8 O'Clock Buzz

Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi featuring Jackie Brodean and LaVerne Buchannon, Jeanne Gomoll and Ria Dhingra from The Moth Madison join us to talk storytelling and the upcoming Grand Slam at The Barrymore on October 2nd.

More information on and tickets to the Grand Slam: https://www.themoth.org/tickets/madison-grandslam-championship 

Moth Madison has monthly storytelling slams at High Noon on the second Monday, next Slam theme is “Magic” on October 12: https://www.themoth.org/tickets/magic-16 

Information on Ferdinand at Wil-Mar Center from Isthmus: https://isthmus.com/events/ferdinand-beatrix/ 

Music from today’s show: https://spinitron.com/WORT/pl/23060760/Tuesday-8-O-Clock-Buzz 

Get out for some R&B:

Catch jazz all week and weekend at Cafe Coda, renowned jazz from around the nation at the annual Coda Fest!

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For thirty years, HR Britton worked as an actor, stand-up comic and musician, travelling to New York, Boston and Minneapolis to perform at a wide variety of theaters and venues.  Tired of life on the road, he took a job as a receptionist at a healthcare clinic – and suddenly discovered he had a boatload of new material.  He’s back on the road again with “Medical Melodies: Comedic Songs About Healthcare,” coming to Madison’s Muso on  September 26.  HR Britton joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on September 21, 2026.

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Nicole Gruter, our far-flung, roving reporter has been documenting life along U.S. Highway 14 for us on the Buzz for several months now, meeting people in South Dakota and Minnesota.  This month she doesn’t stray so far from her Madison home,  traveling a mere 12 miles to the Village of Oregon.  Nicole Gruter joined the Monday Buzz again on September 21, 2026.

All photos by Nicole Gruter.

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The Dane County Homeless Services Consortium consists of over 80 city and county government agencies, school districts, nonprofits and charitable organizations.  In 2024, this expansive group adopted an ambitious plan to end homelessness in Dane County by 2030.  Called “Dane Forward” the plan outlined strategies to add at least 1400 new housing units targeted to currently homeless populations, better coordinate between homeless service agencies, and expand and diversify funding for homelessness programs.  Despite the plan, the most recent point-in-time homeless count showed that Dane County’s homeless population grew 39.9% since 2016, to a total of 880 individuals in 2026.   Here to give us an update on the state of area homelessness is Torrie Kopp-Mueller, Continuum of Care Coordinator for the Dane County Homeless Services Consortium.

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Kevin Kamps, the Executive Director of Don’t Waste Michigan, a group of concerned citizens and organizations initially formed to prevent Michigan from becoming a nuclear waste dump for the entire region, gives an update of their efforts to prevent Holtec from restarting an old Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan…along with their plans to expand nuclear power plants.

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Are you a sports fan? Have you noticed how much more it’s costing you to watch your favorite games because you have to subscribe to multiple streaming services? Or tailgate? Emily DiVito from Groundwork Collaborative has done the number in her recent article entitled “Benched: The Rising Cost of Following Sports in America” where she breaks down the increased costs of everything from the price of hot dogs and beer to streaming services fracturing their game broadcast into multiple apps.

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Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi featuring Jackie Brodean and LaVerne Buchannon, talking about candidates, elections and plans for the future with special guest appearances by Miss Jackie Hunt and Alder Carmella Glenn!  In the second half, author and more Larry J. L. Buckley joins us to talk about his story, digging deeper as a community, and his upcoming book, “They All Must Die” available Friday on electronic platforms!

Just a sampling Meeka Glass and coverage of the Office of the Independent Police Monitor on WORT, yesterday on the 8:00 Buzz: https://www.wortfm.org/madison-independent-police-monitor-speaks-out/ and on the Tuesday Buzz way back in July https://www.wortfm.org/oh-no-checks-and-balances/

Catch up with Jackie and celebrate her getting the inaugural James Hawk award for courage, resilience and commitment from happy hour to late night (6-midnight) for Old School Fridays at Juicy Organics on the Capitol Square downtown: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19S1uvb4W1/ 

Keep up Larry J. L. Buckley on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61567688903693 and get his book at all the major online sellers.

Get out for some R&B:

Catch jazz all week and coming up next weekend at Cafe Coda, renowned jazz from around the nation at the annual Coda Fest!

Listen in Madison at 89.9FM or online anywhere at wortfm.org.  Support your community radio with a donation online at wortfm.org!

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The late David Lynch, who died in 2025, is best known for his macabre, unsettling films.  But Lynch also worked in a variety of other art forms, including sculpture, painting and photography.  It’s those photographs, mostly of female nudes, originally published by Madison’s Tandem Press that has intrigued sculptor Christina West.  From September 17 through October 30, Tandem Press will present an exhibit featuring both Lynch’s and West’s work, called, appropriately enough: In Tandem.  Artist Christina West and University of Wisconsin Tandem Press Director Katie Geha joined the Monday Buzz on September 14, 2026.

Featured image: Christina West sculptures featured in the “In Tandem” exhibit. (Photo by Christina West)

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In 1949, University of Wisconsin ecologist, professor and naturalist Aldo Leopold published A Sand County Almanac, a meditation on seasonal changes at his Baraboo farm.  The work became an influential classic of naturalist literature, and articulated Leopold’s philosophy of the Land Ethic. In one chapter of A Sand County Almanac, Leopold offers a “marshland elegy” meditating on declining Whooping Crane populations and rueing the loss of wetlands across Wisconsin.  Puppeteer and musician Julia Blair found Leopold’s elegy so moving, that she created “The Lonely Marsh,” an interactive theatrical work designed to bring Leopold’s conservation message to children.  Julia Blair joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on September 14, 2026.

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On November 5, 2025, the Madison Police Civilian Oversight Board announced that they had hired Aeriamique Glass as the city’s Independent Police Monitor.  For the first seven months, Glass’s tenure was relatively quiet.  That all changed starting in June of 2026, when Glass released a report on Richard L. Johnson, who had died in police custody.  The report contradicted findings of the Dane County Medical Examiner and the Department of Criminal Investigation and found that Johnson had died as a result of the force used when police restrained him.  Then on July 22, Madison Police Officer Kiel Battinger-Pederson shot Corey Ruiz three times in the head, killing Ruiz on the spot.  Mass protests and an occupation of the Baldwin and Williamson Street Intersection ensued.  While officers were forcibly removing protestors on August 4, Aeriamique Glass was injured when she was grabbed by an officer at the scene.  Legal actions continue to swirl regarding that particular incident. Meanwhile, the Madison Common Council voted to deny emergency funding to the Office of the Independent Police Monitor related to their ongoing investigation of Ruiz’s death.  With all that going on, what’s next for the Independent Monitor and how will that office work going forward?  Madison Independent Police Monitor Aeriamique Glass joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on September 14, 2026.

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