WEBVTT - I Like My Lambs Noisy 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:17.680 and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.120 Listen is that President Trump is going to become the 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.480 first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.240 Every time the cuts to tell us swich he's gonna 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.840 lean in? Like, also, I'm here too, Hi, Mama Kelsey, Hi, 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.320 I just saw Travis Kelsey asked, doing those media appearances 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.120 all week long would be hard to do while you're 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.440 preparing for the biggest moment of your life all week long. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.680 But Travis Kelcey was just asked, do you know what 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:57.080 Taylor's gonna wear to the game? Yeah? Did he punch them? 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.960 Why didn't he punch them? He laughed, and he laughed, 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.160 and he said, I'm sure she's gonna wear red. There 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.520 you go, that's a charmac. Yeah. Man. 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.680 So who could forget this charming young woman? Catherine Mayer, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.760 she was the This was just before she became the 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.760 CEO of NPR for. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:25.120 Our most tricky disagreements. Seeking the truth and seeking to 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:29.120 convince others of the truth might not be the right 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.800 place to start in fact, our reverence for the truth 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.400 might be a distraction that's getting in the way of 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.480 fine and common ground and getting things done. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:46.440 That is so insane as somebody who is allegedly a journalist. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.800 She is not a journalist. She is an activist and 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.160 a propagandist. And she is with her blonde hair and 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.400 her straight white teeth and her lovely shape and her 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.280 soothing voice, trying to explain this hole seeking the truth thing. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.840 That's an interference with our goal, even outside of journalism. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.120 And tell me a realm of life where you like that, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.440 any any any anything where you like the the truth 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.240 is getting in the way. When when is that ever 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:15.560 a thing? Oh? 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:20.040 Yeah, when does that ever not turn rancid and and 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:25.120 and and infected in a relationship. I'll just keep these secrets. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.840 He's better off not knowing. Yeah, nice attitude. Play that 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.560 one more time, Michael. It's so incredible. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:36.880 For our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.760 to convince others of the truth might not be the 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:45.320 right place to start. In fact, our reverence for the 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.840 truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.400 of finding common ground and getting things done. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.680 That's like, Wow, dangerous lenin Stalin sort of crap right there. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.640 I mean just gonna say Hermann Gerring is in hell saying, Wow, 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:02.440 she's got it down? 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:07.919 Is she still in charge NPR? I believe she is? Wow? Yeah. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.800 So anyway, do you remember their name? Uri Berliner? 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.520 He was the guy who it was like ten months 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.240 ago he wrote an essay for The Free Press in 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.320 which he explained why he was resigning from NPR, where 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.040 he'd worked for twenty five years, and he said much 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.560 more in sorrow than anger, having they lost the trust 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:34.880 of a large segment of the country. Once curious, open minded, rigorous, 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.640 if liberal leaning, public radio news had evolved into a 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.000 doctrinaire source of what I called one story after another 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.880 about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.320 Israel doing something bad, in the dire threat of Republican policies. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.280 In twenty twenty alone, we dismissed the very possibility of 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.240 a COVID lab league in China, and our then managing 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.280 editor refused even to cover Hunter Biden's laptop, call it 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.560 not really a story, and he reminds us of some 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.600 of the things he said. But now the crisis is 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.240 in at hand. Republicans control Congress in the White House, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.600 and they seem serious about what had previously been ritualistic 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:19.679 GOP threats to cut public media. And indeed, Catherine Mayer, 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:25.280 the delightful woman we just heard from who called Berliners 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.800 free press essay disrespectful, hurtful and demeaning, Oh my god, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.560 has been called before the House Subcommittee on Delivery on 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:37.560 Government Efficiency, that's the doge fellas as soon as early March. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.360 So do you have the numbers? I saw some numbers 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.560 footing around the other day. That's about a half a 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.320 billion dollars five hundred million dollars. It gets spread around 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.120 NPR and PBS outlets around the country. So it's not 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:49.480 going to happen to have that, and it's not a 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.839 ton of money, but you know, it's a half billion 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.919 dollars more that's being spread around to stations were on 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.520 of taxpayer money to not to have as many commercials 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.400 or higher better reporters or whatever you want to do 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:01.680 with it. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.200 And if you have state sponsored propaganda media for the 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:13.159 domestic audience, the sides of the budget isn't the issue. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.640 It's just it's very existence that is going to be 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:16.920 absolutely terrible. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.960 I personally, I know though a number of very smart 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.039 people who you cannot convince them that NPR is not 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.800 didn't know they're straight down the middle, didn't They have 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.599 no reason to be biased because they don't have to 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.760 take advertisers. I know, and I've actually said to people 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.200 before seriously, and because I don't want to get into 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.160 a fight with people that I'm friends with, but sit 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.480 down anytime for a half an hour, let's listen together. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:47.960 I'll point out all the places where it's just insanely biased. Yeah. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.080 Well, you know, as I've said a million times, I'm 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.640 thinking of getting it tattooed on my forehead. Intelligence and 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.599 wisdom are two completely different things and practically unrelated. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:56.720 And if you just. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.680 Never get a perspective, you might be both intelligent and wise, 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.520 but not realize because you hadn't seen the other side 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.640 of it. And I think a lot of people haven't. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.560 But anyway, Uri Berliner, the point of his piece today 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:14.200 is he suggests a series of questions to ask the 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.840 head of NPR, both Ms Mayer, who would have been 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:23.960 an absolutely outstanding Nazi propagandas gandist, and Paul Berger, CEO 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:29.599 of PBS. Can you provide examples of NPR coverage that 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:35.359 criticized or questioned progressive narratives on crime, immigration, youth, gender, medicine, 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:40.080 or climate change. Ms Mayor you said, regarding your previous 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.640 role as the CEO of the Wikipedia Foundation Wikimedia Foundation, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.960 that our reverence for the truth might be a distraction 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.400 that quote we just heard. What exactly did you mean? 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.560 Do you still believe it? And if so, how is 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.320 such a view compatible with leadership of a news organization. 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.920 Another question, The immediate past CEO of NPR, the late 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.200 John Lansing, declared that diversity, equity, and inclusion is the 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.320 north star of our organization? 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:05.480 Is it still? 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.599 If not, why and if so, please explain how DEI 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:14.520 influences NPR's hiring, training, and coverage. Love this, especially because 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.960 all that's illegal. In twenty twenty one, his next question goes, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:23.800 I found eighty seven registered Democrats among NPR editorial staff 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.040 residing in DC, where the network is headquartered. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:27.040 Eighty seven. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.440 There were zero Republicans, along with forty four registered with 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.880 no party. Is NPR doing anything to address this seeming 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.800 lack of diversity of viewpoints, such as hiring journalists from 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.720 conservative media recruiting military veterans or seeking candidates who attended 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.640 religious colleges and state universities. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.200 Here's a question I'd go with, do you realize that 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.280 latenax is stupid and that Hispanic people don't like it? 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.400 And it's only over educated white women that ever even 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.240 came up with this stupid term and keep using it, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.440 But you use it all the time on PBS and NPR. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.640 In fact, are you aware that LATINX people hate LATINX 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.200 more than anybody else? 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.200 It's stupid? Are you aware of that? That'd be my 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.800 question be a good question. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.800 Do you have regrets about how NPR dealt with the 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.840 Hunter Biden laptop story, the Lablaku theory, or more recently, 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.920 President Joe Biden's apparent cognitive decline while in the White House. 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:21.800 Love these questions. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.120 NPR says it gets one percent of its annual operating 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.920 budget directly from federal funding. A larger portion, though reportedly 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.040 around ten percent, flows indirectly to NPR through member stations 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.560 that acquire NPR programming with support from the Corporation for 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.439 Public Broadcasting. Would you be open to a new financing 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:45.280 structure that lets local member stations keep more money. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:50.760 In which case you would what probably end up with 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.960 super left leaning NPR versions in San Francisco, which you 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:58.480 already have, but maybe more moderate or right leaning NPR 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:03.280 stations in you know, Oklahoma City, May I don't know. 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:05.400 Yeah, his next question is kind of hint at that 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.839 very thing. It could happen, I. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.200 Mean, because well, how would we feel about that. I'd 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.000 never thought about this before, but I think that'd be 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:18.160 fine for public radio if it more or less reflected 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.240 that city area's beliefs and things. If you're gonna have 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.160 bias at all, as opposed to the way it currently is, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:30.320 it's like insanely biased every every example in the country. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.600 Well, and this is the problem with right yeah, obviously. Uh, 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.400 this is the problem with government media in general. Is 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.520 once you step onto that that twisty, slippery road, you're 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.800 gonna find yourself in really uncomfortable places without good answers. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.480 I mean, for instance, I could absolutely make the case 0:09:51.000 --> 0:10:00.240 that NPR ought to be studiously carefully run by an 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:06.480 ideologically diverse, you know, board that makes sure every issue 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:11.360 looks at both sides in a fair way, steel mans 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.320 each other's arguments, as the saying goes, But then you 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.640 run into the problem. And actually lefties bring this up. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.080 They bring it up in ridiculous ways. But all right, 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.400 what if the question is should child molesters be allowed 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:25.400 to get child porn? 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.520 Or you know something truly horrific, that's a good one, 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.280 that's a that's a great ethical dilemma. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.600 Or or you know, like confused adolescent girls ought to 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.800 be fed sterilizing hormones and have their healthy breasts cut 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.760 off if they decide one day, under pressure from an 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.600 activist teacher, that they admire that. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:43.199 They're a boy. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.000 I don't particularly relish the idea of having somebody make 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:48.520 that case because I find it repugnant. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.320 So you just you find yourself in a place you 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:57.000 don't want to be, right, hmm, Well, what we got 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:03.679 currently is ridiculous and it's laugh out loud funny regularly. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.760 Oh yeah, their attempt to be the news. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.920 Well, and they're how every story or eight out of 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:17.480 nine is who is the victim of something somewhere on earth? 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:17.839 Right? 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:22.000 I mean, if there is a painter in Afghanistan who 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.280 no longer can get the blue paint because the US 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.200 is embargoed something or other, they will spend ten minutes 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.280 on the bitter sadness of this poor Afghan artist who 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:34.080 can't get blue paint. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.280 There was a horrifying school shooting somewhere in the world 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:41.320 the other day. Where was that Sweden someplace? And I 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.360 was listening to the NPR version where they went at 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.480 length about how we've exported this culture to the country. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.160 So we're to blame. Gun owners are in the United 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.720 States are to blame for school shootings in other countries. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.840 Let's make that clear. Because nobody has any agency. They're 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.400 all just victims of what ugly conservatives do. That's it whole. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.800 In the Palestinians who have no agency, that's victims. That's 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.040 that weird mindset that you're always talking about the oppressor 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.880 oppressed if you buy into that mindset. So whoever's got 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.800 power is the reason for all bad things happening. So 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.920 United States says power the biggest economy and biggest culture 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.240 and everything like that. So any shootings around the world, 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:18.920 it's our fault. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.000 And anybody who's a victim or has less power is 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:28.720 automatically good and virtuous and right, no matter what their 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.760 opinion is. And a lot of people listening are like, dude, 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.160 you can't oversimplify it like that. 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.480 No, that's actually the philosophy. I've said more than once. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.600 If my dog has spoused that philosophy, I would kick 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.559 him for being that dumb. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.240 And I am not a dog kicker. Oh my god, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:48.439 But you got people. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:54.160 Graduating from quote unquote, I might vomit elite universities who 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.480 spout this nonsense all day long and think they're wise 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:57.240 and educated. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.920 Man, if they're going to finally look into the funding 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.800 of NPR radio and like get to the brass tacks 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.800 on it, I would love that. I'll watch that on 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:09.040 c SPAN. More on the way. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.839 Diplomatic shock waves are reverberating across the Middle East after 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.880 President Trump unexpectedly announced plans for a US takeover of 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.880 Gaza that would include forcing Palestinians out. The idea was 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.760 quickly rejected by Jordan and Egypt, countries the President says 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:30.439 would take in displaced refugees. Saudi Arabia also denounce the proposal. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:35.080 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that the Kingdom's position 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.720 on the establishment of the Palestinian state is firm, steadfast 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.960 and unwavering, and that this firm position is not subject 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.920 to negotiation or outbidding. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:47.880 Hmm, do they feel that way behind the scenes. I 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.160 don't know. Time will tell. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.040 I speak fluent Arabic, I can translate that we have 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.160 been getting by by paying lip service to the Palestinian 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.120 people while doing nothing and letting them continue to die. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:04.520 We would like to continue that plan. So it's Oscar season. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.840 We've been talking about that trans movie that got so 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.920 many nominations. But some movies are in the news. There 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.920 is a new list out of best movies of all time. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.520 It's compiled from like a whole bunch of interesting sources 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.360 IMBD and Rotten Tomatoes and all these different things that 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.680 people vote on. There's like ten different examples. They compiled 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.200 them and gave them a score and came up with 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.120 the fifty best. That's as good as any way to 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:28.680 do it off the top of your head. What's your 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:29.720 favorite movie of all time? 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:30.760 Oh? 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:35.040 For years I've said Unforgiven Clinic Western. Would that be 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.000 different than if I ask you what's the best movie 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.520 of all time? Or would it be the same question. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.440 It's it's sure similar. And I was looking at this 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.960 list and wondering, has anybody watched Paths of Glory or 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.160 Seven Samurai who didn't take a film class in college. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.000 I mean, do people watch that? I don't even know 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.680 Paths of Glory. I think it's a young Kirk Douglas, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.920 but it's a World War One trenches movie. Truly good? Huh. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.200 But I mean it's black and white and dark, and 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.800 you know, you know, those kind of movies hard to follow. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.880 But I just wonder does anybody ever watch those movies? 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.040 They often make your list. One thing I like about 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.040 this list is Citizen Kane is not I don't even 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.840 know where Citizen Kane shows up on? Here is it on? 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:17.800 Does it make the top fifty? It's not, certainly not 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.720 in the top ten. My favorite movie of all time, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.000 I think is Apocalypse Now is at thirty four. I 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.800 almost went with Saving Private Ryan. But here's your top ten. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.880 It's lost to Shakespeare in Love for the Oscars. By 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.080 the way, never forget, here's your top ten. And this 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.280 has got a lot more to do with people watching 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:39.320 them and liking them more than critics. I guess number 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.320 ten pulp fiction, And whenever you do a list like that, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.640 you know it's going to tend toward recent. Nobody's taken there, 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.120 nobody's on the gay Hey, kids, I rented Pads of Glory. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.480 Then we're gonna watch seven Samurai tomorrow night. Now they're 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:57.880 black and white, silent film. That's right, nobody watches that stuff, 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:02.120 so there's a presentism bias. Number ten pulp fiction. Damn 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:03.960 good movie. I'll watch it just recently with my high 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.960 school kid. It's a heck of a movie. We did 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:12.120 skip a scene or two so much buggery. Yeah, exactly, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.360 I didn't really need that. Uh number nine, you know what, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:17.840 We're down to one minute, and I don't want to 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:23.480 rush through this because I think I can't wait. But seriously, 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.960 who watches those art films? Does anybody? Unless you've heard 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.160 about it so much you're curious enough go out and 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.760 watch Citizen Kane? Are you having date night anything? Unless 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.240 you got a really weird boyfriend or girlfriend, do you 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.280 do that? I just don't think they do. And this 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.480 is true of music to some extent. Too innovative isn't 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:47.200 always enjoyable. Right, broke new ground paved the way for 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.880 this style. Doesn't mean I need to see it now 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:51.160 or hear it now. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.280 Yeah, it turned into something that's a lot more enjoyable, 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.240 comfortable for most people to watch. But the early innovative stuff. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.000 Sometimes it's it's just just tough. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.080 I'm gonna ask you, Katie and Michael, also, what's your 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.000 what's your favorite movie all time? When we come back, 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:07.760 among other things, and we'll get to this list, and 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.680 we got some other stuff. I have plenty of good stuff. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.359 It's gonna be all It's gonna be a bang up 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:12.800 half hour. I'll tell you that if you missed a 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.399 second to get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.560 are Strong and Getty. We are gonna fight this fight. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.200 I am gonna stand with you in this fight, and 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:26.280 we will win. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:33.359 We win. We will win. We will win. We will win. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:40.040 We will win. We will win. We won't rest. We 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:44.679 won't rest. We won't rest. We won't rest. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.240 They are those that have said that we made face 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.040 a constitutional crisis. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:52.720 I want you to. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.440 Know that the crisis is here. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.880 We will not take this from Donald Trump and Elon. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:08.680 Mus We have got to tell Elon must nobody elected judge. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.640 So yeah, a lot of we are a war hit 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:19.120 the streets. Sounds like you're inspiring and inspiring an insurrection 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.960 to me, But I'm guessing on this one. This is 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.320 completely guessing. But I think they're on the wrong side 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:26.840 of this by a lot. I think the majority of 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.760 Americans are loving this digging into these various programs and 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.199 finding stuff that's a waste of money. It's just in 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.600 the lunch room and a guy getting coffee in there, 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.240 one of the top salespeople around here saying how many 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.600 thousands of dollars for Politico subscriptions? That story you brought 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.600 us earlier where taxpayers were buying Politico subscriptions for some 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.200 agency in DC, And I brought up the yeah, well, 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.040 that's about the same as the eight million dollars for 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.399 the trans play in Ireland or whatever. I've had a 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.880 number of people bring this up to me in real life. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.240 This cutting this just insane stuff that condoms for the 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:01.840 Tally banner whatever the hell? 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.600 Right, right, Yeah, I just I think it's desperate flailing. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.880 They don't know what to say. Oh yeah, the idea 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:11.840 that Elon Musk is evil for trying to get rid 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:13.680 of that stuff. All right, we'll see how this plays out. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.760 So I brought up the it's Oscar season. Been talking 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.679 about movies. There's this new list of the fifty greatest 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:28.000 movies of all time where they compiled a bunch of 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.480 online thingies and took their average scores, and this is 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.000 what they came up with. So I did. I just 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:39.240 noticed in Uh, I'll go with the top sixteen because 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.000 at number sixteen is the highest ranking Star Wars movie 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.760 of any kind. Well, first of this, Michael, what's your 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.040 favorite movie of all time or what do you think 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:47.240 is the best movie of all time? 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.680 Well, for me, I mean it's Araplane, the comedy movie 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.920 way back when. So I have a fond memories of 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.359 watching it with my dad. And also it taught me 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.600 you know what comedy was, I mean, you know what 0:19:58.119 --> 0:19:59.840 crazy comedy was, and that's I was. 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.199 Then you spent some time in a Turkish prison. No, 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.480 that was handy. That is a great movie if you're 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:10.200 gonna talk about like influence or people know it or 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:14.840 references or whatever. Yeah, rank way up there. Anyway, Katie, It's. 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:19.480 A toss up between two from Sawshank Redemption to Life 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:20.119 Is Beautiful. 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.320 Those are two of my all time beautiful too fine 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.199 choices both. Yeah, Shawshank Redemption ranks very high in this 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:28.840 list of what I could about to get to it 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.800 quick reveal, I've never seen that movie really, Yeah. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:37.639 Right up the Gladiator. It's it's it's every bit as 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:39.680 good as you've gotten the impression. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.960 I believe it. I just I've never been in the 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:44.639 mood for it. Every time I think of it, I 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:46.320 think I should have seen it at the time when 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:50.040 it was hot. Yeah, it's it's not a light comedy. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.800 But I'm not a Star Wars guy. So the highest 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.520 ranking Star Wars movie is Star Wars Episode five, The 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.879 Umpire Strikes Back from nineteen eighty Did you say Empire Umpire? 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.560 Just because if you said Umpire, I think you're confused 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:04.200 about the plot. 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:08.040 It's Empire. Ah, So the only Star Wars movie they 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:09.719 got in the top sixteen is that one? Why are 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.840 you shaking your head like that? Katie? Know that I 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.840 your friend and colleague, huge Star Wars fan, But would 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:18.439 you have but would you choose a different one? If 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.520 you're gonna have one of the Star Wars movies from 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.000 the whole franchise break into the top fifteen, would it 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:24.440 be that one? 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:25.760 Fine? 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.000 Okay, that's as good as they get, but a whole 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:30.200 bunch of Lord of the Rings. We just don't like wookies, 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.320 do you, Katie? And nailed that three three Lord of 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:38.679 the Rings movies make it in the top fifteen like 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:43.000 the greatest filmmaking ever made. They are extraordinary. I don't 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:45.600 dig that sort of thing at all. I just I'm 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.679 not into fantasy that sort of stuff. But the movie 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.520 making part of it is just freaking amazing. That's Peter 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:53.720 Jackson stuff. Is that right? 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:56.520 I have such a hard problem escaping from reality with 0:21:57.760 --> 0:21:59.880 those kind of movies. I just picture that director call 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.359 cut and the Hobbits going off and having a cigarette 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:02.760 or something. 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:08.159 I can't at their hairy feet. Interesting problem that is anyway. 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.639 Soon as are Hanson's movies are Smoking in the Bandit 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:13.959 Blazing Saddles and Doctor Schafhoga, Oh Blazing Saddle. 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.359 It's quite the spanning the globe of kind of movies. 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.280 Hell of a film Festival eleven. I do like Smoking 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:22.679 the bat Okay, I don't even know Grave of the 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:25.600 Fireflies from nineteen eighty eight at thirteen. The Dark Knight 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:32.560