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As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.
until humanity was incapable of solving even its most basic problems.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go
Idiocracy.
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
All
time.
voting
I had it
work for
the
county.
No, no, that's not
Oh, hang on a
I am one that thinks, let me throw this out on your show.
and we'll get some headlines.
How about since Trump dislikes Minnesota so bad and we're so out of control, let's join Canada.
Instead of Canada becoming the 51st state of America and lose their health care, like they said, they would never do that because they'd lose their health care.
I'd like to see Minnesota, all of us become Canadians.
Secession.
This part of Canada, because it's obvious Donald Trump don't want us.
It's obvious that he's ready to fracture the whole country for his own folly, whatever he is doing.
Well, I think we should petition to get out of the United States and become, if they don't want us, I'm sure Canada would be happy to take us.
And then all those Iowans, think of what a mess it'll be when they have to cross an international border to come up here fishing.
have?
Oh, that's okay.
I don't mind waiting.
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
I just got a couple of a couple of things today.
First of all, Trump knows he can't lose the midterms here because he's going to be at some point held accountable for all his actions, law breaking or whatever you want to call it.
So I think he hangs on the table with this man because he knows he can't lose in November.
I just want to say a little thing about ice.
You've got ice Barbie home and Steve Miller.
Actually, they should all be gone.
None of them, like I've said before, should even be charged of a light switch in the White House.
I
know.
And it's a sad situation, but I don't think they have anybody to replace them.
Nobody that I can think of wants to work in the Trump administration anymore.
I think Ruby was got four or five jobs already.
Nobody to replace them now.
Think about this too much.
It's insane.
Actually, I don't even know if it's it's beyond.
Is there anything beyond insane?
I don't know surreal
Well, the one thing that's happening that's good today in the Dems are finally showing some willpower spine.
They're holding up the funding for ice.
Yeah,
which at the very, you know, at the very least they got to get the
They got to get the mask off these guys for goodness sake.
I mean, that's, that's the very least, but they should cut their funding.
They don't need this many agents.
Anyway, it's a waste of money and that's proven fact, but at least get the mask off these guys.
Right.
You know what?
How would you like, when they come to Madison, Milwaukee, which you probably do, I'd like to be pulled over by.
Six seven masked man jumping out of a car with every weapon known to mankind the text of their body and they tell you I want to see your papers Anyway, um Yeah, the good news is the Democrats are holding up the finding.
I'm gonna let you go It's just you know, you guys are gonna as long as this guy's in office There's never gonna be nothing to talk about.
It's just gonna be
One awesome day for the talk, talk radio afternoon.
All right, thanks for your show.
Your show, I've said this before, your show helps to get me through, at least I have somebody to talk to, which is kind of nice.
And I try to do the best I can on the radio.
All right, Jim.
You do just
Thank you.
You're doing the same for us.
You know, it gives us somebody to talk to.
Keeps us going, yeah.
Thank you, Paul, for that.
You might have missed the part where we talked about how much this is costing.
The National Guard troops in all these cities has cost us $500 million from June through December.
The National Guard members get $95,000 per person per year and that
amounts to about $1.1 billion for 2026 and that is according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Unbelievable.
Now we were talking about this, Tom Tillis, he's a Republican and he was asked about Kristi Noem, right?
And whipped into Kristi.
He just
Anyway, he ripped into two people.
Now a reporter confronted him about, you know, what Trump said about Tillis.
Yeah.
And let's listen to how that transpired.
This is again, Tom Tillis, Senator, and he was asked about his answers ripping into the administration.
And and this is the.
This is the question and answer, I believe.
I'm thrilled about that.
That makes me qualified to be Homeland Security Secretary and Senior Advisor to the President.
I'm thrilled about that.
That makes me qualified to be Homeland Security Secretary and Senior Advisor to the President.
Yeah, I can't remember either.
But yeah, that's kind of fun stuff.
This is laying into him.
I do like it.
All right.
Now here we got a song, you know, we're going to be playing a lot of local music, statewide music here with the rocker in just a few moments.
But I've got a song that Terry Barr sent us.
It's a protest song by a kid.
He might be 10 to 15 years old.
I don't know, a young kid.
And this is a protest song.
that he calls uh ice man at your door so why don't we uh why don't we check this
out listen
It's just her neck on the line.
I spend knocks on my door.
Unsure what he's there for.
I say, son.
Yeah, that's good stuff.
And thank Terry Barr for that contribution.
Right.
Let's get to this, I guess, may have been played a few times here and there, but we're gonna play it anyway.
This is a person who works for the county, confronting ICE agents and offering to help them.
And well, you know, it didn't seem like they wanted her help.
So this is cut 417.
Hi.
I work for the county.
If you have a specific person in mind, like I can likely help you get that person out of here.
These families are...
They're scared to death and most of them are just like, what's that?
Because you guys keep coming in there and, you know, everything in the news shows you just showing up and popping people in the face and knocking down doors.
Okay, so let me just say, if you have a person, let us help you.
I know just about every family in here.
We don't need to be spending taxpayer money like this.
We do not need to be tormenting little children.
I mean, I know that some of you people were at one of my houses up here, knocking on the door and impersonating local police and telling him to open the door.
Yes, you were.
Maybe not you, sir, but some of your cohorts were.
I was on the phone with the family when it happened.
So don't tell me I'm lying.
Now give me a name.
I will go and get that for you and bring it here.
and I'll save the taxpayer probably how much are you guys spending today?
I know you don't.
You
think you think these guys are on somebody's salary?
Get your head out of your ass.
Give me the name.
I will go get the person for you right now.
So that tells me you're not really interested in doing law enforcement here today.
Then why aren't you targeting you come in here and you're knocking on five different houses?
You don't know What did he do what pride is
what?
on let me see it.
I will go get him for you
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Good afternoon, guys.
Great to hear from Wiscow-Paul.
You got to do a segment every day of Jesse Ventura.
Right.
Oh my god, he's a rock star.
You remember, guys,
when Republicans were supposedly the party of fiscal conservatives, and you brought up those numbers, and then remember when they'd have that clock and a calendar, and they'd show you the deficit around election time?
Remember those?
How come we never see that?
window.
I'd like to see that be brought back.
These guys are spending money like drunken
That's
no accountability for anything and they make it sound like this is never gonna end it and also there's a report out on Bloomberg news keel Institute or whatever it is The tariffs are making us about four percent Yeah
is, it's just a fallacy.
It is
amazing stuff.
You got to go read it and you brought it up yesterday.
You know, they're just passing us back retailers to us.
Yes.
Yeah,
Hey, okay.
Good afternoon.
I guys I got two points.
I wanna one of them will be out piggyback off a fix comment in the The deficit but my first thing is so where's this Socialists money coming from That Trump is going to use to try to bribe people to vote for him.
That's going into these accounts for the kids.
It's
our
money.
I think that's after they put the initial $1,000 in.
That's right.
And
then
my
question was, yes, have they said anything about how much the deficit has ballooned?
Yeah, it wasn't lately, but yeah, I think it's up to 38 points something.
Trillion dollars.
Okay.
I could be wrong.
He's gonna look real quick here and see what it is I was just looking up the doomsday clock and seeing that we've got 85 seconds left to midnight, so Yeah, that's why I've been a little agitated today
Yeah, cuz cuz cuz there's a conservative guy that calls into the show I haven't heard him in some days
But when Earl Ingram was on in the morning, he would call from Stoughton almost every other day.
He would mention something about the deficit and how much our grandkids are going to be paying back on the deficit.
I
haven't heard that man say not one thing about the deficit since the orange blob has been back in office.
Yeah,
distracted.
Every morning he would surely mention something about the deficit and how much our kids are going to be paying for the deficit that the Democrats are running up.
think he assumed that this would be hidden.
And the fact that it's not hidden.
You know, I'm not talking about mainstream media, but independent media such as yourselves are doing a tremendous service on behalf of our democracy.
And so I think people are just much more aware, I think, if they if they care to be.
to avoid sort of those mainstream outlets that are merely pushing his agenda.
To ignore what we're seeing, I saw a sign that said, believe your eyes, not the lies.
And I thought that's exactly, you know, whether it was Renee Good's murder or Alex's murder here.
The video, you know, thank God there were people out.
video taping this whole thing.
Those realities are not fake news.
I don't know.
I'm not too eloquent, but I for many years was involved in what led up to project 2025.
And I was a straight ticket Republican voter for 25 years of my life.
And of course, I'll never vote that way again.
all right coming up next we've got the midwest food report and then oh i'm sorry no we've got news coming up next and then rocker is in the studio gonna take a break from all the politics and some of the news of the day and listen to some local and regional music from wisconsin around the area and around the region rocker in the studio with a maxing preview on john agordi
next
Oh,
that.
You know, I founded that back in 19... No.
Well, it's good to
What's happening, guys?
You are, man.
Oh, man, we are getting ready for a greet.
weekend of Maxing radio.
Of course, Maxing radio broadcast live six to nine PM Saturday nights on WMDX 927 FM here in Madison.
And you can stream on the civic media website at civic media dot us slash Maxing radio or course try the civic media app.
Go ahead and download that.
Remember, you can subscribe to Maxing radios podcast on Spotify and Apple music this Saturday night.
which is going to be a great show.
We're going to bring on Chad Vader.
And I love Chad Vader.
Chad Vader.
You might remember 20 years ago was one of the first kind of YouTube viral sensations.
And it started right here in Madison with Aaron Yanda, local kind of comedian theater guy.
and he started Chad Vader, right?
That's Darth Vader's brother.
And he started out as a day manager.
A
store.
A day manager at the grocery store.
And, you know, he got demoted and ended up as the night manager and later in the plot.
And it's pretty cool because it's their 20 year anniversary.
So we're going to be talking about, you know, what's going on with
the 20 year
anniversary and what they're doing to bring it back and Chad Vader.
And hopefully he says that they have some, you know,
a sequel.
Isn't it great?
It really is great.
It's really great.
And if you shop at the Willy Street co-op on Willy Street, you're going to recognize the store because that's where it was filmed,
okay.
That's right.
Excellent.
A lot of fun.
So we'll have creator Aaron Yanda on this weekend.
We'll be talking to him.
And Shortwave Records Showcase will have label owner Eric Hart.
He'll be on to talk about what's going on.
They have a show coming up at the Crystal Corner.
And then live from the Man City this Saturday night, January 31st, right here in this studio, we have Madison singer-songwriter, Becca Murray.
with the wildflowers, her band.
It's a five piece band with a full drum set, sax, Rhodes electric piano, two guitars.
We're going to be jamming in here this Saturday night.
are
Yeah, you know, it takes up two channels because it's stereo.
We're gonna have things, you know Put on those headphones.
I
they're a lot
Yeah, and I hope it's
that's heavy man.
yeah
Becca Murray, she's really, really good.
February 1st, she's going to be at Cardinal Bar here in Madison with Dolt and one of my favorites, Bear in the Forest.
That's February 1st, then February 5th at the Harmony Bar and Grill right here.
That's a solo set.
And you can find more at Becca Murray music dot com.
And right now let's check out this is a great song from her brand new album called Skate by this is the title track.
I don't want to come in second place in the rock-race I'm always stuck between a rock and a hard place Nothing less than pure perfection Will I ever find my peace?
I know that no one ever told me it was easy But they never seem to see the world as I see Everyone who came before It come and gone before I close my eyes
Sounds
That is going to be fun.
I'm really looking forward to this show.
Murray Beckham Murray and the wildflowers.
They'll be here right here live from the man city in this very studio at WM DX ninety two seven FM on max ink radio.
So make sure to tune in and listen to the podcast if you don't catch it.
Okay.
We can move on.
You know, sometimes we
we have like a daddager or a momager call us up, right?
And they're like, you know, I have a child and and they're doing music and we're wondering if there might be some good opportunities.
And so I love that, right?
I
love getting kids involved.
And right here,
12 year old singer, songwriter from Madison.
Her name is CC.
And CC plays acoustic ukulele and guitar and electric acoustic.
She is just
really good.
February 28.
She's going to be on Maxink radio where she's going to interview and play a song live.
And you can find her on Instagram and Tik Tok is CC Erling.
That's C E C E and then E R L I N G really up and coming artists.
Good fender of page who we've had on her show and she's just turned 13.
So these kids are ripping it up.
Let's listen to her brand new song.
This is 12 year old CC right here in Madison.
This song is called Dreamer.
I can't see it, but I'll put my heartbeat to it and I'll str-
that is really amazing.
I think you know, it's really amazing how many female singer songwriters are out there just writing incredible songs.
And you know, it just really you got to wonder, you know, Taylor Swift really, you know, inspired an entire generation.
Open the
a lot and you know, to follow.
Yeah.
And provided that inspiration for young women to do it and CC is one of them.
And we're going to be really excited to talk to her on Maxink radio.
That's going to be coming up in just two weeks.
Next Saturday.
right.
And you know, people send in stuff.
You know, I noticed I think you guys may have shared around Bruce Springsteen wrote a song.
Right.
Minnesota.
Yeah, we've been noticing, you know, lately this is starting to inspire musicians to start writing songs and people are kind of maybe getting.
you know, woke up to some of the political things instead of just thinking about their boyfriends or
Jeff Burkhart.
He just sent me in a song.
He's a Madison singer, songwriter.
He's a nonprofit guru.
And the 12th of February, songwriters in the round is going to be at the Harmony Bar with Dana Perry and James Travis.
So you can check him there.
Jeff Burkhart also a solo show at the weary traveler here in Madison.
on March 12th, but right now he just sent in this brand new song, recorded it, got it out.
This is just a little clip of it right now.
This is Jeff Burkhart in Bad
State.
what's right and what's at stake to overcome this bad
I'm good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And definitely, you know, if you are out there writing a song, send it to us MP3 music at civic media dot us email to music at civic media dot us.
We love your new music.
Yeah, there's a new band out there, the Maya Robinson ensemble.
They're doing a Valentine show.
It's almost Valentine.
So I thought I'd bring this up love songs for everyone.
It's a Valentine show.
There are 14 piece ensemble of brass strings, keys, percussion and vocals.
They're fun, inclusive and eclectic show featuring some special arrangements of classic and unconventional Valentine's Day tunes.
Wednesday, February 11th, it's going to be at Lucille Pizza Restaurant here in Madison on the square.
And you can catch Maya Robinson in person on Maxink Radio next Saturday, February 7th, talking about the event.
We'll hear from her.
at what's going on.
Do we still have time for one more?
Got plenty of
for one or maybe two more.
John Peterson karaoke.
A shortwave record showcase.
It's coming Saturday, February 7th.
Crystal Corner Bar right here on Willy Street in Madison.
It's the flavor that kills Nestor, the German art students, Body Futures, and a guy named Erewick Skincrest.
Are you picking out a tune?
studio.
It involves nuts.
keep Madison shortwave records will host the first annual shortwave record showcase on February 7th at the crystal corner here in the man city.
The event celebrates the independent record labels growing catalog highlighting current roster in deep roots in Wisconsin.
Madison scene founded by Eric Hart's the hum machine flavor that kills.
He's a drummer.
Shortwave Records has recently expanded its focus on Wisconsin-based artists.
So it's really great.
We have a local record label here in Madison doing that.
The new German art students will be playing at this show, and they've spent sporadically filling bars with fans of their high-energy punk rock since 1997.
Wow.
And you can find their latest album, Diamonds and Queens, on Bandcamp.
They even have yellow vinyl for you people who are into...
Very cool vinyl.
That's right.
Yeah.
Let's check out the title track of the German art students.
This is diamonds and Queens.
I had a dream that I became Steve McQueen in a green board fastback lightning machine.
Hounding down the streets of San Francisco chased by some bad guys in a charger.
Riding my wheels in reverse, blowing up some smoke.
got to take a break.
The German art students.
I do like that.
Yeah.
None of them are German.
None of them are art students.
No.
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you go.
Oh, my neck's getting sore, guys.
Hey,
Chad Vader.
Chad Vader.
His brother.
the many protests
I do.
Yeah.
I do.
Lucky MF, man.
You know, you are a
really,
Well, it's not a costume, but yes.
Well, what do you call it?
I dress well.
It's the uniform.
You know, well, it's, yeah.
Yeah, it's the uniform.
What's your formal wear?
When you're a Sith Lord and you're performing Sith Lord duties.
No costume.
Like protesting at Act 11 or Act 10.
Act 10.
Act 10 it was.
We need them at Act 11.
We do,
Yeah, you know, you know who was one of the people protesting me when I was a Darth rocker?
No, they were with me was Chris Casper.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's a wookie.
He's got a wookie outfit.
And he's in the control room right now.
That's right.
He's probably hearing this and be like, oh, yeah, he should come in here and talk.
He's tall.
He's a big guy.
I actually cut.
I actually cut his hand off once with my lightsaber.
It's grown back since.
So we're OK now.
All right.
What do we
Oh, I hate, you know, Kyle Magna in the mind.
Soon as we played one of his brand new songs, I think last week, and I thought, you know what, this stuff is so good.
We're going to bring in another one.
Kyle Magna and the monsoons from Appleton, Oshkosh area.
They're going to be playing at Pet Skull Brewing up in Manitowoc on February 21st, the 13th of February at Vines and Rushes Winery down in Rippon.
And February 20th, Gibson Community Music Hall.
That's in Appleton.
That's going to be with the full band.
And, you know, check them out all around the state.
They're playing booking gigs all the time here for the summer.
More info at KyleMegnamusic.com.
The brand new album is called Synesthesia, and here's another great song from it.
This is called Kick Back.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's
my pick of the night here.
Wow.
That's
I mean, his, his older stuff you might find would be a little more, uh, American ish.
Okay.
You know, and this album seems to really come out of the gate, hitting hard.
Every tune that I've heard is really good so far.
So we'll, we'll try and bring back more Kyle Magna in the monsoons.
Okay.
We got some time here.
We got some time.
Let's talk about Mark Croft.
We talked about him before.
Sunday, February 1st, the stuffed olive in Madison.
That's just off State Street, right down the street from our studios.
A live music brunch series that they have going on.
And now Mark Croft, he's won the 2024 Madison Area Music Association Award for singer and songwriter, performer of the year in 2024.
And he's going to be playing this show.
So.
That's going to be at the stuffed olive.
If you haven't heard of it yet, it's a hundred plus martini bar.
They have a tapas menu and a sophisticated atmosphere.
It's pretty cool.
You got to check it out.
You can go
to
stuffed olive Madison dot com.
Find out more and see the schedule of performers that they have going on for the live brunch series that starts at noon.
So you got to get there early.
You're hungover.
It might not work too bad.
Mark Croft, let's listen to one of his older songs.
This is called The Shakin' and the Boom
Boom.
Sounds great.
Yeah.
Sunday, February 1st at the Stuffed Olive in Madison.
What's he talking about when he says the boom boom?
What
it?
shakin' and the boom boom.
You know, we could tell you, but if it goes over your head, that's your fault.
Looks like
Any last minute notes here?
We
Unplug.
Unplug from politics with Maxink radio every Saturday night, 6 to 9 p.m.
Of course, 8 to 9 p.m.
We have a live performer right here in the studio called Live from the Mad City.
This Saturday, Becca Murray next Saturday, Whitney Mann coming up on Valentine's Day, The Butcher's Son, then Candy Cigarette, Mad Town Managed Boys, Barbie Lane, God's Outlaw.
We got them all.
coming up live.
guys.
Appreciate
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