August 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of the Friday, August 29,2025 A&G Replay contains:
- China Cabinet
- Jack Buys His Son a Truck
- Kids w/ADHD
- Voting Idiots, Mail Mamdani
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Catty arm Strong, and Jetty
and he Armstrong and Getty Strong, and so as a
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precursor to what we're about to discuss, I don't think
you can understand the world really until you understand what
a weird country we are. In a lot of ways.
We have been so safe and prosperous and have such
a great system and such a great bill of rights
that we are like by far the most optimistic people
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on Earth, and Americans are uncalculating in a way that
and and this is this is my main point. We
don't understand that the rest of the world is not
nearly as care free as we are. I mean we are.
Let's do a little dance to make a little love,
get down tonight, you know, make a little money. Everybody's fine,
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everybody's most people are nice, and blah blah blah. The
rest of the world is much more grim and calculating.
And in that spirit, let's take a look inside the
China Cabin. It's my masquerading as clever name for some
of those stories about China.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
China, we don't salty another good point and salty, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, we brought this up before, but there is a
congressional report out now and a demand of Harvard University
that they stop educating the elites of the Chinese Communist
Party and how to be more effective communists. The elite
of our universities, including Harvard, are through the Kennedy School
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and other places, educating the well the elite. Again, the
most powerful people within the most powerful bodies of the CCP.
The collaboration between the Harvard Kennedy School and the Chinese
Executive Leadership Academy at Pudong. That institution is controlled by
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the Central Organization Department, one of the most powerful bodies
within the CCP. It oversees shijin Ping thought training programs
for party elites and controls placement in key Communist Party
roles and high ranking members of the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, and these people are sent to the Harvard
Kennedy School as part of the Organization Department's education and
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training and these congress pe for sending a letter to
the head guy at Harvard, President Alan Garber, saying what
are you doing? And it's a reasonable question to cite
some obvious, probably too obvious, historical parallels. Harvard wasn't in
nineteen thirty eight, you know, getting Joseph Goebbels to be
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better at propaganda, you know, in exchange for a full ride,
you know, tuition. I don't even know what to think
of this. It's insane. Yeah, well, you know what, it's
not insane. It is a hangover, a holdover from that
few decades long period where we got duped into thinking
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China wanted to reform and it wanted to become, you know,
a happy free market, to participant in the Community of Nations.
But like everybody knows, that's not true now except academia.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But helping communists be better in the Communist Party, it's
right there in the name Communists. We used to be
really against that, right.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And Mike Gallagher has a piece in the Wall Street
Journal's opinion section today which my guests, there's like five
of them. Yeah, I know. This is the former very sane,
very serious congressman from Wisconsin, chairman of the Select Committee
on the Chinese Communist Party, distinguished fellow at the Hodson Institute. Anyway,
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his piece is entitled send Harvard's Chinese students home. It
makes no sense for the US to be educating the
scientific and leadership clash of a future adversary. For decades,
Republicans and Democrats agreed our universities were crown jewels of
American exceptionalism, and Harvard shown brightest of all. Mister Trump, however,
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has an uncanny neck for exposing rotten shibbliths. In recent
years have seen top universities unmasked as global far left
patronage networks using research as a smoke screen to prevent
scrutiny of campus hate as they aid adversaries like China.
Roughly thirty percent of Harvard's student body is foreign, At
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Columbia it's almost forty percent, and America's top universities benefit
from billions of dollars in government grants and tax breaks
while admitting fewer Americans every year. I'd like to know
what it is in my local college town, because it's
pretty high. Yeah yeah oh. B meta's chief AI officer,
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Alexander Wang, has argued that the rate of AI progress
may be such the quote, you need to prevent all
of our secrets from going over to our adversaries, and
you need to lock down the labs, thousands of Chinese citizens.
Chinese citizens are working and studying in such labs. The
US hosted one point one million international students last year.
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Of those, twenty five percent came from China, more than
a quarter million.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I know somebody in academia who worked in a lab
with Chinese citizens who were there in the lab also,
and they would never talk about anything because they were
worried about if he brought up anything political. They would
never say anything. With the assumption from this person, I
know that they were scared to say anything because it
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would get reported back.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
In twenty twenty two, foreign nationals, many of them Chinese,
accounted for almost forty percent of science doctorates in the
United States. Almost forty percent. Wow, that is incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We're educating our number one global enemy for the next
you know, for the foreseeable future, China will be our
number one enemy on planet Earth, and we're educating their scientists.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And Beijing is aggressively cultivating American educated and American employed
researchers by the Thousand Talents program. That's part of their
whole of society. Everybody has to be bent on China
being a sentant and squashing the US blindly embracing academic
cooperation with geopolitical rivals is absurd. Nobody suggests we should
train Iran Iranian nuclear physicists or Russian ballistics engineers. The
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US wouldn't have been better off collaborating more with Nazi
Germany in the thirties or with the Soviet during the
Soviets during the Cold War. Why make an exception for
a nation dedicated to surpassing the US in emerging technologies?
Then he mentions that universities loved the Chinese students because
they generally pay full freight, often subsidized by the Chinese
Communist Party. What the hell are we doing? And then
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finally this speaking of money, and I mentioned this once,
but it is absolutely worth digging into. There is a
nonprofit called the Energy Foundation China. It is based in
San Francisco, and according to its website, EFC has dispersed
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over half a billion dollars to more than four thousand
climate related projects, many of them in the US. Well,
wait a minute, since the Chinese Communist Party controls everything,
why is a Chinese Chinese Excuse me, the Communist Party
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run foundation financing thousands of climate related projects. Uh, it's
Ceyoba Huway is based in Beijing and has a background
of strong ccp UH affiliations. Well, here's the deal, UH,
and Ted Cruz has dug into this. China has realized
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that a if they can shove us away from steady
sources of energy, it hurts our economy. As they're building,
they're burning and building coal plants as fast as they can.
Plus they're pushing us as hard as they can toward
renewable energy. Who has cornered the market on the critical
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rare earth minerals, for instance, batteries, et cetera. Who has
cornered the market on all that stuff in renewable energy? China?
So they are financing all of these Americans so called
environmental groups screaming for us to give up fossil fuels
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and embrace technologies that China controls.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
They must. They're at Communist party headquarters. Parties just throw
back their heads in laughter, sometimes at the things they're
able to pull up.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Hey, guess what I bought another one hundred acres next
to a military base? You did, yeah, right next to it?
Or did you claim to be I just said who
I was? Yeah? They just let you?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Or this we're financing that giant rally you' sa on
TV the other day where they're saying, you know, down
with fossil fuels. We paid for that, and then the
hippies push for all these programs that then we sell
them the stuff. Yeah, Their largest state, California, has given
up producer seeing the safest, cleanest, best policies for workers
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oil that is produced anywhere on Earth, and instead has
instead outsourced it to despicable regimes that don't give a
crap about the environment or their workers. That's enlightened California.
And when they're not doing that, they're doubling down on
technologies that we control and can get them. We can
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threaten to choke that stuff off, and Donald Trump will
let Nvidia sell their most advanced chips. Are damn near
to the Chinese Communist Party because we've gotten them to
buy the green energy scam.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
We are a stupid people, all right, certainly our leaders are.
That's your look inside the China Cabinet, Armstrong and the
Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh look out, something just came and say the floor
and an object of just flewing as the free throw
is being made, you look like that hit a player too.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So it's becoming a safety issue people throwing the sex
toys on the floor at the w NBA Games. And
I think it's a good idea to call it an object,
same way they used to not show streakers run across
the field because it just.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Encourages them, right right, Yeah, you don't want to give
them the same they're looking for. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So anyway, we'll keep an eye on that very important
story of sex toys being thrown on the floor WNBA games.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I want to mention this.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So I bought a bought my son's first vehicle the
other day, and I bought it from a guy in
the Bay Area, and I drove her there. I ubered
over to pick it up yesterday and drove it home.
Smelly a stuba ride have ever taken in my life.
I don't know what was going on there. I don't
know if a body was dickying or if it was
him or what. But ooh, that was rough.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
AnyWho. The guys, the guy I bought it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
From, guy about my age, seemed pretty well to do,
but living in a uh, not particularly well to do
a little duplex thingy, he said, Yeah, I'm living with
my daughter. I had a house in the Pacific Palisades
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completely burned to the ground. And then we got on
that whole. I said, oh geez, yeah, I found it,
and he ended up showing me. We ended up talking
about it for a long time, and he showed me
tons of pictures and videos. I mean, he was taking
pictures and videos while it was occurring, with the idea
that he was going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
For a couple of different reasons.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It was way over there, and he thought, there's no
way it gets clear over here. Plus he thought, with
all these gazillion dollars homes and some of the masters
of the universe that live in this name, there's no
way the city is gonna let these homes burn down,
was his thinking. And he was standing there wife and kids.
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He didn't have kids, but a wife and pats had
taken off and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
He was there with a hose.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He was going to protect his house, and the cops
showed up and said you gotta go, and he went.
And now he's so thankful that he did, because the
fire quickly overwhelmed everything and burnt everything to the ground.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He has shown me pictures of stuff that he found
in the.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
In the He showed me he had a cyber truck,
like I have a cyber truck, and he had a
cyber truck. And there's nothing left but the stainless steel
panels just sitting there on the ground. Everything else completely disappeared.
Showed me up nice he had a watch collection, a
nice watch that he found.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It was just charred. You could kind of tell it
was a watch. I'll bet more than one person. And
this is grim sorry, but has met their end, standing
there with a fire hose as the I'm sorry, with
a hose, a consumer hose as the wall of fire
comes towards them, and thinking, oh my god, I miscalculated.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I almost did myself. If you'll remember, that's what I
told him about because he said, he said fire. He said,
I have a new respect for fire, and I said,
the same thing happened to me. I've told the story.
This is before you were here, Katie. But our farm
caught on fire and I had it was a tiny
little fire. I mean it was like three feet in diameter,
and I thought, well, I'm going to get a hose,
and so I went and got some hoses and put
them together. And when I turned around, Gold, it's a
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giant fire. And then I got the hose stretch over there,
and I'm trying to hose it, and before long I
was consumed in smoke and heat and didn't know which
direction was out and which direction was toward the fire.
And fire trucks eventually got there and blah blah blah,
my shoes melted to the pavement.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It was. But yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You think I'm gonna stop this with this hose, and
the next thing, you know, mother nature does her thing.
And that's what happened with him. But I asked him
the question, of course, of how has it been dealing
with the county and the government and the insurance. He said,
oh please, and he dropped a bunch of f bombs
and his accomplished a zero since that fire. In terms
of trying to get any money. He's living with his daughter,
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and he doesn't have any idea if he's going back,
if he can go back, what kind of money he's
gonna get.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Nothing at this point. I hate to bring politics into this,
but I just happened to read I think it was
a National Review, Somebody's writing about how Donald Trump saved
Karen Bass's job. The idiot left the mayor of la
who was seriously on the ropes because of her utterly incompetent, insensitive,
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dishonest handling of the wildfire problem. But the high profile
immigration raids has enabled her to you know, rush to
the ramparts, to play the progressive warrior to protect our
immigrant communities, and it's saved her bacon if you get in,
Which is not to say he shouldn't be deporting people
at all, but it's it's kind of interesting the way
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those things can turn out.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Oh and no way he sent the National Guard. That
was a good you know, helped rescuer. I guess if
you get into an uber or a lyft and it
smells really, really horrible, what is it most likely the driver?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yes, Yeah, in my experience, it's often like they're wearing
way too much cologne or has just coded the place
with some sort of disinfectant deodorant thing, which is terrible.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Now, this wasn't either one of those. It definitely wasn't Colonne,
and it wasn't a stank huh.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
It was stank. It was like was it like.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
A spill that they didn't get all the way and
went moldy in the car kind of a situation.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
That could happen.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I did have a gallon of milk explode in my
truck one time, and it smelled pretty bad for a
long time.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Should have torched it. Speaking of fire, I left.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
It in my truck on accident on a day when
it was one hundred and twelve degrees outside and it
was probably one hundred and fifty inside the truck and
it just burst and then it was in there overnight and.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It smelled so bad.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But I eventually lysolted enough over the period of like
a year to get the smell completely gone. But I
think this was the dude, what would make a human
being smell like that? Is it like a thirty year
old dude? What would what would cause your body to
do that?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
What kind of question is that? Exactly? What's key? You
want to talk about this on the air? Well lost
your mind? Are are you dying? Or perhaps? But I'm not.
I will not. I will not take an uber ride
to this conversation. Hey Michael, you answer him no seriously.
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The Armstrong and Getty Show, yea or Jack your show
podcasts and Our Hot Lakes. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I got at least one kid that diagnosed with ADHD,
and the other one certainly might have it. And I
know how some people react to this with uh, this
is just the way kids have always been, and now
they're putting a name on it. And I think there's
some truth there. I think there is, too depends on
the kid, obviously, I know in at least one of
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my cases, it's definitely not that. But there's so many
different medications out there. And since it's interesting, I've known
a couple of really successful people, scholastically successful people that
had ADHD and were able to focus better than normal
people in certain situations. That's one of the weird things
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about ADHD. But like several fins I know who have
ADHD can drink coffee, like a big cup of coffee
before they go to bed. It helps calm them down,
stimulates calm them down. So Energery drinks coffee. It's like
how you exhale and focus and Riddlin famously as a stimulant.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah. Yeah, And so.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Anyway, for all kinds of different reasons, there's this giant
Swedish study that's out right now. They followed one hundred
and fifty thousand people with ADHD for two years on
ADHD medication, and based on their analysis with this very
big study, the medicated group experienced an estimated seventeen percent
fewer suicidal behaviors, fifteen percent fewer cases of substance abuse,
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thirteen percent fewer criminal convictions, and a dozen percent fewer
traffic accidents compared to people that didn't take ADHD medication.
So I don't know if that informs anybody who's in
the I'm not going to do medication for my kid crowd.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's a tough yeah, just because that is something that
improves outcomes, or so it would seem from that study.
You know, with the usual grains of salt. Doesn't mean
it's the best solution. That would be my only quibble,
and again it varies kid to kid. But that's interesting.
I mean, if that's helping people be happier and all,
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I'm in favor of it. I just I know I
am certain I would have been diagnosed as a as
a boy with ADHD. Do you think the problem was
the pace of school was so slow it made me insane?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
But do you think it would have helped you if
you'd have had something that would have taken the edge off?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Uh? No, what really helped me was getting into a
program that lets you learn that you're on speed. I
loved it, absolutely loved it, happy as a clam.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And it didn't exhibit itself in any other ways.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Oh, I don't think so, not that I'd have to
think about that for a while.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
There's also degrees because it's of course they do diagnosis
as mild, moderate, or severe.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, And I want to make it clear I come
to this conversation humbly because every kid is different, and
I don't know your kid or your kid or your kid,
and and some people absolutely need the help.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well yeah, well that's the problem you have if you
run into people that have very strong opinions on this is.
First of all, I've had a very respected doctor get
one diagnosis and a different respected doctor have a completely
different diagnosis, And then what in the hell are you
supposed to do with that information? So they're guessing to
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a great extent, it's all on a continuum line between
zero and a thousand, and it's also combined with all
the other personality factors that you have that are somewhere
in the range of normal or not. So yeah, it's complicated,
and their environment so speaking of kids' mental health. I
absolutely love Abigail Schreier.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
She wrote a couple of books, Irreversible Damage, about the
unspeakably cruel experimenting on confused adolescents who momentarily believe they're
a different gender because activists have convinced them that they
might be or that they are, and kids are so impressionable.
It led kids down what I've called the high speed
conveyor belt of activism toward irreverse damage to their bodies. Terrible.
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She also wrote a book, Bad Therapy, which she references here.
I'm just going to read something she wrote briefly, Well,
I was writing my book Bad Therapy, my middle school
age son returned home from sleep away camp with a
persistent stomach ache. I took him to urgent care, where
a nurse asked me to leave the room. I know
you love this Jack, so he could administer a mental
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health screening tool put out by our National Institute's of
Mental Health. Afterward, I received a copy of the survey
and photographed it. Here, verbatim are the five questions the
nurse intended to ask my son in private, and what
was the age of the kid? Again? Uh, middle school
in the past few weeks, have you wished you were dead?
Two in the past few weeks, have you felt that
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you or your family would be better off if you
were dead? Three in the past week, have you been
having thoughts about killing yourself? Why can't I be in
the room for these questions? By the way, because they
don't want you, the parents, interfering with they the government,
getting the truth from your kid. Four have you ever
tried to kill yourself? If yes, how when? And five
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are you thinking of killing yourself right now? If yes,
please describe.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Keeping in mind, and I know more about this than
I wish I knew, But keeping in mind. If they
declare your kid a threat to themselves, they fifty one
to fifty that kid and your kid no longer belongs
to you. It belongs to the county. They are in
the government's control. You get no say at that point,
I mean zero say wow, So, Abigail writes.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Children across America are being asked these questions by doctors
because this is explicit protocol from the NIM. The National
Institute of Mental Health asks parents ask parents to leave
so that you can administer the following questions to kids
age eight and up who have not shown any signs
of mental distress. There are so many problems with this.
The main one is kids are wildly suggestible, especially where
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psycheatric symptoms are concerned. Ask a kid repeatedly if he
might be depressed, how about now? Are you sure? And
he just might.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Decide that he is sure, or she writes that yeah,
be in a position at that moment that day where
they want attention.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Oh sure, yeah, and she writes now. Thanks to Illinois
Governor JB. Pritzker, tens of thousands of Illinois kids will
be encouraged to think of themselves as sick. Many or
most will be false positives.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
How do you freaking nutjobs think you're making the world
better with this stuff?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'll never understand it. I just think there are There
is a huge share of people that thinks in terms
of feelings and not outcomes. Does this make me feel?
Does this sound good? Does this seem concerned? And they
don't even ask? All right, every action has reactions, both
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intended and unintended. Let's think about what they might be.
Progressives don't say those things. It's also a weird tendency
on the left to uh feel like there I don't
know if.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Because they come from tend to come from dysfunctional families
or what it is. But they kind of want it
not to be true that there are functioning families out there. Yeah,
it bothers them that sometimes we got it. If things
are fine, I'm okay, I don't need your help.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
They hate that in a way, yes, because nothing makes
them feel better than helping. I just feel like, to
go back to the great C. S. Lewis quote about
the worst sort of oppression is from do gooders because
they will never stop, right.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I just feel like it's been more prevalent of people
I've known that were super progressive, that nobody's actually happily married.
That's no, they're all faking it or lying or you know,
there are no families that are okay just and I've
always thought that's so weird.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Why do you have that view in the world.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
So, and if you have that view of the world,
you'd be more likely to want this sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So, getting back to J. D. Pitt Pritzker assigning mandatory
mental health screenings for little kids in the law and
you're not in the room'elievable. Yeah. Yeah, And actually Abigail
Schreier mentions if basic literacy hadn't already collapsed in Illinois,
kids might pose spirited objections to Pritzker's sales pitch, but
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hate this story you brought us? Yeah, sorry about that, so,
Abigail writes, I've spoken to hundreds of parents of such kids.
In twenty twenty four, I published Bad Therapy and an
Investigation into the surge and adolescent mental health diagnoses and
psychiatric prescription drug use. Many young people without serious mental
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illness nonetheless spend years languishing with a diagnosis, alternately cursing
it and embracing it, believing they have a broken brain,
convincing themselves that their struggles are insurmountable because of the
disorder's constraints, They meet regularly with a therapist or school counselor,
on whom they become increasingly reliant, losing a sense of efficacy,
unable to navigate on their own, even minor setbacks in
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interpersonal conflicts. They begin courses vanid depressants that carry all
kinds of side effects, suppressed libido, fatigue, muffling of all emotion,
and even an increase in depression. Anti anxiety drugs and
stimulants given a kids diagnosed with ADHD are both addictive
and ubiquitously abused, and often that tragic dissent begins with
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a simple mental health survey. Then she tells the story
of her son, and this is maybe the key takeaway.
If you haven't spent a lot of time around kids,
you don't know this. Kids are wildly suggestible, especially where
psychiatric symptoms are concerned. As a kid repeatedly if he
might be depressed, how about now are you sure? And
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he might just decide that he is. Introduce gender dysphoria
into a peer group, and a swath of seventh grade
girls are likely to decide they were born in the
wrong body, introduced testing anxiety or social phobia or suicidality
to them, and many teams are likely to decide I
have that too. There is a reason clinicians keep anorexia
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patients from socializing unsupervised in a hospital ward. Anorexia is
a profoundly socially contagious mental illness.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Wow, that is I think obviously true and so troubling. Yeah,
testing anxiety is a great example. I mean, I think
they talk about that in classes openly all the time now,
and they.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You know, if everybody gets a free pass.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, and then of course, I mean, who doesn't get
anxious when you've got to test anybody?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
One? More? Note in do you want to squeeze it
in an hour after the break? It's the guy who
writes the giant Psychiatric Bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders. For the addition, I'll just do it
real quick now, he says, mandatory school Mandatory school screenings
of kids for mental illness is great in theory and
(30:31):
terrible in practice. Yeah, most kids who screen positive will
have transient problems out mental disorders. Mislabeling stigmatizes and subjects
them to unnecessary treatments while misdirecting very scarce resources away
from kids who desperately need them.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Don't do it, then you've got the added problem of
some parents I'm definitely not this who love the idea
of having a kid who has some sort of special.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Problem to get to talk about and then everything. Yeah,
uns in syndrome and it's various vas Jack Armstrong and
Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show. See Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
You good morning. It's National Radio Day. How you doing
nay giving away a taco? When you hear this sound
later next hour, be caller six win a taco. Traffic
on the fives National Radio Day.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Wow, Wow, that was horrible. Let's see. Mayor's your freedom
loving quote of the day, Amy Radio Day to you.
This one comes from Louis Ferdinand Celine, who I don't
know his work. He's a French one, but I like
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to quote. I've never voted. Oh, I'm doing a series
on voting. By the way, I've never voted in my life.
I have always known and understood that the idiots are
in the majority, and so it's certain that they will win.
We could have gotten along. That's pretty good here the majority,
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So what's the point? Mail Bag? Feel free to reach
out to drop us a note mail Bag and Armstrong
Egiddi dot com guy guys. First day back at school,
writes anonymous. We teachers had our first day of professional
development yesterday and it was all day long. DEI. It
has not gone away, and in some places they're digging
their heels in even deeper. Parents and communities need to
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pay attention. Oh man, there religionar to me where al
is would not shock me if you was in cal Unicornia.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
You know, I have friends they had their kids in
a expensive private Catholic school and it was woke a
f wow, wow, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I want to scroll down to this. I really don't
have time to search for this, but the graphic was
smaller than I expected it to be. Hey, Jack and
Joe thought you might be interested slash of Paul. This
is a different note from al different anonymous in cal Unicornia.
You might be interested in a Paul that they're now
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saying the quiet part out loud in teacher training. And
it's a graphic up on a you know, a screen
that talks about allyship, and the screen explains that what
you're trying to do there it is I want to
read it correctly. Allyship, when a person's a privilege, works
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in solidarity in partnership with a marginalized group of people
to help take down the systems that challenge that group's
basic rights, equal access and ability to thrive in our society.
So they say, yeah, we're tearing allyship being an allyship. Yeah,
they say, yeah, we're trying to tear down the system,
(33:55):
but they brand the United States Western civilization as well.
It's a system of oppression, souse, that's what we're taking down.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Sure, a lock people in this system with a very
high standard of living compared to the world.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, A totally different note, A really nice note from
Emily here. It's a picture of the memorial table for
her dad who passed away, and it includes a stupid
shit hurt t shirt. Oh so that's great, that's great.
Sorry for the loss of your pop, but that's nice. Anyway,
(34:32):
Moving along, How does Prague, Czechoslovakia feel toward, well, Czech
Republic right feel toward Russia? Guys. I was in Prague
couple of years ago. I encountered these the citizens expressing
the feelings toward Russia. It is a fountain, a water
feature in Yugoslavia, I'm sorry of in the Czech Republic
of two grown men. Anatomically correct standing on the base
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of the fountain is a flag of Russia, and they
are both your inating upon it, don't I don't know
if I grasped the symbolism. I wonder if that's because
the Soviet Union oppressed those poor people for generations. Moving along,
Guy good Bar in Long Time Listener writes, Troy, I
want to make sure you knew the government subsidized Sunfresh
(35:19):
grocery store in Kansas City closed several days ago. Local
radio says twenty nine million dollars invested in the city
over ten years. I yield the rest of my time.
But f this, Wow, and mum Donnie is going to
try that in New York City. Yeah, Kansas City tried
government grocery stores. They squandered twenty nine million dollars on it.
(35:40):
If became a crime, choked, no food, Soviet style wasteland
and closed. And you haven't heard any reporting on that.
It's the Armstrong in Getty show. Armstrong in Getty Strong
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Conscience of the Nation, Barnshaw and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Catty arm Strong, and Jetty
and he Armstrong and Getty Strong, and so as a
(00:32):
precursor to what we're about to discuss, I don't think
you can understand the world really until you understand what
a weird country we are. In a lot of ways.
We have been so safe and prosperous and have such
a great system and such a great bill of rights
that we are like by far the most optimistic people
(00:54):
on Earth, and Americans are uncalculating in a way that
and and this is this is my main point. We
don't understand that the rest of the world is not
nearly as care free as we are. I mean we are.
Let's do a little dance to make a little love,
get down tonight, you know, make a little money. Everybody's fine,
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everybody's most people are nice, and blah blah blah. The
rest of the world is much more grim and calculating.
And in that spirit, let's take a look inside the
China Cabin. It's my masquerading as clever name for some
of those stories about China.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
China, we don't salty another good point and salty, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, we brought this up before, but there is a
congressional report out now and a demand of Harvard University
that they stop educating the elites of the Chinese Communist
Party and how to be more effective communists. The elite
of our universities, including Harvard, are through the Kennedy School
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and other places, educating the well the elite. Again, the
most powerful people within the most powerful bodies of the CCP.
The collaboration between the Harvard Kennedy School and the Chinese
Executive Leadership Academy at Pudong. That institution is controlled by
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the Central Organization Department, one of the most powerful bodies
within the CCP. It oversees shijin Ping thought training programs
for party elites and controls placement in key Communist Party
roles and high ranking members of the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, and these people are sent to the Harvard
Kennedy School as part of the Organization Department's education and
(02:57):
training and these congress pe for sending a letter to
the head guy at Harvard, President Alan Garber, saying what
are you doing? And it's a reasonable question to cite
some obvious, probably too obvious, historical parallels. Harvard wasn't in
nineteen thirty eight, you know, getting Joseph Goebbels to be
(03:21):
better at propaganda, you know, in exchange for a full ride,
you know, tuition. I don't even know what to think
of this. It's insane. Yeah, well, you know what, it's
not insane. It is a hangover, a holdover from that
few decades long period where we got duped into thinking
(03:45):
China wanted to reform and it wanted to become, you know,
a happy free market, to participant in the Community of Nations.
But like everybody knows, that's not true now except academia.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But helping communists be better in the Communist Party, it's
right there in the name Communists. We used to be
really against that, right.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And Mike Gallagher has a piece in the Wall Street
Journal's opinion section today which my guests, there's like five
of them. Yeah, I know. This is the former very sane,
very serious congressman from Wisconsin, chairman of the Select Committee
on the Chinese Communist Party, distinguished fellow at the Hodson Institute. Anyway,
(04:29):
his piece is entitled send Harvard's Chinese students home. It
makes no sense for the US to be educating the
scientific and leadership clash of a future adversary. For decades,
Republicans and Democrats agreed our universities were crown jewels of
American exceptionalism, and Harvard shown brightest of all. Mister Trump, however,
(04:51):
has an uncanny neck for exposing rotten shibbliths. In recent
years have seen top universities unmasked as global far left
patronage networks using research as a smoke screen to prevent
scrutiny of campus hate as they aid adversaries like China.
Roughly thirty percent of Harvard's student body is foreign, At
(05:12):
Columbia it's almost forty percent, and America's top universities benefit
from billions of dollars in government grants and tax breaks
while admitting fewer Americans every year. I'd like to know
what it is in my local college town, because it's
pretty high. Yeah yeah oh. B meta's chief AI officer,
(05:33):
Alexander Wang, has argued that the rate of AI progress
may be such the quote, you need to prevent all
of our secrets from going over to our adversaries, and
you need to lock down the labs, thousands of Chinese citizens.
Chinese citizens are working and studying in such labs. The
US hosted one point one million international students last year.
(05:53):
Of those, twenty five percent came from China, more than
a quarter million.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I know somebody in academia who worked in a lab
with Chinese citizens who were there in the lab also,
and they would never talk about anything because they were
worried about if he brought up anything political. They would
never say anything. With the assumption from this person, I
know that they were scared to say anything because it
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would get reported back.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
In twenty twenty two, foreign nationals, many of them Chinese,
accounted for almost forty percent of science doctorates in the
United States. Almost forty percent. Wow, that is incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We're educating our number one global enemy for the next
you know, for the foreseeable future, China will be our
number one enemy on planet Earth, and we're educating their scientists.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And Beijing is aggressively cultivating American educated and American employed
researchers by the Thousand Talents program. That's part of their
whole of society. Everybody has to be bent on China
being a sentant and squashing the US blindly embracing academic
cooperation with geopolitical rivals is absurd. Nobody suggests we should
train Iran Iranian nuclear physicists or Russian ballistics engineers. The
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US wouldn't have been better off collaborating more with Nazi
Germany in the thirties or with the Soviet during the
Soviets during the Cold War. Why make an exception for
a nation dedicated to surpassing the US in emerging technologies?
Then he mentions that universities loved the Chinese students because
they generally pay full freight, often subsidized by the Chinese
Communist Party. What the hell are we doing? And then
(07:30):
finally this speaking of money, and I mentioned this once,
but it is absolutely worth digging into. There is a
nonprofit called the Energy Foundation China. It is based in
San Francisco, and according to its website, EFC has dispersed
(07:51):
over half a billion dollars to more than four thousand
climate related projects, many of them in the US. Well,
wait a minute, since the Chinese Communist Party controls everything,
why is a Chinese Chinese Excuse me, the Communist Party
(08:12):
run foundation financing thousands of climate related projects. Uh, it's
Ceyoba Huway is based in Beijing and has a background
of strong ccp UH affiliations. Well, here's the deal, UH,
and Ted Cruz has dug into this. China has realized
(08:33):
that a if they can shove us away from steady
sources of energy, it hurts our economy. As they're building,
they're burning and building coal plants as fast as they can.
Plus they're pushing us as hard as they can toward
renewable energy. Who has cornered the market on the critical
(08:56):
rare earth minerals, for instance, batteries, et cetera. Who has
cornered the market on all that stuff in renewable energy? China?
So they are financing all of these Americans so called
environmental groups screaming for us to give up fossil fuels
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and embrace technologies that China controls.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
They must. They're at Communist party headquarters. Parties just throw
back their heads in laughter, sometimes at the things they're
able to pull up.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Hey, guess what I bought another one hundred acres next
to a military base? You did, yeah, right next to it?
Or did you claim to be I just said who
I was? Yeah? They just let you?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Or this we're financing that giant rally you' sa on
TV the other day where they're saying, you know, down
with fossil fuels. We paid for that, and then the
hippies push for all these programs that then we sell
them the stuff. Yeah, Their largest state, California, has given
up producer seeing the safest, cleanest, best policies for workers
(10:05):
oil that is produced anywhere on Earth, and instead has
instead outsourced it to despicable regimes that don't give a
crap about the environment or their workers. That's enlightened California.
And when they're not doing that, they're doubling down on
technologies that we control and can get them. We can
(10:25):
threaten to choke that stuff off, and Donald Trump will
let Nvidia sell their most advanced chips. Are damn near
to the Chinese Communist Party because we've gotten them to
buy the green energy scam.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
We are a stupid people, all right, certainly our leaders are.
That's your look inside the China Cabinet, Armstrong and the
Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh look out, something just came and say the floor
and an object of just flewing as the free throw
is being made, you look like that hit a player too.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So it's becoming a safety issue people throwing the sex
toys on the floor at the w NBA Games. And
I think it's a good idea to call it an object,
same way they used to not show streakers run across
the field because it just.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Encourages them, right right, Yeah, you don't want to give
them the same they're looking for. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So anyway, we'll keep an eye on that very important
story of sex toys being thrown on the floor WNBA games.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I want to mention this.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So I bought a bought my son's first vehicle the
other day, and I bought it from a guy in
the Bay Area, and I drove her there. I ubered
over to pick it up yesterday and drove it home.
Smelly a stuba ride have ever taken in my life.
I don't know what was going on there. I don't
know if a body was dickying or if it was
him or what. But ooh, that was rough.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
AnyWho. The guys, the guy I bought it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
From, guy about my age, seemed pretty well to do,
but living in a uh, not particularly well to do
a little duplex thingy, he said, Yeah, I'm living with
my daughter. I had a house in the Pacific Palisades
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completely burned to the ground. And then we got on
that whole. I said, oh geez, yeah, I found it,
and he ended up showing me. We ended up talking
about it for a long time, and he showed me
tons of pictures and videos. I mean, he was taking
pictures and videos while it was occurring, with the idea
that he was going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
For a couple of different reasons.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It was way over there, and he thought, there's no
way it gets clear over here. Plus he thought, with
all these gazillion dollars homes and some of the masters
of the universe that live in this name, there's no
way the city is gonna let these homes burn down,
was his thinking. And he was standing there wife and kids.
(13:10):
He didn't have kids, but a wife and pats had
taken off and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
He was there with a hose.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He was going to protect his house, and the cops
showed up and said you gotta go, and he went.
And now he's so thankful that he did, because the
fire quickly overwhelmed everything and burnt everything to the ground.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He has shown me pictures of stuff that he found
in the.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
In the He showed me he had a cyber truck,
like I have a cyber truck, and he had a
cyber truck. And there's nothing left but the stainless steel
panels just sitting there on the ground. Everything else completely disappeared.
Showed me up nice he had a watch collection, a
nice watch that he found.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It was just charred. You could kind of tell it
was a watch. I'll bet more than one person. And
this is grim sorry, but has met their end, standing
there with a fire hose as the I'm sorry, with
a hose, a consumer hose as the wall of fire
comes towards them, and thinking, oh my god, I miscalculated.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I almost did myself. If you'll remember, that's what I
told him about because he said, he said fire. He said,
I have a new respect for fire, and I said,
the same thing happened to me. I've told the story.
This is before you were here, Katie. But our farm
caught on fire and I had it was a tiny
little fire. I mean it was like three feet in diameter,
and I thought, well, I'm going to get a hose,
and so I went and got some hoses and put
them together. And when I turned around, Gold, it's a
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giant fire. And then I got the hose stretch over there,
and I'm trying to hose it, and before long I
was consumed in smoke and heat and didn't know which
direction was out and which direction was toward the fire.
And fire trucks eventually got there and blah blah blah,
my shoes melted to the pavement.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It was. But yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You think I'm gonna stop this with this hose, and
the next thing, you know, mother nature does her thing.
And that's what happened with him. But I asked him
the question, of course, of how has it been dealing
with the county and the government and the insurance. He said,
oh please, and he dropped a bunch of f bombs
and his accomplished a zero since that fire. In terms
of trying to get any money. He's living with his daughter,
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and he doesn't have any idea if he's going back,
if he can go back, what kind of money he's
gonna get.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Nothing at this point. I hate to bring politics into this,
but I just happened to read I think it was
a National Review, Somebody's writing about how Donald Trump saved
Karen Bass's job. The idiot left the mayor of la
who was seriously on the ropes because of her utterly incompetent, insensitive,
(15:32):
dishonest handling of the wildfire problem. But the high profile
immigration raids has enabled her to you know, rush to
the ramparts, to play the progressive warrior to protect our
immigrant communities, and it's saved her bacon if you get in,
Which is not to say he shouldn't be deporting people
at all, but it's it's kind of interesting the way
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those things can turn out.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Oh and no way he sent the National Guard. That
was a good you know, helped rescuer. I guess if
you get into an uber or a lyft and it
smells really, really horrible, what is it most likely the driver?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yes, Yeah, in my experience, it's often like they're wearing
way too much cologne or has just coded the place
with some sort of disinfectant deodorant thing, which is terrible.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Now, this wasn't either one of those. It definitely wasn't Colonne,
and it wasn't a stank huh.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
It was stank. It was like was it like.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
A spill that they didn't get all the way and
went moldy in the car kind of a situation.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
That could happen.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I did have a gallon of milk explode in my
truck one time, and it smelled pretty bad for a
long time.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Should have torched it. Speaking of fire, I left.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
It in my truck on accident on a day when
it was one hundred and twelve degrees outside and it
was probably one hundred and fifty inside the truck and
it just burst and then it was in there overnight and.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It smelled so bad.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But I eventually lysolted enough over the period of like
a year to get the smell completely gone. But I
think this was the dude, what would make a human
being smell like that? Is it like a thirty year
old dude? What would what would cause your body to
do that?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
What kind of question is that? Exactly? What's key? You
want to talk about this on the air? Well lost
your mind? Are are you dying? Or perhaps? But I'm not.
I will not. I will not take an uber ride
to this conversation. Hey Michael, you answer him no seriously.
(17:29):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, yea or Jack your show
podcasts and Our Hot Lakes. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I got at least one kid that diagnosed with ADHD,
and the other one certainly might have it. And I
know how some people react to this with uh, this
is just the way kids have always been, and now
they're putting a name on it. And I think there's
some truth there. I think there is, too depends on
the kid, obviously, I know in at least one of
(18:08):
my cases, it's definitely not that. But there's so many
different medications out there. And since it's interesting, I've known
a couple of really successful people, scholastically successful people that
had ADHD and were able to focus better than normal
people in certain situations. That's one of the weird things
(18:33):
about ADHD. But like several fins I know who have
ADHD can drink coffee, like a big cup of coffee
before they go to bed. It helps calm them down,
stimulates calm them down. So Energery drinks coffee. It's like
how you exhale and focus and Riddlin famously as a stimulant.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah. Yeah, And so.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Anyway, for all kinds of different reasons, there's this giant
Swedish study that's out right now. They followed one hundred
and fifty thousand people with ADHD for two years on
ADHD medication, and based on their analysis with this very
big study, the medicated group experienced an estimated seventeen percent
fewer suicidal behaviors, fifteen percent fewer cases of substance abuse,
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thirteen percent fewer criminal convictions, and a dozen percent fewer
traffic accidents compared to people that didn't take ADHD medication.
So I don't know if that informs anybody who's in
the I'm not going to do medication for my kid crowd.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's a tough yeah, just because that is something that
improves outcomes, or so it would seem from that study.
You know, with the usual grains of salt. Doesn't mean
it's the best solution. That would be my only quibble,
and again it varies kid to kid. But that's interesting.
I mean, if that's helping people be happier and all,
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I'm in favor of it. I just I know I
am certain I would have been diagnosed as a as
a boy with ADHD. Do you think the problem was
the pace of school was so slow it made me insane?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
But do you think it would have helped you if
you'd have had something that would have taken the edge off?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Uh? No, what really helped me was getting into a
program that lets you learn that you're on speed. I
loved it, absolutely loved it, happy as a clam.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And it didn't exhibit itself in any other ways.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Oh, I don't think so, not that I'd have to
think about that for a while.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
There's also degrees because it's of course they do diagnosis
as mild, moderate, or severe.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, And I want to make it clear I come
to this conversation humbly because every kid is different, and
I don't know your kid or your kid or your kid,
and and some people absolutely need the help.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well yeah, well that's the problem you have if you
run into people that have very strong opinions on this is.
First of all, I've had a very respected doctor get
one diagnosis and a different respected doctor have a completely
different diagnosis, And then what in the hell are you
supposed to do with that information? So they're guessing to
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a great extent, it's all on a continuum line between
zero and a thousand, and it's also combined with all
the other personality factors that you have that are somewhere
in the range of normal or not. So yeah, it's complicated,
and their environment so speaking of kids' mental health. I
absolutely love Abigail Schreier.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
She wrote a couple of books, Irreversible Damage, about the
unspeakably cruel experimenting on confused adolescents who momentarily believe they're
a different gender because activists have convinced them that they
might be or that they are, and kids are so impressionable.
It led kids down what I've called the high speed
conveyor belt of activism toward irreverse damage to their bodies. Terrible.
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She also wrote a book, Bad Therapy, which she references here.
I'm just going to read something she wrote briefly, Well,
I was writing my book Bad Therapy, my middle school
age son returned home from sleep away camp with a
persistent stomach ache. I took him to urgent care, where
a nurse asked me to leave the room. I know
you love this Jack, so he could administer a mental
(22:23):
health screening tool put out by our National Institute's of
Mental Health. Afterward, I received a copy of the survey
and photographed it. Here, verbatim are the five questions the
nurse intended to ask my son in private, and what
was the age of the kid? Again? Uh, middle school
in the past few weeks, have you wished you were dead?
Two in the past few weeks, have you felt that
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you or your family would be better off if you
were dead? Three in the past week, have you been
having thoughts about killing yourself? Why can't I be in
the room for these questions? By the way, because they
don't want you, the parents, interfering with they the government,
getting the truth from your kid. Four have you ever
tried to kill yourself? If yes, how when? And five
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are you thinking of killing yourself right now? If yes,
please describe.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Keeping in mind, and I know more about this than
I wish I knew, But keeping in mind. If they
declare your kid a threat to themselves, they fifty one
to fifty that kid and your kid no longer belongs
to you. It belongs to the county. They are in
the government's control. You get no say at that point,
I mean zero say wow, So, Abigail writes.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Children across America are being asked these questions by doctors
because this is explicit protocol from the NIM. The National
Institute of Mental Health asks parents ask parents to leave
so that you can administer the following questions to kids
age eight and up who have not shown any signs
of mental distress. There are so many problems with this.
The main one is kids are wildly suggestible, especially where
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psycheatric symptoms are concerned. Ask a kid repeatedly if he
might be depressed, how about now? Are you sure? And
he just might.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Decide that he is sure, or she writes that yeah,
be in a position at that moment that day where
they want attention.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Oh sure, yeah, and she writes now. Thanks to Illinois
Governor JB. Pritzker, tens of thousands of Illinois kids will
be encouraged to think of themselves as sick. Many or
most will be false positives.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
How do you freaking nutjobs think you're making the world
better with this stuff?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'll never understand it. I just think there are There
is a huge share of people that thinks in terms
of feelings and not outcomes. Does this make me feel?
Does this sound good? Does this seem concerned? And they
don't even ask? All right, every action has reactions, both
(24:57):
intended and unintended. Let's think about what they might be.
Progressives don't say those things. It's also a weird tendency
on the left to uh feel like there I don't
know if.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Because they come from tend to come from dysfunctional families
or what it is. But they kind of want it
not to be true that there are functioning families out there. Yeah,
it bothers them that sometimes we got it. If things
are fine, I'm okay, I don't need your help.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
They hate that in a way, yes, because nothing makes
them feel better than helping. I just feel like, to
go back to the great C. S. Lewis quote about
the worst sort of oppression is from do gooders because
they will never stop, right.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I just feel like it's been more prevalent of people
I've known that were super progressive, that nobody's actually happily married.
That's no, they're all faking it or lying or you know,
there are no families that are okay just and I've
always thought that's so weird.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Why do you have that view in the world.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
So, and if you have that view of the world,
you'd be more likely to want this sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So, getting back to J. D. Pitt Pritzker assigning mandatory
mental health screenings for little kids in the law and
you're not in the room'elievable. Yeah. Yeah, And actually Abigail
Schreier mentions if basic literacy hadn't already collapsed in Illinois,
kids might pose spirited objections to Pritzker's sales pitch, but
(26:35):
in fact nobody learns anything in Illinois but her experience
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hate this story you brought us? Yeah, sorry about that, so,
Abigail writes, I've spoken to hundreds of parents of such kids.
In twenty twenty four, I published Bad Therapy and an
Investigation into the surge and adolescent mental health diagnoses and
psychiatric prescription drug use. Many young people without serious mental
(28:10):
illness nonetheless spend years languishing with a diagnosis, alternately cursing
it and embracing it, believing they have a broken brain,
convincing themselves that their struggles are insurmountable because of the
disorder's constraints, They meet regularly with a therapist or school counselor,
on whom they become increasingly reliant, losing a sense of efficacy,
unable to navigate on their own, even minor setbacks in
(28:31):
interpersonal conflicts. They begin courses vanid depressants that carry all
kinds of side effects, suppressed libido, fatigue, muffling of all emotion,
and even an increase in depression. Anti anxiety drugs and
stimulants given a kids diagnosed with ADHD are both addictive
and ubiquitously abused, and often that tragic dissent begins with
(28:53):
a simple mental health survey. Then she tells the story
of her son, and this is maybe the key takeaway.
If you haven't spent a lot of time around kids,
you don't know this. Kids are wildly suggestible, especially where
psychiatric symptoms are concerned. As a kid repeatedly if he
might be depressed, how about now are you sure? And
(29:13):
he might just decide that he is. Introduce gender dysphoria
into a peer group, and a swath of seventh grade
girls are likely to decide they were born in the
wrong body, introduced testing anxiety or social phobia or suicidality
to them, and many teams are likely to decide I
have that too. There is a reason clinicians keep anorexia
(29:36):
patients from socializing unsupervised in a hospital ward. Anorexia is
a profoundly socially contagious mental illness.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Wow, that is I think obviously true and so troubling. Yeah,
testing anxiety is a great example. I mean, I think
they talk about that in classes openly all the time now,
and they.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You know, if everybody gets a free pass.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, and then of course, I mean, who doesn't get
anxious when you've got to test anybody?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
One? More? Note in do you want to squeeze it
in an hour after the break? It's the guy who
writes the giant Psychiatric Bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders. For the addition, I'll just do it
real quick now, he says, mandatory school Mandatory school screenings
of kids for mental illness is great in theory and
(30:31):
terrible in practice. Yeah, most kids who screen positive will
have transient problems out mental disorders. Mislabeling stigmatizes and subjects
them to unnecessary treatments while misdirecting very scarce resources away
from kids who desperately need them.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Don't do it, then you've got the added problem of
some parents I'm definitely not this who love the idea
of having a kid who has some sort of special.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Problem to get to talk about and then everything. Yeah,
uns in syndrome and it's various vas Jack Armstrong and
Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show. See Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
You good morning. It's National Radio Day. How you doing
nay giving away a taco? When you hear this sound
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Speaker 1 (31:26):
Wow, Wow, that was horrible. Let's see. Mayor's your freedom
loving quote of the day, Amy Radio Day to you.
This one comes from Louis Ferdinand Celine, who I don't
know his work. He's a French one, but I like
(31:47):
to quote. I've never voted. Oh, I'm doing a series
on voting. By the way, I've never voted in my life.
I have always known and understood that the idiots are
in the majority, and so it's certain that they will win.
We could have gotten along. That's pretty good here the majority,
(32:09):
So what's the point? Mail Bag? Feel free to reach
out to drop us a note mail Bag and Armstrong
Egiddi dot com guy guys. First day back at school,
writes anonymous. We teachers had our first day of professional
development yesterday and it was all day long. DEI. It
has not gone away, and in some places they're digging
their heels in even deeper. Parents and communities need to
(32:33):
pay attention. Oh man, there religionar to me where al
is would not shock me if you was in cal Unicornia.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
You know, I have friends they had their kids in
a expensive private Catholic school and it was woke a
f wow, wow, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I want to scroll down to this. I really don't
have time to search for this, but the graphic was
smaller than I expected it to be. Hey, Jack and
Joe thought you might be interested slash of Paul. This
is a different note from al different anonymous in cal Unicornia.
You might be interested in a Paul that they're now
(33:14):
saying the quiet part out loud in teacher training. And
it's a graphic up on a you know, a screen
that talks about allyship, and the screen explains that what
you're trying to do there it is I want to
read it correctly. Allyship, when a person's a privilege, works
(33:35):
in solidarity in partnership with a marginalized group of people
to help take down the systems that challenge that group's
basic rights, equal access and ability to thrive in our society.
So they say, yeah, we're tearing allyship being an allyship. Yeah,
they say, yeah, we're trying to tear down the system,
(33:55):
but they brand the United States Western civilization as well.
It's a system of oppression, souse, that's what we're taking down.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Sure, a lock people in this system with a very
high standard of living compared to the world.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, A totally different note, A really nice note from
Emily here. It's a picture of the memorial table for
her dad who passed away, and it includes a stupid
shit hurt t shirt. Oh so that's great, that's great.
Sorry for the loss of your pop, but that's nice. Anyway,
(34:32):
Moving along, How does Prague, Czechoslovakia feel toward, well, Czech
Republic right feel toward Russia? Guys. I was in Prague
couple of years ago. I encountered these the citizens expressing
the feelings toward Russia. It is a fountain, a water
feature in Yugoslavia, I'm sorry of in the Czech Republic
of two grown men. Anatomically correct standing on the base
(34:56):
of the fountain is a flag of Russia, and they
are both your inating upon it, don't I don't know
if I grasped the symbolism. I wonder if that's because
the Soviet Union oppressed those poor people for generations. Moving along,
Guy good Bar in Long Time Listener writes, Troy, I
want to make sure you knew the government subsidized Sunfresh
(35:19):
grocery store in Kansas City closed several days ago. Local
radio says twenty nine million dollars invested in the city
over ten years. I yield the rest of my time.
But f this, Wow, and mum Donnie is going to
try that in New York City. Yeah, Kansas City tried
government grocery stores. They squandered twenty nine million dollars on it.
(35:40):
If became a crime, choked, no food, Soviet style wasteland
and closed. And you haven't heard any reporting on that.
It's the Armstrong in Getty show. Armstrong in Getty Strong
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Conscience of the Nation, Barnshaw and Getty
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