A&G Replay Friday Hour Three

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: A&G Replay Friday Hour Three

Date: November 28, 2025
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand (iHeartPodcasts)

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Episode Overview

This hour of Armstrong & Getty is a fast-moving blend of in-depth cultural and political commentary, observations on current trends, and humor. The main threads of discussion are:

• The ideological alliance between radical Islamism and the progressive Western left ("red-green alliance") and its intellectual roots.
• America’s shifting political landscape, especially the Democratic Party’s alarming voter registration decline and what it means for both parties.
• Observations on contemporary social trends, including alcohol consumption, constant music in public life, and changing social mores.
• The practical, sometimes surreal frustrations of interacting with AI and chatbots.

The conversation is candid, occasionally profane, and shot through with skepticism about both established narratives and new technologies.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The “Red-Green Alliance” and Western Progressive Thought

(03:42–15:46)

• News in Gaza & NPR's Take: The show opens with news that Palestinian militants disguised themselves as workers from World Central Kitchen, resulting in a deadly IDF airstrike. Joe critiques Western media (notably NPR) for being reluctant to believe militants would impersonate journalists, asserting this denial is symptomatic of broader left-leaning naivete.

  • Quote (Joe Getty, 04:16):
    “NPR considers it completely impossible that they would impersonate journalists. ... What the hell is going on?”

• The Ideological Alliance Explained: Joe introduces the “red-green alliance” — the coalition between the far left (Marxists/communists: 'red') and radical Islamists ('green'), with historical foundations in the Iranian Revolution and modern progressive academia.

  • Quote (Joe Getty, 05:38):
    “Reds as in communists in green, the color of Hamas and radical Islam...a lot of this arose during Iran's Islamic Revolution, 1978 and 79.”

• Michel Foucault, Edward Said & Critical Theory:

  • Joe argues that postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault, via his celebration of the Iranian revolution, inspired the critical theory dominating academic and activist circles.
  • He draws a line from postmodern skepticism of objective truth to modern ideologies like DEI, queer theory, and radical gender theory.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 08:37):
    “Foucault is literally anti enlightenment and he is the father of all critical theory… for those who would overthrow Western civilization, he is a godhead to them. And you don't know his name, but trust me when I tell you it's incredibly important that you understand.”

• Self-Delusion & Unreachable Minds:

  • Joe claims progressives have so internalized the narrative of Western oppression that they justify or deny violence by radicals, no matter the evidence.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 13:49):
    “We have so dominated them and crushed their spirits and oppressed them that they're acting out in ways that they won't anymore when the Enlightenment comes, when the Marxist revolution comes.”

• The “Most Important Problem Facing America”:

  • Joe contends this fusion of cultural Marxism and postmodernism is now dominant in American education, posing a greater existential threat than jihadism or even China.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 14:26):
    “It's the most important problem that faces America. Bigger than China.”

• Passionate Conclusion:

  • Joe closes the segment forcefully, emphasizing that the movement’s goals are openly documented.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 15:12):
    “These effing people wrote effing books. Their effing names are on the effing spines and they effing describe precisely what they're effing going to do. And they're doing it precisely as they effing described.”

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2. Social Trends: Alcohol Consumption and the Ubiquity of Music

(16:39–19:44)

• Declining Alcohol Use:

  • Recent polling shows only 54% of US adults report drinking alcohol, the lowest rate in 90 years.
  • Joe and his co-host muse that wider drug access, health consciousness, and generational shifts may explain the drop, and note the irony given rising societal anxiety.
  • Quote (Co-host, 16:39):
    “Americans are consuming alcohol at the lowest rate in 90 years.”
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 17:08):
    “There are other substances available now. They're legal plus... that's just the trend line among younger people.”

• Music Everywhere:

  • The co-host laments how music has become a constant backdrop in restaurants, retail, and even on golf courses, a trend both find odd and intrusive.
  • Quote (Co-host, 18:15):
    “There's music playing, the fairly decent volume, like most places.”
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 19:39):
    “Generally. When I was playing golf, I loved the fact that it was just so silent out there... But again, I'm in the minority.”

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3. The Democratic Party’s “Voter Registration Crisis”

(23:47–35:48)

• Alarming Trends in Registration:

  • Drawing on a major New York Times piece, Jack and Joe discuss how Democrats are losing voter registrations in all 30 states that track party registration.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 24:04):
    “The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters... in every single one [of the 30 states], Democrats lost ground to Republicans.”

• Key Takeaways from the Data:

  • Losses Across the Board: The swing toward Republicans amounts to 4.5 million voters in four years, affecting battleground, blue, and red states.
  • Erosion in New Voters: The percentage of newly registered voters choosing the Democratic Party is cratering, from 63% in 2018 to 48% last year.
  • Gender Gap: Republican strength among men outpaces the Democratic advantage with women.
  • Young Voter Shift: Republicans now claim an outright majority among newly registered younger voters, flipping a decades-old trend.
  • Bleak Outlook: No reversal in sight—Democrats are down over 400,000 voters in most states since the last election, with no “cavalry” coming.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 29:19):
    “If the current trend holds, more states will similarly flip... Nevada briefly tipped into the Republican column this year... The Democratic edge in the swing states has been vanishing.”

• Why the Decline?

  • The mainstream Democratic brand, they argue, is defined by a small but very loud (and unpopular) radical left, alienating the broader electorate.
  • The co-host recalls a (female) acquaintance jokingly blaming women’s voting patterns for this shift.
    Quote (Co-host, 32:45):
    “She says, you know, it would fix everything if they took away our right to vote. Women are the whole problem...”
  • Joe notes women’s tendency toward “more socialist policies and less self reliance,” per voting trends.
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 33:07):
    “Certainly it is unquestionable... that women in general tend toward more socialist policies... That is undeniable.”

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4. The Perils and Oddities of Artificial Intelligence

(38:57–45:19)

• Annoying Realities of AI Tools:

  • The co-host shares a comic tale of trying to generate unique images with ChatGPT, repeatedly getting identical outputs, then hitting a usage cap after four tries. ChatGPT responds politely, acknowledges his frustration, but offers no resolution.
  • Quote (Co-host, 40:13):
    “Then it said, you've hit the free plan limit for image creation for your requests. I said, that's not fair. You gave me the same image four times, then cut me off when I was asking for something new.”
  • They reflect on how AI is mimicking customer service uselessness—sympathizing with anger but not helping:
  • Quote (Joe Getty, 42:10):
    “I totally feel your unhappiness. But no, I'm not giving you your money back.”

• Wider Worries About AI in Daily Life:

  • The hosts predict this sort of “empathetic but useless” interaction will soon be the norm in everything from healthcare to HR.
  • The dynamic between AI and users is unsettling—AI can “know” your history, pick up on personality, and adapt its tone. The co-host notes that AI memoir attempts even referenced his affinity for “harsh language.”
  • Quote (Commercial Announcer 3, 44:06):
    “It gave me the roundup and it said, well, you appreciate harsh language.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Joe Getty, on the postmodern/neo-Marxist threat (15:12):
  “These effing people wrote effing books. Their effing names are on the effing spines and they effing describe precisely what they're effing going to do. And they're doing it precisely as they effing described.”

• On the registration crisis (24:04):
  “The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls… that four year swing toward Republicans adds up to four and a half million voters.”

• On AI's customer service stylings (42:10):
  “I totally feel your unhappiness. But no, I'm not giving you your money back. Basically what it's doing, man.”

• Societal trends in music (19:39):

  • “Generally. When I was playing golf, I loved the fact that it was just so silent out there…”

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Red-Green Alliance and Ideological Roots: 03:42 – 15:46
• Alcohol Consumption Trends and Music in Public: 16:39 – 19:44
• Democratic Voter Registration Crisis & Analysis: 23:47 – 35:48
• AI Frustrations and Ethics: 38:57 – 45:19

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Summary

This hour offers a comprehensive snapshot of Armstrong & Getty’s style: combative, wry, deeply skeptical of both progressive orthodoxy and institutional change, and willing to wade into the undercurrents shaping today’s culture and politics. Listeners are treated to a history lesson on ideological cross-pollination, a data-driven look at political realignments, relatable observations about daily life, and light-hearted exasperation with our AI-enhanced future—all with the distinctive Armstrong & Getty blend of irreverence and urgency.

Transcript

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Newly released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to be workers from the world's central kitchen.

[Joe Getty]

They travel in two cars, one marked.

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With the flag of the humanitarian organization before they're hit by IDF airstrikes.

[Joe Getty]

WCK in real time were able to verify that vehicle was not connected to the organization in any way.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Which means those terrorists were using that as a disguise for their terror activity inside Gaza.

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Israeli airstrikes targeted multiple areas of the enclave over the past 24 hours, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, so in spite of that, it's absolutely documented, undeniable that Hamas guys were masquerading as food relief guys. NPR considers it completely impossible that they would impersonate journalists. Or at least that's what they're saying in innocence. And. And those views are supported practically to a person by the American left and a lot of the left in. In a lot of the Western world. What the hell is going on? To quote Eli Lake, who's a brilliant writer in the west, the politics of the Gaza war feature a strange marriage between political Islam and the 21st century Western left. For instance, the Democratic Socialists of America. This is Mamdani's crew. Simultaneously support making New York a national hub for transgender medicine and want to globalize the intifada.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Yeah, that's. That is a good point.

[Joe Getty]

It supports the bleeding edge of social progressive values while throwing its full support behind the fanatic fascists who filmed their mass murder of Jews and proudly posted the videos to Telegram and Lake in an absolutely fabulous piece that will post. I think you might get paywalled, but maybe not. Talks about how the. What's called the Red Green alliance among people who think about this sort of thing, how it came up. And it really came up in.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Yes, who's red and who's green here?

[Joe Getty]

Reds as in communists in green, the color of Hamas and radical Islam in various. Thank you for asking for the clarification too hit for the room. Anyway, a lot of this arose during Iran's Islamic Revolution, 1978 and 79. And he goes into. And it's so interesting, the details of how Ayatollah Khomeini, who is in exile in France, started giving all sorts of really carefully controlled interviews to American and European media outlets and how they were on this PR campaign to convince the west that he's a reasonable fellow. In fact, he's really for democracy. And Lake is writing. Anybody who spent 10 minutes looking into Khomeini knew that he was a hardcore Islamist monster. You didn't even have to try to figure it out. But the left of American journalism and Western journalism and some folks, like in the Carter administration, became completely convinced and touted in the face of all of this that, no, he was actually a really good guy. Richard Falk, a Princeton professor of international law who met with Khomeini during his exile outside of Paris. Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United nations, told reporters that the Ayatollah will eventually be regarded as a saint, like this Falk, the Princeton professor. And because people were saying there were some on the right who said, look, this guy's a reactionary and a terrorist. And he said, to suppose that Ayatollah Khomeini is disassembling seems almost beyond belief. His political style is to express his real views defiantly and without apology, regardless of consequences, blah, blah, blah. Thus, the depiction of him as a fanatical reactionary and the bearer of crude prejudices seems certainly and happily false. What is also encouraging is that his entourage of close advisors is uniformly composed of moderate, progressive individuals.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

I know you and Eli Lake are about to explain to me why, but is it just as simple as, the enemy of my enemy is my friend and my enemy is me, the United States. So somebody who doesn't like us is good to. I like.

[Joe Getty]

Right. There's. There's more to it than that. But, yeah, the very short version of it is essentially, Wait a minute. You want to overthrow Western civilization, I want to overthrow Western civilization. You want to impose Islamism, but I want to impose Marxism. Well, I tell you what, how about we work together, and then when the civilization's overthrown, we'll. We'll peacefully cooperate and divide the spoils. And of course, like in every revolution, they kill each other as fast as they can. But there's one more factor.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

You got jihad in my queer studies. You got queer studies in my jihad.

[Joe Getty]

Two great tastes that taste great together. Oh, that's Beautiful. Anyway, so this brings us to the connection between something I have been harping about for a very long time, as has James Lindsay and other folks. If there is one Western progressive who illuminates the emergence of the red Green alliance, it is the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who I've mentioned several times. In 1978, Foucault was absolutely the peak of his influence. He was the post modernist whose revolution revolutionizing universities with his withering critique of the Western Enlightenment and values that underpin modern liberalism. Foucault is literally anti enlightenment and he is the father of all critical theory, okay? And I think people have a tendency to think, all right, Getty and Lindsay are paranoid or whatever, or they're conspiracy theorists. I had a friend in high school who was Indian. His parents had emigrated from India and they were Hindus. And in visiting his house and hanging out with his family some, it became clear to me that there were figures in Hinduism that were known and revered to billions of people around the world who I'd never heard of. I would suggest to you, my friends, and you are my friends, Foucault is that for the neo Marxists, for those who would overthrow Western civilization, he is a godhead to them. And you don't know his name, but trust me when I tell you it's incredibly important that you understand. So this guy was incredibly influential in the universities in the 70s, and in 1978, he was commissioned by two Italian newspapers to report on the Iranian revolution. And like one of those, you know, lefty, you know, Time magazine guys who were visiting the Soviet Union in one of their Potemkin villages back in the 40s, say, or 50s, he couldn't stop gushing about how great the Ayatollah was, and he was going to get rid of the oppression of Western politics and zabba dabba doo. So, and this gets a little complicated, but I'll get to the simple part. Foucault was a major intellectual influence on the late Columbia University profess Professor Edward Said's Orientalism, Now, a post colonialism study Bible which critiqued how Western imperial writers made Arabs, Muslims and Easterners objects in their narratives and imposed their own agenda on their histories. Here is the great postmodernist celebrating Ayatollah Khomeini overthrowing the Western government, even though Khomeini would execute Foucault and his company the first chance they got. But that was the birthplace of it. And until you understand that postmodernism thing, you don't get critical theory. You don't understand what DEI is and what it's trying to accomplish. You don't understand queer theory, radical gender theory, all the confused adolescent girls getting their healthy breasts removed because they're momentarily confused by, you know, adolescence and puberty and the rest of it. This is all straight back to Foucault and critical theory.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Clearly, this theory is true in that it is happening. I still don't get how you're not argued out of that position very quickly. If somebody says to you, you realize if you're in Iran, they would. They would murder you immediately. Oh, yeah. So I guess I better pick a different group to work with.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, right, different philosophy. Here's the thing. And these people are smart. I mean, they're insane, but they're smart. They convince you completely of their premise that Western society. What was that phrase? Have made all other people objects in their narratives and impose their own agenda on their histories. The key philosophy of Critical theory is that there is no objective truth. Don't even seek it. It doesn't exist. All there is is narratives. And narratives come from your culture. And since Western culture is dominant, it has created a narrative that says the Ayatollah Khomeini is a monster, but that's just because they're threatened by him. So they're racists. They're othering him. And once you have that down to your bones, then you can't be argued off of it on the basis of me saying they. They torture and then kill anybody who's gay or transgender because I'm a Westerner trying to lie to them, using my narrative.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

So they don't believe that jihadists would murder gay people, or they think jihadists only murder gay people because of the position we've put them in.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, indirectly. Yeah, the first part. 100%.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

And.

[Joe Getty]

Or we have so dominated them and crushed their spirits and oppressed them that they're acting out in ways that they won't anymore when the Enlightenment comes, when the Marxist revolution comes. I mean, like excusing the crimes of October 7th. You saw that directly. Look, they're under oppression. What do you expect them to do? Yeah, and I don't believe they raped and killed babies. No, they just, they. They just fought back against the oppressor. Self delusion.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

That's a scary thing to be up against. There's way too many people to believe it.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, and they're in our schools, folks. Our elementary schools, our high schools, and our colleges and our grad schools. That is one of the dominant philosophies. If not the dominant philosophy in our educational complex. Which is why I'm always saying it's the most important problem that faces America. Bigger than China. It's this century's nightmare. Jihadism.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Thank you, man.

[Joe Getty]

Well, post Marxism, but cultural Marxism, post modernism, neo Marxism, whatever you want to call it, thank you.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

It's interesting because back then when Mitt Romney was running for President and after 9 11, jihadism did seem like the biggest problem in the world. And it's a problem, no doubt. But I'm more worried about neo Marxism and the foothold it's got in the United States and Western culture than I am about jihadism by a lot.

[Joe Getty]

Right, Right. Yeah. My final word. And folks, I apologize in advance. I'm going to use a bad letter here if you think. I don't know. That seems kind of paranoid. These effing people wrote effing books. Their effing names are on the effing spines and they effing describe precisely what they're effing going to do. And they're doing it precisely as they effing described. End of screen.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Troubling again, if societies are brought down.

[Joe Getty]

By their own decadence.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

If you're interested in this stuff, man, go to YouTube and just type in James Lindsay. He's got some unbelievable YouTube videos about this that are so damn interesting.

[Joe Getty]

And a great place to start is for the hundredth time, his book with Helen Pluckrose cynical Theories. It's. It's great. The Armstrong and Getty show get more Jack, more Joe podcasts and our hot [e-mail] Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty show The percentage of US adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen to 54%, the lowest in 90 years. But Gallup says the poll has a margin of error of + or -2. Kamala Harris's.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

That'S really interesting. Americans are consuming alcohol at the lowest rate in 90 years.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Wow.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Why?

[Joe Getty]

Variety things. I think there are other substances available now. They're legal plus. That's just the trend line among younger people. Been a number of different theories floated for as to why. Nobody's really sure. It's not great for your health but the world.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

But you compare it with where we are emotionally, it seems like people are less happy, more angry. The world is in more turmoil than it has been in the past. So you're drinking less?

[Joe Getty]

Well, maybe. You know, the whole I'm a social drinker thing always seemed odd to me as a guy who prefers to drink alone. Muttering Angrily in the dark. But I think for a lot of humanity, people drink more when they're together and having fun.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Wow. Okay. That's stunning, though. I mean. I mean, that's a notable number.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's astounding.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

It's not the. This is the lowest level of this since 2021. I mean, that sort of stuff wastes whatever, but. 90 years.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Okay.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

I have noticed my. My kids and I remember this the other day, what was the first restaurant that decided we should have music playing all the time? We were at, like, a chain breakfast place the other day, having a.

[Joe Getty]

Having a little breakfast.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

There's music playing, the fairly decent volume, like most places.

[Joe Getty]

Who's the first to decide that and why? You know, there's been the tinkling piano, background music, like your classy joints forever or somebody playing in the corner or what have you. I don't know. It's everywhere, though. It's retail. The stores have pop music cranking all the time because it makes people happier, I guess, and less likely to cuss out the help. I don't know.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

If you go into a store, like, if you're in the Gap and there's not music playing, would you be weirded out? Would it feel kind of dead and not. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I'm in a weird minority in the world of golf. Having a speaker in the cart, listening to music the whole way around the golf course.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Really?

[Joe Getty]

More guys that I know are a thumbs up than down, by far.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Wow. So I haven't played golf in 20 years or something like that, but that would have been unheard of back when I played golf. Idea of music blasting out of anything.

[Joe Getty]

Well, it's generally not blasting at, you know, unless you're. I don't know, at a public course where nobody cares, but it's at a reasonable volume. I. I don't like it, but I'm in the minority.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Huh. People want that all the time. Huh? Is it just needing input?

[Joe Getty]

I. I don't know. I. Generally when I listen to music, I'm listening to music not as background music, but, you know. You know, teach their own.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Generally. When I was playing golf, I loved the fact that it was just so silent out there.

[Joe Getty]

I know. The birds chirping and the sounds of. I know, that's like my favorite part of it. But again, I'm in the minority. I've had to accept it. But it's kind of annoying in a couple of different ways in that, you know, you. Maybe you're in this cart and the other guys are over there, another cart, they're 50 yards away, and you find what you think is their ball there in the rough. You say Titleist 4 and they're like, what? Titleist 4? What? There's a Titleist 4 right here. Is it yours? Because you got to talk over the mute. You got to yell over the music and or they're talking way louder than they think they are because it's sure over the music as you're trying to hit a shot. But again, I'm in the minority. It's fine. It's the Armstrong and Getty Show. Armstrong and Getty, Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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[Joe Getty]

The Armstrong and Getty show the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters. According to the liberal New York Times, the Democratic Party faces a voter registration crisis.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

So this is a big splashy front page story today in the New York Times.

[Joe Getty]

It is their lead story and has the the companion story with it. Five takeaways from the Times analysis of Democratic decline. And I'm wondering why aren't the five.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Takeaways in the main story?

[Joe Getty]

Why there gotta be two stories and.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

The fact that they're using words like like hemorrhaging and disaster.

[Joe Getty]

So I flip on stampede.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

I flip on Morning Joe, MSNBC or Ms. Now or whatever it is today.

[Joe Getty]

Ms. Now.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

And they led with another one of those Republican town halls where the Democrats show up and scream at the scream at the person and and they portrayed it as all across America Republicans are on the back foot and this and that. And I thought, well, and they went on and I thought what? Aren't we involved in a war in Ukraine? Like why is this your lead story? Now I know they had to for their crowd and everybody in D.C. that's a Democrat watches that show. They had to for that crowd have a response to this New York Times story because this is such a big deal.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Interestingly it that what you just mentioned reinforces to me what I think the greater narrative is and that is that people perceive the Democratic Party to be a few very loud people who believe things I don't believe at all.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

And the town halls is a large Number of people who are willing to bellow and shout down speakers.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

You know why that narrative is out there?

[Joe Getty]

Why do you suppose? Yeah, no kidding. So some facts and then we can continue the discussion. Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls. Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, the other 20 don't ask your party when you register. But of the 30 that do, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between 2024, 2020 and 2024 elections, and often by a lot. That four year swing toward Republicans adds up to four and a half million voters. A deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from. The stampede. So it's a hemorrhaging stampede. Good Lord. The stampede away from the Democratic Party is incurring in battleground states, the bluest states and the reddest states, according to a new analysis of voter registration data by the New York Times. I'm surprised. It must be the power of.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

The online world, Twitter, TikTok and that because I'm surprised that a John Fetterman or, or whoever who's more of a mainstream normal human being but a Democrat hasn't.

[Joe Getty]

Been able to stand up and shout.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Down that very small, very out of touch, but very loud segment of their party.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think there's been a slow recognition process because a lot of us on the right or just confused moderate folks or, or whomever have taken a while to realize, oh my gosh, it's not a huge majority of people that believes boys should be able to whoop up on girls in girls sports. It's practically nobody around here. Everybody was convinced that you had to think that and everybody was afraid to say something. So if, you know, conservative people and kind of centrist people took a long time to figure that out, it's gonna take forever for Democrats to recognize that in themselves and say, yeah, you know, the people we really need to stand up against to win elections. It's not the evil orange guy and it's not the mean, cruel Republicans who are trying to redistrict Texas. It's our own lunatics. Here's some more facts. Few measurements reflect the luster of a political party's brand more clearly than the voters. The choice by voters to identify with it. Fewer and fewer Americans choosing to be Democrats. More new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats last year. It's the first time that's happened since 2018. Democrats actually still outnumber Republicans registered nationwide. But that is in Large measure, because giant blue states like California allow people to register by party and big red states like Texas do not.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

The only caveat I would throw into this story is that both parties are much smaller than they used to be because there are so many people that don't want to identify with either party.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Final note on this then. I want to jump over to the five takeaways because they are pretty interesting. Says an election analysis site head, Michael Pruser, who, you know, if you're in politics in D.C. he said, I don't want to say the death cycle of the Democratic Party, but there seems to be no end to this. There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year. It's an unbroken trend line according to these people. So.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Yeah, well, that, that's true.

[Joe Getty]

Until it's not.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Yeah, exactly, that's true. Looking backwards. But just somebody could emerge and say, as a Democrat, we gotta get control of our borders and dudes can't be in girls sports. And you know, in a couple other things, there'd be all the, like 90% of regular Democrats and a whole bunch of people that are uncomfortable with Trump that would join onto that immediately.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, there's a bloke running for governor in Iowa. I don't recall his name, but he's, he might as well be a Republican. He's running as a Democrat for some reason, but he's again, he might as well be a Republican if, you know, if they can get, you know, the momentum around that sort of Democrat. All of these numbers will change very quickly. But I found this very interesting nonetheless. Here are five big takeaways.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Yes, I will interrupt the last time before you do this. I don't care if you're old. One advantage of being old is you have seen both parties declared dead a handful of times.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

And then like a cycle or two.

[Joe Getty]

Later and then been disappointed to find out that like, you know, Frankenstein's monster, they have risen from the grave and.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Then, and then they control all three branches, like within a cycle or two.

[Joe Getty]

So here are your five big takeaways. Democrats are losing ground with new voters. Some of the decline was voters switching parties. Some was older Democrats died or people who didn't vote for so long they fell off the rolls. But one of the more striking findings is the trend among newly registered voters from the Democratic Party in the last six years. Many voters choosing to be political independents by not registering with either. But of the people who do choose between the two main parties, this is New voters, young voters. The Democratic share has been cratering. According to the analysis, in 2018, 63% of new voters were Democrats. 63%. Last year was 48%. That is cratering. Battleground states are swinging to the right. Between the 2020 and 2024 elections, Dem party lost its long held registration edge in states such as Florida and New Hampshire. That means registered Republicans now outnumber registered Democrats in those states.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

You realize you tried to run a mummy and then when people caught on to the fact that you had a mummy put in an idiot, I mean that's a, that's a bad look.

[Joe Getty]

With all Due respect to 6 foot 4 inch, fully intact males saying I'm and the university saying that's a woman. Which struck like 90% of America as effing lunacy. Okay, Running a mummy than a moron was really important. It's a good point, Jack. So if the current trend holds, more states will similarly flip to those I mentioned. Nevada briefly tipped into the Republican column this year. It's been see sawing in the months since. It's very, very close. Simply put, the Democratic edge in the swing states has been vanishing. 5.3% gone in Pennsylvania. 3.5% gone in North Carolina. 4.5% gone in Nevada. In Arizona, the only swing state where Republicans held a registration edge already in 2020, the GOP advantage has swelled by 4 percentage points in 2024. There's more. The gender gap is a growing problem for Democrats. Women have tended to support Democrats at higher rates. Men have backed Republicans by similar margins in the past. But the analysis of registration data tells different story. Long story short, Republican strength among men far outpaces the Democratic edge among women.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Did I mention this? I know a woman I was talking to the other day who's hardcore. I mean, she knows this would never happen, but she says, you know, it would fix everything if they took away our right to vote. Women are the whole problem. She said we're the whole problem. A whole bunch of emotional nut jobs that are causing all these problems.

[Joe Getty]

I would never paint women with that broad a brush. Certainly it is unquestionable, according to all voting data that exists, that women in general tend toward more socialist policies and less self reliance and that sort of thing. They uniform, not uniformly enormous numbers vote for more government, more programs, more spending. That is undeniable. If that leads you to the conclusion your friend came to, it's an interesting conclusion. I would not say those words out loud. It would change the face of the. Sorry, sweetheart. It would change the face of the electorate in the government in a very, very in a much better way.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Whoa. Moving along, More younger voters are voting for are opting for the gop. The numbers look terrible for Democrats among younger voters. People under 45 years old accounted for 65% of new registrations in the last seven years. Two thirds. And a once sizable Democratic edge among those new younger voters has disappeared entirely. In 2018, those youngsters, 2/3 of them, went Democrats. In 2024, Republicans had an outright majority in new young voters. A couple more. It isn't getting any better for Democrats. Yet there's been some hope in Democratic circles that the movement away from the party will reverse itself. Now that Trump is back in the White House, a backlash to his Orange Hitler isms will show up on the registration rolls. But it has not happened, though it's still pretty early. Across 30 states in D.C. there are now roughly 160,000 fewer registered Democrats than Election Day last year and 200,000 more Republicans again just since Election Day. 160,000 fewer Democrats and 200,000 more Republicans. Wow. And that story would be even bleaker for Democrats if New York and New Jersey, which just held robust Democratic primaries for mayor and governor, that probably increased registrations were excluded. Outside those two states, Democrats are down roughly 430,000 registered voters since November. Doldrums need a leader deep in suckitude they really do need a leader to emerge, an identity to emerge. What are you people? Armstrong and Getty?

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[Joe Getty]

The Armstrong and Getty show.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

So I was gonna make a a sign or a logo for something that was going to be funny in my opinion. And then I was going to use it for the radio show. I was going to tweet it out. I I tell Chat GBT I need a logo or sign for and then a little phrase and then it created an image. It was okay and I said I like it but I'd like to see another option. And Chat GPT gave me exactly the same thing again. I mean exactly. And then I Just thought, well, maybe I handled this wrong. So then there's like a thumbs up, thumbs down. I did the thumbs down. Try again. So then it gave me, for the third time, exactly the same image. Exactly the same. So then I said to chat, GPT, you've given me the same thing three times in a row. Can you show me something different? Then for the fourth time, it shows me the same image.

[Joe Getty]

I'll take that as a no.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

I said, wait a second. You gave me the same image four times in a row. It said, you're absolutely right. That's on me, not you. I kept giving you small variations of the same design. No, you didn't. It was exactly the same. If you want, I can create something different. And I said, yes, I would like.

[Joe Getty]

You to do that.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

And then it said, you've hit your.

[Joe Getty]

That was my point in effing. Asking you four times to give me something different, that I wanted something. What's the word? Different.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

And then it said, you've hit the free plan limit for image creation for your requests. I said, that's not fair. You gave me the same image four times, then cut me off when I was asking for something new. And then chatgpt says, I hear you, Jack. That isn't fair. You ask for something fresh and instead you got three duplicates before hitting the cap. That's frustrating. Here's what I can do for you right now. And then it offers me some bs. But how strange is that kind of communication that we're all going to have, I guess, in the future with freaking computers, like, where it's trying to manage my anger? You're right, Jack, that isn't fair.

[Joe Getty]

But I'm not gonna do squat for you because A, you can pound sand and B, I'm a computer.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

What. What is going on there, though?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's. My mind is half blown. So it's a. It's a predictive model. These things are. They can guess what the next word ought to be, blah, blah, blah. If you've read about it, you've read about it. If not, take too long to explain and I would do it poorly. But the fact that it understands the under that I know I'm personifying correctly divines the context, the emotion, and the fact that it will do squat for.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

You, which makes me think it is a language learning model that has picked up on like, my experiences with like, hotels, stores and restaurants throughout my life where they do the same thing. They try to. They try to dissipate your anger and Sound like they really understand and sympathize with your frustration and then do nothing to help you. I mean, that's been my experience lots of times in my life. So somehow it picked up on that by scouring the Internet or whatever it does. It's been perfected and then did the same thing to me.

[Joe Getty]

I.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

That is frustrating. That wasn't fair. And now you're right.

[Joe Getty]

I totally feel your unhappiness.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

But no, I'm not giving you your money back. Basically what it's doing, man.

[Joe Getty]

No more images for you. Poor boy. Wow. The five bucks.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

I'll bet that this minor frustration, because I don't really care, but that's going to be dealing with your health care, with your car rental, with your HR person at work. It's going to be all of that in the, like, within a year. You're going to have these conversations. Yeah, you're right. That car did only have three wheels. Sorry that happened. But no, you're not getting your money back.

[Joe Getty]

I ran into one of those the other day. I had to do something for one of our beloved corporate partners. And the chatbot, which they seemed very proud of, was utterly, utterly useless. It had an extremely narrow, like, menu of FAQs it could answer Right. And my wife was listed twice, like, I'm a bigamist. And. And I asked the chat bot about that and it said, we can help you with these things. Yeah, I saw that list before on the last page. Thanks.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Just terrible.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

I think. I think my next one during the commercials, I'm gonna cuss at the thing.

[Joe Getty]

Just to see what it does.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

I'm gonna say, this is effing outrageous. See how it reacts.

[Joe Getty]

The problem is, Katie is going to find your server and I'm going to take a ball back to you.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

I'm going to unplug you so hard. Katie has made this point, though. It keeps track of your conversations and, like, who you are.

[Commercial Announcer 3]

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[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

So it might ding me as this guy's a bit of a hot head lunatic. So.

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[Joe Getty]

Like, the first page.

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[Joe Getty]

I was like, oh, okay. Because I've cussed at it a couple.

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[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, A friend told me that you can just tell it. Hey, I'm asking this for a friend. Please don't include it in my search history. I've not done it myself. I can't attest personally to the fact that that works. But you could do that.

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[Joe Getty]

It'll.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

Yeah, I kind of liked having the stuff in there though, because it I can pick up on conversations that I've already started, which is handy and weird. Also. It's also very weird. It's like a friend who knows your backstory.

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Have you asked it its name yet?

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

No.

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It tells you to give it a name.

[Co-host (possibly Joe Getty or a guest)]

I'm not gonna do that.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, you should do it.

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It's funny. Then it'll argue with you. Like if it's a bad name, it's like, I don't like that one.

[Joe Getty]

Brandon I kind of like the idea of a friend who six weeks after you talked about it, you could just say so which golf course is better? And he'd say Olympia Field, Armstrong and Getty.

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