It's the John and Gordy show.
Do you know what this means?
Wouldn't you like to know weather, boy?
You're pretty high and far out, aren't you?
What kind of kick are you on, son?
You're no good bastard.
Your show sucks.
What made me think this was a good day to stop drinking?
What if you want coffee?
Coffee.
Coffee.
Black coffee.
Coffee.
Coffee.
They want us about people like you.
What a load of crap.
Thank you, sir, ma'am.
I have another.
We'll do it live.
F*** it.
And that's the way
it is.
On 92.7 FM, WMDX.
Take it away,
boys.
Oh, we'll take it.
This is ridiculous.
What's the matter?
I'm getting everything's going sideways this morning here.
I'm getting a different coffee mug next time.
Next week, Monday, different mug.
This is
just
driving.
What happened to the mug that you had that big solid one with the with the wide base?
Yes.
You know what happened?
That was that
that was
really
a nice
mug.
It was.
I admired
it.
Except because it it ballooned out at the bottom.
Right.
Almost all my coffee was there and I couldn't get it out.
I mean, you really have to tip that cup back.
Almost
upside
down.
Pour it on
your face.
To
get the coffee out.
Yes.
So I thought maybe there is a design flaw here that doesn't work for me or anybody else for that matter.
Maybe that's why they were clearing these mugs out.
It's from
sale.
Yeah.
Great.
So anyway, now the new one that I have, uh, was an old one that I had in the cabinet and I thought, geez, why haven't I used this?
And, uh, you can tip it over, you know, you and I continually knock our cups over.
Right.
So, uh, uh, this is insulated, of course, a steel one.
And it's nice.
And, uh, and you open and close it by a switch in the back.
That's a great idea.
But it does this.
Yeah.
So.
That's noisy, and it's not something you do on the radio.
I see.
Yeah, you notice I have mine way far away.
I know, yeah.
Not within arm's length.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's almost like you're threatened by that coffee mug, and you're keeping it as far away from you as possible.
Well...
I'm a klutz, so yeah, I don't want to knock it over and spill it on this brand new console table.
So we're taking suggestions.
The question today is, what is a good mug, a coffee cup that you can have at work without spilling it?
That is our question today, please.
Is it
really?
No, I'm just
doing
it.
I'm doing a Todd, you know.
I'm
doing a Pete.
You know, we
got that question of the day.
Yeah
Okay, okay, you happy Friday.
What there's a there's a appall over the studio this this morning The sad news and I hate to break this news to everybody first thing especially the people put so much effort into trying to get us Nominated and and win the best of Madison competition for morning.
No radio duo.
That's radio team radio team
Of
course, you and I was watching this very closely.
It was the
category.
We got into the final six.
We did.
We
did.
We lost.
We
didn't make the final three.
Didn't make the final three.
Yeah.
Who won?
Oh, it was Johnny Danger, right?
Well, Johnny and
D. The people that came in first, again, is Jonathan and Kitty.
Of course, Kitty
is no
longer there.
Are you sure about
that?
Yes.
Okay.
I thought it was, I thought it was Johnny.
Uh, danger.
No, he came in third.
I heard that, like, John and Kitty win every year.
They do.
They win every year.
They win every year.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just a
few, you know, I mean, um, I think there's something wrong.
Can we get out the list of excuses that Trump
has
posted on the internet?
This is, uh, this is a crime.
This is, uh,
well, anyway.
Okay.
And in the middle, number two, is Mellon Floyd.
Oh, from what?
Yeah.
Mellon Floyd.
They're
very funny guys.
They've been on the air
forever.
Yeah.
I listened to him
endlessly for a
long period of time.
But anyway, we lost to Mellon Floyd.
And they're on once a week.
See, it doesn't.
I'm Friday.
And you know, I'm sitting.
Hey, thanks guys, you know once a week you guys go into the studio Make your
why I don't think it's
fair Yeah, I don't think it's fair and I think you and I were talking about this a long time ago about What has happened in the best of Madison?
They try to make it as simple and they cut it down to just the basics right and a lot of times That's really kind of a good idea, but what they have never valued is radio or TV
I mean, we both know that.
They make these very small categories, maybe even just one category for this broad category of TV and radio.
And we're in talk radio, and they paired us up with music radio
people.
And that's just truly, there's
two completely different
things.
We'd be up against Mel and Floyd, I guess.
And I'm insisting that,
John and Gordy go to one one day a week
Make it
happen And we and we're opposite Mel and Floyd from one to two in the afternoon.
Okay,
so Okay, well, that's a good idea.
I guess that's why I'm going with us.
Sure All right
get
paid the same though.
Yeah All right, well, we'll see well, let's bring that up in the next meeting.
We'll see where that goes
But I'm still going, and the big announcement here is that my wife is number three.
She placed number three just under Doug Moe as
writer.
Best column?
Best writer, columnist.
Yeah,
columnist or whatever,
writer.
Okay, best Madison writer congratulations and boss Peterson.
Yeah, good friend.
Yeah.
What do they have?
What other best ofs do they have?
Is it like of every pizza best?
Oh, really?
Just cover
seriously in every other category covers every
ass pepper that's dry cleaners
shoe shine
But they really, you know, they cut down the categories in radio and TV.
Don't know why.
You know, just it's
great.
They're
print.
They don't like
broadcasts.
That's true.
That's true.
They never have magazine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, you
know, Doug
doesn't want to get up early enough to be on the show.
Doug Moe?
Yeah, I know.
I mean, the thing is we both know Doug Moe really well.
He's very good friends.
Yeah, he'd be great.
But.
but
he sleeps in these days.
Not
gonna wake up?
Yeah, all
right, fine.
Why put yourself out for long friendships?
Wow, okay.
Well, better luck to us next year, you know, we'll see.
Yeah, we'll see about that.
Okay, I'm not going to run next year.
Okay, all right.
It's 13 minutes past the hour.
Happy Friday to us all.
And, yeah, we got a little rain out there this morning.
A few showers.
Of course we did.
I
did my deck, you know.
I needed a dry day or two.
And of course, it rained right after I put the stuff down last night, early this morning.
And they'll be rain all day long, because I see these showers on the radar moving into our area,
just
little blips.
Yeah, it wasn't even enough to do anything.
You know, I'm looking under the trees as dry as hell just enough to get on the wood and on my new finish and Prevent it from drying completely.
Well, that's sad.
Are you gonna have to do it again now?
No
No, I found so many problems with the it's not really a deck that I'm putting this coating on it's the stairway going up
to a deck, which isn't wood.
But it's a two-story stairway.
And it doesn't take any curves or anything like that.
It's just a straight up.
And normally those kinds of stairs, they don't do too many of them anymore because that's a long span.
They don't make it.
They don't like.
Maybe there's even a code for any of you from having such a long stairway made out of wood going up to your deck.
So anyway, yeah, and there's rot and stuff like that, which I did not anticipate.
As I was putting this finish on, I'm thinking, oh my God, this thing is up here by the grace of God.
That's good.
Good
to know.
Yes, well, it's good to find that out.
Well, I got to say, I hope it doesn't rain into tomorrow morning.
Because into tomorrow morning, I'm going to Minnesota.
You are.
I'm going
to Minnesota
tomorrow.
Yeah,
I'm
going to watch a soccer game.
But I'm hoping it doesn't rain the entire time I go up there.
It probably is.
It probably
will.
Yeah.
That's a question to ask Brittany Merleau.
Okay,
we'll get to
her a little bit later on.
We're also going to talk to Pam Yankee, get the latest with her, and what's happening in the world of agriculture.
And we'll have Rocker in the studio in our seven o'clock hour with the, yes, with the
Maxing preview.
Lord, I
didn't sleep last night.
Okay, let's see.
Oh, it's also free ticket Friday.
Yeah.
Is it really?
Yes.
This
is the last free ticket Friday for the last pair of Brewer tickets for the season.
You know, it's coming right down to the wire.
It is.
The Brewers are in the playoffs.
Cubs, Wildcard.
Yes.
And therein as Wildcard.
But yeah, it's been a good season for both of those teams.
So we'll have one more pair of tickets.
And that's to the game on September 26th with the Reds.
What?
What's the problem?
I don't know.
Speak your onions.
My
wife says, you
know, my dad would be so proud of you getting into baseball like you have been lately.
Really?
Yeah.
Every once in a while I talk about it, you know, like, uh, should I wear my Brewer t-shirt today?
Yeah.
That sports talk for me.
That's it.
Um, yeah.
You used to be really into the Packers.
Yeah.
And Brewer's.
I was.
I was.
Um.
But I couldn't get the kids to go up with us.
That was the whole exciting part of it.
Ann and I had gone up there so many times.
We realized, at least her dad had made me realize, you could just go up outside the stadium, buy tickets, and go in from somebody selling them outside.
Not for the big games, of course, but just get in and have some fun.
Lambo field.
I mean, that's the whole thrill and and and I thought the kids would also kind of like that and maybe get into it But they never did we took them up a few times and that was it.
Okay.
Yeah
They like to go down
the snowy slide that they have up there.
Oh,
okay.
Do you have you been up there at all?
Not lately.
They've got
like a park where kids can
play and stuff
like that But there's a huge slope where you can slide down in winter on the snow
We have time for would you
rather?
We have a little bit of time for what you rather.
We got about two minutes.
All right.
Yes, unfortunately.
Plenty of times.
Yeah, let's do it.
All right, let's play this.
Realistic, half hour,
just
the lead
up to this.
Here we go.
Stand by.
Big
build
up.
All right, there we go.
First question, would you rather be reincarnated as a sea creature or as an airborne creature?
Sea creature or an airborne.
I would do airborne.
I want to fly.
It's that's an easy one.
Yeah, I think that would be fun.
Yeah, I actually fear the whole idea of reincarnation, so don't bring this question up ever
again, okay?
Come back at all I
just don't want to have that happen
Okay.
All right.
Second question number two.
Yes.
Would you rather shave your head completely bald or have your nose pierced?
Excuse me What is it again?
Shave your head bald get a nose piercing.
Yes, I would do bald.
I would I would I want to I've
been thinking about it.
Really?
Yeah, you look like you'd fit right in Harry Kushner's out there
What do you think John would you rather shave your head or you got a nose
piercing?
I think the nose piercing I guess, you know,
yeah, I know I'd shave my head.
I think I think I'd rather do
I don't think I have the head to shave that would look good You know,
we got a year about these lump is coming up next
WMDX
Well, like
that.
Thank you, Don.
That was fantastic.
It's all about the money.
Yes.
This is Johnny Gordy on WMDX 92.7 and on the Your Civic Media app.
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number 608-879-8255 Clouds this morning some scattered showers right now 65 degrees highs in the upper 70s today Pam Yonkey joins us from the Midwest farm report.
Good morning Pam Good morning guys.
Good morning.
Hey, good to have you with us.
Yeah
So let's get going
here.
Can I just you know, let's comply look
I want to complain about meat prices right away.
We were talking off the air, and I'm just kind of revved up.
I have noticed meat prices being so high for the last three or four years, and now everybody's talking about it like it's something new.
This isn't anything new.
And Pam, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we have a problem with meat in this country simply because of a parasite, right?
Well,
if that's part of the conversation in reality it goes back deeper than that because remember John back in the day we had
uh, uh, severe storms that hit the plain States.
I don't know if you remember how people were having to snowmobile out of their houses because the drifts got so ha so tall in agriculture in places like North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, all the way down to the Texas Panhandle, the people that had beef cattle could not get to their cattle to feed their cattle.
Beef cattle do not go in barns generally.
Beef cattle are a little less domesticated than dairy cattle.
So they want to
in the outside they want to be in the open but when you have severe storms that showed up like that so that that really knocked off a big percentage of
Cattle just livestock in general.
So that was the beginning then remember the states in the west have been facing critical drought
Yes,
probably the last five years if you don't have grass you can't feed cattle if you can't feed cattle You have to move them into the food processing chain faster You don't keep as many mama cows back if you don't keep mama cows back You can't have calves that keep the herd growing.
So that's really what has kind of led to this precipitous
increase in beef prices.
Now what you're talking about is the new world screw worm.
This is a parasite that's in as close as Central America, Mexico, scaring the bejesus out of the United States because this thing shows up, it flies.
It's a fly, kind of a gnat.
And
if it gets into the animal through a nasal cavity, an ear, something like that, it literally starts eating that animal from the inside out and will kill it.
The only way that you can kill this parasite is with another fly, a sterile male fly that helps decimate the population.
That's a lot of technology people got invested in, including the USDA.
They're doing it, but that's the other part of this conversation.
So what we have noticed as far as the escalated beef price is really layers and layers of what's been happening for at least almost a decade.
Now, you also mentioned things like tariffs or something like that.
So now we've got
I want to say it's either, I can't keep track.
75% or 90% tariff against Brazil.
Brazil's both the only place that we bring in beef.
It's not the kind of beef that you see.
at the grocery store and restaurants.
Usually it's beef that helps us with ground hamburger because our beef is so top shelf quality.
We need to blend it a little bit, but that's when Brazilian beef shows up.
So we can't bring Mexican cattle in because New World screw them.
We are bringing Brazilian beef in because it's
Tariffs up the kazoo
and we
can't afford it and our beef herd in the United States Cannot you can't just snap your fingers and make babies appear.
I don't know Did you want me to go down that road of how babies?
No We'll go to the children we'll go to the children's museum for that But isn't it also the fact that a lot of these meat producers cattle
People went out of business because they couldn't keep up with the prices as well, right?
Yeah, the industry's aging.
So yeah, so it's narrowed down to just a few.
Yeah,
yeah, if you get beat up
year after year after year how many years do you want to kind of keep trying to buy calves that you're going to grow remember it'll take if you buy a calf that's let's say a couple hundred pounds it's gonna take you almost 16 months or better to try to get that more animal to market you don't know what's gonna happen in the meantime it could die market could collapse a lot of things can happen so a lot of the folks that are of a certain vintages have decided they're gonna pull the chips off the table and exit the industry that's not helping us rebuild either yeah
Well, speaking of meat and beef and everything else, what's this prime rib trail?
This sounds interesting.
A bunch of restaurants and supper clubs.
Yeah, let
me give you the cliff notes on that one.
So the Wisconsin Beef Council has partnered with Gather Wisconsin, which is a flange of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, and they've created this prime rib trail.
It's a map of Wisconsin that shows you the supper clubs and restaurants that really do a good job on prime rib, nominated by the customers, nominated by the communities.
Right now, they've got 16 locations on this map that will take you all around the state of Wisconsin.
What they're saying is for the 2026 version, they are welcoming your
nominations for where y in your vicinity and you
that as it is.
And you'll also find the social media links that you can suggest other additions to that trail for the 2026.
But you know, talking about beef prices, I don't know exactly how many people are necessarily turning to that page of the menu when they get to the restaurant.
Let's face it,
just like a Friday night fish fry, it is a staple of Wisconsin's dining out culture.
So they are trying to put that prime rib trail to good use.
I mean, it's kind of a nice thing if you have a staycation and you're driving around Wisconsin and knowing where
these prime rib areas are, you know, I mean, these supper clubs, you can find the right supper club and go to it just for fun.
You don't do it very much.
It's, you know, kind of a splurge thing.
If you're like me, it's not necessarily just the meal, it's the ambiance.
Some of these places,
some of these
places
I've never heard of.
So I'm kind of jacked up if I'm driving in the community, I'm doing a story or something like that, or I'm going to be around.
Maybe it won't be Prime Rib Saturday, but I'm going to try to check them out.
Prime Rib Trail, beeftips.com.
Making me hungry, just talking about it.
I know.
OK.
All right.
Pam Yonkey, thank you for joining us.
We'll talk to you on Monday.
No, not Monday.
You're off.
Oh, you're off?
Okay.
Talk to you next week.
All right.
That's
right.
All right.
Very good.
Coming back with more of John and Gordy for a Friday morning WMDX.
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 work, everyone.
Sharp broadcast.
Really good.
Good morning, John
and
Gordy.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Good morning.
Yes.
The big news, of course, is Johnny Gordy is going to do just one day a week now, and we're competing with Mel and Floyd, who beat us out in the best of medicine competition.
Yeah, so that's our new
strategy.
Once a week.
Well, I mean, if you can, you know, make it and be successful at just one day a week, beating up guys who are on five days a week doing hard work.
That's off to you.
I guess
yeah.
Well, thank you.
Yeah Anyway, yes, there's disappointing news.
We we didn't make the final three.
Oh, that's what matters.
That's
We won our awards many years ago.
That's right.
That's right.
Now we're in a downhill slide on the way out hanging on your bitter
end.
Yeah.
Oh, geez
Before we get to idiocracy, hey, it's free ticket Friday, so let's try to give away
a
four pack of Brewer tickets, okay?
Here's how this works.
We give you a key word, you get on the Civic Media app, you text that word into us, you're in on the contest, and then we'll draw a winner, and we'll let you know if you win.
And this is for a four pack of tickets to Friday, September 26th at Amfam Field.
Brewers take on the Reds.
Okay, that's the game, September 26th.
So if you can go to that game, you want a four pack of tickets, here's the keyword.
Get ready to text the word blue.
That's B-L-U-E blue.
This is a statewide contest.
We'll have other chances for you to win throughout the day.
So keep it tuned right here to WMDX.
Okay, blue is the keyword.
That's great.
All right, let's get a little blue here on the show.
OK,
really?
Not really.
Well, you never know.
You're going to start swearing like a sailor.
What are you going to do?
Well, you know, it's the discussion.
It's the topic that we're about to discuss here.
And it is AI doling out.
Sex advice to kids on their phones.
What so why don't we check this out?
This is a story that have been holding on to for eight weeks because it is a dumpster fire Friday We're clearing it out clearing stuff out.
So here we go the
dumpster
Yeah.
Children in teens are turning to AI chatbots to ask for advice on sensitive topics like sex.
A new report finds they spend more time chatting online with AI than texting with their friends.
Experts warn that some kids may be confusing chatbots with actual human relationships.
Those are the findings in a new report from the company Aura.
They found some children are having conversations with AI chatbots that are 10 times longer than the text they
send their friends.
In
analyzing how kids are using the tech or a found AI interactions ranging from homework and mental health to shared personal information and even sexual and romantic role-playing.
They have more magical thinking than adults so they can really attach to an AI chatbot and
think that it's human.
Joana Parga Balinky is a pediatrician
and neonatologist.
There are just not a lot of safeguards in place to stop AI from telling children, false, harmful, over-sexualized, or even
violent things.
Experts say it's important for parents to take steps to talk to their children about safe and appropriate uses for AI.
There you go.
Pretty frantic stuff, isn't it?
It is.
Take those phones away.
You can't do that nowadays.
It's hard to do.
Yeah.
By the way, this is a
limit their time.
Yes.
No, you can't really do that either.
I mean, I'm against any kind of limitations.
You know, just give them the stuff and give them advice.
See what happens.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Be their friend.
Okay.
So they talk to you instead of the AI.
My God, you know, that's what I did.
Of course.
That all happened when there wasn't AI.
So now you have AI to lean on.
I don't know.
Well, we'll see.
What age did you give your boys
phones?
I think about seven or eight.
Really?
Really?
That's when I got my first
one
as well.
Yeah, seriously.
Around the same age.
I gave them tablets before that.
And it was just experimental at the time tablets.
Yeah, they were mostly Japanese made and they weren't compatible with Google with their App Store.
So you had to download another app in order to apply these Google apps and it never worked and the kids were very frustrated.
This is their big Christmas present, you know.
What a disaster.
But you know, early days of tech screwed up.
I was reminded by the way of text.
Thank you very much for letting us know that.
know that it's talk like a pirate day.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
It's a big day.
And not only that, it's my 33rd anniversary of marriage
today.
Wow.
Really?
You and I in 33
years.
Talk like a pirate day.
We chose
that.
Right.
Yes.
So then what are you doing today then for it?
Yeah.
Well, we're going down.
Celebration.
We're going downtown, actually.
Coopers.
We're gonna celebrate there.
We love coopers hmm on the square.
Okay.
All right.
So that's yeah talk like a pirate day.
Okay.
Just talk at all this morning be helpful
Shiver me Tim.
Hey, yo, let's throw that in the old dumpster.
Oh, yeah, get the dumpster.
Oh my god.
Throw it in there man.
The players going out.
Okay.
We got more got plenty more
Okay
Something funny about that fire.
All right, here we go The mega are using Charlie Kirk is their Reichstag fire essentially it has enabled Trump and mega leaders to threaten civil war with the left finally and This is Ilan talking about that civil war.
Let's go to cut 110.
This is Ilan
And then you see how much violence there's on the left
with our friend Charlie Cook getting murdered in cold blood this week.
And people on the left celebrating it openly.
The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder.
I mean, let that sink in for a minute.
That's who we're dealing with here.
Really?
Yeah.
That's really what they're dealing with.
By the way, it was an immigration, anti-immigration rally behind him in London.
All right.
Why don't we go to the phones right away?
Let's talk to Joe.
Anytime Joe calls us up, we've got to hear what she has to say.
What do you got?
Good
morning, Joe.
Well, I think it's great.
He said talking about the left is the party of murder.
I believe it was Fox News was suggesting they should just kill the homeless
Yeah, congratulations on the wedding anniversary.
I just also wanted to add a little something and I'm sorry about you not placing or getting to the place you wanted in the Competition, but I would say you should take Trump's role way of doing it, which is to say
next time the voting happens we won't even have to vote you know a little threat of the market going on and i'm sure that'll do it i was calling for dumpster friday because uh... i could really talk about plenty of other things but there's a wonderful charming little something they came up to channel three thousand if you want to look at the video it's very wonderful this is so great the capital city chapter of must be pink
Dr. apparently 2,300 little muskelunges into the Madison chain of lakes with the help of a DNR.
So as you go swimming, watch your tooth teeth.
Just be careful.
Just absolutely be careful.
They interviewed one guy who said they were fishing in Canada when a muskie latched onto the boat but was not caught.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
So apparently this group is absolutely wonderful.
Maybe you want to get them on air.
They're the capital city muskies.
They're with an international group that is seeking to improve fisheries and promoting scientific research.
But I just thought 2,300 more of those little guys in our lakes.
Yeah.
Watch your toes.
Dangerous stuff, I know.
Oh my god.
Very good.
Thanks for the warning, Joe.
Joe, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Let's go to Mark.
He's on the line.
Mark, what do you got for us today?
Good morning.
Yeah, I think We need to be careful here that You know in the whole boycott thing that because we're gonna be punishing People that don't need to get punished because of the cowardice of the top management there at ABC and these other stations that you know, I'm seeing now that chart that Rick Scott
wants to declare october fourteen the national day of remembrance for charlie kirk what about national days of remembrance for all the other gun gun shot victims i mean and that we do not know you know keelan moe here you'll almost talking about also left it so violent so left it so violent well that's not really true we don't know why this guy did what he did it was not any left buff wing thing that did it i mean it was for people to be celebrating charlie kirk's death that uh...
And, you know, even criticizing what he said is considered not the thing to do well.
We should confront evil things that are said because it's truly evil for Charlie Kirk just have said, you know, that black women don't have the brain power, you know, that they're still in jobs from some white guy that...
This is a guy
that
supposedly doesn't see color, right?
They go by merit only, and every time he brings up the color of the individual.
You know, every time he sees somebody of color doing something, did they get it because of affirmative action, or did they actually have the talent?
You know, that is racism, pure racism, as far as I can tell.
And, you know, it is just sad that, you know, it's very, it's horrible he was murdered.
The fact of the matter is that these guys are using this.
You've mentioned the Reichstag fire.
I can't remember the name of that.
The German that, uh, they had the bloody shirt and the bloody flag that banner that they had that they used.
You know, that the Republicans are going to be using this.
You know, now they're going to have a whole day of their renting out.
They're having a whole stadium for his funeral.
I mean, the guy was not, the guy was not a saint.
No.
I mean, and that too, to elevate him to that level, I mean that.
Well, what next they're going to have?
They're going to have him venerated.
They're going to have miracles performed at, you know, over, you know, touching his clothing he was wearing or something like that.
Is this beyond me that that.
Well, you know, it's like throwing meat into a shark tank, you know, with Kimmel being pulled off the air.
Now they're using Kimmel as the example to show how bad the left is and really.
When people are said to have celebrated Kirk's death, they're really not celebrating.
They're bringing up some of the things that Kirk has actually said.
And when they quote Kirk, Kirk, they're actually celebrating.
That's according to the right wing, the Megas.
If you bring up anything he's ever said, you're celebrating his death.
That's really what I've kind of, I found that out just reading through all of the comments on X. It's just one.
Reference to somebody saying something about what Kirk said and that means they're celebrating It's all so skewed and so wrong.
It's such a big lie out there and they're they're At capitalizing on the lie.
That's the whole thing
and any other any other president would have would have Yeah, it's time to mourn Charlie.
It's we need to mourn Charlie Kirk's death We have we need to you know speak out against the violence that was committed against and we can't blame any any one particular person
over that particular action right there and try to actually bring the nation together rather than, you know, saying there's the enemy there, go get them, go get them, go get them, because that is what Hitler did.
That is what Donald Trump is doing.
Everybody thought it was more important to have a talk break about his dance floor and say something like that.
Just outrageous.
I know, I
know.
It is 6.48.
We're coming right back.
We'll take more of your phone calls and have much more of John and Gordy for Friday morning after this.
Jan and Gordy in the morning.
Is this a threat or is this a warning?
Jan and Gordy in the morning.
Who
will be their guest?
What will they be performing?
Jan and Gordy in the morning.
Are they funny or are they boring?
Jan and Gordy in the morning.
Will you be awake?
Oh, will you be snoring?
Jan and Gary in the morning.
The radio's on.
Are you ignoring?
There you go.
Art Paul.
Thank you so much, Art, for that.
Yeah, he was at the night market last night.
Yeah, he's always performing on the
corner just
right in front of the radio station.
Yeah,
yeah, right in front of our stand.
Oh, yeah, this is WMDX 92.7 John and Gordy in the morning down at the controls throwing this stuff in every once in a while We've got another cut coming up about the Civil War, but first before we get to that.
Yeah, let's go to the phone CJ
Good morning CJ Good morning gentlemen.
Thank you for taking my calls.
Happy anniversary.
Well, thank you very much.
Yes
Is it John or Gordy's celebration?
It's me.
It's John
and his wife,
Ann.
But I was at the wedding.
And I met Ann.
What a beautiful lady.
You're a lucky man.
Well, thank you.
Yes.
Well, now to the news.
This is where you'll probably not be so happy I called, but you know, Charlie Kirk and...
and the missed quotes are the incomplete quote that i've heard no they're
always complete
they're always you never play the sympathy part but um you know uh beyond that i don't know if you guys had researched that um assassination problem your your party has um that's
from the report or the survey that i refer to i don't know if you've ever researched that we have not looked into that the jimmy kimmel thing yeah um well the affiliates did it just the way they did it uh um steven colbert who was losing 40 to 60 million dollars a year uh you know um it was a financial decision it wasn't
the FCC.
So you guys need to tell the rest of those stories.
There you go.
He's got it.
The rest of the
story.
You're right.
And I think it's the network basically that put the kibosh on Colbert.
I don't know if it's so much political pressure on that.
You
know, Jerry's still out.
He's still
out.
Yeah, I know.
I read that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He said, we don't believe this reflects the spectrum of opinions or views or values of our local communities in which we are located.
Well, I'm glad they've
determined that.
Isn't it
nice to know that they know all about what those communities think?
Isn't that nice?
Boy, they sure are in contact
with
those folks.
Tell us what to think guys.
The
arrogance of a network thinking they know what the community thinks.
They're deciding for us what that community is thinking.
I am so happy to know that they're in touch.
Wow.
You don't think it has anything to do with the next star deal merging with Tegna.
government is holding up because of, you know, they're blaming Jimmy Kimmel for this, that the affiliates are upset about what he's doing.
There's a $6 billion deal in the balance that the FCC has to approve.
And so they're kind of using that as leverage to get Kimmel off
the air.
Yeah.
You don't think there's
anything to that?
$6 million, guys, in one day from their advertisers.
saying we don't want to support this anymore.
That's just BS.
You don't think that's BS?
Sharon,
I don't
believe in you.
How do you believe that, CJ?
You're smarter than that.
You
don't think Brendan Carr is saying we can do this the easy way or the hard way?
How do you think to do it?
Yeah,
Brendan Carr threatened.
the network, threaten the network.
And then they had all of these deals working behind the scenes.
We didn't know about that.
Now we know about all those stuff.
And we're finding out that, you know, this is just a game.
This is what they're doing in order to take over the media.
And I think this is just part of it.
Well, you don't think that we've been misled by the media Russia gate for two and a half years?
You don't think we've been misled?
By Fox News?
By
Newsmax?
Yeah, I think we've been misled,
yeah.
So was Adam Schiff correct when he said that he had evidence of Russia collusion for two years?
Yes, yes.
We had a report on that, yes, and it's true that Russia did collude and did...
But they didn't
remember.
Remember,
they didn't
have enough.
They didn't have enough
to make a case in order to at least prosecute.
We know that there was collusion.
We know that they had something to do with it.
And I think six Russians would have been arrested if we could arrest people in Russia, but we can't.
So yes, there was collusion.
There was something there.
All right.
Well, and Joe Biden had his wits about him too, right?
Yeah.
I mean, we're finding out that certainly wasn't the case.
Hunter was helping decide who got the pardon.
You guys need to, you guys are smarter than that.
No.
Okay, well, you can throw
those
words back
at me,
CJ, but that's, well, that's good to hear that he has.
the rest of the story.
But I think Gordy brought up a good point.
I mean, there are a lot of things going on in the background at all of this.
SEC chair is part of it.
That huge
deal between Nexstar and Tegna.
Tegna used to be USA Today, used
to be
Gannett Publishers.
And then, you know, they sold, or they...
became Tegna.
Anyway, right, we got to move along here.
We've got news right around the corner and an update on weather and a whole lot more.
Charles, we'll get the Charles and just
Charles hang on the line.
Also rocker in our next hour with a Maxink preview.
And what else do we have, John?
We have
I think I've named it all.
Oh, yes, I knew
there was
more.
Yes, Savannah Tomah Olsen will be with us right in just a few minutes right here.
Here we have Duster Fryer Friday.
I'm clearing through all the stories and I've only gotten one story.
Well, we'll try to clear out a few more sometime in the next hour.
We have
a lot of stuff coming up in the next half hour.
John Peterson, Gordy Young
coming back
after this.
It's a beautiful morning.
We got a new act.
It's phenomenal.
It's sensational.
It's terrific.
It's either mediocre.
No, it's disgusting.
It's a ploy.
What a
f***ing ass.
You have a pretty fun show.
I listen to it most of the time, you know.
Keep up the good work.
God, I love you.
Get the hell off the
stage.
Nice work, everyone.
Sharp broadcast.
Really good.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
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It is a Friday morning.
We have Savannah Tomei Olsen with us every Friday to give us an update of what's going on around Madison and around the area.
Good morning, Savannah.
Good morning, guys.
Every week feels like it's a month at this point.
Oh, I
know.
There's
just so much.
So much going
on.
It
never ends.
I
have to say that I'm...
almost brought to tears every time I hear your homeless encampment story.
Oh man.
Out on Dairy Drive.
Right.
That encampment is going away just because of one vote.
I hate to be the person who cast that one vote actually at this point after hearing the pleas from one of the individuals that really, I mean just simple.
I'm really, yeah.
Doing something so simple in life was so important to that woman that you interviewed.
It was just, it took
except my heart every time I hear it, it's just outrageous that, you know, when we do something like an encampment, it seems like such a good idea.
It seemed
to work.
It did seem to work.
So why not keep something that works instead of having these artificial deadlines, right?
The big thing for the city was that the money ran out.
All the money to pay for it came from federal pandemic dollars, and they were trying to figure out other ways and other places to find the money.
pretty much the bottom line there, especially as they have the men's shelter that's expected to open in the spring.
But even then that leaves a gap for the men in the dairy drive community because I think it's supposed to open in April or May of next year.
That doesn't account for the women who are there because we don't really have too many women's shelters here either.
So yeah, that was kind of a devastating one to listen to.
They had
lots of testimony from residents of Dairy Drive.
There are at least four of them.
And that was kind of a gut wrencher to listen to.
And, you know, from my house with air conditioning with a warm bed to sleep in every night, you know, it just kind of hits
you.
It really does.
Now, if it had one, how would they have paid for that?
Did they
have
an alternative funding source of some sort?
Apparently not.
If it had passed.
One of the alders.
Davey Meyer was trying to find money from the county, which always kind of prickles people on both sides of that equation as they try to, as they say, well, you over at the county have the money to help pay for this, right?
And the county's like, we don't, you have it at the city.
But either way, from what I read, it sounded like there just wasn't enough on either side.
And you talked about
failing by one vote, there was one abstention in that vote too.
And I imagine that had to be a tough one for everybody to cast, really.
Wow.
And Savannah, another news item here, the Metro drivers have a new contract, right?
That's right.
They have been working without one for the last nine or 10 months here.
And they've been very vocal about
what they want in their negotiations, especially as we've seen all these weird attacks on bus drivers
kind
of increased over the last few months.
So they get 3% raises year over year, and this was a big one.
They're going to get payments to keep up with inflation.
So they'll all get bonuses for the time that
they did not have a contract.
And then they're going to continue to work with Teamsters Local 120 on their safety measures, considering that's been such a weird trend we've seen since the start of 2025.
Yeah,
some kind of outfit, some kind of rugged wear that they could put on.
Really?
A bubble.
Just a big bubble.
Yes,
a big
bubble, yes.
Exactly.
And we just have a minute or two here.
We lost a couple of Madison music figures, Herb Frank, which John and I both knew Herb.
That's right.
Frank family from Frank Productions.
He passed away.
And the other one was Bob Queen.
It
was Bob Queen.
He started Fete Marquette.
That was his baby.
But he also built up lots of other festivals that includes the Ordon Park Festival, which has now been around for 60 years.
And there was a really beautiful story in the state journal that talked about how all these other people just got basically roped into Bob's shenanigans to be part of these community festivals that almost entirely raised money for good causes around the Madison area.
It also talked about how there was one last private performance outside his hospital room before he died, which is a pretty cool
thing.
Yeah, that is very cool.
Well, Savannah, thank you for
updating
us.
We hope you have a good weekend.
We'll talk to you again next week.
Very good.
Thank you.
That's Savannah Tomay Olson, WMGX News.
Okay.
All right.
Well, let's get to, uh,
do we have one more thing?
No, we have a couple of people on the line.
Oh, we do.
Yes.
That's right.
Charles Charles is on the road and been
holding for a while.
Good morning, Charles.
What do you have for us?
Hey, good morning, guys.
Happy Friday and happy anniversary.
Well, thank you.
Um, yes, you guys said it on hand.
Follow the money.
Yes.
Money money.
The money says it all.
And then and then Trump, I've never seen the person that that
does not know I keep keep keep their mouth closed he came out and said it um oh they never report anything good about me they they talk about me oh shut up what happened to the the party of manly men i've never seen a bunch of men that whine as much as the guys in this party the their reporters are always crying and whining
And and I still say it's Friday and we have yet to see this young man's internet searches Social media footprint anything, but I like my theory is that it doesn't fit their narrative that they are trying to put out there and my last point I'm tired of non-white people
Trying to tell black people what racism is Charlie Kirk was a racist.
There's no way to spin it He said horrible things about black people So for I don't want to Bring up anybody's name but for anybody that loves to call in and say well, this is what Charlie Kirk meant What he meant is what he said when I get in the airport
And I see a black pilot.
I wonder if they're qualified enough.
What else is that outside of a nasty racist comment?
Black women don't have the brain power.
Well, my daughters are black women and they have the brain power.
There comes people with
anybody out there.
I know how could you not interpret it the way he
said it?
We're
hearing what he's saying in context.
What am I supposed to go to some reference point?
You know, three weeks before where he complimented a black individual because that black individual supported him.
So he's
going
to be nice to them.
So he's nice to some African Americans out there.
But no, you know, the thing is he came out against him.
He saw color first and he always wondered, are they qualified?
That is racism, pure and simple.
Always that person is I got a black friend.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
That's.
That's
it doesn't work that it doesn't work that way.
They're always trying to well.
This is what Trump really meant No, we know what he meant because we heard it with our own two ears stop trying to gaslight us.
We're not stupid Thanks, thanks for the call.
It was very
important to get to appreciate it.
Let's go to dick.
All right dick.
Good morning
Good morning here here to everything Charles this set Can you imagine?
No, okay
You get rid of Jimmy Kimball.
Let's just take for granted what CJ said about sponsorship.
Let's just say it's true.
I don't believe it, but another thing.
Can you imagine if Barack Obama or Joe Biden would have just said, you know what?
I'm pulling the plot on Fox News.
What do you think CJ and the Republican Party would be saying?
I mean, he's threatening ABC right now.
He said it in his own words yesterday, you know, he's thinking about pulling the plug on him.
Well, really, what do you think they would be saying if either of those two presidents would have said the same thing?
About
five.
I agree.
And everybody's bringing that up now because, you know, again, if you just look in a mirror, what do you think?
What do you think if Obama had done this?
What if Biden had gone after them?
This, they would go ballistic.
Well, they've already gone ballistic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And also, to her, Frank's passing.
I mean, he's one of great, great guys.
Yeah, absolutely.
He set me up with tickets for Chicago when they were at the Overture Center years back.
And I thought, oh, just get me in the house because I was late.
And I was sitting there 10 rows away.
Yeah.
Shall I tell my story about this?
Yes.
have to do with her, but have to do with Freddie Frank.
His son.
His
son, who was controlling a lot of the concerts at the time.
I was at W-I-B-A-F-M.
And we get calls every once in a while at the station and people say, hey, I've got some tickets for Fleetwood Mac.
And I'd like to have somebody buy them for me or get them from me.
And I said, OK, we'll pass that along.
And I thought, you know what, I want those tickets.
So I bought the tickets from this guy.
I went to the Coliseum.
Freddie Frank comes over to the aisle and I'm sitting in and motions me over.
He says, you got to leave.
I said, what do you mean I've got to leave?
Well, you know, the guy paid for the tickets, but then he stopped payment on him with his charge card.
And I had to leave.
So he kicked me out of the Coliseum.
I was doing mornings at WIVA.
I suppose it didn't really.
matter to him.
No, but those tickets weren't no longer valid.
Well, I never held it against him.
I just thought it was a
funny start, you know, another one of the curb your enthusiasm moments.
Yeah.
Dick, thank
you for that
call.
Thanks for letting me tell my story.
Yes.
You'll have to get that off my chest.
I
know.
No, it's good.
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Rocker is here with a Maxink preview.
We'll look ahead to some great music happening in the area and great original music happening in southern Wisconsin
throughout the state.
Brittany Merleau coming up as well.
And finally a cut from David Letterman.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
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It's all coming up on John and Gordy in the morning on double.
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yes, WMDX 92.7.
It's John and Gordon in the morning text here.
Interesting one.
If the January 6th protesters were Antifa and they
Of course, been accused of being Antifa.
Then why did Trump pardon them?
All
right, well, that's a good question.
That is a good question.
We've got questions on our website, wmdxradio.com, the poll question.
What part of the belt line has the worst traffic when it gets really busy?
And this is the last day to get in on this, but it looks like a runaway for the Midvale Boulevard, Verona Road exits, Todd Drive, Fish Hatch area.
That area gets the busiest.
And
it's the whole damn belt
line.
It is the whole line.
That's okay.
Let's not soft sell this thing.
All right.
Then they didn't even put a north belt line in.
Don't get me going on this.
All right.
Rockers in the studio will get to him in about 15 minutes.
Why not talk to Brittany Merleau?
She's here.
She
managed to get a few rain showers on my deck.
My newly applied seal on my deck.
So thank you, Brittany.
Good morning, Brittany.
Good morning.
I'm sorry.
I had a feeling it could happen.
I was hoping it didn't.
I'm so sorry.
I'm asking about you this morning, actually.
Well, John's counting on you to come up and help him reseal the deck.
So
you guys
can talk about
that after the show.
No, you
don't
have to.
No, that would be so fun.
You're awesome.
I'd help.
Great.
I'd love
that.
All right.
What's going on for the weekend?
What's the weather for the weekend going to be?
Will it be hot?
Cold
rain.
We have a jingle somewhere.
Okay, never mind.
Brittany,
what do you think?
I think it's going to be damp and dreary, windy, wet, so grab that umbrella.
We've got this big low pressure system that's slowly moving here and then another one wants to combine with it to kind of stall it and then bring even more rain potentially early next week.
It's a maths.
We'll put it that way.
Right now, we've got spots of fog, we've got a few more scattered sprinkles just to the southwest of the city.
Those will be moving in shortly.
Temperatures in those mid-60s, it'll be mostly cloudy all day today pretty much.
I should hit 80.
Still getting breezy winds out of the east with rain expected again starting probably this afternoon.
I want to say some storms are going to spark maybe around midnight in your area and kind of continue through the overnight.
I think we have a chance for a drier morning tomorrow and then more rain in the afternoon and then more storms again at night.
But temperatures tomorrow a little bit cooler to the upper 70s and then by Sunday into the mid 60s.
Sunday might be the driest day during the day.
But then, like I mentioned, that next system moves in.
So late Sunday, Monday, we could get some downpours there.
So, yeah.
Mud boots, rain boots, umbrella, all
that.
Get the mucklucks out.
Hip waders.
All
right.
I was telling people too, I'm such a weirdo.
I thought this morning I was like, I want to see everybody's umbrella.
So send me a picture on Facebook of your umbrella if it's a different design, something cool.
Or if you get caught in the rain,
send a video.
And what is your Facebook site?
Merleau's Weather.
There you go.
Merleau's Weather.
Merleau's Weatherologist, Brittany Merleau.
All right.
You
can
find me.
Very good,
Brittany.
Thank you.
We'll have people do that.
Thanks.
You have a great weekend.
Yep.
Talk to you Monday.
That's Brittany Merleau, WMDX meteorologist.
All right, let's just
go and play this cut from David Letterman, his response to the Kimmel debacle that took place.
Let's listen to it.
Here we go.
Tell us what you think about what happened last night to Jimmy Kimmel.
Well, this is a misery.
And in the world of somebody who is an authoritarian, maybe a dictatorship, sooner or later, everyone is going to be touched.
But this is me.
For 30 years, I did this for a living.
So I see this happen.
They took care of Colbert.
That was rude.
That was inexcusable.
The man deserves a great deal of credit.
He's in the Hall of Fame nine times and to be manipulated
like that because the Ellison family didn't want to trouble Donald Trump with this move, so they got rid of him.
Not only got rid of him, got rid of the whole franchise.
You're not going to have to worry about anything, Larry.
It's all gone.
It's fine.
Good night.
And then my good friend Jimmy Kimmel.
I feel bad about this because we all see where this is going, correct?
It's managed media.
And it's no good.
It's silly.
It's ridiculous.
And you can't go around firing somebody because you're fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office.
That's just not how this works.
David Lennon.
Beautiful.
We have time for the Colbert Cut.
This is Stephen Colbert last night about, well, just play the cut.
Shortly after Carr makes his statements about the ABC, Kimmel gets yanked off the air.
This decision,
came after senior executives at ABC, Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings during which multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed.
As one source at ABC put it, they were pissing themselves all day.
On the bright side, that proves Disney is number one in
streaming.
Now, this may seem bad, but Carr was quick to reassure everyone posting, while this may be an unprecedented decision, it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values.
Well, you know what my community values are, Buster?
Freedom of speech.
Oh.
That's a big one.
Yeah.
Or, as Alexander Hamilton called it,
Hakuna
Matata.
All right.
There you go.
Stephen Colbert last night.
Yes, quite the commentary.
A lot of this is going on.
And of course, we'll find out what the Daily Show has to say about all of this.
Yeah, John Stewart made an appearance last night.
That's right.
And he's usually only there on Mondays now.
But yeah, this is special.
Anyway,
we only got the three cuts today in them.
I put a lot of preparation.
A lot of show.
It's 29 pass.
When we come back,
It's rocker in the studio with a Max Inc preview right here with John and Gordy on WMDX.
A lot of banjo music.
Oh
yeah, stay with us.
Introduction.
He is the rocker.
Wow.
Good morning, rocker.
What's happening, guys?
Thanks for having me, man.
I love that song.
It's so funny.
He'll tell you when he likes it, right?
Yeah.
He threw that line in just for you, yes.
Oh, that
is so
funny.
It is 736, John and Gordy, along with rocker and Dominic Lee, our producer.
Rain showers off and on today, highs in the upper 70s.
Rocker, it's Max Inc preview time, so let's get going.
We do.
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right here on WMDX 927 and the podcast on civicmedia.us slash Max Inc Radio.
This week, artifacts
She's gonna be in here.
She's a painter a muralist a DJ She does a lot of the murals you see around town.
They're giant.
Oh, yeah sides of buildings We're gonna talk to her about that because she started over in Spain and we want to hear what's going on with her the skin tones they are just a
legendary punk band here in Madison they've been around for probably 25 years they have a bunch of shows coming up and some new music drummer Anthony Edward Leskin and he'll be in here to tell us all about that because they have a show coming up including the man farm moto Halloween bash which is just crazy in a party barn down on highway 14
what
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's there's a couple of party barns out there in Brooklyn that have these, you know, big concerts now.
It's pretty crazy.
I
did not know that.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
That's cool.
Party barns are a thing now, you know, and
what is this like a rave up party out in a barn?
No, it's like actually a bunch of well, the first night is kind of metal and the second night is.
a bunch of different genres, but they have a moto track out there.
They bring in food trucks.
It's two stages, one in the top of the barn and one in the bottom of the barn.
You know, it's just like the wedding barn thing.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
Except for except for they've gone crazy.
Now they're they're like, you know, just regular shows like concerts, you know, so people, you know, aren't necessarily getting married.
Yeah.
But you know, you can usually camp there, you know, drive home, you know.
Excellent.
So they're pretty cool.
So we'll hear all about what the party
was the farmer that rented out for Woodstock.
Max Yasker.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yasker's farm.
There you go.
That was a long time ago.
Okay.
A live from the Mad City.
We have the mascot theory this week mascot theory has a brand new album out Cosmic Hit and Run and they're going to be performing songs from their new album.
So that'll be really cool to hear in Flannel Fest and stuff.
So let's get right on to mascot theory.
Like I said, Cosmic Hit and Run.
It's out October 3rd.
It grew out of frontman Eric Cajellan's journey through loss and survival.
The songs were written as a way of processing delayed grief after the loss of his father during the pandemic.
And then of course, he was just recently admitted with some.
brain issues that he had to have surgery on.
So now this album kind of documents that they have an album really shows Sunday, October 5th at Atwood Music Hall and then Friday, November 21st.
It's the 12th annual Flannel Fest Keep Wisconsin Warm and Cool Fund.
They've raised $169,000 already.
That's going to be
at the Barrymore Theater with the record company, the mascot theory, Beth Killiband and American Scarecrow's right here on WMDX.
They will be performing live from the Mad City on Max, Inc.
Radio eight to nine PM this Saturday night.
The mascot theory will be performing songs from their new album.
So check it out.
Let's hear one of them.
This is called got a grip.
This is the mascot
theory.
I sing ships and star-cross lovers Peek your eyes from undercovers Cross my heart and hope to fly Into a sunset painted sky I sing ships and star-cross lovers Peek your eyes from undercovers
That's a really nice song.
Really
good stuff.
Such a great
band.
And it's not even out yet.
So you guys have a preview.
That's good.
And it's got Johnny Gordy endorsement right here.
Big thumbs up
from both
of us.
It brings back the old days when we were at 92.
We played a lot of local music.
We added them to our playlists.
And that's the one thing that didn't transfer over to triple M, unfortunately, playing the local music.
And that's why you're here, Rocker.
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
And we definitely keep local music going.
Yeah.
Make sure to check out the mascot theory this Saturday night live right here in our studio.
By the way, they're going to have the full band.
So we're going to have a full drum set out in the lounge.
We're going to have this place wired like a UFO in here.
Okay.
By
the
way, last Sunday was your big show and I missed it and I had to take care of the grandkids and it
was
driving me crazy.
I really wanted to be there, but Iron
Plow was
playing.
How did it go?
We did the fundraiser for Big John.
My comeback show was great.
There were tons of people there.
It was filmed by UW Health and thanks to everybody that came out.
I saw a ton of faces and a lot of people that I hadn't seen in some time who came out.
and supported me and supported John.
And by the way, we just picked up another iron plow show.
Really?
This Sunday, September 21st, 6 p.m.
at the Annex in the Red Zone over there on Regent Street.
We're gonna be opening for the Black Moods, which is pretty cool.
And I'm gonna tell you about that great band in one second.
But just to give you another slice of iron plow, my band Iron Plow.
I brought in a new clip from a different song.
I don't think I've played this one yet.
So this might be an iron plow.
This is called Promised
Land.
It's time to hit that number Before we hit the front You know it's not it nor by
So clean.
Really pure rock and roll.
Great
stuff.
Really.
Oh, it's a lot of fun.
And it's going to be a lot of fun coming up this Sunday, September 25th, 21st.
I mean, 5 p.m.
doors open.
It's an 18 plus show at the annex at the Red Zone, Regent Street.
It used to be the Regents III retreat.
It's what I'm trying to say.
It's presented by Midwest Mixup.
Now, the Black Moods, they're a three-piece power trio.
They're born in the deserts of Arizona.
They tour constantly.
And you know when the pandemic came out?
They were 500 days of silence.
So they made a documentary movie on what they did through the pandemic.
It's available on YouTube.
It's pretty cool.
It's called 500 Days of Silence.
And the band is really good.
The Black Moods with Embers Rise, Fist Piston, they're out of Baraboo, Iron Plow and Groove Society this Sunday at the Annex.
We got enough time for one?
Yeah.
All right, well, let's hear the black moods.
This is a brand new song from them.
This is called suit yourself
From Arizona, they'll be this Sunday at the Enix with iron plow.
Okay,
so The Enix Madison.com you can get tickets
sounds good.
Hey, let's go to the phones Catherine Lake is on the line this morning.
Good
morning
Catherine.
Hey Catherine
Sorry, I had to interrupt because I know that you go through a lot of bands and I don't want to take any extra time except to say rocker I finally got to see iron plow last weekend
that you'd be like this crazy drummer going all over the place.
Heart stop.
You were so precise and calm.
You were remarkable to watch.
I just thought, my God knows what he's doing on those drums.
She was there too.
And I think Mikey really liked it.
Right.
Yeah.
He said, yeah.
Oh, thank you so much.
I really appreciate it.
Yeah.
It was such a fun show.
And, uh, you know, lot of energy and Ben was green.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks, Catherine.
Thank
you for
that, Catherine.
All right.
We got time for one more in here.
All right.
Sean Michael Dargan, he's got a new song on a million words or less.
He is going to be playing with Bing Bong Saturday, September 27th at the Harmony Bar on Atwood Avenue on the east side there.
They just put out their sixth album, a little bit distracted.
You might know him with Shawn Michael Dargan.
He does the Madison Mystery Tour.
He's the big six four.
Six four is how tall he is.
He's a tall guy and he plays bagpipes, a couple extra factoids.
Let's hear Shawn Michael Dargan.
No banjo in this song.
This is a million words or
less.
Prop me up to pass the time.
Great
learn excellent like that.
Excellent.
Yeah, good sound.
Yeah, Shawn Michael Dargan.
Yeah, he's he's great.
You might know him.
He's he manages the students the people who book all the music over at the Union
Now I
didn't hear any bagpipes in there, that in that particular
song.
I mean I just said he plays bagpipes.
See he's just.
If you play the bagpipes put it in the song.
Oh no.
When we had him we had the band here in the studio one time and he pulled out his bagpipes and played him.
He didn't have a song that had him but he just he had to pull them out to let us know.
I mean it's pretty I've never even known anyone who played bagpipes.
That's what they you know.
When I lived in Indiana.
neighbor in the next block over, played bagpipes.
And every Sunday morning, he'd get out there with the bagpipes on his front porch and played, but he'd play for like three hours.
It was so irritating.
I mean,
I can take about 20 minutes of bagpipes.
I mean, everybody's got a bagpipe story.
Maybe we should get him to text in or call in and give us your best bagpipe story.
We're coming right back with Rocker with a Maxink preview.
Stay with us.
you
92.7.
This is WMDX and Johnny Gordy with Dom pushing the buttons for us and playing the music.
And Rocker is also in the studio introducing us to a lot of great Wisconsin and local bands.
Yes.
And
what do you got for us here?
We got a few more
minutes here,
Rocker.
Well, let's leave the local area and talk about somebody who's not from here last week.
I told you about Locky Dolly.
He was the
Whammy, Clavinet guy, remember that?
And he played a Hendrick song.
Oh, yes.
I saw a video of this guy.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it
was unbelievable.
So I thought I...
play another piece because the guy is really good organ based drums no guitar and there's a three piece from Australia Monday September 22nd 730 he's going to be at the high noon saloon the guy is just totally amazing and I thought and he does like mostly cover songs because you know it's just it's such in a different way
Um, and this one is called a woman.
This is live in March of 2019.
This is the Locky Dolly group.
They're coming to the high noon September 22nd.
I don't care about those high heels you're wearing, baby.
I just want your stare.
He's a wall wall woman.
It's so amazing what he does with this keyboard with the whammy bar.
Somebody sent me a video with this and he's just hitting this all the time.
It's really cool.
Oh,
yeah.
And it sounds great.
And that's what he has.
He has, you know, his Hammond organ and he's got this whammy clavinet, which right, you know, it's kind of really unique.
I mean,
It
looks like an old radio antenna or something that's kind of
attached to
it.
I mean, he can manipulate it.
It's hard to explain.
I mean, it's definitely like an old-time instrument.
It's got to be from the 70s or something, right?
I want
to bring up a text we got here from Sarah O'Brien out in Fitchburg.
I heard you guys talking about party barns in Brooklyn, and she sent a poster of an old-time barn dance that's going on out there.
barn.
Yeah, Saturday, October 11th.
And you mentioned, you know, like Brooklyn's just
got a bunch of these.
And not Brooklyn, New York, right?
Brooklyn, Wisconsin.
It's just south of Madison by like 20 minutes.
The mad photo, the mad, mad farm moto bar.
And then I was talking about that's right on highway 14 just outside of Brooklyn.
And then there's there's it's like
I mean, Brooklyn is like home of the party barns.
I know.
I mean, that's like their claim to fame now.
I smell a John and Gordy celebration.
I think
so,
yeah.
Wisconsin's new building is the party barn.
That's right.
OK.
Watch it, though.
You know, once the legislature gets
a hold of this, they're going to start charging.
Actually, I think they're the ones who opened up the laws so that the party barns could kind of exist more.
No kid.
Alcohol laws and such.
Okay.
We got time maybe for another one here.
48th
annual Willie Street fairs coming up September 20th and 21st.
That is really close tomorrow.
Four stages hundreds of vendors kids stage and family activities and the Sunday parade with the bubble mobile You can't miss that right on Willy Street here on Madison's east side There are some great bands there first days like on the main stages huge tribute bands right fun is a fish tribute Loving Cup the Rolling Stones tribute purple veins a Prince tribute and hips don't lie a Shakira tribute and headlining
Vio 5.
There's Josh Hardy, Blythe Gamble, The Rolling Dice, Lyndon the Zeroes, The Periodicals, Beth Killiband, just tons of people playing.
Yeah.
Find the event on Facebook, search Willy Street Fair 2025.
You'll find it right now.
Let's check out one of the bands is coming is Blythe Gamble, and she is a female vocalist of the year for the Madison Area Music Association.
This is from her album, The Real, Real for the Deal.
2019.
This is Blythe Gamble and the Roland Dice.
This is
Bluesman.
John, I
know how much you love the blues.
Do you like that one?
I actually like that
one.
Every once in a while, one breaks through.
It's not all just slow blues.
We'll be back to Banjo soon.
Yeah, we'll get back to that.
I hope so.
Max, Inc.
Saturday nights, rocker.
Oh, yeah, this weekend six to nine p.m.
Here on WM DX ninety two seven.
We have a great show coming up with artifacts skin tones and the mascot theory is right here performing live in our studio eight to nine p.m.
All right.
All right.
Very good.
Rocker always good to see you.
Thank you, guys.
And
I am.
Wow.
What's your iron plow this Sunday at the annex six p.m.
Good times.
Very good.
A lot of fun opening for the black moods.
Go check out the black moods.
I think you really dig them three piece.
power trio.
All right.
Excellent.
Thanks, Rocker.
Have a good weekend.
Also want to thank Savannah Tomei Olson, Brittany Merleau, Pam Yonkey for joining us today.
Monday, we'll be talking about Vegan Fest with Libby and Kristen.
There's a couple of the organizers.
John, you got big plans for the weekend.
You're going to reseal the deck now.
Is that the deal?
No, no,
that's that's over.
It's
done.
I'm just
going to visit every one of the barns, the O'Brien barn and everybody else's barn.
You're going to Minnesota, right?
Minnesota, yeah.
Just going to chill out there.
Go watch some soccer.
Oh, yeah.
That's it.
Stephanie Miller's next.
Have a great day and a great
weekend.
Please stand by for the John and Gordy morning show.
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92.7, it's John and Gordy, at least as long as they allow us to be on the air, we'll see.
Good morning.
We'll see.
Might be today, might be tomorrow, you never know.
The FCC Gestapo's coming out to take us away.
All right, all right.
Coming in hot, huh?
Good morning, John
Peterson.
Hi, everybody.
Hi.
Good morning, Dominic Lee.
Good morning.
Good morning.
How are you doing?
I'm doing well.
Good.
I'm
doing well.
I'm not at all.
I'm at which end.
I'm frustrated.
I'm done with this.
And I think a lot of people might be.
I'm going to hold back.
OK.
Well, just hang on for a minute here.
I will.
I'll wait even
longer than that.
OK.
Got cloudy skies out there this morning, 60 degrees highs today in the 80s, low 80s, low to mid 80s.
And coming up a little bit in just a little while, Tim Slecker from Busted Pencils will join us at about 635.
And then in our next hour, Jim Santel, former U.S.
attorney will join us around 735.
So.
Here
we are we're going to are we gonna carry live the the the sainthood The ceremonies for would never
buy good you know the thing here is
I you know
I just don't want to go off on the deep end here.
You know,
I know
I'm going to do it.
I know it's going to happen.
I'm just bottled.
I bottled everything up last night.
Oh, man, you know, the family, I apologize.
Really?
What were you out of control?
I just, well, both Ann and I were just freaking out completely.
I mean, we had just just about had it.
And I asked Dom this morning if he watched TV.
And I have an Altaria Moda for doing that.
I watched TV all my life.
I saw life through TV.
Got the biggest news stories of history through TV.
And I appreciate what it has done for my generation, 50s, 60s, and 70s.
And I'm looking at Gen Z here.
I'm looking at my sons.
20-somethings, and they don't watch TV.
They don't give a damn
about TV.
Yeah, same with my daughter who's 37 years old.
Yeah.
And my son as well, who's 41, 42.
And
I've got my fingers crossed on this that there are so many Gen Zers out there who don't give a damn about television.
Yeah, they don't.
They'll give it up and just...
Leave these people dry.
They have their little streaming networks.
That's fine.
Let them do what they're going to do.
But as far as all these network shows, forget it.
Man, you know, you can leave them in the dust, get rid of them.
I'm done with it.
I'm all over TV at this point.
You are.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you know, two thirds of people don't watch local television anymore.
They get their news, at least for news, they get their news off of the internet,
you
know, off of streaming services, things like that.
So that's just where we are now.
You know, it used to be a habit to watch the evening news.
Sure.
ABC, CBS, NBC in the evening, you know, with Walter Gronkite.
Yeah.
You know, Huntley Brinkley, the report, all of that.
And then your local news, you know, either at six o'clock or watch the evening news at 10 o'clock.
And they do,
they do great coverage of the local
area.
Yeah, they do.
They do.
But you know, with the stripped down staffs that they have now, most of these TV stations are chains, and they have taken a lot of people out.
Remember, they almost got rid of all the weather people.
Almost.
Yeah.
And then they had to put them back because two people need weather.
People watch the weather more than anything else.
They have to be warned if there's something wrong outside.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they made a big mistake there.
But here's the thing, and this is where I'm going.
for the next two hours anyway, is drop the networks.
You know, I have Hulu+, and I get all of the TV shows, all of the networks, and I'm dropping plus.
I'm getting rid of it.
I'm not gonna watch TV.
I'm not gonna get the networks anymore.
NBC, ABC, CBS.
I'm dumping them all.
They're gone.
They have sold us all out.
These are oligarch billionaires who own all of this stuff now they own tiktok on top of that now they're making a purchase of Warner Brothers So they'll own CNN and then they'll get rid of whatever CNN is doing maybe they'll just put out on business others, you know Fox News you got that
I'm done with the networks, and I'm asking everybody out there to dump the networks, get rid of them.
Now
you can get over-the-air local television on antennas, and I understand they're very, very effective, very, very good.
Now you have to find a way to connect that in to your TV.
It's easy.
I've got one.
Oh, you do?
Yeah.
Goes
right into your coax.
Oh, it is.
Yeah, it's just
like cable, actually.
Okay, an HDMI, straight out.
Yeah, you can do that.
as
well as well
either way but yes
so so it works well so do that and get rid of the networks do not subscribe to these people they have sold you and they've sold me out i am done with them and uh you know the thing is uh they've left us high and dry you know they don't care about us
They're censoring everything now.
This government has taken over the FCC, and I didn't think that Brendan Carr would be this dangerous as chair of the FCC, but he is this dangerous.
The FCC usually just sits back and lets things happen and, you know, gives their advice from time to time.
He is proactive.
This guy is going after everybody and threatening them.
yeah with court or with uh with uh being completely taken off the air so yeah you would never have expected the FCC chair to do something like this but he is on board with the Trump administration
well we're gonna talk about all that and what Jimmy Kimmel said that
got them fired, apparently, and
getting the weeds on
all
of that.
Yeah, we're going to do that a little after seven o'clock because at six thirty five, we've got Tim Slecker from busted pencils in here.
Mm
hmm.
Let's check WMDXradio.com.
The poll numbers are in, John, for today, for this morning, anyway.
All right.
This will be on one more day, actually.
What part of the belt line is the worst traffic when it gets really busy?
What do you think?
Do you think Gammon
Mineral point old sock road that area or midvale Verona road Todd drive and fish hatch.
How about that
area?
That's
the big one.
That is the big one That's at 56% that gets yeah, that's the one that really gets clogged up when it gets busy The other ones John Nolan drive to the interstate just 12% same thing for the entire belt line sucks when it's busy Yeah, 12% you can get in on that as well
Hey, we want to remind you the Alzheimer's walk is coming up by the way.
Let me just go to my information here it is and This is happening on October Well, where's the you know one
of the things you got to keep in mind too that you know, they're trying to make Stoughton Road into a slow lane a neighborhood road Yeah, I mean it's one of the only major arterials without going on
the express way to make it from one side of town to the next.
And they want to make it into a boulevard, which it may, may not be a bad idea.
You can even have higher speed limits with that.
Um, but they might want to, you know, slow it down dramatically so people can cross the street.
Well, a lot of people cross the stone road.
Wow.
Yeah.
A lot of people are doing that.
Yeah.
Well.
Not really.
They're going to have to work on that.
Back to the Alzheimer's Walk here.
It's Sunday, October 5th.
And that is happening.
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You can either walk with us, join our team, or donate to the team.
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All
right.
OK.
Let's go up to, oh, no, go up.
Let's go to, I'm looking up at the screen.
Let's go to Matt from Middleton.
Matt, what do you got for us today?
Good morning, Matt.
Good morning,
guys.
Yeah, it's a tough time in America, but kind of big reason that we got to this fascism we're suffering through is one of the big parts that leads to that is the consolidation of companies, media, all these
things that have been consolidated and both parties have caused this you know bill clinton i think did something in the 90s that affected the fcc or whatever and the broadcasting and now we have such consolidation in so many areas of the economy and it affects housing with the private equity firm so
Without Trump, maybe it would have taken longer, but we probably still would have been in some kind of fascistic light kind of system eventually But I don't know how we get out of it other than a mass boycott of some kind but I I fear that there's so many young people that have been brainwashed by the far-right propaganda And their isolation their loneliness their insecurity has fed that
in them.
So I fear that we don't have the young people we did back when we fought for civil rights in the 60s.
It's not the same people.
Yeah, you're not wrong.
So I think it's going to take longer to steer the ship back and there's going to be a lot of pain and hurt in the process.
And we just saw the other day that homeless people are getting shot at now because of what Brian Kilmeade said on the air about euthanizing homeless people.
and he's still out here.
And I called in to Todd's Albus show yesterday just asking like, so many people, a lot of conservatives, traditional conservatives, they cannot see Trump for what he is.
They cannot recognize that he is the viper that he said he was when he read that poem at the Maggar rally.
The snake, yeah.
The snake and the rabbit, right, or whatever it was.
So yeah, it's going to be a while, but I'm afraid that we have to have a lot of pain and hurt before.
before people wake up.
Well,
let's hope that if the Democrats take over Congress in the midterms, they can stop all of this from happening.
All of
it.
I don't think we're going to make it that far.
Well, I know,
I know.
It's it's it's hard to believe that the total media collapse has taken place as we're watching this all happen in like three or four months.
It's done.
Yeah.
And they're declaring sainthood for Charlie Kirk now.
This is just an amazing
thing.
The only way I have to get news is YouTube.
Like what if they go after Google then we have
nothing.
Well, that's true.
I don't trust Google.
I don't trust Facebook.
I don't trust any of them anymore.
They're all billionaires and they're all on the Trump train.
Matt, thank you for your call.
Yeah, thanks for helping us work through this.
Phone lines are open, 608-879-8255.
Coming up, we will get into, would you rather?
What would you rather do?
What would you rather do?
Mark
says they're putting up a statue of Charlie Kirk in either Texas or Florida.
He's not sure.
Yeah.
OK, we'll get to more of that and your calls and your texts.
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All right.
We had a little phone problem there.
Very big phone problem.
I don't know
what that was.
But we do have Wolf repass with us this morning.
Good morning, Wolf.
Welcome to
the show.
Good morning, guys.
How we doing?
Good.
Good.
Doing great.
So tell us about your company and what you have to do with Bitcoin.
We're not really
too familiar with crypto.
So help us out a little bit, Wolf.
You're with Fold Howl.
Holdings, right?
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We're not one of those crazy complicated crypto companies.
We currently provide traditional banking products for consumers So we have a FDIC insured bank accounts debit card credit card bill pay functionality Peer-to-peer payments gift cards, etc things that you know and love today.
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We earn interchange every time someone swipes their debit card We earn transaction fees when people buy Bitcoin or by gift cards So yeah, it's a it's a we're not selling a manufactured product ship to the door We're taking we're taking volume
through our platform and taking a little piece of it as we provide the functionality for that to happen.
Well, this sounds like a really good idea.
It kind of introduces people to Bitcoin and it's risk-free, none of the stuff that confuses most people like me and everybody else.
We can just accumulate those points and then do what with those points?
Yeah, so our rewards model is Bitcoin.
the the second you do something you swipe your debit card and you go to the store you go to the restaurant you earn bitcoin it sits there in your account you can see the value on day one as the price of bitcoin changes the value of your rewards change and then you can use that bitcoin to uh to to withdraw it to your own personal bitcoin wallet if you want to save it as an investment um you can cash it out into cash if you want to go then spend it at the coffee shop
Very similar to any other type of reward, but we believe that Bitcoin is a far superior type of loyalty program than some of the traditional ones that exist today.
Well, that sounds like a great idea.
So how do you get started doing something like this?
You open an account and then just goes from there, right?
Yeah, that's right.
You can find our app on iOS or Android.
Download it, sign up, like with any bank account, you do have to go through, know your customer identity checks, so put your information in, make sure you're a real person, and then you have an account, so pretty simple, no difference in opening a bank account anywhere
else.
So how is it tied in with the card that I use?
How do I
add it to the card?
That's a great question.
So you can add our card to Apple Pay, Google Pay, or whatever you're using.
Oh, okay.
Sure.
Sure.
Our platform also allows you to bring your own card.
So if you have debit cards from your local bank, for example, or credit card, you can bring it, add it to our platform, and make purchases through merchants directly through our platform.
Wow.
And so what is the app that you
recommending there, or you're promoting?
So our app is called Fold App, F-O-L-D, that's ours, and you can find us on any of the app stores today.
Okay, and if people want to find out more, do you have another website or a phone number you want to tell us
about?
Yeah, you can find us on foldapp.com, quite a bit of background on our products there.
We're pretty active on socials as well.
Primarily, we're on Twitter.
That's where the majority of the Bitcoin industry space lives.
So pretty loud on there as well.
So, you know, we're not real familiar with this part of the industry, but I think it's pretty innovative that you can add benefits to your cards where normally you're shopping for a card that has benefits.
This way you can add the benefits after you have the card, right?
Yeah, that's right.
So I think
We love it.
I think it's you know, Bitcoin comes off to a lot of people as confusing and intimidating and Approaching it from the rewards angle We view as a much less intimidating way to dip your toes into the industry to understand it see if you like it All right, and so
we we can again advise people to search out the fold that's f. OLD app and at Google
Store or wherever
and and or yeah Apple
right and add it to your list of benefits.
That's great stuff Wolf repass.
Thanks
for joining us.
Yeah, thanks for
the
information
Thanks guys.
Have a good one.
All
right.
Have a good day Okay, coming up in our next hour Mike McCabe will join us talking about his latest sub stack article We've got much more a no risk way to get into Bitcoin.
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It's John and Gordy in the morning on State Street just down from the capital, the capital city, Madison, Wisconsin, and a good morning to everybody out there, including you.
Beautiful sunshine today.
Highs in the low 80s right now 59 degrees and we welcome into our studio.
Gary Albrecht.
Good morning, Gary.
Good morning.
Gary is a cancer survivor and involved with Badger Challenge, and you've done a number of runs.
How many runs have you done, say, this summer?
This summer, I'll be completing seven.
I have three in right now, so I've got a few more to go.
And how did you first become involved with Badger Challenge?
And why?
Well, actually, I've been doing some running for the past 10 years.
I got back to it 10 years ago.
And so in the so in the spring, I started looking for runs.
And this one appealed to me because of the cancer benefit.
And so I decided to register for that.
And it just interests me.
And I thought it was something that I could do a small piece for the cancer community.
Well, tell us about the cancer connection
here.
You've had cancer in
the past.
That's right.
I had cancer back in 2008 and actually came through that quite well.
I've had some other kinds of things along with that.
And that motivated me as well to kind of start getting back in shape.
It took me kind of a while to get on that track, but that's been a real motivator for me to stay in shape.
And I understand your wife is also a cancer survivor.
Yes, three times.
Wow.
Yeah.
Now, I had a little bit of skin cancer.
This was maybe 15 years ago.
It was
just a basal cell carcinoma, but yeah, I caught it very early and had that taken care of.
But do you mind talking about your personal bouts with cancer?
I had prostate cancer back in, like I said, 2008.
It was diagnosed fairly early.
And, you know, diagnosis, it kind of
took time over six months to a year and so then I had it treated and moved on from there.
Now let's talk about the the run that is coming up here in in Madison right?
When is that
happening?
It's my first time in this run so I'm really learning a lot about it this year.
It's on Sunday.
There are some other events along with it like a marathon and a biking event.
I believe there's events for walkers as well and the 5k and it's out in the area of Sun Prairie.
where the UW Clinic is out there.
Yes,
East Park Boulevard.
Yeah.
4621 East Park Boulevard.
So that's where the medical center is for UW.
I'm not quite sure how many runners or people are participating, but you can go online and donate to individuals.
None of that money goes to us, but it goes directly to UW Madison.
Yeah, I'm checking out the website right now.
It's badgerchallenge.org.
And it's got the weekend.
It's got a lot of really good information here
about
how to register, how to donate.
There's an event schedule here, a number of community events coming up.
So why did you decide, or how did you decide to be this kind of...
A constant runner.
A
runner.
You could have picked fast walking
if you wanted to, but
instead you picked running.
What's the deal?
I was a cross-country runner in high school.
And then after high school, I ran some, not very much.
And then like I said, back in 1989, I trained for a marathon.
It took me a year to train for that.
And I was in Duluth.
It was an interesting run because when we started out, it was 45 degrees.
And when the run ended, it was like in the 70s, you know, in June.
So it was a great run.
But then I did some five or five and 10 Ks at that time.
And then after an illness in 1990, I didn't run again until 2016.
It was tough to get back
in.
Oh, it was, you know, you take those steps and it's like, what happened?
Because in your mind, it's kind of like you can still do this.
Yeah, I know.
And I still get trapped in that when I get out, like with pace and stuff.
It's like, I feel like I can go faster, but not quite there.
Do you run every day?
I
mean, just as
a casual.
Yeah, I don't run every day because I just think that's not, that wouldn't be good for joints and stuff like that.
So I run now, usually about two or three times a week.
So this Sunday there's a half marathon.
According to this
and
I have 5k run and then something called a global runner.
Yeah, I'm not sure what that
I think there's a
long time you got to go glow and We'll see you in a few months.
Yeah, and I think it is a long I didn't read about that one, but I think it's a series run that takes place over time.
Yeah
Now do you have a group of runners that you I mean are you part of any kind of organized team or anything that
you run
around your neighborhood?
Yeah
I've done this just on my own.
We live out near the zoo, so there's some great area out there.
A
lot of hills
get the cardio going.
Yeah, that's good for you too.
And I gotta ask Gary, what was your most favorite run you've ever done?
I know you said you've done a lot.
What is your favorite personally?
Well, I'd have to say my son...
Help get me hooked on this back in 2016 by doing the Disney run because he's kind of a Disney freak Okay, and so we do and we do that we've done that one every year and we're going down there again on the 20 something of October to do the 5k that goes through Epcot
and it's really a
rush because the first mile is a service road and then you come in the side of Epcot and the
The torches are on, and they're playing Star Wars music.
Wow.
You can't stop then.
It's just great.
It's just a great event.
Wow.
So those are my favorites.
That's great
stuff.
See, also, they've had a number of biking events here on the website.
Right.
Again, BadgerChallenge.org.
Oh, we don't like bicyclists here, so.
Yeah.
We don't talk about that.
I'm sorry.
I have to remind John that Madison is a bike friendly.
Sure is.
We have bike paths all over the place.
I'm going against the grain again and I'm a rebel.
I'm a rebel, Dotty.
So once again, talking with Gary Albrecht here.
So the run, so people can still be involved.
We want
to let
people know you can either donate or you can run, be
a
part of this run.
And again, it's Sunday, East Park out in Sun Prairie.
We encourage people to become involved or donate.
Anything else you want to mention about the run
here?
No, not really.
Just that it's one of those things that's, you know, the way I feel it's bigger than me, it's a lot, this whole event.
And it's something I think many people can do and help a little bit in some ways.
Great.
Well, Gary, thanks for joining
us this
morning.
And good luck with the run.
Let us know how that goes.
I was going to run down here, but I thought that was taking a chance.
That was taking a chance.
It's been a half hour catching your breath.
Thank
you, Gary.
Appreciate it.
I'm always kind of
hesitant.
I always hesitate a little bit because, you know, as an older guy, you
know,
you don't want to look like an old guy trying to run, you know.
So there's a certain grace in running.
And if you don't have it, then don't run.
Is
that your
excuse?
Well, it's a visual thing.
Yeah.
Maybe that's not important.
I do the fast walking, so
that's where I'm at.
Gary, thanks again.
Gary, thank you for stopping by.
Appreciate you coming in.
Yeah.
OK.
That's fine.
And again, if you want to find out more, just go to BadgerChallenge.org.
We'll put some more information on our Facebook page.
Thanks again to Gary for joining us.
I want
to bring up something else, sports related a little bit.
You know, we went to the Brewer game.
Yeah.
Watching the Cubs, I was out in the stands and I almost caught a foul ball.
Right.
I had a beer in my hand
so I
didn't use both hands and I reached up with one hand and the ball hit my hand, rolled down my arm, into the seat and the guy behind me picked it up out of the seat and got the ball.
And I don't care about baseball so he can have the ball.
It's not a big deal.
I'm not a Karen here.
Yeah.
So you didn't
end up on the cam fighting for the ball.
That's
exactly.
I don't even know if it was on the cam.
I don't
know if
anybody was watching.
Yeah.
You know, you you were concerned about your peanuts or something.
I don't know what it was.
Excuse me.
No, not peanuts.
You can't do peanuts.
Yeah.
Anyway, allergy.
That's right.
You were worried about that.
Are you going to talk about the letter?
Yeah.
OK.
We've got doing the Bob Euker letter.
Yes, I want to get the letter in
but I
also but I
I also want to talk about Anthony Rizzo.
Oh, yes.
Okay.
We talked, you know, to Pat Krightlow about this, but on this show we have not mentioned it.
I am in the same league as Anthony Rizzo, former cub.
Yes.
And first baseman.
He was part of the World Series team.
He was out
in the stands.
In the left field, they were doing the seventh inning stretch out there.
Fly ball out there, a home run.
A home run.
Yes.
He put his hand up.
Right.
And then
the ball hit his hand, rolled down his arm just like me.
Yeah.
And somebody
else ended up with the
ball.
So
he was out there with Cindy Crawford and Eddie Vedder.
Yeah.
So it's even worse for him.
I know how embarrassing in front of
celebrities.
So anyway, I am right in the same league with Anthony Rizzo just
to let you know.
Okay.
Good to
know.
Same
year.
Same problem.
Dom, do you have that clip?
OK, so the other day, the other day, what, the brewers clenched going into the playoffs.
Yes.
And the manager, Pat Murphy.
This was a
big moment.
This was a moment.
Yeah, they were in the locker room.
And well, let's take it.
Let's take it there.
And this is something saved up for this particular moment.
For this particular moment.
And Pat Murphy is going to read a letter from Bob Uker.
I got a letter today from you.
And before we toast, I want to read it.
Thanks.
I thought it was fitting the last time that we celebrated.
You was with us.
Howdy, boys.
Never a doubt you would get this invitation.
You did it by believing.
Really miss you guys and I wish I was there.
Things are good.
The God Almighty picked me to be on his team up here.
I'll be it on the third catcher.
It's a great league.
No day games after night games.
No shadows.
But you got all the sticky you need to have up here.
Told the big guy about you guys.
You play hard every night.
You're not afraid to play for each other.
He's obviously very interested in the group with this uncommon goodness The fact that you have the best record in baseball the best road record in baseball is caught his attention You don't really need me I know you guys really don't need me, but I've got to tell you I'll be on the headset every night watching and don't forget To take it all in enjoy it keep it light and believe in each other
Bob Euker so let's toast to him into our team what we've achieved so far.
Yeah, that's
Such a great letter
now actually Bob Euker didn't write that we didn't know that was actually penned by Pat Murphy the manager who just read that Well,
he
was good friends with Euker.
I mean they hung out for a long time together and You know, we were talking to our author Pat McBride.
Yeah about the
Pat Murphy just kind of stepping up since the death of Bob Uker because he had the same kind of humor, same kind of sensibility and kind of funny, you know.
So he came up with that.
That would be kind of
cool if he kept on that kind of tradition.
I think that's a great idea.
Wow,
that's great.
That's excellent.
By
the way, Linda texted and said, the ball hit.
her in the head.
I apologize for that Linda.
And that particular
letter made her cry as well.
We're coming right back with wrapping things up here and look ahead to tomorrow and tell you more coming up in a moment.
John and Gordy in the morning.
It's that time of the age of stupid.
John and Gordy in the morning, WMDX 92.7.
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Time for us to welcome back into our world.
Pam Yankee, good morning Pam.
How
are you?
Very fine fellas very fine.
I'm really sorry that I can't match the t-shirts offerings I could bring it we had yesterday We had the River food pantry sips and slices if I brought you a t-shirt from that chances are there'd be fingerprints with some kind of sauce all over it So I'll keep that for myself
Yeah, that's the problem with that, you know Okay, you know we kind of start off with the age of stupid
and we always talk politics when we bring that up, but let's bring it up in a way that isn't too political.
I will say that I'm not a big fan of the Department of Ag Secretary.
I don't think she understands Ag at all, and I don't think she's really helping the farmers at all, but that's my opinion.
Let's get to the point where now the Department of Ag has a problem with Wisconsin stockyards, livestock yards.
Yep, this is a Wisconsin gig.
I get your point on Brooke Rollins, our current USAG secretary.
This one is closer to home.
This is something that's going to impact potentially farmers no matter what they market.
So what the Wisconsin Department of Ag Trade and Consumer Protection is proposing are really, really escalated fees for the license that they give to the markets that sell cattle.
the people that truck the cattle from the farm to the market.
I'm not kidding yet.
I'll just ask you guys this.
If you got a bill in your house that went up 1,666%, I think that, well, first of all, I think you might require medical attention.
But, you know, the catch with this one is,
Farmers don't have a choice.
If the department decides that they're going to levy these fine, yeah, it's kind of a fine.
If they're going to charge these fees for their services, it really is like a fine.
I talked to Kurt Larson, who is the president and CEO of the Equity Livestock Sales Cooperative.
They must have, I want to say about 11 livestock yards where cattle are brought to a central location.
buyers come to that location, and that's where the business is transacted.
Well, if this fee goes into place, it goes from $400 a year per location to more than $7,000 per year for that same location.
Now, to you and I, that seems just absolutely ludicrous.
But they say that these rules have not been changed since 2009, and it's necessary to finance the program.
Kurt Larson has done a lot of work on the numbers.
He said that there is no justification in the hours that the Department of Ag staff is spending giving these licenses to justify that.
The other thing he said is a lot of this is about traceability.
Consumers want to know where an animal came from, what farm and all that.
And he said that's really a food safety issue that farmers are already dealing with by putting ear tags in their animals so they
you know where it's coming from by keeping really good records, especially in Wisconsin with all our dairy cows.
And he said in other states where this has become an issue, there are shared parties.
that split divvy these license fees.
So this is this I'm telling you this is a dust up in a big way.
I've heard from a lot of livestock producers that are just vehement about this because the fees are going to get passed on to the farmer and they're saying hey wait a minute we already are doing our part spending money on ear tag spending money on records spending money on all the traceability stuff at the farm.
Somebody better help split the fees and we are just if these go into place we are obnoxious
over compared to neighboring states like Minnesota, Iowa.
They've managed to figure out a way to work these programs without fleecing quite literally the farmers of the livestock yard.
So the hearings are Tuesday and Wednesday at one o'clock at the Department of Ag Trade and Consumer Protection up on, we used to call it Bill's Hill, Bill Walton gave the land to the department and off agriculture drive.
They're also being held virtually.
And man, I'm banging the drum.
to try to tell any farmer of any type, better stay engaged in this conversation or when you get your next receipt on a cost for sending your livestock to the yard, you are going to be shocked beyond what you normally are when it comes to those bills.
So this puts Wisconsin
on a disadvantage then, dramatically with the other states.
Yeah.
Well, you know and your points will take in if it's gonna cost me that much to do it in Wisconsin How much farther do I have to take the animals?
Yeah to get to a state where the fees are not so Absorbent and that that's just not that's not good.
That's not good for a whole lot of Wisconsin's Agriculture infrastructure, so and I'll be honest with you normally the Department of Agriculture in at in Madison has Got open ears, but man, I am getting you know, even me
They're giving me pushback.
And that crap, frankly, boys, just doesn't happen to me anymore these days.
What do you mean you're not going to talk to me?
You only got me to talk to.
So yeah, it's been an interesting story to follow.
And I'm on this one like flies on stink.
OK, well, OK, we'll see how that plays out.
Pam, we only got about a minute or so left.
But I wanted to ask you about this worker's strike at a cheese plant in Monroe over immigration.
What happened there?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm going to give it to you in the boiled down version.
So what happened that a cheese making plant down in Monroe ownership change, owners came in and said, OK, I want every one of my workers to be verified and the workers went on strike.
So there's more to the story.
We'll get to it later this week.
But the bottom line is if the cheese plant is selling cheese to the government.
all of their employees have to be verified through the system.
That would be the e-verification system.
And those employees just said no.
flat out.
This has not been a part of our operating contract in the past.
We don't want it to be a part of our current operating tract.
And that's kind of a quandary.
So the Wisconsin cheese makers are watching this one closely and we can follow up and see if there's any developments when we talk Friday.
Sounds good, Pam.
We got a run.
Thank you so much.
Midwest Farm Report coming up next.
John and Gordy on a Monday morning.
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