A Beast With Feelings & Dreams

Summary

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Episode Overview

Main Theme:
In this episode, Armstrong and Getty cover a broad range of issues with their signature irreverence and sharp running commentary, focusing on the state of the economy and American consumer debt, "retail therapy," inflation misconceptions, the complexities of social media and trolling, youth and smartphones, the ongoing controversies of gender identity in sports and education, the mess in college athletics, and the Kafkaesque realities of local government bureaucracies post-disaster. The tone is humorous but pointed, with frequent pop culture and political references.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Economic Anxiety, Consumer Debt, and "Retail Therapy"

Timestamps: 01:30–10:54

• The hosts start with a joke about Woody Allen and move into a substantive discussion on holiday spending surges despite troubling economic indicators:
  • Citing News Nation statistics, they observe Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales exceeded expectations, despite record-high consumer debt and 90-day delinquency rates at a 12-year high. (03:22)
  • Armstrong theorizes that this spending might disproportionately come from the top 10% of income earners, rather than from struggling Americans. (04:01–04:35)
  • Getty is skeptical of the term "retail therapy," pointing out the irresponsibility of buying things to feel good without being able to afford them.

  "You gotta be a grown up and realize I'm just buying this to make myself feel good. I can't actually afford it and then not buy it. That's part of the deal." – Joe Getty (05:17)

  • Jokes about breaking up payments, with Armstrong wondering if mortgages for cereals are next. (06:02)
  • Both agree that government spending mirrors this spend-now, worry-later mentality, which further compounds inflation problems.

2. Inflation: Misunderstandings & Societal Consequences

Timestamps: 07:06–10:54

• Armstrong launches into a passionate monologue about the real nature of inflation:
  • Asserts inflation is the artificial expansion of the money supply, not just "prices going up" (07:06–08:14)

  "Inflation springs from a violation of the fundamental rules of society, transforming what should be honest economic exchange into systematic deception." – Jack Armstrong quoting from “How Inflation Destroys Civilization” (07:25)

  • The hosts lament how the misuse of language blinds people to the true causes and culprits, especially policymakers:

  "If everybody in America understood how much less wealthy they are than they were five years ago... we'd all be at the bar tonight or in the street with axe handles." – Jack Armstrong (10:19)

  • Armstrong fantasizes about roving the country as an economics lecturer, teaching people how inflation is a hidden tax.

3. The Social Media/Troll Paradox

Timestamps: 15:29–20:49

• Joe Getty shares recent personal experiences with trolling on social media, wishing for more positivity.
• Armstrong and Getty discuss the mentality of trolls, contrasting them with years-long supportive fans.

  "There are haters who follow social media for the purpose of hating. They don't like the show at all." – Jack Armstrong (17:49) "If they could bring somebody else pain, it would make them happy. That's horrible." – Joe Getty (20:24)

• A moment of levity arises as they recall working with an actual troll in radio. (19:45)

4. Kids, Smartphones, and Modern Parenting

Timestamps: 15:35–17:13

• Discussion of new studies about giving kids smartphones before age 12 and how exclusion from teen text/social networks can be emotionally traumatic yet phones are risky. (15:35–16:42)
• Apple discontinuing the SE is noted as the latest example of tech forcing upgrades. (16:45)

5. Gender Identity: Sports, Language, and Policy

Timestamps: 20:52–29:39

• The "Gender Bending Madness Update" covers continuing controversies:
  • High school girls' sports teams in Massachusetts winning titles with biologically male athletes (21:27)
  • Korean spas forced to allow males in women’s nude areas, and an Irish teacher arrested for refusing to use 'they/them' pronouns (21:57; 23:22)
  • A trans woman winning and then being disqualified from the “World’s Strongest Woman” competition after porn posted by the competitor revealed male genitals. (23:33)

  "Congratulations, girls. Men are better at everything, including being women." – Jack Armstrong (24:06)

• British clinical trial of puberty blockers for children: the hosts show deep concern for the irreversible potential effects (24:48).
• Armstrong rails against the proliferation of new sexual/gender categories (“berrysexual”), encouraging listeners to study “the narcissism of small distinctions.” (26:10–27:07)
• Armstrong highlights the silencing of scientific debate as activists pressure universities to remove evidence-based medicine content about gender issues:

  "They labeled this society a hate group, attacked Washington State University for hosting the courses... and bullied [them] into taking them down." – Jack Armstrong (27:59)

• Armstrong notes: “This fight is just beginning.”

6. College Athletics: Disarray & Commercialization

Timestamps: 31:03–34:29

• Candid lament about the chaos and money in college football and basketball—pay-for-play, transfer rules, shifting conferences:

  "I've read various ideas and plans that have been pitched for fixing college football... it's complicated, and I don't care enough to really dig into it." – Jack Armstrong (31:45)

  • They support players getting paid, but argue instability and team-hopping diminish school spirit and the student-athlete ideal.
  • Getty: “If you ever went to college and had some big dumb athlete in your class... what are you doing here?” (34:10)

7. Bureaucracy, Wildfires & Survivors’ Rage

Timestamps: 34:45–39:45

• Report on LA City Council’s sluggish response to aiding wildfire victims in Pacific Palisades—a year after the fire, only one house was rebuilt (and it's a show home, not for survivors).
• Armstrong and Getty express outrage at the indifference of city government. (35:46–36:56)

  "It's like cooking a steak in front of a starving family, then throwing it away." – Townhall article cited by Jack Armstrong (36:30)

• Henry Wright, a resident, gives a passionate statement to the council about his house being burned down for "their ideological agenda":

  "You burned my house and everything I own down to complete ash without putting one drop of water on...[the fire] raged till it was a foot high. It was an inferno engulfing my history and my whole being. Do the right thing." – Henry Wright [Caller], (37:12–38:15)

• The bureaucratic morass, the "trough-feeding" of politicians, and Armstrong's claim: “They lack the capacity for shame. You can't shame them.” (38:15)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Tis the season for all your holiday favorites like a very Jonah's Christmas Movie and Home Alone on Disney.” – Jack Armstrong (00:34) (parody ad)
• “What’s next, a mortgage for a box of cereal?” – Jack Armstrong (06:02)
• “If everybody in America understood how much less wealthy they are than they were five years ago... we'd all be at the bar tonight or in the street with axe handles and bandanas over our faces.” – Jack Armstrong (10:19)
• “You gotta be a grown up and realize I'm just buying this to make myself feel good. I can't actually afford it and then not buy it.” – Joe Getty (05:17)
• About trolls: “There are haters who follow social media for the purpose of hating." – Jack Armstrong (17:49)
• “Men are better at everything, including being women.” – Jack Armstrong (24:06)
• “They labeled this society a hate group, attacked Washington State University for hosting the courses... and bullied [them] into taking them down.” – Jack Armstrong (27:59)
• “It's like cooking a steak in front of a starving family, then throwing it away.” – Townhall article, paraphrased by Armstrong (36:30)
• “You burned my house and everything I own down to complete ash without putting one drop of water on...[the fire] raged till it was a foot high. It was an inferno engulfing my history and my whole being. Do the right thing.” – Henry Wright (37:12–38:15)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Holiday spending & economy: 01:30–10:54
• Inflation deep dive: 07:06–10:54
• Social media trolling: 15:29–20:49
• Smartphones & teens: 15:35–17:13
• Gender sports/identity segment: 20:52–29:39
• College sports/business: 31:03–34:29
• Wildfire victim bureaucracy: 34:45–39:45

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Tone & Style

Armstrong and Getty maintain their trademark mix of humor, cynicism, and genuine concern. They riff, digress, and return to their broader themes of societal confusion, government malfeasance, and modern cultural divides. Their banter is peppered with one-liners, pop culture quips, and earnest polemics—always with a wink to their audience and a nod to the absurdities of current events.

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Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

Tis the season for all your holiday favorites like a very Jonah's Christmas Movie and Home Alone on Disney.

[Caller Henry Wright]

Did I burn down the joy?

[Jack Armstrong]

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

Last Sunday Woody Allen turned 90 years old. His wife Soon Yi would have gotten him an expensive gift, but she already splurged on Father's Day.

[Joe Getty]

Now is he married his stepdaughter?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Yeah. Yes.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know that those jokes still work. You have to be of a certain age to even remember the Woody Allen married his stepdaughter story. But they've been together for decades now and very happy it seems.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I'll say it's a happy and beautiful relationship.

[Joe Getty]

So I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

And plus, it's clear Mia Farrow was a cuckoo. Accused him of child molestation in a bitter, bitter divorce with a crazy lady. Horrible, horrible.

[Joe Getty]

Read Woody Allen's Apropos of Nothing is Memoir. Very, very good if you like Woody Allen or show business. Pretty damned interesting. I'm gonna feature this news story just because it agrees with something I already said. It makes me feel good about myself. This is a some analysis on News Nation about the fact that Black Friday numbers and Cyber Monday numbers came in higher than expected. It's retail therapy. Like the worse you feel, the more you shop.

[Jack Armstrong]

If anything scares me about the economy.

[Joe Getty]

And the consumer, it's not whether or.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not they shop, it's how ballooned our consumer debt has gotten in this country.

[Joe Getty]

And how much Americans own owe on credit cards. Yes. I was pointing out how in the world, given the stats we were talking about before we went on vacation, people are as pessimistic about their personal finances as they've ever been. Right direction, wrong direction on the economy is horrible. And well in these stats from this reporter on News Nation, ahead of the.

[Announcer]

Holiday shopping season, ahead of Q4, we had already passed $1 trillion in consumer debt. That's a new high delinquency rates, particularly 90 day delinquency rates. That's at a 12 year high. So there's a lot of concern about what the American consumer is feeling. And then add this to the picture. On Cyber Monday alone, buy now, pay later, that cross a billion dollars. The American consumer really leaning on that and getting that, worrying a lot of economists.

[Joe Getty]

The 90 day delinquency on your credit cards is at a 12 year high. Also similar sorts of numbers on people not making their car payments and rent and all that different sort of stuff.

While we had a huge increase in spending on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now one other thing to factor in before Joe, who's got a wrinkled face and probably has something to say, one more fact to throw in is that could be this. At least recently, 50% of consumer spending has been done by the top 10% of income earners. So that crowd is not probably delinquent on their credit cards and rent and all that different sort of stuff. And feeling pretty good with the stock market setting records every day. And so maybe they're picking up the slack. I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think there's a lot to that theory.

I was furrowed partly because I was thinking, wait, 13 year high, so what was that? 20, okay. Post real estate crash and everybody was reeling.

Yeah, yeah, there's something funky going on. Nobody's quite sure what it is economically speaking. Everything was so disrupted by Covid. Yeah, habits, morality, finances, schooling, socialization exacerbated by, you know, smartphones and social media. I, I just feel like we're still, all the rocks are still shifting. There's no solid footing on virtually any topic.

[Joe Getty]

I hate the term retail therapy, even though I acknowledge it's a thing as I've done it myself. But it, it makes it sound like it's a good excuse, like it makes sense. No, no, no, no. You gotta be a grown up and realize I'm just buying this to make myself feel good. I can't actually afford it and then not buy it. That's part of the deal. You don't get to excuse it with. Well, I'm doing retail therapy.

[Jack Armstrong]

I bought a $35 T shirt this morning and.

[Joe Getty]

From the Armstrong Yeti Show Store.

[Jack Armstrong]

Absolutely. I don't get that free.

And it offered to break up the payments for me.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Do you come across that Sometimes I think, who's breaking up the payments on this?

[Jack Armstrong]

What's next, a mortgage for a box of cereal? So your payment's gonna work out to 6 cents a month. It's a 48 month loan. Come on.

Steal some cereal or eats. I just, I don't. This is bad. It's very, very bad.

[Joe Getty]

But did you buy that guy's explanation that it might be retail therapy that explains that people are so down that they're buying? I don't, I don't think I buy that.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's an interesting theory, but no, I don't. I couldn't figure out if that's true or not, so I'm not gonna bother. But no, it's, it's a stretch to me. I hope, I think your, your, your explanation is way more sound.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I hope that's the case. I hope It's. The top 10% of earners are picking up the slack and so it's a little misleading, the numbers. Most people are pulling back because times are hard and they're scared because you should be pulling back if times are hard and you're scared. You shouldn't go out and spend like crazy if you don't have the money. That's not good for the country. That's not good for anybody. But that's what our government does. So it would be keeping with, you know, the way we run our finances as a country.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, I was thinking a great deal yesterday and earlier today about our conversation yesterday, yesterday about inflation, where I was quoting that absolutely terrific piece and I forgot to credit the author about what inflation really is. And as he quotes another guy from a piece called How Inflation Destroys Civilization. Inflation springs from a violation of the fundamental rules of society, transforming what should be honest economic exchange into systematic deception. And the point of the piece, which I think was hour three, it was like, oh, it was like right now in the show yesterday was that the word inflation has been misapplied to rising prices. Inflation is an artificial expansion of the money supply. That's what inflation is. And the effect is rising prices. And the problem is if we don't have a word to describe the actual problem, how do we fight it? How do we get people to understand what it is, it's a minor point, but I think a significant one.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, because people were throwing around a lot when Biden was passing those multi trillion dollar bills and everything like that. People were throwing this will lead to inflation as opposed to saying this is inflation.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. And it will lead to higher prices. But yeah, that is inflation. And in the idea that inflation is down. No, no, the, the enormous sudden rise in prices caused by inflation has cooled somewhat. But no, inflation isn't down. The rate of inflation. It's all misapplied. And look, this is tilt knit windmills. This is a couple of guys against, you know, the millions. And I get. People aren't going to absorb this and just. Although, you know, to me I'm a big fan of the whole starfish thing. You know, you throw a few starfish into the, back into the ocean out of the millions on the beach. You didn't help them all, but you helped those. So if, if y' all get it and can help battle it on some level, that's good enough for me. But I had this weird thought that the next chapter in my life is I'm going to be some sort of roving economics lecturer. There will be humor and there will be a lot of hook like a good name for it and all. But I'll go around trying to teach people what inflation really is and how insidious it is and how it is a tax. I'm a politician. I really want to hand out twelve hundred dollars to my cronies to buy them off to stay in power. Okay, but I've only got a thousand dollars. Really need 1200. What do I do? I print $200 more. I hand all of that out and all of a sudden your savings are worth less. Your buying power is less. Do you get how that's a tax?

It's all to support me and my power and keeping me in power.

[Joe Getty]

If everybody in America understood how much less wealthy they are than they were five years ago, like really understood it because of inflation, we'd all be at.

[Jack Armstrong]

The bar tonight or in the street with axe handles and bandanas over our faces. Yeah, yeah. And if they understood that inflation is expansion of the money supply, it's not your eggs being more expensive, they would know where to cast the blame. And that's why perverting language matters. Nobody does it accidentally. Nobody calls sex changes for children gender affirming care. Oh, that reminds me, a gender bending update coming up. Nobody accidentally changes that verbiage.

[Joe Getty]

Quick thing. Before we take a, before we take a Break. Well, I'll do it right after I tell you about almost takes something some somebody saying nice about something about us on the online as opposed to the hate. So I don't dwell on that. But first, Omaha kind of gotten used.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

So funny when you call it cow. I don't know why I try not to think about the fact that it was a, you know, a beast with feelings and dreams.

[Jack Armstrong]

What sort of dreams? Well, what's important is that that was the cow's dream.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Daddy, when I grow up, I want to be well marbled.

That's a cow's dre. Anyway, once again, 50% off site wide Omaha steaks.com use the code ARMSTRONG at checkout. You get 35 bucks off. On top of that terms apply C site for details. That's Omaha Steaks.com the code is Armstrong.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe when we come back I'll talk a little bit about trolls and and then somebody saying really nice stuff about us online and just that whole world, which I find very, very interesting. I know we have a gender bending update and other stuff on the way, so stay here.

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[Jack Armstrong]

It's Christmas in Rockefeller Center. Don't miss Michael Buble, Kristen Chenowicz, Gwen Stefani performing youg Make It Feel Like Christmas. And the Radio City Rockettes, only on NBC. Yeah, it looks like fun, right? Yeah.

And now check out the lineup. Down in Washington, D.C. it's the National Christmas Tree Lighting. Don't miss Mitch McConnell playing the kazoo. Chuck Grassley doing the Charleston. Lindsey Graham performing Santa Baby. And President Trump singing Let It Snow as he throws the shredded Epstein files. Only ON C SPAN 9. There you go.

[Announcer]

Cheers.

[Joe Getty]

Thanks.

[Jack Armstrong]

Presley dancing the Charleston.

[Joe Getty]

Lindsey Graham singing. What?

[Jack Armstrong]

I missed it.

[Joe Getty]

Something kind of Lindsey Grahamish.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, boy.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's funny.

Didn't you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, Santa baby. Yes.

Oh, goodness. Coming up, live team coverage. Church nativity display includes zip tied, Baby Jesus with Roman soldiers dressed as ICE agents. Stay with us.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, Good for you.

Didn't you have a story today about what age you shouldn't get your kid a phone before?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah, yeah. New studies out about smartphones before age 12. You know what? Insert chainsaws or 1200 horsepower motorcycles in place of social media and smartphones.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think I did 13 for both kids. And it gets. You didn't live through this because smartphones weren't a thing yet. But it gets pretty hard once you get into the teenage years because all their friends have them and that's how they all communicate. I mean, you're really left out a lot if you're not part of that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

The text chain that everybody's on. I mean, like, what's more painful than.

[Jack Armstrong]

That as an adolescent? Oh, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my God. I can't even imagine if all my friends had been on some sort of text thread and Making jokes all day long and everything like that. Then you get to school and they're continuing the conversation in the halls and you're not in on it. Oh, it'd be horrible.

And. And they're like the most dangerous thing in the world. I just brought that up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Why don't we hit that now or four a little more completely. I think it's worth it.

[Joe Getty]

Apple announced they're no longer going to have any support for the Apple se, which I think is the phone my oldest got first phony got because it was the cheap iPhone that they put out and they've decided to abandon it and they'll no longer support it at all. So give up on your SE if you've got an SE. Now they're all 800 or something. Anywho, my family was somewhat interested in the fact over Thanksgiving while I was there because I was posting some.

What I thought were light hearted, humorous notes about my trip and Thanksgiving meal and stuff like that and hanging out with my family and then some of the hateful, hateful, mean spirited replies from people who. I assume you're a fan of the show or. Why would you even know who I am? Why would you even be following mm. And trying to explain the whole troll thing to some of my family members that there are people. Oh no, they, they're perfectly okay with the show, but for some reason there's a certain kind of human being that if they can get an A reaction out of you, it makes their day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I also think that there are haters who, who follow social media for the purpose of hating. They, they don't like the show at all. They're not fans.

[Joe Getty]

I can't imagine. Like, try to think of somebody I don't like. Back when Joy Reid had a show on msnbc, I can't imagine following her Twitter account and then when she posts pictures saying, that's an ugly tree. Did you run out of money? Or, you know, something like that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Because you have a. What's the term? What's the term? A life.

[Joe Getty]

I can't imagine that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. They're pathetic. Well, not only pity people like that, I do too.

[Joe Getty]

I feel sorry for you. What a horrible way to go through your life. And, and the fact that you can take some joy out of.

Attacking somebody's family or Thanksgiving or Christmas or whatever they're talking about and if you could bring them any pain, that would make you happy. That's just such a weird way to live. Anyway, the flip side of that is I was looking at the text line and here's somebody. I've got their texts going back several years. They don't text very often, but going back several years. Lmao. Joe is on fire this morning. That was about four years ago. Then six months later.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Great show as usual.

[Joe Getty]

Loved Limbaugh. You guys are every bit as good as.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, you're too kind.

[Joe Getty]

Best show on the radio. Katie is such a great addition. Back when Katie joined the show. Couldn't agree more. Jack followed by.

Joe is killing me today. Great job, Jack. Considering the circumstances, you. You guys are both pros. Give Katie more air time. And I see it, you know, there's people like that, that just nothing but positivity over years and years and years.

[Jack Armstrong]

Toward the kind of you. Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

As opposed to the hateful trolling. We worked with a guy, I won't name him, but we worked with a guy who was a troll. He would troll other things and people and be like, dude.

[Jack Armstrong]

Trolls us still.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, he still trolls us. Yeah, but, but you know, that was when he still worked with us. He wasn't trolling his head, but I would see him trolling other things and like, what do you get out of that? And then if they responded, it would just. It brought him so much joy that, wow, I. I got to them. I made them mad. I made them unhappy.

[Jack Armstrong]

What? That's mental illness. It is something. Well, and lest you think that I'm like pretending to pity you, but I'm actually angry and trying to know I actually pity you. It makes me sad that you're as sad and.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, I'll get over it.

[Joe Getty]

I'd be horrified if either one of my kids somehow ended up in a position where if they could bring somebody else pain, it would make them happy. That's horrible.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And what if one of your kids ended up in a dress? Gender bending madness update coming up next. Couldn't resist. Couldn't resist.

[Joe Getty]

That's a good transition that we're gonna get a text from that lady. Joe, you're on fire today.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thanks, ma'.

[Joe Getty]

Am. Stay tuned for that.

Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ilhan Omar making the rounds on lefty media as we switch speak. Clapping back against the president and his.

Idea of not letting people from hell hole countries cl claim phony asylum in this country and then rip off the taxpayers. More on that to come. But first, it's a gender bending madness update. So I kept hearing about this thing called gender bending.

[Caller Henry Wright]

Men.

[Joe Getty]

They'Re locos.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're in a brave new world.

There's a lot of gender bending madness to get to, we've got to dive right into the cesspool of weirdness. First of all, the great Nellie Bowles of the Free Press writing, wait, we're still doing the sports thing. Both the Oliver Ames girls volleyball team and the Somerset Berkeley girls field hockey team won state titles in Massachusetts while fielding biologically male athletes against all female opponents. Two different state champ teams.

[Joe Getty]

I wouldn't have bet that that was still happening.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know, I know. Korean spawn, NJ has been ordered to implement gender identity friendly policies and educate staff on non discrimination after being sued for refusing to allow a male into the women's nude section. And Nelly writes, I feel like these 2021 plot lines need to be retired. We've moved on. No penises in the women's locker room unless it's specifically a porn set. Which is a funny thing to say.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not surprised that that happens still, because the individual battles are still going to happen. But the sports thing, that took compliance from a whole bunch of different parents.

[Jack Armstrong]

And teams and schools.

[Joe Getty]

And I thought that the that people weren't too scared to stand up against that at this point. I would have thought there had been so many teams that forfeited, so many parents that pulled their kids off the field or the court, that it wouldn't have happened.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, I'd meant to mention that the the theme of this update is we are far from winning this fight. We have just begun to turn back the tide a little bit because in hardcore woke places like Massachusetts, for instance, they're still completely down with the idea of, well, he's now a woman because he says he's a woman. Trans women are women and they're letting them run roughshod over the girls. And finally, Nelly mentions an Irish school teacher who once again got erect arrested. Not the first time, because he refuses to use they them pronouns for children in his class.

[Joe Getty]

You almost said a woman got erected, which in these cases can happen.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I said a teacher, which you assumed was a woman because you're sexist. Moving along.

[Announcer]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

The winner of the World's Strongest Woman competition was stripped of her title Tuesday. Organizers saw that the hulking American never mentioned she was born a man.

[Joe Getty]

I saw that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jamie with two M's and they got.

[Joe Getty]

Caught because of some porn they had posted.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jamie Booker disqualified just days after she destroyed the competition at the official Strongman Games for Women in Arlington, Texas over the weekend. Congratulations, girls. Men are better at everything, including being women.

[Joe Getty]

But he, she, he, he. I get these mixed up all the time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Don't. It's a dude.

[Joe Getty]

They had.

Posted some porn on some site of them, like self porn, like.

Making it clear that they had junk in the porn. So somebody saw that and said, hey look, this, this woman has a penis.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just saw it.

[Joe Getty]

So that kind of outed him.

[Jack Armstrong]

The organizers essentially said, whoops, no. Yeah, you're supposed to compete whatever you're born as. So again, well done, sir. Way to show those girls what a real woman is.

[Joe Getty]

How could you take any joy in.

[Jack Armstrong]

That because you're mentally ill? Bad news from the uk. With the Labour Party now engaged, they have decided to more or less ignore the the incredibly important Cass review recommendation that any use of puberty blockers be confined to research. Well, they've taken that to mean let's do a major clinical trial puberty blockers involving 220 children under the age of 16, including kids as young as 10. They're gonna feed these children 220. These young children will be fed dangerous puberty blockers in the name of research, changing their bodies forever. Britain has so lost its way. It's absolutely terrible. Moving along. Speaking of those who haven't gotten the memo that this sort of thing is ought to be over Berry. Sexual is a word that's causing intrigue online.

[Joe Getty]

Jack, is that B sexual or V as in vagina?

[Jack Armstrong]

B, B as in boy? B, E, R, R? Very sexual is, and this is quoting from a super woke website. Very sexual is a word that's causing intrigue online. But what exactly is the new identity across queer communities online? New language continues to emerge to describe the full spectrum of attraction. For many.

[Caller Henry Wright]

Strawberries.

[Jack Armstrong]

What?

[Joe Getty]

For many discover.

[Jack Armstrong]

Shut up. For many, discovering a word that captures their experience can feel like a relief. Almost like missed finding a missing puzzle piece. And it goes on for sentence after sentence. Shut up and tell me what Barry Sexual means, even though it's stupid. Although very sexual remains far less well known than labels such as bisexual or pansexuals, it's slowly seeping into conversations on Reddit, Tumblr, lg, blah blah, blah, blah, blah blah. Very sexual is someone who can be attracted to all genders, but with a distinct pattern. Attraction toward women and female aligned or non binary androgynous people is the default, while attraction to men or masculine aligned people is lighter, rarer, or more secondary.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, I didn't follow that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Did you follow that? Don't bother.

[Joe Getty]

Do you still know what very sexual is? I don't, no.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you're mostly attracted to girlish people?

[Joe Getty]

Sometimes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Once In a while, maybe on the weekends. You're attracted to dudish people. That's all it means. Hey all you berry sexuals and pansexuals and whatever the hell else you call yourselves, Google the following phrase or chatgpt it the narcissism of small distinctions. I think you might learn something moving along. Great piece by Christopher Kalib in the National Review about how the Washington State University removed a bunch of videos from a conference about the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine. Activists got hold of these videos of debates and discussions about what's really good for kids, what's really healthy for kids and what's not.

They labeled this society a hate group, attacked Washington State University for hosting the courses for nationwide use, and bullied Washington state into taking them down. All in about a day. Went 0 to 100. The activists can still bully a university into removing a discussion in which this organization was simply saying we need to do medicine based on evidence. We need to be scientific about it, not emotional about it. What is the data? And for that they were labeled a hate group and taken down Major State University.

This fight is just beginning. Just barely beginning.

[Joe Getty]

I'm still blown away by that sportsman. I didn't think we were still there anywhere in the country where there wouldn't be enough parents or coaches or schools that would say, no, we're not. We're not going along with this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, that's my point exactly. Is that in your woke areas? Because keep in mind, in California, Jack, the rebels who fought against it and boycotted games and blah blah, blah, they're still running afoul of state law. The state law in California is dudes get to kick the crap out of girls on the field of play in violation of Title nine. Gavin, even though you admitted to Charlie Kirk it's blatantly unfair. Kind of. Sorta. With your rambling I never say anything nonsense. It's a gender bending madness update. I'm pissed.

[Joe Getty]

That's the ending.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's the ending.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

Oh, that's.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's.

[Joe Getty]

What's her name? What's she up to these days?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a fella. They seem confused.

[Joe Getty]

What's he up to these days?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. Nothing. Not pitching Bud Light, that's for sure. Never forget or go ahead and forget. It's just beer. It's fine. Hey, Prize Picks wants you to know Prize Picks is used by many, many millions of dollars. Millions of users. Rather sign up for America's number one fantasy sports app. Prize Picks is so easy and fun. Just Pick more or less on at least two player stat projections and see if your sports takes they hold water. If they do, you're gonna get paid.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

So I was listening to a discussion on a podcast yesterday of his college football ruined or broken and it clearly is.

I don't know if there's any fixing it. So it's bowl season. So your team, from what I understand that plays in the bowl, might have a different quarterback than it had the entire season.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Right. Or a third of your players might sit out thinking I'm not playing that stupid game.

[Joe Getty]

What's the point of that? And then you've got the whole UC Berkeley is in the Atlantic Coast Conference. If you know anything about the way the conference has worked. Berkeley Bacal is in the acc. I mean there's a bunch of examples of that that just make no sense whatsoever. What if they'll ever be able to fix that again?

[Jack Armstrong]

I've read various ideas and plans that have been pitched for fixing college football again. A it's complicated and B I don't care enough to really dig into it. But yeah, it's, it's, it's crazy what's going on right now. Players being paid millions and millions of dollars right out of high school to play for a college.

[Joe Getty]

I don't have any problem with that. But they got it. You got to stay with the same team. You can't. That that whole transfer thing or whatever, that's got to go away. I mean, whose idea was that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I happen to be tuning into the Fight in the Line I basketball program as they got just absolutely dismantled by UConn again and thought wow, I recognize one of those dudes from last year. One.

Everybody else is just a transfer portal guy or a euro who's pretending to study or whatever. I don't know. It's ridiculous. It's still hot, though. You look at attendance figures and TV money and, you know, like the Big Ten championship game. Number one, Ohio. Number two, Indiana. I believe they're certainly in the top ten.

[Joe Getty]

That's right.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're number two in the conference. Doesn't matter. It's going to be a great game. I'm excited about watching it. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

If attendance is still as hot and alumni are still as hot for it and everything like that, then I guess it continues on and I don't know. It lost me last.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

But like, my brothers are super into college sports, particularly Kansas basketball, and they're. They're as hot for it as they ever have been. And all the conferences are completely different than they ever were.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. The question is, long term, will it attract new fans? Right. These earmarks. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Players are making millions, though.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Well, they should.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's never played it down. Yeah, they should be.

[Joe Getty]

Got coaches getting $10 million. You got all kinds of advertisers and sponsors and all kinds of people making lots of money. The players are the ones that are playing the game.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. And we get to drop the charade that this behemoth with an IQ of 68 but runs like a deer is, you know, a student, quote unquote, an IQ of 68.

[Joe Getty]

Well, has that changed? Can you not go to class and stuff? Can you just be your major? Is. I'm on the football team.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. They probably still fake it up for some reason, but I've lost track.

[Joe Getty]

That's always been the reality. I mean, if you ever went to college and had like some big dumb athlete in your class, not. They're not all dumb, but some of.

[Jack Armstrong]

Them are and asks to be dumb. They just happen to be born with more athletic ability than brain power.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, but I had a few in classes at various college situations I was in. It's just like, what are you doing here?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

And they're saying to themselves, what am I doing here?

[Jack Armstrong]

I can dunk a basketball and pretending to go to class. That's what I'm doing. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Putin said something extraordinary yesterday that in the olden times would have made the news, but in the modern day of everybody says crazy s all the time, it didn't really make the news. Among other things on the way. Stay here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Somebody pays it, it's going to be the taxpayer.

[Jack Armstrong]

The LA City Council again delaying a decision on what reconstruction fees to waive in Pacific Palisades with dozens of fire victims in City hall watching in tears, sobbing. Actually, it was so devastating to see how incompetent our city is. You too can have this sort of governance. Just vote for California Democrats when they run for national office. Matthew Seedorf of Fox 11 LA rolls on January's Palisades fire left roughly 7,000 buildings in ashes. In April, the called for a hold on reconstruction fees. But now, almost 11 months after the flames, the city council still hasn't made a decision. They want to nitpick and penny pinch people who have gone through the worst, most devastating wildfire in our history.

[Joe Getty]

I can't imagine how insanely angering that is to try to deal with that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Putting aside the fact that the fires were set by a leftist loser lunatic type fella.

One house has been rebuilt. One house. But the question but it's even more hilarious, tragically, horribly hilarious when you get past the headline. Realize that the house is a construction company's model home that no one is going to live in. It's a possible design for others should they manage to navigate the mess that is LA in California's permitting process. Says the Whose article is this? It's really good town hall. It's like cooking a steak in front of a starving family, then throwing it away. And Mayor Bass, who originally touted the completion of the model home on social media as if it were an accomplishment, deleted the post after real victims of the fire complained and it was learned that the construction company had been in the process of building the home before the fires. So it's not even quote unquote, a new construction.

[Joe Getty]

Nothing's been built I can't imagine. So I've lost all my stuff. I'm in a hotel or an apartment or whatever my housing situation is, still have a job, still have kids, still got to figure out how to get them to school. You know, everything that goes with life.

[Jack Armstrong]

You have a mortgage on that burnt down property that you're paying.

[Joe Getty]

And then you're right, you're trying to fight your way through this stuff all the time. God, that would be horrific.

[Jack Armstrong]

Here is resident Henry Wright, who knows his Orwell.

[Joe Getty]

So you have one minute for general. Go ahead.

[Caller Henry Wright]

My name is Henry Wright. You burned my house down.

Pursuing your ideological agenda and you want me to pay me? You burned it down. You have created Animal Farm as you sit through at the trough and feed your ugly, distorted reality. Real people, real families, real hardships grip every corner of my community. LA bureaucracy has evolved to serve only itself with rules, reporting, paperwork, slogans that replace substance. Who pays Me. This isn't an abstract concept. It's my money. You burned my house and everything I own down to complete ash without putting one drop of water on.

Raged it, raged till it was a foot high. It was an inferno engulfing my history and my whole being. Do the right thing.

[Joe Getty]

Next speaker.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, see, Henry, that was great, but they lacked the capacity for shame. You can't shame them.

[Joe Getty]

20, 28 bureaucratic layers of crap. It gets to the thing I always say when I. When I think of the government, I think of an impediment. Some people, when they think of the government, think, oh, they're going to help me. I don't get you people. I don't know what your life experience has been, but when I think the word government, I think an impediment, something that's going to get in my way, make it harder or more expensive to live my life.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. And then those members of the city council and their cronies and their donors and all, if they need something done, I'll get that taken care of for you. They get a signature on those forms, but quick.

[Joe Getty]

That's quite the story.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah. I liked how he started off with a really good pig squeal.

[Joe Getty]

Is that what that was?

[Jack Armstrong]

I believe it was, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

I think he should have made it more clear what he would do. The connecting animal farm and that there's a pig and to the squeal.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I think it was probably feeding at the trough maybe.

[Joe Getty]

You know, I think it was probably lost a lot of people there. They probably just thought he was a crazy person.

[Jack Armstrong]

I disagree. Maybe you need to listen more closely.

[Joe Getty]

One minute for general. Go ahead.

[Caller Henry Wright]

My name is Henry Wright. You burned my house down.

[Joe Getty]

See, I think people think he just has some unique version of Tourette's in which he squeals like a pig.

[Jack Armstrong]

And for a second, it almost seemed to be going in the three little pigs direction. You blew my house down. You burned my. But no, that wasn't his point. Armstrong and Getty.

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