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Coffee with Gordy
Coffee with Gordy: Episode 127 Gordy Young
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Gordy Young and Kathryn Lake talk about LeBron James leaving the L.A. Lakers. They also touch on Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce's expected weekend wedding at Madison Square Garden. Mr. Pibb's return to grocery stores is a surprise, as we thought it never left!...Recorded Wed, July 1st, 2026 https://www.boffocoffee.com
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Good morning. Here we go again. It's a brand new month. July 1st. It's a Wednesday, the year is 2026. Good morning.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_04It is.
SPEAKER_01Let's do it. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Catherine Lake. Catherine Lady. Good morning, Catherine.
SPEAKER_03Good morning, buddy.
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_00All right.
SPEAKER_03Even though it's fake, I still thought those trumpets were popping on my theme song.
SPEAKER_00Really? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I know. I think I really like that theme song. Yeah. It's good. How are you doing this morning? Here it is. Here we're we've made it to July. Oh my gosh. Is on still. A heat. Yes. We're stuck with the heat for the next couple of days.
SPEAKER_03Nice. You were ready.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know who that is, by the way? That's Linda Ronstadt doing her old song.
SPEAKER_03You know what the majority of Americans do not understand? I mean, there are there are fans, obviously, for a reason. They're fans. But she is an extraordinary musician, apparently.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. She could sing anything.
SPEAKER_03Really, yeah. Really well respected in the musical scene.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Unfortunately, I and I saw Linda Ronstadt one time, and uh uh she was the opening act, so this was really at the very early part of her career. I saw her at the auditorium theater in Chicago, uh and she was opening for a band called Poco, which was a big band at the time. Uh, but her band included uh future Eagles Glenn Fry. This is Linda Ronstadt's band, Glenn Fry. Yeah, also Don uh uh oh god. Yes, Don Henley on drums, and uh Bernie Leden, and I think uh Randy Meisner. So it was really the basic uh Eagles band before they became the Eagles, so they took out the girl.
SPEAKER_03Nice, nice work, guys.
SPEAKER_00Really well, yeah. She hired them. She she was the one that twisted their arm to be her band.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And she knew also that they were gonna be big time, and so she was thankful to get them uh before they formed their own group. Uh the old days. This is back in the boy early 70s, I believe. But yeah, unfortunately, uh I believe Linda Ronstadt has I think she has Parkinson's, but she hasn't been able to sing for a number of years, and there's a great documentary about her. I I don't know where you can find it now, but maybe Netflix or somewhere else. But yeah, unreally unfortunate that uh she she really can't perform at all anymore.
SPEAKER_03Um and uh yeah, but well, nice to turn a nice story let negative there. Thanks, thanks, Marnie. It was really fun for a second there. She's awesome, but she's dying.
SPEAKER_00Okay, next story. Well, I just wanted to give you the full picture because uh okay.
SPEAKER_03Totally nailed it. Trump spent Trump earned, not spent. Well, he spent a sh ton, but he uh earned this is the story that I want to talk about. Okay two point two billion dollars last year. He is has made himself a billionaire.
unknownOh yeah.
SPEAKER_03And that here's the part that drives me nuts. If you're a fan and you've heard all the things that you've heard over the years, all the things you've heard over the years about Donald Trump, right? And then you hear this final bit, this is not even a final bit, he's not done yet, that he has two billion dollars in his pocket now, and you're paying over four dollars a gallon for gas now, and that's probably not gonna change. It's certainly not gonna go down below three.
SPEAKER_04Do you remember when it was a buck?
SPEAKER_03And it was like it's over a dollar. I mean, I realize inflation, I realize time passes, I get it. But he has two billion now, and you have two thousand dollars less this year just making up a number, totally making it up, just two thousand and more for gas than you did last year.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Why do you not realize fans of Donald Trump that his two billion dollars is yours? It's from your pocket.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, I know. It's uh everything's uh skewed in uh Trump's favor. It's at least two billion. I heard a report not too long ago that they had made four billion altogether. Uh he and his family.
SPEAKER_03Uh oh, yes, his family too, because his sons and his son-in-law, notice they don't ever say his daughter is grifting, it's her son-in-law, her husband.
SPEAKER_00His son-in-law, yeah, Jared, Jared Cush. Yeah, yes.
SPEAKER_03All the boys are out making coin.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, well, it's uh and on it goes. Nothing's stopping them. Uh, Supreme Court. Well, let's get to some of the headlines here today, okay? All right. So uh the street Supreme Court, they did they did stand up for the birthright citizenship, but it was a close vote. It should have been nine-nothing. Yeah, but it was five to four, just barely standing up for the 14th amendment.
SPEAKER_03Who flipped? Which conservative said okay? Because it has to be a current conservative.
SPEAKER_00It was Amy Amy Coning Barrett.
SPEAKER_03She she a woman. How shocking. Yeah, had a conscience.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. But uh, they did uh leave it up to the states on transgender girls going into boys uh sports. So you know it's up to the states, and apparently 27 states uh are banning transgender uh girls going into sports. Uh it's a tricky, tricky thing to talk about.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, because you don't know what you don't know how to refer to the human who has made a transition, right? And I get I gather you should say a transition girl, which means she was born a boy. That's so a trans girl. So they are they're trying to get into girls' sports with a body that is uh anatomically necessarily male.
SPEAKER_00Yes, you have crystallized the situation, yes.
SPEAKER_03That's tricky, that's really it is tricky. I mean, if you have a male body, uh and I'm not trying to be stupid or uh really ignorant, but I kinda am. But I have have in my 61 years now have understood that men have more musculature than we do. You certainly don't have the dangly thing that I got going here, but uh you we have other dangly things down here. Yeah, not together. Yes, I understand.
SPEAKER_00Okay, well, yeah, and I think the yeah, uh well, the Supreme Court basically let's just give this back to the states. You know, we're not okay, great. Thanks, I guess.
SPEAKER_03Better than than ruling it was okay, better than saying federally we're gonna say it's okay. Because it's a sticky wicket. I have a I have a lot of questions. Sticky wicket.
SPEAKER_00There's a lot of wickets that are sticky, okay. With it, I get it. All right. Um, by the way, let's uh let's back up here for a second and check the weather outside. Um, I failed to get any bird seed um into the bird feeder this morning. So consequently, there are no birds, but you can see they should be in there, you know, scraping around trying to get those in the inside. I know there's still a little bit in there. There's still a little bit anyway. Uh let's get the uh latest on the weather with our uh fake AI uh generated uh weather entity person uh or thing. Thing uh it's it's Luna. Good morning, Luna. Tell us about the weather in Madison, Wisconsin, where we are situated today. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01Good morning. Today, Madison's got sunshine and warmth ahead. We're heading up to about 83 degrees. Tonight will be nice and clear around 62. And right now at the airport, we're sitting at a comfy 75. So it's shaping up to be a beautiful July day.
SPEAKER_00It's kind of humid out there, Luna. What is the dew point in Madison, Wisconsin?
SPEAKER_01You're right. It's a bit sticky. The dew point right now is around 65 degrees, so you'll definitely feel that summer humidity hanging around today.
SPEAKER_00Okay, thanks, Luna.
SPEAKER_03Okay, what Leatherman, weatherman, what the F is the dew point again?
SPEAKER_00Oh Lord. Well, that's the point.
SPEAKER_03Why are you concerned? It's it's what's it's when when it starts to feel sticky at 65, it starts to feel sticky.
SPEAKER_00Actually, yeah, actually, mid-60s, that's when it starts to feel a little sticky. It's not as bad as it was yesterday so far.
SPEAKER_03So, dew point is kind of like when the moisture from the earth starts to just come out, just it's too hot. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna evaporate.
SPEAKER_00In theory, it's uh when the moisture condenses at that temperature. Uh, so you get dew, and that's kind of where it came from, the dew on the ground at that temperature. It also is an indicator of what the overnight temperatures are likely to be. So is it yeah? So uh I'll leave that right where it is because I stopped being a weather person in 2010. And things have changed 16 years ago.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's called climate change, Kath. There's some new things.
SPEAKER_00I did it for 20 years, and that was enough, and I got out just in time. Um, we have a heat dome. We have a heat dome.
SPEAKER_03I I'm seeing a map. You want to see the map? Um, oh sure, show you the map.
SPEAKER_00Uh I can tell you that a hundred and you know, when before this heat wave, they said this is gonna affect about 70 million people. Well, that was a little off, it's affecting about 150 million people, so basically two-thirds of the U.S. is under the heat dome. You can show us the map, and then uh and then uh the rest of the country, they're dealing in the Four Corners area, which would be Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. They are having wildfires there, so yes, you know, unbelievable. Lots of crazy stuff going on.
SPEAKER_03I can see on my yeah, I have all the data, but it is it is hard to oh god, look at the chat.
SPEAKER_00You put the map up. Let me uh let me share it with everybody here. There we go. Now we can see it. I don't know. Oh we got a commercial playing underneath it, but that's okay. Uh, extreme humidity for 97 million people. So uh yeah, it depends on who you want to believe. Okay. Uh let me get rid of that.
SPEAKER_03It was me presenting.
SPEAKER_00Uh, okay.
SPEAKER_03It was me. I got it. Um and here's here are the fires that you're talking about. There's the West.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I mean, and Canada.
SPEAKER_00We don't have to worry about climate change, do we? Yes. Um it's already happened.
SPEAKER_03So it's already changed.
SPEAKER_00But um, all right.
SPEAKER_03That's a that's a that's a that's a depressing way to go. We could go that direction, that it's already changed. And I think it was you who sat on my back porch yesterday, or someday recently, somebody sat on my porch and said, and it's not gonna get better. We it's too late. It might have been our it might have been you, but it was you, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_00I don't think so.
SPEAKER_03I don't know who you're somebody, somebody recently said to me, I can't remember who maybe it was Dory, my friend Dory, who's so smart and knows everything, who's gone off the grid for a reason, that uh it it may be that we cannot roll back enough.
SPEAKER_00Oh right, yeah. We probably can't unless there are drastic changes in the next few years, and then we gotta wait around about another 20 years for things to sort of get back to normal. But uh, you know, the way things are going, it doesn't look great.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so the movie Passengers comes out, right? And it's that one where um Jennifer Lawrence is sleeping along with 1,100 other people, and they're going to the new homestead. There's a place, there's a Goldilocks zone, and they're gonna go and they're on this ship. And um the guy what movie is this? Uh Passengers. Um Passengers. And so they're all on a big ship. And the guy who is that funny actor, and I'm gonna blow it because I can't pull his name right now. Somebody at home is screaming his name into the screen right now. But uh, he wakes up early, his pod breaks. And for a year, he's living alone on this ship. He's an engineer, he's a mechanic type guy, he can do stuff, so he's trying to get himself back to sleep, and he can't. And he wanders around looking at all the other people and he sees Jennifer Lawrence, and he's like, Oh, can I just sit here and talk to your pod? And he has it's a beautiful, beautiful movie, really fun. But but the the point is they're leaving Earth because of course we've destroyed it, so now we gotta like the locusts we are, we gotta find a new place to go drain. And she's gonna she's a writer, so she's gonna go there and she's gonna come back to Earth 250 years later. That's how much time will pass. That's what I want to do. I want to come back and see Earth in 250 years and see if we figured it out.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_03Yes, I'm gonna do that. When did this movie come out?
SPEAKER_00I've never even heard of this. Passengers. I'll have to check it out. No, I haven't. No, I haven't.
SPEAKER_03Let me show you the face of the guy because all right, the movie Passengers with Jennifer Lawrence.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03Um, the guy is cast. God bless it. I can't have well, Chris Pratt. Oh, sure. And Michael Sheen, you remember, and Michael Sheen plays the android that he talks to. Okay, there's Pratt, and there's oh god, she's so beautiful. I love Jennifer Lawrence. I I love anybody that's outside the box.
SPEAKER_00You know, she's very worse. She's super intelligent and she's very, very funny, too. Very funny. If you if you've seen her on talk shows, she's really really great.
SPEAKER_03Unabashed, self-deprecating, just funny.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Hey, let's move on to some other news, okay? Okay, all right.
SPEAKER_03I'll stop talking for a minute.
SPEAKER_00It's okay. I know this is big news for you, Kevin.
SPEAKER_03I know that's singing your theme song. What? Go on.
SPEAKER_00Oh boy, can I get a word in adjusting? It's okay. There's really not that much big news today. But uh in the world. Um, sports news. And I know you're a big Lakers fan, so this is uh LeBron James is leaving the LA Lakers after a dozen years. He's become a free agent again. How many years where he's going, but he may end up with the LA Clippers. So uh that's happening. Um, I gotta go back.
SPEAKER_03I gotta go back. What LA has two basketball teams?
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes, they do.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_00Yes, always has uh for a long, long time. Yeah. Uh Steph Curry, I don't know if that name rings a bell, but oh he's a clipper. He's a clipper and a friend of LeBron James, so that's one theory that they're gonna get together. And and LeBron, you know, is a free agent, but they're thinking he's only gonna play maybe one or two more years because he's how old is he?
SPEAKER_0322?
SPEAKER_00You know, he's gotta be no LeBron James.
SPEAKER_03I'm joking. I'm saying they they retired them so damn early.
SPEAKER_00I think he's 41, maybe, or 42. Let's ask Luna. Luna, wait a minute. Luna, can you tell us how old LeBron James is?
SPEAKER_01Is currently 41 years old, so yeah, he's definitely she's slow.
SPEAKER_00He's slow.
SPEAKER_03She's your partner that when I'm not here. Yeah, that's I have the answer.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Uh, you're not gonna be here next next week or next couple of weeks. You're gonna have to do some talking. Well, good for you. Um, Mr. Pibb is coming back. Did we know that Mr. Pibb was gone? I don't know, but he's coming back, Mr. Pibb. If you're a fan, Mr. Pibb is kind of like a Dr. Pepper drink. It is, right? It's a pepper, yeah. Yeah, and so Mr. Pibb is coming back for all of you, Mr. Pibb fans, and uh yeah, that's about all I have for head. Oh, yesterday. Let's wrap up something.
SPEAKER_03We before you go back to before you go back to yesterday. Mr. Pibb, sorry, has caffeine, I suspect. So does my kid because she drank two um kolas before bed yesterday, and that's why she you let her do that? Take that back, take that back. I go to bed, and she's crawling around the house, her dad's crawling around the house, they are together crawling around the house all night long, all the time, and she drank two Dr. Peppers, two, and then was shocked to find herself awake at 5 30.
SPEAKER_00Oh, wow, that's why are they crawling around the house?
SPEAKER_03Like my father before me, I know everything, they just don't ask.
SPEAKER_00Um yeah, so wow, she didn't know that caffeine was a thing that keeps you awake. Did she not know this? Caffeine and sugar, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I don't know about sugar actually being wakeful. I mean, it certainly gives you a boost, but it burns out quick. So I'd rather have her have sugar before bed than caffeine because that doesn't burn out.
SPEAKER_00Um, well, speaking of uh food um and uh such, uh, yesterday we were talking about the city cast uh five things. Uh there was a quiz and five questions. We only covered four. And I got four out of five right, but the one that I got wrong, we didn't ever talk about. And the question was, how much um was a plaza burger? How much what's the price of a plaza burger at the plaza bar and grill downtown Madison? Which is a great place, and it's been there forever, and it's still there, and I hope it's always gonna be there. I think it's on Henry Street, just off State Street.
SPEAKER_03Everyone knows about the Plaza Burger.
SPEAKER_00Back in the day, I used to go there quite a bit, but I hadn't been there in a long time. But the question was, how much is a plaza burger? And the uh answer's well the quote here. Let's uh I'll give you the quiz. How much is a plaza burger at the plaza? Is it six dollars, eight dollars, ten dollars, or twelve dollars?
SPEAKER_03I want to say twelve. Maybe it's ten.
SPEAKER_00Hey, we're giving you the buzzer.
SPEAKER_03It's a pedal? You have a pedal buzzer?
SPEAKER_00I do. In fact, here this will be more interesting that it's actually the plaza burgers are eight dollars. I said six dollars. I was gonna say eight dollars, but I would have had five out of five on Are You A Man?
SPEAKER_03You would have felt so good about yourself all week long.
SPEAKER_00Let me show you this buzzer. Oh, let's see if I can get it where you can see it. See this?
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_00Uh, do you have any idea what this might be?
SPEAKER_03In action that is a smoke alarm.
SPEAKER_00It is, but it has an electric cord. It plugged these are the early smoke alarms, and I I managed to get one along the way very early on. It actually plugs into the walls before they decided, hey, maybe we should have batteries on these because what if the power's out? Um, yeah. This I don't know if it has a date on it or not.
SPEAKER_03What button are you pushing? The button to test it?
SPEAKER_00Is but is that not the greatest buzzer ever?
SPEAKER_03Perfect, and you put it on the ground under your foot. That is hysterical.
SPEAKER_00I that's my first chance to use it. Look who's here. My buddy Bear is going, What's this buzzer to get up in the house? There he goes.
SPEAKER_03He's like Well, wait, we need a before and after of him.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you know, he's gonna get a haircut off Saturday. Yeah, I'll take pictures.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, get it before and after.
SPEAKER_00Okay, I'll do that. Anyway.
SPEAKER_03He's hyper allergenic.
SPEAKER_00He's a mini burnidoodle.
SPEAKER_03Mini burnadoodle.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_03Because as you all know, Bernie's mountain dogs, big guys.
SPEAKER_00This guy? He's mini.
SPEAKER_03He's mini.
SPEAKER_00He's too darn cute and he's very shy. He just won't he won't ever. He doesn't know why I sit here and talk to these screens every morning, and he gets freaked out, so he goes into the living room and sits on the couch and waits for me to be a little bit more.
SPEAKER_03Is a mountain dog a poodle is not, but is a mountain dog a bit of a herder too? Is that why he's like in here checking on you, going, what? Because he's by your side all the time, right?
SPEAKER_00Uh pretty much. He kind of uh yeah, he's on his own a lot, but uh I like his bedtime routine.
SPEAKER_03I like that he crawls in with you until you fall asleep. That is the most adorable thing. And you can tell, oh, he's asleep. I think I'll just crawl off to my own bed.
SPEAKER_00He's near the foot of the bed, uh, on on the top of the covers. And then then when I'm asleep, sometime in the night, I think right after I go to sleep, he leaves and goes back to the living room.
SPEAKER_03I'm saying, who's whose baby? Who's whose?
SPEAKER_00Well, the other night, did I tell? I don't think I told well, I told you this story. I think he took I had an old Afghan that my grandmother Katie made, and it was beautiful, but it was starting to kind of fall apart. You know, it's it was one of those knit with a million different squares kind of afghans. Okay, never mind. It doesn't matter. What I'm listening, I love the story. It was on the bottom of the of the I had it on the bottom of the bed as kind of just a you know, at the end of the bed accent. Hold the other blankets in place, kind of sure. And um, after I fell asleep, he actually took that Afghan and dragged it out to the living room and wrapped it around his little bed on the floor next to the couch and had it perfectly positioned around the bed.
SPEAKER_02Did you send me a picture of this? I think I gotta put the picture. Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did. I think he sent me a picture of this. Where is that? That was a while ago. Oh god, so worth it. So worth it.
SPEAKER_03He took the Afghan and literally placed it around placed it around his own bed. This is good. Glad you brought this home, Dad. This is perfect for me.
SPEAKER_00And now it's his.
SPEAKER_03That's a story to end on.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah, and uh why not? Yeah, it's time to end this thing. Um, Catherine, thank you. I hope you have a good day. Do you have big plans for uh this Wednesday, the very first day of July? Not really.
SPEAKER_03No, just thinking about packing because I am away for 10 days and I haven't taken a I haven't taken a week in years. Yeah, and I'm taking 10 days off from my unemployment.
SPEAKER_00Well, it's a good time to do it. I mean, why not take a vacation if you can swing it?
SPEAKER_03So my unemployment will run out while I'm gone. It's awesome.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I'll have uh maybe a guest host or two helping out along the way, and um, so that'll be uh that'll be something. Okay. Um, did I mention that Travis Kelsey and uh Taylor Swift are getting married at uh Madison Square Garden this weekend? I don't know if you can get in, but uh there might be tickets available.
SPEAKER_03Why should that surprise us? Why should it surprise us the people who are in the fame super millionaires have a private ceremony at Madison Square Garden? Are you flipping kidding me?
SPEAKER_00No, they're everyone's invited. Well, they invited a thousand of their own guests, but I'm like, well, okay, Madison Square Garden holds I don't know, 30,000 people. I don't know how big Madison Square Garden is. Do you uh maybe Luna knows what I'm gonna ask her? What? But who else is gonna fill the stands? Are they just gonna open it up to the general public and hey, we're getting married, come on and enjoy the party or if she said a thousand guests.
SPEAKER_03Is there not a cathedral in town that would hold a thousand people? I think there must be.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. I don't know, but I'm sure there'll be all kinds of coverage and helicopters flying over Madison Square Garden, all that, and high security. Okay, well, good for them, and I'm I'm happy for them both.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay, that's the good news. We'll end on that.
SPEAKER_00Okay, Jesus. Uh Catherine, you have a wonderful day. It's good to talk to you again. Take care.
SPEAKER_03Gordy. In the morning.
SPEAKER_00Okay, all right, and we'll leave that there. Thank you, Catherine. Uh, if you like the show, share it, follow us. And uh, you know, we're on Facebook at uh my own personal Gordy Young Facebook page each and every day. Did you have more to add?
SPEAKER_03No, was I talking? You were bothered. Did you hear me?
SPEAKER_00Uh no, no, not really.
SPEAKER_04Um let me go, let me go.
SPEAKER_00All right, you're out of here. Okay. Um, whatever I was saying. Yeah, thank you for watching, and we'll be back tomorrow morning, 8 a.m. Central Time on my Facebook page, and then uh some of the audio uh eventually we're working on it, but it gets to Spotify eventually. Okay. Oh boy, this is a tough one. Uh, that'll do it. Uh have a wonderful first day of July, and we'll talk to you tomorrow morning. And don't forget to check out Bafo.com, our wonderful sponsor, bafo.com.com. And have a great day.