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Yeah
We have partly to mostly cloudy skies this morning.
It looks like a nice day ahead of us, but it's going to be warm and humid again.
Yeah, we're back to that mid 80s this afternoon.
Yeah, so that's, you know, just get rid of and then some showers and thunderstorms on the way for the weekend.
Oh, why not?
Yeah.
Okay, and it's Friday.
That's a good thing.
Yeah, the Friday is really a great thing.
We're
gonna be
should we tell everybody what's going on?
I don't know.
You want it?
Should we share
or not?
Let's keep it a secret.
Oh,
I don't know.
I don't know.
You know, it's all bottled up inside of me.
I really have to kind of get it out there.
Okay.
We're working really hard on Monday and Tuesday.
We have a number of different shows to
To do we're move to the morning show again
as
usual.
Yeah.
Yes, and then we're
filling it for Peach Waba
What Monday
night?
Yeah
Monday and Tuesday night right Monday and Tuesday
night.
Yes Nice nice
Tom good
morning to you.
Good morning.
Good morning.
And Pete Pete reached out to you, right?
No,
I'm glad he
reached out to you.
I mean, you know, what else what else should we know?
Nothing.
I don't know
You seem very hesitant to tell us
Is there something we should know about it?
No, no, no big deal.
No big deal.
You're setting us up for something.
No, there's a guest that I know that's going to be on the show, but I don't know if I want to share that right now.
Am I allowed to share that right now?
Sure.
Yeah.
What we were talking about before the show?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I think so if it's confirmed.
It's confirmed.
I'd say Todd Alba is coming on the show on Monday.
Yeah.
Yeah, great.
As a guest.
All right.
You know, we've never talked to Todd on the air.
before, so that'll be fun.
Talk to him off the air occasionally, see him around the hallways.
That's right.
Now, the trick here is not to talk politics.
Well, yeah, we're not going to do any politics on Schwab's show.
It's an entertainment show.
It's fun.
Yeah, it must be
fun.
Different
things to talk about, movies, books.
Got all kinds of guests lined up.
They just haven't confirmed yet.
We got some really interesting guests lined up.
Yes, we do, but we can't really say because we don't really know if they can make it or not.
But we'll find out later today.
Can we just live off that?
Can we go on the air for two
hours
just
saying, you know, we had some really good guests.
They just didn't call
us
back.
But Catherine's asking us, is this
pirate rate?
Yeah, we're taking over.
Yeah, that's it.
Right.
We're just going to take over.
I guess Pete's taking a vacation or something.
He's off, I think, most of next week.
He deserves one.
He deserves one.
But
you
know, we've always wanted to do entertainment on the show.
We just never had a chance to.
And then when Trump became president,
sucked
all the air out of the newsroom,
just all of a sudden this is it.
This is what we're stuck with.
But it'll be a little weird doing the morning show and then coming back to do the evening show.
It's gonna be a little stressful.
And we'll be going home at 8.30 at night, ready to go to bed.
Not being able to sleep and then getting up early the next morning.
It's gonna be hell.
Whose idea was this?
I don't know.
He should clear this next time with us.
Let's give us
a half a
year notice.
Yeah, it's going to be busy next week.
Then we have the night market next Thursday, too.
So there's another one we'll be up late for.
We're not going to get any sleep at all next week.
That's
all right.
We can take
it.
But we don't sleep that often anyway.
Gen Zers, they don't sleep.
How much sleep
do you get, Tom?
I was just gonna say, yeah, last time I went to bed at like 11.
So yeah, I don't get much sleep.
Like four or five hours?
Five
hours, maybe?
Yeah.
That's not
enough.
Think about everybody driving in to work today.
Yeah.
They don't get enough sleep either.
Yeah, why is that?
Okay.
And the lights were bad when I came in to work again.
They were
good.
Stop
lights?
Yeah, they were good like a
couple days ago.
They've been good this
whole week.
Yeah, they have
been.
But
today,
they were the worst.
At least from my experience, I had to stop and go every single light.
What street are you going to?
What's your main... Mineral.
Mineral
point.
Mineral point.
Wow.
They took me forever.
Well, you know, you gotta wonder, you know, if the city is doing this, you know...
area by area.
They nail a university avenue area, then they move on to, you know, a mineral point.
And who knows, maybe Park Street next and East Wash and, you know, Willy Street at Wood Avenue.
Just
messing with those stoplights.
Willy Milley.
Yeah.
All those main highways.
Yeah.
They get, they have to time out the stoplight.
They have to test things out from time to time and then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Just a few minutes.
We're going to talk to Payam Yaki, catch up with the fabulous Farm Babe a little bit later on.
We'll check in with Savannah Tomei Olson, some of the news items from this week.
And Rocker will be here with a Max Inc preview.
It's also free Ticket Friday.
We'll have a four pack of tickets to give away to an upcoming Brewer's game.
And we'll give away more VIP passes to our Doundrens Distilling, our listener appreciation party.
So that's coming up as well.
Yeah.
Many, many things coming up.
You're shuffling through your papers.
I am.
You know, I'm looking for this one particular story for Pam Yonkey.
I'm hoping I can find the Jeff Bezos lab grown salmon.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
He's fooling around with mother nature and making his own fish.
That's right.
Why
not?
I found it.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Good.
Yeah, I think we're gonna catch up with Payamyaki, discussing a little bit more on her Canadian farm tour.
And, yeah, some of these items, like Bill Gates' butter, again, you know.
Yeah.
Bezos is working on fish.
Gates is working on butter.
She was gonna look that up and find out more about it after we brought it up the last time.
And, you know, I piqued her interest.
and the Bill Gates Butter.
We never actually played the Bill Gates Butter story for her.
It's a little long.
I mean, we could just play the first part of it and give her a taste,
so to speak, of the Butter story.
And also, Wisconsin cranberries were number one in the nation for cranberries once again.
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
We'll find out more about that.
Is that what they say in France?
Fantastic.
Do you have any big plans for the upcoming weekend?
Anybody?
Anybody?
Don, what are you doing?
I don't.
How's your ankle?
How's your
leg?
It's getting better.
I don't like going to the doctors, because I
don't like calling to go to the doctors.
I just like taking a Tylenol, and that's it.
But it's been pretty good.
It has been too bad.
I don't think I'm
going to soccer again.
I think I'm done.
First and last
time.
Yep, calling it quits.
One
time and you're done.
And Trump is getting ready to fly off to Alaska meet with the Vladimir.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's happening.
So we'll keep track of that
What else
I'm just looking
at Pam is looking forward to the Bill Gates butter story So that's great.
All right.
Well, we're gonna get to that.
Okay
Well, should we do what's going on?
What's happening?
What's worse?
What's better than worse?
What would you do?
Where are we going?
You're just not seeing it with enough reverb.
Okay.
Would you rat?
There
we
go.
See, that one's more I can hear that one.
All right.
Do you alter that?
I did alter a little bit.
First
question.
Would you rather have to do a handstand after every meal?
Or only listen to the baby by Justin Bieber for the rest of your life?
Baby,
baby.
I guess a handstand, you know, as long as I can physically do it.
But I've never been able to do it.
Miracles upon
miracles.
Yeah, I'd rather do the handstand than listen to anything.
Bye.
Beaver
I really like that I
really
like that song and I'm willing to listen to it for the rest of my life Okay, cuz I don't really want to do a hand I don't like doing handstands.
Do you have a sample of that song?
I'm not sure I
can
find it.
I can find it for
her.
All right I don't even know if anyone else wants to hear that Okay,
all right.
Yeah, would I
recognize that song?
Yeah, I think
you were good.
Yeah.
Well, that's good.
All right.
Second
question.
Would you rather be unable to use search engines?
So like Google or whatever ever again or always be one hour late to things?
Well, it's an easy one.
I can always be few hours late.
So that's
that's where I'm at.
I'm already
doing
that.
Really?
What's the first choice again?
I'm
unable to use search engines
like Google.
Yeah, I think I
knew John's answer before you
even
said it.
Yeah.
I
like using search engines a lot, so yeah.
Yeah.
You'd be one hour late to things every single time.
Yeah, I don't like being late either.
I'm usually early.
You are.
You are.
Yeah.
I
don't know.
I'm on the fence on this one.
I would say I would say be one hour late.
One hour
late.
How could you
be on the fence on this one?
It's
an easy one.
I'm using Google right now.
Always, you know, be fashionably late.
That's what it's all about, isn't it?
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah.
Yeah, all
right.
You like being there at
times?
All right, you talk me in.
OK, there you go.
Good job.
Talk me in the way.
OK, good.
Imagine not using Google ever again.
That'd be terrible.
Well, we can't do that.
We lived for decades without it before, somehow.
That's true.
Yeah, we used to have the recording of the tubes.
Right?
The tubes.
Yeah.
Remember the what?
Yeah, and you know, well the internet, you know, it's a bunch of it's a bunch of tubes, right?
Yeah, it's not like a big That's it.
Okay.
There
you go.
Okay.
I love that.
Good enough.
It's not a dump truck,
you know, it's not a dump truck, you know, just pour stuff into this dump truck and it all gets hauled away.
It's a series of tubes.
Okay.
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So much to get to.
So much to get to.
You know, we were talking about Bill Gates' butter and everything like that, but Bill Gates, he's making some news out there.
He's saying it's the end of the smartphone era.
That's right.
He's replacing it with something else.
Some sort of chip that goes in your brain.
Wow.
That's
what I'm guessing.
I don't know.
What could it be?
Or new eyeglasses.
A tattoo with
integrated circuitry.
Oh, no.
Wow.
Yeah, all right.
Well, that's something to think about.
When we come back, we'll talk to the fabulous farm babe, Pam Yonkey, just getting going on a Friday morning.
John and Gordy, WMDX Madison.
LSD, Lakeshore Drive.
WMDX 92.7 on a beautiful Friday morning.
Last day of the work week.
I know we're all just chomping at the bit to get out there in the lawn and start doing some yard work before it gets too hot today,
right?
Exactly.
Yeah, it's going to get into the mid 80s this afternoon, right now, 67 degrees with partly to mostly cloudy skies.
And it's time for us to check in with Pam Yankee.
Good morning, Pam.
How are you?
Good morning, guys.
I agree with you.
It's beautiful right now.
I'm waiting to see what it's going to be like.
The Badger scheme and gas engine club show starts today up in Baraboo.
Oh, yeah.
I
noticed that there are temperatures.
Temperatures are projecting are going to be closer to 90 by the time the crowd starts showing up Saturday or Sunday.
So, you know, that that much more resembles the August that I know in Wisconsin.
Absolutely.
And those are that's a fun event.
The kids just love going to that thing, taking the tractor rides.
And it's very cool.
Yeah.
Yeah,
there's the weird machinery
there.
Yeah.
Well, that's what I was just going to say.
There's a lot of education goes on for young and old up there because they've got, this year, one of the organizers told us that they've got a well-drilling machine that's back.
They had the one fellow that had recently kind of demonstrated quit coming.
So
that's back.
They'll be making shingles out of wood.
Just a lot of different things.
Blacksmithing, if you've never seen that in action, they've got demonstrations there.
So it's not just about the tractors or the engines that you see.
It's also about the real work that they try to demonstrate for folks in the different buildings.
So if you get a chance, like I said, it's only 10 bucks for adults, 12 and under are free.
That's not a bad way to spend an afternoon, you know?
No.
Yeah, so much to see up there.
And it's easy to get to.
You just take Highway 12 up there.
Look for Sand Road.
It's part of my
past, you know, taking the kids up there.
They love getting on the tractors and taking the rides with some of the people that, you know, invited them up on the seat.
And it's great stuff.
I wonder if they'd get into it now at 26 and 23.
I think they might be a little, but,
you know, never know.
Yeah, never know.
I see a lot of people, a lot of people that grew up in it and maybe ours, you know, I have a professional career, but they'll
They'll keep a tractor on the side for parades or something like that.
So you just never know.
Well, you mentioned a few things about your Canadian farm tour that you took, and we were talking about wine, dairy, the bison.
But what else
was
there that you guys experienced on that Canadian tour?
Well, part of the reason why we're going to see the weather that we are this weekend, including possible measurable rains is the weather pattern in Canada
that's
going to influence us this weekend.
My
weather guy was telling me that this morning.
And, you know, when we were on our Canadian farm tour, we made our way from Calgary all the way across Canadian Rockies to Vancouver and Vancouver Island.
And you can definitely tell there's dry areas, which, you know, they talk about the wildfires.
They don't talk about the impact on the people.
One guy that I visited with was Bob Wilson, who
who owns Morningstar Bison Farm.
He's on Vancouver Island.
Now, anything you're going to do in agriculture on an island is going to be difficult.
If you need fertilizer, you've got to bring it over.
If you're going to market your products, you've got to take it over.
And when I was talking with Bob, he actually, right while I was doing my interview, a helicopter with a water bucket flew over.
There was a wildfire that was only like three miles away from him.
He'd already started to feed his bison.
supplemental alfalfa cubes to try to get him ready for the winter.
And he was trying to market his bison and bring the herd size down because of the lack of feed.
So he was getting about $10 US a pound for ground bison, about 11 and a half a pound for roast and about $13 a pound for steak.
He was sending those animals across on ferry to be
slaughtered and processed in Alberta.
Then they sent the meat to Montreal.
The bison meat circulated around Montreal and even made its way in to the eastern United States.
So, you know, there's demand out there.
But boy, like I said, anything you're going to do on an island is going to be difficult.
And I wish that when they did some of these wildfire stories.
They take a little closer look at the impact that this was going to have, not just this year, but for the foreseeable future on a lot of the farmers that are trying to eco to living in that area.
OK, we're talking about bison, but what about beef?
You know, I understand there's a beef shortage in this country and we
used
to import just kind of fill in the blanks where we're short.
And one of those countries happens to be Brazil, which now has this huge, huge tariff on it, 50 percent, I believe.
So that's limiting the amount of.
beef we get from at least Brazil, which is contributing to the high prices we're seeing in the market.
Yeah, and we're 64 year lows as far as the number of cattle we've got here in the United States for beef, the native beef cattle.
And now when you see the drought, you look at Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, they are
in extreme drought.
Well, if you don't have the pasture, if you don't have the ground to feed those animals, then you're just going to market them immediately.
You're not going to build your herd.
So same story as what Bob Wilson told me up in Canada, same thing that's plaguing our beef industry.
If you don't have the water to make the pastures lush for cattle,
then
you just flat out can't have the cattle.
And that situation in Brazil, most of the cattle we bring in from Brazil are used in our ground beef industry.
That's we call that the lean.
We
need we raised that's top quality kettle in the US.
We need the Brazilian fat beef
the fat side to come in to grind up our beef.
But, but yeah, you're right.
It's not going to change anytime soon.
I'm afraid either.
All right.
I think we're running out of time for
the Bill Gates
Butter.
Did
you do any research?
We can do it.
We can do it.
I've done my research.
We can do it Monday.
Okay.
We'll wait till Monday and we can talk about also Wisconsin Cranberries having another great year.
And
I believe we could still probably talk about the weather network going in.
Yeah.
You want to do that next week?
Yes.
All right, we've got a lot
of stuff.
We'll keep it on the to-do list, boys.
Have a great weekend.
Pam, you have a great
weekend.
Thank you.
All right.
It's Pam Yankee, the fabulous farm babe.
Great stuff.
Midwest Farm and Food Report coming up next.
And we'll be back with Idiocracy for a Friday.
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All right, now let's talk about high prices.
High
price.
Oh, well, you've seen them at the supermarket.
We've got a lot of high prices out there.
We're talking about the beef prices going right through the roof.
I thought they were expensive before.
Yeah.
Before all of this.
Now they're really expensive and that ground beef, as you mentioned, you know, that's where they get the fatter ground beef from Brazil.
Yeah.
And that stuff is not coming in to help with their beef shortage here in this country.
So, you know,
How can we how can we enjoy those burgers on the grill?
I don't know summer not what they're so expensive Well, I blame Trump for this obviously we should blame Trump for it because you know the terrorists on Brazil are ridiculous and he's doing it because he It's political.
Let me just say that it's not
You don't need to
say he's standing up for the former dictator
Okay, and wants them in power back in power for some reason.
I don't know I yeah like they'll do that anyway Let's get to South Carolina Republican who came out there and said hey, you know what?
Excuse me
the cough first.
You know what?
I think high prices are good.
Yeah, this is representative Ralph Norman And and this is just an amazing thing you've got to hear this and then I'll give you my mega friend in Milwaukee
his reaction to this.
Okay, let's listen to Ralph Norman representative, Ralph Norman from South Carolina.
Time, Congressman.
Americans largely disapprove of the economic policies of this president, at least right now, 55% say they disapprove of his job on the economy, 44% approve.
Can you explain those numbers?
Well, I think a lot of people are seeing higher prices.
I mean our family is in the construction business and we get a lot of our timber from Canada and other countries.
Yes, it's higher.
Steel prices are up, but it's for the good of the country.
And should we expect higher prices for a short time?
Yes, but overall we couldn't keep going the way we were going.
The cancer in this country was letting other countries rule the day and tax our products.
And why should we run a deficit every month?
And that's why this president is
is doing such a good job and you can't go on, you know, whole numbers vary.
They
come up, they go down.
The
bottom line is he's doing the right thing and it couldn't come at a better time and things will get better here.
Congressman Ralph
Norman, Republican of South Carolina.
All the things I wish the Democrat had said, you know, when there was inflation.
Pulls and opinions
go up
and down.
People approve.
They disapprove of the economy.
Don't worry about it.
It's going to get better.
Why didn't we use any of those excuses?
Or the fact that it's for the good of the country, right?
Not that.
Sure.
That doesn't settle well with me at all.
It's for the good of the country.
It's for the good of the country.
You know, just pay a little bit more and then those prices will come down.
No, we don't know that.
You know, and in fact, I'm thinking not.
You know, we had the supply chain, which really boosted.
the inflation levels, right?
And then the greed inflation took effect.
And that was where manufacturers said, you know what, we can piggyback
on
the shortages.
So let's increase our prices, make our products smaller, give people less of what we're manufacturing and selling in the stores.
And we'll make a lot of money that way.
And that's what happened with inflation.
That's how that happened.
But here,
Well, this is, uh, this is a self-created inflation.
And, uh, I think, you know, it's not really that good for the country.
It's not good.
It doesn't seem like.
You know, we should, you know, let's get used to high, why not just say, let's get used to high prices.
Oh, sure.
Because it's good for the country.
Why don't we just say that?
It's good for the big wealthy, you know, the wealthiest 1%, 2%,
you
know, they're getting the big tax break.
All right.
I'm not for them.
I'm going to throw a curveball in here.
I was going to get to Tesla, but you know, what are you going to do?
I feel a little warm and fuzzy this morning.
First, don't try to touch me.
Never.
All
right.
Here it
is.
This is, you know, this is just something that I.
I have to pass along to you if you didn't check it out already.
It's a father.
He decided to review his four-month-old baby.
What?
What do you mean he reviewed him?
He's going to review his baby.
And this is the audio.
It's cut 82.
Let's check out this review.
What's up, everyone?
Here is my four-month product review of this baby.
So delivery takes a while.
nine plus months, but the product so far has absolutely exceeded expectations.
Super lightweight, surprisingly durable, and that new baby smell is just chef's kiss.
Now the learning curve, steep, not gonna lie to you guys, but once you figure out the whole kind of crying equals need something algorithm, it's pretty intuitive.
Now the smile feature is absolutely game changing.
Instant dopamine hit every single time.
Battery life is only about
90 minutes and sleep mode still has some bugs, but support says that will be patched in the next update.
Now performance, okay?
This thing is a machine.
Processes, milk at just incredible speeds converts directly to energy and growth.
The learning AI is honestly impressive.
You know, babies, they're a lot like having your own personal LLM.
if if LLMs also peed on you.
Now the features, the cute factor is off the charts, definitely enterprise grade, adorability, advanced grip functionality, surprisingly good audio.
You know, frankly, the volume could be a little bit lower and pro tip, the cuddle feature is absolutely worth the premium pricing.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this product for families looking to scale, gather resource intensive and they require significant investment.
It's kind of like a
expensive SAS subscription with no cancellation policy.
But the ROI is already showing massive gains in happiness metrics.
So that's my review.
Stay tuned for future product updates.
Time to go change a diaper.
All right, I'm
out.
That's right, baby.
3.0 is coming again.
Wow.
Pretty cool, huh?
Quite the review.
What a great idea.
Big thumbs up on the baby.
Well, thank
you.
But
that was warm and fuzzy.
It was.
And cute as hell.
Oh, and I gotta tell you, the baby was adorable.
It's just adorable.
Just sitting there, you know, not really understanding anything that's going on.
I had sunglasses on, you know, just to, you know, keep the identity secret.
All right, let's get to Tesla Tesla's European sales fell by 45% on average in July compared to last year what the drop is most severe in Germany with a 55% drop and the United Kingdom 60% drop Okay, now BYD if you haven't heard of that, that's the Chinese EV giant They're selling cars all over Europe.
They can't sell cars in this country, but
BYD is the most fantastic futuristic.
EV made, they really put everything into it, and it's only about $20,000.
So, you know, UK at least, they can enjoy it, and Germany can enjoy it, and Europe is enjoying it, but we're not doing anything here.
But if they did come into this market, it would be an unfair advantage, definitely an unfair advantage.
But anyway,
They BYD the Chinese EV giant their sales have quintupled Wow while in the UK they have quadrupled many more versions of this can I read Signaling a shift in consumer preferences competitors are surging ahead of Tesla at this point as Tesla drops by 45 to 55 percent now Tesla's board get this.
I don't know what they're thinking
Tesla's board of directors wanted to hand Musk a huge $29 billion pay raise just to stay with the company.
He's costing $29 billion a day.
Oh man, I know it's a bizarre move.
In fact, it gave Musk significant control of the company's board.
the board that's voting on this, which means Tesla sees Elon as the best suited leader to address the company's challenges in the years ahead.
I think somebody is on something that they shouldn't be taking.
Wow.
And I'll be honest, you know, I've been very soft on Tesla.
I think, you know, Tesla is an EV.
People are buying Teslas because they care about the environment.
And I said, just keep buying them.
But, you know, they should get rid of Elon.
Right?
At this point, I have absolutely no pity for Tesla.
If they can make bad decisions like this, who needs them?
Look, I've got my Kia EV6.
You're fine.
You got the
space car.
You're good to go.
I'm good.
And I heard, was it on, I think it was on Todd Alba's show.
He was talking about the color of vehicles.
Do you like yellow or red?
Now, this is their question of the day, right?
OK.
And they had people who were really ripping into yellow.
Well, yes.
It had to be a specific car, or yellow does not work, right?
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
Like yellow VWs were kind of cool, right?
OK.
No.
You say so.
OK, well, that's a clown car.
All right.
But anyway, red, I guess, was a little safer.
The third safest car, because it's visible.
people see the red.
And red has good resale value.
And red is one of the most popular colors.
And as I mentioned on the show, my space car is red.
Yes.
Well, that's kind of a burgundy red, right?
What kind of, you know, I'm colorblind.
I don't know.
No, no, you're right.
It is a darker red.
They always give this darker red to all the cars.
Okay.
I don't know why they're afraid of fire engine red.
I would prefer fire engine red.
Yeah, I would actually.
Wow.
But you know me, I really don't prefer red, but.
I told you that.
I bought a red car, but it didn't really matter to me.
I really wanted a black car, but they're the least safe car out there because no one sees it on the road.
Okay.
All right.
You're all over the map on that.
Am I really?
All right.
Anyway.
All
right.
Hey, John.
Well, yeah, I know you're going to bring something
up here.
I do
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Oh, I know.
Could you fill me in?
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Have you noticed that the leaf blower guy and the street sweeper, they've kind of steered clear of us in fact this week.
Yeah, why is that?
Sweeper just went right by
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Yeah, the street sweeper did, but we haven't seen the leaf blower
guys.
That's
right.
For quite a while.
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe maybe the leaves are just maybe they
find where they are covered, I guess, I guess.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, anyway, let's continue with idiocracy here.
Dismantling the Voting Rights Act, gerrymandering good stuff, right?
I mean, they they just love this.
It seems devoid of an agenda and actually.
Social agenda of some sort.
I
don't know
why just coincidence the Megas are a step away from taking away all levels of government Wonderful now.
This is really small government And of course overthrowing democracy at the very same time.
I
don't know who this person is that's narrating here.
It's another web wisdom, but
He hits every mark on this and these are the things we've talked about with attorney Jim Santel as well.
So this is cut 83 and let's listen to dismantling the Voting Rights Act.
All right, okay.
The Supreme Court is trying to hide its plan to prevent black people from voting in rig elections for Republicans.
This is bad, like very, very bad.
Last Friday, the Supreme Court dropped a hint towards their plan to destroy fair elections.
You probably didn't hear about it, and that's part of the plan, according to Pemilevi and Mother Jones.
The court's announcement that it'll pick up Louisiana v. Calais signals they're ready and eager to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The monumental legislation was a major turning point for the civil rights movement, guaranteeing equal protection
minority voters and that their districts would fairly and accurately represent their populations.
The Voting Rights Act was necessary because previously, white people literally owned black people, so finally giving them access to fair elections was the least we could do.
The case in Louisiana was brought forth by a bunch of racist white people who say that the Voting Rights Act is racist against white people, saying that the equal treatment of minority voters is actually discrimination against white voters, partly because of racism and all
Also, because people of color and black people are more likely to vote Democrat, Republicans want to make it so that they have the legal ability to gerrymander the out of the country to make it harder for their votes to count as much as white people's votes do.
What's happening in Texas is just the beginning.
All states will be able to gerrymander elections to serve the political party they favor and a state that is only 40 percent white will be majority white controlled.
None of what's happening is a coincidence.
This is a well thought out, well coordinated and well researched attack on many.
many levels.
Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation, along with other leading conservative figures, have been working on this plan since pre Reagan and their plan to capture all levels of government, including the courts has worked.
I usually try to end my videos with some hope, but for this one, I can't find it.
This is just scary.
And we will fight this together.
All right.
Like to leave people in a upper note there.
Um, anyway, it's a good summation of just about everything we've talked about with Jim Santel anyway.
All right, and this is something too Republicans are believe this or not reprising an attack line from last year's presidential race for elections this year And next by the way betting that anti-trans messaging will help them counter Democrats running on GOP led cuts to Medicaid and other parts of the Trump policy mega bill now I'm
My head is spinning on this
one
because I don't remember the anti-trans messaging as being the pivotal point during the last election.
The last election was all about immigration.
That's
what I remember.
I was there.
We were talking about it.
We did talk about some of this anti-trans messaging, but it wasn't that big a deal.
Now they're bringing it back as the main deal.
They don't have immigration anymore.
So do you think?
Do you think this is the message they want?
This is the hill they want to die on?
Anti-trans messaging.
All right.
And by the way, I think the Democrats have a better message and that's, you know, do something about the cuts to Medicaid.
I don't know.
I think I think there are a lot of people feeling like that's going to be a big problem.
Yes.
And there is also, by the way, and I don't know if I have a handy here, but they're thinking about more cuts.
Mark yes house Republicans are now pondering whether to pursue another major legislative push involving Medicaid and Medicare later this year They want to cut it more the GOP may make steeper cuts to Medicaid
This year yet, and for 2026, a major fight over government funding looms, as well as the expiration of the ACA tax credits, which I've been talking about here on the show, which could lead to drastic hikes in some Americans' health insurance premiums.
I mean, these are premiums that are gonna go right through the roof.
My kids and my wife is still on the ACA, and we have seen huge increases, not only because the...
The ACA tax cuts or the tax credits are gonna go away Yeah, but at the same time insurers are saying because they're going away.
We're gonna raise our rates So there are two things going on and the ACA is gonna be almost too expensive for anybody to be a part of anymore Yikes, that's
not good news.
Okay.
Well
Speaking of news, we've got that next also weather update and we're going to check in with Savannah Tomay Olson.
She's going to give us the latest on Black Restaurant week in Madison and hippie Christmas.
Find out about that and a whole lot more for John and Gordy on a Friday morning from Madison, Wisconsin.
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It's a beautiful morning.
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.
God, I love you.
Get the hell off the stage.
Nice
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Sharp broadcasts.
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Good morning, Jan and Gordy.
Good morning, Jan and Gordy.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Yes.
Good morning.
WMDX92.7, you know, always get a kick out of Tommy Thompson.
Get off
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He tells the
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Trump, yeah.
It's hilarious.
Yeah, he does some cute things.
Oh, absolutely.
When he ran,
though, it wasn't cute anymore.
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Oh, yes.
We got to
get in with Savannah told me Olson.
Yes
standing by here.
Good morning, Savannah.
Good morning, guys.
How you doing?
We're doing pretty good.
Doing all right.
How are you?
I'm doing all right.
My parents are here visiting.
We've got a full house over here.
Where are they
visiting from?
They moved down to Tennessee to retire.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Well, so they're here, you know, getting some
grandson snuggles.
Oh,
that's nice.
How
old is your son now?
Yeah.
He'll be three in November.
Oh, that's cute.
That's wonderful.
Did you hear what we
had?
Do
you want him?
Yeah.
Wow.
Okay.
I guess we could have one more in the family.
Earlier we played a father's review of his four-month-old baby.
It was very, very cute baby review.
But, you know, yeah, you have some interesting stories here and that is the Black Restaurant Week is being celebrated currently in Madison, right?
That's right.
So I didn't know this and I've covered Black Restaurant Week in Madison before.
Madison was the first city in the country to have a Black restaurant week hosted by its Black Chamber of Commerce.
We started it 10 years ago and now it's spread to all kinds of other places across the country, especially in big cities like your Chicago's, your Detroit's, all those
kinds of
areas.
But we were the first here.
They only had about a dozen people and they started or a dozen businesses.
and now they have, I think it's 33 this year.
And that's not even just restaurants, there's caterers, there's even some farmers who have supplied stuff.
Luckily, they're able to, have you ever gone to the Jamboree?
No, the Jamboree, no.
Okay, so what they do at the end of Black Restaurant Week is for five bucks you can go and you can taste
Stuff from pretty much every one of the caterers restaurants that has participated.
Well, that was supposed to be this last Sunday to kick off Black Restaurant
Week.
Yeah, I don't know if you remember this last Sunday, but it poured just about
everywhere.
Yeah, they
were at Warner Park.
They
were like ready to do it.
They were like rains.
That's fine.
And then the lightning started and they were like, oh, we can't do it in the lightning, you know, right?
So luckily they're able to reschedule it for this Sunday at the Madison Labor Temple instead of Warner Park.
So they're still going to be able to do it.
But it is, it's excellent.
You go and you will eat very well for $5.
Wow.
Yeah, that's an excellent man.
That's a great deal.
I
love it.
You know, at a labor temple, I know that I think they sold it, didn't they?
And it's, it's not, it's not long for that area from what I understand anyway on Park Street, correct?
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Okay.
All right.
Well, Black Restaurant Week sounds fantastic.
A lot of great food, too.
So what else you got?
Yeah.
Tell us about,
you know, hippie
Christmas.
Oh, hippie Christmas.
Yes.
Yes.
So you guys are right in the campus area where you can, you know, usually see tons of stuff on the...
on the curb, because that's just how it goes every year, right?
They is
officially moving day on the 15th.
It's when all the leases end in the campus area.
Have you seen a ton of it this year?
Nothing.
Oh, I've seen some of it.
There's tiny little piles here and there.
I have not seen what we normally see.
Not as big as it usually is.
So what
happened?
The Madison Streets Division has added a ton of extra, you know, collection routes.
They've been giving people carts to be able to dispose of things.
But earlier this week, to put a story online, our news director, Shaly Pittman, was out walking around just trying to find somewhere to take a picture of all the piles, right?
Which, I mean, that should have taken her 30 seconds.
I think
any of us who have spent any time in Madison, it's like, yeah, shouldn't be a long endeavor there.
Instead, he was walking around everywhere trying to find one pile of stuff at the curb.
So I mean, kudos to the streets division because it sounds like they have been busy because it just doesn't look the way it used to.
I know I
missed that.
I missed that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All the piles of junk all over the place.
Well, yeah, I've been telling my kids, you know, go down for hippie Christmas and find some stuff for your apartment.
Yeah, you can find some good things in the
mix.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Well, that sounds exciting.
And thank you again for keeping us updated on the hippie Christmas developments.
Enjoy the
time with your
folks visiting.
Yeah.
Savannah.
Yeah.
Thanks a bunch.
Happy Friday.
We'll
reconsider maybe taking your four year old pretty soon here.
Okay.
Well, three year old.
Oh, three.
Thanks for paying attention.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you, Savannah.
Appreciate it.
All
right.
Savannah Tome
Olsen
from our WMDX newsroom.
Okay.
13 minutes past the hour, we have a phone call here, John.
All right, let's go
to
Dick on the phone.
What do you got for us, Dick?
Good morning, Dick.
Oh, real quick, there was a couple things from the last election that were really, really huge issues, too.
The price of eggs and the fact that people were eating cats and dogs in Ohio.
Oh, yes, that's right.
I forgot about the cats and dogs.
Yeah.
I wish we had that song.
Yeah.
Yeah, from a lighter thing, though.
Did you happen to see the little bit on the guy that, he's got a George Webb hamburger from the 82 World Series team and the 87,
and
he dipped them in polyurethane, he had them on a board.
Oh
no.
Channel 15 this morning, it was great.
It was absolutely great.
That is great
stuff.
Yeah, I'm thinking of going to get in the hamburger and doing the same thing.
You know, I thought that I thought they packaged them and have them in freezer sections.
Now you can wear the you can buy.
No, that's White Castle.
Yeah, White Castle.
All right.
What were you going to say, Dick?
Well, I have something very similar in my garage back in 93 when the Badgers played that infamous game where the students got hurt in the crush.
Well, we had a great big.
Shinde got this shot that we had, and the guys that had season tickets went to the game.
We came back on Monday, and there were a couple brats burnt to a crisp on the grill.
So my buddy, who was a builder, we did just that.
We slacked him on a board.
dated it, put the score of the Badger game against Michigan.
And
I still have it.
One brat fell off though.
Oh, that's too bad.
Well, I can't look good.
I don't want to know that I saw this guy.
I don't feel so weird anymore.
You know,
it was just,
I knew to shellacking things.
I think I'm going to pick up a new hobby.
Yeah, really?
Something to keep me busy in my retirement.
Thank you for that call.
I appreciate it.
Wow.
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All right, let's get to a story here.
It's all about Jerry Mandarin and Gavin Newsom is out there.
He's promoting this more than anybody.
And I think he's going to get a lot of states to Jerry Mander now as well because Texas is now in session there.
Right.
The Democrats have come back, and they've finally passed this thing down there, and that will spur on like a domino effect through all the blue states to do whatever they can to gerrymander their states as best they can anyway.
But as Gavin Newsom was announcing, his plans for gerrymandering, let's find out what happened here.
Let's check this out.
Here he is, once again,
trying to rig the system.
He doesn't play by a different set of rules.
He doesn't believe in the rules.
And as a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done.
It's not good enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, and talk about the way the world should be.
We have got to recognize the cards that have been dealt.
And we have got to meet fire with fire.
armed DHS agents just so happened to show up outside that rally today.
For his part, Governor Newsom made clear he saw the presence of these federal agents as no coincidence.
I think it's pretty sick and pathetic.
And it should set everything you need to know the setting that we're under.
That they chose the time, manner, and place to send their district director outside
right when we're about to have this press conference.
Everything you know about Donald Trump's America.
And that was top down, you know that for a fact.
They'll
deny it, I'm sure.
Maybe they won't deny it.
So everything you know about the authoritarian tendencies of the president of the United States, I said in a moment, wake up America, wake up.
You will not have a country if he rigs this election.
You will have a president who'll be running for a third term.
Mark my word.
There you go.
Speaking of authoritarian, let's go to DC now.
And Trump says DC is really happy to have those troops in place.
Let's listen.
People are so happy to see our military going into DC and getting these thugs out.
As you know, we arrested a lot of people yesterday.
Despite the president's claim, I'm not so sure that people are so happy with what this administration is doing.
Yeah,
that's that's how happy they are there and sound happy I want to insert something in here.
Okay cut 121.
Could you bring that up?
I saw this video and it was just it was God awful and I just want to kind of give you the audio of it as it was happening here at about a minute DC police are Are the new gang in town and one guy was just with us
with his phone was just recording the police walking by and stuff like that.
When they turned around, went after him.
Six police officers jumped this guy.
They took him away in handcuffs.
Let's listen to this.
Just, just play it.
Just play it.
Oh.
Don't spray him.
Don't spray him.
Don't spray
him.
Pepper spray.
They pepper spray him.
And they hauled him away.
And it was just one of the worst things.
I mean, the guy was doing nothing.
It was just, I mean, any one of us could have been doing that.
And they just turned around and jumped on him.
Wow.
And it just outrageous.
This is truly an authoritarian takeover of DC.
Yeah.
We'll be back
to talking with Brittany Merlot.
Find out the weekend weather next on John and Gordy in the morning.
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I shouldn't have done that.
Yeah, no dancing in the studio.
23 minutes past the hour.
It looks like a pretty nice day, at least so far here in Madison.
Some sunshine out there and a few clouds in mid 80s.
We're going to talk to Brittany Merleau here in a moment.
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Oh, Brittany, you should come to this listener appreciation party if you can.
I know it's a drive, but
Hey, come
on
parachute
in the
drive
to fly
and jump
off the airplane and make
an entrance.
Yeah.
A big
entrance.
That would be fun.
How you doing?
It would be fun.
Yeah.
We missed it.
We
missed you this week.
Yeah.
Good to have you back.
Yeah.
Little under the weather.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
It's good to be back, but I'm, you know, I wish I had a better forecast again.
Oh boy.
Yeah.
There's two points.
I know.
Yeah.
It's going to get humid, right?
Yeah, it is.
Today and tomorrow very hot and humid, nearing 90 degrees, humidity in those 70 degree dew points, so it's gonna be feeling like the low to mid 90s.
Today, tomorrow, we've got showers and storms.
We've got, of course, heavy rain potential through across lots of portions of the state.
Yeah.
Because you're strong to severe storms.
Up north today, this afternoon and evening, we are looking at...
potentially some tornadoes could form.
Hopefully that'll stay away and
ease up
as it heads towards us.
But there's going to be some strong weather as we go into this weekend and still a lot of juice for these storms to drink.
So I'm worried about flooding again.
Flooding is an issue.
Man, we've had so much rain lately.
Yeah.
And some of the latest data right now is putting a good four to seven inches just north of Madison, maybe into the Dells.
Hopefully that doesn't verify, but.
It is moving around.
Earlier this week, it was like, oh, the Northwoods is gonna get hit with about two to five inches.
Oh, these runs are showing little pockets spread further south where we could see some heavy rainfall.
And I think that could potentially happen tomorrow.
We got multiple, multiple rounds headed our way.
So some rain and storms starting probably late tonight, 10 or 11 or so.
And
then by tomorrow early evening, I think those thunderstorms are gonna pack a punch.
quick inch, maybe an inch and a half, if not more
in
some places.
Wow.
So be careful there.
But then that rain, it continues into Sunday, potentially Monday and some scattered showers still into Tuesday before we start to dry things out though.
Yeah.
So what you're
saying is it's a washout this weekend.
Yeah.
We're just going
to
have to
hunker down and watch out for flash flooding.
But
I gotta tell you, my butternut squash looks real good.
Thanks to all the rain.
Your butternut
squash is doing just
right.
Squash.
Okay.
All right.
Well, thank you, Brittany.
We appreciate it.
The pollen levels are really high right now as well.
And we can thank the rain for all of the plant growth out there.
Yeah.
All right.
Knockin' the pollen down and bustin' it up, of course.
Very easy.
All right.
Brittany, thank you so much.
That's Brittany Merlot, our WMDX meteorologist.
Okay, 27 pass coming up in just a few minutes.
Rocker will be joining us with a Maxing preview.
What else is going
on here?
Not what else.
We're gonna get into the story with DC.
Everybody's talking about it.
It's one of the best examples of an authoritarian dictatorship that we have now in this country.
So let's go to, where are the troops in DC?
Isn't that kind of a curious question?
Well, this individual has talked, this pundit happened to say what it's all about.
Let's listen.
Listen, there are some people in Washington who have some comfort about the fact that there are more agents around metro stations, that sort of thing.
The question for me becomes, are these agents concentrated in the northwest quadrant of the city?
For those of us who spend a lot of time in Washington, I've lived there for most of my adult life.
That's that part of the city is wealthier.
It's more well connected.
And frankly, it's wider, right?
And so you see these agents in places where Donald Trump and more elites spend time and what's happening in the southeast part of the city and other parts of the city that do have heavy crime.
Are we worried more about the real victims of crime in the district?
Are we worried about showing a force for Donald Trump and his political agenda?
That's a real question for me.
A big question, right?
No one's
asked that question.
I think that's a very
Incredible observation.
Yes.
Yeah.
Protecting the white, more wealthy neighborhoods and leaving the crime ridden neighborhoods alone.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Yeah.
And another reporter just happened to wonder about DC statehood.
Let's listen.
Okay.
How do you feel about Mayor Bowser's level of cooperation and her choosing to advocate for DC statehood right now?
Well, the
statehood, let me do that.
Statehood is ridiculous.
We want to straighten the place out.
Statehood's ridiculous.
It's
unacceptable.
It's the Democrats want it because the Democrats have you know about 95% in this little area Even I I didn't get it very much.
They want that they want to pick up two senators and that's not gonna happen And that's the least of the reasons why but that's one of the reasons why what we want to do is make
Washington, DC, the greatest, most beautiful, safest capital anywhere in the world.
And that's going
to happen.
You know, the thing is, I like to hear the other list of things that are ahead of keeping the Democrats from getting to senators.
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Yeah.
How you
doing, man?
What's going
on,
guys?
Good to see
you.
Oh, it's great to be here this morning.
What a great day outside so far so far.
You know, I thought I'd bring up a couple of issues.
I heard you guys talking about before we get to Maxink radio first off the hippie Christmas, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And in you guys were commenting on how it seems different.
There's maybe less out there and stuff.
Well, my theory is that.
you know, back, I lived here in the eighties right downtown and did many hippie Christmases, but you know what?
We always lived in flats, right?
Big three bedroom
apartments.
You
had to fill them with all kinds of stuff, right?
And then when you left, you had to get rid of all kinds of stuff, right?
So there were these old houses just all over the place, right?
But over the last 20 years, those houses have all become super high rent, small apartments and efficiencies, right?
And
you know, you barely fill up those
things with anything.
And
now, and it's usually now you're, it's really expensive furniture because like students have a lot of money compared to when we were like, you know, giving blood to get beer money, you know what I mean?
Right.
And so, you know, the hippie Christmas has changed quite a bit.
And right now it seems more like flood stuff is out there.
Well, that could be true too.
But, you know, you're right.
In fact, the last three or four years,
a
lot of the
older homes have been
torn down
in the Madison downtown area
for the high rises.
So yeah.
Yeah.
And when you do see something now, it's like, oh my gosh, look at that leather couch.
It's really good.
Yeah.
Somebody's already snabbiting.
Yeah.
Well, next, you know, I know, I know you guys love Art Paul.
So I saw Art Paul came out with a new song.
So I thought we'd get a little clip of Art Paul Schlasser for you guys.
This is a new song for him.
It's butter and bread.
Oh,
okay.
I
think
it's one of his best,
actually.
I don't know if it compares to purple bananas on the moon, but, you know, put it on bread.
And the Johnny Gordy, he
did a Johnny Gordy theme as well.
By the way, I like their state trees done as well, and that's with Chris Cameron.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Chris Cameron, he's awesome, I love him.
Yeah, he is, yeah.
All right.
Well, that's what I got.
We'll go, we'll go on to a maxing radio six to nine p.m.
Saturday nights right here on WMDX 927.
This week we have one beer please with Steven beta and we'll be interviewing him and we have some new songs and maybe we even have a new song in a few minutes from one beer please.
Also Mars Hall, Perry Polito.
He used to be the singer for the band Falcon and he's the singer for Mars Hall right now and he's going to be live from the Mad City and
I don't know if you remember Falcon John.
That was back 80.
That was 70s, late 70s, 80s.
I just remember the name.
I
don't
remember anything else really.
They were a real classic band around here.
So Perry was the singer of that and he'll be in solo.
Excellent.
Cool.
This weekend.
There is also some really interesting throwback things happening.
Groovulous Glove, Friday, August 15th.
That's tonight at the B-Rock.
It's in the Northgate Shopping Center on the north side of Madison and the Many Face Band, which is an original high-vibration rock band based out of Madison, but it features members from the Green Situation, Minglewood, Groovulous Glove, Baghdad Scuba Review, and Electric Spanking.
And they'll be playing tonight at the beer ox.
So one of the great things is groovulous glove is going to get all the other members.
I believe they're there from 1995.
And so they it was groovulous glove into Baghdad scooby review into electric spanking as the evolution there.
So let's go all the way back to the beginning.
I got some music from groovulous glove.
I feel like we should have the time tunnel.
Way
back in
time.
OK.
Not to.
bad only 1995 but 30
years
this song is called a shake and
roaches
I like
that.
Shake and roaches.
That is good.
Didn't everybody used to have like a container like that with a seed stems and a little bit of a rainy day kind of thing?
Right.
Oh boy, that was the 70s, wasn't it?
Yes.
Yeah, it was.
Jane Hobson, you may remember, we've talked about her before.
She has just released a new single and she's coming up here.
She's based out of Chicago now.
Of course, she is here from Madison.
You may remember Dan Hobson, drummer from and founding member from Killdozer.
That's his daughter.
So we really love to see when the youth and the second generation is kind of taking up live music and she'll be up here from Chicago where she resides now and at the high noon summer patio series.
is at the high noon saloon.
That's going to be Friday, August 15th.
That's tonight at 5 30 PM.
And here is her brand new single.
This is called 25 Jane
Hobson.
Strong voice.
Oh yeah.
Good sound.
She really has a beautiful voice.
Coming in here from Chicago tonight, so it's a good time to see her.
at the summer patio series at the high noon saloon that's tonight.
Let's start looking towards next week and see what's going on around Madison, huh?
Okay.
John, I know you like this band, Dogtown Hollow.
Oh, I do.
And Friday, August 22nd, they'll be at the Burr Oak on Winnebago with the also rands and they just put out a new software EP.
It's called Watch Your Step.
It was recorded at DNA Music Labs here in Madison on Winnebago Avenue.
Country Funk.
Uh, Darktown Hollow, this song is called Seven Sisters, brand new from
Darktown Hollow.
Winter's cold, stories change, well stay the same, playing the changes is the way of the game and you, you can't deny.
But whispers in the middle of the
night.
Downtown Hollow.
Yeah.
I wasn't aware of a music studio on Winnebago.
Oh yeah, DNA's been there for years.
Mark Wickham, Brian Daly.
are the two partners there.
And Ryan Daly, of course, came from Smart Studios and Mark Whitcomb came from Sleepless Nights.
And they've been in tons of different bands over the many years and recorded a million bands over at DNA.
It's a very popular studio in here.
Madison, Madison DNA.
Yeah.
All right.
Excellent.
All right.
Hey, Shanks Corners Black Party.
It's coming this Friday and Saturday.
August 15th and 16th.
That's at the corner of Winnebago and Atwood, that
little
kind of triangle park there in front of the Alchemy Cafe.
And they have a ton of bands Friday starting five to 10 p.m.
Nuggernaut, Blue Shields, Seasaw, Joseph Huber Band, and Great American Taxi.
And of course, on Saturday, there's bands like Salty Dog, Valley Fox, Work, Heat Box, and then the Talking Head Street Band.
So that's going to be pretty cool.
Make sure you get over to Shanks Corners Friday and Saturday, August 15th and 16th.
The Joseph Huber Van.
Tomorrow.
That's kind of interesting.
That's
like a brewery.
And I remember Joseph Huber beer was the only thing available during the beer strike
way way
back.
Everybody had bad
poops.
Yeah.
Well, you know, their Bach beer was fantastic
though, I
have
to say.
Didn't have that reaction.
Yeah, they had some good Bach beer.
Oh, we got time for one more here.
Ross corn.
And the Spine Steelers.
Ross Thorne is a Duluth Minnesota-based folk Americano singer and songwriter.
And of course, the Spine Steelers are from right here in Madison in Sun Prairie.
They're on the far away tour right now.
They've been in Colorado through the Pacific Northwest.
And they're coming back to Madison Friday, August 22nd at the High Noon Saloon.
And then they're off to Milwaukee at the Falcon Bowl on the 23rd of August.
Far away is Ross Thorne on background vocals and banjos.
Ammo O'Shea and Kate Ruland from Spine Steelers.
It was recorded at Packarderm Studios in Cannon Falls right up by Minneapolis.
So this is a song, Ross Thorn, featuring the Spine Steelers.
So this is called
Far Away.
Somewhere far across the sea.
Far away, far away.
Pray that my dreams might
come true.
OK, we will be back with more of the Maxing Preview with Rocker in just a moment.
Right here on Chana Gordy in the morning, WMDX.
Somewhere far across the sea.
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A few more minutes here.
What do you got for us,
Rocker?
One beer please.
We're going to be interviewing Steven Beda from One Beer Please.
They are a Madison scoff fusion, Madison scoff fusion band.
I got that right.
There
you go.
High noon saloon, summer patio series, August 28th at 5.30 p.m.
Uh, remember that that's free.
So it's pretty cool to go there and hang out on the patio.
Check out a Madison scoff fusion band.
One beer please.
This is brand new from them.
I just got it last night.
It's called it is good for your
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Together or alone, Nick connects it, helps it heal.
Skin to skin and bone to bone.
Since heavy fears and too featherweights crumble stone hearts to feel love instead of...
One beer, please.
Like it.
Hang on just a second here.
We've got a phone call here.
Katherine is on the line here.
Katherine, good
morning.
Iron Plow.
Iron Plow.
I
want
to
see Iron Plow.
When are you playing again?
That's all I want to hear from
you.
My comeback show for Iron Plow is scheduled on September 14th at the Crucible here in Madison.
with Abaddon's End, Revolution X, and Mother Hive.
And it's going to be a great benefit for a fellow drummer here in Madison, Big John Smolik, who is with Go Play God, who unfortunately had a health crisis with diabetes in his leg.
And it was pretty bad, but we're going to help him out.
So it's a great cause.
All right.
And your cause.
Yes.
Thank
you.
No good to hear from you, Robert.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right, Catherine.
Thank you.
Thanks, Catherine.
OK.
Let's see, we got a few more minutes.
Well, hey, we got to mention the Eakin Park Festival.
That's coming up this Saturday, August 16th.
That's tomorrow.
The broken boards, cherry toad, seesaw, kids parade, the flavor that kills and Radke.
Make sure you stop out there.
It's a great growing festival on Madison's northeast side.
And let's talk Orton Park Festival.
Orton Park on the east side, August 29th through the 31st.
There's great bands like Paige Gleeber, Heavy Looks.
Poop shovels playing, they're going to be making a reuniting.
And Hot Like Mars, Yiddishous, Automatic Lover, Them Coolie Boys, lots of bands that we've played right here on the show.
And you like Poop Shovel?
Have you ever seen them?
No, I remember.
Classic Madison band.
I want to
find out about Yiddishous.
Yiddishous.
Oh, they're great too.
Klezmer, right from right here in Madison.
But I brought in a little clip from a band called Hot Like Mars.
This is called Hit It Hard.
My old man told me...
Zappa
song.
Yeah, kind of.
Yeah.
They're interesting, huh?
Hot like Mars.
They're going to be at the Orton Park Festival coming up at the end of the month.
OK.
Pretty great thing.
Excellent.
That's the songs I got for today, guys.
Yeah, that's all.
That's what I brought in, but lots of good
stuff.
It's hard to top your first one, Butter and Bread, with Art Paul.
Yeah, that's
great stuff.
And this weekend you
got Max Inc happening,
right?
Max Inc Radio, 6 to 9 p.m.
Saturday night.
We'll be here live.
We'll be talking to Perry Polito.
He'll be performing.
He's the singer from Mars Hall and of course Falcon from the 70s and 80s.
So it's gonna be great to talk to him about music history.
You know, he's really a legend in Madison been around for many years here.
Excellent.
Very good.
And once again, your band.
Iron plow.
Yeah,
that's happening.
When is that again?
That's going to be September 14th.
And it's
that'll be your return to the state.
It will.
And it's going to be filmed by UW Health, actually.
They're going to they're going to come in and they're doing a little documentary type thing on on my story.
And so they want to get some film clips of the comeback show.
So yeah, I'm under pressure.
Well, you're ready for it, though.
I know you've been working out.
Yeah,
getting getting everything to
training.
I'm like in training, you
know.
Yeah.
Excellent.
I feel like Ozzy.
Ozzy.
You know, he had to train for his gig, you know.
Well, right.
Yeah.
Well, good, man.
Well,
Thank you very much for coming in as usual.
Thanks guys.
Appreciate it.
Check out Max Inc.
this weekend.
It
should be a good time.
All right.
That's going to wrap things up for our show this weekend.
What is the problem?
The question.
The live poll that we had.
What is the result of that?
Here's
what you got to do.
You got to go to wmdxradio.com.
We have a poll there.
Now the poll is which side of town has it better?
East side or west side of Madison.
Right now the east side is at 38 percent.
The west
West side is at 46% and then neither is at 15%.
Who has it better?
I don't know.
I think everybody's finally, you know, understanding the West side is the best side.
I don't think so.
I like the East side.
Okay.
That's gonna do it for us.
Hey, Monday, Chicago Radio personality Steve Cochran will join us.
Stephanie Miller is next.
We hope you have a great weekend.
Talk to you Monday morning.
Yep, have a good one.
So
long.
When we score, I do the Pacarena, hacker fans do it from gentle to nina.
We all want more.
Another pack score in 1960s.
Reggie White, we vote for.
That
was a golden time for
everybody.
That was the team for me.
Oh yeah?
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Good morning, Pete.
Good morning, guys.
If I were less mature, I would have said, like, what?
Yeah, after the hearing aid thing, but I'm way too...
I know, I
know.
Thank
you.
You know, we introduced Pacarena on
the show
for the very first time with that plane.
But it is a major element in your film, The Godfather of Green Bay.
Now you told us it was on Tubi, and
we
checked it out there.
It's also
on
Prime, which you would make a little money on if people played it there.
So
yeah, just a little
just
a little but I got it.
I got
it.
I my wife and I we just love the movie
Here did you make that when was when did
that come out?
We well it came out like 2007 we shot it in 2004 probably maybe 2006 we actually had our premiere at the Wisconsin Film Festival in at the Orpheum and Yeah, it was so it was a lot of fun.
We shot in northern, Wisconsin
I was still living in California at the time, and then we shot a few days in LA and Vegas, too.
But we shot 19 days in the Marinette Menominee area up here.
It was fun.
But it was gorgeous.
I don't know where you got the aerial views.
Would you have drones for that?
There weren't even drones yet.
Maybe there were military drones.
But a guy named the cinematographer Dale Myron, God rest his soul, passed away a couple of years ago.
But he was just fearless.
Camry guy he was hanging he was he was telling the other guy in the helicopter hang on to my belt Really he's hanging out of the helicopter was this a sheriff that let us use took us up in the helicopter.
That's nice
enough to Yeah, give us his chopper and give us his time, but Dale was great and he would when we shot Going to Vegas from LA to Vegas the car ride He was in a pickup truck like two feet in front of this little crappy geo
And he's going like this, like, come closer.
Come on.
And I was, I thought we were all going to die.
I mean, he had sandbags in the back of a pickup truck and he's like, we're going 65 on the way to, it was horrible.
Like some of that guerrilla stuff you do when you're shooting an independent film.
But it just gorgeous autumn.
Color in in your film.
It's just it's fantastic and it really sets the mood the the whole feel for you know Green Bay Packers season Everybody in the bar waiting for the game.
It was just fantastic stuff in and I just I thought
that you as a leading man, I didn't really expect that.
But there you are.
You're the romantic interest.
It was just.
Thank you.
Yeah, it was wonderful.
Of course, you know, it made it a lot easier to accept you as a leading man with Lauren Holly next to you.
So yeah, this was a great role for her.
And she did a fantastic job in that film.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She was so great.
It was one of the most surreal moments of my life.
Like we had started shooting.
And I had met with her in LA, and she was just great.
We were like, oh my gosh, we hit a home run.
She had just adopted three boys.
So
she was kind of coming out of a short retirement of a couple years.
And she was just in a great place.
She was happy to be working again.
And she really liked the role.
She knew a lot about football.
So when she got to the set that night, I remember we were shooting another scene and all of a sudden it's like, wow, all right, this is real.
Lauren Holly is in Marinette, Wisconsin.
So it was surreal and it was just a wonderful time.
What was the name
of the bar that you shot
in there?
Well, it's had a few different...
Names I think when we were I think it burned out.
Oh, it's not there.
It's not there burn
down.
They rebuilt it because it was such a Marinette
is a
suspicious amount of bar fire.
I think when we shot there it was called the whitetail in and then it was up north and then it was a lot of different places but we were supposed to just shoot the interiors there because we thought it looked really beautiful and It was the the crew lit the place beautifully
Um, and then we were going to shoot exteriors at a different place.
It was like this scenic place from the exterior on the river, more fall colors, but it was an independent film.
You know, we had, we had to cut stuff off the schedule and
we
ended up shooting this kind of eyesore bar from the outside too.
So, but it kind of worked.
It was like this roadside place in Wisconsin.
It really, I think we captured
that.
I think you captured that whole feel for that.
And now.
The subject matter is, I think, typical of most comedians, right?
They want that big break.
They want some talent scout to notice them and put them on one of the big shows,
comedy shows.
Yeah, the Tonight Show.
And in your case,
yeah, you were writing about the Tonight Show and having a talent scout at this remote bar in Wisconsin.
That was just funny as heck.
And I got to say that you're... Who was it?
Lance Barber?
who
played Kenny.
He really great supporting character for your character in that.
That was just a
goal.
Lance was just like one of those guys.
We auditioned a lot of people, but when he came in, it's like that cliche, like everybody else go home, you know, because this is the guy.
Like he was that good and just a great guy.
We've remained good friends and he's been on Nightlight a few times and I knew everybody knew he was going to
you know, just work a ton and he has.
He's had a really good run with young Sheldon and the comeback.
So yeah, we knocked it out of the park with Lance.
Talking with Pete Schwabba here, host of Nightlight on the Civic Media Network every evening.
And now Pete, I wanted to ask you, you know, we you've had a few showings of this, but have you done anything recently?
We want to bring this film to Madison and
you know, rent a theater or something and have a little get together and bring it back and show the godfather in Green Bay.
What do you think about
that?
I would love it.
And when we released it, Marcus Theaters put it out in like 12 theaters.
That's nice.
And Madison was our best.
People in Madison really responded to it.
So I'm excited to...
People in my hometown did not care for it one bit.
No, you know what, people everywhere, for the most part, the response was really good, but when you watch it in the town you shot it in, no one is paying attention to the story.
You just hear people whispering.
There's my garage.
There's my cousin Phil, you know, that kind of stuff.
So that was kind of frustrating.
But no, Madison, we had great screenings.
I would love to do
that.
Well, we'd like to play it here only just to give away t-shirts, really.
I'm a little low on laundry.
I would love that.
OK, we'll give you one.
The thing that the thing is Michael Wilmington did not like your film.
Dwayne Dudek.
did not like
your film.
And, you know,
when you, when you have these big, you know, highfalutin critics coming out against you, boy, I don't know how do you fight something like that?
I, you know, Dwayne, I don't understand him.
Now he's, he's from the Milwaukee Journal.
Is it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
For him to say you don't have to be overly sensitive dairy state booster to take offense, I enjoyed everything in that movie about the dairy
state and having a
lot of fun with it.
You were having fun with it.
Well, I didn't understand it either, but Michael Wilmington is from Wisconsin.
Yes,
he worked at one of the papers here for a while.
That I don't know, but I remember, I think he gave it like two stars out of four or whatever, and Dudek just
Crushed it and I it was a good thing.
I never came face to face with him for about a month after because I get the deal.
I thought he got a little harsh, you know, for a little independent film and I haven't gone back to it.
I kind of forgotten about Dwayne Dudek.
So thank you for that.
We, you know, retraumatize you.
It's the nature of the business and I don't have any ill will toward anybody.
But, you know, it's we got a great review from Ain't It Cool News, which at the time was like the hip cool.
great, great, great,
Tom's partner Gary Gessman loved the movie.
He said after the Big Lebowski, it was his favorite film ever.
So I was like just kind of blown away by that.
So it opened some doors, you know, but we got some good reviews, but you're going to have bad reviews.
That's just the nature of the piece.
I have to say that the cinematography was great.
It really was.
The thing is, when you don't notice the cinematography, that means it's really, really well done.
I mean, you had scenes in
the
car.
I mean, everything was just very natural.
When you see a local film, it doesn't normally have that touch to it, you know?
And I
was, it was really well done.
I love the fight scenes because they look like a real brawl going.
I mean, it just, they were funny.
Yeah, who is that?
Who played Jake, Big Jake?
it was
Tony Goldman.
Yeah, he was doing the arena.
Yeah, that was his thing.
Right.
I mean, the whole bar came together when he started doing the pack arena.
We played the hell out of that song.
That's to me, it was funny because we played at the death.
I just thought it got funnier.
And when we watched the film with audiences,
yeah,
that last shot where he's driving around in the car and he leaves his garage and he's got the Macarena and we've seen him do it three or four times, you know, got a huge laugh.
So that was a lot of fun.
Yeah, a lot of fun with that song.
Well, a full box of popcorn for me.
Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 71%.
So that's pretty good, I thought, for Rotten Tomatoes.
Yeah,
yeah.
Ever thought about a sequel?
Yeah, that's what I
was leading up to here.
Why don't you make another movie?
Yeah,
that's sneaky.
Well, I'm trying.
You guys looking for acting work or what?
Yeah, that's right.
That was our next question.
You talked about it that before too.
Yeah.
Yeah, nobody writes me a check.
I'll make anything All
right, why don't we get into the current Films that are out there now you just saw a movie that Dom had just gone out to see yesterday.
It's true And it's weapons weapons weapons.
Yeah, that movie.
What did you think of it?
I thought I gave it genuinely a nine out of ten.
I thought it was really good.
Wow
Yeah, I liked it too.
I thought it was creepy
I thought that was it.
But I had a couple things that I was like, well, overall, I really liked it.
But I felt this director, Zach Craggers, I liked his last film, Barbarian.
Did you see Barbarian?
I did see Barbarian.
Yeah, it's very... Both of those films that he directed are very gory.
Very gory films.
Yeah, they get that way.
But I
liked Barbarian better.
I thought it was like a cleaner story.
But I did like weapons, yeah.
I
don't know that I would have rushed to the theater to see it like I kind of did.
Like I drove down to Green Bay yesterday early to see it.
And there was two other people in the theater something's gonna trigger them and they're gonna
kill you Gordy and I wanted I wanted to go see the fantastic floor and Gordy wanted
to see naked gun At the
Marcus theaters here, and I was thinking we could sneak out we could get it in but they're they're out of the theaters this week They're gone.
They're
his naked gun is yeah.
Yes.
Oh, man.
I'm trying to get David Zucker at my show Because I would love for him to talk about that too like did you like it done?
I thought it was okay.
I thought there was some laughs, but I just don't think he can beat Leslie Nielsen, right?
And Liam Neeson's great, but he's still Liam Neeson.
I'm like watching this action hero, you know
Yeah, but you know, he's brutal, right?
He's very serious and hard-hitting.
Oh, yeah
Stay with us a couple more minutes
Of course you can.
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And we played the Baudin's because the
Baudin's did your soundtrack.
Yeah, for Godfather Green Bay.
What was that?
How did you make that connection,
Pete?
I think I kind of got lucky because I just reached out to them on their website.
I thought, you know, the movies very Wisconsin, very Midwest where the Baudin's and
at the time they were between managers and Kurt Newman who founded the band and his wife Barbara were just kind of doing it.
Barbara was sort of their manager so she got right back to me and I went down to a show with some family members over the holidays I think it was in Green Bay and we met and yeah Kurt was into it and he wrote a score and gave us some of the band's music and wrote a couple original songs.
There's a great song he wrote called My Oh My where
Eric Price he's the kid in the beaver patrol t-shirt Is dancing from the bar and then he stops at our table and he's kind of shaking his butt and Lance Barber is cracking up and So that song is called my oh my and Kurt wrote that just for the movie So he wrote a lot of great music specifically songs for the film and a great score, too That was good luck.
It was fun having all that control because everything I had done up until that point I wrote and sold
And it's fun being in those rooms with studios and they you know, but they only made one of the films that we sold called a guy thing and you're kind of You know, you write the script and then they kind of let you dabble with it a little bit and then they kind of send you away or at least they did us so it was It's hard when you sell something and never gets made so that was the fun of the Godfather of Green Bay was having so much creative
Now it's it's great the credit goes to Garland Productions is that yeah
Who's the Garland in this case?
Garland pictures Garland stands for I think it was Gary and Linda and it was the producers Brian and Josh Edding.
It was their parents.
They kind of did like a Miramax thing, but they're
the greatest guys you'll ever meet.
They're nothing like the Weinsteins.
Okay.
Well, that's good
to know.
I was worried
about that.
They're so great.
They're both born and raised in the valley in California, and Brian comes to Marinette, and people within a week liked him more than they liked me.
They're the most down-to-earth guys, and that was one of the smart things I did was surround myself with good people, and they're tops.
All right.
Who do you got on the show
tonight, Pete?
A little guy you might have heard of and be familiar with his work called Dan Schaefer.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, sure.
Yeah, Dan and I have been talking for a while now about him coming back on the show.
He's been on before, but we're going to talk about the wire tonight, the TV show, the wire, which is one of his favorites and one of my favorites as well.
And it's widely considered one of the best TV shows ever.
If you haven't seen it, I recommend it.
It's a great show.
And then Rob Brackenridge, one of my favorite comedians, will be in the studio after the end.
So it should be a good show.
All right.
Hey, we want to invite you to our WMDX listener appreciation party if you can make it.
If you're in town.
If you're in town.
It's on September 6th.
That's a Saturday.
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It's going to be a fun day, a fun afternoon.
It starts at 3 o'clock.
We're going to have
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So if you're available, we'd love to have you show up.
Oh, thank
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I would love to go.
That's a tasting party.
Is that wine?
It's whatever they offer.
A big distillery.
So they've got a lot of different liqueurs to try as well.
They have liquor.
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I always wanted to ask you, what were the shows that you found funniest?
Way back when?
I mean, I
was
very inspired by Letterman, Get a Life
from Chris Elliott.
Oh, that was great.
That was a great show.
It's been
that
last long though.
It was great.
It was on like one season.
I couldn't believe that.
It was
two seasons.
Was
it two seasons?
Chris Elliott.
Chris Elliott, Brian Murray.
I was, I love Letterman and a lot of people say Carson is the all time late night king.
He probably is, but I just felt like Letterman to me.
He spoke more to me and I know some people love Conan.
But
yeah,
yeah, definitely Letterman and I loved when Seinfeld came out.
I was like, I've never seen a show like this.
Oh, absolutely different.
And so I would say probably those two shows.
And what would you recommend as far as the current movie out there?
Would you recommend maybe sketch or Jurassic Park?
Have you seen any of the popular movies that are kind of sitting out there?
Superman.
Yeah, I've seen all of those.
I would say the best, uh, probably the best movie I've seen this summer was Sinners.
Yeah.
Absolutely loved it.
Went and saw
that myself.
It was great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I just saw a movie that was in theaters like you were looting to before they come and go so fast, but, uh, 40 acres.
Really good.
You can stream it now at home.
Very good film.
All right, Pete.
Well, thanks for joining us, Pete Schwabba.
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He's a UW Madison professor.
We're gonna talk measles.
We're talking measles tomorrow.
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Let's bring our guest in, Dr. Jim Conway.
He is the UW-Madison Professor of Pediatrics.
Yeah, Professor of Pediatrics.
Jim, welcome to the show.
Good to have you.
Really happy to be here guys.
Thanks for having me.
So one of the reasons we wanted to have you on is we we heard a couple of weeks ago that measles had made its way into Wisconsin.
Do you have any kind of tracking on that?
Do you know is it continuing to spread in in the back
and how did it get
here?
Yeah, great questions.
We kind of figured it was inevitable, given that our immunization rates are a little bit lower than many other states in the country.
And obviously, this outbreak that started in Texas and has been spreading now for almost eight months, it was inevitable that it was going to get here eventually.
It really gets here by people traveling who are under immunized, coming into contact, and then dropping into our beautiful state.
Fortunately, we're still in a monitoring situation, but we haven't seen any secondary cases yet.
So we're keeping our fingers crossed that it's not going to take hold and spread widely here.
Yeah.
So I remember years, you know, when I was a kid, decades ago, I got the measles and I don't know if I had, you know, got an immunization after that, or if I needed one after that, you know, can you, can you give us a little timeline on this?
Because I think a lot of people our age and, you know, the upper age brackets got the measles and it wasn't.
It didn't seem to be that big of a deal.
It was pretty common.
And a lot of those records way back when aren't there anymore.
So I don't know if I
do.
I
need a measles shot.
Do I, you know, what, what can you tell us?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great question.
So, you know, I think people are so focused on the kids.
I think we need to remember that, you know, most of the transmission as this is moving around the country is actually adults that get into one of these areas, get infected.
It's a disease with a really long incubation period, so people can come back and not even realize that they've got it.
And it is a lot of these adults because I think we need to remember that the MMR vaccine, the measles mumps rubella vaccine, was only routinely recommended for kids starting in 1983.
And then we added a second dose because we realized there was a group of people that needed a second dose.
So we routinely recommended a second dose in 1989.
The vaccine was around in the 70s, but it wasn't universally used.
And so there's a fair number of people that were born in the 50s, 60s, and 70s that kind of snuck in there, didn't get the measles, didn't get the vaccine, or maybe just got one of the older versions of the vaccine, who actually are still vulnerable.
And so for now many years, probably five, six years,
CDC and others have been kind of pushing out reminders to adults that if they are not absolutely certain, better to be safe than sorry and to get a dose of the MMR vaccine.
Now, you know, RFK Jr.
has banned a lot of the mRNA vaccine research that is going on out there.
And now there is, you know,
mRNA is a different way of approaching, you know, giving people vaccines than it is to introduce the actual bacteria or the infectious bacteria that was in our normal everyday vaccines prior to mRNA, right?
Correct.
So, you know, the measles most developed vaccine is actually a pretty old school vaccine.
It's actually live viruses that have been altered and are actually what are we call attenuated.
So they're really wimpy versions.
of those viruses
that
were that version of the vaccine.
People tried, you know, the original vaccine.
We dug out my records.
I'm, you know, kind of close to your guys' ages.
You know, it turned out I got one of these older...
inactivated measles vaccines back in the 60s, which didn't really work that well.
I got mumps when I was a kid and many other my friends did as well.
So this is kind of an old school vaccine and it's still the tried and true.
But you're right, you know, then we've moved for a lot of the vaccines are just kind of killed pieces of the vaccine.
mRNA is the sort of new idea that you can actually
introduce it the way that a body can make those own little pieces on its own and then those are what is used to stimulate the immune system.
So it was basically, you know, those have been in development for 20 years.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not to try to
be just another advanced.
No, it's not new at all.
But the MMR vaccine is, you know, even though it's got an M in it is old school technology, but you know, it's been around for 50 years, tried and true, really safe and works very, very well.
Now, RFK Junior is trying to focus on more trials, waiting a longer period of time before approving a lot of these vaccines for public use.
Is that a problem?
Is that an excuse to not have the mRNA vaccines developed?
Is that kind of an
excuse?
It may be.
I mean, I think what they're asking for is something reasonable on the surface of it, but is actually unreasonable when you really get into the practicality of it.
And what I mean by that is that when you look at traditional trials for drugs, you have what are called controlled trials with
a
placebo group, where you give some group of people the drug and you give some people a placebo.
It's been determined by ethicists now for many years that if you have a standard of care where people are getting something, depriving people of that something to have a placebo group is just considered unethical.
And so saying now that for COVID vaccines, for instance, that we've been routinely recommending those now for many years by saying that we need to have a placebo-controlled trial where we actually don't give the vaccine to people is depriving them of something that's become the standard of care.
40 years, we've actually had ways of doing trials where we still give people the accepted standard
and
can test new versions of those things.
And you're still comparing apples and apples.
You're just doing it in a way that's ethical and safe.
And so that's, I think, where the devil's in the details that they're, you know, kind of taking it on principle, but they're actually unintentionally or maybe intentionally depriving some people of what would be normally what we'd want them to do.
Yeah, it's a very unethical.
Approach that's how I always thought I never understood how we could have you know People taking a drug and it's just a placebo and allowing them there Whatever they have to progress and get worse and maybe even you know be fatal.
I never understood Yeah, I never
understood No, I know it makes it is challenging But I think when you're starting out with a brand new disease and you don't know what what you're doing You know, it's certainly reasonable to say
you know, we're going to try something because we don't even know if it's safe to do this.
And so that's where like in the very beginning with a brand new disease, when you're trying to tackle it, it is reasonable to start with a placebo.
But once you have something that works, you know, I think the classic examples of samples are
examples are like certain types of cancer, you know, where there was no treatment whatsoever.
In the beginning, it was, let's see what it does by itself.
And then let's try some things and see if they work and if they're safe to do so.
But once you got something that at least works a little bit, then everything after that is incremental improvements and trying to say, what can we do that's better than what we were doing?
And so you keep doing what you were doing.
for one group of people and then you do the new thing for a smaller group of people.
There's something up here on the screen.
FDA may not renew authorization for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids under five.
What do you say to that?
Yeah, it's tricky.
You know, these vaccines were initially approved under what we call the emergency use authorization.
So instead of going through the long drawn out clinical trials to get them approved, all the COVID vaccines were initially under the emergency use authorization.
And then gradually they've been
approving them in the more formal sense.
For kids, they haven't yet finished all of that work, and so they're still under that emergency youth authorization.
But if they do this and pull back, that potentially leaves us with nothing for kids, at least for healthy kids.
And so that is something we're going to have to look into more clearly because that's just breaking this morning.
But that potentially does...
leave us with one hand tied behind our back.
Yeah.
Talking to Dr. Jim Conway, he's a UW Madison professor of pediatrics.
Jim, so it's back to school time.
What should parents be thinking about as far as immunizations for kids before they get back in school?
Yeah, this is a great time of year that everybody's sort of on the same page that providers and clinics are all thinking about back to school time and
parents and kids need to be up to date to get their kids into school because we have school entry requirements.
And so this is a great time to make sure you're up to date with everything.
There is a new school entry requirement this year for middle school and high school kids to have a meningococcal meningitis vaccine.
And so there's a bunch of kids that are going to need that to get into school.
But it's a great time to then check where you are.
And I think everybody needs to remember that during the
dark days of the COVID pandemic, you know, the healthcare systems were pretty shut down and a lot of people missed out on all sorts of routine care.
And we're still catching up from that.
And so a lot of people missed out on vaccines during that period.
So this is a great time to
make sure you're caught up with all the things that you may have missed out on then, and also ask for a lot of adults that may have missed out on things, what they might be due for as well.
So this is kind of a great time to think about vaccines.
It's a little bit of a downtime usually for a lot of those other respiratory illnesses that happen in the winter when offices get clogged up with other things.
So I would encourage everybody to sort of take this as an opportunity to take a look at your records and see what you might need.
Well, you know, as they strip away all of these requirements for vaccines, it becomes
more costly to the public who do still want to have those vaccines for their children and for their family, even just as a precautionary use of the vaccine, which, you know, the boosters that we've all been getting, right?
But taking that possibility away from certain age groups then requires them to pay for it and they're expensive.
Yeah, it can.
I mean, it is one of those things that, you know, the devil's in the details, you know, fortunately through the Affordable Care Act, by law, all the vaccines for kids under age 18 have to be covered by insurance
if we
have the vaccines for children program, which actually pays for vaccines for those kids that are on Medicaid or don't have good health insurance.
So at least for people under
age
18, vaccines are essentially
by law have to be covered or are available for
free
so yeah that's you know i think of commitment that everybody's made from a sort of social contract that we do believe
that kids need to go to school, and that's a perfect area for diseases to get transmitted, that we owe it to everybody to keep everybody safe.
So at least for kids, everything's covered.
And then certainly for the older population over 65, we've got Medicare, which also covers vaccines through the Medicare Part D programs.
But you're right, you know, for that group of people 19 to 64, if you don't have good health insurance or uninsured, you know, then you are a little bit up the creek without a paddle.
You know, there are programs through public health to get most
to those people, some of those vaccines, but you're right, it can get tricky and a lot of people have to make some hard decisions.
And unfortunately, sometimes do make the decision to defer their vaccines.
You know, with what's going on now with RFK Jr.
in charge, he is adding a certain amount of uncertainty and the public is now their perception of vaccines is changing.
And I think after three and a half years of this, we may be in real trouble.
A lot of people may be convinced that vaccines aren't useful at all.
What do you say to that?
Yeah.
No, I think that's a really astute observation that I think one of the things that vaccines have always been challenged by is that the goal of vaccines is you give them to people, you hope that nothing happens, that they don't have a side effect.
And then, therefore, you hope that nothing happens, but they don't get the disease.
And so it's this sort of null-null, you're giving people something and hoping nothing happens.
And everybody has some minor side effects or at least things they may have had them.
And so eventually, in people's minds, this becomes a balance of, is it worth it?
And
then when you start undermining credibility and confidence in these things, then people start to make decisions that may put them at risk and makes everybody in society at risk.
So we need to keep reminding people, these things are safe, they're well tested.
And they really are the most important thing that keeps us in our community healthy.
Dr. Jim Conway, thank you for being with us.
We appreciate it.
We'll have you back again.
Thanks guys.
Great work and happy to be here.
All right.
Thank you.
Jim Conway, UW Madison Professor, Professor of Pediatrics.
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We're here with Dr. Tim Slacker from Busted Pencils.
Go ahead, Mark.
Yeah, I wonder if included in the Oklahoma curriculum will be a
little study of really in the 19th and 20th century Oklahoma agrarian socialism in Oklahoma, which is a book that I found at St.
Vinnie's to talk about where the farmers were upset with their conditions.
So they were experimenting with socialism in Oklahoma of all places.
Wow.
And for this goofy Dennis Prager U, I wonder if they're going to teach the
that the Puritans weren't too tolerant of other Christian denominations.
You got cross wearing it, wearing a cross, you'd be considered a papist, and likely to get flogged.
Or if you're a Quaker, like, oh, Mary Dyer, I guess, that she kept preaching Quakerism, and eventually they hung her.
Wow.
I'm
gonna guess that Prager, you hasn't gone that deep into the weeds.
Not
yet.
My guess is that Prager, you and a lot of the religions of the great awakening, first and second great awakenings actually would have been unwelcome in Fjord in New England and with what they teach and what they continue to teach would have been met with some rather severe sanctions.
Right.
You know, egg that was the least of it, but, um, because they didn't really tolerate any kind of dissent there.
So, and then to celebrate Christmas in New England until, you know, it was illegal until I think after the revolution.
Yeah.
Well, at least that won't be banned, but everything else will be.
We'll be, we'll be going back to those times, those wonderful times that I'm sure Prager you is celebrating in animation form.
All right.
All right, Mark, thank you for the call.
I want to get to something here that you guys always talk about on busted pencils, and that is AI.
Johnny's a little afraid of it.
You, of course, have accepted a little bit more of what the possibilities are for AI.
But, but.
But,
Jeffrey
Hinton, he's the Nobel Prize winning computer scientist and former Google executive known as the Godfather of AI, fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity.
And he says the tech bros are taking the wrong approach to stopping that from happening.
He has a suggestion here.
He's presented an intriguing solution, building maternal instincts into AI models.
All of them.
so they care about people even once the technology becomes more powerful and smarter than humans.
Hint and stress, it's critical research that should be done.
That sounds logical, doesn't
it?
I have, from the very beginning, always said please and thank you to my AI cause.
Good manners are important.
Yes.
You knew right away.
Just, you know, when the time comes, they'll be like, Tim's a good guy.
He respected us right from the start.
His co-host Johnny though.
He'll be on the run.
He'll be a fusion.
It is an interesting premise about, you know,
I mean, it really only reflects, quote, you know, what we tell it to reflect.
And so kind of at the base level, this idea of saying, hey, why not just kind of introduce into its training concern and care for people?
Yeah, he says here, the right model is the only model we have for a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing, which is a mother being controlled by her baby.
These super intelligent, caring AI mothers, most of them won't want to get rid of the maternal instinct because they don't want us, their mother to die, right?
I mean, isn't that crazy?
I mean, I love his thinking.
This sounds like a great novel, by the way.
I mean, it's you know, it really does come out of a lot of the science fiction Episodes.
I mean, you know, I'm a huge Star Trek person next generation the board, right?
They could not they could not figure out how to do anything until it was very simple like wait a minute These are a networked intelligence, you know, humanoid mix of machines and Hey, why not just send a programming thing that says go to sleep?
And
boom,
the board went to sleep.
And then they walk up in the Trump administration, and now we're all connected.
Wow.
I
mean, I think, again, this is a very credible person, though, too, that is putting out there, Nobel Prize.
And how do we talk about these issues?
Because it's kind of going in one way.
You know when you get people like him admitting going like like hey, we don't even really know how it does what it does You know that is kind of like on like what really?
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
I can I can hear a shatner in the background
We got to leave it there thank you for joining us you can always listen
to
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pencils on the Civic Media Radio Network, the great podcast that they have.
I think anytime you bring up the Borg, I mean, you're there.
We made
it.
Thanks, Jim.
Yeah.
Thanks,
guys.
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