December 4, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Drones over New Jersey & Biden in Angola
- "Why I didn't transition."
- The left's insanity
- Final Thoughts!
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 Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Jetty in
Central New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The FBI is now investigating multiple sightings of swarms of
drones hovering menacingly overhead night after night for the last
several weeks. The drones have been described as larger than
what a hobbyist might fly. Some of the drones have
been spotted close to a military installation and President elect
Trump's Bedminster golf club, where he frequently stays. The FAA says,
(00:46):
at the request of Federal Security partners, it is prohibiting
drone flights over Picatinny Arsenal Military Base and Trump's golf course.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, I hope we're on top of this. Whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Can you say Picatinny on the air. This definitely has
the feel of it's absolutely nothing or nothing else matters.
It's either something unbelievable or it'll go away and it'll
turn out to em.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I hope we're on top of it.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Like I said, why that's crazy, Okay. Jason Riley is
a brilliant man. He writes for The Wall Street Journal,
among other places. He's an editorialist. He happens to be
a black man, and he wrote a column recently. He's
talking about President Biden venturing to Angola, Africa, fleeing the
country after the utterly indefensible, dishonest, bipartisan, damaging pardon of
(01:42):
his boy and he mentions that many black Americans trace
their ancestry to Angola, former Portuguese colony, and mister Biden
spoke of the country's quote shared history an evil of
human bondage during his remarks, we remember the stolen men
and women and children who were brought to our shores
and chains and subjected to unimaginable cruelty.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So far, absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The horrors of slavery, whenever and wherever it's existed, are
undeniable and horrific to anybody with the beating heart, as
far as I'm concerned, particularly as a lover of liberty.
But let us plunge on. And one of my favorite
parts about this column is that it is it utterly
(02:27):
refutes so much of the sixteen nineteen project and its premises,
and that got so much currency. It's still being taught
in school systems around, and it's, you know, like all
great frauds, it's like three quarters true and then that
last quarter, though, including the premise of the whole damn thing,
is utterly farcical. The idea that the US was we
(02:50):
broke away from Britain to make sure we could keep
having slaves, and then we wrote a constitution to make
sure we had lots of slaves, and the whole part
of the country is to keep slavery going. Nothing could
be more dishonest. But anyway, Jason Riley, in writing about Oh,
his title is will we ever hear the end of
slavery reparations?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, no kidding. You mentioned that later, But Biden thinks
the issue needs further study. But few issues in history
have received more attention. Yeah, the whole further study thing. Seriously,
I wish I could give me five minutes with Black America.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Friends.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
This is the carrot dangled in front of your nose
that you will never taste its delicious orange goodness. It
is a political fraud designed to keep you voting in
one particular way.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
There are going to be no.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Reparations of any significant scale in any significant area.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The funny thing about the carrot as a metaphor for
an enticement is I'm not doing anything for a carrot.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Nothing. I mean, I won't get up out of my
chair for a carrot.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well, you're not a donkey, are you? All right, here's
where it gets really really interesting to me. You want
to talk about the African slave trade to our part
of the world. More than ninety percent of enslaved Africans
were sent to the Caribbean and South America between the
(04:18):
sixteenth and nineteenth centuries a year fifteen hundreds to year
eighteen hundreds, more than nine more than ninety percent. Wow,
while about six percent of African captives were sent directly
directly to British North America, about six percent.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
It's definitely true that slave I mean, I'm going way
back to my grade school years. But slavery was portrayed
is like a uniquely American thing.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Correct, Yeah? Yeah, a horror that we and we alone committed.
And you know, I don't answer for the sins of
my forefathers anymore than they would answer for my sins
somehow if they had a time machine. And again, none
of this is ever to deny the horrors of slavery.
That's not the point at all. But and although the
(05:09):
trans Atlantic slave trade receives far, far more attention today,
the trans Saharan slave trade have you even heard of? That,
which involved Arabs transporting captives from Black Africa across the
Sahara Desert and the Persian Gulf to the Islamic world
of North Africa and the Middle East, involved a larger
number of African slaves and lasted for a much longer period.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It is striking.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Harvard scholar Orlando Patterson wrote that quote, the total volume
of African slaves acquired by Muslim masters is greater than
the total acquired by Europeans and the Americans. Nor mister
Patterson stress with slavery unique to Africa, Europe, and the
Islamic world or to a particular stretch of time. Quote,
there is nothing notable peculiar, notably peculiar about the institution
(05:57):
of slavery. It has existed from before the dawn of
human history right down to the twentieth century, in the
most primitive of human societies and in the most civilized.
There is no region of the earth that has not
at some time harbored the institution. Probably there is no
group of people on Earth whose ancestors were not at
one time slaves or slaveholders.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Oh, almost certainly. Man a lot of human beings throughout history.
I saw the number the other day, the total number
of humans that have lived on Earth, forty billion or something,
whatever it was. Man, most of them had awful lives.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, just awful. Whether it's healthcare or being a slave,
is just awful.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And I just read an account. I'm not going to
lay it on you, but the premise of the thing
was about how the world community and the UN and
all sorts of people are doing nothing to hold some
of the Islamist groups to account for their slavery right now,
including the slavery of women as has forced brides and
(07:01):
the rest of it. I'm going to spare you the
worst parts of it, but there is wide spread, horrible
slavery going on as we speak and breathe on earth
right now. Oh sure, right now, China, millions of people, right, Yeah,
I'm sorry I was talking over you, China, right. This
is interesting. Earlier this year, Portuguese President Marcello Rebello di
(07:24):
Suza suggested that his country should pay slavery reparations to
Angola is the former Portuguese colonies and I mentioned, but
the current Angolan president shot down the idea. He said,
it's impossible to make up for what happened in the past.
It only creates conflicts, he told reporters. Mister Biden, by contrast,
has insisted the issue needs further study. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's so weak, the opposite of leadership.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I'm gonna pretend to make some noises for something that
will never happen, to make sure the wokest people out
there feel like I'm on their side.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
And he goes into California, New York have set up preparations,
task forces, a couple other things, and then he says,
California was never a slave state.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh and Titam is just south of San Francisco. Shiloh's
outside of La Sure.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And its black population didn't reach two percent until the
nineteen forties. Oh wow, Today California is a majority minority
state where Latinos forty percent and Asians fifteen percent far
outnumber Blacks five percent. Why should Asians and Latinos whose
ancestors were never slave owners, well not slave owners in
(08:37):
the United States of Africans.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I got to depart.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Here from Jason's brilliance and say, whoa dude, so called
Latinos were probably Spanish, had Spanish ancestors. They came to
the New World and enslaved craploads of people Mayans and
Aztecs and whoever, or or anybody else, or maybe they
were enslaved.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh, but anyway, why should Asians and Latinos, as ancestors
maybe never own slaves and who themselves have been subject
to discrimination, be forced to compensate Black people today who
are never slaves.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, and I don't know how much of this we've
talked about for our whole Armstrong and Getty network, because
we talk about it locally in California a lot. But
the proposal that is out there in California is giving
everybody who's a descend who's black house, you get a
free house.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What is the other stuff? You get?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Two hundred thousand and eight dollars a year job forever,
just all kinds of.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Like nutty nutty stuff, like so crazy you can't believe
anybody's even talking about it out loud.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Jason Riley goes on to say, moreover, those blacks who
did migrate to the Golden State in the middle decades
of the twentieth century did relatively well on average urban
as Fred Siegel wrote, Blacks have long been better off
materially in LA than in the rest of the country.
As early as the nineteen thirties, Watts had the highest
rated black home ownership in the country. Blacks benefited from
the World War two boom Blah blah law nineteen sixty
(10:01):
four National Urban League Survey rank Los Angeles is the
best big city in the nation for black employment, housing,
and income. Earlier this week, California Assemblyman Kammie mcmarxy said
he would introduce legislation require University California and the state
University to give admissions preferences to the descendants of slaves.
He says, we have a moral responsibility to do what
(10:23):
we can to write those wrongs, but the real obligation
is to stop discriminating by race altogether, not char change
who's on the receiving end, which is what his legislation
would do. Mister Brian and others seeking reparations need to
decide whether they want justice or payback.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Jason Riley, Tip.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Of the Cap my friend well someday in California We'll
have a bullet train that takes you from Gettysburg to.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Appomattox and black folks can ride for free. Is reparations
from something from Asians, from Muslims snatching up more Africans
than went to the entire Western Hema fear, of which
the US had six percent.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Okay, it's a.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Big day for the whole trans conversation at the Supreme
Court came across the latest numbers on how many people
consider themselves LGBTQ plus in each generation. Oh boy, which
is kind of interesting. And they have a guess. I'm
pretty easy to guess. Stay tuned as listening to a
(11:28):
podcast the other day was all about how things culturally
lead to legally almost every law, not almost, I'm sure
every law. It was culturally a thing before it was
legally a thing. And that's kind of where where we
are with this Supreme Court taking up the trans stuff today.
(11:51):
The question is, culturally, do we think children should be
deciding whether they're boys or girls and then parents having
up operations done on them?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Then? I think ninety percent of us think no, they shouldn't.
But Jam Crawford of CBS News, the Legal correspondent she's
really good. She was outside the Supreme Court building and
talked to a couple of moms.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
School teacher Arion Adam Chakhova said her son was sixteen
when he came out as a trans girl.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
His dad and I were very open to different gender expressions,
and we just figured that this was an experimental phase,
and so I was like, yeah, you know, what dress
however you want, like cool, that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I was open to all of it.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
But then I realized if he went to the doctor,
they were going to prescribe him hormones, and he was
begging for the hormones.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
He was begging for puberty blockers. The doctors told me
my daughter would commit suicide if I didn't transition her.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
The doctors told you that they did. Both women, self
described liberals, did not let their children take medication, which
can be irreversible. They said their kids went through intensive psychotherapy,
and after about eighteen months both children de transitioned.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
When you're twenty five, if you decide that's the pathway
you need, then we will of course love you and
support you and your decision.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Those doctors are evil. It reminds me.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I said this a couple of weeks ago of the therapist.
I know that said a lot of the therapists. If
they get a teen who says, you know, I think
I'm a girl, they send them to a doctor, she argues,
convinces and had two teenage people who were talking about
that and talk to them out of it in like
(13:35):
two minutes.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, so you can either vastly last majority of kids
grow out of it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So you either immediately jump on board with the Okay,
you see you might be a girl, you're probably a girl,
let's go to the doctor, or no, here's what you're probably.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Going through and then they say, oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah. It's astounding that. I mean, the quote unquote success
rate of hey, let's talk about this is enormously high.
Is that that a large majority of the counseling community
and these perverse doctors they don't even do that well?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Fitting in with the whole culturally thing that I mentioned
by generation, what percentage of people identify as LGBTQ plus
the silent generation?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
How do you know? You ask him, they don't say anything,
but you're saying nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Of the silent generation identifies as lgbtqos. Now, of course
you can make the argument that they come from a
time where it wasn't okay, and a lot of them
are not saying they.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Are gay when they are blah blah blah, which might
be true.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Baby Boomers, it's two point three percent, which is close
to the right number. Generation X four point five percent. Again,
kind of close to the right number based on like
gallop poles of what percentage of people are gay or bisexual,
it's around three percent, they think. Millennials it's ten percent.
Generation Z twenty three percent.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Right. Well, that's the problem with the alphabet soup and
particularly the Q part of it, because queer doesn't mean anything.
It just means I'm against the status quo man. That's
the that's it means, oppositional to the powers that be.
That's all it means, or the expectations of society. I'm queer, man,
(15:17):
it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Came across this Twitter feed from a fellow by the
name of Chad Green.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
He's a gay fellow.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
He says, an older trans woman talk to me when
I was twenty one or so about my interest in transitioning.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Did we mention that Supreme Court is hearing Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
The case at Tennessee a Tennessee case where Tennessee is
trying to outlaw these experimental sex change treatments on children,
and they're hearing the oral arguments today. Anyway, So this
guy says, an older trans woman talk to me when
I was twenty one or so about my interest in transitioning.
She said, quote, You'll spend the rest of your life
asking yourself why you gave up being a cute but
(15:54):
insecure gay man and trapped yourself in the body of
someone who kind of looks like a woman. Oh, every
day you'll stare in the mirror, studying every shadow, every
hint of your former face, convinced that it's shining through.
You'll try to hide it with makeup, long hair, and
more makeup, but you'll always see him. Your clothes won't
fit right. You're too tall, too lanky. Every person you pass,
(16:14):
you'll imagine is wondering about you. Your voice will always
feel too deep, too loud, too heavy, but faking it
will sound fake. You'll notice, they'll notice. You will always
feel naked in public. If you can't believe it, how
will a man I'm talking about a lover. Over time,
you'll find the right tricks, right makeup, right tone right movement,
you'll forget more and won't notice the I am certain
something awe is off looks, but he'll always be there waiting.
(16:38):
You need the whole world to believe, but you never will.
And he says, she saved me. The solution for me
was accepting what I could not change. I was still struggling.
I was still living with anxiety. I still hated my body.
But was this the answer? Was it really the answer?
It wasn't. I needed time to time and to prioritize
my life more important. Chatlenges came. Part of growing up
(17:03):
is real resalizing. Sometimes things hurt your life can't stop
when things are difficult. Gender affirming treatment keeps you stuck
in never ending acceptance and validation, trying to be what
you cannot be, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Well, guys, a lot of people are getting excited because
Spotify is sent to release their Spotify Wrapped playlist.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Any day now, Yeah, which will tell everyone what they
listen to most this year.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
In fact, the company releases all sorts of data about
their users.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's pretty interesting. Check this out first out.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Sixty percent make a Christmas playlist to enjoy at home.
Forty percent just take a seat on the floor at
CBS in September and listen. Thirty percent have a Spotify
family plan.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Seventy percent told their dad to use it.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
A month later, he said, I can't find the Eagles
on Shopify that day.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, my kids are on my Spotify, so all our
listening gets jumbled together, so I get fed stuff I
never want to listen to, and vice versa. Yeah, there
is an Apple shaped music service that I have the
same problem with this. I get my daughter's musical tastes
sent my way.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Hey Joe, we've compiled a playlist just for you.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Do a Lippa and Taylor Swift. Oh great, thanks, thanks
for nothing. As problems go, this is a relatively minor one.
But the way our clock works here, we have to
take breaks at a mandatory time at the bottom of
the hour. And so I had a restaurant and I
couldn't finish. This guy's incredibly moving, personalized why I didn't transition?
(18:33):
How glad I am Twitter thread, an older trans person
counseled him not to do it, and he didn't, and
he writes, m M, I'll skip to the end. The
solution for me was accepting what I could not change.
I was still struggling, I was still living with anxiety.
I still hated my body. But was this the answer?
(18:55):
Was it really the answer? It wasn't. I needed time
and to prioritize my life. More important challenges came. There's
no right way to handle this experience. But transition is
such a permanent and drastic solution, one that is no
guarantee of peace. The longer you wait, the more difficult
it is. The faster you rush it, the more likely
you'll regret it. There's a better way. Part of growing
up is realizing sometimes things hurt. Your life can't stop.
(19:17):
When things are difficult, You've got to find a way forward.
Gender affirming treatment quote unquote keeps you stuck in never
ending acceptance and validation and trying to be what you
cannot be. I'm grateful every day I did not transition.
I didn't give up a future I could never have
imagined for myself. I didn't trap myself. I didn't find
(19:38):
out too late that it wasn't the answer to my pain.
Someone who knew told me the truth. That's why I
speak out today. And well done, sir, I appreciate your
candor and your courage.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It'll be interesting to see what the Supreme Court justices
think of this. I don't know how up on the
whole trans thing they are. I mean, a lot of
them are pretty old. It's got to be pretty shocking
to them, the fact that it's happening.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
In Yeah, and there are a lot of these things,
like the critical race theory, the Black Lives Matter deal,
it's all related. It's all postmodernism neomarks as well, and
the radical gender theory stuff that the folks who are
trying to promote this are good at selling it. They
(20:20):
soft pedal the ugly stuff, and they really twist and
sugar coat either the data or the good it does,
or that sort of thing. And so if you just
do a drive by look at some of these issues,
you can really get led down the garden path. And
I'm kind of concerned that that might happen with the justices.
(20:40):
Once you start digging into the stuff, you realize how
insitious it is. Speaking of which, The New York Times
Jeremy Peters wrote a piece, and he happened to say,
to get on the wrong side of transgender activists is
often to endure their unsparing criticism. You're a Nazi, You're
a hater. Blah blah blah uh, and then he mentions
(21:03):
When JK. Rowling said that denying any relationship between sex
and biology was deeply misogynistic and regressive, a prominent group
accused her of betraying real feminism. Angry critics posted videos
of themselves burning her books. Blah blah blah. Well, Jake
came out and wrote, the rewriting of history begins. Opponents
of gender ideology haven't merely quote endured unsparing criticism. I
(21:25):
haven't simply been told I betrayed real feminism or received
a few book burning videos. I've been sent thousands of
threats of murder, rape and violence. She talks about her
children being doxed, Oh, my god, threatened. I could write
a twenty thousand word essay on what the consequences have
been to me and my family, and what we've endured
is nothing compared to the harm done to others.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
That essay would include a wizard and a magical young
boy and be incredibly readable.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yes, by standing up to the movement that relies on
threats of violence, ostracization, and guilt by association, all of
us have been smeared and defamed, and many have lost
their livelihoods. Some have been physically assaulted by transactivists. Female
politicians have been forced to hire personal security on the
advice of police. The news that one of the leading's
(22:13):
UK ender chronologists, doctor Hillary cass, was advised not to
travel by public transport for her own safety, should shame
anyone who let this insanity.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Run a mock.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Insanity is correct, Yeah, yeah, Now the political landscape has
shifted and some have been riding high on their own supplier,
waking up with a hell of a hangover. They've started
wondering whether calling left wing feminists who wanted all female
rape centers calling them.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Nazis was such a smart strategy.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Maybe parents arguing that boys ought not to be robbing
their daughters of sporting opportunities might sort of have a point.
Possibly letting any man who says I'm a woman into
the locker room with twelve year old girls could have
a downside.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
After all, when this is all over and I think
the end is coming of it having the power that
it has, it'll it'll still live on in you know,
tiny segments.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
But growing in democratic run government circles for instance.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Oh, it can't last. At least it's going to be
agree with you.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It's going to be a pariah of an ideology soon,
I think, and that will doom Gavin Newsom ever running
for president because the whole Kamala Harris ad where she
sits there and says, yeah, I think sex changes for
illegals is a good idea, and she wouldn't never walked
away from that. Gavin Newsom's got like ten of those. Yes,
(23:40):
the banning parents from finding out about their kids at school,
or you know, taxpayer funded paying for it, and all
kinds women in sports, men and women's sports, all this
stuff he'd have to answer.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
For, like a whole bunch of these. He's dooming. You're
right at a time when people are gonna be like,
no way. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
This is why I always say run gaff go ahead
to it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Speak of a Democratic party and that sort of thing.
I just saw Chuck Todd of formerly Meet the Press
NBC their political analysts saying it was a terrible mistake
for Joe Biden to pardon Hunder the way he did.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And to that this is out today.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Whatever group it is, it keeps track of the percentage
of people that call themselves Republicans or Democrats out with
their latest numbers, and for the first time since Watergate,
Independents are in number two. There are most of the
highest number mid thirties Republicans. Then you got kind of
(24:42):
lower thirties independence Democrats in third place. One of the
major parties is in third place for the first time
since Watergate because of the analysis from the Washington Examiner. Anyway,
is that's the sort of damage the Biden administration did
with all their crazy s over the last four years.
These people didn't leave the party. The party left them.
(25:02):
They are the third party now is the Democratic Party.
That won't last, but for now that's where it is interesting,
not surprising. Nice job, Joe Biden, who should be on
Mount Rushmore driving your party into third party status.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
What's the opposite of Mount Rushmore? We need to have
an opposite of that Mount crap more.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I mentioned yesterday that I'd canceled all my streaming services
to try to get my kids, particularly one kid, watching
less stuff on those and finding other things to do
with his life. And I'd been threatening that for a
long time, and he hadn't been very motivated to come
(25:49):
up with some other things.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
To do.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And I said, I'll just cancel the mom We did
get an email from somebody who said, there are other
ways to do it. I just you know, change the
password and not give them the password and all that
sort of stuff. I like the giant gesture. Just we
don't have them anymore. We just don't have them anymore.
We don't have to do we don't have Hulu, we
don't we just don't have that stuff anymore.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
It's it's got some real dramatic weight too. Y. Plus
it's gonna save you like a median salary.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, that's sure, I was going.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I was.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I knew it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Remember there was a study last year so it said
people underestimate by like two thirds how much they're spending
on the streaming services.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And it's true.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
When I canceled them all, I was like, I've got
this one and that one and that one and that.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
One, and what does that add up to. I'm laughing
with regret, and I need to do this. I really
need to do this.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
The other thing, I just do it.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I'm not saying I'm gonna cancel anything, but I've got
to reckon with this.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Well it's a clever ploy plan strategy they all came
up with, and it works pretty well. It's a it's
a low enough amount of money that you think, eh,
where was that eighteen dollars a month, fifty cents a
day when I'm not going to have this for fifty
cents a day. But there's just like ninety different things
(27:11):
like that out there. You know, your gym membership and
your Netflix, and your subscription for whatever's in your car
so you can listen to satellite radio. It's just there's
so many of them.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yes, Michael, you can.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
I give your son a chance to earn the services back,
like one at a time.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah, I did say, you know, we find some
other things to do.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
He's he's close to paniced about it.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It'll be good, though, It'll be good.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah. The psychological addiction of the things we do and
enjoy from glancing at our smartphones constantly for that little
shot of endorphins on the oh horrible screens and all,
it's undeniable. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
He watches long form shows on NETFL so I don't
know if it's the little shot of endorphin. Thing. Addiction
is just like easy, but I the little shot of
endorphin thing. I've got so bad. I don't recognize that
in him, but man, I've got it bad. And they're
so good at the freaking algorithms. If I open up
my phone to YouTube and I'm gonna watch a news segment,
(28:20):
I'm gonna search on it, but it's got right in
front of me. Oh, a Bob Dylan interview I've never
seen before. It's only forty five seconds long. Me let
me click on that, or just it knows what I want. Yeah,
And across all the different platforms, it's stealing the information
to figure out, oh, you shop for what?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
The other day, here's a.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
YouTube video about that. God damn it's it's it's good.
They're good at that, bastards. Yeah, it really, it really
troubles me. On the flight the other day, I tweeted
out a picture I had a heart an actual paper
book with me for the first time in years, because
I read everything on my phone, but I had an
actual paper book. Part of it is because of the
(28:59):
CLR that I got at. I got done a while
back to get my eyesight better, and so now it's
just easier to read paper books. And but somebody I
tweeted that out and somebody responded with, I give you
ten minutes before you grab your phone to say I
wonder what's going on. And I'm glad I read that
(29:21):
because it stopped me. But I was fighting that. I
was fighting that the whole time I was reading the book.
Is Ah, jeez, I could just grab this phone and
I would get and it's just kind of like a
comfortable feeling of something good would happen. And it's those
endorphins and dopamine and everything like that. But it's just
like it's right there. It's like a donut or something.
(29:41):
It's just amazing how powerful that is.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Yeah, I've always said that the whole people pretending shame
is a bad saying. I mean, it can be a
bad thing if it's in excess or company.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
We need more shame.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I've been saying that, Yes, exactly, Shame is the only
reason I'm not in prison.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Up with shame. More shame.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
If you're not ashamed, to be ashamed of that, if
you're not ashamed, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, I absolutely need more shame.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I hope it becomes like smoking to where you would
kind of want to hide that from people because it's
a bad look.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Staring at your phone.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
That would be nice if that became like smoking, or
you know, you don't want to be seeing a person
on the plane just staring at your phone. No, you
want to have a book or a magazine, or you're
practicing your cello or whatever it is you're doing.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
But I think if you're not ashamed, you should be
ashamed of that is right up there with if you
don't know what introspection is, you should take a long,
hard look at yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
We will finish strong. Next.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
We're getting some new details about that Trump Trudeau dinner
from two people who were at the table. We are
told that when Trudeau told President like Trump that new
tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked to him
that if Canada can't survive without ripping off the US
to the tune of one hundred billion dollars a year,
then maybe Canada should become the fifty first state and
(31:08):
Trudeau could become its governor.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I love that story.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
You have to picture it with Trump saying it the
way Trump would say it, not the way Peter Deucey
presented it, like it was the Magna carta or something.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Right.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
And I'm told that Trudeau laughed uneasily.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Sure he did.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So another major nominee of Donald Trump might pull out.
That would be Pete Hegzeth, Secretary of Defense. I don't
have any idea if that's good or bad. But Lindsey
Graham made some noises yesterday that we need a secretary
Defense that women joining the military can respect. And it
(31:52):
didn't sound good, and only four Republican senators need to
say no for it to go down in flames. And
so the news that's out from the Wall Street Journal
is that Trump's looking at Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Do you think Ron de Santis wants it?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I think he would think seriously about it. Military guy, yeah,
very bright and capable as an administrator, but running your
home state the second term is, you know, pretty cool job.
He seems to be pretty into making his home state
as good as possible.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I don't know if he wants it.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
And it's been incredibly effective at it too. Yeah, I
don't know. That's an interesting question. I know there are
other people who are who are also being considered.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, we'll have to say.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I guess they're talking about Jony Ernst, maybe the Senator
or Eldridge Colby, who was a former Pentagon official and
an ally of JD Vance. They all sound you capable,
and Sammart, Have we ever elected I don't think we
have ever elected a secretary of defense president, but that
seems like a pretty good thing to have on your resume.
Two term governor of Florida and Secretary of Defense running
(32:59):
for pres then is run DeSantis?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yeah? I would agree.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Uh, and answer to your first question, not that I'm
aware of George hw Bush ran the CIA, correct, but
he wasn't sec deaf Nope. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Oh, and I I like, I don't know that much
about Hezeth, but I would feel pretty comfortable with Marco
Rubio's secretary of State and DeSantis secretary of Defense if
things could continue to be as ugly as they are
for the next four years.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
One of Trump's problems is that he appoints people like
I buy stuff after two cocktails at night on the internet.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It's you gotta wait till the next day.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
If it seemed like a good idea, now, it'll be
a good idea in the morning.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Let's get a final thought from everybody. On the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There is our
technical director of Michael Angelo. Michael talked to us, I'm.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Just trying to think of things that Jack's sons could
do instead of watching TV. I've come up with Jack's puppetry,
board games, any old timey thing, a slinky about a slinky.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I'm going to convince them to give up Netflix for
board games.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Katie Greener esteemed musewoman as a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
I will be starting an OnlyFans page where I step
on cockroaches and low first.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
So awesome, offers the hottest footwear. Good choice, Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
A final thought for us, I think is a good
one for the eating season that we're in right now.
Is everybody what is they say every year the average
person gains five pounds or something like that. I gained
three and a half. I had to move to a
different hole on my belt. I weigh myself every day.
That's one stark reality. But the fact that I had
to go to a brand new hole on my belt
that clearly had never had the little thing through the
(35:06):
hole before, that's a message.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
My final thought is a little breaking news.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
According to the media, it appears that the Supreme Court
is inclined to uphold the Tennis Lee law banning cruel
experiments on confused children who momentarily think they're the other sex.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
But that would only mean that states can do that.
States like California could still allow it. Yes, until people
wake up to the horror of it. Yes, it will
claim more victims, and that's the shame. Armstrong and Getty
Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, Head to the
ang store.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Get a hot Dog's our Dog's T shirt or a
cut the Crab T shirt or our new premium hoodie
Armstrong ageddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
We will see you tomorrow with more news of the day.
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I'm strong in Getty. Their behavior there has been nothing
short of thuggish.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Yah.
Speaker 8 (35:59):
I don't think you go through that type of experience
in doing emerged change.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I expected more pathetic spectacle.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
You're locking up my toothpaste. What in the hell heck
are we talking about? So let's go with a bang.
God is a Republican? Take two? God is a republic
Take three? Michael. How much tape do we have? Probably
on a check and that I note. Thanks you all
very much. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Jetty in
Central New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The FBI is now investigating multiple sightings of swarms of
drones hovering menacingly overhead night after night for the last
several weeks. The drones have been described as larger than
what a hobbyist might fly. Some of the drones have
been spotted close to a military installation and President elect
Trump's Bedminster golf club, where he frequently stays. The FAA says,
(00:46):
at the request of Federal Security partners, it is prohibiting
drone flights over Picatinny Arsenal Military Base and Trump's golf course.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, I hope we're on top of this. Whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Can you say Picatinny on the air. This definitely has
the feel of it's absolutely nothing or nothing else matters.
It's either something unbelievable or it'll go away and it'll
turn out to em.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I hope we're on top of it.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Like I said, why that's crazy, Okay. Jason Riley is
a brilliant man. He writes for The Wall Street Journal,
among other places. He's an editorialist. He happens to be
a black man, and he wrote a column recently. He's
talking about President Biden venturing to Angola, Africa, fleeing the
country after the utterly indefensible, dishonest, bipartisan, damaging pardon of
(01:42):
his boy and he mentions that many black Americans trace
their ancestry to Angola, former Portuguese colony, and mister Biden
spoke of the country's quote shared history an evil of
human bondage during his remarks, we remember the stolen men
and women and children who were brought to our shores
and chains and subjected to unimaginable cruelty.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So far, absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The horrors of slavery, whenever and wherever it's existed, are
undeniable and horrific to anybody with the beating heart, as
far as I'm concerned, particularly as a lover of liberty.
But let us plunge on. And one of my favorite
parts about this column is that it is it utterly
(02:27):
refutes so much of the sixteen nineteen project and its premises,
and that got so much currency. It's still being taught
in school systems around, and it's, you know, like all
great frauds, it's like three quarters true and then that
last quarter, though, including the premise of the whole damn thing,
is utterly farcical. The idea that the US was we
(02:50):
broke away from Britain to make sure we could keep
having slaves, and then we wrote a constitution to make
sure we had lots of slaves, and the whole part
of the country is to keep slavery going. Nothing could
be more dishonest. But anyway, Jason Riley, in writing about Oh,
his title is will we ever hear the end of
slavery reparations?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, no kidding. You mentioned that later, But Biden thinks
the issue needs further study. But few issues in history
have received more attention. Yeah, the whole further study thing. Seriously,
I wish I could give me five minutes with Black America.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Friends.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
This is the carrot dangled in front of your nose
that you will never taste its delicious orange goodness. It
is a political fraud designed to keep you voting in
one particular way.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
There are going to be no.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Reparations of any significant scale in any significant area.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The funny thing about the carrot as a metaphor for
an enticement is I'm not doing anything for a carrot.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Nothing. I mean, I won't get up out of my
chair for a carrot.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well, you're not a donkey, are you? All right, here's
where it gets really really interesting to me. You want
to talk about the African slave trade to our part
of the world. More than ninety percent of enslaved Africans
were sent to the Caribbean and South America between the
(04:18):
sixteenth and nineteenth centuries a year fifteen hundreds to year
eighteen hundreds, more than nine more than ninety percent. Wow,
while about six percent of African captives were sent directly
directly to British North America, about six percent.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
It's definitely true that slave I mean, I'm going way
back to my grade school years. But slavery was portrayed
is like a uniquely American thing.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Correct, Yeah? Yeah, a horror that we and we alone committed.
And you know, I don't answer for the sins of
my forefathers anymore than they would answer for my sins
somehow if they had a time machine. And again, none
of this is ever to deny the horrors of slavery.
That's not the point at all. But and although the
(05:09):
trans Atlantic slave trade receives far, far more attention today,
the trans Saharan slave trade have you even heard of? That,
which involved Arabs transporting captives from Black Africa across the
Sahara Desert and the Persian Gulf to the Islamic world
of North Africa and the Middle East, involved a larger
number of African slaves and lasted for a much longer period.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It is striking.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Harvard scholar Orlando Patterson wrote that quote, the total volume
of African slaves acquired by Muslim masters is greater than
the total acquired by Europeans and the Americans. Nor mister
Patterson stress with slavery unique to Africa, Europe, and the
Islamic world or to a particular stretch of time. Quote,
there is nothing notable peculiar, notably peculiar about the institution
(05:57):
of slavery. It has existed from before the dawn of
human history right down to the twentieth century, in the
most primitive of human societies and in the most civilized.
There is no region of the earth that has not
at some time harbored the institution. Probably there is no
group of people on Earth whose ancestors were not at
one time slaves or slaveholders.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Oh, almost certainly. Man a lot of human beings throughout history.
I saw the number the other day, the total number
of humans that have lived on Earth, forty billion or something,
whatever it was. Man, most of them had awful lives.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, just awful. Whether it's healthcare or being a slave,
is just awful.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And I just read an account. I'm not going to
lay it on you, but the premise of the thing
was about how the world community and the UN and
all sorts of people are doing nothing to hold some
of the Islamist groups to account for their slavery right now,
including the slavery of women as has forced brides and
(07:01):
the rest of it. I'm going to spare you the
worst parts of it, but there is wide spread, horrible
slavery going on as we speak and breathe on earth
right now. Oh sure, right now, China, millions of people, right, Yeah,
I'm sorry I was talking over you, China, right. This
is interesting. Earlier this year, Portuguese President Marcello Rebello di
(07:24):
Suza suggested that his country should pay slavery reparations to
Angola is the former Portuguese colonies and I mentioned, but
the current Angolan president shot down the idea. He said,
it's impossible to make up for what happened in the past.
It only creates conflicts, he told reporters. Mister Biden, by contrast,
has insisted the issue needs further study. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's so weak, the opposite of leadership.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I'm gonna pretend to make some noises for something that
will never happen, to make sure the wokest people out
there feel like I'm on their side.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
And he goes into California, New York have set up preparations,
task forces, a couple other things, and then he says,
California was never a slave state.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh and Titam is just south of San Francisco. Shiloh's
outside of La Sure.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And its black population didn't reach two percent until the
nineteen forties. Oh wow, Today California is a majority minority
state where Latinos forty percent and Asians fifteen percent far
outnumber Blacks five percent. Why should Asians and Latinos whose
ancestors were never slave owners, well not slave owners in
(08:37):
the United States of Africans.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I got to depart.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Here from Jason's brilliance and say, whoa dude, so called
Latinos were probably Spanish, had Spanish ancestors. They came to
the New World and enslaved craploads of people Mayans and
Aztecs and whoever, or or anybody else, or maybe they
were enslaved.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh, but anyway, why should Asians and Latinos, as ancestors
maybe never own slaves and who themselves have been subject
to discrimination, be forced to compensate Black people today who
are never slaves.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, and I don't know how much of this we've
talked about for our whole Armstrong and Getty network, because
we talk about it locally in California a lot. But
the proposal that is out there in California is giving
everybody who's a descend who's black house, you get a
free house.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What is the other stuff? You get?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Two hundred thousand and eight dollars a year job forever,
just all kinds of.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Like nutty nutty stuff, like so crazy you can't believe
anybody's even talking about it out loud.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Jason Riley goes on to say, moreover, those blacks who
did migrate to the Golden State in the middle decades
of the twentieth century did relatively well on average urban
as Fred Siegel wrote, Blacks have long been better off
materially in LA than in the rest of the country.
As early as the nineteen thirties, Watts had the highest
rated black home ownership in the country. Blacks benefited from
the World War two boom Blah blah law nineteen sixty
(10:01):
four National Urban League Survey rank Los Angeles is the
best big city in the nation for black employment, housing,
and income. Earlier this week, California Assemblyman Kammie mcmarxy said
he would introduce legislation require University California and the state
University to give admissions preferences to the descendants of slaves.
He says, we have a moral responsibility to do what
(10:23):
we can to write those wrongs, but the real obligation
is to stop discriminating by race altogether, not char change
who's on the receiving end, which is what his legislation
would do. Mister Brian and others seeking reparations need to
decide whether they want justice or payback.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Jason Riley, Tip.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Of the Cap my friend well someday in California We'll
have a bullet train that takes you from Gettysburg to.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Appomattox and black folks can ride for free. Is reparations
from something from Asians, from Muslims snatching up more Africans
than went to the entire Western Hema fear, of which
the US had six percent.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Okay, it's a.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Big day for the whole trans conversation at the Supreme
Court came across the latest numbers on how many people
consider themselves LGBTQ plus in each generation. Oh boy, which
is kind of interesting. And they have a guess. I'm
pretty easy to guess. Stay tuned as listening to a
(11:28):
podcast the other day was all about how things culturally
lead to legally almost every law, not almost, I'm sure
every law. It was culturally a thing before it was
legally a thing. And that's kind of where where we
are with this Supreme Court taking up the trans stuff today.
(11:51):
The question is, culturally, do we think children should be
deciding whether they're boys or girls and then parents having
up operations done on them?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Then? I think ninety percent of us think no, they shouldn't.
But Jam Crawford of CBS News, the Legal correspondent she's
really good. She was outside the Supreme Court building and
talked to a couple of moms.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
School teacher Arion Adam Chakhova said her son was sixteen
when he came out as a trans girl.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
His dad and I were very open to different gender expressions,
and we just figured that this was an experimental phase,
and so I was like, yeah, you know, what dress
however you want, like cool, that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I was open to all of it.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
But then I realized if he went to the doctor,
they were going to prescribe him hormones, and he was
begging for the hormones.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
He was begging for puberty blockers. The doctors told me
my daughter would commit suicide if I didn't transition her.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
The doctors told you that they did. Both women, self
described liberals, did not let their children take medication, which
can be irreversible. They said their kids went through intensive psychotherapy,
and after about eighteen months both children de transitioned.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
When you're twenty five, if you decide that's the pathway
you need, then we will of course love you and
support you and your decision.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Those doctors are evil. It reminds me.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I said this a couple of weeks ago of the therapist.
I know that said a lot of the therapists. If
they get a teen who says, you know, I think
I'm a girl, they send them to a doctor, she argues,
convinces and had two teenage people who were talking about
that and talk to them out of it in like
(13:35):
two minutes.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, so you can either vastly last majority of kids
grow out of it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So you either immediately jump on board with the Okay,
you see you might be a girl, you're probably a girl,
let's go to the doctor, or no, here's what you're probably.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Going through and then they say, oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah. It's astounding that. I mean, the quote unquote success
rate of hey, let's talk about this is enormously high.
Is that that a large majority of the counseling community
and these perverse doctors they don't even do that well?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Fitting in with the whole culturally thing that I mentioned
by generation, what percentage of people identify as LGBTQ plus
the silent generation?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
How do you know? You ask him, they don't say anything,
but you're saying nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Of the silent generation identifies as lgbtqos. Now, of course
you can make the argument that they come from a
time where it wasn't okay, and a lot of them
are not saying they.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Are gay when they are blah blah blah, which might
be true.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Baby Boomers, it's two point three percent, which is close
to the right number. Generation X four point five percent. Again,
kind of close to the right number based on like
gallop poles of what percentage of people are gay or bisexual,
it's around three percent, they think. Millennials it's ten percent.
Generation Z twenty three percent.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Right. Well, that's the problem with the alphabet soup and
particularly the Q part of it, because queer doesn't mean anything.
It just means I'm against the status quo man. That's
the that's it means, oppositional to the powers that be.
That's all it means, or the expectations of society. I'm queer, man,
(15:17):
it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Came across this Twitter feed from a fellow by the
name of Chad Green.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
He's a gay fellow.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
He says, an older trans woman talk to me when
I was twenty one or so about my interest in transitioning.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Did we mention that Supreme Court is hearing Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
The case at Tennessee a Tennessee case where Tennessee is
trying to outlaw these experimental sex change treatments on children,
and they're hearing the oral arguments today. Anyway, So this
guy says, an older trans woman talk to me when
I was twenty one or so about my interest in transitioning.
She said, quote, You'll spend the rest of your life
asking yourself why you gave up being a cute but
(15:54):
insecure gay man and trapped yourself in the body of
someone who kind of looks like a woman. Oh, every
day you'll stare in the mirror, studying every shadow, every
hint of your former face, convinced that it's shining through.
You'll try to hide it with makeup, long hair, and
more makeup, but you'll always see him. Your clothes won't
fit right. You're too tall, too lanky. Every person you pass,
(16:14):
you'll imagine is wondering about you. Your voice will always
feel too deep, too loud, too heavy, but faking it
will sound fake. You'll notice, they'll notice. You will always
feel naked in public. If you can't believe it, how
will a man I'm talking about a lover. Over time,
you'll find the right tricks, right makeup, right tone right movement,
you'll forget more and won't notice the I am certain
something awe is off looks, but he'll always be there waiting.
(16:38):
You need the whole world to believe, but you never will.
And he says, she saved me. The solution for me
was accepting what I could not change. I was still struggling.
I was still living with anxiety. I still hated my body.
But was this the answer? Was it really the answer?
It wasn't. I needed time to time and to prioritize
my life more important. Chatlenges came. Part of growing up
(17:03):
is real resalizing. Sometimes things hurt your life can't stop
when things are difficult. Gender affirming treatment keeps you stuck
in never ending acceptance and validation, trying to be what
you cannot be, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Well, guys, a lot of people are getting excited because
Spotify is sent to release their Spotify Wrapped playlist.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Any day now, Yeah, which will tell everyone what they
listen to most this year.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
In fact, the company releases all sorts of data about
their users.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's pretty interesting. Check this out first out.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Sixty percent make a Christmas playlist to enjoy at home.
Forty percent just take a seat on the floor at
CBS in September and listen. Thirty percent have a Spotify
family plan.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Seventy percent told their dad to use it.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
A month later, he said, I can't find the Eagles
on Shopify that day.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, my kids are on my Spotify, so all our
listening gets jumbled together, so I get fed stuff I
never want to listen to, and vice versa. Yeah, there
is an Apple shaped music service that I have the
same problem with this. I get my daughter's musical tastes
sent my way.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Hey Joe, we've compiled a playlist just for you.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Do a Lippa and Taylor Swift. Oh great, thanks, thanks
for nothing. As problems go, this is a relatively minor one.
But the way our clock works here, we have to
take breaks at a mandatory time at the bottom of
the hour. And so I had a restaurant and I
couldn't finish. This guy's incredibly moving, personalized why I didn't transition?
(18:33):
How glad I am Twitter thread, an older trans person
counseled him not to do it, and he didn't, and
he writes, m M, I'll skip to the end. The
solution for me was accepting what I could not change.
I was still struggling, I was still living with anxiety.
I still hated my body. But was this the answer?
(18:55):
Was it really the answer? It wasn't. I needed time
and to prioritize my life. More important challenges came. There's
no right way to handle this experience. But transition is
such a permanent and drastic solution, one that is no
guarantee of peace. The longer you wait, the more difficult
it is. The faster you rush it, the more likely
you'll regret it. There's a better way. Part of growing
up is realizing sometimes things hurt. Your life can't stop.
(19:17):
When things are difficult, You've got to find a way forward.
Gender affirming treatment quote unquote keeps you stuck in never
ending acceptance and validation and trying to be what you
cannot be. I'm grateful every day I did not transition.
I didn't give up a future I could never have
imagined for myself. I didn't trap myself. I didn't find
(19:38):
out too late that it wasn't the answer to my pain.
Someone who knew told me the truth. That's why I
speak out today. And well done, sir, I appreciate your
candor and your courage.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It'll be interesting to see what the Supreme Court justices
think of this. I don't know how up on the
whole trans thing they are. I mean, a lot of
them are pretty old. It's got to be pretty shocking
to them, the fact that it's happening.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
In Yeah, and there are a lot of these things,
like the critical race theory, the Black Lives Matter deal,
it's all related. It's all postmodernism neomarks as well, and
the radical gender theory stuff that the folks who are
trying to promote this are good at selling it. They
(20:20):
soft pedal the ugly stuff, and they really twist and
sugar coat either the data or the good it does,
or that sort of thing. And so if you just
do a drive by look at some of these issues,
you can really get led down the garden path. And
I'm kind of concerned that that might happen with the justices.
(20:40):
Once you start digging into the stuff, you realize how
insitious it is. Speaking of which, The New York Times
Jeremy Peters wrote a piece, and he happened to say,
to get on the wrong side of transgender activists is
often to endure their unsparing criticism. You're a Nazi, You're
a hater. Blah blah blah uh, and then he mentions
(21:03):
When JK. Rowling said that denying any relationship between sex
and biology was deeply misogynistic and regressive, a prominent group
accused her of betraying real feminism. Angry critics posted videos
of themselves burning her books. Blah blah blah. Well, Jake
came out and wrote, the rewriting of history begins. Opponents
of gender ideology haven't merely quote endured unsparing criticism. I
(21:25):
haven't simply been told I betrayed real feminism or received
a few book burning videos. I've been sent thousands of
threats of murder, rape and violence. She talks about her
children being doxed, Oh, my god, threatened. I could write
a twenty thousand word essay on what the consequences have
been to me and my family, and what we've endured
is nothing compared to the harm done to others.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
That essay would include a wizard and a magical young
boy and be incredibly readable.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yes, by standing up to the movement that relies on
threats of violence, ostracization, and guilt by association, all of
us have been smeared and defamed, and many have lost
their livelihoods. Some have been physically assaulted by transactivists. Female
politicians have been forced to hire personal security on the
advice of police. The news that one of the leading's
(22:13):
UK ender chronologists, doctor Hillary cass, was advised not to
travel by public transport for her own safety, should shame
anyone who let this insanity.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Run a mock.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Insanity is correct, Yeah, yeah, Now the political landscape has
shifted and some have been riding high on their own supplier,
waking up with a hell of a hangover. They've started
wondering whether calling left wing feminists who wanted all female
rape centers calling them.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Nazis was such a smart strategy.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Maybe parents arguing that boys ought not to be robbing
their daughters of sporting opportunities might sort of have a point.
Possibly letting any man who says I'm a woman into
the locker room with twelve year old girls could have
a downside.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
After all, when this is all over and I think
the end is coming of it having the power that
it has, it'll it'll still live on in you know,
tiny segments.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
But growing in democratic run government circles for instance.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Oh, it can't last. At least it's going to be
agree with you.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It's going to be a pariah of an ideology soon,
I think, and that will doom Gavin Newsom ever running
for president because the whole Kamala Harris ad where she
sits there and says, yeah, I think sex changes for
illegals is a good idea, and she wouldn't never walked
away from that. Gavin Newsom's got like ten of those. Yes,
(23:40):
the banning parents from finding out about their kids at school,
or you know, taxpayer funded paying for it, and all
kinds women in sports, men and women's sports, all this
stuff he'd have to answer.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
For, like a whole bunch of these. He's dooming. You're
right at a time when people are gonna be like,
no way. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
This is why I always say run gaff go ahead
to it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Speak of a Democratic party and that sort of thing.
I just saw Chuck Todd of formerly Meet the Press
NBC their political analysts saying it was a terrible mistake
for Joe Biden to pardon Hunder the way he did.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
And to that this is out today.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Whatever group it is, it keeps track of the percentage
of people that call themselves Republicans or Democrats out with
their latest numbers, and for the first time since Watergate,
Independents are in number two. There are most of the
highest number mid thirties Republicans. Then you got kind of
(24:42):
lower thirties independence Democrats in third place. One of the
major parties is in third place for the first time
since Watergate because of the analysis from the Washington Examiner. Anyway,
is that's the sort of damage the Biden administration did
with all their crazy s over the last four years.
These people didn't leave the party. The party left them.
(25:02):
They are the third party now is the Democratic Party.
That won't last, but for now that's where it is interesting,
not surprising. Nice job, Joe Biden, who should be on
Mount Rushmore driving your party into third party status.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
What's the opposite of Mount Rushmore? We need to have
an opposite of that Mount crap more.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I mentioned yesterday that I'd canceled all my streaming services
to try to get my kids, particularly one kid, watching
less stuff on those and finding other things to do
with his life. And I'd been threatening that for a
long time, and he hadn't been very motivated to come
(25:49):
up with some other things.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
To do.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And I said, I'll just cancel the mom We did
get an email from somebody who said, there are other
ways to do it. I just you know, change the
password and not give them the password and all that
sort of stuff. I like the giant gesture. Just we
don't have them anymore. We just don't have them anymore.
We don't have to do we don't have Hulu, we
don't we just don't have that stuff anymore.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
It's it's got some real dramatic weight too. Y. Plus
it's gonna save you like a median salary.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, that's sure, I was going.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I was.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I knew it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Remember there was a study last year so it said
people underestimate by like two thirds how much they're spending
on the streaming services.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And it's true.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
When I canceled them all, I was like, I've got
this one and that one and that one and that.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
One, and what does that add up to. I'm laughing
with regret, and I need to do this. I really
need to do this.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
The other thing, I just do it.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I'm not saying I'm gonna cancel anything, but I've got
to reckon with this.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Well it's a clever ploy plan strategy they all came
up with, and it works pretty well. It's a it's
a low enough amount of money that you think, eh,
where was that eighteen dollars a month, fifty cents a
day when I'm not going to have this for fifty
cents a day. But there's just like ninety different things
(27:11):
like that out there. You know, your gym membership and
your Netflix, and your subscription for whatever's in your car
so you can listen to satellite radio. It's just there's
so many of them.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yes, Michael, you can.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
I give your son a chance to earn the services back,
like one at a time.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah, I did say, you know, we find some
other things to do.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
He's he's close to paniced about it.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It'll be good, though, It'll be good.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah. The psychological addiction of the things we do and
enjoy from glancing at our smartphones constantly for that little
shot of endorphins on the oh horrible screens and all,
it's undeniable. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
He watches long form shows on NETFL so I don't
know if it's the little shot of endorphin. Thing. Addiction
is just like easy, but I the little shot of
endorphin thing. I've got so bad. I don't recognize that
in him, but man, I've got it bad. And they're
so good at the freaking algorithms. If I open up
my phone to YouTube and I'm gonna watch a news segment,
(28:20):
I'm gonna search on it, but it's got right in
front of me. Oh, a Bob Dylan interview I've never
seen before. It's only forty five seconds long. Me let
me click on that, or just it knows what I want. Yeah,
And across all the different platforms, it's stealing the information
to figure out, oh, you shop for what?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
The other day, here's a.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
YouTube video about that. God damn it's it's it's good.
They're good at that, bastards. Yeah, it really, it really
troubles me. On the flight the other day, I tweeted
out a picture I had a heart an actual paper
book with me for the first time in years, because
I read everything on my phone, but I had an
actual paper book. Part of it is because of the
(28:59):
CLR that I got at. I got done a while
back to get my eyesight better, and so now it's
just easier to read paper books. And but somebody I
tweeted that out and somebody responded with, I give you
ten minutes before you grab your phone to say I
wonder what's going on. And I'm glad I read that
(29:21):
because it stopped me. But I was fighting that. I
was fighting that the whole time I was reading the book.
Is Ah, jeez, I could just grab this phone and
I would get and it's just kind of like a
comfortable feeling of something good would happen. And it's those
endorphins and dopamine and everything like that. But it's just
like it's right there. It's like a donut or something.
(29:41):
It's just amazing how powerful that is.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Yeah, I've always said that the whole people pretending shame
is a bad saying. I mean, it can be a
bad thing if it's in excess or company.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
We need more shame.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I've been saying that, Yes, exactly, Shame is the only
reason I'm not in prison.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Up with shame. More shame.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
If you're not ashamed, to be ashamed of that, if
you're not ashamed, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, I absolutely need more shame.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I hope it becomes like smoking to where you would
kind of want to hide that from people because it's
a bad look.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Staring at your phone.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
That would be nice if that became like smoking, or
you know, you don't want to be seeing a person
on the plane just staring at your phone. No, you
want to have a book or a magazine, or you're
practicing your cello or whatever it is you're doing.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
But I think if you're not ashamed, you should be
ashamed of that is right up there with if you
don't know what introspection is, you should take a long,
hard look at yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
We will finish strong. Next.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
We're getting some new details about that Trump Trudeau dinner
from two people who were at the table. We are
told that when Trudeau told President like Trump that new
tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked to him
that if Canada can't survive without ripping off the US
to the tune of one hundred billion dollars a year,
then maybe Canada should become the fifty first state and
(31:08):
Trudeau could become its governor.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I love that story.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
You have to picture it with Trump saying it the
way Trump would say it, not the way Peter Deucey
presented it, like it was the Magna carta or something.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Right.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
And I'm told that Trudeau laughed uneasily.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Sure he did.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So another major nominee of Donald Trump might pull out.
That would be Pete Hegzeth, Secretary of Defense. I don't
have any idea if that's good or bad. But Lindsey
Graham made some noises yesterday that we need a secretary
Defense that women joining the military can respect. And it
(31:52):
didn't sound good, and only four Republican senators need to
say no for it to go down in flames. And
so the news that's out from the Wall Street Journal
is that Trump's looking at Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Do you think Ron de Santis wants it?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I think he would think seriously about it. Military guy, yeah,
very bright and capable as an administrator, but running your
home state the second term is, you know, pretty cool job.
He seems to be pretty into making his home state
as good as possible.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I don't know if he wants it.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
And it's been incredibly effective at it too. Yeah, I
don't know. That's an interesting question. I know there are
other people who are who are also being considered.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, we'll have to say.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I guess they're talking about Jony Ernst, maybe the Senator
or Eldridge Colby, who was a former Pentagon official and
an ally of JD Vance. They all sound you capable,
and Sammart, Have we ever elected I don't think we
have ever elected a secretary of defense president, but that
seems like a pretty good thing to have on your resume.
Two term governor of Florida and Secretary of Defense running
(32:59):
for pres then is run DeSantis?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yeah? I would agree.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Uh, and answer to your first question, not that I'm
aware of George hw Bush ran the CIA, correct, but
he wasn't sec deaf Nope. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Oh, and I I like, I don't know that much
about Hezeth, but I would feel pretty comfortable with Marco
Rubio's secretary of State and DeSantis secretary of Defense if
things could continue to be as ugly as they are
for the next four years.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
One of Trump's problems is that he appoints people like
I buy stuff after two cocktails at night on the internet.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It's you gotta wait till the next day.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
If it seemed like a good idea, now, it'll be
a good idea in the morning.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Let's get a final thought from everybody. On the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There is our
technical director of Michael Angelo. Michael talked to us, I'm.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Just trying to think of things that Jack's sons could
do instead of watching TV. I've come up with Jack's puppetry,
board games, any old timey thing, a slinky about a slinky.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I'm going to convince them to give up Netflix for
board games.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Katie Greener esteemed musewoman as a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
I will be starting an OnlyFans page where I step
on cockroaches and low first.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
So awesome, offers the hottest footwear. Good choice, Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
A final thought for us, I think is a good
one for the eating season that we're in right now.
Is everybody what is they say every year the average
person gains five pounds or something like that. I gained
three and a half. I had to move to a
different hole on my belt. I weigh myself every day.
That's one stark reality. But the fact that I had
to go to a brand new hole on my belt
that clearly had never had the little thing through the
(35:06):
hole before, that's a message.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
My final thought is a little breaking news.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
According to the media, it appears that the Supreme Court
is inclined to uphold the Tennis Lee law banning cruel
experiments on confused children who momentarily think they're the other sex.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
But that would only mean that states can do that.
States like California could still allow it. Yes, until people
wake up to the horror of it. Yes, it will
claim more victims, and that's the shame. Armstrong and Getty
Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, Head to the
ang store.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Get a hot Dog's our Dog's T shirt or a
cut the Crab T shirt or our new premium hoodie
Armstrong ageddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
We will see you tomorrow with more news of the day.
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I'm strong in Getty. Their behavior there has been nothing
short of thuggish.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Yah.
Speaker 8 (35:59):
I don't think you go through that type of experience
in doing emerged change.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I expected more pathetic spectacle.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
You're locking up my toothpaste. What in the hell heck
are we talking about? So let's go with a bang.
God is a Republican? Take two? God is a republic
Take three? Michael. How much tape do we have? Probably
on a check and that I note. Thanks you all
very much. Armstrong and Getty
Hosts And Creators
Joe Getty
Jack Armstrong
Popular Podcasts
True Crime Tonight
If you eat, sleep, and breathe true crime, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT is serving up your nightly fix. Five nights a week, KT STUDIOS & iHEART RADIO invite listeners to pull up a seat for an unfiltered look at the biggest cases making headlines, celebrity scandals, and the trials everyone is watching. With a mix of expert analysis, hot takes, and listener call-ins, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT goes beyond the headlines to uncover the twists, turns, and unanswered questions that keep us all obsessed—because, at TRUE CRIME TONIGHT, there’s a seat for everyone. Whether breaking down crime scene forensics, scrutinizing serial killers, or debating the most binge-worthy true crime docs, True Crime Tonight is the fresh, fast-paced, and slightly addictive home for true crime lovers.
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
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.