December 31, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in hour two of the Wednesday December 31, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Campus Chaos: Gender reproduction in Gaza
- FLQ/Mailbag: Socialist Compassion, Digging up graves, Gun Buy
- Weight Loss Obsessions & Drugs
- Joe in London: Pub Runs Out of Food
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getty and Hee.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty Strong twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What a year? Huh? That was something. We're not here
right now.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We're playing you the best of what we call like
to call Armstrong and Geddy replace.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yeah, and the staff is still shell shocked. They're still
crying quietly in the corner. It takes so much work
to get this together and present it to you in
as entertaining a form as it is.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's the Armstrong and Getty replay right now.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's a campus chaos update.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh lord, the camp it's poor one. What happened to her?
Oh so story number one? Listen to this? Would you?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
If there's some sort of a word for this, I
think it may win it. Princeton University, far from reforming itself,
is launching a new anthropology class on gender reproduction and
genocide in Gaza, a class whose description puts the Israeli
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Hamas war on par with Holocaust.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
The four credit graded course being taught by a noted
Palestinian feminist who has made provably false claims that Hamas
did not kill any babies or rape women on October seventh,
Oh my god, and also calls for an end to.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The Jewish state.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Wow again, this course being taught at Princeton, which has
learned nothing and has no shame? Is gender reproduction and
genocide in Gaza isn't here as a description? I think
Princeton is one of the colleges that really gets a
lot of money from Qatar.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Uh yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Drawing on decolognia, see if listen, we gotta have a
game here, a drinking game or so, I don't know something.
Count how many bulls critical theory terms are in this
course description? Drawing on decolonial, indigenous and feminist thought, we
examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life, sexual and familial structures,
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and community survival. Students will engage reproductive justice frameworks, survivor testimony,
and Palestinian feminist critiques of colonial violence while situating Gaza
within comparative histories of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust in
genocide against black and indigenous populations.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Wow, somebody's paying a lot of money to have their
kid take that class.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Undergrads who take the class can get credit toward an
anthropology major or toward a minor in Gender and Sexuality
studies anthropology major.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
That's what my son's really interested in, that sort of stuff.
And I was wondering, is there a university you can
go to where it just isn't all that quart kind
of crap?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Right, here's another fun game you might play. I'm going
to quote the woman who teaches this, who claimed that
there were no rapes or killing of children on October seventh,
interject to or substitute any word in place of Zionism.
You want Islam, black people, anything, and see if anybody
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in America could get away with saying this what she said,
It's time to abolish Zionism. It can't continue. It's criminal.
Only by abolishing Zionism can we continue. They will use
any lie. They started with babies, they continued with rape,
and they will continue with a million other lies. We
stop believing them. I hope the world stops believing them.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And it's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So moving along, and again, as you said, Jack, Dewey
eyed fools will take this course and believe it, and
they might just be having that hey a lot for it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
They might only have that clash to keep the millions
flowing in from Qatar and other places like that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, OK, I gotta go a little more. Then we'll
move on.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
But among the required readings is an essay titled reproci
in Gaza. That's a new one, repro side in Gaza,
the gendered strategy of Genocide through Reproductive violence by Halla Showman,
a former Gazen dentist and self described social activist. Reprosides,
she writes, quote, is the systematic targeting of a group's
reproductive capacities as a deliberate strategy of erasure. Israel has
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weaponized reproductive health through direct military targeting, siege conditions, force displacement,
environmental toxis, said toxicity, and gendered violence, thereby creating conditions
in Gaza that make pregnancy dangerously high risk. Therefore the
title of the class gender reproduction and Genocide in Gaza.
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Moving along, this is a really good essay. I wish
we had time for the whole thing from that jeff
yass who donated one hundred million dollars to the University
of Austin, and he explains why. If you're not familiar
with the University of Austin, and it is a wonderful
back to what a university ought to be project with
a lot of our favorite people involved. Anyway, he says,
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I'm given one hundred million dollars through the University of
Austin because the feedback feedback mechanisms of higher education are broken.
Almost every system that works works because of feedback. Evolution
works because helpful mutation survival, harmful ones die off. Democracy
works because voter support effective leaders and remove ineffective ones.
Then he talks about markets and science works how it works.
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Most systems or institutions that don't work at broken feedback
mechanisms corrupt politicians, corony capitalists, ideological echo chambers. Unfortunately, higher
education belongs in this category. The purpose of higher education
should be to instill in students knowledge, skills, judgment, and
characters so they can flourish and contribute to society. By
that standard, success should be measured by how graduates are doing,
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and that's not happening anymore. He wants the success of
education to be measured in terms of success.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Imagine that.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Success in the person's chosen field, in their knowledge.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Did they get anything out of this is.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
The question he wants asked, when you say it out loud,
it almost sounds like you're trying to explain it to
a not very bright child or something like that, because
it's so freaking obvious. But we've lost it completely. You
go University of Austin and Jeff, thank you for doing
the right things.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Speaking of Texas, Texas Tech is pissing off the woke crowd.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I found this interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
On December one, the new chancellor of Texas Tech sent
professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval for
course material. It accompanied a memo with rules for teaching
about race and gender, including a ban on quote advocacy
or promotion of race or sex based prejudice. The chart
asked professors to first ask if the course material quote
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is relevant and necessary for classroom instruction, then details a
review process that starts with the department chair and can
go all the way up to the Board of re Agents,
the system's governing board. The chart is part of a
wider national campaign by conservatives to reverse years.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Of what they see. What they see what anybody could see.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
As left leaning faculty in indoctrination across higher education.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
M Do they see that, uh?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, that's what they see, in the same way that
people going to the circus said they see an elephant.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, because there's an effing elephant there. Sorry anyway, es Geese.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The Free Press was writing about how a systematic analysis
of various classes that purported to have both sides of
arguments would have the big book representing the Marcus point
of view, and then like everybody in the field knows
what the counter book is, the respected or there might
be several of them, and they just don't teach it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You don't read it, you don't have to.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It's just utterly biased, and Texas Tech, to their credit,
is going to finally do something about it. Final note, Jack,
you mentioned the katar. I would like to mention the
kami Chinese. Here's an adline for you. University of Michigan's
partnership with the CCP link Changhai School brought Chinese spies
to campus, and dozens of US universities have similar arrangements.
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Elite schools like Columbian Yale maintained joint institute's dual degrees
and exchange programs with Shanghai Xiaotong University since October twenty fourth.
Department of Justice has charged at least twelve University of
Michigan students, researchers, and recent grads.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's just the University of Michigan, folks.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
At least twelve all Chinese nationals with national security related offenses,
a scale far out pacing any other US school. Five
of them were accused of taking photographs of military drills
at a military camp. They all belong to an engineering
partnership between Michigan and Shanghai Xiaotong, which House Select Committee
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on China.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Rep.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Jason Molinar Michigan said, quote was helping the CCP modernize
its military and allegedly sits on the People's Liberation Army
base in Uh what's the town? Did I say? It's
in Shanghai. Michigan, under pressure from Molinar, went on to
end it's twenty year partnership, but other top units universities
maintained ties to the Chinese schools. Between the Katari's pumping
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money in so schools teach up with the Muslim Brotherhood
and down with the jew and the communist Chinese sending
their spies to America masquerading as scholars. It is some
serious rot. It's campus chaos.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, we got to tell you about Omaha stakes. But
as soon as we're done, I got a question, Katie.
You can weigh on this about my neighbors bringing me
cookies and whether or not I got to bring them something. Now,
maybe I bring the Omaha steaks. I got quite a few.
Here's a steak.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Class Ribby down on the counter.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I had them a frozen steak in the plastic from Amsteakes,
and I'll just say, you need to put this back
in the freezer or let it though your choice.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I'm sixty years old.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I should probably give up the idea that I'm ever
going to send out Christmas cards, because I never have,
and every year when I start getting them from other people,
I feel guilty and think next year I will. But
at some point I should just decide clearly I'm never
going to send Christmas cards anybody, and so I don't
take on the guilt. But this one is slightly different.
Is my neighbors. I live in a cul de sac
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and two of the main houses that like face me
are next to me. One family brought over some nice
what are your Christmasy flowers? The red ones all those
points sets, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, yeah, exactly yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Don't throw in that extra syllable. Am I supposed to
throw in the extra syllable?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
We set? Yah? I just I can't do that. It's
too much for me.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
But they brought over points set as in a card,
and then our other neighbors. They're cute little kids, the
perfect family that I talk about on a regular basis.
They're like the perfect family, and uh, and I feel
like they're being perfect just to make me feel bad
about myself, which is normal. Uh, they brought over cookies.
They're cute little kids, and uh, mom, they brought over cookies.
So where am I on the obligation list to bring
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them something I would? I think I'm going nice. I
think I'm going to I'm gonna go with cookies.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But then were they Did they bake the cookies for you?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, well they baked cookies. I don't know that they baked.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Them for me.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
They code, yeah, homemade cookies. Okay, So here's my other problem.
I actually said, you know, we're going to bring cookies
over to you. We end up eating them all, which
is true, and uh, I said we'll make some more.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Ow.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
My son made them from scratch, absolutely from scratch. The
sugar cookies and the buttercream frosting. Looked up the recipe,
we bought the ingredients. He did every single thing. I
didn't do one thing. They're not very good, So I'm
going to figure out do I intervene? And I haven't
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said that to him. These are delicious, They're good enough
to eat. I mean, my my bar for how good
a cookie, sugar cookie's got to be before I eat
it is you know right here.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I mean I've had.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Them where at the bar's way up you know, the
deliciousness is up here. I'm still gonna eat it down here, though,
I mean they were still north of Labrador retriever at
your bar. It's like the old sex joke. It's like
a sugar cookies and sex. You know, when it's bad,
it's pretty good. So do I have my son make
another batch of really not that very good cookies? If
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I do, I'm going to make it clear that he
made them.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I would tell you this as the husband of an
avid Avid baker, knowing that didn't go quite right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Figuring out why is part of bacon.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I'm yeah, I'm sure nobody that turns out great the
first time. Most people are giving you their great sugar cookies.
It's like the fiftieth time they've made them, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I mean, it's not like you're going to go great
Santinians throws them at the boy and screamed that you're
no good.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It just fine.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
But now that we're going to give him the neighbors,
I'm just feeling like I'm gonna give him these cookies
and they're gonna take a bite him and say, what
the hell is this.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I just pictured him holding out a plate and Jack
just smacking it into the air.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
A crap. No, I just I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Yeah, he'll get better next time, and maybe maybe they'll
be good the second time around.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I don't know if he noticed that they weren't that
great though he hasn't said anything about it. He hasn't
said that he's a little dry or anything like that.
You still have your yeah, do you still have your
weird COVID thing? Well? Yeah, but the they were clearly
too dry. I mean, you know that's got to do
nothing to do with the ability and stay sweet.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Maybe make him a meat loaf or something something completely different.
There you go and them a meat loaf. Okay, yeah,
well you could plate it. I'm sure they'd return the plate.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The Armstrong and Getty Show. Yeah, more Jack or Joe
podcasts and our hot legs.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. It's a
little longish.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Maybe we'll get to mailbag next hour.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Uh, it's Joe.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Raffidi wrote this. He's an academic of some sort. But
I absolutely love this. And I can't remember if I've
read this before, but if I did, it's in the
wrong file and you're going to hear it again.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Socialists perform compassion, capitalists live it. That probably sounds insane
to people who've been in Doctor Nadan to believe that
caring means redistributing wealth by force.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
But here's the reality.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Capitalism requires you to care about other people's needs.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
It asks of you what problems can I solve? What
value can I create? What do people actually want and need?
Your success is directly tied to how well you serve others.
You can't force people to buy from you, you can't
coerce them into using your product or service.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think the problem is socialism sort of promises there
won't be losers. Capitalism sort of guarantees there will be
winners and losers. Yeah, socialism is is a philosophy for
children and those who have yet to grow up and
recognize the way human beings really are.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Mail bag dumps.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Aaron Wright's colonialism is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Look at this.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
There are thousands of videos from various s whole countries
where young men are exhuming old graves for clicks and
Facebook reels.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
This must stop.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Oh my internet viral ghoulishness adding up graves. I hadn't
heard this, messing with the bones whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh my god, that's the worst thing I've ever heard.
Stay tuned. I got to look into that.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Let's see non binary WTF. Aldonymous writes A friend of
mine was purchasing a gun and filling out the federal
background CHECKIE noticed that for gender they had three options male, female,
and non binary. Hoping they're using this to weed out
anyone who checks non binary, because if you don't know
what your sex is, there's not a chance in hell
used to be allowed to buy a gun.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Tell Trump to fix this. I will next time I
talk to him.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Tell Trump to fix this. Well too, I saved this one.
I got this a couple of days ago to I
liked it JT.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
And Livermore says, I'm not against the notion of a
P doom metric. That's the percentage you think AI will
doom humanity, he says, But I also want to pair
it with the P salvation number. Sure, a superintelligence would
be something new and unproven, could go pear shape for mankind.
But it isn't as if we're one hundred percent shape
shape safe if AGI is never built. Look at all
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the great threats that might happen if we never built
the AGI nukes in all their forms, bioweapons, the super
volcano eruptions, economic collapse, climate apocalypse, smad Mark Zuckerberg, Democrat policies, sex, robots,
good list. Maybe having an AGI is the only way
to deal with some or all of the pending disasters.
So when you tell me your P DO number P
doom number, also tell me the percentage likelihood that an
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AGI would be necessary to solve protect us from things
too complicated or too difficult for us to solve on
our own, aka your.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
P salvation number.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Interesting, great thought, really interesting. It just came across an
article about they may introduce those drugs gop one drugs.
That's like your a zempic and your zep bound and
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your what are some of the other brand names. It's
like one wigov wigovy panera. Is that one of them? No,
that's a bread it is.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, No, they they're coming up with them for pets.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh you got a fat dog or a fat cat.
But the National Review has an article.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Today for the people version the dangers of weight loss
drugs going mainstream.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Wow, it's just when it seemed like a great idea,
I think.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
This is I guess it's just a journalism thing.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Something becomes pocketer. You write an article about.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
How this could be bad, all right, because I read
the whole article and it doesn't convince me. But it's
some interesting information in here. Because i'd forgotten some of
this stuff. I didn't remember that Kate Moss, who was
one of your famous skinny models of like the eighties
and nineties, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. She
was famous for saying, I guess even though I've never
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heard that before. The mantra, popularized by bone thin celebrities
and touted by teenagers with eating disorders, colored the way
an entire generation thought about weight, food and exercise. Katie,
you lost a ton of weight yourself throughout the years,
But you I don't think you've ever said anything about
like going too far, being too skinny, or were you.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Ever there was a point where yeah, I was a
little too skinny, but that was because I was so
obsessed with staying skinny and working out that it wasn't
something that I could continue to do.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
But you had been quite overweight and had health problems.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, it's a pretty good reason to be pretty obsessed
with staying thins right, That's the problem with all this.
I mean, yeah, you know, if you if you if
you have a heart attack and your doctor says you
got to lose weight, being pretty obsessed with losing weight
is that doesn't make you Kate Moss. Doesn't make a
k Yeah, it doesn't make you Kate Moss. When models
in the twenty tens eight calorie free cotton balls dipped
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in juice or gelatin to make their slices feel.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Full, what I had missed this?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
What you take a cotton ball and dip it in
juice or jello to make your.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Stomach feel ful?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Wow that how did I never hear about that? Well,
I don't know if lots of people were doing it.
See that's the thing you get, that's what I heard
about it.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Get six hipsters in the New York or LA that
are doing it, and women all across America. No not Actually,
if you just look around, people all across America are
not overwhelmingly obsessed with being thin. Based on my trip
to Walmart last.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Week, Well, I do enjoy a nice mouthful of cotton balls.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So when celebrities embarked on the Master Kleans in the
early two thousand, a detox diet that consisted only of
lemon juice, maple syrup, water, and cayenne pepper, right, you
remember that when our former newswoman announced, with great fans
fair she was going to do that and made it
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till eleven am.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I think it was one did make it to lunch
the first day. I remember that. Yeah, Jamie, you're a
good person. Oh yeah, heck, bad diet.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I think Beyonce started that whole thing, The cleans, the
lemon honey, cayenne giasco.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
None of these crazes I'm reading from the National Review provided.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Enough essential nutrients to make her keep a person healthy.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Girls who ate cotton balls lost their hair and developed
gastro intestinal problems. Master, that's surprising, Master Cleanser's passed.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Out in the middle of the day. That's what Jamie
had had going. She was like, I can't do this.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
It's like an hour after we got off the air
the first day. Good for her, though she recognized it
was a bad idea. And then it talks about the
TV show The Biggest Loser, in which all the contestants
gained back the weight, which ended up being really really
good for the world because the studies they did on
The Biggest Loser stuff is what alerted us all to
the sad, sad fact that we have where we end
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up genetically programmed for a certain weight and your body
goes into all kinds of conniption fits to make sure
you stay it that weight. And it's some of the
most depressing news I've ever gotten in my wife, but
it certainly seems to be true. Wow, gen Z has
inherited a weight obsessed culture, one that social media has exacerbated.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Photos and videos of idyllic bodies are streamed into our
mind so often.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I mean, they've been saying this since as a little kid,
when it was magazines on the rack at the store,
and now.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's social media stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I don't know, to girls willing to starve themselves, those
bodies are, at least for a time, an achievable norm.
I've always had a problem with animy because everybody on
every magazine cover has always been better looking than me.
And I don't know, I never thought about it that much,
and I wish to If you ask me, would you
like to look like them?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, I'd really like to look like them, But that's
kind of the end of it. Yeah, and it is
for most people.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So the problem with all these things is what percentage
of people have to go off the nutty deep end
on something for it to be something that the rest
of society should react to, right, or that the rest
of us have to refrain from from now on, you know,
because some people go way too far.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I don't know, stupid, should hurt buy the T shirt,
Armstrong and getty dot com. Bad behavior leads to negative outcomes,
enter weightlawd it must enter weight loss drugs.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Glp ones, originally intended to treat type two diabetes and
now used for weight loss, seemed to some like a boon,
a game changer for obese people who need medical intervention.
To others, gop one seemed like the next overhyped miracle drug,
which I think it actually is. Yeah, how do you
talk over hyped miracle drug when you were just talking
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about people eating cotton balls tipped in kaien peppers or whatever.
That's not exactly an apples to apples comparison. Well, right,
and just overhyped miracles or what does that even mean?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That's eye of the behold. I think you're right the
first time.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
It's the whole all right, we've put out six articles
about how great something is. Now we need to start
the backlash. But yeah, Jenny, you write some backlashy articles, right,
could we have gone too far?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Go ahead, we'll do that.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Which, if marketed to the wrong subset of people, could
perpetuate the myth that's skinny is better than healthy skinny.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So don't Yeah, so don't, And that's wrong. Read a book,
read a magazine, he'll read a tweet. You don't know
that if you need proper nutrition, even if you're losing weight,
you don't know that. You're dumb. There's nothing I can do.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
To help you.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
And speaking of Kate Moss, her sister actually overdosed on ozempic.
Overdosed on Yeah, she was she wasn't heavy and the
dosage of ozempic was too high and she ended up
in the hospital because of it.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well, my question remains, and this is not just for
this weight loss saying, it's really for everything. It's just
what percentage of people that are either nuts or I
don't know what it is, an addictive person, whatever your
deal is, have poor judgment or stupid What percentage of
people with anything does it need to reach before we
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should considered a problem for the masses who aren't going
to do this. The mass some of us see attractive
people on magazine covers or TV shows and just think'd
be cool to look like that, But I don't. You
just don't really ever think about it. It doesn't take
over your life. Yeah, you might try to be more
good looking.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Certainly everybody likes to present themselves the best they can.
But yeah, yeah, I think all of that's overblown it
and it just to even hint it. Therefore, these so
called miracle drugs are really an evil scourge or I mean,
they don't state that in the article. I'm sure but
that's the hinting at it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You know, it's just just thinking out loud. But wouldn't
it make more sense to say America would be better
off if many, many, many more people looked at magazine
covers and became really interested in losing, right, Because the
vast majority of those people would end up in a
much better place and be healthy. There would be a
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very small minority who went too far, starved themselves or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
But that's no reason not to have you know.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
It's like saying, don't evacuate the building that's on fire
because a certain number of people might step on a
nail or trip and fall, or better that we all
remain in place.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Now, that's just dumb. I'm s'p stupid, should hurt.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You cannot regulate ninety five percent of society based on
the needs of the five percent who were too dumb
to help or crazy, you know, And I'm not and
I'm trying to.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Be dismissive of life.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
The young girl's adolescents with eating disorders, it's a terrible,
heartbreaking problem.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
No, it is horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I got a friend who have both their daughters had
eating disorders, really really really really awful. But what percentage
of people die from obesiti related illnesses every year compared
to die from anarexia.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
It's roughly a million to one. Yeah, right, exactly right.
So I don't need some magazine guy telling me, Joe,
don't get too excited about these JLP ones because some
people might go too far.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Well, I'm not going to, so stop shouting at me.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
And I don't think that you can take in no
nutrients and be perfectly okay if I'm gobbling cotton balls
and I'm beyond help from a from the newspaper article
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, I don't know that thing has been around for
ever my entire radio career.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
These unrealistic images we put on television, What are.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
You talking about?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
The people in the village got more attention to and
you wish you looked like them.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
That reminds me of the ancient discussion about whether, and
I remember it was at the time Playboy magazine, if
some women really didn't like it because they felt like
all men would compare them to the very brushed Right,
that's a small percentage of dope dudes don't deserve the
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love of a good woman anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, I just thought I don't know is how much.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
How many things like this were just invented for talk
radio fodder. Practically, maybe we're the reason for its turning
the way back talk radio something to talk about on
a you know, a Wednesday afternoon while people drive to work. Yeah,
I don't know, I'm unrealistic images Okay, But so that
was your first blowback article thus far on the new
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weight loss drugs, which and I love National review.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
That was freaking week.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Oh that's try freaking week. We're probably going to prevent
six hundred and fifty thousand heart attacks this year. But
there's five young women across America who will take too much,
like Kate Moss's dopey sister. Fine, great, it's a big country.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Will We'll be okay, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
So, my sweetheart Judy and I spent eight days in
London and had an absolutely wonderful time. I loved England
as I suspected I would. It's a very interesting place.
I'd become a fan of day drinking, and not in
that like vacation drinking all day long way, but in
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the like you have a pint at lunch at a
pub and then you go do what you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
You're not quote unquote drinking.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
You just have a beer because it's nice and it
makes you feel slightly more cheerful.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Why did we eat?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
How did we develop our attitude we have in the
United States over the years, because I remember when I
was in Italy thinking the same thing. Everybody would come
in the restaurants, like people who are working their jobs.
They'd have a glass of wine, eat their food and
then go back to work. And that is seen in
the United States. It's just insane, just absolutely crazy. Yeah,
the Europeans have what I would call a very European
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look or view of drinking that I found refreshing. Speaking
of pubs.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
So we rented a flat in Mayfair if you know
where that is, doesn't matter, New Bond Street, lots of
like crazy high end shop thing, mostly populated by Kuwaiti
oil money. Oh wow, by the bye guys walking up
the street with four chicks and the beekeeper out really
going into perfume stores and spending just one godly amounts
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of oil money a lot real.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
That's not an exaggeration. You saw a guy walking up
the street with four women in the beekeeper up in
eight days, many times. Yes, wow, I mean one to
six women in the beekeeper. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Anyway, Oh, they are basically sex slaves or cleaning your
house slaves or whatever, and everybody just tolerates.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
That with no rights.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
That's correct, yes, And Brits are not super duper happy
about the completely wildly unfettered immigration from Muslim lands over
the last twenty years. More on that another time, but anyway,
but out our windows onto the street, there was a
little like just had half a block long street and
there was a pub on each side of it.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
At the other end. It was one hundred yards from.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Us maybe as we looked out the window, and it
was so cool every day, and more and more as
the week went on.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
At four thirty or so, certainly by five.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
O'clock there would be so many people standing in and
outside the pub having a pint with their coworkers and
friends and a laugh and a conversation before they went
home for the day.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Sounds like a recipe for sexual harassment, Oh my god.
And it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
They were drinking, No, they were talking with people because
they worked with people, and they met their buddies, and
they talked about the football match, which is soccer and
it just it was so nice. Yeah, anyway, yeah, and
I thought, wow, I could get used to this in
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a hurry.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Although the pub thing, we went to this one historic pub.
We met our next door neighbors from home. Weird enough,
they were over there at.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
The same time. We decided to get together. We go
to this pub, hundreds of years old, pub, drenched in history, legendary,
the Prince something or lord, what's it there, I don't
even remember the name, but it was very atmospheric. But anyway,
so we're sitting there having dinner and or we're having
you know, a couple of pines, and we decided it's
time to eat, and we order like four small plates
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off the menu, and the waitress comes back.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And says, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
We're actually out of the calamari and the pucker fish
or whatever the hell it was, and also the beef Wellington.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And we're like, oh, okay, it's like six o'clock at night,
how are you all right? All right, all right, we'll
order those other things. Then she comes back in like
two of those three are out. So should she ever
get around to admitting we're not actually a restaurant, we
don't have any food at all. We just have a menu.
We just hope we're working on the wind. Most people
start drinking, they forget if they're hungry. So at one
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point I said, it would save time if you just
told me what you do have, But we end up
with this mess of food.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Did you say that I shouldn't have? But I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
And finally so at the end of the evening and
it was lovely, she comes and says, can you tell
me what you actually ordered?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
And got? Oh boy?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
And I'm like, wait a minute, that's your job. We're
support no, no, no, you tell us. And it was
just part of it is tipping is not really a
thing there.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Now they've got a service charge that's like five, six,
maybe ten percent, but you feel it because they're not
earning it. They're like, look, I'm getting my six percent.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Oh okay, no matter what, gotcha.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
So if you have to like order twenty four foods
before I bring you three, just because we're playing this
little game of.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
We might have it, we might not what a new
order find out. So you know, it's it's pluses and minuses.
Because the whole tipping thing is it's stressful, especially if.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
You don't know the local customs. But yeah, Michael, how
was the food over there? Overall in England? Uh, overall
kind of.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Good, not great, But once you realize how to order
and what to order, it's it's better. But yeah, the
Brits are not famous for food for for good reason.
If you say, hey, what's a great meal around here,
people will send you to an Italian restaurant or an
Indian restaurant for a good reason. But the other thing
about workers that I found interesting. We had a tour
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guide at the British Museum who was just terrific. He
was a professor of history, and he said, yeah, that
exhibit is shut down because there's just no employees.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
There's no one to work. I said, what, that's odd?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
He said, oh, yeah, since COVID, everybody stays home, they
live with their parents, they're collecting government checks.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You can't get people to work.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I thought that was so interesting and exactly what you
hear from so many employers in the States. Yeah, we
had that conversation with my family in the Midwest of
the United States. I don't go to other countries and
give them my money. I stay in the United States
and for you. But we had the same conversation on
how a number of restaurants, including the one we were at,
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was really they they weren't seating all the seats, not
because they were crowded, but because they didn't have enough help.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
How is that still a thing.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yeah, I know, it's amazing and universally universal, apparently,
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getty and Hee.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty Strong twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What a year? Huh? That was something. We're not here
right now.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We're playing you the best of what we call like
to call Armstrong and Geddy replace.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yeah, and the staff is still shell shocked. They're still
crying quietly in the corner. It takes so much work
to get this together and present it to you in
as entertaining a form as it is.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's the Armstrong and Getty replay right now.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's a campus chaos update.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh lord, the camp it's poor one. What happened to her?
Oh so story number one? Listen to this? Would you?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
If there's some sort of a word for this, I
think it may win it. Princeton University, far from reforming itself,
is launching a new anthropology class on gender reproduction and
genocide in Gaza, a class whose description puts the Israeli
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Hamas war on par with Holocaust.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
The four credit graded course being taught by a noted
Palestinian feminist who has made provably false claims that Hamas
did not kill any babies or rape women on October seventh,
Oh my god, and also calls for an end to.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
The Jewish state.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Wow again, this course being taught at Princeton, which has
learned nothing and has no shame? Is gender reproduction and
genocide in Gaza isn't here as a description? I think
Princeton is one of the colleges that really gets a
lot of money from Qatar.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Uh yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Drawing on decolognia, see if listen, we gotta have a
game here, a drinking game or so, I don't know something.
Count how many bulls critical theory terms are in this
course description? Drawing on decolonial, indigenous and feminist thought, we
examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life, sexual and familial structures,
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and community survival. Students will engage reproductive justice frameworks, survivor testimony,
and Palestinian feminist critiques of colonial violence while situating Gaza
within comparative histories of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust in
genocide against black and indigenous populations.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Wow, somebody's paying a lot of money to have their
kid take that class.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Undergrads who take the class can get credit toward an
anthropology major or toward a minor in Gender and Sexuality
studies anthropology major.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
That's what my son's really interested in, that sort of stuff.
And I was wondering, is there a university you can
go to where it just isn't all that quart kind
of crap?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Right, here's another fun game you might play. I'm going
to quote the woman who teaches this, who claimed that
there were no rapes or killing of children on October seventh,
interject to or substitute any word in place of Zionism.
You want Islam, black people, anything, and see if anybody
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in America could get away with saying this what she said,
It's time to abolish Zionism. It can't continue. It's criminal.
Only by abolishing Zionism can we continue. They will use
any lie. They started with babies, they continued with rape,
and they will continue with a million other lies. We
stop believing them. I hope the world stops believing them.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And it's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So moving along, and again, as you said, Jack, Dewey
eyed fools will take this course and believe it, and
they might just be having that hey a lot for it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
They might only have that clash to keep the millions
flowing in from Qatar and other places like that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, OK, I gotta go a little more. Then we'll
move on.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
But among the required readings is an essay titled reproci
in Gaza. That's a new one, repro side in Gaza,
the gendered strategy of Genocide through Reproductive violence by Halla Showman,
a former Gazen dentist and self described social activist. Reprosides,
she writes, quote, is the systematic targeting of a group's
reproductive capacities as a deliberate strategy of erasure. Israel has
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weaponized reproductive health through direct military targeting, siege conditions, force displacement,
environmental toxis, said toxicity, and gendered violence, thereby creating conditions
in Gaza that make pregnancy dangerously high risk. Therefore the
title of the class gender reproduction and Genocide in Gaza.
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Moving along, this is a really good essay. I wish
we had time for the whole thing from that jeff
yass who donated one hundred million dollars to the University
of Austin, and he explains why. If you're not familiar
with the University of Austin, and it is a wonderful
back to what a university ought to be project with
a lot of our favorite people involved. Anyway, he says,
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I'm given one hundred million dollars through the University of
Austin because the feedback feedback mechanisms of higher education are broken.
Almost every system that works works because of feedback. Evolution
works because helpful mutation survival, harmful ones die off. Democracy
works because voter support effective leaders and remove ineffective ones.
Then he talks about markets and science works how it works.
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Most systems or institutions that don't work at broken feedback
mechanisms corrupt politicians, corony capitalists, ideological echo chambers. Unfortunately, higher
education belongs in this category. The purpose of higher education
should be to instill in students knowledge, skills, judgment, and
characters so they can flourish and contribute to society. By
that standard, success should be measured by how graduates are doing,
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and that's not happening anymore. He wants the success of
education to be measured in terms of success.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Imagine that.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Success in the person's chosen field, in their knowledge.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Did they get anything out of this is.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
The question he wants asked, when you say it out loud,
it almost sounds like you're trying to explain it to
a not very bright child or something like that, because
it's so freaking obvious. But we've lost it completely. You
go University of Austin and Jeff, thank you for doing
the right things.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Speaking of Texas, Texas Tech is pissing off the woke crowd.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I found this interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
On December one, the new chancellor of Texas Tech sent
professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval for
course material. It accompanied a memo with rules for teaching
about race and gender, including a ban on quote advocacy
or promotion of race or sex based prejudice. The chart
asked professors to first ask if the course material quote
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is relevant and necessary for classroom instruction, then details a
review process that starts with the department chair and can
go all the way up to the Board of re Agents,
the system's governing board. The chart is part of a
wider national campaign by conservatives to reverse years.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Of what they see. What they see what anybody could see.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
As left leaning faculty in indoctrination across higher education.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
M Do they see that, uh?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, that's what they see, in the same way that
people going to the circus said they see an elephant.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, because there's an effing elephant there. Sorry anyway, es Geese.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The Free Press was writing about how a systematic analysis
of various classes that purported to have both sides of
arguments would have the big book representing the Marcus point
of view, and then like everybody in the field knows
what the counter book is, the respected or there might
be several of them, and they just don't teach it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You don't read it, you don't have to.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It's just utterly biased, and Texas Tech, to their credit,
is going to finally do something about it. Final note, Jack,
you mentioned the katar. I would like to mention the
kami Chinese. Here's an adline for you. University of Michigan's
partnership with the CCP link Changhai School brought Chinese spies
to campus, and dozens of US universities have similar arrangements.
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Elite schools like Columbian Yale maintained joint institute's dual degrees
and exchange programs with Shanghai Xiaotong University since October twenty fourth.
Department of Justice has charged at least twelve University of
Michigan students, researchers, and recent grads.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's just the University of Michigan, folks.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
At least twelve all Chinese nationals with national security related offenses,
a scale far out pacing any other US school. Five
of them were accused of taking photographs of military drills
at a military camp. They all belong to an engineering
partnership between Michigan and Shanghai Xiaotong, which House Select Committee
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on China.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Rep.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Jason Molinar Michigan said, quote was helping the CCP modernize
its military and allegedly sits on the People's Liberation Army
base in Uh what's the town? Did I say? It's
in Shanghai. Michigan, under pressure from Molinar, went on to
end it's twenty year partnership, but other top units universities
maintained ties to the Chinese schools. Between the Katari's pumping
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money in so schools teach up with the Muslim Brotherhood
and down with the jew and the communist Chinese sending
their spies to America masquerading as scholars. It is some
serious rot. It's campus chaos.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, we got to tell you about Omaha stakes. But
as soon as we're done, I got a question, Katie.
You can weigh on this about my neighbors bringing me
cookies and whether or not I got to bring them something. Now,
maybe I bring the Omaha steaks. I got quite a few.
Here's a steak.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Class Ribby down on the counter.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I had them a frozen steak in the plastic from Amsteakes,
and I'll just say, you need to put this back
in the freezer or let it though your choice.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I'm sixty years old.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I should probably give up the idea that I'm ever
going to send out Christmas cards, because I never have,
and every year when I start getting them from other people,
I feel guilty and think next year I will. But
at some point I should just decide clearly I'm never
going to send Christmas cards anybody, and so I don't
take on the guilt. But this one is slightly different.
Is my neighbors. I live in a cul de sac
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and two of the main houses that like face me
are next to me. One family brought over some nice
what are your Christmasy flowers? The red ones all those
points sets, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, yeah, exactly yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Don't throw in that extra syllable. Am I supposed to
throw in the extra syllable?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
We set? Yah? I just I can't do that. It's
too much for me.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
But they brought over points set as in a card,
and then our other neighbors. They're cute little kids, the
perfect family that I talk about on a regular basis.
They're like the perfect family, and uh, and I feel
like they're being perfect just to make me feel bad
about myself, which is normal. Uh, they brought over cookies.
They're cute little kids, and uh, mom, they brought over cookies.
So where am I on the obligation list to bring
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them something I would? I think I'm going nice. I
think I'm going to I'm gonna go with cookies.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But then were they Did they bake the cookies for you?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, well they baked cookies. I don't know that they baked.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Them for me.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
They code, yeah, homemade cookies. Okay, So here's my other problem.
I actually said, you know, we're going to bring cookies
over to you. We end up eating them all, which
is true, and uh, I said we'll make some more.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Ow.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
My son made them from scratch, absolutely from scratch. The
sugar cookies and the buttercream frosting. Looked up the recipe,
we bought the ingredients. He did every single thing. I
didn't do one thing. They're not very good, So I'm
going to figure out do I intervene? And I haven't
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said that to him. These are delicious, They're good enough
to eat. I mean, my my bar for how good
a cookie, sugar cookie's got to be before I eat
it is you know right here.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I mean I've had.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Them where at the bar's way up you know, the
deliciousness is up here. I'm still gonna eat it down here, though,
I mean they were still north of Labrador retriever at
your bar. It's like the old sex joke. It's like
a sugar cookies and sex. You know, when it's bad,
it's pretty good. So do I have my son make
another batch of really not that very good cookies? If
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I do, I'm going to make it clear that he
made them.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I would tell you this as the husband of an
avid Avid baker, knowing that didn't go quite right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Figuring out why is part of bacon.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I'm yeah, I'm sure nobody that turns out great the
first time. Most people are giving you their great sugar cookies.
It's like the fiftieth time they've made them, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I mean, it's not like you're going to go great
Santinians throws them at the boy and screamed that you're
no good.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It just fine.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
But now that we're going to give him the neighbors,
I'm just feeling like I'm gonna give him these cookies
and they're gonna take a bite him and say, what
the hell is this.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I just pictured him holding out a plate and Jack
just smacking it into the air.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
A crap. No, I just I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Yeah, he'll get better next time, and maybe maybe they'll
be good the second time around.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I don't know if he noticed that they weren't that
great though he hasn't said anything about it. He hasn't
said that he's a little dry or anything like that.
You still have your yeah, do you still have your
weird COVID thing? Well? Yeah, but the they were clearly
too dry. I mean, you know that's got to do
nothing to do with the ability and stay sweet.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Maybe make him a meat loaf or something something completely different.
There you go and them a meat loaf. Okay, yeah,
well you could plate it. I'm sure they'd return the plate.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The Armstrong and Getty Show. Yeah, more Jack or Joe
podcasts and our hot legs.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. It's a
little longish.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Maybe we'll get to mailbag next hour.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Uh, it's Joe.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Raffidi wrote this. He's an academic of some sort. But
I absolutely love this. And I can't remember if I've
read this before, but if I did, it's in the
wrong file and you're going to hear it again.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Socialists perform compassion, capitalists live it. That probably sounds insane
to people who've been in Doctor Nadan to believe that
caring means redistributing wealth by force.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
But here's the reality.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Capitalism requires you to care about other people's needs.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
It asks of you what problems can I solve? What
value can I create? What do people actually want and need?
Your success is directly tied to how well you serve others.
You can't force people to buy from you, you can't
coerce them into using your product or service.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think the problem is socialism sort of promises there
won't be losers. Capitalism sort of guarantees there will be
winners and losers. Yeah, socialism is is a philosophy for
children and those who have yet to grow up and
recognize the way human beings really are.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Mail bag dumps.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Aaron Wright's colonialism is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Look at this.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
There are thousands of videos from various s whole countries
where young men are exhuming old graves for clicks and
Facebook reels.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
This must stop.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Oh my internet viral ghoulishness adding up graves. I hadn't
heard this, messing with the bones whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh my god, that's the worst thing I've ever heard.
Stay tuned. I got to look into that.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Let's see non binary WTF. Aldonymous writes A friend of
mine was purchasing a gun and filling out the federal
background CHECKIE noticed that for gender they had three options male, female,
and non binary. Hoping they're using this to weed out
anyone who checks non binary, because if you don't know
what your sex is, there's not a chance in hell
used to be allowed to buy a gun.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Tell Trump to fix this. I will next time I
talk to him.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Tell Trump to fix this. Well too, I saved this one.
I got this a couple of days ago to I
liked it JT.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
And Livermore says, I'm not against the notion of a
P doom metric. That's the percentage you think AI will
doom humanity, he says, But I also want to pair
it with the P salvation number. Sure, a superintelligence would
be something new and unproven, could go pear shape for mankind.
But it isn't as if we're one hundred percent shape
shape safe if AGI is never built. Look at all
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the great threats that might happen if we never built
the AGI nukes in all their forms, bioweapons, the super
volcano eruptions, economic collapse, climate apocalypse, smad Mark Zuckerberg, Democrat policies, sex, robots,
good list. Maybe having an AGI is the only way
to deal with some or all of the pending disasters.
So when you tell me your P DO number P
doom number, also tell me the percentage likelihood that an
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AGI would be necessary to solve protect us from things
too complicated or too difficult for us to solve on
our own, aka your.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
P salvation number.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Interesting, great thought, really interesting. It just came across an
article about they may introduce those drugs gop one drugs.
That's like your a zempic and your zep bound and
(17:27):
your what are some of the other brand names. It's
like one wigov wigovy panera. Is that one of them? No,
that's a bread it is.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, No, they they're coming up with them for pets.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh you got a fat dog or a fat cat.
But the National Review has an article.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Today for the people version the dangers of weight loss
drugs going mainstream.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Wow, it's just when it seemed like a great idea,
I think.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
This is I guess it's just a journalism thing.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Something becomes pocketer. You write an article about.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
How this could be bad, all right, because I read
the whole article and it doesn't convince me. But it's
some interesting information in here. Because i'd forgotten some of
this stuff. I didn't remember that Kate Moss, who was
one of your famous skinny models of like the eighties
and nineties, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. She
was famous for saying, I guess even though I've never
(18:19):
heard that before. The mantra, popularized by bone thin celebrities
and touted by teenagers with eating disorders, colored the way
an entire generation thought about weight, food and exercise. Katie,
you lost a ton of weight yourself throughout the years,
But you I don't think you've ever said anything about
like going too far, being too skinny, or were you.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Ever there was a point where yeah, I was a
little too skinny, but that was because I was so
obsessed with staying skinny and working out that it wasn't
something that I could continue to do.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
But you had been quite overweight and had health problems.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, it's a pretty good reason to be pretty obsessed
with staying thins right, That's the problem with all this.
I mean, yeah, you know, if you if you if
you have a heart attack and your doctor says you
got to lose weight, being pretty obsessed with losing weight
is that doesn't make you Kate Moss. Doesn't make a
k Yeah, it doesn't make you Kate Moss. When models
in the twenty tens eight calorie free cotton balls dipped
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in juice or gelatin to make their slices feel.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Full, what I had missed this?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
What you take a cotton ball and dip it in
juice or jello to make your.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Stomach feel ful?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Wow that how did I never hear about that? Well,
I don't know if lots of people were doing it.
See that's the thing you get, that's what I heard
about it.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Get six hipsters in the New York or LA that
are doing it, and women all across America. No not Actually,
if you just look around, people all across America are
not overwhelmingly obsessed with being thin. Based on my trip
to Walmart last.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Week, Well, I do enjoy a nice mouthful of cotton balls.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So when celebrities embarked on the Master Kleans in the
early two thousand, a detox diet that consisted only of
lemon juice, maple syrup, water, and cayenne pepper, right, you
remember that when our former newswoman announced, with great fans
fair she was going to do that and made it
(20:23):
till eleven am.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I think it was one did make it to lunch
the first day. I remember that. Yeah, Jamie, you're a
good person. Oh yeah, heck, bad diet.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I think Beyonce started that whole thing, The cleans, the
lemon honey, cayenne giasco.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
None of these crazes I'm reading from the National Review provided.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Enough essential nutrients to make her keep a person healthy.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Girls who ate cotton balls lost their hair and developed
gastro intestinal problems. Master, that's surprising, Master Cleanser's passed.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Out in the middle of the day. That's what Jamie
had had going. She was like, I can't do this.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
It's like an hour after we got off the air
the first day. Good for her, though she recognized it
was a bad idea. And then it talks about the
TV show The Biggest Loser, in which all the contestants
gained back the weight, which ended up being really really
good for the world because the studies they did on
The Biggest Loser stuff is what alerted us all to
the sad, sad fact that we have where we end
(21:32):
up genetically programmed for a certain weight and your body
goes into all kinds of conniption fits to make sure
you stay it that weight. And it's some of the
most depressing news I've ever gotten in my wife, but
it certainly seems to be true. Wow, gen Z has
inherited a weight obsessed culture, one that social media has exacerbated.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Photos and videos of idyllic bodies are streamed into our
mind so often.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I mean, they've been saying this since as a little kid,
when it was magazines on the rack at the store,
and now.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's social media stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I don't know, to girls willing to starve themselves, those
bodies are, at least for a time, an achievable norm.
I've always had a problem with animy because everybody on
every magazine cover has always been better looking than me.
And I don't know, I never thought about it that much,
and I wish to If you ask me, would you
like to look like them?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, I'd really like to look like them, But that's
kind of the end of it. Yeah, and it is
for most people.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So the problem with all these things is what percentage
of people have to go off the nutty deep end
on something for it to be something that the rest
of society should react to, right, or that the rest
of us have to refrain from from now on, you know,
because some people go way too far.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I don't know, stupid, should hurt buy the T shirt,
Armstrong and getty dot com. Bad behavior leads to negative outcomes,
enter weightlawd it must enter weight loss drugs.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Glp ones, originally intended to treat type two diabetes and
now used for weight loss, seemed to some like a boon,
a game changer for obese people who need medical intervention.
To others, gop one seemed like the next overhyped miracle drug,
which I think it actually is. Yeah, how do you
talk over hyped miracle drug when you were just talking
(23:16):
about people eating cotton balls tipped in kaien peppers or whatever.
That's not exactly an apples to apples comparison. Well, right,
and just overhyped miracles or what does that even mean?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That's eye of the behold. I think you're right the
first time.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
It's the whole all right, we've put out six articles
about how great something is. Now we need to start
the backlash. But yeah, Jenny, you write some backlashy articles, right,
could we have gone too far?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Go ahead, we'll do that.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Which, if marketed to the wrong subset of people, could
perpetuate the myth that's skinny is better than healthy skinny.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So don't Yeah, so don't, And that's wrong. Read a book,
read a magazine, he'll read a tweet. You don't know
that if you need proper nutrition, even if you're losing weight,
you don't know that. You're dumb. There's nothing I can do.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
To help you.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
And speaking of Kate Moss, her sister actually overdosed on ozempic.
Overdosed on Yeah, she was she wasn't heavy and the
dosage of ozempic was too high and she ended up
in the hospital because of it.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well, my question remains, and this is not just for
this weight loss saying, it's really for everything. It's just
what percentage of people that are either nuts or I
don't know what it is, an addictive person, whatever your
deal is, have poor judgment or stupid What percentage of
people with anything does it need to reach before we
(24:52):
should considered a problem for the masses who aren't going
to do this. The mass some of us see attractive
people on magazine covers or TV shows and just think'd
be cool to look like that, But I don't. You
just don't really ever think about it. It doesn't take
over your life. Yeah, you might try to be more
good looking.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Certainly everybody likes to present themselves the best they can.
But yeah, yeah, I think all of that's overblown it
and it just to even hint it. Therefore, these so
called miracle drugs are really an evil scourge or I mean,
they don't state that in the article. I'm sure but
that's the hinting at it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You know, it's just just thinking out loud. But wouldn't
it make more sense to say America would be better
off if many, many, many more people looked at magazine
covers and became really interested in losing, right, Because the
vast majority of those people would end up in a
much better place and be healthy. There would be a
(25:50):
very small minority who went too far, starved themselves or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
But that's no reason not to have you know.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
It's like saying, don't evacuate the building that's on fire
because a certain number of people might step on a
nail or trip and fall, or better that we all
remain in place.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Now, that's just dumb. I'm s'p stupid, should hurt.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You cannot regulate ninety five percent of society based on
the needs of the five percent who were too dumb
to help or crazy, you know, And I'm not and
I'm trying to.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Be dismissive of life.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
The young girl's adolescents with eating disorders, it's a terrible,
heartbreaking problem.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
No, it is horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I got a friend who have both their daughters had
eating disorders, really really really really awful. But what percentage
of people die from obesiti related illnesses every year compared
to die from anarexia.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
It's roughly a million to one. Yeah, right, exactly right.
So I don't need some magazine guy telling me, Joe,
don't get too excited about these JLP ones because some
people might go too far.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Well, I'm not going to, so stop shouting at me.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
And I don't think that you can take in no
nutrients and be perfectly okay if I'm gobbling cotton balls
and I'm beyond help from a from the newspaper article
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, I don't know that thing has been around for
ever my entire radio career.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
These unrealistic images we put on television, What are.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
You talking about?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
The people in the village got more attention to and
you wish you looked like them.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
That reminds me of the ancient discussion about whether, and
I remember it was at the time Playboy magazine, if
some women really didn't like it because they felt like
all men would compare them to the very brushed Right,
that's a small percentage of dope dudes don't deserve the
(27:43):
love of a good woman anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, I just thought I don't know is how much.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
How many things like this were just invented for talk
radio fodder. Practically, maybe we're the reason for its turning
the way back talk radio something to talk about on
a you know, a Wednesday afternoon while people drive to work. Yeah,
I don't know, I'm unrealistic images Okay, But so that
was your first blowback article thus far on the new
(28:14):
weight loss drugs, which and I love National review.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
That was freaking week.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Oh that's try freaking week. We're probably going to prevent
six hundred and fifty thousand heart attacks this year. But
there's five young women across America who will take too much,
like Kate Moss's dopey sister. Fine, great, it's a big country.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Will We'll be okay, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
So, my sweetheart Judy and I spent eight days in
London and had an absolutely wonderful time. I loved England
as I suspected I would. It's a very interesting place.
I'd become a fan of day drinking, and not in
that like vacation drinking all day long way, but in
(29:08):
the like you have a pint at lunch at a
pub and then you go do what you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
You're not quote unquote drinking.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
You just have a beer because it's nice and it
makes you feel slightly more cheerful.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Why did we eat?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
How did we develop our attitude we have in the
United States over the years, because I remember when I
was in Italy thinking the same thing. Everybody would come
in the restaurants, like people who are working their jobs.
They'd have a glass of wine, eat their food and
then go back to work. And that is seen in
the United States. It's just insane, just absolutely crazy. Yeah,
the Europeans have what I would call a very European
(29:45):
look or view of drinking that I found refreshing. Speaking
of pubs.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
So we rented a flat in Mayfair if you know
where that is, doesn't matter, New Bond Street, lots of
like crazy high end shop thing, mostly populated by Kuwaiti
oil money. Oh wow, by the bye guys walking up
the street with four chicks and the beekeeper out really
going into perfume stores and spending just one godly amounts
(30:12):
of oil money a lot real.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
That's not an exaggeration. You saw a guy walking up
the street with four women in the beekeeper up in
eight days, many times. Yes, wow, I mean one to
six women in the beekeeper. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Anyway, Oh, they are basically sex slaves or cleaning your
house slaves or whatever, and everybody just tolerates.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
That with no rights.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
That's correct, yes, And Brits are not super duper happy
about the completely wildly unfettered immigration from Muslim lands over
the last twenty years. More on that another time, but anyway,
but out our windows onto the street, there was a
little like just had half a block long street and
there was a pub on each side of it.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
At the other end. It was one hundred yards from.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Us maybe as we looked out the window, and it
was so cool every day, and more and more as
the week went on.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
At four thirty or so, certainly by five.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
O'clock there would be so many people standing in and
outside the pub having a pint with their coworkers and
friends and a laugh and a conversation before they went
home for the day.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Sounds like a recipe for sexual harassment, Oh my god.
And it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
They were drinking, No, they were talking with people because
they worked with people, and they met their buddies, and
they talked about the football match, which is soccer and
it just it was so nice. Yeah, anyway, yeah, and
I thought, wow, I could get used to this in
(31:53):
a hurry.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Although the pub thing, we went to this one historic pub.
We met our next door neighbors from home. Weird enough,
they were over there at.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
The same time. We decided to get together. We go
to this pub, hundreds of years old, pub, drenched in history, legendary,
the Prince something or lord, what's it there, I don't
even remember the name, but it was very atmospheric. But anyway,
so we're sitting there having dinner and or we're having
you know, a couple of pines, and we decided it's
time to eat, and we order like four small plates
(32:22):
off the menu, and the waitress comes back.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And says, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
We're actually out of the calamari and the pucker fish
or whatever the hell it was, and also the beef Wellington.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And we're like, oh, okay, it's like six o'clock at night,
how are you all right? All right, all right, we'll
order those other things. Then she comes back in like
two of those three are out. So should she ever
get around to admitting we're not actually a restaurant, we
don't have any food at all. We just have a menu.
We just hope we're working on the wind. Most people
start drinking, they forget if they're hungry. So at one
(32:59):
point I said, it would save time if you just
told me what you do have, But we end up
with this mess of food.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Did you say that I shouldn't have? But I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
And finally so at the end of the evening and
it was lovely, she comes and says, can you tell
me what you actually ordered?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
And got? Oh boy?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
And I'm like, wait a minute, that's your job. We're
support no, no, no, you tell us. And it was
just part of it is tipping is not really a
thing there.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Now they've got a service charge that's like five, six,
maybe ten percent, but you feel it because they're not
earning it. They're like, look, I'm getting my six percent.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Oh okay, no matter what, gotcha.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
So if you have to like order twenty four foods
before I bring you three, just because we're playing this
little game of.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
We might have it, we might not what a new
order find out. So you know, it's it's pluses and minuses.
Because the whole tipping thing is it's stressful, especially if.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
You don't know the local customs. But yeah, Michael, how
was the food over there? Overall in England? Uh, overall
kind of.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Good, not great, But once you realize how to order
and what to order, it's it's better. But yeah, the
Brits are not famous for food for for good reason.
If you say, hey, what's a great meal around here,
people will send you to an Italian restaurant or an
Indian restaurant for a good reason. But the other thing
about workers that I found interesting. We had a tour
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guide at the British Museum who was just terrific. He
was a professor of history, and he said, yeah, that
exhibit is shut down because there's just no employees.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
There's no one to work. I said, what, that's odd?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
He said, oh, yeah, since COVID, everybody stays home, they
live with their parents, they're collecting government checks.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You can't get people to work.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I thought that was so interesting and exactly what you
hear from so many employers in the States. Yeah, we
had that conversation with my family in the Midwest of
the United States. I don't go to other countries and
give them my money. I stay in the United States
and for you. But we had the same conversation on
how a number of restaurants, including the one we were at,
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was really they they weren't seating all the seats, not
because they were crowded, but because they didn't have enough help.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
How is that still a thing.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yeah, I know, it's amazing and universally universal, apparently,
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