Everything You Ever Wanted to Know...

...about Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? can be found right here! Want the real dirt on Michael? How he got his start? Want to know more about the crew? Check out our Bios section.

...about previous shows and guests. You can listen in to an archive of past shows using the timings listed beneath each section of audio to find your favorite segment. If you want to search for a particular part of the show but aren't sure of the date, check out our Features section. We've broken them down into Interviews, Thanks for the Memos, Town of the Week, etc.

...about Whad'Ya Know? frequently asked questions.

...about where you can tune in to Whad'Ya Know? in your area? Well, why not wander over to our Show Directory.

...about where you can see the show live. Here's your chance for 15 minutes of fame. Find out how you can be part of the Whad'Ya Know? studio audience. First check the schedule for shows in Madison and for shows on the Road, then find out how you can order tickets.

You say the date for the show below is more than a week old? Refresh that Cache! For Windows browsers press Control-F5.

Whad'Ya Know? For February 18, 2012

Listen in to the entire two-hour broadcast. Read the timings below to find your favorite segment. Or, you can listen to a specific half-hour of the show: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Problem listening to Real Audio? Get Help!

Hour 1

:00 - A live show from Monona Terrace in Madison with the man who is glad to see Jim back in the announcer's chair...by golly.

:01 - All The News That Isn't
-Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey vetoes same sex marriage despite being two same sex men.
-Either need to let everybody do it or abolish marriage altogether. I'm leaning towards the latter.
-On the upside, you can try to get a gay to marry you in 8 states now.
-Newt Gingrich appears on milk cartons.
-Callista's Facebook status changes.
-Apple raises pay of Chinese workers to 2 pot stickers and a steamed chicken foot.
-iPads are being seized by the Chinese who play table tennis with them.
-50 years ago today John Glenn made one 6th grader dream of being the first bar mitzvah boy in orbit.
-Congress extends unemployment benefits to presidential candidates.
-In Michigan, Romney counter-intuitively trashes autos in Detroit and tulips in Holland.
-The Republican Contest--or, And Then There Were None.
-You know they're not constitutionally required to field a candidate. N/A will do.
-As it stands right now, President Obama gets 99% of the Muslim vote.
-The president has reached new heights of low popularity. Slightly ahead of Nixon in 1974.
-Factory output jumps .7%. Jumps? Can you jump .7%? More of a shudder. Twitch, maybe.
-Study concludes the US needs to manufacture more things we can't afford to buy.
-Homebuilder confidence is up--good because you don't want a tentative guy up on the roof there.
-On the upside, Whitney Houston gets a huge career bounce. And Bobby Brown doesn't.
-Chris Christie lowers the flags for Whitney, but would he have let her marry Beyonce? Forget about it.
-Woman with a "cute figure" says TSA takes a picture so it will last longer.
-Got the new full body scanner at the airport here and it's very slimming.
-Bishops say only acceptable contraception 3 Hail Mary's and an Our Father.
-A lot of Norwegians use lefse.
-Among Jewish people the wife is considered a contraceptive.
-After excavating everything north of Highway 29, the Wisconsin senate turns to draining the wetlands. Should have the state uninhabitable for man nor beast by the end of the governor's first term. In Waupun.
-At the rate for the 212 jobs the governor acquired @ $250,000 each, his promised goal of 250,000 jobs will cost the State of Wisconsin $6, 250,000,000. And worth every penny of it.
-FDA calls erections lasting more than four hours on fake Levitra coincidence.
-Jeremy Lin just about makes up for Yao Ming.
-Iran having trouble with a foreign policy that doesn't explode.
-Thanks to Iran the Axis of Evil is now the Shaft of Evil.
-Bain Capital wants its share of GM's 7.6 billion or will see to it Chevys are made in Addis Ababa.
-Joseph Kennedy III relaunches the brand.
-Moody's increasingly so.
-Julian Assange harasses Marge, Wikileaks Homer on The Simpsons.
-Undies bomber gets life in prison laundry.
-Snickers downsized to Snick.
-Man's daughter returns laptop fire, shoots dad's porno.
-Rupert yells bloody Murdoch.
-Santorum's mother used aspirin for birth control, and
-You just knew TCU was high in that Rose Bowl--we're looking at a forfeit here . . .
. . . That's All the News That Isn't . . .

:06 - Guest interview with UW Madison Physicist Wesley Smith who is working on God Particles.....or you could call them anything that has mass...custard particle or falafel particle. They really got the name from being gosh-darn hard to find.

:28 - John and Jeff play, "Look For the Silver Lining."

:35 - Katie Perry is the Riesling wine of the music/wine world, and why do cats want to leave the room you just let them in? Michael is trying to field these topics in the audience....and never, never has there been talk about the Serengeti Plain like this.

:38 - Four trumpets from the Wisconsin Marching Band have stopped by today to play On Wisconsin....because that's how they roll.

:40 - Four Disclaimers and the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz with Becca who works on Wisconsin's Flag Ship. and Mike. WOW. These folk win the Motherlode and WOW is it a treasure trove of fantastic prizes.

Hour 2

:00 - Back for the second hour of the live Whad'Ya Know? show where it's going stacking up to be a battle between the marching band trumpets and the marching band trombones.

:03 - Thanks for the Memos. But first, here is Michael's old classmate from back in the day in MKE, he found Mike's picture in the year book. Here's that Memo: Dear Sales Reps...here is the procedure for backing up your flash drive expense reports.

:14 - Town of the Week - Batesville, Arkansas.

:25 - If you've got a party or event, and John and Jeff would be the perfect musical touch, drop us an email and enjoy some music just like this.

:31 - Does Michael always walk through a room unnoticed? So does Darrell. Nobody notices, even when Michael uses the freight elevator. Michael got audience-member Mike a date. No, not this lady with him today. Now, let's get on with the milking a goat, a cow, a llama.....since this is Wisconsin.

:43 - Whad'Ya Know? Quiz with Tony and Jeff and some bile that Jeff isn't going to jump in to .

:59 - And the dart lands on.....the boxing glove. Upon second attempt it lands on Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. Next week, we're off to the UP for our Town of the Week!

Did you miss a recent show? Find the date below and you can read the rundown for that week and/or listen to the show.

Did you miss one of the previous year's shows? Check the year below and you can read the rundowns for or listen to shows that year.

2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999