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This is the John and Gordy extravaganza, the place to be.
It's the hullabaloo, it's the shindig.
Yes, it's the mad pad.
It is.
Overlooking State Street, just
a block away from the Capitol.
Yes, the site of the Madison Night Market last night, there were thousands of people
out
on the street.
It was fantastic.
Looks like the Mardi Gras out there.
I mean, it's such a huge mess to clean up.
Actually, it's completely clean
out
there this morning.
They have a great cleanup crew.
Yeah, it was kind of like the Mardi Gras.
I saw my neighbors there who spent a lot of
time in New Orleans.
Oh, no, I
missed them.
They were there before you got there.
They
stopped by.
They said they brought back all kinds of beads for the gazebo
in my backyard.
Did they ask you
to take off your shirt?
No, they didn't.
No, they
didn't.
Somehow, they did not do that.
You know what
they're
doing.
Oh, you're right.
I forgot
at
first, but then I put two and two together.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
Well, it's better than, you know, show us your, you know.
Right.
That's what they really say.
OK.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun last night.
It was a good
time.
And we met a lot of people and saw some old friends.
And it was wonderful.
It was.
It was.
And we'll have another Madison Night Market coming up in June.
Not sure.
Is
that right?
Yes.
Well, it goes June.
Yeah, it goes all the way through.
Well,
just about a month from now,
right?
Yeah, just about a month from now.
Every month.
That's right.
Yeah.
So happy Friday, the 10th day of May.
It's a little
chilly
out there
this morning.
It is again.
You
know, I think we have a frost advisory till 8 a.m.
But looks like on our WMDX thermometer outside
the
WMDX window, it's 36 degrees already downtown.
What is your WMDX watch
say?
Watch is about at the Samsung Watch.
It's always on top of this.
So the WMDX Samsung watch indicates that it's about 36 degrees right now.
Oh, we agree.
Little ice on the puddles out there.
Crystal.
Okay.
Good morning, John and Gordy and Sam from Sherry and Horicon.
Oh yeah, Sherry.
Yeah, we haven't heard from Sherry in a while.
I think she's been on vacation.
Oh, okay.
You know what
really surprised me about the night market last night?
What was
that?
How
many listeners and how many
fans we had show up to our booth.
I never expected to have a fan club surrounding us.
But it's great.
It's great that they listen to the other announcers on the station, but no one gets up early enough to hear John and Gordy.
I feel kind of left out.
People sleep in nowadays.
Yeah, what is that?
I don't everybody's doing that.
That's why these morning shows are so difficult to operate
Hey today is the first Friday of the free ticket Friday
giveaway.
We have a four pack of Brewer tickets we'll be giving away.
And we'll tell you more about that as we go along in just a few minutes.
Hire on 74 today, by the way.
74?
Yeah.
Okay.
We didn't even get to use the machines.
Well, we can just gave it away to us.
Well, we can.
No,
that's a Samsung watch.
Yeah, let's see what it's time for the lottery balls, right?
Let's get the
balls out.
I feel like they have to pay me for this.
I'll get hold of Samsung getting all this free advertising says a six.
Uh-huh.
Second ball.
Come on.
It's a nine.
We got to grease up this machine.
It's not work.
You grease your balls.
Okay.
Get the WD-40.
That stuff
works for everything.
Well, anyway, it's a little low.
I still think 74 degrees feels like it could be the actual temperature high today.
How about the sunset?
Let's look at the sunset today.
OK, let's look at that.
And that
will be at 808.
808.
OK.
All right, good to know eight.
Oh, I'm writing that down.
I don't want to miss it.
Definitely bring that up a few times on the
program.
A little bit later, Rocker will be in because it's Friday and we'll have the Max Ink preview.
That'll be a lot of fun, a lot of local music to catch
up on.
Yeah, a little bit later on after seven o'clock, we'll talk a little bit about the pulp.
Yeah, there's a new pope, Pope Leo.
The 14th.
14th Leo.
Yeah.
It's from Chicago.
He
is.
Yeah.
South Cider.
White Sox fan.
Yeah.
Okay.
Somebody originally had said he was a Cubs fan, but I had to be corrected immediately.
Yeah, that was his mother apparently was a Cubs fan.
Very strange, isn't it?
I mean, you know, very, very
specific.
First Pope from the USA.
Yeah.
So, you know, see what that's all about.
He speaks like four or five languages.
I know.
I
know.
It's
amazing.
Yeah.
Okay.
We've got a whole bit on that from the Daily Show.
Excellent.
And I'm going to rely on them for all the drop-ins.
I normally put a little, you know, a few boisers in here, but she has them all.
Desi Elidic does a bit on it.
Excellent.
They're on top of these things.
Have you noticed?
I know they are.
Yes.
Well, they are they.
Yes.
They get the stuff done in a couple of hours and put it out there.
Maybe I'm just easily satisfied with, you know, kind of so, so humor.
Well,
it's a big worldwide story.
I'm sure they had extra people on alert, you
know,
waiting to see if that white smoke would come out, come out of the chimney.
You can't, you can't stop the comics.
Boy, they know how to.
Yeah, right a good joke right on it.
Okay Let's check the calendar and see what days it may be.
Yeah, what is it
today?
Show me your note.
Stay away from the screen Is it or is it not national knockout rose day?
Is it or is it not national board game day?
National sleepover day.
Is it that is it national alphabet magnet day?
National want to have a catch day.
National clean up your room day.
Or national lipid, lipid day.
Which one of those days does not belong, John Peterson?
National lipid day.
You're wrong.
It is.
You know.
Right there.
I'm looking at it.
Yes, the high density and low density lipids we must celebrate.
We'll get to lipids in a
moment.
Sam, do you have a guess or did you snooze your way through this?
My guess is
not
board game
day.
You're
correct.
Oh, all right.
Wow.
Gee, I thought I hid that one pretty well, but okay.
You're right on
top of it.
You did.
I would have said that too, except my son has developed a new board game.
Oh, yes.
They're going to market it eventually.
Really?
Yes.
And then we'll kick him out of the house.
But, but yeah, he's got one.
What's a kind of role-playing
board game?
Do you have a name
for it or do you not want to say it because it's so good?
It's a trade secret.
It's a trade secret.
You can't, you can't tell anybody.
Okay.
Okay.
It's national lipid day.
There's a lot of long medical terms in this.
So I'm not going to go deep into the weeds on it, but it's national lipid day each year brings awareness to.
Sam, dyslipidemia.
Does that sound like a word to you?
Dyslipidemia is an abnormal amount of lipids, which, you know, cholesterol or fat in the blood.
In developed countries, most dyslipidemias and hyperdyslipidemia, oh boy, just observed lipid day
today.
Okay, let's move on.
I'm not good.
This is so, wow.
It's national clean up your room day.
Yeah, do you have a bedroom that just is just clothes laying all over the place and your bed is unmade and all that stuff?
Well, today's the day out of the whole year.
You should clean up your room.
Oh,
yeah.
You should actually do it every day.
But, you know, a lot of people don't.
Well, you're talking to the kids at home, but, you know, those kids who are in apartments,
you
know, clean up your damn apartment.
Clean up your damn room.
Wow.
Sometimes, you know, he just, I told you the story about the guy who had beer bottles, didn't I?
Remember know what yeah, you know, I do the census and I go into people's homes sometimes and yeah, and this kid downtown Apparently likes to drink out of a bottle and when I got in there he has all the bottles upright.
Yeah on the floor just
All bottles.
There's no floor.
It's just all bottles, you know, and he can't walk into the room.
He's created pathways.
No kidding.
No, I'm not kidding.
This was in the kids room.
No, this.
Well, this is the apartment.
OK.
Yeah.
A student apartment down here.
Oh, man.
And yeah, there are bottles all over the damn place on the counter tops everywhere.
That's nuts.
That's, like, impressive.
That's
what I thought, too.
I thought, wow, this is really impressive.
Weird and bad.
All at the same time.
You know, I hope somewhere along the way he kind of rinsed the bottles out before he lined them up on the floor.
You would hope.
Yikes.
Well, anyway, it's National Cleanup Your Room
Day, so
spring cleaners get their wish granted each year on National Cleanup Your Room Day on May 10th.
Children often dread this parent-appreciated day.
Though some years the observance arrives with perfect timing for Mother's Day.
See, that's there's a tie into Mother's Day.
Oh, yeah.
Mom will be happy.
Mom will be happy.
Yeah.
Did you have to clean up your room a lot as a kid?
Were you messy?
No, I was pretty clean.
Pretty clean.
Sam, how about you?
Do you have to share your room with your brother?
For a
big chunk of it, yeah, until I was like 11 or 12, I
had to
share a room with my brother.
You know hippie Christmas is going on right now
right now
all of the students are moving
out of UW Yeah, we're all cleaning out their rooms.
Yes, okay Well, it's also national want to have a catch day if you like, you know your baseball That was the time to get out the baseball glove and have a catch with your dad or your mom or whoever
the saddest thing about
kind of giving up the old glove is just, I mean, you put so much time into buying just the right glove and then seasoning it, right, oiling it and creating that perfect pocket where the ball just kind of falls right into it, no matter how hard it's hit, no matter how high it is, you just really grab that thing, it falls right into the glove.
And then you just have to kind of give it up eventually.
Put it away.
It just sits there.
It's kind of sad.
It is.
It is.
There should be a National Gloves Preservation Day.
John,
why don't we play
catch someday?
If your kids won't play
catch with you, I'll play catch with
you.
Oh,
no, that sounds great,
man.
Well, we could all go out on the states street.
We could
go out to states
right out here.
Yeah, we
have
the Johnny Gory balls.
Let's bring our goals.
Yeah, we do.
It's National Knockout Rose Day.
If you're into roses, I guess this is a day for you.
Friday before Mother's Day.
Plant those roses.
National sleepover day.
So, um,
I
guess you can observe that if you want to.
Yeah.
And that's it.
Oh, National alphabet magnet day.
Oh, yeah.
We
should have been talking about that all this time.
That's a picture of a refrigerator, call it.
covered with alphabets.
Brief here, a brief time for history, Sam.
Oh, sure, why not?
Because we have Pam Yonkey, I believe.
That's
right, Pam's
coming up in just a bit.
Well, you mentioned Mother's Day.
Today in 1914, the very first Mother's Day was celebrated when Woodrow Wilson proclaimed
it.
Really,
1914?
That's right,
yeah.
Today in
1960, the FD, what?
What's so funny, John?
I'm reading Doug's text to us.
He says, it's replaced Doug with AI Day today.
Oh, that's great.
He says, I can't believe you guys did this.
Yesterday I woke up, turned on the show only to find out on air that you were replacing me with AI.
I mean, you could have called.
Sorry, Doug.
We're
so sorry, Doug.
Surprise.
Yeah.
Anything else you want to mention for history?
Yeah, last thing here.
Today in 1964, Louis Armstrong unseated the Beatles after they had held the number one spot on the Billboard charts for three and a half months with Hello Dolly.
Wow.
Didn't that sound
good?
All right, Pam Yockeys right around the corner on John and Gordon.
WMDX 92.7.
John and Gordon in the morning.
Beautiful, beautiful
sunny day so far.
It's cool in Madison 36 degrees.
Some areas are even in the low 30s or even upper 20s.
A little frost advisory out there till eight o'clock.
Highs today in the low 70s.
And Pam Yankee joins us on the phone this morning.
Good morning, Pam.
Good morning
fellas.
Yeah, it is beautiful morning.
I mean, I'm on the west side of Madison right now and not not any frost in sight here, but some folks on my talk text line this morning sent pictures of frost on their truck tops and roof tops, so it's out there.
Wow, that must be in northern Wisconsin, right?
Or is that near here?
Tachita.
Oh,
Tachita.
Tachita, yeah.
Tachita.
Okay.
Well, you know some people in Tachita.
I just remember remember Bambi
That's the only reason I know Tate Cheetah.
Me too.
Boy, that's
a name from the past.
Why do I know that name?
What was she famous for?
Well, she was a cop that killed her boyfriend or somebody and ended up in Tate Cheetah.
Then she broke out and remember they started that song, Run Bambi Run.
That's right.
Yes.
That was great memory.
Yeah,
those were the days.
You never know what you're gonna get.
All
right, let's talk let's talk cows.
Okay, because that's what it's all about here in Wisconsin kids and cows.
Okay,
it's a it's a pretty cool program.
I've been watching it for a couple years now.
The formal name is adopt the cow and it is handled through our dairy farmers of Wisconsin and what it does is pair classrooms
with kids from all across Wisconsin and even outside of Wisconsin with dairy farms.
And what they do is follow the life of a baby calf from essentially birth to six months of age.
And last year, we've been doing it in Wisconsin about five years.
Last year, more than 55,000 school kids in over 1800 classrooms in Wisconsin and beyond.
followed these baby calves and so what the dairy farmers do is share videos and pictures at least on a monthly basis if not more often the kids
can virtually meet with the farmers uh if they're close enough they can come out to the farm and i'm telling you these kids become absolutely fascinated with these baby calves they get a chance well they can get involved in trying to name them then they send the baby calves birthday cards they send the baby calves christmas cards they send they they just get very very engaged
with following these calves.
And right now, they're looking for the 2026 dairy farms that want to participate.
Any dairy farm is welcome.
Doesn't matter what cattle, you know, what dairy cattle you have, Holstein, Guernsey, Jersey, whatever it is.
And it doesn't matter the size of the farm, you just have to basically be able to commit to taking pictures of the calves or videos of the calves
to share with the kids and really be ready for an awful lot of question answer.
Because as you can imagine, I think that age group that they're striking for are fourth graders.
And as you can imagine, a lot of question, question, question about everything from how do you feed them, how do you.
How do you take care of them?
Where do they go to the bathroom?
I mean, you're going to get everything.
But it has turned into be, I just love to hear the stories about how engaged the kids get.
And then after a while, even the teachers are engaged in the process because some of the calves may now be the mothers of some of the new calves and some of the teachers that have done it for the past five years kind of get involved in that story too.
So it's pretty cool.
You can see those.
How
many kids are traumatized by watching the birth of
a cat?
It might just be a still picture right after yeah, baby's on the ground But you can check it out at discovered dairy.
No, yeah discovered dairy
All
right, well, while we're on the subject here, why don't we talk about beef?
There was a UK deal done yesterday, big announcement, and we're going to export some beef in this country.
But I always thought that because of the high price of beef, that we didn't have a lot of beef around here.
What's going on?
Yeah, so what we're focused in on is just that it's the beginning of, I guess we'll call it compromise.
So Wall Street really rallied hard yesterday.
It's not doing that quite so much this morning, but agriculture has got a couple of key.
ingredients in the conversation with the United Kingdom.
So the first item is 13,000 metric ton of US beef that would be allowed into the UK without tariffs.
Now your points well taken that beef here in the United States is at a premium because our cattle numbers are just not real robust.
What is different about many of our international markets is they're looking for different types of beef than we want in the United States.
For example, things like tripe, the stomach of an animal.
We call these variety meats.
Tongue, some of that type of thing, are much more attractive
in international markets than they are here in the United States.
And that is some of the 13,000 metric ton that would be sought after in the United Kingdom.
So we're not sending them our prime rib per se.
We're not sending them our whole meat, muscle meats generally, but it would be the variety meats.
We call them the hearts.
some of those kinds of things that are not necessarily as lucrative in the United States, but hold higher value in the United Kingdom.
The other items that were on the tariff free list include ethanol.
That would be zero tariffs and dairy exports.
We got to keep an eye on 19.5 million dollars of dairy exports went to the United Kingdom last year alone and we still don't know where that stands.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
It looks like a great market for ethanol anyway.
All right.
Well, Pam, thank you very much.
You have a great day,
great
weekend.
We'll talk to you next week.
Yeah.
Looks good.
You too.
All right.
Thanks, Pam.
That's Pam Yankee.
The Midwest Farm Report, actually, is coming up next.
Everything about food and farm and getting it to your table.
And coming up in our next hour, Rocker will be joining us about an hour from now.
Idiocracy's
next.
Max Inc.
review.
Yes.
Idiocracy right around the corner.
And the free ticket Friday Brewers ticket giveaway coming up.
I'm gonna see you soon.
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 do it.
I said
it, do
this.
We can duck and cover.
There's a
fall at each other.
There's
no way to survive
this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Yeah,
dumb.
635, chilly this morning, low 30s, highs in the low 70s today, beautiful sunshine all day long.
And it's Friday.
It's the first Friday of our free ticket Friday giveaway of Brewers tickets, a four pack of tickets.
Who do this right now?
Let's do this right now.
What do you say,
Sam?
Big thumbs
up.
Yeah, that sounds great.
And I want Sam also to just be alert.
We're going to get to a John Stewart red lightsaber.
Okay, stand by for that.
We have a lightsaber battle in the studio.
No, no, no.
A daily show clip for everybody.
You got my hopes
up.
I noticed that I didn't put a cut number on that, so if you could just search it up, I believe it's this month.
Why didn't you put a number on it?
I'm just not lazy.
He likes to challenge
me.
I don't know.
Hey, did I mention
it's a
free ticket Friday giveaway?
for brewers tickets, four pack of tickets.
We're going
to do this every Friday,
all the way through the
season, all the
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So every Friday, you listeners will have a chance to win a four pack of brewer tickets to an upcoming game.
And all you have to do is listen for the keyword on Friday mornings throughout the day between nine a.m.
Well, no, between six a.m.
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And by the way, it's for the Friday, May 16th game.
That is the game that you will be going to.
So if you can't go to that game,
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what you get Don't throw a fit
You said it not us all
about here,
right?
Well, this was kind of a shocker if
You may have heard this story earlier in the week.
Well, here it is.
The insurrectionist traders are now working for Homeland Security and ICE.
House Republicans just voted, of course, to allow the January 6 insurrectionists to work at the Department of Homeland Security.
It sounds like a great idea, doesn't it?
Oh, yeah.
What a deal.
Yeah, the people who attack the Capitol are now part of the federal government and working for ICE and the...
Department of Homeland Security, I don't know.
I just don't trust them.
For some reason, I just don't think this is right.
A call is coming from inside the fascist house that we have here.
You know, this is Trump's big idea.
It's just fair, right?
Well, we have a Democrat who doesn't think it's exactly the thing we should do, and this is Representative Dan Goldman, his reaction to this.
Sure, I understand what this bill is talking about.
Is it true that the Department of Homeland Security is charged with keeping our homeland safe?
Yes.
And so would we want people convicted of invading the most sacred monument in our homeland to
be then responsible for keeping our homeland safe?
Is that what this bill prevents?
That's what this bill prevents, Mr. Goldman.
Oh, thank
you.
You're back.
Yeah, who is that respond?
Is that Pam Bondi?
I mean, sounds crazy enough to be Pam Bondi.
She's crazy.
Either Pam Bondi
or Homeland Security.
Well,
Tom Holman, that's... No, there's
another one.
Kristi,
no?
Christie gnome.
Yeah, maybe it is.
I think that's yeah.
All right.
Yeah
That's right.
Yeah, that's right.
Hey, doesn't that make sense?
Oh You should be happy I guess there were a few comments on this you can't be law enforcement or work for federal agencies if you're a felon held you can't even work for ice
If you have bad credit, they're rewarding terrorists.
I've been screened at least a couple of times when I worked for the Veterans Department.
And now as a census
taker,
I was screened extensively.
They ask you about your record and everything, screening tickets and all that stuff.
So
these people who broke into the Capitol, yeah, it's okay.
It's all right.
They were victims, as you know, anyway.
Oh, sure.
And here's another answer.
With felonies on their record, white privilege just to found another gear.
So, yeah, I guess so.
I guess so.
Unbelievable.
That's because it's part of idiocracy.
This is what the program is all about.
Well,
that's a good name for it
because that's crazy.
But this isn't crazy.
Finally, there's a little sanity in all of this district judge barrel Howell ruled using the powers of the federal government to target lawyers for their representation of clients and a vowed aggressive unemployment policies rather in an overt attempt to suppress and punish certain viewpoints is wrong However, it is contrary to the Constitution which requires that the government respond to dissenting or unpopular speech or ideas with tolerance not coercion
And the judge found that the executive order violates the first, fifth, and sixth amendments of the Constitution when they went out and started targeting law firms and forcing them to do pro bono work for them.
Yeah, well, they expect to use that a lot.
I think they're already using it.
Are they what, up to a billion dollars in free lawyer services at this point?
In over 200 lawsuits against
the Trump
administration
since he took
office.
200.
The judge said this, if the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and by doing so served to promote the rule of law will be the models lauded when
this period of American history is written.
So, yeah, it's one of those things, you know, if you, if you stand up and you fight against something like this, you might even make it into the history books as heroes.
All right, why don't we get to John Stewart cut y'all set with that?
Sure.
I sure think so.
I thought you fell asleep.
I
didn't realize you were talking to me at first.
Why
don't we check this out?
I'm playing this because there was some confusion over the lightsaber colors that Pete Hagseth and Donald Trump had in their hands.
You gotta
do
this the right way.
When you're putting out these AI-produced
pictures of
themselves as these fighters for freedom.
They had the wrong colors for the lightsabers.
Let's check this out, Dom.
The volatility of nonsense from consequential to truly disorienting is unfathomable.
While we're chasing Pope and Alcatraz stories, the Trump administration has gutted funding for America's food banks.
They've hollowed out the FAA to the point where Newark Airport is basically inoperable and not in its usual way.
And
then there's this.
Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.
laid off nearly all workers at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
The program offers monitoring and treatment for first responders and survivors diagnosed with 9-11 related health conditions.
Do you know how bad you have to be to make the lives of sick 9-11 responders worse?
The Trump administration is now number two on the 9-11 evil power rankings.
Al-Qaeda's still number one, but you're closing the gap.
And trust me, there is nothing that you can do to distract me from making sure that those folks are gonna get what they've earned from the government.
Absolutely.
The White House posting this AI image of a buff Jedi Trump to mark Star Wars Day on May 4th while touting his immigration crackdown.
I know I'm not supposed to get distracted, but
he's not a f***.
Jedi in that picture.
Do you understand?
Trump is presenting himself as a Jedi, but his lightsaber is red.
And the only way you can have a red lightsaber is by infusing its kyber crystal with the power of your rage and hate, thereby corrupting it into a vessel for the dark side.
Therefore, therefore, every one of those photos that Trump is putting out there, he is admitting.
He is admitting.
He's not a Jedi, but in fact, a Sith Lord.
And there are always two.
So the question is this.
Why do I know all this?
Well, I happen to have an extensive collection of Star Wars action figures.
30 to 37,
actually.
That's more than $30.
Wow.
Some call them dogs.
I call them friends!
That's good.
Wow.
Oh, he nailed it.
He nailed
that red lightsaber.
Well, by the way, he said there were usually two and there is, you know, Hexeth came out with one, too.
And, you know, Elon Musk came out with one.
He had a red lightsaber.
Do they not know the colors of the saber?
Apparently not.
Oh my God.
Wow.
Even I know that.
That's amazing.
Well, of course, we had discussions about, you know, when my kids were buying the lightsabers, the collapsible lightsabers way back when, you know, we had to get the right colors.
Oh man, they knew who had what.
color.
It's crazy.
But it all works out in the end, doesn't it?
I guess so.
All right.
Well, I got one more here and this is a mind dribble.
Okay, this is mind dribble.
This was brought up in the conversation.
And
here I can't, I can't remember this.
this kid's name.
He's really one of the great debaters.
And he is a young guy.
He's a Gen Z-er, and he is a great debating style.
And this is another web wisdom.
He's in a debate with a very bad dad.
So
why don't
we check this out?
Yeah, we're seeing it across every industry.
Number 72.
Is this an old 72, John?
No, this is a brand new.
I hope you downloaded our audio from
this morning.
Yes.
I did,
John.
72
should be
there.
If it isn't, then it's still on the
cloud.
That is what I just started playing.
Is it?
OK.
Did you lose count again?
I don't know.
Let's try it again.
It's gonna be different one this time, right?
We're seeing it across every industry and you sort of made a little joke about it.
Is it real or not?
The vast majority of the time what we're seeing is it is real.
People are filming getting laid off.
They're filming walking out.
They're taking the snacks on their way out.
That's not it.
That's not it.
All right.
Well, it's too bad.
You know, I gotta say that I'm kind of angry about this.
I've carried this story around with me for a week and a half.
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Thank
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See, that's a nice way to put
it.
I
met him at the night market last
night.
Oh, did
you, really?
Yeah,
it's good to see
him.
Well, why don't we play the cut that I'm so desperate to play this Gen Z here debating a bad dad?
Let's listen to this.
Okay,
you said
you did
more to say so,
you know hopeful that this kind of
Mind dribble that you pedal on the people doesn't ever pedal on my kids or the rest of the country fall apart
You know what you need to do and I really hope you know, you're the only way to make sure that this mind
You
know what
I was
about to but like I don't genuinely want you to do it because I was about to point out that like the mind dribble that you are Describing of mine is just like an ability to critically think You know predicated on a foundation of education
So, I mean, are you basically telling us that you don't want your child to critically think?
You don't want your child to be curious about what's true and false in the world around them.
You don't want your child to have a foundation of a high level of education.
You want your child to drink the Kool-Aid just like you?
You were the problem of this country.
There you go.
Sweet.
Wow.
Drop the mic.
Shots fired, yeah.
I know.
He's been a guest on Jubilee.
debating many other people who opposed his ideas.
I can't remember his name.
I wish I knew.
He's a little older now, that earlier clip, but that's fantastic stuff.
Love the stuff, the web wisdoms that we
get
here are just fantastic.
OK, now we're talking about the UK tariff deal, the much touted tariff deal.
It's not so cool after all.
Why not?
So let's play.
This is a professor, economic professor, Justin Wolffers, and he trashes this thing.
Let's listen to what he has to say about this deal.
But there are 11th largest trading partner.
They account for three.
Count them.
One, two, three percent of American trade.
And if I took off all my shoes and socks and got four more people in the room, I'd be able to tell you that that leaves 97% of American trade absolutely up in the air.
Now, Laura, I want to tell you one more fact that will blow your mind.
Go back six weeks ago.
The average tariff the United Kingdom charged countries around the world was 1%.
So the best we can do is knock the United Kingdom down from 1%
to zero, and it's already clear we didn't get him to zero.
And along the way, the president is imposing a 10% tariff on the United Kingdom, making it harder for Americans to do business with trading partners over in the old dirt.
So why do you think he's announcing this with the UK?
What is the game plan here to suggest that this is much bigger deal than you say?
Oh, the president's a showman.
He's going to tell you that there's all sorts of wonderful things about it.
This is a country with a king and a queen, and they have beef eaters and all sorts of things.
But they're not remotely central to us.
The other thing to realize about the United Kingdom, bless them.
But they're sort of the guys who walked away from trade very recently.
They're particularly looking for friends.
You might have been at high school once, and there was someone who told their whole group of friends to go stuff themselves.
That's the United Kingdom.
And once you do that to your friends, you very quickly go looking for another friend group, and you'll find that other friend group wherever you can.
That's right.
So they, yeah, they turned down to a lot of trade deals with Europe.
Because Brexit.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're out on their own, and this is the kind of deal they swung.
And by the way, I watched Stephanie Rule last night just
before they
went to bed.
Right.
And she talked about this.
this deal and she said it's actually a bad deal, really kind of a horrible deal for automakers in this country because now we've got a deal with the UK to send their autos over here at just 10% because the automakers in this country have to pay more for the tariffs for the parts they use and their vehicle prices are higher.
That's the British vehicles will be lower will be it's a what a what a wonderful day.
He is a master at negotiating these deals, isn't he?
Everything's upside down.
Wow.
Oh boy.
Hey, coming up right around the corner.
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That's coming up after the news and much more on John and Gordy in the
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We're going to be hawking our John and Gordy.
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Yeah, we'll be giving
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No, it's disgusting.
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You have a pretty fun show.
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Six minutes past the hour.
Beautiful sunshine all day long highs in the upper 60s and low 70s.
Time for us to get updated what's happening locally in the news with Savannah, Tomei Olson.
Right here in the capital city.
What's
going on?
Good morning Savannah.
Good morning guys.
How's it going?
Good.
Real
great.
Yeah.
What's new?
What's on the top of the list of stories for you today?
No,
our biggest story probably of the week, maybe even of the month here in Madison is that the father of the abundant life shooter has been arrested.
He was arrested yesterday for two counts of providing a dangerous weapon to someone under 18 and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
So we got this update from police yesterday that
The gun that was used in that shooting where two people died and six others were hurt was given to her as a gift by her dad when she was 14 or 15 years old, which obviously kids of that age aren't supposed to own guns.
It's illegal in the state of Wisconsin.
I believe it's illegal most places in the country.
And so this is kind of following a trend that we've seen where after mass shootings as police kind of investigate how this all happened.
and they start holding parents accountable for their kids having access to guns.
We learned yesterday that there was a gun safe in the house, but that was her gun that she had regular access to.
Uh, now the father is in jail and police said he's cooperating with the investigation, but we've seen some parents be charged and even convicted of involuntary manslaughter and second degree murder.
So these charges are actually on the, I would say on the lower side compared to the charges that some parents have faced.
Yeah.
This is just, it's just really unbelievable.
and being the father and then being caught in this.
I mean, you can believe whatever you want for gun freedom, but at the same time, when you go one step beyond and you give a gun to an irresponsible young person, this is what happens.
And now the family split up, the whole thing is a disaster.
Yeah, so price.
Paul, and how devastating for the ALCS community too.
Absolutely.
I'm sure there was a lot of anger.
as they learned this publicly yesterday.
I know a lot of the victims families were called ahead of time, so they didn't learn this on the news, but you can just you can only imagine what that feels like.
We also learned that her dad was told of some high risk online behavior.
That's what the police called it, basically glorifying mass violence, being fascinated with weapons back in 2022.
So I imagine
There are a lot of mad ALCS families just over the last 24 hours.
That's an assumption.
I haven't spoken to any of them.
We are leaving them alone.
But I can only imagine how it feels to learn that after the fact.
Well, I'm sure we'll be following the story for some time to come.
All
right.
Okay.
Well, let's move on.
Now yesterday was a big day here in Madison for graduation.
You double
the graduation last night at the Madison Night Market.
I know we saw a lot of graduates walking around in their gowns in their caps and gowns.
And so that was, uh, that was a big story yesterday.
That's fun.
I bet a lot of them were taking their pictures, you know, going over to camp Randall, getting their photo on the hill, all that kind of stuff.
Tonight is the doctorate and MFA ceremony.
That one's at the Cole Center.
And then tomorrow's the big one at Camp Randall with all the bachelors, graduate and law students.
This year's speaker is Jason Gay, who's a columnist and humorist for the Wall Street Journal.
And he graduated from UW in 1992, very proudly.
proudly espouses how much he loves being a badger.
So I imagine that'll be an entertaining speech for all the graduates.
But as usual, if you've lived in Madison for more than a year or two, you know that you're going to have some extra traffic and
A long, long wait at restaurants downtown this weekend.
Let me be prepared for that.
Yeah.
Well, it looks like we won't be able to go off for Mother's Day, I guess.
Well, actually
it is.
I think they kind of ruined it for
us.
That'll be my excuse.
All right.
It's also the unofficial start of hippie Christmas
now with all
the mattresses and the furniture and the pickup trucks.
Savannah, thank you so much.
We appreciate you joining us.
Yeah.
Happy
Friday, thanks for having
me.
WMDX News.
All right, what I like to get to is the Daily Show cut.
I can't believe it.
They put these things together immediately.
This is on the Pope and they're talking about this.
This is Desi Lydic.
Yes.
And she is fantastic at doing this.
She means so much of Stephanie Miller, you know, her attitude, her way of delivering the line.
She's
great.
Yeah, she's fantastic.
So when we listen to this, she's got all the drop-ins.
I'm going to leave this whole bit up to her.
take it away.
You've been waiting to hear back from the Vatican about that resume you sent in bad news, the position has been filled.
And I think we see it.
Sorry.
Here we go.
It looks like smoke and white smoke.
We have smoke
and it is white smoke.
It would appear to be a white smoke.
White smoke.
We have a pope.
We are watching and everyone to breathe
it in the
white
smoke.
Breathe it in.
I know we were supposed to hot box the Pope's smoke.
But white smoke means there's a new Pope.
And where do you get a load of where he came from?
History at the Vatican.
The first ever American Pope.
We have the first American Pope.
And let me just say, as an American, are you sure about this?
We don't really have.
the gravitas that you associate with popiness.
We're less somber procession and more monster truck rally.
I just think it's a little bit weird that the holiest man in the world probably knows all the words to the chili's baby back ribs.
Weird.
But the votes.
are counted and the Vatican doesn't have a January 6th, so there's no going back.
Let's find out more about this American Pope.
Excuse me, Pope Americano.
Born in 1955 in Chicago, Robert Francis Prevost has been a cardinal for only two years.
He's big into tennis.
He's effectively known as Father Bob.
A Cubs fan.
He loves to cook.
Italian media has referred to him as the least American of the Americans because of his quiet.
Humble
way.
Wow.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
So you're telling me that you think all Americans are loudmouth jackasses?
Well, fuck you.
Humble.
Humble.
I'm the most humble bitch you've ever seen.
But let's get back to the Pope.
Of course, the first job of every new pope is to pick a pope name, which we all know is supposed to be the name of your first pet in the street you grew up on.
But he went a different way.
Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, taking on the name of Pope Leo XIV.
Leo XIV?
Did he choose it the way we pick a new email address?
Desi.lytic is taken?
OK, what about Desi.lytic 2?
Really?
Three?
Really?
Four?
Five?
Fine, Desi.lytic14.
Very good.
But
yes, Robert Privo's new name is Leo the 14th, which sucks for him because he just got his real ID.
Dang it.
Now, I've always found this odd.
The church is so conservative on gay issues, but then they turn around and make its leader choose a drag name.
But after he picked his pope name, he came out and gave his first speech in both Italian and Spanish about the need for unity and peace on earth.
This is good.
So
cue
peace
and unity in three, two, one.
I would have loved for the first pope from America to say something in English.
I
was a little surprised that a Chicago native did not say a few words in English.
He's talking Spanish.
He's an American.
And he didn't even speak in English.
He spoke
in Latin, Spanish, and Italian did not speak in
English.
He did not speak in English.
I mean, I don't know how you claim that this is an American Pope if you won't even speak in a native tongue.
That to me was very disturbing.
Wow.
Yes, yes.
How
dare you.
If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for the Pope.
Change.
Come on, does it really matter what language he speaks?
It's church.
You're going to be sleeping through it anyway.
And besides, there's gonna be plenty of other stuff for conservatives to throw a tantrum about.
There's some tweets that when the Pope was still a cardinal that are getting a lot of attention online that are politically charged.
This one is directly rebuking J.D.
Vance.
The new Pope, Pope Leo XIV, said J.D.
Vance is wrong.
The new Pope is not like J.D.
Vance.
He really is an everyday American.
Be careful, though, father.
If you piss off JD Vance, he's going to pay you a
visit.
Uh-oh.
Yeah, that's not going to end up well.
That's Desi Lydic from Daily Show.
That's fantastic.
It is.
It is good stuff.
And my mega friend in Milwaukee sent me a post where it
Listed why he is a conservative very conservative Pope and that he is a right winger.
He's a mega Okay, and then then I saw this list from Laura Loomer who is a right wing zealot crazy person and this is her post, okay?
This is the new Pope.
His name is Robert Prevost.
He's the first American Pope.
He is anti-Trump, anti-Mega, pro-open borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis.
I don't know where my mega friend got his information.
But anyway, not listening to Laura Loomer apparently.
Catholics don't have anything good to look forward to.
Just another Marxist puppet in the Vatican.
Wow.
All right.
All right.
And then, of course, Dan Shafer, who's here at Civic Media, he mentioned also that the Pope was a teacher in Waukesha County.
Oh, really?
In a conible walk.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's terrific.
But you know, this Laura Loomer post was really funny because Joe, who was a regular poster on X, she said this, she said, this response about, okay, she said,
Is she gonna try to get the Pope fired?
We're listing this, Laura Loomer.
Laura Loomer trying to get the Pope fired?
God, that is great stuff.
You know people just take these strange look set
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Okay.
Got a couple of minutes here.
All right.
But not
enough time for Tim Waltz.
I told you yesterday I was going to get to Tim Waltz.
Yeah.
Because he was on with
Jen Psaki.
Okay.
All right.
Yes.
And we do have a cut coming up in just a few moments.
All right.
But I do want to get this.
Here's why the U.S.
needs universal health care coverage.
This is crazy stuff.
The Oklahoma governor, Kevin Stitt, vetoed a bill to expand breast cancer exam options.
in the great state of Oklahoma.
On Tuesday, he vetoed House bill legislation that would clarify which breast cancer examinations health insurance providers must pay.
His veto message states that his decision stemmed from concerns over costly insurance mandates that he argued would ultimately raise premiums for workers.
Hmm.
So while early detection and access is a good thing, this legislation imposes new and costly insurance mandates on private health care plans.
Wow.
We got to protect those insurance companies.
Right?
I mean, we got to save them some money.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
So let's, you know, let's keep that, that breast cancer examination down.
Okay.
Boy.
This is
why we need universal health
care.
Yes.
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Beautiful sunshine.
Start this Friday.
Let's check out the rest of the weather with our WMDX chief meteorologist, Brittany Merlo.
Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning.
How are you guys doing?
We're doing really nice.
Looking forward to a fantastic weekend.
I'm sure you're not going to disappoint us.
Right?
No, I just got a rocket full of sunshine for everybody.
All right.
Nice.
Yeah.
How nice will
it
be?
Yeah.
Too nice.
How's that?
Is that possible?
We'll take it.
No.
Yeah, after a crisp and cold morning, what we hit 32 degrees this morning, the freezing mark, frost advisories out there.
And now we're finally above that 37 degrees at the moment.
We're going to make it to 70 today.
Super sunny.
I mean,
that's going to be the case pretty much for the rest of the week as well into the weekend.
We're looking at 73 degrees tomorrow.
76 on Saturday or a Sunday for Mother's Day.
Yeah.
And then we climb into the 80s next week.
Yeah.
Wow.
I know.
I know.
And we're holding off on all rain.
It looks like a cold front moving through tonight in the northern part of the state makes its way towards us in the morning tomorrow.
But really, no rain is going to be produced from that.
So we're going to hold off on all rain chances pretty much until Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
So pretty dry, but warm period ahead of us.
Does that mean we have burned bands back?
Do you think
that's
happening?
Yes, it does.
Unfortunately, a good chunk of the states and it's very, very high fire danger.
And that's going to last at least until next weekend, I think, because we need some more significant rain.
And that looks to move in by Sunday next weekend.
Well, it looks like I won't have to burn off my yard.
What?
You were going to burn it off?
You were going to start your yard on the
fire?
You know, I did that on
accident
when I was a
kid.
I've never heard of doing it on purpose.
Have you alerted the neighbors?
You know that I'm not a big fan of my lawn.
So you're just going to give it up and burn it off?
Accidentally burn it, yes.
But the conditions aren't right for it now, so I can't do it.
OK.
No, I know what you meant.
You meant cleaning up the yard and then burning the debris, didn't you?
Yes, that's exactly what I meant, sure.
Yep,
let's go with that.
Don't do that either.
Okay, well, Brittany, you enjoy the weather this weekend.
We'll talk to you on Monday, all right?
Sounds good.
You guys have a great weekend.
Thanks,
Brittany.
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right, now we're gonna get to a cut from Tim Walls here.
He's telling it like it is.
He's explaining what reality is really like.
Oh my gosh, really?
From a politician.
Let's go for it.
I you know, I don't know this for my amateur psychologist I think he listened to one class when he was back in the 80s or something at Wharton in his six months there or whatever and he misreads this It's a ludicrous philosophy.
No one agrees with him and then they come back to well Democrats put terrorists on yes, they're a tool They're a scalpel you can use them when you have unfair practices, but he's talking about the thing that drives me insane With working with Canada and Mexico.
He's the guy who negotiated the deal and then he turns around
and says, well, we don't care much about Ken.
I was glad to see the Prime Minister coming into the...
Saying from Canada saying are you out of your mind?
What would your biggest trading partner?
They are our biggest trading partner in Minnesota.
There are dearest friends There they're who we care about he has no concept This goes back to that idea so many Americans thought you know We need to hire a businessman to run government like business two things about that are wrong No, we don't need to run government like a business because we're not in the profit-making We're in the proving lives and looking towards the future and this guy has a proven track record of being an
Absolute failure and I think the opening for Democrats is is to work with the business community my I am home to many large fortune 500 companies that are put at risk by this and I'll just say this I'm calling these folks out.
They need to stand up He threatens them.
He threatens, you know universities.
Thank goodness Harvard standing up to them
But that's how he gets things done.
He doesn't get it done through competency.
He doesn't get it done through results.
He gets it done through fear intimidation.
And I'm with you.
I wish he could have been weirdly obsessed with like pickleball or something rather than tariffs.
That's where he could spend his time.
But it's on this tariff thing that doesn't
work.
That's that's a great commentary.
You know, he's talking about Trump making all his really, really bad decisions.
He he does treat the country like it is a business and he has bankrupted his businesses.
So I'm not quite sure I like the idea myself.
Right.
And why are we listening to him on this?
He really doesn't know what he's doing.
And again, it's this thing where, remember, Doge has been talking about how the government is losing money.
Well, it's not losing.
It's not there to make money.
It's there to serve the public regardless.
So anyway, that's my little rant on that.
You know, I think we could use a couple more pickleball courts.
Yeah, I wish you had followed pickleball.
Hey, I got a cut here.
This is really fantastic.
This shows our orange God and what he knows about the world.
He thinks Mattel is a country.
Let's listen to cut 68.
Cut 68, according to the outline that I've supplied.
We have
time
for
it.
I
don't know.
I'm not so sure.
They also said they're the only country I've heard.
They said, well, we're going to go counter.
We're going to try and go someplace else.
That's OK.
Mattel.
Let him go.
And we'll put 100% tariff on his toys.
And he won't sell one toy in the United States.
And that's the biggest market.
I heard that.
I mean, I watched this guy talking about how I'm going to go counter.
I said, well, I wouldn't want to have him as an executive too long.
He was talking about the executive CEO of Mattel saying that they make their toys and everything in other countries
to
keep the price down.
They do the designs and marketing ideas here in this country.
But again, he thinks Mattel, the guy, the CEO is the president of a country named Mattel.
All right?
This is the guy in charge.
OK,
coming up right around the corner.
OK, I'm
walking.
Take a deep breath.
Because coming up next, Rocker is
in the studio
with a maxing preview right after the Midwest Farm and Food Report.
I'll hang around for that.
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I am John Peterson.
And I am Gordy Young.
We never say our last names.
I know.
Right?
Well, we've been trying to keep them secret for a long
time.
You should go by your middle names one day.
Oh, really?
Yeah, that'll help.
What's your middle name?
I've never asked.
Lund.
Lund?
Yep.
Mine's Thomas.
Oh.
It's Lund and Thomas in the morning.
Sam, what's your middle name?
Eugene.
Eugene?
Rocker, do you have a middle name or is it just rocker just rocker?
There
is no middle
name.
I think the
letters in that isn't it?
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I know that you
know we hear from Matt at Middleton every every every day and we love it.
Actually, but Matt was a little frustrated this morning to text us.
You said, hate to break it to everyone, but other countries don't want American products.
Our products are unregulated and filled with chemicals.
And our cars and trucks are large, overpriced, and don't meet the environmental standards that people want.
And our planes are overpriced and unsafe, so.
Are we great yet?
Republicans are garbage and bad for America.
There you go.
Thank
you.
That's the kind of America I want to live
in.
Oh boy.
Thank you Matt or we have to buy those products Matt We heard from John Stewart earlier about the red lightsaber and you know We have rocker in the studio.
We're gonna hear some local music, but rocker you went on a tear here Could
you
please explain the reason why the lightsabers for the Sith and for the bad dark side are red tell
us so well the Jedi
They use a natural crystal that they go and mine on a planet that actually only the Jedi know about.
And the Sith has been trying to find out where that planet is
for a long time,
right?
But the Jedi keep it secret.
They use a natural crystal.
So what the sith did was they use this basically this oven to kind of bake this synthetic crystal and they use all this dark side energy while it's baking.
It's really like an intense process.
It takes a couple of days.
Yeah.
And they do sit
there.
They sit there.
It's like, it's like, you know,
meditating on the top of the Himalayas or something.
They have to,
you
know, and so they make these synthetic crystals.
And of course, the synthetic crystals only provide you
with crimson.
So the only way a sith has a different colored lightsaber, like green or blue, is because they took it from some dead Jedi.
Ah, OK.
All right, let me explain that.
I
was
confused.
Well, let's turn to
the.
Yeah.
The Max Ink preview for this
weekend.
You
got a lot of stuff going
on.
We got a lot of stuff going on.
You know, Max Ink radio, 6 p.m.
to midnight on Saturday and Sunday.
This weekend, it's going to be me and Terry Barr, Rocker and Terry Barr.
Jimmy is off camping again this weekend.
So he's going to be having a good time and after hours with Rob Roberts this week.
Genevieve Hayward.
And Dan Stoffels, they're expatriates here from Wisconsin and they went out to Nashville and now they're going to be kind of doing a tour with their band, Genevieve Hayward, great singer-songwriter.
We'll be talking to her.
The lair, Jeff Burkhart.
Jeff Burkhart is a local singer-songwriter, acoustic.
He'll be coming in here.
He's got a show coming up over at the Cargo Cafe coming up.
What will you be talking about that?
And Madison Malone.
We're going to be interviewing her, actually.
Terry Barr interviewed her.
We had her
in yesterday.
That's right.
There's a show coming up May 10th at Al Ringling Theater, Baraboo.
It's presented by Music Makes a Difference.
And let me tell you, those guys, they do a lot of shows and a lot of sponsoring.
They're even a big sponsor of the backstage at Atwood Fest.
Yeah.
And that's also a fundraiser for Hope House up in Baraboo and
the
Women's Care Center there.
That's right.
And Gold Dust Women, Madison Malone and Spare Bones.
And one of these bands, we're not going to tell you who has Shondale Marks in it.
That's right.
She was
also here
yesterday.
How funny.
I know.
It's funny how that stuff works.
Ironic.
We're stealing your thunder, by the way.
We're going to start.
Well, I got a little more for you.
All right.
He's
got more thunder.
I was at my Rocker Jamboree.
Yes.
Gordy, you were there.
Yeah.
Catherine Lake came out.
There was a lot of fun.
It was sold out.
The bands were amazing.
It was a great time.
I know I was in the line
waiting to get in.
I could not get in.
So it's a sadly,
you didn't find the way around to the back deck.
Just kidding.
You were barred from trouble maker.
Oh, it was so fun.
I saw so many people that I hadn't seen in a long time.
So it was really a great, a great time.
It really was.
And then I ended up right heading out to the whammy awards.
and
inducted
it into the wall of honor,
which was really,
really, really cool.
I got to meet Grammy winner Bill Miller backstage.
So that was
pretty
cool too.
And then I also won on air personality for the state of Wisconsin.
That is
so cool.
For
the Wisconsin music industry.
And one other note was Paige Kleber.
Remember, we've been playing some of her music.
She's now 12 years old from here in Madison.
and she won the Rising Star Award.
So
that was pretty cool.
And there were
a lot
of other great winners, but I just thought I'd focus on those for now.
That's trial labor in the music industry.
No, it's not.
I'm just kidding.
She has a permit.
It's
art.
She has a
permit.
There you go.
You see?
Got that covered.
All right.
OK.
Her mom's at the shows, right?
Right.
Exactly.
All right.
Last week we had Kathy Couture and the Bad Jacks, right?
They were in the studio last week and Kathy, she was diagnosed with stage four cancer back a couple of years ago.
She's been going through a lot of treatments.
And in the meantime to deal with this, she started writing music and producing albums and she's now going to release her third album.
It's
called Hard to Kill, May 10th at the High Noon Saloon, The Bad Jacks, her band, it's Jenna Jonas on drums, Dan Kennedy on bass and Beth Killian guitar.
And then they're going to have special guest, Jen Farley.
So half of the two thirds of the... Two thirds
of Gin
and Chocolate.
...of Gin and Chocolate and Bottle Rockets.
So hey, let's hear a little Cathy Couture.
This is Hard to Kill, the title track from her brand new album.
Getting salt pills in the summer heat so I could play all day.
Coating under the bathroom sink kept insomnia away.
There was a lack of supervision No seatbelts in the car I could ride my bike She didn't care if I went far My momma says I'm hard to kill I asked if she'd been trying We had a lot of ups and downs Some screaming and some crying It was an epic test of wills But I'm too
Hard to kill.
Great
voice.
Very unique voice.
Oh, she was fun.
And I think that's going to be a good show.
Beth Killie singing there behind.
It's really an amazing show.
Man Town Manage Boys, they are steeped in Chicago style blues from Madison, Wisconsin.
Tonight, May 9th, they are playing at the Red Rooster over on Seaforth Road.
And May 30th, they'll be at the Memorial Union in case you miss them.
Two great shows for the Man Town Manage Boys.
And let's listen to some.
This is called Get Out of My Life Woman.
This is the Man Town Manage
Boys.
Man town Manish boys.
Yeah, the great band.
Oh, they're awesome and they're playing at the Red Rooster and of course Tonight they all kind of own some of the guys from that band on the Red Rooster.
So they really.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's for sure Let's see, you know, I want to tell you guys, you know, there is some more stuff to the dark side than just Star Wars, right?
Coming up
put
this on your calendar Wednesday, July 23rd at the Capitol It's the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and they're gonna be doing Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon.
Oh, cool.
I just I just saw that Listed is an event.
I was like, oh man
Wednesday, July 23rd.
So we got time to talk about it.
But it was just kind of funny that, you know, Darkseid just happened to pop into our morning show here.
It's pretty neat.
There are orchestras doing all these kind of thematic concerts now.
One is one more interesting.
One is the Spaghetti Western.
Really?
Music.
Because the bad and the
ugly, that'd be
fun.
They do all this stuff live.
It's very memorable.
Music.
So they're doing this as well.
So it's kind of cool.
I'd like to see this.
Oh, it sounds
fun.
And you know,
that's outside, right?
On the steps of the Capitol, it's always like a really good time.
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Wednesday, July 23rd.
That's Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon.
No lightsabers.
They're gonna, oh no!
I thought that would be kind of cool, but you know, they're gonna perform this at midnight, did you say?
No, no,
no, it's
not at midnight, no.
I'm just throwing
up.
I'm
sorry.
What is wrong with you?
You know, I really need the weekend.
Yes, you
do.
It's coming, John.
It's coming.
All right.
Well, tonight, though, if you're looking for something to do May 9th at the Memorial Union Terrace, concerts are back.
It's a funky JB's featuring Joey B Banks on drums.
They'll be doing the Clyde Stubblefield Tribune and celebrating Clyde Stubblefield's doctorate and PhD from the UW School of Music.
We played a song from the James Brown Singles and it's kind of these remixed versions.
I found another.
And this is popcorn with a feeling.
This is Clyde's double field on drums doing James Brown popcorn with a feeling.
So that is tonight
that is tonight funny
JB's
and I hope you're kind of focusing on the drums there because I know the flute solo catches people's ears But that drum beat that was classic Clyde right there.
Yeah,
no doubt about
it.
Excellent stuff.
All right.
Are we keep going?
Well, we're less than a minute here.
So you want to What do we want to do here?
Let me just mention to everybody.
Yeah, you know what?
Let's
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Along with Rocker from Max, Inc.
show and we'll continue here in a moment I want to remind everybody one more time here our keyword for this hour is run if you are in for getting some tickets from
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Sam, anything to add?
Friday night game, 7, 10 p.m.
Don't get
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Yeah, May 16th, next Friday.
Okay, all right.
Now, back to the Max Inc preview here.
Rocker.
What do you got for us?
Oh, guys, you know, festy season is coming.
I just want to run through a couple things so you can put it on your calendar.
The Marquette Waterfront Festival.
It's a 36th annual festival, June 14th and 15th at Yajara Place Park, right on the lake.
It's a festival.
It's the official curtain raiser to the east side's season of summer festivals.
There's five of them.
So make sure you get these dates down.
Okay.
Marquette Waterfront June 14th, the 15th La Feta Marquette, July 10th through 13th Atwood Fest, July 26th, then 27th Orton Park Festival, August 29th through 30th.
And then the Willy Street Fair ends it up September.
20th and 21st.
So it's important to remember our great festivals here in Madison.
It's really, you know, what makes Madison so special.
It really
is.
Yeah, all those festivals,
every one of
them are excellent.
They're all great.
Oh, it's so fun.
I mean, one after another all summer.
The periodicals.
They are from Madison and Milwaukee and May 23rd at the high noon saloon.
They're going to, they're going to be on the patio and that's the first patio show.
So, you know, summer is coming when you see the bands are starting to play outside, right?
All ages, no cover, high noon saloon patio.
They're a 10 piece band, Madison's finest alternative pub rock, Northern soul band.
Now with added pop, Sam, we're going to skip over to the periodicals.
I can't stop.
I fell at the first line.
Forget me.
Nuts tied without condition.
Isn't that cool the pure out of this great band here in Madison they've been around for a couple years now And let's not forget that they are playing Let's see high noon the high noon on the patio May 23rd there we go shifted my papers around yep You know there's nothing more erotic or neurotic than an electric spanking Excuse me electric spanking is an all-star four-piece funk rock
jam band from Madison and they began as a funky side project of the local Madison band Baghdad scuba review.
Electric Spanking right in a Baghdad scuba review.
Their roots go back to the 90s in the Madison local music scene.
And June 23rd, they're playing at the up north bar.
I thought I'd pull out some and that's a little ways in the future.
So put that on your calendar.
Electric Spanking, good people.
Okay.
It'd be nice if they could take over the world, those good people.
Electric spanking.
Electric spanking.
I'm not even sure how that works, but... June
23rd at the up north bar.
There's gotta be some kind of toy involved.
the toy.
I would assume, you know, one of those adult stores stop in September and ask for that electric expansion.
Just move on.
Okay.
We have some family show.
We do have some free fly swatters here that are there.
The guy gave them to us.
He said they were a marriage saver.
Okay.
Wow.
Here we go.
So anybody wants to come by the studio and come and pick those up.
They're great.
Got it.
They're fly spotters from power take off a local band.
Yeah, guaranteed to save your marriage, John.
There you go.
Well, OK, I'll see you.
I
bought it at home.
Let us know.
Let us know how it works.
OK, well, thank you very much.
It's real nice.
Rocker, we got to go here.
Maxing preview.
All right.
Thanks, man.
Saturday and Sunday night, six to midnight.
Yeah.
Me and Terry Barrow be here on Saturday night and Jeff Burke, our Jeff Burkhardt will be in the Lair playing live.
Excellent.
Thanks for coming in.
See you next Friday on Monday show.
Jennifer MacFarlane from Comfy Cauldron in.
in DeForest.
She talks to ghosts.
Apparently.
Okay.
We're gonna get in touch with the Supernatural.
I am going to love this.
Okay.
We'll find out more about that on Monday morning.
Stephanie Miller is coming up next.
We hope you have a wonderful weekend.
It's a beautiful morning.
We got a new act.
It's phenomenal.
It's sensational.
It's terrific.
It's either mediocre.
No, it's disgusting.
It's a ploy.
What a
fucking 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, John and Gordy.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Good morning.
WMDX 92.7.
It is Johnny
Gordy in the morning.
Six minutes past the hour.
Beautiful sunshine all day long highs in the upper 60s and low 70s.
Time for us to get updated what's happening locally in the news with Savannah, Tomei Olson.
Right here in the capital city.
What's
going on?
Good morning Savannah.
Good morning guys.
How's it going?
Good.
Real
great.
Yeah.
What's new?
What's on the top of the list of stories for you today?
No,
our biggest story probably of the week, maybe even of the month here in Madison is that the father of the abundant life shooter has been arrested.
He was arrested yesterday for two counts of providing a dangerous weapon to someone under 18 and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
So we got this update from police yesterday that
The gun that was used in that shooting where two people died and six others were hurt was given to her as a gift by her dad when she was 14 or 15 years old, which obviously kids of that age aren't supposed to own guns.
It's illegal in the state of Wisconsin.
I believe it's illegal most places in the country.
And so this is kind of following a trend that we've seen where after mass shootings as police kind of investigate how this all happened.
and they start holding parents accountable for their kids having access to guns.
We learned yesterday that there was a gun safe in the house, but that was her gun that she had regular access to.
Uh, now the father is in jail and police said he's cooperating with the investigation, but we've seen some parents be charged and even convicted of involuntary manslaughter and second degree murder.
So these charges are actually on the, I would say on the lower side compared to the charges that some parents have faced.
Yeah.
This is just, it's just really unbelievable.
and being the father and then being caught in this.
I mean, you can believe whatever you want for gun freedom, but at the same time, when you go one step beyond and you give a gun to an irresponsible young person, this is what happens.
And now the family split up, the whole thing is a disaster.
Yeah, so price.
Paul, and how devastating for the ALCS community too.
Absolutely.
I'm sure there was a lot of anger.
as they learned this publicly yesterday.
I know a lot of the victims families were called ahead of time, so they didn't learn this on the news, but you can just you can only imagine what that feels like.
We also learned that her dad was told of some high risk online behavior.
That's what the police called it, basically glorifying mass violence, being fascinated with weapons back in 2022.
So I imagine
There are a lot of mad ALCS families just over the last 24 hours.
That's an assumption.
I haven't spoken to any of them.
We are leaving them alone.
But I can only imagine how it feels to learn that after the fact.
Well, I'm sure we'll be following the story for some time to come.
All
right.
Okay.
Well, let's move on.
Now yesterday was a big day here in Madison for graduation.
You double
the graduation last night at the Madison Night Market.
I know we saw a lot of graduates walking around in their gowns in their caps and gowns.
And so that was, uh, that was a big story yesterday.
That's fun.
I bet a lot of them were taking their pictures, you know, going over to camp Randall, getting their photo on the hill, all that kind of stuff.
Tonight is the doctorate and MFA ceremony.
That one's at the Cole Center.
And then tomorrow's the big one at Camp Randall with all the bachelors, graduate and law students.
This year's speaker is Jason Gay, who's a columnist and humorist for the Wall Street Journal.
And he graduated from UW in 1992, very proudly.
proudly espouses how much he loves being a badger.
So I imagine that'll be an entertaining speech for all the graduates.
But as usual, if you've lived in Madison for more than a year or two, you know that you're going to have some extra traffic and
A long, long wait at restaurants downtown this weekend.
Let me be prepared for that.
Yeah.
Well, it looks like we won't be able to go off for Mother's Day, I guess.
Well, actually
it is.
I think they kind of ruined it for
us.
That'll be my excuse.
All right.
It's also the unofficial start of hippie Christmas
now with all
the mattresses and the furniture and the pickup trucks.
Savannah, thank you so much.
We appreciate you joining us.
Yeah.
Happy
Friday, thanks for having
me.
WMDX News.
All right, what I like to get to is the Daily Show cut.
I can't believe it.
They put these things together immediately.
This is on the Pope and they're talking about this.
This is Desi Lydic.
Yes.
And she is fantastic at doing this.
She means so much of Stephanie Miller, you know, her attitude, her way of delivering the line.
She's
great.
Yeah, she's fantastic.
So when we listen to this, she's got all the drop-ins.
I'm going to leave this whole bit up to her.
take it away.
You've been waiting to hear back from the Vatican about that resume you sent in bad news, the position has been filled.
And I think we see it.
Sorry.
Here we go.
It looks like smoke and white smoke.
We have smoke
and it is white smoke.
It would appear to be a white smoke.
White smoke.
We have a pope.
We are watching and everyone to breathe
it in the
white
smoke.
Breathe it in.
I know we were supposed to hot box the Pope's smoke.
But white smoke means there's a new Pope.
And where do you get a load of where he came from?
History at the Vatican.
The first ever American Pope.
We have the first American Pope.
And let me just say, as an American, are you sure about this?
We don't really have.
the gravitas that you associate with popiness.
We're less somber procession and more monster truck rally.
I just think it's a little bit weird that the holiest man in the world probably knows all the words to the chili's baby back ribs.
Weird.
But the votes.
are counted and the Vatican doesn't have a January 6th, so there's no going back.
Let's find out more about this American Pope.
Excuse me, Pope Americano.
Born in 1955 in Chicago, Robert Francis Prevost has been a cardinal for only two years.
He's big into tennis.
He's effectively known as Father Bob.
A Cubs fan.
He loves to cook.
Italian media has referred to him as the least American of the Americans because of his quiet.
Humble
way.
Wow.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
So you're telling me that you think all Americans are loudmouth jackasses?
Well, fuck you.
Humble.
Humble.
I'm the most humble bitch you've ever seen.
But let's get back to the Pope.
Of course, the first job of every new pope is to pick a pope name, which we all know is supposed to be the name of your first pet in the street you grew up on.
But he went a different way.
Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, taking on the name of Pope Leo XIV.
Leo XIV?
Did he choose it the way we pick a new email address?
Desi.lytic is taken?
OK, what about Desi.lytic 2?
Really?
Three?
Really?
Four?
Five?
Fine, Desi.lytic14.
Very good.
But
yes, Robert Privo's new name is Leo the 14th, which sucks for him because he just got his real ID.
Dang it.
Now, I've always found this odd.
The church is so conservative on gay issues, but then they turn around and make its leader choose a drag name.
But after he picked his pope name, he came out and gave his first speech in both Italian and Spanish about the need for unity and peace on earth.
This is good.
So
cue
peace
and unity in three, two, one.
I would have loved for the first pope from America to say something in English.
I
was a little surprised that a Chicago native did not say a few words in English.
He's talking Spanish.
He's an American.
And he didn't even speak in English.
He spoke
in Latin, Spanish, and Italian did not speak in
English.
He did not speak in English.
I mean, I don't know how you claim that this is an American Pope if you won't even speak in a native tongue.
That to me was very disturbing.
Wow.
Yes, yes.
How
dare you.
If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for the Pope.
Change.
Come on, does it really matter what language he speaks?
It's church.
You're going to be sleeping through it anyway.
And besides, there's gonna be plenty of other stuff for conservatives to throw a tantrum about.
There's some tweets that when the Pope was still a cardinal that are getting a lot of attention online that are politically charged.
This one is directly rebuking J.D.
Vance.
The new Pope, Pope Leo XIV, said J.D.
Vance is wrong.
The new Pope is not like J.D.
Vance.
He really is an everyday American.
Be careful, though, father.
If you piss off JD Vance, he's going to pay you a
visit.
Uh-oh.
Yeah, that's not going to end up well.
That's Desi Lydic from Daily Show.
That's fantastic.
It is.
It is good stuff.
And my mega friend in Milwaukee sent me a post where it
Listed why he is a conservative very conservative Pope and that he is a right winger.
He's a mega Okay, and then then I saw this list from Laura Loomer who is a right wing zealot crazy person and this is her post, okay?
This is the new Pope.
His name is Robert Prevost.
He's the first American Pope.
He is anti-Trump, anti-Mega, pro-open borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis.
I don't know where my mega friend got his information.
But anyway, not listening to Laura Loomer apparently.
Catholics don't have anything good to look forward to.
Just another Marxist puppet in the Vatican.
Wow.
All right.
All right.
And then, of course, Dan Shafer, who's here at Civic Media, he mentioned also that the Pope was a teacher in Waukesha County.
Oh, really?
In a conible walk.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's terrific.
But you know, this Laura Loomer post was really funny because Joe, who was a regular poster on X, she said this, she said, this response about, okay, she said,
Is she gonna try to get the Pope fired?
We're listing this, Laura Loomer.
Laura Loomer trying to get the Pope fired?
God, that is great stuff.
You know people just take these strange look set
things.
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Got a couple of minutes here.
All right.
But not
enough time for Tim Waltz.
I told you yesterday I was going to get to Tim Waltz.
Yeah.
Because he was on with
Jen Psaki.
Okay.
All right.
Yes.
And we do have a cut coming up in just a few moments.
All right.
But I do want to get this.
Here's why the U.S.
needs universal health care coverage.
This is crazy stuff.
The Oklahoma governor, Kevin Stitt, vetoed a bill to expand breast cancer exam options.
in the great state of Oklahoma.
On Tuesday, he vetoed House bill legislation that would clarify which breast cancer examinations health insurance providers must pay.
His veto message states that his decision stemmed from concerns over costly insurance mandates that he argued would ultimately raise premiums for workers.
Hmm.
So while early detection and access is a good thing, this legislation imposes new and costly insurance mandates on private health care plans.
Wow.
We got to protect those insurance companies.
Right?
I mean, we got to save them some money.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
So let's, you know, let's keep that, that breast cancer examination down.
Okay.
Boy.
This is
why we need universal health
care.
Yes.
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Start this Friday.
Let's check out the rest of the weather with our WMDX chief meteorologist, Brittany Merlo.
Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning.
How are you guys doing?
We're doing really nice.
Looking forward to a fantastic weekend.
I'm sure you're not going to disappoint us.
Right?
No, I just got a rocket full of sunshine for everybody.
All right.
Nice.
Yeah.
How nice will
it
be?
Yeah.
Too nice.
How's that?
Is that possible?
We'll take it.
No.
Yeah, after a crisp and cold morning, what we hit 32 degrees this morning, the freezing mark, frost advisories out there.
And now we're finally above that 37 degrees at the moment.
We're going to make it to 70 today.
Super sunny.
I mean,
that's going to be the case pretty much for the rest of the week as well into the weekend.
We're looking at 73 degrees tomorrow.
76 on Saturday or a Sunday for Mother's Day.
Yeah.
And then we climb into the 80s next week.
Yeah.
Wow.
I know.
I know.
And we're holding off on all rain.
It looks like a cold front moving through tonight in the northern part of the state makes its way towards us in the morning tomorrow.
But really, no rain is going to be produced from that.
So we're going to hold off on all rain chances pretty much until Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
So pretty dry, but warm period ahead of us.
Does that mean we have burned bands back?
Do you think
that's
happening?
Yes, it does.
Unfortunately, a good chunk of the states and it's very, very high fire danger.
And that's going to last at least until next weekend, I think, because we need some more significant rain.
And that looks to move in by Sunday next weekend.
Well, it looks like I won't have to burn off my yard.
What?
You were going to burn it off?
You were going to start your yard on the
fire?
You know, I did that on
accident
when I was a
kid.
I've never heard of doing it on purpose.
Have you alerted the neighbors?
You know that I'm not a big fan of my lawn.
So you're just going to give it up and burn it off?
Accidentally burn it, yes.
But the conditions aren't right for it now, so I can't do it.
OK.
No, I know what you meant.
You meant cleaning up the yard and then burning the debris, didn't you?
Yes, that's exactly what I meant, sure.
Yep,
let's go with that.
Don't do that either.
Okay, well, Brittany, you enjoy the weather this weekend.
We'll talk to you on Monday, all right?
Sounds good.
You guys have a great weekend.
Thanks,
Brittany.
That's Brittany
Merlot, our
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right, now we're gonna get to a cut from Tim Walls here.
He's telling it like it is.
He's explaining what reality is really like.
Oh my gosh, really?
From a politician.
Let's go for it.
I you know, I don't know this for my amateur psychologist I think he listened to one class when he was back in the 80s or something at Wharton in his six months there or whatever and he misreads this It's a ludicrous philosophy.
No one agrees with him and then they come back to well Democrats put terrorists on yes, they're a tool They're a scalpel you can use them when you have unfair practices, but he's talking about the thing that drives me insane With working with Canada and Mexico.
He's the guy who negotiated the deal and then he turns around
and says, well, we don't care much about Ken.
I was glad to see the Prime Minister coming into the...
Saying from Canada saying are you out of your mind?
What would your biggest trading partner?
They are our biggest trading partner in Minnesota.
There are dearest friends There they're who we care about he has no concept This goes back to that idea so many Americans thought you know We need to hire a businessman to run government like business two things about that are wrong No, we don't need to run government like a business because we're not in the profit-making We're in the proving lives and looking towards the future and this guy has a proven track record of being an
Absolute failure and I think the opening for Democrats is is to work with the business community my I am home to many large fortune 500 companies that are put at risk by this and I'll just say this I'm calling these folks out.
They need to stand up He threatens them.
He threatens, you know universities.
Thank goodness Harvard standing up to them
But that's how he gets things done.
He doesn't get it done through competency.
He doesn't get it done through results.
He gets it done through fear intimidation.
And I'm with you.
I wish he could have been weirdly obsessed with like pickleball or something rather than tariffs.
That's where he could spend his time.
But it's on this tariff thing that doesn't
work.
That's that's a great commentary.
You know, he's talking about Trump making all his really, really bad decisions.
He he does treat the country like it is a business and he has bankrupted his businesses.
So I'm not quite sure I like the idea myself.
Right.
And why are we listening to him on this?
He really doesn't know what he's doing.
And again, it's this thing where, remember, Doge has been talking about how the government is losing money.
Well, it's not losing.
It's not there to make money.
It's there to serve the public regardless.
So anyway, that's my little rant on that.
You know, I think we could use a couple more pickleball courts.
Yeah, I wish you had followed pickleball.
Hey, I got a cut here.
This is really fantastic.
This shows our orange God and what he knows about the world.
He thinks Mattel is a country.
Let's listen to cut 68.
Cut 68, according to the outline that I've supplied.
We have
time
for
it.
I
don't know.
I'm not so sure.
They also said they're the only country I've heard.
They said, well, we're going to go counter.
We're going to try and go someplace else.
That's OK.
Mattel.
Let him go.
And we'll put 100% tariff on his toys.
And he won't sell one toy in the United States.
And that's the biggest market.
I heard that.
I mean, I watched this guy talking about how I'm going to go counter.
I said, well, I wouldn't want to have him as an executive too long.
He was talking about the executive CEO of Mattel saying that they make their toys and everything in other countries
to
keep the price down.
They do the designs and marketing ideas here in this country.
But again, he thinks Mattel, the guy, the CEO is the president of a country named Mattel.
All right?
This is the guy in charge.
OK,
coming up right around the corner.
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Gorgeous morning.
42 degrees, highs in the mid 60s for today.
Speaking of lawyers, we will talk to attorney Jim Santel, coming up a little bit later on in the show.
Also, tonight is the big night market downtown right across the street from our station.
We'll be in front of the Overture Center from five until about nine o'clock this evening.
Big Madison Night Market.
They have about once a month all the way through October.
So it'll be a good time.
Happening at night, Gordy.
I'm scared.
Are
you scared?
I'm
scared
of the
dark.
Don't be afraid, Sam.
You'll be okay.
It was a big Halloween event here.
We'll be with you.
So bring your costumes.
It's
not Halloween a bet.
What do you say?
We have Dr. Tim Slecker with us this morning.
Good morning, Tim.
Good morning.
Let's go to the phones though.
Catherine is on the line
this
morning.
You can call us as well.
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Good morning, Catherine.
I'm sorry to interrupt, Tim.
I know you've got lots of important educational stuff to talk about.
I just wanted to tell the guys because they don't have monitors in their studio.
You just missed a promo from Pete that made me laugh out loud.
He talks about Nate Bragazzi, who you love, Gordy, right?
Oh yeah, Nate Bragazzi, yeah.
Who
told me about him?
And he says that Nate might not be able to stand up much longer because he has much higher aspirations.
Nate apparently talked about Disney and how it's run by a corporation, not by a really funny person.
So he wants to create the gothy land or something like that.
And then the last thing he says is.
It may, it may seem that it turns out that Nate has more ambition than talent or something
like
that.
I couldn't believe it.
I thought it would make you laugh.
Really?
That's funny.
But also, Tim, you know, I know you're not in town right now, but you should come to the night market because I know John Peterson is going to be there.
That's
right.
To display his protest.
And stop making fun of it, John.
For God's sakes, it's fun.
OK.
All right.
It's
a
lot of fun.
He
actually has not committed to being there tonight still.
He's still on the fence.
Yes, you're going to be there.
I'll probably be there.
You're
probably there.
It's a directive.
You have
to be
there.
Boss has spoken.
Have fun with Tim.
All right.
We will.
We will.
Thank you, Catherine.
Wow.
I
know.
I know.
What do you think, Tim?
What's your
impression?
I think if you go to the night market, you should bring a liquid lawyer.
Yeah.
I'm still kind of trapped on that wondering.
What is that?
Yeah, you
know.
John's been known to carry a flask in the hip
pocket,
so
why not?
The kids won't mind to
come up and spin the wheel.
Yeah, I'm often talking about people's rights.
My right to drink and bubbly.
All right, well.
Well, Tim, if anybody has, and I'm sure they have, checked out your podcast, you and Johnny have been going at it for AI.
You know, one of these days,
I think you guys are gonna just get in the mat, get a ring and
go
at it.
The thing is, I wanted to ask you, I know that you guys are debating about it and I'm not quite sure where Johnny is on this whole thing.
But the thing is, do you think this kind of discussion is going on around the nation as well with other educators trying to figure this thing
out?
That's a good question.
I think that actually no.
And I think that that's a real problem.
Because, you know, it is fun and funny and, you know, hustling with Johnny going back and forth
like
that.
But if you if you listen to the issues we're talking about, I mean, they're really, you know, relevant and
So from my side or my standpoint, which is that this is a huge transformative cultural moment that has a real ability to make things, I hopefully better.
And my point of being very pro AI is to make sure that we're ahead of it and having these discussions so that potentially a lot of the harms that are.
potentially out there with AI, that by having really long open discussions back and forth is so that you can be aware.
But I will say that, maybe put it to this way, I think K-12 schools are actually much better and much more informed in going forward in ways
um that are positive maybe more like johnny and i having these discussions and that higher education though is really lacking and mostly from the standpoint and i think this goes to the article that we were really discussing is is that higher education continues to simply be this unmovable object that says we like the way we do things and and darn it don't mess with us because
We it's a proven product that you know and and and this is where you know Johnny It's been hitting me is like I'm the faculty hater or something like this is but I you know My brethren in the college ranks.
I I know way too many who kind of look at AI and really make this statement of going I'm so good AI would never replace me
And if anybody went to college, I'm pretty sure that most of us would go, you know what, a lot of those professors, they weren't so good.
They stood in front of the class.
They talked about what they knew.
Maybe they have a PowerPoint that they've never updated, or maybe they still use the overhead projector.
because that's been a proven teaching method and you know they have exams that they've you know put together with such incredible care that you know why would they ever change their exams.
So there's both that and I think that particularly as I look at you know Sam and the the younger generation of students that are coming into this they
they're not very much in in the mind that goes well they're just a professor you know we have to accept this i think they're kind of going like okay this stinks why would i you know if i could take this course somewhere else so hey there's a whole lot there you got me streaming thinking in my head right now but
I think there should be way more conversations about the depth of how we're doing this.
And I think higher education, those institutions that are doing it, they're going to be the ones that are going to thrive in the future because I can't think of any job that isn't going to have some type of connection to AI and having AI impact what it means to do the jobs that we're all doing.
So, I don't know, maybe I said a whole bunch of nothing.
No, actually, let me ask you, the difference between a classroom K through 12 or a classroom in college, is there a way to integrate that AI in college?
It seems like it would be a little more difficult in that situation.
Well, I break it down to this is maybe look at you know, what are the majors that students take in college, right?
And so with that you say so what jobs are the majors most likely to take and then you move out and say okay of those jobs Let's go out and talk to the industries of who are hiring our graduates
and
ask them about how they're using AI That's right, and that's where you're going to hear them going
Well, yeah, we use it every day.
And then you ask the college faculty that are preparing students in that major and say, are you using AI to prepare these students for the jobs that they're likely to take?
And if the answer is yes, well, then that's a good thing.
But I feel that there's still so much going like, and this isn't even AI.
There's a resistance with a lot of faculty
to not be in the, I'm not preparing you for a job.
Right.
I'm preparing you to be a deep thinker.
That was,
that's in one of your podcasts, your recent podcast, right?
I mean, you're learning from the private sector what you need to teach in school.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you know, that's
people don't like to be in the business of preparing people for future success in life.
And we like to just talk about how awesome it is to sit around and think.
Well, you know, they're still working on, you know, training high schoolers to be welders.
I think, you know, it's time, it's time we bring in AI, right?
That that element into the high schools to at least get people understand how that's going to be part of industry.
I'll give you an example from industry though because I'm you know on this on the side I've actually been doing a little bit of consulting with industry in AI and in the manufacturing process of this private industry that I've been working with.
They have a floor, you know, manufacturing area and they have a process and to prepare the either the floor text to work on that process or the managers of those factories, they have training materials that say, here's what you do.
Here's what you don't do.
Here's how you mix this certain chemical batch.
Hey, if this goes wrong, here's what you do.
Those training manuals now.
they're not very good at preparing people to do well as workers.
And so I was showing them how to take those training manuals and turn those training manuals into a handheld bot that they can actually integrate and ask.
Hey, I'm standing here on machine A. What should I do?
Let's take these training materials and turn them into a two minute video that helps people really learn what's in those manuals.
How do we turn these manuals into a podcast?
And so here at a facility that is some people will go, why would they care about AI?
Well, because actually the training materials can be converted and become much more effective at keeping your
people, you know, more efficient.
And if you're talking about a business, that that's just really key.
So when I did this presentation at this industry, it all of a sudden clicked on people are like, wait, we could use AI to do this, we could use AI
to do this
week.
And, and, you know, then they were thinking, and somebody made the comment of going like, our
our future workers who are in, you know, either training programs or colleges.
Holy crap, I wonder if they're getting this type of training.
And so industry is thinking about this and it is changing.
So I just think that, you know, having deep conversations about the ethics is absolutely worth it.
But I think there's a reality of saying industries are already doing this.
And so if in college, we're preparing a large portion of the graduates to become
professionals or workers, how is it that those majors are being impacted by the use of AI out in industry?
And how do we then adapt and adopt the curriculum to make sure that students are getting the preparation?
Talking to Dr. Tim Schlecker here.
We just have a minute or so left here, Tim, but we're getting a couple of texts about AI.
This one from Curt in Madison saying, AI is going to make individuals even more intellectually lazy.
Please explain how AI is going to improve critical thinking skills.
I just don't see it happening, not to mention killing reading skills.
I don't know about that.
We have AI here
in the studio that summarizes what we just talked about over the last 20 or 30 minutes.
And it's
interesting because it extends our conversation.
on it and
maybe it
maybe you
know
just points out a couple of things that we hadn't even thought about so
exactly that that's not a an invalid concern you know maybe next time we could talk more about that yeah so we're out of time for now though dr. Tim's
always hold Tim over if you want to you got a couple more
minutes Tim
so I got a
few
more yeah why don't we try that let's do that let's pick
up the topic after the break we'll be back with dr. Tim slecker John and Gordy
John and Gordy's Media World again, right here on WMDX, 92.7.
And right now we're talking to Tim Slecker from Busted Pencils and we want to continue the conversation in regards to AI and will it make people intellectually lazy?
What do you think,
Tim?
That's assuming people aren't already.
They won't make them.
They're already there.
All right, I'll try to get to this quickly.
Even within that joke, though, is the reality of going, have schools, have its education ever really done a great job?
with that.
You know, I think that's debatable.
When people make that claim, I think that's more personally about who they are and how they think.
And then when they use AI, they see that it could and potentially, and I don't disagree, that it can create shortcuts that would actually then take away students engaging in skills that are actually really needed.
Um to move this along however, I would say in you guys, you know made this comment be either in between the brakes it Comes down to like anything.
How do you use it and what is the intention be how between?
about how it's being used because I see nothing but expanding and deepening and actually enticing more critical thinking because of the way it can actually get you to think about things you didn't consider when you put it in there.
But that also then requires that we prepare students about how to ask better questions, how to dig deeper.
And so that to me says is that that goes back to just what does it mean to be a good teacher, to have a good education curriculum is, is that are we developing that intellectual curiosity?
Because somebody who has intellectual curiosity, AI
expands and actually creates this sense of going I didn't know I could ask these questions I didn't know I could dig this way I didn't know that I can put together these two things and ask it to find out what are the commonalities between this so it's an incredibly powerful tool.
Will it potentially be used by people to shortcut around things that they should have known?
Absolutely, but you know, guess what?
From the the yellow cliff notes when it came to reading Shakespeare in the 80s, I used them.
Yeah, you know,
yeah, we
all do.
Yeah.
And so, you know, if there is a shortcut to doing sometimes, and this is the other thing.
doing sometimes meaningless work that is really just busy work, people will find shortcuts.
So this really comes down to the institutions of learning to really start to reimagine what is it they're asking students to do.
And if it is something that AI could do much easier,
then maybe the assignment, maybe the activity you're engaging in needs to be adapted to recognize now that actually being lazy is really easy.
but maybe the assignments were actually encouraging lazy intellectual curiosity.
That's true.
You know, I guess when you were first talking about this way back when you did bring up a few examples of, you know, what students would experience if they entered this into AI and got a response back, a lot of the students would question immediately some of the information that they did see from the AI answer and actually maybe even create a curiosity.
about that information so they Investigate to find out if it's true or not or how true it is or if there's even more information tied to that situation, right?
Right, but but I mean again, you know that is the intention Stephen do that and as you're saying that now John I mean, you know, how about just a simple assignment where?
You know, we put together a list of quote facts and engage students in saying okay
Are these true?
And if so, how do you know?
Here's an AI tool, go.
And then come back and tell us what you learned about.
Oh, this fact, this is nonsense.
In fact, here's what we found out.
That inspires critical thinking, digging, research skills, learning what it says, right?
So I understand the fact that there are going to be students who are going to say, oh my God, this is a shortcut and I'm going to use it.
Okay, that's always going to happen.
So, but we need to then think about going, maybe it's the assignments and the workload that we've been giving that we now need to change and recognize that, you know what this.
This is way more efficient than those yellow cliff notes that we had.
They always ran
out on the ones that you really needed for the next day's assignment.
Go to the store and
they're all
gone.
Society didn't collapse
because of the cliff notes either.
No, no, it didn't.
But you know, Sam said the store in the break.
The other part though too is if you have a critical thinking base and so yeah, we need to really develop critical thinking and maybe that's outside of AI, but I can tell you the other part is is that.
If you really know something, like I said, I just enjoy the way it expands my thinking about the things I think I already know a lot about.
That's right.
I remember the discussion was, you know, come up with a topic on Abraham Lincoln and quotes from Abraham Lincoln.
Remember that
example?
And then, you know, Abraham Lincoln's dialogue in the movie Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which turned up in
the
research.
Not a good thing,
so don't include
that.
No.
Dr. Tim Slager, we need to leave it there.
People can find your podcast on the Civic Media app and also through wmdxradio.com.
It's on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with new podcasts
and then Saturdays
as well.
Hour long program.
Tim, always great to talk to you.
Thanks, guys.
Appreciate it.
Talk to you next Thursday.
Yeah.
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