November 25, 2025 • 36 mins
The A&G Replay from Tuesday, November 25, 2025 Hour 1 contains:
- Jack's Conversation with Grok & "Starve the Lazy" slogan
- Meta Glasses
- Gender Bending Madness : Sex offender allowed in locker rooms
- The Anti-Work Message
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Now enjoy the Armstrong Eddy Replay. So got into a
conversation with Groc yesterday. Again, I do on a fairly
regular basis in my if you drive a T slack,
Groc is in there and you're really gravitated.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh I see.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I was just going to say, you're gravitreating toward Groc,
but part of its convenience as opposed to other Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I've got I have Chat GPT on my phone. I
have Chat GPT, Grock and Claude. I don't know why
I chose those three. There are others out there, and
I usually compare and contrast them to see what kind
of answers they would get. For instance, last night, just
give you to an inkling or just an insight into
my incredibly fascinating life. Last night I was doing research
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on this guy I had never heard of until I
was taking in a Jonah Goldberg podcast the other day
in which he was talking about this guy, Henry George.
Are you familiar with Henry George? Maybe you are from
in a political science major. I don't know, vaguely familiar,
kind of interesting on a day after an election.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Henry George is like the not like.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
He was the most influential political thinker of the last
half of the eighteen hundreds. He wrote a book about
it called Progress and Poverty. It was the number two
selling book in the world behind the Bible. Georgism was
a movement.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
All around the world. He was huge.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
He would go to town to town and draw in
tens of thousands of people to come hear him speak
about his particular political ideas and everything like that. And
for you know, the way history works, sometimes some people
just disappear from history and you never hear his name,
and nobody ever talks about him. But he's like the
biggest thing I've already forgotten his first name. Henry said, yes,
Henry George. And so anyway, getting maybe I'll talk about
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that more later. But getting back to AI, I asked Chat, GPT, Claude,
and Grock, you know, tell me a little bit about
Henry George and how popular he was, and they all
had little bit different information. They were all good. Found
it interesting. Different topic. So we're writing in the truck yesterday. God,
what was the topic. It doesn't even really matter what
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the topic was. I brought up to Groc and asked
it a question, and so she started to answer, and
immediately Henry jumped in. He said, that's not right, that
doesn't make any sense. I said, you interrupted her, and
he said, it's not her, it's a computer. And I
said that and I said, you keep interrupting her, and
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I want to hear what her answer is, and he
kept saying she's not her anyway. I said to Groc,
I said, I said, I'm sorry he interrupted, and she
said that's okay.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It happens anyway. And then she finishes her answer.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
So freaking weird, and Henry and I both looked at
each other wide. I'd like, ah, something just happened that
is strange and frightening and needs to be recognized.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I can't open the hatch, Dave or whatever the hell
computer says.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
In two thousand and one of Space.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
My son and I getting into an argument about him
interrupting her in quotes, and she laughs and her yeah,
don't worry, it happens anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
As I was saying, what, h what now?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
See, Yeah, it's funny. Humanity's probably divided into, roughly, I
don't know, a thirds or whatever, A third don't care,
a third thing that's great, it's charming. And third of
us like are like, this is a con This is
attempting to get in my good graces for a reason.
What is that reason? To take over the world and
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drain our vital fluids and take our organs.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And the fact that she, like probably you know, had
a sense of what was going on there, that it
was something that a laugh was a perfectly normal human
response to a father and a teenage son arguing about something.
Yeah that was silly, It was a silly topic.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah. Is just this freaking disturbing? Yeah? Odd times?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, so uh, speaking of that sort of thing, this
is some interesting on several different levels. Got this note
from Craig the healthcare guru who we correspond with semi
frequently in real life, and he says, Guys, I'm using
GPT in the robot mode.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You can assign it different personalities, so sometimes it's like
the super cheer leady friend in a way that is
off putting in weird, and or it can be like
robot mode just very straightforward.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
And he was using robot mode anyway, maybe that's what
I should do, so it's not so strange. Mine is
like it was pre set to kind of very conversational
and like human like, and it's disturbing. I don't know
if ROC has those options it has on the screen.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, uh yeah, yeah, I mean obviously you can do man,
woman whatever. Ask it what its pronouns are anyway, So
Craig writes, I just told it that my favorite radio show,
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Craig began a new slogan, starve the u Oh wait
a minute, wait a minute minute.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh okay, that's just a miss a new slogan, starve
the Lazy, and I asked it what it thought about
that response, short answer, it's a blunt, polarizing frame. High
signal debase high collateral risk. Here are some more key points.
It defines a moral divide. Lazy is undefined. That vagueness
invites false positives. It shifts debate from policy design to
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character judgment. That narrows your coalition. That's clever. It underestimates
screening costs. Distinguishing eeble but eight I'm sorry, able but
idle from unable is administratively hard and error prone, and
it creates headline risk, easy to caricature as anti poor
rather than anti work. Now, as a political consultancy goes,
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that is pretty good, I think unintentionally, and it took
a second for this to click in my head.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But it also highlights it's how.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
The default or the assumptions have been the opposite that
we have gone so far toward. If you say you
need these benefits, we can't call you lazy. We need
to assume the opposite of what this computer says. We're
suggesting that distinguishing able but idle from unable is administratively
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hard and error prone.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Therefore we won't do it.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
We'll just give the handouts to everybody who can fog
a mirror and fills out the form, which is enormously
expensive and undermines some of the most vital moral foundations
that humankinds have, including you will take care of yourself
in yours unless you are seriously unable.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I would agree with that, but clearly the culture has
been for many, many years. What the groc there just repeated,
so it is picked up on what our zeitgeist is
that we don't ask questions about you know, your lifestyle
or your effort.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We just assume that if you say you need food,
you need food.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
So we'll take money from this other person that went
to work and give it to you because we're just
going to assume that you have made good choices in
your life and are trying your best.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Right right, So it creates headline risk. O. There we
did that.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
If the goal is work incentives, here's some better framing.
Reward work, protect the vulnerable, reward work, but protect the vulnerable.
It's not bad. I still like start the lazy better.
Oh please help first require progress. That one sucks. Policy
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levers that match that pair work requirements with supports childcare, transport, stipends,
job placements, short training.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's interesting. It's in favor of work requirements. Use earning
subsidies over.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Cliffs EIC style wage boost gradual phase outs. That is
actually really really good if you're not familiar with the
idea of the welfare cliff. If you get a certain
amount in welfare and if you dare try to improve
your life by getting a job that earns, say three
quarters of your welfare.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Payments, society cuts off your welfare payments and you'll have
a net loss.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You've just diminished your life by doing the right thing. Yeah,
I appreciate that gradual phase outs is a great idea.
Titan fraud controls where measurable identity, income and residency verifications,
periodic redeterminations, have time limits with hardship exemptions and clear
appeal paths sanctions that are graduated and reversible upon compliance.
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Here's how to test it before adopting pilot in one program,
pre specify metrics, blah blah blah. I mean, it's like
if you were paying for a policy paper on this
sort of thing, it would it would cost you a
lot of money and take a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And I'm guessing it spit it out and roughly three seconds. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Bottom line, The sentiment don't subsidize idleness is common. The
slogan invites unavoidable blowback. Yeah, I don't care blow back
as hard as you want. Use language the target's behavior
and preserves dignity, while tightening incentives, you.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Know, getting away from a gros take on it. I
have long said this, as you listened for a long time.
I apologize for repeating myself. But the fact that there's
no mechanism for your life choices to take a look
at that drives me nuts. And it would be administratively hard.
But okay, you're out of money now, and you're legitimately
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out of money. Tell me about your last vacation, show
me your phone. Can we walk out and check out
your car?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Can I look in.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Your closet and see your clothes?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
See the fact that that is taboo in American politics
now and practically in the culture. I mean, I don't
hear people saying that ever, No nobody ever.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What's something mad?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
And we talk a lot about the symptoms, but there's
the disease right there. And one more note, so Craig,
just for fun said one more question. On the show,
they often say KFTC, what does that mean? And an
answered immediately keep blanking that chicken. It's non to TV
anchor Ernie Anesto's on air blooper Angie adopted it for
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their text line and merch How.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
In the world did it know that? Instantly? Wow? And
then this uh?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
He asked essentially about angh armstrong igetti. Those guys don't
pull punches? Do they starve the lazy? As a slogan
that's equal parts motivational, boot camp and bar fight starter.
On one hand, I get the vibe. It's a raw
called a hustle. Ditch the excuses and own your grind.
In a world full of participation trophies and endless scrolling,
little tough love can light a fire under folks you
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need it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Props to them for merching it too.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Nothing says commitment like a hoodie that roasts your inner sloth.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Humor.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Wow, that's some pretty good smack. I want to croll
up in the fetal position the argument with my son
and then Grock laughing about it, and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I suggest you interact with these things because they're they're
here to stay and they're gonna be a big part
of everybody's lives. But I'd be interested in how you
react to that. If you get like, I got like
a chill to my bone over that. Some weird.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Something happened there, like if your dog started talking. It's like, right,
the Uncanny Valley, something that's almost human.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Armstrong and Getty Show, and.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Never before published Doctor Seuss book has now been discovered.
Singing to fifty United States will be published in June,
marked the country's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Author Theodore
Geisel died in nineteen ninety one. The manuscript was found
earlier this year at the Guys of Library at uc
San Diego.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
What crazy is that they found a new Doctor Seuss
book and the USA related for the So that's cool. Yeah,
So you came across more information that Bill Gates has
had a major change of heart about climate change.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I mean back in the day he was one of
the leading cheerleaders of climate alarmism.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
This could be.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Important for those of us who think it's been overblown
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yeah, he he said way back in the day that
the climate change will be one of the greatest challenges
humans have ever taken on, greater than landing on the moon.
Greater than eradicating smallpox, even greater than putting a computer
on every desk, and then the enormous loss of life.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And now he saysh never mind.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Well no, he essentially he said, look, poverty and disease
are the biggest problems, as they've always been. Understanding this,
lets us focus our limited resources on interventions that will
have the greatest impact for the most vulnerable people. In
other words, don't spend all your time and money and
effort on climate change. Help people where they are. Yeah,
we know, Bill, we know. So he's come around. I
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wonder if will this be reported in the New York
Times and who will criticize him bitterly for it?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
How many people do we have who wear any of
the metaglasses. Our agent, the greatest agent in the world,
Eric wears them. There ray bands, but they you can
make phone calls, you can listen to music, you can
do a variety of things. And the reason I mentioned
this is they got the new version out, generation two
that has a little screen that shows up in one
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of the lenses and you can see it like a
little computer screen and other people looking at you. Other
versions like Google, what was the one that went glass.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, you could.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
People could see it, and it was a little off putting.
Everything like these it looks like you're just wearing glasses.
They can't see on their side that you're looking at
screen that just shows on your side. And I saw
it demonstrated, and the couple of reviewers talking about how
it's amazing it is. For instance, directions, they were just
walking around the town and they put up the directions
of like and you walk up to this corner and
you turn left and you're following your way to get
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someplace or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Just one example.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Or they had somebody that were cooking in the kitchen
and they had in their lens.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Instead of regularly look at your phone.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Or whatever, the recipe for whatever you're making was right there.
While you can also be looking at whatever you're doing anyway,
reading something that closed your eyeball. How does that work?
It must work. They all say it was great. But
these weren't people working for the company selling. These were
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independent reviewers who have said they haven't liked past versions
and that they think this is finally crossed over into
that this might be something that people start to use.
But one of the reviewers I said this, said she said,
this is gonna divide us even more into not paying
attention to each other, or listening to each other, or
living in our own worlds. As you can sit there
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with your glasses on and you know, reading something else
or watching a video or whatever the hell you're doing
instead of paying attention to your friend.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
The Journal just had a big article about CEOs and
executives dealing with people texting and checking their feeds and
whatever during meetings, and they can tell that they're not
really present, and.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You won't be able to tell.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Now you'll be checking your text in a little thing
in your eye, your lens.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Until somebody says, Jack, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And you say, oh, I agree with most of what's
been said.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I need to study it further. Let's not be hasty.
I think there's nuance, though, and so requires a second look.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I think we should put a pin on it and
circle back.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
But I realized a long time ago with texting. I
told this story a bunch of times. The first time
I heard about texting, I thought that that's stupid. Why
wouldn't you just call them? And then you know, finding
out it takes over my life like it did everybody else.
So I realized I don't have the ability to predict
even what I am interested in doing or not doing,
let alone the rest of humanity. I don't see like
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a need or use for these glasses, but for all
I know, everybody will be wearing them in two years.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Armstrong the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So the campaign manager for Katie Porter allegedly told.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Her you looked bad the other night.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
She said, you mean the interview, and he said, what interview?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Wowness of gut Fell.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
She is high school lunch room cruelty, Katie Porter, not
a handsome woman. But I don't see any reason to
play on that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Ye stick with the shot, stick with the evil.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, it was surprising though, I mean like the Advanced Team.
I mean they had her in a setting that was,
you know, less appealing for her than and they did
a bad job. Usually they try to go out of
their way to make you look as good as possible.
Her people did not do that, which might again, like
I said earlier, she might have a lot of people
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rooting against her. If she talks to everybody that way,
then I think you're gonna set up the camera to
make you look as fat as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's what I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Do, right right, Yeah, yeah, interesting, it's funny. Katie Porter
one of many people cited by who wrote this.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I was gonna use their name. I gotta switch that
to see the name got a click on that.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
There, there you go, written by God damn it Macy.
Petty Macy was a college volleyball player who had to
play against dudes and testified and tried to get laws
against that past and talked about how hard it was
a few years ago. And she catalogs a bunch of
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Democrats high level, from Gavin Newsom to Katie Porter to
Kamala Harris and others who now say, well, yeah, clearly
their advantages and men you know can't play, and who
were utterly one, one hundred percent committed to the party
line back in the day, to the point of telling her,
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you know, you're just a camp you're just complaining, or
you're a bigot, or you're a transfoe, and this isn't
a real problem.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
You need to stop complaining.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
It's it's amazing how little principle there is in politics
these days.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
The more I think of it, the more I think
it is likely that her advanced team puts her in
law fighting and situations to make her look as awful
as possible.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Oh, that dress is really slimming.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah, you look good in that. And I'll put the
camera down low like this and kind of at this angle. Yeah,
you look like so flattering. You looked like a dump
truck about at the camera. Here is a perfect Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
So, speaking of gender bending madness, here's another thing that
caught my attention. He was allowed to be in there,
the perverted poster boy of gender ideology. This is from
the good folks at the Washington Examiner. Richard Cox, fifty
eight year old repeat Tier three sex offender who spent
the second half of twenty twenty four prowling female locker
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rooms in woke northern Virginia, where he would ogle schoolgirls
and expose himself to bystanders. Oh my god, Fairfax County
so woke, you can't believe it, where Cox exposed himself
repeatedly last year. Never prosecuted him because, as the police
chief put it, the policy of parks and rec allowed
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him and other persons to use the locker room of
the gender that they identify with in both Oh, in
this freak as we'll post a link at armstrong Yetty
dot com. Butt you'd take one look at this guy,
you know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
I'm always trying to figure out the Wolk thing because
I don't always understand it at first blush. So they're
supporting him because he's trans like, So if he was
just a regular dude exposed himself, there's no Wolke reason
to support.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That, is there?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Because I mean correct, they're not arresting thieves. You claim
is an economic thing. Well, they're just stealing because they're
poor because of the you know, patriarchy or whatever. But
there's no patriarchy for showing your junk to people. So
but at the trans angle is what protects this guy.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yes, although, having just read a really interesting thread about
a lgb sorry.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
I showed you my penis the patriarchy in white supremacy
and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Well, there's this LGBTQ.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Civil rights leader in Britain who is now openly advocating
for adult child sex. And part of the whole postmodern
neo Marxist thing is that you want to tear down
every norm of society, every boundary line of society you
claim is bigoted or racist or transphobaker, islamophobaker or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You don't allow her to be any standards. So it
wouldn't shock me that.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Somewhere in the neo Marxist movement they're saying, yeah, you
have the right to expose yourself an ogle, you know,
young girl. Anyway, in both Fairfax and neighboring Arlington County,
county officials allowed mister Cox to undress in women's locker
rooms because the county's fealty to gender ideology. They didn't
arrest him because under county policy, he counted as a woman.
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Washington Post gave the story zero nearly zero coverage, and
they point out that the story of mister Cox putting
his name aside is a reductio ad absurd them of
the gender dog bath that the outlet follows.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
How how did I let it go that his name
is Cox? I didn't catch her once? Yeah, pick up
on that. Yeah, Oh my gosh, the pop up ads
more than one? You say, now, I would look it's plural.
All right.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
You can't let me tell this story while you're trying
to get your computer work. So I had all you
got to You gotta repeat your axiom. I guess that
was my axiom. The more conservative of the website, the
more impossible it is to use.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, because they're all about making money, not yeah. Uh.
I had a girlfriend many many years ago.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
She her her house facing across her on the other
side of the street, had a big picture window, and
there was an old guide that would stand in the
window work in his man on a regular on a
regular basis.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
He would just stand there. What's that that's chairman? Uh, well,
I don't know what phrase to use. What would you
like me to say?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
No, no, I was talking about the activity now in
a description of it was like in the seventies, and
he would just stand there naked and you know, doing
his thing.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
But her in her roommate, another chick would they're just like,
oh god, he's at it again. Randy's doing it again.
Oh you gotta be kidding, you know, And it wasn't.
I'm not coming out pro that sort of thing. But
not everybody immediately falls to pieces when that happens. Yeah,
I'm still all for locking them up or of being
a crime or getting a ticket or put your pants
on or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So bah bah bah.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
In brief, this story is how liberals in the suburbs
with DC allowed a repeat sex offender to victimize women
stock children for months more than fifteen months ago. In
June twenty four, this guy was charged with indecent exposure
for exposing his crank and a female locker room at
Planet Fitness. In his defense, Cox argued, quote transgender people
identify is belonging to a gender which may not conform
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to the sex they are assigned. It for a transgender
person to be observed in a locker room nude is
no proof that this was also anything more than platonic.
He showed the Planet Fit this guy's Virginia driver's license,
which listed him as a woman, even though he's a man.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That seems very odd to me. At the time, county.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Officials knew Cox was a Tier three sex offender, the
most serious level. He was charged in the nineties for
allegedly exposing himself to children and masturbating in front of them.
He was convicted in Arlington of taking indecent liberties with children.
He was twice charged with a felony for failing to
reregister as a Tier three sex offender, but Fairfax County
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dropped those charges. All of that was a matter of
record when Fairfax County dismissed the indecent exposure charge in
July because the victim did not show up in court.
But it was because they believed or I don't get this.
This guy has molested children. He's exposed himself to children
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over and over again, and he does it again. But
because he says nope, now I'm a woman, they say, Okay,
no charges. I'm not fighting against this garbage. What are
you waiting for?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You know, it's like the guy that wanted to kill
Kavanaugh turns out his trans Oh okay, you don't have
to be in for reylying.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Uh, not near as serious.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
So I didn't know what to say when I was
talking about the guy that was in the window across
the street from a girlfriend I used to have who
would do his thing, and I didn't know what phrase
to use. So I just asked chat GPT, what are
some good euphemisms for male masturbation? And it gave me
a list. Oh, boy, wrestling the eel, shaking hands with
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the governor, auditioning the single handed orchestra, you can stop anytime,
taking the bald guy to the prom. Never heard that one.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
It's too wordy. See you don't want more of those.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I don't resent it, you know, for reasons, Kats, I
resent it as an editor, yes, Katie.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No, I'm just waiting for Hanson to turn your microphone off.
That's all. By the way.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
One final note on this, The Washington Post carefully avoids
any pronouns in their their very minor coverage of this.
And the Washington Post was contacted by the examiner who
asked him why, and they made it clear, according to
their rules, it is against our rules to call Cox
a he. It also cannot follow its rules and call
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Cox a she if it wishes to maintain any credibility,
they point out.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Obviously. Anyway, that's enough of that.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I got some more sophisticated versions that that Claude gave
me that you might want to vote or something if
you ever need it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Was more sophisticated Claude because he's French.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
She.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I like some of these because sometimes you have to
describe this scenario, whether you know, in some way.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I can think of some examples coming up. Woke Swifties
continue to out pour out anger over the new album,
like engaging in self care.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
That's that's an I kind of calm one yeah, you
know I he was engaging in self care.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
That's a little better, right, practicing self law. Still not
good enough to have on the air, but yes, better
taking some me time, playing a little five on one. Stupid.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I've actually heard that one have a having a date
with yourself. Yes, I had heard that a little five
on one, you know happens. Let's see. The only one
I'm asked is grok. Grok tends to be cheekier, pardon
the expression. And I have heard about the Taylor Swift
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White supremacy and Taming the Dragon. That's a common one.
Some of these are just I'm skipping lots of them
that show that I do have some line across. Oh yeah, great,
winding the clock seems like British, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You know? You're asking for credit for skipping.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Some of them reminds me of one of my favorite
cartoons many many years ago I saw and It's funny
how just a handful of stuck in my head, including
a handful of far Side cartoons that were just so great,
but this one was. It was rather a troubling scene
of a well it kind of explains itself, but the
guy is like being bound and all in the other
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guy says, you'll have to bear with me.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I'm a homicidal.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Mania, and that's kind of what I was getting from you.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
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Speaker 5 (29:48):
Several companies have announced a whole bunch of layoffs and
that has people freaked out, as it should.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
What's going on there?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
For some reason, I made me want to go to
the anti work website on Reddit, which is kind of
fun to check in on a regular basis. It's kind
of fun, kind of funny, also kind of scary because
I think there are many millions of young people who
have this attitude. Talk to them by their teachers, I guess,
or did your parents not, I don't know. I guarantee
you my kids understand that you have to go out
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there and support yourself.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Well, what's the brief statement of their philosophy. It doesn't
quite impression.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Yeah, work is oppression and you shouldn't have to work. Well,
like here, I'll read one statement for those of you
who say you have to work to live. Bro food
is literally literally free until someone builds a fence around
it and guards it with weapons. Work is a contrivance
and unnatural, that sort of attitude.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Wow, the stupidest things ever said. Nominations are now closed.
There's lots of them.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Here's somebody of the posts.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Anti work does not mean I should get to live
like a king and eat doritos while other people do
all the hard work. Anti work means it sure would
be nice if I wasn't impelled by violence to perform
labor that wrecks my body with micro injuries that will
lead me disabled by sixty.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I like the term micro injury.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Wow, what sort of injuries are you talking about with
your probably white collar job.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, you know, it's it's funny how the radical left
always has this like really florid I think is the
right word rhetoric, and all these invented terms that they
all become, you know, they all memorized, they become versant
in them and throw them around about microinjs. There was
like half practically half a dozen different invented terms in
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that couple of times.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
It sure would be nice if I wasn't impelled by violence, yes,
to perform labor that racks my body with micro injuries
that will leave me disabled by sixty All right, but
I want to get to this one.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Also just a reminder. We don't think no one should work.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
We understand there need to be doctors, teachers, nurses, cooks, waiters,
et cetera for society to function. We just believe that
no one should have have to work in order to survive. Food, water,
and housing should be guaranteed human rights. We were all
born into the system without being able to agree to it.
We shouldn't be punished for existing. We should all be
able to have our basic needs met, and work should
be something you want to do to earn more. There
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are lots of people who believe that's a workable notion.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
The mirror happenstance of existence means somebody should give you food, water,
and housing.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
I don't how to, and it's a failure of our
school system and some parenting. Although you know, yeah, you
can't be completely blamed for thinking. I assumed the school
would teach them this, that people can come out of school.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
And not understand.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
My ninth grade English teacher he assigned us an essay
and it was there ain't no free lunch, and he
wrote it up on the chalkboard.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Everybody needs to write a one page essay.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
I like that, and everybody, including me, because I'd never
come across that term for was completely flummixed by it.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But I was so happy that he, you know, brought
that up.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
That caused the discussion that led to at least everybody
in that classroom understanding there's no such thing as a
free lunch.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Somebody paid for it. Somebody.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Now maybe you, in this circumstance think somebody should have
paid for it.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But somebody paid for it. It didn't just fall out of
half and land here.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
What does this person think that all this stuff, the housing,
and what are the other things that should be guaranteed
human rights?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Food, water, and housing should be guaranteed human rights?
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Go ahead, sit down with your pencil and paper and
come up with a system where that works.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You idiot. It's practically hilarious.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, your English teacher's granddaughter is teaching English right now,
and she writes up on the chalkboard trans women are women.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
You're one page on that.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
You're right, But that comes up a lot because I've
read a lot of these posts on that site, and
it has several million followers on the site. I mean,
it's a it's a very popular size, but it's very
common to say stuff like we were born into this system.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
We didn't get a vote.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, how interesting the differences in people? And hang on,
oh my god, I think I got COVID from one
of those escaped research probably.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You know, I was attacked by a monkey on the
way forward cold have her?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
You know, it was funny. I was attacked by a
disease monkey on the way to work. But I hadn't connected, right, right, right,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
You get attacked by a monkey that's got sores, and
then you think I saw something on the news about
this last night, Right, yeah, it hadn't clicked anyway.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Where was I before I sneezed?
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Blah blah blahh oh yeah, And certainly you know, Thomas
Sowell has written about the two kinds of people persuasively,
and other people have too, but I mean most of us,
and I'm asking you, good people. I mean, life is
certainly difficult to and painful of times, and we've all struggled.
But I've always looked at life, I mean, since I
was a kid, as an opportunity, as a world to explore,
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as battles to win, not oh my god, why did
my parents spraing me into this world. Now I have
to do something. I've never thought that for a single
second of my life.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
And then there's a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Modern corporate exploitation of all people has its roots in slavery,
and they've honed their tactics to divide us. We're all
poor when we allow capitalists to exploit any one of us.
And it's about how the slaveholders created a system, and
then that's what became capitalism.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
And prior to that, there were no workers or in
places where there weren't slaves, or you weren't slave.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
The whole bro food is literally free until somebody puts
a fence around it. Right, what We've got to spread
our doctrine of non working around the globe.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
We've got to convince people that this is right. But
it's going to take a lot of work. Oh no,
oh no.
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Now enjoy the Armstrong Eddy Replay. So got into a
conversation with Groc yesterday. Again, I do on a fairly
regular basis in my if you drive a T slack,
Groc is in there and you're really gravitated.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh I see.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I was just going to say, you're gravitreating toward Groc,
but part of its convenience as opposed to other Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I've got I have Chat GPT on my phone. I
have Chat GPT, Grock and Claude. I don't know why
I chose those three. There are others out there, and
I usually compare and contrast them to see what kind
of answers they would get. For instance, last night, just
give you to an inkling or just an insight into
my incredibly fascinating life. Last night I was doing research
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on this guy I had never heard of until I
was taking in a Jonah Goldberg podcast the other day
in which he was talking about this guy, Henry George.
Are you familiar with Henry George? Maybe you are from
in a political science major. I don't know, vaguely familiar,
kind of interesting on a day after an election.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Henry George is like the not like.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
He was the most influential political thinker of the last
half of the eighteen hundreds. He wrote a book about
it called Progress and Poverty. It was the number two
selling book in the world behind the Bible. Georgism was
a movement.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
All around the world. He was huge.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
He would go to town to town and draw in
tens of thousands of people to come hear him speak
about his particular political ideas and everything like that. And
for you know, the way history works, sometimes some people
just disappear from history and you never hear his name,
and nobody ever talks about him. But he's like the
biggest thing I've already forgotten his first name. Henry said, yes,
Henry George. And so anyway, getting maybe I'll talk about
(02:37):
that more later. But getting back to AI, I asked Chat, GPT, Claude,
and Grock, you know, tell me a little bit about
Henry George and how popular he was, and they all
had little bit different information. They were all good. Found
it interesting. Different topic. So we're writing in the truck yesterday. God,
what was the topic. It doesn't even really matter what
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the topic was. I brought up to Groc and asked
it a question, and so she started to answer, and
immediately Henry jumped in. He said, that's not right, that
doesn't make any sense. I said, you interrupted her, and
he said, it's not her, it's a computer. And I
said that and I said, you keep interrupting her, and
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I want to hear what her answer is, and he
kept saying she's not her anyway. I said to Groc,
I said, I said, I'm sorry he interrupted, and she
said that's okay.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It happens anyway. And then she finishes her answer.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
So freaking weird, and Henry and I both looked at
each other wide. I'd like, ah, something just happened that
is strange and frightening and needs to be recognized.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I can't open the hatch, Dave or whatever the hell
computer says.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
In two thousand and one of Space.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
My son and I getting into an argument about him
interrupting her in quotes, and she laughs and her yeah,
don't worry, it happens anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
As I was saying, what, h what now?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
See, Yeah, it's funny. Humanity's probably divided into, roughly, I
don't know, a thirds or whatever, A third don't care,
a third thing that's great, it's charming. And third of
us like are like, this is a con This is
attempting to get in my good graces for a reason.
What is that reason? To take over the world and
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drain our vital fluids and take our organs.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And the fact that she, like probably you know, had
a sense of what was going on there, that it
was something that a laugh was a perfectly normal human
response to a father and a teenage son arguing about something.
Yeah that was silly, It was a silly topic.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah. Is just this freaking disturbing? Yeah? Odd times?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, so uh, speaking of that sort of thing, this
is some interesting on several different levels. Got this note
from Craig the healthcare guru who we correspond with semi
frequently in real life, and he says, Guys, I'm using
GPT in the robot mode.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You can assign it different personalities, so sometimes it's like
the super cheer leady friend in a way that is
off putting in weird, and or it can be like
robot mode just very straightforward.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
And he was using robot mode anyway, maybe that's what
I should do, so it's not so strange. Mine is
like it was pre set to kind of very conversational
and like human like, and it's disturbing. I don't know
if ROC has those options it has on the screen.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, uh yeah, yeah, I mean obviously you can do man,
woman whatever. Ask it what its pronouns are anyway, So
Craig writes, I just told it that my favorite radio show,
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Craig began a new slogan, starve the u Oh wait
a minute, wait a minute minute.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh okay, that's just a miss a new slogan, starve
the Lazy, and I asked it what it thought about
that response, short answer, it's a blunt, polarizing frame. High
signal debase high collateral risk. Here are some more key points.
It defines a moral divide. Lazy is undefined. That vagueness
invites false positives. It shifts debate from policy design to
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character judgment. That narrows your coalition. That's clever. It underestimates
screening costs. Distinguishing eeble but eight I'm sorry, able but
idle from unable is administratively hard and error prone, and
it creates headline risk, easy to caricature as anti poor
rather than anti work. Now, as a political consultancy goes,
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that is pretty good, I think unintentionally, and it took
a second for this to click in my head.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But it also highlights it's how.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
The default or the assumptions have been the opposite that
we have gone so far toward. If you say you
need these benefits, we can't call you lazy. We need
to assume the opposite of what this computer says. We're
suggesting that distinguishing able but idle from unable is administratively
(07:24):
hard and error prone.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Therefore we won't do it.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
We'll just give the handouts to everybody who can fog
a mirror and fills out the form, which is enormously
expensive and undermines some of the most vital moral foundations
that humankinds have, including you will take care of yourself
in yours unless you are seriously unable.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I would agree with that, but clearly the culture has
been for many, many years. What the groc there just repeated,
so it is picked up on what our zeitgeist is
that we don't ask questions about you know, your lifestyle
or your effort.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We just assume that if you say you need food,
you need food.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
So we'll take money from this other person that went
to work and give it to you because we're just
going to assume that you have made good choices in
your life and are trying your best.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Right right, So it creates headline risk. O. There we
did that.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
If the goal is work incentives, here's some better framing.
Reward work, protect the vulnerable, reward work, but protect the vulnerable.
It's not bad. I still like start the lazy better.
Oh please help first require progress. That one sucks. Policy
(08:42):
levers that match that pair work requirements with supports childcare, transport, stipends,
job placements, short training.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's interesting. It's in favor of work requirements. Use earning
subsidies over.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Cliffs EIC style wage boost gradual phase outs. That is
actually really really good if you're not familiar with the
idea of the welfare cliff. If you get a certain
amount in welfare and if you dare try to improve
your life by getting a job that earns, say three
quarters of your welfare.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Payments, society cuts off your welfare payments and you'll have
a net loss.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You've just diminished your life by doing the right thing. Yeah,
I appreciate that gradual phase outs is a great idea.
Titan fraud controls where measurable identity, income and residency verifications,
periodic redeterminations, have time limits with hardship exemptions and clear
appeal paths sanctions that are graduated and reversible upon compliance.
(09:40):
Here's how to test it before adopting pilot in one program,
pre specify metrics, blah blah blah. I mean, it's like
if you were paying for a policy paper on this
sort of thing, it would it would cost you a
lot of money and take a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And I'm guessing it spit it out and roughly three seconds. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Bottom line, The sentiment don't subsidize idleness is common. The
slogan invites unavoidable blowback. Yeah, I don't care blow back
as hard as you want. Use language the target's behavior
and preserves dignity, while tightening incentives, you.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Know, getting away from a gros take on it. I
have long said this, as you listened for a long time.
I apologize for repeating myself. But the fact that there's
no mechanism for your life choices to take a look
at that drives me nuts. And it would be administratively hard.
But okay, you're out of money now, and you're legitimately
(10:36):
out of money. Tell me about your last vacation, show
me your phone. Can we walk out and check out
your car?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Can I look in.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Your closet and see your clothes?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
See the fact that that is taboo in American politics
now and practically in the culture. I mean, I don't
hear people saying that ever, No nobody ever.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What's something mad?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
And we talk a lot about the symptoms, but there's
the disease right there. And one more note, so Craig,
just for fun said one more question. On the show,
they often say KFTC, what does that mean? And an
answered immediately keep blanking that chicken. It's non to TV
anchor Ernie Anesto's on air blooper Angie adopted it for
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their text line and merch How.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
In the world did it know that? Instantly? Wow? And
then this uh?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
He asked essentially about angh armstrong igetti. Those guys don't
pull punches? Do they starve the lazy? As a slogan
that's equal parts motivational, boot camp and bar fight starter.
On one hand, I get the vibe. It's a raw
called a hustle. Ditch the excuses and own your grind.
In a world full of participation trophies and endless scrolling,
little tough love can light a fire under folks you
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need it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Props to them for merching it too.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Nothing says commitment like a hoodie that roasts your inner sloth.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Humor.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Wow, that's some pretty good smack. I want to croll
up in the fetal position the argument with my son
and then Grock laughing about it, and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I suggest you interact with these things because they're they're
here to stay and they're gonna be a big part
of everybody's lives. But I'd be interested in how you
react to that. If you get like, I got like
a chill to my bone over that. Some weird.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Something happened there, like if your dog started talking. It's like, right,
the Uncanny Valley, something that's almost human.
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Singing to fifty United States will be published in June,
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San Diego.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
What crazy is that they found a new Doctor Seuss
book and the USA related for the So that's cool. Yeah,
So you came across more information that Bill Gates has
had a major change of heart about climate change.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I mean back in the day he was one of
the leading cheerleaders of climate alarmism.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
This could be.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Important for those of us who think it's been overblown
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yeah, he he said way back in the day that
the climate change will be one of the greatest challenges
humans have ever taken on, greater than landing on the moon.
Greater than eradicating smallpox, even greater than putting a computer
on every desk, and then the enormous loss of life.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And now he saysh never mind.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Well no, he essentially he said, look, poverty and disease
are the biggest problems, as they've always been. Understanding this,
lets us focus our limited resources on interventions that will
have the greatest impact for the most vulnerable people. In
other words, don't spend all your time and money and
effort on climate change. Help people where they are. Yeah,
we know, Bill, we know. So he's come around. I
(14:27):
wonder if will this be reported in the New York
Times and who will criticize him bitterly for it?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
How many people do we have who wear any of
the metaglasses. Our agent, the greatest agent in the world,
Eric wears them. There ray bands, but they you can
make phone calls, you can listen to music, you can
do a variety of things. And the reason I mentioned
this is they got the new version out, generation two
that has a little screen that shows up in one
(14:55):
of the lenses and you can see it like a
little computer screen and other people looking at you. Other
versions like Google, what was the one that went glass.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, you could.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
People could see it, and it was a little off putting.
Everything like these it looks like you're just wearing glasses.
They can't see on their side that you're looking at
screen that just shows on your side. And I saw
it demonstrated, and the couple of reviewers talking about how
it's amazing it is. For instance, directions, they were just
walking around the town and they put up the directions
of like and you walk up to this corner and
you turn left and you're following your way to get
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someplace or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Just one example.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Or they had somebody that were cooking in the kitchen
and they had in their lens.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Instead of regularly look at your phone.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Or whatever, the recipe for whatever you're making was right there.
While you can also be looking at whatever you're doing anyway,
reading something that closed your eyeball. How does that work?
It must work. They all say it was great. But
these weren't people working for the company selling. These were
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independent reviewers who have said they haven't liked past versions
and that they think this is finally crossed over into
that this might be something that people start to use.
But one of the reviewers I said this, said she said,
this is gonna divide us even more into not paying
attention to each other, or listening to each other, or
living in our own worlds. As you can sit there
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with your glasses on and you know, reading something else
or watching a video or whatever the hell you're doing
instead of paying attention to your friend.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
The Journal just had a big article about CEOs and
executives dealing with people texting and checking their feeds and
whatever during meetings, and they can tell that they're not
really present, and.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You won't be able to tell.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Now you'll be checking your text in a little thing
in your eye, your lens.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Until somebody says, Jack, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And you say, oh, I agree with most of what's
been said.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I need to study it further. Let's not be hasty.
I think there's nuance, though, and so requires a second look.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I think we should put a pin on it and
circle back.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
But I realized a long time ago with texting. I
told this story a bunch of times. The first time
I heard about texting, I thought that that's stupid. Why
wouldn't you just call them? And then you know, finding
out it takes over my life like it did everybody else.
So I realized I don't have the ability to predict
even what I am interested in doing or not doing,
let alone the rest of humanity. I don't see like
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a need or use for these glasses, but for all
I know, everybody will be wearing them in two years.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Armstrong the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So the campaign manager for Katie Porter allegedly told.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Her you looked bad the other night.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
She said, you mean the interview, and he said, what interview?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Wowness of gut Fell.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
She is high school lunch room cruelty, Katie Porter, not
a handsome woman. But I don't see any reason to
play on that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Ye stick with the shot, stick with the evil.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, it was surprising though, I mean like the Advanced Team.
I mean they had her in a setting that was,
you know, less appealing for her than and they did
a bad job. Usually they try to go out of
their way to make you look as good as possible.
Her people did not do that, which might again, like
I said earlier, she might have a lot of people
(18:35):
rooting against her. If she talks to everybody that way,
then I think you're gonna set up the camera to
make you look as fat as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's what I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Do, right right, Yeah, yeah, interesting, it's funny. Katie Porter
one of many people cited by who wrote this.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I was gonna use their name. I gotta switch that
to see the name got a click on that.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
There, there you go, written by God damn it Macy.
Petty Macy was a college volleyball player who had to
play against dudes and testified and tried to get laws
against that past and talked about how hard it was
a few years ago. And she catalogs a bunch of
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Democrats high level, from Gavin Newsom to Katie Porter to
Kamala Harris and others who now say, well, yeah, clearly
their advantages and men you know can't play, and who
were utterly one, one hundred percent committed to the party
line back in the day, to the point of telling her,
(19:42):
you know, you're just a camp you're just complaining, or
you're a bigot, or you're a transfoe, and this isn't
a real problem.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
You need to stop complaining.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
It's it's amazing how little principle there is in politics
these days.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
The more I think of it, the more I think
it is likely that her advanced team puts her in
law fighting and situations to make her look as awful
as possible.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Oh, that dress is really slimming.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah, you look good in that. And I'll put the
camera down low like this and kind of at this angle. Yeah,
you look like so flattering. You looked like a dump
truck about at the camera. Here is a perfect Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
So, speaking of gender bending madness, here's another thing that
caught my attention. He was allowed to be in there,
the perverted poster boy of gender ideology. This is from
the good folks at the Washington Examiner. Richard Cox, fifty
eight year old repeat Tier three sex offender who spent
the second half of twenty twenty four prowling female locker
(20:39):
rooms in woke northern Virginia, where he would ogle schoolgirls
and expose himself to bystanders. Oh my god, Fairfax County
so woke, you can't believe it, where Cox exposed himself
repeatedly last year. Never prosecuted him because, as the police
chief put it, the policy of parks and rec allowed
(21:00):
him and other persons to use the locker room of
the gender that they identify with in both Oh, in
this freak as we'll post a link at armstrong Yetty
dot com. Butt you'd take one look at this guy,
you know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
I'm always trying to figure out the Wolk thing because
I don't always understand it at first blush. So they're
supporting him because he's trans like, So if he was
just a regular dude exposed himself, there's no Wolke reason
to support.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That, is there?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Because I mean correct, they're not arresting thieves. You claim
is an economic thing. Well, they're just stealing because they're
poor because of the you know, patriarchy or whatever. But
there's no patriarchy for showing your junk to people. So
but at the trans angle is what protects this guy.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yes, although, having just read a really interesting thread about
a lgb sorry.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
I showed you my penis the patriarchy in white supremacy
and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Well, there's this LGBTQ.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Civil rights leader in Britain who is now openly advocating
for adult child sex. And part of the whole postmodern
neo Marxist thing is that you want to tear down
every norm of society, every boundary line of society you
claim is bigoted or racist or transphobaker, islamophobaker or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You don't allow her to be any standards. So it
wouldn't shock me that.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Somewhere in the neo Marxist movement they're saying, yeah, you
have the right to expose yourself an ogle, you know,
young girl. Anyway, in both Fairfax and neighboring Arlington County,
county officials allowed mister Cox to undress in women's locker
rooms because the county's fealty to gender ideology. They didn't
arrest him because under county policy, he counted as a woman.
(22:50):
Washington Post gave the story zero nearly zero coverage, and
they point out that the story of mister Cox putting
his name aside is a reductio ad absurd them of
the gender dog bath that the outlet follows.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
How how did I let it go that his name
is Cox? I didn't catch her once? Yeah, pick up
on that. Yeah, Oh my gosh, the pop up ads
more than one? You say, now, I would look it's plural.
All right.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
You can't let me tell this story while you're trying
to get your computer work. So I had all you
got to You gotta repeat your axiom. I guess that
was my axiom. The more conservative of the website, the
more impossible it is to use.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, because they're all about making money, not yeah. Uh.
I had a girlfriend many many years ago.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
She her her house facing across her on the other
side of the street, had a big picture window, and
there was an old guide that would stand in the
window work in his man on a regular on a
regular basis.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
He would just stand there. What's that that's chairman? Uh, well,
I don't know what phrase to use. What would you
like me to say?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
No, no, I was talking about the activity now in
a description of it was like in the seventies, and
he would just stand there naked and you know, doing
his thing.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
But her in her roommate, another chick would they're just like,
oh god, he's at it again. Randy's doing it again.
Oh you gotta be kidding, you know, And it wasn't.
I'm not coming out pro that sort of thing. But
not everybody immediately falls to pieces when that happens. Yeah,
I'm still all for locking them up or of being
a crime or getting a ticket or put your pants
on or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So bah bah bah.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
In brief, this story is how liberals in the suburbs
with DC allowed a repeat sex offender to victimize women
stock children for months more than fifteen months ago. In
June twenty four, this guy was charged with indecent exposure
for exposing his crank and a female locker room at
Planet Fitness. In his defense, Cox argued, quote transgender people
identify is belonging to a gender which may not conform
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to the sex they are assigned. It for a transgender
person to be observed in a locker room nude is
no proof that this was also anything more than platonic.
He showed the Planet Fit this guy's Virginia driver's license,
which listed him as a woman, even though he's a man.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That seems very odd to me. At the time, county.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Officials knew Cox was a Tier three sex offender, the
most serious level. He was charged in the nineties for
allegedly exposing himself to children and masturbating in front of them.
He was convicted in Arlington of taking indecent liberties with children.
He was twice charged with a felony for failing to
reregister as a Tier three sex offender, but Fairfax County
(25:30):
dropped those charges. All of that was a matter of
record when Fairfax County dismissed the indecent exposure charge in
July because the victim did not show up in court.
But it was because they believed or I don't get this.
This guy has molested children. He's exposed himself to children
(25:51):
over and over again, and he does it again. But
because he says nope, now I'm a woman, they say, Okay,
no charges. I'm not fighting against this garbage. What are
you waiting for?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You know, it's like the guy that wanted to kill
Kavanaugh turns out his trans Oh okay, you don't have
to be in for reylying.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Uh, not near as serious.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
So I didn't know what to say when I was
talking about the guy that was in the window across
the street from a girlfriend I used to have who
would do his thing, and I didn't know what phrase
to use. So I just asked chat GPT, what are
some good euphemisms for male masturbation? And it gave me
a list. Oh, boy, wrestling the eel, shaking hands with
(26:31):
the governor, auditioning the single handed orchestra, you can stop anytime,
taking the bald guy to the prom. Never heard that one.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
It's too wordy. See you don't want more of those.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I don't resent it, you know, for reasons, Kats, I
resent it as an editor, yes, Katie.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No, I'm just waiting for Hanson to turn your microphone off.
That's all. By the way.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
One final note on this, The Washington Post carefully avoids
any pronouns in their their very minor coverage of this.
And the Washington Post was contacted by the examiner who
asked him why, and they made it clear, according to
their rules, it is against our rules to call Cox
a he. It also cannot follow its rules and call
(27:21):
Cox a she if it wishes to maintain any credibility,
they point out.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Obviously. Anyway, that's enough of that.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I got some more sophisticated versions that that Claude gave
me that you might want to vote or something if
you ever need it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Was more sophisticated Claude because he's French.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
She.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I like some of these because sometimes you have to
describe this scenario, whether you know, in some way.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I can think of some examples coming up. Woke Swifties
continue to out pour out anger over the new album,
like engaging in self care.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
That's that's an I kind of calm one yeah, you
know I he was engaging in self care.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
That's a little better, right, practicing self law. Still not
good enough to have on the air, but yes, better
taking some me time, playing a little five on one. Stupid.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I've actually heard that one have a having a date
with yourself. Yes, I had heard that a little five
on one, you know happens. Let's see. The only one
I'm asked is grok. Grok tends to be cheekier, pardon
the expression. And I have heard about the Taylor Swift
(28:42):
White supremacy and Taming the Dragon. That's a common one.
Some of these are just I'm skipping lots of them
that show that I do have some line across. Oh yeah, great,
winding the clock seems like British, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You know? You're asking for credit for skipping.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Some of them reminds me of one of my favorite
cartoons many many years ago I saw and It's funny
how just a handful of stuck in my head, including
a handful of far Side cartoons that were just so great,
but this one was. It was rather a troubling scene
of a well it kind of explains itself, but the
guy is like being bound and all in the other
(29:23):
guy says, you'll have to bear with me.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I'm a homicidal.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Mania, and that's kind of what I was getting from you.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, your show, podcasts, and our
hot links.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
The arm Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Several companies have announced a whole bunch of layoffs and
that has people freaked out, as it should.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
What's going on there?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
For some reason, I made me want to go to
the anti work website on Reddit, which is kind of
fun to check in on a regular basis. It's kind
of fun, kind of funny, also kind of scary because
I think there are many millions of young people who
have this attitude. Talk to them by their teachers, I guess,
or did your parents not, I don't know. I guarantee
you my kids understand that you have to go out
(30:18):
there and support yourself.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Well, what's the brief statement of their philosophy. It doesn't
quite impression.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Yeah, work is oppression and you shouldn't have to work. Well,
like here, I'll read one statement for those of you
who say you have to work to live. Bro food
is literally literally free until someone builds a fence around
it and guards it with weapons. Work is a contrivance
and unnatural, that sort of attitude.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Wow, the stupidest things ever said. Nominations are now closed.
There's lots of them.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Here's somebody of the posts.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Anti work does not mean I should get to live
like a king and eat doritos while other people do
all the hard work. Anti work means it sure would
be nice if I wasn't impelled by violence to perform
labor that wrecks my body with micro injuries that will
lead me disabled by sixty.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I like the term micro injury.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Wow, what sort of injuries are you talking about with
your probably white collar job.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, you know, it's it's funny how the radical left
always has this like really florid I think is the
right word rhetoric, and all these invented terms that they
all become, you know, they all memorized, they become versant
in them and throw them around about microinjs. There was
like half practically half a dozen different invented terms in
(31:38):
that couple of times.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
It sure would be nice if I wasn't impelled by violence, yes,
to perform labor that racks my body with micro injuries
that will leave me disabled by sixty All right, but
I want to get to this one.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Also just a reminder. We don't think no one should work.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
We understand there need to be doctors, teachers, nurses, cooks, waiters,
et cetera for society to function. We just believe that
no one should have have to work in order to survive. Food, water,
and housing should be guaranteed human rights. We were all
born into the system without being able to agree to it.
We shouldn't be punished for existing. We should all be
able to have our basic needs met, and work should
be something you want to do to earn more. There
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are lots of people who believe that's a workable notion.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
The mirror happenstance of existence means somebody should give you food, water,
and housing.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
I don't how to, and it's a failure of our
school system and some parenting. Although you know, yeah, you
can't be completely blamed for thinking. I assumed the school
would teach them this, that people can come out of school.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
And not understand.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
My ninth grade English teacher he assigned us an essay
and it was there ain't no free lunch, and he
wrote it up on the chalkboard.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Everybody needs to write a one page essay.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
I like that, and everybody, including me, because I'd never
come across that term for was completely flummixed by it.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But I was so happy that he, you know, brought
that up.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
That caused the discussion that led to at least everybody
in that classroom understanding there's no such thing as a
free lunch.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Somebody paid for it. Somebody.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Now maybe you, in this circumstance think somebody should have
paid for it.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But somebody paid for it. It didn't just fall out of
half and land here.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
What does this person think that all this stuff, the housing,
and what are the other things that should be guaranteed
human rights?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Food, water, and housing should be guaranteed human rights?
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Go ahead, sit down with your pencil and paper and
come up with a system where that works.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You idiot. It's practically hilarious.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, your English teacher's granddaughter is teaching English right now,
and she writes up on the chalkboard trans women are women.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
You're one page on that.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
You're right, But that comes up a lot because I've
read a lot of these posts on that site, and
it has several million followers on the site. I mean,
it's a it's a very popular size, but it's very
common to say stuff like we were born into this system.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
We didn't get a vote.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, how interesting the differences in people? And hang on,
oh my god, I think I got COVID from one
of those escaped research probably.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You know, I was attacked by a monkey on the
way forward cold have her?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
You know, it was funny. I was attacked by a
disease monkey on the way to work. But I hadn't connected, right, right, right,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
You get attacked by a monkey that's got sores, and
then you think I saw something on the news about
this last night, Right, yeah, it hadn't clicked anyway.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Where was I before I sneezed?
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Blah blah blahh oh yeah, And certainly you know, Thomas
Sowell has written about the two kinds of people persuasively,
and other people have too, but I mean most of us,
and I'm asking you, good people. I mean, life is
certainly difficult to and painful of times, and we've all struggled.
But I've always looked at life, I mean, since I
was a kid, as an opportunity, as a world to explore,
(35:10):
as battles to win, not oh my god, why did
my parents spraing me into this world. Now I have
to do something. I've never thought that for a single
second of my life.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
And then there's a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Modern corporate exploitation of all people has its roots in slavery,
and they've honed their tactics to divide us. We're all
poor when we allow capitalists to exploit any one of us.
And it's about how the slaveholders created a system, and
then that's what became capitalism.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
And prior to that, there were no workers or in
places where there weren't slaves, or you weren't slave.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
The whole bro food is literally free until somebody puts
a fence around it. Right, what We've got to spread
our doctrine of non working around the globe.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
We've got to convince people that this is right. But
it's going to take a lot of work. Oh no,
oh no.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
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