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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've predicted the afternoon high with your Samsung W MDX 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 and 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
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
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, what do we got?
What's the matter?
Oh,
changing the
a
and he
Yeah, I
yeah
That's a personal question.
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Have a good day, guys.
Thank you,
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.
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Sadly, some of those people are on the world, you know.
Well, yes.
What about
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We've teamed up with them.
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They're giving us tips on how to do this.
Yeah, that's right.
So I'm not good at making pizzas, though.
No?
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Let's see.
What else?
What else on this Friday?
We've got Rocker, I mentioned that, with the Maxing
on
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.
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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?
right.
All right.
Elementary school teachers are pretty happy.
Psychologists are happy.
Librarians pretty happy.
In the middle now are 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 the timing's a little
I'm
it.
Yeah, who
I know this is
How does this
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.
That's
That was very stressful on me.
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 and is 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
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.
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 paid me to say all this.
So vote for John and Gordy.
Summers in the check clear yet?
Nope.
Forget that.
Okay, so
John and Gordy in the morning.
635 cloudy skies.
Eyes in the mid up 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.
Should we have him?
Chris?
Hello?
Chris.
I was, I was sleeping.
That's why.
Okay.
wake you.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Um, America next.
top hit maker.
on?
I am able to talk about it.
I 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.
So it's a kind of sponsored by Rolling Stone magazine.
Yeah.
They're looking for America's next top hit maker, which I assume means that you're a music, uh, have some musical ability where you can sing or rock out or who knows what
Yeah, go ahead.
So I'm in this contest and a friend of mine is sponsored by, I mean, oh yeah, this is a $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.
I don't know.
I mean, I mean, you guys voted for me, right?
And yes, yes.
out.
Right.
Well, nobody walked me through voting for John and Gordy for the best.
Nobody
Yeah, all right So the kids and so what's what's crazy?
I am 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,
sing.
based it just on the picture.
I think it's I think that might be I might be winning the hype component.
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 run alive Stay Street Stay Street I really wanna go there Lots of happy people And a guy in underwear Stay Street
That's great.
That's
great.
That's great.
That's great.
That's great.
That's great.
That's great.
That's great.
That's great.
great.
That's great.
That's great.
That's great.
That's great.
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 drum roll but I made the cut
vote.
Yeah, every week get the next the next cut will be next Thursday and I think it's for the I think it's for the the Final person number one in the in the group, but here's the tricky part.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's I'm not exactly sure what being in the top five means Because top they say you're you're the top five
of your group.
It's a national conscious.
So how many groups did they pick?
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 gonna eliminate 50 people.
So we're gonna go over the top 50.
Yeah, anyway
it's fun.
raised citizen is raised.
Yeah, like you can vote for free or you can
buy votes.
Oh, okay.
And so if you buy votes, which makes it interesting, like America's next top hitmaker could be bought, what?
Okay.
Well,
what?
If it's for a good cause, it's okay.
yeah.
Yeah, I'll bet your Facebook elves are the best.
They are.
They're high-tech
Then we're pretty much guaranteed I'm going to win this thing,
Well, John, that's a great question.
One thing I would like to know why you are asking this, but let's let's just leave that one alone.
right.
You're confusing nitric oxides NO with nitrous oxides, which is that's different.
It's different.
It's
Okay.
All right.
You do need NO nitric oxide.
And for you and Gordy, during your show many times, you do need nitrous oxide.
Yes, we do.
that.
Yeah, I guess maybe if I'm there, since I'm a dentist, it would be allowed, I guess.
Yeah, it would
actually.
Kids don't try this at home.
Probably wrong.
right.
dentist.
When does your voting end?
I want to vote.
I want you guys to win.
I voted for you for the best morning goes.
Well, then forget the Rock and Dennis.
Let's get John and Gordy number one here, people.
All right.
That's what really mattered.
Well, thank you.
But then after you get number one, then then we're going to focus all of our attention on getting the Rock and Dennis.
plan.
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I love you.
Peace out.
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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.
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 in that area, obviously.
set out by the federal government, not the states, but they threw all of this into the Senate bill.
This is crazy stuff, and
Just get it in the morning.
Sing along
you like.
And
if I
This is for a four pack of Brewer's tickets, not just a pair.
This is a four pack of Brewer's tickets up for grabs for Sunday, June 29th.
That's when they take on Colorado at American Family Field.
So if you can go to that game and you want to enter this contest, you can text us the word, the key word is park, P-A-R-K, park, okay?
And you have until eight o'clock to get that word into us.
This is a statewide contest.
And again, we do this every Friday.
So you can tune in later on in the day.
There will be other key words and other shows.
And again.
It is, uh, park is the keyword this time around.
Are we telling everybody media dot us for more rules about the game we're going to
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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.
Wow.
Right.
Oh wait.
What?
There's a provision.
There's a cash.
And the Senate bill.
Oh no.
The big bad bill.
Oh
Tucked inside the Senate bill.
It would force the US Postal Service to sell off.
the brand-new trucks.
Why?
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.
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
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