Local Shopping Sprees (Hour 2)

We got a new act.

It's phenomenal.

It's sensational.

It's terrific.

It's even mediocre.

No, it's disgusting.

It's a ploy.

What a

f***ing ass.

You have a pretty fun show.

I listen to it most of the time, you know.

Keep up the good work.

God, I love you.

Get the hell off the stage.

Nice work, everyone.

Sharp broadcast.

Really good.

Good morning,

John and Gordy.

Good

morning, John and Gordy.

Good morning, John and Gordy.

You know I've just accepted the fact that it's gonna be the way it is this morning That's that's just the way the morning is going

it is

92.7 WMDX it is Aaron and Jamie Jamie how are you doing this morning?

I am fantastic considering the weather I

know right

it's I mean this is Is this why we love Wisconsin or is this why we have snowbirds in Wisconsin?

Like seriously, right?

Cause this is kind of gross today when you go outside.

I've always been one of those people and I continued to harp on this last night while I was out bowling.

I saw that on my teammates and I'm like, this is it.

I only have a couple more years and I'm not spending my, I can't do this all

year long.

Sound like you're a hundred when you say that.

No, but actually I know what you're talking about because the older I get, the more I understand snowbirds.

Like really honestly, I hate the cold.

Don't want to shovel.

Don't want to do anything with it.

don't really love ice.

And that's just how it goes.

And so I get, I get the concept of being a snowbird, the older I get.

I mean, the problem is though, then I say that, and then I end up just spending every year goes on and I'm still

here.

So

it's like, whatever.

Don't

listen to that.

January or February, we try to get out of here and go to warm weather.

for at least a week because it's that little bit of a reprieve.

You know, like you need that in the middle of winter in Wisconsin or in the Midwest in general.

So at least we're not the guy I saw this morning on my way in.

He had a razor scooter and he was giving it all he had out there on the sidewalks.

And the nice part of me was like, you know, I could stop.

I could help this guy out.

I could throw the razor scooter in the back of the SUV and I could take him where he needs to go.

Look at that.

I'm running behind probably.

There will always be people in this city on scooters, on bicycles,

on the

capital city trail.

I mean, it is without questions.

Somebody's going to be out on two wheels at any given time of the day.

Winter weather advisory was in effect until 6 a.m.

That has now been extended

until 9 a.m.

this morning.

So as you're getting your day started, as you're thinking about your commute, whether you're dropping the kids off at school, that sort of thing, really be careful out there because it is really quite slick outside.

It is.

And we're supposed to get a little bit more snow on top of this throughout the morning, potentially up to another half inch, which means it's just going to add to those slippery conditions.

So take some time this morning, leave a little bit earlier if you can.

Have the coffee.

How are you doing?

Because last week when we did this, there was a coffee debacle.

Are you good today?

Coffee's fine.

I love it.

Look, I'm excited to be here.

I'm excited to fill in Erin and Jamie filling in for

Johnny Gordy.

They're

on in the afternoon.

Producer Dom behind the window here.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Here's the thing.

Do you ever go to your office and you're just like...

This place sucks.

Yeah.

Yes.

I'm not gonna lie.

I'm not real happy this morning.

Nothing is going right this so and maybe John and Gordy have talked about this on the year before but Nothing in this studio is ergonomically friendly

doesn't make sense.

Yeah,

they have they

have

it's horrible the I can't the cameras right here So I can't look at the camera,

but

I also look at

you Jamie and then

weird

But the microphone and the way it's positioned is driving me wild.

There is a way that these microphone stands and radio are supposed to work.

Now I will tell you that last week, after this show, I lodged a complaint.

I lodged my complaints and it went absolutely nowhere.

In fact, quote, get over it.

They were expensive.

This is what

we're

using.

It's

like what my parents said.

Get over it.

Right.

I got shut down pretty damn fast.

So hopefully you can get somewhere with.

with your complaint, because they really are stupid.

They don't make any sense to me.

You can't adjust them to go up.

I have to adjust my chair to my microphone versus my microphone to my chair.

I have

worked in this business for almost 20 years and I've never had microphones like this.

No one wants to hear me talk about this anymore, but I will talk about it some more.

We will, because it's stupid.

We do have a big show today.

We have our grown-up gift list multi-state text-to-win contest, your first keyword of the day coming up.

After seven o'clock, you could win $200 cash.

You could win one of those items on our grown-up gift list.

A snowblower is on that list.

We need one of those day-to-day, hello.

We're going to be talking about how you're spending your money and what your plans are and how they're possibly adjusted given the economics of today and this year.

So we're going to get to that.

And then coming up at 7.30, we got a very special guest.

I'm very excited.

Matt Trammell, who's the executive director of Madison Central Business Improvement District, or BID is going to be joining us in studio.

Good thing I did my hair today.

I didn't know we were going to have a special guest.

But we're going to talk a little bit about small businesses, how they're being affected this holiday season.

And of course, we're going to get into some of the really cool things that are happening in downtown Madison over the holiday season that you can still take part with.

Part in, I should say, with family and friends as, you know, you got people coming in for the holidays or maybe you just want some of that holiday spirit yourself instead of making fun of people on scooters in the morning when you could have actually helped them.

It's fine.

I'm excited about that too.

I'm excited about the guests because I just moved to Madison.

Yes.

I

have no idea what goes down in December and January in Madison.

So I'm looking forward to it more than anyone.

You know, I'm ready for

this.

I'm very excited.

You know, I love the holidays.

do traveling.

We usually travel over the holidays.

Our kids got to a certain age at some point.

I was like, I'm done buying you people gifts.

You don't care.

You get what you want throughout the year.

And so we usually travel this year.

We're going to be staying put.

So I need, I need to, you know, have an itinerary.

Plus I get to meet the kid's girlfriend for the first time.

Well, that's a whole

topic in itself.

I know, I know, I know.

I'm excited.

We'll save that.

Yes.

Very exciting.

Very

exciting.

There is a lot to do here.

I will say if you've got a car.

It makes it a little easier because there's places we talked about last week when we were filling in, you can go to the Dane County Regional Airport.

There's a really cool, it's like you're dropping somebody off and then you're like, whoop,

and

you keep going and you can see all the different lights.

There's the Olin Park Holiday Fantasy in Lights, I think it's what it's called.

And then just the general ambiance, there's something about walking down State Street or around the Capitol with a little bit of snow activity and just soaking it all in.

any night of the week for that matter.

Speaking of, this past weekend we got to run over to the Capitol.

We were doing some stuff with the teenager, ended up coming into this downtown area to eat, and we decided we were going to go to the Capitol and see the lights and the Christmas tree since they just lit that on Thursday.

Is there a bad angle?

in that rotunda.

I would argue that no matter where you're at in the capital rotunda, there is not a bad angle.

To take photos, there was tons of people dressed up taking family photos in front of the capital Christmas tree.

It was actually a whole lot of fun.

And it was packed in the rotunda on Saturday.

Yeah, make a plan, make some brunch plans, and then go

check out

the tree.

Whatever you do, I mean, it's really a great experience.

And that tour that we mentioned last week is a free tour.

And it's something you should consider

Well, so yeah holidays and full swing here Jamie and producer Dom.

There's lots for you to check out.

Yeah, I'm excited.

I'm very

excited

I gotta, we ranted a little bit about the microphones, but I have to tell you about my experience yesterday.

This was not a fun Madison experience.

I needed air in my tires, right?

As any good Wisconsinite mid-westerner needs this time of year.

It's the PSI, you watch it get a little lower every single day.

I'm like, okay, I'm gonna be a good responsible car owner.

I'm gonna go put air in my tires.

Two hours later, I finally got air in my tires.

It was a conspiracy.

By the time I was done, I was like, this is a conspiracy.

They either had an error on them when I went to the digital ones and they weren't working at all.

There was one that was working, but there was no hose, no cord to actually like put the air in.

And then there were some that just had bags over them all taped up that said, out of service.

So that's why it took two hours?

It took two hours.

So where

did you go?

All up and down the east side or where?

Yes, I started trying to just go.

stop somewhere on my way home, you know, add stop on Google map.

I'm like, well, this should be easy.

It's just it.

two hours later, then I drink 200 ounces of water a day, right?

So at some point, I'm like, okay, I have to get this done because I'm watching the forecast.

So I'm like, okay, I gotta stop, gotta make a pit stop at home, gotta use the bathroom.

So I run in, do that, get out unscathed because the dog and all that, get back in the car.

I end up clear over in sun prairie because that was the next place I could find something.

So I finally got air in my tires.

Here's the best part, look at my license in the process.

I'm like, hey,

It's December 9th.

This expired on November 30th.

So then I have to go get license for the

car.

If you see a mad woman driving around the east side in a Subaru, it's probably

Jamie.

That's the real story of

that.

It

was insane.

Well, I have nothing to report.

Matter of fact, nothing has been that exciting over the last week for me, except that I don't like the equipment here in the radio station.

You can text in, by the way, this morning to anything that we're talking about.

You can open up the free Civic Media app, find WMDX, 92.7 WMDX, and you can send us a text through there.

And producer Dom, apparently you're the one making the most friends in Madison because you got a new friend in the morning

before you go work.

He's having a way better time than we

are.

Yeah, I gotta say, it was today.

Every single time I leave early in the morning.

I always pass this guy that also is leaving for work in my apartment complex and recently over the past few weeks we've We've started to have a bit of a connection and now I'm starting to know his name You know who knows maybe it'll be social security number next you know bromance it might be just business

I think so older younger

he's older looks in his 30s, but I gotta I gotta ask where he works because

He's close now.

If I don't see him in the morning now, I'm

going to get sad.

I'm going to be legitimately sad.

Let's be real.

There's also not a lot of people.

What time do you leave for work, first of all?

I leave at 4.30.

OK.

So there's not a lot of people who are leaving for work at 4.30.

I mean, there's a few jobs, right?

We know this.

And thank goodness that these people do what they do.

But I'd have questions.

Yeah.

He could be a serial killer for all

I know.

I have a sign that says talk to me, usually on my forehead.

Like I'll be standing in a line at a grocery store and people just approach me and start telling me their life story.

Drives Corey Hartman, absolutely bonkers.

Every time I wake up or act, therefore I live in a condo building.

So when I leave, there's two, there's two exits, but the one exit, the door, like it has the mechanism where it's shut slowly and then it like secures into place.

The other door, the one I go to with my garage, if you have to, you have to gently.

Shut it.

Okay.

Otherwise it's slam shut.

Yeah, and there's a dog in the unit right next to the door that always barks every single time Every single in it could be any hour of the day that dog barks.

So I always try to do the little test right tiptoe.

Yeah quietly and Then I slowly let the doors

and then

the dog barks again.

Yeah, it's like

Well, at least the entire building's up then and you know how to start your day, right?

You just if you know the dog is up, you know how to start your day So what what kind of relationship have you built with this man so far?

I've just

I have

questions I haven't hung out with them.

Okay,

and I don't plan on doing so at least not for maybe a few extra months But I want to you know, I just want to see where this goes.

You know, he's he's sounds like a cool guy

You know, we're both

groggy in the morning.

You know, we're both hyped up

ready to go to work.

Sure.

And so we just... Hey man,

you

want to grab a McGrittle

sometime?

I mean,

you know, I don't know, I just started

out... What would he do if you came with donuts one morning?

Oh,

man.

I don't know, there's possibilities here.

You

have to take a Snapchat or something like that.

Yeah, give

us the 411.

Coming up, we are going to discuss something that went into effect and this could change.

the way youths behave.

And we could be a case study.

This could be a case study for people around the world.

What went into effect and would it work here?

in Wisconsin, in Madison, and the United States.

It's a good question, and it's interesting.

And other countries are really eyeing this, not just the US.

So we'll see how it all plays out.

And we're going to talk about that.

I'm a big fan of it.

We'll talk about it in moments.

It is the John and Gordy show, Aaron and Jamie, filling in with producer Dom.

92.7 WMDX.

Good

morning.

It's 90, but the snow never melts The girls and their bikinis are something else So let's go

92.7 WMDX. Good morning. It is Aaron and Jamie in for John and Gordy. They are back in the afternoon filling in across our civic media radio network starting at 2 o'clock. But we're happy to be here, Jamie, this morning that winter weather advisory has been extended, originally expiring at 6 a.m. and...

We've got more snowfall outside this morning. Yeah, it's lovely if you're inside. If you do have to commute this morning, though, take it easy. Some slippery spots. I was talking a little bit about trying to inflate my tires yesterday and Mark texted in this morning. He says he's got a little portable air unit, digital display, rechargeable, pretty compact. And he says it works pretty well. So thank you so much for that. My kid actually has portable air compressor as well. Not because he's safe, but because he was on a wrecked kickball league over the summer and he needed to be able to fill his kick balls.

He carries that around with him in his trunk. I was like, you could use it for...

practical things too. He's like, filling kick balls is practical when you're trying to win the Wreckley championship. You got that from his dad for sure. For sure. Coming up seven o'clock, it is the next keyword to text in our grown up gift list, multi-state text to win contest. You could win $200 cash. You could win one of those grand prize items from our grown up gift list that includes some cookware, a snow blower, or even a portable air conditioner. So have that Civic Media app ready to go.

and we'll give you the keyword just after seven. Only a couple more days, by the way. It goes fast. Friday is your last day to qualify for prizes and then to potentially win that 200 cash too. So if you don't have the app, download that for free. But we wanted to talk about something kind of big, kind of important, and this could really change the shape of social media, right? It could change the way our...

Youth, our adolescents interact with each other, and it all goes to Australia. They are the first country, as of today, to formally ban users under 16 from major social media platforms. Now, the ban took effect this morning at 12.01 a.m. It covers 10 platforms, platforms we all use every single day. I use these platforms.

Multiple times a day. I mean not multiple tens if not hundreds of times a day YouTube Instagram tick tock Snapchat Reddit and X platforms Have to use age verification tools, which is not unique to Australia. They do this in Europe I've experienced some of this but they have to use these age verification tools such as activity inference facial estimation bank details

Millions of Australian children lost access to their accounts just like that. Yeah, I was doing a little reading on that this morning and obviously the stories are where kids are like my social media They're they're in mourning because they just lost their social media But there's a lot of people who are saying if you're a critic of this which as a mom of two older

Young men, we'll call them, we'll call them young men. I don't wanna say kids anymore, cause one's in his 20s, but social media is brutal.

It's brutal. And even as adults, it's awful. But critics are saying this violates free expression, raises privacy concerns, also undermines parental responsibility. Now, the people who are proponents of it, though, say that this is going to be a huge, really good way to combat the mental health of our youth. And there's other governments, including Denmark, Norway, France, Spain, Malaysia, and New Zealand, who are watching this.

very closely. The EU has also proposed this minimum social media age of 16 and restrictions on addictive features for minors. So it's, I don't know. I don't hate this. I don't hate this. 77% of Australians supported the ban in a YouGov poll. And so I'm thinking about this right now. We have so many people

every day who say nobody plays outside anymore, nobody's in the park, nobody's genuinely having real conversations and getting to know one another because everybody's behind the screen. So would a ban on social media like this for anybody under the age of 16, would that work in Madison? Would it work in Wisconsin? Would it be effective in the United States?

I'm trying to imagine, okay, here's my thing with social media. I do not love social media for a lot of different aspects and a lot of different reasons, mostly because of the cyber bullying that we see and the mental health that it affects, that it has on not only kids, youth, teenagers, where let's be realistic, life as a teenager is hard enough.

And then you go on to social media where you think you're going to escape those things and then all of a sudden it's just as bad. You know, and even for adults, this is not an easy area to navigate. And so I kind of don't hate. I really don't hate this. That's all I can say about it. I've raised kids in the social media age. It's brutal. It's absolutely brutal. So I grew up in that weird time period where

I think I mentioned this last week, but we had to remember our friends and our family's phone numbers. We had to memorize them. But then simultaneously, we were introduced to smartphones by the time I was probably 16. Some of us had our first smartphone, or at least cell phone, right? Sure.

I was never, I just didn't even think about it. We would go get together, we'd get together at friends' homes, we would go, we'd get, you know, pile up in the car and we'd tell our parents where we were going and we'd go to the, you know, I grew up off Lake Michigan, so we would go down to the lake or we would just do whatever, but I'm all, I'm for that. Social media can consume us, we know that, you've raised kids, I get it. Would that work? I guess,

What's a phone number again? Because I don't have the phone number in front of me. What's our phone number? It's 608. Okay, 608. It's 879. 879. Look at me write this down. Radio 101 this morning. 8255. 8255. Alright, so. 608. 879. 8255. Would a social media ban work? Are you for it? Are you against it? Would a social media ban for those 16 and under work? This is why we can't have nice real conversations. Are you for or against that?

And why? 608-879-8255. You can text us through the free Civic Media app. It's Aaron and Jamie in for John and Gordy, 92.7 WMDX. Good morning.

W

92.7 WMDX, it is the John and Gordy show.

Erin and Jamie with producer Dom, feeling in for John and Gordy.

Well, Dom, you're not, but Jamie and I

are.

Right, right.

He's the one who has to keep the rest of us in line, because he's here every day.

So, I mean, he had to give us a phone number before the break.

Yeah, I didn't even know

that, even for a second.

You know, right when you think, it's like right when you think you have it all down, you don't even know the phone

number.

That's right, it's fine.

It's

like forgetting your address when you're at the post office.

At least we know what...

what the breaks are this week.

Last week, we didn't even know that.

So we're way ahead of the game today.

Winter weather advisory in effect until nine o'clock this morning.

So if you are, you know, thinking about taking the kids to school, making that commute this morning, please be careful.

Some slippery spots on the roads, snow coming down in downtown Madison right now.

It's very lovely out there.

It does look like a winter wonderland.

But of course that snow coming down could create some more slippery conditions.

So we want everybody to get where they need to be safely this morning.

And if you're the dude on the razor scooter,

that I saw this morning.

Gosh, I hope you're okay.

Best of luck to

you.

We're talking about Australia.

They have become the first country to formally ban users under the age of 16 from social media platforms, major social media platforms, 608-879-8255.

Would you support a ban?

Would you be against a ban?

right here in Madison in Wisconsin throughout the United States.

You can also text us through our free Civic Media app.

Open up that app.

Find at 92.7 WMDX.

We've got a text from Stephen

Mount Horrib.

Yeah, and he agrees with us and he agrees with putting an age limit on social media.

He says kids need to be kids and they need to get outside and enjoy the great outdoors.

Gaming, playstations, all that could be next.

Now I have two that would

whole solely disagree with Steve on that point and I get it but I mean social media is one of those weird areas right and you have to be so careful on it especially on certain platforms because you can have a whole lot of people teenagers or not and a lot of grown adults who should know better who just think it's okay

to say whatever you want on social media with no ramifications, and these are things that they probably wouldn't say to anybody face to face.

Maybe some of them would, but a lot of them would not.

And the difference between some of the gaming that happens right now, and I know that your son or son's

are

gamers, but the gaming that we had when I was growing up was like, what started with Super Nintendo N64, and then it was like,

PlayStation 2 and

like

you couldn't really chat with people or send messages in the way that you can now with discord Like you can't that's not a thing wasn't a thing back then so we balance being able to play video games and then also Find time to tell you know Call or maybe

text our

friends Linda at Middleton says absolutely agree with the under 16 ban on Social media and remember 77% of Australians

Support this ban.

Yeah, according

to a YouGov poll 608-879-8255 phone lines open this morning here in Madison We'll go to Matt in Middleton.

Good morning.

Would you support a band like this or no way?

Hey guys, uh Banning seems like a simple solution not well thought out Maybe they had trouble fighting the monopolies of the internet.

I I have yet to understand why

American internet companies are running things in an American way in other countries, like why can't they have their own internet or restrictions or ways to partition it for their own country?

I'd rather see them broken up, but you're trying to solve a discipline problem with an outright ban and young people are going to find other ways to distract themselves and look at things that you don't want them to look at.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I agree with that.

Young people are pretty smart, especially this generation who has been raised with nothing but the internet at the palm of their hands.

You mentioned earlier this morning, when you were about 16, that's when smartphones made their big debut.

This is a generation that has had that technology always, right?

Like they have always had that sort of technology and connection to the internet.

Like Jenna Alpha has grown up behind an iPad.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

We're talking Gen X. We're talking

those

born in the last 12 years.

And for this Australian social media ban, the government officials have admitted that they don't expect 100% enforcement from day one.

And like to your point, their people are so smart now because like kids are growing up behind screens, they're interacting, they're learning.

Now I'm gonna make this all negative.

They're learning a lot.

Yeah, they are able to

absorb so much more information than we were But they know the ways also to get around

some of

these things but from my understanding is that the way the social media companies have to comply with this is that

It's going to be really difficult for you to do so.

It's really, really tough.

And I think it's interesting because I think it leads to a whole different question.

What these tech companies going forward with bands like this are going to do?

Are they going to have increasing pressure to provide safer experiences for users?

I want to go to Dom because obviously he's not that far removed from the age of 16.

Well,

it's true.

And I remember there was, I think it was a

few months back There was a tiktok band in the US

for

a little bit and I think it was just for like a week or something or maybe a couple days

and

I was just in Distraught I was completely distraught.

I I personally Don't know what I would do without anything like that because again, I grow up I grew up my whole life with all of that stuff and video games as well.

So, you know, I It's my every day.

It's my every day.

This is my you know, my phone is my

is on me all the time, so.

It's like a connection to the world.

It is,

it

really

is.

Maybe if you got to know the neighbor that leaves in the morning when you go to work more, that would get you away from the phone.

See, that's a human interaction right there.

I

saw

your

eyes and I knew you were gonna say something

like that.

You knew something was up with that.

That McGriddle invite not looking so bad.

Hey bud, do you wanna

go

grab a McGriddle some morning?

608-879-8255, we're welcoming your phone calls, we're welcoming your texts through the Civic Media app.

Would you support a social media ban?

Here in Madison here in Wisconsin in the United States for everybody under the age of 16 and Catherine you're a Quaintance of ours here

at the radio station our colleague

Catherine would you support a band like this or would you say no way they should be able to do what they

want?

I'm not gonna answer your dumb old question.

Who do you think you are?

Talking about taking my kids phone out of her hands.

Come on.

I'm joking, but

She was lying here next to me.

We started listening to you guys.

She said immediately, no, that's free.

Freedom of speech.

She was she was amendments right away.

She was not going to take it.

So I don't know if you can put the genie back in the bottle.

It's

a

great point.

Thank you very much for the phone call.

I appreciate that, Catherine.

Yeah, I don't know if it's I wonder sometimes if our culture here is just

There's no going back right like it's almost irreversible to make that wide of a change given how many people I don't know exactly I can't compare the numbers

on

how many people live in Australia versus the United States Way more people live in the United States, but like I don't know if we're just it's one of those topics where we're so big

that

we

wouldn't be able to get something like that off the

ground.

The U.S.

also doesn't have as many safeguards as a lot of our European counterparts, right?

I mean, even when you look at coverage of campaigns, they have strict rules on how campaigns are covered, when they can be covered.

They put a moratorium on it on Friday nights at 5 p.m.

and they can't cover campaigns in a lot of European countries.

throughout the entire weekend because they just want to actually cover real things happening in the news cycle, right?

And so those are much different ways of thinking than we have here in the United States, where it seems like a lot of people in this country are very consumed by getting as much as they can all the time by absorbing every piece of information they possibly can get their hands on.

We're in the European countries, there's also, let's say, a better work-life balance for a lot of people.

in the European countries.

It feels like they have maybe more of a mechanism to me to be able to have these types of bands where here in the United States, I don't know if we were, we could adapt to that type of mechanism.

I don't know if we'd be able to as well, but I think about just in my own life, in your life and Dom, in your life, I think you're the best example of this.

Yes.

As someone in their early 20s, you know, young adolescent, young adult rather.

like every single time in our home when my partner and I have nothing going on.

It's not that we talk to each other and reference something that we're watching on TV.

We try to do that.

Like we try to watch the news or whatever together or show.

It's like as soon as there's no activity, it's right to your phone, pressing Facebook, pressing Instagram.

And I just keep thinking how unhealthy that is.

Our constant need

to feel connected or to see something.

This vicious cycle

continues on.

My favorite is when my husband invites me out for dinner and then I sit there by myself watching the people around me because he's completely attached to his phone.

My husband is 48 years old and he is, he is worse than our kids.

Like he absolutely cannot put his phone down and he's a busy guy.

I don't take that from him.

He's, he's got a lot of things going on, but I'm like, seriously, you're worse than a teenager right now.

I do have to ask though both of you, is there any social

media platform that you're just absolutely opposed to.

Like you won't, you try not to go to it at all, you don't want to do anything with it.

This is where I am a unicorn.

I'm a

unicorn in many ways, which is why I love rainbow sparkles and no, I do not use TikTok.

Okay.

It's unreal, right?

Did

you see the shock on his face?

Oh my gosh.

My last

full-time radio job in Milwaukee.

I was on the air Milwaukee and we had a digital content director who worked with us to be better about like social media whatever and posting but I Just couldn't get into it because it was for me and hear me out It was another thing that I had to learn as a creator

that I

just wasn't

I already was hitting my stride with all the other platforms.

So Dom, are you a viewer?

Are you a creator?

Or do you

do both?

For TikTok, I am more of a viewer.

For YouTube, I'm a creator.

I also do Snapchat creator, all those other things.

But to your question, Jamie, I would say, do you guys know Twitch

streaming?

I never got into it.

I never got into

it.

I just opposed to it.

And I feel like that is even worse than YouTube because you can spend hours and hours

and

hours just staring at that screen.

So I feel like there's

one platform that we all just may not adapt to because it's a learning curve.

By the way, we hired you for all of your video creation.

So I do want

to throw that

up.

Jamie, what about you?

What platform do you not use or you just haven't spent the time

with?

Honestly, with my age, I should probably be a prime person using Facebook.

Absolutely hate it.

Seriously?

Absolutely hate it.

I only am on it to stay connected to family and mostly family and some friends because I have a lot of friends who are like, no, I won't be on it.

And I think it's part of that stigma that Facebook gets with it being so in the gutter sometimes and people being able to just have this freedom or this freedom they think they have to just be vile.

And then the fact that you get all the ads and all the pop ups and all, your phones are constantly listening.

And so Facebook is one of those platforms that I post a lot of things about our dog.

If I post anything on social, she's adorable, she's photogenic, she's lovely, she's sweet.

I'm gonna post about our dog because that's about all I can

muster.

And I could show you,

you can go in the

back end of your settings and hide anything that's political.

You can

hide anything violent, sensitive.

So there is that.

Thank you for the text through the Civic Media app on this.

Social media sounds like a drug to some people, like an addiction.

I would agree with that text.

We shall continue on.

Thank you this morning.

It's Aaron and Jamie in for John and Gordy, 92.7.

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So drive safely wherever you are this morning or be careful.

We will be back in moments Thank you, we're gonna talk some french fries talking fries next yummy

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Good morning, Madison.

It is the John and Gordy Show.

My name is Erin, and we've got Jamie.

Hello.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Look at the snowfall.

Isn't it lovely?

It's lovely until you have to think about driving in it.

Yeah, someone listening right now in their car is like.

This ain't fun.

This sucks.

It's interesting, though, because we talked about this a little earlier.

I've never met a town like Madison who will stick to their mode of transportation, bicycles, scooters, like people in Madison like kudos to you.

The first flake of snow, I'm like, OK, it is time to bundle up and be inside.

It is crazy to me.

And you guys are dedicated.

Absolutely dedicated, so kudos.

Shout out to the

bikers with the headphones on

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And if you are making breakfast, if you are on your way to pick something up, well, we're going to talk a little food here because

it's the

holidays.

and there's a brand new french fry right around the back right right around the corner from your neighborhood

everybody wants to get in on the christmas spirit but uh these are called grinch fries and uh these are a dill pickle grinch salt

McShaker fries, a limited time McDonald's item released as part of the festive Grinch meal, which by the way, this Grinch meal sounds like if you love yourself some McDonald's, it actually includes a Big Mac or a 10 piece McNugget, a medium drink.

And here's the past part, collectible Grinch themed socks to go with your deal.

Ooh, that was fun.

I

would get it just for

the socks.

I know, that's exactly.

I don't care about the McNuggets.

So we were

planning for the show yesterday and I was like, Don was telling me he was going to get a cheeseburger.

And another place, we won't talk about that place, although it's very good.

They

don't have Grinch fries.

They don't have no.

I

mentioned the Grinch fries and you couldn't get them.

No, they were either out of order, out of stock, I don't know, but I couldn't get them and I really wanted to, because I was going to take a picture and I was going to post it, but I didn't even get the deal.

The Grinch stole them.

Yeah, the Grinch stole the fries.

Well, that's what he did the best.

His heart has not grown yet this time of year.

But these fries are known for their, I love this, because in classic,

classic advertising and marketing fashion.

They are really trying to make the dill salt something big, right?

Tangy, herbaceous dill pickle flavor, especially popular with pickle lovers.

But this kind of actually sounds like something if you love like a dill pickle chip, right?

That's what they supposedly taste like.

Except warm.

All for it.

The

Lays dill pickle chips.

So good, and are they green are they actually green themselves?

I

think there's like a seasoning

might yeah, I don't know we don't know we'll never know I'll

have

to

try again today You know the problem with these fries right now is that if you wanted to get some right now you

can't

because

I'm not

available till 10 30.

I know which that's crazy

Right, because sometimes I like a late breakfast in the day.

I mean, I don't want to get in my soapbox here this morning.

But sometimes I like a good breakfast a little later in the day.

While we're

on the topic, because it's a perfect food for this time of year, if you go to any McDonald's in Canada.

Yeah.

We're these debuted.

They debuted in Canada.

So we'll just put that out there.

So another thing that they do right, they have poutine on the menu.

It's crazy.

And it is so good.

Go every usually we go we love going to like Toronto is

one of my

favorite cities So good we eat an inordinate amount of

see another thing that the United States talking about the social media ban and will the US ever be able to get behind something like that especially for you know 16 and under

It feels like the U.S.

is missing out on a whole lot of fast food opportunities, because when you look at fast food restaurants in other countries, they have amazing things on their menus, probably stuff that we'd even want to eat, right?

And usually the standards are better,

because

the EU has such strict regulations, so the food is...

I mean, it's

fast food, right?

There's a whole book.

Yeah, there's a whole book I have.

It's a McDonald's fast food book.

It's like basically an encyclopedia of every store and what they have in that store and that's in every country as well.

And they have different stuff.

Oh man.

Did you buy that for

yourself?

My parents bought it for me.

It was for Christmas last year, but it's really cool book and I really recommend it.

Hey neighbor, you wanna go get a snack this

morning?

See, the ongoing theme, if you're just joining us, is Dom made friends with his neighbor in his apartment complex and doesn't know the guy,

but he

didn't meet on social media.

And they leave at the same time every day to get to work, or we're assuming.

Maybe he's going to the gym.

Is he a gym

guy?

No, he doesn't.

He looks like he's wearing his uniform

to go

somewhere.

Are you a gym guy?

I am not a gym guy.

I was at one point, but.

What about you?

I pretend to be.

I'm more of an at-home work.

I work out every day, like literally every day.

But it is usually yoga, Pilates.

I walk a lot as well.

And that's, but it's like an everyday thing.

And I pretend to be because I'm talking about poutine and Grinch fries

this morning

on the radio.

I would much rather be doing that than any yoga or Pilates.

It's so much better.

I'm a chocolate fiend though.

So I feel like I have to counterbalance.

anything carb or chocolate related with something, something workout related.

That's

the hard part.

Plus I'm old.

Yeah.

Like that's the hard part.

And right now with the weather as it is

this morning, you

can't get good at like, you can go outside and walk.

I've

seen a lot of

people doing that this morning and yesterday, but like it's just.

Easier to stay inside and it's just so uncomfortable.

You got to bundle up.

It's just not

a fan.

I'm telling you, if you have a dog, you enjoy the elements in a whole different light, even if you don't want to, because it's a mile or two every day, no matter the weather.

You have to take up Rover.

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Winter weather advisory has been extended.

Yeah, absolutely.

That's going to extend until nine a.m.

And obviously slippery conditions overnight.

Snow falling in Madison right now.

Looks like it's coming down at a pretty good clip from what I can tell here in the studios as well through the windows and screens and all that.

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If you're going into an office now in 2025, 2026, first off, if you're going into an office and they're gonna give you a hard time because of weather, if you're late, bro, stay at home.

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Yeah, it just looks like a gross morning, right?

Like when you look outside this morning, it just looks gross out there.

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in about

five, six months.

In July.

That's

what I keep telling myself.

Five more months.

Five more months.

It's almost going to be one.

It's

fine.

The winter solstice is almost here.

It's going to be the shortest daylight of the year, and then we're good.

December 21st is the solstice, right?

Yeah.

And that's when Ulbricht, by the way, does that big bonfire over at the park.

They do that, and they do the one, is it the fall one?

Because we always walk down, because I live in that neighborhood, and we walk down.

It's just a massive bonfire and people dancing around the fire.

I feel like I should be.

I should have had a gummy when I did that.

It's way more fun.

Some's got to make it even more interesting.

Grab some Delta 9 or something like that.

Sing.

We actually lived in that vicinity about two blocks from the park when we first moved to Madison.

And we actually kind of made our way down there one day.

But it's right.

We were like, what is happening down here?

And it was cold, but it was one of those nice December days where when you hit 24 degrees, you're like, woo, heat wave.

And so everybody was out there.

Families were having a great time and it was just a blast.

And we didn't stay for very long, but we wanted to check it out.

And it was

massively cool.

Another Madison fun holiday event.

That's right.

Ride your bike

down

there.

Ride your bike.

Scooter.

Put on a t-shirt.

Well, yeah, 24.

Run around the fire.

24 in Wisconsin is like shorts and t-shirt weather, my goodness.

Phone lines are open this morning.

If you feel like calling us, we'd love to hear from you.

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We've got a lot coming up.

We're going to be talking at 7.30.

Matt is a Tremel.

Tremel.

Tremel.

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Matt Tremel is the Executive Director of Madison Central Business Improvement District.

Going to be talking a little bit about small businesses, the holiday season.

This is a great place, as Jamie mentioned earlier, to just really soak in the holidays.

And with that being said, prices, vacations,

how much money you're spending.

We see the statistics, we see the layoffs, record layoffs, since the pandemic.

And since tariffs, and let's be real, I mean tariffs have been not good for our job market as of late.

Here's what I find fascinating this year though.

We're an artificial tree family.

only because I have allergies.

Like, I can't do real trees.

If you want me to be absolutely even more miserable for the entire period of the holiday season, put a real tree in my living room.

It's awful.

Artificial trees this year are actually more expensive than real trees because of tariffs.

and because of the economy that we currently live in.

In fact, this year, there is a 10 to 20% increase in buying an artificial tree, mostly because a lot of our holiday goods are manufactured in China.

China, so they have to take it all the way from China to here.

I mean, that's ridiculous.

Did you know

who

would

have thought tariffs would impact something so simple

as a holiday Christmas tree, right?

Wisconsin is actually a top five US producer of real Christmas trees.

I dug deep into this research, by the way.

And those trees, obviously the real ones are not being affected by the tariffs.

And so this year, real Christmas trees are the new hot thing that people want because of the price.

I have always.

had a artificial Christmas tree.

Because I don't like cleaning up the needles.

I'm a need freak.

You just don't like it.

But maybe now, I might just want to support local business because why not?

Get a real tree in there for once.

And I think this is a, the bigger picture here too is we spend these money on trees.

So my friend, Steph,

We're out over the weekend and she I think she spent 90.

I think her true is like $90.

Okay

artificial real

is a real tree.

Okay, so she got it in Middleton But like I'm thinking about how these costs add up right because we're doing holiday shopping right now We're buying our trees.

You're buying presents.

You've got

kids.

You've got yeah, you know We these costs add up and we're always looking for ways to save money, especially in this economy.

Yeah

Yeah,

are you going to change your habits?

for the holiday break.

Are you not gonna be taking the road trip?

Are you going to continue with your plans to take a Christmas vacation?

Like, what does that look like for you?

For us this year, there's a lot of things at play.

As I mentioned earlier this morning, if you were listening, over the last few years since the pandemic,

you know, when we were able to lift some of those restrictions, we've actually traveled.

And that was mostly because I felt like I was really wasting money on buying gifts for people who didn't really need them, specifically my kids.

So we were like, let's do experiences instead.

So we've been to some pretty cool places over the holidays.

This year just because of.

location and things happening in life, we are going to stay put at home.

But we're also not doing any gifts because as we were talking during the break, we actually took the kiddo over to the vintage fest over at the Alliant this weekend.

He was able to pick up a whole bunch of vintage clothing and our other kiddo has a girlfriend coming into town from Ohio and he's like, mom, I really just need some money to do some stuff with her.

So that's their Christmas.

That's all they want.

What are you saving money on this holiday season?

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What about you guys?

How are you saving money?

We are the kind of couple that like to always have something to look forward to, like something on the books, right?

And we don't have kids.

So I always like to get away a little bit because this job is a little stressful.

I work and I oversee all of our radio stations.

And I love being on the air, but I need to get away.

I need to escape because of the emails and the text and all that.

So I think what we're saving money on is we're not necessarily buying a lot of physical items.

And

instead, I'd rather

Put together like pictures for like my my mom my parents are getting older So I want to provide them with experiences even if it's something as simple.

Yeah as Leveraging connections where I could get like bring them down to Madison and get a discounted hotel room and then buy some like Badgers basketball tickets, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

So I think that is where we're saving

on yep

And that makes total sense.

You know, Corey and I were just talking about my mom the other day and my mom has congestive heart failure living on a fixed income.

And I said to him, I said, what could he, what could I possibly get her this year?

And I think we're going to end up spending money on getting her something very practical and it sounds ridiculous, but.

probably a gift card for her to not have to worry about groceries for a few trips, right?

I mean, she's in her early seventies and that just makes total sense.

Do we have a caller?