You're listening to Civic Media.
You can tune into any of our live shows on any radio station across the state with the Civic Media app.
Find us in your phone's app store and listen anytime, anywhere.
Everything's trendy.
morning.
I think that's a well just knowing Shraba.
Yeah, he's not a big superhero movie guy So if he's kind of mixed on that's that's actually a plus now Are you going to see it today today?
We're going to see it at about four four thirty or so.
Oh, okay Yeah, I can't wait to see it.
I mean there's a lot of talk about it now Right and we'll see
for Warner Brothers.
Is it?
Yeah, this is a complete changeover.
They've done away with the old DC universe.
It was...
It was horrible.
It was a disaster.
The flash movie was so bad and they started off right at the beginning with a really horrific scene of babies falling out of a building.
What?
Oh my god.
Are you kidding me?
Well, it's not so much just the babies falling out of a building.
It's the CGI that was just so bad.
I just wanted
It was the most
Yeah, and he did that.
And then he went over to Warner Brothers to take it over and revamp the DC universe.
And this is his first movie.
This is the first revamp of...
all of the superheroes from DC.
Let's hope that it works out this time.
You know, they had such a horrible, horrible premise for all of the superhero movies.
I mean, there was Wonder Woman and Batman, although Batman was really done well by all of the people that wanted to do it.
But here's the thing, every one of those superheroes focused on being a hero.
You know, their thing was, I'm a hero, you know, and it was just really...
ridiculous and stupid and dumb and people they're supposed to be reluctant heroes people who wanted to help people didn't care about the limelight but in DC they they did man they really took this thing being a hero seriously well you could be a hero too you know it really sucked so James Gunn is gone in there he's he's a funny guy he likes to add humor to it he likes all of the the humanistic
part of all of this.
So we'll see how he has added humanity to Superman.
And he's being, you know, it's already being accused of being too woke.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, no kidding.
I guess there's this idea that Superman is an immigrant from another planet.
Really?
So that is the, that's the hang up now.
Well, he's an orphan.
Okay.
And he's an immigrant.
to stop
They want to clear it out of all the immigrants, people of even dark, you know, just brown, anything.
They want them out of here.
And they're turning this country into a white nation.
This is white nationalism.
This is what
This is, by the way, something they've wanted to do for a long, long time.
It's a white nationalist agenda.
It's a white nationalist Christian agenda.
So this is what they have wanted to do for years and years, and they are going to get away with it.
I mean, we've got three and a half years of them clearing house.
This is what's going to happen.
OK, well, on that happy.
All right,
rather?
Would you rather?
Would you rather do what's, what is worse with, which,
wait, we got Mark up there.
Oh, oh, okay, yep.
Maybe we should go to Mark.
Let's go to
Alright, Mark's got something to say.
Change the
Good morning, guys.
I saw the Superman movie, as I think I mentioned, and I loved it.
It's a great movie.
then the whole immigrant thing, I saw that as true there.
And the whole, you just talked about the whole making this a white nation.
As I'm reading Ruth Ben-Gayats book, Strongman, I mean, that's what the Nazis wanted to do.
They wanted to purify, you know, make it a white, you know, white German nation as opposed to, you know, just, you know, the purify the nation, you know, to purify the blood.
And that is, you know,
Donald Trump was talking about poisoning the blood and all that.
That reading that book is, is even though it's, um, it came out before, you know, that before the 2024 election, that I don't think she anticipated Donald Trump coming back into office.
Maybe it is terrifying for seeing how because he's got a whole clue of syncopants that are going along with this bull.
Yes.
So what's, what's amazing is there's non white people in his administration.
I mean, that, uh, look at, uh,
Cash Patel.
These people are able to sign along with this kind of thing.
It's
It's crazy and considering the Ronald Reagan speech, I don't know if you guys played that one, but he talked about those, more or less admiring his, you know, Leigh Liberty's saying, bring me your tire, your pour, she's lifting the light.
yeah.
Just the opposite
Reagan for all his faults, he was right on that
I mean for these guys we have to oppose this nonsense they're coming up with all the time because you see these ICE agents now and say you got to ask them how they how do they feel working for a for a fascist
right yeah it was just you had to confront them each and every day we had to confront this all you want I mean for God's sakes we all knew Superman was an immigrant you find a baby out in the field there and you know that
You know that if somebody, if you found a baby out in the field in a space capsule like this, the military, and they're wanting him, wanting to do all the military experiments
see in all these science fiction films, and they protected this, they printed this paper, brought it up as their own, and adopted him as it, but I mean that the anti-immigrant attitude that's out there today, these people have been here, you know, Maggie Dahl was trying to get, you know, engaged last night, trying to say,
What about a person who's been here, you know, five, 10, 15, 20, 25 years, you know, that enter this country illegally, paid their taxes, been completely legal, you know, committed no, no major serious crimes.
I mean, they got a traffic ticket or something like that, but you wanted to send them all back.
I mean, and they refused to answer the question because they just want to purify
That's what they want to purify the country.
And we know that in the American party.
Uh, Elon's party that he wants to start.
That's, that's purely white, white power.
That is pure white power.
You know, the guy is from South Africa, apartheid.
He wants to turn this country in an apartheid type country, and that is what he's working on.
That's why he thinks he can, you know, pluck a lot of people from the mega party and start an American party.
And the tragedy is, is that if you read any of the history from the early colonial days at all,
we would not have made, you know, the white men wouldn't have made it in this country if the Indians hadn't assisted them,
taught them the ways to live in the land in this country.
And they're not white.
I mean,
beyond me that we're accepting this nonsense that Trump is spewing right now, and we have to, you know, fight it peaceably in any means necessary, but it has to be a act of resistance, not passive resistance, because
They need to be confronted.
They need to be confronted.
Thanks, guys.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Mark, thank you.
Very good points there.
It's a scary time for all of us, and we have to keep that in mind.
I don't think we're emphasizing the white part of this enough, because this is really what is happening in the US right now.
Well, look, we're going to have a special feature trending.
But I think we're going to have to
You're listening to Civic Media.
Stay up to date on the latest news and information for your local community and Wisconsin by signing up for our free email newsletter.
Visit civicmedia.us slash email to get started.
Okay, never mind next question That's true actually All right third and final question.
Would you rather have skin that changes color based on your emotions?
Or tattoos appear all over your body depicting what you did yesterday
So whatever you did yesterday, that tattoo would be on you for today.
Geez.
Or would you ever
You know, I always look at, I look at this feature as a way to take a deeper look into our psyche.
You know, the psyche of John and Gordy, and of course, Dom.
So what is it all about?
What are these guys all about?
And this is one way of figuring it out now.
Yeah, it's a it's an ugly terrible picture We probably should just continue well
the history
You know what we're talking about?
Spork, right?
That's a spoon.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
Just making sure.
A lot of people, you know, get the plastic stuff for picnics.
Sure.
But I wanted to be in the home now.
I'm damn awful tired of dealing with flat forks.
Who made flat forks in the first place?
They could have cupped it just a little bit, right?
I mean, everything rolls off a fork.
No one likes forks.
So you think
is this you know who made up the at least make the fork a little bit wider perhaps but no you know it has to be rethought they have to redo the forks and I'm thinking cup it a little bit keep the fork but cup it
or get a damn spork and I
ordered a
whole bunch of sporks online at Amazon because you can find a whole lot of weird things there I suppose Etsy too but I tried Amazon I ordered two different kinds one is a narrow spork the other one is a wider spoon like yeah no one cares right okay did you ever have a problem with the flat fork everything falling off those damn things
I mean, don't you have other things to do in your life?
Right?
Yeah.
But at the same time, when you're eating and you've made the food for yourself and you're sitting there at the table, it's the only thing you're doing.
And the only thing you're doing at that point is trying to keep the food out of the damn floor.
And I thought, I am done with this struggle.
OK,
too small.
It's too
It's too small.
My hands are
big for
You can ask me what's trending What's trending You can ask me what's trending
It's going to feel humid right now mid 60s.
This portion of the show brought to you by Verlo mattress.
You can wake up and sleep better on a Verlo mattress and the sale continues.
The 4th of July sale is continuing throughout the month.
Unbelievable discounts on adjustable bed frames and bases.
at up to 30 to 50% off.
Check them out.
The next level luxury with the V9 adjustable base.
You can save $200 on that purchase.
and other accessories are still on sale.
You can buy one and get one free in some cases.
Check them out.
Virlo.com or go to their east side location or west side location.
It's
Let's
So what we should do guys is you take a spork or a fork with a Dome shape to it like you mentioned and then you just add a knife to the other end of it And then you just need the one utensil done and done
Now, I would call this spitball in it, right?
And we're workshopping.
We're running around the table.
See who salutes.
We've got to put this on the website now.
Yeah.
Exactly.
We're going to solve this problem and or at least bring attention to it.
Yeah.
You know, maybe the megas could talk to Trump about this and maybe we can get on something as important as this because this is a very special.
Let it die down edition of the John
We'll keep bringing it up as well.
But again, it's a let it die down edition.
Good luck with that.
All right, we have a hot and bubbling story, you know.
This is a big story.
This happened, I believe, yesterday late in the evening.
The, well, this is Lawrence O'Donnell with this late breaking news here.
So let's play it.
Okay.
But I thought you had that ready.
I just, I just send it out to you.
Oh yes.
74.
Yeah.
74.
Okay.
Here we go.
Breaking news.
The Republican controlled house rules committee has just voted to block the release.
of the Epstein files.
Joining us now
member of Congress who forced that vote,
of California.
Congressman Kahn, give us the latest situation with the House Rules Committee.
Well, it's very disappointing.
I had a very simple amendment that the full Epstein files should be released.
It went for a vote to the House Rules Committee.
Jim McGovern, who is the ranking member for House Democrats, made sure that all four Democrats voted for the release.
Ralph Norman, a Republican, actually joined with the Democrats, saying that there should be a vote on the full release.
Chip Roy didn't show up for the vote, but seven other Republicans
Republicans blocked it.
So as of now, there is going to be no vote tomorrow, up or down vote on whether the obscene files should be released.
And this was the
first stage of your attempt to get a full vote by the House of Representatives, to see a full recorded vote.
Everyone could see how their member of Congress voted on this
issue.
And that's what was blocked by the Rules Committee, not allowing you to get to that stage on the floor.
Why would it be important to have that recorded vote on the floor?
Well, in a very simple way, we should see whose side are you on.
That's really what this Epstein file issue has become.
It's not just about knowing who's being protected, the rich and the powerful in terms of who had an interaction with Jeffrey Epstein.
It's the sense that people have that the government is too beholden to certain interests who have their thumb on the scale and that they're not working for ordinary people.
And what the Democrats are saying is we want to make sure that we get full justice here, that we get full transparency.
And this may have been the first attempt that was blocked, but I'll tell you, it's not going to be the last attempt.
We already have Representative Vici, who has a resolution.
Leader Jeffries is saying that we're going to push
for transparency here, and we can keep introducing these kind of amendments every week, every month, to force the Republicans to demand the release.
And this is something that many Republicans believe should happen, as was evidenced by Ralph Norman's vote.
Elon Musk commentary on this situation continues.
Elon Musk posted this after Donald Trump's long Jeffrey Epstein social media postings.
Elon Musk said, seriously, he said Epstein half a dozen times while telling everyone to stop talking about Epstein, just release the files as
She is just outrageous.
Seriously.
Oh my gosh.
Anyway, yes, it's not going to die down.
We're going to keep beating this horse.
And because we were led to believe that they were going to release this information.
They wanted it released.
Trump was
asked about it very early on in an interview, and he kind of said, yes, yes, release it.
Well, maybe we should, you know, at least take a look at it and, you know, take out some of the names of some of the people that might be affected.
Yeah, well, while he was
The Maccas want it, their voters want it, and we'll see what happens.
Although, you know, the Republicans really don't give a damn about what their voters want.
My God, what are we saying?
All right.
Anyway, let's move on to something horrific, actually.
I hate to bring everybody down with this.
But it's about Gaza.
And Pierce Morgan and Mehdi Hassan also had commentary on this.
So I just want to play something about the massacres that are going on in Gaza over people just trying to get food.
I really can't even get over this at all.
I mean, they're actually...
The Israeli army is actually firing on doctors.
They're holding doctors in prison in regards to trying to help people who are injured in Gaza.
This is just, I've never seen anything like this.
We haven't really focused too much attention on this, but I just thought I'd play this cut here and I believe this is Medea San, his commentary, cut 32.
Let's go with that.
I actually don't give a s*** about you.
Oh, control yourself, John.
And you've come back and done exactly what they wanted to do.
You've done their propaganda for them.
Journalists have not been allowed freely into government.
That's why every major media organization on planet Earth has said to the Israeli government, you must allow journalists in.
The Palestinian journalists who are there have been killed in record numbers.
course, peers, you're right.
They want to hide what they're doing.
That's why they're killing the journalists there and blocking the journalists from coming in.
This idea...
that he's been on the ground.
Yeah, I did interview a doctor, a British plastic surgeon, Dr. Tom Patoka.
And by the way, he wasn't in the European hospital because the hospital got bombed by Israel.
So he was in another hospital.
And he talked to me about how he has to treat patients who have maggots in their wounds.
He has to treat patients without limbs.
He has to treat children.
I've interviewed multiple doctors on the ground in Gaza, actually in Gaza, not hanging around with Israeli military.
And they've all said the same thing, American doctors.
British doctors, Canadian doctors.
They've all talked about how many kids they saw with sniper bullets to the head and chest.
Israel does intentionally kill civilians.
That's why Benjamin Netanyahu and Yov Galant were indicted at the International Criminal Court for precisely those charges for killing, willful killing of Palestinians for murder and persecution.
That's why they've been indicted.
That's why every human rights group in the world says war crimes are being committed.
They've killed people holding white flags.
We've seen it on.
with our own eyes.
They've bombed buildings without warning with families inside, like the Aldos family that I often cite in October 2023.
They've dropped 2,000 pound bombs on refugee camps full of hundreds of people.
They have killed seven aid workers in a clearly marked World Central Kitchen Aid convoy.
They've bombed World Food Program convoy, leading to Cindy McCain, the wife of the most pro-Israeli senator of my lifetime, to come out and condemn Israel for attacking aid workers.
One wants you to ignore Cindy McCain and British and American doctors and human rights groups and your own lying eyes watching people with white flags being gunned down.
He wants you to believe him and his Israeli military minders.
The war on terror was a complete failure.
And some of us who saw that, and by the way Joe Biden even said this in one of his more coherent moments, he said Israel should learn from our lessons.
Israel did not learn from the US lessons.
And actually, even if you forget about all the innocent Palestinians they killed, even if you don't give a shit about the people of Gaza.
Even if you only care about the people of Israel, Israel is not any safer today.
Israel is not winning this war.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
Well, you know, Medi is an amazing order.
I just, you know what?
He filled in for people on MSNBC.
I know.
I mean, he just took the program over.
He was so, so good and for letting him go is just unforgivable at this point.
But anyway, Medi is on top of this.
And I want you to hear a more recent.
Only minute, one minute.
Oh, no, okay.
Well, we'll play this after the break.
This is a more updated version of what's happening in Gaza about being killed over just trying to get food.
You know, they put the military zones in between the people and the food.
And you can't get past it.
They have times that you can get through and times when you can't
and it just continues.
And it's way in the background.
You have all of our own headlines going on here and it just continues and nothing's being done.
But we'll get to that track in just a moment.
We will continue with more of John and Gordy in the morning on this Tuesday.
Stay with us.
You're listening to Civic Media.
Find the latest news, information, and archives of all your favorite shows on the Civic Media website,
We should get a fax
And you can call us too, 608-879-8255.
This portion of the show being brought to you by Madison Hearing Aid Center at 4706 Cottage Grove Road in Madison.
They have fast and flexible appointments.
If you're having trouble hearing, these are the people that you want to see, Jim and Sarah, at MadisonHearingAidCenter.com.
are helping people change their lives.
Their number one goal isn't just selling hearing aids.
It's improving the quality of life through better hearing.
They've helped John out.
They've helped me out.
They can help you out too.
Give them a call.
608-249-4077.
That's 608-249-4077.
Or go to their excellent website, MadisonHearingAidCenter.com.
You can take a hearing test right there to get you started.
That's Madison Hearing Aid Center.
There
Really help out in restaurants, too.
If you're having trouble hearing the person that's right across from you in a busy restaurant, a noisy restaurant, you can dial it right in.
That's right.
To their voice.
It's amazing.
And it scares them.
It doesn't scare anybody.
What are you talking about?
Well, it's so lethal.
It doesn't matter with you.
All right.
All right.
Well, let's get serious again.
You know, we're talking about what's happening in Gaza here.
And we have a more current report on what's happening.
This isn't the most current, but it is what's happening there.
And let's listen to cut 36.
410 Palestinians have been killed and thousands have been injured trying to get food.
Since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation took over aid distribution at the end of May.
That's a US and Israeli-backed organisation that's taken the place of international agencies like the UN who say they've been sidelined.
It is running just four large distribution centres compared to hundreds previously supported by charities.
So Palestinians are having to travel a long way to get food.
sometimes through combat zones, and there isn't always enough to go round.
So we've seen scenes of chaos and tension, large crowds and soldiers or security guards opening fire.
The situation's been described as desperate and Israel stands accused of weaponizing food as part of its war against Hamas.
That would be a breach of
international law.
What they've been doing in the last few months, the three month blockade, starving.
already impoverished war-torn, innocent civilians in the main, women, children, and then as they queue up desperate for the small amounts of food coming in.
opening fire and being so disingenuous about, well, there are question marks over all of these.
Well, let me answer the question marks.
Here's how we can do it.
You said it about Iran earlier.
But what about the fact that Israel continues to refuse to allow international jobs, including the BBC, into Gaza?
There's only one reason they don't want journalists in Gaza.
They don't want them to see what is actually going on.
If there's nothing to hide, let the journalists in.
And as we said to the ambassador, to the Israeli president, there are more than 10 occasions.
where there has been shootings around those food queues, which I think the vast majority of people looking at would think that's an incredibly shocking situation.
And that's Pierce Morgan, his opinion on that as well.
So it's really horrific.
Disaster.
I saw a video and it was a teenager that was just skin and bones who passed away.
And it's just got awful.
So sad.
My God.
All right, well anyway How do you come out of that one?
I don't know but Yeah, you know we haven't really we haven't we haven't covered this story Because it just it keeps evolving and I want to be fair with our coverage on it But at this point it's pretty obvious what's taking place and that's why we're talking about it now
on
I think, you know, summing it up as using food as a weapon is pretty much it.
All right, we got two minutes left.
Yeah, all right.
Let me month mention that this portion were fired, right?
That's all, that's the end of it.
Yeah, you guys are done.
I missed the memo.
I know we're watching some unbelievable video right now.
Subway surfers.
Subway surfers are arrested in New York City.
They're on top of the subway just cruisin' along.
And they have a video of this.
There's three or four kids.
I remember when Spider-Man did that, but that was okay.
That's not a good idea.
Somebody's gonna get hurt.
Okay.
This portion of the show brought to you by our friends at Verlo Mattress.
The accessory sale, the 4th of July sales event is continuing there.
Now's the time to pick up some great deals on accessories and elevate your sleep experience with Verlo Mattress with their adjustable bed frames, their adjustable bases are still on sale for the rest of this month.
You can get unbelievable discounts of 30 to 50% off and you can experience the next level of luxury with the B9 Adjustment.
bed
Check them out today.
Verlo mattress, they have two locations in Madison, east side and west side.
Go to Verlo.com for more information.
Coming up in our next hour, we're going to be talking with Matt Trammell about the Maxwell Street days coming up.
All right.
Downtown Madison.
And
The national news cycle never stops, but it can be hard to find news about your local community.
Civic Media is dedicated to providing quality local and state news coverage across Wisconsin.
With the Civic Media app, you can get notifications about local stories that matter to you and your community.
Find the free Civic Media app in your phone's app store and choose notifications from the menu to tell us what kind of news you want to hear about.
