A Very Impressive 'Stache!

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: A Very Impressive 'Stache!
Date: May 28, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Overview

This episode of Armstrong & Getty dives into current American political controversies, the impact of global conflicts (especially regarding Iran), the absurdities of modern media and politics (including a tongue-in-cheek debate about facial hair in California's gubernatorial race), and social trends like hostility toward AI and data privacy. The hosts bring their typical snark, skepticism, and humor to hot topics—from war in the Middle East and gas prices to viral infections and the cultural meaning of mustaches in politics.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Iran, Trump, and the Strait of Hormuz

Timestamps: 03:27 - 12:42

• Trump’s Claims & Iran’s Situation:
  The hosts dissect Trump’s recent remarks on Iran—the destruction of their navy, the state of negotiations, and the risk of Iran getting nuclear weapons.

  • Trump: “Their navy is gone...Their air force is gone. Everything’s gone. And they’re negotiating on fumes.” (03:27)
  • Joe expresses skepticism about the significance of the Iranian navy as a global threat, despite it being highlighted by Trump.

• Negotiations and Media Spin:
  Joe calls out cable news for speculation before any Iran agreement details are known:

  • Joe Getty: “I would be bad at cable news because they go to me. I’d say I don’t have any comment because I don’t have any idea what the agreement is.” (06:25)

• Consistent Policy & Public Perception:
  The panel debates the public’s understanding of foreign policy and the price of gas amid the conflict.

  • Michael: “The idea that we could just stop [being involved in foreign affairs]...that’s the sort of thing an unsophisticated voter might think.” (10:06)

Memorable Quote:

• “Iran with a nuclear weapon would be incredibly disruptive to the world.” – Joe Getty (11:52)

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2. Gas Prices, Voter Sentiment & Political Messaging

Timestamps: 09:13 - 12:42

• Economic Frustration:
  Noting a 22% drop in Trump’s popularity among white non-college voters since February (from 54% to 32% approval), hosts ascribe much of the shift to inflation, especially gas prices—and critique both the administration and media for poor messaging to the public.

• Risk versus Reality:
  Joe insists it’s short-sighted to view expensive gas as worse than the consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran.

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3. The Rise of AI & Generational Anxiety

Timestamps: 18:05 - 19:44

• Hostility to AI:
  Discussion centers around student reactions to an AI-generated commencement speech and broader unease among young people about AI eliminating jobs.
  • Michael: “If you’re hearing that at age 22, you’re freaked out.” (19:44)

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4. Rotavirus Outbreak (with Characteristically Wry Humor)

Timestamps: 19:44 - 22:20

• Personal Experience:
  Joe recounts a personal brush with rotavirus, describes its nastiness, and segues into the uselessness of modern medical triage systems (e.g., advice nurses defaulting to emergency room visits for liability reasons).
  • Joe Getty: “In the year 2026, calling an advice nurse is useless.” (21:13)

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5. Legal Liability & Lawsuit Culture in America

Timestamps: 22:20 - 24:45

• Red Tape Everywhere:
  Hosts lament the over-litigious American culture—everything from bake sales to scouting events is paralyzed by liability fears.

• The Texas Legal Machine:
  Touches on Ken Paxton’s practice of filing enormous lawsuits against corporations, regarded as “discouraging” and emblematic of legal opportunism.

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6. The California Gubernatorial Race: Facial Hair Takes Center Stage

Timestamps: 27:27 - 37:53

• Absurdity of the 'Stache Factor:
  A lengthy, playful, yet revealing discussion of how facial hair has become a focal point in the California governor’s race.

  • Michael: “For the first time since the Great Depression, the state of Cal Unicornia could elect a governor with facial hair...And if this sounds stupid to you, congratulations, it is.” (30:30)

• Candidate Style & Voter Perception:
  Chad Bianco’s mustache versus Steve Hilton’s beard—jokes about “upper lip lushness,” accusations about growing facial hair for political reasons, and musing on the cyclic nature of fashion in politics.

• Fashion Cycles:
  Jack comments: “Now that politicians can get elected with beards, it’s no longer hipster cool. It’s...your governor. Then they’re going to start being clean-shaven.” (34:34)

Memorable Quote:

• “You’d vote for a guy with the Burt Reynolds mustache?” – Joe Getty, to Michael, mock-disbelieving (32:31)

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7. Gavin Newsom, Trump’s 1776 Fund & Legislative Showboating

Timestamps: 27:53 - 30:15

• Newsom’s 100% Tax Proposal:
  A review of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to tax at 100% any funds Trump’s 1776 Fund gives to Californians (i.e., Jan 6 participants), which Joe and Michael dismiss as political theater:

  • “It just has to sound good and clever and like you’re fighting and say, ‘That guy’s on my side. Where do I send money?’” – Joe Getty (29:59)

• Legal Challenges:
  They joke about the idea bordering on a “bill of attainder”—targeting a law at specific individuals.

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8. Misinformation & Viral Quotes

Timestamps: 38:23 - 39:51

• Winnie the Pooh Wisdom Debunked:
  The hosts mourn discovering a popular, viral “Winnie the Pooh” quote wasn’t actually written by A.A. Milne, deflating Jack’s plan to use it as inspirational home décor.

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9. Socialism vs. Capitalism—NYC Example

Timestamps: 44:24 - 48:33

• NYC Housing Policy:
  Play a clip of NYC’s Zoran Mamdani touting “taking buildings away from landlords”—using regulation to push property into nonprofits or land trusts.

  • Joe Getty: “It’s happened over and over in Marxist regimes.” (45:20)

• Funding Socialism With Capitalism:
  Analysis of how successful NYC pension funds (buoyed by capitalist stock market gains) are paradoxically enabling progressive budget policies.

  • Michael: “The only reason Mamdani has the money to do his socialism…is capitalism and anybody with a lick of sense knows it.” (47:06)

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Notable Quotes

• “The idea that we could just stop [being involved in international affairs]—that’s the sort of thing an unsophisticated voter might think, because if we did that there would be near instantaneous chaos, warfare, unbelievable economic disruptions.”
  — Michael (10:06)

• “In the year 2026, calling an advice nurse is useless…because they have to tell you to go to the emergency room with anything because they’re worried about being sued.”
  — Joe Getty (21:13)

• “For the first time since the Great Depression, the state of Cal Unicornia could elect a governor with facial hair. And if this sounds stupid to you, congratulations, it is.”
  — Michael (30:30)

• “Now that politicians can get elected with beards, it’s no longer hipster cool…it’s your governor. Then they’re going to start being clean shaven.”
  — Jack Armstrong (34:34)

• “The only reason Mamdani has the money to do his socialism…is capitalism and anybody with a lick of sense knows it.”
  — Michael (47:06)

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Memorable/Light Moments

• Mocking Political Vanity:
  Extended banter about politicians’ mustaches, beards, and voter psychology, e.g.:

  • “That makes me like you less...The right answer is ‘How about we talk about taxes? How about we talk about the bullet train? We’re talking about beards and mustaches?’ That’s the answer.” – Joe Getty on Chad Bianco’s mustache one-upmanship (36:26)

• Debunking Feel-Good Quotes:
  Jack’s disappointment over a misattributed Winnie the Pooh quote he wanted to frame (39:34)

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Structure & Flow

• The episode flows from serious geopolitical analysis to lighter, satirical culture and politics, maintaining the comedians’ accustomed blend of skepticism, humor, and mainstream contrarianism.
• Skips extended commercial and sponsor content.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Iran/Trump/Navy Negotiations: 03:27 – 12:42
• Voters, Gas Prices, & Media: 09:13 – 12:42
• AI Panic Among Youth: 18:05 – 19:44
• Rotavirus & Health System Frustrations: 19:44 – 22:20
• Law/Liability/Lawsuits: 22:20 – 24:45
• CA Gubernatorial 'Stache Race: 27:27 – 37:53
• Newsom vs. 1776 Fund (Political Signaling): 27:53 – 30:15
• Viral Wisdom Debunked: 38:23 – 39:51
• NYC Socialism vs. Capitalism: 44:24 – 48:33

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This episode is a representative Armstrong & Getty blend: satirical, topical, cutting, and occasionally silly—always with one foot in serious analysis and the other firmly planted in bemused mockery of the absurdities of modern politics, policy, and life.

Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Michael]

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[Political Commentator 1]

Iran is very much intent, they want very much to make a deal. So far, they haven't gotten there. We're not satisfied with it, but now we will be. We will be. Either that or we'll have to just finish the job. But their navy is gone. As I've said a thousand times, their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Everything's gone. And they're negotiating on fumes. But we'll see what happens. Maybe we have to go back and finish it, maybe we don't.

[Joe Getty]

I hope they are negotiating on fumes. I hope that Trump's right. I hope the Wall Street Journal is right about how bad the economic situation is in Iran right now and that they cave at some point and realize we can't, we can't, we can't hold out any longer. I hope that happens. I did hear somebody make the point though, about the Iranian navy, which I hadn't thought about because they Hexis mentions that a lot. Trump mentions us. Look, their navy is at the bottom of the sea. Who was ever thinking about the Iranian navy prior to this war as a threat to the world? I mean, it wasn't exactly, you know, I wasn't.

[Michael]

I've been hearing about those little, what do they call them, the fast boats, the whatever. They've got that. But, you know, say you got a bunch of, you know, reasonably powerful motorboats and guys with guns on them. How many of those could we mobilize if we need?

[Joe Getty]

Right. And the crisis over the many decades I've been following Iran has never been really the focus has never been the Iranian navy. But right since we sunk it, we always mention how devastated their navy is. I'm still in favor of what we've done so far, but could change my mind if it doesn't, if we don't get the right result. Here's a little more Trump yesterday from the Cabinet meeting.

[Political Commentator 1]

Nobody's going to control its international waters and Oman will behave just like everybody else who will have to blow him up. They understand that. They'll be fin.

[Joe Getty]

So that was out of the report that came out yesterday that Iran has presented a, a deal in which they and Oman will control the straight. If we end the blockade. And Trump saying, well, we'll bomb. Nobody's controlling the straight and we'll, we'll bomb Oman. If they try to.

[Michael]

Oman a, an ally and friend of ours, we'll blow them up. They know that. Oh, boy, all spicy.

[Joe Getty]

And here's another one from the Cabinet meeting.

[Political Commentator 1]

One of the things that will happen is the street will open immediately, immediately. But it's got to be perfect. I'm not going to do that. I didn't do this to get a crummy agreement. The worst agreement ever signed was by Barack Hussein Obama. What a horrible agreement that was. That was a setback for this country, for the whole world. The Middle east would have blown itself up. No.

[Joe Getty]

So the panels on CNN and MSNBC and a certain amount of mainstream media are all about what Trump's going to get is an agreement that's really no better, maybe even weaker than the Obama jcpoa, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, we don't know what the agreement is yet. So I, I know this is crazy. Am reserving comment until the agreement comes out.

[Michael]

You'd be bad at cable news.

[Joe Getty]

I would be bad at cable news because they go to me. I'd say I don't have any comment because I don't have any idea what the agreement is. No, no, no.

[Michael]

From the roundtable, we're here to talk

[Joe Getty]

about what a bad decision this was for Trump to go to war because look at this horrib. We don't know what the agreement is yet. If it's a horrible agreement, I am happy to be first in line to say it was a horrible agreement because I think Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be. Well, we said last hour, maybe the worst thing that's ever happened to the world could, could be, definitely end up being that. I think Trump believes that, too. I don't think he's going to make any agreement that allows Iran to get a nuclear weapon anytime soon. I hope that's true.

[Michael]

He has been extremely consistent on that point and he's not consistent on much.

[Joe Getty]

No, no, he is not. Okay, here's something that MSNBC put together to bash Trump. But we thought it was kind of entertaining and at least an interesting glimpse into the. The Trump government. So this is edited in such a way that, you know, it was a. I don't know how many hours they met yesterday. These comments were probably spread out over many hours. But it would seem that in the

[Michael]

Cabinet, you're working hard.

[Joe Getty]

It would seem that in the Cabinet meeting there, where Trump is surrounded by secretaries, that they feel they need to flatter him at some point during the meeting. Here's a montage of that.

[Michael]

The fact that we have dedicated presidential leadership is really what's made this possible.

[Joe Getty]

It speaks to the strength of your leadership. It has never been a better time to be an American.

[Michael]

Just a reminder of another war you helped settle. Mr. President. It's just, it's exciting to see your vision.

[Joe Getty]

You're leading us to the greatest economy that the world has ever known. And that's why they tell you to tell me to tell you. Mr. President, thank you. And they love you. Just like you talked about with the Reflecting Pool. We didn't do the same old thing the way we'd done it in the past after, you know, Iraq and Afghanistan, the way we waged wars. Instead, you said, we're going to do this smart. I particularly thought Marco Rubio saying. And not to mention another war you settled in bringing up. Oh, God, yeah.

[Michael]

Who is the gal there? Ice Barbie's gone. Pam Bondi is gone.

[Joe Getty]

I don't recognize her either. She's saying that her constituents just. I just want to jump in and say my constituents tell me I need to remind you that they love you.

[Michael]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I is actually looking at a new poll out. 54% of white voters without a college degree now disapprove of Trump's performance. The CBS News poll this month, up from 32% in February, that's a 22% drop and 45% in February of this year. So it's heading down, down, down.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. So much of that, I think, goes around the price of gas and, and

[Michael]

groceries and other inflation in general. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

With the caveat that the administration has not done a good job of explain or asking for you to stand up there and ask and say, I'm asking that you go through some pain. I realize this is going to be painful and gas is high and it's. You're going to have to make life adjustments to deal with it, but here's why it's worth it. They haven't done that. But, man, disapproving of this war because of the price of gas makes no sense to me.

[Michael]

Right, right. Because again, a lot of the faults with the White House for not framing this correctly, but you want expensive gas,

[Joe Getty]

Iran with a nuclear weapon, getting to threaten all kinds of different things, or starting a nuclear holocaust, which obviously would make things very expensive.

[Michael]

Right, right, yeah, absolutely true. And the fact that that's not constantly part of the discussion is the fault of the media and to some extent and also just the White House. The other thing is, and people don't like to talk about this, but we might as well, that's what we do here, say uncomfortable things. There is an idea among a lot of Trump voters, I don't know how many, but a pretty fair number, that when he said we wouldn't get entangled in forever wars or never ending conflicts like Afghanistan, some people went a little farther than that and said we're gonna get out of these foreign wars. As if the greatest superpower in the history of the world, which has manage the modern system of free navigation of the seas and relative peace and stability in Europe, for instance, and on and on and on. The idea that we could just stop doing that is that's the sort of thing an unsophisticated voter might think, because if we did that there would be near instantaneous chaos, warfare, unbelievable economic disruptions. It would be a nightmare. The very people who think Trump could have done that would be affected the most severely and the most quickly. That's, that's part of what's happening here too. I have heard it many, many times, somebody sincere. But again, I'll just use the term unsophisticated saying Trump said he was gonna get us out of these foreign wars and now look. And then somebody comes to them and says, yeah, it's cuz the Jews control him. And then. Yeah, God, then you go down that road.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Iran with a nuclear weapon would be incredibly disruptive to the world.

[Michael]

Oh man.

[Joe Getty]

Starting with this is kind of funny. I don't know if I've heard anybody make this point, like the first thing they might do before they even get around to flexing there. We have a nuclear bomb muscles is we now control the straight of Hormuz step one. So this high gas price guaranteed in perpetuity for after they get a nuclear weapon. Luckily we can pump our own gas so the world has to deal with it. But we could, we could, we could come up with enough gas. We can, we're energy independent. If we'd allow ourselves to be. We really really would be. But, but in terms of the straight of Hormuz, that'd be the first thing Iran does. The idea that that's a free waterway. Give me a break. We have a nuclear weapon now and

[Michael]

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That's what I say. Walk it off.

[Joe Getty]

That's. It's like. Did I say this on the air? I think I did. It's like because of liability, it's really hard to get any good information about anything. And so I was at the emergency room and the guy basically said, with one of my kids said, why you here? And I said, well, the advice nurse said, I got to come in. He said, let me tell you something. In the year 2026, calling an advice nurse is useless. It's useless because they have to tell you to go to the emergency room with anything because they're worried about being sued. So there's no point. And I thought, well, you're the only person that's told me that, but thank you. And at the end of our little stay there, I said, I really like your style. And he said, well, that makes 1 out of 10 people I talk to.

[Michael]

I want to be friends with this guy.

[Joe Getty]

But, yeah, so all websites are that way, too. They got a. Every tiny little thing, ask about, then you call. It's like every time you call the doctor, if you're suffering From Symbolic, call 91 1. All right, so we just waited. Wasted 30 seconds. And I'm not an idiot. I would have called 911 if I had any of those things you just mentioned.

[Michael]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

But because of liability, they have to do that.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So it's hard to get any. It makes it a lot harder to get any good information.

[Michael]

You know, this is a bit of a tangent, but I was reading more about old Ken Paxton, who's won the primary in Texas. Texas. After Trump endorsed him and not John Cornell. We talked about it. You're probably familiar with it. This guy's whole thing is his firm and his partners launch all those lawsuits against candy companies for having deadly dyes in them and. And just gigantic settlements over just bull crap. That's his whole thing.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Nice.

[Michael]

Yeah. The list is really, really discouraging where it's around here.

[Joe Getty]

I would like to hear that.

[Michael]

Yeah. Oh, you know, we got to get the. How the battle for the governor of California has turned into a battle over facial hair. That's a serious and important story for sure.

[Joe Getty]

Katie Porter's gonna grow a mustache.

[Michael]

Let's see, where is. I can't find it. I'll find it soon. Any minute now.

[Joe Getty]

Suing candy companies over various ingredients.

[Michael]

Yeah. That's a for instance. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder about this all the time, the liability thing, because I was dealing with it over the weekend with a. With a big scouting event. There's all kinds of liability stuff that they have to do that's just so. So many forms to fill out and this and that because of the. We're worrying about getting sued. And it's just. It's so. It so gums up the works of anything you try to do or makes it impossible to do.

[Michael]

Oh, yeah. It's absolutely paralyzing. You add to that the various environmental suits and everything that are a scam for attorneys. Again, that impede any sort of development. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Like, if you're a big organization that has any kind of pockets at all, let alone deep, you can't have a bake sale. You just can't do it. Even though it's, like a charming part of Americana, you just can't do it because the liability.

[Michael]

Yeah. Probably kill somebody with their. Yeah, there it is. Okay. Sorry. We got 30 seconds, Michael. Let's see, he's in bed with the bar, has been for years, sued Meta, the Facebook parent, for $1.4 billion. He and his buddies billed $97 million for litigating the claim. His partners have gone after Tylenol, Colgate for fluoride and toothpaste, Google Mars candies, et cetera.

[Joe Getty]

I hope he can beat the Democrat. That's what I hope.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yep, Armstrong and Gettysburg

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[Political Commentator 1]

you know, so I was up there around the time when legislative leaders were all, you know, discussing

[Joe Getty]

what the options were.

[Michael]

And so I've been thinking a lot about it in my flight back.

[Joe Getty]

And one thing that I think we're going to try to do with your

[Political Commentator 1]

Support is tax 100%.

[Joe Getty]

Anyone from California that receives any of

[Political Commentator 1]

those funds, we want to tax 100% of those proceeds. And that's an action the state of California can take.

[Joe Getty]

It's an action we look forward to taking. Gavin Newsom, who I'm praising lately for fully understanding the moment we're in and being good at taking advantage of it. Coming out yesterday, that. So Trump's got that fund, the 1776 fund. $1.7 $176 million billion, billion. $1,776,000,000.

[Michael]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Because he wanted to be 1776, which is, that makes it worse, not better, in terms of trying to make it seem like it's a legitimate fund, that you came up with that number, not randomly to fight back against the way the Biden administration has had screwed conservatives during their term. It's, it's interesting, complicated. Nobody's ever seen anything like it before maneuver. So the concern is now this gets back to it's kind of like what I was talking about, people sitting around and having conversations about how bad the Trump Iran peace deal is when you don't know the details. There's a lot of how off it'll be, how awful it will be if he gives giant checks to January 6th protesters. But it hasn't happened yet. So until it happens, I'm not really ready to criticize it. If it starts happening, then it'll be something to talk about, no doubt about it. Anywho, Gavin Newsom's idea to come to, to combat that is we'll, we'll make 100 tax on that. If you're a Californian and you stormed the Capitol and Trump decides to give you a million dollars, we're going to tax that at 100.

[Michael]

Although he said, anybody who receives funds. So it could be for any of that. All right.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Michael]

It's ridiculous.

[Joe Getty]

Isn't that a. There's a name for that, isn't it? If you have a law that goes after a particular. Like, one person, there's. That's against the law.

[Michael]

But this is a tainter. Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Isn't this practically a bill of attainder? Going after a very specific.

[Michael]

Well, to confiscate the entirety of someone's income because you don't like the sources. Hilariously impossible to.

[Joe Getty]

But anyway, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it would work, be workable or not. Getting back to Gavin Newsom understands the moment we're in. It just has to sound good and clever and like you're fighting and say, that guy's on my side. Where do I send money? That's all you got?

[Michael]

Signaling. Yes, that's what it is. Yeah. Look how anti Trump I am. I'm going to confiscate every dime. Look at him. He's anti Trump. Yeah, boy, I'm telling you.

[Joe Getty]

But he's not gonna be governor for long, and it all depends on what kind of facial hair you have, according to Jack.

[Michael]

Well, it's certainly a factor, Jack. For the first time since the Great Depression, the state of Cal Unicornia could elect a governor with facial hair. And if this sounds stupid to you, congratulations, it is.

[Joe Getty]

You read the. Read that perfectly.

[Michael]

It is stupid. Apparently, the whiskers are playing an outsized role in the election, according to Zusha Ellenson. I wish my name was Zusha. Man, Woman. Doesn't matter.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway.

[Michael]

Anyway, fans of Chad Bianco, who is a top Republican candidate, a very serious man, a law man. I like a lot of his attitudes and policies. But fans readily admit that his thick salt and pepper cup mustache is a major draw. One man named Charlie, driven 90 minutes to a Petaluma gun store to see Bianco, said, I think it shows strength. So Hilton thinks a really good mustache, quote, unquote, shows strength. Come on. It shows him he's got a good facial hair.

[Joe Getty]

Or he hates shaving. So Hilton winning as governor would be our first governor with a beard since 18.

[Michael]

Any facial hair? Any facial hair? Chad Bianco, too. Now, I don't know if I'd be.

[Joe Getty]

Beard, I'm okay with. I don't know if I could vote for a guy who's just got the porn stache.

[Michael]

Well, he's got a cop stash. He's got a great mustache.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I mean, just in.

[Michael]

I mean you're a racist.

[Joe Getty]

No, no, no. I'm talking about him. I mean, just in general, I'm okay with bearded presidents and governors. I don't know. Just the mustache.

[Michael]

Well, I'm talking about Chad Bianco. That's exactly what I'm saying.

[Joe Getty]

I know you are. I'm saying in general. Oh, I can see us having a bearded president or governor, but I just don't know if I can see us having a mustachioed only governor. You got the Burt Reynolds mustache. That doesn't look right.

[Michael]

Governor, now that I know exactly what you're saying, that's effing ridiculous. What?

[Joe Getty]

You'd vote for a guy with the Burt Reynolds mustache?

[Michael]

The right guy with the right policies. I might secretly hope he'd grow a beard to match it, but all right. Speaking of beards, what about Katie Porter

[Joe Getty]

with a full beard?

[Michael]

Oh, my God. Not to be outgrown, Bianco's GOP rival, Steve Hilton sprouted a salt and pepper beard that his supporters gushing. Donald Trump, for instance, hailed it as a MAGA beard. But Bianco and his backers aren't impressed. They questioned Hilton's motives for growing the beard.

[Joe Getty]

You got to be kidding me.

[Michael]

And says all it does is expose his deficiencies in comparison to Bianco's lush upper lip. Is that what he was calling it? Charlie said of Hilton's beard. I thought he'd been on the road and hadn't shaved.

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[Joe Getty]

They questioned his motives behind having a beard is one of the dumbest sentences I've ever heard.

[Michael]

Zoran Mumdani, a Democratic socialist who said his beard began as a symbolic middle finger to stereotypes of Muslims as terrorists. See, I think you support terrorists, Zoran, as the first New York City mayor with a beard in over a century. Pete Boot Edge. Edge is spouting a new beard. Sprouting. Sporting a new beard that the online publication Queerty declared has secured him the first vote. Oh, Lord.

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Wow.

[Michael]

All right, here's. Here's the line of work you never thought you'd hear of. Sean Trainor, a facial hair historian. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Michael]

Whose dissertation, Groomed for Power, examined the underpinnings of the golden age of political beards in the 19th century, says we're reemerging in this kind of new bearded age.

[Joe Getty]

I believe AI should take your line of work.

[Michael]

Can you imagine writing this article with a straight face and all these quotes?

[Joe Getty]

What's. What's interesting? To me, it's all fashion, right? So in the way fashion works and always has there's early adopters. That seems kind of crazy if you're mainstream, that they're doing that, whatever it is. And then it grows in popularity till it hits the mainstream and everybody's doing it. That's where we are. Now that politicians can get elected with beards, it's no longer hipster cool. It's the guy in a band or works at Trader Joe's grocery store, it's your governor. Then they're going to start being clean shaven. That's right around the corner.

[Michael]

It's so in, it's out.

[Joe Getty]

Because of, for instance, the Beatles. They came along and they had beards. Actually copying the band who had beards. But it was after years and years and years of rock and roll stars being clean shaven. They all got beards to show just how different we are. Well, that lasted so long and became so mainstream. Bono talks about this in his memoir. We had. Bono talked about how we had to be clean, shaved, shaving, because we were part of the punk movement and all the whole punk scene was clean shaven. Because you're growing. Your dad is a beard. We're a different thing. We're clean shaven. And then that lasts until whenever. It was 15 years ago when it became cool to have facial hair again.

[Michael]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

Pretty funny. The, the need to be the rebellious. I'm not doing it like they used to do. Now governors and presidents are going to have beards. That's when you know it's out.

[Michael]

I, I don't know why you're wasting our time talking about music when this is important. For instance, as he posed for pictures at the gun counter, Bianco accused Hilton, a political commentator, of growing a beard to compete with the mustache Bianco first grew as a teenager. He changed his appearance and grew a beard because he had to look tough. His own facial share ho. Facial hair shows he can grow a mustache and most people can't, said the sheriff. That is an odd thing to say.

[Joe Getty]

That's weak, man. That makes me like you less. And I liked, I liked Chad Bianco before he said that. That's a weak thing. The right answer is we're talking about facial hair here. How about we talk about taxes? How about we talk about the bullet train? We're talking about beards and mustaches. That's the answer.

[Michael]

Let's take one more step down the road to Stupidville. Hilton countered that his beard was a happy accident. He didn't bother shaving on a week long vacation. And several people said to him, hey, that Beard looks pretty good on you. So he thought, I'll keep it.

[Joe Getty]

That sounds more accurate. And let me tell you, I think he looks better with the beard. And let me tell you, as a guy with no hair himself, if you got no hair and no beard and no glasses, you just got too much sameness going on here. Too much. You look in the mirror and it's just one big kind of tannish. Pale. Everything molds together. You got to get some facial hair and. Or glasses.

[Michael]

Facial hair. Historian Jack Armstrong there. Yeah. He says 95 positive on the beard. The problem is the 5% anti includes my wife and kids who keep asking me when I'm going to shave it. Comfortable in your own skin guy. Mr.

[Joe Getty]

He's jealous of my mustache or.

[Michael]

No, I grew it on vacation. I thought it looked good.

[Joe Getty]

My wife hates it. Yeah. So that's a much better answer.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

You can't be going with the. He's trying to show he's tough. I've had. I've had a mustache since high school. All right.

[Michael]

Oh, boy.

[Joe Getty]

That is a weak response.

[Michael]

Oh, boy, oh, boy. That brought me to. I'm embarrassed, too. I've got a Zoran Mamdani note. That is a brilliant, brilliant takedown. Maybe after the break. Certainly by the end of the show. We do another hour after this. If you don't get it or you gotta go somewhere, grab the podcast. Subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on Demand. You get the. The On Demand podcast, but also automatically you get the Armstrong Yeti One More Thing podcast, which is spicy.

[Joe Getty]

Do we have something to tell people here, Michael? Good. Okay, so I got time for this. Do you have the quote of the day handy? Because I was all excited about this from earlier in the show. The freedom loving quote of the day. Was that the Winnie the Pooh thing?

[Michael]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Do you have that handy? Because I've got here. Yeah. Bad news on that.

[Michael]

Oh. Oh, no. Should I read it? And then you're gonna humiliate me. Some sort of a mustacheless fool, A eunuch, practically. Exactly. What day is it? Asked Pooh. It's today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh.

[Joe Getty]

Now, I love that. And I said, at the time, I thought, I want to get a poster that framed. And I. I meant that. So I went online to look into getting a. And there are lots of posters that. And I thought, I want a big. I'm going to spend the money, get this frame looking nice, and put it in my damn living room. I mean, that is a fantastic. But then I did the research and that there's no know AA mill. Never put that in any book or anything. That's just something that caught on and somebody drew in Poo and Piglet. It's great. And it seems like the sort of thing that they would say, but it's not from actual any. That kind of takes the fun out of it for me. I like the expression.

[Michael]

Well, the wisdom is still there.

[Joe Getty]

The wisdom is still good there. But I don't want to have Winnie the Pooh and Piglet there saying it if they never actually said it.

[Michael]

And how about Mickey Mouse and Goofy?

[Joe Getty]

Goofy.

[Michael]

I don't know. Homer Simpson and. And Bart? I don't know. It's all about the wisdom. No, I know what you mean.

[Joe Getty]

Chief Wiggum and his son. That'd be good.

[Michael]

Nice wisdom, boy.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, we got Mamdani explaining how socialists can take over and acquire all stuff along with what Joe's got.

[Michael]

Oh, what a piece of crap he is.

[Joe Getty]

Among other things on the way station here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

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Sure.

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Breaking news Michael Trump administration officials have asked the Bureau of Engraving and printing to design a 250 bill featuring the President's portrait which would be the first appearance of a living President on US currency in more than 150 years.

[Michael]

Oh boy.

[Joe Getty]

And from The Washington Post. It's breaking News. So a 250bill, which makes sense because of inflation, all of our money should get adjusted. A dollar is practically nothing now. So a 250 bill kind of makes sense. But Trump's picture on it. I don't know any boy. All right.

[Michael]

Meanwhile, here is America's favorite Islamianist, Mayor Mamdani. Zoran Mamdani of New York City, talking about how we're going to end private property bit by bit through our new

[Joe Getty]

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[Michael]

All right, here's how this works. You pass a regulation, an executive order saying you're not allowed to raise any of your rents, and you're like, my costs have skyrocketed. I can't maintain these apartments if I don't raise the rents as the landlord. And they say, well, you didn't maintain them, so we're taking them away from you and confiscating your private property. It's, it's, it's happened over and over in Marxist regimes. I can give you half a dozen examples.

[Joe Getty]

And now they'll be in under the control of a non profit, which probably gets all kinds of government money as a non profit.

[Michael]

Well, and it'll be bilked like the non profits that deal with the bums and junkies on the streets. Please, it'll just be be a theft ring. So I thought this was great writing. Great common sense by Austin Berg. He's writing about how old Zoron just released a video touting his closing a $12 billion budget deficit without cutting essential city services. The official video has generated 6.9 million views on Instagram and five and a half million on TikTok. Leaning into his sewer socialism narrative that far left municipal leaders can transcend mere rhetoric and deliver on good government basics. But here's what you need to know. The mayor's viral budget video video highlights three keys to closing that $12 billion gap. The first is more support from the state, including an additional $1.2 billion for childcare assistant assistance. The second is finding about 1¼ billion in savings from efficiencies. The third is taxing the rich, citing authorization. I'm sorry, authorization of a new tax on second homes, blah, blah, blah. The mayor's video makes no mention of what appears to be the single largest line item in his deficit reduction plan. That's cutting the city's payment to its pension funds by $2.3 billion over the next two years. Which obviously is a very short sighted thing to do because you're still going to owe those funds down the road. But here's the punchline. The reason they can even consider doing this is that investments held by New York City's five pension systems have exceeded the gains profits have exceeded expectations for 10 years running because the stock market has done so well, earning 7.7% over the past decade compared with what they were hoping for, which was 7%. So what produced that boom to free up that money? That's right. Socialism. Oh no. Sorry. Whoops. Capitalism. The free market did. The only reason Mamdani has the money to do his socialism. Capitalism is capitalism and anybody with a lick of sense knows it. It's just outrageous that youngsters especially fall for this crap.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's amazing.

[Michael]

We ought to get into that idiot Katie Wilson in Seattle. Maybe next hour with her. You know, the businesses and billionaires may leave the spot. The state. Well, like buy she said before she apologized for a Starbucks campaign and scrambled backward as fast as she can. Stop electing communists and children. That would help.

[Joe Getty]

I got my latest 401k recently, like a lot of you probably did and thought, wow, it's really doing well. But the thing that is troubling, of course, is that it's just like a half a dozen AI companies that are really driving practically the whole thing.

[Michael]

Yeah, it's a little incredibly heavily weighted over there. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And who knows if that's going to turn out to be what they think it's going to be. We'll see.

[Michael]

And get some gold bars. Bury them in the backyard.

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