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Good morning.
Happy Friday.
What's newsworthy?
What's going
Well, one of the biggest things this week is that Madison is getting a new clerk.
Of course, this has been an ongoing saga since last December when the city was notified that there were those 193 ballots that weren't counted.
And then ever since there were two investigations, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said that the former clerk, Mary Beth Whitzelbell, broke the law in how all of it was handled.
Um, so now lydia macomas who works for hennepin county minnesota, which includes minneapolis So she works in a place where there are far more registered voters than we have here Um, we'll come here to madison and lead the clerks department when she does She will have a lot of new rules to adhere to because last week the wisconsin elections commission basically said okay, so because madison screwed up in this way essentially madison will have to
go the extra mile and do these extra steps that other cities, communities, villages are not required to do.
Basically, it's kind of proved that the same mistake won't be happening again.
So that will be, you know, something to tackle as she starts and especially because the rest of the staff is the same, right?
So it'll be interesting to watch what happens there, but she begins at the end of September.
should
That's right.
I don't know if you remember.
A couple years after Forward Madison had started, it was I think like two and a half years ago now, big top events which owns Forward Madison announced that they were going to have a women's pro soccer team.
And so that was, you know, a long time coming.
And we were waiting and waiting and waiting to hear more.
And this week, they announced that we'll have a pre professional women's soccer team.
Basically because there were supposed to be improvements to Bree Stevens to make it to allow a pro team to play there That just couldn't really materialize Bree Stevens has needed hundreds of thousands of dollars in upgrades for years So instead they really just wanted to get a women's team on the field So they're going to start next year, but they're accepting name submissions so anybody can send them an email and say I think the
You know, we have Madison forward.
I think the whole team should be called the flamingos.
Oh, yes.
They said
they had already gotten, I think it was 72 96 hours after the announcement, and they had already gotten at least 500 security deposits for season tickets.
So there are people ready to watch women's soccer in Madison, which was pretty cool to hear.
No,
the nightmares.
The
Yeah, that's part of the Northwoods League.
So it's all college kids playing for the summer.
It's women's softball basically equivalent to the Northwoods League
That's right, a pig in a fur coat over on Willy Street.
That's one of our family favorites, you know, on a really nice occasion.
There aren't too many places you can get really good octopus here in Madison and
a pig in a
fur coat is one of them.
Yeah.
Owner Dan Bonanno and Bonnie Arrant said that they basically just want to do something new.
So they're going to turn it into a new elementary.
So it'll be interesting to see what they do.
What's an elementary?
They have a location over on Monroe Street right now, and it's an Italian deli And I know is really trained in classic Italian food.
That's one of his big passions So he's gonna try to do more of that and then Taj.
Do you guys remember Taj to close back in 2019?
It was on Park Street.
It was
It was beloved.
Yeah, love
And now the sons of the owners are going to bring it back.
They've secured where the borough is and the Duda Bodes building there on Park Street.
And they're going to open it within the next couple of weeks.
Because it's been six years and people still talk about how good Taj was.
So they're going to bring it back.
That's
like a plan.
All
Savannah, thank you very much.
All right.
Savannah told me also.
from WMDX News.
That's right, our listener appreciation party happening on Saturday, September 6th.
Doundren's Distilling Cottage Grove.
If you would like to go, well, you're welcome to go.
It's free and it's open to the public.
It's happening on Saturday, September 6th at 3 p.m.
But we also have VIP passes and that gets you in for a tour of the distillery.
and tasting of some of their spirits and a swag bag from WMDX.
If you'd like to enter, the keyword is cucumber today.
Cucumber.
It's because they have a cucumber botca, John.
Doesn't that sound interesting?
Cucumber
botca?
a
Catherine, good morning.
You know, Catherine's not a very welcoming start.
You realize that when I'm on hold, I hear you.
Oh, yeah.
I forgot about that part.
I forgot about that part.
Oh, okay.
No, you talk to her.
I don't want to talk to her.
Well, I'm just calling because you mentioned Doundrens and asked, thank goodness you asked.
Savannah tell me Olsen to
come
because I don't think I've sent her an email yet, but I did send once a Maggie, Maggie Dawn, that she will come.
is going to be there
The whole crowd is going to be there.
It's going to be awesome.
Down Dren's is so beautiful.
It's not just for John and
It's going to be a fun time.
I bet she's an adventurer.
She'll make it down.
She is an adventurer.
Yeah, why
All right.
Get your big story.
for
Yeah.
Well, we got five minutes.
All right.
I don't know.
Is that enough time?
No.
The right-wing podcaster and some media outlets are catching on, realizing everything MAGA was afraid would happen under Biden and the Democrats was just projection.
Plans they wanted to do before the Dems beat them to it now Here's a podcaster his name is Tim Dylan the Tim Dylan show This is cut 178.
He's he's finally realizing something's going on here.
Let's listen
They've already got the cops on the street that are I mean that are not cops or that are the military They've already got the National Guard on the street.
They already have all your information DC
And now they just get to decide what is and isn't over the line.
That should scare everybody.
You're fucking nuts, dude.
If this doesn't scare you, you're nuts.
All these things that Alex Jones was, like, worried about when I listened to him in the late 90s, early 2000s, are coming to fruition.
I know he's a big fan of Trump, but, like, this is everything Alex Jones always talked about.
Military in the street, the FEMA camp, the tech...
A company that monitors everything, the surveillance.
This is all of that.
I mean, not to sound like a f***ing nut.
This is everything a crackhead.
And I don't even mean a crackhead like crack, but a guy smoking weed in a room, in black light, in a f***ing, you know, insane clown posse tattoo on his arm.
I'm thinking a very specific guy I was friends with.
Yes, you are.
This is everything that that guy would have talked about.
Bro, there's gonna be military in the street, put in jail for f***ing thoughts, man.
If you just say them, bro, you're gonna be in f***ing
jail, there's gonna be a f***ing company that monitors everything you do, bro.
Like, this
is literally the wet dream of every conspiracy theorist that has ever lived and it's happening now.
else, isn't it?
Who is
Okay, but yeah, we'll continue here.
The FEMA is, of course, you've heard, shelling out $608 million to states for migrant detention centers.
These are FEMA centers in Texas, in Florida.
And now here's Ring of Fire hosts.
By the way, Ring of Fire's RFK Jr.
was part of the Ring of Fire for a while.
Oh yeah.
Anyway, this is another host there, and he's ranting about it.
Let's listen.
But either way, we have been told when it comes to social security, we're running out of money.
Medicaid, we don't have money.
Food stamps, we don't have money.
FEMA, we don't have money.
Oh, what about concentration camps?
Oh, don't worry.
We got plenty of money.
It's never about not having money.
The government has money.
They just have different priorities than the average American citizen.
You see, we want things like living and being able to afford food.
And by living, I mean, you know, going to the doctor, getting quality educations.
But for those things, there is no money.
Never has been, never will be.
Right.
But when it comes to feeding the military industrial complex, we need more tanks, planes and bombs.
Oh, we got tons of money for that.
Oh, we can't help the victims of natural disasters.
And then the same government agency FEMA turns around and says, he got $600 million.
Who wants a concentration camp?
There's always money.
There's just never the will or the desire to spend it on the things this country actually needs.
Our government would rather spend it on cruelty than spend it actually helping us.
With our own Republican legislature, they are really determined to punish people.
Everything they do is about punishment.
Always suspicious that somebody is taking advantage of the government, so they use that as an excuse not to fund.
anything that society needs in this state at least.
So it's going on all over the place and everybody's turning on to it.
I have one more cut after this break and we'll continue this bizarre side of mega.
Coming back
this, can a weather update.
And you got me hooked up.
You got me hooked on that as well, because I listened to a song of them when I was left here.
I started, yeah, I'm hooked on them.
I'm actually hooked on them.
They're really good.
They're
Humane
Yeah,
Hey guys, how's it going?
You got me laughing so hard already.
I do.
I have two cats.
Two
What are their
baby and butters, and it's actually kind of a brown bag pickup I had, in a sense.
No, seriously.
You haven't got another brown bag thing, okay.
Well, here's the thing.
I'm going to tell you my story.
It's kind of unique
and
interesting.
Okay.
So, I was living in Illinois, and we have jewels, kind of like... Yeah.
festival, right?
I love Juelasco.
suburbs.
okay.
So you're familiar.
So I'm just going there doing some grocery shopping to be honest.
I think I was going there just to pick up a case of beer or something.
It was the weekend and I saw these two, actually there's a bunch of cats up on the board.
And I was like, all right, I'm going to do this.
I called them.
They're like, hey, stay at Jewel.
We'll be there in two minutes.
This lady pulls up in a van with all of these cats
in the
passenger seat.
No lie.
I'm like, are you serious?
She's like, take as many as you want.
Take them all.
Take as many as you want.
I
was like, I'm seriously standing outside of the doors at Jewel and
just
reaching through this lady's window of her van to grab two cats.
And so that's what I did.
We're
well that sounds like a
of
A little bit of a risk-taker.
Yeah, yeah.
can we
Okay, so it's the last, not the last, okay, the last of this next few days where we're going to be flirting with 80 degrees.
So still warm today, partly sunny to start, more clouds this afternoon in this evening because a cold front is moving through.
Now we're not looking at much rain that stays far north today, but we could see a few sprinkles overnight.
And tomorrow, patchy fog, repeat, that'll kick on out of here because the winds are going to start to whip tomorrow.
So becoming windy and breezy this weekend out of the Northwest, gusts around 20 to 25 miles per hour, just pulling in this cooler air.
So on top of that, you know, the temperatures and the wind, it's going to be feeling even cooler.
But highs tomorrow, 75 degrees, Sunday, 69 degrees, Monday, 67.
And we still stay in the upper 60s on Tuesday.
before we start to go back to the mid-70s.
So we still have a nice warm Labor Day weekend ahead and a nice little fall feel for those who want to break and just run around outside without sweating.
great.
We were talking about how the right wing and some of their media outlets are catching on to the fact that everything Maga was afraid of under Biden is happening under Trump.
And they're realizing it now, right?
The FEMA camps, the military occupations, all of that stuff they thought Biden was going to do.
And now,
Trump is doing it and they're suddenly realizing this.
But you know what?
It's always been projection with these people.
And this is a scary side of projection.
This is from way back in 2024.
And a woman was interviewed about, you know, the FEMA camps.
And this is the fear that she had with the world health.
Organization, you know, they they they are concerned about people's health and vaccines And it's of course a fear that mega's had that they were going to control the world.
Let's listen What's that?
What's the cut on 76?
There we go.
All right, there we go
So one of the reasons that I left the agencies is they have this this plan that
If you do not believe that the government is God, then you would go to one of these processing centers briefly.
If you could be reeducated, they would do that.
Although there isn't much need for humans, the globalists really are free to admit that there's no room for humans anymore.
It's our duty to expire so that
To make the planet to atone for our sins basically of what we've done to the planet and So you will basically be killed and there are two different humane methods of killing and one of those is gassing and the other method is decapitation and they've been doing all these experiments Decapitating thousands and thousands of mice recording their brain waves all of that
Okay, so you get the idea
awesome
A collection of mustache brushes and wax.
I left out the wax last time.
And some suits from JCPenney.
Collection of teddy bears, that's new.
Oh, he's got a big collection of teddy bears.
With mustaches, I understand.
With mustaches and some multicolored tap dance shoes.
So I didn't know he was a tap dancer, but you know,
he
Well, you know, they also found some garter socks as well.
No kidding.
Well,
Oh, man, Max, Inc.
Radio Saturdays six to nine p.m.
And we feature local Wisconsin main music interviews, live music performed in our studio.
But this week, Rob Roberts is going to be spinning local music.
He's going
to be taking over the show on his own while rocker yours truly.
I'm going to be off this week.
I'm going to go down to 60 fest.
That's at the Eastside Club.
It's actually a private birthday party for a couple of friends of mine.
Danny
Meagher.
Friedman, they turned 60 and actually I'm right in their boat too.
So I go to 60 fest.
We had 50 fest 10 years ago, 60
plus now, right?
Oh, it's going to be a lot of good.
It's going to be a good time.
Hey, you know, have you guys ever heard of a double dip?
Well, yes, that was a sexual position.
Well, that's the
song that you guys
play, right?
You know, the double dip.
Oh,
the Portuguese groove.
Oh, yeah, that's it.
So on Max's radio, we call a double dip when we play two songs from the same artist or sometimes from the same theme.
Right.
So we double dip it.
And today we're going to do a couple of double dips.
Is that good with you guys?
Yeah.
I'd love to hear it.
Yes.
Tonight, Friday, August 22nd at 8 p.m.
Dogtown Hollow is with the also rands at the Burr Oak on Winnebago.
And of course we played Dogtown Hollow here.
And they have a new EP out.
It's a six song EP.
And we've heard a bunch of the songs, but I brought in a new song from that.
They're Country Funk right here in Madison tonight.
They're playing at the Bert Oak on Winnebago.
This song is called Fancy Pants.
All right.
Yeah!
Alright!
Well, you know I love Dog Town
Oh
stuff.
Well, so Dog Town Hollow Hollow tonight with the also rands Friday, August 22nd.
That's Joe starts at 8 p.m.
The Baroque.
So let's double dip it.
He also rands.
They are with Aaron Schultz on acoustic guitar, Dan Kennedy on bass, Matt Joyce on keys and guitar, and Eric Salisbury on drums.
This is an eclectic band here full of veterans.
This was recorded live at the Red Rooster in 2024, and they'll be with Dogtown Hollow tonight at the Bird Oak.
This song is called High and Lonesome.
Okay.
Here we go.
more of this.
good.
You only get a minute, John.
Sitting
at
That's the also-ran.
So the also-rans and Darktown Hollow tonight at the Burr Oak.
So go check that show
They're really great.
It's a great club.
It's very intimate and a great sound system.
Yes.
Let's do another double dip.
You guys ready?
We talked last week about Ross Thorn and the Spine Steelers and the Spine Steelers, those two gals making spooky folk-based music in Madison.
They were in our studio live from the Mad City on Max Inc.
Radio course.
You can find the podcast at civicmedia.us slash maxincradio and they're on the far away tour with Ross Thorn right now and they're coming back to Madison Friday.
August 22nd.
So that's tonight at the high noon saloon.
Then they're off to Milwaukee, the Falcon Bowl tomorrow night.
And they corroborated a tune here with Ross Thorn for a Duluth based Folk Americana singer-songwriter.
So let's take a listen to this song recorded at Pack Durham Studios just released.
This is Ross Thorn with the Spine Steelers.
All right.
Pray that my dreams might carry me Far from this city that's been holding me down Somewhere far across the sea Far away, far away Pray that my dreams might carry me Without heavy heart
I could make a brand new storm Somewhere far across the sea
and every time I get a song and I hear banjo I'm like oh this is for John Gordy show thanks a lot so all you musicians out there who are like gosh you know maybe I could get on the radio by putting a little banjo in that's right
because that was the whole point
I don't even think they gave me that explanation when we had him on the radio and I said, what is your name?
we'll have to, we'll have to get him back in and put him on that.
Well, you know, that's great.
So we heard Ross Thorn and the Spine Steelers together collaborating on a song.
But then you wonder, well, they're playing tonight at the High Noon Saloon with the Spine Steelers.
So what is Ross Thorn like?
The singer-songwriter.
Let's listen to a song from his brand new album, Fitting In.
This is Ross Thorn.
I lost my voice and my accordion, but I still know how to polka.
from the station a quarter after four was my dear old lover and they walked right out the door I cried for an hour until my voice was sore I didn't have a lover anymore we'll sing hey, hey, hey roll the barrel all day hey, hey, hey and we'll chase the glooms away I may have lost my voice and my old sweet lover too but I still know how to poke up the wind through okay
it's nice picking.
Yeah, it's
good.
Isn't that fun?
That is Ross Thorne, of course, him, and the Spine Steelers will be together their on tour tonight.
High noon.
At the high noon salute.
We
He's on spirit.
I wonder how many phone calls they get during their show, you know?
I don't, I don't know.
I've been up there a lot.
Oh,
I want that song in three, four.
Oh, we
I have some new music, brand new music.
In fact, I got it last night.
It's Marissa Ballesterie.
She's an Italian.
kind of an ex opera singer.
On September 19th, the emerging jazz vocalist, Marisa Ballesterie, will release her debut single, Curvei Vloci.
That means fast curves in Italian.
And the song is an upbeat 12 bar jazz blues written by Ballesterie's husband, jazz guitarist, Stephen Hall.
And with Ballesterie providing the Italian lyrics, this song features Madison Area Music Association winner, Jeff Weiss on Upraise Bass and drummer Noah Brooks from Chicago, the Marisa Ballester
Cortet will make its debut at the North Street Cabaret on the north side of Madison on September 18th.
That shows at 7 p.m.
Let's take a listen.
This is brand new.
This is Marissa
Balastriery.
Gordy, I think we found the band.
This
Yeah, that would be great.
This
Yes.
I believe that this song, too, is about driving your Alfa Romeo through the mountains in Italy.
Fast curves, right?
Fast
Yeah, she's great.
She she was on live from the man city just a couple months ago.
So if you go to our podcast page at civicmedia.us slash maxing radio, you can hear her performance with her and her husband.
It was really good.
well, she's she's an ex opera singer.
She lived in Italy for some time in even New York City, where she met her husband playing jazz.
And now
back to Madison.
Good deal.
Okay.
morning.
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Oh, Middleton Good Neighbor Festival.
It's coming up.
We're coming up on the end of the fest season here, so everybody better get out to see one.
You know, that festival has been going on since 1964.
That's that's older than me then right?
you
I
few hours really to attend the event.
so so if we all go Gordy get to Tipsy we can just walk it over to John's house.
Let's do that Stay there for sure.
Kraken protects our yard.
And the two Gen Zers.
August 22nd through the 24th, Middleton Good Neighbor Festival, 2100 Bristol Street.
The South Beach Pirate Summer.
That's their theme this year on the 22nd.
Today, angels and outlaws will be playing on the 23rd.
Some highlights include the mascot theory, 530 road trip, the Reverend Raven and Chainswoken altar boys featuring West Side Andy Middleton guy, Tim Daniels band and then the 24th Red Hot horn dogs.
The Good Neighbor Festival.
It's held the last weekend of August every year.
It's a great thing.
Red Hot Horned
Dog?
Yes.
OK,
say it three times.
Red
Hot Horned
Dog.
Oh, let's get that out of the way.
Your mascot, dear, you're based here in Madison.
They're an Americana band.
They have a Kickstarter for the new album coming in October.
Frontman Eric Cajelen, he's making comeback after surgery for potential fatal brain condition.
Wow, OK.
And the new album, Cosmic Hit and Run.
is all about that.
And I got a brand new song from it
just
last night, so I thought I'd bring it in today.
Future
Tyler Durden.
This is the mascot theory premiering right here on the John and Gordy show.
This song is called Got a
Grip.
To fly into a sunset, painted sky.
Nothing ships and star-crawls, lovers peek your eyes.
Yeah, there's
Still got a grip.
Yes.
I love to hear a great comeback story like Eric's story.
Oh,
he had right
Yeah, it makes those it makes those lyrics really have meaning.
Yeah, it does and they'll be at the good at Middleton Good Neighbor Festival.
this weekend.
So check them out online.
Do we have time for one more?
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
All right.
Play Machine.
This is a really new band.
They're playing August 25th at the High Noon Saloon with Automatic Lover and the Adam Tess Faye Band, art pop band from Madison, Wisconsin that features Brian Liston.
And vocals on vocals and keyboards and Joey B banks on the drums and They're really kind of a new experimental band just a duo.
So let's check it out.
This is a brand new song from them.
It's called dangerous road.
This is play
machine
Yeah
kind of like yeah
face is my brain was melting
that was a play machine.
Play machine.
Yep.
Joey B Banks, another thing of him on drums.
And of course, he plays with an automatic lover, and they are just incredible.
So I head over to the High Noon Saloon August 25th to catch that
Saturday night, 6 to 9 p.m.
right here on WMDX, 92.7 FM.
And we'll be featuring songs of Wisconsin artists.
And
Rob
Roberts will be spinning the music for you.
It was great because I was there, I was there last night.
Oh, yeah.
Dom came in and
hung out with our show.
Very cool.
On Saturday night, it was a lot of fun.
Cool.
Rocker, are you going to come to our
listener
Oh, yeah
I'd
bring the kids, right?
Playground.
that place, right?
Yes.
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