I Hear Placenta

Published Apr 8, 2024, 3:26 PM

Hour 3 of the Friday April 5 edition of A&G features...

  • An honest take on Israel from a a surprising media source...
  • Inflation continues to be misunderstood...
  • Are you a closer-of-cabinets?
  • The Anxious Generation. 

From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.

So I certainly believe that what's going on in the Middle East is a really big deal with larger ramifications than just is Israel safe or not not, the least of which well, all kinds of different reasons.

It could affect our presidential election.

For one thing, the fact that Israel told the United States yesterday if Iran launches an attack from its soil against Israel in retaliation for killing that general, it would draw a strong response for Israel and take the current conflict to another level. So Israel told us yesterday if Iran in taxes over that we're going big on this, We're taking it to eleven. So we would end up involved in that almost certainly, wouldn't We hard to imagine how we wouldn't, or that Iran retaliating against Israel wouldn't at some point be against our bases or troops, and then we would.

Yes, that's absolutely possible too. The question is to what extent would we get involved, And there's a whole range of answers to that question.

Absolutely, and then the politics this and domestically how much support we're going to continue to give Bernie Sanders, He's one senator, but in a fifty to fifty Senate, you don't need many Democrats to peel off and you can't get any more aid through Bernie Sanders said yesterday what.

The people of Israel must understand.

Ah then he gurgled some spitness like an old bunch ah uh. And I am pro israel I support it, he said, But they cannot continue to wage this am moral war against innocent people and expect taxpayers of the United States to support them.

This has got to moral war against innocent people, right Wow?

Forernard Sanders, He went on to say, he tweeted this out yesterday. Jake Sullivan, our Secretary of State, reportedly told Israeli officials that they could be responsible for the third famine crisis of the twenty first century if they don't allow more aid into Gaza. Bernie Sanders said, he's right, the US cannot partner with a country that is starving children. No more money for net and Yahoo And again in a fifty to fifty senate, Bernie and one other senator, and there ain't no aid getting through. Are US Senate for Israel even with the President, I think will continue to lead the charge for aid.

You don't think pro Israel Democrats plus Republicans.

Would be enough?

Well, I don't know. I don't know, because that's not a part is an issue.

Really, it's an interesting badfellow's situation.

Yeah, true, it gets to might get to this. This next clip we're gonna play, this is a Donald Trump. Now, a lot of people have made the observation that Ronald Trump hasn't said much that's clear about either Ukraine, Russia or Israel Hamas where you could clearly see what direction he's going on it.

And that ain't an accident.

I don't think that's an accident that he kind of wants both sides to think he's probably on their side. But as we saw with the border deal, if he decides to kill something, he can kill it because enough Republicans turn that direction. And I don't know exactly know where he is on this, do you know?

No? I don't.

And Trump is also famous famously not he's incurious.

He doesn't look into this stuff. He doesn't.

There are only a few issues he really cares about and the rest of this stuff. He just kind of flips something off the top of his head.

Yeah, well yeah, I think I know why that is on this But here here is Trump on this topic yesterday in a radio interview.

That's the advice. You got to get it over with and you have to get back to normalcy. And I'm not sure that I'm loving the way they're doing it, because you got to have victory. You have to have a victory, and it's taking a long time, and they're releasing the most heinous, most horrible types of buildings falling down, and people are imagining there's a lot of people in those buildings or people in those buildings, and they don't like it. And I don't know why they release, you know, wartime shots like that. I guess it makes them look tough, But to me, it doesn't make them look tough. They're losing the pr war, they're losing it big. But they've got to finish what they started, and they got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.

This has got to end. They need to finish it fast. I don't know where he stands on them.

It's got to win.

You could anybody can take from that grab bag and say he agrees with me.

Right, So I think if you think Trump is a we shouldn't be involved in foreign war's guy, you.

Think, yep, that's where he's gonna be. That's why I'm for him.

Or if you think he'll stand by Israel, I think you think that's what he was saying, and he knows that the stuff.

About Israel releasing video of buildings falling down, maybe they are, but Hamas certainly is and the press is doing that.

Ultimately, I think his deal is he's a businessman.

This is bad for business, The war's bad for business, and heats stand But what about Hamas? What about the geopolitics? What about the future. I has to end because it's hurting the stock market. I think that's the way he looks at it as a businessman.

Yeah, I would agree, But I do also think he respects bb NET and Yaho because he's a hard ass, and so he'll tell him, look, you got three months, do whatever you have to do, and after three months it's got a end.

So Joe's right.

If Trump doesn't turn the Republicans against this, which I'm not sure if he could, but I wouldn't wouldn't have thought he could have turned people against that border deal. Then you know there are enough Republicans plus the Democrats for this to move forward definitely, But I don't know. I really don't know where Trump stands on this situation now to the where the politics are today. I thought this was a great summary of the whole thing. Yesterday, not really on purpose, from Jake Tapper on CNN, he had on Leon Panetta, who former SEC deaf, former CIA chief, and he has worked for all kinds of different presidents. He's a demo. He's probably my favorite Democrat of all time all do you want to hear something really strange? Every time I hear Leon Panetta's name, I get hungry because I think of those what are those sandwiches that were so hot for a while, They're like grilled Panini. Whenever I hear Leon Panetta, I think of Panini's Michael, are you with me?

Yeah?

That's interesting what I think of his polenta and the fact that I can't eat polenta because it sounds like placenta.

How about panchetta, the delicious Italian pork dish.

That's the first time I've ever heard that word. So I'll have to think, well, I'm fancy or not.

I actually can't eat polenta because it sounds like placenta.

Isn't that weird?

Leon Panetta, he was a congressman, then became a whole bunch of important things for the Democratic Party, and I usually really like him and agree with him. I didn't like his answers yesterday. Although I don't know if he's in on the game of pretending we're being hard on Israel while we while we're behind the scenes, are saying do it, do whatever you got to do, We'll be behind you. I don't actually even know, but Jake Tapper's setup of this will allow a little of Leon Panetta's answer. But the answer doesn't even really matter. It's the question that I thought was so interesting.

Here we go.

What is your response when you criticize how Israel is conducting this war and you and you hear from supporters of Israel as I do. Hamas is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. It's right in their charter. Hamas started this on October seventh with their attack on civilians and their kidnapping. Hamas could end this war today if they turned over the hostages and surrendered, which is traditionally what you do when you're losing.

Uh.

And Hamas doesn't care about the lives of the Palestinian people.

I don't.

I'm not disputing any of those claims. But what's your response when people say that is if that means Israel can conduct the war anyway it wants, Well, I.

Think that's that's the answer, and it doesn't. It doesn't give him a license to.

Okay, So then he goes into what was the theme of the day from Democrats that these or it needs to be more careful and blah blah, blah, blah blah.

But how about Jake Tapper set up?

So she's a drug addict, she's killed her last three husbands, she's stated she'll never have sex with you, she steals from you. But that aside, why wouldn't you, I mean, what what?

And even he even ended it with and I don't dispute any of those things.

What it was It sounded to me as if he was like making an argument for you know, a rhetorical argu and he completely convinced himself with you right.

Right, right, right right now, And I feel like that's kind of where we are. So you agree Amas is a terrorist organization. They're at fault. They caused this whole thing. They use the people as human shields. They don't care if the people starve. In fact, they're helping the people starve. But that being said, Israel should be morek what.

Yeah, it's funny. He got to the end of that and thought, oh, where do I go?

Now?

You know what I'm reminded of in this, And I don't know what the Biden administration is thinking, because Biden again is a coward.

He's feckless, he's indecisive.

He's been wrong about every foreign policy decision for the last fifty years, as Robert Gates said, But I'm reminded, and I realize this is weird. Maybe not as weird as thinking of Panini's when I hear Leon Panetta, but strange. But I'm reminded of I think it was in the Sopranos they're explaining the.

Wives' attitudes about the.

And the attitude was, yes, it's happening.

I know it's happening.

Don't embarrass me, don't cross a line that will make my life bad. And I can see and I don't know that this is true because what I said about Joe Biden. I mean one hundred percent. I just I think he's a terrible leader. But I could see saying to Bbie, you gotta kick ass, you gotta win. I understand that. But for God's sake, be careful, don't you know it's not humiliate me. Don't make my life impossible because your guys are so sloppy. You gotta ride herd on him. You gotta minimize civilian casualties.

You gotta at.

Least look like you're trying to help with the AID thing, all right, be cool? And the thought was that very sloppy, tragic, fog of war attack on the AID workers.

Cross that line. I get that.

Yeah, that makes sense, except for the Wall Street Journal thing that we've already read today where they point out, yeah, your administration killed a whole bunch of kids in their parents and a strike in Afghanistan. And you were you being sloppy or careless with people lives? Or is it just something that happened sometimes?

Well, and I realized it's a slightly different incident, but allowed thirteen of our best and brightest men and women to be killed at Abby Gate through sloppiness and terrible policy have you heard a complete accounting of that from the administration, like the Israelis had out within a week about the killing of the aid workers. They've come one hundred percent clean. They've fired people, they've ended careers, they've explained what happened in a way that old Joe, I'm going to give you a lecture.

Biden and his minions absolutely have not.

Yeah, as the Wall Street Journal said that Joe Biden's trying to hold Israel to a standard that we haven't been able to meet.

No, no, not even close.

In fact, there was no fog of war hitting that that house, of that poor dad with a hell fire missile.

That was that.

We could have done that today, tomorrow, a week from now. If the guy was a Hamas delivery guy or I'm sorry not Hamas is k Taliban, yeah Isis or Tallyban whatever he's claimed to be, could have done it next week. That was a horrific mistake. So yeah, he's.

A terrible it's even it's even worse than that. I think the reason it happened days later and was sloppy is that there was outrage in the country over of all of our soldiers dying, and they had to show strength that they were hitting back, and they and they went when they shouldn't have gone, and killed the dad and the kids running out to the car because dad's home from work, which is about the worst thing I can possibly imagine.

And then we're dishonest about it for weeks and weeks.

And now we're going to hold Israel to this completely different standard, which is any comment you got on that text line four one five kftcy, how you doing?

Have we got good stuff planned for the weekend. We're talking about inflation the other day, and it was odd. The Wall Street Journal had a couple of articles back to back, one once again, and you think of the journal, some editor would have said to the writer, that's dopey, don't write that. But the guy's column was essentially, consumers think inflation is up. Inflation is actually down this year. People don't know what they're talking about.

I took my kids to McDonald's last night. We didn't even get drinks. We drank water eight modestly, no desserts, almost forty bucks.

No inflation is down McDonald's.

And I suggested we need to convene the major media of the dictionary makers, the joint chiefs, the Surgeon General. I don't know just whoever wants to come and have a commission to explain to the media. When peoples hear inflation, they think prices, Okay, prices are up. That's why they say inflation is up. They're not wrong, they're just not using your technical terminology and the for instance, which just astounded me. And this, this illustrates it, I think so beautifully. If you showed up to the grocery store with one hundred dollars in twenty nineteen, keeping in mind that wages have risen modestly but not not much since twenty nineteen, you show up with one hundred dollars twenty nineteen, you buy a pretty good basket of goods.

Okay, oversimplifying this slightly.

But if you showed up today with that same one hundred dollars, you would have to put thirty seven dollars worth of your products back on the shelves. Wow. You would have to say, oh, gosh, I can't afford that, we can't buy that thirty seven dollars worth.

Wow. Yeah, and so.

Yeah, And anybody has the gall to say inflation is down, don't you realize that?

Of course, A lot. I still swear a lot of I don't know if all.

These people in media don't do their own shopping or buy things themselves, so they think, do they think? I feel like they think the prices went back down.

I can't believe they think that, because that would be so dumb. You're right, but that's the only way I can think of to explain why you.

Would write stuff like that, right or not?

You know, see that figure and say oh, people say inflation is up because the prices are higher and it hurts them. That's why they say that, and not make the point of the article.

People are wrong. They don't know what.

They're talking about.

How how can you be so lacking an insight? I don't know.

Maybe they're young, these journalists speaking of being young. I thought this was really interesting. Speed dating is back for gen Z. They're ditching, at least to a large extent, to some extent, the dating apps, and they're going back to meeting people in person, spending a few minutes and seeing.

If there's chemistry. Did you ever do that?

No?

I did not.

I got married when I was twelve years old, so didn't really get an opportunity.

You're in the cast system in India.

I never did either, but I always thought it was a pretty unique idea. I think it would be better than I've never done either. But I think it would be better than the online dating thing just because you meet the person.

It's not just based on looks, right.

There can be no edited photos or I mean, just so many swings and misses when you do the app thing. But they're all sorts of different theme nights and they're getting more and more or popular every every sort of fun silly board game, speed data to handle the rejection though, third night in a row you walk out not one person slightly interested.

I mean, I just I don't know if I can do that. The dark side, I was trying to be optimistic, armstrong and getty, so funny this would come up.

I got a little uh clean in my house and garage and stuff I need to do this weekend. Here's a professional organizer with where you start getting rid of things.

Number one, I want you to throw away all of your excess food storage and tupperware containers. While you're at it, get rid of any container that's missing a lid, or any lid that's missing a container. Number two, I want you to get rid of all of those extra blenders and food processors. Number three, I want you to get rid of all of the duplicate kitchen utensils. You don't need four can openers or six spatulas to get the job done. Most of the time, this stuff is taking up valuable real estate inside of your cabinets and on top of your counter, so you're better off without it.

Not all those apply to me.

Although the containers missing the lid or the bottom, that is a good one. Do I think they're gonna magically appear someday or what? Yeah, I'll grow a new one like a lizard with its tail.

Right now, that list was very kitchen centric, sure, I who have a wife, dare not go in and start throwing stuff away? Honey, where's the food process Oh I got rid of it. It's cluttering up the place right Oh, I'd be a dead man. My thing is definitely more of the closet. Do you remember when I got rid of what was it, like sixty golf shirts?

Oh?

God, I gotta do that.

I can no longer close my drawer, and it's a battle every day closing my t shirt drawer, and like only the top couple do I wear and wash, and wear and wash and put back in there. The bottom fifty I don't even know what they are well, and I've got a stack of like workout and sleep in t shirts, so I'm not gonna wear them out of the house generally unless it's to the gym, and some of them just get shameful.

Before I get rid of it, I really need to rotate the starter, the starters out and put them on the bench, bring in new starters, get rid of the bench.

But Katie, did you have a thought on the kitchen thing?

I hate to be, you know, cliched and ask the woman on the crew about it or any of it.

No, I was going to say what you said was brilliant. Just stay out of the kitchen.

Yes, yes, ma'am.

And I've found that my new hobby around my home is following my husband around and closing all of the drawers and cabinets because I don't know what you guys are not being able to close things.

But you know, I don't have that problem, but I've had roommates to do. I don't understand. I guess the thought is I'm just going to open half to open it again. Later, but no, no, no, I closed and cabinets and suriot.

Yeah, your husband is a problem case of some sort. I don't know what's wrong with them or if it can be fixed.

But I don't. We don't have time for that victim.

There's not lost times. Yeah, I'm a closer of cabinets and.

Well in a wise man, don't start moving stuff in the kitchen or throwing random things away because you don't know how to use.

Them, right, Yeah, fair enough my teenagers, I'm out.

I'm out.

My teenager's a big Why make the bed if I'm gonna get right back into a guy? Which I did up until like age forty five or something like that. And I took Jordan Peterson's advice of making the bed for ordering the mind and everything. Oh the feeling it gives me to walk into my bedroom with the bed made compared to the way it used to. It's amazing how much that does for me emotionally.

It's worth it. It seems crazy.

Who's the military man who wrote a book that might have even been the title of it, Make your Bed in the Morning or something, who made that same point that it's just it give it delivers a message to yourself about how your day is gonna go. I'm gonna get stuff done sometime. I'm gonna make my home more beautiful.

I'm gonna be disciplined. I'm going to move forward.

And make make your bed. Little things that can change your life. Admiral William McRaven y.

Yeah, yeah, and it's good from the beginning end of the Yes, I'm going to organize my day. And then when you walk in at the later in the day, just to walking in the room with the bed unmade, just like my life's a mets.

Just like slapping you in the face. Ah, I don't like.

I just got rid of twenty two pairs of socks the other day.

Wow, I don't know if I've ever had excess socks. So did they have holes in them?

No? No, actually they didn't. But see, this is Jack's not gonna be able to relate to this at all. I Joe am gonna have a golfer and I frequently wear the short socks.

I don't know.

I don't known a single er. I don't know a single pair of short socks. I own like fifty mine on my knees like a grown man. So that would look so good on the golf course. So although the young hipsters do that, yeah, socks going up to your knees. Both my kids wear their socks up to the knees. All their friends do. You'd look ridiculous for their crowd if you wore short socks.

Oh yeah.

But and the kids on the golf course with these nine inch in scene shorts that are like go go shorts. I mean they're like a go go dancer from nineteen sixty seven. But anyway, I got on this kick that I needed a good supply of them, and I bought them. Then realized these it's one of your basic brands. These are not that good. They're a lot better socks.

So I went on, this are worth paying for the good ones, one of the few things buy the good socks you.

Yeah, hey, somebody, what the anyway? Katie's Mike was hot? Clearly, Derek, where was I? So I got on this thing where I was gonna try to find the best socks, and I get some and think, you know, these are pretty good. I'm gonna get to three more pair, and I get three more pair. Then somebody would recommend, oh man, you gotta try these socks, and I just I ended up with like the world's largest privately held collection of socks as I was trying to find the perfect socks for you know, day to day wearing for golfer. Judy and I take lots of walks with and without our dog and so anyway, so I accumulated a ridiculous I was like some sort of weird sock miser.

I finally that's enough. So the clutter thing boxes are my a big problem. I have.

I keep boxes. I think I'm always gonna need them or use them, and like boxes. I got an air fryer, recently finally got an air fire haven't used it, but I got one but the box with the instructions in the sirophone and sitting in the garage.

Why, I don't know.

Do I feel like I'm gonna at some point decide to pack it back up and ship it back or so.

I don't know.

I don't know what it is. But I can't get rid of boxes. Find it very difficult to do.

I'm the same way from electronics. I got all the boxes in the garage. Why I don't know.

A couple of opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal that got my attention. This one first, just because we're going to be at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the headline in the op ed is welcome to Chicago Democrats. Windy City progressives want to cancel the convention in their city, and it looks like the mayor's on board. He may not be on board, but he hasn't denounced it. So a lot of the progressive leaders in Chicago are making all kinds of noises and having demonstrations, and they burnt something in effigy the other day and are saying they are going to stop the convention from happening. Genocide. Joe will not have his convention in Chicago, and the mayor would asked about it, didn't denounce it. He didn't say he was on board, but he was kind of squishy on it.

So they could be Spicy Boy speaking in nineteen sixty eight. Yeah, Democrat on Democrat violence. That'll be fun.

But the op ed piece from Peggy Noonan wanted to get to about smartphones and kids really really love, but.

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So this topic has come up a lot on our show over the years, and particularly lately because of a certain book. And I can't tell you how many articles, podcasts, TV conversations I have seen about Jonathan Heit's new book about kids Today, and Peggy Noonan caught on to it in her opinion piece, and I just thought this first paragraph she wrote was so good. The headline is can we save our children from smartphones?

God? Dang it.

Every time the topic comes up, it drives me crazy that they're allowed at all at the schools. Who made you think that you got to allow it the schools? But anyway, I'll stop it.

That's insane.

Yeah, I think that'll go away with time, But can it go away now? My kids are kids now. The fact that we're going to catch onto this year from now is not gonna do any good. But anyway, I thought this was really interesting. She wrote, There's a funny thing that happens in a nation's thoughts. At some point, everyone knows something is true and talks about it with each other. The truth becomes a culchet before it becomes actionable. Then a person of high respect, a good faith scholar who respecs data, say, comes forward with evidence proving what everyone knows, and it is galvanizing it. It's like a thunderclap and gives us all permission to know what we know and act on it. And she's talking about Jonathan Heights's new book The Anxious Generation, how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness and a lot of it as well.

That's a great, great bit of writing there. Yeah, I know, I thought that was so interesting.

In addition to just conversation about kids and smartphones and free play and all that stuff that we've talked about so much, just that thing that happens where and I think this is happening with the trans thing.

It has happened with the trans thing.

Where everybody kind of gets together discusses something we all know it, and then it takes something to move, like for kickoff to occur, for us to give you cover. I'm not sure what happens, but that she said, like a thunderclap, this book lands and everybody's.

Like, yeah, I agree.

Liberals, old people, young people, liberals, conservatives, everybody is horrible what we're doing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

One of the things that we've tried to do on this show for many years is to let y'all know you're right about a lot of stuff. I could give you the list, but you know, a lot of the madness that we've seen that reminds me we get that Jonathan Turley clip, Michael, we can wear that out man down this road anyway. So much of the madness that we see, mostly out of progressive policies. We've all been cowed into silence or have in some cases even allowed ourselves to think. Boy, everybody in the media is saying I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong, and our message has been no, you're right, you're the sane one. It's okay to think what you think about law and order and treating members of every race equally, and not saying a man is a woman just because they've got, you know, issues and declare themselves a woman. No, you're right on this stuff, but we need that cover or that expert, I guess, to make it okay.

I could see getting to a point where a kid, particularly staring at a smartphone, is going to be like you let your kid smoke cigarettes, I would agree.

Culturally, yeah, I don't think that's hyperbolic at all. And what we must always remind ourselves, and you do this a lot, is that we came at the smartphone social media thing with fully formed, confident, adult brains, and it's still.

Screwing with us.

Anybody who spends any amount of time online sert an interview with a guy the other day who, you know, very very short version of it. He got into this Twitter war with some very high profile people over a contentious issue.

Happened to have to do with the trans thing oddly.

Enough, but and he, to quote him, became the sort of person I hate the most. So he's stepping away from all of it for six months. And that's a full grown, confident man, right.

And if you had no baseline for heading into this stuff.

Well you've got the completely unformed, malleable brain of the youngster. And now the most, perhaps the most powerful influence on the formation of your psychology is your smartphone and social media.

I read a lot of long form stuff on my phone. I read all my books on my phone, long magazine articles, that sort of stuff. Maybe I should carry around the magazines and the books just so my kids and other people see me reading as opposed to staring at my phone, because if you see me, it just looks like I'm staring at my phone, and it could be anything. So my kids see me staring at my phone a lot, even though I'm reading a you know, maybe a six hundred page book.

That's an interesting thought. I don't think it would hurt. Yeah.

Anyway, we're all recognizing in it at the same time, and the conversation has begun.

And god, I hope very quickly schools, for instance, decide no flipping smartphones at school. You don't need them.

You need to call your parents, go to the office and call them like every other generation did.

It was fine, right right?

You know what that's that's such an interesting point you made. If you're trying to model behavior, if you're quote unquote staring at your phone, you could be looking at hardcore porn, doom, scrolling through Twitter, or reading The Brothers Caramazof and nobody would know.

Right right, I have that problem all the time.

Any thoughts on that text line four one five two kftc Armstrong ngetti.

Oh it was rock climbing, right, Their cat in Colorado was recently rescued after they got stuck on a mountain. Okay, well after she got stuck on a mountain. Kat was like, you mind if I go, I can get off a mountain.

Rock climbing with your cat, which you know was so you could take pictures of you and your cat up there.

Oh you know, it's funny. The punchline was so good. The very scenario went by me too fast. Who goes rock climbing with their cat.

So you can take a selfie with you and your cat for your Instagram.

Here I am with pussing boots on the north face of whatever Instagram.

Please unplug the Internet. Unplug it.

So we happen to be talking about a brilliant piece by Peggy Noonan about Jonathan Height's new book about the Anxious Generation and the insidious effect on children's minds of smartphones and adolescent's minds recently. And I agree, we'll look back on it as of course I let my kids smoke. They wanted to smoke, they begged me, so I bought them, you know, a carton of smokes. Anyway, And her thesis is that we all know something, we all agree, but sometimes it takes a a thunderclap, a book, an expert, an event that everybody finally says, yes, now let's do something about it. And great observation by Peggy Nonon. But we were talking about the transgender thing. I mean not not like on the individual basis. You got some confused person or whatever they want to dress and act like a woman, that's fine, it's none of my business really, But to ask me, for instance, to call a full grown man with intact genitalia woman is an act of submission. And everybody's senses that, anybody who's sane senses that. But just to go through it real quickly. The National Organization for Women, I got a bunch of headlines that are similar. But now the National Organization for Women now sees anybody who opposes the inclusion of men and women's sports as proponents of and I quote white supremacist patriarchy.

Wow. White Sea now, which used to like be militant for.

Defending women's rights and spaces, now says, if you don't let a man play and your woman's sport and beat the hell out of you, and that is happening all over the country, or just win all the awards, you're a white supremacist patriarchy member.

Well, I'm sure they lent their weight to fighting for title nine and all those opportunities for women's sports programs at all different levels around the country, and now they're willing to let them be torn asunder by dudes playing.

Yeah, the great Riley Gains, who we interviewed the other day, and you can dig that interview at Armstrong and Geddy dot com if you want. She shot back, suggesting, what did she say? I've never seen so many oppression buzzwords in one sentence.

Yeah, just insane white supremacy.

The whole making everything seem like it's part of white supremacy is so nuts.

Yeah, I know, but it gets it for a while. It got people on their heels in the wake of the George Floyd thing. Everybody's so afraid of saying, hey, I'm not in favor of cops kneeling on guys next, but you're because your career would be over anyway.

Here's this bearded.

Trans player, six foot tall, bearded dude in a high school basketball game puts three different players out of commission, injuring them, and the team with all the injured players had to stop the game. But you know, but they let this kid, this guy participate in a bunch of different sports.

I can't believe parents even let their girls play against a guy.

I would go crazy.

Here's the headline, biological men are now welcome in California women's prisons. Who thinks this is a good idea. We got this note though, from Jim and Tucson that I thought was terrific. Just to listen to the Riley Gaines interview with guys, you guys, that came away more sad than anything. None of it matters. Women need to stand up for women's sports. Unfortunately, a majority of women do not agree with her. I'm not sure that's true, but there's a vocal, vicious minority who disagrees.

Give it a look.

Women as a whole do not care about this issue and are just fine with trans boys competing with women female athletes. Moms are silent or standing with the trans community, which doesn't really exist. My take is, let women's sports go the current direction until women themselves.

Call for change.

Getting women on the right, however, you wanted to find that calling for change only reinforces the stance that being against trans men and women's sports is based on bigotry.

It's not yeah, I think yeah, let it work itself out, and women finally say all right, that's enough.

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