A Weasel In A Suit! I'll Be Damned!

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: A Weasel In A Suit! I'll Be Damned!
Date: October 6, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into the latest political gridlock over the government shutdown, with Armstrong and Getty offering skeptical, irreverent commentary on both parties’ handling of the issue—particularly focusing on the ongoing funding fight around Obamacare subsidies. The show also highlights surprising moments of candor from mainstream media sources, pokes fun at “weasel” politicians, and detours into pop culture, policing controversies in Portland and Chicago, and a wild movie review.

The tone is comedic, sardonic, and bitingly critical, especially toward political posturing and media hypocrisy.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Current Government Shutdown Battle

[03:27 – 13:06]

• Nature of the Dispute: The shutdown is driven by Democrats demanding the extension of COVID-era Obamacare subsidies, with no new proposal for how to pay for them.
• Republican Messaging: Republicans argue if they concede here, it proves Congress never cuts back on spending, losing any “minus button.”
• Mainstream Media Surprises: Armstrong and Getty note a rare moment of honesty from the Washington Post editorial board, acknowledging that the Affordable Care Act “was never really affordable.”
  • Jack Armstrong: “The Affordable Care act wasn’t that affordable. Made everything more expensive.” [05:22]
• Schumer/AOC Dynamics: Jack suggests the whole fight is about Chuck Schumer fearing a primary challenge from AOC, not policy substance.
• Press Critique: Both hosts are pleasantly shocked as even Meet the Press challenges Democrats’ rationale, foreseeing Dems losing the public opinion war here.
• Reince Priebus Drops In: Priebus calls the whole spectacle “the most stupid thing I think I’ve ever witnessed in Washington, D.C.” [10:24]
• Congressional Hypocrisy: Discussion of lawmakers refusing to defer their pay during the shutdown even as they lament pay being withheld from other federal workers.
  • Example: “I’m not wealthy and I have three kids. I would basically be missing, you know, mortgage payments, rent payments, child support…” (Rep. Ruben Gallego) [14:01]
• Scope of Crisis: Emphasized the shutdown only covers funding until November: “We’re only talking about getting through this little patch here until the first week of November.” [12:51]

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2. Media & Messaging: Notable Quotes and Sarcasm

[04:52 – 13:06]

• Media Honesty: Hosts laud rare editorial accountability.
  • Jack: “For the Washington Post to put in a sentence, the problem with the Affordable Care act is was never really affordable. Wow.” [09:22]
• “Weasel in a Suit” Segment: Armstrong and Getty lampoon Adam Schiff’s appearance on Meet the Press.
  • Jack Armstrong: “Her pointing out weasel.” [07:48]
  • Joe Getty: “Who taught a weasel to speak American English? That’s an achievement.” [07:51]
  • Jack Armstrong: “Look, they put the weasel in a suit. Isn’t it cute?” [08:00]
• On Partisan Media Bubbles: Critiques lack of cross-exposure to contrary narratives:
  “People whose algorithm is not on the story at all…are just in completely different eco bubbles.” [31:38]

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3. Law and Order: Portland & Chicago Protests and National Guard Controversies

[28:16 – 38:18]

• Federal/State Tensions: Federal judge blocks Trump’s attempt to send troops to Portland; federal action seen as inflammatory by local officials.
• Local Leadership Mocked:
  • Jack Armstrong: “That is the most flaccid sounding leader I’ve ever heard.” [29:50]
• City Council “Left of Leningrad”: Portland politics described as even further left than Soviet Russia.
• Media Bubble Analysis: Discussion about radically different perceptions depending on one’s media “algorithm.”
• Chicago National Guard Dispute: Reports that police were told not to assist federal officers while under attack; Fraternal Order of Police outraged.
  • Joe Getty: “How do you think you could possibly structure a society where that’s okay?” [34:00]
  • “No matter when an officer is in need, that everyone should respond to help.” [34:55]

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4. Pop Culture & Comic Relief

[21:04 – 24:33]

• Terrible Movie Reviews: Jack reviews "Primitive War," a Vietnam War movie with dinosaurs, at length and with glee.
  • “It is really like Apocalypse Now and Jurassic Park put in a blender.” [23:55]
  • “How about sports movies? The plucky outsider…becomes a major league ball player until he’s attacked by dinosaurs.” [24:01]
• Oldies Concerts: Lighthearted debate about seeing aging rock stars live.
  • Joe Getty: “We’re not going to go to shows featuring our 70s 80s, 90s heroes anymore.” [46:47]
  • Jack: Contrasts with his great Eagles concert experience. [47:05]

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5. Everyday Life Anecdotes

[39:26 – 41:38]

• Plumbing Mishap Cautionary Tale: Joe regales a plumbing accident, flooding his house during renovations, using every towel to mop up.
  • “There’s no fixing stupid.” [50:55]
  • “Absent minded people should not do plumbing.” [51:06]
• NFL Quick Hits:
  • Jack: “I’d forgotten from last season how much I like that Redskins quarterback. Sorry, I still call them the Redskins.” [46:13]
  • “Sanchez will now be known for A, this incident and B, the infamous butt fumble that will be his legacy.” [41:27]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Messaging:
  Joe Getty: “Do better messaging, get better messengers. We can’t lose this one.” [06:44]

• On Congressional Pay Hypocrisy:
  Joe Getty: “They’ll whine about the millions of federal workers who won’t get a paycheck, but they’re still getting their checks themselves, remember…” [13:06]

• On Political Cynicism:
  Joe Getty: “Could our governance be more incompetent or dysfunctional?” [12:59]
  Jack Armstrong: “No, it could not. It could not be dumber.” [13:04]

• On Law Enforcement:
  Chris Southwood (Illinois FOP): “When a law enforcement officer is in trouble, nothing should stand in the way of fellow officers rendering assistance. That is obvious to any sane human being.” [36:49]

• On Modern Political Discourse:
  Joe Getty: “There is a huge, huge divide in just the basic perceptions of certain things in our society. It’s just, it’s just crazy.” [37:56]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Shutdown politics, Obamacare subsidies: [03:27 – 16:32]
• Media & “Weasel in a Suit” segment: [07:48 – 09:41]
• Priebus: Shutdown is “stupidest thing”: [10:24 – 12:32]
• Congressional pay hypocrisy: [13:06 – 16:11]
• Movie Review – “Primitive War”: [22:20 – 24:33]
• Portland, Chicago National Guard and police controversies: [28:16 – 38:18]
• Joe’s plumbing disaster: [39:26 – 41:38]

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Summary

This episode offers an unvarnished, biting, and often hilarious take on the week’s political drama. Armstrong & Getty skewer both parties, the media, and public figures with irreverence, embodying the “accept no substitutes” spirit of their show. They revel in rare moments of honesty from legacy media, condemn political hypocrisy and dysfunction, and provide comic relief through improbable movie reviews and personal misadventures.

Standout Quote:
Jack Armstrong: “Look, they put the weasel in a suit. Isn’t it cute?” [08:00]

For listeners seeking sharp wit, clear-eyed skepticism, and a dash of cultural commentary alongside hard news, this episode is can’t-miss Armstrong & Getty.

Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

And now here's Armstrong and Giddy. Negotiations are ongoing, but it appears that both sides are unwilling to budge. Democrats are still demanding inclusions of tax credits for Obamacare subsidies. They're also requiring that the President not rescind changes to appropriations moving forward, also known as rescissions. Okay, so Joe explained this last week I have not paid any attention to the whole shutdown thing. I promised myself a long time ago that I was not going to spend any of my moments of my life, my my precious few as I am in the winter of my life that I have left thinking about government shutdowns, having lived through a few of them. But American, excuse me, Give me a break. But Joe pointed out it's all about they increased some of your Obamacare goodies during COVID because that was a crazy time and now we're trying to go back to the old way now that Covid's over and the Democrats are acting like it's some sort of horror.

[Joe Getty]

Like healthy, able bodied males who make plenty of money don't get free healthcare from the government just because.

[Jack Armstrong]

So that's what makes it so amazing that the Washington Post editorial board is saying the Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the COVID era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. What? The Washington Post editorial board's posting pointing this out.

[Joe Getty]

Did somebody hack their Twitter account? That's remarkably truthy.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the WaPo editorial board goes on to say the real problem is that the Affordable Care act was never actually affordable. President Barack Obama's signature achievement allowed people to buy insurance on marketplaces with subsidies based on their income. The architects of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected. Yeah, that is right. The Affordable Care act wasn't that affordable. Made everything more expensive.

[Joe Getty]

Then was an unholy stew of of back scratching and crony capitalism with the big insurance companies.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then it got all juiced up during COVID and now we're trying to pair it back to the ridiculousness it was before COVID It wasn't good before that. And the Democrats are acting like, oh, you're taking away people's health care.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the mainstream media mostly goes along with it. Well, good on the Washington Post editorial board for being honest about that. That's fantastic.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I read one thing from a guy from the Hudson Institute, Hudson Institute, which I believe is a conservative think tank. But he said, look, if, if the Republicans back down on this, we have absolutely given up and said the budgeting process only goes one way, plus up. We never cut back anything. We never reign back in excessive spending or temporary spending. There is no minus button on the calculator anymore. If, if they give up on this one. And I thought he's absolutely right. I mean, and if the messaging is hard and the Republicans are going to get blamed because the Democrats can always go with, they're trying to take away your health care and terrify everybody. Do better messaging, get better messengers. We can't lose this one.

[Jack Armstrong]

So like I said, I didn't. I'm not reading or watching anything about the shutdown. And they had a lot of it on your Sunday news shows. But this was on Meet the Press, Adam Schiff, who's a freaking lion piece of crap, and my senator, it's a.

[Joe Getty]

Little charitable, but go on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Was on with Kristen Welker and she asked him this.

[Show Announcer/Commercial Voice]

You heard Speaker Johnson, as you're just referencing, criticize Democrats for using the government shutdown to press for an extension of those Obamacare tax subsidies. But you actually did make a similar point back in 2013. Why is now different?

[Guest or Interviewee]

So there is a crisis now that we didn't have then. The crisis is far worse now, I should say, than we had then.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay. Her pointing out weasel.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, that really needs to be the headline, right? Who taught a weasel to speak American English? That's an achievement.

[Jack Armstrong]

Look, they put the weasel in a suit. Isn't it cute?

[Joe Getty]

It's cute.

[Jack Armstrong]

A weasel in a suit talking. I'll be damned. And then, well, let's try this one. So this is maybe speaker starting next year. Jeffries on Meet the Press about the same topic.

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You say this is a Republican shutdown, but it's Democratic senators who are withholding their votes. Why not fund the government and debate extending Obamacare tax credits after the fact?

[Jack Armstrong]

America is already too expensive for the American people because of the Trump failed policies, the Trump tariffs. And this will make things worse. So we just want a bipartisan negotiation that addresses the House My main point is you got the host of Meet the Press pushing Democrats on what are you doing here? Which again, you add that with the Washington Post, this might be the first time ever that Democrats are going to lose the public opinion war on this whole shutdown thing.

[Joe Getty]

Is press the meat, as I prefer to call it. Is that the CBS one or attendees? NBC. Okay. I was just wondering whether the whole Barry Weiss taking over CBS News, the free press being so ascendant, I wonder if there's been some sort of wake up call to the newsrooms of America. Well, you know, Bezos, or maybe just an emboldening of the real journalists.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, Bezos hired a conservative to run the top of Washington Post to try to get things back in line. And maybe that's what happened there at that editorial board piece. I mean, for the Washington Post to put in a sentence, the problem with the Affordable Care act is was never really affordable. Wow. That's the first time I've heard anybody at that level say that out loud.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. You know, the funny thing is, folks, we on the conservative side of life, I don't fear the progressive arguments being aired at all. I want to, I want to bring them to your attention so you can see how ridiculous and ineffective they are. But over on the left side of the aisle, man, they hate having conservative points of view even expressed. They'll call it hate speech or they'll say they're making me feel unsafe or whatever. No, no, no. Do not be silenced.

[Jack Armstrong]

Friends, one more clip and then I promise I can't take any more about the shutdown. I've got a good angle.

[Joe Getty]

I've got a good angle. But yes, we'll play the clip.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is Reince Priebus, who used to run the rnc.

[Guest or Interviewee]

This is the most stupid thing I think I've ever witnessed. In Washington, D.C. we passed a budget bill. The Republicans have offered a clean cr, which means we're going to keep funding the government for the next six weeks at the exact same levels that we've always been funding it. The same bill that the Democrats voted on four times. The same bill that Chuck Schumer argued for voting for numerous times on the floor.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, what's going on here? And Speaker Johnson pointed this out somewhere yesterday. Chuck Schumer is worried he's going to lose to AOC when he's up for reelection next year if he doesn't push this shutdown. That's the whole story, as you can see. It doesn't make sense to anybody. It doesn't make Sense to meet the press or the Washington Post, let alone, you know, middle of the road or people that lean right. It's. It's all about one guy, Chuck Schumer, who thinks he's going to lose to aoc, which I'll bet he does, if he doesn't seem like he's standing up for all those.

[Joe Getty]

Got to be seen as fighting. I'm fighting the Trump agenda, fighting the rest.

[Jack Armstrong]

What's the opposite of fighting the good fight? Fighting the dumb fight. I'm fighting the dumb fight.

[Joe Getty]

Well, he's just fighting, period. I like the rest of what Priebus said. Michael, can you hit that, too?

[Guest or Interviewee]

And by the way, what do they want to fund with this 1.5 trillion? And I'm ready to argue illegal immigration, because I know it inside and out. As far as health care, Medicaid, state exchanges, emergency reimbursements through Medicare and Obamacare, they want to fund people who don't want to go to work, who are able bodied, have no kids under 7 years old, no mental illness.

[Joe Getty]

You're going to want to jump in here.

[Jack Armstrong]

I can.

[Guest or Interviewee]

Illegal immigration through state exchanges and reimbursements set up by Obama and Biden. 100% fact check.

[Joe Getty]

True. Right. So he's got a firm grasp of the policies and how it works and where the money is flowing. And then the response from Hakeem Jeffries is inevitably, you're trying to take away health care from Americans during a crisis when they need it most, to slogans and bull crap.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which one of them I heard say this? And to benefit the richest in this country, to benefit billionaires. Okay. That's where we are. You know what's the best thing about this whole shutdown? If you really like this sort of thing. This is all about funding until November. That's it.

[Joe Getty]

Of this year.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. To like the first week of November. We're only talking about getting through this little patch here until the first week of November.

[Joe Getty]

Could our governance be more incompetent or dysfunctional?

[Jack Armstrong]

No, it could not. It could not be dumber.

[Joe Getty]

So all but four, excuse me, Congressional Democrats who voted against the funding bill that would have kept the government open. Many of them have since been whining and moaning about the millions of federal workers who won't get a paycheck, but they're still getting their checks themselves, remember, of Congress keep getting paid.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's incredible.

[Joe Getty]

Like the troops, for instance. Yeah. Some have opted to defer or donate their salaries, which started 174 grand a year, by the way, for a Congressperson but some are doing that, including six Senate Republicans. Some Democrats, including New Jersey's Andy Kim, have deferred their salary. At least two dozen House members are doing the same thing. But several Democrats who've been among the most vocal using the pay issue to attack Republicans have either outright rejected calls to defer their own pay or failed to announce plans to do so. Here is a roundup of their statements to enjoy. Ruben Gallego, high profile Democrat from Arizona. He's appeared seven times on CNN and MSNBC to proclaim his opposition to the White House budget proposal. I'm not wealthy and I have three kids. I would basically be missing, you know, mortgage payments, rent payments, child support, he told NBC News. So it's not feasible. It's not going to happen. He won't defer his salary, but it's okay to take paychecks away from our military and benefits away from veterans. The RNC asked, are you really living.

[Jack Armstrong]

That paycheck to paycheck at that point in your life, dude, where like one paycheck all of a sudden your kids can't eat?

[Joe Getty]

Well, it's a little, it's more complicated than that. Jack is Gallego's wife, Sidney, who worked until earlier this year as a top lobbyist for the national association of Realtors. And Gallego pays an unknown amount of child support to his ex wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, who he divorced when she was nine months pregnant with their son.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ooh, wow.

[Joe Getty]

How about Hakeem Jeffries, who makes 193 plus a year as House Minority Leader. Leader. He squirmed during a press conference Wednesday when asked whether he would give up his paychecks. Jeffrey said it's a decision members will have to make on their own. But when he was asked, well, what about you? He said, well, first of all, that question is not even a right one because we're anticipating that this shutdown issue will be resolved. Okay? The invaluable, the delightful, the charming Jasmine Crockett of Texas said, quote, they make you be broke until they get they stuff together. And to be clear, members of Congress, we still get paid. I just wanna put that out there because I like to be fully transparent. But announced that she will not be deferring her salary. Likewise, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren are still taking their, their money, et cetera. Uh, let's see. Adam Schiff, who was decrying the tremendous hardship for a lot of federal employees is like a talking weasel, tends to gotta keep getting his while they pretend to fight for something or other. Against Trump.

[Jack Armstrong]

Uh, so anyway, they're gonna vote today. We'll see if enough, you know, they need a couple more Democrats to join in, then it's over.

[Joe Getty]

You know, maybe that'll be our freedom loving quote of the day to kick off the show tomorrow. They make you be broke until they get they stuff together.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hear you brother.

[Joe Getty]

George Washington. No, I'm sorry, that was Jasmine Crockett who said that, not Washington.

[Jack Armstrong]

I saw one of the most hilariously dumb movies ever. My son and I watched. Finally made it to Netflix. It was in the theaters for like about two days but everybody hated it so much they pulled it out of theaters. Primitive War, the Vietnam meets Jurassic park that I've been talking about. Wow. I gotta tell you about it among other things on the way.

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[Jack Armstrong]

New York mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani ran an ad. Well, he ran an ad during an episode of Golden Bachelor in which he said, new York, will you accept this rose? Not to be outdone, Andrew Cuomo ran an ad in which he said, honka honka. The point of that was not the Joke. It was the crowd erupting with excitement about mentioning Mumdami. He is going to win and be the next mayor of New York City. Which is something. By the way, as I mentioned earlier, that was the least funny episode of Saturday Night Live I've ever seen. I don't know if all the writers quit or what happened there, but it was wild.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

So I want to pitch a terrible movie to you that you might like if you're a certain sort of person. My son says it's now his favorite movie of all time, but called Primitive War. He had been waiting for this since he saw the previews last year. It's a Vietnam War movie with dinosaurs in it. And when I first saw the film, I thought, this is. Yeah, no kidding. Finally. And so he was all excited about it. He knew when it was going to hit the box office, because it wasn't. It never played in our town or nearby. And then it left the theaters after like a week.

[Joe Getty]

It made two surprising.

[Jack Armstrong]

It made $200,000 nationwide before they yanked it out of the theaters. Then they waited, waited a couple of weeks and they put it into streaming. Now we downloaded it on Apple, I think, or prime, but it's. It's got some stars in it. Jeremy Piven in the guy from Entourage or a bunch of different stuff. Yeah, he's really good in a dramatic role as like the commander there. But, I mean, it's a. The first third is like a pretty damn well shot Vietnam movie. I mean, it's. It's really good.

[Joe Getty]

And then what happens?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, the Green Berets are missing and they think there must be a group of Viet Cong over there or something like that because they can't find the Green Berets. So they send this reconnaissance team in. Then they see these giant footprints, and anyway, it becomes. Becomes clear to them that it's dinosaurs. Anyway, there's lots of people getting their heads bit clean off or their arms ripped apart.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, it's gruesome.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, boy.

[Joe Getty]

It's a.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's like. It's. It is really like Apocalypse now and Jurassic park put in a blender.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Wow. I. I call for more of that. Let's. Let's add dinosaurs to more genres. How about sports movies? The plucky outsider who couldn't make the team in college. He becomes a major league ball player until he's attacked by dinosaurs.

[Jack Armstrong]

Rom coms. You know your old high school boyfriend? You don't like your current husband anyway. He gets his head bit off by a Tyrannosaurus rex.

[Joe Getty]

What else? There gotta be hundreds of these. It's Fast and Furious and dinosaurs.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's called Primitive War. It's got a 53% on rotten tomatoes. Don't miss it.

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A federal judge on Saturday blocking the president's attempt to send troops into Portland. The federal judge who Trump himself appointed, saying the administration's descriptions of chaos in the city is simply untethered to the facts. The protests in Portland have not been significantly violent or disruptive and are insufficient to federalize the National Guard in the state. Writing this is a nation of constitutional.

[Joe Getty]

Law, not martial law, mostly peaceful protests, in other words. And you know, number one, the question of is there justification for calling out the guard is a good one and we ought to work our way through it because we don't want excessive acts by presidents on either side of the aisle. You just, you've got to reign that sort of thing in because of the nature of power. And I think we're all a little tired of the A judge somewhere has ruled something thwarting the Trump administration when there's going to be an appeal and then probably get to the Supreme Court eventually. But there's a lot of kind of lazy rhetoric out of the media right now about the situation in Portland.

[Jack Armstrong]

No way.

[Joe Getty]

The idea that it's, well, here I tell you what, let's. Here's the governor, the mayor of Portland, Keith Wilson. Clip 70. Despite the court's ruling, the federal government.

[Jack Armstrong]

Has activated California National Guard personnel under Title 10 to operate in Portland. This action circumvents the judge's decision and threatens to inflame a community that has remained peaceful.

[Commercial Voice]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's the most. This is not a nice thing to say. That is the most flaccid sounding leader I've ever heard.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Portland is something there. I was reading about the city council, where they have good leadership.

[Jack Armstrong]

There just are. You really got that whole. You follow me, guys? I got this sort of vibe, man.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, no kidding. But in. In Portland, on the city council, they have the far left, and then they have. Well, they have liberals and then they have socialists on the city council. I mean, it is to the left of Leningrad, but the idea that this is peaceful, we're peaceful. You're inflaming the community. Well, that's. That's ridiculous.

[Jack Armstrong]

I told the president, you shouldn't send the National Guard.

[Joe Getty]

So I.

[Jack Armstrong]

So that's what I'm doing. I'm fighting. I'm fighting as hard as I can.

[Joe Getty]

There's violence, either a little or a lot every single night. And if your freakazoid community members would stop attacking, you know, federal facilities and troops and cops and the rest of it, then nothing would happen. Well, their claim is the National Guard guys would mill around and then go home.

[Jack Armstrong]

Their claim is that we wouldn't be attacking if the Guard wasn't here. But what doesn't make sense with that is just. Well, then just stop. You stop attacking them like Joe said, then they'll just mill around and nothing will happen. What's the problem?

[Joe Getty]

I know. It's so ridiculous and so circular. Here's the Governor of Oregon, Tina Kotak, in 71.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's no need for military intervention in Oregon. There's no insurrection in Portland. There's no threat to national security. Oregon is our home.

[Show Announcer/Commercial Voice]

It is not a military target.

[Joe Getty]

All right, that's fine. That's great. Oh, you know, I want to get to Chicago. But before we do that, what was I listening to?

[Jack Armstrong]

This is perfect. On this story, though, somebody.

[Joe Getty]

One of.

[Jack Armstrong]

My favorite, like, nonpartisan journalists, was just talking about how people who. Their algorithm is a certain way are seeing the violence in Portland and thinking, well, yeah, you got to have National Guard troops there. Cops are something. And then people whose algorithm is not on the story at all, or just covering the part about Trump sending the National Guard troops and the judge, sending the judge, shutting it down are just in completely different, you know, eco bubbles. I mean, there's no overlap whatsoever on this story, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I would agree. A couple of questions for you good people. Number one, when was the last time you fought a cop or hurled something at a cop or, or tried to provoke them by screaming in their face, etc. Probably not very often. Secondly, if the Biden administration had sent the National Guard to your city and you thought it was unjustified and an unconstitutional exercise of executive power, name the things that you as a voter and a citizen and a patriot would do okay about that and tell me, is one of those things. Well, I'd fight some of the troops or throw bricks at them or, or shine lasers in their eyeballs. You wouldn't oppose the policy and go through the courts and you would fight the actual cops and National Guardsmen. That makes you a friggin idiot and a lunatic and a jackass. The idea that, well, the troops are there so people are attacking them. Well, wait a minute, let's take that apart. That's ridiculous. Cut some of the stupid stuff that gets said in American politics these days. It's enough to make me loony for what it's worth. And all the cops in America know this, but the story's been underreported. Both the. Oh, you know what, I'm sorry, we need to, we need to turn first to Chicago briefly where Trump is calling out the National Guard there as well.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, did you see the letter from the National Fraternal Order of Police?

[Joe Getty]

That's where I was going. Okay, that's, that's where I'm heading. I wanted to set the scene in Chicago first. Give us 66, Michael.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're also watching what's happening in Chicago. The White House deploying 300 National Guard troops. Illinois Governor J.D. pritzker says this is unnecessary and only for political purposes. Over the weekend, reports broke Chicago police were told not to assist federal agents in need. The situation getting quite dicey on Saturday after there was an incident involving vehicles ramming federal enforcement officers as they were trying to get control of the situation. We heard from the Fraternal Order of Police who said that's unacceptable. They believe no matter when an officer is in need, that everyone should respond to help. We'll see if the White House has any more to say. But Chicago getting a lot of attention as well as Portland today. Federal agents are under attack and the cops are told not to help them out. How do you think you could possibly Structure a society where that's okay, right? Where, where you're gonna let individual governors, mayors, whoever, just decide if the mob gets to take control here or if we're gonna back up the cops. I mean, it all, I mean it all immediately falls apart.

[Joe Getty]

You realize Governor JB Pritzker, child mutilating sicko, and Brandon Johnson, union mayor of Chicago, declared Chicago a sanctuary state for people fighting cops and troops.

[Jack Armstrong]

You can be against the policy as much as you want, and some people on the right are, but you gotta work it through the courts or vote for different people that will pass different laws. You can't decide that. No, the cops are not gonna back this up, but they'll back that up. They, they'll, they'll stand down if this is happening. That's crazy.

[Joe Getty]

They'll watch a, they'll watch a National Guardsman or federal officer get beaten to death. We're not going to help them. And not surprisingly, both the national and the Illinois State fops, the fraternity of police, are yelling about this. They're angry about this. The national FOP said, quote, details are still emerging, but it appears that officers from the Chicago Police Department were ordered not to assist a group of ICE agents while they were physically threatened by what appeared to be an angry mob. Let me be clear. Both the National FOP and the Illinois FOP believe that when an officer calls for assistance, you answer no matter what.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. That's the only way it works. That is so nuts. The fact that this isn't a bigger national news story is depressing.

[Joe Getty]

I know it is. It is. It just shows the, the perverse and, you know, pervasive bias of the media.

[Jack Armstrong]

So what do you think? The people on the left, they think all those ICE agents should resign or refuse to do what they're being told to do? Is that what they think should happen there?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. I would love to hear them explain their reasoning, if there is any reasoning. But the state FOP president, Chris Southwood pointed out the number one unwritten rule in law enforcement is that we respond to any calls from officers in distress. What would have happened if the local police were facing threats and nearby federal officers were told not to assist? Whether you agree about immigration enforcement or not, when a law enforcement officers in trouble, nothing should stand in the way of fellow officers rendering assistance. That is obvious to any sane human being. Now the Chicago PD is disputing those claims, saying they were on the scene to maintain public safety and document the incident. CPD officers did in fact respond to the shooting scene. Involving federal authorities to maintain public safety and traffic control. Well, the fop, I doubt they're making it up.

[Jack Armstrong]

I doubt they are too. That's a highly troubling story.

[Joe Getty]

It really is. And again, where a lot of this ends, you know, legally speaking, through the courts, will unfold over the next days and weeks and we'll all find out together. And that's fine. But man, there is a huge, huge divide in just the basic perceptions of certain things in our society. It's just, it's just crazy.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Lock in my house over the weekend. It's just like the little thing that comes out, the bolt thing is not matching up the hole right somewhere. And I was just thinking about while I was working on that how much more I enjoy doing something like that. That at least for me is intuitive as opposed to fixing computer. I almost dropped an S bomb.

[Joe Getty]

Oh boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stuff where it just tells you something and you haven't got the slightest idea how to make it work.

[Joe Getty]

We coined the term text Austin a number of years ago to describe that feeling when you're just trying to do something simple. And now you're five steps into passwords and codes, reboots and the rest of it and you just want to effing fill out the form.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Right.

[Joe Getty]

Just.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Oh, man.

[Joe Getty]

Speaking of home improvement, I did one of the stupid things I've ever done. I, I, I, I almost caused so much damage to my own home yesterday. It was a near disaster. Probably. I'll tell you about that next. But man, back to the news of the day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Breaking news. Mark Sanchez is now facing a felony charge. So he got stabbed. That guy legit thought the crazy giant drunk quarterback was going to hurt him.

[Joe Getty]

Or kill him to the point that he stabbed Sanchez and the cops charged.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sanchez with a felony. Yeah, right. Man, that guy was in a, a bad, he had to be scared to death. Obviously he was, he was fighting for, he thought he was fighting for his life. And apparently the cops agree. What an interesting story. Yeah, you're right. His career is definitely done.

[Joe Getty]

That's done.

[Jack Armstrong]

He will not be on Fox again.

[Joe Getty]

Unless he does the whole full responsibility I'm an alcoholic rehab redemption tour thing. Large donations somewhere or other, but I don't know. There are a lot of articulate ex quarterbacks who could get in the booth instead of old, you know, I'm gonna beat up an old truck driver because I'm black up drunk. Sanchez.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that truck driver is like in his 60s, right? That's weak.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, football fans know what I'm talking about. So Sanchez will now be known for A, this incident and B, the infamous butt fumble that will be his legacy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, we got more on the way. Stay here.

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[Joe Getty]

Herbert looking that way.

[Jack Armstrong]

Throwing tip intercepted at the goal line. Mikey Sane Weil with the pick. That was quite the play. Chargers lost again. So they're three and two and they started three and oh, and man, fortune's change in the NFL so fast. But I'd forgotten from last season how much I like that Redskins quarterback. Sorry, I still call them the Redskins.

[Joe Getty]

That Daniels King Racism.

[Jack Armstrong]

He is so fun. So fun to watch. Remember, he made it. They made it to the championship game last year. Anyway, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So speaking of entertainment, my bride and I went to a concert in a distant city. Not distant, was a bit of a drive. And number one, we have decided we've arrived at a policy we will no longer go see. And I'm not going to name the recording artist involved called because maybe you have tickets, you want to go to the show. You're excited about it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Neil Sadaka.

[Joe Getty]

That's great. It was Neil Sadaka. The great Neil Sadaka. Ooh, I hear laughter in the rain or something. No, but we decided, look, we're not going to go to shows featuring our 70s 80s, 90s heroes anymore.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really?

[Joe Getty]

Combination. A lack of passion, you know, going through the motions.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, that's interesting. I did not. I had the opposite experience. Seeing the Eagles, they were like. It felt like it could have been 1978.

[Joe Getty]

I insist on calling them some Eagles. Still never forget Glenn Fry. Anyway, and sometimes it's that they're in the sort of venue that doesn't know how to do sound for rock and roll. The show we did on Friday night, it was just. The sound was so muddy. It just wasn't great. But, you know, it was. It was fine and good.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean, I've seen older acts where it was, I guess I had Dwight yocum recently. He's 70. He was fantastic. But then I saw an ancient Willie Nelson once and it was like he didn't. He did not care at all that I had driven there and paid to see him. I mean, he was not on his mind in the least.

[Joe Getty]

Your hard earned dollars. Yeah, yeah. So anyway. But we got home the next day after staying overnight. Don't drive drunk, folks. And I decided in the afternoon, Saturday afternoon, that I Had time to do a fairly simple plumbing repair. And I have. I've done that sort of thing dozens of times in my life. Back when we were young and poor, I did virtually everything because we couldn't afford to hire people. But I admit I was tired. And you have to remember our house is in the midst of a major remodel. The floors have just been redone. One coat of like the lacquer, whatever they put on the wood floors, one coat has been done. And so I go to do this fairly simple plumbing job. It was a toilet repair thing. And, and I realized halfway through, wow, that that part is. I don't want to reinstall that. It doesn't make any sense. I need to swap it out for a new one. And I don't have time to go because we got dinner reservations. And you know what? To hell with it. I'm just going to put everything back together and, and I'll do it another day. I've done that. So I put almost everything back together and boy. And, and, and then turn the, the water pressure back on and then go down to a different part of the house so Judy and I can work on the New York Times crossword puzzle together, which is one of the things we enjoy doing together. And after about 10 minutes of that, I thought, you know what, dinner's coming up, I should take a shower, blah, blah, blah. So. And seriously, a solid 10 minutes, maybe 15 had passed. And I go up to walk to where our clothes are because we're like ghettoed into a corner of our house because of the whole remodel thing. And I hear from upstairs, I hear downstairs not dripping more splashing of water on the hardwood. And I uttered a two word obscenity. Kind of a funny one. Holy F. What does that mean? What would a holy F be?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

What sense would it be holy.

[Jack Armstrong]

I say it semi regularly, but I.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, anyway, so I uttered that and luckily my first thought was, oh my God, it's got to be the toilet thing. And I rushed back and turned off the valve in the bathroom which was now full of water. Then I careen downstairs. I've got to go like outside and around because everything's tarped off. And they're in our newly redone kitchen. All, you know, it's not quite done yet, but just a huge pool of water and just pouring out of the ceiling.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh crap.

[Joe Getty]

Oh man, that's an expensive one piece.

[Jack Armstrong]

He didn't get back in.

[Joe Getty]

I emptied the whole dictionary of obscenities then and screamed for my wife. And by God every towel in the house was put to use, several buckets and trash cans and the rest of it and called a contractor and and oh what a nightmare. But luckily he said look, it's here and gone. It's not like it's going gone on for weeks and there's mold and stuff like that. He said it's fine, the pain will take care of it and the floor guys aren't done. He'll be fine. But oh my God, there's no fixing. Stupid.

[Jack Armstrong]

No. As we've talked about before, that's one of the worst things you learn as an adult that when you screw up, wow, Dad's not going to yell at me or anything like that. I just have to pay for everything.

[Joe Getty]

You know, I I've finally accepted my brain as it is, the strengths and weaknesses. But just as a general guideline, absent minded people should not do plumbing. You can get away with a lot of sins in home repair, but plumbing? Plumbing justice always happens.

[Jack Armstrong]

Plumbing justice.

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