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that partly
I would call that cloudy.
Yeah, I would also kind of a little overcast.
Okay, I would call it overcast.
It's partly sunny Milwaukee.
They're at 11 degrees up in the cross.
You're at 10 and wassa four degrees.
They've got sunshine there.
So that's a mixed bag, but they're all everybody's cold.
It's yeah.
It's winter.
I feel that we should at least celebrate a little victory here, Gordy, because, you know, when the Weather Service has announced that they weren't going to talk about wind chills anymore or feel like temperatures anymore, we resisted that.
We were the rebels in this case.
And we decided to stick with the wind chills and it feels like temperatures.
And I guess we turned out to be right
But I see them right here.
And the wind chill up in Wausau feels like 13 below because they have Southwest winds at 13 miles an hour.
Kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
Four degrees.
Yeah.
So that's what it feels like.
And lacrosse, it feels like two below.
with winds coming out of the south at eight miles an hour.
And in Madison, it feels like one below zero.
a
I think it really depends on the dog.
One of my friends has a big St.
Bernard.
If you tried to put that guy in a sweater or boots, he'd try to kill you.
He is perfectly happy being outside in this weather and then coming in and chewing the ice off his toes.
But if you've got like a little lap dog, you're probably gonna need some booties.
Yeah, okay.
Thank you.
Please.
Brain freeze.
We just got here.
Yeah.
Anyway, it is cold out there.
There are a couple of protests going on today.
Yes, there is.
What's a nationwide protest?
Yeah.
Hang on a second.
Free America Walkout.
That is happening even as we speak.
Now, this sounds really big.
I mean, this is important.
Free America?
No, man.
It's nationwide.
Yeah.
We will walk out of work, school, and commerce because a free America begins the moment we stop cooperating with fascism.
says here, the Free America Walkout calls on us to all reflect on our freedoms as Americans, encourages us to take a stand to defend our democracy and to join together in our communities to stop fascism in its tracks.
That's
right, we walk away from fascism, we walk towards a free America, we fight for a future that belongs to all of us, everybody in, nobody out.
Right.
And that's that's the talking points here.
It's not me.
So that's good, though.
I mean, I love seeing action like this as much as I question whether, you know, protests really work or not.
But the No Kings protests really did did work.
Yeah.
And I think this could just be that other great walkout.
And I'm not seeing a lot of buildings empty in here on State Street.
Nope.
Don't
However, the Silver Badgers are gathered here in Madison at Gammon Road near Tree Lane this hour from two o'clock to three o'clock and They're planning to brave the cold
to protest the Trump administration treatment of immigrants, attempts to undermine democracy, abuses by immigration and customs enforcement officers, and the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Goode in Minneapolis.
So that's at Gammon Road near Tree Lane, if you're in the Madison area, and they encourage people of all ages and abilities to show up over the next hour, bring a sign if you'd like.
There is some limited parking nearby.
And again, that's the silver badgers.
The silver badgers.
Yes.
That's what's happening there.
The seniors are meeting.
I see that.
So the free America walkout is nationwide.
And I think that was.
Bank bailouts are happening right now.
They say, oh, this has been going on all along and I'm skeptical of that.
According to the lever,
You should check out the site, the lever.
It's pretty good.
The feds have quietly delivered nearly a half trillion dollars of no strings attached bank bailouts in the last few months, according to documents and data reviewed by the lever.
I'm
That's nearly equivalent to the pot of money that Congress passed
bail out the banks during the Great Recession back in 2008.
And it worked perfectly 18 years ago, so I don't see why it won't now.
Right.
Except now we're not aware of that.
That's the difference.
It's a lot of money.
In all the new bailouts are already 60% of the amount of the financial crisis tarp.
Paid out and that was the tarp bailout.
Remember that no one liked that and But it was necessary as much as you don't you don't want to give money to banks for their bad behavior We certainly needed them to hold up the economy.
on
They've taken it to the next level and it's unbelievable.
They had a map of all the United States and where which states are promoting cursive.
It's not being promoted here in Wisconsin, by the way, but it was mainly eastern states, southern states and some western states, some big states too.
And they're promoting cursive and they had some documentation to prove how it's good for kids motor skills and really helps with their learning habits and all of that.
Yeah, I was very.
Well, I'm
Well, there's a bunch of us gathering at the Houdini Plaza.
There's probably about 20 of us here right now.
Looks like we're coming, so...
Hopefully we'll have a fairly good turnout, although I don't think anybody's gonna stick around too long.
This is pretty bloody cold, but
Anyway, we're making a point.
Boy, hey, there are a lot of good Samaritans out there, people trying to help out, individuals who are out there protesting, individuals who are swept up by ice and then released.
for no particular reason swept up of course you know they're American citizens and that's what's going on in Minneapolis and St.
Paul at this point
I think I saw the same thing that they want to stage them.
They don't want to stage them in Canada.
Right.
Because Canada doesn't want anything to do with ice or to have them in there to go to Greenland.
So they have to stage elsewhere.
You know, Northern.
Minnesota might be an illogical place.
But it seems
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they're a little on the older side, you know, they're out there in the cold, maybe you drive by and honk your horn, maybe bring them some hot chocolate or something.
That would be a really nice thing to do, Courtney.
Yeah, let's go to the phones, 855-752-4842.
Dick is on the line from Madison.
Good afternoon, Dick.
Hi guys, real quick, something coming up Thursday that the Democrats better jump on, stay on.
You know, they always stay on message.
They be in the Republicans.
I, um, Jack Smith is going to testify publicly Thursday.
Um, and he will be made a fool of because everything I have seen clips of stuff from last month, he'll mop the floor with these people and he does it very smooth.
He doesn't get rattled.
Yeah.
He will take them to task and then they should build on that and just not let that issue go.
Yeah.
I really think they need to jump all over it.
One other real quick thing, you know, that stupid meal they showed that kids are supposed to be satisfied with, you know, the little piece of chicken and broccoli.
yes, the
Yeah.
Why don't they show Trump typical meal of a quarter pound cheeseburger, a Big Mac, large order of fries and a large Coke.
You know, this is what your fax slot president.
like.
Right,
I wanted to get to this story.
Good Samaritan.
There's a guy who heads up a group that is helping pick up and release detainees who are thrown out of the cold in Minnesota.
They're out there helping people.
I have a clip here.
It should be the very last one, the top one, I believe.
So let's listen to it.
What's your name?
My name's Jack.
We're just trying to help pick up some release date tenies, you know, they're left out in the cold and get some supplies, get them home, whatever they need.
Cool, thank you.
It was nice to meet you, Jack.
Do they come out here?
Yeah.
When they release them?
Yeah, we got, you know, a whole little system.
We're kind of, you know...
whatever you call these.
Do you know when they're going to let them out?
We don't know when.
And they just show,
they just walk out?
They just drop them out.
I'm looking for somebody with a jail bag and then we go and help out.
Do they even have the, like it's freezing today?
What I'm told is they've been taken dead.
No, they don't have the right clothes.
So in some ways I should be thanking us because that's like another type of murder, you know, throw them out in this weather.
You don't last very long.
So, um, but basically I'm told they've been taken IDs if they're brown and then also phones no matter what.
Um, so we, you know,
We try to get them burner phones, things like that, get them awry, whatever they need.
What do you think of these tactics?
It's just, it doesn't feel right, man.
Yeah, I don't, how do you, I don't even want to entertain an argument, you know?
It's just like, you think about these kind of two-way fetish people, here's your moment, this isn't small government, I know that, so.
That's for sure.
doing some interviews out there.
He's been criticized for being at the church where there was a protest and the U.S.
government is also threatening to go in there and charge people with felonies for interrupting a church service.
No, seriously.
Is it a felony to interrupt a church service in this country?
Now, let's remember that ICE has
the ability to go into high schools and churches.
So if they interrupted a church service, would they also be committing a felony at that point?
Yes.
So
got it,
I hope they're OK.
We're coming back with more of John and Gordy after this.
It's John and Gordy.
Tuesday afternoon.
Taking your calls at 855-752-4842.
John Peterson is modeling his new AI glasses that he just received a couple of days ago and trying them out and so far they seem to be operating efficiently.
Yes.
Yes.
You like
Yeah, some of these.
You guys, and they're felonies.
I mean, especially with 34 felonies and Trump, but what was like the first United Church of Karen?
I guarantee you, if I went in there, if I went in there with a fistful of 100 screaming that the Lord God called me down to bring this to this wonderful church, this ice pastor church, I would be charged with a felony.
Well, I might actually be preaching the next Sunday.
You know, I just think that what they did yesterday was almost like an example of Jesus going in and turning the table so that money changers.
They guys preach.
steamer man.
I love going after those guys.
You know, I made a preacher cry at the Capitol one day.
Yeah, yeah, he was from from Kansas or whatever, working with the Republicans.
You know, we're in the ice threads and he said to me that it was good that he could see over the top of me because he was taller than me.
And I, I couldn't see
Mike.
You have no heart.
But
Conduct you can't make noise or obstruction disorderly conduct laws apply at churches.
Okay, so just so you know, I mean there is that and there's some federal laws apparently Okay, the face act
F-A-C-E, I'm not sure what that stands for, but also protects religious access and shutdown of churches during emergency.
Right, and then we're not talking about
and
and
David Easterwood is a pastor here.
He is also the director of the field office for ice in St.
Paul.
So someone who claims to worship God, teaching people in this church about God is out there overseeing ice agents.
about what we've experienced.
How dare you claim to be a pastor of God and you are involved in evil in our community.
How dare you?
I want that fucking jail.
He would never do that to any other religion.
Lock him up.
And she said something.
Wow.
Else, but I'm not going to say that here.
I can't even say what it would sound like Sony where he was a disparaging word Anyway, this is what's happening.
There's this big war now, you know
Yeah.
Okay.
Ridiculous.
It is.
But anyway, that's what's happening.
Well, we need to remember that all of this is just providing a dodge so we don't think about the Epstein files, right?
how far are they gonna go and I would say that he's already bored with Minnesota and he's headed off to Greenland and to be going into Greenland and one of the there are a couple of things about this I find really fascinating number one
The word is that he's looking at Greenland because of climate change, that it's going to be melting and there'll be a chance to gather rare earth minerals and new trading routes, blah, blah, blah.
This is the same guy who said about climate change, quote, it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.
So I mean, is the ice going to melt or not?
So, um, so nonetheless, we're committing to this idea of going into Greenland, right?
And it's, they've got about two minds there.
And here's a quote from somebody from the Arctic Institute.
Okay.
Somebody from there.
He says, the idea of turning Greenland into America's rare earth factory is science fiction.
It's completely bonkers.
You might as well mine on the moon.
In some respects, it's worse than the moon.
The bulk of the places that you could get these materials from are north of the Arctic Circle, and they said the ice there is like a mile thick.
So, you know, five to ten times harder than to mine it in other places.
And then if you add this in to, I was reading, and I need to do some more research on this, but this person said, part of the reason why we talk about China and rare earth minerals, a lot of those rare earth minerals are available in other places, but it is so
thinking hard to mind those.
They were talking about how with some of these, to get one ton of these materials that you need that are very strategic for, you know, airlines, computers, all that sort of stuff, it generates one ton will generate
2,000 tons of toxic waste.
Well, China started doing this stuff back in the 80s, and they were desperate to get anything going.
And they have really cornered the market, not on rare earth minerals, but on the refining, not mining, but the refining of these minerals.
So it's an interesting distinction, and one that, of course, would completely, the doddering idiot that is our president, of course, would have no idea about that, particularly since
Climate change.
Yes climate change.
No melting.
Yes melting.
No, we don't know.
So we just we don't know anything when it comes to it So I'll see what I can find on more about this, but I find it just hysterical.
Why are we going?
Hey Joe, what what
The guy is from the Arctic Institute, and it was from a CNN report from January 12th of 2026 with the title, completely bonkers, Trump's Greenland Mining Dreams Collide with Reality.
So you can find it on the CNN website.
Yeah.
Wait a minute.
Hold on a
No.
It's also Trump claiming on the old Nicki Nicki Minaj.
and he's claiming that the Minneapolis church protesters are trained professionals who should be thrown out of the country.
He goes on to say, by the way, that they were highly trained, by the way, no evidence whatsoever offered here, highly trained to scream, rant, and rave like lunatics in a certain manner.
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who were outraged at Trump's bathroom renovations at the White House.
Now, the thing is, you know, somebody asked mom Donnie if he could change one thing in the, in the mansion or wherever he's staying as governor, what would it be?
And he said, well, I'd like to put in bed days.
you
Nothing like waking up to the news reporting that mom Donnie wants to install bidets at Gracie Mansion.
How outrageous.
Oh my.
Here, Mon Donnie is tackling the important stuff, installing bidets in Gracie Mansion.
He says it's an aspirational hope.
He's a socialist a Muslim and a comedian Okay, and then here's another one this ridiculous phony sounding story morphed into this get this Mondani is forcing residents of New York City to install and use bidets No, he's not he's putting him in the mansion.
He's not asking all of New York City to put bidets in although that would be
You know, kind of a cool thing like free buses.
Okay.
And clear all by.
Clearing this whole thing up.
Oh, there's more was this post Fox news is not a serious establishment.
You can get a bidet for $50 or less How would you compare that to the whole renovation just to make mom Donnie look bad?
I suppose.
King Don mad King Don.
Yeah, okay Well, somebody's calling him a man baby.
No, we had a caller who said yeah, call him a man baby Well, anyway man baby man baby plans on imposing new tariffs on an assortment of European countries unless they deal with the United States and make you know Greenland
his old that's that's what it's all about the man baby the man child we could call him that of course you know he wants to put a 10 tariff on these countries danmark norway sweden france germany united kingdom and then the netherlands and finland now you know that if we get stuff from them that'll cost us yeah american
Consumers a lot of money.
You know, this is just a rant that he had apparently but you know, he's pretty serious about this kind of stuff
wrote a
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