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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
The George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Jack Armstrong
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Sabrina Bryan
Live from Studio C.
Jack Armstrong
Senor, I was thinking about something.
Sabrina Bryan
You're what?
Jack Armstrong
I was deep in thought.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah. Good, good. For once it's going to be deep in thought. Instead of just firing words out of our mouths, we should think deeply about them before we talk.
Jack Armstrong
Thank you for the affirmation.
Sabrina Bryan
We're in a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And today on little Wednesday, we're under the tutelage of our general manager. No, no, this is Wednesday. It's trash day. I put the cans out this week. I'm very excited.
Jack Armstrong
Good. Super.
Sabrina Bryan
Today we're under the tutelage of our.
Jack Armstrong
General manager, Chase Strangio, who Chase Strangio is the lawyer who will be arguing in favor of states continuing to allow parents to allow their children to be fed powerful sex changing chemicals even though it's, it's ridiculous and experimental and unhealthy and dangerous. And the rest of it case is a fellow with a thin mustache and a bit of a goatee and a curiously high voice himself.
Sabrina Bryan
Yes. I don't know when you're going to hear this, but the Supreme Court is about to hear in minutes arguments in a case challenging Tennessee's law on transgender care. They're calling it on cnn.
Jack Armstrong
Ah, yes, yes, it's. It's a huge moment.
Sabrina Bryan
It is. So finally this is going to get its day in the biggest court of whether or not this makes sense and. Well, we'll see, right? Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
We can go over some of the basics of the case and the people involved in what's being said.
Sabrina Bryan
Well, this, I'll ask a very dumb guy question then, which is easy for me to do. Man, I'll tell you what. I slip into that like a warm.
Jack Armstrong
Bath fallen off alarm.
Sabrina Bryan
The most obvious question, will this make it illegal to have an operation on a kid to, to mutilate their body change an attempt to change Their gender.
Jack Armstrong
It will make it. Depending on which way it goes. If it goes the way of sanity and decency, it will make it possible for states to say, no, you can't do this. Experimental mutilation on children.
Sabrina Bryan
Wow. So it won't just be a blanket federal law, because I assume. Well, I don't know anything about this. Maybe these are all state laws.
Jack Armstrong
They are indeed.
Sabrina Bryan
But you can't. Well, for. But let me. Let me give this example. Like, if for some reason I thought my kids having eight fingers would be really awesome, could I take them to a doctor and have their thumbs removed as a parent?
Jack Armstrong
Have them mutilated? Yeah, that would be horrific. Obviously, that would be horrific.
Sabrina Bryan
How is that any different than having your penis removed? Actually, it's probably not as bad in terms of your happiness in life, but a doctor wouldn't perform that. Why wouldn't a doctor. Why wouldn't a doctor remove the thumbs of my kid? And are there laws that would keep them from doing that? Are they two federal laws?
Jack Armstrong
Okay, two. Two answers, essentially. Number one, just because I want to remember this and not forget to say it, if having a penis doesn't make me a male, how does having it removed make me a female?
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah, I've seen that meme a few times, and it's pretty airtight as far as I can see, in terms of the logic.
Jack Armstrong
Well, because there is no logic between transsexual radical gender theory. But the more serious answer to your question is they would claim that. And actually, this newly minted fella, who is the lawyer involved, makes the argument that, well, mainstream medical associations have said this is good medical care, which points to. And it's shocking how few people are aware of this. The ideological capture of the AMA and the American Pediatrics. I want to get one of the big pediatrics associations has been utterly captured by its radical left. And now when the organization speaks, it is a puppet being controlled by the radical gender theory crowd. Now, there's that other pediatrics association that says, whoa, dudes, there's zero scientific evidence that this helps people. There's loads that it harms people. Stop, stop, stop. So I don't want to get the names of the associations wrong, but they will claim, well, Jack, there's no mainstream medical association that says your thumb removal is a good idea. Meanwhile, here at the. Or, what was that? The big. The big organization that supposedly dictates the policies for this around the world, which is, again, utterly captured by the radical left. So that would be their argument.
Sabrina Bryan
The more I think about it, I'm surprised that this is even done for adults. So removing. We don't have to make it kids. It's obviously way worse when it's kids. But even for adults, I'm surprised that it's not against the law or the ethics or the AMA or something to remove the penis of a male.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I really believe it is a form of mental illness. Any more of its like particular subcategories and, or even to the point that if somebody does have whatever neurological, you know, reality that makes them feel very, very much like a man, but they really, really don't want to have girl parts or whatever. I suppose as an adult you can do what you want to do. You see people getting all sorts of weird implants and tongue splits and whatever the hell else.
Sabrina Bryan
Okay, that's an interesting point there. People do get weird. I mean, if you're getting your lips all puffed out and you look like a freak, why is that significantly different than lopping off a penis?
Jack Armstrong
There is a crapload of money in this. These treatments, they're raking it into these clinics. They have zero interest in talking confused adolescents or mentally ill adults out of any of this stuff. And so this, what I'm about to say, isn't happening really much at all. I prize the liberty that we have in this country. And if you want to get all sorts of tattoos and implants so you look like a lizard and the split tongue, I suggest you spend some time sunning yourself on rocks to keep your body temperature at the proper level. Whatever. Okay? But I believe any medical facility or association worth its name, worth the respect given to it, would have serious guidelines for. Hey, before you lop off someone's genitals, how about we do a serious, serious psychological workup and see if there's a way to find, find, find a little more happiness for them that doesn't involve permanent disfigurement.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah, I don't know where I am on this for the adult part, for the kids, it's pretty clear to me. But as an adult part, I don't. Cuz yeah, I'm a personal freedom guy. But if you want to get your tongue split or your penis removed, who, why should the government make it against the law? Is hard for me to make an.
Jack Armstrong
Argument for if I go to. Well, and again, there probably are instances and examples you could come up with because it's, you know, grades of gray. But if I went into a doctor's office, hospital emergency room and said, hey, you know what, my left arm sucks, I don't like it. It's not very attractive. Hairy.
Sabrina Bryan
I keep hitting my elbow on things. I want it out of here.
Jack Armstrong
I want you to saw off for it right there at mid femur. Okay. I'd still like a little shoulder just to fill out my shirts, but, yeah, I want you to saw my arm off. Do you think they would do it for me? Well, no, because it's a horrible, permanent disfigurement. Now you might say, well, you know, transgenderism is recognized, blah, blah, blah. I would say that science is iffy at best. Let's not disfigure people. Although, again.
Sabrina Bryan
Well, I was hoping. I never.
Jack Armstrong
It's a plastic surgery. I don't know.
Sabrina Bryan
I was hoping that this was a federal thing. I'd never really thought about it, and I'm a long million miles away from a lawyer. That the Supreme Court would rule, no, nobody anywhere in the country, no doctors can do operations on kids changing their gender. That's the end of that. But you say it's a state by state thing. So then states like California will still be full speed ahead.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, correct. Yeah. This is going in the opposite direction. There are 26 states now that say, no, you can't conduct these cruel, horrifying experiments on kids just because their freaking parents are nuts. Anyway. Sorry, got a little fired up there. 26 states now are on the sane side of this and more and more moving in that direction. This lawsuit is attempting to prevent that. It's attempting to ensure that those cruel experiments can continue to be done. Little children.
Sabrina Bryan
I didn't realize that either. Like I saw Charlize Theron, the incredibly beautiful actress won an Academy Award many, many years ago. She's got two little kids that she says both are transgender. They're both really young. I mean, there's just no way, obviously they came to that conclusion without being pushed that direction.
Jack Armstrong
It's a bunch of virtue signaling, crazy people. I think we get emails all the time from folks who. Who talk about how, yeah, guess whose kid is transgender in school. The most woke progressive out there. P hat wearing, rainbow sign on the front lawn sporting since I've known them person. Wow, that's a funny coincidence.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah. Well, it'll be interesting to follow the arguments in the Supreme Court on this. Are they up on this issue or some of those old justice is going to say people are doing what?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I wonder. I wonder.
Sabrina Bryan
Say, wait a second, hold on. You're telling me there are people that are.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. And this is. It's so wild to watch, as I often say. It's almost worth being able to watch it. A social contagion like this that is utterly Looney Tunes catching on because of the social pressure. Ask J.K. rowling about the social pressure. I've got some stuff with her later on and people are just afraid to call it for what it is. It's insanity.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
I got. And it's a shame that it's claimed so many victims.
Sabrina Bryan
I got on a rabbit hole the other day about Back when they used to bind feet in China.
Jack Armstrong
Sure.
Sabrina Bryan
Just the same sort of thing. It just became a cultural thing for. That was really cool for women to have these tiny little weird looking feet. Horrible, torturous situation. But it went on for centuries, I think.
Jack Armstrong
And then you've got the whole anorexia craze there for a while where it was a social contagion as well as being a terrible psychological disease. But little girls who are very, very impressionable, you know, saw it around them and thought, wow, maybe that's for me. People are getting a lot of attention. I'm super thin, blah, blah, blah. And just it came and it mostly went. And I'm hoping this madness goes in the same way.
Sabrina Bryan
We better start the show officially. We're running out of time. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is a Wednesday trash day for me. December 4th, the year 2024. Armstrong and Getty. And we approve of this program.
Jack Armstrong
Let's begin then. Officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. So much to talk about. Here we go at Mark. Obviously Tesla and and Musk's exploration of space are impressive. But when it came to trimming the fat out of Twitter, what he basically did is just open the door for Nazis and Hamas. So, you know, that's a. It might be a leaner operation at Twitter, but it's also. It also made Twitter kind of a cesspool.
Joe Getty
Boy.
Sabrina Bryan
I want to talk about that more later. We don't have time now. I use Twitter every day. It might be my number one news source and I just don't have that reaction to it that a lot of your big time lefties do. That it's a.
Jack Armstrong
Well. And the old Twitter wasn't exactly a treat. Jake. Let's go through that history.
Sabrina Bryan
Anyway. More on that later. How does mailbag look?
Jack Armstrong
Oh, it's quite good. Very strong. Cool.
Sabrina Bryan
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The leaves drift to the ground. The wind rises. Pull up a chair by our fire and listen to stories from the darker side of the past. I'm Maddy. And I'm Antony and on our podcast After Dark Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. We tell stories of villages and the death of queens, of Tudor ghosts that will not sleep, and of murder among gravestones. Listen to After Dark from history hit wherever you get your podcasts.
Antony
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews wishes you a blessed beginning of the holiday season as you gather with your families grateful for the blessings God has given us all. But let us also remember those who are facing unbelievable hardship, in need of food, fellowship and hope. That includes the people of Israel who are threatened daily by attacks from enemies on all sides. And during these hard times, Israelis are thankful to the Fellowship for food and basic assistance, truly life saving aid when the rest of the world seems to have turned its back on them. Your gift of $25 will help provide a food box to an elderly Jew or a Jewish family who are suffering and in desperate need. A gift of $100 will help provide four of these life saving food boxes this holiday season. Please consider standing with Israel and the Jewish people. Go to supportifcj.org to make a gift now that's supportifcj.org or call to give 888488 ifcj that's 888-488-4325.
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Sabrina Bryan
Street Journal, the only question around Pete Hegseth is does he get out in 24 hours or 48 hours? Is the only question.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Sabrina Bryan
And they're saying Ron DeSantis will be the next guy, which is pretty interesting. Any who we got more on that because Pete Hex mom's doing an interview with Fox as we speak and she really laid the wood to him once and then said she didn't mean it or something. So more on that later.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's rare when the wind is blowing so audibly in one direction that it doesn't end up blowing over its target, if you'll forgive the rather messy metaphor. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing on with our series about the law. This is from a guy I've never heard of in my life, but I like to quote, do you know Jack? Do you know BRM Bedker?
Sabrina Bryan
They're not.
Jack Armstrong
Neither do I hope he's not loathsome. Anyway, he says law and order are the medicine of the body politic. And when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah, we hope he didn't run Auschwitz or something like that.
Jack Armstrong
Well, right. Yeah.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Yeah. I usually check these out, but I'm running behind today. I'm so overwhelmed with great stuff to talk about, I'm trying to organize it. Anyway, here's your mail bag.
Sabrina Bryan
Drop us a note.
Jack Armstrong
What's your mailbag at Armstrong and getty.com? let's see. Russ from Portland. I should have had you get this ready, Michael. He is nominating Michelangelo's clip yesterday of I peed in your rice as clip of the year. It was a whimsical and somewhat distasteful joke about Jack looking at the Panda express. Right.
Sabrina Bryan
That was a good joke, Michael.
Antony
Thank you.
Jack Armstrong
It was. Yeah. You got a bad fortune cookie.
Will Friedle
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Jack Armstrong
How dumb the fortunes are. And Michael was speculating that perhaps a disgruntled employee would put a note to Jack informing him that he had indeed, and I quote, pete in his rice.
Sabrina Bryan
The key to the joint being, Michael said, a handwritten note which lets you know it's current.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Yeah. Anyway, Russ from Portland says that should be the clip of the year. Hear me out. I peed in your rice is basically a culmination of everything that's happened in the last election cycle, Biden and Justice Department going after Trump time and time again. Multiple indictments, law fare. Is Biden just saying to Trump, I'm peeing in your rice? Trump successfully wiggling out of it. Is Trump saying to Biden, I peed in your rice. The back and forth of it until finally collectively the American people saying to Kamala and Biden on November 5th, we just peed in your rice. And now with Biden pardoning his criminal loser son and flying off to Africa to give away $728 skillion dollars to some asshole countries never no one's ever heard of. After Kamala and Nancy Peden, his rice finally out the door with two middle fingers held high, saying to all of America, I just peed in your rice. It's poetic. Michelangelo is truly a national treasure. Fu China Russ from Portland, she'll take there.
Sabrina Bryan
Think all of us there will be blood fans would prefer the I drink your milkshake as a little classier version of that. But same little class, same idea. I drink your milkshake. One of the greatest scenes ever.
Jack Armstrong
Dr. Psy says listening to grandpa's Biden's new reasoning for the pardon of his boy, you'd think since they lie 247 they'd be bad. Wow, that's some fine sarcasm. How about this from Aaron? I personally know a few commie antifa level leftists. They're actually talking about this like it's a major victory for their side, if only because it made the right meltdown or clutch their pearls, et cetera. What you have to understand is that these are the simple folk, soft headed, grad degrees zero children at 40 type folks. The people of the cities, you know, morons. Aaron, that's practically poetry. It's a little rambling and odd, but I kind of enjoyed it. So we're about out of time, huh, Michael?
Sabrina Bryan
Yep.
Jack Armstrong
Get some more. Fine, fine, witty and wise course. Sprinkle them in. Yeah. Oh my God. You getting existential on us now?
Sabrina Bryan
It is. Is Pete Hegseth being Kavanaugh a verb that Fox and Friends use today? That I think is pretty good.
Jack Armstrong
I think the answer is no, but I appreciate the question.
Sabrina Bryan
You think it's no? I think it's no. Also, the big difference being Kavanaugh didn't do anything. And I think Pitt Hegseth probably did a lot. But more on that, who's. Who's the secretary of defense matters. I think a lot.
Jack Armstrong
Absolutely. As the world, some of the backup choices are pretty compelling.
Sabrina Bryan
God, I'd say Desantis yeah, more on that coming up.
Jack Armstrong
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Antony
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Sabrina Bryan
Talk about the hot stuff people are buying or not buying for Christmas as it's getting pretty dang close. I for one my own personal life. I'm happy that we're only a couple of weeks away from the days starting to get longer again because this whole getting dark at 4:30 is a drag.
Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah. Oh man, no kidding. You combine that with the cold in much of the country and it's just the afternoon. What happened to the afternoon?
Sabrina Bryan
I One of the things I hate about politics a lot, I guess there's just no getting away from it is the whole if we can make you unhappy we've somehow won something thing that happens in politics. It drives me nuts and normal people pay no attention to. So for instance, in all these nominations, a president gets elected and then he picks some people and then the other side tries to get them, you know, off the list and feel like if somehow they can dig up a scandal or create enough controversy around them, then the whoever got elected president will pull their name and yeah, we won something and no you didn't is the thing that I hate. It's just nobody ever remembers this stuff. I'm. I'm old enough now to have lived through a whole bunch of. I could give you a list of names if I Wikipedia them of people that were nominated and got pulled and it made no difference whatsoever to anybody's life.
Jack Armstrong
Right?
Sabrina Bryan
You didn't win anything. Big deal.
Jack Armstrong
I could explain why you're quote unquote wrong, but I think it doesn't amount to a hill of beans eventually. I mean, it's just like you say, wait six months and then ask me again. Yeah, nobody's gonna care. Well, he had to spend a lot of political capital and he had to call in favors. And then when it didn't happen, blah blah blah. Yeah, okay, six months from now nobody's gonna care. It's not gonna have a measurable effect. It's a 0.001 on the Richter scale.
Sabrina Bryan
Before we get to Pete, the Secretary of Defense, I do think it's interesting that a guy got driven out by the maggot crowd, the left, Trump's choice to be the head of the dea who was a Florida county sheriff. The MAGA crowd really got a lot of information out there fast about how he was Mr. Shutdown as a sheriff and hardcore early on and throughout Covid and way too long and arrest ministers, et cetera. Yeah. And no way we're gonna let that guy. So I was happy to see that might be the only person yet far, thus far that has paid any price for Covid. But yeah, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Well, there is one other choice that I want to talk about at length that Trump made that is horrible, horrifying, awful. It's this woman who's supposed to be Secretary of Labor who's anti right to work, hardcore pro teachers union, hardcore pro public employee union, collective bargaining and oh my God, what was Trump thinking? Anyway, more on that.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah, I don't know much about that person other than Elizabeth Warren came out in support. So that tells you a lot.
Jack Armstrong
Yikes.
Sabrina Bryan
So Pete Hegseth, who Nora O'Donnell on the CBS News described last night as a weekend Fox host. She used that tone of voice too. Yeah. He went to two different Ivy League schools and has multiple degrees and served in combat and blah, blah, blah. But you're going to go with the description of him, a weekend Fox host.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Wow.
Sabrina Bryan
You guys really don't understand how you lost, do you? That you pushed so many voters toward Trump with that sort of crap?
Jack Armstrong
No, they don't have any idea. They are going in the opposite direction, which gratifies me.
Sabrina Bryan
Now, Pete Hegseth may have been chosen because he was a weekend Fox host and Trump had seen him on Fox a lot, but he has more qualifications.
Jack Armstrong
You know what, I've got to jump in there because you've said that many times. He saw him on Fox News speaking incredibly powerfully and eloquently about important issues. Hegseth is great at that stuff. It's not like he was doing the freaking weather.
Sabrina Bryan
Right. But there's a lot of smart people that aren't on tv and Trump has a tendency to pick people he's only seen on tv.
Jack Armstrong
All right. I just wanted to flesh it out a little bit. Sounded dismissive. Sounded like we. I'm working with a bald headed male Mika over here. It's terrible. Imagine the stress, folks.
Sabrina Bryan
Oh my God. Anyway, they're so. They're trying to Kavanaugh Hegzaf with all these stories about his private life and divorces and women and supposed aggression toward women and all these different sorts of things. NBC had a long list of them yesterday. It was interesting on Fox and Friends today and they made a pretty good point and think about this, people. So I was looking at the host of Fox and Friends today and they said, we've worked with Pete for 14 years. We don't know anybody here at Fox that's been contacted by a media outlet. Not one of us has been contacted by a media outlet to ask what we think of him. Isn't that something? And said none of us have any stories about drunkenness or coming on to women or anything like that. But nobody's asked us.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that is, well, it's, it is utterly clear what that means. I don't think we need to explain it to anybody.
Sabrina Bryan
Right.
Jack Armstrong
All they want is one thing. They just want dirt to hurt Trump.
Sabrina Bryan
Well, and as someone else made the point of I don't know what you're going to win if you don't get Pete and it ends up being Ron DeSantis, which is the name is floated if you're a person of the left because I think Ron DeSantis is going to be a lot of the stuff that Pete Hegseth would be. But anyway, back to Pete, the current nominee to be the secretary of defense. The Wall Street Journal is basically saying, is it 24 hours or 48 hours before he gets out? I mean, they're, they're saying his chances are very, very low. Lindsey Graham made of very wishy washy statements yesterday in front of microphones about Pete and how we need to have somebody that women can join the military in respect and just sounded like the sort of thing you say if you're a Lindsey Graham who's already decided no and it only takes four Republican senators to say no and you're done. It does none. Nothing else matters. That's the whole ball game. But we've talked a fair amount over the last week about Pete Hegset's mom who wrote a letter to him or an email to him after one of his divorces and really laid the wood to him about him being a bad guy and a bad husband and a bad dad and all this different sort of stuff, but then retracted it.
Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah. She says she immediately wrote a follow up saying I was out of my mind, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that.
Sabrina Bryan
Stuff, which is you said if he, she said that stuff and it Wasn't true. Makes her a crazy person.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah, it does. Especially when you read the whole email. It is not unhinged ranting. It is a carefully constructed indictment.
Sabrina Bryan
Well, she was on Fox today, and first time I've heard her voice, here she is.
H
Let me make two statements first, and one is to President Trump. And I want to say thank you for your belief in my son. We all believe in him. We really believe that he is not that man he was seven years ago. I'm not that mother. And I hope people will hear that story today and the truth of that story.
Sabrina Bryan
I probably talk too much about the media. In fact, I'm sure I do. But I know I've already heard criticism on the left of. Of course, she says I'm talking to Donald Trump because Donald Trump watches Fox and Friends every day. Yeah. Joe Biden watches Morning Joe every day. And people know that he can talk directly to him. So what's the difference? But anyway, right here's a little more of Mom.
H
So the other thing I want to say is I am here to tell the truth, to tell the truth to the American people and tell the truth to the senators on the Hill, especially our female senators. I really hope that you will not listen to the media and that you will listen to Pete.
Sabrina Bryan
I think she just wants to ride in an F35. I think that's what she's looking for.
Jack Armstrong
That is not taking this seriously. Yeah, could. All right, here's just a hypothetical. The guy who is ridiculously handsome and manly, if I swung the other way, please, I'd have a poster of him up on my wall anyway. All right, but he's.
Sabrina Bryan
That's an interesting admission there.
Jack Armstrong
Combat vet. He enjoyed drinking, lived a bit of a wild life, skirt chaser, blah, blah, blah. But now he's on in life. That email was in 2018. The guy said, yeah, you know what? I lived a wild life. I came onto women, they came onto me. I had sex with a lot of different. And it was terrible for my marriages. I regret it all. But you know what? I've matured. I'm a different guy now. Does that exclude the guy? Not to me. Well, I mean, I don't. I would never praise it and I don't condone it the way he used to live, allegedly. But if he's not that anymore, I don't know.
Sabrina Bryan
No, it's horrible. I hate that kind of guy. Especially when you got kids. You're not cheating on your wife, you're cheating on your family. And I just find that Horrific. Um, but if we're going to make that the standard, as I keep saying, for being in government or elite or something like that. So we wish Martin Luther King Jr. Had been discredited and John F. Kennedy Jr. And you could list so many people throughout American history, even in the modern era. Bill Clinton, you know, depending on what your politics are. So I actually don't know what I think about this. I really can't come to a conclusion on what I think about this.
Jack Armstrong
But.
Sabrina Bryan
But I am kind of interested in the mom writing that scathing email and then changing her mind. I guess she gets into that here.
H
They were going through. Pete and his wife at the time were going through a very difficult divorce. It was a very emotional time, and I'm sure many of you across the country understand how difficult divorce is. On a family, there's emotions. We say things. And I wrote that in hate. I wrote that with deep emotions. I wrote that as a parent. And about two hours later, my husband tells me I should think through things a little bit more. But Pete and I are both very passionate people. I wrote that out of love. And about two hours later, I retracted it with an apology email, but nobody's seen that.
Jack Armstrong
I think soon this will be moot.
Sabrina Bryan
Because he's going to find it. He's going to get the Gates speech. He's going to say, I'm a distraction, and the last thing I want to be in this turbulent time is a distraction to the Trump administration. Why stand behind 100% or something like that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. I find it interesting on a human level, and also, as I am the consumer of politics, as a citizen and as a voter, never mind what I do for a living, I like to sort through this stuff and decide, all right, am I being jobbed here? Am I being tricked? Am I being defrauded? What's the truth? And so I'm intrigued by the story, I'm intrigued by the email, her retraction of it to Pete himself, his lifestyle, his qualifications, his intelligence, his comedic. All of it is very, very interesting to me. But I'm torn between that and the fact that I think in about 48 hours, it could be completely moved.
Sabrina Bryan
Right, right, right. Yeah. Because you look back on all the words and breath spent on Matt Gaetz, and it seems kind of ridiculous in retrospect, since it seemed doomed from the beginning.
Jack Armstrong
Just, you know, a couple of sentences. You are an abuser of women. That is the ugly truth. And I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheap, sleeps around, and Uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man and have been for years. And as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but that is the sad, sad truth. I'm sorry. All that stuff about to belittling and power in the. I don't know what I was thinking.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah, that's some pretty rough stuff that. I mean, that's we don't ever speak again stuff.
Jack Armstrong
Well. And I can see. And I have not spent a single minute inside old lady. I'm sorry. Why would I say that? Mom Hag says I'm trying to differentiate her from like the wives, but it's rude.
Sabrina Bryan
There are other words to do that.
Jack Armstrong
I'm apologizing here. All right. The Senior Mrs. Headset. You might phrase it differently when you calm down.
Sabrina Bryan
I don't know which one was more accurate.
Jack Armstrong
Well, right again, you might phrase it differently, but you would think the same thing, right?
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, good point.
Jack Armstrong
You know, if, for instance, I thought Michael was slacking off on his job and he is. Absolutely not. It's the last thing this. I'm picking it as a ridiculous hypothetical.
Sabrina Bryan
Sound like it sounds like a dog whistle. Michael.
Jack Armstrong
Because that's what I was thinking. So that nobody will take it seriously for a single second. I'm picking something ridiculous. I might say to Michael, you are a lazy slacker. I don't know why we continue to work with you. I don't know why anybody would work with you. I. It shows not only a lack of professionalism, but a lack of character. Then I would think two hours later, having not hit send, you know, that's too much. And I would write, Michael, it sure would be great if we could get a little more effort from you, especially during the blah blah. It would be the same truth though.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah. Yeah. So you wouldn't. You wouldn't. Yeah, it wouldn't be. I didn't mean to do that. It's just worded differently. Right? That's a good point.
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Well, to talk more about this later because I think the interesting question is the what standards are we going to have for people in public life? I mean is this personal stuff matter to us at all? That's the overall conversation because I think Hegseth is going to go away. So more on that later. We've got Katie's Headlines next.
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Warning, warning. Fat. All right, so much to get to today, including that. And I've got a special choice for Jack on what we're going to kick off next out with because we've got so much great stuff to talk about. But let's figure out who's reporting what first. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie.
Joe Getty
Thank you guys. Starting with cnn, North Korea, Russia and China watch on as crisis unfolds in South Korea.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah. What a weird deal that was yesterday.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I agree. Speaking of great stuff to talk about. Wow. Other countries, country's politics are so messed up. It's a good thing ours are so great and cool.
Joe Getty
From abc, Russia sees quote, no grounds for negotiations with Ukraine because they're gaining ground.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah. You know, and that's the kind of position sometimes you take in a negotiation. Nah, I'm not. You walk away from the boat or whatever.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Sabrina Bryan
See what happens.
Joe Getty
USA Today, FBI investigating mystery drones flying over central New Jersey during recent weeks.
Sabrina Bryan
Forget about it.
Joe Getty
You see the pictures of the. They're saying these things are the size of cars.
Jack Armstrong
Really? Yeah.
Joe Getty
And they've been very close to the Trump golf course and to a military base.
Jack Armstrong
Wait a minute, Katie, you need to work the mysterious Jersey drones desk. I want to know more.
Joe Getty
Washington Post surprised Supreme Court to weigh in on bans on puberty blockers and hormones for trans teens.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, that's one of the choices. To kick off next hour, the big Supreme Court hearing. Will we continue to allow sick people to mutilate children because they're confused? Oh, I'm sorry.
Sabrina Bryan
Was that prejudicial or because the parents. It makes them feel cool, right?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Well said from the New York Times.
Sabrina Bryan
McDonald.
Joe Getty
McDonald's E. Coli outbreak finally declared over.
Sabrina Bryan
Okay, I didn't realize it was ongoing, but the Quarter pounder with cheese is back. Everybody.
Joe Getty
From the New York Post, only fans top earner is a virgin and a devout Christian and hauled in $43 million last year.
Sabrina Bryan
Whoa.
Jack Armstrong
Everybody's asking the same question, so I'll voice it. Doing what?
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah, what does she do?
Joe Getty
These are pictures and videos just of herself. She doesn't do anything with anyone else.
Sabrina Bryan
We talked about this some yesterday with somebody asking the question, I don't understand how this scales, the whole only fans thing, but apparently it does.
Jack Armstrong
But of herself wearing demure outfits and smiling prettily or showing her pretty privets or what?
Sabrina Bryan
We got to talk about this more later because it's a weird psychological defect that we're going to have to see play out.
Joe Getty
And finally, the Babylon Bee. Santa's elves complaining of declining wages as undocumented elves flood the North Pole.
Sabrina Bryan
That's pretty funny.
Jack Armstrong
That's really good.
Sabrina Bryan
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
The world is better for the existence of the Babylon Bee and. And all those guys, the guys from the Onion Assist.
Sabrina Bryan
It's better, true, but it's definitely worse for the development of the Internet. Like that only fans thing. I meant a psychological defect among humans, not that woman. I. If you're an attractive woman and you can make that kind of money doing basically nothing, who am I to judge you?
Jack Armstrong
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Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "I Slip Into That Like A Warm Bath" – Detailed Summary
Release Date: December 4, 2024
In the December 4, 2024 episode of "Armstrong & Getty On Demand" titled "I Slip Into That Like A Warm Bath," hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into pressing political and social issues dominating the national conversation. Skipping the usual advertisements and introductory segments, the episode zeroes in on the Supreme Court's pivotal hearing on transgender care laws, the controversial nomination of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, and broader cultural phenomena impacting American society.
The episode opens with a heated discussion about the Supreme Court's impending review of Tennessee's law restricting transgender healthcare for minors. Jack Armstrong provides a critical analysis of the case, emphasizing the broader implications for state versus federal authority in regulating medical practices.
[05:16] Jack Armstrong: "It will make it possible for states to say, no, you can't do this. Experimental mutilation on children."
Sabrina Bryan echoes the gravity of the situation, questioning the ethical boundaries of such medical interventions.
[05:13] Sabrina Bryan: "I slip into that like a warm bath... will this make it illegal to have an operation on a kid to mutilate their body change and attempt to change their gender."
Armstrong further critiques the influence of medical associations, asserting that organizations like the American Medical Association (AMA) have succumbed to ideological pressures:
[07:00] Jack Armstrong: "The ideological capture of the AMA and the American Pediatrics... being a puppet being controlled by the radical gender theory crowd."
The hosts draw parallels to historical social practices, comparing current transgender healthcare debates to foot binding in China and the anorexia "craze," highlighting their perception of these as social contagions rather than genuine medical necessities.
A significant portion of the conversation centers on Pete Hegseth's nomination for Secretary of Defense. Armstrong and Bryan dissect Hegseth's qualifications, media presence, and personal controversies, questioning the meritocracy behind such high-level appointments.
[28:51] Jack Armstrong: "It's so wild to watch, as I often say. It's almost worth being able to watch it."
Bryan criticizes the selection process, suggesting that Hegseth's rise is more a product of media exposure than substantive qualifications.
[29:20] Jack Armstrong: "Neither do I hope he's not loathsome... It's not well thought out."
The hosts also discuss the backlash against Hegseth, particularly focusing on a scathing email from his mother that resurfaced, intended to discredit his character. They debate the appropriateness of using personal failings as criteria for public office candidacy.
[33:07] Sabrina Bryan: "I really can't come to a conclusion on what I think about this."
This segment underscores the tension between personal integrity and professional capability in political appointments.
Armstrong and Getty critique the current state of social media, particularly focusing on Elon Musk's management of Twitter. They argue that Musk's decisions have transformed the platform into a "cesspool," allowing harmful entities to thrive.
[15:46] Jack Armstrong: "When it came to trimming the fat out of Twitter, what he basically did is just open the door for Nazis and Hamas."
The conversation then shifts to platforms like OnlyFans, where they express confusion over its substantial earnings model, especially highlighting cases like a devout Christian earning $43 million solely through self-published content.
[46:46] Joe Getty: "From the New York Post, OnlyFans top earner is a virgin and a devout Christian and hauled in $43 million last year."
This discussion reflects their concerns over the evolving landscape of online content creation and its psychological impacts on society.
In the listener mailbag segment, Armstrong and Bryan address a humorous yet politically charged nomination from a listener named Michael, who suggests "I Pid in Your Rice" as clip of the year—an apparent play on "I Pee in Your Rice." This quirky suggestion serves as a metaphor for the ongoing political conflicts between President Biden and former President Trump.
[20:25] Joe Getty: "I peed in your rice is basically a culmination of everything that's happened in the last election cycle..."
The hosts analyze this metaphor, interpreting it as the back-and-forth legal and political battles that have ensued, ultimately positioning the American public as asserting dominance over entrenched political figures.
As the episode draws to a close, Armstrong and Bryan reflect on the transient nature of political controversies, expressing skepticism about their long-term effects. They anticipate that current disputes, like the nomination of Hegseth, may fade into obscurity as new issues emerge.
[28:13] Sabrina Bryan: "Before we get to Pete, the Secretary of Defense, I do think it's interesting that a guy got driven out by the maggot crowd, the left..."
The hosts conclude with a nod to ongoing political dynamics, emphasizing the cyclical nature of political discontent and public focus.
Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong [05:16]: "It will make it possible for states to say, no, you can't do this. Experimental mutilation on children."
Sabrina Bryan [05:13]: "Will this make it illegal to have an operation on a kid to mutilate their body change and attempt to change their gender."
Jack Armstrong [07:00]: "The ideological capture of the AMA and the American Pediatrics... being a puppet controlled by the radical gender theory crowd."
Joe Getty [20:25]: "'I peed in your rice' is basically a culmination of everything that's happened in the last election cycle..."
This episode of "Armstrong & Getty On Demand" offers a provocative examination of current political and social issues, framed through the hosts' distinct perspectives. By addressing the intersection of law, personal integrity, media influence, and cultural shifts, Armstrong and Getty provide listeners with a critical lens on the forces shaping contemporary America.