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Deed.
That's John Peterson.
I'm Gordy Young alone with our producer, Aaron Zamas.
And we are broadcasting live and direct from our home base here in Madison, Wisconsin.
block off the capital.
Yeah.
And it's chilly today, 20 degrees, wind chill feels like it's 12, about the same in Milwaukee.
They have more sunshine though, and up at La Crosse, 22 degrees.
See, it's kind of feeling like winter again.
See, you broke the weather rules right away here because we're not supposed to be talking about wind chills anymore or feel or feel like temperatures anymore because that
No one goes by that anymore.
We always talk about it now, even more than we did before.
Why did they do this?
I don't know.
Remember?
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows.
Oh,
Yeah, okay.
Well, you know, it's so silly sometimes you think about what they do here in the government.
You know, we talked about this way, way, way back when this all started happening.
And that is that, you know, they like
Fired people they closed departments down.
They stopped spending money on they discontinued programs
Yeah,
because they're going to do it their way right, but you don't run a business like that You change slowly you if you have an idea of this is the way I want to do it You phase that in and phase the other one out you do not do
what the Trump administration has done, and it is really scary and it's off-putting, and I don't know how or why the media has not actually brought that point up.
You don't run a business like this.
You remember USAID?
You don't just get rid of it because you're going to replace it with something else.
That's why they're not successful.
Well, you know, you're firing USAID killed a lot of people.
If you're going to fund those governments directly so they distribute the money and the aid, okay.
But you know what, do that and then phase out what you're doing as far as USAID was doing.
The people they were distributing the money to could be phased into.
that government, whoever you are funding now, as far as the government is concerned, my concern was that those governments didn't even have a social safety net or social services.
So who's getting the money there and where is it going?
And that's why they had these groups getting the money.
If only they would
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Yeah.
Okay.
Over to you, John.
I believe so.
Yeah, I believe so.
Here we go.
They're flying away from us because they're texting the word.
Yeah, Steve, Texas, today would be a good day to abolish ICE and use this $100 billion budget to fund health care, school meals, housing, not going door to door, trying to arrest people.
Come on.
He says it's 1935 Germany now.
The feds reverse their decision to cut $2 billion in mental health.
grants.
Oh, did that?
Nationwide.
I didn't see that.
This was a big deal and a lot of people kind of freaked out about it, you know, the help of the mentally ill and drug addiction.
They changed their minds.
You know, that's the craziness of this administration.
They do things and they don't know that these are important issues.
And we didn't just put these programs in place to dole out money for free and, you know, people can take all that money and take advantage of the government.
It's actually helping people deal with, you know, drug addiction and mental illness.
Yes.
So good.
Yeah, it's good to know that the two billion dollars has been restored for mental health grants.
Hey John and Gordy, how are you?
okay?
So I told you a while back girlfriend moved in with three pets.
You're still welcome to borrow the cat John That third pet is a Republican it turns out it's a what or it's a It's a four-foot ball python
Republicans are lizard people
And something that they have similar with reptiles is that they will consume and devour their own.
They have no love for their children.
And the other thing is they also always kind of walk around looking for predators and assuming they're under attack.
They're fearful at everything.
But it makes me think of this concept a while back I heard that
When the Republicans and conservatives with their lizard brains, they didn't have the Communist to be afraid of an attack all the time So that enemy became the liberals.
And over the last 30 years or so they've been so brainwashed with their little puny great-sized lizard brains That they are so afraid of liberals now.
That's why they're okay with ice killing
I would much rather spend time in a room of snakes than republicans.
Paper.
it is.
Yeah, ball python.
We feed it little rat pups.
It's rather, it's interesting to watch it feed though.
That's kind of a little fun activity.
up for that kind of
Please
quicker that he's not to be trusted that he's a snake that he's a reptile and they voted for him anyway All
right, man, thanks a lot for the call 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 So the story of the snake remember you always used to tell the story of the song the snake, right?
And I'm not going to tell it again here.
No, I'm just going to leave it up to him.
He'll bring it up again somewhere along the way.
I'm waiting for the batteries, the boat, and the shark.
I'm still trying.
We haven't heard that one lately.
I'm
still
Now, you know, in Milwaukee, there's this warning, the police are warning that there's an increase in robberies due to dating apps, excuse me, dating apps like Grindr.
And so they've been setting updates.
I don't know.
They've been setting updates and people getting robbed by having people come over.
Are you going over there or meeting people?
So anyway, yeah, that's been going on in the Milwaukee area.
They're kind of worried about it.
I've had that problem.
I haven't been robbed, but I've had
I have been very, very skeptical of using marketplaces like Craigslist, you know, to sell an object or buy some furniture or put some furniture out there.
I don't know.
I had my credit card stolen, the number at least, somebody had taken it simply because I think I gave them my phone number so we could communicate and buy an item that I was selling.
And for some reason, right after that, the card started getting used.
So I've been skeptical ever since then.
I don't know about the Facebook marketplace, though, but, you know, a great place is to look for furniture and things that you... Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I've used Facebook marketplace before.
Find in a difficult time.
Yeah.
Locate it.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
But anyway, that's the story.
Just getting taken to
this.
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What are you doing giving somebody your personal information on marketplace?
Well,
anyway.
on Craigslist in 20 years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm just trying to have a little fun in the hell that we're living in right
do.
I don't have anything serious to say
guys
that out.
Yeah.
Milwaukee, my old hometown.
Right, your old radio station.
I grew up for my first 30 years there, and it was great.
I lived on every side of town.
Yeah.
Just to see what it was like in Milwaukee.
It's always different on each side of the...
I was just reading in the journal about traffic calming.
What?
They've been trying to cut down on the speeding and the accidents in Milwaukee.
Okay.
So they've been trying different tricks.
They have like blinking red lights now at intersections.
That means there's no blinking.
green lights there.
And that'll stop traffic, you know.
We have that problem here in Madison because they've been putting a lot of speed bumps in.
Is it?
OK.
Because, well, you know, if no one's around and there's no other cars that you could hit, why not go a little bit over the speed limit?
That's what you're recommending?
No, I'm not recommending anybody take a chance.
But when you have a space car in an electric vehicle, they empower like nobody's business.
So you
Well, I'm sorry.
Okay.
Again, I've offered you throat lozenges.
That's all I can do.
Cam said he'd race me, you know.
You don't want to race.
the space car.
It's got sport version.
Oh, the sport version.
You know, it's got super charging.
Eco and it's got normal and then it's sport.
And that sport version is a
killer.
Really?
It is.
It is a faster rate of acceleration.
I have the tech version of the EV6, but I tell you what, they had the sport version of the EV6 and there's no way.
In fact, I checked on the insurance first before I even thought about if I'd buy it or not.
And the insurance was just outrageous on it.
Well, I wish that was possible, Gordy, but I think you only can link into your phone.
It is connected to your phone.
Everything is connected into the phone.
I see.
So you have to have that in order for this thing to work.
Now, I would think Wi-Fi would be something that should do.
I think it does Wi-Fi, but I don't have my glasses
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.
I'm
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world,
Well, they're pretty dumb sometimes.
Oh, yeah.
It's an endless stream of fire hose of bad news.
It never ends.
Weird news and dumb stuff.
And one of them is Grock.
You know, the UK was threatening to ban X on social media because Grock is part of X now.
Okay.
And X had a big problem, at least they thought there was a big problem, with non-consensual sexualized explicit images that were created by GROC, AI.
All right, and the United Kingdom has a law in place that bans any social media source that can do something like that and What happened was?
Trump State Department came back and said the US will use a full range of tools to protect free speech.
This isn't free speech
It's non-consensual, explicit, deep, fake, sexual images of women and minors.
So for some reason, the Trump administration wanted to protect people who were putting out deep fakes of women and minors, sexually explicit materials.
And that doesn't sound good in a headline at all.
No.
to just
spread them
So anyway, Elon said this, it's no longer going to be able to edit photos and real people to show them in revealing clothing or non-clothing and jurisdictions where it is illegal after the widespread concern.
The UK government said it was vindicated for calling on X to control GROC.
Elon said we now
Geoblock the ability of all users to generate images of real people in bikinis underwear and similar attire via the grok account and in grok in X in those jurisdictions where it is illegal
and This was
block I also wonder if they're just blocked from tweeting at grok Like about those things if it just filters out those responses or if you can't find the images Let's say for example someone in the US comments on a picture of somebody and says at grok Whatever you say to make grok do that
Will that comment still show up in the UK?
I don't know
Yeah,
they had a story and a video story of a man from Madison who went up there and they had a video of it and they
I interviewed the guy and I did a search on it.
I tried to find it because I wanted to hear what he had to say.
But I couldn't find it, so they're not posting some of the things that they are covering sadly.
And that's my complaint.
Let's go to the phones.
Mark is
Yeah, we'll go into, you know, the attack on undocumented people and actually legal immigrants just continues by Caroline Lava to us.
talking about the shocking number of Americans killed by quote-unquote illegals, and I just did a quick check lookup.
And there was 15 instances in the first nine months of 2025 of undocumented people being accused of homicide or manslaughter.
They came there to the 4,000.
Trump was trying to claim her 15,000.
They tried to claim.
Mark.
Yeah, I mean, they're just far more, you know, Americans are killed by their fellow Americans than by undocumented people.
And, you know, and time and time again, I've heard that, you know, that it's more likely that undocumented people commit less crime than Americans themselves.
I mean, it is just
The case and point are present has been documented and convicted of crimes, and that is just ignored by the right.
They're engaging in weaponizing the Justice Department against Donald Trump.
Well, if you don't commit the crime, they wouldn't be weaponized.
In some cases, they're accusing Jerome Powell of misleading, on the renovations.
Joe, the head of the Federal Reserve is not personally documenting all these expenditures that go out for the renovations at the Federal Reserve.
And Donald Trump was the one who insisted on extra special marble we use that added how many hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to the cost of the renovations because Donald Trump's what's marble used while marble is not a really good long lasting building material.
Appreciate that eight five five seven five two four eight four two now There was a video circulating online.
It showed a Michigan man shouting we execute one of you yesterday And and he has resigned now as a CEO of a company.
Oh, he said the storm is here.
No one could stop what is coming Patriots get out of here get out here.
We need the backup
and all you liberal commie mothers keep your hands to yourself or you're going to get hurt, all right?
We executed one of you yesterday and that didn't go over well at the company you worked at, which was Harmony Investment Group and they provide private healthcare investment firms some money.
So anyway, this is the kind of thing that goes right off the Richter scale and these people don't...
I don't understand how they could say something like that or even think like that.
Well, right.
And it just, you know,
Right.
Well, anyway, got another story here.
We're in.
We're in idiocracy, right?
Yes, we still are.
I find this fascinating.
And draw-dropping as well.
Incredible gas lighting.
Again, fabricating a child pedophile.
Listen to this.
This is a child pedophile problem, and it's broken up by ice in Minneapolis.
This is another blonde DEI hire at DHS.
Her name is...
Trisha McLaughlin, you might have seen her on Fox every once in a while.
I don't know where they find these people, these blondes.
They always put these people in big positions in the Trump administration.
But she's something else and you'll find out.
This is cut 226.
Let's listen.
So we are bringing to you just a taste of this teachers union press conference that's being held in Minneapolis right now.
They closed school yesterday and today.
They declared today a day of unity.
The woman who just spoke, Miss Taylor, she said that every Minnesota is at risk of what happened to Rachel Good seems like a little farfetched.
Trisha McLaughlin's DHS assistant secretary and thank you for coming on today.
First, react to what the teachers are saying.
They want all these schools to be in a safe zone, essentially.
That certainly did not seem very unifying and it also didn't seem like those individuals speaking had the facts on the ground
and
what we saw as far as arrests go
was
they were arresting multiple child pedophiles.
I've seen the reports of who they've picked up scores and scores of child pedophiles.
Paul said it will offer a temporary virtual learning option for students starting on January 22nd, citing safety concerns tied to an increased presence of federal immigration agents in the Twin Cities.
Two days after Renee Good was killed, the student attendance plummeted.
So they want to get those kids at least some education.
So they're going to start online.
options for
Hey gentlemen, nice to talk to you again.
Um, yeah, I just, you know, I think every city that ice shows up to, they should be treated as foreign invaders.
I mean, they got to get their gas somewhere.
They got to stay at hotel somewhere.
I think every business should be, you know, ice and amount.
Essentially, it's, you know, no quarter at all because they're going to have to rely on local businesses.
And I think that's the only way we're really going to be able to hurt them.
Um, and I think that's just, that's something that any, any city that they show up in unmasked to,
That's how the community should treat it.
Like we don't serve anybody that is a nice.
like
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Hey, good afternoon, guys.
So I got a couple of things.
The first one is, you know, they claim that they went into Minneapolis because of this YouTuber.
went to some daycares the
day after
Christmas and they were closed.
She would have went around the around the United States.
He would have found several daycares closed.
A lot of daycares were closed the day after Christmas.
I am a landlord.
My tenant works at a daycare.
They were off for a whole week during the Christmas break.
Yeah.
Right.
So yeah, a lot of places were closed the day after Christmas.
And my second point, John, I got a theory.
Your AI glasses, they must be being manufactured at the same manufacturing company that the Trump phone is being manufactured.
Man, it's the same manufacturing company that has not made its way back from overseas to the United States because of the tariffs.
I don't know if you guys saw that story yesterday, but manufacturing is, is, is taking a hit every month since April because of this, this nut guy who thinks he's a businessman.
Right.
So we can find that manufacturing company somewhere from overseas to here.
We may find those AI glasses.
Okay,
Good afternoon, guys.
Um, couple of things here again.
Um, first of all, uh, political fact.
did an analysis of many of the statements coming out of the White House and the press, their press people, and they analyzed some more between 1100 and, excuse me, 1100 and 1200 statements.
They rated about 80% of them mostly false down to pants on fire.
They rated about 6% of them mostly true.
Yeah, we know this is nothing unusual because the Washington Post analyzed what was happening in in Trump's first term and they found over 30,000 lies in the in just four years.
So,
you know, this is
nothing unusual.
Now, why why would you and some of those lies just they're worthless.
I mean, if you just lying apparently for the case of lying.
Well, if you haven't read
anything, any of her publications, I suggest you look up a person by the name of Hannah Arendt, A-R-E-N-D-T.
She's written several books about authoritarianism and the development of Nazis and that sort of thing.
And one of her main ideas is that the purpose of all these lies isn't to get people to believe the lies, it's to muddy the waters,
that you can't tell the truth from lies anymore, and she states the ideal subject of an authoritarian regime, whether it's Nazi or communist, is somebody that can no longer tell the truth from lies anymore.
And that's what we're getting here.
that's why this tribal cult that's around Trump.
Yeah.
Yes, yeah.
Yeah, you saw that
I got nothing.
just, I just,
listening to you guys from my office and I, I'm just so grumpy and so sad and so depressed and I just
I did, I wanted to be cheered on by you guys.
That's why I'm here.
Well,
Hi.
Great show as usual and I do like music and I'd like to say, you know, where in the devil are the Epstein files?
thinking of Tom from from California LA Tom Yes, they're spewing it.
They are doing it.
also Every accusation is a confession
You know, it's like the kid, you know, in school, pull the little girls here in front of them and then blame the other kid for doing it.
I mean, it is just so unbelievable.
But thanks to you guys, we're getting honest information and we're all in this together and we need to get information out on all candidates to take these guys out of office.
and we have to fight for our right to vote.
So thanks, guys.
Keep up the great work.
I'm all better now.
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