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Yeah, your listener, please contribute to cloudy start this morning, John Yeah, yeah, look at it out there a second day of May clouds kind of hanging in there and it's fairly cool mid 40s about 46 right now and It's gonna stay on the cool side.
It is for today.
It is
Should we get right to the weather?
Should we jump right into it?
Sure.
Why not?
Let's let's get into
it.
We have the
lottery ball machine standing by for this Friday.
Check out the
afternoon high.
Here we go.
Balls are jumping around there.
First ball up the shaft is a five.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, so you know it's gonna be cool.
Seven.
Wow.
47 for an actual afternoon
high.
That's not
good.
No, it's gonna be warmer than that.
It's cloudy.
Yeah.
And it's going to stay cloudy through the day.
And you know, it's a big weekend around not only Madison, but around the country.
Kentucky Derby is tomorrow.
Everybody's talking about the Kentucky
Derby
now.
And I think Pam Yankee is going to have some things to
say about that.
Yeah, there's a lot of Wisconsin in the Kentucky Derby.
We'll be talking
to
her in about 15
minutes.
Yeah.
And that big party, there's always a big party over Scott and Carly's, our friends we have talked to in years, but they never invite us anymore.
No.
After that ugly
incident you provoked a couple
of years ago.
Well, I gotta tell ya.
I thought it was the most decadent party I've ever been to in my life, and I'm never going back.
OK.
Wow.
Well, yeah, it was pretty.
And I can't even remember what it was, but I thought this was not my
speed.
Not
your jam?
Yeah.
Well, when the cops showed up and started hauling people away, it's time to call it quits.
And we got to.
surprise guest is going to join us a little bit later on.
You know, we have rocker every Friday, of course.
Yeah, you know, with the local music scene, Max Inc preview.
But you remember the days back in the late 80s, early 90s, very popular radio announcer in town, one of the
most popular, if not the most popular, Julie Hines.
We're going to
lay it on.
Yeah, from
Magic 98.
All right.
She's
in town.
I thought it was
pretty
popular.
Well, I know you thought I was talking about you, but no.
So
Julie, we hope she's going to stop by and join us probably in our seven o'clock hours.
I hope that'll be good.
becomes a trend here on the show.
We've been talking about it off the air here and trying to invite a lot of the former radio announcer personalities in town and talking about the old times.
Things that happened to them while they were in radio in
Madison.
talk to sly he's going to be coming in
yes yes we have him uh lined up basically we haven't set a time or anything but we asked him and he said
sure oh and i talked to somebody actually last night about rock and john and we're going to get him in here really yes yeah so uh you know from wart yes um and a few other surprises but julie hinds will hopefully join us uh in our seven o'clock hour right
Anyhow, we can't be limited by the radio dial.
You know, I mean these people have made a big impression in this town and we want to honor them and and talk about their lives.
They really contributed a lot.
Exactly.
Yeah, we want to get Mark Kane in here from
TV.
Yeah, TV personalities too.
Yeah, I'd love to get the Karch in here though.
Karch.
Where are you?
John Karcher.
John Karcher.
He is the he is the true television grouch.
He was fantastic when he filled in for Mark.
Oh my gosh.
It was magic.
It was TV
magic.
I don't think Karch ever liked anything they talked about on that
job.
It was live at five.
Yeah, we gotta get him in here.
Let's get to the national day calendar for today, okay?
You
good with that?
Yeah, I'm fine.
You seem a little reclepped this morning.
Is it because you don't have your Samsung watch?
Yeah, I ran out of the house without the watch and I'm not happy.
That's sad.
Why did you bother taking it off?
Yeah, I thought you wore it all the time.
I take it off when I get up in the morning.
I put it on the charger.
It takes about an hour to recharge.
So by the time I'm leaving, I put it on and I'm fine.
Okay.
Well, let's see, what it is today on the National Day calendar?
What is it or is it not?
Is it National School Lunch Hero Day?
Is it National Comic Book Day?
National Space Day?
National Life Insurance Day?
Or National Truffle Day?
Which one of those days does not belong, John
Peterson?
It's not
reading newspaper day.
I didn't mention that, so you're- I'm right.
You're right, but you're wrong.
Okay.
Sam, you were maybe paying attention.
What day do you think it is not?
Well, good thing you said maybe because I sure wasn't.
Okay, well, give
yourself a buzzer.
Well, it's not- I was trying to find Kentucky Derby Soggs.
Okay, well,
okay.
What day is it not?
It is not National Comic Book Day.
That's actually tomorrow,
not
today.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, because a comic book fan.
Yeah, there's a big movie coming out Marvel movie coming out today.
Is there really what what Marvel movie is that?
I just can't remember.
I can't remember the name of it.
We'll look at another compilation.
It's a group of superhero superhero villain type people getting together.
And aren't they all like crime net?
Well, it's you know, it's character based.
Okay.
I don't know what it is.
Do you have a
You're not looking that up.
Okay.
Well, anyway, it's it's not a big deal.
It's not a big deal But comic book day, you know, I was kind of I wasn't listening to what you were saying because I was watching You know your calendar.
Yeah,
I was
watching you scroll and you were scrolling so quickly Well, and then you scrolled beyond the calendar and you're still reading it.
Yeah, somehow.
Yeah
Well,
that's to
confuse you.
You were throwing me off.
Because I know you've been sneaking in
the new configuration here.
I can see it reflection in the window.
I know exactly
what you're looking at.
You're cheating again.
OK.
Where were we?
It's 13 minutes past the hour.
Oh, we're going to go over.
You were calling me a cheat.
It's National School Lunch Hero Day.
We salute all the school lunch.
Ladies and
yes
gentlemen first Friday in May they do a terrific job of providing schools, you know lunches and nutritional meals
I don't know what they're like today, but in the old days they saw me I guess I looked like I was Death warmed over you know skinny yeah Nothing's
changed
But they saw me and they always allowed me to come back and get seconds.
Hmm.
Yeah
Okay,
well we salute all the school lunch hero days and I'm glad they took a shine to you back in the day.
Didn't really affect you too much.
No, it didn't.
Do you like the tater tots back then?
I mean,
that was always the
highlight to me.
Yes, I liked them.
Fish sticks.
That's National Space Day.
Yes, space today dedicates the first Friday in May to the extraordinary achievements, benefits and opportunities in the exploration and use.
of space, the final frontier, the goal of the observance is to promote math and science and technology and engineering education to young people.
The hope is to inspire them to pursue a career in science, especially a career in space-related jobs.
Well, yeah, you gotta love space, right?
Did you watch all the old space shows, you know, these kids' shows?
Well, I enjoyed Star Trek, if that's what you mean.
I mean,
I liked
that one, and what?
Oh, space...
You know, the, the cheap ones that were on Saturday morning for the kids.
No.
No, what?
No.
What are you talking about?
Space patrol or.
Oh, space patrol.
That was a great one.
Was that with the marionettes?
No, that was the one with the marionettes.
That was, uh, Fireball XO5.
Oh, that was a great show.
It was so bad.
It was fantastic.
I love those shows.
Yeah.
And there was supercar before that.
Supercar.
Supercar.
Supercar.
Not remember, though.
Oh, okay.
It's National Life Insurance Day.
Make sure you get your life insurance.
Maybe I was on
the date.
Maybe I was on drugs at the time.
I don't know.
Perhaps.
It's National Truffle Day.
You like a truffle once in a while?
Uh-huh.
Delicious sweet treat.
Let's see.
It says...
Somebody named Petrocelli of Chambere, France is believed to be the inventor of the chocolate truffle back in December of 1895, way back when truffles became more prevalent in 1902 after the chocolate shop, the pressed-lat chocolate shop opened in London.
Okay,
that's enough on
truffles.
They make all kinds, you know that.
I'm going to change
my life
now.
I know all that about truffles.
Well, let's turn to the history
book.
Open that thing up.
Let's do that.
Let's see what's going on.
Producer
Sam.
Oh,
man.
Oh,
there he goes.
Oh.
Somebody get him a lozenge.
Very dusty in there.
So dusty.
No.
Man, oh, man.
I
don't know what you're coughing up, but it
doesn't work.
Sort of rainbow color.
Oh, God.
It's
disgusting.
We're
going way back on this one, 1611.
The King James Bible was published.
It was probably the biggest book ever published in
English.
Well, until Trump's Bible came out.
Oh, that's right.
That was silly of me.
That's done
much better.
Yeah, had extra chapters in it.
Devoted just to him.
They had pictures throughout the entire Bible where he was with Jesus.
Okay,
what
else in the 1908 take me out to the ball game was copyrighted What what year 1908?
The funny part is the people who wrote the song had never been to a baseball game.
What yeah So
the song is like begging
people to take them
to baseball games.
They were actually being asked to be taken to a baseball game.
That's amazing.
Today in 1935, Boulder Dam, later renamed the Hoover Dam, finally was completed after several years of construction.
It's very cool.
I've
been there.
It's actually, I know.
It's just a dam.
No, no.
It's a big dam.
It's a
huge humongous.
How long does it take you to drive across it?
Well, it's not the drive across.
It's just
if you're walking
around it.
Yeah.
I mean, it's
it's just an awesome sight.
It is like a 12th wonder of the world.
The
12th.
I think I think.
Between the 12th and the 8th, I think Trump has added a few.
Oh, okay.
So I'm just allowing Trump his wonders of the world.
Remember Foxconn was supposed to be the... What is the 8th wonder of the world?
I
can't remember.
What happened to that?
What a wonder it turned out to be.
Okay.
And anything else?
Which of these two do you want me to cover?
Which is more interesting?
We've got about 30 seconds.
Oh, great.
You go
for it.
This one was news to me.
1946, the Battle of Alcatraz begins.
The
Battle
of Alcatraz?
Yeah.
There was a few inmates who tried to escape and they kind of had a standoff with federal officials and
Prison guards and the Marines even they had to call in the Marines And eventually they were like sounds like it should have been a
movie, you know.
Yeah, well, I think it was it's just that we haven't seen Okay,
19 past the hour coming up next.
We'll talk to Pam Yonkey Yankee the farm babe Derby stuff
This is
called Let
the Big Horse
Run.
Okay, all right.
That's what
we're gonna
be doing tomorrow.
Is that whaling?
This is John Stewart
from
the Daily
Show
23 past the hour cloudy skies 46 degrees highs in the mid to upper 50s today time for us to welcome in Pam Yachty.
Good morning Pam
Hello fellas, how you doing on a Friday?
We're
doing we're doing
good.
Yes, we're happy that it's a Friday And we're happy that Kentucky Derby is taking place tomorrow Big day everybody gets together for the Kentucky Derby.
What's the Wisconsin connection?
Yeah, Kentucky
Derby There's actually a couple and what I think is most interesting is that dairy farmers of Wisconsin So remember that's your organization that is funded by
uh... our dairy farm families all across the state they've dedicated some funds to try to catch attention during the kentucky derby before and after so what they did it in advance is uh... commission and work with uh... millner that's a hat maker her name is christine more and she is the one that parkers with the kentucky derby to put together all those beautiful hats and bonnets that you see people yes because now it could you know honestly it is about the course of course
but it's also turned into a real fashion statement you know i think a lot of us remember erin rogers and all the packers going down there and everybody was bedazzled and all dressed up so it's turned into an interesting mix of the horses in the fashion so wisconsin trying to capitalize on that they call it the ryan and roses collection of hats and what you'll notice if you jump on wisconsin cheese dot com and go to the ryan and roses collection
is every one of the hat features proudly wisconsin cheese now obviously not real cheese but boy you i sent you guys pictures you really gotta look close to realize that it isn't real cheese and they are just fabulous and brilliant colors they've got uh... a red uh... kind of a deep uh... pink a hot pink and then a white
that uh... is supposed to represent the different phases of uh... the derby and uh... all the money that's raised people can buy these hats and all the money that's raised is going to be dedicated to uh... non-profit in kentucky on behalf of the dairy farmers but it's just really really cool they'll be at the a brown hotel in downtown louisville for uh... some of the festivities
uh... they've been greeting people at the airport in louisville with the wisconsin cheese cart and like i said really trying to draw attention to with the uh... culinary element that wisconsin cheese brings to all the celebrations down all around the kentucky derby and by the way i hear it's going to rain so i i don't know what they're going to look like a little bit of a little bit of time to get done but given the price that i thought they better protect them
Absolutely.
Yeah, they're pricey hats and bonnets.
That's for sure.
And you know, bourbon is a big deal as well.
What do you what do you got for the, you know, you sent a few pictures and a video of a bourbon barrel burning out.
It was kind of
cool.
So I guess, you know, Kentucky is known for bourbon, the bourbon trail.
A lot of people make that, you know, trip down there for that, that experience.
and what we need to remind people is wisconsin is now into making bourbon bourbon and rye and there's some right around our area so for example this weekend j henry in dain is going to be having uh... derby party featuring their bourbon and that's all kind of with wisconsin grains and they have uh... a big derby event
inviting all their friends and neighbors to come on out and get dressed up and enjoy and you know pretend if you will that you are on the track as well and then of course wall or shaman prairie to sack there into the spirit business as well i
know that
this weekend uh... at their location in prairie to sack they're going to be featuring their spirit in mint juleps
And so, like I said, there is a Wisconsin connection that you can find almost all the way around.
The other one that I was going to toss out if we had a couple of minutes
is,
what happens after the race?
And I'm not talking about getting home after the bourbon or salvaging the hat.
what happens with these horses after they've run uh... i was when i was in kentucky on my vacation i found a place called old friends and it literally is kind of a retirement home for some of these racing thoroughbred uh... while i was there i thought big brown big brown was uh... horse that one the kentucky derby not too many years ago uh... well maybe not what many years ago but he was funded by a bunch of u p s drivers that decided to get in uh... the oldest living kentucky derby winner silver charm also still alive in her third in his thirty
That's great.
Like I said, just some for people to know all the different stories, back stories.
It's not just about the track and what's happening with the race, but there's so many other stories that are going to be going on for the 151st, Running of the Roses, coming up tomorrow.
Yeah, big times there tomorrow, talking with Pam Yankee here from Midwest Farm Report.
Just a minute or so left here, Pam.
We want to mention that, and we'll have more on this in future reports, but May is Beef Month in Wisconsin,
right?
Yeah, that a boy that a boy and it makes sense when you're gonna start grilling some of us have already So yeah on Monday We're going to talk a little bit about what the Wisconsin beef console is doing to amplify the message of beef in Wisconsin And in fact, I'll give you a hint if you're going to be fueling up your vehicle this weekend you might
See one of those early messages.
I'll leave it at that and we can continue the conversation on Monday.
All right.
All right.
Definitely doing
that fueling up.
Okay.
I think I, I think I may have an idea with that.
You mean that you see the
ads?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
You see some of those gas pumps.
Yeah.
Around Wisconsin.
Yeah.
You know, one thing that occurred to me about the bourbon thing is that these barrels are being used for aging maple syrup, all different kinds of products.
It's wild.
So there's quite an afterlife for bourbon barrels.
Pam Yankee, thank you so
much.
Have a
great weekend.
Talk
to you
next week.
It's Pam Yankee from the Midwest Farm Report, which is coming up next.
I'll hear everything about food and farm right around the corner.
Idiocracy is also...
Coming up?
It is coming up.
In
our next
hour, we hope to talk to Julie Hines from Magic 98 and Rocker.
He's here with the Max Ink preview.
Stay with
us.
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.
This is grade A weapons grade stupidity.
Just doing my civic duties.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fall each other right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
You know, it's it's hard listening to a lot of the stuff and of course I pick through and and take the best of the best and the worst Yes, and it's the stuff that
it's the
rejects that I wish in some way I could bring that to you as well But I guess we'll just have to settle for what we get here.
Well on idiocracy We just need to hold everybody's hand through these troubling times.
That's
That's pretty much it.
We'll all make it through together.
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All right, let's get
into idiocracy.
We have a cut, we're gonna start off here.
It is the Trump 100 Day Summation by John Stewart,
I
believe.
So if we can let's listen to cut 274 is that am I outline?
I'm just wondering is
274 is right there on the outline right there.
It's
right
there
I see it
all right, so we are all set to go I'm gonna look we had trouble yesterday.
It was my fault
Okay.
Oh, you're
owning up to it.
I could not read the numbers.
I... Really?
I don't know what was wrong, maybe.
Maybe you need to get your eyes checked, too.
You need
hearing aids.
You've got to get your glasses checked.
Yeah.
Well, I've been getting reminders from my optician to get examined again.
But anyway, let's check this out.
Even areas that Trump promised slam dunk progress have abjectly failed.
I will settle the war in Ukraine.
I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours.
I will get it settled before I even become president.
If I win, when I'm president-elect, and what I'll do is I'll speak to one, I'll speak to the other.
Why are you giving away the secret
plan?
That's the kind of top-secret classified strategy you only divulge on signal group chats.
I'll talk to one, I'll talk to the other.
But clearly, Wade.
24 hours has passed and no end.
So what happened?
President Trump now claiming he was exaggerating with his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine on day one.
The president said, obviously people know that when I said that, it was said in jest.
What?
I'm a little shocked.
Trump couldn't get it done, given his Solomon-like peace plan.
Putin would maintain control of the territory he's taken since invading more than three years ago.
Crimea will stay with Russia.
President said today the US will make no security guarantees to Ukraine.
Russia, who invaded a sovereign nation, gets everything that they wanted.
And in return, Ukraine gets to give it to them.
Here's the kicker.
After saying to Russia, well, what if we divide it?
where you get everything, Putin just kept f***ing bombing.
And Trump is now reduced from the world's greatest negotiator
to, ah,
come
on.
President Trump called on Russia to stop missile strikes on Ukraine and made a rare personal rebuke of Putin, saying, Vladimir, stop.
It's an all caps flabby.
The commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful army, with the nuclear briefcase on one side, the direct red phone to Moscow on the other, decided the best way to demonstrate the seriousness in which he took this heinous bombing was to open off-brand Twitter and all caps.
Stop.
Concern face, concern face, bicep party hat, eggplant skull skull.
And you'd be surprised to know that stop didn't work.
But maybe it's not.
Fair to judge Trump's negotiating skills based on the Ukraine war.
He didn't start that war.
We all know Ukraine did by wearing that province.
You knew what you were doing, Ukraine!
Beautiful stuff.
And we have another segment, maybe today, maybe next week.
But while we're still in last month, I believe that's from last month, queue up to 49 if you can.
This is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The whole point of a town hall is usually, you know, to have a back and forth with your constituents, right?
Well, Marjorie doesn't believe in that.
She redefined it recently, and her willing cultists had no objections whatsoever.
So let's listen to that.
Of course, you know, the State of the Union is the time that she feels like she needs to disrupt.
the president, but no one can disrupt her at these minor little town halls that she has.
Let's listen to this.
Well, welcome everyone.
Thank you to our great police officers.
This is a town hall.
This is not a political rally.
This is not a protest.
If you stand up and want to protest, if you want to shout and chant, we will have you removed just like that man was thrown out.
We will not tolerate it.
This is, let me tell you,
this
is funded.
The Democrats have been rioting.
They are the party of violence.
They are the party.
Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.
If you want to sit and listen, you're welcome to listen.
Everyone across the aisle.
Democrats, independents, Republicans.
This is a good place.
You have a lot to learn.
That's right.
So listen.
Starting out with a lecture.
You're
going to a
town hall to exchange ideas, but in hers, you have to sit there and just listen.
Just keep washing that brain.
Absolutely.
My God.
What's wrong with these people?
They're horrible.
Didn't Trump the other day say, I run the country and the world?
Yes.
That was a direct
quote.
Wow.
We'll have to try and get it
out.
The king of the world, man.
That got some attention, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, we're trying to make the country better.
You know, that's the whole point here, you know.
And Trump has a budget draft that ends the program Narcan.
Can you believe this?
What?
Yes.
For our users.
Yeah, really.
Yeah, the operate overdose reversal medication our can saves hundreds of thousands of lives a year and is praised by health experts for the drop in opioid related deaths, but Trump plans to terminate a 56 million dollar annual grant program that distributes doses and trains emergency responders in communities because that Will make America great
What
is
he thinking?
I don't know.
You know, this is dangerous stuff.
But if you thought that was dangerous, well, how about this?
Trump plans to cut meals and wheels.
So service for people with disabilities and older Americans.
It's being dismantled.
Trump's quest to end what he termed
illegal and immoral discrimination programs, cracking down on federal efforts to improve accessibility and representation for those with disabilities.
He
has
never
been a fan of people with disabilities.
This is unbelievable.
You know, for a while, I worked for a few years, I worked for ADRC, Aging Disability Resource Center, and we were, you know, we were a part of, or we helped out with Meals on Wheels from time to time.
It's an amazingly great program, and it helps out.
who really need the help.
You know, disability patients, as you mentioned, and also elderly folks, and they depend on that, on those meals on wheels.
I can't believe they're going to cut that.
Well, you know, there's a reason for it, because they put in key words in AI, and it comes
up with
all these programs that have these key words, and when that happens, well, then you have to ban that program.
Like I said, the agency flagged the words accessible and disability.
There you go.
Why they would put the word disability in, I don't know.
Of course, you never liked them.
Remember the reporter?
Yeah, he was mocking the reporter
for one of his speeches.
Yes.
Maybe their grand plan is to resurrect Schwan's.
Bring
back
Schwan's so people can get their food delivered to them frozen in a big truck.
Yeah.
Well, actually, they're still out there.
Oh, are they?
Yeah, they went out of business.
No, no, no.
They have a distribution center up in Sock
City.
Oh, yeah.
No kidding.
They're prey to sack.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, you know, people with disabilities or have accessibility problems, they're a problem.
Certain research studies are no longer being funded, and many government health employees specializing in disability issues have been fired, so we don't need them anymore.
America's already great, you know?
It started off, you know, 2016, 2017, and we're still trying to make it better, I guess.
I came across this post just a few moments ago.
It has a little graphic that says, last weekend, the National Cancer Institute had 28 scientific advisors.
And it has a picture of all of them.
And at the bottom, it says, today, it has zero.
You're kidding.
No.
And of course, they wrote here, they said, how is this making America great?
That's a
damn good question, isn't it?
Phone lines are open, 608-879-8255.
We're also taking your texts.
We're getting a number of them in.
Doug texted in a while ago, you know, we're talking about we're going to have some local celebrities join us from time to time.
In fact, we have Julie Heinz from Magic 98.
We hope to be talking to her in our next hour here.
But Doug says, being celebrities, when you guys attend public events, our guests advise to not make eye contact with you.
I don't think that's part of the rule.
No, that's not it.
Pretty sure that's not it.
And he also, while he's got another one there about tariffs, we'll get to those in a moment.
We'll get that.
Got a lot more coming up.
Also, Rocker in our next hour with the Max Ink preview.
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Yes it is.
And the rest of the Beatles in there as well.
Are they?
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Yeah, well, you know, everybody's talking about this.
It really hit the fan.
What?
You know, and one of these days, we'll be able to say the S word on the air.
Until then, we'll just get by.
All right.
It's, uh, it's Donnie Two Dolls.
Oh,
boy.
That's what
they're calling them now.
This
is really taking off.
Oddly, oddly, Trump went after girls toys.
Why didn't he go after boys toys?
Interesting.
Maybe they're after girls and women as well.
Well, anyway, it's, uh, it's basically Trump's War on Christmas.
Because this is going to affect the toy prices at Christmas.
I've always said, and this is true, freedom as defined by the megas means the freedom to buy things.
Really, freedom doesn't mean anything else to these people at all.
It is
the freedom to buy things if you remember the pigtail lights.
Right, the fluorescent light bulbs.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
They wanted to keep buying those, even though they cost a lot of money and they burned out right away and it couldn't break them because it released dangerous gas into the atmosphere.
But they liked
them.
But they liked big gulps.
They liked gas stoves, which they said was banned, but weren't really.
They were just, you know, prevented from seeping a lot of gas into your apartment or home.
They want a better shower heads too.
Yeah, they wanted better shower heads, less efficient dishwashers.
And they, by the way, they wanted diapers that they could wear on the outside of their clothing to send a little tribute to Trump and his diaper problem.
So anyway, the New York Post headline really hit the fan and that was Trump is serving up skimp on the Barbies.
What?
Skimp on the Barbies.
What is that?
We're talking about the, uh, the dolls, right?
Oh yeah.
Uh, made that comment about.
Yeah.
Let's
listen
to the
comment.
We have it right here.
Let's listen to the classic Trump line now.
All
right.
You know, somebody said, oh, the shelves are going to be open.
Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally, but we're not talking about.
something that we have to go out of our
way.
Yeah, you don't have to go out of your way of trying to make prices lower for kids at Christmas.
So this Donnie Two Dolls
thing is taken off now.
It is.
That
is his new nickname, I think.
Yeah.
Donnie Two Dolls.
Yeah.
And by the way.
We're already seeing those protests now.
All the
signs are already coming out.
That's right.
And the name is kind of a reference to like a Don.
Mafia Don, so it's Donnie two dolls Pretty pretty mean very soprano Here's coming you'll have less and it will cost more Is the new pitch
I wonder if this applies to voodoo dolls too if this is an attempt to crack down on the folks who have voodoo dolls Well, that's what I have
next here because it says because dolls
are all we get from China.
And so they're trying to come up with new voodoo dolls with all these pins.
And I thought they were pin cushions.
My wife showed me the darn dolls.
And I said, oh, well, these are Trump pin cushions, right?
Oh, no, no.
They're dolls.
They're voodoo dolls.
And then I was scrolling a little bit on that story about the voodoo dolls.
And one person offered up a Cheeto with pins in it.
I do.
Really?
Well, that worked for me.
Yeah, that's where I ended that thing.
Anyway, I just bought a whole bag of Cheetos.
Two bags.
You know, they have these gigantic banks.
Every once in a while, they get these gigantic banks of Cheetos at my favorite home, my second home, Costco.
Right.
And
they finally had them again, and I'm buying them up.
My kids love the treat of Cheetos every once in a while, but now with pins in it, I wouldn't advise eating them.
It's
becoming a thing.
You know, this Donnie Tudow's thing.
It's really tasty.
I saw Lawrence O'Donnell last night talking about it, and he had had it the night before, and he mentioned that phrase.
And then the next day it was on the headlines of the newspaper, The New York Post, which is... Skimp on the Barbies.
Yes, exactly.
Just like you were talking about.
But it's really taking off now.
It really is.
It's one's gonna stick.
The Donny Toodals.
But, you know, other people are saying... Instead of getting $30 for Christmas,
$2 for Christmas.
But, you know, they're turning it around on him saying that now this is Trump's war on Christmas.
Right?
What were you going to say, Sam?
Yeah.
Well, I was going to say, who gets $30 for Christmas anyway?
Yeah, I know.
It's crazy.
Oh, no.
Because he doesn't
know
how to give gifts to people.
That's why.
Why would he even say that?
doesn't make any sense, but that's why everybody's taking off on this.
Now let's go Doug and St.
Francis texted us here, and he had an interesting observation,
and that
is... Roll back down.
Wow.
There
you go.
Here it is.
There it is, yeah.
I know people are concerned.
about the effects of tariffs, but relax.
Your favorite toy, the Slinky, is manufactured in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
The
iconic toy has been made there since the mid-60s.
Let's hear what that
sounds
like back in
the 60s.
I love the
Slinky.
It's
still around.
Yeah.
All right.
We've
got Mark coming up.
We've got the big story coming up next hour.
Also, Julie Hines from Magic 98 is going to stop by.
And Rocker with a Max Inc preview.
Stay with us for more of John and
Gordy.
We got a new act.
It's phenomenal.
It's sensational.
It's terrific.
It's even mediocre.
No, it's disgusting.
It's a ploy.
What a
ass.
You have a pretty fun show.
I listen to it most of the time, you know, keep up the good work.
God, I love you.
Get the hell off the stage.
Nice work, everyone.
Sharp broadcast.
Really good.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Good morning.
Yeah, man.
Yeah, man.
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Well, you never
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She and Catherine went out partying, so... Oh, really?
They may not make it, and I would assume they won't be here.
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All
right,
we've got a cut here from The Daily Show.
It's really up to date.
As you know, yesterday, Mike Waltz was waltzed out of
his job.
The Texas two-stop.
Well, he went out one door and into another.
Into another door, and I thought,
well, this is amazing.
The Daily Show actually had this thing posted.
I thought, what the heck?
Let's play that right now.
And this is how it unfolded.
Okay?
Here we go.
Not everyone is having fun during this celebration week.
We begin with breaking news.
Sources are confirming to Fox News that National Security Advisor Mike Walz is out.
Walz has been in a precarious position with the president after he accidentally added a reporter to a group chat about upcoming military strikes.
Damn.
What a shame for Mike Walts.
And to Donald Trump's credit, he realizes he can't have a guy this incompetent working for his administration.
He's gotta go.
This is CNN breaking news.
President Trump just announcing moments ago that he will be nominating his current national security advisor, Michael Walts, to be the next U.S.
ambassador to the United
Nations.
Like I was saying, he's got to go to the United Nations to represent the entire country on a global stage.
Congrats, Mike.
You've earned it, I guess.
I don't know, this seems like pure chaos to me, but I'm sure this administration has been carefully planning the whole reorganization for days, as the State Department spokesperson will make clear
here.
while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department.
Do you know how long he's going to be serving in both roles?
It is clear that I just heard this
from you.
You know what?
Why don't you come up here and I'll ask you some questions, okay?
By the way, if it sounds crazy that Marco Rubio has two separate jobs, that's actually only half of his jobs.
Marco Rubio is very busy.
Right now, our own David Groh reminding us that he's, right now, Secretary of State, interim national security advisor, acting administrator of USAID, and also acting archivist for the United States.
That's a lot of work.
Yeah.
Those are a lot of jobs.
Yeah.
And I don't know how you balance working four jobs all at the same time, but I'm going to guess it probably involves doing a s*** job.
Oh, man.
I would imagine so, yeah.
Yeah.
So it's pretty good.
Pretty good up to date and and on the cutting edge as day of the daily show actually is
but that's right phone lines are open 608-879-8255 you can call us or text us dick is on the line this morning with something to offer good morning dick go ahead
morning so Otis Hexdad has survived again
Otis
at least Otis was a nice drunk you know but
um
What made me, again, I started thinking about how hypocritical these Republicans are.
You remember when Lloyd Austin took a few days off for cancer treatment?
Yes.
And they went nuts.
They went totally nuts.
Now, I was enlightened on how well no one Hegsted is leaving.
The blood-wiser brewery in St.
Louis, from time to time, there's a big white bloom that comes out.
And then when that happens, he'll be taking his job there.
Yes, just like the Pope's thing, Vatican.
That's good, Dick.
Appreciate it, Dick.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for that
call.
And we had a text here.
This is Steve Clements' son, Prairie.
You're right, I've been listening to various media trying to match the president with an appropriate villain.
I've seen that as well.
I've heard that Scrooge and... What was the other
one?
It's supposed to be the Grinch, not Grinch.
Yeah, Grinch,
that's right.
Grinch.
But I haven't heard Burger Meister, Meister Burger.
Oh, that's a good one.
Yes, it is.
That's a good one.
Thank you, Steve, for that text.
That was good.
You can text us on the Civic Media app anytime.
Download it.
It's free.
Text us or call
us.
All right.
Okay.
Well, I've got an interesting point of view.
This is from New York University professor Scott Galloway on on the absolute corruption of the Trump administration.
This is just an unbelievable.
He really tells it like it is.
So let's play this kind.
Have you ever seen anything like this offer of a private dinner with the President of the United States for investors, the top investors in a meme coin?
Essentially, if you buy enough meme coins, you get accents.
I mean, is this not pay to play?
What's interesting here is not the 220 people that are going to show up at this, but the people who don't, because I think the potential here for GRIFT is just unprecedented.
We've never seen anything like this.
This meme coin has a market cap of now $2.5 billion.
He owns 80% of it.
So in the three months since the inauguration, the president has increased his wealth approximately $175 million a week, I believe, or $700 million a month.
We've never seen anything like this, Anderson.
And let's look at the timing.
Essentially, he announced his meme coin, which I would argue is the biggest grift that the president
the Oval Office has ever attempted.
He announced it late Friday night before the Monday of his inauguration when there was a ton of other news such that it would be buried.
But what's extraordinary about this is that when you think about the possibilities here, Putin is losing or is spending 500 million to a billion dollars a day on the war in Ukraine.
Wouldn't he be stupid not to communicate to the president, hey, I'll give you a month worth of expenditures, say 15 billion dollars?
And if I put that all into the meme coin, I'm likely to take the value to $30, $50 or $60 billion.
And I'm going to make you the wealthiest man in the world.
And by the way, in unrelated news, could you please pull your support for Ukraine?
Just the potential for that type of grift is extraordinary.
And I think what this signifies is a lot of people have argued correctly with some veracity that America has been for sale for a long time.
There's a lot of corruption in Washington.
But we've never had the world for sale before.
Just the potential here
for corruption on a geopolitical global scale.
We've never seen anything like this.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's it.
It's on the White House website.
You can buy crypto coins or meme coins, whatever they are.
You know, we could buy, you know, we could.
Yeah.
Oh, let's John and
Gordy.
We could influence Trump.
Yeah, let's pass the hat around the office.
see how much we can get together and buy ourselves a coin or two.
Okay, I'm dreaming.
That must be.
I must be dreaming.
Maybe we should, I don't know.
It might be a good insurance policy.
But it's a
huge grift and it's right there and the Magus don't care.
This is just fine with them, right?
It
really is the biggest scandal out there and it's really just coming to people's attention.
And it's because of
the
fire hose of BS that's coming out of the White House.
Everything is out there.
We've got Elon, you know, being shuffled out so we could bring Tesla back.
That ain't gonna bring Tesla back as long as his name is associated with Tesla ain't gonna work.
I've got big, big news for them, all right?
So that's something you really gotta think about, all right?
That's it.
Yeah.
It's 16
past the hour.
Oh, wait, look who just walked
in
here.
Oh my god.
What the heck?
It's Julie Hines and
Katherine
Lake.
Oh my god.
Hang on.
Hang
on.
Hi,
Julie.
Wow, grab a microphone
just see us, you know, they came in naked How
do you talk about Julie Hines from Magic 98 where
that's
right?
My gosh
radio
voice we've got really we've got just a couple of
minutes
here to introduce Julie Heinz of Magic 98 fame in the late 80s 90s.
How long were you at Magic 98?
Can you add it up
all together?
I think around 20 years.
Oh my
gosh.
Wow
Yeah, amazing.
Well, thanks for coming in this morning.
Hi, guys.
You're
just
in town
for a couple of days.
We appreciate you taking some time.
Oh,
and I'm amazed in Madison.
She's been here all her life.
Yes,
I think
I was created.
I think my parents had a nice night.
Yeah.
And that started.
I started
the whole winter Randall and.
But we used to work together at WILV, which eventually became WOLX.
But up at the top of the Pyre Square building, which is now no longer there.
But that was many years ago.
That was in the mid-80s, I think, 85.
I think we
went out for beers at Babes when it was on Whitney Way and O'Donnell Road.
Oh my gosh,
yeah.
Babes.
I was just trying to think of the other shops, the other places.
Like, remember Bogies?
Yes.
Bogeys.
Bogeys, sure.
That was big,
yeah.
Right?
It was big.
It was like really big.
Yeah.
So you were a Magic 98 and you were the top personality in time.
Really?
At that time.
Yes.
You don't remember this?
Oh, come
on.
Someone else has to say it because she won't say it, but yeah, she's the magic.
She was the
magic.
Yeah, he was the Voice 98.
For a while, of course, it was Bill Vancell.
He was doing voice tracks for the autumn.
which was Magic 98 at the time, so it was all unreal.
It wasn't
live, and then it went live.
What do you do nowadays?
Oh my gosh.
Well, I am a professor.
Dr. Julie Heinz.
Yeah, I did get my PhD.
Yeah, I got my master's and my PhD here.
Yeah.
Well, I can't believe you got out
of radio just to have a master's
degree.
In communications.
And what else?
It's called being in a bad marriage.
You'll need something to do.
I'm going to go to classes.
I'm going to classes.
That's what's happening.
There's a positive side to all of that, I guess.
Where do you live?
A producer is becoming a teacher.
That's right.
Are you going for your master's?
Eventually, yeah.
Oh, okay.
Just gonna become a high school teacher for now.
That's not just.
Yeah, I know.
When I have to deal with my freshman, I'm like, high school people do that.
You know, wow, good for you, bravo.
Yeah, thanks.
And where do you make your home now, Julie?
Oh.
I'm in Savannah, Georgia.
Oh, that's a beautiful place.
Loving it.
OK.
Totally didn't pack right for coming here.
No?
It's like, I totally forgot.
Yes,
it is
a little cooler.
A
little.
Well, we're going to get more information here from Julie Hines, formerly of Magic 98.
When we come back, we'll check the weather with Brittany Merlot.
It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
Julie, it's so good to see
you.
Yay!
You're
playing the Pina Colada software.
Oh, yeah.
You can't resist the sound of the driving
92.7, John and Gordy in the morning, and we've had a very special guest in the studio, too.
Of course, you know, Catherine's here as well, but you know, she's here all the time.
Yeah, she's all the time.
Oh, God!
Whatever, she's here all the time.
She'll be mine, she's here.
Yeah, it's not special.
What about if I come here every day, you'll feel the same
way?
Well, probably.
You'll have to text us nasty little comments throughout our show, just so
you know.
We stay alert.
We were playing the Pina Colada song to make you feel at home.
We're at
Magic 98 again.
We
played that song to death.
That famous, famous
pipes.
Actually, I worked at a station in New York for a little bit.
Just when I was living there, and I occasionally would do this.
I'd go, Magic 98, and I went, dang!
I
would!
God, I loved working at that place.
Loved
it.
We'll
find out more in
the morning.
I used to do that as well.
You know, when we're out at MAD, I used to say, WYV.
Every once in a while it would just pop out.
Hey, we need to get a quick weather check here with our friend,
Brittany
Merlot, our chief meteorologist.
Good morning, Brittany.
How are
you today?
Good morning.
I was going to say, what happens if I accidentally say it's going to be sunny all weekend and then it rains?
Can I get away with it too?
Yes.
We'll give you a break this time.
We'll give you that.
OK,
because it may happen.
Oh.
Damn.
That's where I need my little pass, OK?
All right.
Well, we've got a beautiful day
going so
far.
Yeah,
it's a little cloudy,
but it's going
to be a little on the cool side today, I guess, right?
Yeah, it is, unfortunately.
Right now, yeah, we're only going to hit highs in the mid 50s today, mostly cloudy skies for most of the day.
And we have some scattered showers pushing back in the afternoon and maybe again in the evening.
Nothing major, nothing like yesterday.
And of course, as we go through tomorrow, lots of sunshine, highs still in the mid 50s.
We hold onto the mid 50s for Sunday too, and it's supposed to be sunny.
But this is where we have chances for maybe some sprinkles moving back in Sunday night and into Monday.
Or it could be completely sunny.
We've got this low pressure that wants to stall and build and move backwards.
And if it does so, that's going to bring those rain chances back.
If it doesn't, all dry and sunshine and
Good, good weather this weekend.
Well, we know that the bad
weather always avoids Madison somehow.
We don't know why, but it just does.
Yeah.
You know, Brittany, I don't know you.
My name's Julie Hines.
How are you?
I'm sorry, I should have introduced you.
Well, you didn't need to,
but my gosh, you have a lovely cadence and voice.
Beautiful.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
I appreciate that.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
You know, she's a professor of communications.
Oh my gosh.
After being many years here
in Madison on the radio and she was in Chicago.
That adds weight to what she just said to
you.
Yes.
From Chicago.
So that's cool.
We're in Chicago.
Suburb, Naperville area.
Okay,
doggie
at
home.
Does Naperville come?
It does come.
I grew up in Wheaton, Warrenville area.
Wheaton, Wheaton.
Well, Brittany, thank you so much.
We'll talk to you on Monday.
You have a great weekend.
We appreciate it.
That's our WMDX meteorologist, Brittany Merleau.
So we
were talking off the air here, and you noticed the fantastic WMDX weather window.
You could look out
on
states.
Isn't
this the
best view, the best position, best place for a radio station?
Right here.
Because normally when you're in a radio station, you're in, like, this box.
Yeah,
in the
middle of nowhere.
Yeah, I used to put pictures of people.
Yeah, really?
Yeah, oh gosh, yeah.
Yeah, just feel like...
Somebody's there.
Yeah, this is fantastic.
We're right on State Street.
Yeah.
Just, you can people watch majorly.
I just saw a couple kissing over there.
Oh, you did?
Really?
Okay, maybe my eyes just go to different things.
Well, it was really sweet.
They were
hugging.
I know those were two leaf blower guys.
They've
really gotten to know each
other.
We see them every morning attempting to blow leaves that aren't there.
We feel for them because all the leaves are gone.
They're out
every morning.
Slowly, they've gotten closer with the leaf flowers.
They don't even care that they don't have ear things on.
They're just like, hey.
Yeah, that was it.
I
love it.
So let's talk about your time with Magic.
Now, what are your memories of some of the fun stuff that you used to get into with Magic
98?
Like
with
listeners.
Always listeners.
Just unbelievable.
Funny just calling up and just I love putting listeners on the air.
Hello The station allowed at least for me to be able to feel this kind of wonderful sisterhood Brotherhood with people that just had regular stuff going out.
There was a guy that was a PI
I
don't know why I'm
whispering but
because he's a PI
and
he couldn't, I can't
be on the air and I don't even know if he was but I fell for it for like 10 years and he's like yeah today and I don't know, I've never told anyone this.
Wait are you a listener calling you?
Yeah he's a listener and I go what are you staking right now and he goes oh there's a couple they just said okay.
Well, tell me if you're getting a good photo.
Oh, now I look back at it.
I go, that's great.
That was probably wrong.
Yes.
No, he was.
Jesse shouldn't have been telling you
all
this confidential information.
Maybe not a really good PI.
I just felt for it.
Funny stuff.
I don't know why I said that, but wonderful.
I remember a lot of women just going to stuff.
Yeah, that's great.
Talking.
Yeah, you're related.
through that audience.
That's fantastic.
Who else was on the air around the time
that you
were there
at
Magic?
Oh my gosh.
Well, I was gonna say the time that Shirley Jones stopped by.
Oh.
From the Partridge
family.
Oh my gosh, that was so exciting.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
You know, we had a time like that with Eddie Haskell.
Eddie Haskell.
Yeah, we had him on the air.
Some
Murray.
What?
I would have loved
him for that.
Wonderful time to be there.
Oh my god, she and I talked about Frank Sinatra.
Oh,
really?
Yeah, because when he was shooting a movie, well, okay, I'm digressing.
But he, blah, blah, blah.
You're
okay, you got about 30 seconds.
No, I feel that radio thing where you're looking at me and going, okay, we got to kind of maybe break.
I don't really quite want to hear
what you're saying.
I know it's bad.
It's not always
bad,
isn't it?
You know, it's sort of like when you're on a really bad date and the person's like, we really don't need dessert.
Julie, hang on with us.
We're going to get rocker in here, too, in the mix.
Right here on
John Gordy in the Morning.
Coming right back.
with this really bad date.
It's 92.7.
It's John and Gordy in the morning.
And we've got a whole bunch of special guests in the studio this morning.
We'll have to explain that as well because Rocker's here and TV is interested in Rocker this morning.
Yeah, we're gonna have a TV camera
in
here.
We'll tell you why.
And also Julie Hines from Magic 98 from a few years back.
Professor Julie Hines.
Coming through town here and she stopped in to say hello.
Good morning, Julie.
Good morning, Rocker.
What's
happening, guys?
Let's get to MaxSync Preview in just a moment, but first let me mention this portion of the show brought to you by our friends at Virlo Mattress of Madison.
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That sounds perfect.
Oh,
we are.
We're adjusting
everybody's cameras.
We ask everybody when they're
driving into work
to
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Okay.
Let's get to Rocker, first of all, in this half hour.
Good morning, Rocker.
It's time for the Maxing Preview.
It's a crazy morning around here.
We appreciate you coming.
Wow, we're thriving on chaos.
Yeah, well, explain why Channel 15 is coming in here.
Channel 3.
Oh, Channel 3.
You're close.
Channel 3.
Yeah, well, they're going to come in here and do a story on the Rocker Jamboree, which is, of course, the benefit that Jimmy Kay has put together.
for Maxink radio for me for my recent heart attack.
Everybody remembers
I
died on stage with my band playing in day after Christmas and those medical bills are pretty interesting.
So Jimmy K put that together for me.
It's going to be amazing this Sunday, but we're going to talk about that in a moment.
I have some songs and some clips from the bands.
But I thought I'd tell you Maxink radio will remind you of six to 10 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays, actually six p.m.
to midnight.
there.
And, uh, this Sunday, we have a whole show lined up, but I thought I'd actually tell you guys we're up for a ton of awards because it is award season, right?
I
wanted you to mention that this is, this is big.
This is really something.
It is, you know, and some of them are statewide, right?
So the Wisconsin Broadcaster Association, uh, we're up for the best web story with, uh, Terry Barch.
He did a story on, uh, and, uh, Puerto Rican performer, Sarah, uh, a little while back.
So that's a big one.
And that's over in the Wisconsin Broadcaster Association.
And then there's the Wisconsin area music industry, right?
So last year, we won best podcast throughout the whole state.
And this year, we're looking to repeat.
And so we are up in the finals.
The voting is over.
So don't worry about that.
But that is this Sunday.
And I'm also up for honor personality for statewide, which is pretty cool.
But more importantly, they're actually, believe it or not, inducting me into the Wall of Honor for the Wisconsin area music industry.
That's big time.
The Wall of Honor.
Yeah, this Sunday.
I'm pretty, I'm humbled.
I'm honored.
It's a really huge award.
You've done so much.
for the local music is just unbelievable.
And it just congratulations from the John and Gordy show.
And we're not done yet.
There's more.
There's more.
There's more.
Well, there's more awards as well, but we're not done helping out local music.
Madison Area Music Awards, they just came out.
And now this people can help us out because voting just started.
You can vote at themamas.org.
There's
a $5 donation, but you go there.
It helps put instruments in kids' hands.
radio, we are up for best radio show.
We are up for best radio station.
And we're for overall media.
And then rocker and Terry, both of us are up for on air personality.
And that is the Madison area music awards.
And oh, by the way, rockers up for drummer of the year.
So go.
So there's it's award season.
There's a ton of awards.
So you can go to the mamas.org and you can vote.
If you're like, well, I don't think the station even needs us anymore.
Let's just put rocker on.
He's up for all the awards.
You know, it's the one time a year we get to, we get to, you know, jump around and put our hands in the air.
We jumped on your bandwagon.
That's
it.
That's what happened.
But now we do have a great show this week.
Madison Drummer.
Madison drum makers Declan Dwyer.
He's in Kathy Couture.
She will be in the studio performing with Beth Killie and Jenna Jonas, by the way.
Shawnee Marks.
There's a special show happening at the Al Ringling Theater in Berbou and our Terry Barr interviewed Shawnee Marks.
We'll hear all about that and live in the lair with Lausie Nuncio.
That's James Nichols.
That's going to be a great show.
And after hours with Rob Roberts, 10 p.m.
to midnight.
That first person's name was Lousy.
Lousy Nuncio.
Their
birth name.
They're a duo.
Oh, they're Joe two guys.
Jake Nichols is one of the guys.
He's really good.
Well, let's hear some music.
All right.
Well, let's get to the spine stealers.
You know, I was telling you guys about them last week that they were going to be in our studio live, right?
It's Emma O'Shea and Kate Ruland.
And they learned to play guitar during the pandemic in their backyard around the campfire, right?
Now they were a duo and now they're a five piece band.
They brought it in last week to the studio guitar ukulele banjo pedal steel.
Remember I told you the pedal steal was gonna be in here.
I love the
pedal steal.
So May 29th, they're at the Baroque over on Winnebago.
You can go see them, the Spine Steelers.
They're with Dallas Ugly and Jacob Slade.
But right now, I'm gonna give you a preview of what happened last week.
This song is Michigan.
It was recorded right here in this studio last Saturday night on Max Inc.
Radio Live in the Lair.
This is the Spine Steelers with Michigan.
I'm going to skip it.
That's a
perfect combination.
Her voice, the sound of her voice with the pedal steel guitar.
I
mean, you know,
I mean, she could, she could burp all the way through the song with a pedal steel.
I'd still love the song.
I'm really belching.
You want belching on top of the pedal steel.
So what you're saying?
Yeah,
that's pretty amazing thing is that they just learned how to play guitar and they were never in bands before.
Just amazing.
The pandemic caused them to hang around in the backyard and learn.
And now here they are.
They're going on tour even.
Sounds great.
Hey, next Friday, May 9th, it's the Clydes Doublefield tribute with the funky JB's that's happening at the Memorial Union Terrace.
It's a celebrating his doctorate and PhD from the UW School of Music.
I thought I'd bring in a really unique song.
This is actually James Brown.
It's a remix of Give It Up or Turn It Loose from the 1986 in the Jungle Groove compilation album.
It was originally issued to capitalize on the popularity of bronze music and hip hop circles at the time, but Clyde is on the drums.
This is a great piece.
Check it out Friday, May 9th, more of the Union Terrace.
This is Give It Up or Turn It Loose.
You tell us that's Clyde Stubblefield on the drums.
Normally, you know, we hear it, but we're unaware that it's Clyde Stubblefield.
Yeah,
he's on a lot of those old James Brown songs.
Yeah, and how many contemporary artists have sampled Clyde
over the years?
He's the most sampled drummer in history.
Yeah.
And that's one of them right there.
That's great.
That album, that was kind of started, I mean, 86, right?
That was early on in that movement.
So that's a pretty cool song.
All right.
We got time.
Here we go.
So we are talking Jimmy had something to say.
Jump in.
We're going to the Rocker Jamboree.
We're going to do some songs on Rocker Jamboree and Jimmy is in the studio to tell us a little bit about the Rocker Jamboree that he put together.
Well, I just wanted to say that referencing Clyde Stubblefield, you need to get him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
That's right.
You could go.
Oh, I think there's a change.org to search for Clyde Stubblefield in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and you can get him in there.
All
right.
That's great.
Great idea.
Okay.
Well,
let's get to the Rocker Jamboree.
It's happening this Sunday night, or actually during the day, 1 to 5 p.m.
at the Burr Oak Sunday, May 4th.
And it is a benefit for myself for some of my medical expenses and mama cares.
And so Jimmy Kay put together this incredible lineup of bands that haven't played in years.
Electromag, Somatomic, Mindox, Last Crack.
at Magic 7.
And you guys, I've been bringing in Last Crack, Magic 7, all these bands.
Right.
So this is my last hurrah, right?
We're going to hear a little bit of Magic 7.
This is from their debut album in 1996, featured members of Last Crack, Buttawan vocals, Paul Schluter and Don Bakken on guitars, Todd Winger on bass, but at Jeff Grieshammer on drums, recorded in Sleepless Nights with John Mocknick.
This song is called Drowning in a Dream.
That's Magic 7, right?
And who's the vocalist, Butto?
Butto.
Butto.
Same vocalist for Last Crack.
Absolutely.
And just a great voice, though.
Just a great voice.
That was an amazing band.
Actually, truth out here, I met my wife at a Magic 7 concert.
Oh, really?
Yes.
It was magic.
It was magic.
Well, Last Crack is also playing.
Do we have time for one more click, Sam?
And playing at the Rocker Jamboree on May 4th, 1 to 5 p.m.
at the Burr Oak, Burning Time was released in 1991.
It was recorded with Dave Jordan, the producer, did Allison Chains, Gene's Addictions, Nothing Shocking, Phoenix producer, right?
Big
time.
Out in LA, they were big.
They were on Roadrunner Records, and they're right here from Madison, Wisconsin.
They'll be playing at the Rocker Jamboree.
Excellent.
Buttoh is the singer and all those same guys from that last band.
But let's hear this.
This is the seminal song from their Burning Time album.
This is Downbeat Dirt
Messiah.
Good stuff.
Yeah, it's sad we didn't have these on the surveys, you know, and played locally by all the
other radio stations, but oh
well.
Magic 98 didn't have that
one,
did they, Julie?
No.
But Johnny Danger, remember, he was on Z104 and he played it over and over and over and I think they fired him for it.
That's right.
We'll be back with the Rocker and the Max Ink preview right after this.
WMDX 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning.
It's time for Rocker and
Alley Dance.
A maxing preview.
It is 752 and 48 degrees, highs in the mid to upper 50s today.
This portion of the show is brought to you by Madison Hearing Aid Center.
And here to tell us more is Julie Hines.
Julie, take it away.
Yes, you just gave this to me, but you know what?
Yeah.
I think this will be an easy one.
Madison Hearing Aid Center.
You know what the big thing about them?
Family owned.
Yeah.
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They've been here almost 70 years.
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West High School is just like a little baby at that point.
Passion over profit.
Madison Hearing Aid Center is driven for passion, by passion for helping people.
They just want to do kind of what you do.
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Helping people changing lives or number one goal isn't just selling hearing aids.
You know what?
It's improving quality of life through
better.
Absolutely.
She's good.
Let's keep her.
Can you stick around and talk and get you on the air more?
Wow.
I'm back to rocker now.
How can I follow
that?
Yeah, I know.
Good
luck.
Try it.
I can't follow the hearing aids.
Instead of talking about live music and concerts, right?
Why your music makes people get hearing aids?
Yeah, yeah, we
help out if you hear that hearing aid company.
Yeah, okay.
Oh my goodness.
Hey, tonight there's a show Friday, May 2nd at 5 p.m.
at the Gamma Ray Bar just down the street from it's the old frequency location.
Also used to be Barley Pop, by the way.
And tonight Friday, May 2nd, 5 p.m.
Bing Bong and Vandalay.
Bing Bong, they had their 24...
2024 release Hippie Ponomist released last year and now they are finalists for a mama award for album of the year.
So let's go ahead and listen to one of their songs.
This is called Mean Old World from their mama finalist award album of the year, Bing Bong.
It's a media world.
Round and round now.
Yeah, when we had a cable access show,
the Oberos
did a version of this as well.
Oh, really?
Oh, yeah.
And they
adapted it and called it Media World.
Yes.
Oh, that is nice.
Oh, I loved the Oberos.
Dave Hanson.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I know, handsome brothers, yeah.
Such a
great guy.
Such a great soul.
And now
Pauly Ryan from the Oberos.
Pauly, he is in the Ghost Particles.
Oh, I love Pauly.
And
Ghost Particles, other bands too.
Yeah, funny.
I miss it.
So much going
on.
Well, Rocker, before we say goodbye for this time around, we want to remind everybody, Sunday, the place to be is Rocker's Jamboree.
Yes, that's right.
And that's Sunday.
This is Sunday.
That's
right.
From one to five at Burroke, a great charitable.
I'm going to be there.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
We're going to have a lot of people there.
It is going to be a blast.
I think it's going to be sold out.
It's getting close now.
So get your tickets.
Go to the Burrokes website.
All right.
And Max Inc Radio, we are local music Saturday and Sunday, 6 p.m.
to midnight.
Max Inc.
Max Inc Radio.
Holy.
No, no.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
We got some time here.
Yes.
Wait.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm freaking out right now.
OK.
You know why it's named Max Inc.
No, tell me.
It's named after Max Ward.
Yes.
Who was,
you know, she got it
and one of my probably soul brothers.
that that passed away.
Yes, AIDS in the early nineties.
Yes, we named Maxing radio after Max Ward, which is my business partner, Black and Tan's brother.
And he was a vocal teacher here in Madison, taught
the voice box,
the voice box, taught many, many legendary musicians that are in this town.
And he passed away the day before Max Inc.
The magazine came out.
His brother started it.
Well, yeah.
Wow,
wait, and me this is so weird We were
supposed
to like hang out next to each other.
This is so beautiful.
Yes.
Isn't that crazy?
I used to
deliver max
magazines to your mailbox when you were with
What was it, GGO, when they were still over on, like,
Park
Street, right?
When you were with that
second
guy.
No, yeah, yeah, no, no.
I used to drop in the mailbox for Catherine Lake and Julie Hines and all those people over at the station, you know.
Remember when you treated them like dirt because
not just at the library bar?
Yup.
Yeah, I remember that.
You know that.
All right.
Well, that's going to do it for the Maxing Preview Rocker.
Have a great
time
this
weekend.
We'll see you
Sunday at the Burrow.
Sunday afternoon, Julie Hines.
Julie Hines
in
the studio.
Wow.
So great to see you
again.
Wonderful
come back again sometime
next
time any time you're in Madison.
Thank you.
Yeah, open door right here Yeah, coming up on Monday.
We'll talk to Liz Johnson from Serenity Pet Spa Stephanie Miller is coming up next.
That's right.
I hope you have a great weekend really
I hope you know Trump doesn't come out and arrest us and deport us to El
Salvador We're gonna buy some of his crypto coins and make sure he doesn't come after.
There you go.
That's what we should do
That's it for us.
Have a great weekend.
Talk to you Monday so long.
