Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: President Trump announced this twenty five percent tariff on all
Speaker 3: cars not made in the United States.
Speaker 4: He says that these.
Speaker 3: Tariffs kick in on April second, and the United States
Speaker 3: will start collecting on April third.
Speaker 2: So just a couple of days away from twenty five
Speaker 2: percent tariffs kicking on cars that aren't made in the
Speaker 2: United States in theory, So if that happens, I have
Speaker 2: no idea what that's going to do to the car market.
Speaker 2: Neither does anybody else or she spends on how long
Speaker 2: it lasts too, But wow, that's something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if our folks flooding to the various
Speaker 1: German car brand dealers to get in under.
Speaker 2: The wire or what. Well you you understand this stuff
Speaker 2: better than me, so well that that will make all
Speaker 2: cars more expensive, right one all cars can Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a lot of depends when you're talking
Speaker 1: about tariffs and their effect on consumer prices, just because
Speaker 1: of the different nature of different products, price elasticity. You know,
Speaker 1: how much competition there is domestically, there's just a bunch
Speaker 1: of factors. But yes, it will make all cars more expensive. Well,
Speaker 1: it's cars and part a little or a lot. And
Speaker 1: I was looking at a chart yesterday. I wish I
Speaker 1: had a screen captured because which is pretty interesting. Tesla
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent every bit of it made in
Speaker 1: the United States. That's why we're setting fire to them,
Speaker 1: jack we Liberals.
Speaker 2: Then next you get to Ford, which is like seventy
Speaker 2: five percent everything in the United States, and a couple
Speaker 2: percentage of parts come from Mexico and Canada. Then some
Speaker 2: stuff that comes from somewhere else. But then it just
Speaker 2: it goes goes on down the road to where you
Speaker 2: get to stuff that ain't ain't nothing made in the
Speaker 2: United States with the different car makers, so it varies
Speaker 2: from maker to maker.
Speaker 1: Well, and a lot of the foreign you know makers
Speaker 1: have gigantic plants in the US, so it's it's tough
Speaker 1: to know just by the name or you know, yeah
Speaker 1: it's Hyundai Korean. Yeah, but they've I think they have
Speaker 1: a giant plant in Tennessee or something anyway, so that'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see unfold. It's all a bit chaotic,
Speaker 1: if it's moving toward actual, more reciprocal tariffs, therefore lower
Speaker 1: tariffs eventually.
Speaker 2: I'd like to see that.
Speaker 1: Plus, the Supreme Court needs to weigh in on whether
Speaker 1: Trump can actually do what he's doing, citing in a
Speaker 1: national emergency of of a fentanyl Therefore, we must put
Speaker 1: a twenty five percent tariff on vmw's.
Speaker 2: God, I made a purchase yesterday. I just I can't.
Speaker 2: I don't know. There's some obstinacy in me driving this.
Speaker 2: This is a Tesla brand vehicle that is like the Ultimates.
Speaker 2: You go ahead, and I'm gonna and I'm picking it
Speaker 2: up this weekend, and I'm gonna pull into my neighborhood
Speaker 2: where there are people who still have Harris Walls signs
Speaker 2: in their yard. Shame on you. And if your neighbor
Speaker 2: gets a Tesla. At this point, I feel like it's
Speaker 2: a deliberate message. I don't know. I just love the
Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see how this plays on. I
Speaker 2: have a feeling I'm gonna get keyed within a week
Speaker 2: in my tires slash. I better carry spare tires in
Speaker 2: the in the bed, or you know, have your car
Speaker 2: on constant video mode. It is automatically there's an upgrade. Yeah, yeah, okay, great.
Speaker 2: You know there's no way to prove this. I'm just
Speaker 2: thinking out loud. Harris Walls was almost certainly, and I'm
Speaker 2: scanning my memory banks now, almost certainly the lowest IQ
Speaker 2: ticket in the history of American politics, presidential politics. I
Speaker 2: could kick most of their ass. I could kick most
Speaker 2: of their ass, like the right right cheek. Is that
Speaker 2: what you mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, and part of the left wing, yes,
Speaker 1: most of them, ask and then then the word salad somalier.
Speaker 1: Supreme Kamalo was at the head of the ticket. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: you'd have to dig deep. I mean, Buchanan was a
Speaker 1: bit of a paced eater. But anyway, uh speaking of the.
Speaker 2: Supreme Court is that was very childish though, I think,
Speaker 2: I mean, I mock this sort of thing. I like
Speaker 2: two thirds wanted the vehicle anyway, but the extra third
Speaker 2: that got me across the line is it's just gonna
Speaker 2: annoy so many people that I don't mind annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I honestly, honestly though, I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1: We're all fighting back against the woke mind virus. The
Speaker 1: neo Marxists in ways great and small to the of
Speaker 1: our ability. And that's a that's a signal of defiance. No,
Speaker 1: I am not going to bow down to you in
Speaker 1: your wacky worldview.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: It's a little odd, but it's a tip of the cap.
Speaker 1: Look at you, go, yeah, look at you all right.
Speaker 1: So we don't just go over the news here and
Speaker 1: talk about it and try to bring you perspective.
Speaker 2: That's most of what we do.
Speaker 1: But this is more of a thinking thing here. The
Speaker 1: Supreme Court is going to be looking at some cases
Speaker 1: having to do with jerry mandering, drawing of congressional districts.
Speaker 1: Jerry Mandering is the old timey expression that means drawing
Speaker 1: up congressional districts intentionally in a way to gain political advantage.
Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with the term, and if you
Speaker 2: were told in third grade, is illegal, yeah, absolutely unconstitutional
Speaker 2: and moral, et cetera. We throughout the quote last from
Speaker 2: Joseph Stalin. The people who cast the votes don't decide
Speaker 2: an election. The people who count the votes to well.
Speaker 1: You could add to old Joe's wisdom here, the people
Speaker 1: who draw the districts due And I remember this from
Speaker 1: college when I was studying this stuff. Hearing what you're
Speaker 1: about to hear, and as a wee lad of eighteen
Speaker 1: nineteen years old, I had exactly the same reaction to
Speaker 1: it now that I did. Then I'll lay it on you.
Speaker 1: So a couple of days ago, Monday felt like groundhog Day,
Speaker 1: rights a legal analyst.
Speaker 2: It's the Editorial Board Journal.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's yet another redistricting challenge, this one from Louisiana.
Speaker 1: And they say, if the Robe de nine are tired
Speaker 1: of reviewing state maps because they're asked to over and
Speaker 1: over and over again.
Speaker 2: North Carolina was.
Speaker 1: A big case recently and several others, they could declare
Speaker 1: racial gerrymanders unconstitutional. Stop now, I have a feeling you're thinking,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. You
Speaker 1: can draw congressional districts to achieve a specific racial outcome.
Speaker 2: How does that.
Speaker 1: Square with Title two or nine or whatever, all the
Speaker 1: you know, the Civil Rights Act, all that stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: here's where it gets nutty. So Louisiana, like all the states,
Speaker 1: trying to navigate this.
Speaker 2: World of conflicting rules.
Speaker 1: If states weigh race too heavily, they run a foul
Speaker 1: of the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. But if they ignore race,
Speaker 1: they can be sued for violating Section two of the
Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act, and Louisiana has hit it both ways. First,
Speaker 1: you have progressives challenging the House map that the Republicans
Speaker 1: drew up after twenty twenty because it included only one
Speaker 1: majority minority district out of six. One out of six
Speaker 1: that would be seventeen percent. Right, Blacks make up thirty
Speaker 1: percent of Louisiana's voting age population, and the plaintiff's reasons
Speaker 1: that reason that two districts should be majority black, which
Speaker 1: would make it thirty four percent of the districts. In essence,
Speaker 1: what Section two says. It doesn't establish a right to
Speaker 1: proportional representation. You don't have to demonstrate that, Hey, we
Speaker 1: got one fifth black people in the state, one fifth
Speaker 1: of the districts are majority black, and they'll always vote
Speaker 1: for black folks. If I might depart from the facts
Speaker 1: here for a second, what is this assumption that black
Speaker 1: people have vastly different interests in electoral outcomes than white people.
Speaker 1: Where does that idea come from? Why would they I
Speaker 1: would like good schools and opportunities to have a job
Speaker 1: in a neighborhood where I'm not going to get passion
Speaker 1: over the head in my stuff taken says like everybody anyway.
Speaker 1: But the liberal plaintiffs cited the High Court's terrible nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty six decision I won't bother the boring you with
Speaker 1: that test requires minority populations to be large, compact, and
Speaker 1: politically cohesive to constitute a majority minority district, and that
Speaker 1: white votes sufficiently as a group to defeat of minorities
Speaker 1: preferred candidate. Blah blah blah blah blah. Can't we just
Speaker 1: get rid of this crap now, as like simple geographic
Speaker 1: districts is possible that have the same population in them
Speaker 1: and not these snaking, weird, manipulated districts. Is there anybody
Speaker 1: who looks at that other than partisans who just want
Speaker 1: power and says.
Speaker 2: Nice job with that district? Yeah, I know, doesn't every
Speaker 2: American look at them and say, what the hell is that?
Speaker 2: I spent most of my life, like I said, learning
Speaker 2: in third grade that it was illegal, So I assumed
Speaker 2: they didn't do that until we know. I got into
Speaker 2: talk radio and started paying more attention and seeing how
Speaker 2: various districts I've lived in were drawn, and that's absolutely
Speaker 2: what happens all across the country. Yeah, so, Brett Cavallar.
Speaker 2: They work together to make sure they most The way
Speaker 2: they set this up is they want like ninety percent
Speaker 2: of seats to be safe, and then they fight over
Speaker 2: the other ten percent. That's the plan of the two
Speaker 2: major parties. It's an excellent point. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh, god bless him, suggested during the oral arguments
Speaker 1: that one way to deal with this is to reverse
Speaker 1: that idiotic Jingles case in our Gingles in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: six and hold that Section two prohibits any consideration of race.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: The Court's long said that race based remedial action must
Speaker 1: have a logical end point, meaning the Supreme Court during
Speaker 1: its progressive years, said yeah, yeah, we're going to take
Speaker 1: this essentially affirmative action stuff. But you're right, it shouldn't
Speaker 1: go on forever. It's just to correct some wrongs of
Speaker 1: the past, and it should have an endpoint. And there's
Speaker 1: a chance anyway that the end point with our excellent,
Speaker 1: mostly conservative spring Court is nearing. I certainly hope. So
Speaker 1: the way to get less racism is to have less racism.
Speaker 2: Go get them soups. So Russia launched a huge drone
Speaker 2: attack on Karkivan, Ukraine today, and European leaders are having
Speaker 2: a big meeting about bolstering Ukraine. Side that they're continuing
Speaker 2: to talk about European troops in Ukraine. Is there anyway
Speaker 2: Putin's gonna put up with that. I wouldn't think so.
Speaker 2: But anyway, they're actually talking about putting troops in Ukraine,
Speaker 2: like French, German, British.
Speaker 1: Wow y strong opinion on this. I will withhold it
Speaker 1: until we were actually discussing it.
Speaker 2: Twenty six teams kick off the Major League Baseball season today.
Speaker 2: That's most of them as it is opening day. Got
Speaker 2: some stats on that that are interesting. Among other things.
Speaker 2: On the way, arm Strong and Yetti, here.
Speaker 5: Are some tips on how to get your breakfast. It's
Speaker 5: he to research beforehand. You know the layout of the
Speaker 5: first floor of the hotel that you're going into, and
Speaker 5: go to the elevators first, look like you belong.
Speaker 6: There, but also look like you don't.
Speaker 5: Need to be there, Like it's an inconvenience for you
Speaker 5: to be there, just looks so busy.
Speaker 6: Be on the phone.
Speaker 5: The clipboard goes a long way. I'm already planning where
Speaker 5: I'm going for breakfast next week, please grab stuff not
Speaker 5: for yourself, the pre wrapped bagels and fru.
Speaker 6: People always eat food.
Speaker 2: So that's a TikToker explaining how to steal basically, how
Speaker 2: to get free breakfast at hotels when you're not staying
Speaker 2: at the hotel. And yeah, I think we all know
Speaker 2: you could do that. There's all kinds of things I
Speaker 2: could steal and it wouldn't be that hard. So congratulations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get a free meal at the McDonald's too,
Speaker 1: if you wait till you see a little kid holding
Speaker 1: the bag and just snatch it away from them and run.
Speaker 1: That's some handy hints there, sweetheart.
Speaker 2: Speaking of TikTok, I just saw some polling on that
Speaker 2: the support for banning TikTok has dropped a lot in
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. That's interesting, is that because
Speaker 2: Trump has completely switched one to eighty on it. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Anyway, We got more of the NPR hearing
Speaker 2: coming up in a little bit. I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: like it's even worse than you thought. But Republicans grilling
Speaker 2: the leader of NPR about past statements and beliefs and
Speaker 2: why they're so biased, and if you haven't heard this stuff.
Speaker 4: It's good.
Speaker 1: And just listening to this wench Lie and Lie and
Speaker 1: Lie is amazing.
Speaker 2: You heard me. That's old timing.
Speaker 1: So Michael sent me this link from Google top searched
Speaker 1: ballpark food on this opening day.
Speaker 2: Oh do we have Vince Scully ready? Michael?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll hear anyway. Oh and two, referenced on our
Speaker 1: show more than.
Speaker 7: Once, socialism failing to work as it always does, this
Speaker 7: time in Venezuela, to talk about giving everybody something free,
Speaker 7: and all of a sudden there's no food to eat.
Speaker 7: And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela,
Speaker 7: The daughter of Hugo Chavis.
Speaker 2: Hello anyway? Oh and two, So I don't know why
Speaker 2: I would like the larger come much. Why How did
Speaker 2: Vin Scully get start on his little socialism? Was bad screen?
Speaker 2: In between pitches.
Speaker 1: It was owing to he knew the picturer'd waste a pitch,
Speaker 1: so I figured, you know, and that was a good point.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it was like it was, you know,
Speaker 2: mid mid season game. Maybe the Dodgers weren't that good
Speaker 2: that year. He's a little bored. He's kind of like
Speaker 2: looking over the newspaper. How freaking socialism he is. By
Speaker 2: the way, socialism once again being proven it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Guess who's the richest person, Venezuela.
Speaker 1: I loved then before I heard that. After, please, I
Speaker 1: want to statue to him speaking of the baseball structure
Speaker 1: an economy. Anyway, Oh and too anyway, Oh and two.
Speaker 1: I love you, Vin So Michael sent me this link
Speaker 1: top searched ballpark food on Google, state by state. Okay,
Speaker 1: hang on, why are you googling ballpark food at all?
Speaker 2: You're only going to.
Speaker 1: Know whether to be a Yankees fan or a Mets fan.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna google broughtwursts and see who has the
Speaker 1: better one.
Speaker 2: Or I was going to go to my local team
Speaker 2: and watch them. Or I'll hop on a flight because
Speaker 2: they have hot dogs with cheese in Texas, Yes, excellent,
Speaker 2: not schows over there in Nevada. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't get what this is, Michael, anyway, I can't
Speaker 1: imagining imagine searching on ballpark food.
Speaker 2: This is really interesting.
Speaker 1: Jared Diamond, Baseball's wealth gap has become a chasm, stretching
Speaker 1: the sport to the breaking point. The financial disparity between
Speaker 1: MLB's teams has never been greater, right, and it's leading
Speaker 1: toward probably a long workstoppage and strike or lockout or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: This year. It sooner or later. Here's the problem.
Speaker 1: You got the LA Dodgers, who are gonna lay out
Speaker 1: nearly half a billion dollars on player salaries and luxury
Speaker 1: tax penalties this year have a billion. The Mets are
Speaker 1: just behind thanks to hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, who's
Speaker 1: their new owner.
Speaker 2: So that's interesting. Number one media market LA, Number two
Speaker 2: media market New York are one and two.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and LA's got a huge lucrative local TV
Speaker 1: deal because they're a great team and a great TV market,
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of Dodgers fans and it's
Speaker 1: all about local money now because they don't share it
Speaker 1: in the same way the other leagues do. I don't
Speaker 1: have time to get into the details, and you probably
Speaker 1: don't care anyway. But so you got four or five
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars on the top end. Then you got
Speaker 1: to Miami Marlins, who have a seventy million dollar payroll.
Speaker 2: Three other tevy million total.
Speaker 1: The Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago White Sox and Athletics all
Speaker 1: come in under ninety million dollars. Wow, competing with teams
Speaker 1: spending half a billion, and it just can't last.
Speaker 2: Now, that's why I tend to root for those lower
Speaker 2: budget teams when they when they get on a roll
Speaker 2: with a bunch of young players that aren't making that
Speaker 2: much money, and you got to root for them that
Speaker 2: year because if somebody stands out, they get snatched up
Speaker 2: by the Yankees match Dodgers. Right, Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 1: The lying, lying she wolf of Marxism was dragged before
Speaker 1: Congress yesterday and the results fantastic.
Speaker 5: Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Do you think the white people should pay reparations?
Speaker 6: I have never said that, sir.
Speaker 4: Yes you did. You said it in January of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: You tweeted yes, the North, yes, all of us, Yes, America, Yes,
Speaker 4: our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations, yes
Speaker 4: on this day.
Speaker 8: I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
Speaker 4: What kind of reparations was it a reference to.
Speaker 8: I think it was just a reference to the idea
Speaker 8: that we all owe much to the people who came
Speaker 8: before us.
Speaker 4: That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay,
Speaker 4: how many? How much reparations have you personally paid?
Speaker 6: Sir?
Speaker 8: I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations.
Speaker 4: Okay, just for everybody else.
Speaker 6: I'm not asking anyone whoems.
Speaker 4: To be what you're suggesting.
Speaker 1: Katherine Mayor of NPR again, and we featured a lot
Speaker 1: of audio of Brandon Gill, a congressman, Brandon Gill questioning
Speaker 1: her last hour. If you missed it, grabbed the podcast
Speaker 1: hour two Armstrong and getting on demand or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: hour one. I guess, yeah, our one. And just remember this.
Speaker 1: Marxists like Katherine Mayer lie. They lie overtly, They lie
Speaker 1: constantly because they don't expect, well, they expect nice. People
Speaker 1: will think, why can't just call her a liar? Because
Speaker 1: that just that seems mean and wrong. And people don't
Speaker 1: just lie to my face. Oh yeah, she does. She
Speaker 1: lies all the time.
Speaker 2: I've never said that. I've never said that in my life.
Speaker 2: You tweeted it, Yeah, you did, specifically and at length.
Speaker 1: In fact, you recommended a book whose whole premise was reparations.
Speaker 1: Now I don't recall reading that book, sir, And by reparations,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean money. Okay, anyway, our good old friend,
Speaker 1: the wrestler who we made friends with there in Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan. He got his chance to question her also
Speaker 1: in the hearing yesterday. Here's a little of that.
Speaker 8: Is MPR biased, Congressman, I have never seen any instance
Speaker 8: of never of pro political bias determining editorial decision.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, god, wells mister Berliner in his story
Speaker 9: a couple last year wrote, I've in the DC area
Speaker 9: editorial positions at MPR. He said he found eighty seven
Speaker 9: registered Democrats, zero Republicans. Mister Berliner, was he lying when
Speaker 9: he wrote that.
Speaker 8: I am not presuming such. I just don't have we
Speaker 8: don't track that information about our journal.
Speaker 6: Eighty seven to zero. And you're not biased, Congressman.
Speaker 8: I do not believe we are politically biased. To know
Speaker 8: we are a nonpartisan organization on partisan.
Speaker 2: Organization, what's the one? While I get your whole Marxist lifing,
Speaker 2: I know plenty of people who believe that she might
Speaker 2: actually believe that. I know Democrats who believe that because
Speaker 2: they're so they're so in their side and only hang
Speaker 2: around with those people actually makes sense to them.
Speaker 1: I guess, oh yeah, I accept that, except for the
Speaker 1: part that she might believe that. No, she's a dedicated activist.
Speaker 1: This is the woman who said, and we played it earlier,
Speaker 1: the truth can be a distraction.
Speaker 2: We need to drop this search for the truth before
Speaker 2: we get to more Jim Jordan. Since they asked particularly
Speaker 2: about bias and her saying I've seen no evidence of bias.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's hilarious. I could turn on NPR anytime
Speaker 2: of day and within five minutes find obvious bias, and
Speaker 2: usually just in their story choice. They're covering a story
Speaker 2: that only graduate student women in America are talking about.
Speaker 2: Nobody else in America is having a discussion about the
Speaker 2: thing that they spend the next six minutes on whatever,
Speaker 2: hammering it at length. All right, anyway, But so this
Speaker 2: was NPR NPBS being grilled about this yesterday. These stats
Speaker 2: came out yesterday from who is from the MRC whatever
Speaker 2: they are media some Idio Research Council. PBS used the
Speaker 2: term last year extreme right one hundred and sixty two times.
Speaker 2: They used the term extreme left six times. So extreme
Speaker 2: right comes up in the news a lot, extreme left
Speaker 2: almost never. And then, even more egregious to me, coverage
Speaker 2: of the conventions mentioned that we made friends with Jim
Speaker 2: Jordan there in Milwaukee, the coverage on PBS of the
Speaker 2: r NC was seventy two percent negative. The coverage of
Speaker 2: the DNC in Chicago was eighty eight percent positive. I've
Speaker 2: never seen any evidence of any political bias, so three
Speaker 2: quarters negative to recover the Republicans, ninety percent positive to
Speaker 2: cover the Democrats. That's just the way they see it.
Speaker 2: We're a non partisan organization. More Jim Jordan, what's.
Speaker 9: Happening to your listeners over the last five years?
Speaker 1: Went up?
Speaker 6: Down or stayed?
Speaker 4: To say?
Speaker 6: It has gone up and down and is now going
Speaker 6: back up.
Speaker 9: I thought five years ago is at sixty million, and
Speaker 9: you said in your opening statement, I think forty three million.
Speaker 6: That's correct, So forty three.
Speaker 9: Million now and it was that sixty million five years ago.
Speaker 9: I can do some math that looks like it.
Speaker 6: Went down and is now going back up.
Speaker 2: Is now going back up?
Speaker 6: Yes? Is how much?
Speaker 2: Is it went back up?
Speaker 6: It's from up a couple of millions over the past.
Speaker 9: All, so you went from sixty million to forty one million.
Speaker 6: Now you're back up to forty three.
Speaker 8: Million in a year's time. I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 6: Grosser.
Speaker 9: Okay, you're proud of that that growth.
Speaker 2: Okay, more money for less listeners.
Speaker 9: You fired the guy who pointed all this out, who
Speaker 9: said that you were so biased to the left that
Speaker 9: you lost listeners, which is exactly happening, and you're here
Speaker 9: maintaining that, Oh you need, you need to continue to
Speaker 9: get taxpayer.
Speaker 2: Money, which is the root of this whole thing. Is
Speaker 2: the hearing is why do you get federal dollars? Why
Speaker 2: is everybody's tax money being pulled together to help you
Speaker 2: out when you represent I mean, seriously, at this point,
Speaker 2: NPR represents five percent of the country's views. Maybe at
Speaker 2: the best. Yeah, I'm not sure. It's a number higher
Speaker 2: than that. I don't know. I listen a lot. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe it's because I'm getting the you know, the norcl
Speaker 2: version of NPR. Oh yeah, versus the Kansas City version
Speaker 2: of NPR. I don't know, But I mean the amount
Speaker 2: of coverage on you know, trans illegals, whether or not
Speaker 2: they're getting enough money and stuff like that's like, who
Speaker 2: is this four right? Right? I would say, you know,
Speaker 2: I would say there.
Speaker 1: They're sweet spot is or they're directing ideologically, they're you know,
Speaker 1: their editorial decisions in that very very narrow direction. There's
Speaker 1: a certain part of America that still thinks that stuff
Speaker 1: is good and moral and to be a good person.
Speaker 1: You're down with trans illegal immigrant rights. But anyway, not
Speaker 1: to get distracted by that point. They are wildly wildly
Speaker 1: left and a you know, wholly owned at least ideologically
Speaker 1: subsidiary of one party.
Speaker 2: Obviously, how about eighty We haven't heard that yet. Representative
Speaker 2: Cloud asking a question.
Speaker 9: Now you are here managing NPR, which is in part
Speaker 9: federally funded, can we expect that you will bring the
Speaker 9: same lack of reverence for truth to your management of NPR.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Congressman.
Speaker 8: First of all, I do want to say that NPR
Speaker 8: acknowledges that we were mistaken and failing to cover the
Speaker 8: Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner our current
Speaker 8: editorial leadership WUHAN, We recognize that we were reporting at
Speaker 8: the time, but we acknowledge that the new CIA evidence
Speaker 8: is worthy of coverage and have covered it.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, The WUHAN lablink was always leak, was
Speaker 1: always the most obvious explanation. The Brits knew it, the
Speaker 1: Germans knew it, CIA knew it. You know, I want
Speaker 1: to we can finish up with Mike Cloud here. Then
Speaker 1: I want to play the MTG stuff, which looks pretty
Speaker 1: good Marjorie Taylor Green. And in fact, I think that
Speaker 1: really ought to go first, because she references the screed,
Speaker 1: the TED talk that Catherine Mayer gave that said the
Speaker 1: truth is a distraction from accomplishing what we're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2: So ear's MTG in seventy six.
Speaker 10: In twenty twenty one, you called the First Amendment the
Speaker 10: number one challenge in American journalism because it makes it
Speaker 10: hard to crack down on bad information. You said in
Speaker 10: a TED talk that our reverence for the truth might
Speaker 10: be a distraction. You've also expressed support for deep platforming
Speaker 10: individuals you.
Speaker 2: View as fascist.
Speaker 10: Who do you think should be charged with cracking down
Speaker 10: on so called bad information? Is it NPR? Is it
Speaker 10: the government? Is it you, Miss Mar?
Speaker 8: Congress Woman, Madame Chair, thank you so much for the
Speaker 8: opportunity to address this.
Speaker 6: I know the youth.
Speaker 10: Is it Is it up to you a MPR to
Speaker 10: crack down on bad information or decide the truth? Answer
Speaker 10: the question yes or no, Miss.
Speaker 8: Mar, absolutely not. I'm a very strong believer in free speech,
Speaker 8: and I believe that more.
Speaker 10: Your your public statements say otherwise.
Speaker 6: Ms Marr.
Speaker 10: In twenty twenty one, when speaking at an Atlantic Council event,
Speaker 10: you said that when you were CEO of Wikipedia, you
Speaker 10: took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation during
Speaker 10: the COVID pandemic. In the twenty twenty election, you said
Speaker 10: you censored information through conversations with government. Which governments were those,
Speaker 10: Miss Mahr the Biden administration?
Speaker 8: Yes or no, Madam Cher, Wikipedia never censored any information.
Speaker 10: These are your public statements.
Speaker 2: Mess Now. She called the BFMTG congressman on purpose or
Speaker 2: was that just a sign? And I think that was
Speaker 2: just a slip of the tongue. She saw the guns
Speaker 2: and thought, wow, bad built bush body. All right, that's
Speaker 2: enough of that.
Speaker 1: I would just you know, you know, kudos to in
Speaker 1: MTG for doing a pretty good job. I would have
Speaker 1: just laid out that Ted Talk quote and the First
Speaker 1: Amendment quote and said, explain.
Speaker 2: Yourself, yeah, no kidding, Well, for instance, and I'll just
Speaker 2: read this part Representative Fallon. I don't know who that is,
Speaker 2: but ask this question. In twenty twenty, NPR branded Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden's laptop story a waste of time. I remember that.
Speaker 2: Do you know how many times NPR interviewed Adam Schiff
Speaker 2: about the Russian collusion hoax? I don't know, she said,
Speaker 2: twenty five times, said Representative Fallon. How many times did
Speaker 2: NPR interview Chairman Comber about the Biden impeachment inquiry in
Speaker 2: the Biden family's illicit business dealings? I don't know, she said,
Speaker 2: zero times, twenty five times for Adam Shiff, zero times
Speaker 2: for Comer between June and November of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: and PBS's News Hour used the term far far right
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two times far left six times.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that.
Speaker 1: I've never seen any examples of political bias right congressman
Speaker 1: or woman.
Speaker 2: And after laying out the percentage of negative coverage for
Speaker 2: the GOPS versus positive countite of Democratic conventions, she said,
Speaker 2: I believe they work hard every day was her reasonablise,
Speaker 2: which is always good.
Speaker 1: If you go through her long list of public statements
Speaker 1: through the years, many of them quite detailed. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like she was had a bumper sticker that
Speaker 1: said sometimes the truth gets in the way.
Speaker 2: I mean, she gave a speech about it.
Speaker 1: You can come to no conclusion other than that she
Speaker 1: is a neo Marxist bent on tearing down the institutions
Speaker 1: of the United States of America and the Western world
Speaker 1: in general, and then she lies about it shamelessly and
Speaker 1: egregiously with a smile on her pretty face there in Congress.
Speaker 1: The idea that she is running a government supported broadcast
Speaker 1: organization is abhorrent. It's so crazy that normal people. I
Speaker 1: think it can't be as crazy as it feels, because
Speaker 1: something that insane would never get that far.
Speaker 2: But it has one thing I don't know about the organization,
Speaker 2: like the whole.
Speaker 1: You have dudes beaten the hell out of women in
Speaker 1: women's in girls' sports. How could something that insane be happening.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to question my own perceptions. It must not
Speaker 1: be as obscene as it seems to me.
Speaker 2: No, it is. It is that obscene. You're right. One
Speaker 2: thing I don't know about the organization, maybe you do so,
Speaker 2: Like if you listen to NPR anywhere in the country,
Speaker 2: like a big chunk of the hour is the national
Speaker 2: Like everybody's hearing the same thing on every station, and
Speaker 2: then there's your local version jumping in and like the
Speaker 2: local version in San Francisco is just is insane like
Speaker 2: you would expect it to be. But does the does
Speaker 2: the national version have any role in that? They should,
Speaker 2: I mean, they should be able to say, hey, hey,
Speaker 2: you know you're you're part of the NPR family. You
Speaker 2: can't go this far with your your local segments being
Speaker 2: just completely nut job.
Speaker 1: I don't do that, and I don't know. I mean no,
Speaker 1: I don't think they feel like they should. And even
Speaker 1: if they did, it would never be for being too
Speaker 1: far left.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, that's almost funny. Well, I got
Speaker 2: to believe that the national view, as we're hearing from
Speaker 2: the person in charge, certainly gives cover and license to
Speaker 2: the you know, all the San Francisco's of Seattle's the
Speaker 2: las of the world. Well, whatever city you're in, it's
Speaker 2: the most left news you've got anywhere on the radio.
Speaker 2: I don't care what city you're in. It's just something.
Speaker 2: I mean. And uh. And the fact that our the
Speaker 2: local one I listen to, is running promos right now,
Speaker 2: their fund their fundraiser this time of year, and all
Speaker 2: their promos are, you know, keep misinformation at bay. And
Speaker 2: then they have quotes from people saying in this splintered
Speaker 2: media universe. It's so important that we have a trusted
Speaker 2: news source, And like, are you freaking buying news source?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I've heard those promos. Yeah, I mean that's that's nuts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people are deranged. You've lost your grasp of reality.
Speaker 2: If you believe it. If you're lying, well then you
Speaker 2: know you're being good at being Marxists. I guess uh,
Speaker 2: any thought I'm less my last thought. Uh, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: we are. We always try to be fair.
Speaker 1: We are unquestionably unabashedly conservative. We are trying to promote
Speaker 1: conservative values and to some extent, candidates because we think
Speaker 1: it's better for the country. All right, now your turn.
Speaker 1: Say what you're doing. Just be honest about it. If
Speaker 1: you're if you're a flaming lefty, say I'm a flaming lefty,
Speaker 1: and then let your ideas stand up against mine. Let's
Speaker 1: get it on.
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Speaker 6: Ah?
Speaker 2: I uh, I just came across a sleep thing. I
Speaker 2: sleep aid advertisement and I am, for whatever reason, sleeping
Speaker 2: the worst I've ever slept in my life, and I
Speaker 2: don't have the slightest idea why. And it's really really annoying.
Speaker 2: Never been a great sleeper, but this is just it's
Speaker 2: like it's horrible now, just horrible. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is, and I don't want to and I want
Speaker 2: to get into drugs and stuff like that. All I took.
Speaker 2: The terrible things you've done finally caught up with me.
Speaker 2: The guilt. I just saw an ad for these Oslo
Speaker 2: sleep buds. They're three hundred bucks. They're supposed to be great.
Speaker 2: It's not noise that's keeping me awake though, pretty sure,
Speaker 2: so I don't need you, old man. I don't need
Speaker 2: to plug my ears.
Speaker 6: It's not age.
Speaker 2: I don't think it is either. I'm doing terrible probably yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not guilted, shame, completely different emotion. Two days ago,
Speaker 2: I laid in bed for an hour and a half,
Speaker 2: just laid there. That's the worst, is among the worst feelings.
Speaker 2: Easy sleep whatever that is. AnyWho have you tried getting bombed?
Speaker 2: I have ill asleep like a baby. I was looking
Speaker 2: at these various products. She got the Oslo sleep buds
Speaker 2: if it was noise, I would look into that. But
Speaker 2: it's not the Manta sleep mask with sound. It's two
Speaker 2: hundred bucks. Looks it's a little too I'm a gimp
Speaker 2: like mask, I mean, like covers your whole head and
Speaker 2: plugs your ears and everything like that. I'm afraid somebody's
Speaker 2: gonna sneak in the middle of the night and take
Speaker 2: my virginity. I mean, I would I even know anybody
Speaker 2: who was in the house with this thing on. Well,
Speaker 2: how terrible was that kid? I'm gonna sleep worse now
Speaker 2: that's gonna be in my head. Cut a wrong back.
Speaker 2: But the thing I've never heard answered before is why
Speaker 2: can I sleep like a baby in the afternoon? And
Speaker 2: I don't get to do that very often with my
Speaker 2: lifestyle and homeschool and kid and everything like that. But man,
Speaker 2: if I get the chance to lay down at one o'clock,
Speaker 2: I can sleep like I'm dead for a couple of hours.
Speaker 2: Why only in the afternoon. That doesn't that belie the
Speaker 2: other things that might be causing my sleep problems at night?
Speaker 2: Maybe you're nocturnal.
Speaker 1: Now the immediate response would be, well, you can't sleep
Speaker 1: at night because you're napping in the afternoon, But I
Speaker 1: know that's a rare.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't get the nap in the afternoon very often. Yeah. No,
Speaker 2: I'm exhausted when I go to bed, exhausted. But have
Speaker 2: you ever heard an answer for that? Why you can
Speaker 2: sleep a certain part of the day like a rock?
Speaker 2: If you can't, if you're if you're struggling with sleeping
Speaker 2: all the time. Okay, that's one thing. Then it could
Speaker 2: be age, diet, blah blah blah, who knows what it is.
Speaker 2: But if certain times of the day you can sleep
Speaker 2: like a rock, you can at night? What is that?
Speaker 2: Does anybody know your circadian rhythms are off? Oh? Uh,
Speaker 2: you gotta eat Greek yogurt. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: what I do about that. Uh, dancing, that's the only
Speaker 2: way to get your rid of dancing. Text line four
Speaker 2: one five two nine five KFTC. If you can sleep
Speaker 2: great in the afternoon but not at night, what is that?
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Speaker 2: actually want the answer.
Speaker 1: And it's important you wear really tight Lululemon pants while
Speaker 1: you're dancing.
Speaker 2: I'm not wearing the gimp mask plug in my ears.
Speaker 2: How could you sleep well? Knowing that you know, somebody
Speaker 2: could drive a car into your house and you wouldn't
Speaker 2: know it. It's not comfortable. Armstrong and Getty