Trump “Comes Out” and John Doesn’t Wear Pants (Hour 2)

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Ta-da!

Along with Mr. Aaron Zommers, our producer and engineer on the board at six minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Welcome into hour number two of the big program on Thursday, August 21st, 2025.

It is a great day to be Wisconsinite.

Welcome into hour number two, everybody here at the World Headquarters of Civic Media, downtown Madison.

Look it out the windows right now.

I was gonna say that a cloud in the sky, but a small one just kind of started to pass.

It's a beautiful day, Zomers.

You should be in your element.

The weather that's coming up in Wisconsin the next four or five days, it is Zomeresque.

No humidity.

High is around 67 degrees and sunny.

I am quite pleased.

Yeah, it's all I need is some sunglasses and I can be outside.

Right?

How about that?

Yeah, the fall is coming early.

It's gonna be a little, I mean, morning lows like in the 40s for the next two, three, four days, a cool front is gonna settle in Wisconsin.

So if you're a fall person, this is your kind of weather, but I think it's good.

because a lot of parents, like my sister and brother-in-law, are moving their kids into dormitories.

In fact, on my way to work today, I was coming on Johnson Street, and one of the new big high-rises, it was a line down the block of people waiting to get in the underground parking, and you can see that it looked like the Beverly Hills hillbill, the clampets with all the furniture on the back of the truck.

They were moving their kids in so good.

There's cool weather for that because you don't want to be moving in a bad weather

I would much rather be moving furniture and 40 degrees than in 90.

Yeah, absolutely The Brewers are still hot up to one on the Chicago Cubs down to Wrigley You can hear that game on some of our stations to be a RCE and Richland Center to be ISS in Oshkosh.

I think right

Still today, ISS Oshkosh, WBZH and Hayward and WCQM of the beautiful Park Falls.

You can hear that game on the Brewers Ready Network.

Brewers up right now, two to one over the Cubs, bottom of the sixth now.

Can't stream it because of contractual things.

but you can hear it over terrestrial radio.

As they say, Brewer's trying to get out of here with a win after dropping one as Clemens said last night.

Tough game, they forget what was, which of the Brewer's.

Contreras had a great hit with two out in the ninth and a couple of guys on and the Cubs guy snow-coated it.

You know what that means?

So he caught it with his glove, but just merrily.

So it looked like the baseball was a snow cone.

I mean, it was a half an inch from being a base hit and the Brewer's would have won it.

So, you know as they say this baseball you

just can't win

them all can't win them all but hopefully the crew can bounce back Will continue to monitor that game here this afternoon also coming up gonna talk about the Democratic National Committee having money problems my least favorite Martin I told you this guy he was as my grandma all of all used to say it wasn't gonna pan out

to be fair he inherited a bad situation but

Maybe he didn't handle it so

well.

Not making it any better.

Also, Donald Trump is coming out tonight.

I'm going to tell you all about that in just a little while and what's worse for you.

But first, Zommer's IA, so you've only flown twice in your life.

Well, I have two round trips, so four flights.

All right.

Very good.

As Luke Mathers, he's a big flyer.

We should ask him this question.

He travels all around the world.

We should see if we

can get him in there.

He's an international man of mystery.

He doesn't come on.

He used to come on this show and do dueling tangents with us, but then he got tired of me and he said, I'm out of

here.

I don't know if that's exactly what happened, but.

No, he went on to bigger and better things than our little dog and pony show.

Now he's now he's a manager.

He doesn't have time to come on the show anymore.

But I bet I wonder if my guess is I guess if I had to guess is Luke is an aisle kind of guy.

He wants freedom to get up and down and use the facilities and stretch his legs.

I don't know.

Probably

I'm I like a window seat because what I like to do when I get in the aircraft is I like to go to my window seat and hunker and I feel like I have extra space even if it's an inch or two to my left or my right because I can I can snuggle up to the window I can stuff my coat in there if I have to I feel like I have extra space

I agree that's been my the couple of flights I've had and you know one of them was on I don't remember what plane one of the big ones with the row of three seats in the middle and I

was in the

middle of two people

who did not give me very much space for

a seven and a half hour flight.

Oh, seven and a half

hour?

Yeah, that was

not fun.

Not fun at all.

But on other ones, I did get to sit on the window seat, and

I

did get to sit in the aisle seat for a shorter round trip.

And I like the window seat better because, you know, you don't get to see that every day.

And also, I liked, because what I can't stand if I'm not in the window either, is you get some smarty, well, I just want to sleep.

And it's like the middle of the day, it's shut the window, and I can't see anything.

I want to be I mean if it's in the middle of the night, I guess fine Anyway, here's a story now a new class action lawsuit against United and Delta Airlines Claims the airline sold window seats Without windows the suit filed in federal court on Tuesday claims passengers were seated next to empty walls Despite paying extra for seat preferences and seeks millions in damages for more than a million customers

per airline.

Now, while some aircraft like the Boeing 737, Boeing 757 and Airbus A321 are designed with rows of windowless seats due to air conditioning ducts and other systems, the complaint alleges that Delta and United failed to disclose this information to customers, unlike competitors like American or Alaska Airlines, quote, had plaintiffs.

and the class members known that the seats they were purchasing were windowless, they would not have selected them.

Much less have paid extra money, unquote, the United Complaint reads.

According to Business Insider, the suit states that Delta passengers can spend 70, 70, 70 bucks or more to choose seats while the United seats can cost as much as 50 bucks more for domestic flights, 100 bucks.

For an international flight for a window.

I did not mean I guess maybe I haven't flown in a little I flew last year a couple of times but Yeah, they're not good at all the lawsuit notes the passengers window or passengers purchase window seats for reasons like extra light to my point to Occupy and see children or to mitigate anxious or claustrophobic feelings United Airlines to not comment on the case Delta

did not respond to the Daily Beast comment for question.

I don't know, I think just as Ken Lewis likes to say, you're never too poor to pay attention.

When you go on the, when you look on the thing, you choose your seat, you got to look and see, I guess what they're claiming is they thought it said window seat.

Right.

I feel like, I mean, yeah, I guess I don't know if.

the listing said window seat, and there wasn't a window, or if they just looked at a chart and clicked on one that was on an edge and assumed there was a window there, because those are two different things.

One is, yeah, I feel like you're just too poor to pay attention.

One is false advertising.

All right, 14 minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Time for what's worse.

Let's go.

Time once again for what's worse.

Nothing to give away.

No prize money involved.

This just is your chance to have your voice heard on all 10 ish stations.

I say ish because some of our stations right now play in the Milwaukee Brewers who are still up two to one of the Cubs in the bottom of the seventh inning.

All right.

And by the way, speaking of the brewers, make sure you download the old Civic Media app.

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It's what Gail King over at CBS calls a deal, the Civic Media app, or we think she would.

And so you have the Civic Media app, and then tomorrow you set your alarm for 5.59 a.m., because you want to be there when Pac-Quite low signs on in his pajamas.

Wouldn't that be great I'm gonna ask Pat if we can do a pajama show

that would be fun I I feel like that

may have

happened once really I

might be

misremembering I might be misremembering

well, but anyway you signed because Pat Crite low from six until nine on mornings of Pat Crite low He's gonna give you a word you text in the word and if that you're if you're

correct, you're eligible, and then the computer's gonna randomly select somebody to win four Milwaukee Brewer club level seats on the beautiful AM Fam Field for a certain date.

Then Jane, Matt, Nair, and Greg Bach come on at nine o'clock.

Matt, Nair, and Air, they're gonna give you a word.

Then Hartman's gonna come on and tell you some crypto and whatnot and he'll give you a word and then we're gonna come on, we'll give you a word and then Maggie Dawn wraps it up with the free ticket Friday, she'll give you a word.

So you're gonna wanna keep your radio on, we'll all give you a word.

If it's correct, then you're eligible and you're gonna win, somebody's gonna win four tickets to our club level seats, free ticket Friday.

That's tomorrow, it's a statewide contest.

But right now, just your opinion.

But which is good enough which is good enough, right?

Your opinion should be good enough When you go to the game Zomers, are you more of a I got to have a beer or I got to have a brat.

Do you want food or do you want drink?

See I want

both But if I have to have

one that doesn't help a bit.

All right, let's look at the category first the category today what's worse thirst or hunger thirst

or hunger 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 for this purpose you can still call now tomorrow you got a text but for today you can either call 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 or you can text us on comment on YouTube Facebook or Twitter yes you can you can do that as well I think this is a good category thirst or hunger what's worse if what's worse if you're thirsty

You're like, oh, I just, I got to have something to drink.

Or if you're like, I need something to eat right now.

What's worse, thirst or hunger?

Eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.

Eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.

I'll tell you what.

If you're in the civic media seats and it's 90 degrees and sun, I'll tell you which one you're going to want.

And it ain't, and it ain't hunger.

You want something to drink?

Well, of course.

To be

hot.

But you can also go inside in the AAC if you win those nice seats.

So

there's that.

Very, very nice segue.

Because there is that beautiful, there's a concourse, i.e.

a big hallway.

Basically.

Right behind the seats.

And you can go in there and cool down.

And if you've never been to the club level before, let me tell you, it's great because you take this big gold elevator up to the club level, and there's a nice person there, and they do your nails.

As soon as you get up there, they do your nails, and that's fantastic.

And then they give you a nice little shoulder massage, and then they take you to your seats.

I think we went to

different places.

There is an elevator.

I'll say there is an elevator the rest of it is a little creative Liberty that parts true

But no other great seats there they're cushioned right in the third base side You can see the the big screen there.

It's like a big 4k television basically out there in center field So make sure you listen tomorrow.

We'll give away those free tickets.

What's worse thirst or hunger thirst or hunger 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2

Heather, watching on Facebook, up in beautiful Chippewa Valley, Eau Claire says, hunger is way worse.

No one wants a hangry person around.

You can have a snack like grapes or watermelon that might help with both.

Now that that's creative grapes, right?

Hangry, a combination of hunger and angry.

You do not want that.

Come on back, thirst or hunger, 855-752-4842.

The texts are coming in.

We'll read them on the other side, as the all-ball show across Wisconsin, on the Civic

Media radio network.

Welcome back to the Tattle Ball Show on the Civic Media Radio Network 22 past the hour of three o'clock.

Nicely done, Zombers.

Who sings that?

That is Temple of the Dog singing Hunger Strike.

Really?

Temple of the Dog?

Yeah, it's singing Hunger Strike.

Some iconic vocalist.

You got Eddie Vedder, known for Pearl Jam.

And

you got

Chris Cornell, known more for Soundgarden.

Look at you.

Nicely done.

That was, I liked those vocals on that.

That was great.

They're good.

Yeah.

You don't want to be hungry.

You don't want to be hung.

Well, you don't want to be hungry or thirsty.

The question of the moment, what's worse segment today, thirst or hunger, thirst or hunger, what's worse, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.

I think I've told this story on the air before.

Years and years ago when I was in the state Senate, well, just starting out.

And now congressman Gwendolyn Moore, now she's a congresswoman, been for several years, back then she was a newer state senator.

And back at that time, the state senate building was not air conditioned, or the state capitol rather, the capitol was not air conditioned.

And so it'll get very hot in the summer sessions.

And in the state senate,

the men are still required to wear a jacket on the floor and the women are required or required to wear either a jacket and like a pantsuit or a jacket and a skirt or or or a dress.

Those are the Senate rules.

And so in the summer, when it before the air conditioned the place to get very, very hot and and back in those days, they used to take a break for lunch.

And so at a certain point they'd say, okay, we're gonna adjourn and the and the Senate would go to do lunch.

They don't do that anymore.

They just work through it.

So this one, Brian Rood, a moderate Republican from Westby, Wisconsin, was the Senate president.

Really tall guy, nice guy.

And Gwendolyn Moore was was a very outspoken Congresswoman or a state senator.

And.

It was I don't know what time was 130 quarter to two and they've been going on the debate debate and it was hot It was in the summer and and at the time state senator Gwendolyn Moore got up and she grabbed the microphone and she looked at Brian rude and she said Mr. President when are we gonna take a break because I am hungry

I respect that.

I respect

that.

And the entire state Senate started laughing, and Senator Roode said, Senator Moore, your voice has been heard, the Senate stands adjourned, and they went to lunch.

That's great.

That's

great.

True story.

What's worse, thirst

or

hunger, 8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2, Mike listening on WMDX in Madison.

Mike, thanks for calling.

I want to say you.

Hey, Todd, I'm gonna say thirst, especially if you're at a Brewer's game.

Nicely done.

What's your favorite beverage of choice at the said Brewer's game?

Well, it's probably, you know, I haven't been to one for a while, so that's why I'm gonna enter the competition tomorrow.

But if they have Spotted Cow, I'll have Spotted Cow.

Right?

All right, nice.

Nice.

I've had Spotted Cow.

For some reason, it's the champagne of beers.

Miller Highlife for me.

Cause it's usually what I go for.

Yeah, but high life, the champagne of beers.

So all right.

Well, yeah, enter the contest tomorrow.

Mike be listening all day long.

You and everybody else.

We're going to give away four tickets to the brewers game tomorrow.

Thanks for calling Mike.

What's worse, thirst or hunger?

Uh, what color texting in says thirst is way worse.

Hunger goes away and your body switches to burning fat instead.

Anyone who can't stand hunger is addicted to sugar.

That's what makes your hunger worse and kicks in all the time.

All right, a little good knowledge there, as they say.

What's worse, thirst or hunger, Len and Madison, thirst is worse than hunger.

Damaging health effects come from that sooner from dehydration than from star, oh, they come from dehydration rather than starvation.

So thirst.

Or

sooner, that like our own Casper said a very similar thing.

Thirst is way worse.

mainly because you can survive up to 30 days without eating, but you'll die in approximately three to five days without water.

Wow.

All right, well, there you go.

Good, good.

Not only is the engineer, he knows what your health is.

So if you were on a trip with Casper, he could fix your camp light and he could keep you alive.

So he's on the next expedition.

Mike, listening to Madison, a brand new caller listener.

We appreciate that.

Mike, thank you so very much on WMDX.

Come out and see us tonight, Mike.

We're going to be down in State Street here outside the Overture Center at the WMDX tent for the Madison Night Market between five and nine tonight.

Mike in Madison says, that's a tough one, almost like asking what's worse, acute shin splints or a dinner date with somebody that you don't like.

He named an individual, but we're not going to make it personal here.

All right.

Brett in brown deer texting in on a UK says thirsty is way worse.

It's practically a sin to be thirsty in Wisconsin.

Right.

Uh, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two into the phone lines.

We go Matt in Madison on WMDX.

Matt thirst or hunger was worse.

So I'm very passionate about this.

I'm very opinionated.

I think being thirsty is worse.

I can't stand the feeling of being thirsty.

I drink water all day every day.

And when you're hungry, it's good to be hungry.

Your body switches to fat burning.

I think people snack a lot and overeat because they're not aware of that.

So to keep a healthy body weight, you want to let yourself go hungry, you know, sometimes not overdo it, but you know.

All right.

be in the natural state of hunger.

Right.

Sure.

All right.

Thank you very much, Matt.

I appreciate the call.

Thank you for listening to us on WMDX.

Thirst or hunger.

What's worse off the text line?

Jewels in Mozanee.

Was in Mozanee not too long ago.

Jewels in Mozanee on WXCO says my stomach doesn't hurt when I'm thirsty.

Okay.

That's true.

So I

guess they're saying that thirst is

or

that that hunger is worse because it hurts.

Yeah.

Uh, what's worse, thirst or hunger, Megan and some prairie on MDX being hungry is worse because it takes longer usually to fix.

Joel up a beautiful, beautiful Rothschild listening in says hungry.

Oh, by the way, I got two clubhouse tickets for this weekend that I won earlier this summer taking my grandson.

I listened to WXCO and Chad Holmes.

There you go.

See a real winner.

that listens to Civic Media, the great CAD Holmes on XCO.

You can be a winner too.

Tune in tomorrow for Free Ticket Friday.

All right, come on back.

Donald Trump is coming out tonight.

We'll tell you when, where, why, and how.

Don't miss it on the Civic Media.

Ready?

Little guy, I'll get you up and going on a Thursday afternoon, 35 minutes past the hour of three o'clock, Nicely Dunn's hour is on the board.

Love that song.

You

said Trump is coming out today,

right?

We'll get to that in a minute.

That is the headline.

That's what he claims.

We'll tell you about it in a minute.

First of all, speaking of getting up and getting going, not quite a get out of here, but Isaac Collins hits a two-run hit in the...

The top of the eighth for the brew crew, the crew up four to one now on the cubbies.

Milwaukee, four Chicago, one top of the eighth, only one out and one on right now for the brewers rallying here.

Great job by the crew here to bounce back in the top of the eighth.

We'll continue to monitor that also solvers.

And here's the deal.

You all either get to see and or hear me each and every day when I come on the radio or on the stream.

And you think, well, that guy is at least halfway smart.

No, no, no.

I'm just a schmuck.

I'm your everyday.

I'm your everyday Joe.

You understand?

We have all kinds of people that help me sound halfway smart.

One of them is our great news director, Shaly Pittman.

And she puts out the zeitgeist every morning.

And

I try to

very, very helpful.

And I just happened.

I didn't have time to read the whole thing today.

But here I'm reading it during the break.

And here's what she writes.

Shaly Pittman.

She says, Brittany Merleau, our great meteorologist.

my editorial remark there, reports that La Nina watch has been issued potentially bringing water and colder than normal conditions next winter.

Meanwhile, a skull found more than two decades ago near the Minnesota border has also been identified.

Now, that's a big turn.

This hit the beat for Brittany Merlot.

She says it's going to be a cold, snowy winter.

Oh, and we've identified a skull.

I mean, what is the skull in a snow bank?

I have all kinds of questions.

Well, you might have to do some more.

Dial Brittany up.

No, I'm just kidding.

She has better things to do.

We'll follow up on that.

Now you have something to look forward to tomorrow.

I've heard that, though, before other places that it's going to be a snowy or colder winter, which isn't necessarily bad, maybe not the cold, but we could use more snow in the winter.

I wonder if that just means it'll be back to somewhat normal.

I don't know.

I do know I have to brush up on my Spanish if it's going to be a La Nina winter.

Anyway, let's go to ABC News.

That's a great.

ABC News.

I'm Todd Olba.

I'm not a headline.

Trump says he'll go out with police military to patrol DC tonight.

That's right.

Donald Trump is coming out.

Well, he's going out with the military.

Maybe not that kind of coming out.

But that's what he says.

President Donald Trump announced he is quote unquote going out with police and military in Washington, DC tonight to oversee the surge in federal law enforcement and National Guard, who are representing to who are responding rather to what he says is a crime emergency in the district.

This is just a bunch of horse hockey folks.

It's sad.

And it's dangerous.

But it's, I mean, again, the president of the United States, remember what happened last time?

How long ago?

Well, look at Gordy, by the way, from John and Gordy in the morning show.

He's in here being a Yahoo.

He's got his Cubs hat on.

Yeah.

How's that working out, Gordy?

How's that working out?

The Brewers.

The Cubs.

The Brewers are up four to one.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

No, no, no.

Sit down.

Are you kidding me?

Gordy from John and Gordy is here.

Hey, buddy.

How you doing?

I will.

How about you?

Look for our viewers.

There we go.

Look at that.

Now we're both on here.

Wonderful.

You're getting ready to the night market tonight.

Yeah, just about to set up right across the street in front of the Overture Center.

You want to stop by?

I'm gonna, I have to.

Here's the deal.

Yeah.

I have friends that are away.

I told them I mowed their lawn while they were gone.

I was going to do it this morning before I came in and then

More you know exactly what I'm talking about

you're

trying to get out of this more meetings No more meetings were scheduled because if there are only more meetings, that's exactly what we need around here So we're meeting scheduled and so I couldn't go oh to mow the yard So now I have as soon as this is over.

I'm getting the truck I'm heading to Green County to mow a yard Then I'm coming back and I'll be here between 7 7 30.

Okay, I'll be here to tear down while you're a long sense in bed.

Well, that's

That sounds like a plan, but it also sounds like you have a possible out there.

In case the mower breaks down

or you have to get

more gas or

something.

Well, there is a required post-mowing beer.

Listen, while that too.

But if you can make it, that'd be great.

We'd love to see

you.

Yeah.

And everybody else, come on down right here on State Street below the studios across from the Overture Center at the Civic Media Tent.

Get an autograph from John and Gordy.

This is a true story.

Last time we did this together.

Yeah.

there was people that were, they were all about John and Gordy, and there was a couple, there was a couple, and they're talking, and they're very happy to meet John and Gordy.

And they're chatting about, and I think it was the husband was chatting to John and Gordy, and then the wife,

the wife looks at me, because I'm just a schmuck standing there, and the wife goes, we listen to you every morning.

I said, and I said, I knew I wasn't on there, but you're just polite.

And I said, well, thank you very much.

And the husband kind of taps her, he goes, not him, these

guys.

Wow.

Yeah, true story.

And hey,

you're going to join us.

We're filling in for Pete Schwabba, Monday

and Tuesday night.

Yeah.

You're required to make your mouth moist when you say his name.

The Schwabba-nator.

Yeah.

Yeah,

so that'll be a lot later.

Yeah.

Yeah, we've not filled in for Pete before.

So this will be a fun experience and you're

going to stop.

Yeah.

They had nobody else to talk to a 630.

So I said, sure, I'll

do it.

Thank you for making it a priority.

So, uh, how are the Cubs and the Brewers doing?

They're doing great because Isaac Collins just got a two run hit in the bottom of the eighth.

It's now the Brewers four and you're Gordy, Chicago Cubs

one.

Oh boy.

Well, okay.

I got to hand it to the Brewers.

I mean, they're having

just an

unbelievable

season.

Well, the Cubs had a couple of good games here as well.

That one last night was tough

for

us as

Brewers fans.

But the Cubs have been kind of fading the last couple of weeks thanks to the Brewers.

And by the way, Craig Council claimed that he'd never seen a George Webb.

And then it got that somebody dug up the story when he was the brewers manager talking about I grew up in Milwaukee went to George Webb all

the time Wow, you know, I lived in South Bend when he was over at Notre Dame when he was actually playing

He played for Murph right Murphy was Pat Murphy was the coach at Notre Dame.

I believe so.

Yes.

Yeah, so I go way back with counsel.

Yeah,

that's actually a really cool story.

Yeah, because

Murphy coached council at Notre Dame and then fast forward a number of years, council hire Murphy to come to the Brewer.

Have you ever been to South Bend, Indiana?

I've driven.

The closest I've got is Gary, Indiana.

OK, well, that's

still quite a waste of

South Bend, but they have a beautiful stadium there for the South Bend Cubs.

They have all the money.

They have the Catholic money.

The

AAA.

Well, the

AAA team is not connected to Notre Dame, but it's an unbelievably great minor league.

Some of these

minor

league stadiums are wonderful.

Oh, they are.

Yeah.

They're the Rattlers and Appleton.

Yeah.

The

Bullock Sky Carp have a pretty nice stadium.

Yeah.

What's the Madison Mallards?

Yeah.

But in South Bend, it's called Four Winds Stadium.

Four Winds Casino is a major casino over there.

And it has everything.

I mean, it's for the whole family.

You know, it's a family experience.

Bounce houses and splash pools and all kinds of things.

So anyway, pretty good.

So as a Chicago Cubs fan, how do you feel about the Pope now being a socks fan?

Well, yeah, I'm not happy about that.

He would say, but he's, I don't know.

Is his brother also a socks

fan?

I'm not going to speak for the

Pope.

Okay.

Well, okay.

It's

probably wise.

The nice thing now that the socks need something or Notre Dame, they don't have to have a fundraiser anymore.

They just call the Vatican.

They don't have to pray anymore.

They're all good.

Yeah.

Well, anyway, I just wanted to stop in and say hi to you and Zoners.

Fantastic.

You want to weigh in on Donald Trump coming out tonight?

Well, I heard you saying that on the way in, I did not hear this story.

So that's the headline,

huh?

He's going out in D.C.

with the police and military to help, you know, hold down the crime.

I'm

serious.

And we

all know what happened last time he took a walk in D.C.

over to that church that held the Bible upside down

and it was terrible.

Oh boy, it's just another show, isn't it?

That's

100%

of

what it is.

It's all for the cameras.

Interesting to bring down crime by walking in.

with, you know, a couple of felonies to your next

thing.

Well, that's what a lot of people are saying that if they really were concerned about crime in D.C., they'd just go to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and they could clean the city up right

there.

Well, yes, they could take them all out of the White House there,

you know.

All right, well, we'll see you tomorrow.

Tune in if you're not in the Madison Market.

You can listen to John and Gordy and Dom, the Italian stallion, every morning from six until eight.

That's right.

On the WMDX and the Civic Media.

or here in the city.

Yeah, and filling in Schwabba on

Monday and Tuesday night.

And you guys are everywhere.

Well, you know, we got to make a nickel here and a dime

there.

You know,

anything for a buck.

Remember that?

There was, I was a sponsor thing, but it was on the radio, at least the Richland Center for Years.

It was a chicken man.

And it was for Chester Chicken.

And it was like chicken,

man.

He's everywhere.

He's everywhere.

He's everywhere.

Sure.

Yeah, I remember that series.

You're like, you're like

chicken, man.

Dick Orkin, you know, Dick Orkin.

was the creator of that.

Great

stuff.

Oh man.

Yeah.

You can still find some of those on YouTube or you know, somewhere on the internets.

Dick Orkin before he dicks you.

There you go.

Chicken man.

That was

a great series.

Did you ever hear the Tooth Fairy?

Another one of his series.

No.

Oh man.

You got to look up the Tooth Fairy.

That's

even if you'd like Chicken Man.

I'll look it up.

Look up the Tooth Fairy.

Dig for that one.

Well thank you for stopping by Gordy.

It's good to see you Tom.

Always a great time.

Stop on down and meet Gordy and

John and everybody tonight at the Madison Night Market in Madison.

I hear John's only going to be wearing his WMDX t-shirt.

At least that's what he said in the

video.

Really?

He's just wearing the t-shirt.

Is

John a boxer or a brief kind of guy?

Or is he a good commando?

I learned something a long time ago, like 40 years ago, when John and I first teamed up, I never speak for him.

He speaks for himself.

Right.

Talk about a tease.

They want to see more teases.

Come down to Madison tonight.

I'm down to see if John's wearing pants.

That's right.

Yes.

We'll be there from five to, well, we'll be there from five to about seven, but then you'll be there

about seven, seven, thirty.

Maybe.

If you get the mowing done.

If I get the mowing done.

That's right.

All right.

Thank you.

Appreciate it, Gordy.

All right.

It's a great pleasure giving you an update on the Brewers now to bottom of the eighth.

Nobody out, and it's a four to one Milwaukee over Gordy's cubs.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Anyway, to finish up these thoughts on the situation.

DC again Donald Trump and and Gordy's absolutely right.

It's nothing more than a dog-and-pony show It's for the Fox News and the and the media and whatnot But the serious part of this and this is what's just sad and disturbing about it is that as somebody who I never lived in DC

But when I worked for Congressman Scott Kluge, I went out there quite a bit for work.

And Washington, DC is a beautiful, beautiful city.

If you've never been there, get out there.

Well, maybe not right now, but go out and check it out.

And if you talk to people who still live there and know Washington, DC, you're going to find out that where they're putting ICE or they're putting US Marshals or they're putting National Guard people is pretty much not.

the high crime areas.

Go figure.

It's for show.

And again, they're detaining US citizens.

They're detaining people that it shouldn't be quite frankly.

And if you talk to restaurateurs about a number of news stories on this, if you go to opentable.com where you can reserve restaurant tables and whatnot, the reservations for restaurants in DC is plummeting.

After this, I'll call the occupation by Donald Trump.

So.

It's just sad.

And yes, I get it that part of it could be to divert their attention away from the economy, which, by the way, prices are going up.

The target COO or CEO is being replaced because things ain't going well at Target because prices are going up.

And it's to divert from the Epstein files, by the way, if there's nothing in the files you should be embarrassed about.

Then why not just release them?

But I also think to do it in DC, it's a test run.

For other cities across the United States, so we'll keep an eye on that come on back on the other side Wrap things up little DNC news is the all-ball show in the civic media ready to

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We are in the bottom of the eighth two on two out for the Cubs

Yoruba Yoruba, I can't say it now Yoruba for the Brewers on the mound and it's four to one Milwaukee Milwaukee for the Cubs won in the bottom of the eighth two outs.

We'll see if you're you're why can't I say that?

I'm having a brain freeze.

All right, we'll update you on the Brewers as they progress.

Then after the sports update, we're gonna have Maggie Dawn, another great addition of the Maggie Dawn show.

So stay tuned for that.

Uh, Yoruba Yoruba gets out of it.

The brewers get out of it.

I know I'm just my mouth.

It's got tongue tied.

Anyway, the, uh, the brewers got

out of

it.

Yes, I'm thirsty.

They're going to the ninth on to the ninth top of the ninth.

Now it is the Milwaukee brewers for and the Cubs one finish on a little news for my least favorite Martin.

National Democratic Committee Chair Ken Martin, who of course beat out our own Ben Wickler, the Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair, because, I don't know, they thought this Martin guy in Minnesota was a better deal, and of course there's been an uprising within the National Democratic Party now, because nobody likes him.

From what I understand.

At least some people don't

like him.

He had more favors to call in around the nation.

I guess so.

This is from political.

Politico.com.

The National Democratic Committee has fallen far behind in the cash race.

Well, that ain't good.

After a brutal 2024 election and several months into rebuilding efforts under new party leadership, the DNC wildly trails the Republican National Committee by nearly every fundraising metric.

By the end of June, the RNC had around

80 million dollars cash on hand eight zero 80 million compared to 1515 million at the DNC 80 million to 15 million

That is as the kids say that

The old saying is money is the mother's milk of politics

It all comes down to the dollar sign, as the late great Jack O'Neill was fond of saying.

The gap, nearly twice as large as it was at this stage in Trump's first presidency, has only grown.

In recent months, a political analysis of campaign finance data found fueled by several distinct factors.

Major Democratic donors have withheld money this year amid skepticism about the party's direction, while the small donors who have been long been a source of strength are not growing nearly enough to make up the gap.

And the party has quickly churned through what money it has raised the first half of the year, including spending more than $15 million this year to pay off lingering campaign expenses for Kamala Harris's presidential campaign.

The DNC has less cash this summer than it did at any point in the last five years.

The fundraising troubles reflect ongoing questions about the DNC's direction under Ken Martin, who has elected earlier this year and comes as the DNC has faced months of bitter infighting.

Continued cash shortages could limit the party's ability to rebuild for a new cycle.

And the DNC's money will stand in particularly stark contrast Republicans who have leveraged President Donald Trump's fundraising prowess to raise record sums.

This is not good if you're a Democrat.

And I get it.

Some of this is insider baseball insider, whatever.

But 80 million cash on hand for the Republicans, 15 million.

cash on hand for the Democrats.

I can explain exactly what's going on in the words of our president.

They don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Well, he was talking about somebody else in that cut.

But is it wrong?

Look, I just think that we've talked about this more serious terms before in that I don't think that the leadership of the Democratic Party knows the direction they want to go.

There there is a base part of the party that wants Democrats to fight more to be to be more gaza gava Newsome-esque I guess you might say and then there's people that say let's be more Obama-esque and more traditional and and stand for something and appeal to a broader section of people and until the national democratic leadership figures out which way they're going I'm not sure that's going to get

a whole lot better.

And that's why I think that Wisconsin voters have a bigger opportunity.

Forget what's happened at the national level.

There's going to be a major race for governor.

Talk about a state at a crossroads.

Wisconsin is going to have a lot of important races in 2026.

The first and foremost for governor, we didn't get to, although we might tomorrow, lieutenant governor's race, current secretary of state, Sarah Galuski.

Announced on Pat Crichtlow show mornings of Pat Crichtlow this morning that she is now in she is running for lieutenant governor So you have that race gonna have a chance for Democrats to compete certainly at the state Senate level in Wisconsin and maybe even for state assembly now that there are fairer maps and then the Congressional districts the third district of Derek Van Orton the incumbent in the first with Brian style the incumbent and maybe if Tom Tiffany runs for governor in the seventh up north the seventh

congressional district will be open sea as well.

So I would encourage Wisconsin voters pay less attention to what's going on at the national level, although I think that'll be important on the overall scope of who controls Congress.

But there are so many opportunities to have an impact right in our communities in Wisconsin.

If that's right in a check, that's great.

If that's going knocking on doors, that's good too.

If it's just reaching across the fence.

and having a conversation to understand our neighbors, that is the first and foremost important step.

And we should all be doing whatever we can to do that.

Many thanks to Dan Schaefer of the Reconpopulation Area today.

Always great to have him on.

John of John and Gordy as well.

Zombers behind the board and all of you for listening.

Maggie Dawn is next.

We'll be back tomorrow.

Until then, whatever you're fighting for, whatever you believe in, do not give up.

Keep banging your drum.

See

you tomorrow.

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