April 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Featured during Hour 1 of the Monday, April 21, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Dog Shoots Man & Legal Pot Woes
- Joe's Gladiator Confession
- Josh Hoover on CA Girls Sports
- Jack's Son's Shoes
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Armstrong and.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
He is Armstrong and Caddy Strong.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
We are on vacation, but boy, do we have some
good stuff for you?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, indeed we do.
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Speaker 4 (01:14):
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Speaker 3 (01:17):
Now on with the infotainments.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Some breaking news just out of our newsroom here at
Fox thirteen. A man is in the hospital after being
shot in the leg overnight if his police say he
was shot by.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
His dog. Seriously, I don't think that's right.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
This happened just before four am at a home on
Whitney Avenue in Fraser Wow. Police say the man was
lying in the bed with a girl with a gun
on the bed. Police say his dog jumped up on
the bed, got is Paul stuck in the trigger and
ended up hitting the trigger, shooting the man in the thigh.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Wow accident.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Yeah, so the dog claims you pretend to throw the
tennis ball, you stick it in the couch cushion one
too many times?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Right, And Dora, I'm supposed to be there in the
bed next to you.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And who is this? Huh?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You cheating bastard.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
When's the last time I went for a walk? Can
you even remember? Wow?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Wow, bad boy, bad dog.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
The dog ties him to a chair like reservoir dogs.
I'm not putting up with this anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Right Wait? So, uh Jack Michael?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Do we have that the two rappers were talking and
gunshots went off?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
That's a candidate for clip.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Of the year. So I like the way.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Clearly this news anchor who's got a bit of a
kent Brockman, Will Ferrell vibe Yah apparently was just handed
this breaking news not knowing.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He was about to do a story about a man
who was shot by a dog at four a m.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yeah, so could happens also possible that he was messing
around with his gun, or she shot him or something.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
They don't want to tell anybody what actually happened.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Right, Yeah, that's that's at least, although you know, it's
not implausible that if you are living the lifestyle where
you're lying in bed with quote unquote a girl who
wrote that story.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Did they need a woman?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I would hope.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And there's a gun laying there for some reason, you
can't put it on the nightstand even Yeah, you're living
the sort of lifestyle where.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Your dog shoots.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Maybe he or she likes the gun pointed at them
during their romantic times. Oh good lord, no, I remember
seeing that in the Sopranos. Remember one of them. Somebody
liked having a gun to their head during Tawdrey.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's way too tawdry.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
No, a dog just shot someone. This is time for
friend talk. The pastor's rising up, as I predicted. Go ahead, Michael,
and choices we got in life? Those were your choices?
Who shadow?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Somebody got shot? Oh how good? The dirty dead? What
do I want with my idea? Don't shut me? Everybody, everybody, everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's the sort of guy who's in bed with a
girl and a dodge shot.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
They have a much more relaxed, lighthearted view of shootings
in the room. On fire, shootings in the room. I mean,
it's not even an accidental shooting at the range or
outdoors or something.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
We're in a room with a number of people. A
gun gots off, somebody's been shot. You good, I've been shot?
It you good? You good?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Everybody good? Okay, Bess, I was saying, Wow, you've different
lived a different lifestyle than I have. Who Who shot? Who?
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Somebody shot?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Anyway, what are your plans today?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
You guys are hungry?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I'm hungry? Yeah? Crazy? Can I want to hear that
another one?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Just the beginning part where the anchor gets to the oh,
because I just find this funny.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
We want to get you to some breaking news just
out of our newsroom here at Fox thirteen. A man
is in the hospital after being shot in the leg
overnight if his police say he was shot by his dog. Seriously,
I don't think that's right. This happened just before four
a m.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
A dog Hitney Avenue in the Fraser Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Police say the man was lying in the bed with
a girl with a gun on the bed. Police say
his dog jumped up on the bed, got is Paul
stuck in the trigger and ended up hitting the trigger,
shooting the man in the thigh.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Wow. Four in the morning. I ain't eating lamb and
rice anymore. Give me some real freaking food. Was it
a hunting dog? Boy?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
So there's actual and of course some background checks. We
don't know any of those things. Gun loopholes, what went
on there?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Wow? Wow?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Well, and if I was going to make a serious
point about it, that's the very sort of person that
Democratic prosecutors would never enforce gun laws against. They howl
for more gun laws constantly. And then the guy who's
I'm confused. You know what I walked into that didn't I? Yes,
you know, Perhaps it's best to just move on to
(06:35):
other fair I don't know why I enjoy giving jiv
names to features sets of stories, but I do.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Jack.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So you get the choice between golden state of confusion.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Or how markets really work.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'll go with a second, much more sober, just because
the lack of jiviness.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I'm just curiousity after the dog predic Caul.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, okay, So story number one why the US keeps
losing to China in the battle over critical minerals Because
everybody knows that the minerals, the rarest the metals everybody's
talking about that go into.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So much new technology.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He or they who control access to those things controls
the world economy to a large extent. And the obvious
issue with that is that if we continue to be
highly dependent on China to come up with those materials.
We're screwed as an economy the minute they decide to
tweak us or bring us to our knees. So you
(07:37):
have this story of the effort to get a big
giant New America and our allies run graphite mine and
the goal to challenge China's dominance over the world supply
of a critical mineral used in everything from electric vehicles
to submarine hubs. And so this Australia based mining company,
(08:02):
backed by more than one hundred million dollars of US
government financing, maybe a worthy goal. Kind of funny, There
wasn't any discussion of this, but this is what our
giant government does. Opened a mine in Mozambique and built
a graphite processing plant in Louisiana, the first of its
type in the US, and also signed a sales deal
(08:23):
with Tesla, which is historically brought graphight for cars from
China for the battery specifically.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
But then things started to go off the rails.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
China, which provides more than ninety percent of the world's
battery grade graph height supply, jacked up its production.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
How many what did the market? How many stories include
China supplies ninety eight percent of this or that way
too many.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And whether Trump's plans bear fruit or not, and whether
He's allowed to even get the plans going fully is
anybody's guess. But this is the very sort of thing
that he and his ads are trying to wean us from.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
The sort of dependence.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But anyway, the gist of the story is so China,
which provides where ninety percent of the world's battery grade
graph height supply, jacked up its production, flooding the market
and driving prices so low that this mine, this company
could not mine profitably.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Last May, the Biden administration delayed new rules that would
have penalized US buyers from buying Chinese graphight for reasons
that I don't recall, probably because they were trying to.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Get hijin ping to do something.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
In Mozambique, farmers resettled from the mining company's mind staged protests,
shutting down the mining, and the Louisiana plant, now open
for a year, has yet to make its first commercial sale,
and the company's stock is plunged by around ninety percent
since the start of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Wow, that's really interesting.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
And once again the difficulties of a an authoritarian country
where one guy can make decisions and a democracy.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, and as always, there's a lot more detail and
nuanced to it, but we'll leave it here. I love, love, love,
love love the free market in so many ways. It's
lifted billions of people out of poverty, on lace new
medicines across the globe. It has profit is the reason
for charity. It's the reason charity exists. You have to
(10:21):
have more than you need to feed yourself to give
to charity. Anyway, as we retrench from the dream of globalization, though,
there are going to be some rainings in of the
free market, and it's going to be stops and starts.
It's going to be really difficult anyway not to get
hung up on that, because you could talk about it
for a year and a half and write five thousand
(10:43):
page books on it and not cover it. I thought
this was interesting, how markets really are Jack the rise
and fall of the Napa Valley of cannabis. When Colorado
became one of the first states to legalize a recreational marriage.
You wanna and an enthusiastic county commissioner in Pueblo said,
he wanted Pueblo to become the Napa Valley of cannabis.
(11:06):
And they talked a little bit in the Wall Street
Journal about the situation. Big slaughterhouse had closed years earlier,
steel mill had been shedding workers. They're really hurting for
jobs and tax revenue, and a cannabis boom would do
that for them. The streets were going to be paved
with gold, recalled one resident. The elementary schools were going
to be the greatest in the country. Then they talk about,
(11:28):
you know, the classic meme, how it started, how it's going.
In the first weeks, the only two shops then licensed
in the county, round rang Up combined one million dollars
in sales the first month, Wow, sending fifty six thousand
dollars in taxes to the county.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Everybody was just thrilled and happy.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Decade and high decade later, Pueblo's dreams have gone up
in smoke. A once thriving industry of retailers, growers, and
cannabis oil extractors.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
There were more than.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Two hundred of these businesses in twenty seventeen in that county,
more than two hundred. It's collapsed. Only forty five remain.
State records indicate county tax revenue plunge from more than
seven point one million dollars to four point eight million
twenty twenty three, which is still a pretty significant amount
of money. And you could argue that they're just thinning
the herd and the stronger surviving the way it goes
(12:20):
in capitalism.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But here's the problem. In California knows this too.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's been a huge problem because the rosy rosy promise
is made to Californians.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
In Colorado is alike.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Even after legalization, illicit growers and sellers thrived, even right
in Pueblo. Last year, they accounted for seventy percent of
the US market according to research companies. The black market dealers,
unlike licensed ones, face neither Texas nor red tape, so
they're more efficient and they're cheaper, and it's bad.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
For your brain. That's interesting, man.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
If you're counting on enough people smoking enough pot to
you know, make your school's great and everything like that,
that's just that's an interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It is, and it's probably not a sustainable way to
run a society. Nationwide, only twenty seven percent of legal
cannabis businesses are profitable, which is down two percent just
three years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Did not know that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, investment is dried up, restructurings are rising, and in Pueblo,
sentiment about legal pots swung the other way, fueling a
backlash against the county's embrace of the industry.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And again, it's kind of complicated and a lot of
nuance to it, but it's just it's not nearly the
dream it was sold to be.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
So I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And the one the one aspect you should understand it's
kind of intuitive is that if it's legal, enforcing laws
against the illegal stuff becomes so complicated because you know,
half of it, sixty percent of it, depending on where
you are, is legal. And so what are the comps
supposed to do if they see a bunch of guys
smoking pot?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, more John your Joe.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Podcast and Our Hot Lakes.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We had a conversation last week that I was very
uncomfortable with, and I felt very guilty about it because
I concealed a truth during the conversation. Confession being good
for the soul. I am here to confess it. But
like all good confessions, they work best in a multiple
choice format, and so I'm.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Going to give you multiple choices, but to up.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
The anti, to up the anti, each of the.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Choices will get successively more evil. Oh boy, and you
have to choose which one I am actually guilty of.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I'm so uncomfortable right now.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Hey, I Joe Getty have a second wife across town,
with whom I have two children. She is in a
legal alien and I keep her in line by threatening
her with deportation.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
What's okay?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
What's striking about this is you clearly didn't do that,
but you're going up the landing at worse. They're gonna
get worse.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yes, yes, okay, anybody want to go for a or
you want to go on you want to roll the dice? Anybody, Michael,
Clearly that's not true, okay, all right, b I am
now and have been for thirty years an active member
of the American Communist Party, and have been working to
subvert the Constitution with every ounce of my energy, up
to and including acts of violence and sabotage.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So I think I think you've laid a really good premise.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Here, because you've got two very bad choices obviously not true.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Whatever something, What are auld did you do that.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Am I gonna want to associate with you after this?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I don't know, Comrade.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Perhaps again from a conversation last week in which I
conceal the truth or possibility, say, I had never seen
Gladiator until this weekend.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Oh wow, w oh, you saw the movie Gladiator.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
My secret shame Gladiator one you recoded along with every conversation.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Are you not entertained?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Has growl?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I assume you went along with the facts because I
watched it with my son Henry a couple of weeks
back before we went to Gladiator two. He loved it
and it reminded me how much great it was. But
I said it might be in my top three movies
of all time, and I did not at that moment
reveal you know, I've never seen that movie.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Wow, that was good because I knew.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
The derision that would rain down upon Were you probably
okay twenty years ago? Yeah, you were in the middle
of raising kids, So no, of course you didn't see
that movie because I am a house full of babies,
including a one year old.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, I didn't see anything between I don't know whatever
years twenty ten and like a year ago.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I am impressed, Joe, because you carried on a full
blown conversation about that movie, as if you it was
one of your favorites.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, well, you know, I read a lot, so I
pick up clues from the you know, contexts and stuff
like that. But you know, Jack, you make a good point.
I remember roughly when the movie came out. Hey, dude,
you got to see this is great. It's an unbelievable movie.
Great guy villain. It's like two and a half hours long, and.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'm my respons chance or if I'm gonna have a
couple two three hours, I'm gonna spend.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It silently staring at a screen when you could hang
out with your wife or doing something.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I mean, yeah, not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Nobody could do what Russell Crowe did. I don't know
what magic he had there, But can you tell me
you like Gladiator movie?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Arm Strong and Yetdy the Armstrong and Getty shot.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
I was removed from my varsity girls team and replaced
by a newly eligible male transfer student who received favorable treatment.
As a result of this unfair treatment, my teammate Caitlin
and I wore shirts that said save girls Sports and
stated that boys and girls are different it's common sense
xx is not equal x yth Like director made me
remove my shirt and told me it was like wearing
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a swastika in front of a Jewish person and said
that I would face disciplinary action if I wore it again.
My title nine in free speech rights as a female
matter too.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
That's a high school girl speaking in front of the
California Assembly about how she was told to take off
her shirt, asking that she not have to play against
dudes more or less because it was like a swastik
in front of a German or a Jewish person.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Meanwhile, the dude was taking off his pants in front
of all the girls in the locker.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Room and dominating in the sports. Just sick.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
So California's held a couple of hearings lately in the
Assembly for the purpose of quickly quashing bills that would
restore girls in women's sports. Josh Hoover's California assemblyman, a
seventh Assembly district who's privy to the goings on at
the Capitol, obviously, and actually Josh, first of all, welcome,
It's always a pleasure. How are you, thanks, guys, great
(18:56):
to be back, great to have you so were you
at the hearings.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
So I was at the Capitol.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
I wasn't in the hearing room, but I was watching
on my screen and got to see everything go down
and how did it go?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Well?
Speaker 9 (19:09):
So, I mean, you guys played that clip. There was
just hundreds of amazing student athletes there in support of
the bills. Obviously, you guys know that Governor Gavin Newsom
has seen the light on this in some ways, but
the Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature has decided to
double down. There were two bills that were heard, So
AB eighty nine would have required CIF, which is our
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sports body here, to limit high school women's sports to
biological women.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
And AB eight.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Forty four would have returned California law to where it
was ten years ago, which essentially limits sex segregated sports
to basically buy sex versus gender identity, which is what
they changed it to about a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, if Gavin Newsom had out, I don't want to
get stuck on Gavin Newsom, but if he had seen
the light, he would have come out yesterday and made
a statement about this or prior to the hearings.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
But he did not because he's a Coward.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
One hundred percent totally agree. The Legislative Committee, the Arts
Committee there voted seven to two to kill both.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Of these bills back to back. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Let us pull out. It's seventy nine to eighteen this
issue in America, so.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
It's an eighty twenty issue. I don't even understand the
raw politics of this issue. It just seems like the
Democratic Party is so on the wrong side of this
just terms of staying in office.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
What gives so Jack, you know, one.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Of the things you've expressed is what are the arguments
opposing these bills? And that's one of the reasons I
tuned into the hearing because I wanted to hear what
the opposition had to say about this. So they laid out.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Five basic arguments.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
Number One, passing these bills would be an invasion of
girls privacy because somehow we're going to now require, you know,
inspections of some kind, even though we did it this
way for decades prior.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
The entirety of human history.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Josh, sports are inherently unfair. With another argument they used,
which really bigs the question why do we even have
sex segregated sports in the first place? Right, you know,
you know, Serena Williams famously talked about how you know,
women's and men's tennis is vastly different games, right, They
repeatedly said, we have no data, but then they said
(21:20):
it's not a big issue. And then a couple of
these are my two favorites.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
There's dreams of data, folks, which you probably know.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Go on, Josh, sorry, so our last two.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
The Trump administration is the real threat to women, not
not this issue obviously, but the really incredible one is
one of my colleagues actually said that the fact that
these bills were even introduced demonstrates that we are headed
towards Nazi Germany and fascism in the United States. That
actually came out of something.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Wow, Oh my god, Josh, you're a learned man.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
We need we the saying, need to come up with
a universally agreed upon phrase to describe what you just described.
And it's the same as introducing, say, gay porn into
a school library, and then when somebody says, ah, that
shouldn't be in there, accusing them of being a Nazi
or a reactionary or what have you, the changing things
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vastly and then accusing those who say that change is
no good of being the actual change.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Agent we need to do. How do you describe a
pretty good jiu jitsu trick? Though?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah? Yeah. If anybody has a brilliant idea, you can
text this four one five two nine five KFTC or drop.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Is an email mail bag at armstrong the getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We're on the road to Nazi Germany because we don't
let boys play girls volleyball.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
And they said that with a straight face, deadly serious.
Actually he was deadly serious.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, well, you know, Hitler, he sure was a fan
of fellows dominating girls' sports.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
That's the first thing he got going. No, I guess no,
he would be.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
He would be the opposite.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
He believed boys should anyway, back to the pot so
they am Nazis. Everybody back to the politics of it.
I just I just don't get it.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I would think your average Democrat realizes most of people
in my you know, around the United States district or
in California, you're a little area of your town whatever.
Even the Democrats mostly don't think this is a good idea.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So why hasn't that happened?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
Well, in fact, and there was a number of people
that got up to the microphone to express their position
on the bill, that stated out loud, I am a
lifelong Democrat, I support these bills. I support, you know,
protecting women's sports. And that happened over and over again
at the hearing, and yet every single person in there
was called the Nazis. So you know, I think it's
(23:41):
it's pretty shocking. And remember this isn't just the sports
issue too. One of these bills would also address the
locker room issue, which basically California law allows locker rooms
to be used based on your gender identity. When I
was on a school board previously that our legal council
actually told us that the only option for people that
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feel uncomfortable in that situation would be able to find
a private space for the girls changing in those locker rooms.
That that was the only thing we would be able
to do as a school district.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, the girls need to give way. Michael plays clip eighteen.
This is Scarlett Johnson of Mom's for Liberty in Wisconsin.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
A biological mail sixteen years old, obvious mail over two
hundred pounds, who identified as trans was allowed to change
in the girls' locker room. This boy has alleged to
strip nude to leer at the girls while they were
changing these girls. When they complained, the gym teacher told
them to staff being dramatic.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It was hard to believe. It was hard to believe that.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
This was happening in Wisconsin, but it absolutely was.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I'm reminded of our discussion during the last segment or
two about the moral superiority that progressives feel. I have
a feeling they would say, you know, I don't care
if it's eighty twenty. We're going to keep preaching the
trans women are women until it's eighty twenty. The other way,
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because we're right and we're superior.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
With some example of the gay marriage movement, the polling
changed on that quite dramatically over years.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
This one is not, though, Oh no, no, In fact,
it's going in the other direction as more and more
people get hip to the reality of it. Josh, So,
a question for you Assembly California Assemblyman Josh Hoover on
the line right now, and this is your political analyst,
hat time.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Is it.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
The voices you heard in the hearing especially that killed
both of these incredibly important reasonable bills. Is that actual
ideological fervor do they believe this stuff to their hearts
or is it that whole intersectionality. If the illegal imigrant
people don't back us on transgender and the black activists don't,
(26:05):
you know, don't back the union guys, that'll all fall apart.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Is it just solidarity or what? Well?
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Look, I think there are some Democrats in the legislature
that kind of go with the wind, right whichever way
the political wind is blowing.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I think Gavin Newsom is that person. Actually now he actually.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
Signed a lot of these bills, right, and then now
that he's looking at running for president, he's changing his tune.
But the people in this hearing that voted these bills down,
a number of them believe this to their core. And
in fact, at one point, the chair of the committee
hearing even said that he agrees it's an eighty twenty issue,
but it's but he still believes that it's the wrong
(26:45):
thing to do to support these bills. So, you know,
I think that it really depends on who you're talking about,
but there are people that truly believe this to their core.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Well appreciate you coming on today.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Is specifically the little nugget about somebody claiming we were
on the way to Nazi Germany if these passed, I mean,
that's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, that's that's beautiful. Josh. All right, well, keep fighting
the good fight.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I would love to see the Republican Party in California,
which still exists, by the way, for folks in the
rest of the country to go with the Trump believes
in you, they believe in they them. We've got to
hammer that message anyway. Absolutely than joh it's great to
have you. Thanks Josh. So a couple of thoughts. Number one,
(27:26):
There's never been a more disconcerting time for actual Nazis
who will walk around, you know, and say, maybe they
got a swastika, and people assume that some anti Elon
Musk person painted on their car or their jacket or whatever,
and and and if you can even tell you, look,
I'm a Nazi, and they are probably greeted with, ohs
(27:49):
here in favor of booting trans people out of sports. No, no, no, no,
I'm a national Socialist. Oh so you support Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
No, ain't nof Hitler is my hero, but people don't
believe it. Nazi German joje am, I right, high five. No, No,
that's not my thing.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
No, I'm gonna anti Semite, They would say, I'm again
I'm confused by the politics, because generally politicians just do
what's gonna keep them in office. Yes, it's bizarre, troubling
and refreshing that these people actually vote their principles, and
(28:30):
their principle is a person can decide one day they're
a man and the next they're a woman, and that
magically makes them a woman.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Look, that's not what Gavin Newsom's doing. Oh so I'm surprised.
I mean this is like the easiest sister soulship moment ever. Yeah,
I mean he's he's turned out. He doesn't need to
worry about running again in California. So why wouldn't he
come out, make national news be on Fox all day long?
If he gave a little speech about why you know,
(29:01):
dude should mean cirl sports and go against his party.
I mean, that would have been a huge step forward
for him on the national stage.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I can't believe he won't do it. I think he
is waiting.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He's thrown a bread crumber two out to enhance his
reasonable iness bona fides, but he's not going to turn
on the left of his party in any recognizable or
undeniable way.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Until you know he's won the nomination and then when.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
He pivots to the general as presidential candidate in this
nightmare scenario. Although I've said a million times I would
love for him to run, I enjoy that so much.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Seen a lot of candidates overthink it like this and
not get the nomination. Sure, oh yeah, yeah, Kamala Harris.
Although Gavy is twice as intelligent as Kamala.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
But anyway, so he.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
So is a cocker Spaniel.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
True, but his tack to the center will be so
jarring and complete because he has no principles.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
There's part of me that would love to see it.
God dang it. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It's obscene.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And just.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Troubling that people can believe something so passionately and so
completely that nobody believed no body fifteen years ago, and
hardly anybody.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Believes it now. But they will die on that hill.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
I don't want to get stuck on this, So my
last comment on this would be from everything I read,
the polling shows that among Democrats they believe they need
to moderate. Yes, and the big money people are saying
we need to moderate. So I would just think I
just think it would be such a win, right right.
Like I said, it is both.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Kind of positive and horrifying that people are sticking to
their guns.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Keep believing Twitter, just do it. Go ahead, keep believing Twitter.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Oh yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
The college students listen to college students. They are wise.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Oh yes, and your party won't totally go the way
the mastadon. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Hang in there, Jack, Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and
Getty Show. See arm Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
This is a lifestyle of thing.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
And the one person tweeted out, and I don't know
anything about this person, but the one person tweeted out,
I'm never planning on having kids. I'd much rather own
a portion, have a Portuguese water dog.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
And a golden doodle.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
And then another person responded that with I feel bad
for people who don't have kids because they believe owning
a Porsche is going to be more fulfilling. Thought that
was a pretty good little battle. I just can't imagine
tweeting that out loud, even back before I had kids,
never planning on I have kids because I'd much rather
own a Porsche.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Doesn't that sound shallow to you?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Even if you I mean fine, don't have kids, you know,
But doesn't that sound incredibly shallow to you? I mean
to use that as an example.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Well, if that's their opinion, I'm kind of glad they're
not reproducing.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
That's a pretty good point right there. But use you.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
I'd rather dedicate my time to art or something. Fine, Okay,
I still think it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
But yeah, I just the performative hyper confidence that everybody
has to have on everything, the idea of saying, you know,
it's not right for me now, but maybe someday people
change their minds.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I mean, that's just that's not gonna get likes, that's
not gonna get retweets. You gotta be you're an idiot,
And I'm great.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
No, I just so tiring. I thought I had nothing
for the podcast. I got two more things to say.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
One.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I don't want to hurt anybody's It's just a fact.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
I know three women in their mid forties who made
the choice in life to be childless.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
And really really regret it now. Mm hmm, really really
regret it now, Like is like makes them cry thinking
about it.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
M hm.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
So that's common ish, common ish.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I have a couple of friends that are in that
exact same boat right now.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And folks, sometimes for medical reasons or sometimes a marriage
goes sideways reasons or whatever, and the window closes.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
That's that's very hard for them too.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yeah, that's why I threw in the phrase chose. You know,
it wasn't a medical thing or something.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Sure, this was lifestyle. What kind of were we going with?
I'd rather on a Porsche. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
This was like a failed marriage that ended horribly and
she said, screw it, I'm not doing this anymore.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
And now we're like years down the road.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
And she's like, that is definitely an avantage you have
a man, because I didn't. I didn't have kids, so
I was forty five. It was an option for me
as a dude. Right, she got to find younger woman.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
And what was my other thing?
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I was gonna say, Oh, so I'm picking up my
son from the high school the other day. This is
on the cruelty of high scho I'm picking up my
son at high school the other day, and I got
my window down and there's this one kid that forever
whatever reason, that has dress shoes on and he's walking
across the parking lot. He's like wearing khakis and dress
shoes and some guy goes, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Hey Jim, look at his shoes, and then they're both
like aha, like so working so hard to laugh, so
hard so they can point at somebody and mock them
and laugh.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
How he's their self esteem by Demeanian right, Yes.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
And you know, as they grown up having lived through that,
when it was painful for me to be on the
wrong end of that, it just looked so ridiculous, like
why would you ever give us what those guys think
about your shoes? It's too bad anybody does I know everything?
Like whyle they pretend to Why did they need to
elevate themselves by trying to make that person feel worse
(34:48):
because they had to go to their I don't know
they had to go to the something at the church
or funeral or who knows why they're wearing dress shoes.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But it's just it was so like, ha ha look
at his shoes, ha ha, what a dork? I mean
it was that my status is now higher than his.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I would love to leave out to gingerbread person for instance,
and maybe just spend ten minutes on that.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Someday in like fifth.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Grade, I almost wanted to go over and talk of
that guy. He didn't seem to be particular botter, but
you never know what's going on inside his brain. Let's say,
don't give those when you're older. You will not It
will not make any difference whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
One of the many reasons why I am so glad
I'm no longer a nice.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
No kidding, no kidding, or at least you have the
mind you have now I can go back to high
school now would be hilarious. People pointing in, laughing over
everything's really what are you doing whatever? It's just why
would I freaking care what you think?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
That would be you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I was about to say, I wouldn't sentence al Qaeda
to four years of high school.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It's too cruel.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
On the other hand, when if you could bring your
life experience and confidence back for yeah, oh yeah, that
would be.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
That would be super great in some way ways.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
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Now on with the infotainments.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Some breaking news just out of our newsroom here at
Fox thirteen. A man is in the hospital after being
shot in the leg overnight if his police say he
was shot by.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
His dog. Seriously, I don't think that's right.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
This happened just before four am at a home on
Whitney Avenue in Fraser Wow. Police say the man was
lying in the bed with a girl with a gun
on the bed. Police say his dog jumped up on
the bed, got is Paul stuck in the trigger and
ended up hitting the trigger, shooting the man in the thigh.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Wow accident.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Yeah, so the dog claims you pretend to throw the
tennis ball, you stick it in the couch cushion one
too many times?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Right, And Dora, I'm supposed to be there in the
bed next to you.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And who is this? Huh?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You cheating bastard.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
When's the last time I went for a walk? Can
you even remember? Wow?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Wow, bad boy, bad dog.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
The dog ties him to a chair like reservoir dogs.
I'm not putting up with this anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Right Wait? So, uh Jack Michael?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Do we have that the two rappers were talking and
gunshots went off?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
That's a candidate for clip.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Of the year. So I like the way.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Clearly this news anchor who's got a bit of a
kent Brockman, Will Ferrell vibe Yah apparently was just handed
this breaking news not knowing.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He was about to do a story about a man
who was shot by a dog at four a m.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yeah, so could happens also possible that he was messing
around with his gun, or she shot him or something.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
They don't want to tell anybody what actually happened.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Right, Yeah, that's that's at least, although you know, it's
not implausible that if you are living the lifestyle where
you're lying in bed with quote unquote a girl who
wrote that story.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Did they need a woman?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I would hope.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And there's a gun laying there for some reason, you
can't put it on the nightstand even Yeah, you're living
the sort of lifestyle where.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Your dog shoots.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Maybe he or she likes the gun pointed at them
during their romantic times. Oh good lord, no, I remember
seeing that in the Sopranos. Remember one of them. Somebody
liked having a gun to their head during Tawdrey.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's way too tawdry.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
No, a dog just shot someone. This is time for
friend talk. The pastor's rising up, as I predicted. Go ahead, Michael,
and choices we got in life? Those were your choices?
Who shadow?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Somebody got shot? Oh how good? The dirty dead? What
do I want with my idea? Don't shut me? Everybody, everybody, everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's the sort of guy who's in bed with a
girl and a dodge shot.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
They have a much more relaxed, lighthearted view of shootings
in the room. On fire, shootings in the room. I mean,
it's not even an accidental shooting at the range or
outdoors or something.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
We're in a room with a number of people. A
gun gots off, somebody's been shot. You good, I've been shot?
It you good? You good?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Everybody good? Okay, Bess, I was saying, Wow, you've different
lived a different lifestyle than I have. Who Who shot? Who?
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Somebody shot?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Anyway, what are your plans today?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
You guys are hungry?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I'm hungry? Yeah? Crazy? Can I want to hear that
another one?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Just the beginning part where the anchor gets to the oh,
because I just find this funny.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
We want to get you to some breaking news just
out of our newsroom here at Fox thirteen. A man
is in the hospital after being shot in the leg
overnight if his police say he was shot by his dog. Seriously,
I don't think that's right. This happened just before four
a m.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
A dog Hitney Avenue in the Fraser Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Police say the man was lying in the bed with
a girl with a gun on the bed. Police say
his dog jumped up on the bed, got is Paul
stuck in the trigger and ended up hitting the trigger,
shooting the man in the thigh.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Wow. Four in the morning. I ain't eating lamb and
rice anymore. Give me some real freaking food. Was it
a hunting dog? Boy?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
So there's actual and of course some background checks. We
don't know any of those things. Gun loopholes, what went
on there?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Wow? Wow?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Well, and if I was going to make a serious
point about it, that's the very sort of person that
Democratic prosecutors would never enforce gun laws against. They howl
for more gun laws constantly. And then the guy who's
I'm confused. You know what I walked into that didn't I? Yes,
you know, Perhaps it's best to just move on to
(06:35):
other fair I don't know why I enjoy giving jiv
names to features sets of stories, but I do.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Jack.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So you get the choice between golden state of confusion.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Or how markets really work.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'll go with a second, much more sober, just because
the lack of jiviness.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I'm just curiousity after the dog predic Caul.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, okay, So story number one why the US keeps
losing to China in the battle over critical minerals Because
everybody knows that the minerals, the rarest the metals everybody's
talking about that go into.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So much new technology.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He or they who control access to those things controls
the world economy to a large extent. And the obvious
issue with that is that if we continue to be
highly dependent on China to come up with those materials.
We're screwed as an economy the minute they decide to
tweak us or bring us to our knees. So you
(07:37):
have this story of the effort to get a big
giant New America and our allies run graphite mine and
the goal to challenge China's dominance over the world supply
of a critical mineral used in everything from electric vehicles
to submarine hubs. And so this Australia based mining company,
(08:02):
backed by more than one hundred million dollars of US
government financing, maybe a worthy goal. Kind of funny, There
wasn't any discussion of this, but this is what our
giant government does. Opened a mine in Mozambique and built
a graphite processing plant in Louisiana, the first of its
type in the US, and also signed a sales deal
(08:23):
with Tesla, which is historically brought graphight for cars from
China for the battery specifically.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
But then things started to go off the rails.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
China, which provides more than ninety percent of the world's
battery grade graph height supply, jacked up its production.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
How many what did the market? How many stories include
China supplies ninety eight percent of this or that way
too many.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And whether Trump's plans bear fruit or not, and whether
He's allowed to even get the plans going fully is
anybody's guess. But this is the very sort of thing
that he and his ads are trying to wean us from.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
The sort of dependence.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But anyway, the gist of the story is so China,
which provides where ninety percent of the world's battery grade
graph height supply, jacked up its production, flooding the market
and driving prices so low that this mine, this company
could not mine profitably.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Last May, the Biden administration delayed new rules that would
have penalized US buyers from buying Chinese graphight for reasons
that I don't recall, probably because they were trying to.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Get hijin ping to do something.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
In Mozambique, farmers resettled from the mining company's mind staged protests,
shutting down the mining, and the Louisiana plant, now open
for a year, has yet to make its first commercial sale,
and the company's stock is plunged by around ninety percent
since the start of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Wow, that's really interesting.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
And once again the difficulties of a an authoritarian country
where one guy can make decisions and a democracy.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, and as always, there's a lot more detail and
nuanced to it, but we'll leave it here. I love, love, love,
love love the free market in so many ways. It's
lifted billions of people out of poverty, on lace new
medicines across the globe. It has profit is the reason
for charity. It's the reason charity exists. You have to
(10:21):
have more than you need to feed yourself to give
to charity. Anyway, as we retrench from the dream of globalization, though,
there are going to be some rainings in of the
free market, and it's going to be stops and starts.
It's going to be really difficult anyway not to get
hung up on that, because you could talk about it
for a year and a half and write five thousand
(10:43):
page books on it and not cover it. I thought
this was interesting, how markets really are Jack the rise
and fall of the Napa Valley of cannabis. When Colorado
became one of the first states to legalize a recreational marriage.
You wanna and an enthusiastic county commissioner in Pueblo said,
he wanted Pueblo to become the Napa Valley of cannabis.
(11:06):
And they talked a little bit in the Wall Street
Journal about the situation. Big slaughterhouse had closed years earlier,
steel mill had been shedding workers. They're really hurting for
jobs and tax revenue, and a cannabis boom would do
that for them. The streets were going to be paved
with gold, recalled one resident. The elementary schools were going
to be the greatest in the country. Then they talk about,
(11:28):
you know, the classic meme, how it started, how it's going.
In the first weeks, the only two shops then licensed
in the county, round rang Up combined one million dollars
in sales the first month, Wow, sending fifty six thousand
dollars in taxes to the county.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Everybody was just thrilled and happy.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Decade and high decade later, Pueblo's dreams have gone up
in smoke. A once thriving industry of retailers, growers, and
cannabis oil extractors.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
There were more than.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Two hundred of these businesses in twenty seventeen in that county,
more than two hundred. It's collapsed. Only forty five remain.
State records indicate county tax revenue plunge from more than
seven point one million dollars to four point eight million
twenty twenty three, which is still a pretty significant amount
of money. And you could argue that they're just thinning
the herd and the stronger surviving the way it goes
(12:20):
in capitalism.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But here's the problem. In California knows this too.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's been a huge problem because the rosy rosy promise
is made to Californians.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
In Colorado is alike.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Even after legalization, illicit growers and sellers thrived, even right
in Pueblo. Last year, they accounted for seventy percent of
the US market according to research companies. The black market dealers,
unlike licensed ones, face neither Texas nor red tape, so
they're more efficient and they're cheaper, and it's bad.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
For your brain. That's interesting, man.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
If you're counting on enough people smoking enough pot to
you know, make your school's great and everything like that,
that's just that's an interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It is, and it's probably not a sustainable way to
run a society. Nationwide, only twenty seven percent of legal
cannabis businesses are profitable, which is down two percent just
three years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Did not know that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, investment is dried up, restructurings are rising, and in Pueblo,
sentiment about legal pots swung the other way, fueling a
backlash against the county's embrace of the industry.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And again, it's kind of complicated and a lot of
nuance to it, but it's just it's not nearly the
dream it was sold to be.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
So I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And the one the one aspect you should understand it's
kind of intuitive is that if it's legal, enforcing laws
against the illegal stuff becomes so complicated because you know,
half of it, sixty percent of it, depending on where
you are, is legal. And so what are the comps
supposed to do if they see a bunch of guys
smoking pot?
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We had a conversation last week that I was very
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The anti, to up the anti, each of the.
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Choices will get successively more evil. Oh boy, and you
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What's striking about this is you clearly didn't do that,
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Clearly that's not true, okay, all right, b I am
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of the American Communist Party, and have been working to
subvert the Constitution with every ounce of my energy, up
to and including acts of violence and sabotage.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So I think I think you've laid a really good premise.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Here, because you've got two very bad choices obviously not true.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Whatever something, What are auld did you do that.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Am I gonna want to associate with you after this?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I don't know, Comrade.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Perhaps again from a conversation last week in which I
conceal the truth or possibility, say, I had never seen
Gladiator until this weekend.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Oh wow, w oh, you saw the movie Gladiator.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
My secret shame Gladiator one you recoded along with every conversation.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Are you not entertained?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Has growl?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I assume you went along with the facts because I
watched it with my son Henry a couple of weeks
back before we went to Gladiator two. He loved it
and it reminded me how much great it was. But
I said it might be in my top three movies
of all time, and I did not at that moment
reveal you know, I've never seen that movie.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Wow, that was good because I knew.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
The derision that would rain down upon Were you probably
okay twenty years ago? Yeah, you were in the middle
of raising kids, So no, of course you didn't see
that movie because I am a house full of babies,
including a one year old.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, I didn't see anything between I don't know whatever
years twenty ten and like a year ago.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I am impressed, Joe, because you carried on a full
blown conversation about that movie, as if you it was
one of your favorites.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, well, you know, I read a lot, so I
pick up clues from the you know, contexts and stuff
like that. But you know, Jack, you make a good point.
I remember roughly when the movie came out. Hey, dude,
you got to see this is great. It's an unbelievable movie.
Great guy villain. It's like two and a half hours long, and.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'm my respons chance or if I'm gonna have a
couple two three hours, I'm gonna spend.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It silently staring at a screen when you could hang
out with your wife or doing something.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I mean, yeah, not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Nobody could do what Russell Crowe did. I don't know
what magic he had there, But can you tell me
you like Gladiator movie?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Arm Strong and Yetdy the Armstrong and Getty shot.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
I was removed from my varsity girls team and replaced
by a newly eligible male transfer student who received favorable treatment.
As a result of this unfair treatment, my teammate Caitlin
and I wore shirts that said save girls Sports and
stated that boys and girls are different it's common sense
xx is not equal x yth Like director made me
remove my shirt and told me it was like wearing
(18:02):
a swastika in front of a Jewish person and said
that I would face disciplinary action if I wore it again.
My title nine in free speech rights as a female
matter too.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
That's a high school girl speaking in front of the
California Assembly about how she was told to take off
her shirt, asking that she not have to play against
dudes more or less because it was like a swastik
in front of a German or a Jewish person.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Meanwhile, the dude was taking off his pants in front
of all the girls in the locker.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Room and dominating in the sports. Just sick.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
So California's held a couple of hearings lately in the
Assembly for the purpose of quickly quashing bills that would
restore girls in women's sports. Josh Hoover's California assemblyman, a
seventh Assembly district who's privy to the goings on at
the Capitol, obviously, and actually Josh, first of all, welcome,
It's always a pleasure. How are you, thanks, guys, great
(18:56):
to be back, great to have you so were you
at the hearings.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
So I was at the Capitol.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
I wasn't in the hearing room, but I was watching
on my screen and got to see everything go down
and how did it go?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Well?
Speaker 9 (19:09):
So, I mean, you guys played that clip. There was
just hundreds of amazing student athletes there in support of
the bills. Obviously, you guys know that Governor Gavin Newsom
has seen the light on this in some ways, but
the Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature has decided to
double down. There were two bills that were heard, So
AB eighty nine would have required CIF, which is our
(19:33):
sports body here, to limit high school women's sports to
biological women.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
And AB eight.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Forty four would have returned California law to where it
was ten years ago, which essentially limits sex segregated sports
to basically buy sex versus gender identity, which is what
they changed it to about a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, if Gavin Newsom had out, I don't want to
get stuck on Gavin Newsom, but if he had seen
the light, he would have come out yesterday and made
a statement about this or prior to the hearings.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
But he did not because he's a Coward.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
One hundred percent totally agree. The Legislative Committee, the Arts
Committee there voted seven to two to kill both.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Of these bills back to back. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Let us pull out. It's seventy nine to eighteen this
issue in America, so.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
It's an eighty twenty issue. I don't even understand the
raw politics of this issue. It just seems like the
Democratic Party is so on the wrong side of this
just terms of staying in office.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
What gives so Jack, you know, one.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Of the things you've expressed is what are the arguments
opposing these bills? And that's one of the reasons I
tuned into the hearing because I wanted to hear what
the opposition had to say about this. So they laid out.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Five basic arguments.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
Number One, passing these bills would be an invasion of
girls privacy because somehow we're going to now require, you know,
inspections of some kind, even though we did it this
way for decades prior.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
The entirety of human history.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Josh, sports are inherently unfair. With another argument they used,
which really bigs the question why do we even have
sex segregated sports in the first place? Right, you know,
you know, Serena Williams famously talked about how you know,
women's and men's tennis is vastly different games, right, They
repeatedly said, we have no data, but then they said
(21:20):
it's not a big issue. And then a couple of
these are my two favorites.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
There's dreams of data, folks, which you probably know.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Go on, Josh, sorry, so our last two.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
The Trump administration is the real threat to women, not
not this issue obviously, but the really incredible one is
one of my colleagues actually said that the fact that
these bills were even introduced demonstrates that we are headed
towards Nazi Germany and fascism in the United States. That
actually came out of something.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Wow, Oh my god, Josh, you're a learned man.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
We need we the saying, need to come up with
a universally agreed upon phrase to describe what you just described.
And it's the same as introducing, say, gay porn into
a school library, and then when somebody says, ah, that
shouldn't be in there, accusing them of being a Nazi
or a reactionary or what have you, the changing things
(22:15):
vastly and then accusing those who say that change is
no good of being the actual change.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Agent we need to do. How do you describe a
pretty good jiu jitsu trick? Though?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah? Yeah. If anybody has a brilliant idea, you can
text this four one five two nine five KFTC or drop.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Is an email mail bag at armstrong the getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We're on the road to Nazi Germany because we don't
let boys play girls volleyball.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
And they said that with a straight face, deadly serious.
Actually he was deadly serious.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, well, you know, Hitler, he sure was a fan
of fellows dominating girls' sports.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
That's the first thing he got going. No, I guess no,
he would be.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
He would be the opposite.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
He believed boys should anyway, back to the pot so
they am Nazis. Everybody back to the politics of it.
I just I just don't get it.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I would think your average Democrat realizes most of people
in my you know, around the United States district or
in California, you're a little area of your town whatever.
Even the Democrats mostly don't think this is a good idea.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So why hasn't that happened?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
Well, in fact, and there was a number of people
that got up to the microphone to express their position
on the bill, that stated out loud, I am a
lifelong Democrat, I support these bills. I support, you know,
protecting women's sports. And that happened over and over again
at the hearing, and yet every single person in there
was called the Nazis. So you know, I think it's
(23:41):
it's pretty shocking. And remember this isn't just the sports
issue too. One of these bills would also address the
locker room issue, which basically California law allows locker rooms
to be used based on your gender identity. When I
was on a school board previously that our legal council
actually told us that the only option for people that
(24:03):
feel uncomfortable in that situation would be able to find
a private space for the girls changing in those locker rooms.
That that was the only thing we would be able
to do as a school district.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, the girls need to give way. Michael plays clip eighteen.
This is Scarlett Johnson of Mom's for Liberty in Wisconsin.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
A biological mail sixteen years old, obvious mail over two
hundred pounds, who identified as trans was allowed to change
in the girls' locker room. This boy has alleged to
strip nude to leer at the girls while they were
changing these girls. When they complained, the gym teacher told
them to staff being dramatic.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It was hard to believe. It was hard to believe that.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
This was happening in Wisconsin, but it absolutely was.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I'm reminded of our discussion during the last segment or
two about the moral superiority that progressives feel. I have
a feeling they would say, you know, I don't care
if it's eighty twenty. We're going to keep preaching the
trans women are women until it's eighty twenty. The other way,
(25:10):
because we're right and we're superior.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
With some example of the gay marriage movement, the polling
changed on that quite dramatically over years.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
This one is not, though, Oh no, no, In fact,
it's going in the other direction as more and more
people get hip to the reality of it. Josh, So,
a question for you Assembly California Assemblyman Josh Hoover on
the line right now, and this is your political analyst,
hat time.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Is it.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
The voices you heard in the hearing especially that killed
both of these incredibly important reasonable bills. Is that actual
ideological fervor do they believe this stuff to their hearts
or is it that whole intersectionality. If the illegal imigrant
people don't back us on transgender and the black activists don't,
(26:05):
you know, don't back the union guys, that'll all fall apart.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Is it just solidarity or what? Well?
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Look, I think there are some Democrats in the legislature
that kind of go with the wind, right whichever way
the political wind is blowing.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I think Gavin Newsom is that person. Actually now he actually.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
Signed a lot of these bills, right, and then now
that he's looking at running for president, he's changing his tune.
But the people in this hearing that voted these bills down,
a number of them believe this to their core. And
in fact, at one point, the chair of the committee
hearing even said that he agrees it's an eighty twenty issue,
but it's but he still believes that it's the wrong
(26:45):
thing to do to support these bills. So, you know,
I think that it really depends on who you're talking about,
but there are people that truly believe this to their core.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Well appreciate you coming on today.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Is specifically the little nugget about somebody claiming we were
on the way to Nazi Germany if these passed, I mean,
that's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, that's that's beautiful. Josh. All right, well, keep fighting
the good fight.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I would love to see the Republican Party in California,
which still exists, by the way, for folks in the
rest of the country to go with the Trump believes
in you, they believe in they them. We've got to
hammer that message anyway. Absolutely than joh it's great to
have you. Thanks Josh. So a couple of thoughts. Number one,
(27:26):
There's never been a more disconcerting time for actual Nazis
who will walk around, you know, and say, maybe they
got a swastika, and people assume that some anti Elon
Musk person painted on their car or their jacket or whatever,
and and and if you can even tell you, look,
I'm a Nazi, and they are probably greeted with, ohs
(27:49):
here in favor of booting trans people out of sports. No, no, no, no,
I'm a national Socialist. Oh so you support Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
No, ain't nof Hitler is my hero, but people don't
believe it. Nazi German joje am, I right, high five. No, No,
that's not my thing.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
No, I'm gonna anti Semite, They would say, I'm again
I'm confused by the politics, because generally politicians just do
what's gonna keep them in office. Yes, it's bizarre, troubling
and refreshing that these people actually vote their principles, and
(28:30):
their principle is a person can decide one day they're
a man and the next they're a woman, and that
magically makes them a woman.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Look, that's not what Gavin Newsom's doing. Oh so I'm surprised.
I mean this is like the easiest sister soulship moment ever. Yeah,
I mean he's he's turned out. He doesn't need to
worry about running again in California. So why wouldn't he
come out, make national news be on Fox all day long?
If he gave a little speech about why you know,
(29:01):
dude should mean cirl sports and go against his party.
I mean, that would have been a huge step forward
for him on the national stage.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I can't believe he won't do it. I think he
is waiting.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He's thrown a bread crumber two out to enhance his
reasonable iness bona fides, but he's not going to turn
on the left of his party in any recognizable or
undeniable way.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Until you know he's won the nomination and then when.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
He pivots to the general as presidential candidate in this
nightmare scenario. Although I've said a million times I would
love for him to run, I enjoy that so much.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Seen a lot of candidates overthink it like this and
not get the nomination. Sure, oh yeah, yeah, Kamala Harris.
Although Gavy is twice as intelligent as Kamala.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
But anyway, so he.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
So is a cocker Spaniel.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
True, but his tack to the center will be so
jarring and complete because he has no principles.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
There's part of me that would love to see it.
God dang it. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It's obscene.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And just.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Troubling that people can believe something so passionately and so
completely that nobody believed no body fifteen years ago, and
hardly anybody.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Believes it now. But they will die on that hill.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
I don't want to get stuck on this, So my
last comment on this would be from everything I read,
the polling shows that among Democrats they believe they need
to moderate. Yes, and the big money people are saying
we need to moderate. So I would just think I
just think it would be such a win, right right.
Like I said, it is both.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Kind of positive and horrifying that people are sticking to
their guns.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Keep believing Twitter, just do it. Go ahead, keep believing Twitter.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Oh yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
The college students listen to college students. They are wise.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Oh yes, and your party won't totally go the way
the mastadon. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Hang in there, Jack, Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and
Getty Show. See arm Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
This is a lifestyle of thing.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
And the one person tweeted out, and I don't know
anything about this person, but the one person tweeted out,
I'm never planning on having kids. I'd much rather own
a portion, have a Portuguese water dog.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
And a golden doodle.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
And then another person responded that with I feel bad
for people who don't have kids because they believe owning
a Porsche is going to be more fulfilling. Thought that
was a pretty good little battle. I just can't imagine
tweeting that out loud, even back before I had kids,
never planning on I have kids because I'd much rather
own a Porsche.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Doesn't that sound shallow to you?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Even if you I mean fine, don't have kids, you know,
But doesn't that sound incredibly shallow to you? I mean
to use that as an example.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Well, if that's their opinion, I'm kind of glad they're
not reproducing.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
That's a pretty good point right there. But use you.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
I'd rather dedicate my time to art or something. Fine, Okay,
I still think it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
But yeah, I just the performative hyper confidence that everybody
has to have on everything, the idea of saying, you know,
it's not right for me now, but maybe someday people
change their minds.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I mean, that's just that's not gonna get likes, that's
not gonna get retweets. You gotta be you're an idiot,
And I'm great.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
No, I just so tiring. I thought I had nothing
for the podcast. I got two more things to say.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
One.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I don't want to hurt anybody's It's just a fact.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
I know three women in their mid forties who made
the choice in life to be childless.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
And really really regret it now. Mm hmm, really really
regret it now, Like is like makes them cry thinking
about it.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
M hm.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
So that's common ish, common ish.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I have a couple of friends that are in that
exact same boat right now.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And folks, sometimes for medical reasons or sometimes a marriage
goes sideways reasons or whatever, and the window closes.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
That's that's very hard for them too.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yeah, that's why I threw in the phrase chose. You know,
it wasn't a medical thing or something.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Sure, this was lifestyle. What kind of were we going with?
I'd rather on a Porsche. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
This was like a failed marriage that ended horribly and
she said, screw it, I'm not doing this anymore.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
And now we're like years down the road.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
And she's like, that is definitely an avantage you have
a man, because I didn't. I didn't have kids, so
I was forty five. It was an option for me
as a dude. Right, she got to find younger woman.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
And what was my other thing?
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I was gonna say, Oh, so I'm picking up my
son from the high school the other day. This is
on the cruelty of high scho I'm picking up my
son at high school the other day, and I got
my window down and there's this one kid that forever
whatever reason, that has dress shoes on and he's walking
across the parking lot. He's like wearing khakis and dress
shoes and some guy goes, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Hey Jim, look at his shoes, and then they're both
like aha, like so working so hard to laugh, so
hard so they can point at somebody and mock them
and laugh.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
How he's their self esteem by Demeanian right, Yes.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
And you know, as they grown up having lived through that,
when it was painful for me to be on the
wrong end of that, it just looked so ridiculous, like
why would you ever give us what those guys think
about your shoes? It's too bad anybody does I know everything?
Like whyle they pretend to Why did they need to
elevate themselves by trying to make that person feel worse
(34:48):
because they had to go to their I don't know
they had to go to the something at the church
or funeral or who knows why they're wearing dress shoes.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But it's just it was so like, ha ha look
at his shoes, ha ha, what a dork? I mean
it was that my status is now higher than his.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I would love to leave out to gingerbread person for instance,
and maybe just spend ten minutes on that.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Someday in like fifth.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Grade, I almost wanted to go over and talk of
that guy. He didn't seem to be particular botter, but
you never know what's going on inside his brain. Let's say,
don't give those when you're older. You will not It
will not make any difference whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
One of the many reasons why I am so glad
I'm no longer a nice.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
No kidding, no kidding, or at least you have the
mind you have now I can go back to high
school now would be hilarious. People pointing in, laughing over
everything's really what are you doing whatever? It's just why
would I freaking care what you think?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
That would be you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I was about to say, I wouldn't sentence al Qaeda
to four years of high school.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It's too cruel.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
On the other hand, when if you could bring your
life experience and confidence back for yeah, oh yeah, that
would be.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
That would be super great in some way ways.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
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