The A&G Replay Thursday Hour Four

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Replay Thursday Hour Four – July 2, 2026
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Episode Overview

This episode of the Armstrong & Getty Replay compiles highlights and engaging discussions from Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty's past shows, blending their signature mix of humor, cultural critique, and sharp political commentary. This hour features eclectic topics: wild news stories (including car-pulling stunts), the evolving standards for politicians' private lives, a critical deep-dive into California's new free diaper program, and a tongue-in-cheek look at robot dogs. The banter is equal parts light-hearted and incisive, true to the show’s trademark style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Soviet-Era Music & Government Censorship

Timestamps: 03:28 – 04:46

• The team uses quirky Soviet transition music, prompting a brief dive into Soviet censorship.
• Joe Getty recounts how a hit Soviet song was made into a wordless “la la la” chorus because the original love-song lyrics were considered too risqué by communist authorities.
• Joe Getty: "The guy would sing this on, you know, variety shows as a hit song with no words because the Communist party doesn't think we should have words. Good grief." (04:35)

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“Balls of Steel”: Extreme Stunt in the UK

Timestamps: 04:46 – 12:11

• A man in the UK became the first to pull a car using only his testicles, aiming to raise awareness for men’s mental health.
• Hilarious, incredulous banter ensues about the logistics (and dangers) of such a feat and similar stunts in China.
• Joe Getty: "He munched on a bag of nuts while completing his challenge. He joked afterwards, 'When I'd finished, my plums were bright purple, but I'm still firing on all cylinders.'" (05:53)
• The conversation veers into the grisly realities of farm life, including a detailed account of castrating goats.
• Discussion about how urbanization has distanced Americans from the realities of life and death, referencing Dave Grossman’s book On Killing.
• Katie: "Oh, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, you got to be super proud. What's the apparatus that attaches to you?...All of this sounds like a terrible idea." (07:20, 07:47)
• Reflection on society’s changing relationship with mortality and the way children used to directly witness animal slaughter for food.

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The “Character Issue” in American Politics

Timestamps: 12:52 – 20:11

• Armstrong and Getty trace the history of politicians’ personal scandals impacting their careers, from JFK’s unreported affairs, to Gary Hart’s career-ending scandal (1988), Bill Clinton’s impeachment, to Trump-era indifference.
  • Are sexual or marital indiscretions “disqualifying” in modern American politics?
  • Comparison with European attitudes—“they’ve always wondered, why do you care?”—and a reflection on how culture has shifted.
• Jack Armstrong: “I kind of figured...we’ve moved on in a country and become more like Europe...Why do you care about that?” (13:36)
• Discussion of recent cases—Graham Platner (Maine Senate candidate) ousted not for his Nazi tattoo but sexting scandals; John Fetterman’s response.
• Joe Getty: “I think the Democratic Party has just said, oh, my go, this guy has too much baggage...the sexting thing, the Nazi tattoo, rural Mainers are stupid racists, and half a dozen other things.” (16:31)
• Debate over whether infidelity should disqualify candidates and if all “character flaws” are alike or should be weighed differently.

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Critique of California’s Free Diaper Program & Nonprofit “Grift”

Timestamps: 28:13 – 35:39

• Newsom’s “free diaper” program is deconstructed as typical political showmanship and bureaucratic inefficiency.
• Joe Getty and Jack Armstrong break down the math: $20 million of taxpayer money for 100,000 babies ($200/baby for 400 diapers), which means the state is paying 8–10 times the retail cost.
• Joe Getty: “They could have just handed every low income new mom $100 cash and told her to go to Costco. She’d get more diapers, better ones...and still have money left over...But nah, that wouldn’t give Gavin [Newsom] and his connected nonprofit people the opportunity to cut ribbons, take photos, do galas, and brag.” (30:00)
• Nonprofit “administrative cost” grift is exposed with the example of Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Newsom’s wife, drawing a $1.8 million salary and collecting $2.1 million for her film company from her own “gender justice” charity.
• Joe Getty: “Even if you’re making movies on bike safety, I still would hate it...It’s still graft, obviously. It’s still corrupt.” (34:09)
• Steve Hilton (CA politician) illustrates with a store visit how retail diapers are a third of the price the state is paying.
• Steve Hilton (clip): "Gavin Newsom is taking $20 million of your money to send 100,000 babies 400 diapers. That works out at 50 cents per diaper. We just came into Target to check out...16 cents per diaper. Gavin Newsom's diapers are three times more expensive..." (34:29)
• The hosts fume about systemic government waste and favoritism.

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Education Pet Peeves – State Curricula & Foreign Language Requirements

Timestamps: 25:04 – 28:13

• Critique of educational standards; questioning why children still memorize state capitals or are forced to take foreign languages they’ll never use.
• Joe Getty: “I just wish we could tear it all down again, erase our minds and start from scratch. What do we want kids to come out of school having learned to go out into the world?” (26:05)
• High school Spanish teacher texts in: agrees on foreign language—mandatory courses water down classes for the truly interested.
• Hosts share anecdotes of honor students unable to hold basic conversations after years of language classes.

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Robot Dogs: The Future of Pets & Security

Timestamps: 39:11 – 44:24

• Discussion covers Sony’s pet “dog” Aibo and the far more advanced (and expensive) Unitree Go2 ($75,000)—its functions extend to industrial inspection and security.
• Banter includes imagining robot dogs performing home patrol, opening doors, flipping switches, and (jokingly) possibly grasping knives.
• Joe Getty: “It can go upstairs...open lever doors...pick up objects up to 11 pounds...turn valves and flip switches, drag things as heavy as 55 pounds.” (41:04)
• Use of ChatGPT/Claude for jokes about whether robot dogs shed.
• Joe Getty: “The only thing it leaves behind is the occasional oil drip if a hydraulic seal goes bad and the faint smell of regret when you see the invoice. Which is actually a pretty good joke.” (44:14)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “We all pretend it’s not happening...The grit and reality of farm life, which used to be known damn near universally among Americans, is now so distant.”
  — Joe Getty (09:05)
• “The diaper program exists to make Gavin look good as a candidate and to funnel huge amounts of cash to his cronies. It doesn’t exist to put diapers in the hands of new moms.”
  — Joe Getty (32:04)
• “Even if it was, you know, something good, teaching kids how to ride bikes...the fact that you call it a non profit and pay yourself a $2 million salary...I still would hate it.”
  — Joe Getty (34:09)
• “I think I would pretend I didn’t know him...Just kind of do the Homer Simpson back into the bush thing.”
  — Katie, on how she'd react if her brother pulled a car with his testicles (12:10)

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Additional Highlights

• Reflective discussions on how society distances itself from the “realities” of death and food production, with stories from Jack’s Kansas upbringing.
• Recap and critique of Saturday Night Live’s political sketches (specifically about Brett Kavanaugh), lamenting the lack of meaningful comedy.
• Ongoing joke about AI and robot dogs becoming household fixtures—possibly menacing or unpredictable—blending the show’s blend of curiosity and suspicion about new tech.

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Summary Table of Key Segments

| Segment Theme | Timestamps | Key Participants | Notable Aspects | |--------------------------------------|------------|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------| | Soviet music & censorship | 03:28–04:46| Joe, Jack, Katie | Humor, quirky show traditions | | UK car-pulling (men’s health) | 04:46–12:11| Joe, Jack, Katie | Absurd news, banter, rural-grit discussion | | Politicians’ private lives | 12:52–20:11| Jack, Joe | Political history, changing norms, discussion of scandal | | Educational critique | 25:04–28:13| Joe, Jack | State standards, language requirements, teacher feedback | | Free diapers & nonprofit grift | 28:13–35:39| Jack, Joe | Math, expose on bureaucratic waste, Steve Hilton clip | | Robot dogs & AI | 39:11–44:24| Jack, Joe, Katie | Future of pets, tech humor, hypothetical scenarios |

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Tone and Flow

• The hour balances wild news, skeptical looks at politics and government, laughs at the expense of modern life, and pointed criticism of inefficiency or hypocrisy.
• The hosts’ chemistry shines, with plenty of ribbing and “did you know?” tangents. The humor is irreverent but sharp.

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For listeners who missed the show, this summary captures the full flavor: a fast-moving, sardonic (but friendly) blend of news analysis, culture, and comic relief—perfect Armstrong & Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. You've tuned in the Armstrong and Getty replay. We're not actually here. I'm volunteering at a soup kitchen and Joe is giving blood.

Yeah, I had to get a break and I would just weep at the end of every show. I really needed to recharge.

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[Joe Getty]

Yeah. But the staff has done a great job assembling all sorts of best of type moments of all descriptions.

And yeah, this is pretty cool. I think you're really going to like it.

It's the Armstrong and Getty replay. Also, probably a little transition music is necessary here, Michael. In fact, I'm not sure it's ever been more necess.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh,

[Joe Getty]

little Soviet era transition music appropriate to the time we were discussing.

Do you know, you probably don't know this, do you, Katie? You've been too new to this show to know this transition music. This is a fascinating story. We should, we should show you the video. It was a hit song in the Soviet Union. The song had words, but the Soviet communist government thought the words were too, too like there's a love song. They're too much for society they couldn't handle. So they had to turn this hit song into La la la la la to get past the communist government.

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Oh, wow.

[Joe Getty]

No, I think they actually tried a couple of times in the, the review board or whatever it was, said, no, still not good enough. They're like, all right,

[Katie]

well, for the sake of the show, I'm kind of happy they did that. Great transition music.

[Joe Getty]

So the guy would sing this on, you know, variety shows as a hit song with no words because the Communist party doesn't think we should have words.

Good grief.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know.

[Joe Getty]

Isn't that crazy? Is okay.

Zoron Mandami got elected in New York City. All right.

Okay. Try to identify this song. You can't. I mean, this sound. Try to identify the sound. You can't. I, I just tell you right off the bat you're going to guess wrong.

Oh, you've ruined the game.

But try to guess. Ready?

[Bethany Frankel]

Ready?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, please, God, be careful. Come undone. Oh, my God, he's doing it.

[Steve Hilton]

That's it.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my God. What was the grunting about? Why was that guy grunting?

50 year old John Stevenson, a kickbox Boxer proved he had balls of steel after becoming the first person in the UK or probably anywhere else, to pull a car using just his testicles.

Is that what you guessed, Katie?

[Katie]

That was spot. Actually, I was spot on.

[Joe Getty]

I thought it was a pickup truck. I thought it was a guy pulling a pickup truck with his testicles.

I thought it was a guy pulling a train with his tongue. But I was close, but just not right. And he munched on a bag of

nuts while completing his challenge. He joked afterwards, quote, when I'd finished, my plums were bright purple, but I'm still firing on all cylinders.

How did it not just yank them off?

In the way that I ease into it.

In the way that I have participated in castrating hogs.

Oh, Lord. The details are unerrable. He is trying. He was trying to raise awareness of men's mental health issues.

Oh, that's.

Well, he did.

So you say he's the third person to pull a car with his testicles?

No, it turns out he's the first person to pull a car in the UK with his testicles. But. Jack, an excellent question. Whether you realized it or not, using your genitals to pull a vehicle isn't a new concept.

Chinese

qui gong master Tu Jinshang has earned himself the nickname of Iron Crotch for his displays of penile power. Iron Crotch kung fu master Yi Hong Wei went to even greater lengths to pull a five ton military helicopter. But there's no record of it ever being done in the UK before.

Okay, I. Do you work up to it? Like, do I start with light weights and work up to it. Start with like 2 pound dumbbells and

[Katie]

kind of like move up to a kettlebell and then.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. Then I'm pulling maybe, I don't know, a bicycle.

His sister Sherry was among those who turned out to cheer for his latest feat. She said, quote, it was amazing. It was bizarre to watch. But we're all really proud of him.

[Katie]

Oh, I'm sure.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, you got to be super proud. What's the apparatus that attaches to you?

What is that, like some sort of silk scarf?

Like a lasso around

[Katie]

all of this sounds like a terrible idea.

[Joe Getty]

It's a long orange, like scarf looking.

How do you not just end up garrotted?

I don't know, Castrated like a goat? Yeah, you've got to fashion exactly the right kind of knot.

Do you remember when I. Boy, this is.

[Katie]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know if anybody wants to hear this.

[O]

Oh, boy.

[Joe Getty]

Do you remember when I.

Probably not you remember when I brought that tool in and I asked everybody what this is?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Many, many years ago. And it was for castrating male goats. And it's an interesting piece of handheld equipment, and you put rubber bands around it, and then when you squeeze it, it opens up the rubber bands into a big circle. And then you put that around the junk of the goat, and then you slide it off the piece of equipment, and then the rubber bands go tight around the bottom underneath the testes. And then eventually it just cuts off the blood circulation and the testes just drop off.

Handy.

And then, having observed it myself, owls fly in and grab the testicles and fly off with them, delighted with their find.

Well, you know. Oh, it's circle of life or something.

[Katie]

My life is better now that I know that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

It's interesting, though.

[Katie]

I love your version of show and tell is bringing in a castration tool.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. No kidding. Well, I knew most people in the Middle Ages.

Yeah, I knew most people wouldn't be able to guess what that was.

No, you. You were right on that. Not to turn this serious because I do everything. That's why I'm rarely invited to gatherings. The grit and reality of farm life, which used to be known damn near universally among Americans, is now so distant. Most people's lives are so, you know, sterile and, no pun intended, not intended, so, you know, sterile and. And. And safe and careful and, you know, life and death and where meat comes from and all, it's.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's just.

[Joe Getty]

We all pretend it's not happening.

I've told this story before. My.

Oh, I hope it's every bit as good as the last one. Do owls eat anybody's balls in this one?

I'm from small town, Kansas. I had a girlfriend from small town, Nebraska. She was even from a smaller town than me. And their field trip that they did in grade school was they walked down the street in this town of 300 people. They walked down the street to the butcher where they had a steer standing in the back room, and the guy shot the steer in front of the kids and then butchered it so the kids would understand where meat came from.

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[Joe Getty]

And how old were these?

This. This was not an 1898. This would have been in. See, she was five years younger than me, so this would have been in the. The late 70s, I guess, around 1980. Wow. Yeah, shoot.

I think fifth grade, she said, wow, fifth grade.

Shoot a steer in front of you. They probably didn't do that in the Bay Area of California, did they, Katie?

[Katie]

No, I did not go on that field trip.

[Joe Getty]

They'd have to shoot the genderbred person and butcher him or them. They. Them.

So do you think it's meaningful in any way that we're further away from the. From that grit? Do we need to be? I mean, we're further away from other really, really gritty things from the Middle Ages that I think we're probably better off for. Yeah.

In Dave Grossman's book on killing, which is really an interesting read, even if you don't agree with every bit of it, he talks about how we've become so distant from death because it used to be 99% of people died in their home with the family around and the rest of it, and you'd call the undertaker and everything, but everybody understood that Grandpa's passed and now they're going to take his body and his soul is with God or whatever. And animals were frequently slaughtered in the yard, and then they were on your plate an hour later or whatever. And we've gotten so far from that. We've kind of fetishized death in a weird way. It's distant, but we're obsessed with it. And I'm not doing a good job of explaining, but perhaps I've sold a book or two.

Or is it the flip side that we value life more? Is that the case or no?

That's an interesting question. By God. Response required by God.

But life was cheap in a lot of parts of the world for and still is, where it just doesn't seem to have hardly any meaning whatsoever. So here's the question. If your brother. You find out your brother is going to pull some heavy object with his testicles, do you tell the news Anchorage? I'm so proud of him.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Depends if he succeeds or fails. I mean, if he, like, chickens out or gives up. When you know, the, the. The thousands of pounds of pressure are applied, then what if they just proud

of him, pull right off. I think I would pretend I didn't know him.

He's trying to draw attention to men's mental health.

[Katie]

Just kind of do the Homer Simpson back into the bush thing. Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know that guy.

Yeah. Good job.

[Katie]

Good job.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

Way back in the. Way back in the day, if you were a politician in it and it emerged that you had had an affair, you're done. Well, almost Derailed Clinton, obviously I gotta go further back in the day. Further back in the day, you could have endless affairs on your wife and nobody would report it. So we cared. But nobody knew. JFK may have had more. Not just affairs, just like one night stands with people that were absolutely 100%, you know, on the whole power structure, if you believe in that whole thing of any president we've ever had and he's held out, held up as a shining light for democracy because nobody reported on this sort of stuff at the time. Then we went through a brief period, particularly Gary Hart, who was running for president in 1980. 88 in 1988 as a Democrat, probably would have been the nominee, quite possibly the president. But he was on a boat called the Monkey Business with a young woman and it made the news. And the first time the news decided to report on a guy's personal life about this sort of stuff, it exploded. He had to get out of the race because you can't have a nominee for a party who's cheating on his wife. Well, then we move further down the road. Bill Clinton, all kinds of stuff going on, gets impeached, stays in office, blah, blah, blah. Donald Trump, everything in his life ignored by the party. That in theory was really holding the line on the character issue mattering, ignored Donald Trump's personal life. I kind of figured that, well, I guess we've moved on in a country and become more like Europe. Who's always wondered, you care about that if the guy is going to lead your country, whether or not he cheated on his wife, why do you care about that? Is the way Europe has always looked at it. And. But this Graham Platner guy who's running for. Wants to be a senator up there in Maine. All those texts that came out over the weekend, the sexting texts, got way more attention in terms of driving out of the race, it seems to me than is Nazi tattoo or anything else.

He tattoo has gotten a fair amount of attention, but yeah, it definitely added fuel to the fire.

So are we back to caring about the character issue? And I guess the bigger question I have is should we care about the character issue? Should we care about what's going on between a husband and a wife? Whether it's the husband or the wife and. And how about if they're okay with it and they stayed in the marriage and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, should that disqualify them? We don't, we don't look at the CEOs of our company that way necessarily.

Generally, no. Although that has brought Some guys down recently. You know, I'm going to let Senator John Fetterman set up my answer to your, your query in clip 51 there.

[O]

Michael, what kind of a creeper has been on a decade on a platform like Kik and send a dozen explicit kinds of messages and who knows what

[Joe Getty]

else would it be better for Democrats if he was not the candidate here?

[O]

All I'm saying, it's like, you know, when I was growing up, if someone had a clear Nazi tattoo on them, you probably could conclude that there's a Nazi sympathizer. You know, at some point, you're going to continue to defend that or dismiss that.

[Joe Getty]

And so I thought that was a good lead into the way I'd react to your question, which is it's, it is no marital infidelity or, you know, being a plague. Leia, as they said probably 20 years

ago on the streets, those are two different things. I will quibble on that after you say what you're going to say.

Sexual indiscretions used to be disqualifying for a little while. Now they're just part of the equation. And this guy just has too many negatives. The, the sexting thing or the being on kick, which is a hookup app and the Nazi tattoo and rural Mainers, white Mainers are stupid racists and half a dozen other things. I think the Democratic Party has just said, oh, my go, this guy has too much baggage.

Yeah, I was listening to a mostly conservative podcast talking about this yesterday, and they were, they were making the infidelity on its own should be a disqualifying issue the way it has always been in political history. And I just, I don't know if that makes sense or not.

Well, as you said, that's not true, though. It hasn't always been.

It was for a little while.

All right. But no, you just, you quite clearly made the point that for a while it was.

So should it go back to being, do you think?

Right. No, not necessarily. And again, it's part of the package. Like Trump said, I'm going to close the border and I'm going to halt inflation, you know, back, well, you know, at various times and he played around on his wives or you got Joe Biden, for instance. Well, I guess, I suppose in the primary process, you had a bunch of Republicans to choose from. I mean, politics downstream of culture. So, you know, you can, it's an interesting philosophical discussion, but the culture is already ruled.

So if, if let's use a woman, for instance, instead of always a guy, because they can't play with a woman too. She had.

You're going to use a woman. That is disgusting.

Say she had an affair, an affair with a dude. Lasted a while and then it was. Their marriage was rocky and then they decided to stay together. It's not the same thing as lots and lots of different, like one night stand, sleeping around on business trips. Those are different things, aren't they? Or are they not? Maybe they're not. I don't know. It seems like they're different things to me that the spouse was unaware of, you know, as opposed to. They worked it out because this Platner guy, it looked like, I mean he had a half a dozen different things going a year ago.

I mean, very recently, certainly via text. Anyway. Yeah, you know, I don't what the standard ought to be for sitting around philosophizing is one question. What the standard actually is, when it all filters down to voters is is a different question.

Well, it's pretty interesting that not that long ago, 1988's not that long ago. A really promising could have gotten elected president, dude. Gary Hart, senator from Colorado, had to leave the race.

And again I point out that Bill Clinton and Hillary barely got over that hump through some absolutely brilliant Machiavellian political maneuvering. So yeah, it was still a thing in the early 90s as well.

Yeah. Which isn't that long ago. I think if anybody had tapes of our show going back 30 years. Believe it or not, Joe and I were doing the same show talking to each other when the Bill Clinton impeachment was going on.

How crazy job. I'm telling you, no advancement.

How crazy is that? We were talking about that during the impeachment in 98, I guess.

Does it rise to an impeachable offense?

But I would imagine there are clips of me saying things like if his wife can't trust him, how can the country trust him? Which is kind of what a lot of people believed for a very long time there.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

The Armstrong and Getty Show.

[Joe Getty]

Thank you to the greatest teacher of all time.

Dad's belt. Want to take back the applause?

[Jack Armstrong]

So

[Joe Getty]

most of you don't. Probably don't watch Saturday Night Live. I watch it every week. I have since it first came on in 1975. For whatever reason, I like sketch comedy. I always have. And it's. Saturday Night Live is so annoying because they do the political stuff that makes me insane and then they do sketch comedy, like just all day. That's some good ones. Saturday night of just regular, incredibly silly, no meaning to them whatsoever. Just sketch comedy, which I've always loved. Going back to Monty Python. I mean, very Python esque sort of stuff that they had with Matt Damon and a couple of different things.

Love it.

But did you see the opening?

No.

Unbelievable. So they've got Pete Hegseth at a bar drinking hard. Okay, fine. You know, he's got that hanging around his neck and all that sort of stuff. And he's the current sec, definitely. But then they have Matt Damon doing this. Kavanaugh comes in and they joke about Kavanaugh getting drunk and, you know, gang rape and various stuff like that. I thought, wow. I thought that had been thoroughly. At this point, there's, there's, There was no meat on that bone whatsoever. So you're taking one of the Supreme Court justices and running with the. He's a drunken gang rapist on Saturday Night Live for the opening. I thought that is. I almost wanted to turn it off, but that is just too much disgusting

on so many different levels.

It really, really is. God dang it.

[Bethany Frankel]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, and then bubbly, bubbly bubbles.

That joke about teaching reminded me we got this text. So I was complaining before we get into the important news. I was complaining last week about. I feel like so much of the stuff that's in schools doesn't need to be there. It's a waste of time. If you are going to start a school, like, erase everything from your mind and start a school. I don't think a lot of the things that we do in every public school for every single kid, we would do. I just don't think anybody say, you know what I think we ought to do? I think we ought to memorize all the state capitals. I don't think everybody'd raise their hand and think, you know, that's something we should all do everywhere in America. I don't think anybody would even think of it.

I don't know. I know. This is your jihad.

Well, it's just an example.

Sure, sure. I think if you watch the state Curriculum guidelines being developed. You would have an aneurysm watching the various committees and activists and awoke crowd insisting on this and that and all agreeing, oh, yes, yes, yes.

I just wish we could tear it all down again, erase our minds and start from scratch. What do we, what do we want kids to come out of school having learned to go out into the world.

Right.

And I, and I think. And so one of the ones I was banging on is this foreign language requirement. Nobody I know, like, can speak a word of whatever they were mandated to take.

Right.

So it's. There's an hour of your day, every single day, plus the homework you have to do on something that is a complete waste of time at the time when we know where we are in terms of reading proficiency, math proficiency. Incredib. Credibly low.

Right.

We got this text from. I'm a high school Spanish teacher. I totally agree. It shouldn't be mandatory. Mandatory. The class gets watered down when kids are forced to be there. I hadn't even thought about it from that angle. So you got kids that maybe they would like to learn a foreign language, actually would try and maybe benefit from it. Now you have to water it down for all the people like my son were forced to be there that have no interest whatsoever. It's a good point. Yeah.

I was shocked, shocked, shocked. I'll leave names out, but asking a couple of super achieving bright students in the latter stages of high school been taking Spanish in this case for several years, saying, can you ask them, you know, what time it is? Or how do I tell him thanks for doing a good job? And they're like, I have no idea.

[Katie]

What.

[Joe Getty]

How can that be?

What do you mean?

Well, how to say I'm sorry to some. A Spanish speaker.

Oh, okay. I'm sorry.

I left that obviously important part out. Yeah. It's like, how do I say thanks for doing a good job? And they're like, gracias. I. I know.

Yeah, I know that one though. But again, so tear it down to the nuts and start completely over.

Oh my God. Never mind. The utter perversion of the way they teach history.

Yeah.

I mean, again, for the millionth time, I'm. I don't think there's any fixing our government schools. I think you need to just look at alternatives or inoculate your kids against the, the horrors of it.

So let's get into a little bit of this story that came out over the weekend and we'll do some more of it later because we're, we're gathering the audio. I Want, I want some of the audio from various news coverages of this over the weekend that all got all excited about Gavin Newsom, Governor of California. Governor Newsom announces free diapers for California newborns. And I saw it on a couple of different news channels where it was just smiling. Oh, that would have helped me out when I had a baby. I know, me too.

And that's so generous. Right?

[Steve Hilton]

Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

When new parents need help, when even just on the face of it, before you get into the details that we're about to get into, it's just wealth redistribution. That's all it is. The people that pay the taxes are buying diapers for people that don't have much money. But it's just another part of wealth redistribution which you're either for or you're not. But if you want to get into more of the specifics of it and it's. So here's a guy that was in

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[Joe Getty]

baby formula business and also the diaper business for a long time and he said, I know this baby to baby non profit. This is, there's a non profit involved.

Ah, yes. Well, they're, they're up to nothing but goodness. They're not for profit.

I can tell now. So I, I meant to say this at the beginning. If you don't live in California, whatever, this is a great lesson in what so many of these kind of programs, whatever state, city, county, you're in in America, the way these work and the

reason they actually exist.

And I had another point.

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Oh.

[Joe Getty]

And it's the whole high cost, good and you know, good intentions thing. Let's dive into the absolute grifting nonsense. Prepare to be shocked. Writes this person who is in this industry and worked with the baby to baby nonprofit California is about to spend $20 million of taxpayer money to give a hundred thousand newborns 400 diapers each through baby to baby. Do the math. 100,000 babies times 400 diapers equals 40 million diapers. 20 million divided by $20 million. With the 40. With the 40 million diapers, it's 50 cents a diaper. That's that. The math is pretty obvious on that. Now walk into any Costco in California and you can buy the exact same quality diapers for either 12 cents to 15 cents each.

[Katie]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

That's $48 to $60 for 400 diapers. So the state is paying between eight and 10 times more per diaper than a regular family buying in bulk, which when you have a baby you buy in bulk. They could have just handed every low income new mom $100 cash and told her to go to Costco. She'd get more diapers, better ones if she wanted, and still have money left for formula wipes and whatever the hell else she actually needs. But nah, that wouldn't give Gavin and his connected non profit people running the show out there the opportunity to cut ribbons, take photos, do galas and be friends with celebrities. And brag about the first in the nation program. Oh, that was part of the story everywhere it went.

[HomeServe Announcer]

First.

[Joe Getty]

First time this has ever happened anywhere in the country. Gavin Newsom, Free diapers for newborns while skimming their cut for administration and partnerships. Because you're running it through a nonprofit. That's where the, the math comes in on these sorts of stuff is you, you give all that money to the nonprofit, it comes out the other end, you know, with the cost of the diaper. Where'd all that money go in between? Well, that's a good question. We have this. I haven't confirmed this. And this was floating around on the Internet. Gavin Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, this is talking about her nonprofit. Just to give you an idea of how nonprofits work. A word that should be banned from the English language. Really? Phrase anyway.

And keeping in mind that, like with the diaper scam and what you're about to say, as they say these days, it's a feature, not a bug.

[Steve Hilton]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

The diaper program exists to make Gavin look good as a candidate and to funnel huge amounts of cash to his cronies. It doesn't exist to put diapers in the hands of new moms. It exists to hand out that money.

Right. So his wife is not running the diaper to diaper baby to baby or whatever that is. But to give you an idea of the way nonprofits can work, like the one that she has, she paid herself and her company $3.9 million from her gender justice charity, a third of its entire annual revenue. IRS filings show $1.8 million salary to her. 2.1 million to the. The. To her for profit film company for

school funded documentaries about gender bending madness.

By the way, it's not about justice. That was in quotes. I should have said this is in quotes.

Oh, I see.

Yeah, yeah, gender justice is in quotes as in, yeah, justice. If you're into the whole transit.

Gender justice. What the hell?

But. So $3.9 million went to. She took an almost $2 million salary and the rest of that millions went to her film company, which is a for profit business, so paid ridiculous way More than anybody was ever going to pay her to make these films that they then showed in schools. Do you see how this works?

My, I've seen figures like that and I believe that's over a few years. I could be wrong on that. But the point remains. It.

[Tony Ayo]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my God.

[O]

Yeah.

[CarMax Announcer]

I just.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I think for the grace of God, we're going to teach kids radical gender theory and, you know, postmodernism and gonna get paid for it by the taxpayers.

Well, that's, that's an extra layer of ick and anger that you put on top of it. But even if it was, you know, something good, teaching kids how to ride bikes or something good, the fact that you call it a non profit and pay yourself a $2 million salary and then the other millions go to your for profit company, even if, like I said, if you're making movies on bike safety, I still would hate it.

Right. It's still graft, obviously.

[Tony Ayo]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

It's still corrupt. Yeah, you laugh.

I laugh.

[Steve Hilton]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Because nobody cares. You should laugh, Gavin. You've, you've, you've done it successfully and

are not at risk. So Steve Hilton, he's a Republican at the top of some polls running for governor in California, explaining how this whole diaper thing works.

[Steve Hilton]

All right, so Gavin Newsom is taking $20 million of your money to send 100,000 babies. 400 diapers. That works out at 50 cents per diaper. We just came into Target to check out what you could buy it for in the store.

[Tony Ayo]

Here you go.

[Steve Hilton]

Just check this one out here. 162, $26. That works out at 16 cents per diaper. Gavin Newsom's diapers are three times more expensive. This isn't even Costco. And that is what is wrong with California. Instead of just cutting taxes so you can afford diapers and sending it out in this ridiculous bureaucratic scheme.

[Joe Getty]

Apparently there was a BS bomb in the middle of that that was not caught. And thank God we dumped it because people would have driven off the road and crashed and died having heard a word they use every day.

Kids would have cried, oh, my God. Families would dissolve. They would have had to cancel school.

Grannies would have died on the spot clutching their chest. I know, bs. This is my campaign for the rest of my life. The BS word should be allowed on the air. It probably is, honestly.

But whether you heard it there or not, Steve Hilton was at a regular store and the diapers were a third as much. You go to Costco, we're talking eight to ten times the price.

But then the cronies don't get bought off.

That is unbelievable.

Well, thanks for taking my money.

It's actually completely believable. We got more on the way. Stay here.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

The Armstrong and Yeti Show.

[Joe Getty]

So I was reading up on the latest in robot dogs yesterday and then started asking a couple of my favorite AI chat bots to give me more information. And so I think we've talked about in the past Sony's aibo. How do you pronounce that? A, I, B, O, ibo?

I don't know.

It's their sort of pet version of a robot dog. I think we've talked about that in the past. It's several thousand dollars. I think I've seen him in the store in Vegas. Yeah, pretty sure I have.

That sounds like a drunken Vegas purchase. Hey honey, look what I got.

And, and it's more pet related. It looks like a dog and, and, and, and they've, they've tried using them in nursing homes and that sort of thing to walk around and the patients see him. And with various levels of success, I guess. Wow, Katie, jump in whenever you want as a proud dog owner on the whole robot dog topic.

But then do they poop, bitcoin or what? How does that work?

So then I was asking about the best ones and there's one called the Unitree go to that does that runs about $75,000 currently. And that's the most high talk, high tech robot dog out there. And what people are wondering if they're going to combine the pet version of the robot dog that looks like a dog with the $75,000. It's more of a helper security thing. Doesn't look as much like a dog. And all its technology. If you can combine them together, you'd really have something. So the one that's $75,000 does all kinds of amazing stuff. An autonomous inspection routes. It walks the same path daily. Photographing gauges, thermal imaging equipment, detecting leaks, all the kinds of things it can just do walking around your, your property.

Am I running an oil field in this scenario?

Well, we could see if like you're, you know, you're, what is your water, your lawn, your lawn watering system, if you got a leak out there or what, just anything, there's a hole in the fence, Notice anything going on around your property and walk the route and walk your house and do all this sort of stuff. Yes.

[Katie]

Katie, is this the same type of AI that caused that woman to go, what the F. Kind of AIs up ahead?

[Joe Getty]

Very good point, very good point, Katie. That's what that lady is. Type of AI.

[Bethany Frankel]

Shit.

[Joe Getty]

That was a robot dog, right in our apartment complex. It was probably this sort of thing, 3D site scanning and mapping with lidar remote inspection and had blah blah, blah, blah, can do security patrols. And here's what I thought was even more amazing. It can go upstairs and traverse rocky uneven self rights if it falls over, avoids obstacles, has five stereo cameras in it, maps itself, localizes itself within known spaces, knows where it is, detects and avoids people, objects and drop offs, returns to dock to recharge on its own. But it can open doors, its arm can open lever doors and round door knobs, pick up objects up to 11 pounds, turn valves and flip switches, drag things as heavy as 55 pounds.

Just, just out of curiosity, can that robot arm, I don't know, say, grasp a knife in the middle of the night? Because it resents me just asking for a friend.

Well, what y' all got the robot

[Tony Ayo]

dog in here for?

[Joe Getty]

Right?

So it seems to me if you can combine the two, the one that looks like a dog and is kind of designed to wag its tail and be friendly with the, you know, it listens for sounds that, you know, like your regular dog does and all that sort of stuff, and goes outside and patrols the fence and make sure there's no holes or nothing has happened and all these different things. That could be quite the little tool.

And I would imagine like much security gear, it would be graded and priced depending on your needs. You know, if you're running some sort of high dollar car showroom in, in the city, you'd dog than just an average homeowner.

Yeah, and maybe that would be a more functional use for it. Instead of your quote, junkyard dog, you have one of these robot dogs that's patrolling the fence and everything, keeping an eye.

Although certainly part of the junkyard dog package. It'll bite the hell out of you. So true.

This would have to be more like our Simply Safe commercials, I suppose, where it just, you know, alerts somebody of something, then shoots lasers out its eyes. You might. You might like this. So then I say to Claude, or Chat GPT or whichever one I'm on, I said, does it shed? Wondering if it would pick up on the fact that obviously that is a joke, but it said no, it's metal and plastic, no fur involved. Unable to pick up on sarcasm, apparently, Claude. The only thing it leaves behind is the occasional oil drip of a hydraulic seal goes bad and the faint smell of regret when you see the invoice. Which is actually a pretty good joke.

[Katie]

That.

[Joe Getty]

That is pretty good.

75, 000 robot dog now they got the robot dog in the hood. That's right.

Right. That is the situation well encapsulated, my dear.

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