March 27, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Tariffs on cars & world of conflicting rules
- Stealing breakfast, TikTok ban & Vin Scully
- More PBS coverage
- Jack can't sleep
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
President Trump announced this twenty five percent tariff on all
cars not made in the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
He says that these.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Tariffs kick in on April second, and the United States
will start collecting on April third.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So just a couple of days away from twenty five
percent tariffs kicking on cars that aren't made in the
United States in theory, So if that happens, I have
no idea what that's going to do to the car market.
Neither does anybody else or she spends on how long
it lasts too, But wow, that's something.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I wonder if our folks flooding to the various
German car brand dealers to get in under.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The wire or what. Well you you understand this stuff
better than me, so well that that will make all
cars more expensive, right one all cars can Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, there are a lot of depends when you're talking
about tariffs and their effect on consumer prices, just because
of the different nature of different products, price elasticity. You know,
how much competition there is domestically, there's just a bunch
of factors. But yes, it will make all cars more expensive. Well,
it's cars and part a little or a lot. And
(01:36):
I was looking at a chart yesterday. I wish I
had a screen captured because which is pretty interesting. Tesla
is one hundred percent every bit of it made in
the United States. That's why we're setting fire to them,
jack we Liberals.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Then next you get to Ford, which is like seventy
five percent everything in the United States, and a couple
percentage of parts come from Mexico and Canada. Then some
stuff that comes from somewhere else. But then it just
it goes goes on down the road to where you
get to stuff that ain't ain't nothing made in the
United States with the different car makers, so it varies
from maker to maker.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, and a lot of the foreign you know makers
have gigantic plants in the US, so it's it's tough
to know just by the name or you know, yeah
it's Hyundai Korean. Yeah, but they've I think they have
a giant plant in Tennessee or something anyway, so that'll
be interesting to see unfold. It's all a bit chaotic,
if it's moving toward actual, more reciprocal tariffs, therefore lower
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tariffs eventually.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I'd like to see that.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Plus, the Supreme Court needs to weigh in on whether
Trump can actually do what he's doing, citing in a
national emergency of of a fentanyl Therefore, we must put
a twenty five percent tariff on vmw's.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
God, I made a purchase yesterday. I just I can't.
I don't know. There's some obstinacy in me driving this.
This is a Tesla brand vehicle that is like the Ultimates.
You go ahead, and I'm gonna and I'm picking it
up this weekend, and I'm gonna pull into my neighborhood
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where there are people who still have Harris Walls signs
in their yard. Shame on you. And if your neighbor
gets a Tesla. At this point, I feel like it's
a deliberate message. I don't know. I just love the
I don't know. We'll see how this plays on. I
(03:32):
have a feeling I'm gonna get keyed within a week
in my tires slash. I better carry spare tires in
the in the bed, or you know, have your car
on constant video mode. It is automatically there's an upgrade. Yeah, yeah, okay, great.
You know there's no way to prove this. I'm just
thinking out loud. Harris Walls was almost certainly, and I'm
(03:52):
scanning my memory banks now, almost certainly the lowest IQ
ticket in the history of American politics, presidential politics. I
could kick most of their ass. I could kick most
of their ass, like the right right cheek. Is that
what you mean?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, well yeah, and part of the left wing, yes,
most of them, ask and then then the word salad somalier.
Supreme Kamalo was at the head of the ticket. I mean, seriously,
you'd have to dig deep. I mean, Buchanan was a
bit of a paced eater. But anyway, uh speaking of the.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Supreme Court is that was very childish though, I think,
I mean, I mock this sort of thing. I like
two thirds wanted the vehicle anyway, but the extra third
that got me across the line is it's just gonna
annoy so many people that I don't mind annoying.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, and I honestly, honestly though, I get what you're saying.
We're all fighting back against the woke mind virus. The
neo Marxists in ways great and small to the of
our ability. And that's a that's a signal of defiance. No,
I am not going to bow down to you in
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your wacky worldview.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It's a little odd, but it's a tip of the cap.
Look at you, go, yeah, look at you all right.
So we don't just go over the news here and
talk about it and try to bring you perspective.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's most of what we do.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But this is more of a thinking thing here. The
Supreme Court is going to be looking at some cases
having to do with jerry mandering, drawing of congressional districts.
Jerry Mandering is the old timey expression that means drawing
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up congressional districts intentionally in a way to gain political advantage.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
If you're not familiar with the term, and if you
were told in third grade, is illegal, yeah, absolutely unconstitutional
and moral, et cetera. We throughout the quote last from
Joseph Stalin. The people who cast the votes don't decide
an election. The people who count the votes to well.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You could add to old Joe's wisdom here, the people
who draw the districts due And I remember this from
college when I was studying this stuff. Hearing what you're
about to hear, and as a wee lad of eighteen
nineteen years old, I had exactly the same reaction to
(06:28):
it now that I did. Then I'll lay it on you.
So a couple of days ago, Monday felt like groundhog Day,
rights a legal analyst.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's the Editorial Board Journal.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, there's yet another redistricting challenge, this one from Louisiana.
And they say, if the Robe de nine are tired
of reviewing state maps because they're asked to over and
over and over again.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
North Carolina was.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
A big case recently and several others, they could declare
racial gerrymanders unconstitutional. Stop now, I have a feeling you're thinking,
wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. You
can draw congressional districts to achieve a specific racial outcome.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
How does that.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Square with Title two or nine or whatever, all the
you know, the Civil Rights Act, all that stuff. Well,
here's where it gets nutty. So Louisiana, like all the states,
trying to navigate this.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
World of conflicting rules.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
If states weigh race too heavily, they run a foul
of the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. But if they ignore race,
they can be sued for violating Section two of the
Voting Rights Act, and Louisiana has hit it both ways. First,
you have progressives challenging the House map that the Republicans
drew up after twenty twenty because it included only one
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majority minority district out of six. One out of six
that would be seventeen percent. Right, Blacks make up thirty
percent of Louisiana's voting age population, and the plaintiff's reasons
that reason that two districts should be majority black, which
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would make it thirty four percent of the districts. In essence,
what Section two says. It doesn't establish a right to
proportional representation. You don't have to demonstrate that, Hey, we
got one fifth black people in the state, one fifth
of the districts are majority black, and they'll always vote
for black folks. If I might depart from the facts
(08:35):
here for a second, what is this assumption that black
people have vastly different interests in electoral outcomes than white people.
Where does that idea come from? Why would they I
would like good schools and opportunities to have a job
in a neighborhood where I'm not going to get passion
over the head in my stuff taken says like everybody anyway.
(09:01):
But the liberal plaintiffs cited the High Court's terrible nineteen
eighty six decision I won't bother the boring you with
that test requires minority populations to be large, compact, and
politically cohesive to constitute a majority minority district, and that
white votes sufficiently as a group to defeat of minorities
preferred candidate. Blah blah blah blah blah. Can't we just
(09:22):
get rid of this crap now, as like simple geographic
districts is possible that have the same population in them
and not these snaking, weird, manipulated districts. Is there anybody
who looks at that other than partisans who just want
power and says.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Nice job with that district? Yeah, I know, doesn't every
American look at them and say, what the hell is that?
I spent most of my life, like I said, learning
in third grade that it was illegal, So I assumed
they didn't do that until we know. I got into
talk radio and started paying more attention and seeing how
various districts I've lived in were drawn, and that's absolutely
what happens all across the country. Yeah, so, Brett Cavallar.
(10:04):
They work together to make sure they most The way
they set this up is they want like ninety percent
of seats to be safe, and then they fight over
the other ten percent. That's the plan of the two
major parties. It's an excellent point. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Brett Kavanaugh, god bless him, suggested during the oral arguments
that one way to deal with this is to reverse
that idiotic Jingles case in our Gingles in nineteen eighty
six and hold that Section two prohibits any consideration of race.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The Court's long said that race based remedial action must
have a logical end point, meaning the Supreme Court during
its progressive years, said yeah, yeah, we're going to take
this essentially affirmative action stuff. But you're right, it shouldn't
go on forever. It's just to correct some wrongs of
the past, and it should have an endpoint. And there's
a chance anyway that the end point with our excellent,
(10:54):
mostly conservative spring Court is nearing. I certainly hope. So
the way to get less racism is to have less racism.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Go get them soups. So Russia launched a huge drone
attack on Karkivan, Ukraine today, and European leaders are having
a big meeting about bolstering Ukraine. Side that they're continuing
to talk about European troops in Ukraine. Is there anyway
Putin's gonna put up with that. I wouldn't think so.
(11:24):
But anyway, they're actually talking about putting troops in Ukraine,
like French, German, British.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Wow y strong opinion on this. I will withhold it
until we were actually discussing it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Twenty six teams kick off the Major League Baseball season today.
That's most of them as it is opening day. Got
some stats on that that are interesting. Among other things.
On the way, arm Strong and Yetti, here.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Are some tips on how to get your breakfast. It's
he to research beforehand. You know the layout of the
first floor of the hotel that you're going into, and
go to the elevators first, look like you belong.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
There, but also look like you don't.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Need to be there, Like it's an inconvenience for you
to be there, just looks so busy.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Be on the phone.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
The clipboard goes a long way. I'm already planning where
I'm going for breakfast next week, please grab stuff not
for yourself, the pre wrapped bagels and fru.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
People always eat food.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So that's a TikToker explaining how to steal basically, how
to get free breakfast at hotels when you're not staying
at the hotel. And yeah, I think we all know
you could do that. There's all kinds of things I
could steal and it wouldn't be that hard. So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, you can get a free meal at the McDonald's too,
if you wait till you see a little kid holding
the bag and just snatch it away from them and run.
That's some handy hints there, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Speaking of TikTok, I just saw some polling on that
the support for banning TikTok has dropped a lot in
the last couple of years. That's interesting, is that because
Trump has completely switched one to eighty on it. I
don't know. Anyway, We got more of the NPR hearing
coming up in a little bit. I think you're gonna
like it's even worse than you thought. But Republicans grilling
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the leader of NPR about past statements and beliefs and
why they're so biased, and if you haven't heard this stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And just listening to this wench Lie and Lie and
Lie is amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You heard me. That's old timing.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So Michael sent me this link from Google top searched
ballpark food on this opening day.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Oh do we have Vince Scully ready? Michael?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, you'll hear anyway. Oh and two, referenced on our
show more than.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Once, socialism failing to work as it always does, this
time in Venezuela, to talk about giving everybody something free,
and all of a sudden there's no food to eat.
And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela,
The daughter of Hugo Chavis.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Hello anyway? Oh and two, So I don't know why
I would like the larger come much. Why How did
Vin Scully get start on his little socialism? Was bad screen?
In between pitches.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It was owing to he knew the picturer'd waste a pitch,
so I figured, you know, and that was a good point.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I wonder if it was like it was, you know,
mid mid season game. Maybe the Dodgers weren't that good
that year. He's a little bored. He's kind of like
looking over the newspaper. How freaking socialism he is. By
the way, socialism once again being proven it doesn't work.
Guess who's the richest person, Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I loved then before I heard that. After, please, I
want to statue to him speaking of the baseball structure
an economy. Anyway, Oh and too anyway, Oh and two.
I love you, Vin So Michael sent me this link
top searched ballpark food on Google, state by state. Okay,
hang on, why are you googling ballpark food at all?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You're only going to.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Know whether to be a Yankees fan or a Mets fan.
So I'm gonna google broughtwursts and see who has the
better one.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Or I was going to go to my local team
and watch them. Or I'll hop on a flight because
they have hot dogs with cheese in Texas, Yes, excellent,
not schows over there in Nevada. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I don't get what this is, Michael, anyway, I can't
imagining imagine searching on ballpark food.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
This is really interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Jared Diamond, Baseball's wealth gap has become a chasm, stretching
the sport to the breaking point. The financial disparity between
MLB's teams has never been greater, right, and it's leading
toward probably a long workstoppage and strike or lockout or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
This year. It sooner or later. Here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
You got the LA Dodgers, who are gonna lay out
nearly half a billion dollars on player salaries and luxury
tax penalties this year have a billion. The Mets are
just behind thanks to hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, who's
their new owner.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So that's interesting. Number one media market LA, Number two
media market New York are one and two.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, yeah, and LA's got a huge lucrative local TV
deal because they're a great team and a great TV market,
and there are a lot of Dodgers fans and it's
all about local money now because they don't share it
in the same way the other leagues do. I don't
have time to get into the details, and you probably
don't care anyway. But so you got four or five
hundred million dollars on the top end. Then you got
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to Miami Marlins, who have a seventy million dollar payroll.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Three other tevy million total.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
The Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago White Sox and Athletics all
come in under ninety million dollars. Wow, competing with teams
spending half a billion, and it just can't last.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Now, that's why I tend to root for those lower
budget teams when they when they get on a roll
with a bunch of young players that aren't making that
much money, and you got to root for them that
year because if somebody stands out, they get snatched up
by the Yankees match Dodgers. Right, Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
The lying, lying she wolf of Marxism was dragged before
Congress yesterday and the results fantastic.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Do you think the white people should pay reparations?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I have never said that, sir.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yes you did. You said it in January of twenty twenty.
You tweeted yes, the North, yes, all of us, Yes, America, Yes,
our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations, yes
on this day.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
What kind of reparations was it a reference to.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
I think it was just a reference to the idea
that we all owe much to the people who came
before us.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay,
how many? How much reparations have you personally paid?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Okay, just for everybody else.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I'm not asking anyone whoems.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
To be what you're suggesting.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Katherine Mayor of NPR again, and we featured a lot
of audio of Brandon Gill, a congressman, Brandon Gill questioning
her last hour. If you missed it, grabbed the podcast
hour two Armstrong and getting on demand or I'm sorry,
hour one. I guess, yeah, our one. And just remember this.
(18:21):
Marxists like Katherine Mayer lie. They lie overtly, They lie
constantly because they don't expect, well, they expect nice. People
will think, why can't just call her a liar? Because
that just that seems mean and wrong. And people don't
just lie to my face. Oh yeah, she does. She
lies all the time.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I've never said that. I've never said that in my life.
You tweeted it, Yeah, you did, specifically and at length.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
In fact, you recommended a book whose whole premise was reparations.
Now I don't recall reading that book, sir, And by reparations,
I didn't mean money. Okay, anyway, our good old friend,
the wrestler who we made friends with there in Milwaukee,
Jim Jordan. He got his chance to question her also
in the hearing yesterday. Here's a little of that.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Is MPR biased, Congressman, I have never seen any instance
of never of pro political bias determining editorial decision.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Oh my god, god, wells mister Berliner in his story
a couple last year wrote, I've in the DC area
editorial positions at MPR. He said he found eighty seven
registered Democrats, zero Republicans. Mister Berliner, was he lying when
he wrote that.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
I am not presuming such. I just don't have we
don't track that information about our journal.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Eighty seven to zero. And you're not biased, Congressman.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
I do not believe we are politically biased. To know
we are a nonpartisan organization on partisan.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Organization, what's the one? While I get your whole Marxist lifing,
I know plenty of people who believe that she might
actually believe that. I know Democrats who believe that because
they're so they're so in their side and only hang
around with those people actually makes sense to them.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I guess, oh yeah, I accept that, except for the
part that she might believe that. No, she's a dedicated activist.
This is the woman who said, and we played it earlier,
the truth can be a distraction.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
We need to drop this search for the truth before
we get to more Jim Jordan. Since they asked particularly
about bias and her saying I've seen no evidence of bias.
I mean, that's hilarious. I could turn on NPR anytime
of day and within five minutes find obvious bias, and
usually just in their story choice. They're covering a story
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that only graduate student women in America are talking about.
Nobody else in America is having a discussion about the
thing that they spend the next six minutes on whatever,
hammering it at length. All right, anyway, But so this
was NPR NPBS being grilled about this yesterday. These stats
came out yesterday from who is from the MRC whatever
(21:03):
they are media some Idio Research Council. PBS used the
term last year extreme right one hundred and sixty two times.
They used the term extreme left six times. So extreme
right comes up in the news a lot, extreme left
almost never. And then, even more egregious to me, coverage
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of the conventions mentioned that we made friends with Jim
Jordan there in Milwaukee, the coverage on PBS of the
r NC was seventy two percent negative. The coverage of
the DNC in Chicago was eighty eight percent positive. I've
never seen any evidence of any political bias, so three
quarters negative to recover the Republicans, ninety percent positive to
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cover the Democrats. That's just the way they see it.
We're a non partisan organization. More Jim Jordan, what's.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Happening to your listeners over the last five years?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Went up?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Down or stayed?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
To say?
Speaker 6 (22:02):
It has gone up and down and is now going
back up.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
I thought five years ago is at sixty million, and
you said in your opening statement, I think forty three million.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
That's correct, So forty three.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Million now and it was that sixty million five years ago.
I can do some math that looks like it.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Went down and is now going back up.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Is now going back up?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yes? Is how much?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Is it went back up?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
It's from up a couple of millions over the past.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
All, so you went from sixty million to forty one million.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Now you're back up to forty three.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Million in a year's time. I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Grosser.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Okay, you're proud of that that growth.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, more money for less listeners.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
You fired the guy who pointed all this out, who
said that you were so biased to the left that
you lost listeners, which is exactly happening, and you're here
maintaining that, Oh you need, you need to continue to
get taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Money, which is the root of this whole thing. Is
the hearing is why do you get federal dollars? Why
is everybody's tax money being pulled together to help you
out when you represent I mean, seriously, at this point,
NPR represents five percent of the country's views. Maybe at
the best. Yeah, I'm not sure. It's a number higher
(23:07):
than that. I don't know. I listen a lot. Maybe
maybe it's because I'm getting the you know, the norcl
version of NPR. Oh yeah, versus the Kansas City version
of NPR. I don't know, But I mean the amount
of coverage on you know, trans illegals, whether or not
they're getting enough money and stuff like that's like, who
(23:27):
is this four right? Right? I would say, you know,
I would say there.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
They're sweet spot is or they're directing ideologically, they're you know,
their editorial decisions in that very very narrow direction. There's
a certain part of America that still thinks that stuff
is good and moral and to be a good person.
(23:52):
You're down with trans illegal immigrant rights. But anyway, not
to get distracted by that point. They are wildly wildly
left and a you know, wholly owned at least ideologically
subsidiary of one party.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Obviously, how about eighty We haven't heard that yet. Representative
Cloud asking a question.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Now you are here managing NPR, which is in part
federally funded, can we expect that you will bring the
same lack of reverence for truth to your management of NPR.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Thank you, Congressman.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
First of all, I do want to say that NPR
acknowledges that we were mistaken and failing to cover the
Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner our current
editorial leadership WUHAN, We recognize that we were reporting at
the time, but we acknowledge that the new CIA evidence
is worthy of coverage and have covered it.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
No, no, no, The WUHAN lablink was always leak, was
always the most obvious explanation. The Brits knew it, the
Germans knew it, CIA knew it. You know, I want
to we can finish up with Mike Cloud here. Then
I want to play the MTG stuff, which looks pretty
good Marjorie Taylor Green. And in fact, I think that
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really ought to go first, because she references the screed,
the TED talk that Catherine Mayer gave that said the
truth is a distraction from accomplishing what we're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So ear's MTG in seventy six.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
In twenty twenty one, you called the First Amendment the
number one challenge in American journalism because it makes it
hard to crack down on bad information. You said in
a TED talk that our reverence for the truth might
be a distraction. You've also expressed support for deep platforming
(25:36):
individuals you.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
View as fascist.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
Who do you think should be charged with cracking down
on so called bad information? Is it NPR? Is it
the government? Is it you, Miss Mar?
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Congress Woman, Madame Chair, thank you so much for the
opportunity to address this.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
I know the youth.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Is it Is it up to you a MPR to
crack down on bad information or decide the truth? Answer
the question yes or no, Miss.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Mar, absolutely not. I'm a very strong believer in free speech,
and I believe that more.
Speaker 10 (26:09):
Your your public statements say otherwise.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Ms Marr.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
In twenty twenty one, when speaking at an Atlantic Council event,
you said that when you were CEO of Wikipedia, you
took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation during
the COVID pandemic. In the twenty twenty election, you said
you censored information through conversations with government. Which governments were those,
Miss Mahr the Biden administration?
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Yes or no, Madam Cher, Wikipedia never censored any information.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
These are your public statements.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Mess Now. She called the BFMTG congressman on purpose or
was that just a sign? And I think that was
just a slip of the tongue. She saw the guns
and thought, wow, bad built bush body. All right, that's
enough of that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I would just you know, you know, kudos to in
MTG for doing a pretty good job. I would have
just laid out that Ted Talk quote and the First
Amendment quote and said, explain.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yourself, yeah, no kidding, Well, for instance, and I'll just
read this part Representative Fallon. I don't know who that is,
but ask this question. In twenty twenty, NPR branded Hunter
Biden's laptop story a waste of time. I remember that.
Do you know how many times NPR interviewed Adam Schiff
about the Russian collusion hoax? I don't know, she said,
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twenty five times, said Representative Fallon. How many times did
NPR interview Chairman Comber about the Biden impeachment inquiry in
the Biden family's illicit business dealings? I don't know, she said,
zero times, twenty five times for Adam Shiff, zero times
for Comer between June and November of twenty twenty three,
and PBS's News Hour used the term far far right
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one hundred and sixty two times far left six times.
I mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I've never seen any examples of political bias right congressman
or woman.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
And after laying out the percentage of negative coverage for
the GOPS versus positive countite of Democratic conventions, she said,
I believe they work hard every day was her reasonablise,
which is always good.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
If you go through her long list of public statements
through the years, many of them quite detailed. I mean,
it's not like she was had a bumper sticker that
said sometimes the truth gets in the way.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I mean, she gave a speech about it.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You can come to no conclusion other than that she
is a neo Marxist bent on tearing down the institutions
of the United States of America and the Western world
in general, and then she lies about it shamelessly and
egregiously with a smile on her pretty face there in Congress.
The idea that she is running a government supported broadcast
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organization is abhorrent. It's so crazy that normal people. I
think it can't be as crazy as it feels, because
something that insane would never get that far.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
But it has one thing I don't know about the organization,
like the whole.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You have dudes beaten the hell out of women in
women's in girls' sports. How could something that insane be happening.
I'm starting to question my own perceptions. It must not
be as obscene as it seems to me.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, it is. It is that obscene. You're right. One
thing I don't know about the organization, maybe you do so,
Like if you listen to NPR anywhere in the country,
like a big chunk of the hour is the national
Like everybody's hearing the same thing on every station, and
then there's your local version jumping in and like the
local version in San Francisco is just is insane like
you would expect it to be. But does the does
(29:43):
the national version have any role in that? They should,
I mean, they should be able to say, hey, hey,
you know you're you're part of the NPR family. You
can't go this far with your your local segments being
just completely nut job.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I don't do that, and I don't know. I mean no,
I don't think they feel like they should. And even
if they did, it would never be for being too
far left.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I mean, come on, that's almost funny. Well, I got
to believe that the national view, as we're hearing from
the person in charge, certainly gives cover and license to
the you know, all the San Francisco's of Seattle's the
las of the world. Well, whatever city you're in, it's
the most left news you've got anywhere on the radio.
I don't care what city you're in. It's just something.
(30:33):
I mean. And uh. And the fact that our the
local one I listen to, is running promos right now,
their fund their fundraiser this time of year, and all
their promos are, you know, keep misinformation at bay. And
then they have quotes from people saying in this splintered
media universe. It's so important that we have a trusted
news source, And like, are you freaking buying news source?
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I've heard those promos. Yeah, I mean that's that's nuts. Yeah,
people are deranged. You've lost your grasp of reality.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
If you believe it. If you're lying, well then you
know you're being good at being Marxists. I guess uh,
any thought I'm less my last thought. Uh, Ladies and gentlemen,
we are. We always try to be fair.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
We are unquestionably unabashedly conservative. We are trying to promote
conservative values and to some extent, candidates because we think
it's better for the country. All right, now your turn.
Say what you're doing. Just be honest about it. If
you're if you're a flaming lefty, say I'm a flaming lefty,
and then let your ideas stand up against mine. Let's
(31:34):
get it on.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Text line four one five two KFTC.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Study found that the weight loss drug.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
We go V could be linked to increased.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Hair lossow men are like, how do you want to
Ladies fat and hairy?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Are skinny involved?
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I uh, I just came across a sleep thing. I
sleep aid advertisement and I am, for whatever reason, sleeping
the worst I've ever slept in my life, and I
don't have the slightest idea why. And it's really really annoying.
Never been a great sleeper, but this is just it's
like it's horrible now, just horrible. I don't know what
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it is, and I don't want to and I want
to get into drugs and stuff like that. All I took.
The terrible things you've done finally caught up with me.
The guilt. I just saw an ad for these Oslo
sleep buds. They're three hundred bucks. They're supposed to be great.
It's not noise that's keeping me awake though, pretty sure,
so I don't need you, old man. I don't need
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to plug my ears.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
It's not age.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I don't think it is either. I'm doing terrible probably yeah,
it's not guilted, shame, completely different emotion. Two days ago,
I laid in bed for an hour and a half,
just laid there. That's the worst, is among the worst feelings.
(33:04):
Easy sleep whatever that is. AnyWho have you tried getting bombed?
I have ill asleep like a baby. I was looking
at these various products. She got the Oslo sleep buds
if it was noise, I would look into that. But
it's not the Manta sleep mask with sound. It's two
(33:25):
hundred bucks. Looks it's a little too I'm a gimp
like mask, I mean, like covers your whole head and
plugs your ears and everything like that. I'm afraid somebody's
gonna sneak in the middle of the night and take
my virginity. I mean, I would I even know anybody
who was in the house with this thing on. Well,
how terrible was that kid? I'm gonna sleep worse now
that's gonna be in my head. Cut a wrong back.
(33:48):
But the thing I've never heard answered before is why
can I sleep like a baby in the afternoon? And
I don't get to do that very often with my
lifestyle and homeschool and kid and everything like that. But man,
if I get the chance to lay down at one o'clock,
I can sleep like I'm dead for a couple of hours.
Why only in the afternoon. That doesn't that belie the
(34:10):
other things that might be causing my sleep problems at night?
Maybe you're nocturnal.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Now the immediate response would be, well, you can't sleep
at night because you're napping in the afternoon, But I
know that's a rare.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I don't get the nap in the afternoon very often. Yeah. No,
I'm exhausted when I go to bed, exhausted. But have
you ever heard an answer for that? Why you can
sleep a certain part of the day like a rock?
If you can't, if you're if you're struggling with sleeping
all the time. Okay, that's one thing. Then it could
be age, diet, blah blah blah, who knows what it is.
But if certain times of the day you can sleep
like a rock, you can at night? What is that?
(34:42):
Does anybody know your circadian rhythms are off? Oh? Uh,
you gotta eat Greek yogurt. I mean, I don't know
what I do about that. Uh, dancing, that's the only
way to get your rid of dancing. Text line four
one five two nine five KFTC. If you can sleep
great in the afternoon but not at night, what is that?
Text line four one five two nine five KFTC. I
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actually want the answer.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And it's important you wear really tight Lululemon pants while
you're dancing.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'm not wearing the gimp mask plug in my ears.
How could you sleep well? Knowing that you know, somebody
could drive a car into your house and you wouldn't
know it. It's not comfortable. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
President Trump announced this twenty five percent tariff on all
cars not made in the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
He says that these.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Tariffs kick in on April second, and the United States
will start collecting on April third.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So just a couple of days away from twenty five
percent tariffs kicking on cars that aren't made in the
United States in theory, So if that happens, I have
no idea what that's going to do to the car market.
Neither does anybody else or she spends on how long
it lasts too, But wow, that's something.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I wonder if our folks flooding to the various
German car brand dealers to get in under.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The wire or what. Well you you understand this stuff
better than me, so well that that will make all
cars more expensive, right one all cars can Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, there are a lot of depends when you're talking
about tariffs and their effect on consumer prices, just because
of the different nature of different products, price elasticity. You know,
how much competition there is domestically, there's just a bunch
of factors. But yes, it will make all cars more expensive. Well,
it's cars and part a little or a lot. And
(01:36):
I was looking at a chart yesterday. I wish I
had a screen captured because which is pretty interesting. Tesla
is one hundred percent every bit of it made in
the United States. That's why we're setting fire to them,
jack we Liberals.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Then next you get to Ford, which is like seventy
five percent everything in the United States, and a couple
percentage of parts come from Mexico and Canada. Then some
stuff that comes from somewhere else. But then it just
it goes goes on down the road to where you
get to stuff that ain't ain't nothing made in the
United States with the different car makers, so it varies
from maker to maker.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, and a lot of the foreign you know makers
have gigantic plants in the US, so it's it's tough
to know just by the name or you know, yeah
it's Hyundai Korean. Yeah, but they've I think they have
a giant plant in Tennessee or something anyway, so that'll
be interesting to see unfold. It's all a bit chaotic,
if it's moving toward actual, more reciprocal tariffs, therefore lower
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tariffs eventually.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I'd like to see that.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Plus, the Supreme Court needs to weigh in on whether
Trump can actually do what he's doing, citing in a
national emergency of of a fentanyl Therefore, we must put
a twenty five percent tariff on vmw's.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
God, I made a purchase yesterday. I just I can't.
I don't know. There's some obstinacy in me driving this.
This is a Tesla brand vehicle that is like the Ultimates.
You go ahead, and I'm gonna and I'm picking it
up this weekend, and I'm gonna pull into my neighborhood
(03:12):
where there are people who still have Harris Walls signs
in their yard. Shame on you. And if your neighbor
gets a Tesla. At this point, I feel like it's
a deliberate message. I don't know. I just love the
I don't know. We'll see how this plays on. I
(03:32):
have a feeling I'm gonna get keyed within a week
in my tires slash. I better carry spare tires in
the in the bed, or you know, have your car
on constant video mode. It is automatically there's an upgrade. Yeah, yeah, okay, great.
You know there's no way to prove this. I'm just
thinking out loud. Harris Walls was almost certainly, and I'm
(03:52):
scanning my memory banks now, almost certainly the lowest IQ
ticket in the history of American politics, presidential politics. I
could kick most of their ass. I could kick most
of their ass, like the right right cheek. Is that
what you mean?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, well yeah, and part of the left wing, yes,
most of them, ask and then then the word salad somalier.
Supreme Kamalo was at the head of the ticket. I mean, seriously,
you'd have to dig deep. I mean, Buchanan was a
bit of a paced eater. But anyway, uh speaking of the.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Supreme Court is that was very childish though, I think,
I mean, I mock this sort of thing. I like
two thirds wanted the vehicle anyway, but the extra third
that got me across the line is it's just gonna
annoy so many people that I don't mind annoying.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, and I honestly, honestly though, I get what you're saying.
We're all fighting back against the woke mind virus. The
neo Marxists in ways great and small to the of
our ability. And that's a that's a signal of defiance. No,
I am not going to bow down to you in
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your wacky worldview.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It's a little odd, but it's a tip of the cap.
Look at you, go, yeah, look at you all right.
So we don't just go over the news here and
talk about it and try to bring you perspective.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's most of what we do.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But this is more of a thinking thing here. The
Supreme Court is going to be looking at some cases
having to do with jerry mandering, drawing of congressional districts.
Jerry Mandering is the old timey expression that means drawing
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up congressional districts intentionally in a way to gain political advantage.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
If you're not familiar with the term, and if you
were told in third grade, is illegal, yeah, absolutely unconstitutional
and moral, et cetera. We throughout the quote last from
Joseph Stalin. The people who cast the votes don't decide
an election. The people who count the votes to well.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You could add to old Joe's wisdom here, the people
who draw the districts due And I remember this from
college when I was studying this stuff. Hearing what you're
about to hear, and as a wee lad of eighteen
nineteen years old, I had exactly the same reaction to
(06:28):
it now that I did. Then I'll lay it on you.
So a couple of days ago, Monday felt like groundhog Day,
rights a legal analyst.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's the Editorial Board Journal.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, there's yet another redistricting challenge, this one from Louisiana.
And they say, if the Robe de nine are tired
of reviewing state maps because they're asked to over and
over and over again.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
North Carolina was.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
A big case recently and several others, they could declare
racial gerrymanders unconstitutional. Stop now, I have a feeling you're thinking,
wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. You
can draw congressional districts to achieve a specific racial outcome.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
How does that.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Square with Title two or nine or whatever, all the
you know, the Civil Rights Act, all that stuff. Well,
here's where it gets nutty. So Louisiana, like all the states,
trying to navigate this.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
World of conflicting rules.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
If states weigh race too heavily, they run a foul
of the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. But if they ignore race,
they can be sued for violating Section two of the
Voting Rights Act, and Louisiana has hit it both ways. First,
you have progressives challenging the House map that the Republicans
drew up after twenty twenty because it included only one
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majority minority district out of six. One out of six
that would be seventeen percent. Right, Blacks make up thirty
percent of Louisiana's voting age population, and the plaintiff's reasons
that reason that two districts should be majority black, which
(08:11):
would make it thirty four percent of the districts. In essence,
what Section two says. It doesn't establish a right to
proportional representation. You don't have to demonstrate that, Hey, we
got one fifth black people in the state, one fifth
of the districts are majority black, and they'll always vote
for black folks. If I might depart from the facts
(08:35):
here for a second, what is this assumption that black
people have vastly different interests in electoral outcomes than white people.
Where does that idea come from? Why would they I
would like good schools and opportunities to have a job
in a neighborhood where I'm not going to get passion
over the head in my stuff taken says like everybody anyway.
(09:01):
But the liberal plaintiffs cited the High Court's terrible nineteen
eighty six decision I won't bother the boring you with
that test requires minority populations to be large, compact, and
politically cohesive to constitute a majority minority district, and that
white votes sufficiently as a group to defeat of minorities
preferred candidate. Blah blah blah blah blah. Can't we just
(09:22):
get rid of this crap now, as like simple geographic
districts is possible that have the same population in them
and not these snaking, weird, manipulated districts. Is there anybody
who looks at that other than partisans who just want
power and says.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Nice job with that district? Yeah, I know, doesn't every
American look at them and say, what the hell is that?
I spent most of my life, like I said, learning
in third grade that it was illegal, So I assumed
they didn't do that until we know. I got into
talk radio and started paying more attention and seeing how
various districts I've lived in were drawn, and that's absolutely
what happens all across the country. Yeah, so, Brett Cavallar.
(10:04):
They work together to make sure they most The way
they set this up is they want like ninety percent
of seats to be safe, and then they fight over
the other ten percent. That's the plan of the two
major parties. It's an excellent point. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Brett Kavanaugh, god bless him, suggested during the oral arguments
that one way to deal with this is to reverse
that idiotic Jingles case in our Gingles in nineteen eighty
six and hold that Section two prohibits any consideration of race.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The Court's long said that race based remedial action must
have a logical end point, meaning the Supreme Court during
its progressive years, said yeah, yeah, we're going to take
this essentially affirmative action stuff. But you're right, it shouldn't
go on forever. It's just to correct some wrongs of
the past, and it should have an endpoint. And there's
a chance anyway that the end point with our excellent,
(10:54):
mostly conservative spring Court is nearing. I certainly hope. So
the way to get less racism is to have less racism.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Go get them soups. So Russia launched a huge drone
attack on Karkivan, Ukraine today, and European leaders are having
a big meeting about bolstering Ukraine. Side that they're continuing
to talk about European troops in Ukraine. Is there anyway
Putin's gonna put up with that. I wouldn't think so.
(11:24):
But anyway, they're actually talking about putting troops in Ukraine,
like French, German, British.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Wow y strong opinion on this. I will withhold it
until we were actually discussing it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Twenty six teams kick off the Major League Baseball season today.
That's most of them as it is opening day. Got
some stats on that that are interesting. Among other things.
On the way, arm Strong and Yetti, here.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Are some tips on how to get your breakfast. It's
he to research beforehand. You know the layout of the
first floor of the hotel that you're going into, and
go to the elevators first, look like you belong.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
There, but also look like you don't.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Need to be there, Like it's an inconvenience for you
to be there, just looks so busy.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Be on the phone.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
The clipboard goes a long way. I'm already planning where
I'm going for breakfast next week, please grab stuff not
for yourself, the pre wrapped bagels and fru.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
People always eat food.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So that's a TikToker explaining how to steal basically, how
to get free breakfast at hotels when you're not staying
at the hotel. And yeah, I think we all know
you could do that. There's all kinds of things I
could steal and it wouldn't be that hard. So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, you can get a free meal at the McDonald's too,
if you wait till you see a little kid holding
the bag and just snatch it away from them and run.
That's some handy hints there, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Speaking of TikTok, I just saw some polling on that
the support for banning TikTok has dropped a lot in
the last couple of years. That's interesting, is that because
Trump has completely switched one to eighty on it. I
don't know. Anyway, We got more of the NPR hearing
coming up in a little bit. I think you're gonna
like it's even worse than you thought. But Republicans grilling
(13:07):
the leader of NPR about past statements and beliefs and
why they're so biased, and if you haven't heard this stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And just listening to this wench Lie and Lie and
Lie is amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You heard me. That's old timing.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So Michael sent me this link from Google top searched
ballpark food on this opening day.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Oh do we have Vince Scully ready? Michael?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, you'll hear anyway. Oh and two, referenced on our
show more than.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Once, socialism failing to work as it always does, this
time in Venezuela, to talk about giving everybody something free,
and all of a sudden there's no food to eat.
And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela,
The daughter of Hugo Chavis.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Hello anyway? Oh and two, So I don't know why
I would like the larger come much. Why How did
Vin Scully get start on his little socialism? Was bad screen?
In between pitches.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It was owing to he knew the picturer'd waste a pitch,
so I figured, you know, and that was a good point.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I wonder if it was like it was, you know,
mid mid season game. Maybe the Dodgers weren't that good
that year. He's a little bored. He's kind of like
looking over the newspaper. How freaking socialism he is. By
the way, socialism once again being proven it doesn't work.
Guess who's the richest person, Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I loved then before I heard that. After, please, I
want to statue to him speaking of the baseball structure
an economy. Anyway, Oh and too anyway, Oh and two.
I love you, Vin So Michael sent me this link
top searched ballpark food on Google, state by state. Okay,
hang on, why are you googling ballpark food at all?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You're only going to.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Know whether to be a Yankees fan or a Mets fan.
So I'm gonna google broughtwursts and see who has the
better one.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Or I was going to go to my local team
and watch them. Or I'll hop on a flight because
they have hot dogs with cheese in Texas, Yes, excellent,
not schows over there in Nevada. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I don't get what this is, Michael, anyway, I can't
imagining imagine searching on ballpark food.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
This is really interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Jared Diamond, Baseball's wealth gap has become a chasm, stretching
the sport to the breaking point. The financial disparity between
MLB's teams has never been greater, right, and it's leading
toward probably a long workstoppage and strike or lockout or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
This year. It sooner or later. Here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
You got the LA Dodgers, who are gonna lay out
nearly half a billion dollars on player salaries and luxury
tax penalties this year have a billion. The Mets are
just behind thanks to hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, who's
their new owner.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So that's interesting. Number one media market LA, Number two
media market New York are one and two.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, yeah, and LA's got a huge lucrative local TV
deal because they're a great team and a great TV market,
and there are a lot of Dodgers fans and it's
all about local money now because they don't share it
in the same way the other leagues do. I don't
have time to get into the details, and you probably
don't care anyway. But so you got four or five
hundred million dollars on the top end. Then you got
(16:27):
to Miami Marlins, who have a seventy million dollar payroll.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Three other tevy million total.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
The Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago White Sox and Athletics all
come in under ninety million dollars. Wow, competing with teams
spending half a billion, and it just can't last.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Now, that's why I tend to root for those lower
budget teams when they when they get on a roll
with a bunch of young players that aren't making that
much money, and you got to root for them that
year because if somebody stands out, they get snatched up
by the Yankees match Dodgers. Right, Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
The lying, lying she wolf of Marxism was dragged before
Congress yesterday and the results fantastic.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Do you think the white people should pay reparations?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I have never said that, sir.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yes you did. You said it in January of twenty twenty.
You tweeted yes, the North, yes, all of us, Yes, America, Yes,
our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations, yes
on this day.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
What kind of reparations was it a reference to.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
I think it was just a reference to the idea
that we all owe much to the people who came
before us.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay,
how many? How much reparations have you personally paid?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Sir?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Okay, just for everybody else.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I'm not asking anyone whoems.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
To be what you're suggesting.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Katherine Mayor of NPR again, and we featured a lot
of audio of Brandon Gill, a congressman, Brandon Gill questioning
her last hour. If you missed it, grabbed the podcast
hour two Armstrong and getting on demand or I'm sorry,
hour one. I guess, yeah, our one. And just remember this.
(18:21):
Marxists like Katherine Mayer lie. They lie overtly, They lie
constantly because they don't expect, well, they expect nice. People
will think, why can't just call her a liar? Because
that just that seems mean and wrong. And people don't
just lie to my face. Oh yeah, she does. She
lies all the time.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I've never said that. I've never said that in my life.
You tweeted it, Yeah, you did, specifically and at length.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
In fact, you recommended a book whose whole premise was reparations.
Now I don't recall reading that book, sir, And by reparations,
I didn't mean money. Okay, anyway, our good old friend,
the wrestler who we made friends with there in Milwaukee,
Jim Jordan. He got his chance to question her also
in the hearing yesterday. Here's a little of that.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Is MPR biased, Congressman, I have never seen any instance
of never of pro political bias determining editorial decision.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Oh my god, god, wells mister Berliner in his story
a couple last year wrote, I've in the DC area
editorial positions at MPR. He said he found eighty seven
registered Democrats, zero Republicans. Mister Berliner, was he lying when
he wrote that.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
I am not presuming such. I just don't have we
don't track that information about our journal.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Eighty seven to zero. And you're not biased, Congressman.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
I do not believe we are politically biased. To know
we are a nonpartisan organization on partisan.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Organization, what's the one? While I get your whole Marxist lifing,
I know plenty of people who believe that she might
actually believe that. I know Democrats who believe that because
they're so they're so in their side and only hang
around with those people actually makes sense to them.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I guess, oh yeah, I accept that, except for the
part that she might believe that. No, she's a dedicated activist.
This is the woman who said, and we played it earlier,
the truth can be a distraction.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
We need to drop this search for the truth before
we get to more Jim Jordan. Since they asked particularly
about bias and her saying I've seen no evidence of bias.
I mean, that's hilarious. I could turn on NPR anytime
of day and within five minutes find obvious bias, and
usually just in their story choice. They're covering a story
(20:39):
that only graduate student women in America are talking about.
Nobody else in America is having a discussion about the
thing that they spend the next six minutes on whatever,
hammering it at length. All right, anyway, But so this
was NPR NPBS being grilled about this yesterday. These stats
came out yesterday from who is from the MRC whatever
(21:03):
they are media some Idio Research Council. PBS used the
term last year extreme right one hundred and sixty two times.
They used the term extreme left six times. So extreme
right comes up in the news a lot, extreme left
almost never. And then, even more egregious to me, coverage
(21:26):
of the conventions mentioned that we made friends with Jim
Jordan there in Milwaukee, the coverage on PBS of the
r NC was seventy two percent negative. The coverage of
the DNC in Chicago was eighty eight percent positive. I've
never seen any evidence of any political bias, so three
quarters negative to recover the Republicans, ninety percent positive to
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cover the Democrats. That's just the way they see it.
We're a non partisan organization. More Jim Jordan, what's.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Happening to your listeners over the last five years?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Went up?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Down or stayed?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
To say?
Speaker 6 (22:02):
It has gone up and down and is now going
back up.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
I thought five years ago is at sixty million, and
you said in your opening statement, I think forty three million.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
That's correct, So forty three.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Million now and it was that sixty million five years ago.
I can do some math that looks like it.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Went down and is now going back up.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Is now going back up?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yes? Is how much?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Is it went back up?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
It's from up a couple of millions over the past.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
All, so you went from sixty million to forty one million.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Now you're back up to forty three.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Million in a year's time. I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Grosser.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Okay, you're proud of that that growth.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Okay, more money for less listeners.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
You fired the guy who pointed all this out, who
said that you were so biased to the left that
you lost listeners, which is exactly happening, and you're here
maintaining that, Oh you need, you need to continue to
get taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Money, which is the root of this whole thing. Is
the hearing is why do you get federal dollars? Why
is everybody's tax money being pulled together to help you
out when you represent I mean, seriously, at this point,
NPR represents five percent of the country's views. Maybe at
the best. Yeah, I'm not sure. It's a number higher
(23:07):
than that. I don't know. I listen a lot. Maybe
maybe it's because I'm getting the you know, the norcl
version of NPR. Oh yeah, versus the Kansas City version
of NPR. I don't know, But I mean the amount
of coverage on you know, trans illegals, whether or not
they're getting enough money and stuff like that's like, who
(23:27):
is this four right? Right? I would say, you know,
I would say there.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
They're sweet spot is or they're directing ideologically, they're you know,
their editorial decisions in that very very narrow direction. There's
a certain part of America that still thinks that stuff
is good and moral and to be a good person.
(23:52):
You're down with trans illegal immigrant rights. But anyway, not
to get distracted by that point. They are wildly wildly
left and a you know, wholly owned at least ideologically
subsidiary of one party.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Obviously, how about eighty We haven't heard that yet. Representative
Cloud asking a question.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Now you are here managing NPR, which is in part
federally funded, can we expect that you will bring the
same lack of reverence for truth to your management of NPR.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Thank you, Congressman.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
First of all, I do want to say that NPR
acknowledges that we were mistaken and failing to cover the
Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner our current
editorial leadership WUHAN, We recognize that we were reporting at
the time, but we acknowledge that the new CIA evidence
is worthy of coverage and have covered it.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
No, no, no, The WUHAN lablink was always leak, was
always the most obvious explanation. The Brits knew it, the
Germans knew it, CIA knew it. You know, I want
to we can finish up with Mike Cloud here. Then
I want to play the MTG stuff, which looks pretty
good Marjorie Taylor Green. And in fact, I think that
(25:03):
really ought to go first, because she references the screed,
the TED talk that Catherine Mayer gave that said the
truth is a distraction from accomplishing what we're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So ear's MTG in seventy six.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
In twenty twenty one, you called the First Amendment the
number one challenge in American journalism because it makes it
hard to crack down on bad information. You said in
a TED talk that our reverence for the truth might
be a distraction. You've also expressed support for deep platforming
(25:36):
individuals you.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
View as fascist.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
Who do you think should be charged with cracking down
on so called bad information? Is it NPR? Is it
the government? Is it you, Miss Mar?
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Congress Woman, Madame Chair, thank you so much for the
opportunity to address this.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
I know the youth.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Is it Is it up to you a MPR to
crack down on bad information or decide the truth? Answer
the question yes or no, Miss.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Mar, absolutely not. I'm a very strong believer in free speech,
and I believe that more.
Speaker 10 (26:09):
Your your public statements say otherwise.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Ms Marr.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
In twenty twenty one, when speaking at an Atlantic Council event,
you said that when you were CEO of Wikipedia, you
took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation during
the COVID pandemic. In the twenty twenty election, you said
you censored information through conversations with government. Which governments were those,
Miss Mahr the Biden administration?
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Yes or no, Madam Cher, Wikipedia never censored any information.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
These are your public statements.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Mess Now. She called the BFMTG congressman on purpose or
was that just a sign? And I think that was
just a slip of the tongue. She saw the guns
and thought, wow, bad built bush body. All right, that's
enough of that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I would just you know, you know, kudos to in
MTG for doing a pretty good job. I would have
just laid out that Ted Talk quote and the First
Amendment quote and said, explain.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yourself, yeah, no kidding, Well, for instance, and I'll just
read this part Representative Fallon. I don't know who that is,
but ask this question. In twenty twenty, NPR branded Hunter
Biden's laptop story a waste of time. I remember that.
Do you know how many times NPR interviewed Adam Schiff
about the Russian collusion hoax? I don't know, she said,
(27:26):
twenty five times, said Representative Fallon. How many times did
NPR interview Chairman Comber about the Biden impeachment inquiry in
the Biden family's illicit business dealings? I don't know, she said,
zero times, twenty five times for Adam Shiff, zero times
for Comer between June and November of twenty twenty three,
and PBS's News Hour used the term far far right
(27:49):
one hundred and sixty two times far left six times.
I mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I've never seen any examples of political bias right congressman
or woman.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
And after laying out the percentage of negative coverage for
the GOPS versus positive countite of Democratic conventions, she said,
I believe they work hard every day was her reasonablise,
which is always good.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
If you go through her long list of public statements
through the years, many of them quite detailed. I mean,
it's not like she was had a bumper sticker that
said sometimes the truth gets in the way.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I mean, she gave a speech about it.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You can come to no conclusion other than that she
is a neo Marxist bent on tearing down the institutions
of the United States of America and the Western world
in general, and then she lies about it shamelessly and
egregiously with a smile on her pretty face there in Congress.
The idea that she is running a government supported broadcast
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organization is abhorrent. It's so crazy that normal people. I
think it can't be as crazy as it feels, because
something that insane would never get that far.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
But it has one thing I don't know about the organization,
like the whole.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You have dudes beaten the hell out of women in
women's in girls' sports. How could something that insane be happening.
I'm starting to question my own perceptions. It must not
be as obscene as it seems to me.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, it is. It is that obscene. You're right. One
thing I don't know about the organization, maybe you do so,
Like if you listen to NPR anywhere in the country,
like a big chunk of the hour is the national
Like everybody's hearing the same thing on every station, and
then there's your local version jumping in and like the
local version in San Francisco is just is insane like
you would expect it to be. But does the does
(29:43):
the national version have any role in that? They should,
I mean, they should be able to say, hey, hey,
you know you're you're part of the NPR family. You
can't go this far with your your local segments being
just completely nut job.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I don't do that, and I don't know. I mean no,
I don't think they feel like they should. And even
if they did, it would never be for being too
far left.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I mean, come on, that's almost funny. Well, I got
to believe that the national view, as we're hearing from
the person in charge, certainly gives cover and license to
the you know, all the San Francisco's of Seattle's the
las of the world. Well, whatever city you're in, it's
the most left news you've got anywhere on the radio.
I don't care what city you're in. It's just something.
(30:33):
I mean. And uh. And the fact that our the
local one I listen to, is running promos right now,
their fund their fundraiser this time of year, and all
their promos are, you know, keep misinformation at bay. And
then they have quotes from people saying in this splintered
media universe. It's so important that we have a trusted
news source, And like, are you freaking buying news source?
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I've heard those promos. Yeah, I mean that's that's nuts. Yeah,
people are deranged. You've lost your grasp of reality.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
If you believe it. If you're lying, well then you
know you're being good at being Marxists. I guess uh,
any thought I'm less my last thought. Uh, Ladies and gentlemen,
we are. We always try to be fair.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
We are unquestionably unabashedly conservative. We are trying to promote
conservative values and to some extent, candidates because we think
it's better for the country. All right, now your turn.
Say what you're doing. Just be honest about it. If
you're if you're a flaming lefty, say I'm a flaming lefty,
and then let your ideas stand up against mine. Let's
(31:34):
get it on.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Text line four one five two KFTC.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Study found that the weight loss drug.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
We go V could be linked to increased.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Hair lossow men are like, how do you want to
Ladies fat and hairy?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Are skinny involved?
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I uh, I just came across a sleep thing. I
sleep aid advertisement and I am, for whatever reason, sleeping
the worst I've ever slept in my life, and I
don't have the slightest idea why. And it's really really annoying.
Never been a great sleeper, but this is just it's
like it's horrible now, just horrible. I don't know what
(32:19):
it is, and I don't want to and I want
to get into drugs and stuff like that. All I took.
The terrible things you've done finally caught up with me.
The guilt. I just saw an ad for these Oslo
sleep buds. They're three hundred bucks. They're supposed to be great.
It's not noise that's keeping me awake though, pretty sure,
so I don't need you, old man. I don't need
(32:40):
to plug my ears.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
It's not age.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I don't think it is either. I'm doing terrible probably yeah,
it's not guilted, shame, completely different emotion. Two days ago,
I laid in bed for an hour and a half,
just laid there. That's the worst, is among the worst feelings.
(33:04):
Easy sleep whatever that is. AnyWho have you tried getting bombed?
I have ill asleep like a baby. I was looking
at these various products. She got the Oslo sleep buds
if it was noise, I would look into that. But
it's not the Manta sleep mask with sound. It's two
(33:25):
hundred bucks. Looks it's a little too I'm a gimp
like mask, I mean, like covers your whole head and
plugs your ears and everything like that. I'm afraid somebody's
gonna sneak in the middle of the night and take
my virginity. I mean, I would I even know anybody
who was in the house with this thing on. Well,
how terrible was that kid? I'm gonna sleep worse now
that's gonna be in my head. Cut a wrong back.
(33:48):
But the thing I've never heard answered before is why
can I sleep like a baby in the afternoon? And
I don't get to do that very often with my
lifestyle and homeschool and kid and everything like that. But man,
if I get the chance to lay down at one o'clock,
I can sleep like I'm dead for a couple of hours.
Why only in the afternoon. That doesn't that belie the
(34:10):
other things that might be causing my sleep problems at night?
Maybe you're nocturnal.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Now the immediate response would be, well, you can't sleep
at night because you're napping in the afternoon, But I
know that's a rare.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I don't get the nap in the afternoon very often. Yeah. No,
I'm exhausted when I go to bed, exhausted. But have
you ever heard an answer for that? Why you can
sleep a certain part of the day like a rock?
If you can't, if you're if you're struggling with sleeping
all the time. Okay, that's one thing. Then it could
be age, diet, blah blah blah, who knows what it is.
But if certain times of the day you can sleep
like a rock, you can at night? What is that?
(34:42):
Does anybody know your circadian rhythms are off? Oh? Uh,
you gotta eat Greek yogurt. I mean, I don't know
what I do about that. Uh, dancing, that's the only
way to get your rid of dancing. Text line four
one five two nine five KFTC. If you can sleep
great in the afternoon but not at night, what is that?
Text line four one five two nine five KFTC. I
(35:02):
actually want the answer.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And it's important you wear really tight Lululemon pants while
you're dancing.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'm not wearing the gimp mask plug in my ears.
How could you sleep well? Knowing that you know, somebody
could drive a car into your house and you wouldn't
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