May 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Gender Bending Madness!
- Houthis are saying no more
- Jack's cough and gas taxes
- New movies & shows
Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and He.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty. Hey are you thanks tun In'm glad
you're here. Happy Friday friends. Coming up later in the show,
looking forward to a discussion of the idea of abundance,
(00:39):
meaning here in the US we have all sorts of
wonderful imports choose from, and therefore the average working person
has an incredibly high standard of living and we're living
pretty high on the hog, you know, as human beings go.
But yeah, we've offshored a lot of our manufacturing and
that leaves us vulnerable to certain things. Where's the balance point?
(01:03):
And are we happy with the idea of as Trump
said the other day, Look, you're not gonna have thirty
dollars on the shelves.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You'll have a couple.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It might be a few bucks more expensive, but we'll
have more good manufacturing jobs in the country. You know,
what's the Where's the proper balance point? So stay tuned
for that if you can. If not, grab it by
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand, subscribe wherever you get podcasts.
But first, it's a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So I kept hearing about this thing called.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
By the loco We're a brave world. We have a
number of headlines to share with you today, working up
to what I think is the most important story. But
predictively and horrifyingly, California Democrats have killed a state senator's
bill that would secure women's prisons from predatory trans women
(01:56):
also known as men. Some of the stories, there's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
There is.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Rampant rape of women in women's prisons, not by guards
or wardens or anything, but by these so called transgender people,
to the point that the guards in some of these
women's prisons are making condoms available and handing them out
to the women inmates, saying, hey, you might need this.
(02:27):
If somebody forces themselves upon you, maybe you can get
them to put it on. And yet, because the radical
transgender movement is so powerful in cal Unicornia, they can't
even get a law passed that says, if you're a transgender,
you're a dude, but you're claiming to be a woman.
All right, you're in the woman's prison, but you got
(02:50):
to be over here a specific place that doesn't interact
with the women. That bill got crushed crushed by the
Democrats and the legislation. It's unbelievable. In case, it's not obvious,
even if you're not a would be rapist, the women's
prisons are less secure and less dangerous, and so guys
(03:11):
would just rather be there, so they declare, Hey, I'm
a girl, and the idiot state of California.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That lets them in there.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Another headline for you, A number of big time sponsors
are rethinking their Pride marketing MasterCard not renewing its corporate
sponsorship for the New York City Pride March, the city's
annual march for LGBTQ plus rights for twenty twenty five.
They had been sponsoring the events for around a decade.
(03:41):
Decision puts it among a group of NYC Pride sponsors
that are not returning this year. Others include sod snack
maker Pepsi Coo automaker, Nissan, banking Giant, City Group, and
consulting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers, among others. What's interesting about
this article, and it's in the Wall Street Journal is
(04:01):
in various quotes and in just the journalists writing, they
refer to LGBTQ or lgbt QI A plus, depending on
who they're quoting. And I'm reminded of the old saying
I didn't leave the party of the party left me
when it was lgb when it was gay rights. All
(04:22):
of these corporations are like, yeah, you know, there's plenty
of gay folks, and then we're up for them having rights,
and so we'll sponsor. They're the big party in the march,
but the party left them. It's now lgbt q I
A plus, which includes cruel experiments, gender bending experiments on
(04:46):
confused adolescents, which you've talked about a lot, whether it's
the hormones or the surgeries or whatever. And saying I'm
in favor of gay rights does not mean I'm in
favor of taking a confused fourteen year old girl in
feedner full of hormones and changing her body in her
life forever. That's different the whole TEA thing. You know,
(05:06):
you can comment on that whichever you want. But now
the l g b t q I A plus community
is actually and I'm not making this up, the fairly
low level but increasing in volume messages about minor attracted
individuals m AI's you can probably guess what that means.
(05:29):
It means pedophiles, people might have sex with children, or
at the very least sex with teenagers, underage people. And
so if i'm City Bank MasterCard, virtually everybody but you know, well.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That's not fair.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's not everybody but target is hanging in there, Anheuser
Bush gay rights. Yeah, okay, experiments on children and yay
for pedophiles.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, I'm out. Of course you're out. You should be out.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And I feel bad for you know, good reasonable gay
lesbian people or like, I am not down with all
of this madness, and I wish I wasn't grouped with them,
but unfortunately you are to some extent, which brings us
to this headline Gaze Against Groomers, which is an organization
with an online presence, and they're you know what I've described,
(06:27):
they're they're gay people who think all of the T
plus q I A minus over the power of three
stuff is madness. And they just came across a White
House briefing for l g B t q I plus
leaders back in the Biden administration that branded Gaze Against
Groomers as a hate group on an and an extremist organization.
(06:53):
And as they commented online. Our crime believing children are
perfect ex exactly as they are, no drugs or surgeries required.
I'm gonna repeat that. This is this gaze against Groomer's group.
We believe children are perfect exactly as they are, no
drugs or surgeries required, And for that stance, the Biden
(07:17):
administration laid them, labeled them as extremists in.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
A hate group.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Man, we've gone down the so far down the road
to Crazyville. It's hard to believe, isn't it. A couple
more stories, a man who identifies as a woman is
set to become the first transgender individual, and I appreciate
there are a handful of publications of a slightly more
conservative bent than the liberal mainstream media who use quotes
(07:44):
around transgender because the left in academia would have you
believe that that is it's a solid term with a
solid definition. Everybody knows what it means, and you dare
not question. No, no, that's not true. It's a concept.
The very concept of it is very, very controversial, but
(08:05):
they act as if it's universally understood and accepted.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Don't fall for that. It's not anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
So again, transgenders and quotes and This happens to be Breitbarton.
A man who identifies as a woman is set to
become the first transgender individual to compete in the Miss
Maine USA pageant in a couple of days. Twenty four
year old Isabella Saint Sarah of Munson of one among
several other biological males, just males.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It's fine to just say males.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
See only kind of male there is biological It's redundant
to say biological male and silly. It's redundant and silly
to say biological woman or female female. That's enough, you've
explained yourself anyway. One among several men who have been
competing in beauty pageants across the nation and around the world.
And this person is very happy with this. As you
(08:56):
might guess. During an interview with the local paper, this
man said he'd always wanted to compete in pageants. Out
The outlet noted the farm owner, a farmer. That's interesting,
began transitioning while he was in high school, started the
medical transition when he was twenty. Okay, that's fine, but
you don't get to be in a girl's beauty pageant
nor a girls sports henry Ford Health, Detroit based healthcare
(09:20):
agency henry Ford Health has been exposed for administering transgender
treatments on minors, tainting care with diversity, equity and inclusion policies,
and more by a nonprofit group accusing it of prioritizing
politics over patient patients. This is Michigan's second largest health system.
Dyve deleted web pages promoting childhood transgenderism and dei an
(09:44):
attempt to scrub its far left footprints, but that's the
services still exist. One deleted article on how to support
a transgender team directed parents to get help to allow
their child to transition.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
When they're not allowed to transition, they may suffer from depression, anxiety,
and an increased risk of inflicting self harm. Unbelievable. And
henry Ford pediatrician doctor Maureen Connelly radical lunatic said, we've
latched onto this idea that gender is fixed, but we
know now in medicine that exploring your identity as it
(10:20):
relates to gender as a normal part of growing up. Well, yeah,
how masculine?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Am I? How feminine?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Am I?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Am I?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Girly girl? Am I A tomboy? Am I A tough guy?
Am I?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Sensitive? Poet? Guy? Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
That is a normal part of growing up. Having activists
lunatics pump you full of chemicals and remove healthy body
parts that is not normal, not even close. All right,
More on this to come in a second. After a
word from our friend's said, Prize Picks the action is
heating up. Price Picks the best place to get in
on the action. Don't miss your chance to pick your
(10:52):
favorite players during the Basketball playoffs.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Super easy to understand and do.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Whether it's points, rebounds are a just choose more or
less on two to six player stat projections for your
chance to win up to two thousand times your cash.
Turn your playoff hot takes into tickets to Basketball's championship series.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Start with the playing round.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Every lineup you make on Prize Picks will enter you
in the Takes two Tickets sweepstakes, which could get you
and a plus one a VIP trip to the Championship.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Download the Prize Picks at today.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Use the code Armstrong to get fifty dollars instantly after
you play your first five dollars lineup. That's the code
armstrong to get fifty dollars instantly after you play just
a five dollars lineup. Play as little as you want
keep it fun, keep it cool, be smart, prize picks,
use that code Armstrong prize picks.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Run your game. A couple more quick stories. What time
is it?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, we really ought to take a break, But there's
a terrific editorial in the National Review. At the beginning
of the year, President Trump announced in an executive order
that directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to
publish a review of the egg existing literature on best
practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender
(12:06):
dysphoria rapid onset gender dysphoria, which I could talk about
for a week, but I mean, the classic example of
gender dysphoria is a grown man who says, I've always
felt like a girl. I've always known I was a girl.
I want to present as a woman and get surgery.
You know, that's one thing. If you're a grown person,
you get to do what you want. In my country, certainly,
But this rapid onset youth gender dysphoria thing is a
(12:28):
wildly different proposition. And it turns out that the best
practices quote unquote for so called gender firm and care
are simply to not do it at all. If you
take activism out of this and actually look at the science.
The conclusions are clear. The AHHS review was published a
couple of days ago, and the results should not be surprising.
(12:49):
The researchers found that the available studies on gender firm
and care quote unquote for minors are poorly conducted, and
there is not evidence to show that such interventions effectively
treat gender dysfort or improve mental health. More importantly, the
researchers note what has not been published in the scientific literature.
The studies largely fail to appropriately consider the possible harms
(13:10):
of these medical interventions. And since we're about out of town,
time will cut this short for now. We'll come back
to it later. But the other thing that they never
consider is that, yeah, if you have a delusion and
the people around you confirm that delusion as an impressional adolescent,
that will for the short term make you feel better
about everything. But in the long term the results are
(13:32):
horrifying and devastating. So these studies have been absolute bunk. Anyway,
that's your gender bending madness update.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The loco. We're in a brave new world. Much more to.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Come, stay with us. Brett Phar had an interesting interview
with JDV. Yesterday on special report in which they talked
about a handful of different things, including the situation with
the Houthis bombing shipping and the US, unlike under the Mummy,
(14:13):
Biden lashing back and pounding them for their trouble many many,
many strikes over a period of months. We'll let Breton
JD continue the conversation. First clip, Michael, the Hoothy campaign.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I mean, I think you know, we're already seeing signs
that the Houthis are saying no moss. They've been bombed,
They've recognized that there are serious consequences to firing on.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
American and other ships.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
And I actually think we're in a good place for
the Houthis to stop attacking civilian vessels, to go back
to doing whatever it is they were doing before they
were attacking civilian vessels. And I think that if fat
were happening, then this bombing campaign would be over the
next day.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Pete Hegseeth also sent a strong message, excuse me to
Iran and the Hoothies. You know very well what the
US military is capable of. You will pay warning that
Iran would pay consequences for its lethal support of the
Houthis terrorist organization. We know exactly what you are doing,
(15:15):
you know very well with the US military is capable
of and you were warned you will pay the consequence
at the time in place of your choosing. Let's press
on with Brett Bearen VP Vans.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Do you hear the criticism though from libertarians from the
left that this is the new Vietnam? This is forty
eight days of bombing. People are in the middle of
the country. May not know that we're in the middle
of a hot war with Yemen.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
What do you say, Well, not with Yemen with a
terrorist organization inside yet has been firing on American ships.
And I think that people, you know, we want to
compare this to Vietnam, and come on. I think that
the President has made it very clear that one of
his core national security priorities is that if you load
stuff onto a ship and you send it to the
United States, we want to make sure that it shows
(16:01):
up without the sailors getting killed, without the ship being destroyed.
That is an objective that we're going to pursue forcefully if.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
We have to.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, there's an account in Fox News of the USS
Harry Truman aircraft carrier that was the same that the
F eighteen super Hornet fell off of It's possible it
was making an emergency turn to avoid Hoothy attack. It's
all classified and should be. And that's fine and recent
(16:33):
and thanks to listeners who sent us video of giant
aircraft carriers making those emergency turns. It's quite astounding to
witness how quickly and with what energy they can turn.
But anyway, the aircraft carrier has been operating in the
Red season September where it has launched strikes against the Houthis,
and they have claimed it is they have attacked the
(16:54):
Harry Truman and the accompanying warships in recent weeks, so
that may well be what happened. Meanwhile, Marco Ruby from
thirty thousand feet talking more generally about Iran and its
recent actions, and.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Look, there's a win here for Iran.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Okay, they can actually have real economic development, Okay, real
investment in their country. But they have to walk away
from sponsoring terrorists, they have to walk away from helping
the Houthies, they have to walk away from building long
range missiles that have no purpose to exist other than
having nuclear weapons, and they have to walk away from enrichment.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
These are not unreasonable requests.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
There are countries all over the world that have nuclear
energy and don't enrich and don't have long range missiles
and don't sponsor terrorism. That path is there for them.
It's the path of peace. And frankly, I pray and
hope and we'll do everything we can to hope convince
them that they should take it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Marco Rubio there, it will be so interesting to see
the next six months or so unfold. According to the reports,
which may or may not be accurate. You never know
who floats what and for what reason. But Israel was
ready to go ahead and strike Iran and take their
nuclear program down to whatever extent is possible, and we
told them to wait, wait, wait, to hold it back.
Their negotiations allegedly happening. Soon It's going to turn one
(18:02):
way or the other, and in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Soon. Much more to come.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Stay with us if you can't grab the podcast Armstrong and.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Getty, onto me Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
According to a new study, drinking champagne could reduce the
risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, it increases the risk
of hitting wasted at brunch and spending your Sunday afternoon
passed out on one of the IKEA sample beds.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, I've never enjoyed the mimosa or the the brunch drink.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
It only if I'm planning to keep her going all day.
And that's, you know, a rare occurrence.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You're always a much better distance athlete than I was.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I can't do it two times. So I had a
doctor's appointment. I wasn't hear the last hour.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
You probably didn't even notice me missing, which makes you
wonder why I get paid to do this.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
But so I noticed, Jack, I noticed, all right.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
So I've had this cough thing for three weeks long
outside of cancer, longest time I've been sick with the
same thing ever in my wife. I just went to
the doctor and apparently there's a whole bunch of these
or one I don't know, flying around the country. So
if you got something where it just keeps hanging on,
it's a thing. Right now, three to five weeks of
(19:22):
the same cough before it goes away, which.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Is abow five weeks. Is that's too much what I
would like to know?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Well, three weeks sure feels like a long time. It's
been three weeks in two days. But what I'd like
to know if this has anything to do with covid.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Did covid do anything to our immune system?
Speaker 9 (19:40):
Or is this some sort of merged with a cold
variant something I don't know, No problem, and.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
It is doctor Fauci behind it all. Yeah, no kidding,
Never forget two things. First of all, I always asked
this question of doctors.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I don't know why. I just am fascinated by this.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
I said, So, if I'd got and this because they're
putting me on pregnizone to try to knock out the
end of it because I got.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Fluid in my lungs or whatever.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
I said, if this is going on one hundred years ago,
what would happen? And she said, you'd probably get deemonia
and die most likely. That's just amazing to me that
how many things. You know, That's why life expectancy was
like thirty eight not that long ago, because there are
just so many things that would come along and kill.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You right right.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You know, I find myself wondering and I'm completely unqualified
to even consider this question, So this should be fun.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Would we well, I think I know the answer.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Would we have developed the population density that we have
now as modern humans in the absence of modern medicine. Uh,
I mean, because a lot of people would be dropping
dead like crazy of these respiratory diseases that we all
trade back and forth because we're you know, in buildings
and offices and schools all the time.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
London was pretty dense long before antibotics came along.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, and people lived to thirty eight if they were lucky.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, we would have a lot different population, no doubt.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
But so some of you heard when we brought this
up the other day. So I was talking to somebody
I know in my personal life and about being sick,
and they said, you get sick a lot. And I said, no,
not really, And they said, and for whatever reason they
had in their mind when I've been sick, they said, yeah,
well you had this and then like a month ago
(21:32):
you had and you missed work and blahlah blah. And
I and for the first time in my life, which
is absolutely amazing, that I've been able to live in
denial all this time. It's shocking. What else am I
in denial about or anybody I had to admit? Yeah,
I get sick a lot. I get sick more than
the average person. I've never admitted that out loud, but
it's clearly statistically true, and I've never seen myself that way.
(21:59):
So now I've I've got to realize, like my parents
eighty two and eighty.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Seven eighty eight.
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Almost never get sick, like ever, my whole life, including
now I, on the other hand, would be I would die.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I would have already been dead a long time ago.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
I'm a person who gets sick, and without modern medicine,
I would have been dead a long time ago. I'm
not cut out for, you know, life, apparently probably lack
of character.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Is that what the doctor say or you know? Because
that's why I've.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Been That's why I've wanted to deny getting sick a lot,
because I do feel like it's people who get sick
a lot I've just always.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Looked down on. You're just like a weak person. You
get sick of Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I know I'm not proud of it, but that's cruelty
on one end of your personality and delusion on the other.
This is troubling people who get sick a lot.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
I don't want them around me. I don't want to
work with them. I don't I just yeah, you're just
you're weak. You're a weak person. I've always felt that way.
Maybe that's where the denial comes from because I had
that aks. But I get sick a lot, and I would.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Have been a compensating one hundred years ago, I would
have been dead.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
So what do you do with that information? Nothing, that's
just your deal. Like some people have better eyesight or taller.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh about not the psychological part, but the reality of
getting sick.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I don't know. You try to take care of yourself.
I suppose I don't do.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You're quit acting like the precautions to prevent illness are
stupid and only practiced by weak people.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Okay, I'm going to go on the pregni zone, which
is a steroid, so I'm going to get swoll. So
look forward to me. Just I'm gonna be RFK Junior
ripped by the way. He just announced he's getting feetest
parts out of all the vaccines.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So that's something to be excited about. Next vaccine, you
got no feetest parts in it? Wait, what I know?
I thought the same thing. What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
All right, we'll dig into that and figure out how
significant it is. So you have probably had this same conversation,
at least internally, as I have watching traffic go by.
Everybody is driving little SUVs. Now every damn car is
a crossover suv.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And I remember back when this phenomenon was first beginning,
I would always be a little i don't know, perturbed, intrigued, confused,
because I would say, so you got a little hatchback,
whatever happened to the trunk, the great American trunk you
(24:35):
could stole, like, you know, a couch in three bodies
in a trunk I have, And now you've got this
little space.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Why are people preferring these things now?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Of course I've been driving one mostly for the last
several years, a kind of mid sized suv.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Interestingly, in the National Review, Chad Hagen observed first that
the American car market has undergone a huge shift in
recent years. It used to be Sedan after Sedan after
Stan on American roads, two to four doors and a trunk.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Great.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
I don't know why they went away, but anyway back
to your statistics, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
They practically vanished and replaced by an endless parade of
oversized SUVs and crossovers.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He wrote, what happened.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It was not consumer demand alone that drove this transformation.
Although I do kind of like sitting up high.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Sitting up hi, you start doing.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
It, it it, I don't know, you just feel more
protected or the view or whatever. But yeah, when I
got my sedan, it had been a long time since
i'd sat down low.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You have a different view of the world down there.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, I went with like what you might call a
sports sedan for a while, and I really liked the car.
But in a land of SUVs and pickup trucks, you constantly,
you constantly got their headlights directly into your eyeball right,
because of the way they're focused anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
But it was not consumer demand alone that drove the transfer. Transformation.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Policy played a pivot, an ironic role, how well, under
the revised corporate average fuel economy those are the Cafe standards.
Perhaps you've heard of. Fuel efficiency targets were tied to
a vehicle's physical footprint. The larger the vehicle, the easier
the target began it became to meet. Right so called
(26:20):
light trucks, a category that miraculously expanded to include nearly
anything with four wheels and a squarish back end. Were
given significantly lower efficiency requirements than passenger cars. As a result,
automakers responded exactly as rational actors do under irrational government regulations.
They made everything bigger. Traditional sedans were bulked up into crossovers,
(26:44):
ground clearance was raised, carbon go space was squared off,
and the vehicles were quietly reclassified as trucks to game
the system that Washington had so thoughtfully built for them.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
That is funny on a number of ends. So first
of all, government trying to force us to live certain
ways almost never works. Almost never works.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
To find relate the free market one.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
We find our way around it.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
We do what we want to do, So we figure
out a way around it. Our business figures out a
way around it. And then you got the other end
of it. And I've talked about this a million times.
I know it annoys, it hurts some people's feelings. But
the whole truck thing is so much image, and I
have I have many many trucks, But it's an image
(27:30):
they sell you that we all like.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I'm perfectly fine with that. I like the image.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
I know they're selling me in an image, but almost
nobody statistically ever puts their four wheel drive in four
wheel drive and all the towing capacity stuff that they
put in, all the ads to make you feel a
certain way. Almost nobody ever pulls anything with their truck.
I know plenty of you do, and you're listening right now,
and you feel offended that I said that, But just statistically,
(27:54):
it's true. Not talking about you, right right. You work
on a farm and you pull a big truck, fine,
you need a certain or a big wagon or whatever,
you need a certain kind of truck, but most people don't.
Most people are picking up their kids from school in
their truck that can pull fifteen thousand pounds up a hill,
but they never ever do.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
But so you know, it fits in with what you
were just talking about.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
So you come up with an image to sell this
kind of vehicle that gets around the cafe standards, and
then everybody's driving this.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
This is an unfair characterization, which is why I enjoy
it so much. But in general, progressive types, liberals in general,
including you know, fairly moderate liberals back in the day,
they pass policies and a praise them on how they
make them feel and whether they make them look enlightened,
(28:44):
whether they get social payoff from it. Do you praise
me for passing these policies. That is the standard. If
you're a good, smart conservative and you understand the way
the world really works works, you propose policies, but then
(29:04):
you think hard about, Okay, how will people's behaviors change
because of this policy, how will people try to get
around it?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Is this worth the trouble?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Are we, for instance, helping the poor single mother. Yes,
but we're also encouraging people not to get married in
the first place. For instance, that taken from the LBJ
is so called great society and the sixties that decimated
the black family. If you're a good conservative, you think
(29:36):
hard about the way the world and humans really work,
and you take a much lighter hand in trying to
manipulate the levers of life and love in the economy,
because it never works out the way you think it will.
People adjust, they change, they do different things, or companies say, oh,
(29:57):
bigger vehicles have lower standards. Let's make bigger vehicle. And literally,
that's how long the conversation was. Right to get around
your brilliant regulations.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
And while you and your friends in Brooklyn who never
drive at you don't even own cars.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And can totally not understand how anybody would want to
own a car.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
I think we're all gonna start driving some sort of
tiny little thing because we care about the environment. No,
we went out and bought the great, big giant SUVs
because we like big vehicles.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yep, the end. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
And then Katie had this story earlier about how the
federal government's proposing some sort of tax for electric cars
that will start happening, and you said it's to make
up for the gas taxes. That's another perfect example of
how it makes you feel versus reality.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Everybody starts driving electric cars, all that gas.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Tax that you used to fund tons of big blue
projects in your state are gonna go away. How are
you gonna fix it? You gotta make up for that,
So where you gotta have an answer for that somewhere.
You can't just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You try mightily to limit the miles people drive, and
then you profit from those miles, and then when those
miles actually drop, you go into a panic and you
have to tax something else.
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Lovely, I'm gonna go to a movie tonight, very excited
about a movie that hits the theaters tonight. I'll tell
you about, among other things, on the ways to hear Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And yet we can't starting alone, no one can, and
we can find a way together.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Marvel Studios, Thunderballs, oh man I Hanson.
Speaker 9 (31:46):
I asked Canton to grab a trailer from Thunderbolts, which
comes out tonight, new Marvel movie, which I'm very excited about.
It's hilarious. Many of the trailers are freaking hilarious. That
was not one of them, but it is a it's
a like Avengers type movie, and it looks really really good,
and it's got a bunch of the stars. If you've
(32:06):
watched these or watch them with your kids or whatever. Bucky,
you know, Captain America's friend who died during World War Two.
Bucky's back. And this guy David Harbor. Do you know
David Harbor by name Joe. He's spend so many things.
He was a sheriff in Stranger Things. But he plays
this Russian super soldier that he's been in the Marvel series.
(32:27):
Really badass, very cool. I mean, just a great character
actor and he's great in this role. But anyway, now
he's in this that's kind of a half a comedy.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
And Henry and are going to go tonight.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
I'll let you know what I think of it. They're
hoping it's going to revitalize the Marvel thing. Interesting that
they're going to try to go with a comedy bent
to bring it back after it kind of dying off
over the last several years.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Interesting, by the way.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I was going to tout and Door, which is one
of your Star Wars spinoffs on Disney Plus, and I
read an article the other day.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I kind of heard of it, but I never tuned in.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
But the article was talking about Tony Gilroy, who's the
guy who like is behind it, the showrunner, the writer,
and how disappointed he was that it wasn't a bigger hit.
Uh and and the critic was saying, and it should be,
because it's so good.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
He's the guy.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Who wrote like all of the Bourne Identity movies and
directed several of them. And and the point of the
article was that it's not very Star Wars y. It's
a political espionage thriller and and with really interesting deep
characters and twists and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
And I thought, oh, okay, I'll give it a try.
I've been binging it. Oh I love it. It is
so good.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh really, check door on Disney Plus if you get that.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
He loves that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
On Thunderbolts, there's one of the trailers where he say,
I think we should call ourselves thunderbolts if we If
you're gonna call thunderbolts, I quit. So this is some
breaking news and kind of interesting of things that are
happening right now. So the jobs numbers came out today.
(34:06):
So we had the GDP number that came out a
couple of days ago in the economy shrank, and then
Joe explained how that that's misleading, like a lot misleading.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
But then the jobs.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
Numbers out today, which exceeding expectations.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
So the Financial Times headline.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
Is US stocks wipe out losses from Liberation Day. US
stocks rallied today on the news of one hundred and
seventy seven thousand jobs and that was enough to cause
the S and P at least to gain back everything
that has been lost since Liberation Day.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
And so there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Check.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Go ahead and check your four oh one k as
they say.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
That's why that whole thing is so stupid every single time, and.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
People are worried about their foreum case.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
First of all, unless you're like retiring tomorrow and even then,
Like my dad always talks about how many times he's
lost half of what he's got since he's been retired.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
It comes back unless you're right.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
I don't know, planning to buy a house to with
your four oh one k, which would be a bad plan.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, if you act like all of the talking hands
on the news, think you act, you're doing it wrong.
Get a financial advisor, read a book or something.
Speaker 9 (35:15):
Read a book or something, but like all that stuff,
or this is the worst stock market decline since April
of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
That's two years ago, and I don't even remember it.
I mean, why are you acting like this?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
You don't remember twenty twenty three? The blood running in
the streets, the cannibalism, parents eating their own children.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Is there? Oh wow?
Speaker 9 (35:32):
You'd have thought that had stuck in my mind, right?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
I didn't see this. Maybe you talked about it while
I was at the doctor.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
The U United States announced yesterday we're stepping back from
the peace talks, and you brought Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I didn't know that. I missed this story.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Yesterday We're no longer going to be involved in the
peace talks. It's up to them. The White House announced yesterday. Okay,
I'd missed that too. Yeah, seems like big news. Well
what peace talks?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I mean maybe maybe that's the ye. We do four
hours every day.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
If you don't get all four hours or every segment,
or there's segments you'd like to listen to multiple times
or share with your friends, you can check out the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and He.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty. Hey are you thanks tun In'm glad
you're here. Happy Friday friends. Coming up later in the show,
looking forward to a discussion of the idea of abundance,
(00:39):
meaning here in the US we have all sorts of
wonderful imports choose from, and therefore the average working person
has an incredibly high standard of living and we're living
pretty high on the hog, you know, as human beings go.
But yeah, we've offshored a lot of our manufacturing and
that leaves us vulnerable to certain things. Where's the balance point?
(01:03):
And are we happy with the idea of as Trump
said the other day, Look, you're not gonna have thirty
dollars on the shelves.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You'll have a couple.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It might be a few bucks more expensive, but we'll
have more good manufacturing jobs in the country. You know,
what's the Where's the proper balance point? So stay tuned
for that if you can. If not, grab it by
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand, subscribe wherever you get podcasts.
But first, it's a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So I kept hearing about this thing called.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
By the loco We're a brave world. We have a
number of headlines to share with you today, working up
to what I think is the most important story. But
predictively and horrifyingly, California Democrats have killed a state senator's
bill that would secure women's prisons from predatory trans women
(01:56):
also known as men. Some of the stories, there's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
There is.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Rampant rape of women in women's prisons, not by guards
or wardens or anything, but by these so called transgender people,
to the point that the guards in some of these
women's prisons are making condoms available and handing them out
to the women inmates, saying, hey, you might need this.
(02:27):
If somebody forces themselves upon you, maybe you can get
them to put it on. And yet, because the radical
transgender movement is so powerful in cal Unicornia, they can't
even get a law passed that says, if you're a transgender,
you're a dude, but you're claiming to be a woman.
All right, you're in the woman's prison, but you got
(02:50):
to be over here a specific place that doesn't interact
with the women. That bill got crushed crushed by the
Democrats and the legislation. It's unbelievable. In case, it's not obvious,
even if you're not a would be rapist, the women's
prisons are less secure and less dangerous, and so guys
(03:11):
would just rather be there, so they declare, Hey, I'm
a girl, and the idiot state of California.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That lets them in there.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Another headline for you, A number of big time sponsors
are rethinking their Pride marketing MasterCard not renewing its corporate
sponsorship for the New York City Pride March, the city's
annual march for LGBTQ plus rights for twenty twenty five.
They had been sponsoring the events for around a decade.
(03:41):
Decision puts it among a group of NYC Pride sponsors
that are not returning this year. Others include sod snack
maker Pepsi Coo automaker, Nissan, banking Giant, City Group, and
consulting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers, among others. What's interesting about
this article, and it's in the Wall Street Journal is
(04:01):
in various quotes and in just the journalists writing, they
refer to LGBTQ or lgbt QI A plus, depending on
who they're quoting. And I'm reminded of the old saying
I didn't leave the party of the party left me
when it was lgb when it was gay rights. All
(04:22):
of these corporations are like, yeah, you know, there's plenty
of gay folks, and then we're up for them having rights,
and so we'll sponsor. They're the big party in the march,
but the party left them. It's now lgbt q I
A plus, which includes cruel experiments, gender bending experiments on
(04:46):
confused adolescents, which you've talked about a lot, whether it's
the hormones or the surgeries or whatever. And saying I'm
in favor of gay rights does not mean I'm in
favor of taking a confused fourteen year old girl in
feedner full of hormones and changing her body in her
life forever. That's different the whole TEA thing. You know,
(05:06):
you can comment on that whichever you want. But now
the l g b t q I A plus community
is actually and I'm not making this up, the fairly
low level but increasing in volume messages about minor attracted
individuals m AI's you can probably guess what that means.
(05:29):
It means pedophiles, people might have sex with children, or
at the very least sex with teenagers, underage people. And
so if i'm City Bank MasterCard, virtually everybody but you know, well.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That's not fair.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's not everybody but target is hanging in there, Anheuser
Bush gay rights. Yeah, okay, experiments on children and yay
for pedophiles.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, I'm out. Of course you're out. You should be out.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And I feel bad for you know, good reasonable gay
lesbian people or like, I am not down with all
of this madness, and I wish I wasn't grouped with them,
but unfortunately you are to some extent, which brings us
to this headline Gaze Against Groomers, which is an organization
with an online presence, and they're you know what I've described,
(06:27):
they're they're gay people who think all of the T
plus q I A minus over the power of three
stuff is madness. And they just came across a White
House briefing for l g B t q I plus
leaders back in the Biden administration that branded Gaze Against
Groomers as a hate group on an and an extremist organization.
(06:53):
And as they commented online. Our crime believing children are
perfect ex exactly as they are, no drugs or surgeries required.
I'm gonna repeat that. This is this gaze against Groomer's group.
We believe children are perfect exactly as they are, no
drugs or surgeries required, And for that stance, the Biden
(07:17):
administration laid them, labeled them as extremists in.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
A hate group.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Man, we've gone down the so far down the road
to Crazyville. It's hard to believe, isn't it. A couple
more stories, a man who identifies as a woman is
set to become the first transgender individual, and I appreciate
there are a handful of publications of a slightly more
conservative bent than the liberal mainstream media who use quotes
(07:44):
around transgender because the left in academia would have you
believe that that is it's a solid term with a
solid definition. Everybody knows what it means, and you dare
not question. No, no, that's not true. It's a concept.
The very concept of it is very, very controversial, but
(08:05):
they act as if it's universally understood and accepted.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Don't fall for that. It's not anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
So again, transgenders and quotes and This happens to be Breitbarton.
A man who identifies as a woman is set to
become the first transgender individual to compete in the Miss
Maine USA pageant in a couple of days. Twenty four
year old Isabella Saint Sarah of Munson of one among
several other biological males, just males.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It's fine to just say males.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
See only kind of male there is biological It's redundant
to say biological male and silly. It's redundant and silly
to say biological woman or female female. That's enough, you've
explained yourself anyway. One among several men who have been
competing in beauty pageants across the nation and around the world.
And this person is very happy with this. As you
(08:56):
might guess. During an interview with the local paper, this
man said he'd always wanted to compete in pageants. Out
The outlet noted the farm owner, a farmer. That's interesting,
began transitioning while he was in high school, started the
medical transition when he was twenty. Okay, that's fine, but
you don't get to be in a girl's beauty pageant
nor a girls sports henry Ford Health, Detroit based healthcare
(09:20):
agency henry Ford Health has been exposed for administering transgender
treatments on minors, tainting care with diversity, equity and inclusion policies,
and more by a nonprofit group accusing it of prioritizing
politics over patient patients. This is Michigan's second largest health system.
Dyve deleted web pages promoting childhood transgenderism and dei an
(09:44):
attempt to scrub its far left footprints, but that's the
services still exist. One deleted article on how to support
a transgender team directed parents to get help to allow
their child to transition.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
When they're not allowed to transition, they may suffer from depression, anxiety,
and an increased risk of inflicting self harm. Unbelievable. And
henry Ford pediatrician doctor Maureen Connelly radical lunatic said, we've
latched onto this idea that gender is fixed, but we
know now in medicine that exploring your identity as it
(10:20):
relates to gender as a normal part of growing up. Well, yeah,
how masculine?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Am I? How feminine?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Am I?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Am I?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Girly girl? Am I A tomboy? Am I A tough guy?
Am I?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Sensitive? Poet? Guy? Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
That is a normal part of growing up. Having activists
lunatics pump you full of chemicals and remove healthy body
parts that is not normal, not even close. All right,
More on this to come in a second. After a
word from our friend's said, Prize Picks the action is
heating up. Price Picks the best place to get in
on the action. Don't miss your chance to pick your
(10:52):
favorite players during the Basketball playoffs.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Super easy to understand and do.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Whether it's points, rebounds are a just choose more or
less on two to six player stat projections for your
chance to win up to two thousand times your cash.
Turn your playoff hot takes into tickets to Basketball's championship series.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Start with the playing round.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Every lineup you make on Prize Picks will enter you
in the Takes two Tickets sweepstakes, which could get you
and a plus one a VIP trip to the Championship.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Download the Prize Picks at today.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Use the code Armstrong to get fifty dollars instantly after
you play your first five dollars lineup. That's the code
armstrong to get fifty dollars instantly after you play just
a five dollars lineup. Play as little as you want
keep it fun, keep it cool, be smart, prize picks,
use that code Armstrong prize picks.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Run your game. A couple more quick stories. What time
is it?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, we really ought to take a break, But there's
a terrific editorial in the National Review. At the beginning
of the year, President Trump announced in an executive order
that directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to
publish a review of the egg existing literature on best
practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender
(12:06):
dysphoria rapid onset gender dysphoria, which I could talk about
for a week, but I mean, the classic example of
gender dysphoria is a grown man who says, I've always
felt like a girl. I've always known I was a girl.
I want to present as a woman and get surgery.
You know, that's one thing. If you're a grown person,
you get to do what you want. In my country, certainly,
But this rapid onset youth gender dysphoria thing is a
(12:28):
wildly different proposition. And it turns out that the best
practices quote unquote for so called gender firm and care
are simply to not do it at all. If you
take activism out of this and actually look at the science.
The conclusions are clear. The AHHS review was published a
couple of days ago, and the results should not be surprising.
(12:49):
The researchers found that the available studies on gender firm
and care quote unquote for minors are poorly conducted, and
there is not evidence to show that such interventions effectively
treat gender dysfort or improve mental health. More importantly, the
researchers note what has not been published in the scientific literature.
The studies largely fail to appropriately consider the possible harms
(13:10):
of these medical interventions. And since we're about out of town,
time will cut this short for now. We'll come back
to it later. But the other thing that they never
consider is that, yeah, if you have a delusion and
the people around you confirm that delusion as an impressional adolescent,
that will for the short term make you feel better
about everything. But in the long term the results are
(13:32):
horrifying and devastating. So these studies have been absolute bunk. Anyway,
that's your gender bending madness update.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The loco. We're in a brave new world. Much more to.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Come, stay with us. Brett Phar had an interesting interview
with JDV. Yesterday on special report in which they talked
about a handful of different things, including the situation with
the Houthis bombing shipping and the US, unlike under the Mummy,
(14:13):
Biden lashing back and pounding them for their trouble many many,
many strikes over a period of months. We'll let Breton
JD continue the conversation. First clip, Michael, the Hoothy campaign.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I mean, I think you know, we're already seeing signs
that the Houthis are saying no moss. They've been bombed,
They've recognized that there are serious consequences to firing on.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
American and other ships.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
And I actually think we're in a good place for
the Houthis to stop attacking civilian vessels, to go back
to doing whatever it is they were doing before they
were attacking civilian vessels. And I think that if fat
were happening, then this bombing campaign would be over the
next day.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Pete Hegseeth also sent a strong message, excuse me to
Iran and the Hoothies. You know very well what the
US military is capable of. You will pay warning that
Iran would pay consequences for its lethal support of the
Houthis terrorist organization. We know exactly what you are doing,
(15:15):
you know very well with the US military is capable
of and you were warned you will pay the consequence
at the time in place of your choosing. Let's press
on with Brett Bearen VP Vans.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Do you hear the criticism though from libertarians from the
left that this is the new Vietnam? This is forty
eight days of bombing. People are in the middle of
the country. May not know that we're in the middle
of a hot war with Yemen.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
What do you say, Well, not with Yemen with a
terrorist organization inside yet has been firing on American ships.
And I think that people, you know, we want to
compare this to Vietnam, and come on. I think that
the President has made it very clear that one of
his core national security priorities is that if you load
stuff onto a ship and you send it to the
United States, we want to make sure that it shows
(16:01):
up without the sailors getting killed, without the ship being destroyed.
That is an objective that we're going to pursue forcefully if.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
We have to.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, there's an account in Fox News of the USS
Harry Truman aircraft carrier that was the same that the
F eighteen super Hornet fell off of It's possible it
was making an emergency turn to avoid Hoothy attack. It's
all classified and should be. And that's fine and recent
(16:33):
and thanks to listeners who sent us video of giant
aircraft carriers making those emergency turns. It's quite astounding to
witness how quickly and with what energy they can turn.
But anyway, the aircraft carrier has been operating in the
Red season September where it has launched strikes against the Houthis,
and they have claimed it is they have attacked the
(16:54):
Harry Truman and the accompanying warships in recent weeks, so
that may well be what happened. Meanwhile, Marco Ruby from
thirty thousand feet talking more generally about Iran and its
recent actions, and.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Look, there's a win here for Iran.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Okay, they can actually have real economic development, Okay, real
investment in their country. But they have to walk away
from sponsoring terrorists, they have to walk away from helping
the Houthies, they have to walk away from building long
range missiles that have no purpose to exist other than
having nuclear weapons, and they have to walk away from enrichment.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
These are not unreasonable requests.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
There are countries all over the world that have nuclear
energy and don't enrich and don't have long range missiles
and don't sponsor terrorism. That path is there for them.
It's the path of peace. And frankly, I pray and
hope and we'll do everything we can to hope convince
them that they should take it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Marco Rubio there, it will be so interesting to see
the next six months or so unfold. According to the reports,
which may or may not be accurate. You never know
who floats what and for what reason. But Israel was
ready to go ahead and strike Iran and take their
nuclear program down to whatever extent is possible, and we
told them to wait, wait, wait, to hold it back.
Their negotiations allegedly happening. Soon It's going to turn one
(18:02):
way or the other, and in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Soon. Much more to come.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Stay with us if you can't grab the podcast Armstrong and.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Getty, onto me Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
According to a new study, drinking champagne could reduce the
risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, it increases the risk
of hitting wasted at brunch and spending your Sunday afternoon
passed out on one of the IKEA sample beds.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, I've never enjoyed the mimosa or the the brunch drink.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
It only if I'm planning to keep her going all day.
And that's, you know, a rare occurrence.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You're always a much better distance athlete than I was.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I can't do it two times. So I had a
doctor's appointment. I wasn't hear the last hour.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
You probably didn't even notice me missing, which makes you
wonder why I get paid to do this.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
But so I noticed, Jack, I noticed, all right.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
So I've had this cough thing for three weeks long
outside of cancer, longest time I've been sick with the
same thing ever in my wife. I just went to
the doctor and apparently there's a whole bunch of these
or one I don't know, flying around the country. So
if you got something where it just keeps hanging on,
it's a thing. Right now, three to five weeks of
(19:22):
the same cough before it goes away, which.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Is abow five weeks. Is that's too much what I
would like to know?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Well, three weeks sure feels like a long time. It's
been three weeks in two days. But what I'd like
to know if this has anything to do with covid.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Did covid do anything to our immune system?
Speaker 9 (19:40):
Or is this some sort of merged with a cold
variant something I don't know, No problem, and.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
It is doctor Fauci behind it all. Yeah, no kidding,
Never forget two things. First of all, I always asked
this question of doctors.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I don't know why. I just am fascinated by this.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
I said, So, if I'd got and this because they're
putting me on pregnizone to try to knock out the
end of it because I got.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Fluid in my lungs or whatever.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
I said, if this is going on one hundred years ago,
what would happen? And she said, you'd probably get deemonia
and die most likely. That's just amazing to me that
how many things. You know, That's why life expectancy was
like thirty eight not that long ago, because there are
just so many things that would come along and kill.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You right right.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You know, I find myself wondering and I'm completely unqualified
to even consider this question, So this should be fun.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Would we well, I think I know the answer.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Would we have developed the population density that we have
now as modern humans in the absence of modern medicine. Uh,
I mean, because a lot of people would be dropping
dead like crazy of these respiratory diseases that we all
trade back and forth because we're you know, in buildings
and offices and schools all the time.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
London was pretty dense long before antibotics came along.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, and people lived to thirty eight if they were lucky.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, we would have a lot different population, no doubt.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
But so some of you heard when we brought this
up the other day. So I was talking to somebody
I know in my personal life and about being sick,
and they said, you get sick a lot. And I said, no,
not really, And they said, and for whatever reason they
had in their mind when I've been sick, they said, yeah,
well you had this and then like a month ago
(21:32):
you had and you missed work and blahlah blah. And
I and for the first time in my life, which
is absolutely amazing, that I've been able to live in
denial all this time. It's shocking. What else am I
in denial about or anybody I had to admit? Yeah,
I get sick a lot. I get sick more than
the average person. I've never admitted that out loud, but
it's clearly statistically true, and I've never seen myself that way.
(21:59):
So now I've I've got to realize, like my parents
eighty two and eighty.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Seven eighty eight.
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Almost never get sick, like ever, my whole life, including
now I, on the other hand, would be I would die.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I would have already been dead a long time ago.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
I'm a person who gets sick, and without modern medicine,
I would have been dead a long time ago. I'm
not cut out for, you know, life, apparently probably lack
of character.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Is that what the doctor say or you know? Because
that's why I've.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Been That's why I've wanted to deny getting sick a lot,
because I do feel like it's people who get sick
a lot I've just always.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Looked down on. You're just like a weak person. You
get sick of Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I know I'm not proud of it, but that's cruelty
on one end of your personality and delusion on the other.
This is troubling people who get sick a lot.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
I don't want them around me. I don't want to
work with them. I don't I just yeah, you're just
you're weak. You're a weak person. I've always felt that way.
Maybe that's where the denial comes from because I had
that aks. But I get sick a lot, and I would.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Have been a compensating one hundred years ago, I would
have been dead.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
So what do you do with that information? Nothing, that's
just your deal. Like some people have better eyesight or taller.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh about not the psychological part, but the reality of
getting sick.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I don't know. You try to take care of yourself.
I suppose I don't do.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You're quit acting like the precautions to prevent illness are
stupid and only practiced by weak people.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Okay, I'm going to go on the pregni zone, which
is a steroid, so I'm going to get swoll. So
look forward to me. Just I'm gonna be RFK Junior
ripped by the way. He just announced he's getting feetest
parts out of all the vaccines.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So that's something to be excited about. Next vaccine, you
got no feetest parts in it? Wait, what I know?
I thought the same thing. What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
All right, we'll dig into that and figure out how
significant it is. So you have probably had this same conversation,
at least internally, as I have watching traffic go by.
Everybody is driving little SUVs. Now every damn car is
a crossover suv.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And I remember back when this phenomenon was first beginning,
I would always be a little i don't know, perturbed, intrigued, confused,
because I would say, so you got a little hatchback,
whatever happened to the trunk, the great American trunk you
(24:35):
could stole, like, you know, a couch in three bodies
in a trunk I have, And now you've got this
little space.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Why are people preferring these things now?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Of course I've been driving one mostly for the last
several years, a kind of mid sized suv.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Interestingly, in the National Review, Chad Hagen observed first that
the American car market has undergone a huge shift in
recent years. It used to be Sedan after Sedan after
Stan on American roads, two to four doors and a trunk.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Great.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
I don't know why they went away, but anyway back
to your statistics, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
They practically vanished and replaced by an endless parade of
oversized SUVs and crossovers.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He wrote, what happened.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It was not consumer demand alone that drove this transformation.
Although I do kind of like sitting up high.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Sitting up hi, you start doing.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
It, it it, I don't know, you just feel more
protected or the view or whatever. But yeah, when I
got my sedan, it had been a long time since
i'd sat down low.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You have a different view of the world down there.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, I went with like what you might call a
sports sedan for a while, and I really liked the car.
But in a land of SUVs and pickup trucks, you constantly,
you constantly got their headlights directly into your eyeball right,
because of the way they're focused anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
But it was not consumer demand alone that drove the transfer. Transformation.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Policy played a pivot, an ironic role, how well, under
the revised corporate average fuel economy those are the Cafe standards.
Perhaps you've heard of. Fuel efficiency targets were tied to
a vehicle's physical footprint. The larger the vehicle, the easier
the target began it became to meet. Right so called
(26:20):
light trucks, a category that miraculously expanded to include nearly
anything with four wheels and a squarish back end. Were
given significantly lower efficiency requirements than passenger cars. As a result,
automakers responded exactly as rational actors do under irrational government regulations.
They made everything bigger. Traditional sedans were bulked up into crossovers,
(26:44):
ground clearance was raised, carbon go space was squared off,
and the vehicles were quietly reclassified as trucks to game
the system that Washington had so thoughtfully built for them.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
That is funny on a number of ends. So first
of all, government trying to force us to live certain
ways almost never works. Almost never works.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
To find relate the free market one.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
We find our way around it.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
We do what we want to do, So we figure
out a way around it. Our business figures out a
way around it. And then you got the other end
of it. And I've talked about this a million times.
I know it annoys, it hurts some people's feelings. But
the whole truck thing is so much image, and I
have I have many many trucks, But it's an image
(27:30):
they sell you that we all like.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I'm perfectly fine with that. I like the image.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
I know they're selling me in an image, but almost
nobody statistically ever puts their four wheel drive in four
wheel drive and all the towing capacity stuff that they
put in, all the ads to make you feel a
certain way. Almost nobody ever pulls anything with their truck.
I know plenty of you do, and you're listening right now,
and you feel offended that I said that, But just statistically,
(27:54):
it's true. Not talking about you, right right. You work
on a farm and you pull a big truck, fine,
you need a certain or a big wagon or whatever,
you need a certain kind of truck, but most people don't.
Most people are picking up their kids from school in
their truck that can pull fifteen thousand pounds up a hill,
but they never ever do.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
But so you know, it fits in with what you
were just talking about.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
So you come up with an image to sell this
kind of vehicle that gets around the cafe standards, and
then everybody's driving this.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
This is an unfair characterization, which is why I enjoy
it so much. But in general, progressive types, liberals in general,
including you know, fairly moderate liberals back in the day,
they pass policies and a praise them on how they
make them feel and whether they make them look enlightened,
(28:44):
whether they get social payoff from it. Do you praise
me for passing these policies. That is the standard. If
you're a good, smart conservative and you understand the way
the world really works works, you propose policies, but then
(29:04):
you think hard about, Okay, how will people's behaviors change
because of this policy, how will people try to get
around it?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Is this worth the trouble?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Are we, for instance, helping the poor single mother. Yes,
but we're also encouraging people not to get married in
the first place. For instance, that taken from the LBJ
is so called great society and the sixties that decimated
the black family. If you're a good conservative, you think
(29:36):
hard about the way the world and humans really work,
and you take a much lighter hand in trying to
manipulate the levers of life and love in the economy,
because it never works out the way you think it will.
People adjust, they change, they do different things, or companies say, oh,
(29:57):
bigger vehicles have lower standards. Let's make bigger vehicle. And literally,
that's how long the conversation was. Right to get around
your brilliant regulations.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
And while you and your friends in Brooklyn who never
drive at you don't even own cars.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And can totally not understand how anybody would want to
own a car.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
I think we're all gonna start driving some sort of
tiny little thing because we care about the environment. No,
we went out and bought the great, big giant SUVs
because we like big vehicles.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yep, the end. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
And then Katie had this story earlier about how the
federal government's proposing some sort of tax for electric cars
that will start happening, and you said it's to make
up for the gas taxes. That's another perfect example of
how it makes you feel versus reality.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Everybody starts driving electric cars, all that gas.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Tax that you used to fund tons of big blue
projects in your state are gonna go away. How are
you gonna fix it? You gotta make up for that,
So where you gotta have an answer for that somewhere.
You can't just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You try mightily to limit the miles people drive, and
then you profit from those miles, and then when those
miles actually drop, you go into a panic and you
have to tax something else.
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Lovely, I'm gonna go to a movie tonight, very excited
about a movie that hits the theaters tonight. I'll tell
you about, among other things, on the ways to hear Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And yet we can't starting alone, no one can, and
we can find a way together.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Marvel Studios, Thunderballs, oh man I Hanson.
Speaker 9 (31:46):
I asked Canton to grab a trailer from Thunderbolts, which
comes out tonight, new Marvel movie, which I'm very excited about.
It's hilarious. Many of the trailers are freaking hilarious. That
was not one of them, but it is a it's
a like Avengers type movie, and it looks really really good,
and it's got a bunch of the stars. If you've
(32:06):
watched these or watch them with your kids or whatever. Bucky,
you know, Captain America's friend who died during World War Two.
Bucky's back. And this guy David Harbor. Do you know
David Harbor by name Joe. He's spend so many things.
He was a sheriff in Stranger Things. But he plays
this Russian super soldier that he's been in the Marvel series.
(32:27):
Really badass, very cool. I mean, just a great character
actor and he's great in this role. But anyway, now
he's in this that's kind of a half a comedy.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
And Henry and are going to go tonight.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
I'll let you know what I think of it. They're
hoping it's going to revitalize the Marvel thing. Interesting that
they're going to try to go with a comedy bent
to bring it back after it kind of dying off
over the last several years.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Interesting, by the way.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I was going to tout and Door, which is one
of your Star Wars spinoffs on Disney Plus, and I
read an article the other day.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I kind of heard of it, but I never tuned in.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
But the article was talking about Tony Gilroy, who's the
guy who like is behind it, the showrunner, the writer,
and how disappointed he was that it wasn't a bigger hit.
Uh and and the critic was saying, and it should be,
because it's so good.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
He's the guy.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Who wrote like all of the Bourne Identity movies and
directed several of them. And and the point of the
article was that it's not very Star Wars y. It's
a political espionage thriller and and with really interesting deep
characters and twists and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
And I thought, oh, okay, I'll give it a try.
I've been binging it. Oh I love it. It is
so good.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh really, check door on Disney Plus if you get that.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
He loves that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
On Thunderbolts, there's one of the trailers where he say,
I think we should call ourselves thunderbolts if we If
you're gonna call thunderbolts, I quit. So this is some
breaking news and kind of interesting of things that are
happening right now. So the jobs numbers came out today.
(34:06):
So we had the GDP number that came out a
couple of days ago in the economy shrank, and then
Joe explained how that that's misleading, like a lot misleading.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
But then the jobs.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
Numbers out today, which exceeding expectations.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
So the Financial Times headline.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
Is US stocks wipe out losses from Liberation Day. US
stocks rallied today on the news of one hundred and
seventy seven thousand jobs and that was enough to cause
the S and P at least to gain back everything
that has been lost since Liberation Day.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
And so there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Check.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Go ahead and check your four oh one k as
they say.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
That's why that whole thing is so stupid every single time, and.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
People are worried about their foreum case.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
First of all, unless you're like retiring tomorrow and even then,
Like my dad always talks about how many times he's
lost half of what he's got since he's been retired.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
It comes back unless you're right.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
I don't know, planning to buy a house to with
your four oh one k, which would be a bad plan.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, if you act like all of the talking hands
on the news, think you act, you're doing it wrong.
Get a financial advisor, read a book or something.
Speaker 9 (35:15):
Read a book or something, but like all that stuff,
or this is the worst stock market decline since April
of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
That's two years ago, and I don't even remember it.
I mean, why are you acting like this?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
You don't remember twenty twenty three? The blood running in
the streets, the cannibalism, parents eating their own children.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Is there? Oh wow?
Speaker 9 (35:32):
You'd have thought that had stuck in my mind, right?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
I didn't see this. Maybe you talked about it while
I was at the doctor.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
The U United States announced yesterday we're stepping back from
the peace talks, and you brought Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I didn't know that. I missed this story.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Yesterday We're no longer going to be involved in the
peace talks. It's up to them. The White House announced yesterday. Okay,
I'd missed that too. Yeah, seems like big news. Well
what peace talks?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I mean maybe maybe that's the ye. We do four
hours every day.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
If you don't get all four hours or every segment,
or there's segments you'd like to listen to multiple times
or share with your friends, you can check out the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Armstrong and Getty
Hosts And Creators
Joe Getty
Jack Armstrong
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!