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You're listening to 92.7.
Josh Gordon-Lownes.
It's time for the John and Gordy morning
up.
The John and Gordy radio show.
Where?
On WMDX.
Oh boy.
Good morning.
Yeah, it's Friday and we've got showers working their way through downtown Madison along State Street.
It is wet.
There are people out there with your umbrellas.
So grab your umbrellas.
You head out the door.
Check your windshield wipers.
Get your galoshes and your mucklucks and your hip waiters.
Get ready for a downpour.
It's going to be flooding all over.
Whatever mucklucks.
What are mucklucks?
Yeah, what are mucklucks?
They're kind of like galoshes.
Yeah.
What are galoshes?
Okay.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, they're, you
They're like boots.
Okay.
They're boots.
Yeah.
Um, okay.
So rain showers this morning and then partly to mostly sunny this afternoon, high near 70.
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Yeah.
wait wait.
You hear me now.
Oh, we got
happy Friday.
Happy
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
started.
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 take complaints and work with civilians who was affiliated 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.
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 were some kind of issues.
a good idea.
That was the goal and they just haven't gotten there.
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
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 that's on the road to recovery, making some steps.
That's right.
There is.
I'm refreshing it right now.
It has about $185,000.
That's
Yeah, always nice to see Madison really steps up.
big
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.
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.
Gabbard got her hands on a House intel report that's been locked away in a CIA vault for almost a decade.
Investigators spent over 2,000 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 went But they put it out there anyway.
That's the word.
they
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 and well in 2019
A reporter actually asked Putin whether he backed Trump.
Why ask the source, right?
Why go to the sources is cut 66.
Let's listen.
Yeah.
Did you want President
Trump to win the election?
And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
Yes, I
did.
Because he
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 Democrat's largest victory over these past eight months is
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 health care 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.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted that she was blocked from entering a city building in
Illinois.
Interesting.
That's why Governor Pritzker says this cooperation in keeping people safe.
Victory.
Keep her out of her restaurants.
Look, I've given Democrats an enormous amount of s*** about 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
I would say yeah, right And they're really having a hard time 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 gonna stick to it They are not gonna relent
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What do you guys got to say about it?
You're like Madison's version of N-Man now to be your whatever
they are.
It's way down on your story line.
the world is celebrating it and yes
your party hasn't even discussed it but hey while i've been listening on page 57 section 2141 of the democrats spending bill that was passed by the house bipartisanly 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 as President Trump is on ending the eighth war between Israel and Hamas.
let me just let me just respond.
I haven't even
Why?
Why is it not gone well?
We can't I
the news.
If you didn't hear about it yet, he did not get it.
here's the thing.
It's the step one guy, just like the UN.
All right.
Well, yeah, I appreciate it.
They only pick and choose things they want to do because of left and right.
Yeah.
prize.
I'm sorry, I
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 right 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, this is what Trump was talking about when he said, you'll never have to vote again.
You know, maybe Liberty will say all our machines went out.
I'm sorry about that in
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 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 be a two-state solution.
And Bibi 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.
so he kind of needs this war to keep going because he knows that there's a likelihood that he's going to prison and his wife
watched the whole thing on this, on one of the streaming channels, the podcast, and they talked about it, and there's no reference to any of that on page 57.
Even though Mike Johnson is out there going 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.
Yeah, 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.
weeds
thinking, hey, I got to get into the Lord of the
I don't think
were
gosh, you know over probably over 150.
I know I've read it.
I think 110.
Oh my
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yep.
Yeah,
No, no, no, no.
And they decided
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 history, you're angry that you read
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
You know, I mean, yeah.
All right.
You know, they're like they're like the.
you know, the Trumpers of of Star Wars.
Now you're
they're rewriting
But it's not real
just
that's Rocker.
that?
1996.
Yeah.
March of 1996 was the maximum music magazine hit the streets.
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.
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 on 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 maxinkradio.
Of course, Apple Music can Spotify and you can subscribe to the podcast for feed for updates.
They played last week maxinkradio.
We went and hung out at Paul's Palmini.
I don't know if you've ever been there.
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 Max Inc Radio Live from the Mad City.
This is Hortis Green with their new hit, Cream.
Electric heaven grabbing.
Move your body.
With yourself How we dreamin' over sounds As we move across the floor Ooh, tell
you moving Is that your brain?
Give it into the groove
know, so
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.
I'm really, really well
Yeah.
I mean, each
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.
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
All
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.
Harmony Barr coming up on Thursday, October 16th.
And Harmonious Whale.
Guys, we've talked about them
yeah.
Gypsy Jazz Americans
You know, more than 30 years, right?
And so we all know that Maggie plays the cardboard box with the brushes and, and, uh, Sims, he's a mandolin virtuoso, but Chris Wagner plays fiddle with them all, all the time.
And they're the wailing all stars.
Uh, 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, uh, 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.
that's that's Sims on the mandolin there.
Mandolin was amazing.
Yeah, he's just brilliant.
Oh,
Amazing.
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, we got time for one more.
I think so.
We do Becca Murray and the Wildflowers tonight.
She's at Schuster's Farm in Deerfield from 7 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.
Navigating routines 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, Becca 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 Gordy.
Mdx 92 seven.
This is Becca Murray fly trap.
Drinking from the well it tastes so sweet 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 manner of time Till you left your real plans all behind And you found you're going no place else at all
Really
Isn't that great?
Yeah.
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.
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And we got a few more minutes here with Rocker do want to mention next week on the show on Monday We've got Chicago radio personality Steve Cochran will join us again and talking about ice in Chicago hear about that and later next week We'll talk to with we'll check in with Amy Horak from David J. Frank also Jesse Christensen
from Cannabis DNP.
We had him in a week or so ago.
We wanted to get him back.
And we
And they have an organization that are, they're trying to do something nationwide in order to band together because now Ohio, uh, Governor DeMint is also, uh, trying to do wine rather.
Uh, 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 go out of business while they debate it and come up with some regulations about products that shouldn't look like kids candy.
Well, we'll 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.
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
Export embryos and bull semen and live animals all over the world.
It's crazy, right?
Yeah.
But at night.
Yeah.
is a rock star, right?
This
This Sunday.
this Saturday, actually 1012 seven acre dairy farm down in Belleville.
They'll be playing the 16th.
They're at Toffle'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 cork back in the fire I quit drinking one more
that one,
line for the new Star Wars
he'll
I want to see some video of this, do
Is there
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 artists, 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 from her brand new album heavy chains this is cold-blooded mac
O'Brien
Great sound.
Mako Bryant, she's got a couple of new band members.
So check her out the 18th of October right here on State Street at Whiskey Jacks.
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.
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.
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