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And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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A brand new monkey species has been discovered. You wouldn't think that could still happen on planet Earth in the year 2026, but they discovered a brand new monkey.
Joe Getty
Saw that. Yeah, if you're bored with the standard monkeys, good news.
Jack Armstrong
Tell you about that coming up.
Michael Goodwin
So
Jack Armstrong
presidential election 28 Republican side. The most dumbed down version is Marco Rubio vs. J.D. vance. For people, names will probably emerge that you don't even know or I don't even know, but J.D. vance versus Marco Rubio. J.D. vance, the current sitting vice president, who. I don't know exactly what or who he is because he's been a number of different things. He was on Joe Rogan the other day for like three hours or something. Man, I heard him getting killed by a lot of different corners.
Joe Getty
Well, I'll kill him for this. Absolutely. Dropping his pants for the it's the Jews crowd. Shameless. Disgusting. Mortifying.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, yeah, Mark Halperin thought it was unbelievable that JD Vance went on there and some of the things that he
Joe Getty
said, it was obscene.
Jack Armstrong
So then you got Marco Rubio, who is the sitting Secretary of State, who is very verbally gifted. So is J.D. vance. Well, actually back to J.D. vance, the fact that he is so verbally gifted. See Trump, Trump's verbally gifted in a weird way. But he also sometimes just says stuff because of the way his brain works that he doesn't really mean or he should have said it differently. J.D. vance is not saying anything by accident. So none of that stuff he said on Joe Rogan was like a slip of the tongue or. I'm sorry, I didn't think that through.
Joe Getty
Yeah, it is, as the Brits say, too clever by half. He's really trying to get that crowd consolidated behind him, the anti semitic new right. Anyway, Marco, meanwhile, who I am a great admirer of, gave a speech and I'm trying to read this print. It's super tiny. It was a big thinkatorium about leftism, militant leftism, leftist violence and communism. In short. And he absolutely brought the thunder. He had kind of two main points, one being the violence coming from the left and then the false promises of the left. Here's a nice sample of the first theme.
Marco Rubio (speech clips)
More than 80% of radical violence is now driven by far left and anarchist actors. These, these are not abstract statistics. Americans have seen what those numbers mean. An all out assault on our immigration officers. Sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes. A transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray. His gun marked with slogans like where is your God now? A health care executive executed in cold blood in the streets. Multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president. And the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation. A man who happened also be a husband and the father of two young children shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students.
Joe Getty
And he makes a point that this is a distinctive evil. It's the worst against the best. This is what radical leftism is. It's trying to tear people down.
Jack Armstrong
So you ready to move on to the socialism part?
Joe Getty
Sure.
Michael Goodwin
So
Jack Armstrong
does he start with that at 82 or 83 on this list? I listened to the clips last night and I real. Or I listened to his speech, but I heard the socialism part of the speech, but I don't know how it's broken down.
Joe Getty
It's all good. Let's just start from 82.
Jack Armstrong
Okay?
Marco Rubio (speech clips)
It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti capitalists or anti imperialists or communists or anarchist or Marxist, but the fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, we played the clip of Bertrand Russell a while back and he. This was in black and white. He said this in the 50s or something, one of your thinkers. And I'd never heard it, heard said that plainly. And I will think about it differently for the rest of my life. It's not about helping the downtrodden, it's about bringing down the successful. Because it is the politics of envy. It's some sort of weird, they have more than me and I'm going to stop them from having stuff. But that doesn't work. So you have to claim it's about helping the working class.
Joe Getty
Right, Right. It's the politics of envy, of blame. And it's almost always the young, disaffected educated who don't have the lives they think they ought to have. And so they need somebody to blame and you throw in, oh, I get stuff without trying. That sounds great too. That's what it is. That's what it's always been.
Jack Armstrong
Marco goes on in the next clip.
Marco Rubio (speech clips)
Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was wrong. The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite. One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice. That's actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world it envisions is a world without courage, A world without creativity or ambition. A world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, without a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things. And the world communism envisions is a world without God.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, we need to stop with the. It sounds good in theory. He's right. Because it doesn't sound good even in theory because of the force mechanism. You need to make it work.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
That by definition is going to make it evil. You need so much force to make all these things happen. You know, I was reading the Democratic Socialists of America platform a little bit earlier and they're talk of the government owning the biggest corporations in America. So you're talking about what Apple and SpaceX and Google and GM and, and how, how is that going to happen? I mean, the amount of force that it would take to take over those companies and then run them and take the money and do whatever they're going
Joe Getty
to do with it. It's absolutely asinine. It's unworkable. And anybody who's, who has any real world experience knows that the fact that a scheme that ludicrous is as appealing as it is to young people who are miseducated. And it's worth mentioning. And I've got some more statistics. We touched on this the other day. This is almost exclusively a movement of the young, white and educated. Now they like to trot out a minority person here and there because that's their claim, that it's to lift up the downtrodden. But it is white, wildly young, white and affluent. Anyway, a little more from Marco for
Marco Rubio (speech clips)
these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization. For them it's an unbearable humiliation. A reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines, they attack railroads, they attack power grids and laboratories. The physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement. This is the nature of the terrorism we face today. They despise the west because the west is great.
Jack Armstrong
So you asked this the other day and I'd like to hear Tim or one of our lawyer friends explain why this doesn't cross the line. Because everybody joins the military, becomes a judge, becomes President of the United States, becomes a member of the Senate, whatever, all kinds of different positions. You have to swear to uphold the Constitution, the Democratic. The DSA platform wants to rewrite the Constitution? Well, that's a gentle way of saying tear up the current Constitution, destroy the Constitution, not uphold the current Constitution. How are they not enemies of America if they want to end capitalism, destroy the Constitution, get rid of the Senate and abolish prisons and the police. How are you not an enemy of the United States if that's your platform?
Joe Getty
Well, that's revolution. I mean, to, to, to end the Senate. Unless you specifically say we're going to promote a constitutional amendment and get it approved by two thirds of the states, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, you're talking about revolution. And again, I agree with you completely.
Jack Armstrong
The amount of force it would take to do that. What are you going to an army, going to come in and close it down? I mean, what are we talking about here?
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah, it's, it's an interesting question about. It's kind of a philosophical question. One of the things that proves how dedicated we are to free speech and how incredibly great it is, is we'll let these jackass yahoos shoot off their mouths. And a lot of it actually kind of crosses the line. But look, they're not doing any harm. And we're that dedicated to free speech. We are the shining city on the Hill when it comes to liberty for the rest of the world. They look at us, you know, like Brits and Canadians think we're half nuts, but yeah, well, who's a great superpower and who's not? But at some point, if you let him get too much critical mass, then all of a sudden you've got to crack down.
Jack Armstrong
Well, we need a little ugly. We need a little more free speech on this issue. But I'll tell you about that after this.
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Jack Armstrong
free speech around this issue. So the Democratic Socialists of America, the dsa, their web, the website, it says this was started by Bernie Sanders. I don't know if Bernie believes all this stuff, but. But ask him, make him answer the question. Do you believe all the stuff on the website? Do you want to do away with this? You're a senator. Do you want to do away with the U.S. senate? Do you want to rewrite the Constitution? Which again is a nice way of saying, tear up the Constitution, destroy the Constitution, come up with something different. Destroy capitalism. Is that what you want to do? All these candidates that have run as DSA candidates that have won their primaries, make them say, do you agree with all this stuff?
Joe Getty
I want to completely open the borders and I want to completely open the prisons. Empty the prisons and eliminate police forces. That's what I want. Make them say that housing is a
Jack Armstrong
right and it'll all be controlled by the government. Is that what you advocate? Say it out loud. Apple is going to belong to the government. Is that your actuality?
Joe Getty
Innovate and be efficient with its money and blah, blah, blah.
Jack Armstrong
I think some of them that they would say no, but I think some of them would say no one would be lying.
Joe Getty
Yeah, Mark's just sly all the time.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, you have any thoughts on any of that? Text line 415295 KFTC.
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Joe Getty
York Mayor Zoran Mandan yesterday attended a
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Jack Armstrong
So I Got more on that in a little bit. The. The watch party that Mamdani put together in the prison. I wish. I wish you. You communists worried as much about taxpayers and citizens who obey the laws as you do about people who are in prisons who demonstrated that they don't care about society.
Joe Getty
No kidding. I thought this was so enlightening. A young woman by the name of Kendall White, who's some sort of, like, young fellow at the Wall Street Journal, writes, it's summertime for socialism in New York. And she mentions the Democratic Socialists. America claimed primary wins in three of the safe congressional districts in New York and will probably be headed into the United States. And she says, how did they do it? To find out, I spent the last month soaking up the warmth of collectivism by cramming as many DSA events as possible into my schedule. Coffee with comrades, a socialism 101 course, a new Member's Social, a book club, and even a hootenanny. I found myself thinking, what is a hootenanny exactly? Is it like a jamboree or is that different?
Jack Armstrong
Is it better or worse than a hoedown? Is it more festive than a hoedown
Joe Getty
or less right or more somber? Right. Yes. I don't know. But listen to this. This is, you know, while our ridiculous.
Jack Armstrong
It's a less somber hoedown. Don't you know anything, idiot?
Joe Getty
Yeah, but listen to this.
Jack Armstrong
What do you say?
Joe Getty
Oh, for God's sake. The DSA also hosts board game nights, running clubs, World cup watch parties, a softball league, and birding trips. And I think that is really interesting, giving young people a chance to actually get together and using that positive feel to indoctrinate them into socialism. Then she goes into the fact that the DSA is of the opinion that we should just use the Democratic Party ballot line, but we should build our own party. So once we're in office, we're not responsible to the Democratic Party at all. We're the dsa. So we use that ballot line, call ourselves Democrats, but we are the dsa. And then she goes into some facilitators. The things they said. Getting rid of the Senate and the Electoral College. Another important aspect of socialism, he said, is that that we generally consider ourselves to be Marxists. And then they sang a newish version of Le International, the Soviet Union's national anthem for much of Stalin's reign. They changed some of the lyrics to from the river to the Sea, Forever, Trans Rights Forever, that sort of thing. And Kendall writes at the new Member Social. I sipped the seltzer while conversing with fellow travelers in a spacious apartment. A copy of Mao's Little Red Book in a Russian fur hat with a Soviet red star sat together on a bookshelf. The communist paraphernalia was mirrored by a collection of Mamdani campaign signs. On the opposite side of the room, comrades cracked open a Riesling that retails for nearly $100 a half bottle.
Jack Armstrong
Well, that's why Jonah Goldberg was writing the other day that this whole the DSA is. No, it's just kind of a slightly
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Jack Armstrong
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Marco Rubio (speech clips)
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
For instance, Byron York has this quote from the DSA website what it'd be like under them. You have no debt, you don't need health insurance, you don't pay a mortgage or have a landlord because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine and transportation aren't for profit.
Joe Getty
Right? Right. Kendall writes, the DSA offers an attractive bill of goods, a built in friend group and the promise of free everything for everyone all the time. How Democrats Compete Cats can talk.
Jack Armstrong
Horses can fly.
Joe Getty
Sure, might as well.
Jack Armstrong
And you can put gold bars.
Joe Getty
All Democrats have had on offer for the past decade is a geriatric geriatric candidates and rage against President Trump. If you're a young Democrat wanting to meet like minded friends, good luck. I filled out the New York State Democratic interest form two weeks ago. Have yet to hear back. There are no events listed on their website. Even if there were, I doubt they would have as much folk music and free beer as the DSA shindigs I attended. The Democrats problem is of their own creation. She she goes on at some length. The warmth of collectivism feels all the warmer because of the social chill Democrats imposed on New York.
Jack Armstrong
You can wear cowboy boots to a hoot nanny, can't you?
Joe Getty
Sure. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
Probably not a shindig.
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You would stand out definitely.
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You could at a hoedown jamboree. I'd wear loafers.
Joe Getty
Really? What do you
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Jack Armstrong
In a recent interview, Keith Richards called America a bit of a disappointment at the moment, leaving many people concerned that he's having trouble finding drugs. So Mick Jagger's done about 10 hours with interviews in the last week. They got a new album out that. My brother, who is a Rolling Stones fanatic, says it's pretty good. I haven't listened to anybody. You listen to any of it?
Joe Getty
I have no doubt. No, I haven't yet. Yeah, the last one was pretty damn solid.
Jack Armstrong
My brother thought he said, this is like tattoo you again. What was your.
Joe Getty
That was my skeptical noise.
Jack Armstrong
You don't believe it or not?
Joe Getty
Oh, I'd have to hear it.
Jack Armstrong
They're in their 80s. But anyway, the whole rock stars unhappy with America. Oh, please. Oh, my. Oh, my freaking God. We have to make one exception to free speech. No more rock stars with their political opinions. Keith Richards couldn't love your music more. Who could possibly give a crap? While you think about the state of the United States of America right now,
Joe Getty
here's my only defense of Keefe, the guy who asked him.
Jack Armstrong
Good point. That is an excellent point, actually.
Joe Getty
Thank you. I'm here all week, which is mercifully about that.
Jack Armstrong
That's what the new free speech rule has got to be about. Stop asking someone who just won a gold medal in the Olympics what they think of ice. Stop asking aging guitar players what they think of the politics of America. Yeah, stop. You really think you're doing some good in the world? I assume you became a journalist because you're gonna try and do some good in the world. That ain't doing good in the world. All right, you bastards. I'd like to fight you. I'd like to fight that guy, whoever that guy is right now.
Joe Getty
You perfectly normal.
Jack Armstrong
Be also perfectly normal. Also old. Probably roughly the same age. Joe Biden as Keith Richard. So he's got a new book coming out in November. Promise Me America, which Nellie Bowles of Free Press says she hasn't figured out what the inflection is supposed to be on that. Promise me America or Promise me America or what is.
Joe Getty
How are you supposed to do it? My kids. A pony for Christmas. Promise me a pony.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, here is the promo that they put out.
Michael Goodwin
It's about the challenge we face as a nation. About the decisions I made and why I made them. Leading the country through Covid and rebuilding our economy and restoring our democracy after the attack on January 6th.
Jack Armstrong
Here's Old Goodwin.
Michael Goodwin
Any of our nation's longest war in Afghanistan.
Jack Armstrong
That's the good one right there. Okay, that's good, Michael. That. That war in Afghanistan. And as Nellie Bowles writes. Anyway, he released a video announcing the book. And it's very sad to watch Biden has declined further. As it happens in life, the camera cuts every two seconds. I hadn't thought about that. But it wasn't just being a modern TikTok thing. It was a, we have to piece this together two seconds at a time. And that Afghanistan, I mean, we're in this business. All you can do is assume that's the best they could do after many, many, many takes.
Michael Goodwin
Any of our nation's longest war in Afghanistan.
Joe Getty
Yeah, the people who are involved in the production thought that's as good as we're going to get. We just need to move on.
Jack Armstrong
It's very sad to watch the camera cuts every two seconds. His voice is slurred and hushed. Some of his longer words are barely intelligible. I'd say after 80, why even be on camera? Who is the one saying we need him to be doing more on camera stuff?
Joe Getty
And why do I feel like Dr.
Jack Armstrong
Jill is gearing him up to be on Dancing with the Stars?
Joe Getty
Right?
Jack Armstrong
Oh, the evil Dr. Jill. Not a real doctor.
Joe Getty
Not even close.
Jack Armstrong
No. Holy cow.
Joe Getty
Yeah, just terrible. Please.
Jack Armstrong
She finishes with please. Biden's let this man retire from public life. He's earned his cantaloupe and let him eat it in peace.
Joe Getty
You know, I discovered the joys of the humble cantaloupe whilst vacationing. Jeannie and I used to buy them, but you, they're huge. So you got a whole cantaloupe and that for two people, I mean, that would last you three weeks. Except the cantaloupe won't last three weeks. Or you buy pre sliced, prohibitively expensive.
Jack Armstrong
My mom always called it musk melon.
Joe Getty
Different melon.
Jack Armstrong
That's a different melon.
Joe Getty
I do believe so.
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Yes.
Joe Getty
I, I could be mistaken. My melon knowledge is admittedly mediocre at best.
Jack Armstrong
My kids always complain if you go to a cheap restaurant, which we do a lot, and you get their fruit bowl, which I often make them get a fruit bowl if they're having other unhealthy stuff. The fruit bowl at a cheap restaurant is all melon. They'll give you like ag grape and ass slice of strawberry and a bunch of melon. Melon must be free. You go to a nice restaurant and get a fruit bowl like a more expensive breakfast place. There's lots of delicious fruit in there. You get some, you get some pineapple, you get several grapes, she gets a couple blueberries. Cheap restaurants though, looking at you. Black Bear Diner. Oh, melon.
Joe Getty
Nice job. Fruit.
Jack Armstrong
Way too much melon.
Joe Getty
Look at that guy. He's some sort of fruit bowl. Here's your answer, Jack. And we've all learned something today. A cantaloupe is a type of muskmelon, but not all muskmelons are cantaloupes.
Jack Armstrong
Cantaloupe without a girl. Say that again.
Joe Getty
A cantaloupe is a type of muskmelon, but not all muskmelons are cantaloupe.
Jack Armstrong
So my mom was right.
Joe Getty
Yes, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. It was a specific sort of muskmelon.
Jack Armstrong
She, you know, child of the depression. She's a. Hey, we aren't the kind of people that get to, like, individually identify our melons, all right? Right. We're lucky to have a melon at all. They're all musk melons. Let's eat it, enjoy ourselves.
Joe Getty
The rich might be obsessing over what
Jack Armstrong
muskmelon will we serve tonight.
Joe Getty
We are happy to have any melon we can get. Exactly. God bless.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, man. Muskmelon. Which is a terrible name for a melon. I don't find melon that enjoyable anyway, generally. But musk is not a appetizing word.
Joe Getty
Oh, I've hardly met a melon I didn't enjoy.
Jack Armstrong
Really?
Joe Getty
How about the humble watermelon?
Jack Armstrong
I have never understood the melons, both
Joe Getty
in size and deliciousness.
Jack Armstrong
I've never understood the appeal of watermelon.
Marco Rubio (speech clips)
What?
Joe Getty
Wow. Yeah, I know, Michael. We're working with a weirdo freak.
Jack Armstrong
God, when I was a kid, it'd be, hey, we got watermelon. It was like, I don't know, like, they gave us a pony or something. And then I was like, okay.
Joe Getty
Great freaking summer deliciousness. It's American deliciousness. Hey, that was great how the Cubs won the World Series last year, wasn't it, Jack? I'm seeing whether he's a Soviet spy because the Cubs didn't win the Series and he didn't.
Jack Armstrong
You got, like, watermelon juice running down your arm.
Joe Getty
Well, put your elbow to the side. This is. This is a disappointing moment. The scene should probably move a spit about for distance. That's how I learned really good spitting technique, by the way. Spitting watermelon seed. Spitting contests with my cousins back in the day. Good times.
Jack Armstrong
We're gonna. We got a person out in the newsroom, Jensen, who does news for us every now and then. She's in her 20s. She's a regular person. She went to opening night of the Odyssey last night, gonna ask her a regular person about it. And she was out at the imax, which is Part of the attempt here to like rescue the movie industry because they do have the problem of like, I got a really great tv. It wasn't that expensive either. And it's really, really giant and really, really good. And the leap from that to a regular movie is just not enough to make me go sometimes. But IMAX is different. There's IMAX is world from television. And so this is the first major motion picture that's been released in full form on an imax. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna check that out. And I, I tried to get seats. There were seats available for this weekend. I thought, oh, cool. Opening weekend, still seats available, but only the front two rows. Well, luckily, as I mentioned that yesterday a bunch of you texted me and said, don't do it, you can't. Not only do you have to crane your neck, which I don't really care about that much, but you just can't, you can't really take in what's going on. It's not designed. I don't even know why they sell
Joe Getty
seats there and just extract the money from poor suckers like yourself, I guess.
Jack Armstrong
But I'm gonna wait till next week so I won't be able to review it this weekend like I was hoping to. I'm gonna wait till next week so I can get a seat further back, middle of the IMAX and watch it in the full form.
Joe Getty
Did you look forward? Yes. Did you say it was three hours long? Oh, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
It's just like two minutes short of three hour movie. Although they announced that I appreciated that. At least our local imax, we ain't doing any previews. All right, so the movie starts on time. Don't show up on time because I have started showing up a full half hour late because that's how long the previews have become at my local movie theater. And it's not just previews, it's just ads. Here's an ad for State Farm Insurance, here's an ad for McDonald's and then previews. It's just, I'm going to sit there for a half hour and watch movies. I mean commercials. It's crazy.
Joe Getty
Yeah. So that will be in our four. We'll get to Jensen's review. If you don't get our for Grab it vibe podcast, Armstrong, you get it on demand. You ought to be subscribing. You will get the Armstrong, you get a One More Thing podcast automatically. Yesterday's One More Thing was about how perverse the American Museum of National History at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. has become. How it's become like an organ of Marxist education. It's sickening.
Jack Armstrong
It really is. I complained about this last summ because me and the kids went But I
Joe Getty
really think you'll enjoy the podcast against Armstrong and Getty on demand from July 16th coming up. Really need to tip our cap to the fact that LA's bums and junkies policies have reached a new level of waste and incompetence. Six months ago you thought this is as bad as it gets. No, they've. They've striven to rise above that level of incompetence and they've gotten even better. Slash worse.
Michael Goodwin
Cool.
Jack Armstrong
And man, they got a problem in Colorado we'll get to at some point. Somebody keeps hacking into online courts. Court dramas. No, that makes it sound like a TV show. Actual courtrooms, you know, court cases they're doing online and showing porn or Nazi stuff. Oh, it keeps happening over and over again.
Joe Getty
I'm here and I'm not a cat.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. That sort of.
Joe Getty
That sort of thing. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Stay tuned.
Joe Getty
Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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Jack Armstrong
Coming up in a moment.
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There is a problem with starting to do all your your court cases online. People are hacking in. And in Colorado they got a particular problem with porn and Nazis showing up in their courtrooms.
Joe Getty
So more pornographic Nazis anything. Can it get any worse? So, speaking of great Western cities, or at least formerly so, in great Western states, LA's homeless policy is piling the incredibly expensive absurd upon the appallingly expensive ridiculous. California Post is reporting that a city homeless initiative championed by Councilwoman Nithya Raman. She is the communist who's way left of Karen Bass, who was one of the final two in the election. Poor Spencer Pratt being shoved aside. But this homeless initiative championed by the socialist Ramen has spent more than $60 million to fill three subsidized apartments with homeless, quote, unquote Angelenos. It was supposed to be a couple of thousand. It's three so far. Three. Not three thousand, not 303. Meanwhile, City hall still pumps hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into a different thing. The scandal marred LA Homeless Services Authority despite years of talk about the need for because they don't do any good. So then you've got Karen Bass's signature Inside Safe program, which pays exorbitant rates to temporary, temporarily stash bums and junkies in hotel rooms. Then there's the city's dismal record with the LA Homeless Services Authority, which we could go into detail.
Marco Rubio (speech clips)
But.
Joe Getty
But Bass appoints five of the 10 members who govern that authority. But it's completely corrupt, completely ineffective. And the city has appeared powerless to fix the agency or even leave it. The county has more or less left that organization behind. But this year the Trump administration yanked $200 million in federal funding that the LAHSA had been getting as the feds probe the agency for alleged financial mismanage. Do you think? Conflicts of interest and poor contract oversight. But the city officials who've been talking about how it's ineffective have yet to even study the prospect of shifting spending away from the lhsa. They just keep shoveling them tens of millions of dollars. And this is a group that just spent $60 million to move homeless people into three apartments. It's also a group that. That pours billions of dollars into the homeless industrial complex, funneling taxpayer money to nonprofits that benefit financially by entrenching homelessness rather than abating it. And it's just growing. Holy crap.
Jack Armstrong
Frustrating.
Joe Getty
Oh, and nobody's willing to admit it's a drug problem. It's a drug and drug fueled mental illness problem.
Jack Armstrong
So we're on a new radio station in Denver, Colorado, K how. I grew up listening to K HOW K H O W every day when I was a teenager and it's one of the main reasons I got into radio at all. So it's very exciting that the Armstrong and Yeti show is now on KHOW in Denver, where I also have been on in Colorado Springs for quite some time. That's where this story comes from.
Joe Getty
Where my parents lived for years and years. Love the Springs, right?
Marco Rubio (speech clips)
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
This is from KRDO in Colorado Springs. And a problem they're having with courtrooms.
KRDO Reporter
This video sent to us by a viewer shows what started as a routine court hearing and ended with pornography, swastikas and a judge forced to shut the hearing down.
Michael Goodwin
Literally, it would be men gratifying themselves with swastika swirling around the screen.
KRDO Reporter
Defense attorney Jeremy Lowe was in the El Paso county courtroom when it happened last week. He says the judge immediately shut the virtual proceeding down after the explicit video, which we've heavily blurred, took over the screen.
Michael Goodwin
This is pornographic and anti Semitic images being projected throughout a courtroom. Thanks for your expertise, people to observe. And it's just not appropriate.
Joe Getty
We're tracking.
Jack Armstrong
Appreciate your expertise. On that. This is inappropriate and anti Semitic. Oh, you mean the guy whacking off and the Nazi symbols? Oh, okay.
Joe Getty
You got a guy polishing his V2 right there on the screen. It's a little World War II humor for you.
Jack Armstrong
I'm glad we brought in somebody with a PhD to let us know why this is offensive. The report goes on.
KRDO Reporter
KRDO 13 investigates also obtained video from a similar disruption during a Pueblo county court hearing a few weeks ago. The Colorado judicial department tells KRDO 13 investigates it has received reports of at least 28 virtual courtroom disruptions in the last six months alone. And the state says the people responsible are disguising themselves as police officers, attorneys, and other legitimate court participants. Back in 2024, KRDO 13 Investigates reported on similar disruptions inside Colorado's virtual court system.
Michael Goodwin
There are high school kids and junior high school kids that come throughout the courtrooms and observe proceedings again with their school. You know, it is really sad that we have the potential to expose them to this.
Jack Armstrong
Once again, I was kind of on
Joe Getty
the fence about whether having Nazi porn on our courtroom proceedings was a good idea or not, but he convinced me
Jack Armstrong
that's right, the kids.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
If he didn't have high schoolers there, then we'd all be perfectly fine with watching a Nazi masturbate.
Ryan Reynolds
But.
Joe Getty
But he makes an excellent point.
Jack Armstrong
So, you know, it turns out you were right. I wasn't picturing that. I thought it was two different things. Likely I thought it was probably people hacking in. I shouldn't say hacking. Breaking in and then showing porn and then some other Nazi stuff. But no, it's actually combined.
Joe Getty
Right, right. Nazi Germany. I say we break in and show porn. No, no, no. We've got to inflict Nazi stuff on people. That's the most shocking. I say porn. I say Nazi. You got Nazi on my porn. You got porn on my Nazi. That's an old reference. Yeah, but then they came up with. Wait, wait, wait a minute, Heinrich. Wait a minute.
Jack Armstrong
Two great offenses that offend together. Nazi and porn. That is really something. Thank you, Colorado for that. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand. Armstrong and Getty.
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Episode: Promise Me A Pony!
Date: July 17, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts
In this thought-provoking episode, Armstrong & Getty tackle a whirlwind of political and cultural topics, with their signature blend of sarcasm and candor. The main theme centers around the evolving landscape of American politics, the dangers and allure of radical leftism (particularly within Democratic Socialists of America), and the dysfunction of current policy—especially regarding homelessness in LA and legal proceedings in Colorado. From savage takes on J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio’s rhetoric to the peculiarities of fruit bowls and Rolling Stones interviews, the duo delivers both sharp analysis and playful banter.
[02:55 – 04:48]
"He is so verbally gifted... J.D. Vance is not saying anything by accident. So none of that stuff he said on Joe Rogan was like a slip of the tongue."
— Jack Armstrong [04:07]
[04:48 – 12:19]
Leftist Violence:
“More than 80% of radical violence is now driven by far left and anarchist actors... A transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray. His gun marked with slogans like where is your God now?... Multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president...”
— Marco Rubio (speech clip) [05:02]
Socialism Critique:
“It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice ... an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built...”
— Marco Rubio (speech clip) [06:24] “Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception... without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest...”
— Marco Rubio (speech clip) [07:54] “They despise the west because the west is great.”
— Marco Rubio (speech clip) [10:36]
Armstrong draws a historical line, paraphrasing philosopher Bertrand Russell:
“It's not about helping the downtrodden, it's about bringing down the successful. Because it is the politics of envy..."
— Jack Armstrong [06:58]
Discussion on the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA):
“How are you not an enemy of the United States if that's your platform?”
— Jack Armstrong [11:42]
[18:48 – 23:02]
"The DSA offers an attractive bill of goods, a built in friend group and the promise of free everything for everyone all the time."
— Joe Getty paraphrasing Kendall White [22:14]
[26:22 – 33:48]
“Muskmelon—which is a terrible name for a melon...”
— Jack Armstrong [32:34]
[40:17 – 43:12]
"This is a group that just spent $60 million to move homeless people into three apartments...pours billions of dollars into the homeless industrial complex, funneling taxpayer money to nonprofits that benefit financially by entrenching homelessness rather than abating it."
— Joe Getty [42:08]
[43:48 – 47:02]
Report from Colorado Springs: court Zoom calls repeatedly “Zoom-bombed” with Nazi pornography.
Hosts sarcastically approve the legal expert’s assessment that Nazi porn is “inappropriate.”
“Appreciate your expertise. On that. This is inappropriate and anti Semitic. Oh, you mean the guy whacking off and the Nazi symbols? Oh, okay.”
— Jack Armstrong [44:44]
| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Highlight | |-----------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:30 | Joe Getty | “I’ll kill him for this. Absolutely. Dropping his pants for the it's the Jews crowd. Shameless. Disgusting. Mortifying.” | | 06:24 | Marco Rubio | “It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built...” | | 11:42 | Jack Armstrong | “How are you not an enemy of the United States if that's your platform?” | | 22:14 | Joe Getty (paraphrasing Kendall White/W.S.J.) | “The DSA offers an attractive bill of goods, a built in friend group and the promise of free everything for everyone all the time.” | | 32:34 | Jack Armstrong | “Muskmelon—which is a terrible name for a melon. I don't find melon that enjoyable anyway, generally. But musk is not a appetizing word.” | | 42:08 | Joe Getty | "...just spent $60 million to move homeless people into three apartments...pours billions of dollars into the homeless industrial complex..." | | 44:44 | Jack Armstrong | "Appreciate your expertise. On that. This is inappropriate and anti Semitic. Oh, you mean the guy whacking off and the Nazi symbols? Oh, okay." |
This episode is a must-listen if you want both entertainment and insight into the peculiarities of American politics and culture in 2026. Armstrong & Getty serve up a critical, humorous, and at times exasperated take on radical leftism, money-wasting government, and pop culture, anchored by sharp quotes from politicians and journalists alike. The discussion is rich with memorable lines, pointed questions, and playful asides about rock stars, melons, and hacking scandals—making it both an accessible primer and a lively ride for regulars and newcomers.