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We're truly sorry.
You got I don't know I don't
know
that you like the ones with the terror
in
the other ones that are half
broken.
Those are here.
You want to trade?
What?
No, it doesn't matter.
We'll look at it later.
Who took all the
But
somebody comes
in and rearranges everything just to irritate us.
Just this time,
the headphones kind of moved them all over the place,
which is...
We have three or four sets of headphones.
You know, they allowed us into complacency here.
We thought, oh, everything looks good.
The books are in the right order for our microphone stand.
And then all of a sudden, the headphones have been squished all over the place.
Yeah.
Yeah, and there
were, yeah, we had four or five sets of headphones in here before and now we
have
three and one of them is way on the other side of the room.
That's
right, that's right.
And then one was over there, nowhere near you.
Yeah.
You had no headphones here.
Yes.
So just moments ago.
I
got it.
Well, now we're back at it.
Thank
goodness.
We've got it all taken care of and the show is
ready to go.
Happy Friday, 92.7 WMDX.
That's John Peterson.
I'm Gordy Young.
Dominic Lee is in the producer chair, the air chair, pushing the buttons, flipping the
switches.
Good morning, Dom.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I feel like sometimes I should raise this desk in stand.
What do you guys think?
Should I stand?
I should start standing at some point.
I forgot
that that's one of those raceable desks.
Yeah, try it.
He's
just rubbing that in our face.
We have to sit
here.
I don't have
books.
Watch this.
Here we go.
Wow.
Do you like standing?
I'll do this for this segment.
How about
it?
Yeah, let's do it.
Looks like he's ready to play the farfiso organ
there.
It does.
Oh, the farfiso organ.
The stories I can tell you about farfiso
organs.
I
was in a band with a guy that had a farfiso organ.
Oh, yeah.
Heavy.
to carry
around.
Oh, no kidding, really.
They don't look like that, but they were
very heavy.
And, you know, we played Light My Fire by the doors,
and he
could play that, which
is a
very difficult thing that Ray Manzarek played,
that
organ, you know, and so we had to carry this part piece of organ all over the place, really heavy.
Well, I
did not know it was a heavy organ, you know, because I saw...
Question mark of the Mysterians a few times did you at CYO dances in Milwaukee?
Wow, and and they had a four-fee so organ and and the organ 98 tears, right?
Yeah, you gotta find that 96 years 96 and and they would and the organ player would rock the organ back and forth And it was really cool, you know, yeah, I'm sure I had it strapped somehow so wouldn't take a plunge.
Yeah, but
Yeah, question mark.
I didn't know they were from Milwaukee.
No, no, they're not.
Oh, they just appeared there.
Yeah, they just toured there.
But that was an interesting circuit for that group.
Well, the far piece organ had a very particular sound.
It can't find it.
You don't like standing.
I
can find it, but I don't like standing.
Oh,
he's already given up
on
it.
Oh, the lazy Gen Zers can't stand
for a
few minutes.
Wow.
OK.
All right.
I mean, we're begging to stand in front of these microphones and we can't do it.
Someday, though.
Someday.
Yeah.
Well,
you hear it.
Yeah.
Any day.
Any
day.
You know, they finished part of this.
They did you know and and it's really nice what they did so far
We have controls a few next to our hands here, and you know we can control our microphones or cough buttons We can turn up our headphones and stuff like that, but they're not hooked up.
That's
right theory If
you're watching the video, I'm just holding it up for you to show you that there are no wires.
It's fine.
I got no strings to hold me down Okay
All right.
Oh, I don't know.
Well, weather today is going to be a little rainy, apparently.
We have a lot of cloudiness on State Street this morning, State Street, that Great Street.
By the way, we have a new poll question up on the WMDXradio.com.
We've got that song, State
Street.
We should do it.
OK, I'm ready.
But on the poll, let me get to it now.
That's a Chris Cameron thing.
Yeah, hang on.
Oh
yeah, we got the poll.
That's not it.
That's not it.
That's not it.
Here it is.
I want to read it precisely here.
Yes.
As
soon as I can
find
it.
You know, the
funny thing is, you know, Catherine told us, hey, new poll.
Right.
Send us a link.
I know.
Didn't tell us what the poll question was, you know, next to the link.
So we at least could promote it.
Wait a
second.
It moved.
I can't find it now.
I'm not blaming her, you know.
I know she's
busy.
Hang on.
Why is it not popping up here?
I saw it just a couple of minutes ago.
I don't know.
Took it down.
Well, no, because I voted on it.
Oh, you did.
Apparently I was the first one.
Well,
you knocked it off.
Knocked
it off the website.
I'm not sure
what happened there.
Tom, do you see it?
I'm looking for it.
WMDX radio.
It was right on the front page there, unless maybe they're moving
it.
It has something to do with State Street.
Is it the... Is it still the heart of Madison?
Is it the
heart of Madison?
And I would say yes.
I mean, I can't think of anything else that would be the heart of Madison.
She sent us a text with the link to it.
Oh, OK.
I think.
I don't know.
OK.
No, don't.
Don't click on that.
OK.
Don't click on her links or else we won't see her text.
OK.
I do have the poll, though.
Where is it?
It does State Street still feel like the heart of Madison?
And it's yes, no, or sometimes.
Oh, it's on the
John and Gordy tab.
Okay,
here we go.
I thought it was on the main page.
Okay, does State Street still feel like the heart of Madison?
Well, yes.
Could you run by those choices again?
I think I'm either
yes
or no or
sometimes.
Sometimes.
Sometimes.
There you go.
I think it's fine.
What else would be the heart of Madison other than State Street?
State Street is the heart.
It is.
And we're right, you know, we're a block off the Capitol right in the heart of the heart.
I guess we're the ventricle band.
What belt would that be?
Well, I think there's a blockage.
Okay.
We need the fibulators in here.
Oh wait,
hang on, she's
on the phone.
Let's get it going
here.
Good morning, Cass.
We
found the pole.
Yes.
Great
stuff.
That's what I was calling about.
Jesus Christ.
I'm just lying here, waiting to get up.
You're telling me you can't find it.
It's not on your page.
It is on the home page.
I thought you'd like this one because you're always talking about state streets.
We do
like it.
No, we... Yes, it's a good question.
You
know, it's a really good question.
But I think we, yeah, we could have
had at least a few more choices there.
Like, yes, it's great, but only if John and Gordy are on the State Street or something like that, you know.
Oh, okay.
I should have done that.
Yeah.
Right now, it's 100%.
I'm saying, yes, it is the heart.
That was my vote.
That's your
vote?
Yes.
Because it
had 0% across the board when I dialed it up there.
But now it's a hundred percent state street.
I can't think of anything else that wouldn't.
And what else would the heart of Madison be?
Well, it'd
be the square.
Well, but the square is a
part of.
All right.
I guess it's
not not really over at Gardens.
Yeah.
The Arboretum, the Great Dane.
Willie
Street.
William
Street.
Yes.
Well, that's the soul of Madison.
Oh,
I would
say.
The
State Street is the heart, again with the aorta and the ventricle and the valves.
Okay,
never go twice.
All right, thank you.
All right, thank you,
Jatherian.
Straighten that up.
I'm
glad we got that.
Did we do the weather?
I
feel
better
now.
67 right now, 77 for high today, showers and storms.
Hey, it's 7-eleven day.
The 11th
day of July.
So if you have a 7-Eleven convenience store near you, you can walk in there and just get a free slurpee.
I forgot
about that.
Are they still around?
Yeah, I
think they still have slurpees.
Yeah,
they
definitely do.
Are the stores
still
around?
Yeah, there's one by me.
Oh, there is.
Over
by me there, hey.
Yeah.
Next to the Mr. Car Wash.
It used to be octopus.
Remember
the octopus?
Yes, octopus car washes,
boy.
Yeah, they
were everywhere.
Yeah,
yeah.
Now they're down to three Mr. Car Washes.
Oh.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Yeah, you side west side downtown.
It's weird how that happened.
I mean everybody went to octopus car wash.
Yeah, but you don't they were a legend in this
town, right?
They were they did the freaky looking octopus.
Yeah, I mean you
could see that miles away.
Airplanes are trying to avoid them.
Okay, but all
right.
Well, let's we've got the big feature here.
Yeah, it's time for the would
you
rather.
Let's do
it.
Nothing like Todd
Alba's.
Totally not, you know?
Which is better or whatever it is.
He can't get over it.
He can't get over
it.
Ars is three questions.
No, that's right.
His is just one.
I think these are better questions.
I agree.
All right.
First question.
All right.
Would you rather have every meal?
Wait, wait, wait.
Every one of Dom's three questions.
Something in the anatomy is going to be involved with, right?
The human
body,
I think.
Okay, go ahead, Tom.
Let's do it then.
First question, would you rather have every meal made for you or have a chauffeur?
Which one you'd rather have?
Shofur because I make my own meals.
No, I would
go
with every meal because I'm a terrible cook.
Oh, yeah,
you have a gas range and you're a terrible cook.
What about you?
I would do Shofur.
I would do Shofur.
Yeah, I mean my roommate already is one, so it'll be easy enough.
Really?
Do you
drive?
You don't
drive.
No man, he drives me around everywhere.
Do you drive here this morning?
No, only to work, no, but everywhere else he loves driving.
He got a new car and everything.
Sorry, Mason, I'm sorry.
You sit in the back?
Well, I'm
getting a new car.
Maybe I could be your chauffeur.
Oh, wow.
John, come on.
Yeah.
All right.
Second question.
Would you rather run a Six Flags or the San Diego Zoo?
Which one would you rather run?
Six Flags.
I would say Six Flags, too.
Six Flags.
Again,
I would go
with the zoo.
I mean, come on.
You know what?
I've been to the San Diego Zoo.
It's beautiful.
It's unbelievable.
Why would you
go?
Lot
if you're running animals and captivity.
Why would you if you're running a torture?
What do you
have to do?
You just tell everybody else what to do you sit and walk around but
the animals don't you care
about the animals?
It's a wildlife preserve basically the San Diego zoo there
are you can keep telling yourself that but we've we've you know locked up animals and it's
not
good They like to run free.
Yeah, okay
Third and final question.
Yeah, I would say Six Flags, but final question.
Would you rather spend a month on a boat or only a week but on a submarine that never surfaces?
Oh, I'd go with a boat.
I would be claustrophobic in
a submarine.
I wouldn't
spend 10
minutes on a submarine just to even look at it.
Now,
they have them at the Museum of Science and Industry.
They have the YouTube boat.
Well, I did go in.
I guess I did go in.
I'm very courageous of myself, but I felt bad.
I would do submarine.
I would actually do submarine.
Really?
Yeah.
A boat makes me queasy.
It makes me just have... How long
would you have to be in the submarine?
Only a week, but the boat would be for a month.
Would a submarine
be considered some kind of boat?
It would, but it doesn't move around on the surface like this.
It doesn't make my stomach churn.
But hey, alright, that's... Well see, you don't
know.
Only one way to find out.
Very good.
Alright.
There we go.
Okay, a little bit later on Savannah to me Olson Pardon me.
We'll be here to tell us what's happening in the news also Pam Yonkey right around the corner.
Yeah, we're gonna
talk about
Ice cream month.
Yeah, so why is ice cream month?
Yes, and we've selected our very first winner in the Sugar River Pizza Party giveaway.
Oh, yeah.
We
will reveal that.
Oh, I don't think we have time to play that at the moment.
Have to be next, yeah.
And we'll come back with that.
And Rocker will be in the studio with the Max Ink preview in our 7 o'clock hour.
Excellent.
Yeah.
That's all I got on my list.
You got anything on
your list?
Well, we got a few stories, you know.
I hate to bring that up.
Bring everybody
down.
We've got
Trump in the news
again.
What a shock and
surprise.
I
know.
I know.
19 minutes past the hour.
We're just getting started on our Friday morning on WMDX.
It's John and Gordy in the morning.
Oh, here's the far piece of Oregon.
98 tiers, 96 tiers,
number of
tiers.
96.
You're always
lavin' way down at me But watch out now
Yeah.
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Okay, now it's time for us to check in with the fabulous farm, babe.
Pam Yonkey.
Good morning, Pam.
Good morning, gentlemen.
How are we doing today?
We're doing good.
So far,
so good,
but
it's early yet.
Yes.
That's
great.
Things can go wrong.
Ready for it to fall apart at any time.
Absolutely.
That's right.
Oh, yes, yes.
Well, let's say, you know, it's county fair time again.
And I think we should talk about that.
You're going to be down at the county fair, right?
Yes, right.
So tomorrow about one o'clock I'll be up in Salt County in Baraboo helping the youth up there with their annual livestock auction and then next week is the Dane County Fair and I'll be out there Friday evening is the youth livestock auction.
I'll be
announcing that show and then Saturday, next Saturday, my Farm Bay Boogie tractor parade where we invite anybody that's got a tractor to come and join us.
No charge.
It's just an opportunity for us as those tractor owners to show the non-farm consumers that have little kids that play with tractors on the carpet every day or the sandbox, see the real deal.
So that'll be Saturday starting at about 11 a.m.
We'll be parading around the Dane County Fairgrounds, park the tractors, let
Families get closed, take pictures, and then I'll buy the driver's lunch, and then when we get done with that, parade off.
So yeah, fair season is in full flex.
Did you say there were
rides?
Kids can ride on those tractors with you?
Not our tractors, but as I understand it, the Dane County Fair does have some tractor rides, but not the private tractors that show
up.
So
that's next
Saturday.
That's a week from tomorrow, and now John and Gordy are going to
be out there as well along with you during the tractor parade.
I think we're going to be handing out some candy and a few things and walking along the parade route with you and meeting
the people.
Yeah, it's not much of a parade route, but I mean, you know, let's face it, tractors in Madison, people start thinking protest or something like that.
We kind of keep it close to the fairgrounds and for safety's sake, we don't want to stretch our
uh you know security personnel too much so but but like i said what i am always amazed at is those tractors are like a kid magnet
when you get
to the fairgrounds you're you might be you're like geez there's nobody here doesn't look like there's anybody here and then we turn on the tractors we get in line
and just the you know just the way a tractor engine sounds I swear it reverberates with anybody under the age of 10 and all of a sudden you see the swarms of families that are coming out to see the tractors drive
drive into the center alley at the Alliance Energy Center grounds.
And then like I said, then everybody's up on the tractor seats and they're all driving.
And like I said, it's a great photo opportunity.
I just, I hope the weather cooperates with us.
Now, you know, in
my head, I still have the image of driving a tractor on the farm way back.
When I was a kid, they were very simple tractors.
Nowadays, they have cabs, right?
Oh, yeah.
So that's kind of what
you're looking at.
That's not exactly technology, buddy.
Cabs is not exactly cutting-edge technology.
Okay.
They've
got GPS
maps and stuff
in
them now.
They've
got all kinds
of things, air
conditioning.
Now if you get in there, it's amazing to me.
I agree with you completely.
It's a far cry from what I grew up driving, but now when you get in a tractor, there are computer
screens, like it's your office, they are usually rigged with videos so that if a farmer is driving and they need to talk to somebody or call somebody, it's already built into just like your vehicle, it's already built in.
And then everything, there's not any steering wheels anymore.
You might be kind
of
confused when you get in a tractor cab these days, because most of them are driven by joysticks.
And like I said, even for me, that
I think it would take a moment for me to get my bearing with, uh, with a joystick and that kind of horsepower.
I mean, it's one thing if I'm fooling around at a video arcade, it's another thing when I got a couple of ton of equipment I'm sitting on with another couple of ton following behind me.
Yeah, that's crazy.
A joystick.
I can't imagine that steering wheel is the only way
to go.
I drove a tractor one time on my sister's farm up near Casanovia, you know, city
boy coming up to
visit my sister for the weekend and my brother-in-law is trying to coach me and driving this tractor.
So I'm driving.
And we go over this hill and he goes, go ahead and downshift.
And I'm like, well, where's the client?
And we're going over the hill.
I
pushed the clutch in.
The thing took off down the hill.
He's running after me.
Oh my God.
Oh, he wasn't on the tractor with you.
Well, I
know.
I'm jumping up and down, pushing the brake down.
Oh,
it
was crazy.
I tell you,
the only thing that bothered me was the choke.
I couldn't
understand the
idea of the choke.
We had a John Deere B that had what they call a pony engine.
So you started a smaller.
a smaller flywheel that ultimately got the bigger engine going.
That one was always, to me, my father was a magician on
how
he could get that dirty pop started.
So that one is still sitting at home in the shed.
I personally have a Case 500 diesel wide body
that not
only fits the style of the person driving it, but also it's the tractor I grew up with.
So that's a hand clutch.
That's not a hand
clutch.
Well, hopefully you'll be able to see it next
Saturday.
Well, I know it's, you know, Dairy Month and everything, but, uh, and there's a, you have a list of all the dairy places to pick up ice cream.
Ice cream, ice cream.
Ice
cream, yes.
We're out of time
though on
Ice Cream Month.
We'll catch it Monday, boys.
There's a Boys
Monday.
All right.
Sounds good, Pam.
That's Pam Yankee, the fabulous farm babe with John and Gordy.
Coming up, we've got Idiocracy.
Yeah.
Next on the John and Gordy Morning Show.
Good foot.
You don't want to get off on the wrong foot if you want the good foot.
This is John and Gordy in the morning, WMDX 92.7.
And it's cloudy over Madison this morning, 67 degrees, highs getting into the mid to upper 70s.
Looks like we'll be in for at least some scattered showers, maybe some thunderstorms.
I have 80 today, low tonight of
about 68 degrees.
We're at 68 right now.
Coming up in about a half hour, we'll check in with Savannah Tome Olsen on some of the news items.
Yeah.
And you were talking before the break.
or maybe during the break, you're talking all about this new car that you're gonna buy.
But now things have maybe changed a little bit.
Just overnight, you're not gonna buy it now?
No, we are, yes, we're gonna buy it.
Well, it seems to be there's a difference of opinion between you and your wife.
Yeah, I'll be honest, this is like the first time that we didn't have the same opinion.
Honestly, God,
we love our house,
we love the colors of the paint, we have the same bed style.
I mean, the whole thing, you
know, we
agree on everything oddly.
We
don't
have a disagreement.
And then on this car, buying this new car, it's like a slight disagreement.
And I don't know how to handle it at
all.
Well, now you got the other car fixed, and it cost a lot less than you thought to get it fixed.
Well, we had a hole in the muffler pipe, and I was told, go there to this place
and
get a...
Patch to it
right
and it'll cost you a lot less than a whole new system, right?
And I did that and just magically I went in to see the guy.
I didn't expect to get it done in a half
hour Little Bondo will fix it right up
or or just old rags So So I I'm thinking well, you know, this is like why do I even need this car now?
Everything is just fine.
I've got the 2014 Prius,
so why buy the
2006
Highlander, and 2006 is kind of old.
And it's not just the body.
I mean, the body on this thing is gorgeous.
The problem is the batteries go.
You don't buy an old...
car with a battery because what they do is they die out after about 10 or 15 years.
On the hybrids.
Yes, or any, but
they didn't have too many EVs back then.
But yes, the hybrids, the batteries do go and you have to think of that when you're buying a used car, a hybrid car.
But anyway, anyway, I'm sitting here thinking this is the battery operated car,
EV,
we're good to go.
You're
ready to
pull the
trigger.
I had all the reasons to buy this thing.
I gave them to my wife and Ann said,
Well, maybe we could just build that garage instead.
Well, because you got the other car fixed.
So why buy a new
car?
She's just loving the fact that she can hear the radio
now.
And what was your rationale for no?
We're going to go ahead and buy the car.
Well, my rationale was that I'm not going to be here forever.
And you're gonna have a brand new car, a promise brand new car.
And this will take you off into the future while the Highlander finally dies out.
And you're resting in peace in the cemetery somewhere.
I'm resting
in
peace in the cemetery.
God.
I like the way, you know, when you get to be our age.
Yes.
Well, you're not gonna be around forever.
They use that phrase.
Yes, they do.
You know, when you're no longer
with us they're already planning your death they're great to say when you die or
try yeah
they're
trying to deal with our death eventually I
know
that they're doing that
But it's like they're trying to remind you you're really really old, but
my head can't wrap around
that I'm gonna be here forever
I'm gonna show them all
that
they're wrong and you're just trying to help her out I'm
just trying to find
her silently I'm thinking I'm gonna plan ahead for her in case
I'm
not here She'll have this great car and the other two will just fade away and break down and batteries won't be
replaceable boys can deal with those right yeah
exactly so you know that was my reason
And then,
you
know, I don't think I've convinced her and I'm kind of I don't know what to do.
We're buying it this afternoon.
Wow.
Oh, really?
You know, am I forcing the situation?
Yeah.
Tom, did you have something to offer?
Good luck.
That's all I'm saying.
Good luck.
Good luck, OK.
Hey, yesterday we got a hold of our first winner
here in the Sugar River Pizza Party giveaway.
This lady's name is, oh god.
Did we prepare for this?
Yeah, I had it up here, but then I changed.
OK, just play the cut.
This is me calling her.
Belinda,
the reason
we're contacting you is because you entered our Sugar River Pizza Party contest and you are a winner.
Congratulations.
Excellent, excellent.
That's
exciting.
Tell me where you
work.
East Madison Hospital.
And then you've got a bunch of co-workers there that would like to have a pizza party courtesy of Sugar River Pizza.
Yes.
Congratulations.
Well, I am so excited.
And I listen to you guys every day.
I really appreciate all the hard work you do.
I love listening to you guys.
You're the best.
Thank you so
much.
Yeah, there you have it.
See, so.
It does take a lot of work to prepare this program.
It doesn't sound like it.
Melinda is our big...
First winner.
Yes, I can't wait.
This is great.
Yeah, we're going to do pizza parties every week this summer.
And because of our advancing age, being in the hospital is just perfect.
Yes.
Courtesy of Sugar River Pizza.
And you could enter.
Just go to our website, wmdxradio.com and click on the banner to win a Sugar River Pizza Party for you and your workplace.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, that's fantastic.
It should be a lot of fun.
All right.
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Well, let's get the idiocracy
hit it here we go
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.
We're there.
Yes.
Until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
Exactly.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you
go and do something like this.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fall each other right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Pretty dumb.
Oh my gosh, yes.
Why not, you know?
Okay.
I thought the bad news was that the Department of Homeland Security, their intelligence branch is being downsized.
I
would
assume that they needed more intelligence at this point, but they're actually downsizing the intelligence
branch of
that government.
They're just cutting a little bit,
right?
Well,
750 would be a lot, I would think, right?
Wow, man, it's a bunch.
Yeah, they only have a thousand.
So if they got rid of 750, we're not looking at a lot of people left to handle and provide the intelligence related to threats to homeland and state law enforcement.
That's a lot.
That seems
like a lot.
Are they going to replace them with artificial intelligence?
Robots.
Robots?
This is where Terminator started.
under the Trump administration and Homeland Security.
They didn't have that in the movie Terminator, but
I think that's where it all began.
That's the plan.
Well, that's not good, right?
No, it doesn't seem like a good
idea.
But it's happening before our very eyes.
Wonderful.
All right, so this is a clip I tried to clean up a little bit and clarify because it's a little hard to hear.
We'll see how it sounds.
OK.
And I may interrupt if it's inaudible.
But anyway, it's a shocking audio revealed where Trump was claiming to Putin that he will bomb Moscow if things don't go well or Beijing.
OK, so let's see how this sounds.
All right, let's go with it.
I had a very strong conversation with President Putin and he understood and I won't go into the great details of the conversation because nobody has to know that but I will tell you it never ever would have happened.
I don't want to say it but did they fear me?
I suspect they did.
Well tonight we're learning those details as the audio reveals that Trump says that he threatened not just President Putin but also China's President Xi Jinping
And this is what he told donors about what exactly that conversation looked like during a private fundraiser last
year.
Oh, yeah, that's uh, I hope you
could understand it, but uh, you know, here's the guy, remember finger on the button.
Yeah, who do you want?
Who
do
you want have that finger on the button?
Yeah, and this guy's threatening Moscow and Beijing.
Yeah, let the bombs fly to the world leaders
So, you know, it's scary.
It's uncomfortable and it's a reality that I want everyone to deal with this guy
is
not
all there.
What was he talking about there with the 5% 10% what was that about like 5% of the city or something?
No,
no, he says if if Putin or any or Xi believes him at least 10% of believes the possibility is there.
Yeah,
I know this is who thinks like this nobody nobody thinks like this.
Okay, anyway, that's that's that's the twisted weird mind of of our fearless leader.
Okay, now I'm gonna ask that you queue up
cut 50 for me.
This is Jen Psaki.
I talked about this yesterday.
Jen Psaki is looking at life in a very twisted way.
And
I
love her approach to a lot of these stories now.
This was a great one.
It's five minutes.
We're not gonna play the five minutes, but I do want to at least give you a sample, a taste of what Jen Psaki's talking about, the stupidity of what Trump is doing as president.
Let's listen.
Today was supposed to be the deadline for those 90 deals.
It was today.
And Trump has delivered
None of them, zero, none of them.
So this week, Trump kicked the can yet again, saying that most of his tariffs will not take effect until August 1st.
But when asked why he was delaying the tariffs by weeks, Trump denied that his deadline had ever changed.
We never know.
It's always been August 1st.
That's what I'm saying.
A statement was put out today and I put it out just to make it clear.
It wasn't a change.
It was August 1st.
We don't change very much.
You know, every time we put out a statement, they say he made a change.
I didn't make a change.
So again, Trump was presented with a document to literally move the date from his original deadline of today to August 1st on Monday.
He then signed such document.
But when asked about it just one day later, he says it never happened.
Or can we just accept the obvious fact that Donald Trump on any given day at any given moment has no earthly clue what is going on around him?
I mean, as part of his I'm not chickening out tariff announcement, Trump announced a bunch of new completely arbitrary tariff rates he plans to implement on August 1st.
And today he was asked an understandable question about how he came up with those new rates.
Here's what he said.
Sir, can you explain how you calculated your latest round of tariffs?
Was there a formula that was used?
The formula was a formula based on common sense, based on deficits, based on
how
we've been treated over the years, and based on raw numbers.
OK.
So there you go.
Wow.
Yeah.
Not a
lot of thought went into that.
That was from Jen Psaki's program.
Yeah, this is great stuff.
And she just went on for four more minutes.
There's plenty to go.
Yeah.
Coming back with more of John and Gordy in the morning, right after this.
Somebody went DX John and Gordy in the morning My old
stick story my old
yeah,
could
you?
I was in a band that played we were warming up for sticks at this one big gig at though This is right when sticks was just starting to make it.
They're out
of
Chicago and we were a Chicago suburban band We got the call to be their warm-up.
Wow
at the YMCA And I wish I could remember the corral.
It's called the corral and I think it was La Grange Near Chicago.
Oh, that's where
That's my, that's where I, yeah, LaGrange.
Do you know the corral?
That's where I live,
yeah.
Really?
Yes.
Is the corral still there?
It
is still.
It was like a
youth, it was like
a youth.
It is still there, yes.
No kidding.
And that LaGrange, the street, that's, that's where I live off of.
No kidding.
Wow.
Always a youth center for troubled kids.
No, it
wasn't.
So we're so we're in there, you know, and we're we got our stuff set up on our stage and then they had a stage next to our stage and the sticks guys are in there and we're thinking, you know, these guys are hot.
They've got a hit song on WLS in Chicago.
Their first big hit, you know, Lady is playing on and they're starting to go national, but they still had these leftover Chicago gigs.
And we were a part of and we thought, well, we'll buddy up to these guys.
when he shared his dressing room, they would not talk to us at all.
We
were like these younger, yes, they were in the mid-20s.
We were, you know,
maybe 19, 20.
Yeah, they didn't want to talk to
us
at all.
Yeah.
It's like
a C-O-I-O dance.
They were real jerks, actually.
Yeah.
So we got up and did our gig, and then they took over, and everybody was there to see them.
He had done the
world tour with them, you know?
He
wouldn't say a word.
Even
Tommy
Shaw.
I wouldn't say hello to us.
The worst song they ever did was Lady.
I know.
So I hated that song more than
anything.
We're going to get back to the Jen Psaki cut in just a moment.
I got to get something off my chest because I was driving in and I'm hearing these stories about Trump and his tariff deal again.
And the thing here is we've kind of taken this as a normal thing.
But the president is...
operating through X. You know, we're hearing about everything he's going to do with his posts on X. Or Truth Social.
What is wrong with this picture?
It is bizarro world.
It is.
Yeah, it's like a movie.
Yeah.
We're running the presidency through social media.
There's something wrong with this picture.
Very wrong.
Oh, man, I'll tell
you.
All right, anyway, that wasn't he putting most stuff on truth social isn't that?
Yeah, yeah, but he still throws it on x stuff gets thrown on there by the administrative state there So yeah, just making sure everybody's covered on this.
It's so stupid
You know, we're all, it's just a nightmare, a dream, a bad dream that we all have to live through for three and a half damn more years.
But here, let's go back to Jen Psaki here and continue her comparisons of how stupid this administration is being run.
Let's listen.
So
just to recap there, it's common sense, plus deficits, plus how we've been treated over the years, plus some run numbers.
The rarer, the better.
Look, I'm no mathematician.
He's clearly not either.
It's kind of hard to crunch the numbers when two of those four variables are based entirely on vibes, I guess.
I mean,
vibes wrapped in a word salad of economic lingo and words he may have seen in briefings at some point in time.
I don't know.
The question, though, was in part prompted by the letters Trump sent to the leaders of several countries, announcing those new tariff rates that he came up with using his special formula word salad thing.
For instance, here was a letter he sent to the leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It begins with, dear Mr. President.
which is awkward because the leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina is neither a president nor a mister.
Her official title is Your Excellency and you can see her right there.
Here he was today in a meeting with the president of Liberia.
Thank you in such good English, such beautiful.
Where did you largest speak so beautifully?
Were you educated?
Where?
in Liberia.
That's very interesting.
It's beautiful English too.
I have people at this table can't speak nearly as well.
Very interesting.
I mean Donald Trump was so impressed by the Liberian president's English, I guess nobody told him that the official language of Liberia is in fact English.
But that is what you get.
when our nation's diplomat and chief has no idea what he's doing.
Here was Donald Trump just this weekend announcing new plans to ease up on deportations for farm workers after pushback from big agriculture.
If a
farmer is willing to vouch for these people, in some way, Christie, I think we're going to have to just say that's going to be good, right?
You know, we're going to be, we're going to be good with it because we don't want to do it where we take all of the
workers off the farms.
Now, here's what happened next, according to the Washington Post.
Trump's comments led to intense public pushback from MAGA figures who warned about plans to offer amnesty to some migrant workers.
What are they talking about, Trump asked?
It's upon seeing the criticism.
I never talked about amnesty.
Now, by the end of the day, Trump's Secretary of Agriculture was announcing that the mass deportations on farms were back on and that the administration was working toward a 100% American workforce.
So.
He doesn't know what he's saying, does not know what he's promising people from one minute to the next.
Last week, the Pentagon abruptly paused weapons shipments to Ukraine and moved that political reports was a shock to some Trump allies.
And yesterday, Trump was asked, who ordered that pause?
This was his response.
Last week, the Pentagon paused some shipments of weapons to Ukraine.
So who ordered the pause last week?
I don't know.
What did you tell me?
Apparently, he has no idea who in his administration is making major decisions about US military.
Oh, God.
Now, he could have asked somebody after that.
But today, Trump was asked again if he made any effort to figure out who is making these consequential decisions without his sign off.
And here's what he said today.
Yesterday, you said that you were not sure who ordered the munitions halted to Ukraine.
Have you since been able to figure that out?
Well, I haven't thought about it, because we're looking at Ukraine right now and munitions.
But I have no, I have not gotten into it.
What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you knowing?
I would know.
If a decision was made, I will know.
I'll be the first to know.
In fact, most likely I'd give the order, but I haven't done that yet.
I haven't thought about it.
Okay.
So Trump says he still doesn't know who gave the order to stop sending those weapons.
But if a decision is made, he'll be the first to know.
All right.
Okay.
That's pretty, pretty wild stuff.
And you know, it's like, I think it was like two minutes more of this.
I don't know what you told me.
You know, CJ, how do you feel now about how the country's being run?
We haven't heard from CJ
for a
while.
Social
media.
Oh my
god, you
know, 659.
Coming up, we'll check in with Savannah Tome Olsen from WMDX News.
Had a question here from Bob Gordy.
What was the name of your band?
It was named Quinella.
Coming back.
First of all, you guys put on a good show and I think that goes without saying.
I love your show.
I listen all the time.
You have a pretty fun show.
I listen to it most of the time, you know, keep up the good work.
Now it's disgusting.
It's a
ploy.
It is.
It's like I picked the wrong way.
Quit sniffing glue.
John, it's
all
toilet sounds.
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Good morning, John and Gordy.
Good morning.
Good morning to you, WMDX92.7.
It is John and Gordy.
And beautiful day in Madison.
I
like overcast days like this.
You like cloudy overcast.
I do, yes.
Sometimes it's
just, you know, the sun is just too
much.
Yes.
Well, we'll see a lot of cloud cover today, and maybe some showers and storms too.
Highs in the upper 70s are right around it.
What?
I don't want that.
You don't want storms?
No.
OK.
I want to get to a texture real quick from Mark.
He
said, Trump must not understand that Liberia, that speaks English, was freed from slaves, freed slaves went.
Oh, from America?
From this country, yes.
And
they established a new country there.
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us this morning to get a news update.
Good morning, Savannah.
Good morning, guys.
How you doing?
We're doing okay.
I know you had a very busy week in the WMDX newsroom.
This is quite a lot
of stuff to
cover.
Well, what do you want to?
What should we go with?
What's left for Friday?
I think the big thing has to be that the Wisconsin Elections Commission released their report into the Madison Clerk's office and it was brutal.
A fair statement, you know, all regarding those 193 ballots that were found after the November election and then not counted.
That report said that some of those could have been counted if the clerk's office did something about it.
for the canvas.
Some of them were not found in time.
But they found that former city clerk Mary Beth Whitzelbell violated the law on five counts, basically, how they handled things like poll books, how they handled the absentee ballots, stuff like that.
You know, the word astonishing, 400 page document.
It was it was a lot.
Um, it was, it seemed more thorough than the city's investigation, in my opinion, after seeing both of
those
reports.
Um, and it was, uh, obviously she was suspended and then resigned earlier this year.
Um, but it also specifically calls out the deputy clerk, um, and said that when these ballots were found, she did nothing as in Witzelbelle did nothing.
And then the deputy clerk did nothing.
Um, and it was really, uh,
Gazing was the word that the journal Sentinel used and I think scathing is a very accurate description of what came out of this report.
Well, that's true.
Wow.
That's quite the story.
It's almost like they threw up their hands saying, well, they didn't get counted.
So, all right, move on.
Let's move on
and
just put them over there.
This was undisputed.
She was on vacation.
She left right after the election and was out for about a month and then didn't tell, I mean, didn't tell anybody outside the clerk's office until late December, or at least in December, I believe the
17th, 18th.
Yeah, the more you learn, the worse it gets, you know, and they learned a lot in this investigation.
Yeah, it was, it was a rough read, not going to lie, you know, simply because they said this undermines everybody's faith in how it all works, right?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Anything else on your headlines there?
You want to mention?
Well, we can talk about some positive stuff, because we've got a busy weekend this weekend, you know.
The victory is supposed to reopen.
There's art fair.
Of course, that means that then the Dane County Farmers Market is moving to Bree Stevens for the weekend.
Oh, yeah.
Bet de Marquette.
We're in the middle of right now.
I think today's day two, right?
I think they started yesterday.
And then there's the Gospel 5K and 10K tomorrow.
So, I mean, it's going to be a busy weekend downtown.
It is, yeah.
Well,
I
hope they can run between the raindrops because I think it's supposed to rain a lot.
Yeah.
They'll get through it.
All right.
Savannah, thank you very much for that update.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Yeah, you guys too.
Thank
you.
Take care from WMDX news.
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All right, the first story this half hour anyway is a comment from the former NOAA administrator.
And that would be Richard Spinrad.
And he puts his finger on staffing.
Spinrad.
Yeah, that's
a name I've never heard before.
I know.
I don't know what that is.
Spinrad.
Yep.
Why don't we play the cut 39 there and hear what he had to say about the problems in Texas.
OK.
I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond.
The staffing was just fine, and the White House has concurred with this to get the forecast out, to get the watches and warnings issued.
But when you send a message, there's no guarantee it's being received, so someone needs to follow up, and that's the Warning Board Nation meteorologist, a position that was vacant.
I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond.
The staffing was just fine and the White House has concurred with this to get the forecast out, to get the watches and warnings issued.
But when you send a message, there's no guarantee it's being received.
So someone needs to follow up and that's the warning coordination meteorologist, a position that was vacant.
Now,
you
know, I gotta say the Republicans don't think ahead.
They don't try to prevent things from happening They just wait till they happen and then thoughts and prayers Republican leaders in Texas chose to sit on nearly 50 billion dollars in cash instead of funding a statewide emergency alert system That's a big deal.
It was House bill 13 a modest 500 million dollars were proposed for sirens radio towers and disaster communication upgrades past the house but and died in the Senate in Texas
so they just didn't think ahead, they didn't think it was that important, no big deal before that, so why spend the money?
And now all
these people's lives have ended because of that.
And the death count unfortunately continues to get higher.
Yeah, well that's Texas for you.
They just think they can take care of it by not doing anything.
That's the same thing that happened with their power grid.
that they have a year or two, a couple of years ago.
They didn't need
it
before, but now things are getting worse
and things got out of control for them.
And, you know, they should really think ahead.
And all these people's lives have ended simply because they wanted to save some money in here in Wisconsin and Republicans don't want to spend any money on the public or the public good simply because, well, that expands government.
What kind of reason is that?
Yeah.
Anyway, let's move on.
We got a call here from Dick.
Dick, let's go with what you want to talk about.
Good morning, Dick.
Well, real quick back to the election situation.
Maybe she just talked to Trump and say, well, I hadn't really thought about it.
Yeah.
I'm getting so sick of this.
The media too gives them a total pass.
Yeah.
Is it just me?
Can you imagine if Obama or Biden would have had an answer like that to a question of that magnitude?
Yeah.
It's unbelievable.
This guy, I changed my mind.
I remember I said something a while back about him being kind of like Mel Brooks and, uh, blazing saddles.
He signed and stopped the governor.
He's kind of a hybrid of that character.
Infernal point.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Everything's going on around it, but he doesn't have a clue of any of it.
None of it.
Well,
you know, that's that's what I kind of thought right away because the the guy who came up with project 2025 Russell vote is the guy really in charge.
He came up with a whole agenda.
He's been executing it all and giving Trump all the advice that he needs and Trump doesn't have to keep track of any of that.
That's why he doesn't
know what he's talking about, that's why he's not familiar with some of the issues.
So I think it's all on vote.
Other people have pointed to Stephen Miller, but I think it's vote actually.
That is the big problem here.
Dick, thank you.
We're gonna move on here.
I also have some, what's that?
Hey, there we go have to have to interrupt you here because I forgot something.
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All right,
because we deal with
the absurdity here in the program of the current administration.
Let's move on to something that is just crazy as heck.
But what the hell?
This is Charlie Kirk.
Oh
boy.
And he is blaming the flooding on DEI.
Yes, this is the guy making the college circuit to build his credibility with the college kids.
He really doesn't have much of an education.
But he's out there doing his thing.
So let's listen to Charlie Kirk and his theory about the deadly Texas flooding.
The Democrats are not lifting a finger to remember the well over 100 people that have died in Texas Hill Country.
What you are not being told by the media anywhere is that the death toll likely would not have been as high if it wasn't for DEI.
This Texas tragedy is just the latest example.
It's not just incompetence.
This is DEI working to undermine meritocratic institutions and more people likely died than otherwise would have because of DEI.
The Democrats are so despicable.
The Democrats are not lifting a finger to remember the well over 100 people that have died in Texas Hill Country.
What you are not being told by the media anywhere is that the death toll likely would not have been as high if it wasn't for DEI.
This Texas tragedy is just the latest example.
It's not just incompetence.
This is DEI working to undermine meritocratic institutions.
Okay.
And more people likely died than otherwise would have because of DEI.
The Democrats are so despicable.
Oh, we're just bad.
We're just bad people.
Well, I think he's nailed it.
He's nailed it for CJ and my mega friend in Milwaukee.
Okay.
He's all wrong, of course.
What
the heck?
I think that cut looped around here.
But yes, we get the point.
No, actually, it didn't.
It's really it did not loop around.
That was him.
Just he repeated it exactly that way.
No kidding.
I'm not kidding.
Okay.
All right.
Well,
we've
got Joe on the line, but we we don't have time here.
No, we don't have to hold on.
Joe,
can you hold on?
We we're going to take a little break and come
back with you in your comment.
We will get to Joe's comment and a whole lot more as we continue with John and Gordy in the morning right here on 92.7 WMDX.
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Well, let's get to Brittany Merleau now and find out
what's
going on in the weather for our area.
Morning, Brittany.
Good morning guys.
How are you doing after all that crazy rain last night?
Oh, I know and we're doing okay.
We're we're doing fine It looks a little cloudy right now, and I think we've got some storms moving in as well you fill us in
Yes, yes, so that darn front is still sitting over northern Illinois right now But the low pressure is kind of moving through and wobbling it a little bit today So it's gonna be lifting that front sending a wave of rain showers and storms our way
Probably this afternoon they'd say it's gonna start around one o'clock I think it's gonna get to you guys around three or so and of course some quick heavy rainfall once again right now It looks like a good one inch probably widespread at least a half an inch But again that risk still for two to three inches possible especially south.
Yeah, well hoping that stays to like Jamesville.
Maybe hopefully just northern Illinois
I wish it wasn't happening at all.
I don't know if you guys saw yesterday in Rockford.
They got three inches fast and they had.
a bus stranded, cars, I mean, wasted deep water in those streets.
Well, that's what
happens below the Cheddar Curtain.
You know, we can't control that.
Right?
People are on their own.
Cheddar Curtain.
I've never heard that.
I love that.
OK.
So
the weekend, kind of a half rain.
I mean, Saturday rain and Sunday
too or
no?
Yeah, so what we've got going on is this cold front still needs to make its way through.
So as the cold front moves through Saturday, it's probably going to spark more showers and storms, especially in the afternoon.
Those will clear on out.
And then by Sunday, we have a high pressure.
So tons of sunshine, actually rather comfortable.
Dew points won't be too bad on Sunday.
Highs in the low 80s.
Excellent.
Then next week, Monday, as soon as Monday, the mugginess seeps back in near 90 degrees.
Oh.
More rain behind that, all of that.
Oh, OK.
OK.
It's a temporary
break.
All right.
Very good.
OK.
I guess I'll have to leave the house even during that kind of weather.
OK.
Brittany, you have a
great weekend.
Yeah.
OK?
You too, guys.
Thank you.
I'm
with you
next week.
That's Brittany Merlot, our chief meteorologist.
All right.
Let's go to the font right now.
Yes.
We've
got Joe on the line.
What do you got for us, Joe?
Joe, thanks for hanging on.
Well, you know, it's just again, you just can't keep up with all of it.
I don't know if you guys have focused at all on our Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem who According to sources from CNN was three days late in signing off Her new procedures any expenditure over a hundred thousand dollars has to be personally signed off on by her and if you can imagine a disaster like this I mean you're dealing in millions and millions
Right, very soon.
So as a consequence, I mean, I shouldn't laugh, but it's just pathetic.
The fresh water or the fast water rescue crews were not released until Monday, three days after this event happened.
And apparently there were Mexican crews who are specializing in fast water rescue, who were there the day after.
They were there the day after.
So I don't know, do we outsource our FEMA response to Mexico?
Maybe that's what we should do.
And apparently Ms.
Nome has responded to the CNN report by the usual, they're all lies and it's trash journalism and I'm perfect.
And but she's so Wednesday.
She doubled down on calls to eliminate the FEMA, says it should be remade and quote, this is the best line.
It says this entire agency needs to be eliminated as it exists today and be remade into a responsive agency.
Perhaps if she got out of the way, it might be easier to make it a responsive agency.
Absolutely.
I know
yeah, isn't that great and mitigated you just keep going even though the lies and just keep going you know it doesn't matter
I know I had that I in fact you just read the story I was going to get to FEMA would have swiftly stage stage those teams which were specifically trained for the situation to be closer near the disaster zone in anticipation of the urgent requests
but
they were held back by not
funding them.
So, man,
crazy.
I know.
Thank you very much,
Joe.
I just can't make this stuff up.
I know.
It's incredible.
Okay.
But I think, you know, Charlie Kirkwood has his finger on the pulse of this.
It's,
it's
DEI that created this whole problem.
That's what he says.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
You know, there's an interesting cartoon, a guy writing his bike carrying a stick.
The panel says, floods in Texas.
The next panel shows the guy putting the stick in the spokes of the front wheel.
The panel reads, Christine Nome, delay search and rescue for 72 hours.
The next panel shows the guy and bike crashed on the ground and the panel reads, it's all Joe Biden's fault.
There
you
go.
So
that's kind of the way things run
under this administration.
That's the way it is.
Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, 729.
coming up right around the corner.
Rocker is in the studio with the Max Inc preview.
And don't forget, you can win Brewer's Game Day tickets with John and Gordy.
We're going to take somebody to the game on July 29th.
That's a separate prize and the one that we were just talking about.
But we'll take up.
Somebody with a friend that can take two premium club level seats right next to us.
And the drinks and the food are on us.
Go to wmdxradio.com for more information and go to that game day.
The Brewer game is July 29th versus the Cubs.
That'll
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And Cody, I think you've got a great idea that Charlie Kirk was correct.
It was DEI.
Trump hired Christie Nome.
That
was a
DEI hire.
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Okay, rocker.
Good morning to you.
Yes.
Wow, what's happening, guys?
Not
much, you know.
We've got nothing
going on.
News has been
slow.
Fridays are
always
a little crazy, but it's time for some original music.
It is time to unplug from politics.
It's the weekend, and sometimes you just have to get away from all that stuff.
I wish our listeners would have heard the conversation that you and John Peterson just had about it.
Donald Trump and whether he is really, really stupid or he's a genius.
Yeah.
And this is
all
planned out to
make him look
dumb.
I mean, how could you actually, how could somebody be that dumb?
It's too young.
I think it's all an act.
It's got to get smart.
Yeah.
You think it's smart, but
I think it's
absolutely dumb.
And the gensaki bit that I played earlier prove it.
He's the dumbest
man
on earth.
Well, maybe that proves that he's the smartest man on earth.
There we go again.
You think that he's the dumbest so he can orchestrate this.
You gotta be kidding me.
I don't know.
It just seems too crazy.
Mary go around just continues to twirl.
Do you really think
that anybody could look this stupid by plan?
Well, that they could map the song?
Well, one thing that it does, I think, is it distracts everybody, including all the media.
And sometimes that seems a little orchestrated to me as far as, you know, like, wow, is this, I mean, and you think you're like, it is crazy.
It's so crazy.
Yeah.
that just can't be real.
It's got to be fake.
Everything else
is fake.
You know what John and Gordy are doing here is we're trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle that's called the Trump administration.
And we've
got so many pieces missing that
it frustrates me, Gordy.
and our audience.
Oh, I know.
And every day of the jigsaw puzzle just gets scrambled up overnight.
Somebody scrambles it up before we
get here.
Then we
have to do it all over again.
OK, but you're right.
Running in a big sea.
It's time to disconnect from politics, at least for a little while, and that's what Maxine is about.
That's
what it's all about.
Well,
you know.
Yeah.
I mean, at least it gives us a lot of entertainment.
Good here.
Exactly.
That's right.
Um, maxing radio six to nine PM on Saturday nights right here on WMDX 927.
And this week we have a special show, you know, Atwood Fest is coming up July 26th, July 27th over on the East side.
And we're going to be talking about that a lot over the next couple of weeks.
So let's start it off by saying that Vio five.
All right, Kat and Andrew.
They're married and they started VO5 back in Broom Street Theater.
They are gonna be in our studio talking to us about their set that they're gonna do.
Every year is always special, so we're gonna hear about it.
Hawthorne Neighborhood Association, they're presenting music in the gazebo.
We'll be talking to Kathy Couture and then Paige Kleber.
She will be playing there.
Remember, she just turned 12.
She's like a superstar already.
That's crazy stuff.
And she'll be in the studio talking with us about all of her things that she's been winning this year and doing this year and traveling to France.
And then live from the Mad City, Bear in the Forest.
Bear in the Forest is the musical soul craft of a man simply known as Bear, a wandering troubadour whose song shimmer with Mr.
and memory he was born in New Orleans and raised amongst the lakes and seasons of Milwaukee, and he now lives in Madison.
So he weaves his story through melody, lyric, and atmosphere.
It's really, this guy is amazing.
Classically.
That's a gorgeous
explanation.
I'm just, I'm stunned man.
That sounds like something out of a...
You know, a legendary cyclopedia of something.
Wow.
Yeah.
I hope I didn't have anything to do with that.
No, I don't even know how to use AI.
So let's go back.
This guy is a classically trained violinist, choir honed vocalist and self taught guitarist.
And his sound is just crazy.
You're going to have to hear him.
OK.
So this is Bear.
He's covering St.
Valentine by Gregory Allen Isaacoff.
This song is called St.
Valentine.
This is Bear in the Forest.
And never picks you living here with the rats and the vines Ain't that my old heart hanging out on your lines And you're all messed up, say Valentine
Oh I circled the bars on the promenade Well the girls in the glass they just throwing me shade I'm saving my coins up for Jingle and Jane
She's out plucking strings in the pouring pouring.
She's out plucking strings in the pouring rain
That's yeah, that is so good
very
cool.
It's really good And then again this guy is bear, huh?
Bear
in the
forest bear in the forest
Let me
just read that in raised amongst the lake and seasons of Milwaukee and now rooted in Madison Bear weaves his story through melody lyric and atmosphere a troubadour songs shimmer with mysticism
and memory, oh my gosh.
It sounds like a scene out of the Hobbit.
This guy made me really interested.
Well, you know what he's bringing with him.
So right over here in the lounge, we will have a drum set, a real drum set, and a cellist.
and he'll be in here playing guitar and singing.
Really?
That
sounds like a great show to
actually hear right here.
8 p.m.
8 p.m.
Saturday night.
Baron the Forest is going to be live from the Man City.
Okay.
Hey guys, Armchair Boogie.
They are tonight, July 11th.
Hopefully they don't get rained out.
5 to 9 p.m.
It's Brewgrass Fridays.
That's at the Lakefront Plaza at the Edgewater Hotel.
right on Lake Mendota.
It features some of the nation's best bluegrass bands, along with a Friday Night Fish Fry, and all concerts are free and open to the public.
It's a pretty cool event.
Really nice to go out by the lake.
Tonight is Armchair Boogie.
They have Frank Martin Bush coming up on July 18th.
Gin Chocolate and Bottle Rockets on August 1st.
The Jimmy's August 22nd.
Shotgun Jane's coming late August.
And Adam Grewl and the Space Burritos.
I mean, they have an incredible lineup.
The Space
Burritos?
They're
really great.
you know, uh, when that classic fish fry, it's just amazing.
So, you know, and you get that done by the, the ice house right down by the lake.
Yes.
Uh, sit on the lake, watch some bluegrass.
It's Fridays tonight.
Armchair boogie.
Let's do a little live from martyrs in Chicago.
This is armchair boogie with one of their songs called
living.
Really isn't that good?
I just want to pick up my banjo again
and just
start playing.
That is fast.
You know, I would say that after listening to that, that was almost like a heavy metal song.
I mean, the drum beat was very much like, man, that could have been Slayer, right?
You could probably have a Slayer tune over that.
That would be cool.
It's pretty interesting.
Yes.
Jim Milhollow.
taking influence from genres like bluegrass and funk, gym meal, hollow, bruise, and eclectic mix of styles into a musical concoction that is sure to justify the soul and get your feet moving at the same time.
They have just done over 600 shows as a band.
Wow.
And they got a couple more coming up really soon here.
Tuesday, July 15th, music in the park.
That's in Devils Lake State Park.
So bring your chair and plank it to the North Shore Chateau.
Yeah, that is beautiful.
That would be fun.
Yeah,
I've got my state park sticker and that is that
is a
fantastic place to see a show.
And
these guys have a stand-up bass, drums, a mandolin, and guitar, and they all sing, so it's an incredible band.
Friday, July 18th, Jin Mill Hollow there at Lone Girl Brewing Company, Main Street, in Wanaki.
There's a party on the rooftop there, so another great thing to do.
And then Saturday, July 19th, they're at the boneyard.
So that's on Walsh Road on the east side, bring the pup, grab a beer, and have a great time.
There's gonna be food truck.
Jin Mill Hollow, on Where Do I Go?
And I've had some help from my friends I won't let this beat my end Call it a bend in the road with a heavy load But I won't be slow So onward I go It's okay to follow faith
Make way through your mistakes A want is to feel home And so onward I go
What does sound so Wisconsin?
Beautiful.
Tasty stuff, really is.
It used to be a band called Monroe Doctrine, way back in the day in Milwaukee, and they sounded very much like that as well.
It just did sound like they're from Wisconsin.
Yeah.
You know?
I just love that.
They're great.
Great American.
That was June Meal Hollow, and they'll be playing all over.
Go find them online.
We got time for one more.
I
think
so, yes, we do.
Okay, Dogtown Hollow, we've been talking about them now for about a year.
They released an album.
earlier this year.
Roots Rock Americana from Madison.
They're actually going to be putting on a new album, new EP, second one in two years called Watch Your Step.
It's going to be available on all streams on July 16th, Friday, July 11th.
They're going to be playing live at the High Noon Saloon, the Summer Patio series out on the patio.
And then Saturday, July 12th.
from 2 to 3 p.m.
Art Fair in the Square, so that's tonight at the High Noon Saloon, tomorrow at Art Fair in the Square, and then Saturday, July 26th, they're gonna be at Atwood Fest, 145 on the Sugar Maple stage right after Paige Kleber.
So this is gonna be a great show right now.
Let's listen to a debut.
This isn't even out yet.
We've got just released.
This is an exclusive right here on John and Gordy Show.
Dogtown Hollow, seven sisters from their new EP, Watch Your Step.
I'm going out into the night The moon and stars above will guide Shadows on the midnight ice Trees are talking and you feel alive There's a wolf that cries There's a wild wolf that cries There's a wolf that cries
All right, I'm gonna love seeing that.
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That would be Sunday against Washington and the Brewers at Amfam Field.
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OK, back to Maxink Preview with Rocker.
What do we got here to wrap things
up?
Wow.
Well, you know, Atwood Fest is coming July 26th and 27th.
Atwood Avenue from Winnebago to Monty's Blue Plate.
They close the street, right?
Vendor Alley features craft and food vendors, three stages, 30 bands.
It's over two days, right?
Fun time.
So we're going to be talking about some of the music.
And of course, yours truly, I do the booking.
So I get to really kind of tell you about some of the bands that I'm bringing in.
And some of them that I bring in are from out of town.
I'm going to talk about two of those bands right now.
Parker Barrow.
Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow.
We all know them, but this is Megan Kane and Dylan Turner.
He's the drummer.
They're together and this is called Parker Barrow.
Blues, infused Southern rock and roll and today.
They're in Spain, right?
Then they're heading to UK for some dates, and then they come to Wisconsin.
July 25th and 26th, they're at Prairie Dog Blues Fest in Prairie, Dushan.
And then Sunday, July 27th, Atwood Fest on the Clyde Stubblefield stage.
Also on the stage that day, Steely Dane, Kelsey Miles, then Parker Barrow, and the Brothers Almond Act.
Oh, man.
You can find...
Yeah, it's actually pretty amazing.
I think we are Parker Barrow dot com.
Now they played it at Woodfest last year and you know, we always have something traditional, something borrowed and something new.
And so these guys are borrowed, right?
We had him last year.
They were amazing.
We're moving them to the bigger stage.
This is their brand new song make it came out in April 2025.
This is Parker Barrow playing at Woodfest Sunday, July 27th.
you
You
know, they're a little bit of Led Zeppelin, a little bit of country, and they're a lot of sass.
You really have to see them.
They put on an incredible show.
And I don't want you to take offense by this, but I want to make the comparison at Wood Fest.
I think it's so much like Summer Fest.
Really?
I mean, you know, it is our summer fest here in Madison.
It used to be called Atwood Summer Fest.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Before 2014, when I first started with the festival in 2002, it was called Atwood Summer Fest.
And then the people that were hosting it, which was the Goodman Center, ended up saying, we can't do this anymore.
We're focusing on other stuff.
And that's when the Barrymore, it was the Willmar Center then, and Sassy Neighborhood Organization took up
the hosting in that festival, and then I kind of went from one festival to the next and kept right on booking.
I think a lot more people
should show up, but this is huge.
A lot of people show up, believe me.
Yeah, this is fun.
Oh, no, it's
fun.
Katherine, what do
you got here?
I'm so glad Rocker mentioned that Saturday Night is the first new show of Maxing 2.0.
Oh,
yeah.
The concentrated version that anybody, you know, Green Bay started to listen to you guys now, of course.
They're following you now.
Green Bay's coming over because we don't have a morning show there right now.
And so they're coming to you and they're still going to get you on the app.
Of course.
Every Saturday
night.
You can always find us on the
app.
Absolutely.
Civic Media app.
Or on the website.
You can always hear the podcast as well.
Great
stuff.
Got
a couple of minutes.
All right, let's go on to David Newbold based in Nashville.
Originally from Toronto, he's a Heartland Roots rocker, Americana artist and amplified folk singer writing songs that chart the ups and downs of adulthood, often spent on stage and on the road.
Here's another artist that we're bringing in from Nashville, playing at Atwood Fest Saturday, July 26th on the Luther Allison stage.
He'll be starting up around 315.
David Neubald and another just incredible artist that we're bringing in.
Now you can go find out the vendor list, the food list, the musicians list.
everything.
All that information is at atwoodfest.com.
You can also follow the Facebook event.
And there's a lot of stuff there.
But leave the Puppers at home.
Let's listen to another band playing at Woodfest on the Luther Allison stage.
This is David Newbold and his band.
This is power up.
All right.
Here we go.
He's going to be really good.
David
Newbold.
David Newbold.
That day, Luther Allison's stage, July 26th, that's Mama Digdown's brass band, Ted Hefko in the Thousand Ears from New Orleans, David Newbold from Nashville, Julian Primo from New Orleans, Automatic Lover and Mr. Blotto from Chicago.
That's going to be another amazing lineup.
Good times.
That's going to do it.
Rocker, you have a good weekend.
Maxing preview.
Thank you, guys.
And that is going to do it for us for this Friday and for this week.
We will be back Monday with a brand new show.
I'm pretty much out
of breath.
I mean, we've
had one of those weeks.
We jammed a four hour show into two hours, seems like.
Exhausted.
Stephanie Miller's next so long.
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Hey, are they ready to go yet?
It's John and Gormie on 92.7
WMDX.
Kids, we're just gonna have to throw this together and see what
happens.
And away we go.
Yeah, well, good
morning.
All right.
Hey, good morning to you, Gordy Young.
Thank you, John Peterson.
And Dom Lee is our engineer and producer.
Dominic,
good
morning to you.
Good morning, guys.
How are you doing?
Well, so far it's been kind of a shambles.
try
to pull it together.
We can.
How
has it been at Shambles?
What's been so shambles?
Well, here's the thing.
You know, it's always a challenge to get the microphones to balance on this tower of books.
And the webcam
on
the styrofoam, you know?
Yeah, the webcam on the styrofoam.
Chunk over there on the table.
I go around the station, you know telling
people
this is this a major market radius Stack of books and
You know, I don't Why I don't mind the books so much Every day they're kind of rearranged,
you
know, yeah, I don't know why I don't know why they have to be rearranged, you know to I guess because
DJs are different height.
Well, we could
have staff here,
but it's really just checking them out and, you know, reading during the day.
I blame Todd Alba because he comes in and he has to move.
Yeah, that gets moved over here.
This gets moved
over there and
everything he rearranges.
And he probably says the same thing when he comes in.
It's like, why did John and Gordy have to rearrange everything?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's just the way
it is.
Why did they use two mics?
Why did they just
use
one?
Good
morning and happy Tuesday.
I think so.
July 8th.
The sunshine this morning.
Isn't it gorgeous?
Another beautiful morning.
It's amazing.
And pretty low humidity.
It's going to be warming up to a high near 80 today.
And we might see a shower at thunderstorms afternoon.
Yeah,
that's what I check your
Samsung X watch
and did it rain last night?
I don't know.
Yeah, we got some 65
65 currently 82 is a predicted high and
the
sun
tonight is around 65.
So oh, yeah, you've you haven't asked that in a long time.
I know.
Well, I'm very worried about the sunset
sunset.
Believe it or not.
Yeah.
What?
It's up there, 838 is the
sunset.
Amazing, isn't it?
Time.
Set your watches
down.
We'll look for that.
That's good.
A little bit later on, we'll be talking to Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society.
Get the latest from her and find out about some pets that are up for adoption.
And then we're going to be talking with Jim from Madison Hearing Aid Center.
in our second hour, in our seven o'clock hour, and get caught up with them with Jim and Sarah, right?
Well, that's good, yes.
I think it's, I'm not sure if both of them are coming in or just Jim, but in any case, they'll be here.
Jim and Sarah, yeah.
They'll be here from Madison Hearing Aid Center.
Great place.
So.
Yeah, good day yesterday.
I did it.
Oh man, did I have a good day?
I didn't get the lawnmowed unfortunately.
Oh you didn't?
What the hell were you doing man?
You said you were all about.
I was like, I was thinking about it and I thought, well why should I mow the lawn on my birthday?
I really shouldn't do it.
I shouldn't strain myself.
I just relax.
Just take it easy.
I did.
I rewarded myself.
Oh that's really nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What did you do?
Well I went and looked at
You
were looking for cars.
Electric vehicles.
Yeah.
You texted me at one point.
Yes.
And I went out and I was shopping for an EV.
Yeah.
And I am completely unfamiliar with EV.
I've never driven one.
I haven't been in one.
I haven't been in a modern car in thousands of years.
I went home after looking at the CV.
I took it off for a test drive.
And I told my wife, I said, well, welcome to the Stone Age family here.
Man,
I'm
telling you.
I mean, cars and vehicles.
Did you test it out?
Did you drive a
couple?
Didn't realize that vehicles were this advanced.
I I felt like I
was in
some kind of a Jetson episode, you know, I was truly a Unbelievable experience.
No kidding.
Well, you
really is it that much different it
is from a hype you have a hybrid right and you had a hybrid well a long time
But it's still it really doesn't matter when
you
hit the accelerator.
Yeah,
what happens?
It's immediate
There is, there's no pause,
there's
no time for the cylinders to get up, it's energy.
It just goes and it is so smooth
and it's
so quiet.
And I tried a Kia.
And it was just so perfect.
The
ride was stiff
and
all I could
corner at 80 miles per hour.
Salesman didn't like that.
But
you have to test
these things.
Yeah, Kios are nice.
I like Kios.
It was gorgeous.
It was
a black Kia and it's just wow.
And the thing is, you want to kind of get in on the rebate.
I mentioned this on
yesterday.
Yeah, well, I did mention it sometime yesterday.
It all just fades.
Oh, no, it was with Pat Crichtlow.
I
don't think
anybody else caught it.
But I read a story where...
The best kind of used car to get right now is an EV, because they're very low priced,
they
have very low mileage, and they're actually less expensive than gas cars, gas used cars.
So I went out and I looked and man, it's gorgeous, absolutely, I'm sold on it.
Sadly, I have certificates of deposit with all my money.
And I'm wondering how am I going to get at least one of those out.
This would be my comic book money.
But I'm thinking a modern car with all the conveniences, with all the warning systems in place.
Tells you you know pedestrian is walking you
know car
in front of you stops you stop automatically I was fascinated by the button on the on the council.
There's like automatic parking and
Oh really?
Wow automatic parking
sure
just
kind of lifts you up and Drops
did you try it?
No?
Oh, it's too
risky.
It's too
scary.
I feel like were you with
the salesperson in the car?
Did they guide you through the handling of things?
Well, you showed me what the buttons were.
Yeah, you told me what they did and, you know, which one to hit next.
I was a little offended he told me to put the blinker on.
I like the surprise of their drivers.
All right, so you're...
Close to making a purchase, do you think?
Are you just getting started?
Well, I
got it.
You know,
I love this car so much.
And here's the other thing.
What I'm looking for is an all-wheel drive, because we have winters up here.
Oh, yeah.
They have front wheel, rear wheel, and all-wheel drive.
And I really want the all-wheel.
And this is all-wheel, so I'm really kind of hot on this first car I see I want to
buy.
And
does it have a huge tablet in
the middle, in the dead center?
No, actually,
it
doesn't have the tablet.
It has a very, very smooth dashboard screen.
And it's sectioned into two, but it's absolutely gorgeous.
I don't remember seeing that when I was on CarGuru.
Which is, you know, the app I check out all these cars with.
I mean, you can find out, you know, what's a good deal, an average deal or a bad deal from there.
You have to go there.
It's the best car app because the other ones kind of throw you into new car dealerships.
But
this car,
this one really does look at used cars from a personal point of view and dealerships as well and combined.
Okay.
Well, good.
Yeah, it's really good.
Well, I
will keep you posted.
I
really want to know.
Yeah,
I
know.
Everybody cares, right?
But I'm just telling you, you know, cars have made amazing advances, and I know there are people out there saying, yeah, that's true.
I'm on my third one.
You know, I trade
in
every
year.
Dom, how was your day and evening?
Yeah, it was busy.
It was kind of boring, honestly.
I just took a nap, but I know tonight it's not gonna be boring.
I'm going line dancing.
Oh, no.
Wait a minute.
Oh, no.
You're
going
line
dancing.
I'm going line dancing.
Where?
Some country music bar?
Where are you going?
I could not tell you.
My roommate is just gonna just gonna bring me and
bring my girlfriend and I, we're gonna go there.
Do you have a cowboy hat?
No, I do have a cowboy boots.
Do you have?
No, seriously.
You gotta take a picture.
Yeah,
I do.
Really?
Yeah.
I don't ever wear them except for this one reason, okay?
I'm not gonna wear it to work one day, but... Thank God.
Okay, well, you know, there's a problem with that because, you know, guys don't necessarily catch on to the new dance steps quickly enough.
That's
gonna scare me.
I don't think I'm gonna do that good tonight.
I don't think I'm gonna do that good at all, but
So you're going with your girlfriend Isabella?
Correct.
Correct.
Okay.
And in another person?
Does she roommate?
Yeah, roommate as well.
Does she know how to line dance?
She knows how to dance.
So it's better than me.
Of course they do.
Yeah, right?
I'm going to take two steps.
I'm going to lose where I'm going.
But you have to pick up on the dance steps and what dance
steps follows
the
other dance steps.
Yeah, how do people
even know how to do
that?
Men can't do that.
So turn in your man card if you do.
If you do well.
Yeah.
Well,
let us know how that goes.
We'll do.
We'll do.
I'll talk about
it.
Is it time for the award-winning game show?
Would You Rather?
I
got the name right this time.
Would You
Rather?
We forgot to do this.
All right, here we go.
Yep, it's always time.
Do we have the music?
Yes, we got the music.
All right.
So first question.
Would you rather have an extra arm or an extra leg?
Which one would you rather have?
You gotta choose one.
No, I could answer
that.
This
is a terrible
question.
I don't want to answer.
You know, I've always...
Next question!
Okay, alright, I think I
had an idea of what's going on here.
Well, you know,
I've
been told.
Okay, do it just do it second question
for this question you'll be You'll be locked in a room full of spiders for a certain amount of time.
Yeah, would you rather have the lights on or off?
I don't even, I want him off.
I don't want to see him.
I don't even want
to- No, they'll be all over you.
You will die.
So you want to see them and smash them,
right?
But if it's
a room full of them, you know, it'd be scary.
Gathering throws in her two cents every once
in a while.
Idiots.
Idiots.
You can blame Dom.
He
really came
up with the
question.
Your fault.
I didn't think the question would turn to that.
Okay, last and final question.
We got about a minute and a half,
all
right?
Would you rather spend an hour going back in time to observe the dinosaurs?
And you can pick the time period, or would you want to spend an hour on another planet?
Hmm
Oh, this one's a lot.
This one's a little high.
I want to see the dinosaurs.
I want to see the dinosaurs, too.
I agree.
I would go to another planet.
I don't think there's anything on the other planet.
Mars is
boring.
Boring.
All right.
You got another one?
I'm done.
That's it.
Just three.
That's three.
That's enough.
Because that first one was something else.
Yeah, it's good.
OK, coming up, we've got Idiocracy.
Anytime you can get a reaction from Catherine like that.
He knows we're doing well.
It must be good.
OK, coming up, we'll talk to Lisa Bernard from the Dane County Humane Society.
Find out some pets that are up for adoption.
And a whole lot more coming
up.
We're just getting going on this Tuesday morning.
John and Gordy in the morning.
Stay with us.
You
know, it's reading this little piece of history from some book, some place, written up in a review, but they talk about the old days when people had popcorn.
They put it in a bowl and poured milk on it, and it was their breakfast cereal.
Popcorn.
Popcorn with milk?
Yes, popcorn with milk.
You don't have the butter on it.
You don't have the salt, obviously, but you do have the popcorn.
This is Johnny Gordy in the morning.
I don't know why I brought that
up, but I don't know either.
But thank you.
Well, it
must be the vitamins.
New vitamins.
All right, well, let's go.
Oh, you
have
something?
No, I actually don't.
Let's check in with Pam Yonkin.
That's who we have right now.
Good morning, Pam.
Good morning, fellas.
Yeah, that
one I had not heard before.
I
mean,
it kind of makes sense if you're looking for calories and something to crunch on, but
Yeah.
I don't know if I'm even intrigued to try that one.
For me, popcorn is all about the butter
and salt.
Exactly.
But you know, it has those little hulls in it, too.
And I don't know if that goes well.
You know, for breakfast, you've got to pick them out of your teeth practically.
For the rest of the day.
Yeah.
You know, in the old days, they did a lot of that crazy stuff.
You know, we used to put milk on bread.
with, with sugar on it.
What?
Yeah.
Why?
I don't know why.
Okay.
Maybe we're, maybe we're, you know, really poor at the time.
Maybe.
And parents didn't tell me.
Could be.
All
right.
Well, let's get into,
let's move into, uh, yeah, the state budget.
I mean, there's a lot of goodies in there for the ag community, Arthur.
Yeah, you know, I don't want to make anybody's head spin after a Fourth of July weekend.
But yeah, there is a lot of detail that we're still breaking down from the budget that was passed last week, guys.
And so much of it is about Wisconsin agriculture.
So just a couple of highlight points that people should be aware of.
There's about million, little over a million dollars that's being dedicated to dairy processing grants.
Really, this is designed to keep Wisconsin's dairy infrastructure healthy.
So processing capacity, innovation, efficiency,
meat processors, although this was something that really became glaringly obvious during the pandemic when we had a difficult time processing all our livestock.
The commitment financially stays in place with about $1.6 million for facilities to upgrade or improve their meat processing facilities.
That's always good.
We've got watershed grants out there.
So when farmers put in conservation related processes or maybe they need to put in some mechanism that helps with
management or something like that.
Sometimes they turn to the state for a little financial assistance.
It doesn't pay for the whole project, but it helps offset some of the costs.
And they put $2 million in that producer-led watershed grants.
And that money is distributed across the state.
That's one of those areas I think we've talked about before, where now in Wisconsin, literally almost every county has a producer-led watershed grant, or producer-led watershed, where farmers are voluntary farmers and landowners.
voluntarily coming together to do these conservation projects.
But like I said, every once in a while, they need a dollar or two, so two million in that.
They're also looking at the Farm Center mental health vouchers.
They're going to keep another $100,000 in that so that folks can turn to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and their Farm Center for mental health vouchers, different support mechanisms there.
Also, we all know and have been paying attention to what's going on with the federal monies for the supplemental nutrition assistance program snap.
Well, Wisconsin is keeping $10 million in play for food security grant programs.
So that should help provide direct grants to our nonprofit food banks, help them purchase Wisconsin grown and processed food, which is something that most of them are already trying to do.
So they've got about $10 million that they can try to lean on there.
know it's not nearly enough, but it's something.
We're also putting a half a million dollars in to help with tuition costs to train new commercial drivers, CDL driving, you know, if you're a semi driver.
that's got CDL or those kinds of certifications, you're so valuable, not just to agriculture, because we need CDLs, but to think about all the milk trucks that get hauled.
Think about all the product that's got to move from place to place.
We need more CDL drivers, and that's going to help them with offsetting some of the tuition costs there.
The other thing is they put another $20 million aside for what they call the Dairy Cattle Innovation Program.
This is one where we're still going to be waiting on details, but really it's designed
for farmers to invest in on-farm equipment or technology upgrades, a lot of software and things like
that that
will help them improve efficiency, animal care, and long-term viability for the dairy sector.
This should go directly to farms and stop and think about the heat we experienced over the weekend, fellas.
Every time that you turn the switch on for an air conditioner, a sprinkler or something like that, it's money out of a farmer's pocket.
So hopefully some of this technology would help us, especially on those kind of high-stress situations.
That's something that was decided late in the budget process.
I still need to work on details and how we might be able to execute that.
Well, you remember the story where they had the solar panels.
It looked like wings and the cattle would get under those wings.
The cows would get under the wings and stay cool out of the sun.
Yeah.
And like I said, that and even to your point about renewable energy, that's one under the big beautiful that I still have to fair it through today and see how much money remains for all those solar arrays, winds, you know, whatever renewable energy.
I
know that there was a lot of discussion about stripping that out.
So I got my work cut out for me
on Monday.
You're going to be busy.
Just a little bit, just a little heavy, heavy reading for the farm
babe.
Well, that's true.
You know, they had a lot of rebates as well.
Well, that used to be in effect.
I guess they're being phased out fairly
soon.
That's the way I'm hearing and for some of those solar arrays, for example, that were forced to kind of get their panels outside the United States.
I understand that there's a tax that could be leaned against them starting after 2026.
So like I said, I've got to check in with my renewable energy folks and find out what their read is on the big, beautiful bill that signed in.
There's a lot of agriculture in that too, but I think we're going to probably have to wait until maybe Friday to discuss
that.
All right, let's do that.
Very good.
Thank you, Pam Yonkey.
You have a great day and a great week.
We'll talk
on Friday.
All right, that's Pam Yackey, the fabulous farm babe from the Midwest Farm Report.
Coming back with more of John and Gordy in the morning, Idiocracy, right around the corner.
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All
I'm
saying is I'm a little messy.
I'm a
little
messy
with the ketchup.
Mustard too.
Yeah, so
it's going to be a little dangerous next to us.
I'm sure that
you'll
probably want to find a seat someplace else.
Are you just saying that because you'd like to sit alone?
Is that it?
Maybe I'll sit alone.
Maybe you should.
Now,
Ann is coming too.
She's a big Cubs fan.
I'm a big Cubs fan.
You know, the Cubs are on top of the National League Central.
I'm going to find a seat next to Bob Uker, the statue that you have up in the stands.
Oh, way up there.
Yeah.
All
right,
okay.
Well, let's get to our special guest this
morning, as
usual,
Jim
Santel, amicus, a law review.
You can listen to it on Saturday morning, nine to 11 o'clock.
He's got a lot of stuff to talk about and we're going to talk about some of that stuff right now.
And that is that the federal Supreme Court has said that Trump can do anything he wants.
He can overrule the legislative branch, no matter what.
You know, he can get rid of departments and fire people.
Jim, tell me, this isn't our biggest nightmare.
Tell me.
Depending upon how our own individual lives may play out, it may well be our own, our most significant administrative and constitutional nightmare as well.
You got it just right.
We've got this whole series.
of opinions, almost too numerous to inventory.
For example, you've got the Supreme Court, again, all these things, by the way, here's the other point.
All of these being issued on this show called Shadow Docket without an explanation.
We talked about this previously.
We've got the Musk team access to all your social security administration.
Remember ending that humanitarian program that kept about a half a million immigrants from being deported.
We're facing war and political turmoil back in their own countries and removing the leaders of some two independent agencies, all of that.
And now we've got this.
Tuesday was a big day.
At Tuesday, the Supreme Court once again shadowed docket, no explanation other than the fact that the majority, it's an interesting majority, says that the government is likely to succeed in its argument that the president's executive powers are in fact there and he's got the right to downsize the government, all that's legal.
But we don't get any more description.
We don't get an explanation for that.
And basically it is a green light for him to go ahead and do all that.
You may recall that again, he did this a number of months ago when he basically said all agencies get up and running, prepare to downsize dramatically.
Here the Supreme Court has now said, sure, you can go ahead and do that.
And again, the big issue here for purposes of those of us who like transparency and I know all your listeners do as well.
We don't have an explanation for it.
We do have one dissenter, and her name is Katanji Brown Jackson, and she says it's truly unfortunate.
It's hubris, it's senseless, and it undercuts the authority of trial judges.
But this is a nine to one non-decision.
Interestingly, the other two others, so-called liberals, are playing with the majority here.
And who knows, my first reaction was, maybe they're just exhausted with the fight.
At some point, this does become just overwhelming.
I think so.
I have a quote from Jackson here.
It is warned that such an executive action promises mass employee terminations, widespread cancellation of federal programs and services, and the dismantling
of much of the federal government as Congress has created it.
So that's the end of the government.
As I said, congressional action, they put in place things like, oh, I don't know, the Department of Education and the President Issues Directives to his secretary basically to shut it down.
All these other agencies, USCID,
the names again are too numerous even to list here and this is a very broad non-decision saying go ahead and do what you want and it should be a source of great concern especially since as we were talking in the break we kind of thought we were done with all of this a couple of weeks ago at the end of the significant portion of their term
Apparently, they're more than happy to come in and do even more of it.
So we'll see what their summer brings as well.
Well, yeah, we got a text here from Kerry mentioned that Congress has no power and is not an equal branch of government anymore, essentially.
And
not only that, but I
just also want to warn you too, because the guy in control of all the purse strings on this is the guy who came up with Project 2025, it's Russell
vote, he's in charge of Office of Personnel Management, so OPM.
And he's gonna obviously take advantage of this.
This is what they've been trying to do for so many years, and that's why they've put so many of these cases or these ideas in front of the Supreme Court, because they know they've got a very welcoming bunch of justices to play into this.
And this has been their ideology for years, by the way, so it's
nothing new.
Absolutely.
Again, depending upon your particular perspective, at a minimum, and it's not entirely bad.
I think we know that Bill Clinton attempted and did do some things to reduce government.
This has been the mantra of Democrats and Republicans.
We have to have a smaller government.
doing it this way, however, in violation of, as you said, basic constitutional and statutory and congressional mandates.
That's not the way to do it.
Katangi Brown Jackson is onto something.
OPM, absolutely.
I work for the government.
OPM was the big agency out there having to do everything related to personnel, hiring, firing, promotions.
They have to not pass on all that, but they're the ones who administratively handle all that.
And the fellow who's in charge of that now, I'm sure is delighted by this decision on Tuesday and saying, here we go.
Let's begin now.
Let's begin now, as if we haven't done this in the past, really, to go after all these agencies.
Well, I can't believe that Kagan and who's
the other one?
Sort of my arm went along with this.
What's the deal with
that?
I just
don't
get that at all.
Then that underscores too.
We don't know that answer either.
Why?
Because they're hiding under this simple one-sentence statement that he's likely to win on the merits.
when this case gets litigated further, which is another part of the dock and another part of the problem.
And we don't know that either.
We've got Katanji Brown Jackson explaining her position.
Typically in these cases, the others I mentioned, the other two do weigh in or at least join each other's opinions and say, no, I agree with her.
But here, again, it is curious.
And the other reason it's so curious is because this one's very, very broad.
This is not just specific to an agency or a particular program, which is equally problematic as those things happen.
This one is basically, again, OPM.
John, as you just said, take your pick and go ahead and find federal employees and decide to chop away.
it is not specific, and it's part of Cadence Brown Jackson's objection, it's not specific as to agency, mission, and purpose, and absent that, how are courts to decide this?
But we've got two of the others here.
Well, actually, we've got, we've got eight of the others who look at that and say, no problem, go ahead, Mr. President, do what you would like.
You know, one of the things that we're looking at here is kind of a war on the Supreme Court bench.
which I didn't anticipate.
We mentioned this on the program a few days ago, and it wasn't just this case, but other cases as well, where the actual three liberals are starting to step out there and say things publicly that they really disagree with.
And I think we didn't anticipate the Supreme Court having this dispute within.
the court itself.
And with that, I think, you know, we're going to get some interesting stories and we're going to get some interesting perspectives on all of these decisions.
I think they're going to be in the forefront, basically, is what I'm saying.
Absolutely.
And they're going to grab headlines, right?
Yeah.
And again, there have always been times when the minority, whatever that is, has taken
Um, um, bridge and, and, and objected to what the majority has said, you're absolutely right.
Most notably, we've got this sparring between Katanji Brown Jackson and Amy Coney Barrett in this case, the most significant of the, of the term, I believe, having to do once again with, uh, not just, uh, birthright citizenship, but national, uh, universal injunctions and they go after each other back and forth.
And Amy Coney Barrett names Katanji Brown Jackson.
by name in her majority opinion, which is very seldom happens.
We've always had disagreements, that's okay.
Now we're dropping the I respectfully dissent to simply say things like I dissent or with great sadness, with profound concern about the democracy, the republic, I vehemently dissent.
And so the vitriol is increasing.
Maybe we do need a bit of summer to bring that down a bit.
Take a break.
Sometimes often they're not going to take a break.
They're still going to rule on these immediate cases on the shadow docket anyway.
But there's even talk on the right now to get rid of Katanji Brown Jackson because she is stepping out too often for them.
She's speaking out
too often, which I think has tinges of racial.
animus overtones right
and you know she is she is the also one of the four women right on the course yes they've also not gone without their criticism even before this happened we know and again an awful lot of people look at that decision
authored by Amy Coney Barrett that does in fact prohibit national jurisdictions and injunctions rather and say, gosh, maybe this was her attempt to make good again with that part of the electorate that was critical of her for sometimes siding with the liberals.
Now she's back in our camp.
you know, this politics, the politicization of the court, not a good thing, not a good thing at the federal level, not a good thing at the state level either.
And the sparring continues and the the language is heightened undeniably.
And is that helpful?
I'm thinking probably not.
Talking with Jim Santel, attorney at law and Jim, what about let's turn to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
They're siding with Tony Evers and confirming administrative rule authority in the dispute of.
over LGBTQ conversion therapy ban.
Talk about this.
Tell us more about it.
There's some kind of committee that's taking control over the governor, essentially.
Right, exactly.
And again, this is one of those, it's sort of like the national injunction issue too.
On the surface, it seems to be about
uh, uh, banning conversion therapy, which is the governor wanted to do.
We want to do that by, by rule of an administrative agency, right?
That's the rule making authority that we were talking about before.
And again, uh, has shades of previous, uh, legal concepts out there.
And what happens is that the legislature's joint committee for review of administrative rules blocked that ban from taking effect.
and use the political maneuver of legislative authority to keep that rule shelved.
That is banning the conversion therapy that otherwise would be a part of the executive branch's decision-making.
Supreme Court, again, comes out, and a majority opinion written by Jill Karofsky says that this process whereby the legislature has basically usurped the right of the governor cannot stand a couple of reasons for that.
And we've got an important constitutional decision once again.
We'll be back
before
Jim.
Stay with us.
Jim Santel will continue the conversation with John and Gordy in just a moment.
We have no bananas.
We have no bananas today.
I got your bananas.
We're talking about bananas and banana beer here on the show
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Okay, we're back with Mike McCabe, sub-stack blogger and author telling us about his amazing trip.
All right, this was quite remarkable when you described the fall that you took.
You were hiking around
this
mountain, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
You're getting an exclusive here because I didn't write about this incident on sub-stack and I haven't even told...
friends and family here about it.
So John and Gordy exclusive.
Mark this down.
This is an exclusive.
OK.
But yeah, we did a hike from the rim of Olmati crater down into the crater floor.
And this is a.
former mountain that had the top blown off of it, and probably a million years ago.
And now there's this amazing meadow down in the floor of this crater.
And I did post some photos on social media.
of the cloud cover would be in these craters in the morning.
It's almost like you're suspended in midair above the clouds like you're in heaven or something.
But anyway, we're hiking down this crater.
And if anybody's ever hiked on the one side of Devil's Lake, where you kind of are scrambling up or down boulders that are sort of scattered, it was sort of like this, a little steeper than that.
We were kind of going down toward this beautiful waterfall.
And it was raining lightly.
And so the boulders were a little slippery.
And I lost my footing.
And I started tumbling and sort of bounced from one boulder to another.
And you know, I...
when it happened, once you're rolling, there's really nothing you can do except sort of go limp and just wait for it to stop.
And my son was hiking behind me and told me later, I thought I was watching my dad die right before my eyes.
And I said, how far did I fall?
And he says, I don't know, like 15 feet, something like that.
But it was like bouncing from boulder to boulder.
And I finally came to a rest.
bleeding from my forehead and I was kind of bleeding from arms and hands where I'd sort of hit these boulders.
And he administered first aid and was very concerned that I was badly, badly wounded.
And I said, I kind of took inventory.
I thought, I don't think I hit my head.
I don't feel like I've got any broken bones.
I'm kind of battered and...
and bloodied, but I think I'm okay.
And he sort of didn't believe me at first.
And I said, really, I'm fine.
And I was able to hike out of that crater.
You were in
shock.
You
hiked out in shock.
And he was assuming I was just in shock.
Yeah.
But I amazingly did not have a head injury, and I did not have any broken bones.
And I don't know how we would have got off of that mountain if I had.
It would have really messed things up, because it started raining a lot harder on them.
on the way out of there.
But, you know, it was just one of those things.
I have hiked Devils Lake over those boulders many, many times and without incident.
But this time, just whatever happened, the boot gave way and I started tumbling down this ledge.
So
did you continue your hike down to the water?
Were you going down to the waterfall?
I actually, and Casey finally
believed that I was okay when I said, look, just let me sit here and you go take pictures of the waterfall.
And he hiked down a little bit further and took these photos of this gorgeous waterfall.
But I just stayed put, but I was able to get myself out of there and I walked under my own power back up the.
to the rim of the crater and then down from the rim to lower ground.
They
do say that
if you have
enough banana beer, your body relaxes.
And you're able to take those falls.
It was quite a while after the banana beer consumption that I did this hike.
It was like the next day or something.
But maybe it was still with me in some way.
But you weren't
wearing any hiking gear, like a helmet and padding
or anything like that.
No.
So that's why I got scraped up pretty bad and got some real beauties, bruises that were some real beauties, especially on my hip and my forearms and everything.
But hey, I lived to tell about it.
And to me, I was just so thankful.
that this didn't ruin the trip for everybody who was with me, you know, and I was able to carry on.
And I didn't miss any of the...
the things to come.
It's
amazing.
You're a very lucky man, Michael Cabe.
Yeah, it sounded like near the end.
Unbelievable.
Well, when you're falling like that, you don't even really know how far you're falling.
I said, how far did I fall?
Because I just know I'm rolling and then bang, I'd hit another part of my body.
You're bouncing off these boulders, and it was a weird experience, but I lived to tell about it.
And I
thought falling off my bed a couple weeks ago
was bad.
There you go, see?
Well, Mike, that's an amazing story.
A John and Gordy exclusive.
Thank you.
Thank you for that.
Amazing.
We appreciate it.
Well,
we're glad you're here and able to continue to
be our guest.
I really hope that any listeners who are interested in this stuff will go
to my sub-stack and read about the trip, the really important and magical parts of this trip.
Yeah, wonderful stuff.
Oh
yeah, great
photos
and videos.
Mike, thanks for joining us.
We appreciate it.
We'll see you next Wednesday.
All
right.
Tomorrow, Tim Slecker from Busted Pencils will join us, and also Jim Santel will explain what the Supreme Court has done lately.
Yeah, well.
Yeah.
Big news.
Big news there.
Stephanie Miller's next.
Have a great day.
So long.
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