August 13, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour One of the Thursday August 13, 2026 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- Fake marriages...
- Katie Green bring us The Lead Story...
- The WNBA & Critical Theory...
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and no Hee arm Drawn Yet it.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Live from Studio C Senori within the bowels of the
Armstrong and Giddy Information Complex. This is the Armstrong and
Getdy Show live this Thursday, August the thirteenth of the
Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. And this morning
we're laboring under the title of WNBA stands for We're
(00:48):
Not being Aware. Yeah. I didn't love that one. I
couldn't come up with a good a word. They held
their cute little meeting about the transgender fellows playing the lake.
Oh my god, their statement is hilarious. Alternate title if
you prefer, do you take this woman to be your
(01:09):
communist agent?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Scam marriages?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Chinese probably agents coming to the US paying thousands of
dollars to marry US citizens so they can get citizenship
or visas or green cards or whatever level of you know,
immigration documentation that they can gin up. So we'll be
talking about that story as well. Coming to I don't, sir,
(01:36):
I don't not for a minute. You know what's weird
about that? The story they prevent. They presented it on
special Report BRTT Bear last night because it's it's it's
like a thousand marriages or more, and they were talking
(01:58):
about it being immigrant fraud and how this was wrong.
And at the press conference that announced this, the Justice
Department was talking about this. At the press conference, they
didn't say anything about national security. They didn't bring up
the idea that, well, let's see, every Chinese citizen is
obliged by law to do anything the Communist Party tells
(02:21):
them to do to help the advance the interests of
China every moment of their lives, no matter where they're living.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And by the way, if you think that you really
don't want.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
To do that for you is shijin ping. Yeah, we
got your mom right here. She wants to talk to you.
Oh no, she can't talk to you because she's in
a cell. Anyway, what was that you were saying about,
you don't want to do what we asked you?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And we got thousands of thee oh my.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
God, what's the saying about the Roman Empire? That the
barbarians didn't have to break down the gate gets were open,
They just walked in. Yeah for it, dumb we probably
don't deserve to keep our empire. But I don't want
to be negative. Don't want to be negative. I've got
some really kind of cool, positive things to talk about today,
(03:12):
as well as follow up on a number of different
issues we've been discussing this week, including old Abdul l
said he's absolutely in Islamist. He is hell bent on
advancing fundamentalist Islam into the United States, and we have
proof such as it is a big gender bending madness
(03:34):
update some what's his face, the Hassan Piker info that's
beyond the obvious. Nyea, he's a Kami and a rich Kami,
but he's the typical one of these people. Really interesting
stuff about third worldism, which is, you know, one of
the political theories that's running hot through the left.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So a big giant variety of stuff to talk about.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh oh, and it is probably going to be a
final shot at the ridiculous, hilarious dei career of Cambridge's
Jason our Day. His book is out now. I think
he came out yesterday in America. This toast of academia
really you know in the English speaking world, but especially
in Britain. But his book about his many adventures, most
(04:24):
of which are made of is out in the United States,
and apparently the publisher had to do some hasty edits
of it before it actually went to print because they
were realizing more and more, Oh my god, this guy's
a fraud. But we've got a contract for the book,
and he's still kind of celebrated it in the left
and so all right, let's go ahead and put out
the book.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But man, some of the.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Craziest ass we probably ought to take out of it.
So we'll talk about that, among many many other things.
Right now, let's show officially according to FCC rules, Reggs,
here we go boldly into the future at mark for.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
The President's supports piece protest. What a stupid question for Kim. Yeah,
because you're a left wing hack. You're not a reporter.
You're posing in this room as a journalist. I have
provided some photos for all of you in the room today.
This is the interior of the ballroom space, quite beautiful,
fake like you're a journalist. You shouldn't even be sitting
in that seat, but you're pretending like you're a journalist,
but you're a left wing activist.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Putt of the market.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
It's a federal agency within which.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Branch it's the executive branch.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Who's the head of the executive branch, the President of
the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The feisty, the snippy, the incredibly effective Caroline Levitt announced
yesterday that she is going to stay as a top
level advisor outside of the White House, but will no
longer be the Press Secretary as of some day in
the near future. Not surprisingly, people don't last that long
(05:49):
in those jobs because they're so incredibly intense. And she's
a young mom, Katie, I don't remember. Does she have one.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Kid or two to two?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, two kids under under two or under three, something
like that, two very very small children. She's also got
like an army of nannies. She's married to a very
wealthy fellow. And and you know that that changes the equation.
I mean, come on, let's let's be serious. And Katie
and a lot of other women can relate to this.
(06:16):
She was she's done interviews, or she says, she's got
to be, you know, very careful and deliberate about spending
time with her kids. She in the morning, she thinks, hmm,
when when can I carve out some time to be
with my child? When might they need me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So it's and luck y'all run your own lives. She
can run her own life.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I have a feeling your kids will do okay, although
growing up near fame and fortune isn't the best thing
for kids. But so she is like the polar opposite
of ninety percent of parents who's you know, maybe they
have work, but their lives are all right, my kids,
When do I carve out a little bit of time
for anything else?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Right?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So, so she schedules kids like you know, her kids
like other people's schedule, you know, non kids stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And again I'm not judging.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, but she's got so she has two under two.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, yeah, that's spectacular, right, Yeah, yeah, I don't I
don't think it's great. She has one of the most intense,
time consuming jobs on the planet. I believe in making
your children a higher priority than that. But at the
same time, if she and her husband who's who's so
successfully out of spotlight.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I think I've heard his name, but I don't know
what it is, and I don't care.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You know, if they can pull it off and the
kids are happy and healthy and the rest of it,
and they love their kids, great. There are different ways
to go and again, if you can afford a paid staff,
that really really helps. But she was you know, I
remember at the beginning her tone, that snippy, fast talking
I know better than you, b bet.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It used to make me insane, and.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That seems to be fairly typical of maga women for
whatever reason. There's a fair amount of that. But the
more I heard her act, she was extremely bright. She
could run circles around KJP Biden's dolt with one baby
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in each arm, and was a really good effective spokesperson
for the for the administration, which is our job, but
also was incredibly accessible to the media, the most transparent
administration in recent memory, maybe ever to a fault sometimes
because Trump can't keep his mouth shut when he really
ought to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But I thought you did a terrific job.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
There's speculation in the Beltway who's gonna get the gig,
but whoever, just let me know when they have it,
and I'll try to memorize their name.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But so anyway, she's on the way out, and there
will be a new spokesperson there at the lectern in
the White House Briefing Room sooner or later. Stuff that
applies much more directly to your real life will be
our focus today. We are not built way obsessed. Some
good stuff about the economy and education and debt and
(09:11):
dumb and just well, you know, dollars and cents, kitchen table.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Issues, as they say.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Katie's got the headlines coming up in just a moment
or two. I hope you can stay with US Army, Strong,
and getty.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
As usual.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So much going on, it's hard to keep track of
it all. Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead
story with Katie.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Green Katie, alrighty, starting with the Alphabet networks.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
They're focusing on Iran this morning. ABC.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
US miscalculated in Iran war due to intelligence failures, according
to the Iranian foreign minister.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
CNN.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Trump insists the US controls were moves. Iran says it
could prolong the war with the United States, and CBS.
Tehran says straight of war move oh is under Iran's
control after Trump threatens that the US might just quote keep.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It, Oh my goodness, yeah, that whole Is it under
control or not? It's such a dumb argument. Oh why
why is our political discourse so dumb? Also, the idea
that we can break her on by just squeezing them economically.
The more I learn about the way that society works
(10:26):
and the way the IRGC works, the less optimistic I
am about that. They're really really good at honkering down
and surviving in spite of sanctions and war and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's what they do best.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And and they have the advantage of not giving a
single poop what happens to the people.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
No poops, zero poops, zero craps.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Given alrighty Breitbart.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Washington State Democrats spent twenty million dollars on healthcare or
just one hundred and seventy three migrants.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
How much twenty million?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Okay, let's let's approach this with our new technique right
in Washington State.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Do you want to do it? Go ahead, Okay, in.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Washington State, someone got twenty million dollars for a healthcare
program for just one hundred and seventy three migrants.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
See, we came up with this the other day. How
do you like that, friends, somebody got that money. That's
the important part. It's so easy to say they spent
this much and bab da dah. Wait a minute, wait
a minute, who got it? How did they get it?
What did they do with it. What were they required
to do for getting it?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Who are they?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
What are their names? How are they connected to the powerful?
Somebody got twenty million dollars whom That's what we got
to be better at asking is citizens. And that's one
of the reasons I won't go off on the screen,
but it's one of the reasons it's so important to
not have a gigantic, multi trillion dollar government that nobody
can even understand. It automatically becomes corrupt because you can't
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keep track of it, and people like money.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Back to U, Katie Son's a little frightening from the
Wall Street Journal, US and Ukrainian forces went head to
head in an exercise.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Ukraine's drones won.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I actually when I read that headline, I thought, oh damn,
go Marca that I thought, wait a minute, this is
exactly what I'm always talking about. You've got to be
humble even while you're powerful. We got pansed by the
Ukrainians because they're in it. They've had to learn, they've
had to adapt, they've had to get smart and fast,
(12:58):
and we're fat and comfort and slow. This is the
exactly the sort of come up pince you need and
in sports, they talk about the early season loss, like
in football, where he went into the season thinking you're great,
and then you get pansed and you think, oh my god,
we've got to sharpen up everything, and it makes you
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as great as you can be.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So we'll talk more about that.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Story from the Washington.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Post prescription drug prices record sharpest drop in more than
sixty years.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That's interesting. Yeah, we'll have to talk to Craig the
healthcare guru about that. He's gonna be talking to us
during hour three. He's really got a handle on speaking
of complexity and corruption are our ridiculous healthcare system?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So look forward to that.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
I am from the Daily Mail.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Seventeen year old boy asked chat GPT for quote murder
my family fantasies, then he killed his mom and fourteen
year old brother at their Massachusetts home.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh my lord. Yeah, I've got some more AI stories.
It's an incredibly powerful tool as wielded by anyone who
figures out how do you use it? And if your
intent is good, you can do incredible good. If your
intent is efficient efficiency, you can get unbelievable efficiency. If
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your intent is evil and murder, you can be great
at evil and murder.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh boy, what do we do with this? I wish
I knew.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
From the New York Post, solar eclipse sends animals loopy,
from sex mad tortoises to giraffes going crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh wow, doing it styleis oh yeah, yeah, and they hate.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
They take you the time, you know what?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Walk slow love, slow slow jam own now CAUTI oh
cartish love. Oh my god, Now Hanson's gonna go to
his ai and make a terrible song.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Don't Hanson show clubs?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Hanson?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh No.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
From study behinds dog's brains experience happy human faces like
a treat.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, I'm I'm not surprised.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Dogs are unbelievable at reading your moods. Yeah, I just
I you know, I miss having a dog. We're not
gonna have one anytime soon, but yeah, the way they've
been domesticated over thousands of years and adapted to it
is really awe inspiring.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Love dogs.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Since we brought our son Van home, when we look
at Frankie and our little dog and say you're a
good boy, he started doing this thing where he almost
smiles and he squints his eyes and it is melt me.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And he's been a good big brother to.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Frank, to Van Rather, he's been so good.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You know why, because he's a good boy, Because social boy.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
All right.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
And finally, the Babylon B white privilege black player ejected
for shooting Sophie Cunningham with a rocket launcher.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That did not happen.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, but Katie, I do want to get to the
w NBA's recent announcement and your reaction to it as
a woman athlete. It is, Oh boy, it is well,
it's it's unbelievable and it's so jaw droppingly clueless. I
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don't know how to reason with these people.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Are if you can reason with these people?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
All right, I haven't seen it, so I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, I'll flesh it out.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And it's not like it's especially ideological even it's just
la la la la la la la laism. So anyway,
I don't want to give it all away. Oh man,
there's so much happening. Yeah, let's get more into the
US and Ukrainian forces thing as well, and hope you
can stay tuned if you can. Is always grab a
podcast subscribed Armstrong and Getty on demand downloads automatically.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It's easy.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Armstrong and Getty The reality is with me.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I will always lead with love, I will always lead
with grace, I will always lead with humility, and I
will always lead with integrity.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Doesn't mean I'll always get it right. I'm also human.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That is WNBA coach Stephanie White of the Indiana team, right,
And he's in the middle now of the transgender argument
and being asked about it. And as usual with folks
of her ilk, all she's got is slogans always lead
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with love, grace, humility, integrity. How about people with testicles
playing in your league?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, here's a response. More or less.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that's
trying to hijack our league will not win.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
It won't win.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
What about the penises?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
We are united, we are connected, right, he will not
be divided.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Every day.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
These women put their on the line.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
So will do every day. Right. When they go low,
we go high.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Love will wink, Grace.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Will win, Humility will win.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Why is the dude?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
And kindness will win?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yes? I stand by them.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I will always stand by them. Everybody else can go
to hell to hell?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
What about kindness and the love?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yes, grace, Yeah, but what about the much larger skeletal
frames and the muscles. Though, of the dudes who are
causeplaying as women, I will lead with grace and humility.
We will not be divided.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Love will win.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
About the penises. So the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Players think of her at this point most of the well,
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It's kind of complex because the WNBA is an intersectionality league.
It is absolutely based on the principles of DEI in
that the the black lesbians, for instance, I think it
is incredibly inappropriate and oppressive that like the black straight
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women say anything to them, and the white lesbians who
can't tell the black straight women anything from getting the
totem pole of intersectionality right, they they they can't say
anything to them, but they can absolutely beat the crab
out of the well, everybody can beat the crap out
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of these straight white women.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So it depends where you are in the web of.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Intersectionality, Michael, which you'd think of her claptrap, But that's
a perfect introduction to We mentioned several days ago that
because a couple of former NBA guys, Royce White and
Enis kant her Freedom are taking the ridiculousness of men
and women's sports to the logical and extreme conclusion. It's
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forcing the WNBA to face up to its cognitive dissonance
with saying we embrace trans genderism. But they know, they
know if they let any dudes cause playing as women
into the league, they will dominate. They will render the
entire league a belly laughing joke almost immediately.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
But they can't admit that.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And if you didn't listen to yesterday's show, the reason
this matters is not because the WNBA matters. It doesn't
matter unless you're a big fan. If your fan enjoy
the games, what the heck you do? You It matters
because this is at the core of critical theory and
what we were talking to James lindsay about. If you
can call them on the ridiculousness of what they're doing
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and the whole two plus two equals five, because saying
two plus two equals four is racism, and it's Western
civilization insisting on its way and its oppression and down
with the man and all.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
It all rests on this sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So if we can point out to people the absurdity
of their philosophy, I mean, you know, even AOC is saying.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Woke one was crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
You ended people's careers, buddha them off social media, ostracized them,
made them miserable, committed acts of violence against people who
try to say Woke one was crazy. And it's interesting,
and I will get to the WNBA statement. I was
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listening to some of my favorite thinkers and writers on
a podcast talking about the laughing off woke one and
will there be a woke two or three? And what
will it look like? And what really really bothered me
about it is they acted like it existed in a vacuum.
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That maybe not because everybody realized, no, this is crazy.
They don't know about critical theory and neo Marxism and the.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Rest of it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Of Course there will be a woke too and three
and four because they Marxists always adapt their strategies, so
of course there will be. It's going on right now,
it's forming right now, Abdul Lsid, is it the hong
woman who lost?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Was it? But the lefty chick in Minneapolis who won?
Is it?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Of course it'll be a woke two point zero. That
was just a set of strategies. It wasn't a philosophy anyway.
So the WNBA had to get together to have a hasty,
anti what they called an anti hate task Force meeting
to address the cognitive dissonance of we embrace We love everybody,
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including transgender people, and they're welcome in our leg except
they would turn our league into a joke. The league
said afterward, there was no immediate eligibility matters affecting the
w part of the WNBA. On top of that, the
league slammed bad faith efforts to marginalize others. Raise raise
your hand, friends, if at any point in the next
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several sentences you hear them come close to addressing what
they'll do if dudes cause playing as women say they
want to play in the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Here's what they said.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Today's meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing
discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol
directed at players online. Oh, because that's what it's They
always go to the hate thing. No, what about the
dudes playing in your league?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Maybe they address it here.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the
coming weeks and months. We will approach these important conversations
thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league.
There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and
we strongly denounce the bad faith efforts to use these
topics to demean or marginalize others. I don't need to
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demean or marginalize anybody. I just don't want men playing
in women's sports, boys playing in girls sports.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That's it, that is it, Go to hell, thank you.
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Debate has raged over trans athletes and their participation in
the wake of Fever Guards. So if you Cunningham's recent
comments to ESPN, in which she said, I just think
girls should be oh what she says. I get a
lot of negative feedback about me hating trands, and I'm like,
I never once said that. I think that I'm here
to extend love. But I also think that love is truth,
being honest, and I want to protect young girls in
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a locker room or young girls in sports who shouldn't
have to go against biological men. But see, that's the problem, Sophie,
and that's what I'm trying to bring home. Radical gender
theory critical theory says there's no such diff thing as
the difference between a man and a woman. It's entirely
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a social construct. Everything is a social construct, and if
you prove to them that even people screaming that when
it comes down to their basketball league being turned into
a joke, they have to admit, Okay, it's not a
social construct, it's real, then all of critical theory falls apart.
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I hope I'm doing at least a decent job of
explaining this. So the WNBA just whistled their way past
the well muscled graveyard and and essentially issued a non
statement statement. So I wish them luck, and Enis Kanter
and mister White's name, I keep forgetting his name, Royce White,
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that's right, who is absolutely hilarious and a genius and
understands what he's doing. They're going to keep going. And
if they're not drafted, they say they're going to sue
based on because people have said all the w NBA
has to do is not draft them, and no, they
have the legal teams lined up to sue on behalf
of discrimination against transgender people.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
This is brilliant.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh, I know, it is absolutely brilliant, and so that's
that's it. It has nothing to do with like hating
transgender people, although I do think it's an awful, awful
social contagion and an abuse and experiment on mentally ill people,
and it really bothers me on that left. But it's
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not about the WNBA, So you know, I wish I
had time to do this. Andrew Stiles wrote a great
piece in The Free Beacon that Katie pointed out to me.
You must be this crazy to lose a Democratic primary
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
And he goes through the various sorts.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Of crazy that appear to be acceptable because the people
touting these one or in the case of Nazi, communist
rapist woman beater cause playing middle class, working class guy
Graham Plattner, he was about to win. But yeah, you
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can support defunding the police, abolishing prisons, hating Israel, hating America,
sharing a stage with radical Muslim clerics who praised the
October seventh attacks and nine to eleven promoting a book
that encourages destructive riots and the violence of rebellion. That's
elsaid being a Sharia compliant international landlord with a tens
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of thousands of dollars collection of watches, wild claiming to
be a socialist or Hassan Piker's got like a three
million dollar house in la and he wore fourteen hundred
dollars sunglasses on his trip to Cuba to praise communism.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
You can't make this stuff up, and there's.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
A whole bunch of stuff, but it's too weird if
you allegedly rape a democrat like Platner, or say that Halloween,
I'm not Thanksgiving is a what is it? A settler
colonialist holiday or the rest of it, like the hongwoman.
But don't take her loss as an example that the
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far left is on his back foot. She was just
a moron. She was terrible candidate. So yeah, don't stretch
it too far. But I wanted to get to this
to wrap up the discussion. Karl Rove, who's not a
great he's not beloved in the mag of movement. He's
you know, mainstream establishment, swamp, Republican whatever. He's also a
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very very astute political analyst, and I think he's really
right in this Seven Steps to Defeat the Dems and
the DSSA. And he mentions that Trump made a speech
in Las Vegas where he really missed the mark, He
missed the opportunities he so often does. He really has
one one note, but he said the radical left of
maniacs they're trying to destroy it with the disaster known
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not as socialism but communism. These are communists, he said.
Republicans should say that if Democrats prevail, you'll have nothing
but death, scholar poverty. You know, he's not wrong about
communism and the rest of it, but his poll numbers
are way way upside down, and just calling them communists
is not going to do.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I'm looking at the clock. We don't have time for this.
Let's kick off checking if we have a guest. We
do have a guest, damn it all right, at the
bottom of the of number two. We will get to
how you actually defeat these DSA people, And I think
Carl nails it, so we'll do that. We've got mail
bag freedom loveme Quota of the day coming up in
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second stay rounds.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Let's get right into it the freedom loving Quote of
the Day. Continuing our series from the Kita Khrushiev, one
of the most critical figures in communism in the twentieth century,
guided the Soviet Union and well, so to speak, in
the middle.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Part of the century.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I can prophesy that your grandchildren in America will live
under socialism. Our firm conviction is that sooner or later,
capitalism will give way to socialism, whether you like it
or not.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
History is on our side. We will bury you.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
He was kind enough to say out loud what their
strategy was, and a lot of young, dope Americans are
embracing it, but thinking they're so smart and innovative they
will guide socialism and state control to a utopian outcome
and not end up like it always ends up. Ah, youth,
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Armstrong and Geddy dot com got this note from Tom,
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Passed this on to Jack as well. Doing what you
do as a team five days a week must be challenging.
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It is fairly, but going solo has got to be
a mindbender. It isn't Oh, and then he says you're
a season pro, Joe Geddy, and so is Jack. All right,
First of all, thank you for the note. You know,
anytime one of us does the show solo, we get
lovely expressions like this, but then there's inevitably and we
appreciate it because it is It's like going from doubles
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tennis to single tennis. We appreciate them, but inevitably we'll
get a couple of notes. We got one today saying,
you know, Joe, when Jack was on during our four
I just I got to tell you, I think the
show is better when both of you are on.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I always roll my eyes and laugh at them.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Why do you think we've been doing a show together
for twenty eight years? Well, if you include our music
radio days misery, it's like thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
We know. Oh boy, I'm always so amused by that.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Okay, moving along, Kevin the textams Texas Marine with a
thought about the book you mentioned. Wednesday's Third Hour is
a book about radicalism that is in favor of political
violence that L sied is recommended ten times on his podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's one of his favorite books.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
See Kevin the Texas Marine says, well, a voracious reader,
I will never read this particular book, mainly because I
don't want to give these authors any money. You mentioned
that they are against the state because the state is violent.
Yet isn't what communists want is more the state. In fact,
the state is in charge of everything. Oh wait, they
want the state they agree with, then the violence is
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okay and widespread and state sanctioned.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Well, the left is nothing if they aren't hypocrites. It's
absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Similar topic, AJ from the People's Public of Vallejo, California
Rights Dear vern vern Is Jack, I think it isn't
if Jack wanted to be known as Verne, you wanted
the nickname Verne Michael.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
AOC's comment about Francesca Hong saying woke one was crazy
was a veiled way to say those who stick blindly
to yesterday's party line are.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Too dumb to succeed. I think you're absolutely right. AJ,
is a great point.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Rather than being in denial that she herself once spouted
that nonsense, AOC's comment was more lament that there are
those who can't keep current with today's accepted party line
A la Mao's China AWTJ keep current with today's jargon. AJ,
that's an absolutely excellent point, And that's what I was
talking about before before. Yeah, there's gonna be a woke
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two point zero three point zero. They're just adapting strategies.
These people want to overthrow Western civilization. If you missed
my interview with James Lindsay yesterday, it's available on the
Armstrong and Getty on demand podcast.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
It's kind of highlighted. It's easy to find. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Skipper McHale writes, heg Seth's the cat guy. Not surprised.
Early in my military career we had a deputy commander
of Special Ops Command, South Navy, Captain Seal guy looked
a lot like hegseeth. He kept cats, used to show
me shows photos of his kittens. I kind of thought
he was off his rocker a bit. One day he said, Champlain,
do you know why I like cats? Because they are killers?
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Oh twist at the end. Hat Herbert Timbo and Vancouver,
Washington Rights.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Please give this joke a chance.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
We had Mairi the Glove, Peyton, Irvin Magic Johnson, Carl
the Mailman Malone. He says, you gotta do this debuting
for your Indiana Fever six foot eight inch, two hundred
and eighty pounds center Enus the Penis Cantor.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I love that Timbo was worth doing. Thank you for
the note.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Great guest talking about China and Ai Josh Rogan right
after the break, stay with us, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and no Hee arm Drawn Yet it.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Live from Studio C Senori within the bowels of the
Armstrong and Giddy Information Complex. This is the Armstrong and
Getdy Show live this Thursday, August the thirteenth of the
Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. And this morning
we're laboring under the title of WNBA stands for We're
(00:48):
Not being Aware. Yeah. I didn't love that one. I
couldn't come up with a good a word. They held
their cute little meeting about the transgender fellows playing the lake.
Oh my god, their statement is hilarious. Alternate title if
you prefer, do you take this woman to be your
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communist agent?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Scam marriages?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Chinese probably agents coming to the US paying thousands of
dollars to marry US citizens so they can get citizenship
or visas or green cards or whatever level of you know,
immigration documentation that they can gin up. So we'll be
talking about that story as well. Coming to I don't, sir,
(01:36):
I don't not for a minute. You know what's weird
about that? The story they prevent. They presented it on
special Report BRTT Bear last night because it's it's it's
like a thousand marriages or more, and they were talking
(01:58):
about it being immigrant fraud and how this was wrong.
And at the press conference that announced this, the Justice
Department was talking about this. At the press conference, they
didn't say anything about national security. They didn't bring up
the idea that, well, let's see, every Chinese citizen is
obliged by law to do anything the Communist Party tells
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them to do to help the advance the interests of
China every moment of their lives, no matter where they're living.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And by the way, if you think that you really
don't want.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
To do that for you is shijin ping. Yeah, we
got your mom right here. She wants to talk to you.
Oh no, she can't talk to you because she's in
a cell. Anyway, what was that you were saying about,
you don't want to do what we asked you?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And we got thousands of thee oh my.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
God, what's the saying about the Roman Empire? That the
barbarians didn't have to break down the gate gets were open,
They just walked in. Yeah for it, dumb we probably
don't deserve to keep our empire. But I don't want
to be negative. Don't want to be negative. I've got
some really kind of cool, positive things to talk about today,
(03:12):
as well as follow up on a number of different
issues we've been discussing this week, including old Abdul l
said he's absolutely in Islamist. He is hell bent on
advancing fundamentalist Islam into the United States, and we have
proof such as it is a big gender bending madness
(03:34):
update some what's his face, the Hassan Piker info that's
beyond the obvious. Nyea, he's a Kami and a rich Kami,
but he's the typical one of these people. Really interesting
stuff about third worldism, which is, you know, one of
the political theories that's running hot through the left.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So a big giant variety of stuff to talk about.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh oh, and it is probably going to be a
final shot at the ridiculous, hilarious dei career of Cambridge's
Jason our Day. His book is out now. I think
he came out yesterday in America. This toast of academia
really you know in the English speaking world, but especially
in Britain. But his book about his many adventures, most
(04:24):
of which are made of is out in the United States,
and apparently the publisher had to do some hasty edits
of it before it actually went to print because they
were realizing more and more, Oh my god, this guy's
a fraud. But we've got a contract for the book,
and he's still kind of celebrated it in the left
and so all right, let's go ahead and put out
the book.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But man, some of the.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Craziest ass we probably ought to take out of it.
So we'll talk about that, among many many other things.
Right now, let's show officially according to FCC rules, Reggs,
here we go boldly into the future at mark for.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
The President's supports piece protest. What a stupid question for Kim. Yeah,
because you're a left wing hack. You're not a reporter.
You're posing in this room as a journalist. I have
provided some photos for all of you in the room today.
This is the interior of the ballroom space, quite beautiful,
fake like you're a journalist. You shouldn't even be sitting
in that seat, but you're pretending like you're a journalist,
but you're a left wing activist.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Putt of the market.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
It's a federal agency within which.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Branch it's the executive branch.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Who's the head of the executive branch, the President of
the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The feisty, the snippy, the incredibly effective Caroline Levitt announced
yesterday that she is going to stay as a top
level advisor outside of the White House, but will no
longer be the Press Secretary as of some day in
the near future. Not surprisingly, people don't last that long
(05:49):
in those jobs because they're so incredibly intense. And she's
a young mom, Katie, I don't remember. Does she have one.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Kid or two to two?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, two kids under under two or under three, something
like that, two very very small children. She's also got
like an army of nannies. She's married to a very
wealthy fellow. And and you know that that changes the equation.
I mean, come on, let's let's be serious. And Katie
and a lot of other women can relate to this.
(06:16):
She was she's done interviews, or she says, she's got
to be, you know, very careful and deliberate about spending
time with her kids. She in the morning, she thinks, hmm,
when when can I carve out some time to be
with my child? When might they need me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So it's and luck y'all run your own lives. She
can run her own life.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I have a feeling your kids will do okay, although
growing up near fame and fortune isn't the best thing
for kids. But so she is like the polar opposite
of ninety percent of parents who's you know, maybe they
have work, but their lives are all right, my kids,
When do I carve out a little bit of time
for anything else?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Right?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So, so she schedules kids like you know, her kids
like other people's schedule, you know, non kids stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And again I'm not judging.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, but she's got so she has two under two.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, yeah, that's spectacular, right, Yeah, yeah, I don't I
don't think it's great. She has one of the most intense,
time consuming jobs on the planet. I believe in making
your children a higher priority than that. But at the
same time, if she and her husband who's who's so
successfully out of spotlight.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I think I've heard his name, but I don't know
what it is, and I don't care.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You know, if they can pull it off and the
kids are happy and healthy and the rest of it,
and they love their kids, great. There are different ways
to go and again, if you can afford a paid staff,
that really really helps. But she was you know, I
remember at the beginning her tone, that snippy, fast talking
I know better than you, b bet.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It used to make me insane, and.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That seems to be fairly typical of maga women for
whatever reason. There's a fair amount of that. But the
more I heard her act, she was extremely bright. She
could run circles around KJP Biden's dolt with one baby
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in each arm, and was a really good effective spokesperson
for the for the administration, which is our job, but
also was incredibly accessible to the media, the most transparent
administration in recent memory, maybe ever to a fault sometimes
because Trump can't keep his mouth shut when he really
ought to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But I thought you did a terrific job.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
There's speculation in the Beltway who's gonna get the gig,
but whoever, just let me know when they have it,
and I'll try to memorize their name.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But so anyway, she's on the way out, and there
will be a new spokesperson there at the lectern in
the White House Briefing Room sooner or later. Stuff that
applies much more directly to your real life will be
our focus today. We are not built way obsessed. Some
good stuff about the economy and education and debt and
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dumb and just well, you know, dollars and cents, kitchen table.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Issues, as they say.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Katie's got the headlines coming up in just a moment
or two. I hope you can stay with US Army, Strong,
and getty.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
As usual.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So much going on, it's hard to keep track of
it all. Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead
story with Katie.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Green Katie, alrighty, starting with the Alphabet networks.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
They're focusing on Iran this morning. ABC.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
US miscalculated in Iran war due to intelligence failures, according
to the Iranian foreign minister.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
CNN.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Trump insists the US controls were moves. Iran says it
could prolong the war with the United States, and CBS.
Tehran says straight of war move oh is under Iran's
control after Trump threatens that the US might just quote keep.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It, Oh my goodness, yeah, that whole Is it under
control or not? It's such a dumb argument. Oh why
why is our political discourse so dumb? Also, the idea
that we can break her on by just squeezing them economically.
The more I learn about the way that society works
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and the way the IRGC works, the less optimistic I
am about that. They're really really good at honkering down
and surviving in spite of sanctions and war and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's what they do best.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And and they have the advantage of not giving a
single poop what happens to the people.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
No poops, zero poops, zero craps.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Given alrighty Breitbart.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Washington State Democrats spent twenty million dollars on healthcare or
just one hundred and seventy three migrants.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
How much twenty million?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Okay, let's let's approach this with our new technique right
in Washington State.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Do you want to do it? Go ahead, Okay, in.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Washington State, someone got twenty million dollars for a healthcare
program for just one hundred and seventy three migrants.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
See, we came up with this the other day. How
do you like that, friends, somebody got that money. That's
the important part. It's so easy to say they spent
this much and bab da dah. Wait a minute, wait
a minute, who got it? How did they get it?
What did they do with it. What were they required
to do for getting it?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Who are they?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
What are their names? How are they connected to the powerful?
Somebody got twenty million dollars whom That's what we got
to be better at asking is citizens. And that's one
of the reasons I won't go off on the screen,
but it's one of the reasons it's so important to
not have a gigantic, multi trillion dollar government that nobody
can even understand. It automatically becomes corrupt because you can't
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keep track of it, and people like money.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Back to U, Katie Son's a little frightening from the
Wall Street Journal, US and Ukrainian forces went head to
head in an exercise.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Ukraine's drones won.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I actually when I read that headline, I thought, oh damn,
go Marca that I thought, wait a minute, this is
exactly what I'm always talking about. You've got to be
humble even while you're powerful. We got pansed by the
Ukrainians because they're in it. They've had to learn, they've
had to adapt, they've had to get smart and fast,
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and we're fat and comfort and slow. This is the
exactly the sort of come up pince you need and
in sports, they talk about the early season loss, like
in football, where he went into the season thinking you're great,
and then you get pansed and you think, oh my god,
we've got to sharpen up everything, and it makes you
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as great as you can be.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So we'll talk more about that.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Story from the Washington.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Post prescription drug prices record sharpest drop in more than
sixty years.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That's interesting. Yeah, we'll have to talk to Craig the
healthcare guru about that. He's gonna be talking to us
during hour three. He's really got a handle on speaking
of complexity and corruption are our ridiculous healthcare system?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So look forward to that.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
I am from the Daily Mail.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Seventeen year old boy asked chat GPT for quote murder
my family fantasies, then he killed his mom and fourteen
year old brother at their Massachusetts home.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh my lord. Yeah, I've got some more AI stories.
It's an incredibly powerful tool as wielded by anyone who
figures out how do you use it? And if your
intent is good, you can do incredible good. If your
intent is efficient efficiency, you can get unbelievable efficiency. If
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your intent is evil and murder, you can be great
at evil and murder.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh boy, what do we do with this? I wish
I knew.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
From the New York Post, solar eclipse sends animals loopy,
from sex mad tortoises to giraffes going crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh wow, doing it styleis oh yeah, yeah, and they hate.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
They take you the time, you know what?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Walk slow love, slow slow jam own now CAUTI oh
cartish love. Oh my god, Now Hanson's gonna go to
his ai and make a terrible song.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Don't Hanson show clubs?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Hanson?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh No.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
From study behinds dog's brains experience happy human faces like
a treat.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, I'm I'm not surprised.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Dogs are unbelievable at reading your moods. Yeah, I just
I you know, I miss having a dog. We're not
gonna have one anytime soon, but yeah, the way they've
been domesticated over thousands of years and adapted to it
is really awe inspiring.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Love dogs.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Since we brought our son Van home, when we look
at Frankie and our little dog and say you're a
good boy, he started doing this thing where he almost
smiles and he squints his eyes and it is melt me.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And he's been a good big brother to.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Frank, to Van Rather, he's been so good.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You know why, because he's a good boy, Because social boy.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
All right.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
And finally, the Babylon B white privilege black player ejected
for shooting Sophie Cunningham with a rocket launcher.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That did not happen.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, but Katie, I do want to get to the
w NBA's recent announcement and your reaction to it as
a woman athlete. It is, Oh boy, it is well,
it's it's unbelievable and it's so jaw droppingly clueless. I
(16:42):
don't know how to reason with these people.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Are if you can reason with these people?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
All right, I haven't seen it, so I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, I'll flesh it out.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And it's not like it's especially ideological even it's just
la la la la la la la laism. So anyway,
I don't want to give it all away. Oh man,
there's so much happening. Yeah, let's get more into the
US and Ukrainian forces thing as well, and hope you
can stay tuned if you can. Is always grab a
podcast subscribed Armstrong and Getty on demand downloads automatically.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It's easy.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Armstrong and Getty The reality is with me.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I will always lead with love, I will always lead
with grace, I will always lead with humility, and I
will always lead with integrity.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Doesn't mean I'll always get it right. I'm also human.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That is WNBA coach Stephanie White of the Indiana team, right,
And he's in the middle now of the transgender argument
and being asked about it. And as usual with folks
of her ilk, all she's got is slogans always lead
(17:59):
with love, grace, humility, integrity. How about people with testicles
playing in your league?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, here's a response. More or less.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that's
trying to hijack our league will not win.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
It won't win.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
What about the penises?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
We are united, we are connected, right, he will not
be divided.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Every day.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
These women put their on the line.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
So will do every day. Right. When they go low,
we go high.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Love will wink, Grace.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Will win, Humility will win.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Why is the dude?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
And kindness will win?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yes? I stand by them.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I will always stand by them. Everybody else can go
to hell to hell?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
What about kindness and the love?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yes, grace, Yeah, but what about the much larger skeletal
frames and the muscles. Though, of the dudes who are
causeplaying as women, I will lead with grace and humility.
We will not be divided.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Love will win.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
About the penises. So the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Players think of her at this point most of the well,
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It's kind of complex because the WNBA is an intersectionality league.
It is absolutely based on the principles of DEI in
that the the black lesbians, for instance, I think it
is incredibly inappropriate and oppressive that like the black straight
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women say anything to them, and the white lesbians who
can't tell the black straight women anything from getting the
totem pole of intersectionality right, they they they can't say
anything to them, but they can absolutely beat the crab
out of the well, everybody can beat the crap out
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of these straight white women.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So it depends where you are in the web of.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Intersectionality, Michael, which you'd think of her claptrap, But that's
a perfect introduction to We mentioned several days ago that
because a couple of former NBA guys, Royce White and
Enis kant her Freedom are taking the ridiculousness of men
and women's sports to the logical and extreme conclusion. It's
(20:31):
forcing the WNBA to face up to its cognitive dissonance
with saying we embrace trans genderism. But they know, they
know if they let any dudes cause playing as women
into the league, they will dominate. They will render the
entire league a belly laughing joke almost immediately.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
But they can't admit that.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And if you didn't listen to yesterday's show, the reason
this matters is not because the WNBA matters. It doesn't
matter unless you're a big fan. If your fan enjoy
the games, what the heck you do? You It matters
because this is at the core of critical theory and
what we were talking to James lindsay about. If you
can call them on the ridiculousness of what they're doing
(21:20):
and the whole two plus two equals five, because saying
two plus two equals four is racism, and it's Western
civilization insisting on its way and its oppression and down
with the man and all.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
It all rests on this sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So if we can point out to people the absurdity
of their philosophy, I mean, you know, even AOC is saying.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Woke one was crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
You ended people's careers, buddha them off social media, ostracized them,
made them miserable, committed acts of violence against people who
try to say Woke one was crazy. And it's interesting,
and I will get to the WNBA statement. I was
(22:08):
listening to some of my favorite thinkers and writers on
a podcast talking about the laughing off woke one and
will there be a woke two or three? And what
will it look like? And what really really bothered me
about it is they acted like it existed in a vacuum.
(22:30):
That maybe not because everybody realized, no, this is crazy.
They don't know about critical theory and neo Marxism and the.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Rest of it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Of Course there will be a woke too and three
and four because they Marxists always adapt their strategies, so
of course there will be. It's going on right now,
it's forming right now, Abdul Lsid, is it the hong
woman who lost?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Was it? But the lefty chick in Minneapolis who won?
Is it?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Of course it'll be a woke two point zero. That
was just a set of strategies. It wasn't a philosophy anyway.
So the WNBA had to get together to have a hasty,
anti what they called an anti hate task Force meeting
to address the cognitive dissonance of we embrace We love everybody,
(23:21):
including transgender people, and they're welcome in our leg except
they would turn our league into a joke. The league
said afterward, there was no immediate eligibility matters affecting the
w part of the WNBA. On top of that, the
league slammed bad faith efforts to marginalize others. Raise raise
your hand, friends, if at any point in the next
(23:43):
several sentences you hear them come close to addressing what
they'll do if dudes cause playing as women say they
want to play in the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Here's what they said.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Today's meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing
discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol
directed at players online. Oh, because that's what it's They
always go to the hate thing. No, what about the
dudes playing in your league?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Maybe they address it here.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the
coming weeks and months. We will approach these important conversations
thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league.
There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and
we strongly denounce the bad faith efforts to use these
topics to demean or marginalize others. I don't need to
(24:38):
demean or marginalize anybody. I just don't want men playing
in women's sports, boys playing in girls sports.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That's it, that is it, Go to hell, thank you.
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Debate has raged over trans athletes and their participation in
the wake of Fever Guards. So if you Cunningham's recent
comments to ESPN, in which she said, I just think
girls should be oh what she says. I get a
lot of negative feedback about me hating trands, and I'm like,
I never once said that. I think that I'm here
to extend love. But I also think that love is truth,
being honest, and I want to protect young girls in
(25:12):
a locker room or young girls in sports who shouldn't
have to go against biological men. But see, that's the problem, Sophie,
and that's what I'm trying to bring home. Radical gender
theory critical theory says there's no such diff thing as
the difference between a man and a woman. It's entirely
(25:34):
a social construct. Everything is a social construct, and if
you prove to them that even people screaming that when
it comes down to their basketball league being turned into
a joke, they have to admit, Okay, it's not a
social construct, it's real, then all of critical theory falls apart.
(25:54):
I hope I'm doing at least a decent job of
explaining this. So the WNBA just whistled their way past
the well muscled graveyard and and essentially issued a non
statement statement. So I wish them luck, and Enis Kanter
and mister White's name, I keep forgetting his name, Royce White,
(26:16):
that's right, who is absolutely hilarious and a genius and
understands what he's doing. They're going to keep going. And
if they're not drafted, they say they're going to sue
based on because people have said all the w NBA
has to do is not draft them, and no, they
have the legal teams lined up to sue on behalf
of discrimination against transgender people.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
This is brilliant.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh, I know, it is absolutely brilliant, and so that's
that's it. It has nothing to do with like hating
transgender people, although I do think it's an awful, awful
social contagion and an abuse and experiment on mentally ill people,
and it really bothers me on that left. But it's
(27:00):
not about the WNBA, So you know, I wish I
had time to do this. Andrew Stiles wrote a great
piece in The Free Beacon that Katie pointed out to me.
You must be this crazy to lose a Democratic primary
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
And he goes through the various sorts.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Of crazy that appear to be acceptable because the people
touting these one or in the case of Nazi, communist
rapist woman beater cause playing middle class, working class guy
Graham Plattner, he was about to win. But yeah, you
(27:36):
can support defunding the police, abolishing prisons, hating Israel, hating America,
sharing a stage with radical Muslim clerics who praised the
October seventh attacks and nine to eleven promoting a book
that encourages destructive riots and the violence of rebellion. That's
elsaid being a Sharia compliant international landlord with a tens
(27:57):
of thousands of dollars collection of watches, wild claiming to
be a socialist or Hassan Piker's got like a three
million dollar house in la and he wore fourteen hundred
dollars sunglasses on his trip to Cuba to praise communism.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
You can't make this stuff up, and there's.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
A whole bunch of stuff, but it's too weird if
you allegedly rape a democrat like Platner, or say that Halloween,
I'm not Thanksgiving is a what is it? A settler
colonialist holiday or the rest of it, like the hongwoman.
But don't take her loss as an example that the
(28:43):
far left is on his back foot. She was just
a moron. She was terrible candidate. So yeah, don't stretch
it too far. But I wanted to get to this
to wrap up the discussion. Karl Rove, who's not a
great he's not beloved in the mag of movement. He's
you know, mainstream establishment, swamp, Republican whatever. He's also a
(29:06):
very very astute political analyst, and I think he's really
right in this Seven Steps to Defeat the Dems and
the DSSA. And he mentions that Trump made a speech
in Las Vegas where he really missed the mark, He
missed the opportunities he so often does. He really has
one one note, but he said the radical left of
maniacs they're trying to destroy it with the disaster known
(29:28):
not as socialism but communism. These are communists, he said.
Republicans should say that if Democrats prevail, you'll have nothing
but death, scholar poverty. You know, he's not wrong about
communism and the rest of it, but his poll numbers
are way way upside down, and just calling them communists
is not going to do.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I'm looking at the clock. We don't have time for this.
Let's kick off checking if we have a guest. We
do have a guest, damn it all right, at the
bottom of the of number two. We will get to
how you actually defeat these DSA people, And I think
Carl nails it, so we'll do that. We've got mail
bag freedom loveme Quota of the day coming up in
(30:11):
second stay rounds.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Let's get right into it the freedom loving Quote of
the Day. Continuing our series from the Kita Khrushiev, one
of the most critical figures in communism in the twentieth century,
guided the Soviet Union and well, so to speak, in
the middle.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Part of the century.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I can prophesy that your grandchildren in America will live
under socialism. Our firm conviction is that sooner or later,
capitalism will give way to socialism, whether you like it
or not.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
History is on our side. We will bury you.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
He was kind enough to say out loud what their
strategy was, and a lot of young, dope Americans are
embracing it, but thinking they're so smart and innovative they
will guide socialism and state control to a utopian outcome
and not end up like it always ends up. Ah, youth,
(31:16):
It's wonderful, isn't it. Mailbag drops note. Mail Bag at
Armstrong and Geddy dot com got this note from Tom,
the former submariner. I've been listening daily for two plus decades.
Thanks Tom, Gosh. I wanted to you to know that
I recognize how difficult your job must be when done solo.
Passed this on to Jack as well. Doing what you
do as a team five days a week must be challenging.
(31:37):
It is fairly, but going solo has got to be
a mindbender. It isn't Oh, and then he says you're
a season pro, Joe Geddy, and so is Jack. All right,
First of all, thank you for the note. You know,
anytime one of us does the show solo, we get
lovely expressions like this, but then there's inevitably and we
appreciate it because it is It's like going from doubles
(31:57):
tennis to single tennis. We appreciate them, but inevitably we'll
get a couple of notes. We got one today saying,
you know, Joe, when Jack was on during our four
I just I got to tell you, I think the
show is better when both of you are on.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I always roll my eyes and laugh at them.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Why do you think we've been doing a show together
for twenty eight years? Well, if you include our music
radio days misery, it's like thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
We know. Oh boy, I'm always so amused by that.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Okay, moving along, Kevin the textams Texas Marine with a
thought about the book you mentioned. Wednesday's Third Hour is
a book about radicalism that is in favor of political
violence that L sied is recommended ten times on his podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's one of his favorite books.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
See Kevin the Texas Marine says, well, a voracious reader,
I will never read this particular book, mainly because I
don't want to give these authors any money. You mentioned
that they are against the state because the state is violent.
Yet isn't what communists want is more the state. In fact,
the state is in charge of everything. Oh wait, they
want the state they agree with, then the violence is
(33:13):
okay and widespread and state sanctioned.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Well, the left is nothing if they aren't hypocrites. It's
absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Similar topic, AJ from the People's Public of Vallejo, California
Rights Dear vern vern Is Jack, I think it isn't
if Jack wanted to be known as Verne, you wanted
the nickname Verne Michael.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
AOC's comment about Francesca Hong saying woke one was crazy
was a veiled way to say those who stick blindly
to yesterday's party line are.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Too dumb to succeed. I think you're absolutely right. AJ,
is a great point.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Rather than being in denial that she herself once spouted
that nonsense, AOC's comment was more lament that there are
those who can't keep current with today's accepted party line
A la Mao's China AWTJ keep current with today's jargon. AJ,
that's an absolutely excellent point, And that's what I was
talking about before before. Yeah, there's gonna be a woke
(34:08):
two point zero three point zero. They're just adapting strategies.
These people want to overthrow Western civilization. If you missed
my interview with James Lindsay yesterday, it's available on the
Armstrong and Getty on demand podcast.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
It's kind of highlighted. It's easy to find. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Skipper McHale writes, heg Seth's the cat guy. Not surprised.
Early in my military career we had a deputy commander
of Special Ops Command, South Navy, Captain Seal guy looked
a lot like hegseeth. He kept cats, used to show
me shows photos of his kittens. I kind of thought
he was off his rocker a bit. One day he said, Champlain,
do you know why I like cats? Because they are killers?
(34:46):
Oh twist at the end. Hat Herbert Timbo and Vancouver,
Washington Rights.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Please give this joke a chance.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
We had Mairi the Glove, Peyton, Irvin Magic Johnson, Carl
the Mailman Malone. He says, you gotta do this debuting
for your Indiana Fever six foot eight inch, two hundred
and eighty pounds center Enus the Penis Cantor.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I love that Timbo was worth doing. Thank you for
the note.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Great guest talking about China and Ai Josh Rogan right
after the break, stay with us, Armstrong and Getty
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