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Facebook parent company Meta is more than doubling the size of its data center in Richland parish. A 50 billion dollar project. So big 10 power plants need to be built to supply it with electricity. The governor praising the economic impact it's going to create.
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The data center could eventually use six times more power per day than the entire city of New Orleans on the hottest day of summer.
Jack Armstrong
So the whole data center debate thing, because AI is the future of the world and we're going to need all these big computer power plants to keep everything going and everything like that, you know, Elon's planning to build them up in space. That's what he's going to do. But as far as the ones on the ground, I came across a post. I don't know if this is true or not, but some smart person explaining how so much of this is driven by China. They started this argument in the United States. It's a whole bunch of Chinese bots convincing people that you're going to lose all your water and your electricity bills will go sky high and all this sort of stuff if you end up with a data center in your town.
Ben Armstrong
Yeah, Russia and China are both financing a lot of this stuff. It's, it's crazy because they don't want
Jack Armstrong
us to, you know, have the lead in AI at the same time that
Ben Armstrong
politician rattling off how many jobs would be created and the rest of it. I'm reminded of what you said the doctor once told you, ask your patient how much they exercise. Cut that in half. Ask them how much they drink. Double that. Yeah, you really have to do that for those, those, those. This Factory will create 50,000 high paying permanent jobs. Yeah. No it won't. Never does.
Jack Armstrong
That reminds me, I have a physical today and I had to fill out the questionnaire before the physical today. I want to talk about that later. You talk about some questions that your doctor and your health people have no need to be asking whatsoever. Just crazy. That's socialism, isn't it? Or wokeness or DEI or something.
Ben Armstrong
What are you to say? What's sodomy and what's not, Doctor? Oh my God, that reminds me. I gotta be vague about this, but my daughter and a law school friend have visited fairly recently and this gal, oh, she is so Bright. So dedicated. She is on the. The track of prosecuting child molesters and. And people who victimize children. It's really difficult work and it's tough on your soul. But by God, she is dedicated and doing great work. But she. And I'm going to. I'm going to keep this gentlemanly and I beg everyone involved in the program to do the same. There is a huge overlap between those who would victimize children and those who are into. Shall we call it barnyard encounters. Really? Yes. Because it's all about taboos and the farthest you can go. And they're just their triggers no longer tripped by anything within the reasonably. Could be called normal sexual activity. Wow. Yeah. Huge crossover. I didn't know that.
Jack Armstrong
I thought.
Ben Armstrong
I've always.
Jack Armstrong
All my life I've thought their brains were wired from something that happened in adolescence, something or other. But for a lot of people it's just outside of the norm. So whether it's the awfulness of kids and I think you should be executed by the way for that. Executed. I'm fine with executing you for doing that. Or barnyard animals.
Ben Armstrong
Yeah.
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Ben Armstrong
Indeed.
Jack Armstrong
Do we know which barnyard animals are most likely?
Ben Armstrong
Oh, there are a handful that seem to be frequent choices. The classic. The sheep, of course.
Jack Armstrong
It's amazing. So often chickens make the news.
Ben Armstrong
Chicken.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Feel like that gets into the news way too often.
Ben Armstrong
On a bun. Yes. In my bed. No. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
I don't think they usually bring the animal to the bed. I think you go to their place.
Ben Armstrong
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
As it were.
Ben Armstrong
Yes, yes, yes. And she told an absolutely fascinating story about one. A couple of fellas got arrested three times for consorting with equines. Horses. But. Oh, see, I probably shouldn't even started down this road. Turned out they had to turn them loose though because the statute only called for pitchers to be arrested. And these fellas work.
Jack Armstrong
What?
Ben Armstrong
Yes. This is. I'm. You know what? I apologize. Let's just. Michael, rewind.
Jack Armstrong
No, no, no. Michael's chomp.
Ben Armstrong
Don't air this.
Jack Armstrong
Michael is chomping at the bit for his favorite joke when it comes to.
Ben Armstrong
Makes him wear a bit because it reminds me of some of his ex girlfriends.
Jack Armstrong
Michael, go ahead. Nay means nay. Exactly. I knew you were loaded for that one.
Ben Armstrong
Oh, gosh. What the heck Were we. Did any data centers.
Jack Armstrong
Did your daughter and her friend wear the death pants? Because they're very popular with young women. We'll get to that story coming up in a little bit.
Ben Armstrong
Stay tuned. The other data center story that I found super interesting. The Journal was reporting yesterday about all these folks in rural. I think it was, gosh, was it Virginia, where they're pretty willing to let the data centers get built. But they highlighted this couple of hog farmers barely getting by and they sold their X number of acres. I can't remember how much it was, but they got $22 million.
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Jack Armstrong
I can see the pushback on this. I'm from small town America and my experience has been, yeah, people get excited about the revenue when some big company comes to town, but it changes your town for the worst in so many different ways.
Ben Armstrong
So, well, after I get $22 million, I'm not going to be in that town. Well, you're, yeah, you're. I'm gonna go off to the islands and consort with, with JLO as just
Jack Armstrong
the people who own that farm. Yeah, I understand that. But for the who these data centers, you're going to have this giant ugly building outside of town and like giant, like you can't even picture how big it is because we've never seen buildings this big. Most of us on the edge of town that has like four employees because
Ben Armstrong
it's all data center stuff, sucking up
Jack Armstrong
electricity like crazy and just not really doing that much for your town.
Ben Armstrong
Not really, no, no. Although they'll probably pay huge amounts of tax, probably, which, which helps. But speaking of tech, and this was really the story we wanted to bring up was Apple has declared war on open AI. In one of his last acts as Apple CEO, Tim Cook filed lawsuit alleging that senior OpenAI executive, a senior executive who once sat atop Apple's own product design team, was involved in a month long, camp long campaign to steal Apple trade secrets. And it's interesting, this writer for the Wall Street Journal whose name is Rolf Winkler. Oh, what a wish. My name is Rolf Winkler. Yeah. Anyway, he says it's not clear how strong this case is that the guy actually stole from them. But what is clear is that OpenAI is the latest in the line of Google, Samsung, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon that have all tried to run a physical device up the flagpole that uses their software and will supplant the iPhone, the iPad, et cetera. And OpenAI thinks, yeah, we got the software everybody wants. Apple's embarrassing itself in the AI realm. We're going to trot out a smartphone, we're going to beat them at their own game. And Apple is concerned.
Jack Armstrong
That's interesting. I wonder why none of the other companies have rolled out a smartphone with their product on it.
Ben Armstrong
Reddit. Oh, they, a lot of them have that's the point. This is the latest. Google, Samsung, Microsoft, all of them have.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. But there's not a. As far as I know, an Anthropic phone. That's the number one AI company in the world.
Ben Armstrong
Right? Right. Yeah, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
According to Elon, that Anthropic is currently far and away the best AI product out there, which is interesting. Like I was doing. I don't. I don't know where some of this stuff is. So I was in Vegas recently and I went to the big Sistine Chapel display they have at one of the enormous casinos. They have this. So it's a traveling thing that's going around the world. Somebody put together this. I don't know what you call it. A show about the Sistine Chapel. It's all of these four giant 4K images of all the panels from Michelangelo's paintings on the Sistine Chapel. And having been to the Sistine Chapel, this is better than that in terms of enjoying the art. It's fantastic. It was a little pricey to get in, but it was so cool. So big, so, so clear, able to look at it and the descriptions of what's going on.
Ben Armstrong
Really, really, really loved it.
Jack Armstrong
But so last night I was wanting the image, the most famous picture from that whole thing, which is actually, if you're in the Sistine Chapel, it's 70ft in the air and one panel and you're looking up at it and it's really, really. You really can't take it in that well. But it's, you know, the God reaching out to Adam, that picture. So I wanted that picture on my phone. I was going to put it on my frame TV in my room, and all the chatbots said, we can't do that. We can't give you that picture. I said, I want a 4K version of it. Said to. Sorry, copyright issues. So I went to Google and I got 8 million choices. What is that?
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Jack Armstrong
When are we gonna work that out? That just seems so anachronistic to me. That same thing with song lyrics. I wanted song lyrics for Bonnie Tyler when she died last week. Turn around, bright eyes, because I did a dramatic reading of the song and the chatbots would say, sorry, we can't give. Okay, I'll go to 8 million other websites where I can get that information instantly.
Ben Armstrong
What.
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Jack Armstrong
What is that?
Ben Armstrong
They're in the crosshairs and they know it. They're in the crosshairs of all these companies that saying that are saying, hey, you use a copyrighted material to build your. Your system here, and you're not paying for any of it. You're all your big news publications and websites and stuff like that. So they've gone so far the other way just to protect themselves that it ends up being semi ridiculous.
Jack Armstrong
It is ridiculous. Huh? I wonder how long it'll be before that shakes out.
Ben Armstrong
Nothing to do. It's a total eclipse of the heart.
Jack Armstrong
There are some lines in there I didn't know. I've sung that song at the top of my lungs, but I had several lines wrong all my life.
Ben Armstrong
So Jim Steinman wrote it.
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Ben Armstrong
The guy behind Meatloaf.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I said that very thing last week. Yeah.
Ben Armstrong
I do enjoy meatloaf.
Jack Armstrong
Remember, Michael, I broke down crying after seeing Turn Around, Bright Eye.
Ben Armstrong
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, I was a puddle. I was a mess. It was an emotional mess.
Ben Armstrong
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Ben Armstrong
Sorry I missed that.
Jack Armstrong
If you like anything about the Sistine Chapel or have ever wanted to see it, that display in Vegas. And you have to be in Vegas for business. Something like that. Oh, my gosh. Pay the money to check it out.
Ben Armstrong
Good tip.
Jack Armstrong
I did a deep dive on Michelangelo over the last week, having watched that on one of your art history podcasts. What a kook.
Ben Armstrong
Technical director or the artist?
Jack Armstrong
The artist. What a kook Michelangelo was.
Ben Armstrong
Oh, really?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Rarely bathed. He wouldn't. He would wear it like he would wear his. He would just leave his boots on for so long that when he took them off, like, his skin would peel off.
Ben Armstrong
Jeez.
Jack Armstrong
I know. He was a half a goo. I'm not much better.
Ben Armstrong
Love the art. Yeah. Your feet are falling apart, too. Oh, yeah. Love the art, not the artist. Huh?
Jack Armstrong
Socialism on the march, which is probably going to be an ongoing story for quite some time. You got Mom Donnie in New York and all the wackiness that he's doing.
Ben Armstrong
Oh. And who is.
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Ben Armstrong
Who be? The Democratic Socialists of America. The dsa. If you are one of the rare and fairly patient Democrats who listen to this show regularly, thank you for being here. You've got to know what the DSA is and what they want.
Jack Armstrong
Wake up. Yeah. Yeah. That is troubling. I can't wait to talk about that, because you've been gone for a long time. We've talked a lot about the whole socialism thing and how real it is and what. What they mean by it. A lot of the people that say they're in favor of it and all that sort of stuff and other things on the way. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Those are some pretty high ages. Wow. Wow, that is amazing. The Chicago Teachers Union had a big rally over the weekend that included a whole bunch of pro Iran people, not just anti Israel people. Pro Iran join Iran in fighting the United States as part of the Chicago Teachers Union. Okay, we'll get to that later.
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Ben Armstrong
So we got these to overthrow our country.
Jack Armstrong
We got these poopy diseases going around. Problems going around the country is different things. There's some sort of stomach bug you can get from the water and then there's some stuff on fruit. Right. It's two different things, but they're happening at the same time and they're all over the country. And so if you get an upset stomach, it might be one of those. Anyway, this is from NBC 7 in San Diego. A San Diego infectious disease doctor said it's probably best to stay away from fresh produce for the next week or so, even if you wash it.
Ben Armstrong
Wow. Is he talking about just in San Diego or everywhere in America?
Jack Armstrong
It's California. A fecal parasite illness known as cyclosporiasis has now reached California. So, yeah, don't eat any. I'm not gonna eat a fruit or vegetable anyway, so it's pretty easy for me. But those of you who pay for your colon, those of you who do, don't, don't for a week, I guess, even if you wash it.
Ben Armstrong
Please. They found a wacka. Doctor, please. I'm gonna keep shoveling spinach down my throat like I'm Popeye.
Jack Armstrong
Look at me.
Ben Armstrong
It's gon nothing but good.
Jack Armstrong
How much time I got? Michael, do I have time for this?
Ben Armstrong
You got a minute? 30.
Jack Armstrong
I got a physical today and I had to fill out the form ahead of time. Here's some of the questions. Within the past 12 months, were you worried that your food would run out before you got the money to buy more? I declined to answer. At any time in the past 12 months, were you homeless or living in a shelter? I declined to answer. This is from my doctor for my physical. In the past 12 months, has lack of transportation kept you from any appointments? Declined to answer. How hard is it for you to pay for very basics like food, housing and medical care and heating? I declined to answer for my physical today. Where they're going to take my blood pressure and see how tall I am.
Ben Armstrong
Progressive politicians saying, hey, have the doctors ask people to collect evidence that we need to spend even more taxes.
Jack Armstrong
No kidding. Also, this question. Within the last year, have you been kicked, hit, slapped, or otherwise physically hurt by your partner or ex partner? I declined to answer.
Ben Armstrong
Oh, hell yeah. Three times today.
Jack Armstrong
Doctor doing asking this. Take my blood pressure, my height, see if I'm too fat or I need to change my lifestyle or whatever. God, hate that so much. Those of you who answer those questions, I don't know what's going on there. We're gonna talk about socialism coming up next. It's ugly, man. Really ugly.
Ben Armstrong
It always fails. Please, please.
Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
I mean, the Chicago Teachers Union at their own building hosted a conference in where people were calling on supporting Iran's axis of Resistance and to prepare for violence against the United States and Israel in Chicago.
Ben Armstrong
In the United States, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And what do teachers have to do with it? These are confusing times, man.
Ben Armstrong
Well, they're part of the Marxist movement to overthrow the government of the United States. I mean, I'm not paranoid. It is a fact. It's just undeniable. And the fact that all these teachers have been somehow duped into thinking, yeah, this country's so ugly and corrupt and yeah, socialism is the way to go. Anybody who opposes America must be a good person, including Iran. Brutal religious fundamentalists.
Jack Armstrong
It's hard to wrap your head around.
Ben Armstrong
Oh, yeah, it's hard to wrap your head around how they could wrap their head around that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's why I think it's a mental illness.
Ben Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. I think for a lot of people. It is. For a lot of people, though, as we've discussed many times, like the Red Green alliance that really came together in the Iranian Revolution, 1979, the Marxists thought that they would win the day and that the Islamists were just an ally of convenience and the Islamists thought the same thing. Turns out the religious fervor was even more hot than the Marxist fervor. And the Islamists absolutely won the day. But I think, you know, the idea ideologues actually running this stuff, they think, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll use these idiots and then we'll take power and it'll all be great.
Jack Armstrong
Well, have we talked about the Scott Wiener thing that happened while you were on vacation? Have we talked about that?
Ben Armstrong
No, I'm aware of it.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. So. So that was the proof, as several people have written really recently, that the center of gravity for the wackadoos in the Democratic Party has moved from the sexuality stuff that's over to the anti Israel stuff. And so sorry, Scott Wiener, you were, you know, a gay guy who's pro trans and all. Nobody cares about that anymore. It's where are you on Israel? And you took money from aipac. So sorry, you're an enemy. That's how quickly that has all changed. And look at The Chicago Teachers Union, whatever thing they had there, it wasn't about boys and girls, sports and trans bathrooms. No, no, no, no. It was about Up With Iran. Boy.
Ben Armstrong
And that's such a great example of how revolutionary politics works. You're in the in group until you're not, and then you're up against the wall and you're Trotsky sitting on the toilet, taking a nice pick.
Jack Armstrong
Absolutely. Scott Weiner, who was a hero to that crowd, walking through the park to the pride event, being screamed at by people in his own crowd because now
Ben Armstrong
he's step with the party line. Unbelievable. So speaking of that sort of thing, there's a great piece by Scott Atlas, who's a doctor. He's a professor with the Hoover Institution. And I didn't know his parents were immigrants. And he was just talking about the United States and how attitudes have changed because his parents got here, learned language as quickly as they could. They never saw the deck as stacked against them. They worked like crazy, they became successful. He loves this country. And he's talking about what he calls the selfie generation and how, you know, you post it and look for validation. If you don't get it, the explanation is always the same. The system is rigged. The deck is stacked. Someone else has too much. The appeal of socialism to young Americans isn't really about economics. It's about having someone else to blame when you haven't succeeded. After being given every advantage, it's easier to claim the system is unfair than to admit personal failure. And he says what's tragic is that the narrative of societal unfairness is being sold as compassionate. It isn't. It's condescension packaged to solidarity tells young people they're victims, incapable of rising, dependent on redistribution, owed a life they haven't earned. It robs them of the one thing my father's midnight taxi shifts gave me, the knowledge that I could do it myself. Really, really powerful piece. Really good stuff. And then you've got this. It's funny how this didn't get picked up by the liberal media. The story in the Wall Street Journal about this cashier who makes $33 an hour at Costco. He's a cashier supervisor, and now he's worth well over a million dollars. He and his family have a nice house. They've been to Europe a couple of times. He's smart, he's worked hard. He happens to be a black man. Not that it really matters, but. And he's had a great American dream life. He's got great health care. And the rest of it, he's respected. It's funny. And he works at Costco now, you know, he's in the upper levels, but yeah, the free market works. Then you got this. And I'm just throwing a handful of things against the wall leading up to something big. New York Post is doing a story about this New York City Housing Authority supervisor. He's the plumbing supervisor. He made a little under $500,000, including nearly $332,000 in overtime, nearly 2,600 hours in overtime in a year while he was simultaneously running two private plumbing companies. It's the most Soviet story you could ask for. And Mamdani wants to expand the New York City Housing Authority to have even more power, have more money rolling through it. And the idea that it wouldn't end up in Soviet style corruption is just hilarious to anybody who knows how these systems work. Here's another story. New York sees dramatic exodus of millionaires causing nearly $11 billion in lost tax revenue, according to a new study started before Mondani, but it's continued apace, as they say. The exodus of high earners is absolutely shocking. In New York, the top 1% earners pay about 45% of all income taxes. You know, I could get into the
Jack Armstrong
details to which I always have to throw in. If that's not their fair share, what would be? If 1% paying almost half is not their fair share, what would be their fair share?
Ben Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. And so the wealthy, the high earners are fleeing New York and New York City as fast as they can. And the New York. I'm sorry, the Washington. The Wall Street Journal picked up on this, the editorial board writing one secret to Zoran Mamdani's political success. When high earning couples depart the city, young socialists arrive and they get into more statistics. There's been an exodus from the state. 112,000. Almost 113,000 vamoosing in 2020. That's one in every 100 resident taxpayers. Not residents, taxpayers. Another 96,000 on net moved out between 21 and 24. That's a lower number. But high earners and married people have continued to leave in the largest numbers. The data showed that almost 14,000 taxpayers left the state in 2024. That's the last numbers we have available. The greatest net loss of taxpayers was among married filers with incomes between $100,500,000, a net loss of 8,200, or more than half of the total net out migration in 2024. The highest out migration rate was for households making $500,000 or more. About 1 in 100 of whom moved out that year. And they're pointing out how that's going to be a catastrophic loss of tax revenue. So, anyway, I wanted to get to this. Unless you have more on that, Jack, and I'm glad to hear that you're talking about this in my absence because it is so troubling to see this utterly corrupt political philosophy masquerading as economics.
Jack Armstrong
1006. 1006.
Ben Armstrong
Yes.
Jack Armstrong
I just looked up at the TV. I have now seen the guy flipped up on the air by the buffalo 1006 times. Right, right.
Ben Armstrong
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Appears to be the most important issue in the. In the country. Old men being flipped in the air by Bison.
Ben Armstrong
Wow. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Never mind Marxism or a war with Iran. Bison on the march against our elderly fat population.
Ben Armstrong
Right. Yeah, exactly. What about Bisonism and its threat? So I thought this was absolutely terrific. This happened to me just before the election of Mamdani. This is a person of the center left trying to wake up Democrats to what the Democratic Socialists of America is the dsa. And it's a great metaphor and a great description. Michael, let's hit it.
Jack Armstrong
It
Ben Armstrong
which one, 85 through 88 is earlier discussed. Do you have a pen and pen? You can jot it down. Anyway, go ahead.
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It's no secret that the Democratic Socialists of America hate the Democratic Party. I think we're all on the same page that we hate the Democratic Party.
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Democratic Party is not really our friend. It isn't.
News Reporter
So why are the DSA such major players in the Democratic Party? This odd relationship can be understood with the cuckoo analogy. In nature, the cuckoo survives by trickery. It lays its egg in another bird's nest. The unsuspecting parents raise the imposter as their own until the cuckoo grows strong enough to push the true chicks out. The DSA is the cuckoo inside the Democratic Party.
Jack Armstrong
DSA is not the Democratic Party. We must separate ourselves from the toxic Democratic Party. We can purport a clear, aggressive, principled strategy that pushes back against the Democratic leadership and the Democratic Party as a whole.
Ben Armstrong
It's interesting that all of those voices were from official DSA proceedings and board meetings and that sort of thing saying, look, we hate the Democratic Party. We have got to get rid of it from within. Exactly as she was describing the cuckoo.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. David French in the New York Times was writing the other day about how Democrats would be better off to recognize that that left wing that has risen and won all these primaries hate Democrats more than they hate Republicans. As soon as you figure that out, you'll be better off.
Ben Armstrong
Next chunk, Michael.
News Reporter
DSA candidates run as Democrats in safe blue districts. They slip through low turnout primaries. And once inside, they use the Democratic label as camouflage while advancing an extremist anti American agenda far beyond the party's mainstream.
Jack Armstrong
I don't agree with the Democratic Party, but it's a great tool. The Democratic is a tool that we use.
News Reporter
Once in office, DSA candidates take orders from DSA's internal enforcers and working groups. City halls and state houses start running as socialist machines controlled by the organization, not the Democratic Party, and certainly not voters.
Jack Armstrong
They have to have a connection with DSA central politics and they have to be committed to the eventual goal of building a separate, separate entity from the Democrats.
Ben Armstrong
Go ahead, roll on.
News Reporter
DSA are revolutionaries and the Democrats are their first victims. And in city after city, DSA victories prove their plan works.
Jack Armstrong
I think that the model that we used in New York is 100 reputable.
News Reporter
And just like the cuckoo, once the DSA grows strong, it pushes the true Democrats out, hollowing the party from within,
Jack Armstrong
building towards political independence and tearing apart the Democratic Party.
News Reporter
The DSA is not here to strengthen the Democratic Party. It is here to consume it.
Jack Armstrong
We're not here to make the Democrats
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Jack Armstrong
We're here to actually enact socialism. And socialism is not just better capitalism, it's overthrowing an entire the entire capitalist state.
Ben Armstrong
It's our duty, DSA to cultivate this power. And I want to just point out one more time to drive it home. Every single voice that was describing the strategy of the dsa, other than the narration, was DSA leaders. That wasn't critical people saying they need to drive out the Democratic leadership. No, that was them saying it.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And so we talked about this while you're gone a lot. Mark Halpern's writing how the leadership in the Democratic Party just doesn't realize what a threat this is. And he can't believe they're blind to the fact that Bernie Sanders, who is a socialist, he says it out loud. It's not like a name people call him. That's what he calls himself. He would have been the nominee twice for president in the Democratic Party if they hadn't rigged the system against him. It's not just some like blip one off weird thing that kind of occurs over in the corner. It might be, well, probably is where all the energy is.
Ben Armstrong
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And they need to watch out for that or they're going to get taken over.
Ben Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
looking at up at some stuff about the hearing around Charlie Kirk's killer, Tyler Robinson. Candace Owens has no conscience, does she?
Ben Armstrong
No. No, she's evil.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. It's hard to imagine being a human being like that where you think you know would be a cool way to make money. I'll try to convince dumb people that his wife is working for the Jews and had him killed. Oh, I know she's a mom with kids to raise and all she is is a victim in this story, but I don't care.
Ben Armstrong
Somebody's gonna do this. I might as well get rich doing it, you know? That's her attitude. More on that to come. Wow, that is wild.
Jack Armstrong
I need to tell you about death pants, man. You might be wearing them right now. You probably aren't. Especially if you're a guy. If you're a woman, you're already wearing the death pants. Stay tuned.
Ben Armstrong
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Ben Armstrong
The Beatles went up to Elvis's house in Los Angeles to visit with Elvis. And I remember John telling me, yeah, you know, you should never meet your heroes. I would never meet Elvis, Mick, if I were you. And so I didn't. I took John's advice. It was really stupid of me, really, but I mean, I would love to have met Elvis.
Jack Armstrong
Why?
Ben Armstrong
I take John's advice. So put me off. So I wanted to keep my Elvis to myself, my version of Elvis. So I didn't want my version of Elvis shattered like John's was. But maybe my Elvis version Would have been different.
Jack Armstrong
Mick Jagger, who's doing lots of interviews right now, man, if you want to know what Mick Jagger thinks, he's done about, about as far as I can tell. 10 hours of talking in the last week. That was with Conan o'. Brien. So you can hear everything you've ever wanted to hear about what Mick Jagger
Ben Armstrong
thinks about anything, including the fact that he doesn't believe he ought to be lecturing his audience about politics.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, I didn't hear that.
Ben Armstrong
New York Times tried to get him to talk about his relationship with the audience and brought up Bruce Springsteen and others. He's like, I'm trying to help them have the best time they can possibly have. Not there to lecture them.
Jack Armstrong
My favorite thing I saw recently was somebody brought up the whole world's greatest band thing and he said, oh, please, that is so ridiculous. Oh yeah,
Ben Armstrong
Greatest rock and roll band. It's a slogan. Also, it's not peer reviewed.
Jack Armstrong
He was talking about one of the interviews. He was talking about how much ego you've got to have or you have or get when you're young and you're a big star because you know you're standing in front of 50, 000 people who adore you and, and you do that night after night. That will have an effect on your view of the world. But luckily when you get older, you come to realize it's just, it's a. It's a Persona. It's like being on a. An actor in a play, kind of. And it really has nothing to do with who you actually are. Right.
Ben Armstrong
Your job is popular.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And you're good at it. But that doesn't mean you're anything else any different than anybody else.
Ben Armstrong
Right.
Jack Armstrong
I just saw this. Somebody got kicked out of the first leg of the Tour de France, which apparently is going on right now. It's a bicycle race for wearing AI glasses. But I haven't been able to figure out what the advantage would be. What would the advantage be of wearing any eyeglasses, you suppose?
Ben Armstrong
I'd have to think about it. I don't know. I don't know that much about bike racing.
Jack Armstrong
We're concerned about the death pants that exist out there.
Ben Armstrong
It is.
Jack Armstrong
I've come across several things about the uniform of young women today. And it is more uniform than uniforms practically ever have been. In my memory pictures. I see it in the college town I live in all the time you see a gaggle of women on a street corner. Young college age women, they're all dressed exactly the same. Their jeans are all the giant wide leg jeans of exactly the same fade color with a crop top, belly showing shirt and some sort of right tennis shoes. And there'll be 20 women that are all dressed exactly the same. I mean it'd be like it'd be hard to make them dress that way. Make them dress exactly the same. People would revolt against it. But voluntarily, they are all dressed exactly the same, looking like some sort of
Ben Armstrong
bare bellied military unit.
Jack Armstrong
But the pants keep getting wider and wider and wider. And Zara has it's a company that makes pants, the flowing wide leg trousers. The pants have gotten so wide that people are tripping and falling on them. They're getting caught in their their shoes or their clogs or whatever. And they're calling them death pants as there have been several injuries. People ending up at the hospital for tripping over their pants. So watch out for the death pants, I guess.
Ben Armstrong
Darwin pants.
Jack Armstrong
We never got to this. Last week CNN accidentally ran a hilarious tweet from somebody who said they had somebody claiming to be a congressman with a made up name. And CN did. CNN didn't even check to see if they're actually a congressman where they said they were at the hospital talking to Mitch McConnell and actually Mitch McConnell beat him in a staring contest. So he's doing fine.
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Jack Armstrong
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Date: July 14, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Ben Armstrong (Getty)
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts
This episode traverses a lively landscape of American current events and cultural oddities, with Armstrong & Getty tackling everything from the economic, geopolitical, and social ripples of the AI/data center boom, to the shifting dynamics within the Democratic Party, to offbeat modern fashion “death pants.” The tone is signature Armstrong & Getty—irreverent, accessible, sometimes darkly comic, and always opinionated.
Timestamps: 03:14–05:02, 08:37–09:55
Mega Data Centers & Power Concerns:
“This factory will create 50,000 high-paying permanent jobs. Yeah. No it won't. Never does.” – Ben Armstrong (04:40)
Foreign Disinformation About Data Centers:
“They don’t want us to have the lead in AI.” – Ben Armstrong (04:29)
Human Impact:
“You have this giant ugly building outside of town… that has like four employees… sucking up electricity like crazy and just not really doing that much for your town.” – Jack Armstrong (09:53)
Timestamps: 10:01–11:56
Lawsuit Allegations:
Competitive Landscape:
“According to Elon, Anthropic is currently far and away the best AI product out there, which is interesting.” – Jack Armstrong (11:56)
Timestamps: 12:58–14:21
Frustrations With AI Assistants:
“I’ll go to 8 million other websites where I can get that information instantly. What is that?” – Jack Armstrong (13:59)
Ben explains:
“They’ve gone so far the other way just to protect themselves that it ends up being semi ridiculous.” – Ben Armstrong (14:00)
Timestamps: 12:56–15:46
Sistine Chapel VR Experience:
On Michelangelo:
“Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Rarely bathed… He was a half a goo. I’m not much better.” – Jack Armstrong (15:35)
Impact of Art:
Timestamps: 05:02–06:56, 21:14–22:11
Jack’s Physical Exam:
“This is from my doctor for my physical… I declined to answer.” – Jack Armstrong (21:56)
Broader Critique:
“Progressive politicians saying, hey, have the doctors ask people to collect evidence that we need to spend even more taxes.” – Ben Armstrong (21:56)
Timestamps: 45:15–46:24
“The pants have gotten so wide that people are tripping and falling on them… They’re calling them death pants...” – Jack Armstrong (46:00) “Darwin pants.” – Ben Armstrong (46:24)
Timestamps: 15:46–16:27, 25:12–38:10
The Socialist Surge:
“DSA is the cuckoo inside the Democratic Party.” – News Reporter (34:49)
Actual DSA Voices:
“We must separate ourselves from the toxic Democratic Party…build a separate entity from the Democrats.” – DSA Leader (36:11) “We’re here to actually enact socialism. And socialism is not just better capitalism, it’s overthrowing… the entire capitalist state.” – DSA Leader (36:56)
Schism and Infighting:
Timestamps: 30:55–33:09
“If that’s not their fair share, what would be? If 1% paying almost half is not their fair share, what would be their fair share?” – Jack Armstrong (31:14)
Timestamps: Throughout
“I’m trying to help them have the best time they can possibly have. Not there to lecture them.” – Referencing Jagger paraphrasing himself.
On Data Center Jobs:
“Ask your patient how much they exercise, cut that in half. Ask them how much they drink, double that. …This factory will create 50,000 high paying permanent jobs. Yeah. No it won't. Never does.” – Ben Armstrong (04:40)
On the DSA's Intent:
“DSA is the cuckoo inside the Democratic Party.” – News Reporter (34:49)
“We’re not here to make the Democrats a little bit better. We’re here to actually enact socialism.” – DSA Leader (36:53)
On AI Frustrations:
“I’ll go to 8 million other websites where I can get that information instantly. What is that?” – Jack Armstrong (13:59)
On Taxes:
“If that’s not their fair share, what would be? If 1% paying almost half is not their fair share, what would be their fair share?” – Jack Armstrong (31:14)
On the “Death Pants” Trend:
“The pants have gotten so wide that people are tripping and falling on them… They’re calling them death pants.” – Jack Armstrong (46:00)
“Darwin pants.” – Ben Armstrong (46:24)
On Medical Overreach:
“This is from my doctor for my physical… I declined to answer.” – Jack Armstrong (21:56)
On Pop Culture Ego:
“Your job is popular... and you’re good at it. But that doesn’t mean you’re anything else any different than anybody else.” – Jack Armstrong (44:44)
| Segment | Timestamps | Highlights | |--------------------------|-------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------| | Data Centers & AI | 03:14–09:55 | Power use, jobs skepticism, foreign disinfo, land use, Apple/AI | | Copyright in AI Era | 12:56–14:21 | Art/music access issue, chatbot refusals | | Michelangelo/Art | 12:56–15:46 | Vegas expo, artist quirks, art as emotion | | Doctor Forms/Socialism | 21:14–22:11 | Intrusive questions, government data gathering | | DSA & Dem Takeover | 34:25–38:10 | DSA’s infiltration, quotes from leaders, cuckoo metaphor | | Tax Exodus New York | 30:55–33:09 | Millionaires leaving, tax revenue loss | | “Death Pants” Trend | 45:15–46:24 | Wide-leg fashions causing ER visits | | Pop Culture Asides | 43:39–44:50 | Mick Jagger, not lecturing audience, ego and celebrity |
Armstrong & Getty deliver a lively commentary mixing serious concerns about technology, politics, economics, and culture with sharp wit and the occasional moment of pure absurdity (see: “death pants”). The episode closes with warnings about the ongoing leftward shift within the Democratic Party, critiques of progressive state policies, and wry observations about millennial fashion and bison attacks—tying together a picture of an America at once earnestly evolving and endearingly, if sometimes alarmingly, odd.