh yeah, we never see his hair.
That's right.
Okay, and also I didn't even tell you guys over the week, you know since I didn't see you I went line dancing again.
Oh my god, so we're bringing that back.
Well,
that's that's not good.
That's really bad news.
Feel sorry for you.
Your
girlfriend dragged you
there.
Yeah, I got forced to do it.
There's something really wrong there.
What's your girlfriend's
name?
Isabelle.
I keep wanting to introduce
you.
I guess
you brought her to the Atwood Music Hall last week at Pete Schwab's movie.
And
you hid.
And you took her away from her.
I just don't like, you know, when there's a lot of people, I get scared, okay?
I don't know what to say.
But she was there,
right?
She was, yes.
She talked to Conrad, she talked to everyone, I think besides you guys.
She's avoiding us.
You know why?
Because
we tell...
You not the line dance because of her.
She might be mad at you guys or something.
Maybe
she is.
God.
Well, yeah.
So
everything went.
Well at the line dancing thing.
Yeah,
no get hurt.
No
issues.
I was didn't fall down
my steps in line.
I was doing the whole move with my hands.
It was good.
I was getting really into it.
Maybe she's honest.
Oh, what do you mean you did the whole thing with your hands?
I mean, look at this.
Oh, you got to do this.
Oh, that's the Trump.
Yeah, it's like the marker.
Oh gosh, never mind.
Sorry about that.
So
wait a minute.
That's part of line dancing that kind of arm movement.
No, that was just.
doing it.
Everybody else did
that.
Everyone had their hands down.
Okay.
Wow.
Alright, I can see you're just way beyond helping this point.
Okay.
Well that was surreal.
It was.
Hey, it's cold out there this morning, four degrees.
We had that,
we had the camera on you, right?
We have that now.
Yeah, now you can actually rewind and see that.
Yeah.
Four degrees this morning, highs around 25.
I don't know, the sunrise and sunset time, you know, we're out of pattern here doing the morning show.
Forget about the sunrise and sunset.
Doesn't matter anymore.
Why?
We're here all
the time.
720 is sunrise.
720.
Okay.
And 422 is sunset.
Okay.
Very good.
Now what's going to be cold this weekend too?
Saturday's high just five degrees and Sunday just four degrees.
So cold all weekend long.
Really cold.
Get bundled up.
I had planned to change the battery in my Prius.
You mentioned that.
Yeah.
over the weekend, and I'm not doing that now, obviously, working outside in that kind of weather.
Forget about it.
It always seems like that's how it is.
You
know, I grew up with junkers in the 60s and 70s, and I remember working on those junkers every winter.
For some reason, you're under the car, you're getting wet, you're getting cold, you're freezing, you can't move your hands.
You're laying on snow and ice.
Well, I was going to say you could drive your car over to my garage and fix it there, but you can't drive the car because it needs a battery.
That's right.
So you're stuck.
You're stuck there.
I was able to get a battery online through Costco.
But I went into Costco asking for that same battery and they said, no, I couldn't get it.
OK.
It's an interstate battery.
So the guy told me, just go around the corner.
Interstate battery company is right there.
You can get it.
I said, I can, I can get through you guys, you know, for a hundred dollars less.
Oh, no, we don't have that battery.
No, we don't have toilet of batteries here.
So he kind of snickered and sneered at me.
So can you
show them on your phone that it's
there on?
I didn't,
you
know what?
I just, I didn't bother.
Oh, you know, I would have normally done that, but I just thought that's it.
You know, I'm done.
I'm ordering online and I'm going to show him.
You are
Mr.
Costco, though.
That he knows.
I know I don't want to create a lot of.
trouble because they'll probably kick me out or move me into an aisle I don't like.
You didn't want to
cause a scene.
Better than
all, you know.
So anyway, I ordered it.
I got it in the mail.
You can mail these batteries because they're a dry battery.
They have sheets of
absorbent whatever in the middle so there's no water sloshing around and they don't leak when you ship them.
And it is a cool battery.
In fact, I suggest everybody in town go out and get this kind of battery.
I can't remember what it is, a GMD or something.
It doesn't matter.
Some initials like that.
But they tell you in the description that it works better in cold weather.
It works better with cars that use a lot of electronics.
And they retain their charge much longer and better, especially in cars that have a little bit of drainage.
you know trickle draining you know some of the electronics in the car when you park the car and it's off it uses electronics so it keeps things going and this you know this battery prevents that trickle drain on your battery nice kind of
warranty do
you
have on that so one year or two years
I don't
know.
I don't care.
It's supposed to last forever.
Oh, sure.
That's what
they always say.
Let's go to Matt in Middleton.
He's our early morning caller this morning.
Good
morning, Matt.
What do you got for
us?
Morning, guys.
I missed you during my coffee these last few days.
Welcome back.
Thank
you.
So I've been thinking of this for a while, but this Trump
2.0 this cast of deplorables for the worst reality show ever invented yeah These people are deplorable.
They're somewhat inhuman.
I don't understand their behavior They wear makeup.
They have plasticine faces.
They just don't look right.
There's something off and you were talking about UFOs yesterday And I was watching from ancient aliens and I think I figured it out there
They're lizard people.
Oh yes.
They're reptilian oids.
I think there's going to be a White House presser where Trump's face just falls off and you see the reptilian in underneath.
It's like a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode, right?
You find out all
this stuff later.
Yeah,
this
is
unreal.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, I'm with you.
I'm with you.
I want to ask you something, man.
You know about male delivery.
I think we had a news story where they're requesting that everybody shovel in front of their mailboxes.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Preventing mail trucks from getting stuck.
Yeah, what do you know about that?
Yeah, what do you know about that,
man?
Well, the problem is when it, because the city comes through, right, and they plow, and that pushes additional snow in this big mound in front of people's boxes.
and when we're delivering from the truck, that means we have to get out, we can't reach
it.
And that's an additional opportunity to fall or somebody slides behind us and hits us or whatever else.
But yeah, ice is a difficult problem for
us.
Yeah, so they're asking everybody to...
plow or do whatever they can snow blow in front of the mailboxes, which I used to do last year and the year before and the year before that, but this year I just gave up.
This snow was just insane.
I think I'm going to get out there and do my part and clear out good for you.
Damn mailboxes for my man.
I
got
another question.
I got a threat here.
I moved two months ago from the from the west side to the east side.
I'm still having trouble getting my mail.
I went online, did a change of address for him.
I went to each post office.
One in the west
side.
What can I
do?
It
keeps going to the old
house.
I honestly think it's uh, that's a Lewis DeJoy problem.
So all of our mail in Wisconsin is processed in Milwaukee.
I
know.
Yeah.
What
do I have to hear in Middleton at the station I work at?
We are trying to keep certain things in Middleton like.
If you ship something independently from Middleton to Middleton, we try to keep it there.
So we are trying to change some of that.
But yeah, I think these change of address things are getting wonky because I've heard that several times.
Tell me about it.
Do you know
where to live, man?
No
Does
I'm damn close to the post office I want you to protect me with that damn mail truck, you know All right, Matt, but yeah, thank you.
I'm on High Point Road right at
the
top of the
hill there We have Pam Yonkey coming up, but let's go to Mark and the sack good morning Mark
Morning morning guys.
Yeah, I think Matt is on to something.
I'm just waiting for them to remember the old the old show V for visitors were oh, yes the woman unhinged your jaw and swallowed the swallowed the rat I'm fully prepared to see Kristi Noem do that or any of the Trump administration ones, you know, and Elon Musk with his
is, you know, worth more than all humanity, you know, that all humanity could, could fade and could, could disappear and be better to that happen than Elon Musk leave this mortal coil.
I know.
It is just us.
It is just sad that these guys are just, um, you know, Russian operatives that are, you know, infiltrated through other government now that apparently, you know, Russia is our ally.
I mean, it just
Right.
You know, like I said before, we must be able to see a good old Ronald Reagan's corpse beneath his grave because he's been spinning so fast.
Turned everything about him into glass.
We see him just spinning away because, you know, that Russia is no longer the evil empire, but is our good friend.
I'm just tired of hearing this, you know, that old Russia, the Russia hoax, well, Russia is Donald Trump's ally and apparently the entire Republican Party was terrified of standing up to Donald Trump and saying that Russia is not our, you know, and saying that Russia is still our enemy or our adversary, as it were, not our, not our good friend because
Yeah,
you want to rework everything,
right?
Well, we'll see what happens, you know taking on Venezuela Putin is not happy about that apparently Russia and Venezuela are pretty close good friends, you
know So a little bit later on either this morning or this afternoon and I'm not sure if we'll fit this in but it's the Daily Show John Stuart had a comparison between Venezuela and Iraq.
Oh, really?
Yeah, okay
because we're getting the same language, the same reasons to go to war.
Yeah, weapons, mass destruction.
Yes, it's interesting stuff.
Just make something up.
So either we'll get to it this
morning or this afternoon.
We'll see what happens.
Okay.
Coming up, we've got Pam Yankee with the Midwest Food and Farm Report.
We're going to talk with her.
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My goal in life Is to spread love around To sprinkle it gently All over the ground When I clean out the barn I cleanse my heart too While hauling
manure I'm thinking of you
We have this ongoing
battle about how to pronounce
manure.
I know, I know.
But on the farm, I know they say manure.
Okay.
I'll go with that.
The
fancy city way of saying
it.
It's like wreaker crick.
Crick.
Exactly.
Right.
Two rivers.
Two rivers.
Mm-hmm.
Come on.
That's Pam
Yackey from Midwest Farm Report.
I
heard it chime in.
I've had my coffee this morning.
Oh, that's okay.
Oh, that's good.
We need a third place here.
Yeah, a cold morning like this.
You need some coffee.
We've got four degrees right now.
Pam, let's talk about the Christmas tree that's at the Capitol here, just to block away from us.
You know all about this.
You've done some research about the Christmas tree.
Well, we follow that story every year.
It's just kind of intriguing to me this year because the tree came from my home county, O'Connell County up in northeast Wisconsin.
And actually the family that is that provided the trees just down the road from my home farm, Whispering Pines.
So
it's kind of cool to be able to talk a little bit about that.
And what people don't notice when they go by, I mean, now it's beautiful.
You should have been there when they were trying to put it up.
Darren Smith, who Stephanie Hoff talked with, he is the superintendent of the building grounds at the Capitol.
He's really the guy that literally does the heavy lifting.
He has to canvas the state of Wisconsin to try to find the tree.
Now, one of the interesting tidbits that you may be hearing on one of our Midwest farm report breaks is they always.
Always have balsam furs always at the at stake capital because there's such big trees But what you may not realize is balsam furs only basically grow north of highway eight So you're talking the hint you're talking
way
up there unless it was purposely planted someplace So but he says and he was telling Stephanie that literally it's probably a two-day event for him where he and his crew get in people submit their trees
where they are, all that kind of stuff.
And then he's got to go out and basically evaluate the tree.
Is
it going to fit?
Is it the right dimensions?
It's a proportion.
And he said the story behind the tree is just as important as the tree itself.
Obviously, you want a beautiful tree, but he said if there's a story to it, you know, a generational story or something like that.
He said that's really cool too.
And he said the other thing is you got to remember the best trees may not be right next to the road.
He may end up snowshoeing in a little bit to try to see this grandiose tree that
maybe somebody's been snowmobile and passed for most of their lives.
So that's a big part of it.
And then they go up and they have to use tree harvesting equipment.
So it's not, I want to make sure people don't have this in their head of a couple of guys with a chainsaw.
This is a massive undertaking to get a tree this size.
What'd you say that it was, John?
How big is it supposed to be,
Ennio?
I think it's about 40, 45 feet.
Right.
So
you're not just fooling around with something that you can strap on the hood of the car.
It's a whopper.
So they've
got to
get all the equipment there and coordinate it and bring it in.
So like I said, when you get a chance, hopefully you do get a chance to enjoy the Christmas tree in the Rotunda at the State Capitol.
And Stephanie found out, Darren told her that this year the tree that Wisconsin has is ranked number seven on USA Today's 10 Best Readers
Choice
Award for.
best public holiday lights display.
So if you get a chance to take a look at it, it's a beauty.
And Wisconsin always is quote, in the running for not only our state tree, but we have provided multiple trees to the White House.
Now I warn you guys, don't drag me on the White House this year because I didn't pay attention.
It wasn't from Wisconsin.
But our Wisconsin Christmas tree association is very, very active.
And quite often, our dragon trees out to Washington DC for the whole fan
of pulling up in front of the White House and then the ultimate lighting.
So it's noteworthy.
It's kind of something that you might want to say to somebody else when you're standing around the tree in the Capitol, did you know these only grow north of Highway 8 or something?
Wow.
Something to
share.
Pam, are real trees overtaking fake trees this year just because of prices, do you think?
No, I don't think so.
It's not so much prices.
A lot of it has to do with living space.
there are, you know, let's think about it.
If you're a renter in a complex, your facility may not allow for real trees because of a fire hazard.
So a lot of people may be reduced kind of to that.
And then there's allergies and things like that.
But Christmas trees as a whole, real Christmas trees as a whole have seen a surge since the pandemic that has not gone away.
Because if you think about it, that was about the only thing you could do during the pandemic as a family was go out and try to
harvest your tree or find your tree.
And
that reignited a lot of that family tradition kind of stuff.
So that is still sticking with us as a remnant.
I'll tell you, going out to those tree farms are just fun.
I mean, they
have
all the decorations.
They've got ornaments.
They've got hot
cider.
Robert, that just got rained here this weekend.
What?
One of our guys has got raindrops this weekend.
Ben Jarbs just did a story on trying to feed reindeer.
Wow.
That's where we go.
You want to scratch them, we want to feed them.
Absolutely.
And just briefly, what do you buy a farmer?
Just give us a clue.
So we can talk about that on Monday.
Farmers are hard to buy through it for.
Monday, I'll give you a list of things to consider if you've got a farmer on your list.
All right.
Okay.
Well, it sounds good.
Thank you, Pam.
Well, we appreciate it.
All right.
We have a good weekend and we'll talk to you on Monday.
Stay warm.
Okay, we're gonna try.
All right.
That's Pam Yaqui from Midwest Food and
Farm Report.
Yeah.
I remember seeing the guy who actually is in charge of decorating the tree at the Capitol.
I saw him on a newscast.
Okay.
and he, you know, I was gonna, I would suggest that maybe they don't cover the tree and blanket it with ornaments and all that.
Sometimes you can't even see the tree at the Capitol.
Well, yeah, a lot of decorations.
You know, a lot of
decorations.
Remember in the old days, we used
to put tinsel on?
Oh, God.
I wonder if they put
tinsel on this tree.
I don't think so, but you know, we should walk down there and take a look.
Okay, I'll bring along some tinsel.
Okay.
All right, good enough.
We've got the Midwest Food and Farm Report next, and then we're going to check in with Idiocracy and much more on John and Gordy for a Friday morning after this.
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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.
What
an idiot.
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
What
what's going
on around here?
Idiocracy the smartest guy in the world.
You're pretty dumb sometimes
keep doing dumb things and obviously no one ever learns from it We have endless amounts of stories
right
have to get out and in the ether never ends.
Yeah, it's just it was a
play
So anyway, you know, there's a shortage of teachers or will always be a shortage of teachers the way the Republicans treat teachers.
You know, it's not appreciated.
So anyway, there's a test program that puts interested high school students in classrooms to recruit new teachers.
Wait, what?
I don't know.
I don't know.
It sounds kind of confusing and ridiculous, but well, I don't know.
Maybe it's a good program.
So let's listen.
There's an extra student in this Pittsburgh elementary school class.
Good job!
High school student Avery Wazo and her friend Erin Null are part of the aspiring educators program, growing the next generation of teachers.
It's a preparatory college program for people that want to be educators and to get a taste of education inside the classroom.
I'm supporting them, I'm keeping them going.
In return, these high schoolers get college credits to a local university and relieve some of the heavy workloads of
elementary school
teachers.
Find the students that are in high school that have an interest where they might be interested in it, but if they're not given the hands on the role classroom experiences, they're never going to ignite their passion.
Nationally schools have been struggling to keep teachers in the profession.
According to an analysis by the Learning Policy Institute, there are over 411,000 empty teacher positions in the US.
And the Trump administration has made some significant budget cuts, including millions of dollars in education grants and teacher training, as well as proposing multi-billion dollar cuts to the Department of Education.
The aspiring educators program doesn't rely on these funds, but is trying to fix the national issue on a local level.
How bad is the teacher shortage right now?
It's a problem.
It's an ever-growing problem.
And the teacher shortage problem is just getting worse.
Last year in Pennsylvania alone,
We lost 9,000 of our teachers.
And last year, we prepared only 5,000 new teachers.
So you can see in just one year a gap.
Why do you think not a lot of young people consider a career as a teacher these days?
If I'm being completely honest, it's because this job isn't for the pay.
I wouldn't say that you go into education looking to make a million dollars.
You go into education looking
to build relationships and change people's lives.
Once we all had the chance to walk into a classroom and see it, the pay didn't matter anymore.
Yeah, but we know the square.
Planting the seeds of curious minds to help nurture the learners of tomorrow.
We are your future, so it's time to invest in the future.
Maya Eaglin, NBC News.
There you go.
Okay, need a lot of teachers and not a lot of people stepping up to do that.
That's right, but get a little help here.
I think that's a good program.
I think I saved that story for Tim Slacker.
Oh, he never ever got to it.
Well, maybe I'll bring it up again with him.
I mean, he should know about this, right?
That's a big story.
I would imagine
he does.
Yeah.
All right.
I found this story this morning.
I'm thinking, hmm, really?
The boy they do.
things in the south very, very differently from up here in the Northlands.
Really?
There's a place called K&W.
Anybody ever been to K&W
in the south?
K&W.
I think I worked at that station about 20 years ago.
K&W,
Chattanooga,
Tennessee.
And there it is.
Well, it's not actually that.
It's a cafeteria.
And it has gone bankrupt.
And they have locations all over the south.
And that's it.
It's done.
Doors locked.
Employees locked out.
Really?
All that food.
And I'm bringing this up because it's a cafeteria style restaurant.
So they have these long buffets that you go through and they have people, you know, serving you and I'm thinking.
Honestly, I've never heard of anything like that currently being around today, this day and age.
Right.
In the old days.
In the 50s.
They had a lot of those things.
Yeah, they
did.
Yeah, what were they?
They had these cafeterias where you had stuff in these
sort of vending machines.
Vending machines.
Yeah,
modern ones.
The plastic ones.
Yeah, I don't know.
What?
Those are modern space age.
It was very weird.
That's how we were going to feed ourselves.
We'd have to go to the corner computer
generated food service wall.
Well, there is something like pizza.
You guys know Pizza Ranch.
Isn't that something similar nowadays?
Pizza Ranch
is pretty much a
buffet kind of place.
It's a buffet style thing.
Yes.
But that's kind of a specializing.
This is like a cafeteria.
I forget what they call them.
There used to be a lot of them in New York City.
The ones
that we're talking about.
They had a special name.
But apparently there are a whole bunch of them and they're surviving.
The other ones are surviving.
This one didn't necessarily survive and make the kind of cuts.
you know, food service, uh, uh, service that they wanted to provide to everybody.
And I mean, I, I'm looking at pictures of it and it's, it's kind of gorgeous.
It's a lot of food, a lot of salad.
Maybe people are cutting back on salads.
You know, they want to get nice and heavy and, and plump.
I can't,
can't double
you cafeteria.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that's sad that they.
went
out of business.
It's affecting everybody down in the South because it affects the food distributors, the delivery drivers, maintenance providers and farmers who produce the produce for this.
So yeah, this is a big deal down there.
The ripple effect is going to have a major effect in North Carolina and Virginia.
Wow.
Apparently this was a big deal in the South.
88 years they've been
around.
Yeah.
Wow.
Some are writing on Facebook.
I ate there a lot as a kid in the 60s and 70s.
Best chicken and dumpling ever.
Maybe, you know, dumplings didn't exactly.
No, no call for dumplings in the 80s, 90s and 21st century.
Dumplings.
Dumplings.
Wow.
They have any grits?
I think they have grits.
Oh, maybe.
All right.
Now, uh, here's a story that you, uh, brought to my attention.
It is, uh, it is a self-awareness, of course, basically this, uh, broadcaster, uh, in, uh, upspiral life
is what
it's called.
Upspiral life.
And yeah, this is apparently the guru that you attend classes in.
Sure.
So
sure, let's go with that.
I found him online.
I think he's very uplifting.
In fact, it's called, what's it called?
Upspiral
life.
Upspiral life, yeah.
Yes.
He has very, you know, short videos, but it's always something that's uplifting and inspiring.
Yeah.
How to
live your life better, right?
I
think he was speaking right to us, too.
Yeah.
Well, this one
was...
Are you going to play the one I
think?
Yes, I'm going to play this one.
So here it is.
I thought of you when I saw
this.
John needs some help.
He really does.
All right.
Well, let's listen.
OK.
So get curious.
Ask yourself, what's this anger trying to shield me from?
That's the U-turn.
That's the move that's taking leadership inside your own mind.
Because now you're not swimming in the anger, you're watching it.
And the second you get curious, the broadcast you're sending out into the quantum field changes.
Suddenly you're broadcasting self-awareness, not attack, self-inquiry, not blame.
And the quantum field responds to that shift.
It always does.
And it brings you more of the same in return.
That's how law of attraction works.
So instead of broadcasting anger and getting back more things to be angry about, you're broadcasting curiosity and self-awareness.
And the quantum field returns to you more reasons to be curious and self-aware.
Here's the big takeaway.
People who stay pissed off have lost control of what they think, say, and feel.
They react.
They blame.
They loop.
And the law of attraction doesn't care about your good intentions.
It cares about your frequency.
And powerful people, they control their mind, their mouth, and their mood.
They get curious, and curiosity opens the door to creativity.
And creativity opens the door to solutions.
And the signal that they end up broadcasting?
Clarity.
power, forward motion.
So get out of the anger loop and regain control of your life instead of your life controlling you.
Well,
thanks for thinking about
me.
Where did you find
that guy?
You
shouldn't be swimming in your anger,
John.
I am swimming in my anger.
You're
drowning.
Going down for the third time, buddy.
Just throwing you a lifeline there.
Well,
thank you.
I learned a lesson.
A bitter, angry lesson that I guess I've been wrapped up in this envelope of anger and
resentment.
You know, when I see those things and, you know, these self-help things, you know, I understand.
You always think of me.
I think of
you.
John needs a little help.
That's what I'm here for.
Well, life isn't easy.
My life is an endless episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Well, that's true.
So
damn.
I thought you would find that helpful.
What is it upward spiral
rise up
spiral life
up spiral life?
Yeah, who would have come up with a name like that?
What's wrong with him?
I mean someone should help him out a lot of very
encouraging advice Just say where do you find this guy
like you don't know?
It
randomly popped up and I thought well this this one's this is meant for John this one
Well,
yeah, there's a lot of different ones.
Oh, he's got 30 or 40 of them at least.
Maybe a few would apply to me then, right?
Well, possibly.
Well, I definitely need the help.
Every once in a while, I go through these deep slums.
Oh, OK.
Good enough.
I'm glad
you found it inspiring.
Well, it's an up spiral for me now.
OK.
All right.
What are we listening to?
Oh, is it time
to break?
Oh, I agree.
It's
angry.
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Let's get to more idiocracy here boy.
Oh boy.
I tell you those libs on tiktok.
Whoa They really found a story this time Repressing the white man diversity must be avoided
Yes, and this is it This is the libs on tiktok achieved a new low They they are very angry about Netflix and they're telling people to cancel Netflix because well they have diversity at Netflix.
Oh, yes
Holy s-word it says from them Netflix appears to openly boast about discriminating against white people in their inclusion of diversity report they celebrate
The percentage of racially underrepresented directors and lead characters have been growing significantly over the past few years on Netflix.
Why doesn't Netflix hire based on qualifications instead of skin color?
I don't know, maybe the stuff they're producing, you know.
I don't know.
Anyway, Netflix had released a little graph of what they have been able to accomplish.
The percentage of Netflix series with an underrepresented lead or co-lead in 2018, it was 23%.
If you spin all the way up to 2023, it's 71% from 25% to 71%.
Yeah,
more
diversity.
That's more diversity underrepresented leads or co leads.
All right.
How about a percentage of series industry wide with an underrepresented lead co lead.
Now this is in a series.
22% back in 2018.
It is now 58%.
Wow.
So just seven, seven or eight years.
And this is a reason to
complain.
Who's
complaining
about
lives on TikTok?
Oh, of course, we have to we have to ban Netflix.
We we've got a boycott them.
We don't want them to have that kind of diversity.
What the hell?
What is wrong with them?
Right?
Oh, man.
All right.
We have Charles.
Oh, we do have Charles.
All
right.
Charles.
Charles, go ahead.
Good morning.
Hey, good morning guys.
I keep telling you it's all about the white man's grievance that segment The ones that like to do push-ups and pull-ups in the airport looking stupid But hey, I was calling because you know we can we can we can always leave it to our great senator Whack over on Johnson to put Wisconsin on the map.
Oh, yeah, so I saw this last night.
He's pushing a book
by some discredited doctor on a chemical that claims to treat everything from autism to cancer.
And it's called chlorine dioxide, which is disinfectant and a deodorizer.
What is wrong
with this
guy?
What is it chlorine?
What is it?
Chlorine dioxide
and
it's a disinfectant and a deodorizer.
And this discredited doctor claims that it treats everything from autism to cancer.
And surely enough, Ron Johnson is out there pushing it.
Wow.
Miracle cure.
Yeah, we all laugh about the fact that we're going to inject, right?
Bleach.
Bleach and some kind of disinfectant into our bodies, shine a light inside our bodies somehow.
Oh my gosh, well thanks for letting us know about that.
I'll have to pick up that book.
Yeah, Ron Johnson's all over it, so check into it.
Mark remembers the old days of smorgasbord.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Have you
been to a smorgasbord?
No, not lately.
We were talking about those restaurants
in New
York.
The cafeteria.
They're actually called Automats.
Automats,
yes.
Back
in New York, they were popular in the 50s.
In fact, Horn and Hardart was one company that had 40 locations.
They showed some pictures of these plastic boxes, basically, that the...
food was in.
It was like a cafeteria with no workers.
It was all very modern back in the
fifties.
It was
very sterile.
You just went along the line there and picked your food out from these little plastic boxes like vending machine, like a huge vending machine.
Yeah, it is a giant vending machine lobby.
It didn't last very long.
A few years and they were out of business.
I remember there were just one or two of those in Milwaukee when I was living there and we had gone to one.
But I have to say is it
as a kid, they were scary.
You know, I mean, the food didn't look real appetizing behind the big piece of glass.
And it was a complete plate of food, you know, but you didn't really, you had your choices, but you had to go all the way down the line to figure out what your choices could be.
Yeah, it was a dumb
idea.
And the other thing is it may have had good food, but you had to present it in a good way.
And so you had to have people designing what you put on the plate, how it looks, and then put it on display behind these glass doors.
And I can't see this as ever making it.
Well, it didn't.
It didn't
seem like it was very popular.
They went out of business pretty quickly.
Eight or ten years they were done.
Surprised it took that long.
Yeah.
I know.
Now they've turned them into what?
Lockers or
something.
Right.
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I gotta tell you, just love those smorgasbord and Milwaukee.
They had a lot of them out there.
Those are good.
Yeah, Mark is talking about a Swedish smorgasbord.
Yeah.
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There goes my food
Good morning
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Well, we have a text from Larry.
Oh, what does Larry have to say?
He said, we had one of those cafeteria type places.
Oh, the sweetest, smartest, smartest part?
No, I don't know.
You know Claire so maybe it was one of those
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All right, let's move on.
I missed Larry's follow-up text to us.
The Jolly Troll.
Yes.
Most famously refers to an iconic Swedish.
Smorgasbord restaurant chain in Minneapolis, St.
Paul, Twin Cities from the 1960s and 70s known for animated trolls.
All you can eat buffets and Swedish dishes.
Animated
trolls.
Yeah.
Okay.
Sounds
like something they'd have in Mount
Hora, right?
There was also a separate recent alternative.
Yeah.
Indie music track by the Mod Gods of Nod.
called the Jolly Trolls.
So there you go.
A little history and I have to say that I make Swedish meatballs for the kids.
Oh,
they like
those.
Oh, they're
great.
Okay.
Really is wonderful.
All right.
Do
we have Savannah waiting?
Yes, we do.
All right.
Well, let's get to Savannah.
Let's find out what headlines are happening around the area.
Good morning, Savannah.
Good morning.
How's it going guys?
We're good.
All right.
What's happening in your world?
What's what's newsworthy?
Yeah, we need to know about
Now I want to talk about basically the economic picture for some people here in Madison and Dane County and we can use one example and that's the workers at the Hilton Minona Terrace So that's the hotel that's actually connected to the terrace.
It has that skywalk.
Yes,
they just voted in August to join a union
they're still negotiating their first contract but their union did this study and they found that everybody who's working 40 up to 60 hours a week sometimes um out of all of those people we're talking about drivers bartenders cooks room attendants um there are a third of them who are either on badger care Medicaid or don't have insurance at all and on average they're making $18 an hour and here in Madison to have
a modest, you know, not updated just enough space to bedroom, you need to be able to make $28 an hour.
And that's really just what a lot of people in our area are dealing with at this point with the way our economy looks right now.
Wow.
So they're they're rallying for their first union contract.
Is that what I understand you say?
That's
right.
So it's been almost six months and they're still waiting and they're still negotiating.
It can be such a long process, you know.
Wow.
Okay.
Well,
yeah.
That seems kind of a long period of time if you have a union working for you, right?
Wow.
Well, and the process to start a union is so lengthy and can be so complicated.
Everybody I've talked to who's ever joined one, you know, we had the people over at Festival Foods on East Wash who just joined a union earlier this year.
I mean, it took them
almost a year just to get everything in order before they could even start the negotiation process.
It takes a really long time to get it all going and, you know, deal with the labor relations board and all that.
Well, I hope they get that all together.
I mean, certainly, you know, higher pay and more pay would certainly help.
And it's a, it's a great hotel.
I've been there.
Yeah.
What else is happening news
movie anything change on the on the isthmus over here The the drive on John Nolan any good news at all
I Have good news.
Okay, so have you guys seen the tree in the Capitol yet this year?
No, but we were talking with Pam Yonkey a little while ago
And I saw a news story on it.
They did show the tree.
It was gorgeous, but you could hardly see it
Thousands of ornaments on it this year, and it's all made by kids across Wisconsin.
They made them in school.
And USA Today nominated our holiday tree for their top 10...
best public holiday lights displays all over the country.
And then they announced this week what those top 10 were actually going to be.
And we made the list.
It was number seven of everywhere in the country, the pretty holiday things to go look at.
So there's some news
on
and see the tree.
Go check it out.
All
right.
We'll do that.
All
right.
So,
man, very good.
Well, we appreciate you checking in with us.
You have a good weekend and we'll talk to you next week.
Yeah, you guys too.
Thanks a bunch.
All
right.
That's Savannah Tomay Olson from WMDX News.
Take the kids down there and check it out.
You know, all handmade children's ornaments.
That's fantastic.
It is.
Can you imagine going through all of the entries and all of the ornaments?
Wow.
I mean, I would hate to turn back any, even ones that look kind of, you know, bad.
I mean, you feel bad.
You're sorry for them.
You know, you just want to put it up on the tree anyway, right?
Sure.
Yeah.
All right.
All right, let's go to the phone lines first before we get to any other stuff here dick.
What do you got for us this morning?
Good morning
two things How about Trump's response now yesterday about affordability you rubes don't appreciate what I've done for you
Yeah, that's
what you actually have yeah, and I figured out his immigration policy.
It's this if you were hard-working
Work two jobs, you're out.
If you've got a million dollars, you're in and if you've got money to bail yourself out of prison, you're in.
Exactly.
Sounds
like a plan.
Yeah.
Well, you know, the fact that, you know, Trump couldn't even get these Republicans on the same page as far as passing.
the tax credits for the ACA.
Right.
And now they've just kind of let that slide by.
I
mean, that's it.
Yeah.
They're trying to go around it.
There are still plans.
I don't even know why they keep teasing us with this because then it just disappoints us each and every week, each and every day they try this stuff.
It doesn't work.
Right.
We're not getting anywhere with this.
Well, and Trump had another...
Loss in Indiana.
They were trying to do some redistricting and the Republicans voted this down.
They
voted overwhelmingly.
They
did not want to do it.
They did not want to go and they were pressured a lot by the Trump administration to do this.
And by the governor.
And
they said no.
The governor was really disappointed too.
But they don't want to join this craziness, this insanity
that's
going on and and be told what to do.
And you know everybody's talking about how the dominoes are falling away from Trump at this point.
They're kind of a band.
and I'm finding out that his popularity isn't there either anymore.
It's dropping like a rock.
Dropping like a rock.
Yeah, not good.
Yeah, yeah.
Good for him anyway.
But yesterday we talked about the healthcare subsidies and Chris Hayes was talking about it.
Bernie Sanders was talking about it.
I just want to play this cut for everybody in case you might have missed it yesterday afternoon.
This is cut 93 and they were talking about what's happening here to get that thing passed in Congress because it's ongoing.
So let's listen to this cut.
So this is what the GOP proposal, I think, is going to be in the Senate tomorrow.
It would do away with the enhanced tax credits.
Instead, it would take that money for those tax credits, put it into health savings accounts for those who purchase bronze level or catastrophic plans on the ACA exchange.
And they say this will help Americans pay for out-of-pocket costs.
And they say it's better if we turn Americans into more active consumers that are health care.
What do you think of that?
I think it's absurd and just totally bogus policy.
It is.
Bronze plan has very high deductibles.
If you get seriously ill, you are in deep trouble because you're not going to be able to have the insurance coverage that you need.
They give you $1,000 or $1,500.
That could pay for some minor health care needs.
But it is nowhere near.
protecting people who are gonna say you got doubling or tripling in the healthcare premiums.
There you
go.
And that's Bernie Sanders along with Chris Hayes.
Now, you know, we've been talking about this for an awful long time and it's time that we just, you know, go with universal healthcare.
I just want to play a little part of this because this is just how complicated the Republicans think it should be in this cut 102.
Let's play this, all right?
Here we go.
So our bill forces, again, all health care providers to show you the two cost.
This turns patients back into consumers.
It is the only industry in America where we don't allow consumerism.
And the ACA
has just
implicated this.
This will mean $1,000 a month per family.
If we adopt our price tags bill, it'll say the average American family $1,000 a month.
The original Obamacare subsidies are
not expiring.
And they
typically cover about 80% of the premiums.
I'm willing to extend those for a year as long as we get some of these other things.
As long as there's long-term reform, we get our price tag bills, we address the fraud.
And then what we would do is slowly start putting money
into your healthcare savings account.
Let me say that again, the federal government, rather than sending money to the insurance companies, we're gonna put money in your healthcare savings account to pay towards your deductibles.
Remember, your deductibles under
Obamacare.
These people are crazy.
Can you imagine the complicated system they would have put in place?
Now, those are exactly the conditions we had before the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.
Didn't
work.
Well, we had to go to Obamacare because of that.
Right.
And they want to go back to a market system, you know, because people, you know, get diseases by choice, right?
And then we want to get it treated by choice.
Then we want to go to all the hospitals in town and check out their board where they have listed the price of each and every...
operation
that you can
get in all the doctors and the anesthesiologist everybody's bill it's all right up there sure right up on the board that'll
work
let me make a decision that way okay
wow I know it's crazy it is nuts okay let's see
there's a reason why it's not market-based we don't shop for health
care
Remember your anger.
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Coming up we're filling in for rocker this morning.
Usually we
have a man on
Friday mornings with the maxing preview But we've got we've got a little entertainment preview we'll be doing and you've brought in some local music right to share with us I have yeah, well I went into
my own closet where I have
dozens and dozens.
Okay.
Hundreds of thousands of
45
albums, cut out albums that I used to buy at the
store.
And I thought I'd bring a few in and now again, these are very old, you know, 60s and 70s stuff.
This isn't the new stuff that rocker brings in most of the
time here.
Really, really old, old music from people.
From Wisconsin, groups from Wisconsin.
Okay.
I'm not gonna make any excuse for picking these songs.
I like them, okay, so
that's...
Well, that's that.
Good enough for you, John Peterson.
That's right.
It's good enough for us.
It's good enough for me.
Okay, now, boy, this is hit the fan.
Fans are accusing FIFA of betrayal over the World Cup ticket prices for soccer.
It has gone up.
They're
just really angry about this.
Ticket prices are just for one.
At the bottom is $180.
They have raised prices nine times what they used to be.
just for this particular event.
They estimate it'll cost over $3,000 for a family of four to attend.
the soccer matches.
So that's how expensive it has gotten.
It's just over the top.
And I think it has a lot to do with the award that they gave to Trump, the Peace Award.
The FIFA Peace Award.
The Daily Show did a little piece on
this.
Apparently they were covering it live.
So let's listen to what happened.
Okay.
All
right.
with the mother of all ceremonies, say it with me, the FIFA World Cup draw
in Peace
Prize
Ceremony.
Please welcome the very first winner of the FIFA Peace Prize, the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald J. Trump.
Gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
You know, now that's a trophy that will make you turn your head and cough.
Oh.
A lot of hands on that
one.
I haven't seen that many hands tickling a southern hemisphere since Bible camp.
Oh, no.
Oh.
But this wasn't just about giving the president some trophy.
It was also about giving him a medal and a certificate.
Wow.
Wow.
Three things.
That is also...
A beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go.
Right now.
Okay.
Fantastic.
Excellent.
Brilliant.
It's so fun.
Amazing.
It's so fun.
He picked up that medal with all the grace and dignity of a man holding a used condom on his way to the class.
That's amazing.
This brings us to my favorite part of award shows the acceptance speech Especially when the winner thanks her spouse it is so moving.
I want to thank by the way My family my great first lady Melania you're right here and thank you very much
Wow
Emotional.
That
is so true.
She was right there.
She
really was.
She was right there.
Right there.
She was there.
Who was right there?
She was.
She was right there.
You know, a lesser husband would say something like, I love you, or you're my rock.
But only Donald Trump could state his wife's physical location and then just move on.
That was a beautiful moment, but did you know that the FIFA World Cup draw in peace prize ceremony also contains a World Cup draw?
Stop it!
Let's start with the draw.
I will just show you how it works.
You have to basically mingle the balls a little bit.
You can see, I show this for the public, you see.
Mingle.
Mingle the
balls.
Wow, I haven't seen balls mingled like that since Bible camp.
Oh my God, someday they're going to make you stop going
to that camp.
Yeah, I would think so.
Desi Lydic is
something else.
Yeah, it's
from
the Daily Show there.
OK.
That's good.
Look, I'm going to ask Joe to stay on the line.
We'll get to your call right after this next break
here.
And then we'll
play some of my own music from my
closet.
Yes, and we'll have an entertainment preview of what's happening around Madison this weekend.
It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
after this.
We can
change the world
We can
change the world Right.
Yeah.
To get better.
All right.
It's John and Gordy in the morning.
We're back again.
Yeah.
And let's go to the phones right away.
We have Joe who's been waiting a long, long time.
He's very patient.
Thank you
for waiting, Joe.
Go ahead.
You guys are worth the wait.
And waiting in a doctor's office is something that all of us are familiar with.
For me, not being familiar with having to shop, shop, shop for our health care.
And if you don't make the right choices, you're just a bad shopper.
I can't stand people who aren't good shoppers.
And I was trying to find some funny way to get into this from all the times that I had to voice announce.
flashing blue light specials when I was in retail many years ago.
I think John Ossoff said it best, and he had this quote here, and man, it's really worth thinking about.
He said, this is the most consequential vote the Senate will take all year by saying, yay or nay to the clerk of the Senate later today, senators will decide whether people live or die.
They will decide whether people are financially ruined or have a shot.
And he's right on the financially ruined.
There's this graphic here that says a number of people who filed bankruptcy.
because of medical bills from 2001 to 2023.
They listed six countries, UK, Japan, Norway, France, and Germany, and the United States.
During that time period, okay, that 20, 22 years, UK zero, Japan zero, Norway zero, France zero, Germany zero, United States,
6.5 million people declared bankruptcy because of the medical bill.
We are insane.
We are absolutely insane.
If Norway can do it, why can't we?
And you know the idea that if you're just a better shopper these bad things won't happen to you.
Good luck to us all.
Good luck to us
all.
Keep eating the drum, you guys.
It's really important.
Thanks a lot.
Thank
you, Joe.
No, thank you.
Wow.
Yeah,
that says it all.
Doesn't
it?
It really is truly an amazing concept that we have to shop around for health care.
I know it.
It is crazy.
I don't get it.
I really don't.
And they don't seem to get it and they just seem to just keep
going for this brass ring where it's all commercial, it's all transactional, it's all free
market
stuff, and prices will go down,
which
it never will, I'm sure.
What insurance company's gonna bargain with me alone, my family?
Well, you know, I really think you should do the, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're really pushing us.
I guess we'll fold, we'll get a better deal.
Good
luck with that plan.
Let's see, it is 7.38, you know, normally on Friday mornings, John, we welcome in a rocker into the studio with a Max Ink preview, but he's a little bit under the weather
today, I
understand.
So I guess we're gonna have to pick up the ball here and run with it.
Why don't we do
that?
I'm gonna do some entertainment news, you know, it's not like rocker, but we'll do a little roundup of
some
things happening around the area.
Hit the thing,
music there.
music, comedy, or art.
Dancing and singing, and that's
just a start.
It's John and Lordy's Weekend Entertainment.
We
have a little bit of a fun for that slush.
Okay, well here are some things you know if you want to get out and about Friday night
Cargo Coffee at 750 East Washington.
They have a holiday blues and jazz thing going on tonight with Dan Kennedy and the Michael Berger Jazz Quartet.
That's at Cargo Coffee tonight.
Then tomorrow night, Saturday, it's our friend Art Paul Schlosser with his holiday variety show.
That's right.
Now that would
be something to see.
That's at Cargo Coffee tomorrow night.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, this weekend and next weekend at the Overture.
This is at the Playhouse.
Yes.
The Hello Girls.
It's a new American musical.
You can go to overture.org to find out more about that.
Hello girls.
Hello girls.
Yes.
At the Burr Oak at 2262 Winnebago.
This is happening on the 14th.
This is Sunday.
Sunday night at eight o'clock.
It's Freedy Johnston and Walter Salas Humara.
Oh, that is great music.
Yeah.
I don't know what kind
of music.
I'm
not sure either.
I assume it's really good.
Okay.
What else?
Oh, at the Gamma Ray Bar.
Yes.
Rocker often talks about the Gamma Ray Bar at 121 West Main Street.
Tonight they have three bands.
I love the name of these bands.
Diet Light.
Get this this is a great name
for a
band.
Excuse me.
Who are you?
Excuse me, who are you and 10 month summer?
They're all playing tonight at gamma ray bar at the Stoughton Opera House tonight This is a band's been around for a long time.
I know they're really good squirrel nut zippers They're playing
tonight.
They have a Christmas caravan show and then Saturday night It's Amy Mann and Ted Leo with a Christmas show and then Sunday
At the Stoughton Opera House, it's the Madison Area Concert Handbells.
You know, they do those handbell things.
Yeah, the handbells.
Yeah, I
know you're a big fan of
them.
Handbell.
I took up the handbells through.
I remember that.
You had them all
over the house.
You had to run all over the living room into the dining
room.
I found out if you have them close by.
It's a lot easier.
The song goes to what?
Right.
Faster.
Yeah.
But what
happened to all those hand bells?
You
haven't done that for a while.
You know, it didn't work with a rock band.
For some reason
they would break constantly.
Oh, that's
sad.
Okay.
If you're looking for comedy, hey, comedy on state.
This is Two Floors Below Us.
Yes.
Demetri Martin will be appearing tonight and tomorrow night.
And back to the Overture Center.
Yeah.
In the Capitol Theater at the Overture Center and the Children's Theater there, they're doing a Christmas Carol at the Overture Center this weekend, and I believe next year.
next week, too,
next
week and weekend.
What is that, a young kids thing?
It's like the children's theater.
They have several theaters in the Overture Center,
you know, in the
Capitol Theater.
They're doing a Christmas
carol.
The children were performing a Christmas
carol.
Well, I think there's some kids in it.
I don't know.
Well, no,
I don't know.
What
do I know?
Just go to Overture.org.
And then at the Atwood Music Hall at 1925 Winnebago, tonight it's Jeffrey Fausett, or Falkent,
And Saturday, it's a deso with spectacular.
I don't know
what
those are, but they look really good.
And if it's at the Atwood Music Hall, you're going to have a good time.
Remember the old days when we tried to come up with a band name?
Oh, yeah.
Going through the list of names.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I had what we were thinking about going with the Dylan London compromise.
Okay.
All right.
I kind of like that.
The original one was the glass thread.
The glass thread.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Do you have a name that you rejected and want to pass along to us this morning?
No, I don't.
That's it for the entertainment
report.
Hit the music again.
Sorry, I brought it up.
Come on.
Here we go.
What's happening around the area this weekend?
Shows a music comedy
or art.
Right.
Dancing and singing and that's just a start.
It's John and Buddy's weekend entertainment preview.
Wow.
You
really hit that note.
That's Bobby Oneball, you call them.
That is fantastic.
Don't want to happen to him.
No, they sure did.
Kind of walks funny.
I'm going to go into the John Peters and Closet of 45s because, you know, I've got so many, so many records in there.
You know, I would have to call them odd.
Yes.
I don't want anybody to say, you know, well, John, these you think are good.
These
are just
different.
They're all live.
They're all different,
but we're going to play them anyway.
What are you going to start
with?
Well, we heard part of it this morning on the show, and this is a Milwaukee group.
They're called the Citations, and they did this incredibly great instrumental.
Let's listen to Moon Race.
OK.
Moon Race.
Here
we go.
That's pretty cool, isn't
it?
Yeah.
Right.
All right.
I like it when it's really repetitive like that over and over again.
Same thing.
It
really
sticks in your head.
It sticks in your head.
No, it's good.
I like it.
I like it.
It's got some good riffs in it.
Go away, go away.
What was the
name of that
band?
The Citation.
The Citation's in Moon Race and I played it for you because you're really into the UFO thing.
I do like that, yeah.
So let's listen to something a little different.
This is the Harvey Scales and the Seven Sounds band.
They were a great soul group way back when and this is called the Broadway Freeze.
Okay.
when the music stopped.
Yeah.
That's great stuff.
Harvey Scales and the Seven Sounds.
Were they from Milwaukee?
Yes, they were.
Wow.
They were really, really a popular band.
Yeah.
And you can tell.
I mean, the horns, great.
Very good.
Excellent stuff.
We're sounding like rocker now.
We're sounding like rocker.
I know.
I know.
I know.
I've just tried to be like him, you know?
Damn.
We got time for another one.
Do we have another one here?
We did, absolutely.
I don't know who did this, but let's play it
anyway.
I like this a lot.
Who is this again?
I don't know
who it
is.
I'm a cheesehead, baby.
Okay.
This is one of the many Packers songs.
Okay.
This is from John Peterson's personal collection from your closet.
Yeah, absolutely.
Deep, deep in the closet.
Okay.
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John and
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Some great music here from John's closet.
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John, I want to just mention one thing real quickly.
Sure.
Jane Mattenair.
Has her last show today.
She's on the civic media network and and you know, you can find her on your app But today is her last day 44 years in the broadcast
business.
Yeah, she's done a
lot.
She's great and we will miss her
part of the part of the group that did the Macarena That's only it was the packer in a packer.
They came up with that.
Yeah, so
it's a great stuff.
So we wish her all the best.
Yeah
And congratulations.
All right, I got some more music.
Should I play some more music?
I
think so.
Why not?
I'm going to play Marcus Bolver in the Evil Twins.
Marcus passed away a while back.
But great musician, great songwriter, just one of the best songwriters in the country, actually.
He did this song on our old cable access show, Girls Who Like Girls.
So let's check it out.
Wendy likes boys, but she likes girls better
I always trip my t-
Yeah, it's one of the Only recordings of the band together like that especially for that particular album that they put out yeah, just a great song and That was on
our
that was on our cable
access
show back
in the old
media
world
Yeah, exactly fun.
Okay.
I'm gonna play something now.
This is a bluegrass group.
Oh, hey Catherine lakes in the studio, huh?
Okay,
do my thing.
All right.
Well, this is a bluegrass group from Milwaukee.
It's called the Munro doctrine.
All right.
And it's late at night.
You'll hear a reference to Wisconsin in it.
Let's listen.
Let's go
They're called the Monroe Doctrine.
And they were from
Milwaukee.
All these are Milwaukee.
I didn't
hear the word
Wisconsin.
I
didn't hear Wisconsin in there.
Did I say Wisconsin?
Yes.
The cheese had won you before.
And in the very beginning they said Wisconsin's guys.
I love getting into John's closet.
This
is
really fun.
The oldies way back.
Really fun.
A lot of local stuff from Milwaukee and all over Wisconsin.
You know the
other one was a cover of Beck's Loser,
right?
Yes,
it sure was.
Beck's
Loser.
It's crazy
because
I've never heard of these songs
at all.
Now
I'm going to be adding these to my Spotify playlist.
There you go.
All right.
We only got a minute or so left.
You want one more?
You want to sneak in to wrap up the show?
I
could save it for this
afternoon.
Oh, good.
It's Bill Campbell.
You're working again this afternoon.
When are
you going to
get off the air?
When are you going to
give up
the
studio?
I don't know.
You tell us.
Other people
want to talk.
Well, you know, we're giving Tom Hartman a chance to say a few words in between.
Yeah.
OK.
Well, thank you, Catherine.
There she is.
And
there she goes.
There she
goes.
Let's see.
Oh, this afternoon, we will be talking with Tom content.
Is that his real name, really?
That's his real name, you know?
Okay, okay.
I can get confirmation on that.
He's gonna talk about data centers.
You know, that's the hot topic.
And Monday on our morning show, we'll be back in the morning.
On Monday morning, we will welcome back Mayor Paul Soglin.
He'll give us his view on what's happening in the political world
and other things.
I know Cam will be listening because, you know, he's very much into the data center information.
Very good.
All right.
We'll talk to Tom the content.
Okay.
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And we hope you'll join us this afternoon from two until five on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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Have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend.
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We're truly sorry.
Welcome again to another edition.
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, 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.
Yeah, this is really weird to not be able to hear ourselves.
It says here, oh no, loud and clear.
Okay.
Thank you,
Linda for Middleton.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, this is the first time I've ever not 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 a plug.
Is it on?
I must have got on the plug.
Could we get a listener
in here and help us out?
Oh, you know, here it
is.
Here
it is.
Oh, 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, you're 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, tiny.
It's like, I don't know.
It's the
size of a driver's
license or less.
You know, it's just really stupid.
A third class license, right?
Work so hard for that.
Went down to Chicago twice.
Yeah, same here.
Those were the days when we had to supposedly read meters.
We did no one rid nobody's
we much faked it.
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 because I
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 Passwords so I had to yeah, 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 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, they 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.
So yeah, and that fiasco lasted for, ooh, I don't know about an hour and a half.
Just straighten it out.
Now, that was after I talked to you.
You called about going to see the Packers at Catherine's house.
And 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.
But anyway, yeah, it took a long time.
During the prep time, then going through show material, I'm on a chat with XM.
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.
OK.
OK.
You know, my information, my email, the payment system.
And then there's another login for the software or streaming.
God.
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 years and and and that's straight and everything out.
I finally feared out myself.
Hmm.
Anyway, yeah, that's just really really a frustrating situation.
And then, you know, I told you I was going to, you know, prepare for the show.
I'm preparing preparing preparing.
I can't do the Packer game with you guys.
Right.
One thing I didn't realize was I had to snow below 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.
You have to take care of that.
Yeah.
You are busy, busy.
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 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 in the game chamber.
What?
What are you
talking about?
It was a one score game or something.
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, you know, sipping down champagne.
We
had some good
food.
We had
that.
Yeah.
It was really great.
Yeah.
Too bad we missed it.
Well, no, you know, I was thinking, jeez, you know, 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 we can hear it in our headphones.
Right.
Well, usually Dom doesn't, you know, goes through the checklist and it's...
Are you blaming me here?
I am.
Let's blame
Dom.
Well, I see the headphone device has lights on it and when the lights are on, everything's fine.
That's right.
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.
And no more donuts for you, I guess.
Hey, it's
a great idea.
What possessed me to do
that?
They were on sale.
It was a quick trip.
I'll
treat everybody.
Donuts.
Um, whether it for today, it's going to 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 is your Samsung W MDX watch say about a sudden rise in sunset time?
I'm glad you asked because I'm looking right at it now.
What's seven 16 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.
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Well, there's so much to get to, because with Pam Yaki, Pam Yaki 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 working on ways to not create so much waste from the cheese and use that and sell it to the public for
Well, we'll let Pam handle the heavy
load talking about cheese.
Yes cheese.
I love cheese.
All right
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 and half those county fairs.
They have one out in Richland Center, don't they?
The county fairs are 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 not anymore.
Now everybody declares 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.
from 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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I'm going to cheese land, cheese land 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.
The only good thing about,
yeah, it's very good, very good.
About gave me a heart attack, 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.
Right.
Yeah, I know.
It's really crazy on the stance, 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 the 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.
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 couldn't tell that he had anything there.
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.
Yeah, this is kind of cool.
It's been a year long project that the Wisconsin Fair Association Affairs 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 jimmy buttkey the executive secretary of the wisconsin association of fairs 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 getting 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 great
average.
That's, I think that's pretty fabulous.
And a lot of it, if you think about what fairs have gone through, through the pandemic, a lot of fairs 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 fairs 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
yeah
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 uh those fairgrounds generated about nine million dollars in financial economic impact in the community and and they've got uh basically 70 full-time jobs that
are supported by the county fair in Wellworth 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 a 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.
That's a choice.
We've got about a minute or so left, but we want to touch on all
all
the cheese information
that we've gotten here lately.
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.
Well, it's 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% of our milk in Wisconsin goes into cheese.
90% of the cheese we produce sells outside of Wisconsin.
Yeah.
And then the byproducts are all being marketed as well.
Turn it to 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 will 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 phone 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 Thiel and Musk, 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 that at a local level we could we could rebel against it and build something different?
Nah.
Where 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.
Sticks and rocks.
That's a good one.
I think it's
come to that.
There's a static problem, so we just put carpeting under everything we have.
Oh, really?
Might short them out, right?
Oh,
there's an idea.
I
do have a story
about
a 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.
Alright, 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.
Um, because as you know, the big bad bill wanted to have that in it, but they took it out in the Senate and, uh, the house approved that of course.
And Trump signed it.
So, uh, AI regulation can happen in the country.
Now they want to still work on making.
a law nationwide that prevents AI regulations.
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 says, no, 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 will 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.
It's coming back
to this point.
And it was really, it was, it was like that movie that we saw.
Yes.
Don't
look up.
Don't look up.
It
was, it was like that.
And 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,
well, good luck to us all.
Good
luck.
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.
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, Megas, 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.
I think so, yeah, the zombies are taking over.
Oh, crazy.
It is
crazy.
Yeah.
All
right.
Coming up after seven o'clock, we'll fire up their grown up, a 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 Never has there been a call for a deeper more relevant analysis of Megamania 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
Part of a patient of theirs.
Oh, okay.
I and I think that's that's the thing that
there
is a professional professionalism that right 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.
Is anybody going to listen to me on this?
Yeah, maybe not.
Maybe I'm just ranting again.
Well, no, 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 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 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 have some kind
of
an
association you would think that they would be you know talking about
the way out 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 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, Chris.
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.
He 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 8798255 We'll take your calls.
We'll take your texts on the civic media app back with more of John and Gordy after this
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It is a cold start this morning.
Two degrees highs in the low 20s 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 high last week, how they are.
Well, and they're ready to go out of business, apparently, because they had they
need a million dollars to support themselves.
And if they didn't get that in the next week or so, that was it for Wisconsin.
I know
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 and talking about Wisconsin I being really ineffective.
They've been true to their mission of documenting state politics without spin.
They give them points for that.
Yeah, it's great.
But they 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 of just not promoting Wisconsin I to the public.
And kind of ineffective as far as their their work model.
So they didn't want to advertise.
They didn't
want to advertise, but they also said the people that run it, the CEO paid himself a quarter million dollars for doing it.
So I mean, maybe there's some 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 good 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.
If 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.
We should be out there at least on the sidewalks of State Street.
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 in 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.
Yes, we need a better logo.
They need a better publicity department
Uh, it says here, uh, Marx's aren't citizens forbidden from recording video from the gallery.
Um,
I think that's the case.
Yes.
You can't do that.
So you have to use something.
Yes.
I mean, it seems like a good service, you know, like C span.
So all right.
We're getting some more texts about it here.
Well Larry sent us
a connection to the Wisconsin Eye network.
Mm-hmm problem.
There's a story in Ismus about it too.
That's what the that's what Larry has sent.
Oh,
okay.
In the most recent edition.
I believe
we have
Judy David off in here pretty soon.
I
hope so.
We should.
Yeah, definitely.
It should be time.
Yeah, it's been a while since we've talked to her.
We'll have to get that going.
All right.
Coming up shortly, we've got the grown up gift list multi-state contest happening at 705.
We will reveal the next key word in that contest, your chance to win 200 bucks cash or maybe a grand prize, air conditioner or let's see, what are the other grand prizes?
Snowblower.
And it's pots and pans.
Pots and pans.
That's right.
Stainless steel
cookware.
I don't know if it's the nonstick kind, but
stainless steel.
If it's
really good stainless steel, you
won't need
the nonstick surfaces at all.
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.
All right, it's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
After we check in with news and get a weather update in sports, we'll be back after that.
