April 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Hot Pam Bondi & the nightclub raid in Colorado
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Young liberal women & the erosion of the media
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and and he is Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Studioca signor a dimly lit room deep put in the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all,
brand new week. All that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Who knows what? This is the week? And this is
the week.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
This week, all your dreams come true, all of them,
I mean all of them personally, romantically, business wise, all of.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Them come thrue this week.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager,
Pam Bondie, America's hottest attorney general.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And why is she or a general manager?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Today?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Justice Department is on the move. Pam's on the move,
making the appearances on TV, doing interviews, arresting baddies. She is,
according to science, Jack seven point eight times sexier than
Bill Barr. And that's the record. I'd say that on
the low side, depends which way you swing.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
How about that underground nightclub they rated in Colorado yesterday?
I was gonna stunts not the fair word, because it's legit.
It's been undercover operation going on for a long time.
But I'm sure the timing is not coincidental with the
big one hundred day hoopla coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh yeah, I said, there's certainly a great of truth
to that too. Yeah, it's absolutely needed to be done.
I mean, my goodness, gang members of various strifes, hundreds
of illegals, guns, drugs, et cetera, in charming Colorado Springs,
where my parents lived for a good dozen years.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, what's amazing, is you gonna tell me? No local
law enforcement caught on to the fact that there's a
nightclub where hundreds of people gather on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, they did work with local law enforcement, but before
the Feds got involved. Oh yeah, yeah, so giant and
running drugs and prostitution and everything else, and the MS
thirteen involved in the whole thing. I mean, it's crazy,
you know what that is? Actually, there's sanctuary people out there,
so exactly that's a factor in the story. Colorado has become,
(03:05):
you know, just a hotspot for illegals and illegal gang
members because of their sanctuary policies, which is crazy. Of course.
So the Colorado Springs police are listening right now saying, yeah,
we wanted to do something about it, but we kept
being told to stand down.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Because we weren't going to join fascist Trump, right right. Yeah,
it'll be interesting to see how this unfolds. And the videos,
if you haven't seen, the videos, are wild. I mean
there's all kinds of girls running around and dresses and
high heels because they're in a nightclub dancing. I mean,
they didn't know the federal government is about to come
in blowing whistles and hands in the air and that
whole thing. And you had more than a dozen military
(03:46):
dudes there who were working security. Apparently I was a
good side hustle to pick up on the weekends work
security at that nightclub, which they who know, they knew
it was illegal or not.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Like from the Air Force Academy, which is also in
the Spring.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Certainly could be just said military personnel and looked into it,
which us makes sense.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, working a little off duty security. Holy crap, here's
the Feds. Yeah. Well, hey, same team, guys, same team,
just a little side hustle. I love a guy.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, right, So that'll be a fun story to follow.
And then the other side of the whole immigration thing,
if you're into it, is the whole booting out babies
with cancer story that the mainstream media is really really digging,
which Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, tried to clear
up yesterday, and we'll get to that a little later
in the show.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I've missed that one somehow. My weekend was a political
controversy free mostly intentionally.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, so we got that. One hundred days is a
stupid marker that got started with FDR and everybody acts
like it's a report card that's important or something. I
don't know it it's not. It's it's the definition of
a pseudo event. It's the media creates an event. So
(04:59):
there was a book written by this many years ago.
It's a pseudo event. The media creates these things and
then can report on them so that they have news stories.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But it's completely made up. So yeah, you know, it's
it's funny. I don't think there's anything wrong with taking
stock of the early days, you know, when it's appropriate.
But yeah, and it's it's quite the festival of reporting
and opinionating and sure, you know, editorial writing and the
rest of it, and it's entirely self generated. Yeah, why
(05:27):
are you counting me down, Michael? I'm sorry, I was
just adjusting my camera here. Oh, okay, making sure my
fingers could be seen. Okay, that Michael's giving me the talent.
I got to stop in ten seconds, or I realized
as soon as I did that it was your drivel.
Another ten seconds will go crazy. I'm going to confuse
these guys as they're speaking. I'm sorry. Yeah. And the
other thing we'll have to get to at some point.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Five major polls came out over the weekend, so there
was lots for the Sunday talk shows to grab onto.
And Trump's numbers are down, but everybody's numbers go down
after the beginning. So again, how much in what areas?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's what.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's where it gets interesting, and well we'll get into that,
and then of course we'll break down Round five of
the NFL Draft as we always do. It's been a full.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Real surprises towards the second half of the fifth round. Jack.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Among the things I did over the weekend that I
look forward to talking to, wrote a waim for the
first time. The automated taxi, the fully automated taxi. Oh my,
did that with my son in San Francisco on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You appear to be intact.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, I mean I'd drive a self driving I draw
a self driving Tesla to the city, so it's not
quite as shocking to me to then get into a
self driving taxis. It might be if you've never done
that sort of thing, but do want to talk about
that technology, and it is the future, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But better than that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The next night, I took a actual uber. I was
gonna say taxi. Nobody takes a tax anymore, poor taxi drivers.
Maybe maybe now you got time for a shower so
you're not driving unfortunate stereotype inaccurate. I took on with
(07:00):
a guy from Pakistan, you know, man for Pakistan driving.
I had a fascinating conversation about Pakistan, Middle East politics,
all kinds of different things, homelessness in America, really really
good stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So Ken look ford to talking about that night later. Yeah. Nice. Nice.
So obviously you've bounced back health wise about that, No,
just soldiering on regardless.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, as I've finally admitted to myself I'm a person
who gets sick a lot. I finally had to admit
that to myself. But my ears are plugged up completely.
I'm barely here. I've been sick for that. Don't get
this disease whatever it is. So do you remember Congressman
Doug Ocy. We used to have it from California guy
(07:43):
years ago. Anyway, he responded to me on Twitter and said, yeah,
I think I had exact thing you had. He said,
I'm at two weeks at If you're at two weeks,
you got a week to go. I thought that can't be.
There are no three week diseases. I mean, like the
like viruses that come and go that I've ever heard
of three weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But yeah, I'm three weeks into it. Just about same thing.
Katie's mom and pop hads it sounds like, yes, some
some nasty respiratory thing that just hangs on and on.
It hasn't been named, shouldn't have a clever name that
the media can obsess over. Does it have anything to
do with COVID, Like did COVID do something to our
immune systems? Or did it spawn some viruses out there
that didn't exist before three weeks? What the hell?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yes, Katie, Oh no, it's just my mom and dad
started coughing at the end of March and they're still
they're still going strong.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh great, wow, wow, Hang out be this way forever.
That's good. Yeah, but it needs a name. The beaver
pox or raccoon flu or. I don't know, pigeon fever,
I don't know. Sometimes yes, yes, I like beaver pox.
I mean good to you do not appear to be
(08:54):
pocked in any way, but for the David Mirrors of
the world to say, and beaver pox continues to spread
across it's the Midwest, this mysterious disease.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
When will it and we'll talk to experts. Frank, Okay,
let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this. It is Monday, April twenty eighth. We're
in April here, people they are twenty twenty five or
Armstrong in getting We approve of this program.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Let's begin then official. According to f SEC rules regulations,
the show starts at mark. I read President Trump's book
The Art to Make a Jeedle, and he advise to
just close information before before it's time. There you go
as Russians to the best Russian accent.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
They do they do, don't they in a comical way,
not trying to be at Sir je A Lavrov, the
spokesman for Putin, who has been Putin spokesman for like
I don't know, twenty five years or something like that.
The Foreign Minister one of the shows yesterday. I have
read Donald Trump's book The Art of Being the Deal
or whatever he said, and need to make a good point.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
He did.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He did one place say we are very polite here
in Russia. We do not talk about the deal with
only between each other, not in front of cameras, which
is certain to a certain extent, a good idea when
you're trying to make.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And here's the deal, stand next to that window.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
He also lied endlessly, like he has to or he
would be pushed out of a window about all kinds
of things. I was actually getting angry listening to him
talking about we have taken no children, many many children
found themselves without parents and orphanages, and we have rescued them.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And just all kinds of just lies, lies, lies, lies,
which is what they did.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But Trump said the harshest things that he said about
putting over the weekend by far.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I don't know if you do.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You see that amazing picture of him and Zelensky at
the Vatican alone in a corner together talking to thread
about it.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Wow, that's something.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I'd like to know what that conversation was, you know,
as I was thinking when I saw that, because they
were completely alone, without reporters, interpreters and anything like that,
so they had actually spoken very honestly, and I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
About it without jd vance right, good point.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And I was thinking about the Bill Mahr thing where
Bill Maher said in person, he's nothing like on camera.
I mean, he's very self aware of anything like. I
wonder if Zelensky got the very honest, self aware Trump
Trump saying, look, here's the situation. This guy's a murderous
lunatic and I'm trying to or something.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I don't know. Yeah, yeah, that's a fascinating question. I
wish I knew the answer.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, maybe we'll know someday. Because Zelensky didn't say anything
reporters asked him. He said, we're gonna keep all this private,
So I wonder. And then Trump saying some pretty harsh
things about about Russia, which we'll get to it later
from a truth social that he put out. Uh, Katie's
got headlines on the way. Katie seems to be better.
Everybody's healthy side for me all on the way, stay
(11:48):
here text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Look at some of the projections for what were prices
are going to be because of the tariffs very soon,
and you don't know if they're accurate or not.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And you never know when the tariffs are going to end,
because it could be any day. But if they are
accurate in the tariffs hold for a while, holy crap,
it'll be the only thing anybody's talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yes, the numbers behind the numbers Jack. What businesses are investing,
what they are building has dropped precipitously as they're like,
we don't know how to plan, so we're just not
going to do anything. We're not going to grow. That's bad.
That's really really bad. But more on that to come.
A lot of good stuff to squeeze in this hour
of the entire show. You wanted Kamala to win exactly that.
(12:38):
That's code for I wish Kamala Harrison had won. All right,
let's be I'm sorry. Now let's begin the show. Let's
figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story with
Katie Green and Katie Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Kind of along those lines from CNN. Trump took the
US economy to the brink of a crisis in just
one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Whatever. Alright, CNN, please.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
For maybe see Putin says North Korean quote friends helped
Russia push Ukraine out of Kursk.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He's looking at Curry favor of a little fat head.
What an unholy aligance that bored man? Oh man? Are
they gonna get like a two bedroom apartment? Held from
they're both there?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
From the New York Times, US military says it's air
campaign has hit more than eight hundred targets in Yemen.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Okay, yeah, the whole bombin of the houthis you don't
hear much about that these days, pretty closely tied to
Iran though that story is on gooy from the Wall
Street Journal.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Meta's digital companions will talk sex with users, even children.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, well what Jack, You notice the skepticism there.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No, the children part obviously is horrible, but it's it's
bad for mankind even if you leave out the whole
talking of children thing. The relayationships, the way people are
turning to AI, I've got some examples from from real life. Yeah,
people really leaning on the chat bought sex bots for
their companionship, which.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Is wholly crap crazy to me. Yeah, dropping birth rates
are just going to keep plunging, and then the planet
of the be versus anyway, So I read that piece
Kdie and one of the more revealing aspects of it
was the fact that metas staffers, we're saying, hey, this
is this is like porn for children, this is and
(14:32):
Zuckerberg was like, shut up, shut up. It's competitive industry.
We got to get on top. So some kids get
exposed to sexually explicit stuff onward and upward. Wow, are
you sure you're being fair? There is that? No? No, yes,
I am entirely certain of being fair. Yeah. Wow, yeah,
he said, no, we can't be the cautious. Keep going.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Kanye West gets.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Banned from Twitch in just seven minutes after Hitler salute
and rant about impregnating Paris Hilton.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I'm not exactly sure what Twitch is, but.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
It's the gamer streaming, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I know I'd heard of it. My kids do that.
I did that. Yeah, it's huge. I was chatting with
my son last night, who was a bit of a
hipster and a fan of Yee back in the day,
and he said he now he has some sort of
confrontational syndrome where he has to drive people away. He
attracts them, then he drives them away. It's his own
(15:34):
mental kink. I can't remember the name of the syndrome.
But he said he's now driving away the Nazi types
that he's attracted to him something oppositionals And.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I've seen I've known people who kind of did that,
like they had to be repulsive enough and then they
would then then they could do to see nobody likes
me routine, yes, which is obviously very unhealthy.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Speaking of repulsive from the New York Post, Southwest Airlines
passenger stripped naked and pooped on her seat.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
As the plane landed. Well, at least there was her seat.
I mean strip naked. I mean there's there's a certain
amount of naked stripping that's required to you know, complete
the act y god above the age of like three. Yes, yeah,
she wanted she went all the way? Wow. Wow, Okay,
(16:29):
how would I react to that? It's Kanye's future wife, right,
I would want to change seats? Can I change seats
before you land? Approach? Yeah? Your pretty trade tables up.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
They stow away your electronics and if you need to defecate,
Go ahead and do it, pooping in your seat, wrap
it up as.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Quickly as possible, and finally the battle on bee behind
closed doors. Pope is still focused, sharp and energetic.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh yes, that's a good one. That is a good one.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And after you if you think you've ever seen a
better pope than this one right now.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
More on the plunging rates of trust in the media
and why coming up among other fair hope you can
stick around Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Among men in gen Z forty five fifty five, Trump's
approval rating, that's what we saw with everybody. Among women,
that's where he falls off the cliff. It's gen Z
this side of the gender gap. Women gen Z much
more progressive, much more liberal. We're gonna see this on
issue after issue than any other group any generation.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That was Steve Kornaki of NBC breaking down there polling yesterday.
Five major polls came out, as I mentioned, and there
was something there for everybody, depending on what story you
want to spend on.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Not really trying to spin a story.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So we'll get into some of the more interesting ones
in my mind maybe an hour or two, but in
particular the stuff around young women. They are an outlier
from everybody else, right, young women?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So interesting? You familiar with the documentary series seven up
and fourteen twenty eight up where they interviewed British school
kids at age seven, right and then every seven years
sat right, every seven years for their life decades and decades. Yeah? Yeah,
just absolutely fascinating and heartbreaking and just as is most powerful. Yes,
(18:37):
I've noticed one of the most powerful things ever put
on film in my opinion. But anyway, it would be
so interesting. Let's start now this pocket. Is it a
generation I guess of young women who are wildly radicalized
(18:59):
and enthused about far leftist politics. Then I want to
see him interviewed every seven years as they go through life.
Do they stay completely crazed and unhinged from reality? Do
they have a come to not Jesus but come to
Madison moment in most of their lives where they realize, oh,
Western civilization is a really good idea, or what I
(19:19):
wonder how that'll go. They are a weird little ideological demographic.
As always need to point out. They didn't raise themselves, right,
Oh yeah, yeah, it's the radical leftists who got hold
of the teachers' colleges and then the education system, as
I'm always ranting about. So speaking of leftists and that
(19:40):
sort of thing, a CNN is a joke and I
can see that. But I've got some really interesting information
about the continuing erosion of people's perception of the media,
and it starts with a CNN thing, and it was
network anchor Abby Phillips, in total earnestness earnestness, last week,
(20:02):
said that the erosion of media credibility is driven by
right wing rhetoric. What, yes, exactly, it's just attacks from
the right wing. Mass media are dying, said the CNN
guest and self appointed media authority Jeff Jarvis. The problem
is that right wing has taken advantage of the situation,
I think quite cleverly, quite wisely, they've played it into
(20:22):
a weakness. And wow, well that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
So Fox years ago just you know, figures out, you know,
practically all media is left leaning. How about we present
something that's right reading, like, because I'm sure there's an
audience for.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That, and that's taking advantage of a situation. Yeah. Well,
Scott Jennings, the token conservative on CNN, said what situation?
Jarvis says the situation of being under attack, and Jennings says,
what the right wing is taking advantage of is that
the American people say enough is enough. They're tired of
feeling like the mass media screens out one viewpoint versus
(20:59):
another political coverage, tired of media institutions favoring one party
over the other, which is clearly true. And then Abby
Phillips jumps in, a lot of this is driven by
the rhetoric on your side of the aisle, and Jennings says,
you think the drop in trust is driven by rhetoric
and not the performance. Wow, absolutely, Philip said absolutely, which
(21:20):
is absolutely hilarious. And then here's that answers a question
I've had for a long time, at least for that person,
do they know there is my or do they actually
think they're playing it down the middle? And apparently, at
least in that guy's case, they think they're playing it
down the middle, which is hilarious. So before I get
into some of the other numbers, I think this is
(21:40):
such a beautiful example. According to one of the Biden books,
that Biden was senile and everybody knew it books that
have come out recently, this one by Chris Whipple uncharted
how Trump beat Biden, Harrison the odds and the wildest
campaign and history. According to longtime aid Ronan who would
(22:01):
know eighty one year old Biden as they were trying
to prep for the debates, was fatigued, be fuddled, and disengaged.
He wouldn't stop blabbering about NATO and quote how much
foreign leaders loved him. At one point, why Biden just
wandered off by the pool and fell asleep in a
lounge chair. Claim started to debate, Claim started to worry
the debate could turn into a nationally televised disaster it
(22:25):
which it did. Here's what Caitlin Collins said just before
the debate quote President Biden has spent days locked in
intense preparation, surrounded by his closest advisors at Camp David,
and our sources are telling us that tonight that full
mock debates are underway at the podium underlights. He's even
watching tape, as I reported while covering him in the
(22:45):
White House. When Biden prepares, he does so incredibly intensively.
Oh boy, that is so beautiful. So let's take a
look at the data. Only eight percent of Americans report
having a great deal of trust and confidence in the
mass media. Eight percent have a great deal of confidence.
(23:05):
That's not good. It's well earned, but that's not good. Yeah,
if there's delight in my voice, then there is And
I really need to take a long look at myself
from delighting over the fall of the mainstream media. It's
because awareness is good. You've got to fully identify a
problem before you you can cure it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well, Like I've become a news Nation guy in the morning.
I check them out too now and they're trying to
be not either Fox or MSNBC, and more than the slant,
I notice just the lack of anger, and I got
to admit it's weirdly boring. There's just like nobody's mad,
(23:50):
nobody's fired up about anything. They just give you the
story and the fact that there's nobody there to say.
And that's why trump Zhitdler or that's why liberal those
are communists. I mean, without that element, it's just kind
of dry.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, I don't know what to do about that. Wow,
what's in the line of the blind The one eyed
man is king in the time of hyperbole, the reasonable
man is ignored manly So eight percent have a great
deal of trust and confidence in the mass media when
it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly
eight percent thirty six percent more than quadruple, closing in
(24:30):
on quintuple, said they had no confidence at all. Not surprisingly,
distressed among Republicans had grown exponentially under President.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yes, I think I'd be in the no confidence at
all category. Yeah, I've got no confidence at all in
the mainstream media. Every single thing I hear. I fact
checked myself best I can.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. I'd have to think about that
a little bit, just because I feel like I'm pretty
good at identifying bias and so I just rolled my
eyes and sad. Oh, that paragraph is completely crap. But okay,
that's what actually happened. That paragraph's pretty good. I don't know.
More importantly, Oh so, the number of Republicans who have
no trust at all is twenty seven percent. Was twenty
(25:12):
seven percent in twenty fifteen. It's now fifty nine percent. Wow,
no trust at all. Wow. Interestingly, it's all interesting. But
the percentage of independence who say they have no confidence
in our press has surged from twenty seven percent in
twenty fifteen to forty two percent in twenty twenty four
(25:35):
No trust at all. I don't have like little or
some trust. It would take you long to look.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Over, you know, to argue against your You'd have to
think about it. You just lived through mainstream media pretending
the president wasn't senile.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Four years of a completely.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Made up Russian investigation where we're this close to Trump
being outed as a spy.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I mean, what, yeah, yeah, maybe I'm just a giving
and trusting soul. I've known certain people who were utter
liars and frauds and sheets in their lives. But if
they handed me a nice looking right banana and said, Joe,
this is a banana, I would believe that reporting on
me but inflation reduction act with a straight face. But overall, yes, overall,
(26:20):
you're quite right, quite right. But remember Jack, the decline
and trust is just because of right wing attacks. And
then I can't remember who wrote this in Taketoo. I'll
look in a second. But do you suppose this is
in any way the fault of the press, or is
it as Philip suggests, it's that right wing rhetoric blah
blah blah. The press's credibility crisis is of its own making.
(26:42):
Everything from its botched cover of the lead up to
the disastrous war in Iraq, which was you know, on
a different side, it's abysmal handling of the COVID nineteen panics. Absolutely, oh,
the canceling and silencing of anybody who dared tell well
what turned out to be true, absurd insistence Joe Biden
was in tip top shape, et cetera, et ceteras Jackie
(27:06):
Jackie here where Jackie right right? And this is interesting too,
worth knowing. I mean, what's her name for CNN's an idiot,
and I don't feel any need to argue against her.
But the decline in trust predates Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
It actually dates back to the Nixon administration. In nineteen
(27:27):
seventy two, the percentage of respondents who had a great
deal of fair amount of confidence in the mass media
was seventy percent, and it's dropped thirty seven points.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It's not good, no, but it is you can create
a media that people would trust. I just don't know
if there's an audience anymore that wants it. Like I
was saying about how the strange blandness of watching a
news channel where nobody's angry.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, yeah, or particularly well you might even say where
nobody's particularly enthusiastic about one idea or ou one narrative
or another. Yeah, and you, if you were to build
media that is trusted now, it would be very different
than the media that was trusted in nineteen seventy two. Sure,
(28:21):
it would have to be polarized, I'd think, Yeah. I mean,
if you're the sort of media you're talking about, you're
you know, forty percent of the Democratic Party that's insanely left.
They would never trust that outlet.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Sure, we mentioned last week the guy who runs sixty
minutes is leaving just they've only had three people run
the thing since it started before we were born.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
But he's still there.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And I don't know if you did you see story
number two on sixty minutes last night about nine to eleven?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Was that interesting? That was like an old fashioned sixty minutes?
How could this be? Crew really didn't have a political
angle story. We'll have to talk about later about video
from nine to eleven that is emerged that the the.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
FBI never saw, CIA never saw.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
It's like, what, how is this even possible? Really good story,
we'll get into.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
That, l Well, what was the angle are you pitching
the inside job there, Candae Owens are on, Uh, well,
I don't know how you explain it. I don't know
how you explain it.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I don't want to do a brief version of it
because it'll be confusing. But maybe i'll bring that up
an hour two and we'll play a little bit of
that for you.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Did you hear Scott Pelley did an editorial at the
end of it. No, a parent company, Paramount has put
pressure on sixty minutes. No, I did not. I want
to hear that. I don't know that yet.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
We've got the audio. Okay, we'll get into that whole conversation.
Joe's got mail bag coming up in a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
No more I read about it, the more I think,
unless there's for some reason or reversal in the whole
tariff thing, like Trump changes his mind, says, you know,
claims victory in a variety of fronts and ends it,
or the Supreme Court steps in and says you're not
allowed to do that. If they continue, it's about to
be the only story in America. I think, like, yes,
the only thing every day. Yeah, like soon within a week.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Maybe aren't those the economic growth numbers out to do
out this week. Yes, thirtieth last day of April, right right, yeah, okay,
a couple of days Wednesday, all right, something to look
forward to. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day
from John F. Kennedy. I love this. This ought to
be chiseled into the rock facades of the so called
(30:40):
elite universities. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the
enemy of growth. Yeah, damn sheep, kafia ware and hamas
support and stupid little sheep. Wow, that was not as
eloquit as Kennedy, but it's a good freedom love me quote.
I love the conformity is the jailer of freedom and
(31:02):
the enemy of growth.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You should have had your dad write you a more
literate sentence to get me into Harvard. Here's here's your
mail bag. Your mail bag at Armstrong and Geeddy dot
com as the email address. Drop us a line now
and again.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Oh, guys, listening to your bit about what can destroy
marriage contempt? Right, I realized you helped us understand Trump
derangement syndrome. Simply contempt. There's nothing he could conceivably do
that you would concede. Oh, that went pretty well. In
the same way that if you've come to have contempt
for your spouse or partner, you won't say, you know,
he has a really good sense of humor. You can't
(31:40):
bring yourself to say that. Right. That's a good point. Yeah,
well said there, Brian. Also, a lot of the interaction
between parties is simply contempt, and there's no way to
get through to those that have gone too far down
that road. Brian, and walla wallah, well done. Sir Jack
is right about the next part, Hope, writes Todd and
(32:00):
san Diego. When he expressed a preference for an African
pope to succeed Pope Francis, he spoke a bigger mouthful
than he probably realized. Not only would an African pope
call attention to the sufferings of the people on that continent,
as you pointed out, Jacket, would also be consequential in
two other ways. One, Africa is the front line in
the battle between Islamism and civilization, and this battle would
(32:21):
receive more of the attention it deserves from the world
if an African bishop became pope. That's a really good point, Ton. Two,
Africa is the present and future of vigorous high doctrine Christianity,
in sharp contrast with the woke shell of empty churches
and progressivized cliches that passed for the church in Europe.
Anyone who wants traditional religions to hold onto their traditions
(32:43):
instead of becoming secularized NGOs should be rooting for one
of Africa's conservative cardinals to become the next pope. Wow,
that's some great analysis, Todd. You want to become our
religion correspondent.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
We'll have on you every time a pope dies, so
I wouldn't quit your other job since it's probably once
every twenty years. Conclave starts this week and they'll start
picking a pope.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I guess a bunch of pope pickers. Ps. He writes, Hey,
he's on a heater. Let's keep going with this. Ps.
One of the top contenders is Jerusalem's Cardinal Pierre Baptista
Piete Sabella. Yes, his name is Pete Sabella. It would
be great to see him get elected and choose the
name John the twenty four so everyone would call him
Papa John. You know what, Todd, maybe I should have
(33:33):
stopped after your second. Yeah, let's see. Here's the thought
provoking note from Rick. Let's see, he was talking about
how last week we talked to Josh Hoover, California State Assemblyman,
very reasonable guy, solid conservative, and he was talking about
(33:54):
at least one member of the state legislature during a
recent hearing made reference to the possibility of passing any
type of legislation to ban men and women's sports as
going down the road to becoming Nazis. And he says, Joe,
you responded to him by saying, we need a universally
agreed upon phrase to describe this phenomenon, this sort of
argument that divides us distinctly into this binary perception that
(34:17):
there is only good and evil. Well, the word is Manichean,
but nobody uses that word, the idea being you're either
completely good or completely evil. There's no truth to both sides,
that sort of thing. But he says, I don't have
a specific word, and I couldn't find anything, but as
a suggestion, I offer a HICCK. An acronym HICCK would
(34:39):
be defined as it's an hic hyperbolic incendiary characterization designed
to as certain moral authority, thereby canceling any discussion or
attempts at resolving a dissension. Of opinion. You can use
it as a noun. You have no argument. All you
can do is make hicks proverb. See, you're hiccking away
just because you're unwilling to approach this from anyone else's viewpoint,
(35:01):
where descriptive down Maxine Waters is a career hicco fan. Well,
let's see if that catches on. I love it, well done, Rick,
So I want.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
To get into some of those poll numbers, all the
big polls that came out over the weekend, one particular aspect,
in particular, check in on sixty minutes.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Some interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Happened in that world last night, including that story about
nine to eleven if you didn't see it, among other things.
If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and
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Speaker 2 (01:56):
How about that underground nightclub they rated in Colorado yesterday?
I was gonna stunts not the fair word, because it's legit.
It's been undercover operation going on for a long time.
But I'm sure the timing is not coincidental with the
big one hundred day hoopla coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh yeah, I said, there's certainly a great of truth
to that too. Yeah, it's absolutely needed to be done.
I mean, my goodness, gang members of various strifes, hundreds
of illegals, guns, drugs, et cetera, in charming Colorado Springs,
where my parents lived for a good dozen years.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, what's amazing, is you gonna tell me? No local
law enforcement caught on to the fact that there's a
nightclub where hundreds of people gather on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, they did work with local law enforcement, but before
the Feds got involved. Oh yeah, yeah, so giant and
running drugs and prostitution and everything else, and the MS
thirteen involved in the whole thing. I mean, it's crazy,
you know what that is? Actually, there's sanctuary people out there,
so exactly that's a factor in the story. Colorado has become,
(03:05):
you know, just a hotspot for illegals and illegal gang
members because of their sanctuary policies, which is crazy. Of course.
So the Colorado Springs police are listening right now saying, yeah,
we wanted to do something about it, but we kept
being told to stand down.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Because we weren't going to join fascist Trump, right right. Yeah,
it'll be interesting to see how this unfolds. And the videos,
if you haven't seen, the videos, are wild. I mean
there's all kinds of girls running around and dresses and
high heels because they're in a nightclub dancing. I mean,
they didn't know the federal government is about to come
in blowing whistles and hands in the air and that
whole thing. And you had more than a dozen military
(03:46):
dudes there who were working security. Apparently I was a
good side hustle to pick up on the weekends work
security at that nightclub, which they who know, they knew
it was illegal or not.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Like from the Air Force Academy, which is also in
the Spring.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Certainly could be just said military personnel and looked into it,
which us makes sense.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, working a little off duty security. Holy crap, here's
the Feds. Yeah. Well, hey, same team, guys, same team,
just a little side hustle. I love a guy.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, right, So that'll be a fun story to follow.
And then the other side of the whole immigration thing,
if you're into it, is the whole booting out babies
with cancer story that the mainstream media is really really digging,
which Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, tried to clear
up yesterday, and we'll get to that a little later
in the show.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I've missed that one somehow. My weekend was a political
controversy free mostly intentionally.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, so we got that. One hundred days is a
stupid marker that got started with FDR and everybody acts
like it's a report card that's important or something. I
don't know it it's not. It's it's the definition of
a pseudo event. It's the media creates an event. So
(04:59):
there was a book written by this many years ago.
It's a pseudo event. The media creates these things and
then can report on them so that they have news stories.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But it's completely made up. So yeah, you know, it's
it's funny. I don't think there's anything wrong with taking
stock of the early days, you know, when it's appropriate.
But yeah, and it's it's quite the festival of reporting
and opinionating and sure, you know, editorial writing and the
rest of it, and it's entirely self generated. Yeah, why
(05:27):
are you counting me down, Michael? I'm sorry, I was
just adjusting my camera here. Oh, okay, making sure my
fingers could be seen. Okay, that Michael's giving me the talent.
I got to stop in ten seconds, or I realized
as soon as I did that it was your drivel.
Another ten seconds will go crazy. I'm going to confuse
these guys as they're speaking. I'm sorry. Yeah. And the
other thing we'll have to get to at some point.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Five major polls came out over the weekend, so there
was lots for the Sunday talk shows to grab onto.
And Trump's numbers are down, but everybody's numbers go down
after the beginning. So again, how much in what areas?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's what.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's where it gets interesting, and well we'll get into that,
and then of course we'll break down Round five of
the NFL Draft as we always do. It's been a full.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Real surprises towards the second half of the fifth round. Jack.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Among the things I did over the weekend that I
look forward to talking to, wrote a waim for the
first time. The automated taxi, the fully automated taxi. Oh my,
did that with my son in San Francisco on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You appear to be intact.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, I mean I'd drive a self driving I draw
a self driving Tesla to the city, so it's not
quite as shocking to me to then get into a
self driving taxis. It might be if you've never done
that sort of thing, but do want to talk about
that technology, and it is the future, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But better than that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The next night, I took a actual uber. I was
gonna say taxi. Nobody takes a tax anymore, poor taxi drivers.
Maybe maybe now you got time for a shower so
you're not driving unfortunate stereotype inaccurate. I took on with
(07:00):
a guy from Pakistan, you know, man for Pakistan driving.
I had a fascinating conversation about Pakistan, Middle East politics,
all kinds of different things, homelessness in America, really really
good stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So Ken look ford to talking about that night later. Yeah. Nice. Nice.
So obviously you've bounced back health wise about that, No,
just soldiering on regardless.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, as I've finally admitted to myself I'm a person
who gets sick a lot. I finally had to admit
that to myself. But my ears are plugged up completely.
I'm barely here. I've been sick for that. Don't get
this disease whatever it is. So do you remember Congressman
Doug Ocy. We used to have it from California guy
(07:43):
years ago. Anyway, he responded to me on Twitter and said, yeah,
I think I had exact thing you had. He said,
I'm at two weeks at If you're at two weeks,
you got a week to go. I thought that can't be.
There are no three week diseases. I mean, like the
like viruses that come and go that I've ever heard
of three weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But yeah, I'm three weeks into it. Just about same thing.
Katie's mom and pop hads it sounds like, yes, some
some nasty respiratory thing that just hangs on and on.
It hasn't been named, shouldn't have a clever name that
the media can obsess over. Does it have anything to
do with COVID, Like did COVID do something to our
immune systems? Or did it spawn some viruses out there
that didn't exist before three weeks? What the hell?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yes, Katie, Oh no, it's just my mom and dad
started coughing at the end of March and they're still
they're still going strong.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh great, wow, wow, Hang out be this way forever.
That's good. Yeah, but it needs a name. The beaver
pox or raccoon flu or. I don't know, pigeon fever,
I don't know. Sometimes yes, yes, I like beaver pox.
I mean good to you do not appear to be
(08:54):
pocked in any way, but for the David Mirrors of
the world to say, and beaver pox continues to spread
across it's the Midwest, this mysterious disease.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
When will it and we'll talk to experts. Frank, Okay,
let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this. It is Monday, April twenty eighth. We're
in April here, people they are twenty twenty five or
Armstrong in getting We approve of this program.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Let's begin then official. According to f SEC rules regulations,
the show starts at mark. I read President Trump's book
The Art to Make a Jeedle, and he advise to
just close information before before it's time. There you go
as Russians to the best Russian accent.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
They do they do, don't they in a comical way,
not trying to be at Sir je A Lavrov, the
spokesman for Putin, who has been Putin spokesman for like
I don't know, twenty five years or something like that.
The Foreign Minister one of the shows yesterday. I have
read Donald Trump's book The Art of Being the Deal
or whatever he said, and need to make a good point.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
He did.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He did one place say we are very polite here
in Russia. We do not talk about the deal with
only between each other, not in front of cameras, which
is certain to a certain extent, a good idea when
you're trying to make.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And here's the deal, stand next to that window.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
He also lied endlessly, like he has to or he
would be pushed out of a window about all kinds
of things. I was actually getting angry listening to him
talking about we have taken no children, many many children
found themselves without parents and orphanages, and we have rescued them.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And just all kinds of just lies, lies, lies, lies,
which is what they did.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But Trump said the harshest things that he said about
putting over the weekend by far.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I don't know if you do.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You see that amazing picture of him and Zelensky at
the Vatican alone in a corner together talking to thread
about it.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Wow, that's something.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I'd like to know what that conversation was, you know,
as I was thinking when I saw that, because they
were completely alone, without reporters, interpreters and anything like that,
so they had actually spoken very honestly, and I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
About it without jd vance right, good point.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And I was thinking about the Bill Mahr thing where
Bill Maher said in person, he's nothing like on camera.
I mean, he's very self aware of anything like. I
wonder if Zelensky got the very honest, self aware Trump
Trump saying, look, here's the situation. This guy's a murderous
lunatic and I'm trying to or something.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I don't know. Yeah, yeah, that's a fascinating question. I
wish I knew the answer.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, maybe we'll know someday. Because Zelensky didn't say anything
reporters asked him. He said, we're gonna keep all this private,
So I wonder. And then Trump saying some pretty harsh
things about about Russia, which we'll get to it later
from a truth social that he put out. Uh, Katie's
got headlines on the way. Katie seems to be better.
Everybody's healthy side for me all on the way, stay
(11:48):
here text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Look at some of the projections for what were prices
are going to be because of the tariffs very soon,
and you don't know if they're accurate or not.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And you never know when the tariffs are going to end,
because it could be any day. But if they are
accurate in the tariffs hold for a while, holy crap,
it'll be the only thing anybody's talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yes, the numbers behind the numbers Jack. What businesses are investing,
what they are building has dropped precipitously as they're like,
we don't know how to plan, so we're just not
going to do anything. We're not going to grow. That's bad.
That's really really bad. But more on that to come.
A lot of good stuff to squeeze in this hour
of the entire show. You wanted Kamala to win exactly that.
(12:38):
That's code for I wish Kamala Harrison had won. All right,
let's be I'm sorry. Now let's begin the show. Let's
figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story with
Katie Green and Katie Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Kind of along those lines from CNN. Trump took the
US economy to the brink of a crisis in just
one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Whatever. Alright, CNN, please.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
For maybe see Putin says North Korean quote friends helped
Russia push Ukraine out of Kursk.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He's looking at Curry favor of a little fat head.
What an unholy aligance that bored man? Oh man? Are
they gonna get like a two bedroom apartment? Held from
they're both there?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
From the New York Times, US military says it's air
campaign has hit more than eight hundred targets in Yemen.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Okay, yeah, the whole bombin of the houthis you don't
hear much about that these days, pretty closely tied to
Iran though that story is on gooy from the Wall
Street Journal.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Meta's digital companions will talk sex with users, even children.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, well what Jack, You notice the skepticism there.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No, the children part obviously is horrible, but it's it's
bad for mankind even if you leave out the whole
talking of children thing. The relayationships, the way people are
turning to AI, I've got some examples from from real life. Yeah,
people really leaning on the chat bought sex bots for
their companionship, which.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Is wholly crap crazy to me. Yeah, dropping birth rates
are just going to keep plunging, and then the planet
of the be versus anyway, So I read that piece
Kdie and one of the more revealing aspects of it
was the fact that metas staffers, we're saying, hey, this
is this is like porn for children, this is and
(14:32):
Zuckerberg was like, shut up, shut up. It's competitive industry.
We got to get on top. So some kids get
exposed to sexually explicit stuff onward and upward. Wow, are
you sure you're being fair? There is that? No? No, yes,
I am entirely certain of being fair. Yeah. Wow, yeah,
he said, no, we can't be the cautious. Keep going.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Kanye West gets.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Banned from Twitch in just seven minutes after Hitler salute
and rant about impregnating Paris Hilton.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I'm not exactly sure what Twitch is, but.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
It's the gamer streaming, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I know I'd heard of it. My kids do that.
I did that. Yeah, it's huge. I was chatting with
my son last night, who was a bit of a
hipster and a fan of Yee back in the day,
and he said he now he has some sort of
confrontational syndrome where he has to drive people away. He
attracts them, then he drives them away. It's his own
(15:34):
mental kink. I can't remember the name of the syndrome.
But he said he's now driving away the Nazi types
that he's attracted to him something oppositionals And.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I've seen I've known people who kind of did that,
like they had to be repulsive enough and then they
would then then they could do to see nobody likes
me routine, yes, which is obviously very unhealthy.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Speaking of repulsive from the New York Post, Southwest Airlines
passenger stripped naked and pooped on her seat.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
As the plane landed. Well, at least there was her seat.
I mean strip naked. I mean there's there's a certain
amount of naked stripping that's required to you know, complete
the act y god above the age of like three. Yes, yeah,
she wanted she went all the way? Wow. Wow, Okay,
(16:29):
how would I react to that? It's Kanye's future wife, right,
I would want to change seats? Can I change seats
before you land? Approach? Yeah? Your pretty trade tables up.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
They stow away your electronics and if you need to defecate,
Go ahead and do it, pooping in your seat, wrap
it up as.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Quickly as possible, and finally the battle on bee behind
closed doors. Pope is still focused, sharp and energetic.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh yes, that's a good one. That is a good one.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And after you if you think you've ever seen a
better pope than this one right now.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
More on the plunging rates of trust in the media
and why coming up among other fair hope you can
stick around Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Among men in gen Z forty five fifty five, Trump's
approval rating, that's what we saw with everybody. Among women,
that's where he falls off the cliff. It's gen Z
this side of the gender gap. Women gen Z much
more progressive, much more liberal. We're gonna see this on
issue after issue than any other group any generation.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That was Steve Kornaki of NBC breaking down there polling yesterday.
Five major polls came out, as I mentioned, and there
was something there for everybody, depending on what story you
want to spend on.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Not really trying to spin a story.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So we'll get into some of the more interesting ones
in my mind maybe an hour or two, but in
particular the stuff around young women. They are an outlier
from everybody else, right, young women?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So interesting? You familiar with the documentary series seven up
and fourteen twenty eight up where they interviewed British school
kids at age seven, right and then every seven years
sat right, every seven years for their life decades and decades. Yeah? Yeah,
just absolutely fascinating and heartbreaking and just as is most powerful. Yes,
(18:37):
I've noticed one of the most powerful things ever put
on film in my opinion. But anyway, it would be
so interesting. Let's start now this pocket. Is it a
generation I guess of young women who are wildly radicalized
(18:59):
and enthused about far leftist politics. Then I want to
see him interviewed every seven years as they go through life.
Do they stay completely crazed and unhinged from reality? Do
they have a come to not Jesus but come to
Madison moment in most of their lives where they realize, oh,
Western civilization is a really good idea, or what I
(19:19):
wonder how that'll go. They are a weird little ideological demographic.
As always need to point out. They didn't raise themselves, right,
Oh yeah, yeah, it's the radical leftists who got hold
of the teachers' colleges and then the education system, as
I'm always ranting about. So speaking of leftists and that
(19:40):
sort of thing, a CNN is a joke and I
can see that. But I've got some really interesting information
about the continuing erosion of people's perception of the media,
and it starts with a CNN thing, and it was
network anchor Abby Phillips, in total earnestness earnestness, last week,
(20:02):
said that the erosion of media credibility is driven by
right wing rhetoric. What, yes, exactly, it's just attacks from
the right wing. Mass media are dying, said the CNN
guest and self appointed media authority Jeff Jarvis. The problem
is that right wing has taken advantage of the situation,
I think quite cleverly, quite wisely, they've played it into
(20:22):
a weakness. And wow, well that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
So Fox years ago just you know, figures out, you know,
practically all media is left leaning. How about we present
something that's right reading, like, because I'm sure there's an
audience for.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That, and that's taking advantage of a situation. Yeah. Well,
Scott Jennings, the token conservative on CNN, said what situation?
Jarvis says the situation of being under attack, and Jennings says,
what the right wing is taking advantage of is that
the American people say enough is enough. They're tired of
feeling like the mass media screens out one viewpoint versus
(20:59):
another political coverage, tired of media institutions favoring one party
over the other, which is clearly true. And then Abby
Phillips jumps in, a lot of this is driven by
the rhetoric on your side of the aisle, and Jennings says,
you think the drop in trust is driven by rhetoric
and not the performance. Wow, absolutely, Philip said absolutely, which
(21:20):
is absolutely hilarious. And then here's that answers a question
I've had for a long time, at least for that person,
do they know there is my or do they actually
think they're playing it down the middle? And apparently, at
least in that guy's case, they think they're playing it
down the middle, which is hilarious. So before I get
into some of the other numbers, I think this is
(21:40):
such a beautiful example. According to one of the Biden books,
that Biden was senile and everybody knew it books that
have come out recently, this one by Chris Whipple uncharted
how Trump beat Biden, Harrison the odds and the wildest
campaign and history. According to longtime aid Ronan who would
(22:01):
know eighty one year old Biden as they were trying
to prep for the debates, was fatigued, be fuddled, and disengaged.
He wouldn't stop blabbering about NATO and quote how much
foreign leaders loved him. At one point, why Biden just
wandered off by the pool and fell asleep in a
lounge chair. Claim started to debate, Claim started to worry
the debate could turn into a nationally televised disaster it
(22:25):
which it did. Here's what Caitlin Collins said just before
the debate quote President Biden has spent days locked in
intense preparation, surrounded by his closest advisors at Camp David,
and our sources are telling us that tonight that full
mock debates are underway at the podium underlights. He's even
watching tape, as I reported while covering him in the
(22:45):
White House. When Biden prepares, he does so incredibly intensively.
Oh boy, that is so beautiful. So let's take a
look at the data. Only eight percent of Americans report
having a great deal of trust and confidence in the
mass media. Eight percent have a great deal of confidence.
(23:05):
That's not good. It's well earned, but that's not good. Yeah,
if there's delight in my voice, then there is And
I really need to take a long look at myself
from delighting over the fall of the mainstream media. It's
because awareness is good. You've got to fully identify a
problem before you you can cure it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well, Like I've become a news Nation guy in the morning.
I check them out too now and they're trying to
be not either Fox or MSNBC, and more than the slant,
I notice just the lack of anger, and I got
to admit it's weirdly boring. There's just like nobody's mad,
(23:50):
nobody's fired up about anything. They just give you the
story and the fact that there's nobody there to say.
And that's why trump Zhitdler or that's why liberal those
are communists. I mean, without that element, it's just kind
of dry.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, I don't know what to do about that. Wow,
what's in the line of the blind The one eyed
man is king in the time of hyperbole, the reasonable
man is ignored manly So eight percent have a great
deal of trust and confidence in the mass media when
it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly
eight percent thirty six percent more than quadruple, closing in
(24:30):
on quintuple, said they had no confidence at all. Not surprisingly,
distressed among Republicans had grown exponentially under President.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yes, I think I'd be in the no confidence at
all category. Yeah, I've got no confidence at all in
the mainstream media. Every single thing I hear. I fact
checked myself best I can.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. I'd have to think about that
a little bit, just because I feel like I'm pretty
good at identifying bias and so I just rolled my
eyes and sad. Oh, that paragraph is completely crap. But okay,
that's what actually happened. That paragraph's pretty good. I don't know.
More importantly, Oh so, the number of Republicans who have
no trust at all is twenty seven percent. Was twenty
(25:12):
seven percent in twenty fifteen. It's now fifty nine percent. Wow,
no trust at all. Wow. Interestingly, it's all interesting. But
the percentage of independence who say they have no confidence
in our press has surged from twenty seven percent in
twenty fifteen to forty two percent in twenty twenty four
(25:35):
No trust at all. I don't have like little or
some trust. It would take you long to look.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Over, you know, to argue against your You'd have to
think about it. You just lived through mainstream media pretending
the president wasn't senile.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Four years of a completely.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Made up Russian investigation where we're this close to Trump
being outed as a spy.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I mean, what, yeah, yeah, maybe I'm just a giving
and trusting soul. I've known certain people who were utter
liars and frauds and sheets in their lives. But if
they handed me a nice looking right banana and said, Joe,
this is a banana, I would believe that reporting on
me but inflation reduction act with a straight face. But overall, yes, overall,
(26:20):
you're quite right, quite right. But remember Jack, the decline
and trust is just because of right wing attacks. And
then I can't remember who wrote this in Taketoo. I'll
look in a second. But do you suppose this is
in any way the fault of the press, or is
it as Philip suggests, it's that right wing rhetoric blah
blah blah. The press's credibility crisis is of its own making.
(26:42):
Everything from its botched cover of the lead up to
the disastrous war in Iraq, which was you know, on
a different side, it's abysmal handling of the COVID nineteen panics. Absolutely, oh,
the canceling and silencing of anybody who dared tell well
what turned out to be true, absurd insistence Joe Biden
was in tip top shape, et cetera, et ceteras Jackie
(27:06):
Jackie here where Jackie right right? And this is interesting too,
worth knowing. I mean, what's her name for CNN's an idiot,
and I don't feel any need to argue against her.
But the decline in trust predates Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
It actually dates back to the Nixon administration. In nineteen
(27:27):
seventy two, the percentage of respondents who had a great
deal of fair amount of confidence in the mass media
was seventy percent, and it's dropped thirty seven points.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It's not good, no, but it is you can create
a media that people would trust. I just don't know
if there's an audience anymore that wants it. Like I
was saying about how the strange blandness of watching a
news channel where nobody's angry.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, yeah, or particularly well you might even say where
nobody's particularly enthusiastic about one idea or ou one narrative
or another. Yeah, and you, if you were to build
media that is trusted now, it would be very different
than the media that was trusted in nineteen seventy two. Sure,
(28:21):
it would have to be polarized, I'd think, Yeah. I mean,
if you're the sort of media you're talking about, you're
you know, forty percent of the Democratic Party that's insanely left.
They would never trust that outlet.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Sure, we mentioned last week the guy who runs sixty
minutes is leaving just they've only had three people run
the thing since it started before we were born.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
But he's still there.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And I don't know if you did you see story
number two on sixty minutes last night about nine to eleven?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Was that interesting? That was like an old fashioned sixty minutes?
How could this be? Crew really didn't have a political
angle story. We'll have to talk about later about video
from nine to eleven that is emerged that the the.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
FBI never saw, CIA never saw.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
It's like, what, how is this even possible? Really good story,
we'll get into.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
That, l Well, what was the angle are you pitching
the inside job there, Candae Owens are on, Uh, well,
I don't know how you explain it. I don't know
how you explain it.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I don't want to do a brief version of it
because it'll be confusing. But maybe i'll bring that up
an hour two and we'll play a little bit of
that for you.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Did you hear Scott Pelley did an editorial at the
end of it. No, a parent company, Paramount has put
pressure on sixty minutes. No, I did not. I want
to hear that. I don't know that yet.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
We've got the audio. Okay, we'll get into that whole conversation.
Joe's got mail bag coming up in a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
No more I read about it, the more I think,
unless there's for some reason or reversal in the whole
tariff thing, like Trump changes his mind, says, you know,
claims victory in a variety of fronts and ends it,
or the Supreme Court steps in and says you're not
allowed to do that. If they continue, it's about to
be the only story in America. I think, like, yes,
the only thing every day. Yeah, like soon within a week.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Maybe aren't those the economic growth numbers out to do
out this week. Yes, thirtieth last day of April, right right, yeah, okay,
a couple of days Wednesday, all right, something to look
forward to. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day
from John F. Kennedy. I love this. This ought to
be chiseled into the rock facades of the so called
(30:40):
elite universities. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the
enemy of growth. Yeah, damn sheep, kafia ware and hamas
support and stupid little sheep. Wow, that was not as
eloquit as Kennedy, but it's a good freedom love me quote.
I love the conformity is the jailer of freedom and
(31:02):
the enemy of growth.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You should have had your dad write you a more
literate sentence to get me into Harvard. Here's here's your
mail bag. Your mail bag at Armstrong and Geeddy dot
com as the email address. Drop us a line now
and again.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Oh, guys, listening to your bit about what can destroy
marriage contempt? Right, I realized you helped us understand Trump
derangement syndrome. Simply contempt. There's nothing he could conceivably do
that you would concede. Oh, that went pretty well. In
the same way that if you've come to have contempt
for your spouse or partner, you won't say, you know,
he has a really good sense of humor. You can't
(31:40):
bring yourself to say that. Right. That's a good point. Yeah,
well said there, Brian. Also, a lot of the interaction
between parties is simply contempt, and there's no way to
get through to those that have gone too far down
that road. Brian, and walla wallah, well done. Sir Jack
is right about the next part, Hope, writes Todd and
(32:00):
san Diego. When he expressed a preference for an African
pope to succeed Pope Francis, he spoke a bigger mouthful
than he probably realized. Not only would an African pope
call attention to the sufferings of the people on that continent,
as you pointed out, Jacket, would also be consequential in
two other ways. One, Africa is the front line in
the battle between Islamism and civilization, and this battle would
(32:21):
receive more of the attention it deserves from the world
if an African bishop became pope. That's a really good point, Ton. Two,
Africa is the present and future of vigorous high doctrine Christianity,
in sharp contrast with the woke shell of empty churches
and progressivized cliches that passed for the church in Europe.
Anyone who wants traditional religions to hold onto their traditions
(32:43):
instead of becoming secularized NGOs should be rooting for one
of Africa's conservative cardinals to become the next pope. Wow,
that's some great analysis, Todd. You want to become our
religion correspondent.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
We'll have on you every time a pope dies, so
I wouldn't quit your other job since it's probably once
every twenty years. Conclave starts this week and they'll start
picking a pope.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I guess a bunch of pope pickers. Ps. He writes, Hey,
he's on a heater. Let's keep going with this. Ps.
One of the top contenders is Jerusalem's Cardinal Pierre Baptista
Piete Sabella. Yes, his name is Pete Sabella. It would
be great to see him get elected and choose the
name John the twenty four so everyone would call him
Papa John. You know what, Todd, maybe I should have
(33:33):
stopped after your second. Yeah, let's see. Here's the thought
provoking note from Rick. Let's see, he was talking about
how last week we talked to Josh Hoover, California State Assemblyman,
very reasonable guy, solid conservative, and he was talking about
(33:54):
at least one member of the state legislature during a
recent hearing made reference to the possibility of passing any
type of legislation to ban men and women's sports as
going down the road to becoming Nazis. And he says, Joe,
you responded to him by saying, we need a universally
agreed upon phrase to describe this phenomenon, this sort of
argument that divides us distinctly into this binary perception that
(34:17):
there is only good and evil. Well, the word is Manichean,
but nobody uses that word, the idea being you're either
completely good or completely evil. There's no truth to both sides,
that sort of thing. But he says, I don't have
a specific word, and I couldn't find anything, but as
a suggestion, I offer a HICCK. An acronym HICCK would
(34:39):
be defined as it's an hic hyperbolic incendiary characterization designed
to as certain moral authority, thereby canceling any discussion or
attempts at resolving a dissension. Of opinion. You can use
it as a noun. You have no argument. All you
can do is make hicks proverb. See, you're hiccking away
just because you're unwilling to approach this from anyone else's viewpoint,
(35:01):
where descriptive down Maxine Waters is a career hicco fan. Well,
let's see if that catches on. I love it, well done, Rick,
So I want.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
To get into some of those poll numbers, all the
big polls that came out over the weekend, one particular aspect,
in particular, check in on sixty minutes.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Some interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Happened in that world last night, including that story about
nine to eleven if you didn't see it, among other things.
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