The A&G Replay Wednesday Hour Four

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand – "The A&G Replay Wednesday Hour Four"

Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Episode Date: July 1, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts
Length: Approx. 44 minutes (Hour Four segment)

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Episode Overview

This episode is a curated replay, highlighting some of Armstrong & Getty’s “wackiest, most amusing and insightful” recent segments. The hosts (Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty) deliver their signature mix of cultural commentary, political opinion, and everyday observations, moving swiftly from biting critiques of public institutions to irreverent takes on food portions and beauty trends.

Their discussions cover:

• Public education and policing of language in school boards
• The decline of graduation standards
• Fast food “portion wars”
• Cosmetic surgery fads
• Fourth of July book recommendations and the partisanship of Founding Fathers
• Airport lost-and-found oddities
• Updates on international news (Strait of Hormuz conflict)

The tone swings between exasperated, sardonic, and wryly humorous, with frequent pop culture and historical references.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Language Policing in School Boards

[04:02–12:34]

• Incident Recap: Armstrong and Getty dissect a viral moment from a Monterey County, CA school board meeting, where board member Joy Flynn insists on replacing the term “homeless” with “unhoused”—triggered not by a pejorative insult but by someone expressing concern for the homeless community.
• Clip Replay:

  Joy Flynn (School Board Member): "I have a lot to say and I will speak plainly and you may not like it. I'm personally offended by what was presented on so many different levels. One thing I would like to see updated is the word 'homeless' to 'unhoused.'" (04:45)

• Host Reaction: Armstrong and Getty mock the performative offense and the “truth-to-power” posturing.

  Getty: "Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right." (06:11)
  Armstrong: "Nobody's gonna benefit from saying unhoused instead of homeless. Not a single good thing will happen." (08:01)

• Cultural Critique:
  • The hosts decry what they call “Maoist” language policing and draw parallels to Soviet and Orwellian practices.
  • They contend that controlling language distracts from genuine problems (e.g., actual education outcome).
• Memorable Moment: The replayed Joy Flynn audio, followed by Armstrong’s mock-incredulity and Getty’s dry wit.

2. Decline of Education Standards

[12:34–14:48]

• Headline: New Jersey is the latest state to eliminate high school graduation proficiency exams.

  Armstrong: "Tossing such basic academic standards is a nationwide public education trend. Over the past 25 years, the number of states with a high school exit test requirement has gone from 30 to 11." (13:09)

• Analysis: Hosts see this as teachers’ unions protecting underperformance, and progressives misapplying equity.

  Getty: "Just like our socialism discussion, it's not about lifting up the bottom. It's about bringing down the top...shared misery." (13:52) Armstrong: "How can you send high school graduates out in the world, they can't do basic math or read and their lives are gonna suck, and you're okay with that? How do you sleep at night?" (14:17)

• Ideological Point: The “sacrifice” of student futures is seen by radical ideologues as “necessary for the revolution.”

3. Chipotle, Portion Sizes, and Food Culture

[15:10–17:15]

• Chipotle CEO’s Ethos: The CEO promises overflowing burritos and bowls—“as much food as you can possibly fit.”
• Hosts’ Take: The guys reflect on portion inflation and their own inability to resist eating oversized burritos.

  Armstrong: “Every time I get one anywhere, when I start with it, holding it in my hands just like I held Sam and Henry when they are babies. Roughly the same size.” (16:12)

• Comic Anecdote: Armstrong jokes about telling his kids to punch him in the neck if he finishes a whole burrito—and his son actually does.

4. Beauty Standards: “Elf Ear” Surgery & Body Modification

[17:15–20:35]

• Trend Report: The latest rage in South Korea is surgery for “elf ears”—prominent, pointy ears, which supposedly create a slimmer facial appearance.

  Getty: “Elf ears are the coveted look in beauty-obsessed South Korea where residents seem to be on a never-ending quest for cosmetic improvements.” (17:47)

• Cultural Comparison: Armstrong notes the West’s historic mockery of African or Asian body mods, but argues the West is equally irrational—sometimes more so.

  Armstrong: “It's just as ridiculous to do whatever Jeff Bezos' wife is doing...” (19:18)

• Origins of Trend: Tracked from a single influencer, to K-pop adoption, to a surge in ear tape/filler product sales.

  Getty: “Queries for ear filler exploded by 1,200%...” (19:56)

• Humor: Armstrong jokes he couldn’t date someone with “elf ears” unless they wore a beanie.

5. International Update: Strait of Hormuz Conflict

[23:43–25:41]

• Current Event: Trump’s “Project Freedom” announces U.S. naval presence to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but within hours the Iranian Revolutionary Guard declares it closed again, and reports surface of a South Korean vessel being hit.

  Armstrong: “...the IRGC has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. And after that...South Korean government officials are checking into reports that a South Korean vessel...has been struck in the Strait of Hormuz.” (24:37)

• Analysis: The hosts discuss the strategic calculations of Iran and the Western alliance.

  Getty: “If I'm the IRGC...I might not fire on an American flag vessel...But I might see how America reacts to us hitting one of their allies, a pretty good ally.” (25:17) Armstrong: “Yeah, this could be a spicy day.” (25:38)

• Broader Point: Testing of American resolve by adversaries.

6. Founding Fathers, Partisanship, and American History

[26:02–36:01]

• Fourth of July Reading: Armstrong is diving into "Making the Presidency" (Lindsay Chervinsky) and other Founders books, reflecting on the deep partisanship even in the earliest U.S. politics.

  Armstrong: “By the time [Washington] gets to the second farewell address...he and Madison aren't on speaking terms. That's how quickly it fell apart.” (29:47)

• Lesson: America has always been fiercely partisan and divided—sometimes literally at war with itself.

  Armstrong: “If Washington and Madison were not on speaking terms before his second term ended, why would we expect any difference from Trump and Chuck Schumer?” (35:31) Getty: “The period of peace and prosperity we just came out of. That's not the norm. Strife and struggle and war...That's the norm. You'll be okay.” (31:51)

• Book Recommendations:
  • "Making the Presidency" (Lindsay Chervinsky) – on how Adams defined presidential norms.
  • "Proclaiming Liberty" (Tim Sandifer) – on John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence.

    Getty: “If I'd had a musket, I'd have picked it up and gone to look for an Englishman.” (34:01)

• Humorous Aside: The density of founding drama feels “now-ish.”

7. Airport Lost and Found – The Oddities We Leave Behind

[38:45–43:51]

• Portland Airport Stats: 21,500 items turned in one year—electronic devices, wallets, water bottles, clothing, IDs.

  Armstrong: “3353 electronics, laptops, smartphones, oodles of AirPods...2700 pieces of clothing, 2100 IDs, 1700 bags, 1600 wallets.” (40:27)

• Personal Anecdote: Armstrong nearly left his phone at security; muses on the havoc that would’ve caused.
• Lost & Found Mechanics: Most things in the airport go to lost & found, plane items to airlines, TSA-seized goods are auctioned off.
• Broader Reflection: Occasional regulatory rules seem to hinder the law-abiding more than tackle serious fraud.

  Armstrong: "All you do is inconvenience law-abiding people and appear to make no dent in the illegals...But I'm trying to open a checking account and I need to come up with two forms of ID for my son." (43:13)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Language Policing:

  “You are a Joy. You are, you are fun. You're like a one woman party. You walk in the door, the party started, boy.”
  — Armstrong (06:42), in mock appreciation

• On the Decline of Education Standards:

  “Telling a kid he got a high school diploma when it doesn't mean a freaking thing is a really evil thing to do.”
  — Armstrong (14:42)

• On Cosmetic Surgery Trends:

  "I don't think I could date a chick with elf ears. You're gonna have to throw on a beanie. I just can't look at those."
  — Armstrong (20:26)

• On American Political Norms:

  “That he had to do that. The freaking father of our country, George Washington...had to play those kind of games seven years in to avoid being attacked brutally in the press.”
  — Armstrong (31:07)

• On the Nature of Democracy:

  “Maybe it's only cataclysms pull us together briefly and then we look back on that era, why can't we go back through there...We only had that because of a cataclysm.”
  — Armstrong (32:14)

• On Contemporary ID Hassles:

  "But inmates in the Russian mob can bilk, say, the state of California out of billions and billions of dollars."
  — Getty (43:51)

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Timeline of Major Segments

| Timestamp | Topic/Segment | |------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:43 | Replay explanation—“the most amusing and insightful” recent segments | | 04:02–12:34| School board language police, Joy Flynn “homeless vs. unhoused” debate | | 12:34–14:48| Scrapping high school proficiency exams in New Jersey; larger educational trends | | 15:10–17:15| Chipotle CEO on portion sizes; commentary and comic personal stories | | 17:15–20:35| South Korean “elf ear” plastic surgery craze, Western & non-Western body modification | | 23:43–25:41| Strait of Hormuz updates (Trump’s Project Freedom, Iranian escalation) | | 26:02–36:01| July 4th reading, Founding Fathers’ partisanship, new history books | | 38:45–43:51| Portland Airport lost and found, regulatory red tape, personal anecdotes |

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Conclusion

This Armstrong & Getty replay hour provides a microcosm of their show’s strengths: quick-moving, skeptical cultural commentary; political skepticism toward both sides; love of history; irreverent personal anecdote; and a fondness for both mockery and real concern about social trends. Rather than a single theme, this hour is a lively sampler of current events, culture, and the oddities of everyday life filtered through the duo’s no-nonsense, sardonic lens.

Transcript

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[Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

[Announcer]

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Getty]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Get it.

[Armstrong]

For Armstrong and Getty. Not actually here, but yet still providing you information.

[Getty]

Yeah, it's a bunch of segments from the last several weeks. The wackiest, the most amusing, insightful, that sort of thing.

[Armstrong]

Yeah, this is very, very exciting. You haven't heard this stuff. Oh, could be. It could be fun. It could be touching. You might cry. You might laugh.

[Getty]

The Armstrong and Getty replay.

[Armstrong]

Here's something that will annoy you. Do you want to be annoyed?

[Getty]

I woke up annoyed.

[Armstrong]

I don't know where this school district is. Paero Valley.

[Getty]

I don't.

[Armstrong]

How do you pronounce that?

[Joy Flynn]

You suppose.

[Getty]

Monterey County, California.

[Armstrong]

Oh, it's in Monterey.

[Joy Flynn]

Okay.

[Armstrong]

This is a school board meeting. Somebody apparently had stood up during the school board meeting and used the term homeless talking about something. And it was actually because I heard it actually in a very progressive sort of way. It was like, you know, we need to do something to help the homeless. They're out there and it's cold and blah, blah, blah. Anyway, even though that's the side of it they were on, this is the way the school board member responded to it.

[Joy Flynn]

I have a lot to say and I will speak plainly and you may not like it. I'm personally offended by what was presented on so many different levels. One thing I would like to see updated is the word homeless to unhoused. I'm not done. Can I just don't want Mr. Berman for this to be on him. That's the way our state of California. That's the language that they use and that's their. That doesn't mean that's the language we have to use. I'm, I'm, I'm statement and I know. I just want to make sure that he's not. I, I understand that. I recognize that you're using the information that was given to you that you researched, and I'm asking that it be updated.

[Getty]

That is elected official Joy Flynn.

[Armstrong]

Let's just Let that breathe for a little bit.

[Getty]

Where do you start?

[Armstrong]

As Michael said yesterday, Michelangelo said yesterday, how do these people get through the day? I mean, if you find. I am deeply offended.

[Getty]

Personally offended.

[Armstrong]

If you're deeply, personally offended by that sort of thing, how do you get through the day without just being angry all day long?

[Getty]

Well, and let's not forget, just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right. In fact, in my experience, being that sort of offended is generally someone who's wrong.

[Armstrong]

How about somebody jumping in who's probably also a lefty wacko, saying well before you jump down his throat. It's the actual language in our, you know, in any of our legal documents about the situation, so. Well, that doesn't mean we have to use the word. Yes, Katie, I'm also finding some comedy in the fact that her name is Joy.

[Getty]

Yes, indeed.

[Armstrong]

You are a Joy. You are, you are fun. You're like a one woman party. You walk in the door, the party started, boy.

[Getty]

And that poor son of a buck in the background, you can hear him, hey, point of order. These two dumbbees are driving me insane. I don't know if that's a point of order, but it's happening.

[Armstrong]

Anyway. I, I just thought that was interesting, you know, that, that is not a, you know, an isolated incident. I'm, I'm sure that is an indicator of all kinds of crap that school board believes and discusses and worries about and emphasizes, spends time on.

[Getty]

You worry about the fact that the kids aren't learning. Well, it's, it's the schools, like so many different institutions of society have been captured by the radical left in their brilliant, brilliant strategy of Call anybody who opposes us a racist because in America that's a terrible thing to be. They will back down. We will take control of the organization and then we can install the policies of the radical left. There is a perfect example of that.

[Armstrong]

But these weirdo. Why are you even talking about that

[Getty]

at a school board meeting, much less having some sort of mortal battle over it?

[Armstrong]

These straight out of the Cultural Revolution China people with their. They're so nuts. How do you. They don't know how nuts they are, apparently, or how. How nuts the rest of us see them as. Nobody's gonna benefit from saying unhoused instead of homeless. Not a single good thing will happen. And you seem to think it's just so out of bounds, so much harm being done by sacred. What are you talking about?

[Getty]

Yeah, well, they're crazy. Although she's also, she is a, A Good Maoist. A good, you know, Maoist with American characteristics to flip that old socialist thing on its head in that. And, Jack, you know this from the Soviet revolution, too. You change those words and those slogans frequently enough that people must be up to date on the party line and must use the right terms. Or you castigate them, you yell at them, you punish them, you throw them out, whatever. And then people become so obsessed with just getting it right, they no longer. They have no sight of the original issue. It's merely being a slave to the party line. That's what this Joy Flynn is very good at, and that's what she's insisting on. Because once you have, you're completely divorced from reality and what's actually happening. All you have is fans of Orwell. What. What the party tells you is true.

[Armstrong]

Can you play just the beginning part again? Because I just like how.

[Getty]

Oh, yes.

[Armstrong]

Disappointed and angry she is about this situation.

[Joy Flynn]

I have a lot to say, and I will speak plainly. And you may not like it.

[Getty]

Oh, no.

[Joy Flynn]

I'm personally offended by what was presented.

[Armstrong]

Oh, no.

[Joy Flynn]

You fended on so many different levels.

[Getty]

Multiple levels.

[Joy Flynn]

One thing I would like to see updated is the word homeless to unhoused. I'm not.

[Armstrong]

Okay, I'm not.

[Getty]

Joy, you're an idiot. Shut up. That's what the lady wanted to say.

[Armstrong]

There's a lot of that kind of person in there. Because there's the. I'm personally offended. And we're all supposed to just take a step back. We've got an offended person here, People dialed on exactly that. If anybody's offended, all of a sudden.

[Getty]

No. What do we do?

[Armstrong]

Heaven and earth needs to be moved to make sure no one's ever offended. Because if anybody's offended, clearly that's like the worst crime on earth. And then the other part is there. I'm gonna speak truth to power. You might not like it, but I'm about to hit you with a truth bomb. And you know, that whole thing. Whatever. Shut up.

[Getty]

Her first name is Joy, but her last name should be Kill. Yes, yes, There you go. I am personally. Oh, no.

[Armstrong]

We have an offended person. People either. Whoop, whoop, whoop.

[Getty]

Seriously, everybody take a. A second. As long as it takes to picture the people you've come across personally and

[Armstrong]

at work, whatever, church, whatever, who have

[Getty]

come at you with that attitude and words like that. How often have they been right and sane and a reasonable person, and how often have words like that come out of the mouths of somebody who's the opposite of all Those things. And yet during the woke apocalypse especially, that attitude caused everybody to freeze. Oh, my God, what have I done? What have I done? I'll just be quiet and let you tell me what to do and how to live and what to say. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm not transphobic.

[Armstrong]

I'm not a racist.

[Getty]

I'm not a bigot. I'm not a unhoused.

[Armstrong]

And in some places I'll quit my job or be fired or whatever because I got on the wrong side of your. You're. Well, you were offended. I shouldn't be allowed to work here anymore. You have been offended included. We got an offended, offended alarm.

[Getty]

The offended alarm.

[Armstrong]

You know, your jobs. We've drilled.

[Getty]

We've drilled.

[Armstrong]

Do your jobs.

[Getty]

Including when they realized, wait a minute.

[Armstrong]

This stuff.

[Getty]

People have, like, rational arguments against some of the things we're saying. Let's invent microaggressions so we could pretend the most innocuous things are actually horrible. So everybody's so terrified they don't know what to do or say and they shut up and let us take over. That's the way it works, folks. That's the way it works.

[Armstrong]

Oh, my God. So one more school thing I wanted to jam in. That's a different sort of thing, but also an example of how our public school systems are so bad. New Jersey joins many other states in the rush to make high school diplomas worthless. That's the headline in the New York Post. But what they're doing is they're eliminating the high school graduation requirement like it was done in lots and lots and lots of states. I remember when they first started talking about it in California, and we were outraged. It turns out there are now not lots of places to do it. Tossing such basic academic standards is a nationwide public education trend. Over the past 25 years, the number of states with a high school exit test requirement has gone from 30 to 11. So a whole bunch of states have gotten rid of it.

[Getty]

Wow, that's weird that. That was exactly a coincident with the rise of the teachers unions, teaching churches, schools and school boards.

[Armstrong]

Teachers unions hate them because they suggest the kids aren't learning what they should. Progressives, on the other hand, believe that it helps equality or something.

[Getty]

Equity.

[Armstrong]

It's just. It's amazing that you could possibly think getting rid of the graduation proficiency assessment is a good thing. Yeah, I. We all know what's going on here, I think.

[Getty]

But yeah, yeah, just like our socialism discussion, it's not about lifting up the bottom. It's about bringing down the top and. Or eliminating any differences. Shared misery.

[Armstrong]

I will say, as I've said many times, the people that actually know what they're doing, I think some people don't quite get what is. They actually for some reason think this is helping the downtrodden. But the people that know what they're doing, because a lot of people know what they're doing. I don't know how you sleep at night. How can you send high school graduates out in the world? They can't do basic math or read and they're gonna. Their lives are gonna suck. And you're okay with that? How do you sleep at night?

[Getty]

I'll tell you precisely how. It's a necessary sacrifice to bring about the revolution,

[Joy Flynn]

man.

[Getty]

It's like a soldier dying in war

[Armstrong]

telling a kid he got a high school diploma when it doesn't mean a freaking thing is a really evil thing to do.

[Getty]

Yeah, yeah. You just. You can't appeal to their conscience because their conscience tells them what they're doing is exactly the right thing. Armstrong and Gettysburg.

[Armstrong]

The Armstrong and Getty show. You should ask a little more. I promise you there's never a team member on that line is going to

[Announcer]

say no to you.

[Armstrong]

We will continue to put heaping spoonfuls of food and bowls and Doritos. It has always been our brand ethos and it is still to this day. We serve big, beautiful bowls and burritos, no questions asked. I tell my team all the time, put as much food in that bowl and burrito as you possibly can. I want the consumer to tell you it's too big.

[Getty]

That's a guy.

[Armstrong]

Chipotle. Wow.

[Getty]

It's the CEO.

[Armstrong]

So is that.

[Getty]

I just.

[Armstrong]

I'm amazed. I don't feel like I go to restaurants because other portions are so giant. I don't ever go anywhere where the portions aren't giant. So I. That's not a, like a draw for me. That's.

[Getty]

That's squarely aimed at the young man market, isn't it? Or the poor or the. The gal who knows she can get two to three meals out.

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Getty]

The burrito, that's the same size as her head. Yeah.

[Armstrong]

The problem with burritos is every time I get one anywhere, when I start with it, holding it in my hands just like I held Sam and Henry when they are babies. Roughly the same size.

[Getty]

Yes.

[Armstrong]

The burrito, wherever I bought it, I think I say to myself, my son the other night, do not let me eat this whole thing. Look, I'm holding this. This thing feels like it weighs five pounds. There's no way I should eat this whole thing. All right. If half of this isn't left when I stop, I've made a mistake, and then I eat the whole thing.

[Getty]

Damn, you're like a hungry bear.

[Armstrong]

Well, you get going and it tastes good and you think have it, then I'd have to wrap it up and put it in the car and car's gonna. Might as well just eat it.

[Getty]

Okay. All right.

[Joy Flynn]

Yeah.

[Getty]

I don't show hands to those of us who are able to restrain ourselves and take a bit home. That's not.

[Armstrong]

Well, I used to tell my kids, it's part of your charm. If I, if I, if I eat, if I eat this, punch me in the neck, you know, whatever. Like, then Henry punched me in the neck one time, not realizing he was kind of what I want. Like, you know, a saying rather than oh gee ordered. It really hurt getting punched in the neck. So I've had to change my directions.

[Getty]

Yeah, imagine getting stabbed in the neck like in the LA mayor debate. Anyway, so the other day we brought you the story of how mar a lago face is the hottest thing in plastic surgery. And how really rich women show how rich they are. Not with the designer handbag. Too easy to get. Not by flying first class. Too easy to do. No, by getting their face carved up. By getting too much quote unquote plastic surgery. It's insane. Beauty standards, especially for women, are one of the most just fascinating and crazy topics on earth. The most coveted cosmetic enhancement in Asia right now, elf ears. Demand for injections and other measures to artificially enhance ears is soaring, especially in South Korea where a wide face is something to hide. Elf ears are the coveted look in beauty obsessed South Korea where residents seem to be on a never ending quest

[Armstrong]

for cosmetic improvements that basically be pointy

[Getty]

ears, larger, more out from your head and. Or pointy ears.

[Armstrong]

Wow. The larger out from your head is a surgery that was like. Lots of people get to get rid of that.

[Getty]

Yes. In the west, yeah. Larger ears can create the illusion of a smaller face, a prized trade in East Asia, where big heads aren't usually a big plus. Japanese use handheld massage rollers to reduce overnight facial swelling. Chinese deride people with larger, flatter mugs as having pancake faces. Koreans idolize an angular V shaped jawline. Evidently, the elf ear movement swept through all of those countries in recent years, but has really stayed on in South Korea. The country is home to the beauty Belt, a sole neighborhood that has more plastic surgery clinics than la, Miami and Rio. De Janeiro combined.

[Armstrong]

I feel like Western society advanced Western society used to look at those African tribes like that put the plates in their lips to make their lips all big and flappy. Or if you put the rings around your neck to stretch your neck out as like really backwards and simple. And how ridiculous is that? But we're doing the same thing, just in a different way. It's just as ridiculous to do whatever Jeff Bezos wife is doing and here's

[Getty]

a glimpse of the modern world. Elf ears first emerged about five years ago when an influencer in China posted about undergoing surgery to have more prominent pointy ears. The hashtag ELFEAR Cosmetic Surgery now has more than 780 million views on China's Weibo. That's just China, which is admittedly a giant country. But as the trend took hold, less invasive options began to arise for the ELF ear curious. Besides film injections, there's also tape designed to create a similar effect when wedged behind the ears. Still, the look didn't fully latch on in South Korea until last year when a K pop singer named Mimi, part of the oh My Girl group, confessed to using ELF ear tape. Thousands of ear tape products proliferated online. Queries for ear filler exploded by 1,200% on Barbie Talk, an information platform for cosmetic influencers and cosmetic procedures.

[Armstrong]

I don't think I could date a chick with elf ears. You're gonna have to throw on a beanie. I just can't look at those.

[Getty]

I don't know. Elfin haircut is kind of cute, but I don't know if I need the ears.

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[Armstrong]

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[Getty]

Oh boy.

[Armstrong]

And dark. Quick update on Project Freedom before we move on. That's what Trump announced yesterday and that was the whole we're going to get ships going through the Strait. Again. He didn't announce we're opening the Strait. He announced ships will go through the Strait without a lot of details as to how they would.

[Getty]

And I think everybody is making the same dog that heard something weird face that I am. Wait, what?

[Armstrong]

And we have guided missile destroyers in the area. We have 100 land and sea based aircraft. We have 15,000 service members that are going to be part of Project Freedom, without a specific commitment to what we're going to do. Then CENTCOM announced before we came on the air today that two US Flagged merchant vessels that had been trapped there since February, since the war began, got through. Okay, well, that seemed like a good sign. Well, in just the last 45 minutes, the IRGC has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. And after that, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, which I subscribe

[Getty]

to, you should too liberal for me.

[Armstrong]

South Korean government officials are checking into reports that a South Korean vessel, South Korean flag vessel, has been struck in the Strait of Hormuz. So the IRGC said it ain't open, it's closed, and then they're apparently fired on a ship. So we'll keep you updated on how that whole thing's going, and in hour three, we'll talk to Mike Lyons and try to get a handle on what's happening.

[Getty]

Interesting. If I'm the irgc, I may not. I might not fire on an American flag vessel because that'll. That'll bring hell raining down. But I might see how America reacts to us hitting one of their allies, a pretty good ally. Wonder how the allies are going to hang together. No, Now I would be wondering, right?

[Armstrong]

Yeah, this could be a spicy day.

[Getty]

Yeah, they are, because these people are evil. But they are smart. They read the headlines about Keir Starmer and the Germans criticizing Trump and saying he has no plan and merits saying America's been humiliated at the bargaining table and the rest of it, which is a bizarre take, but yeah, the IRGC is testing that.

[Armstrong]

So every year around 4th of July, I decide to read a Founding Father sort of book, one of the classics or new one or whatever. This year I'm starting early. I'm going to read nothing but founding stuff leading up to 4th of July and our 250th birthday and all that sort of stuff. And a lot of my favorite podcasts had been mentioning this new book about John Adams called Making the Presidency by Lindsay Chervinsky. And enough of my favorites mentioned it. I thought, okay, I'll give it a look and some couple chapters into it. And man, there's all kinds of new stuff in there that if I'd heard it before, I didn't remember it. And if you're a history buff, you read the John Adams David McCullough book 25 years ago when that came out, which moved John Adams from a, you know, kind of an Also ran in the Founding Fathers derby. My whole life growing up, it was Always Washington, Jefferson, maybe he gets some Alexander Hamilton. Adams was always just, he was a one term president kind of. He is, he is right up there in terms of couldn't have had the country without him.

[Getty]

Oh yeah.

[Armstrong]

And glad he got rescued from history by David McCullough. And then this book will continue it. And a lot of what I'm learning from this book is the reason he was a one term president wasn't because he was a failed president. It was because he stood up to the, to the extreme of his own party. Like, no, no, no, no, no. Just because we're in office, we're not going to go that far. And that's what got him booted out. As we often know in modern politics, standing up to your own party in certain times will doom you.

[Getty]

Wow. So he got primaried, huh?

[Armstrong]

He basically, yeah, basically got primaried by, by, by, you know, by history and you know, whether you're Paul Ryan, was that, who was the speaker of House there, beginning of Trump's term or whatever. And you know, you know, if you're, if you're one of those people that are actually have the country's best interests at heart, sometimes it doesn't work out for you depending on the times we live in. But here's the stuff that I thought was interesting and this is the overall topic of whenever we talk about things are more partisan than they've ever been and we're falling apart and all that sort of stuff, and then some smart person like our friend Tim Sandifer or whoever steps in says, no, we've been partisan many, many times before Civil War, very partisan. And, but other times in our history and, and I knew that about the, the founding, that, you know, we got into parties very quickly. I didn't realize it was this quickly. So George Washington writes his farewell address in year three of his first term because he's leaving. I am done. I am, this is it. Good luck to the country. I hope you all do well. But he is done. And, and everybody's like, what? You can't leave yet, you got to stay. No, I am done, dudes.

[Getty]

I miss my farm. I'm tired of this, right?

[Armstrong]

And you know, running a war and then being in government, which he didn't want to do at all. He didn't want to be in charge of the Continental Congress, all that sort of stuff, and he wanted out. And so he writes his farewell address with the help of Madison, basically writes it for him. And that first cabinet that he had, that you learn about in school, that is just full of all the people that are on our money and you know, that are on mountains and stuff like that. They all. So. So he's convinced by a number of people in his cabinet and others to stay that, look, we can't, you got to stay for one more term. We ain't going to make it. We just, we got to figure some things out first. He reluctantly decides to stay again. Madison. Madison basically writes his first farewell address. By the time he gets to the second farewell address, when he actually leaves and they're still begging him to stay, he and Madison aren't on speaking terms. That's how quickly it fell apart. He and freaking father of the Constitution, James Madison would not even speak to each other in that second term. That's how bad things got so fast.

[Getty]

What was the, the problem? Did a chick come between them?

[Armstrong]

Chick, that's right. Dolly Madison. Not the snack treat, but the hottie.

[Getty]

No, she was a snack.

[Armstrong]

You know, just the factions that happen in all government, how much power the presidency should have and versus all the things that we still argue about to this day. But man, I didn't realize it turned so quickly in the first term. And all the heroes of the first term, your Alexander Hamilton's and your Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, they left after the first term. And you had a bunch of people that aren't remembered by history in the second term. And things got ugly so fast. And I don't know what the lesson is that you take from this. So then when he gives his farewell address, he decides to use the first farewell address that Madison wrote just because he knew he was going to be attacked on so harshly by Madison and Jefferson and others. In his farewell address he used the one that Madison wrote. So they come out and say, hey, you know, you know where those words came from? Freaking James Madison, all right?

[Getty]

So back off. Wow.

[Armstrong]

That's where I mean, it sounds very now. Ish.

[Getty]

Wow. Yeah.

[Armstrong]

That he had to do that. The freaking father of our country, George Washington, you know, the indispensable man, the one guy everybody could agree on, had to play those kind of games seven years in to avoid being attacked brutally in the press by the people. But that no longer agreed with him. So what is the lesson from that? That's just the nature of democracy. Maybe it's why democracies don't work. I don't know that you end up in those situations.

[Getty]

I think it's similar to what we're always trying to put across to the modern audience, that the period of peace and prosperity we just came out of. That's not the norm.

[Armstrong]

Right.

[Getty]

Strife and struggle and war and. And being a little uneasy. That's the norm. You'll be okay. Similar. Similar lesson, I think. What's the name of the book you're talking about again? George Washington. What a guy.

[Armstrong]

Moby Dick.

[Getty]

It's a. I don't.

[Armstrong]

It's a John Adams book. Making the. Making the presidency. And it's a basic. Basically how they're.

[Joy Flynn]

The.

[Armstrong]

The. The thesis is to have a norm, which we are now in the business of both parties destroying all norms. But to have a norm, it can't happen once, it needs to happen twice. And John Adams was the twice. You had this administration do it. Then when John.

[Joy Flynn]

At.

[Armstrong]

John Adams does it again. Now you've got a norm. And whether or not that holds or not is basically the premise of the book. But. So maybe it's only cataclysms. Pull us together briefly and then we look back on that era. Why can't we go back through there? We only had that because of a cataclysm. Because funnily, in the same week, this book I'm reading, Ike's Bluff, which I've read before, included Eisenhower writing his farewell address in the middle of his first term because there was no freaking way he was going to run again. He had a 75% approval rating and didn't want to stick around for another term because everybody convinced him. Look, we. You gotta. We just. You have to. Because of this and that's going on. And why did he have a 75% approval rating? Because similar to Washington came out of a cataclysm. He wasn't really associated with either party. But those are outliers. Those are. Those aren't really things you can get back to.

[Getty]

Right.

[Armstrong]

That were the standard that we should, you know, considered the norm. Those were outliers because of cataclysms. Yeah.

[Getty]

Circumstances. Yeah. I've touted this book before. I will tout it again now. Our friend Tim Sandifer's new book, Proclaiming Liberty. What is the subtitle of that? I like a good subtitle. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. Again, how Adams was indispensable working with Jefferson to craft the Declaration. And the thing I love so much about the book is, and I was reading it the other night, I got so fired up, if I'd had a musket, I'd have picked it up and gone to look for an Englishman. Wow. The idiotic idea. Oh, my God, we're almost out of time. That that some, like modern progressive historians are like, they just broke away from England to ensure their own wealth and to consolidate control or continue slavery is so freaking idiotic. It's unbelievable the way the Parliament, especially everybody talks about King Geor, but the way the Parliament was constantly abusing us. And I know I was a couple of hundred years from appearing, but I mean, just jerking us around, utterly disregarding any. Not only like, you know, taxation without representation and the base and the natural rights of man, but like even being nice, just constantly changing this and extracting that and saying, shut up, you don't have a legislature anymore. We're. We're unconvening your legislature. And us saying, that's not a thing. And them saying, we'll shoot you in the face if you make a, if you make any noise about it. Utterly, horribly abusive relationship. And then Tim gets into the particulars of the Declaration of Independence, which if you don't have perspective, you're like, he sent forth swarms of officers to eat our substance. What is he talking about? Oh, it's so good, so interesting. It explains why there was a revolution. And you'd have grabbed your musket too. Those bastards.

[Armstrong]

So I'd be interested in hearing from you. If Washington and Madison were not on speaking terms before his second term ended, why would we expect any difference from Trump and Chuck Schumer? You know, and this where it's like they can't even go out to eat together. Washington and Madison couldn't go out to eat together.

[Getty]

Correct me if I'm wrong, I think the two of them were both sincere though about their difference.

[Armstrong]

Ah, that's a, that's a decent point.

[Getty]

Right? They weren't gaslighting, clickbaiting, fundraising on lining liars.

[Armstrong]

Interesting.

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[Armstrong]

The Armstrong and Getty show this is kind of interesting. This is from the Portland airport. I'm sure it's true at all airports and even bigger numbers at bigger airports. The headline 1600 wallets, 800 phones and one special labubu inside Portland Airports Lost and Found. There is a lost and found at the airports. Obviously there is, and if you lose something there, that's where you go to find it. In 2025, the Portland Airport Lost and Found logged a total of 21,500 items in one year that were lost at the airport. That seems like a lot.

[Getty]

It's a good airport by the way. Really. Like the Portland airport that included.

[Armstrong]

I almost lost my cell phone recently. I so lucky. This would have ruined our trip. We had just gone through security somehow. I Left my cell phone behind in the basket or something, and. And we're headed to our gate, and Sam says, hey, this guy ran up to me and said, I think this is your dad's cell phone. Holy crap. That would have end. We wouldn't have gone on a trip because my tickets are in there and, you know, everything's in there.

[Getty]

Oh, yeah, all your arrangements.

[Armstrong]

I certainly wouldn't have figured out the ticket thing in time for the flight anyway. I'm not the only person who does that in one year at not, you know, a giant airport in Portland. 3353 electronics, laptops, smartphones, oodles of AirPods that people just. Just set down and forget. And we're not talking about the stuff on the planes. That's a different thing. The airlines hang on to those. This is stuff you just leave in the airport. 2700 pieces of clothing, 2100 IDs, including passports. 2,100 over a year. That's a lot. Several a day. 1700 bags, 1600 wallets, roughly. This one's easier to imagine. 18,000 water bottles, books, hats, and belts. Also turned up items so common, so rarely retrieved, and of so little value that the department doesn't even bother logging them all. They have stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of water bottles. So why would you keep track of it in case of me? Hey, did you find a green water bottle last week? Yeah, I got about 800 green water bottles.

[Getty]

Come in and pick one.

[Armstrong]

Not everything lost at the airport lands at the lost and found. Anything left on a plane, as I mentioned, stays with the airline. TSA also keeps the object it sees, as in the security checkpoint, like my pocket knife that I had to get over a week or so ago. Wouldn't go to lost and found. It would tsa. I think they sent them to an auction or something.

[Getty]

I heard something like that, yeah.

[Armstrong]

Which is a good idea. There's no point in throwing them in the trash. They're trying to figure out how to cut down on this. Although if I'm not interested enough to hang on to my winter coat, I don't know what you can do about that.

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[Getty]

Yeah. Wow, a laptop. That sucks.

[Armstrong]

You have to be quite miserable. You're probably on a business trip. And now everything is in that laptop that I left sitting somewhere. I sat down for coffee and walked away.

[Getty]

Then what's the process for getting it back? I mean, you call the airport, I guess, and finally figure out what line to call, and you leave a message or something. They say, yeah, we got 79 of them from Friday. You got to come in and flip through all of them. And if you can sign on to one and you get it, it. I don't. I wonder. I mean, because you can't just say, oh, it's not like a water bottle. Ah, Damn it, my MacBook. Well, what are you gonna do? I'll buy another one. People aren't generally gonna do that.

[Armstrong]

Right. How about your ID that changed your trip?

[Getty]

Oh.

[Armstrong]

You're not getting into your hotel or your rental car or on the plane or all kinds of different things.

[Getty]

Yeah, yeah, I actually did that once. I can't remember. I left it or lost it or something. But the. As I recall, it was pre 911 and it was still. No, it couldn't have been, because I think pre 9 11, you just walked up with your ticket and walked down to the. Sure. Yeah. Yes. It was a pain in the butt.

[Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Getty]

I got a business card. I got all these credit cards. What do you want to know about me?

[Armstrong]

I can't believe I left my phone by. Oh, it's like I'm opening a checking account for my oldest son. I did this with his brother weeks ago. They need two forms of ID to prove it's him, me being dad, and me having an account there. And my ID is not enough. Are you kidding me?

[Getty]

What are we trying to prevent that? I don't know.

[Armstrong]

What's amazing to me about this, all these sorts of things, is it's a lot of, like, gun laws. All you do is inconvenience law abiding people and appear to make no dent in the illegals. I mean, see, Somali thieves in Minnesota, they stole $9 billion. But I'm trying to open a checking account and I need to come up with two forms of ID for my son. So I got his birth certificate. Thank God I know where it is. And. And another form of id, I said I don't have another, like, driver's. Like, he doesn't have a driver's license.

[Getty]

He's a child. Look at him.

[Armstrong]

Yeah, his Social Security card. Yeah, we don't have a Social Security card. Maybe I should have one. But I don't have one.

[Getty]

But inmates in the Russian mob can bilk, say, the state of California out of billions and billions of dollars.

[Armstrong]

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[Armstrong]

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