Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Listen is that President Trump is going to become the
Speaker 2: first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Every time the cuts to tell us swich he's gonna
Speaker 1: lean in? Like, also, I'm here too, Hi, Mama Kelsey, Hi,
Speaker 1: I just saw Travis Kelsey asked, doing those media appearances
Speaker 1: all week long would be hard to do while you're
Speaker 1: preparing for the biggest moment of your life all week long.
Speaker 1: But Travis Kelcey was just asked, do you know what
Speaker 1: Taylor's gonna wear to the game? Yeah? Did he punch them?
Speaker 1: Why didn't he punch them? He laughed, and he laughed,
Speaker 1: and he said, I'm sure she's gonna wear red. There
Speaker 1: you go, that's a charmac. Yeah. Man.
Speaker 3: So who could forget this charming young woman? Catherine Mayer,
Speaker 3: she was the This was just before she became the
Speaker 3: CEO of NPR for.
Speaker 4: Our most tricky disagreements. Seeking the truth and seeking to
Speaker 4: convince others of the truth might not be the right
Speaker 4: place to start in fact, our reverence for the truth
Speaker 4: might be a distraction that's getting in the way of
Speaker 4: fine and common ground and getting things done.
Speaker 1: That is so insane as somebody who is allegedly a journalist.
Speaker 3: She is not a journalist. She is an activist and
Speaker 3: a propagandist. And she is with her blonde hair and
Speaker 3: her straight white teeth and her lovely shape and her
Speaker 3: soothing voice, trying to explain this hole seeking the truth thing.
Speaker 1: That's an interference with our goal, even outside of journalism.
Speaker 1: And tell me a realm of life where you like that,
Speaker 1: any any any anything where you like the the truth
Speaker 1: is getting in the way. When when is that ever
Speaker 1: a thing? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, when does that ever not turn rancid and and
Speaker 3: and and infected in a relationship. I'll just keep these secrets.
Speaker 3: He's better off not knowing. Yeah, nice attitude. Play that
Speaker 3: one more time, Michael. It's so incredible.
Speaker 4: For our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking
Speaker 4: to convince others of the truth might not be the
Speaker 4: right place to start. In fact, our reverence for the
Speaker 4: truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way
Speaker 4: of finding common ground and getting things done.
Speaker 1: That's like, Wow, dangerous lenin Stalin sort of crap right there.
Speaker 3: I mean just gonna say Hermann Gerring is in hell saying, Wow,
Speaker 3: she's got it down?
Speaker 1: Is she still in charge NPR? I believe she is? Wow? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, do you remember their name? Uri Berliner?
Speaker 3: He was the guy who it was like ten months
Speaker 3: ago he wrote an essay for The Free Press in
Speaker 3: which he explained why he was resigning from NPR, where
Speaker 3: he'd worked for twenty five years, and he said much
Speaker 3: more in sorrow than anger, having they lost the trust
Speaker 3: of a large segment of the country. Once curious, open minded, rigorous,
Speaker 3: if liberal leaning, public radio news had evolved into a
Speaker 3: doctrinaire source of what I called one story after another
Speaker 3: about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse,
Speaker 3: Israel doing something bad, in the dire threat of Republican policies.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty alone, we dismissed the very possibility of
Speaker 3: a COVID lab league in China, and our then managing
Speaker 3: editor refused even to cover Hunter Biden's laptop, call it
Speaker 3: not really a story, and he reminds us of some
Speaker 3: of the things he said. But now the crisis is
Speaker 3: in at hand. Republicans control Congress in the White House,
Speaker 3: and they seem serious about what had previously been ritualistic
Speaker 3: GOP threats to cut public media. And indeed, Catherine Mayer,
Speaker 3: the delightful woman we just heard from who called Berliners
Speaker 3: free press essay disrespectful, hurtful and demeaning, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: has been called before the House Subcommittee on Delivery on
Speaker 3: Government Efficiency, that's the doge fellas as soon as early March.
Speaker 1: So do you have the numbers? I saw some numbers
Speaker 1: footing around the other day. That's about a half a
Speaker 1: billion dollars five hundred million dollars. It gets spread around
Speaker 1: NPR and PBS outlets around the country. So it's not
Speaker 1: going to happen to have that, and it's not a
Speaker 1: ton of money, but you know, it's a half billion
Speaker 1: dollars more that's being spread around to stations were on
Speaker 1: of taxpayer money to not to have as many commercials
Speaker 1: or higher better reporters or whatever you want to do
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 3: And if you have state sponsored propaganda media for the
Speaker 3: domestic audience, the sides of the budget isn't the issue.
Speaker 3: It's just it's very existence that is going to be
Speaker 3: absolutely terrible.
Speaker 1: I personally, I know though a number of very smart
Speaker 1: people who you cannot convince them that NPR is not
Speaker 1: didn't know they're straight down the middle, didn't They have
Speaker 1: no reason to be biased because they don't have to
Speaker 1: take advertisers. I know, and I've actually said to people
Speaker 1: before seriously, and because I don't want to get into
Speaker 1: a fight with people that I'm friends with, but sit
Speaker 1: down anytime for a half an hour, let's listen together.
Speaker 1: I'll point out all the places where it's just insanely biased. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, as I've said a million times, I'm
Speaker 3: thinking of getting it tattooed on my forehead. Intelligence and
Speaker 3: wisdom are two completely different things and practically unrelated.
Speaker 1: And if you just.
Speaker 3: Never get a perspective, you might be both intelligent and wise,
Speaker 3: but not realize because you hadn't seen the other side
Speaker 3: of it. And I think a lot of people haven't.
Speaker 3: But anyway, Uri Berliner, the point of his piece today
Speaker 3: is he suggests a series of questions to ask the
Speaker 3: head of NPR, both Ms Mayer, who would have been
Speaker 3: an absolutely outstanding Nazi propagandas gandist, and Paul Berger, CEO
Speaker 3: of PBS. Can you provide examples of NPR coverage that
Speaker 3: criticized or questioned progressive narratives on crime, immigration, youth, gender, medicine,
Speaker 3: or climate change. Ms Mayor you said, regarding your previous
Speaker 3: role as the CEO of the Wikipedia Foundation Wikimedia Foundation,
Speaker 3: that our reverence for the truth might be a distraction
Speaker 3: that quote we just heard. What exactly did you mean?
Speaker 3: Do you still believe it? And if so, how is
Speaker 3: such a view compatible with leadership of a news organization.
Speaker 3: Another question, The immediate past CEO of NPR, the late
Speaker 3: John Lansing, declared that diversity, equity, and inclusion is the
Speaker 3: north star of our organization?
Speaker 1: Is it still?
Speaker 3: If not, why and if so, please explain how DEI
Speaker 3: influences NPR's hiring, training, and coverage. Love this, especially because
Speaker 3: all that's illegal. In twenty twenty one, his next question goes,
Speaker 3: I found eighty seven registered Democrats among NPR editorial staff
Speaker 3: residing in DC, where the network is headquartered.
Speaker 1: Eighty seven.
Speaker 3: There were zero Republicans, along with forty four registered with
Speaker 3: no party. Is NPR doing anything to address this seeming
Speaker 3: lack of diversity of viewpoints, such as hiring journalists from
Speaker 3: conservative media recruiting military veterans or seeking candidates who attended
Speaker 3: religious colleges and state universities.
Speaker 1: Here's a question I'd go with, do you realize that
Speaker 1: latenax is stupid and that Hispanic people don't like it?
Speaker 1: And it's only over educated white women that ever even
Speaker 1: came up with this stupid term and keep using it,
Speaker 1: But you use it all the time on PBS and NPR.
Speaker 3: In fact, are you aware that LATINX people hate LATINX
Speaker 3: more than anybody else?
Speaker 1: It's stupid? Are you aware of that? That'd be my
Speaker 1: question be a good question.
Speaker 3: Do you have regrets about how NPR dealt with the
Speaker 3: Hunter Biden laptop story, the Lablaku theory, or more recently,
Speaker 3: President Joe Biden's apparent cognitive decline while in the White House.
Speaker 1: Love these questions.
Speaker 3: NPR says it gets one percent of its annual operating
Speaker 3: budget directly from federal funding. A larger portion, though reportedly
Speaker 3: around ten percent, flows indirectly to NPR through member stations
Speaker 3: that acquire NPR programming with support from the Corporation for
Speaker 3: Public Broadcasting. Would you be open to a new financing
Speaker 3: structure that lets local member stations keep more money.
Speaker 1: In which case you would what probably end up with
Speaker 1: super left leaning NPR versions in San Francisco, which you
Speaker 1: already have, but maybe more moderate or right leaning NPR
Speaker 1: stations in you know, Oklahoma City, May I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his next question is kind of hint at that
Speaker 3: very thing. It could happen, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, because well, how would we feel about that. I'd
Speaker 1: never thought about this before, but I think that'd be
Speaker 1: fine for public radio if it more or less reflected
Speaker 1: that city area's beliefs and things. If you're gonna have
Speaker 1: bias at all, as opposed to the way it currently is,
Speaker 1: it's like insanely biased every every example in the country.
Speaker 3: Well, and this is the problem with right yeah, obviously. Uh,
Speaker 3: this is the problem with government media in general. Is
Speaker 3: once you step onto that that twisty, slippery road, you're
Speaker 3: gonna find yourself in really uncomfortable places without good answers.
Speaker 3: I mean, for instance, I could absolutely make the case
Speaker 3: that NPR ought to be studiously carefully run by an
Speaker 3: ideologically diverse, you know, board that makes sure every issue
Speaker 3: looks at both sides in a fair way, steel mans
Speaker 3: each other's arguments, as the saying goes, But then you
Speaker 3: run into the problem. And actually lefties bring this up.
Speaker 3: They bring it up in ridiculous ways. But all right,
Speaker 3: what if the question is should child molesters be allowed
Speaker 3: to get child porn?
Speaker 1: Or you know something truly horrific, that's a good one,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a great ethical dilemma.
Speaker 3: Or or you know, like confused adolescent girls ought to
Speaker 3: be fed sterilizing hormones and have their healthy breasts cut
Speaker 3: off if they decide one day, under pressure from an
Speaker 3: activist teacher, that they admire that.
Speaker 1: They're a boy.
Speaker 3: I don't particularly relish the idea of having somebody make
Speaker 3: that case because I find it repugnant.
Speaker 1: So you just you find yourself in a place you
Speaker 1: don't want to be, right, hmm, Well, what we got
Speaker 1: currently is ridiculous and it's laugh out loud funny regularly.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, their attempt to be the news.
Speaker 3: Well, and they're how every story or eight out of
Speaker 3: nine is who is the victim of something somewhere on earth?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: I mean, if there is a painter in Afghanistan who
Speaker 3: no longer can get the blue paint because the US
Speaker 3: is embargoed something or other, they will spend ten minutes
Speaker 3: on the bitter sadness of this poor Afghan artist who
Speaker 3: can't get blue paint.
Speaker 1: There was a horrifying school shooting somewhere in the world
Speaker 1: the other day. Where was that Sweden someplace? And I
Speaker 1: was listening to the NPR version where they went at
Speaker 1: length about how we've exported this culture to the country.
Speaker 1: So we're to blame. Gun owners are in the United
Speaker 1: States are to blame for school shootings in other countries.
Speaker 1: Let's make that clear. Because nobody has any agency. They're
Speaker 1: all just victims of what ugly conservatives do. That's it whole.
Speaker 1: In the Palestinians who have no agency, that's victims. That's
Speaker 1: that weird mindset that you're always talking about the oppressor
Speaker 1: oppressed if you buy into that mindset. So whoever's got
Speaker 1: power is the reason for all bad things happening. So
Speaker 1: United States says power the biggest economy and biggest culture
Speaker 1: and everything like that. So any shootings around the world,
Speaker 1: it's our fault.
Speaker 3: And anybody who's a victim or has less power is
Speaker 3: automatically good and virtuous and right, no matter what their
Speaker 3: opinion is. And a lot of people listening are like, dude,
Speaker 3: you can't oversimplify it like that.
Speaker 1: No, that's actually the philosophy. I've said more than once.
Speaker 3: If my dog has spoused that philosophy, I would kick
Speaker 3: him for being that dumb.
Speaker 1: And I am not a dog kicker. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: But you got people.
Speaker 3: Graduating from quote unquote, I might vomit elite universities who
Speaker 3: spout this nonsense all day long and think they're wise
Speaker 3: and educated.
Speaker 1: Man, if they're going to finally look into the funding
Speaker 1: of NPR radio and like get to the brass tacks
Speaker 1: on it, I would love that. I'll watch that on
Speaker 1: c SPAN. More on the way.
Speaker 2: Diplomatic shock waves are reverberating across the Middle East after
Speaker 2: President Trump unexpectedly announced plans for a US takeover of
Speaker 2: Gaza that would include forcing Palestinians out. The idea was
Speaker 2: quickly rejected by Jordan and Egypt, countries the President says
Speaker 2: would take in displaced refugees. Saudi Arabia also denounce the proposal.
Speaker 5: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that the Kingdom's position
Speaker 5: on the establishment of the Palestinian state is firm, steadfast
Speaker 5: and unwavering, and that this firm position is not subject
Speaker 5: to negotiation or outbidding.
Speaker 1: Hmm, do they feel that way behind the scenes. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Time will tell.
Speaker 3: I speak fluent Arabic, I can translate that we have
Speaker 3: been getting by by paying lip service to the Palestinian
Speaker 3: people while doing nothing and letting them continue to die.
Speaker 1: We would like to continue that plan. So it's Oscar season.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about that trans movie that got so
Speaker 1: many nominations. But some movies are in the news. There
Speaker 1: is a new list out of best movies of all time.
Speaker 1: It's compiled from like a whole bunch of interesting sources
Speaker 1: IMBD and Rotten Tomatoes and all these different things that
Speaker 1: people vote on. There's like ten different examples. They compiled
Speaker 1: them and gave them a score and came up with
Speaker 1: the fifty best. That's as good as any way to
Speaker 1: do it off the top of your head. What's your
Speaker 1: favorite movie of all time?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: For years I've said Unforgiven Clinic Western. Would that be
Speaker 1: different than if I ask you what's the best movie
Speaker 1: of all time? Or would it be the same question.
Speaker 1: It's it's sure similar. And I was looking at this
Speaker 1: list and wondering, has anybody watched Paths of Glory or
Speaker 1: Seven Samurai who didn't take a film class in college.
Speaker 1: I mean, do people watch that? I don't even know
Speaker 1: Paths of Glory. I think it's a young Kirk Douglas,
Speaker 1: but it's a World War One trenches movie. Truly good? Huh.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's black and white and dark, and
Speaker 1: you know, you know, those kind of movies hard to follow.
Speaker 1: But I just wonder does anybody ever watch those movies?
Speaker 1: They often make your list. One thing I like about
Speaker 1: this list is Citizen Kane is not I don't even
Speaker 1: know where Citizen Kane shows up on? Here is it on?
Speaker 1: Does it make the top fifty? It's not, certainly not
Speaker 1: in the top ten. My favorite movie of all time,
Speaker 1: I think is Apocalypse Now is at thirty four. I
Speaker 1: almost went with Saving Private Ryan. But here's your top ten.
Speaker 1: It's lost to Shakespeare in Love for the Oscars. By
Speaker 1: the way, never forget, here's your top ten. And this
Speaker 1: has got a lot more to do with people watching
Speaker 1: them and liking them more than critics. I guess number
Speaker 1: ten pulp fiction, And whenever you do a list like that,
Speaker 1: you know it's going to tend toward recent. Nobody's taken there,
Speaker 1: nobody's on the gay Hey, kids, I rented Pads of Glory.
Speaker 1: Then we're gonna watch seven Samurai tomorrow night. Now they're
Speaker 1: black and white, silent film. That's right, nobody watches that stuff,
Speaker 1: so there's a presentism bias. Number ten pulp fiction. Damn
Speaker 1: good movie. I'll watch it just recently with my high
Speaker 1: school kid. It's a heck of a movie. We did
Speaker 1: skip a scene or two so much buggery. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I didn't really need that. Uh number nine, you know what,
Speaker 1: We're down to one minute, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: rush through this because I think I can't wait. But seriously,
Speaker 1: who watches those art films? Does anybody? Unless you've heard
Speaker 1: about it so much you're curious enough go out and
Speaker 1: watch Citizen Kane? Are you having date night anything? Unless
Speaker 1: you got a really weird boyfriend or girlfriend, do you
Speaker 1: do that? I just don't think they do. And this
Speaker 1: is true of music to some extent. Too innovative isn't
Speaker 1: always enjoyable. Right, broke new ground paved the way for
Speaker 1: this style. Doesn't mean I need to see it now
Speaker 1: or hear it now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it turned into something that's a lot more enjoyable,
Speaker 3: comfortable for most people to watch. But the early innovative stuff.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's it's just just tough.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you, Katie and Michael, also, what's your
Speaker 1: what's your favorite movie all time? When we come back,
Speaker 1: among other things, and we'll get to this list, and
Speaker 1: we got some other stuff. I have plenty of good stuff.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be all It's gonna be a bang up
Speaker 1: half hour. I'll tell you that if you missed a
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Speaker 3: I am gonna stand with you in this fight, and
Speaker 3: we will win.
Speaker 1: We win. We will win. We will win. We will win.
Speaker 1: We will win. We will win. We won't rest. We
Speaker 1: won't rest. We won't rest. We won't rest.
Speaker 4: They are those that have said that we made face
Speaker 4: a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 7: I want you to.
Speaker 1: Know that the crisis is here.
Speaker 8: We will not take this from Donald Trump and Elon.
Speaker 2: Mus We have got to tell Elon must nobody elected judge.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a lot of we are a war hit
Speaker 1: the streets. Sounds like you're inspiring and inspiring an insurrection
Speaker 1: to me, But I'm guessing on this one. This is
Speaker 1: completely guessing. But I think they're on the wrong side
Speaker 1: of this by a lot. I think the majority of
Speaker 1: Americans are loving this digging into these various programs and
Speaker 1: finding stuff that's a waste of money. It's just in
Speaker 1: the lunch room and a guy getting coffee in there,
Speaker 1: one of the top salespeople around here saying how many
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars for Politico subscriptions? That story you brought
Speaker 1: us earlier where taxpayers were buying Politico subscriptions for some
Speaker 1: agency in DC, And I brought up the yeah, well,
Speaker 1: that's about the same as the eight million dollars for
Speaker 1: the trans play in Ireland or whatever. I've had a
Speaker 1: number of people bring this up to me in real life.
Speaker 1: This cutting this just insane stuff that condoms for the
Speaker 1: Tally banner whatever the hell?
Speaker 3: Right, right, Yeah, I just I think it's desperate flailing.
Speaker 1: They don't know what to say. Oh yeah, the idea
Speaker 1: that Elon Musk is evil for trying to get rid
Speaker 1: of that stuff. All right, we'll see how this plays out.
Speaker 1: So I brought up the it's Oscar season. Been talking
Speaker 1: about movies. There's this new list of the fifty greatest
Speaker 1: movies of all time where they compiled a bunch of
Speaker 1: online thingies and took their average scores, and this is
Speaker 1: what they came up with. So I did. I just
Speaker 1: noticed in Uh, I'll go with the top sixteen because
Speaker 1: at number sixteen is the highest ranking Star Wars movie
Speaker 1: of any kind. Well, first of this, Michael, what's your
Speaker 1: favorite movie of all time or what do you think
Speaker 1: is the best movie of all time?
Speaker 9: Well, for me, I mean it's Araplane, the comedy movie
Speaker 9: way back when. So I have a fond memories of
Speaker 9: watching it with my dad. And also it taught me
Speaker 9: you know what comedy was, I mean, you know what
Speaker 9: crazy comedy was, and that's I was.
Speaker 1: Then you spent some time in a Turkish prison. No,
Speaker 1: that was handy. That is a great movie if you're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about like influence or people know it or
Speaker 1: references or whatever. Yeah, rank way up there. Anyway, Katie, It's.
Speaker 10: A toss up between two from Sawshank Redemption to Life
Speaker 10: Is Beautiful.
Speaker 1: Those are two of my all time beautiful too fine
Speaker 1: choices both. Yeah, Shawshank Redemption ranks very high in this
Speaker 1: list of what I could about to get to it
Speaker 1: quick reveal, I've never seen that movie really, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right up the Gladiator. It's it's it's every bit as
Speaker 3: good as you've gotten the impression.
Speaker 1: I believe it. I just I've never been in the
Speaker 1: mood for it. Every time I think of it, I
Speaker 1: think I should have seen it at the time when
Speaker 1: it was hot. Yeah, it's it's not a light comedy.
Speaker 1: But I'm not a Star Wars guy. So the highest
Speaker 1: ranking Star Wars movie is Star Wars Episode five, The
Speaker 1: Umpire Strikes Back from nineteen eighty Did you say Empire Umpire?
Speaker 3: Just because if you said Umpire, I think you're confused
Speaker 3: about the plot.
Speaker 1: It's Empire. Ah, So the only Star Wars movie they
Speaker 1: got in the top sixteen is that one? Why are
Speaker 1: you shaking your head like that? Katie? Know that I
Speaker 1: your friend and colleague, huge Star Wars fan, But would
Speaker 1: you have but would you choose a different one? If
Speaker 1: you're gonna have one of the Star Wars movies from
Speaker 1: the whole franchise break into the top fifteen, would it
Speaker 1: be that one?
Speaker 9: Fine?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's as good as they get, but a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of Lord of the Rings. We just don't like wookies,
Speaker 1: do you, Katie? And nailed that three three Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings movies make it in the top fifteen like
Speaker 1: the greatest filmmaking ever made. They are extraordinary. I don't
Speaker 1: dig that sort of thing at all. I just I'm
Speaker 1: not into fantasy that sort of stuff. But the movie
Speaker 1: making part of it is just freaking amazing. That's Peter
Speaker 1: Jackson stuff. Is that right?
Speaker 10: I have such a hard problem escaping from reality with
Speaker 10: those kind of movies. I just picture that director call
Speaker 10: cut and the Hobbits going off and having a cigarette
Speaker 10: or something.
Speaker 1: I can't at their hairy feet. Interesting problem that is anyway.
Speaker 9: Soon as are Hanson's movies are Smoking in the Bandit
Speaker 9: Blazing Saddles and Doctor Schafhoga, Oh Blazing Saddle.
Speaker 1: It's quite the spanning the globe of kind of movies.
Speaker 1: Hell of a film Festival eleven. I do like Smoking
Speaker 1: the bat Okay, I don't even know Grave of the
Speaker 1: Fireflies from nineteen eighty eight at thirteen. The Dark Knight
Speaker 1: is a joker vehicle? Is that correct? Batman? Batman is twelve?
Speaker 1: Number eleven the highest ranking Lord of the Rings movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: now at top ten I mentioned pulp Fiction number nine. Well,
Speaker 1: what's the highest ranking fellowship The Lord of the Ring
Speaker 1: is the Fellowship of the Ring from all one Yeah,
Speaker 1: first one, Yeah, okay. Number ten Pulp Fiction. As a mention,
Speaker 1: that is an amazing movie. Number nine The Good, the Bad,
Speaker 1: and the Ugly. Happy to see that on the list
Speaker 1: as a guy who's a big fan of that kind
Speaker 1: of movie. I tried to watch that not terribly long ago,
Speaker 1: did not enjoy it. Really. I love that movie, but
Speaker 1: if you're used to the modern pace of movies, right,
Speaker 1: it is so slow compared to the modern world. I
Speaker 1: tried to watch it with my kids and it was
Speaker 1: just killing them. It's like a punishment for them. And
Speaker 1: that's from nineteen sixty six. Number eight Spirited Away from one.
Speaker 1: I don't know that movie. Spirited Away, No, okay. Number
Speaker 1: seven The seven Samurai, which you have to watch if
Speaker 1: you take a film class from nineteen fifty four. Fine,
Speaker 1: good for you. Congratulations to Samurai. Too long. Five would
Speaker 1: have been playing five samurais plenty of Samurai. How many
Speaker 1: Samurai do we need? Uh? Number six Good Fellas Give
Speaker 1: me a break, right. You can't hardly get better than
Speaker 1: that movie. The Godfather Part Two at number five. Schindler's
Speaker 1: List at number four, do you feel like you're being
Speaker 1: mean if you don't put Schindler's List at the top.
Speaker 1: I like Schindler's List. I just don't get bad being
Speaker 1: an anti semi from the Seinfeld episode, you fell asleep
Speaker 1: during Schindler's List number three, Shawshank Redemption number two. Twelve
Speaker 1: Angry Men Again, I think ten Angry Men would have
Speaker 1: been plenty. You get two of the angry Men with
Speaker 1: a couple of samurais, go have their own movie, and uh,
Speaker 1: it might have been a good, good film. Twelve Angry Men.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I've ever seen that. Oh goodness, second
Speaker 1: best movie of all time. I've seen one of the
Speaker 1: it was a very very famous play for a long time.
Speaker 1: Sure I've seen some version of it. It's a jury movie, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Essentially eleven to one bigoted jury is going to convict
Speaker 3: a black man of murder, I think it is, and
Speaker 3: one loan hold out. It's very uh to kill a
Speaker 3: mockingbirtish in its.
Speaker 1: Themes and what they have is the greatest movie of
Speaker 1: all time The Godfather from nineteen seventy two, which is
Speaker 1: an amazing movie and I think ranks up there with
Speaker 1: the Lord of the Ring stuff in terms of like
Speaker 1: movie making. I mean that whole backyard wedding scene and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. It's just incredible, just incredible. But I
Speaker 1: just thought it was interesting that this list. I don't
Speaker 1: see Citizen Kane anywhere, which used to be Like if
Speaker 1: you ask critics, they always put it number one or two. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Good for you, congratulations, you're smarter than me. You like
Speaker 1: Citizen Kane. Give me a real movie. Let me look
Speaker 1: through the top fifty three of anything jumps out Amadeus.
Speaker 1: Oh loved it. Alien number forty oh, one of the
Speaker 1: great suspense movies ever made. Yeah, Lawrence Arabia is cool
Speaker 1: movie making, but again very slow, very slow. Can they
Speaker 1: speed up old timey movies? Just like the way we
Speaker 1: were talking earlier about listening to podcasts at one and
Speaker 1: a half time speed or if that would work. You
Speaker 1: take Lawrence of Arabian, you put it on one and
Speaker 1: a half time speed. Maybe my kids could enjoy it
Speaker 1: in some fashion whatsoever?
Speaker 3: Right, instead of having Lawrence gaze out on the desert
Speaker 3: sands for thirty seconds, just have a quick one second
Speaker 3: that he looked at the sand for a bit and
Speaker 3: then it comes.
Speaker 1: To the next scene exactly. My favorite movie of all time.
Speaker 1: I think is Apocalypse Now and that's number thirty four.
Speaker 1: Spider Man Spider Verse at thirty two. That is a
Speaker 1: great movie. MM Silence of the Lambs. I like my Lambs.
Speaker 1: Noisy Casa Blanket twenty six, Cuckoo's Nests.
Speaker 3: Back when you could present a serial killing madman as
Speaker 3: a transgender person.
Speaker 1: Is the shining on there? Oh yes, please it is.
Speaker 1: I saw it in here somewhere.
Speaker 10: I just saw a movie with Jack Nicholson's son, and oh,
Speaker 10: my gosh, it is Jack Nicholson Part two, really really
Speaker 10: facial expressions, his mannerisms, the way he laughs.
Speaker 1: Oh it's so great. Huh yeah. I think the only
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson thing on here is uh Cuckoo's Nest, which
Speaker 1: I do really really like that movie. Psycho. I've always
Speaker 1: felt that's overrated. It's fine.
Speaker 3: That's again of its time, influential and important and enjoyable
Speaker 3: or different questions.
Speaker 1: Saving Private Ryan is number twenty two. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: damn good movie. Got a bunch of art films all right.
Speaker 1: I feel like they throw those into the list just
Speaker 1: to make them to give their list some credibility, Like
Speaker 1: if you don't have Semon Samurai and Harry Carey from
Speaker 1: sixty two, which I've never seen, and Pads of Glory,
Speaker 1: which nobody wants to watch. If you don't have those
Speaker 1: Modern Times from nineteen thirty six with Charlie Chaplin, I
Speaker 1: feel like you we're gonna make a list. We gotta
Speaker 1: put these five on there. Let's spread them out and
Speaker 1: then get the real movies on their people care about.
Speaker 3: I'll watch Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin if you change
Speaker 3: the title to old boring Times, gotta be accurate.
Speaker 1: I demand that when people had nothing else to do Times,
Speaker 1: it should be the main of the movie.
Speaker 3: Let's pop that list up on Armstrong and Geddy dot com.
Speaker 1: Animal House is not on the list. Noo also a
Speaker 1: very very good movie. The like we've mentioned before, the
Speaker 1: Twitter follow of seventy Sports guy or what is that called.
Speaker 1: That's a super seventy sports super seventy Sports and he
Speaker 1: has a tweet that he regularly puts out that mentions
Speaker 1: Judden Nelson from Breakfast Club and he says Bender's character
Speaker 1: is more memorable and more amazing than tons of Oscar winners,
Speaker 1: and that that's true. It's kind of like you mentioned
Speaker 1: of the movie Airplane. If you rank it on a
Speaker 1: like influence in your life, you remember it, it had
Speaker 1: an impact on you. The list is completely different than
Speaker 1: if you get into some of the fancy stuff.
Speaker 3: Right right now, Katie, you're not like a super girly girl.
Speaker 3: And I mean that is neither a compliment nor an insult.
Speaker 3: It just would you say that's more or less accurate?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, So is it like it is with guys?
Speaker 3: To the extent that you've observed it that there are
Speaker 3: a hand a pretty good handful of touchstone movies that
Speaker 3: everybody knows the catchphrases from for their generation. Does that
Speaker 3: happen with women the way it does with guys?
Speaker 10: Somewhat like the more recent comedy stuff like step Brothers,
Speaker 10: I know, you know, like the do we just become
Speaker 10: best friends? Like throwing those type of lines around that
Speaker 10: it's not like a real big point of our conversation.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, I've been a golf freak freaks since has
Speaker 3: a little kids, So it's prejudice. But to me, Caddyshack
Speaker 3: has launched more catchphrases than any film in the history
Speaker 3: of mankind. Such a great movie, and for that reason alone,
Speaker 3: it must be on all best of lists right exactly.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what I'm saying that if it has
Speaker 1: that sort of cultural impact, that there ought to be
Speaker 1: some list for that, or it should carry some Nobody's
Speaker 1: going around in the office today quoting from Pads of Glory,
Speaker 1: which might be a silent film now that I remember,
Speaker 1: it makes it difficult to have quotes. But you see
Speaker 1: my point, I do. We will finish strong next.
Speaker 11: Gambling is illegal at Bushwhit, sir, and I never slide.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: Do you know who won Best Country Album of the
Speaker 7: Year for the twenty and twenty got Grammy's Last?
Speaker 6: Not Prdy, no mar No hell Agree, no, uh Riley Green, no,
Speaker 6: Luke Holmes, no, Allie zimmern uh Ty Whims. Now, what's
Speaker 6: your name? Megan Morny?
Speaker 1: No, Jimmy tell you sure? Beyonce?
Speaker 8: Oh my god, he's nine in Huntry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny. That kid could name a lot of
Speaker 1: country artists. My kids could have too when they were younger,
Speaker 1: for the Mouths of Day because it is the only
Speaker 1: miss music we could listen to. Even though it's probably
Speaker 1: they're going to be lifetime alcoholics, they've they've they were
Speaker 1: drenched as children in NonStop whiskey drinking is the answer
Speaker 1: to everything. But didn't have any bad words, so let's
Speaker 1: have some good news. Come on, good news to end
Speaker 1: the show. Michael twenty five, Roll It, Baby, Roll It.
Speaker 7: A Trump commitment on the campaign trail became the latest
Speaker 7: executive order today.
Speaker 11: The war on women's sports is over.
Speaker 1: Effective immediately.
Speaker 7: The new order prohibits biological males from competing against biological
Speaker 7: females for sports teams at schools at any level that
Speaker 7: receive federal taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 11: Have you let men take over women's sports teams or
Speaker 11: invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations
Speaker 11: of Title nine and risk your federal funding.
Speaker 1: There will be no federal farm Huh any school at
Speaker 1: any level that receives federal funding. Would that be practically
Speaker 1: every school that's not private in America and many that are.
Speaker 3: Yes, one hundred percent, Yeah, and the fabulous under the
Speaker 3: Armstrong You Getty show.
Speaker 1: Riley Gaines, commenting in twenty eight, m.
Speaker 8: Dog to see President Trump's decisive action. There was a
Speaker 8: campaign promise of his issue number seventeen on his platform,
Speaker 8: no men and women's sports. So to see him deliver
Speaker 8: in the way that he did that visual that you
Speaker 8: saw him signing this executive order with I mean dozens
Speaker 8: of young girls surrounding him. I mean, I can't even
Speaker 8: tell you what that visual means to me. Man, I
Speaker 8: just feel vindicated and I feel this, this overwhelming feeling
Speaker 8: of gratitude.
Speaker 3: That was Riley Gaines who was forced to her metaphorical.
Speaker 1: Needs nees for a way.
Speaker 3: That sentence was just a train wreck, forced to her
Speaker 3: knees metaphorically speaking to dress and undress in front of
Speaker 3: a fully intact six foot four inch mail and say
Speaker 3: that's a woman. Can you imagine the humiliation and the
Speaker 3: soul deadening nature?
Speaker 1: Then? How is it an applause level event to do
Speaker 1: something this obviously needed to happen a long time ago?
Speaker 1: How did we even get this far down the road?
Speaker 1: It's crazy, Palm strong, and good to you. You have
Speaker 1: disappointed me for the last time. These are your final thoughts.
Speaker 1: I have a final thought about that. Here's your host
Speaker 1: for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get a final thought
Speaker 1: from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 3: It's an ensemble cast, Michael Angelow, what's your final thought?
Speaker 9: We've had some people on Facebook asking about this. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: Armstrong Getty Radio or Armstrong Getty dot com.
Speaker 1: How long will it take me to make this? Thirty minutes? Cool? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, Katie Greener esteemed to Newswoman as a final thought.
Speaker 10: Katie, I just realized today February sixth is my second
Speaker 10: Armstrong and Getty birthday.
Speaker 1: Hey, now show for two years? Really kidding, congrats, I
Speaker 1: feel like you just started ten years. I'm aging like
Speaker 1: a president. Oh my god. Jack. A final thought for us,
Speaker 1: how many schools across the country, at all levels are
Speaker 1: happy that Trump that so that they've got an excuse
Speaker 1: for no longer allowing this. And I'll bet a bunch
Speaker 1: of schools where they were letting dudes, you know, win
Speaker 1: the track competition or whatever. They're gonna pretend they don't
Speaker 1: like it, but they're gonna love the fact that we
Speaker 1: can't do that anymore. We'd lose our fund. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: A lot of good teachers, a lot of good coaches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely true. My final thought, I always feel like trapped.
Speaker 3: And cheated when when forced to name one of the
Speaker 3: best of something on my favorite of something.
Speaker 1: But that's silly. I take everything too seriously.
Speaker 3: But I should throw in a clockwork Orange, which I've
Speaker 3: watched so many times in my life.
Speaker 1: Good one me Drew Kis taxi driver wasn't on that list.
Speaker 1: It's one of my all time favorites. It's a good one.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday,
Speaker 1: so many people, thank etc.
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Speaker 3: I'm telling you the hoodie pick it up.
Speaker 1: See tomorrow. God bless America. I'm Strong and Getty. This
Speaker 1: is a message for the people of America. Creak was
Speaker 1: over fifteen minutes ago. Match wow wow. I got nothing
Speaker 1: for you on that. So let's go with the bangs.
Speaker 1: What's the John Denver song? I don't know what is
Speaker 1: the John Denver song? You know? With the thank God?
Speaker 1: I'm a country boy. OH got me and my pipe?
Speaker 1: I got me Old Phil. When the sun's coming up?
Speaker 1: I got cakes on the griddle. How can you not
Speaker 1: fall asleep with the lifestyle. I want to thank.
Speaker 10: You all very much.
Speaker 1: Bye bye, Armstrong and Getty.