They said two heads were better than one and somehow John and Gordy proved them wrong.
Welcome to the talk of the town.
It's the John and Gordy show on 92.7 WMDX.
Hey now It's time for John and Gordy and the morning Gordy is back again.
Good morning.
Hey man.
Happy Friday.
Yeah,
how you
doing?
Happy Friday to you.
Did you miss me?
Yeah, you
missed you a whole bunch man.
Crazy couple of days around
here.
Yeah, it was
jam packed studio for the last couple of days.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yes.
We had, uh, we had quite a few guests and it was a wonderful having, uh, two of the members of the Wisconsin democracy campaign in the studio at the very same time.
I thought
there was going to be an explosion.
Was there a fist fight that
broke out or
something?
I ran it better than you.
I think they're both worried about just being taken away
by ice or something.
Yeah, maybe so.
Well, as you guys mentioned, I was down in Chicago in a pup tent at Grant Park.
How did that protest
go for you?
It was great.
You were the guy in the
chicken outfit.
I was the guy in the chicken outfit, dancing around.
And yeah, everything went very, very well.
But I miss you guys.
Dom, good morning.
Good morning.
How are you?
This is just ridiculous.
Everybody's
great.
Yeah, that's good.
I had to do the intros and outros.
It was a tough day
for me.
It was the most cues I've ever had to do in my life.
My hand was
everywhere.
Really?
doing that stuff you know I can see you peripheral vision they call it right you don't pay any attention no I do I do I'm pretty good at this stuff now it was good
I'm
getting better
that's all good can
we what can we explain why you're
that is
no what explain why why it was gone yeah
No, I mean, you know, I mean, for the main reason, really, why you were gone.
Can we tell people about why you
were here?
I'd rather it be a
mystery.
I think it should be a
mystery.
Okay.
Other than that, what is the big event in your life going on right now, Gordy?
I'm moving.
There you go.
There.
All right.
I'm moving
from
one side of town to the other.
You are, yeah.
It's a big move.
You had a prime, you had a prime location right next to the hospital.
Yeah.
Our
age being next to a hospital
is
always a benefit.
Yeah, I got it.
kind of got tired of the helicopters flying over and the ambulances and the police sirens and the endless stream of nurses walking by.
Right.
Well, that was, yeah, that I could get used to.
Wasn't there a
high school over there too?
I mean,
yes, students, right out of some
West high school.
Yeah.
They're all over the place and a lot of college students and everything.
No, it was a great neighborhood.
It's a regent neighborhood, beautiful neighborhood, wonderful.
But you were forced to move.
They didn't like you.
No, no, they were selling the house.
Oh,
they're selling the house.
That's right.
Yeah.
They are at least what that's what they said.
Now I think they're going to they've changed their mind and they're going to read it out again.
I don't know.
You're not sure.
But so meanwhile, no, I found another place and it was a little I mean, I love the neighborhood a little busy traffic wise.
Your neighbors, do they know that you're well, they know now.
They were very nice.
I think they're down in they might be traveling right now.
I'm not sure.
Oh, OK.
I might be down in Louisiana.
Yeah.
But, you know, they were great to me and all the other neighbors that I met.
Like, none of them.
So anybody be neighborly anymore with anybody?
That doesn't happen anymore.
Pretty much everybody's isolated themselves.
Everybody is.
Everybody.
They don't even know who lives next door.
Well, I think
that political division is really kind of at the bottom of all of this, not that it crops up in our conversations
with the
neighbors whenever we run into them.
But I think somewhere
in there.
They don't want to broach the subject.
They don't want to come up.
So everybody just stays in their home and, uh, you know, peers at the window, wondering what you're
doing out there in the yard.
Do you know your next door neighbors?
I, I have talked to them.
I have.
Do you know their
names?
Yes.
Do you?
Okay.
Well, that's, you've lived there 30 plus years, right?
No, they haven't lived there for 30 plus years.
Yeah, we've had in and out neighbors next door for a long period of time.
I don't know why, but these, I think the neighbors that I have now will probably be there for a long, long time.
How long have you been there?
But, well, since 96, 38
years, something like that.
Yeah.
I can't do the math.
My neighbors, I mean, I have neighbors on each side.
I just moved like four months ago.
Yeah.
I know them.
They hate us.
How do you know that?
I've had two noise complaints from them from our right neighbors.
That's bad.
Well, you guys are partying day and night.
What do you expect?
That's just not true.
Really?
Yeah.
The only reason I can say why we got the noise complaint was because a mirror fell.
And so then they did the noise complaint there.
And I was like, come on, man.
I was moving.
I was moving.
Well, that's ridiculous.
You know, things do fall.
Exactly.
And
you expect something like that every
once in a
while.
from
people
upstairs or next door.
Well, that's a little unusual.
I think they're out to get you.
I think they
are.
Well, that's how long have you lived there now?
You just moved
recently.
Yeah,
four months.
Okay.
For four months.
Moved there from.
From
Oshkosh.
Oshkosh.
Oh,
wow.
Oh, gosh.
So, yeah, that's for this job.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's good.
How's it working out so far?
But
he's
got rent to pay so he can't take
off right away.
Going back to Oshkosh.
Yeah.
What the hell was I doing?
What do they have in Oshkosh besides the bib overalls?
I think it's a good question.
What?
Osh
Vegas?
They have Osh Vegas?
Osh Vegas?
Yeah.
You've heard mention it, you know, for the air show.
Oh, sure.
It's
right across the street.
So Osh Vegas is just a building.
It's always popping.
What is it?
A convenience store?
It's like a convenience store.
Yeah.
It's like a rundown convenience store.
It
is.
And everybody goes there.
I mean, you can't.
Did a better name than Oshvigas.
They
must have bumper stickers, I assume they do.
We were in there one time, and I never went back.
Only one time.
I was there for four years.
Really?
Was it horrible?
It was just, I mean, I could have gone to Aldi
and be okay.
Look, that's a Republican area.
They have a lot of...
porn shops up there.
So
do they have porn in there?
Well, I didn't check that.
It's weird.
They have all these big billboards, you know, porn here, porn there, get more porn here.
It's open 24 hours.
This is like Bible-built area
of
Wisconsin, right?
We don't have billboards like that in Madison or Milwaukee or any place that I've seen.
It's all in the Apple Valley up there.
North there, hey.
Hey,
you ready for the weather for today?
You got this you got this fired up here.
Okay
Wow It's
a little busty, isn't
it?
Will the sun come out today?
Isn't that great?
Wow, that is really hot.
I'll get you going in the morning.
Jesus.
Yeah, well, it's cloudy out there this morning.
And that's it.
OK, now let's move on to the next slide.
We'll see a little bit of sunshine.
We had a little rain overnight.
And earlier this morning, it looks like we're mostly clearing out of the rain.
Highs near 70 this afternoon.
So we have a pellet grill.
They're wonderful and great.
And they really add a tremendous amount of flavor to the meat and whatever you're grilling out there on it.
And I kept telling Anne last night, she was watching the Cubs, right?
Yes.
Cubs
win.
She's settled in and boy, she's, you know, energized.
They're winning and they're hitting home runs.
And then I come out twice now, you know, before I went to bed and I said, you know, don't forget, you know, put the cover on the pellet grill tonight.
gonna rain probably you know okay yeah no problem and then i had to get up and i got back uh into the living room i said no don't forget because i can see you're all energized over the cubs and not even paying attention to me i said don't forget oh yeah i've got that you know yeah wasn't covered this morning i mean last night when i got up about
One or two, so I had to get my robe on and to go outside, put the cover on the damn thing because she didn't think about it.
She
was so happy that the Cubs won.
My God, you know, get
a life.
Now wait, it's now down to one more game.
It is.
One game to decide it tomorrow and then they're back at Amfam Field.
So, yeah.
Well,
the thing with the pellet grill, you know, they're
plugged
in.
Oh.
So, you know what?
Really?
I mean, it is pretty waterproof, but you really do want to cover it anyway for the gizmos and gadgets that are inside this dam.
There's timers and sensors and everything else you can think of.
How much did you use it this summer?
A lot.
Did you really?
A whole lot, yeah.
We're getting, actually, we're getting a replacement grill cover inside the grill itself.
You can move the plates back and forth in order for direct grilling or indirect grilling.
And that is so covered up with fat and char and whatever.
We're just, we bought a new one and we'll put it in for next year.
Okay, good.
But it's an amazing thing because you know these little pellets, these pellet drops right in front of this very hot electrode and it just burns instantly.
Sends off the smoke and that's how it works.
It's not like this big plate of grill, you know It's small and it's just right there and it charges so fast and so quickly that it powders it instantly powders up But that powder builds up and then you have to vacuum the stuff out.
So
do you use flavored pellets?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
What flavor do you prefer?
Well, we like the hickory
Oh, it's those are the best they have a whole bunch of you know, Applewood and stuff like that But the hickory my wife tends to like more than all the other ones and they have a combination as well you get all these different flavors all together, but Yeah, the hickory is good.
Yeah, I like that old hickory old hickory.
Okay That's good.
All right.
Well, thanks for asking though Did you mention the sunrise and sunset times because there are people on the edge of their chair waiting to
I think I
mentioned it yesterday, but I have not.
So 706 is sun rise time.
And then 623, the sun goes down tonight.
Very good.
Well, we've got Pam Yankee coming up in just a couple of minutes with the Midwest Food and Farm Reports preview and what's happening agriculturally.
around our state.
Also, Rocker will be in with the Max Ink previews, some great local music and what's happening around some of the venues.
And Savannah Tomei Olson will be checking in in a little while with some news headlines.
I had this horrible experience yesterday driving to work.
I didn't bring it up yesterday because I was traumatized.
But there was this tiny little spider inside of the windshield.
On the space
car?
Yeah.
And it was crawling up.
You know, I'm thinking, is that going to be right above my head soon or not?
Oh, man.
And I was, you know, driving.
and all the way in watching this damn spider.
You know, these car spiders are crazy, aren't
they?
Where do they come
from?
Yeah, what are they doing?
But they found a great spot inside a car.
It's a mystery.
Yeah.
You have a lot of those?
No.
No, this is the very first car spider I've seen in my fantastic space car.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, you better get it fumigated or you're going to have more spiders in there.
Okay.
Nineteen past the hour of Pam Yonkey right around the corner.
It's John Peterson, Gordy Young along with Dominic Lee, and you will be right back.
This
is John Gordy in the morning and Gordy is back again.
Dom at the controls.
Catherine keeps wondering.
what those pellets look like in my pellet grill.
I didn't think something like this was going to take off.
I said, well, you know, people want to buy charcoal, they want to buy the wood and do the smoking that way and not get these pellets.
And then of course, you know, the pellet companies grow out of business, they leave you high and dry with a pellet grill.
But no, it took off.
And I'm really glad we got this thing.
And the pellets are very small or like normal pellets that you feed.
animals with and and and they're smooth okay and she asked what color well they're brown you know wood colored
My
God.
All kinds of questions about
the pellets.
I'm not going to sit there and burn collars, you know.
Dangerous collars.
It is 6.24, weather today.
Cooled this morning, 52 degrees.
We had
some sprinkles and showers a little while ago, and it looks like most of that's out of here.
We'll see high near 70.
Time now for Pam Yonkey, the fabulous farm babe, to join us.
Good morning, Pam.
Good morning and
pellets in my world are completely different fellas than what you find firing your grill.
Maybe the same color, maybe smooth, maybe the same size, but origins definitely different in my world.
Okay, now I've got it.
Look, I know that they used to feed animals some of these pellets.
You know, I remember dipping in and helping feed sheep or something.
I can't remember who I was feeding at the time.
Maybe some kids.
I'm sure they didn't like it.
Okay.
Look, Pam, before I go off on some kind of tangent here, which I have no idea why I'm doing this.
Let's talk about something really wild and no one ever really thinks about this, but it's lights out Wisconsin.
That's tonight to save birds.
Tell us a little bit about this.
I don't think I ever realized I knew that Wisconsin is a major artery as far as migratory birds going over the state.
But the save our songbirds folks in Wisconsin are trying to draw awareness to how many birds actually fly over Wisconsin and they fly at night.
So they're estimating that tonight somewhere in the neighborhood of 26.3 million birds will be over Wisconsin as they try to migrate south and they're asking people to turn off
outdoor lights from 11 p.m.
tomorrow morning because they say that these artificial lights can actually disorient the birds.
It can make them come into urban areas.
where they have a whole lot more risks of being hurt, damaged, or killed, especially from window collisions.
Because when they see those lights reflecting off glass, it just goofs them up.
And I know I found a songbird by our radio building the other day that just ran into the glass.
So the goal is to try to minimize that reflection to keep them on their patterns outside of urban areas.
And they say the best way you can do that is shut off your outdoor
They even suggest that if you can pull your drapes or something like that, if you're a night owl or something like that, anything to just kind of allow them to use the night skies, the stars, the moon, what have you to guide them on their path.
But yeah, that number blows my mind.
21.3 million birds just in one night over Wisconsin, or 26.3, I should say.
That's just...
I mean, it just creates a whole visual, you know, John's worried about his spider in his car.
And now I'm living Elkard Gitchcock in my backyard, you
know.
So 26 million all in one night.
I mean, there's got to be not just one.
It's not just one night, though.
Really
is one night.
One night, boys.
Wow
stop and think about no, they're no no get the email that says okay everybody No, no and that again just begs the question about how many birds fly over I mean if you stop and think about a city park and all the Canadian geese that are now our residents now imagine 26.3 of that assorted type bird over Wisconsin tonight
And that's
again, you know the other story we were talking about and we'll get to or not get to you know
So they're back doing the high path avian influenza.
There's suspended poultry shows in Jefferson, Waukesha, Walworth and Rock County because these birds are not just flying.
They are leaving the wood pellets behind and that turns into high path avian influenza.
So like I said, it's kind of a two pole deal just to raise awareness on how many birds are over the state of Wisconsin.
And like I said, that's going to be tonight from about 11 PM.
to 6 a.m.
26.3
million birds.
Which is why we don't see them during the day, right?
I mean, that's, we hear about the migration, but we never really see them too much during the day.
Yeah.
All right.
And
that's, you know, again, why they kind of want to.
let them do their thing and get out of the way before air traffic starts up again or
you know people are around.
Well you mentioned the bird flu, poultry suspension in four counties so this is crazy stuff and it impacts what's going on in Wisconsin as well.
What's this
about?
We one of my gals interviewed the secretary of a bird and pigeon group in Jefferson County.
He did not get the message.
They've got a poultry swap that was supposed to happen tomorrow at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
All of a sudden this guy is setting up cages, pulling out birds and he gets a text message from his buddy that says, Hey, did you hear his name is.
Dan Schwant and he said he is ticked off.
He said the last time this kind of a suspension went in effect, the Department of Ag reached out to him directly because they know he's part of the organization.
He didn't get word one on this until the rest of the world heard.
And their show, like I said, was supposed to start tomorrow morning.
So Jefferson, Rock, Walworth and Waukesha counties, no movement of any kind of birds, poultry or otherwise in those four
counties to
protect against high path.
Yeah.
Well, we didn't get a chance to get it.
We didn't get a chance to talk about the drought affecting the Wisconsin Christmas tree growers and prices, but I guess we can do that on Monday.
How's that?
Yeah, yeah, I don't see snow on the forecast.
So we'll be timely
All right, thank you so much.
Have a good weekend.
We'll talk to you next week.
All right The fabulous farm babe in fact the Midwest food and farm report is right around the corner And then we'll be back with idiocracy.
That was action packed wasn't it?
I know it's all on WMDX
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down, until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
This is grade A weapons grade stupidity.
Just doing my civic duties.
We can duck and cover.
There's a fall each other right there.
There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Dumb all the time and that's why we have idiot Chris here here.
You know keep you get that Teletype out again drag it out of the closet plug it in and see what happens
Yeah, we do
you know I was just checking out the Scripps news report up here and Mike DeWine is the governor of Ohio And he's out there and I think he's declaring that THC containing products that look like children's
products.
Yes.
He's banning everything like that.
Yeah, the packages look like candy packages.
It's really unbelievable.
I mean, like cocoa puffs.
Right.
Exactly the exact images.
But anyway, he might be, I'm not sure, not really getting it a lot, you know.
From the story here just watching it, but he might be banning the products and that would close down a whole bunch of shops just like we were talking about here in Madison and Wisconsin So it it would have a huge impact if he did something that dramatic or that drastic So we'll see what happens in Ohio, but they are also dealing with the fact that you know, there's some
qualities in these products that get you high.
Well sure.
And what they should be doing instead of course is regulating and making sure that they don't have these products that look like children's candies.
Yes.
So that's all I have to do but that requires work and we know that Republicans when they hold any kind of office they don't work.
They don't do anything.
They don't govern.
They don't manage anything.
They don't help us out at all.
They just punish us constantly all the damn time.
All right?
Okay, good morning.
Get that
off my chest.
It's
6.30.
Did I introduce the
station?
WMDX?
Did I already do that?
I don't think so.
Well, we can do it now.
I mean, if you'd like.
Well, okay.
Go ahead, man.
You're...
92
points for the WMDX.
I
just wanted to mention we have some showers moving
through downtown
right now.
And yet the leaf blower guy is out there.
this morning, getting wet.
He's
drying off the leaves.
Yeah, he's
drying off the leaves and then pushing them along.
Showers this morning, but it should be partly sunny later and highs around 70 today.
All right.
Do we have that tilde time plugged in?
Oh, yes.
Turn
that
baby on.
Here we go.
We've got so many stories to back up during the week here.
Well, thank you.
Oh, this is a big one.
Didn't have a chance to get to this one.
It's the flaming ball of cheese.
What?
Yes, the flaming ball of cheese in downtown Mount Horrib at the Vita Bella.
Bella rather.
Vita Bella, it's an Italian restaurant down there and they have decided to stand out among all the Italian restaurants in Mount Horam.
Are there a lot of
Italian restaurants?
You know, I'm beginning to think they don't have a lot of Italian restaurants down there.
They got a lot of trolls.
They got trolls down there and in a great brewery.
And also, a couple of brewers, actually, an apple brewery and a beer brewery.
But anyway, they've done this.
They're doing these flaming bolts of cheese at your table side.
Why are they doing
this?
It's called the pola alla parmesan.
And it's made by placing noodles in a giant bowl of parmesan, lighting it on fire, and then mixing it until all the pasta is coated in the melted cheese.
Wow.
Okay,
and it has to be flaming too and it happens at the Vita Bella Wednesday through Sunday from 4 to 9 p.m.
Okay,
good to know yeah, there you go the flaming ball I hope another story comes across the wire here.
We have a little extra time as we
Fire it up again
Here's another story.
All right.
Here's another one.
This is Tom Tiffany is running for governor and he has so many different things.
He's he's focusing You wouldn't believe it.
It's not anything that will help most of us out, but he certainly is focusing on stuff Representative and candidate Tom Tiffany channel Trump promising to end crime as governor.
He's in crime
I'm not kidding.
He says, we must restore law and order in Wisconsin.
Criminals belong behind bars.
Law enforcement, did he notice that suddenly?
Law enforcement deserves our support and prosecutors must do their job and prosecute criminals.
Well, no kidding.
Oh my gosh, what an idea.
Who came
up with that?
He says no excuses.
Of course, we've always had excuses about not prosecuting criminals.
What is he talking about?
Is this guy hallucinating?
No excuse.
You know why he's doing this is because they had a altercation on Langdon Street just recently downtown here where a student was shot.
by a gun in the ear.
He's okay.
That person is okay, but he's reacting to it because, you know, crime is rampant.
You have one isolated incident where a guy gets shot, clipped in the ear, but, you know, crime is everywhere and he's got to do something about it.
And boy, there won't be any crime when Tom Tiffany is governor in this state.
All right?
Okay.
So just wanted to let you know that that is what he's running on.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Okay, down.
This is what you were doing at Chicago.
A reporter posted this.
Benny Johnson took Russian propaganda money.
Remember that?
He says that Christine Noem was out there bravely looking over the Antifa crowds in front of ICE offices.
She was out there looking out over a rooftop.
She
was up on the roof.
Yeah, she was up up on the roof looking over and watching and Tifa protest the the ice occupations in in Chicago.
Hmm.
Okay.
So, um,
I went
when, well, the camera panned around and saw a few middle-aged protesters.
Strolling around the sidewalk.
Just a handful of people.
Yes.
And a guy you dressed in a chicken suit.
That was me.
That was you out there, wasn't it?
And you know, when you see, when you see something like that, you think army got to bring in the army for stuff like that.
But you know, the whole thing here is they're talking about protesters now as Antifa.
They're not
just protesters anymore.
They're not Americans going out to address their government.
Redress their government.
They really want to go out there and and become antifas and the bad thing about antifa is that these are people who are anti fascists
see
they don't like fascism and I don't know about you, but you know, this is an unwarranted attack on fascism You know, I
want to see more
of
it and that's what we're getting and that's why the anti
Fascists are out there right now and this is an interesting note John Jackson former Republican and veteran of the Ukraine army posted this web wisdom about Antifa being as bad as Hezbollah this is cut 94 and Isis as bad as them But who knew right average Americans going out to protest who are now being called Antifa are as bad as Isis and Hezbollah.
Let's hear listen
This shows you Pam Bondi and of course Kristi Noem and her ridiculous groveling not to be outdone is here on this tape claiming that Antifa, which is basically anybody who opposes Donald Trump like half the country, is just as bad as ISIS, as Hezbollah and other huge terrorist organizations.
And the point of this exercise is I'm going to show you if they think that Antifa, which is again like human chemtrails, it does not exist.
It's a loose philosophy, which means anti fascism and doesn't seem so bad.
then what do you think actions they're willing to justify?
What are they willing to do?
How far can they go if they think that people who oppose Trump are actually this bad?
Let's listen to the tape.
This network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them.
Wow.
They are just as dangerous.
They have an agenda to destroy us, just like the other terrorists we've dealt with for many, many years.
And today is the day that we have a president that won't tolerate it.
What they are doing is using the rhetoric to justify the same behaviors they would against ISIS, against Hezbollah, against al-Qaeda to turn inward.
And that should be devastating and scary to all of us.
And your imagination, I promise you, cannot even fathom how far they're willing to go.
We're just getting started.
Buckle up.
It's going to get unbelievable soon.
Yes, that's cool.
John Jackson, a former Republican and veteran of the Ukraine army.
He posted that another web wisdom and who knew that we were as bad?
You know, I think she came out in that quote.
If you were listening, she came out and admitted that they are fascists and they're trying to stop the anti-fascist movement.
She
said, us, we.
Okay.
All
right.
Well, it's against you.
And representative of mega Steve Scalise blames Schumer.
for the shutdown.
This is another story coming across that wire that we have plugged in and it's turned on and it's just rapidly shooting out the stories.
There it goes
again.
There it goes.
There it is.
All right.
Well, I'm glad that came across the wire.
Cut
95.
The ribbon gets jammed every once in a
while.
Well, I can see the story coming across from here.
So that's why I knew it was there.
I'll tell you the truth about this.
Shut down.
This is Steve Scalise, and he is a madman.
So let's listen to his projection here.
OK.
If you're Chuck Schumer, and a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, including our men and women in uniform,
Maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish.
Is that really why Chuck Schumer ran for office?
To inflict pain on other people so that he can have a good day,
a better day.
That's what you're doing.
For himself.
Yes.
When that is your measuring stick for a good day is how much pain you're inflicting on other American families, you have lost your way.
And yet they vote over and over again to keep the government shut down.
OK, well, you know, you could stop that if you wanted to and get everybody back into the house who are on vacation, by the way.
Here they're going to be on vacation next week too.
And they're not negotiating.
They're not trying to get this thing done.
They're not trying to help people afford healthcare because that's running out at the end of the year.
That's why we're doing this, Steve.
My God.
You know, just digging in.
Just to keep healthcare away from us while we paid their healthcare is just unimaginable to me.
I just can't wrap my head around this.
Now, one of the people that are really angry about this, and this is another.
I can see the story coming across that news wire right now.
Okay.
We got something else too, but yes, let's go to that.
Cut 96.
So do we have something else?
We do.
All right.
This is Randy Irwin.
He's the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees.
He had a very strong message to everybody.
This is 96.
The president came out just yesterday, okay?
And he says, I'm gonna pick and choose which federal employees that I give back day two, okay?
So once again, he is indicating that he's gonna violate the law and do something that's unconstitutional and despicably, despicably, not treat people fairly like we should in this country, okay?
But decide, pick and choose whether he's gonna give back people to the federal employees that he likes.
The president.
His job is to serve this country, not treat the US Treasury like it's private piggy bank.
That's the American people's money.
How dare you go out there and say, I'm going to give back pay to the people that I like and not for the people that I don't like.
We are in a dangerous spot in this country when the president thinks that he can just ignore.
Ignore laws that are written in plain English that law that you must give back pay to federal employees Okay, that is written in plain English and he's just telling the American people that he's gonna ignore it.
Okay, nobody I don't care who you are.
I don't care what side the aisle on it doesn't matter You got a constitution.
You got a faithfully execute the Constitution and he's ignored it and so both both parties and every Good every American should be furious with the threats that this president is making to federal employees in this country
I'm as angry
as he is.
And that is Randy Irwin, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees.
We've got a voice note, right?
We've got to listen to that.
That's coming up.
And I've got a song about the Broadway Ice Facility in Illinois coming up in a moment.
It's all next on John and Gordy WMDX.
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Let's.
Look at some of the bigger topics here, especially the ones that we're getting texted in.
You
want to go to a voice note?
Yeah.
You know, we were talking about Antifa and all the protesters now are being referred to as Antifa.
So, you know, Trump can somehow...
Occupy everybody's city because Antifa's out there trying to fight fascism.
We don't want that to happen, not now as we roll out fascism throughout the United States.
So let's listen to this voice note.
Okay.
Must I remind folks that everyone who fought on the side of the Allies against the Nazis in World War II were all Antifa.
Just saying
Yes, that's exactly right.
That's
all right.
Voice notes at map center You can send us a voice note get on the civic media app and go to WMDX and click the voice note button
there and We also have a few phone calls here and I want to get to those.
Okay.
Well, let's go right to dick.
Okay, let's find out what dick has to say.
Good morning, dick Good morning real quick to the whims of the president when he decides who does and doesn't get money
It's a little off topic, but it's right here in Madison.
Just finished reading about the, uh, causeway project.
Well, guess what?
Get used to driving on two lanes forever because the second phase of it is federally funded.
And do you think he'll do it?
I do.
He'll cut the funding in
Madison.
The next time I saw Mayor Sagan on former mayor's on asking him what he thinks about it, because a huge portion of the second phase from what I read in this most is federal.
Funding
that's
a that's true.
Yeah.
Yeah, we we asked Judy David off about that and she wasn't sure either What's going to happen with the federal funding part of it?
So we'll see.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks dick and let's go to mark right now mark.
What do you
got?
Yeah, I hear that Trump is gonna be going into Walter Reed and that since Walter Reed is a federal facility readily funded So those people are getting paid so they're not going to be getting paid
to take care of Trump's sorry ass when he's in the hospital there.
Wow.
Well, yeah, that's true.
I have a cut for that.
Where is it?
You're talking about the C-SPAN caller, is that correct?
No, I just heard this morning that he was supposed to go to Walter Reed, you know, that...
For his annual checkup, but he had an annual checkup back in April.
Right, I mean, I just wondered what he...
People are gonna be taking care of him and they're not gonna be getting paid to take care of him.
That's right.
Yeah, that's right Mark.
Thank you for that call.
Yeah That's something on that or
no I do I do have a cut here on that somebody called in and asked the question about what's going to happen now You know with some of the money not being paid to these These veterans that need to have that money we'll get to that in just a few moments.
Okay, but I want to get to the story about
Ice.
Oh,
okay.
Oh, do you have something else?
Well, we got Doug from St.
Francis.
You know, we talked earlier about your car.
your spider in your car.
I call them car spiders.
Everybody must call them car spiders.
Your space car.
And Doug says get to the bottom of the car spider issue.
Car spiders may have links to Elon Musk's new sixth legged arachnid robot
initiative.
Good point.
We'll get right on that investigative team.
I live right
next to a guy who has two Teslas and I'm thinking maybe that's why he was hanging around my vehicle not
looking at
it.
in awe, but actually planting those damn arachnid spiders, robots, on my,
on my vehicle.
I know
here.
Okay.
Uh, Mega World, that's the name of the song.
It's, uh, uh, in dedication to Broadview Ice Facility.
Let's play cut, uh, uh, 98.
This is the actual song by Jewel, uh, Gary Jules.
Let's listen to it.
It's, there are a number of versions of this, but this is Gary Jules.
Everybody recognizes this plant.
Play a
little sample of it here.
All right.
Got the idea?
Yeah, here it is.
Mad world, right?
Okay, now let's go to the new ice protester who is out At the ice facility singing this song to everybody hanging outside.
This is cut 97.
Okay Hell yeah All around me are Ice agents hate all races except white faces Bright and early to catch brown people
No expression.
Just regression.
The tear gas going up there.
This is no expression.
No expression.
And I find it kind of funny.
I find it kind of sad.
That ice makes more money than all our veterans.
Manga world.
And there you go.
That's his rendition.
That's good.
Yes, that was quite a response by the Ashesians who were listening to that.
Oh, I bet they
loved it.
They were in his face and that's why in some way seemed a little intimidated while he was singing that song, but nice going.
Yeah.
It's good.
Always very creative in the city of Chicago.
All
right.
Hey, coming up in our seven o'clock hour, of course, Rocker will be along with the Maxink Preview, talking about some local music.
And right around the corner, we'll check in with Savannah Tomei Olsen from our news department.
News headlines on Johnny Gordy.
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Little rainy as well.
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There are people out there with your umbrellas.
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You head out the door.
Check your windshield wipers.
Get your galoshes and your mucklucks and your hip waders.
Get ready for a downpour.
It's going to be flooding all.
What are mucklucks?
What are mucklucks?
Yeah.
What are mucklucks?
They're kind of like galoshes.
Yeah.
What are galoshes?
Wow Gen
Z should do a little longer.
They're
like
boots.
They're boots.
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Let's check in with Savannah Tomay Olson from WMDX News.
Good morning, Savannah.
What's on your mind today?
What
are the stories?
What's a big story?
Big
story.
Yeah.
Savannah.
Wait, Savannah.
Do we have Savannah here?
We should.
Did we lose Savannah?
Apparently we do not have her.
Wait, wait.
You
hear me now.
There she is.
Oh, we
got
you, Savannah.
Hey,
happy Friday.
Happy
Friday.
Tell us what's what are making news headlines today?
What's going on?
One of the biggest things is that the independent police monitor resigned here in Madison.
I don't know if you guys know any of the history.
No, no.
So the position was created in 2020.
And the idea was that this would be like an independent
overseer of the police department someone who could uh take complaints and work with civilians who was unaffiliated with the police department officially started after all of the protests of 2020 when we had this big national reckoning over police violence but it's actually been in the work since 2015 after the killing of tony robinson
So this has been discussed forever and then finally was created and the money was set aside and then it took them two years to hire somebody and then when they finally did she ended up going on
medical leave at least once.
And basically it took a long time for this office to get up and running.
It wasn't until 2024, almost a year ago, that they even got a complaint form going up.
And that was after about two years that Robin Copley was in the position.
And long story short, after basically not getting a whole lot of work done yet, Robin Copley resigned earlier this week.
And so now they kind of have to start all over on this thing that really struggled to get off the ground in the first place.
Is there a job that this person actually does?
I mean, I know you're monitoring, but what, you know, I'm having a hard time finding out what the real job duty is
exactly.
Well, I'm just wondering, do other police agencies have this kind of position?
Yeah, can they copy it from another city or?
This was relatively new and we were trying something.
Last year during the budget process the mayor was not thrilled with how little had gotten done and she even proposed axing the department altogether and starting over.
But her the initial job was to basically have something unconnected to the police department that was where civilians could go to get help to file complaints and then to
Basically investigate the police department.
So it wasn't police investigating police or some kind of issues.
That's a
good idea.
That was the goal and they just haven't gotten there.
Okay.
Wow.
Okay.
Well,
now you've
got another story here that we're all bracing for.
John Nolan construction
begins
Monday.
That's right.
Monday.
They're going to go ahead with it even though federal funding is like up in question.
I feel like I need to just make a drive and go down John Nolan this weekend just to enjoy it one last time because it's going to be two years of this and that's what they're estimating and we all know, you know, we know how construction projects
go.
So, you know, there's going to be a lot of detours and issues and it all starts for us on Monday.
That'll be exciting.
Is
there a ribbon cutting ceremony involved?
What do they do?
I
don't think
so.
No one's going to be there.
That's
for
sure.
Okay.
All right.
And let's see.
Oh, you had one rather
story
here.
I have some happy news.
Yes.
This is just a nice way to end for us on Friday.
So the last survivor who was in the hospital from the ALCS school shooting, he's been there since last December.
He's been at American Family Children's Hospital.
His name is Sammy Garduno Martinez.
He was released this week, so he was finally discharged from the hospital after what, I think, about 10 months.
And he is, he didn't get to go home.
He's now at a rehab facility in Chicago, but there were hundreds of staff who lined the halls for him to leave.
He even got an escort from the sheriff's department to the county line as his ambulance took him to...
took him to his new home for a little bit as he continues to recover.
It's been a really long road for him.
So that was something positive as we end our week here on the road to recovery, making some steps.
And Savannah, I know there's a, I think you had this in the story.
There's a GoFundMe site.
If you want to help out with medical expenses, that's
right.
There is.
I'm refreshing it right now.
It has about $185,000.
That's
fantastic.
Good.
Yep, always nice to see Madison really steps up.
Yeah.
Well, great.
Savannah, thank you so much.
We appreciate it.
You have a good weekend.
Talk to you next week.
That's Savannah,
Tommy Olson.
Can't wait till we have a universal health care insurance plan for everybody in this country so we don't have to do these kind of weird wacky things.
All right, I guess we're just going to head back to
the atelotype.
It's
fired up again.
We got so many stories that we've been putting off all week long, but let's get to them now.
Did Putin encourage Trump to run for president and did Putin back Trump for president in 2016?
The
big
question is
Did that happen?
Here's the big story.
Let's check out Cut 67.
This is Cut 67, Jesse Waters and Tulsi Gabbard.
Let's listen to this.
Here we go.
There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.
They
knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It
wasn't.
thousand hours, looking into how the Russia hoax was born, interviewing 20 CIA and FBI officials.
And it turns out that the Obama administration doctored the intelligence to make it look like Putin and Trump stole the election.
None
of any of this was ever true.
Then
CIA director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed a quote unquote clear preference for Trump.
Obama and his intel spies knew that Putin didn't collude with Trump and that he didn't even direct his people to help Trump win.
But they put it out there anyway.
That's the word.
Yeah, so they did a lot of research, and as you can tell, Fox News came to a conclusion.
But you know what?
I don't think Tulsi or Fox News used the Google.
I did.
What did you find out?
Well, in 2019, a reporter actually asked Putin whether he backed it.
Why ask the source, right?
Why go to the sources is cut 66.
Let's listen.
Did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
Yes, I did.
Because he
talked about bringing the
US-Russia relationship back to normal.
Well, there you go.
Okay, well that's right from the horse's mouth.
But you know that paper's locked up for many years from the Obama administration and they have discovered it wasn't true even though there it is, Putin is actually saying yes, he backed them and he wanted them to win.
I don't know, how hard was that?
I don't know.
Okay, yeah this is just, more stories are coming across here.
These are much more entertaining.
And this, I thought, was really interesting.
The Daily Show's John Stuart talked about this, and he mentioned, you know, 75 million Democratic voters are now unrepresented.
75 million Americans.
What?
Democratic voters unrepresented because Trump doesn't represent anybody on the left.
Nobody.
He's abandoning, he's attacking them.
He doesn't want them around.
Well, let's listen to John Stuart's point of view on this, cut 85, and let's see what he has to say on
The Daily Show.
75 million Americans voted for a Democrat in this last round of presidential elections.
And at this moment, they have zero power at the federal level, not in the House, not in the Senate, not in the executive, and not in the courts.
There has not been a moment of conciliation or concern about the issues and policies that drove those 75 million votes, not a moment.
At present, the Democrats' largest victory over these past eight months is getting
getting a guy who may or may not be a criminal back from El Salvador so Trump could send him to Uganda.
That was the big win.
And then suddenly a small ask for people's preservation of healthcare is a Molotov cocktail.
Because apparently Republicans won't be satisfied with 99.8% domination.
They must have it all.
ICE went from deporting the worst of the worst to throwing grandmothers onto linoleum and zip tying American children.
And everyone's just supposed to be cool with the new massed, incredibly well-funded paramilitary group, and Democrats are just reduced to petty gestures of restroom resistance.
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noam, posted that she was blocked from entering a city building in
Illinois.
Interesting.
That's what Governor Pritzker says is cooperation and keeping people safe.
Victory is ours!
Victory, keep her out of her response.
Well, I've given Democrats an enormous amount of s*** their poor leadership.
Lack of specific and actionable plans, terrible messaging, abysmal wordplay.
Did I mention poor leadership?
But standing up for 75 million Americans in this moment to defend the rights of people to go into a little less medical debt Seems like the least they can do
there you go.
That's Summing it up.
I would say yeah, right And they're really having a hard time Mm-hmm Trying to help out the Democrats.
They don't want to do it.
They want to destroy
Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act.
This is their way of doing it by making it unaffordable.
And so they'll peel away more people from that.
They become more desperate.
They'll take whatever they can get from the administration if they come up with a different plan, but a more costly plan.
And that's the whole point of what they're doing right now.
And they're going to stick to it.
They are not going to relent.
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I've got a big story coming up here about Dominion voting machines.
This is
This is not good news in any way, shape, or form.
But while we're talking about really bad news, let's go to the phone lines right now and talk to CJ about the peace deal in Israel.
What do you got to say about that, CJ?
What do you guys got to say about it?
You're like Madison's version of n-man not being your whatever that
they
are.
It's way down on your story lounge The world is celebrating it and yes,
they are
Your party hasn't even discussed it, but hey while I've been listening on page 57 section 2141 yeah of the Democrats Bending bill.
Yeah, that was passed by the house bipartisan Lee.
Yes
and held up in the Senate by
Chuck's humor because he's afraid of AOC and the extreme left of your party.
Yes, it speaks of that Illegals will get health care on the Democrat plan.
That's the fact.
Yeah, but you know, you guys are like the Nobel Peace Prize ending the eighth war between Israel and Hamas
Okay, well let me just
respond.
Let me just respond to that, okay?
First of all, it's step one in this peace plan and we've seen where that's gone before, all right.
Why is
it not gone well?
Because the Moss is a terrorist organization.
I know, but we don't have control over that neither does Trump.
But here's the other thing, and this is the sad news.
I don't know if you heard about this.
I don't know if you heard about this, but Trump did not get the Nobel Peace Prize.
I hate to break the news.
I didn't hear about it yet.
He did not get it.
Again, here's the thing.
It's the step
one.
Just like the UN.
Yeah.
All right.
Well,
yeah, I
appreciate it.
They only pick and choose things they want to do because of left and right.
Alright CJ, but you know, I just thought you know, we'd bring it up on the show and I'm glad you called because it did want to at least Tell everybody that again your hopes have been dashed.
Trump did not get the Nobel these
prizes.
I'm sorry.
I
said it the wrong
way
All right, here it is.
This is the big story Canadian based Dominion
was one of the biggest election equipment providers in the world and has been used in the majority of American states.
Scott Leinendecker said the new company will be called, get this, Liberty Vote.
You know what direction they're going in Liberty vote is looking to align itself closely with Trump's election integrity vision going forward according to Scott Liondecker That's his name Trump demanded that states use a voting verification paper record going forward Liberty votes said
it would ensure that it will comply with Trump's executive order.
Now, we have a paper trail here in this state as well.
You
know,
it goes into a scanner, but they do have the paper ballots.
The election officials across the nation have said that paper only ballots would lead to delayed results without any improvement on security, and that is true.
In fact, it's less accurate.
So anyway, okay, it's nice to know that now at least
The largest voting machine manufacturer and supplier of all our states, Dominion, is now called Liberty Vote and owned by a former Republican operative.
Thank you.
What could go wrong?
No.
This is what Trump was talking about when he said, you'll never have to vote again.
You know, maybe Liberty will say, oh, all our machines went out.
I'm sorry about that in
election
day, right?
Oh
boy.
Yeah.
So there you go.
Great.
Should we go back to the phone?
Yes.
Let's go to the phones.
Charles in Milwaukee.
Charles, what do you got for us today?
Morning,
Charles.
Good morning, guys.
Yeah.
More, more, more cheating on this party that complains.
Everybody else is cheating when it's, when it's only them.
And as far as the, um, ceasefire deal, you know, nobody wants any more killing over there, but
There are a lot of things that still need to be ironed out, like if Hamash is going to give up their weapons, if they're going to do a two-state solution.
And BB Nanyahu kind of needs the war to keep going because he knows that the minute this war is over and they have an election and he loses, him and his wife are most likely going to jail for criminal crimes that they committed.
Well, yeah, that's been an ongoing situation for BB for a while now.
Yeah.
So he kind of needs this water to keep going because he knows that there's a likelihood that he's going to put him and his wife.
That's true.
Yep.
All right, Charles, thanks for the call.
We're running out of time here.
We've got Rocker coming up in just a few moments.
Do we have another text here?
We do.
From Mark, and he was responding to something that CJ said.
He says, Mark says, I've looked at page 57, and that's not what it says.
Read the quotation, CJ.
Yeah.
OK.
They go back and forth.
I
watched the whole thing on this, on one of the streaming channels, the podcast, and they talked about it.
There's no reference to any of that on page 57.
Even though Mike Johnson is not there, go to it.
I posted it.
It's right there on the internet.
You can read it for yourself.
It's not there.
It's not on that page.
They don't deal with that at all about funding this.
Well, it seems to be a popular page.
Everybody is
giving money to illegal immigrants.
But here's the thing.
They don't want to give the money to emergency departments to take care of immigrants going into the emergency department.
But it also affects Americans going into the emergency departments, too, because that's how they get paid to take people.
in the emergency room, so they're taking money away from Americans and illegal immigrants, all at the same time.
29 past the hour, right around the corner, we've got rocker in the studio with a MaxSync preview of local music happening around our area, coming right back after the Midwest Food and Farm Report.
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Gordy's back again.
I
don't know if anybody
noticed that this morning.
Yeah.
Here I am.
Okay.
And happy Friday.
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Highs near 70
today.
If anybody could listen to a discussion during that last break,
you're doing
Rocker and myself, you know, we're going
at it.
My
head is spinning.
You know, the Star Wars canon.
And of course, then you had to bring up the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and the whole trilogy.
You guys are deep in the
weeds on
this stuff.
You want to get into it now that after you heard us talking about it, you're kind of thinking,
hey, I
got to get into the
Lord of the
Rings.
I don't
think
so.
And how many books are in the Star Wars canon that
were written?
Gosh, you know, over, probably over 150.
I know I've read I think 110.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yep.
Yeah.
That is rocker.
He's with Maxi on Saturday nights.
Well,
here's the thing, you
know, I mean,
they took off on it and they decided not to do the entire 110.
books.
No, no, no.
And they
decided
to do
something different and it's called Andor and you can watch it on Disney.
Oh.
And Rogue One is the movie version, which
everybody
should see.
It's a great movie.
But Rocker's
not a fan of Disney.
See, Rocker is just, he's holding back.
He doesn't really want to say anything.
I'm a no disc cannon person.
So if you go hashtag no disc cannon.
Oh, that's that's no Disney canon.
And so anybody who's been with the extended universe of Star Wars, which is literally 25,000 years of you're angry that you read
all those books for nothing now.
Oh, I didn't read them for nothing.
They're they're all in my head and I have the best story you can possibly imagine.
OK.
Right.
Stored up there.
But I'm not going to infiltrate it with this like sort of dirty Disney canon.
You know, I mean, yeah.
All right.
You know, they're like they're
I feel like the, you know, the Trumpers of Star Wars Disney films.
Now you're getting, okay.
Okay, you know what?
They're rewriting history.
But it's not real
history.
It's fake news, John.
It's fiction.
They can do anything they want.
No, it's fake news.
Well,
we were going to get into some music, but now we don't have any time left.
So thanks for joining us, Rocker, and see you Monday.
Oh, wait.
OK.
Money?
No.
Hey, just to reset, that's Rocker.
And he has a show
called Max Inc.
on the weekends.
And that all started out as a magazine many years ago.
Right?
How many
years?
How many years?
What year it was then?
1996.
Yeah.
March of 1996 was the maximum music magazine hit the streets.
And then we ended at the lockdowns because, you know,
by then kind of print was a little waning and the lockdowns just shut down everything.
But you don't have the magazine anymore.
But you got
Facebook and
the radio right here on WMDX 927, Saturday night, 6 to 9 p.m.
You can find us also Apple Music and Spotify for the interviews and live from the Mad City performances.
Each weekend, Max Inc.
radio we feature interviews with local Wisconsin based artists plus personalities including
entrepreneurs and other folks who's in your neighborhood, right?
We talked to them all this week.
We have Megaton Studios.
Paul Schluter, the owner, he's moving his whole studio.
He's going to come on and to talk about it.
They're one of Madison's most prolific studios for local music.
That's for sure.
And then Jeff Burkhardt, he has new music coming out and a show coming up and he's that ex CEO, nonprofit guy that is totally doing music now.
So we're going to
hear
about that
and show the
harmony coming up.
Um, and live from the mad city with Milwaukee's Robbie Sender.
He's a Midwest struggle country and he's going to come out here, singer, songwriter, uh, on Saturday night.
Okay.
And, uh, last week on live from the mad city, we've been playing Horace Green now a couple of times here on, uh, John and Gordy in the morning.
And we had them live in the studio last week.
They're the four piece from Oshkosh.
The podcast is available right now, civicmedia.us slash maxingradio.
Of course, Apple Music can Spotify and you can subscribe to the podcast for feed for updates.
They played last week, Maxink Radio.
We went and hung out at Paul's Palmini.
I don't know if you've ever been there.
No
restaurant.
We hung out with the band.
It's like a Russian dumplings.
They are so good.
It's a restaurant actually owned by Madtown Managed Boys, Paul Schwemmer.
And it was a lot of fun.
This is the latest single.
Right here.
We recorded it last week.
So you're listening to what happened on Maxink Radio live from the Man City.
This is Horace Green with their new hit,
Cream.
The trick heaven grabbing hold Move your body with your soul How we dreaming over tones As we move across the
floor Ooh, tell me does
it prove you Pick you up
and get
you moving Is that your way?
Give it into the groove.
There's nothing you can do.
That's so
creepy.
That was great, little cream there.
So I mean, think about it guys.
Well, you know, some of you can see if you're watching the Facebook feed, but that was right here in this studio, right?
And the drum set was right behind the glass.
Nice.
Really well
produced here in the studio.
Yeah.
I mean, each and every Saturday, it's just,
it sounds so good.
It's an amazing live performance, right?
So check, check out this week with Robbie Sender.
It's always a great time.
Jeff Burkhart, we were just talking about him.
He's going to be in Saturday night.
We're going to be talking to him, but we're also going to be
mirroring some new music.
He's a Madison singer-songwriter featured on PBS Wisconsin.
He used to play in the Dirty Shirts and he often plays with the band The Echo Rays.
Thursday, October 16th, Jeff Burkhart at the Harmony Bar, 6.30 to 8.30 p.m.
You can catch him with talking about his new songs, an upcoming show this Saturday on Max, Inc.
Radio.
And, you know, he might just bring a guitar and play a song as well for us.
We'll have to see what happens.
This is a brand new song written by Jeff and performed by the Echo Rays.
You're hearing it first right here on John and Gordy.
Yes.
MDX 927.
This is called All That I
Love.
The early morning sunrise shines in my eyes I feel the scars I still wear Scars that I don't share I've been sitting on my hands for too long Sifting the sand to build
Alright,
written by Jeff...
Burkhart.
That's right.
And that is the Echo Rage performing it.
That's right.
Great guitar work.
He's a singer-songwriter, right?
He is, yeah.
And we've had him, if you go up to our podcast site, you can find when he was here live in the studio as well.
So great artist.
Yes.
And Harmony Barr coming up on Thursday, October 16th.
Okay.
and harmonious whale guys.
We've talked about them before, right?
Oh, yeah.
Gypsy, Jazz, American,
Greaves.
They've been around for a long time.
You know, more than 30 years, right?
Yes.
And so we all know that Maggie plays the cardboard box with the brushes and Sims.
He's a mandolin virtuoso, but Chris Wagner plays fiddle with them all the time.
And they're the wailing all-stars tonight.
They will be October 10th at the North Street Cabaret that's right across from the tip top on the east side.
Harmonious Whale with Scott Levenka.
And you know, I chopped out a little different feel from a different song so we could hear some more, some instrumentation
from these guys because they
are just so good.
Right now, this is an all instrumental by Harmonious Whale.
This is called Move and features Chris Wagner on fiddle.
They're great.
That's jazz guitarist.
That's Sims on the mandolin there.
Mandolin was amazing.
Yeah, he's just brilliant.
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah, that's unbelievable.
Fiddleton.
It's great stuff.
Yeah.
Amazing.
I just love that.
And that's what's great on this show.
You know, I get to kind of go and listen to different parts and really kind of bring them out for you.
You may not know that they play like that, right?
It's incredible.
I
know.
Yeah.
Oh, we got time for one more.
I think so.
Yeah.
We do.
Becca Murray and the Wildflowers tonight.
She's at Schuster's Farm in Deerfield from seven to 10 p.m.
And then tomorrow night on the 12th at the Stuffed Olive on State Street.
Becca Murray.
She's a soulful indie pop artist.
She's based in Madison and her new album Skating By Blends Indie Pop Rock and Jazz.
Exploring the challenges of your mid 20s, John.
I don't, I don't know what those might have been back then.
It's crazy routine while chasing dreams that just feel out of reach.
Um, she's been performing in Madison bands for years, but she's putting out this kind of solo project back on Murray music.com.
Let's check out a tune before you can get it online.
This is called fly trap totally premiering right here on John and Corey MTX 92 seven.
This is Becca Murray fly trap.
Drinking from the well it tastes so sweet You couldn't tell there's poison in the stream Paying back what you thought was for free Thought you'd get away Ignoring science only was a short matter of time Till you left your real plans all behind And you found you're going no place else at all
Really nice.
Great
smooth stuff.
That's
great.
We're booking her here.
She's gonna be live in the studio.
We'll definitely let you know when she comes in.
I have a couple more songs.
I have a feeling we're gonna hear more from Becca Murray and the Wild Flowers.
We will
hear more from Rocker with the Max Ink preview on John and Gordy in just a moment.
We'll come right back with some more local and regional music on WMDX.
More cowbell, please.
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
John and Gordon in the morning right here on WMTX, 92.7.
Check us out on the Civic Media app.
Choose our station and then text us or voice note us.
We got a voice note from Matt Middleton.
That's fantastic.
See, it works.
It still works.
Even if we don't use it.
And we got a few more minutes here with Rocker.
Do you want to mention next week on the show?
On Monday, we've got Chicago radio personality Steve Cochran.
We'll join us again.
Oh,
yeah.
And talking about ICE in
Chicago.
I can't wait to
hear about that.
And later next week, we'll talk with, we'll check in with Amy Horak from David J. Frank also Jesse Christensen.
from Cannabis DNP.
We had them in a week or so ago.
We want to get
them back.
And we didn't have enough time to talk about all the different aspects of it.
I mean, he's really getting into this and it's a discussion about making it legal.
Yes, all the new pop laws that are up for grabs.
And they have an organization that they're trying to do something nationwide in order to band together because now Ohio, Governor DeMint is also trying
a wine rather he's also trying to get something together on this and he might even close down all the shops until they regulate it in some way shape or form which would be terrible because those
shops would grow out of business while they debate it and come up with some regulations by products that shouldn't look like kids candy.
Well, let's talk to Jesse Christensen next week.
Sorry to have gotten into that.
I'm starting to break in here, but go ahead.
We've got Rocker in the studio playing more music for us, local music, statewide
music.
Yep.
Wow.
All right, guys.
Well, let's talk about the Jimmy's.
They were founded in 2009.
They're a mama award-winning band.
Right.
We know about them.
Jimmy vaguely, Hammond, Oregon, piano, electric roads.
Did you know during the day?
Jimmy helps out with his family's sixth generation dairy farm, and they till 1500 acres of cropland.
They robotically milk 130 purebred brown Swiss dairy cows.
Say
that
quick,
right?
Export embryos and bull semen and live animals all over the world.
It's crazy, right?
But at night,
Jimmy
is a rock star, right?
This
Sunday,
this Sunday.
this Saturday, actually 1012 seven acre dairy farm down in Belleville.
They'll be playing the 16th.
They're at Toffleur's pub and grill in Nouglaris.
Then they're coming to Madison on the 24th of October for the Coda Cafe on the Wheely Street in Madison.
And then November 7th, they're doing the local showcase music showcase.
That's presented by music makes a difference.
That'll be at the high noon.
on the 7th of November.
Right now, we're going to listen to a little bit different slice of one of Jimmy's older tunes.
This is called Drinking.
You're listening to Johnny Gordy, MDX 927.
Drunk alone through all the time The way these Jews have left me Oh Lord, it's a crime I put the car back in the fire I quit drinking one more
time
Oh yeah, yeah, the jimmies
The Jews.
Yeah, I love the idea of the seven acre dairy farm.
Yeah.
Barn out there in Belleville.
That's right.
Boy, that's really catching on.
I hear Johnny Gordy.
We're starting our own line dance.
Oh, my gosh.
We got to workshop that one.
Get it out online.
A line dance.
Dairy bar.
Yeah.
Standing in
line for the new Star Wars movie.
Oh,
it all works.
Put it all together.
You know Dom likes to line dance.
You shouldn't
have told him that.
What?
I do, I do.
Seriously?
Oh man.
He's got boots, he's got a cowboy hat, a vest and
a chaps and everything.
This is what he'll do for a love, you know, that's his girlfriend.
I want to see some video of this, do you?
Is
there
video?
There is, but I'm not showing you.
Good deal.
All right, we got anything.
We got a couple of minutes.
Oh, OK.
Hey, Mac O'Brien Saturday, the 18th of October, she's coming back to whiskey jacks on State Street.
You know, she's from Chicago, ties to Madison, Milwaukee, a country alternative artist.
But she recently signed as an artist and brand advancement deal with TSP Creative out of Nashville.
And they're known for guiding artists through touring sponsorships and all kinds of stuff.
They their roster includes Coldplay, Post Malone and the Lumineers and Alice Cooper.
Pretty crazy.
She's
going places and she'll be right here.
October 18th, Whiskey Jacks.
This is from her brand new album, Heavy Change.
This is cold blooded, Mac O'Brien.
Mako Bryant, she's got a couple new band members.
So check her out the 18th of October right here on State Street.
Okay, now whiskey Jacks.
All right, rocker.
We're once again Saturday
night.
What do you got?
Oh man, we got Megaton Studios Paul Schluter.
He's going to be in talking about his studio and then Jeff Burkhart, new songs and then Robbie Sender driving out here from Milwaukee.
to play for us live right here in the studio.
Very good.
Checking them out.
Rocker in Mexico and have fun Saturday night.
We'll talk to you next week.
Thanks guys.
All right.
All right.
And Monday, Steve Cochran will be here.
Chicago radio personality.
We'll talk to him then.
He's got a line on everything that's going on in Chicago.
That's for
sure.
Yes.
Ice all over the city there.
And he's going to give us an update.
That's it for us.
Stephanie Miller is next.
John, have a good weekend.
Yeah, I will.
And you too, man.
Oh, yeah.
As you're moving from one place
to the
crosstown traffic.
Look out.
All right,
so
long.
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 broadcasts.
Really good.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Good morning, John and Gordy.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
John and Gordy in the morning, and of course, uh, Catherine Lake is in for Gordy this morning, and it's great to have her side of the story, her opinions, her strong positions that she has taken on the show this morning.
It's 706.
It's 43 degrees.
This keeps Gordy happy.
Our phone number is 608-879-8255-879-TALK.
I
know, I just completely lied.
I know.
I hope people start calling it.
I hope it's your phone number at home.
Please, no.
No, I have one thing that's serious to talk about.
You remember, of course, December's abundant life shooting, and there is still one child in the hospital.
If you can believe it, he was shot multiple times.
His name is Samuel Gardunio Martinez.
Garduno Martinez, and he was shot multiple times.
He's still at American Family Children's Hospital.
They have a GoFundMe going.
So look for that if you could.
Sammy, S-A-M-Y, Garduno Martinez here in Madison, still in hospital and looking for a little help with a GoFundMe.
That's right.
With the
hospital bills, yeah.
Alright and You know there's a lot of talk and a lot of praise for the administration negotiating a deal with Hamas and Israel helping that Negotiation along and there is a peace deal or release of prisoners all of that But I got to tell you I Don't know it infuriates me.
I mean we have let this go on for so damn long two years
Right three.
It's it's it's just out Gaza is is flattened.
Yeah People are starving to death They're being shot for trying to get food and we're sitting here celebrating this something that took way too long to happen.
Yeah, and it was it was a Number of people who were involved
It's their fault, and it took too long, and it's frustrating for me to watch this celebration, even though it is a great time to celebrate that.
It's frustrating because it took so long, and it's so many people, and they're still suffering.
Beside the point and I have these discussions with my kids at home all the time, you know, they're Gen Zers and they're just you know besides themselves They really can't understand the political process
process
that's involved in
this history No,
the history of trying to negotiate and trying to do something with Israel the money that we give them maybe
putting strings on it.
They don't understand why we don't put strings on that.
But it is frustrating.
It's key that
you're saying that they don't understand because they're so young.
They're so young they haven't seen even the number of years that you have watching this come and go.
But I like that.
I like they have a fresh look at this and they're driven.
And I like that energy.
That's fantastic.
What energy they have.
I'm just looking at a really dumb, there is a right wing poster on X rapid response 47 and they posted a video of one of the people at this big meeting yesterday about taking down the left wing network that
None of us have ever heard of, you know, isn't it strange?
Didn't you get the
memo?
Didn't
you get the secret handshake?
I never got it.
No, I asked Matt yesterday.
He didn't get it either.
He didn't have
the handshake either?
We're not aware of a left-wing network.
I would join it, maybe.
I'd like to be asked.
You know, all of a sudden, I asked my mega friend this yesterday.
I said,
Isn't it strange after eight months suddenly we have this left-wing network that suddenly there are networks of Antifa all over the country?
How is that?
Eight months.
That's
all it took.
Where were they during the Biden administration?
Where were they during Obama and the first term for Trump?
I don't understand it.
All of a sudden it's there and and for some reason the magas
except the fact that this all happened in just eight months.
These networks and the threat on the U.S.
and everything, it's not real.
This isn't real, folks.
It's made up.
That's why it hasn't been here before.
None of us have heard of a left-wing network ever, and I'm just frustrated by that.
Okay, take a breath.
Take a breath.
Okay.
Take a breath.
I have kind of a sad story, and I hope I don't break down while I'm reading this.
No.
Because I did when I first read this.
I did.
Oh, boy.
And you know, I'm against all, you know, what's going on in this country because I'm very concerned with my sons, you know.
And I get concerned about a lot of little things, big things too during COVID.
When a lot of people were dying because they were taking advice of the Trump administration
and
all the Megas at that point wanted to take Ivermectin, all of this stuff.
And we lost all of these baby boomers who were believing all of this stuff.
And I thought all of the baby boomers who went through all of these times,
in the 60s and 70s, the great resurgence of rock and roll, they gave up their lives for this orange person.
We're missing so much history with their loss.
And that's one of the things.
And then this story.
cropped up yesterday for me.
The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles glowed with emotion last night when Mickey Dolan's legendary voice of the monkeys stopped his concert mid-performance to invite a young fan, 10-year-old Daniel Carter onto the stage.
Okay, I'm already a little misty.
Daniel held up a simple cardboard sign, his hands trembling with the words, my brother.
is no longer here, but your music makes me
feel... Your music makes me feel...
Makes me feel he's still with me.
Did he get taken by
ice?
Yeah, Dolan's immediately paused, walked him up on the stage.
And the audience erupted with applause as Daniel tears streaming down his face, climbed the steps to the stage.
Mickey embraced him gently, then led him to the microphone with a signature warmth.
Dolan began strumming an acoustic guitar and softly sang Daydream Believer.
Anyway, that is amazing.
That's one of those great stories.
Yeah.
You know,
yeah, you can't top that.
Can't top that.
Yeah.
And by the end of the song, Mickey wrapped his arms around Daniel when whispered, he's with you.
And tonight he's with all of us too.
That's lovely.
That's lovely.
Yeah, that's going on around the world.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's
happening.
But we miss these people.
Yeah.
And that's what I'm getting at.
Yeah.
All these people that we lost during COVID, they had so many stories to tell so much history to pass along to their kids.
and be there for those people at this monkey's concert.
Monkey's concert.
The whole thing, you know.
I know, who would have guessed,
right?
I thought Mickey Dolan's had it in him to be so on the nose.
Wow.
Boy, that's just one of those times.
John Peterson, Catherine Lake is in for Gordy Young right now.
Hi, 608-879-TALK, 8255 if you'd like to join in.
You've got some stuff going on.
You've got some anger you want to get out.
I do.
You want to do it now?
I've been doing it all morning, actually.
I could get to the ball of flaming cheese, but...
Passage from last hour.
I know.
If
you missed that, sorry.
Well, I didn't get to that.
There's so many stories.
Now you're witnessing how many stories I actually never get to understand.
I'm also witnessing how it's hard
to get elements in.
I
sympathize with you, Gordy.
I know.
Me too.
Well, anyway, Congressman represented...
Tiffany Tom Tiffany and I've been calling him something like you were looking for it there just for a mini Trump Tiffany.
That's what I'm calling mini Trump Tiffany It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but it's close.
You need to be meaner.
Yeah, I can't I can't do that, but mini tough Mini Trump Tiffany is what I like to call him now
He is out there running for governor and he is pathetic.
He is just one of the worst representatives we ever had in Congress.
He was terrible in the state legislature.
He
destroyed the environment in this state.
He allowed sand mining pits to be put in near grade schools.
And all the silica is in the air and they're inhaling this.
It's very unhealthy.
He made sure that little towns couldn't be reimbursed for all the road construction after these giant trucks are in and out all day long wearing their roads out.
Doing the mining, holy smokes.
They didn't have to pay for road construction and and repair.
So he is really he's really just an horrible person and I'm gonna be governor and I'm gonna prove it.
Yeah, it's American values making it clear He will not stand for straight boys and girls bathrooms.
I am telling you this is this is hit his damn platform
This
is something we've been just dying to do here.
Let's listen to cut 87.
Okay, this is just outrageous
Sir, there are other types of sanctuaries as well.
Restrooms for women and girls, locker rooms for women and girls should be safe spaces for them.
But I read an awful story about a young gal who's an athlete in Wisconsin and she and her P.E.
class, her female P.E.
class were forced to stand there while a young male student just ogled them.
I mean, this kid was definitely not any type of gender questioning or transitioning or anything like that.
He was just a boy, a young boy.
And I thought of you because I know you're a girl dad.
And I'm wondering if this is an issue in Wisconsin to the degree that it is because I hear about it all around the Beltway.
I hear about it in Virginia.
Obviously that that horrific case in Loudoun County.
Is that an issue for midterms in Wisconsin still?
No.
It is, it was in the November election and we have a governor that stands with boys being able to go in a girl's bathroom.
By the way, the Democrats are going to have a knock down drag out primary.
It'll be really interesting to see where all of them stand as they race to the left.
But I can make just one thing clear.
If
I'm elected as the governor of the state of Wisconsin, girls will be going in girls' bathrooms, not boys.
Oh, great.
That's pretty clear.
Pretty simple.
Pretty simple.
As it always is with you, sir.
have such great principles and always stick to them.
It's great to have you on today, Congressman.
Thanks for
joining us.
Always keep it nice and
simple.
Yeah, real simple.
OK.
Now, Tiffany is not aware, of course, that the gerrymandered Republicans and the legislature have been in control for the last 14 years.
But let's listen to this.
This is cut 88 now.
Tom Tiffany.
But under Democrat leadership in Madison, that dream is slipping away.
Farms are disappearing.
Factories are shutting down.
And our children's educational results have fallen behind Mississippi.
behind Mississippi.
I'm Tom Tiffany and I'm running for governor because I love our state.
I see where we are headed and I know we can do better.
You know we can do better.
I will freeze property taxes, protect our farmland from communist China, and I'll preserve our Wisconsin values, just like my mom does with her pickles.
Girl sports will stay for girls.
Moms will be moms, not inseminated persons.
Madison politics may smell like the barn, but I know how to clean up the bowl.
Okay too long Democrats that's
enough of that He's blaming the Democrats for all of this stuff that Republicans have been in charge for the last 14 years Tom you were in the legislature for some of that time.
This is ridiculous
If we're in that bad a shape blame the Republicans for it and we want to put you a Republican in charge of the entire state
I am just I think you've made your case.
I'm just going to decide myself I can't understand why he is doing this You know if there's a voter out there right now that has heard any of this and thought wow I got a vote for that guy.
I don't know what you're thinking
six eight eight seven
nine
talk Let us know John Peterson take your medicine now back
It's Madtown.
It's John and Gordy in the morning.
Matt Rothschild filling in for Gordy today and Darmath the controls in our special guest in the studio right now.
It's Connor Kaloya, owner of the Ford Madison Football Club, right?
That's correct.
All right.
And it's a women's football club.
And it's not football, it's soccer.
Soccer, yeah, that's totally confusing.
Yeah, so, forward Madison Football Club is our men's club, just down the block at Breeze Stevens Field here in Madison, but we're excited to be announcing the ringing women's soccer to Madison in 2026.
So, pre-professional women's soccer coming in 2026.
Forward Madison has, you know, been around since 2019.
It's amazing how the community has embraced the club.
Average over 4,000 fans per game, our last home game this weekend down at Bree's Stevens Field.
But really excited to be bringing women's soccer here to Madison.
That's a subject close to my heart because I coached my daughter when she was super young in soccer and I played soccer in high school.
I love soccer and it's a great sport.
So congratulations and what did it take to get this to happen?
Yeah, it's something, you know,
Since we launched the men's side forward in 2019, we knew when we launched that team, we wanted to bring women's soccer here.
And over the last 10, 15 years, pro soccer and soccer at the spectator level in the US has really evolved quickly.
If you look back 15 years ago, there's maybe 40, 50 pro teams in the US.
Now there's about 150 on the men's side.
There's 23.
women's pro teams and that's quickly growing.
So we've wanted to do this for a long time.
The game continues to evolve.
We didn't want to be on the sidelines any longer and really excited to have women's soccer here.
We'll launch with a pre-professional team next May in play at Breeze.
And then I think as the women's game continues to grow, we hope to grow with it.
Can I ask you a question that's been bothering me a long time?
I could see it building up How come the United States doesn't have a better men's soccer?
Oh, man, how much time do we have?
No, it's it's it's frustrating and in on the women's side with the best The best in the world the best soccer in the world on the women's side is played here in the US.
That's why we're so excited to get in the women's women's side You know without it
It's structural, right?
I think the talent, and I'll try not to go too deep into Iran here, but the talent is obviously here in the U.S.
in any sport, right?
The population base, and we're the best in the world and pretty much every other sport.
But what
I hear is, you know, the best athletes are going to football, basketball, and baseball.
Yeah, and unfortunately, the soccer system in the U.S., the way that it's structured is there are a lot of barriers to entry for kids to get in.
The way that the business has been built, essentially at the youth level,
Unfortunately, the kids that are playing at the higher levels are the ones that can afford it.
And there are a lot of barriers to entry.
And that's something that long-term and locally, and with our youth club here, we recently started a youth club.
We've given away $90,000 in scholarships this year.
We need to work to lower those barriers of entry.
We need to get more kids playing the game.
And the US should be.
You know at the top of the world in soccer.
I know we haven't played it as long as some other countries But we definitely have the talent here.
We just need to build that infrastructure and system to develop that talent.
Yeah My kids took soccer in high school and what and in middle school as well, but I I always thought that there wasn't a good talent pool for coaches
They weren't really that dedicated.
They didn't know too much about soccer.
At least it seemed to me.
And I thought maybe my kids weren't really inspired to keep playing the sport at all.
And I think that was the big problem that I had with soccer.
They just didn't teach them to be a part of it.
There was something missing.
I don't know what it is.
Do you have any idea why we just don't have the right kind of talent pool, helping kids in schools?
Yeah, I think in so many ways it's still a developing sport.
Um, you know, it's, it's, if you look at pro soccer in the U S, uh, at least stable pro soccer has been here for 30 years.
Uh, you look back, uh, you know, I was watching NHL opening night last night.
Some of those teams have been around for a hundred years.
Packers been around for over a hundred years.
So, um, in a lot of ways, if you compare it to other sports, it's relatively new in.
That newness means that it's developing in a lot of ways, and not just from a player perspective, but from a referee perspective, absolutely something we need to continue to do as a sport is grow that pool and grow the coaching pool.
And there has been a lot of growth in the last 10 years on the coaching education side of things, but that...
needs to continue to develop.
And it's big in Dane
County.
I mean
soccer
for young girls and guys is big.
I mean, Redden is a huge soccer field where there are a lot of tournaments all the time and their leagues, their higher level leagues than just the casual leagues too.
So it's still a booming thing here in Dane County, isn't
it?
Yeah, it's growing rapidly, one of the fastest growing youth sports.
As you see a shift in youth sports post pandemic, more than 20,000 kids here in Dane County in the region playing soccer.
So, you know, we see great potentials.
We look to the next 5, 10, 20 years.
It's absolutely going to continue to grow with the World Cup, especially coming next year.
I think that'll get more eyes on the game coming to the US.
But it's continued to develop.
And it's our job as the pro team in town to be a part of that development and support that development and really lead in that.
Do you think that perhaps Ted Lasso had something to do with energizing people and be a part of a soccer team?
Yeah, you don't.
is a person who makes their living owns a business and takes it seriously tries to win.
It seems a little odd that your business is growing due to this essentially kind of like a TV show.
Yeah.
A skit of a football, American football coach making it soccer.
But yeah, I think a welcome to Rex, Rexum, Ryan Reynolds's story, Ted Lasso.
the World Cup next year.
Those who are all getting the casual fan and hopefully, you know, getting their eyes towards soccer.
So those are all good things.
We'll take it.
We'll take it for sure.
Well,
congratulations on bringing the team here, bringing women's soccer to Bree Stevens.
I hope you packed the stadium.
Yeah, we're excited.
The earlier reception has been great.
We're over 700 season ticket deposits.
Great corporate support.
And we don't kick a ball for 10 months.
So we're working with the community right now to develop the brand of the team.
We've been doing focus groups and meetings.
Appreciate you guys having me on and look
looking forward to keeping in touch.
It's a lot of fun.
Thank you, Connor, Kaloya, our guest this morning, owner of the Forward Madison FC or Football Club Soccer Football.
Thanks for joining us this morning.
Yes, guys.
Good
luck.
In just a moment, we've got Mike McCabe as our guest as usual on this Wednesday morning.
Why remember
playing this from Leonard Cohen when George W. Bush
was in power with Dick Cheney, and we were hoping to bring democracy back to the US.
You know, my wife, here we are again.
My wife saw Leonard Cohen in Milwaukee in one of his last concerts.
She said it was the best, one of the best concerts she ever saw.
Yeah.
Well, that was
unfortunate with Leonard Cohen because he had a manager that stole all his money, all his wealth.
Yeah, he had to tour at 73 or whatever
he was.
Yes, that's why he kept touring.
is because he had to make some of that money back, something to live on and retire on.
So he didn't retire.
Yeah.
Sad story.
Outrageous to lose every dollar that you have.
Wow.
I mean, he was so incredibly successful through the years and just one of the one of the great poets of all time.
Absolutely.
This is John according on WMDX 92.7.
We are here in the radio station still.
Yeah.
Trump hasn't taken us out and put us in a FEMA camp or whatever, a detention center.
But if we do make it there, we'll have portable broadcast equipment with us.
Our special guests each and every Wednesday morning is Mike McCabe from Substack.
And how are you doing, Mike?
Good.
Good morning, guys.
Hey, you had a book signing last night here in Madison.
How'd that go?
I did.
It went well.
And it was live streamed.
So got.
got some additional audience aside from what we had in the tavern.
It was at Managua Brewing Company's Madison tap room.
So it was...
It's not a big
place.
It's not a big place.
So it was kind of an intimate setting and hoisted a few brews and talked about the book, but also talked a lot about politics and...
you know, whatever else is on people's minds.
And the book is Miracles Along County Q. It is.
It's a good book.
I read it myself.
I really enjoyed it.
You know, you're talking about cultivating hope a lot.
That's one of the things you talk about.
And how do you do that in this particularly dark time?
Well, I think a big part of what we have to keep in mind as we go through all of this is that
prior generations experienced this kind of stuff before.
And people have gone through this and found light at the end of the tunnel.
And that's such an incredibly important thing to keep in mind when it seems so dark.
And for many people, it seems hopeless.
We're not encountering something that hasn't been encountered before.
And we'll get through this.
It won't last forever.
And I think one of the really important things is for us to not succumb to the hate that we see around us.
We're constantly being invited or even compelled to be at each other's throats.
And we have to leave the door open for people who have fled civil society to come back to civil society.
who have embraced hate to give up hate and to come back to community.
That door has to be left open.
That's such a crucial piece of this as well.
Well, I wonder how the magas feel about something like that, you know, they don't seem impressed by the left their attempts to try to get a message across to try to come across and and and and work across the aisle a little bit they seem very content with Occupation and military occupation thinking that they are gaining some kind of security
one of the questions I got it last night's book signing was how do you tell people
politely that I told you so.
Now that grocery prices keep going up, the price of housing keeps going up, and the tariff seemed to be wrecking the economy, and nothing seems to be working well here, how do you tell people I told you so?
And what was your answer there?
And I said, I don't think it makes any sense to say I told you so.
It doesn't get you anywhere.
And I went even farther than that.
I said, you know, I've...
traveled paths in life that have made it possible for me to have literally thousands of conversations with Trump supporters.
And my conclusion is that it makes no sense to go into those conversations with the intent of changing their minds.
Exactly.
They have to...
evaluate and they have to deal with all of what's happening and the fallout of the decisions that are being made for themselves.
They have to sort through that and they're gonna have to come to a different form of thinking on their own.
So the best thing I could do
is show them some empathy, show that I understand the struggles that they're going through, ask some questions, prompt them to...
think and continue to think through these things.
But always leave that door open for them to come back to civil society.
And you know, they went there in the first place.
They took this detour toward authoritarianism because things weren't working for them.
They were frustrated as hell.
They were thinking, this just is not working.
And my way of life is now seriously threatened.
I want to blow stuff up.
I want big change and I want it now.
But I think with time they'll come to realize, but that's not getting me the change that I was hoping for.
And I think there will be a time where more and more people look at the soybean farmers.
They can't sell to China right now.
They backed Trump big time.
And yet now they're in a position where they can't sell to their biggest markets.
And it's killing them.
And they'll realize, wow, I wanted change.
This isn't what I had in mind.
And there will be opportunities for them to continue to reflect and make up their own minds that this isn't what they want or need.
And we can't have so alienated them.
By calling them stupid by saying you're idiots and all of that kind of stuff We can't have so alienated them that they are not willing to come back to the the broader American community again and and rejoin civil society.
Well, I'm not gonna apologize for having idiocracy on this station We point out some of the inconsistencies and we hope that I think
along the lines of what you're saying, we hope that some of these things connect.
And when they hear something they didn't know or maybe object to because of what they've been told on their side of the aisle, maybe it conflicts with what they're also being told on that side of the aisle about something different.
Hey John, far be it from me to tell people how to run a radio show.
This isn't my business, but what I can say,
is that when I've had the most success in conversations with Trump supporters, it's been when I was able to find something in common with them, whether it was the kind of work they do, hey, that's what my dad used to do, or something about their lives, where they're from, where they've got family, when I could find some sort of common ground, that personal connection,
helped immeasurably.
And so often those conversations would end with them saying, you know, I don't agree with a lot of what you said, but you seem like a decent guy.
Right there is a little crack in the cement wall that's been built between us.
You know, I think that's really important, Mike.
to make I think we need to to resist saying you know all Trump supporters are all Republicans and making these really broad generalizations now on the one hand if
a type of Trump supporter who has a Nazi tattoo on their bicep, I'm not going to spend a lot of time with that person because that person wants to kill me.
But there are so many other people who voted for Trump who don't have Nazi tattoos on their arms or not flying Confederate flags on the back of their pickup truck.
A lot of people
recognized that the system was rigged, as you're saying Mike, that it's not working for them.
They were either going to be for Bernie or for Trump.
I've heard that from so many people, Matt, where people said, I could go Bernie or I could go Trump.
Right.
And not
in the
middle.
And a lot of people...
It's just that they're sick of politicians and sick of politics as usual.
Exactly.
Now, people who think left to right, who think about liberal and conservative, that makes no sense to them.
How could you support either Bernie or Trump?
They're on opposite ends of the spectrum.
But...
You're
looking at the vertical area again.
Exactly.
They're thinking who's on top and rigging the system and controlling us and got us under their thumbs.
And we're here being screwed over.
And we want change.
The other thing I said last night at Minakwa Brewing Taproom was my experience is limited.
But it is thousands of conversations with Trump supporters.
And one of the things I said is that is that I have yet to meet two who are exactly alike.
Every Trump supporter I've met is unique.
And they've gone through many different doors to reach him.
They came for very different reasons.
And they don't all have Nazi tattoos.
And some of them are just working.
working people or farmers or whatever, and they're seeing a way of life vanish before their eyes, and they're scared to death about what their kids are gonna do for a living and how they're gonna make it in the world.
And yeah, so many of them said, I could go Bernie or I could go Trump.
And so if they could go Bernie, if he had been an option for them and they could go that way, I'm not gonna close the door to them.
I'm not gonna say,
You're hopeless.
I don't want to talk to you anymore because I could see them making quite a movement, moving quite a distance away from Trump eventually when they decide, no, this isn't working for me.
Right.
And it isn't working.
We're seeing it.
It's not working.
And we're seeing a lot of chaos in the country at this point.
All the
promises, all the things that were miraculously going to get better haven't gotten better.
A point that you made about
Making it more personal or putting it on a personal level is Marjorie Taylor Green who recently came out with an incredible comment I don't have it with me today, but she is saying let's
negotiate this healthcare deal about the ACA and restoring those tax credits because and then she brought in her family.
She was saying her family can't afford healthcare.
They need these tax credits.
That was her reason for saying let's stop this this shutdown and and agree to at least put these elements in place because it's affecting my family and she brought up family members making the argument
better than most Democrats have made so far.
They have never brought up their family members.
They just say, well, we need to restore these tax credits.
Bring in your family.
Tell us why.
Right?
And so many people, when I bring up Marjorie Taylor Greene, they'll say, oh, she can't be sincere.
Because they haven't agreed with anything she's ever said or done before, doesn't mean that you
Can't be open to the possibility that you might agree with her at some on something at some point in the future
Yeah,
you got to leave that door open.
You absolutely have to leave that door open because She'll experience things too whether it's her own family or people that she's talking with in in her home state She'll realize hey, this isn't working for folks.
Yeah, and and maybe we need to pivot a little bit here and and
I'm one of those people who I never have agreed with Marjorie Taylor Greene on much of anything.
But when I heard those recent comments, I thought there is at least a hopeful sign.
That's right.
And she broke with Trump on Epstein too.
That's correct.
Yeah, this is an amazing time for all of us to agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
We'll be back with Mike McCabe in just a few moments right here on WMDX.
John and Gordy in Madtown, State Street, just down the way from the Capitol.
And this is the John and Gordy in the morning show, along with Don Matthews Controls.
And you can check us out on the Civic Media app as well and listen through it on your car
stereo.
That's right.
It's cool today.
53 degrees highs in the mid sixties.
Time for us to welcome in Judy David off from Ismus.
Good morning, Judy.
Good morning.
Thanks for having
me.
Oh yeah, this is a Madison Institution, the
ISMIS.
Judy is the editor and president of ISMIS and this issue is a great issue.
Every issue is great but this one, what a beautiful cover on the October issue here of
Scary
purplish.
A
scary cat.
Cat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very, very nicely done by a young man named Stefan Madiak, I think.
Something like
that.
Yeah, I believe
so.
Yeah, great stuff.
So there's a big pullout in this issue about what's happening to John Nolan Drive, the causeway.
over the next three or four years.
In fact, this is a nice, as John mentioned, a pullout section that you can have with you for the next three years.
You can carry it in your pocket anyway.
I'll tell you, I'm not sure we thought about that, but I'm glad that you told
me.
Well, there are so many, there's great, great questions and answers all the way through this about what is about to happen starting October 13th.
One thing
stood out and we're really worried about this is
All told it's about 42 million dollar project in phase one.
The city is going to come in between eight and nine million and there's about 33 million in federal funds held tight by the Trump administration.
You expect to see that come in at all.
You
know, um, I, uh,
yeah, I know,
I, um, you know, I actually, I trust.
our, um, city staffers, um, for the most part, um, I think that they're on top of these things.
And I, um, you know, this is a, um, state, um, it's a shared project, right?
So, um, this is state DOT.
I think that they wouldn't say we're breaking ground on, you know, October 13th, which is, you know, less than a week away.
Um, if they.
You know, we're really unclear about the money
because it's it's it's in the form of rich funds.
Yeah, it doesn't.
You know,
I think what to tell you one of the biggest questions a couple of questions here.
Will people still be able to drive over the causeway during this whole project?
And the answer is yes on a bike.
No, well,
right.
So that's the first phase of the project.
The bike path will still be open the second phase.
they're going to have to close it down and they will be reconstructing it as
well.
And a number of other things, you know, this has been in the works for some time and they've, you know, they went to a meeting, I don't know, it was a year ago, almost.
Yeah.
Where they kind of explained all of this and and now it's time and it covers this issue of bismuth and this pullout section really covers just about everything
There's a great picture in here showing you just how many lanes where the lanes will be where the trees will be where the bike path and pedestrian walk will be Looks pretty cool.
You know, I mean two lanes of traffic going in each direction essentially
So just to kind of ease everybody's mind, we won't be, you know, it won't be one lane and making two lanes for the bike
path during construction.
That's the key.
That's
the key right there.
Yeah.
That is the key.
Yeah.
But no, I think once it's done, I mean, especially to separate the uses on the bike path and the walking path, you know, more and more these paths are getting very crowded with different uses, you know, e-bikes, cargo bikes, road bikes.
And the more you can separate the uses, I think, the better.
Yeah.
Now, one of the biggest stories you have in this issue is the legal loopholes and cannabis laws leave consumers vulnerable is the title of the article.
And this is going to have a huge effect on State Street and downtown in the city.
We have so many of these cannabis shops popping up all over the place.
This would be a huge hit to the economy here.
Don, what did we count?
12 or 13 on
State Street alone?
13
dispensaries.
So yeah, this law will have some impact.
Yes.
Yes, if things happen.
It's a really a very, very good article written by Margaret Shreiner.
Yes, and I just want to sort of clarify.
So one of the nice things since we've gone back to print as a monthly and non-profit is this collaboration we have with Wisconsin Watch.
So Wisconsin Watch actually produces this article.
They really do almost all the heavy lifting.
We publish it in print.
Their material is available really for free to anyone for reprint, but very few people really have the print option at this point, and we do.
So we try to pretty much every month do one of their stories, and it gives them a different audience, gives them a little bit more reach.
especially locally.
And of course, for us, it's just great content that we get to offer.
And one of the articles I want to mention is this fits us to a tee.
There's a new t-shirt shop, Ray Gunn.
This is pretty cool.
Iowa t-shirt retailer has opened a t-shirt shop where Paul's books used to be, right?
Yep.
Yep.
And Jane Burns, who, you know, has a tie to Iowa, she's actually living there now.
You know, it's written about this before.
What I want to know is the Isthmus one.
Yes.
Where did they get that idea?
That was brilliant.
Yeah.
I wouldn't
have gotten
that idea.
It is a very funny t-shirt.
Yeah, Madison Isthmus.
Well, you have to see it to believe it.
Yeah, that's good.
That's a good idea.
Yeah, very good, Judy.
Well, well, thanks for keeping us in touch with what's going on in Madison.
It's one of the great newspapers that this city can brag about forever.
Yes, available
on your newsstands, absolutely free every first Thursday of the month.
Thank you very much, Judy.
Good talk to you.
Thank you so much.
All right.
Thank you.
That's Judy David off the editor and president of Isthmus.
She's
the king of the Isthmus.
Coming up in our next hour, we're going to talk with us Serenity Pet Spots, Liz Johnston about what you should be doing with your pet this time of year as they shed all their fur and get ready for colder
months.
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