December 23, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in Hour One of the Tuesday December 23, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Drunken Monkeys & Legal Marijuana
- Jack's Lyft driver - a grateful legal immigrant
- The Woke Mind Virus: The Sierra Club
- Spotify wrapped & subsidized health care fraud
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack arms Strong, Jetty arms Strong,
and jettat Gee I'm Strong and Strong. Not live from
studio scene. We're still not back at work. You can't
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make us come back until the year twenty twenty six,
So enjoy the Armstrong and Getty replay.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So we're kind of all over the place on this
conversation about you know, we're droning people in boats because
they're sending drugs to the United States and considering them
committing acts of war. Well, at the same time, I
got one hundred thousand people that drink themselves to death
every single year, and that's legal, and we legalize pot
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and a whole bunch of different states, and now at
least a couple of states are looking at making it
illegal again for a variety of reasons, which is pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I wonder if that's going to become a trend. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
One of the the leaders in this trend, he talks
about how, in the style of the cigarette companies, especially
and to some extent, the alcoholic companies, it's a business
that promotes addiction. Their entire business model is they need
more addiction. I mean, there's unquestionably an addiction, whether psychological
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or physical, to marijuana.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
To just be on displayed. A lot of people deny
that they're wrong, and.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
There you have a five times greater chance of psychosis
developing serious psychotic conditions if you're a heavy marijuana smoker.
And it's funny whenever we talk about this, we get
the one stoner who says, why don't you guys do
some research. That's totally not true. I've been smoking dope
for twenty years and it hasn't affected me. Yeah, okay,
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apparently you've smoked too much dope to understand what five
times more likely means, So.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Thanks for the note.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Anyway, I've also known a few stoners who had really
sad lives who talked about how it hadn't hurt that many.
I've known a few in my life. You don't do anything.
You sit on the couch as an overweight person with
no friends or romantic interests, watching television, and you talk
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about it has had no effect on your life.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, it's possible, but hmm, sad.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So apparently, when the University of California at Berkeley isn't
busy in doctrinating your kids to despise their country and
become Marxists. They actually still do some science, and in
this case drunken monkey science. Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts
of alcohol from ripe fermenting fruit, and careful measurement shows
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that their typical fruit diet can equal one.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
To two human drinks each day.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Now, aside from being just interesting and somewhat amusing on
his face, it supports the idea that alcohol exposure is
not a modern human invention but an ancient primate habit.
The work strength the drunken monkey hypothesis and opens new
questions about how animals use ethanol cues in their environment.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
So the equivalent of a human drink because they're smaller
than us, aren't they one to two?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah? What's a chimpanzee? Way, that's forty pounds. I don't know. Oh,
actually the bigger than that. Yeah, I think they are.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
A standard drink in the US contains fourteen grams of
ethanol irrespect of the consumer's body size, although in much
of Europe's standard is tand grams.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Learn to drink Euros. Do you have any adult drinks
around here? Trying to enjoy myself.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, yeah, Well, what they don't know is whether chimpanzees
deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels to take the
edge off. Those tend to be riper and richer in
sugar that can for men, so they might just taste better. However,
many of the fruit species they regularly contain measurable ethanol,
indicating that alcohol is routine part of their menu and
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probably present in the diets of our human ancestors as well.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We got a number of texts on the whole We're
not bombing distilleries, but we are bombing drug traffickers. You know,
ventanyl marijuana versus booze thing, a couple of them being
that ventanyl pretty decent change you keep messing around. Fentanyl's
going to kill you, very unlikely, that booze is gonna
kill most people.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Right, Nobody's ever cracked open a Miller light and died
because Miller put you know, seven thousand times the alcohol
in that can.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
There's also the we tried banning booze once and it
didn't go well. The fact that you just can't is
part of it. Irma gird I totally forgot.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Today is the.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Anniversary of the twenty first Amendment that repealed the Was
it the twenty first or twenty second? I can never remember.
I'd probably drink too much that repealed prohibition.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Today the anniversarve it's the twenty second, because I've known
a few bars called the twenty second Amendment.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And liquor store is right, Yeah, that's why you know,
I clicked in my head. But but anyway, yeah, it
was passed just in time for the holidays. Oh really,
to the delight of many. And today is the anniversary,
so cheers to that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The worst part of that whole thing, of course, being
it's kind of like the way COVID was, the important
and powerful did whatever the hell they wanted. The rules
only applied to you, and that's the way it was
with booze. And that's really really maddening. You know that
politicians are the rich or whoever they were drinking as
much as they ever drank. It's just that you regular
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working class people can handle it. I can, right, right.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And one other aspect of this that's always bothered me,
and it's funny, we haven't talked about this for a
long time, is that if you have a society that
becomes legal overly legalistic, where the only question is is
it illegal or not? Illegal, lawful or not, as opposed
to is it a good idea or not? Is it
moral or not? Does it make me a better person
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or not? I would much rather have things. I would
much rather persuade people than persuade the government to use
its guns to get people to live better live.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, that's one of the things I really hated about
when marijuana really caught on as illegalizing. It was just
the non stop, here we go, one hundred percent, this
is fantastic without any you know, smoking pot on a
regular basis might not be the best thing for your life.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Let's keep that in mind. It's practically guaranteed not to be.
And that says a guy who used to smoke a
substantial amount of pot. Looking back, it didn't do me
any good. I enjoyed it at the time. It made
movies kind of more entertaining, etc. The grass was greener,
blah blah blah. Music sounded really great. But I love
music anyway. I still love music. It's just, yeah, you're
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right to act as if it's an unambiguous good and
harmless is just dishonest.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
For some reason, I keep thinking of Todd Snyder, one
of my favorite musicians of all time. There's a punchline
to this here. Uh had some song where he talked
about people like drugs. They're gonna do drugs, and it's
not which drugs, it's which drugs the companies allow you
to do or blah blah blah. He had this very
cynical attitude about people trying to regulate drugs and everything.
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Like he's dead now at age fifty nine, as of
a couple of weeks ago, as a guy who just
couldn't ever wrap his head around drinking and doing drugs,
always thought it was hilarious that anybody would try to
make him quit, And now he's dead as a fifty
nine year old.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Because yeah, yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Well that was much more
serious than my drunken chimp characterizations of a few minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
The one thing we talked, do the monkeys drink to excess?
Do they ever get drunk? That's an interesting thing because
they have what ninety ninety percent of our biology. Do
they ever drink too much and wake up and think,
whoa wow, Well, I gotta gotta take a I gotta
do a dry January or something.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Thanks for out a half.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, right, Actually, it's very very rare according to the scientists,
because they feed on fruit throughout the day and it's
the fermented fruit that gets them a buzz on. But
to actually feel intoxicated and chimp would need to eat
so much fruit that it would be painful.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Well that see, that's interesting. That gets back to that's
kind of like with the weed thing. You know, your
old time hippies will say now that this weed that
you're buying at the store is nothing like what I
was smoking at Woodstock, where you could smoke it all
day long and you know, stay on your feet and
keep your mind.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And it's the same with a lot of booze.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Our founding fathers drank all day, every day beer that
just barely had alcohol in it, similar to monkeys to
get drunk enough to cause yourself any problems, you did
even thrown up to drink that much of the beer
that they had at the time.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
We should just have less potent booze. Certainly, there's an
argument there. Yeah, you less potent.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Pot just kind of ketch a light buzz going, that's
what you want, well, right, exactly, Yeah, stay on top
of the waves.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So what would stress chimps out that they need a
couple of drinks at the end of the day. Probably
the whole mating thing, or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The whole mating thing.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It's a pretty big for all beasts, yes, qualting thing,
but that's not stressful.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
That's more like, hey, baby, why do you Why don't
we have a couple of fermented mangoes and and you
sit on my lap.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And you wake up with an orangutang?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What did chimps do all day? They just gather food, right,
They peeled bananas upside down and mate and attend to
their little cute little chimp kids. Monkeys peel their bananas
from the bottom unlike humans, and I've tried to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It's not easy.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I don't know if you have to have the monkey
fingernails or grip strength right, like, not the stem end, now,
the other end. Yeah, that's the way they feel banana,
isn't that. I would think they've got a better handle
on it right now.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I was joking earlier that perhaps the chimps had, you know,
a henpecking wives and they had a couple of.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Drinks to take the edge off. But long was irresponsible,
long day in the jungle.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
God, I told you I will strip the leaves off
this stick and turn it into a tool this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Can I watch the game?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's my new chimp sitcom Chee Cheese Place, right and
which she has a couple of drinks every day like
a human.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
This show is brought to you by the Official Animal
of Long Island.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Ticks, ticks, get it off me, Get it off me.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I don't forget high school graduation air horns for ten.
This is some big accomplishment with high school graduation air horns.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And finally time and all time and all no it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Does if Colin Jost doing a broadcast from Best Page
Black during the Ryder Cup, that didn't sound like him.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Official Animal of Long Island.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
The tick.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Get it off me? Had to take a tick off
my wife the other day. Really, Yeah, you want to
live in the woods, you're gonna get ticks now and again.
Where if you have a big furry dog, where on
her was the tick?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Or is that private?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's a little personal that they generally go where like
an article of clothing stops, so like a shoulders, not
to what do you call it your color?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But since I've teased this like five times. I should
probably mention it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So I needed to get a ride from a lift
the other day because I had a truck that was
getting repaired.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So I need to get ride from my house there.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And I get picked up by this guy and uh,
we're talking a little bit, and he's got a very
thick accent. And I asked him where he's from, older dude,
and he said that he was from Libya, and he
started talking about his I asked him about his car.
That's how originally he started. I said, what, here's your
camera and he said, oh, it's a twenty four and
blah blah, blah blah. I said, my brother drives in
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ninety nine and he said, good for him. He said,
because I had I had a two thousand and three
that I put two hundred and seventy five thousand miles
on it, and there's no reason to get rid of
one unless you have to. And then he started talking
about this is a sidebar. I didn't know this, but
with Lyft and Uber, they prioritize rides based on how
new year car is, which is an incentive for if
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you're a Lyft driver, your car is getting older to
replace it with a newer one, because you get way
more rides set your way if you have a newer vehicle.
He said, it wasn't anything wrong with his older Camra,
but he gets way more rides with a twenty four
than he did with a with a two.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Thousand and two or whatever. It was interesting. I did
not know that.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
You know, it's funny having taken a lot of rides
in London that visually every car I was in was
brand spanking knew that explains it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Huh, But he said, uh. He said, I didn't buy this.
My daughter bought it for me.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
She's a I forget something in the medical field. He
had three daughters that he had brought to this country
that all went to UH universities and got degrees and
are doing really really well. And he is just he
was just so optimistic about the United States. And I
started to ask him about why. I asked him where
he's from. Then he said, and I said, so were
you there during Momar Kadaffi And he said, oh yeah,
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my entire life was Momar Kadaffi ruined the country. And
he said it's worse now. The new guy is worse
than Momar Kadafi was, which was interesting to me. I
I wasn't not aware of that story. But you know
that's the guy, the Muslim brotherhood, guy that took over
you know that whole thing that's serious. Oh you're right,
So who took over in who took over in Libya?
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It doesn't matter lawless.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
To every question about Libya as whole count Nice job,
Hillary Obama, way to take out the leader with no
plan of succession.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But the the main threat of this whole thing is
what is the deal with so many immigrants that come
from really awful countries, so happy to be here, get
their kids here, do well, versus the crowd that marches
in the street with the flag from the former country
and is angry about the way we're treating.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Them and lecture us about how you can't get ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And is there any way, because I gotta believe there
are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of people
around this world that are like this guy, who would
love to get here and would be happier and craft
to raise their family here. Is there any way we
can make sure those people get in here and the
people that want to get here and complain about it,
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stay the f out.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You know, we get used to stuff that is so
abhorrent that you'd think you couldn't possibly get used to it.
Picture me as an immigrant to pick a country. I
don't know Germany As a young person, I thought I
might live there, so I usually use it as an example.
And I was somewhat annoyed with German immigration policy, and
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I organized a bunch of American expats to protest that policy,
and we marched through the streets waving American flags, and
thought that would do us anything good, and maybe throwing
rocks at cops and setting things on fire exactly. That
would be effing crazy and stupid and unproductive. And the
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people at Germany should probably, oh, I almost said something unfortunate,
They should probably move swiftly to export my ass back
to where I came from.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And how could any.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Country not react that way, because we've gotten used to that,
it's absurd.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Well, my point is, since there's I think there are
plenty of the other kind of immigrant that would love
to be here and would work really hard and do well,
let's just prioritize them. You don't want to care to
swap them out. V I endorse your plan. I'll pay
for your damn ticket. Get out, don't ever come back.
I don't care what you don't like about the country.
It doesn't get any better than this. If you can't
make it here, you can't make it anywhere. Get the
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f out and bring in the hundreds of millions of
people that would love to come here and raise their
kids and be really successful Like this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Run America like a hot nightclub. Two people leave, two
more come in you too, Come on in, Come on in.
You're hard workers. You love this country. Glad to have
your welcome friends. This guy had not the tiniest.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Thing negative to say about his situation in the United
States of America.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
He's thrilled to be here and raise his kids here.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Talking about the opportunities that they would have never had
back in his home country of Syria, Liberty or Lebanon,
whichever one it was.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And maybe Latvia. Nobody's sure.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He's certainly not going to be waving his country's flag
and attacking cops and complaining about it.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
God, why wouldn't we put up with that? Why didn't
we put up with that?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
You don't like it, go the freak back, right, God,
that makes me mad. We're off track. We're so off track,
and then we're trying to get closer to on track.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But it's going to take a minute.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The fact that the media so often sympathizes with the
people from other countries complaining about being here, be believe
there are plenty of people that want to be here,
that would love it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show
five seven time.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You'd be listening to protesters having an eighties aerobics class
outside of the Portland Ice facility, said Jack.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
As a protest, they all held an eighties stal aerobics class.
Now they've gone too far. Actually, that's a very Portland protest.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I like that, Katie.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I have to let you know.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
At the end of that, it just pans to a
man in a giant, furry blue fox costume.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Wait, oh boy, did we have uh did we have
women in leg warmers?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah? And the leotards, the hall, the whole thing. Let's
get physical, physical. Let me hear your body talk physical.
That is such a Portland protest. I love that.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Portland be Portland. You're not La don't shoot people, You're
not Manhattan. Don't smash windows. Do this, it's funny, it
gets attention, it's quirky, and your protest is duly noted.
And you didn't spray any bear spray in some poor
cops eyes. Well, who's just doing a freaking job anyway,
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Speaking of the woke mind virus.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I find this so incredibly amusing and satisfying. I can
barely stand it.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
The Sierra Club, the time honored environmental group, is collapsing.
That part doesn't make me happy, because I think they
probably in some form have a role to play. But
they just to broaden their mission beyond environmentalism to include
a variety of social justice causes, and the organization has imploded.
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The storied environmental nonprofit became one of many omnik cause shells.
They now call for defending the police and black reparations.
For some reason, they've denounced their founder, John Muir. Naturally,
the argument is always the same. Defunding the police is environmentalism,
and reparations is connecting to making sure swallows don't go extinct.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But it's not.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
So they've had to go after John Muir, the founder,
because he wasn't woke yet in the eighteen hundreds or whenever,
he went okay.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Quoting for a moment the brilliant Nelly bowls from the
Free Press. According to a longtime Sierra Club activist, they
had only two full time employees fighting against Trump's incursions
into the Arctic refuge. Maybe you're in favor of that,
maybe you're against it, but they had two people working
on that. But then seriously, one hundred and eight full
time employees working on diversity, equity and inclusion. Wow, one
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hundred and eight and low, and the old donations collapsed
and they're gone. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Also, if I'm an environmentalist and I've been given money
to the Sierra Club my whole life, I would be
so mad to find out that they've taken on the Palestinian.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Cause or whatever, even if I agreed with them.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
As opposed to I'm trying to donate money to you to,
you know, stop the spotted owl from being run over
by cars or whatever they do.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
But in the way that the woke mind virus ties
you up in knots. They put out a list of
terms to avoid, which we'll get to in a minute,
but it also tells them not to celebrate clean energy
jobs unreservedly because fossil fuel jobs are more likely to
be unionized.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh seriously, this is at the Sierra Club.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
The Sierra Club's Equity Language Guide says not to use
the words vibrants are hardworking because they have racial overtone.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Hardworking has racial overtones. Well, that makes sense, s white supremacy.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
The whole Queers for Palestine being pro trans should be
lumped in with free bosses, free pre k abortion rights.
Electric cars should be paired with you know, children should
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be able to get trained surgeries.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That doesn't make sense to anybody except for like two
percent of it. Do you realize that? All right? But
they're very, very loud.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So the Saquira Club has lost sixty percent of its
four million members and supporters from twenty nineteen sixty percent.
It's held three rounds of employee layoffs. It's got a
forty million dollar projected budget deficis deficit, all because of
the Woke Mind virus. Unbelievable in a downward spiral, a
group of managers wrote in a letter reviewed by The
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New York Times to the club's leadership in June, during
Trump's first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations,
its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other
progressive causes.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Those included, of course.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights, and more.
They stand by that shift today. Here's the group's new
executive director. Who, Lauren, you're going to preside over it
crashing into the ground.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
As long as climate change and environmental protection are viewed
as just being concerns for a limited group of elites,
we lose. We only win by building a powerful, diverse movement.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Now it's common to say, if what if you had
dug up Thomas Jefferson and told him what was going
on today, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But this might be the all timer.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
If you dug up John Muir brought him back to
life and could explain to him that his organization that
was all about saving the trees or having the water
be clean or whatever, was.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Now being used for surgeries for trans children. You wouldn't
be able to explain it. Oh, I know.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And this, Lauren Blackford's sweetheart, if you're listening, you're as
dumb as one of the spotted owls you're trying to puy.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well, you used to try to protect. Maybe you're smarter.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Well, she threw in that that these concerns are for
a limited group of elites. Climate change, environmental protection in general,
we only win win by building a powerful, diverse movement.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Lauren, you simpleton, You've destroyed your.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Organization by dedicating it toward the OMNIK cause you're not environmentalist.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You're a Marxist. You're a Marxist. Everybody else at this
year club. How can you not say? Well, they probably do,
but they've been fired.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
She's arguing that's the only way for the organization to
succeed when it is clearly, undeniably the way it is
failing and dying.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Although she might say, yeah, I am a Marxist, Yeah
you got it. Congratulations, you caught on, and you can
say that all day long.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Nobody will believe you because you're a right winger and
nobody believes when you call people Marxists.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
So yeah, they started, you know a few years ago,
and just kept going and going and going. You know,
I could turn, I could talk to you about how
they denounced John Muir, but you've nailed it more or less.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Just hilarious.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Okay, So here are some of their common phrases to avoid.
And this is not folks, you're not listening to some
sort of rerun from early twenty twenty one, when the
woke mind virus was really infecting our institutions, or at
least in a way we couldn't ignore it anymore. It's
been infecting the schools for a long time. Don't say
pull the trigger, instead say go for it. Don't say
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locked and loaded instead try ready to go. These are
all like gun related. Don't say bulletproof instead try untouchable
or guaranteed to succeed. Don't say battle or battleground instead
try struggle or debate.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Why are you using this lispy voice. I don't understand
what's going on there. I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Don't say climate troops instead United Movement for Climate Justice.
How about this one? You'll love this one, Jack. Don't
say a day that will live an infamy. Wait a minute,
we're on Pearl Harbor now. Instead try a day that
history will remember. Course, history has its eyes on you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
All the other ones I kind of understood, at least
from their weird point of view, but I don't understand
that one at all.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Is infamy a bad word?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And instead of saying boots on the ground instead try
people on our side, what's the comes woke mind virus,
because it's probably it's militarism, which is, you know, perhaps
part of the permanent omni caause.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So my son and Iron San Francisco on Saturday did
a lot of shopping. He really likes high end fashion
in it, which is his thing, and so we want
a bunch of fancy stores and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He likes to look at him Anyhow, We're.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Sitting at a coffee shop there downtown San Francisco, well
not downtown, kind of like one of your super cool
hipster neighborhoods, and coming down the street, we saw a
lot of girls holding hands, right, no big deal, San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
You expect that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And I actually got in the conversation about how well
dressed gay dudes are, and I said, part of that
is you don't have kids. You got you get to
spend all your money on yourself, so you can be really,
really well dressed, and you're not busy taking care of kids.
When you're busy rate whereising kids, you wear sweats a
lot and the same clothes you wore five years ago
because you don't have time to like shop, care about
that sort of thing. But so a lot of really fit,
(26:44):
well dressed gay dudes and a young women holding hands.
But then we saw this couple, this female couple, walking
down the street and they were dressed the same, holding hands,
which I thought, well, that's.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Kind of cute.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They're both wearing short skirts and high top doc Martin's,
I said the other day, would Doc Marton? Could Doc
Marton stay in business if lesbian's decided that was not
the shoe for them.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I'm not sure they could. But so, Katie, maybe you
could understand this.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
So it's two women, short skirts, high top, dog margins
like black hose, some sort of jean jacket, kind of
a cool look, holding hands.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
But when they got closer it was clear that one
of them was a dude.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
So uh so, oh, hello gender bending madness. Well, so,
what I don't get is for the other person, you're
a lesbian who wants to date a woman who has
a penis?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Is that what's going on there? Do you think that
I have the answer to that question?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Why in the world would Katie have any opp girl
Salt of the air? Well, I am not in a
normal of that absolute paragon of American womanhood.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Yeah, I'm not into the whole dudes dressing as girls
wearing same thing this show.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's just we reject sexual norms. So I'm dressed like
a lesbian for some reason, but I'm dating a dude,
but we both agreed he will also dress like a lesbian.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh that's so funny. You people are trying so hard. Oh,
a very confusing.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I was talking to a buddy of mine who just
recently pulled his daughter out of a public school in
a very liberal town because last year she and all
her friends decided they were gay.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
And it was like nine girls in his social contagion city,
and he had to sit her.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Down and talk to her and say, just mathematically, it's
not possible that all nine of you are lesbians. It
just would be too statistically unlikely, right with given the
fact that three percent of the population is gay, that
all nine of you are lesbians.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So somebody's not a lesbian here. Yeah, let's be serious.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Nights they decided they were lesbians, not transgender, because thank
God and gay and lesbian people. I stand with you
one hundred percent on this. They don't like try to
feed you irreversible chemical treatments and surgeries.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
If you happen to be gay.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
That's what's so insidious about the transgender adolescent thing. These
kids are damaged for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Oddly enough, and interestingly enough, the first Sierra Club black
Board president, whose name is Aaron Mayer, became a fierce
critic of this. He's like, no, we're the Sierra Club.
What the hell are you talking about. He wrote a
rebuttal defending the founder, John Muir. The Sierra Club refused
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to publish it and censured him when he published it elsewhere.
The woke mind virus is fatal to you, organization, which
is why I've said, dismantle every DEI program everywhere exists,
private enterprise, education and government.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Now do it today. By the end of the day,
close the business. The Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Music streaming giant Spotify dropping its year end listening roundups globally,
Bad Bunny was cround the most played artist with a
staggering nineteen point.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Eight billion streams.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
The Latin artists, now dethroning pop sensation Taylor Swift, though
This show Girl is still number one in the US
and in one of the app's buzziest new features this year,
you can find your Spotify estimated listening eighties, calculated by
comparing your musical taste to others in your age group,
looking at the release years of the tracks you listen
to most interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
YEA, my son does that where he checks out, like
he'll know various music artists and he'll find out I'm
in the top tenth of a percent of that guy's
audience of people who listen to him something nineteen some
bill billion streams. And how much money did he get
out of that? Not as much as you should.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Certain Upstandard Rabbit entertaining us at the Super Bowl this year,
correct this season.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
That's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
There's an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today
written by Jeene Simmons of Kiss about how artists aren't
getting paid what they're due because of streaming in the
way radio works and everything like that, And it's certainly true.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I don't know if there's ally fixing it. No, I
don't know how they would. I've been following that story
for years and years. Coming up next hour. By the way,
has the British Civil War already begun? It has, according
to a respected historian, not a fake Tucker Carlson, jew
(31:46):
hating historian a real historian, and it is.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Both really interesting and really troubling. So stay with us
for that. Is Oliver Cromwell involved her, No, he is not.
Can't be substantiate.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Man, if a guy has got nineteen point eight billion downloads,
he should be a billionaire, and I don't think he is.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, from that alone, yeah, not just doing shows and
stuff like that. Yeah, Yeah, those numbers are mind boggling.
I really ought to, I don't know, subject myself to
some of his over just out of curiosity. Yeah, most
of the stuff my son listens to I can't stand.
(32:31):
But he had some new chick that he was into
that we were playing yesterday as we were running errands,
and I liked.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
And it was just fantastic. It was him some music
that he leads into that I could enjoy it. Also,
Oh good good. I had Courtney Barnett pop up again.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Now she's been a thing for a long time now,
but I remember your initial description of her as the
really the number one lead artist in the dead pan
lesbian genre, and that is that is the perfect description.
So this has nothing to do with music. Did you
have more on Spotify or anything like that? Okay, So
(33:09):
follow up to last segment's discussion about you know, just
the government is fraud, It is corruption, it is waste
of money and always will be.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
This is a great piece from Reason dot com.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Auditors submitted twenty four fake applications for subsidized health insurance.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Only one was denied.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
A new GAO report suggests the Affordable Care Act you know,
you really shouldn't even use that phrase without pausing to
note the fact that the Affordable Care Act paid healthcare
a hell of a lot less affordable anyway. The Affordable
Care Acts health insurance exchanges are rife with fraud.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
And this is the government itself. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So they were twenty three out of twenty four getting
the applications accepted. GAO report published Wednesday warns that there
can be massive fraud in the health insurance exchanges due
to lax anti fraud protections, even after a twenty eighteen
study called for a more robust program to detect and
block fraud fraudulent applications. So they already had a study,
(34:17):
and they already had you know, the word went out,
Oh my god, we need to do a better job.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
But it's government. It doesn't matter. They don't care.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I know, somebody's in laws who are really good at
working the system. They like, they spend time on knowing
every government program that's out there and that they could
possibly qualify. And it's not in their case, they're not fraudsters,
but it's certainly fraud adjacent. It's stretching the spirit of
the various laws, if not the letter, and they get
(34:47):
all kinds of government money from coming up with various
things that they can qualify for with elder care.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Or sick kids or this or that or whatever.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Wow, there's lots of programs out there that if you're
willing to to, you know, be a little loose with
your facts, you could easily easily qualify for.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
So the auditors created four fictional applications last year that
used fake Social Security numbers and income claims that lacked
any verification.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
All four were approved.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
In one case, the GAO noted that the Federal Marketplace
said quote it confirmed the applicants estimated income based on
documentation we submitted. However, we did not submit any documentation
to confirm the income.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Wow.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack arms Strong, Jetty arms Strong,
and jettat Gee I'm Strong and Strong. Not live from
studio scene. We're still not back at work. You can't
(00:22):
make us come back until the year twenty twenty six,
So enjoy the Armstrong and Getty replay.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So we're kind of all over the place on this
conversation about you know, we're droning people in boats because
they're sending drugs to the United States and considering them
committing acts of war. Well, at the same time, I
got one hundred thousand people that drink themselves to death
every single year, and that's legal, and we legalize pot
(00:49):
and a whole bunch of different states, and now at
least a couple of states are looking at making it
illegal again for a variety of reasons, which is pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I wonder if that's going to become a trend. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
One of the the leaders in this trend, he talks
about how, in the style of the cigarette companies, especially
and to some extent, the alcoholic companies, it's a business
that promotes addiction. Their entire business model is they need
more addiction. I mean, there's unquestionably an addiction, whether psychological
(01:19):
or physical, to marijuana.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
To just be on displayed. A lot of people deny
that they're wrong, and.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
There you have a five times greater chance of psychosis
developing serious psychotic conditions if you're a heavy marijuana smoker.
And it's funny whenever we talk about this, we get
the one stoner who says, why don't you guys do
some research. That's totally not true. I've been smoking dope
for twenty years and it hasn't affected me. Yeah, okay,
(01:49):
apparently you've smoked too much dope to understand what five
times more likely means, So.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Thanks for the note.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Anyway, I've also known a few stoners who had really
sad lives who talked about how it hadn't hurt that many.
I've known a few in my life. You don't do anything.
You sit on the couch as an overweight person with
no friends or romantic interests, watching television, and you talk
(02:16):
about it has had no effect on your life.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, it's possible, but hmm, sad.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So apparently, when the University of California at Berkeley isn't
busy in doctrinating your kids to despise their country and
become Marxists. They actually still do some science, and in
this case drunken monkey science. Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts
of alcohol from ripe fermenting fruit, and careful measurement shows
(02:43):
that their typical fruit diet can equal one.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
To two human drinks each day.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Now, aside from being just interesting and somewhat amusing on
his face, it supports the idea that alcohol exposure is
not a modern human invention but an ancient primate habit.
The work strength the drunken monkey hypothesis and opens new
questions about how animals use ethanol cues in their environment.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
So the equivalent of a human drink because they're smaller
than us, aren't they one to two?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah? What's a chimpanzee? Way, that's forty pounds. I don't know. Oh,
actually the bigger than that. Yeah, I think they are.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
A standard drink in the US contains fourteen grams of
ethanol irrespect of the consumer's body size, although in much
of Europe's standard is tand grams.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Learn to drink Euros. Do you have any adult drinks
around here? Trying to enjoy myself.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, yeah, Well, what they don't know is whether chimpanzees
deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels to take the
edge off. Those tend to be riper and richer in
sugar that can for men, so they might just taste better. However,
many of the fruit species they regularly contain measurable ethanol,
indicating that alcohol is routine part of their menu and
(03:58):
probably present in the diets of our human ancestors as well.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We got a number of texts on the whole We're
not bombing distilleries, but we are bombing drug traffickers. You know,
ventanyl marijuana versus booze thing, a couple of them being
that ventanyl pretty decent change you keep messing around. Fentanyl's
going to kill you, very unlikely, that booze is gonna
kill most people.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Right, Nobody's ever cracked open a Miller light and died
because Miller put you know, seven thousand times the alcohol
in that can.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
There's also the we tried banning booze once and it
didn't go well. The fact that you just can't is
part of it. Irma gird I totally forgot.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Today is the.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Anniversary of the twenty first Amendment that repealed the Was
it the twenty first or twenty second? I can never remember.
I'd probably drink too much that repealed prohibition.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Today the anniversarve it's the twenty second, because I've known
a few bars called the twenty second Amendment.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And liquor store is right, Yeah, that's why you know,
I clicked in my head. But but anyway, yeah, it
was passed just in time for the holidays. Oh really,
to the delight of many. And today is the anniversary,
so cheers to that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The worst part of that whole thing, of course, being
it's kind of like the way COVID was, the important
and powerful did whatever the hell they wanted. The rules
only applied to you, and that's the way it was
with booze. And that's really really maddening. You know that
politicians are the rich or whoever they were drinking as
much as they ever drank. It's just that you regular
(05:30):
working class people can handle it. I can, right, right.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And one other aspect of this that's always bothered me,
and it's funny, we haven't talked about this for a
long time, is that if you have a society that
becomes legal overly legalistic, where the only question is is
it illegal or not? Illegal, lawful or not, as opposed
to is it a good idea or not? Is it
moral or not? Does it make me a better person
(05:55):
or not? I would much rather have things. I would
much rather persuade people than persuade the government to use
its guns to get people to live better live.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, that's one of the things I really hated about
when marijuana really caught on as illegalizing. It was just
the non stop, here we go, one hundred percent, this
is fantastic without any you know, smoking pot on a
regular basis might not be the best thing for your life.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Let's keep that in mind. It's practically guaranteed not to be.
And that says a guy who used to smoke a
substantial amount of pot. Looking back, it didn't do me
any good. I enjoyed it at the time. It made
movies kind of more entertaining, etc. The grass was greener,
blah blah blah. Music sounded really great. But I love
music anyway. I still love music. It's just, yeah, you're
(06:45):
right to act as if it's an unambiguous good and
harmless is just dishonest.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
For some reason, I keep thinking of Todd Snyder, one
of my favorite musicians of all time. There's a punchline
to this here. Uh had some song where he talked
about people like drugs. They're gonna do drugs, and it's
not which drugs, it's which drugs the companies allow you
to do or blah blah blah. He had this very
cynical attitude about people trying to regulate drugs and everything.
(07:13):
Like he's dead now at age fifty nine, as of
a couple of weeks ago, as a guy who just
couldn't ever wrap his head around drinking and doing drugs,
always thought it was hilarious that anybody would try to
make him quit, And now he's dead as a fifty
nine year old.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Because yeah, yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Well that was much more
serious than my drunken chimp characterizations of a few minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
The one thing we talked, do the monkeys drink to excess?
Do they ever get drunk? That's an interesting thing because
they have what ninety ninety percent of our biology. Do
they ever drink too much and wake up and think,
whoa wow, Well, I gotta gotta take a I gotta
do a dry January or something.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Thanks for out a half.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, right, Actually, it's very very rare according to the scientists,
because they feed on fruit throughout the day and it's
the fermented fruit that gets them a buzz on. But
to actually feel intoxicated and chimp would need to eat
so much fruit that it would be painful.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Well that see, that's interesting. That gets back to that's
kind of like with the weed thing. You know, your
old time hippies will say now that this weed that
you're buying at the store is nothing like what I
was smoking at Woodstock, where you could smoke it all
day long and you know, stay on your feet and
keep your mind.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And it's the same with a lot of booze.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Our founding fathers drank all day, every day beer that
just barely had alcohol in it, similar to monkeys to
get drunk enough to cause yourself any problems, you did
even thrown up to drink that much of the beer
that they had at the time.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
We should just have less potent booze. Certainly, there's an
argument there. Yeah, you less potent.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Pot just kind of ketch a light buzz going, that's
what you want, well, right, exactly, Yeah, stay on top
of the waves.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So what would stress chimps out that they need a
couple of drinks at the end of the day. Probably
the whole mating thing, or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The whole mating thing.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It's a pretty big for all beasts, yes, qualting thing,
but that's not stressful.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
That's more like, hey, baby, why do you Why don't
we have a couple of fermented mangoes and and you
sit on my lap.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And you wake up with an orangutang?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What did chimps do all day? They just gather food, right,
They peeled bananas upside down and mate and attend to
their little cute little chimp kids. Monkeys peel their bananas
from the bottom unlike humans, and I've tried to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It's not easy.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I don't know if you have to have the monkey
fingernails or grip strength right, like, not the stem end, now,
the other end. Yeah, that's the way they feel banana,
isn't that. I would think they've got a better handle
on it right now.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I was joking earlier that perhaps the chimps had, you know,
a henpecking wives and they had a couple of.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Drinks to take the edge off. But long was irresponsible,
long day in the jungle.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
God, I told you I will strip the leaves off
this stick and turn it into a tool this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Can I watch the game?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's my new chimp sitcom Chee Cheese Place, right and
which she has a couple of drinks every day like
a human.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
This show is brought to you by the Official Animal
of Long Island.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Ticks, ticks, get it off me, Get it off me.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I don't forget high school graduation air horns for ten.
This is some big accomplishment with high school graduation air horns.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And finally time and all time and all no it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Does if Colin Jost doing a broadcast from Best Page
Black during the Ryder Cup, that didn't sound like him.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Official Animal of Long Island.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
The tick.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Get it off me? Had to take a tick off
my wife the other day. Really, Yeah, you want to
live in the woods, you're gonna get ticks now and again.
Where if you have a big furry dog, where on
her was the tick?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Or is that private?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's a little personal that they generally go where like
an article of clothing stops, so like a shoulders, not
to what do you call it your color?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But since I've teased this like five times. I should
probably mention it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So I needed to get a ride from a lift
the other day because I had a truck that was
getting repaired.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So I need to get ride from my house there.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And I get picked up by this guy and uh,
we're talking a little bit, and he's got a very
thick accent. And I asked him where he's from, older dude,
and he said that he was from Libya, and he
started talking about his I asked him about his car.
That's how originally he started. I said, what, here's your
camera and he said, oh, it's a twenty four and
blah blah, blah blah. I said, my brother drives in
(12:16):
ninety nine and he said, good for him. He said,
because I had I had a two thousand and three
that I put two hundred and seventy five thousand miles
on it, and there's no reason to get rid of
one unless you have to. And then he started talking
about this is a sidebar. I didn't know this, but
with Lyft and Uber, they prioritize rides based on how
new year car is, which is an incentive for if
(12:37):
you're a Lyft driver, your car is getting older to
replace it with a newer one, because you get way
more rides set your way if you have a newer vehicle.
He said, it wasn't anything wrong with his older Camra,
but he gets way more rides with a twenty four
than he did with a with a two.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Thousand and two or whatever. It was interesting. I did
not know that.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
You know, it's funny having taken a lot of rides
in London that visually every car I was in was
brand spanking knew that explains it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Huh, But he said, uh. He said, I didn't buy this.
My daughter bought it for me.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
She's a I forget something in the medical field. He
had three daughters that he had brought to this country
that all went to UH universities and got degrees and
are doing really really well. And he is just he
was just so optimistic about the United States. And I
started to ask him about why. I asked him where
he's from. Then he said, and I said, so were
you there during Momar Kadaffi And he said, oh yeah,
(13:28):
my entire life was Momar Kadaffi ruined the country. And
he said it's worse now. The new guy is worse
than Momar Kadafi was, which was interesting to me. I
I wasn't not aware of that story. But you know
that's the guy, the Muslim brotherhood, guy that took over
you know that whole thing that's serious. Oh you're right,
So who took over in who took over in Libya?
(13:49):
It doesn't matter lawless.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
To every question about Libya as whole count Nice job,
Hillary Obama, way to take out the leader with no
plan of succession.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But the the main threat of this whole thing is
what is the deal with so many immigrants that come
from really awful countries, so happy to be here, get
their kids here, do well, versus the crowd that marches
in the street with the flag from the former country
and is angry about the way we're treating.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Them and lecture us about how you can't get ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And is there any way, because I gotta believe there
are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of people
around this world that are like this guy, who would
love to get here and would be happier and craft
to raise their family here. Is there any way we
can make sure those people get in here and the
people that want to get here and complain about it,
(14:45):
stay the f out.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You know, we get used to stuff that is so
abhorrent that you'd think you couldn't possibly get used to it.
Picture me as an immigrant to pick a country. I
don't know Germany As a young person, I thought I
might live there, so I usually use it as an example.
And I was somewhat annoyed with German immigration policy, and
(15:08):
I organized a bunch of American expats to protest that policy,
and we marched through the streets waving American flags, and
thought that would do us anything good, and maybe throwing
rocks at cops and setting things on fire exactly. That
would be effing crazy and stupid and unproductive. And the
(15:31):
people at Germany should probably, oh, I almost said something unfortunate,
They should probably move swiftly to export my ass back
to where I came from.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And how could any.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Country not react that way, because we've gotten used to that,
it's absurd.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Well, my point is, since there's I think there are
plenty of the other kind of immigrant that would love
to be here and would work really hard and do well,
let's just prioritize them. You don't want to care to
swap them out. V I endorse your plan. I'll pay
for your damn ticket. Get out, don't ever come back.
I don't care what you don't like about the country.
It doesn't get any better than this. If you can't
make it here, you can't make it anywhere. Get the
(16:08):
f out and bring in the hundreds of millions of
people that would love to come here and raise their
kids and be really successful Like this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Run America like a hot nightclub. Two people leave, two
more come in you too, Come on in, Come on in.
You're hard workers. You love this country. Glad to have
your welcome friends. This guy had not the tiniest.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Thing negative to say about his situation in the United
States of America.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
He's thrilled to be here and raise his kids here.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Talking about the opportunities that they would have never had
back in his home country of Syria, Liberty or Lebanon,
whichever one it was.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And maybe Latvia. Nobody's sure.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He's certainly not going to be waving his country's flag
and attacking cops and complaining about it.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
God, why wouldn't we put up with that? Why didn't
we put up with that?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
You don't like it, go the freak back, right, God,
that makes me mad. We're off track. We're so off track,
and then we're trying to get closer to on track.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But it's going to take a minute.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
The fact that the media so often sympathizes with the
people from other countries complaining about being here, be believe
there are plenty of people that want to be here,
that would love it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show
five seven time.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You'd be listening to protesters having an eighties aerobics class
outside of the Portland Ice facility, said Jack.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
As a protest, they all held an eighties stal aerobics class.
Now they've gone too far. Actually, that's a very Portland protest.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I like that, Katie.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I have to let you know.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
At the end of that, it just pans to a
man in a giant, furry blue fox costume.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Wait, oh boy, did we have uh did we have
women in leg warmers?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah? And the leotards, the hall, the whole thing. Let's
get physical, physical. Let me hear your body talk physical.
That is such a Portland protest. I love that.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Portland be Portland. You're not La don't shoot people, You're
not Manhattan. Don't smash windows. Do this, it's funny, it
gets attention, it's quirky, and your protest is duly noted.
And you didn't spray any bear spray in some poor
cops eyes. Well, who's just doing a freaking job anyway,
(18:36):
Speaking of the woke mind virus.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I find this so incredibly amusing and satisfying. I can
barely stand it.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
The Sierra Club, the time honored environmental group, is collapsing.
That part doesn't make me happy, because I think they
probably in some form have a role to play. But
they just to broaden their mission beyond environmentalism to include
a variety of social justice causes, and the organization has imploded.
(19:09):
The storied environmental nonprofit became one of many omnik cause shells.
They now call for defending the police and black reparations.
For some reason, they've denounced their founder, John Muir. Naturally,
the argument is always the same. Defunding the police is environmentalism,
and reparations is connecting to making sure swallows don't go extinct.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But it's not.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
So they've had to go after John Muir, the founder,
because he wasn't woke yet in the eighteen hundreds or whenever,
he went okay.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Quoting for a moment the brilliant Nelly bowls from the
Free Press. According to a longtime Sierra Club activist, they
had only two full time employees fighting against Trump's incursions
into the Arctic refuge. Maybe you're in favor of that,
maybe you're against it, but they had two people working
on that. But then seriously, one hundred and eight full
time employees working on diversity, equity and inclusion. Wow, one
(20:04):
hundred and eight and low, and the old donations collapsed
and they're gone. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Also, if I'm an environmentalist and I've been given money
to the Sierra Club my whole life, I would be
so mad to find out that they've taken on the Palestinian.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Cause or whatever, even if I agreed with them.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
As opposed to I'm trying to donate money to you to,
you know, stop the spotted owl from being run over
by cars or whatever they do.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
But in the way that the woke mind virus ties
you up in knots. They put out a list of
terms to avoid, which we'll get to in a minute,
but it also tells them not to celebrate clean energy
jobs unreservedly because fossil fuel jobs are more likely to
be unionized.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh seriously, this is at the Sierra Club.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
The Sierra Club's Equity Language Guide says not to use
the words vibrants are hardworking because they have racial overtone.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Hardworking has racial overtones. Well, that makes sense, s white supremacy.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
The whole Queers for Palestine being pro trans should be
lumped in with free bosses, free pre k abortion rights.
Electric cars should be paired with you know, children should
(21:26):
be able to get trained surgeries.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That doesn't make sense to anybody except for like two
percent of it. Do you realize that? All right? But
they're very, very loud.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So the Saquira Club has lost sixty percent of its
four million members and supporters from twenty nineteen sixty percent.
It's held three rounds of employee layoffs. It's got a
forty million dollar projected budget deficis deficit, all because of
the Woke Mind virus. Unbelievable in a downward spiral, a
group of managers wrote in a letter reviewed by The
(21:56):
New York Times to the club's leadership in June, during
Trump's first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations,
its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other
progressive causes.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Those included, of course.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights, and more.
They stand by that shift today. Here's the group's new
executive director. Who, Lauren, you're going to preside over it
crashing into the ground.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
As long as climate change and environmental protection are viewed
as just being concerns for a limited group of elites,
we lose. We only win by building a powerful, diverse movement.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Now it's common to say, if what if you had
dug up Thomas Jefferson and told him what was going
on today, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But this might be the all timer.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
If you dug up John Muir brought him back to
life and could explain to him that his organization that
was all about saving the trees or having the water
be clean or whatever, was.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Now being used for surgeries for trans children. You wouldn't
be able to explain it. Oh, I know.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And this, Lauren Blackford's sweetheart, if you're listening, you're as
dumb as one of the spotted owls you're trying to puy.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well, you used to try to protect. Maybe you're smarter.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Well, she threw in that that these concerns are for
a limited group of elites. Climate change, environmental protection in general,
we only win win by building a powerful, diverse movement.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Lauren, you simpleton, You've destroyed your.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Organization by dedicating it toward the OMNIK cause you're not environmentalist.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You're a Marxist. You're a Marxist. Everybody else at this
year club. How can you not say? Well, they probably do,
but they've been fired.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
She's arguing that's the only way for the organization to
succeed when it is clearly, undeniably the way it is
failing and dying.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Although she might say, yeah, I am a Marxist, Yeah
you got it. Congratulations, you caught on, and you can
say that all day long.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Nobody will believe you because you're a right winger and
nobody believes when you call people Marxists.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
So yeah, they started, you know a few years ago,
and just kept going and going and going. You know,
I could turn, I could talk to you about how
they denounced John Muir, but you've nailed it more or less.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Just hilarious.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Okay, So here are some of their common phrases to avoid.
And this is not folks, you're not listening to some
sort of rerun from early twenty twenty one, when the
woke mind virus was really infecting our institutions, or at
least in a way we couldn't ignore it anymore. It's
been infecting the schools for a long time. Don't say
pull the trigger, instead say go for it. Don't say
(24:46):
locked and loaded instead try ready to go. These are
all like gun related. Don't say bulletproof instead try untouchable
or guaranteed to succeed. Don't say battle or battleground instead
try struggle or debate.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Why are you using this lispy voice. I don't understand
what's going on there. I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Don't say climate troops instead United Movement for Climate Justice.
How about this one? You'll love this one, Jack. Don't
say a day that will live an infamy. Wait a minute,
we're on Pearl Harbor now. Instead try a day that
history will remember. Course, history has its eyes on you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
All the other ones I kind of understood, at least
from their weird point of view, but I don't understand
that one at all.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Is infamy a bad word?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And instead of saying boots on the ground instead try
people on our side, what's the comes woke mind virus,
because it's probably it's militarism, which is, you know, perhaps
part of the permanent omni caause.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So my son and Iron San Francisco on Saturday did
a lot of shopping. He really likes high end fashion
in it, which is his thing, and so we want
a bunch of fancy stores and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He likes to look at him Anyhow, We're.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Sitting at a coffee shop there downtown San Francisco, well
not downtown, kind of like one of your super cool
hipster neighborhoods, and coming down the street, we saw a
lot of girls holding hands, right, no big deal, San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
You expect that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And I actually got in the conversation about how well
dressed gay dudes are, and I said, part of that
is you don't have kids. You got you get to
spend all your money on yourself, so you can be really,
really well dressed, and you're not busy taking care of kids.
When you're busy rate whereising kids, you wear sweats a
lot and the same clothes you wore five years ago
because you don't have time to like shop, care about
that sort of thing. But so a lot of really fit,
(26:44):
well dressed gay dudes and a young women holding hands.
But then we saw this couple, this female couple, walking
down the street and they were dressed the same, holding hands,
which I thought, well, that's.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Kind of cute.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They're both wearing short skirts and high top doc Martin's,
I said the other day, would Doc Marton? Could Doc
Marton stay in business if lesbian's decided that was not
the shoe for them.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I'm not sure they could. But so, Katie, maybe you
could understand this.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
So it's two women, short skirts, high top, dog margins
like black hose, some sort of jean jacket, kind of
a cool look, holding hands.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
But when they got closer it was clear that one
of them was a dude.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
So uh so, oh, hello gender bending madness. Well, so,
what I don't get is for the other person, you're
a lesbian who wants to date a woman who has
a penis?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Is that what's going on there? Do you think that
I have the answer to that question?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Why in the world would Katie have any opp girl
Salt of the air? Well, I am not in a
normal of that absolute paragon of American womanhood.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Yeah, I'm not into the whole dudes dressing as girls
wearing same thing this show.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's just we reject sexual norms. So I'm dressed like
a lesbian for some reason, but I'm dating a dude,
but we both agreed he will also dress like a lesbian.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh that's so funny. You people are trying so hard. Oh,
a very confusing.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I was talking to a buddy of mine who just
recently pulled his daughter out of a public school in
a very liberal town because last year she and all
her friends decided they were gay.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
And it was like nine girls in his social contagion city,
and he had to sit her.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Down and talk to her and say, just mathematically, it's
not possible that all nine of you are lesbians. It
just would be too statistically unlikely, right with given the
fact that three percent of the population is gay, that
all nine of you are lesbians.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So somebody's not a lesbian here. Yeah, let's be serious.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Nights they decided they were lesbians, not transgender, because thank
God and gay and lesbian people. I stand with you
one hundred percent on this. They don't like try to
feed you irreversible chemical treatments and surgeries.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
If you happen to be gay.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
That's what's so insidious about the transgender adolescent thing. These
kids are damaged for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Oddly enough, and interestingly enough, the first Sierra Club black
Board president, whose name is Aaron Mayer, became a fierce
critic of this. He's like, no, we're the Sierra Club.
What the hell are you talking about. He wrote a
rebuttal defending the founder, John Muir. The Sierra Club refused
(29:51):
to publish it and censured him when he published it elsewhere.
The woke mind virus is fatal to you, organization, which
is why I've said, dismantle every DEI program everywhere exists,
private enterprise, education and government.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Now do it today. By the end of the day,
close the business. The Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Music streaming giant Spotify dropping its year end listening roundups globally,
Bad Bunny was cround the most played artist with a
staggering nineteen point.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Eight billion streams.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
The Latin artists, now dethroning pop sensation Taylor Swift, though
This show Girl is still number one in the US
and in one of the app's buzziest new features this year,
you can find your Spotify estimated listening eighties, calculated by
comparing your musical taste to others in your age group,
looking at the release years of the tracks you listen
to most interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
YEA, my son does that where he checks out, like
he'll know various music artists and he'll find out I'm
in the top tenth of a percent of that guy's
audience of people who listen to him something nineteen some
bill billion streams. And how much money did he get
out of that? Not as much as you should.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Certain Upstandard Rabbit entertaining us at the Super Bowl this year,
correct this season.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
That's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
There's an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today
written by Jeene Simmons of Kiss about how artists aren't
getting paid what they're due because of streaming in the
way radio works and everything like that, And it's certainly true.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I don't know if there's ally fixing it. No, I
don't know how they would. I've been following that story
for years and years. Coming up next hour. By the way,
has the British Civil War already begun? It has, according
to a respected historian, not a fake Tucker Carlson, jew
(31:46):
hating historian a real historian, and it is.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Both really interesting and really troubling. So stay with us
for that. Is Oliver Cromwell involved her, No, he is not.
Can't be substantiate.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Man, if a guy has got nineteen point eight billion downloads,
he should be a billionaire, and I don't think he is.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, from that alone, yeah, not just doing shows and
stuff like that. Yeah, Yeah, those numbers are mind boggling.
I really ought to, I don't know, subject myself to
some of his over just out of curiosity. Yeah, most
of the stuff my son listens to I can't stand.
(32:31):
But he had some new chick that he was into
that we were playing yesterday as we were running errands,
and I liked.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
And it was just fantastic. It was him some music
that he leads into that I could enjoy it. Also,
Oh good good. I had Courtney Barnett pop up again.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Now she's been a thing for a long time now,
but I remember your initial description of her as the
really the number one lead artist in the dead pan
lesbian genre, and that is that is the perfect description.
So this has nothing to do with music. Did you
have more on Spotify or anything like that? Okay, So
(33:09):
follow up to last segment's discussion about you know, just
the government is fraud, It is corruption, it is waste
of money and always will be.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
This is a great piece from Reason dot com.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Auditors submitted twenty four fake applications for subsidized health insurance.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Only one was denied.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
A new GAO report suggests the Affordable Care Act you know,
you really shouldn't even use that phrase without pausing to
note the fact that the Affordable Care Act paid healthcare
a hell of a lot less affordable anyway. The Affordable
Care Acts health insurance exchanges are rife with fraud.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
And this is the government itself. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So they were twenty three out of twenty four getting
the applications accepted. GAO report published Wednesday warns that there
can be massive fraud in the health insurance exchanges due
to lax anti fraud protections, even after a twenty eighteen
study called for a more robust program to detect and
block fraud fraudulent applications. So they already had a study,
(34:17):
and they already had you know, the word went out,
Oh my god, we need to do a better job.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
But it's government. It doesn't matter. They don't care.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I know, somebody's in laws who are really good at
working the system. They like, they spend time on knowing
every government program that's out there and that they could
possibly qualify. And it's not in their case, they're not fraudsters,
but it's certainly fraud adjacent. It's stretching the spirit of
the various laws, if not the letter, and they get
(34:47):
all kinds of government money from coming up with various
things that they can qualify for with elder care.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Or sick kids or this or that or whatever.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Wow, there's lots of programs out there that if you're
willing to to, you know, be a little loose with
your facts, you could easily easily qualify for.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
So the auditors created four fictional applications last year that
used fake Social Security numbers and income claims that lacked
any verification.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
All four were approved.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
In one case, the GAO noted that the Federal Marketplace
said quote it confirmed the applicants estimated income based on
documentation we submitted. However, we did not submit any documentation
to confirm the income.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Wow.
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