December 29, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in hour three of the Monday December 29, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Jack Skatepark--Mommy Society
- Joe's Favorite Store--Lesbian Wife Space Theft
- Netflix trans Coal Miner Movie & FL AG lawsuit
- Open Air Drug Market in Kensington
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
And Jetty and Geez Armstrong and Gahetty Strong. We are
so lazy. We're still at home. We're vacationing or whatever
it is we're gonna do during this week. But we're
not at work.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's right, we're relaxing so we can come back ten
rested and ready in the new.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Year, or sat draggled and hung over in my case.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Anyway, enjoy the Armstrong and Giddy replay. More than sixteen
billion passwords for Google, Apple, Facebook and other platforms have been.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Leaked in one of the largest hacks of all time. Oh,
it's pretty scary. Now everyone knows your Facebook password, but
you where's it again? Pass through once?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
He sees like it seems like like once daily I
end up at a website I haven't used in forever
and it needs the password, and I gotta go to
whatever to try to figure out what my password is.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Just like, I keep thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That we're going to get past this moment and it
will be something old people talk about years from now.
You used to have to have passwords for each site
and memorize them or write them down or have a
nap that kept them or whatever. That that's gonna go away.
And well, they'll use our eyes or our thumbprints. I
don't know what they'll use. But in the always vexing,
when you're in the middle of rushing through something, noticed
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that this password has appeared on a list of hacked
you know.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Whatever the hell? I would you like to change it now?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, No, I just assume all kinds of Russian mobsters.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I have my passwords. I just want to get into this.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I would opt probably for a no password on most sites.
I don't care if you can get into my DMV information.
How about how about you let me in it with
no password whenever I want to get in.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh, you fool, You'll be hacked. And then what hacked
into my DMV information?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Your nor some rack account out? What if the Chinese
knew what size pants you owned? Then what we got?
A couple of texts.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
One an economics professor at high school, said he taught
h why rent control didn't work and stuff like that,
but he has a feeling all the students remembered was
whatever TikTok video they were looking at, well, it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Was we got another text. Why are you guys talking
about New York.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You don't think it's interesting that the biggest city in America,
maybe the most important city in the world, is about
to elect a communist as a mayor. I find that
pretty interesting. They never text again, they're doing Yeah, am
into that. Yeah, never text again, Never text again. So
I got started on this jag because it's happening at
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a local skateboard park, and it reminded me of something
that happened to me years ago in LA and I
wanted to tell this story again because it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's a great example of the conflict visions that Thomas
Soyll talks about between conservatives and progressives and just different
ways of seeing the world and stuff like that, where
I can't get in the mind. I can't even understand
the point of view of the people I'm about to
talk about, and they can't understand my point of view.
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So we've got a local story here in Fulsome, California.
That's right, that Fulsome. I heard the training come and
coming around the bend, I shot a guy just for fun.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Whatever. That whole thing fullsome skateboard park.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Where for a couple of reasons, they're talking about doing
away with the attendants at the skateboard park. The attendant's
job is to, it says, stop graffiti from happening, break
up fights, and to make sure skateboarders have helmets and
pads on. Wouldn't they skateboard The city is saying they
don't have enough money for the attendant. A whole bunch
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of skateboarders showed up to various meetings and said, nobody
goes because nobody's gonna wear all those paths.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So what's the point.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I just saw a video up on the TV and
it showed one kid in this giant, glorious looking skateboard park,
one kids skateboarding, and it said on there it said
they've had five hundred and eighty people a month on
average during summertime.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That's nobody's I did the math. That's nineteen a day
or something like that. That's nobody. You should have two
hundred kids a day there.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I've had this experience drives me nuts. When I went
to Los Angeles, my son was super into skateboarding. One
time we went we went to La just to do
like a tour of skateboard parks. He'd never been to
different ones, and I thought, in LA's probably got a
lot of great skateboard parks. We'd been to the one
on Venice Beach, and check that out. As we traveled around,
almost every skateboard park we went to, which was empty
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on a beautiful day eighty degree like it always isn't
La eighty degrees, slight breeze, beautiful sunshine, empty skateboard park
in the summertime, but an attendant there saying, I'm sorry,
you can't skate here because you don't the pads, because
we didn't bring pads. I always had him more a helmet,
but he didn't have elbow pads and knee pads and
all that sort of stuff, so he couldn't skateboard there.
And the first one it was like annoying. The second
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one it was like annoying times five. By the third one, actually,
I found a skateboard park that was packed full of
people's skateboarding because they didn't have an attendant, got to
skateboard for a while. Tried a different skateboard park, also empty,
with a person there with a clipboard attending it, and
that's when I started getting angry and lecturing people and saying, yes,
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do you realize there's a skateboard park like a mile
from here that's packed full of people's skateboarding, kids baking.
You have nobody here, So what are you accomplishing? Why
did you build a skateboard park. It's empty on a
gorgeous date, nobody's using it. Well, we need to make
sure kids are safe. Well, first of all, you don't,
but you might as well not have a skateboard park.
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Either have one or don't. But you're not stopping kids
from wrecking a on their skateboard because they're not skateboarding,
or they're traveling further.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Away to go to some place where they don't have
to wear pads.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And every I said this at several skateboard parks, and
all they did was look at me like I'm an
angry lunatic, partially because I was an angry lunatic.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But I like, I can't get in the headspace.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Of anybody who could be an attendant, or the parents
who think that's a good idea. Better to have an
empty skateboard park than to let our kids skin their
knees or elbows. The paternalism probably a poor choice of words,
since some of these people are literally fathers, but the condescension,
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the nannyism of it is disgusting to me. The idea
that kids, all of a sudden, for the first time
in human history, can't, within reasonable bounds, assess their own
risk tolerance and their own willingness to endure the neative
consequences of overdoing it. I mean, for the first time
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in human history, kids must be protected from banging up
their elbows and knees. I do not get someone coming
to that conclusion and being so pleased with themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I'm horrified by it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I'm disgusted by it literally because I see what it's doing.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The generation of kids, generations of kids.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Why do kids have so much anxiety because they haven't
been allowed in general, because they haven't been allowed to
develop a sense of risk tolerance throughout their lives and confidence.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That they know what they're doing. They're veal Calves.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's indisputable. It's been documented. As we've talked about before.
Europe has figured out that they're doing away with like
the super safe parts and stuff like that. They're moving
toward kids doing more dangerous stuff, banging their heads and
elbows and stuff more often because it's good for you
for all kinds of different emotional reasons. But I also
wonder just what it does to children. I know with
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my kids, part of it, what it does to children
to see all these stupid, freaking they don't make any
sense laws. I know it's made my kids less respectful
of all laws, is what it's done. And of course
it would, because when you're confronted with stupid ones, it
makes you think everybody who makes laws is stupid.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So why would I pay attention to this one? Because
that one's obviously dumb.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
If Thomas Jefferson were here, he might say, first of all,
what are those metal things flying through the sky? But
he would also say, this reminds me of that discussion
you guys had about rent controls like twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
This is the same thing.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You have a market of faith or respect for the law,
and your sons have seen more and more stupid, useless,
paternalistic laws, their faith in the laws declining. They will
behave politically in a way that ends that as soon
as they can, if indeed you can fight the nanty state,
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and they will be beaten back by your son's disgusted
with a paternalism. I know a woman who is super
nice and very helpful to me and just like the
nicest person in the world, have been very helpful to
me in all kinds of different ways of my life.
But she told me the story and I kept my
mouth shut about how when the skateboard park in my
town opened up, how she and another mom they would
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go there on the weekends and set up and monitor
to make sure all the kids were wearing the proper
pads and helmets and everything like that. And she said
she kept it up for a summer or two, but
they just couldn't keep up the schedule.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I just like, were you a kid ever once? And
maybe a few girls didn't. Did you notice the boys
did bang their knees and have bloody elm have scabs
on their elbows and knees constantly as a child, And
did you think that that was just awful like Aschwitz
or something like that, that they were having scabs on
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their knees. It's like the most normal thing in the
world for a ten year old way to have a
scab on his knee. Yeah, I can't hold back. I
generally say something in situations like that. It's probably why
I have very few friends.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
But uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well I can't stop short of you're a psycho, because
I think you are.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I see, that's your problem.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
How do you not look around an empty skateboard park
and think, well, this is somehow self defeating. If we
have nobody using the skateboard park, I'm not sure what
we're doing here, right exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You gotta develop going from emotional gear one to five,
so you gotta you gotta be able to settle into
two and three there and make the argument.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You know, I respectfully disagree. I think kids need to
take risks and get banged.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Up and learn that it won't kill them and decide
how risky they want to live their life.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It's great the kids get banged up. Were you not
a kid once?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Do you think kids are built differently now or they're
like bones made of glass now and they didn't used
to be?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Every What is your thought process?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I just think it makes me insane that sort of thing,
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let go of this stuff as well as I can,
Like I've had some unfortunate breaks in my life that
I've been able to mostly let go of much better
than I can let go of this sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
We're driving around all these skateboard parks.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Finally, I was just getting Sam had been looking forward
to the skateboard park so much. It was our vacation.
We were there and we couldn't go anywhere. So I
finally found I had to go to like two stores.
Finally found a bike store where they sold knee pads
and elbow pads, stuff like that, just so we could
go skateboard. We went to one and they said they
weren't the right kind of elbow pads. And I don't
think I've ever been angrier in my life.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And I just couldn't let it go. It was like
my head was gonna pop off.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I hate that feeling where I just it's a cognitive dissonance.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I just can't.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I couldn't make the empty skate park skateboard bark beautiful day.
There's nothing wrong with this, It doesn't hurt anything to
bang your knee.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
All fit into my head. It just was making me crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Right, right, There is absolutely a vein of especially you know,
it clicked in my head when you got to that
example of oh yeah he's got elbow pads, but they're
not the right cod right. That is absolutely the intoxication
of power aiding what I was going to talk about here,
just the great CS. Lewis quote, which we've used many
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times on the show. But of all tyrannies, a tyranny
sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be
the most oppressive. It may be better to live under
robber barons than under omniptent, moral, busybodies. The robber baron's
cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity or greed may at
some point be satiated. But those who torment us for
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our own good will torment us without end, for they
do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So true.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I want to popular popularize the saying, maybe we gotta
get T shirts going safety third. Yeah, I and people
would ask what, wait, wait, isn't the expression safety first
and the safe Maybe the back of the safety third
T shirt would have one courage, two curiosity three safety
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safety third. Right, I'll bet I'm not talking about handing
your four year old of forty five letting them squeeze
off a couple of shots. We're talking about kids riding
their bike at a park.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
And playing ball.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm sure the one woman still tells stories about the
bald lunatic.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, because I remember walking away.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Have fun monitoring your empty skateboard park.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
You're doing a lot of good.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
For the world.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I was so mad.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, she cannot conceive of what you were trying to communicate.
Now she thinks, thank god, if I hadn't been here,
that lunatic would have let his kids skateboard without knee pads.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know how many people would have died.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's a it's a stereotype, and it's oversimplified because there
are many tough, smart, great women who have helped make
America great. But we have gone from maybe too much
of a daddy society to too much of.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
A mommy song without doubt.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh, we are clutching our children to our aprons and
not letting them risk a single thing.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Good Lord, I'm strong, And.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Do you want to hear my favorite headline of the day.
Woman pleads guilty to lying about astronaut wife accessing bank
account from space station. That is definitely one of those headlines. Wait,
I'm sorry, I need to hear that one more time.
There's a lot happening here. Woman pleads guilty lying about
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astronaut wife accessing bank account from space stace. Okay, I'd
missed the first part. The woman pled guilty to lying
it never abowed her lesbian astronaut wife draining the accounts
from outer space.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I guess it's is it near space?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Where did she drain the accounts herself and try to
blame it on her astronaut?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, in the midst of a divorce. Yeah, and a
bitter custody battle over kids or a Cordeese French bulldogs
they're referring to their son. I believe it is a
human still could be a French bulldog. Uh, conceived through
ivy fertilization, carried by a surrogate. Mishaw, you got two
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women in this relationship. Why do you need a surrogate?
It is lazy. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm sure we'll get angry emails for that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Maybe you weren't biologically physically anatomically able to carry a child.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Were you just lazy?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You got who women's in this relationship granted the ones
in outer space. I get this so that it eliminates
the one. Eh boy, anyway, I hope those two crazy
kids can work out their problems and co parents as successful.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty Armstrong and Getty show. Okay,
what the hell was that?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh boy? Apparently netflick is Netflix. They're more than one flick.
Netflix is taking some flak for its upcoming ultra woke
film featuring a transgender coal miner fighting the patriarchy.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I have a.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Feeling the transgender coal miner idea was pitched and accepted
a couple of years ago, when the.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Trans thing was a little hotter. Yeah, you kind of
were on the front foot.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, yes, and people were afraid to say it. Strikes
me as madness.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
All of this.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The Argentinian film Queen of Coal, which stars Marvel and
Star Wars star Pedro Pescal's real life transgender brother accepted
as an Is there any way I can get him
to get out of my life?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Stop showing up on everything I want to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Trans women dreams of working the coal mines, but in
a town steeped in a superstition and patriarchy. Carlita must
fight to earn her place underground. Well, it's all the execution,
so I guess you'd have to watch it. I probably
won't to decide whether or not it's good or not.
I had forgotten about Netflix. I read an article the
other day the founder because well, Netflix, you know, is
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trying to buy HBO and Paramount and that whole merger
thing and all that sort of stuff coming together, and
it'll be even bigger of a behemoth than it already is.
But that those two dudes started with you could mail
a DVD. I mean, they were just trying to come
up with a better blockbuster, is what they did. And
then they and then they they changed on a fly.
It's very much like Zuckerberg and Facebook. I mean, Facebook
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wasn't intended to be what it ended up being. I
want to, you know, making him a billionaire is a
completely different idea.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
But you're just nimble enough to adjust with the times.
It's pretty much.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, it is interesting, and it reaffirms something I've long believed,
which is sometimes just try things because they might just
be one or two clicks off a really really good thing,
and you don't know until you dive in. But for
companies that successful to have started. Is it's you know,
not like Henry Ford started out to make dog food
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and ended up making cars. Cars was the original idea.
But Facebook and Netflix especially, Yeah, you put your little
your DVD in the pouch and it had a postage
on it and you can mail it back. So the
story we want a feature right now. I think this
is of enormous significance culturally in the United States, and it's.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Getting cruelly little coverage.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I've had to do a couple of news sirch to
find it, and sure enough, I've found coverage. But has
to do with the Florida Attorney General James Upmeyer, who's
got a couple of lawsuits that he's announced. The one
that's getting much more attention is that he's suing Starbucks,
alleging the company uses racial discrimination and illegal hiring quotas
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illegal race based quotas. The lawsuit alleges that in twenty twenty,
Starbucks set it's diverse representation goals were to hire people
of color in forty percent of retail and distribution center
jobs blah blah blah, and they're actively discriminating against hiring
people of a certain race that would be non people
of color. So anyway that one's getting a lot of attention,
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I had to do some digging to find more than
a bit of coverage.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
On this story.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Florida is filing a lawsuit against three medical groups that
push children into transgender mutilation procedures, as I prefer to
call them, because that's what it is. They cause permanent
changes based on incredibly shaky real.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Is it fair to say there's zero medical need? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
The only people who say that there are are radical
gender activists who claim that gender affirmation is a thing.
But you have to pretend there's genuine medical need to
do the surgery, don't you.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Otherwise you're what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well? Right, you're just like cropping the tails of dogs
or something. You're just doing something for well. It reminds
me of the horrible genital mutilations in Africa or what
have you.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It's it's terrible, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
As I've said a thousand times, we will look back
on this with.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Horror and people will be astounding.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That astounded that the various authorities, medical and legal allowed
these experiments to take place. Anyway, here's the Florida attorney
General explaining himself. It's a little longish, but he does
a really good job laying it out.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
This is Attorney General aims in legal action against several
powerful medical organizations, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health,
the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Indocrine Society. We
believe these organizations failed to disclose the risks, limits, and
evidence when promoting so called gender affirming care for children.
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For years, these groups insisted their recommendations were settled science,
but behind closed doors, they knew the evidence was weak.
They knew the outcomes uncertain, and the risks very real.
Parents were not told the full story. In fact, some
parents were told that if they didn't put their kids
through permanent life altering sick procedures like double missectomies and castration,
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that their child would commit suicide.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Not only is that.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Unethical and dangerous medicine, but it is against the law.
Children were irrevocably harmed because truth was replaced with political activism.
When organizations make medical claims, they have a duty to
be honest. When they intentionally misleave families, their members, and
the medical profession, we hold them accountable. Florida will always
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follow the evidence, protect children, and defend parents' rights to
make informed decisions.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
None of that is new news, obviously, but man, when
it's laid out like that, it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You got a mom and a dad.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Who haven't been following this story in a freaking expert
using my finger.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Quotes tells you why you've got no choice.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You're twelve year old believes they're a girl, and if
we don't do the surgery, they'll kill themselves.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
All studies show you that.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
But they say, and all studies show that a thirteen
year old girl surrounded by other thirteen year old girls
saying the same thing, they know with certainty that indeed
they are in the wrong body and need.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
To be sexually.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Don't question them, don't talk about their autism, their depression,
their alienation, don't talk about any psychological problems. In fact,
if you do that, that's deprogramming or what do they
call it, the gay conversion therapy? Yeah, you're practicing conversion therapy,
and that's been discredited.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
It's an insidious conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
But what did the doctors use for their legal rationale
that their recommendations from the those various boards. Well, if
if I go to the doctor and say I'd like
you to remove my nose. I think most ethical doctors
are going to say, I'm not going to do that,
right right, the intersection of these activist organizations like WPATH,
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that was the first one he mentioned. They're infamous. They
have foisted so many awful, un replicable, thoroughly discredited, discredited
studies that have influenced, you know, the sex change industry
around the world for a number of years. Those were
the studies that Europe took a serious look at and
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the CAST report in Sweden, famously in the Netherlands and said, whoa, whoa, whoa,
there is no evidence based science to support these claims.
And they hit the brakes hard and put the car
of child sex changes hard in reverse all across Europe
because they realized that these studies were utterly fictional. That's
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w PATH, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which sounds so
wait a minute, their kid doctors, right, No, they are
a leftist activist group. They've been captured by these activists,
as has the Endocrine Society. If you're not familiar with
the term, it has to do with hormones. Oh, like
selling hormones and prescribing hormones and that sort of thing. Yeah,
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they're down with it. So this one's going to be
super interesting to follow. Something tells me that the Attorney
general there, mister Upmeier, is going to file suits, not
in some sort of crazy the ass woke Biden nominee
court district.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And the you know, the Starbucks thing is huge, too impactful.
So of course this is reported as a horror in
the New York Times, but it's about this person that
had bad cancer and was into their teenth surgery. A
trans person a man who now went by a woman,
(26:27):
decided to secretly record the surgery, and then what this
person heard the surgeons say was horrifying and shocking. She
recorded the surgery, the person saying, I just wanted to know,
like in case they gave any medical advice. You know
why I'm on an under anesthesia I heard or something
like that. Okay, yeah, I wanted to know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I'm reading from the New York Times. She recounted.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
She turned on the audio recorder on her phone before
the anesthesia hit.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I've I've been in those such I don't remember having
the opportunity to have my phone with me or record,
but anyway me neither. Yeah, the surgeons were removing part
of her lung. She she did not get around to
playing the recording until a few weeks later. Though the
audio was muffled, she could follow somewhat the surgical team
was saying. Before the procedure began, someone was going out
(27:19):
for coffee. Did any want somebody want something from Starbucks?
Then the conversation shifted. Still has man parts, said one
of the medical crew. It seemed to miss Capasso. That's
the person in question that they were talking about her genitalia. Yeah,
I think you were correct and deducing that good guess.
(27:39):
On the recording, the healthcare workers express a variety of
opinions about transgender identity, more generally not that it's not right,
but said one person, I don't get any of it.
Another says, And in the middle of the conversation, one
person suggested updating the patient's medical file.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, and needs to say mail.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
One of the medical team said, because that's a male
is why, Yes, the patient said. It appeared that the
hospital staff had in fact changed the electronic medical records.
All while The New York Times says she was unconscious.
With the records now marked as M for male. Some
hospital staff members had referred to her as sir during
the weekly appointments after the surgery, probably because it's a dude.
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Others made a big deal about her being transgender. One person,
perhaps taunting her, says, this person, I don't think so.
I think they were going along with your thing, perhaps
trying to be supportive, said things like yes, queen, also unwelcome,
said miss Capasso. That's what young people say these days.
That's supportive, but some person going along with your wants
(28:48):
also gets criticized.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
You can't win here.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I take no joy in the fact that this poor
person A has cancer and B is a paranoid, you know, activist, lunatic.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
But they clearly are. It's sad they're to be pitied.
That's an interesting one. And then we'll take a break.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But so ms Capasso said that she asked the hospital
administration to switch the male designation back to female, and
she received a surprising answer, it couldn't be done anytime soon.
What is the hospital supposed to do because certainly from
a medical standpoint and the way the you know, human
body might react to things, as a male versus a female.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You gotta leave it male.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, you're a dude, dude. Sorry, Wow, that's an interesting one.
I'm surprised that hasn't been worked out legally yet. Present
as a man, a woman, an ostrich, rodeo, clown, whatever
you want, but medically speaking, you're a male and a discussion.
So our medical professionals supposed to keep those conversations to
themselves while you're asleep. That's an interesting question itself. So
they're having it. I don't know about the whole transgender thing.
(29:51):
I don't get any of it while you're asleep. Oh
that's just awful. How dare they shut at the.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
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Speaker 1 (29:59):
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Speaker 3 (30:12):
My eye was caught by this.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
They're talking about the Kensington Avenue open air drug market
in Philadelphia, which they call the country's most notorious San Francisco.
I think had had that wrapped up for a while.
Around the Civic Center assists, man, you could get anything
all the time, Junkies everywhere, watch out.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
For the poop.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So is it Salvadoran's selling drugs openly? Cops had walk
by it's amazing. But so they're talking about this Kensington
Avenue in Philly. For years, the street ran on heroin.
Then the gang started putting fentanyl or fetti in the dope.
I didn't know fentanyl had any nickname, but it's fetti.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Sounds cute. Get a little fetti in with your heroin.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Then came the animal tranquilizers was seen jack known simply
as tank trank.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
That's right, it'll rot your flesh right off your limbs.
That's the one that puts holes in your legs. Delightful.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
But wait, just when you thought there can't be any
more new drugs, there's a new one. Medatomidine medaomidine, yeah,
or something like that delivers a shorter, more powerful high
than the varieties of dope that preceded it, and the
crash is faster and more brutal. By some estimates, it's
(31:31):
two hundred times stronger than the trunk. I tried the
trank and it put holes in my legs. I'm looking
for something that burns my eyeballs.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Out of the sockets. Do you have anything like that?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Junkie Tony, who they interview, says there's no stages to
the high you go straight to sleep.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Well, wait a minute, I don't understand that.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's like the trank with the lean where I've seen
him in San Francisco where they're just leaned over up
against a wall.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Well, what kind of party is that?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, I don't know what what the withdrawal is from
these various things, either I don't know, to make up
a hit or stamp. According to the junkies, the dealers
mix the let's just call it med with fentanyl US
have a jackhammer, which continues to be the leading cause
(32:23):
of overdose death in the US. The drugs are then
packaged in small paper wraps, each stamped with a Cruise brand.
Hot Sauce is one drug Cruise brand Pringles. I see
that's I'm sorry, that's a copyright infringement, Blackjack or Sunshine.
They cost two to five dollars depending on the size. Wow,
(32:46):
you can get a sleep, apparently is what their goal is,
leaning up against the wall with sores in.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Your legs for two bucks.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Right then they talked to Christine, a forty one year
old Philadelphi who doesn't look at day over seventy. She's
more got more scabs than I have eyelashes.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
If I do a certain stamp, I have to have
that stamp, she says. I try to do other stamps,
it won't get me. Well, wow, I say. She's at
that point of addiction where she takes drugs just to
feel even close to normal and not horribly sick.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
But your physical addiction is you've got to have the
particular blend of that. That's interesting. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
By the way, she's suffered a mere five heart attacks
triggered by the med withdrawal. She said, so far forty one,
she had five heart attacks. So I'm doing the sunshine,
and that's the kind that I need to continue to do.
I get in a sunshine, I'm getting notes of caramel,
and then it's got.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
A chocolatey finish. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I'd throw up my back twisting my screen so that
you can see this poor woman, But she's sirious.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
If you were. It's like a.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Stock photo from Soviet era Russia where the seventy year
old babush struggles to gather potatoes. You know, she looks
like that, right, five heart attacks? Yeah, wow, good party.
The effects of each stamp very slightly from block to
(34:14):
block due to a variety of other adulterants, but usually
a result in abrupt unconsciousness and extreme sedation. You do it,
you wake up, you're sick. You don't even know you're
passing out. But this isn't like nodding off Long Kensington Avenue.
People shuffling near catatonic states, bent at right angles, some
frozen mid stride. That's the Leanna, and you get withdrawal
(34:37):
symptoms within two hours. I want to know, exponentially more
punishing than heroin. Withdrawal exponentially more punishing, and you gotta
be on it within one hundred and twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Here you get withdrawals.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, and you got to use the same kind you
were using again, the blend that's got notes of chocolate
and a raspberry finished hot Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Christine describes brain zapps, vomiting, many seizures, paralysis and even
violent swings, and heart rate and blood pressure, hence her
quintuple infections.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Good.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
She didn't mention scrammeting, though that is unique to that one.
Marijuana makes you scream and vomit at the same time.
Oh more and more teens with that. I want to
talk about that maybe tomorrow, But if she doesn't hustle
enough cash to stave off withdrawal, she'll inevitably have a
heart attack and collapse on the street, and you need
it every two hours. Of course, the upside is it's
(35:35):
only two bucks. Nice lifestyle, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong.
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And Jetty and Geez Armstrong and Gahetty Strong. We are
so lazy. We're still at home. We're vacationing or whatever
it is we're gonna do during this week. But we're
not at work.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That's right, we're relaxing so we can come back ten
rested and ready in the new.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Year, or sat draggled and hung over in my case.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Anyway, enjoy the Armstrong and Giddy replay. More than sixteen
billion passwords for Google, Apple, Facebook and other platforms have been.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Leaked in one of the largest hacks of all time. Oh,
it's pretty scary. Now everyone knows your Facebook password, but
you where's it again? Pass through once?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
He sees like it seems like like once daily I
end up at a website I haven't used in forever
and it needs the password, and I gotta go to
whatever to try to figure out what my password is.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Just like, I keep thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That we're going to get past this moment and it
will be something old people talk about years from now.
You used to have to have passwords for each site
and memorize them or write them down or have a
nap that kept them or whatever. That that's gonna go away.
And well, they'll use our eyes or our thumbprints. I
don't know what they'll use. But in the always vexing,
when you're in the middle of rushing through something, noticed
(01:30):
that this password has appeared on a list of hacked
you know.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Whatever the hell? I would you like to change it now?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, No, I just assume all kinds of Russian mobsters.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I have my passwords. I just want to get into this.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I would opt probably for a no password on most sites.
I don't care if you can get into my DMV information.
How about how about you let me in it with
no password whenever I want to get in.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh, you fool, You'll be hacked. And then what hacked
into my DMV information?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Your nor some rack account out? What if the Chinese
knew what size pants you owned? Then what we got?
A couple of texts.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
One an economics professor at high school, said he taught
h why rent control didn't work and stuff like that,
but he has a feeling all the students remembered was
whatever TikTok video they were looking at, well, it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Was we got another text. Why are you guys talking
about New York.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You don't think it's interesting that the biggest city in America,
maybe the most important city in the world, is about
to elect a communist as a mayor. I find that
pretty interesting. They never text again, they're doing Yeah, am
into that. Yeah, never text again, Never text again. So
I got started on this jag because it's happening at
(02:47):
a local skateboard park, and it reminded me of something
that happened to me years ago in LA and I
wanted to tell this story again because it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's a great example of the conflict visions that Thomas
Soyll talks about between conservatives and progressives and just different
ways of seeing the world and stuff like that, where
I can't get in the mind. I can't even understand
the point of view of the people I'm about to
talk about, and they can't understand my point of view.
(03:18):
So we've got a local story here in Fulsome, California.
That's right, that Fulsome. I heard the training come and
coming around the bend, I shot a guy just for fun.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Whatever. That whole thing fullsome skateboard park.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Where for a couple of reasons, they're talking about doing
away with the attendants at the skateboard park. The attendant's
job is to, it says, stop graffiti from happening, break
up fights, and to make sure skateboarders have helmets and
pads on. Wouldn't they skateboard The city is saying they
don't have enough money for the attendant. A whole bunch
(03:53):
of skateboarders showed up to various meetings and said, nobody
goes because nobody's gonna wear all those paths.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So what's the point.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I just saw a video up on the TV and
it showed one kid in this giant, glorious looking skateboard park,
one kids skateboarding, and it said on there it said
they've had five hundred and eighty people a month on
average during summertime.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That's nobody's I did the math. That's nineteen a day
or something like that. That's nobody. You should have two
hundred kids a day there.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I've had this experience drives me nuts. When I went
to Los Angeles, my son was super into skateboarding. One
time we went we went to La just to do
like a tour of skateboard parks. He'd never been to
different ones, and I thought, in LA's probably got a
lot of great skateboard parks. We'd been to the one
on Venice Beach, and check that out. As we traveled around,
almost every skateboard park we went to, which was empty
(04:47):
on a beautiful day eighty degree like it always isn't
La eighty degrees, slight breeze, beautiful sunshine, empty skateboard park
in the summertime, but an attendant there saying, I'm sorry,
you can't skate here because you don't the pads, because
we didn't bring pads. I always had him more a helmet,
but he didn't have elbow pads and knee pads and
all that sort of stuff, so he couldn't skateboard there.
And the first one it was like annoying. The second
(05:10):
one it was like annoying times five. By the third one, actually,
I found a skateboard park that was packed full of
people's skateboarding because they didn't have an attendant, got to
skateboard for a while. Tried a different skateboard park, also empty,
with a person there with a clipboard attending it, and
that's when I started getting angry and lecturing people and saying, yes,
(05:31):
do you realize there's a skateboard park like a mile
from here that's packed full of people's skateboarding, kids baking.
You have nobody here, So what are you accomplishing? Why
did you build a skateboard park. It's empty on a
gorgeous date, nobody's using it. Well, we need to make
sure kids are safe. Well, first of all, you don't,
but you might as well not have a skateboard park.
(05:53):
Either have one or don't. But you're not stopping kids
from wrecking a on their skateboard because they're not skateboarding,
or they're traveling further.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Away to go to some place where they don't have
to wear pads.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And every I said this at several skateboard parks, and
all they did was look at me like I'm an
angry lunatic, partially because I was an angry lunatic.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But I like, I can't get in the headspace.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Of anybody who could be an attendant, or the parents
who think that's a good idea. Better to have an
empty skateboard park than to let our kids skin their
knees or elbows. The paternalism probably a poor choice of words,
since some of these people are literally fathers, but the condescension,
(06:41):
the nannyism of it is disgusting to me. The idea
that kids, all of a sudden, for the first time
in human history, can't, within reasonable bounds, assess their own
risk tolerance and their own willingness to endure the neative
consequences of overdoing it. I mean, for the first time
(07:03):
in human history, kids must be protected from banging up
their elbows and knees. I do not get someone coming
to that conclusion and being so pleased with themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I'm horrified by it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I'm disgusted by it literally because I see what it's doing.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The generation of kids, generations of kids.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Why do kids have so much anxiety because they haven't
been allowed in general, because they haven't been allowed to
develop a sense of risk tolerance throughout their lives and confidence.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That they know what they're doing. They're veal Calves.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's indisputable. It's been documented. As we've talked about before.
Europe has figured out that they're doing away with like
the super safe parts and stuff like that. They're moving
toward kids doing more dangerous stuff, banging their heads and
elbows and stuff more often because it's good for you
for all kinds of different emotional reasons. But I also
wonder just what it does to children. I know with
(07:59):
my kids, part of it, what it does to children
to see all these stupid, freaking they don't make any
sense laws. I know it's made my kids less respectful
of all laws, is what it's done. And of course
it would, because when you're confronted with stupid ones, it
makes you think everybody who makes laws is stupid.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So why would I pay attention to this one? Because
that one's obviously dumb.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
If Thomas Jefferson were here, he might say, first of all,
what are those metal things flying through the sky? But
he would also say, this reminds me of that discussion
you guys had about rent controls like twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
This is the same thing.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You have a market of faith or respect for the law,
and your sons have seen more and more stupid, useless,
paternalistic laws, their faith in the laws declining. They will
behave politically in a way that ends that as soon
as they can, if indeed you can fight the nanty state,
(08:57):
and they will be beaten back by your son's disgusted
with a paternalism. I know a woman who is super
nice and very helpful to me and just like the
nicest person in the world, have been very helpful to
me in all kinds of different ways of my life.
But she told me the story and I kept my
mouth shut about how when the skateboard park in my
town opened up, how she and another mom they would
(09:20):
go there on the weekends and set up and monitor
to make sure all the kids were wearing the proper
pads and helmets and everything like that. And she said
she kept it up for a summer or two, but
they just couldn't keep up the schedule.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I just like, were you a kid ever once? And
maybe a few girls didn't. Did you notice the boys
did bang their knees and have bloody elm have scabs
on their elbows and knees constantly as a child, And
did you think that that was just awful like Aschwitz
or something like that, that they were having scabs on
(09:55):
their knees. It's like the most normal thing in the
world for a ten year old way to have a
scab on his knee. Yeah, I can't hold back. I
generally say something in situations like that. It's probably why
I have very few friends.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
But uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well I can't stop short of you're a psycho, because
I think you are.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I see, that's your problem.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
How do you not look around an empty skateboard park
and think, well, this is somehow self defeating. If we
have nobody using the skateboard park, I'm not sure what
we're doing here, right exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You gotta develop going from emotional gear one to five,
so you gotta you gotta be able to settle into
two and three there and make the argument.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You know, I respectfully disagree. I think kids need to
take risks and get banged.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Up and learn that it won't kill them and decide
how risky they want to live their life.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It's great the kids get banged up. Were you not
a kid once?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Do you think kids are built differently now or they're
like bones made of glass now and they didn't used
to be?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Every What is your thought process?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I just think it makes me insane that sort of thing,
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(12:13):
let go of this stuff as well as I can,
Like I've had some unfortunate breaks in my life that
I've been able to mostly let go of much better
than I can let go of this sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
We're driving around all these skateboard parks.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Finally, I was just getting Sam had been looking forward
to the skateboard park so much. It was our vacation.
We were there and we couldn't go anywhere. So I
finally found I had to go to like two stores.
Finally found a bike store where they sold knee pads
and elbow pads, stuff like that, just so we could
go skateboard. We went to one and they said they
weren't the right kind of elbow pads. And I don't
think I've ever been angrier in my life.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And I just couldn't let it go. It was like
my head was gonna pop off.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I hate that feeling where I just it's a cognitive dissonance.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I just can't.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I couldn't make the empty skate park skateboard bark beautiful day.
There's nothing wrong with this, It doesn't hurt anything to
bang your knee.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
All fit into my head. It just was making me crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Right, right, There is absolutely a vein of especially you know,
it clicked in my head when you got to that
example of oh yeah he's got elbow pads, but they're
not the right cod right. That is absolutely the intoxication
of power aiding what I was going to talk about here,
just the great CS. Lewis quote, which we've used many
(13:30):
times on the show. But of all tyrannies, a tyranny
sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be
the most oppressive. It may be better to live under
robber barons than under omniptent, moral, busybodies. The robber baron's
cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity or greed may at
some point be satiated. But those who torment us for
(13:52):
our own good will torment us without end, for they
do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So true.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I want to popular popularize the saying, maybe we gotta
get T shirts going safety third. Yeah, I and people
would ask what, wait, wait, isn't the expression safety first
and the safe Maybe the back of the safety third
T shirt would have one courage, two curiosity three safety
(14:21):
safety third. Right, I'll bet I'm not talking about handing
your four year old of forty five letting them squeeze
off a couple of shots. We're talking about kids riding
their bike at a park.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
And playing ball.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm sure the one woman still tells stories about the
bald lunatic.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, because I remember walking away.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Have fun monitoring your empty skateboard park.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
You're doing a lot of good.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
For the world.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I was so mad.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, she cannot conceive of what you were trying to communicate.
Now she thinks, thank god, if I hadn't been here,
that lunatic would have let his kids skateboard without knee pads.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know how many people would have died.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's a it's a stereotype, and it's oversimplified because there
are many tough, smart, great women who have helped make
America great. But we have gone from maybe too much
of a daddy society to too much of.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
A mommy song without doubt.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh, we are clutching our children to our aprons and
not letting them risk a single thing.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Good Lord, I'm strong, And.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Do you want to hear my favorite headline of the day.
Woman pleads guilty to lying about astronaut wife accessing bank
account from space station. That is definitely one of those headlines. Wait,
I'm sorry, I need to hear that one more time.
There's a lot happening here. Woman pleads guilty lying about
(16:01):
astronaut wife accessing bank account from space stace. Okay, I'd
missed the first part. The woman pled guilty to lying
it never abowed her lesbian astronaut wife draining the accounts
from outer space.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I guess it's is it near space?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Where did she drain the accounts herself and try to
blame it on her astronaut?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, in the midst of a divorce. Yeah, and a
bitter custody battle over kids or a Cordeese French bulldogs
they're referring to their son. I believe it is a
human still could be a French bulldog. Uh, conceived through
ivy fertilization, carried by a surrogate. Mishaw, you got two
(16:45):
women in this relationship. Why do you need a surrogate?
It is lazy. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm sure we'll get angry emails for that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Maybe you weren't biologically physically anatomically able to carry a child.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Were you just lazy?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You got who women's in this relationship granted the ones
in outer space. I get this so that it eliminates
the one. Eh boy, anyway, I hope those two crazy
kids can work out their problems and co parents as successful.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty Armstrong and Getty show. Okay,
what the hell was that?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh boy? Apparently netflick is Netflix. They're more than one flick.
Netflix is taking some flak for its upcoming ultra woke
film featuring a transgender coal miner fighting the patriarchy.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I have a.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Feeling the transgender coal miner idea was pitched and accepted
a couple of years ago, when the.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Trans thing was a little hotter. Yeah, you kind of
were on the front foot.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, yes, and people were afraid to say it. Strikes
me as madness.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
All of this.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The Argentinian film Queen of Coal, which stars Marvel and
Star Wars star Pedro Pescal's real life transgender brother accepted
as an Is there any way I can get him
to get out of my life?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Stop showing up on everything I want to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Trans women dreams of working the coal mines, but in
a town steeped in a superstition and patriarchy. Carlita must
fight to earn her place underground. Well, it's all the execution,
so I guess you'd have to watch it. I probably
won't to decide whether or not it's good or not.
I had forgotten about Netflix. I read an article the
other day the founder because well, Netflix, you know, is
(18:39):
trying to buy HBO and Paramount and that whole merger
thing and all that sort of stuff coming together, and
it'll be even bigger of a behemoth than it already is.
But that those two dudes started with you could mail
a DVD. I mean, they were just trying to come
up with a better blockbuster, is what they did. And
then they and then they they changed on a fly.
It's very much like Zuckerberg and Facebook. I mean, Facebook
(19:01):
wasn't intended to be what it ended up being. I
want to, you know, making him a billionaire is a
completely different idea.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
But you're just nimble enough to adjust with the times.
It's pretty much.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, it is interesting, and it reaffirms something I've long believed,
which is sometimes just try things because they might just
be one or two clicks off a really really good thing,
and you don't know until you dive in. But for
companies that successful to have started. Is it's you know,
not like Henry Ford started out to make dog food
(19:31):
and ended up making cars. Cars was the original idea.
But Facebook and Netflix especially, Yeah, you put your little
your DVD in the pouch and it had a postage
on it and you can mail it back. So the
story we want a feature right now. I think this
is of enormous significance culturally in the United States, and it's.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Getting cruelly little coverage.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I've had to do a couple of news sirch to
find it, and sure enough, I've found coverage. But has
to do with the Florida Attorney General James Upmeyer, who's
got a couple of lawsuits that he's announced. The one
that's getting much more attention is that he's suing Starbucks,
alleging the company uses racial discrimination and illegal hiring quotas
(20:21):
illegal race based quotas. The lawsuit alleges that in twenty twenty,
Starbucks set it's diverse representation goals were to hire people
of color in forty percent of retail and distribution center
jobs blah blah blah, and they're actively discriminating against hiring
people of a certain race that would be non people
of color. So anyway that one's getting a lot of attention,
(20:42):
I had to do some digging to find more than
a bit of coverage.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
On this story.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Florida is filing a lawsuit against three medical groups that
push children into transgender mutilation procedures, as I prefer to
call them, because that's what it is. They cause permanent
changes based on incredibly shaky real.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Is it fair to say there's zero medical need? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
The only people who say that there are are radical
gender activists who claim that gender affirmation is a thing.
But you have to pretend there's genuine medical need to
do the surgery, don't you.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Otherwise you're what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well? Right, you're just like cropping the tails of dogs
or something. You're just doing something for well. It reminds
me of the horrible genital mutilations in Africa or what
have you.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It's it's terrible, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
As I've said a thousand times, we will look back
on this with.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Horror and people will be astounding.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That astounded that the various authorities, medical and legal allowed
these experiments to take place. Anyway, here's the Florida attorney
General explaining himself. It's a little longish, but he does
a really good job laying it out.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
This is Attorney General aims in legal action against several
powerful medical organizations, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health,
the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Indocrine Society. We
believe these organizations failed to disclose the risks, limits, and
evidence when promoting so called gender affirming care for children.
(22:21):
For years, these groups insisted their recommendations were settled science,
but behind closed doors, they knew the evidence was weak.
They knew the outcomes uncertain, and the risks very real.
Parents were not told the full story. In fact, some
parents were told that if they didn't put their kids
through permanent life altering sick procedures like double missectomies and castration,
(22:46):
that their child would commit suicide.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Not only is that.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Unethical and dangerous medicine, but it is against the law.
Children were irrevocably harmed because truth was replaced with political activism.
When organizations make medical claims, they have a duty to
be honest. When they intentionally misleave families, their members, and
the medical profession, we hold them accountable. Florida will always
(23:14):
follow the evidence, protect children, and defend parents' rights to
make informed decisions.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
None of that is new news, obviously, but man, when
it's laid out like that, it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You got a mom and a dad.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Who haven't been following this story in a freaking expert
using my finger.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Quotes tells you why you've got no choice.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You're twelve year old believes they're a girl, and if
we don't do the surgery, they'll kill themselves.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
All studies show you that.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
But they say, and all studies show that a thirteen
year old girl surrounded by other thirteen year old girls
saying the same thing, they know with certainty that indeed
they are in the wrong body and need.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
To be sexually.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Don't question them, don't talk about their autism, their depression,
their alienation, don't talk about any psychological problems. In fact,
if you do that, that's deprogramming or what do they
call it, the gay conversion therapy? Yeah, you're practicing conversion therapy,
and that's been discredited.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
It's an insidious conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
But what did the doctors use for their legal rationale
that their recommendations from the those various boards. Well, if
if I go to the doctor and say I'd like
you to remove my nose. I think most ethical doctors
are going to say, I'm not going to do that,
right right, the intersection of these activist organizations like WPATH,
(24:42):
that was the first one he mentioned. They're infamous. They
have foisted so many awful, un replicable, thoroughly discredited, discredited
studies that have influenced, you know, the sex change industry
around the world for a number of years. Those were
the studies that Europe took a serious look at and
(25:05):
the CAST report in Sweden, famously in the Netherlands and said, whoa, whoa, whoa,
there is no evidence based science to support these claims.
And they hit the brakes hard and put the car
of child sex changes hard in reverse all across Europe
because they realized that these studies were utterly fictional. That's
(25:26):
w PATH, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which sounds so
wait a minute, their kid doctors, right, No, they are
a leftist activist group. They've been captured by these activists,
as has the Endocrine Society. If you're not familiar with
the term, it has to do with hormones. Oh, like
selling hormones and prescribing hormones and that sort of thing. Yeah,
(25:46):
they're down with it. So this one's going to be
super interesting to follow. Something tells me that the Attorney
general there, mister Upmeier, is going to file suits, not
in some sort of crazy the ass woke Biden nominee
court district.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And the you know, the Starbucks thing is huge, too impactful.
So of course this is reported as a horror in
the New York Times, but it's about this person that
had bad cancer and was into their teenth surgery. A
trans person a man who now went by a woman,
(26:27):
decided to secretly record the surgery, and then what this
person heard the surgeons say was horrifying and shocking. She
recorded the surgery, the person saying, I just wanted to know,
like in case they gave any medical advice. You know
why I'm on an under anesthesia I heard or something
like that. Okay, yeah, I wanted to know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I'm reading from the New York Times. She recounted.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
She turned on the audio recorder on her phone before
the anesthesia hit.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I've I've been in those such I don't remember having
the opportunity to have my phone with me or record,
but anyway me neither. Yeah, the surgeons were removing part
of her lung. She she did not get around to
playing the recording until a few weeks later. Though the
audio was muffled, she could follow somewhat the surgical team
was saying. Before the procedure began, someone was going out
(27:19):
for coffee. Did any want somebody want something from Starbucks?
Then the conversation shifted. Still has man parts, said one
of the medical crew. It seemed to miss Capasso. That's
the person in question that they were talking about her genitalia. Yeah,
I think you were correct and deducing that good guess.
(27:39):
On the recording, the healthcare workers express a variety of
opinions about transgender identity, more generally not that it's not right,
but said one person, I don't get any of it.
Another says, And in the middle of the conversation, one
person suggested updating the patient's medical file.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, and needs to say mail.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
One of the medical team said, because that's a male
is why, Yes, the patient said. It appeared that the
hospital staff had in fact changed the electronic medical records.
All while The New York Times says she was unconscious.
With the records now marked as M for male. Some
hospital staff members had referred to her as sir during
the weekly appointments after the surgery, probably because it's a dude.
(28:23):
Others made a big deal about her being transgender. One person,
perhaps taunting her, says, this person, I don't think so.
I think they were going along with your thing, perhaps
trying to be supportive, said things like yes, queen, also unwelcome,
said miss Capasso. That's what young people say these days.
That's supportive, but some person going along with your wants
(28:48):
also gets criticized.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
You can't win here.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I take no joy in the fact that this poor
person A has cancer and B is a paranoid, you know, activist, lunatic.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
But they clearly are. It's sad they're to be pitied.
That's an interesting one. And then we'll take a break.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But so ms Capasso said that she asked the hospital
administration to switch the male designation back to female, and
she received a surprising answer, it couldn't be done anytime soon.
What is the hospital supposed to do because certainly from
a medical standpoint and the way the you know, human
body might react to things, as a male versus a female.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You gotta leave it male.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, you're a dude, dude. Sorry, Wow, that's an interesting one.
I'm surprised that hasn't been worked out legally yet. Present
as a man, a woman, an ostrich, rodeo, clown, whatever
you want, but medically speaking, you're a male and a discussion.
So our medical professionals supposed to keep those conversations to
themselves while you're asleep. That's an interesting question itself. So
they're having it. I don't know about the whole transgender thing.
(29:51):
I don't get any of it while you're asleep. Oh
that's just awful. How dare they shut at the.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, show podcasts and our hot links The Armstrong and
Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
My eye was caught by this.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
They're talking about the Kensington Avenue open air drug market
in Philadelphia, which they call the country's most notorious San Francisco.
I think had had that wrapped up for a while.
Around the Civic Center assists, man, you could get anything
all the time, Junkies everywhere, watch out.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
For the poop.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So is it Salvadoran's selling drugs openly? Cops had walk
by it's amazing. But so they're talking about this Kensington
Avenue in Philly. For years, the street ran on heroin.
Then the gang started putting fentanyl or fetti in the dope.
I didn't know fentanyl had any nickname, but it's fetti.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Sounds cute. Get a little fetti in with your heroin.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Then came the animal tranquilizers was seen jack known simply
as tank trank.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
That's right, it'll rot your flesh right off your limbs.
That's the one that puts holes in your legs. Delightful.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
But wait, just when you thought there can't be any
more new drugs, there's a new one. Medatomidine medaomidine, yeah,
or something like that delivers a shorter, more powerful high
than the varieties of dope that preceded it, and the
crash is faster and more brutal. By some estimates, it's
(31:31):
two hundred times stronger than the trunk. I tried the
trank and it put holes in my legs. I'm looking
for something that burns my eyeballs.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Out of the sockets. Do you have anything like that?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Junkie Tony, who they interview, says there's no stages to
the high you go straight to sleep.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Well, wait a minute, I don't understand that.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's like the trank with the lean where I've seen
him in San Francisco where they're just leaned over up
against a wall.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Well, what kind of party is that?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, I don't know what what the withdrawal is from
these various things, either I don't know, to make up
a hit or stamp. According to the junkies, the dealers
mix the let's just call it med with fentanyl US
have a jackhammer, which continues to be the leading cause
(32:23):
of overdose death in the US. The drugs are then
packaged in small paper wraps, each stamped with a Cruise brand.
Hot Sauce is one drug Cruise brand Pringles. I see
that's I'm sorry, that's a copyright infringement, Blackjack or Sunshine.
They cost two to five dollars depending on the size. Wow,
(32:46):
you can get a sleep, apparently is what their goal is,
leaning up against the wall with sores in.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Your legs for two bucks.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Right then they talked to Christine, a forty one year
old Philadelphi who doesn't look at day over seventy. She's
more got more scabs than I have eyelashes.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
If I do a certain stamp, I have to have
that stamp, she says. I try to do other stamps,
it won't get me. Well, wow, I say. She's at
that point of addiction where she takes drugs just to
feel even close to normal and not horribly sick.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
But your physical addiction is you've got to have the
particular blend of that. That's interesting. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
By the way, she's suffered a mere five heart attacks
triggered by the med withdrawal. She said, so far forty one,
she had five heart attacks. So I'm doing the sunshine,
and that's the kind that I need to continue to do.
I get in a sunshine, I'm getting notes of caramel,
and then it's got.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
A chocolatey finish. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I'd throw up my back twisting my screen so that
you can see this poor woman, But she's sirious.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
If you were. It's like a.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Stock photo from Soviet era Russia where the seventy year
old babush struggles to gather potatoes. You know, she looks
like that, right, five heart attacks? Yeah, wow, good party.
The effects of each stamp very slightly from block to
(34:14):
block due to a variety of other adulterants, but usually
a result in abrupt unconsciousness and extreme sedation. You do it,
you wake up, you're sick. You don't even know you're
passing out. But this isn't like nodding off Long Kensington Avenue.
People shuffling near catatonic states, bent at right angles, some
frozen mid stride. That's the Leanna, and you get withdrawal
(34:37):
symptoms within two hours. I want to know, exponentially more
punishing than heroin. Withdrawal exponentially more punishing, and you gotta
be on it within one hundred and twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Here you get withdrawals.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, and you got to use the same kind you
were using again, the blend that's got notes of chocolate
and a raspberry finished hot Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Christine describes brain zapps, vomiting, many seizures, paralysis and even
violent swings, and heart rate and blood pressure, hence her
quintuple infections.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Good.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
She didn't mention scrammeting, though that is unique to that one.
Marijuana makes you scream and vomit at the same time.
Oh more and more teens with that. I want to
talk about that maybe tomorrow, But if she doesn't hustle
enough cash to stave off withdrawal, she'll inevitably have a
heart attack and collapse on the street, and you need
it every two hours. Of course, the upside is it's
(35:35):
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