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And a good morning.

It is John and Gordy in the morning back again.

Happy Friday.

Well, well, same to you.

Hey, just want to

start on a happy note.

Happy, happy, joy, joy.

Yes.

Weekend is almost here.

I know, I know.

I was expecting it to be a little colder this morning.

I thought we were going to get like below 30 degrees.

I mean, this is, uh, this is nice.

I mean, no frost in the car windows as far as I could see.

It's six degrees currently.

Is it really?

Yeah.

Feels like 13 below when those

wind

gusts kick in.

So

it just, it doesn't feel that cold.

But you know, I was out there just for a few moments.

Yeah.

But, uh, I must have read the darn.

This morning incorrectly, I don't know why or how it's a digital But gee, I thought I saw 28 on there.

No didn't feel that bad

High today about 16.

Oh, yeah.

All right,

then it's gonna warm up over the weekend tomorrow 36

for

high maybe some snow and then 28 for high on Sunday.

All right, there you go.

That sounds

cold

I heard on Christmas Day, it's supposed to be 35.

Is that right?

Yeah,

it's supposed

to be really nice.

What is

Christmas?

Oh no, now he's gotta prove it.

Wednesday?

Wednesday?

I don't know why I do this.

Don't do this to the weather man.

Oh god.

He hates it so much, but he's gonna make sure he's right.

What the hell?

Actually, actually, Christmas Day now is predicted to be high around 49.

Oh

my

god.

And might be raining.

That was way off.

That's all right.

Well, it's nice to be off.

You know, I mean, when it's hotter, yes, I'll go along with that.

Yeah.

It's going to warm

up

quite a

bit.

So here it is Friday morning and traffic is moving along smoothly downtown here in Madison.

Hannah Duggan is guilty of a felony.

Yeah.

Obstructing.

Yeah, but not hiding an individual just abstract.

I wonder how the judge is going to decide on that.

We'll talk to Jim Santel I hope a little bit later on we asked him to call us as soon as they made a decision and he will be calling us.

Yeah, or else, you know,

he's

fired.

Dom, how are you this morning?

I'm doing pretty good.

I'm not used to seeing you guys on the other side.

I know, it's been a while.

Yeah, that's right.

You know, I'm glad.

I'm glad to be back.

You're preparing for a big appearance tonight on Nightlight, right?

Correct, yeah.

I'm going to be defending my Chicago Bears.

I'm going to be on Nightlight tonight, and it's going to be a 2v4, I think.

I'm going to be the odds or against me, but... Well,

they should be against you.

Who's on the Bears side?

Schwabba and you?

I think it's yeah, me, yeah.

Me and Schwabba and then Conrad and Parker are our Packer fans.

So yeah, it's gonna be a 2v2.

It's gonna be close.

Okay,

all right.

So have you armed yourself?

Do you have proof that the Packers are as bad as you're saying they are?

Do you have some proof that the Bears are so damn good?

What do you got, man?

What do you got for ammunition here,

pal?

Okay, I have a lot of stats.

I wrote down a lot of stats yesterday at night.

Packers

are good for you.

Yeah, but

I

I got to defend my bears, you know every now and then Packers have some injuries.

So that's why it's gonna be close That's gonna be my whole topic.

That's gonna be a whole discussion.

So Michael Parsons is out, right?

Yeah.

Yep.

And

Wow, you know everything about football

But it's a Saturday night game, right?

It is Saturday 720.

Yeah

I I'm split and I you know that I'm kind of I I like to see the Bears finally become successful in some way shape or form you know

and and

and and I don't feel so bad that they're doing so well you know I mean

If the Packers were better than they would beat the Bears, right?

I mean so all is fair, but I just I'm glad to see that the Bears are doing so well this time around

the worst part about it is tomorrow I'm gonna miss the whole game because I'm going to my girlfriend's Grandma's birthday your girlfriend's grandma's birthday Required attendance really it is yeah, I got force.

Oh, I willingly went in and did it so

Boy, you backtracked on

that pretty quickly.

Oh boy, I'm marrying that on a screw.

We'll just go somewhere

where there's a TV, right?

We're not going to a bar.

We're going to a very nice sit-down restaurant.

I don't think

there's going to be any TVs.

Screwed.

Yeah.

How is it that somebody plans something around the Packers?

The biggest game of the year.

I don't know.

I don't

know.

I can't say anything though,

you know,

you already

know, you know, you're an adult now.

You're not a little kid.

You're right.

Being told what to do by the adults.

Just say, look, this was not a very appropriate schedule in here.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to be there.

I'm going to watch the damn game.

You know, I know that as a Packer fan, that's what we do.

We draw

the line in the sand.

There's, there's just no way you would miss a very important Packer game.

Right.

Right.

Yeah, and he's too bad.

You can't watch it on your phone.

The end of the NFL is so strict on all of this stuff.

You can listen to it on Sirius.

Yeah, they do have a special channel for the Grammy of Packers.

You can hear, um, um, fabulous, uh, who are the play by play?

Mark, uh, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne

Laravy and,

and I don't know the other guy.

Wow.

Okay.

I should know too.

I'm, you know, last you know that you, I don't remember his name.

Let's go to the phones right now.

We have Matt.

Matt, what do you got for us?

What's the urgency here, Matt?

Good morning.

Good morning.

Welcome back to mornings.

Thank you.

I gotta pull a trunk here and just say...

The Packers are up 600, 700 percent since he took office.

Don't worry about it.

Parsons is not injured

as

the Democrat hoax.

We're going to win.

We're going to win bigly, hugely, and thanks to my big, beautiful brain.

Oh, beautiful.

That's fabulous, man.

Yeah.

Well, you know, maybe we should start.

trying to spin things the way Trump would spin things just as Matt had done.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Okay.

That was great

stuff.

Thank you,

Matt, for calling

in.

All right.

Matt's going to be appearing at comedy on state pretty soon.

We'll let you know when his dates are.

Okay.

Yeah.

Coming up shortly, we're going to check in with Pam Yonkey.

Get the Midwest Food and Farm report.

A little later on, Savannah Tomey Olson with the latest news and rocker with a maxing preview.

Yes.

So.

All right.

And

oh, this other sports note, I know we're, you know, we're talking sports this morning.

The UW volleyball team lost to Kentucky.

So

they're out.

They're out of the picture.

It's really bad.

Hey, I want to correct myself.

Apparently I said something that was incorrect yesterday.

I can't believe it.

No, actually, I can't

either.

I

was kind of I was kind of half right, but I was very wrong about what I was talking about.

How does that work, John?

Anyway, we have a text here that says, love you guys, John Mark Cuban started the low cost pharmacy, not Kevin O'Leary.

That's true.

And that is true.

Yeah.

But at the same time, I remember reading just recently.

And that's why I thought what I thought.

Kevin O'Leary also has invested in major businesses that sell low-cost pharmacies, pharmaceutical drugs.

So got them mixed up, but it really, as Mark Cuban has the incredibly very, very discounted drug business, pharmaceutical drug business.

Thank you for making

that correction.

A lot of people were sleepless last night.

I said that in the afternoon.

Yeah.

But, you know, I mean, it's good to know that.

I'll just correct that.

Okay.

Later down too.

Suppose you'll make me.

A little bit later, we're going to be getting to idiocracy.

And we've got some big stories as well, a little after seven o'clock.

and we'll be talking to Savannah Tomei Olson about the latest news here in Madison and we'll also be talking to Pam Yonkey and apparently Wolves will

Be back on the market for shooting a note.

What?

Yes.

Well, it's not going to be protected anymore.

I think there's a vote on that and and then reindeer.

I don't know what we do with reindeer in Wisconsin.

What do we do with them?

But apparently there's a whole business of increasing the population of reindeer.

OK.

All right.

Well, we'll talk to Pam in just a few minutes.

Get the

latest on that that up.

I'm sure yeah

Boy, what do we have this afternoon?

Do you know?

What do we have

Tom?

Let me check my calendar here.

Yeah, you'll pack games and said details

oh,

yeah from Zomers.

I I don't know fully Zomers has that planned out.

Yeah, that's uh, yeah, we'll find out more about gaming I guess yeah, yeah, and I I just I'm kind of excited to find out more about it

what games are hot, where we're kind of going with that.

And then of course, TikTok is finally making its move to become owned by some Americans in this country.

Of course, friends of Trump's, so it'll become a right wing, TikTok site.

I would assume.

Okay.

Checking what's up here.

Catherine asks, what's the...

What's the difference between deer and reindeer?

Sounds like a joke set up.

Yeah, you're right.

Exactly.

Well, they look different.

That makes one huge difference.

I don't know, but we'll find out with Pam.

Okay.

All right.

So much ahead.

I know that I know that this may be we may be the only state that stocks Santa for his reindeer.

You know, the other ones.

We didn't know that they retired and some passed away, so they've been replacing him with Wisconsin reindeer.

I'm sure that that is all part of the story that Pam Yankee has to tell us that I hit.

Well, I'm checking some information here.

Reindeer live in Arctic tundra and have unique features like hollow fur for insulation, large hooves for snow, furry noses to warm air and uniquely both males and females grow antlers.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

Unlike most other deer species, like Whitetail deer, while deer are generally woodland creatures, reindeer are built for migration in harsh cold climates and are the only widely domesticated deer, reindeer.

Oh yeah, yes.

There you

go.

Just

ask

Gordon.

Yeah, just ask the internet.

Domesticated.

Yeah, we had one in the backyard when I was a little kid.

We played fetch with the reindeer.

Okay.

I don't know.

You got your Christmas shopping done, John?

I haven't asked you.

Yes, coming along.

We've got everything sent in the mail.

We should be getting it just in time for Christmas.

Dom, how about you?

I've got everything ready.

I bought my parents a calendar and so I...

Wow.

Yeah, you know, really went out

while

I really my

game up.

OK, I haven't started yet, but I intend to get some done over the weekend.

Maybe

they have apps that provide calendars, don't they?

All right.

Um, we're off to a fun start here at a Friday.

Pam Yankee is right around the corner with the Midwest Food and Farm Report preview next on John and Gordy for a Friday morning.

Stay with us.

Johnny Gordy in the morning, but I haven't heard that in a long time.

Chuck Berry 22 minutes past the hour.

It's cold start this morning six degrees.

It feels like 13 below.

It's a bundle up cover up

very cold.

Yeah, time to talk to Pam Yaki right now about reindeer.

Mm-hmm

Good morning, Pam.

Good morning, guys.

Yeah, I heard the lead up in all the fine-fine tidbits that you brought to the table.

Yeah, and we've got reindeer in Wisconsin.

That's why I thought it's interesting.

But most of them, as you alluded to before the break, if you're going to find domesticated reindeer, you're going to find them mostly in Alaska.

I've actually, on my farm tour to Alaska, we stopped by the University of Alaska's research station.

And they are doing research on reindeer.

Now, obviously, reindeer, also known as caribou, that's a major staple for the native population in Alaska.

So they do a lot of research.

And the people that own reindeer in Wisconsin frequently call them in fairbanks and ask them questions, like if the animal's sick or walking funny or something like that.

That's what Jeff Phillips told us.

He's up in Aaron, Wisconsin, and him and his wife

own reindeer games, which I thought was very cute.

They've got they've got reindeer that actually came from Alaska.

And so he says they really rely on each other for knowledge.

You can't necessarily I know you I know you did it, Gordy, but you can't necessarily Google your way through solution.

When

you're when you're when your reindeer is sick, you know what I mean?

Pam, I Google my way through life.

You and many

others.

Well,

now we have AI and now you don't have to depend on Google so much anymore.

See,

right, right, right.

So what else?

Yeah, you say summer is focused on raising bottle fed babies.

Yeah.

Well, so, you know, like any mother, sometimes a mother is not, you know, he doesn't have enough milk or isn't real friendly to the calves.

So you may end up just like we do in the dairy industry, bottle feeding some of the babies.

You know, I mean, if it's a normal situation, the mother will take care of them.

But I thought it was interesting this Jeff Phillips and his wife, Cindy, that have the reindeer and Aaron were telling us that the deer, the reindeer will basically shed their

velvet in the fall and that's both males and females.

That's kind of unique.

They are like you guys were talking about before they start heavying up their coat in September with that hollow hair giving them the insulation that they're looking for.

They do not jump.

That's one thing Ben Jarbo talked to Jeff and he said, what kind of fence do you need to keep reindeer in?

Because of course we all know

They can jump with the sleigh behind them.

So what about trying to keep them penned in in Wisconsin?

And Jeff said they really don't jump.

He uses a five foot fence to keep his reindeer in.

And I've been probably a bunch of hunters out there can tell you too.

I've been by reindeer or caribou.

They're a heck of a lot smaller than I expected as far as stature.

They come in probably about 200 and some pounds.

220 pounds or so, but they're a lot shorter in stature than if you think about a white tail.

And like I said, Jeff, Jeff says a five foot fence will take care of him just fine.

He does have to air condition the barn a little bit in the summer because they are obviously built for the weather we're experiencing in Wisconsin now, but we actually put in swamp coolers in his in his barn to keep it a little bit cooler so that the reindeer don't get.

overwhelmed with the heat.

I thought that was another interesting little thing that I did not realize about having reindeer in Wisconsin.

Well, we know that moms have a lot to do with preparing everybody for Christmas, you know, getting the gifts and making dinner and all that stuff.

It seems like I guess

Reindeer are the same, you know the female is likely pulling the slave for Santa because apparently That's what I'm talking about the bull loses their antlers So we're seeing all of these reindeer with antlers and it must be the females pulling the trip these life for Santa

Okay.

There it is.

There it is.

No.

We're

ruining every child's Christmas with this, you

know.

Well, hopefully they're sleeping in this morning.

Let's talk about the gray wolves.

Now, they could be delisted from endangered species or whatever.

Tell us more about

that.

Sure, the vote happened yesterday in the US House out in DC.

The measure was called Pet and Livestock Protection Act and Congressman Tom Tiffany has been advancing this for quite a little while and basically what it's designed to do is

pull the gray wolf off of the endangered species list.

And this would not be, if they go this route, it would not be up for judicial review, which is where we've had our toes stubbed as far as in-state management of the wolf previously.

This is something that's very contentious with animal rights groups.

They have brought a lot of money to bear on trying to keep this from succeeding.

The vote yesterday was bipartisan, which I thought was interesting, 211.

to 204.

I did a little research just because I don't know a lot about wolves except I want to keep my distance and Randy Johnson who is the large carnivore specialist for the DNR said in Wisconsin right now they're estimating between a thousand and twelve hundred wolves are in the state.

40 of them right now have GPS collars that they're tracking real time to know where they are.

I said to them the reason I was

interested in this aside for I didn't even know this vote was coming up is I've noticed a lot of depredation reports coming in of a wolf that would eat somebody's chicken

or a

calf or a sheep something like that and he said it's he thinks he really believes that part of that is because people just know the reporting system better now and are more comfortable reporting.

uh incidents that they want investigated so we'll wait and see what happens on the senate side but yeah yesterday the vote was 211 to 204 to delist the gray wolf

all right we'll keep an eye on that um we're about out of time Pam any predictions on packers bears this weekend tomorrow night oh

they bet they better bring it i don't want any sob story about mica or christian i i just hope jordy keeps his head on and let's let's get this done

i do

not i've been jarbo

is a rabbit bears fan.

And I do not want to listen to him on Monday.

Okay, very good.

You have a good weekend.

I agree.

Boy, he can be

here.

All

right,

thank you, Pav.

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And weather for today around Madison.

It's going to stay cold all day.

Six degrees currently, the high around 16 this afternoon.

And it feels like 13 below at the moment.

Yes.

Windy out there this morning.

Yes, it does.

Well, should we cover the Hannah Dugan story?

Yeah, this broke late last night or, you know, in the evening.

jury in Milwaukee Circuit Court, I'm sorry, let me back up.

A jury found Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing a federal agency proceeding felony conviction centers on that April 18th incident which prosecutors charged.

She tried to help an immigrant evade federal agents.

Dugan's defense team countered that she was following courtroom guidance.

The jury deliberated for six hours on Thursday.

They did find her not guilty on a second misdemeanor charge of concealing an individual from arrest.

The case is drawn on national wide attention.

And we'll see where it goes from here.

We hope to talk to Jim Santel sometime this morning.

Yeah, we asked him to give us a call when the decision was made.

So he'll probably give us a call when he gets up.

He gets up really late.

You know, there's attorneys who can do all that kind of stuff.

Yeah, they're busy.

Yeah, they like to sleep in.

Oh, they're so busy in the evening too, aren't they?

Well, okay.

Get up early there, Jim.

It was a really big favor.

Yeah, now

he really

wants to get up.

Thanks a

lot.

Oh, man.

Okay.

Why don't we get to some, uh, some rich billionaire here and everybody always complains about George Soros.

You

know,

he never actually pays any of the protesters.

It's just a rumor from what I hear anyway, unless.

Unless MAGA seems to be making that up, I'm not quite sure, but I am waiting patiently for my check in the mail.

Yeah, me too.

I know he funds everything that goes on in this country.

That is woke.

So let's, you know, we could start a business.

John and Gordy's woke store and maybe he'll send us a check.

All right, well anyway

that on our list of things to do

the maker right winds about George Soros's money, of course But never mentioning that their own billionaires are on that dark side Billionaire Sheldon and Miriam Edelson now, I don't know if anybody remembers this but what?

The Adelson's live in Vegas.

Miriam is still alive, Sheldon passed a few years ago, but she's still doling out the billions and billions of dollars that they still have.

They're out in Vegas and when Scott Walker was running for president, he went to Vegas to kiss the ring of Sheldon Adelson in order to get funding for his campaign for president.

Okay.

And I don't, we don't know if you ever got the money because they don't have to reveal that, but everybody goes out there and begs Adelson for the cash.

Now

that kind of says maybe there's something wrong with money in politics.

I don't know.

People have said that.

Oh, and interesting note, I

did

not know this, but Sheldon Adelson did help fund Scott Walker's run for president and governor.

Oh.

Okay, and governor, both or twice.

So, yeah.

Okay, he's been he's been in the back pocket of Scott Walker for a long time That's nice to have anyway Sheldon is gone But Miriam is out there still doling out the money and speaking to Trump at the White House Hanukkah reception Miriam Adelson said she recently met with former Jeffrey Epstein lawyer Ellen Dershowitz who by

the way

is in every picture Revealing now

the

Democrats are throwing out more proof that

Trump is a really good friend of Epstein.

But anyway, Dershowitz seems to be in almost every photo as well.

So let's cue up 158.

Let's listen.

Now I met Alan Dershowitz and he said, the legal thing about four more years.

And I said, Alan, I agree with you.

So we can do it.

Think about it.

Alan is here.

Alan is here.

She said, think about it.

I'll give you another 250.

But her husband, Sheldon, was an amazing guy.

And he'd come up to the office.

And there was nobody more aggressive than Sheldon.

I think I spent more time with him and you, because you usually came up together.

But he'd call and say, can I come over, please?

I say, Sheldon, I'm president of the United States.

It doesn't work that way anymore.

Maybe tomorrow?

How about tomorrow?

No, no, no, please.

Just for a little

while.

And people went over.

People did what Sheldon wanted him to do.

A lot of money.

Big money, yeah.

That's when Trump was a little poor at the time.

He's done OK for himself now.

But there it is.

And I guess the buried headline, of course, is that Merrim Edelson wants him to run for a third term.

OK.

And, uh, and he's considering it.

I understand behind the scenes, they are looking seriously into having him run for that third term.

Well, there's talk that he would run for vice president instead of

president with the deal.

As

soon as he

changed the

oath, then JD steps aside and he's

back to be president again.

Sir, there are people thinking that they can trust JD with that.

I

don't think so.

I don't think so either.

That's

probably not a good idea.

There was an interesting poll.

They asked if J.D.

and AOC ran against each other.

That AOC was ahead in that

race.

Yes, saw that poll, yeah.

Not by much, but enough

to weigh out.

Why no?

I know.

Depends.

Too early

to tell.

Well, yeah.

Just

a little

early.

Just a little early in that one.

Yeah.

But we like to tip our hand in all of this

stuff just

to make

sure everybody knows.

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So let's see how many people can actually make this government work without a crash.

What do you mean?

What are you talking about?

This is the story.

It's a government with a smaller workforce.

Will it affect essential services?

That's the question.

I mean, the large cuts were done quickly, affecting government's operations, agencies, quickly hired workers that they fired because they fired people too quickly.

And that should tell you something right there, right?

Many skilled workers left while the government still lists thousands of jobs on the US jobs.

Oh, really?

Yes.

I didn't know that.

They're keeping the jobs listed there to make it look like, well, look, see, we have all these jobs available to you.

People sign up and they never hear back.

It seems like a really cruel thing to do.

But they are absolutely doing that.

A Washington poll post says this, 63% of Americans disprove of Trump's handling of the federal government.

57% feel Trump's workforce changes will have a negative impact on the country, you think?

And those paper pushing bureaucrats were really engineers, doctors, and other professionals whose work is critical to national security and public health.

So, and again, many were rehired after we found out that they were all fired.

Get the bricks.

Yeah, many of them were rehired.

Yeah, it's just amazing.

But not all of them.

No, not all

of

them.

Yeah.

So

maybe they should reapply now, now that those are on the website.

Why don't we apply for some government jobs and just see if we

get a

reaction.

See if they call us in for an interview or something.

Well, I don't know.

We're taking up a lot of responsibilities.

It's now the John and Gordy state capital.

Right.

It's the...

The John and Gordy studios at the quarter of John and Gordy next to State

Street.

Our sign is still up here in the studio.

There's a sign?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

It's online paper from a tablet.

And we're... Yeah.

But it's not official yet.

Well, the Chief Operating Officer put it there.

That's true.

Corey Hartman, he put it up there.

I figure that's official.

It's right over here now.

I

thought that was,

oh yeah,

I thought

that was Catherine.

No, no, that was Corey.

He did it while we were on the air.

He declared

it the Jag Studios.

I'm assuming that the brass engraved plaque will probably be in here in the not too distant future.

It's on the way,

yeah.

All right, in a conversation with the UK Prime Minister,

Musk argued that artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that many traditional jobs, including highly technical roles like coding, may not exist in the future.

This is very scary stuff right here.

There will come a point, Elon said, where no job is needed.

You can have a job if you want a job for personal satisfaction, but the AI will be able to do everything.

Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future.

That's what this is.

You know, he's made these big predictions before that would be on Mars by now, I think

that that didn't happen.

Well, how would you if you don't have a job and you're not getting money and you don't need money, how are you going to eat?

How are you going to buy food?

How does that was just going to get free food?

OK.

Now, I don't think he's thinking of universal basic income here.

Maybe.

But

no, I don't think it's even occurred to him.

But that's why John and Gordy have the John and Gordy Universal Basic Income Fund.

And we hope to have that up and running in the future.

Put any word after John and Gordy.

You caught on.

He says manufacturing jobs peaked at 25% in the 60s, and we're now at 8%.

US wages are 10 times higher than emerging markets and five times higher than China.

So there you

go.

That's what Elon

said.

Yeah.

Let's go to the phones right now.

Joe, what have you got for us here?

Good morning.

Oh, I just think the Jag Studio sounds so dynamic.

Manly.

I think you really need to go with that.

And get the t-shirts going for your shop.

Just another thing for your merchant empire that you're going to be working on.

So I would go with that Jag Studio.

I think it harkens back to, I can't remember which one of you had a radio name of Johnny Grenade.

John Peterson's radio

name.

Yeah, I had that.

Yes.

Pull my pin.

I just

wanted to add my two cents of you know one never knows what's happening with our government and in terms of is that a real job or not a job is that person employed or not employed I would add that last week also had that lovely clip that people should remember

about Trump and snakes.

He went on a six minute monologue about snakes in Peru and came up with a 26-bit every year.

28,000 people in Peru die from snake bites in Peru.

Scary place, real scary

place.

Oh, you gotta

find that.

We're

looking for that.

I'm sure that that's, you know, snakes on the plane.

Yeah, and apparently the real number is from 2000 to 2050, 15 years, a total of 10.

A total of 10.

Oh, really?

Oh my God.

Yeah, just off by a little.

Just off by a

little.

Wow.

All right, Joe.

Hey, thanks for that.

Joe, thank you for

that.

We'll look for that.

Good to hear from you.

It is 649.

We'll be right back with more idiocracy on John and Gordy on WMDX Madison.

in the morning right here at ninety two point seven W. M.

D. at six fifty two it's cold this morning six degrees it feels like thirteen below it's pretty breezy out there highs this afternoon around sixteen it's gonna warm up over the weekend mid thirties tomorrow maybe some snow and twenty eight for a high on Sunday we're broadcasting live from the John and Gordy studios across from the

John and Gordy Overture Center in downtown next to the John and Gordy Capitol, a block off of the Capitol.

You know, we've been talking about Trump naming the Kennedy Center, the Trump Kennedy Center.

Yes.

My idea, if I was with the Kennedy family.

Yes.

What is it?

Take our name off of it then.

That's why.

Take our,

take

the Kennedy name off of it.

That's the way to do it.

Just some advice to the Kennedy family.

That's all.

I'm sure they'll be listening.

Oh, I think that's,

that's a great idea.

Right now it seems like he's just bulldozing put his name on everything now How about taking your names off if you don't agree with this guy and who wants to agree with him?

I mean, again, the seats are empty at the Kennedy Center at this point.

No one wants to go to these events and say, well, I saw this show at the Trump Kennedy Center.

Yeah, I saw the Village People

doing YMCA.

Lord.

Yeah, they've not replaced Maria.

They've replaced all the entertainment there.

Oh, multiple versions of the village people.

Making appearances constantly.

Let's get to something from the Daily Show, and this is Jordan Klepper.

He went out and asked people, what wars did Trump stop?

And, well, let's find out what people thought about this.

He's cut 110.

All right?

I think he's doing great.

I mean, he's ending wars.

Yes, I keep hearing Trump is ending wars, although the exact number is up for debate.

I settled three wars.

Thailand, Cambodia.

We stopped five nations from going to war.

India, Pakistan.

Stopped six wars.

Rwanda.

I stopped seven wars.

Seven, eight, nine wars.

Yeah.

What's your favorite war that he's ended?

Let's see.

Everyone, well... Can you name the wars?

I cannot name the eight wars, no.

Just give me four of them.

There's one in... Is

there an Africa war?

That's a

big continent.

Really, I'm not sure.

Just give me two of

them.

Okay, with the last one with the Palestinian and...

Russia was one of

them.

No.

Ukraine?

No, the Palestinian and the Jewish.

Israel.

Israel.

Israel.

Should Donald Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize?

I mean...

Stop numerous wars with wars.

Well, he the Israel guys that came conflict came to an end But I think there's a little bit going right now and

there's

been he's close.

We got we got close.

We could feel it right?

He's sort of edging peace in that one, right?

I feel like we keep getting there and then something else It's like all right.

That's the most excited thing right over the pants type

There you go.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah, they couldn't really

come up with much.

Well, they're not mentioning all the wars.

And then when you find out that the war really wasn't a peace deal made by Trump, then you're starting to check them off and you're saying, well, okay, that wasn't one of those situations where he ended the war.

And then everybody's just kind of confused at this point.

Yeah.

But why not claim your ending every war in the world and just see which one sticks I guess throw it up against the wall and there you

go

By the way, I've got some more information about the Lincoln or the Kennedy Center.

Yes,

go ahead.

Trump

Kennedy Center.

Maria Shriver is actually outraged about the name change she wrote on Instagram.

It's beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy.

And she was joined by Kennedy, other Kennedy relatives, Jack Schlossberg and Joe Kennedy III.

They all objected to this name change.

So,

well, you know, with Trump tearing apart the economy and then RFK junior tearing apart public health, maybe that's who we can kind of refer to now as the the Trump Kennedy RFK, right?

Junior.

Yeah.

The health plan.

Why not?

Yeah.

I mean, why?

Why not make it, you know, Trump and Kennedy, Trump Kennedy health plan?

Failed health.

No, the center.

Oh.

Oh,

the

Kennedy Center?

The Kennedy Center.

Yeah, the Kennedy would represent RFK Junior.

RFK?

Oh

boy.

Well, then you'd have to rename it the Trump Kennedy Junior Center,

right?

I don't know.

We're getting into the weeds now on

this thing.

Let's go sideways fast.

Wheels are off the wagon.

We're rolling downhill sideways.

Look out.

Okay.

First time you always point that out And it happens pretty often women's will just put that on tape

We'll get back on

track.

Okay.

All right.

The Trump administration has opened a new front in its war on the woke.

This time in a place few Americans would ever have thought to look.

It's the nation's pocket change.

That's right.

The administration quietly scrap plans to commemorate the abolition of slavery.

women's suffrage and civil rights movement in newly minted quarters ahead of the nation's 250th birthday.

Instead of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a suffragette holding a...

votes for women's sign or ruby bridges walking into a newly desegregated school the mint revealed Wednesday that the 2026 quarters will feature George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln and James Madison plus a Tableau of pilgrims glimpsing the shores of North America.

Okay.

Yes.

There you go Trump

quarters.

Nope

There was a actually it was a $1 coin Oh Trump's face on it.

Oh, no, I don't think I don't think that passed.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm good Coming up right around the corner after we check in with news weather and sports will also have Savannah Tomate Olson with some local news updates and Rocker in our next hour or two with the Max Inc preview It's all coming up on John and Gordy for a Friday morning

Says here that the Senate Democrats moved to block the idea of Trump's face on the dollar.

Oh

good.

Well, thank you for that update

They're doing something

First of all, you guys put on a good show, and I think that goes without saying.

I love your show.

I listen all the time.

You have a pretty fun show.

I listen to it most of the time, you know.

Keep up the good work.

No, it's disgusting.

It's a ploy.

God, I love you.

Get the hell off the stage.

Nice work, everyone.

Sharp broadcast.

Really good.

Good morning, John and Gordy.

Good morning, John and Gordy.

Good morning, John and Gordy.

Good morning.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

Haven't heard that in a while.

Happy Friday morning to you.

It's John Peterson, Gordy Young, along with our producer Dominic Lee, live from downtown Madison.

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Bundle up.

It's time once again to talk to Savannah Tome Olson about what's going on in the news in Wisconsin.

And Wisconsin Eye is one of the things that we've been talking about an awful lot because it is so important to find out what's going on in our legislature.

It's all there.

They even have debates.

They have discussions.

It's all videotaped.

And now what?

It's gone.

Yeah.

Well, and, you know, it's kind of like C-Span.

for Wisconsin.

That's

right.

Savannah, what is the

latest?

What's the

latest on that?

So we have one bill that would basically make Wisconsinized services part of the state government because until this point,

whether or not you can see what lawmakers are doing on the legislative floor or see conferences from the governor or see hearings from the Supreme Court has all relied on donations to this nonprofit, right?

Yeah, and instead this bill from a couple Democrats would basically add two million dollars to the state government budget every year and it would make an office of

uh like public accountability that would kind of just make it part of our state government that we would have this kind of transparency into what everybody's doing because they've been busy this week they've been talking about all kinds of things but if you're not there in person to watch it you're not going to see it or hear it.

Well I know you know it it it relied I guess

initially on subscriptions.

I know they tried to get me to pay.

I did not do it, but I watched and recorded some of this stuff on my own.

But anyway, it was always really invaluable to find out what was going on.

Word for word, you can find out what each and every legislator had said.

And it was really that important.

So it was invaluable.

And I think after all these years, Savannah, that

they would find it to be that invaluable as well.

Now we have, you know, this proposal from two Democrats, right?

But the Republicans,

any

indication from the Republicans if they're interested in this, just $2 million.

I mean, that's just nothing compared to the billion dollar surplus they already have.

That's right.

And it seems like they may be on board with something.

I would expect them to come up with their own plan at some point.

However, they haven't to this point.

They've been doing all kinds of stuff this week.

They've been talking about putting labels on meat grown in labs, which is not a commercially available thing yet, but it may become that way.

to create a task force on missing and murdered African American women and girls.

They've been talking about raising the legal age for state nicotine sales and expanding childcare funding on Indian reservations throughout the state.

So they've been doing all these huge things just in this last week since Monday when Wisconsin I went dark that we haven't been able to cover and you're only able to cover if you're there in person.

So we'll see what happens here.

But

the idea to just make it a state service that does not rely on any kind of donations or subscriptions.

Senator Mark Spreitzer from Beloit was saying it seems like taxpayer money is going to be needed anyway to continue this service, whether we

bailout Wisconsinite or make it part of state government.

So why not make it accountable to lawmakers?

That was his argument.

Have they at least agreed to turn over the archives to the historical society?

Is that what I heard?