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Joe Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Jack Armstrong
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Guys. Eight years after the epic concert disaster that was Fyre Fest, tickets just went on sale for Fyre Fest 2.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Tickets are now on sale and some.
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Joe Getty
Cost up to $1 million.
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Jack Armstrong
Even the people who invested in Hawk to a crypto think this is a bad idea, girl.
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Joe Getty
Oh, oh, so you got, you got.
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Jack Armstrong
Wide eyed there, Katie, over the announcement of this. Why is that?
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Katie
I cannot believe they're going to try to do this again. This, this was the most catastrophic, expensive celebrity cover on planet Earth. This is the one where the, all the celebrities showed up and there were tents and they got like bologna sandwiches that looked like they were from a prison.
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Joe Getty
And everybody lost their ass on it. Everybody lost huge amounts of money. This guy was jailed, wasn't he? Yeah, yeah, headed it up. He was prosecuted. He. He gets out and says, time for Fire Fest 2.
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Katie
Yeah, it was this guy McFarlane and Ja Rule the rapper was behind it. And there's a great documentary. I think it's on Netflix.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, I remember. Yeah, I've seen parts of that before.
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Katie
Oh, I cannot. This is going to be so fun to watch.
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Jack Armstrong
Was it an on purpose scam? That's what I never nailed down because I didn't follow it closely. Was it an on purpose scam or it was just, just went poorly?
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Katie
I don't think so. Because there were legitimate acts that signed up to be a part of, of the festival that once they started to see it go to all hell, they were like, okay, we're out, we're done.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it, it reminds me of Woodstock 2. Speaking of really interesting documentaries, it was just a, a fuster clock and, and just a disaster financially.
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Katie
It's the same deal. I'm looking at the website right now. Your General Access tickets, $1,400 and VIPs. 25 grand.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, this is, this is. Whoa. Yeah. When the, when the money gets that big, you got to be concerned that once they get the money, they don't care how, how happy you are with the, with the result.
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Joe Getty
If it even happens.
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Katie
This is hysterical. Oh yeah, if it happens. I cannot wait to see how this.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I mean, because once they got your 25 grand, they can say, oh, you know, like baloney sandwiches. Sorry, thought you'd like them.
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Katie
I mean, last time it was so bad to the point where the initial location that they had planned to have the festival, they sold so many tickets and stuff that the people were like, we can't handle this. So last minute they moved the loc. I mean, everything was a mess.
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Joe Getty
Well, and again, Jack, you're presuming a festival will take place. I'm picturing my $1400 or if I'm, you know, a VIP, $25,000 going away and never coming back again.
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Katie
I can't believe they're doing this again.
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Jack Armstrong
You know what a lot of VIP is? Often just because I had this experience at the Eagles concert at the Sphere, which I didn't buy VIP tickets, but when we got to the. Wherever we going in and they found out, I mentioned to the person there, that was my son's first concert of his life. And they were so excited about that. And they, they gave us the VIP stuff and the VIP treatment and everything like that. We're gonna make you a VIP or whatever. It's basically you get a lanyard that says vip. That's more or less the sum total of it. And a poster and a bag, you know, tote bags, which. Ben, if. If the earth ever crumbles under the weight of something, it's going to be tote bags. They just, they're. They're everywhere.
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Joe Getty
They're all the place.
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Jack Armstrong
Anything you go to, they've got a tote bag for you.
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Joe Getty
How much toting do you do? I actually, I've paid for a couple that were very, very cool. Oh, really? VIP experience. But it, it varies by the band, obviously.
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Jack Armstrong
Policies are a lanyard and a tote bag. Yes.
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Katie
I'm looking at the press release for this on Instagram. Victims of the first one go free another one. I know a safer way to enjoy music, but thanks. This is not gonna go well.
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Jack Armstrong
We'll keep our eye on this.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. All right. And so ends our discussion of the probably non existent ripoff music festival. Jack, do you want to get into the aforementioned topic?
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Jack Armstrong
Right, so this, this gets pretty interesting. I know where. I know emotionally where I am on this. I don't know if I can back it up intellectually as well as I can emotionally. My point of view and most of the textures wholeheartedly agree with me. Although that might just be a tendency to, you know, you listen to this show, you tend to think like we think or whatever.
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Joe Getty
Well, yeah, I hate to jump to my analysis, you know, before the end, but I think that tension that you're talking about is what the evildoers, and I hope that term isn't too judgmental. I think that tension is what the evildoers are trying to exploit, to get you to shut up and take what they're dishing out. Because they make a very reasonable sounding argument for intrusions into families that are indefensible.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, so I've had two kids get physicals. You get them at around age 13 in the. The. They ask you. The front office help asks questions, and then it goes to the next person and then. And finally your doctor. I mentioned that because that factors into some of the responses we got. I don't like the questions. I don't understand, really, 90% of the questions, why they're even asked. To me, a physical is. Or. Mike, son, physical is. You know, weigh them, check the reflexes, whatever, Tell them if they need to lose weight or if their eyesight's bad or whatever. But anything about the way they live at home, I don't feel like is any of your damn business. And I don't like answering any of those questions. And it's gone as far as. And that they didn't. Haven't asked this. And I don't know if they put this in the chart or what. Or if the state stopped asking, but I remember originally we were asked at the doctor's office, are there any guns in the home? And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, no way we're answering that question. I can't even believe you had the guts to ask that question. I mean, I'm flabbergasted that at a doctor's office they would ask you if you have guns in the home. To me, that's got nothing to do with your job at all. And a lot of the other questions they ask, in my opinion, some of you don't agree anyway. So some of the texts we got, which are kind of all over the place on this thing, and I even brought up the idea of when. When our babies were born, the making me leave the room so they can ask, mom, does he abuse you at home? Which I find disgusting. I just.
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Joe Getty
I just. I just.
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Jack Armstrong
I find that abhorrent. And. And you're about to hear some pushback on the text line, which, again, intellectually, I kind of get, but emotionally I do. First of all, I agree with Jack 100. It's not a medical doctor's place to ask about anything other than physical health. The sole exception would be if the child's chart shows a series of severe bruising and. Or broken bones.
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Joe Getty
I would say evidence that would suggest. Exactly. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Again, some of these texts are all over the place. I'm 78. I was asked if anyone was forcing Me to have sex? I replied yes, my wife and please don't make her stop. See, I don't. Or is anybody forcing you to have sex? I just where these questions come from. Again, we're about to get to an explanation from a doctor who will explain why they think they're there. Every time I go to Kaiser, that's a big medical person in outfit in California. Every time I go to Kaiser for anything, they start with a slew of questions about whether I feel safe in my relationships. I refuse to answer. They do not like that. But then they think that taking my blood pressure and weight are optional. It's infuriating.
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Joe Getty
So they're wow.
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Jack Armstrong
They might not do the actual physical stuff because that might be body shaming or something like that, I guess. I don't know. But the intrusive questions about your lifestyle, sure those are okay. This one is pushed back to a topic we're about to get to. I'll save that one. Doctors asking kids state mandated questions about guns in homes and other random questions is just another version of teachers keeping secrets from parents. The state is intervening in the nuclear family as much as they can. That camel just keeps nudging itself into the tent. That's the way I feel about it.
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Joe Getty
And I think those who are doing it deliberately like we've been describing are joined by the do gooders who are. Well, you know what do gooders are. They're just utterly convinced that it is appropriate for them to intrude into your life to make your life better for you whether you want them there or not. Sometimes it's a mother in law, sometimes.
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Jack Armstrong
It'S the state I'm building up. The people with agree with me before I get to a medical professional that will have the big pushback. Completely agree with Jack on parental rights. You can't treat every parent as if they're abusive. Plus the state's definition of abusive is ridiculous anyway. I don't know what the state's definition of abusive but if it, if it's you let them watch three hours of YouTube videos or something one day it might be a hell, I don't know.
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Joe Getty
Well, one aspect of abuse is calling my son himself, right? He's decided to be her.
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Jack Armstrong
For instance, when my son was 13, he had to get his tetanus shot for school. That's literally all I had him get. No physical in quotes. For that reason I don't participate anymore. Just get the shots because the physical is more questions than anything else. I'll skip that one and get to the Medical professional. I want to get to getting back to my text. Hold on just a second. I hope I have that. I hope I didn't lose that because it was really, really good.
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Joe Getty
Take your time. I'm giving myself a self prostate exam during the pause in the action.
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Jack Armstrong
Here, here's. Here's a good one. This is so and so in Seattle. Pushing parents out of the room and honing your tween. Handing. Handing your tween a questionnaire is step one of indoctrination of your kid. It happened to me in Washington state and it kick started my daughter spiraling into self harm, gender identity questions, etc. And then there was the school who made her declare pronouns for the record and that let her officially change her name and gender identity in the school system without telling me.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
She would self harm at school, go to the nurse, they'd give her a band aid and send her back to class. Not a single word to me. I'm just the mother after all.
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Joe Getty
Right, Right. That is straight out of Marxism. Driving a wedge between or breaking apart the nuclear family so that the state raises the child and can indoctrinate them. They say it out lo. This is not a conspiracy theory. They say it out loud.
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Jack Armstrong
Somehow I did not capture the one I want to get to from an actual doctor. So you might have to do your. The next little segment of this and I'll get back to it. Of the state trying to separate us. Okay, here it is. I found it. If my super slow iPad can bring it up, we're using like a gen 2 iPad here. Hanson and I kind of have like a. It's kind of like the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer sees how far he can drive on empty before he finally runs out of gas. Hanson, I kind of have that thing going with this iPad. How long can we use this outdated iPad that you can't update anymore and make it actually work? I might have reached.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
I can give you the long and short of it and if I have to fill in the details later, I will. It's basically a doctor saying, look, I agree with you guys most of the time on this stuff, but you're wrong about this. There is no sinister reason. Even though it is a small percentage of people that harm their children, this is a good way to catch those people. And if we can, you know, save one kid from abusive parents, it's worth asking everybody the questions. That's where I get to the. I understand intellectually what you're saying, but emotionally and in reality, I don't like it at all. I don't like treating everybody like they're a wife beating, you know, child abusing person so that you can in theory help a couple of families or parents or kids where I don't think they're probably going to be honest anyway.
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Joe Getty
Right. And the doctor has absolutely got a point and it's a valid one. But the problem is this. There is a primal violation happening when you say to a parent get away from your child. I need to deal with your child and on my authority I am removing you from the room now. It's done much more diplomatically than that. They don't say it like that. But that's what's happening and if there is ample justification for it, I get it. That's fine. Here's the problem though doc, and this is people comparing notes. I'm not disagreeing with you. The Marxists and those who would break apart the nuclear family to perpetuate their evil plans for our country, for instance, they use that excuse to do terrible, terrible things including the court case we're about to talk about later at this hour. So that's, that's, that's the rub my medical friend.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Any more thoughts on that? Our text Anyone will get back to this this latest court ruling which is horrifying. Text line is 415295KFTC ARMSTRONG and GETTY. Here's a text from an actual doctor. We're on the subject of you take your kids into the doctor's office and they ask him all kinds of questions. Sometimes they try to separate you and ask the questions separately which I hate and just think ought to be illegal and I don't have to go along with it and I don't or even if they ask you the questions with you in the room I don't like it. But here's an example. As a physician I can say there's no sinister motive other than screening for health and safety in the home. As you pointed out, unfortunately abuse is more common than would be suspected. If a non invasive screening question can help to detect even the small number of relative to the general public then it should be done. I agree with the majority of your guys views but with this one I would argue you are misguided if concerned about the questions and discuss with your physician. I also suggest building a rapport and trust with your doctor over time so these questions don't seem intrusive rather than looking out for your kids physical and psychological health. Well I do have a good relationship with my doctor and Report. But if you get into this situation where a doctor, you're sitting there with your kid and the doctor is asking the kids questions about what do you eat or how much screen time you get or whatever. Why didn't you ask me that? You obviously don't believe me or trust me or you're trying to catch me in a lie by. I mean, what is even going on there? You taking the role of the alpha in the room is what I don't like. I'm the alpha, always will be the alpha. You ain't the alpha. You ain't the one making the decisions here. I don't like that at all.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it's defensible from a scientific slash, medical point of view, I suppose. But the problem is, as I said before, and. And the first reason this is so top of mind for me is the First Circuit Court just held that parents have no right to know about their 11 year old changing gender in school. And the court's decision talks about our pluralistic society assigns those curricular and administrative decisions. Can you imagine? My child is having a mental health crisis. And the court calls that an administrative and curricular decision to the expertise of school officials charged with the responsibility of educating children. So while, doctor, you are 100% right and I agree with you in principle, it's that same principle that's being used as an excuse for the teacher to indoctrinate the child and try to pry the child apart from the parent. You see our discomfort there? It's the same explanation.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it absolutely is.
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Joe Getty
You're right, Doctor. The school is perverse and sick and it's the same explanation. So the line's got to be drawn somewhere, right? Well, I think a lot of people want to draw it to the air, to the side of, no, this is my child, this is my family. I'm in charge here. You're not.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Joe Getty
But again, that does not in any way negate what the doctors said. I agree.
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Jack Armstrong
Mm. Anyway, we're getting lots of texts on this. Keep them coming if there's any good ones. We'll probably delve into it again tomorrow.
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Joe Getty
There's a proposed law in Cal Unicornia that is kind of tangentially similar. I think Katie's going to tell us about. And then some, you know, some good, light, fun stuff as well. It's very serious today.
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Jack Armstrong
I'm sorry, I'm sick. This is no joking matter. I might have a cold. You think that's funny?
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
30 more minutes and we're done. That's the way I'm looking at today.
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Joe Getty
I don't like your attitude, son.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't feel good.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I, I decided I needed to rant just a little longer about this First Circuit ruling.
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Jack Armstrong
Really? It'll be overturned, right? It's just gonna a long time, which is very frustrating.
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Joe Getty
Oh yeah, well, yeah, I suspect it will be, although I don't. The legal reasoning seems to be sociological reasoning to me. And so I hope it will be slapped down. I think it also, if people hear about it, might cause the sort of reawakening we need, societally speaking, so we can fight back against these people. They're organized, they're strategic, they know what they want to do. They want to indoctrinate. Indoctrinate your child and pry them away from your family. The rest of us are kind of. We're not, we're not organized, we're not being strategic anyway, so the first Circuit just held that parents have no right to know about their 11 year old changing gender in school. It was viewed as overriding parental rights. And the specific reasoning is just insane. And that's why I wanted to rant a little more about it because it really, it shows their hand. The court wrote, and I'm quoting Jonathan Turley, who's been covering this, this is the court quote. Our pluralistic society assigns these curricular and administrative decisions to the expertise of school officials charged with the responsibility of educating children. Turley points out, there is no more cherished right than citizens raising their own children. Indeed, he points out, the right to raise one's children according to your own faith and values is a touchstone of freedom. Conversely, the subordination of such rights is the harbinger of state tyranny. And they appeal to pluralism, our pluralistic society. And Turley points out that pluralism allows families with different norms and values to thrive. Public schools are effectively demanding that parents give up their rights to critical aspects of rearing their children as a condition for public education. It's a virtual slogan for school choice. I think he skips over, you know, the other side of the coin. They say in defense of pluralism, all the kids come to school and indoctrinate them exactly the same, no matter their parents beliefs.
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Joe Getty
That's what they're saying. That's just, that's just horrifying. And the fact that a court went for it is, that's, that's. How do I put this? You know what? I will just read what I responded to Tim Sander for last night who texted Me about this case, the fact that it exists. I'm a peaceful man. I believe in words and ideas and patient persuasion. You f with my kids, I will cut your throat. This is the, this is radical in a fundamental primal way. Danger that is. And I meant that.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah, absolutely. It's a big deal.
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Joe Getty
Choosing my words carefully here.
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Jack Armstrong
Don't.
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Joe Getty
Everybody needs to hear about this. I'm glad to see the number of times it's been reposted. The, the interesting thing, interesting, the horrifying thing is that it's already gone so far that virtually the entire government education system is in on this. In on the way left philosophy. Anyway, like you said, it's a virtual slogan for school choice. It ought to be a slogan for more than that. I cannot. I think it is a measure of how meek we are at submitting to authority that this has not caused more people to go absolutely ape poo nuts.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. And you know, similar to the last conversation we were talking about with the doctors, which is obviously different to the school. I think at the top you have people that want to separate parents from children and then some people along the way might agree with that. But you certainly have many layers to think, well we're, we're doing this because we care about the kids. Well right.
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Joe Getty
They convinced by the deceptive arguments of the hardcore. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They've, they've been duped. Happens all the time. It's like all the nice half witted white ladies who fell under the whole Robin D'Angelo Ibram x Kendi White guilt, anti racism thing. Even, even the slightest scrutiny exposes it for the scam it is. But anyway, a lot of well meaning people fell for it and this reminds me of it. Hey Katie, can you hip us to that California proposed law we were talking about earlier?
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Katie
I absolutely can. This is from Assemblyman Rick Burry is a Democrat out of Los Angeles and he's facing backlash over the new bill AB 1333 which would limit when people in California can claim self defense in homicide cases. The bill is removing. Removing justifications for using deadly force including defending your home or your property.
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Joe Getty
Right, right. And I've looked in some of the particulars of it. According to the bill, homicide would not be justified when the person was outside the residence and, and, and the, and the victim, the actual victim knew that using force was likely to cause death or great bodily injury and it could have been avoided with complete safety by retreating. So if you just flee from your house and run out the back door and let the other person blast their way in, then you're okay. But if you defend yourself and your family in your home, you're not, you're a murderer.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, we all learned a lot about this in the Trayvon Martin case, which was in Florida, wherever they had their particular stand your ground rules. But we're trying to go as I guess in California, go as far the other direction as you possibly can. It's the opposite of stand your ground. It's they get your ground if they want it. You need to run away if at all possible and let them have that ground so they don't get hurt.
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Joe Getty
And then facet B of this or number two, Assemblyman Ricks Burr of Los Angeles, the jack wagon who proposed this, this has made me, this has pissed me off since I was a teenager because I saw cases like this unfold. Aspect two of this homicide would not be justified when the person used more force than was reasonably necessary to defend against the danger. And that is where you get. And I think it's very important you serve on juries. I'm not denigrating jury duty. I don't try to avoid it. I seek it out because it's so interesting and important. Anyway, many juries have half wit jackasses on them who couldn't reason their way out of a paper bag. Okay. And you have that sort of person sitting there in the air conditioned comfort of a courtroom, stroking their chin and deciding, did the person use more force than was reasonably necessary?
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Joe Getty
I think they did. When you're terrified for your life or that of your family and all of a sudden you got a bunch of people sitting in a 74 degree courtroom deciding, now you overreacted. I despise that. I really do.
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Jack Armstrong
So what, what drives this? Why, why are you, Somebody breaks into my home. What makes you want to write a bill that really protects the person that breaks into my home as opposed to me?
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Joe Getty
I think there are a couple of things at work. Number one, especially on the left, there's just an overarching theme of you must meekly submit to the authorities, whether it's in the doctor's office, which is to my mind a pretty legit thing, asking about abuse. It's intrusive, but you've got to submit to that authority. You got to submit to the authority of the school teacher who says, no, I'm not telling you about your child's emotional health. That's up to me. You're supposed to meekly submit to that. And this is the whole, don't take matters into your own hands. Don't defend yourself, let the authorities take care of it. It's just, it's a collectivist attitude that you do not have free will, you do not have self governance. We will govern you for you. And the other part of it is, and this has struck me through the years, there is a certain sort of person that knows they do not have it in them to defend themselves. They refuse to have a gun and some people don't want a gun in their home for fairly reasonable reasons. But they know they are not capable of unleashing deadly force even when it was 100% justified. And I think it bothers them profoundly when other people do it. They think they would prefer the world be nobody can ever do this because then they can't feel the shame regret that they're not a person who could ever do that.
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Jack Armstrong
Interesting little psychoanalysis there for you.
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Joe Getty
No extra charge. And then I've just talked to some people who have that attitude and it struck me that oh I get it, you can't. And so you think no one should.
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Jack Armstrong
And then the full Marxists believe the only time anybody would break into your home would because they've been screwed by capitalism and they have no choice so they're the victim even if they're breaking into your home.
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Joe Getty
Right as the Black Lives Matter folks who are Marxists and they're willing and obedient pets in the mainstream media repeated they're looting it back. It's looting and rioting is the voice of the unheard.
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Jack Armstrong
But so this is just legislation that's been introduced. I always assume that these things will never go anywhere but I'm often disappointed point when they do somewhere.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that's correct. It is. It's not been passed yet.
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Jack Armstrong
Boy, that's so nuts. That's so nuts to like most of the country.
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Joe Getty
So Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says Sacramento Democrats spent the last 15 years tying the hands of law enforcement and coddling criminals, using and abusing ordinary Californians in their attempt to make criminals the real victims. Now they're actively trying to tie the hands of our residents who have had to defend themselves against re released career criminals far often Blah blah blah. Assemblyman Tom Lackey who's Republican in Palmdale says this bill is a complete assault on self defense. Imagine this, a violent criminal breaks into your home and you have to second guess whether defending your family is quote justifiable. The misguided energy behind this proposal is just beyond comprehension.
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Jack Armstrong
Well I wouldn't second guess that at that moment. But dealing with the Repercussions after that horrifying situation would certainly suck. Having just gone through the scariest thing of your life and then maybe you're in jail or something.
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Joe Getty
Well, Jack, as you know, my hallmark is fairness. So let me read you the counter from somebody who's in favor of this. Notably, gun control groups put out press release releases to combat the growing public outrage over this. This is Monisha Henley, senior vice president for government affairs at Everytown for Gun Safety. She said the legislation builds on California's gun safety legacy and lays the blueprint for the rest of the nation. White supremacists and other extremists have hidden behind self defense laws to fire a gun and turn any conflict into a death sentence. Wow. White supremacists.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow. Wow. So that's what it is. We are a white supremacist just looking for an opportunity. Not defending my house. When somebody. If somebody breaks in.
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Joe Getty
Monisha Henley, if you're listening, first of all, thanks for listening to the Armstrong and Getty show. Secondly, I will devote my every breath to defeating you and people like you until the last one is coughed out of my poor lungs. I hate you. You want hate speech? I hate you.
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Jack Armstrong
There it is, you whack job. Okay, we will finish strong.
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Joe Getty
Next, Armstrong and Getty, come on down to the 10,000th episode, the price is Right.
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Jack Armstrong
We're giving away a lot of money today. $90,000 started in 1972. I watched it in college and Price is Right just stood out because it was people going bananas.
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Joe Getty
Oh my God.
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Jack Armstrong
It's a really good cross section of America.
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Joe Getty
We've had over 75,000 people hauled on down.
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Jack Armstrong
We've given away over 300 million in cash and prizes. It's been one of the best experiences in my professional life. No matter how my day is. As soon as I get the price right, walk through the door. It all goes away now. What a show. Wow. Drew Carey of 10,000 episodes of the Price is Right. Drew Carey sounds like he actually enjoys doing that, which I assumed he hates it and has to drink his way through it every single day, but at least he's pretending he really, really enjoys it. The. The thrill of watching people try to guess the price of things.
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Joe Getty
Maybe the work environment is pretty pleasant and people paycheck is great. Yeah, yeah, I think I could fake it up. I. I hear you though. I. Oh man. Especially at the point that you have a lot of money already.
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Jack Armstrong
I was sick a fair amount as a kid during a certain period of time and I'd be home and I watched a lot of prices. Right. And lots of, lot of let's Make a Deal. That's how long those shows have been on since I was a little kid. But yeah, they were barely amusing and only something you'd watch if there was literally nothing else to do then. And there are way more things to do now.
- [31:23]
Joe Getty
Yeah, I remember that feeling of this is just barely above the Mendoza line of watch, don't watch.
- [31:30]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. It's barely above the line of just stare at the wall. And it's amazing that they continue. Who are you that watch these? Geez, can I buy some of your time?
- [31:41]
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. It's like the innumerable judge shows and you know, Drew Barrymore talking to minor celebrities shows.
- [31:50]
Jack Armstrong
God, I feel like those are just a, a much higher level of possible entertainment and learning something than this.
- [32:00]
Joe Getty
Well, yeah, some of them, I do love a good judge show. They just pace them too slowly. I mean, give me their verdict. Anyway, this is, this is, this is maybe depressing, but it's true. We've talked about this before. For many years, the highest paid person in entertainment was Judy Sheindlin. Judge Judy, those dopey shows for folks who don't work, can't work, are retired, are on the dole, government disability. Is that what you're gonna do with three where the is, is that what.
- [32:38]
Jack Armstrong
You'Re gonna do with retirement? You work your whole life so you can retire and you're gonna watch daytime television.
- [32:44]
Joe Getty
I know, I know, I, I hate to judge anybody who's not doing me any harm.
- [32:51]
Jack Armstrong
I don't mind.
- [32:52]
Joe Getty
Go ahead, I'll tag you in. Judge away.
- [32:55]
Jack Armstrong
Judge away. You're wasting your life. Can I buy some of your hours?
- [32:58]
Joe Getty
Michael, how much time do we have before final thoughts and everything? 30 seconds. Okay, I'm gonna squeeze this in. Getting back to the whole. It's white supremacists and other extremists hiding behind self defense laws. Two things to Monisha Henley, who I would guess given what she said is a black woman. I don't know, maybe she's just a woke white person. But anyway, James Lindsay brilliantly summed up critical race theory and what it's trying to do once by saying it's a tool. You call something racist until you're in charge of it. And that's exactly what she's doing. You call self defense racist until you've changed the law. The idea that violence disproportionately is angry white people hurting innocent black people, well to say that's not borne out by the Statistics is soft pedaling it by about a thousand times.
- [33:58]
Jack Armstrong
There's a hole in the show and you know it's time to go.
- [34:01]
Joe Getty
So it's time for final thoughts.
- [34:04]
Jack Armstrong
On your feet. There you go. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
- [34:08]
Joe Getty
Damn activists, they're everywhere. Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew. Michelangelo, lead us off. I gotta admit, I watched a lot of game shows as a kid. Me and my grandma, we would watch the game shows together. Now she was retired and one of our favorites was the Price is Right. So, yeah, that was a good childhood memory. Oh, there you go, Jack. Belittled you only moments ago. Shocking. Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie. Katie.
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Katie
I have a new Katie's corner up@armstronggetty.com it has the Jeff Bezos letter to the Washington Post people and a bunch of other stuff. And no, Jack, I will not spell Katie a K and a T, so don't even try.
- [34:43]
Joe Getty
But corners with a K. Right?
- [34:45]
Katie
It is. I caved on that.
- [34:47]
Joe Getty
Cute. I love that. Jack.
- [34:48]
Jack Armstrong
Final fitting in with our theme recently. A friend of mine just sent me this. Toronto police are being criticized for suggesting people leave their keys just inside the front door of their. Because that's mostly what burglars are looking for when they break in. And to avoid a violent confrontation, leave your keys where they're easy to get.
- [35:11]
Joe Getty
Like your car keys.
- [35:12]
Jack Armstrong
Yes, that's what the Toronto police are suggesting.
- [35:15]
Joe Getty
Canada's so far down the road to Crazyville, just like Great Britain. You know, my final thought, I'm gonna quote another authority, Tom McClintock, who in a conversation years and years ago said, said, hey, even if the mainstream in the country is going away from what you know is right, just keep preaching it because they'll be back eventually. I'm reminded of that with the immigration stuff. Now even you have people on the left saying, yeah, calling people racists for wanting orderly immigration. That was terrible.
- [35:44]
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
- [35:48]
Joe Getty
In other words, keep fighting the good fight. So many people. Thanks. A little time. Go to armstronggetty.com the hot links. Oh, the hot links to entertainment.
- [35:54]
Jack Armstrong
Raining, hoping to be over my bird flu slash monkey pox by tomorrow. See you then. God bless America.
- [36:00]
Joe Getty
Armstrong and get it do not deserve their paychecks.
- [36:04]
Jack Armstrong
It's true. You could pee on my leg, but don't tell me it's rain.
- [36:07]
Joe Getty
What the hell are you talking about? Doesn't that sound crazy?
- [36:09]
Jack Armstrong
Even in Washington, that math doesn't work.
- [36:11]
Joe Getty
I'm not saying it's okay. Don't put words so it used things.
- [36:13]
Jack Armstrong
Like, there's a few kinks in that slinky. You have depressed me to the depths of standing on a ledge.
- [36:18]
Joe Getty
That's why I'm here.
- [36:19]
Jack Armstrong
I'm gonna put my head in the oven during the commercial break.
- [36:22]
Joe Getty
You have an electric oven? It'll just get your head.
- [36:27]
Katie
Bye.
- [36:27]
Joe Getty
Bye. Armstrong and Gettysburg.