Blow Up Bridges, Not Walls

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: Blow Up Bridges, Not Walls

Date: July 17, 2026
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty (plus Tony Ayo, contributor)
Podcast Platform: iHeartPodcasts

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Brief Overview

This episode dives into the latest developments in US-Iran tensions—including new attacks on critical Iranian infrastructure—before meandering, in classic Armstrong & Getty style, through a lettuce-borne illness outbreak linked to Taco Bell, a scathing critique of the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) platform, and some animated banter about socialism, healthcare, and the American left. The show also touches on President Trump’s recent address, media coverage of political events, the realities of socialized medicine, and some quirky news items, all with the duo’s trademark irreverence and skepticism.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. US Airstrikes on Iranian Infrastructure

Timestamps: 03:40 – 04:39, 10:20 – 11:55

• The US has started targeting key Iranian supply bridges and power plants, supposedly hitting points critical for military logistics, particularly near the Strait of Hormuz.
• The hosts observe the relative quiet in mainstream media about these escalations, suspecting news outlets want to avoid covering potentially controversial or “war crimes”-adjacent topics.
• Impact: The Iranian government responded by urging citizens to conserve energy.
• Shipping traffic in the Strait has nearly halted, with shippers unwilling to risk the route—despite US claims of “safe passage.”

“They’ve been kind of quiet about it, but we have started blowing up bridges and the power plants… main stream media’s gonna start shouting ‘war crimes.’”
– Jack Armstrong (03:49)

“The thing about wars is you try to win them… So let’s win this one.”
– Joe Getty (04:39)

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2. Cyclospora Outbreak: Lettuce Recall & Taco Bell Jokes

Timestamps: 04:45 – 10:20

• Ongoing cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded lettuce sourced from Mexico, served at Taco Bell in several Midwest states.
• The disease’s main symptoms: “SEWD” (Sudden, Explosive, Watery Diarrhea), which prompts a flurry of jokes and analogies.
• Nearly 2,000 laboratory-confirmed cases, potentially many more unreported.
• FDA and CDC advice: Avoid loose-leaf/shredded Mexican lettuce; washing doesn’t guarantee removal of the parasite.
• Discussion blends crude humor with reasonable public health advice.

“Don’t eat poopy Mexican lettuce is the takeaway, I think.”
– Joe Getty (09:08)

“Weeks of SEWD is a long time… Not weeks, though. That would be rough.”
– Jack Armstrong (08:15)

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3. Drunk School Principals in Florida

Timestamp: 12:58 – 13:47

• Amusing news story: Two school principals in Florida arrested in separate incidents for DUIs on the same night, with the second trying to drive after an Uber home.
• Used as a springboard for commentary on poor decision-making while intoxicated.

“She’s drunk. She’s making decisions while she’s drunk. That’s what’s the matter.”
– Joe Getty (13:37)

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4. Trump’s Primetime Address & Media Coverage

Timestamps: 13:50 – 15:32, 21:04 – 21:49

• Recap and critique of Trump’s recent address: major networks split on covering it; Armstrong & Getty note much of the content was unfocused and fixated on the 2020 election.
• Some valid points about voter ID requirements were buried in a “mishmash.”
• Networks like CBS provided partial coverage and relatively balanced analysis; ABC/NBC didn’t carry the speech at all, claiming it would be “lies.”

“Trump, as usual, doing the right thing in the wrong way. If he had focused on a couple of points, I think it would have been terrific, including the need for voter ID.”
– Joe Getty (14:29)

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5. The DSA Platform & Socialism: Mockery and Concern

Timestamps: 17:50 – 21:04, 27:40 – 37:27

• Highlight and ridicule key points from the 2026 DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) platform, including:
  • Universal free healthcare (including “reproductive and gender affirming care”)
  • Publicly-owned social housing, free medical training, rent control, reparations, abolishing police/prisons/military, open borders, abolishing the Senate and Electoral College, public ownership of large corporations, and more.
• Use of AI chatbot Claude to summarize and analyze the DSA website—Claude points out the lack of practical funding mechanisms in the platform.
• Comparison of DSA promises with real-world socialized systems—like long hospital wait times in the UK (“routine checkups often take 4 to 12 weeks”).
• Armstrong & Getty argue the US media fails to scrutinize these platforms and that the DSA’s rise should alarm voters of all persuasions.

“They actually say that out loud on their website? I would think they’d have to try to fool me more than that—people will work as much as they want and no more.”
– Jack Armstrong (20:16)

“It’s absolute madness. And they’re taking over the Democratic Party through the primary process.”
– Joe Getty (29:35)

“In these countries where socialism works, using my finger quotes, they tax the crap out of the middle class.”
– Jack Armstrong (34:06)

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6. Socialized Medicine in Practice

Timestamps: 36:51 – 38:33

• The hosts describe the long wait times for medical care in the UK as a warning against US socialized medicine.
• Armstrong makes a DMV analogy: “This is what it’s going to be like to go to the doctor.”

“Your doctor says, this person needs urgent cancer care. The goal is for most patients to get their first treatment within two months… I’d have been dead.”
– Joe Getty (38:12–38:21)

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7. Clips of the Week

Timestamps: 24:41 – 27:28

• A highlight/mashup section recapping quirky, odd, or notable moments from politics and pop culture—including commentary on Lindsey Graham, the Afghanistan war, socialism, and a particularly “explosive” mention of cyclospora.

“It’s cow. They call it cow. Clips of the week.”
– Jack Armstrong/Joe Getty (24:51–24:57)

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Notable Quotes

• “Iran has not fired on a ship in three days. Very few ships have still gone through the strait. In fact, I don’t know… as of yesterday, not a single ship had gone through the route we’re telling people to go through.”
  – Jack Armstrong (10:20)

• “I took this job working on a ship. I don’t want to be involved [in a war]… I ate at the Taco Bell in Kentucky last night. I’m just waiting to see if I’m in the clear.”
  – Jack Armstrong (11:34–11:55)

• “We’re bombing… the supply route for the IRGC, supposed to get their attention, I guess.”
  – Jack Armstrong (10:20)

• “The party which they represent wants to abolish all police and prisons. I mean, we’re into Cartoonville here, people.”
  – Jack Armstrong (29:24)

• “This is a complete remaking of the United States of America.”
  – Jack Armstrong (30:33)

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Memorable Moments

• Lettuce Outbreak Humor: The extended SEWD (Sudden Explosive Watery Diarrhea) jokes, e.g., imagining eating a Taco Bell salad and then “losing weight,” and riffs about “the SEWD diet.”
  (04:45–10:20)

• Absurdity of the DSA platform: The reading and mocking of the DSA “future without capitalism” vision, invoking deadpan disbelief (“Have you met humans?”).
  (19:14–20:55)

• Clips of the Week Section: Fast-paced audio snippets lampooning figures like Lindsey Graham, and odd news bites (like a Senate fart moment and beaver confusion).
  (24:41–27:28)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Segment / Topic Description | Timestamp (MM:SS) | |-------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------| | Show kicks off, Homeric references, title explained | 02:41–03:47 | | Iran-US bridge bombing discussion & Strait of Hormuz | 03:48–04:39, 10:20–11:55 | | Cyclospora/Taco Bell lettuce outbreak segments | 04:45–10:20 | | Principal DUI story | 12:58–13:47 | | Trump’s speech, media reactions and analysis | 13:50–15:32, 21:04–21:49 | | DSA platform, socialism debate, critique, and analysis | 17:50–21:04, 27:40–37:27 | | Socialized medicine/UK healthcare complaints | 36:51–38:33 | | Clips of the Week (“COW”) montage | 24:41–27:28 |

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Overall Tone & Style

• Casual, irreverent, often sardonic: The hosts oscillate between comedy and impassioned critique, using humor as a tool for both entertainment and argument.
• Pop-culture infused: References to current movies, sports, viral moments.
• Cynical about mainstream narratives & political promises: Regularly challenge media, political class, and ideological extremes—regardless of party.
• Strong skepticism toward far-left/progressive policies: Especially those endorsed by the DSA and like-minded activists, using direct quotes from party platforms as ammunition.

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Useful For...

• Staying up to date on US-Iran military tensions, domestic food safety scares, and current political fissures inside the Democratic Party.
• Understanding conservative critiques of socialism and leftward trends within American politics.
• Getting a flavor of Armstrong & Getty’s comedic, skeptical, conversational approach to news commentary—especially if you missed the broadcast.

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Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong. We are Hoping for a show as epic as the Odyssey itself. Oh, live from Studio C, Senior, we're dressed in our Homeric gear today in honor of the movie. No Homeric.

[Joe Getty]

What are you talking about?

[Jack Armstrong]

We're dressed like Matt Damon in the Odyssey, which comes out today for the show this epic odyssey that is the Armstrong and Getty show, live from Studio C. And today we're toiling under the title of the show, the only healthy

[Joe Getty]

thing at Taco Bell is giving people the gallop a trots.

[Sports Announcer]

What?

[Joe Getty]

Or if you prefer, blow up bridge. I'm sorry, I gotta deliver this one in kind of a progressive tone of voice. Blow up bridges, not walls.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it's.

[Guest/Contributor (Tony Ayo)]

It's.

[Jack Armstrong]

So they've been kind of quiet about it, but we have started blowing up bridges in the power plants. They aren't shouting about it because I think they know it's a touchy subject for some people and mainstream media is going to start shouting war crimes, stuff like that. But we blew up bridges and power plants. The Iranian government announced to their people yesterday, hey, cut back on your energy use. Don't run. Or, you know, don't run your blender or whatever, because they got serious problems going already, so. I didn't realize that.

[Guest/Contributor (Tony Ayo)]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

More specifically, though, my understanding was it was bridges and plants that are the most important for a particular military base that's key to controlling the Strait and. Or Straits of Hormuz, but who knows?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I'm sure that's where you start.

[Joe Getty]

Sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you're not getting. If they're not coming around, it will. It will expand.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. The thing about wars is you try to win them.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

So let's win this one.

[Jack Armstrong]

You want to know what the main symptom is of cyclospora?

[Joe Getty]

I think I do know what it is.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think I want to say it on the air.

[Joe Getty]

I don't want to hear it on there.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's swd. I'll let you fill in the words. What you think it is.

[Joe Getty]

D. The D. I've got sudden.

[Jack Armstrong]

Severe.

[Joe Getty]

Severe.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, swd.

[Joe Getty]

W.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is if you eat lettuce at Taco Bell.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. What's the W?

[Jack Armstrong]

Watery.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Like the drinks at a bad bar.

[Jack Armstrong]

Although it is sometimes described in reports as explosives. So I suppose S, E, W, D. Right.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy. Throw in not a lot fecal matter. That's right, Doctor.

[Jack Armstrong]

Throw in for fun. After you enjoy your Taco Bell salad. Cramps. Cramps. Nausea? Loss of appetite. Well, yes, I've lost my appetite.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, I have I've rarely have I called for a snack while engaged in the sewd. Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, honey, would you bring me some

[Joe Getty]

cheese and crackers soup?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'd like a big bowl of chili. That's what I'd like.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Loss of appetite? I've lost my appetite. Talking about it. Fatigue and weight loss. Well, fatigue, yeah. Tell me. Would you please give me a moment in the last 50 years of my life. One moment in the last 50 years of my life where I wasn't suffering from fatigue. I'd like to know when it happened. I must have missed it.

[Joe Getty]

Well, wait, but then you said weight loss.

[Jack Armstrong]

Weight loss, yeah. There you go.

[Joe Getty]

There's the new cyclosporosariasis diet. It's great.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's the. When life gives you age, you make lemonades. That's. That's what it is right there.

[Joe Getty]

Where. Boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sir, you get the Taco Bell salad. But you're losing weight.

[Joe Getty]

Joe, you're looking great, man. Yeah, yeah. I'm on a new diet. It's. I was on keto, but now I'm eating Taco Bell salads and lettuce, and I feel. Excuse me. I'll be back in a few minutes.

[Sports Announcer]

So what's gonna be in the tacos now?

[Jack Armstrong]

Is it just a taco shell and cheese? So they got the lettuce problem all across the country, right? Some of this lettuce that came from Mexico. And washing lettuce doesn't help, according to the fda, or doesn't necessarily fix the whole problem. So you're not supposed to eat any loose lettuce, at least for a while. The CDC reporting almost 2,000 laboratory confirmed domestically acquired cases since May 1, with more than 6,000 other cases under review. And then lots and lots and lots of people who probably had this for several days and didn't go to the doctor at all. In fact, most people, I would guess, because we've all gone through spells that you don't necessarily need to go to the doctor. It can trace.

[Joe Getty]

Go ahead.

[Jack Armstrong]

It can persist. Persist for weeks, which is a long time.

[Joe Getty]

They've. I'm sorry, I got to say this. They've traced the lettuce to a single supplier from Mexico, Taylor Farms. So don't. Don't eat it.

[Jack Armstrong]

How they harvest in their lettuce. They need to wash their hands or something.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

How about the fact that it, unlike typical food poisoning, it can persist for weeks.

[Sports Announcer]

Weeks?

[Jack Armstrong]

Weeks of SEWD is a long time. We've all had a couple of days here and there for A variety of reasons and diseases and things in our lives. Not weeks, though. That would be rough.

[Joe Getty]

That would cause weight loss and all sorts of things. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

How could you work. It can be treated with antibiotics. Who needs. Who's ever thought they needed antibiotics because they got the, you know, the cwd. Ah, this is the part, though. It can persist for weeks and then relapse in some cases.

[Joe Getty]

What?

[Guest/Contributor (Tony Ayo)]

I know.

[Joe Getty]

Well, so it's a bacterial infection, obviously, and it's a tough to get rid of bacteria or tough for your body to get rid of.

[Jack Armstrong]

You get over it. After weeks, you got a lot of reading done. You read the entire Odyssey. You're ready for the movie, sitting there on the toilet for weeks. You get better. You got a tennis match planned tonight with your friends down at the club. And then it's back.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, wearing your all whites. Even worse. Yeah. Don't eat poopy. Mexican lettuce is the takeaway, I think. Five takeaways from the president's speech, which we'll talk about later. There's just really one takeaway from this one. Don't eat poopy. Mexican lettuce.

[Jack Armstrong]

Shredded iceberg lettuce imported from Mexico and served at Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.

[Joe Getty]

At least shredded lettuce. Shredded lettuce. I never buy shredded lettuce.

[Jack Armstrong]

You don't go.

[Joe Getty]

You're fine. Everybody's fine.

[Jack Armstrong]

You sounded like you have a real strong opinion about shredded lettuce.

[Joe Getty]

Well, no, I just. I don't want to. To frighten people out of the consumption of the delicious leafy treat that is lettuce.

[Jack Armstrong]

I thought you had some sort of gonna claim, some sort of moral failing of those of us who eat lettuce that has been pre shredded. No, no, no. I do use Thousand island dressing like a child. That's the only thing about myself.

[Joe Getty]

It's a child's dressing. Yes, it is.

[Jack Armstrong]

I say that at the restaurant every time. I said I would like the child's dressing. Thousand Island. And they always laugh, child

[Joe Getty]

and boy. Well, so much for let us talk.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we're bombing. We've bombed some bridges and some power plants, as promised. Yeah, and it's the supply route for the IRGC that's supposed to, I don't know, get their attention, I guess. Iran is not fired on a ship in three days. Iran is not fired on a ship in three days. Very few ships have still gone through the strait. In fact, I don't know. As of yesterday, when I was talking from the sources, I always Read every day. Not a single ship had gone through the route we're telling people to go through.

[Joe Getty]

That's the entire explanation of why Iran hasn't shot at a ship. Then that's changes the light on that

[Jack Armstrong]

bit of information because none have gone through. At least the portion that we claim is open. That we're claiming. You don't have to pay any tolls. You can go on through here. The good old United States guarantees your passage. And at least as of this time yesterday, nobody had gone through and remember had that story. Forget where it was from where we announced on our big speaker, the straight is open. Go ahead, go on through. Feel good.

[Joe Getty]

Uncle Sam's got your back.

[Jack Armstrong]

And somebody on some ship said, f off.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. Some captain or sailor said, yeah, f off.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because 12 sailors have been killed, hurt or missing.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And God dang it, I'd hate to be on one of those big tankers slowly going through the straight looking for rockets, just waiting. I just. I took this job working on a ship. I don't want to be involved.

[Joe Getty]

Sucky life. I got a sucky job. I don't see my family for months and months. And now I got the freaking Mullers shooting at me. Yeah, that's rough.

[Jack Armstrong]

I ate at the Taco Bell in Kentucky last night. I'm just waiting to see if I'm in the clear.

[Joe Getty]

Starting to feel weird.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, nothing's going my way. I put all my money on France and the World Cup. What's next?

[Joe Getty]

I'm thinking to myself, rough, rough times.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Ms. Jennifer, you consumed any alcohol today?

[Joe Getty]

Because I can smell it.

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[Joe Getty]

We are both high in the totem pole of, you know, education and okay. Our workfor. So it's.

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[Guest/Contributor (Tony Ayo)]

It's hard.

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[Guest/Contributor (Tony Ayo)]

I know.

[Joe Getty]

It's a couple hours later.

[Jack Armstrong]

So can you tell us what happened there?

[Joe Getty]

Story out of Florida. You got a couple of school principals out partying.

[Jack Armstrong]

Principals. School principals.

[Joe Getty]

All right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Average numb nuts.

[Joe Getty]

The average. An above average numb Nuts. In this case, a couple of them. So the one gal gets pulled over, she's drunk. Her passenger's way too drunk to take the wheel. So they take the one gal off to jail, get an Uber for the other one. Couple hours later, same cop sees that same Jeep driving around erratically, pulls it over. It's gal number two, still drunk, driving around.

[Jack Armstrong]

He's like, what are you doing? I just sent you home.

[Joe Getty]

I didn't try to do no wrong. Oh my God. Get an Uber, stay home, walk. What's the matter with you? Well, she's drunk. She's making decisions while she's drunk. That's what's the matter.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Idiot.

[Jack Armstrong]

So we got some news to catch up. Catch you up on today. The Trump gave a speech. Well, he gave an address last night. It wasn't to all of America, depending on what channel you watched. CBS took it for a while, then cut in and had some actually pretty good analysis, I thought. Pretty fair analysis. ABC and NBC didn't take it at all. They said, nah, lies, lies, lies and damned lies. Yeah. Which it turned out there'd be a lot of stuff in there that wasn't that. It was. It was other stuff. Why he felt like he needed to address the nation with a primetime address, I do not know.

[Joe Getty]

No, even generally kind outlets are saying as a bit of a mishmash and there was some valid stuff in there, but it wasn't what he claimed. It's just, it's not getting good reviews at all. And it's a shame. It's Trump, as usual, doing the right thing in the wrong way. If he had focused on a couple of points, I think it would have been terrific, including the need for voter id, how the vast majority of Americans agree with that point. Why don't we have it? I think that would have been should

[Jack Armstrong]

I just hammered that should have only hammered polls saying, Look, 70% of black people want voter ID. What are we even talking about here?

[Joe Getty]

Right, Exactly. Yeah, but it was a mishmash of accusations and dredging up 2020. And we'll hit you with some of the salient stuff. It was just kind of discouraging.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I understand why it was a primetime address though. He talks about stuff more important than that every single day, sitting in his office surrounded by people.

[Joe Getty]

I think he is actually obsessed with the 2020 election. Seems to be for real.

[Jack Armstrong]

Seems to be. Well, that book will be written someday anyway. We'll get to some of the other headlines and everything that's going on. I hope you can stick around. If you missed the segment, Podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

So a little bit later we're gonna play some I don't remember why Marco Rubio got on this yesterday, but he gave a little speech about communism, capitalism and stuff like that. He's so good at that. Anyway, he was pushing back on that notion that people make a lot, that socialism works in principle it's just never been done.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

And his pushback was. No, it doesn't even work in principle. It doesn't even work in theory. So let's stop there. And he lays it all out. And I want to get to this later. I just came across this. The dsa, that is your, you know, Democratic Socialists of America, who claim they're not communists. They put out their. On their website. They've got their new. What.

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What.

[Jack Armstrong]

What we're trying to accomplish. And let me just give you a little of it as a tease. The document on the DSA website starts with their future without capitalism. Well, first of all, that makes.

[Joe Getty]

Wait a minute.

[Jack Armstrong]

But anyway, what would life be like for a person of working age in a DSA world? And I'm quoting for the. From their website now, you enjoy your work. It's interesting to you, and you're well trained for it. You work as much as you're able and no more than needed. And you would control your own labor and see it going to good use. It's not just a job to pay the bills. You'd work as much as you're able and no more than needed.

[Joe Getty]

Not only. Well, this, this may be the first time that science has identified something that is simultaneously 100% incoherent and yet completely untrue. I mean, it's an unbelievable combination of those two qualities.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Byron York from the Washington examiner writing the perfect world of the dsa. You have no debt. You don't need health insurance. You don't pay a mortgage or have a landlord because housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine and transportation aren't for profit businesses. They're common goods and utilities.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Yeah. So you have a crappy, miserable apartment, barely enough food. You wait for a long time in line for it. You have crappy medical care when you can get it, and you have zero hope of anything ever improving.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and all of that is for a while. You can't even sustain that lifestyle because you run out of money.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, but people keep falling for it.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's something. They actually say that out loud on their website? I would think they'd have to try to fool me. More than that, people will work as much as they want and no more.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Have you met humans?

[Joe Getty]

Only as much as needed. By.

[Jack Armstrong]

By whom? As commanded by. What do you mean? You ever feel like not working or not working the whole day or has that ever happened to you? Or is or do. Do communists think that most people want to go to work and bust their ass for eight hours a day. They just out of enjoyment.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. Their thinking is so detached from reality. I have difficulty grasping it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I do too.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

They actually said that out loud. More on that later from their web, their own website.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Couple of headlines you had the President's speech that was about a bunch of different things kind of related to elections and Chinese interference and and ballot security and vote counting and like 15 different topics and I couldn't follow was a mishmash. Let's see the the dispatch is going big on Ukrainians protest over fire Defense minister. It was a young firebrand who is really into drones and that sort of thing, but I don't know what's going on there internally. White House has changed visa rules. China launches major AI model. Oh, China did have a giant AI conference. There's really going hard at open source AI. We'll talk about that a little bit later on.

[Jack Armstrong]

I want to hear about that. I don't know that story. Did we ever get into Apple suing chat, GPT and what that's all about?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, some.

[Jack Armstrong]

Was I listening? Maybe I wasn't listening.

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[Jack Armstrong]

See terms to underscore the point. Oh my God, I forgot.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

I am 100% the one vault here. Completely forgot that it's Friday and we do clips of the week. Did it feel good, Michael? It really did.

[Joe Getty]

This whole show is out of order. Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Nice job.

[Jack Armstrong]

I go deeper than the usual. I got the schedule wrong. It's like, here it is Friday and I'm not appreciating the fact that we're headed into the weekend. I'm still in middle of the week work mode. What. What has happened to me? That's not good.

[Joe Getty]

Spiritual bankruptcy or you just forgot that it's time to take a fond look back in the week that was. It's cow Clips of the week.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's cow. They call it cow Clips of the week.

[Joe Getty]

It's cow.

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A stunned Washington remembering South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

[Jack Armstrong]

I said, I thought Lindsey was gonna be living forever.

[Joe Getty]

I never thought.

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I never.

[Jack Armstrong]

I said, lindsey, you're gonna live forever.

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When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell em at Lindsey' because I voted for them. I would never do to them what you've done to this guy.

[Joe Getty]

Any new nation's longest war in Afghanistan strengthening NATO.

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President Trump now reinstating the US blockade on Iranian ports.

[Jack Armstrong]

Who will become the guardian of the straits?

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US forces disabled an oil tanker trying to run through it to Iran's Kharg Island. Are you really not a ground campaign?

[Jack Armstrong]

Sometimes you need a ground campaign, but we have other people that will do the ground campaign for us.

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Iran once again firing on its neighbors.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're gonna hit him very hard tonight. We're gonna hit him very hard tomorrow night. We're gonna hit him very hard the night after.

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You're calling his wife a possible Chinese spot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, yes, yes, 100%.

[Joe Getty]

Is anything that I just said not honest or forthright? Yes, you're not being honest or forthright. Who won the 20 election? I think I've answered the question. We can keep doing this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Socialism is not just is overthrowing the entire capitalist state. Everyone seemed to agree that the reason

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Now on Iran and the NDAA is

[Jack Armstrong]

that Vietnam was worse.

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Senator Jacob with TMZ.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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Grass in the buffer snow. 65 year old grandfather running for his life flung into the air. Buffalo. Buffalo. Messi resets. Messy driver stepping in. Messi crossing back. There it is. Lara Martinez. Stoppage time.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Goal for Argentina.

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[Jack Armstrong]

So I asked Claude, did I ask Claude or Chat GPT, I don't know which. Claude. I asked Claude. I said, will you go to the DSA website, the Democratic Socialists of America, since they just put out their new platform and everything like that and, and, and tell me, just, you know, boil it all down for me. This, this, the DSA so far is really getting away with hiding the ball of what they are to the mainstream media because of the mainstream media's lack of interest or they're idiotic knee jerks.

[Joe Getty]

They're of the left, so I'm going to defend them, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Because I don't think most must be lying about them. I don't think most of the mainstream media is run by communists. So I just think they just think, yeah, it's the left, it's the energetic, cool young people. So I want to be on their side. This is actually from the DSA's website. All of this stuff, stuff, universal free health care, of course, including reproductive and gender affirming care. New public hospitals, free medical training. So all that obviously publicly owned social housing as. As Claude says yesterday when I asked about that, they said they don't describe what that means. Publicly owned social housing. Universal rent control, tight rules on investment properties. So rent control, coast to coast reparations. Honoring tribal treaties. Sorry, I'm from South Dakota. Sorry, everybody who lives in South Dakota, you gotta move out. We're honoring tribal treaties now. That belongs to the Sioux. And I mean, this is crazy stuff. Demilitarize police and redirect funding as steps toward abolishing police and prisons and unqualified immunity. You're going to abolish police in prisons? That's in your platform for what you are as a party. No police, no prisons. I mean, we're into Cartoonville here, people.

[Joe Getty]

I know. It's absolute madness. And they're taking over the Democratic Party through the primary process.

[Jack Armstrong]

They've won like a half dozen elections in the last six weeks against mainstream Democrats. And is the. And is CBS News telling you this at the end of the day? By the way, the party which they represent wants to abolish all police in prison.

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I mean.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cause the average person I think, would react to that. Like what? Yeah, that's crazy. Socialist feminism, bodily autonomy, queer liberation, ending sex discrimination, whatever. All those things are green. New Deal federal jobs, guarantee, whatever that is. Public energy in transit and phasing out all fossil fuels. Defund the Department of War and close oversea bases. So we're not going to have a military or any bases around the world. Free Palestine and military and economic aid to Israel. Abolish ice. Legalize migration as an actual open border.

[Joe Getty]

Open borders, yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Amnesty, regardless of status. Abolish the Electoral College. I mean, this is a complete. And the Senate. This is a complete remaking of the United States of America. Replace the President and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. Abolish the Senate, as Joe said. Expand the House. Proportional representation, blah, blah, blah. Public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries. So Apple and SpaceX and Nvidia and all your biggest companies would be government owned. I mean, this is. This is unbelievable that this is the fact that the Democratic Socialist Party has existed all our whole lives. There's all kinds of parties out there and they have websites and they have platforms and all this sort of stuff, but these people are winning elections and nobody's paying any attention. Yeah, yeah, I'm not worried of a takeover, really, but this has got to be exposed. Come on. New York Times, CBS Evening News. Next time Somebody with DSA next to their name wins afterwards and don't just how exciting, you know, you pulled off an upset victory. Make them. Are you for abolishing the Senate? Do you believe all the prisons should be closed? Do you believe we should get rid of the Department of Defense and use all that money for free housing? Do you believe all these things?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, I know. And we ran the, the audio the other day of person after person after person within the DSA leadership sanction. Our goal is to destroy the Democratic Party. We are going to take it over and make it our party. We're not there to be part of it or work with them. We're there to take it over. And nobody wants to talk about that either. This is bizarro fantasy land and I don't think it'll get very far, but every inch it gets is to the detriment of the us. Every young person who swept up in this is a problem. So I. Oh, I want to point out, and we'll get to this in a bit, a young firebrand, young woman for the Wall Street Journal went to a summer's worth of DSA meetings and events and stuff. And it's interesting on a couple of levels. Number one, they are very, very smart. They are putting the social back in socialist. They're having all these get togethers where young people are having real human contact and they're enjoying it because of course they are. But the point of the gathering is to promote the DSA and its beliefs. The other aspect of the article that's super interest everywhere, at every meeting, in every home, blah, blah, blah, is up with communism memorabilia, symbols, Chairman Mao's book. It's they are avowedly communists, the deadliest

[Jack Armstrong]

ideology in human history that killed more people in the 20th century than all the wars added together. So I say to Claude, I'm not just trying to be a pain in the ass, but how does all this housing and medical care and all that get paid for? Claude says to me, fair question. And the honest answer is that it doesn't really say on the website. The only revenue mechanisms it names are aggressive wealth, taxes on the richest individuals and corporations defunding the military. That is a lot of money. As Claude points out, if you decide we're not going to have a military, that's next year's budget is $1.2 trillion.

[Joe Getty]

Well, next year's budget is what the Chinese tell us our budget is because without a military, oh, they will be running the place.

[Jack Armstrong]

I see what you mean, but. So that is A lot of money. You're not gonna have a military and you got the problem Joe just mentioned but even Claude points out. And then I'll shut up about this blah blah blah blah blah. Wealth tax. Wealth taxes don't scale. Total US billionaire wealth is about $5 trillion. A one time 100% seizure wouldn't cover their plans for 10 years, let alone permanently. And it goes on to say the awkward comparison, and this is Claude, which is I think we talked about this while you're gone. It's gotten more left stuff than any of the major chat bots. Claude does the awkward comparison. Claude says Nordic welfare states fund this with broad based vats, value added taxes and payroll taxes that hit middle income earners hard, not billionaires middle class. So the math tends to point toward taxing people well below the 1% which the platform doesn't say. So thank you for Claude for pointing out that in these socialist countries where it works and they cannot have a military because we protect them. So that's not a minor point. But in these countries where socialism works, using my finger quotes, they tax the crap out of the middle class. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Rough greens makes any dog food better. Wolf, I said give me a little more on the whole housing being a human. Right? And Claude said that's the whole of it. Reading the entire website verbatim from the program, four sentences under housing for all. Housing is a human right. Build new publicly owned social housing. Oh, yeah, rent control nationwide. Your people are insane.

[Joe Getty]

All right. Socialized medicine. Right now in Britain, for non urgent hospital care, the maximum Target weight is 18 weeks. So you need to be in the hospital. They're targeting 18 weeks, though the average weight across England is currently around 38 weeks. 38 weeks for dental care. Routine checkups often take 4 to 12 weeks of waiting while urgent cases are tried to be seen within 72 hours. So you have an urgent. You have a dental emergency and they make this solemn promise. Can get you in three or four days.

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[Jack Armstrong]

We were at the DMV yesterday, me and my son, something that had to be done at the dmv. And I told him, I said, people who want government health care, this is what all. This is what it's going to be like to go to the doctor. Because I had the experience at the dmv. This was his first time ever at the dmv. It prepared him for. Well, I said, most of the time when I've gone to the dv, in my DMV in my life, I haven't been able to accomplish what I want to do that day. They tell me there's some form I don't have that I didn't even know about. And that is exactly what happened. We had to go back home and get something else. But I said this would be like your thing there. You go in and you're just in screaming pain. And they say, now, do you have your FW46? A what? FW46. Do you have that? No. Okay, well, you got to have that. Next.

[Joe Getty]

Final note, in Britain, your doctor says, this person needs urgent cancer care. The goal is for most patients to get their free first treatment within two months.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ooh, I'd have been dead.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly. And that's the goal. And they don't reach the goal. The fact that people fall for this crap astounds me, horrifies me and frightens me.

[Jack Armstrong]

All I'm asking is mainstream media to ask questions. These people, when they win elections, they. They aren't hiding this. It's on their website. This.

[Joe Getty]

All right?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's right there on the website. We got Mailbag, Next. Next. Armstrong and Getty.

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The Odyssey's out today, and it's Hollywood's attempt to rejuvenate the movie industry with an entirely new way of looking at it, and talk more about that later.

[Joe Getty]

Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing our series about Iran. This from the great man, the greatest man, perhaps Barack Obama. As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war. All right, only we had stuck a third term that would have solved all the world's problems. Mailbag trappers. No [e-mail] first this from Vic in Georgia, not Commifornia. Okay? Complicated, dear.

[Jack Armstrong]

Complicated.

[Joe Getty]

Jack at daytime drinking Joe, you have Biden's book all wrong. We were playing the promos about Biden's book yesterday, didn't we? Perhaps not. It's about how he graduated. The book is about how he graduated. Graduated as valedictorian with three degrees. How he got arrested for visiting Nelson Mandel in prison, how he put out a 5 fire in their house, how he used to be a truck driver, take trained work, how Jill is a doctor now. His uncle was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's right.

[Guest/Contributor (Tony Ayo)]

I forgot.

[Jack Armstrong]

His uncle was eaten by Campbells.

[Joe Getty]

Right. It's a novel. It's entitled Battahada Kef care.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I completely forgot about the cannibal story.

[Joe Getty]

Any donations? Longest worn Afghanistan time.

[Jack Armstrong]

What was that?

[Joe Getty]

Any of our nation's longest war in Afghanistan.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's from their promo for the book. That's just malpractice.

[Joe Getty]

Got this from Aaron. In the words of my generation, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to do this, but Rubio, Rubio, Rubio. His speech yesterday getting a lot of attention. We'll play you some excerpts from it. It's a humdinger.

[Jack Armstrong]

Take it on communism. Which is what the DSA is.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly. Marco is the man of the future in my opinion. And I said in two, three years the politics of America are going to be completely different and Trump's going to be an afterthought. JT and Livermore says, wow, we see 2028 completely different, differently. First off, the Dems have never had such a powerful rallying cry as they have with Trump. They won't let that go in 2028. If for no other reason than this prove so effective and easy in the past. See Covid, see Doge, see school closures. But realistically, all Republicans will be tainted with Trump and Most especially the VP in the cabinet. Vance and Rubio. Maybe 2032 can be a non Trump election. Maybe. I think Rubio is smart enough to to thread that needle. Yeah, we'll see. We'll find out together.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't actually know when you are 100% right. We'll find out together. I don't actually know, but I could see it being speaking of COVID Like that was all just so crazy and upending. Let's just never talk about it again and move on. Which is what happened with the pandemic in 1918 and what has happened with COVID and the Trump era might be like that. That where everybody just is like I don't. Please don't use the T word. Let's talk about the future.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I don't want to talk about it. Yeah, a couple of stray notes stuff we talked about AI matchmaking. Andre points out there was an actual dating app in the late 2000s. At least that was based on matching people off their personality quizzes. I met my wife of now 16 years on OkCupid. Yeah where you would take endless quizzes giving you opinions on various issues, how important they were to you, blah blah blah.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I'm wondering if you guys, since those algorithms seem to have the ability to figure out things about us we don't even know ourselves, if they can do that to match people up, I wonder.

[Joe Getty]

I think it's absolutely worth exploring. And then finally on the widow of Corey the firefighter was killed at the Trump assassination attempt. Comparatory I don't have an opinion on this, writes Jared in Missouri, but is it really so hard to believe that someone with knowledge of the security setup got into this kid's ear and told them there'd be an opportunity for a clean shot? I don't think that's that far fetched. I don't know. It's either that or such a horrific level of incompetence. One can barely comprehend it.

[Jack Armstrong]

We got a lot more in the coming hours. If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. If you subscribe, then you just automatically have it fed to you every single day and you don't got to think about it again. You got plenty to listen to.

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