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Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
And now, here's Armstrong and Getty Strong.
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Joe Getty
And welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show. We are on vacation, but, boy, do we have some good stuff for you.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes, indeed we do. And if you want to catch up on your ang listening during your travels, remember, grab the podcast Armstrong and Yeti on demand. You ought to subscribe wherever you like to get podcasts. Now, on with the infotainment.
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Joe Getty
And this week is always Fat Tuesday in Mardi Gras happening in New Orleans. And I just saw some Mardi Gras revelers down there. A cyber truck had pulled up on the street, and there was a tremendous amount of booing going on. And I just thought that was interesting that that is, like, seen as an. I was gonna say a vehicle, but it's actually a vehicle. So using it as a. Here's the sound. Doing a cybertruck pulling through.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, the music pulsates in the background.
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Joe Getty
Women are showing their boobs for me. Yet still time to boo the leader of Doge. Because you hate cutbacks in spending. I just don't get it.
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Jack Armstrong
Wasteful spending, idiotic spending. That's just tribal signaling. Ooga booga.
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Joe Getty
Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Speaking of that sort of thing. Oh, Michael, are you giving up playing chest for lint? I am.
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Joe Getty
Yes.
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Jack Armstrong
No more chess. So one of the themes that the president struck in his speech last night was getting rid of a bunch of woke crap and transgender this and that, which I thought was terrific. And we'll play some highlights in, I don't know, 20 minutes, half an hour, something like that. But I thought a couple of things were very interesting. One more newsy and one more philosophical. But first of all, the newsy thing. For the last decade, the establishment media have touted advocates claims as fact that we have roughly 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military. If you're not familiar with the term, it means a person of one sex pretending to be the other sex. Wow. And over and over again, I've heard the 15,000 number and thought, damn, that's a lot.
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Joe Getty
I never believed it.
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Jack Armstrong
But, yeah, I was. I didn't either, but I had no idea what to think. But this week, President Donald Trump's Pentagon revealed that the number is about 4,200 service members, which is still a hell of a lot, but it's just over one quarter of what they were claiming. This adds up to one transgender person for every 500 service members in a military of 2.1 million active and reserve members. I am surprised that it is that many. And I'd be curious as to what is going on psychosocially. That would, that would cause that.
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Joe Getty
I mean, you. You talk about ridiculous tribalism. I. I came across Bill Crystal's tweet last night. Most of you don't know who he is. He used to be one of my favorite pundits. He's a hardcore conservative, like in the classic style. His dad, Irving Crystal, founded, I think, the Weekly Standard, one of the great writers of conservatism, and. And Bill Crystal carried that on. And then Bill Crystal hated.
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Jack Armstrong
Called Barry Goldwater a moderate.
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Joe Getty
Bill. Bill Kristol, who used to be on, you know, like Meet the Press and Face a Nation and arguing for conservatives all these years, he hated Trump so much, he went over with the people that formed the bulwark, and they have become a grift machine, and they've just figured out that if they say bad things about Republicans, that they can make a lot of money. And this is what Bill Kristol tweeted out last night, stand with trans Americans. You don't have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump's act of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.
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Jack Armstrong
You've lost your mind.
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Joe Getty
Just because he hasn't lost his mind, he's become so cynical. He just thinks, you know what? It's all a game anyway. Screw it. There are enough of these people out there. If I take this angle, they'll continue to, you know, donate money to us and read our stuff and give us clicks and I'll make a. Whatever.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, the convert. Everybody wants to celebrate the convert. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Wow, that is some cynical crap, isn't it? So, speaking of which, those of us who aren't cynical have looked at the world around us, and I think a lot of you probably understand that the hardcore activists in the WOKE thing are Neo Marxists. And the WOKE thing is just an excuse to say you're in charge of this institution, but you're a racist. And I can prove it with my anti racist theories. And obviously we can't have a racist in charge so now I'm in charge. It's a method of conquest. It takes over institutions, be they schools or government departments or whatever. We get the hardcore doing that, but the people who want to be nice people and they go along with it. This is the useful idiots. And they. They are legion in their numbers. And often it's young people because young people are easy to. To indoctrinate.
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Joe Getty
The problem with that term is that Lennon's term?
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Jack Armstrong
I think it is, yeah.
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Joe Getty
John Lennon. No, V I Lennon. The problem with that term is that it's obviously quite insulting. It's not a good way to explain to someone that they maybe are being used for a purpose that they do not agree with. If you call them an idiot.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. You know, you make a good point. Let's go with useful morons instead. Useful half wits. No, it's. It's actually one of the better impulses in humankind, which is what I'm leaning toward. It's long been known that all the intelligence agencies and governments of the world are interested in influencing people to believe certain things, to support certain programs or certain governments. I mean, that's obvious, right? Propaganda. The Hitler Youth, the Mao Tse Tung and his Red Guard, just all sorts of programs like that. And a guy who's been studying this his whole life, his name is Jason Kristoff, and he did a presentation recently that was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson, speaking of rock ribbed conservatives. And he explained how mind control is easy to execute because he. Human beings are essentially walking psyops. He said, he, quote. He said mimetic programming, which is the process of having someone learn to imitate patterns and behaviors, is routinely used in Hollywood films and by powerful corporations and governments. Quote, mind control works on the subconscious. And the subconscious is something that loves us and wants to protect us. And it's in the realm of activity similar to your heart beating. So you. There are things you understand as a human being that you're not in control of. Their instinctive. Your subconscious mind is always looking to establish what the bigger group of humans is doing. And so it is responsive to repetitive content. Simply put, people are always looking to learn what a larger group is doing and fit in. Meaning that repeated messages can be enormously powerful. You know, obviously we're just talking about conformity here.
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Joe Getty
All, all sales organizations know this.
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Jack Armstrong
Sure. Quoting again from Mr. Kristoff. The reason the subconscious does this is because it knows that most humans like other humans who act, talk and think like they do. And all the subconscious know, and all your subconscious know that it's safer to bond with a bigger group. To break this mind control technique down further, your subconscious automatically absorbs repetitive content and forces people to adopt ideas as their own. Your reptile brain is telling you you decided this on your own to go along with the crowd, because for whatever reason, that works better with humans. It's more adaptive, as they say in anthropology.
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Joe Getty
That's why, for example, do any of my beliefs come from my own thinking, or is this all just because I was surrounded by it?
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Jack Armstrong
I think sometimes the best you can do is be intellectually honest and examine your beliefs and test them now and again and try the other ideas. But anyway, that's a great other topic. What time is it? Yeah, we're good. This is why, for example, at a party where there's a lot of alcohol being served and consumed, people can feel nervous saying no when offered a drink. Quote, if you dare say no in opposition of the most repetitive content, your nervous system will make you feel extremely uneasy and full of anxiety. And it will also reward you for going along with it, putting your neurology at peace and calm, in the feeling of calmness that, wow, so there's more.
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Joe Getty
To peer pressure than meets the eye, right?
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Jack Armstrong
Exactly. It's not weakness, it's. It's anthropologically adaptive. The. The problem is, you know, unless you're an alcoholic, you're going to be fine having a drink, or unless somebody's trying to feed you a roofie and rape you or something like that, you're going to be fine.
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Joe Getty
Bill Cosby's house or.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, Exactly. In short, but if there is an insidious group bent on evil utilizing these truths intentionally and aggressively, you get an entire generation of young people walking around saying, it's not wrong to have a man in a woman's sport, even though he whoops the hell out of the women and takes all the titles. It's not wrong to have a man in a women's prison because that man says he's a woman. They come up with an idea as ludicrous is that a man who says he's a woman is actually a woman.
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Joe Getty
And then certainly things that are easier to go for, I won't say, fall for, like hearing about climate change every class you're ever in your whole life.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Christoph actually touched on the COVID 19 pandemic in the response. He said media outlets push highly similar, similar narratives to, quote, unquote, control people, influencing them to stay at home. Mind control is the basis of all advertising, and the governments have been proven to be Using the same group dynamic application against the public. He pointed to examples such as the UK's Behavioral Insights Team, informally known as the Nudge Unit. Have you ever heard of this?
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Joe Getty
No.
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Jack Armstrong
It's a former government organization now run by a charity, which uses behavioral insights to change people's behavior, for example, by changing messaging to make people more likely to pay their taxes on time.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
Kristof believes such tactics have been used to drive social changes for decades, with depictions of large nuclear families on screen diminishing since the 1950s in favor of less conventional families with fewer children, among other things. And corporations use similar strategies. But we're running out of time, but you get the idea. And I've often said you don't need to do what the culture is doing, because a lot of that is designed by people who do not have your best interests in mind. So maybe the only great takeaway from this is if you find yourself wanting to conform, understand that that is your animal brain being used often by evil people to try to get you to behave in a certain way.
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Joe Getty
That's really interesting stuff, Jack Armstrong and.
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Jack Armstrong
Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty the.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty show so my 13 year old, and it matters what his age is, apparently wanted to open a checking account at the bank, or an account at the bank because he's got enough money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases and he doesn't spend his money like his brother does. He saves it because he wants to be able to put it toward a car someday and that sort of thing. So he's got a decent sized chunk of money added up over the years and he'd been keeping it in his shoebox. And so he's going to open an account. And I remember when I opened an account when I was probably about his age, I started mowing lawns when I was 12, 13 and accumulating money and opening a bank account.
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Jack Armstrong
It's a rite of passage. I remember it myself.
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Joe Getty
On the way to the bank, I did say to him, I said, you know, I haven't, I haven't been around the idea of opening an account for a bank in 40 years, something like that. So I don't know if the rules have changed, but so in case something happens. But anyway, so we get it there, sure enough, and so we're trying to open this account and everything like that. And first of all, many banks, everything is. I don't know if it's because the government comes down on them so hard or something like that. They, they Treat everybody like you're a wannabe terrorist. Like everything you do. It's like geez, lighten up. But anyway, he needs to have two forms of ID is where we ran into the roadblock. I said, what is a form of ID for a 13 year old?
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Jack Armstrong
He said.
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Joe Getty
And they said, well, your Social Security card, his birth certificate. Okay, great. So I said the fact that I'm his dad isn't good enough. I can't vouch for the fact that he's my son and I have an account here and have had for 25 years and open an account for him. I can't do that. No, we need to. And I said is that a bank policy or a state law or what is that? Because I was thinking, if it's a bank policy, I'll go to a different bank. But it's a federal law. It's part of the Patriot Act. I said, oh cool. Of course. And he said, well it's a federal. I said, you don't need to explain the federal government to me. And I hate the federal government. I said. And then the guy looked at me like I was oh, he got wide eyed like, oh, you're one of those people. You're Timothy McVeigh. You're, you're. You're one of those people.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, clearly I've heard about them.
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Joe Getty
I said I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous. This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a bank account for a 13 year old and as his parent I got. I gotta prove who he is because you can't take my word for the fact that he's my child.
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Jack Armstrong
Makes me child money laundering little mule for your militia, whatever you want to call him.
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Joe Getty
The Patriot act was so I was trying to explain it to Nery was so much crap that they jammed through. It's all because of 9 11. So you're gonna stop the next 911 by making sure 13 year olds don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess, yeah, whatever. Even though their parent who you know is sitting right there. I hate stuff like that. And the, and the. But they were, they are. Their eyes got so wide when I said I hate the federal government. And I was thinking if I was doing the same thing in my, in my. Where I went to college in Hays, Kansas and I said I hate the federal government. The teller would have said, yeah, me too. Don't you high five. I thought, what a difference.
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Jack Armstrong
Amen to that, brother.
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Joe Getty
But that just being. Oh my God, you shouldn't say. She said, oh she even gas. She gasped. The woman gasped. And her boss just looked at me wide eyed like, oh, are we about to have a fight?
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, man.
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Joe Getty
You have to have two pieces of id. Even though he's my kid, I just found that amazing.
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Jack Armstrong
All right, here's, here's the guy who retweets my quotes. Get ready to jot this one down and get it right, would you? Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there are two emergencies.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, but actually. Exactly. And I actually told my son because he was wondering. He was really like, is that something you can't say out loud? I said, I told him the most revered Republican president of the last maybe century, Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words in the English language are, I'm here from the. I'm from the government and I'm here to help you. I mean, he ran on I hate.
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Jack Armstrong
The government or I just saw a clip this morning. The government isn't the solution, Government is the problem.
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Joe Getty
And the woman who was typing furiously after I said that because she was so horrified that anybody would say that, I said, you know, all the money in my account, I made that by going on the radio every day and saying, I hate the government.
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Jack Armstrong
Living. By the way, if the Justice Department is listening or the FDIC or I don't. The CIA, the nsa, if they. I'm happy to testify against this monster.
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Joe Getty
I'm sure I'm on some sort of terrorist watch list now.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes, Michael, so wonder they didn't hit the silent alarm on you and then, you know, cops show up or something.
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Joe Getty
I would have been, I would have loved to talk to people and explain why it's okay for me to say I hate the government.
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Jack Armstrong
No, no, no. We've got to surveil him for a while and go through his mail and monitor his phone calls. We've got the NSA working on it already.
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Joe Getty
What I hate is the manager guy acting like it makes sense that we have a law that I can't vouch for my kid being my kid. That just seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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Jack Armstrong
Two forms of ID for a child, right?
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Joe Getty
When their parent is there.
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Jack Armstrong
How about he says his name, then I say his name. Is that two forms of id? And if not, what the hell has the. I know Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show. But right now, it's time for a gender bending madness update.
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Michael
I kept hearing about this thing called.
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Joe Getty
Del Loco.
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Jack Armstrong
We're in a brave new world.
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Joe Getty
GBM we call it around here. Gender bending madness.
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Jack Armstrong
Do we start with the positive or the negative? Let's start with negative and then we'll move through positive, then go to neutral, then back to negative again. Everybody ready? Okay, so let's start with the fact that the Trevor Project, which is an organization dedicated quote to advocacy, education and crisis support for LGBTQ + over the power of three young people, has partnered with a bunch of major corporations to get gigantic donations. What does the Trevor Project do? I'm sure they do some stuff that's just fine. It includes counseling sessions, a crisis hotline, LGBTQ + minus over the power three, training for cultural competency, and Trevor Space, an online community where adults communicate with minors about sexual fetishes like bondage and medicalized gender related interventions. According to its own website, Trevor Space Remains active, has over 400,000 users from the ages of 13 through 20.
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Joe Getty
400,000?
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Jack Armstrong
Yes. Macy's major donor. Just gonna scroll through these. Abercrombie and Fitch, Petco, big Trevor project sponsor, I buy direct.
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Joe Getty
Yes, they jumped on this a couple years ago when they thought they had to, right?
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Jack Armstrong
I guess. But they're still doing it through this year. Huge donations knock around a sunglasses company, Conscious Step, a sock company, if jewelry company, Pura Vida, Guess watches, and more.
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Joe Getty
If this raises in people's consciousness, a lot of those companies will back out and say, we no longer believe in weighing in on political issues.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, well, maybe that'd be a good thing. When the United States Department of Health and Human Services put out a report that joined Great Britain and the Netherlands and France and virtually all of Europe in saying that the quality of research on so called gender affirming care for minors is very, very low. There is nothing to support that intervening when children are momentarily confused is a good idea. There's nothing to support that. Well, the treasurer, the Trevor Project, condemned that report as dangerous misinformation. Transgender status is an immutable trait like eye color or height. And using language that suggests otherwise perpetu falsehoods and stereotypes says the good folks at the Trevor Project. All right, speaking of transgenderism, this is our man of the year, the gender bending madness man of the year. Daviana, formerly David Clip 30 Michael, think you might be interested in what this bloke has to say.
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Daviana
I am a 47 year old biological man. I have been on hormones for a year, a little over a year. I just had my boobs done. I've had one facial surgery. I am not going to have bottom surgery. I'm going to one more face surgery on the bottom of my chin. I am transitioning to look as much like a female as I can. That's the way I've wanted to be my whole life. I understand that I cannot ever be a biological female. For those of you people that cannot define what a female is, realize that you're part of the problem. Okay? A female is someone who was born a female with X chromosomes and can have babies and so on and so forth. Stuff for the idiots out there that say that some men can have babies because they're trans men, well, that's because they're a biological woman. So let's stop all the nonsense and.
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Joe Getty
Stop all the wow. So that's a guy who's on our side a lot of that stuff, but yet getting facial reconstruction surgery and boob.
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Jack Armstrong
Jobs and the rest of it. Yeah, he wants to look like a woman.
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Joe Getty
What an interesting. What you know is you're right. I guess I think you're you.
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Jack Armstrong
Do you, brother?
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Joe Getty
I think when you start operating on your jawline to get it a different shape, you're into mental health territory.
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Jack Armstrong
But I would agree. But at least he knows what a woman is.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. And he thinks people are crazy who think that women, men can have babies.
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Jack Armstrong
Speaking of crazy. Yeah, absolutely. In the formerly sane, hardworking city of Chicago, madness has taken root. Garrett Tenney of Fox News reporting.
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Garrett Tenney
A drag story time for kids 2 to 5 years old drew a crowd of more than 100 supporters today outside a Chicago Public Library branch on the city's north side, drowning out a handful of protesters calling for the event to be canceled.
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Joe Getty
They have an issue because they have men in women's clothing. I've known drag queens for a long time. They teach kids more about life than some of these right wingers do.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow. They teach kids more about life than some of these right wingers do. Wow. That's a powerful argument.
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Joe Getty
Well, that's from a person who probably because this crowd I'm around, some of these people, they're so obsessed with sex and gender stuff that is life to them. So they are right. If you define life as never doing anything else but discussing sex and gender and sexual activity, then, yes, you do teach kids more about life than right wingers do. We're kind of bigger on, like, math and reading and learning a skill and morality and don't steal and be nice to people and stuff like that.
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Jack Armstrong
And knowing which sex has babies. Next clip.
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Garrett Tenney
Beyond today's drag story time, Chicago Public Library's Pride Month events includes intergenerational queer art making events with identity affirming stations and story time with the controversial group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence that features queer men wearing heavy makeup dressed as nuns.
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Joe Getty
Hi, everyone.
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Garrett Tenney
Protesters say these kind of events, supported with taxpayer dollars, are just wrong.
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Joe Getty
And having them read in drag is just inappropriate. And just because it's Pride Month does.
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Jack Armstrong
Not give you the permission to do it. Interestingly, all of the protesters featured on the special Report report were black folks. Wow. Down with the madness.
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Joe Getty
That is interesting. Yeah, the black community, the Hispanic community, they don't dig this stuff. So where was. I know it was happening in Chicago, but that was that attached to a school or a library?
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Jack Armstrong
Public library. The Chicago Public Library.
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Joe Getty
So that's where the federal tax or the. The tax money comes in, right?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, exactly. You remember that brainiac with his argument about drag queens teach kids more about life? See how you like this bit of logic.
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Garrett Tenney
The library is defending its Pride Month events, telling a local outlet the library represents the entire city, including the LGBTQ community. And trans activists say anyone who has a problem with these kinds of events doesn't have to show up.
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Jack Armstrong
This is about freedom to parent how you want to. It's not about the drag that you.
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Michael
See at adult shows.
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Jack Armstrong
This is somebody in a ball gown sitting down, reading stories to kids. All right, so what I wanted to get to was the part about, if you don't like it, don't show up. So if I don't know the Klan were indoctrinating kids into a Perverse ideology at the local library. Hey, if you don't like it, don't show up.
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Joe Getty
You don't need to go that far with an example. How about if you had people who just believed marriage is between a man and a woman? They're going to have a big event. You're going to allow that at the library? I doubt it.
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Jack Armstrong
It the truth of God is revealed in the Bible, Right? We're going to teach kids that at the library. If you don't like it, don't show up. No, you would go ape. S you, you lying crazed simpletons.
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Joe Getty
Finally, this name. The crazed simpletons.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, please. We're gonna. We're gonna rehearse tonight for the first time. My living room. This is. We mentioned this yesterday. It is so weird and disappointing. Griff Jenkins here. It was venomous because I think venom is all. The other side really has an Olympic.
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Tim Walls
Sized feud sparked by seven times gold medalist Simone Biles blasting US Swimmer Riley Gaines for calling foul on a Minnesota high school women's softball team winning a state title with a biological male pitcher. You're truly sick. All of this campaigning because you lost a race, Bowles wrote, adding straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community. Even appearing to body shame gains in another post telling her to bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, we read those yesterday. I can't believe Simone Biles said that. Somebody who's competed at the highest level of athletics. To say you're just mad because you lost is really surprising to me.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And the idea that. Yeah, a male ballplayer dominated the girls and that's cool with you, Riley, or I'm sorry, Simone.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Hey, Katie. You were. You're an athlete. Did you play softball?
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Michael
I did not.
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Joe Getty
You did not?
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Michael
I played basketball.
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Joe Getty
You think if a dude was playing on a. They ever played coed basketball?
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Michael
Oh, yeah. We had to scrimmage the boys and there were a lot of injuries there.
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Joe Getty
And did, you know, notice any advantages the boys had over the girls in terms of speed or height or strength?
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Michael
A couple.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Michael
All of them.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Roll on.
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Tim Walls
Michael Gaines fired back, resurfacing a 2017 Biles tweet that read, good thing guys don't compete against girls or he'd take all the gold medals. And she questioned Biles potential success had she been forced to compete with biological men.
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Jack Armstrong
If Simone's inclusive dream came true, she would have zero Olympic medals. Yeah. Simone Biles literally tweeted of a male gymnast who is doing amazing things. Good Saying they don't compete against us because they're way bigger and stronger. And she's. This is, this is a great. Because she's a fairly bright person, from what I've seen, this is a textbook case of ideology blinding someone to reality.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, well, and I'm sure she's immersed in people who think the same way, so she assumes that she's on the popular side of this. You're not. Right. And I liked Riley Gaines blast about. Okay, do the rings then. Why is that just a male sport? The rings, why is that not the girls? Because it takes incredible upper body strength.
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Jack Armstrong
And the final clip, which is great. But I need to apologize in advance. There is something shocking here, something people will not want to hear. And that's the name Tim Walls again. For some reason, just when you thought he'd gone away for good.
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Tim Walls
The war of words follows a lawsuit filed in Minnesota on behalf of three female softball players calling the transgender pitcher a Violation of Title 9. The White House weighing in saying President Trump is protecting women in sports and restoring common sense. But Minnesota Governor Tim Walls is defending politicians who stand with transgender athletes.
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Joe Getty
Shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for.
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Jack Armstrong
Thinking they're gonna get it. Shame for throwing a trans child under the bus. No, they can be on the bus or next to the bus or in front of the bus or behind the bus. They just can't be on a sports field competing against girls because they're dudes. Tim, you moron, who's that crowd that cheered like that? Yeah, I know, I know. The one thing that's become, that's so reassuring though to me now is all of the polls that have been done show this is an 8020 issue, right? And so I hear that cheering and think, wow. I mean, granted that's a very blue pocket of America, but you found yourself some, some real out there radical believers who cheer that garbage. Tell you what it's folks, it's gender bending madness. Armstrong and getty.
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Jack Armstrong
The Armstrong and Getty Show. Anyway, back to Katie.
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Michael
This is. This is just a silly story that I had actually forgotten about until this conversation came up. One of my top favorite bosses of all time, and I think you know him. Paul Hosley.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, Paul, what a good dude.
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Michael
Love him. So I get off the air in San Francisco and he comes. Comes into the. Into the studio and he goes, hey, Katie, I need to talk to you in my office for a second. And he is stone serious. And I'm thinking, oh, boy, what did I say? What did I do? Whatever. So I go into his office and he sits me down and he goes, so what is going on with your car?
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Jack Armstrong
What?
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Michael
Yeah, exactly my reaction. I'm like, what. What are you talking about?
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Joe Getty
You get out of your car like a dude and it's just weird.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes. It's off putting.
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Michael
Yeah, that was it. And he goes, you're the pictures on your car. And I'm like, the pictures on my car? The only thing I have on my car is a Blink 182 sticker on my window. And he goes, okay, let's. Let's go to the garage. So.
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Jack Armstrong
And the license plate. Yeah.
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Michael
So we walk down to the garage and we go to the back of my car, which is parked right next to the elevator. And at this time. So this is like 10:30 in the morning. Okay.
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Joe Getty
Okay.
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Michael
All over the back of my car, below the. The windshield or below the windshield so I couldn't see it, are triple X porn photos ripped out of a magazine.
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Joe Getty
Oh, like just taped on there, laying on there.
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Michael
T. Taped to the back of my car, like. And.
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Jack Armstrong
And we know what sex is play.
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Michael
I mean.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, boy. Bleep that, Hansen.
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Michael
Yep. It went all the way up to just about as triple X as you can get. And I world, as they say.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes.
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Michael
Mortified, I'm. I looked at my. Like, Paul, I have no keep in mind. My drive to San Francisco was about 35 minutes. So I drove from home over the bridge into San Francisco with this on the back of my car.
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Joe Getty
Oh, okay.
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Michael
So I, I go into my text messages because I hadn't checked them. People used to text message me at ungodly hours. And I see a text from one of my friends that says, hope you have a good work morning. And I knew I. From this. The second I saw, I went, this dick. It was him. He came up, he walked to my house and he taped these things to the back of my car. So Paul and I had a little bit of a laugh about it. We go back up into his office and Paul goes, hey, let's call your friend.
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Jack Armstrong
And I'm like, okay.
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Michael
So I call him, I call him and I start, you know, fake crying. I'm like, ryan, dude, my boss, really. My boss would like to talk to you.
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Joe Getty
Oh my God.
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Jack Armstrong
So this is, this is the appropriate vengeance.
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Joe Getty
This is making me uncomfortable.
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Jack Armstrong
This is justice.
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Michael
So Paul has him on speakerphone and he goes, hi, Ryan, this is, this is Katie's program director here in San Francisco, and I just wanted to discuss the images that you put on the back of her car. We actually have security from the building here as well.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, boy.
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Michael
And you can hear Ryan going, no, no. And then Paul start busted up laughing. But anyway, that's pretty good. The reason this story came up is because we were talking about the weirdest reasons we've ever been called into our boss's office. And my brain went, oh my God, that happened.
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Joe Getty
Oh, that is. That is a good way to get back at somebody, though. I would not have thought of that. That's good.
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Michael
It was mortifying.
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Jack Armstrong
Anyway, if you are doing this job and you get called into the boss's office and you're not fast forwarding through everything you said in your head, you're not doing the job. Right.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Michael
It's a. It was a short walk to Paul's office, but I'm going, okay. What did I. I did this news story, a comment. I'm like, I had no idea at all.
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Joe Getty
Go ahead, Joe.
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Jack Armstrong
I was just gonna say we've like had serious stressful issues with people completely freaked out and pissed off. Some of them performatively about things we've said. And I'd say two of the three I never saw coming.
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Joe Getty
No, I was gonna say, every time I've gotten in trouble for saying something, it's like something I don't even remember. I say edgy things sometimes and they go, oh boy, that might get me in trouble. That's not the one. It's the thing I didn't even think of. For some reason. That usually ends up with the TV cameras outside the radio station.
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Jack Armstrong
And then there is. I need to come up with a name for it. It's like my white whale. It's the one thing I said once that I thought, that's it. I've ended my career. I shouldn't have said that. Whoops. And I was. I was. I was virtually certain it would be devastating and nothing ever came of it. And you can ply me with booze. You can put me on the rack.
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Joe Getty
Give him a glowy.
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Jack Armstrong
You can. Or a handy or the other thing. The only other thing might get me. I don't know. Try it. I gotta go to church. I need to get to go to church and have my ears washed out. And I will never admit it. I will never repeat it. It will not be repeated.
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Joe Getty
God. One time we angered the Asians and every TV station sent their Asian girl reporter to the radio station to.
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Jack Armstrong
That was the funny part of it. And we've seen that sort of thing. If you say something insensitive about like affirmative action for black people or something like that, all of a sudden you find out every. Every station in town happens to have a black reporter too.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
And they're reporting on this story. It's hilarious. Once you of it, it's. It's like a hundred percent. Italian Americans are angered at the cancellation of the parade. We go to Luigi Perconi for a report. Come on, Armstrong and Getty. This is an iHeart podcast.