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Marco Rubio
The message to Iran. These guys are facing. They are facing real catastrophic destruction to their economy, generational destruction to their economy, generational destruction to the wealth of their country imposed on themselves by the. By the actions that they're taking. They should check themselves before they wreck themselves in the direction that they're going.
Jack Armstrong
Mr. Secretary, many people want to know, what is your DJ name?
Marco Rubio
My DJ name?
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Your DJ name?
Marco Rubio
You're not ready for my DJ.
Jack Armstrong
Okay. The lighter side of Marco Rubio. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, go ahead. You could explain that one.
Jack Armstrong
Just hipster term.
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Oh, please. Wait a minute. I was going to lean on you for this clarification. That's from an Ice Cube song. It's an Ice Cube title. The Hipster Marco Rubio. And he was the DJ at a family wedding recently. Hence the question about his DJ name.
Jack Armstrong
Nice. Marco Rubio came out yesterday and he ended up doing the press briefing in the White House press room because, oh, what's her name is having a baby similar to Katie Green. She is off on maternity leave. We don't have Marco Rubio to sit in for Katie Green, but they do there at the White House. And he did a really good job, except for pretty much everything he said yesterday is no longer in action because later in the day, having explained how Project Freedom was going to work at great length and detail, the President came out and said, that's over. So, okay, I guess that's over. We're taking a pause on that because of this agreement, supposed agreement that we have with Iran. We have an update on that from when we first went on the air an hour ago, actually. So started with axios reporting that US and Iran close to agreeing to a 14 point memorandum of understanding. So Trump paused Operation Freedom, then went on to say. Trump went on to say, assuming Iran agrees to what has been agreed to, which is perhaps a big assumption, the already legendary epic fury will be at an end. Which I thought was kind of interesting because Marco came out and said epic fury is over. And Trump is saying epic fury will be an end if this stuff is true. So I don't know how you square that. Anyway, if they don't agree, the bombing starts and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level in intensity than it was before. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So that was before we went on the air today. Well, the latest is following reporting by Axios. Iranian officials have told state affiliate affiliated news outlets that portions of the US Proposal remain unrealistic. Turanian decision makers and officials have also told news outlets that parts of Axios original story are speculative.
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Now we're nowhere.
Jack Armstrong
Well, they're telling state media that it could be just for domestic consumption, possibly. I hope. I'm hoping that. I'm hoping that that's true. I'm hoping that they want this to be over because they realize they're about to collapse because they're getting hit with, you know, $500 million worth of damage every single day because of our blockade. They realize they're about to collapse.
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They.
Jack Armstrong
They got to tell those millions that still go on the streets, death to America. They could say, we won't agree with this. We'll agree with it. We won't stand for death to America. We are not death to America. We want this to be over. I'm hoping that's what's going on.
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Yeah. Yeah. It's possible that China is exerting enough pressure on the other side that they're actually feeling the need to come to the table and make a deal. But, I don't know, fool me 780 times, shame on me. I just. This will change again in an hour. I have no vim, no vigor to practically to talk about it.
Jack Armstrong
Well, you know, I agree. That's fine. But, you know, what will not change is America and how wonderful we are as laid out.
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That was a good transition. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Geez.
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It's beautiful.
Jack Armstrong
As laid out by Marco Rubio yesterday. And I thought, why can't other politicians sound this great when they're talking up the United States? Here's Marco Rubio yesterday.
Marco Rubio
My hope for America. And how do you deal with that? Yeah, look, I mean, my hope for America is what it's always been. I think it's the hope I hope we all share. We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything, where you're not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity. But frankly, it's a place where you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your full potential. I think that should be the goal of every country in the world, frankly. But I think in the US we're not perfect. Our history is not one of perfection, but it's still better than anybody else's history. And ours is a story of perpetual improvement. Each generation has left the next generation of Americans freer, more prosperous, safer, and that is our goal as well. But it is a unique and exceptional country. And as we come upon this 250 year anniversary, I think we have a lot to learn and be proud of in our history. It is one of perpetual and continuous improvement where each generation has done its part to bring us closer to fulfilling the vision that the founders of this country had upon its founding.
Jack Armstrong
That is so good. And I wish every politician could spew that out that way. Particularly I like this is the thing I need to have at the ready all the time. When you run into the haters, our record is better than everybody else's. Everybody, show me the country that has a better record than us. You want to go with France or England? What country are you using as an example of being so fantastic throughout world history that it's better than the United States?
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Yeah, yeah. You can maybe get the impressionable college kids with that argument. That might make sense to them as they, they learn more. You'll, you know, the activists know that, but you can't admit that if you're going to overthrow a system. So they've got to continue to make the completely spurious, ridiculous claim that this is the most racist country on earth.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, you're never going to get the Marxist probably. But I think there's too much of the bulk of the like regular people that buy into that crap just because there aren't enough people making the case as good as Marco just did.
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Right.
Jack Armstrong
That Reagan used to all the time, for instance.
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Yeah. I'm a huge fan of Marco. Have been for a very long time. That was beautiful. That was great. It was perfectly said. And of course because he did well at the briefing, it sparked 2028 chatter. Fundraisers and, and what do you call them, political cons. Consultants have said he could have vaulted past JD Vance. It's like guys, it's May of 2026, we're involved in a war, our debt just passed the gdp. And it's so ironic given our freedom loving quote of the day from Karl Popper talking about how everybody's constantly putting their hope and the next person will be wonderful and lead us out of the wilderness. Washington is so obsessed with who's in, who's out, who's on top, who's looking like they could be on top, who's gonna win, who's gonna seize the reins of power in a way that it's sad that politics has become the true American pastime, because that's not what we should be paying attention to. We should be paying attention to how are we being governed right now. Specifically in your town, then your county, then your state. And if it ever comes up, the federal government.
Jack Armstrong
It's so bass ackwards, if I may indulge. 20:28 Talk briefly. I wonder if the thing you need to be to get the Republican nomination, as even the numbers among Republicans and MAGA people have slid on Trump. I wonder if by the time we get to nominating time, if it'll be better to be seen as an extension of Trump, like J.D. vance or a break from Trump, which I think Marco Rubio, I don't think Marco Rubio is tainted by Trump.
J.D.
vance is. Is going to try to run, I think, as like an extension of Trump keeping the Trump thing going. I don't think Marco Rubio is going to be that. I'm talking about for the primary voter. Primary voter. I think the Republicans might be ready, even Republican primary voters might be ready for a new page.
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And Marco's the guy by the time we get there. Yeah, we're not there yet, but it's, it's possible. I think both of those guys are smart enough to, to perceive what are the. What parts of Trump's legacy are still attractive to masses of voters and what aren't and thread that needle. Who can do it more skillfully?
Jack Armstrong
I'm a Rubio guy. I'll buy a hat today. I don't know what the hell J.D. vance is.
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Neither does he. I mean, he might have core beliefs and he just puts them aside to hang on to proximity to power because that's the only way you win in D.C. you know, the gray area of cynicism versus practicality. Everybody draws their line differently.
Jack Armstrong
Well, there will be developments on the war wall. We're on the air today. I guess Trump did threaten, though, and I've said this several times in the last several weeks, dude, you can't keep. I mean, it's like the parent analogy we always use. You can't keep threatening the sanction and not follow through. Pretty soon your kid is just gonna walk all over you.
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Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
One more time. And I'm taking your phone. Yeah, I've still got my phone. You've Been saying that for a month, so I think I will go ahead and ignore you as I walk to my room.
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Yeah, no kidding. Oh, boy.
Jack Armstrong
All right. I'll bet him I, you know, I could be wrong. I've said it, you know, been wrong several times in the last several weeks. He's holding off. I don't think he wants to, like, restart the war at the level that he's talking about, but I think he's going to.
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I like, thought he's going to like four or five times and throwing out
Jack Armstrong
a little check yourself before you wreck yourself, you know.
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We got a second. You got to do a 44 for me, Michael.
Marco Rubio
So, look, the times come for Iran to make a sensible choice, and it's not easy for them to do that, obviously, because they have a fracture in their own leadership system. And apart from that, I mean, the top people in that government are, to say the least, you know, they're insane in the brain. And so we need to address.
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I believe that's enough as a reference to the Cypress Hill hit of a similar title back in, what, the 90s? Insane in the Membrane, Insane in the brain.
Jack Armstrong
Is that just the way he thinks and talks, or does he feel like that that is gonna get him votes or something?
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Oh, no, I think that's just the. The references. If he's looking, you know, if I'm his age for a phrase in my head. Yeah. I'll probably have some sort of classic rock lyric come to the. The four now and again. He's younger. A little bit younger.
Jack Armstrong
He might. He might want to make a clear break. Generational break from Trump would have to make Patti Page references if he's going to use lyrics.
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Good Polar man. I got a million things to talk about. Just got to decide which got a trans.
Jack Armstrong
I never can get the. Why have I never. Why have I never wrapped my head around this?
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Call them men or women, boys or girls. It's, it's.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, it was a boy ran in a girls high school track meet in California and beat his sister for a
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prominent part of the gender bending madness update. Indeed.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And absolutely hilarious. I want to hear the details on that story. A lot of stuff on the way. Stay here.
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in Florida arrested a Taco Bell employee last week after he allegedly fired a gun at a customer who filled a water cup with soda. Police are calling the man unstable and Taco Bell is calling him Employee of the Month.
Jack Armstrong
He can't have somebody sell to have a water then go over to the soda machine, put pop in there.
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It's breakdown of society.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. What's next?
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My God. So Trump is meeting with Xi Jinping a week, couple of weeks, something like that. I don't Nobody knows the 12th. I believe they know down to the minute, down to the second. What's going to happen. One fascinating piece I came across about planning for these state visits, and it's especially important now because during Trump's last state visit to Beijing in 2017, nine years ago, his security detail and Xi Jinping's got into a fist fight in the corridor of the Great hall of the People while the leaders were meeting in an adjoining room. A couple of diplomats had to pry the combatants apart. And now normally there aren't that sort of fist fight, but the logistics that go into these things are mind boggling. Who fought the security details? Both leaders.
Jack Armstrong
Like Secret Service people against their people.
Getty
Fist fight. Yeah, yeah, Fisticuffs.
Jack Armstrong
So.
Getty
And the story by a Chinese sounding fellow in the Wall Street Journal, how to avoid fistfights and poisonings at world leaders summits. They open with the story of when you remember when Winnie the Pooh was in San Francisco and and Gavin Newsom and the government of San Francisco actually cleaned up the streets for the Communists, not for the citizens and taxpayers, but they cleaned it up for the Communists and moved the bums and junkies out of the way. But anyway, he had just Xi Jinping had just finished a lunch of herbed ricotta ravioli at a secluded estate outside San Francisco when his security agents sprang into action. Their mission ensuring no trace of the Chinese leader's DNA, fell into foreign hands. The agent, measuring 6 foot 3, both of them 6 foot 3, dressed in identical dark suits, were observed grabbing Xi's utensils and plate and spraying them with an unidentified liquid. Welcome to the unseen theater of great power diplomacy.
Jack Armstrong
So they don't want us to get a little DNA, which we might run through and find out he's got the gene for some sort of cancer and be able to predict when he might die or something.
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Or something. Give me 15 minutes and maybe a bong hit and I might be able to come up with some use of DNA. Of course, I'm not a molecular biologist.
Jack Armstrong
Sounds a little. I mean, we might actually do that, and we probably actually do do that, but I, I doubt it comes to much.
Getty
Yeah, yeah. If there's a way to exploit it, let's try. But Rick Waters, I quote, he's a former State Department official who helped organize Trump's visit to Beijing in. He says these visits are traumatic for those of us who have to organize them.
Jack Armstrong
You know, we would absolutely do that with Putin. Probably do it with Xi too. Then, like with Putin particularly, you'd want to know, is he on some sort of drugs that, you know, treat kidney disease or this kind of cancer or that or whatever? Yeah.
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Never mind the DNA in the saliva. What else? Yeah, yeah. Spit in this tube, Vladimir. Why? Don't worry about it. Let's see, everything from.
Jack Armstrong
You can't get him to spit in the tube, so you just grab his fork after he has his tiramisu.
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Exactly. Everything from tarmac protocols to takeover of entire hotels is planned ahead. State visit involves a traveling party of dozens of people. Multiple aircraft transport the president, cabinet members, the press, presidential limousines. The armored beasts are shipped ahead. Secure communications equipments follow. Secret Service and White House communications specialists arrive early to sweep venues, establish secure eavesdrop proof rooms, and negotiate how many armed Americans can operate on Chinese soil. The Chinese require a formal, formal diplomatic note submitted well in advance for every firearm and walkie talkie the US Wishes to bring in with a full explanation of why it's necessary. A medical team travels with the President, supported by a full surgical suite on Air Force One. Menus hammered out course by course, ingredients screened to avoid poisoning. Not just assassination poisoning, but good old food poisoning. These trips are planned in 15 minute increments. We call it a tick tock, said Dennis Wilder. A senior national security official will help arrange W's trip to China in the early 2000s. And then they labor over who's going to ride in which car. The motor of the motorcade. People get upset when they're too far back. What are the Chinese going to think if I walk out of car number four instead of car number two? They labor over this stuff.
Jack Armstrong
So the idea that you got a full setup to do surgery if something happens to president means you must have surgeons on board to do that surgery. Man, that's a. You fly around the country and don't do much job.
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Oh yeah, surgical, nurses, the whole tray of equipment, anesthesia, an anesthesiologist.
Jack Armstrong
And four years is almost certainly going to go by without you doing anything ever.
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Right.
Jack Armstrong
That's a good game.
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You got a splinter. Yeah. I'll take care of it.
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I am so confused as by what's going on with the Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson up with Islam thing that has started happening recently. What the FR are they just plain getting paychecks or what is happening there? Anyway, we'll take that on an hour 3. Give you an example of where Megyn Kelly is now versus just a couple of months ago, for instance, on the World of Islam.
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Good Lord.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Okay, I can't wait to hear that in a horrified way. But first, it's a transatlantic International Extra Sportsy Gender Bending Madness Update. So I kept hearing about this thing called Gender Bending Madness.
Jack Armstrong
They're locos. We're in a brave new world.
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Coming up in the Sportsy section, more proof that men are better at being women than women. So stay with us for that.
Jack Armstrong
Step aside, women. I'll run this race.
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But first, the audio portion of the update. Just so I don't get confused and forget stuff, let's start over.
Jack Armstrong
Across the Pond.
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Hello, this is the Prime Minister of the formerly great nation of Britain, the formerly useful ally of the United States, Great Britain, Keir Starmer.
Jack Armstrong
It transphobic to say only women have a cervix? Well, it is something that shouldn't be said. It is not right.
Alex Jones Impersonator
But Andrew, I don't think so.
Jack Armstrong
Rosie Duffield should not have said that. Can you explain to people watching why she should not have said that?
Alex Jones Impersonator
Andrew, I don't think that we can
Jack Armstrong
just go through various things that people said.
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Yeah, I think that's precisely what we ought to do here because that will point out the lunacy of your bizarro philosophy. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
It's hard to believe he's got his approval ratings in the teens with that sort of ability to deal with tough issues.
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Is it transphobic to say only women have a cervix?
Jack Armstrong
Well, I don't think we should be saying that sort of thing.
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That should not be said. Which Means that he does.
Jack Armstrong
Him saying it that way means he doesn't believe that that's makes sense, but he's afraid to say it.
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I think you are right. Yeah. Yeah. Meanwhile, back here on the home front from the midwestern United States, I give you Senator Josh Hawley.
Josh Hawley
This amendment poses a simple and direct question. Should we use federal tax dollars to pay for transgender surgeries and treatments for minor children? More specifically, should we divert money from Medicaid, a program that is dedicated to the most needy among us, and use it instead to pay for risky, dangerous, irreversible transgender drugs and surgeries for minor children? Because, Madam President, that's what's been happening for years. Outfits like Planned Parenthood have gotten billions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare. Billions of dollars taken from the elderly, from the poor, from the needy, paid out to them, which they can then use for transgender surgeries, treatments, drugs for minor children. They proudly advertise it on their websites. One recent study found that in three years alone, Planned Parenthood got a billion and a half dollars from Medicaid and Medicare money to be used on these risky surgeries and procedures for our children. This is wrong, Madam Chairman. This is a terrible misuse of federal funds and we should put a stop to it. Today I asked for a yes vote.
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Josh Hawley's clever. He was using the words of at least the center left there. How we're taking the funds away from the elderly, away from the sick. I don't think you ought to resort to that argument.
Jack Armstrong
I would agree.
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Yeah. It's horrifying Experiments on children without any medical substantiation or evidence.
Jack Armstrong
It doesn't matter where the money comes from.
Getty
Right? Exactly. Yeah. Moving along. The FBI has spoiled a trans father's plan to whisk his 10 year old Utah son to Cuba for a sex change.
Jack Armstrong
How old again?
Getty
10 years old. Wow. This guy's a trans mad man and he thinks his boy needs to be transitioned.
Jack Armstrong
10 year old boy, probably effeminate gay boy. Like I don't know if you have it in here.
Getty
That's confused.
Jack Armstrong
The story in the Free Press today is horrifying. I don't know if you read it.
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No.
Jack Armstrong
He was a 13 year old effeminate gay boy and did all the surgeries, did all the stuff. And it's got a big piece in the Free Press today about how it's. It is not reversible. As they told him, it did huge damage. He's not a girl, he's a boy. He's a gay boy. Gay man, now. And it's just. Yeah.
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Oh, horrifying.
Jack Armstrong
Absolutely horrifying.
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Yeah, we ought to go big on that one at some point. Yeah, yeah. It's just incredibly powerful. Yeah. But thank God the woman immediately notified the FBI that her son had been kidnapped and they were able to stop the dad, a 10 year old. Yeah, I know. It's just absolutely sick. In the Pennsylvania legislature the other day, Democrats tried to whisk a bill out of committee and park it so it couldn't be considered in a bit of subterfuge which involved just throwing out the number of the bill real quick and calling for unanimous consent. This is just stuff we need to get cleaned off. It's no big deal. And a Republican recognized the number and
Jack Armstrong
said, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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That's the only girls in girls sports bill. We're not gonna do a unanimous consent one on that. And in the nick of time, like saving that boy from the clutches of his sicko father and going to Cuba, they were able to not, you know, get that bill. Yeah. And what's interesting about that is Democrats knew in Pennsylvania, remember, Pennsylvania has been kind of a center of this with Leah Thomas, that dude who whipped up on the girls in the pool. And they realized if it came to vote, Keir Starmer, like Jack, to your point, they could either vote against it and against 84% of America or they'd have to vote for it and risk their, their support on the radical left. So they tried to hide it instead. At least that's a sign that people are aware and attitudes are changing. But moving along to the aforementioned sportsy part of this, you may recall in March of this year, a boy dominated girls track field in California, claiming three first place medals in the girls event, including the high jump, in which he even the New York Post says she. That's interesting. He beat the runner up by about a foot in the high jump. Congratulations again to AB Hernandez at Harupa Valley High School. Biological male who just showed those girls what a girl athlete can be. If that girl athlete is a boy, has a penis. Well, the latest update, a trans, a different transgender teen in Cal Unicornia came first in the women's varsity 400 meter race at the Prep league championships finals last week. Getting more attention, extra attention because he beat his older sister in the race. Probably because he's a boy and boys are stronger and faster. But the 14 year old was also part of the school's 400 meter relay team during the competition, helping bring the team gold in that race.
Jack Armstrong
God, imagine that family I'm sure the parents have convinced the sister that no, this is a good thing because your, Your sister was born in the wrong body.
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Yes. Yeah. They're all going, I don't understand why
Jack Armstrong
we can't nail this down. You can be 100% on board with the whole trans thing, born in the wrong body thing to me completely. And you believe it's a way bigger percentages than, than, than. Than anybody would think and still say. But because you were born with the boy's body, you know you're in the wrong body, but you're in a boy's body. Your brain is girl, but you're in a boy's body. The boy's body can't compete in girl sports. I understand why we can't come to that and satisfy everyone.
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I'm looking at the gold medal picture of the team there, and it's funny. This girl is much bigger and broader and stronger looking. Probably because that girl is a boy. That's my guess. Anyway, that's their whole argument, right?
Jack Armstrong
I know I'm a girl. I'm a girl. My brain says I'm a girl, but I was in a boy's body, which is a mistake of nature or something. Okay, fine. But then you can't have the boy's body competing girls sports.
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It's not your fault, folks. That's the simple homespun wisdom of Jack armstrong. And you're 100% right. That is a beautifully simple argument. You're in the wrong body, right? Cause you're really a girl. Well, your body's the one lifting the damn weights, you jackass. Now get along. It's gender bending madness.
Jack Armstrong
That's that Bud Light girl, right?
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Even Gavi, fella. Even Gavi last year said there's a question of unfairness. It's deeply unfair. Before he backtracked. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll. We'll get into that Free Press story presently.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's very, very troubling. And man, I really feel for this person. Obviously misled by therapists, their parents, teachers.
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It's horrifying. Horrifying. Child abuse. Who is not against child abuse?
Jack Armstrong
You're 13. You don't know any better. The adults are telling you this is what you need to do. Okay, well, right.
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Jack Armstrong
death that has occurred. Ted Turner, if you're old enough, you remember he was married to Jane Fonda. He used to participate in that, that Sailor cup thing all the time. But more importantly, America's Cup.
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Yes,
Jack Armstrong
most importantly, he's founded CNN in 1980, the first 24 hour news channel in which everybody, including my parents and me as a kid said there ain't enough news for 24 hours. I come home. You know, we all watch a half hour news every day. Seems like plenty.
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Turns out you were right.
Jack Armstrong
You were right there, there. You really only need about a half hour of news every day. But Ted Turner figured out a way to stretch it out over 24 hours. And then other people followed. And here's the mess that we were in. Then the Internet and then it all fell apart. And God help us.
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Right, well, that was a good summary. Yeah. He was also at one point the largest private land holder. Oh, right. In the United States. There happened to be a couple of very large tracts of land that he used on not far from my house that he donated to become wildlife preserves.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Damn interesting guy.
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Oh yeah, very cool.
Jack Armstrong
Innovative, willing to take risks. Sort of guy. Mustachioed when mustachioed wasn't cool.
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Also, I admire the commitment.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, we got other stuff on the way.
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Jack Armstrong
The Onion, the satirical news site. Not the vegetable.
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Onions.
Jack Armstrong
A vegetable.
Getty
It certainly may be. Back to you.
Jack Armstrong
I don't like onions on really anything.
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So as you know, I've ordered pizza with double onion. Oh. As the only topping you don't hate.
Jack Armstrong
The way they. They make. I don't like the smell. I get them on your hands. Your hands smell like onions for the day. You can't even wash it off.
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It's worth the exquisite pleasure of the eating you.
Jack Armstrong
Anywho, The Onion. The satirical nuisance. So not the vegetable.
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Get her off.
Jack Armstrong
I beat my hands on a rock down by the river. Isn't that the way you clean your hand? The Onion, the satirical news site bought Alex Jones old news site. And I don't infowars. I don't quite understand what they're doing here, what's going on.
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Because they're dicking with him.
Jack Armstrong
I mean it's no longer his news site. So you can. I don't know, you could sell in dog collars now or do whatever you want with it. And I mean. But does the Alex Jones crowd still go to that site?
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Is that what they're presumably. And. And I guess the site is just blank right now.
Josh Hawley
But they're.
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They're priming us for when they actually take it over. I'm a little.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
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And that doesn't matter.
Jack Armstrong
Okay. So maybe that's. It's like. It's like when a radio station flips formats and it's a stunt and it plays all kinds of. What are they played? They play the same song over and over for three days, taking care of business that turns out it's the all new rock 107 point. So here's a guy who does an Alex Jones impersonation saying something funny.
Alex Jones Impersonator
We now have a scientific technological. System by which we can take your urine and ship it to us and we'll be able to turn extract the gold minerals out of your urine. As you know, our body is made up of many minerals and salt and different minerals, including gold. Gold comes from stars and is in rocks and in mines and everything. But we also consume gold on a daily basis through just through breathing and through the different rocks. If you swallow rocks or whatever it
Jack Armstrong
is, I don't know how you get gold in.
Alex Jones Impersonator
Okay. But we can get it out now.
Jack Armstrong
I love the ending, but the problem with the satire is that's not crazier than anything Alex Jones said. And he made $50 million a year doing that.
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Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And I gotta Think I wouldn't. I wouldn't do the false flag school kid stuff at all. That's evil that Alex Jones did and got sued for, but all that other crap he did you pay me that kind of money, I'll say that.
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You know, the absence of gatekeepers, the flattening of media, whatever you want to call it, we as human beings are becoming more and more aware of that giant chunk of humanity that wants that sort of stuff. I call for one more of those.
Jack Armstrong
You're catching minerals through the air or swallowing rocks.
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How's six? Six looks amusing to me.
Alex Jones Impersonator
We have also established some of the really historic folks. We have created an alliance between the Lord God and Satan himself. We have communicated through spiritual practice, through demon rituals. We have gotten together Lord Almighty and his Son to come together at the bargaining table or in a neutral ground. Not heaven, not hell. But we have communicated to them that we want an alliance of hell and heaven to push us through these final moments here.
Jack Armstrong
So as I mentioned, he made $50 million a year according to when he was featured on 60 Minutes several years back. Never have had an idea of what percentage of people listen to him, believing him versus people who listen to him, because it's kind of funny. That's always hard to nail down. Then you got this different thing that we're going to talk about. Kicking off hour three with like Tucker and Megyn Kelly, who are now all of a sudden down on Christians and Jews and up with Islam for some reason. And once again, I have no idea what percentage of people are following them and believing that and why they're saying that stuff.
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Well, I have a theory and it's an evil one.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
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Evil one indeed. Yeah. Speaking of parody, I'd meant to squeeze this into the gender bending madness update, but I forgot. Is this an actual statement or is this parody Transgender athlete who beat his sister in the girls track meet to win the championship is talking about how the. The pole. The political climate is really making him. Her wonder about. About participating. That's been really scary because it started to seal steal something that's precious to me. That moment of bliss.
Jack Armstrong
The moment of bliss where you beat all the girls as a boy.
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Yeah. Hey, quote unquote, Lena, how do you think the girls who are girls feel about not getting a moment of bliss because a dude beat them? I'm not a dude. I'm a girl. Lena would reply, no, by your own
Jack Armstrong
definition, you're a girl's brain in a man's body, right? Well, you're in a man's body or a boy's body.
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Finally, Lena said, and this is not parody, this is reality. Playing sports and loving being out there on the field is its own beautiful way, an act of resistance against girls winning medals. I guess.
Jack Armstrong
I'm sure it is a lot of fun to win all the races. I. I wouldn't know. I never won lots of stuff at sports. But I'll bet it is fun.
Getty
It's very satisfying. Yes. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
So you run around the track faster than all of them. You get the gold medal. That's very exciting.
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Yeah. Unfortunately I was slower than the girls too. Speed never, never among my tools. But what are you gonna do?
Jack Armstrong
You're a four tool player.
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Play the cards you're dealt.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, we'll get into some of the most popular right leaning right wing hosts in America in hour three.
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This episode of "Armstrong & Getty On Demand" centers on pressing political developments—especially the tense situation between the U.S. and Iran, high-stakes negotiations, and the broader hope for the nation's future. Along with topical humor and signature banter, co-hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty take a closer look at Marco Rubio’s exceptional press briefing, reflect on America’s ongoing challenges, and weigh in on hot-button domestic issues such as transgender participation in sports and shifting media personalities. The show mixes timely analysis with memorable lighter moments and cultural asides.
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This rich, wide-ranging episode delivers clear updates on world affairs, memorable commentary on the American spirit, heated takes on cultural disputes, and the occasional laugh-inducing tangent—making it both informative and thoroughly engaging for listeners.