500th Episode Extravaganza and Outrageous Outbursts (Hour 2)

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John and Gordy, yes, indeed.

We're here, and it's our 500th show.

That's right.

And boy, the celebration just continued.

I know.

We're getting all kinds of phone calls and notes.

Step over the balloons in the confetti.

Yeah, it's crazy.

Sam brought a cake, right?

Yeah, I did, yeah.

Thanks for bringing a cake, man.

That's amazing.

He's amazing banana bread.

Oh, just.

Yeah, thanks for doing that.

My father and stuff.

Yeah, that was great.

I can't wait to get

to that.

OK.

We've got Savannah Tomey Olsen coming up here in a moment.

We'll check in with her with some news headlines.

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Okay, let's get to Savannah.

Tome Olson.

Good morning, Savannah.

How are you?

Good morning, guys.

Happy Friday.

Thank you.

Happy Friday.

What's happening in the news?

Well, one of the big local things that I covered this week has to do with two swimmers at West High School.

One of them is a senior.

Her name is Asha, and she has Down syndrome.

And Asha has been an exhibition swimmer on the West swim team for the last two years, which means that she has kind of a reduced practice schedule.

And when she swims at meets, she

doesn't

score any points, but she's a full member of the team.

And she said it has given her such a great sense of community to be on this team with some with some of her peers.

And then there's another student named Aurelia, who is an incoming freshman who was set to be on the West High School swim team as an

exhibition swimmers.

She also has disabilities.

And they were basically told heading into the school year that they would no longer be allowed to be exhibition swimmers and they would have to try out just like every other student and have no accommodations made for their disabilities.

And these kids and these families were pretty upset just at the idea that they would lose out on this community that

Asha had been in for two years and this was her last chance to participate and Aurelia Was going to get to spend four years on the team so they a bunch of people really flooded one of the school board meetings this week to Kind of urge the school board to reverse course.

Who's responsible for that?

Who came up with this?

This is sounds DEI to me to object to this.

Yes.

Yeah, so

the coach of the swim team, people had nothing but lovely things to say about her and how she has created an inclusive environment there

for

these last few years.

It sounds like that decision came from above her, although

it's

still not entirely clear.

That's part of why the parents are so frustrated.

They say

it's not, they haven't gotten real answers as to why they've made this change and deviated course, but there were not just their families, but even

Um, other swimmers on the team, swimmers without disabilities who came and spoke and said, you know, we, we want them on the team.

All right.

Oh, it's amazing.

Okay.

That's really, really disappointing.

And again, I, and I'm not bringing it up to be confrontational, but.

DEI has been getting rid of all of these special accommodations for so many other students out there.

And this just sounds like one of those instances.

Okay, let's continue.

What

else

have you got?

You got a story about the Willy Street parking situation and the express lanes, right?

That's right.

This is the

first

week of it being a whole lot slower during rush hour because they're now allowing parking again.

So that means there's only one open lane during, I think it's like.

after four o'clock in the afternoon.

So they're going to see whether this makes any difference when it comes to all those buildings that feel like they constantly get crashed into on

very

street.

You know, Mother Fools has been hit three times at this point.

So the traffic engineering division is basically trying this out for six weeks to see if it ends up making Willy Street safer as people go a little

slower.

You know, it's so strange.

I mean, why would it just be Willy Street?

What's going on over there in the US side?

Well, they were looking at the data.

They were like, there are far more crashes

into

buildings here than

there

are comparable streets, even like West Washington, East Washington.

They don't really have a good answer.

Yeah.

I got a clue though.

I mean, you know, four blocks over is East Washington Avenue.

You could go in the same direction, a little faster, a little easier.

But anyway, yeah, you got to keep those.

cars parked there because, you know, taking them out for a little while, everybody gets confused by it because, you know, John Dolan takes two lanes and drives them into one lane on Willy Street.

It's just a big mess.

So just keep the cars parked there in front of the businesses so they don't get run into.

Just leave the cars here to get run into, I guess.

Well, you

led me perfectly into my next story.

Yeah,

better enjoy John Nolan while you can simply because construction starts next week.

That's right.

Next month.

Next month.

Wow,

boy.

That goes on for two years.

Yeah.

All

right.

All right, Savannah.

Thank you so much.

You have a good weekend.

We'll talk to you again next week.

Take care.

Very good.

Thanks, Savannah.

All right.

Okay.

We got the big story here.

Should we get to that or do you have something else?

No.

Okay, that's time for the big story.

All right.

Um, here we are radio hosts are big 500th show, of course Let's go to another radio host a right winger clay Travis.

There's so many of them out there.

I was blocked from Doing any kind of radio show on any of the other AM radio stations out there.

They didn't want a liberal on their air.

Of course not.

They silenced me.

They censored me

They did!

And, uh, well, they got away with it, and they continued to get away with this kind of crap.

That

was all Vicki McKenna's fault.

And by the way, I didn't want to work with you anymore.

True.

When you threw the headphones against the wall, that was the last

straw.

I know.

She felt endangered by me.

I can see why.

Yeah.

Yeah, that always happens.

But anyway, I'm really getting fed up and tired of this outrage on the right.

Yeah.

We are constantly being threatened.

Liberals, Democrats, progressives were always being threatened by the right wing.

Constantly.

They're even coming right out and saying it that they've got to get rid of woke.

Well, woke is another word for liberal.

They want to get rid of it, but wipe it out.

They want to take it out of this country.

That's us.

I feel threatened every damn day.

They say this stuff.

And now they're outraged because something like this happened.

the shooting happened, and

now they're saying that

we're the ones bringing on all the violence.

Well, I disagree completely with that, and I think everybody else does too.

We're the ones being threatened, we're the ones being taken out, the immigration, the ICE agents taking everybody out of here, everybody, Americans and immigrants as well.

This whole thing is just drummed up outrage, and it drives me crazy, but here's Clay Travis, now that I said all that.

He has this blunt response to Barack Obama's claim that he doesn't know what motivated Charlie Kirk's murder.

Let's listen.

This is cut 79.

I

am tired of hearing people say like Barack Obama did, like Hillary Clinton did, oh, we condemn this violence.

Guess what?

You can't call the president of the United States for 10 years Adolf Hitler.

And you can't say that he's a fascist dictator.

And you can't say that anyone who voted for Trump or advocated for him, like you, me, Riley, and Charlie Kirk, are Nazis.

And then when someone tries to kill us, you can't suddenly say, oh, we condemn this violence.

You caused it.

Look at me right now.

You caused this.

When you tell

I just want to pause here because you know when you listen to these individuals talk about being called hitlers and Nazis We're not just making it up You hang out with white Nationalists, right?

You hang out with actual Nazis Marching down the streets you have them on as guests you talk to them you pass along their message to the public on they

American airwaves.

This is what's happening in this country.

We're not just making it up.

So what they want to do when they shout about this like Clay Travis is they want to shut us down.

They want to shut us up.

Let's continue.

OK, people that someone is Hitler.

You are telling crazy people go kill them.

And I am sick of pretending that that is anything other than what they're doing.

That guy in West Palm Beach, what did he say?

He was killing Trump because he believed Trump was Hitler.

This is what they do, all right?

This left-wing violence, it's out of control.

And Charlie Kirk bore the brunt of that left-wing violence.

And guess what?

But for the twist of his head at the last minute, Donald Trump's head would have been blown off on live television.

And that is intentional.

They are lighting fires and then claiming, oh, what do you know?

There's a fire there.

They're doing it on purpose.

MSNBC, Sean, you watch this.

They were live on the air saying one of their guys said.

They put out a PR statement.

He said, well, Charlie Kirk was riddled basically with hate.

And when you put hate out into the world, this kind of thing happens.

Oh, tough break.

You get shot and killed, even though you're completely innocent and all you're doing is making arguments for the betterment of the country.

Tough.

All right.

OK.

Enough of that stuff.

But he did bring up Matthew Doubt, who got fired from MSNBC for just saying normal, everyday comment.

I mean, this guy is white bread.

And they had him on commenting about this, and I want to play this.

This is cut 73.

Matthew doubt.

The comment he made that got him fired at MSNBC who takes all of this stuff seriously from the right wing that we should shut up.

Well, this is their response, guilty as charged.

Let's listen.

Talk to me about the environment in which a shooting like this happens.

Yeah, and again, I emphasize what you just emphasized.

We don't know any of the full details of this that we don't know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration or so we have no idea about this.

But following up with what was just said, he's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups.

And I always go back to hateful thoughts.

lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.

And I think that's the environment we're in, that people just, you can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.

And that's the unfortunate environment we're in.

That's right.

Now he got fired for that.

ridiculous isn't it?

I mean that is just a normal everyday comment and MSNBC's president Rebecca Cutler who by the way is going to also be in charge of MSNOW when they split off from NBC.

She said this, we apologize for the statements as he has too.

There is no place for violence in America, political or otherwise.

Does anyone out there really think that he's calling

for action on maybe taking it out on other individuals, violently shooting them.

No, of

course he isn't.

We're just playing and we're just again collapsing in the face of right wing pressure.

That's it.

Nineteen past the hour, we've got a number of phone calls.

Hang on the line here.

We're going to check in with Brittany Merlot next on Weekend Weather and much more.

Rockers in the studio too with a Maxing preview coming up.

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WMDX 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning, our 500th show.

No one ever thought it could happen.

Especially us.

We never had a clue that this could happen.

And the plaque on the wall was just a wonderful heartfelt.

I know, it's

amazing.

Got a big crowd here in the studio.

You know, out in the lobby

there.

That's what we

do.

You know, we're thinking.

But he wants our autograph.

We're talking about the outrage on the right.

We'll be getting to our phones in just a few moments.

Yes.

And get your input.

But first, I want to remind everybody, this is a keyword hour.

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C-A-T-C-H.

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Again, the keyword is catch, C-A-T-C-H, okay?

Should we go to the

phones?

All right, yeah, let's definitely do that.

Let's go to Charles and Milwaukee.

Charles, what do you got for us?

Good morning.

Hey, good morning, guys.

Just fake outrage from the right.

They lie.

Everything they say is lies from the wokeness to schools teaching white kids to hate themselves.

I would love to ask any Republican that says that, CJ, including, what school has he ever walked into and they've talked and they're telling white kids, you need to hate yourself.

for the things that that was done to people of color.

This fake outrage of well, Obama and Hillary Clinton.

I've never heard one of them called Donald Trump Hitler.

You know who I get here called Donald Trump Hitler, his vice president, JD Vance.

I heard Marco Rubio talk

about

how horrible Donald Trump is.

I heard Ted Cruz talked about how horrible Donald Trump is.

I heard

Oh, I can't think of his name offhand, but all of these the guy from from South Carolina that that that said that if we elect Donald Trump to the Republican Party, that's the end of the Republican Party.

Donald Trump is always spewing hate.

Lindsey Graham.

He's always spewing hate.

Democratic Party is always talking about how can we include

Everyone more very good public kids continue to go after trans kids I

know and they bring up this D I as though that is some kind of you know horrible

Terrible thing that we're poised in off on people and now we've lost some swimmers here in our school system simply because

of that

I think anyway that's what it sounds like Charles.

Thanks for that and I really appreciate it Yes, the right wing has actually said these negative things about Trump before they jumped on board his ship Yeah, yeah, let's go to

dick dick is on the line with us this morning.

Good morning dick.

What do you got for us?

Well, first of all, congratulations on 500.

Oh, thanks a lot more.

Um, what I'm wondering too is how we went from such snowflakes to just such predatory animals.

Isn't

that weird?

Yeah.

Also, something that Kirk said, I'm paraphrasing as best I can.

He more or less, I wonder if you've been his cabalier had his own children been victims.

when he makes what just sound like, you know, children being slaughtered in schools is collateral damage that you're going to get so that we can have, you know, guns.

Yeah, that's right.

I mean, that is one of the most amazing comments.

Yeah.

Just a few deaths a year, but that's worth it to keep our second amendment.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, you know, that's that.

Somebody else's kids.

That's right.

He didn't expect this.

Yeah.

I appreciate it, Dick.

Thank you.

I actually have a list of

Yeah, John,

I think we want to let our listeners know that there's some breaking news here.

President Trump

has

announced that they think that they have captured the suspected gunman, and so that news is breaking.

Well, I'm glad that reporter Trump has chimed

in.

He's breaking news for all of us now.

This is his job.

He's such a micromanager.

There's a

press conference coming up at 8

a.m.

Here are some of the comments from Charlie Kirk, okay?

Gay people should be stoned to death.

Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane.

Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband.

No one should be allowed to retire.

Leftists should

not be allowed to move to red states.

British colonialism was what made the world decent.

The guy who assaulted the Pelosi should be bailed out.

Religious freedom should be terminated.

Multiple black politicians stole white people's spots.

MLK Jr.

was an awful person.

The great replacement theory is reality.

Hydrocluck, whatever, vaccine requirements are medical apartheid.

I mean, these are...

A positive message?

Is this a positive message for America?

I don't think so.

Look, we are horrified by what happened to Charlie Kirk.

No one should ever have this kind of fate, regardless of their belief system.

Political violence is never good.

And to actually have former presidents come out and...

say something about this is amazing.

I mean, Charlie Kirk is just, you know, a commentator, podcaster.

So I think the left has reacted well to this, but I think the right wing has seen a political opening here and they want to go after everybody on the left, everybody and act like it's outrageous and that we are promoting violence.

in shootings and whatever else.

Remember, the guy who took a shot at Trump was a right winger.

Yeah.

Okay.

So the

guy at the golf course was a right winger.

Yeah.

29 past the hour.

We will turn away from politics here for a while.

We've got Rocker in the studio.

What a way to end the week for politics.

Well, I

know it.

Yeah, it's our 500th episode.

Sam Davison continues with us to Rocker in the studio.

with a Max Inc.

preview coming up next on China and Gordy for a Friday.

Boarding studio to get the musicians together.

The best musicians we could find in the Midwest.

Rocker is here with the Maxink preview.

Good

morning, Rocker.

Oh, what's happening, guys?

That is so awesome.

We were playing that song last week on Maxink radio, and now there's a new version I hear.

Right.

We have

a

new single that'll be coming out with I'm Rocker.

So it's awesome.

I'll definitely tell you whether I

like those

intros or not.

So it was

a good thing I stood up.

It's awesome.

I gotta thank you guys.

Oh, it's fun creative.

Yeah, that was fun

And a rocker you remember Sam Davison is with us Sam

Sam I saw the bug and the way in I knew Sam would be here.

That's awesome Yeah, we missed that bug.

I'll be done you bug.

We

really

do.

Have

you had some more than you?

Yeah,

I did I did a bunch of work on it while I was stuck at home Actually, I didn't have much else to do.

Yeah

So what did you do at a radio?

I replaced all the wheel bearings because it would shake if you turned in one direction.

Oh my god.

That

sounds

so nice.

Does the horn

work?

It does work.

How about you got new windshield wipers the other day,

right?

Yeah, yeah, I'm moving up in the world.

I

finally have enough money to buy windshield wipers.

In old cars like that, we used to put in record players.

In a car?

We used to play

45s in the car, yeah.

Oh

my

gosh.

I saw a bunch of styrofoam, I thought, in the car.

Are you trying to float that down?

Is that going to float now?

Yeah,

I actually have the boat strapped to the top for when I drive into the lake.

You still have the

Styrofoam boat.

I do, yeah.

Okay.

Hey, put that mic up a little closer.

Yeah, okay.

Well, why am I telling you, you know how to do this?

Okay.

I thought I just sounded a little goofy because it's running through the

other board.

The other board, all right.

Well, we'll work on it.

Okay.

All right, rocker.

What do you got for us

for a Max

Ink preview this week?

Max Ink radio, we're going to unplug from politics Saturday, six to nine PM right here on WMDX 927 FM.

You can find our podcast at thecivicmedia.us slash Max Ink radio this week.

Big John Smolec.

He's a drummer from Go Play God.

He's been around for a long time in this scene.

He got a bad case, a bad case of diabetes, and he had to have his leg amputated below the knee.

And for a drummer, that's just, you know, seems like a crazy

thing.

So

we're all, the music scene is coming together to help Big John out.

And we're going to talk to him this weekend on the phone.

We're going to get him on the phone and talk about

the fundraiser for Big John, which iron plow is going to be making our return and we'll be talking about that in a minute.

OK.

But we also have a static affliction and Mother Hive and a bad and Zen for that show.

Now, the crazy thing about that show is there's going to be some huge raffles there.

I did not know this.

It's really coming out.

They're going to be raffling.

Are you ready for this?

They're going to be raffling off a Gibson SG Standard 1961 guitar that was honestly donated.

the event.

So there's going to be much more than that though.

That's where some

money there.

There's going to be a 2024 Green Bay Packers signed football.

There's going to be mallard game passes up for the raffle.

There's even going to be a PRS guitar from Dave's guitar shop, which is amazing.

Ultimate Arts Tattoo Packages and Offender Acoustic.

Lots of really good stuff if you want to come down and join the raffle.

Raise funds for Big John.

I'll tell you what.

So you guitar players out there, a Paul Reed Smith guitar and also Gibson SG.

A 61 Gibson

SG.

A

61,

that's man.

That is huge.

We actually have the John and Gordy guitar banjo that we have signed and we are willing to just give it away.

Are we

going to donate

that?

Are

we?

Okay.

What will we talk about for the rest?

time

I don't know

all right oh and hey we'll have live from the man city we'll have Melissa Keeler she'll be right here live from the man city in

our

studio so there's some good things happening around Tom

Jenny Lupin and Mason Meyer Band.

They're just a great love story.

Jenny, she's a singer-songwriter from the Midwest.

She used to be a fitness and gymnastic coach and she quit everything and is now a full-time musician.

She met Mason and you know what?

I think they fell in love.

He's the bricklaying owner of Main Street Music in Brooklyn, Wisconsin and now he kind of

quit everything and kind of became a singer while he still does his other stuff, but he's into it.

So they have a band and they're going to be playing Saturday, September 13th at the Harmony Bar right

now.

Let's

check it out.

Jenny Lupin and Mason Meyer Band.

This is back to

you.

If we could find a way to change how we'd have, know we both would have tried once again.

So now what do we do?

What do we say?

Silence can be worse than words, but I can't fight with you one more day.

Let's call it true.

It seems to live without Jesus God to be a better way.

Love me through my hard work, just don't drive away on

me.

Trust me when I tell you, there's no one else I'd rather

see.

Boy, it brings back the old days of Ian and Sylvia and all these other folk groups.

Male, female singers.

Yeah, the

male singer sounds a little bit like Waylon Jennings.

Yeah,

he's

got a

real

vibe.

Yeah, he's a big guy, baritone voice.

I mean, he talks, he talks super low to you.

It's just amazing.

That is a good song.

Love that.

So they're at the Harmony Bar tomorrow night.

They're coming up at the Harmony Bar tomorrow night.

That's on Atwood Avenue over on the east side.

Well, let's get back to the return.

I'm going to tell you about the show now.

I'll be making my return to the drums, of course, after I had cardiac arrest on stage back in December.

This is now coming full circle.

Nine months later, I'm getting back on the stage with my band, Iron Plow, and we're going to be doing the fundraiser for Big John.

But a fun thing that's going to be happening with that, UW Health, they're doing a little bit of a documentary on my journey back to health, back to playing drums.

And so they're going to be there filming.

for the event, and if you want, please come down, UW Health, they'll be filming it for me, and you can be a part of the studio audience.

It's the fundraiser for Big John this Sunday at the Crucible on the east side of Madison.

Two to 7 p.m.

Iron Plow plays at 5 p.m.

So I brought in another one of our Iron Plow songs.

This is a little bit of a throwback.

This is called Whiskey Day's Iron Plow.

Yeah, drummers got something going on there.

Well, at least you guys aren't replacing drummers left and right like

Spiral Tap, right?

Yeah, right?

I

wouldn't go.

I mean,

this could actually be iron plow.

The end continues.

Yeah, that's

right.

Oh, yeah, we plan on.

We're planning on going until we, you know, we got walkers and canes.

How long has the band been together?

Since the since the pandemic, I think October 20.

2021.

Okay, we started because, you know, everything was just shut down and we're all old friends and we had never jammed in a band together and we thought, why not?

Yeah, got together and now it's been a couple of years now.

So yeah, excellent.

Well, that

show again, Sunday at on the commercial Avenue at the

crucible.

Yeah, the crucible from two to seven.

two

to 7 p.m.

daytime show and don't forget about the killer raffle.

Lots of good stuff happening there.

Come down and be a part of the studio audience while they film it.

We'll

have

a good time.

And now Channel 27 is stopping by here in a

little while.

Did it interview you?

So

you're going to be on TV maybe tonight or tomorrow?

I guess we'll have to see what the TV gods say, but they're going to come and do a little interview with me.

You never know when they get reassigned or different stuff happens.

It's TV

news.

not required to say Johnny Gordy or anything like that.

Okay.

During

the interview.

Can

you sign that?

Okay.

All right.

What do you what else you got

here?

We got time for one more.

Yeah, I think the band feel I thought I bring you know these guys are playing September 17th, 8 p.m.

at the high noon saloon.

They're from St.

Louis, Missouri.

And I don't know if you've seen them on Facebook.

They really have a good Facebook.

Campaign going on, but they're dynamic classic rock inspired sound incorporates blues jazz 60s experimental the band field calm I think these guys are awesome.

This song is called find a love the band feel they'll be at the high noon saloon September 17th

Sounds good.

I've been seeing them on Facebook for quite some time.

They've been showing up my feeds and all of a sudden here they are coming to the high noon saloon.

I thought, man, people need to know about this band.

They are really good.

It's the band

feel.

That's the name of the band.

Yeah.

The band

feel.

The band feel.

Yeah.

Go check them out.

Saturday, September 17th, Sunday.

I don't know what day that is.

September 17th.

Whatever day of September 17 falls on, that's the day they go see them, right?

That's when they're going to be

there.

OK.

Yeah.

Good deal.

All right.

We got a minute here.

Let's see.

You know what?

Let's go to the break here, and then we'll come back with Rocker for a few more songs.

Again, Sam Davison is with us.

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That's right.

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So you have one more day to get in on the poll.

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You can weigh in on that.

Finding parking seems to be the biggest challenge.

It's been holding the lead all this week.

That's right.

All right, we'll be back with more of Rocker with Maxing Preview and wrap up our 500th

episode at WMDX next.

Davidson get off of the table you can't dance on the console here I'm back man I am so

bad

no man we really energized them I think we're gonna have to make room for him here at the table

you know what James Brown does to me I know I

know now you mentioned during the break a friend of yours is playing a high noon saloon at the band

yeah yeah that's right my my old roommates band

of the

Thursday, September 18th, he's at the Harmony Bar with his son, Wilder Deeds.

So, Ritt and Wilder Deeds, they'll be playing, he's a local musician and songwriter, but Ritt is also a writer.

And he will be celebrating the release of his unusual debut novel called Settle Down.

It takes place in 1980s Virginia and right here in Madison on the Near East Side.

So, interesting book coming out.

He'll be releasing that book and playing at the release party September 18th, Thursday at the Harmony Bar.

right now let's check out a song he had a little while ago the scheme out Rick Dietz this is called East

Side

This sounds great.

Very mellow.

That's

wild.

You know, I love it when they mention Madison in a song.

That is all that.

Everything in that

song.

Well, I just that is just more proof that the East side's where it's at.

That's what I'm waiting for.

Oh, Catherine Lake has

joined us in the

studio.

Well, we've got we've got a great song that mentions a lot of chain restaurants

and.

They say it just like that.

It

sounds cool.

Katherine, jump on that mic.

Well,

I'm here.

I'm here.

And I just wanted to tell you this has been a really wonderful show.

But did you say 500?

Yeah, 500th

episode.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Why?

I

have some bad news.

Oh, no, it's Friday.

Wait a minute.

They're taking back one of them.

And that's today.

It's only 499.

We're gone.

Yeah,

you miscounted.

What?

Are you kidding me?

We've got to do it all this over again.

Come on, man.

Oh,

no.

Next time, talk to management.

What the

hell are you

doing?

Time to pop all the balloons, I guess.

Who's keeping track

here?

They're

taking away the

cupcakes.

Hey, we got time for one more song

here.

This is perfect.

I'm going to talk about another guy.

He's actually from Alt-Stralia, and he's going to be coming here to the High Noon Saloon September 22, 7.30 PM.

Absolutely amazing.

I actually tried to get him here for at Woodfest, but he was not available, but he's coming here now, September 22nd.

Okay.

All right, so I got to set this song up.

So this guy, there is no guitar in this band.

Okay.

Okay.

And he's absolutely amazing with his originals, but I thought I'd bring in a song that's maybe a little familiar to people.

He's going to do Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child, right?

So he's going to do this and you're going to hear it on a whammy clavinet.

So this is a keyboard that has a whammy bar.

And what you got to go look it up on YouTube.

Okay.

You can see him play Locky Doley, which is L A C H Y D O

L. E. Y. He's Australian.

Whammy Clavinet.

You never seen anything like this.

It's going to be at the Harmony.

You just got to hear it to believe it.

This is Locky Dolly doing voodoo child.

No guitar.

OK.

Wow, that's amazing

a whammy clavinet.

That is not a guitar.

He's got the Hendricks thing

happening.

I don't even know what that looks like.

It's you have to go to YouTube to see this thing.

It's like it's like a regular kind of old looking, you know, keyboard on Oregon, right?

Yeah.

But out of the top is this bar that comes out, right?

So he plays the keys with his right hand and then this whammy

kind of way.

And

it's got, you know, lots of sound effects, but.

I mean, when you see the other songs, too, I mean, he's just, you know, Hammond B three players expert master.

I mean, you really got to see this guy to believe it.

That's great.

It's very

good.

All right.

We'll check it out.

Rocky Doley tonight are coming up at the high noon saloon, September 22nd

and Maxic weekend.

Quickly.

Yes.

Six to nine p.m.

Saturday night.

We'll have a John Smollick and we'll have Melissa Keeler.

playing live

here and everybody check out the big show on Sunday and the crucible with iron plow and the rest of the band.

That's right.

And

I'll be coming back going to play the drum set that I played on December 26th.

It's going to be a lot of

fun.

Very good.

Sam Davison.

Thanks for joining us.

Oh, OK.

You turned your mic off just to OK.

It's

on.

I swear.

I swear.

Oh man.

It's on over here too.

All right.