Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi, it’s officially looking like summer time!   Talking about 608 Day coming up in a few weeks in Penn Park and other events we’re looking forward to; in the second half, Antoine drops in on his day off after a big weekend and Jackie “Brodean” Morris calls in to recap the wildly successful 10th anniversary poetry and comedy jam, and more going on around town!

More information on 608 Day coming up noon-8 on June 8th in Penn Park on the Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/999270165780642/ and the EOTO Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EOTOCulturallyRooted/ 

Check in with Urban League at https://ulgm.org/calendar/ and https://ulgmhub.org/calendar/  for info on resume and job seeking workshops, banking workshops, home ownership clinics (new sessions starting soon), information on Expungement, childcare assistance, fatherhood support, healthcare administration, food safety and trades training, and more!

Music from today’s show: https://spinitron.com/WORT/pl/22485431/Tuesday-8-O-Clock-Buzz 

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From the days of the punch card-driven, vacuum tube powered RCA Mark II in the 1950s to the various creations of Robert Moog, to modern software-driven MIDIs, the electronic synthesizer has revolutionized music creation.  To celebrate nearly three quarters of a century of electronic music, the Arts and Literature Laboratory hosts SynthFest Madison on Saturday May 30.  Visitors can hear a concert with various synth master performers, explore the synth gallery of various synths and even build their own synth that they can take home.  Tim Russell is the Music Director for the University of Wisconsin’s Dance Department, he’s the founder of Milwaukee’s music and dance improvisational series Hyperlocal MKE and has studied with improvisational greats like Roscoe Mitchell.  He joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing in the WORT studios with a curious contraption.

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Across the country, for the 158th national Memorial Day, speakers will talk about the valor and sacrifice of fallen soldiers.  The activist organization Veterans for Peace, however, has a simple message: stop the wars, stop killing people, and maybe we won’t need a Memorial Day in the future.  Susan Schnall was a U.S. Navy Nurse who opposed the Vietnam War.  In 1968, Schnall rented a small plane and dropped anti-war flyers on five U.S. military bases near San Francisco.  After her court-martial and discharge from the Navy, Schnall continued her peace activism.  Schnall is now the President of Veterans for Peace.  Schnall will speak at Madison’s Masonic Hall on Memorial Day, part of the Clarence Kalin Chapter of Vets for Peace Memorial Day commemoration.  Susan Schnall joined the Monday Buzz on Monday, May 25, 2026.

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U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson dealt the Trump Administration a severe blow with a May 21 ruling blocking the U.S. Department of Justice from obtaining unredacted Wisconsin voter data.  Of the 30 lawsuits the Trump Administration has brought against states refusing to hand over detailed voter information, eight have now been dismissed by federal courts.  Alexander Schur is the Wisconsin reporter for Votebeat, and he joined the Monday Buzz on May 25, 2026.

Featured image: An election worker processes absentee ballots in Milwaukee. A judge in May 2026 rejected the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit to obtain Wisconsin’s unredacted voter rolls. (Photo by Laura McDermott for Votebeat).

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Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, it’s Antoine’s birthday!  Talking about life and living in Madison, what’s coming up over the summer and putting on events around town!

Don’t miss the 10th anniversary Poetry and Comedy Jam and Antoine’s birthday party coming up this Saturday (May 23, 2026) at 7:00 at The Hub! More information and ticket info on https://www.facebook.com/ComedyAndPoetryJam/ 

More information on 608 Day coming up June 8th on the EOTO Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EOTOCulturallyRooted/ 

Check in with Urban League at https://ulgm.org/calendar/ and https://ulgmhub.org/calendar/  for info on resume and job seeking workshops, banking workshops, home ownership clinics (new sessions starting soon), information on Expungement, childcare assistance, fatherhood support, healthcare administration, food safety and trades training, and more!

Music from today’s show: https://spinitron.com/WORT/pl/22451604/Tuesday-8-O-Clock-Buzz 

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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the Madison Children’s Museum is throwing one hell of a party to celebrate.  On Thursday, May 21, the Museum will feature dancing, food, storytelling and artwork from Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Hmong cultures.  Junko Yamauchi, an Early Learning Program Specialist with the Madison Children’s Museum and Charlotte Cummins, MCM’s Director of Education and Community Partnerships joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on May 18, 2026. Charlotte Cummins(Photo courtesy Madison Children’s Museum) Junko Yamauchi and Brian Standing in the WORT studios. (Photo by Junko Yamauchi)

Featured image: Lion dance (photo courtesy Madison Children’s Museum)

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On April 16, the U.S. Senate voted 50-49 to approve House Joint Resolution 140, stripping federal protections against metal mining in the watershed of the U.S. Forest Service’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Voyageurs National Park. The vote fell mostly along party lines, with all Democrats voting against the resolution.  Republican Thom Tillis of North Carolina crossed the aisle to vote against the measure, while Missouri Republican Josh Hawley did not vote.  The move comes in response to a proposed copper sulfide mine to be operated by Chilean-based Twin Metals.  Permitting for the mine now falls to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.  Meanwhile, on April 21, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers wrote to Brooke Rollins, secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to oppose the U.S. Forest Service’s proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule, which includes wilderness protections for some 70,000 acres of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Northern Wisconsin.  Jamie Ervin is the Senior Policy Manager of the Outdoor Alliance, a coalition of outdoor recreation and conservation groups, and he joined the Monday Buzz on May 18, 2026.

Featured image: Section Twelve Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Superior National Forest. (Photo by Daniel Ziegler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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After the defeat of the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War, Congress proposed and the states ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution to end slavery, ensure citizenship to anyone born in the United States, ensure equal protection and protect voting rights for racial minorities and former slaves.  Over the next 100 years, enforcement of the amendments was haphazard at best, with the U.S. Supreme Court repeatedly knocking down Congressional attempts to regulate against racially discriminatory Jim Crow laws.  In 1965, after tireless advocacy and protest from Civil Rights leaders, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act.  On signing the act, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared it “a triumph for freedom as great as any victory on the battlefield.”  On April 29, in a decision reminiscent of the court’s long discredited Reconstruction era rulings, the Roberts-led U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that gutted the last remaining provisions of the Voting Rights Act.  The ruling has touched off an arms race of gerrymandering efforts by States in anticipation of the 2026 midterm elections.  David Canon is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, who has specialized in legislative redistricting and representation.  David Canon joined the Monday Buzz on May 18, 2026.

Featured image: Map of Louisiana 6th Congressional District overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais. (Image by Twotwofourtysix, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

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Right there in the river city, Watertown, Wisconsin.  In one of the most audacious decisions by a local school board since the enlightened members of the River City school board tried to prevent the spread of pool playing in their community, the Watertown Board voted to protect their vulnerable high school students from political indoctrination by a lyricless song.  Despite the protestations of the young musicians who’ve been practicing for months, and many parents who were supporting the students, the Board decided they knew what was be best for the corruptible youth of their fair city.  The 8 O’Clock Buzz explores the school board decision with the assistance of a former Watertown alumnus.  The Mother of a Revolution lives on!

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From protesting New York City bridal fashion shows in the 1960s with the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (or W.I.T.C.H.), to using giant puppets to protest a proposed copper mine in Crandon, Wisconsin in the 1990s, to her more recent work as an illustrator for WW3 Illustrated, Susan Simensky Bietila has been at the vanguard of creative grassroots resistance movements.  Now, Bietila, who now lives in Milwaukee, has written her memoir, FRONT LINES: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance, out now from PM Press. Susan Simensky Bietila joined the Monday 8 O’Clock Buzz’s Brian  Standing on May 11, 2026.

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