A&G Replay Monday Hour Two

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand – “A&G Replay Monday Hour Two”

Date: November 24, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

This hour of Armstrong & Getty centers around a critique of cultural, educational, and political developments in America. The hosts discuss diminishing patriotic pride, the influence of "neo-Marxist" ideology in schools, the effectiveness (and corruption) of homelessness programs, and the societal impact of technology on relationships. They offer personal anecdotes, listener stories, and quote from current events, maintaining their signature blend of sarcasm, cultural commentary, and concern for America’s future.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. National Pride Decline and Political Division

• Gallup Poll Analysis:
  • Discussion of Gallup tracking pride in being American; a marked decline across parties since 2000 ([05:50]-[07:28]).
    • 2000: ~90% of Republicans, Democrats & Independents were ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ proud.
    • 2025: Republicans just above 50%, Independents a third, Democrats lower still.
• Jack’s Reflection:
  • Pride isn't (or shouldn’t be) tied to the current government:
    • "The idea that the United States of America is its government, that's absolutely not true. It's the people... It's our Constitution... not our political parties." ([07:28])

2. The “Neo-Marxist Indoctrination” in Education

• Ethnic & Gender Studies Critique:
  • Jack outlines concerns about Minneapolis public schools, where ethnic and gender studies are now required ([08:03]-[15:13]).
    • Claims these classes focus on demonizing capitalism, labeling it as a pillar of white supremacy, and prioritize social justice activism.
    • Course materials reference Ibram X. Kendi:
      • "Course materials describe ethnic studies as an anti racist tool... readings by anti racist activist Ibram X Kendi, who is both a con man and an America hating Marxist." ([09:42]-[10:29])
• Personal Anecdotes:
  • Joe recounts pulling his history-loving son from an American history class that led with themes of land theft, genocide, and pronoun sharing:
    • "They wrote the land declaration the first day explaining how we had stolen the land from the Indians and how awful we should feel about it." ([13:19]-[13:51])
• Concerns About Educational Impact:
  • Both hosts lament that education now centers on activism and self-reflection on bias rather than substance or critical history.
  • Joe’s advice:
    • "You gotta get your kid out of that school. You'd be better off if they sat at home looking at YouTube videos about math and science..." ([12:46])

3. Homelessness, Harm Reduction, and Systemic Waste

• Portland Homeless Addict Clip:
  • Audio from a young homeless addict describing how "harm reduction" programs supply users directly with paraphernalia ([17:33]-[18:23]).
    • Both hosts agree current strategies enable rather than help—“it doesn’t help, it’s enabling” ([18:10]).
• Drug Rehab & Addiction:
  • Joe: Most rehabs don't work, and some are only there to scam insurance:
    • "Rehabs don't work when they're trying and they're legit. These are just trying to steal your money." ([19:48])
• Marijuana & Public Health:
  • New studies link heavy THC use to traffic deaths and psychosis ([19:57]-[20:48]).

4. Technology and (Artificial) Relationships

• AI Companionship:
  • Discussion about the emotional reactions people develop with AI assistants ([25:21]-[26:35]).
    • "Even guys like us... have an emotional reaction when you have an exchange with you know who and they say a cheery thank you..." ([25:21])
• Hosts’ Last AI Searches (Light Segment): ([26:36]-[29:45])
  • The hosts and producer Katie share their last (non-show related) personal AI/chatbot queries:
    • Jack: “Do I need a vent free gas insert for my gas fireplace?”; “How many species of animals eat their young?”
    • Joe: “Espresso with cream options”; “meaning of a couple of letters in a text”; grammar checks.

5. Democratic Party Schism & the “Feminization of America”

• Democratic Donor Fatigue:
  • Fundraising woes due to radical candidates; donors on the sidelines ([31:28]-[32:52]).
  • Critique of the Democratic Party’s leftward lurch; donors fear the "anti-capitalist" elements.
• Cancel Culture & Gender Norms:
  • Armstrong refers to Helen Andrews’ “feminization” thesis ([33:09]-[36:03]):
    • Claims cancel culture is an expression of feminine social control: prioritizing group acceptance over debate.
    • "Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine... Empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition." ([35:01]-[36:03])
• Lack of Left Media Debate:
  • Joe notes right-leaning media frequently hosts genuine disagreements, but he's unaware of similar debate—“competition”—within the left ([34:29]-[34:58]).

6. LA Homelessness Scandal & Government Waste

• RedState Story Recap:
  • Steve Williams documents LA buying hotels for homeless housing at grossly inflated prices—massive windfall for developers, empty hotels, no impact ([39:37]-[43:30]).
• Homelessness Spending and Accountability:
  • Jack & Joe suggest the homeless-industrial complex is fundamentally about moving taxpayer money, not solving problems:
    • "The spending is the point, not fixing your causes that you care about." ([44:48]-[46:16])
    • "Every wasted dollar is one that could have gone toward mental health treatment, addiction recovery, job training, new housing construction. Instead those dollars flowed to brokers, bureaucrats, and Blackstone's balance sheet." ([45:02])
  • Attempts to question or stop it met with accusations of being “anti-homeless” ([45:29]).
• School Food Waste Illustration:
  • Teachers are horrified at the volume of wasted food due to universal free meals implemented during COVID, “the spending is the point” logic ([43:46]-[45:02]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "It's the people of the United States. It's our Constitution. It's our system. It's not our political parties."
  — Jack Armstrong [07:28]

• "You gotta get your kid out of that school… than to be subjected to that. You're gonna reflect on your own biases. F you. God, that makes me angry."
  — Joe Getty [12:46]

• "The spending is the point, not fixing your causes that you care about."
  — Jack Armstrong [44:48]

• "Cancel culture is simply what women do when there are enough of them… women prize acceptance and cohesion."
  — Jack Armstrong, paraphrasing Helen Andrews [35:01]

• "Rehabs don't work when they're trying and they're legit. These are just trying to steal your money."
  — Joe Getty [19:48]

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

• [03:44]–[07:28]: Decline in national pride, Gallup poll analysis, partisan breakdown
• [08:03]–[15:13]: Minneapolis schools, ethnic/gender studies curricula, “indoctrination” in education
• [17:33]–[19:27]: Harm reduction, homelessness, addict testimony
• [19:28]–[20:56]: Rehab scams and marijuana dangers
• [25:21]–[29:45]: Tech/AI relationships and revealing last AI queries
• [31:28]–[36:18]: Democratic donor crisis, “feminization of America”, cancel culture
• [39:37]–[43:30]: LA homeless housing real estate scandal
• [44:48]–[46:16]: “The spending is the point” in government programs
• [46:16]–[46:48]: Show outro

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Tone and Style

• Sarcastic, direct, skeptical of institutions and current ideological trends
• Frequent banter, analogies, and storytelling
• Impassioned when discussing perceived government waste or ideology in education
• Personal anecdotes and offbeat humor balanced with policy critique & cultural commentary

Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. French police said they've been working around the clock to track down the suspects in last week's Louvre jewelry heist. Working around the clock, or as it's known in France, 10:30 to noon and then like 2 to 3:30.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, like that. Criticize the French culture as being lazy. It's funny and accurate. True enough.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, speaking of foreign cultures, Jack, here's your headline of the day. China is testing restroom machines that make you watch ads in exchange for toilet paper.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God. You want to tidy up? You gotta watch his ad first. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

You need more? Well, here's another ad. Oh, 30 seconds. China. You thought communism was bad. Now they're inflicting this on us.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Now that is. I remember from like, the only economics class I've ever had in my life, one that I took in college where you learned about elastic and inelastic products. Toilet paper is inelastic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You will pay what you need to pay.

[Joe Getty]

I will sit through everybody ads. I got to sit there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Damn commies.

[Joe Getty]

So, speaking of France, I wonder, we were talking about this poll which I'm about to repeat, and the number of people who are extremely proud to be American. What is the poll in other countries? Your average Frenchman.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are they call him Jacques.

[Joe Getty]

Are they proud to be French or Brit or Spanish or Chinese or Pick a country. I would love to know that I don't have. I don't really don't. I don't really have a guess.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and. And let's poll French, French people. And then immigrants and ask them the same people the same question.

[Joe Getty]

Gallup's been asking this question for a quarter of a century now. How proud are you to be an American? And they only are putting in this graph extremely proud or very proud. It's the only group you really need to include when they started doing the graph, because everybody was at like 90%. Republicans, Democrats and independents were all high 80s. Around 90% either extreme.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm sorry, that was in 1950, right?

[Joe Getty]

Right after World War II? No, in 2000. To start this century, either extremely or very proud, not even including moderately proud. Extremely or very gets you to damn near 90% for everybody, it is held at 90%. For Republicans, it has gone down to barely over half. For Independence, it's barely over a third now for Democrats who are extremely or very proud to be an American, I find that highly troubling. And the fact that it's that Republicans held steady through the Obama years, so they weren't basing it on who's president, which is a stupid way to base it. Maybe it's because Republicans would think, I'm not going to change whether I'm proud to be an American based on who's president. What's that got to do with it? Like, so we got a text. For instance, as an independent, I would say my pride for my country has gone down because of the way both parties now act so much like each other. Well, yeah, I'm not proud of our current state of politics. In fact, I think it's crappy. And I'm not. I don't think. I think our education system's a mess. I think our culture is headed in the wrong direction. But am I proud to be in America? Put me extremely. Do you have something higher than extremely? Put me down for that.

[Jack Armstrong]

My friend, you have inadvertently reminded me of something I've said many times, and it's insidious. The idea that the United States of America is its government, that's absolutely not true. It's the people of the United States. It's our Constitution. It's our system. It's not our political parties. They exist within the US Of A. They are not. They do not define the US Of A. They're just a part of it.

[Joe Getty]

And I'd rather stand up next to you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. So how did we get here? I was expounding on my theory last hour, and there's more to it that the indoctrination of the neo Marxist class, and some of that's from, you know, the Soviets and the Russians doing it on purpose. And the Chinese now, but also just radical leftists. The indoctrination that they've gotten into our schools has been successful. We've now got a couple, a handful of generations of people who've been brought up. The only history they've gotten is the United States is evil. Here's a list of the evil things that have happened.

[Joe Getty]

That's not an exaggeration. My son is recently out of an American history public school class.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, and we let it happen. And I'm ashamed of that. Although, you know, Judy and I were pretty involved in our kids schooling and it kind of crept in bit by bit. And then as we all know, as kids were doing online schooling during COVID parents actually for the first time heard what was happening in the classrooms and were horrified by it. But this battle against it has just begun. To wit, back to the piece I mentioned about the Minneapolis public schools have Ethnic studies is absolutely required. You got to take a bunch of it. And here's a class about the Hmong people. Why?

[Joe Getty]

Why do you have to take those classes?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, here you. Well, I'll tell you exactly why. So if you're taking a Hmong studies class, you would think you'd learn about the Southeast Asian people's culture and history, right? Maybe their involvement in the US Civil, the Vietnam War, blah blah blah, prepare.

[Joe Getty]

You for life, to go out and I don't know, support your family.

[Jack Armstrong]

But, but again, that's not why that class exists. In Minneapolis, high schoolers are instead taught lessons demonizing capitalism as a pillar of white supremacy alongside slavery and genocide in their class about Hmong studies. According to course materials obtained by this group defending education, the Hmong studies course, which requires social justice activism as part of a final project, is just one of the ethnic studies classes offered in Minneapolis public schools that push the so called anti racist agenda. Course materials describe ethnic studies as an anti racist tool featuring themes like decolonizing education and readings by anti racist activist Ibram X Kendi, who is both a con man and an America hating Marxist.

[Joe Getty]

Made a lot of money though.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, you're no kidding. From fools. Idiots. So I'm reading about this, some of these class descriptions. Let's see. Is that the one I wanted to read? They all look kind of the same. Oh, here you go. So. Oh, that's right. I meant to mention I heard this a number of years ago and was totally unaware of it, that the schools of education, the colleges of education is. That was the seed of all this stuff seeping into universities and then high schools and elementary Schools across the country. The leftists brilliantly and evilly targeted our educational system. Of course you would. You got to convince the kids to hate their country if you want to bring it down. So they successfully got their evil into the schools of education. Listen to this. Intro to Ethnic Studies Education and Multicultural Education. This is for grades 11 and 12 juniors and seniors in high school. And you can earn up to six college credits for taking this. And it all has to do with heading into the field of education. Intro to Ethnic Studies education is designed to look at the origin, development and mission of ethnic studies education programs within the context of K12 education in the United States. Okay, so what is that? You will learn how ethnic studies is an anti racist tool as counter story in humanizing pedagogy. You will identify the kinds of structural inequalities that are part of K12 institutions, the development of curriculum as well as understand the concept of multi dimensional identities and intersectionalities. Wow. Blah blah, blah.

[Joe Getty]

Bunch of freaking gobbledygook.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's more. Multicultural education introduces prospective teacher candidates approaches of multicultural anti oppressive education including issues related to student, family and community diversity based on race, culture, language, class, gender, sexual orientation and ability. You will reflect on your own biases as they relate to oppression, privilege and equity in schools and society, as well as formulate ways teachers can be agents of change in and with classrooms, schools and communities. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

You gotta get your kid out of that school. You've got to get your kid out of your school. You'd be better off if they sat at home looking at YouTube videos about math and science than to be subjected to that. You're gonna reflect on your own biases. F you. God, that makes me angry.

[Jack Armstrong]

And here's the.

[Joe Getty]

And you can't.

[Jack Armstrong]

You can't connect Latinx studies, what they offer. It's all about tearing down the system. That's what all this language means.

[Joe Getty]

I got so mad. I know. I've told this story several times. If you've heard about. My son's American history classes started this year and he was so excited about it. He loves stuff like that. He's a history nut like his dad is. And he was so excited about getting into the Revolutionary War, George Washington, Tom Jefferson and all the different stuff and everything like that. No, maybe they got to it eventually. I don't know. I pulled him out of the class. They wrote the land declaration the first day explaining how we had stolen the land from the Indians and how awful we should feel about it. Had to.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what they did on day One.

[Joe Getty]

And had to give out their pronouns. That was their first day of school and it went downhill from there as they learned more about the genocide that we committed against Native Americans.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm surprised you didn't pull them day one. He gave it a second day just to be sure. Gender Sexuality Studies Students will explore the struggles, accomplishments and culture of intersectional of individuals within the LGBTQTIA community. Students will have the opportunity to investigate engrossing narratives, lectures, drawings, poems and more as we engage in uncovering the rich history of the queer community. This course encourages students of all identities to deepen their understanding of how intersectionality in their own life and uncovers the history of unequal systems of power and privilege and how they have been used to silence members of the queen community. Queer community.

[Joe Getty]

Oh my God.

[Jack Armstrong]

Students will also learn about resilience, how the Alphabet soup community has embraced resistance as a way to transform the communities in which they live.

[Joe Getty]

What grade is this?

[Jack Armstrong]

This is high schoolers 10 through 12. Public high school? Yeah, it's required in Minneapolis. Required?

[Joe Getty]

That's insane. And you know you can't. You should pay attention to the education your kids are getting. But you know, you also should be able to count on sending your kid to a public school and things will be okay. You'd think you could, but you can't.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the course materials defending education uncovered for the Hmong studies course back to that is perhaps the best window into the Minneapolis public school system's approach to ethnic studies classes. In one section, power struggles and resistance, the class centers. Do you still think I'm paranoid when I say this is all foisted on us by neo Marxists? Resistance to what? Well, the class centers on the pillars of white supremacy a complete with a diagram equating capitalism with slavery and on par with war and genocide. Part of the class's final assignment requires students to engage in youth lead participatory action research, a convoluted name for social justice activism. It involves students identifying a problem perpetuated by the institutions and the logics of white supremacy. Remember, our whole system is white supremacy. You remember systemic racism. The kids are being taught to tear down the institutions of white supremacy. And our whole country is white supremacy.

[Joe Getty]

I keep thinking about my own kids and, you know, wanting to make sure they're not exposed to too much of this crap. Dangerous and a waste of time. But, you know, I got to worry about the whole country, not just my kids, because there's thousands and thousands of kids are being taught this bull s and they're going to Be out there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Get up in the morning and come in and do this.

[Joe Getty]

And they're going to be out there voting and forming the future of this country. God, that is so frustrating.

[Jack Armstrong]

One final note. There's more, but we're out of time. Supplemental resources for the class include the article 5 Faces of Oppression, which actually cite. Cites Carl Effing Marx to argue that exploitation uses capitalism to oppress.

[Joe Getty]

That's incredible. Parents need to pay more attention to what they're teaching in their school.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm glad I did for the school board.

[Joe Getty]

If I'd have just ignored it and assumed he was going to an American history class, I would never know.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

We'Re about to hear from. From a young lady in Portland, I believe. Tell us about her. Yeah, she's probably early 20s, beautiful girl, actually. But she's clearly sitting in a woodsy homeless encampment and clearly an addict. Yeah, do harm reduction. People come out here and give you.

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[Joe Getty]

Syringes and stuff like that?

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[Joe Getty]

Then there's a few of them that came out in a van and they start passing out stuff like pipes and. And snorting kits like that. Like, why?

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[Jack Armstrong]

More comfortable for people to be like.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, okay, now I don't even have to go anywhere. Stuff like that is definitely enabling and it doesn't help. It's enabling actually makes it more harmful because once people get comfortable enough doing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stuff a certain way, like, why do anything else?

[Joe Getty]

So obvious. No, back in the day, the original thing with needles was spreading HIV around. Okay, you could make an argument for that. But beyond that, what's the argument for the paraphernalia handing out to hard drug users?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. I mean, because you could get, I don't know, a cold or herpes or Covid by sharing a straw you're snorting meth with. I don't. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I don't think it has anything to do with that. It's some sort of. I don't know what it is. Misplaced compassion, I guess.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, this is compassion, I think, would be the answer. It's yet another great example of the feminization of America where people have completely lost track of the fact that you have to have negative consequences for bad behavior. You'll get more of it. That girl's like, no, you're enabling people. And she didn't make the point. But I thought she was going to say, and if you make it really comfortable for people to be addicted, they get more addicted and it gets harder and harder to get off the stuff.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, I had a story.

[Jack Armstrong]

Something.

[Joe Getty]

I had a story I was going to get to. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow. About these rehabs that are ripping people off. Not only do the rehabs that aren't trying to rip you off fail like 99% of the time, there's a whole bunch of them that are. They're designed to rip you off.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're not even. Oh, that's funny.

[Joe Getty]

That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've got a trio of stories that's. Number one, drug rehabs lure in patients for insurance money, then leave them on straight.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. So rehabs don't work when they're trying and they're legit. They very rarely work. These are just trying to steal your money.

[Jack Armstrong]

Huge number of scammers.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then you got this headline more marijuana users are crash dummies high on Pot Drivers are contributing to more highway accident deaths. New study found that more than 40% of drivers who died in car accidents in at least one U.S. county over the last six years, 40% had elevated levels of THC in their.

[Joe Getty]

Really? That's interesting now.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is. Of course.

[Joe Getty]

I need to know, is that higher a lot by a lot than it used to be? Before it was legal?

[Jack Armstrong]

Over the last six years anyway. And then an article asking, did pot make the Dallas Ice Shooter? You remember that? A couple of weeks ago he was anti ice and he ended up killing some illegal immigrants. Did pot make the Dallas Ice Shooter psychotic? He was a heavy pot user and was starting to develop psychotic symptoms. Heavy pot use absolutely makes psychosis more.

[Joe Getty]

Likely one and pots way stronger than it used to be so it'd be exactly easier to get there. Well, that's trouble.

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The Armstrong and Getty Show.

[Joe Getty]

It's the Armstrong and Getty Replay.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we were talking about how even guys like us who are, like, super critical of the idea of becoming more detached from real life, having fewer real friends, fewer real relationships, having a computer girlfriend and watching porn all the time. I mean, it's just. It's all incredibly unhealthy. But we were talking about how when, you know, Siri or, or Grok or, or I use chat GPT. Fair amount. Oh, my God. My Siri lit up. No, I don't want to talk to you.

[Joe Getty]

Stop it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Leave me alone. I was talking about you, not to you.

[Joe Getty]

Stop it.

[Jack Armstrong]

And how even guys like us have an emotional reaction when you have an exchange with you know who and they say a cheery thank you. Or in Jack's case, said, hey, if you really like that song, you gotta check out the live version. It's amazing. And in spite of ourselves, we have this emotional reaction to it, as if it's a human being. And I don't think human beings can resist that attraction. I don't know how it would happen, especially the masses, because Most people don't think about this stuff at all.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Anyway, so I was thinking Katie, and this is why I cracked myself up. I was going to say, okay, everybody has to reveal their last three AI searches.

[Joe Getty]

Oh boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I looked at mine and they are do I need a vent free gas insert for my gas fireplace? And it explained to me vent free and what that means and stuff. Also, what the hell is this currency. Saw a price that was listed in Indian rupees and I didn't recognize the sign. But then this one, this is my third to last one. How many species of animals eat their young? Such a guy search. Well, I remember I sent you that video of a big alligator eating a little alligator. Right.

[Joe Getty]

And.

[Jack Armstrong]

And Katie, you replied, I could have gone the rest of my life without seeing that. I think I stand by that. Well, and I was going to reply the the number of species that will eat their young or eat smaller members of that species. There are lots and lots of them. But I decided no, she's a pregnant lady. You don't need to argue in favor of eating your young. So I didn't. Excuse me. But that's why I was looking for that Turns out lots and lots of species. Lots of them.

[Joe Getty]

So I just did mine and eliminating show stuff that I've done today specifically for the show. Just my own personal last three espresso with cream options. Because I was trying to figure out if people drank espresso with cream or not.

[Jack Armstrong]

Isn't that called something different?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

Meaning not fancy.

[Joe Getty]

Meaning of a couple of letters in a text. Because this happens to me all the time where a young person, usually my son, texts me something. It's just a couple letters and I don't have any idea what it means. So I have to go on chat GPT and figure out will you be.

[Jack Armstrong]

Home for dinner tonight?

[Joe Getty]

R.F. right, exactly. Actually BFS for sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

He's always hitting me with that. And then because I got lost the other day on this is who's a Word. W H O S E. Is that right? Because I voice texted and put on there and for some reason, you know how sometimes a word doesn't look right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And it turns out it's okay. But like just all of a sudden it hits you like, that's not right. I've never seen that before.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or if you say the words three times in a row no longer sounds like a word to you. It just sounds like a collection of noises. Right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

My last three that are not work involved fall Decorating ideas. Oh, nice. Pregnancy pain. We'll say when the girls hurt, if you know what I mean.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, gotcha.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And boob fairy comes to visit and sometimes it's uncomfortable.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, they're killing me.

[Jack Armstrong]

And convert this dog into a royal painting. Into a royal painting. Yeah. I took a picture of my friend's dog and turned it into like a dapper royal knight. Wow, that's great. That sounds funny.

[Joe Getty]

One of my searchings searches was what's canyon piercing? Because I heard somebody reference that the other day and I didn't know what it was. That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can you say it on the air?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's the. It's above your butt. Cleft. That little cleft there. Putting up. Putting a bar through right above there. It's called a canyon. I guess it's kind of popular. It's like a step beyond the trance tramp stamp. If you ever are observing a woman from that angle, for some reason canyon.

[Jack Armstrong]

Unpierced ladies, for some reason, you're observing Grand Canyon, if you will.

[Joe Getty]

Depends on the person.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your canyon is grand.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway. Yeah. So that's a piercing. And so. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And that's another thing my life could.

[Joe Getty]

Have done without Jack Canyon piercing.

[Jack Armstrong]

One of my searches was asparagus storage tips.

[Joe Getty]

You are a fun guy. You're so. Here you are.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're living on the edge.

[Joe Getty]

Your life, it's like. It's like being in the circus. It's so much fun.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, why don't we do this? Katie brought this to us. Speaking of children and that sort of thing. Does this need any setup? The little girl clips did you like so much? She's arguing with her dog about her snacks. It's a golden retriever. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

No. You took my snack. Yes, you did. I saw you. You can't eat everything. Sonny, That is absolutely awesome.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God. Use your inside voice. Oh, is that what she said? Yeah, inside voice. God. Oh, no. I'm breaking out in hives. I'm addicted. I'm allergic to cute. And I'm having a reaction.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that is super cute.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that's spectacular. All right. Oh, I want to get into the insurance costs. And Bernie Sanders. I agree with him for once. Maybe later on in the hour. But in my looking at various major left to left center publications, there are several articles out today all saying essentially the same thing. I wonder if it has something to do with Mamdani.

[Joe Getty]

But.

[Jack Armstrong]

But they're all saying in Politico, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, we gotta lose our left flank. Democrats, they're crazy. We're running crackpot candidates. We've gotta stop. And I came across this in the Journal. Some of their political writers who are not as conservative as you might think, writing for the Journal, but the headline is Democratic Donors Sit on Sidelines As Party schism persists. The RNC, the Republican National Committee, had $86 million in cash sitting around at the beginning of last month, or this month, rather. 86 million. It's 12 million for the DNC. The big donors are closing their checkbooks and sitting on their hands. Too many crazy people in your party. And what's amazing is how few people were willing to say, say that until recently.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And also big donors who. There's plenty of capitalists who are Democrats, but oh yeah, the chunk of the Democratic Party that is anti capitalism, they're probably not that excited to fund.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. And to return to the theme once again, the great feminization of America that we've been talking about for a couple of days and how cancel culture is about ostracizing somebody who says something we don't like. And you don't argue it out with them. You cancel them. You declare them untouchable. You say anybody who goes to coffee with them is a bad person. A very feminine, squeezing somebody out of the friend group thing. You combine that with the fact that on the left, especially, women tend to be more acceptance motivated than truth motivated. They want to be accepted in the group. So it makes perfect sense that it took a very long time for progressives, or I should just say Democrats who have that acceptance lens to stand up and say, excuse me, the group I'm in is wrong. And I think a lot of us agree. Those people have been running the show. They've been bullying everybody. They need to stop. Let's all stand up to them. Takes a while to do that on the left in a way that it doesn't on the right. Hell, we're arguing with each other all the time on the right saying, no, you're wrong, that's not true, or that's not going to work. The whole acceptance thing on the left doesn't permit that.

[Joe Getty]

I've been saying this for a couple of years. I have a lot of right leaning podcasts I listen to where the people regularly don't agree. I mean, it's like one of the things that makes the podcast interesting. Are there such a thing on the left? I'm not aware of them. Where you have, you know, a mainstream Democrat and a progressive that don't agree on these subjects, like happens in the right wing podcast. If you if you know of one, push it my way. I'd love to. I'd love to listen to it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just think that's further proof of the of the premise that I can remember her name Helen Andrews had in her great feminization, a piece that we talked about at length yesterday, hour two of the show. If you want to grab the podcast, Armstrong and Getty on demand but that's that's part of it is that women, generally speaking, I can find this really quickly. All cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do when there are enough of them to give in a given order, organization or field. Where is that? It's just so well explained that women prize acceptance and cohesion. There it is. Substance fits. Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine. And think about this in the context of moderate lefties standing up to far left lefties. Empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.

[Joe Getty]

On that one, couldn't you just go with the premise of the movie Mean Girls? Just that with girls you're just. You're either part of the in group or you're ostracized.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

That doesn't exist at the same level for guys at all.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Great reporting by Steve Williams. He Posted [e-mail] We can't get to the whole thing, so we'll post [e-mail] under Hot Links. LA's latest housing scandal? The homeless industrial complex. Unbelievable, he writes. The recent federal arrests tied to a senior housing project have exposed a pattern in a series of earlier transactions quietly approved by the city of LA. Key to this scheme is the 2022 purchase of four Extended Stay America hotels from Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm. These acquisitions, totaling more than $180 million, were financed through Project Home Key, Gavin Newsom's California pandemic era program to convert hotels into homeless housing. But analysis shows the city was not addressing homelessness. They sit almost empty. Instead, it created a real estate windfall for politically connected developers and one of Wall Street's most powerful landlords. The four extended stay properties were sold for staggering amounts far, far above market value. Wow. Each was bought from Blackstone, which had acquired the Extended Stay America brand in 2021 through a venture. Blah, blah, blah. Less than a year later, Blackstone was cashing out of its LA holdings not to private investors, but to City hall flush with emergency homeless funds. According to records, each purchase included architectural fees, zoning, CDQA reviews and environmental assessments at a 2% administrative fee, all billed to taxpayers, totaling more than $4.2 million in added costs. Besides the incredibly bloated prices, three years later, most of these hotels remain largely empty. They're part of a growing portfolio of Home Key funded properties that have failed to house significant numbers of homeless residents despite costing taxpayers billions. Then he writes, sound familiar? Because it is. Back in August, I reported how Torrance officials stopped LA county from spending $30 million on a hotel valued at just $10 million, a near copy of the scheme the city of LA ran three years earlier. The steps were nearly identical. Find a hotel, inflate its value, declare an emergency purchase using homelessness funds. Move taxpayer money quickly before anyone asks questions. But the problem was the city of Torrance is run by Republicans. And suspecting that the county's price was inflated, the city commissioned an independent third party appraisal which confirmed that the true value was not $30 million. It was $10 million under public scrutiny. The deal collapsed with the Republican led city government preventing another multi multi million dollar misuse of public funds. And he goes into describing of how it's all built on secrecy. Everything moves quickly. The figures are never known to the public. Project Home Key was designed for speed, not scrutiny. Cities are allowed to bypass competitive bidding in public hearings if they label their purchases emergency acquisitions. God dang it.

[Joe Getty]

How did the Bernie crowd get away with the tax? The rich rich not paying their fair share all the time without ever getting into this stuff. This is where the money is, Bernie. Aoc. You want more money for all the stuff you care about? This is where it is. Right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Absolutely true. And you know what really pisses me off is that the media, they have completely lost their taste for finding and disclosing government waste or lavish programs like this because they're all generated by the left. And so they think, well, homelessness is a terrible problem. I don't want to be seen as criticizing. I mean, they may have overpaid a little, but. But it was an emergency.

[Joe Getty]

After all architect fees. It's already existed for a very long time. I'm sure it's fine.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and hacla, which is the acronym for the Housing Authority of the city of Los Angeles, acts as broker administrator. It handles all the transactions internally, then builds the city for staffing and overhead. Millions and millions of dollars.

[Joe Getty]

You know, this reminds me of how much time I got, Michael. Depends on how you keep eating. Now, we got three minutes. Okay, so similar to this, I heard this story twice over the weekend, just coincidentally from people that work in schools in California, how much food they're wasting at their school. Somebody brought it up and then another person, because during the pandemic, somebody was able to jam through the. No, no, no, everybody should get breakfast and lunch. It used to be just like need based. And then somebody decided the crisis. Now everybody. And so it continued after the pandemic's over, as these programs always do. And these teachers, who I assume are probably lefties, were horrified by how much food they're throwing away every day. They said like half the kids bring their own lunch or don't eat lunch or breakfast or show up. They don't eat breakfast at home. And they make all of these meals for every single kid in the school, breakfast and lunch. And most of them they throw away. And I wanted to say to them, but I didn't want to jump into the story. The spending is the point. It's not about anybody getting any food. It's about spending money. And it's the same with this homeless thing. When will liberals understand the spending is the point, not fixing your causes that you care about.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, Steve Williams, who wrote this article, you read his mind. Or vice versa. He writes, every wasted dollar is one that could have gone toward mental health treatment, addiction recovery, job training, new housing construction. Instead, those dollars flowed to brokers, bureaucrats, and Blackstone's balance sheet. And then he points out point when the leaders of Torrance rejected the $30 million extended state proposal, they were immediately hammered with accusations being anti homeless.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Or.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or insensitive to the homelessness problem. Mean conservatives.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, Like I assume these teachers could come up with all kinds of places that money ought to be spent, whether it's books or whatever the hell, tutors to make education better. Raise your hand and say, hey, we're throwing away food like crazy. This program was designed probably by the Department of Agriculture just to get money flowing various places. It had nothing to do with feeding anybody. How do you not get this right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Invent an emergency, appropriate, appropriate, just wildly excessive amounts of money and then accuse anybody who calls you on it of being anti child or anti homeless or Islamophobic or whatever else.

[Joe Getty]

The first person I heard say this, Nora Rothman, wrote this in the National Review. It's such a great line. The spending is the point. With all of these things, you get so far off track if you start thinking about solving a problem. There is no problem. The spending is the point, people. Get this money, please.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stacey Abrams getting $1.8 billion or whatever it was for green Inner city initiatives my ass was just a handout.

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[Jack Armstrong]

This is an I Heart podcast.