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A day or two ago, this podcast hit the milestone of 500 downloads...Yay! It's a good thing, and I'm not just saying that...it's just that it took 3 months to get there. But, in the podcasting world, little milestones are amplified by the fact that I've at least accomplished "something" during the pandemic. I've avoided going completely insane during the pandemic. Notice the qualifier "completely". It has been my little place to go for online therapy since I started the show back in mid...

OK, this episode isn't that scary... Remember 800 phone numbers? You could dial them FREE of any phone charges, even though they were long distance. You could order a Popeil Pocket Fisherman or you could Dial-A-Joke just for fun. Well, these wacky numbers still exist, sort of. They don't use the 800 prefix very much anymore, but there are still a few that are maybe worth dialing if you're sitting around bored at work or home and just want to kill some time. Just in time for Halloween,...

Here's a quick update with Harvey Stauffer and me talking about his band's upcoming gig happening this Saturday night on Facebook Live. Just go to Facebook this Saturday night at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central and put in Ole Harv and the Blues Katz in the Facebook search engine and enjoy the show. They'll be performing live from Ignition Music Garage, downtown Goshen, Indiana. That's an acoustically perfect place for musicians to play, and it should be a great gig. Check it...

Brad Tassell has been doing comedy since the mid 80s. Not only is he a funny stand-up comedian, he is also an author of several books about comedy and he is an expert on the subject of bullying. During most of this interview though, we talked about how he got started in comedy and how he has coped with the changing comedy scene since Covid-19 changed live performance venues. He's managed to have some success doing live virtual comedy shows online. We did this interview via the internet...

I've been lazy lately. I skipped doing a podcast this past Friday...I think that only happened once before. But then, I also skipped doing the Saturday Coffee Shindig, otherwise known as Facebook Live. Like I said, lazy. That's what happens when you are a one man band. If you want to take a day off, you do it. I'm lucky that I'm semi-retired...so, if I don't want to do something, I just don't. The problem with that is...well, I become less motivated to do much of anything. One underlying...

In the last few days, the number of Covid-19 victims in the U.S. went over the 205,000 mark for 2020...a grim milestone to be sure. That's a lot of grieving families and loved ones left to pick up the pieces. Dixie Juchcinski is a friend of mine from South Bend, Indiana. I used to help host talent shows she put together for the students at Jimtown Junior High. Dixie's brother died of Covid-19 back in April of this year. She decided to put her energy toward helping other people who had...

A little more than a week ago, the news came out that the legendary, world famous Tommy Bartlett Ski, Sky & Stage Show in Wisconsin Dells was closing permanently due to the economic fallout from the Covid 19 virus. The announcement was a shocker to most of the show ski community and employees of the Bartlett Show as well as to the Wisconsin Dells/Lake Delton tourist area. Since 1953, the show had been a fixture of the summer season in Wisconsin Dells. A lot of shows have come and gone over...

Here's some of the followup conversation between John Peterson and me from the Facebook Live interview I did with him on Saturday, September 19th, 2020. As we talked about in the previous podcast, John has archived a lot of the John & Gordy Media World cable access show we did back in the late 80s & early 90s. Many Madison media folks were happy to drop by the live show that we did every Tuesday night in the basement of some building on Monroe Street in Madison. We have been working...

OK, this is a special episode. I remember the first time I heard John Peterson on the radio. He was doing the morning show on WIBA-FM and this was in the early 80s...this was before Sly took over. Peterson's show caught my ear, because he was doing phone calls and had a very dry wit. He'd push peoples' buttons...and they would push back. He would bring up controversial subjects and go back to the phones in between classic rock cuts. When I finally met him in 1986 he was taking the opening...

TV watching is up big time, mostly because of the pandemic, but also because there seems to be unlimited channels of shows you can watch 24/7 wherever you're watching; traditional networks, cable, streaming, satellite or that via that chip that in your head that the aliens planted when they abducted you. You remember that...right? In any case, whenever we're talking TV we're talking to Jackson & Barb Quigley. They have a website called WeBingeTV.com and that's what they do. So, sit back,...

For those of you that perhaps have exclusively been listening to the TALK TO GORDY podcasts, I also do a Facebook LIVE show every Saturday morning 9AM Central time. I thought I'd put the audio of this morning's Facebook show up, just in case you're inclined to listen in your car or while you're working out or cooking mashed potatoes or whatever you do when you're not watching cat videos or tap dancing penguins. Yes, tap dancing penguins is a thing...or maybe that was just a dream I had...

Harvey Stauffer was born in Chicago in the early 1950s and he's had the blues ever since. Well...I'm not sure when exactly the blues caught up to Harv', but he knows more about the blues than anyone I know. He's been researching it ever since he started hosting the Blues Revue on WVPE-FM radio 37 years ago. He's played in a bunch of bands over the years. When I lived in Indiana from 1994 through 2015 Harvey was the lead singer and front man for the Elwood Splinters Blues Band. I was lucky...

This time around I talk to Mark Tully, (or more formally M. Richard Tully) who is the author of "A Man Called Baraboo". The story of Francois Barbeau who was fur trader in the 1700s in the part of Wisconsin now known as Baraboo. Mark has authored 14 books that are all related to the subject of history in one way or another. As an author, he goes by M. Richard Tully, but everyone I know around Baraboo just calls him Tully...and he knows a ton of people around the area! The book is really...

I called my old friend Tricia Sloma the other day...and like usual, I got her answering machine. I get it. She's busy...in fact, she's always busy and it always takes 2 or 3 times for me to get through. After all, she's an Emmy winning reporter. Not only that, she was awarded the prestigious Indiana Journalist of the Year from the Society of Professional Journalists for a series she did on school bus safety. Because of that, she helped to changed some Indiana laws on school bus stop...

I like to interview people...but, occasionally for whatever reason an interview guest may have to re-schedule...that happens! But, the show must go on! So, today this is just me updating you on a couple of changes coming up on Talk to Gordy. One change you may notice is that my Facebook Live show is switching from my personal Facebook page to the all-new Talk to Gordy Facebook page beginning THIS Saturday, September 5th. What else? I'm open to interview guest suggestions....IF you know...

Jackson Quigley watches a TON of TV! He and his wife Barbara have been binge watching shows since before it was a thing....they practically invented it. They have a terrific website for binge watchers at WeBingeTV.com and there's plenty of free info available there...but, be sure to check out the Binge Bible which is the flagship product of their site. Watch for Jackson (along with his wife Barbara) to make a return appearance on the podcast to update us all on whatever shows are soon to...

The Pentagon is back in the news with yet another commission being formed perhaps for another report about UFOs...just give us the facts! We CAN handle the truth! Greg Cisko has heard this before and gives us his take. Also, an asteroid could show up just before election day? Should we vote early before we get knocked out of orbit? Should we get our laundry done early that week? Or, is this much ado about nothing? Greg and Gordy ponder space, aliens invading, asteroids heading toward...

What's YOUR favorite soft drink? Mine is, and always has been Coco-Cola! It's the original. Hey, it's OK if you prefer Pepsi or Dr. Pepper. I know good people who wake up with Mountain Dew or 7-Up or even some A&W Root Beer...but, those are other drinks for other times. In this show, I talk with Larry Jorgensen, the author of THE COCA-COLA TRAIL. Larry's a lot of fun...and he really knows a lot about the history of Coca-Cola and lots of fun facts about the earlier bottlers of the world's...

Rev. Bill Harris is a dynamic individual and a man on a mission. He founded the organization People Helping People back in 1998. It's in Baraboo, in the heart of Sauk County, Wisconsin and they also serve the surrounding counties of Juneau, Adams and Columbia Counties. It's the driving force of Bill Harris' personality that makes People Helping People tick. He's an engaging, down to earth guy and when I first met him a few years ago, we hit it right off. He is committed to helping every...

Dr. Rob Riley is someone I've known for 25 years. I met him when I worked at WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana. He was our guest many times during our weekly "Ask the Doctor" segment. He has since retired, but still keeps up on what's happening in medicine. In this interview, we talk about the effects of Covid-19 on the sports world, entertainment, students going back to school as well as where things stand with finding a vaccine. What have we learned since the pandemic started really...