I Just Saw A Big Green Rubber Penis & I Don't Know What To Do Now

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand: Episode Summary
Title: I Just Saw A Big Green Rubber Penis & I Don't Know What To Do Now
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Release Date: August 6, 2025

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1. McDonald's Unveils Adult Happy Meals

Timestamp: [03:26] – [04:37]

In this segment, Jack Armstrong and Michael discuss McDonald's latest product launch: the Adult Happy Meal. Contrary to traditional Happy Meals targeted at children, this new offering is designed for adults, featuring menu items such as the Quarter Pounder with Cheese and 10-piece Chicken McNuggets. The meal also includes fries and a collectible souvenir, alongside the intriguingly named Mount McDonald shake—which boasts a mystery flavor intended to engage customers in a flavor-guessing game.

Notable Quote:
Jack Armstrong: "McDonald's has more lawyers than the onions. Couple of things, a little bit of breaking news here..." [04:24]

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2. US Sanctions and Tariffs on India Over Russian Oil Imports

Timestamp: [04:56] – [07:24]

The hosts delve into recent geopolitical tensions involving former President Donald Trump’s imposition of an additional 25% tariff on Indian imports of Russian oil, raising the total to 50%. Jack Armstrong expresses skepticism about the effectiveness of sanctions, citing historical instances where sanctions failed to achieve their intended outcomes.

Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong: "I can't come up with an example of sanctions doing much. They get thrown." [06:10]
Michael: "They’re an enormous and growing economy, you know, an increasingly important presence in the world and they’re not happy about getting strong-armed." [06:50]

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3. Modern Warfare and US Military Preparedness

Timestamp: [07:24] – [11:47]

Jack Armstrong and Michael discuss the Russia-Ukraine conflict, emphasizing how it represents a new era of warfare dominated by drones and electronic warfare. They critique the United States' preparedness, arguing that the U.S. military may not be adequately equipped for modern combat scenarios. Cindy Crawford (appearing as a guest) highlights the U.S. interest in joint drone production with Ukraine to bolster technological advancements and ensure national security.

Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong: "There'll be no going back. I mean, how effective tanks are going to be in the future is up in the air." [07:24]
Cindy Crawford: "Ukrainians have been master innovators with drones and electronic warfare." [08:35]

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4. Free Speech Suppressions in Great Britain

Timestamp: [31:23] – [43:16]

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the state of free speech in Great Britain. The hosts reference Dominic Green’s articles in the Free Press, highlighting issues such as the suppression of discussions about grooming gangs and mass immigration. They criticize the Online Safety Act, which criminalizes various forms of speech deemed to cause distress or harm, arguing that it stifles free expression and targets dissenting voices.

Notable Quotes:
Michael: "Pretended distress or working yourself up into actually being distressed is like the number one weapon of the neo-Marxist woke left." [37:42]
Jack Armstrong: "Distress. Now that could be interpreted as anything." [39:41]
Michael: "The British state won’t protect children from mass gang rape, but it will protect adults from hearing about it." [41:05]

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5. WNBA Fans Throwing Sex Toys on the Court

Timestamp: [11:48] – [25:01]

The hosts address a peculiar and concerning trend in the WNBA, where fans have been throwing sex toys onto the court during games. Jack Armstrong describes witnessing a big green rubber penis being tossed, sparking safety concerns and detracting from the integrity of the sport. Both hosts express disapproval, linking such behavior to broader societal issues and the need for respect in sports environments.

Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong: "It's becoming a safety issue. People throwing the sex toys on the floor at the WNBA games." [18:31]
Jack Armstrong: "Hello, is this the helpline? Yeah, I just saw a big green rubber penis and I just don't know what to do now." [13:38]

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6. Personal Anecdote: Experiencing a House Fire

Timestamp: [25:01] – [42:33]

Jack Armstrong shares a personal story about purchasing a vehicle from a man whose house in the Pacific Palisades was destroyed by fire. The seller, believing he could save his property, was ultimately forced to leave as the fire rapidly consumed everything, including his Cybertruck and personal belongings. Armstrong draws parallels to his own experience with a farm fire, highlighting the unpredictability and devastation caused by such events.

Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong: "I almost did myself, if you remember. That's what I told him about. Because he said... he had a cybertruck... everything else completely disappeared." [28:41]
Michael: "Standing there with a fire hose as the wall of fire comes towards them and thinking, oh, my God. I miscalculated." [21:16]

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7. Historical Reflection on the Atomic Bombing of Japan

Timestamp: [48:22] – [52:17]

In a reflective segment, Jack Armstrong and Michael commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They reference Richard Frank’s book "Downfall" to argue that the bombings were a necessary measure to end the war swiftly and prevent even greater loss of life that would have resulted from a prolonged conflict or full-scale invasion of Japan. The hosts challenge the prevailing narrative that solely condemns the bombings by presenting the broader context of the Asia-Pacific War, which resulted in 25 million deaths, including significant civilian casualties.

Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong: "And it is awesome for the show and the show would be good too. That'd be great." [41:05]
Jack Armstrong: "In Vietnam alone, between April and August of '45... were starving to death at the hands of the Japanese. That ended when we dropped the bomb." [50:18]
Michael: "25% of the dead Chinese were children, for instance." [50:22]

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8. Conclusion

Throughout the episode, Armstrong and Getty tackle a diverse array of topics, ranging from corporate product launches to deep-seated geopolitical and societal issues. Their candid discussions offer listeners a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and critical analysis of current events, encouraging reflection on both historical and contemporary challenges.

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This summary excludes promotional segments and advertisements to focus solely on the episode's primary content. For a complete experience, listeners are encouraged to tune into the full episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand available on major podcast platforms.

Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

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[David Fromm]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong. And get it. McDonald's just unveiled their new adult Happy Meal.

[Michael]

Between this and Sydney Sweeney, one guy's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like best week ever. Oh, you were just mentioning that McDonald's sales are have rebounded after a a tough couple of quarters which people were using that as an example of see, people are struggling, they're pulling back on fast food and credit cards are maxed out. But McDonald's has bounced back. They are going to announce an adult Happy Meal, though, featuring either a Quarter pounder with cheese. That's my go to. Or 10 piece chicken McNuggets, whatever the hell those are. Fries, a collectible souvenir.

[Michael]

And the new they're chicken adjacent.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the new Mount McDonald shake. I don't know what that is.

[Michael]

Oh.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which features a mystery flavor the company's encouraged diners to figure out. Now that's a funny hook. See if you can figure out what this flavor is. We could say that about the hamburgers. I love the taste, but it don't taste like a hamburger.

[Michael]

It's definitely not patties we've dropped on the floor and had to do something with. So don't guess that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, it's not come within a thousand miles of a cow. That's where we'll start. I kid, of course it's not a.

[Michael]

Flavor that occurs in nature. We'll just give you that hint.

[Jack Armstrong]

We can, of course, because McDonald's has more lawyers than the onions. Couple of things, a little bit of breaking news here. So I had the news last hour that Witkoff, Trump's peace deal guy that he's been sending around the world was over talking to Putin and the Kremlin announced good news. The meeting was constructive and useful. And I said no, it wasn't. No, it's not. And apparently Trump reacted the same way because he announced just a little bit ago there will be an additional 25% tariff on India as punishment for importing Russian oil, bringing the total to 50%. To me, that is indicating that he talked to Witkoff and Witkoff said he ain't budging. He ain't doing right.

[Michael]

Sure, yeah. So the India thing's really interesting. I won't go off on it. But they're an enormous and growing economy, you know, an increasingly important presence in the world and they're not happy about getting strong armed. And there's some thought that Trump will not alienate them because they're too big a prize coming over to our side of the ledger and not China's. So we'll see how this all settles.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, the problem is I can't come up with an example of sanctions doing much. They get thrown. It's amazing to me that the news media reports sanctions as if. Because we all know the history of sanctions is it always works. It stopped Iran. We didn't have to bomb them. It stopped North Korea. It stopped Russia before they invaded. It stopped. I mean, you could make a list a mil. It stopped Iraq, you could China. You can make an endless list of times sanctions have not accomplished.

[Michael]

But why does the media always report.

[Jack Armstrong]

It like it's a thing? When has it been a thing? I've not seen it ever really work.

[Michael]

Well, it's a thing. It's just not much of a thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Part of the reason is if a country's really committed there will they'll. They'll weather the storm, along with the fact that everybody cheats, including even our own allies.

[Michael]

Cheat. And remember when the son of the head of the UN was getting rich on doing unsanctioned business with Iraq?

[Jack Armstrong]

Was it?

[Michael]

Or Iran or both of them. I mean, the UN itself was laughing at it.

[Jack Armstrong]

So my guess would be Putin knows this. Yeah, go ahead with your sanctions or whatever. We'll get around them like we have been doing for three years. Or you'll back off at some point or whatever.

[Michael]

Oh, no. You have seized yacht. I have bought three more today.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the war between Russia and Ukraine, many people have commented on this, it is moved us into a new modern era of warfare that is different from anything that's occurred in the past. And there'll be no going back. I mean, how effective tanks are going to be in the future is up in the air. Maybe tanks will cease to be a thing after 100 years of being one of the biggest things on the planet because of drones and all that sort of stuff. You know that here was an interview with a soldier in Ukraine on whether the United States is ready for modern warfare. You're at the ground level of this new innovative warfare. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

You're saying the United States is not.

[Jack Armstrong]

Prepared for the new era of warfare that's already here. Yeah, exactly.

[Michael]

No, it's not prepared and still doesn't see like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

It can be a problem. And former Ambassador John Herbst was speaking to that on News Nation. And I think that soldier is absolutely right that the cutting edge of war is being displayed right now in Ukraine.

[Cindy Crawford]

And Ukrainians have been master innovators with.

[Jack Armstrong]

Drones and electronic warfare. And we know that our armed services recognize this and that's why they are.

[Michael]

Very interested in a drone deal.

[Cindy Crawford]

US in Ukraine for joint production so we can get some of this cutting edge technology.

[Michael]

But this is very important for American security.

[Cindy Crawford]

And making sure Putin does not conquer Ukraine is critical for American security.

[Jack Armstrong]

I, I hope we make that deal and I hope we get the latest technology and spend a lot of time thinking about it so we don't find ourselves with our pants down in the.

[Michael]

Next war and in return, crank out a bunch of them for Ukraine to use. Sounds like the basis of a pretty good deal.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is the anniversary of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, which they didn't believe we actually had because it was the latest, greatest technology at the time. And reading a couple of different books over the last few months about the last few months of the Pacific War. There's all kinds of things that we had developed and invented between Pearl harbor and the end. Like there's hardly anything like radar. I mean, there was so many different things that, that we had the edge on over Japan that allowed us to just at the end, we were just able to trounce them. And the technical, the technological advantage is huge. And I just, I hope we haven't gotten fat and soft when we find out we're way behind the Chinese or the Russians or whoever. When the S hits the fan, I.

[Michael]

Would like to think that our creativity, capability, energy as a people is just kind of on vacation and that. And this might be too late. Winston Churchill. I had George Washington talking to us from beyond the grave. Now it's Winston Churchill's time. Winston would probably say, all right, yeah, you'd be way smarter off waking up now, but you won't until the poo actually hits the fan. But I'd like to think we could reawaken. But yeah, I've been reading a fair amount about our utter horrific Lack of shipbuilding and ship repair capability. Right now, the statistics for how long it takes a Navy ship to get back on the water and operating at full steam is just crazy. And we've got to farm a lot of it out. We have no institutional knowledge. We don't have big ship building crews in New England like we used to. We've got to ask the South Koreans to do it for us or whatever. In a lot of cases, you know, if things got ugly with China and if it was, you know, costly to the Navy, I think we would find ourselves in awful straits because they're building ships like lunatics.

[Jack Armstrong]

One of the problems with the lessons of World War I and World War II is kind of putting in our minds or into the culture the idea that the good guys ultimately always win. The good guys don't always win. Historically, lots of times the good guys lose and the awful racist or rapey or whatever they are group wins.

[Michael]

Yeah. Or even by the time the good guys do win, when they win, millions of lives have been lost.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Michael]

All sorts of horror and hunger and the rest of it. Yeah. Yeah. It reminds me, it's one of those things, though, that human nature never changes. We as conservatives believe that fervently. And human nature is a fat, happy society will be fat and happy until somebody makes it very, very unhappy. And then we'll remember. Oh, that's right. Exercise, toughness, coherence, unity. I remember those things, if we do remember them.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we got a serious problem in the WNBA as fans have decided it's funny. I guess I'm using my finger quotes. I don't know if they find it amusing or edgy, but it's become a thing of people throwing sex toys onto the court at WNBA games. And I think it's tragedy. I've not laughed at it at all.

[Michael]

It's really sullying the sanctity, the purity, if you will, of the wnba.

[Jack Armstrong]

I saw one of the devices that got thrown onto the court the other day. Somebody sent a picture of it to me on my phone. My phone alerted me, this is adult content. Are you sure you're ready to see it? And then I had to click yes. And then it said, after. This is what it said on my phone screen. And it said, after you see this, if you need help, here's a number you can call. Okay.

[Michael]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've. I've raised a couple of kids, and then I did the things that caused the kids to exist. So I'm fairly familiar with a lot of the stuff that is involved here.

[Michael]

Yeah. Helpline. Yeah. Tell you what, I just Ever since I saw that dildo bouncing around on the WNBA court, I just. I can't sleep at night. It's all I see in my dreams.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hello, is this the helpline? Yeah, I just saw a big green rubber penis and I just don't know what to do now.

[Michael]

What would you like to do?

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, that's caught on at WNBA games. We'll take on that problem and many others. Stay tuned.

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[Michael]

Oh look out. Something just came onto the floor. Got an object that just flew in as the free throw was being made. It looked like that hit a player.

[Jack Armstrong]

Too, so it's becoming a safety issue. People throwing the sex toys on the floor at the WNBA games and I think it's a good idea to call it an object. Same same way they used to not show streakers run across the field because it Just encourages them.

[Michael]

Right, right. Yeah. You don't want to give them the fame they're looking for.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, exactly. So anyway, we'll keep an eye on that Very important story of sex toys being thrown on the floor. WNBA games. I want to mention this. So I bought a. I bought my son's first vehicle the other day and I bought it from a guy in the Bay Area and I drove her there. I Uber over to pick it up yesterday and drove it home. Smelliest Uber ride I've ever taken in my life. I don't know what was going on there. I don't know if a body was decaying or if it was him or what, but. Oh, that was rough. Anywho, the guy. The guy I bought it from, guy about my age, seemed pretty well to do, but living in a not particularly well to do, little duplex thingy. He said, yeah, I'm living with my daughter. I. I had a house in the Pacific Palisades, completely burnt to the ground. And then we got on that whole. And I said, oh, geez, yeah, I found it. And he ended up showing me. We ended up talking about it for a long time. And he. He showed me tons of pictures and videos. I mean, he was taking pictures and videos while it was occurring with the idea that he was going to be fine for a couple of different reasons. It was way over there and he thought, there's no way it gets clear over here. Plus he thought with all these gazillion dollars homes and some of the masters of the universe that live in this neighborhood, there's no way the city is going to let these homes burn down, was his thinking. And he was standing there, wife and kids. He didn't have kids, but a wife and pets had taken off and everything like that. He was there with a hose. He was going to protect his house. And the cops showed up and said, you got to go. And he went. And I so thankful that he did because the fire quickly overwhelmed everything and burnt everything to the ground. He has shown me pictures of stuff that he found in the. In the. He showed me he had a cybertruck. Like I have a cybertruck. And he had a cybertruck. Nothing left but the stainless steel panels just sitting there on the ground. Everything else completely disappeared. Showed me a nice. He had a watch collection, a nice watch that he found. It was just charred. You could kind of tell it was a watch.

[Michael]

I'll bet more than one person. This is grim. Sorry, but has met their end. Standing there with a fire hose as the I'm sorry, with a hose, a consumer hose. As the wall of fire comes towards them and thinking, oh, my God. I miscalculated.

[Jack Armstrong]

I almost did myself, if you remember. That's what I told him about. Because he said. He said, fire. He said, I have a new respect for fire. And I said, same thing happened to me. I've told the story. This is before you were here, Katie, but our farm caught on fire and I had. It was a tiny little fire. I mean, it was like three feet in diameter. And I thought, well, I'm going to get a hose. And so I went and got some hoses and put them together and when I turned around, it's a giant fire. And then I got the hose stretched over there and I'm trying to hose it. And before long I was consumed in smoke and heat and didn't know which direction was out and which direction was toward the fire. And fire trucks eventually got there and blah, blah, blah, my shoes melted to the pavement. It was. But yeah, that's exactly right. You think I'm gonna stop this with this hose. And the next thing you know, Mother Nature does her thing and that's what happened with him. But I asked him the question, of course, of how has it been dealing with the county and the government and the insurance. He said, oh, please. And he dropped a bunch of F bombs. And his accomplished zero since that fire in terms of trying to get any money. He's living with his daughter and he doesn't have any idea if he's going back. If he can go back, what kind of money he's going to get. Nothing at this point.

[Michael]

I hate to bring politics into this, but I just happened to read, I think it was a national review. Somebody's writing about how Donald Trump saved Karen Bass's job. The idiot left the mayor of la, who was seriously on the ropes because of her utterly incompetent, insensitive, dishonest handling of the wildfire problem. But the high profile immigration raids has enabled her to, you know, rush to the ramparts to play the progressive warrior to protect our immigrant communities. And it saved her bacon.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you get in.

[Michael]

Which is not to say he shouldn't be deporting people at all, but it's kind of interesting the way those things can turn out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, no, he sent the National Guard. That was a good, you know, helped rescue her, I guess. If you get into an Uber or a Lyft and it smells really, really horrible, what is it? Most likely the Dr.

[Michael]

Yes. Yeah. In my experience, it's often like they're wearing way too much cologne or have just coated the place with some sort of disinfectant deodorant thing, which is terrible.

[Jack Armstrong]

Now this wasn't either one of those. It definitely wasn't cologne. And it wasn't.

[Michael]

It was stank. Huh?

[Jack Armstrong]

It was stank. It was like.

[Michael]

Was it like a spill that they didn't get all the way and went.

[Jack Armstrong]

Moldy in the car? Kind of a situation that could happen. I did have a gallon of milk explode in my truck one time and it smelled pretty bad for a long time.

[Michael]

Time should have torched it. Speaking of fire, I left it in.

[Jack Armstrong]

My truck on accident on a day when it was 112 degrees outside and it was probably 150 inside the truck and it just burst and then it was in there overnight and it smelled so bad. But I eventually Lysol did enough over the period of like a year to get the smell completely gone. But I think this was the Dude. What would make a human being smell like that? Is it like a 30 year old dude? What would. What would cause your body to do that?

[Michael]

What kind of question is that exactly? I'm with kid. You want to talk about this on the air?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, what do you do? Are you dying or.

[Michael]

Perhaps. But I'm not. I will not. I will not take an Uber ride to this conversation. Hey, Michael, you answer him. No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, what is the yes? Seriously?

[Michael]

The UK is falling apart. Our Papa Greg from Britain and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Across the.

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[Jack Armstrong]

I think I'll talk about my sailing lessons in the One More Thing Podcast. If you've never heard the One More Thing podcast, you should check it out every day we do a little thing after the show.

[Michael]

I noticed you came to work wearing a sailor suit today. It's very cute.

[Jack Armstrong]

Call everybody. Me coming.

[Michael]

Yeah, lovely. I'll look forward to that. So I happen to hear an ad the other day for a news service, I guess website thingy app that will bring you all sorts of news stories and also includes what percentage of the coverage of them is like in left wing media or right wing media. And they gave a couple of examples of one story that was 97% being covered in right wing media, conservative media and we all know that exists but one of the and I may look into it, but man, I don't get to a quarter of the content I already subscribe to anyway. I was reminded of that when I saw a number of different reports over the incredible unrest in Great Britain. Right now nobody in the mainstream media is talking about this and hardly anybody's writing about it because they are intensely uncomfortable with the themes. We are not intensely uncomfortable with the themes as you'll soon find out. So a couple of things just very quickly. This was a story in the Telegraph UK Sharia court job advertisement deleted from government website Manchester in the north of England was looking for a Sharia law administrator to liaison with the Sharia courts that the Muslims in that area are running now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, you're already into crazyville.

[Michael]

Yeah, but when they, when that came to the attention of people in the media and all, they quietly took it down. Sharia courts have existed in the UK since the early 1980s, an issue Islam inspired rulings on family life and marriage matters. Anyway, really good piece by Dominic Green in the Free Press. Are these mothers starting a revolt in England? After a male migrant sexually assaulted a 14 year old local girl in Epping in England, the mothers of the town took to the streets. Their anger is spreading like wildfire across the country. Did you know there were large demonstrations and I think it was 22 different English cities last weekend?

[Jack Armstrong]

No.

[Michael]

And they go into the background of how the confrontation, because the local socialist government was opening migrant centers and they got the rape gangs and the grooming gangs, often Pakistani men, etc. That have become so controversial in Britain. And the government was actively covering up, but there was a lot of violence against some of the demonstrators by counter protesters and by cops. And they make the point in the free press, this writer does, who's a Brit, that if, if the guy who was run over by a police van, for instance, wasn't white and working class, it would have led all the news in the country all day long, all week long. But it really didn't get that much coverage. So yeah, you got more than 20 towns in cities and cities in England and Scotland. It was started by a bunch of moms. Now it's become much more male.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I'll tell you my experience of trying to look into stories like this. If I hear somebody talking about them and then you try to google it or try to find it, it's really hard to find information on this stuff.

[Michael]

Yeah, yeah. So anyway, he writes about this a lot. Then he gets to his main point. The country feels on edge and not just because of the cost of living. Frustration is growing about a two tier justice system that ignores cr, prosecutes the law abiding for speaking about crime, mass immigration and a loss of social cohesion that's accelerated a collapse in public trust in the end in the police and in the government. Serious, serious stuff. And then I came across this in the Wall Street Journal and this was written by Dominic Green and he sets it up, but we've more or less done that. And interestingly, he talks about government power and how government rotates between parties that agree on the nature of the regime, hence terms such as uniparty, the blob and the swamp. Then he gets a little bit into populism that tries to fight against that. When Labor. And now he's talking about Great Britain. This is a pretty good summary of what's going on. When labor suppresses free speech and bad news. And I know you've been listening and thinking about that too, Jack. So in just a second we'll get to that. When labor, the labor party suppresses free speech and bad news, panders to Islamists and environmentalists and runs a two tier justice system, it exploits the legislative legacy of the conservatives 14 year effort to keep the British Regime afloat, the conservatives initiated speech controls such as public spaces protection orders under which Christians have been arrested for silent prayer outside abortion clinics, and non crime hate incidents in which Britons who speak out receive home visits from police for posting something online that the powers that be don't like. Both parties minimize the systematic rape and trafficking of white British girls by gangs of mostly Pakistani Muslim origin. And both explored defining Islamophobia in law. The conservatives also passed the Online Safety Act. It aims to protect children from pornography and pro suicide websites. But listen to this. It also includes a new false communication offense. Social media users can be prosecuted for sending messages intended to, quote, cause non trivial psychological or physical harm to a.

[Jack Armstrong]

Likely audience, which of course is in the eye of the beholder.

[Michael]

So starting in late July, it should.

[Jack Armstrong]

Be speech is not violence. I don't care what some people say. Well, right, but then when you write it the way it was written, there not only is speech violence, but it's like really wide open to interpretation.

[Michael]

For instance, so when this part of the act went into effect late last month, Twitter users in Britain were blocked from viewing parliamentary speeches about grooming gangs. They were blocked from sharing footage of police arresting anti immigration protesters.

[Jack Armstrong]

I can't believe that our mother country, where all of this started, you're not allowed to watch certain arguments your government is having.

[Michael]

That's right, because they might be offensive to people. The government is also creating a police unit to monitor groups organizing protests against two issues on which the regime is vulnerable, mass immigration and the asylum crisis. So they're developing a department of the cops to monitor, surveil, harass anybody who even tweets about an anti grooming gang march or that sort of thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, so in 2003, they, they passed a law making it illegal to send electronic messages that are grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing. Those are all oars. You could be any of those. Indecent, offensive, menacing, obscene. I mean, 100 in the eye of the beholder, obviously.

[Michael]

Well, and anybody's gone through the whole woke nightmare knows that they pretend to be offended as a weapon.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then they added in 2023 to that 2003 law, new offenses for sending threatening. Although sometimes they just interpret criticizing as inherently threatening or false communications with the intent to cause harm. You know, and we know in the United States how things can be deemed false accusations. Like, I don't think masks work, you know, that sort of thing. But you do it around maybe racial stuff. And people have been getting thrown in jail for tweets or Facebook Postings and that sort of stuff in Great Britain. Or as Joe said, you get a visit from people at your house, which has of course, a quieting effect on people.

[Michael]

Of course. The chief of the Metropolitan Police in London, I think, threatened to use the full force of the law to come after non British Internet users who, for instance, post things that they find objectionable, like on. On Rumble or on Reddit. They made threats against Reddit because Reddit was running comments about the. The rape gangs or the migrant crisis. And. And this guy, Mr. Green, actually he ends up with, as in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania, 1989. Britain's people have turned against the regime. The regime is turning against the people. It can't silence them all. Mr. Starmer and his friends will go down with the ship. Still unclear what kind of regime can refloat Britain and restore its traditional freedoms. Still, regime change is coming. This guy's a Wall Street Journal contributor and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the breakdown of those speech laws or communication laws that they passed. These laws focus on online communications intended to cause harm or distress. Distress.

[Michael]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you've got a law against communications that cause distress. Now that could be interpreted as anything.

[Michael]

And again, I don't think this point can be emphasized enough. Pretended distress or working yourself up into actually being distressed is like the number one weapon of the neo Marxist woke left. Don't you remember? It doesn't matter how you intended it. It's how I received it that makes it racist. It's a microaggression. That is their number one weapon. And then they've got everybody so terrified of saying the wrong thing, they take over the institution. They move their own people in. It is their most potent weapon. And the British freaking government is playing directly into their hands.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, we're not as far down the road as Great Britain. But I remember when the New York Times declared. Now, I don't know if they still would believe this. This was back during that weird 20 to 23 period here in this country. But they, in the New York Times, they said intent does not matter.

[Michael]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

That. Which is insane.

[Michael]

Right. And there are people in prison in Britain right now for a single tweet, for instance, having violated these laws.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, man, if. If it is against the law to send an online communication that causes distress.

[Michael]

Yeah, that'd be tough to stay on.

[Jack Armstrong]

The right side of the law. Yeah.

[Michael]

There. The. The fight has been joined though, which is good. But this is terrible. Listen, listen to this, would you? Within you know that causing non trivial Psychological or physical arm, blah, blah, blah. Within hours, British ex users were prevented from watching Conservative MP Katie Lamb talking in Parliament about the grooming gangs and seeing footage of the police arresting anti immigration protesters in Leeds. Lam posted online. She's an mp. The British state won't protect children from mass gang rape, but it will protect adults from hearing about it. You know, I'm. I'm really glad I'm going to be in the UK in a couple of weeks. I'm going to talk to everybody I can about these laws, get a bunch of opinions I have. Don't let. Judy, if you're listening, turn it off. My wife. I have a serious, serious temptation to deliberately and loudly violate these laws.

[Jack Armstrong]

That'd be awesome.

[Michael]

Just to see what happens.

[Jack Armstrong]

That'd be awesome.

[Michael]

I don't care about the show, Jack. I care about free speech.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it'd be awesome for the show and the show.

[Michael]

The show would be good too. That'd be great.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, that would be great to draw attention to it. It's horrifying. It is absolutely horrifying. Because when free speech goes, everything goes after that.

[Michael]

Oh, yeah, we may be led silent and dumb to the slaughter, as George Washington put it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, that is wild. Great Britain, of all places.

[Michael]

And the utter lack of interest in covering this by our own horrifying media.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Try to find these stories online. It's hard. I asked chat GPT. I've done this a couple of times in recent weeks because I was listening to a podcast about a couple of the cases where people got thrown in jail for tweets, and they only gave me examples on chat GPT of stuff that's pretty defensible as throwing people in jail, like actually inciting violence or something. They didn't have any of the cases that were squishy and that wasn't an accident.

[Michael]

And it's worth mentioning that Canada is going in this direction, as is Australia to some extent. And. And the fact that we're not covering this, I mean, it's like the house next door burning down and us saying, oh, it doesn't matter. It's the house next door.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. A guy set a new record for speed on the autobahn in Berlin. I've never driven on the Autobahn in Berlin. I know.

[Michael]

Pretty exciting.

[Jack Armstrong]

This guy set a new record. He was going pretty darn fast. And a bunch of other stuff on the way. Stay here.

[David Fromm]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Early this morning there was a somber ceremony not far from where we are here in the the Peace Park.

[David Fromm]

But I can tell you now it is gone evening. There are thousands of people that have lined this river.

[Jack Armstrong]

They are here to see the atomic.

[Katie]

Bomb dome which stands here as it did after this city was attacked.

[Jack Armstrong]

80 year anniversary today of us dropping the first atomic bomb on Japan, which some Americans believe is a blotch on our history and an awful thing that we did. And the rest of us with a brain realize it was the quickest best way for us to end the war and to not do it would have been malpractice.

[Michael]

And a war that was horrifically more costly than most Americans realize.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Richard Frank writing in the National Review today, he wrote the book Downfall which I've been reading for quite some time. Downfall was the name of the. You know they give names to various operations and plans. Downfall was our plan for ending it there in Japan. And it was gonna originally including an invasion of Japan which we decided against because it would have cost hundreds of thousands of US lives and probably killed eventually millions of Japanese and might not have even been successful. We decided against that then we were going to starve them out, but instead, because the bomb was going to work, decided to drop the bomb anyway. Frank makes the point in his book and in the National Review today that the Asia Pacific War killed 25 million human beings. Just the Asia Pacific portion of the war that Japan started against all these different countries killed tons of Chinese. They were killing people by the thousands on the day we dropped the bomb.

[Michael]

Mm.

[Jack Armstrong]

25% of the dead Chinese were children, for instance. If you're listening to any media outlets today, talk about how awful it was that Japanese civilians died in that attack when we dropped the bomb. It is awful. But Japan was killing people at a much greater rate.

[Michael]

And we're planning 19 million dead civilians. And Japan was responsible for most of those.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we're planning to continue it by the numbers across China and all other areas subjugated in Japan's empire, which they did have an empire they were controlling or at war with nearly half the world's population at the time. All the areas across Japan's empire from December 41 to August 1945, about a quarter of a million non Japanese civilians died every month for 45 months. Think about that. A quarter of a million non Japanese civilians died every month for 45 months. Or the equivalent and population of more than 45 Hiroshimas and Nagasakis at the hands of the Japanese military. And that was going to continue until.

[Michael]

We defeated them 45 times as many as were killed by the bombs. And we, the United States of America, are the bad guys for dropping those bombs to end that slaughter. That's what so many people have been taught in recent decades.

[Jack Armstrong]

In Vietnam alone, between April and August of 45. So this past April day, if you're thinking about it a further million Vietnamese or about 200000 each month, were starving to death at the hands of the Japanese. That ended when we dropped the bomb. Incredible misreading of history for anybody who doesn't understand that and taught to the kids. If you missed a segment or now or get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

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