Amazing.
Amazing yesterday, huh?
Wow, all the times we had.
Turn it up.
Turn it up.
This is a great part.
Yep I don't know are you tired John?
Uh, yeah Well, I think We went out after doing the afternoon show.
I remember we had dinner together.
We
did we never do
no, we
just
you know
once a year Like every other
year.
It's it's brutal do something.
We slap food into our mouths It's not
It's not pretty.
That's why we never do it.
Well, you know, but Catherine was there.
So we were on our best behavior.
Oh, we tried.
And we're a blue plate.
And we went across the street or down the street around there and and saw Petroppa's movie.
Yeah, the Atwood Music Hall.
And it was a great turnout.
It was terrific to see everybody there.
It was.
It was.
And it seems like I missed everybody that was there.
I don't, I, you know, I think maybe they just avoided me or something because I didn't see anybody and you, I named all these people that were
there.
They're just like Mike Mercury hadn't seen him in quite a long time.
Mike and
his wife
Barbara.
I still haven't seen him
in
an awful
lot of time.
Well, yeah, it was good to catch up with him.
Yeah.
He
asked, he asked where you were.
And I said, well, he's here somewhere.
I don't know.
We just walked in, you know, that we split up.
I stood there by
the entrance all that time.
I didn't go any
place.
Sort of mingled a little bit.
Well,
I
guess so.
Apparently.
A lot of people from Civic Media there, and that was
great.
It was
terrific to see everybody.
Producer Conrad was there
for each show.
I missed Conrad, too.
Dom was there.
Sam was there.
Yeah.
Our old producer.
I didn't see Dom at all.
I was
also trying to avoid everyone.
All right.
What's the matter with you guys?
Yeah, and Aaron Zamas was there.
Of
course, I was blind drunk last night, so.
Maybe that's why.
You really shouldn't have started drinking at, you know, four o'clock in the afternoon, especially since the show is over at five.
That last hour, I don't remember.
We just gave it over to Rocker.
Let him do the show.
I know.
That was, boy, that did help.
But it was great.
It was a great
night.
And, you know, Pete Schwabba, man, it was a terrific movie.
And everybody really enjoyed it.
It was really fun.
Yeah, it was a good copy.
Shraba was saying to me, he said, boy, it looks really dark, doesn't it?
And I'm thinking, I didn't think so.
I actually like the dark.
I mean, the whole point was, I mean, when you have black blacks in a movie, that's a really good sign.
It's a good quality print.
I think we had a great print, great audio, right?
I mean, you didn't miss anything.
It's just really well done out there.
And thanks to the Atwood Music Hall.
Yeah.
Man, it's a great venue.
They
have a lot of
music there.
They have a lot of bands, but they do a lot of other events there too.
And thanks to Doundren's Distilling for helping to bring that show.
Yes,
yes.
And
also Dane County Humane Society, we made a little money for them last night, so that was great too.
That's right.
Well, Sam was out there.
Yeah, he was.
I saw Sam.
He was standing outside when we were walking up, afraid to go in, I guess.
No, he was at the ticket window.
I was in a ticket window in years.
That was kind of strange, but it's right there on the sidewalk.
Yeah.
And right when we walked in again, we kind of went different ways, but this guy walks right up to me and said, you must be Gordy.
I don't know
who this is.
Yes, I saw that.
I did.
And his
name was Gordy, although he goes by Gordo.
And I'll tell you, there's...
There's not that many Gordys or Gordons or Gordos out
there.
That's true.
So when we find each other, we bond with the name.
Absolutely.
It's like, oh,
what if you had to deal with this name?
It's a little different.
But Gordo, why Gordo?
I don't know.
I mean, it's really just, yeah.
It's like, it reminds me of Gorgol.
Well, Gordo, also in Spanish, means the fat one, El Gordo.
Oh, really?
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
Well, I also saw Linda from the Brewers, from the Brewers game.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't see her either.
I didn't see her.
Yeah, she was in the front row, and she was talking to me the throttling chair.
Oh, my god.
Yeah.
You know,
the thing is, the lights are so bright.
I mean, that's
the
way it is on stage.
Well, right.
But you don't get to see the audience, you know?
And that's the big problem.
I would love to have seen some of the audience members out there and maybe interrupt shoulders a little bit afterwards, but I had to go.
You left early.
I had to leave.
Yeah, you had to leave and get some material together
for today's show.
For two shows?
Yeah.
So yeah, it's too bad you missed the question and answer.
I almost fell off the stage
and it was
kind of a highlight.
That would have
been fun.
People were gasping.
You know, it's a bad thing when people gasp.
Almost broken ankle there.
You know, I was trying to get off the stage.
I ran around with the microphone, like, like, filled down a hue.
You know, it was fun.
But yeah, when I first get off the stage there, I kind of landed oddly.
And now this morning, my back hurts, my knee hurts.
I was like, oh, I must have landed a little harder than I thought.
Any bone
charring.
anyone try to help you or nobody help
you were in the front
row why didn't you get up I
don't man I thought you had it you know I don't know me and Conrad looked at each other like is he okay okay let's
let him go
Well, you know, people are afraid to help seniors.
That's right.
Yeah, they're free.
They're afraid to get sued if they do something wrong.
We got Matt from Middleton on the phone early this morning.
Good morning, Matt.
How you doing?
Hey morning guys, you know if you're tired you can just let AI do your show We only take about what 200 gigawatts of energy for a two-hour program.
It's right.
Oh,
yeah
You know, you ought to come in and host the show once in a while.
You know, you're one of our early morning callers.
You could come in and do a couple of segments.
What do you think?
I would love that.
But I wanted to talk about this daddy concept with these so-called manly Republican men.
It's really creepy, and I don't understand it.
But I watched this recent clips of Joe Rogan, and he's waxing philosophical through the mind of an idiot.
Talking about how I think it comes from Peter Thiel and this Antichrist stuff and their fascination with AI Where they seem to be terrified of it, but they're fully embracing it which I also don't understand but Joe Rogan saying that they look forward to the sentient AI being coming to life that
Will basically be the return of Christ or something and it's gonna be their daddy figure that's going to save us from ourselves So not because these are the people who are causing all the problems And yet they know it's a problem yet they continue to do it
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it gives them a chance to complain about the problems that they have by creating more of them and never solving the ones that exist currently.
Yes.
It's a nightmare.
It's a real conundrum.
Well, it's a nightmare for all of us.
It's a conundrum for them.
They're all drinking the same Kool-Aid, you know, and
they
just keep drinking it.
It's bad.
Yeah.
Well, Matt, thank you.
Yeah.
I appreciate you calling.
Our phones are open here, 608-879-8255.
We're going to be talking to Pam Yonkey in a few minutes.
Check in with
the fabulous farm babe.
It's almost like a
comedic bit.
What Matt does, he says, well, you know, I ran into these guys the other day.
I know.
He could be a stand-up.
He
could be.
Maybe he did that in a former life.
We got to get him in here.
I think so.
I think we should start letting
our
listeners come in and
do the show while we take a smoke
break.
Take it for 15 minutes.
We'll be back.
Start having our guests.
One after the next, right?
Our guest listener.
Because we're folks.
We're trying to do the afternoon show.
And we feel responsible for doing the morning show as well.
So that's why we come in.
Glad to happy to do this.
Yes.
I mean, it's just that, you know, endurance wise, there is that, that wall that you hit every once in a while with show prep and in bringing good stories to you and conversation.
So
all of that and the split shift, you know, it just screws up your body clock a lot.
It does.
I couldn't get to sleep last night.
I was up till like 132 because I'm used to staying up later now.
Yeah.
And so this is kind of a odd thing.
I only had like four hours of sleep.
I know how many hours of sleep I have because I have a Samson watch that.
It keeps track of all that kind of stuff.
How about you?
No, I have several alarm clocks around me.
So I, you know, I'm trying to get to sleep, trying to get to sleep.
Can't do
it.
Alarm clocked.
It looked like they're from old Looney Tunes.
Yeah,
I have several.
I have one wind up.
I have two.
I have two electrics.
And then I have my phone, you know, so I have several backup systems
there.
But see, you don't need one like that when you have your system right on
here.
But you never take that off, right?
I do.
I wear
it 24 hours a
day.
No, I take it off.
Day after day, week after week.
When I get up in the morning, the first thing I do is take it off, I put it on the charger, and by the time I leave for the show here, I put it back on and it's fully charged.
But my
point is you're sleeping
with it on, right?
Yes.
Okay,
that seems uncomfortable to me.
Why would you have that?
Well,
it depends on the firmness of your mattress.
I mean, I have a nice mattress pad on there that absorbs any of the roughage around my wrist.
Roughage?
Well, yes, that's what I call it.
Well,
it's bulky.
One of those monitors that prisoners wear around their ankle
braces.
Ankle monitors wear
ankle braces.
So it's like that.
I can't imagine.
Wouldn't that
be uncomfortable?
It's not comfortable.
Yeah?
No.
They make them a little slimmer now.
They used to be huge, huge, huge.
It's still pretty big.
Yeah, but it's about
the size of yours.
No, it's not.
I sleep with my phone in my pocket.
So I want to be there.
Wow.
I really do.
I promise I do.
What?
Where do you have these giant cysts?
These huge growths on your leg.
You sleep with your phone in your pocket,
like a pajama pocket?
It wakes me up because in the morning at my alarm clock on my phone, it vibrates my leg.
It
vibrates your what?
Your
leg?
My leg.
OK, we were
sure we were going there in a second.
I was, but I had to try and clean that up.
So did you check your Samsung watch?
You know, you haven't checked for the sunrise and sunset lately.
Is that working yet?
We weren't here.
That's right.
Sunrise at 714.
And I know that everybody's checking this one off.
422.
Sunset.
Oh, man.
Oh, we have darker
early.
We have music, don't
we?
Yeah, well, we can do that when we
come back.
We'll come out of the break with a song about being dark during the day.
Yes.
We've got
a couple of cuts.
We'll try one of them.
Yeah.
Right around the corner, we're going to check in with the fabulous farm babe, Pam Yonkey, and a little bit later on, in our seven o'clock hour, Savannah, Tome Olsen, and Rocker with a Maxing Preview.
Just getting started on a Friday morning.
It's John and Gordy.
Thank you for joining us.
It's wake up time.
We'll be right back.
That's
true
Well, that's true.
It's no fun at all.
The Holderness family.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's great stuff, isn't it?
It's Johnny Gordy for a Friday morning.
It's chilly out there, 14 degrees, highs today in the mid-20s, maybe some light snow late in the day and into the evening.
And Pam Yackey joins us, a fabulous farm babe.
Good morning, Pam.
Good morning, guys.
Now, Dominic, seriously, you sleep with your phone in your pocket and you're telling me that's purely for the
alarm?
Oh my
gosh There's a lot of there's a lot of means that I will deploy to make sure I don't miss my my alarm But
I don't
I don't know I'm with I can I can do the watch thing
You know,
I've got one of those smart watches
that
will try to roast me and multiple alarm clocks, but
I don't think I want anything in my
pocket.
I know.
That might be alarming.
Yeah,
really alarming.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, REM is enough of a problem when you wake up.
But anyway, yeah, that sounds scary and exciting, all at the same time.
Well,
let's get into something here that you mentioned.
It's the Center for Dairy Research and the dairy farmers of Wisconsin are celebrating the cheese trends for 2026.
And it's a really interesting website that you pointed out in your little email that you sent us.
It's kind of fun.
cheese trends.
Yeah well and it's a it's brand new right and looking at 2026 dairy farmers of Wisconsin commissioned this study
from
the Center for Dairy Research and they found what consumers are looking for and I think having talked with you guys long enough now I think a lot of them will resonate so I'll start with number five which is authenticity.
People want not only a great product but they want to be able to connect with where it came from connect with the story
behind it.
And I think in Wisconsin, we do a really good job telling that story about the dairy farmers, the cheese makers, etc.
So that's number five.
Number four, obviously, probably won't surprise you protein people because of the weight loss craze are just constantly looking for new forms of high quality protein and dairy is one of the best.
So that's another one that continues to drive in 26 texture.
I'm not sure we always think about that.
People want a choice.
So squeaky cheese curds, stretchy cheese for their grilled cheese, those texture issues, and even some of the baked cheeses, those are all important to consumers going into next year.
Health.
Now, when I say health, I mean, I think we would all agree that dairy is healthy, but people want a clean label.
They want to be able to read the ingredients that are in that cheese.
Now, cheese is pretty simple.
It's basically milk, salt, culture.
I mean, it's pretty simple.
It's a clean label to begin with.
But that's something that's driving a lot of dairy trends next year.
And then number one is sustainability.
And dairy farmers have been hearing this mantra about sustainability and telling their story.
And now it's turning into financial rewards for some dairy farmers if their dairy cooperatives work with some of the big box stores like Walmart.
a target, that type of thing where they've actually got written in their business plan that have to have a sustainability clause.
So for their farmers to share their stories of the things they're doing on the land, how they're taking care of those, then they share that information and those data points with their dairy cooperative that make the cheese, they share it up the lawn as far as information with those big box stores.
So there's that
to sustainability.
The other sustainability is what packaging our cheese makers are using.
I know that I've taught several cheese manufacturers that, you know, the film nuts on the outside of cheese, they want that get to be food grid.
Literally would not have to take it off.
You cut it and
eat the
wrapper with the cheese.
No,
it's seriously.
And, and it's kind of, but, but it's obviously high tech science and they're still trying to figure some of that out.
But bioplastics, making whatever patch your cheese is, is packed.
is biodegradable
and
fast.
Those kinds of things are even the box that the cheese comes in and
all
that business, all those stories create the sustainability that can look for as going
to a
new calendar year.
And like you said, WisconsinDairy.org
cheese trends and you can take a look at it yourself.
Scotsanddairy.org slash cheese trends.
Kind of breaking up
a little bit, but I wanted to throw something in as far as the plastic wrap is concerned.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of people, like all my relatives used to throw cheese into a ziplock.
Yeah.
And that just scared the daylights out of me because I mean, it's not sealed up enough.
I mean, it gets moldy inside those things.
So I use, you know, a saran wrap and I just wrap it up just like you
buy it in the
store.
But if you it's still get well not as bad not as quickly Of course, I
eat it.
What do you do?
I eat it rather quickly.
Yeah, I do.
I
love cheese.
Yeah, man Okay, I
eat it.
I eat quickly.
I put it in a Ziploc.
I just compressed the air.
Yeah in Ziploc.
Yeah,
sometimes
if it's a wet cheese like a
in there to absorb any extra moisture.
Oh yeah yeah you can do
that too.
Once remember cheese by its nature is
What is cheese?
Cheese, kind of mold cheese, if you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Oh, uh, you're not, once you break the seal on that package and expose it to any kind of air, it's going to start mold.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
But yeah, I like the plastic wrap.
I mean, it works for me.
I'm sticking
with my plastic
wrap, even though of course I'm eating micro
plastics now.
So, you know.
All right, Pam.
Always wanted to check in with you and you hope have a good weekend and we'll check in again on Monday.
Yeah.
Enjoy the weekend!
but we could make most of it out.
But here's one
of the things, you know, she talked about protein, and protein is a great substitute.
It's a fat burner, basically.
If you have the protein, the protein will help you burn a lot more fat.
Right.
So it's something that you have to double up on, which, by the way, I'm starting to do this week.
Well, good for
you, John Peterson.
All right.
Glad to hear it.
Thank you.
Okay, 29th fast of the hour.
We'll check in again with the Midwest Food and Farm Report, and then we're back with Idiocracy for a Friday morning.
And I have to think of it more like a real news but a fake administration
These aren't real people.
Every time I see a group shot of these people, I think of the Beverly Hills
or
Gilligan's Island.
I mean, it's just a... It really is, you know, and they're horrible.
I mean, they're monsters,
right?
Oh, God.
All right.
Okay, time for idiocracy here.
Yeah, right?
Yeah, here's the story.
I didn't get to...
about a week ago, but this is Rachel Mano.
She was reporting that former Brazilian president Javier Bolsonaro.
Javier Bolsonaro.
Who is about to begin a 27 year prison sentence for doing what Trump did, attempting to overthrow his country's democracy, trying to remove his ankle monitor with a soldering iron.
Soldering
iron.
and flee to the U.S.
with, get this, Trump's help.
Okay.
Okay.
So they planned on taking this, the ankle monitor off.
No, no, this is just too much for me.
I was trying to edit the story down, and I lost the audio on it, so that's why I'm telling the story here.
But I mean, seriously, really?
He tried to get him out and, you know, take him to the US.
This guy's like a drug lord.
Bring him to the US.
Hey, come on over.
We'll take anybody.
It says here, Trumps.
OK.
Trump was plotting with him on Saturday and Bolsonaro was arrested early Sunday morning.
On Monday, Trump was asked about Bolsonaro and Trump said he was expecting to see him very soon.
I hope they're gonna be in the same cell.
When reporters told Trump that Bolsonaro was arrested.
Yeah.
Did you hear he got arrested?
Trump appeared shocked and disappointed.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Uh, son Eduardo Bolsonaro, uh, is facing trial in Brazil for seeking, uh, help from Trump break, break his
father
loose.
What is good?
Oh, here, you know, this is just the law and order party right here,
boy.
Boy.
What is it?
Well, they're like drug lords and mafia guys.
Just take it over.
I
mean, that's that's what it's become.
And Trump Trump.
I mean, his whole appearance, his whole demeanor is to be a mob boss.
I mean, he really admired them in New York.
And he just wants to be so much like him.
Now he's acting just like it.
Well, although he's falling asleep at that desk, you know, everybody around him.
Yeah, it's bizarre scene.
Every day and then when the cabinet meetings, it's that's just that last cabinet meeting went for three hours.
Oh my god three hours.
Can you imagine sitting in
there?
No wonder he's falling asleep.
He loves the admiration.
He likes the lovely comments about how great he is, but you can't stay awake through all of it.
And it's so funny.
It is so weird.
This guy made fun of sleepy Joe.
Right.
And yet he can't keep his eyes open at all, even at funerals, you know, important events.
Yeah.
He just passes out.
Yeah.
Rubio was sitting right next to him during that meeting and he just kept, he kept looking over at him and I was waiting for him to just kind of reach out and.
You know, yes, you know.
Nudge him
away.
Nudge him.
Yeah, like, hey, boss.
Hey, boss, I'm talking now.
I'm laying on thick.
I want you to hear every second of it.
And he's sleeping.
And then, of course, I think, and I mentioned this yesterday on the other shows, that that was actually posted, that video was posted by Rubio.
Rubio, yes.
I wonder what that means.
Yeah.
Taking a little shot, huh?
Yeah.
All right.
Hey, we got Mark on the line.
Mark, what do you got for us?
Good morning, Mark.
Go ahead.
Good morning, guys.
I was just kind of half listening in here.
And Trump is conspiring with these criminals and other places.
They're trying to get them out of the country that they're going to base charges in.
And at the same time, he's complaining about the smallies and people, ancestry in...
Minnesota and talking about how horrible they are.
At the same time, this guy is pardoning drug lords and it is just.
Yeah.
I'm wondering,
I'm just
jaw-dropping.
I'm wondering
if jaw-dropping.
Yes.
I wonder if Trump is there with the soldering iron trying to take the
brisket
off.
It's comical.
It's comical.
You know, and I heard the story about the first, the first air strike against the boat.
And apparently they saw boxes floating in the water and that was the reason they hit again, that the people were recovering the boxes.
Well, why not pick up the boxes and then let us know that there's actually something illicit in those boxes other than the fact that these guys were grabbing those boxes so they'd have something to float on before they got smoked.
Yeah, yeah.
By, you know, Trump's minions here.
It is
just...
It's crazy, isn't it?
I mean, we're watching them cover up the evidence.
One way or another, it's evidence.
And we want to know, and I think a lot of people, the public yesterday, I think in a poll, 70% disagree with the attacks on the boats.
Right.
Yeah.
So that's overwhelming.
Yeah,
it
sure is.
We got some other, we've got some text here.
When you are a criminal, you tend to surround yourself with and protect with.
other criminals to normalize and distract from your criminal activities impeach impeach impeach and that's
uh
from matt and then lin out in golden valley minnesota i am not even sure why that guy left his luxury spread in florida to go back to brazil to be arrested in the first place yeah uh
trump
would have uh taken his protection uh with a smile
okay
It's weird because they really want to clamp down their shooting boats out of the water.
Trying to prevent drugs from getting into this country and releasing all the drunk lords in other countries and bringing them to the
US.
I can't quite figure that out.
Why would they do that?
My
head is exploding from all of this stuff.
I can't handle it anymore.
I just want to
leave.
Alright, this is something I just had to bring up Millions of dead people supposedly are claiming social security This again, this is so easy.
This is you this is not a headscratcher anymore.
It's simple.
It's obvious now that all of this The stealing this claiming of social security of a dead people is not real.
It's fake right dead claimants.
How do they collect it?
Where are these masses savings, by the way, that now they've gotten rid of the dead people collecting all of this?
Where are the masses savings from that?
They never existed, these dead people.
They never did.
The numbers that Musk and Trump implied were evidence of massive fraud were merely database errors.
Duh.
And it says here, as the libtards and fancy pants, so-called experts claim.
So, you see, we knew right away, but we were libtards and fancy pants, so-called experts, claiming there are no dead people collecting social security checks.
Apparently, we were right.
Social security expert Charles Bellhouse said they were simply misreading a data file.
And a bottom line is they couldn't do anything because they weren't happening.
See?
Okay.
So that's it.
Yeah, I thought they kept some of those older numbers just on file for future use, like, you know, 50 years later, they knew that.
Yeah, they just take them off.
They leave them on as a record, too, by the way.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
because they know that, you know, know it's collecting it.
We're going to have it here.
So we know, you
know,
how many people had had it at one time and, and just prevents a whole bunch of duplication.
But yeah, you're right.
You're absolutely right.
That's another reason why they kept them on the rolls for all of these years.
And there was a limit to how long you can collect these.
I
think it's like 115.
I think that's
it.
I don't think anybody's ever made it to 115 years of collecting social security.
So the color
point is pretty safe.
I think
we're OK.
This point.
All right.
So, border patrol surveillance of American drivers in Texas.
The U.S.
border patrol, which has recently grown even more powerful through collaborations with other agencies now, is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide, not just in Texas.
It's a
secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns, it deems suspicious.
Crazy stuff.
Hey, could you go back to last month?
Cut 171.
Let's take a listen to cut 171.
Here we
go.
There you
go
kind of an example of what's going on.
It's the predictive intelligence programs Have a network of cameras that scan and record vehicle license plates use facial recognition to identify drivers in an algorithm that flags vehicles deemed Suspicious based on where they came from where they are going and which route they took
Boy, this is going on nationwide
brothers from
Texas
happening.
Yeah See all these little things are going on in the background that we don't know about right this active role beyond the borders is part of the quiet transformation into something more akin to a domestic intelligence operation watching each and every one of us that's a
This
is scary stuff.
It is.
You know, you can expect those kind of things at airports.
I get that.
Big transportation centers and, you know, facial recognition and high security and everything, but just everywhere.
Everywhere, yeah.
Everywhere you go.
Yeah, you know, facial recognition on ring doorbells is, I mean, that was over the top already.
Yeah.
Now this.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, anyway, I'm scared.
Thanks
for sharing that with us.
We appreciate that.
Close the blinds.
Okay, yeah, we should.
On 648, it's cold out there this morning, 14 degrees, highs in the mid-20s, maybe a little light snow later.
We'll come back in just a few minutes.
Savannah Tomei Olson will join us in about 15 minutes.
It's John Nagorty on a Friday morning on WMDX.
70.
Try it.
Mm-hmm.
God.
Darkness.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that's good stuff.
It's
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All right.
All right.
Sounds excellent.
It's chilly out there 14 degrees highs in the mid 20s again No, I want to thank everybody who came out to the Atwood music hall last night for the showing or the screening of Godfather of Green Bay Pete Schwabbo was there.
We were there a bunch of people from WMDX were there in civic media It was great to see all the all of our listeners that showed up.
It was terrific crowd there
I slipped out early.
I apologize to the individual.
I was talking to this guy
and he
remembers me from WIBA FM in the
mornings
there.
We just started the conversation and you guys pulled me away and said, we're gonna introduce Pete.
I said, well, you guys can wait, can't you?
No, no, we gotta do it.
No.
Yes.
What a bunch of bullies, man.
Okay.
Are we going to delay
it in a couple of minutes?
Because of that, you left early, huh?
Yeah.
Well, I was miffed.
You were left in a huff.
When you're miffed and you leave in a huff, that's a bad sign.
That really is a bad sign.
Anger problems.
But
I'd like to...
Continue that conversation.
Uh, yeah, I feel bad.
I wish we had hit a little longer discussion because my memory fades at that point.
I have no idea what
I did back
at WIPF.
It's a long, long time.
Yeah.
Except for the holiday parade that I, uh, I organized.
You created and
it was theater of the mind that
all theater of the mind.
Yes.
I created
a Fitchburg day's parade.
There was no downtown Fitchburg, but I mean, it sounded like a bit.
Tropolis,
you
know, busy streets lights and everything and in floats with every Personality in town all TV station personalities weather people I had everybody on that show And they were on their floats, but we were stopped at red lights all the time They didn't time the lights for the parade parade.
Yeah, I had apologized everybody for the problem Anyway, it was it was a fun event and
No one listens to it.
I gave it to you and you wouldn't listen to it And
I was still sitting on my desk.
Yeah Yeah, I got a transfer so we can all listen to it one of these days
Hey, I'll tell you what let's play this I played this yesterday afternoon, but I just love this thing What happened yesterday?
I believe was the advisory committee on immunization practices The old description of it was that it's a medical and public health experts
But because RFK juniors involved, there aren't any.
And they're just debating, well, maybe we should give these vaccines.
Maybe we should.
Maybe we should.
Well, I don't
know.
What do you
think?
The
meningitis vaccine?
Forget it.
We'll make the parents pay for it if they want it.
All right, so here it is.
This is a new show.
This is from The Daily Show.
And it's an ad for it's RFK hospital.
Let's listen.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
That's CSI
Epstein 5.
I
want to see that show.
Anyway, that's great stuff.
It really is.
It's fantastic.
Hey, could you go back again to last month, cut 163?
Ted Cassidy didn't want to answer a... No, we can't have time for it.
Keep doing this, don't
I?
I mean, these are two
related subjects.
Well, see, you guys heard of it.
You have to stop me.
I talk too much here.
Oh, now it's our
fault.
Really?
You're throwing the blame over to here, right?
What are you talking about?
You've got a clock right in front of you too, you know?
Oh, plant that at once in a
while.
Well, I don't know.
You're supposed to, you know, rein me in here a little
bit.
Isn't that what Catherine wanted?
I think that's why you're
here.
I miss that, you know?
I miss when we were getting late on time.
Yeah.
I like that, you know?
That's character.
That's a
throwback.
It's part of what we do here
at the show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
By the way, you know Catherine Lake was there last night.
You know the congratulations to her for putting the whole thing together at what music?
Really your idea.
I remember you brought it up.
I brought the whole thing
up.
I wanted to bring
the movie back.
I thought it was so good.
Yeah, so that was a great idea.
And if
you love the movie give us a call this morning or at least Texas and tell us what you thought of Pete Schwab's movie.
Yeah, Godfather of Green Bay.
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Okay, okay,
so, you know, we run out of time, we can't play the cuts, we run to play.
Don't get angry with me,
get
angry with him.
Thanks, pal.
All right.
We'll take it somewhere.
Yeah.
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Now we have,
uh, Savannah Tomay Olson.
Do we have Savannah with us?
I think she's with us.
Good morning Savannah.
Good morning.
How's it going?
Good.
How's
your Friday morning going?
Oh, you know, we're hanging in there.
We've got a sick kid at home and trying to work when you
have
a coughing toddler in the background.
The amount of times I've had to rerecord this
week.
It's been a lot, but you know, I think we're getting to the other side of it.
Is it cold or is it COVID or do you know?
It's croop.
So it's that like a seal when you bark, you know, like a barking cough.
Well, the whole thing here is, you know, with now with COVID, you got to consider that as something, right?
You know,
another thing just to add to everything else.
Okay.
What have you got for us this morning?
What's
what's the big
story or a couple of big stories?
I know you have some big ones here.
I want to talk about something that the Madison Common Council
passed.
Yes, Samantha.
Hello, Savannah.
Hello.
Oh, I got muted.
Oh, there
you
go.
You're back.
So you want to talk about something that the Common Console did?
Yeah, I want to talk about something that they passed last week just before Thanksgiving, so we never got a chance to talk about it.
I passed this ordinance that would essentially ban selling cats and dogs at all pet stores Now the first thing you may think is who sells cats and dogs at pet stores in Madison and currently there are none that do So the idea is that they're trying to basically encourage people to adopt and discourage any pet stores from coming to the city, but some detractors were basically talking about how
passing an ordinance like this means that nothing happens to the people who are maybe mistreating animals for sale, whether that's puppy mills, whether that's backyard breeders, whatever.
So there was actually some lively debate between animal advocates at the Common Council meeting who really were on opposing sides of this issue, which I was surprised by.
Well, I have to say, I think they made a really good point.
I'll be honest, you know, it's a way to protect pets from being abused by some of these people who do deal with pets, cats and dogs.
So I think they made a very good point.
I don't know.
What was your conclusion on that as far as the news person is concerned?
Well, we have so many rescues here in Madison, right?
Right.
rescues in our humane society that will even take in other animals from other parts of the country where there's no space for them.
The fact that we don't actually have any pet stores that are selling cats and dogs right now tells you that this was largely symbolic.
But it'll be interesting to see what happens afterward and whether anybody kind of challenges this going forward.
What other stories have you been working on, Savannah?
You know, a big part of our coverage has been Wisconsin Eye, and I don't know if you guys ever watch anything on Wisconsin
Eye.
Yeah, what happened with that?
I know they needed a lot of money in order to stay alive and well.
You know what should happen, and they talked about this a long time, the state legislature should just allow it to be there and not require all this money, or at least put money into it themselves, right?
Keep
it alive.
almost $900,000 just to keep it going for one more year.
They have 30,000 hours of video archive, audio archive of the legislature in session.
So if you're somebody who ever wants to watch what your elected representatives are doing, the way to do that is Wisconsin Eye.
It's our version of C-SPAN, right?
And they're set to shut down.
I think 10 days from now on the 15th, if they don't raise that $900,000 and the thing that we risk is that all of that archive goes away.
So it's not even like they'll just stop broadcasting going forward, but we will lose all of basically that historical record.
I think they started in 2007.
Why would
they do that?
Why
wouldn't they hold on to that?
It's just digital.
That all cost space it still costs money to store it all and I think that's actually their biggest expense is paying for the terabytes and terabytes and terabytes of all of that storage
It almost sounds like a just a plan to do away with that and not let people see what's going on in their state legislature That's all it sounds like to me now, you know, I can say that
You can't say that, you're a news person, but I've been following this for a long time and Wisconsin Eye
has
been very controversial.
The Republicans do not like having Wisconsin Eye and that's why they require so much money to be put into it and they won't do it themselves.
This is something where this is where our tax dollars should go so we can keep an eye on what these people are doing in our state legislature.
That's
where I stand on it and I can't.
Okay, damn it.
Do any more
than what I can say here on the air,
so.
Savannah, anything else or do you have to run?
Yeah, now you have to run because this guy's going nuts.
Should you're ranting, alright.
Settle down, boy.
Okay,
that's it for me.
There's plenty to be mad about today, isn't there?
Yes, it is.
Savannah, thank you.
Have a good weekend.
Take care of the kid.
All right.
You guys
too.
Thanks a bunch.
Yeah.
Okay.
Savannah.
Tomay Olson from WMDX News.
Okay.
Okay.
Just take a deep breath.
Okay.
Get all riled up here.
Oh man.
Okay.
Here we go.
Remember your blood
pressure?
I know.
After my labs, I'm going to have to look after that.
It's just so crazy,
right?
You
get to watch these people.
Well, yes.
Our friend Doug used to work at Wisconsin Eye.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
And I'd be interested to get his take on this if he's listening out there.
Doug
in St.
Francis.
Yes.
Right.
So, okay.
Oh, we got a phone call here.
Joe is on the line.
608-879-8255.
Good morning, Joe.
What's on your mind?
Oh, I think Savannah summed it up.
There's plenty to be mad about.
That's true.
She got that down.
This great, great calm, too, is your child has this illness.
And I just think, well,
You know, she can calmly get her work done under a situation like that.
I need to tone it down a little bit too and get a more kind of whimsical look at things.
I wanted to return to the issue of the auto pen this week, right?
Yeah, that has been around in some variants since 1803.
And Thomas Jefferson had used it and many presidents, especially over the last several, the last decades, such as since Harry Truman's time, it's been rumored that people have been
using an auto pen.
And also, interestingly, Barack Obama used the device to sign the Patriot Act.
So I guess we Patriot Act no longer apply.
Wow.
Yeah, let's not go with that anymore.
I'm with that.
Yeah, auto pen.
But I loved looking at the fact that Mr. Trump is sure that Mr. Biden signed things with an auto pen 92% of the time.
92% of his executive orders were signed by auto pen.
Where did he get a statistic like
this?
Why not
93?
Why not 89?
It just sounds really good to say 93%, I guess.
But then people have noted that he also used the auto pen.
And this is what gets really great for me because he said for very unimportant papers, for unimportant papers.
Now, how does he decide what an unimportant paper is as a president?
So when he was asked about his use of an auto pen as president, he said,
I don't want to talk to NBC anymore.
I think you're so discredited.
Oh,
man.
That's his answer.
So, Evan, it's just a 92% or 93%.
Whenever in doubt, just say that number.
It doesn't have to be backed up with evidence.
Just say 93% of
it.
All right, we'll make it a standard answer on our show from
now on.
Yeah, 93% of the time.
Thanks,
guys.
All right.
Thank you, Joe.
Yeah, that auto pen thing where everything that Biden signed with the auto pen is null and void.
Yeah.
Right.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
What a dink.
Okay.
Oh my.
Um,
let's see.
We're getting some texts in here.
Yes, we are.
We are.
Let's see.
Scan this one.
Okay.
Todd or Billy?
Yeah.
This is Todd or Billy.
In my experience, it is way too burdensome to adopt a dog in Madison as opposed to other places.
Hmm.
The level of vetting is crazy at the Humane Society and one rescue organization we happen.
we have used.
Well, I don't know.
There were
a lot of problems with retail sales
of
dogs and cats.
I remember that.
Quite a
history there.
And I understand why that's no longer in vogue.
But at the same time, the people who want to protect pets also have a
good point, which I can't think of right now, but my brain is mush.
We've been working solid for eight
years.
Well,
it seems like that.
Well, let's go back to the phones and talk to Dick from Madison.
Good morning, Dick.
Go ahead.
Good morning.
I don't think you should be able to use the electric cardiogram for a signature either.
My penmanship is not that great anymore either, but what in the hell is that?
It looks like it's just total scribble.
That is.
It looks like an electric cardiogram.
This is ridiculous scribble
with the big flare pen or whatever.
Well, if the thing is, I mean, it does look like an auto pen.
signature.
I
don't know what it is, but it's very it's not legible, really.
Well, it's like a lie detector.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe that's
what
it is, you know, maybe so it's going off the charts.
That's that's what it's all about every time he talks.
Yeah.
Thank you, thanks for that
call.
Hey, how about this Netflix is on tap to buy
Warner Brothers, I'm wondering if the administration is gonna let something like this happen because they have their own special billionaires in line to buy it and Netflix is kind of getting in the way, but
I
think Netflix and Warner Brothers would be a good combination.
Well, it's a 72 billion dollar deal.
They
say it's like 30% of the market for film and TV and movies and stuff, but I think so what?
Okay, it's not like anything else is getting to be a monopoly around
here Hey, we're gonna be back with more of John and Gordy for this Friday morning rockers also in the studio We'll get to him in about 15 minutes with the maxing preview.
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It's Johnny Gordy in the morning, and what an eventful morning it has turned out to be.
Yes.
723.
I
don't know what you're referring to, but I'll go along
with it.
I know.
Well, no, what a
fact that we made it here after last night.
Last night
was wonderful.
The outward music hall.
What a great venue that is.
What a terrific addition to the music scene and,
you know,
the arts.
You know, of all the people that bought tickets for this, 93% of them.
Enjoy the movie.
You're
stuck on this
93 percent.
Well, yeah, I think Joe had a great idea.
You know, just
everything is 93 percent.
Yeah.
So I'm going
to try to wedge it into the program from now on.
Well,
good.
Well, it was great to see everybody that showed up there.
And it was really a fun night.
And Pete Schwabbo and Conrad were there from Night Lights.
Wonderful.
John and Middleton is 93.22286 percent.
If you're going to make it up.
Be accurate.
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You
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do.
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If anybody wants to stop by, I can show them our library of rules.
Why not?
In the old days, we just used to have contests with no rules.
I don't know.
But now we have an expansive amount of rules,
which
I can't keep track of.
Detailed let's go.
Let's go to the phones right now.
We have CJ on the line CJ.
What do you got for us
today?
Happy Friday
Happy Friday guys.
Merry Christmas.
Happy
holiday to you and the celebration Christmas.
You guys were lucky.
I had a basketball game to go to last night.
I think you would have liked this.
It was a fun get together.
It sounded like that.
I was interested.
I just wanted some real live news.
From the Trump administration, the greatest assembled administration ever.
Really?
Is that what you're going with now, CJ?
Oh my gosh, yeah.
Amazing talent surrounded a table and I watched every minute of that.
You never saw that with the Biden administration, did you?
Really?
Wait, you watched three hours of the cabinet
meeting?
Oh my...
Well, yeah, it was awesome.
I keep
thinking of Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar.
You know, pictures of them.
I always see that when I see the collection of characters.
I mean, they're just come on.
These people are crazy people.
You know, you got a guy who basically you can't tell where his eyes are
going.
OK.
Well, you got a guy that.
Smokin smart homeland security officer yesterday saw the January 5th pipe bombing not only for the Republican National Committee, but the Democrat National Committee Sure, and they did it with evidence that the Biden administration let lie So those are some of the things but I did want to talk about the 25,000 American lives that are saved with every boat strike of speeding
delivering what proof do you have?
What proof do you have that there is our drugs on each one of those boat
attacks?
They haven't presented any proof.
They have.
I think they've had two boats.
They've
had proof.
No, go ahead.
This is something that they now say the Obama administration planned and wanted to do.
This president actually is saving American lives, guys.
But international law prevented him from doing it, right?
I hope he does go into Venezuela and stops this, because if you're
Nice or nephew or daughter.
I
know
friends granddaughter was killed by fentanyl,
right?
Would you be a guy to be a little more upset about it?
Well,
here's here's the here's the trick here fentanyl doesn't come from there Okay, so
Get rid of that.
Plus, isn't it Congress's job to declare war and go into these other countries if, in fact, there's a reason to do that?
I mean, it really isn't
the
president.
It isn't really the president who says, I'm going to declare war on Venezuela.
It is Congress that's their power.
All right.
So anyway, just wanted to slide that in there and maybe maybe a little facts here and
there may help.
I don't know.
All right, it is 729 and right around the corner.
Rocker is back in the studio
with the Max
Inc preview.
We'll have much more after we take a timeout for the Midwest Food and Farm Report with fabulous farm babe Pam Yonkey and her crew.
I just want
to say also that CJ is 93% inaccurate.
I've got that number stuck in your head now.
Well, I may have to improve it because I think John was right.
I really need to get a little bit more accurate if I'm using that.
Okay.
Back with more of John and Gordy for Friday morning on WMDX after this.
Oh, yeah, man.
Oh, yeah, it's John and Gordy in the morning here.
And
he
is
the
rocker and he's in the studio right now.
I want to get to a few text here.
Kurt, by the way, who I saw last night at our big get-together with Pete Schwabba's film.
Yeah, we talked briefly and we talked about the fact that he can't stand hearing CJ.
But you know what, I mentioned to him I always have a question for CJ and that's why I put him on because I want to ask that question and I want to get his point of view on it because I want to know how these guys think.
How do they think?
And sometimes, you know, we just find out that it's not really anything you think about.
It's just a feeling that they have about the truth.
All right, and Doug in St.
Francis, you mentioned that he actually was
at Wisconsin Eye for a while, right?
And he says to maintain the Wisconsin Eye's digital asset archive and keep it available for the public to access online is a large annual cost with the servers, custom databases, websites, et cetera.
Yeah, I get that.
But still, at least I'm saying the legislature should throw the money in.
We can do that.
That's our tax bond dollars.
We want a record of all this stuff.
We can go back in the archives and look it up.
That's what we need.
We need that at least.
So there we go.
I'm
sorry about rantin' on your time there, Rocker, but before I get angry.
Hey, though, remember during the protests back during the Skywalker days, there was so much happening in the courts and everything and really the way that you were able to understand what was happening or see it happening as documentation.
Wisconsin I it was so important.
Yeah, true.
I mean, that's just amazing, right?
That
stuff will go away.
I can't believe they would actually destroy these records and the film and audio of all of this.
That's just I can't wrap my head around something that's stupid.
Back to the dark of night.
They got to raise 900,000 by
the next 10 days in order to save it.
OK, that's it.
We've got, you know, well, that's unplugged from politics.
We've got a fun drive.
We got to put a fun drive together for
this.
All right.
Well, in the meantime, let's enjoy some local and regional music and find out what's happening.
Music scene with Rocker.
Rocker.
What
are you rocking every Saturday night on maxing radio unplug from politics 6 to 9 p.m.
Saturday nights right here on WM DX 927 FM in Madison You can stream us at civicmedia.us slash max Inc radio That's MAX INK or catch the podcast interviews and performances on Spotify and Apple just search maxing radio
This week we have gamma ray bar right here in Madison on the square just off the square owner Kevin Wilmot the second he's going to be in talking about their music schedules some holiday stuff and the AED machine that they now have at the gamma ray bar since now two people have had a cardiac arrest on stage there and seen the importance that that plays in live music venues also Joey song founder Michael Gommel he'll be talking about Joey song January 9th and 10th at the Sylvie
Music Legends performing for Epilepsy Research, joeysong.org is where you can get some information.
You can hear Michael talking to us Saturday night about this and live from the Mad City.
It's no limit and no limit guys.
It's a melodic Midwestern alt rock band and they were formed in Madison here when musicians from Monona Grove High School and Columbus High School came together at the music.
the Sonic Music Foundry, Madison Music Foundry, I'm sorry, and that is a place where they have rehearsal rooms, they give lessons, and they have group lessons, and this band created out of having a group lesson, right?
They used to do small performances, and when they graduated from the program, they decided to...
stay together as a band.
So now they're actually a formal band.
They've won some competitions with Rock Gonson.
And the four piece band will be here in the studio appearing live from the Mad City on Maxink Radio Saturday night at 8 p.m.
And so right now I have a brand new song from them.
They have just released on Black Friday.
It's self produced.
This song is No Limit.
It's called Hope.
No limit.
No limit.
Those guys are still in high school.
So it's a high school band.
So it's really, I think a great opportunity to put such young talent and the next generation of artists on the radio, we have to celebrate that.
You know, I think that Madison Music Foundry is a great idea.
That's been around for quite a while.
Oh, yeah.
Many years.
It's like a
warehouse building.
Yes.
They convert it into studio space or practice rehearsal space, right?
Right.
Practice rooms.
Yeah.
And they actually have
like they can stock the room with whatever you need.
So like for instance, you could be a band like needed to rehearse for a concert, go there, rent out their big rehearsal room, have everything just walk all the musicians in.
In fact, we've used it for Atwood Fest when we had a big all-star band together with a lot of guests.
We went there and rented out a room and they just stocked it for us.
So all of our guest musicians just showed up and sat down and played.
It was
awesome.
Is that off of fish hatchery?
It is south of
the belt line.
That's right.
Over in that area.
Yeah, just past that like Kentucky fried chicken on the frontage road there.
Right, right.
Yeah, very cool.
All right.
What else you got for
us?
Joey B's holiday spectacular extravaganza.
That's happening at the Hainan Saloon.
That is tonight.
December 5th.
Joey B Banks, of course, everybody in Madison here knows him as Steely Dane Drummer.
He subs for VO5 and he plays in about 10 other bands, but he'll be hosting and performing with four of the bands that he's currently in tonight.
One of Madison's oldest and legendary bands he plays in is Honor Among Thieves and other bands will be Play Machine, which is actually a duo.
It's an ARPOP EDM with producer and owner of Clutch Studios, Brian Liston.
Everybody knows that guy.
And the Funky JB's, they'll perform funk, soul and R&B tunes and will feature some special guest performers.
Of course, that's like funk, Clyde Stubblefield's favorite songs.
and lots of James Brown, all kinds of funky goodness.
And then, of course, Latin funk supergroup, Automatic Lover.
They'll be performing a variety of Latin, Afro beat and funk music that all happens tonight.
Joey B's holiday spectacular, Strag of Aganza at the Heineen Saloon.
And right now, I thought, you know, we'd play a little Clyde Stubblefield because that's what he's going to be playing.
And you know, over at Clyde's house, the party was always in the kitchen.
And what do you do when you run out of beer?
Go get some more.
Go get some more.
That's right.
Let's check this out right now.
It's Clyde Stubblefield.
The
party's in the kitchen.
You stumped me, but first there.
Oh, yeah, party.
That's tonight at the high noon saloon Joey B's holiday spectacular extravaganza.
Don't miss that.
It's going to be really good time.
Yeah.
Hey, I was going to tell you guys about the Madison Symphony Orchestra, right?
Yeah.
And it's a Madison Symphony Christmas at the Overture Center in here right here in Madison this Sunday, December 7th at 2 30 p.m.
And then after the concert, there is a post concert event.
It's called Out at the Symphony.
So it's in the Overture Center's Promenade Lounge, and there's a hot cocoa bar, yummy food, and you can participate in an ugly Christmas sweater runway competition for a chance to win prizes.
I know you guys are going to be there.
Special guests include Drag Queen Kendra Banks, who will emcee the sweater runway competition, and entertainer Taylor Ashton.
She'll be Santa for the evening.
This is going to be pretty interesting.
Go to MadisonSymphony.org and search out, out at the symphony.
All right.
I had a tip, you know, if you're looking for those crazy Christmas sweaters, we saw them at Walmart.
I met Walmart.
I was just passing through, you know, just cutting through stores, as I always do.
I actually went through Easttown Mall the other day,
looking
for something, and when I went by Spencer's, they had a
ton.
They had those two,
huh?
Ugly, your Christmas sweaters.
Yeah,
the ugly
sweaters, yeah.
Sweaters,
yeah.
It's a
big thing.
Well, 93% of all ugly sweaters are found in malls, you know.
You're right.
Good to know.
No, that's
93.222861.
Okay,
Jen mill hollow guys they have some new music out Jen mill hollow is a high-energy Americana jam band from Madison and known for their unique blend of bluegrass folk jazz and blues and rock and they do rock Jen mill hollow is releasing their third studio album a fool's dream Friday January 30th at the Burr-Oak in Madison and we have a new song from the album right now you heard it here for the second time on the John and Gordy show this is Jen mill hollow
Sleep all day.
All right
It's a great song.
Sleep all day.
I bet you that's what you guys were thinking about.
Yes.
That's about 10 minutes away.
The Godfather, the film, right?
It's going to be with an orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
So take a trip out to Milwaukee Friday and Saturday, January 2nd and 3rd, 7.30 p.m.
at the Bradley Symphony Center on Wisconsin Avenue over there in Milwaukee.
Relive the chilling portrait of the Sicilian clans rise and fall.
from power as the Godfather is.
And it goes on in the background with a Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and go to MSO.org.
Very good.
We'll be back with more of Rocker on Johnny Gordy for this Friday morning in just a moment.
Oh yeah, great music from Fundamentally Sounds.
Scott, thank you for all the links you've provided to us.
Your son is in Fundamentally Sounds and we'd like to maybe probe and find out more about that.
And Linda, thanks for your thank you.
Fun night at the Atwood.
Watching Pete Schwabba's film.
Godfather of Green Bay.
I love that movie, so it's one of my favorites.
And she said, thanks for doing everything you
do.
It was terrific to see everybody showed up, and we had a really good crowd, and thanks to everybody from Civic Media and WMDX for supporting that as well.
Yeah, and Gordy almost wiped out.
Yeah, he almost fell off the stage and nearly broke my ankle.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
And everybody thought, well, that's really funny.
He did a pratfall, slapstick.
Yeah, I was in pain and hobbled away.
It was okay.
Everything's
fine.
Back with Rocker here for a few more minutes with the Maxing preview.
Alright,
what else?
You guys ready?
I went him, I went into the closet.
I went looking around and it went all the way in as deep as 2014.
And I found Colorphase.
They were a great band here in Madison featuring Vanessa Anderson on vocals, James Jay on guitar, Lexie on bass and Austin on drums.
And they've all actually moved out of Madison.
I don't think any of them are here anymore, but they're all in LA and all these big things doing great things in music.
But they were here in Madison and a Madison band.
Back in 2014, so I popped this song out.
It's called pop song.
This is color fades.
Oh, yeah, okay
Catherine.
Stay here.
Stay here.
Sounds like that.
Yeah, that is really a terrific voice.
It's great band, and you know, it's it's sometimes a Max and Grady.
It's all about keeping the music alive.
Yes.
So you know what?
If you're in a band and you want to send in your MP3 for us to play on Max and Grady, or maybe even here on John and Gordy, we take the new stuff.
We take the old stuff.
Even if your band is dead and gone, I still want your music.
So send it to the music.
at civicmedia.us.
And we'll consider it for on-air playback.
Fantastic.
Let's get back to Ugly Sweaters.
I know you guys love the Ugly Sweater parties.
There's a couple of them happening, and one of them is December 18th at the Eastside Club in Madison.
It is Pat McCurdy and his Ugly Sweater party, Milwaukee Icon.
Pat McCurdy, you remember from the band Yipes and the Men About Town.
He's been entertaining audiences in Wisconsin the Midwest across the nation for decades and he brings his unique style of Improvisational comedy music and audience interaction to venues large and small and he fills it up with pat heads and pat heads as you know are his
really enthusiastic fans.
They really know how to
sing out in the audience.
Don't they?
Do you know how to sing?
And it's only five bucks.
Food is available.
Don't forget to wear your ugliest sweater.
So maybe you have a chance to win.
Also find Pat this Saturday at the Looking Glass in Jeansville.
So this is December 18th, Eastside Club.
Right now, let's listen to his classic tune.
This is Sex and Beer, Pat McCurdy.
I don't know if I've heard it quicker.
Fun stuff with Pat McCurdy, right?
What's it?
It is fun stuff.
Pat is always a fun time.
Pat is awesome.
And check it out.
It's coming up.
Oh, I already put
Saturday looking glass in Janesville.
That's
a Saturday.
Right.
OK.
Ugly sweater party is coming up December 18th at the Eastside Club.
Rocker and thanks for being with us.
Thanks.
Thank you Saturday night.
Max.
We'll be talking to Kevin Wilma from the gamma rate bar.
Michael Gommel from Joey song and of course no limit high school band right here live full drum set the whole deal.
Yes, and thanks for joining us, Rocker.
Catherine is in the studio, and Catherine, great night last night.
Atwood Music Hall was terrific to see all of our... She's still bundled up.
Just getting a bunch of listeners that were there last night.
They all showed.
I couldn't believe it.
How delightful was that?
What a
terrific crowd.
Lots of fun with Pete Schwabba and
Conrad was there.
Funny movie.
You can find it online.
Yeah.
Or you can.
The Godfather of Green Bay.
You can find it.
You just got to search.
I think it's on Tubi.
It's on Tubo, yeah.
OK.
And Prime.
Tubo
and Prime.
And
Prime, yeah.
And thanks for everybody for showing
up.
Thank you, guys.
Atwood Music Hall.
Tubi.
I thought it was Tubo.
No, it's
Tubi.
Oh, OK.
All right.
to be or
not to be.
Not to be.
Get off the
air.
You guys are done.
But
yeah, we're
coming back this afternoon from two to five.
Yeah, we hope you'll join us then.
And again, we just can't stop broadcasting on the air.
Thanks to Downer's Distilling for helping us out with the big showing of Godfather of Green Bay and all of our listeners for showing up.
Susan, thank you
for the
comment.
It's very nice to hear.
We'll be back this afternoon.
Tune in from two to five, and we hope you have a good weekend.
We heard if you're doing other things, we'll talk to you Monday morning.
Okay, so long.
I don't know what I'm talking about.
We're going to stop.
Just stop.
Let's take a nap.
Stop.
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We're truly sorry.
Once again after an amazing weekend One that I want to forget forever.
I know you do as well, you know, right?
Yeah Yeah
If I could only wipe it out of my memory I would yes
now what what are we doing with snow in November?
I mean what it?
What's that story all about there Gordy here a weatherman your former weather guy, you know all about
this.
Yeah.
No, I don't know anything about it.
I
I try to not pay any attention to any weather forecast ever because people ask me all the time.
I don't know just what you know it's all on your phone.
Everybody's got a phone right?
Everybody asks you.
The phone took over all the jobs of the weather people.
They trust you.
Oh, they want to trust somebody.
They can't trust the phone.
Well, yeah.
What kind of society do you think we have people trusting in an inanimate object?
Come on, man.
Get it together.
Okay.
Do we have a society in any way?
No, we don't.
I
think you're right.
We dissolve that.
Happy December.
Hey, it's Monday.
And Johnny Gordy back in the mornings again for today.
Yeah, and we are it's cold out there this morning.
We're at 10 degrees some why don't you check your WMDX Samsung watch?
Do you have it handy?
Is it near your wrist?
It is.
I see it
there now.
So what would you like?
Well, I'm saying it's 10 degrees, but the other reports are saying it's even colder out there.
So I want to
make sure to get the accurate temperature so we can project
about 14 degrees according to the official Samsung weather watch.
Okay.
And it feels like 14 and high today of 27.
All right.
Low to mid to 14 again.
Mid 20s and we might get a little bit of light snow later on today, maybe another inch
or so.
No, no, no.
And then some more later
Tuesday going into Wednesday,
some more snow.
Where the hell did you get the possibility of snow
again?
But it's winter, man.
Right.
And I think I think I could be wrong about this, but I think today is the shortest day of the year.
Oh, let me check.
Yeah.
Could you check on that?
Dominic Lee, our producer in the mornings here.
And he had an interesting Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
We'll tell you about that in a moment.
Okay.
Snow around.
It's expected to start picking up at about 11 a.m.
and increase to about 45% chance.
That's something in all
afternoon.
Not a lot of accumulation though, I don't think.
There's nothing on here about accumulating.
They said the shortest day is the winter solstice, which is December 21st.
December 21st.
I must have been hallucinating or dreaming.
Yeah,
you're right.
Accumulation up to one inch.
All right.
Yeah.
So not too bad.
You know, if one inch is like what happened over the weekend, then I'm not very happy about the whole
idea.
Look, I think
Madison
had about 10.1 inches, something like that.
Somewhere in that neighborhood, but they had, there were some places got even more
than that.
I saw a chart.
Yeah.
of the accumulations around the area.
Right.
And I saw 12.4 inches.
Okay.
So, and that was right at the area of Madison.
Okay.
Well, it's
very possible.
My wife measured about 11 inches.
Okay.
So there you go.
There's a lot of it out
there and it's
going to stay there for a while because
of course it is cold.
Yeah,
it's gonna, it's gonna just embed
in,
freeze, that's it.
These chunks of ice and stuff all over the place.
Hey, we have an early morning phone call from Matt in Middleton.
Should we check in
with Matt?
Oh, why not?
Hey Matt, happy
December.
How was your
Thanksgiving?
Weather blows.
Yeah, I know.
I
tried
blowing it and it didn't, it didn't exactly work.
No.
And I just want to talk about my job.
You know, they had us out Saturday delivering mail and packages.
And I just have to question the thought process of these companies because it's really quite stupid.
Yes.
You know, when I when I moved back to Wisconsin, my father made me get winter tires.
And ever since I did that, I see the clear difference and how much safer it is.
But these companies
Preach safety to us all the time and then they give us two-wheel drive Vans that are awful And you're getting stuck and having possible accidents every half hour as the snow gets deeper, right?
Yeah And I was out there and I talked to a FedEx guy They called the Amazon people back at like three o'clock or something but yet we're out past five
And instead of investing in actual safety, which is chains or snow tires or something, they'd rather pay the insurance on whatever accident happens or whatever person gets killed, right?
And that's capitalism.
And I can't stand it.
And that's my rant.
Works for me, man.
I feel safer on a sled being.
Well,
maybe that'll be the way they deliver the mail in the future.
We might need it this winter.
Oh,
boy.
Oh, I know.
I'm
glad you...
We're able to stay safe
through all that.
Yeah, it's crazy to even think that you'd be out on Saturday.
Geez.
Thanks for that call, man.
Yeah, that's
crazy.
Well, that happened to me over the weekend.
I have a pretty crazy story.
I was going on Saturday morning to my girlfriend's house, Chicago, to West Bend, and I spun out, did a full 360 on the expressway.
How fast were you going?
I was going about 60.
So it was still fast.
It was a little fast for snow, but still.
No,
that's really fast.
Spinning
out,
60
miles
an
hour.
I ran into the barrier.
I hit the barrier and got a flat tire, so I was stuck on the expressway.
It was really bad.
Oh, no.
So
who came out to help you?
I had to call AAA because I didn't have all the parts.
I didn't even have a jack.
Wow.
Were you in a lane where people had to go around you or were you off the
side there?
I mean I was in a lane where people did have to go around me, but luckily no one was out I mean there was no one there, so I didn't have that was not an issue luckily, but I mean it was still Terrifying yeah, that is that is really awful So I missed a little bit of my girlfriend's Thanksgiving at dinner.
Sorry guys, but I suppose they didn't forgive you either
So your car is damaged too?
Car is damaged as well, but luckily I got all new tires yesterday.
All new tires.
So exactly what Matt was saying.
I got good tires, good traction.
Which side of your car hit the guardrail?
It was the back passenger side of the car.
I wasn't hurt, but it was still pretty scary.
You got some damage that has to be repaired?
This week I got to go in.
That's sad.
That's too bad.
Wow.
Well, that's a horror horror story right there.
Wow.
That was my fun.
You know, I'm going to ask anyone out there.
I know this is really early in the morning.
He even come up with a question, but maybe you can give me a tip on buying a new snowblower.
Okay.
You know, something you just get one, something that's more effective in the snow that we had.
Over the weekend, please, you know, all I'm all I'm all I'm doing right now is just looking for a snowblower that works in the kind of snow that we had especially like, you know clearing out Yesterday, yeah, I mean we had all the snow overnight and then boom, you know, I Couldn't blow all this snow.
I took half of it off before Sunday.
Yeah
uh, saturday night and uh, and that was good.
It just worked perfectly and then it got heavy and it became wet and uh, then I ended up pushing the snow more than blowing it.
So I don't want to push snow.
I want it to blow.
And I'm tired of this crap.
You know, I've made excuses for that snow blower for at least four or five years.
Every year I say, well, you know, this year we'll probably not have wet snow.
And that has not happened.
Every year the snow gets wetter and wetter and heavier and heavier and it's not working.
I'm tired of this.
Anybody have any kind of snow blower?
Recent, more recent snow blower because I want it.
get a new one.
Yeah.
Let me know, you know,
why don't you get a little one of those little snow plow things that you see on the sidewalks there with the it's kind of enclosed.
You gotta like, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no,
no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no
I would have the driveway that we have because of the entrance.
Really?
Yeah, it's too narrow.
So they said, no, we can't make a court out of it where they could plow it themselves.
So it's that size.
It's almost a court.
And not quite.
And I had to do the whole driveway and the sidewalk in front of my house, which is huge and long.
It's a public sidewalk.
And in front of my neighbor's house as well, because I help everybody out.
And
that thing was
just a damn nightmare.
And then my son had to go across the street because the woman over there could not get out of her driveway.
She didn't have anybody to plow it.
So she asked us to help her out.
So I had my son go over there and do it.
But I mean, seriously, the thing is, when you look at these snowblowers, they have very serrated edges on the rotating blades.
OK.
Mine don't exactly have
a very serrated edge.
There is something there, but not like they make them today.
I'm thinking that has a lot to do with it.
I could be wrong.
How old is your snowblow?
Oh man, it's about 10 years old.
Okay.
But it's a Troy built and it's got this extra blade in front.
Now a lot of
people don't know.
It's like a three stage.
It's got a blade that faces.
Flatly faces the front
and
it blows all the snow into the impellers and then the impellers, you know shoot it out of the shoot But it's like I don't think that's working It looked like a good idea looked like it could really go through the snow and it's And it's not doing that for me.
So I'm done.
I'm done I I've I've kept my fingers crossed for no wet snow for the last three or four years and I am done with this stuff.
How about a flame
Thrower what would that work?
Just get that get the flames.
Oh, yeah.
Fire that up.
Oh, that's the way I would work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why don't you look into that?
Take into that in a consideration.
You know, I have mice, you know, too.
And they appear under the sink every once in a while.
Are they're still there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I capture them live and put them out into the field to freeze to death.
You know, just my my humane way of dealing with mice.
What are you going to do now that we've got all this 13
degrees
and still take them across the street into the field?
I
do.
Just throw them in
the snow.
I do.
When was the last time you got one?
Was it recently?
This morning about 45
minutes
ago.
It happens at all times of the day.
I tell you, my wife and I just, I think that's our new life.
Saving mice.
That's
sad.
Well, we got a lot of things going on this week.
You know, we have Giving Tuesday is tomorrow, December 2nd.
You'll hear a lot about that over the today and tomorrow.
And then on Thursday, Pete Schwabba will be showing his movie, The Godfather
of
Green Bay, Thursday night at Wood Music Hall.
We've got Steve Cochran this morning.
We're going to talk to him from Chicago.
Find out the latest there.
in our seven o'clock hour and Pam Yonkey right around the corner, right?
With the Midwest Food and Farm reports, Fabulous Farm Babe coming up next.
It's all happening on this Monday edition of John and Gordy in the Morning.
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Looks like winter out
there this
morning, too.
Happy December.
WMVX 92.7.
It's John and Gordy in the morning.
We'll be back again this afternoon as well.
Yeah.
But right now.
Yes.
A very special guest.
Pam Yonkey is with us.
Good morning, Pam.
It looks like Pam
got bounced out.
What?
Hold
on.
Hold on.
She's coming back in.
All right.
Please stand by.
A little pan?
Yep.
There
we go.
So much for technology.
Here I'm trying to show off.
I thought I was going to try something new today.
And it's beating me.
It is
kind of like your snowblower.
It is working against me.
Technology is working against me today.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, we've got to work through it somehow.
I mean, we talked just fine during the break.
Oh, well, all right.
Well, okay, let's talk about the hemp industry being threatened by what happened in the big bad bill and everything else.
And plus, everything is going wrong as far as that is concerned.
And they're blaming the individuals who make hemp and make hemp products for trying to get around the law when I just think it's just entrepreneurship, basically.
Right and you know, that's just it.
I was visiting with the president of the Wisconsin hemp farmers and manufacturers association You got to remember a lot of these people have put a lot of time sweat and energy Trying to restart an industry that Wisconsin dominated back in the 1930s when hemp was being used still in the manufacturing of rope Now they've invested in infrastructure.
They've invested in acres if you're going to grow hemp in Wisconsin, it is not a cheap undertaking
just the seed alone is very expensive, then you have to make sure that you're basically putting a fence around it to make sure that it's not destroyed by livestock, but more importantly, that it can be monitored as far as the level of THC in the plant.
So there's a lot of investment and then there's a lot of storefronts that have been created for the byproducts.
Maybe it's the grains, maybe it's the oils, maybe it's some of the edibles, and that's really what's at risk.
So later today I'm going to find out, I understand that legislations
being pulled together by Wisconsin Senator Pat Teston, who is the chair of the Agriculture and Tourism Committee.
And he's trying to do what he can to protect Wisconsin's hemp industry from the federal level enforcement of basically taking the industry away.
How this all got started, according to my sources, were that Mitch McConnell had a check written to him that basically,
they help to escort in the demise of the hemp industry through the big beautiful.
So a lot of different things
that were
going on in the background that nobody was even aware of because things were moving so fast and then the federal government shut down.
So I'm trying to do a little deeper dive into what's been happening as far as this, you know, how can this happen?
And it's not just Wisconsin.
It's the hemp industry across the United States that is swirling the drain hole right now and could potentially go down.
The other thing that we have to remember is
We've got to get some action on this pretty quickly.
If a Wisconsin hemp grower wants to proceed with the 2026 growing season, they've got to make that decision in the next four months.
Now the enforcement of the.
hemp going away doesn't kick in for a year.
But again, like I've been discussing with the farmers, they've got to make planting decisions this spring.
Some of them were going to be expanding acres because demand has been up.
Others were looking at new sites as far as different varieties in that.
So they've got to make those decisions literally right now.
And they need a little assurance.
We're hearing from states like Ohio that their state legislature is already trying to craft workarounds to basically
that may be on the books, but we're not going to enforce it in the state.
And I'm kind of waiting to see what Pat Teston is thinking about as far as Wisconsin's version of trying to keep that industry in place.
But yeah, it was a big surprise to hemp producers and hemp manufacturers that this made it in.
But like I said, it was one of those backdoor deals out in Washington DC that happened while everybody was focused on Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, snap, et cetera.
I don't want to say took our eye off the ball, but did
I didn't even know it was part of the conversation,
so I'll have more.
It was such a huge piece of legislation that should have been debated and I should have been talked about.
My God, it's just outrageous.
And I guess the only real way to get around it, I guess, is to legalize marijuana.
I think that's, well, that's, I mean, that's now
remember, see, that's, that's where we get into problems.
Marijuana is a cousin.
of hemp.
It is not hemp.
Hemp is something that you can still find in ditches around Wisconsin, because when we grew it back in the 30s, it basically went wild.
So you'll see hemp.
That is where we have to define hemp
is
non THC non hallucinogenic, if you will, cannabis, its cousin is the one you're talking about.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I just making suggestions.
That's all.
Let's just make it.
Let's just make it legal.
Okay.
You know, I'm pushing drugs here on the ship.
Okay.
Okay.
Let's let's talk about high fructose corn sugar.
That is huge.
And, you know, I've been taking my kids off of it, buying less product, fewer products rather with high fructose corn sugar.
And what, what do we, what are we looking at on that now with the Maha movement out there?
Yeah.
we can and we'll be we'll be talking about this more but when I was at my farm broadcasters convention I caught up with the corn refineries association and they're the ones obviously that help to promote high fructose corn syrup and they are very much they question very much the statements that the maha movement is making about high fructose corn syrup but to your point John I understand where people are saying hey I'm not going to drink that pop because it's got high fructose corn syrup
or
maybe you read the labels a little close but you might be surprised to know what it does for
For example, it helps brown baked foods.
It also contributes to the bulk or volume on ice cream, baked goods, preserves, jams.
It takes some of that harsh, nasty taste out of some of the non-sweet foods, even like your salad that might have a vinaigrette on it.
You'll
find some high fructose corn syrup in there, sauces, condiments, a lot of that kind of stuff, things that it helps with freezing points and melting points and
boiling
points.
So it's going to be it's going to be harder.
to get take away than we thought.
That
was the bottom
line.
All right, all right.
Pam, we'll run out of time.
On that,
we're out
of time.
But you have a good week.
We'll talk to you on Friday.
All right, guys.
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Yeah,
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Right.
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Wow.
Wow.
The first hour.
Yeah,
they were
pretty happy.
God, management loved me.
How
long did
you work in
Baltimore
then, Steve?
I
was only there a couple of years.
I was in St.
Louis a couple of years.
Um, Chicago's mostly been victimized by me.
You know, I've been here mostly since 94.
Um, you know, I was in New York for six months and it's sort of, it's like a witness protection program career.
Well, we know what that's like.
Yeah.
It is.
Radio is just like that.
By the way, it sounds like the theme song to WKRP up and down the dial.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So
since we talked to you last, you've got another new knee.
I understand, right?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm out because, you know, I had the first one done.
Yeah.
In 2021.
And then they just did the left knee two weeks ago.
Well, you don't
have any more left.
Yeah.
Today is a two-week anniversary.
And I spent a little extra on this one.
I got Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.
I got a backup camera so I won't run into anything.
I
want one of those.
I'm a hot-tick guy here.
Now,
how
does
that work when you go through metal detector systems?
Oh, yeah, you sound off when you get to the airport.
You get out of the car and then the alarms start going.
I tell you say that because we were in Florida a few days before the surgery.
And I actually had a moment with a TSA agent and God bless those folks.
I've been working without pay and all the nonsense that they've been through.
But my part of the cough, you know, goes with the duty.
Yeah, but I set out the alarm and the guy said, well, he said something that I haven't heard in a long time.
He showed me the screen.
Pardon me again.
He showed me the screen and he said, you have a hotspot in your crotch.
Really?
And there's like a glowing area in that crotchal area.
I don't want to get too bogged down in medical terms.
Um, but yeah, and he goes, we've got to actually get to figure out what that is.
And I said, well, good luck to you.
And, uh, we figured out it was, uh, not so hot after all, but, uh,
okay.
All right.
So they didn't have to do a body search then.
Oh yeah.
No,
full feel up.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I felt like he was checking for change there after a while.
Um,
but, um,
And of course, the sad thing is he hasn't called Simpson.
Well, there's always
hope.
You've got to keep your options open.
The dating scene is pretty tough.
Really is.
So what's on your mind as far as.
What's the latest on ice in Chicago?
Because there have been so many other headlines with everything else going on in the world.
We kind of forget.
They're still
in Chicago,
right?
A lot of other brutal
apprehensions.
Yeah, they took a picture at the bean and they started a left town.
Really?
Yeah, it's like if all you guys wanted was tourist stuff, we could have taken it around and shown you everything.
Walking tour of Wrigley and, you know, I mean, Soldier Field.
You know, it's very
strange.
The two things that are really hard to explain is what is the actual mission purpose or sense coming from Washington of any kind.
And the Chicago Bears being in first place.
Those are the two things we don't understand.
I don't get it either.
I don't get it either.
We'll find out the Sunday afternoon.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Little
Bears Packers and the Bears.
Great season.
I don't like this two games in three weeks thing.
I always like the end of year Packers Bears game.
I mean this one kind of slipped past the goalie.
I didn't even see it coming.
Do you guys remember when it wasn't a late season Packers Bears game?
No.
I don't remember.
No.
It's always been near the end of the year.
Yeah.
But, you know, but here, here's the thing, you know, we have that tie.
The Green Bay Packers have that damn tie.
Why they have a high score in the football league.
I don't understand that at all.
No, I don't like it.
I don't like it at all.
It's like, okay, let's do it 10 minutes over time because we all got to get to dinner.
Yeah.
Right.
It's ridiculous.
I think you, you know, you got 20 to 30, maybe 35 year old athletes.
Except for Aaron Rodgers, what's Aaron now?
70-75?
I think about 80.
He's getting up there.
Yeah.
And they can certainly play longer than 10 extra minutes.
And you play till you win, you know?
We don't need any ties.
Forget about the
ties.
Sudden death,
huh?
I don't know, anyway, yeah.
That kind of blows my mind.
Anyway, it'll be, it should be a really good game.
I'm kind of cheering on the Packers, obviously, but you know, the Bears doing well.
I think that's pretty cool.
You know, it's been a long time.
It's weird for us.
It's very strange.
You know, it's almost like, you know, you've been cheated on by your wife or girlfriend and you want to trust again, but you just don't know if you can.
Yeah.
Good comparison.
All right.
So, you know, it's, everything is toned down for ICE in Chicago then.
They've left
out.
I'll be honest with you.
A major, major political thing here is, is Governor Presker claiming he's not sure he's going to run for president.
Yeah.
Of course he's going to
run.
Yeah.
Um, I think, I think my old friend, Rahm Emanuel, who was the last great mayor of Chicago, though the two that have followed have not exactly been tough competition.
Yeah.
But Rahm Emanuel would like very much to run.
I don't know that there's a lane there if Pritzker runs because he has all the money.
And Pritzker could be a decent candidate.
One of the reasons we know he is serious is, and I'm not being a wise guy here, he's lost about 40 pounds, which in the governor's case, we call that a good start.
You got to be in better shape, just not just to handle the campaign.
But to not have people go, well, I can't vote for him.
He'll explode.
But he's been a good governor.
He's stood up to Orange Julius Caesar.
He's been strong.
And I think if he does get in running and if he's serious about it and jumps in, if people respond, I think it'll be good.
But I know what kind of a leader Rahm Emanuel is.
He was a regular on the radio with me for years.
And he would be a very formidable candidate with his experience.
He at one point said to me, he goes, people don't like me.
I go, well, there's a reason.
You're a giant pain in the behind, of
course they don't like you.
They don't like Iran, but I'd like to see Pritzker in there.
I would.
You know, having a billionaire running for president, who can identify with the common people in this country,
right?
Right, right, right, right.
Well, yeah, let's be honest.
In general, it's tough to be an old white guy right now.
And he's an old white guy as well.
I would love to see any woman
From here to eternity finally make the White House with the last planet.
I agree with the last place in the world I mean, I mean who doesn't listen to their mom who doesn't listen to their answer their grandmother or whatever why because they're better than us They're smarter than us and yet we don't elect them.
It's
idiotic.
I know I know
And I wish, uh, I wish, uh, Kamala would, you know, be a little more vocal about the issues going on today because,
you know, I don't want her
just to hop in later on.
That's not good enough.
Nowadays you have to run four years and start now.
She's got to start now and, and, and get out
there.
100%.
And the, the Democrats, uh, need to get together in the room and go, you know, we should pick two people.
Two or three people, and let's get behind them now, because the idea that the rest of the country believes the Democrats are a legitimate second choice, the Democrats right now are in the same position.
They're not Trump.
And that, by the way, is a good seat to be in, but it's not enough.
So there needs to be a singular voice that says, this is what we can do, this is what we want to do, and to be a little less preachy about it.
You know, and what the Democratic Party used to attract, which is the rest of vote to the country.
Yes.
Everything is flipped, but we can't have any more of this.
I mean, Trump needs to go back to whatever planet he's from as soon as possible.
Talking with Steve Cochran from Chicago.
He's a podcaster and radio personality.
And Steve, what do you think about some of the other?
And he forgot
about swimsuit model.
A swimsuit model in your spare time.
And what do you think about it?
You're pushing that knowledge.
Well, why
not?
I got a new knee.
That's
right.
What do you think about some of the other Democrats that seem to be out there, like Gavin Newsom or Andy Beshear from Kentucky?
I
think Beshear is very impressive.
I do, too.
He'd be in a red state like that, and they have the impact that he's had.
I
think he's a guy that should definitely be watched.
I'm not so sure about Shapiro in Pennsylvania,
right?
But yeah, I think Bashir for sure.
And I like Gavin Newsome.
It's tough to get elected out of California.
I
have to say that, you know, the headline that I saw was very interesting.
It's Kamala and Pete Buttigieg.
Now, you're taking a real big chance there with a ticket like that,
right?
I think it's I think it's an absolute loss begin.
I'm sad to say that but the problem is we still have a lot of closet racist and homophobes
Yeah,
yeah in this country and it wouldn't be like well be buddha judge could be great.
I think
so
too.
Yeah All right, Steve hang on with us.
We're gonna take a brief time out here We'll be back with Steve Cochran from Chicago on Johnny Gordy in the morning after this stay with
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Each time I roam Chicago is Calling me home Chicago is Why I just grin like a clown It's my kind of town
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I think we...
Stand
by Steve,
let's go to the lines.
We think we have somebody here who might have a question or at least a comment to you.
CJ
is on the
line.
Good morning CJ, what do you got for us?
Good morning gentlemen, from the Federal Bureau of Statistics, I can tell you this, in Chicago since the National Guards got in there, homicides are down over 30% and shootings down over 37%.
But Pritzker and Johnson claim that their city and state is safe.
Well, their numbers are laughable.
Usually it's double digits, then shot in tens, usually 20 to 30 or 40.
And between five and 15 are killed every weekend in Chicago until the National Guard got there.
So those are the facts.
I love the fact that the Magus have all the details about Chicago killings.
Yeah,
we like statistics.
Yeah.
No, no you don't.
Yeah, we do.
How safe was DC recently?
Border security.
How safe was DC recently CJ?
Yeah.
How
does that work out?
How does that work out for
you?
Yeah, how good was that Afghanistan vetting, right?
Yeah,
well it actually actually during the trumpet actually Trump approved them no Trump approved and they did not vet him well in April
They sure didn't bet him Yep, so there you go Joe
what?
All right, we got Steve Steve apparently
Steve Cochran back
it all the killings are down because the ice agents were there
That's what actually,
actually, absolutely incorrect.
The Chicago police department, I'm sure, I'm sure your college is a great guy.
I have no doubt he is, but that's a national story, which is just completely off base.
Um, and it's no different in Chicago than it is in other cities.
There are crime problems here.
They're crime problems in Milwaukee.
There's crime problems in every, every good side city.
And those need to be addressed.
We also happen to have the worst mayor in the country.
Congratulations to us.
But a state's attorney's office, it's being fixed.
More people are being arrested.
And I give the credit to the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County Police Sheriff's Department, I should say.
And all the people are doing the good work here because they're doing the hard work and the guard in some cases, but more often the ice folks are supposed to be here to support it.
And that's what it's all about.
But they've had no impact statistically on crime in Chicago.
It was already going down.
Right.
Okay.
All right.
Now let's get into another hot topic around the area.
It is those AI data centers going in all over the place.
And the big story now is that they're signing, uh, non-disclosure agreements.
So the public can't find
out public can't find out.
Yeah.
No matter what they negotiate with the local officials, they can't tell you what they're doing at the data centers.
Yeah.
Well, don't you always find that the more secrecy you have, the more people trust.
That's when people really get behind your idea.
We can't tell you what we're doing.
Yeah, those data centers, we've got one not far from where I live in the western suburbs of Chicago.
And the main threat, and I mean threat in quotes, because I don't believe it to be a threat, is the amount of power it takes to generate AI.
And power means you've got to have a lot of electricity.
And electricity means
Rates could fluctuate, but it also could have an impact on the environment because of what it takes to generate electricity.
Look, if you're going to believe in AI and it's not going anywhere, there is a price to pay for progress.
But you should absolutely stay on top of your elected folks, your mayors, your city council people and go, what the hell is going on down the street, Bob?
And go to those meetings and ask your questions because yeah, we all deserve answers.
Oh yeah, definitely.
should be open to the public as far as everything that's that goes into building these things.
I know we've had a lot of stories like from the south of Louisiana.
I believe there's a data center that's going in and it's
very dangerous to be even around the data centers or building it because a lot of the trucks, truck accidents, car accidents because of the large trucks moving in and out.
Even the kids can't even go out on the playground anymore because a truck had driven onto the playground accidentally.
So the kids can't play a recess anymore.
Yeah, not quite sure how that accident happens.
We're gonna need some paperwork on that.
Well, this is made a meta rather going in there and putting in their data center a identity data center.
So
I don't think Facebook has just improved everything.
It's been terrific.
I know.
See, it's working really well.
I would give into them easily.
I remember the social network movie.
I remember walking out of that movie being really angry because you know, I thought it was a terrific movie.
And I salute anybody who's successful with an idea.
That entire premise of Facebook was nerds wanting to meet girls.
That's it.
That's why Facebook exists.
That's the whole story.
And it's turned into what it's turned into.
But I'll never buy into the fact that the social media geniuses who have put all these things together can't control their own networks and shouldn't be regulated.
Of course they should.
Yeah.
Well, it's amazing too that they have acquiesced to what Trump wants in regards to content, but they're banning actual content that is against the Trump administration idea of what should be free speech.
Yeah.
And I don't know if you guys noticed, I was disappointed in 60 minutes last week before this week.
It's one of the last legitimate hours of real hardcore deep research, expensive journalism.
And last week they did a 20 minute story on combat chess.
And I
only
wish I was making it up, but I'm watching it.
And it's making me angry because when you have that limited amount of real estate, you need to tackle the topics that made 60 Minutes famous.
Right.
And that wastes time.
And it just felt like they were, again, acquiescing to what Trump wanted.
Steve, we've got to leave it there.
We appreciate you joining us if people want to have a... Give it a go
if you Trump fans always wanting to get rid of me
when I say so.
People want to find out more about what you're up to.
How do they do that?
Cochran show dot com everything's right there, but thank you guys always appreciate it all right
always fun to talk to you Steve That's Steve Cochran from Chicago and that's gonna do it for John and Gordy We'll be back this afternoon from two until five on the network.
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