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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. No balls in a strike.
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Pa has breaks his back.
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Kirk Ring. Gotta find it. Throws to the plate. Oh, my goodness, he throws it away. And the Dodgers have won. The Dodgers win, and they are moving on to the nlcs. And a most improbable finish, Pandemonium. Dodger Stadium. And your heart breaks for Ryan Kirkering.
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Just occurred to me, I think the only time the word pandemonium ever comes up in real life is when a sporting event has a crowd going wild. I don't know if I ever hear a pandemonium other than that. Anyway, Dodgers are moving on to the next round. One round short of being in the World Series. And poor pitcher for the Phillies, who made a terrible decision there at the end of the game. 11th inning, bases loaded, chance to get out of the inning and go on and, you know, maybe. Maybe win the game.
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It was a Little League mistake.
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Yeah, we just got this text. Boy, that today is going to feel like an eternity for Orion. That's the name of the pitcher. So, yeah, it was a Little League mistake. It was like a. You're not a particularly good player. Your coach is slapping his forehead. Well, that's Jack. That's the way he is. He's not very good sort of mistake. And he made it there at the end of the game. And do you think he's able to, like, more or less block it out and go on with his life today? Or is he just laying in bed staring at the ceiling, thinking, well, my life is over. How did I do this?
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He's going to be down for a while. I hope he's got a wife and kids and. Or friends or whatever.
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It would definitely help to have a wife and kids because you'd have more serious, important duties to deal with right away if he's a single guy.
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And it helps. Like, it wasn't like game seven of the World Series. You know, they win that game, that's no guarantee they even beat the Dodgers again in advance, much less get through the nlcs, much less win the World Series.
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Right.
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So, yeah, unfortunately.
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Was that. Did he get an error for that?
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, and it was just a mental error. But what are you gonna get an error? It all happens really fast.
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I don't know this about baseball. Do you get an error for bad decisions or I know you drop a ball or something like that.
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But executive producer Hanson, I think the answer to that is no. Thrown to the wrong base. I think the error is given as.
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A result of the bad decision. Right.
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I mean you. So it depends.
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You could make a bad decision and.
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Still recover and maybe flub your way through it.
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But yeah, I don't know that a bad decision is automatically an error. That was a heck of an ending to a very exciting baseball game. I felt bad about it. I want to, you know, you want heroics. You don't want a screw up to be the end of the game. Anywho, Dodgers are moving on to the next round and they will either play the Cubs or the Brewers. We'll figure that out soon. Couple of headlines for you mentioned this one earlier. Wall Street Journal. Americans are falling behind on their car payments, like at a record rate. We've got a the highest number of people with low credit scores that haven't made a payment in 60 days that we've ever had, which might be the beginning of a trend this direction. Usually that's not an indicator of, of good things, but you know, some of it is an indicator of decision making. Like Joe also said earlier. That's funny. We got people living beyond their means and a government that lives beyond their means. Yeah, you get the government. You deserve that. It's not a surprise that a people that are buying things they can't afford are not caring that the government is buying things it can't afford.
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In a directly related story, the Congressional Budget Budget Office report just came out. The deficit for the last fiscal year, one year was almost $2 trillion. We spent $1.8 trillion more than we took in. Even though there was an enormous growth in how much we took in.
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The stock market is setting records there. There's no giant crisis of any kind. This isn't World War II or the pandemic. Just a regular year. A regular year when things are going well. And we spent 2 trillion, almost $2 trillion more than we took in. If you're not haven't been paying attention to this or not old enough. I remember when we hit 400 billion one year. Geez, how long ago is that now? Maybe 15 years. And it was just a crisis like oh my God, $400 billion.
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We've lost our mind.
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We've lost our minds. This can't continue now. We regularly spend a trillion more than we take in this year. Almost 2 trillion. It is beyond unsustainable. It's like, I don't know when. What would be a good example of. Of this. That it's just. It's going to end like this weekend or next year. I mean, it's just. It's so far over the top. Nuts. And it's not even a topic for conversation.
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Read my mind. I was just going to say it is such an enormous betrayal of the responsibility of self governance. It's. You don't need to know anything else. Like trying to figure out if, you know, is Jack a good guy? Well, he murdered 10 people in Cold blood and he cheats at golf and sometimes he doesn't signal when he changes lane. No, you don't need to know anything more about your government than they spend almost $2 trillion worth of your children and grandchildren's money just to keep their power. That's all you need to know. Like it's utterly bankrupt morally and soon. Literally. Oh, and one more note. One more note. It was pointed out to me, one of the. One of your great political thinkers, I can never remember his name, pointed out that any great power that spends more on debt than it does on defense will soon cease to be a great power. We are now that.
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So try to picture an individual, a family. You're buying a new car every week. And man, you got cars, you don't even know where to park them. Now you just keep buying a new car and you can't afford the payments and you're not making them and you're doing it.
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I haven't even figured out how to adjust the mirrors on the old car. Now I got a new car.
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I'm not sure that's an exaggeration from what our government is doing when it's $2 trillion a year.
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Yeah. Driven by 8% annual growth in all three of the largest entitlements. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. A lot of discretionary. Discretionary programs.
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Also, it's Friday. I don't want to be, you know, the most depressing radio show in America. But my final statement on this. Before you make your final statement, probably also dark. This isn't a good year. What if we end up at war with China? Or there is an economic downturn of, you know, historic proportions while this is happening. Oh, my God. The most predicted and predictable result. I will get no enjoyment of being right about this when it happens.
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That arsonist.
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An arsonist wasn't climate change. You know, if you don't or have never lived in California, you don't know this. If an arsonist decides I'm gonna set a big fire in the midst of, midst of a dry spell, you're gonna have a hell of a fire every time.
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Yeah, it was a nut job listening to rap music that had a video about fire. That's what it was.
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Wow.
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If you don't believe in science.
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All right, Kevin, So the Japanese just elected a woman to be their new leader. She's 64 years old. She will be the most powerful woman in Japan in more than a thousand years. And she is being compared regularly to Margaret Thatcher because she is a hardcore iron willed conservative that will be running Japan now. So it'll be interesting.
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Great ally of the United States too. Yeah.
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Interesting to see how that goes. Kind of excited about that. Seems like it's going the right direction. Haven't mentioned this yet today. Letitia James was indicted yesterday by the Trump Justice Department.
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Good. Finally our streets are safe again.
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She's a scumbag. She's the one that brought the absolutely ridiculous. According to everyone, you know, he overinflated his buildings to get a better loan, something or other. And I mean, just ridiculous. That law had never been used in that way ever before. That's not what it was intended for. Nobody was actually complaining about it. I mean, it was just complete lawfare.
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And after campaigning, I'm going to get Trump.
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I don't know how, but I'll get him. She ran on that, she got elected, she came up with a wacky way to do it, which then got overturned. And now Trump is doing basically almost exactly the same thing to her on a lower level because she's not a billionaire with overvaluing something for a mortgage just to make her life miserable. They're not going to win the case, but it'll make her life miserable for quite a while and cost her a lot of money. That's where we are with our politics now.
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They play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Leticia.
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Yeah, I. Yeah, but we can't. Again, I keep using the phrase race to the bottom. We can't just keep doing. Well, you did it first, which is true.
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Yes, but. Well, yeah, this prosecution is indefensible, except.
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As.
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Illustrating if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. You can call it retribution if you want, but it's. And. And you're right about the race to the bottom. You're 100% right. But the reason why both hockey teams have big, strong guys who will whack your head if you beat up their fast little scorer is because if only one team has them, they will run roughshod over the other. And. And I've. I. I'm not, like, proud of that stance, and I'm not even advocating for it. I'm just observing that it exists. You know what I mean? If you guys do lawfare, no matter how righteously and persuasively we say, that's clearly lawfare. I remember the Morning Joe geeks when the Alvin Bragg thing started. They were all like, this is ridiculous.
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How do you stop the other side from doing that if no matter how again, righteous and persuasive your argument is against it, they just keep doing it? Again, that's a terrible argument, and I'm ashamed. But it's also true. I don't know where to go from here. Yeah.
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And the coverage of this yesterday, of her being indicted, never included from any mainstream source anyway. By the way, critics left, right and center thought her prosecution of Trump was bogus and got overturned later. They never mentioned that. Yeah. So, yeah, we just keep sinking, sinking. You combine that with our overspending and, hey, things are looking rosy.
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I'm gonna watch baseball.
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Different story before we take a break. Guy ran Pravda. That's one of your newspapers in Russia. Fell out of a window seven stories the other day.
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Got to be more careful.
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Had been doing some reporting about the war not going well, and, yeah, he slipped next to an open window and fell out.
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I guess his maid had, like, waxed the floor there or something. He didn't know it, obviously.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Tesla's full self driving system. Officials now say they've received more than.
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50 reports of traffic safety violations and.
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Reports of several injuries. That's interesting. I have FSD in my newest Tesla, but the technology has changed so much over the last five years that I've been four years that I've been driving Teslas. Some of the older cars, I mean are they all the newer models? I mean it's all so complicated. I don't know if we'll ever reach full self driving that insurance companies and states allow. I really don't know if that'll ever happen.
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I would guess yes, but I have no idea when with the existence of.
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Waymo you'd think is gonna happen. But that's a completely different model or way of doing it. You can do it for an individual city where you map every single sidewalk, alley, everything into the computer system of that car. Can you do that for the whole country to allow your or do you buy or do you start buying cars that this car is just programmed to drive in within 50 miles of where you live? Maybe that's the way it'll work.
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Yeah, I'm out of my depth here, Donnie. I was reading about self piloting planes is almost certainly the future in a lot of realms. But they point out that the pilot reassures everybody when there's unexpected turbulence or you know, just the to if you're walking on the plane, you turn left and there's nobody in the cockpit. You glance to your left. That would freak people out. It would take a long time to get consumer acceptance. They were pointing out.
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Oh, I would say the self driving on my my newest vehicle is fantastic. It has Never made a mistake as far as I know. Even close to it, it's better than I am, really. It can see things I can't see. This is a very interesting story that we want to touch on.
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A frightening new prank taking over social media across Tick Tock. People generating AI images of a stranger in their house and then sending the photos to their loved ones. The prankster's texting things like, he says he knows you, and I told him he can take a nap. Sending their families into a panic at times ending with police knocking on their door.
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Oh, I was just trying to mess with my mom.
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And she took it seriously.
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In priority and something like this would.
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Be a high priority.
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Police departments across the country saying they're getting 911 calls from parents thinking their child is actually in danger. Police issuing a warning to users that pulling pranks like these.
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Dad, I'm just messing with you. It's AI. Could result in criminal charges. You stupid c. Unplug the Internet. God, you are a freaking moron.
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I'm disappointed. You're my child. I better take a look at the way I invest because I'm gonna be taking care of you for the rest of my life because you're too freaking stupid to exist.
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I mean, how could you possibly think I know what I'll do?
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I'll have my parents think a stranger has broken into the house and I can't get him to leave. That'll be funny. God, you are an awful human being. Or your brain is broken.
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Utterly lacking in judgment.
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Oh, my God.
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Yeah. That is horrific. How can a person be that blind? I don't know.
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I was just.
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What percentage of the population are.
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I don't know. It's gotta be small. Is it?
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You know, kids are so easily led that they see it online, they're told it's funny. They have no independent judgment because they're sheepish. And so they go ahead and do it. On a much more serious note, I was reading about this disputed area of Ukraine where the Russians took it, then were repelled. Two years later, they took it again. First thing they do when they establish control, they go into the schools and they make sure the schools are teaching the kids X, Y and Z. Indoctrinating the young people is priority number one because kids are so easily led.
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And the first thing you learn, you tend to hang on to for the rest of your life for various psychological reasons.
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Yeah. Yeah. Coming up, woke Swifties anger continues at her new album.
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We talked about that. The looking for dog whistles of white supremacy in the new Taylor Swift album.
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Hasn't died down, Jack. Plus they're calling him the perverted poster boy of gender ideology. Meet this chap Coming up Armstrong and.
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So the campaign manager for Katie Porter allegedly told her, you looked bad the other night. She said, you mean the interview? And he said, what interview? Oh, wow. Meanness of Gutfeld. She is high school lunchroom cruelty.
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Katie Porter, not a handsome woman, but I don't see any reason to, to play on that.
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Stick with the evil.
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Yeah, it was surprising though. I mean like the, the advanced team, I mean they, they had her in a setting that was, you know, less appealing for her than. And they did a bad job. Usually they try to go out of their way to make you look as good as possible. Her people did not do that. Which might again, like I said earlier, she might have a lot of people rooting against her. If she talks to everybody that way, they might think, yeah, I'm going to set up the camera to make you look as fat as possible. That's what I'm gonna do.
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Right? Right? Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. It's funny. Katie Porter, one of many people cited by who wrote this. I was gonna use her name. I gotta switch that to see the name. Gotta click on that. There we go. Written by Macy Petty. Macy was a college volleyball player who had to play against dudes and testified and tried to get laws against that past and talked about how hard it was a few years ago. And she catalogs a of bunch, bunch of Democrats, high level, from Gavin Newsom to Katie Porter to Kamala Harris and others who now say, well, yeah, clearly there are advantages and men, you know, can't play and who were utterly 100% committed to the, the party line back in the day. To the point of telling her, you know, you're just camp, you're just complaining or you're a bigot or you're transphobe and this isn't a real problem. You need to stop complaining. It's amazing how little principle there is in politics these days.
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The more I think of it, the more I think it is likely that her advanced team puts her in lighting and situations to make her look as awful as possible.
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Oh, that dress is really slimming.
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Yeah, you look good in that. And I'll put the camera down low like this and kind of at this angle. Yeah, you look like a dump truck. You look like a dump truck if I put the camera here. So perfect.
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Yeah. So speaking of gender bending madness, here's another thing that caught my attention. He was allowed to be in there. The perverted poster boy of gender ideology. This is from the good folks at the Washington examiner. Richard Cox, 58 year old repair repeat tier 3 sex offender who spent the second half of 2024 prowling female locker rooms in woke Northern Virginia where he would ogle schoolgirls and expose himself to bystanders.
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Oh my God.
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Fairfax county, so woke you can't believe it. Where Cox exposed himself repeatedly last year, Never prosecuted him because as the police chief put it, the policy of parks and rec allowed him and other persons to use the locker room of the gender that they identify with in both. Oh, and this freakazoid. We'll, we'll post a link@armstrongetti.com but you take one look at this guy, you know exactly what's going on.
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I'm always trying to figure out the woke thing because I don't always understand it at first blush. So they're supporting him because he's trans. Like, so if he was just a regular dude exposing himself, there's no woke reason to support that, is there? Because, I mean, they're not arresting thieves you claim is an economic thing. Well, they're just stealing because they're poor, because of the, you know, patriarchy or whatever. But there's no patriarchy for showing your junk to people. So. But if the trans angle is what protects this guy.
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Yes. Although having just read a really Interesting thread about. About a lgb.
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Sorry, I showed you my penis. The patriarchy and white supremacy and whatnot.
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Well, the. There's this LGBTQ civil rights leader in Britain who is now openly advocating for adult child sex. And part of the whole postmodern neo Marxist thing is that you. You want to tear down every norm of society, every boundary line of society you claim is bigoted or racist or transphobic or Islamophobic or whatever else. You don't allow there to be any standards. So it wouldn't shock me that somewhere in the neo Marxist movement they're saying, yeah, you have the right to expose yourself an ogle, you know, young girl. Anyway. In both Fairfax and neighboring Arlington county, county officials allowed Mr. Cox to undress in women's locker rooms because of the county's fealty to gender ideology. They didn't arrest him because under county policy, he counted as a woman. Washington Post gave the story zero, nearly zero coverage. And they point out that the story of Mr. Cox, putting his name aside, is a reductio ad absurdum of the gender dogma that the outlet follows. How did I.
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How did I let it go that his name is Cox? I didn't catch, for once. Pick up on that. Yeah.
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Oh, my gosh. The pop up ads.
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More than one, you say now I would. Look, it's plural.
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All right. You can't let me tell this story.
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While you're trying to get your computer to work. So I had a.
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You got to repeat your axiom. I guess that was my axiom. The more conservative the website, the more impossible it is to use. Yeah.
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Because they're all about making money. I had a girlfriend many, many years ago.
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She.
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Her house facing across her on the other side of the street, had a big picture window, and there was an old guy that would stand in the window working his man on a regular basis. He would just stand there. What's that?
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That's charming.
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Well, I don't know what phrase to use. What would you like me to say?
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Oh, no, no. I was talking about the activity, not.
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Your description of it, like in the 70s. And he would just stand there naked and, you know, doing his thing. And. But her and her roommate, another chick, would. They're just like, oh, God, he's at it again. Randy's doing it again. Oh, you got to be kidding. You know, and it wasn't. I'm not. I'm not coming out pro. That sort of thing. But not everybody immediately falls to pieces when that happens. Yeah, I'm still all for Locking the number of being a crime or getting a ticket or put your pants on or whatever.
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So, in brief, this story is how liberals in the suburbs with DC Allowed a repeat sex offender to victimize women and stalk children for months. More than 15 months ago, in June of 24, this guy was charged with indecent exposure for exposing his crank in a female locker room at Planet Fitness. In his defense, Cox argued, quote, transgender people identify as belonging to a gender which may not conform to the sex they are assigned at birth. For a transgender person to be observed in a locker room nude is no proof that this was also anything more than platonic. He showed the Planet Fitness guys his Virginia driver's license, which listed him as a woman even though he's a man. That seems very odd to me. At the time, county officials knew Cox was a Tier 3 sex offender, the most serious level. He was charged in the 90s for allegedly exposing himself to children and masturbating in front of them. He was convicted in arling of taking indecent liberties with children. He was twice charged with a felony for failing to re register as a tier three sex offender. But Fairfax county dropped those charges. All of that was a matter of record when Fairfax county dismissed the indecent exposure charge in July because the victim did not show up in court. But it was because they believed or.
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I don't get this.
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This guy has molested children. He's exposed himself to children over and over again, and he does it again. But because he says, nope, now I'm a woman, they say, okay, no charges. If you're not fighting against this garbage, what are you waiting for?
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It's like the guy that wanted to kill Kavanaugh. Turns out he's trans. Oh, okay. You don't have to be in for a long, not near as serious. So I didn't know what to say when I was talking about the guy that was in the window across the street from girlfriend I used to have who would do his thing. And I didn't know what phrase to use, so I just asked chat GPT, what are some good euphemisms for male masturbation? And it gave me a list.
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Wrestling the eel, Shaking hands with the governor. Auditioning the single handed orchestra.
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You can stop anytime.
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Taking the bald guy to the prom. Never heard that one.
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It's too wordy. So you don't want more of those? I don't resent it, you know, for reasons I resented as an editor.
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Yes, Katie.
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That's all.
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By the way, one final note on this the Washington Post carefully avoids any pronouns in their their very minor coverage of this. And the Washington Post was contacted by the examiner who asked him why. And they made it clear according to their rules, it is against our rules to call Cox a he. It also cannot follow its rules and call Cox a she if it wishes to maintain any credibility. They point out, obviously. Anyway, that's enough of that.
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I got some more sophisticated versions that that Claude gave me that you might.
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Want to use Vote or something if you ever need was more sophisticated Claude probably because he's French.
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See I like some of these because sometimes you have to describe this scenario whether you know in some way. I can think of some examples coming up.
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Woke swifties continue to out pour out anger over the new album.
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Like engaging in self care. That's. That's a nice kind of common. Yeah, I. You know I. He was engaging in self care. That's a little better, right? Practicing self love.
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Still not good enough to have on the air. But yes, better.
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Taking some me time. Playing a little five on one.
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Stupid. I've actually heard that one.
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I have. Not having a date with yourself. Yes, I had heard that. A little five on one, you know, happens. Let's see, the only one I might ask is Grock. Grock tends to be a little cheekier, pardon the expression. And I have heard about the Taylor Swift white supremacy then Taming the Dragon. That's a common one. Some of these are just I I'm skipping lots of them that show that I do have some line that I don't cross. Oh, do. Yeah.
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Oh great.
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Winding the clock seems like British, doesn't it?
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You know you're asking for credit to for skipping some of them. Reminds me of one of my favorite cartoons many many years ago I saw and it's funny how just a handful of stuck in my head, including a handful of Far side cartoons that were just so great. But this one was. It was rather a troubling scene of a. Well, it kind of explains itself but the guy is like being bound and all. And the other guy says, you'll have to be with me. I'm a homicidal maniac. And that's kind of what I was getting from you.
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Yeah. So I brought this story the other day and we have an update I guess on people who are seeing white supremacy and maga politics in the new Taylor Swift album, which doesn't make sense given her politics. But anyway, that and other stuff on the way. Stay here.
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I'm going to go back to that repeat offender question. If somebody has offended six, seven, eight times, even if it's a minor offense, but they continue to fail to turn their life around. At what point do you balance public safety to giving this person, you know, some accountability? What does that balance?
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So let me make something very clear. I was the one that sponsored the ban the box legislation when everyone posted because the criminal system has had a disparate impact on black and brown communities. Let me lead with that. So when this person is committing six or seven crimes, I don't know his or her story. Maybe they were abused as a child, maybe they're hungry. So my, my remedy is to find their life story to see how we could help first. I have no desire to put them in jail, but I need to protect you. And that's the calibration that we have. I put police officers on the stand. I've cross examined them. So whether they commit seven or eight crimes to me is not the issue. The issue is why are they committing these crimes?
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That is mayoral candidate in Seattle, Bruce Harrell, who we talked about the other day, the whole restorative justice, pie in the sky dreame philosophy, it's unbelievable.
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I mean, he's way to that side. I'm probably too far to the other side where I don't give a crap why you committed those crimes. I don't care. You can't. It's not allowed to. Right?
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Yeah. We got this note from a listener who has a lot of connections Seattle area and is there a lot. Bruce has a progressive electorate, so to get elected he has to speak to them pre election. Bruce has actually been cleaning. He's cleaned up tent cities along i5. He is correct that his leadership has led to the SPD being able to recruit again. Untangling the sins of years of progressive policies is a Gordian knot. The fact that an out and proud socialist is apparently leading the polls is probably driving Bruce to say those things. You cannot affect policies if you can't get elected. Seattle's on the same trajectory as New York City and Bruce is the least bad option but likely to lose to a worse socialist candidate. So in other words, he's trying to triangulate, trying to, you know, somehow neutralize the. Well, the, the, the vote. The sort of voter who would say that nonsense that he just said, wow, that's crazy talk. Wow. So whether they commit seven or eight.
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Crimes to me is not the issue.
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Yeah. Oh yeah, that's the issue. That's certainly an issue.
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All right.
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Speaking of the woke lunatics in the world. Yes, the controversies continue in weird little backwaters of the Internet. Among woke Swifties over Taylor Swift's new.
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Album, which I've listened to quite a bit more than any other album she's ever put out. I'm not exactly sure why. It's definitely got a bit of a different flavor to it in. In a lot of different ways. To all the who wish I would just die.
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I mean, she didn't. Frank.
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She didn't used to say that sort of thing.
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Well, in this. I was just reading about the song Wood, which is all about Travis Kelsey clearly's abilities and equipment.
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That's a cool thing too. I didn't know that's what it was about. I wasn't paying attention. It's got kind of a 70s disco dance thing going and I just wasn't.
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They're doing the horizontal dance. Yes.
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I wasn't catching the lyrics.
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Sickening. Anyway, even though she's a well known Democrat, apparently her song Canceled contains the lyric I like my friends canceled. Some are wondering if she's gone MAGA1. Disillusion. Disillusioned. Swifty. Writing I like my friends canceled is the most tone deaf lyric a white billionaire with MAGA friends could release in this climate.
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Man, if you ever respond to anything like that with seriously. I mean, like, if you wrote that with serious concern or anger, what the hell is your life?
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Her song Ophelia, in which she says, essentially she was down and then she met the man of her dreams and now she's happy again. This was met with this hilariously uptight X post quote. As an actual English major, I refuse to listen to a song that implies Ophelia might have reconsidered killing herself if she had just dated a quarterback.
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All right?
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He's a tight end, you idiot. Swift is also being attacked as a racist over a song wish list where she scoffs at the empty dreams of others and asks for life's simple things. Essentially a house in a nice place with some kids and a driveway with a basketball hoop.
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Sounds nice and that sort of thing.
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Boss up, settle down. Got a wish list. Okay, the leftist word police have translated this into an act of white supremacy. I want to have your white babies. And I want, actually want our entire neighborhood to be racially homogenous. Mule day tiktoker. Now Taylor's calling y' all childless cat ladies because she's about to pop out some kids. All right, I know, I know. There's. And there's. There's more. There's so much more.
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And I. I always say the same thing. Do these people actually believe this or is this Just killing time on the Internet. Did they turn on the Taylor Swift new album and think, oh my God, this is dripping in white supremacy or something?
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And they're so upset.
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Yeah, right. Get this is what I always say. Also, get married. Have some kids. Have some kids. You'll be so busy you won't have time for this nonsense. That's what you need to do. You need to be busy all day with laundry and kids and picking them up and homework so you don't have time to think about this weirdness.
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On this episode of Armstrong & Getty, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty deliver their signature blend of irreverence, news commentary, and social critique. The episode covers a range of topics, from a wild baseball blunder and America's economic woes to bizarre social media pranks and the latest absurdities of political and cultural discourse. With biting humor and sharp cynicism, the hosts question decision-making at every level—individual, governmental, and societal—underscoring the episode's provocative theme: “You're Too Stupid To Exist.”
Repeat Offender, Gender Policy Loophole
Vicious critique of policy-makers and media (e.g., the Washington Post) bending language and logic to absurdity in the name of gender ideology.
Juvenile Humor on Euphemisms
Armstrong & Getty’s tone is sarcastic and confrontational, balancing genuine concern with biting satire. They frequently turn complex issues into digestible, punchy critiques, often punctuating serious points with humor. This episode especially leans into exasperation at poor decision-making at every societal level, punctuated by incredulous rhetorical questions and dark jokes.
For listeners seeking a whirlwind tour of American dysfunction—political, economic, and cultural—filtered through the bruised optimism and caustic wit of Armstrong & Getty, this episode delivers classic form.