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Sources Inside Sources dot Com, Michael Graham, actually formerly of
WBT low say.
Speaker 2: Don't leave out my number one credentials r right. Well
you my radio talk show career right there at WDT,
my first firing of many.
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to bring that up, Michael bud.
Speaker 2: So proud of it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, you you were gone just before I got here,
so we never crossed paths here. I ended up in
the newsroom, so you were well.
Speaker 2: I had a I had a close my contract. Since
you showed up, I was going, you know, oh, well,
that's I do have standards. You know. I may have
played Preiana in a bordello, but I do have standards.
I'm just I'm just giddy. I gotta tell you, I'm
just just find the life law. My first book that
I wrote, in fact, before I start working at AVT,
was called Banned from Public Radio because I was actually
banned from the South Carolina Educational Radio Network for making
fun of state government on the air. And that's when
I learned that it's not public television, it's not public radio,
it's government radio, you know, like Pravda. Yeah, and so
I the governor didn't like what I said. He had
me a band from the network, and I when I
did talk right here for a living best gig. Ever,
by the way, I was just to try me crazy
that that would be literally paying taxes so that someone
else could take my money and compete against me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was in a talk studio paying money for another
guy's talk studio because he didn't have to pay for
it because he got free tax money through me. I'd
be like, if you know, you know, Joey mcberger joined
and then someone shows up. Hey, look, burns vegan patties
across the street. It's a lot healthier. So we're going
to take part of your money and give it to
them for their advertising. What no other industry would put
up with that, But that's what we put up with
in the era of public television radio. And I'm not
a big Trump fan. I've never voted for him, never would,
but I got to say, I am ready to buy
a maga hat this guy, all of this stuff. For
twenty years, I said, bomb Iran, Bomb Iran. They're wack.
Jab islamis bomb Iran. They've got nukes, they're trying to
build nukes, bombing Ran. Oh, you can't do that. You
bombed me Ron. They might do something bad like what
fun to terrorism? Attack Israel, beat women for showing their
ankles in public. I mean, what the hell? And who
bombs Iran? It's not Obama, it's not Biden, it's not
w it's Trump. For years of saying it is indefensible
that we spend tax dollars on radio and television in
the era of the Internet, Are you freaking kidding me?
I can pick up my phone and right now watch
nude Canadian curling in French with subtitles on my phone
because there's so much media in the world and these
nitwith Democrats want to fund you know, the little old ladies,
Downton Abbey reruns down the Street. Who finally does the
common sense thing? Is that Obama? W No, it's Donald.
I'm out of my freaking mind Trump, and I don't
know what to do about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so on, now, what of the uh this? I
got to tell you. I've listened to NPR. I've heard
their pledge drives and stuff as well, and listened to
like all of their talk show hosts and news stories
that are always filtered through the you know, the the
trans or racist kind of lens. But I've I never
knew that they were such a vital part of our
emergency response system, particularly in the rural areas where I
can only believe they have massive audience. Right, Were you
aware that they had such a network?
Speaker 2: PBS the peace stands for pick them up trucks bitch?
So yeah, I mean, it's just so stupid. I look,
I grew up in rural southbound down in Lexnon County
where we were. I was literally one of those households
that was that PBS was rousially designed for. We had
access to three TV stations, one of them was the
PPS station. We had to have an antenna on our
roof because cable didn't reach us. You know, we point
know if you saw you'mon have this. They had the
rotor on the antenna. You could turn the dial, would
turn it around the point to another town to try.
So I look, it existed for me, but never. Never
when the tornado sirens went off in our corner Lakes
and County that my parents go, oh, tornado's coming. We
better tune in that massive piece theater right I here
we got some flood and coming. I wonder what that
Ira Flato was saying about. Never nothing. This is idiotic.
And one of the things I wrote about in this
piece of ours that inside sources were on. The managing
editor h pointed out that statistically, this is the world
we live in. A higher percentage of Americans own cell
phones then live within the reach of all the NPR
signals combined, which is why we don't rely on radio
for emergencies anymore. We use cell phones technology. Why but
what planet of these people? The next thing, I know,
we're gonna have to you know, we're gonna have to
raise your taxes. We've got to have the butter churners
coalition out there. We're going to get our butter if
we don't have butter churners.
Speaker 1: Now, I will say when Hurricane Helen hit western North Carolina,
knocked off all of the cell towers and all the
comms went down, like literally cell phones were not working.
The local commercial radio station where I used to work,
they because I too, like you, work in radio, have
been fired so I used to work up there. But
they actually stayed on the air and provided like the
only comms link to the entire region, and they joined
their iHeart cluster and they all of their stations to
simulcast with all of their local hosts.
Speaker 2: And you know, that's a that's a really good point,
and that's something to be said to And this is
another reason why the whole MPR PBS argument just makes
you want to barf. There have been about I think
it's four hundred AM stations that have gone dark gone dark.
They're not been broadcasting anymore since in the last fourteen
years since COVID. I'm remember the numbers is sixty f
M stations that have gone dark. Gone out of business
because the media world's changing, it's transforming. If you really care,
if you're really worried that someone's going to be in
an area that's underserved. What you just said, AM radio
just you know, you have the network set up, have
the transmitters, translators that can pick up other signals. I
was doing talk radio WRBA in Richmond when Irene came through,
and I in the studio was right in the line
of the storm. And I stayed in the studio and
we broadcast, you know, through the night. And like you said,
the AM signal was the one thing that could get through.
And that's all that. If that was what we were
talking about, we were. But when was the last time
you watched one of these fundraisers for public radio and
they said, we've got to keep our emergency broadcasting network going,
So send us fifty bucks, you'll get a Nina tote bag.
Speaker 1: You know they don't do that, No, they never promote talk.
Speaker 2: About is what does suburban, college educated, middle aged white
ladies want, because that's what it is. NPR is basically
streaming for liberal white suburbanites, except they've all hacked and
they have our password. So we have to pay for
their who left wing Hulu account because they've got our password,
and I blame Republicans. Republicans have had majorities again and again,
and it's always gutless, weasel Republicans who back down said,
oh no, we're going too big Bird, who, by the way,
has not been part of public broadcasting since they got
sold to HBO, who then turned around and sold them
to Netflix. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't even understand why they're still using this argument
of big Bird, except that you know it was effective
maybe against Milk Romney.
Speaker 2: Look, the elite are getting your money because they think
they're entitled to your money. And let's face it, there's
not a lot of elites have anymore. Their college degrees
are embarrassing now everyone. You know, you tell people, yeah,
I've got my master's in Erotic Persian literature, you know,
So what does that mean to mean? You got one
hundred thouand thousand debt and you're writing the names of
people's people's names on the side of coffee cops, that's
what that means. Yeah, we're gonna impress somebody. Now, don't
tell them you send your kid to Harvard, particularly they're Jewish.
When you send your kids to HVAC school. That's got
that'll impress people. So they don't have that school choice
is letting more and more of those people into their
private schools. Those people's kids are coming. That's terrible. And
so what do they have left? They know a lot.
So they've got the ability to force people who live
in trailer parks listening to country music to pay for
their master piece theater. That's what they got left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. I'm going to actually take that topic
of the HVAC stuff. I've got the clip from Mike
Rowe who was talking about AI displacing white collar jobs.
But you know, the blue collar jobs aren't going anywhere.
They're actually going to be more of those needed. And
to your point about sort of the difference in the
quote unquote elites, I hate the term because they're not.
But the these elites and the things that they used
to be able to outwardly express their elitism with, they
no longer can because of this flattening. Thank you capitalism, right,
this flattening. So people now can dress very similarly, they
can get similar cars, live in homes and such, and
there's nothing now that defines the difference in an outward
way and and so this was one of the ways
you could walk around with your NPR you know, tote
bag or bumper sticker. And look. I worked for the
local NPR affiliate right out of college. I mailed people
their coffee mugs and their tote bags, and like they
they did not hire me in their newsroom. So I
ended up over here. And thank god.
Speaker 2: I have nothing against PBS and NPR existing, it's just
taking my money that I objected to. So I was
in Boston at the Biometrics, the most successful FM talk
station in the country, very doing very, very well, and
then a long story having to do with political correctness
and not me for a change, they decided to flip
the station to hip hop music. Yeah, from talk to
hip hop music. I have to confess my audition as
rap master G Money did not go as well as
one might have hoped. And well, here's what was interesting.
We had two liberal hosts who did a show together.
It was the lowest randed department. It's still good. They
still did well and they were good, were good hosts.
They both got hired by the local MPR station. I
went in and said, hey, look about it up. I mean,
come on. I've got twice the ratings they do. You
have no left, you have no right of center content.
I can be your I can prove with all your
tax dollars and blah blah blah. And I was told
we can't hire you because our listeners won't let us.
And that was the point. They were just like conservative
talk radio. People want to have their current beliefs reaffirmed.
And these elite college education snob want you know, wine
sipping liberals were just the same. They wanted liberal rush limball.
That's what they.
Speaker 1: Wanted, right, but they use taxpayer money for it. And
that's my objection. Sounds like that's yours too.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And every time someone says the sentence out loud
and not biased, I I've had to see a doctor
three times now. I mean I hurt myself laughings.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Michael Graham. You could read his
whole piece, which I have, uh, And that's why I
reached out to him to ask him to come on.
You can read his piece.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Inside Sources dot com? What is so Nhjournal dot com?
Do they just publish your stuff there? Also?
Speaker 2: So in so Inside Sources provides content to newspapers around
the country. Sometimes you're still popping up in the local papers.
And we also own two local news sites, New Hampshire
Journal and Delawarevelly Journal and these suburbs of Philly, and
so that's that's what we do. But if you go
to DC journal dot com every day, you'll find three
four five new new articles, news and opinion, all on
stuff that's part of the national debate. And we try
to dig in the areas that don't get I don't
think it enough attention, whether it's energy policy or crypto
or whatever. And we bring it to a lot of
different voices. Unlike NPR and PBS. You we have stuff
from Crazy Center for American Publics, left wingers, we have
stuff from Cato libertarians. The fact we do a popular
point counterpoint feature where we put two completely opposite opinions
next to each other and they get picked up by
one hundreds of newspapers the country.
Speaker 1: Nice all right. And also i've seen you on Mark
Halpern's new podcast.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, Alpin's yeah, he's having me on. But
I hey, back in the day, I was even on
NPR on occasion. Scott Simon is a great guy, sweetheart.
I have nothing against some of the people there, some
of the best reporters I know works for NPR. It's
just what the heck. We do not need government, taxpayer
taxpair funded media in the era of the Internet and
Wi Fi is like walking into a bordello and saying,
you know, this place needs more hookers. That's what we need.
Where are the hookers?
Speaker 1: Michael Graham, Thanks for your time, buddy. Good to hear
from you. Glad you're doing well. Thank you, sir, Thank
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I completely agree. I completely agree, and I am happy
that the Republicans have finally defunded NPR and PBS. This
has been something I have wanted to see for twenty
five years. Again, I worked at an NPR affiliate, and
I remember people were freaking out when the original cuts
to PBS were proposed, like back in the eighties under Reagan,
and everybody said, oh my gosh, what's gonna happen. It's
going to go off the year. And actually what happened
was increased donations and it made as one who worked
in the membership department, it made it easier to make
those pleas to the audience to say, hey, we're losing
money and we need you to step up, because a
lot of the listeners could just say, well, they're getting
taxpayer funds anyway, they don't need my money really, and
so it eliminated that excuse and they saw their donations
go up. They also saw a focus on what they
call underwriting, because you can't call it advertising in NPR world,
so they would underwrite. And you hear the ads they
run ads. They run ads on NPR and PBS, right,
they just do it in a way that makes it
sound like you know, somebody who's half in a coma
is reading a bumper sticker to you, right, Like that's
or like the mission statement for a corporation. And those
are nonprofits by the way, So all of those things
they get to write them off and everything, so their
underwriting is solid. They bring in money in healthy radio markets.
I would say, hey, if you've got a decent sales
staff there, they make money off of their listener directly
through donations. They also have found this brand new revenue
stream along with like the Charlotte Observer, where they take
grants to pay for positions. They get grant money from
like Climate Justice whatever foundation, So they're they're pulling in
a lot of money. And there is no ethical reason
why I, as an employee who of a commercial radio
station that that competes with them for advertising dollars, right,
Because if my ratings aren't good enough and I can't
get you know, advertisers to be a part of the
WBT family, then I'm out of a job. And that
is not a pressure that the NPR folks face. And
this latest argument that was trotted out that oh, you
have to fund NPR and PBS or else people in
rural America will lose access to emergency alerts is probably
the most asenine argument I have ever heard when it
comes to defending taxpayer subsidization of public broadcasting. It's just ridiculous,
absolutely ridiculous. I'm not I have never never heard anybody
say they rely on NPR. They don't tout it, NPR
doesn't promote it. They're not like, listen to us for
your emergency situations. We do, we do? They don't. They
never had to, right, But now all of a sudden
that funding is on the table to be cut. Now
all of a sudden, Oh wait a minute, what what
would have happened like in Texas, for example, with the
recent floods. They wouldn't have heard the NPR affiliate at
the preteen girls camp. They Oh my god, gosh, they
missed the sirens or they missed the alerts on the
NPR affiliate. Yeah, it actually took Texas Public Radio nineteen
hours to post anything about the flooding on its social
media pages after the National Weather Service first posted its
alert on July third. When the flood hit at four
a m. On July fourth, instead of providing local news,
the NPR affiliate in Kerrville aired morning edition out of Washington, DC.
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If the elites quote unquote are upset about losing taxpayer
funding for NPR, then perhaps they would like to help
contribute funding for WBT and other conservative platforms as well. Right, No,
that's the wrong kind of radio we want to subsidize. See,
they only want their voices subsidized. They don't want alternative views.
I've talked about this for years. They don't bring people
onto their shows. They don't allow callers to push back
on anything that the programmers are putting out there, all
of their guests. And I listened to it enough. You know,
for years. When I used to work in Ashville, I
was still living in Charlotte. I was domiciled here in Charlotte.
Christy was still working here in Charlotte, and I would
drive up and down on the weekends. Basically, I would
go up there, I would spend the week up there
and work, and then I would drive back for the
weekends and I would listen to NPR programming. I listened
to a lot of NPR shows and news and they
are all told the same way. All of their shows,
all of their news stories and newscasts, they're all filtered
through the same critical prism as in critical race theory,
as in gender queer theory. DEI it's all and climate change.
Of course, everything is climate change. Sonny Wright, who is
a writer, He says NPR is so incredibly vital to
everybody's life that the taxpayers aren't forced to finance it,
nobody else will want to. Exactly, you can't say this
is such a vital thing for everybody that it has
to be financed, Yet nobody wants to finance it, because
the market would recognize, as it does with this station
and commercial stations right that they realize there is great value.
There's great return on your investment. By the way, call
our sales department if you would like the data there.
The ROI on radio is huge, and so why not
just allow that to be the case. You're all, look,
you're already biased. We already know you're biased. Of course,
the CEO of NPR is like, oh, if you have
some evidence of biased, you let me know. And you know,
show me the story, show you the story. They're all
the stories. They are all the stories. Every NPR story
follows the same format. You've got, you know, some ash.
One commenter on X said, you got a simple, good
statement to start off with and then you get, you know,
fifteen minutes of soul searching and whining about it. And
the example offered was scientists, all right, hang on, I'll
do it this way. Scientists have discovered that breathing is
good for you, but what are the societal costs? Is
the carbon footprint really worth it? Next up on Fresh Air, Yeah, Like,
that's the model. It's always the same in their news stories.
It's always the same. John Gabriel, he did a great
outline on this. You know, you hear the anchor with
a toss to the reporter. It's all recorded, of course,
and highly produced. You get all the natural sound in
there and stuff. So here's the LATINX equity reporter, Esperanza
van Zandt, and it'll start off with Candide, a biracial amputee,
opens the door and welcomes me with a smoldering smudge stick,
as is the way of her Cholanganana Peruvian collective. Then
you hear the alp pack up dedicated to a socialist
future for the Andes and her home of Manhattan car horns.
Like that's it. That's the model. It's always the same
sort of storytelling. The story's changed but it's always the
same format. And but I when I say they change,
I mean the characters change, but the underlying narratives never do.
And I listen again, I listen to enough of it
to know I listen to it to hear what they
are saying. I'm quite sure nobody over on the NPR
side ever listens to me or listens to BT. I'm
pretty sure about that, because things that we report on
never seem to make it over there. If I hear
stuff over there that I think is important or interesting,
I bring it here. I read, I will read stuff
from stories. Buy the local NPR affiliate if they do,
and they've got reporters on staff over there. But here's
the other dirty secret. There are a lot of NPR stations,
like hundreds of them that they don't have any local staff,
they don't have local newsrooms. And the finances on all
of this it's just basically it's well, it's like the
medicaid racket, where you extract money from one end through
taxes and then you cycle it through and then force
it back to your preferred destination. And that's the way
the NPR model works. And that's buy law. By the way,
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so while the grants go to the local stations, if
they want to be an NPR affiliate, they have to
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a seven oh four number. They didn't give me their name.
I listen to NPR every day. There's a lot of
all caps here, so should I try to Should I
do an affectation for the all caps when they were
like I listened to NPR every day. I alternate during
your show exclamation point. I think I should read it
like that, so you know when they're trying to reinforce
a point. Okay, they do have opposing views. They Okay,
they have roundtables with Republican and Democrats. Yeah, I've heard
those Just because somebody claims to be a Republican doesn't
mean they are espousing, you know, pro Trumpian views they're
defending Trump. They don't. They don't bring on They have
a very narrow view of and rolodex of the Republicans
that they bring on guys like David Brooks, who loved
Obama for the crease in his pants, right, like that's
the that's the kind they'll bring on, the Bulwark guys.
They'll bring on the Dispatch guys, right, they'll bring them on,
maybe Brett Stevens from the New York Times. Anyway, they
do movie reviews. I've never listened and heard them say
the anti Christian, anti heterosexual, anti Republican. Have you listened
to This American Life? I love that show. Take it
from an avid NBR listener. They are not anti conservative. Okay,
do not hear what I did not say. As Vince
Cochley would say, it's a great line. Did I say
that NPR was anti conservative? I did not. Now somebody
else may have, but I did not. I've never said
they're anti conservative, but they are liberal. They lean left.
I listened to the programming as well. I used to
listen to this American Life all the time when I
would drive down the mountain, followed by uh, it's not
space lab, it's a radio lab. Yeah yeah, and this
American Life. I would listen and at the end of
every episode they would rattle off like seventeen thousand producers,
like Wow, they certainly have a huge payroll. Low. I
mean what we could do with that kind of with
those kinds of taxpayer funded resources. Look, NPR can be
whatever it wants to be, can be whatever they want
to be. I don't care. I do care if you're
going to take my money and support that programming, that's all.
Just compete. It's the same thing with public schools. Just
you know, you can't keep siphoning money out of my
wallet and people who don't listen to that product. You
can't keep taking our money and using it to pay for,
you know, entertainment for you because you like it. That's all.
It's very clear, Like I haven't even talked about like
all of the examples. Maybe I'll play them for you.
Because Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, he brought out all
of the headlines and he started reading them on the
floor of the Senate during this debate yesterday, headline after
headline after headline after headline after headline. I mean it
was just scores of them, which convey a viewpoint, a
political viewpoint. Again, you are free to do that, this
is America. You are not free, though, to use taxpayer
funds to advance your opinions like that. That's all. Supporters
like Representative Chris Pappis claim that without NPR and PBS
you won't get the local news you need, leaving you
tragically uninformed about life in your community. But as the
Media Research Center has shown and listeners and viewers of
NPR and PBS can attest, public radio and public television
provide very little local news. A review of content found
just five point four percent of daily programming is locally
produced news, and a significant part of that is simply
reading the national news off of the NPR wire. That's it. Now.
That's not to say that they don't produce any news.
Some stations do more, some stations do less. There are some,
I mean up in Asheville, I think there are like
four NPR stations up there. One plays smooth jazz, you know,
and uh, you know, one plays your standard fare of
you know, fresh air Morning Edition all things considered here
in town. You know, they run the BBC and all that,
and they do have local newscasts, but we have local newscasts.
We got breaking Bret Jensen out there. Right. When I
first started at WBT in nineteen ninety nine, we had
five full time reporters here, so local newscasts. And look
at us now, right, we have local programming from what
five am until now nine pm? Right, that's all local. See,
it can be done. So this idea that we need
the money, although it's only such a tiny little part,
but we need it or we can't do what we're doing.
I don't buy it. I don't believe it. I don't
believe it because I work in this industry and I've
been in this industry for thirty years, and I worked
for an NBR affiliate in their membership department, mainly mailing
coffee mugs, yes, doing the daily deposit, and I would
organize all of the food for the fun drives. And
I have no ill will towards NPR. Like I said,
I think some of their content is good. I've talked
about their content they make good the local affiliate and
some of the national programs they do produce good content,
you just can't use my money to do it. That's
all I'm saying. I will listen to other stations, just
don't because they don't use my money. That's all. I think.
It's a very simple standard, you know. But here's a
question that Michael Graham asked in his piece at the
New Hampshire Journal The Nhjournal dot com. We've talked to
Michael at the beginning of the program. He said, so,
what's the point? Why do they fight so hard? And
he says, it's privilege, And he talked about this a
little bit in the interview. It's privilege, right, And there
is a reason why liberals and Democrats and media. But
I repeat myself, there's a reason why they are fighting
so hard to preserve these funds, and why Republicans have
for decades opposed the funds. Why do you think that is?
If NPR was giving a fair shot to Republicans, why
do they want to defund it?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Because they're just speaking truth to power? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah?
And why do liberals try to boycott commercial stations like
this one?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Why do they hate us? And why to silence conservative
talk radio? They don't like what we are producing because
they find it to be biased against what they believe,
so like, the proof is there. I'm not trying to
convince you that you to stop listening. I'm just saying
you can't deny the bias. All right. That'll do it
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