The A&G Replay Tuesday Hour Four

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand — "The A&G Replay Tuesday Hour Four"

Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Date: December 23, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty
Episode Theme: A replay hour featuring a blend of lighthearted seasonal talk, sharp social commentary, and debate on culture-war issues—including shipping deadlines, social media use, youth development, gender identity controversies, and the state of college sports.

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Episode Overview

This hour of Armstrong & Getty mixes classic irreverent banter, skeptical takes on government and social trends, and cultural analysis. The hosts touch on the quirks and failings of holiday shipping, how social media habits are shifting, complexities of modern parenting, controversial gender identity stories, and the changing nature of college athletics. The tone is candid, sometimes biting, with plenty of dry humor and generational contrast.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Holiday Shipping & Procrastination

[03:16]

• Discussion opens with joking complaints about holiday shipping deadlines from USPS, FedEx, and UPS.
• They poke fun at the reliability of taxpayer-funded services vs. private companies, highlighting a widely-shared assumption of government inefficiency.

Notable Quote:

“Interesting that people laugh there. It's just a given...taxpayer funded government run package delivery is worse than the private company.”
— Jack Armstrong [03:51]

• The hosts riff on gifting scratch-off lottery tickets, reflecting on family traditions.

[04:58]

• Jack wishes procrastination could be gene-edited out, indicating frustration with himself and his child who’ve inherited the trait.

Notable Quote:

“I want to give them the gift of not being a procrastinator.”
— Jack Armstrong [05:23]

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2. Social Media Usage Trends

[06:18]

• Dive into recent U.S. adult social media stats (source unspecified), focusing on platform popularity and generational divides.

  • YouTube: 84% usage rate.
  • Facebook: 71%.
  • Instagram: Half of adults (50%).
  • TikTok: 37% of adults, dismissed as “a communist Chinese spy device” and a corrupting influence by Joe.

Notable Quote:

“[TikTok] is not only a communist Chinese spy device and a perverter of the principles of our young, it is used by 37% of American adults.”
— Joe Getty [07:28]

• They debate whether YouTube qualifies as “social media" (Joe: “quasi-social,” Jack: uses it solely for consumption).

• Millennials discuss YouTube as social media due to creation and commenting (Katie).

• Discuss how children may access TikTok regardless of app installation.

• WhatsApp, Reddit, Snapchat, X (formerly Twitter), Threads, BlueSky, and Truth Social get brief coverage for their share of use, with special focus on how news media coverage sometimes overemphasizes niche platforms.

• Demographics:

  • "Women stand out" on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
  • Men favor X (Twitter), Reddit.
  • Hispanic and Black adults report higher usage of Instagram and WhatsApp vs. White adults.

• The changing nature of news consumption, with the evening newscast now largely irrelevant to younger generations.

Notable Quote:

“For my kids, it means zero. I mean, they don't even know that there's such thing as an evening newscast or a morning newscaster.”
— Jack Armstrong [13:07]

• The hosts note only 21% of Americans use Twitter/X, highlighting the outsized influence of a very vocal minority.

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3. Parenting, Youth Development & Scouting

[18:23]

• Joe improvises and reads a listener’s inspiring email about Boy Scouts life lessons. The key moment: a young boy, initially reluctant to attempt a 10-mile canoe day-trip, later volunteers for a 26-mile voyage by the trip’s end.

Notable Quote:

“I'm never gonna say I can't do something ever again.”
— Anonymous Scout, quoted by Joe Getty [19:35]

• Jack reflects: Kids rise to the challenge you give them, lamenting “gentle” parenting that removes obstacles and fails to cultivate resilience.

Notable Quote:

“If you make everything soft and easy...then nobody accomplishes anything.”
— Jack Armstrong [19:55]

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4. Gender Identity Controversies in Sports and Medicine

[24:50]

• Launches “Gender Bending Madness Update.”
• Critique of biologically male athletes winning girls’ state titles in Massachusetts and ongoing compliance in “woke” states.
• Reports of compliance and a lack of resistance among schools/parents surprise and disturb the hosts.

Notable Quote:

“We are far from winning this fight. We have just begun to turn back the tide a little bit.”
— Joe Getty [26:30]

• Discuss an Irish teacher repeatedly arrested for refusing to use “they/them” pronouns.
• The winner of the World’s Strongest Woman competition disqualified after being outed as biologically male via explicit content posted online.
• Critique of UK Labour’s clinical trial using puberty blockers on minors, against leading medical review advice.
• "Berrysexual" label briefly roasted as the latest example of granular internet sexuality identity fad.

Notable Quote:

“Hey all you berry sexuals and pansexuals and whatever the hell else you call yourselves, google...‘the narcissism of small distinctions’.”
— Joe Getty [30:42]

• Serious concern about silencing debate (Washington State university removes conference videos on evidence-based medicine due to activist backlash).

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5. Transgender Stories in Medical Settings

[39:49]

• Jack shares interest in news of a transgender woman secretly recording her own medical procedure and then suing for what was said while under anesthesia.

• Recounts a precedent (2013) where someone won a large suit after doctors’ unguarded comments were recorded during sedation.

• The suit centers on medical staff’s private banter about gender identity and subsequent change of gender marker in medical records back to “male.” The hosts argue this is basic medical safety: physiological sex matters for treatment.

Notable Quotes:

“Obviously I would think you gotta have mail on there, since male bodies require different care and maybe doses of drugs...or whatever, and react to drugs differently.”
— Jack Armstrong [44:23]
“This is a story about a mentally ill man. It's a shame.”
— Joe Getty [45:12]

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6. College Sports: Is It Broken?

[33:44]

• The hosts lament how “bowl season” has changed, with key players skipping games, or transferring out, making championships less meaningful and traditional.
• The conference system is now so scrambled (“UC Berkeley is in the Atlantic Coast Conference”) it undermines sense and tradition.

Notable Quote:

“Your team, from what I understand, that plays in the bowl, might have a different quarterback than it had the entire season.”
— Jack Armstrong [34:03]

• Joe notes players are now openly paid millions, and the pretense of ‘scholar-athlete’ is largely dropped.
• Will college sports attract new fans as traditions fade? Unclear, but attendance is still “hot” for now.

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• “If you want less of something, you tax it. If you want more of something, you subsidize it. That's why we tax employment and subsidize drug addicts in America.” — Joe Getty [05:33]
• “Mark Zuckerberg doing and the Chinese doing to our children...we’re so fat and stupid as a republic, we deserve to go away.” — Joe Getty [11:03]
• “I needed radical surgical intervention...I wanted to die leaving a pretty female corpse.” — Jennifer Caspasso as quoted by Jack Armstrong [45:02]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Segment Topic | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------| | 03:16 | Holiday shipping deadlines/traditions | | 04:58 | Procrastination as a genetic trait | | 06:18 | US social media usage stats | | 13:07 | Evening news generational gap | | 18:23 | Email: Boy Scout life lesson | | 24:50 | Gender sports controversies | | 29:26 | Changing vocabulary: “berrysexual,” identity labels| | 32:31 | Still fighting about sports gender rules | | 33:44 | Is college football broken? | | 39:49 | Trans woman hospital recording lawsuit |

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Tone & Style

Conversational, irreverent, skeptical of both government foibles and radical progressive ideas. The hosts use dry humor, 'dad jokes,' and flashes of cultural nostalgia, frequently referencing generational changes and the absurdity of modern trends.

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Summary

This replay hour delivers classic Armstrong & Getty: wry observations about American life, tech, and culture; defense of traditional norms (especially regarding gender and competitive fairness); and a call for grit and resilience in kids. The hosts balance humor with social commentary, skewering both bureaucratic sluggishness and radical ideologies, while occasionally invoking nostalgia for a more straightforward (and, as they see it, less confused) America.

Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

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

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

We took the day off. We are not live from studio. We're home. Actually, it's my son's birthday, so I'm not celebrating that probably.

[Joe Getty]

Excellent. Well, happy birthday to your son and enjoy this carefully selected, I mean, fine tooth. Covid weeks were spent in coming up with the perfect combination of past segments from the Armstrong and Getty show.

[Jack Armstrong]

So let's all enjoy the Armstrong and Getty replay. The Postal Service, FedEx and UPS just announced their holiday shipping deadlines. The FedEx and UPS deadline is December 23rd and the Postal service deadline is last Easter.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. The last day to ship the gift is December 23rd.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then scratch offs are like. After that, all you've got is us.

[Joe Getty]

That's all. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think it's interesting.

[Joe Getty]

Scratch offs as Christmas presents, holiday classic.

[Jack Armstrong]

My mom always gets those for us. Every single year. For whatever reason, it's been a tradition in our household. Only one time a year I have a lottery ticket. Is in the stocking, hung with care. Interesting that people laugh there. It's just a given. A given that we think the taxpayer funded government run package delivery is worse than the private company. We're just all in agreement with that. Enough that we can make a joke like that.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, it's a truism, right? Yeah. I've been asked to read this to you and so I will. I am nothing if not obedient. Our Christmas shipping deadline has passed. Oh no, we, we get it. Some of your procrastinators will do you a favor. Free shipping for anyone who wants to roll the dice. Because it's not like you won't get your fabulous A and G swag in time for Christmas. It's just a little bit uncertain at this point. So you go to Armstrongandgetti.com, get your ruin the entire country tea. That's your Gavin 2028 T shirt. One of our fine hoodies. The KFTC apron. Maybe the air force blue wing pint glasses. Order your A G logo gifts today. Armstrong and getty.com.

[Jack Armstrong]

We were talking about genetic tendencies earlier. I wish procrastination would be looked at at the highest level. They need to do a moonshot on procrastination and figure that out. And figure out how to use CRISPR technology to gene edit that out of people. Because it's horrible. I've got it. And one of my kids has it. One of them has It. And one of them doesn't. And it's just.

[Joe Getty]

I don't. Never mind eye color.

[Jack Armstrong]

How about procrastination? Yeah, no kidding.

[Joe Getty]

No kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't care how tall they are. I want to give them the gift of not being a procrastinator.

[Joe Getty]

Speaking of passing on your genes to your children. Your headline of the day. And maybe we'll take a look inside the china cabinet later, because I've got a lot of good China stuff, but China adds tax to condoms as it works to boost birth rates. Well, if you want less of something, you tax it. If you want more of something, you subsidize it. That's why we tax employment and subsidize drug addicts in America. Ugh. Moving along.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're taxing condoms.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

To try to get people to use them less.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, I mean, the tax would have to be just confiscatory.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

I mean, I'd rather have and raise.

[Jack Armstrong]

A child than spend that extra 30 cents, so.

[Joe Getty]

Right, exactly. It's not like they're. It's the question of, do you want a straw or will you sip your iced tea out of your glass? No, I don't need a straw. No, it's a. It's a condom, for goodness sakes. Anyway, moving along, I thought this was interesting. Who is using what social media in the United States right now? The numbers are in for this last year and they are interesting. And as you might guess, they vary significantly by age group demographics. YouTube and Facebook remain the most widely used online platforms. 84% of US adults say they use YouTube at least occasionally.

[Jack Armstrong]

I use YouTube every day, probably.

[Joe Getty]

I. I'm not a big social media guy, really. Why is YouTube called social media? I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't use YouTube as social media.

[Joe Getty]

It has comments and people post short videos and stuff like that. It's a quasi social media. Anyway. 71% report using Facebook now.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's 100% social media.

[Joe Getty]

Half of adults say they use Instagram, making it the only other platform in the survey used by at least 50% of Americans. Significantly smaller shares use the other sites and apps they asked about, such as TikTok, which is not only a communist Chinese spy device and a perverter of the principles of our young, it is used by 37% of American adults.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can you answer this app?

[Joe Getty]

32%.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Can you answer this question, Katie? Because I think it's important. Like, for instance, I like the fact that my kids aren't on social media. As I define It. They're not on Facebook or TikTok or Instagram, but YouTube's listed there. They are. They both use YouTube a lot. In what way is you. Do you use YouTube as social media? Well, you're a millennial.

[Joe Getty]

We're.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're what's beyond boomers. We're the silent generation. Joe and I were born in the 20s.

[Joe Getty]

I would think it's social media. Silent, what I'm talking now. Yes, I would think it's social media because you can record content and put it out there for people to comment on. And they've kind of gone the way of Instagram and Tick Tock with those shorts. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think either one of my kids or me use it that way.

[Joe Getty]

No, no. When you say your kids are not on Tick Tock, how do you know that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, they don't have the apps.

[Joe Getty]

You don't need the app.

[Jack Armstrong]

How do you use Tick Tock without the app?

[Joe Getty]

Just the website. It works better with the app, I'm told, whatever that means. The Chinese burrow their way deeper into your soul.

[Jack Armstrong]

But every time I've tried to use a Tick Tock without the app on my phone, it wouldn't let me.

[Joe Getty]

So that's interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, they tell me they're not.

[Joe Getty]

Have you. Have you rebooted? Let's see, moving along. Where were we? Okay, so WhatsApp rebooted. WhatsApp is 32%. I. I wouldn't know WhatsApp if some. I just. I don't know it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would. Somebody. I don't even remember what it was like a month ago, or somebody only wanted to communicate through WhatsApp instead of texting. Oh, it's so much better.

[Joe Getty]

It's. It's a phone number without an actual phone number.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it's. It's very easy. But I didn't understand the advantage of it over texting. I guess it's encrypted or something, and that helps. I don't need my message.

[Joe Getty]

Terrorists communicate.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't need my messages encrypted. But if you do, I guess it's good for you.

[Joe Getty]

About a third of Americans use WhatsApp. I was surprised. Somewhat fewer say the same as Reddit. 26%. Snapchat. 25%. X is 21%. Threads. 8%. Blue sky is 4%. Man, do you hear about that? You know, it's proof of what the media is, that you hear references to blue sky as often as you do. If you're into the news, it's 4% of Americans. Truth Social is 3%, by the way.

[Jack Armstrong]

A couple of my oldest son's friends, children of college educated, well to do, active parents, good families. They have the Tick Tock app and watch Tick Tock videos. They go to sleep watching Tick Tock. That's how they fall asleep at night.

[Joe Getty]

Oh boy. What are we doing to our children? What is Mark Zuckerberg doing and the Chinese doing to our children? As you might have guessed, already there are huge age gaps in the use of a lot of platforms. Adults under 30, let's see. Well, for instance, Instagram, 18 to 29 year olds. Because this is just adults we're talking about here. 80% of those young people are on Instagram, 95% YouTube. Again, is that really 63% of the young folks are on TikTok, almost two thirds. And if you look at any poll of where do you get your news? TikTok is number one for young people. Chinese communist controlled propaganda site. Seriously, we're so fat and stupid as a republic, we deserve to go away.

[Jack Armstrong]

You kind of gotta broaden your idea of news though, don't you?

[Joe Getty]

Also.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know how much news young people are seeking out at all. What's this Pete Hegset story about the second tap on the boat? I don't know how many people are interested in that at all.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, some of it's. It's kind of newsy, but I don't, I don't spend a lot of time, seek out a lot of news.

[Jack Armstrong]

When I was 20, like any really.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, let's see that. And they break it down in all sorts of interesting ways. Men, women, race, age, household income, urban, rural, lean, Republican or Democrat. Only 1% of Democrats are on Truth Social, for instance.

[Jack Armstrong]

Have you mentioned Twitter?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, just that 21% of people are on Twitter ever. So it's, it's like in. What is that so for. That's like eighth place. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then I know the numbers within Twitter are of that 21 on there, only like 1% post and dominate the whole conversation. This, this is not a breaking revelation. But like, well, like. Katie, you're a millennial. Did. Did the evening newscast have any relevance for you growing up?

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

None for you.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

And like in my household, my dad usually somebody flipped on the evening news and news was on.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Oh, okay. I just meant for me. I mean, I, I would always see my dad watching it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And then I did during the evening. I'm old, but like, for my kids, it means zero. I mean, they don't even know that there's such thing as an evening newscast or a morning newscaster. Newsc.

[Joe Getty]

Could you name your parents favorite weatherman or woman watching the evening news? Because I remember that was part of my childhood. I knew their names. Now liars.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, it was the only way to get weather for one.

[Joe Getty]

Right, That's a good point. So getting back to the who's using what? Social media. Women stand out in their use of several platforms including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. For instance, more than half of women report using Instagram 55% compared to 44% of men. Alternately, men are more likely to report using platforms such as X or Reddit. Let's see, white adults are less likely than black and Hispanic adults and sometimes Asian adults to use online platforms like Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp. For instance, 45% of white adults report using Instagram compared with larger shares among Hispanics it's 62%. That's a 17 point spread. Maybe it's just because Hispanics, blacks and adults is a little less.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, maybe it's just because I'm old, but I don't understand how a conversation is including WhatsApp and YouTube. They're like as many people are using cars or buying pumpkins this year is the way it sounds to me. I don't even know how they fall into the same category.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, if it was an analysis of where to put ad dollars, maybe I'd get it. But yeah, they're very different vehicles. You're absolutely right. Let's see. Democrats, Democratic leaning, Independents more likely to report using WhatsApp, Reddit, TikTok, Blue sky and threads. Republicans more likely to say they use X and Truth Social, obviously.

[Jack Armstrong]

Aren't we going to be on YouTube soon? Is that ever going to happen? We've been talking about it.

[Joe Getty]

Everybody uses social media way, way too much. Way too much. But we don't have time to talk about that. Yes, we will be on YouTube soon. Like in the new year, Something like that. Yeah, or shortly thereafter.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then you'll be able to watch this show on YouTube or watch it later on YouTube. I don't even know what's happening. Somebody should tell me.

[Joe Getty]

Carefully selected highlights. The plans, Jack, are in flux. Perfected. Just customized for your modern viewing experience.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I have to comb my hair. I probably should.

[Joe Getty]

You have no hair.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, will everybody be able to see? Everybody like Michael and Katie and.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think so.

[Jack Armstrong]

The other dozen people working on the show that don't get mentioned Gladys. As if people will finally see Gladys.

[Joe Getty]

We gotta have like a cartoon Gladys or something. She's very shy.

[Jack Armstrong]

She is.

[Joe Getty]

Ever since the Kaiser dumped her. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hope to Hope to be on YouTube in the new year.

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[Joe Getty]

I don't have a freedom loving quote of the day. You know, hang on. Watch this. Watch what I do here. Our freedom loving quote of the day is going to be an email. Wow. From Mailbag.

[Jack Armstrong]

Devastating.

[Joe Getty]

Combining the two, it's like when the stars of Happy Days would be on Vernon Shirley or just like promot. It is just like that. All right, here's your freedom loving email of the day. Sleepless in Danville. Call him Al Anonymous. Rights Jack Joe. I am an Eagle Scout. Went back as a volunteer for years to repay the many gifts Scouting gave me. I wanted to share a bit of inspiration with you that still drives me. Today on a trip to Northern Tier, a Scout camp canoeing in the Boundary Water Wilderness between Minnesota and Canada, we had a scout with us who was, let's say, used to living comfortably. Day two. Some of the other boys wanted to go 10 miles that day. No way. No way we can go that far, the boy said. And we didn't. Day 8 We were out there, pretty deep into Canada. We had two days to get back to camp. Well, what if we pushed it to this lake out here? The boy said it was the same boy. It was 26 miles. We'll be able to see more before we get back. When I asked him what changed, he said, Mr. Anonymous, I'm never gonna say I can't do something ever again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whoa. I have heard a dozen stories exactly like that since my kid has been around Scouting.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Wow, wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

The number one lesson, though, and it's something we know we just, we don't value it enough, is people, not just kids. But since we're talking about kids, kids rise to, you know, the challenge you give them. If you make everything soft and easy and you don't have to do that if you don't want to, or if it's triggering or it's too hard or whatever, then nobody accomplishes anything. But if you, if you really challenge them for whatever reason the human spirit is, I'm going to see if I can do it right.

[Joe Getty]

Right. That reminds me, let's talk about gentle parenting later. But. Armstrongengetti.com give whatever you can, even if it's a little. Thank you so much for that note, Al. Mailbag, drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongegetti.com Excellent reminder. From M. Who just wrote following up on our discussion just a couple of minutes ago, Venezuela, guys, is about China and preventing China from establishing a stronghold in the Western Hemisphere. Other than that, inside US Campuses. Yeah, excellent point, my lady. Or. Or deer. Or neither. Perhaps you're asexual. Anyway, it's a great point. Yeah, yeah. The Maduro regime is playing footsie with China. Following up on our discussion of Amazon drivers, John writes, guys had a far from nice car full of packages in the back seat with an Amazon vested driver pull up in San Diego's north country sporting Mexican plates.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whoa.

[Joe Getty]

So, like, suspect Mexican nationals are now delivering Amazon packages in in San Diego County. Okay, all right, let's see. How about this? Oh, that's a really politically incorrect joke. I may have to run this one by Jack and decide if we can even. I. I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a good tease for hour two.

[Joe Getty]

Boy and Marianne from Eagle, Idaho. Longtime listener blasting Trump's Rob Reiner truth. Out of line, disrespectful, unkind for a grieving family. He only needed to give his condolences, period. He brags about being a Christian, but hate speech proves otherwise. There is no support for what he said about Rob Reiner.

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[Joe Getty]

U N D It's a Gender Bending Madness Update so I kept hearing about this thing called gender bending. Man.

[Jack Armstrong]

Del Loco, we're in a brave new world.

[Joe Getty]

There's a lot of gender bending madness to get to. We've got to dive right into the cesspool of weirdness. First of all, the great Nelly Bowles of the Free Press writing wait, we're still doing the sports thing. Both the Oliver Ames girls volleyball team and the Somerset Berkeley girls field hockey team won state titles in Massachusetts while fielding biologically male athletes against all female opponents. Two different state champ teams.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wouldn't have bet that that was still happening.

[Joe Getty]

I know, I know. Korean spawn, NJ has been ordered to implement gender identity friendly policies and educate staff on non discrimination after being sued for refusing to allow a male into the women's nude section. And Nelly writes, I feel like these 2021 plot lines need to be retired. We've moved on. No penises in the women's locker room unless it's specifically a porn set. Which is a funny thing to say.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not surprised that that happens still, because the individual battles are still going to happen. But the sports thing? That took compliance from a whole bunch of different parents and teams and schools. And I thought that the that people weren't too scared to stand up against that at this point. I would have thought there have been so many teams that forfeited, so many parents that pulled their kids off the field or the court, that it wouldn't have happened.

[Joe Getty]

You know, I'd meant to mention that the the theme of this update is we are far from winning this fight. We have just begun to turn back the tide a little bit because in hardcore woke places like Massachusetts, for instance, they're still completely down with the idea of, well, he's now a woman because he says he's a woman. Trans women are women and they're letting them run roughshod over the girls. And finally, Nellie mentions an Irish schoolteacher who once again got arrested, not the first time, because he refuses to use they them pronouns for children in his class.

[Jack Armstrong]

You almost said a woman got erected, which in these cases can happen.

[Joe Getty]

No, I said a teacher, which you assumed was a woman because you're sexist. Moving along. Wow. The winner of the World's Strongest Woman competition was stripped of her title Tuesday. Organizers saw that the hulking American never mentioned she was born a man. I saw that. Jamie with two M's and they got.

[Jack Armstrong]

Caught because of some porn they had posted.

[Joe Getty]

Jammy Booker disqualified just days after she destroyed the competition at the official Strongman Games for Women in Arlington, Texas over the weekend. Congratulations girls. Men are better at everything, including being women.

[Jack Armstrong]

But he, she, he, he. I get these mixed up all the time.

[Joe Getty]

Don't. So dude.

[Jack Armstrong]

They had posted some porn on some site of them, like self porn, like making it clear that they had junk in the porn. So somebody saw that and said, hey look, this, this woman has a penis.

[Joe Getty]

I just saw it.

[Jack Armstrong]

So that kind of outed him.

[Joe Getty]

The organizers essentially said, whoops, no. Yeah, you're supposed to compete whatever you're born as. So again, well done sir. Way to show those girls what a real woman is.

[Jack Armstrong]

How could you take any joy in.

[Joe Getty]

That because you're mentally ill? Bad news from the uk. With the Labour Party now engaged, they have decided to more or less ignore the the incredibly important CASS review recommendation that any use of puberty blockers be confined to research. Well, they've taken that to mean. Well, let's do a major clinical trial. Puberty blockers involving 220 children under the age of 16, including kids as young as 10. They're gonna feed these children 220. These young children will be fed dangerous puberty blockers in the name of research, changing their bodies forever. Britain has so lost its way. It's absolutely terrible. Moving along. Speaking of those who haven't gotten the memo that this sort of thing ought to be over. Berry Sexual is a word that's causing intrigue online.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jack is that B or V as in vagina? B.

[Joe Getty]

B as in boy? B E R R Barry Sexual is, and this is quoting from a super woke website. Very sexual is a word that's causing intrigue online. But what exactly is the new identity across queer communities online, new language continues to emerge to describe the full spectrum of attraction for many. Discovering what? For many discover Shut up. For many, discovering a word that captures their experience can feel like a relief, almost like missed finding a missing puzzle piece. And it goes on for sentence after sentence. Shut up and tell me what very sexual means, even though it's stupid. Although very sexual remains far less well known than labels such as bisexual or pansexuals, it's slowly seeping into conversations on Reddit, Tumblr, lg, blah blah blah blah blah blah. Very sexual is someone who can be attracted to all genders, but with a distinct pattern. Attraction toward women and female aligned or non binary androgynous people is the default, while attraction to men or masculine aligned people is lighter, rarer, or more secondary.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, I didn't follow that.

[Joe Getty]

Did you know? Don't bother.

[Jack Armstrong]

Do you still know what Barry Sexual is? I don't. No.

[Joe Getty]

So you're mostly attracted to girlish people. Sometimes once in a while, maybe on the weekends, you're attracted to dudish people. That's all it means. Hey all you berry sexuals and pansexuals and whatever the hell else you call yourselves, google the following phrase or chatgpt it the narcissism of small distinctions. I think you might learn something. Moving along. Great piece by Christopher Kalib in the National Review about how the Washington State University removed a bunch of videos from a conference about the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine. Activists got hold of these videos of debates and discussions about what's really good for kids, what's really healthy for kids, and what's not. They labeled this society a hate group, attacked Washington State University for hosting the courses for nationwide use, and bullied Washington state into taking them down all in about a day. Went 0 to 100. The activists can still bully a university into removing a discussion in which this organization was simply saying we need to do medicine based on evidence. We need to be scientific about it, not emotional about it. What is the data? And for that they were labeled a hate group and taken down Major State University. This fight is just beginning. Just barely beginning.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'M still blown away by that sportsman. I didn't think we were still there anywhere in the country where there wouldn't be enough parents or coaches or schools that would say, no, we're not. We're not going along with this.

[Joe Getty]

Well, that's my point exactly. Is that in your woke areas? Because keep in mind, in California, Jack, the Rebels who fought against it and, and, and boycotted games and blah, blah, blah, they're still running afoul of state law. The state law in California is dudes get to kick the crap out of girls on the field of play in violation of Title 9. Gavin, even though you admitted to Charlie Kirk, it's blatantly unfair. Kind of sorta. With your rambling. I never say anything. Nonsense. It's a gender bending madness update. I'm pissed.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's the ending.

[Joe Getty]

That's the ending.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's. What's her name? What's she up to these days?

[Joe Getty]

It's a fella. He seemed confused.

[Jack Armstrong]

What's he up to these days?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. Nothing. Not pitching Bud Light, that's for sure. Never forget or go ahead and forget. It's just beer. It's fine.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I was listening to a discussion on a podcast yesterday of his college football ruined or broken, and it clearly is. I don't know if there's any fixing it. So it's bowl season. So your team, from what I understand, that plays in the bowl, might have a different quarterback than it had the entire season.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Right. Or a third of your players might sit out thinking, I'm not playing that stupid game.

[Jack Armstrong]

What's the point of that? And then you've got the whole. UC Berkeley is in the Atlantic Coast Conference. If you know anything about the way the conferences worked, Berkeley, the Cal is in the acc. I mean, there's a bunch of examples of that that just make no sense whatsoever. What if they'll ever be able to fix that again?

[Joe Getty]

I've read various ideas and plans that have been pitched for fixing college football. Again. A, it's complicated, and B, I don't care enough to really dig into it, but yeah, it's. It's. It's crazy what's going on right now. Players being paid millions and millions of dollars right out of high school to play for a college.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't have any problem with that. But they gotta. You gotta stay with the same team. You can't. That. That whole transfer thing or whatever it is, that's gotta go away. I mean, who idea was that?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I happen to be tuning into the Fight in the Line I basketball program as they got just absolutely dismantled by UConn again and thought, wow, I recognize one of those dudes from last year.

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[Joe Getty]

Everybody else is just a transfer portal guy or a Euro who's pretending to study or whatever. I don't know. It's ridiculous. It's still hot, though. You look at attendance figures and TV money and, you know, like, the Big Ten championship game. Number one, Ohio. Number two, Indiana, I believe. Or they're certainly in the top 10. That's right. They're number two in the conference. Doesn't matter. It's gonna be a great game. I'm excited about watching it. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

If attendance is still as hot and alumni are still as hot for it and everything like that, then I guess it continues on. And I don't know. It lost me.

[Joe Getty]

Don't know if it'll last. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

But, Mike, my brothers are super into college sports, particularly Kansas basketball, and they're. They're as hot for it as they ever have been. And all the conferences are completely different than they ever were.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. The question is, long term, will it attract new fans?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

These earmarks. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Players are making millions, though.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah? Yeah. Well, they should. Never played it down. Yeah, they should be.

[Jack Armstrong]

You got coaches getting $10 million. You got all kinds of advertisers and sponsors and all kinds of people making lots of money. The players are the ones that are playing the game.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And we get to drop the charade that this behemoth with an IQ of 68 but runs like a deer is, you know, a student, quote unquote, an IQ of 68.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, has that changed? Can you not go to class and stuff? Can you just be your major is I'm on the football team.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. They probably still fake it up for some reason, but I've lost track.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's always been the reality. I mean, if you ever went to college and had, like, some big, dumb athlete in your class.

[Joe Getty]

Not.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're not all dumb, but some of them are.

[Joe Getty]

And I had asked to be dumb. They just happen to be born with more athletic ability than brain power.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, but I had a few in classes at various college situations I was in. It's just like, what are you doing here?

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

And they're saying to themselves, what am I doing here?

[Joe Getty]

I can dunk the basketball and pretending to go to class. That's what I'm doing.

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[Jack Armstrong]

This story has no real point to me. I'm not trying to make a point of any kind. Because you might be, you know, listening, trying to figure out what's the point. I'm not trying to make a point. I just find this interesting, this whole story about trans woman who secretly recorded her cancer surgery. It's just interesting. She's filing a lawsuit against what the people said while she was under, which is, again, interesting.

[Joe Getty]

Every story has a point, whether you want it to or not. I'm not trying to make the nature of stories.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not trying to make a major point about trans or anything like that. So if you're waiting for that, it's. It's. It is unusual for patients to record their own surgeries, but not completely unheard of. I don't remember if we talked about this lawsuit back in 2013. Maybe we did. A man recorded audio secretly while he was sedated and sued during a colonoscopy because of anesthesiologist remarks. The doctor told other medical staff members that she found.

[Joe Getty]

Breaks your cell. I have no idea what the next sentence is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, this gets to what Joe was talking about earlier. We all say things among friends or text friends or family members or whatever. Things you know, we wouldn't say out loud to anyone else. And in this case, you got anesthesiologists or doctors or whatever. They don't think the patient's listening. So the doctor told other medical staff members that she found the patient so annoying, she felt like punching him. She said a rash on the patient's genitals was probably penis Ebola. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

You don't want that.

[Jack Armstrong]

The patient. The patient who was awarded a half million dollars by a jury, said he had hit record on his phone because he wanted documentation of what the doctor said. Why he worried that the sedation would leave him too groggy to remember.

[Joe Getty]

What are you worried about? Yeah, wait a minute. That sounds like a cart before a horse or. You weren't concerned.

[Jack Armstrong]

You were trying.

[Joe Getty]

You were hoping for something like this. Anyway.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, what they were claiming. And it's the same thing that this woman. I'm saying woman. This is what the New York Times is calling this person, even though they have a penis, that they were recording it. And I had this experience when I doing cancer treatment. You're so drugged up and they're telling you all these things you got to do. If I hadn't had somebody there with me some of the time to, like, write it down. You're giving me all these instructions of what I can eat and how many pills to take, and I'm half out.

[Joe Getty]

Of my mind on pills. So true.

[Jack Armstrong]

And so that's why this person said they were recording the conversation. It might be true, but you did it secretly. You could like say, hey, I'm going to record you just so I don't forget this. As opposed to secretly hit your phone and then stash it when they put you under.

[Joe Getty]

That makes it sound to me like.

[Jack Armstrong]

You'Re trying to catch them at something.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, getting someone's consent is. And letting them know they're being recorded is just common decency.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jennifer Caspasso, a 42 year old transgender woman, figured she was going to be dead in 18 months. She had been diagnosed with cancer and was going to undergo some surgery. She decided to secretly record her surgeons. I'll skip all the other stuff. I wanted to know what's going on. She said, knowledge is power. Okay, fine. The surgery moved. Part of her lungs did. Not getting around to playing the recording until a few weeks later. Well, that makes me feel like you weren't that interested in what they said about your instructions. Though the audio was muffled, she could follow some of what the surgical team was saying before the procedure began. Again, this is a trans woman. This. She has a penis in this story, it's a man.

[Joe Getty]

God, why. Why do you allow the New York Times to order you to pervert the language?

[Jack Armstrong]

It makes it easier to follow the story. But anyway, someone was going out for coffee. Did anyone want something from Starbucks? That's one of the things that got recorded during the surgery. The conversation just shift, then shifted. Still has man parts. It seemed to miss Capasso that they were talking about her genitalia. Wow, you are Sherlock Holmes there. On the recording, the healthcare workers expressed a variety of opinions about transgender identity more generally. Not that it's not right, but one person can be heard saying, and another said, I don't get any of it. And in the middle of the conversation, one person suggested updating the medical file. Yeah, it needs to say mail on here. The person said when Ms. Capasso woke up, she found out that her electronic medical records had been changed to M for mail, and now she's fighting to get it changed back and suing the hospital for misgendering her while she was asleep or whatever the hell. Obviously I would think you gotta have mail on there, since male bodies require different care and maybe doses of drugs.

[Joe Getty]

Or whatever, and react to drugs differently. There are a hundred or more differences in medical care between men and women. It's incredibly important.

[Jack Armstrong]

By the way, this particular woman had a half dozen procedures to feminize her face, all the while undergoing cancer surgery. Her brow bridge, her brow ridge was sanded down. That sounds pleasant. Her orbital bone was shaved to give her eyes an upward tilt. Her square chin was softened. There were cheek implants and a change to her nose, too. I needed radical surgical intervention, she said. The clock was ticking. I didn't know how much longer I was going to be alive. I wasn't going to die looking the way I looked. I wanted to die leaving a pretty female corpse.

[Joe Getty]

This is a story about a mentally ill man. It's a shame.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what I told you, I said. I don't really have a point of them. I thought this was all interesting. Brow ridge sanded down, orbital bone shaved to give your eyes an upward tilt. I can't believe doctors even do that.

[Joe Getty]

It's kind of the looking like a girl package. Yep.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

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