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Better calm down a little bit.

Happy Wednesday!

Yeah.

mid-week here and we're trying to try to make it through as you know it was a pretty devastating weekend and we had a few difficult days Monday and Tuesday but you know we're trying to loosen up just a little bit here trying to keep our sanity right and trying

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that's

our producer Aaron Sommers.

Good afternoon, Aaron.

Good afternoon

And boy, it's bright and sunny all across the state.

You know, we're broadcasting from our network headquarters here in Madison, and it's beautiful, but it's still pretty chilly out there.

Temperatures in the, in the, let's see.

Well, Milwaukee, it's 11 degrees.

I

can't find Madison at the moment.

We'll get to it.

Oh, here it is.

Madison, 11 degrees.

And up in La Crosse, 10 degrees.

pretty similar temperatures all across the state.

What time is sunset time tonight, John?

Because, you

know, it's staying lighter

later, right?

I'm glad you asked.

I was

very excited about this.

I know.

And from the Samsung watch, it's 504.

Set your timers to 504 this evening.

That's sun.

Set okay

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Okay.

All right, we've got some great comments coming up from Philly DA Larry Krasner.

We'll be talking about Tom Tiffany's recent endorsement by Trump.

Right.

And Rand Paul has a few things about the rights that we assume we have.

Maybe they're up for discussion at this point, you know, carrying guns at protests, so and so.

But just before we went on the air here, we were alerted by...

Aaron Sommers, that there's a new Bruce Springsteen song.

It's about Minneapolis.

Is that correct?

It's called Streets of Minneapolis.

Wow.

All

right.

All right.

Well, have

you listened to it yet, Aaron?

Just a little bit.

I haven't heard the whole thing.

Okay.

Is that a rocker?

Or is it?

What's it going to?

It's kind of laid back.

How's it going to

hit us?

It's, you know,

I would

say mid-tempo, maybe.

Okay.

All right.

Well, let's listen to it.

All right.

What do you say?

Let's check it out.

All

right.

All right.

Through the winter's ice and cold Down Nicolette Avenue A city of flame fought fire and ice Neath an occupier's boots King Trump's private army from the DHS Guns belted to their coats

Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law Or so their story goes Against smoking rubber bullets In the dawn's early light Citizens stood for justice Their voices ringing

To die on Snowfield Street, Alex Pretty and...

Whistles and foams against Miller and Norm's dirty lies.

Oh, I'm Minneapolis, I hear your voice.

Crime's through the bloody mist.

Well, remember the names of those who died on the streets of...

That's Bruce Springsteen, this song dedicated to Minneapolis.

What is the title of that again?

Streets of

Minneapolis.

Apparently he wrote the song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it today.

Wow.

So there you have it.

Impressive.

Yeah.

And trying to see the list to anybody else who is singing on that.

But I don't see that.

But yeah, so wow.

Wow.

It's pretty poignant.

To the well, it's to the point.

Yeah.

Well, it's good to hear that Renee good and Alex pretty are both immortalized in a song by Bruce Springsteen.

Yeah, that's something

yeah and And Miller and gnome as being liars and Trump like their names aren't left out either.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah Okay, but at least we have a tribute to the individuals who lost lost their lives so far and that's

Yeah, wow.

Well, just not often that Springsteen comes out with something like I mean, I can't remember the any time actually that he put out a political song,

you know in

the

immediacy

of the moment.

Yeah, you know So

all right for him for doing that

get myself together here.

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Phone lines are open 855-752-4842.

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You know, we've

always talked about that here in the show that there aren't enough protest songs anymore.

We kind of get spoiled with Bob Dylan those many decades.

And now at least we have Springsteen coming out with something

here.

And Jesse Wells.

And Jesse Wells, I was going to say, Jesse Wells is also out there doing this.

And boy, he has an extensive library of issues that we could certainly get to here on the program.

Right.

We've been

digging out some old ones from the 60s and early 70s occasionally.

And

we play parts of songs because there are rights that we have to adhere to for these artists.

And when this program that

is being broadcast statewide here is podcast.

Then there are different rules for podcasting.

And if these songs are included in that, then the artist deserves some kind of payment as well.

So

it's difficult to do all of it at once.

Let's go to the phones.

Gene is on the line from Eau Claire.

Good afternoon, Gene.

What's on your mind?

Well, thank you guys for the great show you're providing.

Thank you, Mr. Sommers, for that.

We can now listen to it and see it.

I think it's on YouTube, too.

Yes.

And also, I'd just like to alert people, you know, our glorious, I don't know, half brain senator Ron Johnson right now on Forbes, they're running a committee meeting or a hearing.

and watch live Ron Johnson leads Senate Homeland Security meeting.

And guess what it's about?

The Palisades Fire in California.

That's our leader from Wisconsin.

What an idiot.

And I think he's from, and this is my opinion, calling him an idiot in names.

That's me.

But I feel a lot worse in those kind words.

But anyway, and I think he's originally from Minnesota.

What a great guy to have representing the United States.

Anyway,

I had to give my two

cents first.

Keep up the great job.

Have a good day.

Bye-bye.

All

right, Gene, thank you.

And let's go to Cindy in Appleton.

Welcome to the program.

Well, don't forget about Woody Guthrie and Arlo Guthrie and Johnny Kimbush, believe it or not.

A songwriter for the people wrote songs about people who are in just Yeah, there was a lot of good of them It would be be you know great to see more people, but I've always been a Bruce Springsteen fan I'm even a big fan now because it is time some of these people start coming out and what kind of bothers me though is it seems like it took the killing of a white man for people to start stepping forward which just aggravates me but

The point is we need more of this and we need more people who have power, who have following to come out and start doing

something.

Yes.

Yes.

And I think maybe this will help a lot, you know, getting the voice of Springsteen behind this, this, this front against the

Trump administration's

invasion of our states.

Right.

So, you know, I have a.

Okay, I'm gonna get to this right away here.

All right.

We heard that Tom Tiffany has been endorsed by Trump.

Now this really irritates me a whole lot.

It's not a surprise.

Well, it's not a surprise at all.

But what is happening here is Tom Tiffany has been running a campaign.

We've talked about it here.

He's been running a campaign that kind of mirrors the whole campaign that Trump

had, he put together.

He's doing the exact same thing.

And to whatever extent there was a primary, Dan Schaefer said, it's essentially over now, there is absolutely one person that everybody's going to focus in on, it's Tom Tiffany.

But the thing here is Tom Tiffany is going to hand over Wisconsin to Trump.

To federal control, that's the problem I have with this.

Really?

You know, Tiffany Beck's Trump's takeover of Congress because he was there and he let it happen.

He didn't fight back.

He backed higher insurance costs for the ACA.

Now we're paying more as we live paycheck to paycheck.

He didn't care about the farmers getting hurt with this trade war.

So there's a bailout coming, but that's not because of Tiffany.

And he also wants to bring ice to Wisconsin communities.

Now here's a list I put together.

Tiffany backs a federal food stamp audit.

He backs a federal Medicaid audit for fraud.

A federal review of Wisconsin voter rolls wants a federal requirement to prove citizenship to vote, which is aimed at women, really.

Wisconsin will be absorbed into the hydro-like authority that we know as the Trump administration because of what Tiffany has done in Congress.

We can't let this guy off the hook.

He has a horrible record and he thinks he's going to run Wisconsin.

Not like that.

He's going to give us over to the federal government, essentially.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, anyway, we had to get off my chest.

I'm just

frustrated.

He's thrown his hat in the ring and yeah, that's first step to seeing.

if he can make his way into the governor's office, but it's a long way to go yet.

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It's John and Gordy coming back with more after this.

You can ask me

what's trending.

What's trending?

You can ask me what's trending.

Like a trillion.

Afternoon's with John Peterson, Gordy Young, Aaron Atwood Controls.

And, you know, I just went on a little rant about Tom Tiffany.

But, you know, he is...

He's the worst candidate, one of the worst candidates.

And I said this about a few other Republican candidates in the past.

Yes, it's true.

Full confession.

But you know, Tom Tiffany is one of the worst ever.

I mean, this guy did away with all the mining laws and rules and regulations we had

in the

state, gave away our water.

I mean, gave away our minerals.

This guy is a train wreck waiting to happen.

This is what he said.

This is a quote.

As governor, I will work with local, state, and federal law enforcement to keep Wisconsin safe, just like I would imagine it's safe in Minneapolis, and to remove criminal illegal aliens.

Oh, really?

Oh, you mean like in the rural communities, in the farm?

businesses out there.

Cooperation is how you avoid tragic consequences.

Deporting illegal aliens is how you make America safer.

Explain that to the dairy farmers, all right?

Explain that to the farms out there that need labor and with reform, with immigration reform, we could help that labor.

We could stand behind them so they can't be exploited.

See, the problem here is we're not doing the job we should be doing, or Congress isn't doing the job they should be doing, and we should demand it of them to have reform.

We need to protect the people that are in this country, even on the visas that they have currently on these farms.

Now, of course, you know, ICE is going after even people with visas.

So we have to somehow reform the system so we can have labor, have their rights protected, and also have them here legally.

And we're really hurting ourselves.

We have a little... Oh, here, I've got this.

This is Justin Wolfers.

If we do away with all these immigrants, if we draw the line like Tom Tiffany wants to do as governor, or Trump wants to do as our dictator, then we're really shooting ourselves in the foot later on in the next 10 years.

This is Justin Wolfers.

He's warning us about U.S.'

's future.

If we do all of this, and this is cut 404, if we could hear cut 404, this is Justin Wolffers talking about the future of the US if we keep people out of our country.

What are the foundations of prosperity, economic prosperity, shared prosperity, equitable growth?

Look across countries and ask yourself, why is the United States rich in the country of my birth, Papua New Guinea poor?

And the answer turns out to be what we call

institutions, the rules of the game, the rules of economic and political life, the fact that we respect the rule of law, that we have contestable elections, that we have contracts that we respect.

And the thing is, those are the things the president is undermining.

He is attempting to take away the independence of the Federal Reserve.

He's tried to undermine how much federal...

economic statistics reflect reality.

He's tried to overturn an election.

He's snatching people up off the streets.

He is calling CEOs and telling them what to do.

This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime.

It's the least conservative government of my lifetime.

When you are the richest country in the world, maybe you're not the ones who should be thinking about ripping down your existing institutions.

It's those who are somewhat behind.

But that's what the president's doing.

That's not going to show up in next quarter's GDP.

What that's going to show up as is in a decade's time, there'll be some companies that were never founded.

There were some entrepreneurs who couldn't afford to go to business school.

There were immigrants with great ideas who ended up staying in their home countries instead.

And so whatever the next generation's Google or open AI is, it may not end up being invented or it may not happen on our soil.

And we will never see that absence.

But our kids will feel it.

Our kids will feel it instead of lost opportunities.

There'll be businesses they never started.

There'll be job opportunities.

There'll be new technologies.

There'll be ways of creating a greener, safer, more prosperous future that simply aren't possible.

But we're not going to see it straight away.

And that, I think, is our current media is not well set up to talk about those issues because there's no number comes out.

There's no news cycle.

There's no Wall Street Journal headline.

But it turns out economic research tells us that's the stuff that matters.

That's right.

So that's what we have to look forward to 10 years from now.

It's not something we'll see.

But we'll notice it.

All right, let's go to the phone lines right now.

We have Cindy on the line from Appleton.

What do you got on Tom Tiffany?

Yeah, thanks for having me back.

I just wanted to say that not only is he all of the things you mentioned, but he is only anti-women's rights.

And he is also a wolf hater.

If he gets elected, we will not have a wolf left in the state of Wisconsin because he is supported by Hunter Nation who was behind the wolf slaughter in February of 21 that took out 300 and some wolves in one day.

And he is also behind, they are behind all these conscious killings in the state of Wisconsin where all these animals are slaughtered for money every day.

You know, these are just things that people have to think about.

He will destroy our environment.

He will destroy our public lands.

He will take all the timbers off the land.

It's just sick me.

Yep.

And

he hasn't watched the video of Alex Pretty.

He hasn't watched it.

He's going to wait for somebody else to come to a conclusion before he even bothers putting his two cents in.

which I think he's afraid to actually say.

Let's go to Wisco Paul now.

Thank you, Cindy.

What do you got for us?

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

They call him Toxic Tom Tiffany up north.

You know, you have all those lakes up there and fishing and you could care less about forever chemicals in

the

water.

Everybody will be sick up there.

If he gets elected, which I don't think he has a prayer happening, but you want to be able to drink the water.

That's what the state depends on.

Tourist, water, fishing.

I don't even know I get selected, but I'll tell you somebody that can write a book on this man.

Yeah.

Oh, lost him.

Well, thank you for that call.

It is

just that toxic time.

We've got Midwest Food and Farm report next and we're back with more of John and Gordy in just a moment.

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.

Well, they're dumb all the time and we prove it here each and every day on the program, John and Gordy.

Welcome to the program and feel free to give us a call to text us if you like.

855-752-4842 is our number.

Mark is on the line.

Well, let's go to Mark first before we get to some of these wild and wacky stories.

Okay.

Mark, go ahead.

Yeah, thanks guys and thanks for playing the song I'd text that into you as well then earlier on yeah as an opener and Rod Johnson put posted a along with weed post a pretty vile reaction to the murders of Renee good and Alex pretty that you know bringing up the old all these people that were killed by illegally aliens and the Oh, yeah, the Democrats and then I've called them all my reps and said you got a

I called Johnson's office and said, I hope he, every dream he has, he's one of the, uh, like Sister Fister or, um, tantalists or, from atheists where there is punishments to Greek gods doled out to them that, um, I don't want it to actually happen to him.

But I mean,

if

he dreams that's happening to him, that'd be well and good with me, that it is just vile that he's responding like this.

And for Tom Tiffany, never forget the man was probably one of the co-conspirators in the January 6th insurrection.

If he along with Scotty Fitzgerald who arranged the room for the fake electors to meet, you know, they combined to vote against the certification of a couple of states in the election in 2020.

So Tom Tiffany betrayed the citizens of the state of Wisconsin in doing that.

That he is just a vile man, just like Ron Johnson is just a vile man as well.

That it is just

Yeah, and an update that Lady Gaga is doing a version of Mr. Rogers song, Won't You Be My Neighbor, I guess.

Oh,

really?

In a commercial at the Super Bowl.

Oh.

I liked a little bit of the production video that they're doing of that, you know, they're coming up with, you know, to do the song.

All right.

Then I guess there's, they're discussing that the recording on that song is actually a little, a little tricky there, Sam, that, and it's going to be interesting to hear that because I always liked Mr. Rogers that, and I was

particularly annoyed with Rush Limbaugh's in the day when Limbaugh's was saying that, oh, Mr. Rogers is a threat to this country because he had this message to these kids that they're actually worth something and Rush Limbaugh didn't think that was a good way to raise kids is actually give them a loving and nurturing environment rather than use the rod and beat them into submission.

Well, we can thank Rush Limbaugh for turning AM radio into conservative radio.

92% of the market in talk radio.

92, and they kept liberal radio's liberal announcers off the air.

And I know that for a fact.

Bringing up Mr. Rogers.

Also, one thing that he always said is in times of trouble, look for the helpers.

Right, exactly.

The people, and we see a lot of helpers in Minneapolis right now, neighbors working together.

And Alex Pretty was also one of the helpers being a VA ICU nurse.

Most definitely.

Mark, thanks for that call 8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2, getting a lot of texts here.

One

about Tom Tiffany is also from Ronnie in Horicon.

Tom Tiffany is also pushing the SAVE

Act,

which would require voters to prove citizenship by birth certificate.

And would affect married women, especially since their birth name may not be the same as their present name.

You had a situation like that with your wife, right?

Oh, yeah, definitely.

And we're still kind of working our way through that.

Her name has been changed.

We kept it the same for a long time, then we changed it to the married name, and then we hyphenated it, and it just got complicated, and it's different at the DMV.

It's different on her papers for the house.

I mean, you know, it's just, it's a nightmare just to keep track of it, and then they want to throw in now a verification.

of your citizenship in order to knock you off the voter rolls.

Essentially, that's what they want to do.

So, yeah, it's a bad thing.

And Tom Tiffany is all for it.

He really hasn't thought any of this through.

You know, he wants to cut property taxes, but you know what?

Property taxes are high because people have refrendums in order to pay for their public schools.

So if you've got property taxes, how do you pay for those schools?

Now, you don't want to...

fun public schools, right?

You don't wanna do that, and you're gonna cut taxes, and you're not gonna really spend any money, then I don't know where we're gonna go.

He doesn't make any sense at all.

He's a scary individual, and that's my rant on that.

But we are in idiocracy right now.

We are.

So let's get to this.

This is wild stuff.

We mentioned this on the program a while ago, but Mehdi Hassan picked up the topic and even had an interview.

with Zoran Mamdani.

Oh really?

And this is really interesting about the B'day controversy.

So let's listen to this.

Mamdani has been mayor of New York for less than a month and he's already embroiled in a major scandal.

Yes, B'daygate.

I'll say it again.

bidet gate.

It all started at this press conference a couple of weeks ago when a reporter asked a new mayor what he'd be changing inside of his new official residence, Gracie Mansion.

One thing that we will change is we will be installing a few bidets into Gracie Mansion.

The Fox News anti-left rage bait machine went into overdrive.

Bidets, how dare he?

That's a rich man's fantasy, they said.

And total hypocrisy, they said, given the Democrats' criticisms of Donald Trump's White House renovations.

They even cited an anonymous but prominent New York City Democrat saying, he's been mayor for a minute, and now the socialist thinks he's flushed with so much cash, he can buy bidets.

Sorry, what?

Second, Fox seems to think Mamdani is buying, I don't know, Japanese Toto toilets, or these kind of hotel-style posh bidets, which can, quote, run as high as $2,000.

I just mentioned that,

you know, we might install a few bidets.

Increase bidets.

Never been there before.

You know,

like a

$25 water gun

that you

hook on the side of the toilet.

We actually got a lot of bidet companies who reached out to us to offer their help and installation.

I'm sure they do.

We're fine.

Well, the economy could help be helped by that.

We're not in the pocket of big bidet.

See, he's not in the pocket of big bidets.

Third, politics aside, hand bidets are a good thing.

You should try them.

All Americans should.

I promise you, you will not be disappointed.

He's

right.

He's right.

We have

one.

We have one installed.

We had to get a plug installed near the toilet so we could plug the damn thing in.

It's not exactly a water gun, as Mondani said there.

I hope he gets something a little more fancy than a water gun that

hangs on the toilet.

But they're not getting $2,000 bidets.

No,

no.

Just getting

like the attached kind

that you did.

Yeah, you get the seat that's basically the bidet.

So you just kind of put those on top of there instead of the other.

The other seat but yeah, that's that's crazy stuff and again, you know the media right-wing media machine really churned that out hit the fanboy and they just

they

were outrage more phony outrage as ever right all right now this is Mad King Don.

He's gonna bring a long order back Back back to this country.

All

right,

let's listen to this This is a 402

402 we're also working tirelessly to bring back a thing called law and order you know there was a time So there was a time that you weren't allowed to use the words law and order I like that guy You weren't allowed to use the term

Law and order you weren't allowed

to use the term

Christmas Merry Christmas everybody, right?

Remember that 2016 I

ran on we're gonna bring back Christmas We did not they're afraid to suggest it, but we brought that back, but loan order we need loan order

Yes more repeats of law and order Well, what about those paid agitators by the way as he was giving this speech right now the people with these

pre-made signs they all look the same right yeah right right these are paid agitators sitting behind him with signs that were made for them obviously they're getting paid they had clothing on that said Trump on it obviously they're paid agitators sitting behind them I'll tell you man what about those paid agitators 403 let's listen to this

You

do know they're paid agitators, right?

They're paid.

They get paid.

You ever see their signs?

You know, we use that protest and you'd have guys making a sign in a basement.

These are all paid agitators.

That's all they

are.

They get

paid to go and they don't even know what, when they interview them, why are you here?

I don't know.

They have no idea.

They're paid insurrectionists really in some cases.

They're sickos.

All right.

Sickos.

You know, have you heard about the Melania movie that's coming out?

Yeah.

I think it's

Amazon Prime that put up the money for it, but

it's going into the theaters.

It is, apparently.

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people will show up for that.

Well, there's actually some crew members that worked on the movie, according to Rolling Stone.

They want their credits.

removed from the movie.

They didn't want their names associated with

it.

Maybe you

shouldn't have worked on it,

buddy.

Rolling Stone reports that two-thirds of Melania's New York crew requested their names not be added to the film credits.

Another source said they wish they'd had the foresight to remove their name from the film said, I'm much more alarmed now.

Apparently they finally saw the movie.

and don't want anything to do with it.

And early signs are that it's not gonna do well at the box office, apparently, but they've spent like $35 million to promote it.

Well, I hope they

got

$35 back.

Well, you know, it was a kiss-up.

I mean, this was the whole kiss-up thing, the billionaire kiss-up.

One crew member told Rolling Stone that the movie was slimy.

and boring and I can't imagine why not yeah and she was totally not nice

now our friend Doug in st.

Francis yeah it's a it's a suburb of Milwaukee and he writes if where is it well yeah we got to get that here it's there it is even there we

go

even a movie about John and Gordy

would have been way more interesting than the movie about Melania.

Any discussions of a movie?

For us?

We have been thinking about it, a little documentary on John and Gordy, history.

We've got a lot of old video.

We have a lot of clips we could certainly manufacture.

Put into the movie.

Some kind of documentary.

I'm not saying it's going to be an interesting one.

But don't oversell it.

Put the bar way low.

We will get a few people.

That's what I want to do.

I want to set it really, really low.

Bidding for the right starts at $35 million.

Well, Aaron, maybe you could direct the movie.

You're very

high

tech.

We could slap together something, put it out there, see what happens.

I don't really think there'd be a lot of interest in that, myself.

Doug also writes, if aliens suddenly appeared on Earth, and only one, and only one of you, John or Gordy, could represent Earth, which one would do it?

I don't know,

I

have to ponder

that.

I don't know.

Also, we've got some texts about who went to see the movie at the White House, so we'll dig into that a little bit.

Coming back with more of John and Gordy after this.

Mortyocracy.

Yeah.

James Dean.

John and Gordy with you here in the afternoon.

Beautiful sunny day in Madison, Wisconsin.

Hope it's the same near you.

We have this from Terry, director Brett Ratner.

Yeah.

who made the documentary Melania has been accused of sexual harassment and also has been mentioned in the Epstein file.

So yeah, he might want to lay

low at this point.

Well, he was not going to be around.

He was actually at the private screening.

I thought this was about to take place.

It actually took place Saturday night.

You know, as a major snowstorm hit much of the United States and Minneapolis erupted in violence after the ice shooting of a protester.

First Lady Melania Trump and Brett Ratner, the director you just mentioned, held a private screening of Melania at the White House.

A lot of names I don't recognize were there.

They had 70 VIP guests, including the Queen of Jordan.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, he was

there.

Oh,

sure.

Mike Tyson, remember Mike Tyson?

Yeah, he ran a great campaign.

Help Guru Tony Robbins was there and Dr. Oz and a few other people.

You know,

I'm not getting

good early reviews.

I'm wondering if Mike Tyson was paid to be there or any of the others.

Paid to absconders?

Yeah, exactly.

I think you're

right.

Yeah,

I think

they're agitators.

Now, you heard in the last break that there is maybe a solution to paying for PFAS pollution in our water.

The point here is the Republicans have been holding this up.

They have a little pool of money to pay for putting in new wells and helping people deal with PFAS in their water, but they're not releasing it or letting the governor release the money

because they're

asking for, and this is what they're asking for, a complete pass

for the people who put the PFAS in the water.

In other words, they're not holding them accountable.

They want a pass on the businesses so they don't have to pay for cleaning up the water.

That's what they want.

It covers not standing for it.

I don't know why the Democrats can't make this absolutely clear.

Each and every day of the year here, we would take care of this problem and allow people to drink healthy water again.

This is just outrageous.

Can

you imagine?

I mean, seriously, when your water is a little colored and you go, oh my God, I don't want to drink that, right?

I mean, you know, that's when they flush the fire hydrants, right?

But I tell

you, you know, these people have to live with this kind of pollution.

every day in its dangerous cancer-causing pollution.

And the Republicans are holding it up because they want to give a pass to the people who put the PFAS in the water in the first

place.

They're the party of personal responsibility and corporate plausible deniability.

Exactly, right.

And that money's been set aside

for

a couple of years at least.

Let's go to the phones.

Joe from Madison is on the line.

Good afternoon, Joe.

Well, if you want to have some fun, I would hardly urge your producer to do some checking of the reviews of millennia's documentary.

I recall that Roger Ebert's efforts were something along the lines of, it's as painful as running through a field of Legos while you're suffering from intermittent diarrhea.

Oh my God.

Oh,

that's good.

That's

good.

So there's some other reviews similar to that.

I wanted to refer back to this.

You were speaking of Tom Tiffany's love of this save act, which was about trying to tackle voter fraud, which, you know, is a very, very small problem.

Election fraud is a problem, but voter fraud is not.

And

it was by saying that everybody's got to show, you know, got to show your IDs.

And for women, that's a problem because their IDs.

change because they take their husband's name.

Well, it's really interesting how many women do 90% of Republican women adopt their husband's last name.

They want to do that.

It's 66% of other women adopt their husband's last name.

And the result of this is that it comes from the old historic common law doctrine that said that a woman's legal identity is merged with her husband.

And it used to be that women couldn't own property or sign contracts or sue or they were legally

and it was all through their husband.

I would argue that there's some problems that are gonna be occurring out of this.

They were talking about up to 60 million women may be affected by this if they have to go through this song and dance to prove who they are at the voting booth.

And guess who was saying it's not gonna be a problem?

Carolyn Levitt, the sharp legal mind of Carolyn Levitt, who said that, oh, the Democrats are just fear mongering this.

We will note that Karen Levitt,

Caroline Levitt uses her maiden name, not her married name.

Her husband's last name is Richio, R-I-C-P-I-O.

So she uses her maiden name, but hey, it's not going to be a problem for her.

It's just going to be a problem for the other women who have chosen to take their husband's name.

What a crock.

What

an incredible crock, you know?

Geez, if it's so easy, Caroline, then why don't you take your husband's name, honey?

Yeah.

Good

luck to the women as they head to the voting.

Oh, documents, please.

Documents, please.

No, that's not going to work.

Sorry, you can't vote.

So good luck to us all.

Take

care.

All right, Joe.

Thank you.

Thanks, Joe.

Let's see.

I think we have time for one.

Do we have a

quick call here from Dick in Madison?

Dick, go ahead.

Hard to follow, Joe.

She is so good.

Yeah.

Here's proof that we will never know real jobs numbers going forward after he messed with that agency But I kind of off the subject today, and I'm seeing nothing in the news Amazon and UPS have both announced up to 30,000 people each They're gonna be laid off this year.

Oh, yeah.

Wow

Wow, yep Yeah, you're at the negative negative 60 grand between the two companies.

So

wow,

and that's that's not

No, it isn't good

at all, but you know, I've been compiling a list of all the jobs that are being lost in this country.

We're not getting the reports on this.

It's not appearing in the newspapers often enough.

Major corporations are letting a lot of people go, not simply because of AI, but because there aren't any job openings.

They're getting rid, they're downsizing.

It's all...

It's all happening because of what has happened with the tariffs.

Corporations are downsized and they can't buy the materials for the price they need in order to expand.

New sports weather is next.

Then we're back to give away some Chula Vista overnight stay tickets.

All right.

And Mike McCabe will join us.

It's all coming up on John and Gordy.

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That's right.

We've got Idiocracy.

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mean I shoveled their sidewalks Why in

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Some restrictions apply.

We'll give you all the contest details if you're the winner.

Let's see if Aaron has selected someone that meets the criteria.

Aaron, is this our winner here?

Yes,

Andrea from Madison.

Hey, good afternoon.

Tell us a good story.

Well, it's good to hear from you.

What do you got for us?

Got a good story?

Yes, my little autistic daughter just had to go sledding this weekend.

So we bundled up like three layers deep and we did it.

We went sledding.

Good for you.

That's great stuff.

Excellent.

Way to go.

Well, we're going to get those tickets to you.

Stay on the line here, Andrea.

Is

it Andrea or

Andrea?

It's Andrea.

Andrea,

okay.

There was a song called Andrea.

I like the Wisconsin way,

Andrea.

Wonderful, well congratulations to you and enjoy your time at Chula Vista in

Wisconsin Dells.

I am so excited.

Okay, thank you.

Hang on the line there.

We'll get that song Andrea.

Okay, we'll

have to dig that one out

of the...

music vaults.

Out of Johnny Gordy's record collection.

That's right.

Okay, well, that's great.

Checking the texts here.

I've

got some comments about the Melania movie.

I really want to see this now, because it sounds really

bad.

Well, yeah, you know, we were thinking of who could we get to direct the Johnny Gordy documentary.

Hundreds of beavers that guy who also did

like Michigan monster.

Okay.

Really?

Two really, really great movies that you really should search out.

So you're thinking

maybe a

fictionalized

documentary,

something like, you know, something with a little special effect.

Give it some class.

or cover up some of the mistakes it would be.

Okay.

You know.

Sure.

A special effect just to make things look better.

Somebody suggested that it be a black

and white

movie.

Yes.

And what did they say?

Oh, that the sub, it would be silent movie with the subtitles being in cursive.

Cursive, yes.

Yeah, because we've been pushing

cursive.

We have a storybook for children.

Right.

Let's go back to cursive.

Although we

don't know how to get it out there anymore.

Because you did it on what, Gemini or something?

Yes.

But it won't let us publish it really.

Well, we want to give people access to this.

But yeah, we want to get it out and be able to do

it.

Can't jump through the

technical hurdles.

Well, you know why you know why because why haven't used Google to

find out

how to do it It is Google.

It's a Google product.

Yeah, right?

All we have to do is just ask

We're not good at AI yet, especially with my AI glasses.

I'm still

trying to figure out.

You don't even bring them in anymore.

I don't want to bring it in yet.

Okay.

I brought it in the other day and we didn't really do anything with them.

So, a lot of dead air, a lot of spaces in between.

But you've worked out all the bugs.

No, I haven't yet.

I'm still trying to figure it out.

Okay.

All right.

And they gave me instructions.

They did help.

Okay.

All right.

I want to get to this Trump calls the killings of Alex pretty and Renee good at the hands of the federal agents a lot of hoopla and a distraction So why don't we listen to cut 299 here and and hear him actually say this and more by the way Okay, I don't know if 299 is the right one.

Oh, this is 399.

I'm sorry 399 Got

a lot of what's going on with respect to

Minneapolis you know with the what's happening with the all the hoopla is so people don't talk about I think it's a distraction I've said it from day one it's a distraction because what what you don't see is that we have hundreds of accountants from Todd and from from all of the different people we have we have hundreds of accountants going over everything that's happening and we're finding fraud on top of fraud on top of fraud okay um

No, we're not talking about the Epstein files.

Yeah.

These individuals died as a distraction to Trump.

Yeah, I got it.

All right.

You have to diagram that one out.

Oh, don't quite get that.

Okay.

You know, I've got a song here.

You know, we were talking about protest song.

Springsteen just came out with one right for Minneapolis.

I want to play this.

This is the singer Pink.

And during the time that we had to suffer through George W. Bush, she put this song out because things were pretty bad at that time.

We didn't think we'd make it through the George W. Bush years.

The eight years he was president, along with Dick Cheney.

But it was brutal.

And this song was sent out to these individuals via Pink's performance here.

Let's listen.

Dear Mr. President, come take a walk with me Let's pretend we're just two people and you're not better than me I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?

Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?

What do you feel when you look in the mirror?

Are you proud?

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?

Chance to say goodbye.

How do you walk with your head held high?

Can you even look me in the

eye?

There you go.

Pink.

Incredibly powerful song.

Man.

I well up every time I hear that.

The Dixie Chicks put out a song about George W. Bush

as well,

called Traveling Soldier.

It's actually, I think a cover, but yeah, it's really good.

Yeah, these songs come out every once in a while and we were talking right at the beginning of the show about, in case you missed it, that new song by Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Minneapolis, which apparently he wrote it on Saturday, recorded it yesterday.

And

it's out

today.

It is a good song.

Yeah.

Really catchy.

That's how I greated the song.

Okay.

Well, I'm a little big thumbs up from a little bit.

Easy to dance to.

It's got a good beat.

Like on Dick Clark's American Dance Dance.

That's what I was going to

refer.

Yeah.

Maybe we'll play it again toward the end.

Yeah, I think we definitely need to play that again.

This is, this was an amazing comment.

This is 394.

North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis really let it go on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it was brutal and I have to say I agree.

100% let's listen.

We've got

a Trump one, Trump two comparison of disaster relief.

There's no comparison whatsoever.

Trump one was right on with disaster recovery.

You think about Matthew and Florence.

And this one, she's not even handling the other part of her job.

I mean, at one point, she thought FEMA should be eliminated.

To give you an idea of how incompetent I think she is, she actually thought FEMA should be eliminated.

And when she had a FEMA director said he didn't think that was a good idea, she fired them within 24 hours.

Now she understands that that is an important part of her job.

These are like amateur assistant managers sort of.

thought process is going into somebody who's a secretary in a cabinet level position.

It's unacceptable.

Stephen Miller is in the same boat.

This guy, after doing the stupid comments he made about Greenland getting the president in a difficult circumstance, is one of the people that came out publicly and said that this guy was a terrorist before he'd even talked with anybody on the ground.

And that's clearly not the case now.

So, I mean, it's just, I mean, Stephen Miller never fails to live up to my expectations of incompetence.

But do you think Noam should step down?

She is taking this administration into the ground on an issue that we should own.

We should own the issue of border security and immigration, but they have destroyed that for Republicans.

Something that got the president elected, they have destroyed it through their incompetence.

Wow.

That's big.

Who was that again?

That's Tom Tillis.

Yeah, Senator out of North Carolina, telling it like it is, saying it for all of us.

Thank you, Tom.

This is an army vet, and he had a personal opinion about this.

He was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis.

He says he was detained and shackled for hours.

Mother Jones spoke to...

Ian Austin is the army veteran outside the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis and and this is what he said

So when they say why would you be out here?

How the f*** could I not be out here?

You know like my nation is under attack

It's an Army Ranger, First Ranger Battalion.

Did six combat deployments to Afghanistan.

Pretty bad PTSD.

I spent like almost two years in inpatient, a whole lot of time in outpatient, you know, working on that.

I was assaulted and then arrested by ICE the other day out here.

And then they couldn't press the charges, of course, because there's video on CNN of them coming at me as I'm backing away from them.

So we're at Whipple and they take you in there.

It's Homeland Security asking about, like, you're from Philadelphia.

Why?

We can't comprehend why you would be here.

And I'm like...

Well, because the nation that I was willing to die for is being systematically oppressed with many military uniforms.

A private army told by the president they have no other laws to follow than his and they're systematically attacking

and even killing our neighbors in the United States of America.

I can't understand how my all my veteran buddies are like still along with this.

It's like we took an oath to the Constitution.

And there's just being shredded right now.

How could so many people swear an oath to something and then humpy, dumpy, orange man is out here and they're like, no, we're gonna follow him.

Instead of this oath that we took, that we all swore to uphold and defend against enemies foreign and domestic.

This has all of the signs from every fascist movement in history that we're gonna lose the opportunity to resist.

So that's why I'm here.

That's Army veteran Ian Austin, seeing it like it is.

It's always good to hear from our vets.

Yeah, absolutely.

Standing up for our country, even here in our

homeland.

Mike McCabe will join us in about 15 minutes.

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Thank you.