The A&G Replay Tuesday Hour One

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: The A&G Replay Tuesday Hour One

Date: December 23, 2025
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This replayed hour dives into wide-ranging issues with Armstrong & Getty’s trademark blend of humor, skepticism, and cultural commentary. Discussions jump from U.S. drug policy and substance use, through shifts in immigration attitudes, to the implosion of the Sierra Club under "woke" politics. The hosts' personal anecdotes, satirical asides, and critical takes on current events offer a lively snapshot of their perspective on America’s social debates.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Debates Around Substance Use and Drug Policy

Timestamps: 03:04–11:36

• Contradictions in U.S. Drug Approaches:

  • Jack opens by highlighting inconsistencies in U.S. policy: “We're droning people in boats because they're sending drugs to the United States...Yet...100,000 people drink themselves to death every year, and that's legal.” (03:04)
  • Commentary on some states rolling back marijuana legalization due to rising concerns.

• Addiction as a Business Model:

  • “It's a business that promotes addiction...their entire business model is they need more addiction.” (03:35, Jack Armstrong)
  • Both marijuana and alcohol compared in terms of physical/psychological addiction and associated risks, including increased chance of psychosis among heavy users.

• Societal vs. Legal Approaches:

  • Preference expressed for persuasion and personal responsibility over legal bans:
    • “If you have a society that becomes overly legalistic...I'd much rather persuade people than persuade the government to use its guns to get people to live better lives.” (08:08, Jack Armstrong)
  • Discussion of historical context, e.g., Prohibition and the anniversary of its repeal.

• Drunken Monkeys and Evolution:

  • Humorous but informative detour:
    • “Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit...that can equal one to two human drinks a day.” (04:54, Jack Armstrong)
    • This supports the "drunken monkey hypothesis"—that alcohol consumption has evolutionary roots.

• Notable Quote:

  • “I've known a few stoners...you sit on the couch as an overweight person with no friends or romantic interests, watching television, and you talk about it has had no effect on your life.” (04:34, Jack Armstrong)

2. Immigration Attitudes and Anecdote

Timestamps: 16:28–22:23

• A Lyft Ride With an Optimistic Immigrant:

  • Jack shares a story about his Libyan Lyft driver, who is grateful for the U.S. and dismissive of anti-American sentiment.
    • “He is just so optimistic about the United States…he said, it's worse now. The new guy is worse than Muammar Gaddafi was.” (18:10, Jack Armstrong)
    • Driver's children are well-educated and successful in America.

• Critique of Grievance-Oriented Immigrants:

  • Hosts contrast immigrants who embrace America’s opportunities with those who protest, wave foreign flags, and complain.
    • “If you can't make it here, you can't make it anywhere. Get the F out and bring in the hundreds of millions of people that would love to come here.” (21:07, Jack Armstrong)
    • Proposal to “run America like a hot nightclub” prioritizing positive, hardworking immigrants (21:23).

• Notable Quote:

  • “We get used to stuff that is so abhorrent that you'd think you couldn't possibly get used to it…If I organized a bunch of American expats to protest in Germany…it would be effing crazy and stupid and unproductive.” (19:54, Jack Armstrong)

3. Portland Protest Culture & the Woke "Mind Virus"

Timestamps: 25:10–37:37

• Quirky Portland Protests:

  • An aerobics class and furry costumes as protest at an ICE facility, praised for being “a very Portland protest” (25:22–25:51).

• The Sierra Club’s Implosion:

  • The environmental nonprofit is criticized for going beyond environmentalism and embracing multiple progressive causes, labeled "omnicause."
    • “They had only two full-time employees fighting against Trump’s incursions into the Arctic Refuge...but 108 full-time employees working on diversity, equity, and inclusion.” (27:19, quoting Nellie Bowles via Jack Armstrong)

• Loss of Core Mission:

  • Noting plummeting membership and layoffs as donors dry up due to mission drift.
    • “The storied environmental nonprofit became one of many omnicause shells...and the organization has imploded.” (27:12, Joe Getty)
  • Satirical jabs at DEI initiatives, including “language guides” for environmental activists.
    • “The Sierra Club's Equity Language Guide says not to use the words vibrant or hard working because they have racial overtones.” (28:11)

• Transgender and Queer Activism in Environmentalism:

  • Critique of linking climate, social justice, and LGBTQ causes:
    • “Electric cars should be paired with, you know, children should be able to get trans surgeries. That doesn’t make sense to anybody except for like 2% of you…do you realize that?” (28:55, Jack Armstrong)

• Notable Quote:

  • “[Lauren] Blackford, sweetheart, if you're listening, you're as dumb as one of the spotted owls. You're trying to—well, you used to try to protect—baby, smarter.” (30:45, Jack Armstrong)

• Discussion of Language Policing:

  • Mockery of Sierra Club’s suggestions to avoid terms like “pull the trigger,” “locked and loaded,” and “battle.”

4. Gender and Sexual Identity Trends

Timestamps: 34:34–37:50

• Observation in San Francisco:

  • Jack notes changing gender norms, remarks on confusion around lesbian/transgender couple appearances, and the proliferation of gender-bending fashion.
    • “So what I don't get is…you're a lesbian who wants to date a woman who has a penis. Is that what's going on there?” (35:03, Jack Armstrong)

• Social Contagion of Teen Queerness:

  • Parental anecdote about nine girls “deciding” they’re lesbians, seen as statistically unlikely and indicative of social contagion (36:13–36:30).

• Critique of Transgender Medical Path:

  • Concern raised about invasive treatments for adolescents, differentiated from straightforward acceptance of sexual orientation.

5. Spotify Wrapped, Music Economics, and Government Fraud

Timestamps: 40:23–45:37

• Spotify Wrapped Data:

  • Bad Bunny is the most streamed global artist, unseating Taylor Swift; hosts bemoan how poorly artists are compensated given huge streaming numbers (41:16).

• Music Payout Inequity:

  • Reference to Gene Simmons’ Wall Street Journal op-ed about streaming undermining artist earnings.

• Health Insurance Fraud:

  • Highlighting a GAO report where 23/24 fake ACA applications were approved, signaling systemic vulnerability.
    • “So they, they were 23 out of 24 getting the applications accepted. Stunning.” (43:34, Joe Getty)
    • Noting government inefficiency and people gaming entitlement programs—sometimes fraudulently, sometimes “fraud-adjacent.” (44:34, Jack Armstrong)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I'd much rather persuade people than persuade the government to use its guns to get people to live better lives.”
  —Jack Armstrong, 08:08

• “Run America like a hot nightclub. Two people leave, two more come in...You two, come on in, you're hard workers, you love this country, glad to have you, welcome, friends.”
  —Jack Armstrong, 21:23

• “The storied environmental nonprofit became one of many omnicause shells...and the organization has imploded.”
  —Joe Getty, 27:12

• “They had only two full-time employees fighting against Trump’s incursions into the Arctic Refuge...but 108 full-time employees working on diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
  —Jack Armstrong, 27:19

• “The woke mind virus is fatal to your organization. Which is why I've said: dismantle every DEI program where it exists: private enterprise, education, and government. Now, do it today. By the end of the day.”
  —Jack Armstrong, 37:50

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Segment Timestamps

• 03:04 – 11:36: Drug policy, substance use, and "drunken monkey" science
• 16:28 – 22:23: Immigrant attitudes and American optimism
• 25:10 – 37:37: Portland protests, Sierra Club’s mission drift, woke culture satire, gender trends
• 40:23 – 45:37: Spotify music economics, GAO health insurance fraud report

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Tone and Style

• Conversational with strong doses of sarcasm, exasperation, and satire
• Cynical and suspicious of government, bureaucracy, and “woke” institutional shifts
• Mix of deeply serious cultural commentary and lighthearted, observational humor

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This episode offers a rapid-fire blend of skepticism on modern trends—social, political, and bureaucratic—rooted in Armstrong & Getty’s distinctive view that common sense and gratitude are in short supply, and that America’s culture wars often produce more absurdity than progress.

Transcript

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Live from Studio C. We're still not back at work. You can't make us come back until.

The year 2026, so enjoy the Armstrong and Getty replay.

So we're of all over the place on this conversation about, you know, we're droning people in boats because they're sending drugs to the United States and considering them committing acts of war all at the same time. We got 100,000 people that drink themselves to death every single year, and that's legal. And we legalized pot in a whole bunch of different states. And now at least a couple of states are looking at making it illegal again for a variety of reasons, which is pretty interesting. I wonder if that's going to become a trend.

Yeah. One of the leaders in this trend, he talks about how, in the style of the cigarette companies, especially, and to some extent the alcohol companies, it's a business that promotes addiction. Their entire business model is they need more addiction. And there's unquestionably an addiction, whether psychological or physical. The marijuana, it's just beyond display.

A lot of people deny that they're wrong.

And there you have a five times greater chance of psychosis, developing serious psychotic conditions if you're a heavy marijuana smoker. And it's funny, whenever we talk about this, we get the one stoner who says that, why don't you guys do some research? That's totally not true. I've been smoking dope for 20 years and it hasn't affected me. Yeah, okay. Apparently you've smoked too much dope to understand what five times more likely means, so thanks for the note. Anyway, I've also known a few stoners.

Who had really sad lives who talked about how it hadn't hurt them any. I've known a few in my life. You don't do anything. You sit on the couch as an overweight person with no friends or romantic interests, watching television, and you talk about it has had no effect on your life.

Well, it's possible, but sad. So apparently, when the University of California at Berkeley isn't busy indoctrinating your kids to despise their country and become Marxists, they actually still do some science, and in this case, drunken monkey science. Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit, and careful measurement shows that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two Human drinks each day. Now, aside from being just interesting and somewhat amusing on its face, it supports the idea that alcohol exposure is not a modern human invention, but an ancient primate habit. The work strengthens the drunken monkey hypothesis and opens new questions about how animals use ethanol cues in their environment.

So the. The equivalent of a human drink. Because they're smaller than us, aren't they?

One to two. Yeah.

What's a chimpanzee weigh?

That's 40 pounds. I don't know. Oh, actually, they're bigger than that. Yeah, I think they are. Standard drink in the US contains 14 grams of ethanol, irrespective of the consumer's body size, although in much of Europe, standard is 10 grams. Learn to drink, heroes.

Do you have any adult drinks around here? Trying to enjoy myself.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, what they don't know is whether chimpanzees deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels to take the edge off. Those tend to be riper and richer in sugar that can ferment, so they might just taste better. However, many of the fruit species they regularly eat contain measurable ethanol, indicating that alcohol is a routine part of their menu and probably present in the diets of our human ancestors as well.

We got a number of texts on the whole, we're not bombing distilleries, but we are bombing drug traffickers, fentanyl, marijuana versus booze thing. A couple of them being that fentanyl. Pretty decent chance. You keep messing around fentanyl is going to kill you. Very unlikely. That booze is going to kill most people.

Right. Nobody's ever cracked open a Miller Light and died because Miller put, you know, 7,000 times the alcohol in that can.

There's also the. We tried banning booze once and it didn't go well. The fact that you just can't is part of it. Irma Gerd.

I totally forgot. Today is the anniversary of the 21st Amendment that repealed the. Was it the 21st or 22nd? I can never remember. I probably drink too much. That repealed Prohibition. Today is the anniversary.

It's the 22nd. Because I've known a few bars called the 22nd Amendment and Liquor stores.

Right, yeah. That's why, you know, clicked in my head. But anyway, yeah, it was passed just in time for the holidays.

Oh, really?

To the delight of many. And today is the anniversary, so cheers to that.

The worst part of that whole thing, of course, being it's kind of like the way Covid was the important and powerful, did whatever the hell they wanted. The rules only applied to you, and that's the way it was with booze. And that's really, really maddening, you know that politicians or the rich or whoever they were drinking as much as they ever drank. It's just that you, you, you regular working class people can't handle it. I can.

Right, right. And the one other aspect of this that's always bothered me, and it's funny, we haven't talked about this for a long time, is that if you have a society that become overly legalistic where the only question is is it illegal or not illegal, lawful or not, as opposed to is it a good idea or not, is it moral or not, does it make me a better person or not? I would much rather have things, I would much rather persuade people than persuade the government to use its guns to, to get people to live better lives.

Yeah, that's one of the things I really hated about when marijuana really caught on as illegalizing. It was just the non stop. Here we go, 100%. This is fantastic. Without any, you know, smoking pot on a regular basis might not be the best thing for your life. Let's keep that in mind.

It's practically guaranteed not to be. And that's as a guy who used to smoke a substantial amount of pot. Looking back, it didn't do me any good. I enjoyed it at the time. It made movies kind of more entertaining, etc. The grass was greener, blah blah, blah. Music sounded really great, but I love music anyway. I still love music. It's just. Yeah, you're right. To act as if it's an unambiguous good and harmless is just dishonest for some reason.

I keep thinking of Todd Snyder, one of my favorite musicians of all time. There's a punchline to this here had some song where he talked about people like drugs, they're gonna do drugs. And it's not which drugs, it's which drugs the companies allow you to do or blah blah blah. He had this very cynical attitud people trying to regulate drugs and everything. Like he's dead now at age 59 as of a couple of weeks ago as a guy who just couldn't ever wrap his head around drinking and doing drugs. Always thought it was hilarious that anybody would try to make him quit. And now he's dead at a fifth as a 59 year old because.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Unbelievable. Well, that was much more serious than my drunken chimp characterizations of a few minutes ago.

Do the monkeys drink to excess? Do they ever get drunk? That, that's an interesting thing because they have what, 99% of our biology. Do they ever drink too much and wake up and think, whoa, wow, I gotta get, gotta take it, I gotta do a dry January or something. Things have gotten out of hand.

Yeah, right. Actually it's very, very rare according to the scientists because they feed on fruit throughout the day and it's the fermented fruit that gets them a buz. To actually feel intoxicated, a chimp would need to eat so much fruit that it would be painful.

Well, let's see, that's interesting. That gets back to. That's kind of like with the weed thing, you know, your old time hippies will say, no, this weed that you're buying at the store is nothing like what I was smoking at Woodstock where you could smoke it all day long and you know, stay on your feet and keep your mind. And it's the same with a lot of booze. Our founding fathers drank all day, every day. Beer that just barely had alcohol in it. Similar monkeys. To get drunk enough to cause yourself any problems you did, you'd thrown up. To drink that much of the beer that they had at the time, we should just have less potent booze.

Certainly there's an argument there.

Yeah. And less potent pot just kind of keep the light buzz going. That's what you want.

Well, right, exactly. Yeah. Stay on top of the wave. So what would stress chimps out that they need a couple of drinks at the end of the day? Probably the whole mating thing or I don't know.

The whole mating thing. It's a pretty big deal for all beasts.

Yes, but that's not stressful. That's more like, hey baby, why don't you, why don't we have a couple of fermented mangoes and you sit on.

My lap and you wake up with an orangutan.

What do chimps do all day? They just gather food, right?

They peel bananas upside down and mate.

And tend to their little cute little chimp kids.

Monkeys peel their bananas from the bottom, unlike humans. And I've tried to do that. It's not easy. I don't know if you have to have the monkey fingernails or grip strength, right?

Like not, not the stem end. No, the other end.

Yeah, that's the way they peel bananas. And I, I would think they've got a better handle on it right now.

I was joking earlier that perhaps the chimps had, you know, hen pecking wives and they had a couple of drinks to take the edge off.

But long day, responsible, long day in the jungle.

God, I told you I will strip the leaves off this stick and turn it into a tool. This weekend, can I watch the game? That's my new chimp sitcom, Chi Chi's.

Place Right, in which he has a couple drinks every day like a human.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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Today's show is brought to you by the Official animal of Long Island. Ticks. Ticks. Get it off me. Get it off me. And don't forget high school graduation air horns. Pretend this is some big accomplishment with high school graduation air horns. And finally, Tylenol. Tylenol. No, it doesn't.

That was pretty funny.

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Official animal of Long island. The tick. Get it off me.

I had to take a tick off my wife the other day.

Really?

Yeah. You want to live in the woods? You're going to get ticks now and again, Especially if you have a big, furry dog.

Where on her was the ticker? Is that private?

That's a little personal.

Okay.

No, they generally go where, like, an article of clothing stops. So, like, the shoulder, not the. What do you call it? Your collarbone.

But since I've teased this, like, five times, I should probably mention it. So I needed to get a ride from a Lyft the other day because I had a truck that was getting repaired. So I need to get a ride from my house there. And I get picked up by this guy, and we're talking a little bit, and he's got a very thick accent. And I asked him where he's from. Older dude. And he said that he was from Libya. And he started talking about his. Or I asked him about his car. That's how originally he started. So what year is your Camry? And he said, oh, it's a 24, and blah, blah, blah. I said, my brother drives in 99. He said, Good for him. He said, because I had. I had a 2003 that I put 275,000 miles on it, and there's no reason to get rid of one unless you have to. And then he started talking about. This is a sidebar. I didn't know this, but with Lyft and Uber, they prioritize rides based on how new your car is, which is an incentive for. If you're a Lyft driver, your car is getting older to replace it with a newer one, because you get way more rides sent your way if you have a newer vehicle. He said it wasn't anything wrong with his older Camry, but he gets way more rides with a 24 than he did with a, with a 2002 or whatever.

It was interesting.

I did not know that.

You know, it's funny, having taken a lot of rides in London, that virtually every car I was in was brand spanking new. That explains it, huh?

But he said, he said, I didn't buy this. My daughter bought it for me. She's a. I forget something. In the medical field. He had three daughters that he had brought to this country that all went to universities and got degrees and doing really, really well. And he is just, he was just so optimistic about the United States. And I started to ask him about. Well, I asked him where he's from. Then he said. And I said, so were you there during Muammar Gaddafi? And he said, oh, yeah, my entire life was Muammar Gaddafi ruined the country. And he said, it's worse now. The new guy is worse than Muammar Gaddafi was. Which is interesting to me. I, I was not aware of that story. But, you know, that's the guy, the Muslim Brotherhood guy that took over, you know, that whole thing.

That's serious.

Oh, you're right. So who took over and who took over in Libya? Doesn't matter.

I don't.

Yeah.

To every question about Libya. Nice job, Hillary Obama. Way to take out the leader with no plan of succession. Oh, boy.

But the, the main threat of this whole thing is what is the deal with so many immigrants that come from really awful countries, so happy to be here, get their kids here, do well, versus the crowd that marches in the street with the flag from their former country and is angry about the way.

We'Re treating them, and lecture us about how you can't get ahead.

And is there any way, Because I got to believe there are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of people around this world that are like this guy who would love to get here and would be happier and crap to raise their family here? Is there any way we can make sure those people get in here and the people that want to get here and complain about it stay the f out?

You know, we get used to stuff that is so abhorrent that you'd think you couldn't possibly get used to it. Picture me as an immigrant to pick a country I don't know, Germany. As a young person, I thought I might live there. So I usually use it as an example. And I was somewhat annoyed with German immigration policy and I organized a bunch of American expats to protest that policy. And we marched through the streets waving American flags and thought that would do us any good.

And Maybe throwing rocks at cops and.

Setting things on fire. Exactly. That would be effing crazy and stupid and unproductive. And the people of Germany should probably. Oh, I almost said something unfortunate. They should probably move swiftly to export my ass back to where I came from. And how could any country not react that way? Because we've gotten used to that. It's absurd.

Well, my point is, since there's. I think there are plenty of the other kind of immigrant that would love to be here and would work really hard and do well, let's just prioritize them. You don't like hearing, swap them out.

I endorse your plan.

I'll pay for your damn ticket. Get out. Don't ever come back. I don't care what you don't like about the country. It doesn't get any better than this. If you can't make it here, you can't make it anywhere. Get the F out and bring in the hundreds of millions of people that would love to come here and raise their kids and be really successful like this guy.

Run America like a hot nightclub. Two people leave, two more. Come in, you two. Come on in. Come on in. You're hard workers. You love this country. Glad to have you. Welcome, friends.

This guy had tiniest thing negative to say about his situation in the United States of America. He's thrilled to be here and raise his kids here. Talking about the opportunities that they would have never had back in his home country of Syria, Liberia or Lebanon, whichever one it was.

And maybe Latvia, Nobody's sure.

He's certainly not going to be waving his country's flag and attacking cops and complaining about it. God, why would we put up with that? Why do we put up with that? You don't like it, go the freak back, right? God, that makes me mad.

We're off track. We're so off track and we're trying to get closer to on track, but it's gonna take a minute.

The fact that the media so often sympathizes with the people from other countries complaining about being here. Then leave. There are plenty of people that want to be here that would love it.

[Joe Getty]

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10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is where mindset comes in.

[Trainer Games Narrator]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Joe Getty]

Pressure is coming down.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

Most wonderful time of the year and Valpak is here to make it even better this month as you sip through holiday mail, don't miss the blue Valpak envelope. From dining to holiday shopping, there's a slate full of savings in your mailbox, plus a chance to instantly win $100. That's right, you could find $100 crystals Christmas cash inside. Want to save even more money on what you love? Go to valpak.com for local coupons and offers. It pays to open Valpak. No purchase necessary for instant win. Void we're prohibited. Prices are randomly inserted. See specially marked Valpak envelopes for details.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Five, six, seven.

Now through the grid line.

Good job.

You would be listening to protesters having.

An 80s aerobic class outside of the Portland Ice facility.

Jack as a protest they hold held an 80s style aerobics class. Now they've gone too far. Actually, that's a very Portland protest. I like that. Katie, I have to let you know at the end of that it Just pans to a man in a giant fashion furry blue fox costume. Wait, oh boy, did we have.

Did we have women in leg warmers?

Oh, yeah, and the leotards.

The whole.

The whole thing.

Let's get physical. Physical. Let me hear your body talk. Physical.

That is such a Portland protest. I love that. Portland, be Portland. You're not la, don't shoot people. You're not Manhattan, don't smash windows, do this. It's funny, it gets attention. It's quirky. And your protest is duly noted. And you didn't spray any bear spray in some poor cop's eyes. Well, who's just doing their frigging job? Anyway, speaking of the woke mind virus, I find this so incredibly amusing and satisfying, I can barely stand it. The Sierra Club, the time honored environmental group, is collapsing. That part doesn't make me happy because I think they probably in some form have a role to play. But they decided to broaden their mission beyond environmentalism to include a variety of social justice causes. And the organization has imploded. The storied environmental nonprofit became one of many omnicause shells they now call for defending the police and black reparations. For some reason, they've denounced their founder, John Muir. Natur. The argument is always the same. Defunding the police is environmentalism, and reparations is connecting to making sure swallows don't go extinct. But it's not.

So they've. They had to go after John Muir, the founder, because he wasn't woke yet in the 1800s or whenever he went.

Okay, quoting for a moment the brilliant Nellie Bowles from the Free Press. According to a longtime Sierra Club activist, they had only two full time employees fighting against Trump's incursions into the Arctic Refuge. Maybe you're in favor of that, maybe you're against it, but they had two people working on that. But then, seriously, 108 full time employees working on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Wow.

108. And lo and behold, donations collapsed and they're gone.

Oh yeah. If I'm an environmentalist and I've been giving money to the Sierra Club my whole life, I would be so mad to find out that they've taken on the Palestinian cause or whatever. Even if I agreed with them, as opposed to, I'm trying to donate money to you to, you know, stop the spotted owl from being run over by cars or whatever they do.

But in the way that the woke mind virus ties you up in knots, they put out a list of terms to avoid, which we'll get to in a Minute. But it also tells them not to celebrate clean energy jobs unreservedly because fossil fuel jobs are more likely to be unionized. Seriously? This is at the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club's Equity Language Guide says not to use the words vibrant or hard working because they have rach. Racial overtones.

Hard working has racial overtones.

Well, that makes sense. It's white supremacy.

The whole queers for Palestine being pro trans should be lumped in with free.

Buses, free pre k abortion rights.

Electric cars should be paired with, you know, children should be able to get trained surgeries. That doesn't make sense to anybody except for like 2% of you. Do you realize that?

All right, but they're very, very loud. So the Siquero club has lost 60% of its 4 million members and supporters from 2019. 60%. It's held three rounds of employee layoffs, it's got a $40 million projected budget deficit, all because of the woke mind virus. Unbelievable. In a downward spiral, a group of managers wrote in a letter reviewed by the New York Times to the club's leadership in June, during Trump's first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included, of course, racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more. They stand by that shift today. Here's the group's new executive director, who, Lauren, you're going to preside over it crashing into the ground. Quote, as long as climate change and environmental protection are viewed as just being concerns for a limited group of elites, we lose. We only win by will, by building a powerful, diverse movement.

Now it's common to say if. What if you dug up Thomas Jefferson and told him what was going on today, that sort of thing. But this might be the all timer if you dug up John Muir, brought him back to life and could explain to him that his, his organization that was all about saving the trees or having the water be clean or whatever was now being used for surgeries for trans children. He wouldn't be able to explain it.

Oh, I know. And this Lauren Blackford. Sweetheart, if you're listening, you're as dumb as one of the spotted owls. You're trying to. Well, you used to try to protect baby Smarter. Well, she threw in that, that these concerns are for a limited group of elites. Climate change, environmental protection in general. We only win by building a powerful, diverse movement. Lauren, you simpleton, you've destroyed your organization by dedicating it toward the omnicause. You're not environmentalist. You're a Marxist. You're a Marxist. Everybody else at the Sierra Club, how can you not? Well, they probably do, but they've been fired. She's arguing that's the only way for the organization to succeed when it is clearly, undeniably the way it is failing and dying.

Although she might say, yeah, I am a Marxist. Yeah, you got it. Congratulations, you caught on.

And you can say that all day long. Nobody will believe you because you're a right winger and nobody believes when you call people Marxists. Yeah, so yeah, they, they started, you know, a few years ago and just kept going and going and going. You know, I could turn, I could talk to you about how they denounced John Muir, but you've nailed it, more or less. Just hilarious. Okay, so here are some of their. Their common phrases to avoid and this is not. Folks, you're not listening to some sort of rerun from early 2021, when the woke mind virus was really infecting our institutions, or at least in a way we couldn't ignore anymore. It's been infecting the schools for a long time. Don't say pull the trigger. Instead say go for it. Don't say locked and loaded. Instead, try ready to go. These are all like gun related. Don't say bulletproof. Instead try untouchable or guaranteed to succeed. Don't say battle or battleground. Instead. Instead try struggle or debate.

Why are you using this lispy voice? I don't understand what's going on there.

I don't know what you mean. Don't say climate troops. Instead, united Movement for Climate justice. How about this one? You'll love this one, Jack. Don't say a day that will live in infamy. Wait a minute, we're on Pearl harbor now. Instead, try a day that history will remember. Or history has its eyes on you.

All the other ones I kind of understood, at least from their weird point of view, but I don't understand that one at all. Is infamy a bad word?

And instead of saying boots on the ground, instead try people on our side.

What's the concern?

The woke mind virus? Because it's probably. It's militarism, which is, you know, perhaps part of the permanent omnicause.

So my son and I are in San Francisco on Saturday. Did a lot of shopping. He really likes high end fashion, which is his thing. And so we want a bunch of fancy stores and stuff like that. He likes to look at them. Anyhow, we're sitting at a coffee shop there. Downtown San Francisco. Well, not downtown. Kind of like one of your super cool hipster neighborhoods. And coming down the street, we saw a lot of girls holding hands. Right? No big deal. San Francisco, you expect that? And we actually got in the conversation about how well dressed gay dudes are. And I said, part of that is you don't have kids, so you got, you get to spend all your money on yourself so you can be really, really well dressed and you're not busy taking care of kids. When you're busy raising kids, you wear sweats a lot and the same clothes you wore five years ago because you don't have time to like shop, care about that sort of thing. But so a lot of really fit, well dressed gay dudes and young women holding hands. But then we saw this couple, this female couple walking down the street and they were dressed the same, holding hands, which I thought, well, that's kind of cute. They're both wearing short skirts and high top Doc Martens. Like I said the other day, would Doc Martin. Could Doc Martin stay in business if lesbians decided that was not the shoe for them? I'm not sure they could, but. So, Katie, maybe you could understand this. So it's two women, short skirts, high top, dog margins, like black hose, some sort of jean jacket, kind of a cool look, holding hands. But when they got closer, it was clear that one of them was a dude. So. So.

Oh, hello, gender bending madness.

Well, so what I don't get is, for the other person, you're a lesbian who wants to date a woman who has a penis. Is that what's going on there?

Do you think that I have the answer to that question? Why in the world would Katie have any idea she's salt of the earth. Well, I am not into woman. No, no, normal love. That absolute paragon of American womanhood. Yeah, I'm not into the whole dudes dressing as girls wearing the same thing. It's just we reject sexual norms. So I'm dressed like a lesbian for some reason, but I'm dating a dude. But we both agreed he will also dress like a lesbian. Oh, that's so funny. You people are trying so hard. Oh, very confusing.

I was talking to a buddy of mine who just recently pulled his daughter out of a public school in a very liberal town because last year she and all her friends decided they were gay.

And it was like nine girls, social contagion city.

And he had to sit her down and talk to her and say, just mathematically it's not possible that all nine of you are lesbians. It just would be too statistically unlikely.

Right?

With given the fact that 3% of the population is gay, that all nine of you are lesbians. So somebody's not a lesbian here.

Yeah, let's. Let's be serious. The entire list. They decided they were lesbians, not transgender. Because, thank God. And gay and lesbian people. I stand with you 100% on this. They don't, like, try to feed you irreversible chemical treatments and surgeries if you happen to be gay. It's what's so insidious about the transgender adolescent thing. These kids are damaged for the rest of their lives anyway. Oddly enough, and interestingly enough, the first Sierra Club black board president, whose name is Aaron Mayer, became a fierce critic of this. He was like, no, we're the Sierra Club. What the hell are you talking about? He wrote a rebuttal defending the founder, John Muir. The Sierra Club refused to publish it and censured him when he published it elsewhere. The woke mind virus is fatal to your organization. Which is why I've said dismantle every DEI program. Everywhere exists private enterprise, education and government. Now do it today. By the end of the day. Close the business.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Today.

Music streaming giant Spotify dropping its year.

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End listening roundups globally. Bad Bunny was crowned the most played.

[Jack Armstrong]

Artist with a staggering 19.8 billion streams.

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The Latin artist now dethroning pop sensation Taylor Swift.

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Though this showgirl is still number one.

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In the US and in one of.

[Jack Armstrong]

The app's buzziest new features this year you can find your Spotify estimated listening age calculated by comparing your musical taste to others in your age group, looking.

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At the release years of the tracks you listen to.

[Jack Armstrong]

Most interesting. Yeah, my son does that where he checks out like he'll, he'll know various music artists and he'll, he'll find out I'm in the top tenth of a percent of that guy's audience of people who listen to him or something. 19 some billion streams. And how much money did he get out of that? Not as much as you should.

Certainly Substandard rabbit entertaining us at the super bowl this year. Correct. Wow. This season.

That's absolutely amazing. There's a an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today written by Gene Simmons of Kiss, about how artists aren't getting paid what they're due because of streaming and the way radio works and everything like that. It's certainly true. I don't know if there's fixing it.

No, I don't. I don't know how they would. I've been following that story for years and years. Coming up Next hour. By the way, has the British civil war already begun? It has according to a respected historian. Not a fake Tucker Carlson Jew hating historian, a real historian. And it is both really interesting and really troubling. So stay with us for that.

Is Oliver Cromwell involved or.

No, he is not. Can't be substantiated.

Man, if a Guy has got 19.8 billion downloads he should be a billionaire. And I don't think he is.

Yeah, from that alone. Yeah. Not just doing shows and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, those, those numbers are mind boggling. I really ought to, I don't know, subject myself to some of his over just out of curiosity.

Yeah, my, my, most of the stuff my son listens to I can't stand. But he had some new chick that he was into that we were playing yesterday as we were running errands that I liked and it fantastic. There was him some music that he listened to that I could enjoy also.

Oh good, good. I had Courtney Barnett pop up again. Now she's been a thing for a long time now but I remember your initial description of her as the really the number one lead artist in the deadpan lesbian genre. And that is, that is the perfect description. So this has nothing to do with music. Did you have more on Spotify or anything like that? Okay, so follow up to last segment's discussion about, you know, just the government is fraud, it is corruption, it is waste of money and always will be. This is a Great piece from Reason.com Auditors submitted 24 fake applications for subsidized health insurance. Only one was denied. A new GAO report suggests the Affordable Care Act. You know, you really shouldn't even use that phrase without pausing to note the fact that the Affordable Care act paid health care a hell of a lot less affordable anyway. The Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges are rife with fraud. This is the government itself. Let's see. So they, they were 23 out of 24 getting the applications accepted. Stunning. GAO report published Wednesday warns that there could be massive fraud in the health insurance exchanges due to lax anti fraud protections. Even after a 2018 study called for a more robust program to detect and block fraud fraudulent applications. So they already had a study and they already had, you know, the word went out, oh my God, we need to do a better job. But it's government.

It doesn't matter. They don't care. I know somebody's in laws who are really good at working the system. They, they, they like they spend time on knowing every government program that's out there and that they could possibly qualify. And it's not in their case, they're not fraudsters, but it's certainly fraud adjacent. It's, it's, it's stretching the spirit of the various laws, if not the letter. And they get all kinds of government money from coming up with various things that they can qualify for with elder care or sick kids or this or that or whatever. Wow. There's lots of programs out there that, if you're willing to, you know, be a little loose with your facts, you could easily, easily qualify for.

So the auditors created four fictional applications last year that used fake Social Security numbers and income claims that lacked any verification. All four were approved. In one case, the GAO noted that the Federal Marketplace said, quote, it confirmed the applicant's estimated income based on documentation we submitted. However, we did not submit any documentation to confirm confirm the income.

Wow.

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