When the chips are down and democracy's back is up against the wall, two radio veterans step up to the microphone to right the wrongs, standing for truth, justice, and just because.
Hey, are they ready to go yet?
It's John and Gordy on 92.7 WMDX.
It's Friday.
The filing cabinet for these, filing cabinet for those.
What?
All right, and we got a lot of stories to get to today.
Yeah, we do.
It's shocking, scary stories, by the way.
Hmm.
Yeah.
So that's coming up on WMDX.
John Peterson, Gordy Young in the morning with you.
Good morning.
And good morning to you.
How we
do
it so well.
Good morning.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey now.
Producer Dom, how are you?
Good morning, guys.
Good morning.
Good
morning.
It's Friday.
Ah, yeah.
It's cloudy out there.
It's still a little muggy.
Can I just tell you what the weather?
71 right now?
Yeah.
78 is a predicted high.
Low tonight?
Wow.
58
degrees.
OK.
Wow.
Yeah.
Maybe a little rain.
A little couple spots of rain later this afternoon,
not
much.
Big John and Gordy Correction here on the show today.
What do you mean?
You know, I got a little fed up yesterday with you.
What are you talking about?
Well, when is the sunset?
And I said, oh, come on, man, it's not going to go anywhere past 8.41 in the evening.
That's what you said.
Yeah.
That's what you said.
Well.
Yeah, what 842 seems like it's on its way.
Okay.
Wow.
I apologize for everybody who was you should.
You should apologize.
You know, focus their day on when they're going to retire.
Retire
for the day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's going to be kind of cloudy today through most of the day.
And let's see what the afternoon high.
I know you predicted the afternoon high with your Samsung WMDX watch.
But let's go to the lottery ball machine like we do every Friday.
Oh, yeah.
We do this every Friday.
Got to get the balls
out.
Fantastic.
And let's
see what the
first number is a seven.
You predicted 78, right?
Yes.
OK.
This says 76.
76.
Looks like we're going to have to have a little maintenance on the
lottery balls.
Yeah.
We have to go
with technology every once in a while.
Right.
Well, here it is Friday, so it's a free ticket Friday.
We'll be giving away some Brewer's tickets a little bit later on.
And we'll tell you more about that as we get into it.
Rocker will be here in our seven o'clock hour, maxing preview.
And let's see, are we going to talk to Pam Yonkey today?
I think we are.
No, we
don't have her today.
No, she's on vacation.
Oh, that's right.
She's on vacation yesterday and today.
Well,
I have some really cool news.
I was going to spring on her.
Oh, really?
I guess we'll just get to it.
We've got we've got the rock and roll Dennis coming up at
635.
Yeah, we're gonna wake up Chris Cameron.
That's right dentist and if there's time after our interview We'll get to maybe something some farm-related news, which I just find fascinating and I know no one else will
okay Sorry yeah now there was a
there was
a shooting of a couple of officers in Milwaukee last night I know that our news folks are all over this story one officer is critical the other one
not injured that badly it appears but we'll have some updates I think through the day from Civic Media News just to make you aware of that oh my god but let's uh what do we got what's the matter
oh you looking at
he's just staring right now John is captivated by something he's
watching on TV.
You know, we should turn the monitor off sometimes.
Well, I don't even know if, again, we're in a commercial break here.
All of a sudden, you know, they show this clip of a large trunk.
Making a turn onto a street and it accidentally hits the guy on a cherry picker
Change in a
light bulb
in a
light or something like that and the truck hits this guy and
he
goes Flipping and flipping in the in the in the box that he's in and he doesn't fall out but it's yeah
I don't know if it's AI generated or not.
I'm just, you know, leave me alone.
It could have been an ad, but it's a very strange and subtle ad.
Well, it's true.
It captured your attention.
It did.
It did.
By the way, we're
doing a show here in the studio.
Oh, yeah.
So you might
want to... Not you me when we start.
All
right.
We'll try to remind you from time to time.
Oh, let's see.
What do we have for what?
What would you rather?
What's a
what?
Which one would you rather?
Whatever.
Whatever.
What's the name of this thing?
The third time that you've got it wrong.
It's would you rather?
Would you rather?
What you rather?
Where you would wear you rather?
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Let's do some with you rather.
Do it.
Do it.
So first question.
Would you rather get a paper cut every time you turn a page?
or bite your tongue every time you eat, every single time.
Obviously, you don't want to do either, but if you have to choose one, which one would you choose?
You
live in a really dangerous
world, man.
All right, well, the paper cut is a lot easier to handle.
You know, you don't want to bite your tongue.
every time because that just makes it worse each and every time you do that.
Yeah, and then you could get a canker sore too if you can
bite your tongue as well
or would it taste buds?
Yeah.
No, I would not want the paper cuts.
I'll go with them.
Really?
I don't want either one of them.
I
don't like paper cuts at
all.
They're
awful.
I agree.
Well, maybe that's just a bad question.
Alright, let's go on.
Next question.
Would you rather give up cursing forever?
I already think I know what John's going to say about this.
Would you rather give up cursing forever or give up ice cream for years?
I'll give up ice cream any day.
Really?
Yeah.
Really?
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
I couldn't give up ice cream.
I love eating.
So I love ice cream.
So you would give up cursing?
I would give up
cursing.
The famous S word that I'm working on trying to get radio people to say.
I
don't know if that'll ever change.
But yeah, I'll give up cursing.
I'm not a big cursor.
I don't know.
It's just something, you know.
I mean, we're already working toward
the F word.
Yeah,
boy, that was all over the
place.
I know what the heck yesterday
or day before
they pull it all day It was a night thing and
MSNBC.
Yeah, all the late shows
somewhere a little behind with the S word.
Yeah, I I'm trying
Yeah, I would
not want to give up.
Yeah swearing swearing.
So ice
cream shirt.
It's
a great
outlet Okay,
there's our third question third and last question third and final question would you read this one's gonna be a doozy Would you rather have a tattoo of the title of the last book you read?
The title the tattoo can be anywhere or the last TV show you watched
Well, I'm never gonna get a tattoo.
I don't care what you say.
I'm
just
not into it.
I
mean, I think they're, you know, they're beautiful on some people.
I mean, they look, you know, they're very artistic.
I think they're really
cool.
Kind
of cool, but I
just, yeah.
I have never, ever thought of getting a tattoo.
So what would I get a tattoo of your, the last
TV show that you watched?
Or the last book?
Or the last TV show or the last book?
So what
was the last book that you've read?
Let's see, I want Miracles Along County Q.
Yeah,
that's a
that's like our own Mike McCabe.
I think I have room
Yeah, I guess I would do a book yeah Yeah, mine was diary mine was the last book and it would be diary of a wimpy kid and I think it would I put it on my back
No.
That's what it would be.
Okay.
Yeah, I saw
the movie.
The first movie was pretty good.
Yeah.
Um, I think I would, uh, I would go with, uh, uh, TV show.
TV show.
TV show.
What was the last TV show you watched?
Oh, let me see.
Do you remember what
happened yesterday?
Beverly Hillbilly.
Okay.
Good deal.
I know he's checking some audio out, and I was watching a segment of the Beverly Hillbillies look out.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, that Jethro.
He's a character.
Yes,
well,
you know, that's what I'll
have.
OK.
But where would you put the?
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal question.
That's a personal
question.
That's
a personal question.
That's a
personal question.
That's a personal question.
All right, phone lines are open, 608-879-8255.
You can always reach us with the Civic Media app, which is free to download and free to use always.
Just go to the app and you can text us right from there or leave us a voice note.
We love the voice notes.
Kind of a new feature.
We
got a
new one yesterday,
actually.
Did we?
Yeah.
I think it was two days ago.
It was about the black hole.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, we heard that.
That was mad, I think.
That black
hole noise is what happens inside Trump's head every second of every day.
Thank
you, Matt.
Have a good
day, guys.
Thank you, Matt.
You know, I think we might have to play that off.
That's
gotta be a new... That's a keeper.
That's gotta be a
new... That's a keeper.
All right.
Oh, man.
Well, here it is Friday, just a few more days to vote for Best of Madison, by the way.
We got on the kids, you know, the kids signed us up.
And, you know, I want to mention, we haven't really talked about this very much, but, you know, you can vote not only in Madison area, not only in Dane County, but surrounding counties.
Columbia County, you can vote from Columbia County, Dodge, Iowa, Green, Rock, Jefferson and Salk counties.
So if you're listening from any of those counties,
You can vote for Best of Madison.
Sadly, some of those people around the world, you know.
Well,
yes.
What about the person in Sweden?
I know they're listening on a daily basis.
They should at least be able to throw their two cents
in.
No, they can't.
They can't vote for Best of Madison.
Only in one of these counties that I listed.
Dane County, Columbia County, Dodge County, Iowa County, Green County, Rock County, Jefferson County, and Salk County.
But be very careful.
They do screen your phone for JD Vance memes.
John,
you're on it today, man.
You're on it today.
If you want
to find out how to vote and when, you know, you can do all that at WMDXradio.com.
And don't forget, we have our partners in voting, Sugar River Pizza Company.
We've teamed up with them.
Of course, they've won Best of Madison
several
times.
They're giving us tips on how to do this.
Yeah, that's
right.
So I'm not good at making pizzas, though.
No?
OK.
Well, you can go to our website where you don't have to make any pizzas,
but we're
going to be giving away pizza parties and people are already entering
for that.
You
can find out how to enter at WMDXradio.com.
Just click on the banner when you see the Sugar River banner along with ours.
And go to your workplace and bring some pizza
along.
Yeah, go to your office, go to your workplace.
We'll bring some pizzas and have a party.
Yes.
So sign up.
Okay.
Let's see.
What else?
What else on this Friday?
We've got Rocker, I mentioned that, with the Maxing
preview.
Which, by the way, he was very excited.
He's very excited to show off some of these local... Is there something particularly that he's excited about?
He really likes the bands this time around.
He really does, he really does.
All right, well, that's exciting.
He said, keep it under wraps.
Okay.
We just let everybody know.
It's going to be a special edition of Rocker's program today.
Okay.
Very good.
When we come back, we're going to kick off the free ticket Friday.
The tickets this time are for the Brewer game against Colorado
on
June 29th.
And there's a keyword.
You know, I think I can reveal this now, can't I?
Yeah, we can get people texting right away.
The keyword is park.
Park, P-A-R-K.
So if you have the Civic Media app, you can text us the word Park and you'll be in.
No, you have to be able to go to that game.
Don't enter the contest if you can't go Sunday, June 29th against Colorado.
But that's the key word.
And of course, it's a statewide contest.
But some lucky winner will be going to the Sunday June 29th game against Colorado at American Family Field.
Again, the word is park.
Very good.
All right.
All right.
Well, I'm all set to go.
Okay.
Glad to hear that.
19 minutes past the hour.
Just getting started on a Friday morning.
Stay with us for more of John and
Courtney.
Hey there folks, it's Charlie Barron's here.
Now Madison Magazine's got this whole going for best of Madison, and I hear that John and Gordy are up for best radio team.
You know, I'll tell you this much.
If they're friends of Pam Yankee, they're friends of me, okay?
All right, yeah, we're friends.
Yeah, well, okay.
WMDX, John and Gordy in the morning.
We've got so much coming up
today.
623 cloudy skies highs in the mid to upper 70s.
Maybe some showers later on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
And right now it's 71.
I've got something here.
And are you all set?
Hang on just a second.
Now I am.
OK.
I'm all set.
All right.
Something special here.
All
right.
Go ahead.
Get
ready.
I'm ready.
Wait, let's read this thing for Mark first.
The
F word is so useful.
It can be a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb.
And since Trump seems incapable of not saying it, it should not be banned from the FCC.
And controlled by the airways,
you know,
and I think I think it's time to you know, open the floodgates for all obscene language
All right, here we go.
So you're gonna start swearing like a sailor Just don't
okay.
Here we go.
All right ready
who thinks their job is bull This is working well on the fly
Okay.
All
right.
All right.
All right.
Well, okay, here it is.
This is the list going down from people who love their job
and
they don't think it's bull.
All right, so let's start off with those people who are really dedicated to their work nurses and midwives.
Okay.
All
right.
Okay elementary school teachers are pretty happy psychologists are happy librarians pretty happy in the middle now our journalists they could go either way Not suicidal or you know just having fun with their life, but okay.
Here we go HR people.
Yeah,
they're not happy.
They think their job is bullshit
All right, and good timing's a little Okay,
I'm gonna
keep going here.
All
right bankers are really not happy.
No, they're not no tech workers.
Isn't that strange?
They're not happy at all Who are the most unhappy people in the world and we see them every day around the station radio and sales marketing and PR stuff
Quite
depressed
Yeah, that's why we have this big room and they have their own Okay, all right, so there you go.
That's
that's it.
Yeah, who
thinks their job is bull?
Still a little off but
It kind of works.
Yeah, that's okay.
Well, it was a test run.
That's good.
All right now
because we don't have a Pam Yankee here This is just a fan fascinating story.
Okay, Minnesota has deployed
Mobile solar panels mobile solar panels
on a
trailer that moves across grazing fields Providing cattle with shade.
Oh, I know.
I know this is
fantastic news Let's
how does this
one 99?
Well, no, I bow it's it it works just fine.
Apparently they love they love the shade.
Let's
listen.
All right
The cows at West Central Research and Outreach Center in Morris, Minnesota are part of a multi-million dollar research that may change the way agriculture and energy work together.
Solar has a bright future on this dairy research farm run by the University of Minnesota Morris.
The campus already has solar panels fixed in place throughout the past years that are producing energy for the facility.
and providing shade for the cows, but this summer they're testing a mobile solar array.
It moves across the grazing fields generating electricity and providing portable shade for the dairy cattle.
It's working really well.
They created a trailer unit that could move along with the cattle from pasture to pasture.
The portable solar array is pulled by a solar charged electric tractor.
There's a lot of interest in obviously solar.
Research shows shaded cows tend to have less stress, which can mean more milk production, higher fertility rates, and potentially longer life.
And the researching other ways a solar array will be used.
So they've got a gigantic truck that is hauling out into the
fields.
That's right.
With solar panels on the back of it.
I wish we could have heard from a few of the cows.
But anyway, I think I could have used a little more excitement in his voice.
But it is a fantastic thing that is happening out there in our grazing pastures.
I mean, think
about the heat that we had just recently
and
just being out in the sun for just a short amount of time.
That was very stressful on me.
Yeah.
So I can't imagine what it'd be like for somebody who doesn't know or something.
An animal doesn't know really what's going on in his cows or just under the under the blazing sun.
So having the solar panels moving along and wheels on a battery powered truck.
And the trick is to trick these cows into following it.
What if they don't know?
What if they don't want
to follow
it?
Yes, I know.
They're scared of the truck.
What if they had a really great spot for grazing and the truck keeps moving?
We'll
have
to talk to Pam.
Yeah, you about this.
Bring it up when she's back.
Oh, yeah.
That's really something.
That was a powerful, powerful report as well.
Yes, it was.
Okay, where did that come from?
Where'd you find that?
I did some energy news.
Well,
energy news basically, but this is all about.
There are farmers using a lot of solar panels and a lot of free electricity that way.
So it helps them on the farm.
It
sounds that's great.
Yeah, you know, they're right on top of it.
OK, it's 29 minutes past the hour.
Just getting going on a Friday morning and we'll have much more.
Oh, we're going to debut a new segment here on John and Gordy in the morning.
We're going to wake up.
Dr. Chris Cameron.
That's the new segment.
And it's coming up next on John and Gordy in the
Morning.
Hey everybody, Todd Albaugh here, asking our dear listeners to vote for our friends, John and Gordy, for Best Radio Team in Madison Magazine's Best of Madison poll.
They do a great show, and they've paid me to say all this.
So vote for John and Gordy.
Summers in the check clear yet?
Nope.
Ah, forget that.
Okay, so we gotta put some money in there.
We gotta do that, huh?
Thank
you, Todd Alba.
Yeah, WMDX, 92.7.
John and Gordy in the
morning.
6.35.
Cloudy skies.
Eyes in the mid-dop or 70s today.
Maybe some rain showers.
Time for a new segment on the show.
We're going to do it every once in a while.
Really?
Let's see what
happens.
Wake up Chris Kammer.
Wake up Dr. Chris Kammer.
Paging Dr. Chris Kammer.
Good morning is Chris Kammer on the phone.
Good
morning.
Yes, we
have him.
Chris,
good morning.
Hello.
Hello.
Good morning, Chris.
Hey, you sound very sleepy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I was, I was sleeping.
That's why.
Okay.
Well, that one now
does make a difference though.
Yeah.
Well, we're
sorry to wake you.
Yeah, that's great.
That's great.
Well, we're calling you because, you know, we're kind of interested in what happened yesterday, last night.
Yeah,
there was, uh, you're in this big contest.
Yeah.
What's the name of the contest again?
Oh my gosh.
Um, America's next top hit maker.
Okay.
America's top next top hitmaker and you've been through Two or three rounds and there was another voting.
There was another round of voting last night.
So Can you tell us what the results were?
Do you have the results?
Yeah,
are you are you able to go on?
I am able to talk about it.
I'm signed all the papers.
Everything's good.
What
this is is I don't even know what this is.
That's the interesting thing.
I mean, I know what it is
It's kind of sponsored by Rolling Stone magazine.
They're looking for America's next top hit maker, which I assume means that you have some musical ability where you can sing or rock out or who knows what.
Well, minimal anyway in your
case.
Yeah, go ahead.
So I'm in this contest and a friend of mine is sponsored by...
Oh yeah, I said the $50,000 is the prize.
And you open a concert like in New York Central Park, like this global citizen one has a big concert.
Anyway, so every week for the last five or six weeks, there's been voting.
And I've made the cut every single time with all my, I guess I've got a couple friends, three, three, I don't know.
I mean, I mean, you guys voted for me, right?
And yes, yes.
But
no,
you got to tell us how to do that, you know, so we can help you
out.
Right.
Well, nobody walked me through voting for John and Gordy for the best.
Nobody you gotta give us a
website that we can go to so we can you know vote for you.
We don't have that
so He's got it on his
page.
Oh, he does.
He has on his Facebook page.
Yeah, all right I'm the rock and dentist.
Yes, I submitted it.
I submitted my entry as the rock and dentist and Put a picture of me
on stage at the mamas where I'm holding my giant toothbrush, got my silver suit on.
I'm being clipped by roller derby ladies while my toothbrush can is shooting confetti and smoke into the air.
So they base the voting on just the picture without knowing if I can sing.
Listen to my voice, I can sing, right?
Yeah, we heard you sing.
Yeah, they based it just on the picture.
I think it's I think that might be I might be winning the hype component.
But you might be winning that and that is a big plus.
We have a song that you did do.
Should we listen
to that?
Yeah, let's
listen
to a little bit.
Okay, let's listen to the talent.
All right.
This is the time to help people either vote for me or not.
Okay.
All right.
State Street.
Stay Street.
Where dreams come alive.
Everybody's buzzing like bees from the hive.
Stay Street.
Stay Street.
I really want to go there.
Lots of happy people and a guy in underwear.
That's
just
a
sampling
of Art
Paul Schlosser and, of course, your companion there.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the Schlosser camber project.
Yeah.
So tell us, did you make the cut?
Did you make the cut last
night?
The last cut was for the top.
five like every week is was the first one maybe the top 25 in the top 20 and they're dragging this thing out like so okay but last night was was for the top five and ready drumroll but I made the cut
yeah all right yeah so we wanted to hear yeah so
now so this
happens every week they do
Yeah, every week.
Yeah, the next cut will be next Thursday.
And I think it's for the final person, number one in the group.
But here's the tricky part.
I'm not exactly sure what being in the top five means.
Because they say you're the top five.
of your group.
It's a national conscious.
So how many groups did they pick?
I don't know.
But I've been leading the pack of my group and I have been first leading the group the whole time.
So I'm hoping and maybe by some miracle I will win my group and then I'll face
Then they'll go back into now.
We have the group.
We, the group winners and now we're back to a hundred.
So, you know, so, so next week we're going to eliminate 50 people.
So we're going to go over the top 50
anyway.
That's
very exciting.
Keep us posted.
Excuse me.
And, uh, so this is all for a good cause, right?
This is all the money
raised.
Yeah.
Like you can vote for free or you can.
buy votes.
Oh,
okay.
And so if you if you buy votes, which makes it interesting, like like the next and America's next top hitmaker could be bought.
What?
Okay.
Well, you know, if it's for good cause, it's okay.
Absolutely.
Good for you for doing this.
And you know, we're going to put a link to the rock and dentist contest that you're in or the Facebook on our Facebook page on our John and Gordy Facebook page.
So
people can find out more there
yeah we've hired
uh facebook
elves
to
do this
so yeah oh yeah i'll bet your facebook elves are the best they are they're high
tech
elves they are
then then then we're pretty much guaranteed i'm going to win this thing right
absolutely yes
All right, Chris, well,
thanks for
updating us.
You can go back to sleep now.
Well, no, wait, I have one more question.
I have one more question.
I
understand, Chris, you and I, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're later on in our age here.
And I just want to ask you, I have read a story where we do not produce as much nitrous, nitrous oxide for our bodies anymore.
If we inhale it, does that supplement the, the need for nitrous?
Well, John, that's a great question.
One thing I would like to know why you are asking this, but let's just leave that one alone.
All
right.
Okay.
I was
just trying to
come up with a reason to have nitrous.
Okay.
You're confusing nitric oxides NO with nitrous oxides, which is a different molecule.
Just
slightly.
Okay.
All right.
You do need NO nitric oxide.
And for you and Gordy, during your show many times, you do need nitric oxide.
Well,
we'll
have to have you in the
studio here and we'll
try
some.
We'll experiment on
that.
Yeah, I guess maybe if I'm there, since I'm a dentist, it would be allowed, I guess.
Yeah, it would be, actually.
Kids don't try this at home.
That's right.
Probably wrong.
All right.
Anyway.
OK, rock and
dentist.
When is your voting and I want to vote I want you guys to win I voted for you for the best morning goes
Oh, thank you for that the voting goes through Monday Monday is the last day to vote
your money.
Well, then forget the Rock and Dennis Let's get John and Gordy number one here people.
All right That's what really matters.
Well, thank you But then after you get number one then then we're gonna focus all of our attention on getting the Rock and Dennis
Sounds like a plan.
All right.
Thank
you.
Good citizens of Madison.
I love you.
Peace out.
Thank you very
much.
Thank you.
Thank you, Chris.
Chris Cameron.
That's Dr. Chris Cameron.
And again, we'll put a link to the contest that he's in and you can vote for him.
in that contest on our John and Gordy Facebook page.
He's our dentist.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, we both have been going here for quite a while.
It's holy crap.
Yeah.
Okay.
And that was great that he, you know, we found that song that he did with Art Paul Schlosser.
And of course, Art Paul has been on the show a few times.
And the great thing about that song is that it's a song about the street we overlook.
Yeah, that's right.
It's where the leaf blower guy is,
the street
cleaning, the sidewalk brush.
machine.
Haven't seen them out there today, but they're out there.
They're out there every day.
You know, it's almost sounds like a Lego set, doesn't it?
A Lego set.
Lego set.
Legos.
Yes,
I know what Legos are.
Well, they have sets.
And this is a
state street set where you go out there and you put all the stuff on the street.
They actually have
sets like that.
There's a New York set.
There's also
a Chicago set as
well.
You can actually enter a set
and
you might get it approved.
Correct.
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Well, this is kind of this is good news for everybody out there, you know, watching the dictator in chief.
Yeah, the Senate Republicans attempted to make it more difficult to challenge Trump in court, but the parliamentarian who controls, you know, what goes into this, it has to be a budget matter, right?
Right.
Throughout a provision that would have required plaintiffs seeking an emergency court order to pay the federal government a bond.
covering all the potential costs and damages if you wanted to sue Trump.
You had to pay all the costs first, up front, before a judge could impose injunctions or restraining orders against the government Trump.
So now they're all running around, they can't pass this bill yet, right?
Well, the parliamentarian threw that baby out.
Such
bonds could amount to millions of dollars and make it financially impossible for ordinary
Americans like you and me, Gordy, to go to court and protect our rights.
And get this also rejected, attempts to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to slash food aid as well.
That's out the door.
The parliamentarian threw out a provision that would have allowed states to carry out border security on their own and immigration enforcement.
Well, thank goodness that's gone, duties that are obviously...
Set out by the federal government right not not the states, but they threw all of this into this Senate bill This is crazy stuff and
I'm glad
the parliamentarians there.
I think it was Tommy Tuber actually Tuberville he actually came out and said we got to fire this parliamentarian
I don't think they can do that, right?
They're not going
to do it.
That's what they I don't
know if they are not allowed, but they're certainly not going to do it,
right?
Okay
Well, we will have more of idiocracy coming up in just a few moments.
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Are we telling everybody about media dot us for more rules about the game we're going to
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Um, have we put that out on the web?
Revealed that.
All right, all right, but we will do that all in due time.
Okay.
Are we doing that?
Sorry.
Let that slip.
It's okay.
It's okay.
You know, I'm just going to ask.
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Thanks for doing that.
We really weren't going to talk about that until Tuesday, but that's fine.
Well, we break the
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Yes, we'll have a, we have a special contest coming up beginning next week.
I'll tell you more, but thank you for teasing that.
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All right, let's get into this unbelievable story.
You're going to love this thing.
All right.
Get to
it.
Yeah, this is the, the.
unbelievably bad bill in the Senate.
All the things that they have added.
Get this.
The U.S.
Postal Service debuted its long-awaited electric vehicle.
Mail delivery trucks.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I believe that Rivian actually does those trucks for them.
And this is really, really cool truck.
I love those things.
Since then, more than 7,200 new zero emission vehicles have been distributed to the postal service.
Yes.
Why?
Oh, wait.
What?
There's a provision
in the
Senate bill.
Oh, no.
The big bad bill
tucked inside the Senate bill.
It would force.
the US Postal Service to sell off the brand new trucks and cancel or significantly amend the contract for the remaining 58,800 of those trucks due to be delivered in the next 10 years.
Sell all the trucks that they just bought, 7,200 of those beautiful trucks out on the streets.
Sell them off.
It's in the bill.
Here.
That's crazy.
Will it save money?
Heck no.
That's their excuse.
According to the bill, selling EVs off would cut unnecessary costs and focus USPS on delivering mail and not achieving the environmental initiatives pushed by the Biden administration.
Getting back
at Biden, boy.
Yeah, well, that's the cause.
It unnecessary costs and focused.
You know what?
Electric vehicles have fewer moving parts.
They don't have as many breakdowns.
They don't require the kind of gasoline and oil and changes that you need.
It saves money.
This saves money.
All electric vehicles and related infrastructure owned by the Postal Service will be sold and the proceeds will be deposited in the General Fund of the Treasury.
Thankfully, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough fought and
disposed of that particular element of the Senate bill saying
it
violated the bird rule.
I'm liking this parliamentary.
I am too.
The Postal
Service has
over 200,000 vehicles in an outdated and aging fleet.
Using EVs will reduce fuel and maintenance costs and help the USPS to do a better job serving the public.
And that's it.
well again
they were parliamentarian keep stepping up keep stepping up parliamentarian
what a surprise right now they were in the bill they were going to tell them all they all the e-v's that they just bought
sell them off
by the way it would be kind of difficult to sell them off because of course
The driver is on the other side of the vehicle.
Are they all set up and ready to go?
Do they have all the signage on the on the vehicles?
I mean, you have to change all of that.
I mean, how much is that?
I
was thinking about it, you know, if we were if we had freaks today, this would be a freak truck,
a freak
truck,
all the flowers in the marijuana painted on the side.
Wouldn't that be great?
Yeah.
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All right, this is, you know, it was quite the show.
Watching Pete Higgs have
yesterday.
Oh boy.
Clot.
This press conference.
Yes, that was a total total disaster.
He thinks he's still on the couch doing
a morning show on the weekend.
He's out there just yabbering away, defending things that he doesn't have to defend if he didn't want to, but instead he's got this guilt complex.
Here, I'll tell you what, let's play that.
This was a post yesterday that I thought was very interesting.
It's a mega defending Pete saying that Hegseth
Shreds the fake news over their obsession with race and gender.
So I found this cut and it's a 205.
And I want to, I want you to see if you agree or disagree with the mega guy who's trying to defend Pete Hegseth.
Was he a little too sensitive being questioned about this or not?
Let's listen.
acknowledge the female pilots that also participated in this mission.
The early messages that you sent out only congratulated the boys.
So
would I
say something like our boys and bombers?
See, this is the kind of thing the press does, right?
Of course,
the chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot.
That's fantastic.
She's fantastic.
She's a hero.
I want more female bomber pilots.
I hope the men and women of our country sign up to do such brave and audacious things.
But when you spin it as, because I say our boys and bombers as a common phrase, I'll keep saying things like that, whether they're men or women, very proud of that female pilot, just like I'm very proud of those male pilots.
And I don't care if it's a male or a female in that cockpit and the American people don't care.
obsession with race and gender in this department that's changed priorities.
We don't do that anymore.
We don't play your little games.
Oh,
well, your little game.
I think he's playing the game.
caught boys and the bombers.
Yeah, that's, you know, kind of excluding the females.
Well, yes, are included in all of this.
And he made it sound like that's a common phrase, you know,
phrase, I
guess in the military, the boys and the bombers.
Yeah, they took care of
it.
Yeah.
Yeah, they did it.
It's all right.
Yeah.
Okay,
well no, that's that's not true doesn't I mean you could have said this by the way Without a reporter asking you about saying it He could have congratulated women who participated in the bombing mission, but
I
didn't do it right until he was asked about it and he got all Defensive flustered and defensive about it my god
This guy is, yeah, that was a lot of spin.
You know, sometimes the news media just focuses on the details way too much, right?
It's okay.
All right.
This is the other golden moment.
I just love this.
All right.
Catherine Rampel is filling in an MSNBC for Chris Hayes.
And she put this comparison together.
I just love this.
Remember Sean Spicer
in the
first Trump administration
went out
there and inauguration was the biggest crowd ever seen in the history of the United States.
That's right.
The next day.
Yeah.
The biggest crowd ever.
And Sean Spicer was played by Melissa McCarthy.
Oh,
yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
On SNL.
Yeah.
And it was such a great exaggeration.
We just love it.
So I'm going to play that along with yesterday's Pentagon press conference with Pete Hegseth, doing pretty much the exact same thing about the bombing mission.
Let's check the two comparisons here.
Listen.
OK.
The whole scene was so silly, it spawned one of SNL's most memorable impersonations.
As you know, President Trump announced
His Supreme Court pick on the national TV today, when he entered the room, the crowd greeted him with a standing ovation which lasted a full 15 minutes.
And you can check the tape on that.
Everyone was smiling.
Everyone was happy.
The men all had erections.
And every single one of the women was ovulating left and
right.
directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history.
And it was a resounding success resulting in a ceasefire agreement and the end of the 12-day war.
You.
And I mean specifically you, the press.
Specifically you, the press corps.
Because you cheer against Trump so hard, it's like in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump.
Because you want him not to be successful so bad,
You have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes.
Today, when Fox veteran Pentagon reporter Jennifer Griffin asked about where Iran stores its enriched uranium, Hegseth responded by attacking her personally.
Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?
Of course we're watching every single aspect, but Jennifer, you've been about the worst.
The one who misrepresents the most intentionally.
What the President says.
I'm
familiar.
I was the first to describe the B-2 bombers, the refueling, the entire mission
with
great accuracy.
So I take issue with that.
It is just like that inauguration crowd fight, but this time the stakes are so much higher.
We are talking about a military conflict in the Middle East.
That's right.
Oh boy.
Yeah, that was
quite a
back and
forth they had
there.
He is a disaster.
He's something to watch.
Amazingly is.
In fact, he, oh, we have a couple of calls.
Yeah,
we got a couple of calls lined up.
Let's go to Dick, who's on the line
this
morning.
Good morning, Dick.
Go ahead.
Come on guys.
He's a little thin skinned.
Can I go back to your topic about the electric vehicles for a
second?
I had this stock we did called Workhorse back about five six years ago and they were being looked into by post office and UPS both and We bought it basically as a penny stock
And it rose and I shouldn't complain too much because when we saw where the handwriting was going, we dumped it and made a quick 5,500 bucks.
And
her Lewis to jerk off and he started moving the whole thing over to Oskar's trucks who had no expertise whatsoever.
I know they're from Wisconsin.
That's right.
Yeah.
Electric vehicle.
But suddenly the thing with workhorse went away.
They're still around, but.
It's pretty much a penny stock.
Yeah,
that's too
bad.
I can't imagine where it would have went if they would have got either of those two or fold.
Well, you know, it's still amazing that the joy is still in charge of the US Postal Service to this day.
It's just an amazing thing.
I know.
And, you know, getting these EVs out on the roads and updating the trucks, I mean, we know when our mailman comes by because the damn muffler on that truck is so loud.
We know we're getting the mail.
Yeah.
And, you know, it'll be just like when Walker squashed the trains,
what are you
going to get?
Tenies on the dollar for these vehicles now?
Like you said, you're set up with right hand drive, everything's whatever.
Yeah.
And we're saving money.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Saving a lot of money.
All right.
Thanks a lot.
Let's go to CJ now.
CJ, welcome to the program.
Morning, CJ.
No, we're getting the nail.
What?
Hello?
Just like on Walker Squash's train, he's going to get paid on the dollar for these vehicles.
No.
OK.
CJ's on a delay there.
Oh, CJ.
He's not listening.
He's listening to the radio.
He's listening to the radio.
CJ?
Is this CJ?
Yeah.
Here we go.
CJ?
All right, all
right, turn your
radio down.
Okay CJ
All right Okay, all right, I've got I've got I got this really yet, you know, we're talking about watching, you know Press conference.
Yes, Pete Hakeseth.
Yes, the best way to watch that I think would be on a one inch TV
Why
do you say
that?
Because I came across a story about a one-inch TV set.
A one-inch TV set.
Yeah, the Verge talks about tech a lot.
And I came across, oh, what?
We got CJ back?
CJ's back, yeah.
All right, well, we'll get my tiny little TV set story.
Hold on to
that one.
Oh, boy,
you want to hear this.
All
right, let's see if we've got CJ.
All
right.
Good morning, CJ.
Go ahead.
Hello.
Hello.
Hello.
Can you hear me now?
Yes.
Yes.
Well, thank you for taking my call, gentlemen, because I am Civic Radio's truth detector.
Yes,
yo,
definitely.
The big beautiful bill isn't passed, will have the greatest tax hike, and your owner, the owner of Civic Sage, won't get his, use his Trump tax break.
Yeah.
So let's hope that it happens because every American is going to suffer if it doesn't pass.
So you're saying that John and Gordy are going to get a raise if this does pass, but if Sage doesn't get all the money he needs, then we don't get a raise.
I appreciate that.
Well, hopefully you guys will.
If it's merit based, you guys should get a couple of nickels.
I appreciate that.
Wow.
Big thumbs up from CJ.
But I want to talk about Pete Higstaff.
The reason he's so thin skinned
is
because
he's
drunk.
And I can't wait to find out when the FBI Discloses and charges whoever leaked this because they're gonna suffer in
The Megas all you want to do is punish people if that's all you you want to go after
Go warriors
That
is growing soldiers not DEI DEI is dead in the military.
Thank God for number
40.
I is just cementing in racism
in our system systemic racism it just cements it in it's just keeping it there instead of weeding it out like we were doing for so many decades now we're just putting it back in and putting it in permanently with this DEI thing it's not an illegal thing it's not something you know crazy it's not stupid it makes sense three words put together
nothing to do with being a soldier
yes it
well
okay
dad thank god
you know wasn't that an amazing operational you guys gotta talk about it
oh i know
36 hours straight i just drove 24 hours from florida and i'm still awake well you
know what i you know what i really like you know i like the video of all the trucks moving all of the uh uranium uh out of
the bunker.
Oh, really?
You saw the videos of the lines of trucks two days before.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Moving the uranium around.
They took it all out of there before the bombing.
The same
thing that Sedan did before George W. after 19 UN resolutions.
Yeah.
They moved him to Syria.
And yeah, there were weapons of mass destruction.
Look, we got a text from Liz saying that it's interesting.
CJ says he's the truth teller, but when the truth comes out in a leak, it's bad.
I got it.
All
right.
CJ, thanks for that call.
We got to move along 19 past the hour.
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Brittany is away this morning.
So we're just going to march on here.
We've got a few text I like this one people like CJ should get no more than one minute of airtime
You know that that's
that would be a great idea except John and Gordy cannot focus enough to narrow it down to one minute
We
like to have fun with them as opposed to railing on them and, you know, sending them off on some kind of donkey cart.
What are you talking about?
I don't know.
I'm just
thinking of weird penalties.
All
right.
And then Cody, please remind CJ that Trump warned Tel Aviv twice to get the people out of their city.
So he told them.
We were attacking, so they were able to get the uranium out of the area.
It's Trump's leak, really.
That's
a very
good point, Cody.
That's
an
interesting point, isn't it?
Yes, excellent point.
Wow.
We have Mark on the phone.
We've got Mark on the line, yes.
Good morning,
Mark.
Go ahead.
Yeah, CJ is concerned about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
That I seem to remember from reading the history books, the South actually
contemplated letting slaves join the southern army with slavery, with emancipation as a reward for removing slavery.
And one of the arguments was that, well, if we do that and they see that there's good as soldiers as our own soldiers, that's defeating the whole point of is that all they can be is slaves.
I mean, the same is true during the Revolutionary War.
The British allowed slaves to join the British army and the price there would have been ammunition from slavery even decades before we actually became a full-fledged country.
A decade and a half, I guess.
And the same is true for the age of the machine that women for handling this equipment
when we're just as capable men is running a tank or running their running up a fighter jet or running a bomber there just as capable of anything else diversity equity inclusion means we take gift everybody the human opportunity to join in the rest of society whether it be in the military or on campus that our society itself i mean that the whole thing that these people want is is re-segregate society yes but people back in their place you know that's what it sounds like i mean that it just
You know, CJ talks about his, his biracial children or grandchildren.
And, you know, but he's not recognized the full potential of all human beings should just be recognized.
And that's all DEI is doing.
And DEI actually includes on campus.
DEI actually would include conservative because they're part of the diverse population, even though half of their ideas are chicken.
And, um, that, um,
well,
it is just beyond me that, you know, you, there's so.
bent out of shape what I've got friends of your deal as well.
DI does not hurt anybody.
It actually benefits us all.
Well, it's a learning moment for Pete Hegseth to be asked that question by a female reporter.
And from now on, maybe he'll bring up women in the military a little more often, right?
Oh,
I just part of the guys.
Yeah.
I kind of doubt it.
I doubt it
too.
He thinks very highly of women, considering the way he's
Cheated on past wives and who knows if he's cheating on the current one.
Well, he's in an alcoholic
stupor most of the time anyway, so.
All right, Mark, we
gotta move on.
I have this
crazy story for you.
This story is something else.
It's a new app.
It's called Ice Raid.
Ice Raid?
It poses a question that nobody has asked.
What happens when you combine right-wing anger over hunting down undocumented immigrants, cryptocurrency speculation, and mix in their
the Proud Boys and Enrique Tario.
All right, so
this is
all together.
The App Ice Raid offers users tokens.
of the raid digital currency in exchange for taking pictures of undocumented immigrants and submitting them to the app.
ICE raid claims that it will then provide the photos to law enforcement.
The pitch is that reporting an undocumented immigrant could earn you cash.
It's a specular rush around crypto combined with fundamental authoritarian impulse, bringing your neighbors in line and getting the state to act against them.
So that in general, we're going after immigrants in this case with this Ice Raid app, but then you could also move on and maybe, you know, maybe crimes, obstruction, assaults on police officers, looting, rioting, or maybe just being your liberal neighbor, right?
On Instagram,
Ice Raid
invited users to report liberal judges on controversial cases.
They're gonna take photos of judges singling out like DC Judge James
Bosberg.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
So anyway, it's, uh, it's something to look out for.
Yeah.
That's,
that's chilling.
It is chilling.
It's moving on it.
Everything is getting worse and worse.
We think it's bad now.
It's just progressing or regressing in a startling way.
Yes.
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OK.
All right, we've run out of time.
Sorry about that.
Sorry about
that.
Sorry, Rocker.
We'll talk to you next week.
Wait a minute.
Oh, Rocker's here with a Maxink preview.
Good morning, Rocker.
Oh, my gosh.
You guys are too funny.
Thanks for having me on again.
You guys love it.
We love it,
then.
You kidding?
Always good to see you, man.
So, tell us what's going on on Max Inc.
this weekend.
Max Inc Radio, 6 p.m.
to midnight, of course, that is local Wisconsin-made music, interviews with the artists and local personalities, and live music in the Mad City with live performances.
And this week, we have John Hardy.
Now, he is the owner of the green room that's over in the old One Barrel Brewing on the corner of Winnebago
and
Atwood.
And so, he's married to Mama T. They used to...
kind of curate the up north music schedule.
And now he's purchased this place and he's the owner there of the green room.
And it's
great because it's around the corner from the Atwood Music Hall.
So it's kind of like the green room, right?
Right next door.
So I mean, there's before parties, after parties.
A lot of fun.
I went there.
We're going to have John on and we're going to be talking to him tomorrow night.
talk to him about his really cool laid back new bar.
It's kind of a smaller place though, isn't it?
You know, it's, I guess it's kind of smaller, but they have these beautiful bay windows that hold it up.
Oh no, that's great.
Yeah, it's really nice.
Yeah, it's quaint and wow, it really fills up with a lot of scenes.
Well, that's great to hear during the shows.
And Mandy Potter, she is the music programmer of Wednesday Night Live concert series in Mount Horrib.
that starts up here in July and we're going to hear about, and she has a lot of local music.
It's really great out there in Mount Horrible here from Mandi Potter.
Wow.
That's great.
There are a lot of shows coming in.
It is summer, right?
Yeah.
Lots of good stuff happening.
And the Atwood Music Hall, you know, it's hard to say too much about them because their schedule has just been amazing.
And of course, if you don't know, the Atwood Music Hall is Madison's newest live music venue.
It's a theater.
type situation over on Atwood Avenue.
It's
beautiful.
Oh, it's
easy.
You know, I just stopped in when they were doing the awards.
The Momma Awards.
Yeah.
Just for a few minutes and it's just gorgeous.
I mean,
it's a
perfect venue.
Yeah, that like thatched, arched ceiling.
The acoustics are great.
You know, there's the upper balcony that you can watch.
There's really the line of sight in that place.
There is no bad seat.
Isn't
it a win a bagel though?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
I'm gonna just don't want to give people the idea that it's on Atwood Avenue.
Yeah.
Atwood.
Atwood music hall.
It is.
I'm going to go.
It used to be a church of all things.
And it's this kind of nondescript, you know, brick building over there.
You would you probably driven past it a thousand times and never know if they fix that up.
Wow.
Yeah.
And I mean, that like kind of gym floor.
It's totally amazing.
Yeah.
Mm hmm.
Tonight.
June 27th at the Atwood Music Hall on Winnebago presented by One Barrel Brewing.
June 27th is Disc with Graham Hunt and Disc is a five-piece rock band from Madison comprised of five different songwriters each with their unique style and influences.
You may see these guys around town.
It is Isaac Dubrow, Sloan, and his bassist Raina Bach.
They've known each other since middle school, but they added Logan Severinson, Shannon Connor, and drummer Brendan Manley.
They're on Saddle Creek Records.
Since 2020, and the band has strong ties to Madison.
You know, they kind of blew up.
They got a little big, but they're right here.
They're hometown guys.
Let's check out a song from their desperately imagining someplace quiet album from 2022.
This is disk if only
wish I still got back.
Yeah, it's great.
You know, and they're kind of, you know, they started as a young band back in 2017.
I think they're just out of high school.
So it's great to see these bands kind of get a little bit of national notoriety and be you know, hometown people.
You still see Shannon up at the Willy Street North where you'll see him up there working in between tours.
It's pretty crazy.
You know, there's some more stuff happening.
I know that you know the Evil Twins, right?
Yes.
Yes.
John and Gordy does know the Marcus Bovary and the Evil Twins.
And the Evil Twins with son Quinton Bovary will be at the Atwood Music Hall Saturday, June 28th.
And Quinton Bovary, his son hooks up with the Evil Twins.
They tribute his father's music.
Doug Meister and Eric Doomer from the Evil Twins will be there, usually sells out.
Of course, Marcus Bovery passed away from brain tumor in 2013, and he was a legend here.
He was a singer, songwriter.
But you know what?
I would actually rather let John and Gordy introduce Marcus Bovery.
Okay, let's hear this here.
Do we have that?
We should should be playing right now.
Okay, hang on a second.
We will
first in a long series.
I hope
that's right.
We've been working on this for months.
We really have.
Yeah.
And finally, it's all come down to this tonight.
That's live right here in the studio is a W. Y. O. U. We're
going to debut a new CD from Marcus Bolver in the evil twins.
Ghost.
What is it?
Ghost stories from Lonesome County.
We're going to start off with a song from that new CD.
Here's Marcus Bolver and the Evil Twins for 30 minutes.
See you later.
Wow.
Does that bring you guys back?
It does.
For those who don't recognize, that was a John and Gordy media show.
It was Media World.
Media World,
WIU.
That was 1994.
Cable 4.
Was it really 1994?
Yeah, 1994.
John and Gordy introducing it.
And you know what I was amazed?
So I thought these guys are exactly the same.
I mean, maybe the hair's a little lighter because of Jane, but it was so funny.
It's everything.
Even down to the see you later.
So, I think we
remember, we just turned over the show to them that whole half hour, right?
Yeah.
We did.
We just sounded like, yeah.
We just, yeah.
It's on YouTube.
Yeah, I found it on YouTube.
It was great.
All of a sudden, here it is, John and Gordy from 1994.
Together, having a music show.
I thought, how cool is this, right?
That is a piece of
history.
Tuesday nights, I think, on WYOU.
And we did it for a couple of years off and on.
I
think we had the rovers on as well.
But you know, I gotta tell
you, we wanted to make it a regular thing each and every month, a different group.
But we didn't.
We didn't really follow through on that, because our attention span is
just so much.
Are there more?
That was the only one that there was?
I think we had the obroes, but I don't have that tape.
Every once in a while, they forget to record the show.
But usually we had a musical group every week play a song or two, and then we'd interview them.
But we had other media people.
But it
wasn't a setup where they had the sound person in there doing the entire...
show.
So
yeah,
this was a
different situation.
This was well produced.
Well,
that was great.
That was, you know, very historical.
And now we learn so much more about you guys and your ties, you know, historically to the music scene here in Madison.
Well, yeah.
But anyway, so
so the Evil Twins will be at the Atwood Music Hall tomorrow night.
Yes, Saturday, June 28th.
And that's right.
And that show is close to selling out if not already.
So yeah,
it'll be a great show there.
We had time for one more.
Yeah.
Yeah
It's Beth Kiley band.
Yeah, she's gonna be with Cimarron and they're from Nashville.
That's gonna be Wednesday, July 9th at the Burr Oak.
So you got a little time to plan Beth Kiley on guitar, mandolin, vocals.
She has over 30 mama awards, including artist of the year in 2010.
And her husband, Tony Kiley, he plays drums, Michael Moon on bass and guitarist Michael Tony.
He's won a mama award for guitarist of the year 2014.
Saturday, July 12th.
Don't forget they'll be at the Sun stage at Lafette de Marquette.
That's coming up Saturday, July.
12th at McPike Park.
So let's hear a little bit of Beth Killiband.
This is just want to play from her start raving songbird
album.
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back to
the Maxink preview.
Rocker take it away.
What do we know?
I'll tell you what do you think that the UW marching band does when they're on summer break?
Take a vacation.
No, they're
still playing everywhere.
They're still playing.
Yeah.
And you know what?
There's
there's a really cool concert coming up.
It's a concert on Main Street with the UW marching band.
It's Tuesday, July 8th at 6.30 p.m.
It's at the Deforest Public Library.
So yeah, Library Street
and
Deforest, which I think would be just an absolutely amazing place to go see them really up close.
You know, I mean,
Well,
a lot of times
it's either on TV
or
you're at the stadium.
It's a far away.
It's back, you know, or maybe at a parade.
They just walk by, but this is an actual
concert.
But there is a problem, of course.
They have to be very quiet.
Yeah.
Can you play with the brushes, please?
Very,
very quiet.
Vio
5 and Johnny Chimes.
They're going to be doing a really cool show coming up Thursday, July 3rd, 4.30 to 10 PM.
It's the eve of Independence Day.
It's at West Marlin Park on the west side of Madison, Tilkay Boulevard.
It's free and sponsored by the West Marlin Neighborhood Association.
African drums and dancing at 4.30.
Johnny Chimes at 5.45.
And then Vio 5, 7.15 to 9.30.
And then guess what they have there?
What?
A drone light show.
Really?
So 930, they're going
to start a drone light show.
That's cool.
Yes.
You know, and
wow.
It should be pretty crazy.
Food carts are on site, and Bonzo was there, one of my favorite ones.
Thailand in a truck, and local beers, ice cream, tea.
THC infused sips and refreshing hard seltters.
So let's hear a little bit of VO5.
I picked another different part to get another little slice of VO5.
This is a cut from I Love the Sun, their dance originality CD.
Smooth as a little Spyro Gyro.
That kind
of
thing.
It's definitely that kind of 70s, like, you know, laid back chill vibe.
Yes.
I mean, nobody does it better than them.
Well, I know they're going to have a drone light show.
Of course, the John and Gordy drone on show is also something.
And you'll be able to hear our drones at the end of this show.
Exactly.
Yeah.
A Wren Klaw.
Have you heard of them, John?
No.
Renclaw Saturday June 28th.
They're gonna be at the boneyard That's a place where you know you
can't take your dogs hang out.
They got beer dogs get
in free I don't know if there's you have to check their membership.
I'm not gonna speak for them.
What?
Okay, did you have to pay to get in?
Okay, okay, the humans are free dogs pay something for a ball or something
Well, they they
have a lot of stuff there beer
and
groomer music venue food trucks monsoon.
Siam is gonna be there.
They're the Renclaw blending country harmonies Slytherin slide guitars rank call it creates a down home backwards soul shakedown This is pretty cool.
Renclaw minute by minute from a PBS broadcast.
Oh, okay
Well, that's a really good song.
Yeah, I
figured you might like them.
They're pretty cool.
A lot of finger pickings,
like
guitar.
Really cool stuff and that's going to be Saturday June 28th at the Boneyard 2 to 5 p.m.
Hey, we can still get this in La Feta Marquette 19 years of La Feta Marquette is coming
up
July 10th through the 13th 6 stages world-class music incredible food beer and wine Bethkely bands gonna be playing there We mentioned them Leroy Thomas and the Zydeco Roadrunners Sonny Landrith Dwayne Dobssey and the Zydeco Hellraisers
and Nuggernaut, those are just some of the highlights.
Go find them, just type Lafette, the Marquette, you'll find them, get the full schedule.
There's tons of stages, tons of bands.
And the Jimmy's with Marsha Ball and Tracy Nelson are gonna be Sunday, July 13th.
We have the Jimmy's with Marsha Ball.
They wrote a song, it's called Right A Hit.
All right, here we go.
Good stuff.
Yeah.
Marsha Ball.
What a great voice.
Oh, incredible.
Let's sing along with Marsha Ball.
That's Jimmy.
That's Jimmy.
That's one of the jimmies.
It's the jimmies.
You know, I don't know if you know this, but they're all jimmies.
That's the deal.
And WMDX is one of the sponsors of Lafette Marquette, right?
Yes.
Lafette Marquette.
Yes.
Yes.
We'll be there.
We'll be there.
Yeah.
19 years this year.
It's going to be fun.
Rocker, have a good Maxink weekend.
Thanks guys.
Appreciate
it.
Always good to see you.
That's going to wrap it up for us Monday.
It's the return of Pam Yankee.
She'll be coming back.
And here they come.
And so will we.
And that'll be Monday.
Have a great weekend.
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It's a new adventure, isn't it really?
It really is.
This is a very special edition of the John and Gordy Morning Show.
It
is?
We're calling this one Trump Set Iran Back Two Months.
Trump Set the U.S.
Back 50 Years.
Oh!
This is that kind of edition of the Morning Show.
Okay.
It's a little longer, but...
Yeah, I didn't
spend much time on that.
You got to workshop that title a little bit to make it a little punchier.
Look at the clouds out there this
morning.
It's
just cloudy and humid again and talking about more rain again.
More
rain later today.
Of course, concerts on the square.
It's the first one of the season.
Oh, I can't wait for that.
I know.
The season begins tonight, but they'll make a call on the rain.
around three o'clock, whether
they're
going to, you know, have the shows or not.
I'll
have to get up my, uh, my special grass pants.
Sit out there in the law.
Special grass.
You know, second down.
Well, you're not familiar with concerts on the square.
My fancy wines.
Okay.
Dom doesn't know what we're talking about, concerts on the square.
They have six of them a seat every, each season, summer season.
Okay.
They're up on the Capitol Square.
with the Wisconsin Orchestra.
Too
much
information.
You don't
know.
Okay.
Just not a certain color.
John is not a fan.
So they just say that.
They have concerts up there.
People show up.
It's really nice.
Sit out on the grass and they bother everybody else by getting in everybody's way.
And they're very cool and hip.
So, whitey toady.
I'll
have to go myself
and I'll be the decider.
I'll be the decider.
That's where all the elite go.
That's real fun.
They got a big crowd and
but at least I have my grass pants so I could just go up there and sit down on the grass.
Your grass pants.
So Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.
There you go.
Six times a year.
And tonight's theme you might actually like it, John, if
you
went.
Yeah, because it's
It's Motown.
Motown is the
theme tonight.
No.
I've had enough of Motown.
Well, okay.
I mean, I like a lot of the music.
I just don't, you know, like an intense amount of Motown, you know.
Okay.
Too much sometimes.
Yeah.
I like it when they have something like, you know, the Star Wars thing.
Sure.
Or, you know, superhero themed evenings.
Yeah, tonight is, it's called Dancing in the Street.
Motown hits by Radiance.
Great.
Yeah.
Dancing on the street.
Yeah.
We're gonna, we're gonna see that.
Well, you might like dancing out on the lawn.
Okay.
Why are you, you just,
did you have a bad
experience?
Have you had bad experiences at the concerts on the square?
I
just don't like the traffic or the what?
When I first moved here, I was very wary of medicine, you know, being from Milwaukee, very blue collar.
And I didn't know what to expect.
But what I did,
Didn't acknowledge was that there is a certain element here in Madison and I used to call it metasensitivity.
Oh sure and It's super super liberal stuff That just drives me crazy.
It's green party stuff.
I'm not you know, I I'm all for green energy I'm just not into this green party thing and and it was just something that I
bothered me a lot and I call it mad asensitivity.
Okay.
I coined that phrase.
It's in the dictionary.
Well, for those that want to go to concerts on the square and enjoy the show and enjoy having, you know, bringing some picnic food and, you know, putting a blanket out on the lawn
and being out there
with the elite.
Yeah, it's great.
Dancing in the street.
Again, that's tonight.
Next time around there.
They have Celebration of Liberty, and then they have American Song on July 9th.
This is the big lineup for the rest of the season.
Mozart and Mahler.
I know you're a big fan of both Mozart
and Mahler.
Oh,
absolutely.
Yes, yes.
And then Dark Side of the Moon.
That might be good.
There you go,
right there.
See, there's your rock thing.
That's it.
That's on
July 23rd.
Yep.
And then Shostakovich and Beethoven.
Again,
two of
your favorites.
You
bet.
I know.
You're really into the classical stuff.
I
really go overboard when I talk about this stuff, and I'm mostly kidding about Conscious on the Square.
It's a great event for the public.
I'm looking at you backtracking now.
I'm mostly kidding.
But it is kind of an elitist thing, and
I'm just not into it.
Okay.
All right.
Well, for people that are into it, they'll make the call on the weather at 3 o'clock, OK?
I'm not going to get into it, you know?
We're too deep into it now.
You've got the mucklucks on, and you're treading the water, buddy.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, okay.
All right.
Let's check the weather
right now.
Why don't we do that?
What is your Samsung?
Do you have something that you want to contribute to the weather forecast today?
I know that it's 70 degrees on the WMDX thermometer outside our window.
The official WMDX weather watch says 70 degrees currently.
Okay, so we're in agreement.
I have 79 today in a low tonight of only 71 degrees.
Okay.
Yeah.
What time is sunset?
Well, the sunset time is 841.
It's going to get any further than 841.
Okay.
Roll that to a weather roulette wheel.
Let's check the afternoon high temperature.
They're dumb.
Okay.
And around it goes.
Spinning around.
Making us all dizzy.
78.
Black 78.
That
weather roulette takes forever to actually finish.
That thing, you know, it goes forever.
Yeah, we'll keep on turning.
But but it's accurate.
It's accurate.
All right.
So OK, here's here's the thing.
And I listened last night.
I listened to Pete Schwabba last night.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no.
I heard you on that program, Dom.
Oh, no.
What did he say?
I didn't listen to that.
Trump just keeps sweeping more information out of Dom's head.
And I'm just like, okay, Italian, Mr. Italian in there.
Oh, okay.
Well, that's something you have in common.
Right there?
Right, yeah.
I'm Italian as well.
There we
go.
And
what
else?
And they apparently have some kind of Sunday brunch date, I believe, at... Who has a Sunday brunch date?
Pete and Dom.
And Dom?
Yeah, they're gonna make it out down to Bennett's Meadowwood Country Club.
I know what you're talking about as soon as you're
saying it.
What's that all about?
It's smutton eggs.
Oh, smutton eggs, really?
You bet.
You know about Bennett's, right?
Well, no, they have it on Sunday mornings, right?
Yes.
Is
that the deal?
Yes.
Now, I've never been there.
No, I haven't
either.
But it's it's somewhere in Madison.
Yeah, it's on
near the interstate somewhere.
Exactly.
He was talking all about it and he was saying, yeah, Dom, you got to go.
You got to go here.
And I was setting you up.
He really set me up because I, you know, I had no idea that he wanted me to go to this place.
It's on Freeport and it's right near Raymond Road and 151 Verona Road
and
Raymond Road.
All right.
It's in the Valley area.
All right.
And the funny thing is I used to go by there all the time when I was doing the census, kind of a shortcut underneath the bridge, but there's no name.
There's no sign.
There's no sign.
It's Freeport Road.
You gotta know where it is.
Yeah, it's Freeport Road, but there's no sign saying this is Bennett's.
Well, I understand the breakfast buffet is really good.
That's what I've heard.
I don't know.
Well,
I think it's the artsy films that they show.
The artsy films.
Okay.
Now, you guys were talking about, you know, oh, this would be a better thing in the afternoon.
But I don't know if it's ever better.
And this is my point is that, you know, smutnake sounds fun and crazy and really
different and all that.
But, you know, when you're in a crowd of strangers and you're sitting there eating brunch, breakfast, and you're watching...
porn With a lot of people around I don't know it's yeah, I guess it takes a certain personality to make it down there
got a text comment here from Catherine who says you're an idiot Peterson Getting
going you got her going
early
Dom, let's go to your new feature that you brought into
the
show.
Switch gear is here.
Spinning our wheels.
Let's stick to Would You Rather.
This is day two of it, you know what I mean?
Would You Rather.
Very simple game, but I figure I want to ask you a few questions so you know what it is.
You got the wheel.
Would you rather always feel like you're about to sneeze?
Or always have an itch just out of scratching reach.
Which one would you rather have?
I know you don't want either, but which one would you rather have?
John,
you want to go first?
I guess the, uh, the scratch.
You, okay.
You're just out of scratching reach.
Yeah.
You don't want to always feel like you want to sneeze, no?
No, I can't.
I
hate that more than anything.
I
wouldn't mind that, because I can fight that off.
Yeah, yeah.
So I would rather have the sneeze thing.
Almost feeling like you're gonna.
Yeah, you're always you do it eventually end up sneezing Yeah, I
think I can fight that off.
I think so too.
What about you?
Okay, okay, hold on.
Do you have an answer?
Yes, I think I would I would agree with you Gordy, you know about sneeze.
Yeah Okay, second question would you rather talk like Mickey Mouse when you're angry?
or laugh just like Spongebob.
Which one would you rather laugh like Spongebob?
Yeah, that one I would agree with.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
I would probably agree too.
Yep.
Gonna have to
practice
that.
Okay.
And then the last one, third and final one.
Would you rather travel for free for the rest of your life or never have to pay for food ever again?
This one's tougher.
I can tell John's thinking right now.
Look at his mind's racing.
I don't travel for freeze then that's I would go I would go with that.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, this is my first disagree I think I would never pay for food ever again cuz I'm I love eating so I would
you know what you said that on Pete Travis show yesterday You
know
if there's any question about food we should talk to you about the food go straight to me.
Yeah, especially Italian dishes, too
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Really?
Fantastic.
You like dabbling in the kitchen?
Yes, I do like dabbling in the kitchen.
Cool, man.
So do I. I got to bring some nice, you know, rigatoni in one day, you know?
Sure.
Absolutely.
There
you go, Gordy.
Well, good deal.
Match it.
Oh, I can't match that.
You guys are into the rigatoni, I can tell.
Have a little meeting after the show and discuss your Italian recipes.
Heritage to a to a little bit of porn There are plenty of good Italian restaurants around
yes,
yes, there are
yeah
Lombardinos comes to mind.
Yeah, that's right around the corner for you,
right and There's one on Regent Street.
I can never remember the name of it with the bookstore next.
Yes, is that yes?
I can't remember that one either.
But yeah, that's a that's a nice one.
We have one in Middleton.
Do you yeah?
Okay
Yeah,
the name of it.
No, I don't
know.
Okay.
Venturi or something.
Who knows?
Okay.
A little bit later on in the show in our seven o'clock hour, Amy Horak will be in with the agricultural report.
What to do with your lawn when you get all this rain and have to deal with that.
We'll be talking with her.
And oh, yeah, we're gonna, I'm gonna fill you in on the something new that we have.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, we got a well the Sugar River Pizza Party.
Oh, yeah.
Oh,
yes.
I love you more about this
pizza.
Yeah, you can enter your whole office in for a pizza party with John and Gordy at Sugar River Pizza.
We'll tell you more about that when we come back.
We're just getting going on a Wednesday morning.
That's right.
It's the you're an idiot Peterson
edition of John and Gordy.
That's it.
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Come on, come on!
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And you can go right to our website, wmdxradio.com and click on the banner that says best of Madison.
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They're up for best pizza leave is the category.
They won a number of times already.
Yeah.
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And we're going to be doing some pizza parties coming up this summer with Sugar River Pizza.
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It's going to be a blast.
It really is.
Catherine wonders now, Dom, do you live in a gravel pit?
Well,
that was the question I asked.
Yeah.
And that answers your shoes.
Yes, I do.
I
do.
All right.
Well, see now, I kind of thought that.
You have a band down here.
Okay.
Don't
shoot any dogs while you're down there.
Oh man, okay.
Let's move on.
24 minutes past the hour and Sarah joins us from Wings over Madison.
Hi Sarah.
Hi.
Thanks for
coming in this morning.
Good morning.
Thanks for having me.
I always
like the name of the place because it's Wings over and then you just add the city or the location, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Are
you all
set up there?
Yeah, okay.
So Sarah, you just reopened on Tuesday?
We did on Tuesday.
Okay.
Why were you, you were closed for a little while.
Yeah, yeah.
So we heard a Madison, we let you down.
The wings weren't crispy.
The tenders weren't juicy.
We were inconsistent.
And so our flavor was unforgettable.
Yeah.
And so we believe that Madison deserves better.
And we closed our doors, we retrained, we really built, and quite honestly, we obsessed over every single detail.
Great, and now you're reopened.
We are reopened and so happy.
The different ways to prepare what you have, the wings and the tenders, all redone, reformulated the way you cook and prepare them and then present them and the amount of time from the cook.
to the table, right?
Yeah.
So retraining on all recipes.
Yeah.
And making sure our team is up to speed, consistency, consistency.
And you're located near UW Hospital, right?
Yeah.
On
University Avenue?
2739.
Okay.
Right across from the VA Hospital and Children's.
Okay.
Yeah.
So that's a convenient location.
Yeah, totally.
And it's not so much...
saving the business, but it's saving something that Madison has loved and we love.
We love, yeah, we love wings here.
And this is, well, this is kind of an interesting, you know, a business to admit something like this, you know, close down, reformulate, because maybe it wasn't as popular because you didn't get the exact recipe the way people like.
Wings in this town prepared and chicken tenders as well.
And it's you know, there's staple food here in town anyway So, you know, it's great to have a reformulation.
So what do you think that you've changed in this way?
You know as far as like, you know breading or or sauces What do you what what what took place?
So it's really just retraining on the recipe.
Okay, and we really want to gain trust back
so much that we're giving away chicken for five days.
So, at open on the 24th through the 29th, listeners and the community Badger Country can get a three tender pack or a six boneless pack.
And a pack includes, stay with me guys, includes French fries.
your choice of 17 different flavors, and ranch or blue cheese, which one are
you?
Ranch, I'm definitely
ranch.
I kind of like the blue cheese as a dip, but also do you have the hot sauces?
So yes, so spicy, tangy, savory.
I
like anything with lime in it, so.
That's where I'm at.
Okay.
So we have a limited time offer flavor right now called chili lime.
It's a dry rub.
Yes.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Dry rubs.
I love dry rubs.
Right.
So our offer, um, you can get one per day, one per day, right?
And the hardest, uh, the hardest decision is which flavor.
Yeah.
Uh, you do have to make a small purchase.
So any purchase.
So buy a drink and get your whole entire meal for free.
Wow.
Uh, yeah.
One per day until the 29th.
29th.
Three more days
here, including today.
Yeah.
So order online, um, on the website, the promo code is mad pack 25 mad pack 25.
And what's the website?
Wingsover.com.
That's it.
Wingsover.com.
And then what's the, uh, what's the code
again?
Mad pack 25
mad pack 25.
Write that down down.
Okay.
We don't want to, we don't want to miss anything.
Okay.
I'm on it.
All
right.
And is
this for delivery to go?
It's to go.
Absolutely.
You can dine in as well.
Okay.
All
right.
And OK, we're out of time here, Sarah.
But thanks for coming in.
And we appreciate you.
I see you brought some wings here.
I
did.
We'll have to get to
those during the commercial breaks.
We'll break into those.
But good luck with the reopening.
Yeah.
And we appreciate
you stopping by.
This smells so fantastic.
So we're going to have to try it out and let you know what we think.
OK.
Yes, please.
So
wingsover.com.
And you can take it from there.
MadPak.
What was it?
MadPak 25.
25.
Or you can follow us on Instagram at eatwingsover.
Oh, OK.
All right.
That's a easy way to do it.
Sarah, thanks for coming in.
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate
you.
And good luck with the reopening.
Thanks so
much.
I'm going to have my Gen Z kids call in and order some.
All
right.
Definitely.
Yes.
I know they'll
love it.
All right.
29 minutes past the hour.
When we come back, we'll be talking with Tim Slacker from Busted Pencils on Johnny Gordy in the morning.
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Time once again for Tim Slecker from Busted Pencils and so many things to talk about from your podcast that I listened to last night and I was just fascinated by the subject matter.
But let's go back to last Thursday when we're talking about the balance of liberal
or conservative teachers and colleges and in schools.
And my question has always been, and this is like maybe five or six decades old, this question, what happens when you have more liberals in all of these schools?
I
mean, is it a natural thing that a more liberal person would go into teaching, wanting to educate the future of our country?
Or is it I'm not quite sure what what makes it out of balance.
Why do we have more liberal teachers in the profession?
Well, you're going to ask that question now.
Yeah.
Okay.
You know, breaking news here.
Yeah.
All right.
So there there's a long.
deep dark secret plot that has been orchestrated over the years to install liberal Marxist socialists.
in positions to influence the youth of America to get them to become communists.
So it's been true all along here.
Yeah,
yeah.
So you just were the first one, John, to finally ask the question directly.
And here we are now.
So now it's fully out in the open.
The
evil
plot the evil plot has been revealed and now we know that you know, yes, there's been the deep state has been at it for years making sure that liberals dominate the Teaching profession to make sure that the influence of deep dark socialist communists and and and you can see how successful I
was gonna say how
successful has that been
Yeah, I mean, you can see that,
you
know, living under an incredibly hardcore capitalist society, we
haven't been that good at it, have we?
No, we haven't really been good.
Not in a successful propaganda program, indoctrination has not worked after all.
Man!
You know what, though?
I don't know the answer to that question.
Yeah.
A part of me that does say there's something about the nature of people who go into some form of like a helping profession.
That's what I'm thinking.
Right.
Yeah.
You
know, that just is to say, you know, liberals are
We're just better helpers.
Yes.
You know, I mean, there's a sense of that.
And so it's like, is it is it political ideology?
Or is it just the reality that they're just better human beings?
Well, I can answer that specifically.
Yes.
But, you know, there have been very good conservative instructors out there as well.
We've had a few in the state that have been participating in politics as well.
And they're very fair.
So I do want to say that there are some out there like that.
But I do, my impression was always that there was an empathy.
There was a...
a drive to help other people out.
And that's why they went into teaching.
It was a dedicated profession as well.
And I think a lot of politicians at some point took advantage of their dedication by not helping education enough or paying teachers enough.
And they just knew that the teachers would show up anyway or donate most of their time, their private time to help their students out.
So I think, you know, it's one of those professions where they've been taken advantage of and not paid what they should have been paid all along.
have a dedication to it and I think conservatives know that and they took advantage of that particular quality in an individual.
But you made a great point though too it's like okay you know there are great conservative teachers and maybe that's the problem is trying to say that you know teachers are you know there's there's so many of them are just liberal and or Democrats and and you know
And how about it's just actually it's not a good conservative teacher.
It's not a good liberal teacher.
Good teachers, you know, actually are, you know, in one way, undefinable.
Maybe it just so happens that more cut across quote, you know, party lines for some reason that, you know, more Democrats or teachers, but
When you say, you know, hey, I know some really good conservative teachers, I would say that maybe our problem is, is that, you know, let's just talk about what are good teachers.
Because I say the same thing.
I know some, quote, Republican teachers who are really good.
You know, and what is it?
It's they care.
they care a lot.
That's it.
You know, and so they might just have a bit of a different of a political ideologies.
But John, I think you're right, though, it's very easy, though, to take that, you know, statistical demographic that says, Oh, my God, you know, 82% of teachers in the state of, you know, Wisconsin are registered Democrats.
Therefore, that means
that, you know, it's infested by liberal indoctrinators.
Exactly.
It's a plot.
Yeah, it's a plot as opposed to saying, no, it's just a fact of demographic kind of population that says, you know, more teachers are Democrats.
It doesn't mean anything.
Therefore, nothing.
It
just is.
Therefore, there are more Democratic teachers.
That's it.
And I think there's also a possibility that, you know, being conservative, you're more capitalistic.
And you don't make the kind of money that you could make in the private sector, as opposed to in the public sector, as an instructor, as a teacher.
Yeah.
Oh,
well, I didn't go over well.
All right, let's move on to the
next
bunch of questions, because now, in fact, this is a perfect tie-in.
We were talking about DEI.
You were talking about it in your podcast.
And
the
fact that you have
Students that may respond in a very conservative way to an assignment that you give them and how do you respond to that if in fact that.
Particular response in an assignment is contrary to you know fact.
Yeah.
Well, so this is, you know, we brought this up because, you know, this is a real case in the University of Florida system.
This was documented in the New York Times.
A second year law student wrote a paper and won an award for laying out
an originalist argument to the Constitution that said, you know, hey, the reality is, is that only white people should be voting.
And sorry, that that's just what the original founders wanted.
And he wasn't arguing, you know, from the standpoint of going, you know, this is a historical fact.
He was saying the fact is, and in fact, today,
If we were in violation of our Constitution by letting anybody other than white people vote and he He won he won an award and and and the issue is is going like how did that happen?
Johnny and Johnny and I brought up though the the point that saying like when you know, so teacher education
is accredited.
And one of our accreditors, the accreditors typically had language and this happened to me directly and also Johnny, he listened to the show.
But you know, this is maybe 15 years ago, I had a student who wrote a paper that indicated that she had a problem with diversity and that it wasn't her job as a teacher to
identify and be a non-racist.
She felt that that was pushing up against her.
But our accreditation literally says one of the things you have to do is help teachers not be racist.
Yeah, you know like we don't want racist teachers and so how do you do and so you know I brought the student we talked about it talk to the faculty and we had a conversation about you know what is it that's driving you to think this way you know as a teacher all of the students in front of you you know are are
supposed to, and in fact, your job is to elevate every one of them, and not be a racist.
And that was actually something we were supposed to do.
Because if not, if the creditors found out that we were letting racists slip through the cracks, we could be in violation of accreditation.
But now in 2025, I'm pretty sure that
I would have been the problem in that situation today because how dare I, you know, infringe on the human right of a teacher to be a racist.
Right.
Exactly.
Okay.
Living in a bizarro world again.
Left is right.
Yeah, Gordy, you look like you're
like, what's going on in the world?
I'm befuddled, yes.
Well, that's my usual
look.
But here's the thing, with this new policy on DEI and anti-DEI, what we're looking at is normalizing racist points of view.
We can't call in the question any of that, or else we would be trying to indoctrinate that conservative thought.
Yes, yeah.
God forbid we would take a racist point of view and hopefully help them understand that
you shouldn't do that.
You
know, and what's more striking in this case particularly is this is a very, you know, potentially, you know, a second year law student putting forward an argument that was trying to say to, you know, look, if I'm going to go out and practice law, here's kind of the ideology I'm going to be coming from, which is white people.
we're in charge of the world.
And in fact, you go in and dig deeper, and you find that the student is, you know, vehemently racist, incredibly anti-Semitic social media posts.
And, but we came back at it and saying, you know, what was, to me, the more troubling was the fact that the University of Florida system took a position of what they called
institutional neutrality.
Wow.
Wow.
Sounds good to me.
You
know,
I
just think about it, you know, because I know we're coming up on a break.
But
yeah, what what does that mean?
We will ponder that and maybe try to come up with an answer when we come back
to the
break.
648.
We're talking with Dr. Tim Slecker from busted pencils.
And we will
Continue the conversation in just a few moments.
Stay with us on John and Gordy in the morning.
92.7.
Please
don't
sing.
Please, I beg you, don't sing.
752, sunshine.
I must be hallucinating on this coffee this morning.
I know you are.
Sunshine, highs today in the upper 80s or low 90s, maybe some rain or thunderstorms later, but right now it's beautiful out there.
And we are welcoming Abby Abramovich.
Did I get that?
Yeah, Abramovich, yep.
Abramovich from Doundren's Distilling.
Right?
Yes.
I got it right now.
Yep.
We were pronouncing it a couple of other ways, but
we finally
got it right from you and
so.
Downdrons.
Downdrons.
So you're in Cottage Grove,
right?
Yep.
Yep.
How long have you had the business?
Is this a family business?
It's my husband and I. Uh-huh.
We're the owner operators and then a small team of employees.
We got open to the public August 31st, 2019.
So we only had about six months before we got shut down.
for COVID, the tasting room was shut down for 13 months.
But in that time, we did pivot it, made hand sanitizer, made like half a million gallons of hand sanitizer in a couple months, shipped it all over the country, donated a lot to first responders in the area.
then built our outdoor tasting, like our outdoor cocktail garden area during that time.
I understand.
This is quite the place.
So describe it.
Describe it to us.
Yeah.
So we have an indoor tasting room.
We are open year round.
The inside and outside areas are open year round.
We're family friendly and pet friendly.
So the indoor tasting room, I call it like it's my
Grandma's furniture.
It's all that's what I lovingly call it because it's an eclectic blend of a bunch of random secondhand furniture.
There's like a double rocking chair.
There's chair made out of an oil barrel.
There's couches very lounge furniture and then outside is an 11,000 square foot fenced cocktail garden.
So there's
grassy areas, flower beds, trees.
There's actually a playground and a stage that then we have music.
We do events year round that are a huge range of activities.
A dog
park?
Do you have a dog park?
Well, the dogs can be anywhere.
They can, okay.
Yes, yes, for sure.
That's very cool.
Yep.
And then we do all of our production there as well, all of
our...
Now, what is your production involved?
I mean, what do you produce?
We make a little bit of everything as driven by the Wisconsin alcohol laws.
Forever, we could only sell cocktails.
Like we can make cocktails and we sell cocktails on site, but so we could only...
make and, or we could only serve the alcohol that we make.
And so if we wanted a gin cocktail, we had to make gin.
If we want some flavored anything, we had to make that.
And so we actually make a huge variety of products.
It's like over 30 products.
We do brandies, gin, vodka's, a bunch of liqueurs, aquavit, grappa.
I don't know, flavored rums, all sorts of good stuff.
Yeah, so it's a lot of stuff, a lot of different products, but the major theme is that we really try and focus on highlighting local ingredients or things that we can get from local producers as much as possible.
So we work a lot with small farmers in the area.
So you mentioned you're pet friendly, indoors and outdoors.
I'm looking at your website here, downdrons.com, D-O-U-N-D-R-I-S, or D-R-I-S, sorry, downdrons.
But live music, art classes, art
classes,
drag, bingo, weekly trivia, pro wrestling,
pro wrestling.
It's an absolute blast.
They come and build a ring out in the tasting, out in the cocktail garden.
Um, and we have two more shows this summer.
This is the fourth year that we've been working with this group and it's an absolute blast.
Yeah.
A lot of fun.
Yes.
Yes.
And you're, like you mentioned before, you're open year round.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's tremendous.
Yep.
And what are your hours?
Abby,
sorry.
It's okay.
Um, our summer hours right now, we're open Tuesday, Wednesday from four to nine PM.
And then Thursday is four to 10, because we have our weekly trivia on Thursdays.
Friday is 3 p.m.
to 11 p.m.
We have a good special on old fashions from three to six.
And then on the weekends, we open up at 11 a.m.
Saturday is 11 to 11 and Sunday is 11 to eight.
Make anything like a Meyers room at all.
I
don't
know what that is.
It's
a
spiced rum.
So you said you made rums, right?
So we don't do a spiced rum.
We do a barrel-aged rum, and then we do a, our biggest selling product is a cherry-flavored rum.
Really?
Oh, that's cool.
So it's made with cherries from Door County, from a small family farm in Door County.
Well, that sounds really good.
Oh yeah, that's our number one selling product.
Yeah, absolutely.
And you
have other drinks as well.
You have ciders out there.
You have beers as well.
Yes, we do.
So all of our products are like distilled spirits, liquor.
We also, though, year round, we have a choice.
choice of a lot of other options.
We have beer, we have cider, seltzers, wine.
From
local breweries.
A lot of stuff is local.
Yep, as much as possible.
All right.
Well, Abby, thanks for coming in this morning.
Yeah, absolutely.
It
sounds like a great place.
I think we're coming out there sometime soon.
Yes.
We've got something we're working
on.
Yes, absolutely.
And we'll tell people more about that as we get a little closer to us.
But Abby, thank you for coming in.
And downdrons distilling in Cottage Grove.
What's the address?
300 Progress Drive.
It's just south of Cottage Grove Road and west of Main Street.
Yep.
Right.
Absolutely.
Thanks, Abby.
Yeah, thank you so much.
And that is going to do it for our show for today.
Stephanie Miller is coming up next.
Tomorrow's show, we will talk to Lisa Bernard, get the latest from the Dane County Humane Society and Amy Horak from David J. Frank.
And that's going to do it for us.
Yeah, that's
about it.
I'm exhausted.
Yes, I
am.
I
want to lie down on the couch over there.
I think so.
I'm going to huddle up in the fetal position in the corner here.
Now that we're at war again.
Have a great day so long.
