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In the course of our nation's history, the people have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened.
Today, a new crisis has arisen.
Citizens, hear me out.
This could happen to you.
People think I'm controversial.
But the truth is, I'm a nice guy.
And we're going to have a lot of fun tonight.
I'm upset.
Outraged and angered.
Everything you said was all a lie.
What I say is what I say.
Okay, I want a damn concerted effort.
This is a god-last damn time.
I want somebody to use this fucking brain.
This is a job for John Peterson.
And party!
You're from the
60s.
I will tell you this is going to be something special.
Yeah.
Show about nothing.
I don't have any answers for you.
I don't give interviews.
I just want to be left alone.
Ponderous.
Let's
Yeah.
That's John Peterson.
I'm Gordy Young, Dom Lee in the producer's chair.
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Beautiful sunshine.
today highs in the upper 70s.
Right now we're in the mid 50s.
And let's check in with Savannah Tomay Olson from our WMDX newsroom.
Good morning Savannah.
Good morning.
How you guys doing?
What a week.
feel like I say that every week now.
is so much stuff going on.
So of course there's Coldplay tomorrow night.
So you can kind of expect the whole area around Camp Randall to be a zoo kind of the same way that it was with Morgan Wallen a couple of weeks ago.
We have opera in the park tomorrow night.
There are a couple of road closures in that area.
We also have Maxwell Street Days still going on right where you guys are in
a
studio.
I think it's just good.
And then of course the Dane County Fair, if you're headed in that direction toward downtown right on Rimrock Road.
So if you want to get out and do something this weekend, it sounds like we'll have some decent weather, but man, it might be packed.
That's right.
So the Madison Metropolitan School District was waiting on almost like $3 million from the federal government, some funds that they get every year.
And then this had already been approved by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump back in March.
And it would have been, I think, $6.8 billion that would go to schools across the country.
And it was supposed to be dispersed on July 1.
And on June 30, the State Department of Public Instruction was told, hey, guess what?
That money's not coming tomorrow.
Wisconsin was supposed to get $72 million as a whole.
And the Madison Metropolitan School District was supposed to get that $2.9 million that was going to go to after school programs and English learning services.
And those are the kids who need the most support because.
Usually school is the only way they are learning English So the school district is trying to figure out how to pay for it But they said that they will pay for it one way or another They have money in the reserve fund and the superintendent says if we have to pull from the reserve fund That's what we'll do.
They don't want to just continue those programs.
right, and this is one of the things that
Attorney General Josh Call has filed one of the latest lawsuits over, so we'll see what happens there, too.
you.
Thanks, guys.
Have a good
All right.
Want to remind you it's a free ticket Friday.
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what a way to go.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you.
You bet.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you.
Excuse me every time.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
It's Art Paul.
Happy birthday
you,
And yes.
Among an album of letters collected to celebrate Epstein's 50th birthday is a letter from Trump with this name on it.
And it is a bombshell.
They're talking about it ad nauseam here.
Anyway, it's a happy birthday and this is what it says.
Happy birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Okay, this is all revealed through the Wall Street Journal the text is surrounded by a drawing of a naked woman punctuated by a squiggly Donald Below her waist in that area.
You can imagine Trump has vehemently denied that the drawing or the letter was his doing after all, you know, this this is what he wrote This is not me.
This is a fake thing.
It's a fake Wall Street Journal story.
I never wrote a picture
in my life.
He truly is a mental genius that we've always known he was.
I don't draw pictures of women.
It's not my language, it's not my words.
And you know what, they actually looked at, they asked Grock about it.
It is his language.
It is his words.
This is how he would have said it.
Elon, I love this post from Elon Musk.
Now
I'll
one.
Okay, but
Has blown the lid off of this whole thing because he's come up with a whole bunch of stuff Trump's Department of Justice is actively burying Epstein's financial network He's found out shielding billionaires and obstructing justice protect himself and possibly Trump here's what Wyden posted on x
Big news from my investigation at Epstein sex trafficking operation.
The Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks.
Hundreds of millions of more other details are out there.
So.
Ron Wyden has discovered this whole thing.
This is the stuff I want to see released.
I don't care about the, you know, the grand jury language.
No.
Yeah.
We don't, we don't need that.
We need Ron Wyden's discovery here.
I'll tell you what, we've got time now for Jordan Klepper.
Oh, we, we got a call from Dick.
Let's go to this first.
Let's go to the
Well, I will say it happened quicker than I thought it did or would the fact that he's come out now.
something that wasn't even existing three days ago, and then he wants it all out.
I'm
sure he directed Bondi to William Barr, you know, and she was directed by him to take care of business and clean this up.
But now he's saying, oh, we got to get it out there because, you know, there's such interest in it, blah, blah, blah.
I thought it'd be a couple of weeks before he did it, but here it is.
It doesn't surprise me in the least, not at all.
And you watch they'll be nothing and the media chased it chased it,
You know, I had a Labrador That he chased his tail and I could get him to chase the scale the other direction by clapping my hands I had you know, he knew that Sucked right into this thing and stayed with it and he's gonna and even if it does look terrible to anybody like us His face will believe it
Yeah, well, you know the thing is no one believed to the fact that there was no news here at all Yeah, this kind of blew up and and and I'm kind of entertained by all of those actually So we'll see what happens next dick.
Thanks.
We want to get to this cut from Jordan Klepper from Daily Show.
Let's listen to it on Epstein.
Let's hear
And the Trump administration can't get its stories straight.
There was a client list, then there was no client list.
They were going to release all the files, and then they decided not to release any files.
So let's see what today's excuse is.
I would say that these files were made up by Comey.
They were made up by Obama.
They were made up by Biden.
So let me get this straight.
According to Trump, all the top Democrats got together and said, let's create some fake files that destroy Trump's political career.
They don't ever use them.
They let Trump get elected.
Don't use them.
Let Trump get elected again.
Still don't use them.
And then once he's the president, hope he releases the files without ever looking at them.
Frankly.
That plan sounds so inconceivably bad, I do believe the Democrats might have come up with.
And after initially pushing back, some of them
are getting the message.
I think the DOJ should immediately move to unseal all the Epstein documents in the Southern District of New York.
I think every file should be released to the public the same way as the JFK files.
Honestly, I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being.
I'm going to trust my friends in the administration.
I'm going to trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done, solve it, balls in their hands.
But you know this whole thing is exploded in such a way that no one has ever anticipated it because it is such a dumb move It is so stupid to have created this in the first place Yeah, and he went out there thought thinking that his his contingent the cult would go along with all of it You know and and they didn't
Nick Fuentes has a point of view on
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Uh, I have to get to this because it was revealed, uh, you know, people can do this work for us and they have on X and they compared Trump, uh, nominating Powell or not nominating Powell or blaming Obama or somebody else for nominating Powell to be the Fed chair.
Okay.
So let's listen to this clip and see who is right.
It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal
Just a complete idiot.
I swear.
God.
How do we deal with this?
How do we go get along in life with this kind of stuff happening all the time?
Every day 24 seven.
Oh, okay.
Now this is something that Fox News is picking up on.
They really want to push this.
You never know that Samsung didn't react to these tariffs.
Lee.
Samsung manufacturers dishwasher washing machines in another country.
Now
Yeah.
And and then they finally met put them
Plant together and then the tariffs started happening in 2018 so it wasn't tariffs so much that brought Samsung to this country I just want to emphasize it because when you listen to this clip you would never have known that so let's listen to Fox reporting this listen
President Trump's tariffs are now luring at least a couple of foreign companies to manufacture their products.
Stateside.
This includes South Korea's Samsung.
They are now going to produce their washing machines out of Newbury, South Carolina.
Steve Harrigan has those details for us.
Julie, those washing machines are actually rolling off the assembly lines right behind me.
There's
not a
whole lot of debate in Newbury, South Carolina.
Whether
President Trump's tariffs help or hurt the economy here, they say it helps.
putting in 20 to 50% tariffs on foreign-made washing machines back in 2018.
Motivated Samsung to build a $500 million washing machine manufacturing plant here,
largest taxpayer.
I think tariffs are a really important topic in our current environment.
Even before tariffs became a really hot topic,
we're trying to strive for
that American dream, right?
Made in America for Americans.
at factory also created more than 1600 jobs here starting salary of $17 an hour.
That's a lot higher than the local minimum wage here of just $7.50 an hour.
had nothing to do
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Right here on WMDX 927 and this week we'll all be kind of taking off while Rob Roberts does a preview show for Atwood Fest because we are in the final throws and
we're going to be
talking about Atwood Fest today.
Of course that happens July 26th and 27th so it's right around the corner to get us to nine days.
Oh, so
man.
And WMDX and Civic Media, they're going to have a tent.
There,
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You're going to be right in the Clyde Stubble Field Stage area.
Emergency.
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Batman speaking.
Warning all of you to brace yourselves for big news.
Okay,
it.
news.
going to be there right here.
talking about it in a little while.
But let's let's talk about some things that are happening right now tonight, right?
Right.
Bing Bong.
They are playing Friday, July 18th.
That's tonight at the High Noon Summer Patio Series
right
outside free show for 30 p.m.
That starts coming up at the High Noon patio in July at this year.
Thursday, July 24th next week, uh, czar, which is Nick czar, the guitarist from Natty Nation.
He has a new band together and they'll
be
playing at the high noon coming up, uh, July 25th, Linda and the zeros and July 31st, the family business.
That's kind of the upcoming schedule at the high noon patio series.
And that's pretty good.
formed in 2012.
Bing Bong is Pam Barrett, lead vocals, rhythm guitar.
She's also the owner of Harmony Bar, in case you haven't found out.
Danny Hicks, he's on the lead guitar, Brian Bellion drums and Julie Kylan on bass.
They have won a bunch of awards, right?
Mama Awards this year, 2025 for album of the year.
Are you
but they don't
You could stand up.
You would just have to bend over.
OK,
been asked to do that.
Well, the mic would be really low and John's really tall, right?
I mean, hey, you know, our joke should go right over your head.
But if
doesn't, that's your fault.
Bing Bong Band dot com.
Bing Bong's playing tonight.
Hi, new insulin.
Let's check out an old song there is from 2020.
This is
Faces.
across my mind.
Until now I've always been just fine.
Though it's been so many times, I can't imagine what they want to see.
And I say,
Bing bong.
Bing bong.
That's tonight at the high noon saloon.
Good times.
Coming up, actually, another show tonight, Friday, July 18th at the Lone Girl in Wanaki.
There's a party on the rooftop.
It's Jin Mill Hollow.
We've talked about them.
They're also going to be celebrating 10 years Saturday, July 19th.
Wow.
Whoops.
And yeah.
What?
Guess what?
Little error there.
I don't have words listed.
I went and did that to myself, but they're high energy roots in Americana.
Look them up, ginmilhollow.com.
Let's listen to another one of their songs.
This
song is called Love Is King, Ginmil
Hollow.
to find you by my side.
Again, I feel alive.
Banjos, mandolins.
Well, you can see Jim Milhollow tomorrow, July 19th.
That's at the Boneyard.
Boneyard at
2
p.m.
So bring your puppers out there.
But
Tonight in Wanakee, Lone Girl
That's a great place.
Party on the rooftop.
That's right.
Yeah, Lone Girl.
Excellent place.
You been there?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's an excellent party down the rooftop.
Yeah, I know I've not been never been on the roof to love to go there Yeah, I've not been on the roof, but boy, I'll tell you the food is actually there.
Oh, that
fun.
the solution Thursday July 24th at the Boulevard the solution combines your favorite radio rock hits along with new original music and they just put on an album last year They've been an award winner of rock album of the year in 2022 with the mama awards and recently Brian Kanig aka.
He's the Baron in Lords of the Trident.
He's been in Luna Mortis and
Ottoman Empire, a couple of metal bands that
got
signed earlier in the in the century.
My guitar, Adrian Grimes, a British singer.
He is the vocalist and Jim Banton drums.
You might remember him from Rocks Valley.
You can find their information at the solution Madison dot com.
Let's listen to a song from their 2024 still live album.
This is called Doesn't Matter Anyway.
This is the solution.
Got the boys for rock solution the solution like
a lot of fun.
Yeah, check them out and They'll be playing Thursday July 24th.
That's coming right up at the Boulevard over on the east side of Madison You guys ready to talk at Woodfest.
right Saturday, July 26 noon to 10 p.m
And Sunday, July 27th, noon to 730.
And this all kicks off with an event called Convergence.
In Convergence, everybody meets at 11 AM at four different places around the East Side neighborhood at Atwood.
And they come in costumes.
They come with noisemakers.
And they parade through the streets, waking everybody up.
to converge at the Luther Allison stage, where the Han Fibians who lead and the Otimo dancers who lead these different parades through the streets converge at the stage and the Han Fibians perform.
I will be over at the Clyde Stubblefield stage actually, getting things all
Convergence starts the festival though.
And then right when the Han Fibians are done, mama dig down Sprats
they?
That is a really good question, John.
amphibians
really large.
I think they have almost 20 members, and it's
giant percussion group.
you know, hand drums,
And, you know, they work a lot with the Otimo Dancers.
So there's a lot.
It's very Brazilian, right?
And rhythms.
very fun.
And then that goes right into Mama Digdowns, which is, of course, New Orleans kind of jazz
marching band, right?
So this all takes place at Wood Avenue.
And the street is closed from the corner of Atwood and Winnebago to Monty's Blue Plate Diner, 30 bands, three stages, the Clyde Stubblefield stage in the United Way lot.
the Luther Allison stage at the corner of Winnebago and Atwood and the Sugar Maple stage in Monty's blue plate lot.
So don't bring your poppers.
No pets allowed.
full live music schedule, food and craft vendor list and more at atwoodfest.com.
Let's check out one of the bands that are going to be playing the clients double field stage Saturday, July 26th at five 15 right before view five nine piece band features a world class trumpeter John Shipper mama trumpet earlier this year.
This is fat function.
You want it all from their 2011 Real Life High Fidelity album.
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Want to remind you just a few more minutes left in the keyword hour here for our free ticket Friday.
Brewer's tickets up for grabs, a four pack of tickets to the Monday, July 28th game against the Cubs at Ampham Field.
The keyword is throw, T-H-R-O-W.
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Music makes a difference.
They are one of our backstage sponsors at Atwood Fest.
And
they are just amazing people.
And they put together this nonprofit organization to go out and help local music, right?
They put on shows, they pay the bands, and they just do it.
Because they love it.
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great organization.
Check them out online.
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Oh, we're still talking Atwood Fest,
you know, when you think about Atwood Fest, three stages, 30 bands, two days, vendors, food, just...
You think of
AI
right
away.
Well, I think maybe you have some questions, right?
Right.
What's going on?
And maybe you'd like to ask AI some questions and get some answers.
What are
you talking
about?
Unlike Gronk or, you know...
And so Atwood Fest has Frilly.
We are powered by Frilly.
It's developed by Jorge Rainier.
who formerly was with Civic Media.
It's
a guide to the festival.
So when you go to atwoodfest.com, click on artificial intelligence guide, right?
And start asking questions.
I don't know, you might get some interesting answers,
but a lot of
the answers are actually fairly correct.
I was fairly surprised.
It's a pretty fun thing.
We're still perfecting it, but you can try it out.
fun.
Starts to sail the ship, ask it some questions.
Atwoodfest.com.
artificial intelligence, freely.
Jorge Rainier, he programmed it up.
You have full live music schedule, food and craft, vendor list, fact, and more at www.atwoodfest.com.
John, I got one for you.
Yeah,
heading home.
It's a bluegrass band.
They are playing at 330 on the Sugar Maple stage at Atwood Fest on Saturday, July 26th.
Heading home is a band of six family members from coastal Georgia.
And they're like lighting up the bluegrass scene with their brand of family music.
John and Marina Lindblom, they're both class.
trained professional musicians.
They're joined by four of their adult children, Luke, Libby, Lucy, and Timothy.
And so it's pretty funny.
It's a family band.
Let's listen to a little bit ahead and home.
They're coming to Atwood Fest Saturday, July 26th on the Sugar Maple stage.
This is, I am ready to go.
Hallelujah, I'm ready, I'm ready I can hear the voices singing soft and low Hallelujah, I'm ready Hallelujah, I'm ready to go
I
Atwood Fest, we said it's coming up.
You know, they got 16 beers, four seltzers, four THC infused drinks, two NA beers, wine and water.
So there's going to be plenty of stuff to drink.
There are going to be five vendors there, little factoid that are going to be selling THC flower this year.
So
it's very interesting.
Yep.
Wow.
It's
going to be an interesting smelling at Wood Fest this year.
Full live music schedule, food and craft vendor list, fact and more at atwoodfest.com.
There is a new Madison scoff fusion band.
They're going to be playing Sunday, July 27th at noon on the Luther Allison stage.
The band is called one beer please Madison scoff fusion.
Look for one beer please later at Great Taste of Madison Midwest and high noon saloon patio in August and find them on Instagram and Facebook.
Let's check these guys out.
One beer please.
This is money, money, money.
All right.
I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay, ain't it sad?
But still there never seems to be a single penny left for me That's too bad
fun, too.
One Beer, please.
They're going to be opening up Sunday at Atwood Fest on the Luther Alston stage.
Yeah.
Oh, thanks, guys.
Really appreciate it.
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