You've Got A Strong Attitude... & Testicles

Summary

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Episode: "You’ve Got A Strong Attitude... & Testicles"
Date: February 10, 2026
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty | Producer/Contributors: Michael, Patrice Tyrus, Guest Commentator
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode ranges widely, mixing wit and serious commentary as Jack and Joe discuss the latest public safety and political dramas, sports controversies, culture wars, evolving standards in gender and health care, and pop culture fads. The episode’s main themes include shifting political stances, law enforcement accountability, cultural reactions to diversity in entertainment, debates over transgender athletes, generational cultural touchstones, and health news.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Public Safety & Law Enforcement Scrutiny

• Lyft’s Teen Ride Program
  • Jack shares the news about Lyft launching a ride-share option for teens, with enhanced safety features and parental tracking ([00:27]).
  • Discusses the practicality for parents and the challenges of prior rules.
• Media Coverage & Missing Persons
  • Jack and Joe note the saturation of coverage around Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother, even in absence of new developments ([01:46]).
• Charlotte, NC Law & Order Hearings
  • In-depth analysis of hearings surrounding Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary McFadden, accused of incompetence and misconduct in public safety ([03:58]).
  • State Rep. Brendan Jones directly accuses the officials of incompetence:

    "Each of you called here today for one reason. Incompetence."
    ([05:27])

  • Sheriff McFadden struggles to identify his role in government, leading to a pointed exchange with State Rep. Alan Chesser ([06:08–07:14]):

    Chesser: “Of those three [branches], which do you believe you fall under?”
    McFadden: “I believe I fall under the last one.”
    Chesser: “Would you say it to me? Judicial? You are incorrect, sir. You fall under the executive.”
    ([07:02–07:14])

  • Jack: "The guy should be able to answer the question: How many branches are there in the government?" ([07:59])
• Reflections on Racism Among Police
  • Jack recounts his experience with a racist former Mecklenburg cop, contextualizing historical prejudices ([09:03]).

2. Political Hypocrisy & Election Rules

• National vs. State Election Control
  • Guest commentator highlights both parties switching their stances on federalism depending on who's in power:

    "Once again, we see both sides switch. Democrats are discovering federalism… Republicans now who seem to have a very short memory… say, why don’t we nationalize the election for three years…" ([03:00])

  • Joe: "They meet at midnight under the Washington Monument and swap their playbooks." ([03:58])

3. Culture Wars & Super Bowl Halftime Show

• Jon Stewart, Bad Bunny, and Language in Entertainment
  • Jack critiques the lack of inclusivity for English-speakers in the Spanish-language halftime show:

    "Since when do I have to enjoy entertainment in a foreign language? …That doesn’t mean I have to sit there and pretend that I like getting a history lesson in Puerto Rican in a language I don’t understand."
    ([15:23])

  • Joe notes that left-leaning media often misunderstands right-wing objections:

    "The John Stewart’s of the world never even hear what you just said. They're never exposed to conservative thought… He’s answering a question that hasn't been asked."
    ([17:17])

4. Transgender Athletes & Gender Rights

• Olympics & High School Sports Controversies
  • Joe and Jack discuss a high-profile case of a trans boxer at the 2024 Olympics, who dominated the women’s competition before admitting to being biologically male ([18:17]), and a California trans high schooler winning girls’ events ([20:41]).
  • Notable quote from the young athlete:

    "I’m a 16-year-old girl with a strong attitude."
    Jack: "A strong attitude and testicles… You’ve got a strong attitude and testicles is the thing."
    ([21:05])

  • Patrice Tyrus on the Olympic controversy:

    "…why is this person one, not charged with assault, two, banned from any competition for life. Worse than Pete Rose."
    ([22:40])

• Medical Shifts in Gender Treatment
  • They highlight major US medical groups (American Society of Plastic Surgeons, AMA) now recommending gender surgeries be limited to legal adults:

    "The AMA said these procedures should be deferred until patients reach adulthood. No way can you do them on kids. The ice flow of insanity is finally starting to break."
    ([25:42])

5. Public Health Anecdotes

• GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs & ‘Old-Timey’ Diseases
  • Jack reports on scurvy and malnutrition arising from appetite-suppressing medications; encourages listeners to "mix in an orange" if they're dieting ([31:19–33:16]).

6. Global Human Rights & Jimmy Lai

• Hong Kong’s Dissident Publisher
  • Extended discussion of Jimmy Lai, his solitary confinement and life sentence in China for defending press freedom ([33:20–35:51]).
  • Jack:

    "He should be like a Nelson Mandela sort of household name… but he's not, because China's got so much might as an economic power that people don't want to get on the right side of China."
    ([34:08])

  • Joe:

    "He had everything and nothing to lose if he just kowtowed to the Chinese government…and he stood up against them."
    ([35:29])

7. Generational Pop Culture – “Chicken Banana”

• Discussion of the viral "Chicken Banana" meme among youth:

  "So this is the skibidi toilet of 2026… There’s nothing more to it than that. That’s the whole thing."
  ([28:39])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Law Enforcement Competence:

  “This body is going to get to the bottom of this crisis today.”
  (Rep. Brendan Jones, [05:27])

• On Identity and Competition:

  "You’ve got a strong attitude and testicles is the thing."
  (Jack Armstrong, [21:05])

• On Cultural Change:

  "There's nothing unnatural about wanting the language in the town you live in to stay the language you speak. That doesn't make you a bad person."
  (Jack Armstrong, [16:35])

• On Medical Guidance:

  "The AMA said these procedures should be deferred until patients reach adulthood. No way can you do them on kids. The insanity…is finally starting to break."
  (Joe Getty, [25:42])

• On Diet Trends:

  "If you're on a GLP, mix in an orange now and then."
  (Jack Armstrong, [33:10])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Teen Rideshare News / Media Overcoverage — [00:27–02:36]
• Mecklenburg County Law & Order Hearings — [02:36–10:32]
• Racism Among Police / Reflections — [09:03–10:21]
• Defining Racism & Bigotry — [11:36–13:17]
• Super Bowl Recap & Halftime Show Debate — [13:27–18:15]
• Transgender Athletes—Olympics & High School — [18:17–24:13]
• Medical Updates / Gender Transition Policy — [24:14–25:46]
• GLP-1 Drugs & Scurvy Trend — [30:25–33:16]
• Jimmy Lai's Plight & Global Freedom — [33:20–35:51]
• Chicken Banana Viral Trend — [28:39–30:25]

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Tone & Style

The episode mixes sarcasm, directness, and a conversational back-and-forth style, with Jack providing pointed observations and Joe volleying with dry, often sardonic humor. The pair regularly reference personal anecdotes, critique the media and politics, and reflect honestly on topics both serious and absurd.

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For listeners:
This episode exemplifies Armstrong & Getty’s unscripted, combative but thoughtful banter on serious news, cultural curiosity, and the bizarre byproducts of American media and politics in 2026.

Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio.

[Joe Getty]

Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Lyft just announced a new ride share feature for teens. The company says that the new program will only match teen passengers with drivers who meet the highest standards, including background checks, safe driving records and positive feedback history. Parents will be able to track their teens location live. Interesting. At least in theory. You're not allowed to get a ride for your kid because I've run into that before. I've been successful a few times where the driver didn't pay any attention and picked up my kid and took him to school or whatever. And, and I've always thought, damn it, I wish you could do that because it'd be very handy for me sometimes when I don't have any way to get my kid picked up or drop them off to send an Uber over there. Like I said, I've done it a few times. But now at least Lyft is going to have a system where you can. I think it's interesting that cnn, fox, NBC, cbs, I assume ABC is the same. Are all leading with the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mom. Even though there is zero today, zero new anything today. No, no lead story on everything. This has got to be about the end, doesn't it? I mean, can you go tomorrow again leading with it with still nothing new.

[Joe Getty]

They will try.

[Jack Armstrong]

The latest is that Savannah Guthrie put out a new video saying it was our hour of desperation. But this, this video is different than the other ones. It wasn't pre written, she wasn't reading off a script and it has more of a, you know, we're grasping at straws, last gasp sort of thing to it. Unfortunately.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I think it has to do with the daytime TV audience, you know what I mean? Could be the sort of people who want this no matter if their developments are not kind of. I don't know, I don't know, I'm just. We don't do that.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we're just letting you know there is no new development. So if you, you know, you flipping around the channels to try to find Savannah Guthrie update coverage. There's nothing new today. At least as of this moment.

[Joe Getty]

Fair enough. So let's talk about law and order and public safety kind of in a general sense. We've got a handful of different stories applying to this including. This is absolutely fabulous. Sarah is who writes for the Dispatch and she served in the first Trump Administration, Justice Department, super smart, decent, moral, one of the few left. Anyway, she's talking about one of the hot, hot political stories of recent days.

[Guest Commentator]

Well, once again we're seeing both parties switch sides. It had actually been the Democratic Party that had been in favor of nationalizing voter registration, for instance, and having the federal government play a bigger role in our elections. And it was Republicans who said no, it's actually far more secure to have 50 separate election. And so once again, we see both sides switch. Democrats are discovering federalism and why, in fact, when you have a president that you don't like and you don't have control over which president's going to win, you may actually want states to be in control. And it's Republicans now who seem to have a very short memory and attention span, who say, why don't we nationalize the election for three years and then definitely will never lose another presidential election again.

[Jack Armstrong]

This happens so much more often than the average voter realizes because you're not, you know, you got your life and you're not paying close enough attention that the parties completely trade playbooks on different issues depending on whether or not they're in power.

[Joe Getty]

As I often say, they meet at midnight under the Washington Monument and swap their playbooks. And it's just, you know, it's the way the game is played, but it's just not a game I have any interest in. It's just, it's just discouraging. Speaking of which, I have a new character to pay attention to and that would be Sheriff McFadden. What's his first name? Gary McFadden of Mecklenburg County. That is where Charlotte, North Carolina is. If you've never been to Charlotte, it's gone from a sleepy kind of medium sized city 30, 40 years ago when we lived there, when was that? 30 years ago. To a gigantic metroplex. One of the most astounding transformations I've ever seen. Anyway, they, they have a popularly elected Sheriff and this McFadden guy is one of your local, like big time black community in Charlotte, movers and shakers and is, is popular. And even though he's got really no credentials, he got elected sheriff. Things have not gone terribly well. And they, the North Carolina legislature dragged the sheriff and the mayor of Charlotte and the district attorney, who's a progressive, into the legislature to answer questions about that murder of that poor Ukrainian woman on the train and other law and order problems. And we'll start. This is Representative Brendan Jones in 50 Michael. To give you a feel of the.

[Representative Brendan Jones]

Flavor, each of you called here Today for one reason. Incompetence. Incompetence in the law, incompetence in running jails, incompetence of handling crime, and most notably, incompetence and keeping the citizens of Mecklenburg county safe. That is, to be frank, completely unacceptable. I'm not going to beat around the bush. This hearing is not going to be butterflies and roses. This body is going to get to the bottom of this crisis today.

[Jack Armstrong]

Butterflies and roses, you say?

[Joe Getty]

Sounds like a nice time. Oh, it's not going to be.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, darn it.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, so here's state Rep. Alan Chesser talking to Sheriff McFadden. I think it kind of explains itself.

[State Rep. Alan Chesser]

Branch of government do you operate under?

[Jack Armstrong]

Meckleboro County.

[State Rep. Alan Chesser]

What branch of government do you operate under? Sheriff.

[Jack Armstrong]

Constitution of the United States.

[State Rep. Alan Chesser]

Correct. That is what establishes the branches of government. I'm asking which branch you fall under.

[Jack Armstrong]

Mecklenburg County. I'm a duly sworn Mecklenburg county sheriff. We answer to the people of Mecklenburg County.

[State Rep. Alan Chesser]

This was not where I was anticipating getting stuck. Are you aware how many branches of government there are?

[Patrice Tyrus]

No.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[State Rep. Alan Chesser]

For the sake of debate, I will move on and say there are three branches of government. Legislative, executive, judicial. Of those three, which do you believe you fall under?

[Jack Armstrong]

I believe I fall under the last one.

[State Rep. Alan Chesser]

Would you say it to me Judicial? You are incorrect, sir. You fall under the executive.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, that's kind of amusing and amazing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Was that designed to be a gotcha, do you think, or no?

[Joe Getty]

Well, no, as he said, I did not expect to get hung up here. He was planning to go into the functioning of the executive branch and the way it's supposed to work. And that was just like foundational question, I think.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not sure he didn't have suspicions that this guy couldn't answer the question because he could have just. He had just said, you are in the executive branch. Your job is to execute the laws of this county. And then made his point. He didn't have.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think he wanted to expose him. He wanted to expose him as an ignoramus.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Seems pretty clear to me. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Well, and I don't. You seem to be hinting that that's dirty pool.

[Jack Armstrong]

No. Well, I don't like gotcha questions in general just to make a point, but the guy should be able to answer the question. How many branches are there in the government?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Anyway, so this guy's been accused of misconduct and extortion. Also mismanaging resources, including directing on duty deputies to drive people to bars and strip clubs in county owned vehicles. Let's see the Chairman asked yes or no if deputies ever drove people to bars and strip clubs on duty. McFadden declined to respond, even hypothetically. He also refused to comment on comment on inmate deaths, citing lawsuits. At one point, he said, yeah, people die in the jail. People die in hospitals, too. State Republicans have begin begun referring to the sheriff as not my fault McFadden because he never takes accountability. There's some more good stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hate to traffic in stereotypes types. Sometimes I hate to traffic in them, sometimes I like to traffic in them, but in this case, I hate to traffic in them.

[Joe Getty]

That's remarkable candor, and we appreciate it.

[Jack Armstrong]

The most racist person I've ever known in my life, and I have not known very many people that were out and out racists. I don't know if they. If racists are just really good at hiding it. Like they figure out whether you're, you know, one of them or not and keep it to themselves or whatever. But the most racist person I've ever known in my life was a former cop from Mecklenburg county when we lived in Charlotte. And it was shocking to me how racist that guy was. And he was a guy that carried a gun and then enforced the law using finger quotes because.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. But it was. It was amazing to me. It, like. I mean, it played into the stereotype. Like, if it was in a, you know, a TV show, you would think, okay, you've gone a little too far with the white southern, racist cop. But this guy was a white, southern, racist cop. Absolutely. It's troubling.

[Joe Getty]

And does that relate to this story somehow? It's just a tale from the past.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just a tale from the past? From that area. Just Mecklenburg County. I was. I was shocked by that. Like, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't know that it existed at that level among cops. And this was in the 90s, right, right.

[Joe Getty]

Well, as they used to say, it's 3 o' clock drive 20 miles out of town. It's 1960.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Certain parts of the south, there's a. There's some truth to that. So a. Although this guy's an incompetent boob who shouldn't be sheriff ever, regardless of the color of his skin.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was some job answering questions.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

How many race like known racists do you think you've known in your or do you know? Do you like, you know? I only know two that were out loud would, would talk about things. I mean they were just declaring they were racist. I've only known two in my whole life. I'm. I'm sure there were more, but they were keeping it quieter. But it's not as prevalent as it is portrayed.

[Joe Getty]

I prefer the term bigot. Okay for reasons that are picky. But I've known a couple of white people. I have known a couple of black people, a couple of Asian people.

[Jack Armstrong]

You opened up a different category I.

[Joe Getty]

Hadn'T thought about and a handful of people who are flaming anti Semites, which is as bigotry, as ugly as exists on earth.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's funny, you opened up a category that for some reason I hadn't thought of. I was only picturing white people. I've known, I've known plenty of people of other races who are racist. But like in my mind it doesn't count because that's kind of what we're told in our culture, that you can be racist if you're, if you're black against Mexicans or if you're Mexican against Guatemalans or whatever, which wouldn't be racial, but it's just, you know, talk bigoted.

[Joe Getty]

To a Japanese person about Chinese people or vice versa. Or talk to a Filipino about any of them.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. It's funny that even in my own mind, knowing how there shouldn't be a distinction. I didn't count that crowd, which I've known many more than two. Who would.

[Joe Getty]

I think you need a slapping out loud.

[Jack Armstrong]

Say, oh, no, you can't trust blank. Or a blank family moved in, you know, lock your stuff up or whatever.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's something that is really interesting. Any thoughts that? Text line 415295 KFTC ARMSTRONG and GETTY.

[Michael]

I gotta tell you, what a weekend. Super Bowl Sunday. And what a game. What a game it was.

[Joe Getty]

Bam.

[Michael]

If you like high scoring contests where the outcome is a doubt till the final suspenseful, climactic seconds, this was not the game for you.

[Joe Getty]

Slow.

[Michael]

Grinding it nearly took all the fun out of watching the Patriots lose.

[Jack Armstrong]

So Jon Stewart got into the whole bad bunny thing at one point on the Daily show last night, and he said, so, you know, everybody does nut picking on this stuff. I suppose we do it. Everybody does it. You pick somebody that represents a point of view that you can easily attack and then you play that or whatever. But. So he played a clip of someone saying on Fox or something that the halftime show should bring people together. And Jon Stewart's attack on that was, since when does the halftime act have the requirement of bringing people together? That's not their job. They don't have to bring people together. There's no law that the halftime show has to bring people together. Which is true enough. But since when do I have to enjoy entertainment in a foreign language? That's what I don't get. Why, why I, in the constant argument of the NFL's trying to reach out to the Hispanic. I get it. I know I'm, I understand completely that they're trying to bring in a giant different audience from other countries, but that doesn't mean I have to enjoy it. How can those things be so complicated to people? That doesn't mean I have to sit there and pretend that I like getting a history lesson in Puerto Rican in a language I don't understand. So I had no idea what was going on.

[Joe Getty]

It's just a beautiful example of people talking past each other. Jon Stewart acted as if the issue was something completely different than it was and lectured you that you shouldn't be worried about something you weren't. You weren't worried about.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I'm not offended. I just, it was, you know, it's 45 minutes in between the quarters where there was nothing for me and they made no effort whatsoever to give me anything. Yeah, to me the big difference was the setup to the musical play. Whatever history lesson was the print they put on the screen had no subtitles. So you didn't even make the slightest effort to get me interested in what was going on there. If you'd have just told me the setting is Puerto Rico, 70s sugar cane field, even that, I might have thought, okay, and then tried to figure out what was going on through the acting and the music or whatever. But you didn't give me anything.

[Joe Getty]

The idea that the question was never even asked. What do we do for the English speakers? Stretches their credulity and my. My credibility doesn't have a lot of stretch in it. It hurts.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just.

[Joe Getty]

So they had to have considered that question and said, no, let's not do anything.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've been saying the same thing forever. I don't think I've ever heard anybody else say it. There's. There's nothing unnatural about wanting the language in the town you live in to stay the language you speak that doesn't make you a bad person. That's the most common. That's gotta be common throughout human history, that wherever you are in planet Earth that people would like the culture that in their town to stay the same, not be radically changed. You can make all the arguments about multiculturalism and bringing in immigrants in the workforce and blah, blah, all these different sort of things, but you still can't get past it's just human nature to. I like it better when my entertainment isn't in a language. I get.

[Joe Getty]

Mm, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

The.

[Joe Getty]

I think it's another great example of if you're on the right side of the aisle, you spend your entire life hearing the messages of the left and their points of view and theories and policies and stuff like that. And you develop arguments for why you think they're unwise or they ought to be changed or whatever. The John Stewart's of the world never even hear what you just said. They are never exposed to conservative thought. So again, he's answering a question that hasn't been asked. Why didn't it bring us together? I haven't heard a single person right of center or center say that about the super bowl halftime show. It was what you just said.

[Jack Armstrong]

So about 130 million people on average watch the Super Bowl. That is an insanely large crowd by today's standards, where a hit TV show gets 2 million. I mean, that's just amazing. Snow Wonder advertisers want to Be on there. And Bad Bunny at halftime is about 140 million people watching. Bad bunny at halftime, 140 million.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong.

[Guest Commentator]

And get.

[Joe Getty]

You remember the Algerian boxer who won gold at the 2024 Olympics while beating up women? Everybody could see that she was clearly a he and a surprise to no one. The boxer finally admitted he has male chromosomes. In fact, his natural testosterone is so high, he uses hormone treatments to lower it for competition.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was from the Summer Olympics, if you remember that. He beat the hell out of a couple of women. Like, a couple women. At least one quit. Like, got punched once. Was like, no, I ain't fighting. This guy gonna kill me. Right as your Summer Olympics, you got another trans athlete thing in a second. But speaking of Olympics, I was just watching some highlights. So for some reason on the TV for about 48 hours, people decided showing Lindsay Vaughn crashing was not cool. They cut away from it on NBC when it happened, and then I didn't see any replays of it, just still pictures. But then somebody decided it's okay. Now I've seen it a thousand times in the last 24 hours, and now it's just run on a loop. Her crashing. It's funny how that works. It's like somebody had. I don't know who went first, and everybody think they're showing it, so we.

[Patrice Tyrus]

Got to show it.

[Jack Armstrong]

So now. Now we're showing our crash.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Sensationalism won out over scruples. I don't know. I guess I want to watch it. I actually haven't seen it and don't expect to.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, it's not a big deal. It's just interesting that they held back on it for a couple of days, and then all of a sudden, o. We're all going to show it, like, over and over again. Oh, and they just showed high.

[Joe Getty]

The.

[Jack Armstrong]

The highlights from curling, which is. It's just so. I. I'm. I'm fine with curling.

[Joe Getty]

I don't.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't care what's in the Olympics or what's not. But this is just an odd one. I mean, if you're going to have curling, couldn't you have. Couldn't you have bottle flipping or who can do a Rubik's Cube the fastest or all kinds of different things?

[Joe Getty]

It's arguably somewhat athletic. It's physical. It's. It's the pbr, the Pabst Blue Ribbon of sports. People, I think, mostly like it ironically. Yeah, I'm sure it's fun. I've had a couple of Molson's. I'm Hanging out with my buddies in Northern Wisconsin or whatever. Let's get it on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure, why not? Speaking of the trans athlete thing though, you got a transgender California high schooler who snatched up first place for the girls this past Saturday. Just the other day at the winter championships for high school in California, it was in Riverside County.

[Joe Getty]

Way to go, sir. Way to beat up on those girls. Nice job.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is a child. Sixteen year old A.B. hernandez, a senior in high school.

[Joe Getty]

The same dude who's been whooping up on girls in all sorts of sports.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really? Recorded a jump of 39ft 10 inches, beating out the second place person who was a girl. Hernandez also took home second place in a different competition. So a girl actually beat him. Hernandez at the other thing. But here, this is the quote I want to get to. I get a lot of hate comments, but I don't really care. I'm a 16 year old girl with a strong attitude. A strong attitude and a penis. Let's see. You've got a strong attitude and testicles is the thing.

[Patrice Tyrus]

Do you really?

[Joe Getty]

Congratulations on your attitude.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it's a child. But do you really think I'm gonna listen? Don't, don't, don't, don't. Don't take the attitude. That's not helping your cause. Just let me tell you as a PR move, it is not taken. It's not helping you to take that attitude. Go with. I just love competition and it was really fun and you know, whoever he be, Jenny really, you know, came close, man. She was tough. Competition. Go with that. At this sort of view, if you want fewer people to hate you rather than people could hate me all they want, I don't care because that ain't going to work. Yeah. Because we all think it's really weird.

[Joe Getty]

I don't. I wouldn't use that word. But yeah, competing in sports part. Oh, right. Yeah. I just.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's funny, I kind of view it.

[Joe Getty]

The other way, but the mouthy 16 year old. Of course he's a mouthy 16 year old. They all are. And it's fine. So was I. So he's not good at pr, but no, you can't play against girls. No, that's utterly out of the question. You would have to be a crazy person to think that's okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, I think. I think I changed my mind. Michael. So Michael played me a clip from Gutfeld last night. Who is this talking? Is this Patrice Tyrus? Tyrus. I'm sorry, Patrice Tyrus talking about the boxer who admitted to being a guy this Is kind of funny.

[Patrice Tyrus]

I believe the. The girl, the young lady was from Italy when she got hit with one jab and she quit. Yeah, because she knew. He comes out and says, well, yeah, I know. I have. I'm a man and I have this. So therefore it was premeditated. So why is this person one, not charged with assault, two, banned from any competition for life. Worse than Pete Rose. Pete Rose didn't dress up like women, go in the softball league and steal all their records and take the place of a young woman who might have wanted to compete. Took gold medal dreams away from at least three people because don't forget about the one who finished fourth. They're no longer a bronze. They're no longer. Maybe their dreams are over. Maybe their sponsorships are gone. He knew what he was doing. So take his medals, ban him from any competition.

[Jack Armstrong]

First of all, that is true. The person that places fourth in all these things might be the one that gets screwed the most. Although the first place is a big deal because, you know, scholarships and college teams and stuff like that.

[Joe Getty]

But I see everybody who got punched in the face by a man over and over suffered a bit too.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. I was actually thinking of the. The high school girls track again. But, you know, the person that doesn't get to be the gold medal winner and stand on the podium after all that work because you actually were legitimately, technically, in every way the best girl, but you didn't get the gold medal. But the Pete Rose thing is kind of funny. Pete Rose would have accidentally dominated women's softball, there's no doubt about it.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Can you picture somebody trying to block the plate with the Charlene Hustle coming in, coming down the third baseline, head first? Kidding me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Patrice Tyrus]

Wow. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Beautiful. Oh, you know, that reminds me, quoting the great Nellie Bowles of the Free Press. She said it can be said a million times and still not be said enough. Abigail Schreier, the dogged reporter who wrote the book Irreversible Damage, was right about the risks in youth gender transition when it was incredibly socially inconvenient to say so. On Tuesday we reported this. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons announced new guidance recommending that gender transition surgeries be reserved for those 19 years old and older. There's a lot more to it than that. They said, look, kids can't consent to this. Much of the coverage on this represents or presents the guidance as the result of some sort of right wing backlash. As if giving double mastectomies to kids was a long practiced, medically necessary procedure that ideologues are trying to take away. It isn't, writes Nelly. And in fact, more people are coming out to say that they feel they'd been medically ill advised. Oh, and she mentions that on Wednesday the American Medical association took a similar position. Here's the headline in the New York Times that I did not see and have not heard repeated anywhere. Doctors Group endorses Restrictions on Gender Related surgery for minors. The AMA's announcement followed a similar recommendation from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The AMA said these procedures should be deferred until patients reach adulthood. No way can you do them on kids. The insanity, the ice flow of insanity is finally starting to break.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're right, I hadn't heard that either. That should be a news story.

[Joe Getty]

And then of course we heard about that 16 year old who sued and won for malpractice because counselors had browbeaten her and pushed her into having her healthy breasts removed. And moments later she realized, oh my God, what have they done to me? Absolutely sick. And then in a lighter but related note, I love this from Nelly. They were talking about stolen land in a Senate antitrust hearing. Okay. And Ted Cruz, I'm skipping around here. Oh, I'm sorry, Ted. A different guy, Ted Sarandos, said one simple question. Are we right now on stolen land? I'm sorry, Sarandos is the guy who's being questioned. He said he has no idea of the history of this land that we're sitting on today. No idea the history of this land? Really? Come on, it's Washington D.C. you never saw Hamilton. Ted, come on, you know this. We all did those AP US History note cards before the hearing. This whole, well, I'm not an accredited expert, so I couldn't possibly weigh in here shtick. Reminds me of when Senator Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing to define woman. And the judge said, not in this context. I'm not a biologist. Not a biologist. Next time someone asked me to sign a document, I'm going to have to let them know that I'm not a notary, that I can't make a follow up appointment because I'm not a technically. I'm not technically certified in appointment scheduling. Make dinner. Sorry, I don't have a diploma from the court on blue Walk the dog. Do I look like a veterinarian to you? Experts are the only ones who can do anything or answer any questions about a subject.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's pretty good.

[Joe Getty]

That is pretty good. Bastards. So you know they're beyond bastards. They're. They're sick. Joseph Mengele alike. Experimental on children. End of screen. Coming up, the Washington Post went to hell and deserves to be in the straits it's in. Learned commentators weighing in with a perspective you're never going to hear on the mainstream media.

[Jack Armstrong]

Also, people are getting old. Timey sailors, diseases because of GLPs, weight loss, drugs.

[Joe Getty]

Really?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Scabies, scurvy.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, no.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, and I need to talk about measles. I want to talk about measles. It's making the rounds in the United.

[Joe Getty]

It's another medical throwback Tuesday.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. From somebody who has no idea what they're talking about. So. Man, if you don't want that information, I don't know what you're looking for every day.

[Joe Getty]

It's tempting.

[Jack Armstrong]

We got more on the way. Stay here.

[Guest Commentator]

Armstrong and Gettysburg.

[Jack Armstrong]

Chicken.

[Joe Getty]

Banana. Chicken Banana. Chicken Banana. Banana. Banana. Banana. Banana.

[Jack Armstrong]

So this is the skibidi toilet of 2026, in case you were wondering, for young people. Chicken banana. So that's the hot thing right now. And it doesn't need to be any more than that. There's no more to it. It's like six, seven. There's nothing more to it than that. That's the whole thing, right?

[Joe Getty]

It's a reference I'm familiar with.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just.

[Joe Getty]

That's it. Just.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just. Yeah, it's just chicken banana over and over again. And. Oh, you've heard chicken banana, too. And then you laugh together and you feel closer, which is a nice. A nice feeling. And we don't have many of those anymore. So I guess now we're really, really desperate to have things that we can feel that we have in common. So the 67 of right now is chicken banana. Can I hear a little. I'm reminded.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, sure. Why are we gone? I was enjoying it. Sorry. It was over when it ended. It is catchy. Chicken banana.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's not very deep.

[Joe Getty]

I'm reminded. I agree with you about the shared experience thing, but I'm reminded of a starving prisoner crawling around in his cell trying to catch a cockroach to eat it. It's only a starving person who would eat this. Yes. Their shared experience.

[Jack Armstrong]

You had a reaction to that. Katie, do you know something about chicken banana or. Yeah, that it annoys the hell out of me. Do you. Are you the one that brought us that clip? Are you the one that first came across it? No. Like, I heard one of my kids say chicken banana the other day, but no, that was a gift from Michael. I have a feeling. How did you Become aware of chicken banana. How did I become aware? You're just super hip. Your cats are into it. No, no, it was just on the, on the website and they said this is the big thing for young people. So I guess it is. There you go. Just trying to keep up, you know, I can't keep up. It helps to know. I like knowing so that if I hear six, seven, I know. Okay, okay. I know it is. And I'm not just completely confused. So now chicken banana.

[Joe Getty]

Right?

[Jack Armstrong]

We all know. We all know. So I was a little surprised to see Serena Williams pop up in a Super bowl ad for GLP weight loss thing. I didn't drill down on that, but was she, did she gain some weight when she stopped playing and after she had a kid or whatever and she went on a glp. I'm kind of surprised by that.

[Joe Getty]

For a checking my notes on Serena Williams weight, I don't have much.

[Jack Armstrong]

Pretty surprised though. Like a just recently retired world class athlete needed to go pee. Kind of surprising to me. I didn't pay attention to the whole ad, but came across this. GLPs are all the rage right now. You know, that's your Eurozempic, your Wegovy, your Manjaro, whatever you're taking to try to lose weight. And it sounds pretty appealing. Some people have some side effects, but people are getting an old timey sailor's disease because of this. Many, many patients have been functionally malnourished developing vitamin deficiencies like scurvy.

[Joe Getty]

What is this?

[Jack Armstrong]

The olden days? You're not eating near as much if you eat pretty much any diet, which is amazing. You can even eat a crappy diet, you'll still take in enough of the nutrients you need to get by. Isn't that amazing? I mean just you can live on like McDonald's and Doritos and cinnamon rolls and stuff like that and you still get, you still get all of those nutrients. Enough of those nutrients to live your life. It's one of the reasons that vitamins to a certain extent are a scam. But it doesn't hurt. Doesn't hurt, but probably just going to pee it out. But people aren't eating very much at all on a lot of these gop. So they aren't taking any very much food period. And so they aren't getting enough of certain vitamins and they're getting scurvy.

[Patrice Tyrus]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not eating.

[Joe Getty]

I remember scurvy and rickets were what we learned about as kids from your old timey sailors disease. Our original air names Malnutrition Malnutrition. Diseases.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Scurvy and rickets in the morning. We thought it'd be funny. And nobody liked it?

[Joe Getty]

No, it was. In retrospect, it was a bad idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

According to this doctor, a reduction in body weight does not automatically mean the person is well nourished or healthy. Nutrition plays a critical role in health. Thank you.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we know. Signed the Starving. We noticed that.

[Jack Armstrong]

But nobody saw a big return of scurvy, which you used to get as a sailor, because you're out on the sea and you're eating. I don't know what you're eating.

[Joe Getty]

Rats.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fish. Ratfish.

[Joe Getty]

Rats. How many rats are aboard the ship? Probably plenty.

[Jack Armstrong]

What did they eat at sea that they weren't getting enough nutrients to avoid scurvy?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, just not fruit. They weren't getting any vitamin C, so they would be eating, like, hard tack and maybe some dried meat. I don't know. Occasional fish. You'd think that would be pretty healthy.

[Representative Brendan Jones]

I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

So there you go. That's my whole message. If you're on a gop, mix in an orange now and then. All right.

[Joe Getty]

If you're on a whaling ship in 1850, mix in an orange. Same thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are you following the Jimmy Lai story? We have talked about him over the years.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. It's tragic. He is one of the most courageous men I have been witness to in our lifetime.

[Jack Armstrong]

He should be a household name. And the reasons he's not are all disgusting. It's a combination of, like, your Hollywood class or. Well, just a lot of business people, too, who are so scared of getting on the wrong side of China that they don't elevate him to the level. I mean, he should be like a Nelson Mandela sort of household name all around the world, but he's not, because China's got so much might as an economic power that people don't want to get on the right side of China. And holding him up as a hero does not help you in doing business with China.

[Joe Getty]

I also think on the left, because they're such xenophiles, to concede that America's greatest rival is actually evil is to concede that America is good, or at least better than the Communist Chinese. And they are unwilling to do that, even to the point of ignoring Jimmy Lai.

[Jack Armstrong]

But Jimmy Lai is a. He's very old at this point, and he. Well, he had a newspaper all about free speech and that and pointing out China's awfulness in Hong Kong. And then he got. When China took back over Hong Kong, he was arrested, charged with all kinds of ridiculous crap. And then finally this weekend, they gave him a light. He's been in solitary confinement as a very old man for five years. I didn't realize that. Solitary for five years. And now they've given him a life sentence and he's going to die in prison. And he was asking his final interview not long ago if he has any fear. And he said, yes, I do have fear, a lot of fear. Which is, you know, you should. And I wish there was somehow a way to elevate him so that, like, college students were chanting his name at various events.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or the Hollywood crowd would feel like doing a documentary, a biopic about him. You know, just. Just make him that worldwide figure of freedom. But because people are scared of China, it's not going to happen. Not. Not while he's alive, anyway.

[Joe Getty]

Well, or in the case of the college kids, they're just ignoramuses with minds perverted by their professors. But, yeah, you ought to be a global hero. It's very disappointing that he's not. He had everything and nothing to lose if he just kowtowed to the Chinese government. And he had everything to lose if he stood up against them. And he stood up against them.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. We. I left out the part of the story where he's an unbelievably successful businessman, he's ungodly wealthy, when he decides to take on this freedom fight against China. Yeah, he had. He could have very easily, you know, kept his mouth shut or funded some other people fighting this fight and lived an amazing life as a super rich person, but he did not. He laid it all on the line. He should get more credit for that horrible story.

[Joe Getty]

Sometimes the good die young. Sometimes they die because they deserve it. The Washington Post, for instance, has earned everything that's happening to it. We'll talk about that next hour.

[Guest Commentator]

Armstrong and Gettysburg.

[Jack Armstrong]

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