January 31, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Trans in women's bathrooms & the democrat party is not favorable
- Are women into feminine guys?
- More details about the plane crash
- Vandalism in Oregon
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. How you doing?
It's Friday? Work? Done with January? Today's last day. As
(00:31):
I was saying earlier, if you're a dry January person,
do you do the one last day when it's a
Friday night?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I think you've made your point. If you like to drink,
drink tonight. Yeah, thirty one days too. How many days
is enough January? It just seems I think if you
don't drink tonight, you're not really a drinker. And then
so therefore you didn't do anything. Yeah for you, I
liked your illustration earlier. Yeah, I did no yoga January.
(00:57):
I didn't do yoga once this month.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
That had to be so hard.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Good for me, I.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Don't do you you don't drink.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
If you don't like drinking enough to drink on this
Friday night, you can give on the ride.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Okay, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I had a bit of.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
A Friday night last night, so I'll be having a
bit of a Thursday night tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's fun, though.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I am going to try to do no wine Friday.
Talk to one of my boys about I haven't talked
to Sam about it. No, I don't know how well
we can do, but that's going to be the theme.
No wine with an h, no whining, No wine Friday
or February. See see if we can make it through
the month or some days, or maybe even an hour
without whining about things.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
If I was your son's gag writer, I would say
you got to lead with this.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We don't get to wine, no whining. I'll let you
know how that goes. It'll probably be a rough weekend.
So I'm gonna do the weave here a bunch of
different topics. It all kind of fit together on just basically,
sanity has prevailed, Insanity is on the run on a
(02:07):
number of fronts, and I hope it's permanent. Very few
things are permanent. This could be semi permanent, though, that's
how off track we got. We'll start here, Katie, what
are we about to hear?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So this is a man dressed as a woman talking
about his experience of going into the women's restroom and
there being a child in there, and I'll let them
take it from there.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I was just in the women's room, and when I
walked in, there was this little girl like three years
old alone. I sooned, waiting for her parent, who was
in the stall. All the stalls were full, so like
I couldn't go in. I just had to wait, and
it was me and this little girl and no one else.
(02:52):
It occurred to me, when the parent leaves the stall
and sees me a trans person and their three year
old daughter, they might make an assumption, an assumption that
could be very dangerous for me, unsafe for me. So
(03:13):
instead of waiting, I left the bathroom. Trans people go
through this thought process any time there in a bathroom.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Okay, i'd I'd like to hear the rest of that.
If he and then what is your solution for this?
Then having an extra special bathroom built everywhere a great
for all.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
People to accept.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Grown men in women's spaces, including child girls' spaces.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Don't be transphobic. Don't have exactly thoughts that he was
putting on the mom there.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Thank you for a fascinating tale, sir. We should also
point out that this fella is semi famous online for
going into restaurants dressed.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
In a very a hearing in a very like what's
the ambiguous way?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And then when somebody says sir or buddy or whatever,
he goes crazy and posts it online that he was
misgendered and now painful.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That was, Yeah, I remember when that happened. Which direction
it was with somebody in their little kid. I think
it was a boy wearing girls clothes with really wrong
long hair, and I referred to him as her, and
the parent dignant, it's a sheet. Okay, Well you got
your little kid, who's too young to you know, be
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able to tell for me, dressed as a girl. So
I refer to your little boy as she because the
dresses a girl with long hair.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I don't know what what am I supposed to do here?
Go with they for all children for the rest of
my life, to make sure.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't know. But but but similar thing. It was
on purpose. They wanted that sort of thing to happen
so they could dig about it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's right, right, Being indignant the left's favorite pastime.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Speaking of the left, maybe leading into this is perfect
latest gallop pole out. The Democratic Party is the most
unpopular it has been in modern American history, at thirty
one fifty seven percent unfavorable, with thirty one percent favorable
a twenty six point spread fifty seven percent unfavorable. Is
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the most unpopular the Democratic Party has ever been, I think,
because it's attached to a whole bunch of this stuff.
And I if I'm a Democrat, and like I'm a
Bill marstyle Democrat or Mett Tidy or whoever I'm about
to mention, I would say, can we distance oursef from
the insane insane stuff and get back to like, you know,
working class or unions or whatever it is you care about,
(05:41):
higher taxes, bigger government. To that point, iber MEPs ex
kendy my main theme here, And I mentioned this the
other day. It just occurred to me at some point
this week I almost like shuddered. We were closer to
going down the point of no return around all this
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insanity than I ever realized. I think, And I think,
with you know, the benefit of the whole hindsight, twenty
twenty thing years from now, we'll be able to look
back on this period and think, what the freaking hell happened?
Where nobody felt comfortable saying out loud all kinds of
truths that everybody had agreed upon forever, Like you can't
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just riot in every town and burn down businesses in
the name of justice and everybody stands back and watches
it happen. Or have dudes in girls' sports and you
just let it happen. I mean, there's all kinds of
examples where you have to go around calling yourself a
racist because you're born white. In this particular case, Ibram
x Kendy, who had a lot of power for a
(06:49):
cup of coffee and no longer does, thank God. One
he's wrong. Two he's a Charlatan. Ibram X Kenny's center.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Phrase a racist, but anyway, go go.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Absolutely a racist. Ibramex Kendy's Center for Anti Racist Research
is permanently shutting down and laying off its staff. Kendy
Center hoovered up tens of millions of dollars in grants
from Wolk corporations who wanted to be on board and
being able to say we donated to iber Mexkennedy Center
for Anti Racist Research produced no work at any point.
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Another I'm reading from Christopher Ruffo here, who was one
of the great anti Wolke warriors out there in America.
Another BLM eraic grift comes to a close. Ibramex Kendy
departing Boston University and closing down is center for Anti
racist Research. And I assume if you listen to your show,
you know at this point that anti racist is a
completely made up thing that he came up with, that
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unless you're actively being anti racist at any moment, you
are racist.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And the number of dopey, compliant white people who went
along with this and still go along with it just
is astonishing, which is a head's eye win entails you
lose Calvin ball approach to everything that you can't possibly
come out on the right side of as a white person.
And then this, quoting Matt Tayebee, who's one of our
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favorite writers and a lefty, but like a normal liberal,
not a crazy person. Matt Tybee thinks the Libs were
very close to having things cemented. They had all the
institutions and were working on impenetrable bureaucratic safeguards for informational control,
speech restrictions, et cetera. It's interesting to think about how
they might have done if a couple of more things
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had gone their way in the election.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's what I'm saying. If Kamala Harrison this election was
more important than I realized. If Kamala Harrison won or Biden,
and we went further down the road of this, as
Matt Tybee says, and really cemented it for another four years,
maybe eight, depending what followed of people being unable or
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scared to say true things about racism and trains and
all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It might have been over. There might have been no
coming back from that. Another generation's children indoctrinated too. And
as you've pointed out, Jack, we as human beings, for
whatever reason, the first thing we hear we tend to
cling to, in spite of any countervailing evidence, or even
the people who came to us with the first piece
of information saying, forget what I said, that was wrong.
(09:27):
I apologize. People still cling to that. That's why indoctrinating
children is such a critical part of every radical movement.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That's why they work so hard at it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And we've already lost many tens of millions of kids
who we won't get back.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Some we will, but it's going to be a hard battle.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
But there's so many examples around this nuttiness that I
almost can't even believe it really happened. Remember the period
of time where the New York Times got on board
with this idea that intent doesn't matter. I mean, if
you accidentally say something, it doesn't matter. If you say, well, no,
that was my intention, that's not what I meant. It
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doesn't matter. You're done.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And all the stuff that happened around me too, and
everything like that just crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Crazy, How did that ever happen? COVID played a role
in it. We're all nutty because of COVID. I guess
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well that in the Neo Marxists are really really good
at what they do. They have a carefully developed theory
of how to take over institutions and societies.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Here's how you do it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You convince everybody that they're racist if they oppose you,
no matter how bizarre their schemes. And for the millions
of time, I must point out, we have not won
this battle, not even close.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
This is not the beginning of the end. It's the
end of the beginning.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
This stuff is still being expanded in schools and universities.
Trump administration is working on it, saying God, but it's
going to be a long battle ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
God. Ibram Kennedy getting tens of millions of dollars to
do anti racist research and then never do anything. I
don't think you ever had any employees, just nothing. I mean,
it's just a full on Black Lives Matter sort of
scam where they took all this money from all these
corporations and built them themselves fancy houses, which doesn't get
enough attention. I mean, good way to.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Go Boston University, by the way, way to give him
his institute because he's such an important scholar. Anybody could
see through this Charlatan's fraud from day one. Well, school
may have used taxpayer money to bring him in to
speak or bought his books, isn't that right, Michael, Yeah,
I know that has happened locally.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's probably happened lots of places where you all live.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Your school bought his books or paid for him to
come speak at an assembly Robin DiAngelo.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Likewise, all of those fraudsters do.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I have to do an ad. I got one more
example of this. I'll do it after this ad.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I got an app to one examples an example of
being on the winning side of this.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
So it's something that Trump administration just did.
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Speaker 2 (12:57):
Final note this segment of all the woke is on
the run thing that I'm so happy about for today,
the Pentagon has ended the Bidenaria policy, Biden era policy
of covering travel costs for troops who need to cross
state lines for abortions, because that's what we're doing. Taxpayers
were paying for people in the military to fly to
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another state to get an abortion. What the freaking hell. Anyway,
the Pentagon has ended that under Pete Hexeth and the
Trump people.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
All right, all right, call of charity or something if
you irresponsibly get pregnant and whatever, make the baby daddy.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Whatever. It's not the taxpayers, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
More on the way.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Pita has offered to provide a vegan weather reveal cake
in place of the traditional Groundhog Day ceremony.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
A cake can't predict the weather.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You need the magic ground exactly. It's a shame we're
not on the air for Groundhog Day this year, darn it.
So another Oscar thing for you. I actually saw one
of the Oscar animated movies this year for Best Picture,
a Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan thing with Timothy Schallomey.
So obviously I'm rooting for that movie. But I came
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across some interesting stuff. I didn't know really much at
Timothy Schalomey's act. He was the host of Saturday Night Live.
Saturday Night he hosted and was the musical guest, and
that's his third time hosting. I didn't even know who
he was until I saw the Bob Dylan movie last
Saturday Night. Because I don't I don't pay that much
attention this sort of stuff. He's a twenty nine year
old sex symbol, I learned. I didn't realize he was
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a sex symbol. I also learned this because I thought, man,
that guy is skinny. I noticed on Saturday Night Live.
So I looked up a couple of different places to
try to nail down his weight. He weighs one hundred
and forty eight pounds. He's five ten, one forty eight.
Do you know many women that find that sexy Katie?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Not a one?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Actually, that doesn't sound like it can protect me one bit.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So I was reading from the New York Times Timothy Schallomey,
who's emerged as a sex symbol and fashion icon with
his hair, jawline and androgynous looks. Again, I don't know
that many women. Maybe it's just women. I know that
dig androgynist looks.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I'm not really hot for tiny, little androgynous men.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
This is why you're hearing women all the time go
where are the real men?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Where did they go?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I feel like maybe gay men are writing these articles
about what men should be sex symbols for women. I
wonder if that's what's going on from you know, New
Yorker magazine or whatever. Chalomey is a grouped into a
label called noodle Boys, noted for their sinewy appearance, who
served as an alternative image of white masculinity in pop culture. Now.
(15:51):
I'm not blended shalome for this. It's not his fault
that he's a skinny guy. It's the New York you know,
a teligentia that is coming up with this whole noodle boys.
He's a sex symbol, alternative image to white masculinity. Of course,
you got to have an alternative to masculinity because you
wouldn't want masculinity.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I'll tell you, guys, there's nothing hotter than a noodle
boy sinory.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Soon can this crack me over?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I don't know. Vogue named Chalamea the most influential fashion
man of the last year. Plying the boundary between traditional
masculinity and femininity. Do you know, do you know any
women who love the idea of someone who blurs the
boundaries between masculinity and feminity. I don't know any women
who have ever thought that personally.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Lesbian, well and gay dudes.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's just ya.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's the intelligency and the fashion elite, and we're supposed
to care what they think or or be cowed into
silence by their opinions. Is a skinny little fella and
kind of androgynists. That's fine, it's fine. But the idea
that that's some sort of great ideal that we all
need to strive for, good golly well.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And I just think it's interesting because I don't think
it's being driven by like ninety percent of women his opinion. So,
I mean, like if I wrote, I don't know magazine
articles about what golf courses ought to look like. I
don't play golf or have any interest in it, but
this is what I think golf courses ought to.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Be right right, and it it reminds me of some
other weird goings on these days with the you know,
the sexual interaction and sex and couples and the rest
of it where it strikes me as kind of an
adolescent girls fantasy of a man because he's half a
little girl and not masculine, because that whole sex thing
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seems kind of scary and gross, which is fine among
adolescent girls. It's why like every teen idol in history
has been pretty and girlish.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
True, but for grown ups.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And I'm not saying, you know, one hundred and forty
nine pound dude doesn't deserve or anything like ed just
I don't think it's the ideal for most women.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Tell you what, if I'm down one hundred and forty
nine pounds, gather the family around my bedside.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Things are bad, We've got more all the way, armstrong
and getty.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Noodle boys. You say, I've never heard that term before.
That's what women are into, noodle boys.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I don't think so, No, no, you know what it
just very quickly follow up here, good friend texted a woman.
I meet a lot of women in my line of work,
and I can't name one, drunk or sober that is
attracted to noodle boys. Noodle boys are good for one thing,
being your gay best friend. Now that's something I can
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get behind.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, I don't think Timothy Chalam is gay. In fact,
I'm sure he's not. But and it's not his fault.
I'm not complaining about him. It's just interesting that he's
being held up as the best idea of masculinity by
the New.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
York crowd, exactly by the same people who want to
teach your little boys that they can be little girls
if they want to be, etc.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
So I had that horrible plane crash night before last
that luckily almost never happens. I mean so close to never,
you can say never. I never worry about it.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Oh yeah, it's vanishingly rare.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, but Trump decided to do a press conference yesterday.
Here's a Fox report on that what.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Began as a somber update.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
I'd like to request a moment of silence for the
victims and their families.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Please quickly turn political. President Trump zeroing in on DEI
hiring by former Democratic presidents for key federal jobs.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities,
psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a
diversity and inclusion hiring initiatives.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, which obviously Trump administration's trying to root out. Here's
more of that report.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
The president leader said he wasn't sure if DEI played
a role in the crash, but believes incompetence may have.
Are you aware of any performance issues or disciplinary actions
that were taken against anyone who was working the tower
last night or flying the plane.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
No, and I hope that's not the case in this case,
but certainly over the years has been the case, and
it's the case with respect to close calls.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Trump signed a presidential memorandum to have the FAA assess
the quote damage done by Biden's woke policies and ensure
future hiring is based on merit.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We don't care what race they are.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
We want the most competent people, especially in those positions.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, I haven't heard this particular port. I mean I
read it, but I haven't heard it play this Please.
Are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the
result of diversity hiring?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And what evidence have you seen to support these plays?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It just could have been. I'm trying to figure out
how you can come to the conclusion right now or
diversity had something to do with this crash, because common sense,
there are a number of people on the right who
are Trump supporters who think he probably shouldn't have left
jumped into the what caused this the morning after the
plane crash?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I think he undermined his own his own argument because
if dei hiring had nothing to do with this incident,
as insidious.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
As it is, he will have.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
He's the boy a cried wolf, right, and then when
the wolf comes he will be less credible. You've got
to be more disciplined than that when you're prosecuting a
really important argument. But you know there's Trump be and
Trump he has no filter.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
We're all finding out in the last thirty six hours
that we have half as many air traffic controllers at
almost every airport in America. They haven't filled the positions,
and there is plenty of reason to believe that the
positions are empty because they'll only hire certain races, gen
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sexual orientations to meet various goals. And that's why we've
got half as many air traffic controllers. That's not good.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And the FAA under Barack Obama and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta,
completely changed the hiring standards in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen
to make the air traffic controllers more diverse, and they
eliminated excellence, and they brought on these easily fudgible tests.
It was just like the college emissions where the Supreme
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Court said you can't admit based on race, and so
they came up with a writ, say an essay about
your life experience and how it's you know, prepared you
for college mentioning in particular what race you are, and
then we will judge you on your essay. Yes, so
the FAA went total soft standards in eliminated excellence. Now
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was that a factor here or not, We don't know,
but it's still an enormous problem.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, back to the crash itself and what actually happened.
Here's a former black Hawk pilot talking to Jake Tapper
on CNN about what she things happened.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
So three is a minimum crew for a black Hawk
helicopter in my opinion, when you're going into visual flight
mode in a crowded airspace like this, it should be
a minimum of four until you have a pilot on
each side for visibility. Whether they were on night vision
doggles at that time or not. It is a very
cluttered airspace with a lot of lighting and the lights
reflecting on the river, and so with that it's easy
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to kind of get a little disoriented. As far as
the hype, they were supposed to be at two hundred feet,
but they were not. Reportedly, the incident happened around three
hundred and fifty to four hundred feet. As the airliner
was descending, they were at the wrong height, So that's
a pilot error.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The first would be a policy error.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Air traffic control said, do you have the CRJ in sight? Well,
there were two aircraft in their field of view, and
actually only one was really obvious to them, and that
was the If you watch the video, the aircraft taking
off in the foreground is probably the one they were facing.
The pilots were facing and said, yeah, I got it.
The air traffic control should have said do you have
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the aircraft at five o'clock, so they were looking at
the rear. If they had done that, the black Hawk
is maneuverable. The black Hawk could have moved out of
the way quickly. They can move on a dime and
make that happen.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's wild that they've been doing that for a long time,
having those helicopters fly around with all those planes coming
into one of the busier airports in America. That's a
lot going on in.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
A very very tight space to Reagan National and that's
been very controversial among airline pilots for a long time.
And it's just it's tragic, obviously, but there are so
many things that have gone wrong. You hate that all
the warnings were ignored until something this horrific. And it
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was a training flight of guys who their job is
to fly VIPs back and forth around the DC metro
area for the military, which is is fine work and
important and the rest of it. They have to have
a certain number of night flying hours to stay certified.
This was their training flight to get their night hours.
In the fact that they were doing it in the
approach path of one of the narrowest busiest airports in
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the world, it's just I mean, that's just insanity. I
realized they work in their station round DC, but it's
just frustrating.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Well did you see the poor congress person or senator
from Kansas involved. So I just flew the reverse of
that flight a couple of weeks ago when we went
to Washington, d C. We then flew from Reagan to Wichita.
They now have a NonStop goes back and forth between
Wichita and Reagan. They didn't and that's what crashed the
other night. They didn't until a year ago. And this
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congress person fought really hard to get that going and
he was crying the other night feeling responsible for that. Dude,
Oh no, he had nothing to do with that whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You know, speaking things that astonish me, the fact that
there was one air traffic controller dealing with all the
planes and helicopters when every plane in the sky, including
the one that God rest their souls, crashed. You've got
a pilot and copilot. Why because you've got to have
some redundancy in case the pooh hits the fan and
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the idea that we don't have the staffing or the
funding or whatever that somebody got sent home early that night,
and so there's one person in charge of all that.
I just it reminds me of a couple other stories
that have surfaced recently. The level of incompetence is so
astounding it can only exist in government work. Is that
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the sort of thing that AI could take over? Air
traffic controller? You think to some extent? Yeah, absolutely. There
are all sorts of automatic sensors and systems that should
have interceded. And that's one of the things that the
FAA and the NTSB are going to get to the
bottom of is how did all that stuff fail? Was
it turned off because of they were flying so low?
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All sorts of details like that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
One quick thing came across this yesterday, speaking of that
Bob Dylan movie. He's got a tour this next this year,
twenty twenty five. Bob Dylan's going to tour. Okay, do
you think that'd be worth it? And he's going to
play some smaller towns. He's going to play Wichita, which
we were just mentioning. And my brother lives there, and
my other brother lives there close to there. And I
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was actually texting with my brother yes day and he said,
I don't know, I've watched some videos over the last
couple of years and they don't look that great. Yeah,
i'd be.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I happen to see Bob Dylan in Wichita many years
ago during his I Don't give a flying f period,
and he didn't and it was awful and I love Bob.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Oh you know what.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
This thought occurred to me, putting aside Bob Dylan's equality
performance at age seventy whatever he is. You know what
occurred to me with the Timothy Schallomey thing, uh huh
and the noodle boys, And he's become a symbol of
an alternative version of masculinity to the traditional white male
blah blah blah, make me want to vomit. And you
pointed out quite correctly that he's tim Schallomey is not
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claiming that.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
No people are claiming that for him.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And how beautiful a parallel is that to Bob Dylan,
who said, stop trying to make me something for your use,
Stop trying to make me a symbol of whatever it
is you think I ought to be a symbol of.
I'm a guitar player, right, And as he is always said,
I don't even know what these songs mean.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Quit tell me what my songs mean.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I think Masters Wars clear enough. But once you get
to you know, some of his wackier rhymeier songs is
fun with words.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'd hate to fly all the way to Wichita and
pay money for good seats and everything like that. And
he comes out and does his eh really kivin hear
not routine?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah times the yeah change in times they had change
in times they had change in things.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, he doesn't need the money. Why is he doing it?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Because he's a guitar player. He's like Keith Richards. Why
the hell is Keith Richards playing shows? He has more
money than creases. If you look like you're having a
good time, I get.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's like when I went to the Eagles, they really
really looked like they were having a good time, like since.
But I've seen people who look like they're not having
a good time, like they wish they were somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
So then why are you doing it? That's part of
their art, you fool. You roube looking miserable. I don't know,
I just threw that out there. I have no idea.
I just think he needs so I think that's who
he is.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, it's interesting. I've seen Dylan twice. I saw him.
I don't remember where I saw him. The first time.
It was an outdoor thing. Would he would he have
played a state fair? But I've seen him at a
step fair. I feel like I saw him at something
like that anyway, and he just it was just it
was awful. I mean, if it wasn't somebody I love,
I would have like tried to get my money back.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It was that horrible.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
But then I saw him in Berkeley at the Greek
Theater and he sounded rough because he's old, but the
band was freaking amazing, and uh so that was cool.
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And the review of it I saw is he's touring
with the idea that he's hot right now because of
that movie, and lots of people are going to a movie,
and there's new generations of people discovering Bob Dylan for
the first time and curious about it and everything. You man,
if you want to see Timothy Shalome doing Bob Dylan,
you're gonna see a really different thing if you go
see the eighty year old version.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah much.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You know, I've seen some of my musical artists who
are way way past the primes. And I didn't come
away elated. I came away kind of sad. Yeah, depends depends.
You've mentioned Don Henley still sounds like Don Henley.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Absolutely, what the heck?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
You know, a case by case whatever floats your boat.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Okay, we got a lot more on the way. Stay here.
That's the deal with Emmises running around like as they
little fellaway, you thought they were all as a as
a guy who is quite slight. When he was younger,
(31:15):
I noticed a lot of girls going for the big
beefy guy a lot and not just oh look a
skinny wave like guy. Let's fight over each other to
get to him.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Barely contain my arousing. Yeah, yeah, well that was back
when people had the normal hormones in them anyway. True.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
So I told Jack.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Off the air that I've got a really great think
piece I want to share part of and then something
kind of fun at the end.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I don't trust myself.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I'm gonna start ranting about this and we'll never get
to the story that I'd really kind of like to
get to. But it's ultimately it's ultimately frustrating and is
a great example of how we've gotten to the where
we are among a lot of American attitudes toward the
government and then all sorts of stuff. This guy in Bend, Oregon.
I love Bend Oregon. Judy and I almost decided that
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we ought to settle there. We've spent a lot of
time there. The high Desert beautiful, wonderful, golf rivers, pine
tree wonderful. Anyway, and my son lived there for a
couple of years too, a guy was going around putting
big googly eyes on sculptures around the city, everything from
deer to modern art to whatever, and everybody thought it
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was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Googly eyes are funny. My kids went through a googly
eyes stage where we'd at the dollar store by the
packages of different sized googly eyes, and they would just
put them everywhere and it's very fun.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
And and it went kind of viral, and some of
the folks within the government there and Bend has said,
we've figured out we're gonna he's gonna we're gonna charge
him fifteen hundred dollars for the clean up costs of
these statues.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
You can't be doing this. Bah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Now, in fairness, Bends has recent feeling a backlash, saying, yeah,
it sounded kind of heavy handed.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
We just don't want people to deface the.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Arm Sure, I get that too.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
This guy, by the way, he said, look, he has
a really harrowing job working with people living in very
difficult circumstances, trafficking victims. And he said, we all need
a laugh at the end of the day, because man,
there's some ugly stuff going on in the world. Anyway,
but again Bend has done the right thing and said, look,
we don't want to come down on this guy.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Okay, here's the problem though.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Whether it was Bend, Oregon or all sorts of other places,
people burned, they defaced, they painted. Do you want to
talk about Oregon? How much damage has been done in
the name of freaking BLM or all cops are bastards
or up with Marxism or anti racism or whatever that
nobody was even arrested for because they were afraid to
(33:49):
or didn't want to for ideological reasons.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
And I don't know what particularly is going on in Bend,
organ today, but I'm guessing at various times there have
been many drug addicts lying about making your life very unpleasant.
And that meth head screaming at the park bench in
front of the store I want to go into is
giving me a lower quality of life to a greater
(34:13):
extent than the googly eyes on the statue over.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
There right exactly. But the one is tolerated and the
other is cracked down on. That's what people are saying.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Of Yeah, that's ridiculous. That is what I incentify as Google.
How about you get all the drug addicts out of
the park so I can take my kids there. Don't
worry about the googly eyes yeah on the deer, which
is pretty freaking funny. Honestly, you know, we don't really
have time for this, but it's an absolutely brilliant piece
written by sodanand Doume, and the headline is Foreign Lessons
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in the Perils of DEI in Affirmative Action, the Trump
administration saves the US from going the way of India,
South Africa, and Malaysia. And he lays out a very
very convincing case, quoting some eight thinkers and exams from
history about how, for instance, as Thomas soul pointed out
in his two thousand and four book Affirmative Action, around
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the world, most countries roll out preferences and quotas as
an allegedly temporary problem solver and expedients, as he says,
but over time they turn out not only to persist,
but to grow, and then they become virtually impossible to
end or even alter. And he gives a bunch of
examples from around the world where not only did it
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become expensive and unjustifiable and discriminatory, but ugly and bloody
and violent, and the idea of we carve up the
populace based on their tribal identity or the color of
their skin, their religion, or whatever, and then we hand
out the goods and services of a government based on that.
Its track record in humanity is beyond miserable. It's a
(35:55):
horrible philosophy. I'm so glad at least for now, the
tide is rolling back. So we do four hours aver day.
It's in our contract, and if you miss a segment
or an hour, you can find our podcast Armstrong and
Getty on demand. Subscribe, and then you can get if
the radio station you're listening to doesn't carry all the hours.
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I'd like to think we're the googly eyes on the
American media landscape.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
You want to listen live because it tastes better fresh,
But we're just saying, if you miss
Speaker 3 (36:20):
It Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. How you doing?
It's Friday? Work? Done with January? Today's last day. As
(00:31):
I was saying earlier, if you're a dry January person,
do you do the one last day when it's a
Friday night?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I think you've made your point. If you like to drink,
drink tonight. Yeah, thirty one days too. How many days
is enough January? It just seems I think if you
don't drink tonight, you're not really a drinker. And then
so therefore you didn't do anything. Yeah for you, I
liked your illustration earlier. Yeah, I did no yoga January.
(00:57):
I didn't do yoga once this month.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
That had to be so hard.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Good for me, I.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Don't do you you don't drink.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
If you don't like drinking enough to drink on this
Friday night, you can give on the ride.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Okay, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I had a bit of.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
A Friday night last night, so I'll be having a
bit of a Thursday night tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's fun, though.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I am going to try to do no wine Friday.
Talk to one of my boys about I haven't talked
to Sam about it. No, I don't know how well
we can do, but that's going to be the theme.
No wine with an h, no whining, No wine Friday
or February. See see if we can make it through
the month or some days, or maybe even an hour
without whining about things.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
If I was your son's gag writer, I would say
you got to lead with this.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We don't get to wine, no whining. I'll let you
know how that goes. It'll probably be a rough weekend.
So I'm gonna do the weave here a bunch of
different topics. It all kind of fit together on just basically,
sanity has prevailed, Insanity is on the run on a
(02:07):
number of fronts, and I hope it's permanent. Very few
things are permanent. This could be semi permanent, though, that's
how off track we got. We'll start here, Katie, what
are we about to hear?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So this is a man dressed as a woman talking
about his experience of going into the women's restroom and
there being a child in there, and I'll let them
take it from there.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I was just in the women's room, and when I
walked in, there was this little girl like three years
old alone. I sooned, waiting for her parent, who was
in the stall. All the stalls were full, so like
I couldn't go in. I just had to wait, and
it was me and this little girl and no one else.
(02:52):
It occurred to me, when the parent leaves the stall
and sees me a trans person and their three year
old daughter, they might make an assumption, an assumption that
could be very dangerous for me, unsafe for me. So
(03:13):
instead of waiting, I left the bathroom. Trans people go
through this thought process any time there in a bathroom.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Okay, i'd I'd like to hear the rest of that.
If he and then what is your solution for this?
Then having an extra special bathroom built everywhere a great
for all.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
People to accept.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Grown men in women's spaces, including child girls' spaces.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Don't be transphobic. Don't have exactly thoughts that he was
putting on the mom there.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Thank you for a fascinating tale, sir. We should also
point out that this fella is semi famous online for
going into restaurants dressed.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
In a very a hearing in a very like what's
the ambiguous way?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And then when somebody says sir or buddy or whatever,
he goes crazy and posts it online that he was
misgendered and now painful.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That was, Yeah, I remember when that happened. Which direction
it was with somebody in their little kid. I think
it was a boy wearing girls clothes with really wrong
long hair, and I referred to him as her, and
the parent dignant, it's a sheet. Okay, Well you got
your little kid, who's too young to you know, be
(04:33):
able to tell for me, dressed as a girl. So
I refer to your little boy as she because the
dresses a girl with long hair.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I don't know what what am I supposed to do here?
Go with they for all children for the rest of
my life, to make sure.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't know. But but but similar thing. It was
on purpose. They wanted that sort of thing to happen
so they could dig about it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's right, right, Being indignant the left's favorite pastime.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Speaking of the left, maybe leading into this is perfect
latest gallop pole out. The Democratic Party is the most
unpopular it has been in modern American history, at thirty
one fifty seven percent unfavorable, with thirty one percent favorable
a twenty six point spread fifty seven percent unfavorable. Is
(05:20):
the most unpopular the Democratic Party has ever been, I think,
because it's attached to a whole bunch of this stuff.
And I if I'm a Democrat, and like I'm a
Bill marstyle Democrat or Mett Tidy or whoever I'm about
to mention, I would say, can we distance oursef from
the insane insane stuff and get back to like, you know,
working class or unions or whatever it is you care about,
(05:41):
higher taxes, bigger government. To that point, iber MEPs ex
kendy my main theme here, And I mentioned this the
other day. It just occurred to me at some point
this week I almost like shuddered. We were closer to
going down the point of no return around all this
(06:03):
insanity than I ever realized. I think, And I think,
with you know, the benefit of the whole hindsight, twenty
twenty thing years from now, we'll be able to look
back on this period and think, what the freaking hell happened?
Where nobody felt comfortable saying out loud all kinds of
truths that everybody had agreed upon forever, Like you can't
(06:27):
just riot in every town and burn down businesses in
the name of justice and everybody stands back and watches
it happen. Or have dudes in girls' sports and you
just let it happen. I mean, there's all kinds of
examples where you have to go around calling yourself a
racist because you're born white. In this particular case, Ibram
x Kendy, who had a lot of power for a
(06:49):
cup of coffee and no longer does, thank God. One
he's wrong. Two he's a Charlatan. Ibram X Kenny's center.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Phrase a racist, but anyway, go go.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Absolutely a racist. Ibramex Kendy's Center for Anti Racist Research
is permanently shutting down and laying off its staff. Kendy
Center hoovered up tens of millions of dollars in grants
from Wolk corporations who wanted to be on board and
being able to say we donated to iber Mexkennedy Center
for Anti Racist Research produced no work at any point.
(07:22):
Another I'm reading from Christopher Ruffo here, who was one
of the great anti Wolke warriors out there in America.
Another BLM eraic grift comes to a close. Ibramex Kendy
departing Boston University and closing down is center for Anti
racist Research. And I assume if you listen to your show,
you know at this point that anti racist is a
completely made up thing that he came up with, that
(07:45):
unless you're actively being anti racist at any moment, you
are racist.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And the number of dopey, compliant white people who went
along with this and still go along with it just
is astonishing, which is a head's eye win entails you
lose Calvin ball approach to everything that you can't possibly
come out on the right side of as a white person.
And then this, quoting Matt Tayebee, who's one of our
(08:13):
favorite writers and a lefty, but like a normal liberal,
not a crazy person. Matt Tybee thinks the Libs were
very close to having things cemented. They had all the
institutions and were working on impenetrable bureaucratic safeguards for informational control,
speech restrictions, et cetera. It's interesting to think about how
they might have done if a couple of more things
(08:34):
had gone their way in the election.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's what I'm saying. If Kamala Harrison this election was
more important than I realized. If Kamala Harrison won or Biden,
and we went further down the road of this, as
Matt Tybee says, and really cemented it for another four years,
maybe eight, depending what followed of people being unable or
(09:01):
scared to say true things about racism and trains and
all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It might have been over. There might have been no
coming back from that. Another generation's children indoctrinated too. And
as you've pointed out, Jack, we as human beings, for
whatever reason, the first thing we hear we tend to
cling to, in spite of any countervailing evidence, or even
the people who came to us with the first piece
of information saying, forget what I said, that was wrong.
(09:27):
I apologize. People still cling to that. That's why indoctrinating
children is such a critical part of every radical movement.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That's why they work so hard at it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And we've already lost many tens of millions of kids
who we won't get back.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Some we will, but it's going to be a hard battle.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
But there's so many examples around this nuttiness that I
almost can't even believe it really happened. Remember the period
of time where the New York Times got on board
with this idea that intent doesn't matter. I mean, if
you accidentally say something, it doesn't matter. If you say, well, no,
that was my intention, that's not what I meant. It
(10:07):
doesn't matter. You're done.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And all the stuff that happened around me too, and
everything like that just crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Crazy, How did that ever happen? COVID played a role
in it. We're all nutty because of COVID. I guess
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well that in the Neo Marxists are really really good
at what they do. They have a carefully developed theory
of how to take over institutions and societies.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Here's how you do it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You convince everybody that they're racist if they oppose you,
no matter how bizarre their schemes. And for the millions
of time, I must point out, we have not won
this battle, not even close.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
This is not the beginning of the end. It's the
end of the beginning.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
This stuff is still being expanded in schools and universities.
Trump administration is working on it, saying God, but it's
going to be a long battle ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
God. Ibram Kennedy getting tens of millions of dollars to
do anti racist research and then never do anything. I
don't think you ever had any employees, just nothing. I mean,
it's just a full on Black Lives Matter sort of
scam where they took all this money from all these
corporations and built them themselves fancy houses, which doesn't get
enough attention. I mean, good way to.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Go Boston University, by the way, way to give him
his institute because he's such an important scholar. Anybody could
see through this Charlatan's fraud from day one. Well, school
may have used taxpayer money to bring him in to
speak or bought his books, isn't that right, Michael, Yeah,
I know that has happened locally.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's probably happened lots of places where you all live.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Your school bought his books or paid for him to
come speak at an assembly Robin DiAngelo.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Likewise, all of those fraudsters do.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I have to do an ad. I got one more
example of this. I'll do it after this ad.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I got an app to one examples an example of
being on the winning side of this.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
So it's something that Trump administration just did.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
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Final note this segment of all the woke is on
the run thing that I'm so happy about for today,
the Pentagon has ended the Bidenaria policy, Biden era policy
of covering travel costs for troops who need to cross
state lines for abortions, because that's what we're doing. Taxpayers
were paying for people in the military to fly to
(13:20):
another state to get an abortion. What the freaking hell. Anyway,
the Pentagon has ended that under Pete Hexeth and the
Trump people.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
All right, all right, call of charity or something if
you irresponsibly get pregnant and whatever, make the baby daddy.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Whatever. It's not the taxpayers, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
More on the way.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Pita has offered to provide a vegan weather reveal cake
in place of the traditional Groundhog Day ceremony.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
A cake can't predict the weather.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You need the magic ground exactly. It's a shame we're
not on the air for Groundhog Day this year, darn it.
So another Oscar thing for you. I actually saw one
of the Oscar animated movies this year for Best Picture,
a Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan thing with Timothy Schallomey.
So obviously I'm rooting for that movie. But I came
(14:19):
across some interesting stuff. I didn't know really much at
Timothy Schalomey's act. He was the host of Saturday Night Live.
Saturday Night he hosted and was the musical guest, and
that's his third time hosting. I didn't even know who
he was until I saw the Bob Dylan movie last
Saturday Night. Because I don't I don't pay that much
attention this sort of stuff. He's a twenty nine year
old sex symbol, I learned. I didn't realize he was
(14:39):
a sex symbol. I also learned this because I thought, man,
that guy is skinny. I noticed on Saturday Night Live.
So I looked up a couple of different places to
try to nail down his weight. He weighs one hundred
and forty eight pounds. He's five ten, one forty eight.
Do you know many women that find that sexy Katie?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Not a one?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Actually, that doesn't sound like it can protect me one bit.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So I was reading from the New York Times Timothy Schallomey,
who's emerged as a sex symbol and fashion icon with
his hair, jawline and androgynous looks. Again, I don't know
that many women. Maybe it's just women. I know that
dig androgynist looks.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I'm not really hot for tiny, little androgynous men.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
This is why you're hearing women all the time go
where are the real men?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Where did they go?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I feel like maybe gay men are writing these articles
about what men should be sex symbols for women. I
wonder if that's what's going on from you know, New
Yorker magazine or whatever. Chalomey is a grouped into a
label called noodle Boys, noted for their sinewy appearance, who
served as an alternative image of white masculinity in pop culture. Now.
(15:51):
I'm not blended shalome for this. It's not his fault
that he's a skinny guy. It's the New York you know,
a teligentia that is coming up with this whole noodle boys.
He's a sex symbol, alternative image to white masculinity. Of course,
you got to have an alternative to masculinity because you
wouldn't want masculinity.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I'll tell you, guys, there's nothing hotter than a noodle
boy sinory.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Soon can this crack me over?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I don't know. Vogue named Chalamea the most influential fashion
man of the last year. Plying the boundary between traditional
masculinity and femininity. Do you know, do you know any
women who love the idea of someone who blurs the
boundaries between masculinity and feminity. I don't know any women
who have ever thought that personally.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Lesbian, well and gay dudes.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's just ya.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's the intelligency and the fashion elite, and we're supposed
to care what they think or or be cowed into
silence by their opinions. Is a skinny little fella and
kind of androgynists. That's fine, it's fine. But the idea
that that's some sort of great ideal that we all
need to strive for, good golly well.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And I just think it's interesting because I don't think
it's being driven by like ninety percent of women his opinion. So,
I mean, like if I wrote, I don't know magazine
articles about what golf courses ought to look like. I
don't play golf or have any interest in it, but
this is what I think golf courses ought to.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Be right right, and it it reminds me of some
other weird goings on these days with the you know,
the sexual interaction and sex and couples and the rest
of it where it strikes me as kind of an
adolescent girls fantasy of a man because he's half a
little girl and not masculine, because that whole sex thing
(17:40):
seems kind of scary and gross, which is fine among
adolescent girls. It's why like every teen idol in history
has been pretty and girlish.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
True, but for grown ups.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And I'm not saying, you know, one hundred and forty
nine pound dude doesn't deserve or anything like ed just
I don't think it's the ideal for most women.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Tell you what, if I'm down one hundred and forty
nine pounds, gather the family around my bedside.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Things are bad, We've got more all the way, armstrong
and getty.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Noodle boys. You say, I've never heard that term before.
That's what women are into, noodle boys.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I don't think so, No, no, you know what it
just very quickly follow up here, good friend texted a woman.
I meet a lot of women in my line of work,
and I can't name one, drunk or sober that is
attracted to noodle boys. Noodle boys are good for one thing,
being your gay best friend. Now that's something I can
(18:43):
get behind.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, I don't think Timothy Chalam is gay. In fact,
I'm sure he's not. But and it's not his fault.
I'm not complaining about him. It's just interesting that he's
being held up as the best idea of masculinity by
the New.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
York crowd, exactly by the same people who want to
teach your little boys that they can be little girls
if they want to be, etc.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
So I had that horrible plane crash night before last
that luckily almost never happens. I mean so close to never,
you can say never. I never worry about it.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Oh yeah, it's vanishingly rare.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, but Trump decided to do a press conference yesterday.
Here's a Fox report on that what.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Began as a somber update.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
I'd like to request a moment of silence for the
victims and their families.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Please quickly turn political. President Trump zeroing in on DEI
hiring by former Democratic presidents for key federal jobs.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities,
psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a
diversity and inclusion hiring initiatives.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, which obviously Trump administration's trying to root out. Here's
more of that report.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
The president leader said he wasn't sure if DEI played
a role in the crash, but believes incompetence may have.
Are you aware of any performance issues or disciplinary actions
that were taken against anyone who was working the tower
last night or flying the plane.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
No, and I hope that's not the case in this case,
but certainly over the years has been the case, and
it's the case with respect to close calls.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Trump signed a presidential memorandum to have the FAA assess
the quote damage done by Biden's woke policies and ensure
future hiring is based on merit.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We don't care what race they are.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
We want the most competent people, especially in those positions.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, I haven't heard this particular port. I mean I
read it, but I haven't heard it play this Please.
Are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the
result of diversity hiring?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And what evidence have you seen to support these plays?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It just could have been. I'm trying to figure out
how you can come to the conclusion right now or
diversity had something to do with this crash, because common sense,
there are a number of people on the right who
are Trump supporters who think he probably shouldn't have left
jumped into the what caused this the morning after the
plane crash?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I think he undermined his own his own argument because
if dei hiring had nothing to do with this incident,
as insidious.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
As it is, he will have.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
He's the boy a cried wolf, right, and then when
the wolf comes he will be less credible. You've got
to be more disciplined than that when you're prosecuting a
really important argument. But you know there's Trump be and
Trump he has no filter.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
We're all finding out in the last thirty six hours
that we have half as many air traffic controllers at
almost every airport in America. They haven't filled the positions,
and there is plenty of reason to believe that the
positions are empty because they'll only hire certain races, gen
(22:00):
sexual orientations to meet various goals. And that's why we've
got half as many air traffic controllers. That's not good.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And the FAA under Barack Obama and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta,
completely changed the hiring standards in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen
to make the air traffic controllers more diverse, and they
eliminated excellence, and they brought on these easily fudgible tests.
It was just like the college emissions where the Supreme
(22:31):
Court said you can't admit based on race, and so
they came up with a writ, say an essay about
your life experience and how it's you know, prepared you
for college mentioning in particular what race you are, and
then we will judge you on your essay. Yes, so
the FAA went total soft standards in eliminated excellence. Now
(22:52):
was that a factor here or not, We don't know,
but it's still an enormous problem.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, back to the crash itself and what actually happened.
Here's a former black Hawk pilot talking to Jake Tapper
on CNN about what she things happened.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
So three is a minimum crew for a black Hawk
helicopter in my opinion, when you're going into visual flight
mode in a crowded airspace like this, it should be
a minimum of four until you have a pilot on
each side for visibility. Whether they were on night vision
doggles at that time or not. It is a very
cluttered airspace with a lot of lighting and the lights
reflecting on the river, and so with that it's easy
(23:33):
to kind of get a little disoriented. As far as
the hype, they were supposed to be at two hundred feet,
but they were not. Reportedly, the incident happened around three
hundred and fifty to four hundred feet. As the airliner
was descending, they were at the wrong height, So that's
a pilot error.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The first would be a policy error.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Air traffic control said, do you have the CRJ in sight? Well,
there were two aircraft in their field of view, and
actually only one was really obvious to them, and that
was the If you watch the video, the aircraft taking
off in the foreground is probably the one they were facing.
The pilots were facing and said, yeah, I got it.
The air traffic control should have said do you have
(24:11):
the aircraft at five o'clock, so they were looking at
the rear. If they had done that, the black Hawk
is maneuverable. The black Hawk could have moved out of
the way quickly. They can move on a dime and
make that happen.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's wild that they've been doing that for a long time,
having those helicopters fly around with all those planes coming
into one of the busier airports in America. That's a
lot going on in.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
A very very tight space to Reagan National and that's
been very controversial among airline pilots for a long time.
And it's just it's tragic, obviously, but there are so
many things that have gone wrong. You hate that all
the warnings were ignored until something this horrific. And it
(24:57):
was a training flight of guys who their job is
to fly VIPs back and forth around the DC metro
area for the military, which is is fine work and
important and the rest of it. They have to have
a certain number of night flying hours to stay certified.
This was their training flight to get their night hours.
In the fact that they were doing it in the
approach path of one of the narrowest busiest airports in
(25:19):
the world, it's just I mean, that's just insanity. I
realized they work in their station round DC, but it's
just frustrating.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Well did you see the poor congress person or senator
from Kansas involved. So I just flew the reverse of
that flight a couple of weeks ago when we went
to Washington, d C. We then flew from Reagan to Wichita.
They now have a NonStop goes back and forth between
Wichita and Reagan. They didn't and that's what crashed the
other night. They didn't until a year ago. And this
(25:50):
congress person fought really hard to get that going and
he was crying the other night feeling responsible for that. Dude,
Oh no, he had nothing to do with that whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You know, speaking things that astonish me, the fact that
there was one air traffic controller dealing with all the
planes and helicopters when every plane in the sky, including
the one that God rest their souls, crashed. You've got
a pilot and copilot. Why because you've got to have
some redundancy in case the pooh hits the fan and
(26:21):
the idea that we don't have the staffing or the
funding or whatever that somebody got sent home early that night,
and so there's one person in charge of all that.
I just it reminds me of a couple other stories
that have surfaced recently. The level of incompetence is so
astounding it can only exist in government work. Is that
(26:44):
the sort of thing that AI could take over? Air
traffic controller? You think to some extent? Yeah, absolutely. There
are all sorts of automatic sensors and systems that should
have interceded. And that's one of the things that the
FAA and the NTSB are going to get to the
bottom of is how did all that stuff fail? Was
it turned off because of they were flying so low?
(27:04):
All sorts of details like that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
One quick thing came across this yesterday, speaking of that
Bob Dylan movie. He's got a tour this next this year,
twenty twenty five. Bob Dylan's going to tour. Okay, do
you think that'd be worth it? And he's going to
play some smaller towns. He's going to play Wichita, which
we were just mentioning. And my brother lives there, and
my other brother lives there close to there. And I
(27:33):
was actually texting with my brother yes day and he said,
I don't know, I've watched some videos over the last
couple of years and they don't look that great. Yeah,
i'd be.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I happen to see Bob Dylan in Wichita many years
ago during his I Don't give a flying f period,
and he didn't and it was awful and I love Bob.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Oh you know what.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
This thought occurred to me, putting aside Bob Dylan's equality
performance at age seventy whatever he is. You know what
occurred to me with the Timothy Schallomey thing, uh huh
and the noodle boys, And he's become a symbol of
an alternative version of masculinity to the traditional white male
blah blah blah, make me want to vomit. And you
pointed out quite correctly that he's tim Schallomey is not
(28:15):
claiming that.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
No people are claiming that for him.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And how beautiful a parallel is that to Bob Dylan,
who said, stop trying to make me something for your use,
Stop trying to make me a symbol of whatever it
is you think I ought to be a symbol of.
I'm a guitar player, right, And as he is always said,
I don't even know what these songs mean.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Quit tell me what my songs mean.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I think Masters Wars clear enough. But once you get
to you know, some of his wackier rhymeier songs is
fun with words.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I'd hate to fly all the way to Wichita and
pay money for good seats and everything like that. And
he comes out and does his eh really kivin hear
not routine?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah times the yeah change in times they had change
in times they had change in things.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, he doesn't need the money. Why is he doing it?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Because he's a guitar player. He's like Keith Richards. Why
the hell is Keith Richards playing shows? He has more
money than creases. If you look like you're having a
good time, I get.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's like when I went to the Eagles, they really
really looked like they were having a good time, like since.
But I've seen people who look like they're not having
a good time, like they wish they were somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
So then why are you doing it? That's part of
their art, you fool. You roube looking miserable. I don't know,
I just threw that out there. I have no idea.
I just think he needs so I think that's who
he is.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, it's interesting. I've seen Dylan twice. I saw him.
I don't remember where I saw him. The first time.
It was an outdoor thing. Would he would he have
played a state fair? But I've seen him at a
step fair. I feel like I saw him at something
like that anyway, and he just it was just it
was awful. I mean, if it wasn't somebody I love,
I would have like tried to get my money back.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It was that horrible.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
But then I saw him in Berkeley at the Greek
Theater and he sounded rough because he's old, but the
band was freaking amazing, and uh so that was cool.
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And the review of it I saw is he's touring
with the idea that he's hot right now because of
that movie, and lots of people are going to a movie,
and there's new generations of people discovering Bob Dylan for
the first time and curious about it and everything. You man,
if you want to see Timothy Shalome doing Bob Dylan,
you're gonna see a really different thing if you go
see the eighty year old version.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah much.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You know, I've seen some of my musical artists who
are way way past the primes. And I didn't come
away elated. I came away kind of sad. Yeah, depends depends.
You've mentioned Don Henley still sounds like Don Henley.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Absolutely, what the heck?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
You know, a case by case whatever floats your boat.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Okay, we got a lot more on the way. Stay here.
That's the deal with Emmises running around like as they
little fellaway, you thought they were all as a as
a guy who is quite slight. When he was younger,
(31:15):
I noticed a lot of girls going for the big
beefy guy a lot and not just oh look a
skinny wave like guy. Let's fight over each other to
get to him.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Barely contain my arousing. Yeah, yeah, well that was back
when people had the normal hormones in them anyway. True.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
So I told Jack.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Off the air that I've got a really great think
piece I want to share part of and then something
kind of fun at the end.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I don't trust myself.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I'm gonna start ranting about this and we'll never get
to the story that I'd really kind of like to
get to. But it's ultimately it's ultimately frustrating and is
a great example of how we've gotten to the where
we are among a lot of American attitudes toward the
government and then all sorts of stuff. This guy in Bend, Oregon.
I love Bend Oregon. Judy and I almost decided that
(32:07):
we ought to settle there. We've spent a lot of
time there. The high Desert beautiful, wonderful, golf rivers, pine
tree wonderful. Anyway, and my son lived there for a
couple of years too, a guy was going around putting
big googly eyes on sculptures around the city, everything from
deer to modern art to whatever, and everybody thought it
(32:30):
was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Googly eyes are funny. My kids went through a googly
eyes stage where we'd at the dollar store by the
packages of different sized googly eyes, and they would just
put them everywhere and it's very fun.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
And and it went kind of viral, and some of
the folks within the government there and Bend has said,
we've figured out we're gonna he's gonna we're gonna charge
him fifteen hundred dollars for the clean up costs of
these statues.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
You can't be doing this. Bah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Now, in fairness, Bends has recent feeling a backlash, saying, yeah,
it sounded kind of heavy handed.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
We just don't want people to deface the.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Arm Sure, I get that too.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
This guy, by the way, he said, look, he has
a really harrowing job working with people living in very
difficult circumstances, trafficking victims. And he said, we all need
a laugh at the end of the day, because man,
there's some ugly stuff going on in the world. Anyway,
but again Bend has done the right thing and said, look,
we don't want to come down on this guy.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Okay, here's the problem though.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Whether it was Bend, Oregon or all sorts of other places,
people burned, they defaced, they painted. Do you want to
talk about Oregon? How much damage has been done in
the name of freaking BLM or all cops are bastards
or up with Marxism or anti racism or whatever that
nobody was even arrested for because they were afraid to
(33:49):
or didn't want to for ideological reasons.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
And I don't know what particularly is going on in Bend,
organ today, but I'm guessing at various times there have
been many drug addicts lying about making your life very unpleasant.
And that meth head screaming at the park bench in
front of the store I want to go into is
giving me a lower quality of life to a greater
(34:13):
extent than the googly eyes on the statue over.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
There right exactly. But the one is tolerated and the
other is cracked down on. That's what people are saying.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Of Yeah, that's ridiculous. That is what I incentify as Google.
How about you get all the drug addicts out of
the park so I can take my kids there. Don't
worry about the googly eyes yeah on the deer, which
is pretty freaking funny. Honestly, you know, we don't really
have time for this, but it's an absolutely brilliant piece
written by sodanand Doume, and the headline is Foreign Lessons
(34:46):
in the Perils of DEI in Affirmative Action, the Trump
administration saves the US from going the way of India,
South Africa, and Malaysia. And he lays out a very
very convincing case, quoting some eight thinkers and exams from
history about how, for instance, as Thomas soul pointed out
in his two thousand and four book Affirmative Action, around
(35:08):
the world, most countries roll out preferences and quotas as
an allegedly temporary problem solver and expedients, as he says,
but over time they turn out not only to persist,
but to grow, and then they become virtually impossible to
end or even alter. And he gives a bunch of
examples from around the world where not only did it
(35:30):
become expensive and unjustifiable and discriminatory, but ugly and bloody
and violent, and the idea of we carve up the
populace based on their tribal identity or the color of
their skin, their religion, or whatever, and then we hand
out the goods and services of a government based on that.
Its track record in humanity is beyond miserable. It's a
(35:55):
horrible philosophy. I'm so glad at least for now, the
tide is rolling back. So we do four hours aver day.
It's in our contract, and if you miss a segment
or an hour, you can find our podcast Armstrong and
Getty on demand. Subscribe, and then you can get if
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You know.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I'd like to think we're the googly eyes on the
American media landscape.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
You want to listen live because it tastes better fresh,
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