November 27, 2025 • 36 mins
The A&G Replay on November 27,2025 Hour 2 contains:
- Middle East Persecution of Christians / Intolerant of Tolerance
- The Labubu Blind Buying Craze explained by Katie
- Jack's July Florida Vacation Chess Lesson
- Gen Z Most Useful Idiots
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Arm Strong and Getty and He Armstrong and Getty Strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I have a handful of stories that are centered around
the same theme, all of which have come out just
in the last day or two, all of which are
being covered in major publications, and quite responsibly. Number one
India's I'm Sorry Inside Syria's Secretarian Cauldron, kidnapping, Trigger's cascade
of violence, Blood Soaked Weak between Sunni Bedouins, Sunni Muslims
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and the Druze minority in southern Syria slaughtering the hell
out of the Drews because of their religion and their tribe,
et cetera. Isn't sectarian politics? Grant and the Drus are?
Are they Christian adjacent? I forget I read this letter there.
They're like an Abrahamic religion or beliefs. All of the
prophets are cool, and trust me, I'm not a Druz theologian,
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but it's kind of a universal Abrahamis religion anyway, and
it's absolutely horrifying. These are not that it matters, but
you look at these people. They are thoroughly modern, normal
people living their lives, hoping to get a career, going
raise their children, blah blah blah. And they have armed
gunmen storming their houses and shooting them all dead in
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the streets because of their religion. Moving along, it's an
interest interesting story from Texas, of all places, Epic City
replacing Old Glory with the Crescent Moon picture. This a
Muslim only city governed by Sharia law, beyond the reach
of democratically elected officials. Officials, something like that is happening
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in Texas, and its founders call it Epic City.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The East Plano Islamic Center.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
EPIC is the largest mosque in Texas and one of
the largest in the US. Last year, several members of
the mosque formed Community Capital Partners LLC or CCP and
announced the formation of Epic City, a master planned Islamic
development project that caters to the evolving needs of families
in the Muslim communities. And again, we could get into
this idea in depth in what is wrong with it,
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but I don't really have time. Josh Hawley's called for
US the US to condemn the persecution of Christians in
Muslim majority nations, including several that were kind of friendly
with these days. But whether it's Africa or the Middle East, Yeah,
there's wholesale persecution of Christians going on, frequently, slaughtering them
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by machine gun fire or machete And Hawley, is he grandstanding?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He often is? Or is he sincere about this? I
don't know how weird is it that the US doesn't
condemn that?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh right, If my main thing politically is standing up
for Christianity around the world, I think those are better
stories to latch onto than putin trying to help Christianity
out by taking over Ukraine or something or something.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
The resolutions that are co sponsored with several other Republicans
urge the President to prioritize the defense of persecuted Christians
in America's foreign policy, including via diplomatic engagement with Muslim
majority countries as well as efforts to stabilize the Middle East.
Urges the President to leverage the diplomatic tool kit to
advance the protection of persecuted Christians worldwide and within Muslim
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majority countries. So I certainly applaud that effort, and all
of those headlines bring us to this, and it's a
piece I came Across by Paul Freesen. Paul is with
Cornell University. He is one of the scholars with the
let Me Get This Right the Center for Global Democracy
in the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell. Didn't
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really know his work, but I found this to be
extremely persuasive.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
He talks.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
He starts this article talking about the Maldives, which is
a chain of islands by not far from Africa. I think,
I actually, I didn't even look it up on a map.
But they're idyllic, beautiful. It's infinity pools, bioluminescent beaches, you
got your bungalows over the water. It's the stuff straight
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out of a sandals ad or you know, like Fiji
has resorts that are.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Just like this.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And he writes, I few imagine that this archipelago of
honeymoon bruchers and influencer backdrops is governed by a constitutionally
mandated Sunni monoculture where apostasy, that is, rejecting Islam is.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Punishable by death.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Wow, and children are catechies, not in the arts of
critical thought, but in the compulsory admiration of Rhea and
all non Muslim religious practice, no matter how discreet, or
devotional is prohibited by law. You cannot silently pray to
Jesus Christ in your living room alone in the Maldives,
or it is punishable. There are no churches, no synagogues,
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no temples, no tolerance. This is a theocracy with a
customer service department. And he says here the word Islamic
republic does not mean Muslim majority democracy means what it
says on the label, a legal architecture erected not to
protect freedoms, but to restrict them. Islamic education is mandated
in every grade, every year, et cetera, et cetera. Oh,
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any descent, whether whispered by a secular blogger or typed
by an ex Muslim on Twitter, can earn you one
hundred lashes twenty years or a cemetery plot Welcome to Paradise.
And then he says this is not uniquely Maldivian or
even uniquely Islamic. What's on display here is the metastasis
of a broader pathology, the suicide of liberalism through the
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travenous drip of unchecked pluralism. Right, there are a lotisms,
They're all explained, but this is the point of what
he's writing. The Maldives is not just an outlier. It
is a bellweather, a warning of what happens when civilizations
that once separated church from state begin importing ideologies that
merge the two. Like Siamese twins sharing a judicial spine.
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This is not a clash of cultures. It is a
conquest by bureaucracy, and we are funding it for the
umpteenth time. Read Michael Halibec's submission novel came out a
few years ago, about how it's an imagination of how
Trump Trump I'm reading while I'm talking, how France becomes
an entirely Muslim country and freedom of speech and religion
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are stamped out.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And pretty plausible when you read it. Oh that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Would you how would you describe how the takeover goes?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
How it works in that novel?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Uh, little by little with a lot of decent people
not wanting to come off as racist or Islamo and
then just over time losing and as mister Friesan points out,
like through bureaucracy, bit by bit, through the tentacles of government.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Anyway, here's his main point.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And this is the part that I said, I found
so eloquent and I wish we had time to just
do the whole thing, but maybe we'll talk to him someday.
It was Carl Popper, he writes, who warned that a
tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance or it would
cease to be tolerant at all. Obviously, that's where it's
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the way we're always mocking the coexist bumper sticker. Coexist, coexists.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
A couple of those symbols on there want to dominate
the other symbols, so you can't coexist with somebody who
wants to take over.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance or it
would cease to be tolerant at all. Can you think
of any other modern movements that punished you even agreeing
with them, or even asking them hard questions at a
training session, for instance, that they made you go to
at work or at your university's orientation. You weren't even
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allowed to question it anyway. He goes on, it's a
delicious paradox, too often quoted and too rarely heated, for
we have taken the first half of the dictum the
imperative to tolerate, and chiseled it into law. Into policy,
into university mission statements and and geo pamphlets. But the
second half, the requirement to draw a line to say
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no further, has been treated like garlic in a vampire movie,
and teak and anathema unfashionable. The paradox has become pathology.
Here's what he means. Our courts allow Sharia arbitration councils
to function in British cities. He's a brit obviously adjudicating
matters of family and inheritance with standards that would make
a twelfth century canon lawyer flinch. Our schools include faith
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based curricula that require jobs for seven year olds and
teach that homosexuality is satanic filth Our public broadcasters will
era documentary about the importance of free speech, followed immediately
by a segment about why cartoons of Muhammad are unhelpful.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
This is not multiculturalism. It is masochism.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It is the belief that liberalism must be so open
minded that its own brains are spilled out to the
prayer mad. It is the fetishization of identity at the
expense of liberty. It is the ideological pacifism of a
society too terrified to assert its own values, lest it
be accused of racism by those who mistake ideology for ethnicity.
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We have enshrined the right of the theocrat while criminalizing
the instincts of the secularist. The result is not harmony,
it is humiliation. And then he goes into let's dispense
with the ritual disclaimers. Not all Muslims or Islamists, not
all believers who wish to impose There are believers who
wish to impose their theology on others, of course, but
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neither are all white people racists. Yet no progressive chokes
on the phrase white supremacy. When was the last time
you heard a progressive say? Now, of course, not all
white people are racist. A lot of white people are good, honest, decent,
hard working people who try to treat everybody well. Blah
blah blah. But still there is white supremacy. But anytime
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you talk about Islamism, you have to throw in the
long list of disclaimers, right Well, the first one, though,
is not seen as true by you.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Know, your local school quite possibly spent a lot of
money getting Ebram X Kendy to come speak at the school,
or list, bought all the books and His whole theme
is you are automatically racist if you're white by definition, right,
So that's one reason you wouldn't say that.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
He goes on, why must we say religiously motivated extremism
instead of naming the doctrine that inspired the bomb.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Why do we hear of Asian grooming gangs.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Instead of Pakistani Muslim sex trafficking rings. Why do we
refer to the Maldives as a challenging democracy rather than
a theocratic prison with coral beaches, Because the liberal West,
having abolished blasphemy laws, is now enforcing them in reverse.
The new heresy is criticism of faith, at least of
one faith. To mock Christianity is edgy. To mock Islam
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is hate speech. To question Jewish nationalism is a principled resistance.
To question Islamist imperialism is bigotry. This is not diversity,
It is double think. It is a sacred exception carved
out in the name of peace, which is to say,
in the name of fear. And then he goes on
to make the point more at greater length. Fear is
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the root of all of this. And he's absolutely right,
especially about Europe, Britain, France, are humiliating themselves and twisting
themselves into bizarre quasi legal knots to try not to
anger the Muslim folks. And I'm telling you to return
to the main thing. If you take away nothing from this,
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take this away. A tolerance society must be intolerant of intolerance,
or it would cease to be intolerant, I'm sorry, or
it would cease to be tolerant at all.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Pretty obviously, but obviously not obvious enough to keep it
from happening the way it's happening.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, those of you who don't have the courage to
say this sort of thing, we suggest you try to
find it if you can.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Those of you who do, we're with you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah, Jack your Shoe podcasts
and our hot links, The arm Strong.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And Getty Show, music radio training from back when I
was younger, or just my personality, but I like to
be aware of crazies, even if it's.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Not something I'm into.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I like to know what the hot TV show is,
hot movie, hot music, whatever. I like to know what's
really popular, even if it's not my thing. I just
I've always thought I need to know that. I like
to think about the ancient Greek republic. Geez, I am
reading Ulysses, so I get both sides of it, I guess,
but uh, because that's not hot. Nobody else is doing that.
(13:21):
The La Boo Boo craze I was reading about in
the New York Post. I know this has come up
on the show, but this is a craze I'm not
tuned into yet. They've got a picture of this furry
little doll that looks frightening, but so fill us in
on the little Boo Boo craze there, Katie.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
So the Laboo Boo cray is actually started back in
twenty fifteen when he was first introduced.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But he's part of this he. It's a he. What's
a he? This la boo boo a he? The article
gender fluid to me.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I'm going to go with gender fluid, but the article
that I'm reading says he, uh, don't use gender language.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Hong Kong based artists created a series called The Monsters,
and one of the characters was a Laboo Boo. It's
influenced by Nordic folklore and mythology, okay, and he enjoyed
during his childhood.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
It's a furry little it's it looks cute while at
the same time kind of menacing with like fangs and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
And there's this this whole craze about them right now
is that it's called blind buying. So you buy this
package and you can't see what one is inside, and
people are trying to collect all of them, so they're
buying a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And it says, like baseball cards or Nintendo cards back
in the day, you just buy a pack, hoping it's
stuff you don't have, or good stuff or whatever it says.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Here l Boo Boo dolls, who have been spotted dangling
from Louis Vatan and Saint Laurent Purs's as fashion's quirky
new status symbol, but their popularity could soon spell doom
for the economy, and expert warns during economic downtterms, consumers
gravitate toward what experts called affordable luxuries, small dopamine spiking
splurges that don't break the bank, like lipstring, lipstick, ice cream,
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or movie ticket. Studies have shown it's sometimes called the
lipstick index in economics, which I found very very interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And this part of that, this is more interesting than
I anticipated go on. I was hoping so, and the
creepy but cute mischievous dolls could be its latest iteration.
And it's an example of people are not wanting to
splurge on real.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
How I set myself apart from other items. So they're
going with this cheap, trendy thing that's the lipstick index.
I had never heard of that, but that's interesting. Agreed, Yeah, Okay,
we'll keep our eye on that. What do we got
coming up?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Is there a male equivalent to that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'd have to think about that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Coming up, the incredible lack of purple states in the
US and why that might matter as we jerrymander ourselves
into like two different countries that live side by side, which.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Leads me into this.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I had this interesting experience, and I'm glad I have
a meta person that can be my.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Uh, Conduit's not the right word. What do I want
to guide?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Got an entrance entrance point into a world I don't
really know because I got as.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
In conversation conversation with a woman, a.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Mom, herner, husband, successful business people, raised kids, sound like
the kids are all the successful blah blah blah, like perfectly.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Upstanding, middle upper class people that.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Have no interest in any of this crap we ever
talk about, like none, don't know anything about any of it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And I just thought, wow, that must be awesome. That
must be really awesome.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well, at the same time, you know, you got to
participate and pay attention to make the world worker. It
will you know, rules will be get made, blah blah
blah that stuff, you know. But it was just so interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I don't hang around.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
People like that, and it's just somebody. It's just like
they just don't know about any of the any of
the scant you know, the Gems commercial from last week,
or just any of those things. They're completely unaware of them.
And I thought that must be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Do they have any concern about how their text money
is spent? Because it sounds like there's probably a fair amount.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I don't know them well enough to know that, but
that's why I said, I look forward to this entrance
into this world of learning more about it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Do they have la boo boos? I bet they don't
know what that is. Lad being good for them.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The Armstrong and Getty Show. Yeah, more Jack Orgio podcasts
and our hot links. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I went to Florida South Beach for a couple of days,
then went down to Key West, rent in a house.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
We were down there for a couple of days. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I talked to a number of people who worked at
restaurants and whatnot while I was in Florida, and they
were talking about how awesome it was during COVID in
Florida to be in their industry because people were coming
from all over the country because they didn't shut down.
They shut down for a couple of weeks total. Then
we're up and running like it was normal. Wrong death sentence.
(18:19):
I remember that right. Well, the rest of the country
was acting like, you can't do that, everyone will die.
They were talking about how awesome it was down there,
and I doubt that these servers were like conservatives. I mean,
they could have been, but they looked like liberals. I
mean they're island hippies with you know, things through their nose,
uh and you know, the usual. But it's really interesting
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that that happened. Part of the country said, yeah, we're
gonna pretend it's not happening.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
And everything was fine. It's just it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Sometimes counties that are practically side by side took wildly
different approaches, and when one worked.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Way better than the other, the people who went with
the bad approach said nothing.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, drove or flew back up to New York because
it was too hot. He just got too hot with
too much beach sun. Sam and I flipped our jet
ski rented a jet skis a double jet ski, and
I was somehow we flipped it. He was driving, and
that ended up costing me a lot of money, because
if you flip it and to ruin the motor, then
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you got to pay for it part of the deal
you sign, and so that cost me a lot. But
so we flipped it, and I was panicked about trying
to get it turned back up forgetting the warning they
had made about all the barnacles in the bottom and
stay away from it. And sliced my knee open so
bad and was bleeding all over the place. And I'm
glad shark didn't come eat us because that would have sucked.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Anyhow, Oh agreed, Yeah, that'd be a terrible thing to happen.
We just getting eaten by a shark? Yes, so we Uh?
This does it look by the way. How's your knee?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Look? Is it healing? Okay?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yeah, it's the same knee I heard on my motorcycle wreck.
So I have no feeling in it because image it
so much of this, so I couldn't even tell.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
But I come of myself. I was bleeding all over.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I was gonna say, because refrash is a thing, and
I don't know if barnacles are similar, but if you like,
scrape yourself on a b there's so much my krobia
life in there. My brother, a healthy throng naval officer.
He got refreshed and it was horrible.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
To get rid of.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Yeah, they told us about that some trip we took
out to see a reef in Key West. I don't
remember they're telling us about that AnyWho. So we fly
up to New York because it was too hot and
decided to do something else, and we go and we
spend several days in New York and we're at this
park where all the people are playing chess, just like
I'd seen in movies. Do they do that in cities
all across the country or is that local in New York?
Did they do that in Chicago?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You're Chicago guy? Oh? Gosh, it's when I picture it,
I picture it in New York.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, I think it's a New York thing, and I
need to do some research because I don't really know
what it is or how it works, like do they
make how do they make money or do they money
or what's exactly going on there. I've just seen in
movies where all the people are playing chess in these parks. Well,
my son is obsessed by chess, as I've talked about
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several times, although he's still a beginner and or the
whole time on the trip, he said, I want to
play chess in the park with.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
One of one of those guys. I want to play chiss.
So he really wanted to do that.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
So we're walking through Washington Square Park after we watched
the weird hippie chick dor Art that I talked about
earlier get the podcast if you didn't hear that, and
he said, there's a guy he's not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I want to go play chess, and I said, okay,
so we go over there.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I very quickly figure out that this guy, he's probably
sixty old, black guy. He sounds exactly like Tracy Morgan
from Saturday Night Live. So when I'm doing my impersonation.
If it sounds like that, that's why, because that's what
the guy's I like. He's hammered drunk, just hammered drunk,
sitting there at the Chest table, and he said, what's
(21:53):
your what's your name, Henry?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
What's your writing head? Ray?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
And Henry told him I don't know whatever his number
is on his rating because he get a CHEST rating
when you're on chest dot com. Oh yo Againner, Okay, Henry,
Well then I won't play you. I will give you
a lesson. Five dad, five dollars for a lesson.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, fine, And.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He is down there and it was just one of
the most amazing, interesting things I've ever witnessed. Henry walked
away from it saying, this is the coolest thing I've
ever done in my life.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But it was so strange. The guy was so drunk.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
For one thing, he had the really drunk guy eyes,
you know, where they're like really glassy yes and watery.
And he kept sho shoveling these He had a paper
bag with him, He'd brought sandwiches from home. This gets
to the I don't know what these people are doing
if they make money doing this or is this your job.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I mean, I guess you play them for money. I
don't even know.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
A good friend of the show is a friend of
mine just texted the New York chess hustlers usually play
for a few bucks.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
They're usually very good. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was unbelievable.
As drunk as this guy was, he started, I'm gonna
give you a lesson, Henry. You'll remember this arrest of
your life.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
First of all, number one, get one thousand and one
chess moves.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Get the book. And he names the.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Guy Dad, buy him that book. Okay, and uh. They
set up the chess pieces and they start to play.
Let me see how good you are, Henry. So they
play for a little bit, and Henry would go to
make a movie.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He put it back, Henry, Henry put it back. No, Henry,
think about it, Henry. And so so then we do that.
It's okay, So let me give you a lesson. And
so then he gives him a lesson.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
And he's sitting by and he's shoveling this sandwich that
he made into his mouth, and parts of it are
getting in his mouth, but most of it's not, and
the rest of it's just like falling on his shirt
and onto the chessboard, and he'd have to wipe the
chunks and sandwich away as he's moving the chessboarder. At
one point, he kicks over his half a bottle of
Miller Lite and it tips over and rolls between my legs.
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I mean, he's just he's a drunk like he seems
like a homeless guy. Yeah, I don't even know it's
going on there, Henry. I'm gonna give you a lesson.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
The best guy in the park, that guy over there
with the sunglasses on, he's the best player in the park.
Right now, nobody will play game again, Which gets to
my If nobody will play you because you're so good,
how do you make any money?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I'm not sure how this works.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Hey, you gotta wait for somebody strong. My chess playing
friend also pointed out that it's a thing among chess enthusiasts.
There are there are videos of grand masters going under
cover and playing these guys and appreciating how good someone.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Oh yeah, this dude was amazing when Henry was actually
playing him, how fast he would move and how he
saw the whole board was. To be as drunk as
he was awesome, was really quite amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Was he really drunk or do you think this was
part of the hustle.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
No, he was drunk. I know, I know a drunk guy,
and he was very drunk. And there were many people
playing chess. It was mostly dudes sitting at empty chess
tables waiting for somebody to come play him for whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Anyway, So his lesson was, Henry, let me ask you
a question.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You're a home by yourself, and outside the door there
was a gorilla and two dogs. Okay, a gorilla and
two dogs. Wow, they knock down the door and they
come in the house. What do you do, Henry, I
don't know. I called my dad. You don't have a phone, Henry.
What do you do when the gorilla and the two
dogs coming home?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And it was just like this the whole time. It
was so wild. Hand the dogs and punched the gorilla.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
No, I guess I worry about the dogs because I
can't fight a girrilla.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
No, Henry, Henry, that is wrong. What is the biggest threat, Henry,
the gorilla. That's right, The gorilla is the biggest threat.
So do you see where my queen is right now?
That is your biggest threat. Get rid of the gorilla, Henry.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
And so Henry moved and got rid of the queen.
Now you don't have to worry about the gorilla. Do
you see where my two dogs are?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Henry?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
And it was just like that through the whole thing.
This went on for like forty five minutes. It was
incredibly entertaining and really interesting imagery to try to figure
out some chess strategy.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
For a few bucks.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
For five bucks place, that's the best money you've ever
spent in your life, the entertainment alone, let alone the
chess lesson. It was really so it was like out
of a freaking movie. And I thought, what are you?
I mean, his clothes, he looked like a homeless person.
I mean, his shoes had holes in him. He smelled bad,
he's spinning his sandwich all over, he's hammered, drunk, but
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brilliant at chess. I just so, I don't know what's
going on there.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, I think we've all known people like that, whether
they're musicians or writers or what have you, that they
have an incredible level of capability at one thing, but
not so much on life skills or hanging on to
a job for instance, or don't want to right for
whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
God dang it, that was interesting.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Like I said, Henry walked away from saying that was
the greatest thing I've ever.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Done in my life. He really really liked it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Both the chess lesson and just the entertaining flare of
the whole thing was so well again, like straight out
of a flipp And movie.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well, the downside was you didn't get a chance to
talk about the big beautiful bill on the air since
you were on your vacation.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
On our vacation didn't come up in conversation with anyone.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I'll tell you that a round up of different people,
many of them conservatives, and their takes on that message.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Gorilla is in your home, you're gonna worry about the
dogs first. Think about it, Henry, to try to imagine
that anyway. So you keep spitting sandwich all over, I
don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
The dogs are happy with the sandwich leavings.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
The armstrong and getting show.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well. I sound this very interesting. I was considering trying
to cram these two things together. The incredible radicalization of
young women around the world as their male companions. They
don't have companions, but as the males of their generation
are swinging to the right. Not not a lot, but some.
(28:18):
And how weird and interesting that is. But we'll do
that another time, I want. I'm just gonna go with this.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was a piece.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Written by Mark Penn and Andrew Stein, and they're both Democrats. Penn,
you may reize recognized his name. He was a polster
and advisor to the Clintons in the nineties and two thousands.
And this other guy was a New York City council
president for a number of years in the eighties and nineties.
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But the title is gen Z the Useful Idiot Generation.
Young people usually become less radical with time. Are we
seeing an exception? And they go into describing, you know,
hippie Vietnam War pro testers who got jobs, got married,
and had children. Exactly wash your damn dirty hippie feet.
(29:08):
Now their grandchildren see them tethered to Fox News. Today's
young Americans are following the first part of that pattern.
Ask a group of them to choose between capitalism and socialism.
They'll split right down the middle. And he goes into
the nominating horrifying zorn Mundami, Yeah, who says he wants
to capture the means of production.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I've heard that phrase.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, you know what, Oh, I ought to get into
the PolitiFact thing someday. PolitiFact rated is false, the idea
that Mundami's a communist. And then when it came out
that he said we need to seize the means of production,
which is straight out of the communist manifesto, they said
incomplete data anyway. Uh, but will the young people outgrow
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their radicalism? And this is the part they really intrigued me.
There's reason to doubt it. Record members of gen Z
are pursuing higher education, with fifty three percent of those
eighteen to twenty four having completed at least some college.
That's a troubling sign given how left wing ideology has
come to dominate higher education. And again, these are two
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mainstream democrats writing colleges where many young people learn that
socialism means free stuff. They're indoctrinated to blame capitalism for racism, inequality,
and climate change. Unlike the older generations, they grew up
after the end of the Cold War and have no
memory of the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union, Maoist
China and other socialist regimes.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I have no memories. Is an interesting way to put it,
I didn't live through most of that stuff my memories
or because somebody taught them to me.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, that's an excellent point, and he said, they say,
maybe they'll see socialism in action in New York. But
here's the really intriguing part. Meanwhile, the process of growing
up is slowing down. They're talking about what I mean.
It's not automatic that a young, idealistic, way left person
becomes a conservative. It happens through processes, experience, mugged virality exactly,
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the process of growing that's actually a great phrase. The
process of growing up is slowing down. The median age
of first marriage is thirty, almost five years later than
it was in nineteen eighty five, and that means that
young people settle down and take on responsibilities later, if
they ever do. Nearly half of Gen Z adults aren't
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are not in a committed romantic relationship. They largely live communally,
often work from home, and are connected primarily through the
four plus hours they spend each day on their phones.
Their primary sources of information are TikTok and Facebook, whose
algorithms lead them to material that reinforces their preconceptions rather
than challenges them.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Four hours a day on their phones. What would they
have been doing before, Because I mean, that's the whole
opportunity cost thing. There are only so many hours.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
In the day.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
There'd have been more television watching back in the day,
but all four hours wouldn't have been taken up with that.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
No, but lots and lots and lots of relating to
real human beings who don't feed you agreement based on
their algorithms. In my experience, my friends, my girlfriends, my wife,
my family, they all feel free to disagree with me
semi regularly in a way that Facebook and TikTok never will.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
They will. With all due respect to.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Your sister in law who constantly posts garbage that you hate.
Those algorithms again lead them to material that reinforces their preconceptions.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
I think much other than that, your real life. Maybe
that's not true anymore. I was about to say, your
real life you don't talk about politics nearly at all,
as opposed to being bombarded with it on your whatever
device you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, but I think in general, because I actually do
agree with that, But in general, real life quote unquote
is much more messy and much less catering to you.
In a hundred different ways than virtual life is, which
tends to lead people towards less twei to idealistic, progressive.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
And I'm going to tell people I know from now on,
I want you to I'm going to use an algorithm,
and I want you to feed me things I only
want to hear. Only say things I want to hear
or I'm interested in.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
It would make a squinty face and say no, I'm
not doing that. And there's more.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Another traditional source of ballast, religion has become lighter as well.
More than one third of gen Z reports zero religious affiliation.
Roughly sixty percent did not participate in religious services growing up.
That produces a lack of moral grounding. We've had a
really interesting couple of conversations about that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Let's not get off on.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
That, but yeah, I don't know if you could make
a blanket statement of lack of moral grounding because you didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Participate in organized religion, right.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
But their greater argument is the things, the inputs, the
influences in life that tended to make you more realistic
and therefore more conservative, are missing, including religion. Put this
all together, and it's little wonder that about half of
eighteen to.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Twenty year olds.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Twenty four year olds tell pollsters that they support Hamas
over Israel. Hammas specifically, not the Palestinian people efing Hamas.
By and large, these young adults aren't hardcore idelogus. They're
merely ignorant. About half of young Hamas supporters say they
don't want to wipe out Israel.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
They prefer to state solution.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Call them the useful idiot generation, mouthing slogans and causes
they don't understand and from which they would recoil if
they did again.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
This was written by Democrats.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, and that's you know, the Queers for Palestine thing
is the perfect example of that. It's the useful idiot generation,
mouthing slogans and causes they don't understand and from which
they would recoil if they did.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Well. A guy like Mark Penn, who worked for the Clintons.
He realizes Democrats are never gonna win another major election,
and let they unless they get this under control. So
he's trying to figure out why do were young people?
Why are they so crazy? That's what he's trying to
figure out.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Final couple of sentences, The older generations are not blameless here,
we created the environment that produced this unmoored generation. Socialism
and anti Semitism will continue to fester and grow if
we don't stand up and reform our universities, reinforce our
basic values, and balance our social media.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I agree completely. I am.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I am sticking with the idea that reforming our education
systems or tearing them down and building substitutes, is the
most important issue for America for the next fifty years.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Show back to the law, the unstay's shop,
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Arm Strong and Getty and He Armstrong and Getty Strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I have a handful of stories that are centered around
the same theme, all of which have come out just
in the last day or two, all of which are
being covered in major publications, and quite responsibly. Number one
India's I'm Sorry Inside Syria's Secretarian Cauldron, kidnapping, Trigger's cascade
of violence, Blood Soaked Weak between Sunni Bedouins, Sunni Muslims
(00:53):
and the Druze minority in southern Syria slaughtering the hell
out of the Drews because of their religion and their tribe,
et cetera. Isn't sectarian politics? Grant and the Drus are?
Are they Christian adjacent? I forget I read this letter there.
They're like an Abrahamic religion or beliefs. All of the
prophets are cool, and trust me, I'm not a Druz theologian,
(01:15):
but it's kind of a universal Abrahamis religion anyway, and
it's absolutely horrifying. These are not that it matters, but
you look at these people. They are thoroughly modern, normal
people living their lives, hoping to get a career, going
raise their children, blah blah blah. And they have armed
gunmen storming their houses and shooting them all dead in
(01:36):
the streets because of their religion. Moving along, it's an
interest interesting story from Texas, of all places, Epic City
replacing Old Glory with the Crescent Moon picture. This a
Muslim only city governed by Sharia law, beyond the reach
of democratically elected officials. Officials, something like that is happening
(01:58):
in Texas, and its founders call it Epic City.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The East Plano Islamic Center.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
EPIC is the largest mosque in Texas and one of
the largest in the US. Last year, several members of
the mosque formed Community Capital Partners LLC or CCP and
announced the formation of Epic City, a master planned Islamic
development project that caters to the evolving needs of families
in the Muslim communities. And again, we could get into
this idea in depth in what is wrong with it,
(02:26):
but I don't really have time. Josh Hawley's called for
US the US to condemn the persecution of Christians in
Muslim majority nations, including several that were kind of friendly
with these days. But whether it's Africa or the Middle East, Yeah,
there's wholesale persecution of Christians going on, frequently, slaughtering them
(02:50):
by machine gun fire or machete And Hawley, is he grandstanding?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He often is? Or is he sincere about this? I
don't know how weird is it that the US doesn't
condemn that?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh right, If my main thing politically is standing up
for Christianity around the world, I think those are better
stories to latch onto than putin trying to help Christianity
out by taking over Ukraine or something or something.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
The resolutions that are co sponsored with several other Republicans
urge the President to prioritize the defense of persecuted Christians
in America's foreign policy, including via diplomatic engagement with Muslim
majority countries as well as efforts to stabilize the Middle East.
Urges the President to leverage the diplomatic tool kit to
advance the protection of persecuted Christians worldwide and within Muslim
(03:44):
majority countries. So I certainly applaud that effort, and all
of those headlines bring us to this, and it's a
piece I came Across by Paul Freesen. Paul is with
Cornell University. He is one of the scholars with the
let Me Get This Right the Center for Global Democracy
in the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell. Didn't
(04:07):
really know his work, but I found this to be
extremely persuasive.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
He talks.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
He starts this article talking about the Maldives, which is
a chain of islands by not far from Africa. I think,
I actually, I didn't even look it up on a map.
But they're idyllic, beautiful. It's infinity pools, bioluminescent beaches, you
got your bungalows over the water. It's the stuff straight
(04:33):
out of a sandals ad or you know, like Fiji
has resorts that are.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Just like this.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And he writes, I few imagine that this archipelago of
honeymoon bruchers and influencer backdrops is governed by a constitutionally
mandated Sunni monoculture where apostasy, that is, rejecting Islam is.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Punishable by death.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Wow, and children are catechies, not in the arts of
critical thought, but in the compulsory admiration of Rhea and
all non Muslim religious practice, no matter how discreet, or
devotional is prohibited by law. You cannot silently pray to
Jesus Christ in your living room alone in the Maldives,
or it is punishable. There are no churches, no synagogues,
(05:17):
no temples, no tolerance. This is a theocracy with a
customer service department. And he says here the word Islamic
republic does not mean Muslim majority democracy means what it
says on the label, a legal architecture erected not to
protect freedoms, but to restrict them. Islamic education is mandated
in every grade, every year, et cetera, et cetera. Oh,
(05:37):
any descent, whether whispered by a secular blogger or typed
by an ex Muslim on Twitter, can earn you one
hundred lashes twenty years or a cemetery plot Welcome to Paradise.
And then he says this is not uniquely Maldivian or
even uniquely Islamic. What's on display here is the metastasis
of a broader pathology, the suicide of liberalism through the
(06:00):
travenous drip of unchecked pluralism. Right, there are a lotisms,
They're all explained, but this is the point of what
he's writing. The Maldives is not just an outlier. It
is a bellweather, a warning of what happens when civilizations
that once separated church from state begin importing ideologies that
merge the two. Like Siamese twins sharing a judicial spine.
(06:20):
This is not a clash of cultures. It is a
conquest by bureaucracy, and we are funding it for the
umpteenth time. Read Michael Halibec's submission novel came out a
few years ago, about how it's an imagination of how
Trump Trump I'm reading while I'm talking, how France becomes
an entirely Muslim country and freedom of speech and religion
(06:42):
are stamped out.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And pretty plausible when you read it. Oh that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Would you how would you describe how the takeover goes?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
How it works in that novel?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Uh, little by little with a lot of decent people
not wanting to come off as racist or Islamo and
then just over time losing and as mister Friesan points out,
like through bureaucracy, bit by bit, through the tentacles of government.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Anyway, here's his main point.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And this is the part that I said, I found
so eloquent and I wish we had time to just
do the whole thing, but maybe we'll talk to him someday.
It was Carl Popper, he writes, who warned that a
tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance or it would
cease to be tolerant at all. Obviously, that's where it's
(07:35):
the way we're always mocking the coexist bumper sticker. Coexist, coexists.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
A couple of those symbols on there want to dominate
the other symbols, so you can't coexist with somebody who
wants to take over.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance or it
would cease to be tolerant at all. Can you think
of any other modern movements that punished you even agreeing
with them, or even asking them hard questions at a
training session, for instance, that they made you go to
at work or at your university's orientation. You weren't even
(08:10):
allowed to question it anyway. He goes on, it's a
delicious paradox, too often quoted and too rarely heated, for
we have taken the first half of the dictum the
imperative to tolerate, and chiseled it into law. Into policy,
into university mission statements and and geo pamphlets. But the
second half, the requirement to draw a line to say
(08:32):
no further, has been treated like garlic in a vampire movie,
and teak and anathema unfashionable. The paradox has become pathology.
Here's what he means. Our courts allow Sharia arbitration councils
to function in British cities. He's a brit obviously adjudicating
matters of family and inheritance with standards that would make
a twelfth century canon lawyer flinch. Our schools include faith
(08:56):
based curricula that require jobs for seven year olds and
teach that homosexuality is satanic filth Our public broadcasters will
era documentary about the importance of free speech, followed immediately
by a segment about why cartoons of Muhammad are unhelpful.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
This is not multiculturalism. It is masochism.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It is the belief that liberalism must be so open
minded that its own brains are spilled out to the
prayer mad. It is the fetishization of identity at the
expense of liberty. It is the ideological pacifism of a
society too terrified to assert its own values, lest it
be accused of racism by those who mistake ideology for ethnicity.
(09:37):
We have enshrined the right of the theocrat while criminalizing
the instincts of the secularist. The result is not harmony,
it is humiliation. And then he goes into let's dispense
with the ritual disclaimers. Not all Muslims or Islamists, not
all believers who wish to impose There are believers who
wish to impose their theology on others, of course, but
(09:58):
neither are all white people racists. Yet no progressive chokes
on the phrase white supremacy. When was the last time
you heard a progressive say? Now, of course, not all
white people are racist. A lot of white people are good, honest, decent,
hard working people who try to treat everybody well. Blah
blah blah. But still there is white supremacy. But anytime
(10:19):
you talk about Islamism, you have to throw in the
long list of disclaimers, right Well, the first one, though,
is not seen as true by you.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Know, your local school quite possibly spent a lot of
money getting Ebram X Kendy to come speak at the school,
or list, bought all the books and His whole theme
is you are automatically racist if you're white by definition, right,
So that's one reason you wouldn't say that.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
He goes on, why must we say religiously motivated extremism
instead of naming the doctrine that inspired the bomb.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Why do we hear of Asian grooming gangs.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Instead of Pakistani Muslim sex trafficking rings. Why do we
refer to the Maldives as a challenging democracy rather than
a theocratic prison with coral beaches, Because the liberal West,
having abolished blasphemy laws, is now enforcing them in reverse.
The new heresy is criticism of faith, at least of
one faith. To mock Christianity is edgy. To mock Islam
(11:19):
is hate speech. To question Jewish nationalism is a principled resistance.
To question Islamist imperialism is bigotry. This is not diversity,
It is double think. It is a sacred exception carved
out in the name of peace, which is to say,
in the name of fear. And then he goes on
to make the point more at greater length. Fear is
(11:39):
the root of all of this. And he's absolutely right,
especially about Europe, Britain, France, are humiliating themselves and twisting
themselves into bizarre quasi legal knots to try not to
anger the Muslim folks. And I'm telling you to return
to the main thing. If you take away nothing from this,
(12:02):
take this away. A tolerance society must be intolerant of intolerance,
or it would cease to be intolerant, I'm sorry, or
it would cease to be tolerant at all.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Pretty obviously, but obviously not obvious enough to keep it
from happening the way it's happening.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, those of you who don't have the courage to
say this sort of thing, we suggest you try to
find it if you can.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Those of you who do, we're with you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah, Jack your Shoe podcasts
and our hot links, The arm Strong.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And Getty Show, music radio training from back when I
was younger, or just my personality, but I like to
be aware of crazies, even if it's.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Not something I'm into.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I like to know what the hot TV show is,
hot movie, hot music, whatever. I like to know what's
really popular, even if it's not my thing. I just
I've always thought I need to know that. I like
to think about the ancient Greek republic. Geez, I am
reading Ulysses, so I get both sides of it, I guess,
but uh, because that's not hot. Nobody else is doing that.
(13:21):
The La Boo Boo craze I was reading about in
the New York Post. I know this has come up
on the show, but this is a craze I'm not
tuned into yet. They've got a picture of this furry
little doll that looks frightening, but so fill us in
on the little Boo Boo craze there, Katie.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
So the Laboo Boo cray is actually started back in
twenty fifteen when he was first introduced.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But he's part of this he. It's a he. What's
a he? This la boo boo a he? The article
gender fluid to me.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I'm going to go with gender fluid, but the article
that I'm reading says he, uh, don't use gender language.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Hong Kong based artists created a series called The Monsters,
and one of the characters was a Laboo Boo. It's
influenced by Nordic folklore and mythology, okay, and he enjoyed
during his childhood.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
It's a furry little it's it looks cute while at
the same time kind of menacing with like fangs and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
And there's this this whole craze about them right now
is that it's called blind buying. So you buy this
package and you can't see what one is inside, and
people are trying to collect all of them, so they're
buying a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And it says, like baseball cards or Nintendo cards back
in the day, you just buy a pack, hoping it's
stuff you don't have, or good stuff or whatever it says.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Here l Boo Boo dolls, who have been spotted dangling
from Louis Vatan and Saint Laurent Purs's as fashion's quirky
new status symbol, but their popularity could soon spell doom
for the economy, and expert warns during economic downtterms, consumers
gravitate toward what experts called affordable luxuries, small dopamine spiking
splurges that don't break the bank, like lipstring, lipstick, ice cream,
(15:06):
or movie ticket. Studies have shown it's sometimes called the
lipstick index in economics, which I found very very interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And this part of that, this is more interesting than
I anticipated go on. I was hoping so, and the
creepy but cute mischievous dolls could be its latest iteration.
And it's an example of people are not wanting to
splurge on real.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
How I set myself apart from other items. So they're
going with this cheap, trendy thing that's the lipstick index.
I had never heard of that, but that's interesting. Agreed, Yeah, Okay,
we'll keep our eye on that. What do we got
coming up?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Is there a male equivalent to that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'd have to think about that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Coming up, the incredible lack of purple states in the
US and why that might matter as we jerrymander ourselves
into like two different countries that live side by side, which.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Leads me into this.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I had this interesting experience, and I'm glad I have
a meta person that can be my.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Uh, Conduit's not the right word. What do I want
to guide?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Got an entrance entrance point into a world I don't
really know because I got as.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
In conversation conversation with a woman, a.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Mom, herner, husband, successful business people, raised kids, sound like
the kids are all the successful blah blah blah, like perfectly.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Upstanding, middle upper class people that.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Have no interest in any of this crap we ever
talk about, like none, don't know anything about any of it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And I just thought, wow, that must be awesome. That
must be really awesome.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well, at the same time, you know, you got to
participate and pay attention to make the world worker. It
will you know, rules will be get made, blah blah
blah that stuff, you know. But it was just so interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I don't hang around.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
People like that, and it's just somebody. It's just like
they just don't know about any of the any of
the scant you know, the Gems commercial from last week,
or just any of those things. They're completely unaware of them.
And I thought that must be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Do they have any concern about how their text money
is spent? Because it sounds like there's probably a fair amount.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I don't know them well enough to know that, but
that's why I said, I look forward to this entrance
into this world of learning more about it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Do they have la boo boos? I bet they don't
know what that is. Lad being good for them.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The Armstrong and Getty Show. Yeah, more Jack Orgio podcasts
and our hot links. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I went to Florida South Beach for a couple of days,
then went down to Key West, rent in a house.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
We were down there for a couple of days. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I talked to a number of people who worked at
restaurants and whatnot while I was in Florida, and they
were talking about how awesome it was during COVID in
Florida to be in their industry because people were coming
from all over the country because they didn't shut down.
They shut down for a couple of weeks total. Then
we're up and running like it was normal. Wrong death sentence.
(18:19):
I remember that right. Well, the rest of the country
was acting like, you can't do that, everyone will die.
They were talking about how awesome it was down there,
and I doubt that these servers were like conservatives. I mean,
they could have been, but they looked like liberals. I
mean they're island hippies with you know, things through their nose,
uh and you know, the usual. But it's really interesting
(18:41):
that that happened. Part of the country said, yeah, we're
gonna pretend it's not happening.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
And everything was fine. It's just it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Sometimes counties that are practically side by side took wildly
different approaches, and when one worked.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Way better than the other, the people who went with
the bad approach said nothing.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, drove or flew back up to New York because
it was too hot. He just got too hot with
too much beach sun. Sam and I flipped our jet
ski rented a jet skis a double jet ski, and
I was somehow we flipped it. He was driving, and
that ended up costing me a lot of money, because
if you flip it and to ruin the motor, then
(19:23):
you got to pay for it part of the deal
you sign, and so that cost me a lot. But
so we flipped it, and I was panicked about trying
to get it turned back up forgetting the warning they
had made about all the barnacles in the bottom and
stay away from it. And sliced my knee open so
bad and was bleeding all over the place. And I'm
glad shark didn't come eat us because that would have sucked.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Anyhow, Oh agreed, Yeah, that'd be a terrible thing to happen.
We just getting eaten by a shark? Yes, so we Uh?
This does it look by the way. How's your knee?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Look? Is it healing? Okay?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yeah, it's the same knee I heard on my motorcycle wreck.
So I have no feeling in it because image it
so much of this, so I couldn't even tell.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
But I come of myself. I was bleeding all over.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I was gonna say, because refrash is a thing, and
I don't know if barnacles are similar, but if you like,
scrape yourself on a b there's so much my krobia
life in there. My brother, a healthy throng naval officer.
He got refreshed and it was horrible.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
To get rid of.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Yeah, they told us about that some trip we took
out to see a reef in Key West. I don't
remember they're telling us about that AnyWho. So we fly
up to New York because it was too hot and
decided to do something else, and we go and we
spend several days in New York and we're at this
park where all the people are playing chess, just like
I'd seen in movies. Do they do that in cities
all across the country or is that local in New York?
Did they do that in Chicago?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You're Chicago guy? Oh? Gosh, it's when I picture it,
I picture it in New York.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, I think it's a New York thing, and I
need to do some research because I don't really know
what it is or how it works, like do they
make how do they make money or do they money
or what's exactly going on there. I've just seen in
movies where all the people are playing chess in these parks. Well,
my son is obsessed by chess, as I've talked about
(21:08):
several times, although he's still a beginner and or the
whole time on the trip, he said, I want to
play chess in the park with.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
One of one of those guys. I want to play chiss.
So he really wanted to do that.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
So we're walking through Washington Square Park after we watched
the weird hippie chick dor Art that I talked about
earlier get the podcast if you didn't hear that, and
he said, there's a guy he's not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I want to go play chess, and I said, okay,
so we go over there.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I very quickly figure out that this guy, he's probably
sixty old, black guy. He sounds exactly like Tracy Morgan
from Saturday Night Live. So when I'm doing my impersonation.
If it sounds like that, that's why, because that's what
the guy's I like. He's hammered drunk, just hammered drunk,
sitting there at the Chest table, and he said, what's
(21:53):
your what's your name, Henry?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
What's your writing head? Ray?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
And Henry told him I don't know whatever his number
is on his rating because he get a CHEST rating
when you're on chest dot com. Oh yo Againner, Okay, Henry,
Well then I won't play you. I will give you
a lesson. Five dad, five dollars for a lesson.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, fine, And.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He is down there and it was just one of
the most amazing, interesting things I've ever witnessed. Henry walked
away from it saying, this is the coolest thing I've
ever done in my life.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But it was so strange. The guy was so drunk.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
For one thing, he had the really drunk guy eyes,
you know, where they're like really glassy yes and watery.
And he kept sho shoveling these He had a paper
bag with him, He'd brought sandwiches from home. This gets
to the I don't know what these people are doing
if they make money doing this or is this your job.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I mean, I guess you play them for money. I
don't even know.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
A good friend of the show is a friend of
mine just texted the New York chess hustlers usually play
for a few bucks.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
They're usually very good. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was unbelievable.
As drunk as this guy was, he started, I'm gonna
give you a lesson, Henry. You'll remember this arrest of
your life.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
First of all, number one, get one thousand and one
chess moves.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Get the book. And he names the.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Guy Dad, buy him that book. Okay, and uh. They
set up the chess pieces and they start to play.
Let me see how good you are, Henry. So they
play for a little bit, and Henry would go to
make a movie.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He put it back, Henry, Henry put it back. No, Henry,
think about it, Henry. And so so then we do that.
It's okay, So let me give you a lesson. And
so then he gives him a lesson.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
And he's sitting by and he's shoveling this sandwich that
he made into his mouth, and parts of it are
getting in his mouth, but most of it's not, and
the rest of it's just like falling on his shirt
and onto the chessboard, and he'd have to wipe the
chunks and sandwich away as he's moving the chessboarder. At
one point, he kicks over his half a bottle of
Miller Lite and it tips over and rolls between my legs.
(23:53):
I mean, he's just he's a drunk like he seems
like a homeless guy. Yeah, I don't even know it's
going on there, Henry. I'm gonna give you a lesson.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
The best guy in the park, that guy over there
with the sunglasses on, he's the best player in the park.
Right now, nobody will play game again, Which gets to
my If nobody will play you because you're so good,
how do you make any money?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I'm not sure how this works.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Hey, you gotta wait for somebody strong. My chess playing
friend also pointed out that it's a thing among chess enthusiasts.
There are there are videos of grand masters going under
cover and playing these guys and appreciating how good someone.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Oh yeah, this dude was amazing when Henry was actually
playing him, how fast he would move and how he
saw the whole board was. To be as drunk as
he was awesome, was really quite amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Was he really drunk or do you think this was
part of the hustle.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
No, he was drunk. I know, I know a drunk guy,
and he was very drunk. And there were many people
playing chess. It was mostly dudes sitting at empty chess
tables waiting for somebody to come play him for whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Anyway, So his lesson was, Henry, let me ask you
a question.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You're a home by yourself, and outside the door there
was a gorilla and two dogs. Okay, a gorilla and
two dogs. Wow, they knock down the door and they
come in the house. What do you do, Henry, I
don't know. I called my dad. You don't have a phone, Henry.
What do you do when the gorilla and the two
dogs coming home?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And it was just like this the whole time. It
was so wild. Hand the dogs and punched the gorilla.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
No, I guess I worry about the dogs because I
can't fight a girrilla.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
No, Henry, Henry, that is wrong. What is the biggest threat, Henry,
the gorilla. That's right, The gorilla is the biggest threat.
So do you see where my queen is right now?
That is your biggest threat. Get rid of the gorilla, Henry.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
And so Henry moved and got rid of the queen.
Now you don't have to worry about the gorilla. Do
you see where my two dogs are?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Henry?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
And it was just like that through the whole thing.
This went on for like forty five minutes. It was
incredibly entertaining and really interesting imagery to try to figure
out some chess strategy.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
For a few bucks.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
For five bucks place, that's the best money you've ever
spent in your life, the entertainment alone, let alone the
chess lesson. It was really so it was like out
of a freaking movie. And I thought, what are you?
I mean, his clothes, he looked like a homeless person.
I mean, his shoes had holes in him. He smelled bad,
he's spinning his sandwich all over, he's hammered, drunk, but
(26:32):
brilliant at chess. I just so, I don't know what's
going on there.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, I think we've all known people like that, whether
they're musicians or writers or what have you, that they
have an incredible level of capability at one thing, but
not so much on life skills or hanging on to
a job for instance, or don't want to right for
whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
God dang it, that was interesting.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Like I said, Henry walked away from saying that was
the greatest thing I've ever.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Done in my life. He really really liked it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Both the chess lesson and just the entertaining flare of
the whole thing was so well again, like straight out
of a flipp And movie.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well, the downside was you didn't get a chance to
talk about the big beautiful bill on the air since
you were on your vacation.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
On our vacation didn't come up in conversation with anyone.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I'll tell you that a round up of different people,
many of them conservatives, and their takes on that message.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Gorilla is in your home, you're gonna worry about the
dogs first. Think about it, Henry, to try to imagine
that anyway. So you keep spitting sandwich all over, I
don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
The dogs are happy with the sandwich leavings.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
The armstrong and getting show.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well. I sound this very interesting. I was considering trying
to cram these two things together. The incredible radicalization of
young women around the world as their male companions. They
don't have companions, but as the males of their generation
are swinging to the right. Not not a lot, but some.
(28:18):
And how weird and interesting that is. But we'll do
that another time, I want. I'm just gonna go with this.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was a piece.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Written by Mark Penn and Andrew Stein, and they're both Democrats. Penn,
you may reize recognized his name. He was a polster
and advisor to the Clintons in the nineties and two thousands.
And this other guy was a New York City council
president for a number of years in the eighties and nineties.
(28:45):
But the title is gen Z the Useful Idiot Generation.
Young people usually become less radical with time. Are we
seeing an exception? And they go into describing, you know,
hippie Vietnam War pro testers who got jobs, got married,
and had children. Exactly wash your damn dirty hippie feet.
(29:08):
Now their grandchildren see them tethered to Fox News. Today's
young Americans are following the first part of that pattern.
Ask a group of them to choose between capitalism and socialism.
They'll split right down the middle. And he goes into
the nominating horrifying zorn Mundami, Yeah, who says he wants
to capture the means of production.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I've heard that phrase.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, you know what, Oh, I ought to get into
the PolitiFact thing someday. PolitiFact rated is false, the idea
that Mundami's a communist. And then when it came out
that he said we need to seize the means of production,
which is straight out of the communist manifesto, they said
incomplete data anyway. Uh, but will the young people outgrow
(29:53):
their radicalism? And this is the part they really intrigued me.
There's reason to doubt it. Record members of gen Z
are pursuing higher education, with fifty three percent of those
eighteen to twenty four having completed at least some college.
That's a troubling sign given how left wing ideology has
come to dominate higher education. And again, these are two
(30:15):
mainstream democrats writing colleges where many young people learn that
socialism means free stuff. They're indoctrinated to blame capitalism for racism, inequality,
and climate change. Unlike the older generations, they grew up
after the end of the Cold War and have no
memory of the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union, Maoist
China and other socialist regimes.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I have no memories. Is an interesting way to put it,
I didn't live through most of that stuff my memories
or because somebody taught them to me.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, that's an excellent point, and he said, they say,
maybe they'll see socialism in action in New York. But
here's the really intriguing part. Meanwhile, the process of growing
up is slowing down. They're talking about what I mean.
It's not automatic that a young, idealistic, way left person
becomes a conservative. It happens through processes, experience, mugged virality exactly,
(31:11):
the process of growing that's actually a great phrase. The
process of growing up is slowing down. The median age
of first marriage is thirty, almost five years later than
it was in nineteen eighty five, and that means that
young people settle down and take on responsibilities later, if
they ever do. Nearly half of Gen Z adults aren't
(31:33):
are not in a committed romantic relationship. They largely live communally,
often work from home, and are connected primarily through the
four plus hours they spend each day on their phones.
Their primary sources of information are TikTok and Facebook, whose
algorithms lead them to material that reinforces their preconceptions rather
than challenges them.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Four hours a day on their phones. What would they
have been doing before, Because I mean, that's the whole
opportunity cost thing. There are only so many hours.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
In the day.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
There'd have been more television watching back in the day,
but all four hours wouldn't have been taken up with that.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
No, but lots and lots and lots of relating to
real human beings who don't feed you agreement based on
their algorithms. In my experience, my friends, my girlfriends, my wife,
my family, they all feel free to disagree with me
semi regularly in a way that Facebook and TikTok never will.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
They will. With all due respect to.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Your sister in law who constantly posts garbage that you hate.
Those algorithms again lead them to material that reinforces their preconceptions.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
I think much other than that, your real life. Maybe
that's not true anymore. I was about to say, your
real life you don't talk about politics nearly at all,
as opposed to being bombarded with it on your whatever
device you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, but I think in general, because I actually do
agree with that, But in general, real life quote unquote
is much more messy and much less catering to you.
In a hundred different ways than virtual life is, which
tends to lead people towards less twei to idealistic, progressive.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
And I'm going to tell people I know from now on,
I want you to I'm going to use an algorithm,
and I want you to feed me things I only
want to hear. Only say things I want to hear
or I'm interested in.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
It would make a squinty face and say no, I'm
not doing that. And there's more.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Another traditional source of ballast, religion has become lighter as well.
More than one third of gen Z reports zero religious affiliation.
Roughly sixty percent did not participate in religious services growing up.
That produces a lack of moral grounding. We've had a
really interesting couple of conversations about that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Let's not get off on.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
That, but yeah, I don't know if you could make
a blanket statement of lack of moral grounding because you didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Participate in organized religion, right.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
But their greater argument is the things, the inputs, the
influences in life that tended to make you more realistic
and therefore more conservative, are missing, including religion. Put this
all together, and it's little wonder that about half of
eighteen to.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Twenty year olds.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Twenty four year olds tell pollsters that they support Hamas
over Israel. Hammas specifically, not the Palestinian people efing Hamas.
By and large, these young adults aren't hardcore idelogus. They're
merely ignorant. About half of young Hamas supporters say they
don't want to wipe out Israel.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
They prefer to state solution.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Call them the useful idiot generation, mouthing slogans and causes
they don't understand and from which they would recoil if
they did again.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
This was written by Democrats.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, and that's you know, the Queers for Palestine thing
is the perfect example of that. It's the useful idiot generation,
mouthing slogans and causes they don't understand and from which
they would recoil if they did.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Well. A guy like Mark Penn, who worked for the Clintons.
He realizes Democrats are never gonna win another major election,
and let they unless they get this under control. So
he's trying to figure out why do were young people?
Why are they so crazy? That's what he's trying to
figure out.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Final couple of sentences, The older generations are not blameless here,
we created the environment that produced this unmoored generation. Socialism
and anti Semitism will continue to fester and grow if
we don't stand up and reform our universities, reinforce our
basic values, and balance our social media.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I agree completely. I am.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I am sticking with the idea that reforming our education
systems or tearing them down and building substitutes, is the
most important issue for America for the next fifty years.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Show back to the law, the unstay's shop,
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