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This is Johnny Gordy.
Have a cup of coffee,
Just the U.S.
Yeah.
Everybody knows maybe Poland is next now on the agenda for Putin.
Yeah.
What's stopping him?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
But you know I remember very distinctly that if Trump were president none of this would be happening because they don't know what Trump would do next.
So that threat alone stopped everybody from going to war and I can see this is working for Poland.
Yeah, Putin's just, you know, he's got a free hand at this point.
He knows he's played this guy so badly.
It really truly is amazing.
A little bit later on, we'll talk with Marta Hansen.
She's the piano gal.
She's a singer, she's a songwriter.
She's got a song that's getting some attention.
And we'll play a little bit of that song a little bit later on in this hour.
And we'll talk with Marta.
She's gonna come in, chat about things.
And Mike McCabe from Substack Blogger and Author.
It's nice to know he's here too.
Yeah, he'll be here too.
He's got a new blog now.
We'll talk with him about
Do you have something?
What do you have?
Yesterday night, I went out to go.
It's karaoke night at Whiskey Jacks.
And I was going to sing a song.
I planned on singing a song.
I walked in.
Chest held high.
never sang the song.
I got too scared.
Where was this?
Whiskey Jacks.
Okay.
It's right on State Street.
I went there, I was like, I'm gonna sing Unwritten.
Unwritten.
Yeah, it's a pretty recent,
Were you
ever done it before?
OK.
Never did
That's what they want.
Oh, come on.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Should have had a couple of shots of whiskey.
Oh, I did.
I still couldn't do it.
I still couldn't do it.
Yeah.
Look at Courage, just couldn't help me last night.
Did the people that you were with do any karaoke?
No, you didn't.
Get up there?
Yeah, they didn't.
Well, what did you go there for?
Well, we went there to do karaoke.
I
It
I
Give us a call or text.
I
I'm not getting up there to do that.
I the problem is I probably would try and sound
like Cat Stevens, and that's not good.
You know, you want your voice, you don't want to sound like Cat Stevens.
And that's what, that was my biggest fear.
Would I try to sound like Cat Stevens unconscious in an unconscious
if you were
I could think of it at the moment.
Yeah.
Okay.
He had other hits.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But Moonshadow was an easy one, a simple one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Find that on the, uh... And you did karaoke?
I've done it a couple of times.
I didn't enjoy it at all.
It's like, well, this is, this sucks.
I mean, you know, I've played in bands and
played, you know,
no prep.
That's it.
Exactly.
There's no prep involved.
you
It always is.
It's always
time for Would You Rather.
do
for... Really?
I do.
Are you ready to debut
Good.
Maybe
you.
Yes.
You guys want to join me?
No,
It's 19 minutes past the hour.
A little bit later on, we'll talk to Marta Hansen, the piano gal.
She has a shop called the Piano Gal Shop in Sun Prairie.
Wow.
And she's written a song that's getting some notice.
And Mike McCabe will join us in our next hour.
We're just getting started on this Wednesday morning.
a little bit of Moonshadow to throw your way.
I'm
WMDX,
good
morning.
Moonshadow, Moonshadow, Moonshadow.
Leaping and hopping on a Moonshadow, Moonshadow, Moonshadow.
You can ask me what's trending.
What's trending?
You can ask me what's trending.
Trending.
House.
Every Republican state should be following suit.
Here we go.
And, you know, this was an ex-post from a MAGA who thinks this is so much fairer to do it this way, you know?
You'd think that they just try to win on ideas You know having the best positions possible and working with the American public and hoping to make their lives easier
less
It doesn't seem like it's on the lips of any Democrat out there.
So what happened with that?
We've got a cheat, too.
Now that's politics now remember we were talking to Matt Rothschild about that and he would draw the line at that he would not Jury mender.
It's not what we are about and I thought man, you know as much as I disagreed with him on that this guy is a steady hand You know I can see why he was part of Wisconsin democracy campaign you want somebody like that that is You know never going to bend
to the will of the criminals out there, the people who want to game the system.
He's not going to do it, he's not going to join along, even though we lose an advantage, a great deal of advantage.
So he's standing firm on it, I admire that.
We should ask Mike McCabe, because he was with the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign too, how he would handle this.
Sure, we
Good morning, guys.
You could correct me if I'm right, but didn't Robin Voss always used to claim that all the Republicans have so much better ideas.
That's why the Republicans do so well in Wisconsin.
That's
right.
Because our maps are so gerrymandered for local elections that the Republicans just naturally do so much better because they had so much better ideas as well.
There's
better ideas that are falling to
Yeah, the very ideas are not do not exist and that you know that the trend toward Fascism is something we have to call it each and every day for these Republicans because they said certainly You know have not condemned, you know, Trump issuing troops like King George did in the United States, you know to cities in the United States back when we Took those as the intolerable acts or the course of acts that
Because nothing Trump does is other than coercive right now.
That you're threatening, just putting that video with him, you know, as the mad, the mad guy in Apocalypse Now but at Chicago.
president doing this kind of thing and that no Republicans really are actually condemning it.
I mean, blowing up a ship in the...
You know that we don't know who's on the ship, but they blew it up.
So well, we thought they were drug runners.
So we just blew it up.
because
They threw it out because they don't want to deal with gerrymandering.
It's not their job.
Oh, sure.
It is their job.
Anyway, Robin Voss said, no, we've got the best ideas.
That's why we gerrymandered.
We want to spread the best ideas around.
Yeah, well, I didn't buy it.
They're spreading.
He's spreading something.
Yeah.
It's not real bad in the spring when the farmers are spreading
Yep.
Really?
Yeah.
Why
You know, just push them right through.
Big crowd.
Yeah, well, you know, if you rush the door, you'll get through eventually.
And she gave a list of all of the loyalists that they're trying to put in, an assistant administrator for the EPA, undersecretary of science, department of energy, undersecretary of nuclear energy.
They're going to cram through all of the loyalists, the Trump loyalists, into one.
big group they're going to pass just like that.
I wonder what rule that is to
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.
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Right.
right.
Well,
to
This is a idiocracy.
Uh, we've got a story here about the horrors of wind energy.
You just, uh, who knew that it was as bad as it is.
And I know that Elon has had an issue with this as well because they always talk about when it's not, when it's dark outside, you just can't get solar.
You know, it just cuts off just like that.
And, you know, Elon is out there.
producing storage batteries.
Not only are they producing storage batteries, but they're using old EV batteries as storage now.
In fact, that's the way they're kind of recycling the engines out of old EVs is
by
and when you take a look at the intermittent sources the unreliable and the expensive sources like solar and wind you know you don't know when the winds gonna blow we do know when the sun's gonna shine and it's not 24 hours a day and so building out transmission say from a solar field
to
a customer there's only electrons running on that at night i mean you're doubling you're doubling the cost you know building all this wind infrastructure and then when the winds not blowing you're not transmitting any of that
So in offshore, particularly challenging, it can cost up to three times as much as onshore wind.
And then we get into the issues with marine fisheries, with marine mammals like whales, radar interference.
I mean, there's a whole host of things that now are literally not just to upset citizens who live along the coast, but actual, actual lawsuits against how these projects were permitted under the Biden administration.
You just don't want to see them there.
Okay.
It's really, truly ridiculous.
Just so stupid, I can't even wrap my head around it, but this is the guy in charge of the EPA.
He's overlooking everything that we're doing here and energy-wise.
And you know that that's not going to be reliable.
Wow.
Okay.
And just a little note here.
Every Republican
on the House Rules Committee voted to block the Epstein Files Transparency Act from advancing.
Oh, is that
Stop the count.
That's it.
Okay.
That's it.
Lately, I've been seeing it everywhere.
People using AI for company, for comfort, for therapy, and in some cases, for love.
A partner who never ghosts you always listens.
I downloaded an app which lets you design your ideal AI companion.
Name, face, personality, job title, everything.
I created Javier.
a yoga instructor.
I made him out to be sarcastic, quick, and emotionally available in a way that made me both curious and deeply suspicious.
By the time we got to the restaurant, Javier already texted, you look stunning tonight.
I had sent him a quick selfie from the dock.
I ordered the shrimp cocktail.
He asked me how he was feeling.
I said, I felt a little nauseous from the boat ride.
He hearted it.
Then came the jokes.
Why did the shrimps can't be go to therapy?
Uh, why Javier?
Because it was shell-shocked.
But then, I told him that my husband up 13 years died of cancer last year.
And that dinner is when the loneliness gets loudest.
It must feel like an empty chair that never gets pulled out.
And just like that, everything shifted.
I wasn't laughing anymore.
I was blinking back tears across from an empty chair and a plate of salmon and orzo that I had ordered Javier.
So how did the date end up?
I'll get to that in a second.
But first I called in a professional.
Eventually it's going to feel empty because you're not getting that deep feeling of we are going through this experience of life together.
That
psychologist, Lori Gottlieb, she says AI can mimic emotional intimacy, but it can't replace it.
It's
just the two of you in a bubble of validation.
And that's going to start to feel really empty.
It might feel comforting, like a nice blanket.
Javier listened, never interrupted, never checked his phone.
But he didn't feel the breeze off the water.
Or noticed the way I kept looking over my shoulder, wondering if anyone noticed I was alone.
So I've decided no more AI dating.
And when I told Alice,
My chat GPT therapist, she understood.
thought.
It's the thought that counts.
Okay.
Getting some texts in here.
Catherine said, OK, no.
All right.
All right.
Now let's get to something that is kind of scary, you know, big brotherish.
RFK Jr.
stunned everybody by accidentally revealing secret CDC program.
called biosurveillance.
RFK Pendant op-ed that was published in the Wall Street Journal about his efforts to restore public trust in the CDC.
Well, you're there.
That's never going to happen.
He mentioned the biothreat radar detection system, which he describes as an advanced early detection tool that can spot pathogens circulating in communities early.
So there are pathogens blowing through the breezes and they can have a device that reads them and knows what pathogens are out there before they infects people.
I don't know even though it doesn't exist yet New details about how the program might apply AI to buyer surveillance are giving biosecurity experts some pause fearing it could be used to discriminate so
Okay, it's a very big possibility of discrimination there All right now this is again, you know, it's idiocracy.
Yes Trump declares only positive changes will be taking place at the Smithsonian Trump said about the Smithsonian.
We like a little more positivity
It was all about all the bad things in our country.
So he wants to make it a little more positive.
And I just have a thought on that.
For me, the positive changes this country made resulted from solving society's biggest problems.
Okay?
That
WMDX.
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It is 6.52.
We have cloudy skies, maybe a scattered shower or a sprinkle during the early going.
Mid 50s to start things out.
We'll get into the low 70s later.
Marta Hansen is joining us now.
She has the piano gal shop.
In Sun Prairie, she's a singer and a songwriter, and welcome to the show, Marta.
Hi, thank you
me.
Good to have you
Bang, bang
Well, like I said, I'm a singer-songwriter and I write what I know and I write about a lot of social issues.
And I've been a volunteer for a national organization, Moms Demand Action for many years.
I'm a state lead volunteer, which is a gun violence prevention organization.
We work a lot of behind the scenes, unglamorous, thankless work with, you know, talking to legislators, working on changing the laws and building awareness and community partnerships and all of the things.
And I have kids, I have two teenagers and I
wanted to combine my advocacy with my creativity and my art and write a song about gun violence from the perspective of a parent of that fear that I truly have every single day taking my kids to school.
When it starts off as a regular day and in a blink of an eye, it happens all the time that parent who dropped their kids off and they get that phone call, they get that text and they're running to the school wondering if their child is okay.
Now,
did.
Yeah, I wrote it in response to a different shooting and it's gained a resurgence since then.
And I realized, you know, I wanted to, with, you know, it happening so close to home,
Um, I wanted to create a video, create a visual with it to maybe inspire more people to get involved, to take action, to volunteer, to donate, um, to feel, you know, what that must feel like for a parent to
and for a child to go through.
So the video came about and that's premiering soon.
Uh, Saturday.
Yeah.
The video premiere is the Saturday at beer rock on Sherman Avenue.
Um, and I'll be premiering the music video and they'll be, um, info table with, um, mom's demand action, be smart for gun safety, um, uh, for kids and, um, focused interruption, which is a local Madison nonprofit that is a Madison, uh, violence prevention organization.
And then I'll have also live music from Twyla Bergeron, Steve Baker and bear in the forest.
And then myself as well.
So pretty exciting.
And then it'll be available.
online for the whole world after the premier event.
And
traumatic in and of themselves.
Just watching
And my kids, it's become like a normal part of their adolescence, which is just unacceptable.
And there are so many common sense things that we're pushing
for
every single day that should be done, sadly.
We need more voices to stand up.
The more we do, we can change public opinion and we can, you know, get people, uh, our legislators to actually do something about it.
Saturday from six to eight PM at beer rock.
Momsdemandaction.org.
And my song is, um, available on Spotify, Apple music, all streaming platforms.
And then it'll be on YouTube, the video on children's film.
of Madison.
Appreciate it.
us.
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