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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Sorry, I didn't get a chance to leave a talk
back this morning. I was too busy at Winchell's trying
to look through all the windows of the donut selection
to determine what protein I was going to have with
my coffee. But I got that figured out, so I
figured i'd call it now and leave it talkback, since
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you guys are probably wanting a nice Winchle's donut, but.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Not today.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I don't recall the last time I actually had a
Winchele's done it. There's one on the way, and I
just it's just not one of the places I typically stopped.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Did you catch what protein he was going to have
with his coffee? Did you catch that part of the
park back? He didn't say, yeah, but he's at a
donut shop looking for protein, right, and all I can
think so all I can think of are.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Don't do it, don't do it a certain type of glaze.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
No, no, just you can get you can get a
you can get a certain kind of pastry that is
filled with you know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And then that led me to talk thinking about thinking
about yesterday's program, which I don't really really much about
until we have a somebody mentioned protein, and then it
all comes flashing back and I realized, Wow, my key
card actually worked today.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Because nobody in the building listens to this show.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh, I think there is what there's there there. I
know for sure there are two people in upper management
that are listening to this program, and I think it's because.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
They're scared to death.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Then I can't help to think that that talk about
act either intentionally or unintentionally, and I tend to believe
intentionally knew precisely.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What he was doing. Oh he ain't.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
No dope, no, no, no, which goes back to my
whole point about the love hate relationship I have with
this audience. Senator John John Kennedy, the Mark Twain or
the Will Rogers of the United States Senate. This is
back in March, first part of March of this year,
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March of twenty twenty five, he introduced a bill, the
No Propaganda Act. Here's what he said on the Senate floor.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
We're spending half a billion dollars a year, fourteen and
a half billion dollars over time to give to people
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR and PS to
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participate in opinion. Journalist we're saron tie to do, but
they can't do it on the taxpayer dime. They're doing
it on the taxpayer dime, but they shouldn't be able to.
I would also point out, mister President, that the folks
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at PBS and NPR are doing pretty well for themselves.
NPR just bought a two and one million dollars office
space just up the road from the Capitol. Two hundred
million dollars. It came from the American taxpayers so they
could publish this stuff. NPR pays its hosts as much
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as five hundred and thirty two thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
What I'm wait, wait a minute, all those you propaganda
for half a million bucks a year.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I'm a whore. I'll go do it.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Taxpayer money.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They pay.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
It pays its chief diverse officer about three hundred twenty
thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I'll look at your skin color, figure out whether you
get a job or not for three hundred grand a year. Yeah,
oh you're black, hired? Oh you're hispanic? Oh white guy, No,
out of here.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
And you know what, despite all of this money that
the American taxpayer are giving to these left of center entities.
Their viewership has declined because people don't need them anymore, you.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Know, any interesting. So we give all this money to
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the viewership declines. The
government gets all this money to the Department of Education,
and test scores go into the toilet.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I wonder if there's any correlation there.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
So why are we giving them money. I've introduced legislation
to not to eliminate the Corporation for Public braw Yes,
not to eliminate the Public Broadcasting Service, and not to
eliminate the National Public Radio. They can go exist on
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their own if they want to, but I do want
to defund them. We're running a thirty six trillion dollars
in debt. In debt, this is disgraceful in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's disgraceful.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Whether it is left of center opinion journalism or right
of center opinion journalism, it is disgraceful for the American
people to have to fund this rot.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Disgraceful to have to fund this rot, the CEO of
National Public Radio, Katherine Maher said in a statement after
the Senate approved a recision packaged yesterday that would once
and for all take NPR off the federal teat She said,
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nearly three and four Americans, seventy five percent of Americans
say they rely on their public radio stations for alerts
and news for their public safety.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I call bull crap on that seventy.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Five percent rely on public radio for alerts and news
for their public safety.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
No, I die. I don't believe it at all.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So they passed the decision package that would finally, after
all these years and decades talking about it, take NPR
off the federal funding payroll. It was a very NPR
way of deploying the usual Democrat policy complaint that people
are going to die, you know, if we cut anything
in the budget, people are going to.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Die, which they won't.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Now, in reality, I think most Americans probably learn about
public emergencies now, probably even so then broadcast radio from
phone alerts or they're watching you know, Jeopardy and the
chiron across the bottom says, you know, there's a there's
a tornado warning for someplace, or you get that alert
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that says there's a Medina alert, or there's a what's
the child alert at Amber alert and Amber Amber alert.
You get all these alerts. I mean, we're just inundated
with alerts, alerts, alerts. But apparently these are desperate times
at the NPR headquarters, so people are gonna die if
you defund us. But at long last, it's fire. I
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never really thought it would happen. I honestly did not
think it would happen. I would say I almost feel
bad for PBS, which has not aired an episode of
Sesame Street in more than a decade and is merely
just a mildly liberal purveyor of uncontroversial programs like atchester
Walking with Dinosaurs, The Antiques road Show, and the Blase
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Bobo political opinions of you know, dummy David Brooks. But
this is all in PR's fault. They've been backing themselves
into a corner for a year, and the Internet can't
contain its joy at this current round of public radio suffering.
It's hilarious. Since the announcement of the funding pull, if
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you go on to twitter x, it has been just flooded,
no pun intended with people celebrating with their favorite woke
and otherwise ridiculous NPR moments. One of my favorites is
a tweet that NPR put out three years ago saying
that people were being subconsciously racist if they used the
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wrong color of the thumbs up emoji. I've been upset
with Apple and the Emoji Congress wherever that exists, that
decided that every emoji has to have different shades of color.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Don't forget about the pregnant man. Oh oh, and the
pregnant man. Yeah, the stupid pregnant man. There was also
a segment.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
About the LGBTQ plus whatever idiots communities battle they were
battling for the dinosaur emoji.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I never quite understood that.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
One Matt Taibi of all people, I mean, a great
journalist left the center. But a great journalist started a
really hilarious threat on X with the prompt what's everyone's
favorite ridiculous NPR story? And I'll get to those in
a minute, but before I do, I'm I'm perusing at
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dinner last night. I'm sitting by myself because nobody loves me,
Nobody go to dinner with me. You know, wife, he's gone,
no friends, no family dragging him. Missus Redbeard didn't invite
me over. So you know, I'm just sitting all alone,
sipping you know, some tequila and just you know, having
you know, some Mexican food on my owns. It was
really sad. I was actually quite happy. I was so happy,
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and I come across that gues. Indeed, the Senator has
voted to approve the nine billion dollar recession bill, recision bill,
excuse me, that will take away funding that's been already
allocated to public radio on public TV. So they're gonna
pull the money back. Now, no surprise here, but every
single Democrat in the Senate voted against the measure, including
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our two illustrious Senators John hicken Hooper and Michael Bennett,
who were also joined by those wonderful Senators Lisa Murkowski
of Alaskan Susan Collins of Maine. Now here was the
kudo gross. This was lovely because this shows you what
an absolute senator Bennett. I hope somebody on your staff
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is listening, because you are really one dumb son of
a bitch. I mean, I can't believe how stupid you are.
Oftentimes he says public radio is the only source for
whether and information.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Huh. So I stopped and I thought about that for
a minute.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So I put myself okay, I decided to move to Lamar,
Colorado or I'm living in Sterling or I'm living in
Craig Or I've gone all the way I'm living and
tell you ride because I'm going to live with the
hoity toitdies. So I've moved because I am a hoity toity.
So I moved to tell you right, And I'm thinking,
how in the hell and tell you ride? Am I
going to get the weather?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I guess I could buy one of those weather radios,
you know the ones they should have had down at
the camps in in Curvale, down in Texas. Yeah, weather radios.
I can get my lurts that way. Or I don't
know if I can get a short wave radio. And
then I thought, wait a minute, I could get Starling. Yes,
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I could get satellite Tea. I could get Dish. I
could get what's the other dish and direct TV. I
can get dish and direct TV. I could get Oh,
I don't know a local radio station. Yes, now the
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cuts will hit Colorado Public Radio, Rocky Mountain, PBS and
the others. But call somebody that cares because I do not, well,
actually I do care because I really pisses me off
that my tax dollars are going to fund my competitor.
And I can tell you that I can disclose ratings,
but I can tell you when I look at the Nielsen's,
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do you know who always ranks right up the top
is either a Spanish radio station, which I ought to
tell you something about demographics, or it's one of the
it's one of the local public broadcasting stations. I say,
let them survive on their donor base, and if they
go even further left, if they, you know, we rely
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on our sponsors. You know they alway, they're always doing fundraising,
they rely on their sponsors, well then you already have
a base. And guess what, I don't care if they
If they if we really follow through and the President
really does sign the bill and they resend the money,
which I think they will, and that means that Colorado
Public Radio goes even further to the left. Call again,
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call somebody that cares, because I don't. They can go
full bore Marxist fall like for all I care. I
just don't want to pay for it. It's their prerogative.
They can broadcast whatever they want to. I just don't
want to pay for it, and I don't think you
and I should have to pay for it. Well, anyway,
all these tweeters start pointing out stories like you know,
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one time they were advocating for a permanent ban on handshakes.
Somebody wrote, I remember a host shaming and ridiculous and
ridiculing a guest for advocating for schools to reopen for
in person learning. They were opposed to opening the schools.
Several chimed in with an NPR tweet that a new
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poll finds forty respondents believe in a baseless conspiracy theory
that the coronavirus virus was created in a lab in China.
They were all over the place. But no, you think
they were, uh, somehow biased in their reporting. I can't
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believe you would think that. Going back to Center to Kennedy, Uh,
he brought the receipts and they're hilarious.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Good Biden.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
No, it's the spinning wheel of death on my computer.
Let's see if I can get this one to go.
We'll just start here.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
R has published using taxpayer money. I'll just read the headlines.
First headline in PR News service Michael Abanatti quote a
profile of the media savvy attorney. They love Michael Labanatti.
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You know where Michael Labanatti is today. He's in jail.
You know why.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
He's a crook.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
But for a while he was a media darling on NPR.
Here's another headline from NPR, how racism became a marketing
tool for country music. I kid you not. The American
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taxpayers are spending half a billion dollars a year to
pay a local station to buy content that says country
music is racist. Here's another headline from NTRN old Trump's
long embrace of Vladimer Pewtin. Remember the Russia Gate, the
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Steele dossier. NPR was right in there promoting it. A
couple more headlines that NPR is putting out there using
your tax dollars. This headline, monuments and teams have changed names.
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Let me say the game monuments and teams presumably sports
teams had changed names as America reckons with racism. Birds
are next. I don't know any birds that are racist.
Here's another headline, eating less beet is a climate solution.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Well, then where would you get your protein if you
don't eat beef? Where you get your protein at the
Wrigel's donut shop because Creamfield donut.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So don't go away. We got a few other dumb messes.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Hey, Michael and dragon. Every time I bring donuts to
the shop, I wait for someone to take a bite
and say thank you, and I tell him I glazed
them myself.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Did you hear him laugh at his own joke at
the end of the night, Did you hear that? Yes,
that was childish, childishly funny. However, you blew it when
you laughed at your own joke before them, before you stop,
before you stop the recording, which just proves. But you
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actually listen to what comes across the airwaves here, that
was the best part.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Forget the stupid joke. You laugh at your own joke,
which I never do.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Terreble, you can't even tell the joke because you're too
busy laughing at the joke you have yet to tell.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Those are fun ones.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh back to center, to Kennedy so and some of
you on the text line. Let's see seventy seven to
seventy nine. Rights NPR should stay away from politics and
stick and stick to schwetty balls. Thirty nine eighty four.
We go to our remote location in the color around mountains,
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about forty five minutes from Walden.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We have a solar powered weather radio to check the weather.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Let's see forty four to sixty seven, Mike, when the
High Park fire broke out and we were in a
rural area off the grid in the mountains, we were
listening to KUNC, hoping ne to hear something, but there
was zilcho information. Hey, Senator Bennett, there's one of your constituents.
They didn't find any weather report or any emergency.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Alerting to UNC or seventy one oh five dragging. This
one's for you.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Relying on NPR for safety is like relying on a
dairy queen Hamburger reviews.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Or sixty two eighty eight, Michael, in my sixty five years,
sixty five years, what sixty five years of what in
my sixty sixty five years of working, sixty five years
of sleeping, sixty five years of eating cream Field donuts?
I mean, come on, what tell us what in my
sixty five years, I've never heard of weather alert from PBS.
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You're just not listening to the right PBS station, I guess,
Senator to Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Eating West beef is a climate solution.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
That's what Marlon Reese says. That's what the first gentleman says.
You ever frog the frog in your throat.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It gets dusty in here, something in your throat.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I don't have anything. It's vegetarians. I'm a semi vegetarian myself.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I eat beef and be semi vegetarians.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
He's trying to explain, if you just shut up and listen,
I'm trying to explain that why he's a semi vegetarian.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Here's another headline, eating less beef is a climate solution.
Eating less beef is a climate solution. I don't have anything.
It's vegetarians. I'm a semi vegetarian myself. I eat beef
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and beef and cows eat eat grass, So that makes
me a semi vegetarian.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well that makes me.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Not on NPR. Eating less beef is a solution. Here's
why that's hard for some American men. Here's the final headline.
I could go on the rest of the evening, how
the talibond adds to afghanistans woes when it comes to
climate fueled disasters. Boy, I can tell you that's on
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the mind of every person in Afghanistan today is climate
change and the talibond. I can guarantee you I don't
have a problem with these headlines. This is America. If
you want to publish articles like this, which no person
with a brain above a single cell organism would call
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fair and balanced. If you're a news outlet and you
want to publish this kind of stuff, that is your
right as an American. We have freedom of the press,
we have the First Amendment. You're not free in our
country if you can't say what you think. You're not
free in our country if you can't express yourself.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
For this.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
If that's what these outlets want to do. But I'm
not for taking five hundred million dollars every single year
and giving it to these stations at the to the
exclusion of everybody else.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
On the amen. Amen. But when the preacher gets wound up,
the preacher can't stop. And there's more.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I could do this all night, but I'm not. Here's
some more headlines from NPR. There is no neutral. Nice
white people can still be complicit in a racist society.
That's what your tax.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Dollars pay for.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Another one, Abram x Kindy says, no one is not racist,
so what should we do? Another one, how artificial intelligence
could perpetuate racism, sexism, and other biases in society. Another
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scientists debunk lab accident theory of pandemic emergence.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And just because he goes on and on, let's skip down.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
To these arguments that transathletes have an unfair advantage, lack
evidence to support. That's opinion journalism. Here's another headline from NBR,
A brief history of how racism shaped interstate highways. I
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did not know our interstate highways were racist. I thought
they were concrete, not according to NBR. Here's another NBR headline.
Trump embodies nearly every aspect.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Of a racist, Arthur says.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Another The nation confronting Trump's coded racism.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Another you get the idea. He goes on and on
and on, and it's actually pretty hilarious. You know, for years,
NPR kind of existed in an alternate reality to actual reality.
One wrote on X One time I tuned in, they
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were talking about how there's a shortage of transsexual truck drivers.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well, we know of one. I don't know where he
is today, but he's out there, you know, honking his horn.
He's out there.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I'm not sure today whether he's a transwoman or trans man,
but he's out there delivering some sort of crap to
somebody somewhere and listening to us. Another pointed out how
they'd read about a sympathy piece about a female pastor
who go fired because she was preaching atheism from the pulpit. Huh,
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I don't know why a church would fire a pastor
for advocating atheism. I just seems incongruent to me. But
why don't I know incongruence a big words.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Why?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I don't know what I would do? There is somebody
tweeted there is I'm sorry post it. Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
There is an episode of at Radio Lab where a
person describes themselves as gender fluid. They claim that throughout
the day they switched back and forth between male and
female multiple times per day.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I do that all the time, just back and forth,
back and forth, you know whatever.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
It goes on like that, forever and ever and ever,
until until finally you begin to realize, uh duh, NPR
is getting exactly what's coming to them.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Now.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Someone argue that might be kind of sad, because in
PR they might have had a heyday back in the
seventies or eighties, I don't know, maybe even the nineties,
when it was the square but sensible voice of this
and closely cultural liberalism, just liberalism but even then, that's
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all they were. Well, if they were the bastion of
just liberalism, I'd still be opposed to taxpayer funding. If
they were the bastion of cultural conservatism, I'd be opposed
to their funding.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Do you want to fund.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Fox News, Fox Business, abcnbccbs CNN, MSNBC, do you I
don't want to fund any of them. Hell's bill, I
don't want funding here. Can you imagine now? In PR
gets funding? And because the Democrats are so adamant that, well,
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they would never attempt to let me back up, the
Democrats don't even need to attempt to influence in PR
about what to say, because NPR is going to say
what they know the Democrats want them to say. Now,
let's say that we got taxpayer funding at this station.
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Do you think, for a minute, how long do you
think I'd last before there'd be some congressional investigation about
something I said, Which should be fine, because I've been
through a lot of congressional investigations. I've been through a
lot of congressional hearings. They put their pants on just
like the rest of us do, and sometimes they put
their skirts on like some of us do. But you know,
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they don't hide it so well. You know whatever, Sure,
bring it on, let's do it. This idea that national
public Radio is somehow national, it's not even radio as
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of today or maybe tomorrow, whenever it's finally done, it's
no longer even public anymore. They can still call themselves
in PR, but national private Radio doesn't have the same
ring as it is National public Radio. They're going to
find themselves in the same exact marketplace as every other broadcaster,
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television or radio. You'll find yourself in the same spot,
having to compete for the same revenue, and you'll have
to compete in the marketplace of ideas as it should be.
I wish them luck, I you know, I don't get
me wrong. I want them to find a paid sponsor
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for their upcoming segment about the yellow thumbs emojis still
being racist, because that will be one sponsor that will
never get my money. You know, I can guarantee you
this about every single one of my sponsors. I'm sitting
here looking through just scrolling through all the sponsors of
it I've had and currently have. There's not a one
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that I wouldn't say that I haven't sat down and
talked to that doesn't share our values.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Michael Tom from South Dakota, US, dumb sun of bitches
up here. Use our phone and click on that little
weather app on our mean screen, and it usually tells
us right now, right then, what our weather is happening
here in South Dakota. And I'm in a rural area
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where you can't see your neighbor. Thanks Michael for that
intelligent comment.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Uh, well, you're welcome. Seventy one oh five. I keep
thinking about the NPR thing and how so many people
listen and rely on it. I've been a plumber for
twenty two years now, been in and out of tens
of thousands of homes and businesses. The only talk radio
that was ever on was conservative talk radio. I think
I've only heard one or two customers in the two
decades that hit INPR on. Do Democrats pooping buckets or
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are they inflating the ratings?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
But then the opposite is forty one to thirty seven. Michael,
it's not hilarious, but Senator Kennedy really is the best.
It's just sad that Americans paid INPR for so long.
A scary example is that I have friends who work
in aerospace who tell me that NPR is middle of
the road and that's typical. Do they not think about anything?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I have a friend who constantly on his Facebook page posts.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Stories from NPR, and I sometimes asked him about do
you realize that that's not exactly correct?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
And when I give them empirical data to refute whatever
the article is, they just refuse to believe me. Absolutely
refuse to believe me. And when it comes to things
like getting the weather report, I'm not sure how to
rely on NPR.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
A lot of folks here talking to employing, strolling the
virtues of NPR, PBS, Public Broadcasting and so forth, and
you know, talked about how you know they're cutting their
funding is somehow going to endanger communities and rural communities. Well,
when the floods were hitting the people that I represent,
it took NPR three Texas Public Radio nineteen hours to
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post anything about the flooding on its social media.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
What was nineteen hours? Like KDVR has their weather PenPoint
Weather Alert day, and so all day long all you
hear about is, well, it's gonna be a hotter and
hell today because it's you know, July.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
But it's gonna you know, rain, it's gonna thunderstorm, it's
gonna blow snow it constantly. Nineteen hours nineteen hours later,
Oh I can hear it now. They're worth bugs and taxis.
Brought to you by the Were
Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Sorry, I didn't get a chance to leave a talk
back this morning. I was too busy at Winchell's trying
to look through all the windows of the donut selection
to determine what protein I was going to have with
my coffee. But I got that figured out, so I
figured i'd call it now and leave it talkback, since
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you guys are probably wanting a nice Winchle's donut, but.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Not today.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I don't recall the last time I actually had a
Winchele's done it. There's one on the way, and I
just it's just not one of the places I typically stopped.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Did you catch what protein he was going to have
with his coffee? Did you catch that part of the
park back? He didn't say, yeah, but he's at a
donut shop looking for protein, right, and all I can
think so all I can think of are.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Don't do it, don't do it a certain type of glaze.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
No, no, just you can get you can get a
you can get a certain kind of pastry that is
filled with you know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And then that led me to talk thinking about thinking
about yesterday's program, which I don't really really much about
until we have a somebody mentioned protein, and then it
all comes flashing back and I realized, Wow, my key
card actually worked today.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Because nobody in the building listens to this show.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh, I think there is what there's there there. I
know for sure there are two people in upper management
that are listening to this program, and I think it's because.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
They're scared to death.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Then I can't help to think that that talk about
act either intentionally or unintentionally, and I tend to believe
intentionally knew precisely.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What he was doing. Oh he ain't.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
No dope, no, no, no, which goes back to my
whole point about the love hate relationship I have with
this audience. Senator John John Kennedy, the Mark Twain or
the Will Rogers of the United States Senate. This is
back in March, first part of March of this year,
(02:28):
March of twenty twenty five, he introduced a bill, the
No Propaganda Act. Here's what he said on the Senate floor.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
We're spending half a billion dollars a year, fourteen and
a half billion dollars over time to give to people
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR and PS to
(02:56):
participate in opinion. Journalist we're saron tie to do, but
they can't do it on the taxpayer dime. They're doing
it on the taxpayer dime, but they shouldn't be able to.
I would also point out, mister President, that the folks
(03:17):
at PBS and NPR are doing pretty well for themselves.
NPR just bought a two and one million dollars office
space just up the road from the Capitol. Two hundred
million dollars. It came from the American taxpayers so they
could publish this stuff. NPR pays its hosts as much
(03:41):
as five hundred and thirty two thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
What I'm wait, wait a minute, all those you propaganda
for half a million bucks a year.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I'm a whore. I'll go do it.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Taxpayer money.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They pay.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
It pays its chief diverse officer about three hundred twenty
thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I'll look at your skin color, figure out whether you
get a job or not for three hundred grand a year. Yeah,
oh you're black, hired? Oh you're hispanic? Oh white guy, No,
out of here.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
And you know what, despite all of this money that
the American taxpayer are giving to these left of center entities.
Their viewership has declined because people don't need them anymore, you.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Know, any interesting. So we give all this money to
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the viewership declines. The
government gets all this money to the Department of Education,
and test scores go into the toilet.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I wonder if there's any correlation there.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
So why are we giving them money. I've introduced legislation
to not to eliminate the Corporation for Public braw Yes,
not to eliminate the Public Broadcasting Service, and not to
eliminate the National Public Radio. They can go exist on
(05:11):
their own if they want to, but I do want
to defund them. We're running a thirty six trillion dollars
in debt. In debt, this is disgraceful in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's disgraceful.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Whether it is left of center opinion journalism or right
of center opinion journalism, it is disgraceful for the American
people to have to fund this rot.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Disgraceful to have to fund this rot, the CEO of
National Public Radio, Katherine Maher said in a statement after
the Senate approved a recision packaged yesterday that would once
and for all take NPR off the federal teat She said,
(06:00):
nearly three and four Americans, seventy five percent of Americans
say they rely on their public radio stations for alerts
and news for their public safety.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I call bull crap on that seventy.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Five percent rely on public radio for alerts and news
for their public safety.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
No, I die. I don't believe it at all.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
So they passed the decision package that would finally, after
all these years and decades talking about it, take NPR
off the federal funding payroll. It was a very NPR
way of deploying the usual Democrat policy complaint that people
are going to die, you know, if we cut anything
in the budget, people are going to.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Die, which they won't.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Now, in reality, I think most Americans probably learn about
public emergencies now, probably even so then broadcast radio from
phone alerts or they're watching you know, Jeopardy and the
chiron across the bottom says, you know, there's a there's
a tornado warning for someplace, or you get that alert
(07:19):
that says there's a Medina alert, or there's a what's
the child alert at Amber alert and Amber Amber alert.
You get all these alerts. I mean, we're just inundated
with alerts, alerts, alerts. But apparently these are desperate times
at the NPR headquarters, so people are gonna die if
you defund us. But at long last, it's fire. I
(07:43):
never really thought it would happen. I honestly did not
think it would happen. I would say I almost feel
bad for PBS, which has not aired an episode of
Sesame Street in more than a decade and is merely
just a mildly liberal purveyor of uncontroversial programs like atchester
Walking with Dinosaurs, The Antiques road Show, and the Blase
(08:04):
Bobo political opinions of you know, dummy David Brooks. But
this is all in PR's fault. They've been backing themselves
into a corner for a year, and the Internet can't
contain its joy at this current round of public radio suffering.
It's hilarious. Since the announcement of the funding pull, if
(08:25):
you go on to twitter x, it has been just flooded,
no pun intended with people celebrating with their favorite woke
and otherwise ridiculous NPR moments. One of my favorites is
a tweet that NPR put out three years ago saying
that people were being subconsciously racist if they used the
(08:47):
wrong color of the thumbs up emoji. I've been upset
with Apple and the Emoji Congress wherever that exists, that
decided that every emoji has to have different shades of color.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Don't forget about the pregnant man. Oh oh, and the
pregnant man. Yeah, the stupid pregnant man. There was also
a segment.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
About the LGBTQ plus whatever idiots communities battle they were
battling for the dinosaur emoji.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I never quite understood that.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
One Matt Taibi of all people, I mean, a great
journalist left the center. But a great journalist started a
really hilarious threat on X with the prompt what's everyone's
favorite ridiculous NPR story? And I'll get to those in
a minute, but before I do, I'm I'm perusing at
(09:41):
dinner last night. I'm sitting by myself because nobody loves me,
Nobody go to dinner with me. You know, wife, he's gone,
no friends, no family dragging him. Missus Redbeard didn't invite
me over. So you know, I'm just sitting all alone,
sipping you know, some tequila and just you know, having
you know, some Mexican food on my owns. It was
really sad. I was actually quite happy. I was so happy,
(10:04):
and I come across that gues. Indeed, the Senator has
voted to approve the nine billion dollar recession bill, recision bill,
excuse me, that will take away funding that's been already
allocated to public radio on public TV. So they're gonna
pull the money back. Now, no surprise here, but every
single Democrat in the Senate voted against the measure, including
(10:24):
our two illustrious Senators John hicken Hooper and Michael Bennett,
who were also joined by those wonderful Senators Lisa Murkowski
of Alaskan Susan Collins of Maine. Now here was the
kudo gross. This was lovely because this shows you what
an absolute senator Bennett. I hope somebody on your staff
(10:45):
is listening, because you are really one dumb son of
a bitch. I mean, I can't believe how stupid you are.
Oftentimes he says public radio is the only source for
whether and information.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Huh. So I stopped and I thought about that for
a minute.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So I put myself okay, I decided to move to Lamar,
Colorado or I'm living in Sterling or I'm living in
Craig Or I've gone all the way I'm living and
tell you ride because I'm going to live with the
hoity toitdies. So I've moved because I am a hoity toity.
So I moved to tell you right, And I'm thinking,
how in the hell and tell you ride? Am I
going to get the weather?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I guess I could buy one of those weather radios,
you know the ones they should have had down at
the camps in in Curvale, down in Texas. Yeah, weather radios.
I can get my lurts that way. Or I don't
know if I can get a short wave radio. And
then I thought, wait a minute, I could get Starling. Yes,
(11:47):
I could get satellite Tea. I could get Dish. I
could get what's the other dish and direct TV. I
can get dish and direct TV. I could get Oh,
I don't know a local radio station. Yes, now the
(12:08):
cuts will hit Colorado Public Radio, Rocky Mountain, PBS and
the others. But call somebody that cares because I do not, well,
actually I do care because I really pisses me off
that my tax dollars are going to fund my competitor.
And I can tell you that I can disclose ratings,
but I can tell you when I look at the Nielsen's,
(12:29):
do you know who always ranks right up the top
is either a Spanish radio station, which I ought to
tell you something about demographics, or it's one of the
it's one of the local public broadcasting stations. I say,
let them survive on their donor base, and if they
go even further left, if they, you know, we rely
(12:53):
on our sponsors. You know they alway, they're always doing fundraising,
they rely on their sponsors, well then you already have
a base. And guess what, I don't care if they
If they if we really follow through and the President
really does sign the bill and they resend the money,
which I think they will, and that means that Colorado
Public Radio goes even further to the left. Call again,
(13:16):
call somebody that cares, because I don't. They can go
full bore Marxist fall like for all I care. I
just don't want to pay for it. It's their prerogative.
They can broadcast whatever they want to. I just don't
want to pay for it, and I don't think you
and I should have to pay for it. Well, anyway,
all these tweeters start pointing out stories like you know,
(13:42):
one time they were advocating for a permanent ban on handshakes.
Somebody wrote, I remember a host shaming and ridiculous and
ridiculing a guest for advocating for schools to reopen for
in person learning. They were opposed to opening the schools.
Several chimed in with an NPR tweet that a new
(14:02):
poll finds forty respondents believe in a baseless conspiracy theory
that the coronavirus virus was created in a lab in China.
They were all over the place. But no, you think
they were, uh, somehow biased in their reporting. I can't
(14:22):
believe you would think that. Going back to Center to Kennedy, Uh,
he brought the receipts and they're hilarious.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Good Biden.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
No, it's the spinning wheel of death on my computer.
Let's see if I can get this one to go.
We'll just start here.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
R has published using taxpayer money. I'll just read the headlines.
First headline in PR News service Michael Abanatti quote a
profile of the media savvy attorney. They love Michael Labanatti.
(15:12):
You know where Michael Labanatti is today. He's in jail.
You know why.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
He's a crook.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
But for a while he was a media darling on NPR.
Here's another headline from NPR, how racism became a marketing
tool for country music. I kid you not. The American
(15:42):
taxpayers are spending half a billion dollars a year to
pay a local station to buy content that says country
music is racist. Here's another headline from NTRN old Trump's
long embrace of Vladimer Pewtin. Remember the Russia Gate, the
(16:12):
Steele dossier. NPR was right in there promoting it. A
couple more headlines that NPR is putting out there using
your tax dollars. This headline, monuments and teams have changed names.
(16:35):
Let me say the game monuments and teams presumably sports
teams had changed names as America reckons with racism. Birds
are next. I don't know any birds that are racist.
Here's another headline, eating less beet is a climate solution.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Well, then where would you get your protein if you
don't eat beef? Where you get your protein at the
Wrigel's donut shop because Creamfield donut.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So don't go away. We got a few other dumb messes.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Hey, Michael and dragon. Every time I bring donuts to
the shop, I wait for someone to take a bite
and say thank you, and I tell him I glazed
them myself.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Did you hear him laugh at his own joke at
the end of the night, Did you hear that? Yes,
that was childish, childishly funny. However, you blew it when
you laughed at your own joke before them, before you stop,
before you stop the recording, which just proves. But you
(17:56):
actually listen to what comes across the airwaves here, that
was the best part.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Forget the stupid joke. You laugh at your own joke,
which I never do.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Terreble, you can't even tell the joke because you're too
busy laughing at the joke you have yet to tell.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Those are fun ones.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh back to center, to Kennedy so and some of
you on the text line. Let's see seventy seven to
seventy nine. Rights NPR should stay away from politics and
stick and stick to schwetty balls. Thirty nine eighty four.
We go to our remote location in the color around mountains,
(18:38):
about forty five minutes from Walden.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We have a solar powered weather radio to check the weather.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Let's see forty four to sixty seven, Mike, when the
High Park fire broke out and we were in a
rural area off the grid in the mountains, we were
listening to KUNC, hoping ne to hear something, but there
was zilcho information. Hey, Senator Bennett, there's one of your constituents.
They didn't find any weather report or any emergency.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Alerting to UNC or seventy one oh five dragging. This
one's for you.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Relying on NPR for safety is like relying on a
dairy queen Hamburger reviews.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Or sixty two eighty eight, Michael, in my sixty five years,
sixty five years, what sixty five years of what in
my sixty sixty five years of working, sixty five years
of sleeping, sixty five years of eating cream Field donuts?
I mean, come on, what tell us what in my
sixty five years, I've never heard of weather alert from PBS.
(19:42):
You're just not listening to the right PBS station, I guess,
Senator to Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Eating West beef is a climate solution.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
That's what Marlon Reese says. That's what the first gentleman says.
You ever frog the frog in your throat.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It gets dusty in here, something in your throat.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I don't have anything. It's vegetarians. I'm a semi vegetarian myself.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I eat beef and be semi vegetarians.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
He's trying to explain, if you just shut up and listen,
I'm trying to explain that why he's a semi vegetarian.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Here's another headline, eating less beef is a climate solution.
Eating less beef is a climate solution. I don't have anything.
It's vegetarians. I'm a semi vegetarian myself. I eat beef
(20:47):
and beef and cows eat eat grass, So that makes
me a semi vegetarian.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well that makes me.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Not on NPR. Eating less beef is a solution. Here's
why that's hard for some American men. Here's the final headline.
I could go on the rest of the evening, how
the talibond adds to afghanistans woes when it comes to
climate fueled disasters. Boy, I can tell you that's on
(21:18):
the mind of every person in Afghanistan today is climate
change and the talibond. I can guarantee you I don't
have a problem with these headlines. This is America. If
you want to publish articles like this, which no person
with a brain above a single cell organism would call
(21:41):
fair and balanced. If you're a news outlet and you
want to publish this kind of stuff, that is your
right as an American. We have freedom of the press,
we have the First Amendment. You're not free in our
country if you can't say what you think. You're not
free in our country if you can't express yourself.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
For this.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
If that's what these outlets want to do. But I'm
not for taking five hundred million dollars every single year
and giving it to these stations at the to the
exclusion of everybody else.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
On the amen. Amen. But when the preacher gets wound up,
the preacher can't stop. And there's more.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I could do this all night, but I'm not. Here's
some more headlines from NPR. There is no neutral. Nice
white people can still be complicit in a racist society.
That's what your tax.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Dollars pay for.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Another one, Abram x Kindy says, no one is not racist,
so what should we do? Another one, how artificial intelligence
could perpetuate racism, sexism, and other biases in society. Another
(23:10):
scientists debunk lab accident theory of pandemic emergence.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And just because he goes on and on, let's skip down.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
To these arguments that transathletes have an unfair advantage, lack
evidence to support. That's opinion journalism. Here's another headline from NBR,
A brief history of how racism shaped interstate highways. I
(23:41):
did not know our interstate highways were racist. I thought
they were concrete, not according to NBR. Here's another NBR headline.
Trump embodies nearly every aspect.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Of a racist, Arthur says.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Another The nation confronting Trump's coded racism.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Another you get the idea. He goes on and on
and on, and it's actually pretty hilarious. You know, for years,
NPR kind of existed in an alternate reality to actual reality.
One wrote on X One time I tuned in, they
(24:26):
were talking about how there's a shortage of transsexual truck drivers.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well, we know of one. I don't know where he
is today, but he's out there, you know, honking his horn.
He's out there.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I'm not sure today whether he's a transwoman or trans man,
but he's out there delivering some sort of crap to
somebody somewhere and listening to us. Another pointed out how
they'd read about a sympathy piece about a female pastor
who go fired because she was preaching atheism from the pulpit. Huh,
(25:10):
I don't know why a church would fire a pastor
for advocating atheism. I just seems incongruent to me. But
why don't I know incongruence a big words.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Why?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I don't know what I would do? There is somebody
tweeted there is I'm sorry post it. Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
There is an episode of at Radio Lab where a
person describes themselves as gender fluid. They claim that throughout
the day they switched back and forth between male and
female multiple times per day.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I do that all the time, just back and forth,
back and forth, you know whatever.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
It goes on like that, forever and ever and ever,
until until finally you begin to realize, uh duh, NPR
is getting exactly what's coming to them.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Now.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Someone argue that might be kind of sad, because in
PR they might have had a heyday back in the
seventies or eighties, I don't know, maybe even the nineties,
when it was the square but sensible voice of this
and closely cultural liberalism, just liberalism but even then, that's
(26:19):
all they were. Well, if they were the bastion of
just liberalism, I'd still be opposed to taxpayer funding. If
they were the bastion of cultural conservatism, I'd be opposed
to their funding.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Do you want to fund.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Fox News, Fox Business, abcnbccbs CNN, MSNBC, do you I
don't want to fund any of them. Hell's bill, I
don't want funding here. Can you imagine now? In PR
gets funding? And because the Democrats are so adamant that, well,
(27:00):
they would never attempt to let me back up, the
Democrats don't even need to attempt to influence in PR
about what to say, because NPR is going to say
what they know the Democrats want them to say. Now,
let's say that we got taxpayer funding at this station.
(27:22):
Do you think, for a minute, how long do you
think I'd last before there'd be some congressional investigation about
something I said, Which should be fine, because I've been
through a lot of congressional investigations. I've been through a
lot of congressional hearings. They put their pants on just
like the rest of us do, and sometimes they put
their skirts on like some of us do. But you know,
(27:43):
they don't hide it so well. You know whatever, Sure,
bring it on, let's do it. This idea that national
public Radio is somehow national, it's not even radio as
(28:03):
of today or maybe tomorrow, whenever it's finally done, it's
no longer even public anymore. They can still call themselves
in PR, but national private Radio doesn't have the same
ring as it is National public Radio. They're going to
find themselves in the same exact marketplace as every other broadcaster,
(28:28):
television or radio. You'll find yourself in the same spot,
having to compete for the same revenue, and you'll have
to compete in the marketplace of ideas as it should be.
I wish them luck, I you know, I don't get
me wrong. I want them to find a paid sponsor
(28:51):
for their upcoming segment about the yellow thumbs emojis still
being racist, because that will be one sponsor that will
never get my money. You know, I can guarantee you
this about every single one of my sponsors. I'm sitting
here looking through just scrolling through all the sponsors of
it I've had and currently have. There's not a one
(29:16):
that I wouldn't say that I haven't sat down and
talked to that doesn't share our values.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Michael Tom from South Dakota, US, dumb sun of bitches
up here. Use our phone and click on that little
weather app on our mean screen, and it usually tells
us right now, right then, what our weather is happening
here in South Dakota. And I'm in a rural area
(29:44):
where you can't see your neighbor. Thanks Michael for that
intelligent comment.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Uh, well, you're welcome. Seventy one oh five. I keep
thinking about the NPR thing and how so many people
listen and rely on it. I've been a plumber for
twenty two years now, been in and out of tens
of thousands of homes and businesses. The only talk radio
that was ever on was conservative talk radio. I think
I've only heard one or two customers in the two
decades that hit INPR on. Do Democrats pooping buckets or
(30:16):
are they inflating the ratings?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
But then the opposite is forty one to thirty seven. Michael,
it's not hilarious, but Senator Kennedy really is the best.
It's just sad that Americans paid INPR for so long.
A scary example is that I have friends who work
in aerospace who tell me that NPR is middle of
the road and that's typical. Do they not think about anything?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I have a friend who constantly on his Facebook page posts.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Stories from NPR, and I sometimes asked him about do
you realize that that's not exactly correct?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
And when I give them empirical data to refute whatever
the article is, they just refuse to believe me. Absolutely
refuse to believe me. And when it comes to things
like getting the weather report, I'm not sure how to
rely on NPR.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
A lot of folks here talking to employing, strolling the
virtues of NPR, PBS, Public Broadcasting and so forth, and
you know, talked about how you know they're cutting their
funding is somehow going to endanger communities and rural communities. Well,
when the floods were hitting the people that I represent,
it took NPR three Texas Public Radio nineteen hours to
(31:33):
post anything about the flooding on its social media.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
What was nineteen hours? Like KDVR has their weather PenPoint
Weather Alert day, and so all day long all you
hear about is, well, it's gonna be a hotter and
hell today because it's you know, July.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
But it's gonna you know, rain, it's gonna thunderstorm, it's
gonna blow snow it constantly. Nineteen hours nineteen hours later,
Oh I can hear it now. They're worth bugs and taxis.
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