August 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of the Thuirsday, August 28,2025 A&G Replay contains:
- Middle East Persecution of Christians/Intolerant of Tolerance
- The Labubu Blind Buying Craze explained by Katie
- Emotional Trauma Thru Lit/ Miseducation Update
- Texts from listeners about shrekking/ paying to take a girl for drinks
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Armstrong, Andy and He Armstrong and Getty Strong and I
have a handful of stories that are centered around the
same theme, all of which have come out just in
the last day or two, all of which are being
covered in major publications, and quite responsibly. Number one India's
(00:39):
I'm Sorry Inside Syria's sectarian cauldron, kidnapping, Trigger's cascade of violence,
blood soaked Weak between Sunni Bedouins, Sunni Muslims and the
Druze minority in southern Syria slaughtering the hell out of
the Drews because of their religion and their tri et cetera.
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Isn't sectarian politics? Grant and the Druser Are they Christian adjacent?
I forget I read this letter there. They're like an
Abrahamic religion or beliefs. All of the prophets are cool,
and trust me, I'm not a Druiz theologian, but it's
kind of a universal Abrahamis religion anyway, and it's absolutely horrifying.
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These are not that it matters, but you look at
these people. They are thoroughly modern, normal people living their lives,
hoping to get a career, going, raise their children, blah
blah blah. And they have armed gunmen storming their houses
and shooting them all dead in the streets because of
their religion. Moving along, it's an interest interesting story from Texas,
(01:43):
of all places, Epic City replacing Old Glory with the
Crescent Moon. Picture this a Muslim only city governed by
Sharia law, beyond the reach of democratically elected officials. Officials, Uh,
something like that is happening in Texas, and its founders
call it Epic City. The East Plano Islamic Center EPIC
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is the largest mosque in Texas and one of the
largest in the US. Last year, several members of the
mosque formed Community Capital Partners LLC or CCP and announced
the formation of Epic City, a master planned Islamic development
project that caters to the evolving needs of families in
the Muslim communities. And again, we could get into this
idea in depth in what is wrong with it, but
(02:26):
I don't really have time. Josh Howley's called for US
the US to condemn the persecution of Christians in Muslim
majority nations, including several that were kind of friendly with
these days. But whether it's Africa or the Middle East, Yeah,
there's wholesale persecution of Christians going on, frequently, slaughtering them
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by machine gun fire or machete And Hawley, is he
grand standing? He often is? Or is he sincere about this?
I don't know. How weird is it that the US
doesn't condemn that? Oh right?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
If my main thing politically is standing up for Christianity
around the world, I think those are better stories to
latch onto than putin trying to help Christianity out by
taking over Ukraine or something or something.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah. The resolutions that are co sponsored with several other
Republicans urge the President to prioritize the defense of persecuted
Christians in America's foreign policy, including via diplomatic engagement with
Muslim majority countries as well as efforts to stabilize the
Middle East. Urges the president to leverage the diplomatic tool
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kit to advance the protection of persecuted Christians worldwide and
within Muslim majority countries. So I certainly applaud that effort,
and all of those headlines bring us to this, And
it's a piece I came across by Paul Freesen Paul
is with Cornell University. He is one of the scholar
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with the let Me get This Right, the Center for
Global Democracy in the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell.
Didn't really know his work, but I found this to
be extremely persuasive. He talks. He starts this article talking
about the Maldives, which is a chain of islands by
not far from Africa. I think, I actually, I didn't
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even look it up on a map. But they're idyllic, beautiful.
It's infinity pools, bioluminescent beaches, you got your bungalows over
the water. It's the stuff straight out of a sandals
ad or you know, like Fiji has resorts that are
just like this. And he writes, few imagine that this
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archipelago of honeymoon bruchers and influencer backdrops is governed by
a constitutionally mandated Sunni monoculture where apostasy, that is, rejecting
Islam is punishable by death. Wow, and children are Catechi
is not in the arts of critical thought, but in
the compulsory admiration of Sharia and all non Muslim religious practice,
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no matter how discreet or devotional, is prohibited by law.
You cannot silently pray to Jesus Christ in your living
room alone in the Maldives, or it is punishable. There
are no churches, no synagogues, no temples, no tolerance. This
is a theocracy with a customer service department. And he
says here the word Islamic republic does not mean Muslim
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majority democracy means what it says on the label, a
legal architecture erected not to protect freedoms, but to restrict them.
Islamic education is mandated in every grade, every year, et cetera, etc.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Any descent, whether whispered by a secular blogger or typed
by an ex Muslim on Twitter, can earn you one
hundred lashes twenty years or a cemetery plot Welcome to Paradise.
And then he says this is not uniquely Maldivian or
even uniquely Islamic. What's on display here is the metastasis
of a broader pathology, the suicide of liberalism through the
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interviewous drip of unchecked pluralism. Right, there are a lotisms,
They're all explained, but this is the point of what
he's writing. The Maldives is not just an outlier. It
is a bellweather, a warning of what happens when civilizations
that once separated church from state begin imparting ideologies that
merge the two, like Siamese twins sharing a judicial spine.
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This is not a clash of cultures. It is a
conquest by bureaucracy, and we are funding it for the
umpteenth time. Read Michael Halibec's submission novel came out a
few years ago about how it's an imagination of how
Trump Trump I'm reading while I'm talking, how France becomes
an entirely Muslim country and freedom of speech and religion
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are stamped out and pretty plausible when you read it.
Oh that's the thing, you How would you describe how
the takeover goes? How it works in that novel, Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Little by little, with a lot of decent people not
wanting to come off as racist or islamophobe, and then
just over time losing and as mister Friesan points out,
like through bureaucracy, bit by bit, through the tentacles of government.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Anyway, here's his main point. And this is the part
that I said, I found so eloquent and I wish
we had time to just do the whole thing, but
maybe we'll talk to him someday. It was Carl Popper,
he writes, who warned that a tolerant society must be
intolerant of intolerance or it would cease to be tolerant
at all.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Obviously, that's where it's the way we're always mocking the
coexist bumper sticker, coexist, coexists. A couple of those symbols
on there want to dominate the other symbols, so you
can't coexist with somebody who wants to take over. A
tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance or it would
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cease to be tolerant at all. Can you think of
any other modern movements that punished you even disagree with them,
or even asking them hard questions at a training session,
for instance, that they made you go to at work
or at your university's orientation. You weren't even allowed to
question it.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
M anyway, He goes on, it's a delicious paradox, too
often quoted and too rarely heated. For we have taken
the first half of the dictum, the imperative to tolerate,
and chiseled it into law, into policy, into university mission
statements and geo pamphlets. But the second half, the requirement
to draw a line to say no further, has been
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treated like garlic in a vampire movie, and teak and
anathema unfashionable. The paradox has become pathology. Here's what he means.
Our courts allow Sharia arbitration councils to function in British cities.
He's a brit obviously adjudicating matters of family and inheritance
with standards that would make a twelfth century canon lawyer flinch.
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Our schools include faith based curricula that require jobs for
seven year olds and teach that homost sexuality is satanic filth.
Our public broadcasters will era documentary about the importance of
free speech, followed immediately by a segment about why cartoons
of Muhammad are unhelpful. This is not multiculturalism. It is masochism.
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It is the belief that liberalism must be so open
minded that its own brains are spilled out to the
prayer mad. It is the fetishization of identity at the
expense of liberty. It is the ideological pacifism of a
society too terrified to assert its own values lest it
be accused of racism by those who mistake ideology for ethnicity.
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We have enshrined the right of the theocrat while criminalizing
the instincts of the secularist. The result is not harmony,
it is humiliation. And then he goes into let's dispense
with the ritual disclaimers. Not all Muslims or Islamists, not
all believers who wish to impose There are believers who
wish to impose their theology on others, of course, but
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neither are all white people racist. Yet no progressive chokes
on the phrase white supremacy. When was the last time
you heard a progressive say? Now, of course, not all
white people are racist. A lot of white people are good, honest, decent,
hard working people who try to treat everybody well. Blah
blah blah. But still there is white supremacy. But anytime
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you talk about Islamism, you have to throw in the
long list of disclaimers.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right well, the first one, though, is not seen as
true by you know, your local school. Quite possibly spent
a lot of money getting Ibram X Kenny to come
speak at the school, or list bought all the books,
and his whole theme is you are automatically racist if
you're white by definition, right, So that's one reason you
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wouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
He goes on, why must we say religiously motivated extremism
instead of naming the doctrine that inspired the bomb. Why
do we hear of Asian grooming gangs instead of Pakistani
Muslim sex trafficking rings. Why do we refer to the
Maldives as a challenging democracy rather than a theocratic prison
with coral beaches, because the liberal West, having abolished blasphemy laws,
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is now enforcing them in reverse. The new heresy is
criticism of faith, at least of one faith. To mock
Christianity is edgy. To mock Islam is hate speech. To
question Jewish nationalism is a principled resistance. To question Islamist
imperialism is bigotry. This is not diversity. It is double think.
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It is a sacred exception carved out in the name
of peace, which is to say, in the name of fear.
And then he goes on to make the point more
at greater length. Fear is the root of all of this.
And he's absolutely right, especially about Europe. Britain France are
humiliating themselves and twisting themselves into bizarre quasi legal knots
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to try not to anger the Muslim folks. And I'm
telling you to return to the main theme. Take away
nothing from this. Take this away. A tolerance society must
be intolerant of intolerance, or it would cease to be intolerant,
I'm sorry, Or it would cease to be tolerant at all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Pretty obviously, but obviously not obvious enough to keep it
from happening the way it's happening.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, those of you who don't have the courage to
say this sort of thing, we suggest you try to
find it if you can. Those of you who do
were with me the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, your show, podcasts and our hot links, the arm
Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I guess it's my Uh, maybe it's my music radio
training from back when I was younger, or just my personality.
But I like to be aware of crazies, even if
it's not something I'm into. I like to know what
the hot TV show is, hot movie, hot music, whatever.
I like to know what's really popular, even if it's
not my thing. I just I've always thought I need.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
To know that. I like to think about the ancient
Greek republic.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Geez, I am reading Ulysses, so I get both sides
of it, I guess, but um uh, because that's not hot.
Nobody else is doing that. The La Boo Boo craze
I was reading about in the New York Post. I
know this has come up on the show, but this
is a craze I'm not tuned into yet. They've got
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a picture of this furry little doll that looks frightening,
but so fill us in on the little Boo boo
craze there, Katie.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
So the Laboo Boo craze actually started back in twenty
fifteen when he was first introduced.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
But he's part of this he. It's a he. What's
a he? This la boo boo a he? The article
gender fluid to.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Me, I'm going to go with gender fluid, but the
article that I'm reading says he, uh, don't use gender language.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Hong Kong based artists created a series called The Monsters,
and one of the characters was a Laboo boo. It's
influenced by Nordic folklore and mythology. Okay, he enjoyed during
his childhood.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's a furry little It looks cute while at the
same time kind of menacing with like fangs and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
And there's this whole craze about them right now. Is
that it's called blind buying. So you buy this package
and you can't see what one is inside, and people
are trying to collect all of them, so they're.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Buying a lot. And it says, like baseball cards or
Nintendo cards back in the day, you just buy a pack,
hoping it's stuff you don't have, or good stuff or
whatever it says here.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
L Boo Boo dolls have been spotted dangling from Louis
Vatan and Saint Laurent Purs's as fashion's quirky new status symbol,
but their popularity couldsume spell doom for the economy, and
expert warns during economic down terms, consumers gravitate toward what
experts called affordable luxuries, small dopamine spiking splurges that don't
break the bank, like lipstring, lipstick, ice cream, or movie ticket.
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Studies have shown it's sometimes called the lipstick index in economics,
which I found.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Very very interesting. And this part of that, this is
more interesting than I anticipated.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I was hoping so, and the creepy but cute mischievous
dolls could be its latest iteration. And it's an example
of people are not wanting to splurge on real how
I set myself apart from other items. So they're going
with this cheap, trendy thing that's the lipstick index. I
had never heard of that, but that's interesting. Agreed, Yeah, okay,
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we'll keep our eye on that. What do we got
coming up?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Is there a male equivalent to that?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I don't know. I don't know. I'd have to think
about that.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Coming up, the incredible lack of purple states in the
US and why that might matter as we jerrymander ourselves
into like two different countries that side by side, which
leads me into this.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I had this interesting experience, and I'm glad I have
a meta person that can be my uh, Conduit's not
the right word.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
What I want to guide?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Got an entrance entrance point into a world I don't
really know because I got as in conversation conversation with
a woman, a mom, herner, husband, successful business people, raised kids,
sound like the kids are all a successful blah blah blah,
like perfectly upstanding middle upper class people that have no
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interest in any of this crap we ever talk about.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Like none, don't know anything about any of it. And
I just thought, wow, that must be awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
That must be really awesome. Well, at the same time,
you know, you got to participate and pay attention to
make the world worker. It will you know, rules will
be get made, blah blah blah ah that stuff, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But it was just so interesting. I don't hang around
people like that, and it's just somebody. It's just like
they just don't know about.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Any of the any of that's scant you know, the
Genes commercial from last week or just any of those things.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
They're completely unaware of them. And I thought that must
be fantastic. Do they have any concern about how their
text money is spent? Because it sounds like there's probably
a fair amount.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I don't know them well enough to know that, but
that's why I said, I look forward to this entrance
into this world of.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Learning more about it. Do they have la boo boos?
I bet they don't know what that is?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Huh? Could that being good for them?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The Armstrong and Getty show, yeah, or Jack or Joe
podcasts and our hot links and.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Some of y'all have not experienced emotional trauma through literature,
and it shows kids today are out here reading The
Magical Bunny and how he learned to love himself or
spart all the Dragon's conflict free resolution Journey, and I'm sorry,
but that is emotional tofu, just page after page of
affirmations and pastel illustrations like a therapist made it on Canva. Meanwhile,
we were out here getting emotionally demolished by Where the
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red Fern grows. You want to talk about resilience. I
watched a boy Berry's Two Dead Dogs after one got
ripped apart by a mountain lion and the other one
starved to death out of.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Grief, and I read that in the fourth grade.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
I came out of that book Vietnam VET, and aged
ten years and two hundred pages. Today's kids get talking
lamas who validate their feelings, and we got Old Yeller
where the dog gets rabies and the dad's like, well, son,
i think it's time we shoot your best friend in
the face.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's all part of growing up. And that was our
bedtime story. And you wonder why millennials cry during commercials.
I aged ten years reading that book. That is interesting though.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I thought about that that when my kids were young,
which I guess that makes means I've become soft like
all of modern So he's just like, good God, all
the old Disney movies we'd watch and everyone the parents die,
all your old Disney classics, the parents die.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It's obligatory. Yeah, yeah, that's something else. I'm reminded. It's funny.
I'm deep in thought thinking of some of the books
I read and my kids read in schools, and the
concept of trigger warnings, which is one of the worst
things that's ever happened, and how that's all related to
And this might seem like a stretch, but I swear
it's not. It's related to the whole neo Marxist thing,
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where what they want to happen is you don't know
what to say, you don't know what you can say.
You're afraid of offending, you're afraid of getting in trouble,
you're afraid of losing your job. In short, you're afraid,
and so you got to go through every conceivable trauma
or discomfort there might be in reading a piece of literature.
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That's a bizarre notion, and yet it took hold at
most of our universities, in which and Michael I apologize.
I got a an in urgent communication during the break
and wasn't able to communicate to you. Hanson prepared a
little musical thing for me.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Oh okay, yes, oh it's not good.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
But what did they say? We're like? I was trying
to quickly, with the aid of Hanson and Ai craft
a theme song to our miseducation update and our twisted
schools break all the rules, they churn out fools that
just ain't cool. And I said, in the style of
nineteen seventies British punk, and again, it wasn't good anyway,
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A couple of stories for you. Let's start with good news.
A victory for our friends at the Goldwater Institute. Tim
Sanderfer's outfit of Pennsylvania Mom won a major victory for
parental rights and government transparency last week when ours local
school district tried and failed to withhold DEI materials from parents,
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claiming they were trade secrets. Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, can you imagine, man, I would lose my mind
if any school official ever said anything close to that
to me. No, no, no, no, no, no, you don't
get to have any secrets, right do you work from us?
And claiming that it's like the same as the design
for her get engine. Hear At lockeed, right, our DEI
materials are trade secrets.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah. A couple of years ago, she requested assets to
her local schools, materials that were presented to teacher staff
and students to see whether the school district was indoctrinating
students by teaching racially discrimin discriminatory DEI, but the district refused,
calling it trade secrets. I would stay up the Goldener
Institutes and the judge said, you're out of your mind. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I would say, you're either going to release this to
all his parents right now, or then we'll go through
the whole lawsuit process and then you'll release it to us,
because obviously you have to.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So what are we going to do here? In a groundbreaking,
an amazing decision, the court correctly held that the public
was entitled to see records created by a government employee
to train other government employees. There was no trade secret
protection for these material ord and by the way, the
school district appealed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania because
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they actually believe they should be able to keep it
a secret.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
The way they're crafting their organization to teach your kid,
that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It is absolutely nuts. I think I don't know, but
I think you may be making the mistake of judging
their motivations by what they say their motivations are. They
don't believe for a second it's a trade secret. They
just want to keep doing DEI and so they're making
any excuse they could find. Moving along another good positive story.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well, there is the you know, there's the example of
who's that guy iran for governor in Virginia, Terry mcculluff. Well, actually,
in one of the debates, got hammered for saying something
along the lines of parents can't be trusted with teaching
their kids. We need to get them to the schools
where they you know, we can count on them getting
the right information right so the.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Education can take over.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
There is a certain belief that actually seems to exist
along those lines, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, you're right, and it's it's that nexus of like
activistsst Neo Marxist types and the well meaning fools who
get swept up in their ideas who actually believe this
crap that that it gets a little confusing because you
know a lot of those people like Terry mcculluff I
don't think is a neo Marxist, but he's a progressive
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and he's been convinced by the you know, neo Marxist
in the progressive wing of the Democrats. I guess that
they mean it. They really want to educate the kids better,
and PhDs in education are the people to do it.
Some more good news in a weird way. It occurred
to me as I spoke that phrase that undoing something
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horrible happening, it is good news, but it's kind of
half and half, if you know what I mean. A
school district in North Carolina has been ordered to admit
their mistake and issue an apology and fork over twenty
thousand dollars and some more settlement stuff after they were
sued for suspending a sixteen year old student who used
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the term illegal aliens in class. Suspended for that. Yeah,
the sixteen year old student was in an English class discussion.
He used the term English. The teacher said aliens, and
the student said, do you mean space aliens or illegal
aliens who need green cards? Wow? And it was just
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a clarification question right right. The student was later suspended
for three days and mars noting racially and sensitive behavior
were added to his permanent record.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, I realize it's easier said than done. You've got
to pull your kid out of that school. Good lord,
that's a.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Lot of schools in around America. I know.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So the case actually caught the eyes of Donald J. Trump,
who wrote the student of personal recommendation letter. According to
the Liberty Justice Institute, people are crazy.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Let's see, I could quote the judge, but they said
more or less what you'd think they would have said.
First Amendment, et cetera. Utterly unracially not I mean completely
not racially insensitive or mean or Yeah. That is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Speaking of nuts, the University of Kansas, Jack, your quasi
alma mater, I went for an entire year of courses.
Who graduated there?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wow, rock Chock Jayhawk, I know you're a big fan.
University of Kansas is offering a course in the fall
called Angry White Male Studies that will examine the rise
of the angry white male in the United States. The
course will be offered with the goal of teaching about
the prominent figure that is the angry white male. That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I got a half of an mba from there, So
that's probably why I've gone out in the world and
done a half assed job of being a business person.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And finally this, ah, is this even worth trying? I
don't know. It's a think piece and a really good
one written by a fellow named Brandon, last name withheld,
entitled Stoner Logic in Academia, and he's talking about in
particular Michelle Foucault French Bastard. It looks like foul called,
(26:48):
but it's pronounced French Bastard, who is one of the
most cited intellectuals in American universities today. Kids here, his
idea is more than virtually anybody's. He is one of
the founding fathers of critical theory and neo Marxism. I
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know that from listening to James Lindsay go on and
on about this human being. Indeed, and if you would like,
read his and Helen pluck Rose's brilliant cynical theories anyway,
So it's all about how this guy was a bright stoner.
I like to read and learn stuff, but he never
really felt like applying himself at college and that sort
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of stuff. But he realized he really needed more formal
education and somebody to help lead him if he was
going to get anywhere in his life. And he went
to college and found that a lot of what they
were trying to teach was Stoner logic. He just stone
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and he explains that. One day, a lecturer, this is
my favorite exams ample. A highly esteemed scholar launched into
a shallow Fucoian analysis of something or other as it
applied to the university. He went on and on with
a sort of smug self awareness, like he thought he
was delivering gold and absolutely blowing our minds. He says,
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I should note here that this lecture is really likable
and a genuinely nice person. Look at this classroom, said
the lecturer. Look at how the very structure of this
classroom exerts power. You are all on one side, stepped
up in auditorium seating, so I can see all of you,
but you can only see me, not each other. You
are kind of forced to look and listen. Okay, yeah,
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con true, But why, he continued the construction of this lecture.
Theater exerts a system of power and ensures the self
perception of you the students as lacking knowledge, and it
sets me up as the distributor of knowledge, and thus
it conveys power for what I'm paying. I hope you're
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not a distributor of knowledge. You're getting ahead of us.
But you're absolutely right. These systems of power are everywhere
hidden in the architecture and the systems of our society,
design to maintain and designed to maintain the continuity of power.
Oh my god, and this guy who's writing I really
like says I remember being thoroughly unimpressed. This was exactly
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the kind of simple, fact free, intuitive analysis that I
and other high school graduates had arrived at many times
while sitting around a bong, and it wasn't even accurate.
I remember thinking that since class sizes tend to be smaller, university,
ninety percent of the teaching rooms were not stepped auditoriums.
They were smaller, flat office like rooms, perfect for egalitarian,
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discussion oriented classes. The only rooms with this structure were
the few lecture theaters intended for hosting large audiences, and
in any case, they clearly had that structure for acoustic
and a communicative reasons, not because our neo liberal overlords
wanted to inculcate us in some sort of pliable consciousness
lest we threaten their systems of power. Oh's more, that
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is so hilarious to your point, Jack, there was a
knowledge differential between us and him, at least there was
supposed to be. We were there as young people with
less knowledge to be educated by a more knowledgeable teacher.
I couldn't see how pointing this out at this obvious
fact was some kind of mind blowing revelation. And then
a couple more sentences that I'll stop. Crucially, while he
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had an issue with these systems of power inherent in
the structure of the lecture theater, he apparently had no
objection to the avert power required to make students pay
for a core curriculum of course is he helped design
than he teaches, and for which they had to buy
the compulsory textbook.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Right that he co Wroteulously, he didn't have any problem
with that system of power, right.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And the insane charge for books that whole scamp. So
his point is the whole critical thinking thing, and that's
what the course was, was just a way to indoctrinate
students into a simplistic worldview. Your boss has a bigger office,
makes more money than you.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yeah, he's somebody's got to be the boss, and he
has the experience and the expertise to be the.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Boss and manage us, so the company can.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
But then they apply that stoner logic free analysis to
like everything, including the oppressor. The person with more power
is always wrong and the person with less power is
always right. I mean, what an idiotic notion. I've said
more than once. If my dog expressed that idea to me,
I would hit him with a rolled up newspaper for
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being so stupid. And I do not mind.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Oh oh my god, Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and
Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Not surprisingly, we got a fair number of texts about shreking, which,
according to the USA Today and somebody who texted me
with personal knowledge, is a thing where women date down.
And I feel like anybody whoses the term date down
should be pushed off a cliff. People date down on
purpose thinking this is a cliff good enough? Or should
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it be a volcano? Just asking back to you. People
who date down in terms of looks feel like they'll
be treated better because this person really realizes what they've.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Got this might be how I got married.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah, well maybe I'm just so outrage because I'm wondering
how often does this happened to me?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
As a friend of the Armstrong Getty Show wrote shreking,
I thought I was just charming. Well now I know
on the topic though.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
So a person I know said that some of her
friends have done this. They have dated down thinking and
they would get treated better, and then weren't treated better,
and so they call that being shrecked. And we're disappointed.
And as Joe pointed out, maybe they just figured out
you're a shallow bitch.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Of manipulative she deviled. Yes, not quite as complicated as
it sounds.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
But then there was the other person, this friend of mine,
a person who's shreked, who actually tells guys, if you
want to go out with me, it's gonna I need
five hundred dollars to look the way you want me
to look, hair nails, everything like that, and then you
get to be seen with me, I guess or whatever.
And I thought that was appalling. But we got this
text regarding rent a hottie. How is that different from
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renting a ferrari? So no one should ever rent a Ferrari.
If you have the dollars, do what makes you smile?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, I would suggest that you have priorities that will
lead you not to happiness. But you do, you brother,
There's I can't.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I'll have to think about it for longer than I've
got right now. On why it is incredibly different to
rent a Ferrari to see what it's like to drive
a Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, I was gonna say, number one, you get to
drive the Ferrari. If you know what I'm saying, Well, okay,
I wouldn't even think of that. But if you're but well,
it's different, are you mo? Seriously, he's paying money to
be seen standing next to a Ferrari. That's stupid.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
See, I would rent a Ferrari, maybe to actually drive
a Ferrari, because I don't know what it's like. I've
never done it, and it may be pretty cool. And
then for a variety of reasons, I can't or ever
won't own one because it doesn't make practical sense. Is
that's a similar thing, but it's way different than that.
If you're actually dating, like you're trying to be in
a relationship with somebody, which is like one of the
most satisfying things that can happen in your entire existence
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on planet Earth. And if that's what your goal is
and you're going about it this way, I don't I
don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Well, you're doomed to misery. Let's go ahead and bottom
line it. You're doomed to misery. Yes, it's a ClearCase
of DTM.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I mean, I know.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
So if you tell her I'm not paying you five
hundred dollars, is she going to show up in sweats
and no makeup? And what an odd way to live
your life? No kidding, how's that working out for you?
Would be a good question.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You know, there are you know, sub sectors of American
society that are as foreign to me as you know
somebody in Africa with a plate in their lip, or
you know in Afghanistan where they play that sport where
you whack a calf's head around on horseback or something
like that. I can't remember precisely. Out work.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
If you're picking somebody only looks so how long is
that enjoyable? I would think that would wear off so fast.
I don't really have anything in common with you. I
don't really find you very interesting, but I guess I'll look.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
At you for How long does that last? The arm
Strong and Getty Show Armstrong jacking Jar to tell you
Joey will be just.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Down.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Cost you that Armstrong in Getty on the Man.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
That's the podcast souscribe right now, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Armstrong, Andy and He Armstrong and Getty Strong and I
have a handful of stories that are centered around the
same theme, all of which have come out just in
the last day or two, all of which are being
covered in major publications, and quite responsibly. Number one India's
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I'm Sorry Inside Syria's sectarian cauldron, kidnapping, Trigger's cascade of violence,
blood soaked Weak between Sunni Bedouins, Sunni Muslims and the
Druze minority in southern Syria slaughtering the hell out of
the Drews because of their religion and their tri et cetera.
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Isn't sectarian politics? Grant and the Druser Are they Christian adjacent?
I forget I read this letter there. They're like an
Abrahamic religion or beliefs. All of the prophets are cool,
and trust me, I'm not a Druiz theologian, but it's
kind of a universal Abrahamis religion anyway, and it's absolutely horrifying.
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These are not that it matters, but you look at
these people. They are thoroughly modern, normal people living their lives,
hoping to get a career, going, raise their children, blah
blah blah. And they have armed gunmen storming their houses
and shooting them all dead in the streets because of
their religion. Moving along, it's an interest interesting story from Texas,
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of all places, Epic City replacing Old Glory with the
Crescent Moon. Picture this a Muslim only city governed by
Sharia law, beyond the reach of democratically elected officials. Officials, Uh,
something like that is happening in Texas, and its founders
call it Epic City. The East Plano Islamic Center EPIC
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is the largest mosque in Texas and one of the
largest in the US. Last year, several members of the
mosque formed Community Capital Partners LLC or CCP and announced
the formation of Epic City, a master planned Islamic development
project that caters to the evolving needs of families in
the Muslim communities. And again, we could get into this
idea in depth in what is wrong with it, but
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I don't really have time. Josh Howley's called for US
the US to condemn the persecution of Christians in Muslim
majority nations, including several that were kind of friendly with
these days. But whether it's Africa or the Middle East, Yeah,
there's wholesale persecution of Christians going on, frequently, slaughtering them
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by machine gun fire or machete And Hawley, is he
grand standing? He often is? Or is he sincere about this?
I don't know. How weird is it that the US
doesn't condemn that? Oh right?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
If my main thing politically is standing up for Christianity
around the world, I think those are better stories to
latch onto than putin trying to help Christianity out by
taking over Ukraine or something or something.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah. The resolutions that are co sponsored with several other
Republicans urge the President to prioritize the defense of persecuted
Christians in America's foreign policy, including via diplomatic engagement with
Muslim majority countries as well as efforts to stabilize the
Middle East. Urges the president to leverage the diplomatic tool
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kit to advance the protection of persecuted Christians worldwide and
within Muslim majority countries. So I certainly applaud that effort,
and all of those headlines bring us to this, And
it's a piece I came across by Paul Freesen Paul
is with Cornell University. He is one of the scholar
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with the let Me get This Right, the Center for
Global Democracy in the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell.
Didn't really know his work, but I found this to
be extremely persuasive. He talks. He starts this article talking
about the Maldives, which is a chain of islands by
not far from Africa. I think, I actually, I didn't
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even look it up on a map. But they're idyllic, beautiful.
It's infinity pools, bioluminescent beaches, you got your bungalows over
the water. It's the stuff straight out of a sandals
ad or you know, like Fiji has resorts that are
just like this. And he writes, few imagine that this
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archipelago of honeymoon bruchers and influencer backdrops is governed by
a constitutionally mandated Sunni monoculture where apostasy, that is, rejecting
Islam is punishable by death. Wow, and children are Catechi
is not in the arts of critical thought, but in
the compulsory admiration of Sharia and all non Muslim religious practice,
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no matter how discreet or devotional, is prohibited by law.
You cannot silently pray to Jesus Christ in your living
room alone in the Maldives, or it is punishable. There
are no churches, no synagogues, no temples, no tolerance. This
is a theocracy with a customer service department. And he
says here the word Islamic republic does not mean Muslim
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majority democracy means what it says on the label, a
legal architecture erected not to protect freedoms, but to restrict them.
Islamic education is mandated in every grade, every year, et cetera, etc.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Any descent, whether whispered by a secular blogger or typed
by an ex Muslim on Twitter, can earn you one
hundred lashes twenty years or a cemetery plot Welcome to Paradise.
And then he says this is not uniquely Maldivian or
even uniquely Islamic. What's on display here is the metastasis
of a broader pathology, the suicide of liberalism through the
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interviewous drip of unchecked pluralism. Right, there are a lotisms,
They're all explained, but this is the point of what
he's writing. The Maldives is not just an outlier. It
is a bellweather, a warning of what happens when civilizations
that once separated church from state begin imparting ideologies that
merge the two, like Siamese twins sharing a judicial spine.
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This is not a clash of cultures. It is a
conquest by bureaucracy, and we are funding it for the
umpteenth time. Read Michael Halibec's submission novel came out a
few years ago about how it's an imagination of how
Trump Trump I'm reading while I'm talking, how France becomes
an entirely Muslim country and freedom of speech and religion
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are stamped out and pretty plausible when you read it.
Oh that's the thing, you How would you describe how
the takeover goes? How it works in that novel, Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Little by little, with a lot of decent people not
wanting to come off as racist or islamophobe, and then
just over time losing and as mister Friesan points out,
like through bureaucracy, bit by bit, through the tentacles of government.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Anyway, here's his main point. And this is the part
that I said, I found so eloquent and I wish
we had time to just do the whole thing, but
maybe we'll talk to him someday. It was Carl Popper,
he writes, who warned that a tolerant society must be
intolerant of intolerance or it would cease to be tolerant
at all.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Obviously, that's where it's the way we're always mocking the
coexist bumper sticker, coexist, coexists. A couple of those symbols
on there want to dominate the other symbols, so you
can't coexist with somebody who wants to take over. A
tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance or it would
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cease to be tolerant at all. Can you think of
any other modern movements that punished you even disagree with them,
or even asking them hard questions at a training session,
for instance, that they made you go to at work
or at your university's orientation. You weren't even allowed to
question it.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
M anyway, He goes on, it's a delicious paradox, too
often quoted and too rarely heated. For we have taken
the first half of the dictum, the imperative to tolerate,
and chiseled it into law, into policy, into university mission
statements and geo pamphlets. But the second half, the requirement
to draw a line to say no further, has been
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treated like garlic in a vampire movie, and teak and
anathema unfashionable. The paradox has become pathology. Here's what he means.
Our courts allow Sharia arbitration councils to function in British cities.
He's a brit obviously adjudicating matters of family and inheritance
with standards that would make a twelfth century canon lawyer flinch.
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Our schools include faith based curricula that require jobs for
seven year olds and teach that homost sexuality is satanic filth.
Our public broadcasters will era documentary about the importance of
free speech, followed immediately by a segment about why cartoons
of Muhammad are unhelpful. This is not multiculturalism. It is masochism.
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It is the belief that liberalism must be so open
minded that its own brains are spilled out to the
prayer mad. It is the fetishization of identity at the
expense of liberty. It is the ideological pacifism of a
society too terrified to assert its own values lest it
be accused of racism by those who mistake ideology for ethnicity.
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We have enshrined the right of the theocrat while criminalizing
the instincts of the secularist. The result is not harmony,
it is humiliation. And then he goes into let's dispense
with the ritual disclaimers. Not all Muslims or Islamists, not
all believers who wish to impose There are believers who
wish to impose their theology on others, of course, but
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neither are all white people racist. Yet no progressive chokes
on the phrase white supremacy. When was the last time
you heard a progressive say? Now, of course, not all
white people are racist. A lot of white people are good, honest, decent,
hard working people who try to treat everybody well. Blah
blah blah. But still there is white supremacy. But anytime
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you talk about Islamism, you have to throw in the
long list of disclaimers.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right well, the first one, though, is not seen as
true by you know, your local school. Quite possibly spent
a lot of money getting Ibram X Kenny to come
speak at the school, or list bought all the books,
and his whole theme is you are automatically racist if
you're white by definition, right, So that's one reason you
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wouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
He goes on, why must we say religiously motivated extremism
instead of naming the doctrine that inspired the bomb. Why
do we hear of Asian grooming gangs instead of Pakistani
Muslim sex trafficking rings. Why do we refer to the
Maldives as a challenging democracy rather than a theocratic prison
with coral beaches, because the liberal West, having abolished blasphemy laws,
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is now enforcing them in reverse. The new heresy is
criticism of faith, at least of one faith. To mock
Christianity is edgy. To mock Islam is hate speech. To
question Jewish nationalism is a principled resistance. To question Islamist
imperialism is bigotry. This is not diversity. It is double think.
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It is a sacred exception carved out in the name
of peace, which is to say, in the name of fear.
And then he goes on to make the point more
at greater length. Fear is the root of all of this.
And he's absolutely right, especially about Europe. Britain France are
humiliating themselves and twisting themselves into bizarre quasi legal knots
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to try not to anger the Muslim folks. And I'm
telling you to return to the main theme. Take away
nothing from this. Take this away. A tolerance society must
be intolerant of intolerance, or it would cease to be intolerant,
I'm sorry, Or it would cease to be tolerant at all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Pretty obviously, but obviously not obvious enough to keep it
from happening the way it's happening.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, those of you who don't have the courage to
say this sort of thing, we suggest you try to
find it if you can. Those of you who do
were with me the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, your show, podcasts and our hot links, the arm
Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I guess it's my Uh, maybe it's my music radio
training from back when I was younger, or just my personality.
But I like to be aware of crazies, even if
it's not something I'm into. I like to know what
the hot TV show is, hot movie, hot music, whatever.
I like to know what's really popular, even if it's
not my thing. I just I've always thought I need.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
To know that. I like to think about the ancient
Greek republic.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Geez, I am reading Ulysses, so I get both sides
of it, I guess, but um uh, because that's not hot.
Nobody else is doing that. The La Boo Boo craze
I was reading about in the New York Post. I
know this has come up on the show, but this
is a craze I'm not tuned into yet. They've got
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a picture of this furry little doll that looks frightening,
but so fill us in on the little Boo boo
craze there, Katie.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
So the Laboo Boo craze actually started back in twenty
fifteen when he was first introduced.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
But he's part of this he. It's a he. What's
a he? This la boo boo a he? The article
gender fluid to.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Me, I'm going to go with gender fluid, but the
article that I'm reading says he, uh, don't use gender language.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Hong Kong based artists created a series called The Monsters,
and one of the characters was a Laboo boo. It's
influenced by Nordic folklore and mythology. Okay, he enjoyed during
his childhood.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's a furry little It looks cute while at the
same time kind of menacing with like fangs and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
And there's this whole craze about them right now. Is
that it's called blind buying. So you buy this package
and you can't see what one is inside, and people
are trying to collect all of them, so they're.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Buying a lot. And it says, like baseball cards or
Nintendo cards back in the day, you just buy a pack,
hoping it's stuff you don't have, or good stuff or
whatever it says here.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
L Boo Boo dolls have been spotted dangling from Louis
Vatan and Saint Laurent Purs's as fashion's quirky new status symbol,
but their popularity couldsume spell doom for the economy, and
expert warns during economic down terms, consumers gravitate toward what
experts called affordable luxuries, small dopamine spiking splurges that don't
break the bank, like lipstring, lipstick, ice cream, or movie ticket.
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Studies have shown it's sometimes called the lipstick index in economics,
which I found.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Very very interesting. And this part of that, this is
more interesting than I anticipated.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I was hoping so, and the creepy but cute mischievous
dolls could be its latest iteration. And it's an example
of people are not wanting to splurge on real how
I set myself apart from other items. So they're going
with this cheap, trendy thing that's the lipstick index. I
had never heard of that, but that's interesting. Agreed, Yeah, okay,
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we'll keep our eye on that. What do we got
coming up?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Is there a male equivalent to that?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I don't know. I don't know. I'd have to think
about that.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Coming up, the incredible lack of purple states in the
US and why that might matter as we jerrymander ourselves
into like two different countries that side by side, which
leads me into this.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I had this interesting experience, and I'm glad I have
a meta person that can be my uh, Conduit's not
the right word.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
What I want to guide?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Got an entrance entrance point into a world I don't
really know because I got as in conversation conversation with
a woman, a mom, herner, husband, successful business people, raised kids,
sound like the kids are all a successful blah blah blah,
like perfectly upstanding middle upper class people that have no
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interest in any of this crap we ever talk about.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Like none, don't know anything about any of it. And
I just thought, wow, that must be awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
That must be really awesome. Well, at the same time,
you know, you got to participate and pay attention to
make the world worker. It will you know, rules will
be get made, blah blah blah ah that stuff, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But it was just so interesting. I don't hang around
people like that, and it's just somebody. It's just like
they just don't know about.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Any of the any of that's scant you know, the
Genes commercial from last week or just any of those things.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
They're completely unaware of them. And I thought that must
be fantastic. Do they have any concern about how their
text money is spent? Because it sounds like there's probably
a fair amount.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I don't know them well enough to know that, but
that's why I said, I look forward to this entrance
into this world of.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Learning more about it. Do they have la boo boos?
I bet they don't know what that is?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Huh? Could that being good for them?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The Armstrong and Getty show, yeah, or Jack or Joe
podcasts and our hot links and.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Some of y'all have not experienced emotional trauma through literature,
and it shows kids today are out here reading The
Magical Bunny and how he learned to love himself or
spart all the Dragon's conflict free resolution Journey, and I'm sorry,
but that is emotional tofu, just page after page of
affirmations and pastel illustrations like a therapist made it on Canva. Meanwhile,
we were out here getting emotionally demolished by Where the
(18:13):
red Fern grows. You want to talk about resilience. I
watched a boy Berry's Two Dead Dogs after one got
ripped apart by a mountain lion and the other one
starved to death out of.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Grief, and I read that in the fourth grade.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
I came out of that book Vietnam VET, and aged
ten years and two hundred pages. Today's kids get talking
lamas who validate their feelings, and we got Old Yeller
where the dog gets rabies and the dad's like, well, son,
i think it's time we shoot your best friend in
the face.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's all part of growing up. And that was our
bedtime story. And you wonder why millennials cry during commercials.
I aged ten years reading that book. That is interesting though.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I thought about that that when my kids were young,
which I guess that makes means I've become soft like
all of modern So he's just like, good God, all
the old Disney movies we'd watch and everyone the parents die,
all your old Disney classics, the parents die.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It's obligatory. Yeah, yeah, that's something else. I'm reminded. It's funny.
I'm deep in thought thinking of some of the books
I read and my kids read in schools, and the
concept of trigger warnings, which is one of the worst
things that's ever happened, and how that's all related to
And this might seem like a stretch, but I swear
it's not. It's related to the whole neo Marxist thing,
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where what they want to happen is you don't know
what to say, you don't know what you can say.
You're afraid of offending, you're afraid of getting in trouble,
you're afraid of losing your job. In short, you're afraid,
and so you got to go through every conceivable trauma
or discomfort there might be in reading a piece of literature.
(19:54):
That's a bizarre notion, and yet it took hold at
most of our universities, in which and Michael I apologize.
I got a an in urgent communication during the break
and wasn't able to communicate to you. Hanson prepared a
little musical thing for me.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Oh okay, yes, oh it's not good.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
But what did they say? We're like? I was trying
to quickly, with the aid of Hanson and Ai craft
a theme song to our miseducation update and our twisted
schools break all the rules, they churn out fools that
just ain't cool. And I said, in the style of
nineteen seventies British punk, and again, it wasn't good anyway,
(20:52):
A couple of stories for you. Let's start with good news.
A victory for our friends at the Goldwater Institute. Tim
Sanderfer's outfit of Pennsylvania Mom won a major victory for
parental rights and government transparency last week when ours local
school district tried and failed to withhold DEI materials from parents,
(21:12):
claiming they were trade secrets. Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, can you imagine, man, I would lose my mind
if any school official ever said anything close to that
to me. No, no, no, no, no, no, you don't
get to have any secrets, right do you work from us?
And claiming that it's like the same as the design
for her get engine. Hear At lockeed, right, our DEI
materials are trade secrets.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah. A couple of years ago, she requested assets to
her local schools, materials that were presented to teacher staff
and students to see whether the school district was indoctrinating
students by teaching racially discrimin discriminatory DEI, but the district refused,
calling it trade secrets. I would stay up the Goldener
Institutes and the judge said, you're out of your mind. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I would say, you're either going to release this to
all his parents right now, or then we'll go through
the whole lawsuit process and then you'll release it to us,
because obviously you have to.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So what are we going to do here? In a groundbreaking,
an amazing decision, the court correctly held that the public
was entitled to see records created by a government employee
to train other government employees. There was no trade secret
protection for these material ord and by the way, the
school district appealed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania because
(22:28):
they actually believe they should be able to keep it
a secret.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
The way they're crafting their organization to teach your kid,
that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It is absolutely nuts. I think I don't know, but
I think you may be making the mistake of judging
their motivations by what they say their motivations are. They
don't believe for a second it's a trade secret. They
just want to keep doing DEI and so they're making
any excuse they could find. Moving along another good positive story.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well, there is the you know, there's the example of
who's that guy iran for governor in Virginia, Terry mcculluff. Well, actually,
in one of the debates, got hammered for saying something
along the lines of parents can't be trusted with teaching
their kids. We need to get them to the schools
where they you know, we can count on them getting
the right information right so the.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Education can take over.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
There is a certain belief that actually seems to exist
along those lines, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, you're right, and it's it's that nexus of like
activistsst Neo Marxist types and the well meaning fools who
get swept up in their ideas who actually believe this
crap that that it gets a little confusing because you
know a lot of those people like Terry mcculluff I
don't think is a neo Marxist, but he's a progressive
(23:52):
and he's been convinced by the you know, neo Marxist
in the progressive wing of the Democrats. I guess that
they mean it. They really want to educate the kids better,
and PhDs in education are the people to do it.
Some more good news in a weird way. It occurred
to me as I spoke that phrase that undoing something
(24:12):
horrible happening, it is good news, but it's kind of
half and half, if you know what I mean. A
school district in North Carolina has been ordered to admit
their mistake and issue an apology and fork over twenty
thousand dollars and some more settlement stuff after they were
sued for suspending a sixteen year old student who used
(24:33):
the term illegal aliens in class. Suspended for that. Yeah,
the sixteen year old student was in an English class discussion.
He used the term English. The teacher said aliens, and
the student said, do you mean space aliens or illegal
aliens who need green cards? Wow? And it was just
(24:54):
a clarification question right right. The student was later suspended
for three days and mars noting racially and sensitive behavior
were added to his permanent record.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, I realize it's easier said than done. You've got
to pull your kid out of that school. Good lord,
that's a.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Lot of schools in around America. I know.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So the case actually caught the eyes of Donald J. Trump,
who wrote the student of personal recommendation letter. According to
the Liberty Justice Institute, people are crazy.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Let's see, I could quote the judge, but they said
more or less what you'd think they would have said.
First Amendment, et cetera. Utterly unracially not I mean completely
not racially insensitive or mean or Yeah. That is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Speaking of nuts, the University of Kansas, Jack, your quasi
alma mater, I went for an entire year of courses.
Who graduated there?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wow, rock Chock Jayhawk, I know you're a big fan.
University of Kansas is offering a course in the fall
called Angry White Male Studies that will examine the rise
of the angry white male in the United States. The
course will be offered with the goal of teaching about
the prominent figure that is the angry white male. That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I got a half of an mba from there, So
that's probably why I've gone out in the world and
done a half assed job of being a business person.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And finally this, ah, is this even worth trying? I
don't know. It's a think piece and a really good
one written by a fellow named Brandon, last name withheld,
entitled Stoner Logic in Academia, and he's talking about in
particular Michelle Foucault French Bastard. It looks like foul called,
(26:48):
but it's pronounced French Bastard, who is one of the
most cited intellectuals in American universities today. Kids here, his
idea is more than virtually anybody's. He is one of
the founding fathers of critical theory and neo Marxism. I
(27:09):
know that from listening to James Lindsay go on and
on about this human being. Indeed, and if you would like,
read his and Helen pluck Rose's brilliant cynical theories anyway,
So it's all about how this guy was a bright stoner.
I like to read and learn stuff, but he never
really felt like applying himself at college and that sort
(27:31):
of stuff. But he realized he really needed more formal
education and somebody to help lead him if he was
going to get anywhere in his life. And he went
to college and found that a lot of what they
were trying to teach was Stoner logic. He just stone
(27:54):
and he explains that. One day, a lecturer, this is
my favorite exams ample. A highly esteemed scholar launched into
a shallow Fucoian analysis of something or other as it
applied to the university. He went on and on with
a sort of smug self awareness, like he thought he
was delivering gold and absolutely blowing our minds. He says,
(28:17):
I should note here that this lecture is really likable
and a genuinely nice person. Look at this classroom, said
the lecturer. Look at how the very structure of this
classroom exerts power. You are all on one side, stepped
up in auditorium seating, so I can see all of you,
but you can only see me, not each other. You
are kind of forced to look and listen. Okay, yeah,
(28:41):
con true, But why, he continued the construction of this lecture.
Theater exerts a system of power and ensures the self
perception of you the students as lacking knowledge, and it
sets me up as the distributor of knowledge, and thus
it conveys power for what I'm paying. I hope you're
(29:03):
not a distributor of knowledge. You're getting ahead of us.
But you're absolutely right. These systems of power are everywhere
hidden in the architecture and the systems of our society,
design to maintain and designed to maintain the continuity of power.
Oh my god, and this guy who's writing I really
like says I remember being thoroughly unimpressed. This was exactly
(29:26):
the kind of simple, fact free, intuitive analysis that I
and other high school graduates had arrived at many times
while sitting around a bong, and it wasn't even accurate.
I remember thinking that since class sizes tend to be smaller, university,
ninety percent of the teaching rooms were not stepped auditoriums.
They were smaller, flat office like rooms, perfect for egalitarian,
(29:48):
discussion oriented classes. The only rooms with this structure were
the few lecture theaters intended for hosting large audiences, and
in any case, they clearly had that structure for acoustic
and a communicative reasons, not because our neo liberal overlords
wanted to inculcate us in some sort of pliable consciousness
lest we threaten their systems of power. Oh's more, that
(30:09):
is so hilarious to your point, Jack, there was a
knowledge differential between us and him, at least there was
supposed to be. We were there as young people with
less knowledge to be educated by a more knowledgeable teacher.
I couldn't see how pointing this out at this obvious
fact was some kind of mind blowing revelation. And then
a couple more sentences that I'll stop. Crucially, while he
(30:32):
had an issue with these systems of power inherent in
the structure of the lecture theater, he apparently had no
objection to the avert power required to make students pay
for a core curriculum of course is he helped design
than he teaches, and for which they had to buy
the compulsory textbook.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Right that he co Wroteulously, he didn't have any problem
with that system of power, right.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And the insane charge for books that whole scamp. So
his point is the whole critical thinking thing, and that's
what the course was, was just a way to indoctrinate
students into a simplistic worldview. Your boss has a bigger office,
makes more money than you.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yeah, he's somebody's got to be the boss, and he
has the experience and the expertise to be the.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Boss and manage us, so the company can.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
But then they apply that stoner logic free analysis to
like everything, including the oppressor. The person with more power
is always wrong and the person with less power is
always right. I mean, what an idiotic notion. I've said
more than once. If my dog expressed that idea to me,
I would hit him with a rolled up newspaper for
(31:44):
being so stupid. And I do not mind.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Oh oh my god, Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and
Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Not surprisingly, we got a fair number of texts about shreking, which,
according to the USA Today and somebody who texted me
with personal knowledge, is a thing where women date down.
And I feel like anybody whoses the term date down
should be pushed off a cliff. People date down on
purpose thinking this is a cliff good enough? Or should
(32:24):
it be a volcano? Just asking back to you. People
who date down in terms of looks feel like they'll
be treated better because this person really realizes what they've.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Got this might be how I got married.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah, well maybe I'm just so outrage because I'm wondering
how often does this happened to me?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
As a friend of the Armstrong Getty Show wrote shreking,
I thought I was just charming. Well now I know
on the topic though.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
So a person I know said that some of her
friends have done this. They have dated down thinking and
they would get treated better, and then weren't treated better,
and so they call that being shrecked. And we're disappointed.
And as Joe pointed out, maybe they just figured out
you're a shallow bitch.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Of manipulative she deviled. Yes, not quite as complicated as
it sounds.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
But then there was the other person, this friend of mine,
a person who's shreked, who actually tells guys, if you
want to go out with me, it's gonna I need
five hundred dollars to look the way you want me
to look, hair nails, everything like that, and then you
get to be seen with me, I guess or whatever.
And I thought that was appalling. But we got this
text regarding rent a hottie. How is that different from
(33:39):
renting a ferrari? So no one should ever rent a Ferrari.
If you have the dollars, do what makes you smile?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, I would suggest that you have priorities that will
lead you not to happiness. But you do, you brother,
There's I can't.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I'll have to think about it for longer than I've
got right now. On why it is incredibly different to
rent a Ferrari to see what it's like to drive
a Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, I was gonna say, number one, you get to
drive the Ferrari. If you know what I'm saying, Well, okay,
I wouldn't even think of that. But if you're but well,
it's different, are you mo? Seriously, he's paying money to
be seen standing next to a Ferrari. That's stupid.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
See, I would rent a Ferrari, maybe to actually drive
a Ferrari, because I don't know what it's like. I've
never done it, and it may be pretty cool. And
then for a variety of reasons, I can't or ever
won't own one because it doesn't make practical sense. Is
that's a similar thing, but it's way different than that.
If you're actually dating, like you're trying to be in
a relationship with somebody, which is like one of the
most satisfying things that can happen in your entire existence
(34:42):
on planet Earth. And if that's what your goal is
and you're going about it this way, I don't I
don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Well, you're doomed to misery. Let's go ahead and bottom
line it. You're doomed to misery. Yes, it's a ClearCase
of DTM.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I mean, I know.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
So if you tell her I'm not paying you five
hundred dollars, is she going to show up in sweats
and no makeup? And what an odd way to live
your life? No kidding, how's that working out for you?
Would be a good question.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
You know, there are you know, sub sectors of American
society that are as foreign to me as you know
somebody in Africa with a plate in their lip, or
you know in Afghanistan where they play that sport where
you whack a calf's head around on horseback or something
like that. I can't remember precisely. Out work.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
If you're picking somebody only looks so how long is
that enjoyable? I would think that would wear off so fast.
I don't really have anything in common with you. I
don't really find you very interesting, but I guess I'll look.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
At you for How long does that last? The arm
Strong and Getty Show Armstrong jacking Jar to tell you
Joey will be just.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Down.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Cost you that Armstrong in Getty on the Man.
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