Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
Speaker 1: and and he is Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Studioca signor a dimly lit room deep put in the
Speaker 2: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all,
Speaker 2: brand new week. All that's exciting.
Speaker 1: Who knows what? This is the week? And this is
Speaker 1: the week.
Speaker 2: This week, all your dreams come true, all of them,
Speaker 2: I mean all of them personally, romantically, business wise, all of.
Speaker 1: Them come thrue this week.
Speaker 2: And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager,
Speaker 2: Pam Bondie, America's hottest attorney general.
Speaker 1: And why is she or a general manager?
Speaker 3: Today?
Speaker 1: Justice Department is on the move. Pam's on the move,
Speaker 1: making the appearances on TV, doing interviews, arresting baddies. She is,
Speaker 1: according to science, Jack seven point eight times sexier than
Speaker 1: Bill Barr. And that's the record. I'd say that on
Speaker 1: the low side, depends which way you swing.
Speaker 2: How about that underground nightclub they rated in Colorado yesterday?
Speaker 2: I was gonna stunts not the fair word, because it's legit.
Speaker 2: It's been undercover operation going on for a long time.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure the timing is not coincidental with the
Speaker 2: big one hundred day hoopla coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I said, there's certainly a great of truth
Speaker 1: to that too. Yeah, it's absolutely needed to be done.
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness, gang members of various strifes, hundreds
Speaker 1: of illegals, guns, drugs, et cetera, in charming Colorado Springs,
Speaker 1: where my parents lived for a good dozen years.
Speaker 2: Well, what's amazing, is you gonna tell me? No local
Speaker 2: law enforcement caught on to the fact that there's a
Speaker 2: nightclub where hundreds of people gather on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: Well, they did work with local law enforcement, but before
Speaker 1: the Feds got involved. Oh yeah, yeah, so giant and
Speaker 1: running drugs and prostitution and everything else, and the MS
Speaker 1: thirteen involved in the whole thing. I mean, it's crazy,
Speaker 1: you know what that is? Actually, there's sanctuary people out there,
Speaker 1: so exactly that's a factor in the story. Colorado has become,
Speaker 1: you know, just a hotspot for illegals and illegal gang
Speaker 1: members because of their sanctuary policies, which is crazy. Of course.
Speaker 1: So the Colorado Springs police are listening right now saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: we wanted to do something about it, but we kept
Speaker 1: being told to stand down.
Speaker 2: Because we weren't going to join fascist Trump, right right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see how this unfolds. And the videos,
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen, the videos, are wild. I mean
Speaker 2: there's all kinds of girls running around and dresses and
Speaker 2: high heels because they're in a nightclub dancing. I mean,
Speaker 2: they didn't know the federal government is about to come
Speaker 2: in blowing whistles and hands in the air and that
Speaker 2: whole thing. And you had more than a dozen military
Speaker 2: dudes there who were working security. Apparently I was a
Speaker 2: good side hustle to pick up on the weekends work
Speaker 2: security at that nightclub, which they who know, they knew
Speaker 2: it was illegal or not.
Speaker 1: Like from the Air Force Academy, which is also in
Speaker 1: the Spring.
Speaker 2: Certainly could be just said military personnel and looked into it,
Speaker 2: which us makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, working a little off duty security. Holy crap, here's
Speaker 1: the Feds. Yeah. Well, hey, same team, guys, same team,
Speaker 1: just a little side hustle. I love a guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So that'll be a fun story to follow.
Speaker 2: And then the other side of the whole immigration thing,
Speaker 2: if you're into it, is the whole booting out babies
Speaker 2: with cancer story that the mainstream media is really really digging,
Speaker 2: which Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, tried to clear
Speaker 2: up yesterday, and we'll get to that a little later
Speaker 2: in the show.
Speaker 1: I've missed that one somehow. My weekend was a political
Speaker 1: controversy free mostly intentionally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we got that. One hundred days is a
Speaker 2: stupid marker that got started with FDR and everybody acts
Speaker 2: like it's a report card that's important or something. I
Speaker 2: don't know it it's not. It's it's the definition of
Speaker 2: a pseudo event. It's the media creates an event. So
Speaker 2: there was a book written by this many years ago.
Speaker 2: It's a pseudo event. The media creates these things and
Speaker 2: then can report on them so that they have news stories.
Speaker 1: But it's completely made up. So yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's funny. I don't think there's anything wrong with taking
Speaker 1: stock of the early days, you know, when it's appropriate.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and it's it's quite the festival of reporting
Speaker 1: and opinionating and sure, you know, editorial writing and the
Speaker 1: rest of it, and it's entirely self generated. Yeah, why
Speaker 1: are you counting me down, Michael? I'm sorry, I was
Speaker 1: just adjusting my camera here. Oh, okay, making sure my
Speaker 1: fingers could be seen. Okay, that Michael's giving me the talent.
Speaker 1: I got to stop in ten seconds, or I realized
Speaker 1: as soon as I did that it was your drivel.
Speaker 1: Another ten seconds will go crazy. I'm going to confuse
Speaker 1: these guys as they're speaking. I'm sorry. Yeah. And the
Speaker 1: other thing we'll have to get to at some point.
Speaker 2: Five major polls came out over the weekend, so there
Speaker 2: was lots for the Sunday talk shows to grab onto.
Speaker 2: And Trump's numbers are down, but everybody's numbers go down
Speaker 2: after the beginning. So again, how much in what areas?
Speaker 1: That's what.
Speaker 2: That's where it gets interesting, and well we'll get into that,
Speaker 2: and then of course we'll break down Round five of
Speaker 2: the NFL Draft as we always do. It's been a full.
Speaker 1: Real surprises towards the second half of the fifth round. Jack.
Speaker 2: Among the things I did over the weekend that I
Speaker 2: look forward to talking to, wrote a waim for the
Speaker 2: first time. The automated taxi, the fully automated taxi. Oh my,
Speaker 2: did that with my son in San Francisco on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: You appear to be intact.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'd drive a self driving I draw
Speaker 2: a self driving Tesla to the city, so it's not
Speaker 2: quite as shocking to me to then get into a
Speaker 2: self driving taxis. It might be if you've never done
Speaker 2: that sort of thing, but do want to talk about
Speaker 2: that technology, and it is the future, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: But better than that.
Speaker 2: The next night, I took a actual uber. I was
Speaker 2: gonna say taxi. Nobody takes a tax anymore, poor taxi drivers.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe now you got time for a shower so
Speaker 2: you're not driving unfortunate stereotype inaccurate. I took on with
Speaker 2: a guy from Pakistan, you know, man for Pakistan driving.
Speaker 2: I had a fascinating conversation about Pakistan, Middle East politics,
Speaker 2: all kinds of different things, homelessness in America, really really
Speaker 2: good stuff.
Speaker 1: So Ken look ford to talking about that night later. Yeah. Nice. Nice.
Speaker 1: So obviously you've bounced back health wise about that, No,
Speaker 1: just soldiering on regardless.
Speaker 2: Well, as I've finally admitted to myself I'm a person
Speaker 2: who gets sick a lot. I finally had to admit
Speaker 2: that to myself. But my ears are plugged up completely.
Speaker 2: I'm barely here. I've been sick for that. Don't get
Speaker 2: this disease whatever it is. So do you remember Congressman
Speaker 2: Doug Ocy. We used to have it from California guy
Speaker 2: years ago. Anyway, he responded to me on Twitter and said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I had exact thing you had. He said,
Speaker 2: I'm at two weeks at If you're at two weeks,
Speaker 2: you got a week to go. I thought that can't be.
Speaker 2: There are no three week diseases. I mean, like the
Speaker 2: like viruses that come and go that I've ever heard
Speaker 2: of three weeks.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm three weeks into it. Just about same thing.
Speaker 1: Katie's mom and pop hads it sounds like, yes, some
Speaker 1: some nasty respiratory thing that just hangs on and on.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been named, shouldn't have a clever name that
Speaker 1: the media can obsess over. Does it have anything to
Speaker 1: do with COVID, Like did COVID do something to our
Speaker 1: immune systems? Or did it spawn some viruses out there
Speaker 1: that didn't exist before three weeks? What the hell?
Speaker 3: Yes, Katie, Oh no, it's just my mom and dad
Speaker 3: started coughing at the end of March and they're still
Speaker 3: they're still going strong.
Speaker 1: Oh great, wow, wow, Hang out be this way forever.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, but it needs a name. The beaver
Speaker 1: pox or raccoon flu or. I don't know, pigeon fever,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes yes, yes, I like beaver pox.
Speaker 1: I mean good to you do not appear to be
Speaker 1: pocked in any way, but for the David Mirrors of
Speaker 1: the world to say, and beaver pox continues to spread
Speaker 1: across it's the Midwest, this mysterious disease.
Speaker 2: When will it and we'll talk to experts. Frank, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Speaker 2: Getty on this. It is Monday, April twenty eighth. We're
Speaker 2: in April here, people they are twenty twenty five or
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Speaker 1: Let's begin then official. According to f SEC rules regulations,
Speaker 1: the show starts at mark. I read President Trump's book
Speaker 1: The Art to Make a Jeedle, and he advise to
Speaker 1: just close information before before it's time. There you go
Speaker 1: as Russians to the best Russian accent.
Speaker 2: They do they do, don't they in a comical way,
Speaker 2: not trying to be at Sir je A Lavrov, the
Speaker 2: spokesman for Putin, who has been Putin spokesman for like
Speaker 2: I don't know, twenty five years or something like that.
Speaker 2: The Foreign Minister one of the shows yesterday. I have
Speaker 2: read Donald Trump's book The Art of Being the Deal
Speaker 2: or whatever he said, and need to make a good point.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 2: He did one place say we are very polite here
Speaker 2: in Russia. We do not talk about the deal with
Speaker 2: only between each other, not in front of cameras, which
Speaker 2: is certain to a certain extent, a good idea when
Speaker 2: you're trying to make.
Speaker 1: And here's the deal, stand next to that window.
Speaker 2: He also lied endlessly, like he has to or he
Speaker 2: would be pushed out of a window about all kinds
Speaker 2: of things. I was actually getting angry listening to him
Speaker 2: talking about we have taken no children, many many children
Speaker 2: found themselves without parents and orphanages, and we have rescued them.
Speaker 1: And just all kinds of just lies, lies, lies, lies,
Speaker 1: which is what they did.
Speaker 2: But Trump said the harshest things that he said about
Speaker 2: putting over the weekend by far.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you do.
Speaker 2: You see that amazing picture of him and Zelensky at
Speaker 2: the Vatican alone in a corner together talking to thread
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's something.
Speaker 2: I'd like to know what that conversation was, you know,
Speaker 2: as I was thinking when I saw that, because they
Speaker 2: were completely alone, without reporters, interpreters and anything like that,
Speaker 2: so they had actually spoken very honestly, and I was thinking.
Speaker 1: About it without jd vance right, good point.
Speaker 2: And I was thinking about the Bill Mahr thing where
Speaker 2: Bill Maher said in person, he's nothing like on camera.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's very self aware of anything like. I
Speaker 2: wonder if Zelensky got the very honest, self aware Trump
Speaker 2: Trump saying, look, here's the situation. This guy's a murderous
Speaker 2: lunatic and I'm trying to or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, yeah, that's a fascinating question. I
Speaker 1: wish I knew the answer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe we'll know someday. Because Zelensky didn't say anything
Speaker 2: reporters asked him. He said, we're gonna keep all this private,
Speaker 2: So I wonder. And then Trump saying some pretty harsh
Speaker 2: things about about Russia, which we'll get to it later
Speaker 2: from a truth social that he put out. Uh, Katie's
Speaker 2: got headlines on the way. Katie seems to be better.
Speaker 2: Everybody's healthy side for me all on the way, stay
Speaker 2: here text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2: Look at some of the projections for what were prices
Speaker 2: are going to be because of the tariffs very soon,
Speaker 2: and you don't know if they're accurate or not.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 2: And you never know when the tariffs are going to end,
Speaker 2: because it could be any day. But if they are
Speaker 2: accurate in the tariffs hold for a while, holy crap,
Speaker 2: it'll be the only thing anybody's talking about.
Speaker 1: Yes, the numbers behind the numbers Jack. What businesses are investing,
Speaker 1: what they are building has dropped precipitously as they're like,
Speaker 1: we don't know how to plan, so we're just not
Speaker 1: going to do anything. We're not going to grow. That's bad.
Speaker 1: That's really really bad. But more on that to come.
Speaker 1: A lot of good stuff to squeeze in this hour
Speaker 1: of the entire show. You wanted Kamala to win exactly that.
Speaker 1: That's code for I wish Kamala Harrison had won. All right,
Speaker 1: let's be I'm sorry. Now let's begin the show. Let's
Speaker 1: figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story with
Speaker 1: Katie Green and Katie Oh.
Speaker 3: Kind of along those lines from CNN. Trump took the
Speaker 3: US economy to the brink of a crisis in just
Speaker 3: one hundred days.
Speaker 1: Whatever. Alright, CNN, please.
Speaker 3: For maybe see Putin says North Korean quote friends helped
Speaker 3: Russia push Ukraine out of Kursk.
Speaker 1: He's looking at Curry favor of a little fat head.
Speaker 1: What an unholy aligance that bored man? Oh man? Are
Speaker 1: they gonna get like a two bedroom apartment? Held from
Speaker 1: they're both there?
Speaker 3: From the New York Times, US military says it's air
Speaker 3: campaign has hit more than eight hundred targets in Yemen.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, the whole bombin of the houthis you don't
Speaker 1: hear much about that these days, pretty closely tied to
Speaker 1: Iran though that story is on gooy from the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal.
Speaker 3: Meta's digital companions will talk sex with users, even children.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, well what Jack, You notice the skepticism there.
Speaker 2: No, the children part obviously is horrible, but it's it's
Speaker 2: bad for mankind even if you leave out the whole
Speaker 2: talking of children thing. The relayationships, the way people are
Speaker 2: turning to AI, I've got some examples from from real life. Yeah,
Speaker 2: people really leaning on the chat bought sex bots for
Speaker 2: their companionship, which.
Speaker 1: Is wholly crap crazy to me. Yeah, dropping birth rates
Speaker 1: are just going to keep plunging, and then the planet
Speaker 1: of the be versus anyway, So I read that piece
Speaker 1: Kdie and one of the more revealing aspects of it
Speaker 1: was the fact that metas staffers, we're saying, hey, this
Speaker 1: is this is like porn for children, this is and
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg was like, shut up, shut up. It's competitive industry.
Speaker 1: We got to get on top. So some kids get
Speaker 1: exposed to sexually explicit stuff onward and upward. Wow, are
Speaker 1: you sure you're being fair? There is that? No? No, yes,
Speaker 1: I am entirely certain of being fair. Yeah. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, no, we can't be the cautious. Keep going.
Speaker 3: From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 1: Kanye West gets.
Speaker 3: Banned from Twitch in just seven minutes after Hitler salute
Speaker 3: and rant about impregnating Paris Hilton.
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure what Twitch is, but.
Speaker 3: It's the gamer streaming, all right.
Speaker 1: I know I'd heard of it. My kids do that.
Speaker 1: I did that. Yeah, it's huge. I was chatting with
Speaker 1: my son last night, who was a bit of a
Speaker 1: hipster and a fan of Yee back in the day,
Speaker 1: and he said he now he has some sort of
Speaker 1: confrontational syndrome where he has to drive people away. He
Speaker 1: attracts them, then he drives them away. It's his own
Speaker 1: mental kink. I can't remember the name of the syndrome.
Speaker 1: But he said he's now driving away the Nazi types
Speaker 1: that he's attracted to him something oppositionals And.
Speaker 2: I've seen I've known people who kind of did that,
Speaker 2: like they had to be repulsive enough and then they
Speaker 2: would then then they could do to see nobody likes
Speaker 2: me routine, yes, which is obviously very unhealthy.
Speaker 3: Speaking of repulsive from the New York Post, Southwest Airlines
Speaker 3: passenger stripped naked and pooped on her seat.
Speaker 1: As the plane landed. Well, at least there was her seat.
Speaker 1: I mean strip naked. I mean there's there's a certain
Speaker 1: amount of naked stripping that's required to you know, complete
Speaker 1: the act y god above the age of like three. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: she wanted she went all the way? Wow. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: how would I react to that? It's Kanye's future wife, right,
Speaker 1: I would want to change seats? Can I change seats
Speaker 1: before you land? Approach? Yeah? Your pretty trade tables up.
Speaker 2: They stow away your electronics and if you need to defecate,
Speaker 2: Go ahead and do it, pooping in your seat, wrap
Speaker 2: it up as.
Speaker 3: Quickly as possible, and finally the battle on bee behind
Speaker 3: closed doors. Pope is still focused, sharp and energetic.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, that's a good one. That is a good one.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: And after you if you think you've ever seen a
Speaker 2: better pope than this one right now.
Speaker 1: More on the plunging rates of trust in the media
Speaker 1: and why coming up among other fair hope you can
Speaker 1: stick around Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4: Among men in gen Z forty five fifty five, Trump's
Speaker 4: approval rating, that's what we saw with everybody. Among women,
Speaker 4: that's where he falls off the cliff. It's gen Z
Speaker 4: this side of the gender gap. Women gen Z much
Speaker 4: more progressive, much more liberal. We're gonna see this on
Speaker 4: issue after issue than any other group any generation.
Speaker 2: That was Steve Kornaki of NBC breaking down there polling yesterday.
Speaker 2: Five major polls came out, as I mentioned, and there
Speaker 2: was something there for everybody, depending on what story you
Speaker 2: want to spend on.
Speaker 1: Not really trying to spin a story.
Speaker 2: So we'll get into some of the more interesting ones
Speaker 2: in my mind maybe an hour or two, but in
Speaker 2: particular the stuff around young women. They are an outlier
Speaker 2: from everybody else, right, young women?
Speaker 1: So interesting? You familiar with the documentary series seven up
Speaker 1: and fourteen twenty eight up where they interviewed British school
Speaker 1: kids at age seven, right and then every seven years
Speaker 1: sat right, every seven years for their life decades and decades. Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just absolutely fascinating and heartbreaking and just as is most powerful. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've noticed one of the most powerful things ever put
Speaker 1: on film in my opinion. But anyway, it would be
Speaker 1: so interesting. Let's start now this pocket. Is it a
Speaker 1: generation I guess of young women who are wildly radicalized
Speaker 1: and enthused about far leftist politics. Then I want to
Speaker 1: see him interviewed every seven years as they go through life.
Speaker 1: Do they stay completely crazed and unhinged from reality? Do
Speaker 1: they have a come to not Jesus but come to
Speaker 1: Madison moment in most of their lives where they realize, oh,
Speaker 1: Western civilization is a really good idea, or what I
Speaker 1: wonder how that'll go. They are a weird little ideological demographic.
Speaker 1: As always need to point out. They didn't raise themselves, right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's the radical leftists who got hold
Speaker 1: of the teachers' colleges and then the education system, as
Speaker 1: I'm always ranting about. So speaking of leftists and that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, a CNN is a joke and I
Speaker 1: can see that. But I've got some really interesting information
Speaker 1: about the continuing erosion of people's perception of the media,
Speaker 1: and it starts with a CNN thing, and it was
Speaker 1: network anchor Abby Phillips, in total earnestness earnestness, last week,
Speaker 1: said that the erosion of media credibility is driven by
Speaker 1: right wing rhetoric. What, yes, exactly, it's just attacks from
Speaker 1: the right wing. Mass media are dying, said the CNN
Speaker 1: guest and self appointed media authority Jeff Jarvis. The problem
Speaker 1: is that right wing has taken advantage of the situation,
Speaker 1: I think quite cleverly, quite wisely, they've played it into
Speaker 1: a weakness. And wow, well that's hilarious.
Speaker 2: So Fox years ago just you know, figures out, you know,
Speaker 2: practically all media is left leaning. How about we present
Speaker 2: something that's right reading, like, because I'm sure there's an
Speaker 2: audience for.
Speaker 1: That, and that's taking advantage of a situation. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: Scott Jennings, the token conservative on CNN, said what situation?
Speaker 1: Jarvis says the situation of being under attack, and Jennings says,
Speaker 1: what the right wing is taking advantage of is that
Speaker 1: the American people say enough is enough. They're tired of
Speaker 1: feeling like the mass media screens out one viewpoint versus
Speaker 1: another political coverage, tired of media institutions favoring one party
Speaker 1: over the other, which is clearly true. And then Abby
Speaker 1: Phillips jumps in, a lot of this is driven by
Speaker 1: the rhetoric on your side of the aisle, and Jennings says,
Speaker 1: you think the drop in trust is driven by rhetoric
Speaker 1: and not the performance. Wow, absolutely, Philip said absolutely, which
Speaker 1: is absolutely hilarious. And then here's that answers a question
Speaker 1: I've had for a long time, at least for that person,
Speaker 1: do they know there is my or do they actually
Speaker 1: think they're playing it down the middle? And apparently, at
Speaker 1: least in that guy's case, they think they're playing it
Speaker 1: down the middle, which is hilarious. So before I get
Speaker 1: into some of the other numbers, I think this is
Speaker 1: such a beautiful example. According to one of the Biden books,
Speaker 1: that Biden was senile and everybody knew it books that
Speaker 1: have come out recently, this one by Chris Whipple uncharted
Speaker 1: how Trump beat Biden, Harrison the odds and the wildest
Speaker 1: campaign and history. According to longtime aid Ronan who would
Speaker 1: know eighty one year old Biden as they were trying
Speaker 1: to prep for the debates, was fatigued, be fuddled, and disengaged.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't stop blabbering about NATO and quote how much
Speaker 1: foreign leaders loved him. At one point, why Biden just
Speaker 1: wandered off by the pool and fell asleep in a
Speaker 1: lounge chair. Claim started to debate, Claim started to worry
Speaker 1: the debate could turn into a nationally televised disaster it
Speaker 1: which it did. Here's what Caitlin Collins said just before
Speaker 1: the debate quote President Biden has spent days locked in
Speaker 1: intense preparation, surrounded by his closest advisors at Camp David,
Speaker 1: and our sources are telling us that tonight that full
Speaker 1: mock debates are underway at the podium underlights. He's even
Speaker 1: watching tape, as I reported while covering him in the
Speaker 1: White House. When Biden prepares, he does so incredibly intensively.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that is so beautiful. So let's take a
Speaker 1: look at the data. Only eight percent of Americans report
Speaker 1: having a great deal of trust and confidence in the
Speaker 1: mass media. Eight percent have a great deal of confidence.
Speaker 1: That's not good. It's well earned, but that's not good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if there's delight in my voice, then there is And
Speaker 1: I really need to take a long look at myself
Speaker 1: from delighting over the fall of the mainstream media. It's
Speaker 1: because awareness is good. You've got to fully identify a
Speaker 1: problem before you you can cure it.
Speaker 2: Well, Like I've become a news Nation guy in the morning.
Speaker 2: I check them out too now and they're trying to
Speaker 2: be not either Fox or MSNBC, and more than the slant,
Speaker 2: I notice just the lack of anger, and I got
Speaker 2: to admit it's weirdly boring. There's just like nobody's mad,
Speaker 2: nobody's fired up about anything. They just give you the
Speaker 2: story and the fact that there's nobody there to say.
Speaker 2: And that's why trump Zhitdler or that's why liberal those
Speaker 2: are communists. I mean, without that element, it's just kind
Speaker 2: of dry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what to do about that. Wow,
Speaker 1: what's in the line of the blind The one eyed
Speaker 1: man is king in the time of hyperbole, the reasonable
Speaker 1: man is ignored manly So eight percent have a great
Speaker 1: deal of trust and confidence in the mass media when
Speaker 1: it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly
Speaker 1: eight percent thirty six percent more than quadruple, closing in
Speaker 1: on quintuple, said they had no confidence at all. Not surprisingly,
Speaker 1: distressed among Republicans had grown exponentially under President.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think I'd be in the no confidence at
Speaker 2: all category. Yeah, I've got no confidence at all in
Speaker 2: the mainstream media. Every single thing I hear. I fact
Speaker 2: checked myself best I can.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. I'd have to think about that
Speaker 1: a little bit, just because I feel like I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good at identifying bias and so I just rolled my
Speaker 1: eyes and sad. Oh, that paragraph is completely crap. But okay,
Speaker 1: that's what actually happened. That paragraph's pretty good. I don't know.
Speaker 1: More importantly, Oh so, the number of Republicans who have
Speaker 1: no trust at all is twenty seven percent. Was twenty
Speaker 1: seven percent in twenty fifteen. It's now fifty nine percent. Wow,
Speaker 1: no trust at all. Wow. Interestingly, it's all interesting. But
Speaker 1: the percentage of independence who say they have no confidence
Speaker 1: in our press has surged from twenty seven percent in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen to forty two percent in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: No trust at all. I don't have like little or
Speaker 1: some trust. It would take you long to look.
Speaker 2: Over, you know, to argue against your You'd have to
Speaker 2: think about it. You just lived through mainstream media pretending
Speaker 2: the president wasn't senile.
Speaker 1: Four years of a completely.
Speaker 2: Made up Russian investigation where we're this close to Trump
Speaker 2: being outed as a spy.
Speaker 1: I mean, what, yeah, yeah, maybe I'm just a giving
Speaker 1: and trusting soul. I've known certain people who were utter
Speaker 1: liars and frauds and sheets in their lives. But if
Speaker 1: they handed me a nice looking right banana and said, Joe,
Speaker 1: this is a banana, I would believe that reporting on
Speaker 1: me but inflation reduction act with a straight face. But overall, yes, overall,
Speaker 1: you're quite right, quite right. But remember Jack, the decline
Speaker 1: and trust is just because of right wing attacks. And
Speaker 1: then I can't remember who wrote this in Taketoo. I'll
Speaker 1: look in a second. But do you suppose this is
Speaker 1: in any way the fault of the press, or is
Speaker 1: it as Philip suggests, it's that right wing rhetoric blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. The press's credibility crisis is of its own making.
Speaker 1: Everything from its botched cover of the lead up to
Speaker 1: the disastrous war in Iraq, which was you know, on
Speaker 1: a different side, it's abysmal handling of the COVID nineteen panics. Absolutely, oh,
Speaker 1: the canceling and silencing of anybody who dared tell well
Speaker 1: what turned out to be true, absurd insistence Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was in tip top shape, et cetera, et ceteras Jackie
Speaker 1: Jackie here where Jackie right right? And this is interesting too,
Speaker 1: worth knowing. I mean, what's her name for CNN's an idiot,
Speaker 1: and I don't feel any need to argue against her.
Speaker 1: But the decline in trust predates Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 1: It actually dates back to the Nixon administration. In nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy two, the percentage of respondents who had a great
Speaker 1: deal of fair amount of confidence in the mass media
Speaker 1: was seventy percent, and it's dropped thirty seven points.
Speaker 2: It's not good, no, but it is you can create
Speaker 2: a media that people would trust. I just don't know
Speaker 2: if there's an audience anymore that wants it. Like I
Speaker 2: was saying about how the strange blandness of watching a
Speaker 2: news channel where nobody's angry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, or particularly well you might even say where
Speaker 1: nobody's particularly enthusiastic about one idea or ou one narrative
Speaker 1: or another. Yeah, and you, if you were to build
Speaker 1: media that is trusted now, it would be very different
Speaker 1: than the media that was trusted in nineteen seventy two. Sure,
Speaker 1: it would have to be polarized, I'd think, Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're the sort of media you're talking about, you're
Speaker 1: you know, forty percent of the Democratic Party that's insanely left.
Speaker 1: They would never trust that outlet.
Speaker 2: Sure, we mentioned last week the guy who runs sixty
Speaker 2: minutes is leaving just they've only had three people run
Speaker 2: the thing since it started before we were born.
Speaker 1: But he's still there.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you did you see story
Speaker 2: number two on sixty minutes last night about nine to eleven?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Was that interesting? That was like an old fashioned sixty minutes?
Speaker 2: How could this be? Crew really didn't have a political
Speaker 2: angle story. We'll have to talk about later about video
Speaker 2: from nine to eleven that is emerged that the the.
Speaker 1: FBI never saw, CIA never saw.
Speaker 2: It's like, what, how is this even possible? Really good story,
Speaker 2: we'll get into.
Speaker 1: That, l Well, what was the angle are you pitching
Speaker 1: the inside job there, Candae Owens are on, Uh, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you explain it. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you explain it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do a brief version of it
Speaker 2: because it'll be confusing. But maybe i'll bring that up
Speaker 2: an hour two and we'll play a little bit of
Speaker 2: that for you.
Speaker 1: Did you hear Scott Pelley did an editorial at the
Speaker 1: end of it. No, a parent company, Paramount has put
Speaker 1: pressure on sixty minutes. No, I did not. I want
Speaker 1: to hear that. I don't know that yet.
Speaker 2: We've got the audio. Okay, we'll get into that whole conversation.
Speaker 2: Joe's got mail bag coming up in a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: Stay here.
Speaker 2: No more I read about it, the more I think,
Speaker 2: unless there's for some reason or reversal in the whole
Speaker 2: tariff thing, like Trump changes his mind, says, you know,
Speaker 2: claims victory in a variety of fronts and ends it,
Speaker 2: or the Supreme Court steps in and says you're not
Speaker 2: allowed to do that. If they continue, it's about to
Speaker 2: be the only story in America. I think, like, yes,
Speaker 2: the only thing every day. Yeah, like soon within a week.
Speaker 1: Maybe aren't those the economic growth numbers out to do
Speaker 1: out this week. Yes, thirtieth last day of April, right right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: a couple of days Wednesday, all right, something to look
Speaker 1: forward to. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day
Speaker 1: from John F. Kennedy. I love this. This ought to
Speaker 1: be chiseled into the rock facades of the so called
Speaker 1: elite universities. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the
Speaker 1: enemy of growth. Yeah, damn sheep, kafia ware and hamas
Speaker 1: support and stupid little sheep. Wow, that was not as
Speaker 1: eloquit as Kennedy, but it's a good freedom love me quote.
Speaker 1: I love the conformity is the jailer of freedom and
Speaker 1: the enemy of growth.
Speaker 2: You should have had your dad write you a more
Speaker 2: literate sentence to get me into Harvard. Here's here's your
Speaker 2: mail bag. Your mail bag at Armstrong and Geeddy dot
Speaker 2: com as the email address. Drop us a line now
Speaker 2: and again.
Speaker 1: Oh, guys, listening to your bit about what can destroy
Speaker 1: marriage contempt? Right, I realized you helped us understand Trump
Speaker 1: derangement syndrome. Simply contempt. There's nothing he could conceivably do
Speaker 1: that you would concede. Oh, that went pretty well. In
Speaker 1: the same way that if you've come to have contempt
Speaker 1: for your spouse or partner, you won't say, you know,
Speaker 1: he has a really good sense of humor. You can't
Speaker 1: bring yourself to say that. Right. That's a good point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well said there, Brian. Also, a lot of the interaction
Speaker 1: between parties is simply contempt, and there's no way to
Speaker 1: get through to those that have gone too far down
Speaker 1: that road. Brian, and walla wallah, well done. Sir Jack
Speaker 1: is right about the next part, Hope, writes Todd and
Speaker 1: san Diego. When he expressed a preference for an African
Speaker 1: pope to succeed Pope Francis, he spoke a bigger mouthful
Speaker 1: than he probably realized. Not only would an African pope
Speaker 1: call attention to the sufferings of the people on that continent,
Speaker 1: as you pointed out, Jacket, would also be consequential in
Speaker 1: two other ways. One, Africa is the front line in
Speaker 1: the battle between Islamism and civilization, and this battle would
Speaker 1: receive more of the attention it deserves from the world
Speaker 1: if an African bishop became pope. That's a really good point, Ton. Two,
Speaker 1: Africa is the present and future of vigorous high doctrine Christianity,
Speaker 1: in sharp contrast with the woke shell of empty churches
Speaker 1: and progressivized cliches that passed for the church in Europe.
Speaker 1: Anyone who wants traditional religions to hold onto their traditions
Speaker 1: instead of becoming secularized NGOs should be rooting for one
Speaker 1: of Africa's conservative cardinals to become the next pope. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's some great analysis, Todd. You want to become our
Speaker 1: religion correspondent.
Speaker 2: We'll have on you every time a pope dies, so
Speaker 2: I wouldn't quit your other job since it's probably once
Speaker 2: every twenty years. Conclave starts this week and they'll start
Speaker 2: picking a pope.
Speaker 1: I guess a bunch of pope pickers. Ps. He writes, Hey,
Speaker 1: he's on a heater. Let's keep going with this. Ps.
Speaker 1: One of the top contenders is Jerusalem's Cardinal Pierre Baptista
Speaker 1: Piete Sabella. Yes, his name is Pete Sabella. It would
Speaker 1: be great to see him get elected and choose the
Speaker 1: name John the twenty four so everyone would call him
Speaker 1: Papa John. You know what, Todd, maybe I should have
Speaker 1: stopped after your second. Yeah, let's see. Here's the thought
Speaker 1: provoking note from Rick. Let's see, he was talking about
Speaker 1: how last week we talked to Josh Hoover, California State Assemblyman,
Speaker 1: very reasonable guy, solid conservative, and he was talking about
Speaker 1: at least one member of the state legislature during a
Speaker 1: recent hearing made reference to the possibility of passing any
Speaker 1: type of legislation to ban men and women's sports as
Speaker 1: going down the road to becoming Nazis. And he says, Joe,
Speaker 1: you responded to him by saying, we need a universally
Speaker 1: agreed upon phrase to describe this phenomenon, this sort of
Speaker 1: argument that divides us distinctly into this binary perception that
Speaker 1: there is only good and evil. Well, the word is Manichean,
Speaker 1: but nobody uses that word, the idea being you're either
Speaker 1: completely good or completely evil. There's no truth to both sides,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. But he says, I don't have
Speaker 1: a specific word, and I couldn't find anything, but as
Speaker 1: a suggestion, I offer a HICCK. An acronym HICCK would
Speaker 1: be defined as it's an hic hyperbolic incendiary characterization designed
Speaker 1: to as certain moral authority, thereby canceling any discussion or
Speaker 1: attempts at resolving a dissension. Of opinion. You can use
Speaker 1: it as a noun. You have no argument. All you
Speaker 1: can do is make hicks proverb. See, you're hiccking away
Speaker 1: just because you're unwilling to approach this from anyone else's viewpoint,
Speaker 1: where descriptive down Maxine Waters is a career hicco fan. Well,
Speaker 1: let's see if that catches on. I love it, well done, Rick,
Speaker 1: So I want.
Speaker 2: To get into some of those poll numbers, all the
Speaker 2: big polls that came out over the weekend, one particular aspect,
Speaker 2: in particular, check in on sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: Some interesting stuff.
Speaker 2: Happened in that world last night, including that story about
Speaker 2: nine to eleven if you didn't see it, among other things.
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