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Big, big night last night.
Wow.
A lot of things happening.
Madison Night Market.
Yeah.
It was
great.
It was great.
Yeah.
We gave away a lot of our t-shirts, didn't we?
Yeah.
And our stress balls.
We ran out of stress balls.
Yeah.
We're really stressed out.
We don't know how many balls left.
Well, for some reason, everybody wanted to grab our balls.
They're a popular item.
Can you say it?
We'll get some more.
Pick the right colors, red and blue.
I guess.
I guess.
Dom, good morning.
How are you?
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
I was also at the Night Market yesterday.
Yeah.
And we had some stickers.
I think I, I'm not going to lie.
I think I stole a few.
Yeah.
Well,
they're very popular.
I had a pocket full of them.
Yeah, we've got some leftovers.
And then, of course, I got home and I realized that, for some reason, the stickers fell out of my pocket and onto the floor.
Oh, no.
And the Kraken, my two-year-old border collie, ended up chewing them.
So then I hope it tasted good.
Luckily, we had extras.
We do
have a few
extras.
But those are really cool.
We're gonna put them on everything.
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Well, here it is Friday the 13th and happy Friday.
It's a partly cloudy start this morning.
I think we'll see some sunshine at times.
A little hazy.
a little hazy and maybe a sprinkle or two, but not much.
Right now, the official WMDX thermometer right outside
our
window, the old mercury
is saying 55
degrees.
What is your Samsung WMDX watch telling us?
It's 56 degrees, but then again, it's on my warm wrist.
Could it count for another degree or two?
I
don't know.
I don't know if it really works that way, but I wonder if they tested it out.
I don't know, maybe.
But I have 76 today.
Oh, well, let's see what the
lottery
ball, because every Friday we do the lottery ball machine.
So let's hit it there, producer Dom.
And we'll see what the balls have to say.
First ball coming up the shaft is a seven.
Seven.
Next ball, here we go.
It's a three, 73 for a high.
What was your watch saying?
You don't remember?
76.
Oh, really?
Okay.
Yeah, 76 trombones, the whole
thing.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
All right, so here it is Friday.
We've got Pam Yackey will be joining us shortly in about 10 minutes or so with Midwest Farm.
Food report.
Yeah, she'll be talking about the Dane County Dairy Breakfast.
Yes.
At
the Hinckley Dairy Farm.
That's a big deal.
Yeah.
Also, Brittany Merlot will have the weekend weather and rocker will be in the studio.
Now,
there's an interesting element to the dairy breakfast.
Is there?
Because this is a special kind of dairy farm.
I don't know how special, but they have robots milking cows there.
So we're going to find out more from Pam Yankee.
Everything's AI now.
Everything's
AI.
Robots.
Robots.
Okay,
looking cows.
We'll also check in with Savannah Tomay Olson, get the latest on the news.
And of course tomorrow is the No Kings protest in Madison
and
throughout the country.
More than 1,500 or 1,600 protests planned across the country.
And it's
our
last day of the Scotty Tex to Win contest.
Yes, it is.
We'll get that underway in the seven o'clock hour.
Yeah.
So it was fun last night at the Mass Night Market.
Saw a lot of people, saw Art Paul Schlosser.
Yes, we, we, uh, we have a surprise for everybody.
Art Paul did a special on the spot.
Yeah.
John and Gordy song.
Do you have that ready, John?
Not yet.
Okay.
All right.
But I will
at
some
point, I promise.
Yeah.
Okay.
Good.
Yeah.
It was fun.
Yeah.
We.
hung out with him a little while and talked to him about coming on the show again.
We'll get him on here sometime soon.
But it was
great to see all the people stopping by the book.
I'm wearing a shirt
today.
Yeah, what does it say?
Art Paul sings, I don't want a gun.
I just want to have fun.
Yeah, I see.
That's beautiful.
Yeah, beautiful thought.
Great sentiment.
So yeah, it's a purple, dark purple shirt.
I swapped it out for a John and Gordon shirt.
Yes, you did.
Yeah, I think that's a good trade.
Yeah.
all right uh so we uh check the history books there Tom do you have
what happened to the calendar you know i've always well you know i didn't do it at all if we're gonna ignore the calendar we phased it out at least let's just look at the days the days we won't be talking
about it we won't be talking about national golf cart day why wouldn't we talk about it anyway
i know
national golf cart day why would
we
have a day to celebrate golf carts
oh that's a nice
1958
golf
cart you got there.
Really helps the exercise thing, doesn't it?
Right?
National movie night.
National blame someone else day today.
I like that one.
It's that day every day
for the
magas out there.
Yeah.
National wear blue day.
Uh-huh.
National random acts of light day.
That's strange.
Yeah.
National weed your garden day.
Hey, you're wearing blue.
I am wearing blue.
I didn't know.
We didn't get the memo.
It's colorblind, so he
doesn't.
You
didn't get the memo.
I didn't get the memo.
Wear
a blue day.
Oh, it's the Friday before Father's Day.
That's right.
It's Father's Day weekend.
Oh my god, no.
Is it really?
Yeah.
National Kitchen Cluts of America Day.
It shows a picture of somebody with a juicer getting sprayed.
Yeah, don't put a top on it when you're juicing anything.
Just let it fly.
These guys are that stupid, I suppose.
And National Sewing Machine Day for all you people that like to sew with a sewing machine.
Well, it's amazing what they've done with sewing machines.
My son wanted to get a sewing machine.
Is that right?
You know, because he's into superheroes, he wanted to make his own costume.
So he wanted to buy a sewing machine, and I thought, what?
You know, I had the image of the old sewing machines, and you know, I found out that they're all digital now, and they can do these things almost by themselves.
It's almost robotic.
So you can do a lot of stuff.
Did you buy them a Bernina?
Or
did you buy them a?
We looked into it, and we were thinking about doing it eventually, and then Joanne Fabrics went out of business nationwide
because
of some investment company that drew the line.
and dissolved the company, which is really killing everybody.
There really is no place to go now because Joanne Fabrics had everything.
They really did.
They had zippers.
Have you ever broke a zipper?
They had snaps.
They had all these different things that you could do and a lot of yarn.
Mm-hmm and and and fabrics,
you know,
I did you just can't get that stuff any place else Well, who's the hobby lobby?
No, what I was maybe Michael.
No, Michael No,
I mean they have a small sampling.
It's more hobbyist instead of actual fixing product that you have like clothes and
where's the Nancy Nancy
Zeman
Yes, yes, uh, sewing with Nancy.
Yes.
I think there's a still a store.
I think it's in, it might be in Beaver Dam.
Um, let me try to look this up anyway.
Um, yeah, I think they still have a store in Beaver Dam.
Um,
I don't know though, with Nancy's at the title of the show.
Yes.
Rolled right off my tongue.
I'm thinking, wow.
So it's pretty good.
Maybe there should be a show like that.
Yeah, is it
Nancy Zeeman's sewing studio?
That's the one where is
that?
Where is that in Beaver Dam?
That is in Beaver Dam,
right?
Wow.
How many times have you been there?
That's fantastic.
Every couple of weeks, they have lessons.
You know, I'm trying to learn how to do the double switch.
There
you
go.
The double stitch thing.
You're
that type.
I
like to make all the good quilts once in a while or
sell myself a shirt.
I know you're all American quilter in high demand.
It's really tough to make those with all the different patchwork you have to do and get the different designs
going.
All the different constitutional
quotes.
on those blankets.
We're going to hear from all the quilt makers now if you don't make fun of quilt makers.
All
right, fine.
Do what you want.
I think, you know, when you make fun of a certain hobby, it's almost a surprise.
You know, at least they notice that you have that hobby.
Right.
And they're making fun of it.
Yeah.
Okay,
I think the history books there.
Yeah, we got a few and speaking of sewing we had the invention of the sewing machine Okay, so it makes sense Also in 1971 New York Times began the publication of the Pentagon Papers Danielsburg, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then June 13 1983 Pioneer 10 made history as the first human
human-made object to leave the solar system, man-made.
Oh, satellite that's going.
Yeah, the space probe.
I feel like a lot of this history is always having to do with space.
Yeah.
Yeah,
you're probably
right.
We're still waiting for Space Force to come in and rescue L.A.
Space
Force.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Calling the Space Force people.
They're Star Trek uniforms.
Right.
Any
birthdays of note?
I'm, I don't know about of note.
They're kind of boring, but I do have three here.
We got Mary Kate Olson.
Olson, the Olson
twin.
Why wouldn't
it be the other
person's birthday?
Maybe Kate is one and... Well, Mary's one and Mary's the other.
Yeah, but it's... Mary Kate Olson.
Yeah, from the full house, yeah.
And then Chris Evans.
Oh, Chris Evans.
There we go.
Captain America.
Yeah, Captain
America.
Yeah,
well, he
fit that role.
Amazing you know he started off as the human torch in a fantastic for film But you know there were two of those But I thought when they picked him as Captain America thought why did they take him away from being the human torch?
But man did he fit the Captain America role really wow now he's playing villains in a lot of movies the gray man I think was the latest one and what a great movie.
Oh my gosh, yeah
Yeah.
Great man.
Ryan Gosling, right?
Yep, Ryan Gosling.
Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling.
Those are two really good actors, absolutely.
Just
an amazing action film, just fantastic.
And then the last one is Tim Allen, so kind of going away.
He was in Toy Story, Santa Claus, Home Improvement.
So, a lot of actors today, a lot of actors.
How old is Tim Allen, does it say?
72.
No, he's a young guy.
Holy crap.
Well, not that young.
I mean, you know, he's over his seventies.
Man, he should retire.
All right.
Well, that's good.
Yeah.
Thank you for that.
Look at the birthdays.
Again, we've got Pam Yonkey coming up next, right?
What are we going to talk about?
The
dairy breakfast with the Robotic.
milking machines.
Can't wait to get Pam's take on that.
All right.
And there's Artisan Butter.
Did you know anything about this?
I think Pam will talk about that as well.
Okay, and we'll also, in our next hour, we'll check in with Savannah Tomey Olsen and Rocker with the Maxine Preview also in the seven o'clock hour, along with the Scotty Text-to-Win Contest, last day for that.
Got to get in on it.
It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning.
WMDX, 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning.
623, partly cloudy skies today, highs in the mid-70s.
And now it's time.
Do we have Pam Yankee on the line here?
I think we do.
I
think we
do.
Very good, Dom.
Thank you very much.
Hey, good morning to you.
Happy Friday, the 13th.
I
know.
I dawned on me as I was looking at the markets this morning.
Oh, really?
Everything started unfolding in with Israel and Iran and it's nothing but triple-digit lows and and then all of a sudden I'm like, oh, yeah Friday the 13th.
Here we go.
Here we go.
What
a way to start.
Oh my gosh
So well, let's talk about you know some of the topics that are really going on and in your industry and that is the dairy the Dean County Dairy breakfast everybody looks forward to this one.
This is a big event tomorrow
morning at the Hinckley dairy
farm.
Is that correct?
Yeah, you bet It's gonna be a couple thousand people where usually see between five and six thousand people that attend the Dean County breakfast on the farm and for another second time
The Hinchley family in Cambridge are going to be hosting and I love this dairy.
This has been basically not constructed, but it really fits well with education.
The Hinchleys have a lot of school kids that end up coming through their farming operation.
And one of the reasons why is they use robotic technology to milk their cows.
Now, when I talked to Tina, you know, that's not a small investment for a farm their size.
to make.
I think that Tina maybe around 200, 250 c hard to make sure it's work more importantly, not on well and go up in milk p have the opportunity to g want to, not when the it also gives a quali and Tina.
I mean, I've g
how rested and relaxed they look now when I see them out as opposed to always looking at the watch.
When do we have to leave to get home for chores?
And the other thing about the Dane County Dairy Breakfast, if you join us, tomorrow morning they start serving at seven and those robots will be milking cows.
Now I'm sure I can imagine what's going through you guys's head.
Yes.
When you think about robotic.
Yes.
Think about the
Jetsons.
Yeah, exactly.
The one running around with an apron on.
Well, this is not, this is not that case at all.
This is literally if it's just a square box kind of where the cow walks in, it's all automated as far as using laser levels.
So it knows exactly where the cow is standing, and it knows exactly where her udder, where the milk comes out is all four teats.
They've got laser levels on it so that the milking machine basically, once that cow walks in, it cleans her, then it puts the milking machine on her, milks her, and then it disinfects her or cleans her when she's leaving.
And for that, she's rewarded with a couple cubes of high protein feed while she's standing there.
And remember, they decide.
they decide when they want to get milk.
So some of these cows have gone up by, you know, literally double milk production because instead of waiting for the farmer when they feel like they need to be milked, they go in and they just continue to, you know, grow their milk production.
So it's very cool.
It's something that you'll be able to see tomorrow.
if you join us at the Dane County breakfast on the farm.
And again, like I said, be patient.
We're still kind of putting together all the volunteer forces because of everything else that's going on.
I think I mentioned you guys last week, there's 16 different june dairy events going on tomorrow around Wisconsin.
That's just Saturday 16.
So
what's going on?
It was like the dairy state or something.
Well,
anyway, the thing here is I never knew that cows knew or wanted.
to get milked, you know, like it's a thing where they voluntarily do it themselves.
That's right.
And I love it.
I love to watch them because there are cows just like people that will try to game the system.
So they'll go milk.
and then all of a sudden you see them literally just like kids in a school lunch line go right back around and follow the next one in because they know that they're going to get a feed cube.
Yep, absolutely.
It's just hilarious.
And there are some that are so catty they will go to another milking machine just to try to get that feed but they are wearing a little bit of an electronic collar that's designed for milk production tracking but it also says
you've had your treat for right now move on.
So they make sure that it's funny how there's some of them that are so smart on how to game the system and they know what's going on and they will stand in line literally on their own.
They stand in line waiting for the next one to get out of the machine so that they can go in if it's certain times of the day.
So kind of looks for the animal patterns that those robotic milkers that you get to the farm.
It's just hilarious to see how they
They love it.
They really do love it.
They'll stand there if you don't get them out of the way.
I think more dairy farms should pick up on this thing.
This is wild.
They are.
They are.
It is true.
They are.
Yeah.
Well, I want to get to the interesting thing with the artisan batches of butter.
This is kind of a cool thing.
It's kind of a rising industry in Wisconsin, isn't it, at this point?
Yeah.
We're probably going to run out of time.
We can talk more Monday.
So what's spawning this is the world-high market price for butter.
Right now, U.S.
butter is about a dollar a pound cheaper than the world butter market.
And what that's forcing is for us to change up how we do butter.
In the United States, our average butter has 80% milk fat.
The world market wants 82% butter fat.
Now, it doesn't seem like a big deal, but actually it can kill deals.
It can kill deals.
So some of our U.S.
butter producers have gotten savvy.
It's not hard to increase butterfat.
We've got plenty of it around us.
So our U.S.
butter makers are doing artisan batches at 82% that they can then market for a premium on the world marketplace.
Wow.
What's been going on?
And it looks like it's going to keep going on.
Interesting.
All right.
Well, we can talk more about that in one day.
I think we should.
All right.
Pam Yonkey, thank you for joining us.
Have a great weekend.
Yeah, you guys too, thanks.
All
right, very good.
Friday the 13th there.
Coming up next, it's Idiocracy on John and Gordy in the
morning.
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber,
you go and do something like this.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fallout shelter right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Well, you know, it's something to catch onto that dumbness, and they realize, oh, no.
You know, we were pretty dumb doing this.
Mm-hmm.
But, uh... It's
contagious.
We'll get to that in just a moment.
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All right.
Well, let's get to, you know, something that the Magus have realized that maybe this wasn't the best idea.
And that is having this proof of citizenship law in place.
So yeah, Texas legislators surprisingly ended the 2025 session this week without passing a proof of citizenship bill one reason for the bill's failure advocates say Republicans were worried that married women rural voters and GOP leaning groups might be hurt
By it, I think that includes everybody that votes for Republicans.
Really?
Yeah.
That's what they're saying?
Yeah, they're, you know, they're a little reluctant now to pass something as ridiculous as that.
You know, there's no escape hatch.
You
know,
once you have a birth certificate, there's not like an argument you can make in front of somebody saying, but now I have a married name.
Well, it doesn't, you know, you know, doesn't prove anything.
So
that's not a good thing.
All right.
You know, I tried to play off the fact that it's going to be no Kings Day tomorrow.
That's right.
Big protests all across the country, of course here in Madison.
I thought,
how do we have fun with that?
And I came up with an idea.
And it is a miserable failure.
Oh, no.
You were trying to come up with
how we can have some fun.
Trying to be funny, trying to be clever.
Oh, no kings?
Yeah, no kings.
Go with the king theory.
Yeah, and my idea was there's a backlash now from all the kings that we have in this country.
Like what kings?
They're opposing, you know, no kings day.
And I wrote spokesperson Barbie as the island princess and press releases stating that the kings were not going to be intimidated and won't tolerate disobedience.
What kids are we talking about?
Well, okay, Atlantis king Aquaman and and who and Prince Namer who is now king Namer will also make rare inland appearances.
Okay, and good news Wakanda King Black Panther will be the featured speaker now I Put this thing together thinking well, this will be funny, you know
I just
have a but it didn't it's it's just it's not working out at all Just throw the Burger King in
there that guy.
Well, I'm glad you mentioned that
okay Burger King will supply the food But keep a low profile due to what some people claim is a creepy a
Presence.
Yeah, he
never speaks.
No, he's... His facial expression never changes.
Yeah.
How's that creepy
smile?
He kind of walks around.
kind of creepy
what about uh what about king friday from uh uh sesame no
uh mr rogers mr rogers
well i i think it's just part
of the uh large contingent of kings that will be making it out for the backlash against no kings
day
king friday well i think
you
i think you'll like this the entertainment will be provided by king crimson
They're going to play
that.
Yes.
And the Frost King will supply the AC.
Frost
King.
Oh, sure.
The AC and the refrigeration.
It's going to be a hot
day, you know, so we
certainly want
to keep the place cool.
They're very relieved, though, the one cancellation that they were looking forward to was King Kong, because
there's a lot of
destruction tied
in with that.
It's an
elaborate joke.
That's an elaborate
joke.
You
must have stayed up all night working
on
that.
It
didn't take me long to put this together, but I thought, jeez, I don't know, this is kind of slapstick, right?
Well, okay, so.
And then I said, yeah, the Star
Studded lineup includes old King Cole, King Arthur of the Flower Company, King of Hearts, King Lear,
Oh.
And the tune King Leonardo.
Do you remember
King Leonardo?
Is that a cartoon?
Yeah, he
was a lion.
Oh, yeah.
King Leonardo,
yeah.
A foreign king of the mountain.
King Theoden.
King Aragorn.
Who?
This is from Lord of the Rings.
Oh, okay.
King Smurf, you might be familiar with that one.
Little King, remember the Little King cartoons?
What?
I never understood these old, old comic strips.
Little King.
Oh.
The little guy.
I
don't remember that one.
I never understood
that.
How about King of the Mole, man?
I'm sure that you're familiar with, no?
Don't
know that one.
How about King of the Mountain?
King Oden.
Mufasa, the lion king for all the
kids out
there.
He'll be there.
King Bob the minion for the kids that love minions.
And of course the pirate king.
Oh, okay.
So there you go.
A lot of kings.
Well, again,
it's a backlash against the no kings day.
Makes perfect sense.
Well, anyway.
I wonder if there'll be any kings at the Madison protest tomorrow.
You know, people wearing crowns or whatever, you know.
If you listen
to our promo for today,
we are
going to be the two kings.
We did have that.
We did have that.
We'll be the target.
Ah, okay.
Well, good to know.
All right.
Well, I failed humor.
Well, thanks for preparing that.
I apologize.
I apologize for everybody.
Well, you really went through a lot of disaster.
That's really...
You did a lot of work on that.
I'm like, you workshopped it by yourself.
It shows.
Yeah.
Well, that's how I entertain myself just by putting stuff like that.
They're on State Street.
They did not
like that.
That's
good.
All right.
OK.
Should we get to.
You know, I put together so much stuff for today.
I think I'm just gonna put, I'm gonna call some ad libs here, okay?
Some audibles?
Yeah, here, let's go with AOC.
I thought, look, she made a great point yesterday, and this is something that didn't occur to me.
I think it didn't occur to a lot of people, but now when you think about it, wow.
This is really the reason why all of this is going on, this opposition to immigration, and how they're taking people out.
Who are they taking people out?
A lot of people have thought, well, they're going to take out all the bad people,
all the criminals, the gang
members.
But AOC had a different perspective, and this is cut 129.
So let's listen to AOC's point of view on this.
It's great stuff.
Listen.
But when they say illegal versus legal immigration, they are trying to end legal status in the United States as well.
Correct, Governor Prisker, with the end of TPS and making people undocumented by removing legal status, ending legal status, and then having the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.
Correct?
Taking students visas away from people, taking their legal right to be in the United States away from them.
they've been granted maybe years earlier to stay.
So I don't want to hear about how this is about illegal versus legal immigration.
They are attacking legal status and removing legal status.
The Republican majority is anti legal immigration in the United States.
I want to make that very clear and I yield back.
There you go.
They're making it illegal for legal immigration into this country.
They're taking it out.
It
didn't occur to me because they're reversing all of these visas.
They're calling people into these courts to renew their visa or talk about it in court.
But anyway, they're arresting people and it's ending.
Taking it away.
Yeah.
Why, it was a great thought, really a great thought.
Now, yesterday when we were talking about the LA situation, you know, everything that's happening there, and personally, you know, as I watch all of the action going on, it's really a kind of a show, a Hollywood show, of explosions and bombs and sound and action, right?
caused by the National Guard, caused by the local police.
And when people see the videos of this stuff, the Megas just love it.
I mean, they just eat this stuff up, the explosions, the flash bombs, they love this stuff.
And seeing people running and being carried away and zip tied, it's a show.
That's all it is.
And all these people that are being forced to the sidewalk and off the road,
They're not doing anything.
They're just standing there protesting like anybody should in this country against their government if they disagree with it.
And that's all it is.
They're just creating a situation and making it seem bigger than it really is.
Right?
I mean, that's just the crazy part of all of this stuff.
But then we've got the other people, the the Megas out there that are saying, oh, look at all those flags, you know, the Mexican flags.
Wow.
You don't want to see those.
Yeah.
And I'm wondering, well,
What about those flags?
Yeah, now we had we had a texture a Tria from Milton who who called us out on this he's saying hmm Democrats supporting other countries riding in Los Angeles is a new form of terrorizing the American population with all those foreign flags flying in LA That's not American people.
That's a foreign invasion
The fact that you're not asking why so many foreign flags are being flown in LA tells the tale.
So I'm just thinking, wait a minute here.
No.
Well, one thing my mega friend in Milwaukee called me and said the same darn thing.
So my response to that is basically, and I think your response too is, you know, we've seen a lot of different flags and we don't know no one's ever asked the person carrying the flag.
Are you an American?
Are you supporting the Mexican immigration into this country and the people that are working hard here that have the legal visas
that
are now being kicked out anyway?
Are you asking any of those questions?
Are these people America?
or not are they flying the Mexican flags because they're proud of their home country and They're here
trying to be a
citizen in this in this country.
I don't
see any problem with it And I don't know I remember seeing Gadsden flags.
I remember seeing Confederate flags right remember seeing Trump flag superimposed on the American flag I'm sorry.
I saw a lot of different flags myself Mm-hmm Trius, so I don't know what you're complaining about again.
This is a very superficial thing
to take note of, you know, flags.
But, you know, everybody deserves a chance to make a better life in this world.
And there are no borders, visible borders.
So what we need to do is just find a better immigration policy.
And
immigration reform seems to be off the table and no one's talking about it.
And we will continue with more of Idiocracy on John and Gordy in the morning.
Stay with us.
Here
comes Leonardo, Leonardo Lyon.
King of Bungo Kongo, a hero line
of
irons.
Where Leonardo travels, his subjects all go too.
There's Odeo Coloni, whose loyal hand shall live.
I say there's a booming hunter.
And why are we witty, Fox?
And Tutor, who brings fun to
you?
I'm Visset's magic box.
Put King Leonardo as his enemies.
Big A, where there's pastos.
King Leonardo.
Where
there's fleas.
It was not a great cartoon.
I hated that thing.
It was a crummy cartoon.
Yeah, it was really cheap.
Kind of a nightmare.
Not well done.
But the King
Leonardo.
Again,
that's the backlash against No King's Day.
They're all coming out in force, but I'm really worried about...
the Burger King.
For some reason that guy, you don't know what to expect
from him.
He just kind of lurks around in the background.
Yeah.
And I want to thank Tria for, you know,
Posing the question in a text, he's from Milton, and I'm not angry at you, I'm actually angry at my mega friend at Milwaukee.
But the flag thing is a little superficial.
You didn't see Biden flags, you didn't see Obama flags.
You know, the left doesn't do these kinds of things.
You know, there's the Gadsden flag, the Confederate flag, the Trump flag, and you know what, we don't mention anything about it, we never bring it up, it's not a big deal.
damn flags.
Who cares?
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All right, we've got a couple of phone calls here.
Let's go to Dick first.
Dick, what do you got for us today?
Good morning.
I find it interesting they're worried about
worried about these flags and yet you have a defense secretary who comes just short of carrying a Russian flag.
Yeah, he wants to win that war.
That's right.
Well,
it's situation yesterday with the senior senator from California.
I had the opportunity to see it just about in real time shortly after it happened when I got home.
Yeah.
And he clearly says who he is.
There's no question about it.
So the way they operate as a party
Shouldn't we have, um, when Marjorie Taylor green hold her stunt during that, uh, the, uh, state
of the
union, they should have put the take down on her and drug her out of the room.
Yeah.
Hold her out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, you're not even able to ask a question of somebody from Homeland security.
And then she claimed she didn't know who he was.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, I did hear her in the background as he was trying to ask his question.
I don't think maybe she was actually aware of him at all.
And I blame the guy.
I believe one of the security guys for actually taking action as quickly as he did, just from a guy asking a question.
Right.
So a lot of that is on him.
Well, they say that the senator lunged at her or something.
Like, I didn't see any of
that
in the video.
He's
just behind.
In fact, he's, you know, he kind of blocked from getting to
her.
A lot of camera people read in front of him.
Yeah.
So there was no easy way to get at her anyway.
So, yeah.
That's crazy.
They seemingly couldn't say who exactly that was, even though they had FBI's.
stuff on, you could clearly see.
They weren't sure whether it was Secret Service or FBI.
Well, who knows, you know, the way they go about their business now.
Well, it could be just a militia member now dressed as some kind of government agent.
We don't know anymore.
I mean, you know, no one has to show an ID or a search warrant.
So this is really off the rails.
This is so far off the rails.
All right, Dick, I appreciate it.
Thank
you for that call.
Let's move
on to Mark here.
Mark, what do you got for us?
Yeah, good morning, guys.
Yeah, all the ethnic festivals here in Wisconsin, they're always flying the flag of like Norway or Switzerland or Sweden.
Oh, yes, sure.
You go to Dork County,
sure.
Whatever.
And for another flag, the Virginia State Flag holds has the goddess of liberty with her foot upon a dead king's slain king's
at her feet with the crown lay in the land you know it off off his body that uh... so if you know if there's was flying that flag uh... you know a insult to donald trump i mean to the king's that you mentioned were actually king's uh... so some of the fans to like aquaman king name or what people dedicated to the actual people not to themselves
and to the orange menace that wants to make himself king and all these other countries can have their kings but here in america we do not have kings the king the president is subject to punishment and disgrace as a stated by hamilton and federal sixty seven i mean that is right now for sixty nine federal sixty nine i'm sorry that uh... but i mean he's not the man he's not supposed to be the man that's ready to hamilton tried to assuage the uh...
The fears of the anti-federalist who thought he was going to be crowned and surrounded by minions and mistresses with his murdering janissaries at his disposal, well apparently that's what Megal wants and that's not what we're supposed to have.
Well,
you just mentioned the Minions again.
King Bob, the Minion, is one of those forming the backlash against No King's Day.
Look, I'm not going to let go of this stupid... Well, you worked all night on that stuff.
You're going to use it.
I
did.
And I apologize for everybody.
Mark, thank you for that, Carl.
We have a text here.
Yeah.
Foreign Flags.
Has Stoten been invaded by Norway?
They fly a lot of flags down there.
I lived there for about two months.
I loved it there.
The coffee cup was just fantastic.
Why did you only live there two months?
Well, I had a radio job in Jamesville.
Oh, it didn't work out.
Yeah, it didn't work out at all.
And then we have a comment from Steve Clemens out there in Sun Prairie.
There is no country called America.
There are two continents called America, North America, South America.
The United States of America is a country in North America.
North America.
Yes, that.
Very good.
Thank you for pointing that
out.
Good point.
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Yes, Savannah, Tome Olsen is with us this morning with all the latest news from around the area.
Good morning, Savannah.
That's a big story today, Savannah.
Good morning, guys.
I've been waiting days to hear your opinions on this, so I'm curious to see what you think.
So the city of Madison will be passing, at least likely passing some new housing legislation.
you know, one of our biggest problems here in the city and in Dane County is housing and affordable housing and trying to increase the number of available units for people.
We have one of the lowest vacancy rates in the country.
So, you know, thoughts and prayers to all the renters and apartment hunters
and house hunters out
there.
Man,
it's not easy.
But their
proposals are essentially that they would
Right now, duplexes are only allowed in about a third of the city.
And these proposals would allow duplexes everywhere.
And that could, you know, increase density in some places, but they're calling it gentle density, right?
They're not talking about putting huge apartment buildings places.
They're talking about where there's one house there could be two.
That's right.
That's a great
idea.
backyard lots.
That's the other half of it.
Okay, your turn.
Go.
I want to hear what
you think.
Well, the duplex is something we should have done a long time ago.
You know, it encourages home ownership.
You can buy duplexes, you know, half of a duplex, obviously.
Yeah, a lot of people rent them out, though.
But yes, duplex is very important to start, you know, increasing the amount of and then of course, what was your other question?
Backyard
well back yard.
Yeah, the
people who have like these big lots can split it up and build a unit in their backyard
now I I really love that idea and they really have fantastic units and you know prefab units that you can put in back there Yes, but I've always wondered what about plumbing what about electrical?
Yeah, how do you get that stuff out there, right?
Especially plumbing you have to have a lateral going to the road so yeah that
That gets kind of messy, especially if it's in a backyard because it will
have to go through your house.
Well, yes.
Yeah.
So those are issues that they have to be wondering about that.
That's all.
But I
love those ideas.
I love all the ideas.
That's what should have been done a long time ago, including, you know, apartments above garages, you
know, people can put those in as
well.
Right.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I mean, we're jamming people into apartments here in the style.
Right.
Yeah.
I
mean, they're putting in a huge apartment building just down the street from my house and I've seen a ton of apartments going and we need them.
But, you know, the, the big balancing act and we've talked about it before is how do we increase density without changing the fabric of people's neighborhoods,
right?
Yeah.
Because nobody wants the gigantic apartment building in the.
in the house that didn't used to have one.
Well, I hope there's something in any of all of this, all of these proposed bills that at least allows the same architecture to be repeated in those neighborhoods without having neighborhood associations.
If you're gonna put something in, at least have it kind of mimic a lot of the architectural surroundings, basically.
Savannah, anything else on your mind as far as big stories?
Happening in Madison all the protests are scheduled for tomorrow.
The No Kings protest in Madison.
Yeah,
that's right They've got so there's a huge protest expected on the Capitol yesterday or not yesterday tomorrow.
Is it Friday?
It's Friday the 13th It's scheduled for tomorrow.
Yes Yeah, we don't know if we're in the past or future
I think almost 60 plan just across the state of Wisconsin, which is huge.
So I talked to the Madison Police Department yesterday and they said that they'll have their special events team out because that's what they do, but they're expecting nothing but peaceful protests here.
I mean, that's a specialty of Madison's, I would say are huge peaceful protests.
But my favorite part is that
Instead of going to the huge protests tomorrow, which will, you know, involve large crowds and
a
lot of walking, somebody organized a No Kings protest on the west side and they're calling it the old folks protest.
So you don't have to stand in the crowds and you can bring a chair.
Oh,
really?
Where
is
this?
On the west side?
It's like on the west side right across from Memorial High School.
Oh, okay.
Well,
that sounds really cool.
I love how convenient, yeah.
It's nice.
You know, the event
that I'm looking forward to is the women's march they're putting on over, they're putting on a circus.
Before the, before the other
protests, before the No Kings
protests.
And it's gonna be on the library mall and they're gonna have activists wearing clown costumes in protest of what they call the Trump administration's clown show fascism.
And they're also trying to set a record for the most circuses held on a single day.
Yeah.
So I'm looking forward to that.
There are also protests planned in McFarland, in Stoughton, Monroe, Nuglaris, Sauk City, Jamesville, Baraboo, Dodgeville.
The list goes on and on.
Lots of people.
All over the place.
Yes, more than 50 in Wisconsin.
And we're
still looking forward to the backlash to the No Kings Day, you know, with all of the...
You're going to beat this to death, aren't you?
With Burger King showing.
Burger King will be
there.
King Friday
from Mr.
Rogers Neighborhood.
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood is involved, so you never know what will happen.
Savannah Tomay Olson, thank you for joining us this morning.
You have a good, happy Friday the 13th, okay?
All right.
Yeah, you guys too.
All right.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Okay.
All right.
I
got something really cool.
This is, you know, we've featured this individual as representative a number of times on this program.
She's a New Mexico representative and it's Melanie Stansberry
and
she has been out there and
she's, she's a force to be dealt with.
Yes, she is.
She's
like AOC out there
and she had a
comment on No Kings Day.
This is cut 124 and let's listen to this.
Wow.
Some interesting theatrics today welcome everyone to the oversight reality TV show I know mr. Trump loves himself some good TV and today is not Disappointing and in fact I want to say welcome to some of the members who've showed up to this committee who I've never seen here before It's great to have you here in the hearing room with us now before I get started on the topic at hand I want to take a moment to speak directly to the immigrant community who might be
watching and listening today.
I want to say to everyone out there who is living in fear, we see you, we love you, we respect you, and we are fighting for you and every community that is being targeted by this administration and this Congress.
We also want all of you out there to know that you have rights.
You are protected by the law.
And you should not have to live in fear and wonder whether or not you're going to be safe if you leave your home or if your family is going to come home at night.
We see you.
We are fighting for you.
You have rights.
Now, let's turn to the situation in California, which, of course, much of this hearing has focused on.
As someone from a Marine veteran family,
Let me be clear.
Marines are combat troops.
They are highly trained, highly disciplined, lethal, fighting force combat troops.
And they should never, never be deployed against the American people who are exercising their constitutional rights.
This is a gross and disgusting abuse of power.
a disgusting abuse of power by fake tough guys, fake tough guys who think that they can intimidate our communities while taking away their rights.
And this is from the same man, the same man who dodged the draft and called our military service members suckers and losers.
That's your commander in chief.
These folks here and the president want to say there for our military and our veterans, while they're illegally deploying service members, violating state sovereignty, gutting the VA, firing generals and lifelong service members.
And you all want to sit in here and play like you're with the military and the American people, while Donald Trump is planning to spend $45 million of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars on a fake military parade.
This Saturday that they can't even fill that they put a super PAC ad on Craigslist to recruit Citizens of the city of Washington DC to go stand in the parade route
beautiful.
Yeah Wow
Yeah, the Craigslist thing is pretty outrageous, but we saw the Craigslist ads also for a lot of his rallies.
This
is absolutely nothing new.
And we got a text here from the Chuckster.
How about adding an Oak King soundtrack, maybe something off of Russia's Farewell to Kings, which isn't a bad idea.
Or running James Dio's Kill the King.
right but you know they're old see this this expands on my idea which I I I thought you know right didn't quite work out yes you know the hall of the camps
all kings and yes that was a great old King Grimsson album yeah that was excellent
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Yeah, it was a fun night at the Madison Night Market.
So, whether or not we're starting to see some hazy sunshine here in Madison, what's it like in Wausau?
Oh, you know, not much better.
The smoke may be gone, but we've got a ton of clouds, lots of rainfall.
I mean, I think we've already picked up a half an inch.
Some place is already an inch and a half up north.
Wow.
So this weekend in the Northwoods, it is a soaker.
It's going to continue through the day today and even into tomorrow too.
All down south.
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of those
do want to stay to the south.
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Otherwise, tomorrow, sunny highs in the eighties, still hanging onto the sunshine on Sunday, low eighties, maybe some mugginess though, starting to seep in and that heat and humidity really starts to crank as we go into next week.
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Honestly, a gorgeous weekend down south.
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You have a good weekend.
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That's WMDX chief meteorologist Brittney Merlot.
All right, he got something here.
I think this is really kind of fun.
It's Don Lemon.
And whatever happens.
He's calling it a Hollywood spectacle out
there
for the parade, the Trump parade for his birthday.
Let's listen to cut 127.
Here we go.
All right.
Breaking news.
Military might political pageantry and Hollywood are colliding sources are telling us here at the Don Lemon show that the Trump administration possibly via the army has ordered about 1500
military uniforms from over the years to show the evolution of the U.S.
military uniform.
They are telling us these sources.
They are alleging that the Trump folks want either members of the military or actors to wear these uniforms either in the parade or in the crowd.
We reached out to the company.
They would not comment, but our sources are saying about 1500 uniforms have gone.
What is this?
Is this supposed to be a parade or is this a Hollywood show?
All for the sake of Donald Trump, who wants a big production for his birthday.
This is becoming even more expensive for the American taxpayer.
And why isn't he focused on things that are more important than a grand parade for himself?
I'm almost
hoping he's
distracted.
You know instead of you know focusing on LA and I think there was a comment for from Kristi Noem a Homeland Security saying something like they're going in there to help a socialist city and
You know
it becomes very very politically ideologically motivated
to do something like this.
So I think that's really what's backing this up.
There's nothing else.
This is to prove that liberal, blue states and cities are all bad.
And that's where all of these events are pretty much taking place.
Yeah, everything was calm and peaceful before the troops
arrived.
Everything
was going
just fine.
I know the protesters, there weren't a lot of them.
and they were dispersed throughout the entire area, so it wasn't like a massive contingent, busting up buildings and burning cars.
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I want to go to the phone lines real quick.
We have Joe on the line.
What do you got for us today Joe?
Well, I just wanted to reiterate, you were talking about Christine Noem, our Homeland Security Director, and what she had to say about Los Angeles.
Let us remember that this is Christine Noem with a woman who dragged her puppy to a gravel pit so she could shoot it in the face because she couldn't manage to train it.
This is the woman who didn't know what Habeas Corpus was, and here she is, Homeland Security.
So what she actually said is just so amazing.
This is a quote.
We are staying here, city of Los Angeles, to liberate the city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and this mayor have placed upon this country.
First off, they voted for their governor.
They voted for their mayor.
So this is what they want.
And to describe it as socialist, who is she to say that this is what the people of Los Angeles and the people of California wanted?
Let us imagine that Christine Ohm put that same level of insight into occupying Green Bay.
How would we like it if she occupied Green Bay?
Said it was a socialist mayor, socialist governor, and Tony Evers.
And we're going to remove that burden.
Not so much.
No, we wouldn't like it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I
think,
you know, that and thanks for that quote.
I was trying to think of what it was.
I even wanted to get the recording of it.
Couldn't get my stuff to work this morning for it.
So I appreciate that.
And we're going to have that on the show.
I'm going to repeat that quote over and over.
I think that sums up exactly what this administration is up to.
So Joe, thank you.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
It is 737.
By the way, there's one two things.
I just want to give everybody a chance to check out.
It's a wash.
He's got a channel on YouTube wash V a us ch and then there's another guy.
It's Hassan
Piker, Hassan Piker, check those two channels out.
If you want to stay up to date with what's going on in LA, they've got the coverage.
They're the ones that you should be watching.
And Hassan Piker actually, he live streams every single day, where he goes out and just does everyday things as well.
Well, Wash does the same thing.
Wash
does the same thing.
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get away okay it is 738 time to welcome rocker back into the studio for a maxing preview good morning rocker
how you doing guys thanks for having me
on do it okay what do you think of the
Art Paul T-shirt
here.
Oh, yeah.
Purple bananas on the moon.
Oh, I know.
Art
Paul Slasher, we ran into him last night at the Madison Night Market right outside our station.
He's always out there for
everything.
He represents the spirit of busking in Madison, that's for sure.
Yeah, we've known him for years.
Way back with them during our early days here in Madison.
That's
right.
All right, so let's get to the
so preview you guys are gonna have Tiffany Hobbs on Monday morning, by the way She is a personality from LA and on-air personality with KFI 640 a.m.
She's a special
education teacher and she's a photographer So she's got her mass MA in sociology out there in California and she's gonna talk to you guys Monday
about what's going on in LA, so a personal perspective from the ground.
Yes, professional
opinion.
And thanks to you for
helping us set that up.
Yeah, we reached out to the hive.
I got one more thing.
I heard you guys talking about apartments above garages.
Yes.
And you know, Milwaukee has been doing that since the 50s, right?
Really?
Well, yeah, I mean, happy days, right?
I find we lived over the garage and the family.
That's true.
They
rented out the apartment to
him,
right?
And Chris Peterson on
Get A
Life was also
living above an apartment, above a garage.
That's fantastic.
Yeah.
So that's been going on for a long time.
Yeah.
And I also agree, actually, with you about the north belt line.
I always call the north belt line M and K. I was listening the other day and I heard you talking about that.
And I'm like, oh, man, I've always said they should build this into
a real belt line
around the north.
Because actually, I call it the wormhole because I live on the north side.
So if you want to go to the west side,
That's the wormhole to get there.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Great reference.
I like the way to go.
Maxync radio 6 p.m.
to midnight.
There's lots of good stuff coming up this weekend.
Saturday night repeats on Sunday at Wood Music Hall.
It's a brand new venue here in Madison.
It's got its
It's grand opening is tonight.
So get out there and then the Whammy's are the mamas are coming up and we'll tell you about that in a moment.
Natty Nation job boogie is going to be in talking to me 30 years of Natty Nation.
They're doing an anniversary show.
Hey, it happens to be at Atwood Music Hall as well.
Live in the lair is going to be Aaron Oakley.
Aaron is an acoustic folk pop singer, songwriter, and she's based in Madison.
She writes and records.
country pop and R&B will check that out live in the lair.
Natty Nation 30 years of Natty Nation 1995 to 2025.
For three decades, Natty has been a cornerstone of Midwest reggae music scene, spreading messages of unity, love, social justice through their powerful sound.
It's pretty amazing that they've been around for so long.
They have
Over 30 Mama Awards, Madison Area Music Hall of Fame inductees.
Saturday, June 21st, Natty Nation is going to do the 30 years of reggae, reg, revolution at Atwood Music Hall.
Let's listen to a little bit of Natty Nation.
This was from their first album in 1996.
The journey has just become.
This song is called
Arise.
Hey, gotta stand up for my girl fees.
Hey, health a week, when you know you are strong.
And your reward will be in Mount Zion.
Arise, rise up, raise the children.
The time has come.
Arise, raise the children.
Boy, Natty Nation,
I gotta say, they are so professional sounding.
It's just
a great group.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, and 30 years ago, there was a local band called Arwakja.
And Arwakja, I forget the leader's name, quote unquote, who ran that band, but he was an older guy and his backing band was very young.
And they had a parting of ways.
And that parting of ways led to a young, natty nation 30 years ago.
And now,
gosh,
here they are.
30 years later, they're the legends, right?
That's how it all starts.
Hey guys, I was talking about Jenny Lupine and Jamie Poster just last week.
She was the Nebraska native physical therapist, gymnastics coach, but went to music and now she's a singer-songwriter.
She's teamed up with guitarist Jamie Poster.
Rapscallion faces for radio.
People might remember him more in the hard rock crowd.
Saturday, June 14th at the beer rock, which is over in the North Sherman Plaza.
She is going to be playing with Jamie Poster and I thought I'd bring in kind of another song so we could hear.
different flavor of Jenny Lupine.
This is from 2022 Street Dance.
Baby, I saw you laugh across the crowded street.
Sidewalk talking with the guys.
Oh, so easy on the eyes.
Look on over to your right.
People all around us.
But you're the only one I see This crowd keeps pushing us together Moving closer now than ever Boy you're standing next to me Now you've got me dreaming
Nice voice.
Yes.
Beautiful voice.
Isn't she good?
Yeah.
Jenny Lupin coming up Saturday, June 14th, B-rock in the North Sherman Plaza.
Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Hearts.
You've heard of Rick Nielsen, right?
Guitar player from Cheap Trick.
Yes.
Well, his start.
Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Hearts.
They're going to be at Marquette Waterfront Festival.
The festival is June 14th and June 15th.
It's right there in Yihara.
Uh, Yehar River Park, um, coming up this, uh, Saturday and Sunday, it starts with the dandelion dash on Saturday, June 14th.
And then Sunday is the fool's flotilla.
Make your own boat, put it in the water from the river alliance.
That's Sunday, June 15th before the festival.
Sounds like a disaster
waiting to happen.
Yeah.
It's,
it's,
it's, it's pretty interesting.
A lot of fun.
And, and when they say fools flotilla, they mean fools.
And you know, they're dressed up in all kinds of costumes, crazy stuff.
They're, you know, they're, they're not normal people.
What can you say?
Miles Nielsen, Sunday, June 14th, he'll be there, 6 30 p.m.
on the main stage.
He'll be headlining the final day.
And let's take a little listen.
Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Hearts.
This is Hands Up from Oba Hoy,
2019.
If everything's anything, I want it all.
Put your hands up.
Put your hands up.
If you're innocent, be clear.
Put your hands up.
Put your hands up.
That is, you know, I've heard you guys play that on Saturday.
And I just thought, what, who is that?
And it's just, that is a great, great song.
Now I know who it is.
It's Miles Nielsen.
But that is just one of the great songs.
I just love that thing.
Yeah.
He, it's a great band.
Catchy.
Great
songwriter.
Hunting song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Isn't it?
Yeah.
He's very interesting.
So yeah, Marquette Waterfront Festival, that is coming up this weekend, June 14th.
and 15th at Yajara Place Park right
by the river, right on the east
side.
It's a really awesome festival to go to, a lot of fun, two stages and tons of local bands, also some, you know, national and regional touring acts as well.
Got about a minute in this segment and then we'll have some more.
On the other side, you've got something you want to
go on with here.
Oh, geez.
Well, hey, guys, I went to the emergency management, Dane County Emergency Management Team's celebration for cardiac survivors last week.
They had about, you know, a couple hundred people there show up.
Was that the Warner Park thing?
Yep.
And Melissa Agard, she spoke through the rain.
It
was
crazy.
It poured down and then they featured me as the survivor.
I got to tell my story and the importance of CPR training and AED.
That's great
that you did that.
Excellent stuff.
It is 748 back with more with Rocker with more of the Maxing preview on John and Gordy in the morning.
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Back to Rocker with the Maxing Preview.
We got a few more minutes here, Rocker.
All right, Maxing, radio this Saturday night, 6 p.m.
to midnight.
Listen for local music, interviews, and live music in the lair.
The Mama Awards, Madison Area Music Association, they've been having their Mama Awards since I think 2003 is what I want to say.
So they've been around for a while.
It's going to be an Atwood Music Hall.
Now that's over on Winnebago, right?
It used to be a really old church, brick building there.
What's it
near?
Like right near the, where one barrel brewing used to be or Tex Tubbs, Tex Tubbs.
Taco Palace.
Okay.
So around the corner there on Winnebago, kind of where the mint mark was.
Okay.
Used to be.
I think I know where that's at.
Right.
Lake Ridge Bank is a little area.
Oh, it's, it's, you know, yeah, it's a huge opening.
Plus it's a
really large venue, very professional, owned by the Baroque people.
Oh, really?
Oh, okay.
So there's a red carpet gathering in the cocktail lounge at 5.30 for the Mama Awards, and that's coming up Sunday, June 15th.
The show starts at 7 p.m.
Featuring live performances by automatic lover M Shays, Red Door Duo, Jazz Flux, the Mason Meyer Band, many more.
It's hosted by Cooper Talbot and Terry Barr.
So I'm gonna be hanging out there at the Red Carpet at 5.30.
So come and see me, the MAMA Awards this Sunday, June 15th, 7 p.m.
Let's hear a little bit of.
Automatic lover, we've heard some of their music, but I picked a little different slice to see what we can get.
This is sick love.
All right.
those guys are awesome yeah some of the some of the members they were used to being a band around here called smoking with Superman but remember that that band way back when kind of funky don't remember what a great name oh yeah smoking with Superman they were they were a lot of fun the mama wars this weekend Sunday June 15th at the Atwood Music Hall Frank Bush
and the names, right?
Frank Martin Bush and the names, they're going to be doing sessions at McPike Park and it's partnering with Garver Events to bring four day festival to Garver Feed Meal, June 19th through June 22nd.
Headliners include Armchair Boogie, Frank Bush and the names, Iris DeMent, Los Tex Maniacs.
You can hear the, or you can see the full schedule of bands at sessions at mcpike.org.
In addition to the music, they have a two day flea
electric car show, food trucks, cold drinks, and more.
I don't think Elon Musk is gonna be there, so you're
safe.
Thursday, June 19th.
Uh, Johannes Wallman and the Precarious Towers.
He's, uh, the professor of jazz studies at the UW.
He starts at 730 and then it's Frank Martin Bush in the names.
They're at 930 headlining.
There were Heartland twang meets modern grit.
Frank is, uh, from wheelhouse in case you were wondering.
Okay.
Uh, Frank Martin Bush in the names.
Let's hear one of his songs.
This is called I met a girl.
It
is good right
Frank Martin Bush in the names from wheelhouse.
That's his his solo project or solo band.
I guess we'd say
Max Inc.
This weekend.
That's right.
Give us the rundown.
We
got 6 p.m.
the midnight we have at what music halls Melissa Broom she's gonna be on to tell us all about the Edward music hall new venue in Madison Natty Nation job oogie he'll be in the studio 30 years at Natty Nation will hear some history and find out what's going on with them and live in the lair Aaron Oakley she's an acoustic pop singer and songwriters
excellent Rocker thanks for being with us
man.
Thank you.
Good
weekend
And that's going to wrap things up for John and Gordy for today.
And again, we'll be back Monday morning.
Coming up next is Stephanie Miller.
And
hopefully, you know, this town won't be occupied by any outside forces at that time.
I'm just hoping, and I keep my fingers crossed, you never know, never know.
Big No Kings protest
tomorrow.
Downtown
Madison.
Yes.
And No Kings.
We'll be there.
Oh,
the whole list that I came up with?
I know.
None of them will be there.
All right.
That'll do it for us.
Stephanie Miller is next.
We hope you have a great weekend.
Talk to you Monday morning.
In a world filled with chaos and confusion, in an echo chamber filled with lies and deceptions comes a ray of light.
Live from Madison, Wisconsin, it's John and Gordy in the morning on 92.7 WMDX.
WMDX 92.7.
This is John Peterson, Gordy Young also in the studio, I think.
And Dom is our producer.
You know, it's amazing.
I was listening to Schwab on the way in.
And I'm just surprised at how Civic Media has made the show producers, stars, you know, companions in the travel here in Radio Land.
Right.
Yeah,
the producers
get
highlighted quite a lot
now.
Yeah, it's kind of interesting.
Because I am a
star, you
know?
Well, there you
go.
See,
you're on your way, man.
You know, my birthday's in a week, too.
Everything's falling into place.
What the heck?
Excellent.
Excellent.
It is falling into place.
Yeah, who is Schwab's producer, Conrad?
Conrad,
yeah.
Yeah, he's become a big star.
Just, you know, now he has, yeah.
He's a quiz.
I don't know
how it
comes up with those quizzes,
but... Well, we have the WMDX poll at the WMDXradio.com website.
We have the poll.
I
haven't checked it yet this morning.
Is it still on?
Yes.
What do you mean is that still?
It is still
on.
Are we still doing that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, it looks like it's bright and beautiful this morning, although it's kind of hazy sunshine again.
It
is.
It is.
You know, driving in looking at the sunrise.
Yeah.
The sun is just a hazy ball of orange.
And normally I
don't
think it's that hazy.
Yeah, I don't think so either.
So are we affected again by the smoke coming down from Canada?
It hasn't stopped.
No.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That and
pollen.
Yeah.
And pollen
spray.
Wow.
If the summer kind of, you know, smudged out like this in the morning because of pollen, we're in real trouble.
We
are in trouble.
I remember this morning, Gordy was sneezing a storm in the studio today.
Yeah.
As
I got in the studio, I started sneezing.
Wow.
So some of it's infiltrated inside of our air filtration system.
I was just checking back to the poll here, the WMDX poll.
Oh, yes, please, good deal.
Which
is WMDXradio.com.
Art Fair, what is your favorite summer event in downtown Madison?
That's the question, that's on the poll.
Excuse me.
And Art Fair on the Square has 16.7%.
Farmers market 33.3%.
Madison Night Market 25% and concerts on the square also 25%.
So the farmers market is leading the poll right now, but you can go on there and what?
You can go on there and vote yourself.
I think the Madison Night
Market is really picking up steam.
It is and it happens this Thursday and we'll be there with our booth right across the street from our studio here on State Street and should be good.
You're hiding the best part of it.
We're going to be giving away a few of our John and
Gordy
t-shirts.
Yes, indeed.
Yeah, I'm wearing mine today.
Yeah.
Well,
you were wearing it yesterday.
Yeah, I had a hard time continuing to wear it, starting to feel a little stiff, you know, so you can wear it just so long.
And then it seems to have a life of its own.
You have to wander it every once in a while.
You can prop it up, you can stand it up on a chair.
Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that.
Oh,
boy.
Yeah, so.
I'm wearing my old M18 T-shirt.
Oh yeah, get mad.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Looks good after all these years.
Yeah.
It's gotta be what, 30 years old?
Oh, gotta be,
at
least that, yeah.
Yeah.
So let's see, weather-wise today, right now, it's 54 degrees.
Do you have your WMDX watch on, your
Samsung watch?
I do, I remembered it this morning.
Sunset, by the way, is at 837 tonight.
So you might want to just stay up for that.
I think there's a full moon tonight too.
Oh, there is.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Well, right now we have 55 degrees just changed and the predicted high temperature also just changed.
Yeah, 76 possible today.
Let's see if that matches up with what are we going to use today?
The lottery ball machine.
Let's do that.
All right.
Why
don't we get to that?
Sure.
Fire this thing up, you know.
Sam went through the trouble of, you know, fixing this thing
over
the months.
What are we going to do with the
breaks?
First number is seven.
Oh, boy.
Here comes the second ball.
It's four.
74 is predicted
high by the
lottery ball machine.
OK.
I can't remember what I said.
It's
my adventure.
76.
76.
OK.
A little bit later on, we're going to talk to Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society.
Also, Brittany Merleau will be here.
We got a.
100-pound dog in line up this time around.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
Really?
I was looking at the pictures.
They are.
They are.
All right.
Well, we got good pictures.
See, we didn't get
pictures for us, but yeah, we'll have to wait and see.
It's a
surprise.
We got a, yeah, we'll have to share those pictures on Facebook or YouTube or somewhere.
Sure, sure.
Look, I'm not opposed to that.
Hmm?
I'm not opposed to that.
I'm sitting over here just like I'm not in my head.
I'm agreeing.
Yeah, that you're not opposed.
Can't wait.
Let's see.
Shall we get to the history items or the
national day
calendar that we're going to ignore?
We decided not.
I keep bringing it up.
We decided not to do that.
If we were doing it.
But if we were doing it, what would be the day?
National Frosted Cookie Day.
Who doesn't love a good frosted cookie?
Well, I hate the frosting on cookies.
Here's something you and I can relate to.
National Forklift Safety Day.
Oh,
yeah.
I used to drive a Forklift
too.
Yeah, that was
fun.
They were electric.
Great time.
They had great pickup.
You guys are Forklift certified?
Yes.
No.
Well, not certification back then.
Oh, sure.
It didn't even
exist back then.
Well, it's
somewhere LP.
uh driven yeah that's what that was the kind that
i
drove it's national egg roll day uh okay who doesn't like a good egg roll
well you know where you can get some really good egg rolls
where oh at
uh Aldi
Aldi's yes
yeah they
have
excellent egg
rolls they really do yeah they keep them hidden away too you gotta fight
well you know they can change their location
i know that's true
It's National Call Your Doctor Day.
Just say hi.
You know, call your doctor
with a message.
Yeah,
they love that.
Yeah, they
do.
National Herbs and Spices Day.
Yeah, go to Pency Spices.
They're great.
Yes.
Oh,
they are.
Very progressive.
National
Black Cow Day.
Okay.
Black cow.
Yeah, I keep telling my kids about that.
I keep telling my kids
about Black Cow.
What?
I keep telling my kids about Black Cow.
They don't like it.
They won't try it.
They just won't try it.
Mixing two things together doesn't work for them.
I could
try to convince him you know mix two cereals together You know be surprised at the taste surprise yourself and not no black cows.
What do they suggest using root beer?
I think it was typically used I'm trying to scan through here But you know one of the interesting combinations would be Guinness and ice cream Guinness and ice.
Yeah, really.
Yeah
That'd be
a great black guy.
OK.
Yeah, this is the
long explanation here.
I think it's normally just ice cream and root beer.
Root beer and vanilla ice cream.
Yeah.
That's what.
Simple.
That's the suggested combination.
National iced tea day and one of our favorite days.
Yes.
National ballpoint pen day.
No, no, don't.
You don't get a start.
We know the worst ballpoint
pen.
We
get into
arguments with Catherine about this almost weekly.
What
is ballpoint?
She brings in these old fans.
Horrible big pens with eight different sides
to
them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The pen, the corners.
And they always smudge.
Hurt your finger.
They smudge.
They suck.
I don't know how they're still in business after producing those pens.
Check what she brought them in here.
I know.
We both were.
They still make
those.
We used to use them as you know,
shooters.
Right.
Yeah, you
take the
fill.
You take the ink out.
Yeah.
And you just
spit balls.
Yeah.
Yeah, those are the days.
Now, that's all they're good.
The best pan, of course, is the Pilot G2.
Oh, boy.
Those are really
good pens.
These are nice pens.
Yeah, they are.
I get the wide ball.
It is 10.
Yeah.
So celebrate the National Ballpoint Pen Day.
That's the National
Day Calendar.
I'm glad we never covered the National Calendar anymore, but it's always good to check it just in case.
Do we have any history there, Dominic?
Yes, we do.
Tell us.
Yeah, these are going way back.
1847, the Chicago Tribune, published for the first time.
And then in 1933, Mount Rushmore started being built.
That's me.
No, it's mine.
I was wondering what that was.
Sorry, I was having some trouble with headphones here.
And then in 1752, Ben Franklin tests the lightning conductor with that kite flying experiment.
First time.
There we go.
Kind of boring history today.
I'm not going to lie to you.
Okay.
The whole Ben Franklin kite test.
Still, for me,
it doesn't sound
like it was just a made-up story, like chopping down the cherry tree, right?
This doesn't sound right to me.
And now, you know, the Mount Rushmore thing started being built at the time, but now they're going to start again and do.
Put Trump on there.
To Trump, yeah.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Really?
Yep.
They're thinking about it.
They noticed some orange rock, and they thought put his face up there.
Orange rock.
Sure.
OK.
Well, that's it for the history.
Yeah.
You know, we've got a couple of emails here I want to mention.
Oh, OK.
All right.
Did not see those.
Did they go?
Oh, here.
They're right in front of me here.
Well, you know, every once in a while we get an email.
You can, we have an email
address.
We do have an email
address now that we have the WMDX website, right?
Yeah.
I think it's jag at civicmedia.us,
right?
Correct.
Dom's shaking his head like he knows.
Definitely.
You know our
email.
Smile and wave.
Okay.
We've been here for all those two years.
We don't know what it is.
We
have so many other stories.
Well, it gets
forwarded to our other emails, so
that's why we don't.
Yeah, it does.
I think.
Pacific media.
I don't know how that works.
Hey, folks, here's an email.
Hey, folks, just wanted to say thank you for the June 7th Brewer tickets.
Went with my daughter, son, and his friend, who had never been to a Wisconsin professional sports game.
The son went to the bathroom in the ninth inning and missed the walk-off homer by Caleb Durbin.
That was his first game, and he missed the walk-off homer.
He was in the bathroom.
She's asking for a duo.
I know, but thank you, Terry, for
thanking us.
Those banffins
always take so long.
Well, that's it.
There's always a long line.
That's right.
Now, this is interesting.
Elsus remember he was in here talking about the guns
gardens project
on behalf of first night United Methodist Church in Madison and the guns to gardens project We'd like to thank John and Gordy for highlighting our June 7th safe gun turnover event on your talk show Oh listen to this eight different people brought in a total of 23 firearms including six handguns 15 long guns shotguns and 22 caliber and one rather old military issue rifle and
one
BB gun one woman
named Jen brought in seven rifles because, she says here, I heard about your event on the John and Gordy show, which I usually listen to every morning.
Well, thank you, Jen, for
thanking them.
And
she was rewarded for her donations with $700 in grocery gift cards for donating those guns.
Always better she brought it there than here in the studio.
Okay,
thanks for bringing that.
Let me continue here, nor your comments.
As always, all salvageable gun parts are forged into garden tools by Reverend Jeff Wilde and then sold to provide more money for donor gift cards.
So
thanks again
for your assistance in promoting this and the other Wear Orange events in the area in recognition of National Gun Violence Awareness Month.
That's Dan Alsis.
the event organized.
So that was great.
Yeah, we'll have to keep in touch with them and maybe talk about some of their other future events.
All right,
sounds good to me.
Good deal.
All right, good.
I can get into
that.
Yeah, taking guns off the streets.
You bet.
19 minutes past the hour.
We're just getting started on a Tuesday morning.
Back with more of John and Gordy after the break.
Stay with us.
Hey,
this is WMDX chief meteorologist, Brittany Merlau.
Now I'm really not too sure where Gordy got his weather credentials.
And I know that John has a deep fear of dew points.
But don't let any of that stop you
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Yeah, we've
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Yes, we do.
Brittany Merlot joins us now.
Good morning, Brittany.
Thank you for that endorsement.
We
really
appreciate that.
Yeah.
Good morning, guys.
Yeah, I hope it's all right.
No,
it's perfect.
Perfect stuff.
And it's kind of cloudy out here this morning.
It's muggy.
It's horrible.
Dew points are right about 60, I think.
Wow.
Yeah.
So it starts to get a little little humid.
So what can we expect for the rest of today?
We got the Madison Night Market tonight.
And I heard there might be a couple of sprinkles, but nothing really all that awful.
Right?
Well, no, probably not.
It shouldn't be too bad.
Oh, really?
Oh, I think the
worst.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The worst is going to be if you get anything this morning, right?
Um, you've got that little swath moving in from the West that could graze you here still this morning, but by about 10 to 11 o'clock, I think it's going to.
Fizzle out, start to lift north,
and
honestly leave you with just mostly cloudy skies today, probably highs in those mid to upper 70s, and then the storms should hold off until overnight, probably after midnight around 2 a.m.
or so.
I think those are going to roll through.
But again, more chances for showers and storms by Friday afternoon.
That continues into the evening, and we kind of get a little damp and dreary early Saturday before this whole system shifts on out of here.
this morning, Friday afternoon and evening, and then maybe Saturday morning are probably your best shots for chances of brain.
All right.
Well, that's that's we'll take that.
Well, there's an air quality index alert out there.
It's it's at low 60 to 79, which is near.
the worst you could get.
And it's people with lung disease such as asthma, children, older adults and outdoor workers should reduce their prolonged exposure to the outdoors today.
Okay.
Yes, unfortunately, it's pretty thick up north, but it's starting to sneak down by you a little bit.
We're in an air quality alerts.
It's very unhealthy up here, but it should be gone by this afternoon.
It should ease probably around two o'clock.
Okay.
Okay.
Very good.
Brittany, well, thank you.
We appreciate that report.
We'll talk to you again tomorrow and check out what's happening weekend weather-wise at that
time.
Perfect.
Thanks, Brittany.
All
right, you guys
have a good day.
You too.
That's WMDX meteorologist Brittany Merlot.
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That's right.
In just a few moments, why don't we get to, you know, let's get to Pete Hegseth.
He was asked a few questions about... Before the committee.
Oh, I know, he was.
Congress?
And why don't we listen to Pete and answer he's given and the question also.
This is cut 113.
Let's listen.
Mr. Secretary, I probably won't surprise you, but I'm going to start with Ukraine.
And I'm going to ask you a series of questions that I don't want you to linger on any one of them, but answer the series of questions in one answer.
Number one, who's the aggressor and who's the victim in the conflict?
Russia's the aggressor.
Which side do you want to win?
As we've said time and time again,
this president is committed to peace in that conflict.
Ultimately peace serves our national interests and we think the interest of both parties even if that outcome will not be preferable to many in this room and many in our country.
Unbelievable.
What?
So we can't really say that he hopes that maybe the Ukraine people will win this war.
He just wants peace.
You know, I think you can have both,
right?
You know, you could hope that they win, but actually wouldn't it be nice to have the alternative and that is peace through negotiations.
Right?
So anyway, he couldn't say something as simple as that.
Instead would not say that Trump wants Ukraine to win.
That is their position on this thing.
Yeah.
And he had a similar exchange with Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey Graham was trying to nail him down on, you know.
Right.
Which side are we on here?
Exactly.
And then, of course, the story that didn't get a lot of press was that the drones, they had drones going to Ukraine to help them out.
And instead, they shipped them to the Middle East.
And it took the drones.
Yes, only the US did.
And they shipped them off to the Middle East.
So Ukraine didn't have the drones to fight off the drones from Russia.
Isn't that something?
They're just making them more handicapped in this situation, so they couldn't fight back.
It's unbelievable.
This is truly, I never saw a sellout to Russia like this in my entire life.
I can't believe this is happening.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's insane.
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Mhmm.
People stop and scream hello in Capital City.
Sing it, Tony.
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We do that here.
And it makes a king feel like some nutty cuckoo super king.
Look, it's Tony Bennett.
Hey, good to see you.
Oh,
yeah.
All right, this is Johnny Gordy in the morning.
In the capital city.
In the capital
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Right on State Street.
That's where we're at.
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Okay, so the keyword is beer.
What was the last time you went out to the ballpark?
Well, it's been a long, long time, but I was tuning around on one of those streaming TV stations and they had ESPN on and the game was between the Savannah Bananas.
and the party animals.
Oh,
Savannah
bananas, they're hot.
See, I didn't know anything
about this.
I
discovered this and everybody else I asked about this.
Oh, yeah, yeah, Savannah bananas.
Yeah, they're great, you know, fun team.
Yes,
Mike McCabe joins us by the way.
Yes, Mike McCabe is
here in the studio and we've got to ask him about it because you know about the Savannah bananas.
Yeah.
Everybody
else does, John.
I feel like everybody's keeping this a secret.
No wonder there are people quietly talking in the corner of the room, simple as, and not involving
me.
They used to be more of a well-kept secret.
People didn't know them outside of Savannah, Georgia, but now they're like a national phenomenon.
They're a traveling road show.
They're like the Harlem Globetrotters of Minor League Baseball.
They are.
You get
them
here
in Madison.
That'd be
terrific.
The announcer calls them the Nanners.
They have all kinds of antics.
I mean, it's great.
They have
bright yellow uniforms.
Yes,
they do.
And they do performance dances at home base or on the sidelines as
it's going on.
The
players are out there like cheerleaders.
Even the umpires get involved and play along.
There was one time I saw someone
hit a
home run and he was doing a front flip all
across the bases.
The first base umpire does a backflip.
They do all kinds of
when they call their place.
Fun stuff.
I was just, you know, I was, I was caught up in it.
I just loved every second of it.
It's like the world wrestling federation, right?
It's fun.
You call it the heart.
They call them the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, but there are some former players on the team as well as just crazy guys.
And I got to tell you what I saw.
This was just the most.
amazing thing ever.
It was a pop fly ball in the outfield and the guy reached behind him, self with the glove and caught the fly
ball.
They can do that.
They can do that.
Not an easy thing to do.
I used to try to do that in practice, but I would never have the guts to do it in a game.
All right.
But the thing is, they have the sports guy out on the field doing interviews with some of the players,
right?
He's
got a
long leopard codon.
Doing it.
Yeah, uh-huh.
Well,
not a lot of times you see, you know, a professional announcer out on the field with a long leopard coat on.
It's all just fun and
games.
Oh, it's high art, too.
It is.
Yes.
Really fun stuff.
Savannah bananas.
You can see all kinds of stuff
on YouTube.
The party animals, you know, they were scoring and they actually beat the Savannah bananas in
this
particular game.
But they took off their shirts and they started playing without their shirts on.
Just it was absolute a riot.
I just love watching this.
This is great stuff, you know.
And by the way, they sold out.
Two games, two upcoming games at a stadium.
They've become such a hot commodity that they took it on the road and they are filling stadiums.
Yeah, everywhere.
People love the show.
Now you talked about, they are the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball.
But you talked about the early days when the Harlem Globetrotters were very, very popular, but...
You had like a B team.
Oh, yeah, there was a B team.
You know, I went to a small, you know, I grew up in the country.
I went to a small rural school.
And so they weren't going to get the Harlem Globetrotters to come to a little town.
But there was a B team called the Harlem Satellites.
And it was they had the same kind
of uniforms.
And it was the
same sort of show.
It just wasn't the big names.
It wasn't Metal Arc Lemon and
Curly Neal and
all those guys.
But it was it was.
kind of an unknown cast of characters, but the same routine.
And it filled the gym
and
a wonderful show.
So I remember that, because I used to see the Harlem Globetrotters on TV, but then saw the Harlem Satellites in person, got a bunch of autographs, had no idea who these guys were.
Well, they're still out there.
They still travel around.
And of course, they always play the Washington Generals, who always lose.
The
Generals are not
supposed
to
win.
They accidentally won one time.
How long
do you think a metal arc lemon has?
Oh, he's retired.
Oh, yeah.
He passed away.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, this is the question I always had when I watched the Harlem Globetrotters way, way back when.
I was wondering why they didn't play like that in actual basketball games.
Why wouldn't they do that?
Why wouldn't
they
make it more entertaining
and
fun and crazy like that?
You know,
little known fact about the Harlem Globetrotters is that some
some professional baseball players played for the Globetrotters.
Fergie Jenkins, the Hall of Fame
pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, was the
Harlem Globetrotter for a time.
I didn't know that.
And I think Bob Gibson, if somebody should correct me if I'm wrong here, but Bob Gibson, the Hall of Famer from the St.
Louis Cardinals, I think also did a stint with the Globetrotters.
But I know for a fact Fergie did, because, you know,
it was...
All Cubs fans know that.
Fun stuff.
So Mike McCabe, actually, you're going to go on a little trip here real soon, right?
I
am going to Tanzania.
Because?
The Tanzanian key bean coffee beans?
Just
out of a desire to explore.
You like your travel.
A lot of people don't know this about me, but I did a two-year stint in the Peace Corps in West Africa in Mali.
Which is where Timbuktu is by the way.
Oh, but is it
great band?
I love those guys.
Oh, no, that's I've been to Timbuktu like
three.
Sorry.
I've been to Timbuktu.
Yeah, Timbuktu was a damn good band.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah,
Pat McDonald.
Pat McDonald, great
guy.
Pat McDonald and the Essentials.
Yes.
And I saw them at OK's Corral
here in Madison.
I know.
I think we may have been at the same show.
We probably were at
the same show.
It was many years
ago.
Yeah.
And the band becomes Timbuktu
3.
Right.
They had some moments.
Oh, they were great.
They
were stars.
They were
excellent.
Yeah.
But, you know, I wasn't even sure that Timbuktu was a real place.
Yes.
Because, you know, people...
It sounds crazy, doesn't
it?
Yeah, they kind of treated it as this mystical, mythical end of the earth or something.
Or is it?
Is it a real city?
But it's a real city.
And I've been there.
And it's now been almost devoured by the Sahara Desert.
It's really...
Oh, full desert and there's sand everywhere.
But it used to be a city of 100,000 people.
Now it's more like 30,000 people-ish.
And, you know, kind of living on the edge of, you know, really struggling place.
It used to be so central to trade routes in West Africa.
The salt trade, you know, salt would be brought by camel caravan to the countries like Ivory Coast, which would send up their more tropical products.
It used to be a huge trade center.
It has a thousand year old mosque.
I had a university, all of which is, the mosque still stands.
It's still, you can go to a thousand year mosque there, but the university's closed.
It's a shadow of its former self, but it's still, it's a pretty magical place.
Now
it's kind of living up to its name.
It
is the end of the earth.
Yeah, it is, but Ben there.
But I've never been to East Africa, so this is just a journey to unexplored territory for me at least, and looking forward to it.
Great.
So let's talk about your latest article on Substack.
It's entitled, let me get back to it here, Piss Pots and Yeller Dogs.
So what are you saying?
That's a headline, that's a grabber?
Yeller Dog, that's something your dad told you.
Both of them were, the title of the article relates to motivational phrases that my dad was fond of.
When I was not living up to his expectations, he would
He would say, well, you're never going to have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.
And if he didn't get my attention with that, he would then go on and say, hi, Otish.
sell you off for a Yeller Dog and shoot the Yeller Dog.
Now,
is that
a reference to Old Yeller?
I don't know.
I think Yeller Dog is just sort of...
But shooting the Yeller Dog.
Yeller Dog.
I mean, that's what they did to Old
Yeller.
That was just his way of saying what he thought I was worth at that moment.
I know, but as a
reference at that point, I think maybe the movie had something to do with...
It's possible.
You know, it's kind of country talk.
A way of speaking.
Your dad really worked.
He did.
I wrote in the article, I only recall my dad taking a full day off one time.
Wow, yeah.
In my entire upbringing, he took a day off to travel 200 miles to see my youngest sister get married.
My two oldest sisters.
were married on the farm, so he didn't have to leave.
But my youngest sister had moved away, and so he took the full day off, made me stay home, by the way, to milk the cows.
So I missed my youngest sister's wedding, because he wouldn't trust anybody to milk the cows who was outside the family.
That's the way he was.
But he worked every day, seven days a week, Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, you name it.
And in a factory.
And, you know, when he first, he was basically a sharecropper earlier in life.
That's the northern term for it is farming on halves where you're a tenant farmer.
You do all the work.
The landlord gets half of the proceeds of whatever gets produced.
And he saved up enough money to buy his own farm, but he had to work in a factory.
So he worked a full shift five days a week.
and then milked the cows before and after his shift and did the farm work on the weekends and
whatever else he
could squeeze it in.
Tough son of a gun.
And he expected his kids to have a similar work ethic and he pushed us hard.
That was his way.
Well, it's kind of funny because you made an appearance and somebody in the crowd brought up the fact that he worked
with your father.
Which stunned me because my dad was born in 1919 and has been dead and gone for...
quite some time.
But here's a guy who actually worked with him in that factory, elderly man now, but he must have been really young, must have been 20 years old when he worked
with
my dad.
Yeah.
Wow, that was a great story.
It was.
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WMDX
92.7 and we're what?
People are going to work.
Yeah, coal mine.
That's right.
Yep.
As we look over the state street, just a block away from the
capital, capital city medicine, partly cloudy skies, temperatures today, getting into the mid to upper eighties.
Right now it is hot.
It's just hot.
It's like
66 degrees or something.
Isn't really something like 67.
Right.
And
I get it.
OK, thanks.
67.
Thanks for correcting me.
Let's go to the phones Judy David off from the isthmus is joining us this morning and she does when the new issue comes out Good morning, Judy
Good morning.
You're the editor.
You're the president of isthmus.
We're always happy
to have you.
She's the dictator
dictator is a very popular now in this country
Yeah, we have the summer times issue.
This is a great issue because everything is covered.
Everything is in there.
Yeah.
I read where the artists thought, you know, putting ants on a picnic.
Isn't that inspired?
Yeah, it is.
A picnic blanket.
It's very cool.
You know, Judy, yesterday we had a story where the work being invaded by poisonous ants that sting and kill people.
So very timely.
Yes, very timely.
Thanks, Gordy.
That's what I was
going to say.
I think these are the kind pesky ones.
Oh,
OK.
All right, thanks for clearing that up.
Well, thank you.
Yeah, we certainly would wish those back again.
No.
OK, now there's a great article in here by Liam Barron.
And it is a power struggle.
And it's all about the unified electric metering that is so controversial in this state.
It's so silly.
This is so ridiculous.
I can't.
I can't wrap my head around why we can't.
move on to something like this, right?
Right.
Well, it is done.
It is done.
Of course, the utility does get more money when they're separate units.
And some people would argue that the separate units make most sense because then people are paying what they've used.
But these are other kinds of supported housing where
Perhaps the costs are not even being born, you know, individually by the tenants.
Um, maybe they are, but, um, still the argument for affordable housing is that, um, by having the, um, meters, um, the unified meters, it makes, um, much more, um, sense than it's much more affordable.
Not have that.
Well, the thing here is that, uh, this is a law that was, uh,
Made in 2002 just at the turn of the century.
We're well into that century now and it is time to maybe update this thing because what happens is they put the electric bill in your rent.
So you don't really have an electric bill anymore.
So they can unify these meters for the buildings and especially, you know, in low income housing where, you know, this would be perfect for them.
And they had the, they had the individual meters.
So people, if they didn't pay their bill would get shut off.
That was the whole point.
Well, that's no longer an issue.
If you design your buildings in a way that the electric bill is already included in your rent.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
Yep.
Yeah, so it's interesting.
I mean, he definitely, you know, there were several other people who sort of attested that the...
that there were other utilities that were able to grant this waiver without needing to go to the PSC.
So yeah, we'll see if there's any movement on that.
All right.
Now, Judy, you have an article in this month's Isthmus entitled Local Governments Mixed Record on Meeting Notices.
And apparently it really is a mixed record about meeting notices.
Tell us more about this.
I mean, this is definitely, you know, I worried a little bit.
It was getting into the weeds of open government.
But I do think it's important, you know, committees, city and county committees, government committees are required to issue notices and agendas of their upcoming meetings.
And those meeting notices are supposed to be written in a way that you can understand what is actually going to be discussed.
And, you know, I mean, I would say the majority do still, but there definitely were notices that I picked out that, you know, you would have no idea.
And, you know, I've been covering local government for a long time and
At least on the city side, if I have a false memory, I don't think I do because I remember doing this, but there used to be a staff person's name and number on each of the notices because there's a staffer who's assigned to each of those committees.
And that made it easy to, if there was something you didn't understand on the agenda or you wanted to, just get more background.
you could just call and say, hey, what's this about?
Those names and contact numbers are not there.
There's usually a name to call for accessibility issues, but really not anything regarding the content of the agendas.
So, and it's important.
It's important for news media to know what's on the agenda.
Is there something controversial?
Is there something that has gotten no attention and should therefore be written about?
And especially in advance because, you know, in my mind, that allows people to show up at a meeting where there's something discussed that will affect them.
Absolutely.
Judy, we're about out of time, but Isthmus on the newsstands, always on the first Thursday of the month, lots of great stuff about all the summertime events going on.
Yeah, and the new quiz, news quiz that you have here, I love the question, which influential person is not included?
and the Wisconsin idols.
And the answer is
Paul Soglin.
Paul Soglin in your wrote, Soglin probably not just an oversight.
But
anyway, Judy, thank you for joining
us.
We'll talk to you next
month.
Judy David Duff
from Ismus.
And you can find that for free anywhere around Madison on the newsstands.
When we come back.
It's our Scotty Summer's text to win contest.
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