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Oh, before we get too far here, uh, you know, yesterday I called our Brewers Cubs winner.
You know, we've been talking about giving away these tickets to go to the game with John and Gordy.
The game is next Tuesday evening at Ampham Field.
And so we selected a winner and I called her yesterday.
All right.
Here we go.
Hello, is this Linda?
Yes, it is.
Hi, Lynn.
This is Gordy Young.
I'm calling from WMDX Radio.
How are you doing?
Well, hello there.
I am fine.
Did I win something?
won?
No.
Oh, I'm so excited.
Oh,
to me.
Can I bring a friend or no?
Oh,
can bring my granddaughter.
I'm so excited.
Oh, God.
Thank you so much.
That's Linda from Middleton.
That's fantastic.
Yeah.
She's going to go with her granddaughter.
And you know, we're going to treat her to food and drinks.
And Dominic is going to go along with his friend.
You'll be doing a lot of the running with the food and the drinks, by the way.
I figured.
I figured that, yeah.
I remember John mentioned that yesterday.
Yeah, it should be a lot of fun.
And my son asked for sugar.
in his soda pop.
And I looked all over and I couldn't find it.
For a while, they were doing it.
They were selling sugar with the high fructose corn syrup on the aisles.
I mean, they were there together.
And then all of a sudden, the sugar just disappeared.
They took them all out.
And now it's back.
I mean, RFK Jr.
wants that sugar back in.
It's just regular sugar, not high fructose corn syrup, which is really bad for your health.
So I'm gonna have to go along with them on it.
but now Iowa farmers are not happy, not happy with taking out their corn crops.
Basically,
they've been
there you go.
But
Our winner, Linda from Middleton.
She says, the Brewers are in first place.
Yes, I missed what happened yesterday.
Cubs lost and the Brewers won.
So the Brewers are now in first place in the Central Division, the National League.
She can't bring her granddaughter, but her daughter is coming to the game.
Okay.
Anything, you know, happened?
I was, uh, I was a happy date of a police officer.
Police officer actually was my winning bid.
So, uh, she, uh, wear the uniform.
She brought out the handcuffs later.
No, it's all the story.
Part of the story here.
Let's go to the phones.
We have Dick on the line.
Dick, what do you got for us this morning?
I got to go back to something you said earlier.
I vote for Jay Johnston was the best lead singer by far.
Michael McDonnell always sounded to me like he was in need of an anima.
He's like, he to me is like the equivalent of Chicago.
happened to him?
And Peter Satira morphed him into
Nothing but Yacht Rock.
was the most kicked butt band.
not.
I don't know.
No, Steve Perry for a moment.
Oh, that's true.
check it
And they're trying to make it seem like there is a lot of that in there because healthy people are actually using food stamps.
Well, I hate to see that happen.
During COVID, we came up with a solution to remember that.
You know, we gave more money out to these families and we took care of poverty.
Remember, we cut it in half.
So let's listen to this cut 106.
Let's check this out.
This is a story on food stamps.
Listen.
benefits that already don't go very far.
A new analysis from the Urban Institute finds that in 99% of U.S.
counties, SNAP does not cover the cost of a modestly priced meal.
The average SNAP benefit is a little more than $6 per person a day.
Most families who are receiving SNAP benefits are actually not
able to put any additional money into their household food budget.
But the government makes a lot of assumptions, Dean says, that people have access to a low-cost grocery store and to a full kitchen, and that they basically never waste food.
For a few years during the pandemic, the federal government expanded SNAP
and research shows that helped reduce both food insecurity and the poverty rate.
We have learned a very recent lesson on exactly what we need to do.
Yeah.
to improve food insecurity and help people put food on the table.
Unfortunately, we have walked away from those lessons.
Yes.
Yeah.
Coffee.
This month, Trump announced plans to levy a 50% tariff on all goods from Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer.
Oh, great.
the source of about 30% of US coffee imports.
A senior fellow at the Peterson Institute.
No relation, by the way.
They said a 50% tariff will kill that market, essentially.
Trump threatened tariffs on coffee producing countries like Vietnam.
They produced 17% of coffee in the world.
Columbia, 8% and Ethiopia and Indonesia, 6%.
Now he's threatened, you know.
tariffs on all of those countries uh california coffee roasters said we'll see an increased cost of 30 on coffee and this is what he said it's a tax on americans mornings well there you go brother right there tax on americans morning yeah we can't grow
Tariffs don't help the coffee producer.
They don't help the small and medium-sized business across the country, and they don't help the consumer.
Why are we doing this?
No, is the question.
Ask Lucknick.
Roasted coffee prices in the US surge, by the way.
This is where inflation happened.
12% price of coffee, 12% surge in June.
Who knew?
Thank you.
Did you find that sc TV thing yet?
No, but I have something else and we'll play it after this next time.
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Good morning, guys.
I'm doing pretty good.
Pretty good.
A little tired right when the sun comes up.
You know, you can't.
Um, you know, there's a lot of stuff going on.
like trucks.
Is that what you're hearing?
Hello.
Can you guys hear
seriously my goodness all right so what was i saying i was saying the sun keeps me up it's been a little hard to sleep here that's for sure it's starting to get hot starting to get sticky
there yeah
and that heat oh my goodness we got an extreme heat warning that's going to go into effect tomorrow at 10 a.m to about thursday 7 p.m
Today, we're going to hit the upper 80s.
It's going to be partly sunny.
It looks like we missed out on a lot of the rain chances, though.
The only chance we really have is tomorrow.
We're at a slight risk.
And then 90s.
mean, 90s to Thursday, Friday, Saturday, they're still going to be sitting there and that humidity into the mid 70s.
really?
I know.
I think about you all the time, John.
I'm like, we're not going to make
Yeah, it looks like a lot of the storms want to sit north so those are gonna start by tomorrow morning and it looks like waves of storms move across the state a Lot of them in recent data are skipping north from Madison.
So I really write the moment I don't think you're gonna be getting too too many but of course there is that chance so the chance would be tomorrow morning and then again tomorrow night and then again as we go into Thursday as well,
We hope so.
Unfortunately, because we're a little bit more north of you, I think we are going to be getting some storms by tomorrow morning.
eight o'clock.
It's going to hit the Oshkosh area
so, and then we'll get another wave again at night.
But hopefully that'll go even further north and miss both of us.
Wouldn't that be nice?
I know.
It can't be raining for that.
It hurts.
Well, I
No, I unfortunately didn't get to yesterday.
I was running around too much doing work stuff that I didn't get to play.
But I think today I'm going to play a little bit.
Okay.
It's the channel where we see a camp run by Doobie Brothers' former lead singer, Michael McDonald.
No idea.
Let's see.
Okay.
Make sure you pair up with your buddy.
Stay inside the area.
If you go outside the ropes, you'll be asked to leave the water.
Milk and cookies is a chocolate chip.
Milk and cookies.
I know that Steve likes old beer.
Yeah,
to
On the tour?
Yeah, on the tour of Alcatraz, it's a place.
stop for tourists.
It was a prison in the San Francisco Bay.
That's right.
So anyway, they're thinking about opening it up again this time for prisoners.
I'm not kidding you.
Right.
I mean, it's a great place for tourists, but not anymore.
They're going to fix it up.
Let's go to cut 93 here.
Alcatraz is the brand known around the world for being effective at housing people that are in incarceration.
And so this is something that we're here to take a look at.
It's a federal property.
Its original use was a prison.
And so part of this would be to test the feasibility about returning it back to its original use.
Yes.
It's not a place you want to renovate, and it costs so much to renovate.
It's ridiculous.
So talk about waste and fraud and everything else that they were talking about in this administration.
This is one way to waste as much money as you possibly can by trying to fix this place up.
Forget about it.
Yeah, ridiculous.
Absolutely.
We got a text which brought back a lot of memories and that's why we didn't play the SCTV version of the Michael McDonald takeoff is that it was more visual and in Cathy, Princess Cathy.
writes in, I don't know if my voice note went through, but I think the SETV sketch you guys, and it is, you're right about this one.
It was a parody of Christopher Cross singing, Ride Like the Wind, where Michael McDonald had to keep brushing back into the studio to sing such a long way to go.
And it's true.
He was going back and forth from one studio to the next, trying to keep up.
in every song.
He was in high demand about every day.
His high demand is
Okay.
Yes, 7 36.
It's cloudy this morning.
It's going to be humid all day high near 85 right now 66 degrees and dew point is high today.
You're going to feel very, very warm and humid the next few days.
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They are saying that.
Let me get back to on track here.
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Okay,
great?
I got that
I do.
Okay, we got some stories here.
This is a place where we get this stuff off our chest because this is just outrageous stuff as usual.
Keep in mind the ACA and we've been talking about
Universal health care in this country.
We want universal health care.
We want the Democrats to adopt universal health care, please.
And they haven't brought it up.
They haven't talked about health care
at
Anyway, the ACA is going to be downsized a lot because people will be losing their coverage.
Republican magas called it red tape.
You know, all this ACA rule and regulations where they cover, you know, pre-existing conditions where they give you free checkups to keep your health in line.
That's all just red tape.
The insurance companies don't like it and they want to play into the insurance company's pockets.
Listen to cut 104 here.
The ACA and the cost is going up.
Health insurance companies are preparing to hike premiums on Coloradans after several tools meant to lower premiums were not included in the president's spending plan.
This bill has done is it's removed a lot of mechanisms that we've been using since the passage of the Affordable Care Act to try and reduce the cost of premiums and improve people's coverage and access.
So these include things like premium tax credits, other subsidies, other affordability mechanisms.
Rates for premiums are set to increase by 28% for the average Colorado.
Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans voted for the bill and is insisting the legislation isn't behind the potential spikes.
tells us via statement.
Reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid doesn't impact private insurance rates, and Republicans are under no obligation to extend a Biden-era policy and the one big, beautiful bill.
Yes, you are.
Instead of making this political, Democrats should adjust their focus to fixing their red tape and overregulation of private insurance in Colorado, which has driven multiple private insurers out of the state.
Most of the private insurers out.
Oh, well, I...
I'm heartbroken to see that happen while they drive people out of healthcare and don't give them coverage.
I think I feel more sorry for them and we might be in that boat in the not too distant future.
My family is insured through the ACA and those premiums are going to go up two to $300 a month on top of what they're paying now.
So it's not going to be good.
This is really going to be devastating for everybody.
Again, the warnings out there and the plea from the John and Gordy show is please, Democrats, take this up as an issue and promise us universal health care and do away with all of the, you know, and they're forcing people.
Well, you got to work.
You have to put in 80 hours.
You're not going to get health care unless you have this, that and the other thing are using it as a hammer
to
news from
not a thank you, that's not a
we
is
So maybe their
Maybe they shouldn't get a pension.
Yeah, they're not doing anything.
Yeah.
Until they give us healthcare.
universal health care, they shouldn't have health care either.
Now they were forced supposedly to be on the ACA.
I think they got an exemption though.
So anyway, let's get to the next big story here before I go off the charts.
I get angry.
Try to keep it together.
Mike, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, he can't contain himself.
He just loves to kiss Trump's ass.
And, you know, it's
just so
Okay.
You paused it.
All right.
So, I mean, most, most attacked, right?
Why, why is he attacked?
He breaks laws.
He doesn't follow the constitution.
You know, when you, when you act like this, when you have a lifestyle like this, of course you're going to be attacked.
And he's been attacked for, for years, decades, in fact.
Oh no, I stole coffee all over the darn place.
I'm so angry.
Stop clailing
arms around.
I
Okay.
Feeding the mouse.
Okay.
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All you have to do is go to our website, wmdxradio.com, and you could have a pizza party come into your workplace.
Your office mates will be so very happy.
In fact, we'll be going tomorrow out to East Washington Avenue for our next pizza party.
We'll tell you more about that a little bit later on or tomorrow.
But we do that every Wednesday.
Take our pizzas from Sugar River pizzas out to
your workplace.
Can't wait to
Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun.
And you can be a part of the fun WMDX radio along with Sugar River pizza.
throwing the pizza parties to help celebrate the fact that we're both up for Best of Madison awards.
And again, enter.
You could be a winner.
They're writing.
We're writing their coattails.
Best of Madison.
That's right.
OK, now let's get to Grock, huh?
OK.
Oh, this is the final word on Grock.
I saw this comment.
I thought this describes it perfectly.
Anyone relying on Grock.
This is a complaint about Grock, okay?
All right, they they don't like the answers that Grock is giving because well because their answers
All right And this guy and this guy's complaining he's a mega goes anyone relying on Grock a liberal written AI program fed by liberal media is not serious about getting to the truth
Did you forget how to investigate or read for yourself?
Sure, seems like it.
When Grock learns to include all sources of media and the real history books, then I would consider using it.
Until then, it's a cute toy.
Again, it's written by liberals.
I don't think Elon is a liberal in this particular instance.
And because Grock is using the media and history,
He doesn't like it.
It's not the answers that they give on the right wing media sources, okay?
But anyway, too bad.
Things that come up with actual truth, they just can't handle it at all.
They can't
handle
All right, now let's get to the racist names, okay?
Because this is from CNN.
Trump on Sunday escalated his call for the Washington commanders to bring back the Redskins.
Oh boy.
The name the Redskins because he hasn't learned his lesson yet on this.
And then not only that, but he not only just wants the name to come back, he wants to hold up moving to Kennedy Memorial Stadium because
there's
I'm not sure what the what the legalities of it is, but Trump has some say over this.
And so he's trying to use the government against.
the owners of the Washington commanders, formerly Redskins, and he wants to have the name come back because we're not racist enough yet.
I
Right.
And this is a quote.
This is a quote.
Times are different now than they were three or four years ago.
Three or four years ago.
Wow, times are different.
Could have said like 30 years ago.
But anyway, he says three or four years ago, we are a country of passion and common sense.
Owners, get it done.
Go back with the Cleveland Indians.
with us.
It's a beautiful day in the capital city, Madison, a block away from the capital.
The politicians have taken some time off and we're happy with that.
The streets have been cleaned, the leaf blowers have been out, and everything looks just wonderful.
It's like Maxwell days didn't even happen.
But I'm sure it did.
And Gordy, you went down there and you bought a lot of stuff.
I
And it's 7.53.
Time for us to welcome in Amy Horak from David J. Frank and Company.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good to have you back with us.
Nice to be back.
So this time, man, it's been raining a lot lately.
And we've got more showers and thunderstorms, I think, later in the week.
So what's on your mind this time of year as far as lawn and garden care?
You were telling us right during the break about this thing called lawn dollar spots?
Yeah,
This time of year especially with the amount of rain and the humidity and high temperatures It's just been prime time for any type of fungal diseases to start coming around
so
like I was telling you guys earlier lawn dollar spot is a fungal disease that you'll see in the turf
They call it that because hence the name dollar spot, it starts off about the size of a half dollar.
It might look kind of just like little dead patches of grass, but eventually those patches will keep growing as the fungus spreads.
So with the water, it helps spread fungal spores a lot easier.
So the more it rains, it's just gonna spread it through the lawn, especially if you have sloped areas.
Just imagine the water always is gonna run downhill, so it'll just spread it throughout the entire area.
Putting down some fungicides, making sure that you're not overstressing the lawn too.
So with the really hot days that we also get, which sometimes end up being the only day you're able to mow the lawn, try to cut it either early in the morning or later in the evening once the temperatures have subsided.
Otherwise, if it's super hot, you'll just kind of burn the grass if it gets cut midday.
And then it's more susceptible to disease because it's gonna be stressed out at that
Actually, that smell, that fresh cut
stress response
So that smell that we kind of, some people like,
It'll tell the other grass blades that, hey, there's something around and they'll slowly try to like lay down.
So sometimes if you're like, I went over that patch like multiple times, there's still a random blade that pops up
didn't
get
hit.
That's probably the one that probably had the most time to lay flat before.
You could do that or maybe just get ran over with a wheel too many times, but
Plants can communicate like underground networks with their mycorrhiza and that's well, that's a fungal network, but the
Some people swear by nighttime gardening, moon like planting.
So I mean, if you're
that kind of thing, it could be helpful.
It's stressful to put them in the ground midday and then you try to like water it in and drown it.
You're like, okay.
Do good now,
happen the best.
for a
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
And definitely July two, um, prime time for Japanese Beatles.
If you don't know what it looks like, it's kind of like the most bulky tank of, uh, um, ladybug
seen, but it's like the shiny green purple color.
They look kind of cool, but then you see what they do to your garden.
You're like, I don't like you.
And weeds.
yeah.
I mean, it's good temperatures for plants to thrive.
I mean, I've seen a couple of locations where, you know, the plants weren't really growing this spring because that winter was really harsh on them.
And then all of a sudden, a few weeks, it just blew up.
Like the corn, you know, knee high by the 4th of July.
It was chest high, certain fields.
And like
got really big, really
spray paint it green and pretend it's grass.
You
it in.
I think they've come a long way with, you know, synthetic turf.
good.
That way, well, that way the heat doesn't melt it and damage it because it's still like a synthetic plastic type of polymer material.
So whatever they're developing out of it, it's better to, and then you're not going to burn your feet.
Like, you know, you walk on the pavement and it's hot.
fake grass would only be just as hot.
fair.
If they can turf out of recycled material, it'd probably be way more sustainable.
but you're transplanting something so sometimes if you when you transplant anything if you don't take good care of
those initial after weeks and it might not take even though it might be the best way to go
thanks for
long.
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