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This is Matt Rogers from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. So there's my at home voice and my podcast voice. My podcast voice is like a leveled up version of me. Kind of like the new DiGiorno wood fired style crust pizza with a leveled up crispy yet perfectly airy crust. Now that DiGiorno has new wood fired style crust pizzas, I might start doing the show from home. DiGiorno is dropping a new crust and four topping varieties. Premium pepperoni, suprem, Italian meat trio and four cheese. I'll have all four. You've never had pizza like this at home. It's restaurant quality pizza without all the other restaurant stuff. The new digiorno wood fired style crust pizza, it's not delivery, it's digiorno.
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Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show.
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I had an incredible time at this.
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Year'S iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo.
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And Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together?
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Diplo?
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I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour.
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You're about to jump in your tour.
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Bus and we had like three hours.
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It was really cool. He literally just, just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay, you can.
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Listen to the full episode out now.
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Wherever you get your podcasts and big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade hybrid. Ah, come on. Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Yeti.
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Johan Mandami needs to be condemned for.
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Embracing a supporter of terrorism. Oh, I think it's a shame that that particular man is endorsing him and very friendly with him. You can see there's a relationship. That was Curtis Sliwa, who ought to get out of the race for New York governor. I'm sorry, New York Mayor and Donald J. Trump talking about the that Mumdani is buds with and posed for pictures with and appeared with a imam in New York City who was an unindicted co conspirator in the first World Trade center bombing.
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And why was Mom Donnie hanging around the guy?
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This is Imam, I think. What? Yeah, yeah. And he says, look, other politicians have met with this guy. He's a super influential imam in New York and we'll tell you more about him. But as the Free Press wrote it, less than 24 hours after spending much of a televised New York City mayoral debate fending off questions about Hamas and equivocating and refusing to condemn them. Front runners, Iran. Mandani told a small group in Brooklyn how he really felt. Quote, when I stand on that stage, he said before an all male crowd dressed in caftans and skull caps, quote, I have a former governor trying to make me feel ashamed for standing up for universal rights and extending them to Palestinians as well. I know I'm not alone. The crowd erupted. Allah Akbar.
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Allah Akbar.
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Men shouted gleefully in the video of the speech. Let's go to 50. Eric Shawn of Fox News telling us about the story. It was the first attack by radical Islamic terrorists against the world Trade Center. February 1993, a bomb explodes, killing six people and injuring 1,000. The infamous blind Sheikh Abdel Rahman and his Islamic terrorist cell carried it out. And Morasso charged, are plotting to blow up New York City tunnels and buildings. At his trial, the man seen here on the right standing next to a smiling New York mayoral frontrunner, Zoran Mamdani, testified as a defense witness at Rahman's trial and praised him. He is Imam Shiraj Wahaj, whom Abdani refuses to renounce despite calls to do so. Here are a handful of clips of the imam through the years. This is his preaching in New York. We'll start with 55. Michael, go from there because your weapon to use any force of Israel. Okay, that was hard to hear. He said, get involved in politics, not because it's the Americans thing to do. Get involved in politics because it can be a weapon for Islam.
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All right, next one.
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You want to defend this country? You know what this country is? It's a garbage can.
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Filthy.
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Filthy and sick. Who that?
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That same guy?
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Same guy, yeah. Here's the third example. It would go to school and they'll put American flag in front of these little babies. Muslim babies. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands. You got to pledge allegiance to Islam.
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So how did. I don't remember. How did Barack Obama handle it when the Reverend Wright stuff broke? Which is kind in the same vein.
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He very skillfully said, I didn't hear anything like that. No, he never said anything like that when I was there. And that was demonstrably false. But with the aid of, like, the entirety of the mainstream media, it just kind of went away.
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Why doesn't moderate voters. Why doesn't Mum Donnie renounce this dude? Donuts.
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It's his imam. I don't know. It's okay to lie to advance the cause of Islam, so I'm surprised he doesn't but alienate some of his voters.
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He doesn't need the Muslim vote to win, though, and not in New York to be mayor, I don't think. Yeah, I don't know. I guess what I'm angling at is he just. Does he just so hardcore believe the same stuff? I mean, that they doesn't want to.
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Yeah, I. I suspect so, yeah. Like, is he absolutely a supporter of Hamas? Mumdani is a supporter of Hamas. It's undeniable. Wow.
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That's worse than being a communist.
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Yeah. I mean, because he's had a hundred opportunities to say, we need good, moderate leadership in the Palestinian territories to lead them to a brighter future. No, he says, I refuse to condemn Hamas, so I condemn the settler colonialist genocide.
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A very interesting aspect of the New York mayoral race happened yesterday. If you've been paying attention to this. If you haven't been paying attention to this, a communist Islamist is going to be the next mayor of New York and he's like 33 years old.
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Just a very quick note, who during his earlier career just a few years ago as a rapper released a song in which he praised the so called Holy Land five, which were five radical Muslims who killed an American teenager when he was visiting Jerusalem.
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He's never had a job, although that was our knock against Fetterman and Fetterman's turned out to be one of my favorite senators. So that alone is not enough to disqualify. I think I can just lean on being a communist Islamist. I don't have to get into the work history. But an interesting thing happened yesterday. So you got a multi person race there. It's Mamdani the communist leading by a lot over Andrew Cuomo the groper, corrupt, lying, poor judgment, elderly political hack and I love you. And then this Curtis Sliwa guy who runs for mayor every election and has for decades and gets like a tiny percentage of the, the, the vote. But there's been a lot of push to try to get Sleepwood to get out of the race because if he got it down to a two men race, there was a poll that came out over the weekend that had it within five points. If he, if Sliwa got out, it's an outlier of a poll. I, I, I, I don't think that's going to hold up. But anyway, then yesterday, after that poll comes out yesterday, an oppo dump on Curtis Sliwa came out that was just amazing. I mean about everything he's ever done in his life that some of the various story he's had, he's had over the years about getting robbed and having to fight the robber and stuff like that were bogus or he's got, he's been married four times so they got into some of his messy divorces. All this stuff came out yesterday and, and a guy who said, look, I like you Curtis, personally I like you, but there's more of this and you need to get out of the race for the, for the best of New York City.
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So there was like a big fundraiser I think who, who he was tied to. Yeah.
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So it's basically even his friends are saying, look, I've supported you all these years but we know a lot about your past. We're just going to keep coming with the oppo until you got to get out because we got to save New York from this communist again. So that Andrew Cuomo couldn't be the mayor. What a terrible state of things.
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Wow.
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But how about that? That's how ugly politics can get. Or maybe it shows you how, how much powerful people, even Democrats, are saying, we can't have a communist Islamist as a mayor.
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Right, right. And then there's the question of. I have at times advocated the point of view that this is actually, it will be good because his policies will be such flaming disasters that even the young might be forced to recognize that socialism is horrible. It achieves the opposite of what you think it's going to, and he's an Islamist, and it'll all get exposed, and that'll be good in long run. Wall Street Journal is making the point today that that damage that it will do to New York City is bad for the economy, it's bad for the country. But, you know, it's like, you know, I was rooting for the Mariners last night. What I root for didn't have much of an effect on the game. So we'll just have to watch this unfold. Donnie is absolutely everything he is accused of being and more. He has deliberately, falsely obscured and softened his positions during this race. Wait till his true colors come out.
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That's an excellent point. Apple research is always so interesting to me because people hold it back often and, you know, depending on your lifestyle, you have a little or a lot of it in your past. And this Curtis Lei has been running for mayor forever, and none of this stuff had come out. It's because he was a. He was, you know, he was that third party guy that was going to get 5% that didn't have anything to do with who was going to win it.
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Now, that third party being Republicans, by the way, the.
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The fact that this race, you know, is what it is, all of a sudden they. They unleash this stuff and say out loud. It didn't even say it quietly. Say it out loud. There's more. There's more, man. So why don't you do the right thing? Don't make us do it. And I wonder how much of it he was thinking, whoa, you guys knew that.
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How long since me and my dog in the room, How'd you know that?
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Or, you know, me and my wife on my third divorce, or the time he got robbed and beat up and then it was phony. That's something. They're going to Smollett him, so that'll be exciting. He. He today, this morning said he's not going anywhere. So the next round of Apple Research.
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Is going to come out.
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That'll be exciting. Maybe he just doesn't care. He's an old guy now. He's got a young hot wife, so didn't wipe him before.
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Oppo research against Mandami the commie is coming out as well. Will it sway enough New Yorkers? We'll have to see.
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It is amazing. As you said. This is the moderating general election, Mamdani. Wait till he wins by 20 points and we see what he has to say.
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You know, the rest of that Wall Street Journal piece that I referenced pointed out that you remember how when all the Democrats, especially in 2016, like, promoted Trump and tried to run down his competition because they thought Trump would be super easy to beat, they really wanted him to run. Happened again in 2020 as well. You remember how that ended, right? Well, the Journal says the country needs a sane and centrist Democratic Party as an alternative to the GOP in the post Trump era. And they're making the point. If you're a patriot more than a partisan, don't be like helping the Mamdanis of the world get ahead to discredit the Democratic Party. We are much better off as a country of, you know, snuffing out that sort of politics and teaching the kids how awful it is. Because sooner or later, even if the Democratic Party goes crazy, something will happen and the folks will decide, all right, we gotta switch off the Republicans for a while. At least a while. And if that alternative is Mumdani types, God help us.
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So otters are rising up against us and cameras and toilets are becoming a thing. Both stories we need to cover.
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Coming up Armstrong and Getty.
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This is Matt Rogers from Los Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. So there's my at home voice and my podcast voice, which I'm using right now. My podcast voice, as you can hear, is like a leveled up version of me. Kind of like the new Digiorno wood fired style cr, the fresh from home pizza you've always loved but now. Wow. With a leveled up, crispy yet perfectly airy crust. Besides being in front of this mic to chat with you, our readers, my favorite place to be is at home. And now that DiGiorno has new wood fired style crust pizzas, I might start doing the show from home more often. Digiorno is dropping a new crust and four topping varieties, Premium Pepperoni Supreme Speciale, Italian Meat Trio and four cheese. Oh my God, these sound so good. I may need to excuse myself now and go make one right at this moment. You've never had pizza like this at home. It's restaurant quality pizza without all the other restaurant stuff. Not having to deal with all the restaurant BS is heaven really. With premium cheese and all the best toppings encased in a wood fired style crust. My night in just leveled up the new Digiorno wood fired style crust pizza. It's not delivery, it's Digiorno.
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They're flagging you down. There's a surfer in the water, was bit by an otter. We're in route.
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All of a sudden I feel this.
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Like nip on my foot and I'm.
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Like, okay, that's not good. Roll over, roll off my board. Look behind me, there's an otter on my board and there's another surfer nearby.
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And I'm like, hey, can you like help me out?
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Like there's.
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They got bitten on my foot and like there's an otter on my board.
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Otters are so dang cute. I don't want to take a chunk out of me though. It is a wild animal. If you've never been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and watch the otters do their thing or taking your kids, man, you gotta. It is fantastic until they turn on you. Turn. They turn on you and start eating.
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You and steal your. Your surfboard, right?
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So the otters are rising up against us. That seems like a problem. We' eye on it.
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Here's my favorite quote from the article from the the surfer, the cute surfer girl. I'd call it an exploratory nip. It didn't puncture my skin or anything. Okay, the old exploratory nip.
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I've practiced that a few times myself.
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Please. It's magic.
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This next story is horrifying. The popularity of cameras in toilets. Okay, here's the commercial for the product.
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Introducing Dakota by Kohler Health. Dakota translates your body's signals into real time insights, helping you decode your body's cues. Dakota uses advanced spectroscopy sensors to seamlessly analyze what your body leaves behind. Its sleek self clamping design blends seamlessly into any bathroom. Paired with the Kohler Health, apparently Dakota delivers personalized health scores to help build lasting healthy habits. It's everything your body's been trying to tell you.
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Decoded.
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That's a lot of fancy words for I'm gonna look at your crap.
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Accurate translation indeed. The $600 Dakota, not like the state. It's spelled differently. Clamps over the rim like a toilet bowl cleaner. Pointing an optical sensor at your excretions and secretions.
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Optical sensor. Is that a camera? I don't know if I want a camera pointed at my least flattering angle.
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And then analyzes the images.
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I don't look good from that angle.
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It then analyzes the images to detect any blood as well as analyze your gut health and hydration status. But what's better? Not only is it 600, there's a subscription fee of between $70 and $156 per year, depending on the plan you choose. Well, let's max out. I mean, come on. I want the full plan where you get one 8 by 10, a bunch of wallet sized and a couple of 4 by 6.
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But like with the high school photos, I want a little retouching.
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I want.
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I want the images to look better than they really are.
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Yeah, yeah. At toilet time, you sign in via fingerprint sensor so the device knows who's using the facilities.
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Oh great though. So the whole family gets a. Oh.
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Yeah, gets in on the fun.
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Katie has said nothing. She's just only shaking her head at this story.
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What is there to say? It's an important step toward greater health. That's what's to say.
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And then how hackable is it? This thing before you know, funny memes are made with videos of my beautiful.
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But then you check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time. Let's see it clamps out.
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Does it?
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So do I. Secures your data via the aforementioned fingerprint scanner and end end encryption.
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And then.
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And notes that the camera uses discrete optics. Looking only at the results, not your body parts.
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Oh, okay.
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Dakota sensors see down into your turlet. Nowhere else.
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The company says that's what they claim.
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Yeah, yeah. It works best with light toilet colors, by the way, who doesn't want to.
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Sit down on a toilet with a camera pointing right up at them?
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That reminds me, speaking of dark toilet colors, one of my favorite odd days I ever spent, I used to hang out at a winery in Napa that no longer exists, unfortunately. They made wonderful wine and while I was there, they said, do you want to see the Joe DiMaggio toilet? And I said yes, yes I would. And they explained to me that Joe DiMaggio used to hang out this winery and he openly admired their black toilet. This is back in the 70s, you know, jet black. And that was his favorite toilet to go to when he was at the winery. Did you kept the black toilet?
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Did you use the Joe DiMaggio toilet?
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I'm not saying Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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This is Matt Rogers from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. So there's my at home voice and my podcast voice, which I'm using right now. My podcast voice, as you can hear, is like a leveled up version of me. Kind of like the new DiGiorno wood fired style crust pizza. The fresh from home pizza you've always loved but now wow with a leveled up crispy yet perfectly airy crust. Besides being in front of this mic to chat with you, our readers, my favorite place to be is at home. And now that DiGiorno has new wood fired style crust pizzas, I might start doing the show from home more often. Digiorno is Dr. New crust and four topping varieties, Premium Pepperoni Supreme Speciale, Italian Meat Trio and four Cheese. Oh my God these sound so good. I may need to excuse myself now and go make one right at this moment. You've never had pizza like this at home. It's restaurant quality pizza without all the other restaurant stuff. Not having to deal with all the restaurant BS is heaven really. With premium cheese and all the best toppings encased in a wood fired style crust, my night in just leveled up the new Digiorno Wood Fired Style crust pizza. It's not delivery, it's DiGiorno.
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The mayor of a town in South Carolina recently caught a loose spider monkey by enticing it with a hot cup of coffee.
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Wow.
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Imagine living in a town with so many loose spider monkeys that you know how they take their coffee.
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Do you drink a short cup or a long cup? As I mentioned earlier, I'm buying an expensive coffee machine and I was watching videos about it and apparently that's the way you talk about coffee and I refuse to. It's a. I would like a long coffee if you, if you enjoy shorter coffees. You mean small?
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Yeah, it's small or large, but they.
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Like sing long or short for some reason.
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All right, whatever. Yeah, I, I remember when I was first ordering gin and tonics. Tank Ray, please. Although several others will do. They would say, would you like that to tall or a regular glass? I'm like, are you asking me if I want like a big one or what? Or is it just the shape of the glass? The hell do I care? Bring it to me in a sphere.
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I don't care if you're pulling a long shot. You want to do this? What do my fine.
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Doing what?
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We have breaking news which I would use.
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I've got one more monkey note if I might playing golf the other day with a guy I hadn't played with and a good buddy of mine and he starts telling us about his son had a finger monkey and and how he used to bring it to bars and ask girls if they wanted to see his finger monkey. Okay, I don't this tiny little monkey.
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Is this a setup to a joke?
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Well, that's what we thought. We just kept waiting for the. The punchline. And then he finished his description and we went off and hit a shot or something. We're like, wait a minute. Tiny finger monkeys.
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Is this.
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When's the punchline?
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It sounds like it's going to be like when guys unzip their pants and stick their hands down there and then their fingers out the. That's what it sounds like. You want to see my finger?
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Why would you reference something that crashed? I was about to say how cute these things are, and then Jack went there. So these things are adorable. I want one. They are teeny little South American monkeys.
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Okay.
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This guy's son bought one for like a thousand dollars.
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Like, how small are they?
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Well, the one I'm looking at is.
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You know, it's like the size of.
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A Barbie doll or bigger. Four to five inches long, Shorter than a Barbie dollar two inches across. Yeah.
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They can wrap around your finger and bite the hell out of it, I'll bet.
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Titties. Titties. What? T I t I s. Show me your.
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What? What is it?
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Well, and then you break out this little monkey. Small or arboreal, New World monkeys, known for their long, non prehensile tails and strong family bonds found in Latin America. Many different colors. They're highly vocal, often engaging in duets, and are monogamous with pairs often resting with their tails. Yeah.
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Intertwined. Yeah. Singing duets. I didn't know about the finger monkeys. Wow. Okay. How come I've never heard of this? It seems like I would have come across somebody who owned one of these monkeys. I've known people who had ferrets and parrots and all kinds of different animals, but not a finger monkey.
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Yeah. Yeah. And we got done with the round of golf and still didn't know if the guy was putting us on. So we both went home and looked it up. Sure enough, it exists in other monkey news. Wait, there is no more monkey news. Back to you.
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So I would use the breaking news sounder here if it weren't tmz because I don't know how reliable TMZ is, although they're usually pretty reliable. According to tmz, Donald Trump is considering commuting Diddy's sentence as early as this week, according to a high ranking White House official.
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Oh, for God's sake.
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According to our source, TMZ says the President is vacillating on the commutation that some of the White House staff did.
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He was vacillating. He is vacillating. Back to you.
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Some of the White House staff are urging Trump not to commute the sentence. I'm sure they are saying, dude, do not do this.
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But our sources.
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But our sources state the obvious. Trump will do what he wants. And we're told Trump could set Diddy free as early this week.
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Did you see Trump's reasoning for commuting the sentence of George Santos because he voted Republican every time? Ah, no, no, no. Furthermore. No.
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Why would he commute Diddy? Would, would Mark, he's a celebrity because he's black. And that would. The black community would like that.
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Would they think it's that well thought out?
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Mark Halpern writes next up, shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. Yeah, I would say you're getting closer every time to testing that theory. Why in the world would you let Diddy out? The only reaction people had from the Diddy sentencing was, that's all I ever heard. Anybody that even leaned close toward he didn't need that much or more time in prison.
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Between Biden's horrifying abuse of the pardon power and what Trump's doing, we may have to come up with a solution to this. Well, maybe it's not too much.
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Maybe it's not true. I hope it's not true. I really hope he doesn't do that.
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Well, how about the, the rumors that he's considering pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, right. Jeffrey Epstein's rapey buddy. I don't know.
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They ran in the same social circle.
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All right, let's hope it's not true. So this is interesting. I'm told they're making a big deal of this on the lefty channels that the, the, the President, his new ballroom, that's going to be part of the White House. They've knocked down one of the exterior walls of the White House to begin, you know, sewing the new structure onto it. And people are sending around pictures saying, oh, my God, this is so disturbing.
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Well, they were going crazy on MSNBC this morning on Joe Scarborough.
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Really?
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That's what they led with. One of the most historic buildings on planet Earth. One of the best known ancient historic buildings on planet Earth is being portions of it destroyed for Trump's pie in the sky. Ridiculous. Wanting a ballroom thing. That's their.
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Are these the same people who laughed at the idea of the Space Force?
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I didn't. So I haven't looked into this story at all. So I didn't know, you know, if they're knocking down a wall that has been there for 150 years, I wouldn't think that was cool.
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First of All. I'll get there. Senator Tina Smith from Minnesota. And if I'd made that name up, how many of you would know?
C
Yeah, no kidding.
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Senator Tina Smith said online seeing the White House torn apart is really emblematic of the times we're in now.
C
Right. Has a little too obvious.
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And the White House communications director, Stephen Chung replied. Construction's always been part of the evolution of the White House. The building has been altered and added onto many, many times.
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I understand. But there, there are parts of it that I would think, you know, if Teddy Roosevelt stood there, do we need to knock it down?
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Well, he made the Oval Office a square. It's easier to paint anyway. No, it's just adding on a bigger ballroom than the East Room, which a lot of live events are currently held. It has enough space for 200 seats if you cram everybody in there. And Trump wanted a big ballroom with the capacity for more than 650 seats. And so using private donations, they are adding on a 90,000 square foot ballroom to the White House.
C
What hasn't answered the question. Are they knocking down like ancient parts of the White House that have been there forever?
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I have no idea. What, just like a wall.
C
I don't want that. I don't like the idea of altering these historic buildings. You can't have it, but keep the wall or have it separate or something.
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Through a short passageway or something.
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I do know, I know people who live in historic houses. You would never be able to do this.
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Oh, no, no, no. If they're on the historical register or whatever of your state or your county or.
C
Not a chance they would let you do that.
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Right? Yeah. Yeah. You know, that's an interesting point. You could have just had like a little breezeway or something to the ballroom. I'm not altered the footprint of the building. Now, the main footprint of the White House is the same as it's always been. The east and west wings are separate from it. And this is adding on to the east wing, if that helps you.
C
I don't know anything about when they built the east wing or West Wing or any of that stuff, but yeah.
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Okay, well. And it's a hell of a bold move, I'll give you that.
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It is.
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He's a bold guy.
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No kidding. As of things that I've got to concern myself with today, it does not make the list. I mean, we got finger monkeys on the loose, but.
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Right. As far as threats to the empire go, no, I don't think a bigger ballroom is that big a deal. Oh, that's Right. I had more. Wait a minute. This is interesting, but could any president.
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Come along and just decide, you know, what we need is a go kart track?
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Track, I don't know exactly. They'd have to pay for it themselves. Right, but turn the South Lawn into a go kart track. That'd be fun. And totally different topic. Political as well, though it's very interesting, the James Comey thing. That Comey is deliberately turning the case against him into a circus. So many partisan thing.
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I will not live on my knees and neither should you. I am innocent. Let's have a trial.
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Right, Exactly. I should have warned you, Michael, so you could get our absolutely suffocatingly, hilariously self righteous Comey clips in order. But feel free to drop them in as you like. So as this legal commentator puts it, out of 1.3 million lawyers in the United States, he somehow ended up with the only two who are personally and deeply entangled in the conduct at issue. Couple of guys by the name of Michael Dreben and Patrick Fitzgerald. Dreeben was on Fitzpatrick. Old unfortunate joke. Oh, let's see. Dream has a huge conflict because he was on the Mueller special counsel team, which only exists because of the leaks at the center of the case against Comey. Fitzgerald. Maybe even worse. Some of the leaks ran through him, which makes him a witness, an active participant, and possibly even an unindicted co conspirator.
C
He did that. Or are you suggesting he did this on purpose just to make it crazier and more muddled?
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Yes. Yes. This guy writes. By hiring lawyers who share exposure, Comey guarantees that everyone stays on script. None of them can break ranks without risking their own liability. It also complicates discovery because once defense lawyers are implicated in the scheme, it creates a huge labyrinth of privilege and related legal entanglements that conveniently shields the full network from scrutiny. While the process gets bogged down in procedural detours, a serious judge would disqualify them immediately. Okay, fine. It's not time to plea yet, but this is okay. All right. You must be proud of yourself. But this is a partisan Biden judge who likely can let it continue, and Comey will once again get away with gaming the system.
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I will not live on my knees, and neither should you.
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Okay? I won't. I promise. And finally, some. Some good news. Unless you have more. Michael. All right, I'll keep it. This is good news. We brought to you this story a few days ago. This historical performer who was going to do a one woman play at a San Diego County Library about female heroes through American history. But the library told her, you can't do it if you're going to do any black women.
C
That's so crazy.
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And this woman, Annette Hubbell, said, I'm not gonna do only white women just because I'm white. That's not the point of what I'm doing. Library said, we're not comfortable with you doing the voices of black women. And so you can't come because you're white. And Hubble quite appropriately sued San Diego county and after lawyers got four and a half seconds to look at the case, said to the county, you better settle. You really need to settle. And indeed, our friends at the Pacific Legal foundation who played a role in this, said the government should never tell people they're not allowed to do something because of their race. The Pacific Legal foundation, well deserving of your support, by the way, if you want to donate a few bucks, represented Hubble free of charge. The Constitution requires that all people be treated equally before the law in this settlement. Blah, blah, blah. It's a victory for every American to pursue their artistic freedom equally clearly.
C
Yeah, that's good. They, they should allow her to portray any historical figure they want. They should ban one man plays or one women plays. I definitely am not a fan. I saw Fred Armisen on Bill Maher's show one time. Bill Maher said, you and I agree on something. One man plays are awful.
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They are.
C
They're so, they're so pretentious with the, the plane. Hey man, what you doing?
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Doing?
C
I don't know. What are you looking at? It just. The whole thing is just too much.
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See, there are a couple of famous ones that are supposed to be pretty good. I'm not sure I've ever seen one. You haven't.
C
You gotta watch one.
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If you watch like who is the guy who famously portrayed Mark Twain?
C
Yeah, I don't know that I would call that a Mark one. One man play at all. I've seen that.
A
Okay.
C
Yeah, that, that's not at all the same sort of thing.
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Maybe I'm not familiar with the genre.
C
Oh, it's hard to take.
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Oh, it sounds terrible.
C
We will finish strong.
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That is funny.
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You remember kjp?
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It was Biden's press secretary there, first gay black woman ever to be a.
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White House press secretary with the beautiful historic.
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And she claimed that she couldn't keep up with Joe Biden. He was so vigorous. She's got a new book out called A Look Inside a Broken White House Outside the Party Lines that is meant to pull back the curtain on what she calls the three wrenching weeks before the president ended his bid for his second term. And she's got all kinds of excuses for the way he performed in that debate. She blames his halting 2024 debate performance. That's the least of the problems that was holding on Hunter Biden's federal weapons trial. The stress of it was too much for him, which I'll bet it was stressful.
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Well, then he shouldn't be effing president.
C
If you can't handle your kid's personal life.
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Yeah, and arguing with Donald Trump for an hour on a stage.
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That'S a decent point. All kinds of people have all kinds of things in your life. If you can't do your job while you've got your personal life going on, well, then you probably shouldn't be in that job. Jean Pierre also claims she saw no such decline in the oldest ever president's mental acuity before the fateful night night. And insists that Biden watching his only living son facing decades in jail broke his heart. I'm sure it did. But Then again, you still got to do your job as president. You know, people do step down to spend more time with their family for real sometimes. Maybe he should have done that. As soon as President Biden opened his mouth at the debate podium, I became worried. She writes, oh, yeah, you and everyone else in America. Then our phones started going off. It was clear that he was sick and that this was the beginning of the end. He was sick, all right, from dementia, not from a cold, which she claims here.
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He had some good clips of her, if you want to hear him.
C
He had been traveling back and forth to Europe. We don't have time. Maybe tomorrow we can bring him on. He had been traveling all over the place and it just wiped him out again. If you can't handle the travel, either travel less you get to make the choice or you can't do the job.
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Yeah, go on kjp.
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Final thoughts with a N G, are you ready to soft rock?
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Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
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Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. Michelangelo, pushing the buttons in the control room. Michael, what's your favorite, your final thought? You know, I feel a little bit ashamed today, actually, because I brought you that toilet cam story earlier in the hour and that was my responsibility. It makes be the most. The most lowbrow thing I've ever brought.
C
The show probably is. Yeah.
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Childish and pr, you know. Yeah. Do better be better. Katie Greener themed newswoman has a final thought. Katie, between mailbag and Facebook and Twitter, I just want to say thanks to our listeners for all the awesome sweet words yesterday after hearing Jack Joe Mike Mike's heartbeat. It was really. It was really cool. Katie's unborn baby, Jack Joe Mike Mike. That's right, Jack. A final thought for us.
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So I'm kind of dressed up today and I've gotten several compliments on my suit jacket, which I bought. Bought on ebay for a tiny fraction of its original cost. So I'm very pleased with that. I love when I get a good bargain like that.
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Fits nicely off the rack, too. Did you go to a lot of trouble to ensure that it would or.
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Oh, yeah, you got to choose the size you wear. You can't just randomly choose something.
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Yeah, but the sizes aren't, you know, super consistent. But close enough, obviously. What was I gonna say?
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Under hot links@armstrongandgetti.com is the that article about the feminization of America. It's a think piece by a really gifted author it's getting tremendous amounts of attention. Read it yourself and or circle back and grab the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand. Our two of today's show. Super intriguing. Does it explain the woke thing? Kind of does.
C
Some idiot paid $12,000 for this suit jacket. Just the jacket.
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Oh my Lord. 12,000 looking jacket. It is a good looking jacket.
C
I paid a couple hundred bucks. Couple hundred bucks?
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Are you stroking my finger monkey? Are you kidding?
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I know I'm not kidding. Armstrong. Yeti wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. We will see you tomorrow. God bless America.
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This episode dives into a range of lively topics, anchored by a heated discussion of the upcoming New York mayoral race and the controversy surrounding candidate Zoran Mamdani. The hosts also explore quirky news bites including an otter attack on a surfer, the advent of “toilet cameras” for health, tales of finger monkeys, speculation around presidential pardons, debate about plans to expand the White House, and the outcome of an unusual performance-art related lawsuit in California. Their signature blend of humor and pointed commentary drives the conversations throughout.
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Jack and Joe open with updates from the New York mayoral race, focusing on controversy around Zoran Mamdani, described by Jack as a "communist Islamist" (08:22). Mamdani's ties to Imam Siraj Wahhaj—an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing—ignite the debate.
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This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand is a brisk mix of hard-hitting political revelations, absurd news, and cheeky humor. The detailed breakdown and critique of the New York mayoral race and Zoran Mamdani’s controversial ties anchor the episode, while the lighter stories—a biting otter, smart toilets, and finger monkeys—keep the show engaging and unpredictable. The trademark Armstrong & Getty style—incisive, skeptical, and irreverently funny—pervades from start to finish.