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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Ashley Kinetti
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Ashley Kinetti
Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Respiratory illness activity remains high across much of the country. 23 states are listed as high or very high. The CDC says flu activity is elevated nationwide and this is now classified as A high severity flu season for all age groups for the first time in seven years. Officials estimate there have been 19,000 flu deaths so far this season.
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Joe Getty
Wow. I just did a little trip. So I was in airports, I was on planes, I was in Ubers, I was in restaurants, etc. And I don't feel I have a sore throat today and a couple other symptoms I won't mention. Anyway, I googled them and. And it says unmentionable symptoms.
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Ashley Kinetti
Is anybody else's mind going wild right now? Show a hand.
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Joe Getty
You know what it is. If it's unmentionable, you know what it is. And I'm not going to mention it, but it's definitely the symptoms I have. It says I could have the flu. I mean, like the first five hits were if I have a sore throat. And the things that I'm not going to mention, it's the flu. So we'll see.
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Ashley Kinetti
It's the Gallup Atrocks, folks. That's what I'm guessing.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Ashley Kinetti
Email your guesses to mailbag@armstronggetty.com Don't. Don't.
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Joe Getty
So we'll see.
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Ashley Kinetti
Oh, boy. Yeah, I've got a good friend. He and his wife laid low, low for week 10 days. I got too much to do.
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Joe Getty
My son had. My son had a sore throat last night. Not good. So he had a sore throat. Now I've got a sore throat. And I told him, you can't be sick, dude. We got school. Got a bunch of things going on in school. Volleyball games, practice. Can't be sick, but we'll see.
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Ashley Kinetti
Well, talk to the microbes, not your son. They're in charge. Here's. Here's my only complaint, and then we can move on. Do we have to name everything these days? So you got your flu, you got your rsv, you got your Covid. And there's a fourth one. They're calling it a quad damic, right? No, they don't. But they don't need to. We don't need a clever name for everything.
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Joe Getty
That's a good point.
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Ashley Kinetti
Who decided that every. Every hobby has to. Hot girl, Summer or I'm a. I'm a downsizer. I'm a. Just stop it. Just say what. Say what you want to say. You don't need to name it, you know. I'm sorry. Tangent. On a tangent. We really don't have time, but my son sent me a great think piece about how what you do is what you are. Don't accept the label of what you are. Then do that, you know, don't be a type, do what you think is important, live your life, and then, you know, if it turns out you're a certain sort of person, great. But everybody is so anxious online to declare what sort of person they are. And generally it has.
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Joe Getty
So do you think people hear a label and then, like, adjust their lives to fit into that label?
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Ashley Kinetti
Yes. To get along, interesting. To be cool.
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Joe Getty
That might be true. That might, like, happen to a lot of us. Where. Well, I'm. I'm kind of. I think maybe I do that. Like, I've got, like, a vision of the thing I am or my brand in my head or other people's heads, and then I gotta fit into that, which is weird because I don't have to. Nobody's making me.
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Ashley Kinetti
Yeah, yeah. I'm just. I'm big on freedom, but, you know, I've just been including freedom from your own, like, dopey limitations on yourself because they don't have. There's no good reason for them.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Ashley Kinetti
But we all work on it every day. I mean, I'm. I'm not claiming to be some sort of guru anyway, so this is important, friends. Important and interesting and in a way, amusing. Perhaps you heard last week that the AP and Jim Acosta, who's just a dickweed. Sorry, I'm sorry. That was rude. Trying to organize some sort of. Let it drop. I'm just. I'm an angry man. I've got a. I'm seething under the surface. But they are trying to organize this absolutely idiotic boycott of the Trump administration as journalists and. Or some sort of organized resistance where if Trump does something naughty or Elon Musk does something that makes us mad, all of us will write editorials on our editorial page condemning it at once. And we will join together as a collect activist media controlled by one agenda that's got kind of a bad reputation.
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Joe Getty
Right? And then they could have their own headlines saying a majority of media have decided to boycott the Trump administration due to its lies or something like that. So they could do something, then report, but they're doing it like. Like it's outside of their choice or something.
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Ashley Kinetti
But the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Taylor Buttowich, was talking Axios the other day and summed it up in a great way. I think this isn't just about the Gulf of. Oh, that's right. The refused to say the Gulf of America, and they put out their style book bulletin, which we'll explain in a second, but saying, no, it's the Gulf of Mexico. And has been for 400 years. Keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico, but it's not about that said Buddha witch. Where is that quote? This is about AP weaponizing language through their style book to push a partisan worldview in contrast with the traditional and deeply held beliefs of many Americans and many people around the world. Here's what they mean and if, if, if you're not in journalism, you might not know this. The Associated Press, which has been around for a very long time and used to be a rigorously nonpartisan, serious journalism out pit outfit, puts out their style book, which is literally a big thick book. And then lots and lots of updates throughout the year saying, hey, the Associated Press refers to this in this way. And sometimes it's like grammatical stuff. Do you hyphenate email like people did in the early days? Do you capitalize this or that? Or do you write like Beijing or Peking to refer to the capital of China? A lot of stuff like that, which is fine. It was a handy because I used to do some of that stuff and it was handy to just as a, you know, objective source. How am I supposed to do this? But in recent years, the AP has gone full on woke. Activist Julie Pace is saying that. What did she say? She's the head of the ap, that this is a challenged independent journalists. Well, contrary to Mrs. Pace and what she had to say, the White House is not objection to the AP's independent journalism, but to the way it imposes its worldview on journalists. Quoting from the Wall Street Journal. As Julie Pace herself notes in her statement, AP reporting reaches billions of people around the world. What she calls factual nonpartisan journalism. But the style book is incredibly influential. Here's the problem. The AP style book, writes the Wall Street Journal, is the wellspring of journalistic groupthink. Since it went online in 2002, the flood of conformity has intensified. Decrees and dogmas propagate far more rapidly than they did when the style book was a spiral brown volume with new editions every couple of. One of the most prominent examples looks deceptively like a question of pure style. A few years ago, the AP began capitalizing black when used as a racial designation. Not white, by the way, not white, just black. This was a telling change because in contrast with the Gulf of Mexico thing, the AP did not stick with tradition. The opposite. Nor did it bow to a change in common usage. It wasn't like they said, hey, most Americans use a capital B now, so we ought to reflect that. No, they bow to activist demands.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, right. So they're trying to, to, to push it out as opposed to reflect on a change.
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Ashley Kinetti
Right. So with some exceptions, liberals, including most news organizations, fell into line with the ap, while conservatives didn't. The Supreme Court, for instance, has split with the three Democratic appointees. And Justice Gorsuch, for some reason opting for Capital black. The nonpartisan AP's attempt to position itself at the vanguard of history and succeeded in stranding itself on one side of America's ideological gulf. Moving on, there's a lot more, uh, blah, blah, blah. This one guy reports that the White House aides grievances against the AP extend to immigration. The Style book bans the term alien. That's racist. To talk about illegal aliens. The actual legal term, if you are an AP newspaper or, you know, their articles appear in newspapers all over the world. They've banned the word alien.
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Joe Getty
That's ridiculous.
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Ashley Kinetti
They've banned the term illegal immigrant.
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Joe Getty
That is absolutely ridiculous. I had no idea of this. That's, that's crazy.
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Ashley Kinetti
This. It's not about the freaking Gulf of America, which is funny and nobody cares.
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Joe Getty
You can't use the term illegal immigrant in a news story. According to the apartment.
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Ashley Kinetti
That's correct. Yeah, it's racist.
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Joe Getty
All young journalists out there are probably lefties anyway. But you're a young journalist working at a newspaper, radio station, TV station, some small town, wherever it is, you get the AP style book because that's the way you do it. You can't use the term illegal immigrant. That's nuts.
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Ashley Kinetti
But wait, there's more. Chain migration, verboten, anchor babies. Terrible racist term. Can't use it. And when you're discussing political violence, I suspect on only one side of the aisle, it discourages using riot and terrorism. Use more benign terms for the protests, the mostly peaceful protests after George Floyd, for instance. But the Style book. We're warming up now. Everybody stretched out? Everybody ready? The Style book descends from bias into delusion with its, quote, transgender coverage topical guide. This is a 2, 900 word ideological manifesto. The AP put out, quote, do not use the term transgenderism, which frames transgender identity as an ideology. And it's filled with bizarre assertions and jargon which reporters are mandated to accept if they supersede the facts of life. According to the guide, a child. And this is why you see this. I almost used a very bad word, folks. I'm glad I didn't. According to the guide, a child isn't born a boy or a girl, quote. Rather, sex is. Quote. Usually it's assigned at birth by parents or attendants and can turn out to be inaccurate.
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Joe Getty
Well it's nice that whoever writes the AP style book has nailed down the facts on that and told us all that's interesting.
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Ashley Kinetti
You know what? I don't want to rush through all this. We need to bring you a quick word from our friends at Simply Safe. We'll take a little break and then come back with the rest of this. The AP is as bad as the Southern Poverty Law center or the, you know the the former not naacp. What's the what's the I used to be aarp. No that's not it. I was a card carrying member of the aclu. That's it. Yes. They're awful. The ap. Anyway word from our friends at Simpson Safe home Security Progressive policies is also brought us an explosion in crime isn't that special but Simplisafe helps to stop threats before they even have the chance to break in.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
When they say dei, we know what it means.
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Ashley Kinetti
As I heard somebody say earlier today.
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Jack Armstrong
They are substituting these Acronyms for the N word.
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Joe Getty
What does that mean?
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Ashley Kinetti
That's James Clyburn, who got Joe Biden elected president. Our first ever mummy president. Clyburn is saying if you use the term dei, that's a DEI hire. I'm dei. You're saying I'm against N word, I'm against enters. It's the same thing. Yeah. Nice job, James. Way to just make the country worse and more racist. Go away. Anyway, we were talking about how the AP has incredible influence over journalism with their AP style book and the current fight with the Trump administration they're trying to pretend is about the Gulf of America, which is just silly, but it's really about the AP stylebook having hoovered up all of critical theory, all of that radical theory that's got men and women's locker rooms and the idea that there are 77 different genders and a boy who dons a wig ought to be able to beat the crap out of girls on sports fields. It's all just so sick. But, so According to the AP's style book, it says, according to the Child the Guide, a child isn't born a boy or a girl. Rather, sex is, quote, usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants and can turn out to be inaccurate. Yeah. Like one time out of 10,000. Examples of gender identities include non binary bigender, agender, gender fluid, genderqueer, and combinations of identities such as non binary woman. Please read Pluckrose and Lindsay's cynical theories. They explain what all of this is and what it's doing. Anyway, they go on to say, quote, dead. Naming a transgender person, that is accurately reporting such a person's given name, quote, even posthumously in obituaries or other coverage, is often considered disrespectful to the deceased, their survivors, and any transgender people. So you're supposed to say, Caitlyn Jenner won the men's decathlon in 1976. How idiotic is that? Now all of this is cloaked in an appeal to authorities. Quote, experts from organizations including the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric association, and American Psychological association, whatever that was. Say, gender is a spectrum. Yeah, they're all captured by critical theorists, by Marxists. Quote, reporters are instructed, instructed to squelch any challenge to the accepted authorities. Don't quote people speaking about biology or athletic regulations unless they have the proper background. That's why Katanji Brown Jackson made the hilariously idiotic assertion that she couldn't define a woman on the grounds that I'm not a biologist.
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Joe Getty
Right. And again, I've got the Polling from the New York Times on the trans athlete Trump thing coming up.
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Ashley Kinetti
Right. And as they. We got two minutes. Okay, good. These editorial diktats have real world effects. Sports teams, locker rooms, public restrooms and prisons are segregated by sex, obviously to protect women when many women object when a transgender woman, a man who conceives of himself as a female or claims it, intrude into these areas, good luck. If you want fair treatment of the question from your local newspaper or TV station, which is almost certainly an AP member.
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Joe Getty
Sure.
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Ashley Kinetti
And the AP's policy is that those men are women because they said so. Trans women are women, hot dogs are dogs. Anyway, the Trump administration said there are two sexes, male and female. They're not changeable, blah, blah, blah. And as James Toronto writes in the Wall Street Journal, quote, this has been the case at least since sexual dimorphism emerged in trilobites some 540 million years ago. If the AP is willing to deny the primordial truth about sex on the say so of some authority figure, the Gulf of Mexico is a strange hill for it to die on. But I hope it does. Or at least I hope both sides stand their ground after the AP loses in court and the result is a diminution of its influence on American journalism. Amen. Hela.
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Joe Getty
So, as I have the symptoms, is it too late to take a flu shot? Can you take a flu shot once you've got the flu, or does that do you no good?
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Ashley Kinetti
Yes, you can take one, and yes, it does you no good.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, right. Nobody's gonna stop me from getting one. But it would do me no good with my current situation.
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Ashley Kinetti
Now your antibodies are already on alert and rushing to their battle stations.
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Joe Getty
All right, we'll get to that polling and a bunch of other stories we got to catch up on coming up. Stay here.
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Joe Getty
We should all do what Elon asked. Let's all make a list of five things we did last week that could justify our jobs. I watched a lot of news. I did some things I planned to talk about. I it's about I have a unique job that's it's unfair for our job.
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Ashley Kinetti
That out pile is looking pretty tempting for your little memo son. I say no. He's through, he's fired.
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Joe Getty
I personally know people and work in the federal government who have made their lists that if you haven't heard this news story, Elon put that out to all federal employees. You gotta, you gotta write him an email, send it to him. The five things you did last week that show that your, your job is necessary and then I don't know. Good lord, how many millions of emails would he get? Who's gonna go through all those? I don't know how they would determine if anybody's being honest or not.
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Ashley Kinetti
Right, right. Let's see. You know the list for mundane things. And five, I'm in charge of considering the annexation of Greenland.
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Joe Getty
I feel like you could be, you could. I met with the King of Arabia and I, I flew in a rocket to Mars. I think, I think you can send the email. I don't think anybody's ever going to read it. I just can't imagine they're going to get down to it.
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Ashley Kinetti
But personally stamped out all the mice in grain silos in Nebraska.
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Joe Getty
Right. I'm not anti doing this. I would love to be able to justify all these government jobs and whether or not they are needed, but I just, I just don't know if this is workable.
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Ashley Kinetti
Well, no, it's not. I mean in principle it's wonderful, but it's just, it's silly because even the department's heads Trump appointed are saying no, don't do that. Or like RFK Jr. Said, yeah, go ahead and do that. Then he put it out a memo saying let's hold off till like noon Monday so we could take a look at this. It's just silly. It's, it's Elon trolling and I wish he would. And this is just me. Maybe if he lost his trolling we'd lose Elon. But I would like him to be sober and serious like he is about getting rocket ships up into the air to make criticism more difficult. I wish he was more buttoned up about this because I want it to succeed.
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Joe Getty
Well, your now famous quote of you can't order human beings without onions. As is the Elon thing. I mean, oh, we gotta get to his, his baby mama and that whole thing.
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Ashley Kinetti
Wow. My life though is testament to the fact that you can get people to be stupid less often.
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Joe Getty
So the most recent kid that we became aware of, kid number 13, the 24 year old hottie that he had the baby with, some emails or texts surfaced over the weekend where she's texting other somebody else, a friend of hers about how she was.
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Ashley Kinetti
She.
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Joe Getty
Somehow she was working somewhere where she had access to Elon. She was hot.
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Ashley Kinetti
She.
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Joe Getty
She texted this friend about how she was gonna seduce Elon and trap him and have a baby with him, and that was her plan. And not surprising. That happens with NBA stars and, you know, movie stars and all kinds of rich people. I mean, that story's over.
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Ashley Kinetti
Over.
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Joe Getty
What I didn't like is it was portrayed most places I saw it, of ha ha ha to Elon, like, he's the ridiculous figure here and not the sort of freaking woman who goes out and gets pregnant on purpose for cash.
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Ashley Kinetti
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
You pretended to be in love with a guy or like him, and he had sex with you. That doesn't make him the bad guy.
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Ashley Kinetti
Well, Manhattan and Washington, D.C. are full of those couples, for instance.
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Joe Getty
But you pretend to like somebody, and they fall for it. They're not. They didn't do something wrong. You're a creepo and a, like, low life with no conscience for doing that. Don't portray it the other way around.
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Ashley Kinetti
That's weird, right? Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Congratulations.
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Ashley Kinetti
Signed rich rock stars.
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Joe Getty
Congratulations on seducing a guy just for money. Yay for you, Yahoo. I mean, what is that?
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Ashley Kinetti
Wow, that's harsh.
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Joe Getty
Well, if that's judgmental, if that's what she did, that's pretty accurate, isn't it?
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Ashley Kinetti
Yeah, I just. I can't get too up in arms about it because Elon obviously has no problem with that sort of thing.
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Joe Getty
No, I. I'm not. And again, I'm not making it about Elon. I'm making about the portrayal of. If you got. If you got a guy who falls, who. Who. Who believes you when you come onto him, and then she acts like she likes you, that's not a deficit in him.
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Ashley Kinetti
Right.
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Joe Getty
It's like. It's like our thing. We always say, like, if, you know, if somebody breaks into your car, you left it unlocked, you should have locked it, but the scumbag is the criminal who broke into your car. Right.
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Ashley Kinetti
I don't go around trying door handles. Do you? Right.
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Joe Getty
Anywho. Oh, we got to get this joke on. We got a joke from Greg Gutfeld that I know some of our audience will like. And it's not. It's not my sort of joke, but here you go.
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Ashley Kinetti
Oh, boy. Divorce rumors continue to escalate for the Obamas. Hopefully they can settle it like men.
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Joe Getty
Okay. There you go. I know some of you like that based on the texts we get.
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Ashley Kinetti
She's big bone, right? She's a woman.
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Joe Getty
I don't understand why that's persists in some quarters. We probably ought to get some of the audio that exists of Trump arguing with some governors over the weekend about men and women's sports. That whole issue and it became quite a thing. And there are still some governors of your blue states who are willing to, if not die on that hill, fight on that hill for, you know, a high school boy breaking the state track record and winning the gold medal or whatever. I just, I don't get why you're so into this issue.
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Ashley Kinetti
But the New York Times reading how, how Maine has decided this is the civil rights issue of our time. Boys being able to beat the crap out of girls on the sports.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that's who Trump got into the got into it with over the weekend, the governor of Maine. They had a back and forth over this. Here's the national polling from the New York Times on this. Overall, the question being at the top, transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete in women's sports. Just as a blanket statement. It doesn't even say for high school sports. I gotta believe the number goes up for that. Probably. But overall 79% call it 80 since it's within the plus or minus. 80% of Americans think transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete in women's sports. 80%. It's an 8020 issue. I mean it's not even flipping close.
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Ashley Kinetti
And I would guess the 20 that's left is includes at least a small measure of don't knows.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Ashley Kinetti
And so the support for this is in the teens.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Ashley Kinetti
And it's self evidently perverse and everybody knows it. What's disturbing to me is the incredible influence of a tiny minority of lunatics. Right.
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Joe Getty
If you break it down by party, of course For Republicans it's 94%. But even for Democrats it's 2/3.
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Jack Armstrong
2/3.
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Joe Getty
In independence, 2/3 of Democrats say. 2/3 of Democrats say no, hold on.
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Ashley Kinetti
No. Oh no.
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Joe Getty
Oh, it might be bird flu. Did you hear that?
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Ashley Kinetti
Probably. We've got a quintemic going on.
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Joe Getty
I might have all four. Could that happen where I have rsv. Bird flu.
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Ashley Kinetti
Covid.
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Joe Getty
Covid.
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Ashley Kinetti
The flu.
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Joe Getty
Gonorrhea. Is that the other one?
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Ashley Kinetti
The fifth? I don't know.
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Joe Getty
I hope I don't have all of them at the same time. But if 2/3 of Democrats say dudes shouldn't be competing in women's sports, how is this even a controversy? We're so misled by the Hollywood and the mainstream media. Who's their outsized influence of making people think? Well, you know, it's not the sort of thing I should stay out loud. It's an, it's a 60 point win for your side. It's not even close. You could, you don't call an 80, 20 issue controversial issue.
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Ashley Kinetti
It's no, no. Yes. And, and yet, you know, it's funny. Just as an aside, I heard a really interesting podcast with a libertarian type author who's talking about the kind of the dumb side of tribalism and how it makes you do and say things that you probably shouldn't be proud of when you know we're all countrymen and we ought to be cooperating and you know, forming coalitions.
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Joe Getty
Like Gutfeld's joke about will settle is.
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Ashley Kinetti
Like men an excellent for instance anyway, and, and I thought, you know, as far as, you know, what he said, he's right. Well, part of his message I guess was we're not meant to be political all the time. It's okay to just have relationships. And that's. And I agree completely with that. On the other hand, we have allowed ourselves to get into a situation, we're duped honestly, where virtually the entire public government educational complex is preaching a radical ideology that's believed by a teens percentage of Americans. And so, oh my Lord, this, this train has gone way, way down the track. And so I don't think the option of being, well, it's unfortunate, but we can work on it together. I don't, I don't think we're at that point. We let it get way, way, way too far that I give the neo Marxists credit as a political scientist for being incredibly effective as they've been. They did it under the cloak of darkness of misleading everybody about what they're actually doing.
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Joe Getty
So we got, we've gotten a couple of texts from people who are in government who got the email from Elon about how you got to come up with five things to justify your job. Nobody is going to read them, says this texter. They're just fishing to see who doesn't reply because Elon did include. If you don't want to do this, I will take that as a resignation. And which is fine. Maybe, maybe you get several thousand people across the country or tens of thousands of people to do that. I have no idea.
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Ashley Kinetti
Somebody has to make their list. Number one, snappy dresser. Number two, taller than average. Number three, I make a mean onion dip. Number four, you know, I, I've got most of the plots of Seinfeld memorized.
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Joe Getty
Or I just make the workplace a funnier place to be right with my jokes and witticisms.
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Ashley Kinetti
Humor makes the workplace more productive and I'm very, very amusing.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that's an interesting idea. You asked the question earlier and I can't wait to. Books are, until books are read written about this. Did Trump have any idea Elon was doing that or did Elon fire that off?
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Ashley Kinetti
Judging by the reaction from a number of Trump appointees, I would say no, he didn't know. Because a lot of the prominent names you've heard just got approved by the Senate and all are like, what? Wait, no, no, our people don't have to do that. What? What?
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Joe Getty
So like Cash Patel specifically said of the FBI, no, don't, don't respond to that. You don't have to.
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Ashley Kinetti
Yeah, yeah.
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Joe Getty
And I believe the Secretary of Treasury said the same. But the, the Department of Transportation guy whose name I don't have mem yet, he was out today. He said, I told all employees they need to do that. And here are my five things I did last week. So he's on board.
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Ashley Kinetti
Here's the cabinet secretary. You don't have to fill out the list.
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Joe Getty
He did.
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Ashley Kinetti
This is all very silly. Oh, speaking of which, you know, pretty big headline. Cash Patel had told Republican senators in private, my deputy head of the FBI, whatever the title is, will be a career officer who knows how the FBI works. And, and because that's been the tradition the entire time the FBI's existed, well, for whatever reason, probably because Trump pushed him on it, he appointed Dan Bongino as his second in command instead. Former Secret Service agent, hard ass and big time radio host slash podcaster Dan Bongino. So there are a number of Republican senators who are leaking. We were told this would not happen. There could be a little detention there. We'll see.
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Joe Getty
One more thing from the Q crowd which I'm in touch with. The QAnon crowd are where whatever your news sources are in the QAnon crowd. Apparently the belief is that step number one for Cash Patel, now that he has been sworn in as a director of the FBI, he's going after Hillary Clinton in the whole pedophile ring. And so that whole thing is going to be unearthed very quickly.
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Ashley Kinetti
No, he isn't to know it won't. Okay, you're just throwing it out there here on earth. We're worried about Hillary bilking the world for the Clinton foundation and just good old fashioned thievery.
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Joe Getty
Okay, we got more on the way. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
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Ashley Kinetti
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Joe Getty
During the Nazi reign of terror.
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Ashley Kinetti
Now today we are witnessing the rise of global antisemitism, the constant attacks on Israel showing us that it is more important than ever to remember the atrocities of the Holocaust. And to ensure it never happens again. We have proudly partnered with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Now they provide food, shelter, safety to so many Israelis in Israel as they fight against radical Islamic terrorism in our time, including those remaining Holocaust survivors. Your donation today will help provide food, water, medicine and other bare necessities to Jewish communities. Go to their website at supportifcj.org, that's supportifcj.org or call toll free 888-488-IFCJ 888-488-ICCJ. Today.
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Joe Getty
I'm told we have a celebrity death related to this song. I don't know who says this.
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Ashley Kinetti
Dionne Warwick, Roberta Flack, Robert Black. I'm starting hear that. She's very, very old woman. Do we do minor celebrity deaths?
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Joe Getty
Some major celebrity if you're a Roberta Flack fan.
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Ashley Kinetti
What are we doing?
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Joe Getty
Yes, Katie. No minor celebrity. She had multiple top Billboard hits and.
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Jack Armstrong
She died at 88.
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Joe Getty
What's her biggest hit Is she killing me softly?
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Ashley Kinetti
Yep.
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Joe Getty
Killing me softly. Also, I. I'm a big jazz fan and I was watching a video the other day with these instructors I really like top 10 jazz albums of all time. And they had a Roberta Flack album on there that I'd never heard of before as well.
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Ashley Kinetti
As I was saying, the nation is reeling from the loss of the great Roberta Flag and it's right that we take a moment to reflect on her life.
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Joe Getty
She's dead as a hammer. Okay. Usually Interesting.
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Ashley Kinetti
Wow. Great jazz singer, huh?
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Joe Getty
I guess.
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Ashley Kinetti
Did not know that. Okay, you know what? My cynicism has been kicked right where it deserved to be and is doubled over now and. And rethinking its ways. Oh. Speaking. Speaking of careers and, and being in the public eye and that a quick. Indulge me a quick tip of the cap to my friend Brian Campbell, who won a PGA Tour event, Professional Golf Association Tour event yesterday. He is an incredible story and an example. Young phenom, great college player, got his tour card, which meant he got to play on the PGA Tour. Lost it almost immediately. He just didn't play well enough to stick around. And for seven years or so he has been grind to get back on the PGA Tour. He finally did. We had a big party and. And then. But this season has been very rocky. He like, if you know how golf works, if you don't play well enough on Thursday and Friday, you get cut. You don't play on the weekend. And his first eight tournaments this year or something, I cut, cut, cut, cut. 51st, 62nd cut. Then he won for the first time in his entire career. Great guy. Has worked like a maniac. I mean, beyond when people were telling him, you know, I'm not sure it's going to work out, but just, it was, it was great to see. I yelled louder than I have for any sports event in 20 years.
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Joe Getty
Wow. Cool.
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Ashley Kinetti
In my living room yesterday. Couldn't sit down for the last hour and a half.
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Joe Getty
Perfect that you brought up golf because I've been meaning to ask this question. I came across this headline in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. I don't play golf. But the weird new putting technique that's driving the golf world nuts. What is it? I can't even imagine. You hold the club in your mouth. Or is it worse than that?
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Ashley Kinetti
It's worse than that, Jack. It involves a good deal of Vaseline. Oh, my God, no. Are we all thinking it?
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Joe Getty
No. I hinted at something and then you like, drew the picture for some reason. Like we're children and Couldn't get my hint. That's theater of the mind. Exactly.
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Ashley Kinetti
Yeah. Michael, thank you for. I can't decide which side he's on. No, it's called, it's something called aim point. If you ever watch golf, the guys, instead of like just using their eyes to figure out which way a putt is going to break, which means curve, they like use their feet to try to assess the slope and then they assess what degree of slope. Then they hold two fingers up next to the cup to pick their name. It's time consuming.
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Joe Getty
Okay. That's not as exciting, it's controversial. As if they were suitcasing the putter and making that work somehow.
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Ashley Kinetti
Oh, wow. The pot calls the kettle black right now. It's dopey within golf and it's fine.
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Joe Getty
The, the, the thing, you know, with the, the, the golf friend you just mentioned, I was telling my kids about this over the weekend because I'm trying to motivate them to try harder at various things. It seems to be, seem to be having trouble with that, but they probably got. My genetics is the problem. But one thing I've learned from YouTube that, that it has helped give a glimpse into the world of athletes, musicians, writers, all kind artists, all kinds of different people, of how much effort they put into being successful. They weren't just born talented. Well, they weren't born talented. But then the amount of work that you have to put in, most of us, even given the talent by God to be that artist, musician, golfer, whatever, wouldn't put in the time that it takes to ever utilize it.
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Ashley Kinetti
Two quick bits of wisdom. Number one, the thing that takes more effort than anything else is to appear effortless takes a tremendous amount of effort. Secondly, one of the great pianists, I can't remember which one, Rubenstein, one of those guys, somebody once said to him, I would give my life to play piano. I would give my life to play the piano like you do. And he said, I did.
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Joe Getty
Right. And most of us, like, even given the talent, wouldn't do that. And I think that's helpful to know how much effort you've got to put in to be successful. Hopefully it's on mobile and it takes.
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Ashley Kinetti
A while to pan out.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, if you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand. We got a lot more coming in. Hour three.
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Jack Armstrong
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